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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
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No wturn to the democratic progressives. Where will you find g happier, more confident, enthu- siastic group than Costigan Of Colorado, Wheeler and Walsh of Montana, Dill of Washington. Wag- ner of New York, Long of Louis ana and Bulow of South Dakota?
 They were strong Roosevelt men before the democratic na- tional convention. They think they are going to help elect the first democratic president since Wilson and are sure he will prove to be a progressive. They look forward to augmenting their group in the election.
 Former Senator Ava B. Adams of Colorado, q friend of Costigan s, has received the democratic nomi- nation for the senate and Is ex- pected to vote with the progress sives if he gets here.
 Senator Huey Long has man. aged to nominate a colleague to succeed the conservative Senator Broussard of Louisiana, and the colleague undoubtedly will vote as Huey does, which is usually with the progressives. Huey himself dubbed Mrs Hattie Caraway of Arkansas a progressive in his cam- paign to renominate her and she will be voting with the liberal group more often than not.
 Among other possible acquisi- tions are W. G. McAdoo, the democratic senatorial nominee in California who has always worn S progressive label, and Homer TT. Bone, another democratic progress sive nominee who seeks to unseat Senator Wesley Jones in Washing fnn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
So They Say


 I do not mind people taking q shot at me when I know I am right. If I am wrong will put my house in order.
 Mayor Joseph V. Mckee of New
 York City.
 However warlike nation may be, no country will fight it's best customer. Common sense prohibits that.
 -Dr Inazo Nitobe. Japanese econ
 omlst and member of House of
 Peers.
 Weres going to stay here until Christmas if necessary to get the cost of production for our crop. Ben J. Diekmn, president Nobles
 County CD from strike until.
 The foundations of the greatest fortunes and business careers have been laid in times of depression. This Is not day of despair, but of opportunity.
 Dr w. Harry Freda, sales educa-
 ton director of clevemd. o.
 My life I count is of no conse- quence..
 --Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader. Tf widespread eugenic reforms arc not adopted during the next hundred years or so. our western civilization Is inevitably destined to slow and gradual decay. --.Major Leonard Darwin, s2, son Of Charles Darwin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
Executive Reorganization

It is well that reorganization of the ex- eeutive branch of the government is about to get undet. way. It has been discussed and recommended and promised and hoped for and forgotten too many years. President Hoover has recently instructed the director of the budget to undertake series of in- vestigations to determine where reorganiza- ton is needed and to help prepare program for it. All this is done under authority granted in the national economy bill.
 "Regrouping, consolidating and redue- ing the number of bureaus and eommis- sions. eliminating overlap and duplication of effort" are some of the steps to executive efficiency and economy Under the present organizss bn or lack of it - similar service fe performed separately by several gov hent departments. Some activities aa hdled by departments having no log-s connection with them. Getting the government onto a more businesslike work ing basis is one method of furthering ns- tional economy, and the public approves highly of every reasonable economy these days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
Self-Sufficient Farming

Dr Alvin Johnson, director of Yale's School of Social Research, has a plan for saving the American farmer. He tells of it in an article on Relief from Farm Relief in the Yale Review. The main idea is self sufficiency through cooperation in farm communities would produce their own food and other necessities. They would be able to withhold any given product from de- pressed market until prices were readjusted. His plan is not at all the Russian coecti- vized farm. which he considers too big 10 be long effective. Neither does he want the individual farm to be self-sufficient. A small group of farmers, working together, IS the ideal arrangement he advocates.
 If the farmer is to exhibit any elasticity in production. he says. it must be on the basis of self-suffciency which enables him 10 stay off the market without disaster In our American scheme. this self-suffieiencY has been gravely sapped away. A third of our farmers keep no cows. They depend on the market for milk and other dairy products or go without More than a third have no vegetable gardens worth mention ing. The majority are unable 10 cure meat successfully
 So his indictment goes on. He regrets that they no longer weave and maks their own clothes or hew their own beams. lie would have elf-suffieient community do most of these things for itself. There seem to be more ideas floating around about what farmers should do than there are about what industrial workers should do Perhaps f agrieuIiuns problems were all solved, other problems of tbe day would find ibemelyes solved. too
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
Love of Money Leads to Ruin
 of This Family

Originally the Oidroyds wanted to make fine cloth and they prospered. But as they prospered, they lost their desire to make cloth and got the desire to make lots of money, instead. AS a result, the textile mills which had been in the family since the dawn of the 18th century went completely to pot in the depression that followed the World War. and the Oldroyds' de- scendants were out in the cold.
 All of this is out of Inherit
 ance," the novel fin which Phyllis Bentley traces the fortunes of the Oldroyd family in England through four generations. -- or maybe it's five,
 Since the novel opens in 1872. when English textile workers were burning mills and killing mill own- CTS by way of protest against the introduction of labor-saving ma chinery, and ends in 1881 when the Oldroyds' mills finally went into bankruptcy, it covers 8 lot of terri tory - too much, perhaps, for it's own good. You feel occasionally. that you are reading history Of the British textile trade instead or novel.
 But there Is, after all, an abund. ance of good stuff in it. Some or the characters. especially in the early part of the book, are admir- ably drawn; and the way in which the gulf between workers ana employer gradually but surely widcned, and became fixed, Is nice- ly studied.
 "Inheritance" is published by Macmillan and sells for $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Howard Alcorn, speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in
 1891 and thrice representative from the town of Suffield, is after the seventh sena- torial district nomination this year. accord ing to the latest reports from up around Hartford way. Mir Alcorn has run up quite record in the Assembly and naturally wishes to further it before embarking. per baps, on career that will put him in line for high state offices. But Suffield has been getting the go.p. senatorial nomination for some years now and it is only one of eleven towns in the seventh district. Windsor for example. would like the senatorial nom- ination. Perhaps others would, too. So the path to fame is s'not always strewn with roses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Sherwood Island state park will be the scene of the annual fall field meeting of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association tomorrow. As H. M Ross of New Haven.
 secretary, points out Sherwood Island is chosen for this gathering for several reasons
 It should not be hard to guess at them, Sher- wood Island state park was the first ac
 quired for such purposes by Connecticut. That was away back in 1914. It wasn. until May 90 of this year. however, that the park really and actually became avail able to the general public. Private property owners managed 10 prevent people from utilizing the publicly owned land. Political pressure was also brought 10 bear and It almost resulted in ihe dropping of Sherwood Island as d state park and acquisition of other land in Fairfield county for such purpose This was prevented opporunely during the last session of tbe Legislature. A fine tract of land was leased which made it possible for ihe state to open up a sbon stretch of beach. about two of three hun. dred feel, And this has been enough for lbe 100000 people who visited ibe aale park ,inee ibr first of june, There are over 1000 feel Of beach moi ye available 10 ibe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Seaweed excreseenee has been blamed for the discoloration of the waters of Long Island Sound off Fairfield eountys coast line, according to report just submitted by the Won Wedel Laboratories of New Rochelle. They were requested to make an analysis of the water by the mayor of New Rochelle. Their finding is that various species of seaweed give off an iodine com pound every year in certain limited quanti- ties, but every 20 years this exereseenee is in large amounts. This year happens to be one of the twenty-year cycles and hence ae- counts for the reddish brown water diseol- oration. It affects fish life because the iodine substance absorbs oxygen from the water thus deprivng marine life of necessary life element This evidently means that the water is not polluted and unfit for bathing, but quite the contrary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
@{ TODAY @e:;
 WORLD WAR X. ANNIVERSARY 8AR o1A&E
U. s. SHIP TORPEDQED,

On Sept 30, 1918, the American steamer Ticonderoga was torpedoed bout 1000 miles off the American coast while on the way to France. Eleven officers and 102 men was lost.
 British troops were hammering on the backdoors of Cambria nd St 'Quentin and took Messines Ridge and Gheluwe in 0 series of attacks.
 In the Argonne. Americans ad- vanced slightly whel the French, completing a successful allies day. starmed over 0 front of seven and a half miles and advanced between the Aisne nd the Vesle rivers.
 In the Balkns, French troops massed at Uskub and captured the village.
 Hostillties with Bulgaria were officially ended at noon on this day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Washington. The republican progressives, who always have been regarded as the more important wing of the progressive element in national politics, are having q bad time in this campaign, while the democratic progressives are having all the fun.
 When the time comes to count noses in the next senate it may even be found that the democratic progressives outnumbcr the repub- lican progressives.
 Not only are they all happy about their presidential candidate, believing that he is one of their own, whereas the republican in- surgents are at best preserving. a dignified silence concerning their party's candidate. They also are having better luck in the primary elections.
 The only republican in the group who seems to be really happy is senator George w. Norris of Nebraska, who long ago declared for Governor Roosevelt against Hoover, as he did for Smith against Hoover in 1928.
 Norris has organized the Ma tional Progressive League and will barnstorm for Roosevelt.
 Two of the boldest c. o. P. in- surgents have been denied re- nomination at the primaries Brookhart of Iowa, who may run as an independent, and Blaine of Wisconsin. Defeat of Blaine and Governor Phil LaFollette in Wis .consin was a blow to progressives everywhere. But as a result, enough LaFollctteites may combine with democrats to elect demo- cratic candidate who is likely to join the senate progressives here.
 -Borah of Idaho, the progressive who orated 50 powerfully for Hoover in 1928, sits silently and watches the campaign. He may come out for Hoover before elec- ton day, but his lack of enthusi- asm Is obvious.
 The normally republican states of the west which are accustomed to sending progressive senators to Washington are threatening to go democratic this year in the presi- dential contest and hardly any, if any, of the republican progressive senators are doing anything to save Hoover's skin.
 Brookhart has been openly crit icizing Hoover, and Blaine may now come out against him. Hiram Johnson of California, an old and bitter enemy of Hoover's, has man aged to get along without a word for the party candidate.
 
 And If there has been a com plimeptary word from LaFollette of Wisconsin. Cutting of New Mexico, CouZens of Michigan, Nye or Frazier of North Dakota. its echo has not yet reverberated to the Capitol. Howell of Nebraska favors Hoover, but his last word of encouragement to the White House was that "the west is doubt ful and in the lap of the gods"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
Here, There And EDery1Uhere

age of 21 was college-trained. 1t follows that this 4.55 per cent pro- vided 83.05 per cent of the "out- standing personages' listed in Who's Who." To put it another way, 95.45 per cent furnished less than 17 per cent. Ire editor is care full to add that these statistics are no indictment of the public school system; since the greater propor- ton of those reporting higher edu- cation had their preliminary train ing in the public schools.
 The general average number of children in families represented in Who's Who" is 4 only 2.1. This would ominous for future "Who's Who" volumes If there were mot recruits from families that have not as yet been admitted. "Who's $ Who" has exercised "exacting dis crimination,' in making its selec- tion, but while 1t does not claim that its 30,545 men and women are an ideal group of personages," inclusion of a name is in itself rec ognition of a considerable mea- sure of worthy achievement" The 'ins" no doubt belong tRere. but every one knows "outs" who should also be among the "ins."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
THE "THUNDERER" PRINKs
(Hartford Courant)


 The Times--not the New York Times but simply The Times, of LondonL-has yielded to the age and is about to have it's face lifted. On the front page, its name, hither to printed in Gothic type, will now be in Roman. A new font of type has bee. designed for the body Of the paper. While the "Thunderer" will continue as heretofore. to re- strict it's headlines to q width or one column, they too will be chang ed in type. The ornate crest. with it's lion and it's unicorn and It's altered reproduction of the motto of the Order of the Gartcr--"Honi soft qui mai y pense' to "Honi Pense,"--will not be thrown into the "hell-box' with the rest of the types, but only teh crest, apparent ly will remain. :,
 Though its typographical style has been thoroughly altered. The Times will retain it's long -honored custom of printing on its front page nothing but advertisements most prominent among them the fam ous personals: "Our world Is In the midst of waters, mt space. Map. Cd, from Dowager Lady Blount, Newcut, Hayling Island North, Hants." Pogo: Watch the wheels and levers. Traga." No British mys- tery story is really in the tradition unless the hero get lis first clue for the solution from an item in the personals in The Times. Nor. hap pily,, will the change affect the na- lure of the letters to The Times. The retired Colonel, the spiritual ist. the nature lover and the pro- testing colonial will continue to pour forth their verbose opinions, let the fonts do what they may.
 On it's masthead. The Times boasts of having been founded in 1785. It's elder brother. The Cour- ant, which changed It's typograph- icai makeup some time ago. con grateulates 1t on It's visit to the newspaper beauty specialist. A newspa per, after all. need look no older than 1t feels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
nItI, THE PIf00E

Petersburg, Ind--,rhis may be q Ash story, but John Marshee claims that hs caught two catfish on 4 single hook, The first Ash, he as. plalDed. took the bait but it slipped through his glll. Catfish NO z euiped d0wB the bait and hook sh MarAhae was pulling up the first one, Each hab weighed i've pounds, ha Hnnld,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
THE NEW "WHO's WHO"
(New York Times)

(New York Times)
 The seventeenth issue of Who's Who" (1932-33) contains a study of nearly four thousand sketches which appeared for the first time in 192s-20. Tho results, so far as the investigations parallee eacn other, are "almost identical" with those of tho eariiey entrants Into this transient house Of eminence. Few enter carly and all depart at doath, One artist entered at 2S ana somd dssinger on till %. but the oyerage age of admission Is .bi.t7 years, Thus the "reqnisite degree Of emineneo for inclusion" in this "roster of Ameriean notables' is achieved by the map0rlty only hft- or q half-eentury of life.
 While of tho number surveyed 70 failed tO furnish data regarding their education, it appears that 0f the remaining s.ss2. slightly over Ih5 per cent attended, college, though bgs were not graduated Since, according Co the recent cen. Ir's returns. less than per cent l4,bbl of the population above the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

We can't say that we envy the Unem- ployed Citizens League of Norwak in their choice of home. This group of citizens seemingly with socialistic tendencies, wants the condemned U. S. Shipping Board liner. Geor9e Washington. sent to Norwalk har' bor this winter where it will serve the league as its community home It would become a cooperative institution with the residents having thelr own government. And we suppose the old custom of walking the plank could be revived.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

public due to intervening private property upon which the state has no lease and across which the public is not permitted to tread. Perhaps in time Sherwood Island state park will be developed as was intended when the first purchase was made there in l9l4. We certainly hope SO. at any rate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
YOU DON'S SAY

The way of life,
 Through the mlsts of years, Is along the avenue
 Of smiles and tears.
 o-O--o The grocer bills up hope that some of them will eventually be paid.
 O-O--o
 The trouble with the so- called Forgotten man" is due to the fact that he's never remembered after election.
 O-O-O Then there was the railroad engineer who had to train for his position.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
NEW NAVY TIGHTER.

BaitNnore--'rbe Navy's newest singie-pince fighting plane K bc- Ing constructed here. Tho plane. known aA. the %F3-J, VIII cost S9S.000, and is to be especially eonstructed for diving. It will carry two machine guns. If sueeensful. inc Navy will lot q eoDtrhcs Tor 2s 0f the planes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS

Life's values arc keen,
 If you sec them that way, The bargains last week,
 Are high priced to-day.
 O--O---O They claim that within few years automobiles will have their engines in the rear. That's the place for them, right under the mother-in-law rumble seat.
 o--O-o
 If some of our political can- didates emulated Gandhi and went on fast, refusing to talk instead of eat, what 8 break that would be.
 o-O--o If Hoover wants to make a hit witht he farmers in his coming speech, he better appear with patches in the seat of government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
GOOD AT MATcHEs

"My dear. why do you J Alil your mother The mater sIisehune she managed e ma hnsbsnda for Aii my Heven sislsfH' ---The iinmeFini,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
Personal Health SerUice (By William Brady, M. D.

signed letters pertaining to persona' health and hygiene. not disease dlas"os's o' treatment, will be answered by pr bra"y Address him. care Of the Democrat se"A'"s stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Anyway the political campaign takes the nations mind temporarily off its other troubles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:O7 o'clock tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Now that there are portable pressers and ironers in the market. maybe travellers won leave so many flatiron marks on the tops of hotel dressers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
O--O--O DING, DING

Tn the harbOr of cOntcntmcht, Our ships will lOll at ease, But not until we ride the storms, That mark llfe's busy seas.
 o--O--o
 Now Gandhi wants to go on a fast until he gets England off the pound sterling and back on the gold standard. In this way he'll be doing q great deed for the world in general as well as India in particular.
 o-O-o
 Some men are only as stiff as the collars they wear.
 O--O---O You just get used to rattling lawn mowers when the season changes and scraping snow shovels come to greet the ears. o-O-O
 The modern reporter scl- dom reports. He merely com ments.
 O--O-o
 The constitution grants man the right to life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness. Operations end life, policemen curtail liberty and the pursuit of happiness is endangered by the tide of auto traffic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

He's always chasing rainbows, His act would seem the rover. Not knowing rainbows start
 within,
 Once each small storm is over.
 o-O-o The carpet slippers disappeared when the carpets went out and rugs came in.
 O-O--o
 When love sours you know what happens to sweet hearts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
IT WOULD SEEM so

III WOOID DEEM sJc It doesn't take much to amuse, That fact is quite clear let me
 say, Just look at the thousands who
 roar.
 At q hinky dink world series
 o-O--o Correct this sentence: NO I'm getting cloth coat, l never did like those raccoon gotups.'
 o--O--o
 o--O--o |, so IT GOES The danger line for many. And this may include you. Is just the line around the waist. Juts out to f0rty.twO.
 0--O--o Peaches are go cheap this year. that the girl who once smiled on being called n peach. shivers Tn ab- jcct fear when the term IS heard nowadays.
 Cold control on weather men as well as ice boxes would he appreciated during the wins ter period.
 O--O--O Brains become q liability when the person having them is hiI too anxious 10 point them out hs q great asset.
 0--O--OS This concludes our regular Fn. day evening progr1m, It came Co you over DiiD and wns. br0n6e1st by the Waterbury Evening Dem0s erat, pioDeer tf this type of news! paper work. Wn are signing orr at this lime, fe be back on inc hir alr again tomorrow,
 0s~sfl~aO G0of night
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
Good evening.
 o-O-0 A FEW WHEEZES
"A SMILES THE THING.

Nature in the raw.
 Is seldom mild, Which pretty well sums up, The growing child.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 IiD Rcading for Deaf
Odd Eser,'lse

Have ieeR interested ID reading your artiel' 0n Colon trrIgHtiSpS. Do sOu HOi cUDsIder q vignilODs 0f snIDe Bs aD exercise Co tbe e0i0n lG, p)
 AnHwor~-NO, Surely nature dA not iBten that ibe colon should have such treatment Ti habit is promoted by those who profit on p9pt lar nr0dulIlK,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

My radio is filled with squeals, It surely gets my cork, I guess they must be broadeastinG The price of western pork.
 4 : They lived and loved Then fell apart, For life's that way When you ice heart.