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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-01

minute he marched down again and slammed Q jingilng iron bank on chair. "Thore," he declared grlmly. Take that and buy your- self n new lamp. And never let me hear you mention that old O. d---- lamp again."
 heard this story and in the main 1t Is true. The lamp may have been Sevres instead Of Ma. Jolica and tho lady may have been selling corsets. But one detail got straight and that was Tcddy's action and Teddy's speech
 If ] saw that Kid T would buy him soda, take him to tho circus and ono dark night give him Q football and sneak him into some of the houses know, Houses Heightened with finery that throat- ems everyone''s peace Of mind md the chiIdren's sanity.
 Asserting Himself
 Truc. children should learn to respect property, but usually they will take a chance. One more bang of n ball on a wall; one toe on Q ilne chair to reach tho nrrow caught in n curtain. Whoever thought there would be q nall In the sole and, that satin .dnDiask would slit so easily? aeef
 True, too, that when they are reprima ndcd for carelessncss. they should learn to take 1t like sports and mend their ways if not their breakage. But give mo the fellow who knows when things have gone too far and stands uD for his own self-rcspect.
 The cplloguo is that his mother was 50 astonished she laughed. She told. the joke on herself. She said it was a lesson to her and It's c fine mother who acknowledges when she's been put in her place.
 All museum pieces. like the goose, should hang high
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-01
WHAT'S IN 4 NAME:

Just the other day Alexander Wooleotf told a story about little boy named "Gooey" who. 1t turned out. spelled his name "G-u-y." And the worst of it was that. not only did he steal our thunder, but he actually set h.s stage with the very same setting that forms a back ground for our own. And We have SO fewI
 We don't know about the truth of Mr W0oicoff's yarn, but ours is as true as true. so help us.
 Several years ago, Q friend for whose veracity wo can v0uchs was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-01
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By Olive Roberts Barton
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Terry broke q lamp It had to be the best one, of course. Tho week before he'd broken q vase upstairs, but his mother just said, "Oh. that old thing! I'm glad it's gone.".
 This was different. Teddy was ten shades of T criminal. Ho heard It for three days. also every one who came to the house heard it, ndn every ono over tho telephone heard 1t.
 He caught IL from his father, his grandma, his cousins and his aunts. Hc caught 1t from the maid. That lovely lamp that had no coun- terpart In America because 1t was old Mnjolicu and could never be re- placed!
 Patience Exhausted
 He didn't mind the bread and water. the rest cure or the first scolding. But when the matter be- came chestnut his suffering soul barred It's fnngs.
 Tho lady with laces came to the house and as Terry banged in from school he heard his mother say. "Yes, almost feel that the house doesn't mean anything any more. It belonged to my great-grnnd- mother, you know and had 1t electri---electrl--mnde into q lamp. And the ahndc was"
 Teddy marched upstairs. Tn .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-01

this field of actual illness that prevention is most often sought by most parents but then it may be too late for the pcdiatrIcian to heip most effectively.
 Diseases Can Bc Avoided
 There is vast amount of kpowi- edge available today to prevent disease, both mental nnd physical, in youngsters. No group is more deserving of preventive care or moro quickly responsive Co it than tho very young. There is no reason today why any child should suher from such dlsenses once thoughs unacceptable. Diphtheria, smallpox, measles. rickets and scurvy can not attack a properly protected child. The former great scourgc of Infants under . year old, cholera Infantum, has been nearly elimin- ated by preventive measure. It ts up to parents to, find out about all these preventive means and to protect their children where ever possible.
 Instinct Not Sufficient
 It is a great mistake to think that parenthood, by its own virtue, endows any parents with full knowledge of how properly to care for their children. There is no sure guiding instinct or intuitive sense that automatically leads parents always to do just the right thing at tho right moment. The nearest approach to maternal instinct, the urge to protect the child from harm, frequently ties the unfor- tunatc child 50 firmly to tbe ma tcrnal apron strings that he looses all independence of thought and action. This deplorable condi- ton may then hound him through out his life. Parents then, if they are to train their children wisely, must learn tho art. Experimental trial and error methods ere unsafe and unfair both to children and parents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-01

driving through tho hills in Call fornia and stopped to ask for q drink. In the course of converse tiop she asked the small Samaritan who worked tho pump what her name might be.
 "Layowra," answered the damscl.
 'JAyewra," repeated uor friend thoughtfully. That's an unusual name. Where did you get it?"
 "Oh, mother read 1t in a book"
 And how do you spell it?"
 'T.-a-u-r-a" camo the answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01
ON THE PUBLIC PAY ROLL

IRON 1870 to 1880, the number of persons
in public service in the United States in
creased 900 per cent. Today two and half
million men and women are on government
pay rolls-federaI, state and local. Out of all
tax money collected for ordinary purposes in
the United States, 90 per cent, or s4,O0O,-
100000 annually, Is spent directly for salaries
and wages.
These facts are pointed to by the social
science research council as showing the need
for its new commission of inquiry on public
service personnel
A year ago such facts were being cited by
other organizations as an argument for re-
ducing the functions and cost Of government.
Today this organization uses them to show
the need OF high standards in the recruiting,
compensation and promotion of public en-
ployeS.
The cry Of "less government" now is recog-
nized as the dying gasp Of an old order. We
are going to have more government. The
only question is whether it is to be political
or nonpolitical, democratic or undenocratic,
bureaucratic or intelligent.
The very increase in the number Of public
employees is tending to take their jobs out of
politics" Government functions have be-
come SO numerous and so vitality affect the
daily life of the average man. it is obvious
that men who administer them should be
chosen solely on the basis of character ability
and training, and without regard to how they
voted.
1t is not surprising that the inquiry has
the explicit approval of President Roosevelt,
who has paid little attention to politics In
making appointments, and in some cases, as
in the Tennessee valley authority, has kept
politics wholly out of the picture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01
A NEW WAY OUT

THAT electrical equipment scheme evolved
= by the Tennessee Valley Authority might
be worth another look. There is just chance
that it could offer US the way to one of those
great industrial boonls that set the wheels
humnling across the country.
BY making arrangements to finance con-
sumer purchases of electrical equipment, and
also by seeing to it that unlimited quantities
of cheap electric power are available, the gov
eminent hopes to extend the use of electricity
in the home to a greater extent than anything
previously dreamed of.
And if the Tennessee Valley experiment
works. and proves contagious. the groundwork
would be laid for vast industrial revival.
So far there is hardly home in the coun-
try that makes the maximum potential use Of
electricity. There are electric refrigerators,
slectrie stoves. electric mangles electric
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vacuum sweepers, electric heaters and so on
through long list-but how many homes are
equipped with all Of themP Only an insignif-
cant minority.
Suppose now, that though cheaper cleo
tricity rates and cheaper equipment electric
cation Of the home really gets under way as
national movement; suppose, for example, that
some fifteen or twenty million householders
begin to spend around $500 each or better on
electrical equipment. You don't have to medi-
tate very long to see that this would touch off
a business boom of enormous proportions.
A dream Of that kind may sound bit
overoptimistic. 1t can be objected, of course
that twenty million householders might have
difficulty in finding $500 each to spend on
electrical equipment.
Still. an even larger number of citizens
managed to find that much money to buy au-
tomobiles in the decade of the twenties. If it
happened once, it can happen again.
Senator George w Norris, who fathered
the whole Muscle Shoals experiment, believes
that cheap power and cheap equipment will
open up "a new world" for America.
There is better than an outside chance that
he is entirely right. It may be that this de-
velopment can serve rs the foundation stone
for a whole decade of prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01
CROP VALUES UP

TNHAT something pretty substantial actually
l. has been done to better the condition Of
the farmer is shown by the United States bu-
reau of agricultural economics crop report for
1888, recently issued in Washington.
This report shows that the value of the
nations farm produce in 1888 jumped fully
81 900, 100000 more than the figures for 1882
Total value of all farm crops grown in the
United States in 1888 is set at slightly better
than $4,000 oo o0o-as compared with 1882
valuation of approximately S2,S79 100000.
1t is worth remembering, too, that this in
crease took place in spite of diminished pro-
duction-or, perhaps, If the farm doctors at
Washington are correct. because of it. Total
volume OF crops for the year was unusually
low.
In one way or another, farm prices have
taken a healthy boost. Whether this hap
pened because of or in spite OF the federal
farm program, it is a good omen for the
future.
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Onward
BY FRANCESCA

BY FRANCESCA
I shall go on through the unchang-
ing years
Ishau go on to the end Of the way.
But the Joy will die in the heart Of
me,
And never again will you find me
gay.
If I could have known the strength
of your arms
For an .hour-or cherished but one
brief kiss
Fate wouldn't be cruel. though it
took from me
The love Of my lfe-I have only
this.
The touch Of your hand as yox
gave 70 me
A chaplet Of beads, and book On
two;
But the tenderness so deep In your
eyes,
Has told me more than your lips
could do.
know it will ever be thus with me,
The love that bear you will al.
ways live:
And I shall regret in my heart. but
this;
That there was no more for nay
soul to give.
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1874 AND LOVE

IF you want more than a temporary parking
= place in mans affections next year, make
your plans now mladies make your plans!
Don't leave it to chance. The dice are too apt
to be loaded-unlesS, Of course, you have
curves that would straighten out Mae West
and the please-cross-th e-ocean look that
launched the Trojan navy
Even then the surface view is as eetf1ing as
toothache or snow or roses.
A woman who wants to be as dearly be-
loved when 1885 begins as she does now must
power, of course, but the New Years resolu-
tons do not vary.
First never, never telephone the man.
Though you sit by the telephone and recite the
ABC's backward, don't lift the receiver. No
man wants a lollipop that meIts in front of
his big eyes.
The courtesans of France work by certain
definite rules. The first in their book states
that no wise woman ever calls man. The
move is his-even in 1884
In the second place, don't be too suffocat-
ingly nice. If you smother him with devotion
he will think that you are no more important
than clean white handkerchief or popcorn
ball. Be nice, of course. Be sympathetic
But make him realize the sympathy is
gift and he isn't doing you favor by accept
ing cool white hand on his hangover brow.
OF course you are putting it there because you
want to- But don't tell him!
Resolve in the third place, to debunk the
idea that mans temperature goes up like a
25-cent piece skyrocket when you tell him he
has rivals. Arousing male jealousy is as mid
Victorian as Queen Mary's hats. If he likes
yols of course he expects that other men will
find you passably fair.
The fourth resolution concerns smoking. If
you smoke more than five cigarets day, carry
your own brand and matches Men hate to
be Inconvenience.
Don't make feline remarks about the other
women whom the gentleman knows Maybe
they do wear brown hats with black dresses,
and use nail polish as red as a wounded TO-
mato. Don't you mention it. Just watch your
own taste That will keep you busy.
Men often are quite intelligent. They have
even been known to see through the topper
if you cultivate genuine sympathy you are a
long way toward the Yale Harvard prom or
whatever it was you had in mind Anyway,
when you think a man is so wonderful that
you outline campaign to please him, you
won't have any trouble telling him that
he Isl
Resolve to apply this question to the man
who speeds your pulses. Do you have good
time together whether you are Summing in
Harlem, reading aloud by an apple-wood fire
or dancing under s. snow-white moon on the
China sea?
If you don't, kiss him fondly-you may as
will have something to remember-and say
farewell Unless two people click they haven't
any more place In each others lives than
bar of June geranium soap has in a mans
bathtub.
Dido. you may recall, literally burned up
when Aeneas wouldn't take her along. Cleo
patra was stung so badly by Mark Antony
that she let an asp finish the Job.
Cinderella won her prince, But that is
fairy tale!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01
A Woman's Viewpoint

ONE Of the most admirable souls
~ on earth today looks forth
from the eyes Of Nine. Ernestine
-Heink, that grand old
lady Of the opera who has expe-
rienced far more than the average
woman's share of Joy, triumph, de-
feat and sorrow.
In a recent issue Of Cosmopolitan
magazine she explains her ideas
about northumberland, being her
self a symbolic figure Of the ma
ternal, her words Will carry great
weight
In all my life, in many lands"
she has written. II never have
known a bad mother"
Such sentiments are very flatter-
ing to w1nen, but when expressed
too often they easily can become
dangerous. Because they are likely
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sentiments we are used to asso-
ciate with the word mother.
Cruel necessity sometimes makes
their task an impossible one. 1t is
hard, think, to be good mother
when you are very. very poor: when
you are cold and hungry and sick
and miserable.
And as one looks on at the strug-
giles Of the poverty-stricken, one is
inclined to have less patience with
those mothers who are rich. Per-
haps one demands the unattainable
from them.
One truth, at least, is plain. We
expect too much Of the poor when
we demand that they shall raise
exemplary citizens. The greatest
boon any nation could bestow upon
its mothers would be to abolish the
hauntis Of stark aid bitter
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BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

to foster the idea that physical
endows a woman with
the spiritual attributes which should
belong to that state. In this re-
Spect at least We deceive ourselves.
q
COMETTNIES when I feel too set
~ up over the virtues Of my sex
I visit local children's home. The
things I hear and see there often
depress me, but I come away with a
surer conviction that mothers are
only human beings after all.
Though I hate to admit it. they
do walk off and leave their chill
dren; they give their babies away
so they can marry worthless lovers;
they turn them over to institutions
SO they may have more money to
spend on themselves. Often they
seem totally lacking IN those fine
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Bx Vernon Anderson Lindsay.

BY Vernon Anderson Lindsay.
It may seem strange to think Of
Negroes in comparison to such an
insignificant specimen as rabbits,
but when one reflects on the pro-
lection given rabbits and that as
sured Negroes in Marion county,
one readily can see that rabbits are
considered of far more Importance
and value than Negroes.
For example, the law governing
the killing of rabbits is strictly en-
forced. Few persons if any would
shoot a rabbit out of hunting sea-
SON." Fewer would go hunting with
out a license or hunting permit. But
with Negroes this is not true. Any
one who desires so may go Negro
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01
O. K. Pe!gIer

By D. L. S.
Honestly, I feel sorry for Peg
Ter, to the bottom of my heart.
Yet, after all, believe he will live
through it.-live and grow nicely,
and that he will not only be bet
ter for coming, but we will be bet
ter because he came.
From a hasty glance at the start
it seems to me he is exactly what
we need. I believe he is going to
SOW the kind of seed that will har-
vest a wonderful crop of just the
right kind Of a mixture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01
THOSE WHO RIDE

A unfriendly publication has been print
4 = ing pictures Of civil works administration
workers autos parked near their government
jobs and ridiculing what seems to It's editor
the absurdity of men on public pay rolls rid
ing to their work. The pictures held no trace
of absurdity to CWA Administrator Harry
Hopkins.
That's fine" he exclaimed. "Why shouldn't
working men ride to work in automobiles?
Has it come to pass in this country that only
men who make their living from interest and
dividends can ride to their jobs? These
workers can have radios installed in their cars
as far as I'm concerned"
Why not, indeed? When prosperity re-
turns it will be brought in by workers riding
to work in automobiles, not by the limousnes
of a small owning class.
And the government, by sufficient wages to
permit use Of automobiles as necessary trans
portation, is leading the way out of depression.
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:: The Message Center ::


more millions of dollars by making
more millions of pauperS.
Small business is being crushed,
labor codes are made with minimum
wages so low that a family can not
live in decent comfort. Maximum
hours of forty-four and forty-eight
a week never will take up the slack
Of unemployment. Discharging old
hands who had been making
living wage and taking on new ones
at the abSurdly low minimum gives
less buying power to the people.
New improved machinery with
Speedup systems have given more
output with less wages than ever
before. Destroying food, because of
surplus which people need, but are
unable to buy, to put the price up
to make it more out Of reach, is not
helping the poor to live. Reducing
the value of the dollar to raise
prices of everything but wages, only
makes matters worse. Papers tell us
that four millions have been put to
work, but no mention is made of
possibly as many laid off. Made
work, discarding labor saving ma
chimes to give employment to more
men, to be paid for out Of sales, and
other forms of taxes is foolish, and
only shifts the burden on the
already breaking backs of the poor.
The remedy is so plain that any
fool can see it if he will use half
of the brains he has. With our
boundIeSs resources, and modern
mechanical means of production,
every family might have full and
plenty. Make the government the
one big corporation to employ all
workers at wages sufficient for full
life, work hours enough to produce
plenty without useless surplus,
operate for the satisfaction of the
needs of the people and cut out
private profit for the individual.
That is the plan of Socialism, and
it is the only sensible plan that has
been suggested.
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hunting" and kill them at will in
Marion county, because of the pre-
valence of the belief among Ne
groeS that if a plea Of guilty is
entered the penalty will be one to
ten years or not more than two to
fourteen years.
It seems unbelievable that nine
teen Negroes were killed during
1888 before Christmas holidays.
Most Of these Negroes have been
the victims of cold FLOODED MUIR
ders which Prosecutor Herbert E.
Wilson prefers to call Ignorant
Negroes" who Stay Gin heat of
a passion" For such reasons
they have been allowed to plead
guilty to nanslaughter, defense,
and some have been allowed to go
free outright. That something ought
to be done about this is no question,
but who is going to do it is the
question.
II Negroes, and those who choose
to join in the slaughter brigade, are
not checked in preparation of so
great an evil there is no question
as to the end.
Why this wholesale murder
racket has been tolerated has been
a puzzle to many.
Now it is up to Prosecutor Her.
bert E. Wilson and Judge Frank P.
Baker to see that Negroes will be
given all that the law requires, and
by so doing will not only cause a
greater respect for law and order,
but will discourage murder and as
sure the protection of all people
Unfortunately.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01

By B. E. r.
Here's another dare for you
dare you to print this. In regard to
letter in your message center of
Nov. 81 signed Broken Hearted
Mother, this mother writes her
home was raided in 1929 A still was
found and her children taken away
from her. Now you listen to me,
Mr.. NIcNutt. If you aren't too busy
to look into this broken-hearted
mother affair, let's put one feather
in your hat anyway.
Why should her children be taken
away from her because they had
still in their home? There has
been a depression and maybe you
don't know it, but people have COM
mitted crimes, bootlegged and done
many things they probably wouldn't
have done had they had work. And
that bunch of swell headed police!
I saw them come in a notorious
place to raid one day, and only one
in the bunch who wouldn't take
pay-off caused them to be taken
down. Give that woman her chill
dren back. They aren't the only
ones who had a still.
Chef Fowler, alleged bootlegger,
who lived on keystone avenue, had
everything but still, but he had
money, so he got quite a lot Of stays,
didn't he? I, for one, think she got
a dirty deal
Editors Note: Judgment Of $500 fine
and six months in jail against Chef
Fowler was reversed by the United
States circuit court Of appeals al Chi
cago and motion to suppress evidence
sustained. The government has taken
no action seeking a new trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01

Nearly half the farm homes in the United
States are reported to be worth less than ST 900
each Leaving the mortgages to cover the
stables and pig pens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01

With silver coming back into national
prominence, Nevada may become known for
more than it's divorces,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01

The rubber code finally has been signed,
after both the administration and the industry
had to stretch point or two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01

Professor Irving Fishers list of men who
know the real meaning Of money fails to in
clude one important member-the family man
without job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01

There are said to be many thousands Of
varieties of weeds in America. So it's hard
to tell which kind you got for Christmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-01

For weather men. winter started Dec and
will end March /. But don't put away your
overcoat and galoshes in March Just on the
weather mans Sayso.