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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-31
Odds And Ends

Putnam, Connecticut, has rival for the famous Bossy Gis of Newburyport Massachusetts in the person of 30 year old Francis Murphy chief executive the old Nutmeg town Sunday Mayor Murphy was backing the line for his football team and out from under pile with broken and possible fracture The youngest in the stat there's politician whose jaw not out of place by speeches. and who to prefer ming back kickoffs to running the town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-31

a-American owned.
 b-French Owned.
 c-Doubtful starter. d-Top weight.
 The race is Handicap of one mile, one furlong. It dates from 1899.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-31

Totals 1880 376 3S1 1106 High single-Hellbig Al. High three-Reed 3S0. High game-Doughnuts 442. High team-Buns 11S1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-31

Referee-Boley. Time = Four 8 minute periods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-31

Referee-Boley. Time Four B. minute periods.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

ditions, y onsoring relief expert
ments. this is all as it should
be.
But now look see! How come
this frightful inconsistency?
With all this freedom-all this
wonderful opportunity to set an
example to other emancipated
females MRS. ROOSEVELT
INSISTS ON BEING AN OLD
FASHIONED dOUSEKEEPER!
She sits and knits! She plays
with babies! She buys cough
medicine and winter f1annels
for the family males! And,
come Sunday night, she per-
sonally cooks the scrambled
eggs, bacon and hot chocolate!
AND SHE RARELY TALKS
POLITICS PER Sc. ISN'T
EVEN INTERESTED IN EN-
IN THE USUAL SUFFRA-
GETTE SENSE. BUT WHILE
SHE KNTTS, WHILE SHE
SCRAMBLES THOSE EGGS,
OTHER PEOPLE TALK
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE
TALK MORE AND MORE
THINGS HAPPEN!
So what? Is, or isn't that
boost for Lady Politicians?
Does, or doesn't that prove that
the Modern American Woman
has place and power in her
political world?
The Unofficial Observer"
sums it all up in this simple
paragraph
women are occasionally poll
ticianS but are always politics.
Putting it bluntly, politics
(Which is our way Of control
ing economics) is the means
by which men attempt to pro
tect, feed and clothe their
women-folk and thus enable
them to rear their young.
"Such women as Eleanor
ROOSeVelC may or may not pc
adept in political manipulation;
in themselves they are the am.
bassadors Of the one funda-
mental interest Of society. 1t
is enough that women like
Eleanor Roosevelt shall be them
selves. BY so doing they set in
motion the forces that rule the
world"
Should or shouldn't women
be in politics? There's the an
swer. women are politics"
Women are the reason for poll.
ticS-the cause around which all
politics revolve. Eleanor Roose-
velt, bearing six children and
raising five. serving her sim.
pie beans, oatmeal and meat
loaf. helping her sick husband
by teaching school and making
furniture. .Scrambling the af-
fairs Of the nation in with her
Sunday night eggs and bacon.
sitting knitting and laughing by
her fireSide. .wieldS greater po-
itical power than all Of Tam
many.
So does any other woman who
knows her stuff
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and Politicians Meet
Via Administration Bridge
Bv James T. Williams, Jr.

tact with the vast majority of
etheir constituents who still try
to believe in representative gov.
ernment, and would not squan-
der a Scent stamp in search of
any personal favor that a Sena.
tor or Representative might be
disposed to do for them.
AS a result, the thinking mem.
bers of both houses, who come
deliberately to their conclusions
only after weighing the merits
of q public question in the light
of all the facts they can as
semble, are few and far between.
For information regarding
measures upon which they are
called upon to vote, the major
ity of Democrats and Republic
ans in the Senate and in the
House generally have to depend
upon the propaganda furnished
them by the sponsors or oppo-
nents of these proposals.
Wise Compromise
All this, Mr.. Roosevelt came
to know at first hand during
the eight years that he served
President Wilson as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy. And
what was true of Federal legiS-
lation, he found to be true Of
State legislation during his two
terms as governor Of New York.
Early in his first term as
governor, Mr.. Roosevelt began
to draw about him experts to
whom he assigned the study of
public problems, in preparation
for his attempt to solve them.
These experts frequently were
put in direct contact with the
chairman and members Of leg
islative committees at Albany.
This association resulted in a
remarkable record Of progress
sive legislation, which dis
tinguished Mr.. Roosevelt's gov
ernorship.
Building this much-needed
bridge, therefore, over which
could be freely exchanged the
information of the expert and
the wisdom Of the experienced
legislator or administrator, was
no new task for Mr.! Roosevelt
when he entered upon his
presidency. The more this
bridge is used in the Federal
City, the better it will be for
public legislation and public
administration.
Congress is reluctant to ad-
nit reliance on experts. And
experts are reluctant to defer to
political experience. But all
sound legislation is the result
of compromise. And the bridge
which President Roosevelt has
built in the Federal City leads
to those compromises between
theory and practice which wise
men willingly make to serve
the public interest. knowledge
is power" whether it be the
knowledge that comes from the
study of people or the study Of
books.
Copyright. 1884, The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

them. Somebody was just in a
silly mood, that was all.
But, for instance, how did the
"double-gaited wertroot" come
to be called that, instead Of
''Winkle Peter-in-Bed"? What
is there in the history Of
'Walmsley's cow-lick" that
makes it necessary to call it
"Walmsley's cow-lick"? wouldn't
it be fascinating to know the
ms and outs of flower nomencla-
ture? Perhaps fascinating" is
too strong a word. Let us
rather say lawful"
There is a legend concerning
the "crazy Kitty, or MacNerty's
fields-awash" which more or
less clears up the mystery Of its
name. It seems that the flower
was originally known as "Sauer-
kraut," because it grew to just
the height of q pigs knuckle.
Near q certain field in which it
grew in abundance lived an old
witch who was known to her
intimates as "CraZy Kitty" be-
cause her name was Kitty and
she was as crazy as a coot.
There can be no doubt as to
how Crazy Kitty got her name.
It seems that this old woman
had a particular dislike for the
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
The Human Side of the News
Border Smuggling Clyde Beatty, Lion Tanner
By Edwi1a C.. Hill

muddy leaves, sightless eyes
turned toward the pitying stars,
lay the Border Patrolman, his
pail a fog of pistol smoke, his
incense the odor of burnt pow
der.
There's drama in the circus,
especially when a young man
from Indiana, smartly cad IN
white flannelS and glittering
patent leather boots, leaps into
the ring and cracks his whip
in successive pistol shots over
the heads of % huge cats of the
jungle. There's thrill in that
spectacle that tingles right up
the backbone.
The Good Book tells us the
story of the first ion-tamer. His
name was Daniel. He wasn't a
professional and he had no Spe-
cial zest for the game. He was
simply gifted. Like young Clyde
Beatty, he had the knack Of it
in his bones. And Clyde, this
29-year-old Ohio boy, who
doesn't weigh an ounce over $50,
and who is very boyish and like
able with his light brown hair,
his steady gray eyes and the
freckles that scatter all over his
face, leaps daily into o great,
iron-fenced areana, squarely into
the midst Of 40 lions and tigers
that would tear him to pieces
if he ever turned his back for a
split second.
Treachery
Here in New York, in Madi.
son Square Garden, one day
watched Clyde Beatty putting
his lions and tigers through
their PAGES. That day they
nearly got him. They were in
q bad mood. Thunder was in
the air. The big cats were
nervous, jumpy, disobedient,
dangerous. And then, for a
second, he stopped to pick up
his light whip. Like flash o.
orange sunlight, striped with
night. a tiger sprang straight at
hir0,
The sight lifted me ouS o.
my seat with a yell. A dozen
roustaboutS Of the circus stood
paralyzed. But out Of the
corner Of an eye, Beatty
glimpsed the great cat, aS 1t
made its ten foot leap. He
fell flat. Over him sailed the
tiger, to land with a crash
against the quaking bars Of
the cage. And then, without
an instant's hesitation. Clyde
Beatty leaped straight at the
sprawling tiger. lashed it lightly.
fired q blank cartridge within .
foot Of it's blazing topaz eyes
and reduced it to covering sub
mission.
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Anti-TuberculOSiS Weapon
It Is Money

1t Is Money
Washington needs only thing in order to bring down its
disgracefully high death rate from tuberculosis
That one thing is MONEY.
the city persuade the Bureau Of the Budget and the
Congress release little of its funds for this great human
tartan and protective purpose will be able to cura the in
roads which the disease is making and has made here
There is nothing new about that idea.
Those who have been interested in tuberculosis have known
Of for many years. For many years they have been fighting
to get that money.
Congress cannot be ignorant Of the necessities Of the situation
At every session has had its attention directed to it,
\Q public officials for years have urged that money be
appropriated to fight tuberculosis The reports Of Health
Department Board of Public Welfare the heads of hos
ps and Of numberess civic associations TEEN with urgent
Recommendations that action be taken
Recently there considerable attention centered upon
the nadequacy Of tuberculosis facilities by the District Med
cal Society
The society comparative to the ranks Of those
seeking adequate facilities It's assistance welcomed by
ell who have the best interests Of the city at heart
The most urgent necessity at the present time the establish
anent Of modern tuberculosis sanatorium for adults
Several years ago those who have borne the brunt the fight
& proper facilities for treatment disease obtained an
authorization from Congress for the construction Of such an
sution the site Of the sanatorum for children which is
ebout to be opened
concentration Of the efforts which are now being centered
the tuberculosis situation obtaining funds neces
sary start the building of this adult sanatorum should pro-
duCe results.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

Copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
There's dramatic news in the
announcement that Uncle Sam,
with extra men and airplanes,
is determined to stamp out
smuggling over the Mexican
border. Dramatic news and a
stirring story behind the news.
For over that long border of
the Rio Grande River from
Brownsville to Ell Paso, and a
tangle of desert and mountains
from Ell PaSo to San Diego,
smuggling is big business
smuggling of Cinnamon at a
thousand dollars a head; SNUG
Cling Of bootleg liquor, and
worst Of all, smuggling of dope
by the ton.
Thrilling scenes are enacted
almost every night along that
great stretch of more than
1000 miles, as the border pa
troll, q little force Of brave and
devoted Federal officers, battle
to the death against hired bad
men who once terrorized en-
tire cities
For if we were down along
the border tonight, somewhere,
we would hear the drumming
roar of an airplane engine,
the splashing Of oars in the
muddy Rio Grande, a muffled
whistle. And suddenly a beam
Of white light would stab
through the darkness, and to
our ears would come the ring
ing challange: Halt! We are
Federal officerS!" But they
don't always halt or flee back
across the river, those hired
killers whose business is SNUG
Cling.
Lurking Death
Only a few nights ago. six
men Of the Border Patrol were
crouching in the underbrush by
the Rio Grande, listening, in
muscle-cramped silence. Out in
the middle Of the stream there
was q faint splashing. And then,
like drifting shadows, 16 men
came UP the river bank carry
ing loads. From their hiding
place in the brush the six men
Of the Border Patrol Sprang into
the open and threw their chal'
lenge.
A volley Of bullets was their
answer. Patrolman Dorne Mel
ton pitched forward,
Half surrounded and outnum.
bered, the Border Patrol drove
the SmugglerS back and back un-
til, finally, they broke and fled
for the protection Of the river
and Mexican soil. And among
the discarded cases and pack
ages, huddled upon q bed Of
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
ONCE OVERS

The older men, who are more
likely to get into ruts, should
be particularly careful in COM
parison Of their work.
They should make a compari-
son of their work with that Of
other men, who are more sue
cessful, and at the same time,
try to learn why their produc-
ton is not up to the highest
standard Of the other men.
Fewer Of the older men would
be denoted, if they would scru-
tinize their work more carefully
and try to bring it up to mod
ern, and higher, standards.
Copyright, 1894. King Features
Syndicate. Inca
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

Women Knew Their Places. Also
a touching description of Mother
sitting beside the fireside knit
ting-or presiding over the
family soup kettle while the men
did their stuff. Which, accord
ing to you, is precisely where
women should be and what they
should do.
# you're a woman, chances
are you have answered those
questions with even greater
heat. And added a bliStering
brodcast on what We Girls would
accomplish if Men-the Old
Meanies!-wou1d give us our
chance. Which you think
should settle things. But you'd
still like confirming evidence.
You'll find it in Simon and
Schuster'S latest book-THE
NEW DEALERS" by ''Unoffi-
cial Observer" This book tells
about the people who are run
ming America today. Not only
running it, but expressing
Americas current needs and at
titudes.
There's q chapter about "Mrs.
r. D. R."-Eleanor Roosevelt.
It's a curious chapter It tells,
possibly, more about the Mod
ern American Woman'S place,
and power, than whole encyclo-
pediaS have succeeded in doing.
But whether you're going to like
what it says, or not, is q mat
ter Of viewpoint.
In the first place, there's the
picture of the woman herself
that amiable, lovable, uncon-
ventional dynamo, with her in
domitable energy, her Unsuitable
curiosity about everything and
everybody. A lady who goes
places, does thingS-has ideas,
packs a wallop, puts herself
across. Suddenly you see her
leaping in league-long lopeS
across our American skyline,
where hitherto females have
tinidly toddled. Goody-goody!
What q cheering prospect for us
other lady voters!
But wait q minute! Some
things wrong with this picture.
Mrs. Roosevelt taking a night
flight with Amelia Earhart. j..
Mrs. Roosevelt reSolutely visit
ing the second Bonus Army
Camp, shaking hands with the
leaders, leading in q rendition
Of 'The Long, Long Trail. =.
Mrs. Roosevelt running a furni-
ture factory, teaching in q girls
school, reporting industrial con.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

The sure foundations of the
state are laid in knowledge,
not in ignorance; and eUery
Sneer at education, at culture,
at book learning, tUhich is the
recorded tDisdom of the expert
enee of mankind, is the denlG-
0o0Me'S Sneer at intelligent lib
erty, inOiting national degen-
erGcy and Tnin.-G. w. Curtis.
When the Roosevelt ad-
ministration now in power be-
comes history, the building
Of a much-needed bridge in the
Federal City will probably be
given high place among the
Presidents manifold achieve
ments during his first year in
the White House.
This is the bridge which Mr..
Roosevelt has built to connect
expert information with political
experience in the solution Of
Federal problems.
The run-of-the-mill politician
has a contempt for the expert
that is generally heartily re-
ciprocated. The reason for this
mutual hostility is easy to
find.
The average politician keeps
his ear so close to the ground
that his prostate posture would
prevent the reading Of a book
or the digeSting Of a treatise
on a public question, even if
he possessed the inclination to
get his facts straight before
he started broadcasting his
opinions.
Both Handicapped
Many an expert keeps his
head so bowed over books and
graphs that he has little time,
and less inclination, to take
soundings of public sentiment.
He frequently mistakes for
timidity in the legislator what
is really q prudence born Of
experience in public life.
Just as the average politician
frequently straggles far behind
the procession and forfeits his
chance to chart its course, so
the average expert is apt to get
too far ahead Of the procession
and proves equally unsuccessful
as a guide.
The temptation Of many poll
ticians in Congress to commit
themselves on various and sun
dry legislative proposals before
they have informed themselves
on the subjects about which
they burst forth in speech and
print is largely to blame for so
much of the half-baked legisla-
ton that has come to the fore
in both houses in the last de-
cade.
Then, too, the curse of patron
age hangs over many Senators
and Representatives in Con-
gress, like a twoedged sword.
It cuts them off from research
that would lead to knowledge,
and it cuts them off from con-
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

that the "Lupino Country Day
School Basketball Team knee
action violet" became known
as such.
We have only scratched the
surface of the study Of flowers
names, and it ought to heal
right over, if we take care Of
it. MY own method Of deSigna-
ton is to point to the flower
that strikes my fancy and say,
"Give me a dozen Of those
yellow ones"
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
District Public Works
A Way Can Be Found


to be hoped that the District Commissioners and officials
Of the Public Works Administration will be able at their forth
coming conference work plan under which this city
might obtain from the PWA the funds necessary to carry out
several vitally necessary developments.
SINCE TT Is THE PURPOSE AND DESIRE OF THE PUB
lIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION TO PUT MONEY INTO
THE TYPE OF PROJECTS RECOMMENDED BY THE COM
AuSsIONERS AND SINCE THE PROJECTS RECOMMEND
ED BY THE COMMISSIONERS ARE IMMEDIATELY ESSEN
TIAL, THERE Is EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT A
SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT WILL BE REACHED.
The District has heretofore been prevented from obtaining the
full measure Of assistance offered by the Federal Government
because Of its being forbidden by law to incur Indebtedness
way obtain the proportion Of funds which the
PwA requires that the community put up it is to receive
the assistance which asks and which needs to carry out the
projects on the program Of the Commissioners.
II should be possible to overcome this difficulty.
Congress the past when it had almost completely
national project in the District which insisted upon carrying
out at expense Of the local czenry has not hessted to
force the District to borrow money.
The Capper park development law readily to
mind in this category
The District told that must borrow about SIC
70 carry elaborate provisions that repay the
money the Federal Government at the rate Of
year.
that all Of the provisions Of the Capper Camton act
were carried the District obtained the bene
m which sponsored to it from its provisions
NEVERTHELESS THE CONGRESS DEMONSTRATED IN
THAT INSTANCE THAT WHEN IT WAS NECESSARY FOR
THE CITY TO SPEND MORE MONEY THAN IT HAD
AVAILABLE OR WAS LIKELY TO HAVE AVAILABLE FOR
SOME YEARS. WAYS COULD BE FOUND TO OVERCOME
TEE LAW WHICH FoRBDs THE C1TY's BORROWING
MONEY.
We do not favor running city debt and do not
Nsve that the people Of the District want the city build
heavy indebtedness.
The difficulties which have arisen in the last year for
many Of cities result Of Overborrowng demonstrate
the wisdom Of keeping clear Of the money lender.
This city knows that its tax dollar goes pay for main
Eenance and Improvement Of the city Not of goes to
pay interest money borrowed condition should be
Enucd.
Despite the opposition to borrowing however there undOub
edy is way obtain the assistance which the Federal Gov
srnment is rendering to other communities.
The District Appropriation bill has not yet proceeded beyond
the point where arrangement could be made to further
whatever program decided upon the conference Of the
Commissioners and Public Works Administration officials
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

You've ask
ed those queS-
ito n S. #
you're a man,
you've prob
ably asked
them resent
fully, with a
p q t r onizing
grin or a dis
gllSted snort.
A n d you've
W o un d up
with several
regretful ref
erenceS to the
D e q r Old
D vs. when
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
Keeu Up with the World

Keep Up With the World
Are you satisfied with what
YOU are doing in your job?
Is your work up to the fullest
degree Of efficiency?
# not, it's just too bad Tor
you, because there are those
above you, who may have a
higher standard for accomplish
ment in your position.
When you dissect your work
If you are honest-you should
see many places where it might
have been better.
Young men who are seeking
to climb the ladder, should give
more time to inspection Of their
own endeaVorS.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

Copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
"WOmen Are Always Politics"
DO WOMEN MAKE GOOD
POLITICIANS?
SHOULD WOMEN TAKE
PART IN POLITICS?
JUST WHAT IS THE INTEL
LIGENT WOMAN'S POSITION
AND POWER-IF ANY-IN
THIS MODERN WORLD?
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
Young at 73
And How She Can Sing!

Nine schumann He is another proof that womsns youth
@ matter Of spirit and energy-nOt years.
At 7S with long and active life Of work behind her. the
famous singer embang another world tour which
viii carry her far Australia South Africa and Japan
She viii be ION the road" for two years. of them on
Uauns which will take her into every nook and Granny Of
country.
Many more happy and active years you Nine SChumann-
an and the large and enthusiastic audiences which your
beautiful voice entities youl
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
NAMING OUR FLOWERS
BY Robert Benchley

With these first fine days Of
spring, I am sure that all lovers
Of flowers should get right out
into their gardens and make
friends all over again with myr-
lad blossoms which Nature fur
nishes us with such prodigality.
Was it not Voltaire who said:
'Let us cultivate our gardens, -
or was it "our muttons"? Or
was it Voltaire?
I wonder how many of us
who pretend to love the flowers,
really know how they got their
names. I do not mean their
Latin names, because nobody
knows where they got those, not
even the people who named
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
WISE WORDS

Every one can master q grief
but he that has it.-Shake-
Speare.
What and how great the vir.
tue and the art to live on little
with q cheerful heart.
I hate to see q thing done
by halves: if it be right, do 1t
wholly; if it be wrong, leave
it undone.-Gilpin.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

flower called "Sauerkraut" and
used to say that, il the darned
thing came up next spring as
abundantly as it had in the
past, she would move from the
neighborhood. She said this
every spring.
It was this particular dislike
of Crazy Kitty'S for the charm
ing flower that caused the boys
of the town to call it after her,
and when she learned that her
name had been applied to her
pet aversion, she went through
the streets one night and set
fire to every house, practically
wiping out the community. And
so the flower came to be known
as "Crazy Kitty the world over
in her honor. Just why it Is
also sometimes called Mac
Nerty's fieldS-awash" has never
been cleared up.
It has always been con-
sidered a delicate compliment
to name a new and lovely
flower after the wife, mother
or sweetheart of the origi-
nator, which accounts for
some otherwise unaccountable
names, such as the MRS. Sam
Cyzcyzocyz roSe," "the Assist
ant Secretary of Public Works
Lillian D. Wratch begonia"
and "the Emma Grobdigger
NaumglatZ primrose" It was
an honor of five little girls