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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
1O-day.S Selected Poem
COLONIAL GOWNS

(By Theda Kenyon in The New York Times)
Your price was wrung from the grudging,
stone bound SOIL
From the Indian whoop in the fear-6lled wind
of the night,
From the feverswamp. and the swift heart
breaking blight
That stabbed the Springtime's hone and the
: Summers toll.
You stirred with the clipper-ship's first sharp
recoil
From the quinoxials GRIM triumphant fight;
And finally, you shared the mad delight
OF the wharves' greeting, and markets gay
Today. glass gIass-cased, you snare our casual
glances:
And we see again the forest, the quivering
mast,
The downcast lids and carefully postured
dances
OF candlelit ladies, safe in your pomp al
Like the women you clothed, you nourished
bright romances -.
ON siiken frailty. concealing your rugged past!
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got its final blow and within a month il will
have ceased to be law.
What does il all meanl Chiefly. il means
that the voters still are on the warpath. They
still are in the mood that possessed them
a year ago - which is to say that they are
anxious to vote against" that they are
exceedingly critical of the ''ins" everywhere
1t would be impossible to make a worth
while appraisal of the reconstruction now
being attempted in Washington without TAX
ing this into consideration
The profound dissatisfaction which blew
the lid off year ago has not died down.
People are tired of empty promises and me-
diocre performances. They are serving
notice anew that no officeholder who fails
to take the demand for a new day into
account can hope to survive. That all this
puts the national administration to severe
test goes without saying.
1t has promised much and it has started
much. These promises and these ACTIONS
must run the gantlet of nation that is tired
of fooling. They have got, in plain English
to be good. The promises must be sincere
and the actions must be effective. For the
municipal elections simply reaffirm a temper
that was made evident year ago. =. There
is grim earnestneSs to this temper that no
one can fail to notice
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
Crop Control

Latest figures on the 1888 cotton crop
deepens public doubt as to the effectiveness
of government control of crops. 1t seemed
obvious, when the plan was applied, that
removal of 100000 acres of cotton land
from cultivation would reduce production.
1t was natural to expect drop in output
roughly proportional to the acreage aban-
doned. But what has occurred, according to
the present estimates, is crop of 13,l00,-
900 bales, about 100000 more than last
year.
How Gomez" is the universal question.
The Chicago Tribune explains it in this
plausible way: Cotton farmers have slashed
their acreage substantially, but have thus
been in position to devote more time to
the remaining crop and have used govern
ment funds (from the $10O,000.000 paid
them to limit their acreage to buy fertilizer
and increase the yield.
Human nature being as it u.s. this was a
natural thing to do. 1t was good farming
But it wasn't good team work with the
government And since economics is
merely the way human nature works in
making living, it grows more doubtful
whether farm subsidies for acreage reduction
are good economics If producers of any
class are to be paid for limiting production,
the pay will have to be gagged by the actual
output
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
Chance For Temperance

Since 1912 eight nations have tried some
form of national prohibition and then
abandoned it. They are the United States,
Iceland, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Finland,
Norway and Turkey. 1t is interesting to
recall that two others seriously considered
prohibition. but never put it over. New
Zealand was one of these Prohibition won
at home. but New Zealand also permitted
its soldiers, still overseas, to vote on the
issue. When their ballots were counted, it
was found that national prohibition had lost
by the narrow margin of 1908 votes.
Denmark was the other country which
tackled the problem but finally decided
against national dry law. Its anti-lquor
campaign began in 1910 and was kept up
for years. In 1880. after study of condi-
tons in the United States, the Danish pro-
hbition party gave up the fight and stated
in its final report: Our age is not suffi-
GENTLY developed to obey prohibition laws
We urge education in temperance instead"
In this country, just now, public attention
is conferred on regulating and controlling the
liquor traffic and deriving much-needed rev.
enue from it. AT the same time, most of us
want to see real beginning made in sane
and widespread education for Temperance.
. There is more hope of such movement
now than there has been for long time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15

Talking about the recent election in Hart
ford the Times says, When Mayor Hayes
of Waterbury was reelected by larger
majority and his machine became more deep
ly entrenched in his city. leaders of the local
machine were confident that the democratic
trend was continuing upward. Even the
insurgency of the Mcintyre forces failed to
dlturb this confidence seriously. And when
the city convention dropped Town Clerk
John A. Gleason. the act was viewed as an
expression of strength and supreme confidence
in the power of the machine. The develop
ments indicate that machine leaders recklessly
ignored the significance of this move in the
mind of the average voter. IT. was con-
Strued, therefore, as defiance of public
sentiment, when no explanation for the
act was forthcoming. . :" 1t must be
pointed out that there was no such tactics
as this in the Waterbury election. What
ever criticism of the Hayes administration
there was came solely from dsgyuntled re-
publicans who weren't even satisfied with
the way their own party was being run.
Waterburys democratic party today looms
as the one Outstanding one in the state. We
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
Mosc0ze, Letter
By EUGENE LYONS
United Press staff Correspondent

Moscow (UP)-The successful
salvaging recently of the icebreak-
err "Sadko." which was at the bot
tom of Kandalaksha, Bay in the
White Sea for II years, is being
greeted throughout the Soviet Union
as heroic achievement.
Unfortunately proud Of its newly
constructed industries and enter
prises, this country translates into
terms of heroism many accomplish
ments which, in technically Nd
vanced countries, are taken as a
matter of course-the completion OF
a. hydro electric station, the pro-
duction Of some new machine
hitherto imported, long distance
Journeys by home made motor
trucks and the like.
Recently it has had occasion to
congratulate itself on an increas-
ing number of feats. One of them
the record making ascent (63,-
304 feet) into the stratosphere -
was of world wide significance.
Others, like the 6,000-mile trip by
a fleet of Soviet automobiles, were
of more limited importance.
The raising of the "Sadko"
evoked q message of thanks signed
by Joseph Stain, Premier Viach-
eslav Molotov..- Lazar Kaganovich,
War Commissar Klementi Voro-
shilov and the Commissar of Wa
ter Transport, Nicholas Yanson.
The Commander OF Soviet Naval
forces, the youthful Vladimir Or
Low, sent a separate congratulatory
message, 1t was addressed to Foti
Krilov, an understood, stockily built
seamon who heads "Epron, the
Soviet salvaging organization.
The same spirit of do-and- dare
peryades the accounts of "Ep-
ron's" work this season in the
press of the whole nation. The
record is indeed an impressive one.
This organization of seasoned sea :
men, divers, naval engineers and
scientists this year redeemed from
the bosom of the seas a long list of
vessels. It saved the famous ice
breaker Malygin which had been
grounded near SpitzDergen. It rails
ed the submarine No. which
lfoundered in the Finnish Bay. From
the bottom Of the Black Sea 1t sal
yaged the 8. s. Potiomkin and tn
is. S. Kharkov, Lake Ladoga yielded
to "Epron" the Soviet vessel Kres
Intern, and theACaspian Sea CAV
lup the sunken ship Stenka KAHN.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15

. Meriden's chapter of the Order of the
Purple Heart has asked Postmaster General
Farley to issue q special commemorative
stamp on Washington's birthday 1884. We
hardly think it will be forthcoming, but we
may be mistaken as Mr. Farley is quite par
tial to commemorative stamps. But the de-
partment of engraving and printing is now
behind in its work and any additional stamp
issues probably won't be welcomed until we'll
after the first of the year. What with addi-
tiona internal revenue stamps needed for
LIQUORS and a new series of regular stamps
planned commemorative will be pushed in
the background for a while.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15

New York's liquor plan is somewhat sim
liar to the Canadian store idea. Only retail
liquor stores may dispense bottled goods and
then in limited quantities Restaurants.
clubs, hotels, and the like are allowed to
sell with or without food. but at tables.
There will be no selling of drinks to stand
ing customers. In short the elaborate bars
that many clubs and hotels had installed in
anticipation of December will never feel
the impression of countless elbows touching
in Joint camaraderie. However. there is a
proposition being advanced that may appeal
to New Workers. 1t is suggested that individ-
ual drinks be sold in bottles That's only a
suggestion, though. We can't imagine the
American public going for bottled highballs
or cocktails, although at one time the latter
were popular. Travelling bars for ritzy no.
tells will probably be the new note after
December 6.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
4 Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
From High Finance
to a Nudist Camp

"Bare Living" by Elmer Davis
and Guy Holt, Is farce-comedy as
it ought to be written-fast-mov-
ing, light, and hilarious.
It tells about young entomolo-
gist--a bookish and innocent lad
who has been no place and seen
nothing--who falls for a high So
ciety cutie and decides to go out
and make q great deal of money
SO that he can marry her.
To accomplish this end, he takes
a job with Wall Street slicker as
sort of fact-finder
Then things begin to happen TO
him. His boss makes him secretary
of a shady subsidiary corporation
by which he is about to milk the
trusting public, and gives him set
of transfer papers to sign. Our sci
enlist sticks the papers In his
pocket and goes to the pier to say
goodby to his sweetie, who is sail
ing for Europe.
There he meets her eX-husband,
gets into a fight with him and is
beaten up. Chagrined, he gets in
his car and fees up-country to ride
his bruises. A bandit stops him and
takes his money, his car and his
clothing. Wandering dazedly across
the country, our hero stumbles into
nudist camp.
| You doubtless can imagine the
sort of tale that is built on that
foundation. The financier's priced
papers-which could put him In
prison If the district attorney saw
them-are missing, the upright
young secretary is living, to his
horror, among the nudists, the
sweetie is off in Europe, and there
Is the dickens to pay all around.
Messrs Holt and Davis have
made a sprightly and highly anus
ing story out of it all, and ! think
you'll enjoy it. Bare. Living" is
issued by Bobbs- Merrill at 50.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
Still In The Mood

Whatever else the voters may have on
their minds. they at least sent roll of
thunder cracking along the horizon in the
recent municipal elections, and no weather
prophet worth his salt can fail to read
warning in it. No one party and no one
issue triumphed. Instead it seems that the
electorate arose once more with blood in its
eye and swung heavy club.
New York gave Tammany Hall terrific
defeat. Pittsburgh elected democratic
mayor and Cleveland elected republican.
A socialist sailed into office in Bridgeport;
the Ware machine took licking in Philadei,
phia. and Detroit elected the son of Senator
Couzens In addition. the 18th amendment
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
The Washington Merry Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN
Authors washington Merry Co Round"
"More Merry Round"
CONTINUED from Page u

under the MIRA code is even hav-
ing some of its beer barrels
shipped back by irate customers.
That reaction, perhaps, is nat
ural in an area which has been
years ahead of Roosevelts brain
trust on a lot of reforms, and
which the rest of the country has
considered a hot-bed Of radical
ism.
That reaction also is natural in
an area which is feeling a little
better off economically than
some of it's neighbors. Milwaukee
is by no means prosperous yet.
but 1t is on the way. In the first
place it had u better foundation
from which to start. Whether
YOU believe in socialism or not.
the socialist city government has
not only kept the city liquid but
actually has reduced its bonded
Indebtedness regularly and sub
stantially during the depression.
And at election time a lot of
republicans and democrats vote
for q socialist mayor who has
now served sixteen consecutive
years.
BEER A LIFESAVER
Beer also has been great
boon to Milwaukee, though this
has now suffered a slight slump.
One reason for the lay-of is
the shift in demand away from
bottled beer. At first that was
what the country wanted. Now
the demand is for beer on
draught. Manufacture of this
does not employ so many men.
Public works also are giving
Milwaukee little lift-up. due
to the fact that BODYBUILDING
machinery is made here. A funny
thing is that the big business
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
So They Say

n Belgium will defend herself as in
1914. Her whole territory Will be
defended.
premier Count de Broqueville of
Belgium.
To put horror across really
have to feel horrible, and that Is
unpleasant.
Bella L1gosi. Hungarian actor.
If you cannot say it with num-
bers, you cannot say it at all.
Prof. T. M. Simpson of the Uni
versity of Florida.
OF course, I've had my troubles.
But as my good old Irish mother
said, Eddie, when they throw
slugs at you, don't toss back cream
puffs."
Edward ]. (Spike) O'Donnell.
Chicago gangster.
. Our lives are like newspapers.
The headlines in our memories do
not concern the periods when we
were serene.
Rupert Hughes. author.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
Here, There And Every10here
A WISE BIRD LOVER
(Hartford Courant)


DIR Frank H. Chapman is no less
admirable as a philosopher than
as an ornithologist. A reporter, in
a rash moment, attempted to trap
the dean of American students of
bird-life into saying which of the
American song-birds he preferred.
DIR Chapman's answer is the only
one possible in the circumstances:
II believe the most valued Ameri-
can, songbird is the one you hap
pen to hear at particular mo-
ment. They all have their great
moments. The first song of the
robin in March-that, at that time,
ranks the robin first. 1t means so
much to the listener. I like the
song of the thrush in July, the song
of a hooking bird at midnight in
an orange grove" He might have
continued the list to include every
singing bird. Each, as he says, has
it's great moments.
Is the endless question of the
bobwhite slung from the hillside in
the spring and early summer, more
lovely than the silver peal of the
thrush, named, by some forgotten
folk poet, the Swamp ANGER? The
cuckoo, chopping wood down the
valley or the whip-poor-will,
haunting the evening-which is
more beautiful in its song? There
are those who will tell you that a
v of geese, honking like>a line of
stalled traffic, is the most inspiring
sound that bird lover can hear
but have they listened to the nut
hatch, which. would have to live a
thousand lives to say all 1t has to
say? The broadbill duck, of all
unexpected creatures, has an APP
pealing, not unmusical, purr, de-
spite it's blue nose, and even, the
villainous crow can sing when it
wants to.
The wise man is he who, like DR.
Chapman, let's each bird sing as 1t
can and who rejoices in the per-
Torrance. To the devout listener
there is no bird whose note is less
| or more lovely
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boys who profit most from pub
lie works have been most ar
IDENTIFY opposed to the whole pro-
gram.
Is this altrusim or do some
people just never learn?
KENTUCKY MERRY-GO-ROUNI
Man O'War, stalwart old
champion of the track, now gets
eight miles of exercise daily. He
runs a mile, trots q mile, walks
a mile and then repeats. He is
n sixteen years old. The
visitors register outside his stall
contains names from England,
China and the entire U. S. A.
His, owner once turned
down $1,500,0OO for him. Since
then he has made more. Stud
fees and colts - Man O'War
sires rs times year-bring in
about $250,000 annually. -.
The old law office of Henry Clay
still stands in Lexington. So
also does the home of Mary
Todd, where Abe Lincoln came
to WOO and marry her. :.
Governor Ruby Laffoon says
that the only power left to a
Kentucky governor is that of
veto and appointing colonies.
"a. Kentucky colonies appoint
ed under Governor Sampson Gre
publican) are not recognized by
the democratic Laffoon. But col
onels under both governors pro-
pose that they get together in
one big organization which would
pay no dues, but meet every
year for the Kentucky Derby.
ia. Kentucky is now sending
it's second woman to the legisla-
ture. She is dynamic Mrs Flor
ence Cantrill, also the first wo-
man to serve as Episcopalian
vestryman in Kentucky.
Copyright. 1888. by United
Feature Syndicate, Incl
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CONNECTICUTs ROADS
bridgeport Telegram)

We hope that Governor Cross
will not read Secretary Harold
Ickes out of the democratic party
for having called his attention to
the fact that Connecticut Is lag
gard state in putting its unemploy-
ed to work on public roads, with
the mohey provided for that pur-
pose by the federal government.
let by December 18th is at best a
doubtful defence 1t will buy no
bread and butter for those who are
out OF work. Considering that this
road building program has been
under way since early summer, 1t
is hardly a feather In Connecti-
cuts cap to announce that the
contracts win be let BY the start
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15
KILLING THE DEVIL
(New York Times)

Two hundred and twenty five
years ago DIR William King in his
Art of Cookery wrote these at
fecting lines:
Cornwall squab-pie, and Devon
white-pot brings;
And Leicester beans and bacon,
food for kings.
. White-pot is just an ordinary
baked bread pudding; but Corn
wall squab-pie ought to be some
thing particularly worth eating,
for Cornwall was long as famous
for its pies as for it's pilchards.
There was an old saying that the
devil never went to Cornwall for
fear he would be made into pie.
The London Times prints all too
short a summary OF a lecture by
Hamilton Jenkin, vice president
of the Federation OF Old Corn
wall Societies, before the London
Cornish society. There isn't word
about squab-pie. On the other hand,
we are told that
"a small cottage in the parish
of st Merryn was said to have
been held for many years by
one family in return for the
sole quiet-rent ola pie COM
posed of limpets, figs and vari-
Gus sweet herbs.
AS gentleman, the Prince of
Darkness might we'll shudder at
the thought of being inserted into
a mess like that, Robert Stephen
Hawkes., the late eccentric vicar
of Morwnstow and author of the
stirring Cornish ballad whose re-
frain Is "And Shall Trelawny
Die ?" describes a meal of seal and
potatoes. AS Nebuchadnezzar says
in the Oxford prize poem of his
diet. 1T may be wholesome but II
is not good" The Cornish home
brew may be thought to redeem
the quit-rent pie:
| mahogany" or "black- strap"
composed of two parts of gin
and one of, treacle, was tried
| by Boswell at a dinner party
given by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
It was highly esteemed by fish
| ermen for its warming prop
|. critics.
Bozzy's only complaint must have
been of too much treacle. Oui
lAmerican black-strap, much valued
by our esteemed ancestors for 1t.
warming and other properties, wa.
sterner stuff: generally rum OF
whiskey with molasses and win.
egar." This pleasing drink wa.
served in mugs. Rum used to bt
called XIII Devip'. In view of the
precautions taken against him Ii
4 New England, 1t is hard to under.
stand why that region was SO es.
pecially troubled by diabolic visi.
tations. Yet the explanation seem.
simple. The devil was only 6
shoehorn for black-strap.
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of winter. Perhaps Secretary Ickes
slipped, as Governor Cross sug-
gests. in his explanation, but he
has the facts on his side.
The outstanding fact is that
Connecticut Is painfully slow in do
ing anything. The biggest possible
project-the building Of the Mer-
rift highway---will not be carried
out In full; according to the gov
ernor. Even such portions of It as
are to be built have not reached
Ickes for federal funds.
1t does seem to be too bad that
SO many of the unemployed, who
might be engaged profltably on this
very kind of work, should be kept
on the dole in Industrial cities. The
building of the highways at least
would give the future something
to show for this costly period of
ldleness.
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We don't think the Crusaders will find
as much support in their latest drive as they
did in the first. In our humble opinion
having achieved their object - national
repeal of the prohibition laws - the Cru
saders should retire we'll satisfied with their
efforts But, no. they are going to form
sound money committees to combat infla-
ton. That's quite different from prohibit
ton. Few people understand it thoroughly.
Few will back their plans for the same
reason.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15

Maybe those striking farmers burning
bridges in Iowa think there isn't going to
be any more use for railroad bridges.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15

A scientist discovers skulls of intelligent
men who lived in East Africa a million
years ago. Lucky devils! They had no
price system. no capital structure, no debts.
no economists.
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All vehicles must be lighted not later than
5.04 o'clock tonight.
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acknowledge New Haven's position. but we
honestly believe ours is the stronger right
now.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-15

London has campaign against
taxi drivers who ignore traffic
lights.
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London now has 1000 females
and only ESQ male telegranhars.