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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
A Book a Day
Brabil's Uncle Tom" Had A Bitter Life
BY BRUCE CAPTION

Red Macaw," by Phoebe flag gard, is a gory little reminder that | the southern part of the United States wasn't the only spot in the New World where negro slavery was once a great problem.
 Brazil had the problem, too, and | the abuses which developed under Brazilian slavery were--if Red Macaw" is authentlc--so frightful that they make Uncle Toms ex- perience with simon Legree look like a pleasant little summer idyll.
 This novel deals with a great plantation on the fringe of the Brazilian jungle, founded early in the 18th century by two Portu- guese brothers who went to the frontier and, with the aid of negro slaves, turned vast stretch of 1t into rich farm land
 The foundations of the Brazilian slave economy were much like those of southern slave economy in the Limited States--large plots of ground, a labor supply steadily replenished by slave ships from Africa, mass production of staple crops. But it worked out differ ently.
 Legree's life-and-death power I over Uncle Tom was the exception, | in the slave states of North Amer lea; in Brazil 1t was the rule. Pitt less, sadistic fioggings were part of the daily routine. Killing slave was too common a thing to pro- yoke comment.
 It's picture of this slavery gives "Red Macaw" certain amount of interest. The book is clumsily writ ten, and rather hard to read. But lt does give an unforgettably bruta!
 picture of slave fife.
 Published by Scribners, the book sells for e.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York-Meandering That's amusing rumor - thought l can't check the facts-about the jealously and pickering between the two sasiety syndicates fighting for chance to defend the Amer ica's Cup with their pet yachts. One group, it's said, has bought all the available special sailcloth so their rivals can't get new can- vass for the trial races Word from London has it that Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., will re- main in England and seek British citizenship. His papa, though, ex- poets to come home <. DashieN Hammett has started a new de- tective novel called "A and B" They're the same mysterious gents who used to poster Hammett in grade-school arithmetic. Remem- ber-if A drove 20 miles an hour. how long would 1t take B to catch him at the rate of 23 miles an hour? .EnZo Fiermonte, step father of young John Jacob Astor. will try Hollywood now that he has been thwarted in his scheme to start at the top of the prize fight business
 The Passing Show.
 Holy,Wood is no place for the director -hu s b q n of Elizabeth Bergper the English actress. His nome is Paul Czinner. In the So- cial Register is listed Mrs Hop- pin Pool Cigaret girls in the night spots are getting tattoed <. There are still a few people in town whom columnists like to see; Anna May Wong, Pola Negri, Irene Rich, Carl Van Vechten, Konrad Bercovici, Beverly Bayne (remem- Der her?) Beatrice Lillie, just out of the hosiptal; Laurence Stallings. just in from Europe and bound for an. important movie post Deems Tunney are good friends :. Peter Arno is around and about with the stately Toni Johnson.
 And A. c. Blumenthal, mighty mite of real estate and the thea ter, is here and there with Paul. ette Goddard, who looks like Peg gy Fears, Blumenthafs estranged wife |. Which reminds me that Milfred Harris Chaplin, worried and broke, is singing in a night club here Mary Nolan, once Ziegfeld's American Beauty" now sings sad songs in little road house .. An children Fenton warbles in town club and be- lies the judgment to those who from some 5000 candidates as Typical American Girl"
 Nobody ever sees Doris Duke, worlds wealthiest woman, with out her disgiuse of dark glasses. So generally is this device used by people who don't want to be rec ognized that celebrity-hunters are beginning to suspect everybody who wears them Speaking of disguises, Mrs Dodge Sloane, own CT of famous race horses, always attends masquerade parties wear ing some masculine costume and Q long beard Irene Bordoni Is selling fur coats in a store Josephine Baker, burnt toast of Paris, will return to New York ir the autumn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

See this display.picce tackled on the wall of the New Deal.
 What they see on the surface is cozy group of fifty White houses, interspersed in uncrowd- ed intervals over 250 acres, each house having four to five rooms, and @ garden plot of five acres.
 What they learn on the surface is that each house is equipped with it's own well, an electric pump, hot and cold running water, a cellar and central heat ing.
 MODEL COMMUNITY
 There is also Federal school on the grounds of which are to be tennis courts and an artificial lake. There are to be reading clubs, discussion groups and adult education. The Community. House with hand-hewn ratfer from an old church nearby will shelter dances, festivals and meetings of the Homesteaders' club.
 No church, as such, can be built on government property. but services will be held in Com- munity House. Asked whether there might not be discord over sectarianism, one homesteader replied:
 "Oh, I don't guess so. One church is as good as another"
 On the surace, the picture the casual visitor gets is too Utopian to be true. He is inclined to pinch himself to make sure this model colony bumped down in a de- on-ridden world is not dream; or else he decided the New Deal is staging special dis play for the benefit of the tour ist.
 IN A HOMESTEAD
 But penetrate below the sur face a bit. Spend an~evening with some of the HOmesteaders in their new houses after the casual stream of sightseers has depart ed.
 At the top of sharp rise to the east of the colony lives Fred Harrison with his wife and two daughters. He is a tall, lean, mountain man, with blue eyes and slow. quiet speech. He talks about what life has been, what life is now:
 "Yes, l was miner. mined at Elkins and at Weaver. But I'm no good for mining now, and haven't been since three year ago when I broke my hands, This one I crushed against the top of mine car when it pitched up against low beam, and this one here got damned sos the hand was drove back to the wrist. Then my mind went bad-min- CTS asthma they calls it-and l was no good for the mines.
 But I can still hold drill, and I work here in a quarry for the government, gettin' stone out for foundation work. And of course can handle farm tools all right. l was raised on a farm till l was fourteen, when I went into the mines.
 "Wc work on pay for the gov. ernmcnt till quarter to three, then we lay off and work our land. Yes, I've got more corn here than I can use, but believe the plan is to trade 1t in to the cooperative and get things what I haven't got. I ain't just sure about that. but I know the government will fix it up all right"
 CWA OUTPUT
 Harrison's house is the HI" type-four bedrooms eff you count the living room with it's day bed) bath and kitchen. It is furnished partly with pieces of his own, partly with reproduc-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
Press Comment
TAvERNs IN POLITICS
(New Britain Herald)

Tavern owners who are members of their association have let it be known that they are strongly in politics and will work for the elec- tion of members to the next legis. lature of liquor sales other than beer or wine in their place of busi- ness.
 Which may be right or wrong; but it means that all the anti-pro- hibition argument about the saloon not being permitted to return was so much ballyhoo.
 It is not likely that the tavern keepers will get thing for their efforts. The legislature is likely to be controlled by the small towners who don't like the liquor business as the tavern owners want to de- velop it.
 But the legislature will make certain changes in the liquor law. Among other things the hotels will be given a better opportunity.
 And the legislature may do something to limit the number of taverns. That was overlooked at the last sesison and has resulted in a vast overproduction of tavern operators.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

Arthursdale, w. ", Aug. D. On the dirt road that runs south from Rockville you would have noticed about a year ago an old fashioned gable house reminis- cent of Poe's dreary tale, "The Fall of House of Usher." It look ed down rather scornfully upon desolate area lost in scrub oak, underbrush and swamp known locally as "Mr. Arthur'S Place."
 Drive round the same turn of the road today and you will come upon cluster of new-built white houses. There are trim terraced lawns in front of them, women hanging out clothes in the rear, flock of chickens carefully cooped away from the new grass on the terrace, man pushing a cultivator through hills of beans, another standing shoulder high in a cornf1eld which has re- placed the swamp and the scrub oak, and children far up on the hillside picking berries in the un- derbrush which has not yet re- treated before the inroads of this Roosevelt program of reclaiming men from economic swamps once as desolate as those surrounding "Mr. Arthur's Place."
 The gabled house is still there. But without its somber surround ings, it has taken on an almost cheery look. And the name of the place is now recorded as "Ar. thurdale, w. Va"
 NATIONAL EXPERIMENT
 Officially Arthurdale is a sub- sistence homestead project of the interior department. Unofficially, and perhaps to the largest num- Der. 1t is known as Mrs Roose- velt's pet"
 It's significance, however, goes far beyond the connotation of any name. For it is, in sense. a laboratory in which is being tested the all-important question of whether the drought-sufferers of the northwest can be profit ably moved to new farms; wheth- . CT the perennially unemployed coal-miners of the Alleghanies can be transplanted to new in- dustry; whether large blocks of unemployed and economically adjusted people can be picked up and resettled in more propitious areas without disrupting their own lives and the life of the affected locality.
 Indicative of the importance of this eyDcrimcnt is the fact that the world is passing by to judge it. Some 10000 visitors thrOng through Arthurdale monthly to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
So They Say

What difference does it make if you live in darkest Africa, if you're still American citizen? |? And am.-Elizabeth Ryan, famous tennis player
 It is true it at the time of Genesis and Deuteronomy that people entrusted with the delightful privilege of spending other peoples money not going to waste much time practicing enonomy-Ogden Nash, poet.
 It is the obligation of citizens to utilize the agencies of government. It shouldn't be necessary to coerce anybody.-Frances Perkins, secretary of labor.
 For the time being the Boche in Germany has conquered the German, but in the long the German will win the 1ght-Presdent Nch- olas Murray Butler of Columbia University.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
Chuckle Corner
MATRIMONY
 By Otto Quit

Matrimony is a great Comedy of Errors, but there Is growing tendency to cut the comedy. It be- gins with duet, We Will Build a Little Home" and ends with a duel in The Great Divide.
 Sugary dialogues become scrap py talkathons, always won by the nuder gender, followed by wifely monologues to the accompaniment of crashing china. In the second act, the leading man grabs his hat and escapes to the Bachelors Bliss club.
 Matrimony is such an expensive venture that the word should be changed to matri-money. It is founded on the solid rock of monogamy, which being inter- preted is ''money-gimme." And statistics prove that in one case out of every seven the exit from such sextravagant and riotous liv- ing Is alimony, that is all the money. present and future.
 "Matrimony," said Mrs Quit, as she boarded the Twentieth Gen. tury Limited headed west toward the Land of the Free, lis com piete disiifusion from rice to Reno. So long. oteto. better luck next time"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
Bullets Don't Vote

However great the weaknesses of de- mocracy may seem in time of crisis, 1t is hard to escape the impression that the bloody troubles of Europe today arise in large part because of the denial of democ- racy. Austria, swept by the repercussions of an assassination ominously similar to that of Franz Ferdinand 20 years ago, is simply the most recent example.
 For the underlying cause of such disor- ders is the fact that ordinary democratic processes have been suspended. Hacked and torn by cross-currents of passion, resentment, and despair that have been Tn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
Turkey Letter
By FERDINAND c. M. JAIN Limited Press Stan Correspondent

Ankara, Turkey (UP)-"Ankara. Heart of Turkey" is the name of 6 film which had great success here.
 Geographically, Ankara is the heart, being located in the middle of Anatolia. Politically it Is the center of Turkeys nervous system. Generally speaking, 1t furnishes, in a nutshell, picture of the actual situation of the country.
 Within the boundaries of the city, covering three or four square miles, the visitor finds cave-dwell- ings, actually inhabited, and poor clay huts, as well as the finest modern buildings and govern mental palaces of seven and eight stories, with all modern conven- fences.
 Modern Ankara
 Modern Ankara has been built by the will of one man. Upon the Ghazis order, not less than $1bO,- OOO,OOO have been invested in con- structions, and building still Is pro- ceeding.
 There is a breach, noticeable everywhere, between the well clad westernized official, or banker, re- siding in those fine new structures, and the aboriginal population in their ragged clothes, clustered densely in the huts on the slopes of the old fortress, which over looks the city.
 Here the cave-dweller and the inhabitant of the miserable huts may wonder at the Ghazi's newest inventions, at pomp and parades; he even may welcome the doctor and the nurse, who cure his and his family's ills. But in general way of living he continues the fa- shions of his forefathers.
 Call of the Muezzin
 Through the spacious windows of the palaces of the government that has placed 'laicism" on it's banner the pious call of the muez- gin penetrates five times daily into the ears of free-thinking official, and five times day the mosques are filled by community of faith full believers in the Koran.
 And so it is everywhere in the thin layer of the nation that has been impregnated with the reforms of the Kemalist regime.
 Conditions of the rank and file, of the nine or ten million peas- ants, have undergone hardly a change. Their work and life diff fers very little from that of the times of Suleyman the Great.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
MIR PECORA ASSURES US
Worcester Post )

A whole lot of ardent liberals were more or less disturbed when President Roosevelt put Joseph P. Kennedy on the federal stock mar ket control agency, and when MT Kennedy was elected chairman of that body. For here was a Wall street man given, leadership of a group appointed to put curb on Wall street; and 1t Is hardly sur prising that some people didn't like the looks of 1t.
 Now, however, Ferdinand Pecora, himself member of the commis- sion, expresses himself as follows:
 'I like him (Mr Kennedy im- mensely and think his knowledge along with his experience will be of incalculable assistance to the commission. think the man is of sound judgment and he knows how to do things"
 This recommendation may quiet the fears of the liberals. No living man is more honest and determin- ed in the fight to regulate Wall street than MT Pecora.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
Selected Poem
SUMMER NIGHT

sylvia Meech in The Christian Science Monitor From where I sit Obscure in the closeyknit Shadows of an old oak tree
 
 The slhouetted boats that glide In and out of the wide Harbor, and the stars that look down Deeply if they longed to drown Themselves in such cool tranquility I can also see the mark The moon has drawn across the dark Water with opalescent chalk; And the night is so still That if strained my ear I think that could hear The nonsense that the moonbeams talk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
BE FOREHANDED (The Hartford Times)

All authorities agree that food prices will be exceptionally high next winter. Nothing like a fam- inc is predicted but the shortage of food supply will be marked with reference to demand, and costs to consumers will reflect the condi- tion as far as present calculation can forecast.
 As we happen to know, a pru- dent Connecticut family last week canned a bushel of excellent peas. The example is admirable. Since the war, the thriftiness of home canning and preserving never was more genuine than in the summer of 1884. Not everyone enjoys stor- age facilities. But majority have the convenience or can get it with out much trouble. By the same token, such meat products as are storable in the home make wise investment. The western drought will have spread it's ills as the coming months progress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

tions of old-fashioned furniture, made last winter by mountaineer craftsmen organized into a CWA project.
 He treads softly over the new grass on his graded terraces which slope down to the edge of the woods. It is only three weeks since he brought his family over the hills to the new house and everything, every blade of grass, is precious.
 GA second article on the Ar. thurdale Homestead will be pub lished in the near future.)
 Copyright, 1884, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

O. How many legitimate thea ters are there in the United States and where are they mostly located?
 A. There are about 500 thea ters devoted to legitimate drama and one-third of them age in five cities-New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
 o. Tn what year did the Baby lonian Era begin?
 A. It is supposed to begin with Nabonasser, February 26, B. c. 747.
 Q. What is ravigote?
 A. A stimulating sauce com posed of burnet, civet and tarro- gon.
 0. Are there any parts of the United States or Canada that are entirely free from electrical storms?
 A. No; but on the Pacific CoaAt and northern Canada they are very rare.
 o. What relation is my moth- CTS cousin to me? A. Your first cousin once re- moved.
 0. Who is the author of "The Averaging Twins?
 A. Johnston McCully.
 o. Who was the first president of the German Republic
 A. Frederick Ebert. 0. What was the value of half dollars minted in 1926?
 A. $574,306.50.
 o. How many independent na- tions are there in the world? A. Sixty-three, in Il ing a Grand Duchy and two Principali- ties. o. What was the first Negro company in the Army that went overseas in the World War? A. Company A, 301 Stevedore Regiment. They sailed in Septem- Der 1917.
 Q. How old is Bill Robinson, the negro tap dancing star?
 A. Fifty-eight. If you want copy of our bulle. tin Seeing Washington, write to the Waterbury Democrats Wash. ingtOn Bureau, enclosing i've cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
MILLIONS FOR HEN COOPS (From the New York Sun)

With millions of government dollars now available for mortgage Insurance and the construction in- dustry cutting the prices of lumber and bricks 10 per cent, the subur- banite who puts q new roof on his shoulder Is applied to the wheel of recovery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
Daily Washington Merry-Go-ROund
BY DREW PEARSON a

 Subsistence Are Utopia Aueghany Mountains C Tracts; GoOenmet Mrryo- RoundBe egins O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

Republican spokesmen are still sticking to that old adage, pay-as-you-go. State Senator Albert E. Lavery is the latest to voice the expression in the line of an at tack on democratic rule. As means of adhering to the system, which some years back was a familiar battle cry for the g.o.p, the Fairfield county legislator would have us divert motor vehicle de- partment receipts to cut down the states deficit. He won't find much support for any such procedure as that. In principle it's wrong. We don't operate motor ve- hicle department to defray the operating expenses of any other than those allied with it, such as the state highway depart ment, which naturally is dependent upon motor vehicle receipts for its main- tenance It's no new thing to have the state fathers urged to divert department funds to others in need. Such efforts have always been defeated. We think they should even now with huge deficits confronting us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

Local friends of District Attorney Thomas F. Moriarty of Springfield will be interested to learn that he is to seek re- election this fall. He has just formally announced his candidacy. Attorney Mori- arty was visitor in Waterbury at the state Georgetown Alumni session March IT. He is we'll known and highly regard ed in this city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

"Sun Fries Midwest, says headline. So that's the trouble! A lot of observers have been thinking it was hard-boiled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
A Thought for Today

And the prayer Of faith shall the sick, Land the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiv- en him.-James, 5:15.
 The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.-Kossuth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

Up in Vermont when motorists smash or damage public service company's poles they pay for them, so it has recently been learned. The various concerns involved in this roadside havoc have been more than fortunate in procuring ample recom- pense from the owners of vehicles which have caused the damage. Still the aver age power and telephone company must have to stand heavy annual losses in re- placing poles whose duty is suddenly end ed by careening motor car Oftentimes poles are damaged and no trace of the vehicle causing it is ever found
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

The time is coming when we'll pay special class of people for doing our think ing for us They're doing it now, but don't get paid much.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
H s cope
By oCTAvINE

Today is one which should be given over to leisure. You may as we'll declare holiday, for it will be hard to keep your mind on business. Love is the best business today, although place of enter tainment, beauty parlors, clothes dealers and perfumers should do we'll. It is favorable time to patronize these places.
 Today's Birthdatc.
 You should be interested in the fundamental principles of all things in life. You may have love of astrology. Hold tight to your purse strings No. 20-30. for you will be apt to overspend. Danger Sept II. Socially favorable Aug, xb.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

Everything's relative The American farmer is nabob to the Japanese farmer making 16 cents day.