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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
new SCHOOL
FOR URUGUAY
100000 Francs ApprO-
priated to Enlarge
French Lycee

Paris (UP).-An appropriation
of 100000 francs has been sug-
gested for the ministry OF foreign
affairs to be used In the enlarge
ment of the French Lyce al
Montevideo, Uruguay.
The sum would be liquidated In
Is annual credits of 10000 francs
arranged through the commission
of finances to permit the minis
try of foreign affairs successfully
to carry out the building project
In the bill suggesting this enter
prise, 1t Is stated that the French
Lycee in Montevideo has shown
remarkable development since its
organization and Its facilities
hardly are In keeping with the de-
mands being made upon 1t al
present. The Lycee was created In
1922.
Recently it was stated that the
school now numbers 1000 stu
branches, with 1000 regular stu
dents, most of whom belong to
some of the most representative
Uruguayan families.
The bill describes the quick
growth of the school, and the de-
tendencies which were necessary
to be taken in to provide places
for the students and for gymnas-
tic exercises.
The new appropriation would
provide for the purchase of an
adequate sized piece of ground
and for the erection Of a new
building fulfilling all the require
mentS.
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to keep the plague from their COM
munity. A belt of brush fire was
set around the village and guards
stopped any stranger who tried to
enter the valley.
Homesick Peasant Was Carrier
One of the peasants, certain
Karl Schisler, was employed in a
neighboring village. Becoming
homesick, he eluded the guards one
moonless night and visited his
wife and children. Immediately
the village was stricken. Forty
eight peasants died and the dis
ease contianued to spread. The
village council then gathered In
the church and made the historic
vow. which, despite the fact that
wars have disrupted its regular
schedule, has been Kept now for
three centuries. From the hour OF
the vow, says the record, no one
died of the Black Death in Ober-
ammergau.
The new prologue this year will
show Karl Schisler's return to his
family and the ensuing terror
among the peasants. Surrounded
by scenes -of horror, Schisler IL
plunged in remorse for having
brought calamity upon his friends.
Finally, In q vision. he learns he
may save the village. He directs
his son to carry wooden crucifix
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TOWN CYCLE

Rod said tht was too bad ana
Pete looked at him searchingly.
The look put Rod into a divine
bed with a lump mattress and
three warm, dirty blankets. This
haven--the small back room Of the
shop-was to be his home until
Pete came back from Syracuse the
following day. Rod had nothing to
do but keep the shop open at the
usual hours. Pete locked up the
good cigars.
Rod bolted the shop door at mid
night and looked around his Sleep
ing quarters with a deep-drawn
sigh Of satisfaction. On a table in
the corner were half a loaf Of stale
bread and a hard slab Of cheese.
He sat on the bed, eating an
enormous sandwich and rejecting
on the life and character Of Pete
Massey--who. as everybody knew,
had a tidy little fortune in spite
of the fact that he elected to live
in hole like this.
+ But the hole was paradise for
Rod. He slipped under the three
warm, dirty blankets in q mood At
for a saint--or at least, for sue
cesSful sinner.
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But the man ahead was glancing
suddenly at his wrist watch. Evil
IDENTIFY the time of day had a
Significance which changed his
plans. He made O. quick, impatient
gesture-hailed cab-and flung
the scarcely smoked cigarette to
the street.
1t scared in a grief and dazzling
arc. Its glowing tip was bright
against the curb. Rod Lewis gave
one quick, shamed look to right
and Ieft--then he went after 1t.
But the wind was bent on yet
another malicious trick that night.
Rod Lewis cursed. miserably. under
his breath. The cigarette was
swept along the curb to a filthy
little river of milk--and its brigh.
spark quenched. Rods cropping
hand encountered broken bits of
glass and then - unbelievably--a
round, smooth, hard object lying
on the street against the curb.
A nickel. And nickel can be a
shield against fate itself-for five
minutes or more.
Rod sat at q rough pine table
in Mikes place, Weighing the adj
vantages of q cup of coffee against
the advantages of a fve-cent ham
burger. The door opened and an
amiable drunk came into Mikes
Place-with him that nipping cold.
Rod ordered coffee.
AFTER TWO GULPS
HE STOPPED SHIVERING
After two gulps of that coffee
Rod stopped shivering. He was
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THE END.

to the churchyard. The unhappy
villagers troop from the houses to
follow the cross. Then comes the
miracle. The wooden Christ
speaks the seven words of the
cross: my God. why hast thou
forsaken me?" The village elders
make their vows and music closes
the pageant.
Biblical Boards Now Flowing
Following this prologue, says
the Reviews OF Reviews article, the
regular Passion Play will be pre-
scented with much the same cast as
that Of 1890. The eight-ifour per-
Torrance will have eighteen scenes
and twenty-five tableaux, together
with choral and instrumental mu-
sic. The 500 performers will use
no makeup, but hair and boards
have been cultivated for months
past. The whole village, number
ing 1000 souls. has become a play
shop in preparation for the man.
moth spectacle, which opens May
9th and runs through to Septem-
ber 18th. ~
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Passion Play To Be
Given New Prologue
Addition to Oberammergau Presentation Arranged
To Depict Villagers Delverance From Plague

New York The presentation
of the Passion Play at Oberam-
mergau this ummer, celebrating
the 300th anniversary Of the orig
inal production, will be marked
for the first time by the addition
Of a prologue depicting the scenes
which, during the plague of the
Black Death, led the villagers to
make their vow to present the
play once every. decade forever.
A description Of the prologue is
published in the current issue Of
the Review of Reviews.
The Black Death, following in
the wake of the Thirty Years War.
ragged through Europe, sweeping
away entire communities. Some
800 peasants, wood carvers and
farmers. living in the Bavarian viii
lage of Oberammergau, determined
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warm and filled with deiectable
scent of onions and frying meat.
Rod jerked his eyes away from the
hamburger on the grill.
The amiable, round-faced drunk
lurched by, stumbled and thrust
out his hand for support. Rods
table saved him q fall--but lodged
q long splinter in his thumb. He
spread out his hand and looked at
his thumb with an owlish inten-
sity.. Then his eyes searched fol-
sympathy.
"Hell of thing to happen" he
said to Rod. Hell of q thing!"
"Yeah," said Rod, over the last
good drops of his coffee. "Sure is
"Knew man - knew man that
died. said the round faced man
gravely, staring at his thumb
"Just from q thing like this
"Here," said Rod, good-hu
moredly. "I'll take 1t out"
His fingernails were sharp. He
tok hold of the head of the
splinter and pulled 1t out deftly.
A trained nurse in one of the up
town hospitals might have shud.
dered-but the round-faced drunk
was grateful.
Rod fingered the quarter which
the man had given him. Well,
thought Rod shamefacedly, you
pay dentist for taking out a
tooth--the same way this guy had
him for taking out his splinter.
That didn't make a panhandler out
of him.
He had another cup of coffee
and a dimes worth of hamburger
on plate--with q couple Of yes
terday's rolls.
He paid his bill in quite a lordly
manner and pulled his old hat
down over one eye. He had a dime
left for cigarettes.
He went over to old Pete Mas
seys tobacco shop on Second Ave-
nue.. He'd given the old skinfint a
lot of trade in the past--now he'd
feel justified in hanging around
and talking to Pete, and thereby
keeping warm.
He took the first beautiful drag
Of smoke down into his lungs. Then
he grinned at old Pete Massey
through a gray screen. He and
Pote both cam from Syracuse
Pete had gone as far as the sew
enth grade with Rods father away
back when. But that didn't mean
that Rod could ever have chiseled
dime out Of Pete. Pete wasn't
like that.
"How's tricks" said Rod.
This is a hell OF thing" NUT
tered Pete.
"You got a splinter in your
thumb"
"CUT THAT" SAID
PETE IRASCIBLY
"Cut that" said Pete irascibly.
II got my old mother. dyin' in Sy-
racuse."
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THE DEMOCRATS
Daily Short Story
Complete in This Issue

nitely not hidden in old Pete
Massey's mattress-and gave II up.
He sauntered down Second Ave-
nue., two days later, wonderfully
protected against the sharp m02th
of February. He was trying to
make up hts mind about the res
taurant he'd patronize. He paused
on the sidewalk, drawing out of his
pocket a large fat silver case. He
selected a 'cigarette and lit 1t. cup
ping his hand about the match
flame. He, had couple OF drags
on the cigarette-then he saw q
grill he knew. And she wasn't a
bad looking girl. Her name, he re-
membered, was Harriet.
SO ne hurried forward. But first
he flung his cigarette away. 1t
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eaudy reputation accorded him by
the press. And even the press had
to admit that Sanford had come
upon lean days. Otherwise he'd not
have bothered with old Pete Mas
sey's problematical fortune-hid-
den, It was erroneously rumored, In
old Pete's dirty mattress.
THIS JOB SHOULD HAVE
BEEN A PUSHOVER
This Job should have been a
pushover. Irony for the terrible
Sanford that Rod Lewis should
have been lying in the old mans
bed. Before there could be any
gunplay Rod had him by the throat
had him pinioned then, while his
gun was taken away from him like
q child's toy.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
VALUE OF X-RAY
FORUM LECTURE

DR. Samuel Atkins spoke on 1.-THE
Mystery of x-Rays" at the Y
Forum last night. He illustrated
his lecture with a number Of slides.
The value Of x-ray in diagnosis
and treatment Of disease Is increas-
ing every day, he declared. It is
still in It's infancy but new uses
for It's detective ability arise con-
stantly, he explained.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
By JOSEPHINE BENTHAM

HE wedressed stranger paused long enough to draw
fiat silver from his pocket select cigarette from
that case and light the cgarettecuppng the match fame
against cold, knfe-edged wind.
Rod Lewis, chancedriven paper in the gutter,
was walking behind this man-and made miserable
than by consuming envy of the silver and its
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Here and THERE Fart Blanchard of Leaven-
acorh hgh rendered most interesting address before
the b. Y p IT, of the First Baptist church yesterday
Mike Donovon of the Thomdston Donovdn's, latest
trippimg the kght fantastic big avay, they tell u.s.
Leo Legendre, local salesman, has applied for
license at Hartford to a0ed Mary Laug of that toao
haze taken up residence ON Hillside avenue. Welcome
friends to our fair city, Francis Kudirkd, Nancy
Rogers and Ruth Won Bonae, Wibytes discussing the
Dossible design for the class ring outside the school
building And a little further array is Matilda
Capobianco the hustng Nesos correspondent, 0egedv
coLlecting material for the meet edition. Winnie
Phelan Ktested to NeU HGven ThNrsdGy night to catch
Lou Bros6ard scs ten round decision from Bob DIN.
Good Night
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: In your neacs about
tows notice you mever mention little Jack McCGrthy.
There's q little chap Oho with the help Of Charles
Leader, Doc Reed and Erving Tarly is uing battle
over at the the pool and the gym floor daily and
it looks to though his battle IS almost Oon. We
here's hoping you do a0i, Jack and you get as good
build as y0ur iastructor-A "Y" Booster.
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Good Evening.
CROCUSES

Crocuses yellow, purple, white,
Blossomed suddenly over night.
For days my eyes have strained to focus
On the first spring blossom, the little crocus.
Other plants are just above ground
And in the woods pussy-willow is found.
Crocuses yellow, purple, white,
Blossomed suddenly over night.
EN-. En-.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Editor Tall Tower Topics: Through your column we
wish to congratulate the members of the washington h
basketball team in again winning the championship They
have the finest and fastest teams in the CITY, This
team has played together for the past four years They have
been faithfully watched and coached by Miss Kathleen
Crowley director of the Waterbury Girls Club The team
is composed of forwards Peg Danaher highest scorer in
jump center, Mary Birmingham, Wildly High athlete Kay
Byron fast and lively side CENTER guards Carolyn Pollard
former Crosby basketball captain in 49, Teda Venturena
Followers
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Answers to Previous Questions
THE first cows to come to
= America were raised princi.'
pally for their hides, then for
their meat and only incidentally
for milk. The American Legion
IL one Of tho few organizations
TO Be incorporated BY special act
Of Congress. Sept. 16. 1919.
Although gold was discovered In
1S42. no real Importance was At
taehed to this event until early
IN 1S4S, when II vas "discovercd
asaIn.
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An appeal to the generous fathers and mothers of
Wnterbury . . only the mere fact that we knoD Wa
terbury Is the home of those who most soctoms of
their feoWmem gves the Toner the courage to broad
cast 80 mann appeas for help Another sad has
been referred to this department. It's q large family
acith means so limited to constitute almost nothing
Can me beg borrow steal carriage taOn one
II one Is obtainable? Call the Toner if you aid
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

The ratIike creature Of a night
mare assumed definite shape and
substance as Rod, starting up in
his bed, saw the door to the back
room opening slowly; the sounds
which had prompted his dream be-
come the actual soft footsteps of
the terrible Sanford.
= Rod never understood - after
ward--how a man SO slight, SO
shifty-eyed and so altogether con-
temptible could have won the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
The Principal Character in
''TOwn Cycle"

ROD LEWIS, who Is young,
healthy and broke but who Is
not at all ready or willing 10
give up the struggle for exist
ence.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Brother Can you spare dollar for cup of coffee?
And what cup of coffee that must be. Guess "Hadde
Camphor" should advertise that brand Well, anyway the
days Of the floating brothers" giving touch in the
streets numbered in New York city if the officials have
the right dea They have established "Beggars Clinic
and propose print millions of tickets and distribute them
to citizens who believe in working for living If fellow
him ticket which will direct him to the clinic and they
will listen his story If it's food he needs he is fed if it's
clothes he gets cothes and it's work. they may be able to
if they afflicted with contagious diseases and isolate
them in places where they will be safe and not harng in
nocent victims. Sounds like good idea for scientifically
handling fes unfortunates. Perhaps will be rescued
from the ash heahe lazy and INDECENT will be put to work
on something productive-the weak and the lame will
ceve proper medical is just another sample of the
good that be accomplished in this world if people would
only crawl out of their shell of esnes and do something
to help their brothers Indirectly they helping them
selves because you eradicate the vice Of beggng which is
something despised by the worst of Maybe this wouldn't
be bad idea for Waterbury, Only thing Pm afraid Of
might pass the pawn ticket best suit the raus
jewels. Then what! Page Joe Stevens and the boys.
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young and healthy--he hadn't been
broke long and a cup Of coffee
could do q lot.
He drank the rest Of It very
slowly--dawdled over 1t as II he'd
been at the Ritz. The room was
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Along Bank street canyon.

Along Bank street canyon Mrs John Marshall
Mcmahon wife of the genial buecoa convaescng at St
Mary's hospital Rev William Brewer of St Peters
church. Naugatuck, who has been patient at st Marys
hospital for the past week. left for Hartford Sunday to
spend few days recuperang before returning to his bor
ough duties the latter part of the week.. Waterbury
will send several delegates to the state meeting of Italian
American World Veterans in New Britain Sunday April
20. Lillian Roberts of Thomaston, past county presi-
dent of the state auxares of " F. w. guest of the
Hartford district at a meeting Sunday in Bristol +.
Margaret Dee of the same town also attended. Rev
Matthew j. TraynOr former pastor of st Mchaels church
in Waerve and Rev David Hutchinson native of this city
who at present stationed in New Britain guests at
the 10Th annual banquet of the New Britain Catholic Daug
tiers of America last night The Phathea class of the
First Baptist church will meet tomorrow night at the home
of Mrs Isbe in Naugatuck Jack Hahn and Bob Jack
son plan take Kaceys dinner dance Wavery Inn
May /. jim Gibson of Torrington has returned to st
Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield after spending the greater
part of the Easter here the guest of Jim Carr
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

He tied Sanford TO the bedpost
with an old trunk-strap. Then he
called the police.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Editor, Tall ToaOer Topics: Introducing some pro-
verbal antony1ns Look before you ledp-He aOho
hesitates is lost. rolling stone gathers moss
The bees that get the honey don't hang around the hve
An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth-Do good
for eviL Everything comes to him a0ho e0aits-
Time and tide a0ait for man, stitch IN time
nine-Never too late to mend-Many hands make
light a0ork-Too many cooks spoil the broth-Rome
aUas not built in INSTRUMENTATION is the thief of
time. .. So What! Little Joe, the Thinker.
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Who was the first woman to
fly around the world in an air.
ship?
What was the first American
ship to be lost in the World
War?
When did the U. s. first as.
sumo control OF immigration?
Answers in next issue.
Evening star., 1934-10-05
453,406 TOURISTS
VISIT GETTYSBURG
National Parks Service Says
This Is Banner Year for
Travel Guests.

Cp to Gettysburg, Pa, National
Cemetery during the year that closed
Yesterday, 453, ,406 visitors came to see
the famous old battle-ground that
marked one of the stirring Civil War
battles. the National Park Service to-
DAY announced in recounting that this
has been a banner year for travel in
the parks. with 25 per cent more visi-
tors than in the preceding II months.
Gettysburg National Military Park
was host to 298629. Since January !,
a total of 35973 we're guests at the
Antietam battlefelds in Maryland,
while Fort McHenry at Baltimore,
where the warfare inspired the writ
Ing of The Star Spangled Banner"
attracted 274,000. Because the Ma
tlonal Park Service has taken over
these groups only recently, under
President Roosevelt's reorganization,
there are no comparative figures for
1893.
Hot Springs. Ark. summoned 205,-
565 Compa red with Isl 638 in 1888: the
Colonial National Monument in Vir-
glnIa brought 58,283 against 66,4l8 in
the preceding year; Fort Donelson
National Military Park in Tennessee
entertained 27127; Vicksburg National
Military Park in Mississippi 2l6,000
and Fort Marion. Fla, 94988.
Thirteen parks, mainly in the West
attracted 1,739894 against 1.401 ,612.
Each of the parks showed a gain.
This was National Park Year"
stimulated by Secretary Ickes and
authorities of the National Park Ser
vice. This, and the fact that times
are described as getting better; lower
ed railroad rates and a greater number
of automobiles were held responsible
for the squirt in park travel.
Evening star., 1934-10-05
DEMOCRATS BLAMED
FOR BANKING CRISIS
Joslin, in Article, Contends With
Roosevelt Aid Holiday Could
Have Been Averted.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 5.-Criti-
cizing President Roosevelt for al.
legedly failing to cooperate with
Herbert Hoover during the last fouI
months of the latter's administra-
tion, Theodore Joslin, in the Novem-
Der Red Book, accuses the Democrats
of deliberately permitting the bank.
ing crisis of 1882.
In another of his articles on Hoo
yer Of the Record" the former
Presidents secretary tells of what
went on IN the White House just be-
fore Mr.. Roosevelts Inauguration.
Joslin contends that with Mr.
Roosevelt helping. the bank holiday
could have been averted.
The public may not realize it." ht
writes. "but political party gets ac.
curate information about the opposite
political party, just as an army ir
time of war gets information about
the enemy
About this time we got such in
Evening star., 1934-10-05

formation regarding the attitude Of
the incoming administration.
Joslin then gives the message, with
names deleted:
- - had lunch with me. He
said they (the Democrats) were fully
aware of the banking situation, ard
that the system undoubtedly would
collapse within a few days, which.
would place the responsibility n the
lap OF President Hoover.
I'VE should worry he said. about
anything excepting rehabilitation of
the country after March 4. Then
there will be several moves: No. /
An embargo on the expectation of
yellow chips. No. 2-Suspension of
specie payments. No. 3-Reflation, If
necessary, after No. l and No. o."
Evening star., 1934-10-05
SOLDIER SLAIN IN CAR

SAN FRANCISCO, October (P)-
Shot in the head and chest, Roy v.
Lockwood, 35, Medical Corps private
of the United States Army, was found
dead in his automobile here last night
by police who responded to mys-
terious telephone call.
The automobile was parked among
Evening star., 1934-10-05
No Pupils but Teacher Paid

N1ANAWA Wis GP)-When Os-
trander rural school opened this Fall
two pupils enrolled. but after tWc
weeks transferred The teacher how
ever continued to make his daily trip
The voters finally took up the sub
ject. closed the school and settled the
teachers $500 contract for S4OO
Evening star., 1934-10-05
Canadian Architect Dies.

TORONTO, October 5 (P.-Henry
Sproatt, noted Canadian architect
died Wednesday after brief illness
He was So years of age He was recog-
nized as an authority on Gothic struc-
lures.
Evening star., 1934-10-05

remarkable high-speed photograph Of mourn
ing dove Just starting a flight. This photograph made
in so OOOh of second, taken by Prof. Harold K.
Edgerton and Kenneth J. Germeshausen OF the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology 1t reveals in
detail the position of the primary and secondary
feathers of the wings in fast downward stroke as
Evening star., 1934-10-05

sand dunes In a sparsely settled resi-
dental section near the ocean and Of
ficers declared that Lockwood had un-
questionably been taken for a ride"
and slain.
Evening star., 1934-10-05

the dove sought to gain altitude Note the feathers
overlap to the passage of air through the wing
On an upstroke the primary and secondary feathers
rotated slightly to allow air to pass through thus
reducing air resistance The photograph made
with electrical circuit which produces instanta
flash of great brillancy. Wide World Photo.