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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29

Dr George w. Caiver, attending physician at the Capitol, has warned our congressmen to slow down If they don't wish to avoid serious illness with possibly fatal results. Dr Calver ought to get vote of thanks from both the House and Senate for those kind words. Congressmen are accustomed to be referred to today as possessors of sneeures. Nobody seems to take them seriously any more except themselves. However, in the heat of an exciting session as the present one men and women with high blood counts or nerv- ous conditions cannot hope to keep them selves in condition. Dr Calver says that l6 representatives and 4 senators have died in this session. while others have collapsed from overwork and strain. At this rate it behooves the nations legislators to pause for mo- ments play All work and no fun won't even keep the wheels of Uncle Sans great national factory running smoothly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
Control of Capital

In dissenting opinion of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Brandeis takes the position that "unbridled competition was one of the chief causes of the economic depression. He suggests that inasmueh as regular employment depends on the even balancing of production and consumption. some measure of control is needed over the investment of capital in industry.
 This might have sounded very radical three years ago. It sounds less radical now. There can be no doubt that it was largely the blowing of excess profits back into in- dustry; instead of distributing them in ways that would have sustained buying power for commodities. which forced production so far ahead of consumption and created an eeo- homie jam.
 Bankers are normally supposed to exer- else a wholesome restraint in the investment of new capital where it is not needed. Pos sibly this service hereafter will become a governmental function. All thinking men agree that there must be more economic con- trol, and this looks like one of the elemen- 'tary forms of control
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
Art in Cartoon Movies

The critics who complain that the movies have contributed nothing new to dramatic art have overlooked one item, the animated cartoon. Perhaps this is not really new. It may have been taken over from the comic strips of the newspapers Nevertheless, its development on the silent screen and later in talkie and sound pictures has been along individual lines. Certainly there is nothing like it on the stage.
 writer on screen topics says the cartoon takie is the truest form of art on the screen today. It is extermely simple, yet it combines the true flow of motion with sound and music" It is intended to be funny, and it is funny. It delights adults as greatly as 1t does children. The best of the cartoon talkies have their devoted follow CTS quite as certainly as the featured picture on the bill, and the human stars of the screen. Mickey Mouse and the other lead ing lights of the various cartoon movies may not be the last word in screen entertainment. They suggest that originality is not dead, by any means, and that other ideas particularly adapted to the moving picture screen may be evolved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
The Bear Growls

Washington is said to have information that Russia is feverishly preparing for a cam paign against the Japanese in Manehura. Provisions and munitions are being shipped in large quantities to the vicinity of Vladi- vostock. Rolling stock used to carry these supplies over the Chinese Eastern Railway is not being returned to Manchuria, but is kept in Russian territory. Military opera tions are expected in the spring.
 This is 3 natural development reeklessl invited by Japan when she started out to grab Manehuria. She may need Manchuria more than Russia does, but Russia has as much right there as she has, and Russia has no desire to be barred from the Pacific by an expanding oriental power. So here is another trouble Japan headed into when she allowed her militarists to run amuek, in- stead of keeping them under control of the civil power.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1882
Pinchot Makes Good Plea

/ While many man will not agree with Governor Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania in everything he does and says still in dis cussing conservation measures he generally speaks wisely and with knowledge based on wide experience in such matters. Just at present he is hotly protesting the proposed measure now facing Congress that would place the public lands of every state under the control of five headed commission politically appointed. Just why this is nee- cssary at this late date is more than we can understand, but there it is in House Resolu ton 5,840, more famliarly known as the Evans bill. Any state that still has 400 900 acres of public land is eligible to be ruled by enc of these commissions of five. Fortunate ly for Connecticut we don't think she will fall into this category. But there are many states, especially in the West. that will un- doubtedly be affected in time. This board can determine without much opposition from the general public what section of the National Forests can be deleted on the grounds that they are not mainly valuable for forest purposes. You can imagine the destruction that could be done our national forests in this way.
 It isn't generally known, although the in- formation is public, that the majority of our Natona Forests and also many National Parks arc eriSs- crossed and divided into areas that arc still privately owned In acquiring the land Uncle Sam has perhaps secured thousand acres one day and a similar alot- ment year from that time. Perhaps he couldn't buy adjacent lands but hoped to purchase the intervening territory at a later cate. It may be years before this deal will be consummated. In the interim the private interests can do anything they please with their own land regardless of what the fed eral authorities feel or say.
 Much valuable timberland has been lost in this fashion. Before the government could acquire it it had been stripped of it's stands of timber by numbering concerns who can't be blamed for furthering their own in- terests. But why should the government aid in such work by permitting politically named commissions to decide which tracts of forest land shall be or shall not be in- euded in national forests. That's too much power to hand over to such boards. Re- member what happened when Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall tried to give away those valuable oil reserve leases The Tea pot Dome expose is ehronieed in history's pages already. though less than decade old We want no more exploitation of public lands And if we give officials the oppor tunity to do such things some of the blame must rest upon our shoulders We hope Governor Pinchot can convince Congress to throw out the Evans bill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
Good evening.
 o-O--o COME ON, SPRINGl
"A SMILES THE THING.

We've had enough of snow and cold;
 Come, spring! This month of March high winds have rolled;'
 Come, spring! We've shivered in each chilling blast, And hoped each day would see the last; But nothing happened as they passed;
 Come, spring! We want to hear the robins sing;
 Come, spring! We gaze for blue birds on the wind;
 Come, spring! We fain would look at budding trees, Putting on our lighter B.V,D.'s; Put up the vapor rub and sneeze;
 Come, spring. An, March, you've surely been d pipl
 Come, spring! All through the month you let it rip'
 Come, spring! We've eoughed until our chest is Then coughed and eoughed a whole lot more; Come, spring, please knock upon our door;
 Please do!
 o-O-o Political stories are generally cooked by gas. And you know what kind of gas.
 o-O-o The complexion of politics changes as often as the com plexion of Milady.
 o-O-o Friday is April first, the birthday of the man who bought 6 well known oil stock at 49.
 O-O-o The gal who pencils her eye brows is probably trying, to ink out her past. o--O-o Then there was the florists daughter who married and wanted to live in a green house.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
Trees For Treeless Roads

It has always been too easy to cut down trees. This does not refer to legitimate numbering operations, but to the thoughtless and ruthless destruction of trees along high ways to make way for wires overhead or sidewalks and ditehes along the road. The public, in many different communities, now begins to wake up to the fact that much of the tree-cutting has been needless and detrimental in various ways. Efforts are made to begin over by planned tree-planting.
 Commissioners in an Ohio county have observed that too many of them are utterly lacking in the beauty given by trees. They propose to set out several hundred trees this spring along certain barren stretches of highway Naples and oaks are suggested. They will cost about Sl0 tree.,
 There may be objection to the proposal at this time, when every new item of expense is closely scrutnized. If the money is avail able, however the job should be done. Trees in the right places pay dividends in the long run
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29

Windsor has lost an antiquarian of note in the death of David J. Ellsworth. 92. a descendant of Oliver Ellsworth, third chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. Mr Ellsworth was considered an authority upon Windsor history and inasmuch as Windsor and Wethersheld are the oldest towns in the state he must have been we'll acquainted with the early history of this colony. The last years of his life were devoted to the study of Windsor history and in this he was aided to a great extent by personal diary which he had kept for the last fifty or sixty years. No doubt he would have been a valuable aid in the coming tereentenary that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
SIR HORACE PLUNKETT
(New York Timesl

Horace Plunkett was great Irish prophet without honor in his own country. At least, he was with out adequate and deserved honor. The chief reason for this was that he stood apart from the fierce po- litical contests in Ireland. His main work lay "above the melee" What he did for cooperative farming in Ireland and for the establishment of agricultural banks was really of more importance than anything accomplished by furibund politi- cions. Sir Horace was too philo- sophical, too calm, too intent on practical results, to fit well into the turbulent Irish scene. Yet with great good nature and shrewdness and tenacity he stuck to his own ideas and plans, which. in their slow unfolding and achievements. did more for the economic im- provement of Ireland than any single movement or influence of his day. He was fervent advo- cate of Irish unity, including Ul- ster. but also held that Ireland outside of union with the British empire was unthinkable. This po- sition of his led to ferocious att tacks upon him by Irish republi- cans, who finally shocked and shamed the government of the Irish Free State by burning down his beautiful home with all its his toric and art treasures. Even this crowning outrage he took with characteristic boise.
 He was a good friend of the United States, based upon long and t..tt at a Nuith fhia country, From early life to old age he was in the habitof paying visits to America. Here he was close student of our political and social life. and formed close friendships with many of our public men. They prized him at something like his true worth, even if many of his fellow -countrymen did not. In his great and successful efforts for the revival of Irish agriculture and the improvement of small towns and the countryside, Sir Horace Punk ett had something of the fate of the man described In the Book of Ecclesiastes:
 There was a little city. and
 few men were In 1t; and there
 came a great King against 1t,
 and besieged 1t, and built great
 bulwarks against it. Now. there
 was found in 1t a poor wise
 man, and he by his wisdom
 delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor
 man. Then said I. wisdom is
 better than strength; neverthe-
 less the poor mans disdom is
 despised, and his words are
 not heard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29

New York's Conservation Department expects to plant 20 100000 trees through out the state this spring. A gigantic re- forestaton project, involving $20,o00,oo0 and spread over 100000 acres, gets under way as soon as weather permits plant ing. New York certainly leads the nation in this respect. It was over this project that Governor Roosevelt and Ex-Governor Smith fought last year when the people approved of the measure at the fall elections Person ally we think every acre of waste or idle land ought to be utilized for just some such purpose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
Here, There And EuerwDhere

the Golden Gate with the Quickness of a dream. Days and leagues and facts mean nothing to the whistle. You are on peek in the Rocky mountains, and a tiny train crawls by mile below the spot on which you stand. The desert Is hot and chromatic, and a locomotive howls like banshee on the other side of the mesa. Calgary Is cold and snow bound as the engineer pulls the cord before a frozen crossing. And all the time you are lying in your bed, aching to follow the train to the places 1t describes.
 At night and at a distance. the railroad loses 1t sutilitarian expects. No longer is 1t carting prosaic po- totoes and turnips from the fields to the markets and equally prosaic salesmen from the manufactures to the retailer. It is the shuttle on a magic loom, that darts back and forth through the web of memory, weaving a many colored pattern. Iron and steel then are transfirmed into the stuffs of romance to trim the dreams of thos who must do their treveling only in their imag- nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
So They Say

If am ever depressed I buy myself a new hat, and feel bet ter at once. Mrs Cecil Chesterton, London. Men are bullied by women be- cause nature. in its inscrutable cruelty. supplies women with a faculty of disguising their faults when men are counting them.
 -Viscount Castlerosse, London.
 
 believe there won't be many more St Patrick's days under the present dry rule. Representative James A. Mead. Buffalo.
 If the police departments of London or Paris had the crime problem we have they'd De Safety Director, Merrick. cleve- land.
 The surest way of not being paid Is to proclaim far and wide that one will never be paid. Andre Tardieu. premier or France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29

this state plans. Windsor and Wethers6eld will naturally be the centers of attraction in this great celebration. Certainly Windsor will mourn the passing of Mr Ellsworth as will the rest of the state although it may not have known of him until his obituary notices appeared in state papers. Old timers, like Mir Ellsworth who can recall and speak intelligently of happenings of half a century ago. are scarce today. It ought to be the duty of some newspaperman to get the observations of as many of them as he could. That would be real news
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
N{ TODAY e;g!s' gg'
 WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY &N4 ofz&E
GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY

~EnNHhNo SIfAh4H
 On March 29, 1918, the Third and Fifth British armies were pushed back again in the great battle in Picardy. British officers reported several fresh German di- visions had been thrown against them.
 German official bulletins said that more than $50 heavy guns and 5000 prisoners. had been taken in the offensive, which had penetrated British lines to a depth of more than 25 miles in some instances.
 French reserves were rapidly arriving at the front and allied observers beleived that if the front could be maintained for 72 hours more, the German attack would be stopped. They estimated German loses in the great battle at nearly 100000.
 Paris was again bombarded by the long-range German gun; 15 persons were killed and 90 wounded there during the day.
 On the italian front. 1t was re- ported that 40 Austrian divisions were arriving from the Russian front and an offensive was expect ed there momentarily. Germany demanded that Ru- mania turn over her oil wells to a German concern.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
At 7he National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTE
By RODNEY BUTCHER

right gift tax.
 If the maximum death tax rate of 65 per cent goes through with the gift tax, however, there Is the possibility of a rush of multimil- lyionaires to unload their millions before the law taxes effect, delay ing the public benefit for years. An Argument Against
 An insistent argument used against the high surtaxes on in- comes Is that they drive tho wealthy to put their money into tax-exempt securities. Under a supreme court decision, the fed eral government can't tax state and municipal issues. The house once adopted constitutional amendment to cover that, but it died in the senate.
 Now Congressman LaGuardia O! New York, insurgent tax igh, leader, says no valid objection is involved because any rush for tax exempt securities will give the states a better market for their bonds, lower their interest rates increase their income tax collec- tions and create employmen, through expansion of public works for which the bonds would be is- sued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
To-day's Selected Poem
DUSK

DUSK
 By Helen Welshimcr These are the things men seek at dusk: Firelight across room: Green spiashing against dim roofs, Gardens where flowers bloom. Lamplighted gold of a windowpane, Trees with tall stars above. Women who watch darkening street For someone whom they love Faith Of a small child's rhyming prayer. Candleshine tables spread With blossom or two in a gay blue bowl. Fragrance of crusted bread. For men may dream Of q clipper ship. A wharf. 0f q gipsy camp, But their footsteps pattern q homing way To woman, child. . lamp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
TRAIN WHISTLES
Hartford Courant)


 When the wind is right and the city is still. the long shrill hoots of the locomotive whistles offer seven league boots to the imagination. "Come a-w-a-a-a-y." says the whts- tie, "aw-a-a-y." Then, If you listen carefully, you may hear the engine whispering the names of the places to which 1t incites you: Kalamazoo (chuff- chuff) Kankakee. (chufl Medicine Hat chuff-chuff) and all way stations tchuff-chuff-chuff.) J" Then the sound of the train. dies away in the distance, throwing back one last invitation as the en- gineer whistles at the crossing two miles down the line.
 That train Is going to New York. where it will meet another from Chicago. which, in turn. has met q mate from San Francisco. The whistle bridges all the miles he. tween the Connecticut river and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
Tluo Actresses Bare
 Their Souls

Two books that you are going to hear a good deal about this spring are "Souvenirs-My Life With Maeterlinck." by Georgette Le- blanc, and "Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self" by Edward Cor don Craig.
 Unfortunately, each book Is a rather dreary bit of self -exhibi- tionism. If you want to be able to talk about them, hop to it; if you're looking for something in teresting to read, you might about as well pass on to the next shelf.
 Georgette Leblanc was French actress. One day she read something Maeterlinck had writ ten and decided that here was kindred soul at whom she must straightway throw herself. Suiting action to the word, she arranged an introduction and proceeded to do the throwing.
 An informal and fairly enduring establishment followed. Maeter- linck seems to have been inspired by the affairs to write some Of his finest plays and poems-or, at least, so Mime Leblanc tells us. But unless you're a devoted student of Maeterlinck, I can't see why the book would enthrall you.
 Mir Craig gives what purports to be an intimate, "homey" picture of his mother. the famous English actress. You get, however, a much clearer picture of Mir Craig him. self, and it isn't exactly an engag- ing one. He's still angry because of the publication of the shaw Terry letters, and wounded vanity seems to have been the motive power behind the writing of this book.
 Both of these books are pub lished by F. F. Dutton and Co, Inc. The Leblanc book is priced at s4; the Craig book costs $3.5O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BuxOm is the Good News

| thought you would be interested in the clipping enclosed. It seems in line with your teachings. (H. C. Al
 Answer-Thank you I am. The clipping is evidently a news item telling of girl in Eu- rope who won the beauty championship of her country. She is buXom Speaking both as a health authority and member of well known sex I may say that's the way I like em. We have had about all we, can stand of these lipodystrophic horrors.
 Has medical science tried Ieech for drop sical swelling in the legs? Hot baths at the Springs clear it up Why not try the horse lcech? (B. Al
 Answer-Not medical science. Medical art has probably treated such swellings with leeches many times. A leech draws blood. and is more suitable for infammatory swelling.
 Amateur Urinalysis
 I have just had my urine examined and It Is reported all 0. X. except trace of indican. For month past whenever l wake in the morning notice (L. @
 Answer--It is unwise to have such tests made by anybody on your own initiative. Leave the interpretation of such things to your phy- sician. The indican has no significance.
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 | had the sulphur ointment compounded and have used it ilve weeks faithfully. as you di- rect. and It certainly has done wonders with an ugly mess Of dandruff and it has stopped the falling hair fMrs W. M.l
 Answer--Glad to send complete instructions 10 any reader who incloses stamped envelope bearing his address,.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29

Waterbury isn't the only community that gets offers for its water works Campbell. Ohio. is going to sell its water system to the highest bidder. The town needs money to pay off employees so has chosen to get rid of the water plant. Bids are to be called for shortly. The move was hastened when the entire police force threatened to quit It hasn't been paid in eight months. That's cause flor such drastic action as selling the water works
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-29

slated to become President Hoover's running mate. but was drowned upon by State Chair man J. Henry Roraback of the republican party Where Colonel Tilson failed to meet the test perhaps Governor Cross will sue eeed. Certainly he will swing New Eng land 'democraticward'