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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
Here, There And Euerywhere

Recourse was had to the courts, and an injunction was granted in the superior court and sustained in the Connecticut supreme court against further mutilation of the head from tho south side, the lease having contained q clause that the quarry company should quarry at any point visible from Mount Carr mel avenue. But this year the company prepared to blast on tho north side. As announced within the last flow days, tho park asso- ciation has bought the remaining years of tho lease. Tho full amount of the purchase money, $30,000, has not been raised; in fact, only s1.000 has been paid down and tho balance must be collected before the 18th. But there evidently is confidence in New Haven that it can be done. This is to be hoped for. both on account of the inter- est of this peculiar mountain for nation and the desirability of its preservation as a pak and because the success of one such endeavor anywhere in New England makes others easier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

finals by Germany, no explana-
 tions were given and no excuses
 made" he says. "England took her
 defeat without comment and hoped
 for better luck next time. If their
 tennis reporters had taken . differ-
 ent attitude. they would have been
 severely reprimanded by public opinion. The answer is that Eng
 land does not take her sports too
 seriously and realizes that excuses
 and alibis are not consistent with
 sportsmanship and playing tho game" But since the American
 press and public are hard losers.
 MT Prentice does make explana- tions. Why Mr Vines failed to live up to expectations, what Mr Beardsleys connection with the team was, why Mir Tilden's offer to coach the team was not accepted-s because, MT Prentice wrote MT Til.
 den "I think the boys will have all the tennis they should prior to the challenge round although as he points out earlier in the report
 'keen competition, such as the British had in their match with Ausutralia prior to playing us. was what we really needed, ,'-these are the main points in the explan. ation. MT Prentice is better qual. filed than any other man to explain ] the defeat. One cannot but regret. with him, that explanations were necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

less than a wise-eraek. ss Michael Eidsness. Jr. of the P. O. Department at Washington puts it. We agree with Mr Eidsness. The criticism smaeks too much of commercialism. If it was started by philatelists it reflects no great credit on them. From philatslie stand- point the stamp may not constitute great contribution. But it wasn't proposed for this purpose. And we agree with Mir sEidsness that -four figures goose-stepping with mili- tary precision would be justly open to crit icism from every point of view" Why not accept the stamps at their face value (three cents to you and me) and let it go at thatl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
NRA, a Splendid Thing

More and more it becomes clear that DO matter what direction the great NRA pro- gram is taking us it can hardly be regarded ss more than a tentative first step. If it fails, the second step will undoubtedly be productive of even more fundamental and far-reaching changes than those which have already taken place. We cannot cancel years endeavor and sit back to wait for something to turn up. We are committed to course of drastic action; if the first act Hops we can only make the second one a double dose.
 But we do not believe that the step will { fail. And it is in looking ahead of the course we must follow it and when this program has succeeded that we shall have to call on all the brain power that the country possess es The NRA program is admittedly an emergency measure. It is an effort to sur- mount a crisis as such, it has to meet the problems of the immediate present and let certain long-range objcctives wait.
 Taken altogether, it is magnificent { thing. But is does leave untouched the fun- damental logical way in which the tremen' dous increase in mankind'S productive ea- pdcity naS Deen dSSOHlPdlisu " i's'h6 VI" employment and poverty. For the present we are trying to meet that problem by im- posing sharp checks on production. We are spending vast sums to keep down our pro- duetion of such basic commodities as wheat, pork and cotton. We are putting oil pro- duction under a curb; we are fixing things so that the great manufacturers may keep from making more goods than they can sell
 For the period of the emergency. such steps are good. Sooner or later, however we must find d better way of meeting the prob lcm. It is physically possible now for the world to produce at such rate that every mortal can have all that he needs of every thing. Somehow, once a fair measure ot prosperity has been restored, we must ind ont how to do that We shall have to start thinking about increasing production, ln' stead of checking tour fields. our mines our factories and our wells must bring forth more instead of less That is the diree- tien toward which the next step after the NRA program must carry us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
IN III ] NEW |
 | WORK
By paUr HAFRIsoN

0X EAQA MAANHMtN0lN q New Yorlx.-This Jose Iturbi Spanish ianist-conductor who has taken Mexico and New York by like . musician that he sometimes has trouble getsing past the door lmmn at his own concerts. He Is sS now and calming down q little, but he still. likes to box and drive the fastest cars ana go out on late parties.
 All his managers have had chronic case of jitters because of what boxing Is likely to do to his hands. Iturbi just laughs and says that he always wanted to be a conductor anyway and that a broken fist wouldn't keep him I- from holding q baton.
 He had 6 rather unorthodox be- ginning for Q great artist--spent most of his youth playing in movie houses and cafes in Switzerland. At 20 he got job playing in Q hotel lin Zurich, where he attracted SO much attention that the Conserva- tory of Geneva offered him . job on its plane faculty. 'Iturbi had had little formal instruction, 90 he didn't know much about teaching at first, but he stayed six years. 'Iturbi is breathlcssly cnthusi. astic about things American, l like jaxx music and spends occa- sional evenings in Harlem when | he ts in town. A French con- cern makes Q special perfume | for his use, and anybody who
 sncexs about 1t is likely to get
 poke in the eye. <
 A Real "Play" Boy
 When Iturbi was here first in ll92o he was taken up by the
 Kahns, the Adolf Lewisohns and
 others of the high-hat musical crowd. But he didn't enjoy thom much because when he isn't playy linz he doesn't like to talk about music, just wants to be gay.
 He's on his way back to Europe Inow, having promised to return
 this fall for long American tour.
 sandwich Women
 There Is high premium on
 originality, even in the sign-Narry- ling business. Ordinary sandwich
 men, those pathetically hopeless
 looking down-and -almost-outers lwho trudge tho sidewalks encased lin Q couple of miniature billboards, lare paid at most a dollar c day, land some of them 75 and even 50
 cents. The Blue Eagle hasn't heard Iabout them yet .. M. II A woman. though. can make
 Q very fair living at the dreary
 work, especially if she's pretty.
 The sheer novelty of sandwich
 girl (there are only three or four of them about town) always att tracts plenty of stares and com mont.
 The only one of them who has ! really gotten up in tho world is Miss
 Belle Kalister. She goes about on . lstilts. Miss Kalister Is IS and came from Johnstown. Pa, las' winter to work as Q stenographcr Jobs were so scarce. though, tha' ] Ishe was about to spend her las' , flew dollars for . ticket home , Iwhen she met . young man wht l lhas been stilt-walking for yehrs and doing very well at 1t sh' liearned how to walk too and they
 went into partnership and have , been much In demand ever since , Its strenuous work. and they car . keep At 1t only four hours . day But the pay is $ic . day each , (which ia better than the Blue Eagle , has done for stenographers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

Although we have been reading that this has been particularly bad season for mos quitoes. due to good breeding conditions, we read with some interest last week that a recent mosquito survey of New England is going to cut down on the number of swats you and and everybody else who is plagued with the biters have to give. It seems the C.C.C. Civilian Conservation Corps to you) has been hard at work on the mosquito question. The facts that it unearthed will enable off cials to get rid of not merely the pests but their breeding places. The latter work is. of course. the most important. It's fairly easy to get rid of mosquitoes by exercising the right precautions. But to prevent them. breeding spots, that they might choose. must be oblterated. And by obliterated we mean just that Swamps must be filled in so that they never again will resemble swamps. Streams must be cleaned of lurking spots. such as trash and cans in which the mosquito lar- vac might find suitable home A study of the habits and lives of our native New Eng land mosquitoes has been thoroughly con- dueted. Using it as a means to an end the unruly mosquito will be hunted down in his lair and there promptly executed. Vaea- ton lands have often been ruined for want of little mosquito eradication.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
THE SLEEPING GIANT SAVED
(springheld Republican,

Another of New England's natu. ral curiosities appears to havo been saved after many difficulties. This ts the mountain down on the maps as Mt Carmel but otherwise known In Connecticut as "The Sleeping Giant" To tho north of New Haven, "out Hamden way" as the Journal Courier describes it,, Ito tho right of the College highway Gas one goes north), the Giant re- clines, complete from Washington like profile to upturned toes"
 TO generations of New Haven boys, some of whom never could get an equal thrill even from the cave Tn which the reglcides hid atop West Rock, the sight of the Sleeping Giant across the horizon has suggested the romance of vast upheavals--the answer to the jaat trump when the dead awake, and suck dire imaginings. But there has been danger for a score oi years that the Giant would be de- stroyed. "As you approach" says the Journal Courier, you note that a portion of his head has been shaved bald and a huge piece gouged out"
 Tn 1911 the owner of that por- tion of the mountain gave quarry company a 20-year lease, with re- newal privilege, to take rock from a section of the Giants head. This led to the movement to save the Giant. The Sleeping Giant Park association was formed and began to buy up the mountains. but was baked by that lease. In. 1880 the association bought the head, pu, the lease and renewal right still menaced the Giants profile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
After All the Shouting!

After all the shouting and hullaoaloo created by the republicans this summer they have fallen back into prosaie ways. In short their action of last Friday night to the aver age voter indicates that they are still party without driving force. We make this state' ment with due regard for admirable qualities of the individual candidates. Nobody IS questioning the fact that they are all finc iel- lows It was to be hoped that the republl' cans would at least nominate some hne fel- lows to run against the very fine fellows that now hold office in the democratic adm'nstfa' ton.
 It seems to be the eoneensus that the s.o.p ticket of 1893 is weak. This should not be construed as slam at any member on it. Take them individually and they. rate high on the list; put the ticket together and its just another set-up. As we understand it. democrats were quite pleased with the makeup of the republican ticket. They ad. mtted there were potential candidates in re- publican ranks who might have given them some worry. As it now stands they are quite expeetant of returning to office in October without one casualty.
 The casualties, it begins to appear will be in the republican ranks. They were forced to drop two of their members on the present board of aldermen to make room for other nominees. And the presence of E. Robert Stevenson. editor of the Waterbury Repubi- ean-American on the slate of candidates for the board of education neeessitates fight by every one of the present members to retain his or her place.
 Whether or not these tactics will sit well with the already disrupted republican ranks remains to be seen. At any rate it is quite clear that the tactics that the republicans have adopted of recent years, whether they were those of the official party or the faction that is republican simply because it eritieizes everything and anything democratic admin istration does are not productive of the re- suits desired. We anticipate democratic vie- tory next month, although we feel that some few of the republican candidates will go down fighting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BOnehead the Druggist

I tried to have some capsules of reduced iron put up as you recommended My druggist said IS grains of reduced iron at . dose would have a drastic effect He said one CD grain Is the dose for reduced iron. (Airs c. E.)
 Answer-My advice is that you take IS grains of reduced iron after each meal, if you are going to take 1t at all. That dose may be taken in two capsules It may do no good, but in any ease 1t can do no harm.
 Ground Beef
 Is chopped or ground beef any less digest. ible than beefsteek or less desirable for chil- drcn? tL. J.l
 Answer-No. It is advisable. however, tc have tho meat ground in your presence. Dc not accept meat that has been ground in auan. tity and kept in readiness. Such meat is mort liable to be contaminated with botuiism. Copyright 1884, John Y. Diils Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
Paris Letter
By II. l.. PERCY nitcd Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent.
 London (UP)-The difference between British and American con- ltract bridge Is the difference be- ltween chalk and cheese, Culbert- sons methods and bridge played
 This is the opinion of experts lafter the recent raid of Ely Gull lbertson's team on the British pre- lseryes, in which the British met with heavy losses, both financially and in points.
 In the far-off days before Gull lbertson, contract bridge in Britain was played naturally, not to say lnaiveiy. If 1t was thought hand would play well in hearts, so 1t was said. If the partner thought the same, he put the bidding up one, 1.-two, or more, according to the ex- Itent he fancied his hand.
 The Play
 If the hand appeared a good Ibid stronger than the average, the opening bid would tell the world that a contract of two seemed a sound idea. On a stronger hand still bids of three or four were haz- arded. If the partner did not like the suit bid, he would say so by bidding his own suit. or no-trumps. And so on.
 Then came sundry experts, who lsaid this method was wrong. A |contract of two, they said, should lbetoken a stronger hand than a Icontract of three. Partner should Ibid his own suit, even if he did not |dislike the openers suit-it gives a better picture of his hand. About lthis time, too, conventional, oi Artificial. bids that did not at all mean what they said, sprang up. fl British Confused
 British bridge players were con. ] fused, wondering what to do next when suddenly the Cuibertson hur' lricane struck the American bridgs world, levelled all before 1t. ant built up contract on new methodl 1.-the Approach Forcing. Low bid ding became the fashion. so as t' laiiow partners to exchange al much information as possible. This system was making som' headway in Britain, when Coione Waiter Butler, who stood fast b, , I"naturar' or sc0mmonssense" bid , ding. invited Cuibertson to vlsi London and cross swords with him ] lcuibertsen came, saw and con lquered. and the British bridE Iworid eapitulated to Appsoael
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
Our Daily Washington Letter Dog Days Slow Up Regular Government Depart.
 ments in Capital, Not Recovery Forces

Even the Kids
 Children are to be taught to buy their lollypops and Ice cream at Blue Eagle stores.
 That's one of tho plans of Miss Mary Hughes, director of wom- on's activities under General Johnson. Mss Hughos Is In command of 70 state ehairmen, some 5000 county chairmon (also f0male) and m estimated average of hundred active women in each county. Tho big job of thls organization Is to get consumer signatures to agreements to buy from Bluo Eagle stores. Griev. ance committees under 1t will d.. rect and sift complaints.
 A series of prize contests is being organized in the separate states--first prize to the county chairman obtaining the largcs, number of consumer signatures in proportion to county popula. ton, second to the district chair man whose volunteers have obs tained the most pledges, third to the woman who submits the best account of improved conditions n her community due to MIRA, and fourth to the school child under 1b who submits the best story on "What tho MIRA Blue Eagle Means to Me-"
 The flve-and.ten.eont stores will be under the general retail code As wages and prices rise, there won't bo quito as many things you can buy for nickel or Q dime, Here's another community that doesn't find General Johnson's bird q stranger. A letter received hero is written on stationery of Blue Eagle Inn. Whitinsville, Mass. | (Copyright 1033, NEA Service Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
EXPLAINING THE DAVIS CUP
 MATCHES U
(Hartford Courant)

If there ever was Q time when the American public viewed tennis as a sissy" game, that time has long passed into forgetfulness. To- day. not only does the public rec ognize that a championship player is as much an athlete as is half miller or a boxer, but it takes its tennis as seriously as 1t does It's football. When Mir Ellsworth Vines tainted during the match in the Roland Garros stadium, the matter became a matter of national im- portance. as Bernon s. Prentice, chairman of the American Davis Cup committee recognises in re- leasing his official report on the cup matches to the presA
 Concerning MT ,Vines's final match with Mir Perry, in which the American collapsed. Mir Prentice explicitly answers the critics, who charged that the American player should not have been permitted tf compete to the point of exhaustion
 which had no bearing on the re-
 sprained his ankle and finally col l faH1Sos Wc tuunS cfEtS EnVtt V persuade him to stop; he insisted
 on going on, which l consideres
 his privilege, and have the high
 est respect for his gamenesa." Thi
 from MT Prentice should bring aI
 end to the recriminatlonE based ol Apparently baseless press freport
 that Vines continued to play onl
 because the team authorities wouI
 not permit him 10 stop when b had Injured hIs ankle.
 Mir Prentiss critieixes by .ifnpii cation the American press an 1 public. not for sending and beliey . ing false accounts of what actual iy happened. but for the spirit 1
 (which C accepted tho defeat. "Lal ] Iyear, when England was tinexpeel ledIy defeated in the tntef-zou
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

Forced, bought Culbertson's "Bridge Blue Book" and played ac. cording to its commandments. But there were esisters--flotaDy the Portland and the Devonshire clubs. These became strongholds or nat lural" bidders, who regarded the "Blue Book" as . new edition or "Alice through the Looking Glass"
 Open Declaration . Captain Lindsay Mundy. the bridge correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, and a member Of the Devonshire, felt that a couple ol clubfuils of passive reactionariel was of no particular benent te British bridge. So he came ou Unto the open with declaration o' lwar on Approach bidding.
 He contended not only that nat luraw bidding was natural to tn' British mind. but that 1t was essen
 tiaily the right way to play con ltract. All it needed was 70 pc sys ltematized and standardlzed. Cap ltain Mundy set himself to the tasl.
 land the outcome vas his Direc
 Recently the Direct system va lpIayed against Approach Foreinl
 when Captain Mundy's team me culbegtson's four for none Iprixe.
 The Americans won easily by al ] 'overwhelming number of poiptA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

Scientists have lately been tracing the origin of the name Adirondack. In Mohawk, says J. N. B. Hewitt. Smithsonian Institute ethnologist. it means they eat wood or trees" The explanation is that in hard times the Indians would gnaw the bark of trees for sustenanee. However. in the Huron dialect the word meant they, the great rocks. Un. doubtedly this explains application to New York's famous mountain range.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
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., 1933-09-11
So They Say

Air supremacy Is somehow insep- arably linked with air speed. sinca the dawn of history those people who possessed the best and fastest transportation have led the world. --Major General James F. Fechet. U. S. Army (Ret.).
 Our slogan fs still No retreat. no compromise, no surrender" --Dr Y. Scott Mcbride. national dry leader.
 I think have many years of competitive tennis ahead of me.
 Mrs Helen Wills Moody.
 ee would like to be governor of Oklahoma. I will not be coy or indefinite about 1t.
 --Congressman F. W. Marland, cx- oil king.
 The MIRA is designed on tho sim pie principle that 100 men earning $i0 will spend more money than one man earning .s1.000 and 99 earning nothing,
 General Hugh s. Johnson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

They're still arguing about the design on the NRA stamp. Now the latest remark is that in the picture. business is out of step with the farmer. working man. and the woman. All of which to be exact is nothing more nor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

What the country needs for recovery" says an enthusiastic manufacturer, lis afr conditioning" We'll say it docs. Indoors and outdoors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

High tide at Milford Tuesday, September l2, 6:os a. m. daylight time; low tide, l2:48 p. rn., daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

If anybody wants to grow beard 7S inches long. like that Hindu visiting America, it's all right with us. We've noticed that people who devote their lives to raising long whiskers seldom get into other mischief.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 73o, daylight time, tonight.