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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

Waterburians who are summer visitors to Ocean Beach, New London. will be inter- ested to know that the Club Valhalls at the shore resort was practically destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The Club Valhalla which is an eating and dining place, was recon strueted from Wordelrs old casino, well known in the days before prohibition for the excellence of its shore dinners. We imagine that Wordell's was widely known throughout all New England. for its im- mense dining hall was rarely, if ever. empty. It was great place for political gatherings in it's day. Of recent years its popularity wancd and a few years back it changed hands. The club is not run during the win ter months and was empty when the fire started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

believe. "These figures" says the Courant. show that the governor was on solid ground when he spoke of the impossibility of half the people trying to impose total abstinence on the other half" He was we'll within reaiities when he said. If only one- third of the people objected. prohibition would still be unenforeeable. He told a blunt truth when he said that the Eigh- teenth Amendment prevents solution of the liquor problems We have had the amendment since 1920, but not in all that time have we had even semblanee of pro- hibition anywhere. ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
JUSTICE HOLMES RETIRES
(New York Herald-Tribune)


 The outpouring of tributes 10 MT Justice Holmes on his ninetieth birthday, March s. q year ago spoke the universal feeling of re- spect and affection for the jurist and the man. In the sustained plenitudc of his intellectual powers he has set time at naught. There will be everywhere the deepest re- gret that the physical weight or years brings his public career to it's inevitable close. In his retire. ment from the Supreme Court Of the United States the court loses an associate Justice whose learning !n the law, whose luminous mind. whose sublimated common sense have been for thirty years among it's finest treasures.
 Chief Jus,Ice Taft called MT Justice Holmes the most brilliant and learned member of the supreme court. Popular Judgment does not dissent from that opinion. But even above his judicial emin- ence tho people have recognized In MT Justice Holmes q beau ideal or the American heritage in scholar ship, In public service, in patriot ism, in manners, in character. A democracy that has an under standing sympathy with an Oliver Wendell Holmes is sound Tn req son and in heart. The admiration and the gratitude of his fellow countrymen will attend him as long as he lives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

Recent books on covered bridges of New England led the editor of the Hartford Times to opine that neither of the authors. both women, knew what the real purpose of such a structure was. The Times says they were art galleries for bill posters, places where kids could play marbles or shinny, and search for bird nests And what about trysting spots for amorous swains or con- venient stopping place for Old Dobbin as he conveyed Hiram and Sarah home from the village strawberry festival. Remember all the carved inscriptions the old interiors bore'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

Education and good beer mix according 10 Dean Clarence W. Wendell of Yale. He is convinced that 4 per cent brew would be more advantageous from an educational standpoint than the present hard liquors with which the ma jorty of college students are familiar He has converted bis impress sions on the subjec to Senator Hiram A. Bingham. just now the most outspoken wet advocate in Congress. The dean even points out that the quality of the present brew of beer available in New Haven is an improve ment of that which was offered in the first years of prohibition. At that rate in a few more years prohibition ought to have brought the standard of all spirtuous liquors up to pre-prohlbitIon requirements. We have often heard that selfsame remark made. A few more years of prohibition would rid the country of the poisonous
 liquors that were obtalnable few years back. but which more advanced methods Of brewing and dlstIllinG are eliminating. Dean Wendell says, Our American colleges are social as well as intellectual centers and there IS something socabe about drinking beer in group. It brings men of different sorts and different classes together and hard liquor does not. Hard liquor IS destructive of team play. and that, To my mind is what we need more in the country today than anything else. = Bravo. Dean Mendelll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
At 7he National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTEF

turity. The discount represents the interest.
 The $10,000 bill Is the largest currency denomination the gov ernment has ever issued, and there are 854G of these in clrcula- ton.
 Major Woods knows money and has q lot of it. When he became treasurer he reccipted to his pre- decessor for cash and securities in the value of $l4,1GG,59G G.451,- 97 2-3--the ga of cent being due to n fractional part of a bond that the government won in q lawsuit.
 During his conversation about money, the major displayed and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

And while on this topic of prohibition
 SO absorbing to most of us who are inter ested in the social welfare of the nation, we might quote line or TWO from the Har
 ford Courant. That paper noticed ibe heekling to which Governor Gross was sub jected 10 in Brooklyn. N. r., last Sunday and commented thereon. Among ibe many replies that tbe governor made 10 bis ques. ilonen was one dealing with majoritIss and minoriies iayoring repeal Of prohibition. The Co.fsni eas show figures that prove beyond a doub' that when passed tbe lSib amendment did mol win the oyefw heimins mppon lhat Drohibitionisis would have ns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

spirit and illuminated by wit. In his opinions the dry bones of the law are often clothed in the ut most felicity of phrase.
 In Mir Justice Holmes' concep- ton the Constitution "is an experi- ment, as all life is an experiment"
 Great constitutional provisions
 must be administered with cau-
 ton. Some play must be allowed
 for the joints of the machine.
 and 1t must bc remembered that Legislatures are ultimate guard
 ians of the liberty and welfare
 of the people in quite as great
 a degree as the courts.
 He has resisted every attempt of the court to read its own notions of social polIty into Legislation of the several states. He has denied neither to the legislatures nor to congress the right tO make laws that they think reasonable and wise, whatever his own views or their reas0nabieness or their wis dom. iIe hns made the c0nstifu- ton n rule of life for nation cons tipually changing and developing. His great dissenting opinions of "the days when fear was trhnslnt- cd into doctrines that had no prop. or plaee in th neOnntitution and the common law are permanent baae0ns on ihe road of liberty.
 That intellect, character and career, that splendid and serene old age, are md always will be a national treasure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr Brady Address him, care of the Democrat, sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
JUSTICE HOLM ES' RETIREMENT
(Sprinneld Republican,


 News of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' resignation from the su- preme court of the United States comes as something of shock, notwithstanding that 1t had been realized that in the course or Ma ture his career could not much longer extend. His illness during the past summer, although he had recovered sufficiently to continue his work for time, had given warning that he might soon feel impelIed to retire. He was not one to sustain an ambition to die m harness when 1t became evident that he could no longer carry his full share of the congenial burden imposed by his office.
 His rare intellectual gifts, nap oily, have continued unimpaired, as has been demonstrated in re- cent weeks by the characteristicai- ly succinct and colorful decisions that he has rendered in behalf or the court. A great figure Tn the history of the august tribunal passes from official service, but IL may be hoped that he has many days still before him of the inspir- ing leadership that has so long held the admiration of his fellow citizens and of the larger world to which his fame has extended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
YOU DON'T SAY
Their marriage was hectic they say, Till finally she went away,

Their marriage was hectic they say, TilI finally she went away, Now he's got a new wife, Has a great time with life. It generally ends up this way.
 O--O---o The man who leads n simple life always appears perplcxing to tho gosslpy neighbors.
 O-O-- Q Standing committees always seem to lay down on the job.
 o--O---O The man who is a slave to suc- cess worships a remunerative mas ter.
 O--O--o The person who gets balled up in life generally straight ems out after going over the goal.
 O---O---O Electric clocks always run at current rates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
O----O---O DING, DING

Bingham wants 4 per cent beer, He says 1t will bring back good
 times, But 1 per cent beer, let me tell you, Is part of his political rhymes.
 o--O-O Lime Water Murder Mystery Headline. In the lime light, as 1t were.
 O--O---O
 Attendance at the New York auto show is 90 per cent ahead of last year. When the nation becomes car-minded 1t looks as if Old Man Depression is due for a ride, oh, oh.
 O--O---O An old fashioned man Is ono who talks about winters when the snow reached the top of the Duggan school fence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
Good evening.
 o--O--o LOOK OUT, BACHELORS
"A SMILES THE THING"

Good evening. o-O--o
 LOOK OUT, BACHELORS It's the open season, On men who haven't wed, Maids are gunning for a mate. Soft words are being said. Little dimpled darlings, Are euddling to each male. They want to launch wedding
 ship.
 Enjoy a married sail. The troubles due to leap year. When bars are lifted high, And men in bachelor pastures, Exposed to every eye, By arts and other blandishments, Each girl will try to snare, A male, who in all other years, Just gives 'em all the air. So bachelors watch your freedom, Be careful lest you say. A little "yes" uncertainty, Then she will set the day. The girls are out a-hunting. So bachelor men take heed, The girls are after husbands. Meal tickets, that's their creed.
 o-O--o The strength of face-liftlng lies in the prices they charge.
 O-O--O
 What the country needs is fewer people to tell what 1t needs.
 The stock market went up again yesterday. With the market going up can prosperity be far behind?
 O-O--o
 The politicians at Washing ton should realize that it's fresh. not hot air the coun- try seeks.
 O-O--o Japan wouldn't even take note of an American note. And now Miissolini wants the U. $. to can eel all European war debts. Uncle Sam must look like Uncle Sap to Europe.
 O---O--O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
QUOTATIONS

The future may bc better or worse. Calvin Coolidge.
  Only the colored people get mar ried nowadays. -J. J. Mccormick, N. Y. mar riage license bureau.
  There are weaknesses in our economic system. --Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley.
 These are troublesome times.
 John D. Rockefeller, ST.
  Many more adolescents are heading for college than can pos- sIbly be nssimilated. --Leta A. IIollingsworth, professor of education, Columbia U.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

In spite of business. politics. and eeo- homie experts, we still barge ahead some- bow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
Us7'-~VJ~-O DEAR M r,

A glass of milk,
 Must have its hit of cream. And sluinbcr with its rcstfulncss, Brings out q golden dream.
 o-O-o The democrats want to impeach Mellon. The republicans want to impeach the democrats and all Of us are out to impeach somebody else. The machine age gives way to the era of impeachment. Soon they'll be impeaching wives and husbands instead of divorcing them.
 They had snow yesterday in California, but the Chamber of Commerce out that way vigorously denies the report. They probably figure corn flakes were falling.
 o-O--O
 A proposition Is q proposi- ton to lot of Waterbury high school students.
 o-O-o
 Now scientists claim that Indians were not such a healthy lot after all. Perhaps they ate too much Indian meal.
 Leap year Is a good time to stop. look. listen and then say mo-.
 O-O-O
 Soap is cheaper but just as many dirty stories as ever are going the rounds.
 O-O--O The so-called church pillars give less support than the ordinary pa rishi0ners who contribute week. ly to parish work.
 o---O--O
 HAIR. HAIR Laugh clown, laugh. Spill your hunIOr everywhere, We'll set the country Iaugiping With you in the presidents cisair.
 0~-O--O IFS cheaper to reduce rents than have idle teBemeDts on your hands.
 Tbls completes our regulnr Thursday evening program, II came i0 y0u over DBD. Water. burys' pioneer station in this re spart. We are signing off at tbIs time, fo bs back on the sir again tos morrow evening nt the usual hour.
 o~-O-.0 n0od BIgbt,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5 :l6 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

Uncle Sam has discovered a new source of income and is going to tax raeketeers profits. so maybe the government budget can be balanced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
A Tribute Press of Nation Does Honor to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Upon His Retirement
THE RETIREMENT OF
 NIB HOLMES
(IIartford Courant)

NhuftIOTu COuTdnl)
 The retirement of MT Oliver Wendell Holmes from the supreme court of the United States was something that the nation did not like to contemplate. His birthdays brought numerical evidence that his term on the bench was drawing to close, but the public chose to regard them as extending his service, not as curtailing 1t. For so thinking, MT Holmes, gave excel- lent reason. Age has touched him lightly, for his figure is still erect, his eyes arc still keen and his mind still retains the supple ness of youth. His resignation alone has made the nation realize for the first time that Mir Holmes. like other mortals, is at the mercy of age, which has commanded him to spend the rest of his days Tn ease.
 His retirement leaves a place that no successor, however able, can expect to fill. A profound stu dent of the law, he was not dis tingunshed for his learning alone. What made him n great judge was his pervasive humanity, quality
  salty wit that favored his deci- sions but in tho luminous clarity with which they were written. It showed itself most in the genuine liberalism that colored his every interpretation of the law. For MT Holmes the law Is no abstract mat ter, dead, sacred and remote, to be interpreted with cold logic alone. On the contrary. he regarded the law as 1t should be regarded. the effort of human beings to adjust their relations with one another in the light of thier own experience. Consequently his decisions, most of them in the minority. frequent Iy shone like bright light through a murk of technicalitics.
 What his service has meant is not 10 be measured by ordinary standards. His achievements have been many, but chiefly he pos sesses the affectionate regard Of tho nation because throughout long career he has exemplified the valorous liberalism that character izes the national spirit at It's best.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
MIR JUSTICE HOLMES

tNeW IDIh ibb''y
 Mr Justice Holmes hns lefi the Supreme Court bench. but will sit there still, an illustrI0us and bee loved figure, so long ns that tribunal or It's memory endures. He has impressed himself indslibiy upon American constitutional law. lie has touched the popular lfna- ginati0n and earned universal res speei. He has been a judge, either ln MaAaae ehusetts 0r nt Washing. ion, for nearly fifty years. The de- elHl0ns ln which he has shared aS ahsoelsis justice are registered in what must be by now nlmosi n hundred volumes of reports. Ills life has been 0ns of pf0diHiOns Isbor. guided by a philosophical
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

explained n number of different kinds of bllls--but he didn't offer to pass out any samples of his wares.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

The new st ,000, ,O00 treasury bilI. of which ibs public has bearS s0 much recently, Isn't currency at all. says Major Woods, ft is \ govern. mnni bond which iH issued nt a dlss count, DnVabis Rf fsea vsiua st wss
Evening star., 1932-02-21
Once Stone 7ozver Thirty Feet High 1t Mozv
Stands Neglected and 7umbhdRu ON
*Hamted" Hilltop Near Boonsbro,
Md., but an Effort viii Soon Be
Made in Congress to Restore 1t.

to the top, from whence the most beautiful
prospect presents itself that the eye can pos
Sibly behold Shepherdstown, Hagerstown and
Cavetown are distinctly seen. with all the fer
tile fields of Jefferson, Berkeley and Washing
ton Countries affording landscape teeming
with life and wealth.
ITO the summit of this mountain Is rug
ged path but the view will afford a rich COM
pensation for the labor. Twelve feet from the
base, upon the side fronting Boonsboro, was
inserted white marble slab. with the follow
ing inscription:
Erected in memory of Washington July 4.
1927, by the citizens Of Boonsboro.
"'At the laying Of the monument several
Revolutionary soldiers ascended and fired three
rounds from its top"
A MONG those who took part in the work
u and whose descendants today live In and
around Boonsboro were: Jonothan ShAfer.
Samuel Smith. Daniel Itemyer. Jacob Brant-
ner, Henry Wyman, Conrad Thompson John
Evening star., 1932-02-21
dynamite under one portion Of the base ans
made large crack up the side. He was nevel
apprehended.

dynamite under one portion Of the base and
made . large crack up the side He was never
apprehended.
THE cost of restoring the monument has
been estimated at less than 81, 500, because
all materials. except cement, are at hand. Aa
additional sum would be required to repair tho
road and clear away the briars. Maintenance
would cost little because it could be attended
by the same force which cares for Antietam
and other Government reservations in tho
neighborhood
The plan calls for the restoration to tho
original heighth, 30 feet, with q platform on
top, winding stairway within, and a beacon
light burning nightly that all who pass by
motor from north to south along the great
artery from east to west may be reminded Of
the man for whom it stands.
Boonsboro itself is full of the projects The
town has lad an interesting history It was
there that Oliver Wendell Holmes came when
his son. the recently retired Supreme Justice.
lay wounded during the Civil War. The place
was settled in 1877 by William cousin of
Daniel Boone. Abraham Lincons grand
father, John Lincoln. brother of Will
liam Boone's mother.
In 1927, when the monument was built
Boonsboro had about TOO inhabitants, Scotch
Irish and German. Its earliest church had q
bell cast by Thomas Mears. who cast the great
bell for the Glasgow Cathedral. Anthony
Better. ffer of the Revolutionary Army, ended
his days here. Thomas B. Searight, in his
history of the "old pike" states that "in its
palny days the old town was lively place"
It had its two large hotels with swinging signs.
the Eagle and the United States with stables
for so horses each. It has had its news
paper for rs years. and took sides in the Civil
War. A tradition has it that powder for the
Revolutionary Army was manufactured in q
sequestered corner near the edge Of the present
of 1912.
If the appropriation goes through. the Boy
Scouts of Hagerstown. under the direction Of
Mr.. John B. Ferguson Of that city. have volun-
teered to keep the trail to the place blazed
and look after the grounds about
Evening star., 1932-02-21

Representative DaUid John Le,cis of
Maryland, Uho is tathering a biH for
the restoration of the monument Uith
the backing of the Daughters of the
american Revolution and other patri-
otic bodies.
Fritz, Emmanuel Dagenhart, Samuel Meredith,
Isaac Lutz and Michael zittles.
beautiful shaft erected in Baltimore, which
has laid claim to the distinction Of being 'the
first" was not completed until 1929
James Hubert Smith, VINO lives on the noun
tain almost at the foot Of the monument,
unearthed the builders record stone and used
it for years as a support for his vinegar bar
rell in his cellar until it was discovered by
Mr.. e. H. Pitcher, Baltimore antiquarian who
now has it. It bears the inscription Built by
Isaac c. Lutz, 1927"
Lutz was the most skilled stone wall builder
Of his time, and the construction is similar to
that of other of his buildings extant in the
countryside. The stones were not bound by
cement or mortar. The men of those days
were experienced in using the materials at
hand in the rugged hills. and the stone fences
which they made and which furnished breast
works for the soldiers of the Civil War still
stand.
They applied their art to the monument,
found it. Even the winding stairway leading
to the top was fashioned without the aid of
mortar and is still firm. From the eminence
it surmounts unfolds beautiful panorama Of
the Cumberland and Shenandoah valleys. From
it one may see the hills of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia, the meandering Potomac.
Harpers Ferry the of Sheridans famous
ride, Antietam, Gettysburg and other battle
fields of the Civil War.
Just below is the National Cemetery at
Sharpsburg, where the obelisks of the dead
stand in serried ranks in mute reminder of
the second great struggle for the Nations
existence.
Smith tells how his grandfather used to
speak of the fact that his father helped to
build the memorial. Smith married the
daughter of Michael Zittles, who owned the
land which the monument stands, which
she has decided to the Society for the Protection
and Restoration of the First Washington Mon
ument, formed in 1907, with ex-senator Harvey
s. Bomberger, president. It Is to the zeal OF
Mr.. Bomberger that the records of the authen-
ITCHY of the monument have been obtained
and preserved. No one is more familiar with
Evening star., 1932-02-21

. HE first monument ever erected to
George Washington stands today
brambleguarded ruin on top Of South
Mountain in Maryland.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-01-21
CONTINUED from last week,

was particularly bright and CHEEKY
a little nervous. perhaps, and change.
able, but very bright"
"Coggeshall admits she's been wor.
ried for month";"
$50 you sald told him that. He's
not very fond Of Coggeshal, but is
quite sure she's devoted to Mrs. White.
You think youll go out there, Mother
well?"
"Oh, yes, decidedly"
'But the man-this Wentzel--after
all we know what he is-what he
handles"
"Oh, hardly think he'll blow ME
up9 Explosives would be wasted on
me, you know.
We've got to see where he fits in.
don't believe he has her there, but
II he has, why then. we needn't look
any further. II he hasn't, why did
she and Coggeshall both 50 there?
And who was the woman she gave the
Medusa to? Perhaps the old woman
Schaffner said they had out there
cannot get 1t into my head. Mr..
Glaenzer, just why she threw that
awayW
Surely, because the other things
could be disposed of, and that"
"But they didn't have the other
thingsl"
"You mean they didn't know"
II don't believe, Mr.. Glaenzer, that
anybody in that Office had the re-
hottest idea what was in that boxl"
Not the clerk, perhaps, but sure
""
mot anybody" Motherwell per.
sisted. "Why, sir, imagine leaving
that there! What piffling idlocy! It's
incredible. They have safes, drawers
something! Anybody has,"
But she must have told them, by
nOw,'