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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A Sad Rrea kdOwn

Friend wife is strong and healthy. She hasn't worn q corset or other support for years. She is physically active, aged 30. Now some one has talked her into wearing cOrsets ito strengthen the abdominal muscles" What Is your opinion? (W. J. E.)
 Answer-Can't understand such a sad break down. Namby -pamby sickly girls or women are readily sold on that unphysiological idea. The best way to strengthen abdominal muscles, maitgoodnitenaengFi-th netaoinshrdlcmfwyp-? maintain good support for all the organs and preserve a godo figure, is to train your own muscles to support you.
 Saltpeter
 Is the use of potassium nitrate harmful? If not how often and jn what quantity can 1t be taken? Where can it be obtained? co. A. S.) Answer-Saltpeter has little if any effect when taken in ordinary doses. but may cause poisoning tgastro-entertis) if taken in large doses. It is old remedy for the relief of asthma-the patient smoking cigarets made of hitter paper burning the aper in vessel and inhaling the fumes. Nitre paper is any unglazed paper soaked in solution of one ounce of saltpeter in four ounces of water. and hung up to dry. The soothing effect may be increased by dipping the hitter paper in com- pound tincture of benzoin and again drying. before using.
 Copyright. John F. Diile co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
The Right Idea

X Professor Richard Joyce Smith may have Rupset the equilibrium of opponents of the ;fixed charges levied by public utilities of RSthe state Thursday afternoon. but we think Z that if those same opponents would follow the same line of attack that he does there would be more control over these same public utilities than is now exercised. Professor Smith, acknowledged as an authority on public utility law. doesn't find anything basically wrong with the idea of fixed charges or flat rates. On the contrary he thinks this principle is sound one, but may perehanee be violated in some specific in- stances.
 However there is no question: but what Professor Smith believes that the public utili- ties commission could be made more of factor in controlling the activities of electric light and power, gas, traction, and railroad companies of the state. He has made himself clear on this subject on various occasions. In fact much of the opposition to his ap- pointment as member of the commission two years ago was due to the fact that re- publicans didn't care to have him meddling with the present status of the commission which is just active enough to satisfy g.o.p. < leaders whose connections are both political and financial.
 There has been great stir made in Con- necticut of recent years over rates charged by electric. gas. and water companies. In practically all instances the companions have been upheld by the public utilities commis- sion This has only served to convince a majority of people, most of them clients of these same concerns. that they are being oyereharged.. It is hard, though, to think that an authority, such as Professor Smith is, would rise before legislative committee and place his approval on them in general if there was deliberate intent upon the part of the companies to overtax their clientele. There is room for improvement in the field of public utilities, but it takes an expert to know where to begin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
The First Request

Senator Joseph A. Haekett of Waterbury has made the first request for alloeation of the revenue that the state will realize from manufacture and sale of beer. In an inter- view with Governor Wilbur L. Cross this week the local legislator petitioned that the first $200.000 taken in in this fashion be placed in special fund for establishment of old age pensions. The idea is said to have been received favorably by the gover- nor. He is committed to the old age pen sion plan and has consistently asked for leg islative approval. This is not forthcoming as yet. but with the Legislature considering the report of the special old age pension com mission some definite action is due shortly.
 No doubt there will be many requests tor use of the revenue from beer taxes. A certain amount will be used to pay for the Administration of the particular department under whose jurisdiction beer control will tsll. If this happens to be special commis-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
"LoU" STONE
(Hartford Courant)

Fate chose wisely when she placed the late Louis T. Stone in town in Litchfield county and found work for him on news paper. the Winsted Citizen. That the town was not large one and neither was the paper meshed per- fectly with the plans of Fate, for the office boy had opportunity to be a reporter at intervals and a re- porter might sit in now and then as city editor, managing editor or editor-in-chie
 Fate managed it nicely, as she did years before in the case of J. M. Bailey of the Danbury News. Bailey made the News known throughout the country for his and it's paragraphs, and Stone did the like for the Winsted Citizen by his tales of unnatural nature. In no other town in the country was there a harelipped cat that could and did whistle Yankee Doodle. It was left for Winsted to have a dog that strove for three weeks to hatch a clutch of eggs after hen became discouraged. It was, of course, in Winsted that a hen alighted on the bell-cord of rail- way train and brought it to halt, and it was in Winsted that bald headed man kept flies from his "dome' by causing a spider to be painted upon it.
 The tales from Winsted contain ed no acid. No one was pained or harmed by them, and wide circle of readers were amused by their relation. It was good for the paper with which Stone was connected, it was good for the state, and Litchfield county especially relished the narratives as they appeared They were unique; otherwise they would not have attracted country wide attention. The Winsted Citt- zen will continue, but it will moi soon have another writer like the one now dead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25

A warning from the Connecticut Agrieul- tural Expstimsnt Station has been issued by Dr w. E. Britton.. entomologist. warning people to get rid of their eornstalks. This cleanup campaign is to prevent the spread of the corn bore in Connecticut and is usu- ally followed by person inspection tour. Last year agents visited every city and town in the state warning garden owners who had not destroyed oornstalks to do so within a specified period. or face arrest. This years warning says, If certain cornstalks are not destroyed on an infested field. they will produce new and enlarged broods of corn borers the following year. This insect has spread gradually over the state. If the grower fails to clean up his field. not only will his own crop be endangered. but he may be the cause of infection spreading to his neighbours property"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
sives comprise the various batta- lions of opposition.
 Strong Party Rule

sives comprise the various batta-
 lions of opposition.
 Strong Party Rule
 What we're having, meanwhile | is the first demonstration of strong party government in IA years. It | has long been argued, both by re- publicans and democrats, that a government of parties must have | party governmental least occa-
 sionally, if only to show how it
 works.
 Party government went out when the country turned against Wilson
 in the congressional elections of 1918. Until then the president had been able to operate with party
 majorities reinforced by republican support in the war emergency. There was semblance of party government under Harding, but even then the farm bloc and the republican progressives were be- ginning to build up @ balance of power which flourished in the Coolidge administration. Congress did about as it pleased with the l Coolidge measures and after Hoov-
 CT came along the senate's republi- can progressives were able to balk
 the White House by aligning with
 the democrats. Hoover had strong
 republican house for his first two
 years, but mere paper majority
 in the senate. In his second two years the democrats had control of
 the house and he really had hostile
 majorities in both branches. He
 had considerable success in putting
 through his reconstruction" pro- gram, but that was because--in an
 emergency-the democrats had no
 more of a program than the repub- lican seem to have now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
SATURDAY, MARCH 25. 1883
Buy At Home

Nothing could be more convincing of the fact that it pays to buy at home than the recent banking holiday. During that period there was an actual shortage of ready money in the city. It wasn't due to the fact tha; the. residents weren't spending money. Of course. there was tendency to make dollar < 70 bit farther than before, but in the main ' { the trouble lay in the fact that Waterbury dollars were going out of Waterbury to be spent in other cities. A city cannot long endure if such state of affairs con- tnues indefinitely. Our slogan tonight therefore. is = buy at home.
 Waterbury is distinctly mill town. That is not title of which we need be ashamed. it is tribute to the ingenuity of our fore fathers who brought into our midst the spirit of manufacturing It is tribute to their descendants who have kept 1t alive these many years and have expanded the. idea fenfold until Waterbury in normal times IS veritable beehive of machine activity and its products are as numerous and varied as the magnitude of the stars.
 To keep Waterbury bustling we must all contribute to its support. We can do this in various ways. First off we should support the home town merchant. He is perhaps your next door neighbor. His livelihood depends upon what you spend with him. The money that he in turn may spend in your business is your livelihood. It is give and take with most of us. The iiterde- pendenee is absolutely necessary in any scheme of things Without financial sup port merchants fail landlords lost property: home owners see mortgages foreclosed; eit- ies plunge deeper into debt.
 At time like the present the business people of Waterbury need local support more than at any other period. Credit IS strained to the bursting point. When money Sisn't in circulation it ceases to perform the Eduty for which it was minted Residents of Waterbury can best keep their money in Ecireulation to their own and their neighbors benefit by buying at home. It's the best Nand wisest policy to follow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
To-day's Selected Poem
HOMEWARD BOUND

There's pine-built lodge in a rolling mountain glen In the shag- breadth motherland that bore me;
 home again To the hills where my heart has gone before me- Where a lake laughs blue while the dipping paddles gleam, Where the wild geese are following their leader, Where the trout leaps up from the silver of the stream And the buck strikes his horns against the cedar. From "The Laughing Muse" by Arthur Cult erman. (New York: Harpers.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
GASTRIC JUICE FOR TENACIOUS ANENiIl

Monuments to dogs and bequests to cats and canaries are familiar phenomena of a senti- mental age, but no one ventures to memorabilia the hog as the friend of man, though certainly the hog deserves suitable distinction. Every bit of the hog but the squeal is useful to man,
 and not few of us, fancy prefer the swine
 song to the canine feline
 Many legendary notions about ostrfches, hogs
 and goats have been instilled in the popular
 mind by the humorists and jokesmiths and
 these common beliefs generally too child
 ish to consider seriously, yet they do enter into the education of children. I refer particularly to the idea that an ostrich will eat and digest anything and tries to hide by sticking his head in the sand; the idea that goat can live on refuse such as waste paper, tin cans, etc, ana usually emits such a terrible odor that no one would want to keep goat as source Of food anyway; and the idea that @ hog likes filth. A hog is necessarily filthy if the hogs owner is so inclined but naturally tLe hog is as clean as any other quadruped and as particular about what he eats.
 Physicians have long recognized the import ance of the stomach symptoms in cases of per- niclous anemia. In this disease there is nearly always marked diminution of the gastric juice secretion, not rarely complete failure Of secretion of acid or ferment, and of course this achylia, as doctors call it, gravely handicaps
 the digestion of the most essential foods. In recent years the discovery of the curative value of liver In pernicious anemla, taken to- gether with the observation that liver has no particular remedial value in ordinary (second- ary) anemia, has led to the hypothesis that some hormone some unidentified ferment or chemical substance, perhaps vitamin, in liver is the curative factor. This elusive hormone or
 unidentified factor is now believed to be present in gastric juice. The gastric juice of swine is concentrated and administered by injection
 into muscle tissue. A single injection of this concentrated swine gastric juice has brought about immediate improvement, steady gain
 and complete recovery in three months in nu-
 merous cases of progressive pernicious anemia. From three to five quarts of the fresh gas- tric juice from the stomach of the hog is con- centrated down to the bulk of two teaspoon fus, which is not half bad to injector rather to be injected with.
 It is possible that even if this gastric juice injection proves potent 8 remedy for per-
 nicious anemia as the early tests indicate. the patient will require injections indefinitely at intervals of two or three months to mantain the gain at least this will be necessary until the essential cause of pernicious anemia is dis covered and if possible corrected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
Here, There And Euery1Dhere

word.
 A beverage permissible under the constitution must be nonintoxicat- ing. There can be no objection to the manufacture and sale of non- intoxicating drinks. But, if they are to be actually of such low ale coholic content as to be minus the kick of inebriety, they will not pro- duce much revenue.
 The president should not depend on the beer tax in balancing the budget. For the federal beer tax is sure to be disappointing, unless the constitution be flagrantly nullified as to alcoholic content and an ad- vertising campaign of national range, be undertaken by the brew- CTS to popularize beer drinking again.
 Until the 18th amendment is re- pealed, the better way is to cense efforts to restablish the beer trade, which could be but a detail of the larger problem of a new social con- trol for the drink evil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
So They Say

still say that the beer brewed in Milwaukee is the greatest and most wholesome beer that has eyer been brewed on the face of the earth. Congressman Cannon Of Wisconsin.
 A war once started in any por- ton of the earth is likely to en- velop the whole. - Henry l.. Stim- son, retiring secretary of state.
 
 An emergency does not justify notification of the Constitution. = Senator Borah of Idaho, talking about beer.
 The state might. if conditions warranted, subject giant corpor- ations to Q control similar to that now exerted over public utility companies. - Justice Brandeis Of the Supreme Court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
PRESIDENTS BEER MESSAGE
(springfield Republican,

The second President of the United States, old John Adams Of Quincy, delivered one gargantuan sentence 727 words long, in his in augural message to congress. The 32rd President, Franklin D. Roose- welt, delivered a whole message to congress, yesterday, only II words long; and he said it all.
 MT Roosevelt bases on the treas- ury's urgent revenue needs his rec ommendation that congress legalizc all beverages of 'such alcoholic content as is permissible under the constitution" As the text of this model-message-in point of brevity -is almost a literal transcript from the democratic national platform, it looks as if the president called for a copy of the platform before taking his pen in hand. From this viewpoint, he quickly redeems an- other campaign pledge. Well. that's over," we can imagine him saying, as he dashed off the 71st
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25

President Roosevelt is going to have his own swimming pool at the White House after all. It will cost $l0.000 to build. the money to be supplied by special fund started by the New York Daily News and supported by about 50 other papers through out the nation. Contributions. large and small, poured in as soon as the campaign was announced and it is said that President Roosevelt will not refuse the gift. No federal funds were available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
A DOGS PLACE

Hyannis, Mass.--Mrs Joseph A. Dixon has decided that dogs place is outside, no matter how cold the night. Mrs Dixon felt pity for her police dog, which had been sleeping out for several months on a recent cold night,- so she brought him in the house. The same night Al of her chickens were stolen. State police recovered tn chickns from farm in Brew ster, but from now on the dog sleeps out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
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., 1933-03-25

ins lares number cf names so pstitioaR lh ghs long run. though Conaesticut can't be considered anything but a wet state and its convention will probably act accordingly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:39 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25

Nearly 10000 people are being tried in Bromley. Englands/ for fail- ing to keep up payments on their radios.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25

Henry Ford. after thinking it over. de- cided there was only one thing worse than bein in the power of the bankers and that was being banker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
OOO STUMBLING

Enjoy the sunshine,
 Bask i'm it's cheer,
 The time will come,
 It will disappear.
 oTO--o A capitalist is very often the son of a socialistic father.
 o-O-o Nowadays factors are not nearly as important as fac- tories.
 o-O-o Give some people an inch and they'll want an inch plant.
 o-O-o This concludes our series of pro- grams for the week. They were broadcast-by DBD and came to you through the courtesy of the Water bury Evening Democrat, pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time.
 o-O-o Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25

Anyway posterity's just around the corner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
ON AND ON

"The cuff is filled"
 Roared Grocer Blunt, "So I'll write this charge, On the old shirt front"
 o-O-o They insist that golf is a matter of position. Of position or dis position? :. Many an old flame is ca- pablo of starting a new fire.
 o-O-o The old gag of cost-lus, seems to be a minus now.
 o-O-o
 MORE LINES
 The life of a rose,
 Is brief, it's true,
 But ah tho joy.
 It brings to you.
 o-O-o A capitalist is a socialist who made the most of his opportunities.
 o-O-o
 Germany has discarded the republican flag. Another de- feat for the poor old g. o. p.
 O-O-o A hippo in New York zoo had humps. So they painted it's throat by using one of those long brushes known to billboard advertising men. Something to handle, eh.
 o-O-O
 There are tricks to all trades but it takes a magician to make regular trade of tricks.
 O-O-o When the new beer goes on sale, and a husband comes home heavily laden, the wife hay snort, You're drunk" To which the husband can reply, ''Not on your life, I'm merely full of 3.2."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
DEALING

The blooming Easter lily, Has beauty rich indeed, Which helps us all to understand, The living Easter creed.
 o-O-O Then there was the wit who said a dry dock was a doctor who re- fused to give you 8 liquor prescrip- ton.
 O-O-o
 Nowadays when a business man is all run down, the doc tells him to lay off golf and get a good rest at his office.
 o-O-o Children under IA are forbidden to attend Spanish bull fights. How cow-ardly.
 O-O-o
 When the physician tells a lazy male patient that he will never work again, little does he realize how much this cheers hi I up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-25
Good evening.
 BfT1GTY fNSTsY
GA toast to the old-fashioned girl
 of today)

Beauty at best is transient thing Of beauty some paint and other.
 may sing. But beauty to me leaves fai different mark. Not the hum of the wind, nor tht
 song of the lark. There's beauty in flowers. in birds, and in bees. There's beauty in sunset, in rivers, and trees. But my concept of beauty surpasses the rest. Your ways and ideals to me seem
 the best. You hold up ideals to all as the
 right. You frown on false virtue and
 show them the light. You may not know your example
 has been, To me, far more forceful than
 teaching or pen. Always an exemplar of Mary's
 bright light. Dispelling the darkness, repelling
 the night. If my hearts divided in parts.-
 One and Two, There's one part for Mother. and
 one part for you. And there real beauty can only be
 found, Where virtue and ideals truly
 abound. And all else is transient, sordid, and
 grim. You have all that's required, -
 ordained by Him.
 Pat
 O-O-o
 France is watching Germany. Germany is watching France. Russia is watching Germany, France and Italy. And the United States is watching Rus sia. So you'd betetr watch your watch. Then there was the movie star wife who dared her husband to strike while the argument was hot. O-O-O
 DWArrHr0
Evening star., 1933-12-15

C o n p etc with
transformer. Head
light engine. one
passenger car. one
observation coach
and tracks.-Fourth
Floor.
Evening star., 1933-12-15

Coat, vest and
2 pairs knickers.
OF rough woods,
8 to 18. First
Floor.
Evening star., 1933-12-15

Black with a touch of crisp white;
or exquisite bright colors to wear
under dark coats for bridge and
tea and luncheons. All with clever
new fashion touches and long
skirts! IA to 20.
Palais Royal-Third Floor
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-07-27
Cause of Earthquakes
Still Puzzles Experts

Earthquakes are believed to result
from a number of different causes,
but the principal one is considered to
be faulting or the slipping of one
great body of rock upon another in
the earth's crust or outer portion, says
a writer In the Detroit News. After
the California earthquake of 1905 It
was found that along a previously
known fault nearly 800 miles long, the
strata bad shifted horizontally from
one TO three feet. The usual points
Of origin for such changes in the
earth's crust are estimated to be from
10 to 20 miles below the surface. Some
earthquakes are caused by the violent
explosions accompanying volcanic
eruptions. Some are produced by the
falling in Of subterranean caverns, by
ayalanches, landslides and various
slumpings on the slopes Of deltas and
on the outer faces Of the continental
platforms under the sea Great earth
quakes are most numerous in volcanic
regions, and particularly near the
mountainous edges Of continents, Dor
dering on the ocean.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-07-27
Many Specie. Of o.k Tree.

There are over 200 species Of oak,
of which fifteen are native Of Cali
fornia. One Of the most familiar trees
In southern California is the native
evergreen or live oak (Quercus agri-
folio). While the native live oak Is
often used in street Pathways, the
holly oak Of southern Europe seems
to be better for all-around parkway
use and particularly near the ocean,
notes a writer in the Los Angeles
Times. The native oak tends to mil
dew badly when near the ocean and
it seems to be more easily attacked
by the twig borer. The holly oak is
straighter when young.