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Evening star., 1933-12-23

Mrs. Francis S. Nash and Miss Caro-
lyn Nash entertained a small company
at dinner last evening at the Carlton
in honor of the counselor of the Swed-
ish legation and Baroness Beck-Friis
Of Sweden.
Evening star., 1933-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brand, jr., and
their children left yesterday for Belvoir
Va, where they will be with Mrs.
Brands parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfax
Harrison, for fortnight.
Evening star., 1933-12-23
CnrzzINs IoHN J. on Friday pecember

22 1888, at his residence, 4SO1 Deane
ave. ne, after a lingering illness, JOHN
j, devoted husband OF Rosa Couzzins. He
also leaves two sons, James and Lorenza
Couzzns: one daughter. Mary Ma9ruder;
one uncle and other relatives and friends
to mourn their loss. Funeral Sunday. De-
cember "a. at 1870 pm. from Zion Bap-
tist Church. st. between 3rd and 4i2
sts. sw. Relatives and friends invited.
Evening star., 1933-12-23

Mr.. William Tyler Page, jr., Of Ran
doIph Field, Tex. is visiting his father,
Mr. William Tyler Page, minority clerk
Of the House of Representatives. at his
home in Friendship Heights. Nd. Mr.:
Page will return to Randolph Field
about the middle of January.
Evening star., 1933-12-23
neral later.
COLLINS. HARRIET ANN. On Friday. De-

Potomac. Md. HARRIET ANN. the beloved
wife Of Franklin R. Collins. in her s5th
year Funeral services at Potomac Chapel.
Potomac Nd Sunday, December "a. at
2:3O pm. 1nterment church cemetery.
Evening star., 1933-12-23

Mrs. Montgomery Blair and Mrs.
AdolphuS C. Station are at the Weylin
Hotel in New York for brief stay.
Evening star., 1933-12-23

ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry N. Ricke,
who have an apartment at the hotel.
Evening star., 1933-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Y. Lemon of De-
troit are spending the remainder Of
the Winter season in Washington, and
are in an apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Evening star., 1933-12-23

MORRIS. CHARLES w. on Friday, De-
cember %, 1888. at Freedmen's Hospita,
Morris Remains resting at Fraziers fu
neral home, $50 Rhode Island ave. NV.
Funeral Sunday. December "a. at pm.
from Frazier's funeral home. $50 r. L
ave. RelatiYeS and friends invited. q
Evening star., 1933-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. j. /. Edwards, accom-
panied by their daughter, Miss E.
Blanche Edwards of Riverhead, N. Y,
are spending the holidays at the Dodge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17

London has recently been turned over to German-Jewish theater artists who will pre- sent season of plays. The productions will be in charge of famous German pro- ducer. who is said to rank second only 60 Max Reinhardt in ability. It remains to be seen whether the theater will succeed fi- naneially. however good its work may be ar- tistieally. At least the hospitable gesture made by London and the courage and enter prise shown by the German actors are commendable.
 And how will Germany itself feel about having so many of it's best educators teach ing in foreign lands, its scientists working in foreign laboratories, it's actors performing in foreign theaters, its musicians and painters and others welcomed in many different cap itals? It is one thing to kick out people whose race or politics do not harmonize with those of the government in power. It is quite different to be deprived of the service, entertainment, art and knowledge they have to offer and to see those same gifts enriching other cultures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17

When the Nazi ministry of justice pro- posed that legal sanction be given to the killing of persons afflicted with incurable disease, it laid hands on one of the most tragic and perplexing of all modern prob- ems. Every doctor has seen, over and over again, patients who looked forward to death as relief; persons who knew that they could not possibly recover, and who were condemned to painful and lingering tor meht while they waited for their malades to reach a climax. And everyone who has thought about such tragic cases must have felt that, in at least some instances it would be great kindness to hasten deaths tardy footsteps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
A Book q Day
 by BRUCE CATION
An Absorbing Tale
 Of An Active Life

"Along This Way" by James Weldon Johnson, Is about as conn pletely interesting an autobiogra. phy as is likely to be published all year. distinguished life. MT Johnson has been an author, a poet, fight ing reformer, a writer of Broadway song hits and translator of the libretto of a Spanish grand opera for the Metropolitan, an educator, A lawyer and a lecturer, U. s. con- sul at Corinto, Nicaragua, at a time when the man in that job had to be fearless, able and wise-all in all, surely, a record of achieve ment we'll worth an autobiography.
 Furthermore, in case you don | know 1t, MT Johnson Is a coiored man. And his story is more than just the record of full life; 1t is a case book on race relations, Q study in human triumph over prejudice and handicaps.
 As a sheer recital of events, 1t is Interesting enough. It is noth-- ing less than absorbing to read how a colored boy from Jackson vile. Fla, could win college degree, gain admission to the Flor ida bar. conduct a school for colored youngsters, win his spurs as a poet, enter the consular serv- ice, and fight valiantly to improve the status of his race.
 But MT Johnson's thoughtful comments on the whole tragic and battling race problem give 1t an added value.
 Would he change to a white man if he could? He would not. If he were forced to change his race. he says. he would be Jew. Mean while, he devoes his talents to tho task of helping his race.
 The fight is long and hard; but he believes that the colored man Is slowly and surely getting out from under the most painful of his handicaps and that a better day is ahead.
 Here is a fine, intelligent book. Published by Viking, 1t sells for 60 .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
Two-Sided Technicalities

A bright citizen who has just come into contact with the criminal courts for the first time, as foreman of grand jury, makes an interesting discovery and. being an advertis- ing man by profession, promptly broadeasts it. It occurred to me, he says, after had heard speech by the United States attorney in New York, that crooks always took advantage of the laws teehnicalities. Then thought, Why can't the law take advantage of technicalities, too?'
 Sure enough, it should work both ways. If prosecutors were as ingenious and per- siStent in using legal resources to punish criminals as the defense lawyers are to save their clients from punishment. and if the courts allowed technical privileges reserva- tions and exemptions equally to both sides there would be far more crooks in jail and fewer recruits coming along to take their places.
 It is impossible, perhaps in our American evenly balanced between the state and its enemies. A prisoner is presumed innocent until he is proved guilty, we require unani- mity or an overwhelming majority of the jury to convict him, and judge jury and public agree that it is better to let several guilty men escape than punish one innocent man. But we have leaned over backward too far in trying to be fair with class of criminals and defense lawyers that take unfair advantages. It is time to fight the Devil with fire,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
Mother in College

The student at Cleveland College who has the highest scholarship average there, and whose standing is 37 "pereentiles" (whatever they are) above the average of students in l52 American colleges. grad uated from high school 3s years ago. She. wanted to go to college then, but for some reason it was not possible. t.,.
 She taught kindergarten, then first grade. She married and had five children. Three of them have college degrees now. The fourth is in college The fifth is in high school. There are four grandchildren. With her family well launched, this mother de. eided it was now her turn to get college education So that is what she is doing. With only her husband and the high school child at home these days, she finds the house work reduced enough to fit in with college studying.
 This ambitious woman probably would have done good work in college if she had gone right from high school. It is likely however, that she is doing better work now than she would have done then, because of the mature understanding she brings to her study to-day. Obviously her brain has not been vesetating all these years. To anyNwho suggest that woman of her ability docs not need forual college course the answer is that. as leisure-time avoeation, college work is both pleasant and useful and is sev. eral levels higher than bridge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17

Evidence aeeumulates that the business relapse in September if there was one. has been exaggerated. '>ENailroad freight is about as good an index of business activity as any. The experts expected slump of 10000 cars for the month. The figures avail able show an actual increase of 5000 cars. That is just about as good as the best month of 1893, and 10000 cars more than .thc same month of l932. There. are vari- ous other indexes which likewise refute the pessimism of the last few weeks. What has occurred is merely slowing up of the amazing recovery rate of last July. We are not moving backward; we are still going ahead. And the rate of improvement may be expected to accelerate again with the normal seasonal improvement the rest of this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
TUESDAY, OCTOBER IF, 1883
Michael J. Ryan

The death of Michael J. Ryan, clerk of the Board of Education, is distinct loss to the city of Waterbury with which com munity Mir Ryan has been associated for over thirty years. Born and educated in this city Mir Ryan in his younger, and later more mature years, has been closely ident- fled with the civic and educational progress of the city. He was regarded as one of the city's most prominent eitlzens, eivieally. fraternally and socially. Graduat- ing from the city high school, he became an expert typist. soon becoming well known in the newspaper field through his affiliation with the Waterbury Democrat.
 Because of his bright and winning per sonality, his journalistic ability. and his gen. ial disposition which made him friend to and of many, Mir Ryan became associated with the civic progress of the city. serving as city clerk. This was one of his many affiliations in civic and other duties in thls city and elsewhere that have marked his career up to the time of his death During his years as congressional secretary to Patrick B. O'Sullivan. Mir Ryan proved his ability along seeretarial and statistical lines.
 In the writing field MT Ryan not only confined himself to newspaper writing but conducted column in the publication, I he Eastern Elk" and his obServanees in this magazine became famous. Fraternally he was affiliated with the orders of Moose and Eagles as we'll as with the ElkS.
 His association with the Waterbury board of education was his most recent appoint ment and during his few years with this department his expertncss in seeretarial de- tail was the same that characterized his many other experiences in public life. Whether following along in the pursuance of civic duties or in fraternal or social activities MT Ryan was the genial and kind friend, He enjoyed and possessed numerous friendships, and his passing will be regretted, not only in his native city but wherever he has made contacts. The Board of Education and the >eisy of Waterbury lose faithful servant and an estimabc character in the death ot Michael J. Ryan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
Daily Washington Letter MIRA Favored as Referee, Rather Than in Role of
 Dictator-But It May Show Its Teeth
Mining. distilling. oil and in

Mining, distililng, oil and tn- vestment companies make up the bulk of the new ventures.
 First Lady Shops Early.
 Friends report that Mrs Frank lin D. Roosevelt spent some of her time in New York recently in starting to Do Her Christmas shop ping Early. X. : Postmaster of Alex andria, just outside Washington, got money order for q the other day. 1t was from one of the Bonus Army of 1892 whom he had helped at that time. came from a Conservation Camp in California. When Mrs Isabella Greenway, Roosevelt friend,s comes back to Washington this winter as Q con- gresswoman, she'll have unique distinction: A statute 6f her late husband, John Greenway, stands in Statuary Hall at the Capitol as one of Arizona's most distinguished sons You'd forgotten all about the George Washington Bi-Centen- nial of last year, hadn't your. even the paper matches are nearly all sold by now. but Rep. Sol Bloom, chairman, has spent all this summer cleaning up final reports and supervising publications relat- ing to 1t. The annex to the Li- brary of congress, planned for sev- eral years, now becomes possible under 8 public works allotment of $2,S00,000 . 1t. will occupy more than a whole block, and will have room for more than 10,O0O,00O volumes a tunnel will connect 1t with the maip library across the street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17

to settle coal strike. and while there he seems to have informed local newspa- per editor that articles the editor was print ing on labor unions were in violation of the NRA and might make him liable to prosecution. You have no right, Miss Perkins promptly informed this man and his brother agents, Ito tell any editor what he may or may not print in his news or editorial columns There is nothing in the NRA or any other federal statute which gives you such right" It was well-merited rebuke to peculiarly offensive form of of ficious meddling,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
Rome Letter
By FRANCISCO REA

(UmlUc0 FFcSS StuH NOrrcSPO"vS"J
 Rome, (UP)--A challenge by a tuberculosis expert to the Italian medical world may be responsible for another notable stride in the treatment and cure of the disease.
 Doctor Giovanni Battista An dreatti contended in an article in the "Osservatore Romano" that, after 30 years of studies and ex- periments, he had come to the conclusion that 90 per cent of the oughly through his method, con- sisting in the administering of a vaccine composed of dead bacte. ria. These are harmless just be- cause of this fact. Andriatti also claimed that his method had at- tained excellent results with about 10000 tuberculars, whom he had treated in America, Austria and Italy.
 Claim Caused Argument
 Professors Francesca Valagussa and Ernesto Mancini deemed An dreatti's claims q bit exaggerated. Though admitting that Andreatti's claim about the harmlessness of the vacine was correct, they af- firmed that the number of patients whom he claimed to have cured was too small to vouchsafe for the efficacy of the method. and that the sick treated with his vaccine might have been restored to health through other causes than his preparation.
 TO this, Doctor Andreatti re. piled that he invited the medical world of Italy to choose 100 peo- pie in the first stage of the illness. and 100 in the second, to keep them lin proper place, and to treat fifty of the former and fifty of the latter with any method of their choice. while he would treat an equal number with his prep Both Sides Make Plans
 The experiment. should be con. trolled by both sides mutually, and by any expert willing to lend his co-operation. rhe results obtained after six months would establish the superiority of either method. The challenge has been accept. l ed by the central medical board, ' which superviges the hospitals
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
Another Business for U. s.

As Uncle Sam gets ready to put some thing like a couple of hundred million dol- lars into the role of landlord >for John Citizen, the broadening conception of the dutes of the federal government gets it's horizon pushed out farther than ever before. The whole Slum clearance plan, as a matter of fact, is an instructive example Of the de- velopment of our ideas about what Wash ington can and cannot do
 This summer it was announced that fed- eral money would be loaned to limited dividend corporations to rebuild 'bliShted areas in big cities. Several corporations were formed and work was started on number of projects. But the response has not been as general as had been hoped; 50 now Secretary lekcs is ready to put the gov ernment directly into the house-building and house renting business. Here IS step which is about as far from our old eoneep' ton of the proper sphere of federal aetiv' ities as anything could be. And it is worth noticing that it is not being taken because the men at Washington arc eager to get Uncle Sans finger into new pie, but simply because the inexorabe logic of events has made it necessary.
 To begin with the good health of the nation demands that city SlumS be abol- ished. As Al Smith remarked at the ceremonies which opened New York's Sluri clearance plan the other day, rebuilding the slums "is the extension of the well-defned theory of social justice working out to the ultimate good of us all" The slums have got to go; if private initiative cant remove them, Uncle Sam must In addition. fed eral money must go into circulation and the building industry must be revived. The government is building roads. army bar racks, warships and postoffees; these aetiv- itiss aren't enough, and slum rehabilitation is the logical next step.
 Then. finally, there is the plight of the cities themselves. Most large cities in America have tended to become hollow shells in the last few decades New homes 90 up in the suburbs; the old residential districts close to the downtown section, are allowed to deteriorate. This hollow ing-out process has in many places reached . dangerous pitch. If counter trend is not started. the cities face ultimate disaster So. as result of all these things we find Uncle Sam going into the real estate business. And while the spectacle is new one. it is not nearly as alarming as we would have thought 1t year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
/ This column is being conducted by Willis Thornton during, the vacation of Rodney Butcher.
By WILLIS THORNTON Democrat Washington COrrc- nnndNntl

pOnuCnt) Washington You don't often hear the MIRA spoken of as .Am- erica's Two-Year plan, but that's what 1t really amounts to.
 As. the MIRA crystalllzes into the permanent organization that will carry on for two years of its present legal tenure (and as the idea becomes accepted more gem erally that 1t will go on and on after that), two courses of develop ment are open: ttt- one is the more or less complete specialization of industry under the complete control of this federal bureaucracy. The other Is, to make the MIRA 0 referee in the battle of com petitive industry, the maker of the rules, and the referee of the battle, who Is to prevent biting, grouging and hitting in the ciinches
 Right now 1t looks as though the latter view is prevailing. Industry Is being organized so that each may ushment of compliance boards" is to help in that. And how much nicer compliance boards" sounds thdIt chAOLSCAhChs pOAtdSs Two years of this plan ought to show whether indus.ry is wnl- ing to flight fair" ana whether the gains Tn eliminating child la- bor, unfair competition and sweat shops, will be enough. If not, the next Two Year plan may be more like that first alternative-and the machinery will be ready.
 Securities Act at issue. The federal advisory council to the federal reserve board, which Is an advisory body not necessarily retiecting the view of the board it. self, has recommended admendment of the federal Securities Act and the Glass-Steagall bill, saying, "The normal issue of corporate securities by responsible corporations almost has ceased," adding that refunding operations by old companies appar- ently have been halted.
 Friends of the securities bill say that the state of the capital mar ket, not the restrictions of the act
 have prevented normal refunding.
 The best answer to some objec. tions tht the new securities law Is too strict, they say, lies in the fact that more than quarter billion dollars worth of new securities has been registered since the act went into effct.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
Here, 7herg And Eyeryachere
POISON IVY ADVOCATED
(New Haven Journal Courier.) )

(New Haven Journal-C Courier.)
 A healthy growth of gentleman ly ivy irnparts an air of solid an- tiquity to brick and stone struc- lures. Inspect the non-c commercial buildings in the very heart of New Haven and you will note that varied ivies are accepted and taken to the municipal bosom. But poi. son ivy, that nemesis of the senH- tive-skinned, is always an outcast, a social pariah. It takes a positive delight in trapping the unwary. Its itch can fly upon the lightest breeze. Long-suffering victims have been known to insist that poison picnci grounds that they might use an opposite breeze to catch the unlucky.
 So the former tradition. Now at long last this three-leafed ivy has been vindicated. It is, by actual test, kin to the rattlesnake which nips only when disturbed. The plant, of course, lacks the rat ties to give adequate warning; but 1t only bites the hand which touch- es. Wesleyan University research students have proved beyond sci- entific doubt that the virus does not vaporize. that without contact the poison can not be spread. Their results are supported by reports from the National Research Coun-. ell of Canada, and a Japanese chemist who has experimented with similar skin enemies. The much maligned poison ivy is now amply provided with champions of its intrinsic good-nature. It rises from the. status of an insidious evil-doer to that of the skunk which Is polite when not bothered.
 Which Is, no doubt, q comfort for those whose skins have taught them fear. But 1t also lessens the pleasure of such morbid sufferers as those who delight in operations and sicknesses that they may have topics to embroider in tea-time conversations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
THE ELECTRIC TAX
(New Britain Heraid)

What the Connecticut Light X Power Co has been telling its cus- toners on its current bills has been eliciting conHderable atten- tiop. Perhaps the. company's star writer did not phrase his notions very well, leaving an opportunity for misinterpretatians. Anyway, on the bills were the following in fererence to the three per cent electricity tax of the government:
 Taxes are part of the cost
 of service, and this constantly
 increasing burden must be met
 from its income, the source of
 which is its customers"
 Albert Levitt, writing as a pri- vate citizen, informed the public that this was notice the company has deliberately set itself to evade the payment" Which the com- pany. quickly termed "a deliberate
 We do not see how the company could evade the payment except by getting the rates raised. To attain this goal 1t would have to get tho collaboration of the public utilities commission. And 6 Connecticut court recently stated that though a return on investment of eight per cent might have been reasonable for utility during good times 1t was unreasonable now. Thus 1t is likely that the rate-raising process to take care of the taxes will not if 1t. were attempted flor some time to come, If ever.
 But there is more about it than this. The company in its statement says tax burdens must be met from income, the source of which lies with the customers. Manifestly this true. and applies to all other lines of business. Taxes are part of the overhead, and the person who breaches the doctrine that the gov- ernment should set its money by heavy taxes of corporations and firms advocates increased costs to the public in the long rure The only type of taxes which do not fit into this picture are the income taxes, personal and corporation, of which the five per cent tax on dividends under the New Deal is | type. 5x
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
Exiled Culture

German professors and scientists who have been driven from Germany by the Nazi drive against Jews, pacifists and Marxists are be- ins welcomed to the faculties of colleges and universities and to research laboratories in many lands. Exiled writers can write anywhere. and doubtless will continue to exbress their thoughts by means of tho printed word wherever they go.
 z It will be a little harder for exllcd Ger n,au aetoss to make their way in other lands unless they arc skilled in those languages. Hswsver the Duke of Ycrks Thsater in