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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-03
A Daily Story
 Real Life

When she reached the entrance.
 she drew back into the darkness
 but she peeked out cautiously. Dr Eidal had his arms about. the nurse, his two arms about her. and
 was kissing her! Kissing Miss Pert! Bernice looked again and fled to Murielfs bed. With furi- ous shake she got her out and into the doorway. pr Sidal had
 stopped kissing the nurse but he still had his arms about her In an discriminating position. Murlel
 gave vent to a Failing ooh
 What are you two kids doing here?" Dr Sidal asked little too
 loudly. .sWhy do you two tell lies about us? You know. you almost
 made us quarrel? Don't look so
 shocked, I'm allowed to kiss my own wife"
 They're the queerest kids" sad
 Miss Pert. "You know what Ber- nice said the other day? Its hard to get out of love once you're in ift,
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Dr Sidal had his arms about the nurse and was kissing her.

, the attack. It was painful to speak to Dr Sidal because of his near
 ness. But Muriel looked brave and spoke .timidly.
 You know it's going to be very hard for us to get better. We need
 good care m other things to make
 us happy" Dr Sidal prickcd up his ears. Miss Pert never answers when we call. She hardly ever gives us any food, anyway. any good food, just bread and butter for instance and no cake. She also said you're not good doctor.
 SHE FIIRTS WITH
 ALL THE DOCTORS "She didn't give me anything to
 wash my eye with and she fiirts with all the doctors, even pr
 Hooke." Dr Hooke was about
 seventy years old" Dr Sidal looked at one another
 in surprise.
 "Hmmm. I'll have to look into
 this"
 It was about II o'clock duringf the night that Bernice was aroused by deep thirst. She called softly
 for the nurse. There was no reply.
 Bernice stepped into her funny
 mules and got into her red kimono. She glided quietly into the hall.
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versalist minister. He was living at Yarmouth. on Cape Cod, when the Civil War broke out.
 In September, 1862, when IA, he enlisted in Company l., 5th Massachusetts Infantry, as a drummer boy. He served for nine months in the 18th Army Corps and wanted to re-enlist, but his father refused permission and sent him back to school.
 Lincoln's family consists of his wife. four sons and one daughter.
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Seen in passing Paul Butler, Worcester boy, now representing Dun and Bradsree here, is gimpsed daily huyng into the marble palace where his popularity knows no bounds where he transac considerable business
 Mrs Albert Rosenbeck patient in St Marys hospital
 Ronald Delaney has been discharged from the nsu tpn . . Our profuse thanks to John Luddy of 100 New Haven avenue for his tinfoil contribution Rev. Dr. James Gregg of the First Church will speak at the Plants vile Congregational church. Sunday evening, Russia Today. . Mrs Harry Newman of Naugatuck has been discharged from St. Mary's hospital. Ditto for Mrs Nellie White of Cheshire. Rev T. L. Sinclair the speaker Thursday St Peters church in Cheshire Mrs E. Dutton Lley and her daughter have sailed for long stay abroad Elizabeth Irving Chase is in Cocoa Grande Florida where she will remain month before joining her mother Mrs Irving H. Chase in Palm Beach, MT and Mrs Samuel P Williams Jr, and MT and Mrs Leavenworth F. Sperry have left for Dragoon Arizona where they will be the guests MT and Mrs w. Shirley Fulton of this city at their ranch Harry Zello mayor of North Square, doing very nicely at the Waterbury hospital after major operation
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Gloria Swanson has signed up with
MOyieprans.

Moviegrams. Gloria Swanson has signed up with M-G-M "Three Weeks may be her first picture Jean ete Macdonald spent few weeks in New York prior to starting her new screenic, The Duchess of Demonicos She follows that with "The Merry Widow with Maurice Chevaer acting her graceful partner in the neverobe forgotten waltz Queen Christina" is already rated the greatest Greta Garbo picture in foreign circles The wordfamous Picchian Troupe of tumbers and bats are doing act for MG-M that used by their great grandfather, III years Alice Bradys weekly rental bill for library books $5 She forgets to return lem. . Charles Butterworth is lawyersolder actor Practiced law in Indiana in army four months . .. in pictures. Mary Carlisle, pictured so many times the college coed went to college.
 Helen Hayes at one time wanted to be a .. Jean Harlow although from Kansas City and Chicago attended Hollywood School for Girls Una Merkel is the most kssess girl in Hollywood She has appeared in 30 pictures and has only kiss the corecard Somethngl have to be done about that.
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Somebody has asked the TaH Toacer Mon l.

Somebody has asked the TaH Tower Mon to de,iue the naasculine proper - Christopher. beauti- fuL 7dme # there and aOith an eUen more beautiful meaming It's combination of tyo Greek aOords meaning Christ and bearer Christopher thus becomes Christi -bedrer. The legend Qround st. Christopher patron saint o oH traveers, is also beau ful. Some dag nay repeat i, but its almost too aUeu knocm to be reoId The Lan form of Christopher IS Christophorus; French, Chrisophe: Ialion Crsto foro; Spanish, Cristobal; Portuguese, Chrstovao; German, Christophorus Christoph. Dimnutives are Kester, Kit, and Chris.
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Good Evening.
"AND LAUGHING ALLEGRA"

 (Note Mrs. Annie "A.egra" Longfelow ThOrp,t last daughter of Henry w. Longfellow, died this week at the family home
 Craigie House, Cambridge) In the glow of the late afternoon lamplight The poet saw them descending the stair Grave Alice and Laughing Allegra And Edith with golden hair" Go back in. memory to that hour Just between the dark and the daylight When poets three young daughters Were a comfort and joy to his sight"
 ty" The years have sped by very quickly, 2, The poet of New England has gone, Grave Alice and goldenhaired Edith They, too, have also passed on. The old New England setting through the years Lost it's poet, then two of the three, And now, too, Laughing Alegra, Last of the Longfellow family. Oh, memories come between the dark and the daylight When the night is beginning to lower'' AS we pick worn Longfeow volume And turn to The Childrens Hour Elm. En-
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By MIRIAM TANE ,

TIT WAS for Mue and Bernce to become sincere
 friends while they in the hospital since they strongly united by bond They both loved Dr Sda the most handsome physician they had examine them.
 Although they were both at the inconvenent age of eleven they knew the symptoms having geamed them from story book and movie heroines, amours.
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Wright Plane Hangs
 With Famed Exhibits
Close to Amy Johnson's Machine in British Museum
 Dummy Pilot Seen in Pit

uel Henson, lies in nearby case.
 It was called the Aerial Steam
 Carriage; the boiler was housed
 In the body; it had two prQpellors and was driven by crossed multi pie. cord belts. The machine never flew. but it's design is remarkably
 similar to that of the machines
 flown half a century later.
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The Cast of Characters in
 "Oh, Doctor

BERNICE. youthful and ro-
 mantle.
 MURIEL. very much ditto. DIR. SIDAL, who is treating the two rOmancers. MISS PERT. a nurse.
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The president of Cuba Is
 CoL.. CARLOS MENDIETA.' The next presidential term will 'begis JAN. 20, .1037. Acadia National Park is on Mt. Desert { Island, on the MAINE COAST, and on the point across French
 mans Bay. 4
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professional manner. The girls wanted to grin at him., but they gave him a sweet, grown-up smile instead. He pinched Bernice's cheek She turned to Mdriel. Muriel was watching them with hawk eyes.
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Cords to tue Toacer include from Attorney N. V Blansfeld oho recently flew aU tue way from Nea0 orE to Los Angeles aUhere be is visting Wth friends He acrites "1S miles to Tia Juama and Agua Caliente. This IS lovely city (Sam Dego) aud climate s the best n Calif. Hoss and casino to- day (Snn.) No blue laUs in old Me1ico. M Y. Bdnsfeld
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they. went into long consultation.
 Dr Sidal must boycott Miss Pert, and for effectiveness, she must do the same to the doctor. They thought of everything. The girls would paint Dr Sidal as a dyed-in-
 the-woo1 william to Miss Pert. On the other hand. they would splash mud on the nurse by repeating things to the doctor which would
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Amour other things

Among other things . .. The reorgan=ed Water- buyg philharmonic orcHestya aoM give concert ut Buckingham Hull ,Oeek from Su'aday. That letter in the ToaCer onent the "Abrigador c0used lots of Tribune baseball club for ne1t summer AleTander Soden acas recently inated by the Burns club Ed gar D. Dcyer back ct hs desk in the post office after teacher is aveeh-ending in Gotham Girl scout ead- CTS Uent for slegh ride Wednesday, night (terally . The lote Tom Delowry ,cas cousin of the great Eddie Foy Rev. Thomas Shanahan s. J.. Holy Cross pr0f aCas c recent UisitOr 20 tOlCn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-03

Editor Tall Tower Topics 1 noticed recent con- rbuor your column called attention the disappearance of the "Abrigador presume that it's like all old Indian names that applied to certain sections New residents want and modern names Some day when you haven't hard days work ahead of you, I'd like to have you print the origin derivation of this particular name "abrigador". Old Resident. (Wouldnt be surprised if it's meaning and derivation might along of these days in the Democrats History of Waterbury which appears daily An the editorial page If it doesn't I'll be only too glad to come to the rescue.-The Ed.)
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-29

out to them: you'll lose Jour jobs"
There is plenty of economic coward
ice in the Negro glence on "Steve-
dore", just plain fear of losing favor
with those in control by backing a
play aimed against them
Yes Sir, Boss
Now that I have said that, there
will be those to boot a. it and assert
that 'The Green Pastures" is simply
a better play. Better for whom?
Sur ly no. for those Of US who need
to see our problem in its clear light
lem in its clear light and having seen
it, need the inspiration to struggle.
Anyhow, I think it's time to drop
this Eyes sir, boss" attitude and quit
trailing along behind outworn tradi-
ton. We don't need plays written
around the fanciful belief that we
are happy sis ing around waiting for
the Lord to descend with an Ell Roi
Tan (adv.) in his mouth. What we
need is a theater to help US under
stand the world as it is, and prepare
us for che battles on this earth. That
what "Stevedore" does.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-29
S G r j. E N I N G S
By Camera Eve
Yep, Just An Imitation

Gulf Imita-
ton Of Life is without doubt Hol-
lywood's best picture about Ne
groes and Negro life. There are
flashes Of genuine understanding
and sympathy for the Negro char
acters in the story that concerns
a problem of passing and the re
lationships between two mothers,
one white and the other colored,
and their daughters.
Snbtlv interviewer in the pic
ture is the old. old theme Of the
"lovalty' of the Negro. and the
picture ends on a note of complete
defeat. You leave the show with
a sense Of helplessnesS and de-
spair. The essence of the picture
is that last scene where you learn
that Ferdi Washington. who plays
the part of the colored DAUGHTER
is going down South to a Negro
school. And there you have it
White is white and black is black
and never the twain shall meet. AT
least not in Hollywood.
Claudette Colbert is billed as the
star Of the play. She ism t. The
honors helon" TO louise Beavers
and Ferdi Washington.
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HFpNDnN CASE TO COME
BEFORE u. s. SUPREME
G o U r T

ATLANTA,
famous case Of Angelo Herndon
was placed in the hands Of the II.
s. Supreme Court when Chief
Justice Richard B. Russell Of the
Georgia Supreme Court last
Thursday allowed the appeal of
the highest bench.
Herndon. a leader of the Unem-
plcved Council in Atlanta. was
sentenced to serve Is to 20 years
on the chain gang on a charge Of
"inciting to iusurrection. The
statue on which the sentence was
based was passed in 1861 to crush
slave uprisings. Herndon's ar
rest followed by a few days. meet
ine which be had called. to ask re-
lief for Atlan+a's unemnloved.
Herndon was released last fall
from Fulton Tower Prison. where
he had spent 26 months. when his
$15.en bail was raised bv popul-
ar subscription. He is now on a
torr Of the West Coast on behalf
Of he ScottsboHro bows.
The International Labor Defense
ottnrnevs in the brief for Hern-
1nn "h"'lon~n the constitutional
'ty Of the 1861 statute.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-29
TRICKERY. FORCE BRINGS
EXTENSION FOR
ACT
By AL Jackson
Secretary, Share Choppers Union

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-(CNA)
BY keeping share-croppers from
voting in some places and in others
driving them to the polls to vote
under complusion to suit the land
lords, the A A A, in a fake refer
endum held in the South last
week, obtained another years
lease Of life for the Bankhead Act
which is driving thousands of
share-croppers and tenants into
starvation. The sudden desire of
the white landlords and merchants
to grant the ballot to the Negroes.
at least for this particular election.
is easilv explained by the fact that
the referendum required a mini
mum two-thirds vote to be legal
Tho acreage reduction program
of 1894 brought about the destruc-
ton Of the normal existence-such
as it was-of over a million agri-
cultural workers IN the South.
These people are denied adeou-
ate relief by the landlords and by
the government.
Thousands of troopers have be-
en evicted because of the acreage
reduction program, and are forced
to return to the plantations to
work for the landlords for food.
Thus forced labor plantations are
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-29
COSTIGAN-WAGNER BILL
UP TO DEMOCRATS, SAYS
WALTER WHITE

Washington, d. c., Dec. 14.-"Pas-
sage of the Costigan-Wagner anti
lInching bill is squarely up to the
Democratic party and there is no way
in which / can escape or dodge that
re possibility, Walter White told thu
Conference on Civil Liberties held
her December 8 and 9.
Mr.. White, poiu ed out that last
months Democratic victory "makes
/. possible for the measure to pass
if not a single south m member of
either heu e of Congress votes for
the measure Thus, if the anti
lynching bill fails of passaga in the
74th Congress, the forty-two million
people who through their organiza-
tons have urged passage Of Ahe. bill
will know beyond all doubt who is r.
sponsible.o
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= We may not receive presents by

IeL we may not receive presents by
bagfuls
So many Of our friends hav- passed
Ito eternity
So when 1885 con- S rolling in let's
make a new book for our lives
To clear ours Ives Of din and sin.
And do only the things we would
gladly do twice
Friends, | do hope you will look at
this little poem in the right light and
if we can only do l. or try to do it,
4 am sure WI would feel better, live
better and feel safer. 1t IL just as
easy to do right, | believe easier than
to do wrong. / do believe that a
clear conscience is The most peac full
thing in a mans life. l am sure that
anyone who has done an unju.t deed
or pulled what w slangly say "a fast
one. even though they try o pretend
they are satisfied. are really not sat
isf ID, but try no pull that skim over
hi, conscience. Yet there is some
thing that will force him sooner or
later to admi his wrong
Think this over and Sc if 1 am not
right, and if so make your New Years
book up Of these facts and stamp on
the back Of l. in plain view Of your
friend "The truth about my lif ? and
live up to it. | am sure you will en-
joy the best year of your entire life,
Try i.
Yes, Yes! They say it really hap
pened last week. A young buss boy
who seel3 to be doing track workouts
on Lake street, did a mila in one flat
last week on Lake and he accom-
Elished This great one way act ''back-
wards. 1t is untitled. Running and
Looking Back. Ask R. Davis.
Well friend if you will stop and
think a moment you will realize that
every poet, president author, in fact
.anyoni that the people wish to re-
member has his birthday or the day
that he did or accomplished some
hing set aside on the. calendar ex-.
.cept Uncle Tom. va. he is me. kept
in tn eye of the public daily. Last
Saturday morning they had a Christ
mas tree for the employees in the
coffee shop at the Paxton and some
good guest left $500 to be given the
three buss boys. The oh f gave out
The money and when sthe called n
Of them and gave him the $1.O0 he
fell on his knees. kissed the $1.O0 and
said, ooh Lord, Mrs. Merrell, did the
good white man I ALLY give me this?
Oh God bless him" while the other
employees had a merry laugh and tn
a her buss boy shed tears. Why not
let thu dead rest?
Mr.. 1. Fisher went to work Satur-
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established in which hundreds of
troopers, tenants and farm work
ers toll without reseiving wages,
with no regulations as to working
hours or WORKING conditions.
The Bankhead Act operates to
limit the number Of bales Of cot
ton that a poor farmer may gin
or sell without paying gin tax. 1t
is in essence an ac Of fe7erai tax
alton. imposed unon po~r farmers,
cotton to get funds to pay off the
rich planters for the land they
rent ed to the government under
the 1884 AAA contracts. 1t is al
50 an act to exclude from tie mar
ket the poor farmers cotton, there
by giving the big planters the
chance to place their cotton on
the market. The operation of this
act forces the small farmer to sell
to the local landlords at home, and
reyaiva the lowest non-market
prices.
Already the Geeson Lumber
Company of Montgomery, Ala
bama, has received a government
to make as possible $1,000 single
oxen yokes. These are to be used
on the governments rehabilitation
forced labor farms which the
AAA plans to drive evicted crop
.pers and tenants. By ESTABLISHING
rehabilitation farms in the South
under government control, the
government officials and the land
lords hope to evade the response
| bility for providing relief for the
reedv farming masses in the
| South.
The Shares Chopper Union is
now preparing to send "a delega-
ton to Washington, composed of
share creppers, tenants s, poor
farmers and farm workers, to de-
mand discrimination ofthe Bank
head Bill, and immediate cash and
adequate winter relief for all
farming people in need of food
clothing and other necessities.
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{ have to call it "The Fontenelle Jr.'
Oh wall. here is some real news for
you. Last week they had what you
might call a religious chaL among the
boys and listen, what came up. Mr.
Fisher said he att nded a revival
meeting at a church pastored b. Rev.
MCGEE. They called all sinners TO the
front to b, prayed for and Mr.. George
MCGEE came up with several Others
The whole church joined in prayer and
rejoic d over the prospect Of a new
soul entering into the flock Alter
a long PRAYER, Rev. MCGEE said
"Amen". CHANGING over the b nch he
saw still kneeling, the son George.
Reverend and hi fellows began to
ing louder and pleaded with the
Savior 10 let this young mar enter in
to that great Christian fold. AS a
sister and brother began praying
louder over him, behold! George woke
-p. Oh ne. How could it be?
Sleep?
Mrs. VIM. Owsley told me Friday
hat Mr.. Owsley was, doing fine. We
are all glad to hear that I am ure
The sick list has given up Mr.. Mallory,
and I ~underatand, will r lease Mr.
Mudd in short. Let's hope.
It. is surelJ hard to borrow money.
Believe me. A young man thai
spent mFny months in the C.C.C.
Camp and is now employ-d at a down
town hotel, tried from 7 a. m. until
10 p. m. 70 get $500 from pals, fell
low workers. and loan offices, and
even with l 0 he gave up hope 1t
is pitiful that Santa Claus do sn't car
Try a few ca h dollars in his old pack.
I guess Bert Williams was right
when he said, "when you get your
hands on a dollar again, hold on to it
it's your only friend when you are in"
Ask this young man.
Well. ma w, all enter 1885 with
a 100 per cent for each other. and
may God help Us to. realize the. old
saying, "you may be up today apd
down tomorrow, but if we are all for
each oher, the skidding will be much
easier. Happy, New Year
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-29

The National Convention of the
Church o food in Crist convietned
for 20 days ending December Is.
Tose who attended were Mrs. K.
Chambers, Mrs. Frances Milton,
Mrs. Villa Buffkin, Mrs. James
Mother Emma Benson,
Elder Z. ID. Robinson, pastor Of
Omaha church, Mrs. Goletha Hal
come, and Mother Bell.
1t met at Mempis, Tenn.