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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
The Renaissance
 In Human Terms

In "The Man of the Renais- sance," Ralph Roeder makes bril- liant atetmpt to interpret that great age for us in human terms.
 TO depict the turbulence, the splendor, the crimes, and the mag nificence of the Renaissance he de- scribes four men-Savonarola, Ma chiavelli, Castiglione and Aretino. By examining their lives, he seeks to show wherein the period was great and wherein it fell short. The result is book which well may become @ classic.
 Savonarola, he points out, sought to meet the problems of the new age with an unyielding, moralistic theology. Machiavelli tried to rely solely on human intelligence. put ting ethics in the discard.
 Castiglione was the courtier par excellence. the man who relied on manners, on culture, on an unfail- ing urbanity. And Aretino was the natural man--untrammeled. lusty. immoral and irrepressible.
 None of the four had the whole answer. The Renaissance fostered a tremendous development of the arts in Italy and left mankind priceless possessions; but it also resulted disastrously for Italy in social and political fields, because, as Mrs Roeder says, the very forces which produced great artistic achievements fmpelled men to make a botch of human relation ships.
 This book is a penetrating study of the action of those forces and of the way in which they operated dark flashes like the gleam of ru- bies on black velvet. To read 1t is to get @ new understanding of the great Renaissance era.
 It is published by Viking for $3.50, and is the December choice of the Book Month Club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

o. What is the Caterpillar club? !?
 A. A mythical organization hav- ing no headquarters, officers or dues. Anyone who has saved his life by a parachute jump automa- tically becomes a member.
 o. How is the name Yolanda pro- nounced?
 A. To lan' dah.
 0. What is the proper way to address 2 woman chairman of a meeting?
 A. Madam Chairman.
 o. Where was the movie "The Private Life of Henry VIII" pro- duced?
 A. In England, by the London Films Productions, Ltd.
 Q. Where is the University of
 A. At orono. Me.
 Q. Is Harpo Marx actually deaf and dumb?
 A. He only appears that way on the stage and screen to make comedy.
 o. Are persons with first citi- zenship papers allowed to vote in the United States?
 A. Tn practically all states only actual American citizens are al- lowed to vote. Persons who have only their first papers are not citizens.
 o. Does Austria use the metric system of weights and measures?
 A. Yes.
 Q. Who is the Lonesome Cow boy" on the Death Valley Days Radio program?
 A. John White.
 Q. How tall is Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt?
 A. Five feet. eleven inches.
 Q. Name the yice-president of the Halted States in the adminis- tration of Rutherford B. Hayes.
 A. William A. Wheeler.
 Q. When did President Roose- welt approve the National Indus- trial Recovery Act?
 A. June 16. 1888.
 o. Give the largest score ever made at a college football game.
 A. According to available rec ords the largest score was 222 to o when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University. Lebanon. Tenn, in 1918.
 o. Did guy women accompany the Admiral Byrd Polar expedi- tion?
 4. No.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

Al Smith showed in a recent address that he can give compliments as well as criticize. Those who believe that he is an implacable foe of President Roosevelt and his policies must have been quite sur prised to read what he had to say In discussing prohibition repeal Smith claimed that to the President must go the credit for putting it across. This from the man who has been acknowledged as the outstanding wet leader in the nation for many years is high praise indeed. But it only goes to prove that Smith after all is no different from most of us. We have our likes and our dislikes, but for the most part we are willing to give credit where credit is due. We still think that Smith will fight the Roosevelt adminis- tration on the monetary question. We don't agree with the former democratic standard bearer here, but we admit his right to his opinion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
So They Say

I don't put any more faith in some bankers than do in dentists. Both use gold and neither knows much about it. Frank A. Vander1ip, dnancier.
 
 I never really liked the theater.
 Maxine Elliott.
 . One reason I admire my stomach so much is because 1t has never failed to talk back if abused 1t.
 Daniel Frohman.
  Human nature has many sides which cannot be. touched by money or by the lack of it.
 John Erksines novelist.
  A lot of people come into court believing they want separation. when what they want is to be shown the way to bear and foTbear. Joseph sabath, famous Chicago divorce pudge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
Berlin Letter
By EDWARD BEATTIE J1nitnd ISress Sfaff COrreSDOndent)

9tfAt1 SSAA~oEO@ANSsASI
 Berlin (UP)-Tons of coal and foodstuffs, bales of clothing. ana cash donations ranging from mill lion marks to pfennigs, daily swell the tide of Germany's winter relief campaign. :,
 In the manner typical of the Nazi genius for mass action, every pos- sible source of relief materials and funds has been organized, can- vassed and re-canvassed and aligned in reich-wide drive greater beyond comparison than anything heretofore attempted.
 As in others of the multitude of contribution appeals for projects in present day Germany, employees in many official departments or factories for instance, are in- formed that they are expected to contribute. The theory is that he who does not give is lacking in loyalty to the Fatherland. to his fellow man, to the party.
 Real Enthusiasm
 In some cases they are even in- formed what amount they are ex- pected to contribute. But there is at the same time the element of real enthusiasm which marks all Nazi enterprises.
 Shopkeepers donate stocks from their shelves. Housekeepers agree to feed unemployed so many times a month, or to make a weekly contribution of flour, sugar or sausage. Stores display boxes where the customer may drop part of his change.
 Side by side in the days dona- tion list appear names such as the I. G. Farben, giant chemical com bine, with it's 100000 marks and Walter Schmidt, of Berlin's North Side, who saved three marks from small weekly pay envelope. Individual Gifts
 The list reveals an astounding variety of individual gifts; the following items represent only a small part of one days grist: 1000 packages cocoa, from a 20 hundredweight sauerkraut. from a manufacturers; 1000 marks worth bacon and lard, from a provisioner; 1 slaughtered lamb per month, from a butcher.
 400 pounds of pork. from a farmer:
 IA pounds of pork. from a farmer;
 IA women's coats, from 8 small shop;
 20 tons coal, from a dealer; 1000 loaves army bread, from a baker;
 100 pounds sugar. 100 pounds rice, 50 pounds barley and nine pairs of stockings. from a house. wife;
 dinner day. from the pastor of small church;
 1 farm wagon, Of fruit and vege- tables, from a garden colony:
 647.e4 marks. from a Maxi "in- dustrial cell";
 50 meals, from a housewife;
 3O,O00 liters milk, from a dairy;
 20 sun-lamp baths for sick chill dren. from Q doctor.
 Musicians to aid in house-to- house clothing collections. from the police direction:
 zoo pair nverwurst sausages, Ifrom eight delieatessens; So heircuts. from barber.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

Magistrate Benjamin Greenspan of New York city is evidently believer in transmigration of souls. In trying case in his court recently he warned two ped dlers to treat their horses better because two hundred years from now they might be inhabiting this terrestrial globe as horses themselves. "I'm firm believer in reincarnation," said the judge. ''Two hundred years from now we will be walk ing the earth in the shapes of animals. If you treat those horses mean, you yourself will return as horses. :" Who's going to fix that up, oh learned judge?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
Know Your Waterbury Its History, Facts and General Information
BRASS CITY FACTS

In the 1820's and early 1830's an itinerant priest visited Waterbury. His name was Father Finton and he came over from Hartford but in 1892 when Rev James McDer- mot was made pastor of New Hav- en and neighboring towns Father Finton stopped his visits, which was in the year 1882. Father Me- Dermot was presented with a horse and saddle by the Catholic faithful of Waterbury so that his visits would be more frequent.
 The first burying grounds in Waterbury were on the site now occupied by the Bronson library.
 The Naugatuck Valley Barge Canal plan dates back to December 21, 1761, when Abraham Hickox and Stephen Upson, Jr., petitioned the town for men to work at clearing the river to make it navi- gable as far south as Derby.
 Bucks Hill in the northern sec- ton of Waterbury is one of the hills that dates back to the towns earliest history and which has al- ways had the same name, and is thought to have possibly received its name from the Buck family who were connected with the early his- tory. The earliest grant on this hill was in 1899 to Israel Richard son before 1700.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
Selected Poem
LITTLE WORDS

LITTLE WORDS (By Elspeth Honeyman Clarke in
 The New oYrk Times.) Little words that run and skip Gayly, when I crack my whip, Run and hide behind a tree, Slyly peeping out at me. Though my door is open wide, Never do they come inside. If I listen, I might hear One of them come stealing near, I will put my whip away, Call them in another day. Round some corner of my brain They come dancing back again!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

John A. Markham, democratic minor- ity leader in the 1888 Legislature, dis cussed the possibility of the General As- sembly shifting the tax burden recently in Hartford. He expressed the same opin- ion as have many of us that real estate must not bear the burden of taxes any longer if property values are to be kept consistent with other ones. However, MT Markham showed by his remarks that to secure passage of any legislation along these lines the proper approach must be considered. In other words there must be an effort made to secure majority of votes in the House. And this only can be done by winning the support of the rural members as they constitute a majority, constantly outvoting the representatives of the major proportion of the state as represented by the cities. Taxes on real estate are as old as civilization. Property was once the only visible means of secur- ing revenue for state or town. Today there are many other ways of supporting government than by levying assessments on property. But we fail to change our anticipated systems and as result the small property owner suffers. Some day there'll be startling tax revolt with dire results.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
Questions And Answers
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
DEEPER DAMS DEMANDED

The Dalles, ore, (uP)--All the Inland Empire, eastern oregon and Washington and Idaho. is uniting in a demand for adequate locks at the Bonneville Dam, on the Coluna- bia river. Tentative plans call for locks 15 feet deep, which would ordinary river steam CTS. Construction of the dam, how ever, will result in slae,: water of sufficient depth for ocean-going steamers to come up the Columbia as far as The Dalles if locks are adequate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

The New Haven road has started serving liquors on it's dining cars. The trains are stocked at the Boston commits sary, but will be served only in Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, and New York, since Connecticut law forbids sale of mixed drinks at tables or bars. There surely is going to be massed a tremend- ous weight of opinion against this feature of our liquor control act if it ever comes up at a special session.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
THE EDITOR.

c. What is lignum vitae?
 A. A very hard tough wood im- ported from the West Indies. It is used for policemen's nightstidks, ships propellers, and other ar ticles that require an extremely tough wood.
 If you want copy of our bul- letin on Pendants, Fudges 6 Bon- bOns, write to the Waterbury Dem- Ocrat's, Washington Bureau, en- closing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
Production Problem

Most of our energies today are devoted to the immediate problems of recovery. To start the wheels turning again, to put idle men to work, to set money flowing through its old channels - these make up a colossal job. Until it is accomplished, no one has time to think of much else. But it is worth remembering that back of it there lies still another problem; one which took shape before the depression began, and which will be around to plague us long after the depression is over.
 It is simply the fact that this efficient and mechaniZed age continually is find ing ways of using fewer men to make and do more things. Pathological unem- ployment" is the lengthy name that has been given this development. Ten men can do job today that would have taken 30 men decade ago. Tomorrow the job probably will be done by five men. That's all there is to it.
 But if the problem is stated easily, 1t can be extraordinarily puzzling. Every modern business operates under the ne- cessity of being as efficient as possible. It has to do what it does in the quickest pos sible manner at the least possible expense. If it can find machine to do the work that formerly was done by dozen men, it has to install it. If it can arrange it's operations so that one man can do what two used to do, it must do so.
 Temporarily, as a means of reducing unemployment, we have made certain ar bitrary moves to halt this process. The federal railway co-ordinator, for instance, has reframed from instituting various consultations in our railway set-up, be- cause to do so would throw men out of work. For the time being, we probably can continue to swim against the tide in this manner.
 But this simply is lodging the problem. Eventually, when full prosperity has re- turned, we shall be forced to find solu- tion. The task won't be easy. On the one hand, we aim to make it possible for every man who wants job to find one. On the other, the very nature of our pro- ductive machinery tends to whittle down the total number of jobs. The biggest single puzzle of the modern age is apt to be the task of harmonizing those opposing trends: Compared to that task, the job of getting out of the present depression is apt to look almost easy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

Wagner, at Odds h Johnson, May Quit Labor BOurd Chairman; Senator Bamed for Procrastimation m Ford and Weirton Strikes; Progressves Want Him to Concen- trute on Neso Social Legisution Loring Blacs Biting Comment om Sponsors of Tugosn Food Biu
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

"What America needs," says British newspaper mAn, " is more. confidence ? And fewer confidence men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

Who says the young fellows have no chance nowadays? They have grand chance to get us out of the mess the old fellows have got us into.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

Two hundred ssventy-two of Iowa's rural schools have .'hun- dred per cent" ratings for dental corrections.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21

All vehicles must be lighted not later than A:67 o'clock tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
DAILYWASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
: By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN 4

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-26
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
LIQUORS MISERY WAGES

Part of the wet education" of those Americans
who are going to the polls to vote for prohiOl-
ton repeal has been accomplished through bring
back-liquor- to bring back-jobs propaganda Inc
pressing need OF jobs-any kind of jobs-has per-
haps diverted attention from the question as to
what sort of wages the liquor industry might be
expected to offer.
Only memories that are either short conver-
lent attempt to picture the good old days" of the
swinging doors in all-rose tones Others recall that
working conditions in the liquor business were not
always ideal, and that the wages usually paid oy
that proft-producing enterprise hardly bloat-
ed the purchasing power of its workers.
And their recolections receive confirmation in q
report on some of the jobs which may have been
made possible by the advent of 80 per cent beer
This report which appears in the current issue
of Machinists Monthly Journal, mentions that the
beer brewing industry, including firms making
brewery machinery and equipment, Is requiring
great deal of attention" 1t names plants that have
greatly reduced wage rates and "are among, those
paying the lowest wages in the machinery building
industry of Cleveland" The reporter of these con
ditionS continues:
81 have interviewed machine tool operators on
production work . and advised that the piece
work system in effect in this plant enables then
to earn but 81 in 12-hOur shift. Such are the
misery wages paid by firms which are benefting
from the opening of the beer brewing industry, and
with it are opposing relationship with organized
labor"
Thus at this early date indications of the manner
in which liquor may be expected to play its much
balyhooed economic role in society in clear
sight. 1t becomes evident that this industry IS not
likely to be an economic asset. For it is all too
plain that "msery wage" jobs constitute quite as
great menace to economic well-being as does the
lack of jobs. Such employment affects not only the
worker who accepts it, but tends to undermine the
wage standard of all classes of workers.
Those who have expected to see a return of
employment, even of prosperity on a wave Of
liquor, may well pause to consider whether they
can aid the establishment of high-wage economy
by voting back what now promises to be a low
wage industry-Chrstian Science Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-26
THE MOUNTAINS BECKON

Few cities delightfully."- located than
Spartanburg. 1t is within less than hours drive
of many resorts at the foot of the Blue Ridge noun
tains and those who want to climb to higher alti-
tudes can find delightful accommodations high up
in the mountains by motoring one, two or three
hours.
The call of the mountains is heard as the heat of
summer is felt Hotels, inns and camps beckon the
residents of cities. Accommodations are offered
families and individuals up where the ozone fills
the air and the trees nod a welcome
The business man in Spartanburg can easily To-
cate his family where he may motor up to spend
each night in the cool of the mountains If he pre-
fers to go farther he may find a resort which few
years ago was not available but now, thanks to
good roads, may be reached after a drive of not
more than two hours. search of the mountains
will reveal dozens of beautiful resorts which are
nearer, in time, than were the country homes and
springs of former days. Then 10 miles was jour
ney now SO or 60 miles into the mountains is
merely jaunt-Spartanburg Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-26
OUR CRIME RECORD

While Stanly county has not been seeking laurels
in the matter of reducing crime, law-abidng cti-
zens were gratifed with the announcement this
week that Stanly stands at the head of the list with
the smallest percentage of crime of any county in
the state. The figures are based the number of
criminal cases tried in the courts which should be
a reliable index. Only one criminal for every
$50 inhabitants was reported for the past two
years, which is certainly record of good behavior.
The editor of the University News Letter in COM
menting on the wide difference in the records Of
Stanly and many of the other counties stated frank
ly that he could not give the reason. However, we
believe that the biggest lies in the fact that
most Stanly county folks work, and folks who work
have little time to get into trouble. In reading of
crime one finds that the idle man or woman is
usually the one who starts the trouble. Only in
rare instances do we find that person who has a
job in trouble.
There are a good many folks in Stanly county
who do not have jobs, and a large part of them do
not want jobs. On the other hand we have a
good many folks who have lost jobs because of the
fact that their employers did not need them, but
they have not been content to remain idle. They
have started doing some kind of work.
Where you find folks who are so industrious that
they are willing to do any kind of work, you will
find community which is usually free from crime.
-Stanly News and Press.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-26

WEE DunCy's footing rang out
w clear and shortly Scouty SAID
Il fear that you are wasting time
lad. That old flutes no good at
all.
I'm bet the Imp just talked IN
finn when he said twas a magic
one It's brought no help we
nre the only ones who've heard
"Don't be impatient" Quincy
said Just give he time. Ill go
ohead and blow few more notes
and then somebody else can try.
~ still gel that the imp was
right. He wouldn't fool a my
mite. Why, say, at any moment
he may drop out of the SKY
TINE Imp. however, Didn't come
L and W!nuy said, we must try
some new way to rescue Dotty
There's no sense in standing here
"Perhaps the tree that holds
her tight will Iop right down &c
sleep tonight. Thee 1 might gran
ouJ littIr: friend, by sneaking right
up near" ;,
Now, there's a thought that Is
worth WHILE" said tiny Goldy
with a smile. But, gee, 1t Is d
shame to have to wait until It's
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-26
NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of the
power Of sale contained in Deed
of Trust executed by G. L. An
ders. ct al, Trustees, to the under
signed, dated December 10, 1927,
recorded in Book 90, page "a of
the Trust Deed Records of Hen
derson County. North Carolina, |
will on the 9th day of July,
1888, at II o'clock noon at the
Courthouse door in Henderson
County, North Carolina, in the
City of Hendersonville, offer for
sale at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash, all the fol-
lowing described land, to-wit:
Lying and being in Henderson,
vile Township, Henderson Coun.
ty. North Carolina. BEGINNING
on a stake on the Shaw's Greek
Road on the South margin of sell