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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
The Right Idea

When Mayor William J. Rankin of Hart ford disclosed the latest request of the Con- @ nectieut League of Municipalities Monday. he must have thrown a bombshell into cer- tain legislative circles The request was for nothing more than an emergency holiday by the state on all capital expenditures, in- cluding road building" The proposal, to our way of thinking, is an ideal one. provid ed of course, it is not prolonged There are certain men and women who depend to considerable extent for their livelihood on such activities by the state. But in the main it is good idea to call halt on state projects at a moment when to continue them certainly means more debt for all of us.
 Cities have been forced to eurtail their pro- grams of civic progress in recent years be- X cause of lack of funds. Current expenses < cant even be met by current revenue. When ever an extraordinary expense is incurred it must be met by bond issue or by floating temporary loan. And temporary loans or < Borrowing in anticipation of taxes are costly financial expedients. They involve large in- terest charges which have to be paid in ad- dition to the principle. Taxpayers in gen. serxl might not care to see their cities drop ali forms of activity but for the time being &we rather incline to the belief that such plan may enable us to recover our footing.
 As Mayor Rankin said in submitting his report to the legislative finance committed Our committee feels that the state should suspend all costly activities except those ( required by the emergency, so that the re- sources of the state can be used to solve the state e-wide relief problem. :. :" This pro- posal is in line with the leagues demand for Sz5, 900, 900 bond issue to be alocated to cities and towns for relief work. No doubt much of the money would be spent eventu- ally for public works in which idle labor would be employed. However, there is no need of forcing cities any deeper into the financial mire.
 One of the arguments against this large bond issue is that the small towns would De obliged to help their larger communities out of their difficulties. Inasmueh as most of them are on sound financial footing they don't like this idea. However. they do like to get the same share of the dirt road fund --S17.500 annually - that the cities each get. And the cities pay into this fund and others the major portion of the states in- come. It is high time that the small com munities of Connecticut realized that by mutual support only can we hope to weather the present difficulties througs which we are flounderins. The League of Municipalities may not succeed in selling he state on the idea of abandoning major projects. such ss the Merritt Highway. the Connecticut river bridge. the soldiers home
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

The death of Jefferson De Angelis remov- ed from the American stage one of it's most eolorful figures. De Angelis and De Wolt Hopper were the sole survivors of the hey day of the American light opera, remaining active in their profession. The latter is stilI trodding the boards with bis accustomed ability. De Angelis has been i'll of recent months. but had played important roles as late as 1928. His forte was, of course. the light or comic opera. Although he began his stage career as a dramatic actor he soon was lured to the musical field and remained one of its standbys through the many changes that American drama has undergone in this century. There is vast wealth of material in the career of Jefferson De An gelis. Let us hope somebody can bring it to the public's attention in fitting manner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
Our Daily Washington Letter
STORIES OF THE DAY
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

He is on record as asserting that the United States has only the choice between imitation and the wholesale repudiation of debts.' He has told the farmers that if the United States went off the gold standard, prices would rise at least 20 per cent.
 He favors tariff revision as a means of aiding the farmer.
 He was one of the original pro- ponents of the domestic allotment plan and the bill which he helped frame empowers him to invoke the main provisions of that plan He has favored an orderly re- treat" from millions of acres ot farm land which are now op. erated with resultant huge over. production-and he is now em- powered to withdraw that land under the new rental plan.
 "Out where the tall corr grows" he may not have made it grow any taller, but he did make 1t yield from four to ter bushels more an acre through his experiments in gh-productior corn. He began his scientific re. search as a young man and unti he came here still supervised his own farm at Polk county, Ia.
 A Practical Farmer
 Long ago he -branched into economies and for years has been in contact with many of the coun. trty's leading economists. Among his books are Agricultural Prices" Corn and Corn Grow ing''-a widely used textbook and Correlation and Machine Calculation"
 Chiding judges of prize corn some time ago, he said:
 Show corn ideals deal toe much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the pres. ence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl"
 Wallace has always been prac- tical like that, advising the farm CTS not only as to their crops and the larger problems of their in- dustry, but also on their home lives, their family budgets, their faith in God and their community affairs. Recently he addressed a message to the young farm folks urging them to help keep down expenses during the distress period to wear their old clothes a little longer and to go in for amuse- ments that didn't cost money
 He has three children. He is a vegetarian, regardless of all the hogs they raise in Iowa. His chief recreations are tennis, vol ley ball and badminton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Tomatoes Against Acidosis

n the process of digestion do tomatoes be- come an alkall or an acid? I am very fond of tomatoes and am in doubt as to whether would need an alkaline food to cOunteract the acid. GA. D.
 Answer Liberal use of tomatoes in the diet keeps the blood and tissues normally alka- line. Hindhede found that a daily ration of Il pounds of tomatoes with 1-2 pounds of gra- ham bread and ounces margarin for three or four days produced urine with good solvent power over uric acid As health rule we should eat tomatoes as freely as we like and never mind about metabolisn.
 TurpeDtlne IrrItatcs
 In my work. painting. whenever my hands come in contact with turpentlne the skin burns. itciies and breaks Into little blistcrs. have used soda. boric acid and vasciinc. Wisai treatment would you advisc? tMrs F. E.)
 Answer If you must use turpentine put on heavy rubber gloves. Or apply to your hands before beginning work little castor oil and ianonn. equal parts. and don't wipe too much of 1t off.
 Copyright John r. pIIle Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

Our hats are of to Congressman Francis T. Maloney of Meriden. One of his first campaigns in the 73rd Congress is to be against the tax on bank checks. It was one of many nuisance taxes imposed last July when the Hoover administration was trying vainly to balance the budget We don't know how much the government IS realizing on the check tax nor how banks are faring trying to keep its accounts straight and pay the government the amount 1t should receive. but certainly it has fallen short of its puff pose. It is in about the same class as three- cent postage on first class matter. It should be abolished
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
SHERWOOD ISLAND '(Norwalk Hour)

The necessity for the expansion and improvement of Sherwood Island as public playground is shown forcibly in the report the State Park and Forest commits sioners just released. This report gives the attendance at the park last year as 175,000. The attend ance this year will no doubt be around 300,000.
 The popularity of the park can not be questioned. If 1t can be inn proved as the state park commis- sioners, no doubt, would wish, il would probably draw half a mil lion persons for the recreation and sunshine it can give.
 There can be no argument against the park now. It must be expanded. it's facilities must be ln- creased. There are not at present sufficient bathhouses. It should have scores of places where pie nickers can cook their eh. eh franks, and their hamburgers (an-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
Here, There And EueryuOhere


 other name that should be chang ed) or whatever else they want to cat at the shore. It is admittei. that there are many things to do and under present conditions not, all can be done, but every effort should be made by the General Assembly to do everything possible to give the public chance to en-. joy itself and improve health, both physical and mental.
 It's easy to say pass this $100,0c0 measure and that $100.000 bill. However, when the. health and rec reation of the people of the state, especially the children, is to be considered, a way should be found. even at the sacrifice of something else, to take the best of care of it. We call to the serious attention of the legislators at Hartford this public playground. Sherwood Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
So They Say

I am interested not only in 3.2 per cent beer. but in a good drink of whisky.
 -Representative Claiborne of Mis-
 souri.
 Decentralize wealth Is the com mand of the Lord. Zee Leviticus. Chapters 24 to 27; St James, Chap ter 5.
 Senator Long of Louisiana.
 There is now q feeling through out our associations that the num- Der of rowing women ard girls Is decidedly on the increase. Miss Genevieve Lowry of the Y.
 W. c. A.
 think we shall all agree thai there was never q time when the power of Chfist was more needed in tho world than it Is now. --BiHhop William T. Manning of
 New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

President Roosevelt is firm believer in reforestation Many of his plans include re- forestation of vast areas throughout the na- tion. Not content with that he has just pur- chased 5000 seedling trees from the New York State Conservation Department for use on his Hyde Park estate. The order includes 5000 tulip poplars and 1000 balsam trans plants. If others would follow the Presl- dents example this nation might regain much of its lost glory in natural covering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
New View of
 Pancho Villa

North of the Rio Grande, most of us remember Pancho Villa as bloodthirsty and interruptions bad man who robbed, burned and mur- dered with lusty eagerness untll belated justice finally caught up with him.
 l In Mexico, however, the ordinary man remembers him as sort Of combination of Robin Hood, Doug las Fairbanks and George Wash lington--as a patriot, a hero, an un- conquerable warrior who was mur- dered years ago but who still rides | the desert by night and whose drumming hoof-beats can still be heard, now and then, on lonely roads in the dark. l It is this Pancho Villa who is described in "Viva Villa!" by Edg- cumb Pinchon; and here is biog- raphy which makes the widest Of adventure novels look as pale and thin as pint of skinned milk.
 Villa, says MT Pinchon, has been unconsciously libeled. He used to be bandit, true-but he was Of | the genuine Robin Hood type, and the enslaved peons knew him as a mighty friend. He was the most 1 sincere or all the Hgnl1nS HeH WHo served that 1uckless idealist,
 Madero. He refused to make him. self president when he could have done so.
 First, last and all the time he tried to help Mexico's downtrodden masses. Carranza and Obregon l jobbed him and he had nothing to do with the famous raid on Colum- bus, New Mexico. And when peace finally came he settled down to run a model ranch, still trying to im- prove the peon's lot.
 1 Historians may quarrel with some of MT Pinchon's statements. But his book is the most stirring. romantic and truly exciting biog- raphy of the year.
 Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co, it sells for $3.25.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
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., 1933-03-22
OUR FLEXIBLE CONSTITUTION Felix Frankfurter in the Spring
 Va1a Epvipxv

By its very conception the con- stitution has ample resources with ing itself to meet the changing needs of successive generations. Through the generality of it's lan- guage the constitution provided for the future partly by not fore casting 1t. If the court, aided by the bar, has access to the facts and needs them, the constitution is flexible enough to respond to the demands of modern society. And so American constitutional law is not a fixed body of truth but mode of social adiustmen..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

at Rocky Neck etc.. but tt is bringing home the fset that the cities of Connecticut 'are faced with problem. not of their own making. that is fast escaping control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

legal. provided they conform to the latest die tates of Congress. That means they must not contain more than 3.2 per cen alcohol by actual weight and not by volume.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
ON AND ON

They say the c0untry's drifting, On q raft. Such talks enough to set The average person daft.
 O-O--o
 People were just getting ac- quainted with the ins and outs of the atmosphere when they pulled the stratosphere on us.
 o-O-o This concludes our reguar mid week program. It was broadcast by DBD and came to you through the courtesy Of the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again tomorrow even- ing at the usual hour.
 o--O--0 Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

One of these days some statesman is go- ing to have bright idea and start organiz- ing movement for nations to buy goods from each other.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

Germans Gag Speech and Press" Thank heaven, over here we can still write and talk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
Good evening.
 O-O-O SONG OF THE BEER MUG
"A SMILES THE THING.

Good evening. o-O-o ! SONG OF THE BEER MUG Sing a song of beer mugs Building to the sky. Looking down upon land Laws sought to make dry. Pile on pile of beer mugs, Chanting in refrain. You can't keep a good drink From coming back again." Sing song of beer mugs, Let your voices raise, Beer is sought by millions, Listen to their praise. Man will thrill to lager. Or glass of ale. Some will rush the growler, To you, the old beer pail. Sing song of beer mugs, Building to the sky, Looking down upon land, Laws sought to make dry, Prosperity's returning, On beer trucks, so they cay, We're scheduled for a barrel of fua If you see it that way.
 o-O-o Zangara was sorry because nc newspaper photographers were present at the execution. That chap must have had pink tabloid complex.
 The chap who said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, must be one of those 16-1 boys who tried to make the silver ratio famous.
 o-O-o Roosevelt promises to do some. thing about silver. Siver threats among the gold.
 o-O-o
 It takes more than a waxedi moustache nowadays to put up a stiff front.
 o-O-o Roosevelt plans to put thou. sands of men to work in the for. ests. They'll take the stump foi prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:35 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
O-O-O LINES

Lifc's n journey
 Mid sunshine. grief. For some it's lengthy, For others, brief. O-O-o Germany is reported headed back to a monarchy. Well, if booze can return in the United States, surely anything is possible in Deutschland. O-O-o
 Hitler says he wants to live at peace with his neighbors. By prosecuting Jews he's cer- tainly going about it in a poor way.
 o-O-O France is Watching Germany Headline. Der Wacht Mach Rhine."
 O-O-O
 Soldiers are uniform in more ways than one.
 o--O-o The farm act has congress split once more. The best relief you can give the farmers is get 'em jobs in the cities.
 O-O-o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

Dear little hOarder, Please don't sigh, Your name will grace the papers. By and bye. Roosevelt Thows Out Anchor Headline. We must have been adrift after all.
 o-O-o The ship of state apparent ly came pretty close to issuing scrip of state.
 O-O-O They say rain water keeps the face soft. We wonder then what makes traffic cops look so hard.
 O-O-O
 Rowing machines look thrilling enough and perhaps the idea is to have everybody lend an oar at this particular time.
 o-O-O When dreams come true lot of people will be wary of enjoying a siesta. O-O-o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

Men build proud cities, Spires glOrify n town, Then Mother Earth shakes herself. And 10. they tumble down.
 O-O-o When profits are without honor in their own country, then business is bad.
 o-O-o
 A Harvard professor says college education is like a voyage. I suppose he has reference to the scholarships
 o-O-o If they eliminate bath tubs, in- stalling showers, what will be the use of carrying accident insurance :? o--O-O.
 SOON, NOW
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22

Rain falls on the just, The unjust feel it, too, And 1t is just as well They do.
 o-O-O If they can keep the country on the moral standard, 1t will be a greater feat than the gold.
 O-O-O suppose they consider boiler making a racket, too.
 o-O-O Speaking of dietary architecture, consider the telephone booth.
 o-O-o
 WORDS
The Washington times., 1933-10-17
RAILWAY SUED
FOR PAVING

Suit for $12,352 was instituted
by the District government today
against the Mt. vernon, Aiexan-
dria and Washington Railway
Company, in District Supreme
Court, for paving work which the
municipality performed during
the last few years.
Through Corporation Counsel
William w. Bride and his aSsis-
tant, Francis H. Stephens, the
court was informed that under
provisions of a law the munich
pality may pave streets occupied
by car tracks when necessary
and issue certificates of indebted
ness against the transit corpora
ton.
The suit related that streets
in the vicinity of Fourteenth
and Water Streets Southwest
and the Highway Bridge ap-
proach. occupied by the defend
ants car tracks, were paved with
in the last few years.
The railway corporation no
longer operates street cars with
in the District, its terminal and
tracks having been swallowed up
in the Federal building program.
The Washington times., 1933-10-17
Missing Papers Block Ship Lobby Probe
DR.. EiinStein
Slips Into
Mew York

NEW YORK, Oct. II G.N.SO.
Prof. Albert Einstein stepped on
these shores for the third time to-
day, but he arrived silently, al
most mysteriously, without fan
fare, without parades and ticker
tapes.
Instead, he and his crowd-fear-
ing wife were WhiSked from their
liner to a tug, landed at the bat
terry and rushed away to the
privacy of a hotel, even the name
of which was not revealed.
No interviews, no greetings.
Only smiles from the professor
and started little glances from
Mrs. Einstein for the crowds that
lined the rail of the WeSternland
to see them disembark.
Accompanying the EinSteinS
were Prof. Walther Mayer, Elm
STEMS assistant, and Eileen Du-
kas, Mrs. Einstein's secretary.
When the Westernland reached
her pier, there we're three persons
II liting there FOR the EinSteinS,
DR.. Paul Schwartz, former Ger
man consul, and two cousins.
Norman and Morton Muller. They
had not been informed of the
change in plans.
Within a few days Einstein will
60 TO Princeton University to as
sumo the professorship of mathe-
matics at the Institute for Ad-
vanced Study.
The Washington times., 1933-10-17
Z GIRLS To TRY
FOR AIR MARK

NEW YORK, Oct. IT d.N.s0,
Two plucky girl fliers, Viola
Gentry and Mary SAMSON, will
take their big monoplane "Out-
door Girl' aloft here tomorrow or
Thursday in an attempt for a
new refueling endurance record.
Miss Gentry said today:
'T spent a year in the hos
pitaI for this record and I'm
anxious to make it,"
She will always have. stiff
right arm and SCARED forehead
as reminders of her 1929 attempt
for record flight. She was in
jured and Jack Ashcroft. co-pilot,
was killed when their plane
crashed.
Miss SAMSON, slender Hartford,
Conn.,, blonde, is holder of a
woman's loop record and is a
transport pilot with 468 hours in
the air.
The girls plan to take three
hour turns at the wheel. They
said they would drink two bot
ties of beer daily.
The present endurance record
for women is days 4 hours and
20 minutes, made last year.
The Washington times., 1933-10-17
GRAIN EMBARGO
SEEN W|DENED

BISMARCK, N. D., Oct. II
Q.N.S).-An embargo proclaimed
by Gov. William LANCER prohi-
biting the shipment of wheat
from North Dakota indefinitely
was filed today with the Secre-
tary of State.
The embargo will go into effect
at midnight tomorrow in Amer
ica's largest wheat producing
State. Governors of other spring
wheat producing States will be
asked to join in the movement.
Governor LANCER announced.
The governor announced that
he had issued the proclamation
to restore to the farmers "a buy
ing power with which to main
tain livelihood in the face of
falling grain prices.
He took action after discussing
the move with Secretary of Agri-
culture Henry A. Wallace. If
necessary the governor can sum-
mon the State militia to enforce
the embargo.
The Washington times., 1933-10-17
8 HOSPITALS
PLAN GROUP
WORKDEC,1
Joseph H. Hines Announces
Inauguration of Care to
Help Average Man"

Group disqualification in
Washington will become a
reality by December l, it was
predicted today by Joseph H.
Hines, capitalist, chairman of
the movement.
Nine hospitals in the District
have formally indorsed the plan,
which was proposed at a meeting
of representative business men
here last July, he announced to-
day.
The hospitals are the Central
Dispensary and Emergency Hos
pital, Columbia Hospital for
Women, Episcopal Eye, Ear. and
Throat Hospital, Garfield Me-
mortal Hospital, National Homeo-
pathic Hospital, Providence Hos
pital, George Washington, Univer-
Sity Hospital, Georgetown HoSpi-
tai and S Jley Memorial Hospital.
Mixed Committee
A committee of nine members
will be appointed Immediately to
incorporate the plan and start
operation, he announced. The
committee will include at least
one member closely associated
with the hospitals, one with the
employer group, at least one out
standing physician and surgeon in
Washington, and the remainder
representative business men of the
Capital. He said:
Il will announce the COM
mittee before the enc of the
week."
Group disqualification, as ex-
planned by Mr.. Hines, is for the
average working man." It will
afford employed persons, who
subscribe a sum tentatively set
at SO a year, three weeks of hos
pital care in any one of the nine
hospitals which have Endorsed the
plan.
What You Can Get
Additional hospital care in eX-
cess to the stipulated three weeks,
will be furnished to the Subscrib-
er at a discount of 25 per cent
from the regular charges, he de-
Clared. When admitted to hos
pital, the subscriber will be en-
titled to occupy semi-private
room, receive the general care of
nurses, use of the operating room,
surgical dressings, ordinary medi-
cations. routine laboratory ex-
aminations and board.
E. j. Henryson, secretary to the
health division of the Community
Chest, has been tentatively select
ed as secretary by Mr.. Hines for
the disqualification plan.
Employers throughout the city
will be approached on the plan as
soon as the committee is named.
Hines said.
The Washington times., 1933-10-17
Injured Back Better,
Mrs. Moody Walks

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. II
U.N.SO.-Still resting quietly at
her husbands fashionable apart
ment here, Mrs. Helen Wills
Moody today was able to walk
without undue strain on her in
jured back, which kept the famed
tennis star confined in a hos
pital for several weeks. Mrs.
Moody wrenched her back early
this year and the injury became
so aggravated during her match
with Helen Jacobs for the ma
tional tennis singles champion
ship at Forest Hills that the
former tennis queen was compelled
to default.