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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-12
Halt In Huge Plants
 Would Affect Millions

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-12

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The Washington times., 1934-02-23

These five members Of the Brockenhurst Manor Golf Club
who from left to right Captain Cecil Sutton
man. R. G. G. Ponsonby F. E. Wmot Sitwell and E. W. st.
George Spencer may interest you slightly because their
average height feet five inches The aest them
six feet six and half inches.
There is doubt that the human whole is get
ting taller and stronger well living longer Human
beings know about their interior machinery than
they used to- eat and drink temporarily
open air frequently and the practice medicine has
changed from superstition to science.
In the old days, when all five would have gone
the army to fight their height would have been dangerous
Every inch added to height meant greater chance being
hit by bullet the recent historical period by or
javelin in the earlier days.
Napoleon had been six feet five there no doubt that
he would have been killed several times before anybody ever
heard of him. But he short little man. and bullets that
would have killed any of these five his head
The late Marcha Canrober last of the original French
marshals before 1914 about short Napoleon and
while he was lieutenant fighting in Africa he had small
cap shot off his head twice Had he half taller
the top of his head would have been shot off,
In the coming from the air. explosives striking
above poison gas bringing death through lungs excessive
&eaght wig be TelatiyelEs safer than il used to hA
The Washington times., 1934-02-23


LIVING DEATH.
There's the worst menace
the only real menace-of mid
die and old age. Each day
you're more tempted to fool
yourself about yourself.
And there are so many Per
feet Alibis! You can blame it
on your health. You can say it
isn't laziness, at all; it's really
poise. You've learned. at last.
not to fly around needlessly;
not to fidget.
So you fool yourself, and
presently even that secret self
contempt is stilled. You believe
your own alibis. And laziness
closes about you-a soft and
horrible trap!
Or you're getting coWardly.
Cowardice-but you've always
despised it. Twenty years ago
even ten-you'd have been fu-
rious at anyone who called you
a coward. But now there's an
inertia settling on your spirit,
as we'll as your flesh. You know
you shouldn't let it. You know
you don't have to let it. You
know you can, if you will, be
as brave now as you were at
twenty. You can be brave to
the end. But
It's hard work to be brave.
People may laugh at you. You
may get into messes, may lose
some friends or money, even
your position. You can't bear
the prospect!
And so you tell yourself you're
not really cowardly. You've
simply grown more philosophi-
cal and prudent-don't fly off
half-cocked any more. No;
you've learned a sense of val
ueS.
So you fool yourself, dope
yourself-and all the world
helps you. For the world no
longer expects you to be brave
or lively, as it once did. You're
getting old, and it would make
the other oldsters mad as hops
if you challenged their comfort
by refusing to take the count
by fighting on. AS for the
youngsters-you're blotto at any
rate, as far as they're con-
cerned; just an old has been.
Why is old age so hideous?
That is why. Not because the
body is naturally wearing out
BUT BECAUSE WE ARE DE-
LIBERATELY LETTING THE
SPIRIT WITHIN THAT BODY
DIE OUT.
God, here's my one and only
prayer; a short one, but it car
ries all I've got:
Give me whatever's due me;
I can take it. Take from me
whatever / must lose. But, for
the sake of that spark of Your
self which you breathed into me
at my birth, help me keep that
spark alive. Strengthen me
against these shameful surren-
ders and evasions. DELIVER
ME. FATHER IN HEAVEN,
FROM THE HELL OF FOOL
ING MEIiE =,
The Washington times., 1934-02-23
The Road To Justice
In Veterans Relief
Blu James z. Williams, Jr.

President Roosevelt will see to
it that no further cash pay
ments on outstanding adjusted
compensation certificates will be
authorized during the calendar
year 1884.
If the Democratic leadership
of the House deserts the Presl-
dent on this issue and defeats his
program in the House, the prob
ability is that he will be sus-
tanned by the Senate.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is voted
down in both Houses he has re-
ceived convincing assurances
from Democrats and Repubh"
can that his veto of any cash
bonus will be decizively sus-
tanned in the Senate and prob
ably in the House.
Meantime the insistence OF
the President that mo person
because he wore a uniform must
thereafter be placed in a special
class of beneficiaries over and
above all others" when it comes
to Federal relief is bringing to
the White House enthusiastic
Endorsements from all parts Of
the country.
Vital Issue
Many Of the veterans who are
supporting the Presidents lead
erShip on this vital issue are
present or past members OF the
American Legion. Notable
among these are the group of
Legionnaires and other veterans
who are active in the work OF
the American Veterans Assocla-
ton. This association, which
was formed several years ago IN
Chattanooga, Tenn, effected a
national organization one year
ago on Washington's Birthday
in Independence Hall at Phlla-
de1phia.
It's second annual conference
was recently held in the Fed
eral City. It ended on Lincoln's
Birthday with the placing at
the Tomb of the Unknown Sol
der in Arlington Cemetery a
wreath of laurel on which these
words in letters of gold ap-
peared:
"For the Honour of the
Service"
The American Veterans Asso-
citation now numbers more than
10000 veterans OF the Great
-Wsn nnaha,.A anrrned chan
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

Give Others a Chance at Self
Expression
The unbroken routine of your
home life may not be irksome
to you, but it may be decidedly
so to other members of your
family.
In all probability you have
arranged your schedule in a
way to suit yourself.
This means the others have
had to adjust themselves and
their affairs to your whims and
desires to keep peace in the
family.
Constant repression of de-
sires. the unvarying program
from day to day and from year
to year becomes pretty monoto-
nous to those who are not sat-
iSfied by it.
Every person needs periods OF
All NxE1reSSioTR.
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

it does to your flesh, it can't
do any irreparable harm to
your spirit-unless you let it.
I do not fear persecution, for
I've learned that it's the price
any brave soul pays for living.
I do not even fear death any
more, though. after so, we must
all see the loom of it ahead.
But death has already taken
that which I loved far more
than my own life. Death has
darkened life for me, yet left
me with a growing conviction
that the darkness is only in
my own eyes-that the skies are
clear and bright beyond this
little blindness.
So, at SO, nearly all the fears
that once haunted me have
passed away. But one fear re-
mains-grows stronger with each
day-and I realize that this
peril is the worst Of all; that
it is, perhaps, the only real
danger I have ever known.
I FEAR TO FOOL MYSELF!
Let others fool me as they
can and will; such chances as
that are only part Of the game.
And. though I naturally re-
sent such trickery and have
my hot, human moments of
hungering for revenge, never
theless I know I had it coming
to me. and will be the better
for the bitter lesson. So, I re-
peat, 1 do not fear that others
may fool me.
BUT DREAD, WITH ALL
MY HEART, MY OWN FOOL
ING OF MYSELF.
For one only lives to the
exact extent that one knows
the truth about oneself. The
rest is just a pipe dream-and
that pipe dream is more ter
rible than death. You can't
help being dead when you are
dead. But to be dead when
you are alive-to deliberately
close your eyes to the wonder
and challenge of life'S amazing
spectacle - that's the sickest
and most shameful surrender
that a human being can know.
AND EVERY TINE I FOOL
MYSELF ABOUT Myself, 7,
IA CLOSE AK EYES no
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

the little giant of the automo-
bile industry, who was the
spark plug of the Democratic
party until Roosevelt and tho
New Deal rooted him out.
They rooted him out even
though he had been the finan-
cial angel of the Democracy for
four years. But John j. takes
it TRANQUILITY. and for all of mis-
warm friendship with and de-
votion to Alfred E. Smith, he
is actually an admirer of the
man in the White House. and
sends him a telegram of COM
mendation whenever the Presi-
dent makes one of those heart
to-heart talks to the people
over what Governor Smith still
calls the raddio.
John j. Raskob dates back
to 1879 and Lockport, New
York. But there was practi-
cally no excitement on the
streets the morning he came
into the world. Canal boat
shippers, absorbing a little red
liquor to nourish them along.
were not even aware that a
youngster had arrived who
was to grow up into big news.
But so 1t was. and little
Johnny, of German, French
and Irish blood, went out from
Lockport to see what made the
world tick. Finally, he wrote
a letter to Pierre S. du Pont,
so good a letter that it got
him a secretary's job. and
thenceforward John J. was on
his way. He got du Pont into
General Motors, made it a
billion dollar corporation and
ran its finances for years when
it was coming money.
Makes Millionaires
And after a while he induced
80 of the senior and junior
executives Of General Motors to
go into debt to buy the stock
of their company. Stock for
which they put up 80 millions
grew in value to $50 millions,
and there were the 80 Million
aires-more, probably, than any
other man ever set up in the
history Of the world; more
than Andy Carnegie made with
his steel companies; more than
Henry Ford made with his
amazing career. Probably a
lot of them haven't got it
now but they had it then,
due to little John j. Raskob.
Out Of politics now, but in.
tensely interested in all activi-
ties, a thoroughly good Ameri-
can, MI. Raskob goes his tran
quill way. attending to his own
large affairs, enjoying his init
mate friendships. He's a deeply
religious man and high honors
have been heaped upon him by
his church. He looks much
more like poet, painter or mu-
sician than a captain of indus
try in a hard boiled age.
A very interesting American
John j. Raskob, of Wilmington,
Del, and New York City, and
one of the Old Guard who is
forward-looking enough to be.
lieve that the President can pull
us out of the hole we got in.
Copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

tiers North, East, South and West.
The association has members
in every State Of the Union
and in more than 1900 cities
and towns.
All veterans Of the Great
War who have subscribed to
the declaration Of principles
proclaimed from Independence
Hall on Washington's Birth
day of last year unite in the
demand that the Government
of the Constitution shall dis
pense-
"Justice to the War Wounded.
"JuStiCe to the War Dead.
"Justice to the American
People"
Pertinent Question
The newly elected national
commander Of the American
Veterans Association, Charles
M. Kinsolving. Of New York,
commanded the 163d Aero
Squadron overseas in the Great
War. Of the two years and four
months that he flew the colors,
after the United States entered
the war, Is months Of this
service was at the front.
Here is what this veteran has
to say, speaking for the Legion
naires and other Veterans who
are supporting the Declaration
of Principles Of the American
Veterans Association, about the
duty of the Government Of the
Constitution in the matter of
Federal relief to the war wound
ed and Federal honor to the
war dead:
IF the Government is in a
financial position to spend
money on veterans, why don't
the members of Congress in
trOduce legislation to increase
benefits to the widows whose
mainstayS of support were
killed in combat or died as the
direct result Of war service,
and to those ex-Service men
who are still suffering from
disabilities actually incurred
in war Service?"
An increasing number of mil
lions of Americans all over the
country have begun to ask the
same question of their Senators
and Representatives in Con-
gress.
KcopyxlEhA 19SL IN MaatAaabd
-4LL-.-.;-.--. Staaa -
The Washington times., 1934-02-23
Congressional Indifference
And the National Capital

There element of justice in the rebuke given the
House District Committee the other day by Representative
Dirksen, of Illinois
Mr. Drksen complained that there too much indf
Capital and chided them their failure properly to look
the interests Of the city in whose government they
play such important part.
The position of Mr. Drksen to have been sub
stantated the meeting at which he made it clear
THE SESSION WAS MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR
FEW MEMBERS PRESENT NEVER DURING THE DE-
LIBERATIONS WERE MORE THAN HALF OF THE
MEMBERS PRESENT, EIGHT ATTENDING WHILE
THIRTEEN REMAINED AWAY.
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL CANNOT RECEIVE THE
HOUSE ITSELF HAS DECREED THAT IT SHOULD HAVE
There several for the situation of which
could be obviated.
They busy naturally engrossed either with national
legislative problems with the problems of the constituencies
which they It absurd to ask them to sacrifice
national affairs the affairs of their people, to look
after the problems Of city which has vote.
One of the ohe: obvious for the indifference of
members of Congress toward the District IS THE PLAGUE
OF SMALL AND UNIMPORTANT LOCAL MATTERS
WHICH 1NVADEs THE CAPITOL EVERY TIME CON-
GREsS CONVENEs.
Most of these matters not worthy of the attention of
Representatives and Senator'S They matters which any
town council would dispose of in routine way.
Yet under the system of government they must
receive not only committee consideration but also the at
tenton of both houses of Congress the floor.
IF CONGRESS WOULD DELEGATE THE AUTHORITY
TO HANDLE THESE SMALL AND ROUTINE QUESTIONS
TO THE LOCAL OFFICIALS WHO ARE IN TOUCH WITH
THEM WE BELIEVE THAT CONGRESS WOULD GIVE
LOCAL PROBLEMS OVER WHICH 1T WOULD RETAIN
CONTROL.
The Washington times., 1934-02-23
ONCE-OVERS

In a family, this principle OF
social instinct. of individual
needs should be recognized and
given its opportunity, without
being allowed to result in u1-
pleasantness.
You deem it your right to
find self-expression but are you
liberal enough to grant others
the same privilege?
Think it over a minute.
You may be convinced OF
your selfishness all these years.
If you can be sufficiently i'm
pressed to change your tactics.
well and good.
Your family will appreciate
the change in you.
Are you too selfish to adopt
a more liberal plan IN your
home life?
=, AcaQyaEht sS2A Es9S SestlaA =
The Washington times., 1934-02-23
The Human Side of the News
William H. Woodin Recovering-Raskob,
Good American
BIZ EdWin C.. Hill

A three-line telegram from
Tucson, Ariz., gladdens the
heart of President Roosevelt.
This is the message: William
H. Woodin, former Secretary
of the Treasury, was allowed
today his first walk about the
grounds of the Desert SAM
tarium since last December"
The dry air and the hot sun
of Arizona-the healing desert
have reprieved the shy, quaint,
sensitive, faithful little man
who served the President and
his country so nobly during
the first terrific months Of
this Administration.
For two weeks before Mr..
Roosevelt took office his friend,
Will Woodin, was in the Treas
ury in Washington, working
with Ogden Mills and the out
going staff, learning the ire
mendous complexities of the
great money machine. And
then came March the Fourth
and the bank crash, and the
closing of the banks, and a
thousaSd heart-breaking, back
breaking labors, all under the
strain of gigantic responsibility
to a people trembling with
apprehension.
Near Collapse
Never very strong, this little
man, who directs a great cor
poration and writes beautiful
music with equal facility, we'll
nigh worked llim-el, to death
in seven months. That state
ment is not to be considered an
exaggeration in the least. Will
Woodin worked so hard, at
such long hours. that his con-
stitution, never rugged, gave
way. The germs of danger
Gus throat infection took root.
Time after time the President
said to him: will, you have
got to take a rest. You will
kill yourself" And always
Woodin replied: "Not yet, Mr..
President. I'm not quite ready.
Give me another two or three
weeks"
So it ran on. until one day
the man was near collapse
from the rapidly advancing
progress of the infection. There
upon the President ordered his
friend to quit-told him he had
to go. He could be Secretary
of the Treasury as long as he
liked, but the President re-
marked that he preferred a
live friend to a dead Secretary.
And so little Woodin went
out to the desert to bake in
the sun and now the word
comes that he is improving.
Men don't have to die in battle
to give their lives for their
country.
The news that less than 20
men in the United States have
an income of million a year,
where there were 513 in 1929
with that rather dubious honor,
recalls to this writer the name
and personality of a man who
made 80 millionaires in four
years. But that was back in
the boom days, when industry
was rolling 'em high and the
sky was the limit.
I speak of John j. Raskob,
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

any nope or any use washing
breath.
Woman's intuition is the
horse-sense which the Lord gave
her in place of better judg-
ments."
Copyright, 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Incl
Articles by Helen RoWlGnd
appear each Monday, WedneS.
day, and Friday.
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

h a We b e e n
poor most of
my life.
I do n o t
+ e ar riches.
for, be n G
what I am, I
shall n ev e 7
have them
couldn't keep
them if they
came my way.
I do not
fear sickness,
for I h a v e
known that,
too, and no
matter what.
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

at which a girl stops leaning
on a mans shoulder-and be-
gins jumping on his neck.
Hanging on a mans words
may arouse his vanity-but
hanging round his neck arouses
only his instinct to battle for
freedom.
Girls who choose boy friends
because of the dough
Are doomed to find romance
exceedingly slow.
And ladies who wed for mink
coats and rubies.
Will soon find themselves among
house pets and boobies!
The average woman'S aim
may be wobbly when she tries
to throw a stone-but it seems
to be perfectly accurate when
she turns a gun on her hus-
band.
Warfare and transportation
are not the only things which
have been completely trans
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

Now that I am so I find that
I fear only one thing greatly.
I do not fear poverty, for
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

Still, there are lots of good,
old-fashioned marriages, good
old-fashioned homes, and even
good. old-fashioned husbands,
who keep their bills paid. their
hair cut and their fidelity to
their wives. Believe it or not!
The Washington times., 1934-02-23
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

Marriage, according to the
well-tamed husband, is the point
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

formed in the last few years.
Even marriage starts off at such
a different pace that it is harder
to recognize than your grand
mother in her beach pajamaS.
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

A mans second wife is not
apt to nag him-because she
knows that, if his first wife
couldn't teach him the meaning
Of shoe trees and the sacred
ness of guest-towels and mono
grammed bathmats. there isn't
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

at which a girl stops leaning
on a mans shculder-and be-
gins jumping on his neck.
The Washington times., 1934-02-23

WASHINGTON published the 1911
Fitzpatrick
The Washington times., 1934-02-23
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson
MY Greatest Fear-I
Fool Myself!

Il Fear to LIFE DO CHOOSE THAT
.IfI LIVING DEATH
The Washington times., 1934-09-07
ALL IN A DAY - By Mark HeI|inqer
BY Feg Murray

, the liquor is none too hot here
and the ventilation is nothing
to rave about. And have you
tried the food? Well, don't. It's
just plain rotten"
I glanced at her.
II don't quite get you," I said.
IF things here are as bad as
you say, why are you here all
the time?"
She looked as though I had
asked the most ridiculous ques-
ton in the world.
why am I here?" she repeat
ed, incredulously. why, I love
the place!"
A dope, observes Joe Lewis, Is
a guy who doesn't know some
thing that you just learned yes
terday.
IF your six other readers
think they have dumb girl
friends" says Robert EdelSon,
then they've never been out
with mine. While passing a
movie house on Broadway the
other night, I gave her a piece
Of information.
That place, Margie,' I said,
is the house of flops.'
"'Oh,' she replied happily,
I'm so glad you showed it to
me. I always wanted to see the
place where you can get a bed
for rs cents a night!' 20.
Then there's Ballard Macdon.
AIDS story Of the two ham
vaudevillianS who met for the
first time in months.
"How you doin'?" asked the
first.
Terrible" replied the other.
'"The wife and I is almost starv-
In. You know them Saline tins?
You know the big oneS-about
so high and so wide? Well,
that's what we're eatin' all the
time. Saltines."
That's tough" observed the
first. "Eatin' Saltines outa tins
is no fun. Where you livin'?"
I'm the tins" was the glum
retort.
The Washington times., 1934-09-07

} idea. Call me off the namesh
Of the Great Lakes"
1.-THE Great Lakes?" repeated
the clerk. "Well, there's Lake
Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake
Erie"
"That it," interrupted the
drunk excitedly. "ThaS what
means something. Lake Erie.
Now what was the name Of the
feller that said, let's stick to
the ship, boys'?"
The clerk thought for a mo-
ment.
Il think" he said. that that
was Admiral Perry"
The stew clapped his hands in
complete happiness.
There you are," he howled
triumphantly. LET me have 5
cents worth of PERRY-GORIC!"
ran into Nick the Greek the
other night and asked him how
conditions were.
mot so good for me-" he re-
piled. "They get me both ways"
asked him what he meant.
well, he sighed, "all the
suckers call me a gambler. And
all the gamblers call me q
sucker!"
Take it from AL Barbieri, the
very beautiful-and very dumb
chlorine was playing in Allan
tic City when she was invited to
the greyhound races.
When she arrived at the
track, she turned to her escort
and asked him where the buses
Were!...
The Washington times., 1934-09-07
THE VOICE OF
BrOadWa ay
BY Louis SObOI-
Twenty Years With the Headlines!

Twenty Years With the Headlines!
Twenty years ago today, September 7, 1914 to be
exact Mr.. Timothy Barry, who was managing
editor of a morning newspaper in Waterbury,
Conn.,, summoned me to his office and informed me
that as a reward for my zeal and reportorial en-
fledged member of the staff with an assignment to
the police and courts beat 1t was thrilling mo-
ment for me, not at all dampened because my sal
ary was to be $40 weekly although on space had
been averaging from $12 to $14 was now real
reporter with a badge and daily assignment slips
and desk with typewriter. Also an expense &C.
count not to exceed 81 week. Eighteen years old
nd oil q
The Washington times., 1934-09-07
Reason Enough

Sitting in a dreary dive In
the village early in the week, I
spoke to a young lady to makes
the spot a hangout. She was
complaining bitterly about
things in general.
Nov you take this place."
she observed. "It's really pretty
horrible, isn't it?"
I agreed that it was.
Listen to that music" she
mourned. did you ever hear
anything quite so bad? More,