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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

Adapted from First Nationals great musical drama, starring Al Joson, Kay Francis Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez Dick Powell and dozen other stars, coming soon to the State.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

chestra. 12:00-Leon Belasco and his or chestra. 12:30 a.m.-Sam Robbins and his Hotel McAlpin orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

Here and there Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield, cOm- edy team of the Family The ater. heard themselves mim- icked on the air last Sunday morning by Jean and Junior, youthful comics of the WABC Children'S hour It wasn't entirely a surprise, however,
 for the real Lean and Mayfield wrote the script for them
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

The Metropolitan Opera House Chorus will also be heard. Miss Pons made musical history in the United States when she made her debut as Lucia" at the Met. That first performance placed her in the ranks of the greatest coloratura sopranos heard in America. She was picked up by the Metropolitan before she had a chance to estab- fish a really wide reputation on the continent and her voice Is now one of the most beautiful ever heard on the air.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

P. M.
 6:0O-stage Reief Fund. 5:05-Studio Program. b:15-Going Places-T. Atherton
 Dixon. 5:30-Town Talk. b:45-A Clean Sweep-Mrs Her
 bert Shipman. 6:00-Uncle Don. 6:30-Sylvia Clyde and Joseph
 Bier, Songs. 6:45-Ray Perkins, Comedy. 7:O0-Sports Resume. 7:15-Front Page Drama. 7:30-Sizzlers Trio. 7:45-Stories of the Sea. 8:OO-Selvin Orch; Jones and
 Hare, Songs, S:30-Musical Revue. 0:OO-Osborn Orch; Interview
 by Radie Harris. 9:30--Book Play. s:45-Willy Robyn, Tenor; Marie
 Gerard Soprano. lO:00-Teddy Bergman. Comedian; t. Betty Quene: Songs; Ron-
 doliers Quartet. Ee:i5-C'urrent Events-Harlan
 Eugene Read. he:S0-Jack Arthur, Baritone. aO:45-To be announced. --Moonbeams Trio. I1;s0-Dance Music.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

Lily Pons, beautiful young French soprano with the Metro poIitan opera company, will bring
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30
FIND INDIAN MASK :

Forest Grove Ore-s- F(UP) -- Workmeh digging 2 sbasement in the residential section. here un- earthed an Indian grave with. nu- mer0us relics. and. 8 skull \ on which a hideous@ copper death mask had been fastened with raw hide: It was believed to- isbe the grave sof an Ipdians medicine man
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

the "Ziegfeld Follies". As an add ed attraction this Sunday, there'll be several songs by Jean Sargent, who understudies Jane Froman in the "Follies" and who has a swell singing rep in her own right.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

The Broadway Melodies pro- gram, heard Sunday afternoons over CBS, will continue desipte Helen Morgan's departure for the coast. In her place as star comes Everett Marshall, baritone star of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30
5OO--WICC-- -Bridgeport--6O(

oVo w AoO ASAhoS SPOAs VVV r. M. 5:00-Yankee Singers. 5:15-Dick Mcssner and his or
 chestra. 5:30-Sports. 5:31-News. 5:36-Melody Mart 5:45-The Melodeers. 6:00-Time. 6:01-News. 6:14-Weather forecast. 6:15-Temperature. 6:16-The Ivory Tickler-Midge
 Bifield. 6:30-Nick Lucas and Freddie
 Rich's orchestra. 6:45-Digest and Revue. 7:00-Adeline Manzy, Sweet
 Adeline of the Air. 7:15-Hotel Westminster orches-
 tra. 7:30-"Music on the Air" with
 Johnny Kemper. 7:45-Northeastern Section
 American Chemical Society
 Lecture. S:O0-The Bakers. 8:15-Concert orchestra. 9:00-F'ray and Braggiotti, Fran
 co-Italian piano team. 9:15-Ruth Biting. 9:30-"Marvelous Melodies 10:00-Connecticut celebrities, in-
 troduced by Leo Miller. 10:15-Sam, Bittel and his orches-
 tra. 10: :30---Jsmes Martin, baritone. t0:45- Musical Interlude. fO:50--Barclay Club orchestra, 11:00-News. 1l:20-Local News. :30--Isham Jones. tt :AR-Henrv Busse and his or-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30
2s2-.WTIC-.Hartford..lO6W

P. M. 5:O0-Organ Melodies. 5:30-Program from New York
 NEG. 5:45-Studio Program. 6:0O-Wrightville Clarion. 6:30-Irene Beasley-NBC. 6:45-Your Folks and Min (from
 WEED. 7:00-Morton Bowe, Tenor-NBC 7:15-Studio Program. 7:30-Three x Sisters-NBC. 7:45-Dave Burrows and his Five
 Sharps. S:OO-Jessica Dragonette and
 Quartet-NBC. 900-"The Answer" - WT1C
 Playhouse; Guy Hedlund,
 director; with orchestra
 directed by Christian
 Kriens. !. 9:30-One Night Stands-NBC. :00--"First Nighter"-NBC. 1O:3O-The Flying Dutchman-
 NEG. 11:O0-Program from New York
 NEG. 11:15-Prcss- Radio News-NBC. 11:20-Jules Lande, violinist-
 NEG. 11:30-"'The Crucifixion" contata
 NEG. A. M. 12SSO-Jules Lande, violinist-
 NEG. 1:00-Silent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

Lillian Roth, the deep- voiced miss who has iDtro- duced a dozen song hits to popularity, will he featured in a new WABC program, which has its premiere Monday night at 1O:3O. Also on the period will be Edward Nell, baritone. and Phil Ohman and Victor Arden with their orchestra. Ohman and Arden will feature their piano duet numbers as we'll as lead their band.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-30

The Prince of Wales has sbeen presented . copy of the Bible in Esperanto.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
This Is i. S.-NOt Russia
Little Gloria's Needs Ignored

The astounding decision by Justice carew in the battle over
the custody Of 1Oyearod Gloria Vanderbilt smacks more
of Russia than of conducted American principles
The decision deprve little Gloria of the most vital need
for the upbringng of chdthe intimate and shelterng
love of mother Ask any psychoogist-and he will tell
you that child cannot grow mentally and emotionaly
stable without affection bestowed upon by parent
Justice Carew declared little Gloria 1.-The ward Of the
State This the system in Russia The parents there have
''vting privileges So has Glorias mother All other
parental rights graciousy bestowed there by the
ernment. Justice Carew acts in equally highhanded
Little Gloria Vanderbilt is to become legal orphan. No
one is responsible for her except the mpersonal deus
machna-the State Her life is to be hedged and regmented
by rules and regulations instead of swayed tenderness and
genenes and loving kindness She to be shuted back
and forth from mother to aunt like tennis ball.
Justice Carew should realize that this America and not
Russia He should the habeas corpus issue way
another He should place little Gloria in the hands of her
mother or her aunt This would make easier for the
to 20 before the higher courts and final just decision
reached.
The public will be satisfied with secret proceedings
They entitled to full knowledge Of the facts to the
fitness of mother to guard her child Justice in
a democracy is not decided by dictators-
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Christmas Shopping
Do ItNOW

It has been about year since went through
annual Christmas shopping rush.
Remember the congestion the scuryng about through i'm
patient crowds the despaing clerks in the stores the
Fpicked-ove that you bought at the last minute?
Remember wondering if you'd get the job finished
before the last bell rang the last store Christmas eve?
And remember the way you that you wouldn't be
caught that way again?
Do you recall the oath you took that the next time Christ
around you'd be out early with your shopping list
and do your buying in comfort?
WE'LL it's time to shop early again for Christmas
The Post Office Department the merchants again
out urging you get in promptly and do your buying and
mailing now.
lot of us won't pay much attention to that. Well
figure that everybody shops early won't be crowded
if we wsit till the last minute
AND HOW DARN SORRY WE'LL BE ON CHRIST
MAS EVE.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
What No Budapest?
By Robert BenchIey

Budapest was the local point
of the war, as the SloVenes
were trying to get rid of it to
the Bulgks, and the Bulgks
were trying to make the
Slovenes keep it. This will ex-
plain, Mr.. Schwartzer, why
there is no such place as Buda-
pest.
If any word other than mine
were needed to convince you
that you have made a rather
ludicrous mistake in this mat
ter, I will quote from a noted
authority on nonexistent cities,
DR.. Almer Doctor, Pinsky Pro
fessor Of Obduracy in the uni
versity of that name. In his
vanished Cities of Central Eu-
rope" ne writes:
"Since 1902 there has been
no such place as Budapest. 1t
is too bad, but let's face it,"
Or, again from Nerdlinger'S
Atlas (revised for the Carna-
ton Show in London in 1920:
"a great many uninformed
people look in their ALIASES for
the city of Budapest, and COM
plain to us when they cannot
find it. Let us take this oppor-
tunity to make it clear there is
no such place as Budapest and
has not been since 1902. The
spot which was once known as
Budapest is now known as the
Danube River, by Strauss '"
I would not rebuke you so
publicly, Mr.. Schwartzer, had
it not been for that crack of
yours about my geography
teacher. My geography teacher
was a very fine woman and
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

H. W. van Loon d a r K d u n
geons of our libraries to prove
that I am all wrong, and the
Statisticans of our large or
ganizations that make their
profits out of mass production
will denounce me as another
Prophet of Woe who hates the
Iron Man and wants to go back
to the drudgery and misery of
the Middle Ages, when there
was never a sufficient supply of
manufactured goods to feed
and clothe the masses, and
when the entire structure of
society was therefore based
upon the principle of Scarcity
rather than that of Abundance.
1 hasten to add that I am a
very poor economist, not only
when it comes to personal
economies (aren't we allO but
also within the realm OF that
mysterious science which seems
to be dwindling down very
rapidly to the mere dimensions
of an art, and not even to those
of one of the finer arts.
EVIL DAYS
I got my first glimpse OF the
wondrous guild of the econo-
mists, the highly praised Proph-
cts of a New Dawn, when I was
very young. I even took a de-
gree in political economy, for
there was a time when 7 hoped
to follow in the ancestral foot"
steps and become a full-fledged
professor.
I have since been politely re-
moved from several of our
higher seats of learning (people
"sit" in those institutions an
awful lot of times when they
should really be taking a little
exerciSe) for severay highly un-
orthodox ideas within the realm
of history. I am therefore no
longer entitled to speak with full
Authority, with capital A.
But the political economy
which I was taught as a child
has fallen upon evil days. The
war, which according to our
leading economists could not
last longer than four weeks at
the most, lasted almost all OF
four years, and it has not yet
come to an end. The professors
reasoned that at the end of those
proverbial four weeks, the whole
world would be bankrupt, and
that hunger and want would
force the powers to conclude a
hasty peace. They were right
enough in one part of their con-
tentions. The world did not go
broke, but within the realm Of
bankruptcy the same rules that
govern your life and my life do
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Listen, World!
Bv Elsie Robinson

cry to each other-to keep the
adventure of your differentness.
Go on being yourselves. Go on
LIVING. Nine out Of ten mar
riage failures happen because
people STOP LIVING when
they marry, and thereafter de-
vote all their energies to being
Mr.. and Mrs. Don't do that!
Marriage is just part of life it
isn't a substitute for life.
Go on growing. Grow in
every way, not just in a love
way. Love is a fine thing, but
it isn't everything in life. Nor
is love enough. The person
who only loves is lopsided.
The life that puts all its
bets on love is headed for
tragedy. Grow all over. Think
new thoughts. Find new inter
ests. Make new experiments.
Do not expect to completely
understand each other or al
ways like each other. You
are bound to be cool to each
other at times. Indifferent
sometimes actually hostile.
These things are natural. They
are the normal ebb and flow
of emotion. They will come no
matter whom you marry.
They would come with any
interest.
Do not expect marriage to
be an answer to anything-or
a Solution-or an ending. Re-
gard it always as lfe's most
challenging adventure. and
keep it as such.
LIVE AND GIVE
Sometimes, like all adven-
lures, it will be grim, some
times glorious. But mostly just
plugging along.
Don't blame misery or mon
tony on marriage. You'd have
had them if you had remained
single.
LIVE FULLY AND GIVE
FULLY-these are the two
fundamental laws Of marriage.
Obey these laws and your mar
riage is bound to be a success
full adventure.
But suppose the other fellow
doesn't? Still, FOR YOU, it
will have been a success. For
loving always pays.
We may betray love, but love
never betrays us. We are al
ways richer for it-alwayS
stronger and wiser and tenderer.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

Eat there is a scene laid in
Budapest. There is no such
place as Budapest"
In answer to this, I have
received the following communi-
cation from M. Schwartzer:
ASK for your money back
from your geography teacher.
There is such a place as Buda-
pest, and it is not a small viii
lage, either. Budapest is the
capital of Hungary. In case
you never heard Of Hungary,
it is in Europe. Do you know
where Europe is? Respectfully
yours, etc."
am standing by my guns,
Mr.. Schwartzer. There is no
such place as Budapest. Per-
haps you are thinking of
Bucharest, and there is no such
place as Bucharest, either.
I gather that your geography
teacher didn't tell you about
the Treaty of Ulm in 1902, in
which Budapest was eliminated.
BY the terms of this treaty Il
quote from memory:
BE it hereby enacted that
there shall be no more Buda-
pest. This city has been get
ting altogether too large lately,
and the coffee hasn't been any
too good, either. So, no more
Budapest, is the decree of this
conference, and, if the residents
don't like it, they can move to
some other place"
This treaty was made at the
close of the war of 1905,
which was unique in that it be-
gan in 1905 and ended in 1902,
thereby confusing the contest
ants so that both sides gave
in at once.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

Scraper and seen the light.
After a survey by the Depart
ment of Commerce, r. ]. Baker,
president Of the American
Steamship Owners Association,
announces that American sea-
men are paid higher wages than
other sailors of the world.
He compares the wages Of
American seamen and those Of
the Japanese and his compar-
ison tends to show that the
former receive several times as
much pay as the latter.
Mr.. Baker. however, limits
his statements.
He failed to point out that
many So-cGlled American ship
OWnerS haze registered their
UeSSelS under foreign flags so
as to eUGde the American W1Qe
scale.
On the West Coast, some Of
the biggest companies have reg
istry in the Orient, pay the
wages comparable to those of
the Orient but derive other
American benefits.
He makes no mention Of the
fact that American ships make
little if any effort to employ
naturalized or native born
Americans but hire aliens who
will tolerate less favorable con-
ditiOnS on ShipbOard.
No statement is made By Mr..
Baker to the effect that Amer
icGn ship oUnerS did not Uolun-
tGrily raise wages to the pres
ent leUel but Were forced to
make concessions after Stren-
uouS efforts on the part of
unions to get better pay.
Nor does he mention that
rules and regulations of mari
time law permit captains of
American vessels, particularly
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

in the Government.
With elections over there is a
stream of former members of
Congress in and on the way to
Washington to seek remunera-
tive positions.
Strategy of all types is being
resorted to in order for the de-
feated to secure good jobs.
One coUeted post that is be-
ing bargained for is that oc-
cupied by South Trimble, Clerk
OF the House.
A position of dignity, COM
pGratiUely easy labor, and TAR
salary, it is BEING eyed t01th
interest by SeUeral OF the de-
teGted Who, although they are
fond of Mr.. Trimble, WOULD like
to haze his job.
Trimble probably will not be
removed from office in the
election for his job but the race
may be close.
Although none has definitely
announced himself as a candl-
date there are several who are
covetouS.
And with the speakership fight
in the offing trades for votes
will be made.
Many a defeated Congress
man has friends who will per-
suade others to back him in ex-
change for q vote in speaker
ship and leadership races.
So it appears that despite the
Norris Lame Duck amendment,
some of the very lamest will be
given good care.
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardla,
of New York, apparently has re-
VerSed or altered his views con-
siderably since he was a mem
ber of Congress.
In Manhattan he gives tacit
approval to q 2 per cent sales
levy for New York.
When LaGuardia was in Con-
greSs he had different views.
Although there 1OGS a general
demand for passage OF sales
tnE legislation 1Ohen FiorellG
1DGS in the House, he and
others made a strenuous fight
against the sales leUy Which
caused its defeat.
Just why LaGuardia should
have opposed the national sales
tax and then permitted it to be
considered for New York is un-
known.
However, he may have climbed
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Hendrix Willem van Loom

not hold good for full-fledged
nations. When you and I can
no longer pay our debts, we
cease to eat and drink and we
sleep on a park bench. When an
entire community goes broke, it
lives on the accumulated inter-
est on its Indebtedness and it
continues to build warships and
to establish breadlines as if
nothing had happened.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

fail to appeal to the proper au-
thoritieS.
Mr.. Baker is correct, accord
ing to figures, in saying that
seamen on American vessels re.
ceive better pay in most in
stances than sailors on foreign
vessels.
But neither Mr.. Baker or any
other person can make an as
SertiOn that, despite the i'm
prOvement in conditions on
board United States vessels
there are not situations when
sailors are "dOcked" unreasOn-
ably, poorly fed and sheltered,
and even subjected to brutality.
Copyright, 1894. The Washington
TimPS)
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

A few weeks ago, in this
space, wrote a little treatise
on Movie Boners," in which I
tried to follow the popular
custom of picking technical
flaws in motion pictures, detect
ing, for example, that when a
character enters a room he has
on a bow tie and, when he
leaves it, four-in-hand.
In the course of this fascinat-
ing article I wrote: I'm the
picture called DR.. Tanner Can't
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

But even as you 90, TeLlleAAAOeA
this
Marriage isn't a miracle
worker. Nine out of ten OF the
delightful things you've heard
about it aren't true.
No marriage VOW has ever yet
made 1.-TWO hearts beat as one:
YOU'RE TWO SEP AR A T E
PEOPLE NOW, AND YOU
WILL ALWAYS REMAIN So
You'll never be one. You
shouldn't even try to be one.
You should try to share inter-
ests-try to understanding TO
play the game together.
But you should never try 10
be one-or expect the other Tel.
low to try. For the most sacred
thing in life, and the most i'm
portant thing in marriage, IS
INDIVIDUALITY.
ADVENTURE
You fell in love with each
other because you were indlVld-
uals. You excited and charmed
each other because you were
different.
You reached out toward part
nership because you offered
each other something new and
strange-something that would
answer the others need, COM
plete the others life.
Respect and cherish that dif-
ference now. Don't spoil things
by trying to be like each other
by trying to force the other
fellow into your mol6 Try. in
stead, to remain little OF myS-
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

sermon is entirely of my own
making and I am responsible
of it, and neither Cornell nor
Harvard nor Munich is to blame
for this latest outburst Of heresy.
For what I claim in one state
ment-that we shall have to
choose between birth control
for machines or birth control for
people-is something which our
professional economists and all
the statisticans of our big con-
Germs whether still going or
temporarily in the red) deny
with a vehemence which makes
me feel that they are perhaps
not quite as certain of the cause
which they defend as they pre-
tend to be.
They rush forth with a rich
assortment of statistics which
are supposed to prove that every
new machine throws ten thou
sand people out of work, another
and even more novel improve
ment takes care of those ten
thousand bread-linerS and OF an
additional ten thousand who
have only recently been born.
The professors may be right.
During the Middle Ages there
was a school of learned scholars
who would prove land who
was there to gainsay them), that
two times two made five, that a
straight line and a crooked line
were one and the same thing,
and that standing still was ex-
actly the same thing as moving
about. They were close breth-
rem to those agile minds which,
after i'm m nse calculations,
could tell you exactly how many
angels would stand on the point
of a needle and how many grains
of sand there were on the road
from Jerusalem to Jericho.
FILL THE GAP
Their names have now been
completely forgotten except by
the manufacturers of picture
puzzles, but for the time being
they satisfied a very serious de-
mand on the part of the public
at large for just that sort Of
futile entertainment. Every age
has need of some harmless sort
of brain-twiSting nonsense, and
today the economists are willing
to fill the gap.
The Great War proved them
wrong on almost every point.
The even more disastrous peace
which followed Immediately
upon the war destroyed the
rest of their pet theories and
hypothesis. Heaven forbid
that out of my ignorance 1
should now challenge their
wisdom. 1 modestly withdraw
before their fury. For all I
care. they may continue to
prove (if not to me. at least
to themselves) that a hundred
machines which throw a hun
dred thousand men out Of
work will give instant employ
ment to a million others.
Meanwhile, I stick to my
original statement, and I shall
leave it on your doorstep for
your own final decision. We
are face to face with a mo-
mentouS question. We shall
have to decide between birth
control for machines or birth
control for men. Take your
choice.
(CopyriRht. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

Go to it eag-
erly, joyfully,
proudly! Give
it everything
you have-au
your tender
n SIS a n d
laughter. all
your ia i t h
and fire!
D MT be
au tt o us
don't be timid
don't hold
a n y t h i n g
back. Low e
w i t h a | |
VOl'Ve z t,
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

dates for Con-
gresSiOnal Ses-
SiOnS and pre-
v n t e d de-
feated m e m L.
b erS fro m
serving after
defeat.
One thing
it has failed
to do, how
ever, is to pre-
vent the ap-
pointment of
defeated mem
berS Of Con-
greSS to i'm
portant posts
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Shall 1t Be Birth Control for
Machines or for Men,?

It is all very mysterious. In
deed it is so mysterious that I
presented my entire library of
books on Political Economy to
one of our institutions of higher
learning. 1 hope that they have
done more good to the students
of Antinoch College then they
ever did to me.
The noble sentence, therefore,
with which I began today'S little
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

freighterS, to
make deduc-
tionS in the
pay of sailors
W h e n t h e
W a G e S are
finally paid.
H e d o e Sn't
mention that
A m e ri c a n
captains, in
m a n y in
stances, clog"
or I'd oc k"
sailors unrea-
S o n a b ! y,
knowing that
they usually
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

There may
be another
way out of
our difficult
ties, b u t I
h a. v e never
heard of it.
I re a ! iZe
t h is state
ment will get
me into all
sorts of diff
ficultieS. EN-.
inent econo-
m i S t S W i'll
a riS from
t h e d e e p,