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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
DIR HAMILTON HOLT COMES
 OVER
(Hartford Courant)

(Hartf0rd Courant)
 Significance attaches to the statement of Dr Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins college, Fla, that the prohibition experiment should be ended. He was one or it's early and most enthusiastic sup porters, and he reached his pres | ent conclusion with sincere reluc- ltance. In doing so, however, he takes his place with numerous other college heads, some of whom,
 mindful of the governmental phases involved, never entertained | the belief that the Eighteenth Amendment could possibly suc- ceed Dr Holt stoutly maintains that drinking has decreased under pro- lhibition, which if so, is quite be-
 side the case. Whatever has been gained in that direction has been lost elsewhere, as Dr Holt frankly admits. To his mind the evils aris- ling from illicit traffic in liquor Iovershadow whatever benefits may
 be ascribed to the experiment.
 There is no solution of the liquor problem that does not admit or
 some abuses, but there are various solutions that offer improvement over the old saloon era and over the system of speakeasies, rum
 running, bookkeeping and moon.
 shining which the country, has
 since endured. To find the best
 possible solution, in harmony with
 the American conception of soy.
 ernment and orderly liberty, ls the
 task to which reasonable Kets and
 Drys should address themselves.
 That requires first of all the return
 of tho question to the states, where
 it properly belongs. and icsislation
 by each state that will overcome
 SO far as possible the evils inherent in both prohibition and the saloon. No state Is so wet tn sentiment to-day that 1t welcomes back the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
The Psychological Depression Present-Day Race Not As Hardy As Its Forbears
 (BY JOHN B. GRECO)
(BY JOHN B. GRECO)

great plan that this cycle should go on even as the alternations of the seasons. We can readily see, were conditions otherwise and life just rosy path full of plenty and comfort, how the world would be but an insane asylum of idiots and fools.
 Some people complain that roses have thorns, but I thank the Lord that they have thorns," re- marks the poet.
 If we make up our minds to bear the burdens of the present trouble with a smile and heroic submis- sion, the weight will be much lighter, while it lasts and the dawn of happier days will not be marred by tfle tragedy of mental morbid ity and physical affliction brought about by our: folly of turning like desperate Romeo and the district ed Othello, fanciful events into real happenings.
 JOHN B. GRECO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

An old favorite, Sir Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist, died week or more ago. He wrote many novels, but perhaps his most famous was "The Right of Way" Most readers even of the present generation are acquainted with Charley Steel, who took his whiskey neat and was perhaps one of the most popular bibulous, heroes in mod ern fiction. In fact he proved so popular that they made use of him in the movies. both silent and talking, and the book has been in and out of print for more than two decades.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
More Swapping

Another good example of the revival of primitive barter is found in Georgia news paper. Trading commodities seems to be common thing now in the town of Thom- son. One of the stores advertses that it will exchange two pounds of coffee for one four-pound hen, one pair of mems socks for five eggs, one 25-eent jar of snuff for two dozen eggs AS pounds of its best flour for l2-pound country ham, etc. Nothing said about money at all; just goods for goods. In the same paper are other ads of- fering goods for services services for goods, and services for other forms of service.
 What we ordinarily call trade in mod ern times is really the same thing. though it interposes between the exchanged things a third thing. money, which is used as counter. Even the Indians often did that, with their wampum. When the informed fate operation became too complicated. and counters were lacking to make All the de- sired exchanges promptly, trade was stalled, goods piled up services were blocked. ln- evitaby here and there people start getting back to first principles, trading directly again.
 The simple, primitive process by which a shoemaker and shirt maker, or garden CT and lawyer, meet face to face and ex- change their wares. cannot be restored to any great extent in our modern complex society with its vast quantity and variety of goods and services. But the intermediate processes have to be smpllhed if we are to resume and continue, business. Swapping has been made too hard Trade has been blocked by too many barriers local, na- tiena and international. It must be made easier for traders to find each other and ex- change their stuff Otherwise we shall either starve in ideness or smother in overproduo- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

Washington.-A few more years of this depression and we may nearly all be active politicians. Running for office has become
 free-for-all scramble and com petition for public jobs was never
 so keen. The phenomenon is to be observed in campaigns for the more important state and national | positions and in contests for all offices in hundreds of cities and
 villages.
 Lawyers and business men who have found the going heavy these last two or three years and their incomes increasingly reduced, have in many cases decided to
 capitalize their gifts and talents in the public service, where se-
 curity and relatively moderate salaries seem much more attrac- tive than of yore. One hears of manual laborers who have sud denly declared candidates for
 municipal jobs, sometimes with the explanation that. their fami- lies need the money. /
 Of course the demand for civil service jobs-clerkships and the like-has been enormously in creased. BuL many m IHe piS
 new crop of candidates for cleo tive offices have been getting their
 first taste of politics, and those
 once bitetn are apt to keep on trying.
 The increase among seekers of nominations has been due to other factors as we'll as the eco homie incentive. It was recog- nized, for instance, that a large
 flock of officeholders was due to
 be booted out this year. The jobs of other incumbents became inse-
 cure for the first time. Natur- ally, that inspired a host of eager gents to get busy where they might otherwise have remained quiescent. Lately it has been es- timated that there may be as many as 150 new faces in the next congress, which represents an enormous turnover. The de- mand for congressional nomina-
 tions has been proportionately
 large. Few have run unopposed.
 Democratic politicians long ago
 began to report that they were able to find contenders for demo-
 cratic nominations to offices which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

The season is at hand when it is neces- sary to guard against forest fires. If we remember rightly. it was only last year that they were SO much in evidence right in and around Waterbury. The sew eral dry seasons have made it an easy matter for the start of what looks like small brush fire. but which can turn out te be something much more serious. The Hartford Courant remarks: With October and its dead leaves in the offing. it is again neees- sary to think of the ease with which stray spark in the woods can develop into a raging terror of destruction that. before it is broughs> under control. may lay waste broad stretches of woodland, endanger lives and property. and curse the landscape with a scar that will take years to hide. Forest fires stand as witness to the criminal care lessness of human beings. for. with the sim gle and unimportant exception of lighting, they can be caused only by man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
@{ TODAY e@@
 WORLD WARN, ANNIVERSARY &xR TA&E-
CpENcH VILLAGES BURNED

On Sept 17, 1918, Germans burn ed French villages along the MOS elle as American and French forces advanced. Allied artillery retaillat- ed by smelling the fortress of Metz.
 American forces in Lorraine ao- yanced on front of five miles in one of the first offensives in that sector in many months. Their progress was difficult because of the rough country.
 Allied troops continued their vic- torious progress in the offenslve against Bulgaria, taking many towns and thousands of prisoners. The flank of the First Bulgarian Army was turned and it was forced to begin a retreat into its own ter ritory.
 In a curt note, the United States rejected the Austrian proposal TOT a peace conference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

will not be as painful as they are at home"
 One good thing. at least. for Franee and for the rest of the civilized nations. may come from this experience. Governmental poverty may reconcile the French to degree of disarmament and international cooper ation which they have not yet been will ing to accept.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

The present state of affairs af- lords no justification for the in- creasingfi number of nervous breakdowns and mental exhaus- tion.
 The depression, however trying it may appear to some, does not bear the hardships our ancestors were compelled to experience, much less, the tragedies that many of our fellow men in other coun- tries are presently going through.
 loss of money, poor business and lack of work, unlike natures catas- trophe, have not left in their wake conditions of hopeless misery. They are harmless cloudbursts as con- pared to the horror of floods and tornadoes and to ravages Of fam inc and epidemic that often play havoc with our distant neighbors.
 The trouble with us is that we were not prepared to cope with the situation. We had, in the past, ac- customed ourselves to live in ease and comfoft, attuning our tastes, without discipline, to standard of living comparatively too high.
 In the manner of the ancient Romans, when they allowed luxury and softness of life undermine their courage and bravery, we had per- mitted ourselves to grow hand in hand with the balnfy things of life to the point of absorbing our very manliness.
 What we now consider a neces- sity and find so difficult to part with our far off friends, who have already tasted the real effects of the economic disorder, long before it loomed upon our horizon., dems it mere extravagance.
 It is not unusual to see people go about with expressions of pathos from which one might anticipate the loss of some close relation, complain most despairingly for being deprived of some object of pleasure or of a means of comfort.
 Like a spoiled child brought up in too many liberties, that weeps and stamps it's feet when tempo rarily deprived of its whims. they give way to mental depression and even despair, when unfavorable circumstances require that they change their tastes or tamper their demands.
 The present depression is but another form of discipline. His tory is filled with. periods of hard ship followed by periods of ease rand the other way around. Wheth- CT we consult the events of the hu- man race as gathered from the his- tory of Rome or from the Papyrus of Egypt we find that the flow of life was never even, 1t being broken up now by depressions and now by prosperity.
 It seems that 1t is a part of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
To-day's Selected Poem
FIRST FROST

orris Longstreth in The Christian Scien
 Monitor) Pale and glistening Trolls fields appeared Where I stood listening As sunrise neared. Music made round of A far crow calling, Tender was the sound of A last leaf falling. Gittered every brier there And each warped rail Bore a bluish fire there Silver-pale. Spent with summers growing The tangled grasses sparkied in their fiowln'. As a stream passes. Day might make an end of This first frail frost. Beauty made a friend of ls never lost. So 1 gazcd and listened Az the sun up.stole Till mine eyes RIistened Like the world Of Troll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

old order. nor so dry as to be blind to what national prohibition has done to America. In the labo- ratories of the states, with q minl- mum of interference from the Fed. eral government, we shall in all probability And q reasonably satis. factory answer to q question for which national prohibition is no answer ct all. TO be rid of the bit. terness and anImosItIes resulting from this iil.starred venture Into tho realm of public md private morals will tend to restore thnt national solidarity s0 essential 70 the continued advancement Of the republic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
OIL YIELDS ALCOHOL.

/ Washington - It may be that dyed.in:the-wool drinkers will take the prohibition law is never re. poaled. Scientists have found that alcohol is contained in petroleum. and in oklahoma renHeFias have found that it can bA extracted ins dusirial brand is distilled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

It is something to have written during ones life 5000 hymns and to have had published 3O.000.OO0 copies of just one of same. Such was the record of Charles H. Gabriel, prolific writer of hymns who died this week out in Hollywood. Glory Song
 was the hymn that reached the 3O.0OO,00O mark Gabriel began writing this type of music in his fifteenth year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

In the midst of life in the year 1852, what with this, that and taxes, we must be thankful for small favors, such as tickets for the Metropolitan Opera next season being taxfree. because this famous organiza- ton now ranks as non profit making one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

It has been remarked that there are, or were, ninety nine shopping days until Christmas Figure it out yourself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, NJ. D.l

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygieue, not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answer by Dr bradS. Address him, care of the Democrat. sending zt ann and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:31 daylight saving time) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
Be still sad heart,
 Crepe not in fear, Leaves die to live
 Another year.
OVER THE RIVER

She. sought an addition,
 Did the sopranoist, Claire,
 They gave her the addition
 Then gave her. the air.
 o-O-o
 The drunken driver is worse menace than the gunman. Yet he fares easier at the hands of Ythe courts.
 o-O--o
 The ntan who spends his
 time doing nothing is bound to
 have nothing to spend.
 . o-O-o
 When a clergyman's Sermon can cause heads to go up instead of down, he's a preacher son. he's preacher.
 o-O-o The republicans after looking
 at the Maine returns said one state doesn't make an election. Mebbe not, but it certainly throws a bad scare. o-O-o Roosevelt told some of his western admirers that beer was on the way back. So is prosperity. O-O-o IT HAPPENS Milking a COW. Has its dangers they say, When the COW has a kick coming, The paiI's sure in the way. 0-O-o so TT GOES The pause that refreshes, An folks, let me say, It's the clergyman pausing, In his sermon Sunday. o-O-o Wet democrats carried Maine, proving it's the barrelometer state all right. r o-O-o A baby has plenty of assets and capabilities. A noted writer says that wo- man is a poem And the verse is yet to come. o-O-o
 These chaps who get out the Keep Of" signs for lawns during the summer are probably busily | engaged now in painting Danger boards for ice. rinks. o-O-o Pepper and salt suits need no other seasoning. | o-O-o What's wrong with this sentence: Well we haven't anything right now, but you can i'll this ap- | plIcation blank" | o-O-o TT WAS EVER THUS Old Man River.
 Your life Is surely Tree. You run along with swinging heart.
 Until you meet the sea. 0-O--0
 Smith refused 10 write an
 article for the Saturday Even.
 ing Post. Perhaps It's due 10
 his New Outlook" | o-O--0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
o-O--o TEE,, HEB
"A SMILES THE THING.

Mary married an engineer, A kind of dcep-thinlxing sort, And always feared, she might dis turb His train of thought.
 o-O-o / Cheer up children. You'll soon see the pretty firemen and hear them talk on fire prevention week.
 o-O-o Considering all the dolls they have out there. why not call 1t Dollywood?
 o-O-o With peaches pretty cheap, a girl no longer figures 1t a compliment to be called 8 peach.
 O-O-o My idea of a perfect quadrangle. Three blind mice in the same pam try with cock-eyed cat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17


 Was her nightie silhouette.
 O-O-o A woman news writer, disguised as a boy, saw the guillotine cut off a head in Paris yesterday. She managed to keep her head al- though tho Door convict lost his. o-O-o
 Who can remember the good old days when the land lady swept the sidewalk every morning?
 The gold supply in America is increasing. So that may help produce the Silver lining.
 'o-O-o
 The trouble with trap drum mers is due to the fact that they insist on trapping a few sour notes once in a while.
 o-O-o Politicians talk of having the votes tied up. The only thing tied up right now is prosperity.
 O-O-O There is always comfort in giv- ing comfort to those badly in need of tender touch.
 o-O-o
 The only difference between shorts and basketball pants the stripes down the sides of the former.
 as -sD.,., o-O-o With country fairs popping up, throwing the bull," should be one of the featured events. It's an ag- ricultural pursuit at times.
 o-O-o
 I suppose you'd have a hard time collaring a nudist.
 o-O-o Heard a heated argument the other night over the respective merits of competing oil burners.
 O-O-o
 OH YEAH
 Be still sad heart,
 Grope not in fear,
 Leaves die to live
 Another year. O-O-o With Paul Bern's case out of the way, we can expect Hollywood to come through with flicker. en- titled, Freedom Through Suicide" Why not?
 Warren William is fond of yatchttng. Perhaps that's what gives his moutsache its sea-going appearance.
 o-O-o Then there was the Waterbury school teacher who brought home some sea sand so it would re- mind her of the summer romance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
UP SHE GOES

She pulled down the shade,
 It was swceter, you bet, For on the bright shade
 Was her nightie silhouette.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
TIT HAPPENS

Milking a COW,
 Has its dangers they say, When the COW has a kick coming, The paiPs sure in the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
IT WAS EVER THUS

old Man River. Your life Is surely free. You run along with swinging heart.
 Until you meet the sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
Analostan Island.

bill has just been passed by the
Senate and now goes to the House for
concurrence providing for the accept
snce by the Government of Analostan
Island, recently purchased by the Rcose-
welt Memorial Association and offered
to the United States as a permanent
memorial TO the late President. The
measure carries no appropriation for
the development of the island. There
Is, in fact, no immediate plan for its
treatment or use. The formal accept
snce Of the gift is necessary in order
that such a plan may now be consid-
cred.
Analostan Island has history 1t
was formerly the site of the home OF
George Mason, one of Washington's
eloest friends and most valued advisers
He drafted the Virginia Declaration of
Rights and took an active part in the
Constitutional Convention. Fragments
Of the ruins Of his dwelling on the
island are still to be found there. In
later years the island became favorite
resort for the people of the Capital It
passed through numerous hands being
used at one time as an athletic field.
In the course Of the years 1t was neg
lected and lost much OF its attractive
ness and in recent times there was a
possibility OF its use for indust-.cl pur-
poses, 1t was indeed from the gas
light company, which had purchased it
Or eventual utilization for some OF its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
Horses Popularity
Again on Incline
From the Des Moinss Register.

From the Des Aoines REGISTER.
Hints have recently come from vari-
Gus sources that the horse is about to
regain some degree of the popular favor
which was lost with the general adop-
ton of motor vehicles and power ma
chinery. Lovers of horseflesh will give
hearty welcome to the assurance Of
DR.. l.. A. MeFillat, speaker at the State
Veterinarians Convention, that the day
of revival of Dobbin's popularity is now
at hand.
1t Is probable that the majority of
farmers who abandoned horsepower on
the farm did so with tinge of regret
True, o tractor never gets tired, nor has
5unstrcke. On the other hand, it never
Whinnies welcome when you open the
barn door on frosty January morn
ing.
Dobbin never had. to be cranked, and
he started more easily on a cold morn
ing than in Midsummer He had to
have his occasional kick-back. to. be
sure-but SO does a tractor. And there
was always an intimate touch in Dob
bins flying hoof his was not the inn
personal kick of tractor.
No the hoTseleSs farm never present.
cd quite proper pisture, 1t was not a
farm; 1t was facot:y-and who wants
to live in a factory
Let's have the tractors, by all means
where they fill a reed-hut let us hope
that Q stall may still be saved for the
Old Perchefon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
Many SuperstitiOns
Sill Hold Sway in Germany.

Berliner Tageblatt.-While there are
many superstitions in Germany which
appear to have vogue and currency at
SlvesteTnacbt New Year eye) and
other special occasions, there are some
that are tenaciously adhered to- par
tlcularly among the country people,
throughout the year, due to the fact, no
doubt, that the various favors sought
are applicable to common and con-
tinuouS human experience.
Among these irrational and idle GUS
toms may be mentioned that of the
Bavarisn peasant who swings an ak
against the trunk of any barren fruit
tree on his farm, while his neighbor.
etanding near, intereedes and seeks
to overt its fate, by assuring the owner
that the tree will soon bear fruit. Three
times the ak is raised and three times
the blow averted, the superstition being
that the branches thus granted new
lease of life will repay such clemency
with lavish yield of pears or apples the
coming Summer.
Another custom not such q difficult
one to understand, Is the laying of a
pair of crossed hose Beside the bed of a
sick child. Others believe that while a
stuffed owl guards the door, lightning,
that peril OF the husbandman. will
never strike thu barn, Some think q
gold ring SUSPENDED by string above
an egg will, by some species Of wizardry,
disclose whether it will hatch out q
cock or men. Then there are districts
of Germany wherein it is an accepted
hypothesis that one desiring to be cured
of certain ailments need but crawl
through the spokss OF . wagon wheel.