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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
So They Say

Imagine @ boardwalk 20 feet wide, made of brand-new white and yellow planking an inch thick, spanning. the space between the earth and the moon. This will vis- ualize simply the total footage of lumber produced in the U. s. in 1880, a year of depression and slack demand. -- T. J. Mosley, technical reviewer of the U. s, Forest Products Laboratory at Madison. Wis.
 Fascism cannot be Japan's sal- vation. The majority of the peo- pie, while they are dissatisfied with present conditions. do not sympa- thize with the theory of Fascist government. Dr Inazo Nitobe, noted Japanese liberal. visiting Tn New York city.
 The Museum of Modern Art (newly opened in New York cityl "believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things" "The frontier has no past, only q fu- ture." The frontier of art has no established tradition. no fixed Judgment. = William Sloane Cof- fin, president, Metropolitan Muse- um of Art.
 When Rome was dropping to pieces from immortality and venai-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09

New Britain may follow in the footsteps of Hartford and eliminate some of its street lights. Some months ago the city authori- ties ordered every other light to be dimmed. This economy move resulted in great saw ing on the annual light bill. New Britain may darken every second or third light in an effort to keep expenses within the budget. In that city every other light dark would save the city about $l4,000. The Board of Finance is expected to act upon this mat ter If the city is tied up in lighting eon- tract whereby it must consume so much per annum to secure definite rate the order to cut out the lights can go through. Unfortu- natey many cities are bound down by con- tracts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
One-third For Taxes

Few people have realized, even yet what the American people are up against in the way of taxes If the facts were known, there would be club in the hand of every voter in America to compel economical administra- tion. There are figures available now that make the facts quite definite. Before the World War the average American paid in taxes of 5all kinds eight cent out of every dollar. The taxes were, and are. so widely distributed as to be fairly uniform, in spite of appearances. The man who owns no real estate or securities is paying taxes just the same in devious contributions through prices and services. to those who pay them directly into public treasuries
 From 1913 to 1929 that average tax rate rose from eight cents on the dollar to IS cents. Then it kept right on climbing. In l930 it was up to 20 cents and in 1891 to 25 cents. At present. statistieians figure, it stands at cents. Thus, as nation, as communities, as families. we are paying almost exactly one dollar out of every three we earn, for public expenses. The startling jump in the tax ratio since the depression began is due not to increase of taxation in volume. but to decrease of income.
 It would have seemed an intolerabe thing if at the height of the recent boom. we had been paying virtually one-third of our income in taxes Yet we could have af-' fordcd it better than now, because we would have had more left. With average incomes cut to one-haf what they were in 1929. and one-third of that half required by tax-col- lectors, no wonder taxpayers are in revolt. demanding drastic economy from public servants and sharing of the burden by those living on public salaries
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 nrinl1inD Wafer .

Docs drinking water between meals reduce weight? Does drinking water after n hot bath reduce or increase weight? (Miss s. R. W.)
 Answer-No. Any variation of weight from drinking water or not drinking it, or from talk ing hot baths or not taking them, is tempor- ary and the original weight Is restored in Q few hours at most
 Cramps in Legs For years I have had cramps in my legs al. most every night. I have had to get up and walk the floor on my toes The practice has made q pretty good toe dancer, but sone' times 1t is an hour or more before get relief. Recently saw in your column the suggestion to press the balls of the feet against the foot board of the bed. I tried this, and do you know that 1t stopped tho pain at once. This simple idea Is giving me hours of better sleep every night e. H) Answcr-The suggestion was sent in by ono of our readers. If all our readers would con- tribute when they have helpful suggestions this would be far more valuable health serv- ice.
 Sanitation
 Relative died of cancer of stomach recently Is 1t safe to wear his suits, shirts and linen? And to smoke his pipe? C. FL
 Answer--As safe as 1t would be if he had died Of old age or a fractured skull. In fact should not hesitate to use or wear any such things including the bed linen, that had been used or worn by a person with any known dis ease provided the things are laundered, dry cleaned or otherwise simply washed.
 Copyright John F. bile Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
Here, There And EDerwDhere

ling is.. There is no explanation. When you say garbling, however, you mean something.
 To avoid coming to the point, it should be stated that in this in- stance you mean by garbling one thing but not another. For in- stance you don't mean the mixing up of accounts. That is too com monplace n kind of garbling to discuss. Garbling in It's more ih- teresting sense has to do with nutme megs--sometimes, at any rate. And 1t has to do with Parliament and the King--only 1t is other way around. The original garblers were appointed by an act of Parlia- ment in the days of James I.
 The profession Is not yet an obsolete one, however. Kings and cabinets--yea. and parliaments - may come and go. The garblers, according to the magazine of the Port of London Authority, are still going-at No. Warehouse OH London Dock. Their business Is to sort spices. thus to prevent the sell ing of "Merchandizes garbleable to the jeopardy of His Majesty and his subjects and other needless oc- casions."
 We cannot all be garblers, though many might wish to--es- pecially in the name of King and Parliament. But we can, now that the garblers have been discovered holding their own against an army of robots before which James I might have quaked. share with ourselves in a world "so full of a number of things" For garblers. it will be agreed. no only are needed for nutmegs," but to add the spice of variety to Q some- times overstandardized sense of things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
RINGERS FOR SMOKERS
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Even though prohibition can be credited with one more woe to the common account, having done away with the brewers big horses, and hence with the brewers big horses shoes. Clydesdale and Per- chcron weight, there is still life in the ancient and honored game of pitching horseshoes, as is evil denced by the universal challenge posted by the players of the City Farm Colony team from their headquarters at Four Corners, West New Brighton. Here, among the ancients, the rural sport is causing almost as much excitement as the impending Schmeling- Sharkey "box-fght" among the less ingenious sporting fancy, and n challenge to all corners with stakes up to any reasonable amount of good smoking or chewing to- bacco has been broadcast through out the countryside.
 Here is provocation to a battle Q routrance which should not long go unanswered. The National Horseshoe Pitchers association. which has drawn up a standard code for the game, with all pro- visions for the scoring of ringers" {" '1eaners' and hand-and-finger "spanners." and under whose aus pices the national championship is determined, should be able to ar- range some matches of conse- quence. and the Midland Beach Horseshoe club of the City Farms own native heath of State Island should rise to the occasion if there is fighting blood left among the pitchers of those parts. The game which Ascham found "too vile for scholars" Is still the national geor- gic pastime. as is annually evi- denced by the enthusiasm which attends the Mineola and Nassau county Farm Bureaus contests. iWth all this potential competition the City Farmers had best start saving their tobacco or possibly even hedging their bets with boxes of fivc-cent stogies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
Says None But Insiders Win
 in Stock Market

If the book, "Confessions of a Former Customers Man." had been printed early in 1929. it's authors probably would have been
 cast into New York harbor with
 great millstoncs hanged about their necks.
 Nowadays, however, we, don't look on financiers, stock brokers
 and Wall Street with quite the awed reverence we used to have. I So. instead of being lynched. the
 authors--they're David l.. Salmon
 and Edwin r. Bowers-can sit
 back peacefully and collect their
 royalties.
 Salmon spent 15 years in Wall Street as 6 customers man. Gle
 says that "procurer' is a better /, title.) In this book he tells what
 he learned in those years, and
 what he learned seems to have
 been plenty.
 To begin with, he declares fiatly that unless you're Ion theinside' you can hardly hope to make
 money in the stock market. In all
 his 15 years he knew of only three
 or four ordinary traders who fin-,
 ished ahead of the game. Secondly, he says that the very. surest way to lose Is to follow the tips that come from the big fel-
 lows---for the big fellows, seems, aren't above fooling even their best friends.
 In addition, he asserts that short selling outght to be 1egislated out. of the picture, saying that 1t un-' doubtedly helped to Intensity and prolong the depression.
 Then he winds up by lambast- ing Wall Streets morality and cast ling an armful of aspersions at the intelligence. of its big shots. You'll find his book lively, entertaining and very, very Illuminating. It is published by the Vanguard
 Press and sells for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
BY RODNEY BUTCHER NEA Service Writer


 Washington.--There are few real grudge fights in politics, but il looks as If classic one were going to be carried into the presidential campaign by the distinguished | gents who hold the two highest | positions in the land. Adjournment of congress will | bring no truce between President Hoover and Speaker Jack Garner The sum total of their contempt 1 for each other probably exceeds the combined mutual dislike ot any other dozen men, in the United States. It is no mere ques- l tion of jockeying for political po- sltion and prestige, although both have been doing that.
 HoOvcr'9 New Heights Hoovcr's public outbursts rise to new heights of bitterness and scorn when direc.cd at Garner or Gar ner project. And one does not have to hear him express himself privately to be sure that he re- serves his strongest cuss words for the speaker.
 And Garner saves his choicest jibes and wisecracks for denuncia- tions of Hoover--some of them are much hotter than you usually hear directed at q president. In private conversation the speaker refers to Hoover with nouns and adjectives the nature of which can only be suggested. Gamers Meat?
 Garner seems to think Hoover Is his special meat. He probably is mistaken.
 First, because n president Is seldom meat for any other poll tician.
 Second, because Garner. whose own record of performance isn't anything extraordinary, often lays himself open to whitening fire from the White House. The pub- lie, as rule, strongly favors the president whenever he has row with congress.
 Although Garner did his part in the era of "rion-partisan CO., operation earlier in this con gress, his feud with Hoover has seldom been neglected.
 
 Garncr's Rctort
 Last summer Hoover telephoned him in Texas, as minority leader If not speaker of the next House and asked his support for the debt- reparations moratorium. Garner. one hears, was exasperated and tart, telling Hoover to stand on your own feet" :.
 At the famous "emergency" night conference at the White House from which was announced the bankers credit pool and. tho plan of the Reconstruction FL nance Corporation. 1t was Garner who rose to beard thhe president in his den, hcatedly and success fully demanding that senators and representative not be pledged to give Hoover free hand in mak- ing later war debt decisions.
 Soon the administration re- construction program was sliding through congress with non-parti- san support and the president and his speakers were found claiming the credit before the country.
 Garner and other democrats promptly lashed out and demand ed to know what kind of n game 1t was when one party sought po- litical advantage at time when everyone was supposed to be sub ordinating politics.
 The Gamc-PoIltics
 For months the republicans have benc jumping so regularly on all democratic proposals, and so
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
"To The Victor ....."

We'll. it seems that President, Wilson's sd- ministration produced somsthing worth while after all. The National Civil Service Reform League wants President Hoover to urge that the system of appointing post masters as adopted in the Wilson days. be returned. In the event that President Hoover can't see his way clear to endorsing a dem oeratit measure then the League wants the Civil Service Commission denied all respons- ibility in connection with election of any and all postmasters. It is the opinion of the League that if the policy of to the victor belongs the spoils' is going to continue despite a pretense at civil service examina- tions the veil might as well be ripped away and postmastetship distributed right and left.
 Easing its claims to political eonniving for postmasterships the League calls atten- ton to the recent, remarks of Second Assist ant Postmaster General Glover who urged Missouri postmssters to campaign for Pres- dent Hoover this fall. Likewise remarks of Postmaster General Brown and the First Assistant Arch Coleman in the past year have been construed as letting down the bars for ali postmasters with regard to their participation in political campaigning The league maintains that the postmasters have generally followed the course suggested by the head of the department is common knowledge This practice has diseredited the whole system of selection and has com pletely discouraged qualified persons from competing in examinations.
 When Wilson was president the civil service rules prescribed that the highest com petitor for the postmastership was awarded the office. Today the choice is made from the three highest candidates which always per- mits of much leeway where political choices are concerned. As the League points out anybody who hasn't political backing need not expect much consideration regardless of his ability or the high mark that he might attain in the competitive examination. If he does not meet with the approval of the reigning republican organization or cannot secure the support of his congressman and in some instances the senators from that state, where they are republican and the con- gressman in the district is democrat, he might just as well not seek the office.
 The U. S.. Civil Service Commission, of course IS no partner Tn this political Spolls system. It has done its part in good spirit. It conducts its examinations impartaly and as prescribed for it by law. It certifes the proper competitors. but it cannot dictate to the president the actual nominee, although in good many cases it certainly is better qualified to do so. The republican party has been quick to defend itself against the name of selling postmasterships especially in the southern s'states where republican patronage is the only thing that can compete with demoeratic domination. It has. despite all this talk, still continued the Harding civil service laws revision instead of reverting to Wilson's policy. And we don't think that President Hoover will do very much about seeking a change. It wouldn't be wise move for him, not at this stage of his career certainly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
(a|gpO|id(d| FOIipSs |972

many of the measures promoted by the democrats have been obvl- ously designated to aid the party,
 that it's impossible now to say whether the administration or Gar
 ner's House has set up the most glorious record in playing the the game of politics.
 Hoover's attacks on Garner have been indirect, but none the less biting. For instance, when he vetoed the omnibus pension bill
 which Garner had let go through
 the House. The bill punched hun dreds of small pension bills to- gether. and some of them were ut .
 terly indefensible.
 Hoover was given q chance, in his veto message. again to rebuke congress and, inferentially, its
 leadership.
 He obviously managed to in- crease his own prestige at Gar
 ners' expense in his demands for
 budget t-balancing and economy after the House had ditched Jacks leadership first on the tax bill and next on the economy bill. Fight Grows Warmer
 Lately the fight has grown warmer than ever. Jack sud- denly brought in an unemployment
 relief bill which provided q billion
 dollars for 2;300 federal public
 works projects. Tn strong, deri- sive, angry language, Hoover de- nounced 1t as a gigantic pork bar rer' and Ian unexampled raid on the treasury"
 Garner was able to retort that Hoover's statement was an "cf- frontery," piece of politics from president who was only interest ed in "porls" for banks, railroads and other corporations. f
 It isn't awfully important--this grudge fight between the sensitive, worried president and the salty worded, ex-cow puncher speaker. But it's spectacle not devoid of entertainment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09

Caleb M. Saville. chief engineer and gen eral manager of the water bureau of the metropolitan district of Hartford. declared recently that unless work on the reservoir that the l93l Legislature authorized Hart , ford to build starts immediately the dis trlot faces future danger. He said. Any unnecessary or prolonged delay may result in grave conditions 8 or 10 years hence. It may be recalled that the city was forced to the limit to secure the legislative assent to the project which is quite stupendous one. However. the original plans were even greater than the ones that eventually were approved. Now only one reservoir will be built. Originally it had been hoped to build two, one on each branch of the Pennington river But as it stands an immense amount of farm and woodland will now be covered with water. while number of farmers will be forced to move their possessions elsewhere It was on this ground that such opposition up around Winsted and Riverton issued. It is hard to blame people to fight for the land that has always been there even if it may be in the way of much needed water sys- tenn upon which the lives of other men and women might depend at some future date. Most of us are rather self centered in this respect. >
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
SAD CASE OF THE DENTIST WHO
 COIIIDNnI EAT EGGS

| We medical men admit that most of the me- | dicnal nostrums of the day are the discarded l formulas prescriptions of regular physicians | of an earlier day, just as the popular concep- tions of disease are the theories held by the
 profession fifty hundred years ago. We're
 a little ashamed of it, too, for the very fact 1 that many Iaymen of good education still l cherish these obsolete ideas of pathology and | therapeutics is reproach to the profession. | duties of the medical profession. one of the Fundamental principles of medical ethics.
 namely the instruction of the public. On the other hand we disclaim responsibility for the popular dietary whims and vagaries of the day. These have sprung from the fertile imagination of divers non-medcal charaltans, merchants, manufacturers, prophets, faddists and nuts When a client or customer of one of these falls under the exhorters spell and comprehends all in flash what the expert IS telling him, he is prone to take 1t pretty ser iously. It is not just a bit of new knowledge to him. It dawns on his consciousness as q marvellous new truth, great. discovery, and thus inspired with zeal and enthusiasm for the idea he flares forth as fanatic, and u IS dangerous to get in his way or to oppose any reason argument to his plan of life
 Sometimes 1t is difficult to listen to such q convert without cracking a grin or bursting into open laugh at his odd notion. There was the dentist, old friend in the bargain who has had low grade nephrits (Brights discase) for many years The dentist under stand, was never my patient; didn't say he my friend. But one day he kindly gave me few hints which he thought might be of
  formed me that he made 1t rule to eat meat only once day, never to take milk at the same meal with meat, and believe 1t or not, never to eat eggs at all. puzzled over this for time and considered how I might con- trive to learn why no eggs without offering the man any morbid suggestion. worked around to 1t in an indirect way. We discussed the price of eggs nowadays and told my friend remembered when we bought 'em for cents dozen at Easter time. He then recalled buy ing them for cents dozen. My stars" sad that was cheap--I suppose you ate lots of eggs thcn?" He confessed he had, and he wondered if that might have had anything to do with his kidney trouble. Of course. he ex- claimed, he had cut eggs out altogether as soon as he discovered he had albumen
 Milk. meat, fish, peas, beans, cheese and some nuts contain considerable protein or al- Luminous material If albumen in food had anything whatever to do with such kidney dis ease, ali these items should be excluded, too.
 Of course there is reason whatever to im- agine eggs or other albuminous foods cause such disease or are more injurious to the kid neys than foods which contain no albumen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
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AMERICANS ENGAGED

On June g. 1918, the battle of the Disc, staged at midnight the day before, followed along the French lines until it reached
 American troops near Veuilly. The Tanks were successful in repulsing German troops here.
 British r cns, however, were
 not so fortunate between Villers-
 Bretonneaux and Arras. Paris British positions, however, were not So fortunate between villerss Bretonneaux and Arras. Paris again felt the tremble of bursting shells from long range guns far be- hind the German front lines. iss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
Personal Health Service
 (By William Brady, M. D.)

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
GAMBLING AMOnG THE
 GAMBLERS.

Christian Science Monitor)
 Twas briliig, and the siithy toves
 Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
 And all the nome raths outgrabe
 strch gimbling doesn't make sense and, somehow, doesn't hayAl to. But garbling is another mat ter. You may gimble all you wish, you may tell of others whu gimble, you may even command someone to gimble. Yet you need never try to explain what gimb-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-09
O--O--O MEOW

 I know there Is n welcome Upon your column door, Yet overlooked Is this by some, Why don't they write heaps
 more. Beyond doubt you do recall, Their writings, that's fact, But Ed, I wonder most of all, What happened M. J's cat.
 AIDA,
 New Haven.
 o--O--0 Now they're painting a golden future. What we'd like is q little silver for the present.
 o-O-o This concludes our regular Thursday evening program. It was broad cast by DBD and came to you through tho courtesy of the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pio- neer in this type of newspaper en- tertainment.. We are signing off at this time, to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour. . 7, o--O--o Good night.