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CIVIL. SERVICE EXAMINATIONS

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NJ. j. BARS BUSES

New York.-Praising@ the activity
of New Jersey state highway patrol
men who stopped 205 passenger bus
es from entering the state Mayor La
Guardia of New Yory city called up
on his police force to join in the cam
paign for safety.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
Guarantee For Industry

Private capitalism still seems to lack recuperative power, after five years ot heroic effort to resume normal activity. So we have continued infusions of state capitalism. The latest idea along this line, said to be under consideration now III Washington, is bolder than most of the experiments so far. It is based on the as- sumption that industry is ready to resume normal operations, but is held back by fear of losses; that industry will go ahead if the government will carry the risk or speeding up production.
 How could this be done? Some advisers suggest that the government figure out the normal demand for staple commod- ities and guarantee to buy all of the new production, within these limits, for which there proves to be no market. If the plan works, there will be little for the govern nent to buy. What it has to buy, 1t can distribute to the poor who otherwise would need cash relief. At the worst, they argue, it will cost no more to suDsl- dize industry in this way than to go on caring for the unemployed directly. Here is g good subject for nonpartisan discus sion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
Tourist Crop

The national parks have had record year for visitors. General touring around the country was almost on the old pros perity level. Now northern automobile clubs report preparations for a record winter rush southward. Florida is get ting ready for the greatest season in it's history" says one club. "The influx of tourists has already begun. The Missis- sippi Gulf Coast, from Mobile to New Or leans, and Arizona and southern Califor- mia also, are getting an unusual number of visitors"
 Tourist travel is said to be our greatest money crop" The average car on the road carries three and half persons, each averaging about $375 day in expendi- lures, total of about SIS day. A steady procession of such cars means prosperity for any community. There is nothing like the little old family car to scatter wealth, too, in out-of-the-way places that happen to be attractive to travellers. The cultiva- tion of this crop is coming to be big in dustry in itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
Radio Vocabularies

The British Broadcasting Company has All advisory committee on pronunclatloq. George Bernard Shaw is it's chairman. It's purpose is to pass upon disputed Words and get broadcasters to use the approved accommodations. Something of the sort would be pleasant, for example, to have proper names pronounced according to some uniform standard.
 The usefulness of the B.B.C's pronun- ciation committee seems little doubtful however, when it is learned that its latest list of words includes the following: anemoscope, clinometer, cornopean, or bital. pyriform, risible and trochee. American broadcasters don't use those words much; and if they did, radio fans probably would tune them out and hunt for Amos m Andy or some other program making no greater demands on the dlc- tionary.
 The British committee also has asked forg help on another group it is now con- sidering. Just how persons speaking over .the radio should pronounce Capuchln, decor. salicylate, Scaramouch, siderite and sfern is the big question now before 1t. Encland is not America, and it seems ob- VioI5s that broadcasters there and here dou't speak the same language.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14

placed Johnson went into clam like silence the day they took office. They have never emerged. Repeated attempts to get them to talk have been unavail- ing.
 Although they hold almost daily board sessions, individually and collectively they invariably { give the same stereotyped reply to inquiries about the nature of their deliberations and decisions:
 "NOthing to report. We took no action. Just discussion"
 The secrecy, the lack of out ward signs of activity have strengthened numerous reports that the process of MIRA reorgan- ization is still uncompleted, that so far the board is chiefly mark ing time.
 VANISHING TRIBE
 John Collier, lugubrious chief of the Indian bureau, was pass- ing a friend in the interior de- partment just after elections.
 "JOhn,' said he, 'shOw about rounding up all the remaining republicans and giving them place on one of your, Indian rescrvations?"
 'It's all right with me-" re- piled Collier sOlemnly, "but they wouldn't stock half a rescrva- tiOn."
 PIGEONS PART
 A pigeon once played an inn portant part in the original con- struction of the Washington monument.
 Abandoned during the Civil war, the shaft was left half completed at height of 13S feet. When work was resumed in 1878, the roof had coved in, and all tackle had crumbled to dust. There was no way to reach the top again.
 A workman suggested that cotton cord be tied to the leg of a pigeon, which would be set loose inside the monument and driven upwards by discharging guns below.
 The device was tried, and worked. When the bird emerged at the top, it perched while,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
Minimum Prices

The United States Supreme Court still believes in competition as the balance wheel of business and the safeguard of consumers. This is an obvious inference from Justice Cardozos opinion upholding the New York milk control act pater- nal state or federal government may sanction minimum price for milk or any other product, as a reasonable level below which an industry should not go, in order to save industry as a whole from destruc- tion by cutthroat competition. But if this minimum becomes also a maximum-that is, fixed price for the industry as a whole = and if the more efficient com petitors are able to make profit out ot it. and the less efficient competitors are not, the latter have no recourse. It's just their hard luck.
 This is tough on many of the little fellows" But it is the kind of game they're in Justice Cardozo sees the occas- ional injustice of it, but passes the buck to Congress. "Whether wise statecraft," he says, twill favor or condemn this exaltatlon of the strong is matter of legislative policy with which the courts are not con- cerned. To pass judgment on it, there is need that the field of vision be expanded to take in all the contestants in the race for economic welfare, and not some ot them only"
 Now some of the little fellows, squeezed hard by price-pressure from big fellows, will jump onto MIRA again. Yet MIRA, with all it's failings, is trying to save as much as may be saved of the old system of private profit and competitive price on which our capitalistic economy is based. Price-fixing at high levels, to make the world safe for the weaker business units, would give the stronger ones bigger profits and put the screws on all con- sumers. Any kind of price-fixing, though, invites trouble and criticism from some group. It is to be avoided as far as possible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
Statuary Clean-Up

Statuary in New York city is suddenly receiving a little special consideration. There is PWA project, watched over by the Park Department which aims es- pecially at restoring works of art. Twenty sculptors are employed on it. Broken sta tues will be repaired. Many others will be cleaned, and debris which has collected in their vicinity will be cleared away. There will also be talks and lectures in the schools calling attention to the historic monuments and seeking cooperation III protecting them from vandalism.
 There must be few cities of any size m this country in which there is not need ot similar work It is no tribute to departed great ones to neglect the monuments reised to them. It is no favor to the living pub lie, either, to clutter the landscape with dilapidated statues in untidy condition.
 While renovating and shining up exist ing statues and monuments, it would be we'll to make few stern resolves against reckless statue-erecting in the future. It is better first to be sure that heros greatness or fame or popularity is based on something of permanent interest or value. Too many monuments have been erected to persons who have merely held public office at one time or another. That fact doesn't guarantee that monument will have meaning for future generations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
Moscow Letter
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent )

Moscow = (UP) = Throughout the length and breadth of the Soviet Union these days thousands of young men are leaving farms and factories to exchange their "civies'' for the long, khaki tunics and peaked, starred caps of the red army.
 They are hurrsing to recruiting stations in answer to a summons from Commissar of War Klementi Voroshilov to all Soviet males born in 1912. Each year a new class composed of boys, who have passed their 21st birthday, is called to the colors to replace men, who are being mustered out after their required period of service.
 Intensive Training For two years, if the boys elect to join the red army; for three years, if they choose the air corps; and for four years if they enlist in the red navy, the re- cruits will receive intensive mili- tary, scholastic and political edu- cation. When, finally, they reenter civilian life, they are supposed to be not only good soldiers, but ar- dent defenders of communist theology.
 Perhaps no army in the world Is subjected to such intensive po- litical propaganda as the troops of this socialistie state. And, whether they are right or wrong, the fact remains that the Red soldier invariably leaves the army profoundly convinced that his country, in comparison with. all capitalistic nations, is indeed the workers Paradise.
 K Political Training Necessary < Such intensive political training Is more essential here than In most nations, for the communist dictatorship must have a body of loyal troops, who can be relied upon not only to repe1 intasions, but also to subdue counter-revo. lutionary movements at home. True, each year that passes makes the Likelihood of counter-revolu- ton more remote. But the Com niunists have not forgotten the nervoue years when 1t was con- stant threat.
 Upon receiving his call to duty, the 1893 recruit puts aside his working clothes, dOns his best suit and, after being honored and en- tertained by his comrades in farm or factory, reports to the recruit ing station.
 First. he reports to teacher who sounds out his. education. Then he is examined physically. If he is found fit for the army, he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14

can Legislators Association recently con- ducted an interesting little poll on the subject.
 The association found that members of state legislatures = who would stand to lose their jobs if such scheme were adopted = were against it by approxl- lnately three to one On the other hand, professors of political science who have no conceivable ax to grind, either way favored it by a majority of about six to one. The result of the poll leaves one with the feeling that the proposition might we'll be worth consideration by other states.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
Press Comment
FOR THE MERRITT HIGHWAY
Bridgeport Telegraph

Fairfield county will naturally get a thrill out of the speech in
 Bridgeport Wednesday night deliv-
 cred by Hugh M. Alcorn, republi- can candidate for governor. With out any hedge or equivocation;
 without a lot of qualifying ifs,
 "ands' and "maybes," MT Alcorn declared himself f1atly in favor of rushing the Merritt highway to completion not only because traf- fic conditions imperatively de- mand the completion of this high way but because, in his own words 1t is golden opportunity to give relief to unemployment by putting
 men to work on really worth
 while project.
 We say Fairfield county ought to be thrilled, because here at last is
 recognition of the real need of the
 Merritt parkway. The republican candidate was quick to sense the fact that the present is the oppor- tune time to build it. The county, with a smarting sense of neglect on this issue, will welcome the assur- ance of a man whose word Is as good as his bond.
 It is time that the people or tnis
 part of the state awoke to the fact
 that they have been pushed around from one state election to
 another by lot of promises which
 have never materialized in action.
 This Merritt highway. which Is now represented by bit in Strat- ford and a bit in Greenwich, has
 been under way for 10 years. Dur ing that time the county has con- tributed enough in motor car taxes to the state coffers to build it twice over, not counting the con- tributions from the federal govern ment. Meantime over the Boston Post road, the narrow neck of the bottle, pours all of the traffic be- tween New York and New England on one road, the only road avail' able.
 The Merritt highway is now a
 real issue. And it's about time!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
A Book a Day
Marie Lays Carols Woes To His Tutor
By BRUCE CAPTION

Queen Marie of Rumania comes down from the mountain this month with hex autobiography. Ii | is entitled ''The Story of My Life.' and while 1t Is aimed chiefly al | the snob trade-how thrilling Co hear Queen Victoria called Grand mamma Vicky,' and King Ed ward VII Cousin Bertie"!--it
 does contain, here and there, a
 nugget of information.
 You'll want to know, most of all
 what she says about her son, King
 Carol? Very little; the volume lends with her coronation In 1914; but the little she does say is illum- | mating.
 She complains that she didn't have much to say about his up-
 bringing. When he was baby, his fathers uncle, the first King Carol, ruled Rumania; and he chose tho tutor for the youngster and refused to let Marie have much influence over the child.
 The chief tutor, says Marie, was a Swiss. He was pathOlogic case mentally, and he also had Socialist leanings. He taught Carol to bc discontented with his royal lot. From the start, Marie feared the result would be disastrous, She seems to, have been quite right. For the rest, Rumania's queen gives a frothy and colorful picture
 of life in royaity's Indian summer. She was right up amongst them Queen. Victoria was her patrenal grandmother and the Czar of Rus- sia was her maternal grandfather and she gives many decorative. if quite uniformative, sketches of
 kings and grand ukes and such.
 And if it's hard to work up much sympathy for her complaint that a princess and queen leads hard,
 hard Iife--weii. it's an unfeeling
 world these days.
 Published by Scribner's, the
 book sells for $4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14

Washington, Nov. 14-Where there's will, there's way.
 The Bankhead act for cotton production control provides that before its drastic powers can be applied to the 1935k crop, two- thirds of the growers must sig nifty their approval. Such an ex- pression of opinion is obtained by a referendum ballot.
 To set such vote in motion the president is authorized to issue a proclamation that an emergency is likely to exist in this commodity next year, and call for a ballot.
 But with the big growers and exporters itterly agitating against continuance of produc- tion control,s there is consider able doubt whether a two-thirds majority can be obtained.
 So in order to avoid putting the president on a hot spot should the referendum fail, AAA strategists have evolved an inge- niOus nlaneuver.
 Instead of the president issu- ing an order before the refer endum is held, he will say nothing until the results of the ballot are known. Then, if a two-thirds vote is obtained, he will come forward with a procla- nation declaring that an emer- gency exists, decree the law operative for the 1885 crop.
 Now you sec 1t, and now you don't.
 HOPEFUL
 "Jim," said a friend to Post master General Farley, several days after the election, 'now that you have all these demo- crats in congress what do you < expect to do with them ?"
 ''Tne best we can," he replied. SOLEMN SECRECY
 The one-time gold fish bowl of the New Deal has now become the most secrecy bound institu- ton in Washington.
 A tight-lipped censorship has been imposed on the Blue Eagle stan.
 Not only is nothing revealed < officially, but informal informa- ton is threateningly scowled up- on. Laurence J. Martin, an exec utive in the compliance division, recently intimated to reporters that one of. the chief obstacles to vigorous enforcement was the failure of the justice depart ment to take aggressive legal ac- tion. His candor came near cost ing him his job.
 The pail of silence that. has descended on the activities of the MIRA extends also to its exterior.
 Gone are the 'throngs, the tur- moil, the air of keyed-up tension.
 The Blue Eagle corridors are deserted and still. Doors once kept open to allow ready passage re forbiddingly closed. The whole atmosphere of the place resem bles mausoleum.
 The board members who re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
So They Say

got a charley-horse in my arm from shak- ing hands, and my legs are stiff from sitting on cushions on the floor.
 believe that today there is more mutual sympothy and understanding, nationally and in- ternationally.
 It is to make communism both unnecessary and impossible that want to see vigorous ac- Norman Thomas, famous socialist I've always been in the unfortunate position of being already married. --Frances Heenan Peaches" Browning, engaged to marry Denver theater manager.
 
 The captalstic system under which our na- ton came into existence holds in it's very essence a doom for women. Lena Madesln Phillips. president National Council of Women.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14

then flew out and down. It was shot and the strand recovered.
 By attaching heavier cord, then rope, to the thread, new tackle was raised and platforms erected, for the continuance of the work.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Asked what he was going to say in a speech he made last week in Dallas, Tex, on the con- troversial oil question, Secretary Ickes replied I'm going to call a spade a dirty shovel" 4. In organized labor quarters the last minute victory of Michi- gan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg is attributed largely to Roosevelt's renewal of the hated auto code. The workers, who had demanded an open hearing and drastic changes in the code, were incensed at the presidents veto of their claims. Enough stayed away from the polls to enable Vandenberg's heavy out-state vote to pull him through. ; .. Clerical employees constitute the largest group of property owners who are using the modernization credit plan of the federal houssng administra- tion to renovize their homes. The next largest group are skilled mechanics, with businessmen and salesmen ranking third and fourth. .. Secretary Henry Wallace's best-seller "New From tiers", was written at an aban- doned station of the weather bureau in the Blue Ridge noun tains of Virginia. The deserted cabin on top of Mount Weather. is only a two-hour drive from the capital, but as secluded as a desert island.
 Copyright, 1884, by United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
ChuckleCorner
ROUND ABOUT By Howard Mills

One of Bellmore's crack tennis players got his start yielding fly swatter. A Kingsland pupil, asked to write all he knew about N. R. A., turned in a sheet of blank paper.
 Some Smithviile high school boys are taking to their studies with the alacrity of a hobbled snail.
 Bet every kid in Appleton hopes some day to be President of U. S. A. or grand champion bridge play CT.
 It is reported Harmony County has la rather exclusive organiza- tiun. Membership is limited to those not working for the govern ment.
 Jonesboro firemen called to re- move a swarm of bees from a building took an awful chance. The insects might have got in their hose.
 A defeated candidate was buy ing new clothes in Newton the other day. After throwing his hat in the ring, he had torn his shirt for the party.
 A Jonesboro candidate pledged himself if elected to jump off Washington Monumep, If the President asked it. The votehs saved his life. M
 The Harvey County man who jumped on his mail carrier be- cause he hadn't received an ex- pected letter should have vented his ire in licking g postage stamp,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14

O. When did Currier and Ives issue their prints (pictures)
 A. They made Autographs from about 1925 to 1866.
 O. Are African and West Indies Negroes eligible, as immigrants ana naturalized citizens in the U. s.
 A. Yes. i4
 O. What is the location of the French Embassy in the U. S, and where Is the residence of the Am
 A. The office of the Embassy :, is 1901 V. St., N. w., and the Am bassador's residence is 2460 Six teenth St., N. w, Washington. D.
 Q. How many registered voters were there in the United states, and how many voter in the last election?
 IA. The registration in 1882 was 46.g65.23O, and the total vote in the Presidential election that year was 39,S16,522.
 Q. What races of people inhabit
 aA A, In 1890 the population was made up of the following: White. 28.640: Indian, 29,983; Japanese, 278: Negro, 136: Chinese, 56; and all other races, 215:
 If you want a copy of our bulI- etin BROADCASTlNG STATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA, write to The Waterbury Democrat Wasb- ington Bureau, enclosing five cents i'm. postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14

Pickle New England and equally tickle November have come into their own. Not long ago we natives were buzzing away about the lovely mild weather. Heard on all sides was that familiar line, it must be Indian Summer" Then came driving rains which have been prevalent since September, and then the other day we saw not stars-but snow. More Hurrles have been noted this week. There IS winter tang in the air. The hills have a bleak purple look; the sunsets look cold; and the ground is becoming damp and "soushy'. In fact it's just typically New England and November. And right here in Waterbury, not in Winsted, forsythla has been having second bloom.