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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
A. Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
She Had Too Much Time On Her Hands

"EvELYN PRENTICE" by w. F. Woodward is the brisk and straightforward story of bored young wife, an aging husband and a slick young city feller.
 The wife in question has more money and leisure than are alto. gether good for her. She is de- voted to her husband and she is fastidious enough to abstain from the customary monkey business of her set; bue she just naturally his more time on her hands than she can use, and when she encounters a soft-spoken young poet she drifts, very casually, into an adventure.
 Unfortunately, 1t is often Q lot easier to, drift into an adventure of this kind than 1t is to drift out of 1t again, and our young wife Is not long in making this discovery, Her poet turns out to be Q conniv- ing rogue; he sponges on her for money, hoards the love letters she sends him and at last, when she wants to break things of, uses them to blachmail her.
 The wife, consequently, finds herself in an utterly impossible situation. Being a young lady of spirit. she does what other young ladies of spirit have done before--' uses revolver to settle things. the poet Is plotted out, the wife escapes detection, andsin the end-- scared, sadder and wiser-she goes safely back to the arms of her un. suspecting husband.
 Probably there isn't much cosmic significance in all of this. But it's neatly.told, fast-moving and easy to read.
 Published by Knopf. 1t sells at $2.50. ],
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03

Senator Augustine Lonergan has filed ap- plicaton for the town of West Hartford with the public works administrator at Washing ton for S400,000 loan. The money would be used to finance new center trunk sewage system for the town. We presume that many such applications will result very shortly. Not from West Hartford's action, of course, but from the mere fact that Uncle Sam is encouraging public works of all descriptions. On several occasions we have mentioned cas- ually that it might be possible flor this city to borrow enough money for it to rush to completion its proposed sewage disposal plans. Until they are completed and dis posal plant erected the city will continue to pollute the Naugatuck river. Then no doubt it will require great effort to get factories to end their practice of dumping raw acids and other wastes into the stream without neutralzing them first. Connecticut has a glorious opportunity to clean up it's streams and restore them to their pristine glory, if that is possible, under the provi- sions of the public works bill. A lot of money is available for this type of work. Why not avail ourselves of it3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03

compel automobile dealers and repair shops to obtain licenses annually. This applies not merely to authorized agencies and repair shops. but no doubt to the ordinary gas sis- ton where tires are changed. batteries in- stalled. etc. Even if only new light bulb is put in place the work is considefed as com ing under the provisions of the new law. And heres another new quirk of the law. All repair shops doing work to the extent of $25 or more on autos apparently dam aged by collision must report them to the motor vehicle department for investigation. S25 is now the limit for reporting accidents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
Wages Affect Values

A discussion of minimum wage scales now being worked out under the industrial wage of SIP week seems incredibly low. it is more than the average worker in this country is now making. So much for the American scale of living" Mere mention of the fact suggests that the lapsed scale will have to be jerked up. Here is as good an argument as any for the purposed imitation now under way.
 Another important application not SO obvious is suggested by thoughtful news paper economist. It relates to real estate values. He figures that SIP week as average industrial income would mean monthly rental of $l5 to S20 in industrial residence districts. That in turn would make a single house and its land worth not more than S2,000. If the house itself were worth $2,000, which is not high estimate in this country, the land would be worth nothing.
 He adds that if things had continued go- ing to pieces as they were last winter, most of the land in large cities would have had no value in another year. Wages which make buying power, make property values. Own- CTS of houses and lands who try to hold wages down are as short-sighted as mer- chants who do likewise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
High Cost Of Starting

Canny critics are reminding the public that all the public works undertaken with the couple of billions made available by the gov- ernment will have to be paid for by the communities and states undertaking them. Of course they will directly or ihdir6tly We don't get anything for nothing, even from the government The whole program of expenditure provided for at Washington and now in process of fulfillment will have to be paid for by the American public which means by John Q. Taxpayer.
 If this were the whole story. we might ali stop right now. But it isn't. When your automobile battery is exhausted, you have to pay for recharging the battery. Then you can start the car. And when it's run ming again, it not only carries you. but keeps the battery charged without further expense. A more familiar figure lately is priming the pump" though we have almost forgotten pumps
 It costs money or effort, or both. to start anything that's stalled. Business has been stalled. We've got to get it going under
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
Reform With An Axe

Child labor has been forbidden in the textile industry by General Hugh S. John son. industrial recovery administrator. It will necessarily be forbidden in other indust- tries likewise. because it would be unfair to single out one industry for this reform. Emphasis is placed on the textile industry because it has had the most child labor.
 This is drastic action. It is reform with an axe. It will doubtless be supported gen. erally however. as an example of an indus trial knot which, like Alexanders famous knot. must be cut because it is so hard to untie. Once the readjustment is made. probably even the textile industry, which could not do this desirable thing for itself, will be relieved. The children below proper working age will be withdrawn from factory work primarily because it is their right as human beings. and because it is the right of society to safeguard itself against stunted and warped citizens.
 There will be direct benefits also to grown-ups, who have been barred from employment by the substitution of cheap child labor. There should be ultimate bus mess benefits to the industry. through in- creased self-respect and efficiency. Society as a whole, if it IS necessary, should share the cost of this social improvement, through slightly higher cost of cotton goods. In the end, like every justified social step for ward, 1t should pay for itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
So They Say

Prayers won't win this (anti- repeal) battle. It will take cash and votes.-w. J. Losinger. super- intendent Ohio Anti.Saloon league.
 Possibly the silliest sophistry with which we have deluded our- selves is that, struggle between species being the order in. nature,. President Alexander Ruthveh, University of Michigan,
 must keep in love, you know. When I am in love, it hurts my personality. That is bad for my work.-Fifi D'Orsay, movie actress.
 The time when farmers were considered citizens of an inferior category has definitely passed.- Premier Mussolini of Italy.
 The man who enjoys marching in file to the strains of military music falls beneath my contempt; he received his brain by mistake --the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient.-frof Albert Einstein.
 Half the useful work of the world consists of combating the harmful work.--Bertrand Russell DhilOgDhor. tfer .F+N N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
"INDIANoLoGY."
(New York sun.)

It has happened occasionally that two big league baseball teams, whether evenly matched in theory or not, have divided the season series between them, but it is more common for one team or the other to get the edge, either as the re. tion or better luck. Some day Q psychologist of penetration who also enjoys watching baseball should begin study of the effect of the Indian sign" oh the game.
 For example, in the current Ma. tiopal league race the Boston Braves are lodged in the second division and likely to remain there. Yet they have taken sixteen out of twenty-eight games from the three teams at the top of the standing, in contrast with thirteen out of twenty-eight from their colleagues in the second division. The Card. inale had won every game played with the Giants up to tho current series. The Giants, In turn, have won nine out of eleven from the Phillies; the Phillies seven out of ten from the Reds; the Reds eight out of eleven from the Cubs; and the Cubs nine out of thirteen from the Pirates. Tn the American league there is no such neat grouping, but the Yankees have the Indian sign on the Athletics just as demonstrably as the Ath- lctics have it on the Indians or the White sox on the Browns. some times pitchers have 8 moral as.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
Our Daily Washington Letter
Brain Trust'' Shuns Capital Social WhirI
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

peatedly asked by the latter sec- retary what was his business. Now congressman aren't used to that. A call from g. congressman usually has the right of way into any government officials office. Congressman fingered
 So this congressman, disgusted by repeated requests to state his business, snorted into the phone Lust tell him I wanted to know if he could play marbles with mel" and hung up.
 Another cause of the apparent social aloofness of the brain trust, of course, is the fact that most of them haven't any domestic es- establishments in Washington. Mrs Moley, for instance, is in Califor- mia, and Mrs Berle in New York. William Bulltt is a grass widower, and the fudge party participated in by Moley and Secretary Woodin is a lot more typical of the social diversions of the brain trust than the formal Recourse dinner of a Chevy Chase hostess.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
STILL MORE IRON FOR STILL GIN ONE
 SENSE) WEAKER WOMEN

Our talk extolling the virtue of "Plain Old Fashioned Iron for Pale, Weak Women" given here recently elicited spirited reaction though not what we anticipated. In the talk we gave the consensus of modern medical opinion and experience on the superiority of old fashioned inorganic iron over the hifalutin and high priced newfangled organic iron compounds. in the treatment of anemia We included a simple recipe which has proved efflcacious in the treatment of primary hypochromic anemia. type of blood deficiency occurring commonly in pale, weak women who are a little short of breath, have poor appetite, and complain of a sense of fulness in the abdomen Women with this form of anemia (hypchromic means the proportion of coloring matter. hemoglobin, in the blood is low) are likely to have brittle nails, dryness and premature graying of the hair and soreness or burning of the tongue.
 Whoa there--what do you think this IS? A blooming quack circular? AS 1t is, lot of women who happen to have few of the symp- toms mentioned, will probably try the medicine anyhow. Well, even if they have no anemia 1t will do them harm.
 The medicine suggested is a solution of one ounce of iron and ammonium citrate in four ounces of water. A teaspoonful after food three times day for two or three months This iron solution is neutral or slightly alkaline and hence cannot injure the teeth (Any iron may stain the teeth but the stain is easily washed off.
 Any iron tends to blacken the dejecta.
 Women with hypochromic anemia gain steadily this medicine for several weeks and then, in some instances there is no further
 improvement In such cases the cure is to add a dash of copper to the iron medicine-dis- solve one grain of copper sulphate in the four ounce iron solution. Continue taking the same dose as before
 The Pocket Emergency Kit will furnish one grain of copper sulphate. Remember? A one grain tablet of copper sulphate (blue vitrioD given dissolved in tablespoon of water. is an
 instantaneous emetic for child or adult in any | emergency. So you haven't any pocket emer- gency outfit eh? We'll even if you do all your ntrrtn hu hIia m or a-foot, you should always have your pocket emergency outfit with you. Send a stamped 1 envelope bearing your address and ask for in- structions for preparing and using it. Of the thousands or so pale weak women who responded estimate $40 wanted to know
 what ingredient the printer had omitted, or
 whether I meant one ounce of iron and one ounce of ammonium citrate or what. Sixty reported that their druggists had never heard of such a medicine and anyway, ffty-eight of the druggists opined, the mixture. was far too strong and now here is improved. up-to- date tonic we can highly recommend Iron and ammonium citrate is the name of one ingredient. It is an old standard medi-
 cine, official in the Pharmacopoeia. But these ! latter-day druggists" scarcely know what that means.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03

How would you like to have town line run right through your home. John p. Rockefeller. Jr., has just discovered that the Mount Pleasant-North Tarrytown line passes through his home. It might be good plan if the two towns differed on such an issue as liquor selling. The owner could simply sit in the side where sales were legal and laugh at raiding officials in the other part But when both towns start taxing you, well that's not so good. And that's why MT Rockefeller is complaining.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
THE ROVER BOYS IN 1888

New York Herald -Tribune) Despite the impression, no doubt widespread among elders who have difiiculty in detecting anything Of oldtime Wholesomeness in current renerat tions of youth, that simple and chrivalrous fare had long gone out of fashion, booksellers, par ticularly in smaller cities, report there is still . steady demand for such boys stories as Horatto All ger tales, "The Rover Boys ana the "Tom Swift Series". And at Christmas time, especially, there IA very considerable call for the "Oliver Optic Series" and G. A. Henty's we'll remembered narra- tives of the wars of yesterday which proved so thrilling to many c youth to 30 or 70 years ago ana so frequently were concealed be- hind protecting geography covers during study hour. Only that ola familiar form of fiction, the dime taking exploits of Nick Garter and Old Sieuth, has yielded to the tri- umphant films and the cheaper periodical fiction to be found on every newsstand.
 It 10, somehow, as whenever one comes upon q hale and fiourishinE institution, reassuring to know that fun-loving Tom Rover and Luke Larkin, who rose from the inevlt- able rags to the equally inevitable riches, and the hateful Andy Fo- ger and Noddy Nixon of execrable memory are still abroad in the land. For, as long as they survive, so long will virtue be rewarded, sim- ply and directly, and wickedness suffer almost instant if humane damnation. Hefty's tales. of course. needed no refurbishing, being his- toricat novels, but Edward strat- esneyer, who created the "Rover Boys' under the nom dc plume ofs Arthur M. Winfield was forced boz fore his death in 1930, to introduce airplAnes, electric lighting and ce- ment roads into the fabric of hts tales at, it must be imagined, no small expense. But oven if Dora stanhope now appears in egg.cup hats and Lanvin models and the Rover Boy have abandoned the four button jacket in favor of the double. breasted dinner coat, you may be sure that in the end the battleship oregon will turn up bos fore Dan Baxter and his low ass sociates have been able to accoms plish their worst, and that virtue and the honor system will triumph at dear old Putnam Hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03

Commissioner Joe" Tone's chances of going down to Washington to take his place in the Roosevelt cabinet loom better every day He was in Washington himself last week and conferred with federal officials. He will'be in the Department of Labor un- der the supervision of Frances Perkins. our first woman cabinet officer. It is Tones work in this state that has recommended him to official Washington. It certainly speaks we'll for the Labor Commissioner to see his efforts appreciated so far from home. It will be quite job for this state to find as good man to fill his position when he leaves us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
Here, There And EUerywhere

cendancy over another club 50 marked that they can win games that are not well pitched. There are "hard luck" pitchers, who lose by e single run or. hold their op- ponents to a few hits and yet see those few translated into enough runs to win.
 On second thought, the professor will not be invited to begin his research. Not just yet, at least. For the time being this baffling, absorbing subject had better be left to the fans, who know 1t in- side and out. A. professor would be all at sea working out an equa- ton which would allow for Q char leyhorse, Q feud dating back to the Three Eye league, a pitchers su- periority complex, a letter from e blonde in Sioux City and a hundred other factors. That would furrow the professors brow, but 1t is pie for e man who has sat and watched a few hundred games and listened to the forum of the great outdoors. N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
AN ACT OF GOD
(Hartford Courant)

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 A million golfers will rise to protest the ruling of judge in New York who, awarding damages to a lady struck while motoring near a links, declared that a sliced ball is not Ian act of God" If a slice is not Q catastrophe visited upon suffering mankind by unseen forces, they are certain to ask, what on earth is? In his ruling, the judge seems to assume that if golfers only would, they could overcome the affliction of slicing. Does the judge have any knowl- edge of how much time, how much effort, yes, how much cash is ex- pended yearly by hundreds of thousands of dubs to conquer the habit of slicing? Daily they prac- tice under the eyes of Q "pro" and by themselves, swinging back slow ly, fixing their eyes on the ball, Keeping the left arm straight, cooking the wrists at the top of the swing, keeping the head down until the ball is away. Are their pains rewarded? Does the slice go away? Look into the anguished faces of the ones who try. As the ball curves blitheiy off to the right, farther, still farther, in sweep ing arc. the answer will be readily apparent.
 If "an actof God" is something beyond the control of human agencies, golfers the world over will persist in believing, despite the ruling of the judge in New York, that q sliced ball is one. That a few of their number do not suffer the common fate does not alter the situation. They are fa- vored beings, immune from the forces that effect the generality of mankind. For the majority of golf CTS, a slice falls in the same cato.- gory with earthquakes. tornadoes. tidal waves,--a manifestation over which no human can exercise con- trol and from which only . few can escape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
The Waterbury Democrat Wash
 ington Correspondent

Washington-One of the things that has confounded official Wash ington about the "brain trust" which is popularly supposed to be running the government, is the fact that nobody ever sees any of them socially at least, and seldom enough in business way.
 The course for many liberals who come to Washington is a brief period of social aloofness, and then a swift campaign by the hostesses of Massachusetts avenue which, results in abject surrender to the social lobby. Many new government officials comes in like a mountain lion and goes out like drawing-room lamb.
 But the brain trust members keep pretty much to themselves. and that part of Washington which likes to pat the names of social lions in its reception rooms has been sadly disappointed.
 But this aloofness is nothing to be surprised at, nor does 1t imply any special addiction to the high hat. Brain trust members accept few invitations for the same reason that they would be refused by a one-armed paper-hanger with chigger bites--they're busy.
 Too Busy for Society
 You can't sit up all night draft ing bills which will overnight rev. o1utionize farming or industry, and attend, pink teas on the side. Be- sides, most of the young intellectu. als of the brain trust acquired the one-arm lunch habit early in life and 1t sticks.
 There are lot of funny stor- ies about the preoccupation of these hard-working young men. The one, for instance, about the young stenographer in the state department who, just the other day and months after Raymond Moley had been working as as- sistant secretary of state, noted a picture of Moley in the paper. She clipped it out, and caused quite stir in her end of the state department by rushing about and showing the clipped picture with the breathless words, Look, look! This is MT Moley!" Meeting Moley
 And of course the story is bound to became classic of the visiting ,dignitary and personal friend of the president who called Mir Roosevelt and said: Frank, I have something vitally impor- tant that must be done right away. Can you get me an appoint ment with Ray Moley?h
 Then there was the disgusted congressman, accustomed to free access to all department officials, who called one of the younger brain trust members and was re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-03
TAXI WAR

(New Haven Journal Courier) {,
 National tariffs constitute ai em- barrassing subject for the delegates inhabiting the Geologic Mussum in London. And state taxicab tariffs are now embarrassing New York and Connections motor vehicle offi- cials. Wednesday of this week the New York state bureau requested the "earnest cooperation" of west- chester county authorities to stop Connecticut licensed cabs from carrying passengers for. mir into that state. This is an ancient topic for motor vehicle discussion. The present difnculty was precipitated by the arrest last week in Green. wich of New York driver who had brought passengers across the state line. orders have ben issued to all officials to turn back all taxi- cabs whose drivers can not, show New York licenses.
 Deputy Commission Harold B. Piney of Connecticut has stated that the state statutes require the arrest of any driver whose cab 10 not registered here and who does not hold state driving license. The New York bureau replied that their state has similar regulations. There, apparently, the matter rests. Connecticut drivers may not Invade New York territory; New York drivers may not invade Connecti- cut territory. We hope that the argument between cab companies will not become 50 heated that pickets will be established on every road to prohibit passenger snug. gling. tts s9 ries of ancient feuds between the neighboring states. Perhaps the major difiiculty of the United states government in the infant years of the republic was the straightening out of state disputes, Thirteen lite tle nations had to be subdued to q federal yoke and teamed amicably. New York and Connectilcut had tariffs on each othors' products, had diverse monies which had to be changed when travelling. fought over territ0rtes. At one time the two states actually went to war over section of Vermont, until the Green Mountain boys asserted squabbie 10 not comparable, of course. Strict cbseryanco of the rules would undoubtedly work hardships for commuters living close Co the state line. Certainly some armlstice may be arranged and sensible adjustment made.