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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
Uncle Rays
Corner
GEORGE WASHINGTON

GEORGE WASHINGTON
This month people all over the
United States will celebrate the
birthday of George Washington!
and there will be special reason
because his birthday will mark the
passing of just 200 years since he
was born.
Corner readers have asked me
to write something about WASH
ington, and / am going to do so
almost two weeks in advance of his
birthday, so that school pupils may
be able to use the stores as topics.
The most famous story of Wash
ington as a boy Is about cherry
tree which Gf we could believe
the story he cut down with lit
tie Ratchet. Sad to say. that tale
seems to be one without any
truth. A minister named Mason
Weems is believed to have made
Another famous story Is about
Washington planning to go to sea,
at the age of Ia. We are told that
he had already sent his baggage
abroad ship when his mother
told him that he must not leave
her.
That may really have happened.
We do not have full proof, but we
do have record Of letter from
Joseph Ball, the boys uncle. Writ
ing the letter from London, Eng
land, to his sister, Mary, the uncle
said. in part: ''''''
"I understand you are advised
and have some thoughts of putting
your son, George. to sea. l think
he had better be put apprentice to
a tinkcr-a common sailor has by
no means the common liberty Of
subjcct-thcy will press him from
ship to ship and cut and slash and
use him like Il dog"
George was the fifth child in a
family of 10. He had three half
brothers and one half-sister. all
older than himself. and five young
err brothers and sisters.
When George was II years old.
his father died. Later the boy
spent much OF his time at the
home of his alf-brother, Lawrence
Washington. This home --- known
as Mount Vernon---was willed to
him when Lawrence died.
George did not become a tinker,
as his uncle had suggested. In
stead he took up work as surveyor.
In those days there were many
farms in Virginia which needed to
be measured and divided off, WASH
ington kept on with the work until
the outbreak of the French and
Indian war.
Lord Fairfax. who owned more
than 100000 acres of land in and
around Virginia. was friend of
the young surveyor.
UNCLE RAY.
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said the Dragon.
"But we must see Alice" said
the Mad Reporter. "She will re.
member
" The time has come, the Wal
rus said,
"To talk of many things;
"Of shoes-and ships-and seal
Ing wax
"Of cabbages--and kings"
The Dragon Guardian.
"Tell her the Mad Reporter said
the time had come to talk of Car
roll and how he first tok her into
Wonderland"
The Dragon. being ever so kind,
said she would see what could be
done. Soon she returned, but she
said:
Alice Is sorry to disappoint you,
but the time has not come to talk
of Carroll and many things. She
may do that and when she may
pose for her picture when She
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

Never look the same if you can
help it, say the great fashion arbit-
ers of the world. Even in the small
est details, such as finger tips, you
must avoid monotony if you would
be the most attractive woman at
the ofIice--the cynosure of all eyes
at the opera.
Just as a woman Is behind the
times IL her costume jewelry does
not assume a new and smart in
dividuality in contrast to each frock
she wears, so she is out of date If
her finger tips do not also change
with each ensemble.
Just as woman is behind the
times IL her costume jewelry does
not assume a new and smart in
dividuality in contrast to each
frock she wears, so she Ii oct of
date IL her finger tips do not also
change with each ensemble.
In the morning for instance. she
might at this time of year, wear a
little black woolley frock, with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
he STQSREE SUE
By Marqery Hale

Jimmy you can't do it?"
what do you bet?" Grace ask
ed.
"A bottle of your favorite per-
fume against mine''
Good. Anything expensive suits
me- Let's shake on it,
NEXT: Grace Hayden starts her
campaign.
Copyright 1882 NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

to it." .,
No mere Mad Reporter could
yet the best Of Alice In her own
chosen. time!ess village.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
YOUR
CHILDREN
oI9sz 81 MsA ssRy!eE !n.S;
CHILDREN LEARN TO DO
RY DnING
By Olive Roberts Barton


Do you remember that old song,
beginning, Every Little Movement
Has Meaning All Its Own?"
That Is so true that / think the
author was more of a philosopher
perhaps than he knew.
And the more one pondered 1t,
the more various are the ways 1t
can be interpreted.
There is one way Of regarding II.
however, in child study, that we
may not have thought of before
and that Is the beginning of move
ment. Every beginning of every
new movement marks a new epoch
in a childs life. yet we discourage
rather than encourage them.
Did you ever play golf? Do you
remember the first time some one
put a long, awkward club into your
hands, seated tiny ball on little
mound of sand before you, point
ed to a tiny red flag in the dis
lance, and said, Now hit 1t and go
as far as you can?
Yet your first awkward move
ment on that day long ago was the
beginning Of years of subsequent
success and pleasure afterward.
Beginners Are Clumsy
All children are awkward and
clumsy over beginnings.
Still more often they are never
allowed to begin at all.
/ am constantly amazed over the
number of things that children
learn to do in the face of dis
couragement.
Suppose Kitty announces that
she is going to make some cookies.
Her mother knows that she can't
cook, that there will be mess In
the kitchen and that the chances
are the cookies will be burned or
otherwise ruined.
She she says quickly, you'll do
no such thing. Keep out of that
kitchen"
And Kitty's very praiseworthy
impulse Is lost. When she is Is her
mother will very likely complain
to somebody that her daughter
could teach her," she will say.
Which will be perfectly natural.
as she killed the natural urge at
the psychological moment when Vt
could have been made much Of.
If she had said. That's fine. I'll
lay out the cook book and let you
go ahead" the child might have
spoiled the first and second and
even the third patches. But IL she
reached the fourth or sixth edition
with a. little encouragement. Kitty
would probably have turned out a
praisew orthy product, and liked
cooking.
We learn to do by doing. Chill
dren don't want to be "bossed"
oyerv minnie They want to work
things out for themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
0LORIFYING
YOURSELF
By Alicia Hart


Easter hats this year ask a lot
of your eyes.
All the new hats more or less
list to starboard or in some mirac-
ulous manner roll away from the
forehead to high-light your eyes.
Hats are so chic and smart and
sleek that unless your eyes look
well turned-out In their makeup
there's a discrepancy In your beat
ty effect,
Plucked eyebrows are entirely
too obvious for this subtle spring.
Let them grow and train them IN
the way they should grow. Pluck
an occasional one that gets way
ward Don't let them come too
near together over your nose. Blu:
oil them, grease them, touch them
up with eyebrow pencil, brush
them and arch them slightly and
see the difference they make in the
way your eyes look.
New hats have bright colors this
season and unless you are careful
of your makeup you'll look just
too artificial under your Easter
bonnet. IL you go in strong for eye
shadow, let 1t be n skilled hand
that applies it. Nothing Is worse
than eye shadow that would be
enchanting in evening worn In
broad daylight so obviously that it
classes with the tone of your day.
time ensemble.
Eyelashes are needed this year.
for it's smart to be demure agar.
and wistful, and what good set
of eyelashes can accomplish Is
nothing short In miraculous.
Perhaps you don't realize that
with proper care you can improve
the condition of your lashes. They
need oil. Castor oil is fine for
them, II you can stand putting IT
on. Vaseline Is good. Be careful
not to get the oil into your eyes.
only on the edges of the lids where
it will benefit the lashes.
If you makeup your eyeiashes.
do it with restraint this spring.
To wear dream OF "a little Paris
hat that has elusive charm galore
and then mascara your eyes under
it until they seem blatant Is about
the best way you can go about com
pletcly running the eff 'ct of that
hat. Be careful about makeup
all kinds Of 1t, this spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

which her nails CLEAN a vivid car
dinal since that's the shade of
finger nails that looks smartest
with black woolley ensembles. Yet
when she feels the urge for dark
brown or dark green silk instead of
wool, she prefers deep rose
polish.
And so it goes. For day as well
as evening many different shades
of nail polish are being worn.
Coral tipped digits with coral ac-
cessories are extremely popular, es-
pecially- with the young debutantes
who like its shel1-like lustre
against their shimmering white
satin dance frocks.
Natural and colorless polishes
will always be in vogue. of course,
and are popular with the ultra con-
servative woman, or for wear with
gowns of so startling color as to
be better unaccompanied by any
other than a neutral shade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer
westerham, England - Many,
many years ago, Alice, round
eyed child Of ten. lived in Wonder
land. Today an old, old woman
of so, known here only as Mrs
Reginald Hargreaves, she dwells In
this little village In Kent-land.
She Is of today, but her mind
goes back mostly to yesterday
that long golden yesterday on the
stern, celibate, clerical gentle
man, known to the world as the
Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,
sisters into q wonderful country
which has since then, by the print
ed word, enchanted millions OF
Alives, Marys and James in every
civilized nation of the globe.
To Alice, Dodgson was not the
forbidding master of mathematics
kind, genial friend, who showed
the other and tender side of him
self, the whimsical and humorous
side of himself. He called that
other self Lewis Carroll.
Then Reality Came.
Fate has dealt Alice unkind
blows. Many years ag she lost
that immortal friend. Then she
lost her husband, cultured land
edgentle man. Next, came the
World War. Her three strong sons
went out to fight for England and
came back.
But he is with her and so is his
only child, a baby of seven months.
Fate decreed that the only grand
child should be a girl. And that
was we'll, because amid string
of pretty names like Mary and
Rosalihd, she also possesses that
Of Alice. AS Alice she is known,
and the original Alice looks for
ward to the day five or six years
hence when she, in her turn. can
take the little one by the hand
and lead her into Wonderland.
Where Time Is Not.
It's an ideal spot that the
heroine OF alice in Wonderland"
has chosen to spend the sunset of
her days. Only rs miles from
London, Time seems to stand still
here. The only reminder Of the
little jerk water branch line train
of two coaches that puffs in and
out three times day. and the
occasional rumble of bus. Mostly
the passage of the hours Is marked
BY the Ginning of bells in the
clock tower across the village green
from the home where Alice dwells.
In ordinary periods, when the
ie @ frh 4
and hearing are still keen. goes for
n medltative stroll, ending up at a
statute of very great young
man, who was born in this village,
Major General James Wolfe.
At 80 Wolfe was the comman-
der Of British troops in that last
and final encounter which was to
decide whether civilization in the
North American continent should
be French or Anglo Saxon. Had
he lost, the United States. as wei
as Canada, might have beer
French. But he did not lose. He
| took Quebec, and sealed the doom
of French power in America. II
| doing so he was MORALLY wounded
Sept 13, 1859.
To Another Wonderland.
When Alice thought of those
things she never dreamed that she
would ever visit that America. But
now she expects to. because Cclum-
bia University, New York, which
has arranged great exhibition OF
pictures. books and manuscripts In
connection with Lewis Carroll
asked her to come in January to
be present on CAROLS birthday
Then, because the weather would
be so bad on the seas at that time,
1t was arranged to postpone the
biggest celebration until Alice
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

"a RI ID - l. T. S, Five Magic
Tricks and Seven Puzzles are
among the interesting contents
of the Surprise Leafet" which
you may obtain by sending a
letter to Uncle Ray. In care
of this newspaper. Enclose
stamped envelope, carefully ad-
dressed to yourself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
Alice Whom LelDis Carroll Led To Wonderland
Now Will Come To a New Wonderland America

Affect a childish story take,
And with gentle hand
Lay It where childhood's dreams
are twined
In memory's mystic band.
Like pilgrims withered wreath of
flowers
Plucked In q far-off land.
From the prologue to Alice, "
by permission of ID. Appleton &c Co,
publishers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

comes to America. She plans, If
all goes well, to sail the latter part
of April with her son and her
maid, and is quite looking forward
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
WOOLWORTH
PAYS SSAW WEEK
Girls Harassed by Spy
System
lBy . worker Correspondents

PRINCETON, N. j. - The Wool
worth CO. opened up one of their
stores in Princeton just recently.
They hired about fifteen girls as wage
slaves at salary of eight dollars a
week.
Before being hired, the girls were
questioned as follows: :: Do you have
anyone depending upon you for sup
port? Who supports you when you
are unemployed? etc. If she had any
dependents she was not given a job.
If she had to work to support her
self she was not hired. If she had
even sought relief from the social
welfare stoolpigeons, she was not
hired.
Each girl was investigated through
the social service spy bureau and I'M
less she was just girl working for
pin money, she does not get a job.
Workers girls needing jobs cannot
get job here. They must go out
with some rich student to get any
money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy a "OAhCA SOAACopOAoChbI
BALTIMORE.-Although the ma
jority of the big industrial plants in
the Baltimore industrial district are
either shut down or working on a
small per centage of their normal
capacity, it is significant that the in
dustries engaged in the manufacture
of chemicals, nitrates, phosphates,
gelatins, and other case materials of
munitions, are running full blast.
The Curtis Bay Chemical Works,
the Dawson Chemical Corporation,
the Silica and Gel Corp. (Swift SUBJ
sidiary), and in fact all chemical
plants engaged in the past almost en-
tirely in the manufacture of fertilizer,
are at the present time running in
full blast manufacturing, in addition
to their regular products, Sulphuric
acid, hydrocyanic acid, nitric acid and
storing these acids in large Grated
carboys, packed specially for export.
The Dawson works and the other
chemical works in the Curtis Bay dis
trict are storing vast quantities of
sulphur, copper pirates and refined
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
THEY DON'T WANT TO GIVE
US NOTHING WHEN WE WORK

I have six in my family and the
woman / work for wants me to take
a "a pound sack of flour to last for
a month. She has three in her fam
lily and this much flour wouldn't
last her a month.
My wife was supposed to get rs
cents for the washing, but the all
she ever gets is promises. When we
do get paid we do not get 1t all at
once. Sometimes we get a little
mite, Is cents or less. Sometimes
I get as high as two dollars, but
have to buy rations with this and
the woman work for makes me
take the rations little bit at time.
I must pay more for the goods than
she pays for them
She hired my father and myself
to saw wood for her by the cord.
When it was sawed she wanted to
pay us by the day. She hasn't paid
us yet.
I have to work my crop and her
garden and potato patches and tend
all her stock. 1 attend to them just
like they were mine. Yet my wife
and are barefooted. We can't go
to church unless we borrow a pair !
of shoes.
We have to shuck corn and take
it to the store to trade it for rations.
but she charges us 10 per cent on
the dollar. Every time I ask her for
money, she says she hasn't got any,
but she has fine car.
Whenever we go TO her for money
to buy shoes and clothes she wants
to put old rags of on us and charge
us a big price for them. When we
go to their house we must go to the
back door. The women are holding
regular meetings to decide on what
to pay our wives. They generally
decide to pay nothing.
They give our wives half milk and
water stale butter, old ham bones
and rags for wages.
Daily Worker:
Say mister-what about this? My
house rent is So a month and I have
to work for SO a month. work from
sunup until shutdown.
I worked for Mr.. in 1881 and
made 10 bales Of cotton and owed
SOB. The landlord took all my cot
ton and load of corn to pay for
what I owed de
All last year I paid 10 cents for
lard. In other places lard was IL
and II cents. I don't know when I
will be put of the land hereoos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
WORKER HITS
SCHWAB'S LIES
Playthings of the Rich
Cost Millions
(By a Worker Correspondent


CAMDEN, N. J.-Charles Schwab
said some time ago that there were
no rich people In America. Well,
that one can be spiked very easily.
In the little ship yard in Camden
there are no less than five yachts
Of the most palaidal type, which are
owned by millionaires.
These yachts are all bound for New
York and they will use the sea route
instead of the canal for fear that
they will be met along the way by
demonstrations Of hungry jobless in
Trenton, Bayonne and New Bruins
wick.
The names Of the boats and the
owners are.
Verusselle, owned by Hopkins Jr.,
GiSterine heir).
Saunterer, owned by j. Milbank
(Banker).
Lanakila, owned by r. Lovejoy.
Minoco, owned by Mills (nickle
robber and slot machine man.
Each one OF these floating palaces
cost not less than two thousand dol
lars to run for a month. There are
hundreds Of such boats being used
by the millionaires this year while
the masses Of unemployed are starry
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
NY. SUJBWAYMEN
TO GET NEW 10
PER CENT CUT.
Call Transport Men to
Build One Big Union
NV a Worksr Correspondentl

BROOKLYN, N. Y. - Last fall the
B. M. T. saw fit TO cut the workers
down from a seven day week to six
day week and causing the income Of
the workers TO drop by Is percent.
Also they cut the rate Of conductors
and trainmen in the subway two cents
an hour, and entirely withdraw our
bonus. On top of this they cut our
no-accident bonus in half.
And now the company is going TO
cut our wages by ten percent First
to be cut are the conductors and
trainmen, then if the workers allow
this, the rest of the workers will re-
ceive a cut.
Fellow workers, this means our nv-
ing will be reduced to the miserable
coolie standard. If the company feels
like reducing, let them reduce the
dividend and interest on shares and
bonds.
To hell with these bloodsuckers
Now is the time to organize to pre-
vent this stealing of our wages Or
ganize for the forty-hour week into
a union under the leadership OF the
Trade Union Unity League. This
will be union that will stick with
us and not doublecroSs US as the
Amalgamated and the A. F. Of l.
has done in the past. Send your
application to the T. U. U. L. at 5
E. 10th st. Distribute them among
your fellow-workers. Organize COM
mittees in your department, shops
of the bosses to reduce us to starva-
Get busy. Stop the dastardly plans
ton. We must form a union which
will embrace the workers of the /. r.
T. as well as the B. M. r. and all
workers connected with the transit
lines. Our motto-All transit WORK.
ers in one unionl One union for All
transit workersl Fight Against wage
cuts! .o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
WORKERS FIRED
WHOLESALE ON
SOUTHERN R. R.
Negro Workers Hit
Hardest in Birming-
ham Shops
(By a Worker Correspondent)


BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-In the store
room department of the Southern R.
r. here they have cut down from
about 100 Negro workers and SO white
workers to 80 Negroes and 10 or 20
white workers. About all the white
workers are petty bosses of some lit
tie job in the. storeroom.
When a few Negro workers unload
some lumber, there is white boss
looking on. This is the same in the
bolt and wheel departments. There
is a boss in the yard and where we
cast the flat forms. Then we have
general boss.
Age of Negro worker or length
OF service to the company doesn't
mean thing. A Negro worker is
afraid to mention how long he has
worked for the company. They start
Negro workers in at 30 cents an hour
If he is good and does everything the
boss tells him, he gets a penny in
crease at the end of every year.
Negro workers have to work in the
rain when white workers are allowed
to stand in the shelter Of the build
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
WORKERS SCORE
GARY MAYOR IN
HAMMOND MEET
He Asks for Votes;
Workers Ask His
Stand on Relief
tBy a Workers Correspondent


GARY. Ind.-The Mayor of Gary,
r. o. Johnson, who refused the
streets to the workers for their May
Day parade. was in Hammond cam
for votes in order to go to
Congress. A group of workers from
the Hammond Unemployed Council
were at the meeting. During his
talk, when he stressed the prohibi-
ton issue, one worker shouted out:
How about some porterhouse steak?'
This gave an opening to other
workers and a woman conrade,
Leona Johnson. took the floor and
demanded that the vote getter state
his stand on unemployment insur-
ance. She denounced the so-called
relief, the garbage that is handed
out by the agencies. She asked how
the Gary mayor could have the nerve
to ask the working people of Ham
mond to work for him when he re-
fused the workers the right to use
the streets in Gary.
would you not do the same thing
en- g national basis if you were
elected to congress? If you are
against the workers now as a mayor
Of city what can we expect from
you when you become congress-
man?" These were the questions
asked the ambitious politician. And
he could not answer them.
This mayor takes a guard of gun
thugs with him while he Is cam
paigning, which proves that he is
one of them. LII.