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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

the fields lover wonder" last year. He says, with a wry smile: "The deducts got me"
 Among the negroes, the ex- planation is more fanciful. They say of 'tcropper" swho has moved on, "The owls got him." OUT OF DEBT?
 Here in Pride there is land- owner who is also a storekeeper. For four years he has kept the "croppers' on his land, ad- vanced provisions, kept books that have been red for four years.
 He is pleased with the high price of cotton and the govern ment bounties. He says his men will benefit greatly. He real ly means that he will benefit.
 "Yes, sir," he says, they'll all be able to pay me what they owe me this year-a1l except One."
 A man who can get out of debt is fortunate in these parts. And he is rare.
 Four miles west of Pride there is a landowner who says: "The governments doin' great things. Some of the croppers will get out of debt-maybe one out of every ten."
 LANDLESS ARMY
 Thus in the now reasonably prosperous South. you run up against the fact that there is vast, footloose army of cotton workers without cotton acres, living in novels, taking up pam handling in the cities, living on relief.
 Thus also the New Deal finds that in tackling the economic question of boosting the price of cotton, it ran into a social ques- tion which is one of the basic problems of the South.
 Two questions, particularly trouble officials of the AAA.
 One is the fact that many croppers and tenant farmers last year did not receive their full share of government bounty for blowing under their bursting acres. The money was sent to the landlords, but if it was passed along, it suffered first from a wholesale attack of the , "deducts".
 EVICTIONS
 Second is the fact that the AAA cotton program has in creased the evictions of tenant farmers, added to unemploy- ment.
 Usually shiftless and migra- tory, this was one year when the tenant farmer wanted to hold on. The price of cotton was high, he wanted to stay to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
 But acreage had to be re- duced by forty per cent. The easiest way for the landowner was to "send few croppers down the road"
 Desk men in the AAA say: we anticipated that and have put a clause in the cotton con- tracts to prevent it."
 But the clause Is tOothless. It states that the owner "shall, inc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
Taking No Chances

We think that Lieutenant Governor Roy c. Wilcox acted in the proper spirit when lie ordered mobilization of the National Guard in the textile strike areas of this state Monday night. He has been criti- cized in many quarters. His action was also termed hasty inasmuch as Governor Cross was due back in the state the fol- lowing day and twenty-four hours's delay might not have resulted in any happening that would demand the presence of guardsmen.
 Coming as his action did on the eve of the republican state convention it has been construed as political move on his part. That's rather cruel accusation and one that might better have been left unsaid. In the past the republican lieu nt-governor has not been inclined to usi1rp any power that rightfully belongs to the democratic governor and which the former might exercise through the ab- sence from the state of the latter.
 The results of yesterdays convention shows that, if there was carefully-plan- ned idea behind the mobilization of the troops it failed of such purpose as might be imagined, namely, the securing of the Rubernatorial nomination. But we don't believe that this was the real reason that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
KoPPLEMANN
(New Britain Herald.)

Congressman Kopplemann, re. nominated by first district demo- crats, told them his record. The boys already were quite we'll aware of it. The record was acceptable and Kopplemann as. candidate to succeed Kopplemann was the verdict. -
 The first district congressman upheld the Roosevelt new deal policies and the traditional Con- necticut policies at the same time!
 He made no effort to unhorse the high tariff rates which his dis trict seems to regard essential to prosperity--though there has been potent lack of it with the high rates for five years.
 He took care to uphold the inter- ests of the farmers of the county mostly tobacco growers. These gentlemen consider themselves ex- cessively important and of course it becomes a congressman busi> ness to truckle to imagined as well as real needs. So he helped them about legislation, though far seeing and planning administration saw fit to put through recipro- city treaty with Cuba-which in- stantly stimulated trade between the two cOuntries-much to the chagrin of the tobacconists who thought they were entitled to the earth. Of course, Kopplemann himself was not consulted about this, all that he knew about the sudden turn at the time hatng what
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
Press Comment
TIME FOR COMPROMISE
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

It is urgent that the liquor con- trol board and the fire -marshaTs office reach agreement on the mat ter of tavern exits. As we under stand it, the control code requires one entrance for liquor retailers of the tavern category. It is not diff ficult to understand the reason why. Many entrance purveyors of alcoholic liquors in the old days were one of the banes of the tenn perance people. The control board naturally wants to maintain retal places as the experience of years indicates. In taking the steps to that end in it's judgment required it merely fulfills it duty.
 But the fire marshal has duties also. He must guard against the danger of confiagration and with the Rialto fire in mind, he has defi- mite suggestions as to what is re- quired. Above all, places where many people congregate must have wide access to the great, outer spaces when anything goes wrong. Here, it is clear, liquor board and fire marshal are in head-on col lision. The marshall holds the tav- ern is place of public assembly. The control board holds the oppo- site. Both arguments may be de- tended. Their contradiction can be resilved by realistic compromise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

In commenting upon the results of the democratic state convention of last week the Hartford Times offered this bit of good news to us down here in Waterbury. "The final agreement of Mayor Hayes of Waterbury to run for ieutenant-gover- nor, gives the ticket the benefit of an exceptionally strong and popular person ality. Waterbury has often been disap- pointed in state conventions. This year it's favorite son is on the ticket and there is reason to expect a sweeping plurality there , It is safe to say that Water bury will endeavor to do just that for one of the most popular chief executives it has ever elected to office. The eclipse of the famous 5000 majority of 1883 will be the goal of Brass City democrats in the November election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
A Book a Day
A Terrifying Study of Wars Backwash
BY BRUCE CAPTION

During the war years, no allied government would permit the sale of Ellen N. LaMotte's little book, 'The Backwash of War" This book is now out in a new edition (Minton- Balch: $1.75) and it is easy to see why 1t was banned. Miss LaMotte was war nurse, and her book is a series of sketch- es of war hospital life. It is writ ten with international detachment. but it's effect is damning. Here we get war at it's ugliest-its pain and filth and insanity compressed into a few pages.
 Turning to something much lighter R. J. Yeatman and w. c. Sellar, who wrote the very amusing booklet, "1066 and All That" are out with another laugh provoker, ."Horse Nonsense" (Mor- row: $1.50). In this they take up the cult of the horse and tell you just what you should do if you wish to enter the worlds snappiest hunt club circles.
 Current literary gossip |. Mary Cable Dennis, author of "My
 Normandy is the daughter of the
 late George w. Cable, famed southern author of a generation
 ago Bernard DeVoto, of Har
 yards English department, who
 has a novel coming out next
 month, is a topnotch pistol and
 lrifie shot. Good books do sell well. sometimes---James Hilton's "GoodDye, MT Chips" has already sold 20.0O0 copies. On the other hand. the novels of Geoffrey
 Dennis, one of the finest living nov.
 elists, have an average American
 sale of about 700 copies.
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solar as possible, maintain on this farm the normal number of tenants,
 So while King Cotton, higher in price than at any time in a decade, continues to rule the South, Seth Holt and an increas- pers spit out their watermelon seeds and move on to the next town.
 .(Another article on the cot- ton crOppers of the South will be published in the near future.)
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Senator Bill Borah is a movie fan. His favorite used to be Wil- liam S. Hart, ''two-gun" cowboy hero. With his, passing, BOrah now enthuses over wise-crack- ing, gum-chewing Will Rogers When the president is in Washington, Saturday and Sum day are two of his busiest days. He shuns all callers and devotes himself to catching up on corres- pondence. In dictating Roose- welt talks very rapidly, rarely asks the stenographer to re- peat what he said, but carefully reads every letter before he af- fixes his signature .. North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Munitions In- vestigating committee, raises gold fish as hobby, has over 100 in a small pool in his Chevy Chase home.
 Copyright, 1884, by United Fea.
 ture- Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

Pride. Alabama, Sept 14.- The Department of Agriculture, way up in Washington, is stag ing losing fight with Seth Holt and his two sons and their watermelon.
 There is now law in this state to keep a man from eating wa termelon, but to the govern ment there is some significance in the fact that this is the principal occupation of Seth and the two grown boys as they sit in the shade in the midst of their worn-out cotton acres.
 The government has a material interest in the life of the three Holts and the thousands of other "share-croppers'' of the Cotton Belt, for through the AAA it has poured out the vast sum of $163,624,S78.56 in the past year in an effort to save the cotton crop from a ruinOusly low price and cotton farmers from de- struction.
 The Holts live in bleak, un- pointed shack that stands by the dusty road a mile west of here. The shack is not their own, nor did it belong to the family who lived there last year, nor the family before that. The fact that the windows have neither sashes nor shutters will not trou- ble them next winter, for they will not be there. Indeed, there is reason to doubt if they will last through the present month and into the picking season. A man can't live on watermelons. "NO FURNISH"
 Trouble is, some of 'em don't give you no, furnish in the of you long as you're workin' on the crop, and then they shut down on you"
 The older boy was speaking. quite without bitterness. He held a red cube of watermelon on the end of his knife, took it into his mouth, calmly spat the seeds at a hound dog stretched out in the dust.
 eff you can't get through to pickin' season, you have to move on, and he gets everything-the whole crop"
 The "furnish' about which he talked is the system of furnish ing" and "deducting" food and keep during the season. It is the curse of the Holts and all their kind in the deep South.
 Never out of debt. they are kept by landlords who provide them with furnish" and deduct the cost, plus high interest from the proceeds of the cotton crop.
 Ask Holt why he moved from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

O. What is the difference be- tween a macadam and an asphalt road?
 A. Macadam is . type of road surface consisting of broken stone1 thoroughly rolled and keyed, and cemented into a solid mass by means of stone dust and water. Asphalt roads usually consist oi three layers or courses; a foun- dation, binder, and a wearing course. The latter consists of a bituminous mortar composed of fine sand, finely ground mineral filler, and asphalt cement. Q. What does the name Seth mean?
 A. It is from the Bible and means compensation or appointed. Seth was the third son of Adam
 O. What is punk?
 A. Wood decayed by the infiu- ence of a fungus or otherwise, and used like finder. Finder made from certain fungi is also called punk.
 Q. What Is the color of the flame of burning carbon monox- idle?
 A. It burns with a bluish flame forming carbon dioxide. The blue flame distinguishes 1t from all other gases which burn.
 O: What is the location in New York city of the Empire State building?
 A. Fifth Avenue at s4th street O. Who is the president of the American Society of Comnosers Authors and Publishers? What is the address of the organization? A. Gene Buck is president. The address is 1901 Broadway, New York city.
 Q. What is bolero? A. The Spanish word means child eloping from its parents or from school. As applied to q dance, it designates love-passion or the passing from extreme shy ness to extreme passion.
 c. When did the Ringing Bro- lnerS ana DdThuAA cI DdAtCJ OASus combine?
 A. Ringing Bros. bought the Barnum 6 Bailey circus in 1908 and the final combination was ef- fected in 1909.
 Q. Who is Lieutenant Governor of New York?
 A. William Bray.
 
 0. Does the law specifically state that the president of the United States must be man?
 A. There is no sex provision in the Constitution.
 o. When a dead heat occurs in a horse race who gets the money? A. Bookmakers pay off on both horses, though of course. the price on each is considerably less than it would have been if only one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
Paris Letter
BY MARY KNIGHT

United Press Stan Correspondent
 Paris (UP).-A Frenchman has invented a machine for making elastic thread without the use Of rubber.
 He is a little known inventor without funds and his machine hsa been patented by a well known French society woman who remains anonymous.
 At a gathering recently at the salons of Rosine Paris, seven models made of J. C., or Jaysee. thread were exhibited. The pro- cess is, of course, secret. but the weaving of the thread is don h such a way that it is highly elastic and returns to it's original shape. Experiments in stretching 1t and soaking it for AS hours under water have failed t9 reveal any flaws.
 The greatest cIaim of the new thread is that 1. is far more dur able and practical. It contains no rubber, which must, eventual ly rot or cease tar stretch. The in ventor and hin packer anticipate a revolution In the weaving busi- ness and Luve copyrighter their machine.
 The threads also are used for hand d-knitting n crocheting. Among the seven exhibited models made of the thread was hand knit sport suit, a woven after noon dress and jacket and two evening gowns, one done by hand and the other by machine.
 Stretching in all directions. the threads in cotton, silk or wool will be used for making clothes of all categories from infants ap- parel to grandmothers' shawls. Bathing suits are particularly -ap- plicable to the new threads, and hats, shoes and accessories of Jay see are foregone conclusions.
 So convinced are the sponsors that they are willing for any tests to be made to, substantiate their claims.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

Distribution of rifles to 23,000 Italian boys between the ages of IA and IS is described as an innovation at the culmina- tion of summer activities of Black Shirt youths group It's quite an innovation, we'd say. One that the munitions makers of the world will probably be glad to hear about. It means only one thing. The stories that Europe is arming for war is all too true. When boys from IA to IS get military training and actual experi- ence with guns the awesome boom of them can't be far distant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
Selected Poem
CONNECTICUT GARDEN

(Barbara Young in The New York Times) Today at dawn myself alone Walked the green world, and star and stone And orchard grass and apple tree. Serenely unaware of me, Conversed in brief immortal words. Only myself and two bright birds Were there to hear And oh ruch talk, Such heavenly news! turned to walk Where gardens were, tall gleaming phlox As white as wool, rich hollyhocks Slim golden daisies shoulder -high One humming-bi bird one butterfly Sable night hung on the air. Undaunted by my presence there; Because at dawn, with all wild things I too am kin l too have wings
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

Worcester is another city that is start ing to worry about auto insurance rates. Substantial increases have just been an- nounced there. We're wondering just what will come of the fact that there is a general tendency to raise such rates rather than lower them. Some day we'll make a serious effort to reduce mishaps and make uniform damage claims, so that the underwriters can work out lower rate tables.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
DAILY ALMANAC

High tide at Milford Saturday Sept IS. s:4S p. m, daylight time low tide 10:17 p. m. daylight time.
 All vehicles must be lighted not later than 734 daylight time, tonight.
 Sun rises 6:3O a. m. daylight time: sets 7:04 p. m, daylight time.
 Moon sets s:42 p. m., daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

actuated Lieutenant Governor Wilcox. We feel sure that he acted in the best inter ests of the state. If it seems nasty now, we may excuse it on the theory that pre- paredness never was fault.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

One of the complaints against public relief has been the fact that it destroys the personal contact maintained between private charities and their clients It is hard to keep up personal contact with 23,000,000 persons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round
By Talburt
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALIEN --------

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  Reduction Who;ealeEvi nsandH Host Umempo oyed.
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horse had won. The owners of the horses usual1y divide the purse, though sometimes they run 1t off.
 Q. Did Bebe Daniels appear h "The Desert song7n
 A. No.
 o. Where Is Eiske universitvf {
 A. Nashville, Tenn.
 Q. On what date did the Jewish New Year fall in 191z7
 A. Thursday, September 12. o. Is there a duty on Christmas trees imported from Canada into the United States?
 A. Yes: 10 per cent advalorena.,
 If NOn want copy of our bulle. tin History of Gold and Silver MOm- ey, write to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, enclosing i've cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

Everybody kicked about the unusually warm summer, but nobody is asking for an early winter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1884
A Thought for Today

John answered and said, man can re- cefve nothing, except it be given him from hcaven.-St John 3:27.
 Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.-Henry Ward Beecher.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
he read in the newspapers.

The Hartford gentleman has done so well as a congressman that this renomination is deserved tribute to him, the democrats be- lieve, and they have acted accord inzly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

Q. When a dead heat occurs in a horse race who gets the money? A. Bookmakers pay off on both horses, though of course, the price on each is considerably less than it would have been if only one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

0. Does the law specifically state that the president of the United States must be a man?
 A. There is no sex provision in the Constitution.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-16
4taSkan Miners May Soon Be Permitted
 to RetOrt Otun Gold

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-(Spe- cial Correspondence)-All during the summer the Treasury Depart ment has been studying the sug- gested amendment to the provision al gold regulations proposed by Delegate Dimond whereby miners would be allowed to retort gold without possessing a license provid- ing the retorting was not carried to a point where it would be diffi- cult to identify the gold as hav- ing been newly mined Now it appears that a decision is likely to be reached within the next couple of weeks, and the Delegate is ad- vised unofficially it will in all like lihood be favorable to his conten- tion. The matter was first called to Mir. Dimond's attention by Grant R. Jackson, president, and Ira D. Orton, vice president, of the Min CTS and Merchants Bank of Alaska of Nome.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-16
SONG" HAS THEM E OF
 MOTHER LOVE
Paramount M Masterpiece Opens at Coliseum with
 Lovely Dorothea Wieck

Dorothea Wieck, who gave SC brilliant a performance in @Maed- chen in Uniform" comes tonight to the screen of the Coliseum Theatre in her first American star ring appearance. She has the prin- cipal role of Cradle Song," a nov ing story of frustrated mother love behind convent walls.
 Miss Wieck is the newest Contin- ental star to come to Hollywood to take her place beside such per formers as Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.
 She was signed by Paramount to fill the role of Joanna in "Cra- dle Song" a part similar in spirit to the one she played in her Con- tinental film. As in "Maedchen in Uniform" she lavishes her love and affection upon young girl
 In the story, Jeanne enters 8 convent at the age of eighteen. Her natural desire for motherhood is gratified when a baby is left at the convent door, and she is per- mitted to raise it. The child, Te- resa, grows to maidenhood in the convent under the care of thirty mothers" At eighteen, Teresa falls in love and determines to leave the convent. The struggle on her part between her love for Joanna and her sweetheart. plus the struggle of Joanna and the sisters, who do not know whether to attempt to hold Teresa or let her go, furnish the climax for this unusual story.
 Teresa is played by Evelyn Ven able, young Cincinnati girl, who was a member of Walter Hamp- dens dramatic company Kent Taylor plays the romantic lead. Others in the cast are Sir Guy Standing, Louise Dresser and Gail Patrick. Mitchell Leisen directed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-16

Dunn and Edwards are cast as side-show spielers who are not a. verse to making away with their patrons pocketbooks and watches, when the occasion offers Miss Roth and Miss Knight are entertainers at the show. The former finally abandons her friends because of their petty grafting and goes to New York where she wins fame on Broadway.
 The two spielers finally are in duced by June and the long arm of the law, to go straight. The three set out for New York to make their fortunes in a legitimate manner.
 There are number of hilarious sequences made against the back ground of society charity bazaar at a swanky Long Island estate and also something entirely new, a goofy travelogue, a la Graham McNamee, which forms the back ground for one of Cliff Edwards clever ukelele numbers.
 Last Times Tonight
 Wallace Beery as the greatest Mexican hero will be at the Capi- tol Theatre for the last times to- night in -Goldwyn Mayors epic drama, Viva Villa!"