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The Washington times., 1934-08-13
MRS. F0NTAINE, 3 POLICE HURT IN CRASH
Federal Housing Plan
Promises to Fulfill
Dreams of Homes

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The Washington times., 1934-08-13

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
Airplane Advice

Granting that General Billy Mitchell is great flyer, full of courage, and man who should be consulted in any effort to improve American air defense, wasn't he rather wild in his testimony before the Federal Aviation Commission? If he IS doing something for aviation, he is doing nothing for good relations with Japan, when he says to all the. world: When We design airplanes, we should design them with view to make them capable of attacking Japan," because Japan IS our most dangerous enemy; and when he suggests an attack on New York City by Japan "from base in Alaska; and when he recommends the construction of 50 dirigibles with which the United States "could attack Japan in two days, and there'd be nothing left of Japan"
 Such statements inflame the Japanese populace and play into the hands of the lingo, statement and press at Tokio. Already they fear that we ourselves are planning to attack them ''from a base in Alaska" An inexpert listener, too, feels like inquiring whether it is really possible today to follow Mitchell's suggestion of building military planes with an operat- ing radius of 5000 to 5000 miles, which would mean 12,000 to 16,000 miles out and back; and whether fleet of dirigibles- a type of airship that hasn't yet solved the weather problem at home = could really cross the Pacific and destroy country that has survived thousands of years of earthquakes. Also whether bombing planes, with the load they have to carry, can be made capable of flying at an alti- tude of 35,000 feet, so as to hide from hostile ships and cities.
 The unification of the federal air serv- ices, another favorite theme of General Mitchells, is different matter, less inn aginative in character. Millions of Amer jeans, including many of our best aviators, believe it is the way to establish the most effective air force.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
Primitive Areas

In most of the national parks and for eSts effort has been made to make them comfortably accessible while preserving the native wild life. Roads have been cut through them, hotels have been put up at various points, cabins have been built for campers, and guides and horses have been provided for those who wish to ex- plore off the beaten trail
 A recent Forest Service bulletin tells of the Primitive Areas also being .estab- lished. In these preserves there are no roads, hotels or cabin colonies. Their purpose is to keep wilderness districts as nearly as possible in their undisturbed state for the satisfaction of public recre- ational and educational demands. One Primitive Area, officially set aside just recently, consists of 81O,00O acres Tn northwestern Washington in what is said to be the "most rugged and spectacular country in the Pacific Northwest" In it are great snow peaks and towering gla- ciers which offer a challenge to the mountaineer. There are also gentle slopes rich in wild flowers and mountain meadows.
 There are seven other such areas in the Northwest, preserving primitive wilder ness, but of much less extent than the new one. Probably not many Americans today, even among the lovers of outdoors, would know how to make use of wilder ness. But if Boy and Girl Scouts. Camp Fire groups and similar organizations continue their back-to-nature work, there will be more and more people, as the years go on, taking advantage of such areas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
A Thought for Today
No Santa Claus In Connecticut

While we are not in a position to agree or disagree with such assertions as the Waterbury Republican makes this morn- ing in reference to Jim, Farley and New Deal generosity down in Maine, we do feel safe in saying that no such distribu- tion of patronage has fallen to the worthy in Connecticut.
 In all probability, due to it's early cleo tions and the old saying As Maine goes. so goes the nation, little more effort was exerted day down east than will be in the later elections. Then again, there may still rankle in the hearts of the New Dealers the fact that Connecticut did too we'll by Hoover two years ago and is still being penalized for that offense.
 In any event. there are few these days that are in a position to argue over how they receive their bread and butter, if through the generosity even of democrats work is made available as was the case down in Maine. Why shoot Santa Claus?
 There are few to-day but who will ad- init work has got to be created i'll this country to keep people from starving to death. And if the government IS the last resource in this respect why make political football out of it? Our concern, as we said above, is not what Maine re- ceived, but the fact that Connecticut seems tD have been overlooked. Let's hope that this Christmas Santa Claus gives Connec- ticut a few public swimming pools, tennis courts or anything that will afford better conditions and incidentally, work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
Alcoholic Safety Limit

How much whisky will make motorist traffic menace? Or in less polite language, 'too drunk to drive? An att tractive statement on this point has been made by Dr H. A. Heise of Milwaukee in the latest national Safety Congress. His conclusions are based on definite scientific compartments with drivers. "A measur- able loss of efficiency was indicated" he reports, "when as little as one ounce of whisky was consumed. When experiments were performed under actual driving con- ditions, and the subjects were given from five to eight ounces of whisky, it was found that they could perform routine acts o{ driving fairly we'll; but they were s1sasurably slow or cratic in applying |he brakes, showed poor judgment in .|9oiding obstacles on the road, and were I11rticularly clumsy in backing the car.
 f6rt Of them were blissfully unconscious lhnt they were driving dangerously"
 to here you have 1t. It's positively 1ar1erons to drive a car after drinking 1.1Es fhan four ounces of whisky, which Is. *.6uf a quarter of pint. It's equally [.416rsuz to ride in car driven by any <1. ,.te hn1 drunk that much whisky - s- >I1 ar nun oF brandy. And the danger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
ChuckleC Corner
NosING AROUND, By John Loux

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 Band leaders are never late; they always beat time.
 Time. it seems, is becoming less valuable. You can't sell any you have. and there isn't a court in the country that won't give you more than you want.
 But there's still the kid who wastes time, the Don Juan who makes time. and the girl who will always two-time. Yet some people say they simply cannot find time.
 A sweeper salesman claims can- wasting town Is like spanking Q squirmy kid--you're never sure where you'll make a contact.
 know a gold-digging female with painted toe nails, niascaraed cyelashes. sticky red lips and per- oxided hair. A '26 model with Q repaint job.
 Divorces are sometimes good investme ments-it's the aiimony that makes 'em pay.
 One sort of pesslmist is the wo- man who buriea herself in the kit. chen and decides the whole world is as black as the top of her cook stove. iN
 Things I'd hate Co be- 4 mem- bof of the unemployed. Prosident Of these United States. 4 piecoio player Co q nudlet symphony hand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

be effectively abbreviated as "A PIPPIN."s9
 A PIPPIN was expected to sweep Pennsylvania.
 DISFAyOR
 If University of yWisconsin's mellifleus President Glenn Frank thinks of asking any favors of the White House he had better postpone doing so for some time.
 Right now his rating with Roosevelt is zero-minus. T. Frank is responsible for the loss of Lloyd Garrison, who as chairman of the national labor relations board has been not only one <, of it's most brilliant and effective administrators, but . an ace-card in it's dealings with labor.
 During the three months the talented grandson of the famous abolitionist leader has headed the NLRB he largely rehabilitat- ed the administrations badly mired labor relations machinery. sg The president was extremely anxious to retain Garrison in his official family. And Garrison was equally eager to stay.
 But Frank refused to release him.
 ED, R.. personally appealed to Frank several times by long distance telephone. But whatever Roosevelt said, Frank would make no concession, not even to extending Garrison's leave to the first of the year, when congress returns.
 Garrison was under agreement, Frank held, to rebuild the uni- versity's demoralized law school. and he insisted that the former stand by his word.
 Under these circumstances there was nothing left for Gar rison to do but resign from the NLRB.
 Because Frank has always made a great show of advanced social and economic views, lib- erals in the inner administration group are particularly indignant over his refusal to cooperate with the president.
 BLASTED
 Harry Hopkins, EZRA boss, is no slouch when it comes to ex- pressing his mind in blunt and pointed language. But he has a deep and lasting admiration for Secretary Harold Ickes' talents in this direction.
 The other day Hopkins eye caught headline in a news paper. in a callers pocket. He read it aloud: "Ickes blasts"
 "Well," he observed with a show of envy, there is one guy who sure can do it. When Harold blasts lem they know they have been hit" 's MAIL BAG
 IT. S., Oklahoma City -, Mail entering the White House goes to a sorter who routes personal letters to Miss. Margaret LefIand, the presidents personal secre- tary:: political and routine mat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

ters to Marvin MacIntyre; highly important mail to Louis Howe; and photographic or literary ever a letter contains a particu- larly significant idea it is marked and sent to Roosevelt. l.. c. M., Bellingham, Wash. = Customs collections at the port of Seattle have increased about 909o during approximately the past year. Treasury officials at- tribute this chiefly to the eff ciency of Saul Haas, the new collector of the port. .. M. F., New York city - Miss Perkins personal likes, in addition to her husband and daughter, are chief .ly statistics,f artistic doorways, patchwork quilts, efficiency. Chaucer, orderliness and paint ing New England countrysides. On orderliness, daughter Susanna can testify that more. than once she has heard her mother say: How can you expect to be a civilized member of civilized world, if you won't put your things away?"
 AND SOME MORE
 T. O,C., Boston, Mass. Repre- sentative Allen T. Treadway has served eleven consecutive terms in congress, and has not even 8 minor piece of legislation to his record. He is one of the m st conservative men on Capitol Hill. Also one of <the noisiest. Vice. President Garner, when mem- Der of the house, once character ized Treadway in floor debate as making more noise and saying less than any man he ever knew. G. R., Philadelphia-Gov- ernor Clifford Pinchot's an- nouncement of support of Sem ator David Reed was a great surprise to the administration Pinchot not only opposed Reed for the senatorial nomination last spring, but did so as New k e d,s an i : administration stand. H. w.. Tulsa, Okla. General Hugh Johnson denies that he has any intention of run- ming against Senator Gore in But whether he does or not, one thing is certain. The administra- ton is sure to put New Deal candidate into the race against Gore. The latter's anti-adminis- tration stand and caustic conn ments have deeply antagonizedt democratic leaders. VI. R. F., Springfield, Ohio - General dope in political circles is that Sena- tor Sim con D. Fess will not be returned for another term.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

Washington, oct. S--About the first legislation Roosevelt plans to ask from the new congress is a sharp pruning of the federal taxes on distilled spirits and beer import as we'll as excise.
 Treasury Secretary Morgen- .thau isn't entirely sold on the idea,, but liquor czar Joe Choate, plus senatorial leaders and the president himself, are. So that settles the matter. ,~s
 Morgenthau wants the maxi mum of revenue, for budget bal ancing purposes. The others claim thee present tax burden on John Barleycorn is breaking, his back, g; dnhy. skyrocketing the average retail price of legitimate liquor to a point where it makes : bootlegging highly lucrative it is killing the goose from which Morgenthau wants tc squeeze the golden eggs. <, N> <
 With a $2.OO tax per gallon distilled liquor, and an average state tax of at least $1.OO, the excise burden alone Is ,75 cents quart. On top of all this is a $5 per gallon import duty, mak- ing the total taxes on every quart of imported whiskey $2 even. w ~
 Too much, say MT Choate and President Roosevelt; $2 bounty nevery quart of liquor boot legger can smuggle int othe country is entirely too attrac- tive; it's got to come down.
 A PIPPIN
 A lot of people are genuinely sorry that Cornelia Pinchot, flaming haired wife of Pennsyl- vania's governor, did not go through with the campaign to succeed her husband,
 Mrs Pinchot really had mapped out q glorious campaign.
 Someone in the EZRA had sold her on Upton Sinclair's EPIC plan of taking over indus try, and she had made up her mind that this was her chance in Pennsylvania.
 Mrs Pinchot. however, needed a slogan, something catchy like EPIC, which would be on the tip of everyone's tongue. So she worked out the following:
 Abolish Poverty in Pennsyl- vania. Pinchot is Necessary"
 This, Mrs Pinchot felt, could
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
J. V. WALKER SUPPORTS FRANK B. PARSONS
Waterbury. Conn 7 october 6, 1884.


 Editor of the Democrat:
 It seems that Frank B. Parsons received a great amount of pub licity because he committed some grammatical errors in a letter ad- dressed to the Hartford Courant. and which caused very much hilar- ity for the people who are opposed to his ideas. l would like to ask the question, "Who has not made such errors, or who will not make them?" thought that MT Parsons asked a very good and sensible question. quote.-Why not have pledge cards include gambling, graft, drunken driving of autos, all of which are more devastating to morals of a community than all salacious films run off from, the be- ginning of fildom ?-unquote. In my analyzation of the impeccable persons answer to the Parsons let ter I do not find where this ques- ton was answered specifically. Too much attention was. given to the difference in the meaning of words Referring to an accentuated sec ton of a statement written by Mr Parsons-a request is paramoun. to an order-In consulting dic- tionary that I possess Y find q synonym for the word-paramount -superior-and for the word tantamount-equal (the word sug- gested by the critic). Now, the question is a request equal to an order?? Good English. yes, but Is. this what MT Parsons meant. An. other statement by the critic viz: his logic was abominable-anything hateful or vile-. My opinion of this statement is that it is rather drastic of person who has the courage to express his private views publicly. Also, in a part of the Answer" published, 1t states -he is condemning us for accept the facts of "life's existence. Is this the writer's mistake. or a typo- graphical error And again---a man who knows how to write the Eng fish language-should have been written--a man who knows how to write the English language correct ly. Again--the learned length of his words Is too much both for himself and his intelligent readers should have been written-the | learned length of his words was too much for himself and some of his readers. Also, aliuding to the writing of c. A. who said. that he Is evidently a scholar. We'll. he did not state to what degree. Js there q perfect scholar? Should not Mir Parsons be entitled to make errors? Others make 'em.
 Sincerely your.
 .se J. V. WALKER.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
So They Say

Hauptmann not lone wolf. District Attorney Samuel J. Foley of New York
  For months now the American public has been waiting for Farley to explain why he caused the army pilots to be sent to their deaths. The. stigma, the shame is his. Yet not once has he confessed his grievous error. -Justus l.. Johnson. chairman Illinois Republican State Central Committee.
 l am dancer, not fighter. I'm not just fan dancer, either. l do interpretive dancing, but the Kpgfsh (Levinsky) couldn't interpret 1t.
 Mrs Kingfsh Levinsky. The present machine age is turning its atten- ton next to meeting artistic needs of today.
 Ernest Elmo Cakns, writer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

a. Is .Davey Lee living, who ap- peared with Al Jolson in "The Singing Fcol'' and ''say It With Songs?"
 A. Yes.
 Q. Where is Grants Tomb and what shape is 1t?
 A. It is on Riverside Drive near 125th street, New. York city, and is square with a round dome. N Q. Name the American consult general at Athens, Greece.
 A Leland B. Norris.
 e. Give the possessive form of sister-in-law.
 A. Sister-in-law's.
 @. What was. the score of the Ail-Star baseball game played at the Polo Grounds in New York, July 10. 1934? { "A. American League 9---N National League z.
 o. Are naturalized, American cit- izens eligible for the office of president?
 A. The constitution provides that only natural-born citizens of the United States are eligible for that office.
 Q. What does the name Durkin mean?
 { A. It Is a British family name meaning "kin of the doorkeeper.' ] c. What Is meant by bureauc- racy? A. Generalization of ofiicialism in bureaus, usually attended with rigid rules and much "red tape.
 Q. Do white legforns ever lay brown eggs?
 A. Pure bred white leghorns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
A Book a Day
Traces Intolerance From Earliest Days
 py RRIyf,E CATION.

Intolerance is not always an evil thing. Considered broad- ly, 1t may be nothing more than the reaction which an alert so-
 ciety displays to any force which threatens its continued existence;
 conversely, it. may be the reaction
 of a rebel or refornner to estab-
 lished institutions which he dis likes.
 And the reverse side, of this is that. tolerance itself may be noth- ing better than indifference. These aspects of the question are brought out in Intolerance, by Winfred Ernest Garrison, a careful survey of the things so- ciety has done in response to
 mankinds long fight for freedom. It is a sensible and intelligent
 consideration of a very difficult
 subject. For, as Dr., Garrison points out. intolerance Is not an
 evil thing per SC. It Is only when people are intolerant of the
 wrong things. or intolerant of the
 wrong things, or intolerance for
 the wrong reasons. that 1t becomes 6 curse. s N
 This happens. he continues, when lntoiefance is motivateu py
 fear or by hatred, or is based on ignorance and greed. Since the
 race Is what it Is. this is usually
 the case; and then the story of
 the fight against intolerance Ia the magnificent story of the fight
 for human liberty.
 Dr. Garrison sees the American
 Consultation. with its sweeping guarantee of complete civil and religious liberty. as the greatest of all mifestones in this long fight. But he wnrns that it is on- | ly e milestone. and that the goal | is stiii long way or. tl. Ills survey Of the guises in
 which intoIerence operates today
 Is an informative and thought.
 Published by the Round Table
 reess. ''intolerance" sells for - NU, tNff tNlI Ftf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
In 1'o-day's Mail
MEDICAL MAN DEPLoREs THE TAGGING OF DOCTORS CARS

City Editor, @ e waterbury Democrat.
 Dear Sir:
 Of late several physicians have received parking tags from the po-- lice department for violation or parking ordinances.
 It is true that the physician has no more license to park In a re- stricted zone than any other per- son. Yet in the past, due to the emergency nature of great many of a doctors calls, a certain cour- tesy has existed between the mem- bers of the police department and physicians, allowing the physician always to have his car readily ac- cessible in any part of the city. While it is probable that such courtesy might easily lead to some abuse of traffic regulation, the general advantage to the physician and public from such arrangement far outweighs the inconvenience to the traffic rules.
 Let us hope that no one who sponsors tagging doctors cars for traffic infringement ever has to wait himself in critical illness while a doctor runs a couple Of blocks from his office to his park ed car, or while a doctor rides around two or three blocks in the vicinity of the patients home, look ing for a parking space before he can see his patient.
 Public opinion, l am sure, thinks that physicians have special park ing rights legally. and undoubtedly many will be very much surprised to learn that such Is not the case. If, however, traffic regulations con tinue to hamper the facilities for quick transportation so necessary to the doctor in behalf of public welfare, special ordinances should be passed immediately to over come them.
 Very truly yours
 4 nnruTnp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

line really begins at one ounce, which means about a tablespoonful A good deal depends, too, on whether the liquor was drunk rapidly or over period of hours. whether it was taken straight" or di- luted with water, and whether it went in- to an empty stomach or along with food. But these are rough and read safety rules.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
Horosco
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 The persons whe believe that hu- man destiny is guideA ny the vIn nets, this daily horoscope Is 0ut- fined by a noted astrOlOger. In nddftlon to infornaatiOn of general interesf. it outlines Information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
 OCTOBER 9
 Today ushers in very impor- tant influence. About 1929 we felt this same combination of planets but they were working together. Now they are pulling In opposite directions. It is financially unsound and generally accidental. Be care ful of fires, wind and air travel. Electricity, automobiles, banks. clergy, courts and government ot- ficlais are all ruled by the planets In, action. Be cautioned!
 1.t At Birthdate
 You should be fond of dancing and rhythm. Develop the spiritual side Of your mature from Sept. i7 through Oct. IS, 1885. You should have a perIod of financial improve ment % from Dec. io-3i. ies4. Dan. ger Jan. is through 1ss 1885. So. ciallyfavnrable oct. is through 10. ip34.
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