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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1888
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In the course of his radio address last Sun day night President Franklin D. Roosevelt used many expressions with which the pub- lie has become familiar of recent months. But being familiar with them does not mean necessarily that the public understands all of them. There is great tendency in this country to use words loosely. particularly in economic arguments This is not intend- cd as a criticism of the presidents fine ad- dress. It has just provided us with an op- portunity to be helpful, we hope.
 We have listened to the terms sound money" and imitation" on numerous oecas- ions. What do they mean! Sound money to the advocates of that desirable commodity seems to mean simply gold dollars or dollars that can be exchanged at par for gold. They may also specify the same weight of gold they have been. accustomed to in the gold dollar. There are others, though that insist sound money has nothing to do with gold. They claim money isn't sound when its purchas- ing value is constantly changing
 Imitation properly applies to any extension of priees credit or currency whether proper or improper, wise or unwise. Yet lately the word is limited and discredited by us-- ing it as if it meant only the issuance of large quantities of paper money not backed with gold or securities and with no provis- ion for retremnt. It should be clear from the presidents recent talk that no such thing as this is planned. What we will get if the proposed Roosevelt plan now goes through is direct management of the value of Uncle Sans gold currency.
 By fixing the price of the precious metal at Washington the government hopes to ob- tain lever with which it can rise or lower commodity prices as the occasion demands. This may be imitation if you care to accept a loose definition. Right now the market price of newly mined gold (the price is given daily in the Democrat) is regulated by the open market price at London and the ratio of the dollar to sterling. The London rrce in turn has been determined by the ra- tio of sterling to the French franc. Frances abandonment, therefore, of the gold stand- ard would upset all these calculations with perhaps disastrous effects abroad and at home. Come what may. President Roosevelt is de- termined that we shall have dollar whose purchasing power will be constant That's all that most of us ask. And it's something that we all can understand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
EATING WILD DUCK
(BrIdgoport Tolegram) ]

The people of Norfolk in this state had an unexpected visitation on Sunday when . flock Of ducks descended on the town, apparently having been blown inland by a storm. Many of the birds were exhausted or crippled by their bat. tie against the clements. Some were dead when found; others badly hurt, while . largo number of survivors found their way to one of the local ponds, to rest for These duck were of the kind known to sportsncr as black coots, or American sectors. Senator Frederic Walcott whose home is in Norfolk, was appealed to as the leading authority on bird lore. Pco- pie who had picked up the scot CTS wanted to know how to dress and cook them. Senator Walcott gave his recipe as follows: "Hang them over the porch for a week, soak them in fresh water 24 hours, parboil them and give them to tho dog"
 The same recipe might very well be applied to all but as very few of our wild duck. Why hunters find so much fascination in get ting bags of these gamey, fishy- tasting birds, the Youngest of whom is tougher than tho most ancient rooster in the barnyard, is hard to understand. Wild ducks are born tough and the life they lead makes them tougher. All of them taste fishy and some of them taste like train oil as well, perhaps because of the residue from tank CTS plying up and down the Sound. 'p
 Beside these wild ducklings, a nice miik-fed duck from the neigh boring market Is . deiicacy fit for e king.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

Bronxville residents. It is quite evident that Bronxvlle now intends to take its kissing seriously. A record of kissing Mon day morning showed that the eommuters on the S:05 train were by far the cham pions. The kisses averaged three to every five couples. However. it was of the Kiss and-run type. One man boasted that the entire operation of kissing his spouse. sliding from behind the wheel and seeing it pull away required only three seconds due to some careful practice over the weekend. Bronxville's sun is eertainly1in its ascendancy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
(Dcmocrat Washington COrrcsrJOndentl

Washington = Charges, denials, alibis, buck passing, reasoned ex. plantations, and allocations of blame-not forgetting the almost daily statements of Secretary of Interior Harold L. fckes--can't ob- scure the fact that the public works program, Judged by its orig inal purpose. long since proved Q flop.
 one thing we don't learn from this depression Is the extent to which a properly planned, quick ly executed public works effort in- volving S3,300, 100000 would help bring back prosperity.
 An official who has had more to do with the recovery program than anyone except Roosevelt and General Johnson privately, asserts his belief that if public works had been begun with a big push and led the way for MIRA, the de. precision would be as good as over.
 When British statesmen scoffed at our works program and point cd to vast sums they had spent ineffectively, Brain Trust econo- mists retorted that their money had been dribbled, whereas ours would be used as a quick and mighty shot in the arm which would start the patient toward his feet while other effective restora- tives were being applied.
 Under the accepted theory, the spring. Now 1t really gets going Impetus Comes Late
 Admitting all that, men in close contact with the program believes that the recent progress is impres. sive and that public works will put several hundred thousand men to work this winter. A month ago these officials were disgusted. More than 5000 projects have been pass ed and the pressure behind the be- lated drive has become terrific. Night and day shifts now operate at the public works administrat ton offices here. Lots of work can be done in the winter, even though this is, in general, the worst time to start projects. Some of the heavy industries, c market for whose cap. ita1 goods is essential to recovery. already are feeling the effects of the PWA's great burst of speed.
 f
 shrcwd? No, Just Dumb
 The Germans" remarked q dip. Iomat who spent years fin Berlin and other diplomats present as he spoke agreed with him--"some- times can be the stupidest people on earth just when they think they're the shrewdest."
 Private Lifts Closed
 What to do with unused private
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

How old is Ann? was once the perennial query. Of recent years, judging by the arguments of lobstermen. it has been how long is legal lobster. Offhand one familiar with the law concerning the taking of Holsters would say nine inches. But even this nine inches is argued. Now the answer is at hand, so it is claimed. Up in Boston a legal lobster must measure 3 l-l6 inches from eye socket to the rear end of the body shell. This is the normal body length of 9-inch crustaeean. It does away with meas uring Holsters from tip to tip, hitherto the recognized way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
Liquidity And Service

We are inclined to believe" remarks a financial writer, that everyone can look forward to the early months of next year. when the federal guarantee of bank deposits goes into effect. with real hope and en- couragement. Banks should be able then to concentrate upon the normally helpful serv- ices they perform for business without any fear that their depositors will start a run. A desire to serve business in supplying its operating needs should then displaee the race for liquidity as the main purpose of a bankers life."
 This is well said. And growing appre. eation among bankers of the facts referred to is largely responsible for the lessenng op- position to deposit insurance. We may soon see an end of the absurd situation in which many banks have been SO liquid that they couldn't make any money, and so sound \that they couldn't do anything for their community.
 The banks remembering the catastrophe of last March and the public tendency to money panic. have felt that they had to keep their resources liquid at any cost. Such policy. long continued, starvss the banks and starves trade and industry. The great need of the time is to expand credit and get money into active circulation again. It is reason- able to expect that the security provided for both banks and depositors by the insurance plan will help as much as anything to &C., complish this purpose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
MIR MENoKEN RETIREs
(Hartford courantl

(VuEQASy ltIIt
 The world of magazines will be a duller place after Mir Henry Louis Mencken retires from the editor- ship of The American Mercury. The excitement created late in 1924 by the announcement that in the first month of the following year . new magazine edited by Mr Mencken in company with Mr George Jean Nathan who resigned some time ago, would appear on the stands has never entirely died out. It recurt every month as the familiar green covers show them selves, and while many of the causes for which its belligerent editor fought have triumphed, not ably the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, he by no means has run out of targets for his editorial bullets. Since he, will continue, as in the past, to write for The Balti- more Sun. he is not entirely lost to journalism.
 How great an influence Mir Menckcn yielded during the Twenties Is apparent In many ways but in no way more than In the change that took place In rnaga- lines. Even before The Mercury was estAblished. the inpcrtant
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
Two Dangerous Months

October and November are perhaps the most perilous months of the year for those who operate automobiles and for those who merely occupy seats in them. This is true not merely here in Connecticut, but in every state. In fact it wasn't so many days ago that Morgan T.. Ryan. registrar of motor vehicles in Massachusetts, delivered timely radio address on this selfsame topic. He re- vealed that statistics of the nation show Oe- tober and November fatalities and injuries as the result of motor accidents far out number any similar period,
 There are q number of reasons why this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
Moscow Letter
BY EUGENE LYONS (lJnifed prcfs St06 COfre0DOndcntl

Moscow = (UP)--soyiet motion picture directors have been in- structcd at last to seek out and develop film stars and to glorify them. as in other lands
 Let Soviet Stars shinep com mands the headline lof the leading film organ here, Kino Gazette.
 This order cuts IS years of theorizing about motion pictures being 0 collective product. The collective notion Is not relin- quished, but the powers-t -tfiat-be finally have decided that individ. ual stardom does not necessarily contradict collective work.
 Own Picture Stars
 "Why, after a1l," asks Kino Gazette, should we not have our own movie stars, weli-known and favoritss of the public? Why can any film fan here name two dozen foreign { motion picture artists. while he rarely can mention one the Soviet films?"
 The answers to these naive questions are not at the back of the book. But everyone knows them duynOWs 4b ID 4Hcb tIlttt heretofore the featuring of indi- vidual stars practically was for bidden. The whole institution oi stardom was regarded as some. thing bourgeois.
 Crave Stars
 Now the government has real ized that the public craves stars; that falling to find native ones they will adopt foreign stars Therefore it has been decided tc provide the home-inade product. The Kino Gazette asserts that 1t is the duty of every Soviet di. rector worth his salt and rubles tc look around among young movie players for material which can be developed to starlike heights. Soviet film people still are very far from the sunken-bathtub and private-swimming-pool stage oi their career. In fact, two or three rooms and food ration-book still are the peak of grandeur for .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
To-day:s Selected Poem
THE PRoDIGALs

(By Margaret Stefan in The New York Times) Such death is beauvful: there is no fear Tn this abandon of the sap-fed life That yields in full-so unlike our mean strife To cheat inexorable bargains. Here I find no grudging losers: there are such Grand princely gestures as the china-trees Stored gold flung freely to the passing breeze From worn green outer tent. No fingers clutch The pokeberry's denuded. wine-drenched stalk Lifts jetlike beads. as drunken peddlers hawk Their wares, and scatter slow-earned baubles.
 free
 To any comer-Summer's gain well lost! It is but human fife that counts the eest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
movie star here. days ahead for them.

Lewis Milestone, director of "A1i Quiet on the Western Front and one of Hollywood's leading lights, has been making an intensive study of the Soviet motion picture industry, in both Leningrad and Moscow.
 His visit to the Soviet Union is in connection with the scheduled Hollywood production under his aegis of . Russian story tentative. Iy titled Red Square" on a gceil- ario done by Laurence Stallings from a Russian novel by Ilya
 "What impresses me most in Russian movie studies,' Milestone said, ''is the genuine spirit of COG operation which exists there. I found no jealousics and back biting. Everybne seemed really in- terested to have the other fellows succeed. There is a sort of collec- tive pride which we do not know
 And what magnificent actorsl I saw a performance of Days of the Turbins,' for Instance. Every character in it was . finished and superb actor. Minor characters give performances which would raise a Broadway audience out of It's seats." utt 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

magazines were becoming more actively interested in current af- fairs. but tho example set by The Mercury accelerated the movc- ment. Under MT Menckcn, The Mercury concerned itself actively with all current issues, and It's pages bristled with articles, writ ten in the liyeliest style, on tho mon, the causes, the programs of the immediate time. The other magazines were not slow to fol- low suit, and while something un- questionably has been lost in the virtual disappearance from the monthlies of the scholarly essays that once were their mainstay, the skill of the magazines in present. ing provocative articles on matters of immediate popular concern has not been without its value. Like wise, in opening his pages to na- tive writers relatively unknown. Mir Mencken set Q wholesome fashion. Perhaps, but for the example of MT Mencken, The Atlantic Monthly . few years ago would not have given the first place in one of its issues to Mr Hemingway's story of prize fighters. "Fifty Grand"
 An invigorating force in the world of monthly Journalism. MT Mencken will'be missed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

It was only few years ago, it seemed that hunters were being warned not to kill off the deer of the nation.. Now Wyoming is being overrun with antelope. according to its state game and fish commissioners. He says there aren't enough hunters to prevent antelope damaging crops and breaking down ranch fences. Here's chance for all those Fasteners to show their mettle at bringing down big game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
So They Say

Sometimes l feel very old, pri- narily, perhaps, when the young est age am really intimate with looks at me and says. "Did you live in the olden days:"--Mrs F. D. Roosevelt.
 I believe that women, through the influence of our current cco- homie situation, are largely rec sponsible for the demise of roman tic screen types.--Jesse L.. Lasky.
  We hobos arc getting educated to stay at home.--Ralph Dalton, president of the Hobo Fellowship.
 tHh ,tt' The number of commitments to institutions for mental diseases almost parallels the iricresc of mntriculations at colleges.---Dr Walter l.. Bierring, Des Molnes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

The New Zealand government has introduced lesislation permit their British nationality when mar ryang foreienorA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

No, we are not going to finance anothei foreign war. Nor another peace, either.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

If working hours were reduced as much as some of our advanced economists would like. why not just stay at home and wait for the pay to be brought around3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5:28 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
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.
Evening star., 1933-09-22
CHEST CRUSADERS
WORK IS OUTLINED
Miss Bertha Pabst Describes
Importance of Women's
Group to Staff.

The importance of the work of the
Women Crusaders in the coming Com
munity Chest campaign was emphasized
this morning by Miss Bertha Pabst,
secretary of the Metropolitan Unit, in
talk to the Chest staff.
The address was the first Of a series
designed to acquaint members CT the
Chest staff with the details handled by
each group.
An enrolment of approximately 1000
workers in the Metropolitan Unit is eX-
pected by Joseph D. kaufman. its
chairman, Miss Pabst said. The part
played by the Women Crusaders. headed
by Mrs. Eleanor Patterson. chairman,
and Mrs. John Boyle, jr., vice chair
man, is of especial value. Miss Pabst
explained. because the Metropolitan
Unit is the residence solicitation unit
women is to acQuaint the people in the
homes with the purposes of the Chest
and its agencies
Mrs. Patterson and Mrs Doyle"
Miss Pabst said, ARE planning an Or
ganization Of at least 1000 women who
will start their activities on October 20
and will endeavor to contact every home
in Washington between that date and
November 20 when the campaign opens
1t is no secret that the woman in the
home is the dominating influence in the
charitable giving of any household and
by reaching these women the Women
Crusaders hope to build up a feeling
for the Community Chest that will wipe
out any possible sales resistance when
the solicitors call during the campaign"
Evening star., 1933-09-22
FAVORS ELECTION
BY D. c. RESIDENTS
PIT. A. Group Believes Peo-
pIe Should Vote for Own
School Board.

The board of managers of the Ma
tional Congress of Parents and Teach
ers believes the people of the District
of Columbia should elect the School
Board which governs the Districts
schools
This belief was incorporated yester-
day as a part of the legislative pro-
gram of the congress for the coming
year when the board of managers voted
its Endorsement of the Capper bill
which would provide such board.
Held Democratic Example.
Explaining the action. Mrs William
T. Bannerman. 1901 K street, chair
man of the Legislative Committee, said
an elective School Board would present
for the children in the schools con-
crete example of democracy, of which
they are taught but never see.
A resolution deploring the current
trend in this country to put high school
education on a tuition basis, and de-
claring that all children should be pro-
vided educational facilities and oppor-
tunities until they can be employed to
the benefit of themselves and society,"
was adopted by the board at its final
session last night.
The resolution followed the report OF
the National Committee on Finances
of Education. which pointed out the
trend and the need for legislation Gre
ating Federal aid.
The board further decided last night
that the annual meeting OF the Ma
tional Congress will be held in Des
This morning, while the congress
Executive Committee held its final
meeting at the Wardman Park Hotel,
where all sessions have been held, other
members of the board of managers. in
cluding committee chalrmen and State
presidents, were guests OF the District
Congress of Parents and Teachers on
visit to Mount Vernon. The trip was
N charge of Mrs. L. B. Castell. first
vice president of the District Congress.
To Study Financial Crisis.
Early yesterday the national board
voted to devote next years program
for affiliated parents and school patrons
over the country to an intensive study
of the financial crisis in education.
The text book will be the report Of
the National Conference on the Fl
nances of Education which said the
free school system in this country was
threatened.
Mrs Hugh Bradford of Sacramento,
Calf, national president. told report
erS yesterday she had heard State su-
perintendents discussing definite pos
sibility of tuition for all high school stu
dents
Miss Charl O. Williams, Washing
ton, D. c., education director, said: Il
am afraid the American people will not
wake up to the critical school situation
until every parent has to pay high
school tuition as we'll as school tax"
Both also advanced the argument that
some Federal relief measure must start
the wheels of the stalled school systems
of many States.
Regarding the Chicago school situa-
ton, Miss Williams said the citizenry
must become sufficiently aroused to de-
mand a general house-cleaning.
In my opinion" she said, Chicago
school children are suffering from cumu-
lative business and political corruption"
Evening star., 1933-09-22
IRISH GUARD CAPTAIN
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
officer Shot During Demonstration
as He Addressed Meeting
in County Kerry.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DINGLE, County Kerry. Irish Free
State, September pa tense situation
exists here as the result of an attack
last night on members of the National
Guard. during which the local guard
captain. Martin Fitzgerald, was seri-
ously wounded.
AS Fitzgerald was addressing a meet
ing. shots were fired and there were
shouts of up the Republic!'
The captain and his followers raised
their hands above their heads and step
ped forward There was another volley
and Fitzgerald fell, badly wounded
Today police were conducting search
throughout the whole area.
The National Guard recently Joined
former President William T. Cosgrave's
party in a united opposition against the
government of President Eamon de
Valera Government spokesmen have
asserted that the real purpose of the
Guard has been to establish Dictator
ship. This charge was denied.