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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
An Heroic Martyr

Fire Chief John B. Lone of Kear,ey. N. J., is dead because he tried to keep Christmas from being spoiled for a group of orphaned children. The story goes back long way nearly six years. in fact. On Christmas eve in 1927 Kearney or- phanage caught fire. The orphans were all got out safely. but after they had been rescued Chief Lone noticed that they stood around watching the flames. crying dis consolately
 Why the tears'" he asked. And he learned that all the Christmas toys for the youngsters were stored inside the building. Santa. it seems. had left them there, and he was due to come back and distribute them very shortly; now they were going to be burned up. and Santa would be SO disap- pointed that he probably would never visit the Kearney orphans again.
 So Chief Lone well, if you know fire men. you don't need to be told, do you? He made dozen trips into the burning building. coming out each time with his arms full of toys, until he had saved the whole lot. Then he collapsed. Next day he came down with double pneumonia He got over II. put niS nealtn was permanently ruined; and the other day an illness arising directly from the over-exposure and over exertion of six years ago took his life. Now that's all there is to the story. And it's not especially remarkable. because the woods are full of fremen who would have done pre- cisely the same thing. But there is some thing about it that puts lump in ones throat. just the same.
 Every once in while some perfectly or dinary human being comes along and does something which proves that the human race has a whole lot more nobility and splendor than most of us ever imagine. Self-preser- vation may be the first law of nature, and selfishness may be the motive-power for most of our actions = but sweating fireman can toss his life into a burning building to keep a few ragged kids from having an unhappy Christmas. and can consider the achievement we'll worth the cost If you like to hunt for proofs that human being can be. after all, only little lower than the angels. you might chalk this stunt of Fire Chief John B. Lone up near the head of the list
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
The Waterbury Democrat Wash-
 tn1f0n C0rpaaD0ndent

 Wash!ngton.-Tho agricultural adjustment administration-which houses moro brains than any other federal emergency ageney--is all steamed up.
 The AAA fellows, supercilious toward the heii-bent NRA crowd, expect to achieve something thus far impossible for NRA. They will demand of an industry: "Teil us everything about your costs and profits If you want help.'
 Secretary Wallace has invited proof from cotton textile manufae- turers who say the 1.2 cents pro- eessing tax on cotton has forced cotton goods to such high prices that they can't be sold. The profiteering Issue will be publicly aired. AAA's trained economists afe studying alleged cost pyramldings and increases of wholesale cotton goods of up to 50 per cent. They expect to have tho industry on the defensive from the start.
 Wallace Wants Proof The industry reached an ail- time production peak in. July, af- tor speeding to beat the NRA code, with It's higher labor costs, and the tax. Now, when it's tre- mendous output isn't bought at advanced prices, some manufac- turers blame AAA. Tho AAA obs jects to being singled out in pref erence to NRA and doubts wheth- CT there's legitimate complaint anywhere.
 Wallace can modify the tax, but won't yield without dollars and cents proof. Dr Fred c. Howe, AAA con- sumers counsel, has checked cot- ton goods retail prices and will provide Wallace with ammuni- ton. He says the processing tax factor is 3 1-2 cents in 7s-cent work shirt. and only cents in either q $1.26 pair of overalls or 0 $l.13 shirt.
 Long Hours at NRA
 MIRA, which uses the blue eagle on It's stationery, works its em- ployes anywhere from eight to 14 hours a day. You hear more and more wisecracks about this, and eventually something may be done about 1t. Meanwhile man recent ly dismissed government clerks walk the streets looking for work.
 A sub-official who manages to avoid long hours, says jauntlly:
 "The people who will run this place next year are the ones who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
Applied Neighborliness

President Roosevelt has the happy faculty of saying important things in pleasant and simple ways. His speech on applied neigh. borliness given the other day before citizens of Duchess County, New York, is an example The President spoke of the gov. ernments hope for better distribution of wages, for increased employment for greater purchasing power for the whole American people. In trying to accomplish these things he pointed out, the people, through government. are extending as a permanent part of American life their insistenee tha. individuals and associations of individuals shall cease doing many things which have been hurting their neighbors.
 We are engaged in reviewing all kinds of human relationships and in these reviews we are asking new question, Is this prae. tiee or custom something which is being done at the expense of the many?' The many are the neighbors." Much food for thought is packed in those few sentences - thought concerning our economic and social life in the past. the changes in it which are being effected today, the hope of the ideal. ists for the future. If we really cease hurt. ing our neighbors, now, all along the line - we meaning individuals. associations of individuals, and whole nations - we will institute new and happier social order. Applied neighboriness seems to be new and practical statement of the Golden Rule.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ?, 1888
What To Do?

Police Commissioner James S. Bolan has his force in quandry. From the top ranking officer down to the lowest patrol man there is confusion in the ranks. Not that the commissioner has thrown down the gauntlet to them He has simply thrown down the suspenders to them. And there- from hang the trousers or do they! The boys on the New York police force say they don't. It started when Commissioner Bolan deereed that policeman may wear suspenders. but they must be worn inside the shirt. ."
 It's easy to be seen that the commissioner is thus identified as those of us who are still able to perambulate with the aid of sim- ply belt eneirclng the trousers. Of course. there are many in that class who forego the belt in favor of the suspenders to which they become accustomed in their youth when belts were just for the city slekers. There was furry in the suspenders busi- ness few years back when society formally accepted them. It gave the unfortunate q chance to appear nonehalant in shirt sleeves, instead of being bjeeted to ridieule at the appearance of gay-striped galuses.
 Commissioner Bolan, though, has pinned the suspenders 10 the masthead, we should say. His men may wear them, but only under the shirt" Inquiring reporters from various New York journals interviewed the eity's finest on their beats and elieited much of interest. One patrolman in par- tieular struck us as getting the commission CTS idea. When queried he replied, Sure. l know what the Commissioner means" He means this shirt. sce'" He displayed the regulation blue shirt under his blouse. You wear the suspenders under this, see' And than. .. . An. sec now! You can't do it. can your We'll, that's one for the book, isn't it! Course never wear them myself"
 All sorts of schemes are being suggested SO that those of the force whose avoirdupois causes trousers to slide down on the shoe tcps may secure relief from this embarrass. ment. A belts belt and all that, but give some of those boys a pair of suspenders over their shoulders and they'll lick the toughest gangster in capacity or out of it. But the commissioner leaves them no alternative. Wear your suspenders, to be sure, boys, but conceal them under your shirts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
STILL THE HITCH.HIKER
(New Haven Journal-Courier.)

Despite the intent of the law, the hitch-hiker has not vanished from among us.. And, despite the haz- ards of potential negligence suits, the motorist who stops and accom- modates him is not wholly van- ished. either. It is. as a matter of fact. more than a little tempting when one has an empty seat, a fast car and a complete lack of com pany on long journey; to come upon some bright-faced youngster with his college numerals on his travelling beg seems to make the mandate of the law a little silly. But. 1t has very real purposes and very sound ones. at that. It is a pity they are not more generally understood and the law itself more stringently enforced.
 Of course it may be argued that the type of hitch-hiker against whom the motorist perhaps needs greatest protection is his own warning. The driver whose eye for human character is fairly acute can usually avoid the obvious plug uglies on the roadside. Looks are but skin-deep and often deceiving. but a fair measure of peril can be escaped by careful choice of the man you take aboard. Against pos- sible accident suits, however there is no protection on any score That is why the cautious motorisi will keep his eyes front and his speed unimpeded on his way. And by the way, add similies: as unin- terested as a hitch-hiker watching a bus approach.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
So They Say

Every man has to make a fool of himself some time in life. and 1t Is much better'to get 1t over with while you are young.-George liar ley Hay, 31 (14th Earl of Kim noulD, in announcing he has for saken London night clubs forever. The whole program (of the NRA) is the realization of a com mand, 'Love thy neighbor as thy self."-Rev Elliott Darlington. New York City.
 still look like a punk. guess. but just give me time.-Harold Finley, 17-year-old graduate of Northwestern University.
 Crime is no longer an individual effort. It is nearly always the con- certed efforts of many men. some in planning and some in carrying out, that produce the crime of to- day.-Police Captain Matthew H. Clark. Philadelphia.
 
 When I'm not a good enough sport to take my medicine with everyone else. I hope I will be kicked out of public office.-U. S. Senator James Couzens, Michigan.
 
 Of all the senses, am sure that sight must be the most delightful. Helen Keller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

Remember what we said about Secretary of Agriculture Wallace day or 50 ago. We stated that when he gets through deciding what migratory water fowl laws should be he would be ready to resign his job. He's getting taste of this perplexing problem down at Washington right now. Game wardens are discussing federal regulations prohibiting batting of migratory water fowl. Ex-Senator Hawes. noted eonservationist said the advisory board of the migratory waterfowl commission was opposed. Dr William I. Hornaday said the board was made up of enemies of wild life. Mir Hawes vehemently denied it and said it was an insult. So did Commissioner Beck of this state. About that time Secretary Wallace probably wished he was then in Patagonia. But then again we may be doing him an in- justice. He probably can weather this storm easily. If 50. he's better man than many who preceded him in the office. We wish him well.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
WHO HIT HUEY?
(Hartford Courant)

Who kidnapped Charley Ross [? Who slew Lizzy Borden's father? Who struck Bill Patterson? Who shot Arnold Rothstein? These traditional mysteries are relatively clear as day beside the present-day question of who nit Huey Long. According to the senator from Louisiana himself, 1t was -four or five armed bandits" According to those who were guests at the Sands Point Club House on the evening in question, it was but one man, armed only with a shifty left and solid right.
 Huey has a cut on his forehead and a lump on his jaw. The Chief of Police of Port Washington, MT Stephen Webber has a set of bruised knuckles. But alas, the fortunate witnesses of the affair have a code that prevents them from disclosing who it was that al- tered the map of Louisiana. As far as the record goes, all the pub lie knows of that fateful evening of August 2S it set forth in the statements of one of the board of governors of the club to the New York Sun; His conduct was per- fectly deplorable. Nobody we ever had in the club was one-tenth as bad. I suppose they put up with him because he was a senator. An ordinary member (Huey is not a member) would have been rushed out long before"
 The record of Senator Long in personal encounters is impressive. According to a summary that Huey has never denied, he has been publicly engaged in eight informal bouts since he became a figure of importance. Despite the fact that one of his ddversaries was seventy years old, another one-legged and a third elderly" the Senator has preserved perfect record of never having won a battle. Re- gently he has been taking boxing lessons. Though no official report of his progress has been issued. 1t is understood that his footwork is little less remarkable than that of Major "Gene" Tunney who, it will be remembered. practiced running backward as well as forward in preparation for his fights.
 When. as and if the senator de- eides to abandon pugiiism as a career. he may accept the proposal of the side-show proprietor ai |coney Island. who teiegraphed Mr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

They laid Major Frank W. Cavanaush to rest yesterday. "The Iron Major" fin. ally sueeumbcd to bodily injuries that were the aftermath of wounds received during the World War. In fact, Major Cavanaush. who went into service a private and came out a major was among the last casualties of the World War. But It was on the grid. iron that he won the title of "the Iron Major" It was aptly given, for in his long football career his teams always showed the same strict training and application of the Cavanaugh methods which were in the main fighting ones. Always fighter Cavanaysh asked the same qualities of the men who worked under him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
What It's Like To
 Be A Star Actress

"Presenting Lily Mars" by Booth T6rkington, is a study of tho stage and It's people. It is nerei. less and 1t is penetrating, and it Is apt to sot you thanking your stars that you number no actors or actresses among your acquaint- anees.
 Lily Mars is a stage -struck girl in an Indiana city. A hometown boy who has succeeded us Q play. wright comes back for 0 visit, and Lily throws herself in his path and posters the daylights out of him until he consents to, give her q chance to go on tho stage.
 This sort of thing happens often, of course: but Lily actually 10 a budding genius, and to the play. wright's am0zoment she takes her chance, wins . place on the stage and moves on in a triumphant progression to stardom.
 And as sho starts her climb, Mir Tarkington gives us . roveal- Ing glimpse of tho dizzy, tumul. tuous and strangely exciting lifo that goes on beyond the foot lights.
 All actors und uctfcSseS, no res marks, arc q bit odd; but tho really great one is actually in Q class apart. The actress with a spark of true genius can't step out of character, can't cease aet- ing. can't "be herself" She acts part every minute of her life, Every speech and every action is played for an audience. You can never find out what she's really like because she is never an. ehored to anything.
 Sho is, in consequence, hard to got along with. Lily disrupts hor theatrical company, drives her friends to drink, sets her manager half crazy and never performs ono rational net. But she does get what sho wants.
 Prosecuting Lily Mars" Is pub- lished by Doubleday at $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
KANSAS AND REPEAL
(Hartford Courant)

The legislature of Kansas was not long adjourned before 1t re- alized that 1t had blundered in not providing for an election on repeal. First q verbal protest was raised. Then. having expressed themselves vocaly. the people of the state un- dertook to reveal their sentiments in other ways. Denied a vote on repeal, they would not be denied the beer that was consumed else- where. Wherever they were en- couraged to do so, and the commit mites were numerous in which they were, entcrprising gentlemen undertook the sale of the beverage In open defiance of the law. The law was invoked, but to no pur- pose, for the supreme court of the state referred the problem of en- forcement back to local juries, few of which have been wiling to con- vlct.
 An intolerable situation has con- sequently developed that apparent ly wil force the legislature to do what it failed to do only a short time ago. An extra session of the legislature is forthcoming and the governor has announced that he vii cal upon it to authorize a vote on repeal, as wei as settle the problem of beer. With regard to beer, the legislators may we'll con- sider that, if the people of the state are determined to have it, as they apparently are, the state may as well get the revenue from It's sale that states elsewhere are de- irving. As for repeal. the governor has put the situation correctly in declaring that "the people should be given an early opportunity to vote." Early" ought to mean dur ing the present year, when most of the states are voting. and if vote is authorized for 1893 Kansas will become the thirty-eighth to cast it's ballots, the legislature of Virginia having only recently set an election for october.
 No vote on repeal would attract more interest than a vote in Kan sas. The state of Carrie Nation, it has long been almost fanatically devoted to prohibition. With North Carolina, 1t vase one of the two states that voted to retain prohi- bition in the poll taken by The Literary Digest two years ago. IL might do so again although its de- eision wuold have no effect on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
Our Daily Washington Letter AAA Insists on Knowing All About Costs and Profits
 of Industries It Helps
 BY RODNEY BUTCHER

arc getting their sleep now" still Has Influence Harry Haydon, once associated with tho famous Senator Ponrose and moro lately secretary to Exc. eutlve Secretary Bob Lucas of tho g. Q. D. national committee (the villain of the George W. Norris plot) continues to make comfort able landings, despite republican background.
 He is secretary 10 r. Dwight Webb, Tennessee member of tho homo loan board, and exerts 0 lot of influence.
 "Volunteer" Wheat
 Ever hoar of "voluntoor wheat" [? It's ono of the minor problems of tho AAA in that organizations wheat allotment campaign and is what they call wheat which has lot of grains being spilled and blown around.
 Sometimes such n crop amounts can't understand why Uncle Sam
 
 when ho allots.
 Senator Tydings Busy
 Senator Willard Tydings whose state of Maryland ia 30 near that ho has many job-hunting visitors, has stuck this sign on his office door:
 This office receives requests for 100 interviews daily. It TO. eeives over 300 letters daily.
 Due to theso conditions we will have to ask persons making calls to como in between 10 a. m. and 12 noon. After that tho office will be closed, and all day on Saturday. This ia the only way wo can keep up with the work and have time 10 net on the requests made of us" | Copyright 1883 NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

Just one little TT made all the differ enee in the world yesterday in the unem- ployment situation. Know what we mean9 We'll. here's the explanation. Yesterday was September l and being an 1T" month. it meant that oysters were in season. And Connecticut has an oyster industry that is fairly profitable. So much so that thou sands of men will now find employment providing the crop is good one. As to that there seems to be difference of opin. ion. Some growers claim that the climatic conditions were bad. thus accounting for the fact that this year there was no oyster "set" in the planted shells. However. down at Wsapor and Norwalk oystermen said there was fairly good "sst" this season. That does not mean an oyster famine. however. as there are plenty of the toothsoms bivalves
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
COLLECTING WOOD
 IS DOCTORS HoBBI

Topeka, Kan - (U.P.) - Dr s. T. Willard has a unique hobby. that of collecting different varieties of wood. Tn his collection, which con- tains 700 various pieces of wood from all parts of the world. he has the lIghtest and the heaviest of wood.
 There is a piece of balsa wood from South America. the softest and the lightset wood known; the ilgnum vitae from tho West fn- dies is the heaviest
 The large assortment of wood are small slabs. usually about f-2 by 5 inches. An index Ale is with the collection. giving all the data ever known about the material
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

under water that will be placed on the market. It may mean in future year there will be shortage. Howsvsr. there was fine "set" in lo30. which insurss an excel lent crop this year. Failure of the growers to secure a good set this season though. may cost them as high as $3.000.o00. since it is the third successive year that the sets have failed. That's not SO encouraging but we'll hope for the best and that our great appetite for the slippery fellows won't ex- eeed the supply.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
Law Not To Blame

As q nation. when anything goes wrong we always think there ought to be law" So we enact a new one, or lot of new ones Then maybe things improve little. and maybe they don't. If they do improve. it may be the result not of the new law. but of the moral impulse accompanying it. A committee of the Michigan State Bar Association says that nearly every specific instances of injustice may be laid not to the law itself. but 10 the error of policemen. jurors lawyers or judges concerned in the case.
 "The public" the report continues "has a tendency 10 blame the law ss law The svsfaas iayman makes no distinction be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
Here, There And Euerywhere

ultimate outcome, but in view of what the people of Kansas are do- ing at the present time. the chances seem greater that 1t would line up with the rest of the nation for re- peal. Only determination to be unique seems likely to keep Kan sas in opposition should . vote be taken
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

Long an offer Of si,000 q day and expenses to appear with what Is described as the most complete collection of freaks ever assem- bied. Until that time. however. the public will have to be satisfied with Mir Long's appearance on the platform and in the senate, with occasional glknpses of the red- headed gentleman from Louisiana sprlntlng from . wrathful pursuer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

If President Roosevelt tries to put through his seasonal tariff plan he may run into some opposition from Americans who have built up nice trade in hothouse vegetables and fruits It is almost possible now for the northern United States to secure fresh vegetables and fruits. even when out of sea- son, through scientific raising. Tine Presi- dent would allow South and Latin Ameri- can countries to ship in their fruits and vegetables free to us during our winter sea. son. It's all right SO far as we are concerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02
Personal Health Service (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., 1933-09-02

High tide at Milford Sunday, September }. ll;2s p. m., daylight time; low tide, 5;5l a. rn., daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

Maybe it's jealousy that makes bee buzz into the buzz-wagon and sting the driver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

A writer in the New Republic says the World Economic Conference represented the swan song of internationalism. Sound cd from here more like crows than swans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-02

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:54, daylight time, tonight.