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Evening star., 1932-01-07
wTNTAT 475.9 Meters.
w NAHL $50 Kilocycles.

300-La Forge -Berumen Musicale.
330-Miriam Ray.
4:00-United States Army Band.
4:3O-With Uncle Sans Naturalists.
4:40-Taft Orchestra.
4 4:45-Dance Marathon.
5:00-Biltmore Orchestra.
5:30-Talk by Robert j. Cottrell ex-
ecutive secretary of the Wash
ington Board of Trade.
5:45-Flashes from The Evening Star,
by Doug Warrenfels.
600-Time and program resume.
6:0l-BosSert Orchestra.
6:30-Musical program.
6:45-Frank Stretz'S Orchestra.
7:00-Myrt ana Marge
7:l5-Bing Crosby, baritone.
730-Land O. Flowers.
7:45-Morton Downey, tenor
800-The Bath Club.
8:15-Abe Lymans Band
830-Kate Smith, crooner.
8:45-"Your Child" by Angelo Patri.
9:O0-The Mills Brothers.
9:l5-Tito Guizar, tenor.
950-Dramatized Love Story.
l0:00-The Trumpeters, with Edwin c.
Hill.
10:3O-Nat Shilkret's Orchestra.
l0:45-Jack Miller'S Orchestra.
ll:00-Ruby Potter, soprano.
II 30-George Olsens Orchestra.
2:00-Weather report.
l2:0l-Guy Lomoardo's Orchestra.
1890 to :00a-Panico's Orchestra.
Early Program Tomorrow.
8:00a-Morning Devotions.
8:l5a-Salon musicale.
845a-The Dutch Girl.
9:00a-Opening the Morning Mail.
9:3Oa-Tony's Scrap Book.
9:45a-Rhythm Kings.
10 :OOa-Warren Sweeney pianist.
lOl5a-FTank Crumit and Julia San
derson
l0;45a-Josephine Noel, pianist.
II :O0a-School of Cookery.
II :l5a-The Captivatcrs.
II :3Oa-Address by Senator Capper of
Kansas
ll:45a-Ben Alley, tenor.
II :0om-Don Bigelow's Orchestra.
II :30-Lotus Orchestra.
1:00-Varieties.
1:l5-The Dance Marathon.
l:3O-Ritz Carlton Orchestra.
2:00-The Funnyboners.
2:l5-Ann Leaf at the organ.
2:3o-American School Of the Air.
3:O0-United States Marine Band.
'oo-hItIlur Jarrett, TENOR.
3:45-Educational program.
4:Oo-Light opera Gems.
W0I 228.9 Meters.
1910 KilocycleS.
3;00-Variety Hour.
4:G0-Ellen H. Wheatley, pianist, and
Erma Counselman, soprano.
4:30-Tea Time Tunes
4:45-Catherine Deale, pianist.
5:OO-One-Time Opportunities.
5I5-Emory Brennan, pianist.
5:3O-Accordion Kapers.
6:0O-Jimmy and Bert.
6:l5-The Troubadours.
6:3O-Musical Sketches.
7:00-Dinner music.
7:20-NewS flashes.
7:30-Elmer Calloway's Orchestra.
8:0O-Moanno Melody Boys.
8l5-Ardis Atkinson, soprano, and
Rovilla Atkinson, contralto.
8;30-Rernsrd Milofsky, violinist.
s:0o--Continenta Trio.
Evening star., 1932-01-07

TEW YORK, January Weight
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
World Court Jurisdiction

There is new wave of discussion about the United States entering the World Court. It has been pretty generally agreed for some time that public sentiment in this country fayors such action. Both parties declared for it in their last campaign platforms. We ; have seemed on the verge of joining for years, but something has always happened to defer action by the Senate.
 Just now some senators opposed to membership in the Court are holding up the war debt situation as another reason for not joining. To be sure international feeling is not at its best right now. On the other hand. participation in the privileges of the World Court might be real asset in settling some of the present problems. One of its duties is 10 interpret treaties and define their application. Our war debt settlements are treaties. Suppose Uncle Sam. as member. took the French debt case to the Court. That body could not enforce payment but it could point out Frances legal obligation to pay. And that would at least be inter estihg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Here, There And EDerywhere

Idepositors and other innoccnts Of money soreiy needed and rightfuIly owned will no longer prevail in liquidations. This is break that could not be foreseen by the pub- lie a few years ago and is just an- other one of those things due to the depression.
 As wisely spoken by Judge o'suI- livan:
 s Were the generous fees of for mer days to be tolerated at this time the impression might easily become fixed in the minds of de.. positors in Ilquidating institutions that a court will permit the mis- fortunes of the depositor to be- come the fortune of the lawyer. If such an impression were created the faith of the people fin the court, the one th4ng above all which now commands their con- fidencc, would be shattered. Time honored institutions of finance and government have already lost much of their prestige. The in- tcgrity of the courts, however, still prevails and must be mains tained. There is little else on which the people may rely"
 Tn this case committee Of de- positdfs had mcckly rcfraincd from protesting against the gratlt- ing of a receivers counscl's fee of $22, ,000, equal to about $45,000 | year. The judge chopped tho Item to $7,250.
 The trend is unmistakabIc. It IS only matter of time when fees in bankruptcy proceedings will re ceivc similar needed attention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1882
Who'll Head the Party?

Speculation is rife in republican circles as to the choice of party leaders in the next four years. Normally 1t would fall upon President Hoover's shoulders but it is be- Iieved that once the president leaves the White House in March he will completely divorce himself from all things political. However. that's merely rumor. There are just as many who believe that Mr Hoover will take the opportunity, when he leaves office 10 do a little 'knihng' on bis own hook. If he does it will be a one-man ex- petition. as the number of supporters he might rally for it will be few.
 There doesn't seem to be much doubt that the republicans will oust Everett San ders from his office of national chairman after reasonable length of time has elapsed. His exit will be graceful probably but none fhe less final He hasn't been any more popular with the rank and file of repub- licans than some of his predecessors, notably Simeon D. Fess of, Ohio. And we don't think that the president will mind very much the withdrawal of Mir Sanders. who despite bis mid-western home still remains as much friend of ex-presdent Calvin Coolidge as he was in the days when he acted as the Coolidge secretary.
 The name of Senator James W. Watson of Indiana continually looms to the front in any discussion of national chairmen. The afablc James is on his way out of the Senate He was among the victims of Novemoer's uphcaval, He is now lame- duck. After March he will be just plain Jim" Watson. citizen. He can have the national post if he wants it. He can have almost any federal appointment within his grasp, because not only would his republi- eaa confreres support and endorse him, but so would the democratic members. Even if such appointment carried over to the next Congress Watson could still win approval from the large democratic majority 1t will beast. He's that popular
 However, there is opposition 10 Watson in z. o. p. ranks among the so-called
 young turks" It hasn't yet been voiced openly. but it's there nevertheless and may come to light one of these days. The re- publicsns last June at their national Sconyen- ton amended the party rules to read thai if 1t any time sixteen members of the la- tiona committee from sixteen different states desired to call 3 session of the entire body they could do so. Formerly it was ne- ccssary for the chairman to call all the ses- ion. That makes Mir Sanders non-effectlve in choosing bis successor, may also put Herbert Hoover on the sidclines and result in the thorough house cleaning that is being demanded in increasing volume from every state and political subdivision, It remains 10 be seen if the party can regain its former status now that the democrats have admin istered spanking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

oI lh, ttfxol volume lsmind lh,'l IsAd,n that lht debts were contracted "not from productive economic developments but from dlamclive processes Of wal" They wersl lnssd for purposes economically unpfo- duetive and ''self-extinguisbing." That IS one reason they .are SO hard to collect. So hard to pay.
 More and more thoughtful persons are coming to believe that the war debts are a major factor in the present worldwide Generalization. That view is upheld by the facts set forth in the present volume It's authors ask two questions and give the following answers: T. A complete oblit- cration of aIl reparation and war-debt obli- gations would promote, rather than retard. world economic prosperity.
 2. The collection of these intergovern- mental debts would be economically detri- mental. rather than beneficial, to the creditor countries"
 Perhaps when every other remedy and palliative has been tried. we will turn at last to this one obliteration of the war debts and reparations and find it works. Unless we are too late.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

Bridgeport may become the first city of the state to employ scrip to pay it's esn- ployes New Britain did do bit of ex- perimenting along these lines but not to the extent that the Park City may be forced un- less its finances improve considerably in the next two or three months. Dispatches from the Fairfield county metropolis indicate that pay. SO far as city employees are concerned, is an abstract thing. Some say that there is no likelihood of any money before April l. Even city officials say they can't guarantee future pay envelopes. In that event scrip might be employed with it's consequent diff faculties. such as securing the cooperation of Bridgeport merchants in honoring it and. .en. abling them to work out some scheme of amortization of the same with the men and women forced to use it. All in all the pros peet is dismal right now. Let's hope it will improve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Sport In Education

In his annual report the other day, PreS- dent A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard Uni- versity made fine defense of intercollegiate athletic contests. He said: Some people have thought that the condition could be improved by eliminating those contests that is. by abolishing intercollegiate sports. but ambition in one direction is not promoted by destroying it in another, which is in itself good Scholarly interest must be fostered as an end in itself not By trying to remove other interests"
 The trouble with over-emphasized foot ball in recent years has been that interest in it was fostered too often by ignoring other interests including that of scholarship. If intercollegiate contests had been handled everywhere in the, ideal way suggested by President Lowell. the present football prob- lem would not have developed. Almost every thoughtful person must realize that sane sports play helpful part in education Their over emphasis or abuse can be harm ful to individuals, to institutions and to the whole educational system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Our Daily Washington Letter
The French Crouch Continues
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

rious American diplomatic biunder at the time.
 But France had been carrying q chip on her should before that ever since we failed to ratify the Versailles treaty, in fact. She all ways yelled louder than any other nation about the debts and took years to ratify the Mellon -Bercn- ger funding agreement. She restricted results of the Washington naval conference to limitation of capital ships, refused to attend the Geneva naval confer ence and prevented successful conclusion to the London naval conference.
 Now she has gone her own sweet away again, although taking only q step more than Britain, who warned us that she was making her last payment under the pres ent agreements.
 And 1t can't be denied that her default may have serious, far- reaching effects. If Franco Amer ican negotiations do not soon be- gin with the aim of making the best of q bad business she may prove to have begun Q widespread movement for default of govern ment debts which might easily spread into the field of private debts.
 Thus there is q fervent hope here-and considerable belief-- that something will be done before Congress begins to try to retail late. If any satisfactory conclu- sion can be reached diplomats be- lieve they may get nearer to friendly relations with France than we have been having.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
More Than Relief

In the first realization of the terrific need of direct relief food and clothing and shelter for great numbers of our citizens and the increasing difficulty of raising funds for the purpose, good deal was said by thoughdess persons about cutting out so- eial work" Welfare organizations devoted 10 character building, health promotion. education, and so on, were regarded as mere fads and frills to be eliminated
 In recent weeks this attitude has changed. Enlightened leadership has emphasized social work as an essential accompaniment of relief. It has insisted on the need of constructive program of social work if necdessly dis asfrous aftermath 10 the current depression IS 10 be prevented. In recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, Newton D. Baker. chairman of the National Citizens Commit tee for relief urges this view,
 Obviously" he writes. the needs of food and shelter must be first but no ener- gcncy can be gfeat enough 10 justify us in forgetting tbat the thing we are proud of in America is not the mere prolongation Of physical life but the enrichment of the art of living and the maintenance of the char acter of those who do live. Our problem reaches far beyond tbe bread lines
 For dealing with tuberculosis and other social problems all Of which flourish in the soil of poverty, we Americans posses agencies developed far beyond those of other nations. If now, when they are needed as never before. we should treat them as luxuries to be dispensed with in general trend toward economy, we should be un- worthy of our past and reckless of our future
 The whole task is going to lax the finan- ciai resources brains, good will and good sense of the nation tremendously, yet the fsct of the awakened understanding of the situation gives hope of success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
OLD ENGLISH
tNew Haven Journal courier)

(New Haven Journal c0urier)
 Two hundred and more yeafs ago the dcscendantes of Chaucer- ian and Elizabethan England. stall wart Anglo Saxons with fayorons musical speech and blunt homely customs, crossed the Atlantic and plunged into the American hinter- land. The vast continent has rush. cd onward in the march of change labelled progress; but herc and there an island remains in the sea Of modernitl, an oasis in the des- ert of the contemporaneous Back up in the mountains of Kentucky still may bc found hilI-billies with the phrases of Chaucer, the idioms of Shakespeare on their lips, with the songs of ancient England in their hearts.
 Out from Lost Hope Hollow comes Jils0n Settlers, from the log cabin occupied by his family more than two centuries. Tho last of the tr0ubadors, the only left-handcd fiddler who does not reverse the strings, he is on his way to old England Ito play some tunes for the folks over there" The final authentic minstrel of the antique ballads, he is taking them back to tho land whence they came. Names they bear rcdolent of cen- turies buried now in textbooks, Prince Charley" Lord Thomas and the Fair Elcndcr." "Thc No- ble Duke" Lord Lowell" TWO Sisters" And they will be played in the popular fashion: old Jilson Settlers is no sophisticated tunester of modern technique. He had q "hankerin' after music; his gran Dappy bought him | fiddle; he "just heard the tunes and played 'em."
 But America adds its interest to the principal Of English folk song, JilsOn Setterg will play for modern England the tunes of ancient Eng land: but he will play also the folk songs Of the American hills, Love- ly Nancy" Paper of Pins" "Wil- Ham Riley" Brisk Young Far mer,' and his own classic Lon don Town"
 EngIands gains this christmas- tide. America loses. JilB0n Betters will not be in Long Hope Hollow to fiddle his lonesome tunes" at the Christmas celebration on Jam uary 6, following the Julian caien- dar. No modern innovation like Gregorian dhtinEs have invaded Lost Hope Hollow. But Jilson set- ters leaves behind q gentle remind CT. strong proof Of the power of elemental faith. Search through churchly volumes. listen through endless sermons: but you must go back to the ballads of older days to match the simple beauty Of his remark: If you go out O doors at midnight Of January 6, the cow- brutes will Dc alvin down and the nags aneighin' soft to greet the new born King"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Yes, Sex Is Still There

The delightful old question of what had better be done about sex comes up for extended and slight .Iy confused discussion in fat new book, "Sex in the Arts" written by a bakers dozen of novelists, artists, critics and what-not and edited by ]. +. McDermott and Kendall E. Taft.
 Surprising as you may find it, q good many of the writers here represented do not feel that sex is finding full expression in many of the arts these days.
 Modern music, Paul Rosenfeld explains, deals Less with sex than at any time in generations. The drama, says Elmer Rice, for all it's seeming preoccupation with the theme, really 1ags far behind the novel in it's treatment of 1t. Mod ern poetry, according to Henry Morton Robinson, is sadly crippled because it's sex expression Is 50 largely limited to an expression or an outworn and inadequate roman ticism. The moving picture. says Struthers Burt, has chosen to con- centrate on mere ffeshy allure and hence, in the artistic sense, does not really deal with sex at all!
 Oddly enough, the book points out that journaiismsnnd advertising seem to have more freedom in the discussion of sex than any other forms of expression.
 The book as 6 whole Is woefully uneven and not 6 little confusing. It does contain q few chapters including, notably, m attack by Ernest Boyd on the modern school of which are eminently worth reading.
 Published by Harpcrs, Sex In the Arts' sells for $3.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

Aldermen in Hartford are trying to have the oity ordinances amended to decrease the
 interest rate on unpaid taxes In these days that is sound procedure While there may still be direct evasion of tax payments to- day as in the past in the majority of eases delinquency is due 10 but one thing. lack of cold cash People simply can't gather together the necessary funds 10 meet their tax bills. because their income has dwindled to the point where it doesn't conform with their mode of living. How many homcf have been lost in the last few years simply because their owners couldn't meet inter est payments on mortgages or reduce these mortgages when asked to do SC by tb2 banksi The number is high. We thirk the Hartford legislators have the right idea. They propose that Ii delinquents pay only per cent interest on unpaid taxes. To- day they are forced to pay 9 per cent for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

Naugatuck is going to put sixteen men. now unemployed, to work in the Nauga- tuck State Forest at High Rock, according to reports from the borough. If like num- bers of men could be employed in the other state forests and parks we could expect to see a great deal of uef-needed improvement accomplished in them. There is plenty of work to be done where trees need thinning and underbrush cleared out. But it is hard work and not at all appealing to every man, All such work, of course. is done under state supervision. The town supplies the men and money to pay them. the state does the rest. It's all for the common good of the State
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Cost of Conquest

Japan too. is having trouble with her budget. That trouble. however is mostly connected with her program of territorial expansion in Manchuria. Army and navy appropriations are being doubled for the next fiscal year. Her total budget is nearly half billion. and enormous sum for a small poor country with little possibility of increasing its income. The prospect IS for deficit of $l90,000,000.
 A 40 per cent deficit is pretty serious. and it may be larger with the world de- presson working westward and jumping the Pacific. There are to be bond issues of 2.00o.0o0,0o0 yen next year about $1.O00. .000.0 increasing the national debt 90 per cent. The way of the aggres- sor is hard. But if Japan is bankrupted by colonial conquest, she will not be the only country suffering that fate in recent times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
So They Say

Don't you tbink we could effect greater economy if we buy hats for the postmaster general to it the car rather than cars to fit his hat? = -Representative n Byron E. Harlan (dem., O. on floor of the house.
 
 We are quite ready to equip our armies with nothing but knives and cardboard shields, provided our ncIghbors do the same. --Kurt von schleicher, Chancellor of the German Republic.
  intend travelling around the world without giving single au- tograpb.
 --George Bernard shaw, Irish au- thsr and playwright.
 Tine greatest Fundamental in- fiuences in our lives are romance and religion.
 Cecil 5. DeMiile, motion picture director.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
THE OFFICE AT BETHLEHEM
(fiartford courant) )

V
 This is not an editorial on the festival now at hand. but Is merely comment upon affairs at the post office at Bethlehem, Connecticut. The official in charge reports that the volume of mail leaving the office for Q few days prior 70 Christmas is greatly in excess of what might be expected of q post office in q town which has a pop- uIation Of b44 persons.
 It appears that many who mall Christmas letters, cards and pack ages feel that Q word so obviously in keeping with the festival would add something to the package. lt is all to the benefit of the postmas- ter, who, we arc informed Is q postmistress, for the salary given depends, we understand,s on the receipts of the officc. Patrons might appear 4n person from Wa terfown. Woodbury, Morris and Washtngton. and for that matter. the office is not 50 far from Wa terbury.
 Long may tho practice continue, but Wo wonder if the urge ts felt within the range of q haif-dozcn other postoffices of the saf1ie name one in New York and q much larger ono in Penpsyivania7 ' There are, we assume, other offices of the nanle in the United etater, although we feel that Bethel is moro popular. Towns named for some biblical character arc not tip- duly numerous, although they lead towns bearing Indian uainee by q large margin. One hopes that the fame of Bethlehem. Connecticut, will increase.