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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-13
This is the third and last ar- ticIc of a series on the progress of federal aid housing projects.
By WILLIS THORNTON Democrat Service Stan
 COrespondent)

Slum elimination in cities was one of the first things tackled by the Public Works Administration in it's effort to put building crafts men back at work and begin the re-housing of America.
 Yet six months after the PWA first offered it's loans in this cause, not a single project has been com pleted or is near completion.
 That is not as hopeless as it sounds. The problem is a stagger- ing one.-
 For 30 years. America has been talking slum elimination. And in all that time, experts doubt if single such project yet has been built on the site of raZed slums at cost which permitted the former slum occupants to move into the new development.
 RENTS FAR TOO HIGH
 For months, Robert b. kohn, the eminent architect who headed PWAs housing work waited for applications for loans. The govern ment was pleading with builders to take it's money at 4 per cent, and build.
 But the applications revealed q shocking shortcoming - almost none of them provided housing at $8.50 a room or less. And that was considered essential, because slum dwellings rent for $2.50 or $3 room, and average $6.
 Unless new buildings could rent for something like that, the very people who were to be benefited wouldn't be able to touch them.
 Already under way was, how ever, one big New York project, Knickerbocker Village, with q loan of $8,075,000 from the REC as self-liquidating project.
 Al Smith swung a sledge on the first work of demolition of slum tenements in the block of Market, Cherry, Catharine, and Monroe Streets that long had been notori- ous. Sixteen hundred fapilies are to be provided for at $12.50 q room. This is. of course, an i'm provement, but scarcely solved the cheap housing problem.
 LITTLE RELIEF GIVEN
 Loans went slowly under the original government plan. Almost three and a half millions were allotted to a suburban New York project, and $3.500,0O0 to Neptune Gardens Inc, in Boston.
 A Brooklyn project got an allot- ment of s2,000,000, but none of these properly was slum elimina- ton affair nor did they provide really cheap housing which would bo a genuine relief to tenement dwellers.
 Somewhat less than $50,O00,000 was allotted in this way. But it wasn't moving fast enough.
 So in October, the Public Works Emergency Housing Corporation was formed, with $100,000,000 of PWA money back of it.
 It announced that it would go ahead and build slum elimination projects in any city that asked it
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U. 5. ARMY BUYS
 AIR FACTORY
Portable Plant to Manu=
 fracture Oxygen Now at Dayton, 0.

Washington (UP)-In jockeying for position on the tail of the enemy in the next yar," Army sky fighters will have no fear of the stratosphere. They will be provid- ed with plentiful supplies of nome made air"
 The war department has pur- chased the first portable plant for the manufacture of oxygen to be built in this country. The huge Laboratory" virtually complete chemical plant on wheels, has ben placed in service at Wright Field, Dayton, O.
 The new unit is mounted on a II feet, three inches high, and weighs, completely equipped, over 22 tons. It's chassis has 10 drive wheels, 12 forward speed shifts, and three reverse.
 It is geared to produce 15 liters or liquid oxygen per hour, suffi- cient to fill sjx small vaporizers, used by army aviators at high al- titudes, each hour. The contrivance is mobile and may be commandeer- ed for duty with aerial squadrons at any temporary base.
 At high tltitudes, the department explained, a pilot cannot retain consciousness without an extra supply of oxygen. The new machine is equipped to furnish planes with extra oxygen for al- titude flying on short notice.
 During peacetime, the lair fac- tory' will be pressed into service at outlying army airdromes, where commercial supplies of liquid oxy- gen are difficult to obtain.
 English and German flying corps, it was understood, are equipped with similar plants.
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The government entry into the field, after offered loans to limit ed dividend corporations did not produce results, could be halted only if private building took over the job again. they felt.
 Fabricated houses, and the new materials in glass and steel seen by so many visitors to the Century of Progress, are being perfected. Bror G. Dahlberg, q Chicago building material manufacturer, insists that 10,0O0,OO0 families want to build homes if substantial, modern houses can be erected for around $3,000.
 The mass of people would rush to buy such homes, he believes, as they rushed to buy automobiles when the price came down to the $500 range. Housing, in Dahlberg's s view, Is in just the situation the automobile business would be in to-day if no automobile ever had been built under the $3,000 class.
 Dahlberg believes that through new ingenuities in design and ma-
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JOKE ON THE COPS

Even a robbery may have its funny side. Lila Lee was robbed recently, and few days later a boy was arrested while trying to dispose of one of her valuable rings for $5. He admitted the crime and was taken to the police station.
 On the way to his cell, the boy centured the information that the best piece of jewelry still was hid den in his shoe. A gleaming neck lace and pendant was brought forth. Several pairs of police eyes nearly popped right out of their heads and they put in a rush call to Miss Lee, requesting 8 valuation.
 Lila listened intently while a de- scription was given to her. Then she burst into laughter.
 That" she said, "is what my young son bought for me in one of our better 10-cent stores"
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her that marriage now would in-

her that a marriage now would in- terfere with her career.
 So Julith has turned thumbs down, even though she admits that spring is in her blood. And what tough break for the boy friend, whom she refuses to name, who has been donating locks of his hair for the eyelashes Judith wears on the screen.
 Judith's decision to remain sin gle probably is prompted also by the fact that her carere is coming along very nicely at the moment. She just has finished playing the lead in Marrying Widows" is cur rently playing one of the featured roles in Cleopatra" and, as soon as that is finished, she will play the leading role in "The Witching Hour" a two-time winner back in the old silent days.
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4HtS.hHAL
 A further srag was encountered Comptroller General McCarl ruled the whole thing illegal, refusing to o. K. any expenditures. It took time to iron that out, and a work ing understanding was not arrived at until early February.
 Since then th4 urban housing plans have moved somewhat fast CT. Two or three pending projects were ordered to proceed. Definite information on these is hard to get, for the corporation does not an- nounce any plan until it is all but toned up.
 Fighting land gougers is hard enough without giving them warn ing in advance But the corporation quietly is acquiring land in several cities.
 One of it's most interesting pro- jects got under way immediately after McCarrs objections had been removed. It advanced a little more than $1,000,0c0 to the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosi- cry Workers in Philadelphia to build 2S4 apartments, consisting of 1884 rooms of the most modern
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GARDEN

One of the most genuinely inter-
 esting motion pictures of the sea- son is Beloved" the Universal "musical romance of . century which opens to-day at the New Garden theater. John Boles and Gloria Stuart play featured roles in this highly unusual production, and Boles sings several songs as
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REAL SISTER ACT

One of the most difficult jobs faced by film producers in casting pictures containing sister roles is to find two actresses who have that family resemblance. There will be no worry on that score in
 making "Stolen Sweets" however.
 Sally Blanc and Polly Ann Young play the sister roles. And they have been real life sisters for years.
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HAD ONE ADMIRER, AT LEAST!
 And now, Otto Kruger is ex- posed. He used to stand in front of a mirror and make faces at himself to develop versatility.
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IN LOVE, BUT WON'T WED

Judith Allen is not going to marry again--at least, not for sev- era1 years. However, it was an astrologer and not her unfortunate marriage with Gus Sonnenberg, the rassling feller, who brought about this decision. The astrologer told
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 knowledge and the power to drive from the earth the loathsome, tor turing disease called tuberculosis.
 "Help him my friends with your prayers. Even though he himself is only an ordinary citizen, an or dinary doctor, who deserves neither praise nor prayer from you. can you not afford 0 little petition to the Lord that he and his associate physicians of Connecticut may have the honor and the privilege to announce to the world, that ths reign of the tubercle bacillus iS ended, the honor and the great joy to bring laughter and grati tude to the thousands of fathers and mothers in Connecticut alone. who tonight are weeping beside the beds of their wasting and coughing sons and daughters. If with the help of your prayers, the dreamy old doctor or his associates are soon able to cry out to these heart- broken parents, Weep no more. dear people, your children are now easily brought back to health and happiness, will not you, and this old doctor and his associate physi- clans have participated in Catholic Action of tho highest order?
 "A few words about another phase of Catholic Action. If we are to organize under the banner of Catholic Action in A m a. oughtn't we at the very beginning show appreciation not only for the worthwhile lives of our co-religion- ists, but for such of our neighbors of other faiths than ours, whose deeds and words prove them to be men and women of outstanding merit before God and man? Tho American people is in many ways different from any other on earth. The success of Americas future depends more on the obeying of the Lords command to love our neigh bors, than does the success or any other country. You must have In Waterbury many non-Cathoilc citi- zens whom you admire not because of their wealth or their political skill, but because of their high untarnished honor. their unselhsh- ness, their mindedness, and their sacrifices for the poor anu the hurt. Such @ man was the late Arthur Reed Kimball. Such a man was Charles r. Brooker. Such man was Max Adler. Such a man was one of the heroes of my young manhood, Dr Francis Bacon of l New Haven, and, if may be per mitted to name the living. such men are his excellency, Coy. Wfi- bur l.. Cross and Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale and the world. Nothing could do more to break down the barriers of suspicion ana distrust, and perhaps hate, than an honor list by Catholic Action containing such names as l nave indicated"
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Dr. Maher Asks Prayer That His
 Lifes Work Be Accomplished

'T'm not sure that have a thor. ough technical knowledge of the meaning of the phrase Catholic Action Nevertheless, am proud to be invited to attend this first attempt to start Catholic Action in 1 have learned from the cablegrams to the various American newspapers, that the Holy Father in Rome, places great dependence and great expectations on the success of Catholic Action, expectations that it will not only benefit our great church, but that 1t will benefit the whole world, that it will bring peace to families and to nations, that 1t will lift the burdens Of the poor, that 1t will lead even the most selfish, the most cynical, the most rebellious to realize that the only true philosophy, the only sat- isfactory motivation for human life, are the philosophy and moti- vation contained in the old alpha betical slogan of one of our great religious orders GA. M. D. G) Cad majorem del gloriam). For the greater glory of God.
 "Of course, am not deserving of all the fine compliments that have been paid to me since l came here today. I am only dreamy old doctor, some of whose dreams have come true, and who is con- fident that his great dream. the dream that has haunted him for more than 50 years, will surely come true, if God will give him a little longer to live, and if his friends among the priests and the nuns, and among the rabbis and the ministers will continue to pray to God for his success. Yes, he IS confident this great dream of his will soon be realized, and possibly in Connecticut. by himself or some of Connecticut's physicians. His great dream is to acquire the
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he remarked. '.It is as old as the Catholic church. Christ himself inc spired 1t and the original workers and preachers were the apostles. Catholic action is manifest in the daily life of all Catholics, from the baptismal fount to the grave" The city's slogan of Waterbury having something on everybody should be made to include that in Catholic endeavor and leadership Water1 bury also has something on other communities"
 Rev Eugene Moriarty, of St Patrick's church, New Haven, formerly of St Margaret's church, this city, ofiiciated as toastmaster and in q masterly way presented the various speakers He paid high tribute to the work of Sheridan council of Waterbury, commended 1t for it's recent activities, which in- dicate that it Is rapidly returning to its former position of influence and prestige. He urged all young Catholic men of the city to become members and made an appeal for the cooperation of priests and their parishioners in furthering the Catholic Action movement so auspiclously initiated by the dinner.
 Father Moriarty was introduced by Grand Knight John F. Robin. son. chairman of the general com. mittee of arrangements. MT Robin son left St. Mary's hospital yester- day afternoon to attend the func- tion. He suffered an injury to his back several weeks ago and will be obliged to remain at his home un- der doctors supervision for several weeks more. Grand Knight Robin- son welcomed the guests of the evening in the name of the Knights of Columbus and expressed his ap- preciation of the cooperation giv- en him by his committees and lo- cal Catholic organizations.
 Rev Leo Finn of Oakville, chap lain of Sheridan council, gave both the invocation and the benediction. His impressive appeal for divine guidance of all in the present trou- blesome age, particularly to those charged with the education of oth- CTS, his petition for the grace of forebearance and tolerance, were remarked upon by subsequent speakers.
 During the evening Mrs. Marie Bauby Buckley and Miss Loretta Skelly and the Songsters' quartetto. Joseph Harrigan, Joseph Connors, Steve O'Brien and John McClelland rendered selections, accompanied by Prof. Frederick r. Harmon, or- ganist of the Church of the Im- maculate Conception.
 Delegations of knights were present from Danbury, Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, Naugatuck, Watertown, Torrington and Chesh- ire. The Notre Dame Alumni chap. ter of Bridgeport and the Catholic club of the Roxbury school were also represented.
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have it's eternal hills, he remarked also but Waterbury has Burnt Hill, Bucks Hill, Bunker Hill and may God be with it---Brandy Hill! It was in the Brandy Hill section of Waterbury, Railroad Hill street, where Monsignor McGivney was born.
 "Waterbury is known as the City of Brass" he continued, "but would prefer to know it as the Golden City of Catholicity. It is my birthplace and although l have spent most of my 46 years of priesthood in other cities of the state 1t is still nearest to my heart. The late Rev Lawrence Walsh, early pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, once pray ed that when he died that his soul on it's way to heaven would pass through his native land, Ireland. It is my prayer that when my soul has been separated from my body that my mortal remains shall pass through Waterbury on the way to my eternal resting place."
 With some feeling Monsignor McGivney invoked Gods blessing upon Waterbury, the Golden City of Catholicity, and upon it's resi- dents.
 Rev Thomas Conlon, o. F., also a native of Waterbury, praised the Knights of Columbus, for sponsor ing the Catholic Action dinner, ex- pressed the wish that all present would leave the hotel inspired with the sentiments so e1oquently ex- pressed by the speakers.
 "Catholic action is nothing new"
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life at its deepest; and they have an abysmaI ignorance of what has been the most fruitful source of 1n- spiration for the geniuses of all time-Catholic philosophy.
 Won't Lose Religion
 r. I have talked to a great many such people about Catholic educa- tion. They tell me that their son will not lose his faith at x univer- sity because he has, always gone to mass every Sunday and to holy communion once a month without having to be reminded of these ob- ligations. They tell me that their daughter intends to keep up corre- spondence with Sister Annunciata at the academy where she spent year, and that she will have that safeguard for her religion. It never occurs to those parents that this superficial view considers only the negative side of the salvation of their children, and that by robbing them of chance for Catholic phil osophy they are not only impover- ishing the lives of their children as individuals, but that they are de- priving both church and state of the contribution to sound citizen- ship that Catholic education can give, and which both church and state have q right to expect of those in 8 position to give it.
 For these people-and their number is legion in this country 1t seems to me'that the "sales ap- proach," as 1t is called, is to point ,,t ha Catholic, 1icpnunrnrc nf the Catholic church. You might indicate, for instance, that it was President Roosevelt who discovered Catholic economics for us. In his campaign speeches. in his inaugural address, in the national recovery act, our courageous president has time and again called on the Ency- clical of Pope Plus XI. Quadrage- simo Anno. for principles of justice in determining the relations of cap ital and labor. But be it said to our shame the majority of educated Catholics in this country have been ignorant of the great encyclical of Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, in which that illustrious pontiff made his own the principles of justice for which Bishop Kettler fought in Germany; and they were ignorant in spite of the fact that the Cath ollie press and Catholic schools stress this encyclical in every way possible. Prosperity was with, us then, and the world paid no heed --so Catholics, attuned to the spirit of the world, paid no heed. When Plus XI, forty years later, reiterat- ed and further explained these principles, the world was chastened by a depression, and the world list ened. Plus XI has pointed out many things that still remain to be done before justice will prevail; and conscientious Catholics will learn what these things are and will help to put them into practice. Non-CathOlics Show Way
 We might point out to these apologetic Catholics that the great principle of authority as opposed to experimentation in fundamentals
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lems. if they cannot bring to their civic duty the rich contribution which the church's nineteen hum dred years of experience and phil osophy have accumulated, their leadership is frustrated. Others can render such service just as well, perhaps better.
 The rich Catholic traditions Of Connecticut lead me to expect that here we can look for a higher type of Catholic Action. It seems to me that here we can look forward to the unfolding of ambition for the highest type of Catholic scholar ship, for the development of the deepest Catholic life. The Holy Father has well described what he wants as Action-Catholic Action. It is action that flows into every activity of life. Such a soul will siege eagerly upon everything that Catholic education has to off, fer, and will throw into it's service of church and state everything it has been able to glean from the Catholic masters who have embel. lished every department of life.
 Keep Eyes to the Sky
 No long ago q graduate of Notre Dame who is now studying law al a state university wrote me letter in which he lamented the utilitar- ian philosophy which prevails on the campus there. He was full of pity for the students. He said: "These kids are doing remarkably well for batting around in the dark. They have utility instead of princi- pie thrown at them. Their eyes are turned straight ahead or down to earth. Why not? There's no Golden Dome there, and no Blessed Lady, to draw them to the sky" And while you, my dear friends, may never have seen the Golden Dome and Lady in the setting sun at Notre Dame, you have that same Blessed Mother to lead you on. Keep your eyes to the sky.
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Inspirational Talks Heard At Sheridan
 Council Testimonial
Work in State-NOtre Dame Cleric and Dr Maher Delight Large Audience With Addresses

"The Catholic Church stands foremost today in organ
 zed social action declared Governor Wilbur L. Cross last evening of the prominent guest speakers at the Catholic Action dinner held at the Elton under the auspices of Sheridan Council Knights of Columbus More than 400 persons forming of the most representative assembages of Catholic clergy and i in the recent history of the city, heard not only Governor Crosss euogy of the social