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The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06

Gareth rode along a high cliff and
fell into the jaws of yawning
abbeSs
A sphere is two hemispheres stuck
together.
Three times when animals spoke
to people In the Bible are when the
snake spoke to Eve in the Garden.
when the ass spoke to Balaam, and
when the whale spoke to Jonah and
said. almost thou persuadest me to
be a Christian"
Bacon said that where there Is
no love, talk is but a twinkling of
symbols.
What Is heredityi
1t means If your grandfather
didn't have any children, then your
father probably wouldn't have had
any, and neither would you, prob
ably.
An important invention Of the
Renaissance was the circulation of
the blood.
&c. Bell syndicate.)-wNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06
S;.BEDT!ME sT0RY'5:, &,
&@OBy THORNTON W. BURGESS wv

a place to spend the winter. but
just couldr't leave those nice plants.
They were growing In queer red
things, which believe are called
pots. The earth In these pots was
very fine and easy to dig In and al
ways was damp, because every day
Farmer Browns wife watered the
plants. She seemed very fonc of
those plants. Whenever | heard her
coming would hide under the
leaves ard keep perfectly still. and
she didn't see me at all. So stayed
on and on after / knew that should
have hunted up a place to sleep for
the winter.
"Then the weather became cool
and grew so sleepy that just had
to find place to go to sleep. So |
dug myself out of sight In the
earth In one of those pots. You
see, 1t was just the kind of place
| like TO sleep in. don't know how
long | slept, but the next thing
knew the earth was so warm that
| thought 1t must be that Mistress
Spring had arrived. so dug my way
up to the surface. For a little while
/ was so surprised that ! couldn't
even think. There were a number
of plants around me, but they were
all In those queer pots. The leaves
were green and there were flowers
on some of the plants. and the air
was just as warm as In summer.
but when I looked up couldn't see
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06
"There Were a Number of Plants
About Me, but They Were All in
Those Queer Pots"

Johnny Chuck. Ii was the secret of
where Stickytoes had spent the last
winter and where he intended to
spend the coming winter. In fact,
he was on his way there when he
happened along where Johnny Chuck
was stuffing himself to pass the win
ter In comfort. and he had told the
secret to Johnny in whisper when
Johnny had asked him where he
would spend the winter.
"You will have hard work believ-
ing it. but ii is every word true"
Stickytoes had said. Last fall |
happened to be over close to Farmer
Browns house and | discovered
some very nice plants growing right
on the doorstep of the house. One
day when no one was around Wis
tied them and found a lot of bugs
on them which. of course. meant
plenty TO eat. so | decided to stay
there for a while. I knew II was
about time for me to be looking up
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06
THE SURPRISING SECRET
OF STICKYTOES

TOR a long time after 'Stickytoes
Il the Tree Toad had left him
Johnny Chuck sat perfectly still. He
actually forgot TO eat. 81 never !"
he exclaimed. over and over again.
Il never! | believe he really meant
II, but ! never before heard of such
a thing in all my life!"
You see Stickytoes had just told
Johnny Chuck n secret and II was
this secret that so astonished
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06
What Chance Do You Think the Poor Fish Haze?

A BOUT this time of year millions of small
"A herring-like fish swarm along the shores
OF Honolulu for a couple of weeks, and all
the natives get out after them. Men, women
and children crowd the seawalls, and the fish
are so thick that it isn't necessary. even to
bait the hooks. AS suddenly as the fish come
they disappear and no one knows where.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06

Here is Charley Fox, new police
chief of Euclid, Ohio, a Cleveland
suburb. Charley Is a well-known
professional heavyweight wrestler.
He thinks the knowledge he &C.
quired In that line will help in the
quelllng of criminals and boisterous
characters.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06

BONERS are actual humorous
tidbits found in examination pa
pers, essays, ETC., by teachers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
A Long Time Coming

There are many benefits coming from the project that involves the inclusion of Thom- aston avenue for distance of two and some odd miles in the trunk line system. City officials conferred with State Highway Con- missioner Macdonald this week and the work is to be started immediately. The city will do its part first by laying a trunk sewer along Thomaston avenue from Homer street to point opposite the Chase Metal Works. where the present state maintenance of the highway begins. This sewer will connect with the present laterals in Waterville and conduct them to the main trunk line passing up the Naugatuck river.
 Another project that the city will also undertake is the construction of suitable storm water drain at the intersection of three streets in Watervile-Huntingdon and Thom- aston avenues and Homer street. It is at this point that valley traffic is completely stopped during such heavy rain storms as the city experienced last Saturday afternoon. The drain at this point is unable to handle the volume of water owing to the particular construction of the same. It has been in this condition for many years, but actual re- placement, so it IS claimed, was really held up because the city and the Connecticut Company could not agree on proportionate shares of repaving the section after the un- derground job was finished.
 When Thomaston avenue was first paved it was at state highway department expense. It is our recollection that the road was one of the first concrete stretches in this part of the state. But that was at least IS or l6 years ago and traces of the original pavement can still be seen under the diverse coatings of tar that have since been applied. We never could understand why the city desired maintenance of the road, but it got it and ever since has been trying to give it back to the state. The state, through the highway department. resisted all these efforts until this year, when Senator Joseph H. Lawlor was successful in pushing through bill placing the road back in the trunk line system Its immediate repair is enough to indicate the fact that it has needed attention for years and years, forming as it does the main route up and down the valley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
Maximum Navies

The United States has started after pause of some years. to build its navy up to the limit allowed by the Harding treaty which put all the naval powers on a quota basis. We are to spend on construction S235,000.000 in the next three years. It will spread employment. Thus it has ob- vious economic value in the present war to end depression. It may also have diplomatic value. Future upkeep of these warships is another question.
 Now comes Japan. the naval competitor that gives us most concern, though her rat ing is far below ours. Her budget allows 45 per cent more for army and navy next year than for this year. There are $50.000,000 for new warshps and $2l,000,000 for modernization of old ones The entire naval budget is S190,000.000. So it goes. Size breeds size. Expense breeds expense. In self defense the nations toll in bent line up topless hill.
 Japans position dispassionately consd- cred as an economic fact is deplorable. Her present budget is the largest ever, 2,300.- 100000 yen about. S64l.0l0,000 at the yens present value. This will increase her present deficit, which is 1000, 100000 yen for the year. There is this sorry con- solaton, that we can stand it better than Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
SLEEPING GIANT SLEEPS ON
(Hartford Timesl

Connecticut is state of quiet and often picturesque beauty rather than one in which there are many spectacular natural wonders. Among those which approach the latter description is the Sleeping Giant of Mount Carmel, a peculiar grouping of hills in New Haven county which requires no great stretch of imagination to make the cognomen fit.
 There has been danger in recent years that the Sleeping Giant would cease toSbe. Unsentimental commerce in the form of trap rock quarriers, attacked his head and made devastating inroads upon 1t.
 Lovers of natural beauty rebelled at teh idea that the giant should be chewed up in the maw of a stone crusher. There was a cam paign for funds to buy out the de- structive invaders. Success has now crowned the effort, deeds have been passed, and the Giant has passed into the hands of a protec- tive association which will present 1t to the state.
 Perhaps that makes little differ- ence in the prosperity or welfare of the state. Nevertheless, we may rejoice that there has been enough public interest. public spirit and public generosity to stop this par ticular marring of the face of na- ture and preserve for posterity an unusual and interesting feature of | the landscape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
So They: Say

The Carnegies, Rockefellers, Bakers and Fields are gone for ever. It will not be possible under the new economic system to amass great wealth; wealth will be wide ly distributed in lowering commod. ity prices, in raising wages. --Ex-Gov Wm F. Sweet of Colo rado, now of MIRA Staff.
 Imprisonment for 50 years is certainly, a more drastic penalty than death.
 Warden Lawes of Sing Sing. You cannot legislate the human race into heaven. Rev c. H. Parkhurst of New York, criticizing reformers.
 Engaged couples are like a couple of explorers starting off with bagful of sweetmeats as provisions. ,s Mary Borden, in "The Technique
 of Marriage"
 We are international guardians over ward whose actions we can- not control until 1t gets into major trouble.
 u. $. Senator Vandenberg of
 Michigan, on Cuba.
 
 Moslems work less than the rest of the world in it's feyerish search for fame and wealth. They pass several hours a day in rest and meditation.
 Rex Ingram, movie director, re-
 cent convert to Mohamme-
 danism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1883
An Impassioned Plea

There must have been tears in the eyes of some of the members of the federal tariff commission after listening to the pleas of importers of foreign makes of beer. These gentlemen are asking for 50 per cent cut in the duty on beer manufactured on other than United States soil. The high point, to our way of thinking, came when these importers declared that it would be a friendly gesture" on this nations part if it cut this duty and gave foreign beer manu- lecturers chance to compete with the many pursuits.
 We don't doubt but what high tariffs have somewhat estranged this nation. We recall protesting these same high tariffs not SO many years ago. We still believe that tariff for revenue policy has its points, whereas the tariff for protection simply erects barrier around a nation that often prevents the nation itself getting from be- hind it. In our own case the high tariffs of our republican administrations of the last decade or so have certainly isolated us. But we do not consider it absolutely necessary for Uncle Sam to swing exactly to the other extreme. And that's what we believe the beer importers are demanding.
 Repeal of prohibition and legalization of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic bev- erages is being accomplished not so much to benefit foreign wine and liquor makers. but ts give the nation an industry to boost IL z, L,t,a tt,,t, hibition repeal will absolutely mean pros- perity for all of us. as some extravagan. claims have said. But we do think that at tIl:s period, when we are trying to regain equilibrium it is going to be fine for the nation and good many other nations to have the United States become liquor, beer and wine consuming peoples once r,ore The economic effect should be con- siderable.
 We hope that many nations famed for their manufacture of wines, beers, and liquors will note the change over here. But most of all we hope that the good old U. $. A. and its 1200000 900 inhabitants will re- ceive the fullest benefits in lessening of disrespect for laws. an increase in employ ment. and general satisfaction with condi- tions, If the tariff on imported liquors IS considered exorbit ant it is up to the Tariff Commission to consider such evidence and to present it to President Roosevelt for the final say But our nearness to repeal does not warrant any letting down of the bars, so that foreign competitors may make hay at the expense of American manufacturers not prepared for the great deluge. Here's place where the friendly gesture can be ex- tended to the folks at home as well as those across the water who yearn for the American dollar despite its drop on the foreign money markets. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

A state board of mediation is being set up by Dr Edward c. Dolan. chairman of the State Recovery Board. Its purpose is to settle all labor disputes that may occur in the state. It occurs to us that in this instance the state board of mediation and arbitration is being overlooked, not deliberately. of course, but, nevertheless overlooked. Why wouldn't it solve lot of difficulties and lessen >confusion, perhaps, to have the state board act for the State Recovery Board. in any disputes that might occur. That's merely a suggestion and no doubt occurred to the high-up officials before they decided to name the new board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

The name of Farley comes pretty high in these days. It's going to cost Uncle Sam Sl.OOO to carve it on the wall of the new Postoffiee Department Building in Wash ington. During the Hoover administration it was decided to carve all the names of the Postmaster Generals since the day of. Ben iamin Franklin To add Mir Farleys name it has been necessary to plane down an entire panel. Evidently it was figured by repub- liean officials that with them the office would begin and end
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
A Camera Record
 Of The World War

For your own education and the good of your soul, you are here by urged to have look at "The First World War" bulk collec- tion of wartime photographs edited by Lawrence Stallings.
 This is not, as other collections have been, designed as a shocker. Horror pictures have a very small place in 1t. It does not preach, 1t does not try to point moral. As Mir Stallings says in his introduce ton:
 'There is no conclusion to 1t. Man made this world in four years, and saw that it was good, if we are to believe Versailles. Well. here 1t is in the making, just as man made 1t, caught by many camera eye."
 Loosely, 1t is chronological story. You see the turmoil in the streets of Serajevo on that June day in 1914, and the bloody tunic of Franz Ferdinand; you see the newspaper headlines in the capi- tals of Europe, the cheering crowds, the marching away of the troops, the parades and the flags and the patriotic posters. Then you get dOWn to cases, ana page after page shows you war in it's closeup guise; trenches, ruined buildings, bombardments, sinking ships, refugees, wounded men, air. planes, munitions factories, dead men, victims of famine, the execu- tion of spies, conquests, defeats and all the rest.
 MT ,Stallings has been excellent ly ironic in his choice of captions. A trenchful of corpses gets labelled simply Tactical error" A photo of gay staff officers Is called "The paths of glory" and it is followed by photos of thousansd of graves. and you are allowed to complete the quotation yourself.
 It makes, altogether, remark able book; one to study prayerfully and soberly. Published by Simon & Schuster 1t sells for $3.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
CODED OYSTERS
(New Haven Register)

Difficulties run into by the oys- termen drawing up their indus try's code may stand as one ex- planation of why the separate code business has been going slow. too slow to suit the desires at the re- covery movement headquarters. Not for lack of effort but for ex- cess of special problems. they drafted three cores only, to tear them up, with the fourth and lat est, at this writing. still unsatis-
 factory to all concerned. They deal with product which obeys no written regulations on its own part. And up to now. the grow CTS have not quite been able to force strict rules of conduct upon 1t. An oyster grows small here and
 large there. fat In these local and
 seasonal conditions and lean in those. Attempts to grade them are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
The Price We Pay

The price the world sometimes has to pay for human blindness and suspicion can be one of the most appalling chapters in history. James M. Cox. who recently served as vice chairman of the American delegation to the World Economic Conference, shed new ray of light on that chapter in an interview not long ago.
 To Milton Bronner, London correspond ent for this newspaper and the Newspaper Enterprise Association, Mir Cox revealed that workable and final settlement of the Ger man reparations question was actually within sight in 1922. If it had been attained, he said. the world probably would have been spared its present economic, industrial and financial chaos and some 30,000.000 people would have been saved from unemployment, hunger and want. It failed of attainment, Mir Cox said, because the statesmen of France, England, Germany and America failed to seize the opportunity that offered itself to them.
 In 1922, said Mir Cox, he went to Europe to study the situation. He knew Germany could not pay the fantastic reparations then demanded of her without running herself and the nations to whom the payments were due. So he set out to find just what Ger many really could pay. In Paris he talked with spokesman for Poincare, then pre- mier. and got from him. in confidence. a figure which the spokesman said was the minimum French statesmen and finaneiers thought Germany could pay.
 Then he went to Germany and talked with Chancellor Worth. who gave his figure as to the maximum Germany could pay. Be- tween this and the French figure there was only gap of four billion marks - gap which. as Mir Cox said. could easily be bridged by negotiation. Then Mir Cox went to England and got Lloyd Georges figure which. in its turn. was not far from the two estimates already given.
 But none of the statesmen dared move. The hatreds and suspicious of the war had sot yet cooled. In each capital MT Cox was assured that only if America took the ini- tiative could an agreement be reached. MT Cox returned to America and issued state ment urging President Harding to act. Pres ident Harding ignored him. The great op- portunity passed.
 In London this spring Mir Cox was told by Dr Hjalmar Schacht. leader of the German delegation: If President Harding
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

Three valley cities, Derby. Ansonia, 'and Shelton. are contemplating one joint sewage disposal plant to serve their three communi-
 ties. It would be built with federal funds, if they can be obtained. This plan is in keeping with similar ones advanced by other cities and towns of Connecticut. So much emphasis has been placed on the need of eliminating stream pollution of recent years that there isn't place in the state but hasn't made some plans to correct its sewage system. Waterbury is slowly accomplishing gigantic and expensive project. The Dem- federal funds under the public works act so that the work might be rushed to com pletion. The Naugautck river is one of the worst examples of stream pollution Tn this state. That is one reason why we believe the industrial towns should do their utmost to correct the unsanitary conditions that eventually may prove far more expensive than the mighty sewage system we build today Not only must cities maintain an in- tricate system of sewer mains. but there must be some effort made to provide proper disposal plant so that sewage won't be dumped into streams or ponds in raw state. That holds for our industries. too. They contaminate water in much the same fashion by dumping raw acids and chemicals into it. Some method of neutralizing These must be adopted in all plants now guilty of the off, fense. when and if the towns end their habit of dumping raw sewage into the rivers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
A MEMORIAL THAT MAY BE
 APPRECIATED.
(New Britain Herald )

It falls to the lot of few men, however distinguished to, witness the unveiling of memorial as a lasting tribute to the record of their accomplishments. The history of great events is best written from the clear perspective, of half a cen tury or more. The historian of the day is too close to the events to paint his picture with the more delicate brush strokes that time lends to. prejudices and partisan ship. So, when James H. Macdon- ald of New Haven, former Con- necticut highway commissioner. stands on Avon mountain August 30 and witnesses the unveiling of a memorial medallion in honor of his work in that official capacity he will be one of few who have had that privilege.
 The memorial stands in a park to be known as the Macdonald Memorial Park, land for which was purchased more than a year ago by the commission appointed by the 1881 legislature for that pur- pose. The site was selected because 1t borders the route of the old dirt road that was one of the first major projects for which the for mer commissioner was responsible back in the early days of his ser vice to the state. 1t has been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
A BALANCED DIET
(Hartford Courant)

The seiectmen of Newton, Mass, have taken thought as to the care of dependents within the town linn it's and have developed for them what they call a balanced diet. They permit it's publication that other towns may see what an en- frightened community has chosen. This, for instance, is for 8 family of nine or more: Thirty pounds of potatoes, five punches of carrots. five pounds of cabbage, three pounds of new onions, four dozen ears of corn, six pounds of ripe tomatoes and two pounds in tins, two pounds of 'prunes, eighteen oranges, three pounds of macaroni. q half-pound of tea, forty-two eggs three and half pounds of butter, three pounds of lard, ten pounds of sugar, four cans of tuna fish, a half-nound of coffee, & pint of mayonnaise, half pound of cocoa a can of bakin, powder, pint of vinegar, three cans of evaporated milk, a package of cream of wheat one pound peanut butter, three bars of laundry soap, three cans of baked beans, fourteen loaves of bread and twenty-eight quarts of milk.
 It seems ample; in fact in the matter of carrots there are per- haps five punches too many for a family of nine or more. but we see no mention of the salt beef that should accompany the five pounds of cabbage. We ask, too, if a half pound of coffee; is adequate to the wants of a family of nine? Fur ther, it strikes -us>,, that three pounds of macaroni should be ade- quate for the family until January l, 1894, especially as there is no mention of cheese.
 : Then, too, even If 1t is black tea, a half-pound is inadequate for a family of three, to say nothing of nine, but we suppose that the shortage Is. created in order tc force the consumption of cocoa Again there are three cans of tuna
 fish - and we hope that the fam | fly of nine has a cat to aid in get ting rid. of this excess. If fish Is to
 be bought, why not purchase salt cod from - nearby Gloucester
 Again, why three cans of baked beans? one shrinks from believinf
 that Massachusetts has; lost tht
 knack of baking beans, and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

seen as unfair, for a fat small oys- ter may make for better swallow ing and hence better price, than a lean large one. The prospect of having an arbitrary code forced upon them is looked upon as a really serious threat. One bit of good, however. seems to be in process of being blown by the i'll code wind. Attention apparently is stimulated toward the possibility of growing and feeding the bivalves that they will all be of the de- sirel degree of size, tenderness and taste. Some experiments already have been conducted, with what are reported as encouraging re- suits. Maybe the current worries over a code may speed up a con- dition in which there will be no more or, or at least less, worries over the weather conditions that have raised so muc 'hhob with the industry in the past. 5e4