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Evening star., 1933-11-28
CLUB PLANS DANCE

A Thanksgiving benefit dance will be
given tonight at Odd Fellows Temple,
41s Seventh street, by the Washington
Chapter, American Hellenic Educational
Progressive Association, It was an
nounced by Alexander s. Economon,
vice president Of the chapter.
Dancing will begin at 9 o'clock. Mem
bers of the Junior order Of the organi-
zation and of other Greek American So
cieties in Washington are expected to
attend.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
PHONE-STUFFER GUILTY
Warren F. McGuinn Sentenced on

Warren F. McGuinn Sentenced on
Two Tampering Charges.
Warren F. McGuinn, 38, who pleaded
guilty Friday to larceny charges in con-
nection with the stuffing of coin re-
turn slots in pay telephones, was SEN
fenced yesterday to serve 300 days in
Jail on one charge and to pay $500 or
spend 240 days in jail on another.
McGuinn. who had been out Of Jail
only two weeks after serving most of a
360-day sentence on similar charges,
was arrested last week Previously he
had been convicted and served one term
of 80 days and another of 180 on tele-
phone "stuffing" charges.
Evening star., 1933-11-28

and swimming strokes used in rescuing
unconscious persons from the water.
Artificial respiration methods and the
use Of the pulmotor also will be ex-
planned
In addition. the swimming experts
will stage series Of stunts to enter
tain the SPECTATORS.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Glasses Start Tonight.

New Esperanto classes will be offered
every Tuesday, starting tonight at 7:3O
pm, at the Nye Juanita K. Council
House, 500 Sixth street southwest. Miss
Libbey S. Lewis will conduct the classes.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
WOMEN BEGIN FORUM

OlStrlcC voters TO LduHcu oefleS oii
South American Relations.
A new series Of round-table discus
slcns will be lnaugurated this evening
g oy 'ns .IieIs G1 neriss anS
progress Of the Seventh International
Conference of American States. now as
Sen1bling at Montevideo-
The meeting will be held in the home
of Mrs. Henry Chalmers, $685. Forty
third street. who is chairman of the
league Committee on International Co
operation Mrs E. w. Spaulding will
speak on the Monroe Doctrine"
During recent months the league has
discussed the London Economic Confer
ence, the League of Nations and the
Manchurian situation.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Tho Civil Works Administration

baked at any great lump sum appro-
rriation for the airports program. but
is prepared to handle as individual prof.
ects as many airport proposals as the
Commerce Department submits, 1t was
said
The process which will be followed
in dealing with the airport requests now
is being clarified Requests from vari-
Gus cities and towns for airport con-
struction aid from the Federal Govern
ment will be received by the Commerce
Department Aeronautics Branch, it was
explained, and will be checked by a
qualified aeronautical inspector Of the
department as to the suitability of the
site and its capability Of development
as landing field.
The requests will be turned over to
Harry L. Hopkins. civil works admins
traitor. Any Of them which may be
classed as Federal projects will be
handled by the Federal Civil Works Ad-
ministration. Local municipal projects
will in each case be referred to the local
State Civil Works Administration Board
concerned.
To Be Handled on Merits.
Each application for aid on an air
port project, civil works officials said,
will be handled strictly on its own
Evening star., 1933-11-28
c. C.W.A.READY TO ADD
AIRPORT PROJECTS.
Individual Cases Will Be
Checked by Commerce
Aeronautics Branch.

Plans for handling scores of requests
being received by the Commerce Depart
ment Aeronautics Branch for Federal
aid in building and improving municipal
airports in all parts of the United
States are being completed.
Delegations from municipalities in
several nearby States were at the De-
partment of Commerce yesterday to
make personal application for assistance
In their local airport programs, and
many requests came by telegraph, tele-
phone and mail. of1cials Of the aero
nautics branch said.
Despite an apparent disagreement
last week between the aeronautics
branch and the Civil Works Administra-
ton over the method of financing the
airport projects. it was indicated there
will be no delay In caring for meritor-
InIIc mllnIrInNl airn0rt nr0jprty
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
Wall Streets Idols

The most important single element back of all the experiments of the New Deal IS the general public's state of mind And an excellent way to get sze-up on this mental attitude is to review the case of Mir Albert H. Wiggin, former head of the Chase National Bank in New York. Mir Wiggin retired some little time ago on a pension of $l00.000 a year. But it is the dis closures about the salary he received before his retirement which give you the interest ing slant on the puble's outlook.
 Mir Wiggin drew down $2l8,000 in 1850, and in 193l his pay was boosted to S250,000. And less than fortnight after he had received this pleasant little in- crease he issued public statement reeom- mendng that the wages of industrial labor he reduced High wages he explained, do not make prosperity. He suggested that many industries can ask their labor to ac- cept moderate reductions of wages to de- crease costs and improve the buying power of labor And he himself just had been lifted to a quarter million yearl
 There is abroad in the land to-day pret- ty widespread conviction that we need a HluSE ldlIeE Ol Oul HI come. In the face of disclosure like this about Mir Wiggin, can you wonder at itf Or-to get to the point-can Wall Street wonder at it? For what we get out of this disclosure is peek at a thoroughly Bourbonized ruling class. The financial and industrial o1igarchy represented by Wall Street could see nothing wrong with recom- mending general wage reductions at time when the compensation of its own inner clique was going up beyond all reason.
 If the general public at last has de- cided that it wants no more leadership from that kind of outfit. has Wall Street much reason to be surprised and shocked? The fallen idols of to-day are not important as individuals, but as symbols. That is true of Insull, it is true of Mitchell, it is true of Wiggin What the New Deal must do, if it is to satisfy public expectations, is to get us away from conditions in which national leadership is exercised by the class which produced them. And if that class objects, it has only the antics of its own members to blame.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
National In Scope

Judging by the trend of the New York mayoralty race just at present it soon will be as national in scope as the election of last year. It is reliably reported on one hand that President Roosevelt will say good word for Joseph V. Mckee, while Alfred E. Smith IS rspofted girding himself to do bit of stumping for Mayor O'Brien. Personally we don't think that either of the above reported events will ever come to pass. The adminls- traton might prefer to see Mckee elected mayor Everybody says that it does, so we don't have to add our voice, but we feel confident that Al Smith is not going to in- feet himself into the mayoralty fight unless actually dragged in by the heels.
 Some few days ago the former New York governor delivered himself of certain cryptic remarks on the situation in his native city. We could only judge from them that he was desirous of maintaining hands-off att titude in the fight. In the meantime we don't doubt but what the political managers and the publicity writers will carry on their spoofing of the general public with as much success as they have had in the past There is no public that likes its politics served up with relishes graced by familiar names like the American.
 If we must be explicit in explaining how the New York city campaign has become national in scope we can only say that 1t was a republican who actually made 1t so Ogden L. Mills, the urbane Secretary of the Treasury during the latter part of the Hoov- CT administration, fired the opening salvo Of course it was for purpose. Tn charging that the forces of President Roosevelt were vitally concerned with the election of Me- Kee in New York he did so with the sole purpose of promoting his own interest, which today. even as they were last year when the Hoover chances were revealed as futile are bound up with the Mills candi- daey for president on the republican ticket in 1936.
 The ashes of the Hoover fires in the White House had barely cooled before MT Mills was laying new ones elsewhere. He, however, was tending them not for his for mer chief but for himself. Many things can happen between now and 1936. but one thing is certain and that is Ogden L. Mills figures at this writing to go to the national republican convention as the outstanding candidate in the ranks. Maybe he will be. but if so he must cover up some of the sins of omission and commission of his past political life. And judging by the chronic lers they are numerous and attract the eye as we'll as please the ear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
May Be. a Natural

What was regarded in the beginning as somewhat of a dream seems about to come true. All of which makes person believe that the Roosevelt administration has the ability to change the stuff that dreams are made of into the stuff composing concrete facts. We refer in this particular instance to Conneetieut's homestead plan. When first suggested this past summer we would not have given it more than an even chance to get to the White House. It has now penetrated to the presidents desk and he is said to have listened with growing inter- est to the ramifieations of the idea which. it can be proudly stated, is Connecticut born.
 For the benefit of those who fail to recall what the homestead plan is or who do not know it by that name we might give brief explanation. The scheme was born in the state fish and game commission. It is gener- ally credited to Norman Judd of Bristol, member of that commission. In few words the plan is to allocate idle land in the state to unemployed men between the ages of 50 and 55 and also to eX-servlcemen. They would be assigned to definite areas and would be provided with houses and the nec- essary equipment with whkh to provide for their own Sustenance.
 The sole purpose is not to start back to the soil movement. There are in fact. several real purposes behind it. All tend to the social betterment of the state. Many men find that their usefulness in the industrial world ends at 50. Unless proper provision has been made by them they are apt to be- come wards of the state. This would be pre- vented by showing them means to com pete their life span in happy and active line of endeavor. As proposed in this state it would be necessary to secure federal funds to finance the initial cost. But this is right along the Presidents schedule of restoring normaley.
 And SO an idea. conceived of in an emer- geney may be the stepping stone to new social order in our states As studied now in Washington the plan would operate not solely in Connecticut, but in every state eventually if its worth was once demon strated here. It might be. pointed out that relief lists in our towns and cities are rap idly dwindling. That is indeed something for which we are all grateful. but the home stead proposition is one that does not need to have its merits judged by the size of states relief list. It might result if adopted in the end of our county system of homes and almhouses about which we have heard so much of recent years. And that in itself would be an accomplishment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
A Book q Day
 by BRUCE CATION
A Damning Expose
 Of Nazi Terrorism

The most terrific indictment of a government ever presented in mod ern times is to be found in "The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror"
 This work, prepared by the World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism, with an intro- duction by Lord Morley, its chair man, is a documented and authen- tic study of the way the Nazi group in Germany has gained and held power. It makes fearful reading: a more damning expose could not be imagined.
 It begins by discussing the Reich stag fire in great detail. It makes 1t unescapably clear that this fire was not started by the Commun- ists, but indisputably was set by the Nazis themselves, under the personal direction of Herr Goering.
 It was a ruthless and cynical coup d'etat; an election was ap- preaching, the Nazi party had be- gun to disintegrate; the fire, duly blamed on the Communists, made 1t possible for the Nazis to sweep the election and make Hitler dic- tator.
 Then the DOCK taxes up the Story of the brown terror which followed assumption of the dictatorship. For page after page 1t contains record of murders, torturings. and cruel ties that make one heart-sick. II provides ample refutation for all the Mazi apologies and denials: the record is here, in black and white, unacceptable, almost unbelievable. :.
 Tn addition, the book makes it clear that the Nazi regime is a cloak for the machinations of the great German capitalists. The working man, 1t indicates, is being sold down the river; the anti-Jew campaign is a smoke screen to hide the true direction things are talk ing.
 Published by Knopf, tine book se11s for S26(
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24

With House Ways and Means subeom- mittee starting the gigantic task of correcting the numerous tax abuses in the nation every state in the Union needs to sit up and take notice. What Uncle Sam can do in the way of changing our present methods of taxation and relieving uneven burdens can be dupli- cated in the states. We will hear report on the tax situation in Connecticut some time in the next twelve or fourteen months We have committee. authorized by the 1o33 Legislature. to conduct a tax survey. One has been sadly needed for many years It seemed imminent in l93l, but the Legislature hemmed and hawed with the result that the survey was postponed two years. Now we may expect some disclosures from this com mittee with few bits of advice about les- senng the abnormal burden of the real estate owner. Abuses can easily be eliminated by widening the tax base. That looms with the trend of things repeal being our meaning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
TUESDAY, OCTOBER "A, 1888
The Vanishing Trolley Rail

Sale of the Waterbury and Milldale Tram way Company, approval of which was granted yesterday by the Public Utilities Commission at Hartford ends another chap ter on Brass City transportation. The so- called Green Line did not have long ex- istenee in this city. relatively speaking But for an independent company it did experl- ence remarkable success in the field of electric locomotion. We can recall its inauguration. It was gala day for those sections of Wa terbury, Wolcott. Marion and Milldale, which were servieed by the new green trolley cars.
 However, the trolley rail is slowly but surely giving way. Even in this city, where heavy industrial population makes unusual demands on a traction company, the end of the street car seems inevitable. Perhaps we are bit premature in this statement but we can only imagine that Waterbury will fol- low in the footsteps of other communities where problems have been similar Feelings at this change must naturally be mixed. There are thousands of faithful supporters for the trolley and always will be, whereas, there are just as many bus enthusiasts.
 It is not our purpose in this article to praise the one and condemn the other. Both serve definite purpose and in that respect occupy distinct niche in the field of trans- portation. Whether or not the trolley will finally be entirely supplanted in Waterbury is not for us to answer. It would be no extravagant claim to say it would. We can't see how we can be classed as non- progressive by stating that the trolley can never be entirely relegated from our streets. However, the trend is in that direction and the replacement of the Green Line trolleys over the entire route that they once traversed, by buses next Monday merely points out to natives who have watched the horse come and go. the automobile develop from ve- !, biele of pleasure to one of necessity, that time flies. We must be prepared for any thing a new era produces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24

itself was torn by feud between officers and privates.
 In short, those Cuban students show a progressiveness. maturity and responsibil- ity that we do not expect in our own. But they are not so exceptional in that respect as might be imagined. It IS a common thing in foreign countries, whether in Latin America. Europe or Asia. for students to take prominent part in their eountrys po- litical life. Ours. if they pay any attention at all to politics in their student days. are usually content with forming club, holding meeting or two during campaign. and taking part in parade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
Students In Politics

To Americans. the part played by stu
 dents in the Cuban revolution is surprising. High school and college boys, who in this country would have been devoting them- selves to fraternity life and athletics, amount there to powerful political party. Their Student Directorate' was one of the fac tors in eliminating Maehado. They have been far more than agitators. They helped preserve order and turn the tide when De- csspedes was busted Under President Grsu San Martin they have carried guns and poIiced government buildings while the army
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24

Farewell kisses between husbands and wives of Bronxville, N. r.. have become a serious matter to the authorities down there. It seems that the daily commuters to New York have developed to such an alarming number that traffic conditions in and around the railroad station, between 7:l9 and 9: :l4 each week-day morning, are at such state that the police have found it necessary to in- terefere. Their first injunction was snappy farewells for fond hubbies and wives This has caused some indignation, especially among the couples whose connubial bliss is as yet unsmired by the prosaie squabbles of married life. However, the kiss and run edict will probably continue if Bronxvile motor ists want traffic tie-ups ended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24

Hartford is in the midst of city election campaign that is odd in one respect The spotlight is turned not on the mayoralty candidates of the major political parties blt on dropped city official. Town Clerk John A. Gleason. He needs no introduction as he is widely known throughout the state. or course his circle of admirers is confined more to Hartford than the hinterlands. but his name and fame have gone out before him. For IS years he has served as town clerk of Hartford. During that time has was unop- posed in republican ranks. Whenever an cleo ton occurred there was one positive fact. Mir Gleason would be reflected. As eonse- quenee his endorsement by both parties came to be regarded as a matter of course. For
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
/ Here, There And Eve1y1ghef1e
CoMMITTAL MEANS MUCH
(New Britain Herald)


 Two years ago at this time An peIo Paonessa was saying definitely that he did not choose to run in the coming spring election.
 Later he changed his mind slightly, saying he would run if no other Democrats cared to enter the race. It turned out that contestants other than Paonessa could be To- cated and Frank Conlon got to be the candidate.
 Paonessa went fishing and help ed Conlon between bites.
 At present, how about the next democratic mayoralty candidate?
 We asked MT Paonessa whether he would be candidate, and he did NOT say he did NOT choose to run.' :,
 'I am non- -committal," he said.
 Angelo is getting good in the use of fourLply words.
 "Yes or no, are you going to run"
 Mon n-committal," he said again.
 Now what is an editor going to make out of that.
 Simply this, as we figure 1t: That he has his eye on that mayors chair. To find out his exact senti- ments, let the conversation drift into a discussion of the Quigley policies. Paonessa has ideas about them. Some of the ideas are good.
 Then there is the build-up under way for this veteran of democratic politics. He has entered the public prints more frequently of late. As Q state factory inspector he has had some opportunities to get on | I& &An seized such opportunities with more frequency of late. A And there was another opportu- nifty when he waded into the milk situation. He may find plenty of other situations needing attention before next spring.
 He looks to us as the head man In the democratic minstrel show, the fellow who could give the Quigley show a maximum of op- position.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24

that rimes with hobo" the dodo.
 But though the hobo may be vanishing, the hitch -hiker has more than taken his place. A year ago the American motorist of- ten saw whole families, with all their worldly belongings beside them, lined up on the edge of the highways. right thumb up and pointing ahead - to new scenes and new hopes somewhere tout yonder." This fall a motorist, cov- ering $500 miles through the East and middle West, encountered on- ly two such family groups, both young couples.
 Thus, numerous though they are. the hitch-hikers are fewer than 8 year ago. One big change is es- pecially noticeable - the average thumb -jerker'' is younger and better. dressed than the vintage of 1882. That, taken with Mir Da.- tons statement that the old-fash- toned hobo is disappearing, many mean that young America, Instead of falling into the habit of aim less wandering, is starting on purposeful pilgrimage.