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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
(The Waterbury Democrat. Wash
 ingtOn COrrespondent)

huktOu SOhACSROhNSAet washington-Sum Welles, the ambassador to Cuba who told President Machado to quit, Is likely to be secretary of state some day. He would decorate that office handsomely. Tall good-looking, straight as the traditiinal ramrod, he is a man of great dignity and aristocra- tic posise. He carries a cane, but wears no spats. He makes his as- sociates here think of an ancient Roman pro-consul.
 Welles is cynical and his sense of humor sardonic. But he won the cooperation of both chief factions in Cuba during months of negotia- ton designed to straighten out a political and economic mess.
 Friend of President.
 He left his post as assistant secretary of state and went to Cuba backed by the personal confidence and friendship of Roosevelt and a record of personal achievement in previous Latin American negotia- tions. Those two assets lead his friends to believe that he may have the state departments top job be- fore Roosevelt stops being presi- dent.
 Roosevelt sent Welles with a flexible program for settling Cuban troubles. His first success was re- establishment of constitutional guar antees for justice in the courts, civil law, free speech and the right of assembly.
 Has Been Trouble Shooter.
 It was inferred here and at Havana that the tyrant Machado would feel called on to resign soner or later. That prospect was hastened when workers, taking ad- vantage or restored civil liberties. began to strike and precipitated the recent crisis.
 r Except for few years of retire. ment during the Coolidge and Hoover administrations, Welles has been our star trouble shooter in the Caribbean area since he be- came head of the departments Latin American division at the age of 28. He wrote the Washington treaties for Central America and settled serious problems in Hoh- duras and Santo Domingo. He spaks Spanish fiuently
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 Sacred Prcvincts.
 Two newspapermen, inexperi- enced in the ways of the Depart ment of Agriculture, wandered in on the secret session of the crop reporting board while 1t was mak-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

service has not yet been put into operation. because funds are still lacking.
 The tendency is unmistakeable to leave more or less ampitiouS schemes aside and concentrate upon immediate tasks - in the first place, upon combating un-
 One of the measures taken to combat unemployment was the Introduction of marriage loans" {" Newly-wed couples, if politically reliable, will receive vouchers for household equipment, which they may repay in long tnstalments The purpose of the measure is. of course, to take as many women off the labor market as possible. Public expenditure for reem- ployment is encouraged. Thus, the Federal Railway Company has adopted a building program re- ouiring 56O.00O marks.
 federal Aid to Labor The federal posts are equally placing orders for 76.00O.OO0
 marks iu order to help the labor
 Finally, the government intro- lduced tax alleviations to encour- age re-employment. Thus, any concern erecting new buildings or ordering new machines will have | It's income tax reduced by 10 per- cent Of the total costs of the new buildings and machines
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
Voice Of The People

A man who is s'lookng for straws to show which way the wind is blowing could do lot worse than to study those stories about the thousands of letters President Roosevelt is receiving commenting him for the. NRA campaign. These letters, mostly, are from people who don't ordinarily sit down to write to the President. Some of them are misspelled some of them are mere scrawls on bits of wrapping paper with stub pencils some of them are formally typewriter and some are on scented paper.
 There is no uniformity. They come from everywhere and everybody. But they all agree in one thing; each is an effort by deeply moved American citizen to tell. the President that the blue eagle campaign is crossing the land like strong, refreshing wind. and each is heartfelt pledge of sup port. And the influx of these letters IS possibly the most important single symptom to be found in all the land today.
 These letters. that is to say. show how deeply responsive the American people are to this stupendous complex and puzzling campaign against the depression For the letters are not being written by cranks or freaks. They are coming from ordinary people, men and women who do not usually dream of sending letters to the White House. The plain people of the country. who go voieeless year in and year out, are taking the trouble to speak their minds Not once In two or three geenrations do the Ameri- can people really become aroused. If an awakening is coming now - and this flood of letters can hardly mean anything else it indicates that the nation is tossing into the scales united force of a size and strength such as America has employed only three or four times in all her history.
 No one could make greater mistake than to underestimate the significance of this This is not just another political movement; 1t is not just another fad. just another safety valve for confused and inarticulate public { emotion. The blue eagle is the emblem of a drive which has united country back of it; and it all makes one think of General Johnson's recent remark - God help the man or men who get in the way of the national recovery program"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
We Must Borrow

Departing from its traditional pay-as-you- 10 system. Connecticut this week will com. plete negotiations for $1.000.0O0 loan. Additional loans before the end of lo33 are also anticipated by State Treasurer J. Will liam Hope who first broke the news this week that the states treasury was almost depleted With only about S600.000 left m various deposits the state would be em- barrassed very shortly unless it secured addi- i fional funds to tide it through this emer- gency. This is especially true in view of the fact that there have been heavy drains l. on highway funds for general usage. Now the highway department has big bills falling due and its money must be returned.
 This situation was pictured some years ago by many responsible officials, republican and democratic. When it was stirred about that the state would not have sufficient funds with which to finance capital outlays talk immediately shifted to bond issues or short term notes. Abandonment of the pay-as-you- go policy, which republicans had gradually taken as their watchword, was heartily endorsed by the highest men in both parties in the state. It was realized that current revenue had failed to keep pace with current expenditures and that in the emer' gency some means of catching up must be taken. But republicans were never allowed to try out the new way. They were ordered into line and have remained there so to speak. ever since.
 What was foretold then has come true. The state has reached the end of its bank balance with bills to be paid and large pro- jeets pending. It means that a new era Of financing in this state must begin. We don't look for any orgy of borrowing, especially in anticipation of taxes. This minht be as fatal for the state as it has for many a city. But surely it, indicates that the state may renew its acquaintance with bond issues as means to its end. This may not be jusrifabe, it is true. from moral and physical viewpoint but from financial one it seems imperative. Also 1t may bring home to some of us the need for different financing of projects such as public highways. so that merely those who use them shall contribute the greater portion of their cost and upkeep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
PHENOMENA AT THE SPA
(New York sun)

An eccentric storm visiting Sar- atoga Springs destroyed many of the noble trees that beautify the foothills of the Adirondacks. Other damage was reported by observers of the unusual The wind penetrated the bowers where the roulette blossoms and blew the co off the whirling rosettes. The dice would not remain in the bird cages. A seven became an impossible point at craps. Every last turn at the faro bank was cat hop. Seven layers of odds were found making a Dutch book. Chemin de fer was derailed.
 :. It is cheering to learn that the new deal has restored faro bank to the entertainments offered to Saratoga visitors. It is a game whose roots are deep in the soil at the Spa: they are watered by the geyser, hathorn and coesa springs. Even money on cases and no per- centage for the house! Troy, not so far distant, was always the motherhouse of the faro dealer. In restoring the old game Saratoga holds to it's traditions from soda to hook. eM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
Sensitive Soul Has
 Many Tribulations

In "Al Men Are Enemies" Richard Arlington studies the plight of the men who Is born into the world with an instinctive readi- ness to respond to beauty in all or its guises.
 Such a man, he says, lives more deeply, more vividly. than ordinary
 mortals. Beauty exalts him, pgli- ness wounds him; he knows the peaks of ecstasy and the depths or
 despair. And because his values
 are not those of his fellows, the world usually gangs up on him
 and lets him haxe it back of the ear. & MT Arlington tells the story of that kind of man. The lad grows up sensitive and lonely, realizing that the world is waiting to waylay him with a blunt instrument; but he meets an Austrian girl while vacationing on an island in the Mediterranean, and he believes that she will be able to help him build the kind of life he must have. Unluckily, this meeting takes place in the spring of 1914, and the war is on before he can reJoin her. The war wounds him-just as
 it wounded MT Arlington, in all of
 whose books the thudding of the guns is sombre background. Aft CT 1t is over fate does it's best to
 make an English Rabbit out of
 him; and the English kind, evil
 dently, Is. as dull as our own.
 In the end he breaks away; and
 in his wandering to find his own
 soul, again he finds his Austrian
 girl. And the book becomes not so
 much romance as hymn to the life that Is lived fully and bravely "a book which, in spite of a num-
 Der of defects. will please a few
 readers very deeply.
 It's published by Doubleday, Doran & Co, at $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
NEWS OF "OLD LEATHER MAN"
(Hartford Courant) )

The Courant has of late received queries regarding the Old Leather Man.. past and gone nomad who traversed a fixed route through Connecticut, especially along the shore from-perhaps--Stonin to New Haven. From thcnce 1t is likely that he moved wes , lrd into New York state. His end .s indicat- ed by the following extract from a recent letter: My Investigation shows that he died in the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester coun- ty, New York, about March "A. 1889, He was found dead in . small hut in the woods on farm here one Sunday morning. An in- quest was held and while six or eight persons were examined who knew him fairly well. no one knew his name or where he had come from. and he died an unknown man."
 The Old Leather Man existed. and went his way like the Wan- dering Jew of the Middle Ages and there are not many now who recall him. It is we'll that there are those interested in striving to as- semble facts regarding him while there are still a few living who saw him as he moved through New York and this state with q regularity akin to that of the tin peddlers of his period and who are now extinct, The hitch-hikers of to-day are a poor substitute for either or both.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

Ferdie Grofe. Ameriea's outstanding sx- ponsnt of modem music. is at it again. This time he is arranging suite to be entitled Madison Square Garden. In it the well known, composer will seek to bring to the listener the sounds of the six-day bike races. prizefisht. track meet. hockey game. horse show, and the circus via the musical note. Insofar as his past efforts along this line have been greeted with complete success we see no reason why this latest one shouldn't also be in the list of sure-firc hits. When he wrote the Rhapsody in Blue" there were many seepties. Then came the Grand Canyon Suite" and Tabloid" and others. The music world can we'll anticipate an evening of Madison Square Garden" some one of these days with much pleasure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Wells May Get State Portfolio Says Butcher
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

ing up what it considered the most important report on probable pro- duction ever made.
 Under the rigid rules governing such occasions, they were locked in and compelled to stay there for the next half hour.
 (The indicated cotton crop of 12,314.00O bales would have been the second largest on record if the board hadn't counted out the A. 900, 900 bales which the govern ment expects to eliminate through farmer agreementa)
 %s
 Soft Hearted Jim. g
 Postmaster General Jim Farley has been so frank in expressing his views on democratic patronage that his insistence on retaining key men from the old regime in his department here stands in striking contrast.
 The assistant postmasters gen. eral, holding political jobs, were let go. But men holding IS or 20 of the top non-civil service jobs such as the solicitor, purchasing agent, comptroller and chief inc spector-were kept on the job or given other posts in the service. No man who had come up from the civil service lost out
 Farley also objected to dismiss sal of employees and established a mild furlough system in the hope that increasing business woud en- able him to avoid firing anyone.
 
 Just the same, 1t is getting hard CT to obtain job with one of the new emergency administrations without a string of political en- dorsements.
 Unless, of course, you happen to be a member of the family of MIRA Administrator Hugh s. John- son.
 Copyright 1893, NEA Service, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

The next time Farmer Charles Colton hears noise outside his house he won't be SO anxious to investigate without preliminary glance through window. A loud pounding sent him scurrying outside the back door recently. A mad full faced him. It chased Cotton six times around the house and the poor farmer was only clad in his pajamas. As he passed the door for the seventh time his wife handed him rifle with which he shot the enraged animal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
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., 1933-08-17

High tide at Milford Friday. August l8. 1o:23 a. m.. daylight time; low tide. 4:37 p. m.. daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

Another thing that might einch prosper ity would be for the government to take 5,0OO,OOO old cars off the road at $50 apiece.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

If people who have made cleanup in stocks are sensible. which they probably are not, they will take their recent winnings and buy home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

All vehicles must be lighted not later thar 8:1o, daylight time, tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

Johnson, MIRA administrator.
 Law enforcement (in Britaii,) is relatively simple because the peo- pie are law abiding, and the peo- pie are law abiding because law enforcement. Is swift and certain Police Chief P. J. Sillit6e of Glas. gow, Scotland
 The unmarried woman earning her living has stood out like a shining star.-Judge Florence E. Allen, Ohio supreme court.
 When prohibition goes oGt, tenn perance will come into Y its own. Prohibition made us forget about temperance, but soon we'll forget about prohibition.---Chairman Ed ward F. Mulrooney of New York states alcoholic beverage control commission.
 Eight major Expressions and q score of minor ones have seized upon us during our history, but the present is the first in which it was thought necessary to abandon de- mocracy to effect cure.-U. $. Senator Hatfield. Republican, West Virginia,
 From now on, business will. play according to fair ru1es-President Henry I. Hartman, U. s. chamber of commerce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17

Eorseshoes have ben listed in Chile as Q prime necessity and placed under government control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
So ]. They Say

We shall either succeed or fail in three months time--General Johnson, MIRA administrator.
Evening star., 1933-03-11
LITTLE BENNY
By LEE PAPE.

After school was Gazing Junior for
a wawk to try the collier ma bawt for
him with little bells on 1t, being all
rite collar except for the sissy bells,
and some kid was wawking along with
little black dog on homemade chain
made out of rope, and the black dog
waved his tale at Junior and Junior
waved back and they rubbed their noses
together like trends. me saying to the
kid. What kind of breed dog is that?
Being a funny looking dog looking
like 3 wrong breeds put together, and
the kid said, don't know, never found
out, found him one day, but he's prob
erly some good kind Of breed, I bet. the
top of his mouth is pritt-- near black
and that's a good sine anyways.
Being baloney just to show of and
I said, Well this dog I got is a wire
haired fox and he's got peddygree to
prove it.
I bet this dogs got one too, the kid
said, and said, Go on I bet you don't
know what peddygree is.
1 bet do, the kid said, and I said,
Well what is it? and he said, If you
know what's use diert asking aNsn me? have
ideer, and said, Well I'll tell you
what it is, it's a paper with all the
names Of dogs relations wrote on it,
and this dogs father was Lsnsdale
Prince and his mother was Hetherway
Duchess, and his grandfather was
Lord Efingham Sprinter and his grand
mother was Lady Nickoteen.
o yeah? the kid said. and I said,
Yeah. and he said. Well can he sit up?
and said, not yet, I mean never
saw him try.
Well this dog can, sit up. Sport, the
kid said Wich the black dog did per-
feet, and the kid said, Can your dog
jump over your hand?
I don't know, I never asked him to.
! said, and the kid said, Well go ahead
and ask him If you want to be dissa-
pointed. jump over this. Sport. And
he stuck his arm out and the black dog
Jumped over it like in a circus, the
kid saying, I guess you better write to
all your dogs rich relations and tell
them how dunn he Is, comee,on, Sport,
let's go.
Wich they cid.
Evening star., 1933-03-11
Everyday Psychology
Animal Psychology.
BY DIR. JESSE ". sPRowLs.

Letter: please tell me why modern
psychologists spend so much time
studying animals For example, what
can they find in a jelly fish that will
throw light upon the mind Of MANI"
J. r. r.
These psychologists are not looking
for a human mind when they study an
animal. They are merely trying to dis
cover and identify the machinery of
the universal mind. They rightly hold
that the mind as we know it in man
must be made up of.literally thousands
of parts which cannot be discovered in
the behavior of human beings as human
beings 1t is impossible to take Q hu-
man mind and tear it to pieces as you
would wornout watch. So they do
the only thing they can do. They study
the mind in the making.
This means that they study all sorts
Of things that live. Perhaps one mech
anism of the mind is to be found in
the jelly fish, another In the ant, an
other in the bee, another In the dog,
another in the fish, another In the ape.
Other mechanisms may be found in In
fants. Finally, a good many mechan-
ismS are to be found in the insane, for
you find the normal mechanisms magni-
fed and isolated so you can get good
look at them.
When your psychologists have identi-
fed these several mental structures
they are able to put them all together
and say, Here is the mind Of man."
(Copyright, 1889
Evening star., 1933-03-11

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Evening star., 1933-03-11

A group OF very nice young women IN
the odd thirties and forties have
custom which is new to me. After
every little party or supper Of two or
three tables of cards, they either tele-
phone or write to their hostess to ex-
press their pleasure at having been at
the party, and they do it the very next
day. To me II guests telephoning the
day after party seems like Artemus
Wards This Is too much!' Perhaps I
am wrong in believing thank you on
taking leave Of the party is enough until
can invite the hostess to something
I have? Please tell me what you Think"
Answer: ! hate to disapprove OF any
gesture OF appreciation, but I do agree
that IL telephone interruptions would
be very much too much! According to
etiquette, a friend says thank you"
when she leaves and nothing more.
After a first neutrality-suspicious. to
a lunch or a dinner-it Is necessary
that the one invited pay party CALL
or write a note. Among friends there
Is no objection to a card OF apprecia-
ton, should any one care to send 1t,
but it is not a convention.
Dear Mrs. Post: When friend Is
having lunch with me and she is called
to the telephone, Is it proper for me
to continue eating or should I wait
until she has finished talking?"
Answer: For the sake Of politeness,
perhaps it would be better to wait until
your friend returns to the table! But
as no one can very well like cold food,
I would suggest that you continue eat
ing, slowly or If she is kept very long,
1t would be best to have both your
plates sent out to the kitchen and have
them reheated
Copyright. 1033)
Evening star., 1933-03-11

not proven a happy one. Black in
masses should be avoided both for its
startling gloom, or its dust-provoking
trait.
Black as a secondary color Is pleas
ing. Touches of it in bright tiled or
painted paneling are apt to be intro
duced They lend distinction. In car
pets and rugs, threads or elements OF
design in black accent beauty OF color
harmonies In bizarre wall papers,
black is essential to quell color and
in less pronounced wall paper, notes Of
black give a French accent that Is
pleasing.
Black is found in all sorts Of acces-
sorieS and household appointments, to-
day, to offset the profusion of gay col
ors in decorative schemes. Crystal table
glassware is trimmed with black, or has
black design engraved on it. Stem
ware of colored, clear. or white. glass
has a black base Silver lighting fix
lures have delicate lines of black ira
ceries in identationS, etc. Parchment
lamp shades have traceries and band
ings Of black.
In household linens, black Is In evi-
dence. Towels have black hens. The
weft alone is usually black, which a
white warp enlivens enough to suggest
the tone known as gun metal. Bath
mats have wide black borders.
While black Is always used to a GER
tain degree in interior decoration, 1t
is noticeably introduced in present-day
schemes as a balance to vivid colorS.
(Copyright. 1933)