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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-01
By RANDALL GOULD Tnitcd Press Staff COrreSDOndent)

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 Peiping, March 1-(UP)-The Japanese armies battered at the gateways to Chengteh, capital of Jehol, to-day, capturing town after town in their relentless sweep.
 Lingyuan, so miles to the east of the capital, was the last important town barring the way to Cheng- teh. and three powerful Japa- nese columns were moving against it.
 An infantry bridage under Major Heijiro Hattori advanced on the outer defenses of Lingyuan, where the Chinese were entranched for a desperate stand.
 Regulars of Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, the pick of the Chi nese forces, held trenches and Notifications northeast of the city. They were supported by volun- teers.
 Advices from the front indicated the Japanese already had captured Chihfeng, 100 miles north of Chengteh, the other gateway to the capital. The Shawa and Mogi units, moving down after the cap- ture of Kailu, entered the city from the north. The Matsuda detach- ment from Chaoyang, near the eastern border, captured Laohu- shan, and Chienping and moved against Chifeng from the south east.
 Major Kuratani's cavalry were last reported near the outskirts of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-01
Japanese Smashed
 Chinese Lines
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Japanese headquarters predicted the fall of Chengtehfu within a week.
 The Chinese forces at Shamao- shan conducted a stubborn retreat after the towns capture by Gen. eral Heijiro Hattori's fur-clad war riors, and were showered with bombs from the Japanese air forces.
 Armored cars, tanks, heavy ar- tillery and air bombs were brought into play all along the front, to dislodge the Jehol defenders from the passes and mountain sides where they are offering bitter re- sistance to smaller but better equipped opponents.
 A decisive battle was expected soon at Lingyuan, half way be- tween Chaoyang and Chengtehfu.
 By HERBERT R. EKINS United Press StafY Correspondent)
 En Route to Chifeng Front, March - (UP)-Chinese rein- forcements streamed northward to-day in determined effort to IuIll UdCh IliC C CopoASoC olANS II Ohi Chihfeng.
 Chinese leaders at Chengteh were confident the eastern line, centered at Lingyuan, would hold, but were apprehensive over the situation in the north, where Ger- eral Sun Tieng-Yung's 41st army was opposed to a concerted Japa-. nese drive from north and south- east.
 A two-inch snowfall whitened the mountains and carpeted the valleys, but was not sufficient to impede military operations.
 The Chinese appeared united in spirit and determined to resist. General Chang Tso-Hsiang, of the Chinese high command, arrived in Chengter to-day to confer with Governor Tang Yu-Lin. General Won Fu-Lin arrived at Pingchuan, east of the capital, to direct the eastern defenses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-01

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-01

BY FREDERICK A. STORM
 Copyright 1883 by United Press)
 Hyde Park, N. r., March 1.- (UP)-With his cabinet and secre- tariat chosen, President-elect Roosevelt to-day turned to the im-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Time To Act

Waterbury is one of three Connecticut eit- ics that has, as yet, not made formal appliea. ton to the State Advisory Board on Public Works for it's share of federal funds That is no doubt due to the fact that the city officials have not decided on a program of public works construction which could be defrayed in part by federal funds. Perhaps Water. bury won't take advantage of tbs chance. But it docs seem that with the money being offered we might consider the opportunity not one to be ignored We make this state. ment without questioning the eitys motives and it's future plans along this line.
 There is this much to be said for this plan of financing public works. While creating jobs and enabling towns to start work long postponed, it also demands some eontribu. ton from the municipality involved. Uncle Sam contributes his percentage of the cost the city or town the rest. Many city or town can't even afford to do this We could mention a number of projects now under consideration in this city that might be rushed 10 completion, but the cost might be out of proportion to the demand In this case it is probably wiser to think twice be. fore securing a large loan.
 We have to finish up the Shcpaug project if it is to provide a source of future water supply to Waterbury and surrounding towns. We have our sewage disposal system still far from finished. SO far as eoaeerns actual eor' reetion of river pollution. There are mum. Der of paving projects. All involve large sums of money. We don't know as 1t would be good policy to criticize too strenuously any community that failed to borrow from Uncle Sam. Its officials might be thinking of the trouble in paying back this loan some years hence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

woes and works of the world ata tender age then he is privileged to do SO. That atti- turc naturally didn't work hardships in the oldcn days. But the oldcn days arc with us no longer. M
 To-day we find too many instances of children working in adverse conditions at an age when they should still be in school. They arc not able to afford continued schooling so turn to any form of employment whether the wages be meagrc and the surroundings not what anybody would choose. Docs the child labor amendment mean that thousands of children in the United States will become wards of the states' Maybe, if we are to place too much ercdcnec in Attorney Mar tins warning. The Hartford Times, com mcnting on his address even predicts that the amendment will affect the child in the home or on the farm Maybe it'll also affect the number of jobs available for older wage carncrs. now in the great army of the un- employed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Foreign Whiskey

Thefe may be breach in the whskey tariff, whatever happens to other tariffs lt is not. M might be imagined, the eonsum' CTS who arc demanding it, but the liquor industry itself -- distilleY ana importers, The situation they cali attention to should interest either drinker or a spectator. Domestic whiskey supplies have run low. Our distileries are ali going at full blast. but they cannot make up the deficit seon' 1t takes years for whiskey to age enough to be drinkabls, and new deal in drinking will be upon us wihtn q few months.
 Even so, some may ask. why let in for cign liquor on easier terms' It might be better than giving the moonshneH and bootlesgers new lease of life. The distil. lers, not wholly unsclfish. prefer respectable foreign competition to dcsreputatle home competition, They probably have some regard for the stomaehs and taste standards of home drinkers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
One Hungry Man

There are times when fixing the blame for human actions iS a task almost too com. plieated for human knowledge. Consider for example, this litte story from Cleveland Ohio. In that city there lived an unem. ployed man who had wife and five small children. He couldn't get job and he had no money. and the food supplies that were Furnished him by an overtaxed city well fare department didn't provide his young. sters with the sort of diet children ought to have So. in his back yard he started vegetable garden. Since he couldn't find job he could put in all his time on this garden. and he developed pretty good one. He developed lot of fine tomato plants which was d good thing because his children needed tomatoes.
 Then he began to notice that marauders were visiting his garden at night and footing it. His tomoto plants got torn up. The green stuffs that were 10 make his children strong and healthy vanished. The gardener stayed up nights to watch. One dark night he saw a prowler crawling through his fence. He raised stick he had and clubbed the prowler on the head with all his strength. The prowler collapsed. was taken to hospital; little later he died. and the man who had tried to defend his garden was put in jail. And it developed that the prowler was himself jobless man who had been driven almost frantic by his need for food.
 Now, how are you going to weigh out the blame in a case like that? Technically the man who owned the garden committed manslaughter. at the very least. Technically the man who lost his life was sneak thief of the meanest variety. But the man who wieded the club was simply trying to de- fend the right of his children to get the food they needed; and the man who tried to steal was simply obeying the demands of an empty stomach - which are about the most imperous demands any mortal ever hears. Assessing the rightful portions of blame in a case like this seems to call for more wis dom and understanding than most of us will ever possess.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Does It Go That Far?

From some of the remarks of Clarence E. Martin. president of the American Bar asso- eiation. at its annual meeting in Grand Rap ids. Michigan. last week, We get the impress sion that the sudden interests in the pro- posed child labor amendment may not be legally upheld In short Mir Martin ques- tions whether the amendment can. strictly speaking. still be before any state legislatures, particularly those that have previously adopt ed some attitude towards it. All but six states at one time had rejected the amend ment. Some of these have reversed them. selves.
 Mir Martin is not particularly worried. though over this aspect of the question. He views the placing of such authority as the amendment gives. in the federal government as miscarriage. He doesn't think that con. trol of the child and its daily endeavors should go beyond the parental reach to hear him speak. He believes that if father or psether desires to burden youngsters with the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
So They Say

Few things are so likely to cure the habit of hatred as the oppor- tunity to do constructive work or an important kind.
 Bertrand Russell. philosopher.
 Tho public. through the NRA.s bloodness revolution. can lift civili- zation to greater heights than It has ever known before. "A. l.. Raffa, field co.ordinator of
 MIRA.
 am sincerely convinced that most of the nudists, naked as they are, are better men and women that some of our "best citizens who go about fully clothed. Rev Isley Boone of Oakland, N
 J.
 It is natural for n man to fall in love with another mans wife and a woman to fall in love with another mans husband. Captain Wnn. B. Bradford, u. s.
 Army. who recently traded
 wives'' with another officer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

Al Smith ism. so sure that the federal home loan plan is going to succeed. He was rather frank in his criticism of it in recent issue of the New Outlook. He thinks the law putting it into operation should be amended before it has had chance to do any damage. If that statement was made down in the mountains of Tennessee or North Carolina we'd hear some husky mountaineer saying. "Them's fighting words. stranger' However. coming from Mir Smith it must be taken at its face value. There may be lot of truth in the statement. Mir Smith claims the plan is nothing more than an "l8-year annuity However, If 1t serves the purpose. why hurt the name that is applied to it' And in view of the fact that there seems to be a heartier response to this method of tiding home owners through an emergency than during the Hoover. ad- ministration when practically the same thing was planned. we think that some credit IS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1888
Fall Outlook

Business revival has stood the test of summer far better than there was any req. son to expect. Gains continued through July and were held through August with only d few slight losses. Industrial activity for these two montbs has almost cqualcd the l923-25 summer average. Department store sales actually increased in August, Flee trie output lately has been about IS per cent over the corresponding period last sum mer. Automobile sales for the seven months SO far this year, after slow start, have almost cquallcd total sales for last year. Lumber sales have started gaining at re- markable pace, indicating new start in building.
 Stocks have been working up again 10. ward the Nigh point from which they dropped in the latter part of July. Foreign trade has risen to the highest level since l93l. Current government income for July and Augur almost doubled for the same period in l932. Freight car loadings have been running more than 20 per cent over last summers. Though a buyers strike" was feared. none has occurred. Total living costs, though rising, have not aver. aged moro than those of July and August lo32.
 The steel output dropping from 50 per cent of capacity 10 50. has been diSappoint- ing but not seriously SO. The general man ufaeturing output, gaining nearly 50 per cent in the second quarter, has been astonishing Rents alone eontiaue low. having fallen still further during the sum. mer Landlords seem to be the hardest hit of all business groups. Efforts for their relief arc nat in operation.
 Altogether it has been a great business summer not in absolute volume of pro. duetion or sales or profits or employment. but as a demonstration of constructive energy and new hope. Now comes the natural sea- son of business upturn. If American busl- ness could rise from the ashes of the last boom as it has done in the dull season. what may it not accomplish during these next four months with perseverance, eour' age and eeopsration'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Trees For Children

The Iowa farmer who. in his spare time, has planted a 30.aere field with l4.000 wal nut trees for his young daughter. has set a good example. The national forestry de. partment estimates that in 40 years 5000 of those trees should survive and be ready for numbering At present prices they would be worth $l60.000 as timber wood. If not cut, they should produce. from then on' an average of one bushel of nuts apiece, provding an annual income of Sl,ooo'
 It is easy to go wrong on such estl' mates. It is a good rule, made by an exper- fenced business man. when figuring on a new venture. to multiply reasonable eo:t ea- inmates by two and divide probable gross receipts by two. Nevertheless. it is not likely that anybody planting good trees on inexpensive land will make much of mis- take from now on. Nothing works for a man more eheerfully or makes less trouble than trees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

Just what was behind the impulse that made the late Rufus Barlow. native of Canaan, specify in his will that certain lcgaeics would be bequcathed only upon per- forming conditions may long remain mys. tsry, but it is easy to speculate. He died in France where he had considerable posses. sions. He left several large legaeies to lS French employees providing they continue at their regular tasks for one year. dressed in eomie.opcra resalia. Collecting costumes was Barlows hobby and now the country. side near Bordeaux is trcated,t the spectacle of oddly. .sarbed workers around the Barlow estate. They're calling it Connecticut Yankees joke at the expense of French dig. nity
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
Loved His Client
 But Let Her Hang

In "The Paradine Case" Robert Kitchens undertakes to do two things: to show the slow deteriora- ton of a lawyer who Is so ill.ad- vised as to fall in love with lady he Is defending on a mur Ter charge, and to provide an atmos. phero of horror and suspense which rises to Q climax when the jury brings In It's verdict. His success, one must report. is only moderate. Perhaps 1t is be- cause the book is way too long; perhaps because 50 many of the characters seem to be pompous and humorless asses. There i3 good entertainment in the book. but 1t Is buried pretty deep beneath Q lot of words.
 Our lawyer is Q successful Brit ish attorney with brilliant record as defenso counsel in murder eases. He is rich. popular. blessed with 0 charming and devoted wife, and all goes well with him until he | is retained to act for Mrs Para dine. who is accused of poisoning 1 her husband.
 His client first puzzles. then fas-
 cinates and finally enthralls him, He wobblcs and wavers. wrecks his own home, d .stroys his reputation -and, to cap 1t ail. loses his judg- ment so that instead of getting his client of he sends her to the gall lows.
 Accompanying this Is the slow crescendo of fear which Mir Hich. ems builds up. Tho judge who tries the case Is revealed, bit by bit, as Hadistic monster; and the trial itself lays bare. slowly and omi- nously. Q gruesomo crime. The nn- al third of the book. in fact. ia pretty exciting. The only trouble Is that a lot of readers arc going to stop before they get that far. Published by Doubleday. Doran
 md Company, this book sells for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

How'd you like to have the privilege of sus- gesting the name for one of the 3o new naval vessels tha, Uncle Sam is going to build! This task of naming them is probably going to prove too much of one for the officials down at Washington, so we're now calling it to the attention of the public that the field is open. or course certain rules must De fol- lowed. Cruisers and gunboats can only be given names of cities; dcstroyers arc, named for distinguished officers and enlisted men; fleet submarines arc suggested by dcnizens of the deep. Incidentally one of the destroy. CTS is being named after the late Rcar.Admiral William A, Mofett who lost his life when the Akron crashed. Two other rear.ad. mirals being honorcd are Thomas o. Sell fridge of Civil War fame and David Me Dousal of the Mexican War.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
GOODS HAND REACHED
 DOWN"
(Bridgeport Telegraph. ].

The man in New York city who wrote his favorlte newspaper a lct- ter of appreciation for the nurses who had brought him back to health after long and serious illness, did a gracious and grateful act. He also coined Q phrase in lik- ening the nurse to Gods hand reached down to earth"
 Members of this indispensable profession will appreciate this humble contribution from one who owes his life largely to the skill of their guild. For the hours of the nurse are long, and often more blame than praise finds its way to the outlets of public opinion. !
 This can be said for the nurse: She is under constant surveillance of people who. by the very nature of their contacts. with her. are poorly fitted to judge fairly. To he ailing is to be over-sensittve and peevish. Clear-headedness. quick wit. iron nerve and a. willingness to perform distastcful tasks arc what the members of this 'profes- sion bring into the super-critical atmosphere of the sick-room. And whether this sickroom Is in a hos- pital or home. it Is often the viz iiance and rescurcefulness of the nurse. rather than of the physi- clan. which >effects a cure.
 If ever the saying of the Naza- rene were excmpilficd in modern iife-"I am among you as ono that serveth"--it is at the bedside of the sick. Truly the nurse may be likencd to Gods hand let down to earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

wash,ngton-~President Roose. welt teiephoned General Johnson from Hyde Park one night ana told him to Ket the coal operators and miners into conference.
 That was the turning point to. ward an epoehai NRA agreement which includes complete reeogni:: ton by operators Of the uhitea Mine Workers.
 Labor representatives here had received private assurance that Roosevelt regarded national union recognition as an essential in TO. mobilization of the coal industry, torn for decades by labor and com. petitive warfare.
 When nen-union operators went behind closed doors with President John Lewis and other U. M. W. ofIicials tho result was Q foregohe conclusion.
 Non.union operators, under pressure above from the adminis- tration and below from a strong union with s00,0o0 new members, couldn't refuse.
 They faced . certain strike If they didn't play ball and probably would have had the police powers of tho government as well as pub- lie opinion against them. And they probably would have lost the strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Rome Letter
lUnitcd rrcss staff Corrcspondcnt)

Rome. (UP)-Trafiic returns Of tho Italian State railways Tor i93e-33 have fallen off by S6 per cent over those for 1929-30. ac- cording to the ministry Of com munications.
 There has been remarkable rally in the passenger traffic or late, as official statistics revealed. but this will not have an apprcci- able effect on the receipts of 1883. which will close. it is expected, with a deficit approximating 650 million lire.
 During the budget debate Count Costanzo Ciano, mininster of Com munications, explained that apart from the prevailing business de- pression. the shrinkage of traffic and consequently of revenue was due to the worldwide phenomenon of road traffic competition.
 Special interest was attached to Minister Ciano's statement on the electrification of railroads. Tn country lacking coal" he said, "the desirabiiity of this measure cannot be judged exclusively by compar- ing the relative cost of steam and electricity"
 Minister Ciano further explain ed:
 If at the present time reduced traffic and exceptionally low price of coal makes the former un- doubtediy the less expensive form of traction. 1t must be remembered that the shrinkage of traffic Is . passing and contingent phenome- non. and that not so many years ago coal, now costing 100 lire per metric ton, cost as much as 80 lire, while the difficulty of securing 1t at any price caused grave anxiety to those responsible for the railway services at n time when they were essential to national defense"
 Minister cianp concluded with
 the information that when the plans now in hand are completed. s,s05 kilometers of trunk line will be electrified. In other words. 4l per cent of the whole normal guage system which carries no less than 60 per cent of the total traf- fie of the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
A POST HOLE TRENCH
(New Britain Herald)

Telephone employees, needing . conduit trench. used . post hole digger and did the work much more quickly than 1t could have been done by hand. The story is told in the Telephone Bulletin and leaves one wondering why 1t has not been done before. Tho post hole digger Is Q huge auger, suit- able for use where the digging is good. The foreman in charge do- cided that a trench was nothing but series of holes with the dirt between them knocked down. Holes were dug IS inches apart to the depth the digger would go, about seven and one-half fedk. The earth between them was knocked into the trench. tamped, down and the men had a depth to the trench that they desired. A manhole was dug in the same way. It was all very simple. time and labor say ing. So simple, that apparently 1t had not been thought of before.