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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
Key To Recovery

If all the excess verbiage which has
been spouted forth concerning the 'for-
gotten man" could be laid end to end, it
would reach from here to complete fulfil
ity Nevertheless, it is worth while to
point out that slow shift in emphasis
now taking place in Washington is taking
at least one forgotten man out of his
former obscurity and making him the
cock of the walk.
This gentleman is none other than the
consumer himself - old John Citizen, who
steps up to the counter, pays his money,
and goes home with his groceries. In the
new concern which Washington is display
ing over his welfare, it is possible to read
high amount Of significance. For it is
only by keying it's efforts on the welfare
Of the ultimate consumer that the New
Deal, or any other kind of deal, really can
reap the fruitfulness which this mass
production era makes possible.
All of which is just another way OF say
(. ing that it doesn't do much good to make
, things unless the chap you plan to sell
I them to is able to buy them. You can in
crease the farmers income, for instance,
as fast as you please; if the prices of the
things he has to buy go up at the same
rate, he's right where he started which,
in this particular case, happens to be
somewhere to the south-southeast of the
eight ball. The same thing is true OF the
Iaborer and his wage, of the professional
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

People don't usually pay much attention
to the charts and figures. that economists
and scientists shower upon us as proof OF
this and that theory. No doubt most peo-
pie believe they will have fewer troubles
if they ignore some of them. But nobody
can overlook the fact that right now we
are faced with graver financial troubles
than ever in our past history. If this age
does not produce some radical change in
our system of monetary control it will
probably end in revolution.
Stop to consider that in hundred
years the productive energy of the United
States has increased 40 fold. This is due
to Harvesting power that we extract from
oil, coal, water, and natural gas. Thus
practically overnight, so rapid has been
The transition, we have changed from an
economy of scarcity to. an economy OF
abundance Truly this might be COM
pared to the land of milk and honey were
natural resources, climate, etc, merely to
be considered.
At the end of the Revolutionary War
we had debt of $4,000,000 and popu-
lation of 100000 people. That was
percapita debt of 81. BY the end of 1885,
it is estimated, we will be in debt $780,
OO0,O00,OOO Chats billions). We can place
the population of the same date as 1885,
100000. That figures out to a debt of
1886 per capita. We have increased our
debt burden 285 times at Washington.
The debts of the forty-eight states, in
Guiding the private ones. of business,
amount to $4,000, 100000, a per capita
debt Of $1,738. Place this with our per
capita national debt and the total is
S2,O23. On the basis of family of four
we could set the family debt at $8,O92
owed by every man, woman, and child IN
the United States. Our interest per an
mum on this debt would amount to $8O.92.
Then you might add in operating costs,
running charges. The. question is why
let enormous interest charges engulf us
simply because we want to maintain elab-
crate and, too often, extravagant govern
ments.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
So They Say

Americans can't talk like the
English, and they shouldn't try.
-Prof. William Cabell Greet, edi-
tor of the American Journal OF
Speech.
The depression has demonstra-
ted that packs-o f-all-trades not
only have place In the sun, bus
that they are very lucky persons.
Prof. Mark. A. May Of Yale.
we have. kept the faith with.
and in, our traditional political
mPresident Roosevelt, in his new
book. "on Our Way"
The, mere fact that man wore
uniform doesn't entitle him to
raid the treasury.
u. S. Senator Carter Glass.
The woman Of 1884 simply
hasn't time to be happy.
Prof. John Fl. Stokes, University
OF Pennsylvania dermatologist.
The rest Of the world would de-
rive some benefit, perhaps, while
our two countries DESTROYED each
other. Japan and America, there
fore. should Sc to It that this war
talk gets nowhere.
l-Foretgn Minister kok Hirota %
japan.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
Rome Letter

BY THOMAS b. MORGAN
United Press stan Correspondent.
Rome (UP)-The penal legisla-
ton and prison regulations of It.
aly's African colony Of Tripolitanla
are advanced more socially and
scientifically than those operating
in the home country.
Prisoners in Tripolitania, wheth-
err native or Italian, are, whenever
1t is possible, employed on the
land, and cellular segregation and
solitary confinement practically Is
only enforced for dangerous and
rebellious prisoners.
Prisoners Reclaim Land
An important land reclamation
scheme has been carried out by
the prisoners Of the Tripoli prison
on q large raece or land near the
Jail. The extent OF this reclama-
ton is some $50 acres and the
prisoners, Arabs, Jews and Negroes
have turned what was q barren
desert into q fiourishing farm.
Some 1900 olive trees have been
planted, 10000 almond trees and
10 900 vines, between four and five
thousand fruit trees of various
kinds ana 1900 forestal plants.
Every year. sowings OF various
kinds OF grain are made, and the
harvest regularly gathered.
Interested In Work
Only those prisoners who are
too old br too sick are excused
from this work on the land, which
modern sociologists declare - the
only hope and salvation for the
criminally inclined. The latter be-
come interested IN their work.
They have the pleasure Of seeing
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
A Fine Pirate Tale
By Jeffrey Farnol

A bit of unabashed and high
spirited romantic adventure Is rel
ished, now and then, by the best
of men; and it is probable that q
good many people will be glad to
hear that Jeffrey Farnol comes
back to the wars again in winds
OF Chance" with the jolly Roger
floating from the masthead and a
ships company of turbanned and
becutlassed rogues lurking Omin-
ously at the gangways.
All of which-if you'd like to
have that sentence unscrambled-
means that Mr. Farnops new nov
ell has to do with pirates, and an
abducted maiden, and villainous
Spanish dons, and noble but mis-
understood young Englishman, In
the very best old rs death! but ]
like not his looks!" tradition.
1t seems that the noble young
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES once been
captured and forced to serve as q
galley slaye-has turned pirate
with the idea Of sailing about the
seas righting wrongs, rescuing
Otner slaves IEoIH SiIIiiaF AhJuo-
tices, and so on.
For some reasons he abducts a
fair young Englishwoman, who
curses him soulfully, but who, In
the end, as you will be delighted
to know. marries, loves, and re-
forms him.
There are many elegant fights
in 1t, many fine old costumes, a
hidden Inca city with Its .inevita-
BILE cache of gold and precious
stones oh, in other words
it's typical Jeffrey Farnol, done up
in the style to which his readers
have become accustomed.
II romantic adventure Is your
dish, you hardly can go wrong on
this one.
Published by Little, Brown and
Co, it is priced at $3.50.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

Washington, April 6.--Despite
all the hue and hullabaloo about
the Brain Trust, that much
maligned organization long ago
really ceased to exist.
1t passed out Of the presi-
Dental picture even before its
famed chief, Professor Moley,
became the victim OF the vengc-
full COrdeIi Hull. The clOse-lnit
little group OF thinkers which
fed Roosevelt most OF his ideas
during the campaign, which CON-
ceiycd most OF the Recovery
Program, now Is scattered as
widely as the ideas which they
sOwcd.
Professor Moley is editing his
magazine in New York, only oc-
casionally comes to washington.
Adolf Berle, the real brains of
the organization, is busy pilot
ing the tumultuous- course of
Mayor LaGuardia in New York,
though he-still has an indirect
hand in the New Deal. Charles
Taussig holds no official posi-
ton, spends only one or two days
each week in Washington. Sam
Rosenman, Roosevelt's legal adj
wiser, has established a lucra-
tive law practice in New York.
LAST MAN
OF the entire group, only
Professor Rex Tugwell, assistant
secretary of agriculture, remains.
Instead OF this former Or
ganizatiOn, Roosevelt himself has
BECOME his own Brain Trust. No
longer does u little band of seri-
GUS thinkers get together ana
work out plans for and with the
president. Roosevelt now serves
as tile funnel for his own ideas,
picks them out from a much
wider field, correlatcs and d.
gests them himself.
To a considerable extent this
is a handicap, because no Dig
executive, especially the presi-
dent of the United States, has
time to act as his own research
agency. Nevertheless Roosevelt
does. And the men whom he
calls upon have become, in a
very ulllGTeHt SSISS, ehO coOSSA
tutes for the old Brain Trust.
BRAIN TRUST
There is no central organiza-
ton. Some of the so-called Brain
Trusters do not even know each
other except by name. Many Of
them are not college professors.
There are a great number OF
them. New ones go and come
every day. An attempt to list
the most important of them, plus
background and ideas they rep
resent, follows:
HARRY HOPKINS, admins
traitor of CWA and Federal EN-
Urgency Relief. An Iowa boy who
came to the big city, got inter-
ested in boys camps, took up
New York social welfare, and
now is one of the closest men to
Roosevelt. Hopkins is clear
eyed, frank, dynamic. He shoots
no Johnsonian bombast. Nutured
intellectually in Greenwich
Village atmosphere, he retains an
ingrained streak of practically.
He Is not only a thinker but a
doer, and one of the most at
tractive Of the Recovery Admin
istrators.
JIM lands, Federal Trade
commissioner, Is one of the new
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

the fruit OF their toily and II they
behave well when in prison, they
are given land to cultivate them
selves when they are freed.
The three principal races which
inhabit the Lybian prisons. Euro
peans, African Jews and Arabs al
ways are kept apart. This Is one
OF the dominating ideas OF the
prison system, and Is extended TO
the working parties taken out to
cultivate the land.
Magma and Cyrenc, which have
added 30 many fine relics Of
Roman civilization to the Italian
and colonial museums, chiefly are
worked by colonial prisoners.
The Tripoli prison dates from
Turkish times. but has been re-
modefnized and rebuilt. New pris-
ols have been ponafrs1cfed IT
HONS and MIanrate.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

The Savin Rock parkway has finally
been voted down by the town fathers OF
West Haven. At stormy session this
week the proposal, which.called for bond
issue of $35O,OOO, was defeated by close
VOTE 1t may have been due to the fact
that it was coupled with plan to repair
a sewage plant, thus demanding larger
bond issue. The main objection seemed
to be that. the town has only $48O,000 more
left before the legal limit in bonds will
have been reached. The parkway issue
would exhaust more than half of what
remains. Still it's hard to lose sight of the
fact that perhaps golden opportunity is
being missed. Certainly come federal aid
could be obtained in project such as this
one was. However, we have no desire to
be accused of attempting to foist debts on
the citizens of West Haven. 1t probably
is as good plan as any right now to stop
spending all civic funds save those abso-
lutely necessary. Were it possible to build
the parkway without acquiring private
property the town would have started it
long since. But much land must be
bought before even the semblance of a
parkway could be created.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

@. Please describe the Kodiak
bear, and tell where they live.
A. They are the largest Of all
known bears, sometimes Weighing
over 1890 pounds: but many are
smaller. The species was discov-
cred about 1895 on Kodiak Island
Alaska, wherey they are said to be
numerous. It Ii also believed that
they range the mountains OF the
neighboring mainland. They seem
to subsist mainly on fish, and vary
In color from dark to yellowish
brown.
Q. Is lynching prevalent In
France and Great Britain?
A. No.
Q. How old Is Mae West?
A. Thirty-three and one-half
years.
O. What do tho letters ". d. B.
on Lincoln one-cent pieces mean?
A. They are the initials of the
designer, Victor ID. Bremen.
@. How many authors, editors
and reporters are there In the Uni
ted States?
A. The 1880 Census OF Occupa-
tions enumerated 12.447 authors
and 51,s44 editors and reporters.
Q. What kind OF wood Is used
for Dolicernen's batons? Eek
A. Lignum vitae, that is i'm
ported from the West Indies. and
Is very hard and tough.
@. Where IL the United States
Army Band stationed and who is
the leader?
A. Captain william J. stannard
IL leader. The band ID stationed at
the Army War College. Washing
ton, p. 9.
@. Which country has the larg-
est navy7
A. Great Britain.
O. How old is Rear Admiral
Richard Byrd?
A. Torty-five.
@. How many rooms has the
Stevens hotel In Chicago, Illinois?
A. About 1000.
@. When did Angora become
the capital Of Turkey.
A. IN April. 1890.
--~-------
O. What DO the Initials {. +. II
after the name e ~ klnf ef
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
THwARTED CAREER

THWARTED CAREER
Mr. Phillips, who is pretty sure
to be the clubs president after the
| lawyer and a very successful one
In 1892 he became chess champion
of city college, four months after
reading his first book on the game
At Columbia, where he took his law
degree, he also was champion
Discovery of his knack distressed
rather than pleased him. Should
he become a professional, perhaps
to rank with Pillsbury and Mar
shall, but never to have much
money and perhaps to wind up az
a Masked Marvel with q carnival
earning maybe SIS a week? No
he shouldn't; SO he kept on in law,
made fortune, played chess in
his spare time, and is not entirely
happy about his choice.
"If I'd given my life 10
chess 1 might have become one
OF the worlds three best play
crs," he signs.
He suspects, too, that he might
have been q pretty good Masked
Marvel. Once he wandered out to
Coney Island, encountered one oil
those semi-automations put dime
in the slot and trimmed the hide
off Of 1t.
He admits there Is no dopbt
about some people being peculiar
ly adapted to chess. Sammy Re-
shinsky, for example, was only 9
years old when he began going
around beating the nations finest
| players. That was in 1929,
though, and the late julius Rosen-
valid took an interest in the boy
and underworld his education with
the stipulation that he'd play In nc
more matches for several years
Sammy popped up here the other
day for his first public appearance
and played six games simultane-
ously and one blindfolded.
CHESS SPEEDS UP
The Manhattan Clubs crack
player is Mr. 1. Kashdin, editor of q
chess magazine. In several match
es with the worlds champion
Alehkin, he has won one game and
several draws. Phillips also plays
Win HOnOr III lHlefHdtIOuAi AuAtSh-
es. some of which are played by
cable. Cable operators, with a
direct wire from here to. say,
Buenos Aires, sit in the respective
clubrooms and flash the moves
back and forth. The last match
went on for twelve hours and cost
$500 in cable tolls.
The moves were made fairly
rapidly, though, as they are by ex-
perts. Chess got its reputation az
dismally slow game back In the
days when q player could take all
the time he wished to study q
move. What brought about the
reform was a match between q Mr.
Paulson and a Mr. Murphy. Mr.
Paulson wouldn't move for IA
hours. Mr. Murphy, who had the
game won, fidgeted around until he
got Mysteries and went into g ner-
vous breakdown. After that o rule
was made that ecah player had to
move 40 times in two and q halt
hours.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

continued through the years until
1850 it became a joint stock or
ganization known as the Scoviil
Manufacturing company until 1892
when the company employed 1900
hands and used 1,400 horse pow
er, which was quite an increase
over the nine hands employed
when the original four began to
buy up old kettles and boilers. The
growth and increase from 1882
down to the present day has been
equally great and of astounding
proportions during the prosperous
years.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

A. Rex ct Imperator, which is
translated King and Emperor.
Q. Who was the author Of the
proverbs: Blood IL thicker than
water?"
A. It is frequently ascribed to
Sir Walter Scott, on account of his
use OF 1t In Guy MannerinE but It
was common In the 18th century
and Scott probably borrowed It.
Q. How old IL Katherine Hep-
burn?
A. Twenty-four.
@. What is the duty Of script
girl In motion picture studio?
A. To KEEP record OF the
scenes.
@. How long will Admiral Byrd
stay In Little America?
A. He intends to stay two years.
9. Is Ed Wynn a Jewg
II y0u want . copy OF our bull
letin Lawn and Garden Pools, write
70 the Waterbury Democrats
Washington bureau, enclosing ave
cents In postage stamps.
F
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
DAILY WASHINGTON
.MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLRl

Brain Trust Ceased to Erist Long Before Present Hula
baOO Started; TMgaveu Only One NoD Left of Original
Closent Group of Advisers; Insofar There Is Any
Brain Trust Today, Roosevelt Himself Is 1t; New
Advisers Come and Co. But the Presidents Policies Are
His Dam.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
In
New York


+ New York-In the United States
there are about seven million peo-
pie who know how to play chess,
yet there are only about fifty good
chess players and ten potentially
great ones. If I'm wrong don't stop
me, because those are estimates Of
the Manhattan Chess club, and
especially of one of its famous
members, Harold M. Phillips.
There are about a dozen chess
clubs in New York, but the Man
haitian, founded in ~, is the oldest
and largest. 1t generally has the
metropolitan championship tucked
away, and few inter-city and in
ternational titles. On it's present
eight-man team are two college
students, one naturalist, and assert.
ed clerks, merchants and retired
businessmen. They say there is
nothing to the idea that good
chess player must be especially in
tellectual, or even mathematical
minded. One of the cleverest men,
bers the club ever had was rail-
road brakeman.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

At some time in your dim, distant past
you must have sung or heard sung that
sentimental old ballad, "My Mother Was
a Lady,. The composer is dead. In case
you don't recall who he was, his name was
Joseph w. Stern. He was widely known
in musical publishing circles in New York
city, At one time he was in partnership
with Edward B. Marks in the music pub
fishing business, but retired in 1920. He
was native of New York city and spent
practically his entire life there. His in
terest in music began through his skill as
a piano player. He turned to song writ
ing, but soon realized there was little
money in this for him and became pub
Usher at which he was most successful.
Franz Lehar's famous "Glow Worm" was
brought out by Stern. In time their firm
became known as "The House of Hits.
Remember "A Hot Time in the Old Town
Tonight. Stern and Marks published it.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

On October S, 1880 the rolling
mill of Holmes, Booth & Haydens
was destroyed by fire with a loss
of $4,000.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

David Prichard, Jr., born in 1775
was an early cabinet maker here,
making tables, bedsteads, bureaus
and sideboards.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

The Waterbury lodge Of Elks
was instituted June is, 1898. the
sixth Elk lodge in Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

The State Highway Department has its
work cut out for it this spring. We
haven't had as disastrous winter, SO far
as our state roads are concerned, in many
year. Thaws and ice have broken hard
pavements, made holes, and in general
raised havoc. Many stretches of roadway
will have to be entirely repaved. Merely
filling in holes isn't going to suffice for
normal summers traffic in Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

The Waterbury Buckle company
was organized April 7, 1853.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

If there's to.be any more industrial
scrapping in this country, let's scrap the
old cars and buildings.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06

Yes, we're in a pitiful situation when
we have SO much of everything except
common sense that we don't know what
to do without blessings.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-06
BRASS CITY FACTS
High street was named because
of its elevation.

A company known as the Mer-'
chants Union Express company
was established here In 1888 with
an office on the west side Of Ex-
change place.
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All vehicles must be lighted not later
than 6:51 o'clock tonight.
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o. What % the Initials "E{. IT,
s '3ss's = s''s e, sssss IS k'af 2
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q. When did Angora become
the capital Of Turkey.
A. IN April. 1920.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
FREE STATE TITLES
PROBLEM REVIVED
Courtesy for Italy's Recommended
Honors to Irishmen May
Bring Change.

DUBLIN GP.-The question of
titles, the use and granting of which
was severely raped when the Free
State came into existence, has re-
turned as a problem.
The more difficult question Of in
ternational courtesy is responsible,
and the De Valera government is
considering establishment of an hon.
orS list.
The Free State constitution stipu-
lateS not only that there shall be no
titles, but that no citizen shall &C
cept a foreign title without first OBJ
tanning government sanction. This
restriction admittedly was aimed at
English titles.
Not long ago, however, Italy rec
commended honors for Irishmen who
assisted in preparations for the Bal
be flight to Chicago. The De Valera
government found it difficult to de-
cline such honors from a friendly
country.
This raised the question of recip-
rocal courtesy, as a result Of which
the government may now establish
a new order, not only for foreigners,
but as a recognition of distinguished
service by citizens.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
A Year-Round Waterfront
Home

pa acres and lO-room modern
zoo feet river frontage.
10 feet water at wharf-yachts-
Good safe bathing beach.
Space for tennis court.
Only 30 miles from Washington.
3l2 miles from Annapolis.
No mosquitoes.
No expense has been spared to bring
this desirable property to state ap-
preaching perfection. The grounds are
covered with trees. flowers and shrub
berry: Its, high elevation assures the
beautiful view of the river. Absolutely
free from MOSQUITO pests.
Living room and sun parlor 40 feet
long. with large fireplace. paneled walls
vinator, large gas range, clothes chute
and incinerator Five bed rooms. three
baths; INV. heat; new oil burner.
New boat house; 90 by 20; on 1+Tsge per
for employees. Two-car garage.
Property will be sold at less than
half its cost. Shown by appointment.
45o-acre waterfront farm. 200
acres in very high state of cultivation.
balance pup wood and other timber:
Mansion. 0 rooms and . baths. cost
S37.5OO to build. Tenant house and
ductive-5 cuttings Of alfalfa per year.
Private wharves, oyster beds. Owner
has $4,000 invested in this fine
property and will sell it for third
of its cost and take small property
Large Federal Farm loan Just placed.
Shown by appointment.
r. ID. LILLE co.
Exclusive Agents
266 Carroll ST., TakOma Park
Washington, ID. c. GE. $500