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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06

snedegger girls came 1t would ruin everything.
 Mrs Benson said "Goodness, I forgot all about themi"
 ..But we can't have them here!' Marguerite blurted.
 Mir Benson looked at her dis approvingly. "I don't see why not. They won't do any harm" !"
 Marguerite appealed to her mother. LAW, Mama, we couldn't have any real fun with them. We couldn't talk freely. We = couldn't be ourselves. It would be awfully awkward. And Peter would think was crazy to have old girls like that"
 "Margie has a crush on Peter" Teddy taunted.
 Ali right" Mrs Beson said at last. "then don't let's ask them this year"
 ''But suppose. they come, any way?" Marguerite asked. "Sup- pose they just take it for granted they're invited? You told them Aever to wait for an invitation, but just to come along"
 Mrs Benson thought this over. She said You'd better go over and tell them. Say we'll be glad to have them Christmas"
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Visiting in town: Remember some years back when tall, lanky youth with the nickname Babe" acted as pivot of Crosby High Schools first championship basketball teams. It Wilson (Babe) Beers. Harry Edwards coaching Crosby in those days and Harry decided that Babes height just what needed to strengthen his team So Beers was induced to show up for practice and to make his first appearance with the Crosby team He lived up to advance predictions and made quite for himself on court He also set up all sorts of state scholastic records putting the shot, Later at Dartmouth and the University of Virginia he centered his athletic en- deavors in shot putting and rated of the best in the nation He's visiting at his home here now months leave of absence from his consular duties with the American embassay at Vienna, Austria. He's red and quite satisfied with his work, but enjoys an occasional visit home to old acquaintances and to get glimpse of familiar sights and faces. Welcome home, Babe. =.
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brandy made from apples, than from 'bathtub' gin or bootleggers'
 'hootch.' Second, because of the change in public taste to cock tails and favored fancy drinks, as against the greater amount of liq- uor taken straight before Prohi- bition. Third, increased drinking by women who prefer fancy drinks to the straight variety. To the drinker who remembers the days of real liquor one of the grestest boons of the new era will be the legalization of the delectable Jack Rose cocktail, which has an apple brandy base.
 Because of the vast pre-Prohi- bition sales of illicit 'applejack,' government figures available give no exact picture of the volume consumed. For the last year before the Eighteenth Amendment be- came effective, it is estimated by competent authorities at 1 quart to every 200 quarts of whiskey. How ever, the proportion of apple brandy sales commencing with the new era will be much greater for two reasons; it will probably be the only unrectified liquor available to the public at popular prices for some time after the Twenty first Amendment becomes effective, the popularity won by apple brandy during the prohibition era being the other factor.
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|
 Marguerite Benson wished that her bar pin from the Five and Ten did resemble a Florentine dagger, and continued to look at her image in the mirror. She sighed. There
 was no use disgusting the fact that she was much too well-nourished \ to belong to the pre-Raphaelities. | "I really must not eat candy"
 she told herself, and promptly took I one last piece out of a box that
 was still half full. She'd give the
 rest to. Bessie.
 l 'Margiei Margley'
 Mrs Benson's voice reached im-
 periously into Marguerite's revery.
 Coming, Nal" she shouted and
 proceeded to fix her hair again as
 she always wore it. This part in the center, this severe but beauti- full -Raphaelite part, would
 cause comment. They wouldn't un- derstand.
 | Downstairs in the livingroom
 everything was quiet. MT Benson and Teddy were playing a game of
 chess. It was the Hull of late af-
 ternoon, before Bessie would come and say: Dinner is served" I When Marguerite appeared, Mrs | Benson held out a handful of | samples to her, and said: Here are some of the samples of silk
 for your new evening dress.
 'WHAT DO YOU
 THINK I AMP" Marguerite looked them over, and her smile now was neither l enigmatic nor tender. It was dis dainful. Peach color!" she said.
 Pink" Light blue! What do you think I am?'
 What do you mean?" q mean-E can't wear anything
 like that I'd be ridiculous I'm
 I'm not the type"
 Mrs Benson asked lamely: "If you're not the type for pink, then
 what type are you?"
 Marguerite had her answer ready. "Cerise. mamma darling.
 Something red! No trimming of any sort, just a splendid cut.". Mrs Benson said: "Red? You
 want a red dress to wear on your eighteenth birthday" MT Benson cleared his throat and remarked: T shouldn't care to see a daughter of mine logged out | like that. A red dress would be vulgar, don't. you think, Bertha?" Without waiting for reply he
 bent over the chess board again. The red dress was out, she realized. Teddy laughed.
 It was two weeks to Thanksgiv- ing, two weeks to her birthday. In former years Thanksgiving dinners had also been her birthday cele- brations. The whole family had assembled around the festive board, Never any outsiders eX- cept, of course, the Snedegger girls. They had been fixtures at the Thanksgiving table for so many years.
 Marguerite had always made what she called a handsome haul on her birthday. Then there was always turkey, cranberry sauce, mince pie, everything. It was the same, familiar program, year after year. Lucy and Linda Snedegger always came with pound box of maple and nut candy known as Mexican Kisses. You could count on that. You could count on Lucy to hand 1t to you and say, archly: Here's som ething that's always welcome. Something for your sweet tooth, my dear"
 IT WAS HER
 EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY
 This year was going to be diff ferent. It was her eighteenth birthday and they had all agreed that she was old enough to have a party of her own, real party: lan evening one, with boys. For that reason Aunt Ida had invited the whole family to her house this year, and Marguerite had been free to ask the girls and boys she
 Teddy laughed. "Sit on a pin?"
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he asked ."No," she cried excited ly, "but what about the girls 2" By "the girls" it was understood she meant the Misses Snedegger. They were in their forties.
 It had all started many years ago, oh, ten, anyway. At that time they had lived in two-fam- next Thanksgiving. But then
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gucrite. Il must think up good excuse"
 Dusk, and the crisp fall air brought back memories. As Mar guerite walked along the old street to the long remembered house where she had spent her childhood the. years fell away from her. aud she was not eighteen, but eight.
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they had been accepted as of the family.
 But what about them now ? Marguerite suddenly grew afraid. Nothing, nothing must go wrong with per party. She had counted on 1t so long now. And Peter Ross was coming. No. if the
 "Gosh, I hate that" walled Mar
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wanted. With a red evening dress it would have been perfect. But Marguerite was used to disap- pointments and decided to think of pleasanter things, in other words, of Peter Ross, whom she consid- cred simply divine.
 Suddenly she jumped from her chair and squealed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
By ELLEN STRUTS

CT JOKING like Raphaee Madonna she stood, her
 beautiful eyes dark and mysterious her smile at egmatc and infinitely tender Her robe of heavenly blue caught her shoulder by jeweled pin resembling nfiuad daU
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06

Gay Price process tax collector for the fifth con- gressonal district, tells this and it's too. While checking up his records at the local internal office in the federal building recently he was approached by gentleman who asked him if this was the place where tickets for the French national lottery being sold. Upon MT Price's mystification the visitor pulled out small clipping which later proved to be from the back page of the Democrat, and dis
 played it. Just to check up it, traced it down ourself and here tis. Tickets for the great French offices" . The tickets are still being sold at them, too but they're all in France Just goes to show you can't be too crcumspect in giving out news. Now though the above conveyed the idea of French income tax collectors offices, but to it didn't.
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Tall Tower Topics
A CHRISTMAS BELL (E)
1iiI12002211i Aa,l sr TX. nA. IN m. row-.
Good Evening.

Father cuts the Christmas tree Assisted by his son; Mother does the trimming
 And sister-watches the fun. Father tacks up Christmas wreaths With the help of little Bill, Auntie helps them now and then And sister-just sits still. Mother makes the pies and cakes, Plum pudding, too, that's swell; Sister sits in a corner
 And all she does is tell Where to hang the mistletoe And other greens as well; What help she has proved A regular Christmas bell(e)!
 Elm. Elm.
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Picked at random from the IVA. news Frank Crumt sitting with George M Conan directly back of Gus Knecke who conducting the orchestra for the Lambs Gambo. Frank asked George if he knew MT Kleinecke George M said: Helo Gus, haven't you since you conducted my Talk of New York; show" It's long tme since Waterbury has Gus Kenecke in the good old home town but still glad to hear that he's still in his chosen profession.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
Cast of Characters in ssMexican Kisses"

MARGUERITE HENSON, about
 to celebrate her eighteenth
 birthday. MA BENSON. PA BENSON. TEDDY, Marguerite's brother. LUCY and LINDA SNEDEGGER old friends of the Benson family.
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Income taxes on salaries have been increased by Peru.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06

Hans Axel Walleen of South Norwalk former Hartford resident, the designer of the Christmas seals that being distributed by the tuberculosis has done considerable work of this description in his career designer having many posters and mailing pieces furnished to the National Tuberculosis Asso- ciaton to his credit. Incidentally when discussing Christmas seals always like to remind Waterbur- ians that of our local phlateiss, Anthony Worth who directed the boys stamp club at the Y. M c. A. for years has of the outstanding collections of them They of the attractive exhibits of the Southern New England stamp convention held in Waterbury last summer.
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few screen personality ambitions. Wynne Gibson hopes to raise polo ponies when she reres from the screen. deep-seated ambition to explore the Orient is the reason for Slim Summervlles frequent visits to San Francisco's Chinatown. One of Paul Lukas various ambitions is to retain his title of One Take Lukas"-getting done perfectly the first time with retakes necessary. Exploring and map ping out territories heretofore unknown is Ken Mayn ards ambition. The handsome star of the westerns has been in places of Central and South America where no white man has ventured He travels by plane yacht motor car and horse June Knight wants to be accomplished in every kind of theatrical endeavor so that she will be out of ob She is already widely known singer, dancer, contortionist and mpersonator Nils Asther announces that his amb tion is to play light comedy roles on the screen.
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Edna Robert Eustace daughter of MT and Mrs Robert J. Eustace formerly of Waterbury, has of the leading roles in the nationwide tour of the One Sunday Afternoon company that opened at the Plymouth Theaer in Boston this Monday evening Percy A. Helton husband of the Miss Eustace has of the principal parts they have the pleasure of being lovers in the play This show the honor of the longest in New York city this year, having played forty weeks at the Forty Eighth Street Theater On the stage Mrs Heon retains her maiden of Edna Eustace This Mrs Hetons first dramatic part previously she had played principal roles in George Whites big Broadway productions and several Shubert shows combining her musical and dancing training with her dramatic ability.
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no instance where the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation has taken pre-
| ferred stock in q bank, has there been
the slightest disposition on the part
Of the depositors to withdraw their
funds and may I ask who wants q
better bank than one largely owned by
the Government?
In cooperation with the controller
Of the currency and State banking
| authorities, the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation is doing everything possible
| to release frozen deposits and bring
about the rehabilitation of closed banks.
In the same manner as with banks
and to the extent Of $4,000, 900, the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Is
authorized to match capital dollars with
insurance companies by buying or lend
ing on preferred stock where additional
capital Is needed.
There is point that I should like
made clear to every one, and that is
that no political influence is necessary
to obtain the benefits offered by the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
either In loans, bank reorganizations
preferred stock, or otherwise. Your
Representatives in Congress or in the
Senate and your regularly employed
counsel are always welcome and may be
helpful, but those assuming to have in
| f1uence will hinder rather than help
Time and expense are always saved by
applying directly to the manager Of
the r. F. c. agency in your Federal
Reserve district whether it be for
loan bank reorganization or preferred
stock
That our country is inherently sound
and recovery well under way is evil
denced by the fact that repayments to
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton have been $710,000,000, and no
borrower has ever been asked to pay
note. Extensions are freely granted
and the entire spirit of the corporation
is one of helpfulness to its borrowers
BY permission, I quote from letter
just received from President Roosevelt:
Honorable Jesse H. Jones, Chairman.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Chairman:
Il have just finished reading your
address to be delivered on the National
hook-up August l, and heartily indorse
all that you have to say about the need
for credit, and about cooperation in
the general scheme Of everybody back
to work
Il congratulate the many bankers
who have safely steered their NinStitu-
tons through the troubles of the past
four years. but credit must be made
available to all classes of our citizens
if business is to be re-established on a
permanent, workable basis.
Your plan to provide the banks with
new and added casital, by the purchase
of preferred stock on such fair terms
as those outlined, will enable them to
extend this credit without fear of their
own positions.
1T is also interesting to know-as
the bankers will appreciate-that this
can be done with no added tax burden,
and at no cost to the public treasury.
Sincerely yours.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
That, nv friends, is the President OF
the United States speaking.
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PRESIDENT FAVORS
MORE BANK CREDIT
Sees Libera|ity Needed to Aid
Recovery, Jones Says
in Forum Talk.
Continued From Sixth Page.)

which people own and have to offer as
security for loans. have any real value
as a basis of credit.
A banker may argue that he has no
applications for loans that he can al
ford to make, but that same banker is
probably continuing the policy OF con-
verting his loans into cash or Govern
ment securities. This policy of forced
liquidation should cease, and borrow
ers not only given time to work out
their problems, but encouraged to take
an active part in the recovery program.
1t should always be remembered that II
Is the borrower who buys and hires.
No one blames banker for want
ing to be able to pay his depositors
upon demand, and I am not finding
fault. but merely calling attention to
the fact that if banks are to be run on
such a liquid basis as to be able to
pay their depositors on demand, there
will be no credit for buSineSS-and that
simply stops the works.
The Congress passed a law in the
Summer of 1892 authorizing the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation to make
loans to any individual or corporation
and for any purpose. The act was
passed because of dried-up bank credit.
1t never became law because Presl-
OeuL f1OOVeT VeIOcu Illc dCt, puI SOil-
gress wanted the people who needed
credit to have credit.
To encourage banks to put themselves
IN stronger positions by increasing their
capital so that they can assist in the
general program of recovery by lend
ing and functioning as banks should
function in normal times, the direc-
tors Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, with the full approval Of
the President and the Secretary of the
Treasury are prepared to match cap
ital dollars with any sound bank that
can use additional capital to advan-
tage.
The corporation will do this by buy
ing preferred stock, to pay per cent
cumulative dividends, payable semi-an-
nually out of net earnings. If dividends
are not earned. they will accumulate,
but not be payable except from net
earnings.
The stock may be retired at will by
the bank, and at all events it must be
retired out of 40 per cent of the net
earnings of the bank. after payment of
ae preferred dividends, and after set
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ting up all necessary reserves to comply
with the banking laws, and to provide
reasonably for losses, depreciatfOnS, etc.
1t is not required, however, OF any
bank that more than per cent Of its
preferred stock be retired in any one
year, and no stock must be retired ex-
cept from net earnings available for
that purpose, beginning two years from
date of issuance.
The national banking laws provide
that the preferred stock may be con-
verted into common stock. This will
enable the bank that wishes to do so
to convert its preferred stock into COM
mon stock from time to time, by selling
it to its own stockholders or others
than the Government. This may be
done, all or in part, at any time.
Where the law does rot allow State
banks to issue preferred stock, the Re-
construction Finance Corporation will
bay per cent. 10-year capital notes,
which take the place of preferred stock,
as preferred stock is retired.
The plan for retirement, as adopted
by the directors, together with the low
dividend rate provided, should make 1t
possible for practically all of the pre-
ferred stock which may be sold to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation to
be fully amortiZed in approximately 20
years and without depriving the stock
holders of dividends on their common
stock in the meantime.
I have talked to the managing off,
GERS Of some Of the larger banks, as
well as the smaller ones, and find in
many instances that they would be glad
to increase their capital through the
issuance Of preferred stock. to be sold
to the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton. but that they are afraid their
neighbors and competitors would gos-
sip about them to the effect that their
banks were in a weakened condition,
and that they had to appeal to the
Government for help
This is very poor excuse. based
largely on false pride or unwarranted
volved. Most banks must have ample
capital if they are to continue liquidat-
ing their loans, but the President wants
them to do a job, and wants to make
it safe and easy for them to do it.
AS matter of fact, for the Govern
ment to be willing to buy stock in a
bank and advertise to the world that 1t
is partner in that bank is the great
est compliment and source of strength
that could come to any bank. And as
for the critical neighbor, he is not en-
titled to decent place in society.
There are not really a great many
of these gossipy gentlemen in the coun-
try, but entirely too many at that. and
while you might feel like choking your
favorite neighbor of this character, that
is still against the law, if you choke
too hard.
1t has been demonstrated in several
instances that the purchase of pre-
ferred stock in a bank by the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation-and by
the way. this is only done after a thor
ough examination OF the bank-has i'm
mediately dispelled all fear or concern
on the part of the depositors and open
bank runs have been stopped.
II Is also noteworthy to say that In
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SHORTS that would
cost a lot more if
b ough t in today's
markell! Full cut, fast
color, ia n oy broad
cloth - balloon seats
and elastic sides. 80
to A.
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And the SHIRTS are
at depression flows"
as we'll! Fine combed
c ot tom t h e v
stretch as you
move! Deep cut arm
holes, full length. "a
to 46.
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You'll be able get like this THIS price later in
the seasonand you'll probably get furs like these
higher prices MONTHS because the choice pes will all
be gone
Evening star., 1933-04-23
Charlotte Hall Dance
Planned by Society at
Leonardtown April 90
Cadet Bowie Will Serve az
Master of Ceremonies for
Spring Event.

LEONARDTOWN. Md, April a.
The washington and Stonewall Literary
Society will give Spring dance April
20 in the Charlotte Hall School gym
nasium The master Of ceremonies will
be Cadet Forest D. Bowie, who will be
assisted by Cadet John Warren. The
patronesses will be Mrs. B. F. Crowson
wife of Col. Crowson, principal Of the
school; Miss M. Adele France, principal
of St. Mary's Female Seminary; Mrs
j. F. Coad, Mrs. w. Beall Bowie, Mrs
B. P. Warren, Mrs. Richard H. Sotho-
ron, Mrs. L. J. Sothoron, Mrs. g. French
Owens and Mrs: G. C. Peverly. The
cadets on the Decorating COMMITTEES
]. 8. COokey, D. w. Connellee, w. M.
r. B. Morris and w. B. Breeden.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee OF
New York, Greenwich, Conn, and Bar
Harbor, Me-. are spending this week at
their historic estate, Sotterly, on the
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Colt Of New York.
Prof and Mrs. James F. Coad of
Charlotte Hall entertained house
party over the week end at their estate,
Cherryfelds, at Drayden. The guests
we're Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Shaw Of
Washington, Mr.. and Mrs. Roderick
Coad of Raleigh, N. c.: Miss Eleanor
Coad of Baltimore, and Miss Virginia
Saunders Of Philadelphia.
Col william Garland Fay, q. 8. A.,
retired, and MIS-. Fay returned to their
place, Mulberry Fields, on the lower
Potomac River for the Summer season.
They had as guests over last week end
Rear Admiral ENERGY s. Land Of Wash
ington.
Miss Mary Agnes Lyon Of Hughesville,
Nd, and Mr.. Charles Schroeder Eur
horst of Washington were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. George E. Hamilton for the
Easter holidays. Mr.. Zurhorst is q
freshman at the st. Johns College,
Annapolis, and will study for the Epis-
copal ministry.
Mr.. and Mrs B. B. Love last Sunday
were hosts at q family reunion dinner
in their home, Meadow Brook, at Nor
ganza, Nd. Those attending were Mr.
and Mrs. P. D. Love and two children,
little Betty Ann Love and Peter Love,
Of Morganza; Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Love
jr., and their young daughter, Mary
Catherine Love, of Leonardtown; Mr.
and Mrs. George Brent Mickum, I'd