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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-31
HITLER ENEMIES ARE WHIPPED
Disaster Jinx Downs Plane In Blizzard

All four occupants of the '. 16-paSSenger Curtis Condor
 plane that crashed in the Adirondack
 mountains
 during a blinding storm.
 apparently escaped injury in the second disaster that has Overtaken the big hip. It is pictured below after
 1t had been wrecked. in u forced landing at TOttenville, Staten Island,
 last May. The most recent disaster to the plane was
 complicated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-31

by severe cold and waist t-dcep
 snow, which lnarOOned
 the quartet on an isolated peak believed to be in the vicinity of Fish Mountain near Gloversvillc, N. Y. Three of those aboard the transport are
 pictured here,
 left to right:
 cO-pilots
 Dale Dryer,
 Ernest Dryer Cat the controls when the plane crashed); and Robert Ham, brook, an official of the Federal Bureau of Educa. tiOn and the only passenger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-31
PAPER RAISES PRICE

East SC Leuis. Ill. Dec si-(u p.) Effective ie.day, the East Hi Louis Journal Increased its price fgem 2 esnts the eapy to z eents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-31
Unemployment Raise Living Standard and Solve the Church Controversy
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Stan Correspondent

Freiburg, Germany, Dec. 31-(UP)-Enemies of ths Naz regime of Reichsuehrer Adolf Hitler "are now pletey oored Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbe minister of aganda told the nation tonight in countrywide broadcast outlining Germanys plans for 1885,
 The stability of present conditions will enable the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-31
TREASURY BALANCE

ernment expenses and receipts For the current fiscal year to Dec 28th. compared with the correspondinE period for the previous fiscal years This Year Expenses Last XenE $S,53S,294, ,40S.41 $2,621.S7O.537.0 .03
 Receipts
 $1,S42, ,oO7, ,542.S4 s1,46e, ,s97, ,941.28
 Deficit
 1,Ss6. .2sS. .ss1.o7 s1.152, ,sf2,5s5. 7s s2.5s1. .s5s.24s.is si.o7a.247.ols.5
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The Weather

Fair-Milder Tonight; Cloudy Warmer Tuesday Full Weather Report Page 3.
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The Washington times., 1934-11-16

Tending the woman worker?
Surely you must see the con-
tinual unfairness we have to en-
dure.
I've had fairly good positions
with only fairly good pay and'
oh, the antagonism OF the men
toward a woman who is en-
ployed in the same line OF
work!
Perhaps they are not to blame
altogether for not taking me
seriously as I am small and OF
somewhat girlish appearance,
and have a personality to match
that appearance.
I was talking with a friend
of mine this morning, school
teacher, divorced.
GUILE
She said she'd learned you
could not use direct methods
with men, couldn't be honest
and above board with them but
had to continually resort to the
supposedly feminine attribute
guile.
Surely there are men who rec
ognize the essential difference
of man and woman without the
outworn idea of which is the
superior sex. But if there are
such men I've never run across
anv. ALICE B.
Why don't men "take women
workers seriouSly?"
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

} and, when they were through,
they silenced the pumps, and
Minetta water flowed back into
its old course, making toward
the Hudson, but this time. for
so yards or so, through a steel
and concrete tunnel.
It was no inconSiderable vic.
tory they won over the ancient
brook.
Flowing under Greenwich Vii
lage till memory has made it a
legend, the waters of Minetta
again greet the light through
this fountain as the Spirit of
Manhattan, rising to greater
glory.
Without doubt there S {. spirit
of sorts in old Minetta water. so
changeless after al. the cen
turies, after all that man has
done to Manhattan Island.
He has transformed Manhat-
tan; plowed it AMI scraped it,
filled in it's valleys, leveled its
hills, drained its ancient ponds,
covered it with towers, dug deep
into it and built subterranean
roadways-but Minetta water
still flows on, oblivloLs OF its
power, a little contemptuous.
A century ago it pursued its
meandering course in the light
of day, and men who have not
been under the ground many
years fished for trout along its
willow and flower-lined banks.
Men who could not long have
been underground could send
their minds back to the boys
and girls that used to meet on
the kissing Bridge over Minetta
water at Fifth Avenue and
Eighth Street, where, by an
cient custom, the girls had to
pay toll of a kiss-or maybe a
kiss or two.
DEVIL WATER
But the times changed, and
the whole surface of Manhat-
tan changed as well, rising foot
upon foot in new strata, and
Minetta gradually disappeared,
sinking far underground but
still inflexibly and mysteriouSly
holding its appointed course
toward Henry HudSon's river.
The Algonquins, who were
here before the Dutch, called it.
"Manetti," it true name, and
"Manetti" in the Indian tongue
meant devil water"
So you see what the Indians
though of Minetta water hun
dredS of years ago.
They believed that devils
dwelt in the fitful. noisy stream
that went tumbling southwest
ward toward the Hudson.
In time the Dutch twisted
"Manetti" from it's original
spelling and it came to be
"Minetta," but the brook re-
manned the same.
copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Listen, WOrld!
Bu Elsie Robinson

They DO-if women will take
themselves seriously. But that's
something we're often reluctant
to do.
Theoretically we have indie
pendence and equality-but we
can't make up our minds what
to do about it. We don't know
whether we want to be two
fisted humans or clinging cuties.
The truth is, we hope to have
our cake and eat it, too.
Take your own case. Did you
ever hear man worker dis
cussing his girlish appearance
and naive personality? No. you
didn't. Nor did you ever hear
SERIOUS. SUCCESSFUL WON
EN- WORKERS discussing it,
either.
A girlish appearance and
naive personality were valuable
assets when homes were harems.
Unfortunately, most of us can't
forget those Dear Delightful
Days.
We SAY we want to be
treated Regular-but secretly
we're yearning for some Big
Cave Man to treat us rough and
drag us off the pay roll.
Is it any wonder that the
boys refuse to consider us one
of the gang?
COY NOTION
AS for direct methods
they're a pretty theory but sell
dom practical after kinder.
garten years.
Adults have to look sharp and
step lively if they expect to
stay in circulation.
But women don't suffer any
more from this necessity than
men. Then, why yelp about it
and pretend we've been done
dirt?
It boils down to this, lady.
We get what we ask tor. We
establish our own rating, IN
business as in any other human
relationship.
The other fellow regards and
treats you pretty much as you
treat yourself.
And if men treat women
workers as Knicknacks, I Sus-
pect it's because we gals have q
coy notion that we ARE!
Copyright. 1884 by King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

The most agitated group In
Washington these days is that
one which is composed of "New
Deal'' workers.
With tUinter taking control
OF the WeGther situation the
boys and girls Dere Just be-
ginning to feel secure in their
Jobs.
Many of them are 1Dorktng
for the first time in years in
neW agencies, and they pic
tured a good Uinter in Wash
ington.
Now President Roosevelt dis
turbs their security.
He talks of coordinating and
tieing in the various lending
organizations.
If the various agencies Of this
type are brought under one
management, thousands of work
erS will once more join the ranks
of the unemployed.
Although the President has
not yet made his plans clear as
to whether he intends eventu-
ally to coordinate the work or
avoid duplication by consolida-
tion, the boys and girls who
draw Uncle Sans pay checks
are making things hum.
Once more they are beSieging
their sponsors in Congress and
again are going THROUGH the
nerve-w -wracking campaign which
they underwent to secure their
Jobs.
The members of Congress, in
cidentally. are enjoying the situ-
alton just about as much as they
did before in the original rush,
except that it is little more
difficult in the present instance.
The writing of the usual letter
will not suffice or satisfy.
They are being called upon to
go to the bat in person.
Down in the Federal Housing
Administration, H. Dorsey New.
som, formerly in the diplomatic
corps, is to succeed Ward Mo-
hun as a special assistant to
Ward Cannaday, who is in
charge of public relations for
the FHA.
Newsom, who is well known
around Washington, was for
merly an executive in the ad-
vertising department of the
Hearst Corporation.
As a diplomat he 1DGS in the
embassy in Berlin at the out
break of the World War and
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Peace Costs Money
War Costs More

Americans who don't want and willing pay keep
out of will heartily support the announced intention of
Government to build "a fighting ships and increase the
air force in 1885.
This program, if carried out, will be effective
peace.
We going to attack nobody and with real Navy
real air force, nobody will attack
At present. don't have Navy air force big enough
to insure against attack.
That is the argument in nutshell for building both to
our needs.
No matter how may strike advocates of unpreparedne
It makes practical people, and fortunately still
a majority Of practical people in the United States
Such program will cost money-$120000000 to be exact
That big sum- in these days of Government spend
ing though 80 per cent of it would 60 make jobs for
out of work.
But even it did create single ob would still be
economythe truest economy that this Nation could devise
War costs billions.
is better spend millions Navy big enough keep
out of than to scrmp which will be too small
to keep out
Peace can be had but not free of charge.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

The oldest living thing in
the island of Mani4attan-the
throbbing heart of New York
city-iS not a man or a tree.
It is a brook (for surely an
ageless, changeless brook is a
living thing) and it has cost
the city hun. reds of thousands,
if not millions of dollars.
It is one of the Strangest
brooks in the world because,
until recently (and as it we'll
may AGAIN., it crept along un-
derground as it had crept for
countless centuries, defying
every scheme and effort of the
engineers to harness or con.
troll it.
It is old Minetta Brook, this
oldest living thing of Manhat-
tan isle. If you should chance
some day to visit a certain
hotel in historic Washington
Square, you would see, in green
ish bronze, the figure of the in
FAINT god Pan shrilling his pipes,
a figure of infinite grace.
And up from the basin where
Pan perches you would see a
purling stream of clear, cold
water, squirting straight up
ward from the foundation rock
of Manhattan.
That water is from New
York'S strange subterranean
river, old Minetta Brook,
trapped and tanned in this par.
ticular spot by the cunning en-
gineers, but elsewhere stealing
along far under the roots of
the skyScrapers to make It's way
to the North River and the sea.
RESTLESS STREAM
OF all the brooks and water
courses New York has ever
known, old Minetta has been
the most restless and unconfin-
able. 1t has spoiled the dis
position of engineers and archi-
tects and harried them to the
point Of lunacy.
For more than a hundred
years, it baked the plans of
the engineers as they delved
deep for the foundations of
their towers, or the line of
their subways.
Always they had to deal
with this subtle antagonist,
ceaselessly flowing deep down
under the foundations of Fifth
Avenue and Washington Square
and the southern part of
Greenwich Village.
They knew they could not
destroy the brook, so they
worked guilefulIy to flatter it,
precisely as the constructors of
the Washington Arch had done
many years ago, when they.
too, had to face the same old
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that, in the meantime, the wom-
en- in his life are just part of
the ensemble-a little less i'm
portant than his barber, his
tailor or his golf clubs.
Oh yes? Well, History tells
a different story.
Take King Henry VII, one of
the wisest and most brilliant
monarchs who ever ruled Eng.
land. In 1884 he granted a
charter to the University of
c. mbridge ito print all manner
of books" which was practically
the beginning of English litera.
ture. He modernized many an
cient institutions and made
many wise new laws. He even
took the lock out of wedlock
and invented divorce.
But are these the things for
Whlch ne is remembered? Oh
no! It is the WOMEN in his
life, who have immortalized
him-and made him the favor.
ite subject for playwrightS and
authors Of historical novels. It
is Anne Boleyn with whose
initials his own are intertwined
in the arch at Hampton Court
even though it was off with
the old loves head and on with
the new, before the beautiful
double-monogram was finished
who did most to keep Henry'S
memory alive.
And there was King Solomon,
a great ruler, great statesman
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

someone pulled a mean trick
upon him that will probably
upset him for days to come.
Dickstein's one weakness is
cigars.
He smokes incessantIy and
to see him without his stOsie
is a rare picture.
EngrosSed in conversation
with an alleged friend the
other day he did not have a
cigar. The friend" offered
cigarette. Dickstein accepted.
The friend left as Dickstein
started to smoke.
Suddenly turning to his Sec
retary he demanded:
"Why in thunder did I take
this thing and why am I smok-
ing it,"
He hurled it to the floor.
Thus ended another friend
ship.
The new press room in the
remodeled White House is
about complete.
Members of the press who
did not go with President
Roosevelt on his trip South will
be the first to occupy the quar-.
terS and will move in shortly.
The last conference 1Dith the
President WdS held in Uhdt
WlS supposed to be the Erecu-
the Mansion but 19hen the
gentlemen Of the press con-
clude their dctiUity in that sec
tion it Uill look like the head
quarters of a boring promoter.
Cigar and cigarette burns,
stains, etc, mark the floors. A
stranger viewing the effect is
apt to burst into the strains OF
Marching Through Georgia"
The new press room will be in
the space formerly occupied by
Steve Early, of the White House
Secretariat.
1t is the finest press room in
Washington, and indicates how
anxious are the President and
his secretaries to make re-
pOrters comfortable.
Copyright, 1894, The washington
TjmpSl
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

That's all most people remember
about him-a beautiful gesture
and a woman!
Marc Antony was a states
man. a leader, a conqueror and
probably the most brilliant poll
tican of his day. Especially a
politician! But it was his little
love-affair with Cleopatra which
has kept his memory green. No
story of Napoleon Bonaparte Is
complete without plenty OF Jo-
sephine in it. And any play
about Robert Browning is mostly
about his Elizabeth.
A man thinks that the woman
Cor the women) in his life don't
count. But they can darken or
brighten his name all the way
down through history. It's
wise boy that watches his step
and chooses his women care
fully!
Copyright 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Another Little Project
The Blair School

While we're talking about the four milondollar disposal
plant and the twenty five -mion-doar Municipal Center
there's another project that deserves little thought
1t would only call for expenditure of few thousand dollars
and probably oughn be mentioned the breath with
the others but it lot to the three hundred children
who attend the Blair School,
That old building and it's equipped with old heating
plant The plant ism worth much and because of condition
it is sending fumes and SCOT into the classrooms.
The children suffering result Parent Teacher
Association says that Of them have been sckened
Capital would be able to do something about condition like
that BUT 1T CANT
Maybe in 1886 will be able to afford the thousand
dollars necessary pay for installation of heating plant
We probably will be able attend to the matter time
if the Bureau Of the Budget the House of Representatives
United States Senate and few assorted committees agree
let spend the money.
Unless all these groups agree the children continue
inhale SCOT and fumes.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Who Will Get the Jobs?
Local Men or Outsiders

The District Government hasn't been doing building
work lately largely because had the funds with which
to carry out even the most necessary projects.
Right now however is getting started some fairly
large construction Jobs notably the disposal plant for
which funds available and it is also working definitely
on plans to start construction of the Municipal Center
These projects of going to be paid tor In the
end by District tax even though hey are financed
temporarily by Federal agencies
The primary reason for starting them now and refer
principally to the disposal plant is TO GIVE JOBS
weren't for that purpose the Federal Government
wouldn't be advancing the four million dollars necessary Tor
the disposal plant
The question naturally arises to who is going to get the
jobs provided by the projects.
We think that the jobs should be given to BONA FIDE
RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT
give them outsiders merely to spend the Districts
money to relieve unemployment IN oTAER coMMON!LlEs
while leaving the serious obless situation of the District
just as it is.
One contract already been let in connection with the
sewage disposal plant calls for payment Of than
hundred thousand dollars and provides for preparation
Of detailed designs and specifications for the plant
That contract has been let to firm of engineers IN
BOSTON,
So that hundred thousand dollars isn't going to provide
many jobs for unemployed Washngonians. It may and
doubedy will help Boston, but it won't do the people who
pay taxes to make up hundred thousand dollars
great deal of good in reviving their businesses.
Washington business needs every that expended
here WASHINGTON JoBLEss NEED ALL OF THE JOBS
THAT THE TAXPAYERS MONEY CAN CREATE.
We're spending city, about ten million dollars year
to support those who forced to live in ideness
aren't doing good job of supporting them with
that large expenditure.
If going to spend additional millions to create
Jobs and then turn the jobs those from other cities
we are going to cut relief bill to great extent
but WE ARE GOING TO PILE UP DEBTS WHICH OUR
TAXPAYERS LATER WILL BE CALLED UPON TO
MEET.
Much Of the money being spent relief in the city
being spent because contractors District jobs the past
have brought into the city from outside to work
Jobs After the contract completed THESE MEN WERE
LEFT HERE WITHOUT ANY WORK FOR THEM TO DO
We think the District Commissioners ought to make it
clear that they don't intend to let this situation again
They probably find authority to keep these
AT HOME where they belong.
Unless they do that there to be little sense in
embarking right great building projects
those projects will absorb the Districts iobess they
should be pushed. IF THEY ARE GOING TO ADD TO OUR
LOCAL JOBLEsS THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE DROPPED
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

Do you think
it's true? Are
men r e ally
antagonist i C
to W o m e n
workers? And
if so what's
your explana-
ton?
H ere S a
TYPICAL y l u
test
Dear Miss
Robinson
Why don't
ou devote
more of your
space to de-
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill
Vol. XVIII, Page 361.

the piles could be aligned into
solid steel walls reinforced with
concrete.
And over this they built a roof
or ceiling of steel and concrete
the whole deep down under
the foundations of the hotel,
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

When the jest is at its best
twill be well to let it rest.
Men are like wine; age sours
the bad and improves the good.
Worrying lest there be a cat
killed the rat before the cat.
There are no gains without
pains.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

problem of the eccentricities of
Minetta Brook.
So the engineers for new
hotel drove giant steel piles into
the rock and clay, far below the
bed of Minetta, and went to
pumping With giant pumps until
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Words of Wise Men

Few people know how to be
old. La Rochefoucauld.
The virtue of parents IS a
great dowry. Horace.
Love rules without a sword
and binds without a cord.
An expensive wife makes Q 4
penSive husband.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Marry-G0-R0und
Bu Helen ROWIQnd

"The Women in His Life"
A man thinks that his love-life
doesn't matter much-that it
is only an incident or an acci-
dent. That he can play ducks
and brakes with it and mess it
up anyway he pleases, so that
he doesn't let love interfere with
his business, his profession or
his political career.
He reasons that he can take
marriage or leave it alone; and
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

and WHAT a poet! What a
philosopher! What a column"
iSt!
His Proverbs, after all these
thousands of years, still out
shine any work of philosophy
ever written. And his Song of
Songs is still the most beautiful
poem in any language.
Yet, it is the thousand women
in his harem plus the Queen Of
Sheba, that most people think
of when his name is mentioned.
His love-life!
Sir Walter Raleigh was a
brave adventurer and a man of
brilliant and original ideas. If
he had never done anything eX-
cept discover the use of smoking
tobacco, most men and many
women should be grateful to
him.
But it was his little act of
gallantry, in laying down his
cloak for the Queen to walk on,
which made him famous as the
worlds most gallant gentleman.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

Vi NC" 4OAhs
chairman of
the H o u S e
Committee on
Immigratio n,
has been one
of the most
active m G m
bers of that
b r a n ch Of
C Con G r e S S
W h a t with
Investigations
of one kind
and another.
S o intent
upon his work
was he, that
tho nfhar dou
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Why Don't Men Take Work
ing Women Seriously?

These yelps about women not
getting the breaks in business
what's your opinion of them?
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

later UdS secretary of the
American embassy in MeTico.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

Representative Samuel Dick
stein. Democrat. of New York,
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

The most agitated group in =
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-01-04
County in Clear
by Court Decision
Railways Cut Fares
Again January End

The western railways are out
with another dnlucement to lure
some more of their strayed pas
senger business back to the Iron
Horse. The third cut In railway
fares west of Chicago in less than
a half year went into effect Janu-
airy ?. Round-trip coach fares are
TO be cut ten percent, which drops
the rate per mile to one and eight
tenfhs of a cent. The present 2-cent-
annie rae which was adopted on
August | for both one-Way and
round7trip coach travel was said
to be the lowest standard rate ever
Offered by American railways.
On December | the western lines
discarded their basic rate of three
and six-tenths cent a mile. which
has been in effect since the war
and adopted a 3 cens fare on one
way travel in Pullman and parIor
cars and 2 cents on round-trips
W1thNa ten-day return limit. A
longer return limit was provided
for at a fare of 21h CENTS a mile.
The new roundAtrip coach fares
will be limited to 10 days and in
Guide stopover privileges.