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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
Cut Our Fire Bill

Lets give the fireman a vacation" That
was a suggestion Offered by magazine pub
lished by the National Safety Council. in
writing on Fire Prevention Week just passed.
Let's hope it was we'll needed. Now every
citizen should do his best to see that the
fire department continues on vacation
during the balance of the year as well.
Last year we you and | and Bill
Jones, the neighbor - paid fire bill of
almost half-a-bllion dollars. We've paid
to count. For the most part. we refer TO
the fire loss as the nations loss is if
it were more or less remote matter. af
about the same bill for more than one cares
fecting other pocketbooks than ours. ~
Most of us. Of course. suffered no fire
during the year. But we contributed our
share of the bill Just the same. We paid
it in higher insurance premiums than would
otherwise have been necessary. in loss of
business. in destroyed jobs, in ruined indus
tries in increased taxes in lapscs in COM
munity development. Every fire, whether
it touches hundred dollar garage or
a two-billon- dollar industry. damages us
all. None can escape it.
Fire Prevention Week was good time to
start real, campaign against fire that will
achieve results. Let's do our best to cut our
share of the fire bill to conform to the rest
of the cuts in the family budget.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

Washington - Although these
presidential straw votes or polls
will be badly discredited II Mr.
Hoover happends to win the cleo
ton, they stand to become an ex-
fremely important factor in our
political system IL their accuracy
is more attested at the ballot box:
Those who want to get facetious
about It will be asking again: why
go to all the expense Of q presi-
Dental election when the Literary
Digest Is willing to conduct one
free OF charge?
More seriously, there is little
doubt that politicians and CAM
paign contributors will be less dis
posed to 60 to q lot Of useless ex-
pense and effort II they are COM
pletely convinced weeks before
election that they have a hopeless
cause.
Straw votes never before attract
ed anywhere near as much atten.
ton. There are 80 many important
ones that you can often check any
given poll with several others,
which makes the poll method OF
| prediction much harder to shoot NJ
than 1t would be with only one poll
In progress. Politicians wait Tor
the published returns from week
to week and then whoop or turn
pale. A learned book has been
written about the polls, indicating
the increasing seriousness with
which they have been taken.
The republicans are now sputter-
ing about these straw votes. Just
60 Ala In 1921.
when the POLL returns showed
Hoover defeating Smith by o large
margin.
Republican Chairman Sanders
gives the party's official reply
when he says the poll votes were
all taken before Hoover's Des
Moines speech, that Hoover makes
"millions Of votes every time ne
speaks and that polls have been
wrong by as many as five million
votes. .
Perhaps last minute switches oi
sentiment do present o menace 10
the accuracy Of the polls. II san,
ders is right the poll business VIII
surely go into marked decline.
But the polls have picked the win.
ner In the last few elections ana
usually the so-called switches OF
sentiment in tho last month or two
of a campaign have been Pigments
OF the imagination. Nor do many
cold FLOODED observers believe tha:
there is now In progress any sub
stantial swing to Hoover.
And one Is forced to speculate
rather furiously as to what presi-
Dental politics will be like In the
future IL everyone Is going TO
know In September what Is going
to happen in November.
Among the voters the result may
be to produce situation such As
exists in those southern states
where tho voters, having done their
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
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duty at the primary, stay away
from the elections In large num-
bers because they know the dem
ocratic ticket is going to win
And the gent who planned to
toss $4,000 or SO into a campaign
pot with the idea of collecting u
diplomatic post from the admins.
tration Is likely 70 hold his han1
IL he thinks his party hasn't an
outside chance.
1t is also commended that the su-
premacy of one party in a ma
tional poll tends to attract a large
number of voters who are most OF
all anxious to be on the winning
side, thereby making things &c
much harder for the party which
Is trying to swing popular senti-
ment in the face of adverse pol
results.
Another possibility is that poll.
ticians who 1igure they are licked
- no longer able to kid themselves
as they have soften done in the
past - will adopt wild and des.
perate measures at the last mo-
ment in frantic efforts to snatch
Victory from the Jaws of defeat
AS the mind roams. further pos.
sibilittes become actually night.
marish. Imagine. for instance, "a
major party presidential candidate
who finds himself taking an espe-
cially bad trouncing In the polls.
He recognizes the infallibility nj
the polls and realizes that he IL
about to become the worst licked
man in history. Suddenly he
throws UP his hands and yells to
his compaign manager:
ITO hell with all this! Nominate
somebody else. I'm going home!'
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
The Foremost Issue

At the recent American Bankers Asso-
citation convention. excessive taxation and
public expenditures were the leading sub
jects presented by nationally prominen;
speakers
1t is literally amazing how many financial
and industrial organizations are regarding
the tax problem as the most important OF
all our difficulties at this time. We have
reached point in our affairs where the cost
of government is becoming an impossible
barrier in the way of the investment of
capital, the development of industry, the
creation of estates, and the employment of
labor. Money that once flowed into pro-
ductive enterprise, which sorely needs new
funds now, is either boarded or invested
in taxfree government bonds. Millions of
American investors have found real and
PERSONAL meaning in the old saying that
the power to tax is the power to destroy"
We have seen what expanded government
tai activities with their resulting influence
on the tax BILL have done in England Ger
many, Australia and lesser powers. The
dole, which was created to aid the unem
ployed and the distressed. has had precisely
the opposite effect it has created more
unemployment and more distress by sitting
industry. SO with the rest of those govern
mental panaceas which havS taken billions
from the pockets OF the taxpayers Of. the
world. Whether Americas tomorrow will
be bright or clouded depends on what action
we take in handling the tax problem now.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
Schoolboy Patrols For Safety

Four times day more than l5O.OOO
Youngsters in 800 American communities
guide their schoolmates in crossing danger
Gus street and highway intersections safely.
These Youngsters make up the "Schoolboy
aPtrols." Theirs IS commendable and
important work. One Of the fastest grow
ing phases of child safety education 1t IS
one credited with some of. the best results.
Statistics show that child pedestrian iatai-
ties have decreased Is per cent in the las;
four years.
This fine condition is reflected all along
the line in the reports of individual cities
Washington. d. G.. for example, having
experienced no child pedestrian fatality in
four years and only one or two minor IN
iuries in districts patroled by the safety
scouts"
Reviewing the work of the sehoolboy
patrols. DIR Herbert j. Stack Safety Super
visor of the National Bureau OF Casually
and Surety Underwriters says: he
schoolboy patrols are more than fulfilling
expectatons. They have not only made q
greatly effective contribution 10 the adult
lob of reducing automobile accidents bu,
have also proved the worth OF a system ol
education which builds character and de-
yelops Speh personal ifsils as SELF control
aelfdseipline, mental alenness, courtesy
consideration. and sympathetic understand
ing OF lbe other fellows point OF view
'"Tbese patrols ap one Of The finest means
~ protecting school children on their way 20
and liem school, from street and highway
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
A Book a Day
BY BRUCE CATION

American history, when you stop
to think about 1t, Is one of the most
exciting and interesting romances
anyone can read. And there are few
historians as we'll qualified to write
about 1t as James Truslow Adams.
Consequently, Mr. Adams new
book, 1.-THE March Of Democracy,
is a book to write home about.
This is the first volume In new
American history and 1t bears the
subtitle, 1.-THE Rise of the Union"
It carries the story to the open OF
the Civil War and the second
volume will appear In few
months.
The book lacks the panoramic
sweep which made Mr. Adams
"rhe Epic of America" so mem
orable; and yet you will find Few
books that give q clearer or
saner comment on the growth OF
the nation. -
One of Mr. Adams points is that
!"American isloation" Is largely q
myth. From 1920 to the present
day, he says, the nation has had
exactly one century-one century
out of three--of isolation; the
period from 1914 to 1914. Before
that 1t swirled in every eddy OF
European politics. To-day It Is do
ing the samet
But its period of isolation came
Just when It was needed the most;
when there v-ere tremendous local
problems to solve and mighty
work of development to accom-
plish. And In his book he shows
democracy working itself out down
the long and toilsome road, and
helps you to q new anu better UNI
Outstanding Of your country.
Published by Scribners, 1.-THE
March Of Democracy" sells for
1880.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1882


The merchants of Waterbury are pre-
paring once more to offer the people of this
city another big opportunity such as was
presented year ago, if you recall it, TO
make one dollar do the work of two. Again
with the thought uppermost in mind OF
reyiving business and stimulating trade the
local merchants are planning to give the
public this exceptional opportunity OF
acquiring needed merchandise at a mini.
mum cost.
The Waterbury Democrat likewise is
working in full cooperation with the mer-
chants of Waterbury to make this years
Waterbury Day" as great success as last
years, if not even greater Ionights
Waterbury Democrat carries a complete and
Substantial list of offerings from the leading
merchants who are cooperating ~this year
again in the second Waterbury Day.
To its readers the Waterbury Democrat
would suggest that they study tonights
Waterbury Day" edition for the hundreds
of outstanding buys that are offered in the
numerous advertisements and tomorrow at
your earliest opportunity get down town
and take advantage of them early in the
day. The Waterbury Democrat fully
recommends buying at any store. whose
advertisement appears in tonight's Water
bury Day" edition. You can't go wrong
when you trade in those stores.
So once more we can only add in con-
elusion, do not fail to take advantage OF
this wonderful opportunity tomorrow,
backed by your leading merchants. endorsed
by Waferbury's mayor and sponsored and
promoted by your newspaper in connection
with the untiring efforts of the Waterbury
DAY. committee of the local Chamber OF
Commerce. That's your guarantee.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
TARIFFS AND APPLES
bridgeport Telegram.)

This week some Of the new re-
ciprocal tariff duties between
Great Britain and Canada went into
effect. Under the terms of the
agreement millions of dollars worth
of British manufactured products
may come into Capada duty free,
and a corresponding amount of
Canadian agricultural products
may go to Britain and the Irish
Free state without duty.
In both cases, competing Amer
lean products must pay heavy
tariff.
In the face of such situations as
this, developing with various ma
lions from time to time, 1t is pos
sible to contend that we can go
along forever, writing our tariff
duties to suit ourselves and ignor-
Ing other nations?
American farmers whose apple
trees this year are bearing al un-
usual crop will find little comfort
In a duty on Canadian and other
foreign apples. Foreign nations
do not grow apples to sell to, US.
They import from us.
To-day there Is a duty of 70 cents
a hundredweight on American ap-
pies in England and the Irish Free
State, In the past these markets
bought millions OF dollars worth
Of apples from America annually.
This year those same apples VIII
rot upon the ground, or fight
their way In an already over-sup-
piled American market. :.
Canadian apples, grown under
much the same conditions and OF
much the Same quality as those IN
the United States, will monopolize
this market.
iff nation in q free trade world,
the arrangements worked all to
our ADVANTAGE. Now that other
nations are daily turning our own
wea pons against US. there is not 80
much fun In 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
To-day's Selected Poem
Autumn Night

(By Fred I.npc In The New York SUM
A whilo mIn moves below the curvlng hills.
The noldA have drunk tho opIntc of dusk.
Now silently the white frost settling chills
The low wot grass and opens the brown musk
Tho stars are dim; n thin hazo wells tho moon
Color aud Ito have loft this world alone
And got - moth waits In "A groy coooon;
cricket only sleeps beneath Rrhy Moheb
Under this dusk the leaves ARE rod ~ blood
The bronze ana gold lo hidden IN this gloom
And under The rod bear the hard c0lied bud
fhnt viii bn nest springs fragile spray o.
bloom,
ID hidden, waiting NE, SOURCE beyond source,
There IA no snd 70 yeur unswaFvina course
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
So They Say

II there Is a position anywhere
In creation that Ia open. my namc
always seems to be mentioned.
-E-President Calvin Coolidge.
Tho trouble with many modern
parents IL that they have moro
wishbone than backbone.
Dame Beatrix Lyall, British So
cial worker.
II there Is any lesson in history
II Is that we should 60 to the oper-
ating room quickly II we wish to
keep our political institutions from
taking a trip to the morgue.
| jay Franklin. writer.
At last I've found out what the
old world looks like at 8 In the
morning.
james J. Walker. ex-mayor of
New York. on return from
abroad. ff
Rich, people need no longer fear
that II Is a disgrace to- spend
money lavishly when people are
out OF work and some OF them are
starving. IL Ii this very hoard
ing OF moAey by the Rich that adds
to unemployment and It's distresies.
Joseph II. Appel. New York adj
vertlslng director.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
WHAT PRICE FooTBALL7
IMerIden Journal)

| NNAOAAuOA OoAhh0il
The fall football season Is stiil
young. but already reports of fatal
injuries on the playing field are
beginning to come In. The reports
are inexpressibly saddenlng. The
lads who give up their lives are
such fine chaps, and their sacri-
fice Is 80 needless.
Football Is a good game: a good
game to play and a good game to
watch. There must be some way
of safeguarding It so that we will
not have to have these horrible
casualty lists every fall. The game
itself is too good to throw away;
but the price we are paying for It
these days, In fatalities and In ser.
ious injuries, IL far too high.
Last fall the rules committee
adopted new regulations to make
the game safer. It Is bit early.
Just now. to say whether these
regulations are going to, be as ef-
fective as We had hoped. II they
are not, the rules committee must
try again.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
RATHER LAME.

~ ANA Hartford Times)
Speaking, at Chicago Thursday
night Secretary Of the Treasury
Mills repeated an argument which
was made by Calvin Coolidge at
n republican rally In Madison
souare Garden q few nights be-
fore. Answering the democratic
charge that the Hoover adminis-
tration had failed 10 ind any
remedy for the depression, Mr.
COOLIDGE said, and Mr. Mills reiter-
afsd. that III there had been any
thine which q government could 40
10 prssent the decline IN business.
Some government somewhere would
have been wise enough to apply
remedy" and conversely since no
such remedy anywhere had been
found, the inference II practically
certain that the present enoDomic
condition was brought about ~
i rsassnins h more plausible
ihan convincing. IN tbs same
breath almost ~ which they 'ut.
tered n both NJ GeoIldge and ~
Mills took severely ~ task ne
densesfatls presidential candidate
bsaAuss ~ has neE pfppesee ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

Monday the bunting season for wates-
fowl opened with a gray dawn. Thursday
begins the pursuit of upland gamef The
superintendent of game and fisheries denied
reports of a scarcity of ducks and has said
that all state lands are well stocked. Up to
the opening of the hunting season 26l
hunters had applied for licenses. The pub
lie shooting ground acreage lis said TO be
larger this year, so the hunters should have
no complaints to offer.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
now, REALLY

NOW, REALLY
Here lies the body.
OF Reginald Blake,
He started free wheeling.
And burned out the brake.
o-O-o
Slogan for western farmers: BY
their mortgages ye shall know
them.
The average man dislikes to
shave and the average woman
feels much the same when WIN
dow washing Ia mentioned.
Crude of Is used by crude poll
An optimist Is a chap who
spends his Saturday afternoon
vanishing the handle Of a
snow shovel.
600
The Prince of Wales Is becoming
moro serious. A sure sign that
he'll never marry.
uf HHYG 1r
Political rallies,
Give me u pain.
It's blah, blah. blah,
Then biah. blah again.
Bad eggs generally wind up in
custard pie.
O---O--o
What the nation needs n a
good Joke. but not In the
white House.
o--O--O =
A tailor sees your imperfectio
but no generally pads them out.
o--O--o
Cottage cheese II still popu-
lar In apartment houses.
O--O--O
The trouble with the average
quartet Ii due 70 the fact that ~
generally consumes q quart before
quarteting.
o-O--o
This concludes our regular mid.
week program. II was broadcast
BY DBb and came 10 lou through
the courtesy OF the Waterbury
Evening Democrat. pioneer n this
type Of newspaper work. We are
slGnina OF at this tIIne 70 be back
on The air again tomorrow even
ling ID the usual hour.
o@Tu~~o
coed nlshs'
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

on October 10 1913. President
Wilson refused Austria's request
for peace, stating that the indie.
pendence Of tho czeehosiovak and
Juaoslnv nations had been recog-
nised by the United states ana that
with these nations would rest the
decision N 70 any peace terms pro.
posed by Austria,
Allied armies reached the Dutch
frontier, Americans and British
advanced southeast OF Cambrai
and the British extended their
gains east of Douais
rho French reached the Illus.
ding lire IN Champeene ana cap
lnFsd NJ GermaInneut, The 0efs
mans BEGAN The evaeuaiien %
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

Tomorrow will be bargain day in the
stores of the city to be known as Waterbury
Day. The stores are offering their best at
lowest prices. While the vast majority OF
people are short Of cash. prices being what
they are with no assurance of how long this
low price condition will last. everyone is
urged to make supreme effort to get in on
the splendid bargains. Some day prices are
going to soar again. so now is the time. II
you can scrape up any momy at all to
make hay while the sun shines and stock
up your homes with the dependable goods
that the local stores are offering. Glance
over the pages in topight's paper and you
will see just what is being Offered IN the
way of substantial bargains.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

accidents. Every sehooIboy patrolman CEN
centrstes bis attention on directing his class
mates in crossing intersections at the proper
time. He does not direct traffic. and is
never in danger himself" Every city should
have its sehoolboy patrol. The sooner that
is done. the sooner a still finer record will
be achieved in preventing accidents TO
children.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
Here, There And EUeryDhere
sufficient remedy for the economic

suiheie"' ieineuS l1oi 'o esooS
situation.
Neither Of the speakers would
hardly take So lenient view Of
the failure Of the government to
find remedial measures II the
democratic party were in power.
They would hardly be satisfied with
the suggestion that since no gov
eminent anywhere had found q
remedy for the depression ours
could scarcely be expected to-
Such complacency Of view Is
somewhat q reminder Of the posi-
ton which Mr. Coolidge took in the
face Of the oil scandals of the
Harding administration when lie
declared in q public speech that
the wonder was not that there was
SO much corruption after the war
as that there was SO little.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

Out of due respect ito Fine Caneella-
ton Week" being conducted at the Boston
Public Library, man decided to do the
right thing by his city, and returned book
borrowed 2g years ago. At two cents
day the fine should have been put at some
thing over two hundred dollars. Now
wasn't he lucky it was book fine instead
of an automobile fine.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
GOOD GUEssEs
New York Times

Julian J. Taylor, the Latin pro-
fesscr IN Colby collese and vice
president OF an important bank.
who died last week at the age Of
50. msintainsd that the study Of
Latin Trains the student 70 make
good suesses." lie held that "the
whole business OF life " good slIonss
Ing" Ills claim IL supportsd BY
the fact that he himself aInasssd
presumably BY good gue.ningl {
fortune large enough ~ allow him
to make q pledge Of $4,000 70
HI eooIlese. Hut NJ Also has the
backing q Eurlpi1ss. who s.id the
he y the best aiviHer whe ensess1
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

If it were any one other than Rosa
ponselle, she would, be accused of pulling
a>publicty stunt when she broke down Sun
day during her last encore at a concert in
Hartford. This singer however. does not
need to pull any such stunts. People just
flock to hear her anyway. The inaident has
received as much notice as if she had actually
lost her voice.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19
Personal Health Service
nv William Brady, M. d.

Signed letters pertaining to personal
health and hygienc. not disease diagnosis VI
treatment, Will be answc BY Dr bra"s'
Address him, care OF the Democrat se"u'"s
stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

We are now making up for several sea-
sons of more OF less drought. It's enough
to make one buy rubbers, an umbrella and a
raincoat.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

Come on now. let's vote! And in so
doing at least be your own man.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-19

DIR Frank H. Vzctely, who spoke in this
city recently and King Vidor. film director
arc agreed that they do not like 'Oxford