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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-25

Scblesser. Huband and Phillips were not present.
 Mir Phillips has not left the pro- gressive party said MT Johnson, although he admitted Phillips dis. agreed with the party's action In opposing James Fitzgerald, dem ocratic nominee for tax collector
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-25

second ward, Henry Grieder, Stan- ley Levinsky, Carl Olson, Oscar Swanson, Walter Peck, James Kingsley and c. Benson.
 Third ward, P. August Johnson, Walter Perkins, Walter Bielecki, Robert Messner, Alfred Huband, Joseph Gabrielski and Alden J.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-25

in the spring election. MT Phil lips is still an ardent progressive, Mir Johnson claims.
 Committee Meets Tonight
 The social committee of the Young Republican club will hold its first meeting tonight at 7:50 at the home of Miss Marion Nor wash, 360 High street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-25
MARRIAGE DOESN'T LIFT BAN

Olympia, Wash. - (UP) = Mar riage does not give a girl under legal age the right to drink beer, the state liquor board ruled. Her husband could be prosecuted for giving her a drink.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Seats for Women.

Federal Judge John M. Woolsey be-
Iieves in the old-fashioned concept Of
courtesy to ladies. Presiding at
creditors meeting in New York the
other day, he ordered group Of men
to give their seats to women who
otherwise would have been obliged
to stand throughout the hearing. The
men were "rousted out" by the mar
shals, and the ladies accepted their
chairs without a word Of protest.
An interesting problem thus was
dramatized for public consideration.
The victims of the jurist's decision
had been among the early corners;
they had supposed that they were
entitled to whatever advantage there
was in being on time. But Judge
woolsey was motivated by a rule with
which they were familiar-the chival-
rous doctrine whereby women are held
to belong to the weaker sex" and to
be entitled to protection for that rea-
son. They knew what was expected
of them as gentlemen. According to
the unwritten social law, they should
have surrendered without a struggle.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
British Black Shirts
Now Present Problem
BY A. G. GARDINER.

LONDON. June 23.-The govern
ment Is at last face to face with the
Black Shirts. Hitherto the activities
Of Sir Oswald Mosley and his Fascists
have been sufficiently negligible to be
ignored by the authorities. But it has
been evident for long that the clash
must come.
With their barracks at Chelsea,
their uniforms and military discipline,
their protected" cars and their storm
troops, the Fascists were assuming the
status Of an imperium in imperis-an
independent force privately controlled,
drilled and disciplined for action, and
designed for one purpose only, the
achievement of q political revolution
on the Italian or the German model.
It was only question Of how long
and in what circumstances it would be
before the bluff" was called.
The occasion arose over a great
demonstration arranged at Olympia
to hear a deliverance from the Black
Shirt leader. It was attended by q
vast audience, much Of it drawn by
motives of curiosity and including
many members Of Parliament, Of all
groups, anxious to take stock Of the
British Mussolini and his movement.
Trouble was anticipated from the
Communists, and outside the building
q great and disorderly mob created
riotous scenes, with which the police
adequately dealt.
within the hall, however, no police
were present. They could only have
Evening star., 1934-06-24

masses must have viewed the initial
installation.
More than four score years have
passed since the moment When the
Gas Age began, and perhaps only a few
survive who remember the human in
stitution which was its personification
the quiet, unassuming lamplighter
on his nightly round. So regular was
his coming and going that, with GER
tain allowance for the changing sea-
sons, one might "'tell time" by his
arrival at given point. Great novel;
lists, like Charles Dickens and Robert
Louis Stevenson, had been intrigued
by his prototype, and much less gifted
but hardly less sensitive individuals
felt the attraction of the romance
which somehow seemed to distinguish
him. He was, in his peculiar and
curious way, an honored public char
acter. As early as 1853 Maria Susanna
Cummins, an American, scored a
literary success with story entitled
The Lamplighter," which was a great
favorite for two generations. An elder
ly woman once was heard to remark:
My earliest memory is of being held
up in some ones arms to see the lamp
man go by" Not Abraham Lincoln
passing. let it be noted: not Grant,
not Sherman, not Robert E. Lee, not
any other laureled leader of the peo-
ple-but merely the anonymous lighter
Of the city's lamps
AS recently as 1926. there were
twelve thousand gas street lamps in
Washington. But yesterday the last
survivor was removed. Another age
is speeding on. The clock ticks end
lessly. Humanity, leaving the old, ever
attempting the new, marches toward
the goal that Goethe pronounced with
his last breath: More light! More
light"
Evening star., 1934-06-24
DOERS NOT HEARERS
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D, L. d, c. L.
Bishop Of Wahington

and yet this single utterance from the
lips Of Christ has had a more deter
mining effect upon the worlds
ten by its greatest philosophers. Its
mighty admonitions are designed to
give impulse and direction to life and
to shape its course Of action.
We are called upon today to give
practical demonstration of what we
have received from this greatest
teacher of men. The world about US
Is asking us to show our faith by our
works. 1t may respect, II not re-
verence. our religious conviction, but
it certainly is asking us to prove their
worth by daily habit and practice. 1t
is a reasonable demand and one that
must be met. 1t is In consonance
with that word of Emerson's: What
you are speaks so loud that I cannot
hear what you say" The value of dis
eliminating hearing is unquestioned.
but the demonstration Of its value Is
disclosed in our daily practice. It Is
quite conceivable that one might be
constantly the recipient Of the best
aIlu IlCIlccI cpuiLubl COu1icci Auu ha-
vice, a constant and devout student
Of the life and teachings Of Jesus,
and yet fail Of high attainment be-
cause only q nearer Of the word and
not doer.
There is nothing more compelling
or more convincing than q life lived
by the standards given to men by
Jesus Christ. What we say with our
lips and what we profess Of faith OBJ
viously has value, but more potential
than this Is what we express In our
lives. We may argue and combat pro-
fession, but we cannot resist or set
aside practice that witnesses to con-
sistency of living. II "the proof OF
the pudding is in the eating" the
proof Of a reverently acknowledged
Christ is in the daily practice ana
habit, that is in consonance with His
word. BE ye doers Of the word. and
MT hearers nnlv"
Evening star., 1934-06-24
The Kitchener Mystery.

Memories OF one OF the great
mysteries of the World War are re-
kindled by a sailors yarn just spun
at Halifax. 1t essays to reveal how
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, British
secretary of state for war. met his
doom when the cruiser Hampshire,
bearing him on a secret mission to
Russia. was sunk in the North Sea
in June, 1916. From the beginning
the real cause of the Hampshire's loss
remained shrouded in doubt, and 1t
became the basis of fantastic legends.
Years afterward the loss of Britain's
military idol and the seven hundred
officers and men Of the cruiser was
officially attributed by the British
admiralty to the explosion of mine
planted in the ships course. 1t was
emphatically declared that there was
no shred of evidence for the belief
that the disaster was due to internal
explosion or that any ill-disposed per-
son was aboard" This statement was
made in the House of Commons in
reply to the old rumors that spies on
the Hampshire were responsible for
sending her and her cargo of human
lives to the bottom of the sea.
Now comes Capt. Eustazy Borkow-
ski, commander of the Polish -Ameri-
can liner Kosciuszko, on arrival in
Nova Scotia. who deposes and circum-
stantially reaff1rms the story that
German agents smuggled themselves
into the crew of the Hampshire be-
fore she left England with Kitchener
and later contrived to blow up the
ship. Capt. Borkowski's authority
for these statements is a former
German submarine captain named
Won Schweiger (whose name in
English happens to mean "a silent
oneO, who told him that two
English-speaking German seamen
were intrusted with the task of
destroying the Hampshire. They
reached England with the aid of
faxed passports, slew two sailors about
to join the ship and took their places
aboard her. In mid-North Sea they
carried out their orders, fired the
cruisers magazine, and Kitchener
and all hands perished without leav-
ing trace Of the cause of their fate.
The German conspirators, of course,
forfeited their own lives, in emulation
of Japanese heroes who commit hara-
kiri in spirit Of fanaticaI patriotism.
It is a romantic spy story, but the
British are no more likely to accept
this latest explanation OF the
Kitchener mystery, despite its wealth
Of lurid detail, than the myriad of
other weird versions that circulated
in England for a decade after the
war. For a long time the grotesque
tale persisted that Kitchener had not
lost his life at all. but had been seen
in Russia, alive, physically well, but
broken spirited over the allies failure
to crush the Kaiser. Perhaps some day
the confidential files of the German
Naval Intelligence Service will lift
the veil from a secret that for six
teen years has been locked insolubly
in the tempestuous bosom of the
North Sea.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

reau thermometer could move. It was
like opening the door of furnace.
All night the Chinook forces
swarmed up from the South. The
wind rose to q velocity of IS miles an
hour. The 9-inch snowfall, the car
pet laid by the north wind, was buf-
feted and blown about. Exposed places
were swept entirely bare, great drifts
were piled elsewhere. The tempera-
ture kept rising. All night and all
day the Chinook had the north wind
in rout. Up and up the thermometer
climbed all the next day. From the
13 below zero it had registered when
the north wind held the front 1t rose
to A above-12 degrees above freez-
ing. The hot Chinook runnelled the
snowfall OF In torrents.
Rapid Changes Continue.
But the north wind rallied. At
midnight his forces returned to the
onset and the tide of battle swung
back. In two hours the temperature
had been beaten back 40 degrees and
1t kept on falling. The north wind
had called In an east wind as an
ally and, for hours, held the fort
below zero. Then the Chinook sought
re-enforcements Of the west wind and
a renewed assault, soon after sunset
Of the next day, almost duplicated
the vigor Of the first attack. This
time the temperature was brought up
to Al degrees above zero, most Of the
rise taking place in an hour.
The pools Of water which the first
attack had formed had frozen into
ponds Of solid ice at the north winds
rally. Now they were water again.
The battle was by no means over.
Again the north wind, this time with
fresh ally from the northwest,
struck and brought the temperature
down under the zero mark again.
There was a pitched battle. Almost
hourly the tide Of battle seemed to
change, for the Chinook came in
again at 80 miles an hour and, at
one period, got the temperature up
TO 48 above zero; then it was brought
again to %. 1t was nothing for the
temperature to swing so degrees in
an exchange of bullets between the
champions and all in so short a time
that the man going TO the post Office
return with frozen ears.
There was a 15-hour truce, but the
Chinook seemed to get its breath
the quicker. 1t came in on a %
mile gale and drove the temperature
up again to 48 above. 1t held the
front for IL hours. But it had not
recuperated long enough, apparently,
for on came the north wind on the
wings Of Christmas day, to drive the
48-degree thermometer down to 18
below and Boreas held on in full pos
session Of the battle front for six bleak
and bitter days.
Once more the Chinook, a giant re-
freshed, arose and blasted the tenn
perature up to a record of 51 above
zero, almost Spring weather. After
l8 hours of hard fighting the north
wind had it down to below.
Well. the north wind won In the
end, for. after all, it was fighting on
its home grounds-the very edge Of
the great white North. But the bat
tie had devastated the region. Water
and ice, water and ice-these alterna-
tions had rendered the ground UNIT
for Winter-sown grains. Roads were
impossible.
Weather Bureau records show that
in 1900 there was an historic battle
on this front, but it lasted but three
days. Last Winters was unquestiona-
bly, the battle Of the century.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

To be a good listener may be more
valuable in the long run than to be
a good talker. To be discriminate
ing listener Is still more useful.
In one Of the most suggestive and
practical books Of the New Testament,
the epistle Of James, the author says:
BE We doers Of the word and not
hearers only, deceiving your own
selves" The implication of this is
that however much of value We may
receive from what we hear. it proves
of little worth to us unless in the
everyday practical concerns of life
we make use of it. Precept has value
only as it finds expression in practice.
Our religious professions, however
noble and reverent they may be, have
little worth, unless they govern us in
the commonplace things of every
days action. We are the victims Of
much talking, and doubtless we all
contribute our large part to the babel
of words. From childhood on to our
latest day we are the recipients Of in
Struction, counsel and advice, and
out of this much hearing we largely
formulate our ideas, our habits and
our ideals. It is quite conceivable
that the volume of what we hear may
result in unassimilated and unidenti-
fed conceptions and ideals. From
morning until night, day after day,
the food Of words pours through the
avenues of hearing into our minds,
resulting too often in confused and
diSordered thinking, and q misap-
prehension Of lifes real aim and pur-
pose.
We have often been struck by the
fact that the four most important
books in the world. namely, the Cos
pels, are characterized by brevity.
Great as is the significance Of what
they relate, profound as is their
teaching, inexhaustible as is their
spiritual truth, they may be read In
the brief space of few hours. The
great Sermon on the Mount Is COM
A~la 80 at ~
Evening star., 1934-06-24

But it also Is fair to note that con-
ditions have changed in the world
and an increasingly large number of
men have come to feel that they must
resist tendencies which have the effect
of giving women an unfair advantage.
So long as women were content to be
treated as interiors, to be classed with
children or with invalids, they were
well within their rights If they ex-
pected to be favored in any way on
that account, but when they entered
the professional and industrial fields
as competitors with men, organized
among themselves to obtain equality
in the state and claimed for them
selves such doubtful privileges as
smoking cigars and wearing trousers,
they inferentially gave up the theo-
retical weakness" which had been
for their coddling. Women
cannot be treated as equals
and at the same time expect to be
Had there been a truly
"class conscious" woman in the group
yesterday she would have declined to
take seat unwillingly vacated.
Yet there are many men who will
agree with Judge Woolsey, a minority
who still practice the good manners
of the period which others imagine
to have closed with the enactment CT
the nineteenth amendment to the
Constitution. AS boys they were
taught to respect women, and the
memory of that teaching will save
them from the danger of ever being
"rousted out" by anybody.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Last Gas Street Lamp.

Time was when the gas street lamp
was novelty. The first of the kind
to be set up in Washington undoubt-
edly drew an admiring crowd. The
spectacle symbolized progress. Many
a resident of the city must have
experienced a thrill Of pride in the
achievement. A great step in the
everlasting campaign against the dark
had been taken, and dull indeed would
be the spirit which did not applaud.
Historians say that Benjamin Hem
fry was the original sponsor of the
gas lamp in the Capital. In the year
1904, they agree, he made expert
ments" and Illuminated the cham
bers and passages Of house in
Pennsylvania avenue and the lamp in
front of the house with gas BY
1917 certain ball room was bril-
liantly illuminated with gas lights.
But opposition to the novelty Of
municipal enterprise in such a direc-
ton was widely current. In Phila-
delphia, for example, the City Coun-
ell as late as 1922 declared it had
no desire ito encourage an innova-
ton so dangerous. so offensive and
one likely to injure the business Of
candle makers and oil dealers" Per-
haps q similar sentiment motivated
the authorities of the District Of Co
lumbia for a while. In any event.
Washington did not adopt gas for
street lighting until l84s. But even
then the Capital was far in advance
of most other communities of its size.
Hence the exultation with which the
Evening star., 1934-06-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Mental MONOPOLY,

Mental Monopoly.
Since human nature always likes
To play some sort of game.
Even brain trust" sometimes strikes
Discordant notes of blame.
For all the fish won't obey
The good old Golden Rule,
They keep on showing. day by day,
Each other from the pool.
And when the brain fish, one by one,
Are actually devoured
A single fish, when all is done,
Alone will be empowered.
And when the rivalries are through
In evolution's plan
A brain monopoly we'll view,
In terms of just one man.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
A Battle of the Elements
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

It Is doubtful whether the American
people have ever been more interested
in weather phenomena than they are
this year. The last twelve months has
been one Of extremes. The East en-
dured q Winter which broke records
for low temperatures and snowfall.
The greater part Of the United States
was visited in May by the first record
ed duststorm Of continental propor-
tions. Early Summer saw the North
central section Of the Mississippi
Basin parched by blistering drought.
Other regions were imperiled by seri-
GUS floods. These many manifesto
tions of nature may not be termed
unnatural, for they are Nature itself,
but they are at least unusual.
Unusual weather situations affect
ing wide sections are produced by un-
usual weather manifestations in fairly
local areas. What is taking place
today over the Bering Sea may affect
New England next week or earlier.
One of the most extraordinary
weather stories which has been re-
ported to the United States Weather
Bureau concerning the last years
vagaries Is called the Battle Of the
Chinook Wind and comes from the
bureaus outpost at Havre, Mont,
which Is In charge of Frank A. Math.
Mr.. Math describes. in somewhat
technical meteorological language, an
actual battle between currents of
frigid air from the polar regions and
warm airs coming In from the Pa
cific Ocean.
1t is not at all difficult to under
stand why the Greeks, Romans and
other early and highly cultured peo-
Piles recognized gods Of the winds and
the other elements. The battles of
these gods have been described in
classic lore That rivalries and jeal-
ousies existed among them is amply
testified to by elder song and story.
Where Weather Brews.
Havre, Mont, is on the very battle
front where there take place, each
Winter. the struggles between the
north wind and the Chinook. In
deed, Havre is but a short distance
from the town of Chinook, which, long
ago, took its name from the wind. 1t
Is, from these towns, only about SO
miles TO the Canadian border whence
comes the clustering north wind,
sweeping down from the polar regions.
On this front there are many bat
ties, but 1t was last Winter, beginning
on the night Of December 16, that
one of the most notable took place.
The weather had been generally fair
and normal for the season during the
first half Of the month. Beginning on
the 9th, there were intermittent snow
falls, ranging from light to heavy On
the 18th the temperature averaged 13
degrees below zero and there was 9
inches Of snow on the ground.
The sky became overcast. The air
was bitterly cold. The wind was light,
but 1t was a slow drift from the very
polar regions. The north wind gave
every appearance of being in COM
mand Of the front. Then, as Mr..
Math declares, almost like a shot
from a cannon" the Chinook struck
1t was a night attack surprise-at
midnight. Coming on charging wings
from the southwest, it drove into the
van Of the north wind with such fire.
breathing ferocity that in five minutes
the thermometer rose ~ degrees. 1t
Is possible the actual rise was even
swifter, but that was as fast as the
mercury In the official Weather Bu-
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Cuba and MachadO's Loans.

n llCH C1ldpICl III VIC BlOWnlS oVOly
Of international debt default and re-
pudiation is opened up by the report
of Cuban commission on $60,000,-
600 of debts contracted with an
American bank by former President
Gerardo Machado. The commission
recommends the repudiation of those
loans on the ground that they were
contracted "illegitimately and in vio-
lation Of the Cuban constitution and
laws" inasmuch as they were made
after May 20, 1929. when Machado
continued himself in office unconsti-
tutionally. There is also reference to
the "vices and graft Of the Machado
regime" as additional justification for
reputation.
Notwithstanding these conditions,
the commission urges the present
Cuban government to seek friendly
compromise with holders of the Ma
chado bonds on the ground that there
are moral arguments" in favor of in
vestors who purchased the bonds in
good faith from the contracting bank.
A fifty per cent settlement is suggested
as a possible basis Of payment.
1t will be a salutary thing if the
'Machado bonds" affair leads to a
thorough airing of the whole system
of American financing of small coun-
tries in the Western Hemisphere. The
Cubans attribute many of their
troubles in recent years to the ruth
less exploitation of the island by
self-seeking foreign capital. Certain
ly enough Is known of the machina-
tions of Machado to spare Cuba from
the stigma of default and reputation
on the present occasion. The COM
mission tersely depicts the situation
when it say that "honor binds us to
meet obligations that can be claimed
with moral rights, but honor also
binds the heads of governments not
to impoverish their country to assure
unjustified profit to foreign capital" !"
and the commission adds: THE re-
sponsibility of a contracting bank to
investors is a problem which the
bank must solve for itself"
The Cuban debt commission is fully
conscious of the political and hnan-
cial repercussions that reputation
can cause, especially when the re-
pudiating country is obliged to enter
into new credit operations.
1t is a point Of particular impor-
tance that the government of President
Machado, by which the loan was nego-
tiated, was that which was definitely
recognized by the United States as
the de jure as well as de facto ad-
ministration of the island republic.
The fact that Machado was later
driven from Office by revolution
does not justify reputation, even as
the overthrow Of the czarist govern
ment in Russia is not accepted by
this Government as ground for the
repudiation of the obligations which
it incurred by loans in this country
The United States did not undertake
tn determine the right of MachaGO
to continue himself in Office nor to
pass judgment as to the validity of
the constitutional changes whereby
he was enabled thus to perpetuate
his rule. Thus repudiation Of this
loan or any compromise on fifty
per cent basis is contrary to the well
established principle of the response
Evening star., 1934-06-24

Radio English is new feature in
ph1lology. Many a good and true
broadcaster is entitled to resent fan
mail in the spirit of Mrs. Malaprop,
who complained with pathetic dignity
against "aspersions on her parts of
speech"