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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
Jobless Need Sympathy

Historians nowadays generally agree that Marie Antoinette, when she learned that the people of France had no bread, did not make that famous crack - "Let them eat cake" Nevertheless, the story will persist for whether she actually said it or not, the remark illustrates per- fectly the attitude of the Bourbons toward the masses of France, and it helps to ex- plain why those masses eventually rose and cut their sovereigns' heads off.
 For some reason one is reminded of that hoary anecdote by the recent eXper- fences of George Allen of Washington, commissioner for the District of Columbia. MT Allen wanted to find out how the na- tion's jobess men were getting on, so he put on his old clothes, let his beard grow, and went out to stand in the breadlines in such cities as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, and Milwaukee, He came back to Washington the other day and expressed himself.
 "The snootiest people on Gods green earth are running the federal employment agencies" he said. "You ask them for
  favor to take your application. Most of the offices close at noon. Why don't they keep open all day and fight for the un- employed, trying their damndest to get them jobs?' Now it happens that MT Allen met number of Communists during his wanderings, and he found that the Communists are more sympathetic - which, he said, explains why jobess men sometimes come under their influence.
 ''The relief people, he says, wont listen to the jobless man, much less fight for him, so he turns to the Communist, who offers to go out and get what the man wants. But Communist orators can't hold their listeners if jobs are inprospect. Pass through a crowd, whisper that jobs are available here and there, and soon the Communist is talking to himself" Now this whole problem of unemployment re- lief is a new one, and it was inevitable that we should make mistakes in our handling of it. But it is hard to see how a greater mistake could be made than to permit relief agents to adopt the old Marie Antoinette attitude toward the people they are supposed to help.
 The jobless man is always discouraged. He needs friendly sympathy and under standing just about as much as he needs a job. If the agents of his own govern ment don't give him that sympathy and understanding - if, instead they take pains to show that they feel him to be ragged and undeserving bum - they are building up for all of us misunderstand- ing and a resentment that may some day prove pretty costly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
Problems Beset Us

The increase in the number of automo- piles on our streets add to the problems besetting city fathers whose task 1t IS to keep an even flow of traffic at all times. For many years Waterbury has suffered from want of proper planning in the de- yelopment of it's streets. That is some thing almost impossible to change at this late date We can't tear down buildings to widen streets or to alter corners.
 But we can do things with what we have that will to a considerable extent accomplish the same purpose as per fectly laid-out community would secure. We are gradually doing that, too. We are making one-way thoroughfares of many ot the small intersecting streets Tn and around the central part of the town. lhls is a move toward uninterrupted traffic lanes because in the main it prevents tle- ups, so common on narrow streets on which cars are allowed to traverse In opposite directions.
 We are imposing drastic parking rules That is only right. It is absolutely neces- sary to close certain districts to the parked automobile, that is the car that will act as a deterrent to traffic passage for long periods throughout the day. In time we are going to find it necessary to extend these no-parking zones. In time the city is going to find it almost imperative to go into the parking area business
 A full measure of cooperation is desired from the motorists of Waterbury in estab- fishing new traffic rules. It may seem like hardship to some, but it is intended for the general good. There never was a traffic law made in Waterbury but what didn't aim at helping all motorists to se- cure more opportunities of driving their cars safely through the city streets. The same spirit still actuates our officials. A corresponding one should spring from the hearts of the drivers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
Chuckle Corner
THERE'S A REASON


 There's a reason why Mir Scotty won't send his children to school. They have to pay attention.
 There's a reason why the scales in Janseps market have to banalce. So they won't fall down on their trade. And why the Heights mer- chants have to watch their step. So they don't go beyond their means. If their supplies give out customers will drop off.
 There's a reason why Rev Jones claims the last wedding was a sad affair. The brides mother wept, and the groom was in great distress when the village belles tolled on him.
 There's reason why elephants carry trunks. They plan to stay longer than a weekend. And why the radio announcer can't read letters over the air. Not being an aviator, never gets up that high.
 There's a reason why the flyers at Ferry field are so high strung. Up in the air so often.
 And why the centurio bat has a spot on each shoulder. So he can be spotted.
 There's a reason why soap-sav- ing folk in Denver like music. "Mu- sic washes away from the soul the dust of every dav."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

Q.-From what race are the Fil- ipinos descended?
 A.-From the Malays.
 Q.-What is the largest living bird?
 A.-The ostrich. Adult males are nearly eight feet tall and weigh about 300 pounds.
 Q.-What role did James Cagney play in the motion picture Mayor of Hell?"
 A.-"Patsy."
 Q.-How much did Gene Tunney receive for his second fight with Jack Dempsey?
 A.-$e9o.445.
 Q.-What college did President Franklin D. Roosevelt attend?
 A.-He is a graduate of Har- yard University and of the Law School of Columbia University, New York City.
 Q.-What is the meaning and derivation of the name Mates?
 Alt IS SSulTdl CuEOpSdI form of the name Matthew, mean ing son of Matthew. Matthew is a Bible name meaning scholar or learner.
 Q.-1s the bite of tarantula fla tai?
 Alt is painful, but not danger ous. Its bite is more mechanical than venomous, inflicting a wound from which blood drops rather freely.
 Q.-How can oil stains be re- moved E-om leather?
 A.-bab them carefully with spirits of sal ammoniac, and after allowing it to act for while wash with clean water. The treatment may have to be repeated several times.
 Q.-Does the sun draw water from the clouds?
 A.-The visible rays of the sun. which give rise to the erroneous expression that the "sun is drawing water from the clouds" are mere ly rays which break through clouds in the distance when most of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

stinting patron, the other him. self.
 BEER PROTECTION
 The Internal Revenue Bureau and the Food and Drug Admin istration have launched quiet drive on brewers who are mis- labelling their product. Numerous complaints have been received that beer is being sold as high-test commodity, when it is far below the alcoholic voltage claimed The hordes of job-seekers at the Housing Administration are so overwhelm- ing that they ahev almost swamped the agency [. . On Tuesday of this week over 5000 application blanks were filed Pennsylvania's Senator David Reed and Rep Louis T. McFad- den, both up for reelection this year, have buried their two-year old hatchet In the winter of 1931-32 McFadden repeatedly attempted to move the impea ch-- ment of President Hoover. This SO dTOuSeu INCSub anu thS hu tional republican leaders, that they read McFadden out of the party, with the announcement that henceforth "we intend to act as if MT McFadden had died" But with Reed now fac- ing an extremely hazardous re- election fight. he has called Me- Fadden back to life.
 SHIFTING SANDS
 The last few years have wrought great changes in the functioning of the Federal Re- serve banks As originally created, they were intended to be banks of discount for prime short dated commercial paper of member institutions In recent years they have gradual ly become Repositories of gov ernment securities To- day out of a total earning as- sets of $2,459, 100000, the banks have $2, 2,432,000,000 in govern ment paper.
 Copyright, 1884, by United Fea
 ture Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
So They Say

One of the things which stand most in the way of restoration of purchasing power is mon opoy, the power to fix unfair and eXorbitant prices-U. s. Senator William r.. Borah.
  Our wel-being and activities tied up with the existence of other people, but all the riches mankind has developed are the result of the ere ative genius of individual men.--Dr Albert Fin stein,
 This is the end of the Yankccs-Babe Ruth, himself in the hospital on learning about the in jury to Earl Combs
 The only change in 100 years of American government has been creation of complexities in metropolitan government.-Prof Thomas II. Reed, ,' of the University of Michigan.
 I am the worlds worst tennis prophet.-Wil- liam T. Tilden, famous tennis player.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

Connecticut isn't the only state where there will be warm battle for a senator ship this fall There are at least eight good battles predicted in a recent survey of the senatorial situation. Take, for example, in California. Senator Hiram A. Johnson, the republican incumbent, is seeking the nomination from four parties, the republican, democratic, progressive, and commonwealth slates. Only in the latter two is he unopposed. And demo- cratic support is not expected to amount to much with President Roosevelt asking votes for him. Senator Simeon D. Fess is going to have plenty of trouble this fall in Ohio. The democrats there are gun ming for him and a number of eligibles are in the field. We could mention others, but space doesn't permit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

chief of staff in London. His talks were eclipsed by the visit of French Foreign Minister Bar thou, but they were more im- portant The chief danger of hostilities in Europe is through a preventive" war. The French general staff has figured that it would be easier to check Ger many now than five years hence. British leaders for the first time begin to concur in this. This is one of the chief developments of the new entente An Austrian incident may give the necessary excuse.
 $1O,OOO JOBS
 Good news for republicans. President Roosevelt has two $10,000 jobs to fill which require republican appointees. One is on the HOLC, as successor to Wal ter Newton, the other on the REC, to take the place of the late John J. Blaine. Both posts will be filled at an early date . When sandy-haired Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy, of the SEC, was told that several democratic senators have privately urged Bill Borah to start a public sub scription fund to pay off the $35,000 owed by the Democratic National Committee to kenendy, the latter replied: Now that is my idea of swell suggestion. That debt is the slowest asset 1 have, and, believe me, I could use the money. By all means urge Senator Borah to go ahead. He has my warm approval"
 REC SAVING
 The REC saved a neat sum for the B. x o. Railroad when it agreed to take any part of the recent $50,000,000 bond issue which the bankers did not buy. The bankers had first demanded a 512 per cent interest rate from the B. & o. but with REC backing they came down to 41s per cent New MeXico's regular republican organization has made it's peace with Sena- tor Bronson Cutting, militant lib- eral who bolted to Roosevelt in 1892 Cuttings Progressive faction and the regulars have buried the hatchet, are unitde behind his reelection candidacy A. r. of l.. President Bill Green has come out for Wiscon- sins youthful Senator Bob La- Toilette, running this year on a third party ticket In statement widely publiclzed in the labor press of the country, Green calls on the workers to re- turn Young Bob to the senate. F. l.. Gassaway, "cow- boy judge" of Coal County, Okla, who recently defeated the veter- an Rep Tom McKeown, chair man of the House Judiciary com mittee, wears high-heeled boots, 10 gallon hat, and has the voice of hog caller.
 POOR PEACOCK
 The original Whistler paint ing, "An Arrangement in Black and Grey" popularly known as Portrait of Whistler's Mother" reproduced on Jim Farleys Mothers Day stamp, is perman- entity displayed not in any Amer ican gallery but in the Louvre in Paris Washington's Freer Gal lery has only small lithotint re- production f. Most popular room in the Freer gallery is the Peacock Room, displaying deco rations done by Whistler for the dining hall of r. R. Leyland's London house. Expecting to re- ceive 2,000 guineas for the work, Whistler was irked at receiving only 1000. So on the wall over the buffet he painted, out of pique, the Rich Peacock and the Poor Peacock, one with feath- CTS blossoming gold, the other quite drab; one representing the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

Washington, Aug 4.-To- -mor- row is big day for Honest liar old 1ckes. Using the president sales attraction, he is selling the National Parks to the public as has no other secretary of the interior lckes is a unique salesman. It is a stern, rock visaged 1ckes who talks about hot oil" or attempted graft in the Public Works Administration. But it is a lyrical Ickes who talks about his National Parks "the healing touch which nature holds in the forested places of the earth" Ickes always has been a great nature lover, developed an important species of gladiolus. When he became Secretary of the Interior he start cd a quiet nature-selling cam paign, persuaded Jim Farley to issue special stamps for the ten largest National Parks, boomed the fact that the depreciated dol lar made travelling cheaper at home. As a result, Park visi- tors increased in the off-season this year 37 per cent Several years ago lckes spent Is days riding horseback in Glacier National park, will be able to show the president personally the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, the Continental Divide between the Missouri and Mississippi riv- CT, and the buffalo jump-off where the Indian slaughtered their buffalos by forcing them to jump from the cliffs. Ickes also can assure his chief that the Blackfeet by mystic ritual have "purged" Two Medicine Valley of any evil influence in preparation for the visit of the Great White Father.
 WAR CLOUDS
 Stanley Baldwin's cool an- nouncement that Britain's border is now the Rhine meant just one thing to State Department ob- servers: the entente between France and Britain is now as complete as when the Kaiser in- vaded Belgium As a mat ter of fact, France has given the British important air bases in northern France, from which they can unite against a German invader The new military entente was arranged last month during the visit of the French
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
WashingtonLette

Washington (UP)-The strenu- ous tempo of modern times with it's" advanced methods of produc- tion is causing the gradual disin- tegration of the Toledo Settlement a unique colony in British Hon. duras, 1t has been revealed by the Carnegie Institution.
 The colony, established by a group of southerners who left the United States following the Civil War, after surviving rather pre- carious pioneer period, experienced a somewhat successful agricultural growth. In it's hey-dey the pride of the settlement was it's sugar plantations.
 Twelve of these did quite well for many years. None were oper- ated on a large scale but all suc- ceeded to the extent that their owners were able to educate their children in the United States and were able to make occasional trips themselves to their old homes. Their educational standards were kept high as were their original standards of living. True to tra- dition the principle of southern hospitality, ingrained in the cul- tuTe ol tiiS S"ilS SSteA|tS' "' maintained.
 Plantations Disappearing But now the territory bids fair to return to the semi-primeval state it enjoyed before the inva- sion of American agriculturalists. The forest is gradually closing in on the once prosperous planta- tions. The manufacture of sugar in the outside world. conducted on large scale and by methods of mechanical perfection, has made it impossible for the colony, with its old-fashioned and compara- lively meagre equipment, to com pete for the world markets. The original settlement was composed of about 100 emigrants from the American Southern states who landed in Belize, Brit ish Honduras, in 1867. An eXten- sive search in an attempt to find suitable agricultural land finally led to the selection of the district near the Caribbean coast in the extreme southeastern part of the state.
 First Venture
 Banana growing was the first venture of the colony. This was later displaced by the cultivation of cane and the manufacture of sugar. In time, better and larger mills driven by steam replaced small horse mills and improved equipment was used in the place of the open kettles used at first to boil the cane.
 AS the settlement was rapidly losing it's battle against the more Ala a1tA modern factories farther north, the government constructed motor road through the colony: but 1t came too late to be of much benefit.
 The plantations are being aban- doned and the membership of the colony is dwindling. Native huts with their patches of plantains and bananas now occupy the clearings and are springing up mushroom-like alongside the road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
Press Comment
HIDDEN TREASURE. (Hartford Courant)

A dispatch from Hillsboro, N. H., tells that "one of the towns most prominent citizens collects old time toy savings banks. It adds: His collection, pieces of which date, back couple of centuries, include small iron ones, crockery pigs, iron-bound miniature chests and William Tell banks, with Will liam shooting the apple off his sons head with nickel or dime as ammunition. One particular bank shows that as far back as 1S45 they had small banks which showed the amount by means of grooves through which the cash might be seen and the amount de- ciphered by decimals on the Qut- side. He has approximately one hundred old time savings devices in his collection"
 The secret is out. We now know, perhaps what became of one of those small saving banks that dis appeared not far from sixty years ago. It was of tin, and slot well toward the top of it would take in q cent or a nickel, though a nickel was larger coin than often fell into the hands of @ farm boy in those days. The two-cent piece was the limit as rule. Of course, there were no dimes, for in their stead one saw ten-cent shinplas- ters that did not lend themselves | readily to deposit in tin savings bank painted red. It's owner has often wondered what became of it. and he suspects that the New Hampshire man has come into possession of it. It's contents must have appreciated in value, as it contained few. a very few, of the first nickle five-cent coins, and some of those are now becoming
 rare. Also it swallowed in it's day some of the flying eagle cents, and those are now worth something, all depending on whether the eagle is
 flying to the right or to the left. It would be superfiuous to say
 that some of the coins were placed
 in that bank through duress. Who
 knows how many tears that small collection of copper, alloy or niclSle cost? It makes little difference now, but one finds some satisfac- tion iE having an idea as to what became of the little tin bank that cut such a tragic figure in the life of a child more than sixty years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

visible area has no sunshine be- cause of clouds.
 Q.-Who was Francesca Rug gieri?
 A.-A violin maker of Cremona, Italy, who lived about 1645 to 1700 and was pupil of Niocolo Amati.
 Q.-What is the correct possess sive of somebody else?"
 A-Somebody else's.
 Q.-Was Hippocrates the Greek god of medicine?
 A.-He lived about 460-357 B. c. and is called the Father of Medi- cine. The Greek god of Medicine was Assculapius.
 Q.--How much gasoline was used by motor vehicles in the United States in 1888?
 A-Thirteen billion, four hundred and forty million gallons.
 If you want copy Of our buile- tin Seeing Washington, write to the Waterbury Democrats Wash. ington Bureau, enclosing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

A Cornell University agrosotologist, Dr D. B. Johnstone-Walace, doesn't think much of Connecticut or New York pas lures for cows. He maintains that smart cows in these states no longer look for grass, but seek holes in the fences, sur rounding their pastures. Good pastures, according to the doctor, who is an English man by the way, are unknown to most Of the farmers of this section, because they haven't seen any in a long time and nat urally accept what is at hand without trying to develop better ones. All of which may be true, but we're still doing pretty well by the cows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
A Book a Day
Highly Unreal, But Suitably Puzzling
 RY RRCCE CAPTION

Detective stories these days are of two kinds-those which are mathematical puzzles, pure and simple, with plot and characteriza- ton having not the remotest re- semblance to anything ever seen in real life, and those which are &C., tually of some consequence as nov else aside from their carefully-de- vised problems.
 The Ellery Queen books belong in the first group, and as long as you remember that you won't be disappointed in them. If anybody like Ellery Queen ever started de- tecting in real life the whole police force would leap on him as one man and beat him to death with sticks; but while his adventures are fantastically unreal, they are | ingenious enough for the most ex- acting reader.
 The newest one of Queens ve-
 hicles is ''The Chinese orange
 Mystery (Stokes: S2) and it's quite as intricate and complicated as its predecessors. It tells how nameless stranger gets clubbed to | death in New York office: when | they find him, all his clothes are | on backward and all the furniture | has been turned wrong end to. This sets MT Queen off. and he does his usual job. emitting en
 route lot of statistics about rare Chinese stamps and emerging, at
 last, with a neatly packaged solu- | tion which, l think, will surprise you greatly.
 Another current thriller is "Out
 Went the Taper" by R. c. Ashby | (Macmillan $2). Here we have a young American vacationing with an English chum in a little town in Wales. He begins to run into ghosts by wholesale, and some of
 them turn out to be English gang
 sters-although others seem to be
 sure enough ghosts-and before he
 is through he gets involved in a rather exciting murder plot. The
 whole story is pretty naive, but you
 may find few gratifying shudders | in it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04

Another Hoover secretary has just broken into print. Theordore Joslin has an article in the current Red Book ill which he declares that MT Hoover didn't care early in 1882 whether or not he was nominated at the national convention He was satisfied with the time he had spent in office, so MT Joslin claims. That's not surprising in view of the terrific bon- bardment of abuse and criticism to which he was subjected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
Selected Poem
ALTARs FOR THE SUN.

ALTARS FOR THE SUN. Pauline Felix Geffen in The New York Sun) The sun has made golden stream
 Within the blue that haunts the sea A foil for his magnifcence
 He finds in every blade and tree. The earth was born to mirror him It's burning hills revere his light And luminous beneath his spell,
 The moon is vassal to his might. And now in cities handmade shrines
 Do homage to his twilight fire, In countless blood-red window paneS
 That toward his flaming heights aspire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
H s c o p e
By OCTAVINE

The morning has bad start. You are liable to feel low in spirits and skimpy with money. The re- mander of the day is poor social ly. Better wait until evening to plan much of anything. The even- ing hours are more pleasant than average.
 Today's Birtlldate
 You have a habit of generaliZing and can see things in a big way. Be cautious of your money from Nov "A through Dec 4. Danger Sept IS. Socially favorable Aug 27. Friendly for literally under takings or letter writing on Aug 15.