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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-07


 ness, M. J. Ms Black Cat.) Gladly, my dear, from my wisdom
 profound Will I answer the question you
 neatly prOpOund. You have stated 1t clearly, I must
 confess, And though it costs me dearly-I
 cannot do less! So, my dear, on this day let
 EIGHT lives slip past. In order to find how feel on the last.
 Iris strange! no fear enters, though
 time now grows short ~ For the things I would do e'er I
 leave my court: For the smiles would bring, for
 the cheer I would give, For the help to enable the HELP
 LESS to LIVE! For this is my creed-Go through
 fife with a SONG, And thank God for the chance to
 help someone along. Thus on the NINTH, which must.
 also, be the END, I feel would like to have for a
 FRIEND Someone who would take up my
 Ecepter and Grown And do all those things which I
 must lay down! =. Cheer up the lonely; give aid where you can, And be a TRUE friend to that
 GINK called MAN. A They are pretty good scouts, most bf them, at that, As I can see clearly, with the eyes of a cat, Without them this earth would be dreary and dead, And Q good many pussief would never Iset fefli So here | .prOclaim (E'er my NINTH Inning endsl That ALI cats and ALL Glnks must FOREVER be FhiENRs o-O--o Thls concludes our regular Thursday evening program. lt was broadcast by DBD and came Co you | through tho courtesy of tho Wa | tsFbury Evening Democrat, pioneer | in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time, Co l be back on the air tomorrow evens Iins at the usual hour. o-o-o fiood nlahf.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-07
OLD AGE PENSIONS

(New Haven Journal courisry z,
 The .Connecticut commission on old age pensions is now engaged In the taking Of q sample censua in New Haven. The purpose of tii2a census is three-fold; first, to gather information as to the number of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-07

IWaSeFBaF7 2! I||(!!!!!|||||||1'',,l ! } The TRUTH with WALLETS | III toward none, SPARfTY toe III ward All and BRICK. SII BATS toward the Ill Rest.  "A SMILES THE THING" Good evening. TOWN SNAPSHOTS (After the ball was over) s Gone is the mob from the corner We miss those cigar store ears. That were glued to convention radios
 And stewed with Chicago
 cheers.
 (Phizz with. a smiling phiz) It's only glass of soda But served with friendly smile. That's cheaper than soda syrup. ;, But sweeter by a mile.
 "A little knock for Nick
 the barber On the strop as he wallops the
 razor, . He spiels some gab - some
 Nick, But the blade still holds a
 depression,
 And 1 felt the jab-some nick.
 IT. F. Garner and Hoover Lock Horns once they lock horns we can expect lockout.
 Roosevelt will make his campaign on "The Forgotten Man" But if they forget that he's forgotten before the push starts, IF. D." will have to dig up another one.
 o-O-o A hot campaign is promised. Before it's over candidates will De wearing bathing suits and car rying electric fans.
 tsfe@ O-O-O
 The world is filled with stuff and nonsense. And even non- sense seems stuffed at times.
 O-O-o M The republicans will open their in Boston. Democrats suggest they use one of the fish wharves in the city.
 o-O-o
 DING, DING, DING Politics, politics, politics, It's all the rage to-day, For the next few months, poli-
 ticians,
 Will blatantly hold sway.
 O-O-o A storm of protest is like thunder storm. Makes plenty of noise but after it's all over, but little good has been accomplished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-07
DIVORCED--BUT

I know she thinks about him And inwardly she frets, I've watched tic roses fading now for months; And when we speak about him, She says, "FOrgive, forget, Remember that I used to love him once.
 A. G. c.
 o-O-o The trouble with mankind is due to the man that it's not kind enough to man.
 O-O-O Some of these so-called yea. books produce nothing but year. ache. o-O-o Many rock garden has been spoiled by hail stones.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-07
Good evening.
 ,o-O--o TOWN SNAPSHOTS
"A SMILES THE THING

Gone is the mob from the corneL We miss those cigar store ears. That were glued to convention f. radios
 And stewed with Chicago
 cheers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-07
TO ADA, NEW HAVEN

Dictated by His Imperial High
 ness, M. J. Ms Black Cat.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
Our Figures Differ

Waterbury is classed among six Connect icut towns that have exceeded the , per cent borrowing limit, according to survey issued by State Tax Commissioner William H. Blodgett last week However figures available at the City Hall reveal far diff ferent state of affairs. If we aren't mistaken. this is the second time within the short space of year that this condition has been alleged to have existed in our city. Evidently fig ures in the state tax collectors office and those in our own controllers office do not agree. We think that Mir Blodgett should be informed that his estimate is not correct Certainly it is only right to correct the impression that is abroad in the state now as result of Mir BIodgetts statement of last week.
 If the figures that Commissioner Blod- gett revealed last week are to be used in any way in influencing Governor Cross to hold a special session of the Legislature we sim cerely hope that each and every town upon whom the commissioner reported will take the trouble to check all figures so that no inaccuracies will perhaps mould opinions that hitherto did not exist. By this we mean that it should not seem to the gover- nor that the condition in many of our communities is such as to warrant legisla- tive action in their behalf Undoubtedly Mr Blodget's figures are not those of the present date. Also they must include eer- tain items which perhaps might be excluded such as Executive Secretary Kelly pointed out last week.
 It is unfortunate that Waterbury should be continually held up to the state in a light that isn't altogether complimentary The administration Of Mayor Hayes has done so much to turn aside criticism that when psrehsnes something like last weeks statement comes to light we take it rather hsfd While Commissioner Blodsstt wasn't esnsorins those eommuniiies which hs main. isins exceeded their legal borrowing limit people au apt 10 regard this s sgn Of mismsnagtmeni. whereas it may Dc due solely in most instances to the demands Of ihIs sxAeiins veal ln wssfbufy's ease, clearly ibHe is some misunderstanding Of ihe siiusiion CcmmissionH Blodsei,'s fls. ufes aV plainly net ihoss of Contfollti Daniel |. Lssfy's office
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1882
Duties of a Cabinet Member

It is quite clear that the duties of the members of the presd<nt's cabinet are not to care for their respective departments, but to assure their chief of political support. Never has this been better exemplifed than during the administration of Herbert Hoover He has more sef-appointed guar dians and sponsors than any president ever had. Their main purpose has not been to look after their own personnel but to cam paign the nation defending the president and excoriatng democrats who find fault with him. Ogden L. Mills. Patrick J. Hurley and Walter F. Brown are the greatest offenders in this respect. They are respec- lively the secretary of the treasury, war and postmaster general.
 We have no fault to find with any re- publican official who cares to come to the defense of Mir Hoover. If some of them didn't we don't know what he would do for support. But there is place and time for everything. And we hardly think it IS conventional for cabinet members to devote six months of the year to political cam paigning the obvious intent being to se- cure the reelection of their chief. Let them work for his reelection. but their enthusi- asm must be kept within bounds. The ink had scarcely dried on the printed reports of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelts radio ad- dress of Saturday evening when the Hoover cabinet descended upon him en masse.
 We think that the day will come when the American public will demand that our public officials devote more time to their I,,<.,e I, f,rt think the day isn't far distant when the rules of political parties will have to be changed considerably. This business of nominating candidate five months before is is time to hold the election dates back 10 the same era as the lame duck sessions of Congress and the March 4 presidential in augurals. They are throwbac to the stage coach days. There is no need of five month hiatus between nomination and two months. Alfred E. Smith proposes that nominations for national offices be held in September and the elections in No- vember. That's common sense.
 We didn't imagine that Governor Roosevet's address last Saturday would be approved of by any of President Hoover's inner circle of friends. But we think they could put their time to much better advan- tage than telling the nation how funny he sounded promising to return beer to the people and expounding upon generalities. That is the particular sore spot. There was no definite point that these republican mouthpieces could seize upon for a fero- cious attack therefore. they announce proudly that Governor Roosevelt has no ideas on world or domestic questions. He has time enough to talk about specific cases and we feel sure he will. In the meantime we urge our cabinet officials to forget the coming election in the interest of their re- speetive duties Surely they must demand some time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
Leaderl Leader!

Rowling for a leader who will by some magic set all things right. has become one of the national sports In any little group of serious thinkers some one is sure to demand a Mussolini. Others do Got want a deta- tor But a leader - ah. leader - we must haveI A fine example of this frenzy is found in letter from a reader to Harpers Magazine approving an article which had appeared in that sane and con- struetive publication.
 What can we DO? What can l DO? There's no comfort in recognizing our stupidities, follies and stopping there. All this misery of unemployment. the direct result of our the worlds economic stupidities. is heart-breaking; and l, and thousands, millions of others, idle, DOING NOTHING toward the cure, paltering with palliatives.
 Isn't there leader somewhere-some- where one with flaming soul who will stir us to act? Must we wait for revolu- ton. class struggle with it's bitter seeds of hate' Can't we induce intelligent men and women of all classes to take up the struggle of these economic questions to- gether and soberly unselfishly to seek-and find - an honorable solution? Please do not stop with this statement of facts. Call for action. Call for the leader who will tell us, show us, how and where and when to act.
 The subject matter of the letter is reas- enable enough - there must be study and cooperation. It is the manner that seems little hysterieal, and the assumption that the leader with the magic powers must presto-change appear. To some Americans of the older stocks, the need is not so plain. What about trying little leadership of ones own3 The pioneer was his own leader I'll do it myself. said the little red hen, was his family motto.
 Placidly folding the hands and waiting for leader to work everything out is almost as futile as wringing the hands and wailng about past glories. Setting the hands to the first humble task is much more likely to get results. It's so much easier to look for leader than to face ones own past errors and begin to right them. If all the people who can do something, however little, to right their own affairs will do so. the for ward movement so engendered will sweep along to better days those caught helpless.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
"ALp ON CAMPAIGNING
lNew York Timesl


 Not only because campaign funds are low this year will there not be, so far as the democratic party is concerned. ''the usual waste and lost notion" In the opinion of Alfred Smith, writing reminiscently on such matters in The Saturday Evening Post, the ''businesslike administration" given the national committee for the last three years by Chairman Raskob and Mir Shouse will greatly improve conditions. Unemployment, he comedies, will bring to the new chairman, Mir Farley, "all the worlds unemployables" who ap- pear mysteriously every four years. Yet they can be disposed of more easily by sound committee plan.
 Since MT Smith wrote his arr ticle the Roosevelt pre-convention organization plan has been adopt ed for the national campaign. It avoids the duplication and waste which MT Smith humorously and resignedly describes as accom- paniments of his campaign of 1928. It eliminates those regional headquarters to which he refers as geographical compliments, ' and in one of which was discov- cred in 1928 lease upon case Of "printed matter issued during the previous democratic campaign" Mir Farley and Colonel Howe. architects of the Roosevelt type of organization, will perhaps be dis posed to claim credit for getting rid of waste to their own device and not entirely to the missionary work of Messrs Raskob and Shouse. But all seem agreed that the 1882 campaign will be con- ducted with a frugality and effi- ciency suitable to the times and in contract with what has been the practice hitherto.
 None the less. there will be waste and lost motion and ballyhoo. Some of it is unavoidable. The "cara- vanS of 1928. with it's baggage car for gifts acquired on the way and ranging from clocks and fruit to dogs and donkeys," must &C., company either candidate who makes a tour. But there is one sug- gestion for the Farley committee which might save a good deal of bureau where local celebrities re- fused to speak on anything less than a nationwide radio hook-up. Mir Smith adds:
 was told afterward of many local occasions on which micro. phones were placed in front of speakers. with wires that went no- where.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
A Book a Day
Venom Spells His Review of
 Hoover Record
by BRUCE CATION

When you get too angry you can argue in such way that you defeat your own ends; and me example of this little truth Is pro yided by Robert Allen in his book' "Why Hoover Faces Defeat.
 Here is perhaps the most viru- lent book of the year.
 MT Allen believes that President Hoover is going to be defeated Tn the coming campaign. He believes thas he ought to be defeated. He has written this book to tell why.
 So far, so good. A book written on that basis might be thought. ful, instructive piece of political criticism.
 But Mr Allen gets too angry and his book will probably do the president more good than harm.
 That is to say, the ordinary reader is apt to arise from peru sal of this book with the feeling that no man can possible be all that MT Allen says President Hoover is; and he is apt to medi- tate that the president is an un- justly maligned man who deserves a vote of confidence.
 Some of the criticisms In this book seem to me to be just; but there are so many which are pal pably overdrawn that they take the edge off of the just ones. If MT Allen could have restrained himself a bit he might have pro- duced an effective campaign doc ument; as it is ,he has produced a masterpiece of inyective-but little more.
 The book is published by Brew CT, Warren and Putnam, and sells for S2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
To-day's Selected Poem
WILD SWANS

WILD SWANS F. Mildred Hickman in The Christian Science
 Monitor) A sound Like the clapping of strong hands In eSultaton: The beating Of great wings Wide, white. powerful SkImLiing upon tho face of shining waters, Each pinion snhtlng the tide With steady stroke, Breaking tho smooth. still surface Of the silver mirror With ripplcs. widening ever Until each tiny eddy strikes the shore, Bwaying with movement scarcely visible The interiaced brown parquetry or broken reed stems fyink between the tender green Of bush, and reed. and hog myrtle. And the low Grlhsy bunk. No ny ihe great swans Seeking their d0wny brood AHlohast ths ANeiilhg green 0f scattered isletf 'fwO snowy, living shapes. Wings vide, nsekH forward Nirhlnedi Beautiful. uhtlflnk. WInHinn upon stfonk pinlvns 'f0 hh unseen home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
So They Say

Feeding the hungry. supplying the partial needs of those who are in distress, meeting the minimum relief requirements by day of mil- lions of people and those depend- ent upon them offers no solution for the nations economic ills. William Green, president Ameri-
 can Federation of Labor.
 $tS
 don't believe in married people using any Thou shall nots" in their code, but I think we should be reasonable and tolerant of the others desires.
 Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam,
 transatlantic flyer.
 If the Capones can give us new thrills. send them along, but advise them to bring their body guards with them. Oklahoma children cut their teeth on forty lives and thirty -eights. Mayor Dan Kygar of Ponca City,
 Okla.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
a(IlpO|id(a| Eo|ipsg g|9]2

this year there are certain new factors which seem, to this writer at least, to render more question able any prognostications based on past performances.
 At other times grateful for pros perity or inspired by the belief that it was synonymous with republi- canism, the industrial states have been hit hardest of all by depres- sion and unemployment. Definite ly wet, they find the democratic party asserting itself to be wetter than the republican party.
 Nevertheless, Roosevelt is hot after the eastern conservatives and those eastern electoral votes.
 Bosg Hague Promises
 Politically. he gets his sworn enemy, Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey, who said he couldn't pos sibly carry that state, to promise him 100000 majority in Novem- Der and a crowd of 100000 demo- crats at Seagirt on August 27.
 He starts taking Governor Ely of Massachusetts, another die-hard anti Roosevelt man, into camp, losses flowers at John Raskob and Jouett Shouse and sends his emls- saries to conciliate Al Smith.
 And invited to Albany is an inn pressive procession of men whose names are synonymous with big business and finance-Owen ID. Young, B. M. Baruch, a railroad president or two and others. Lead CTS of farm groups come, too, but no sooner do you get through read ing abut those fellows than you hear that the post of democratic treasurer for 1932 has been offered to Melvin A. Traylor. the illustri-- : ous Chicago banker who is one of the few big bankers left for whom there is widespread respect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01

Gene Tunney has no aspirations towards a congressional seat. he claims. His purpose in politics at the present time is to help bring about needed reforms. We hope that Mir Tunney is successful in his quest. The young man who sets about doing this is too often discouraged when he finds himself surrounded not by friends anxious to shake his hand but by Awning sharpers desirous of using him to advance their own careers. We are glad to see him in Connecticut poli- tics. More younger men are needed in this state to assume the burdens of public respon- siblity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01

ation can be given the movement should be supported. That does not mean that areas now closed to hunter will be thrown open to them. It means though. that game birds should be more plentiful as the large num- bers that will undoubtedly breed on the state property will be trapped and then re- leased in sections of the state that have been hunted over SO much game and birds are scarce. Modern methods of game manage ment will be praetieed. the entire work be- ing placed on highly scientific scale. Chairman Beck of the state commission fisheries and game is bringing to his job vast amount of wisdom and an appreciation of the hunters point of view.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
Farm Population Gains

The Department of Agriculture reports that last year 252, 900 more city folks moved to the country than country folks to cities. It is described as the largest and most sig nificant" increase in the ten years that pop ulaton changes have been estimated In the first seven years of the decade the trend was the other way, with the rural popu- lation slowly but steadily diminishing This farm-ward movement must have been ae- tolerated during the current year, when 1t became an organized movement in many places.
 Some of the changes back to the farm will be permanent Even in normal and prosperous times, people are likely to enjoy living where they can have space around them Families who went to the suburbs few years ago show signs of wanting to move farther out as their suburbs build up. and as transportation becomes increasingly easy.
 Some of the cty-to-farm trend, of course. is temporary It represents the effort of men and women who ordinarily get along we'll in town, but who have suffered from the depression. to hold on to their inde- pendence. Unless they are unusually success fu in their agricultural ventures they will go back to town when there are jobs for them again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-01
HOOVER, ROOSEVELT JUST
 SHADOW-BOXING NOW, BUT FUR WILL FLY LATER
By RODNEY BUTCHER NEA Seryice Writer

NEA Service Writer
 Washington.-This part of the political season, on the surface, is always devoted to boxing and getting into position for the campaign.
 The campaign cannot be consid- cred officially opened until Presi- dent Hoover is notified of his re- nomination and delivers his speech of acceptance on August II. It can hardly be regarded as actually be- gun until Governor Roosevelt has made his first campaign speech in New Jersey on the 27th. And it won't really be warmed up until around the middle of September when the fur begins to fly. Lay Groundwork Now
 The candidates meanwhile make a few vague passes at each other such as Roosevelt and Hoover ex- changed in their telegrams about the St Lawrence power projects, but the important preliminaries now in progress consist not of such minor public exhibitions but of the intensive efforts of the party man. agements to lay solid groundwork for themselves and grease the skids for the other fellows.
 Right now there's tremendous effort to attract the support of the business men and the politicians of the east. It is especially deter mined on the part of the Roosevelt leaders because they were led to believe, after the Chicago conven- tion, that Roosevelt's big peril was the enmity of the conservative element which dominates politics, industry and finance in the states which have the largest electoral votes.
 Hoover, throughout his adminis- traitor, has seen eye to eye With that element and up to this time has lost no opportunity to stress his conservatism.
 "PrOgressiye" Roosevelt
 Roosevelt, on the other hand. what with his. almost complete re- liance on the west and south for delegates to nominate him, the pro- sressive character of some of his support and his own mild asser- tions of progressivism. has estab. lished himself-relatively, at least -as the progressive candidate.
 Many of the smarter political writers consequently have rushed right out to assert that it looked as if Roosevelt were licked in the east.
 
 New Factors
 But when you consider the east