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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-22

O. When was the Johnstown flood and how many lives were lost?
 A. May s1. 1889. and 2,2s5 lives were lost.
 O. Where in the Bible is the prophecy of automobiles?
 A. Nahum 2;4 reads: "The c1iariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches, they shall run like light ming" This has been interpreted as such a prophecy.
 c. Are hogs immune from snake-bite?
 A. Hogs have a subcutaneous layer of fat which gives them 9 degree of immunity from snake bites. The layer is so thick that, If bite is lodged therein, it will slowly absorb the venom and the hog will suffer little ill-effect. on the other hand, if the snake should bite 1t on vein or artery, the poison would be carried into the system and results would be fatal. O. How old was Bobby Franks when he was murdered by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold?
 A. Thirteen.
 Q. What is choreography?
 A. The written representation of figures and steps of dancing.
 
 o. What is the name for one who makes wooden barrels and casks?
 A. Cooper.
 0. What does the name Arr lene mean?
 A. A pledge.
 0. What are the branches of medicine known as gyneology, pediatrics and roentgenology?
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sailed bankers for not being more free with their funds, he him. self has made only 134 loans to industry for total of about $5,000,000.
 BUSY AS A BEE
 The senate may be in adjourn ment, but Colonel Edward Hal sey, secretary to the chamber, is as busy as though it were in session. His desk is piled high with a daily flood of queries and chores from absentee senators. .. Of the $27,00O, 100000 of outstanding Federal debt, $65,- O00,000 is no longer drawing in- terest. This non-interest-payinS debt, of which over $1,000,000 dates back beyond 1917, is made up of securities which have been called for redemption and not been returned. Treasury of ficials estimate that large part of it never will be sent in, as the issues were either lost, destroyed or stolen John Jacob Thomas, recently named acting governor of the federal reserve board, in an iris fan, has 75 diff ferent varieties of the flower in his garden in Nebraska. :. The current population of fed eral prisons is some 5000 less than a year ago The de- cline, 18,636 to 15,433 is attribut- ed to the release of prohibition violators.
 U. S.-SOVIET MAILS
 Depending upon the outcome of a secret survey now being con- ducted by the Post Office De- partment direct airmail connec- tions between the U. s. and So- viet Russia, via Siberia, soon may be established. Harl}ee Branch, assistant PING in charge of airmail, recently flew over proposed route. including 150 mile hope from Alaska to Siberia across the Boring Sea. Branch is also negotiating with Canadian authorities for direct airmail communications between the American mainland and Alaska The name of General Hugh S. Johnson will soon appear in the DOOK SLOTeS. IH0 MIA DOSS has sold a small volume to a New York publisher for imme- diate publication. Written dur ing his recent seashore vacation, the book defends Johnson's poli- cies and losses a few charac- teristically red-hot verbal brick bats at foes both in and out of the New Deal The senate banking investigation was one probe that produced tangible dol lars-and-cents returns. AS a re- suit of its disclosures the In- ternal Revenue Bureau has col lected approximately $25,000,- 900 in taxes and penalties from brokers and stock market trad- CTS.
 INGENIOUS
 The Federal Housing Adminis- tratoin has many ingenious ex- plantations as to why it fixed a 9.72 per cent interest rate on home renovating loans. But there are a number of financial in- stitutions in the country offer ing similar loans at considerably lower charges The Mar quette National Bank, Minne- apolis, the Ireland's Lumber 6 Fuel Co, Grand Forks, N D., are two of many concerns through out the West and Northwest, de- claring their willingness to if nance home moderniZation at
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from 25 to 40 per cent less than the official rate. Their rates would run from about 6 to F per cent J. Edgar Hoover, sWarthy head of the Bureau of investigation, seldom takes day off, and when he does, devotes all his spare time to collecting antiuues Although named by President Roosevelt as act ing budget director, Daniel w. Bell is taking no chances With his permanent job of commis- sioner of accounts. He is not only continuing to fill this of- flee, but is retaining his old offices.
 THREE CH1MNEYS
 During the munitions investi- gation, three of the duPonts presented a pretty picture of family harmony. They sucked on pipes almost in unison Up- ton Sinclair is cferishing a tele- gram from Father Coughlin pledginY his support when the campaign for the Governorship of California gets underway. Coughlin's voice should help to win votes Hard-working Attorney General Cummings lives near the zoo, but tells visitors to his house: Don't turn in there, we don't live there yet" In Puerto Rico, the say ing is that Bob Gore, ex-gover- nor, talked himself out of job" and that Blanton Winship present governor may lose the job because he keeps his mouth shut.
 LITTLE UNDER-SECRETARY
 Billy Phillips, 1.-the Undersec- retary of State, is getting to be an adept in his handling of the press. It has been. nine years since Frank B. Kellogg left the Senate but he still does not speak to Hendrix Shipstead, the Minne- sota dentist who defeated him. Meeting Shipstead while waiting outside Roosovelt's private car this summer, both men looked through each other as if they were completely transparents. Few men in the New Deal are more squeamish about the press than Emil Hurja, Man Friday to Jim Farley. When Ray Tucker, astute correspondent of Golfers Weekly, was preparing pictures on the New Deal he put a pho- tographer outside Hurja's office. Hurja dodged like prima don na. To a friend he complained: Cant you call this man Tucker of? He's going to cruelty me. A few more unfavorable articles and I am ruined"
 Copyright. 1884, by United
 Syndicate, Incl
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States May Lead Way

< A good many years ago, when the French economist de Tocqueville came over to see what sort of country the American people were making for them selves,, he reported that the best thing about it was the fact that the states could serve as laboratories for eXperi- ments in government, which the nation as a whole was not yet ready to try. Growing centralization of authority, coupled with an increasing standardlza- tion of manners and customs, has kept the states from doing very much of this lab oratory work of late years. Now, how ever, it looks as if we were about ready to give it try.
 Ducking ones head to avoid stray bricks, one can begin by mentioning the possibility of Upton Sinclair's election ln California. Whatever fears his compli- cated scheme for handling unemployment may arouse, it is at least pretty obvious that it is far better to have new and possibly impractical stunt like that tested within the confines of one state than throughout the nation as whole. Then there is Oklahoma, where B. w. Marland
 " once an oil king, now progressive ex- perimenter = expects to become gover- nor in January and to try out a vast S100.O00,000 subsistence homestead prof ect, with an auxiliary program for the use of many small manufacturing plants to relieve urban unemployment.
 Programs like these, of MT Sinclair and MT Marland, may rank with the most wildly impractical ideas that the human race ever conceived. That, at this mo- ment, is not the point. The point is that our unemployment situation is rapidly becoming one of those progressively de- veIoping puzzles like the unbalanced bud cet which plagued Louis XVI of France. i .oris. you may recall fiddled around with this puzzle until it got out of hand, and be wound up under Dr Guiilotin's knife.
 Since this problem is becoming so rrcaf. number of people are clamoring
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ChuckleC Corner
"RUBBER HOUSES FOR
 POLITICIANS"
By Frank Mckay

By Frank Mckay
 You can always stretch point.
 And the ''crude deap should be ideal for politicians.
 You can always get good tips from your lead pencils.
 shut-ins could not rubber out, nor rubber-necks rubber in.
 If gangster enemies blow up your house 1t would be merely d trip in balloon.
 You could better hold support CTS in line. (Sox appeaD.
 We advise against carrying too much hot air. A blowout doesn't hold friends, and gives enemies a lead.
 If you gutta- purcha some votes get enough to spare"
 Don't let noisome weeds in your garden disturb meetings. Slip up on them and bush-whack 'em with rubber hoes. ~
 Your house would be an excel lent place in which to start gum shoe campaign. Ward heelers need not tread lightly, and outsiders could not even hear your nubber band.
 FLEXIBILITY-Tips you to. be "all things to all men,"
 ELASTICITY-No matter how strained or stretched, 1t has per feet .'come- -back"--the politician
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A Book a Day
A Thrilling Picture Record Of The CWA

There is something immensely inspiring about book like Amer ica Fights the Depression"
 This book is subtitled "A Photo graphic Record of the CWA," and it is a collection of photographs showing what was done on the in finite number of CWA jobs last fali and winter.
 It is a graphic picture, in other words, of tremendous community job; and its value as a spiritual tonic is not in the least lessened by' the fact that many CWA jobs have been considered, unwisely chosen, and poorly executed.
 Out of the whole project, in spite of all the lost motion and expense, came certain concrete achieve ments of real utility. The nation fused it's energies as they are fused in war time, and used them to build up instead of to destroy.
 All this collection of pictures catches the spirit of the undertak- ing and makes it plain.
 Some of the pages are devoted to "before and after" scenes, with one picture showing a mosquito- haunt ed swamp, or an ugly city dump, and the next showing the neat air port, playground, or garden spot which the CWA men put in it's place.
 Others show the men actually on the job, thousands on thousands of them, building highways and homes and irrigation ditches and bridges and heaven only knows what else.
 And the whole thing becomes n pageant-a pageant of the people Of a wide. tough. and virile land. moving together to fight q common foe. It makes an immensely en- couraglng and thrilling book.
 lt was edited and compiled by Henry c. Alsbcrg, and Is published by Coward -Mccann at s2.50.
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Washington, Sept 22.-Behind the governments decision to sue Uncle Andy Mellon for some $3,000,000 of back income taxes is unique and untold story. The lanky attorney-general, would have done anything not to bring the first tax action against Mel lon He knew he would be accused of playing politics. He knew he would be accused of personal prejudice against Mellon because Cummings once sued Mellon,s Aluminium Trust. He knew also that rich mems wash" sales, to reduce income taxes were glaring. So finally Cummings decided he could not crack down on thousands of lit tie fellows for wash" sales as long as he was letting the biggest ones go scot free -. This was the reason Cummings first moved to indict Mellon before a grand jury. He figured he could not begin cracking down first on the little tailor in New ark-as did General Johnson Mellon came within one vote of being indicted. The grand jury vote was 10 to Il for white washing Mellon In civil suit it may be easier to get a jury to agree that he should pay the governments claim. Instead of paying up arrears as did others cited at the same time Mellon paid nothing. So the only alternative of Homer Cummings was to bring suit.
 DOLL MAKER
 Mrs Anna Roosevelt Dall has branched out into the field of business. She is now manufactur- ing a bunny doll, for which she recently obtained a trademark. A clothing manufacturer who con- ceived the neat idea of using the pet names of her two children for commercial purposes was stopped short by the Patent Bu- reau. He proposed making child's garment bearing the trade mark "Sistie and Buzzie," but the Patent Office turned cold thumbs on the plan Much Congressional complaining is reaching the White House over the failure of the REC to loos- en up its purse strings on the $500, 0,000,000 appropriated last session for loans to industry. AL though more than three months have elapsed since the act was enacted. and although Chairman Jesse Jones has repeatedly as-
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So They Say

We certainly in hell of business where fellow has to wish for trouble to make living. Frank Sheridan Jonas, munitions agent.
 
 Take our own government in Washington to- day. You will find in practically every branch able, conscientious woman who really runs the particular office Frances Robinson, MIRA assistant to General Johnson.
 What happened in Maine think, can be in- terpreted not by us, but by the republicans Postmaster General James Farley.
 
 Science has absolutely failed to explain the problem of life. graphy
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H s cope

For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the, planets, this daily horoscope is outlined by a noted astrologer. In addition to information of general Interests to persons born on the designated dates.
 Do not arise too early. for the early A. M. is still unde- pendable. The later morning is more constructive, while the re- mainder of the day is negligible. The preferred time for social af- fairs is the evening.
 Birihdate
 You should he interested in Astrology or Zoology. There are changes indicated for you dur ing the next month. Your deal- lngs should be satisfactory from Jan. 2s-Feb. 14. 1885. You should be successful fin your financial af- fairs from Oct. through II. 1884. Danger Dec. [. s. Q, and 10. 1884. Socially favorable Oct. 4 and 5. 1884.
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Press Comment
DANIEL BOONE.
(New Haven Journal Courier)

(New Haven Journal Courierl
 The adventurous thrill that runs through every man who was once a boy at the mention of the namG pays tribute to Daniel Boone, the legend. Down at Lexington. Ken lucky, a severakdays celebration Of the 200th anniversary of his birth is now paying tribute to Daniel Boone, the man. Were this "eter- nal pioneer yet alive he would shun that celebration; for he had only contempt for crowds and be- lieved that a neighbor netrer than ten miles was a nisance. He might proceedings. For the people Of Kentucky treat the memory of the man more generously than they -treated the man himself. He who blazed the trail to Kentucky's s wealth, he who freed the territory from the menace of the Shawnees, was permitted to keep no portion of Kentucky's land until quarter century after his death when the town of Frankfort set aside a small burial plot and brought from Missouri the bodies of Boone and his lifelong love Rebecca.
 The celebration at Lexington is not merely state affair. It stirs emotions wherever the American dream of the westward march to the Pacific still fingers in the minds of men. Daniel Boone has become the peculior symbol of the advance guard of civilization. of the scouts who preceded the pioneers. He was ever westering; from North Caro- lima to Kentucky, from Kentucky to Mlssoupri. from Missouri 10 Nebraska. Always as civilization caught up with him md tangled him in It's complexitiea-taxes were ever the jinx which deprived him of his land grants he nov cd on towards the rettin gsun. He
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for new method of approach to it's solu- tion Such clamor inevitably leads to ex- perimentation. And we are extremely fortunate that our political set-up permits Jus to experiment by states = to experi- ment, that is, on small scale, without in volving the nation as a whole. The ability of the individual states to try out new methods of government may yet prove our salvation in this crisis.
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Selected Poem
PEKING SILK SHOP

PEKING SILK SHOP Iargaret Mackprang Mackay in The Christian
 Science Monitor) The bolts the high shelves Are like the coors of flowers. Purple and ivory, Azure and vermlion, Pale green and brilliant yellow, Pink like mimosa bloom And amber like sunlit honey, The ancient tribute silks Lie on the shelves In prism masses Once, long ago. They came thousand miles Borne in windblown sampans, In wooden carts, slowly On marching camels. And on the burdened backs of men Tribute to the Son of Heaven From provinces month away. And now Like the colors of flowers, The bolts lie musty on the high shelves In prism masses.
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Vienna Letter
By STEWART BROWN limited Press Staff Correspondent

Vienna (UP!-Nazis in beggars' rags.
 Spies begging on street corners.
 Beggars with rented babies"
 Beggars with riches far beyond their begging powers.
 These were things the Vienna police discovered when they in- yestigated the local begging racket"
 Wholesale Arrests
 Hundreds have been arrested and divested of their beggars' rags. The hundreds still on the streets are under strict supervi- sion.
 There were two reasons for the
 The first was political. Police spies, reported scores of Nazi agents were using beggars' clothes to facilitate the transmission or party orders and propaganda.
 The second reason was, social. A large number of beggars were skillful swindlers. Their tricks had made the Viennese wary of all beggars
 The Beggars
 The first reason really forced the police to act. They had known for a long time the beggars were abusing their privileges but, in true Viennese fashion, they de- layed doing anything about it.
 Not until they received infor- nation that the beggars were honey-combed with Nazi spies did the police decided to act. And they acted immediately and thorough ly!
 Thousands of ragged men and women, many of them bearing self-infiicted or false wounds, were rounded up and questioned. On many of them the police found important subversive docu- ments, and on others riches Tar above their station in life. Beggars are one of Vienna's war legacies. Since the war there has been great suffering in Vienna and many persons, from all walks of life, have been forced to beg or starve.
 On every street block there are two or three beggars. One cannot sit in an open air restaurant or sidewalk cafe without being ap- preached several times. In many instances the requests are legiti- mate; in others they are not.
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DAILY ALMANAC

High tide at Milford. Sunday. Sept 23 12:19 a. m. daylight time: low tide, 5.52 a. m. daylight time Monday, Sept 24 high tide. l:e0 n. m.. daylight time: low tide 6:3S a. m. daylight time.
 All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:2f. daylight time, tonight.
 Sun rises 6.3S q. m.. daylight time; sets 6;bl D. m.. daylight time.
 Moon rises 6:21 D. m daylight time.
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-EIa . . r A. Gynecology treats of func4 tions and diseases peculiar to wo- men; pediatrics relates to hygienic care and diseases of children; uses Roentgen rays in physical and surgical. investiga- ton. Q. Did the United States ever coin a one-cent piece with the head of Lincoln on both sides? ss A. No.
 o. How are batting and field- ing averages of members of the major leagues baseball teams conl- puted?
 A. To determine batting aver age, divide the total times at bat into the total number of base hits. To determine fielding averages, die vide the total number of put-oiits. assists and errors into the total Of put-outs and assists. In all cases where the remaining fraction is one-half or over,. a full point is added to the average.
 Q. How many Indians are in Mexico and the United States? A. III 15oV MSAtCO ll1u ftu1Vs~ .Ss0 and the U. s. had 332,397.
 
 o. Can the president of the United States be indicted for crime while in office?
 A. The president of the U. s. is immune from arrest. He cannot be indicted for crime or punished. ex- cept through the process of im- peachment, which if sustained. de- prives him of his office.
 If you want copy of our bulles tin, History Packet, write to tlle Waterbury Democrat, Washington Bureau, enclosing five cents in hostage stamps.
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was as self-sufficient as the mod ern is dependent. When Chester Harding sought him out in 1919 to paint his picture, he found the S5- years-old, man squatting before little cabin in n clearing. broiling vension over an open fire on q ramrod.
 Such men made modern Amer Ica possible. They blazed trails into the unknown. pushed for ward the external frontiers of their time. Perhaps among their des- cendants are men to blaze trails today and push forward the inter- nal frontiers towards economic security and peace.
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Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON aad RoBERT 5. ALLEN

Mere Mely-GoRond Mellon Tares Diastefu Cumnngs' Anst Little FeNows Etabsh Direct Aircl Route Via Siberia So0 ~ Penalties Brokers
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The Saar Plebescite


 The Saar Territory, an area of about 726 square miles, with something less than 8O0,000 population, is extremely rich in coal. About 65,000 are employed in it's 31 coal mines, and about 30,000 more in the manufacture of pig iron and steel. Ceramics, glass and chemical products follow coal in importance.
 This Saar district was handed over to France by the Treaty of Versailles in compensation for German destruction of French mines. At the end of 15 years a plebiscite was to be held to decide whether this territory should be given to the per- manent ownership of France, should revert to Germany, or should continue to be administered by the League of Nations as during the 15 years. The present membership of the committee, which takes care of it includes one non-French native of the Saar, one resident each of France, Britain, Finland and Jugoslavia.
 It is this district which Hitler is so certain must return to Germany. The plebiscite is to be held in January and people who think they have seen hot cam- paigns between parties in this country will soon be ready to admit that they've seen nothing yet. It is not merely party government that is at stake in the case of the Saar, but the nationality of an ex- tremely rich little province. The cam- paign will bear watching with weather eye out for far-flung developments
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Questions And Answers The Democrats Washington Information Bureau
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1884
A Thought for Today

And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.-St Luke, 1;oO
  Great minds erect their never-failing trophies the firm base of mercy.-Massin- ger.
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Times change. Nowadays the kids come home and say, Schools swell, Motherp'
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It's too bad to inflict this political chat ter on our readers from one day to the other, but it seems to be in the air right now. It's hard to get away with it. And when our daily lives are pretty we'll bound up today with the conduct of our public offices it behooves us once in awhile to stick just to such discussions. We note that States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn's office in Hartford is now cleaned out. The relentless prosecutor is seeking Governor Cross scalp in quite unbecoming manner. His aide through many years of investl- gation County Detective Edward J.. Hickey is now the g.o.p. candidate for High Sheriff of Hartford County. It looks as if the latter just couldn't bear to see his chief get away from him by taking the gubernatorial nomination.
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The New Deal summer capitals threaten to outnumber the more famous capitals, MIRA, HOLC, etc.. Here we have Nour- mahal, Sequoia, Warm Springs, Hawaii Hyde Park, and the season is just closing.