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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27
Veterasn to Give Dance

The recently organized Water- vile World War Veterans associa- ton is holding it's first public func- tion tomorrow evening when 1t sponsors q dance at the Sprague Grammar school gymnasium. E. Lester Platt, chairman of the com 1nittee in charge, announces that an excellent orchestra has been secured and that there will be a program of both modern and old time dances. This is to be the first of q series of similar events to be given throughout the winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27

Mrs George Monroe, who has been spending the summer at her cottage at Bay View Beach, Mil- ford, has returned to her home on Wheeler street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27
Briefs

Mir and Mrs Matt Price and fam fly have mooved from Waterville street to Willow street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27

Mir and Mrs Edwin Harper and son. of Great Neck, Long Island, are spending a few days with the formers parents MT and Mrs Ed ward Harper of Lone Oak avenue Mir Harper is the city engineer at Great Neck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27

Announcement has been made of the engagement and coming mar riage of Miss Antoinette Rinaldi, daughter of the late MT and Mrs Carmen Rina1di, of Cooke street, to Thomas Barrett, son of Mts James Barrett of Driggs street. The mar riase is scheduled to take place at the Curch of Our Lady of Lourdes at eight o'clock Wednesday of next week, October 1st. MT Bar rett is one of the best known younger men in Waterville and has been very active in sports circles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27

Lawrence McArdle of Homer street, sustained cuts about the face as the result of an automobile accident which occurred on Thoin- aston avenue yesterday. He was riding in the drivers seat of a light delivery truck operated by George Blum, of Thomaston ave- nue when the truck collided with the rear of 8 pleasure car immed- lately ahead. The latter was driv- en by woman who claimed that she was forced to stop Abruptly because of similar action on the part of the driver of a car ahead. MT McArdle was thrown forward against the windshield. His injur- ies, whil epainful are not serious.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27

Albert Lowe of Eastport, Maine. has been visiting his sister, Mrs Frank Wilson and MT Wilson of Thomaston avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27

MT and Mrs Harry White and Miss Gladys Fox of Faber avenue have been recent visitors in New York city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-27

WeIch Foresters of America. and Waterville Camp, Patriotic Order Sons of America. Both will be al eight o'clock, the former in Fran cis hall on Boyden street and the latter in the Camps rooms in the building formery occupied by the Waterville Cutlery Company.
 DevOtions
 The, usual Friday evening devo- tions will be held at 1880 p. m. to- morrowk at St. Michaels church. Father Heating is alternating the devotions. Conducting the Sta tions of the Cross one week and Sacred Heart Novena devotions on the next.
 Committee Meeting
 The membership committee of the Waterville Parent Teachers association will held a special meeting in the. Teachers room in Sprague grammar school tomorroW afternoon.
 Daughter Born
 MT and Mrs John Hayes, of Pembroke avenue have announced the birth of a daughter. Merytle May. at St. Marys hospital. The child is the grand-daughter of Mir and Mrs William Albon of Monmouth avenue.
 Sewing Club
 Mrs Arnold Keith, of Harvard street, entertained her sewing club this week. Her guests were Mrs Ralph Bates, Mrs Francis ! Nc. Kennerney, and Mrs Harry Wright. Briefs
 MT and Mrs Matt Price and fam fly have nlooved from Waterville street to Willow street.
 MT and Mrs Harry White and Miss Gladys Fox of Faber avenue have been recent visitors in New York city.
 MT and Mrs Edwin Harper and son, of Great Neck, Long Island, are spending few days with the formers parents MT and Mrs Ed ward Harper of Lone Oak avenue Mir Harper is the city engineer at 6Tedt NeCk.
 Albert Lowe of Eastport, Maine. has been visiting his sister, Mrs Frank Wilson and MT Wilson of Thomaston avenue.
 Mrs George Monroe, who has been spending the summer at her cottage at Bay View Beach, Mill ford, has returned to her home on Wheeler street.
 MT and Mrs Lewis Behan of Suffold street street, recently enter tained at dinner for MT and Mrs Walter Summerville and MT and Mrs Daniel Haywood.
 Mrs Robert Brennies Wolff of Yale street, has been visiting rel- atives in Hayzleton. Pennsylyania.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
EGG PRICES EASY
ON D. c. MARKET
Nearby Receipts Unchanged
but U. S. Standards Sag
Fourth Cent.

Egg quotations were slightly easy
on the Washington produce market
today. Nearby ungraded offerings
were unchanged, but United States
Government-graded standards were a
fourth-cent lower.
Live poultry was unchanged. The
summary with egg and live poultry
prices. furnished by the Department
of Agriculture, follows:
BUTTER-One- pound prints f92 scorel
2S; tub tub "a: nepd one-pound % prints @ rs seore,
"a: tub. 23
DRESSED POULTRY - Turkeys, old
II; Long Island ducks. 49,: capons 30
nsS seass ger pair psr
pound 32.
lamb 3oa21: pork loins 1eai7: fresh
hams hsroS smoked Sc hans l6a1 mnd strip
7l2as
LIVE sTocK-Hogs light. a.5oa3.75;
medium: 3.50a3 75; heavy. 3OOa3.50;
pigs. 75a3 OO roughs. O.75a2 so; calves
3.00a6 so: lambs. 600s 1000.
EGGS-Market sliRhtlv easy at un-
changed prices on nearbv ungraded eggs;
Il cent lower on H. S. Government Graded
tanaayds Senne4y wbsg cgrreq 1sssiot 4sa5
large. ,20Ia.1I5:, U S extras mediums
17is' u standards large. 1877.
LIVE PouLTRY-Market staodv; re-
eeba9qsed. cha Fowls: colored sssI7: ieshcrns.
isaf9; turkeys. old toms. 1saI4 old hens, hens.
15a16.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Department. Of oAgriculturel. Hogs. ~:
900 including nc, 1000 direct market ., slow:
I6O-320 pounds. 35Oa3.?5: top. 3:75;
most pigs, $50 down; packing, sows. $50
a3io; lsht light good goo. asa and hdSt cnGS. f0 ~
200 pounds. 3l5a3. 70; medium weight.
sS5sS sS isS Sssnss saod 5s5ss ssss1ns s
3:25; pigs good and choice. 1oo-l3o
Cattle. 900; calves. $500: fed steers
loads strictly choice offerings $50; but
bak fe gons of5s at ct v5Sf se al hesrs
cows slow and steady; bulls firm Slaugh;;
ter cattle and veaiers; Steers, good and
choice. 550-gO0 pounds. 6:OOa7 %; 300, BOO
pounds 7.OOao50: l30O-l 800 pounds.
750a95 so, common and medium. 500:
1900 pounds. ;50a1 p; heifers good and
choice; 550-750 pounds: 5;25a6 so; COM
4OOa5;.25 common and medium. 2.65a
100; 100; low cutter and cutter ! 5oas q:
sns enter common and sN9o
2.50a3 vealers, good and choice. $40
esu stoeie4 So ang sa teeaer sae eas
pounds 475a6.O0; common and medium.
Sheep. 5000: general trade weak to .o5
lower; indications mostly 25 of on Spring
lambs and clippers; talking S.25aS 80 on
native sprineers. I05OaIO75 and above,
California as yet unsold; top ewes. 400.
slaughter sheep and lambs; Spring lambs,
as.S Is: lambs. so pounds down good and
choice S.25a975; common and medium.
6.0GaS95: 90-9s pounds. good and choice;
S:15aS.6O ewes. GOA so pounds. good and
choice 275a4 90; all weights. common
and medium. 1.50a3 %.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK. May 10 LP.-Foreisn ex-
change ste"dy; Great Britain, in dollars
5l1ss cables. So: 6O-day bills. 5.1O12;
Fran e: demand. 6.62: cables, 6.62: Italy
demand. 52i2; cables S.52l2.
Demands-BelRium. 23.45: Germany
30 "a: Holland 81 95; Norway 1913; Swe-
den %, 40, Denmark % 81; Finland. 221
Switzerland. 32 So; Spain. - -; Portugal,
slovakia. Ais: Yuqoslavia o."9; Austria
10 O5n: Hungary 90 son: Rumania OF
Argentina, "a 13n Brazil. 3. .7on: Toxic
31l2; Shanghai 32 .S1l2' Hongkong
:}6.-5: Mexico City tsilver pesol $500;
Montreal In New York. 100.1Sa4; New York
in Montreal. 99.S1A.
Nominal.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
April Shipments
From u. S. Steel
Increase Sharply

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 10.-Shipments
of finished steel products by the
United States Steel Corporation in
April increased $4,000 tons to 643, ,009
tons as of April 30, the corporation
announced today. Shipments in
March totaled 588,209 tons: in April,
1888, 335. .32l tons and in April, 1892.
1850 tons. ...
For the four months ended April 30
shipments amounted to / .94S ,495 tons
against l,153.181 in the first four
months of 1898.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK May 10 R.-Copper
quiet; electrolytic. spot and future. Blue
Easle. $50. Tin barely steady: spot and
nearby 54,l Is; futures. 54l0 Iron firm I'm,
York. 425: East ST Louis 40. Zinc
Quiet: East St Louis spot and future. 4 .35.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
Economy Jugs

A Gallon size jug that will
keep your liquids hot or colo
on those picnic trips this
Summer. Special!
Evening star., 1934-05-10
5-CeII FIashIight

Nickel plated. one
piece drawn brass
case, focusine type
with Mazda bulb.
This Is indeed a
true value.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28
WHY AMERICAS BEST DRESSED?

GONE ONE has gone to the trouble of COM
- piling a list of Americas best-dressed
women-the best-dressed woman in public life,
the best-dressed professional woman, the best
dressed actress, and so on.
It is a very fine list, and the women selected
are very fine women, but there is something
sadly incomplete about it all.
All the women on the list, if you noticed,
are women of means. They have the time
and the money to devote to costume; why
shouldn't they be well dressed? What we'd like
to see is a list with prize winners something
like these:
Sally Spifkins, best dressed dime store sales
girl who manages to look neat and attractive
on the 81 a week that she is able to lay aside
for clothes; and Mary Jones, the housewife
who keeps trim and stylish in spite of the fact
that she cooks three meals day, makes a
flock of BEDS looks after three small children,
does a lot of washing and ironing and busting
and has very skinny budget to handle.
There are lot of women like Sally Spit
kins and Mary Jones in this world. It's time
they got a little recognition for their pains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL.

OA~OASNEA~
CHRISTNTAS bells are ringing in the diplo-
~ matte corps.
Ambassadors get up at IL and don't get home
till four.
Young secretaries fall asleep Ger cablegrams
and bills.
They wake with bromo settlers and go to bed
with pills.
Albanias gallant Minister is drinking hot egg
nog.
And wiring Merry Christmas to His Majesty,
King zog.
The British Embassy, in state, is serving
roasted pork,
(The Lady Lindsay fingers at her hotel in
York;.
There's Danish pastry at the Danes and vodka
at the Poles.
The French are slipping Bordeaux wines and nib
bling crescent rolls.
Upon the Hill, most senators have barred
their oaken doors,
Some are chasing golf balls in knickers and
And some are testing kegs of rye with many
learned wink
While others baSk before a fire, all rubicond
and pink.
Vice President Jack Garner has sent out
Christmas cards
To all his friends in Texas and group Of
local 'pards"
In fact, the cards from senators would take up
half shelf.
Capper sent best wishes and pictures of him
SELF
Dave Reeds defeat did nothing to dim his
his Christmas cheer.
His house is full Of mistletoe & wreaths &
Munich beer.
Fred Britten of Chicago gave his annual re-
past
cts sad to think that voters caused this spree
to be his last)
Sol Bloom of old Manhattan tempts the
About the bloom" upon his cheeks (And is
he having fun?)
The resident Commissioner of the Filipino
Isles
Is sending Filipino hats and cigarets and
smiles.
Two diplomatic ladies ere receiving gorgeous
coats.
CA Polish envoy bought his sons a punching
bag and boats)
The stores and shops were looted by enthusiastic
Films
Who sought to buy their Minister some Finnish
sardine tins.
So, merry are the diplomats and senators
ct al.
CThe most high-hat official called youthful
colleague ''pal'O
It's parties, parties every night It's cocktails all
day long =.
(And fifty thousand cocktails am certain, can't
be WRONGLY
The glow is on the medals and on white
enameled cheeks
In Georgetown ancient ladies even dance
amid antiques.
On every side, the jolly tide is heedlessly
at play.
1t must be Merry Christmas that makes them
act that way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28
FEDERAL AID ENDANGERED

THE times are as full OF signs and portents
L as a beehive is full of bees, if you take the
trouble to look for them, and one Of the most
notew orthy is the furry recently caused by
New York City's attempt to get some lower
rates on its electric light bills.
Mayor La Guardia, New York, felt that the
utilities were gouging New York. So he went
to Washington and got from President Roose-
velt the promise that the Federal Government
would loan the city enough money to build
municipal electric light plant.
BY running this plant and selling electri-
city to taxpayers at a low rate, the mayor be-
Ieves the city can force the utilities to cut
their charges.
Now there is nothing especially new about
this, so far The PWA has been specifically
authorized to make loans to cities for such
purposes, and so far some 80 cities have started
to buy or build power plants with Uncle Sans
money.
The catch in all this comes from the simple
fact that New York is-well, it's New York;
and it nourishes in its bosom an outfit known
as Tammany Hall, which, as the POSTMASTER
says, needs no introduction.
Heartily as the average citizen may approve
of Federal leans for municipal power plants
and it is fairly evident that majority sentiment
does approve of it-there is apt to be a diff
ferent reaction to the idea of putting pro-
gram like this out where Tammany can get its
hands on it.
To be sure, Tammany is not in power just
now New York has its most honest and eff
Gent city government in years, under La
Guardja. The La Guardia government can be
trusted to handle a proposition of this kind
with intelligence and integrity.
But Tammany never stays dead. Sooner or
later Tammany will put on a comeback; and
the way in which Tammany would operate
s100OOOOOO electric power plant is a thing to
make the imagination reel.
Mention was made, a moment ago, of signs
and portents. The particular sign and por-
tent arising from this situation is the warning
that the kind Of city government provided by
the typical political machine is both an over
expensive luxury and an actual source of dam
ger in this modern era
If government, local and Federal, is to do
more for its citizens in the future than ever
beforehand apparently it is-then it is abb
soluteIy essential that government be scrupu-
lousy honest and at least reasonably efficient.
All of which is just another way of saying
that we can't hope to make this or any other
rev deal work unless we provide a permanent
exile for municipal machines like Tammany
Hall
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28

duction-control powers, also properly retained,
may be used to prevent over-production and
waste of the peoples forests
The important thing is that the boards
action should cause prices to decline until
would-be builders cast aside their hesistancy
and become actual customers. Federal Hous-
ing Administrator Moffett estimates that
America needs 100000 new homes. Obviously.
if the lumber industry can tap that rich po-
tentiaI market it will profit more in the long
run than would be possible by continuing to
supply the limited market that exists at pres
ent prices.
Unless artificial restraints prevent, other
building materials should follow lumber down
to natural price level and start a building
boom that may put hammers and saws and
trowels back in the hands of hundreds of
thousands Of now idle building trades crafts
men
Building workers could help stimulate this
prospective demand for their services by &C
cepting lower hourly wages in return for stead
Ter employment and higher annual incomes.
Millions of Americans wanting homes will
build them as soon as building costs shrink
to the size of their pocketbooks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28
FOR CHEAPER HOMES

TINE lumber industry may now climb down
L off its stills and go after business. At
the start of NRA, the lumbermen obtained
system for peggng prices saying it was neces-
sary to restore order to that demoralized in
dustry. But prices we're pegged SO high that
the industry deprived itself of customers and
failed to take advantage of general business
improvement.
Bankruptcy of some inefficient units of the
industry may be one result of the National
Industrial Recovery Boards order suspend
ing price-fixing provisions of the lumber code.
But it need not lead to return of the price
wars that almost ruined the industry two years
ago. The NLRB retained enough price-fixing
power to guard against that. Tt should not
have to use this power, since the wages and
hours limits still provided in the code have
tended to standardize costs, and since the pro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28

THE new C. H. @. air force should have
greater mobility than the scattered COM
bat units under the old Army Air Corps setup.
Greater mobility should give it greater eff
cheney.
About year ago. the tragic deaths of Army
filters carrying the mail convinced the Ma
ton that something was wrong with the air
corps. To find what was wrong the Baker
Board studied the corps methods equipment
and defense plans, and recommended reor-
ganization along the lines now announced.
We do not know whether this new plan is
the best possible. But any plan that breaks
the traditional hold of regular Army units and
commands should strengthen this compare
lively new arm of defense and give it a
chance to develop.
We do not know whether Lieut.. Col. Frank
D. Andrews is the best available man for the
new command But his promotion over the
heads of generals, colonies and other Ieuten-
ant colonies who rank him, indicates that the
Secretary of War and the Chief of Staff
think he is the best man. He must be very
good, indeed, to cause the Army to disregard
the shbboleth of seniority.
He and his new organization viii have the
best wishes Of a nation which at last is be-
coming ir-minded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28
THE SUN MACHINE

Chemists meeting at Pittsburgh open
~ vistas that are at once bright and
gloomy. They are bright when we consider
what these men of research are doing to make
it possible for this and future generations to
live more abundantly. They are gloomy when
we contemplate organized society's ability in
the past to misuse new inventions and proc
esses to create wars, unemployment and hu-
man misery
Think of the. potentialities Of the solar
cooker exhibited at Pittsburgh It is an ap-
paratus for Harvesting sunlight to do mans
work For years scientists have been I'M
proving devices to corral part of the suns
boundless energy. Some day an apparatus
of this type may emerge from laboratory
into industrial life What then?
With the costless, laborless heat of the
sun firing the boilers in factories and power
plants, what would become of the men who
have been stocking furnaces mining coal and
producing oil? If chronological unemploy-
ment is a problem now. what would it be
then2 What about the billions of dollars in
savings tied up in what may become obsoles-
cent plants?
These are hypothetical questions since no
solar heat collector commercially practicable
vet has been devised. Such future as is
implied seems fantastic. But who, looking
backward over the last so years, will say it
is impossible?
just as improbable two generations. ago
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28
SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS

WE have a way OF talking these days as If
W all that stood between the human race
and complete earthly happiness were a faulty
economic system. It is only natural that we
should talk that way, because the depression
has caused some very tragic things to happen
and they aren't quickly forgotten.
But every now and then we get pathetic
little reminder that the quest for happiness
isn't going to be solved too easily.
Even after We find way of banishing
hunger and want from the earth forever, there
will still be those sad, life wrecking accidents
that people blunder into when they try to
solve the personal equations that human So
ciety presents.
These things have nothing to do with IN
employment or The price of wheat; they hap
pened to people back in the days of the pyr-
amids, and they probably will keep on hap
pening after the last stone has been removed
from the bread-win1er's path.
That recent case of the aviator and the girl
parachute jumper is an illustration.
The aviator was young man who flew
ship on a commercial line in the East. The girl
knew him and his wife-had. in fact, worked at
one time as their maid
The aviator and his wife separated and
planned to get divorce; he and the parachute
jumper became sweethearts.
Somehow the course of tie romance didn't
run smoothly The aviator md his estranged
wife had two children, and they kept the break
from becoming complete. The parachute girl
found she had to share her man with the
other woman.
Finally after heaven knows what discour-
agement. anger, and desperation. she ended the
whole tragedy by killing herself
Now here is the sort of tragedy that all the
economic establishments on earth will never
touch. The quest for happiness is a strange
and perplexing thing, and there always will
be pitfalls along the road; because people can
not always be wholly wise and controlled when
they grope out for those human contacts which
give life its meaning.
All of this, perhaps, is self-evident? Per-
haps And yet we forget it. We talk as if the
grim fight for economic security were the only
fight we needed to win. After it is all over
after the fear of hunger and poverty has been
obliterated-life will still be a mixture of
splendor and dark tragedy.
Some of us will be lucky, and find the love
and comradeship we must have-and some of
us will reach for them, fail miserably and go
down in defeat. And when that happens, we
who have been lucky can only try to be un-
derstanding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-28
FRIDAY. DEcEMBER %. 1884.

a sCRIPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

TOR the best interests OF both sides the
l. terms must remain secret"
That statement has been credited to Frank
Douglas. Washington, member Of the Textile
Labor Relations Board, as his reason for main
tanning secrecy surrounding the settlement
of the textile workers strike at the Indian
apolis Bleaching Company.
It is very apparent that Mr.. Douglas, and
the other principals involved in the matter,
have forgotten the third party in the strike
situation. Granted that the employers are
one party the workers a second, it must not
be forgotten that the taxpaying public of In
dianapolis is the third.
And the taxpayers Of this community are
a very important unit in this party" machine
and deserve more than secrecy in return for
their efforts.
What did the taxpayers have to do with
this case?
They were vitality interested in this case,
not only because other taxpayers were in
voIved, but because an industry in Indian
apolis was involved.
In the second place. the taxpayers are the
persons who twice each year shell out money
for taxes which maintain our police depart
ment. There was policing of the plant during
the strike And the third" party paid that
bill.
In addition, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan,
paid by the taxpayers of Indianapolis, took
deep interest in seeking a settlement of the
strike. He spent hours on the case, hoping to
be able to solve the situation to the best
advantage of every one concerned.
Today Mayor Sullivan has no idea of the
contents of the settlement agreement. He
does not know whether his hours of patient
aid were wasted and the taxpayers do not
know whether their mayor wasted his time.
When the taxpaying public is ignored,
some one is making a grave error.
The man who pays the bill always is in
terested in knowing whether he spent his
money gainfully or foolishly
The third" party should not be forgotten.