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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
Is It Big Money?

The American Liberty League like the Economy League and other such set-ups smacks of big money. If the big money moguls had been willing to take their losses four years ago this depression would have been over by now. They don't seem to understand, or they don't want to understand, that they must take their losses in common with laborers, farmers, small home owners, small investors, and the rest of the rank and file. The longer they continue their fight to retain unfair profits the longer this depression will continue.
 The mass of people will not tolerate any more squeezing because long ago they were reduced to the common necessities of life. If the American Liberty League tries to besmirch the attempts of Presl- dent Roosevelt in restoring equilibrium to the great middle class, the League had better watch it's step. Already even be- fore the League has got under way insidi- ous propaganda is being sent through the mails containing clever sallies in the form of poems and cartoons with the ob- vious intent of undermining support ot the administration.
 It takes money and organization to put put such propaganda and if the American Liberty League is not involved in this petty back-biting it should come out and say so, for already many citizens suspect that the League is behind it. At the pres ent moment the people are not interested in the personal political ambitions of any candidate, past or present The people are interested in recovery and want no disturbers with axes to grind throwing left-handed monkey wrenches into the machinery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
Chuckle
CAN YOU IDENTIFY By Clara Blanchard

The Woodbury man who calls his neighbours blinds the Winchell key-holes?
 The suburban housekeeper who says she can understand why mems hatreds center on mother-i Jaw? This Summer hers is settled on ants.
 The Fall' River lass who's been named "class baby? We've heard a lot of 'em dubbed classy bab- ies".
 The West Main street auto deal- CT who's always boosting knee ac- tion in his cars? Parisian styl-. ists are co-operating-they' come out with the split skirt.
 The Lakeville lad who always preferred blondes, yet is seen ev- anywhere. with q brunette? His blonde girl dyed.
 The Vine street Scotchman and his wife who never go out? Well. how else can they get value for their rent money?
 The Waterville couple who vow ed when they married, two years ago. they were going to be diff ferent? To prove it, they were divorced at home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

Washington, Aug S1.-The staid Senate of the United States has received no one in many years with as much curi- osity as it would receive Rush Dew Holt, 29-year old phenom- enon who has a good chance of being elected democratic senator from West Virginia.
 Rush Dew Holt is rather a wild-cyed youngster of sloppy dress and unkempt hair, who talks fast and gives the in- precision that he doesn't always know what he Is talking about.
 He has a great facility for mastering facts, and an even greater facility for spieling them off at top speed without giving very much philosophic interpre- tation of their meaning.
 Holt's father was anatheist, and suspect by the people of West Virginia for that reason. But at the age of S5 he ran as candidate for mayor of Weston.
 And although his name was squeezed off the ballot, enough people wrote it in to give him the election. All of which proves either that West Vir- ginia no longer worries about atheists or that the Holt family is endowed with unique political aculnen.
 Suffering from no inferiority complex, Rush Dew Holt has sublime faith that he will be seated in the senate despite the provision that a senator must be thirty-ycars old.
 II cent believe" he an- nounccd, with Henry Clay en- thusiasm, "that Il Roosevelt senate would refuse on d tcch- nicality to seat a senator sup porting the Roosevelt policies"
 The technicality, in this case, is fixed by the Constitution of the United States.
 LOUISIANA GOLDFISH
 Ferdinand Pecora, the terror of Wall Street, tells this story on Huey Long, which occurred dur ing the senate investigation of the moneychangers last year.
 After q committee session, Pe- cora was invited into the office of Bob Reynolds, thrice-mar- ried senator from North Caro- lima, to meet Peggy Hopkins Joyce, multi stage cele- brity.
 Huey Long also came in to meet the lady. but upon entering the room appeared busy with other things. A mere female, annnrently. was beneath his mo- tice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
Press Comment
DANAHER'S READY WIT
 (New Britian Herald)

Secretary of State John A. Dana her seems to be the best vocalist of the republican party of the state. His run-in this week with Governor Cross provided readable contributions to the pre-conven- tion campaign. Danaher has a fluent tongue and by no means received the worst of the wise- cracking encounter with the gov ernor.
 We say "wisecracking" with due knowledge that the argument about how many suckers" there are m the state amounted to very little At least, 1t cannot become an is- sue of moment. But the subject provided an opportunity for scin- tillating remarks, providing the men speaking could muster enough sparkle to utilize the opportunity.
 The Governor and Secretary Danaher having made good, it housing will provide us with more gems of thought--so long as per- sonalities are avoided.
 Governor Cross for some years past has almost monopolized the arena of Bright Remarks in the state. Secretary Danaher, now with some confidence in himself and realizing that glibness of tongue procures publicity. can be reckoned on to keep up the barrage.
 Why, perhaps at this moment both the Governor and the Secre- tary are thinking up more verbal efflorescence with which to charm a grateful state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
MORE FILM HISTORY" (New Britain Heraldl

Tn filming the story of Cleopatra Hollyw ood has done more historical h-as-catch-can: but 1t seems to meet with the approval of some folks who either don't take their history seriously or do not take Hollywood seriously.
 For instance, there is the re- mark of William Boehnel. a film critic in New York. Talking of the film Cleopatra" which garbles the history of this famous or in- famous beauty:
 ''That at any rate is the story of the film. and we must stick to it. for 1t is the prerogative of playwrights and scenarists to stray as far away from known facts as they wish when dealing with history in terms of the theater or the screen"
 Is that SO?
 To our notion no medium has the right to garble history without definitely making this plain to everybody seeing the show. No more than a pharmacist has the right to sell you something not srsciAed '~ the prescription.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
We Must Create Jobs

Harry L. Hopkins promise that the federal government must and will evolve a distinctively American method of deal ing with the stupendous problem of unem- ployment relief, and will not be content to copy some European system, is a bright bit of good news. If anything has been made clear by postwar European exper- fences in this field, it is that just to keep the jobless men from starving is not enough.
 That has to be done, of course, in sim pie humanity. But unless unemployment relief goes beyond that, it simply creates a new problem without solving the old one. Englands long years of the dole illustrates the point. The dole has been great drain on the English treasury, and it has been feeble and back-handed way of meeting very serious issue. It was the least that could have been done, but 1t was not nearly enough.
 To understand this, one need only read the comments of men who have travelled across England in recent years. Unanim- ously, they testify to the destruction of morale which follows in the train of the dole. They find, all across England, in- numerable young men who have grown up to their late twenties without ever hav- ing been employed. By this time, many of these young men have got completely used to this kind of life.
 The dole keeps them from starvation and provides them with few odd pennies for their recreation - football games, movies, glass of beer now and then, and SO on. In many many cases these young men have lost the desire to work. They have never known anything but life of pointless idleness; it has come to seem the normal thing to them, and the wish to get put and stand on their own feet has atro- phied and died.
 Such young men, when they appear in large numbers, constitute one of the most tragic problems any nation can face. They are rapidly becoming unemployable. Even the return of full prosperity would lave them as a solid, more or less indigestlble lump in the economic body. That is the sort of problem nation creates for itself when it confines its unemployment relief program to unemployment relief pay ments.
 Something more must be done. Jobs, Tn other words, must be created, no matter how impossible it may seem to do it. We cannot avoid the responsibility of keeping jobless men from starving = but unless we go beyond that, and give them chance to support themselves, we shall build up great deal of trouble for ourselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

Finally, however, the King fish came over to the other end of the room and was introduced.
 Peggy, who by this time. was slightly unified, eyed him jelly.
 "Oh," she said, after n long and stony pause, "aren't you the senator they cali the Goldfish?" CHEAPER LIQUOR
 Those inside the Treasury predict that the next congress will see a sweeping downward revision of liquor taxes and tariffs.
 Private sentiment in favor of this is general throughout high administration ranks.
 Federal Alcohol Administrator Joseph H. Choate, Jr, is making no secret of his sentiment. He is openly saying that if the flourishing bootlegger traffic Is to be killed, 1t can be done only by drastically slashing federal taxes and tariffs.
 Unless this is done, Secretary Morgenthau's aides admit, that his intensified drive against bootleggers will be futile.
 To illustrate what Morgenthau is up against, look at these fig ures:
 Before prohibition the annual U. S. whiskey demand was 65,- 100000 gallons. With popula- tion greater than in 1919, and with no decrease in consumption. licensed distillery withdrawals now average only 3o,O00,O00 gal Ions a year.
 Note-Alcohol seizures by the Customs Bureau in July were almost as much as the total confiscaetd during the whole of 1883.
 SAINT SUMNER
 Six months ago, Sumner Welles, then ambassador to Cuba, was about the most un- popular man on the island. He was cursed for doing this, and reviled for not doing that. Noth- ing that he did pleased the popu- lation of Cuba.
 To-day it is a different story.
 Wclles now has chalked up to his credit the new treaty with Cuba, the abrogation of the Platt amendment, the Import Export Bank loan to Cuba, the sugar quota, the sale of rum, and the busting of Machado.
 People in Cuba have changed their tune. They begin to look upon Welles as their saviour.
 Thus 1t is with most saviours.
 HsDDDV m nnnVrNn
 Chief benefactor from the sale of the Kate Mccormick mansion to the Brazilian Embassy was 21-year old Katrina Mccormick, daughter of the late senator. Price paid was $150,000 for the house and $50,O00 for adjacent land Justice McReynolds, Tennessee bachelor, has just re- turned from a rowing trip to Europe, is now dusting his apart ment The White House is now chiefly occupied by the Roosevelt children, Anna Dali, and her brother Elliott. with his wife Walter White, Har- vard-educated head of the Na- tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, has been making it hot for pudgy Emil Hurja, man-Friday to Jim Farley. regarding the disbarment of negroes in Texas democratic primaries. Hurja has been put in tight place by a ruling of U. s. District Judge Boynton at Fl Paso in favor of negroes Among PWA grants for educational in- stitutions are such euphoniously named towns as Rake, Wis. Schroon, N. Y., Tolt. Wash. Wa hoo, Neb., Wahoo. Mo-. Berry,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

vile, Okla, Blessing, Texas, Cy- finder, Iowa, Circle, Mont, Lena, H., Leoti. Kans., Pickens, Miss, and Piqua, Ohio.
 MORE MCRTsY-GO.ROUND
 The Treasury has ruled that farmers must pay income tax on their AAA crop reduction checks, but the AAA says the order Is largely academic as the annual cash income of the overwhelm- ing majority of farmers Is around $425 Department of Justice executives privately estimate that the cost to the gov ernment of tracking down Dil- finger amounted to about $500,- 900. This does not include what cities and states spent in big, eGriy-haired Senator John c. Townsend Is the big peach and strawberry man of the sen ate. Besides being a banker and owner of a large contract ing business, Townsend is also the largest orchardist in his state In the opinion of Miss Marguerite LeHand, quiet hammered personal stenographer to President Roosevelt, one of the chief requirements for a successful secretary lis to know enough not to talk" The voluntary withdrawal of Sena- tor c. C. Dill from one of Wash ington's senate seats has stirred up a furious scramble for the tst, Bal is declaring his candidacy, tho capital hears Treasury of- ficials estimate that 1t will re. qulre a month to distribute the $500, 100000 of new silver cer- tificates recently issued. The currency will be disbursed through the Federal Reserve banks.
 (COpyright, 1884, by United Fca.
 fure Syndicate InC.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
A Book a Day
How Napoleon Came
 Back For Last Fight BY BRUCE CAPTION

Tn "The Hundred Days," Philip
 Guedalla gives a graphic picture
 of one of the most thrilling dra-
 matic episodes in all human his return from Elbn
 and his rapid progress along the
 road that led to Waterloo. l After Waterloo was over, the
 Duke of Wellington remarked thai
 1t had been "a very near tring. ] MT Guedella's little book shows how true that remark was. Beaten
 and discrowned, his fate settled
 apparently. forever, Napoleon came
 within a hairs breadth of upset ting the apple cart for keeps. Mr Guedella does full justice to the drama of the story.
 Napoleon landed in France an adventurer, playing 1OO-to-
 shot. He started his famous
 march to Paris with a mere
 handful of followers. Troops wene sent out to stop him; he met them flung his cloak open, invited ms
 old soldiers to shoot him-and
 presently had the troops following him, shouting their enthusiasm all across France.
 | A nation which had sighed with rel1ef when He was SAii0u comed him back in a frenzy of ioy. The Bourbon king slunK
 out, unnoticed. Napoleon became
 emperor again, raised an army
 and marched off-to Waterloo,
 and final disaster.
 Now all this. Mir GuedSlla points out, wasn't just personal magnet ism. After all was said and done, Napoleon still represented the rev. oultion, to the ordinary French man. He stood for the gain which human rights had made in that bloody overturn.
 That was why Frenchmen fol- lowed him to bloody fields all across Europe. Tyrant that he was, he still seemed to be their de- fense against oppression. Published by Putnam, this book sells for $1.75.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
Selected Poem
POTPOURRI

(Mabel A. Beeken in the Christian Science
 Monitor) I spent the evening making jam, Preserving greens and crimsons While the setting While ridges of pink hecked a burning sky, Which changed from palest blue to lavender And to the dusk blue of night Upon the hem of which were sprinkled stars. And now have time to watch A golden moon arise behind a trellis Where white roses are A golden disk of a moon, across which rose-leaVes Have woven pattern. In front is the tall stately outline Of delphnums-sill as the night The orange red disks of geum flowers FaintIy glow in the dusk, And the color of a low bush of scarlet roses Burns darky. Beyond the trellis Other homes. serenly quiet, stand strongly in hte moonlight With a square two of gold Where lighted winoows are. Thus as bee extracting pollen From the loveliness that IS summer. So ma l gather these hours or beauty These lovely quiet colorful hours, The grace-the possibilities-of home, IJntil with overhowng richness The cells of memory are brimming tui Against the winter-and tomorrow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
So They Say

I would never advise young man to take up boxing as a profession. It isn't worth the chances takes.
 Jess Willard, ex-heavyweight champion.
 Real revival of the construction industry would end the depression almost over night Walter r. Schmidt president-elect National As- socaton Real Estate Boards.
 The alliance of crime and politics has pros- ttuted police departments that Dillinger found it possible to buy protection. - 70. Ray Hansen, former Cook county, III pros- ecutor.
 radical is not born He Is created by the abuses which exist about him. -Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

o-Who wrote the song, "When My Dreams Come True," and for what motion picture was 1t writ ten?
 A-Irving Berlin composed the song for the motion picture The Cocoanuts," starring the four Marx
 brothers.
 Q--Name the capital of Ireland. A-Dublin is the capital of the Irish Free State and Belfast IS the capital of Northern Ireland. Q-what was the U. s. public debt at the close of the fiscal year
 A--on June 30, 1884, the gross public debt was $27,o5s,141,414.4S. Q-How many Indians and ne.
 groes are there in the United
 A-The 1880 census enumerated
 11,Ss1,143 negroes and 3S2.S97 In- dians.
 Q--What is the name of the as-
 sociation that selects the Wampas
 Baby stars each year? A--The Western Association Of Motion Pictures advertisers, popu-
 larly called Wampas. Q--what is time? . A--The general idea, relation, or fact of continuous or successive existence; or the abstract concep- tion or duration as limitless; ca pablo of division into measurable portions, and essentially compris- ing the relations of present, past and future.
 Q--Is the word flour singular or l plural? Alt is a collective noun, com ing under the classification of sub stances of indefinite quantity. like
 butter, water, etc. These nouns arc generally used in the singular num- Der, but when different sources or kinds of the substance are indi-
 cated, may be used in the plural
 number.
 Q-Who played the leading male
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
X-RAY REPORTS
(New Britain Herald)

First returns from the X-ray tuberculosis tests for school chil- dren were heard from the past week but only in connection with . handful of those who took the test. It was reported that one 'pu- pill of the 22 reported upon showed signs of needing medical over sight to overcome his weakness.
 Perhaps this may mean that a child out of the 22 examined will be spared physical troubles and 'cx- pense later in life. In that case the examination will have been very much worth while.
 A very small proportion of those children whose parents failed to take advantage of the X-ray exam ination-even after the city offered to pay where parental ability to do so existed-will enter into maturity unsuspecting of the ailment that gnaws at their vitals. This small proportion" if seen at one place, would look like quite 8 number. These feared to face the music. preferring to face the discords later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
And Still More Support

Fault may be found with the Connecti- cut Liquor Control Act and the Commis- sion that administers 1t, but 1t must be increasingly evident that when the law ls put under close observance. by our sourts it stands muster surprisingly well. This was revealed some time ago when snecial Constitutional court headed py .fndre Martin T. Manton of the U. 5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
H pc
By OCTAvINE

Today is a time of dreamy schemes and far fetched notions It is altogether irrational. Do not depend on your judgment no mat. ter how sound you think It is for we have a poor combination of Mars (the War God), Ueptune (Illusion) and Uranus (Electricity) to lead us astray.
 TOday's Birthdate
 Be careful of your health from April 13-May 2 for you are sub- feet to colds. Try to improve your financial condition from November lO-19. Danger October 30-31. So. cially favorable September IF.
 Readers desiring additional tn- formation regarding their horO. scopes are invited to communicate with Octavine In care of this neSvs- paper. Enclose a stamped. self. addressed envelope. ... . .....
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

Do you believe the United States will have a woman president within the next decade? Miss Lillian D. Rock of New York made this rather startling declara- tion in Chicago recently in addressing the National Association of Women Lawyers. Here's just what she said, q expect that within my own lifetime some brilliant woman will make her way from the ballot box to the Presidency. All of our coun- try's Presidents have gone forth from women. What is to prevent woman her self from going forth to occupy this exalt- ed post? Indeed, I will be sadly disap- pointed if, within the next decade, wo- man is not made at least Vice-President =" Unfortunately it isn't always bril- liance that leads to the White House. If so some of it's occupants would not have sat there. Some who missed it would have enjoyed the distinction. It takes more than mere brilliance to become a President.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31
DAILY ALMANAC

High tide at Milford Saturday, Sep tember l. 6:19 a. m., daylight time: low tide, 12:3S p. m., daylight time.
 All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:57, daylight time, tonight.
 Sun rises 6:17 m.. daylight time; sets 7:27 D. m., daylight time.
 Moon rises 11:1O p. m.. daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

The New York Times had good time in debunking the recent speech that Con- gressman Francis T. Maloney made there. There was particular reference made to the expression which Representative Ma loney ridiculed, "Where is the money coming from?" The Times regards this as typical of the age, but we don't think that the Meriden legislators remarks should be taken in this light. He has proved himself in his two years in Wash ington to be as much concerned about the nations money as could be demanded. He is not in any sense of it committed to policy that definitely postpones payment of legitimate obligations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the va- lidity of the act. Now Judge Frederick M. Peasley of the Superior Court upholds the Liquor Commission in its revocation of the license of Hartford package store owner.
 This revocation was really test case and was brought to prove whether or not those package stores in the state which sold liquor after 6 p. m., during the life of federal injunction, could be prosecut- ed. The liquor board brought action against Hartford store. The superior court now upholds the action. The result probably lies in the hands of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut to which naturally the package store men of the state will carry an appeal.
 One interesting feature of the entire case is the fact that the special Constitu- tional Court recommended no action be taken against any dispensers of liquor who might have violated the state law during the extent of the federal injunc- tion. It is believed that at least 300 stores, including some in Waterbury, may be af- fected by the ruling.
 Should the Supreme Court continue to uphold the liquor board and the latter carry out the mandate of the control act all these stores would lose their licenses and be forced out of business. While the law is certainly explicit, there seems to be a feeling that if the highest court in the state continues. the support of the state law that other tribunals have shown the liquor commission will show some lenien- cy to offenders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-31

Waterbury is right in the throes of municipal improvements. Our streets are getting a much-needed bit of attention, particularly those where removal of trol- ley rails made such repairs necessary. Next spring this city can boast as fine a set of central thoroughfares, particularly those used by motorists passing through the city, as any in the state.