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The Washington times., 1934-09-10
+ human Side Of the News = ByEdwm c. Hill

crop n-throwing
switch for the moment on the
law of supply and demand
they will provide 100000
horsepower of energy, and that
means the equivalent of the
work of 10000 men.
Seeking an answer to the
obvious question as to piling
up a greater surplus in a break
down caused by surplus, this
writer finds the spirited Presi-
dent and his advisors aware
of far-reaching implications Of
their conservation and agricul-
tural program.
Fewer farmers will produce
more than the 100000 farm
erS now produce, and have a
better time doing it. But what
is to become of the farmers
displaced? What is to become
of the men displaced by the
100000 men springing from
those three great new turbines?
The only possible answer is
that man, as a seemly guest in
the house of life, must accept
the earth and the fullness there
of, or else bow himself out.
That is how humanity has sur.
vived in the past, and that
seems to be what President
Roosevelt is up to. All con-
servatiOn economics have stub
bornly ignored the logic of
price economics.
Does it mean great shifts of
population? Does it mean TAX
ing in multitudes of miners
from the obsolescent coal in
dustry, educating them as farm
ers, and placing them on pre-
ductive land? Does it mean a
shift from profit economics to
subsistence economics? Does
it mean, in the phrase of the
new dealers, a transition from
the economics of scarcity to
the economics of abundance?
Is it in any way reconcilable
with, or separable from, the
great world equations of COM
merce and exchange?
All this sounds a bit high
flown and far-fetched to a
busted Kansas farmer, and
there are those who will dis
miss the whole business by say
ing it means simply more jobs
for Democrats. But regardless,
of all policies of crop limitation,
the Reclamation Bureau shoves
ahead, and, furthermore, it
seems to be backed by intan.
gible forces.
Out in California, 100000
acre feet of water from the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin rivers,
rolls past arid lands every year
into San Francisco bay. For
twenty years the State has been
putting forward a vast plan for
impounding and migrating
water and power sites, on both
sides of the great Tehachipi
range, in a State system of CO.
ordinated irrigation and power.
Now it is coming to fulfillment.
Copyright 1884. by King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-10

record established by men.
Could she, a 19-year-old girl,
still lacking her full, mature
strength-perform such a phys
ical feat?
There ahead doomed the blur
that was England. And-per-
haps-fame! How many swing
ing strokes of the strong, brown
arms, how many drives of the
powerful young legs through
the churning waters would 1t
take to reach that blur? How
deep would she have to breathe
how fast-how long?
Like an iron band the anxious
questions began binding her
brain. Like quicksand the sense
of hurrying tension began tug
ging at her body. Impercep-
tibly, her pace slackened. Slowly,
terribly, the wall OF water
seemed to rise before her, SHOW
ing her back
Then, suddenly, her trained
intelligence took charge. She
by her own anxiety-was
building that wall between her
self and success. BY her own
worried calculations, she was
weighing down her body, vast
ing her strength. There should
be no more waste-no more
worry! And so
SHE QUIT LOOKING AND
SWAN.
Deliberately she stopped do
ing EVERYTHING but the one
thing it was needful to do
SWIM. How far away was land?
How much longer would it take?
Would she break the record
and, if so, by how much? There
was only one way to answer
those questions-and she took
it. She stopped looking, stopped
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nations pay DountleS 10 CIlelr
operators.
Many advocates of q proper
merchant marine contend that
the only way American opera
tors can meet foreign competi-
ton is by the payment of sub
sides.
Until subsidies are paid, they
say, our operators 1OiH be unable
to take their proper place in the
World of commerce.
Navy officials point to the
Senate investigation of ocean
and air.mail contracts. Reports
emanating from that inquiry,
they say, have done much to
prejudice Americans against
bounties.
The Navy realizes that 1t
should have a proper merchant
service to supplement its fight
ing force in time of war.
But most officials say they
can't get the merchant marine
unless subsidies are paid.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace made statements
in which he intimated that
from an economic standpoint
the American merchant fleet
should not be built up so as to
hinder foreign operators.
President Roosevelt announced
that Mr.. Wallace didn't mean
to put that theory in actual
practice.
Regardless of that contro-
UerSy, the American merchant
marine is far below the stand
ard it pr badly should main
tain.
When officials advocate sub
sides they are not praising the
payment of fabulous sums to
The Washington times., 1934-09-10

Of the seven wonders of the
world-incidentally. all of the
Old World-only one is useful,
the marble lighthouse, known as
the Pharos of Alexandria. All
the others, with the exception
of the hanging gardens of Baby
lon, were symbolic of mortal
man trying to project himself
into immortality-such immor-
tally as may be encySted for a
few centuries in marble and
granite.
President Roosevelt, visiting
the site of what is to be the
largest dam in the world at
Grand Coulee, Wash, is a Pha-
roah of the modern world, eX-
alting life here and now, and
"life more abundant" We, too,
have our temples and obel1sks,
and we, too, look out into the
void, but we do not sink the
lives of countless men and lag
gard centuries into a pyramid
to make some vain king a "bal-
ance brought forward" III a later
and needless day.
The three great Western
dams-the Boulder dam, the
Fort Peck dam in Montana and
the Grand Coulee dam-repre-
sent IA years employment for
$4,000 men. That would have
been small unit of time and
man power on the great pyra-
mid of Cheops.
It would be interesting if some
engineer would translate the
human dynamics of the 10 pyra-
mids into horsepower, dynamite,
compressed air drills, steam
Shovels and kiloWatts, and let
us know how many men and
how much money and time it
would take to build them now.
But the important thing is not
the how, but, rather, the why
of these handbook adventures of
the age of faith and the age of
reason.
What do we want of more
farm land and power when
we're blowing under crops and
shooting live stock because too
much of everything has wrecked
the world?" Thus the average
burgher reading in his news
paper of President Roosevelt'S
visit to the Grand Coulee dam
site.
Without venturing into an
economic thesis, one may report
the outlines of this latter-day
paradox. Regardless of the deS-
perate expediency forced on the
Administration by price eco
Monies, in it's crop limitation
program of last year, it faces
the fact that the long pull out
of an obsoleScent agriculture
makes it imperative to get the
largest possible production per
unit.
Any farmer, getting 40
bushels of wheat per acre off 80
acres of irrigated land. pro-
tected against drought, is better
off, and has a better chance to
rear his family decently, than
he would be farming a bliStered
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half-section in the dry-farming
area, with the hazard of
drought, and an average yield
of or 10 bushels.
This, in an individual bust
ness, is. of course, a matter of
simple accounting. Applying
any simple business precept to
large-scale economics, one runs
afoul of all sorts of human va
RANTS and human uncertainties,
and perhaps that is just why
history assigns the most human
of Presidents to what seems
perilously like the task of re-
allocating men, energies and
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brain centers. All they knew
was to get business. They did
it all right, too. They managed
to make calls on about two
thirds of the world. The other
third hadn't been discovered
yet.
But nowadays, a real, up-to-
the-minute salesman must study
facial contours in his prospec-
tive customers. He must resu-
late his sales talk to the dis
lance between the nose and the
eyes and the chin, and he must
stand back and take a look at
the ear lobes before deciding
whether to use the direct at
tack" the "attaque oblique" or
the maShie.
One of those guys with an
india-rubber face which changes
shape every 80 seconds could
throw a modern scientific sales
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

wondering, stopped fearing
AND SWAN.
Many a time when the going
was tough I've remembered, and
been glad for, Gertrude Ederle.
For who knows where any of us
are going these days, or when
We'll get there?
How long will this job laSt?"
"Will my health hold out?"
What are people thinking OF
me?"
Am I getting as good a deal
as I OBSERVER"
rs someone doing me dirt?"
How about that blunder I
made yesterday"
How about that job I've got
to tackle tomorrow"
Suppose I don't make the
grade-then what will happen"
Questions like these, and a
million more, are nagging all
of us-thickening in an iron
band about our tired brains
Juggling like quicksand at our
discouraged hearts. The trail
ahead grows blurred. Our speed
Slackens. We feel ourselves grow
weak.
STOP IT!
Stop looking-and swim!
There's a time for sensible
anxiety and proper calculation
but that time has passed. Now
you're in the thick of the battle
and there's just one thing to
do
STOP LooKING-AND
SWIM!
Forget the other fellow. For
get the past and the future.
There's one thing and one thing
only that will determine your
destiny now. And that's YOUR
PRESENT PERFORMANCE.
You've got a certain distance
to go. And there's just one
thing in the world that will
cover that distance for you, and
that's YOUR OWN FIGHTING
STROKE. Your own steady,
plucky, plugging on the job.
Plain advice? Maybe-but
believe me, plenty powerful!
And badly needed by about
121,000,000 in these United
States.
For we're all in an endurance
drive. Some Of us are going
to win out. Who? It won't
be the lads who waste them
selves on prophecies or prom
iSeS, frets or fancies, theories
or threats. It will be the lads
who have the sense and the
gumption to quit worrying and
stop looking-AND SWIM!
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-10
By Robert .BenchIey.

One of the chief requisites of
a good salesman today, next to
having something to sell, is the
ability to find customer. From
then on, things are pretty easy
sailing.
Finding a customer, and
knowing the secret of how to
approach him, is the new
Science of Salesmanship. Of
course, it always has been the
science of salesmanship, but it
is only recently that they have
spelled it with a capital g."
That comes extra.
The Phoenician traders, along
back in 1900 B. c., didn't know
anything about the reaction of
certain sales phrases on certain
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land in a great new pattern Of
work and destiny.
Looking backward over all
the great migrationS of human
kind, toward arabic land, the
life force which impels them
over mountains and deserts,
one sees something deeper
than brain trust economics
making the President crash
through paradoxical barriers
and drive toward abundance.
These three great western
dams together would make a
water area. as large as one of
the great lakes. With scientific
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n d.
Fitzpatrick managing
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I'll n u e S the
United States
will not have
a proper mer-
chant service.
The p a y
ment of sub
sides to ship
operators by
other nations
is extensive.
Although for
eign ships are
m a n n e d at
mich less eX-
penSe tn a n
American YES
sells, o t h e r
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about G e r.
trude Ederle
W h e n S h e
S W q m tn e
E n g ! i S h
Channel.
She was, as
you k n o W
t h e frs t
woman ever
to con quer
those tricky
waters. But
S h e wanted
to do more
than that
S h e wanted
"a hnof the
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say.
What they want is a carefully
governed system of subsidy pay
ment to worthy operators.
As long as criticism prevails
against subsidies in general,
however, they say there can be
little hope of establishing the
proper system.
Additional items from that
document which purports to be
a copy of excerpts from letters
to a certain Government agency
are:
"PIease find out if my hus-
band is dead. The man 1 am
living with won't eat anything
or do anything until he knows
for certain"
"You have changed my little
boy to little girl. Will that
make any difference"
"PIease send me my money at
once, as 1 need it badly. have
failed into error with my land
lady"
in accordance with your in
structiOnS / have given birth to
twins in the enclosed envelope"
"In answer to your letter 1
have given birth to a boy weigh
ing 10 pounds. l hope this is
satisfactory"
81 want my money as quick
as you can send it. 1 have been
in bed with the doctor for two
weeks and he doesn't seem to be
doing me much good. If things
do not improve will have to
send for another kind of doc
tor"
"Unless I get my husbands
money soon I will be forced to
lead an immortal life."
That spy system of Secretary
Ickes' is in evidence again.
The Secretary OF the Interior
must haze read all sorts OF
dime novels in his youth to be-
come so fond of espionage.
Dapper young men seated
themselves on chairs in Interior
elevators the other day. Al
though they paid little atten-
ton to anyone, their job was to
discover those who were riding
elevators unnecessarily.
1t had been reported that GER
tain employees. particularly mes
sengers and such, were riding
when they might walk from
floor to floor.
So the great Secretary or his
men put spies to work to de-
termine what employees COM
mitted the objectionable sin Of
riding when they might walk.
copyright, 1884. The Washington
Times)
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"She Quit Looking and Swan"
Often, when times have been
tough during these last years, I
think of that story they tell
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Advocates of an adequate
merchant marine, among them
high-ranking naval officers,
are graveIy perturbed at the
continued criticism Of ship sub
sides.
Certain officials are fearful
that as long as the clamor con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01
CANADIANS SEE BIG EXPENDITURE
Estimate Total to Be Spent on Waterways Near
 $I6O, 900, ,OOO

Montreal-(UP) - Exclusive or future expenditures for installation of power plants, the carrying out of the St Lawrence Waterways pro- ject will mean an expenditure. of an additional $16O,O00, 900 within Cam ada over a period of five years, 1t is estimated here.
 , Of this total for Canadian labor and Canadian materials, $55,OOO,- 900 will come from the United States as compensation for work alraedy done on the Welland Canal and other integral parts of the sys- tenn, by Canada.
 The share of Ontario in connec- ton with works fundamental to power development will be $67.. 100000, while the Dominion will pay out approximately $SS,O0O.000. Until such time as Ontario com- pletes the power developments, the Dominion, under the agreement, will finance that province's portion of the initial investment.
 Spread over five years. the un- dertaking will mean an average aIl- nual outlay of $32,0o0,0o6 in Cam ada.
 Of this amount, counting the labor cost of producing materials as well. as that directly engaged on the work, it is estimated that prob- ably $18,000,O0O per year will be added to Canada's payroll. This will be employment for approxi- mately 15,000 men for five years.
 For the Lachine section of the project the total cost is estimated at around $8,000,000.
 It is believed that there is no prospect, as hinted by President Roosevelt in his special message to congress, of Canada embarking on the plan as a domestic project.
 The cost of completing an all. Canadian route, in addition to ex- penditures to date of $128,000,000, is estimated at $450,000,000. And by treaty with the United States, Canadian canals on the Great Lakes-Seaway route must be open to United States shipping on the same terms as to Canadian, which means they must be free.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01

New York, Feb 1 (UP)--Now that tho American public has to pc re- educated in the tart" Of drink ing. the First International Beer ana Wine Show mas been organ ized. and will hold forth here for one week beginning February 19. If will be held at the Grand Central Palace, the huge gallery where the Automobile Show, the Motorboat Show and other such pageants are staged each year.
 Distilleru are included, so not only beer and wine, but whiskey, brandy, rum, and strange and ex- otic distilled drinks of many for- eign countries will be on display, not to mention American Apple jack and it's French counterpart called Calvados.
 Thus far, products of Spain, It. ally. France, England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Hungary, Bel gium. Australia, Argentina, South Africa, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, !, Chile and Cuba, have been entered for the show, besides a full dis play of United States wine, beer, whisky, brandy, and the like. Organization of the show began before actual repeal of tho 18th amendment. Hence the name did I not include digtlilers. whose activ- ities mainly became legal only after December 5.
 Primary a trade show--that is. intended to demonstrate how to sell beer, wine and liquor and teach the consumer to use 1t prop erly-the exhibit nevertheless will
 be open to the general public at fifty cents a head, and 1t is possible
 that to a limited extent sampling
 will be permitted.
 | Competent press-agents estimate in advance that there will be 10,-
 900 diffirent drinks on display at the show.
 The exhibit will include also many displays of drinking vessels, accessories, historical objects re- lating to the brewers, winners and distillers' arts, ancient bottles of maous beverages, and such. A cafe, where drinks may be bought, and said to be "the largest cafe ever operated" also will be on the premises. Advance notices make no mention of the famous longest bar in the world" which was ad- vertised frequently from many United States cities in past dec- ades, because New York state reg ulations still say it is unlawful to drink hard liquor standing up. Foreign liquors on display were permitted to be imported as sam ples" outside the quotas assigned to each country.
 The vintners have added an epi- curean touch to the show by de- signing medals to be awarded, both to amateurs and professionals, for the best menus submitted which combine wines and other drinks with foods. The amateur part of this activity is conducted by the Prandial society, an organization
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01
Huge Bonneville Dam
 Raises Power Problem

Salem, Ore-(UP)-Erection of the huge Bonneville dam across the Columbia river near Portland will create a problem of power distribution methods.
 The dam, erected at government expense, will produce electricity at a cheaper rate than anywhere elsc in the United states it is said. A considerable faction in oregon politics wants all distribution through publicly-owned transmits sion lines. A power amendment to the constitution provides the state may enter the power business.
 More conservative Oregonians, many of whom deplore construc- ton of the dam as q waste or money, insist that power must be distributed through existing pri- vate companies.
 The Bonneville dam spans the river where tide water meets the Cascage gorge. It will be 72 feet high, cost $31, 100000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01
First Aid Kits For
 CWAMen Passed Out
Twenty Distributed To-day to Places Where Forces
 Are Engaged Harris Seeks Further Allotment

These men were given instructions during the past two weeks by the local chapter of the Red Cross. This week, in addition, first aid at tendants from Prospect, Naugatuck and WoIcott will be trained by the Waterbury chapter of the Red Cross so that they will be on hand in order to render assistance to anybody injured pending the ar. rival of doctors or nurses.
 c. M. webp of this city is direc- tor of safety first work for the Waterbury district, which takes in Waterbury, Prospect, Wolcott and Naugatuck. He has seen to 1t that the kits have been properly set up. There will be no addition to the CWA groups to take care of the first aid duties. Instead. one man has been selected from each group and duly trained to handle emergency treatments in the event Cf injuries to CWA employees in his immediate locality.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01
Children Share In
 Estate Of Mother
Will of Late Catherine McGrath Admitted to Probate
 To=day-Priest Gets Request of S2OO

The will of the late Catherine McGrath of Adams street was ad- mitted to probate today by Judge Dennis J. Slavin. Judge John F. McGrath qualified as executor of the estate, which is shared by sev- eral surviving children and rela- tiyes. Bequests of $20O each are giv- en to grandcnildren, Mary Blondin and Rev Oliver Cronan. To Grace McGrath Garrity is given piano; Agnes Blondin, 0 daughter, re- ceives several articles of furniture; Mary Cronan, a sewing machine; Stella Miller, deceased. is men, toned for a parlor rug; Mrs Mar garet McGrath is to receive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01
Proper Drinking To
 Be Subject Of Show
Ten Thousand Different Drinks Will Be on ExfDlI in
 New York Beginning February l0

supposed to be constituted of very sincere eaters and drinkers from every walk of life. Gold, silver and bronze medals are offered 70 housewives for complete menus, including recipes for the various dishes, and the proper drink TOT each course.
 Awards to professional chefs are to be made by the Society of Res taurateurs.
 Menus must be in four sections. covering full days eating ana drinking, viz: Luncheon, Afternoon Bridge, Dinner. After-theater sup per. No award thus far has been offered for Aefore-breakfast pick me-uLG.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01

All local CWA crews were pro- fected with first aid equipment to- day. Late yesterday afternoon twenty first aid kits were received from state headquarters in Hart. ford and were in place today. The Kits were received by Adninistra- tor William NJ. Harris and follow ing formal inspection were distrib- rted to the various places where CWA forces are engaged.
 The 20 kits, however. arc no; sufficient to cover the entire num- ber of CWA projects now on in Waterbury and vicinity. A further shipment is expected and efforts along this line will be pushed by Administrator Harris.
 ; Of the 20 CWA projects to which the kits were distributed to- day there are trained first aid men
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01
Paris Health Survey
 Shows an Improvement

Paris (UP)-7Ffgures recently tabulated by the municipal health board indicate disease is on the decline here.
 Taking ten-day period recent ly, the report compared sos reg. istered deaths against an average of BPS for the corresponding peril ods during the past five years, de- spite a constant increase in the city's population.
 Sixty-three infants were still- born. Of 963 births, 470 were fe- males and 795 legitimate, only 50 per cent of the illegitimate chil- dren being avowed by their fathers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01
UDEr BUYS U. s. PLANE

Chicngo. tUP)--Major Ernst Udet, German war aeo and stunt pilot, whose speciality is picking handk9rchlefs from tho ground by means Of.a small hook on a lower wing, has purchased n high speed American pursuit ship which he will take back to aermnny. The ship ig 0werod with q TOO hOrne- pnW0r engine and develops e di< lns speed Of 1eo m.p.h.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-01

couch and Gertrude schulta, a communion set.
 Irhe residue of the estate is to be shared equally by Mary Cro- nan, Agnes Blondin, Stella Miller, Margaret Mccarthy, Grace Clarity, Robert and John McGrath or their heirs. The will was drawn and witnessed on May 25, 1881.
 The will of Giovanni Mancini was also admitted to probate to- day. Two children. Antoinetta De- Bellis and jennie Mancinl are to received legacies of $200 each, while the remainder Of the estate, is given to son, Lawrence. The latter is also named executor of the estate.