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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
MONDAY, MARCH p, 1882
Temperance Is The Aim

From two sources recently we learned
that temperance is being sought in the Unit
ed States The first was the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment; the
second, Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale
University. The former deals with Den
marks plan of liquor taxation which is
claimed by most people as the cause OF the
amazing record of sobriety in country
which 50 years ago was leader in Europe in
consumption of liquor. Professor Hender-
son is somewhat of toxicoogst and is
competent to speak on the effects of alcohol
upon the system. He spoke last week in
New Haven on the necessity of replacing
cocktails with four per cent beer
To give any sort Of an account OF Den
marks experience with liquor control would
be to consume columns on this page. How
ever. we can point out that Denmark has
achieved its present good standing among
temperate nations not by prohibition, such
as was forced upon this nation, but by other
means In addition consumption of spirits
in Denmark is reduced SO per cent. This
condition of affairs was not brought about
in a month or even a year. When Denmark
decided to tamper with liquor laws it pro-
ceeded cautiously and with the utmost care.
As a result its position to-day is an enviable
one. 1t has procured temperance and at the
same time it has not divided the nation into
hostile camps
Professor Henderson would go about Sc
curing temperance in different way. He
believes that 1--WE have tried two expert
LOT 1>,y boop Jicactrcuc One
was the licensed saloon; the other is the
unlicensed speak-easy and bootlegger under
prohibition. 1t looks now as if we should
soon try third and still worse experiment.
Suppose Congress develops wet majority,
but not enough votes to start repeal OF the
Eighteenth amendment. The result may be
chaos. Prohibition will still be in the Con-
stitution but with the will of the people eX-
psessly against it
''Nearly all the harm that alcohol does is
due to distilled liquor. The great mistake in
both our experiments, license and prohibit
ton. and probably in those to come, lies in
treating beer and wine as liquors and in the
same class as spirits The most successful
solution of the liquor problem in the most
difficult conditions is the Brat system in
Sweden. 1t exercises complete control over
the sale of spirits; but no control whatever
over beer and light wines . -Four per
cent beer is SO dilute in alcohol that man
cannot drink it fast enough to get any eff
feet like the Cocktail kick" If temperance
were the sole object light beer would not
only be legalized, as it can be by mere act of
Congress; it would also be freed from tax
and tariff duties So
Which do you prefer--a sober country
modelled after Denmark or one in which beers
add wines would replace the hard liquors
that prohibition has made doubly popular?
There is plenty of logic in Professor Hen
derson's remarks Too much so, probably,
for our prohibition friends to stomach.
They can see nothing but lost cause if they
50 much as back down from their positions
for one minute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

Former mayor Angelo M. Paonessa of
New Britain has criticised Mayor Quigley,
the republican incumbent. for using relief
funds to build municipal golf course.
while the city has been forced to use scrip
to pay employees We were aware that New
Britain had been forced to. scrip pay
ments but we did not. know that
the city was utilizing relief funds for
public construction. Here in Waterbury we
are building municipal golf course, but
not with relief funds. The Legislature gave
us permission to sell bonds and money is
being supplied in this way. AT the sama
time the project has furnished work. all this
past winter for many men who would have
been without job. Furthermore, when the
course is open to the; public, it should be-
an investment that will pay for itself. We
don't know what the situation is in New
Britain, but the golf course will never be a
white elephant"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

Even SO loyal Hoover supporter as Pat
rick J. Hurley, Secretary of War, has re-
signed himself to an ultimate relaxation of
our prohibition laws. In Chicago last week
he said that he believed more liberal
stand would be taken on the issue by the
republican national convention in June. He
also declared that it was his opinion that the
final settlement of the question would be
with the states controlling liquor sales and
manufacture while the federal government
prevented liquor traffic in states that re-
NAMED dry. He also stated that "A great
many people are going to look for wet can
didates on the ballots next fall. The hand
wrsting is on the wall and fear stalks behind
those members of the house and senate who
have used parliamentary rules to safeguard
their public opinions from private practices
- :" We hope that MIR Hurley speaks
with authority. Perhaps he even has noted
some change in the Presidents attitude to-
wards prohibition. Of course if the con-
vention goes wet MIR Hoover can say that he
is obliged to- follow its dictates. But his
following is in the dry sections of the states.
If he forsakes the prohibtionists he is lost.
we are afraid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
So They Say

Hungry men are an emergency
and We may have to depart from
our cherished theories of noraml
financing to meet it.
Governor George White of Ohio.
The order Diminishing the charges
against me is just what expected.
] regard 1t as q vindication. /
didn't do anything I wouldn't do
again.
Thomas NJ. Farley. ex-sheriff of
New York.
Continuous education of adults
Is the only answer that affords
even a prospect of safety from the
danger of intolerance which con-
fronts us.
Newton d. Baker, ex-secretary
OF war.
There IN no doubt In my mind
that transoceanic airship lines VIII
be IN operation within few years.
DIR Karl Arnsteln. vice president.
Goodyear-zeppelin corporation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
In To-day's Mail
What do think Send all letters
your opinions to the Editor OF Waterbury

May I again ask your assistance
In bringing home to Naugatuck
readers Of your paper, some
thoughts as pertains to Nauga-
tuck's location of the proposed
sewerage disposal plant. At the
meeting of Naugatuck's governing
board, the warden did some con-
siderable amount Of romancing as
to how he can save the old town
some $4,000. He says that the st
Thomas Seminary In Hartford has
their sewerage disposal system in
their front lawn. naturally that
would be a very good place for the
regulation septic tank system
which probably IL the type used for
small installations, and not for
communities Of $1,000 to 10000
persons where all kinds Of diseased
matter is elected into their COM
munity sewer.
The warden says that the Nauga-
tuck sewer beds could be covered
by glass. I say that Naugatuck' 8
wealth is not sufficient to buy
quartz glass enough to cover the
sewer beds, sewer bed must be SUBJ
jected to the chemical. rays Of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
To-day's Selected Poem
MY TRYST

(By Rachel currey Day in The New York
Times)
Upon "A covered bridge have a tryst
Where phoebes nest beneath a low-hung rafter
When rain makes clean the country and, and
after
The shower a rainbow dyes the silver mist
tryst To keep where once a red fox sought
To shun me with shy wild-folk's hunted look,
And where. from reedy shadows OF a brook.
The heron rises like Godward thought.
To keep a lovers tryst I must return
Where IN wood-pnths Sprng-sweet with cross
Tered fern
The Oyen.bird's call skaters the solitude.
o Vlreos and tanaRers, plcase sny
You'll keep your trynt with ono too long away
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

The Connecticut Valley Regional Plan
ming association is going to do some work
this year in developing scenic routes that
pass through sections of Massachusetts, that
are not generally known to the motoring
public. 1t is a good idea. Our much pub
licized routes are SO congested that the mo-
torist often does not get chance to enjoy
them, SO occupied is he with operation Of
his vehicle. There are many regions I'M
known to the average tourist. There are
good roads through them, too although not
perhaps as good as the trunk lines. A little
publicity would introduce their beauty to
all of us. ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
At The National Capitol
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
|
Digest of Who's Who and What's What
BY RODNEY BUTCHER ,e4
velopment from the power COM
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTEl

velopment from the power COM
panies.
In this session he has continued
to demand in his bill that the gov
eminent retain the project, that
provisions be made for transmits
sion lines for power, that safe
guards be stringently erected which
will prevent the power trust"
from grabbing the plant under
guise of wishing to make fertilizer
for farmers and that states, coun-
ties and towns be given surplus
preferential power rights.
A Norris Muscle Shoals bill Is
reasonably sure to pass again. The
old administration house machine
usually opposed all measures spon-
sored by the veteran Nebraskan
progressive, but Democratic Speak,
er Jack Garner has been q sup
porter of the Muscle Shoals bill.
The measure ranks in import
ance with the lame duck amend
ment and and the multiplication
bill because 1t involves the prom
Use OF cheaper electricity for con-
sumers and the important issue of
government operation,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
He Died, But He Still
TriHed

Few philanderers ever get the
chance to continue their amours
beyond the grave-which, every
thing considered, is perhaps just
as well. But this Is just what hap
pens in Henry G. Rowland's
MANY Mansions" and the result
Is an unusual and rather entertain
ing novel. ..t
The hero of the book Is gay
blade who drives his car over a
precipice and comes to in the next
world. He finds it an exceedingly
odd place.
No restrictions whatever are laid
upon him. He can do exactly as he
pleases, and there is no one to adj
monish him or scold him. The set
ting and the company seem to be
just what an accomplished rake
would dream of.
But it happens that he once
loved a girl; and he finds that she.
too, has just passed over the
divide, and he wants her just a
little more than he wants a career
of self-indulgence. So his educa-
ton commences. 49,
He begins by living among the
cave men. at the bottom of the
scale of the brute creation. Slowly
he ascends, moving into satirical-
ly-conceived sort Of country-club
set, through a land of strait-laced
Puritans and up to an odd variety
of over-yonder university. And
then, just as he reaches The point
at which he can join hands with
the girl he loves, the author calls
both of them back to life and lets
them mediate on the things they
have learned.
This novel Ii rather disjointed at
times, and here and there II fails
TO be as neatly handled as one
might wish. But Il does constitute
an interesting discussion of moral
ity, human aspirations and the ul-
innate significance of things In
general. and ! believe you'll ind II
worth your while.
"Many Mansions, II published
by Ray Long and Richard II.
Smith. Inc. and retails At ~.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington Senator George
w. Norris OF Nebraska, foremost
political Independent in American
public life, lis the hero of one of
the most extraordinary SINGLE
handed legislative accomplish
ments ever achieved.
With the Norris Lame Duck
amendment at last passed and on
its way to state ratification and in
sertion in the Constitution, the
Norris anti-injunction law passed
by enormous majorities and the
Norris Muscle Shoals bill up again
under unusually favorable circum-
stances, this is certainly Uncle
Georges big year and no other
member Is Offering him any COM
petition.
They are almost exclusively Nor
ris measures.
Others Mass Efforts
Previous constitutional amend
ments - those for prohibition
and woman suffrage, for instance
have been put over by mass ac-
ton and propaganda OF strong
groups, the names OF members of
congress attached to the legislation
being merely those of the men
who sponsored 1t.
But now one mans efforts are
changing the constitution. Norris
hammered away year after year,
fighting for thing that was OBJ
viously right - making congress
more quickly responsive to popu-
La Ax,il no
the lame duck" system.
He made the senate pass his
resolution repeatedly, was repeat
edly baked by the administrator
house machine and finally, with a
new setup in the house, saw 1t go
through in this session. A con.
stitutional amendment Is obviously
major piece of legislation, but
the other Norris measures may be
ranked as of equal importance.
A Hearty Blow for Labor
No heartier blow was ever struck
by congress for the rights of Amer
Jean labor than when 1t passed the
Anti-Injunction bill by votes which
were nearly unanimous In both
Houses.
That measure destroys the
power OF controlled or prejudiced
judges to help employers break
up strikes by drastic legal as
saults on strikers, declares la
bor's rights to organize and bar
gain collectively as q public pol
Icy. outlaws the yellow dog con-
tract" which forbids employees to
join unions and provides for jury
trials In contempt cases.
Various anti-injunction bills
were introduced over a period Of
years, but labor leaders and men,
bers of congress disagreed among
themselves over the provisions
which were necessary, or most de-
sirable. About four years ago, Nor
ris, as chairman of the senate jul
dietary committee, took that legis-
lation under his own personal wing
and began to iron out differences.
More and more teeth were put into
his bill as time went on and IL was
us a Norris proposal that 1t went
out on the floors of the two cham
bers to victory, although the house
bill had q difference or two which
remained to be ironed out in con-
ference.
A complete Muscle Shoals vic
tory will be more difficult because
of the likelihood of another Hoov-
err veto for the Norris government
operation plan and the doubt whe-
Their it could be passed over that
veto by the requisite two-thirds
majorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
N TO-DAY SO
|WORlDWARA.
ANNIVERSARY
8ER ofE&E
German Drive Begins.

On March 81. 1918, the great
German drive began, with an at
tack in great force against British
positions on a 50-mile front from
Arras to La Fere.
Nearly 100000 men were
hurled against the British lines
by the Germans, who claimed
they had broken through the
British lines and had advanced to
a depth of more than five miles in
places.
British divisions opposing the
drive were clinging stubbornly to
their ground north of Arras, but
were forced to fall back in other
portions of the front
German losses in killed and
wounded for the first day of the
great battle were, estimated at
more than $4,000.
All available British reserves
were ordered into action, as the
gravity Of the situation became
apparent.
The objective of the German
drive, 1t was believed, was the
separation of the British and
French armies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
FREE SPELLING

When the election comes next fall,
No matter how you're feeling,
The politicians will be round,
To offer their free spelling.
o-O--o
The man who has to take 1t on
the chin might grow a beard TO
soften the blows.
o--O---o
A man is never old until he
likes to sit in rocking chair.
o-O-o
It's easy to replace damage UNI
less it happens to be character
damage.
600
March has brought the un-
usual Kids flying kites. And
attired in heavy overcoats and
A fountain pen is like some
after dinner speakers. Goes
dry at the wrong time.
o-O-o
The lady in waiting will tell
you the trouble with leap year is
due to the fact that it doesn't come
often enough.
o@O-o
After a man passes sixty he
wants to pass a second helping at
meal time.
600
nUNG
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

The death of Benton Holeomb in CRANKY
last week called attention to the novel but
at the same time highly delightful pastime
or profession that was his. He and a broth
er were engaged in supplying nurseries and
landscape gardeners with wild shrubs, flow
ers, trees and ferns. He was an authority
on wild plant life and had even cultivated
many varieties that we associate commonly
with our woodlands or fields. Incdently.
MIR Holcomb had one of the largest eolee-
tons of Indian relics in Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

sun, to be Of the greatest effect. To
cover a sewer bed with ordinary
glass would be to create n disease
breeding incubator.
Question:: Where is the saving?
The warden says that the plant
can be housed over.
A house for this sewerage plant
would cost far more than $4,000.
The warden says that sewerage
disposal plants are things OF beauty
when properly Handicapped. 1t would
take more than $4,000 to land
scape the proposed site properly.
The warden invites town people
to junket around the state to sat
isfy themselves of the beauty Of
sewerage disposal plants.
Question: Who is going to pay
the expenses?
The people OF Naugatuck are
paying a borough engineer a salary
to tell them how to build a proper
plant. The factory workers who
pay the freight are working for
less than half what their borough
engineer gets.
The proposed site would not be
large enough to care for any
growth of Naugatuck population
and an auxiliary plant would have
to be built.
Question: Where would this
plant be built? My answer Is that
It would be built where the first
plans called for it--over in the
woods where 1t rightfully belongs.
The warden asked his borough
attorney IL 1t was necessary for him
to have the freemen OF the town
vote on the question. The borough
attorney says no. That means that
the freemen of Naugatuck have
had something put over on them, by
their representative who SPONSOR
ed the sewerage bond issue in Hart
ford. The trunk line sewer work
has been stopped because Of diver
sion of the sewerage bond money
to pay the running expenses OF the
town. Mr. Warden guess you had
better begin to save. 1t is too bad
stable. The borough attorney told
the meeting that there was iaw|
compelling towns along the Nauga-
tuck river to stop putting sewerage
in this stream. ss
Question: Mr. Borough Attorney.
just state where you can find this
law on Connecticut's statute books.
have understood that Connecti-
cut has no such law, but a COM
mission created to assist commun-
tiles to eventually bring about al
state of affairs where those who
have poor sewerage facilities could
be coerced into making improve-|
ments.
Question: Does Hartford and
New Britain and the towns Who'll
dump sewerage into the Connecti-I
cut river and its tributaries, recog-I
nize this commission? The borough
attorney might also quit his ro-I
mancing. 80
Owing to the fact that your spaced
Is valuable I end this present mis-
sive, and hope your NaugatuckI
readers will approve of your kind
ness.
Thanking you. ] am
- WIN. J. LANNER.
Waterbury. Conn. March 10. 1889.
Il
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
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 DIR Brady
Address him, care of the Democrat. sending
stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
Good evening.
o--O--o
SLOT MACHINES
"A, SMILES THE THING"

t~ ffsfif -4--4---.--- W
BY the old and battered counter,
lookin' wfstful at the door.
A tobaccconist Is waitin', and /
know he thinks his store
Should be maxim better profits
h and have customers galore.
'Baccy sales must be enormous to
keep wolves without the door,
For the wind is from the west
SE ward, and the passing minutes
'Hurry up; Collect the pennies for
you've got your rent to pay"
Opposite the battered counter
stands q funny old machine,
With dial and rod and pointer,
such as every man has seen,
And when someone drops penny
In the slot upon its side,
A pointer swings within an arc
that's very long and wide.
Now IL the pointer stops upon a
number that is right,
"A gadget trips gadget, and a
slug appears in sight.
The slug can be exchanged for
something large and round
and bright.
When the sIugs begin to drop, my
boys, when the slugs begin to
drop,
He's lively counting pennies, when
the slugs begin to drop.
But the law is frownlng now and
says the thing has got to stop.
And a burly big policeman soon
is entering the ShOD.
He gazes on the slot machine, and
on the ceiling high,
And on the poor tobacconist, and
winlss the other eye.
The 'baccy man is wOeful for the
rent days drawing nigh.
And he says, "IetS fix things up
a little bit twixt you and l."
At that the big policeman goes
behind the little shop,
The pennies keep pouring In and
the sltlgs begin to drop.
The shopman follows, saying
"TwouId be sad for this to stop"
They shake hands (can you believe
it?) Then out goes the burly
cop.
For the wind Is from the north
ward, and the passing minutes
say,
Hurry up: collect the pennies,
for your rent you've got to
pay"
From the Hartford Courant. d.
o-O--o
A murder triangle always be-
comes q cryangle when the evi.
Il ia han ri Iofnrn indigo and
jury.
o-O---o
Easter week. Pas Easter
dyes for Ma Hens eggs.
o-O-o
Chickens stage a parade Easter
afternoon to give the old ROSTERS
on the sidewalks an eye full.
o-O--o
DING, DING
BE still sad heart.
And cease repining,
Three times through the still
Means high refining.
600
The height of imagination Is a
solo flight when you don't know
the first thing about an airplane.
O-O-o
Where there's smoke. there's
generally a ladies card party.
o-O-o
Then there was the autoist with
q flat tire who stopped in front of
the house of representatives in
Washington. Gle knows his free
air station.)
o-O--o
Leap year makes its legal
for girls to obey the constitu-
tional guarantee, pursuit of
happiness.
O-O-o
1t always takes some big shot to
fire the opening gun in an election
campaign.
O-O--O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

One of the most dispiriting things about
this depression is the way presidential cam
didates depress their opinions on public is
sues
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

Clothing. shirts ana shoes are
being sold by house toulouse can
vaEsers IN Denmark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

All vehicles must be lighted not later than
635 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21

Another Shoals Bill
But Norris unquestionably will
continue to be victorious in his
long battle to keep the Shoals de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
so II GOES


He got In a peck of trouble,
Did Iarruping Larry Dews.
By. spending his hard earned
wages,
On "a questionable quart of booze.
o-O-o
Friendship Is the greatest
vessel on the great sea of life.
600
This concludes our opening pro-
gram of the week. II came to YOU
over DID and WINS broadcast by
the Waterbury Evening Democrat.
pioneer In this type of newspaper
work. We are signing off at this
time, TO be back on the air again
Tomorrow evening mt the usual
hour.
600
Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
~ WIN. j. LANNER.
Waterbury. Conn, March 10. 1882

p. s.-The young man in the newt
ONCE In Naugatuck says he does
not recognize who I am.
Mr. Editor. went through gram
mar school in Naugatuck with MY
boy friend. Eddie Ahearn, now am
executive OF the Naugatuck Daily
News. .A WIN. j. &.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-21
DING, DING
Here lies the body,
OF Herman Ford.
Killed while looking
For money to hoard.

The man who is always boast
ing of stopping at nothing, gener-
ally starts at much less than that.
o-O-O
The depression for ants and
mosquitoes will end with the
arrival of spring and the picnic
season,
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1932-01-15

me. Ak nefunguje tato zlaza
spravne, nasledok je..plane zdra-
vie a snizenie vitality celeho. tel
III. Ak chceme 81 zachovat' do
bre zdravie, mnslme potrayou do
davat' telu male pravda, ale ne.
vyhnutne potrebne mnozstvo i6-
dl.
Takmer celia zaGoba jodn ma
svete nachodi sa ' mori. Male
mnoEstvo j6dn MONO najst' 70
vode ma pitie, ktora pochadza Z
pramenov ned 'aleko mora, jako
v rastlinach, rasthcich ma brehu
.morskom. Ale vacsina j6du je
predsa len v mori. Preto najlep-
sim sposobom, 5akym mozeme
dodavat' telu j6d je, aby SINE
.jedli ryby, ivory ktorych tela sii
presiaknutG morskou vodou.