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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26

1 A dinner dance at the Hotel FL ton last night ciimaxed the cere-
 monies at which 75 were present. seated at the head table were Mi- chael Angelo Russo. Olga Piota, Angie Carissimi, Rev Joseph Val
 damDrini, Dr A. Eugene Sirica, Mrs Jennie Genua, Miss Rebecca Summa and Anthony Gannuscio. Miss Angeline Carissimi, Miss Louise Meo and Miss Josephine Alleya are charter members of the lodge.
 Those initiated included: Artoifl- cite Carissimi, Phyliss Crafa, Lena Aldorisio, Josephine Alleva, Grace Alleva. Dora Paris. Angela ven- tresca, Bridget Distefano, Blanche Genua, Rose Lerz, Emily and Edith Guarini, Rose Cufila, Mary Coiosardo. Mary Calo. Mary Basil, Antoinette Diorio and Anna Maral- gio.
 Jennie Carlo, Evelyn Colella, Rose and Della Spiotti, Louise Sas- tito, Palma Lamito1a, Aivifa aCs- eric, Sarah Christiario, Mary and Vennie Ortone, Helene Calabrese, Sadie, Mary and Mary A. Mecca. Nellie Rosa. Mary Tisi, Louise, Rose and Eleanor Manfredi, Ann and Rose Capabianco, Marie Pan none, Lucy Pilla, Mary Delano, Eleanor D'Vra, Angeline Ettergini, Mary Musco, Marie Antoinette Nardella, Antoinette Cocchiola, Antoinette Davino and Cclestine Davino.
 Officers of the lodge are as fol- lows: Ex-Venerable,. Concetta Mi- ressi; venerable, Angeline Caris- simi; assistant venerable, Lillian Crafa; orator, Jane Ranando; corresponding and recording sec retary, Angela Gerardi; treasurer, Louise Meo; financial secretary, Ann Aldorisio; mistresses of cer- emony. Olga Piola and Mary Di Mattio; trustees, Mary DeCicco, Ann Perazeili. Jeanette Pettinicco, Rose Solomita and Rose Pelegano: inside guard, Lena Corrideo; sick callers. Grace Alleva and Jean Carissimi: and physician, Dr A. Eugene Sirica.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26

Seaside girls of England are wearing Japanese coolie hats this season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26
Two Decisions
 Common Pleas
One in Favor of Defendant and Another for the
 Plaintiff

Two decisions involving the same defendant were handed down to- day in the court of common pleas by Judge Edward Finn. In both suits the defendant was the Storts Welding company. In one case Jo- seph Adamski was the plaintiff. In this action judgment for the de- fendant was entered. In the other suit the plaintiff was stephen Kecskes. He was awarded $200 damages.
 The both plaintiffs claimed that they were injured. bN a part of the mechanism of the defendants truck which was thrown from the engine while it was being repaired at a gasoline station at the corner of Bridge and School streets, Nau- gatuck. The accident occurred on April 4th, 1892. Both sued for $1.000. An appeal in the Adamski case is expected to be taken.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS

Juan A. Acevedo, post office clerk. New York City; Raquel Foul caud. occupation, none, 36 Roland street.
 John R. Wurzinger, auto repair man. 1,157 Bank street, Inette J. Plumb, nurse, Midlebury.
 John Leen. shophand, Boys Club; Elizabeth Halloran, occupa- tion. none.. 43 Hillside avenue.
 Alfred Medina. toolmaker. Vol colt: Helen L. Garthwait, factory employe, Wolcott.
 Joseph W. Pion. factory employe 43 East Clay street; Cecile Sirois. factory employe, 193 South Elm street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26
HEN ADOPTED PUPPIES.

Marshallville. Ga. (UP)- De- prived of her newly chicks a hen on the farm of Mrs Henry A. Lee took charge of the job of mothering fix fox terrior puppies. The hen drives away the dogs real mother whenever she approaches. When the hen clucks, the puppies rush to her and warm themselves under her wings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26
Y. M. C. A. Conference
 In New Haven Today

The conference of the eastern section of the educational council of the Y. M. c. A. will open in New Haven today and continue tomcr- row and Wednesday. Herbert S. Smith. general secretary of the To- cal Y, will speak on Aiding Young Mems Clubs in Developing the Ed ucational Phases of Their Pro- gram" while Arthur L. Purinotn will speak on Getting Informal Groups Started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26
DUCKS DEFEATED MUsKRATs.

Whitefish, Mont. (UP)-Dueks recently won a complete victory in a war with muskrats along the Whitefish River. near here. accord. ing to J. c. Morgan. Morgan said a pair of ducks routed a large muskrat from a log in a lagoon after a brief skirmish, and thus gained an unccntested right to use the log for nesting purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-26

To relieve the housing shoratge tfle government of Portugal has decreed that new buildings com. pleted this year will be exempt from taxes for sever vAAsA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
MONDAY. APRIL II. 1888.


lDHOGRESS toward prohibition repeal is not
rapid enough. For one reason or another.
the states are not making ratification the
quick clean-cut process it ought to be.
III several states the fault is clearly with
The Governors or leaders of the legislatures
For the most part. these officials are Demo-
Gratis. Thus the country is presented with the
picture of a victorious party tagging at the
very moment it should be carrying out its
election pledge.
Already there is much speculation in Wash
1ngton regarding the false position in which
the President is put by this inaction of certain
OF his party associates in southern and west
ern states Mr.. Roosevelt has shown himself
during the last month to be a stickler on the
subject of party pledges.
On the national side he is making good on
the platform planks in short order-evcn when
that means offending powerful organized
minorities, as in the case Of the veterans cut
and other budget economies.
So the question now is asked whether the
President will intercede with the slow moving
state Governors and leaders of mis- party. One
group of advisers takes the position that he is
overloaded with national duties and has no
further responsibility for ending prohibition,
now that repeal has been presented to the
states and the federal beer law passed.
This group adds that the President should
not offend dry senators who arc anxious to
delay repeal.
But another, and apparently larger group
insists that the party pledge will not be
carried out until repeal is fact, and that the
President, as party leader, not only cam but
should, press Democratic Governors and state
leaders for prompt ratification.
We do not know the Presidents DISPOSE
ton in this matter But we are inclined to
think that he will not stand on ceremony
once he decides that direct public appeal
from him is necessary to expedite repeal.
Even the irreconcilable drys should under
stand by this time that the twilight period of
enforcement, which began with congressional
submission of the repeal amendment and
which will run until the states have acted, is
exceedingly harmful for the country
BY common agreement, the worst aspect
of national prohibition was the lawlessness it
inspired Now that the public generally an
ticipates repeal, there is even less respect for
the prohibition law.
This creates chaos in enforcement. And it
multiplies the disrespect for others. The
morale of the nation suffers from this COM
pound of law defiance and hypocrisy.
The sooner we get rid of the prohibition
hangover, the better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
NOT DEMOCRACY

ATOW we realize, as we have not Tor some
~ time, what a difference it makes who is
President of the United States. This should
cause us to look with new concern on our
antiquated. broken-down system of electing
Presidents.
We make it difficult if not impossible, for
a man to seek the presidency without the help
of one of the old parties, with their manipu-
lated nominating conventions. We disfranchise
minority voters in every state, and even count
the ballots they cast for the man they oppose.
We deny the presidency to a man receiving
the plurality of the nations votes unless it
happens that a sufficient number of these
disfranchised votes have been counted for him
in a way to give him electoral votes. We make
the place in which votes were cast count more
than the total number cast.
These faults would be corrected by the
Norr1s-Lea amendment to the Constitution
abolishing the electoral college and the unit
rule of apportioning electoral votes.
The amendment will be adopted as en-
Enthusiastically as was that ending lame duck
sessions of congress as soon as the American
people become fully aware of the inherent
weakness of the existing system. 1t offends
the sense of fair play, to say the very least,
to realize that in 1912 an electoral college vote
for Wilson represented only 14500 popular
votes while an electoral college vote for Taft
represented 435OOO popular votes; that in
1928 AL Smith had 172,6O2 popular votes for
every electoral college vote he obtained, while
Hoover had 48,18O; that in 1882 Roosevelt's
electoral votes represented 1881 voters each
while Hoovers represented 267,149.
There has not been presidential election
since that Of Cleveland in which the result
would have been changed if the Norris-Lea
plan of counting votes had been substituted
for the electoral college. But twice in our
history the result would have been changed,
and the possibility recurs every four years.
Correction of the glaring faults of our
electoral system will give the country new
confidence in its institutions, the voter new
reason for participating in the most important
function of a citizen.
1t will give an independent candidate assur-
ance of fair treatment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
CUMBERSOME

THE spectacle Of the United States sitting
l. as the court Of Impeachment in the Judge
Harold Louderback case seems to be sufficient
reason for the proposed change in impeach-
ment procedure.
The only thing the senate can do is to sep
arate Judge Louderback. or any other federal
official from his job.
So why should the entire senate give up its
time for hours upon end? Why should a
stream Of witnesses be called before the whole
body of ninety-six? Why should not some
simpler method be used for lnseating an I'M
worthy federal Office holder?
Subject, of course, to senate review and a
senate vote, it is a committee of that body
which decides in the first place the fitness of
a man to become federal judge. 1t is just
as reasonable that senate committee should
decide, in the first place, whether federal
judge should be separated from his job
The senate we'll might re-eXamine its cum
bersone impeachment rules.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
Thanks Due Coo

BY indianapolis Citizen.
Judge Cox has taken a very
worthy stand in his reorganiza-
tion of three bank receiverships
in his court. Had they gone along
as they were, the remaining assets
no doubt would have been dissi-
pated entirely. The depositors of
these three banks should extend
vote of hearty thanks to Judge
Cox.
But who is looking after the in
tereSts of the Meyer-Kiser bank
depoSitors?
The three liquidating agents of
the Meyer-KiSer are all former
officers of the bank. 1t is said
that each of the three is receiving
$4,000 a year, or total of $4,000.
If any statement of the progress
of this liquidation has been pub
I5hcd in any Of the papers. have
failed to see it.
AS a general principle, do you
think it at all desirable for the
officials, under whose manage
ment a given corporation has
failed, to be in charge of the
liquidation" of the said corpora
ton? If their methods were not
successful before the failure, what
magical change may be expected
in their methods after the failure?
Judge Cox found that under ex-
listing conditions one receiver to
a bank was too many; what do
you think of one bank having
three receivers?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
KINDERGARTEN TARIFF LESSON

TARM hands in the cotton belt says the
Il department Of agriculture, earn, when they
can get work, an average of SIS cents a day.
without board-the lowest wages in thirty
three years.
Who can say-with the cotton selling at 5
and cents pound-that the planters are to
blame for these slave wages?
Not many years ago, cotton sold for Is
cents. 20 cents and even higher than &c cents
a pound. Then the cotton field wage scale
ranged from So to SIS day, with board.
The price of cotton started down when the
Fordney- NIcCumber tariff placed a restraining
hand on international trade, and it hit bottom
when the Snoot- Hawley law forced the cot
tonleSs nations of Europe virtually to close
their ports to American products.
OF every five rows OF cotton grown in the
United States. two rows are consumed in the
United States. The other three rows must be
sold abroad or heaped on top of the growing
surplus that drives down the price of the two
rows sold in the domestic market
Our tariffs were raised ito protect the
American wage scale"
Workers in the southern cotton fields well
might ask: TO protect what American wage
scale?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
.M..E.TracySays:

= UROPE is in ferment of political theories,
~ with Communism, FaScism, and democ-
racy fighting a three-way battle, with a new
kind of tyranny manifesting itself in repression,
and with race hatred rising to the surface.
Minority rights, which were supposed to con-
stitute one of the war aims, virtually have dis
appeared in Russia, Italy and Germany. Not
since the time of Napoleon have so many Euro
peans been denied free speech, free press, or
freedom of conscience.
AS far as domestic problems go, it is none Of
our business, but when it comes to disarma-
ment palavers, economic conferences, debt re-
vision and similar international activities, we
have the right to take stock of what is going on.
We have the right to ask whether these new
tangled governments will or can keep their
pledges or whether they are not steering the
world straight toward revolution.
For the moment, it looks as though they
were bringing order out of chaos but at what
a price, and for what purpose? Are we to as
sumo that 200000000 Europeans have thrown
off one kind of despotiSm only to be enSlaved
by another?
EVEN in this country, there are those who
IL look upon political liberty as dead and who
envsion some kind of castiron rule as the only
thing which will keep the electric lights going
and the radio turned on.
Maybe they are right. Maybe what our fore
fathers fought to gain and what We have taught
our children to hold sacred is just bunk May
be France, England and our own country will
find it necessary to follow Lenin or II Duce.
On the other hand another storm may be
in the making, brought on by the same kind
Of demagogery, albeit in a different guise, that
produced the last one.
Edouard Herriot, former premier Of France,
thinks this is a poor time to talk about peace
plans, and though he confines his argument
largely to the queer things Hitler is doing it is
applicable to some other regimes.
We Americans could do worse than watch
our step. The cry for relief is making strange
bedfellowS and leading to even stranger up
heavals.
JUST now Hitler and Mussolini are honey
hug with England apparently inclined to
trail along, while France shivers at the thought
OF possible isolation.
OstenSibly this new basis of cooperation is for
the purpose of giving Europe peace, but one need
not be wizard of diplomacy to suspect that
other bugs lie hidden in the sawdust.
History bellies human experience if we can
make genuine peace by destroying battleships
at the command Of dictators and oppressors. or
teach the universal brotherhood of man by out
having war While We revive religious intolerance,
race prejudice and political discrimination
Tyranny is no better today than it was 500
years ago, nor will people endure it with any
more complacency.
Again, say it is none of our business what
kind Of government Europeans want or allow
tQ be imposed on them, but it is our business to
keep out OF entanglements with a scheme of
things which can't last and which operates on
the theory that whatever is necessary to retain
power IS right,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
GETTING OUT OF THE RUT

TT is quite time since the papers have con-
l. tanned any better reading than those stories
telling about the new recruits in President
Roosevelt's conservation corps and the at
titude which they are displaying in their new
calling
One such lad, who had been out of job
ever since he left high school, and whose
father had also been out of work for two
wears. expressed himself as follows:
"It isn't the job. It isn't the money. It's
getting away from the dreary rut. We couldn't
do anything. We had no clothes to go to
school, We can't go out with friends with no
money. We can't go out with girls without
money.
For year just sat around. 1t wasn't
good for my body or my mind. Getting out
in the air away from failure will let me come
back with all bets of. I can start all over
again"
Somehow it does one lot of good to read
that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
A WOman's Viewpoint (:

TINE best human interest story of
i the week comes from New
York, where 60-year-old woman
from the middlewest has discovered
that she has writing ability and
can sell everything she produces.
Expressing regret that she did not
begin sooner, she is a philosopher
when she adds, II guess they were
not wasted years, because I was
living and storing up experiences
that they tell me now are in
valuable"
1t is probable that but for those
years of living she would not be
writing at all Talent and hard
work are necessary, but a knowledge
of life that includes the funda-
mental experiences is the essential
inspiration for any kind Of literary
achievement.
There are entirely too many
people writing nowadays who have
nothing at all to say. And it can
make no difference how well they
say it, for it remains in the end
not worth putting down on paper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
Nature of Parents Determines Our Nature

THE nature Of all of us is deter
Il mined largely by the nature of
our parents. What the child inner
its, as is pointed out by Professor
Michael F. Guyer, is not a series of
finished traits or characteristics, but
multitude of substances called
genes, which interact with one an
other to produce certain traits in
the organism.
In the cells from which the body
grows are contained constituents
called chromosomes, in which are
carried the mechanisms for hered-
itary characteristics. Every cell in
the body gets some portion of this
initial force.
One set of chromosomes comes
from the father and one set from
the mother
This is fortunate, because the
chances are that if some particular
gene from one parent is defective,
it is likely to be offset by a normal
gene from the other parent.
In certain instances, however,
dominance is incomplete, and in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
The Message Center

most of the drinking, and in many
cases most of the smoking.
Actually this doesn't mean a
thing, but I cite the incidents to
show that wet sentiment is not
altogether confined to the "he men =
1t proved to me that most women
(and by that designation I mean
those who like the bright lights and
all that goes with them have no
separate morals from their male
brethren, although sometimes con-
ventionS make them assume a
standard they in reality do not feel.
Neither is this criticism of the
women's beer drinking ability,
although believe ( on the word of
woman friend) that beer swigging
and cocktail gargling are due to the
same reason that so many of the
fair sex consume cigarets by the
pack when in public-they wish to
appear sophisticates! And that is
no sin.
Men and women with Victorian
completes on the wet and dry sub
ject easily can get an eyeful about
it by visiting some Of the places
where beer is dispensed. They'd be
surprised.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
With Reservations
LIE recommended the Dictator
Il Il shin of Stain aud then n11icl,lr

LIE recommended the Dictator
IL Il ship of Stain and then quickly
modified that by remarking, Per
haps 1 shouldn't use the word. but
let us say under the leadership" I
don't know just whose feelings the
speaker was trying to spare.
If he had been strictly orthodox,
hehe might have phrased it as the
dictatorship Of the proletanat under
the leadership of Stain"
The difficulty of following the ar
guments of Mr.. Shaw lay in the
fact that he straddled so many
political and economic problems.
Thus, although he professed a great
enthusiasm for Russian Communism,
he expressed complete dissent with
one of its most fundamental fea-
lures.
He advised Americans to create
for themselves a new Constitution
and new state, but added, Don't
bother so much about Karl Marx"
He then presented Stain as a man
who had broken with the MARKHAM
tradition and who said. Russia is
large enough for me, and will work
for the salvation of Russia and let
the other countries look out for
themselves.
The only trouble with that is that
the Russian leader never has said
anything of the sort, and I hardly
think he would. be inclined to thank
Mr.. Shaw for Undertaking to intro
duce him with, I think Mr.. Stain
means to say"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17
Not TerSe or Accurate

4 ND George Bernard Shaw was
N equally inaccurate in his pic
ture of American constitutional gov
eminent. Sometimes he erred in
Interpretation, which is debatable,
and again in plains facts, concern
ing which there can be no argu-
ment.
He fell into the conventional
American habit of cussing our con-
gress for the ills of the nation, and
spoke of Herbert Hoover as a prac-
teal man of affairs who had been
thwarted by the senate and the
house when slump came late
during his term Of office"
But the fact is that the slump
began before Mr.. Hoover had been
in office a year, and that he had
received hearty congressional sup
port until late in his term.
Nor did Mr.. Shaw seem partic-
ularly familiar with present-day
conditions when he spoke of the
present administration, and said:
Mr.. President Roosevelt is APP
pealing to you, practically, at the
present time, to get rid of your con-
founded Constitution, and give him
the power to govern the country.
Perhaps he hopes he will be able to
govern it. He won't as long as con-
gress is there to prevent him
you will get nothing from him.
In his four years, if he had to go
on under the Constitution, with the
usual rotten congress and all the
rest Of it, he inevitably will be as
great a disappointment as Mr.. Hoo
YER"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-17

All the fluffy blah-blah of the
upper stratum Of urban society of
drinking parties and ultra smart
conversations that. get nowhere ex-
cept to the inevitable bedroom
episode, have been done to death.
They are irritating to the folks who
are scrambling around trying to find
a couple Of potatoes for supper.
I for one should not regret the
passing into oblivion of good
many fiction producers who con-
slider promiscuous sex affairs the
ultimate in living" and who seem
to believe that the consumption of
quantities Of bad gin is the alpha
and omega of experience"
Folk lore is the only living litera-
ture. And the United States has a
tremendous amount of such ma
terial in every section Of its vast
territory.
The need is great today for writer's
who can catch the rhythm of that
undercurTent of struggle, slow, per-
sistent, powerful, that nation is
undergoing in search Of its soul