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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Miss Phoebe Johnson of the John
Greer home, who has been in poor
health for some time, is not SO we'll
the last few days
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

L Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smith of NAL
ia, who left Wednesday of last
week, by automobile, to visit Mrs.
Smiths sister, Mrs. George Croy OF
Morton, Miss, arrived home We'd
nesday evening.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15
Attend Sportsmen Banquet
At Cambridge

The following from here attend
ed the annual banquet of the
Guernsey County Fish and Game
association, held Monday evening
at the Masonic temple at Cam
bridge: Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Par
miter, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Gardner,
Clarence and Donald Matson, Clay
ton McAtee, Forrest Patterson and
Charles Kennard.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Mr.. II. e. White returned Tues
day from a business trip to Chi
cago where he made purchases for
Whites stores.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Mr.. M. w. Balderson visited the
week end with his friend Mrs. An
ME Kyle of Licking county.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Mrs. Kenneth Tompkins of the
Yellow Rose restaurant, has been
i'll with grip.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15
Mrs. Lida Hummer Very Low

Mrs. Ida RUNNER whose illness
has been noted, is now in critical
condition. She is being cared for
by Mrs. Minnie Huntington.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Mr.. Jack Williams of Columbus
visited here Wednesday with his
father--in-law Mr.. G.. c.. Mckay.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Mr.. Roy Walker has been confin-
ed to his home with heavy cold.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Columbus, will be the speaker on
this Friday evening. He will speak
on the subject Insurance. .
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15

Mrs. Gus Carr of Malta is in
very poor health.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-02-15
Believe Neal Bowman Robbed
Columbus Bank

The Linden branch of the Ohio
National bank, Columbus, was rob-
bed Tuesday forenoon shortly after
10 o'clock, of $500, and the rob-
bers took $285 from a woman de-
positor There were four members
of the gang, and one of them was
identified by one of the four GUS
toners in the bank as Neal Bow
man, who on Christmas day escaped
from the Lima state hospital for
the criminal insane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
Why Worry?

If the reports now being received at Washington are correct Great Britain IS about to try to reclaim her old position as undisputed mistress of the seas. The British admiralty it is said, has concocted a plan for naval expansion under when Great Britain would add very materially to it's fleet, especially in light cruiser strength. There are several reasons TOT this.
 To begin with, the British are worried by developments in the Far East. The European situation, likewise, IS far rom reassuring. Looking on troubled inter- national horizon, the British are begin- ming to feel that they need more ships, and it is hard to blame them. In addition the nation now is in better shape finan- cially than has been the case for years. 1t could support the cost of an expanded naval program; indeed, it could take thousands of men off the dole and put them to work in the shipyards, thereby making that cost less than it would ap- pear on paper.
 Now the part of this which especially touches readers in the United States IS the effect that new naval program might have on American naval policy. II Britain builds new fleet, what do we do? Do we build ship for ship with her - thereby, because our requirements are SO different from hers, acquiring lot or light cruiser strength that we don't es- pecially need?
 Do we let the naval treaties lapse anu % ahead with free hand building what we choose? Or do we simply give up the idea of naval parity, let England build whatever she wishes, and go along very much as we are now? Before answering those questions, we ought to look at the in ternational situation with extreme care and ask ourselves just what we expect to do with our navy.
 , Have we any reason to suspect that we may want to use it against Great Britain? Is there any indication that such differ ences as may arise between the two na- tions can't be settled peaceably? Is it, Tn short, a vitally important thing for us to have a fleet able to meet the British fleet on even terms? Unless the answer to each of these questions is an emphatic Yes, there is small sense in getting disturbed about England's decision to expand her navy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
Myles F. Connolly

The passing of Myles F. Connolly, one of Waterbury's oldest residents, while It had been more or less anticipated for some weeks back, still comes as a shock to his many friends and relatives, whose number are. perhaps as many as few have had the distinction of possessing MyleS F. Connolly could possibly come as near as anyone ever has had to being properly listed as an "old-timer" in Waterbury. Coming to this city back in 1869, shortly after the Civil War, he has practically been identified with the city through a period of sixty-fve years.
 Myles F. Connolly for half century or more has been at one time or another ac- lively connected with both politics and fra ternal associations in Waterbury. He only told the writer of this editorial not more than a year ago that he possessed the happy distinction of having voted the democratic ticket for over fifty years and was still voting it although he had what was perhaps the unfortunate distinction of never being elected or appointed to public office during that long term of ser- vice to his party. Yet he did not com- plain. That was Myles F. Connolly hoppy, jovial, a boon companion, well met.
 Again, Myles F. Connolly enjoyed the unique distinction of having been the first deputy grand knight of Sheridan Council, K. of c. Had he lived until next May he would have had the added distinction ot participating in that organizations gold- ela jubilee He was also numbered among the city's outstanding leading Elks and was prominently listed in many other fra ternal organizations past and present. Tn a word, Myles F. Connolly was real cltl- zen of which any city could be proud.
 Myles F. Connolly just fell short of at taining the grand old age of four score years, for had he lived until next Decem- Der he would have reached the ripe old age of eighty. His pleasant and ever af- fable presence will be missed by many, both young and old in Waterbury, for Myles F. Connolly numbered among his host of friends and acquaintances not only those of his own day and generation, but the younger generations as well. It was this happy disposition that tended to keep him young and it was this disposition that enkindled with it a city-wide affection very seldom extended to any single man. Waterbury will miss Myles F. Connolly as will those near and dear to him for many days to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
New England From The Road

There's something about New Eng land, after all," confesses a middlewest- erner with some prejudices against that section, returning after a driving trip ''It's so neat and green. Why, it's almost like driving for a thousand miles through park"
 He speaks with new appreciation of pleasant cities and towns; of unexpected cleanliness and order in rural villages; of houses looking new in their coats of white paint, though so old that Americans far ther west would have torn them down and rebuilt them-in worse styles-three or four times over; of fine roads winding gracefully through wooded hills; of farms well-kept, though small and poor; of the lack of rubbish and litter which so often disfigure an otherwise lovely American countryside.
 He finds in farmyards a characteristic difference between New England and newer sections. In states farther west he has been accustomed to seeing from the highway sad succession of tumble-down buildings along with new ones. The farm CT puts up new barn and lets the old one stand till it slowly sinks into the earth. It is often the same with houses the old one rotting near the new. New Englanders. he says, either clear away their aban- doned buildings, or else keep up and use the old ones forever-he isn't quite sure which.
 As for the general scenery, he is amazed at the trees. The eastern states are well wooded. Between cities, the coun- try almost everywhere seems thickly for ested. SHe wonders whether it is region of abandoned farms reverting to forests, or whether it was never so densely popu- lated as he thought. In contrast, the Mid- dle West seems full of people and almost treeless.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26

dia. Perrin seeks q loan from Peck's Impirt. Export bank in order to develop the mills. -sA.
 Whether he succeeds or not his proposal is important because of one thing. Someday soon, someone will build steel mills in South America. This marks the beginning of the industrlaliza- tion of those areas, the near day when. it will be increasingly difficult to sell them American manufactured products. HOW TO GET IT
 Over $50O,O00,000 is now avail able as government loans to pri- vate industry, big and little. The job of getting one may not be easy, but here is how to go about 1t.
 1. Applications must be made to the regional Federal Reserve bank, or to the local branch off, flee of the REC.
 2. Borrowers must furnish ade- quate security and an audit of their business, made within the past six months. . 8. Loans will be granted only for working capital needs, and not for new, or enlarged equip fnent. In the case of the REC, loans cannot exceed $500,000.
 4. Borrowers must prove that they were in business on Janu- ary 1, 1884, and that they are complying with the NRA.
 5. Loans granted will mature in five years, and the interest rate is the same as that charged by commercial banks on similar transactions.
 6. Large fees are barred to negotiators of such loans.
 MONOLOG
 Of all the municipal clamorers for PWA funds, Detroit's Mayor Frank Couzens, son of Michigan's multi millionaire senior senator, has been the most vocal. .
 The auto city has received only $3OO,000. Young Couzens claims this is far below what De- troit is entitled to. Secretary Ickes agrees, but says local red tape is solely responsible.
 IT sometimes wish," he re- marked, that all local statutes could be abolished. Then may be we could terminate some of these incessant dialogs between municipal authorities and the PWA." @
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
So They Say

Passionately attached to peace. we will never disturb anyone else's .eace.-Prerner Gaston Doumergue of France
 If public opinion is against anything. there must be changes, because public opinion is always right.--James J. DoolinS leader of Tammany Hall.
 There is nothing comic Postmaster Far ley trying to pose Puritan.-Coi Theodore Roosevelt.
 If there is any phase of medicine which predominantly demands study for the benefit of mankind in the coming century. it is that con- cerned with the mind of rather than with his body.-Dr Morris Fishben.
 The only rolution for unemployment is the de- velopment of industries as result of scien- tihc studes-Joseph S. Ames. president, Johns Hopkins University.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
Chuckle Corner
DOGS By R. F. TICK

We formerly believed in the old adage that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. It is our present belief however, that it's quite pos sible, providing You know more than the erstwhile canine.
 Dogs are supposedly more like a human than any other animal The one who has the loudest bark Id usually the meekest. Not unlike a good many people, dog will get into trouble just because he hasn't anything else to do. How ever. a dog doesn't harbor any skeletons in the closet; he buries his bones in the back yard: Cats are known to be his worst enemies. Aren't they our worst enemies too? Human Cats. That man who merged a dog pound with tree nursery certain ly should be doing an uphtting business.
 I'm glad that am not Spitz Who wears a tie; puts on the
 ritz.
 Pm glad I'm not little Peke Who's taught to act and look so meek.
 I'm thankful too, I'm Got
 Chow
 Or common wire-haired bow wow,
 Or Terrier and Airdale too Who rate so high in Dogdom's s
 pew.
 The lowly Dachshuud with his
 length
 The Boston known for breed and
 strength.
 or Fox and spaniel I have heard And oft have known the big
 Shephard.
 Of all Mutts I've seen around I'm glad m just plain Flea
 hound Wfdo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26

Washington, July 2s.--The currency imitation clamorers are at it again.
 The committee for the nation, which went into deep silence after the dismal flop of its Wirt Red-revolution scare, has start ed up its mimeographing ma chine and Is once more pouring out hot stream of imitation clamor. 'tt
 The bombastic fulminations of Senator Elmer Thomas about the European junkcitng of Gov ernor George L. Harrison, New Yorki Federal Reserve governor, were part of this revived agita- tion.
 The drive will really warm up when the president returns to the White House.
 Its immediate objective is to prevail upon Roosevelt to jack up the price of gold to the maxi mum permitted by law-$41.34 an ounce.
 The Committee for the Na- tion warns that unless this fur ther devaluation of the dollar is consummated without delay repudiation of private and public debt is inevitable.
 NEXT CONGRESS
 What the inflationists really are aiming at is the next con- gress.
 When it convenes. the admin istration will be confronted with the great problem of devising ways and means of paying the huge recovery bill, plus raising large sums for further public expenditures. That this last will be necessary, no one in authority doubts. .
 Two alternatives will be open to the government-(1.) in- creased taxation; (2.) imitation.
 Currency inflationists are made up of two clements; the higher bracket income class, such as the Committee for the Nation, who are opposed to boosted taxes; also the debt-rid- den farmer and middle class, who are opposed to boosted taxes; also the debt-ridden farmer and middle class, who can't afford new burdens. Both want the financing done via the imitation route. /
 United they make a we'll nigh irresistible force. They forced concessions from the president (the Silver Purchase bilD last session. There is every likelihood they will do so again. , ,'l
 CAPITAL CHAUFTEUSES
 Nine Washington taxi cabs are operated by women. For the most part they are wives of dis abled drivers carrying on their husbands work. In one case the wife drives cab F hours, her husband the other 12 hours round the clock.
 Asked if many women drive their cabs at night, one young chauffeuse replied:
 "No, only the older ones" STEEL IN JUNGLE
 A project for the expansion of the American steel industry to Brazil and Mexico was placed before Secretary Hull and U. $. Banker George Peek last week.
 The plan is to erect giant steel mills in the jungles of these two countries, take advantage of their rich iron ore deposits.
 Sponsor of the idea is Charles P. Perrin, who put across a sim. far project in the jungles of In-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
Press Comment
NO MORE BAREFOOT BOY
(New Haven Journal Courier)

(New Haven Journal-Courter)
 What ever happened to the coun- try boy with bare feet? Time was when he decorated every rural summer scene. The country dweller did not see him as in any way a poetical figure; the barefoot boy with cheek of tan was an integral part of the routine July landscape, like Tansy and. Bouncing Bet. like brown cornstalks after the drought, like the jug of flip under he ivies on the wall which buoyed the far inert up for he lac having. But he has gone from the scene now. His sons and grandsons wear leather or canvas the year around.
 And its pity, too. To be sure there are such things as rusty nails and stone bruises, poison ivy and white sheets to be ruined by badly laundered pedal extremities at night. But so were there in the good old days. And there were, further, in those days, three months yearly of unhampered foot development, and more important the lap of cool waters against small ankles and cool mud oozing through the toes, and the fieetness of feet unhampered by cloth and soles. It is all gone now and sad thing, too. The whole twentieth century juvenile, world seems to turn sissy on our hands-or rather on its feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
Berlin Letter

Berlin (UP)-Nobody seems to be more dissatisfied with modern German art than Nazi Germany's s art dictator. minister for propa- ganda Dr Joseph Goebbels.
 In recent speech before the German Theatrical association at Dresdon. he sharply denounced modern vociferators."
 They're sickening," he de. clared.
 Poets of the Liberal era," he said, "were nothing but the car- riers of unhealthy tendencies"
 "The theater has paid for it's so-called freedom" he added, "It's lost it's contact with the people, thereby foregoing its right to ex. ist." ,-...
 Modern Novel. Dr Goebbels also referred to the "monstrosities" of modern, pre- Nazi painting. As to the German novel of the republican era, its typical representative. in pr Goeb- Remarque, whose "All Quiet on the Western Front" was a work "unduly neglecting seven million oChhAh hCAoCO OIuCI to 6ltC prominence to a few towards who may have been in the army" Modern music also found little favor with Dr Goebbels. He quoted to his audience a re- mark made by a famous German musician:
 Why should I listen to bad modern music when there are so ,..n IL .zf. do not yet know
 .'LibcraT" Era So much for the artistic prod ucts of the ''liberar' era. Nazi art, on the other hand, has
 thus far utterly failed to satisfy Dr Goebbels. we have" he said, mot yet produced modern dramas, but
 merely nationalistic tripe. The ideas of this revolution have not yet found their true artistic ex- pression."
 "The. pubiic's taste" he added. Ifs degenerate. It must be re- formed thoroughly" This remark was interpreted as an illusion to a number of "popu-
 lar" plays which have flooded Ger
 man stages since the advent of na- tional Socialism. These plays de- picting with innocent humor the efforts of a country bailiff to at-
 tach pig, or the purchase of an
 organ for a village church, are still drawing large crowds; they were often described as the begin ming of new. "popular" theatrical art. Dr Goebbels, as his speech
 revealed, does not share this opin- ion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
Horo s C ope
By OCTAvINE

Do not be too nasty In the A. NJ. for it inclines one to be rash. thus causing accident. The early eve- ming dinner hour is much better than average. It would be a good time to entertain or talk out your best girl. Yesterdays adventure some spirit hasn't entirely passed so it would be we'll to observe con- ventions. .
 Today's Birthdate
 You should enjoy making a study of insect life. either for Il profession or hobby. The last of April and the forepart of May, 1885. maY bring frequent changes, which you probably won't appre- ciate at the present time. Guard your finances Oct 1925. Danger Sept 2. Socially favorable Aug is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26

"How is the Detroit dialog progressing" he was asked.
 ''Dlalog!" Ickes replied. "That's no dialOg. That is . monolog on the part of Detroit"
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Current widespread abor dis turbances have not changed the ing strikers. Unless the Labor Department notifies it that strike Is unwarranted, the EZRA. makes no discrimination between strikers and other idle workers. You can't keep a good man down. Minnesota's Farmer-La- borite Representative Francis Shoemaker, ex-conyict and stormy petrel, who was recent ly defeated for a senatorial nom- ination, now has decided to try for another term in the House on an independent ticket [. A verdict of not guilty in fed- eral prosecution does not remove a defendants finger-prints from the files of the department of justice. The fact of the acquit. tai is noted on the record, but the finger prints are not sur- rendered What caused comment among national poli- tical leaders is last weeks Mon- tana primary was not the fact that Senator John F.. Erickson failed to be renomnated, but the far more significant fact that the total democratic vote was almost twice that of the republi- can.
 Copyright, 1884, by United Fea-
 turc Syndicate, lnc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
Selected Poem
GOING FOR WATER

GOING FOR WATER (Robert Frost, The Springfield Republican, The well dry beside the door, And so went with pail and can Across the fields behind the house To seek the brook if still it ran; Not loath to have excuse 10 go, Because the autumn fair (Though chilD because the fields were ours, And by the brook our woods were there. We ran as if to meet the moon That slowly dawned behind the trees The barren boughs without the leaves. Without the birds, without the breeze. But once within the wood paused Like gnomes that hid Us from the moon, Ready to run to hiding new With laughter when she found us soon. Each laid on other staying hand To listen ere we dared to look And in the hush joined to make We heard, we knew heard the brook. A note as from a single place, A slender tinklng fall that made Now drops that hoated on he pool Like pearls and now a silver blade
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
TOURISTS COMING BACK (New Haven Journal -Courier)

One swallow does not make a summer nor, does one tourist make O summer resort boom. But our agreeable though restricted wan derings along the Connecticut shore have convinced us that many thousands of tourists are pouring through this right little state,9 the gateway to New England. and that many hundreds of them are stop ping by the shoreside. It Is not the people themselves, crowding the roads and the cottage colonies. for we have long since lost the knack of spotting a stranger by the cut of his clothes or the shape of his head. The American process of standard ization and of melting-p pot mixing begins to defy distinction. It is not the cars which they drive, it is the license plates, those multicolored territorial tickets, which prove the point. A genuine recovery in sum- mer tourists business is on the make.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-26
A Book a Day
What An Island Did . To An Odd Family
BY BRUCE CAPTION

"Rumor of Heaven" by Beatrix Lehman is one of those novels in which you go tiptoeing about with the greatest delicacy, conscious that you are reading something that Is pretty artistic, but vaguely wishful that somebody would tell you just what 1t Is all about.
 It being by telling about one of those queer, isolated families or which European novelists seem SO fond. A literary gent marries a famous dancer and sets up Tn remote English farmhouse, Tney have three children and then the dancer goes balmy and has to be taken away g.
 The father, whose mind is also beginning to get trifte fuzzy, brings up the children by himself.
 The youngsters are likewise an odd lot. Tho oldest girl Is prac- tically normal. but the boy is de- finitely headed up Queer street and the third child. girl, is cripple who spends most of her time con- versing with the people in Jane Austen's novels.
 Into this group, then, there comes a brawny explorer from the South Seas. He has found a fabu- lous island there--the kind, you dream about, where climate and scenery are quite perfect and there are neither natives nor obnoxious insects.
 He wants to found a colony there. But nobody will believe there is such a place-nobody. ex- cept the members of this very odd family. And to these folk this ru- nor of an earthly paradise Is profoundly unsettling thing. In different ways it upsets the apple cart for each of them.
 It all makes delicate little novel; charming, often enough. but frequently a little too precious for ordinary tastes.
 Published by Mcrrow. the book sells for s2.b0.