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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

Lieutenant Governor Roy C. Wilcox in the absence of Governor Cross at the annual governors conference. held this year in Cali fornia. has asked the attorney generals off, flee to rule on the legality of parking charges at state parks. In four of them officials now impose 25 cent parking charge, although they have stated that there are free parking spaces in addition to the re- stricted ones. We doubt if the charge can be upheld. And probably the state park and forest commission realizes this. But even if it is forced to stop charging motorists it has succeeded in focusing attention of its financial condition. It hasn't sufficient funds to operate all its state parks and forests as they should be. As result it looks to some means of raising funds. Perhaps by 1895 the Legislature will have decided on definite policy of providing ample revenue for the parks. so that they may be servieed properly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
To-day's Selected Poem
SUMMER EVENING

(Susie M. Best in the New York Times) The night-folk signal from their camps.
 The fickle moon nowhere abides The nrefhes light a thousand lamps
 meteors flash the dark divides The nckle moon nowhere abides
 The clouds in changing shapes are seen, A meteor's flash the dark divides Night reigns an undisputed queen The clouds in changing shapes are seen
 The air Is heavy with perfume Night reigns an undisputed queen,
 The caterpillar weaves his tomb. The air IS heavy with perfume,
 The whippoorwill calls his complaint The caterpillar weaves his tomb,
 The moths the ghost of some dead saint The whippoorwill calls his complaint.
 The glow worms light illumes the grass. The moths the ghost of some dead saint,
 And harki the cricket chants a mass. sThe glow: :worm's light illumes the grass,
 Some troubadour thrums his guitar. And hark the cricket chants a mass, z Ignoring aflrman S threats of war. Some troubadour lhrums his guitar
 The firefiies light Q thousand lamps, Ig noringa all mans threats of war;
 The night-folk signal from their camps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
(The Waterbury Democrat Washington CnrrespOndentl

Washington - Secretary of La
 bor Frances Perkins regarded her | appearance before the MIRA steel hearing as the biggest moment in
 her career to date.
 So did her friends.
 They thought. she performed
 rather magnificently as she beard-
 ed the steel barons, attacked the
 labor section of their code, as-
 sailed their every argument in de- fense and urged an advanced labor
 program upon Americas great
 basic industry.
 Anyway, it was the first time a cabinet member had ever en- tered the industrial arena in Q major contest on the side of labor. The occasion may come to be re- garded as historic.
 LabOr's Representative
 k Miss Perkins was keeping her promise to make her department a
 '.department for labor" and her l own job one of representing labor
 in the nations councils. | She had worked long and care- fully in preparation for the steel
 hearing. Her statisticians had
 primed her with facts and figures which she reeled off frequently without benefit of manuscript. She engeged Professor Paul H. Douglas,
 famous Chicago expert on wages
 and industrial relations, to mako
 a months study of the steel labor
 situation. Finally she went to steel
 mills for a first-hand glimpse.
 Leadership Urged
 Even Myron Taylor of U. s. Steel and Eugene Grace of Bethlehem
 joined the prolonged handclapping as she finished.
 She argued deftly and persuasive ly. Steel. instead of coming with a code grabbing new privileges while offering little to labor and
 less to a recovery program based
 on purchasing power, must take
 the lead in the New Deal. Its pay
 rolls had dropped from $731,000,- 900 in 1929 to $166,000.000 in 1892;
 half it's 420,000 workers of 1928
 were unemployed last March. Il
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

Placing Louis R. Glavs back in his former civil service status was one of the out standing administration coups of last week. Mir Glavis has long been connected with the Department of Interior. principally in the capacity of private investigator. In 1908 the late President Taft dismissed him from service. although Glavis had just then com pleted fine job in his investigations of irregularities in the Alaskan coal strike. It was Glavis who was called upon to check up the Harding administration oil scandal. He recently showed evidences of trouble at Muscle Shoals and has been invaluable to the government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
One More Disease

To add to the growing list of pests and diseases that are attacking flowers, vegetables, trees. and shrubbery native to this continent is the latest Dutch elm disease. When Park Superintendent Irving Harrison issued a warning Saturday it was not intended to scare people. It was to apprise them of a few definite facts. Elm trees along the eastern seaboard are endangered by this dis ease. We don't know whether it is new or old, but its effects are devastating.
 Perhaps if we publish the information that there is no cure for the disease, local people will be more interested in the fight to prevent its spread from New Jersey where it now has foothold. There are believed to be only l59 trees in that state affected. That doesn't seem many. but it's quite pos sible and. in fact probable that the authori- ties have not been able to check on every growing elm in the state. And many more may be already struck by the disease.
 Its peculiarity is this - it is fatal. Once an elm has been touched by Dutch elm dis ease it cannot be cured. The only way it can be prevented from spreading to other elms is by cutting down the infected tree and burning it. This is harsh treatment. espe- cially if applied to some of the old mon- archs into which our elm trees grow. What would happen in Waterbury or New Haven, where there are many beautiful elms, if it was necessary to destroy them. A tree may not amount to much in the eyes of some men and women. but when it requires 50 or 60 years for some of them to reach their majestic proportions then it's worth while saving them for another 50 or 60 years. Anybody who suspects trace of the disease in his neighborhood should promptly notify the proper authorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
A Book a Day
 sfg by BRUCE CATION
The Lamonts Take A Look At Russia

Of books on Russia there seems to be no end; and the surprising thing is that so many of them are worth reading.
 One of the new ones which you could profitably look into is Rus. sian Day by Day." by .Corliss and Margaret Lamont. Mir; and Mrs. Lamont went to Russia in the sum- mer of 1923, made an extensive trip through Leningrad, Moscow, Kazan, Stalingrad and the Black Sea region, looked about them sympathetically and kept up a day by day diary of their experiences.
 Their book Is not SO much con- cerned with Communist theory, five-year- plans and so on as 1t Is with giving an intimate pictures of the everyday life of the Russion poiple. ;.
 The Lamonts found plenty of ir- ritating things in Russia; but they also found that, on the whole, things were much more comfort able than we had expected" A visitor who, isn't too finicky can have very enjoyable trip through Russia, they report, and he will be able to see what he wants to see and not what the red leaders think he ought to see.
 Russia is still far from being a Utopia, they admit. The food sit uation is bad. General living con- ditions are by no means satisfac- tory. But the Lamonts found an air of hope and confidence throughout Rnssia, a widespread feeling that fine new world is coming into existence. They believe that the ordinary Russian in far better off than he was under. the Czars, and they see no reason to suppose that the Communist exper- tment is in any danger of breaking down or being interrupted in the near future.
 Published by Covici-Friede, this book sells for $2.. v n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
Our Daily Washington Letter
would benefit from much of the $3,300,000,000 public works ex- nondift1vn
Miss Perkins Is Effective on Steel Code
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

would benefit from much of the $S,300,000,000 public works ex- penditure.
 Labor's Share Smaller In 1927-29 added value of its products was 370 millions, of which a dwindling share of 88 millions went to labor. So the code v 40 hours and a northern Accents an hour mini mum - would make SIG a week or $832 for 52 full weeks? Well. the average steel workers 1929 in- come was $1,700. The foundation laid for steel would affect most in- dustries.
 Miss Perkins came without cus- tomary white metal feather around her black hat. Only small neck lace and an artificial flower re- lieved the all-black costume which she wears through the heat. She alternately used and played with pince-nez which hung from a cord about her neck. She has a clear voice, a deep, full pronunciation of words and a constant quiet smile. T suggest =" she begins, and then kicks a wage or hour proposal far out the window.
 An Effective Speaker
 No more effective woman speaker has been seen in Washing ton. She deviates from para phrases and extensively elaborates her prepared statments, but only with the effect of enriching her delivery as her mind pours out new thoughts.
 In contrast was Robert P. La. mont. Hoover's secretary of com merce who represented the indus try. Lamont said:
 "The general theory is that bus mess will be carried on as 1t always has been.h
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
TWO RECLAMATION PROJECTS
fHartford -co,,rant)

By an unfortunate coincidence, more than four-fifths of the amount released by the govern ment for public works during the past week was for two land rec lamation projects. the Grand Cou- lee Dam on the Columbia River and the Casper-Alcova scheme in Wyoming. Approximately $6s.o00,- 900 went to the former-which al- so includes the construction of an hydro electric plant-and nearly $23,00O,0OO to the latter. Only $12,000,00O was allotted for other purposes, including roads, sium eradication projects. reservoir con- struction and the most of other needed works that have been pre- scented for consideration.
 In fairness to the administration it should be pointed out that the overwhelming proportion of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

New York to Boston route. Since that time there has not been any attempt made to secure a franchise from the Legislature. There has been talk. though. of state owned and maintained toll roads. The Merritt Highway has been suggested as such. since the state is hard put to complete this modem express route which is needed SO badly to relieve congestion on the Boston Post Road. But as yet Connecticut shows little or no dis position to return to the pioneer days in highway transportation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
COME, SLEEP, o SLEEP!
(New York sun)

\ANCW OIk 0uuJ
 Midsummer. opening wide the bedroom windows of Manhattan, promoting desperate nighttime activity on humming streets and in courts of apartment houses, keep ing the thermometer at high that the most aspiring index of commodity prices might envy, makes a particular problem for the metropolitan sleeper.
 It is all very well to say that getting to sleep has been battle down through the ages. It is true that love kept Shakespeare awake, that vociferous birds cut Chaucer's allowance of an early morning in May, that Sir Philip Sidney sighed for Ia chamber deaf to noise and blind to light" It is all very well, again. to reason about the sounds of city and country. Why, indeed, should four-ton truck be more disturbing than a waterfall? The roar of traffic worse than dron- ing sea? An impatient taxi more to be damned than a persistent whippoorwill? A radio more an- moving than a chorus of frogs? Yes, the medieval serf beat the bog by night that the lord of the man or might sleep. Nevertheless, mill lions will bear witness that there IS something especially disturbing about machine age noise, assem- bled in all it's variations on asphalt or under concrete.
 Sleeping has always been a bat tie between Pandemonium and Morpheus, but Pandemonium is more fearsome in Manhattan than he was in Arcadia. While the elevated train rumbles on Second avenue. while freight cars creak below Riverside Drive, while loud speakers and traffic are lusty al midnight and while effective re- frigeration indecently sustains the life of cocktail parties, the knot o1 peace IS never certain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
Here, There And EDery.Dhere

weeks allotment that went to the two reclamation projects was un- questionably accidental. There is no belief that 80 per cent of the total distribution of funds for pub lie works will be granted to rec lamation projects. Nevertheless, the situation paradoxical. Here Is the administration paying cotton farmers to plough their cotton un- der and wheat farmers to reduce their acreage next year. There is a normal surplus of virtually every other staple crop, as government officials who thought to persuade wheat. cotton and tobacco growers to turn to other products discov- cred. Yet the government advances more than $85. 1000. 900 for the con struction of two dams, one of which has as its main purpose the opening up of new farm lands, and the other of which has a sim liar, though secondary, purpose,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
TOkiO Letter
By MILES w. VAUGHN United Press Stan Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent Tokio. (UP)-A 10-year-old plan for promoting cotton grow ing in Manchoukuo, with a view to obtaining 4oo,ooo,ooo kin" of raw material for Japanese cotton spinning annually Is progressing smoothly.
 This is only the first stage of the gigantic cotton cultivation pro- gram, and the final aim is to cover Japan's annual consumption of HOO, 100000 kin of raw cotton. The Japan Cotton Spinners' Association and the Export Cotton Yarn and Textile Dealers Asso- citation recently held a joint meet ing at the Memgyo Kaikan (the cotton mems building) in order to study the cotton cultivation scheme, taking advantage of the visit of Yasujiro Tsutsumi, Par liamental Vice Minister of Over seas, to Osaka.
 Ask Aid of Cotton Men Tsutsumi asked the Osaka c0t-
 ton men to finance the Japan-Man-
 chouquo Cotton Cultivators' Asso-
 citation, dhich is to be organized by
 Manchuouquo cotton growers and
 Japanese cotton men, from the
 viewpoint of national interest. | The. Osaka cotton men agreed
 to the plan in principle. A special
 committee has been formed to
 make a further study of the plan
 The gist of the 10-year cotton cul- tivation plan follows:
 l The Plan
 With a view to enabling Japan to continue he spinning and weav.
 ing industry on the present basii
 without any supply of Indian and American cotton, Japan should
 develop the field in Monchoukuo
 For this purpose, the cotton spin. ners in this country should estab'
 fish a Cotton Planters Association
 with a fund of at least yen g..
 O00,000
 l To function we'll this organ. here
 should be organized a cotton gin ming company with a capital O,
 about yen '500,000 to supply thu raw cotton to the Japan spinneri
 who use some 400,000.000 "kin' of American and Indian cotton The government is ready to facili. tate these plans. Besides this, he It has second and third programs government has other cotton plans finally aiming at the supply of 1,. 100, 100000 "kin."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
Weddings Look Up

So swiftly do conditions change these days that one can find in two different papers on the same date news story reporting that marriage is at new low and an editorial philosophizing about this June's increase in weddings over June year ago. The news story comes from Washington and deals with the year 1o32. during which there were only 7.87 marriages for each 1000 of population. It was the first time in 2l years that marriages in the United States
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
So They Say

Let the president of the United States declare modified form of martial law ~ superseding civil rights and civil courts only in cases of gangsters and racketeers--arid we'll soon see the end of rats who live on ransom money. Major General SmedIey D. Butt Ter, U. s. M. C., retired. We have come to, the place in history where we are rearranging the values of life.
 Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, The inner life. the. unfolding of the subconscions. the enriching of the psyche-these can only flourish in solitude, and for the good citizen the only solitude is in the bath room"
 Nancy Hale. writer. always suffer. Suffering seems to be what do. best.
 Richard Bartheimess. movie
 actor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
BELLOWER PAR EXCELLENCE.
 (New Haven Journal Courier1

What a man is Lee Chrisman, Kentucky farmer of Danville near Cumberland Gap! He has undis- puted claim to the worlds shout ing record. Several months ago he astounded friends by ''yeehooing" with sufficient strength to be heard six and one-l,alf miles away. Last week he climbed, to the top of the pinacle at the Gap and be- gan believing for a three-state hokup. Listeners in Kentucky, Ten- nessee, Virginia, each sight miles as the crow wings from the pin- mace heard his mighty 'yeehoos," l" faintly then distinctly, echoing through the hills. When we Amer jeans set out to do a thing. wheth-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

Perhaps the only people who enjoyed last weeks abnormal hot spell were the oyster growers. They claim that the weather means bumper crop for 1937. It seems oysters spawn only when the temperature is over 70 degrees. The oysters spawned this season won't be marketable until 1937. hence the glee. A similar heat wave in 1850 is also expected to bring big crop of the edible bivalves next year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

CT plunging into depression, climb- ing out, or shouting, we do 1t up right. An explanation is provided by one of the friends. Lee Chrisman is-this follows naturally-an au- tioneer. But with his voice he can hold a sale for customers who
 remain at home on their porches. A mighty below, his; but we won-. der if 1t is as powerful as the proverhial ''wee, small voice with in 4 sr ft' + esf t-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

High tide at Milford Tuesday. August 8, 2:06 a. m.. daylight time; low tide. 8:06 a. m., daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Gimme Ride in the Rumble Your articles on the health benefits of bi- cycle riding are gratifying to those in business. We have the last duly clipped, mounted and posted outside our registration office. (-- Bicycle ,COurse.)
 Answer-Well 4t's so But it won't be healthy for the kid who cuts across the lawn every time he rounds our corner. if catch him.
 Dope
 drink cocoa after every meal and at bed time to quiet my nerves. Does 1t affect the heart or Kidneys? (Miss I. H.)
 Answer--It is bad habit, resorting to any, thing so regularly for such purpose. But cocoa is less objectionable than coffee. if you must indulge in the habit, and coffee is less objectionable than alcoholic beverages and al- coholic medicines hat purport to quiet nerves brace you up or relieve fatigue. After the meal is a better time to take such beverage than insth course of the meal. #. sf
 (Copyright. 1888, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

It's dollar wheat for some folks, but for the dirt farmer, it's just an empty bin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 8:32, daylight time, tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

Business seems now to have turned about three corners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
WHAT ALLIED ONE CLASS A NEURomo

In chapter five of the textbook of this course on the bad nerves illusion you will find a did concession that something ails the Class A neurotic, something wrong with one another organ or function, though it is seldom the brain, spinal cord or nerves or nervous system that is affected. Of you have no textbook, send dime and stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for the booklet Chronic Ner- vous 1mposition." It gives an outline of this series of talks about nervousness"
 If I could tell every Class A neurotic what really ails him, the problem would be greatly simplified, for with all the neurotics cured of their obsession we should have only the gen. uine moochers of Class B to deal with, and we could handle them with bare hands. AS things are we constrained to pull punches, for these Class scoundrels are very shrewd tral corner or in danger of being shown up, they emit piteous squawks for all the world like honest Class A nervous wrecks. and the world brands our attack harsh or cruel.
 One Class A neurotic who now testifes she has been cured presents clue from which venture to surmise what really ailed her:
 Some of my relatives took delight in
 quoting your statements about nervousness
 for my benefit, and more than once was disturbed that had to cry. believe conceived hatred for the very name of
 Dr Brady and became upset whenever
 se reces her which kindly omit for the benefit of everybody's healthy "But your article about iron for pale weak women somehow appealed to me. I had the recipe you gave put up by our
 druggist and began taking it. When the
 
 to the druggist, hoping he might add | something to modify the taste, and he told he could put up the medicine in cap
 sules that two capsules would represent the same quantity as a teaspoonful of the solution. He did so and took it in that form for two months. To-day as healthy as am happy. The way that medicine restored my health is still the talk of all our friends. It was truly marvellous. And my strength in- creased my nerves seemed to become steadier and stronger. I truly say haven't nerve in my body now-at least not a weak or troublesome one. Although your castigations gave me miserable hours think you must have meant it for the best and I do owe | you my gratitude for restoring my health . -
 | Evidently the lady had achromic anemia and like too many other semi-invalids, she | preferred to ascribe the effects of the anen,ia | to nerves and to dawdle along on that spur | ous diagnosis. The medicine she took is iron and ammonium citrate. IS grains after food | three times a day for two or three months.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
'BLACK|E' ADA|R
RETURNS To
FORM
By SID KATZNELL

"Blackie" Adair is curving 'em
again.
Earlier this season many of his
staunchest supporters gave up
hope for Adair, admitting the
pitchers best days were behind
him. His arm allied, hence his
curve ball wouldn't bend over
the plate just right and his fast
one softened down to almost a
slow ball.
"Blackie" was q member Of the
Dixie Pigs then and still hurls
for that team occasionally.
Friend Whispers Advice
In fact they were writing his
baseball obituary at that time.
All this talk left Adalr IN
melancholy mood until a reai
good friend took him aside and
whispered:
"Blackie, you have the stuff.
Go out there and pitch. Just
have confidence in yourself.
Adair took that advice and
hurled superbly for a numDer OF
teams before signing up with the
Mutual Life Insurance damon
derS.
Last Sunday his competent
hurting enabled the Mutuals to
down the Mechanicsville, Mo-
nine which owns an enviable
record. In this particular game
his curve and fast ball dazed the
opponents.
Rated One of Best
It can be remembered that
"Blackie" was rated one OF the
best moundsmen on the SandlotS
a few years back and, if he
keeps up his excellent work, may
again attain that rank.
Besides being an efficient
pitcher, "Blackie" is a serviceable
basketball player. He performed
with the Griffith Blue Goals,
hailed as the second best un-
limited team in the city last year.