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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

Paul Kasamaraszyk of Newington was SO firmly convinced that near neighbor. Mrs Frank Desovieh, was a witch that he decided the only thing to do was to address her with some violent language. However. Connee- ticut courts don't put much stock in witches, 'hexing,' etc.. so the man received a suspended sentence. He claimed the woman boiled vinegar, garlic, salt, and water and let south wind carry the vapor toward his farm, thus causing his animals to behave queerly. Sounds like page out of Penn sylvania's Dutch annals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
The Waterbury Democrat Wash.
 ington Correspondent

Washington-20 years ago Charles August Lindbergh, a congressman from Minnesota, fought for and ob- tained an investigation of the
 Money Trust"
 The elder J. P. Morgan was fore ed to come and tell 8 committee something about his vast opera tions. The country had it's first insight into the domination by the bankers over railroads, banks, in- dustrial corporations, utilities and politics.
 Charles August Lindbergh was
 damned by the conservatives and
 sacrificed his public career because
 he so boldly and persistently at-
 tackled men like the Morgans, their
 operations with other peoples
 money and their system of hidden control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

it sliould not be imagined that states should sacrifice their identity simply because they are forced to come to Uncle Sam for finan- eial aid One excellent point that pr Nor gan stressed was the fact that lower scales of living should result from this depression. rather than have attempts made to retain those of the mad boom period.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
TRoLLEY's MAIN TROUBLE
(New BritaIn HeraIdl )

The Connecticut company has announced it's failure to meet Its fixed charges in 1882 by $i.fG1.000.
 The trolley and bus bushes Co hard nowadays. especially when there are excessive fixed charges to be met.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
Son on Favored List

Son on Favored List Today the younger Morgan is on the stand and his firm is being in- vestigated once more. And the
 name of Lindbergh enters again with a startling contrast of cir cumstance.
 Charles Augustus Lindbergh, son of the uncompromising Min nesota progressive and the youth
 who became Americans hero through his spectacular flight to Paris, sometime ago married the daughter of a Morgan partner. And now it has been revealed that the younger Lindbergh was one of the many public men who ac- cepted favors from the house of
 Morgan in the form of securities delivered at price far below the market value.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
Pecaro's Insistence

Only the fiery persistence of Counsel Ferdinand Pecora caused the senate committee to make pub lie the lists of the Morgan stock and loan beneficiaries. A commit tee majority was actually opposed to the publicity for such names as Woodin. Coolidge, Lindbergh, Mo- Adoo, Norman H. Davis, Newton D. Baker, Justice Roberts and Ras-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

And now when F. D. R. has little idle time on his hands. we wish he'd do some thing about the weather.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

If those war debts are to be paid in goods and services we'll have to drink lot Of French wine and English ale. eat lot ot spaghetti, and do lot of travelling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
Bankers Friendly

DdnkcrS CTACHAuAy
 It's amazing how chummy these ordinarily aloof and cloistered Morgan partners become when they're on the spot.
 T don't mind, boys" said J. F. himself as photographers exploded scores of f1ashlight bulbs before him, for the tenth time. T own some stock in General Electric"
 Costigan, the Colorado progress sive, sitting beside him, introduced himself to the money king. Just think" exclaimed Morgan, glancing at Buckley of Ohio at his right. Were the only three Harvard men at the table, sitting right in a row!" Later he peered forward to see the book Costigan was in- specting-a tome purporting to ex- pose the Morgan firm. Costigan politely handed him the book. Then J. P, froze up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Lndbergh, ST, Forced First Morgan Probe
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

kob. But the thing had gone too far,
 Pecora as good as threatened to walk out if the evidence wede sup pressed. And some committee members who had raved against publicity didn't dare vote against 1t, So the vote was six to five in favor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
Hold Press Conference

The natty. genial Thomas w. Lamont, and the tall, spare, hand some George Whitney. who is con- sidered the "big shot" of the Nor gan firm, are the two partners who hold a joint press conference after each day.
 "Oh the record" they explain. just like two cabinet members. ''If there are any questions. just call us up and we'll be glad to answer them," they conclude cheer fully.
 Copyright 1893 NEA Service Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
Personal Health SerUice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to Dersona' health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment, win be answered by pr braoS' Address him. care Of the Democrat. seno'ne stamp md addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

All vehicles must be lighted not later thai 8:47, daylight saving time. tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Nntura Ts Kind.

am P years old. Eight months ago n had mumps and there was comphcating epu.cs mifis. the doctor called 1t What enect ,.,iII fbis have c. IL. E)
 Answer-No effect. As long as the opposite gland remains intact there is no appreciabie impairment of any kind. now or later.
 Equaiizing Circulation. .. I find that your advice Of 2 daily walk oi .hout two hours or several miles, is excellent. For me 1t has proved n remedy for restless nerves. 1t has equalizcs the circulation and ln- duccd restfuI sleep. priceless boon. e: w. Do Answer--For those who can't affrd to walk. a daily bicycle ride is the mex. best thing
 Dang.
 Your article "Crick in the Rack" interested me greatly (three pages of history of easel <. your opinion of the case tN. n: Al Answer-I am sorry now I wrote the article. no water, at least until the doctor comes. libie folk who are ever ready to believe that when a physician unwittngly describes some of their present symptoms. he can also divine by long distance second-si what aIis them and what they should do about it In other words they think the doctor must Do quack.
 (Copyright 1888. John Y. piile co')
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
PATIENTS DO NOT DIE OF APPENDICITIS
 IN ENGLAND

A motion "That in every case of acute ap,
 pendicits immediate operation ,s, IS sncis4v no of Medicine and Postgraduate Assoclauon, anu both representative English medical bodies ap pear to have disagreed, after the traoitio"ai manner of the profession.
 The weight of opinion appears to be evenly
 divided upon the question of immediate opera, lion in all cases In some cases it IS good judgment on the part of the surgeon to wait a bit these representative English doctors
 think. These cases, where some ..ua oL une s Oes' haps or 3 per cent of all the acute cases oi appendicits-so don't bank on cheating the sur geon out of his opportunity if you come down with an ail-wool yard-wide bellyache tomor- row. ,.,. =, All the English surgeons and physicians
 seem to be in accord anouu .ne nose ns acute an- nendicts in a young child. With older persons it may be a fair gamble to wait iew nouis ua i, or even a few days; with child 1t IS not 1alf to take such chance, for the changes that nap nen in such illness in the very young are too sudden and the effects too disastrous: know something of the pain a parent suners when a child is in this plight; know, too, that gooa, prompt, American surgery assuages that pain
 Lord Moynihan, famous English surgeon, pulled off one of his aphorisms-wisecracks, as we call lem here. Patients never die or ap- pendicits he said; they die of its treatment.
 Now wait moment. It is vitaly important for you to get the drift of this Dr. Robert T.. Morris of English medicine He isn't throw ing any bricks at the bungng work of Eng fish surgeons. Not he. Moynihan is one Of them. What he means is that aperients are fa- tai, in acute appendicitis
 Aperients? oh, you know the English have their affectations. Aperients are laxative or cathartic agents-medicines, mineral waters. foods
 So that's what MT. Moynihan-hicscuse me his lordship means Indeed he went right on to say that he had never seen gangrenous nerforated appendix (which, assure you, chill dren, is far worse than it soundsl where an aperient was not the cause (of the per1ora- | tion or rupture and the dire consequences ol this eventuality). No danger would ensue from expectant treatment (that means watch full waiting) if aperients were withheld and if nothing whatever-particuarly water = was
 given by mouth, single drop of water. s. aver, r, the alimentary tract in the appendix region. And that's pretty good thing to remember:
 Where there is even a suspicion of acute ap- pendicits let nothing be given by mouth. Ex- ternal heat preferably moist heat as from large poultice or hannels wrung out of hot water, applied externally for relief. patient kept as quite as possible, no physck, no food
 It brought great number of letters from gull
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
COOKS AND CORKS

Intoxicated with the very thought of the happl-
ness and well-being which the food of wine and
whisky to be let loose in the United States on De-
cember will promote, the wet press Juollantly
devotes columns to the subject. Unlike the liquor
trade the newspapers do not have to wait until
that suspicious date for their share of the golden
flood which they loudly proclaim the liquid food
will instantly release; before repeal was voted,
full-page advertisements of brewers and dlstlers
brought grist to their business offices.
II is easy to imagine the amazement of some
dispassionate visitor from Mars at the dexterity
with which many papers evidently prevent the LETT
hand from knowing what the right hand doeth.
Gravely the editorial columns preach the cause Of
'ten perance' while front pages geefully herald
the news that very shortly a deluge OF 125,OOO-
900 gallons of whisky will be ready for consump-
ton. Solemn articles by economists deplore the
fight of American capital to foreign securities
while display advertisements urge Americans to
fill the pockets of champagne firms in France and
makers of whisky in Scotland.
When it comes to the social benefits anticipated
from repeal, hardly anything short of the millen-
MUM is predicted Profound observations of bar
tenders and doormen of gilded restaurants that a
new and glorious era is upon take on the dig
nifty of front-page prominence Cooks and poten-
tates of the kitchen dwell touchingly on the gas
tronomie delights awaiting nation that apparent
ly has had nothing really fit to eat since appetites
remained unstimuated by potent drinks.
How gratifying it must be to farmers unable to
meet their taxes, unpaid school teachers, and the
army of unemployed to realize that notwithstand-
ing their harassment hilarious prosperity is about
10 burst miraculously all around them, if not
upon them. through the medium of popping corks
and emptied whisky bottles.-The Christian Science
Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
ANOTHER JOB AHEAD

From one of the wisest and safest political lead,
ers in North Carolina who has the highest welfare
of the Democratic party, as well as the masses OF
the people really at heart, have letter discuss
inc the result of the election Tuesday We quote
from it the following significant paragraph
u think that no one complain that 1t was
not fair. clean and honest election. That should
be kept in mind The Dry Forces can lose what
they have gained unless they stand for an election
of the same type at all times and everywhere IN
the state
No absentee ballots were allowed in this prohi-
bition election. No markers were permitted to OPP
crate in the booths, except where the voter was
physically unable to mark his or her own ballot.
That is why everybody is saying this was an abso-
lutely fair. clean and honest election.
Candidates for the legislature in the next pr-
mary in all the counties and in every senatorial
district should be required to pledge themselves 10
give US an election law which will guarantee that
all elections shall be as fair, clean and honest as
the election on November T. 1888.
The absentee ballot law should be repealed
Markers should not be allowed, except TO aid the
physically Observation-Disclosures alem Journal
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
ONE OF The REASONS

Political influence laxiry Of the courts and in
difference corruption of police officers have been
the reasons most commonly assigned for the failure
Of prosecution of the gangsters and racketeers
who, until the federal government took hand
held the country in a state of terror.
Occasionally it suggested that intimidation OF
witnesses also considerable factor in the
failure Of the prosecution to make out case This
phase Of the matter. however, has not made much
Of an impression the public mind.
That she intimidation Of witnesses has largely
been a case of bluff was demonstrated in recent
trials Of racketeers and kidnapers, when witnesses
for the prosecution although threatened with dire
consequences if they testified went on the witness
stand and made it possible to secure convictions
As fortnight prosecutors and unterrifed wit
have gone into action the hollowness Of the
gangster's pretensions is being disclosed. He has
been conducting a game of bluff, and, his bluff
having been called he IS disclosed a. coward and
bully. It IS good for our citizens to contemplate
him tAat light, especially those who may be
called to testify against hirn.--Milwaukee Sentinel
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
DRUNKEN DRIVERS

The attention of readers is directed to the re-
port of the highway patrol and to the remarks of
Captain c. D. Farmer, head of the state highway
patrol system, the increasing number of drunk
en- drivers on the roads of the state during the
months of September and October.
There has been an alarming increase in the num-
Der of drunken drivers and the indications that,
with the liquor laws being repudiated over the
country there will be many more cases of drunken
driving on our highways.
Captain Farmer believes North Carolina would
be much better off of it had legal liquor under
strict control, than the present wide-open bootleg
ging system, under which bootleg liquor be
purchased at almost any filling station lunch
stand anywhere in the state. He expects the pres
ent system to become even worse when legal liquor
can be obtained in Virginia, Kentucky Tennessee
and probably Georgia, with other boetleggers and
rum-runners bringing this bonded liquor into the
state to compete with the homemade corn and rye
iquer distilled by moOnshiners here within the
state. The highway patroimen know better than
any other how many hundreds Of liquor runners
operate in the state since they see them every
day but have no authority to stop them or arrest
them as long as they do not violate any Of the
traffic or vehicle laws. Captain Farmer favors the
enactment Of strict drivers license law and also
: fayorS law making heavy fine and jail sentence
mandatory for drunken driving drunkenness on
the highways Otherwise drunken driving and Sc
rious automobile accidents are going to increase
steadily, he believes
Newspapers have been conducting a campaign
of enlightenment and information on the matter o!
highway accidents for years and years. Every
Monday morning paper carries its own illustrations
of the dangers and tragedies of the highway. 1t is
the authorities make the penalties for drunken
driving so severe that there will be cessation.
We agree with Captain Farmer that a law max
ing mandatory heavy fine and stiff Jail sentenc,
for drunken drivers matter who they are. /
the only way TO handle this problem,-Ga stoni
Gazette. p3TTIJ kIl .tlel'i
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NO SALOONS?

One of the big promises of the leading vets OF
the country TO the voting public was that liquor
came back the saloon would not accompany Il;
also that dry states would receive federal protec-
ton against alcoholic gushes from wet territory
Those are two laudable aims and We hope for
the best but the hope is dimmed by developments
that indicate otherwise.
Reports from New Orleans and other centers re-
veal that the saloon is already back with bang
and federal Indifference to keeping beer out Of
states where IT was not legalzed long ago pointed
TO the same attitude in regard to liquor. Further
more. federal enforcement machinery, already
drastieally cut. will be TOO much tied down to the
task of catching bootleggers trying to make sales
without going through the formality and expense
OF paying taxes.
The individual states and communities of the
country face the problem Of fighting their liquor
battles on their own and that might as we'll be rec
ognized from the start.-A2derson Is. c. Mail
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
A WHISKY REBELLION?
Monitor,

1t is edifying to see the Daily News Of New
York, owned by the same people who own the
Chicago Tribune announcing its purpose Of start
ing up whisky rebellion. In an editorial Of a
week ago it declares that New York wants the sa-
loon back, and proposes to have it, and that the
condition under which people TO do their
drinking shall not be dictated by anyone except
the people who going to do the drinking. This
is quite logical, and so is the conclusion, which
reads as follows:
IF they insist making it their business-well,
most of US know where the speakeasies are and
We can carry on the same old Whisky Rebellion
against Albany that we carried on so long against
Washington
1t is odd that this hayward child of the Chicago
Tribune should take this attitude just when the
parent paper is announcing that it will not even
advertise distilled liquors. Coming just at the
ment when the principal editor of the Tribune IS
making major fight against what he, and many
other Journalists regard as yelled menace to the
freedom of the press in the NRA code, it seems
unfortunate that such blatant threat of rebellion
against the law should deface the columns Of the
News.-Christian Science Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
Says Licensing
Drivers Would
Reduce Crashes
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Waiter Hotel

RALEIGH. Nov. 16.-The usual
weekend crop of automobile az
cidents, in which a score or more
persons were killed or injured,
only serves to emphasize the mead
for a statewide drivers license
law by which habitual careless
and reckless drivers could be pre-
vented from driving cars. Captain
Charles D. Farmer of the state
highway patrol pointed out today.
Until drivers license law is en-
acted, making it possible to keep
an accurate check on reckless
drivers and the accidents in which
they are involved and to revoke
these licenses for cause, the num-
Der of accidents is going to in
crease. Captain Farmer believes.
Take this case here on my
desk now, of a negro boy in Dur
ham who has been involved IN
three serious accidents within the
past two weeks" Captain Farmer
said. THE boys name is L. Brice.
He does not own a car himself,
but has figured in three accidents
in Durham since October %, with
a different car, owned by someone
else. each time. This boy has 4
record for being careless and
reckless and should not be permit
ted to drive an automobile. If we
had had drivers license law, he
would not have been able to have
but one wreck. and the other two
would have been prevented. But
he seems to be able to keep on
getting jobs driving cars-and
tearing them up"
If the state had a drivers Ii
cense law. the license would be
taken away from any driver after
the first wreck, if the facts show
ed that he was responsible for it.
Bills proposing drivers licenses
have been proposed in the last
three sessions of the general as
sembly, have been advocated by
the thousands Of members of the
Carolina Motor club and by police
departments throughout the state.
But politics has prevented their
enactment in each session, since
enough members feared the effect
such a law would have on the
farmers vote. to defeat the bills
each time. Almost the only oppo-
sition to a drivers license law has
come from the farmers, and the
rural counties hold the balance Of
power in the general assembly.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
THIS IS VICIOUS

To associate the purposeful leadership of tbs
ministers of North Carolina with that Of the boot
leggers in repeal is vicious and SlanderouS.
No right-meaning man will De guilty of it.
Ministers were in their proper places in that
campaign if they conceived that it was the duty
personally and professionally. TO foster sentiment
for the amendment vote instead of committing the
state to legalized liquor.
What they are against is LIQUOR, whether II
Is handled by the state or by the bOotleggers.
If they concluded that the former would De
worse than the latter, and conseentiously followed
that conviction they are to be applauded and not
villi6ed for il.
Their interest in the case was inspired by the
morality of it: not the political impulse.
And if they are wrong in holding that whatever
is morally wrong can not be made politically right
somebody else will have to argue with them abont
it. l don't.-Juian Miller in Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-16
PAN AMERICAN
ECONOMIC Unit
MAY Be SET Up
Could Be One Sequel of
Seventh Conference to
Meet December 3

MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay. Nov.
16.-UP).-Creation of an in
ter-American economic organiza-
ton was suggested here as one of
the most immediate and practical
results to be expected from the
seventh Pan-American conference,
converting in Montevideo on De
cember 8.
Out of the uncertainties sur
rounding the outcome of the con-
ference, the economic organize
ton was regarded as one project
easiest to accomplish. 1t was sug-
gested originally By Haiti after
the fourth Pan-American confer
ence in 1881, and would consist
of a central committee. estab-
lished at Washington, which would
examine data and suggestions
supplied by national economic
committees, functioning autono-
mously in each American c0untrv.
The suggestions and data would
cover al SCOlOIl44S anu hi4Sb4LSASHA
problems of the countries involv-
ed. ranging from agriculture and
'industry to economic education
and standards of living.
Such an organization, which Is
believed to have the support of
the principal members of the Pan
American Union, is aimed towards
the treatment of tangible economic
difficulties from the viewpoint of
actual working experience in the
past. rather than from accepted,
cut-and-dried principles.
Fears have been expressed by
some Latin-American countries,
however, that the organization
might be too much influenced by
United States interests, and there
will be some agitation for estab-
lishment OF the organization in a
Latin-American city. instead OF
Washington. 1t will be equally in
sisted that all members Of the
central organization should be
equal. with voting powers equally
distributed among countries.
Some quarters viewed the pro-
posal as the prototype of an
American league Of nations, to