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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-26
Negro Case in Boston Continued
 Until February

Boston, Jan 2G--(UP)---A con. tinuanes until February { w1D 0r' d0red today when George Grave ford, negro wanted in Virginia in connection with the sl0ying of Mrs AgnoB flIsloy and n maid, was hrs Tnigned in municipal court on q charge of being h fugitive from Justice.
 Judge Elijah Adlow Orderoh Crawford hold without ball, hH nc bhs been since being identified through hngerprints nB n negro sought in the Virginia murder case, Meantime ht tho state House q hearing on ths eEtraditl0n Of CrHWfOrd WnB resumed,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-26

62b,00O.
 RediBeounts to regional asrieul. tural credit corporations -- s7,sSb,- O72.
 Railroads -- es,g0O,s0t.
 Tho bank loan authorization iH. ciuded.
 C0nnoetlcut---
 Bridgeport, The American Bank and Trust Company, Si04,000. Bridgeport, Tho Amreienn tInnk and Trust Company -- sf0,000, :. Bridgeport, Tho Comm0relnI Bank and Trust Company--Sia,00O Bridgeport, Tho C0mmerGlni Bank and Trust Company, s60 900, Bridgeport, The West Side Hank -s67,000.
 bridgeport. Tho West Side Bank --S3i,000.
 New Haven, The American Bank and Trust C0mpany---tD0,O00,
 Maine
 Portland, Casoo Mercantile Trust Company - s200,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-26
December Itcport

December Report
 Washington. January 26 --tUP) --- The Reconstruction Finance Corporation during December au. th0rized loans tOtnlling ss0, 103,' 572.83 Co banks, building and loan ngsooiationa, agricultural and liyo- stock credit corporations and rail' roads.
 Tho report of tho e0rp0ration's December activities wnH filed to. day with the el0rk Of tho house.
 The December report showed loan authorization ns f0llOwsi
 Banks and trust G0mpanioB, in' oluding sb,b23,70e t0 ro0rgnnixo closed banks --- s49, ,73s, 0oB.7O.
 Building and loan ass0eintions-- S4,O77, 064.36.
 Insuranco companies .-- s4,4ob,- 723,03.
 Mortgage loan compnnies -- e2,7D2, 802,6f.
 Joint stock land banks - l..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-26
Only 2,000 Autos in State Found
 in Condition

Hartford, Conn, Jan 26--tUP)-- of the t3,073 automobiles examln. ed on the highways in 1082 by in. HpeGt0rs of tho department of mo. tor vehicles, only 5000 were found Co be AatlsfnGtO from h safety standpoint it was announced to. nAX,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-26
AIfEN Ig uEf.D

Hartford, Conn., Jan. gg--tUpc s-Angal0 p0lIettn, aH alleged itsi. ion alien, was held ln the. court portaiioD warrant lie was arrested last night og the Noble Model farm et MiddIebury, where nc was employed.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
LISTEN, WORLD
BY Elsie Robinson

When the Christ Was Born
Midnght-and stars.
Bare, windswept hills and budding flocks Of she
A StraWheaped manger in a peasants hut.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
Even Manufacturers Want It

A Federal Sales Tax to Replace the Income Tax
When the Hearst newspapers years ago advocated
Federal sales tax substitute for the
fair easily evaded income the manufacturers the
country their hind legs and protested srenuouy
Times change.
A Washington dispatch reads:
"Brandng income taxation 'unrelable,' the
National Association of Manufacturers urged
ADOPTION OF A FEDERAL MANUFACTURERS
SALES TAX before the House Ways and Means
Committee today
"Jan,es A. Emery counsel for the association,
said the Federal sales tax should be adopted sup
plant the special and emergency force.
He said
":Entering the fourth fiscal year Of deficit and
fe%s 21Sf 5e3t s II the oE face Of the
TAXATION, the serious consideration of gross
Federal sales tax WITH EXCEPTIONS FOR F0OD,
CLOTHING, AND MEDICINE, a substitute for
the many existing special sales taxes and
gency LeUieS.'"
That is different tune from the one the manufacturers
were singing only few years back
In those few years the predictions made by the Hearst
foid ON '''D'' HDADl'
We shall 90 into the crookednes and chicanerv con-
neced with the income tax the it is legally evaded by
the big fellow but extracted to the ueros farting
the little fellow.
You know about that now
Neither shall go the miserable supplementary taxes
which have been imposed to bolster up the income
the retail sales taxes the excise and all the other
nuisance taxes which make life burden for the honest
business
itself has learned by hard experience the defects of these
taxes and is rapidly reaching frame of mind favorable
the Federal manufacturers sales tax
That tax adequate it is economically collected AT THE
SOURCE and it hardship on the manufacturer the
dealer the consumer.
it had adopted here before the depression the lot
of the average taxpayer would far easier and the
task of raising adequate would have been immensely
smplified.
However better late than never.
Congress and should it at its session for the
benefit both of the Government and Of the country
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
Three-Minute Journeys
By Temple Manning

If you are bored with the
usual round when travelling, we
can guarantee that you will find
it most interesting to visit the
ruins at Ostia and tarry a
while as the work proceeds. AS
likely as not you will find II
Duce himself inspecting the
latest discoveries.
The houses at Ostia seem
even more real and closer to
us than those Of Pompeii, be-
cause they approximate much
more nearly the model on
which modern houses are
built. The latest excavations
have disclosed houses three or
four stories high.
A tour Of the ruins begins
with a group Of tombs, some
of them for the interment and
cremation of whole families, as
we'll as for groups of workmen.
There are Sarcophagi of terra
cott.. and marble beautifully
carved. The main gate. the
Porta Romano, was once COW
cred with marble and decorated
with a beautiful statue of the
Minerva of Victory, which has
been placed in the open space,
to mark the beginning of the
main street of Ostia, the de-
cumanus maXimus.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
Penal Institutions
A Dangerous Condition

The approaching session Of Congress should give serious
and favorable attention to the pleas which being made
for the Improvement of the Districts penal institutions
One Of the serious and dangerous phases prison work is
the tendency to overcrowd institutions housing those
victed Of crimes
Such condition presented at the reformatory Lorton
That institution designed model Of the progressive
type of reformatory attempting handle twice
many prisoners as it was built to hold.
In any prison that condition is bad reformatorv of
the Lorton type it is
So long crowd the criminal type in this way we in
wife rebellion and riot We had instance of this not so
long ago at Lorton.
That instance must not be repeated but it will be repeated
unless the institution enlarged to take of the
population.
similarly bad condition exists at the District Jail
The jail is an old and out-moded structure.
How serious trouble has been avoided that institution
mystery and at the time tribute to the men who
have been in charge
For many years conditions the jail have been recognized
by District officials.
Colonel William Peak superintendent at Lorton used
to make an appeal for jail regular part of his an
nual report while he in charge of the latter institution
Those appeals have been dregarded and the old jail has
steadily grown
Pleas for the Improvement of Lorton and the building of
new jail will be placed before Congress this winter They
should be needed.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23

leap from my berth and strangle
him with my bare hands, but,
as I lie there determining to go
back to sleep just to spite him,
I realize that of all people, Pull
man porters have a right to be
peremptory in their signals that
it is time to get up. With a
whole carful of sleepers to whip
into shape, they must have a
pretty tough time of it.
Sometime I would like to read
an article by Pullman porter
detailing the responses-and per-
centage of direct successes-he
gets on his morning rounds.
There is ? man who sees human
nature at it's worst.
But, granting the porter's
right to make a beast of him
self at awakening his charges,
who else is justified in being
uncharitable about the act?
Certainly not friends or rela-
tives of the sleeper. And yet
among these we find the worst
offenders.
There are some people who
undergo a complete change of
nature when it comes time to
get someone else out of bed.
Ordinarily they may be sweet
natured, considerate Christians,
loath to offend and slow to com.
mand. But when the time comes
to awaken somebody, fiend-
1sh CLEAN comes into their eyes
and their hands witch in an
ticipation.
LET me get him up" they
sometimes beg. "I'll do it."
Two fangs appear over their
under lips and a hump on their
backs, and they tiptoe to the
bedroom where the unsuspect-
ing victim is lying, like YAM
pires on some grisly Grand.
"Come on. come on!" they
shout with glee. Time to get
up! Time to get up!" With this.
and before the sleeper has a
chance to scowl and gag him
self into consciousness, they
yank the covers back or shake
him violently by the shoulder.
] do not hold with Governor
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
"AWAKE, AWAKE!"
By Robert Benchly

Rolph in the matter lynching,
but I would not wait for any
orderly process Of the Law with
such people as these. You
couldn't really call it lynching
if I did it all by myself, single
handed.
The late Jack Pickford had a
little Whimsey of firing a re-
volver off in the room Of the
sleeper. This I do not consider
one-tenth as despicable as the
personal attacks of those who
pretend that they are doing only
their duty.
A revolver fired to awaken a
man is definitely a violation of
all codes, a thing so horrendous
as almost to be funny. There
is no pretense of being anything
but a cad of the first water,
and I am not so sure that, if
awakening has got to be per-
formed, a good revolver shot by
the ear is not the kindeSt
method to adopt. At any rate,
the sleeper doesn't have those
first awful seconds when he
thinks that maybe, if he were
to pretend to be dead, he would
eventually be let alone. He
knows that he is dead.
But the hypocrits who, al
ready being awake, cannot bear
to see anyone else sleeping, and
yet have not the nerve to shoot
a gun off, but must pretend
that they are doing it for
your own good-these are the
denominations. AS they leer
down at you, after their vicious
Come on-come on!" so SNUG
in their superiority and so sure
that they are doing the right
thing" they represent the worst
element in our civilization-the
Brothers Keeper.
If anyone feels that he has to
awaken me, I would suggest
that he purchase a set of those
mellifluous dinner chimes or a
small harp, and walk slowly up
and down beside my bed, play
ing something that he knows
how to play. 1t may take a
few minutes to bring me to,
The Washington times., 1933-12-23

News is not a matter of head
lines, nor altogether of listed
facts. News is like a human be-
ing in the sense that it has a
soul. And the soul of news is
always the story behind it, those
oft-hidden comedies and dramas
and stark tragedies which Turk
behind headlines and the facts.
In Robinson county, N. c.,
live some $4,000 Indians, known
as the Robinson county Indians.
They are a fine and handsome
people. Some have blue eyes.
some have grey eyes. They
speak only the English Ian
guage. They use phrases of
speech that have scarcely been
heard since the day of Shake
speare and the Red-Haired
Queen.
A great tale behind it all. A
brave young woman was Eleanor
Dare, moulded of that stern,
adventurous stuff of the Eng
land of Sir Francis Drake,
Walter Raleigh and Queen Bess.
It was her destiny to follow the
Union Jack across the tur-
bulent Atlantic to land with
her father, Gov. John White;
her husband, Ananias Dare,
and 118 other English colonists
on little patch of sand-rlm-
med green, go miles north of
stormy Hatteras on a June day
in 1887.
Less than two months later
Eleanor Dare gave birth to a
daughter, a blue-eyed, yellow
haired child, they tell us, and
she was baptized Virginia, for
the Virgin Queen and the land
from which she had sprung.
Today. when one crosses
from the Carolina mainland
over the Orville and Wilbur
Wright Memorial Bridge, one
comes upon a slab of granite
which marks the spot where
Virginia Dare was born. Tall
trees surround it, while on a
knoll close by are the ruins
of old Fort Raleigh, much as
they were three long centuries
ago.
Are they indeed, these peo-
pie, the children of the lost
colony of Roanoke, of the blood
of Virginia Dare and that little
band of Englishmen and Eng
lishwomen who vanished as
utterly as the Tribes of Israel,
or the wonder men who raised
up the pyramids of Yucatan, or
the mighty race who carved
beauty into marble in temples
strangled now by the jungles
of Cambodia?
They vanished, these settlers
OF Roanoke, leaving behind
them nothing but word, the
word tCROATAN, carved in tha
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
OStia Ruins


It is well worth taking the
half hour journey out of Rome
to the dead city of Ostia. The
resurrection of this port at the
mouth of the Tiber has given a
new understanding and appre-
citation of the life of ancient
Rome, something that inter-
ests almost everybody. Both
the excellent automobile road
and the electric railroad are
within sight of the river all the
way, and both are identical
with the original road.
Much that has already been
Salvaged is lodged in the castle
at Ostia, but new excavations
are constantly going on. Ostia
was founded about $50 B. c. as
an essentially military town,
and it is fascinating to stand
by and watch students exam
lining the ruins and reconstruct
ing the old city. They have
found that Ostia was fortified
with the same type of wall as
that with which Rome itself
was fortified after it had been
burnt down by the Gauls. But
quite apparently the town took
on a commercial character as
fine buildings and commercial
warehouses have been exca-
waited quite recently,
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
The SelfleSS Spirit
Merry Christmas

Engrossed with the holiday spirit Washington today is
GLIDING the pre- Christmas rush which marks it city Of
generosity and thoughtfulness.
and shops hronged and crowded with thousands
who are thinking of and acting for others.
The ess attitude Of all the Christmas day approaches
probably the significant manifestation of the attitude of
people united by the sufferngs and dseses which, they
have marked ALL have least touched all in degree
There air this year general spirit of help toward
others
No one in Washington will be neglected.
Organizations and individuals whose position such that they
render help to others seeing to that those families
which have larger extent than others felt economic ad
versity shall in this season be remembered.
Particularly appealing the efforts which being made
to reach the children of the poor take to them
of happiness and good cheer
Christmas especially the child time and that of them
should be neglected and forgotten should have his faith in the
benefcence of that merry old gentleman Santa Claus shaken
destroyed is unthinkabe
The fact that Christmas Day falls Monday gives the world
extra day in which to observe the celebration
Here in Washington through the thoughtfuness of Pre
dent Roosevelt that extra day will be enjoyed the full for
all employees of the Government by far the largest group
population having full freedom from the Of work.
There many whose occupation such that they
will have to work today and Christmas Day. But
they will find opportunity to indulge in the tmehonored dis
tributon of gifts and good wishes.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES AND ALL OF ITS EN-
PL0YES JOIN IN WISHING TO ALL OF THE CITY MOST
MERRY AND PLEASANT CHRISTMAS.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23

The art Of awakening people
out Of a sound sleep is one
which needs little refining.
There is too much cruelty
aboard. Being awakened at all
is bad enough without having it
done by a gorilla.
T don't suppose we should
blame the Pullman porter be-
cause he gives those four vicious
tugs at the bottom of your blan-
ket. When it happens I could
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
The Human Side of the News
Intriguing Tradition of Blue-Eyed Indians
Blu Edwin C.. Hill

) bark of a tree. That was all
that Governor White found
two years later when he re-
turned to Roanoke with new
settlers and new supplies.
The lost colony of Roanoke
was the last of Sir Walter
Raleigh's attempts to establish
England on the American Con-
tinent. This tall, handsome
courtier and soldier of fortune
was fighting for first place in
the affections of Elizabeth, the
Queen.
A younger and fairer man,
Robert Devereaux, the Earl Of
Essex, had established himself
in the impulsive heart and cold.
crafty mind of the greatest
woman who ever sat on a
throne. Essex, not yet 20
but already adventurer, soldier,
poet and perfect lover.
But even before Essex ap-
peared on the scene Raleigh
had planned a neat empire in
the western world. He had
sent two vessels to explore the
North American coast.
They told Raleigh and they
told the Queen that the soil
was the most plentiful, sweet.
fruitful and wholesome Of all
the world. They spoke of the
savages as "a very handsome
and goodly people, in their be-
havior as civil and mannerly as
any in Europe.
First White Baby
Of his daughter and her hus-
band, and little Virginia Dare,
and the one hundred and
eighteen he had left behind.
there was not a trace. Only
the word COATAN, carved in
the bark of a tree. 1t was the
name of another Indian tribe
and of another island.
The Governor searched up
and down the coast and deep
into the dark forest. He could
find nothing. Disgraced and
ruined, Sir Walter Raleigh,
gazing westward from the
barred windows Of his prison
in the Tower of London, vowed
he would live to see the day
when Virginia was an English
nation.
And so, Virginia Dare, that
first white baby born on Ameri'
can soil, lives in tradition. lives
beautifully in the legend that
all woodsmen know from Maine
to Florida-that a white doe
roams the forests, a white doe
that only a silver arrow can
Stay, white doe that was once
a beautiful maid Of Virginia.
Copyright. 1898, King Features
.... Syndicate. 1uO.l
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
Twentieth State RatifieS
Child Labor Amendment
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Public sentiment is always
more powerful than special
privilege in shaping the course
of government, when public
sentiment is informed and
aroused regarding a public
cause.
New evidence Of the truth
Of Abraham Lincoln's declara-
ton that Public sentiment is
everything" is to be found in
the action Of Pennsylvania on
the proposed child labor
amendment to the Federal Con-
stitution.
Pennsylvania is the twentieth
State to give legislative consent
to the ratification Of this pro-
gressive proposal since it was
submitted to the several States
in 1924. Pennsylvania Is the
fourteenth State to ratify the
amendment since the beginning
of 1898.
Nine Years
During the nine years that
this amendment has been
awaiting the approval Of the
State legislatures, A. Of the 48
States of the Union have taken
some legislative action on the
amendment. In 81 of these A
States, the amendment has
either been rejected in both
houses, rejected in one house,
or indefinitely postponed by
one body of the legislature at
some time or other.
Of the 20 States that have
ratified the amendment, thir-
teen of them had previously re-
jected it by the action Of one
house or the other of the legis-
lature. All the while in every
State capital the forces of spe-
cial privilege have maintained
powerful lobby opposed to
ratification.
Four States have never taken
any action on the child labor
amendment, a hough resolu-
lions to ratify are pending in
each one of them. These
States are Alabama, Mississippi,
New York and Rhode Island. In
New York, Governor Lehman
recommended ratification of the
amendment by the legislature in
1888. A ratifying resolution is
also pending in Wyoming.
Thus far in the current year,
a ratifying resolution has been
rejected by one house Of the
legislature in the following four
States:
Utah, Kansas, Texas and Ten
nessee. In each instance the
Senate was the body which
rejected the amendment. Tt is
easier for the forces of special
privilege to work their will in
the upper house of the State
legislatures. This is so because
of the 7,4OO members in the 48
State legislatures, only 1,76O
are senators and 5,640 are repre-
sentatives.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23

Prof. Beard points out in his
book on American Government
and politics, that "if we group
the So States with the smallest
legislatures together, we find
that about 1000 members prop
erly distributed between the up
per and lower houses CONSTITUTES
a majority and can determine
the fate Of a Federal amend
ment."
In this connection it is inter-
esting to find that a comparison
of the votes on the child labor
amendment before 1888 and the
votes since that time shows:
That in the States of Kansas,
Texas, Utah and Missouri when
the amendment came up for
ratification, it was the popular
branch of each State legislature
which voted overwhelmingly
for ratification and the State
senate which rejected the rati-
flying resolution.
A shift of four votes in the
Texas senate would have put
Texas on the roll Of honor Of
ratifying States. A change Of
one vote in the Utah senate
would have done the same for
that State. A change of two or
three votes in the Kansas sem
ate would have given the legis-
lative consent of Kansas to rati-
fication.
Procedure Change
In the light Of these facts it
is not surprising that sentiment
in Congress is growing in favor
of requiring all amendments to
the Constitution to be submit
ted to constitutional corven-
tons in he several States for
approval instead Of by the
State legislatures. This is the
way the TWenty-first Amend
ment, which repealed the Pro-
hibition Amendment, was rati-
fled, and it is the way the Fed.
eral Constitution was adopted.
Had the child labor amend
ment been submitted to constitu-
tional conventions in the several
States instead of to the State
legislatures, it would have been
ratified long ago. The reason
why the forces of special priv
lege have been able to delay
ratification Of this amendment
so long is because they have a
grip on the upper house Of
many State legislatures which
the people find it hard to
break.
One way to break this grip
is to require that future amend
ments to the Federal Constitu-
ton shall be submitted to con-
stitutional conventions in the
several States for ratification in
stead of to the State legislatures.
This Congress can do by includ-
ing a provision to that effect
in it's resolution proposing an
amendment to the States.
Copyright, 1898. The Washington TimO0)
The Washington times., 1933-12-23

or it may take a couple Of
hours, but he will at least have
the consolation of knowing that
he has behaved like a gentle
man and not an unconscionable
boor.
And, besides, why does any,
one feel that he has to awaken
me at all? Did I ever ask to
be awakened?
copyright. 1898, King Features
SyndieAt0u Ino.l ,-.-..- u
The Washington times., 1933-12-23

And loneliness, more dark than any nlghG
And poverty, more cruel than any wind
THE NIGHT THE CHRIST WAS BORN.
Born to a gentle, dreaming Hebrew girl;
An aging. weary, village carpenter;
Poor shepherds. without riches. rank or right;
Wise men, who spent their lives in search Of
TO THESE THE CHRIST WAS BORN.
Born for the poor the lonely and the meek;
For gentle dreamers, and those worn by toll;
For watchers who serve, hopeless, through the
night,
And Searchers, who give all to gain the truth
FOR THESE THE CHRIST WAS BORN.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23

These only, in world grown fat with ease;
These only in world grown cruel with power,
Had eyes to the glory of that star;
Had ears to hear the wonder of that song
THE NIGHT THAT CHRIST IS BORN.
Two thousand years ago He came they say,
Yet daily in our midst, the Hope is born;
Always Truth lights the desert like star;
Always Love breaks the darkness like song
FOR THOSE WHOSE CHRIST IS BORN
But only those who serve throughout the night
And bed their dream on life's bare rock and straw,
Can glimpse that splendor, hear that mighty chant
Or, in the valley find the healing peace
THAT COMES WHEN CHRIST IS BORN.
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