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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

ZANE GREY. famous novelist. SA caught the largest fish ever captured with rod and reel, . f040-pound Striped Marlin swordfish. JOHN TYLER had fourteen children by two wives. The UNITED STATES, BRAZIL and MEXICO, in that order, are the most populous nations in the. Western Hemisphere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

8:30-Don Carney Dog Chats. 8:45-Collegians male quartet. 9:00-Minstrel show. 9:30-Dramas from Real Life. 9:35-German-Luthern society
 chorus. 10:00-Providence Biltmore or-
 chestra. 10:30-McHale's orchestra.  11:00-Time, weather, tempera-
 ture. review-Bil1 Will
 Hams. 11:15-Midnight Frolic. 12:00-Martin's orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

A. MinsTUa ts ROman goddess Of isdo cian pkiIosOpher noted for his sDiss cTacks.
 All and SDeH informed nodsrns no fe and efficiency of Democrat Want Ads in buying ceiling renting leasing. f
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20
Special Notices

DENTIsTRY-Actu meeting de-
 pression conditions. pr s. l.. Whit
 right. 153 D. Main St. Dial 3-S6S6. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Ofrice of the Supervising Architect, Wash ington, D. C., March IF, 1893. Sealed bids in duplicate subject to the conditions contained herein, will be publicly opened in this office, room 4S9, at 2 p. m., April 3, 1893, for furnishing all labor and materials and performing all work for special exterior lighting fixtures at the United states .postoffice, etc, Waterbury, Conn, in award will be given only to manu- lecturers of lighting fixtures who have previously furnished and in- stalled work comparable in all re- spects with that for which the bid Is submitted, and who can, if so requested, show evidence that they have performed such work in a sat- isfactory manner. Drawing and specifications may be obtained from this office in the discretion of the supervising architect. JAS. A. Wet MORE, Acting Supervising Archi- tect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20
Announcements
Lost ana Found

bracelet, near Cath
 ollie High or St Cecilia's church.
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Professional Services

PLANS-Specifications, etc. Louis A. Walsh, 67 Leavenworth Dt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

EXPERT-Auto electrical and bat. tery service. Modern facilities. A. & P. Battery and Flee. Co. 264 East Main St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20
Business Service

51 Business Services Rendered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

WINDOW CLEANING = You will
 save money if you send for us to
 do your cleaning. Connecticut
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20
Automobiles
Autos and Trucks for Sale

'28 CHYRSLER-"72" Sedan. $275. John J. Collins, Inc. Desoto Agen- cy. 38 Willow St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20
Employment
HeIp-Male or Female

BOYs-And girls, IS to 25. yrs, to act in 3 act comedy. Inquire Miss Matarazzo, "A Kingsbury St. Dial 5-1582.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

LOANS TO ss00--Only charge eH & . month on unpaid balsn6e. Was terbury Mutual Loan Associ4ttoN< Se6 North Main St. Dial es15&5s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

ANNOUNCING -- Tne addition of sheets, pillowcases and table cov- CTS to our coat. apron and towel supply service. Waterbury Towel Supply Co. seq East Main St Dial 6-1377.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

ESSEX COACH 1929 A Real Good Buy .. $125 The Blue Ribbon Garage, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-20

1930-Chevroiet Sport Roadster. Good paint and rubber. Excellent mechanical condition. $l75. Loeh- mann Chevrolet Co. 379 w. Main St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25

half the terms mean that are used today. We often wonder if the men who use them really know their true meaning. To the best of our knowledge President Roose- welt is trying his best to stabilize our cur rency. He is also trying to establish a price level which will insure everybody of a fair return for labor expended or goods sold. He has remained true to his method of doing this in the face of harsh criti- cism. What more can he do than that?
 The thing for the majority of people to do is to acquaint themselves with the financial structure of our nation. We have trusted too much in the past to what we have been told by acknowledged authori- ties. We have seen in the last few years these same authorities proved wrong on too many occasions. Continually harping at President Roosevelt to do this and that won't help us out of predicament. We're not asking anybody to accept blind lead ership, but we do think that implicit trust can be placed in our president. If anybody can get us out of our scrape with entire skins he's the man. Even if this is proved wrong by future events, we will at least have learned that our idols of bygone years were made of clay not the gold which we worship too much for our own good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
Value of Bank Insurance

''We conclude" says the chairman of bankers commission that has been study ing the American banking situation, 'that the way to assure. bank depositors of true safety lies in so improving the banking system that losses to depositors cannot occur, rather than adopting some plan of spreading the losses after they have oc- cured" The commissions report is op- posed to the permanent deposit insurance plan to go into effect next July, after six months of the preliminary plan. The principle suggested is doubtless sound in theory. The practical difficulty, after recent experiences, is that it will probably take several years of sound banking methods, with an unprecedented scarcity of bank failures, to persuade the deposit ing public that American banks are safe. The government backing provided by REC. investments in bank stock will help to assure the public. The insurance feat ure that so many bankers dislike will help still more. The bankers may probably be surprised by the money poured into them next January, when insurance starts. Such an insurance plan has never been tried on large enough scale to be effective. Once installed, on the national scale now planned, it is likely to remain until the public has had chance to forget recent banking history.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
A Bit Too Hasty

It begins to look as if we might have been bit too nasty in urging the heads of the Mutual Aid Unemployment Fund to disband and to forego any further weekly contributions from the workers of the city. Judging by events of the last few days. which have been piling up at rapid rate, the Mutual Aid is going to be needed just as badly this winter as 1t was in the past two. And the contributions of those fortunate enough to retain their positions will be necessary to finance It's most valuable work.
 We thought that with the inauguration of the Civil Works Administration to aug ment the efforts of the Public Works Ad- ministration our worries were at an end. As we understood it, the CWA would immediately take over to federal payrolls all those on local relief lists. This is act ually being done right now But the re- moval of names from the local relief lists to the federal agency simply results in more men and women finding themselves out of employment as their jobs are eliminated.
 Too many people have the idea that Uncle Sam is going to play Santa Claus, simply because the Yule season is not far distant They believe that the creation of the CWA has relieved them of their duty 
 to give employment. They expect the CWA to solve every problem. In time it might, but it certainly cannot be expected to do more right now than was originally planned. It was created to give employ ment through the winter to 100000 men and women who were receiving some form of work through local and state agencies. It did not mean that the federal government would employ men and women who had semi-permanent jobs.
 It is clear that many employers don't realize this and are thrusting help upon the CWA. Only after all names on local relief rolls have been exhausted will the CWA offer employment to others without jobs. Therefore, in this interim we must expect to have the Mutual Aid of Water bury and similar organizations in other cities perform the duties that they have been for long months now. That necessi- ties continued operation of the voluntary contribution plan. There seems little likelihood of the extra burdens of finding jobs for our needy ones will be frightened before next spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
When Prohibition Nearly Succeeded

"The Night Club Era" by Stan ley Walker, appears at just the right moment-when federal prohi- bition is dying. For this is the story of the strange, gay, confused, and darkly ominous structure that was erected in New York on prohibi- ton booze; 8 story worth reading, not only for it's entertainment value, but for its information about the era through which we just have passed.
 Right after the 18th amendment went into effect, says MT Walker, there actually was chance that the prohibition law would work. The public was ready to accept 1t. Even earnest and devoted drinkers were prepared for a long dry spell.
 And then began the develop ment of the bootlegger and the speakeasy. People began to dis cover that it was possible, after all, to evade this law. The devoted drinkers mentioned above saw that they didn't have to resign them- selves to aridity.
 So. presently, the tangled and dismaying web of the bootleg liquor traffic was spun; and MT Walker traces the threads of 1t with wide knowledge and a keen eye for the social implications.
 He tells how the night clubs came into being, who ran them and who patronized them, what they did to the night life of the metro- polls, and how they unintentionally helped createI a tide of anti-pro- hibition sentiment.
 He makes an entertaining book out of 1t, and one that will be a valuable epoch for future gener- ations.
 Published by Stokes, "The Night Club Era" sells for $3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
What's He Doing?

The confusion that is apparent in our midst is never more apparent than when discussion of the monetary situation occurs. No two people seem able to agree on the course our government should take. blind supporters in his present stand on President Roosevelt probably has more directed imitation than those from whose eyes the scales have dropped. But the people to whom we might naturally look for guidance in this emergency are failing us on every hand. Their conception of what is occurring or going to occur is as puzzling as the understanding of some of the terms they use.
 For example, the New England Council Thursday drew up resolution in which it called upon President Roosevelt to stab ilize our currency and foreign exchange. This followed thorough discussion of the financial situation by the six governors of the New England state and talk by Lewis w. Douglas, director of the U. $. Budget. He urged that government credit be retained at all costs and predicted balanced budget in 1885. Governor Cross in his address said, ''We believe in sound money in Connecticut. I'm inclined to say hard money"
 All that is very fine and commendable upon the part of the speakers, but what does it get us or what does it mean to the man on the street. He has no idea what
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25

dated 1888 without the word "cents?"
 A. It commands no premium.
 c. Are white garments cooler than black garments?
 o. Does the patent office re- quire a model to be sent in with each application for patent?
 A. Models are not accepted un- less they are absolutely necessary to an understanding of the inven- ton. The only case in which 8 model is always required, is that for inventions claiming perpetual motion.
 If you want copy of our Bull letin How To Utilize Left-Overs, write to The Waterbury Demo- crat's Washington Bureau, enclos- ing five cents in postage stamps.
 A. White garments are~cooler because white material defects heat and black material absorbs 1t.
 Q. What is, the term of a pa- tent?
 A. Seventeen years.
 o. What is the color of Ken Maynard's horse 'Tarzan?"
 A. White.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
Paris Letter
By LAMAR MIDDLETON

Limited Press Stan COrrespOnuenty
 Paris (UP)-This last outpost of the American bartender, that highly-individualiz saturnine and carmine-visaged servttor, who mixed Martinis and Manhattans with trenchant observations on women, politics and religion, soon will lose some of its most distin- guished members.
 Several more celebrated expa- triated gentlemen, who lied to France 15 years ago when the 18th amendment deprived them of a living, have been offered lu- crative contracts behind New forK and Chicago bars.
 to re-educate Americans, long ex- posed to the crudities of bathtup gin, in the forgotten art of drink ing.
 Their future success, however. seems far from assured. Some or this overseas fraternity, which has served time in Paris American bars, are thought to have grown too effete for the more robust at nosphere of the successor or the oldtime American saloon.
 The fact is that many of these returning barmen have acquired a French or British accent. Moreover most of their jokes have a contin- ental flavor. They have not lost their finesse in concocting new names for old drinks, but whether they can readapt themselves to cur rent American humor. politics and over-the-bar philosophy is far from certain.
 | On the other hand. American bartenders in Paris have not been completely out of touch with tnelr compatriots. For 15 summers they have shaken cocktails for parched visitors from New York and points ] west.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25

0. Give the name of the first American built steamship that crossed the Atlantic.
 A. The "City of Savannah" $50 tons, launched at Savannah, Ga, August 22, 1918. Captain Moses Rogers of New London, Conn, was in command. She sailed from Savannah on May "A, 1919, and reached Liverpool, England, in twenty-six days, propelled partly by steam and partly by sail.
 o. Give the total attendance and receipts of the 1893 World Series baseball games.
 A. Attendance, 164,076 and re- ceipts, $679,365.
 o. What is the real name of Mae Murray? Where was she born?
 A. Marie Koenig; born in Portsmouth, Va.
 Q. What is the population of Louisville, Ky?
 A. The 1880 census enumerated 307,745.
 o. Where is the Hetch Hetchy dam and from what was the name
 A. o'shaughnessy dam named for the builder M. O'Shaughnessy, is located in Hetch Hetchy valleys Calif. The valleys name is of In- dian origin having several intre- pretations. It Is said to apply to certain seed bearing grasses that grew abundantly in the valley and furnished food to the Indians.
 c. Does whole wheat flour con- tain all of the wheat?
 A. It contains in its natural proportions, all of the constituents of the cleaned grain.
 Q. Give the correct pronuncia- ton of toward. A. It is pronounced in two syllables "to-ard"-accent on the first syllabl which is pronounced to rhyme with go. o. What Is the derivation of the word negro? A. From the Latin niger mean- ing black" o. How many members has the Illinois legislature? How many assembly districts are there in the state? N
 A. There are 5f senators, l53 representatives. and 6l assembly districts.
 a. What Is the value of a United States nickel i've cent piece
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
Selected Poem
TRADE MARK. REGISTERED fRy Paul Rayson in The New York

TRADE MARK, REGlSIEktED (By Paul Rayson in The New York
 Sun) When Charlie Chaplin had his feet Insured the press men scored a
 beat.
 Rut here's an item which think should rate a bit of printers ink. Durante's nose is now, they say, Protected in the IT. s. A. By copyrights that cover things :. Like watchfobs. puzzles, foods and
 rings. .. The noblest Roman of them all IS quite determined to forestall Misuse of what has doubtless come To represent tidy sum. We'll, Art is long and fame IS snort And news is something to report, While poets, given to strange sur
 mise,
 Timidly editorialize. O leaves of Vallambrosa. how Lightly you rest upon this brow! The Form Divine will soon be just A trade mark, with archival dust: Nature will have her jest. to make For better headlines. What break! speaking of profiles. there was
 Dante.
 How does he rank with Jim Dur
 anfa2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
In New York
BY PAIL HARRISON

New York = The Lindbergh plane has name. Painted in neat little letters on each side of the fuselage. well forward, is the word "Tingmissartoq" and 1t has been there ever since Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh left Greenland on their way to Iceland.
 Apparently no one in Europe thought to question the strange inscription, perhaps believing it to be some sort of serial number, or make of engine. Anyway. it was not until a Pan American Airways official connected with the north- ern aerial survey returned to New York that the story of the chris tening was revealed.
 It seems that when the First Family of the air was preparing to fly on eastward from Angmagsalik, on the east coast of Greenland, a crowd of Eskimos stood on shore and watched attentively. After chattering among themselves, a delegation approached the Colonel. You ship got no name?" asked one in outlandish, Greehlandish English. Lindy shook his head. 'We want you ship got name" ," said the spokesman firmly. "OK," said the flyer amiably. Maybe you got name ship?" "Tingmissartoq", replied the Eskimo. All the rest of
 the natives nodded violently. "That say The Big Bird.' We get man paint good"
 Sure enough, there was an
 Eskimo with a little can of n0int and a brIlSh
 Anne Lindbergh and Lindy both liked it. So the letters were care fully applied and pretty soon The Big Bird roared away into the east.
 Poems to Order
 There was some comment here the other day on the fact that orators no longer have to write their speeches, authors their ar ticles, or comedians their jokes because there are concerns which do those things for hire It turns out, though, that the age of specialization has progressed further than that. for poets no longer have to write their own verse.
 There are three or four poetry doctors in NewNYork, but the busi- est is MT Anton Romatka, who has a little office on East Four tenth street where he works serenely at his trade, unmindful of the uninspiring din of traffic in that quarter. He says he is more critic and editor than a poet, for he doesn't do much entirely original work. But he does take stumbling little stanzas and polish off their meters and rhymes and awkward metaphors until their first authors won't recognize them.
 Many of these verses ob-
 yiously are intended for the
 furthcrance of love affairs;
 others are aimed at lnaga-
 zines. Some people want n
 shiny new poem written
 around an idea. MT KO.
 matka says he has nearly 2OO
 regular customers, among
 them a couple of doctors; an
 engineer, n Texas minister
 and an Indian life insurance
 company president.
 Dog Exerciser ..
 Another task New Workers don't have to do is exercise their dogs. Miss Janet Mack, who raises ana sells dogs as a principal vocation. is also in the exercising business .N It all started when her neighbors in a lower Fifth avenue hotel began asking her to take out their dogs while she was walking her own house pet. She got tired of that pretty soon and said she would play rlursemaid for $10 per dog per month Business was so good that she had to hire four uniform ed men. who call for the dogs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25

If we were opposed to road projects, we wouldn't approve the plan, long con- sidered, of building roadway along the backbone of the Green Mountains in Yer mont This scenic route has long been discussed in that state. It seemed that with the aid of federal funds it might be started. We have just read that Wash ington has approved $50,000 item with which survey of the proposed roadway will be made. The total cost of the pro- ject would be in the. neighborhood of $10,000,000, which isn't vast sum when mighty roads are considered. The plan includes not merely the construction of highway but the setting aside of great tracts of forest land, through which it will pass, such as state parks, forests, natural wild life sanctuaries, etc. We don't know how the hikers will regard this intrusion on their paradise, but we're inclined to think it will merely add to their number by making the Long Trail and it's side trails more accessible than they are right now. Inasmuch as the job would employ 1000 for over year it's certainly move in the right direction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25

Washington, Nov 25.-J. P. Morgan, Charlie Mitchell, Albert III. Wiggin end other big bank ing boys are to be called back to Washington They are to be put on the spot again before the Senate Banking Committee, but in a much more subtle way
 Having pulled them to pieces and virtually ridden them out of town on Q rail, Ferdie Pecora is now going to stage the magnanimous act He Is go- ing to ask them what is wrong with banking. He is going to ask them for remedies. He is going to ask them to suggest remedial legislation to congress. The chapces are that the barking boys will have nothing but worn out formulas to sug- gest, which will give the commit tee an opportunity to say the bankers failed - and then intro duce any legislation its members desire. The butcher who
 usually supplies the White House with meat, complains that 10 POOA AsAAo Roosevelt is always out of town," he says .. |. Mrs Sumner Welles, wife of the sagacious Ambassa- dor to Cuba, has a weakness for homeless dogs. She brought three stray CUTS back with her from Havana.
 FORD AGENTS WARNED
 Ford agents all over the coun- try have been cautioned to be ex- tremely careful about violating any MIRA terms. Even though not under the automobile code, they must lean over backward to observe it. Greatest irony of the state department to date: Announcement that 1t re- ceived the resignation of Harry F. Payer as assistant secretary of state with regret" Nothing pleased the career boys so much since Captain Eugene Regnier ceased to be military aide to Sec- retary StimSon Secretary Wallace has made an investiga- ton of Guy Sheppard, former vice president of the Cudahy Packing company and now work ing for the AAA, whom the Fed eral Trade Commission reported as sabotaging its meat packing investigation. It charged Shep- pard with destroying letter and having it re-typed in censored form. Wallace found that the
 letter had been re-typed with the permission of the federal trade commission examiner be- cause it contained some profanity which put General Johnson in the class of Sunday school teacher So Wallace has whitewashed Sheppard.
 NIMBLE-FOOTED
 Robert F. Kelley, the state de- partnlent's Russian expert, is 8 versatile young man .. He spent q decade digging up ammunition against the Soviet Union. There was nothing too derogatOry he could say about it. He did his best to steer Hughes, Kellogg, Stimson away from Russian recognition But with the new deal for Russia, Kelley is Q guest at functions for Litvinoff. He Is regarue0 as. the great ana good friend of the Soviet He has never been in Russia in his life. Bill Bullitt, first American ambassador to Moscow, was asking the Russians who was the most popular author in the Soviet. They replied General William s. Graves, commander of the American Expeditionary Force to Siberia. In his book, Graves gives the Bolshics swell break.
 THREE WORD DIPLOMACY
 The grandmother of Henry Morganthau, Jr, acting secretary of the treasury, was 8 Guggen- helm. Mrs Henry Jr, vigorously resents press statements that her husband will merely take orders from Roosevelt. To-day's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-25
So They Say

The turn to imitation is like surgical operation on the human heart. The surgeon has leeway of only one mistake and, if he makes it, the only other help needed will be the undertaker.-Bernard M. Baruch.
 I don't want to be accused of be- ing a pagandist-Michael Kal- inin, president of the U. s. s. R.
 We ought not only to shorten the hours of toll and labor, but we ought to limit the right of wealth to entail itself from one generation to another.-Senator George Norris.
 If we could put the producers of durable goods back to work, and keep them productively employed. the depression would be over.-Coi Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland econ- oDist.