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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02

the revival of industry. the promotion of tempersnce and sobriety than the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. 1 feel can do more good by going to Chicago than staying here. -"
 Incidentally Senator Bingham is one of the many senators who are seeking re- nomination and reelection this year. With Connecticut. not to mention many other states displaying marked democratic ten- deneies right now it behooves all good re- publican offiee-holders to watch every op- portunity to improve their chances. And if the senator from New Haven can get him. self elected again as the disciple of the anti prohibition cause be will not have labored in vain these last few months in which he has lifted himself from an unenviable posi- ton as somewhat of senate outcast to the leader of the senatorial wet forces and spokesman for their cause.
 Of course, as member of the resolutions committee Senator Bingham has important work ahead of him at the convention. In fact the entire success of the republican cam- paign this fall may hinge on the decisions of this group. composed of one delegate from each state and the territories. James R. Garfield has been chosen by President Hoover to head this committee. He IS re- garded as dry with extremely liberal ideas. Whether or not they will include such a thing as proposal for a wet plank. as many declares remains to be seen. At any rate with Senator Bingham ehampioning the wet cause there will be considerable fuss made over the proposed platform.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
Museum Of Ships

The Mariners Museum to be located at Morrison. Va should become boys para disc. It is to be located on an $50 tract of land, with good-sized lake. There will be assembled models of ships and ship machinery, charts and books and photo- graphs. motion pictures of boats under con- struetion, and pretty nearly everything one can think of connected with ships
 It is said that every type of small hand and wind-propelled boat known to history. including gondolas. Nova Scotia dories Ori- ental sampans and outriggers will be on the lake. Other exhibits will set forth the orl- gin of rope and canvas and other materials used in early shpbuilding. There will be exact models of the Monitor the Merrimac. the ships which first sailed into Jamestown harbor in 1907 and other historic vessels. A boys paradise' Anyone who loves the water and who thrills to the romance of the sea and the brave human beings who ventured out upon it when its distant shores were unknown will get big thrill out of this museum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
A Radical Pities Us

A young British Socialist, Oliver Bald win. son of the conservative statesman, who was formerly prime minister. is quite sorry for us After tour of America he con- eludes that things are not half bad enough" yet. He means bad enough for us to get up some morning and start Socialist revolution. That is his idea of good for tune. and he knows things must get worse before they get better. He still hopes.
 A lot of us may feel sorry for this radi- cal young gentleman. We feel little apol- ogetic because our country is so conservative. For conservative it certainly is Otherwise we should have had strong Socialist or Communist party at Washington by this time. The most remarkable thing about the present economic situation in the United States is the way our people, almost regard less of class, have refraned from violent pro- posals and deeds. trusting to normal pro- cesses of established law and business to cure the ills of unemployment and subnormal trade.
 If this crisis or some subsequent one should usher in Socialist regime. it would hardly come from boiling up of radical forces from the bottom but rather from the imposition of something like State Social ism from the top. accomplished quietly by the government taking over big business with the latter's consent, and with few people realizing what was going on. There is little tendency in that direction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
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senators running already have flopped to repeal, beer or re-sub- mission. There's no possibility of a wet senate majority in the near future. Counting pairs, IS states were represented by pro-beer votes in the senate, but only nine saw both their senators go wet.
 How It Gets That Way
 The obvious reason for the con- tinued dryness of the senate as ness of the house is that the larg- est, most populous states are gen. orally the wettest.
 They have the largest delegations in the house, proportionately rep resenting population, whereas the senate is evenly divided among the AS states. Any half dozen dry western or southern states have as much senate voting strength as New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
 But Look at HawIey
 All of which does not mean that the wet trend in the country is not continuing. Drys have been succumbing to vets in congression- al primaries rather than vice versa --witness poor Hawley of Oregon, the latest. The political parties seem bent on declaring themselves wet or moist in convention.
 Wet candidates are running and being taken seriously in western or southern territory where such candidates never before seemed worthwhile-you hear about them in North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, for instance. Nowhere in dry territory do democratic polis ticians oppose Governor Roosevelt on the ground that he is a wet.
 And 1t is almost astonishing that, with critical period obviously at hand. the defensive efforts of the organised dry leaders thus far seem so feeble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02

waIIinsford's anglers are up in arms over an invasion of water-snakes in their favorite trout streams. It has been discov0ed that the reptiles have been feasting on state-raised trout. Recently one fisherman killed a snake and noticing a peculiar bulge slit the snake and revealed a six and nine inch trout. It looks as if the state fish and game commission would have to think up some scheme to rid trout streams of predatory snakes. We never knew that they liked a trout diet. Perhaps the liver that is fed the trout in our state hsteheries makes them more delectable and appealing to the snake appetite. At any rate we don't think that many will be killed with rifles as some Wallingford sportsmen propose to do. Why not procure, good East Indian snake eharmer. have him lure the snakes on dry land. then slaughter them with convenient weapons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
Here, There And EDeryvhere

have misquoted the exact age, but that Is 1mmateriay MT Traylor, the recommendation asserts, is g squareshooter, who knows all about the west, who always stands while hitched, is . johnny-on-the-spot in times of trial and would make fine president.
 Probably MT Tray1or is a man of excellent parts and well worthy to be considered among available candidates for president of the United States, but whoever iB chosen should have something more than picturesqueness, q TO. mantle past or steady, commons sensed mind. He should have gen. jus for leadership and for leader. ship in the field wherein presiden- tial candidates and presidents must serve, the field of political activity.
 A man without considerable DO. litical experience placed as candE date or as the winner of a national election must be under great hand. leap. There has been plain evidence of such handicap in the record Of the present president of the United States. Woodrow Wilson was q governor before he became presf- dent. He was moreover a student of government. Nearly every presia dent the country has had, and all of the successful ones after wash. ington, had long and trained exper! fence in offices of public responsi- bility. MT Traylor, worthy as he may be, has had almost no political experience whatever. On that ac- count we doubt greatly that the democratic party will look to him for leadership this year. <
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02

The famous Bermuda onion is to get some competition after years of lording it over this particular vegetable market. New England is going after the onion crown with a vengeance Next fall at the Eastern States Exposition particular attention. will be paid to the onion. In fact there will be one gi- gantic display just composed of onions in all shapes and colors. Onions are not too hard to raise. Although the most of them are grown in the Connecticut river valley they can be grown with commercial success in other parts of New England. Who knows but what some day Connecticut might be- come the onion state instead of the nutmeg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
THURSDAY, JUNE ?, 1882
Not Very Edifying

We must be getting old fashioned The recent announcement that local couple was ito be joined in the bonds of Holy Matri- .mony as the feature attraction of marathon dance contest and the successful accomplish .ment of this left us with sinking feeling lin the region of the heart. Not that our feel ..ings make much difference to the partners sin this walkathon wedding or to the man. .agers of the contest. but we know there are thlany citizens of Waterbury who were simi- .larly affected. They. too. we presume would be classed with us as old-fashioned. .perhaps even prudish. But for once we are glad to be placed in that category.
 ~ We still cling to the idea that marriage lis somewhat of an institution. Yes we know it is abused every day in .he week. people with their free and easy ways have ,disrupted the homes of the nation. Divorce is so easily procured in almost every state that unions for convenient reasons are every- day occurrences. We should be calloused by this time. Why make fuss over little thing like walkathon wedding? They occur in every city where these events are started. Don't be kill-joy3 We are afraid that's what we will be if we are asked to stand by and read about or even witness any such travesty as occurred in this city.
 We don't question the intentions of the couple that were married. We wish them all the joy and happiness of a long welded life. Nor do we object to the managers of the contest resorting to various means to draw crowds to their performance. Every body to their own taste is our motto. If we look slightly amazed. credit 1t perhaps to our surprise that this nation would turn to this form of amusement for recreation. But when this marriage proposition was perpe- tratcd and actually put through. then we think the entire affair transgressed on the good nature of respectable citizens. It was time for the authorities to interfere. There is place and time for everything Certainly we don't have to cheapen marriage any more than it already has been by making it a publicized attraction at fifty cents per person.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
Worth The Price?

The one consolation that the American public may draw from the passage of rev. enue bill that will balance the budget is the fact that it will mean the speedy departure from Washington of some hundreds of leg islators whose antics since last December have caused most of us untold agony. That the tax measure which seems about to be passed by Congress IS even more drastic than our wartime legislation may not bother everybody, but it does good many. Is the price we must pay for a balanced budget within reason?
 Ever since it convened in December. 1o3l, Congress knew it faced disagree able task. That it has postponed it by senseless wrangling and no desire to cooper ate seems now the height of folly in view of the rapidly approaching national eonven- tions and the election that will follow them in ehe fall. There has been noticeable lack of leadership at Washington One party IS as guilty as the other. The president has not been adequate unto the situation; the democrats flushed by l930 and l93l vic- tories ignored their golden opportunity time and aga,n.
 Now that we are to be burdened with taxes as we never have before. both parties are clamoring for recognition. To our way of thinking it will be the man and not the party that will dominate the scene this fall. The American people are going to turn to the individual who will be one of them and who will appreciate their feelings as more taxes add to the worries of unemployment and money scarcity. Will the mere fact that. the budget is balanced mean so much to the average citizen. Federal office-holders may nod their heads and approve, bat what of the man in the street. Balancing the budget may not balance his wages with the taxes he will pay. We wonder if the price of see- ing those legislators go home isn't excessive?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02

Although Willard Fillmore was never elected to the presidency he was this coun- try's thirteenth president. He succeeded to that office in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor. the last of the Wings. Although Fillmore was generally considered to be of that political faith he was no more Whig than he was Know Nothing. In fact. his administration scarcely interrupted the democratic control of nation that was so pronounced in the first half of the 8th cen- tury. It remained until this week for the grave of this little known president to be properly marked. He died and was buried in Buffalo. N. Y., and Tuesday of this week the Willard Fillmore Republican Wo- mems Club marked his grave with two tablets. One reads. Tn memory of Willard Fillmore 18th president of the United States of America" The other says. Tn mem ory of Willard Fillmore. Buffalo teacher. who became president of the United States" Fillmore had few advantages in his early life but made the most of them. His schooling was brief and when but boy he was apprentced to tailor. Yet at the age of 32 he was admitted to the bar and com menced political life that only ended with the White House. He was an able politician and had not his private papers been destroyed by son, we might have more complete accounts of him than the meagre ones now available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
And speaking of New England has every

And speaking of New England has every one noticed how we are capitalizing the total eclipse of the sun that occurs late Tn August this summer. The path of totality cuts across Maine. New Hampshire. and Vermont It will remain to be seen whether or not such a phenomenon can prove any more of lure than the natural beauty which God has conferred upon New England and in which man is finally dis playing the proper amount of pride and appreciation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Depicts Strain on Nerves of
 War Aviators

Probably there are, somewhere,
 certain World War aviators who have not ye. written books about World War aviators. Their num- bers are dwindling, however; give them time, and they'll all be au- thors.
 The newest one on the list is
 Philip Arnall, who contributes
 Portrait of an Airman," an occa- sionally exciting novel about young Englishman who became an
 ace.
 MT Arnalrs hero started out as an officer in home defense battal-
 ion in England. Firing of the
 monotony of his job, he applied for l transfer to an aviation school
 and, to his surprise, was accepted. From that moment the World War as far as he was concerned
 resolved itself into a contest be- tween his job and his nerves. First he served as pilot on q sort of shuttle line, taking new planes to France for the fighting men. Then he was ordered to. a combat patrol and went to the l lines; later he became a flight com-
 mander and developed into an
 aerial fighter of considerable fames At the end of the book we find I him back in England, acting as test pilot at an aviation experi-
 ment station.
 If there hadn't been so many
 books by and about wartime flyers this one would probably make something of a sensation. It's pretty well done. Some of the des- criptions of the fighting in France
 arespendid, and the flyers unend- ing struggle to keep his grip on
 himself in spite of his nerve-rack- ing job is very nicely handled. Mir
 Arnali really should have written his book five years ago. It is published by Covici, Friedes Inc, and retai1s at $2.5O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
So They Say

We spend 10,000,0OO pounds a year on education and 600,000,0OO pounds on drink and gambling. Wasteful expenditure in this (Eng-, land) and other countries Is one of the causes of our troubles to- day. - The Rt Rev John Kempt- horne, Bishop of Lichfeld. Eng land.
 The district around Nice, France, has become an entrenched camp. New roads and railroads have been constructed. linking the valleys with ports. This year alone France Is spending $2O,000,000 on the Ital- ian frontier. Senator Domenico NuvoIoni of Italy:
 The government and the, people of England wish well toward the Irish Free State. We wish to see its people happy and prosperous. We believe the prosperity of the Free State Is bound up with the prosperity of Great Britain and that 1t Is in the best interests of both countries that they should remain linked together within the British commonwealth. = J. H. Thomas. British Dominions Secre- tary.
 Tn order that railroad transpor- tation may be placed on the most efficient and economical baSis, the consolidation of railroads should be advanced with ali possible speed. - Resolution adopted by U. IS. Chamber of Commerce..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
"I'M FROM MISSOURI
(New York Herald-Tribune)

(NeW IOrk EerdIQ-IrlDuncJ
 If the late Colonel Willard D.. vandiver coined the stying I'm from Missouri" he has a title to fame beyond his useful political career as representative from the state that he thus celebrated. He 1t was assuredfy who set the phrase on it travels with his after-dinner sally at Philadelphia in 1899: l come from a country that raises corn, cotton, cockleburs and demo- crats. I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me-" It was then that the slogan came to active life and probable immortality. '
 Yet the saying has a smack Of folklore, and .antiquarians have sought it's origin in frontier days. Some say that 1t first came from one of Doniphan's men in the ex- petition against Mexico who (quot- ing from the St Louis Glibe-Dem- ocrat), on hearing some of the tall stories then told, and still told, by muleteers and bullwhackers in that part of the world, said, I'm from Missouri and you'll have to show me that" Again, is is attributed to Pike county argonaut, in Cal- tfirnia, who, on hearing the seduc- tive prospectus of the manipulator of brace game in a mining camp gambling hell, said, Show me! I'm from Missouri" A modern and less persuasive version refers to the Missouri marraige license law of 1881 which required the pres ence of the bride-elect so that the license clerk might judge whether or not she was eighteen years old. One girl on being told of the law said to her swain, oh, you've got to show me, have your" and this be- came a byword.
 Missouri would not give up the motto today for mint of gold, although at one time some Missou- rians did not know whether to like 1t or not. Governor Hadley was one who thought 1t made fun of the state: he urged all Missourians to frown upon it. We think so much of 1t now," said the Globe-Democrat 8 few years ago, that, feeling 1t to be older than M- Vandiver. we are not ashamed to say, fin all Missouri candor, we will have to be shown that he coined it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Munler Needed

My husband, aged 61, keeps everyone in the house awake, he snores so hard. (Mrs Al Answer-send me 8 photographic record of his snoring and can judge which type and what causes it. In the majority of cases of the death-rattIe type 1t is due to- relaxation of the soft palate and the falling of this and the base of the tongue back against the rear wall of the throat. Very good All you need do Is fix the scoundreI so he will not roll onto his back in sIeep He must sleep either prone. that is, belly down. in the Sims or left lat- eraI semi-prone position which keeps the soft palate and base-o tongue forward by gravity. Better no pillow or only low one. Moreover one who. snores should ALWAYS have cool or cold air to breathe all night and never have heavier covers than comfort demands.
 (Copyright John E. Dille Co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
BY RODNEY BUTCHER NEA Servica Wrifer

IN1LfA 6CINlGG WEltCE
 Washington.-All the wet hula baloo over the progress made in their battle to get rid of prohibi- tion ana their frequent trumpetins about the probable damp blanks scured the fact that congress will "momentous" issue.
 And those who think prohibit tion is as good as gone would do well to look carefully at the re. suits of the recent beer votes in cially at the senate vote.
 No federal law is going to be changed until congress acts. That means both branches. The current agitation over re-submission, some- many dry politicians to appear moist without getting wet, will not reach any conclusive point until ajorities. And that goes regard less of wet. moist or damp blanks adopted at the Chicago conventions The more enthusiastic wet lead ers-with what degree of inward Oo6aA dhSO OihC NAhhOs Pk SAASs that the country will elect a wet ma jority in the house next Novem. i Der, Asserting that the popular wet trend is not yet Reflected in congress, they say it will be as soon as the voters can get to the polls.
 The Wet Chances
 It is conceivable that those wet hopes will be realized, although it is altogether too early for any one to be convinced one way or the other. The House vote on the O'Connor- Hull bill to legalize 2.75 beer--which is a lot different from prohibition repeal-was 228 to 169, which meant that switch of but 30 votes would have been required to give beer a majority.
 A wet House majority, which would not be seated until Decem- Der 1883, presupposes that there will be enough changes of position on the part of members or defeats of drys at the hands of the voters to overcome the present dry mar gin.
 Drys feel that most of the likely jumps to damper ground already have been made, since congress men are usually able to figure out the trend in their districts (even though they sometimes jump too late).
 They have always admitted that they had dry congressman from wet districts. The question Is whether there is any saturation point in the wet congressional trend-whether. it will continue ir- restistibly or whether the lines will soon be tightly drawn again with g long hard fight ahead.
 But Look at the Senate! In any event the really hard nut the vets have to crack is the senate. The vote against the Tyd- ing 2.75 per cent beer tax bill amendment was 61 to 24. The drys no longer have an overwhelming majority in the house, but they have in the senate. If they have to make a last ditch stand for na- tional prohibition it will come on the floor of the upper chamber. | The senate isn't easily changed. It's members are elected only once every six years. With about 35 senators up for reelection this year 1t doesn't seen. that half dozen dry seats are in any danger of cap- ture by the vets, although some
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-02
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GERMANS HALTED

On June 2. 1918. French troops halted the great German offensive In the Marne sector, after . day of terrific fighting.
 German attacks on Rheims continued, but were again beaten off. Losses to the attacking forces during the days fighting were estimated at more than 26, 1000.
 In a surprise counter attack, C fresh French division recaptured several villages taken by the Ger mans the day before.
 American troops on the front were engaged in severe fighting. They held their ground, infIict1ng heavy losses.
 Submarines operating off the Atlantic seaboard Of the United State sank several small vessels The German official bulletin said that five submarines were n American wekeys.