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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-12
BY GLENN REILLY

"Great hunting weather, eh, Walt?" Barry chuckled jovi- ally as they stood outside the cabin and inspected the chill gray autumn skies for an early morning flight of ducks.
 Surely is," assented his compan- ion, a medium-sized, colorless man. His stopped shoulders were mute evidence of the many hours spent daily at his desk in the office. He forced himself to smile. What blind are you using today, Barry?"
 South one, at the end of the lake. More feed down there. not iced yesterday that most of the old leaders circled around down there. You don't mind using the north blind, do you. old man? We'll change tomorrow"
 Not at all, Barry. I'll try my luck at the old stand today" speak in an even tone. He would him, denounce his habit of getting what he wanted out of life, regard less of the feelings of others.
 Even when they had been boys together it had been the same way, he remembered. It had al- ways been Barry who had used his personality and that damnably facile charm to get what he wanted while he, Walt, took what he could struggle for.
 As a boy, Walt had rather ad- mired Barry, who was so much larger and stronger. That memory had prompted him to renew their friendship when Barry returned to the home town from New York.
 What a fool he had been! After while a 2-year-old child could have been the reason for Barry's constant presence at the house was not himself but Dorothy, his wife. Walt trembled inwardly as he re- called the innumerable evening when he had worked late to keep things going, and Barry had dropped by the house to keep Dorothy company until he arrived home.
 And 1t was Barry who had sug- gested picnics in the open, taking Dorothy for long walks in the woods because Walt was usually glad of a chance to relax after the grind of working.
 Walt watched Barry packing his knapsack inside the cabin and clenched his teeth frenziedly. If he had only had the courage to face Barry and Dorothy with an open accusation of their wrong! But he was afraid-afraid of Barry's strength and charm; afraid that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-12
BLIND VENGEANCE From Childhood Barry Had Taken What He Wished and Walt Had Been Afraid to Oppose Hin

Dorothy would laugh in defl1.on and leave him for her handaQule lover. Afraid of the shame. the
 scornful neighbors-
 Barry emerged from the door ot the cabin bearing his shotgun under one arm and his knapsack in hiH hand. Walt glanced casually at tn4 gun, noticing the worn place in the varnish on the stock. Barry had 2 gun identical with the one he pos sessed, probably because he knew that Walt had one hobby, firearms The only difference in them was that the finish was worn in slightly different places.
 After Barry had gone, Walt sat down on the bunk and his
 brow wrfnkled as he attempted 70
 think clearly of what he was to dos
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-12
GIRL TAKES ENGINEERING
 COURSE

Durham. N. C., (UP)-For the second time in Duke history, girl has enrolled in the Duke Univer~ sity school of engineering. She is the only coed among the 145 stu dents in the school. Her name is Miss Verna Birdsail, of Farming dale, N. J. Her father is a civil en- gineer. Several years ago, girl en- rolled in engineering at Duke, but climaxed her education by marry ing one of her fellow students.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-12
Answers in next issue,

Answers to Previous Questions THE stars ana bars" flag was ! legally established by its adoption as the Confederate banner on March 1861 La. ter. its design was changed be. cause il resembled the national flag Strawbridge. Philadel. phia FoXhound Master. on May 1. 1913, obtained similar post with the Cottsmore Hounds Claesen was mentioned as . "Pot-Baker" in the list of burghers of the City . of Amsterdam. New England" April l8 1857
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-12
|WHOmqo FIR5To ! IN AMERICA / By Joseph Nathan Kane
 ! Author of Famous First Facts"

When was the first amateur national handball champion. ship match held?
 When and where did the Sal. vation Army first start in the U. S.?
 When was forest manage ment on a professional scale begun?
 Answers in next issue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-14
EXPERT SUMS UP
FORMIDABLE LIST
OF EYE DEFECTS

Many a driver who sees clearly,
so far as he is aware, and who pays
attention to the road still finds driv-
ing a car hazardous business. Such
man will be interested in what
DR.. Alvah r. Lauer. of Iowa State
college, says about the physical short
comings of apparently normal people.
Clarity of vision is merely one of
the qualities of normal eyesight. A
secondary quality is width of the
field of vision. Normally, a person
looking straight ahead detects the
presence of a car when it pulls up
beside him, but some do not become
aware of it until it moves ahead. Ex-
IRENE sufferers from narrow vision
are said to possess tunnel vision. but
many persons have less than the nor
NAL field of 1S5 to 1916 degrees and
do not suspect the fact.
Depth of vision also is necessary
to safe driving. This means that the
man behind the wheel must not only
be able to see a car in the road
but must be aware of whether it is
travelling with him, standing still, or
coming toward him, and approximately
how fast. Depth perception is linked
with another point, eye dominance.
Many people who get headaches
when they are tired do so because
they are seeing out of only one eye,
although they do not know it. Two
eyes are needed for three-dimension
sight.
Color blindness is a common and
widely recognized fault. Another
thing needed for safe driving is
strength in the hands for emergency
use; there must also be the ability
to judge speed of movement, and the
right amount of awareness to sudden
noise. All these and many other
abilities are part of every persons
makeup in varying degrees. We rec
ognize them by saying driver is
alert, or capable, observant, quick,
cool, but seldom think to discover
which particular combinations of
perception and nervous control pro-
duce these desirable qualities. 1t
goes without saying, however, that a
driver who recognizes his deficien-
cies can take steps to compensate for
them.-Detroit Free Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-14
BELLS PART IN
HUMAN HISTORY
In All Ages Has Had Power to
Stir the Heart.

1t Is strange to think of the large
part bells have played, and still
play, In life. Birth, death, peace,
war, marriage. victory-all are an
nounced by the voice of the bell.
even in these days of telephones and
wireless. From ancient times man
has used bell to express the senti-
ments of his own soul, and its voice
still has the power to stir the heart.
Church bells were probaly intro
duced into the Christian church
about 400 A. d. by Paulinus, bishop
of Nola. But bells were certainly
used before that time, because the
Romans announced death by ringing
them, and they have been familiar
to the Chinese and Hindoos for
countless centuries.
Camel bells and horse bells were
probably first used to scare away
evil spirits who might attack the
animals to spite their masters. The
old Passing Bell was rung for the
dying, to scare away demons who
were waiting to pounce upon the
soul when it left the body, and the
same bell was sounded to disperse
storms and pestilence and to queneh
fire. Even in 1852 the bishop of
Malta ordered the church bells to
ring for an hour to lay a violent
storm at sea.
Small gold and silver bells were
presented to the winners of horse
races up to the time of Charles II.
Many English taverns were called
''The Bell" in allusion to this Gus
tom, for the bell was, in other words,
the prize. And the prize bell, given
to the horse, must have been a relic
of the belief that it would protect
the animal.
Bells have been almost universally
used to proclaim war as well as vic
tory. When the tocsin was rung in
France in 1914 it stirred the souls
of the people as no telegram stuck
in a postoffice window ever could.
There were thousands of people who
never had heard the alarming voice
of the war bell, but they recognized
it Immediately and required no fur
ther call. The sound of the tocsin
had hardly faded away before a
stream of men, horses and carts set
out from the distant farms for the
nearest village, bringing with them
what they could in response to that
call.
No sound is more terrible than the
alarming, warning cry of the tocsin,
and those who have once heard 1t
can only hope devoutly never to hear
it again.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-14
inpatient Snail

The director of the London Zoo
aquarium tells queer story of a
large species of snail. These crea-
lures can live for long periods with
out food. The snail in question was
a specimen in a museum. 1t was
gummed to label with other speci-
mems, but suddenly decided that such
an existence was unsatisfactory, so
it broke away from its card and ex-
plored the case.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-14

Short .of hanging, Punishment TO
Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), was
the worst penalty inflicted on offend
ers century ago. The six farm
laborers of Tolpuddleu, sentenced for
combining in trade union, whose
centenary was commemorated by the
trades union congress this August,
were sent there.
Mr.. Stanley Unwin, the publisher.
and Mr.. Severn Storr have visited
the remains OF this dread penal set
Element at Port Arthur in Tasman's
peninsula. Near a peaceful beach,
shaded by gigantic gum trees, they
state in 1.-Two Young Men See the
World" they found the ruins of the
village and prison with its exercise
yards, pitch-black silent cell" for
prisoners who raved, and long tri-
angular cages.
Each man was let loose in a cage
to himself for an hour or so a day,
during which time he could neither
speak nor make signs to the man in
the next cage TO him without earning
extra punishment. Here he clanked
up and down, up and down, in his
heavy irons that tore the skin from
his ankles and wrists, more unhappy,
poor wretch, than the widest of wild
beasts ~
For one man, who had the strength
of gorilla and doubled up ordinary
iron bars in his grip, a special cell
had been built; for another, a special
run and house, because the horrors
of the chain gangs had driven him
mad and no one dared go near him.
1t is recorded that sometimes, when
two prisoners were confined together,
they drew lots to decide who should
strangle the other and be hanged
for it.
Across the small bay was another
building, Point Puer, where juvenile
prisoners were housed. Adjacent was
a steep rock overhanging a lagoon,
called Suicide Cliff" because here
the lads used to throw themselves to
death. Amid the ruins of Port Ar
thur are the ivy-clad walls of once
beautiful church which one of the
convicts designed, buying his free
dom for work that is superb even in
its ruined state.
Many daring and CHASTITY attempts
at escape were made, but "once the
prisoners had contrived to elude
their would-be captors and gained
the mainland of Tasmania, it meant
certain death from starvation in the
impenetrable bush, or murder and
cannibalism among their own ranks
If there were several in their party"
Only a few months before the visit
of Mr.. Unwin and Mr.. Storr, a wood
man had made gruesome discovery
on the densely wooded slopes of
Mount Arthur-a human skeleton
with the broken iron letters still
clinging to arm-bone and leg-bone
Beside it, in straight row, lay the
buttons that had adorned the con-
vict's clothes in ''those bygone days
of harsh tongue and cruel LASH" Evil
IDENTIFY. this man had escaped, con-
trived by almost superhuman efforts
to break his letters, and struggled
on until he collapsed and died.
The penitentiary itself was a huge
building of two floors where some of
the convicts worked.
If convict rebelled, his irons were
made heavier, his meager diet was
reduced, his term of solitary confine-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-14
Old Prison Place of Horror
Remains of Century Old Australian Penal Settlement
Bring Vividly to Mind the Long Story of
Mans Inhumanity to Man.

ment prolonged. or he would be put
to grind cayenne pepper-the worst
task of all. Some convicts became
warders, and these proved the most
brutal of all. ave look back in won
der" the two travellers remark, "at
the callous inhumanity of those
days"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-14
White Bull
at the Battle at Rose Bud
NOTES ON THE PICTURES

Picture of Crazy Horse, said to be the only
photograph ever taken of the famou. chief,
from the collections of E. A. Brininstool; Pic
ture of Limpy, Yellow Dog and Weasel Bear,
three Cheyenne Indian survivor. of the Battle
of the Rosebud, courtesy of T. J. Gatchell of
Buffalo. Wyo.; Portrait of White Bull and
White Bull at the Battle of the Rosebud" from
Stanley VestaPs "Warpath,' courtesy of the
Houghton Mifflin company.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-14
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

Hen American Indian day, which Is
observed annually on the fourth Fri
day in September, is celebrated this
year, 1t will find a recently dedi-
Gated memorial to one of the out
standing individuals of the red race.
Out at Fort Robinson, Neb., there
has been erected a monument, cut
from the granite of the Black Hills
of South Dakota, on which are en-
graved the symbols of a pipe Of
peace and broken bow, arrow and
tOmahawk On II also Is q bronze
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-08
SOCIAL HYCIENISTS
 MEET IN HARTFORD
Three Local Delegates At=
 tend Session of State Directors To-day

Mrs Rodney Chase, Rev Moses R. Lowell of the Second Congrega- tional church and Dr Joseph l.. Hetzel represented Waterbury to- day at meeting in Hartford of the directors of the Connecticut Soci- ety for Mental Hygiene. Following the meeting the appointment of John Schoolcraft as field secretary of the society was announced. The session was held at the Town and Country club of Hartford.
 Dr c. E.. A. Winslow, president of the society, declared that the ap- pointment was in line with pro- gram for increased membership and an extension of mental hygiene work in Connecticut. An additional institution for the feeble minded, over thousand of whom are now on the waiting list of the Mansfield State Training school and hospital, was declared by Dr Winslow to be an urgent need.
 MT Schoolcraft is former mem- Der of the faculty of Sheffield Sci entific school of Yale and assisted in the Yale endowment fund cam paign. He has worked with several mental hygiene organizations, among them the Judge Baker foundation of Boston and the State
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-08
Thirteen Courses
 Cover Wide Field;
 Start Next Monday
ienera Engineering Instruction Included in List of Subjects Offices Open Day and Night for Regis
 trants-Exams for Swimming Compulsory

cludes the following: Economies, civics and government, cooking, public speaking. dramatics, swim ming, interior decorating, music, appreciation, physical training, French literature and sewing. Home classes for foreign born wo- men will also be conducted.
 Another course, one in general engineering, was added late this morning. It will be in the nature of an introductory course in engi- neering and should appeal to all high school graduates interested in industrial fields. In conjunction with the swim ming classes, for which physical ex- aminations are necessary, the su- perintendent has arranged for free examinations by Dr Edward 6God- frey or any one of the school de- partment physicians. Persons wish ing to enroll in. these classes may have an examination by calling on any one of the following school doctors during office hours: Dr Cottilero, 291 North Main street; Dr Sandulli, 317 North Main street; Dr Hennessy, 135 West Main street; Dr Thompson, 135 West Main strete; Dr Brown, 5S Central avenue. '.
 The new classes, which have 26 CWAs teachers, will begin actual work week from to-day. Teach CTS are spending this week in, re- cruiting their classes and preparing for actual instruction work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-08
Registration for CWA Classes Opens at School Dept
JAMES W. WISE
 FORUM SPEAKER
Spoke Last Night at Sec ond Church on ''Facing
 the Jewish Future''

Facing the Jewish Future J was the title of an address deliv- cred last night at the Second church forum by James Water man Wise. The speaker declared that Hitlerism has caused unity in the Jewish race, explaining that the persecution in Germany has revived race consciousness. In Germany at the present time the Jews, who have been living there for the past 1000 years, are now considered aliens.
 Discussing the impossibility of destroying the integral part of the Jewish character, MT Wise point ed out how. Heinrich Heine dis owned his own people, became first a Catholic and then Protestant but all the time remained truly Jewish and admitted that his .con- versions were done for effect. Dis raeli, he said, was sincerely con- verted to Christianity but still re- rnained so essentially Jewish that Bismark referred to him as "that old Jew"
 All Jews realize that if they imi- tate the non-Jews they will not survive. The seaker mentioned the name of Rabbi Lewis s Browne, formerly of Waterbury The latter, he said, that despite all the wrongs he has committed, Hit Ter, when he reaches Heaven, car claim that he has done what al the rabbis and Jewish leaders could not do-unite all the Jews.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-08
YOUTHS INVITED
 TOPICTURE SHOW
Exhibit to Open at St
 Joseph's Hall To-f1or= row Night

Rev Joseph Aleksunas of Mas peth, Long Island, will show by private movie machine tomorrow night series of pictures taken by himself and others throughout America. The pictures that will be featured are those taken by MT Rochester during the last Students convention at Marianapolis College, Thompson, Conn. Other very in- teresting pictures will be those of the students in New, York and New Jersey, the Lithuanian flyers, Oar fus and Girenas, who lost their lives recently in an attempt to es- tablish nonstop flight record from New York to Lithuania.
 The youth, especially the stu dents of St Joseph's parish are cor dially invited to attend. Father Aleksunas will also talk of the so- ciety's aims and purposes for a brief moment. The Reverend Father has had charge of the Lith- uanian American Catholic youth of New York for many years. He has proven to be a very understanding |'guide and sympathetic leader. He is a very interesting speaker and has wide experience.
 This program sponsored by the local students lodge of Waterbury, will take place Tuesday evening, January 9th, at z o'clock sharp. The members of the local students lodge arc requested to bring along their friends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-08
KIWANIS CLUB
 MEET WEDNESDAY
Members Will Hear Rev Mir Lowell on Aims of the
 Organization

At the weekly meeting of the kiwanis club Wednesday noon at the Hotel Elton President Robert W. Lowell will tell each member who runs what in the club and how they do 1t. The old members will renew their acquaintance with the details of operation and the new membrs will be told things they did not know before.
 Following a precedent of some years back and the suggestion of the secretary and others members, President Lowell calls to attention few of the problems that canfront the club and makes suggestions thak they be helpful in solving them. They are as follows:
 These are not intended to be wise words, for would-be wise new president and they are not new, but familiar to every man in the club.
 If we focus our thoughts and attention in them at the beginning of the new year, we may be able to do much to improve them.
 It is not secret that financially we have been close to the argged edge this past year and only by the grace of good management have we come through with our heads above water,+ i.ess about $100 in the treasury after all bills are paid. /
 During the last few years, 40 members have left us, of these, two are now cinming back. More or them will come if we do omething about it..
 We can get a good-sized list of eligible now members-more than YOU may think. A little effort on the part of many of us, will bring some of them in.
 If we can cash in on 10 per cent of these two opportunities, our financial problem will be a thing of the past and we will be a more healthy and active club, capable of carrying on better work.
 Chairman Lee of the cripled children committee has urged many times closer individual coopera- ton of every member, with the work. He suggests that more per- sonal interest on our part will re. suit in better work for the child and more satisfaction for the mem Der. Is he right? Think it over;
 Music is a weak spot in our club. We may be good musicians but we don't. show it. Every Kiwanis club that has good music is a live and successwul club. We have Q good music committee this year. Give any helpful suggestions yo umay have to Al Hermann. If we can develop a good song leader and pianist-let's go and get one.
 We have been criticised for not cooperating enough with sother Kiwanis Sclubs in our district and with local luncheon clubs.
 Lieut. Governor Dick Fitch Is making great effort to bring about more cooperation between the clubs in his district, this year. , We will hear more about this later. | It seems to me a willingness on our part to do little more along that line cannot do us any harm and may result in much good. Are YOU willing to try it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-08
Leo Vanasse Given
 Suspended d Sentence
Judges Leniency Saves Youth From Superior Court
 Trial-StOle Oil Burners to Further Education

Taking Jurisdiction in a case in- volving the serious charge of breaking and entering, Judge Ed ward Mascolo in police court today extended leniency in the case of Leon Vanasse, 24, of AS East Clay street and saved the youth from being held for the next term of su- perior court. Two oil burners which Vanasse is alleged, to have stolen and to have sold to Louis Madnick of 315 Bank street, were valued at SIP. The court expressed the opin- ion that only Madnick's good repu- tation in the past saved him from being arrested and made a defend ant on the charges of receiving stolen goods. He was informed that he should have made more inquir- ies concerning the ownership of the burners before Ire purchased them from Vanasse.
 When the accused youth admit ted he stole the goods and had sold them he also added he had been hoping to attend high school and complete his education. He was given a suspended jail sentence of four months and ordered to report once week to the probation off, cer.
 Andrew Gargano, A, of ITO East street, New Haven, and Thomas Warnette, 27, of 69 Bishop street,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-08
Local Delegates To
 Attend Health Meet
Anti Tuberculosis League and Visiting Nurse Officers
 to Sit in at Hartford Institute, January II

The officers of the Waterbury nti-Tuberculosis League and the Visiting Nurse Association are ex- pected to attend the Health Insti- tute to be held in Hartford Janu- ary 11th. The six institute meet ings will be held under the au- spices of the Hartford Council of Social Agencies and the Hartford Tuberculosis and Public Health Society.
 The sessions open at 10:45 a. m. in the Hartford Golf Club with "Child Health Behavior Study" dis cussed by Miss Mary G. Mccormick supervisor of Health Teaching at the University of the state of New York. Miss Marie B. Dohm will speak at 11:30 on Curriculum Construction - Integrating Health in the Course of Study" Miss Dohm is advisor on Child Health Instruction with the State Charities