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Evening star., 1934-05-02
Too Much Free List.

What has become of your motion
picture house?"
1T had to close" answered Cactus
Joe. Every citizen in Crimson Gulch
insisted on being member of the
board of censors SOS he could get in
without payin'."
Laws which cannot be enforced, ="
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown,
ARE more expensive to the taxpayer
than those which are readily obeyed."
Evening star., 1934-05-02

Mahatma Gandhi is no longer
popular. His present situation has its
advantage. He may at least eat a
square meal without being criticized.
Evening star., 1934-05-02

Trotsky continues to write volumin-
ously, but remains unable to make a
profitable hook-up to syndicate his
stuff.
Evening star., 1934-05-02

Open door discussion leaves China
in a position to wonder whether Japan
is going to succeed in putting up a
ticket window in the lobby.
Evening star., 1934-05-02
Hollywood and Indo-China.
I'm the Topeka Daily Capital

From the Topeka Daily Capital.
1t takes four days to get through
marriage ceremony in Indo-China,
according to a dispatch from that
country. About as long as 1t takes to
get through with q marriage at
Hollywood.
Evening star., 1934-05-02

Picturesque customs are being re-
vived and May time is celebrated with
graceful ceremonial. No encourage
ment is offered to hopes by Emma
Goldman of being Queen of the May
Evening star., 1934-05-02

Representatives from abroad desir-
ing to see America will find President
Roosevelt an affable guide on a per-
sonally conducted tariff tour.
Evening star., 1934-05-02

Many a financial concern has been
disappointed in its brain trust even
when it was disguised under the name
of board of directors"
Evening star., 1934-05-02
Agri- Culture.

Agriculture.
The peasant leaned upon his hoe
In simple twilight pray'r
Hopeful of what the field might shov
In answer to his care.
But now he views the scene again.
With prospect more secure,
He gets himself fountain pen
And takes to literature.
The crops no more will be allowed
To litter up the lands,
The farmer has grown justly proud
OF what he understands.
The pigs no more with art are fed,
Large families to insure.
They, too, with care are edited
In lines of literature.
Oar is lawyers" said Uncle Eben
dat Furnishes crime wavers, an der
agin' dar is outlawyers dat help 'en
to git away"
Evening star., 1934-05-02

1t is still a mechanistic era, with
the time clock" and the cash register
as subjects of chief scientific concern.
Evening star., 1934-05-02
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Evening star., 1934-05-02

@. How many icebergs drift far
enough South to cross the transat-
lantic steamship lanes?-W. D.
A Usually about 300. In 1929
record of 1000 was set. Owing to
severe Winter. it is predicted that
about $50 will cross the steamship
lanes this Summer.
Evening star., 1934-05-02

@. What is meant by a dead opal7
r. D. B.
A. The colors is an opal vary with
climate and temperature. and some
times disappear permanently. the opal
then being called dead"
Evening star., 1934-05-02

@. Why was there such an epi-
demic of locusts in 1868?-S. L. M.
A. The l7-year variety Of locust
often appears in the same year and
in the same territory as the l3-year
variety, and when large numbers OF
both Of these broods appear together
there is a veritable epidemic such as
there was in 1868.
Evening star., 1934-05-02

O. Who painted the familiar pic
ture, The Lone Wolf"?-E. A.
A. Alfred Won Kowalski- -WieruSz, a
modern Polish painter, executed the
picture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
Union Chiefs Face Supreme Test of
 Leadership

This Is the last of three ar- ticles on labor and social legislation pending before com gress, which may have Bearing of vast extent on the future of the nations wage earners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23

More than 10000 foreign and counterfeit coins were placed in telephone boxes and automotic stamp machines in England last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23

| Grade 2-Room 4-Rita Byron, Hannah Carmody, Patricia McCue, Arlene O'Keefe, Coral Payne Doris StevefsSs Mary Sugrue, Virginia Roger, William Adams, Anthony Corvo, Herbert Taller, Robert Fer ris, Robert Hill, John Moran, Frank Nardella, Emmett Nichols, Robert Rice, Raymond Stabile.
 Grade 3-Room 5-Emily Dan- tino, Frank Hosko, John Lawton, Eleanor Pettinicchi.
 Grade 3-Room 6-Irene Barre, Ernest Tamburini, Mary. Cronin, Alice Loudensky, Marilyn Miller, Grace Raspo, Madeline Rakich, John Stevens, Michael Rigon, Lucy Dee, Michael Battaglia, Raymond DeSoccio, Anna Hqcko, William Miller, Anna Mae Fitzpatrick, Domenic Celone, Nancy Dee, Alex ander Denorfia, Joseph Moriarty, Ralph Cipriano..
 Grade 4-Room 5-Joseph Bat taglia; Wilfred Bourassa, Alice Buckley, Francis Carroll, Adeline Cipriano, John Donahue, Phyllis | Dyer, Marjorie Tales, James Me- | Carthy, Margery Milton, Robert Negreira, Robert Nichols, Shirley Robinson, Audrey Semple. Grade 4-Annex Edward Adamaitis, Donald Andrews. Shir- ley Bates, Joyce Berry, Alice Bill l ancioni, Edward Bottomley, John Carmody, Harry Clark, Edward Corcoran, Louis DAbramo, Flor | ence Derito, Pauline Francis, Albina Lipnicki, Florence Lou densky, Jean Marshall, Mary Ra- cano, Dora Sanchi, George Sevig- ney, Doris Sugrue, Paul Tracy, Gloria Weyand, Margaret Wor- | holac.
 Grade 5-Room 14-Harold Bentley, Anthony Derito, Lorenzo
 Mattel, Stanley Payne, Florence Denorfa, Rose DeSocio, Mildred Lipnicki, Jeanette Molleur, Anna Pettinicchi, Affect Rice, Marjorie Smith.
 Grade 5-Annex 2-Gloria Car mody, John Carroll, Evelyn Con- way, Lucille Dee, Helen ReSocio, Ellen DiMuzio, Gordon Dubuque. Michael Gallucci, Marie Logan, Barbara Mack, Margaret Moran, Mary O'Donnell, Philomena Orient Nellie Patrick, Renee Pickett. George Reed, Francis Sugrue, Ad- dis Tracy, Robert Wooding, Harry
 Major.
 | Grade 1a--Room 11--Mario Bat
 taglio, William Bentley, Edward
 Grant, Robert Lawton, Paul De-
 Rito, Hazel Bates, Dolores Du-
 buque. Natalie Dyer, Evelyn Ellis,
 Mary Hyland, Rose Muzzicato, Jen-
 nie Solomito, Rena Tamburini. | Grade 6-Room 12-Herbert
 Hager, Robert .Lanouette, Albert
 Monti, Gaetano, Nardella, Alex
 ander Rigon, James Santopietro
 Harold Slater, Warren Futile, Rita
 Charist, Carmella Murno, Lena Pa
 sini, Pafrnina Santucci. y"af
 Grade 7-Room 7-Robert Con
 way, Charles Guadiose, Theodore
 Hill, Joseph Hyland, Robert Nicoi Ralph Pettinichi, George Rigon Mario Scionti, Mary Andrews, Eve. lyn Archer. Elizabeth Buckley fAngeline Dantino, Mafelda Denor. fla, Lottie Taller, Angeline Fan. tano, Shirley Mack, Betty Payne Airline Sandland, Marjorie Sessel. mann, Loribel Simpson, Marion
 Smith. Dorothy Thomas, Marion
 Tracy.
 Grade 7-Roorn s-Arthur Bii l ancioni, Thomas Howard. Francis Kinney, Patsy santucci. Rub. Booth. Evelyn Brown, Lillian ! Fredette, Eugenia GaNun, Allie,
 Hebert. Mildred Molleur. Ann
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23

A large part of this gain lies in the field of federal unions," which are shop unions affiliated with the A. F. of l.. not through national or international body, but direct. On August 31, 1882, there were 307 of these. On March g.. 1894. F. of L.'s effort to meet the new condition in many industries in which only few men really know the trade" in the old sense, but work at jobs which are semi skilled.
 Such shops tend to organize by taking in all the employees of a single shop, rather than uniting those who work at a single trade. Upheaval for Federation
 The A. F. of L. is meeting the challenge as best it can, since it's traditional manner of organization organizations still dominte the federation.
 It is the essential conflict be- tween company-inspired and na- tional unions that has been at the root of more than half of the labor troubles of the last year and Is bringing to head an ugly situation in Detroit.
 More than 70 per cent of the labor disputes to come before the labor board last year were not caused by differences over hours or pay. but over recognition by em- ployers of union organizations which claimed to have signed up 6 majority of workers.
 Senator Robert F. Wagners new labor disputes bill would compel such recognition once majority as-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
sent had been established in a election. @ Crowded Out Rival 4


 Crowded Out Rival
 The A. F.. of L.. stands to gain most from g forced withdrawal of company support from independ- ent nions. It is not only the larg- est, but the oldest American labor organization. ..-...-.
 Pounded in 1881, it gradually squeezed out during the '90s the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, which once had nearly million members. This was "a secret, regalia-and-ritual organi- Zation which sought "One Big Union" plan of organizing all work CTS. It's secrecy, it's violent sabotage methods, and its tendency to med dle in politics killed the Knights.
 The A. F. of L. under the slow, conservative, persistent methods of Sam Gompers, became dominant in the labor field. The untruth of the higher ideal for the federation than 'More!" is shown by his pro. phetic words that "So long as ployment and cannot obtain it, the Aiooio VI iopoh SiC eOo Aoi5
 l. w. w. Shows New Life
 The anarchist movement of the early 1900s scared people, but left no lasting trace on labor condi- tions. In 1905, however, America produced the Industrial Workers of the World, a radical movemen aimed at a single vertical organiza- tion of all workers, who should own industry and run the country without a political organization beyond labor groups.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
COLLEGES FOUND TO AID RELIGION
Standard Questiorlnaire at
 Nebraska University
 Reveals Fact

Lincoln, Neb.. (UP)-Higher education at the University of Ne braska is not conducive to irrelig- ion, a survey made here by Dr Stephen M. Corey has revealed.
 Representative groups of seniors and freshmen were asked to agreei or disagree, with religious propo1 sitions outlined in standardized questionnaire submitted by Dr Corey. The reactions were defi- nitely on the side of religion.
 In tabulating the results of the survey, the professor noted that specialization of thought, that follows development of more ma ture thinking processes among Se- niors, has resulted in the older men possessing a more clear con- ctption of Deity than freshme en. A suggestion that the "church is losing ground" was definitely re- jected by both groups submitting to the questionnaire. Dr Corey pointed out, however. the idea was more definitely discarded by Se- niors than by freshmen Such also was the case in reaction to a prop osition that "the church is trying to adjust itself to a scientific world and therefore deserves sup port"
 On the other hand, freshmen were little more certain than seniors that a superior Deity al- ways must be expected to support the right and tcondemn the wrong and were more tolerant of demon strations and church theology than older men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
(THE END.)
CHEMISTRY CLUB
 HASSOCIALPARTY
Wilby Students Hear Good 2 Program ~ Banquet
 Committee Named q

Frank w. Hanson, director of the Wilby high school chemistry club was in charge of the meeting last night in Room 315 which was attended by more than 100 mem- bers.
 F Reports, of the secretary and treasurer we're read by Eva Gel gauda and Jack Foley. Reports of the pin committee were read by Frances Kudirka, who said that if possible the money for the pins should be turned in within the next two weeks. .r .
 Yolanda Biondi of the new com mfttee, explained the purpose of the News and stated that cortribu- tions were welcome. Three mem bers were appointed to a tempor- ary banquet committee.
 The program was opened with xylophone selections by Leroy Newell. A reading by Eleanor Ba- his, Tom Sawyer" followed. Coleman Malia next performed a difficult experiment, "Just Solubil- ity." Xylophone selections by Francis Austin came next on the program. Following this, Rose Co., francesca gave a reading, "A Hole in One". "The Search for Gold :" an interesting experiment and playlet was presented by Louis P.ettine, John Foley and Frances Mallette. The playlet depicted the experiments performed by mad chemist in quest for a formula to make gold. "Caw Cav Ballads" by Rose Cofrancesco was next on the program.
 8"Songs of Yesterday" including '"The Wearin' of the Green" "An- nie Laurie,'' and When You and Ij'Were Young, Maggie" were sung by the entire group, led by Athlyn and Evelyn MacLean and Evelynne Fabino. rFc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23

| After a period of eclipse, this or ganization again is trying to get a footioid among the opportunities for vertical organization which the modern setup of industry offers.
 Communis mcame to America after the World war, and does not .differentiate between it's labor and political activities. Failure to "bore from within" and get control of A F. of l.. unions led to the present tactics of organizing rival unions and rushing in and seizing leader ship of promising strikes for pub licity and propaganda purposes, as we'll as in general to embarrass the government in any way that offers. Clashes Hinder Movement
 Clashes between these diverse labor interests, the federation, the independents, the company unions, and the radicals, have been re- sponsible for much of the labor disturbance of recent years.
 The bolstering of the labor board provided in the Wagner bill aims to give it more authority to settle such disputes. ..&
 The power of the labor board to conduct elections among em7 ployes not only will insure the right to collective bargaining, Sem ator Wagner believes, but also will give organized employees chance to clean out their own organiza- tions when they become ridden with politics and rackets.
 He cites one example of labor board election conducted in a shoe town. Members of an A. F. of L.. affiliate there, disgusted with con- duct of. their affairs by despotic leadership, asked a labor board election, which was granted. 1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23

Rakich, Frances santucci, Marion Slocum. n
 Grade 8-Room 10-Josephine Cipriano, Lucy DiCarlo, Florence Mattel, Irene Seeley, Frances Ma rino, Anthony Briguglio, John Carl son. Alphone Fantano, Frederick Lawton.
 Grade S-Room 9-Enis Barto- lini, Dorothy Bottomley, Flora Bruni, Margaret Craig, Marjorie Glastre, Madeline Hyland, Adelaide Miller, Doris Nichols, Jean Shea, Alfred Lanouette, Armond Mazza- rella, Robert Mills, Robert O'Don- nell, Harvey Pelletier, Carl San- din, Louis Wylie.
 Westfield, Mass. (UP)-Arfested on a charge of operating an auto mobile without a license, Paul Merwin, 28, revealed that he had been driving four years without botherin gto get one. He was fined $25. Al ,tf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
BUREAU REVIEWS . RICKETS BATTLE 
Puerto Rico Studies Gives ]. United States Experts z New Clues

Washington. (UP)-Physicians at the children's burea uare pre- nared to resume their fight against tickets with renewed vigor. De- spite their loss of confidence in the chief weapon, cod liver oil.
 The child hygiene division of the bureau recently engaged in a joint study of rickets with the Yale University School of Medi- clne.
 Initial activity disclosed that hones of a large. proportion of in- fants in the United States, by roentgenographic exami t n, showed certain changes interpreted as evidence of rickets, dtspite the fact supposedly sufficient amount of cod-liver oil, a preventive, had been given them.
 Puzzled, the doctors wondered if the changes were physiological variations of normally growing bone. On the other hand, the stu dents questioned interpretation of certain skeletal signs used in clin- ical diagnosis of mild rickets.
 Realizing that sunlight is a powerful preventive and cure for Tickets, the txperts decided to transfer their activities to Puerto Rico. Here, they received enlight- enment.
 sFollowing a method to insure comparability of results, they ex- amined nearly 600 children under three years of age and who are exposed the year round to intense sunlight. They devoted also. at- tention to the socio- economic con- d1tions under which families were living, especially the diet of moth efs and children.
 The result startled them But five Puerto Rican children revealed definite evidence of ever having rickets. And, 1t was pointed out one of these had lived in a dimly lighted tenement cllar until two weeks before examination, while another incurrtd the disease when a resident of New York city.
 However, in sharp contrast to the almost complete absence of Tickets in Puerto Rico, the physical and nutritional condition of the island children was critical. ac- .cprding to bureau officials.
 ported, that the general nutri- tional condition of the great ma jority of Puerto Rican children, as seen from a clinical point of view was far from being as satisfactory as that of children in continental United States"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
Globe Circling Air
 Flight Is Put Off
British Pilots Abandon Plans Due to Finances Estimated at $l,250,0O0

tinct possibility of such a. flight being accomplished in the course of about two years.
 "The cost of such a flight" he pointed out, would be in the neighborhood of $1,250,000. Many tanker planes would be required with crews standing by possibly for weeks awaiting suitable wealth CT conditions. These. machines would nave to be constructed to carry heavy loads of, gasoline. and oil and would have to be guaran- teed to function perfectly. The nee essary financial, backing for this vast ground organization was not forthcoming. ar 10 salgcgg off
 Weather Conditions .aaH
 Fora flight sOf this kind it would be necessary to be assured of comparatively good weather conditions grounds the world and to know that 'F these conditions would be met throughout the ten to fourteen days of the flight."13Y F Lieutenant-Colo Blackeri also pointed out the, geographical diff faculties to be faced. One of these probIems1 would be the posting of refueling planes in the great stretches of Ire Pacific 2ocean Much work probably would be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
Many On Hopl,,eeville pc
 School Honor Roll
February Ratings and Attendance Marks Announced
 To-day By Principal E. Frances Baley=Platt

Principal E. Frances Bailey-Platr of the Hopeville school has an- nounced the honor roll and per- feet attendance list for the month of February as follows:
 Grade 2-Room 3-Thomas Egan, Helen Corcoran, Charles Bradshaw, Barbara Weyand, Mary Hart, Alfred McCallum, Ruth Cameron, Helen Noble, Elizabeth Neuman, Clayton Patnaude, Will jam Howard.
 Grade 2-Room 4-Mary Sugrue, Virginia Roger. John Moran, Elm melt Nichols, Patricia McCue, Cor al Payne, Robert Hill, Margaret Gaudiose, Mary Rigon, Herbert Taller, Eugenia Iunniruberto, AL bina Temporali, Arlene O'Keefe, Robert Rice, Arthur De Santis. Grade 3-Room 5-Eleanor Pet tinicchi, Alexander Romanuk, John Lawton.
 Grade 3-Room 6-Marion San- din, Ruth Galinat, Eunice Wheeler, Evelyn Czeska, Grace Raspo, Rob- ert Winston, santo Muzzicato. Madeline Rakich, Alice Loudensky,
 
 Saundry, Michael Rigon. Grade Room 5-Audrey Sem- | pie, Shirley Robinson, Alice Buck ley, Marjorie Fales, Wilfred Mou- rassa, Phyllis Dyer, Jane Vcrzier, Adeline Cipriano, Robert Negre- ira, Glenn Dayton.
 Grade Annex 1-Pauline Francis, Robert MacLean, Eugene I 70 | shall, Edward Corcoran, Mary Ra- cano, Doris Sugrue, Josephine Me- lntyre, Paul Tracy, Radph Larrow, Robert Cameron, John Milton, | George Holm, Jennie Santopietro, Florence Derito, Alice Bilancioni. Ellen Mae MacLean, Julia Ferris, Dora Sanchis, Gloria Weyand. Grade 5-Room 14-Dewey Me lntyre, Lurene Vancelctte.
 Grade 5--Annex 2-Evelyn Con- way, Gordon Dubuque, Michael Galluci, Lucille Dee, Janet Pilking- ton, Mary O'Donnell, Helen De- Socio, Addis Tracy, Gloria Car mody, Harry Major, Ernest Pig zuto, John Carroll, Margaret Mor- an, James Bclury, Francis Sugrue Marie Logan, Richard F'inke, Julie l odHlOplclTO.
 Grade 6--Room 11-Natalie Dyer, Jack McCallum, Helen Kohl strunk, Dolores Dubuque, Haze Bates, Edward Grant, Eleanor Dee Gino Tamburini. William Bentley Joseph Hannon, Mary Hyland.
 Grade 6-Room 12-Harolt Slater, Lena Pasini, Rita Charest Pauline Dusseault
 Grade 7-Room 7-Marjorit Sesselman, Enid Pilkington, Bett, Payne, Ralph Pettinichi, Theodor, Hill, Edith Marcel, Winifred Nc Intyre, Arlene Sandland, Lotti Taller. Evelyn Archer, Loribe Simpson, Dorothy Weyand, Rober Nicol, Dorothy Thomas, Paulin, Patrick, Mildred Pinney, There's; Pizzuto.
 Grade 7-Room S-John Napoli tano.
 Grade 8--Room gEJean Shea Robert Mills, Flora Bruni,. Eni Bartolini, Joseph Pizzuto, Harve Pelletier, Carl Sandin, Doroth Bottomley, Armond Mazzarella,
 Perfect Attendance
 Grade 1-Room 2-William Laf ferty, Leon Lawton, Everett Roge Rosemary Fitzpatrick, Barbar Pollard. y -s.5
 Grade 1-Room 3-Dean Berry
 Grade 2-Room 3-Leonard Du buque, Thomas Egan, Williar Howard, Alfred McCallum, Alber Sevigney, James Clark, Helen Cor coran. Louise Denorfiia. Barbar ] WeyanA. -.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23

necessary to discover which of the Pacific islands would be most suitable for this purpose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
|ANTI-WAR CLUBS
 4 ARE. CONDEMNED
Prominent Baltim 0 r C Church Figures De-
 rlOunCe Action

Baltimore, Md, (UP) - The adoption of a declaration by mem bers of liberal clubs of seven Mary land colleges in conference here against participation in war, brought expressions of condemna ton from many Maryland leaders
 Prominent church and military figures denounced the action as absurd" and "subversive to the Fundamental principles upon whicI, this country was founded" Other comment branded it as ridiculous and added, "it isas foolish to do away with national defense as it would be to discontinue our po- lice force."
 Fifty delegates to the confer ence. sponsored by the Johns Hop kins Liberal club and the Boucher college chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy, signed the statement. "WeS declare that under no circumstances will we support any war entered into by the gov ernment of the United States"
 The institutions represented were: Johns Hopkins university, Boucher college, Morgan college, the University of Baltimore,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-23
By ROBERT c. DowsoN

United Press Stan Correspondent) London. (UP)-The British pro- feet of a nonstop flight around the world, closely following the Equator, temporarily has been abandoned. . @
 This feat had been considered possibility of the very near future by Colonel P. T. Etherton and Lieutenant Colonel L. Y. Stewart Blacker, honorary organ izing secretary and originator re- spectively of the Houston Mount Everest Expedition, two airplanes from which flew over the hitherto unconqutred Mount Everest on April 3, 1888. e'.is
 Refueling Stations |
 It was believed tha tan airplane might start at some point on or near the Equator and, with the aid of chain of refueling planes, completely encircle the earth over 24,902 miles in the region of the Equator. faa f. il..f a}
 Lieutenant Blacker de- clared that further plans on the subject temporarily were q. aban- doned for financial, scientific and geographic reasons. He added, however, that there was a dis