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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Corn vs Gasoline Men vs Farmers
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
cotton in favor of corn.

cotton in favor of corn.
 A Better Fuel?
 Taking up the much disputed technical aspect of the blend plan, the department finds that most gasoline engines can handle 10 per cent blend without much change in mileage, with anti knock properties increased.
 Although the report doesn't en- dorse the plan, it does admit. in less ecstatic language. the con tention that building of alcohol plants to produce perhaps as much would stimulate employment, rail- road revenues. coal mines opera tions and collateral lines.
 Proponents of the blend bills say that from 2,000, 0,0O0,000 to 2,5O0,0O0, bushels of corn are fed or marketed each year and that a 2-cent price increase would add $400,000,000 or $500,00O,0OO to the corn farmers income with out counting other benefits.
 The powerful opposition forces. which probably will defeat the proposal in the end, argue that it is only disguised, highly expen- sive method of burning corn, that aside rom it's effect on general farm prices the farmer will receive little net return from the corn thus consumed and that the blended fuel would give motorists a lot of trouble.
 The American Automobile Asso- citation, after road tests. says 10- per cent blend would be less eff cient by 6.5 per cent (thus contra dieting claims of an increased effi- ciency) and, while admitting it's anti-knock properties, says the best gasolines already feature that adyantage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
A Fight For Her Career

Tn Helene" Vicki Baum gives us a novel which might almost be called German version or Ann Vickers."
 Helene" that is to say, like Sinclair Lewis latest book, treats of the trials and tribulations of the m odern woman-the woman who makes her own career and fignts
 her own fight in a way possible only in the twentieth century. Its heroine is a young woman who studies advanced chemistry in a German university. She is going to he scientist and nothing IS to interfere with that design; put she is no more successful than was Ann Vickers in keeping love from tripping her up. In fact, the love affair in which Helene gets involved is catas- trophic affair that would end everything for the ordinary. per son. The young medical student with whom she is in love commits suicide. Helene is held in jail for several weeks while the inquiry into his death goes forward, then she is dismissed from the un1- yersity-and, little later, she has a baby.
 Penniless and alone, she has to support herself and her child, complete her education and then find a niche in her chosen pro- fession. She succeeds, too, all which she surnlpunts all Of these though the courageous way III handicaps seems little too good to be true; and the story or her adventures, If I am not mistaken, is going to be one of the spring 5 best sellers.
 Published by Doubleday. Doran & co. Helene" sells for se.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Infectious or Contagious

Please explain the difference between an in- fections disease and contagious disease. Mrs w. B.)
 Answer-Any disease caused by invasion of the body by germs (infectionN is an infectious disease only diseases acquired by actual con- tact are called contagous-such as the itch tscabies), ringworm, erysipelas, scarlet fever, smallpox Some contagious diseases may be contracted also through indirect means for instance scarlet fever through contaminated milk or through mouth spray infection (con- versatioEal spray.)
 Fraudulent Marriage
 | have an adopted daughter who is engaged to marry. She does not know it, but her grand mother, an uncle and cousin on her mothers side all were insane. She herself is apparently normal, though 1t was hard for her to learn in school The man she Is to marry has q bro. thcr who is mentally deficient tMrs NJ. J. G.l
 Answer-I believe it would be fraudulent marriage if the prospective husband is not in formed about the insanity in the family. Off spring of snch union would be quite likely to be defective. For the best interest of all concerned you shsuld apprise the man of the facts and have the advice of a physician or physicians who know both families.
 scopyrisht 1885, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

Page Professor Levittl He should, be interested in the announcement that the Public Utilities Commission has just or dered the Northern Connecticut Power Con- pany to revise it's electric lighting rates. The revision, it is estimated, will save six towns in the northern part of the state $35.0O0 on their annual electric bills. And S35,0O0 in these days isn't to be sneezed at There s many town would like. to see it's electri: light bill shaved in the same manner It's what Professor Levitt says should be done in most towns where area rates and fixed charges are levied. It always struck us. though, that electric rates were; as low as anything.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
RELATED ADMONITION
Hartford Times)


 We should think it unlikely that the governor will fall in with Com missioner BecE's suggestion ana ask the legislature to repeal the act which provides for cutting the sal aries of state employees. The amount involved would be about $1,O00,000 a year.
 It is late in the day to bring up a plan which would call for re- drafting the budget bill almost upon the eve of adjournment. The cutting, of sals'.e has been general in private employment. It has been practically un've-sal in municipal ities. These municipalities are beg ging for state and national aid. Their indebtedness is great. The people are complaining justly enough about the hardship of tax payments. The call of the time is for economy in every possible stateN direction. If a million dollars can be saved tn oGgh reasonable salary reduction and the legisla- ture already has voted it and the budget has been prepared with ref ence to 1t, tha public should not rally to the Beck thought that 1t IS time to call eff economy because of the high cost of living.
 To be sure, the president or the United States urges increase Of wages to keep pace with the rising prices of commodities. When con- ditions are such that 1928 salary and wage levels in Connecticut pri- vate employment are once more in vogue, it will be time enough to abandon the notion of pay reduc- tions in public employment.
 There is one thing which can he said, however. with regard to MT Beck's protest if the salaries are cut the highway approprition should be cut in the budget allow ance. And 1t may be added that Governor Cross would have been only too glad to have endeavored to find savings in other directions had the legislature needed his re- quest and authorized him to under take 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
A BLESSING
 FOR GRANDFATHERS

Candidly don't know whether tms gen, teman is eligible for feloWsn,p n nn 'a apout his ape as a spinster of the nineties. and so ial as his letterhead and his signature lndlcate ne fa shion. l. M. Nott-you have two guesses whether it means Ike or lnez. but naS M e; eo a all right. Times are hard all over-our irienu . wanted to save bit in the printing anu oos' of Ink.
 "Knowing you are interested in the ad-
 vancement of surgery, I take the liberty
 of stating my case to you, for through you
 it may prevent others rom ehourihs 'h'
 misery 1 went through.
 .Mv case was prostatic obstruction
 was operated on (the old way) in Decem-
 ber 1881. In hospital seven weeks sui
 fering great pain, also one month in bed at
 home. For a year afterward the abdom-
 inal wound drained.
 Through your column learned of the
 new method and I consulted Dr --
 whom you recommended as skillful Tn
 transurethral electro-surgery He oper.
 ated on me December IF, 1882. l spent
 only three days in hospital and had no
 pain or trouble whatsoever. The normal
 passage was restored in few days. ana
 now 1 am happy. Have been benefited by your Iodin Ra-
 ton and Belly Breathing, too. May your
 good work go on'
 Even if we attempted offer detailed eX- planation of the subject few laymen could un- derstand it. Suffice to say that gradual oe' yelopment of obstruction of the blaoder III el- derly men is usually due to hypertrophy or enlargement of the prostate, and If the condi. tion is permitted to drift along for months or years physical health is steadily impaired ana then mental vigor declines-the man. wno mas perhaps been the ruler of his domain and made all decisions becomes capricious and lrresoiute He is tough customer to convince. 50 ne drifts along.
 This new departure. whereby the skilled uro. logical surgeon can deal successfully with a considerable number, though not all cases ol prostatic obstruction, is a special dspensatlon for grandfathers, I see it, because 1t Is SC much less formidable an ordeal to face that Il should and does encourage many victims te submit to operation before general health mas been too gravely impaired. In this method the portion of the enlarged prostate that com presses and obstructs the outlet of the bladder is removed through the natural channel. by means of the special cystoscope. and thus there is no external wound. The tissue. is cut. not with 6 knife but with fine electric spark which sears the surface it cuts and so pre- vents bleeding.
 Probably this new method is not destined to supersede ordinary surgical prostatectomy to the extent that the diathermy method has SUD- crseded surgical tonsillectomy. Yet unques- tionably it is a blessing for grandfathers and it serves as a happy alternative in cases where the ordinary operation is too great risk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

It doesn't pay to pry too closely into the personal habits of the Queen of England
 A recent issue of Cosmopolitan has been banned in that country simply because II carried an article, purported to be written by former dresser to Queen Mary of England
 Her name is Hilda Grenier In the course of her article dealing with the character ot the Queen as woman rather than royal parsonage there was the question, But why does she wear those frightful hats? The writer claims that the reason is that the King wants her to and refers to His Majesty as the boss We'll, this may be topic for the supper table but hardly one that need call for magazine article. How ever, royal families should be accustomed by this time to the unsuitable curiosity of the masses. There is this difference. though
 England looks out for her royalty and per- mits nobody to do or say anything that might be regarded as disrespeeful or derog
 atory. Of course. the ban on the sale of the magazine in England won't hurt Cosmo- politan. It may add to it's sale in other countries. So both sides derive some satis-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

Believe 1t or not the Connecticut Society of the Colonial Danes of America have thei. own tap-room. It's in the Marlborough Tavern just restored to its l760 condition and now open for business with three point-two'' being offered for sale. I'll he building is perhaps the oldest in the town and was once the town hall and even served as a temporary prison. More tap rooms are needed to restore this nation to simpler tastes and habits
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Dope Control

Americans, fusslng over alcohol, have been paying little attention to dope, which IS possibly worse evil. For many years the use and devastating effects of narcotic drugs have been growing. At last they come under control. This control, which has to be on world scale. will be exercised by the League of Nations
 Beginning July l3. board of eight members at Geneva will dictate manufacture and distribution of the world supply of opium, morphine and related drugs. The convention granting this power has been signed by 26 nations, one of the first being the United States. Thus the world does move forward, despite many evidences to the contrary. Whatever critics may think of the League of Nations as political power, it is obviously well suited to such international services as this.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
MEMORIAL
(New York Sun)

State legislatures have faculty for sending absurd memorials 70 congress, probably on the theory that they will do no harm Tn so Tar as congress pays no attention 10 them and that they may do some good in so far as they satisfy the desire for expression of even a minority of constituents. The Wis consin Legislature has never been
 laggard about advising the na- tional Legislature: its productive ness is high and its fertility of imagination great. The memorial printed in the congressional Rec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
WORN OUT AUTOMOBILES
(Hartford Courant)

The American, Automobile asso- citation has discovered that of the 24,0O0.00O motor vehicles regis tered in the United States fully B. 000,000 have seen more than seven years of service.s This is supposed to be the life of the average car. although 1t is the number of miles actually run and the care gtven,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Way Found no lend Thicyery

Vernon, Tex (UP)-Texas Rang CTS ordered to stop cattle thefts have foud a new way to end the thie.ery. Courts of inquiry have been held in butcher shops in this area to determine the sourse of meat offered for sale. Charges have been filed against 10 butchers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Personal Health SerUice (By William Brady, NJ. D.

Signed letters pertaining to persona' heaIti, and hygiene. not disease diaKnosis o' treatment, will be answered by OF braus. Address hinl. care or the Democrat. seno'"s stamp md addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

We used to have gold cure fo inebriety, but the cure now tor finaneia D. T.'s is going off gold.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

Somehow these young fellows going to work in the woods for Uncle Sam. at dollar day and keep, don't seem sorry for themselves at all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

faction - England in prohibiting the pub lication and the publication in securing good advertising.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

starts. there will soon be plenty of other applicants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

All vehicles must be lighted not later thar S:33. daylight saving time, tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
In .Ne1O York
By JULLA BLANsHARD


 New York.-"Tablecloth notes from the farewell dinner to Ma dame Minister Ruth Bryan Owen:
 Anne Morgan was the only one at the table of honor on the dais. who in any way acknowledged the Depression. She wore the same blue evening dress that she wore last November for Amelia Ear hart's banquet. :. George Palmer Putnam turns out to be man with a fine sense of humor, a man who can retain it even at the foot of the table, husband that he is to Amelia Earhart!..
 Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt arr rived late. Woman-like, she had been trying on summer dresses. Mrs Owens 12-year-old daughter. Helen. came in after dinner and pulled her chair up between her mother and Mrs Roosevelt. Mrs Roosevelt is the kind of woman all children feel free to pull up a chair next to-She always makes them welcome ... Ruth Bryan Owen has more than little of her father, the late William Jennings Bryan, in her. Her voice has that same undercur- rent of sentimentality that almost draws tears. And like her father before her, she always saves the day with a humorous story just when everybody's reaching for handkerchief.
 Grover WhaIen was, present, with the red gardenia he reserves for state occasions. ..,. There. too. were suave Samuel Untermeyer; debonair Daniel Frohman witt, a
 fair dinner companion; pompoGs Bernarr MacFadden; Irwin Cohb | who got weary and nodded; alert
 George Creel; dignified Will Hays,
 Toothsome Dainties
 Diamonds in yourt teeth sound
 not only like fiction, but like boast
 ing, these days. Yet New York has two Sparkling" smiles! l Mrs L. l., Dahlberg, German | American actress of the old school, has a one-half carat blue-white diamond set in the center of the She inherited it, right. from the
 mouth of her mother, a German acrobat whose first husband had ! given it to her and had it set in
 her tooth when she was 19. Mrs
 Dahlberg has willed it to her daughter. But she is afraid that the daughter may not wear 1t in her mouth.
 | Bernard RadziewicZ, person. able New York taxi driver, goes Mrs Dahlberg one better. He has two diamonds in his teeth, rather large diamond in the fourth upper tooth from the front, set down deep into the gold surface. and smaller one in the second upper tooth from the left, also a gold l tooth.
 "It's a sad story" Bernard tells customers who catch his scintillat- ing smile. "I used to be a boot
 legger out in the middle west. Had
 a swell car, lots of money and
 grand girl. One day when she went to the dentists with me, my girl had a ring on with these two l diamonds in it. She thought a lot of me. so she asked the dentist if he could put them in my teeth He did.
 q turned honest. I lost my car and I lost my girl. I'm hardly l making a living. But l still nave
 my diamonds.'
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

ord of May is an excellent eH- ample.
 This memorial urges congress to enact a law under the provisions of which cities. counties and states shall be permitted to deposit their honds with the United States Treasury and receive currency in exchange therefor. Extension or this privilege to states and lesser political subdivisions would "tend to wipe out for all time the curse of the interest burden of the pup lie debts'' of such depositors, the memorial argues. Taxpayers who have observed the rise of her cap ita cost of government, municipal state and federal, may wonder whether this is curse that should be wiped out.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-12
Says Court Can Rule
On Montana Troubles

Helena. Mont. Dec. l2.-tP)-The
courts alone can determine what leg
islation by the special Montana Relief
session was germane to Gov. Cooney's
call. Speaker Dellow ruled in the
house Of representatives Monday.
Thus deciding the speaker declined
to consider point of order asked by
Rep. White of Judith Basin county on
a measure introduced by Rep. Phil
Goodwin of Butte. which would apply
q stamp tax on all liquor sales in the
state.
1T is not within the province of
the speaker, the house nor the sem
ate to determine what comes within
the scope Of the governors relief
call" said Speaker Dellow. Such q
question Is for the courts to decide.
The legislative body may make such
disposal Of any bill introduced as it
sees tit. If such bill or bills should
pass and be approved by the governor.
it would be for the supreme court Of
the state to determine whether the
same was within the scope Of the
governors message"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-12
Morton Boys Held on
Robbery Accusation

Mandan. N. D.. Dec. 12.-tP)-Ken-
meth Walker and his 16-year -old
brother, Frank. waived preliminary
hearing and were bound over to dis
trict court when arraigned before q
justice Of the peace here on charges
OF robbing Glen Ullin store last Fri
day.
Authorities said the youths con-
fessed to robbing the store Of I'll. The
youths claim they used pipe in the
robbery. L. H. Wilson, proprietor.
and several customers In the store at
the time Of the robbery. told police the
boys carried a gun.
The two boys fled from Glen Ullin
In q rented automobile which was
abandoned at Almont, according to
authorities. When arrested here the
two were driving truck. said by po-
lice to have been stolen from Oscar
Lein Of Almont.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-12
Expect Farm Bureau
To Support Roosevelt

Chicago. Dec. l2.-(F)-The Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation, In
annual convention here. apparently
was headed Tuesday toward 100 per
cent support Of the administration
recovery program.
No note Of opposition was heard
Monday as the 1000 delegates listened
to . message from President Roose-
welt, telling Of the progress toward
stability already achieved. and then
heard their own leader. Edward
O'Neal. sneak Of the federal farm adj
justment act In terms Of the magma
charta Of agriculture"
Tuesday the delegates gathered to
hear first hand accounts Of what Is
being done to aid the farmer from
two Of the department Of agriculture's
principal executives. Secretary Wal
lace and George N. Peek, head Of q
committee to explore the possibilities
Of large scale promotion Of export
trade. Until Monday Peek was agri-
cultural adjustment administrator.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-12
Low PERATURES,
snow, ice CONTINUE
TO GRIP Big AREA
Moderation Forecast for Middle
West But East Will Keep
on Shivering
nv The Associated Pressl

Below normal temperatures, snow.
ice and freezing winds. combined
Tuesday to prolong winters premat-
ure grip on much Of the nation.
While moderation was forecast for
some parts Of the middlewest. the
East, already hard hit by frigid tenn
peratures and snow, was due to keep
on shivering. The weatherman pre-
dieting that 1t would be generally
colder in that area.
Several deaths directly attributed
to the cold snap have already been
reported in the east, where the mer-
curry sank as low as "a below zero
Monday. That was at Owls Head,
New York.
Milwaukee reported that zero tenn
peratures Monday resulted In frost
bites to IS G. w. A. employees. who
were treated at hospitals. It was the
coolest Dec. IL Milwaukee had ex-
perienced since 1876.
Nine dead In floods in the Pacific
northwest. four in train and auto
mobile collision at Bellefonte, Pa,
during snow storm. and three burn
ed to death at Hampden, Me-, while
blizzard was raging, helped to swell
the total Of fatalities directly or in
directly attributed to the elements.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-12
Negro Attorney Will
Attack Jury System

Leesburg, Va. Dec. l2.-tP,-Coun-
sci for George Crawford prepared to
contest the Negro defendants trial
before q white jury Tuesday on an in
dictment charging him with killing
Mrs. Agnes Boeing 1llsley. sports
woman. at her Middleburg. Va, home
on Jan. Is, 1882.
The challenge to the 1O4 white
veniremen summoned for jury service
IS to be made by Charles H. Houston.
washington Negro attorney, immedi-
ately after the December term OF the
Loudoun county circuit court opens
Wednesday before Judge McLemore.
This course was announced by
Houston after comforting with COM
monwealth's Attorney Galleher.
Houston said he was prepared to
plead that Negroes had been exclud-
ed from jury service in Loudoun
county and thus Disseminated against
and denied their constitutional rights.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-12
Quiescent Reichstag
Assemblies in Berlin

Berlin. Dec. l2.-(R-The German
reichstag met Tuesday for the short
est session in its history-seven and
one-half minutes.
Hermann 0oering, prussian pre-
rnier, was reelected president Of the
reichstag and was the only speaker.
He confined his remarks to recording
a unanimous sentiment for the nomi-
nations Of himself and three vice
|presidents.
Then he led the house In q full
throated eIIeil Hitler!" and adjourned
he session until further notice."
Hitler was In Wilhelmshaven to
welcome the German cruiser Koeln.
returning from world trip
All but six members OF this oppose
t'onless reichstag were dressed In
fJazi party uniforms. Only these six
aon-Naxi members failed Monday
night to promise blind approval Of
any measure the government submits.
In . session preliminary to the
opening Of the new reichstag. four Of
The MEMBERS representing the 665
Naxi legislators. personally promised
Hitler TO obey all orders without queS-
ton. u