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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
Political Freedom Gained

Those ominous rumblings and crack lings in the foundations of the central European housenoId are at least giving us a new idea about the old Austro- Hungarian empire. During the war Austria Hungary provided one point upon which allied and neutral nations always seemed able to agree Whatever the terms of peace might include-Whether Poland should be freed, AIsace-Lorralne returned, Belgium re-established or the German colonies be given back - it at least was obvious that the Hapsburg empire must be broken up.
 The empire was a hodge-podge of peo- ples. It grouped Greats and Serbs, Czechs and Magyars, Germans, Ruman- ians and Italians, in one grand bundle, loosely tied together by allegiance to q common crown. Most of these nationall- ties were restless and unhappy. The rest lessness of the Serbs, indeed, had actually started the World War. Whatever else happened, the empire must be dissolved.
 We'll, the war finally ended, and the empire did indeed fall apart But the glorious new day of freedom dawned with black clouds banked where the sunrise should have been, and the clouds have been getting darker ever since. Political freedom was gained; but the people who gained it began to learn the sad lesson that political freedom does little good un- less it is accompanied by some sort ot economic freedom as we'll. The old en- pire did at least serve the purpose of com- n,erce, however much violence it may have done to the ideal of freedom Within its borders there was fair measure of eco- homie security. The interchange of goods and money could proceed unhampered
 When half dozen nations took the place of one, this economic freedom van- ished. Upon the inhabitants of the new countries deadly pressure began to de- velop. Its effect can be traced in Yugo- Slavian oppression of Greats, in pro-and anti-Nazi riots and murders in Austria i'll that dreadful Geath-strike of Hungarian coal miners.
 By now it has brought situation which is in the highest degree menacing to world peace. This is our heritage from the Yer sailles treaty. There was too much haste to establish political free dom, and too little thought to the econom- ics involved. Bad as it was, the old Austro-H Hungarian empire did have sound commercial base. By forgetting that little point, the peacemakers stored up vast amount of trouble for the world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
Natures Ways Impressive

Dr Allen R. DaFoe, the Ontario doctor who brought the famous Dionne quintu- plets into the world, seems to have had an excellent time on his vacation trip to New York, but the marvels of the nations greatest city do not seem to have inn pressed him overmuch Newspaper re- porters discovered that, while he was duly shown all the great sights, he found it ever so much more exciting to talk about the five little girls who have been his especial care for the last few months.
 The miracles of Manhattan, in fact, seem to have left him more or less cold; he has a miracle of his own to talk about, infinitely more impressive. And this, after all, is quite natural. Wealth and in- vention may combine to rear some sur prising wonders-but the miracles Mother Nature can achieve, when she sets her mind to it, make these look small. What is an Empire State building or a sky scraper skyline compared with five babies who all arrived at once?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
Ruthlessness Embitters

Ask any informed man what is the chief cause of the present unrest in Europe and he will tell you that it is the injustice and the stupidity of the postwar treaties. ASK him why, this being so, the treaties can't be revised, and he will remind you that the mutual suspicious and resentments bred by the war make 1t impossible These two questions, then, will bring you down to one of the most peculiar and dan gerous factors in modern life = the change that has come over the way in which na- tions wage war nowadays, and the price that has to be paid for it.
 The World War differed from it's pre- decessors not only in the fact that more countries and more soldiers were involved, but also in the fact that it was waged in a different spirit. The old restrictions on the desire to hurt ones enemy fell away. It speedily developed into fight in which, as they say of bar-room browl, anything went.
 No longer was the man in arms the sole target. Defenseless cities were bombed, over and over again, by both sides. Women, children, old men and lnvalldS were slain, as well as soldiers. Merchant ships were sunk without warning. Block ades were adopted, so rigorous that they condemned thousands upon thousands of ,non-combatants to malnutrition, disease, and death.
 \ Not since the world began to call itself civilized had there been so vicious kind of fighting as wa sadopted between 1914 and 1918. There were no fouls. Every thing was permissible. Things that would have mortified the whole world if they had been done in earlier wars were taken as matter of course.
 It was only natural that that kind of war should leave people with a greater heritage of bitterness and suspicion than previous wars bequeathed them. When the bitter experiences of four years teach you to look on your enemy as a fiend in- carnate, you don't forget about it over nieht. For years to come he remains the man who bombed hospitals and starved children and carried the war into your backward. And if you beat him, and the raacs freaties make him suffer = well, you're noe inclined to be very soft-hcarted
 This unquestionably explains much of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15

O.. What is the home address of Estelle Taylor. former wife of Jack Dempsey? A. Malibu Beach, Los Angeles, ! @. What is the retired rank of Admiral Sims?
 A. Rear admiral. i Q. How many horses were on farms in the United States at the beginning of l934?
 A. 11,942.000. lished about 1908. titled ''The Cry of the Children ?"
 A. Bessie Van Worst.
 Q. Name the capital of North ern Ireland.
 A. Belfast.
 0. What is the family name of the king of Ttaly? { A. Savoy.
 Q. How many representatives does California send to congress? :?
 A. Twenty.
 o. Name the senators from Pennsylvania in the next congress.
 A. Joseph Guffey was elected November 6, 1884, and James j.. Davis is the hold-over senator.
 0. Who wrote the novel Hard Cash"?
 o. What does in escrow mean A. A deed delivered to a stranger, to be delivered by him to the grantee upon the happening of certain conditions, which last delivery completes the transmits sion of title.
 0. Name the most southern city in the world.
 A. Punta Arenas. Chile. A port of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. named Usuaia Is south of Punta Arenas, but 1t is only small vil- lage.
 o. What was Mae Vests first screen appearance!
 A. She played in Might After Night" released late in 1892, with George Raft and Constance Cum mings in the leading roles.
 O. Does the N. R. A. code for domestic servants establish max imum hours and minimum wages?
 A. There is no N. R. A. code for domestic service.
 o. Where and when was Boris Karloff born?
 A. London, England, November 23, 1887.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
ChuckleCorner
CHIT CHATTER By Elizabeth Porter

It seems that Smithville too is having trouble with it's unions. A certain bride there sued her, hub by for divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. He made her eat her own cooking.
 And a young fellow over on Jones avenue complains that be- fore marriage his wife made a lot over him. Now she iS trying to make him over lot.
 But the single ones have double troubles. A Main street gold-dig- gor has discovered her fiance has no checks appeal. And she won't accept the shackles without the sheckies.
 While q Southside girl is suing for breach Of promise. We under stand she has her testimony letter perfect.
 The most pitifui figure in smith- vile Is the spinster who bought kiaspFoof ilpstick and hasn't had q chance to try it out. Some other girls who use it never set . chance to dry it out. r
 4 Parkalde youth nays he wishes his mother had Joined nudlst colony. Then she couldn't tls hlm to her apron .DirinGs'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
So They Say

Prior to prohibition on rare occasions only did we unescorted women imbibe cocktails in the afternoon, but since repeal at least 50 per cent of patrons have been women.
 Oscar of the Waldorf Nobody kid me about my beauty. I've looked at this pan too many times.
 -Claudette Colbert don't care for pie, cake candy, but do like spinach
 Doris Louise Paul of Wilton Junction, Ia, a tional All health champion.
 No man look out upon present life and think of the tomorrow without being aware of the terrific upsurge of the forces of evil. pr Albert w. Beaven, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15

Herman Oliphant, erudite adviser to Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, keeps his residene a complete mystery. No one knows where he lives except his secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS
 The House Military Affairs Committee, secretly probing War Department contract = letting methods, has obtained some sem sational testimony. Members of the committee say privately that if further investigation substan- tiates the charges, 1t will mean the scalp of one, and perhaps two, high-ranking army officers. .. Philip Young, son of Owen D. Young, water power and electric company magnate, is d $2,O0O a year clerk on the staff of the Stock Exchange Commis- sion. A graduate of Harvard business college. Young got his job by merit Vice.. President Jack Garner has notified sen- ate democratic leaders that he will countenance no attempt to unseat New Mcxico's independent republican, Bronson Cutting in favor of his unsuccessful demo- cratic opponent-now claiming the election. Georgia's grave spoken Senator Walter George has also voiced sharp disapproval of any partisan attempt to chal- lenge Cuttings right to his seat. HOT.C DRIVE
 Pittsburgh's Representative Henry Ellenbogen is preparing to lead the drive for $3,000,0O0,OOO more money for the Home Own CTS Loan Corporation. The HOLC recently announced it would re. ceive enough money left in its exchequer to meet loan demands already on file. Members of con- gress have been deluged with protests against this action. and there is strong sentiment for an additional HOLC appropriation 4. Joe Guffey, new senator from Pennsylvania, took no chances on the arrival of his election certificate. He person. ally delivered 1t to Vice-Presi- NNAe NSs~A ASA 1CAASAa ai A1uRt Johnson's former personal of- fices in the MIRA are now vast ly different. The present oc- cupant, s. Clay Williams, has had removed the heavy drapes, ori- ental rugs, gee-gaws and what nots. that Miss "Robby" Robin- son installed. In their place are a few bright colored PWA paint ings, and businesslike chairs and desks.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15

Washington, Dec 15.-Bonus payment advocates are losing no time in getting their ball rolling on Capitol Hill. The Veterans of Foreign Wars already have a lobby working on incoming mem bers Democratic casu- alties in the recent Congression- al election are banging on ad- ministration doors for appointive berths. Two Missourains, Ralph Lozier and James E. Ruffin, are after places on the U. $. tariff commission and an assistant att torney generalship Curtis B. Dall, former son-in-law of the president, has abandoned the brokerage business to devote all his time to the Distillers and Brewers Corporation, of which he is a director. The company both manufacturers and imports liquor Minnesota's ex-con- vict former Representative Fran cis Shoemaker has told friends that he is going into the news paper publishing business in Du- luth. He will prepare to run against Senator Tom Schall when that yio1ent-worded Old Guard CT comes up for reelection in 1886. Heavy-set Bertrand WFesley Gearhart, new republi-' can representative from southern California, comes to Washington with q unique distinction. Forty four years old, an overseas vet eran. and former State Ameri- can Legion commander, he was elected without opposition, being supported by both republicans and democrats.
 GOOD PRICE
 General Johnson's much-her- aided book will be published sometime in March. Before that, it will come out in eight in- ing Post beginning in early in January. Johnson is getting money from the Post rivalling that paid Calvin Coolidge. He has rewritten the book four times and taken a lot of the spice out, though 1t still contains some indirect criticism of the Presi- dent Katrina Mccormick, daughter of staunch republican Mrs Ruth ' Hanna Mccormick Simms, attended Mrs Roosevelt's masquerade party attired as Greta Garbo. On her back was a placard: II tank I go home, it bane gettin' stuffy here" EZRA officials say they are still waiting to get Senator Borah's specific charges against its ad- ministratoin of relief. More than a month has passed since he threw a bombshell into the EZRA camp, but the promised detailed charges have not ma terialized. EZRA officials are accustomed to strange requests for relief, but one of the strang- est came from Russian citizen residing in the Volga Basin ask ing aid for his family State Department dispatches from Bucharest report that American firms doing business in Ru- mania have to pay a commits sion to Madame Lupescu, titan haired friend of King Carol .. Alice Roosevelt Longworth re- fers to some of the spinster la dies, friends of her cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, as ''The Fe- male Impersonators." MIFFED
 Friends of Senator Royal S. Copeland report that he is plan ming to offer a new pure food
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
Press Comment
TEACHERS AND rIREs1EN
tMeriden JournaD

In asking their board to restore paycuts and resume automatic sal- ary increases, Hartford school tecahers said:
 The average pay for teachers is now less than that of the fire men of the city. We believe that the firemen are underpaid; but surely it ds true that teachers. with years of expensive and specialized preparation to their credit, deserve the higher wage."
 That was an unfortunate com parison. In a city of Hartford's s size, the firemen should be and probably are, carefully chosen and properly trained and are subjected to gruelling battles with the fire demon that might at any time cost them their lives or cripple them for life. There is no comparison with the nicer lives of the teachers. many of whom were educated at public expense, and who have ten weeks of vacation every year.
 Teachers should get all that c city can afford to pay them but it was foolish to base their plea for moro on an implied superiority to q city department which performs the highest possible type of serv- ice, when not wrecked by the poll. ticiane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
In To-day's Mail
  : Anonymous letters will not he accepted unless accompanied with writer's name.
What a Difference . Few Years
 Makes, Says Bonus Defender
Editor, the Democrat:--

Editor, the Democrat:--
 President Roosevelt has orr
 dered the drafting of legislation
 to take the profits out Of war.
 Senator Gerald D. Nye has been
 conducting an investigation into the wartime profits. The idea is
 not new. It originated with the
 American Legion about 12 years ago.
 The president believes the bonus agitation goes back to the fact that doughboys in the trenches were underpaid. Irenee Du Pont nov comes out with an admission that the doughboys ought to get moro than $1 a day. Du POnt thinks 1t about time that something was done to compensate those who gave their all.
 In time of war 1t Is the young men that are sent to do the fight ing. There are many reasons for this. The young are filled with more idealism and patriotism. They are more susceptible to propagan- da manufactured by mercenary in- terests. They are better physically equipped to withstand the hard ships and dangers of warfare. They can be handled more easily and they do not bargain for high wages. They pay the highest price in return for loss of health, limb
 and life. If they escape these they suffer loss of career. The
 majority of them are unable to re- adjust themselves or take up where they left off. They have burned up so much of their nervous energy that they become old long before their normal time.
 They come out of the war finan- cially broke. Many find their for mer jobs gone. They form into veteran organizations and event. lualiy become strong enough to gain proper recognition: They realize that the last war was nothing but a great big grab bag under the pseudonym of democracy. Before going off to war-let's
 skip it-but now they are called
 Treasury raiders, unpatriotic, spe- cial privilege seekers, they've even been called buns. What differ ence just Q few years makes. SEYAH TREBOR. Waterbury, Dec 14th, 1884.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
Flying Hazards Worldwide

When the United States army under took to fly the air mail, during that emergency period of unpleasant memory, the citizens generally were profoundly shocked at the number of deaths that en- sued. Not only was this loss of fine young men tragic thing; it seemed to hint that our air force was imperfectly trained and inadequately equipped. However, it is evident that by comparison with other na- tions' air forces the American army fly CTS take care of themselves pretty we'll.
 When bombing plane of the Royal Air Force crashed near Birmingham, Eng land, the other day, killing three men, it brought the Royal Air Forces casulaty list for the year to 32. Such total may not be scandalously high, but it does indi- cate that military aviation is an affair of abnormal risks under event the best of circumstances, and that our army flying corps may have better record, compar atively, than we supposed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15

While many are referring this year to a streamlined Christmas Santa Claus has not thinned down any. His figure seems to be of the same round and plump pro- portions and his calories are evidently worrying him not bit. They do say, though, that the toys in his pack are streamlined; but streamlined or not, see if the youngsters care when they start the opening process Christmas morning. Each year some new intriguing toys are added to what seemed the year before com plete assortment. Mechanical ingenious ness has reached new heights in devising trains and locomotive toys that twenty years ago looked pretty good in that me- chanical age. Dolls walked and talked years ago, but today they walk and talk better Trains and automobiles scooted along years ago, but have you seen them whizz by this winter of 1884? If you have not as the saying goes, you ain't seen nothin', in this era of streamlined perfection.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15

Q. Has Henry Ford a middle name?
 A. No.
 o. How-~fs the population of Italy divided as to Roman Cath olics and Protestants?
 A. Moman Catholics constitute 99.6 per cent, and there are 82, ,481 Protestants of many denomina- tions.
 0. Can the name of a corpora+ tiontion or other business firm be copyrighted?
 A. No.
 o. What is the relation between the king of Great Britain and the former German kaiser.
 A. First cousins. The kaiser's mother and King Georges father were sister and brother.
 If you want copy of our bul- Ietin TOwe (tl1c new cariati0n of Contract Bridgc), write to the Wa terbury Democrats Washington Bureau, enclosing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15

and drug bill at the coming ses- sion. Miffed at what he consid- CTS was a presidential snub dur ing the recent election, however. theS carnation-wearing New Yorker will not consult with ad- ministration authorities on the legislation, intends going it alone There are three members of the senate who have a unique association. MiSsouris youthful Senator Bennett Clark as boy used to visit the House, over which his father, Champ Clark, presided as speaker, and sit on the laps of Utah's William King and Illinois J. Ham" Lewis, then members of the House, now senate colleagues of Clark Huey Long is considering taking his time about coming back to the senate. Word has come from that the Kingfish plans to make his entry after the ses- sion gets into full swing -. The whisper has permeated Me- braska circles that Harry Coffee, wealthy, young newly-elected representative from the western part of the state, is the choice of democratic boss Arthur Mullen If Senator George Norris de- cides not to run again in 1936. Coffee, it is said, is to be "built up" during the next IS months as a prospective senatorial candi- date. CONTEMPORARIES
 David Lynn, capital architect; is a trifle shocked by the marble figures of Chief Justice Hughes and Elihu Root done in the frieze of the new Supreme Court building. They are clad after the manner of the Greeks. No frock coats, or top hats mar the sym metry of the human form. '"The
 less said about 1t the better,"
 says Mir Lynn .. A Cleve- lander who has been in the hous-
 ing business for many years,
 wrote to wealthy Jimmy Moffett,
 FILA chief, as follows: "I will
 give you a little inside dope on the building industry if you will give me a ride on your yacht"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
A Book a Day
Hire a Gigolo, Lady, This Doctor Advises
BY BRUCE CAPTION

If you are a woman, middle aged and possessed of spare time, ample funds, and cue of those ter nally-busy husbands, 1t might be a very good thing for you to hire a gigolo.
 This rather startling advice comes from a prominent New York psychiatrist, Dr w.. Beran Wolfe. He makes it his new book, "A Woman's Best Years" and it is only one of the many unorthodox suggestions he makes to women who feel that they are approaching the dangerous age" To be sure, he warns gigoIo- hirers to keep both eyes open and make the gigolo stick strictly to his professional duties. But his suggestion is merely part of his general thesis-that the middle aged woman has the best part of her life ahead of her, and that she is entitled to take advantage of 1t in any way she chooses, so long as she doesn't harm anyone else.
 Among other bits of advice arc the following:
 Never discuss your past with your husband, and if you have been unfaithful to him never tell him a thing about 1t.
 If your husband is stepping out with somebody else, don't let on that you know 1t: instead. go to work and beat the other woman at her own game.
 The dangerous age" is mostly talk, and any woman can get through the supposedly difficult middle years without any trouble, if she follows the proper medical advice.
 All in aii, Dr Wolfe has writ ten q daring and refreshingly 0ut- spoken book which. imagine, many women will want to read. Published by Long and Smith. il sells for e2.26.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15

the reluctance of the victorious nations to consider a revision of the treaties. And this psychological twist is worth remem- bering. Military men everywhere are taking it for granted that the next war will be fought as the last one was-with- out rules. We should not let ourselves forget that that kind of fighting calls for heavy price to be paid after the actual conflict has ended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
Selected Poem
SKATERS

(By Marion Doyle in The New York Times) Around the crescent curve they come, The dark ice rumbling like a drum Beneath the onslaught of the blades. A rataplan that rolls and fades And rolls again with silvery clink As others join 1t at the brink, Until the surface of the river Protests, it's voice n creaky quiver. With many a daring convolution, Gargantuan and Liliiputian Designs are etched upon the ice That seems Just made for such device. 1T one came after all had gone TO read tho legends cut thereon, He could be reasonably sure Of Winters own bold signature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-15
PIG AND KITTEN PALS

Union, Me.-luP)-This little pig Is content to stay at home and sleep with its newly acquired friend. Because the little pig was not strong as the rest of tho litter James Griffin, its owner built Q separate pen in q horse stall. A kitten visits the stall each day for itB meal, then the two crawl Into ( box and sieep it efe