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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

the Leeward Islands, in the West Indies. It is the mightiest fleet England ever has sent across the Atlantic. Not since the day of Rodney has so great a proportion of the empires naval strength visited the , edge of the Caribbean.
 And yet this demonstration has aroused not a shadow of fear or suspicion in the United States No one has risen to suggest that these maneuvers mean that England is looking ahead to war with the United States. Indeed, it is likely that not one American in 50 even has known that the British fleet was on this side of the At lantic. Of those who did know, hardly anyone has thought twice about it.
 Compare that state of affairs with what happened year or so ago, when the United States fleet held it's maneuvers off Hawaii. The whole Japanese nation be- came alarmed. The stunt was looked upon as a direct menace to Japan. It was asserted widely that preparation for war with Japan was the only possible motive for such action.
 The two cases are almost perfectly par allel, on the surface. But one passed un- noticed; the other led to an amazing amount of war talk. Why? Perhaps the answer is that armaments do not, in them- selves, cause fear and suspicion, after all. If the national interests of two countries are in conflict, or seem to be, then mili- tary demonstration will provoke uneasi- ness and cause irritation; if fear and suspicion exist to begin with, in other words, fleet maneuvers will bring. them out into the open. But if they don't - If two nations know perfectly we'll that they are going to live peaceably, side by side, as the United States and England know 1t then the admirals can parade their dread naughts when and where they please, and no one will think twice about it.
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Know Your Waterbury It's History, Facts and General Information
HISTORY

The first grant or privilege on Great Brook was near the corner of Canal and Meadow streets and there was a small factory here about 1900. The property passed through many hands and eventual ly became the American Ring com pany, the water for the factory taken from the brook at Grand street near South Main. Other fac tories included in this grant were a clock factory between Jefferson and Union streets, water taken from the brook on East Main street.
 Other factories conducted and using this water for power in the early days were one used as clock factory on North Elm street, this later passing into the hands of An- son Bronson who used it to manu- facture horn and bone buttons, then later for the manufacture of hooks and eyes; and the Mattatuck Manu- featuring company, later Platt brothers, the Matthews and Will lard company. The Bronson family owned the site of the Waterbury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
So They Say


 The most urgent necessity in the world today is for. thinking peo- ple to stem the tide of approaching war.
 Emma Goldman. famous an archist.
 There are dark clouds over Asia, and we must be prepared to defend ourselves if necessary. Rear Admiral Paul Oras, naval attche to the Soviet embassy at Washington.
 As far as foreign policy is con. cefned, Hitler Is the only states man in the world who knows what he wants. < Raymond Leslie Buell., president of the Foreign Pollcy Associa- tion. Tt is Illegal to sell as whfskey any liquor less than 80 proof. Edward F. Mulrooney, New York liquor commissioner. " You caa keep dog hungry for 2 long time. but you cant grab a bone from him without being bit. ten. -Norman Thomas.
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less negotiations, has left neither employers nor labor satisfied. COLD FEET
 The former think the admin istration is afraid of legal showdown, will compromise rather than seek to enforce Sec tion Ia. The rank and file work CTS have become increasingly suspicious of the administration's policy of trying to settle disputes by negotiations in which labor always is on the giving" end.
 After months of delay, the at torney general finally has insti- tuted injunction proceedings aginst the Weirton corporation. But this action was largely offset, both in the minds of labor and of industry, by Johnson's extraordi- nary conduct when he ordered another (the third) poll of the Budd workers in declaring the defiant manufacturer a loyal supporter of the NRA.'
 As q result of this statement, and the discriminatory balIOting regulations prescribed by JOhn- son, the workers bOycOtted the poll. Less than one per cent of more than 5000 employees cast votes.
 The unadorned fact briefly is this: The administration is not yet awake to the fact that the honeymoon is over; that it must now demonstrate not only that it can conceive a New Deal but can make it work.
 NEXT
 The mighty J. P. Morgan him. self is next on the list for cita- tion for income tax violation.
 Tho investigation of the tax returns of the international banker-who admitted last year before the senate banking com
 mittee that he has not paid an income tax in the United States for the years 1931-32, although doing so in England-has been completed. As was done in other cases recent announced the evil dence will soon be transmitted to a federal district attorney for submission before grand jury. JAPANESE EXCXLUSION
 Behind last weeks exchange of bouquets between Japn and the United States is a real diplo- matic triumph for that old Tennessee mountaineer, Cordcll Hull.
 The secretary of state has set up as one of his greatest ideals the re-establishmen of amity between the two great rivals of the Pachic-Japan and the U. s. A. The president has not differed with him on this, but busy with other things, has handed Hull the Pacific as his pet baby.
 Hull has worked out a phil- OsOphy unique in international relations. He figures that genuine gestures of friendship get recip- i. rOcal gestures of the same brand.
 To this end he has been mak- ing a quiet study of the Japanese immigration barrier. He finds that if the Japanese exclusion { act were, cancelled, 1t would not effect the United States. Not a ]. single additional Japanese would land in California. On the other hand, giving Japan the same status as other nations would make a great dent in the armor of the Japanese jingos who preach war in the Pacific. It would give powerful argument to the moderates who favor . nese-American friendship.
 So Secretary Hull is quietly working to this end.
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 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

Washington, March 2G - Few presidents of the United States get chance to finish what they . start. But when President Vim cent of Haiti sets afoot in New York today (March 26) that op- portunity will be afforded Frank lin Roosevelt.
 For it was Roosevelt, as a somewhat impetuous assistant secretary of the navy, who help ed start the American occupation of Haiti back in 1915. He even boasted of having written the Haitian constitution-considered by its opponents most iniquit- Ous document. It was rammed down the throat of the Haitian chamber after General Smedley Butler had locked it's members inside and refused to let them out until they voted Aye"
 But as president, Roosevelt has reversed his one-time Haitian policy. He has ordered the marines out, effective next October. And now he will discuss with President Vincent the American control of Haitian fi- nance.
 WHITE HOUSE HINT
 When assistant secretary of navy during the World war, Roosevelt visited New Orleans, was royalty entertained on Err nest Lee Jahncke's yacht. Jahncke is particularly proud of his juleps, mixed and frosted as only southern master can. Roosevelt courteously said he'd never forget them.
 Years later, Jahncke himself became assistant secretary of navy under Herbert Hoover. In 1882 he stumped the country for Hoovers reelection, aga n s t Roosevelt. But, being an old school gentleman, he knew when he was licked. The day after the elections he telephoned Roose- welt. saying:
 q accept the verdict of the umpire. With complete cOnfi- dcncc I click my heels and salute you as my new commander In chief"
 Roosevelt liked it. When Henry Latrobc Roosevelt was selected as Jahncke's successor, an im- mcnse flower box arrived at Jahncke's apartment.
 Marked "FrOm the President" the box was filled with fragrant mint.
 Jahncke called Presidential Secretary Marvin Mcintyre.
 There's only one difficulty, Mac" he said. "The president might at least have included a bottle of good Bourbon whis- key"
 "Ah," retorted Mac. That's the reason he Is pushing this re- peal lcgisIaitiOn--so he can send the Bourbon, too"
 OWN FAULT
 The administration has chiefly itself to blame for the present ominous labor situation.
 Had it acted with vigor four months ago and not compromis- ed with the Weirton Steel corpo- ration and the Budd Auto Body company when they defied the national labor board, 1t is more than likely that the country to- day would not be faced with the "epidemic of strikes, dolorously prophesied by General Huh Johnson.
 A showdown fight then would have cleared the atmosphere. It would have tested Section "a, the crux of tine contagious labor war fare.
 But temporizing with the two recalcitrant. corporations, trying to bring them tO terms by fruit-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

An interesting and novel law question has been raised in New Britain. It should be discussed in most of our cities and towns. Freezing of a great many service water pipes during the extremely cold weather of a,month or so ago caused the water commission to quiz the Cor poration Counsel on the city's liability. His finding declares that the city cannot be held liable for any property damage that might occur following freezing of water pipes. We rather imagine this de- cision would be upheld in any court. We have never heard of property owner suing a municipality or town because his or her water pipes froze and caused dam- age, but it may have happened at some time or it might in the future. It's a work of nature, according to the New Britain official. As he says, "The city has no control over the working of na- ture which causes the freezing.
 What argument can be produced that will outweight this one? We don't know of any. However, there are few property owners who would hold the city liable when their pipes did freeze and damage ensued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

We don't know what the Filipinos will do with this new bill of independence which is offered them. However, there can be no gainsaying the fact that the United States is adherihg to their demands For many years the Filipinos have been ask ing for complete independence. They boasted that they were able to rule them selves and to fight their own battles with out the protection of the American eagle: In the course of time they were granted the opportunity to take advantage Of bill of rights. They rejected it. Now second chance is offered If the Filipino legislature doesn't exercise the right to accept the independence bill, then we pre- sume American legislators in turn will lose interest in future liberation measures. You can't blame us if we do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
War Lies In The Mind

Heavy armaments usually are supposed to breed the fear and suspicion that lead to war. The accepted pacifist view is that nations distrust one another. when they go about armed to the teeth, and that to dem- onstrate your preparedness is sure way to set the other fellow thinking of fight. Sometimes, though, it seems as if things don't follow that formula
 During the last few days a huge Brit ish fleet has been holding nlaneuvers in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
THE TEMPLE GEESE

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 stopped celebrate OyerIong and before they could city its fory the mont siege began During the becaguernent n made citadel, which failed because warning the temple the barbarians Legend the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York - Up in Harlem it seems that all Gods chilPun got theatrical ability musical talent or educated feet.
 Ask almost any urchin on Lenox avenue what he's going to be. If he doesn't say "a entutainuh" or "a orch'stra player" it's probably because he already has had a taste of the legitimate theater as one of the many little angels in The say "actuh." .@.
 Ask some sepia lass and she'll confide an ambition to dance in a night club, or in the chorus of Lew Leslie's annual "Blackbirds" on Broadway, or maybe to sing in the celebrated Hall Johnson choir Ask one of those amazingly agile couples who haunt the Har- lem dance halls every night and they'll tell you they're not there just to pleasure themselves, but to practice for turn in vaudeville or a spot in cabaret.
 Before these eager children of the night are always shimmering mirages of names in ten-foot lights on Broadway, and tantaliz- ing recollections of Negro celebri- ties who have gone before. =. Of Ethel Waters, the dynamic song stress who began in tawdry little joint near Atlantic City and now makes more money than any other member of her race. Of Cab Galloway, the orchestra leader, whose automobile bears more shiny chromium, than a modern istic soda fountain, and whose wife bought $4,000 worth of clothes before they sailed for Eu- rope a few weeks ago.
 Of the late Florence Mills,
 whose Obscquies resulted in
 a demonstration of mass
 mourning surpassing even the
 hysteria of the Rudolph Val
 entinO funeral.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

A strange state of affairs exists in Massachusetts. Senator David l. Walsh, standby of the democratic party in that state for many years, is up for renomlna. tion and reelection this year. We don't see how he can fail to get the nomination. But he may be opposed after being renom- mated by an old friend, Gardner w. Pear son, once a democrat, now republican. Pearson was formerly adjutant-general of the Bay State. Walsh appointed him. He was postmaster of Lowell during Cleveland's administration. He broke with Walsh when the latter was governor. Now he would run against him for U. $. Senator. Politics upsets many a friend ship, doesn't it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
DAILY WASHINGTON
 MERRY-GO-R
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN =

Rooseoelt Noa Has His Chance to Finish What He Started Haiti Administration Itself to BIae for tue Ominous Labor Conditions; J. ?. Morgan Meet List to be Cited by Income Ta1 Investigators Hull Achieves Diplomatic Triumph in Boosting '. SJapanese Amity
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c. How many species of fish are there?
 A. Approximately 10000.
 o. When was Cameo Kirby" first produced on the screen, and who played the leading role?
 A. It was produced first in 1923 as a silent picture. with John Gill bert in the leading role. J. Harold Murray was featured in the talk ing picture version released in 1880.
 o. Do Bob White build their nests in bushes and low trees?
 A. Usually they build on the ground.
 o. What is the meaning of one point rise or fall in the stock mar ket?
 A. It is the unit of variation in price per share of stock.
 c. What is a bisque in golf?
 A. A handicap with stipulated number of strokes to be taken at 3lAC OPllOA OA tIO AOClRHGhls u 10 @ French word meaning ''odds."
 c. Name the American Ambas- sador to Argentina, ' A. Alexander w. Weddell. s. split? F'
 A. A severe freeze with consid- erable moisture in the trunk may cause trees to split.
 Q. Where and what is the Gingerbread Castle?
 A. It Is located at Hamburg, N. J., and was designed by Joseph Urban. Both the house and gar dens are filled with elves, gnomes and characters from Mother Goose" The house Is built of con- crete and stone in variety of colors.
 O, In which horo,.Dh ne Nau,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

Boys Who Made Good
 Harlem knows all about Jules Bledsoe, Flo Ziegfeld's "Old Man River," who gives high-brow concerts these days mad divides his time between his suburban New York estate and many sa- lon in Europe. . Paul Robeson has fared nearly as well. And Duke Ellington, dusky classicist of jazz has stirred staid critics to lavish superlatives with his con- certs abroad. Adelaide Hall, who speaks Jewish fluently, is the new star of the Cotton Club revue .. Richard B. Harrison, De Lawd of "The Green Pastures" is lead- ing the all-Negro cast through the fifth year of that nation wide theatrical triumph Josephine Baker, only a saffron memory in Gotham now, remains the high pricstess of hi-de-ho in Paris. And then there's Bill Robinson, honorary Mayor" of Harlem and probably the worlds greatest tap- dancer. Deeply religious and strongly race-conscious is "Bojan- gles" Robinson, and not even Yin the black belt do they know the extent of his philanthropies. He has Broadway's gratitude, too, for Bill has been known to cancel g lucrative engagement to dance at a benefit for jobless performers ... Harlem is mighty proud of Bills $12,000 imported car, which he says he bought because he liked It's color. Andt there are all manner of legends about his gold plated revolver. presented by the police force. Harlem is sure that, like the Emperor Jones' silver bullet. Bill's golden gun will keep him from all possible harm.
 Rendezvous of Celebrities
 For Bohemian soirees. complete with celebrities, entertainment, corn whiskey cocktails and buffet lunch, there's Georgette Harvey's place. It's large apartment, dimly lighted, and jammed after midnight with dusky folk whose names are well known on Broad way, and in music and art and letters. Even "scotty," who plays the piano here, has role In the Theater Guild play. "They Shall Not Die" a
 l Also at Georgette's. occasionally. are famous white stars of the stage who like to visit Harlem
 without being ogled in the public hot-spots.
 Miss Harvey is a celebrity her l self--or maybe an ex-celebrity-- now mainly content to bask in the
 romantic aura of one who has ] travelled around the world, sung before royalty, and even kep'
 com'ny' with a Russian prince,
 Georgette. spent twelve years in
 Russia, and was among the enter
 tainers occasionally marooned two For three days and nights in the
 Villa Rode by the prolonged, soli-
 tary debauches of Rasputin .A.
 She still sings, still speaks Rus.
 sian like a native, and vows that one of these days she's gonta set
 down and write a book.
 Sausagcs carried on long polea Itlrfuu, a rooaftt nn y.s9tvaV In Ntiru-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

The late Stephen Wilby was prin- cipal of the Crosby high school from 1896 to 1917, the time of his death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

The trolley transportation from Waterbury to Cheshire and Mount Carmel was completed in 1904.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
BRASS CITY FACTS

The new Margaret Croft school which took the place of the old Elm street school was opened in 1905.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
JUAREz MAY GET NUDIsTS

Juarcz. Mexico s(UP)-A Calf fornia nudist cult leader will visit Juarez to determine whether the border city is suitable site for 0 proposed $2.000,000 nudist camp, it is reported here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26
A Strike To Be Avoided

Those rumblings of labor trouble in the Detroit automobile manufacturing area have an ominous sound The ordinary citizen, more or less unfamiliar with the exact ins and outs of the argument, will be interested chiefly in hoping that the strike which is threatened does not come off.
 He has a right to hope that there IS enough good sense, forbearance and pub lie spirit among employers and labor lead CTS, and enough leadership in the adminis- tration, to avert this strike in some way, and he probably doesn't care greatly who has to make concessions to do it.
 The reviying motor industry is keylng our whole industrial pickup. A major strike that interrupted production would be little less than calamity. In one way or another, it must be prevented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

The S cond Congregational church of Waterbury started in 1851.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

St. Joseph's parish, composed of Lithuanian Catholics, was organ ized in 1894.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

Clock company, where one of the early saw mills was located, and it remained a saw mill until taken over by the Waterbury Knitting company in 1852.
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York City are Welfare and Ran dall's Island?
 A. Manhattan. ,.,
 0. What is yellow journalism!
 A. The term is applied to that type of newspapers that make a speciality of playing up sensational news with blantant headlines and pictures.
 Q. Name the time belts in the United States.
 A. Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. 2
 Q. Who invented the telephone?
 A. Alexander Graham Bell.
 c. What is the most important factor in causing tides?
 A. The moon.
 Q. Who wrote the operetta, 'The New Moon?" s
 A. Sigmund Romberg composed the music and Oscar Hammerstein wrote the lyrics.
 Q. Are soft-shell and hard-shell crabs different species?.
 A. Soft shelled crabs are those that have cast off the old hard shell by the natural process of growth. Those on the market are caught soon after moulting, while the shell is still soft.
 0. Can corn be heard growing?
 A. No.
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Waterbury its JunOnian in the Republican and cackc morning imag
 citizenry tilnk the citadel of ncpnT being is being attacked the administrations Let garbage, sOveIing machines. voting lists mucl breahed within the
 the city and the Printers wadde forth
 cackng warning pIunderers citadel scaling wall That nobody flies to rolls with rrated again" these sefconsitued Wacrbury's this reaction feelings from Romc in only tired of the but took drastic what promised a permanent nuisance
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

Sausagcs carried on long poies during q recent carnival in Nurn- berg, Germany, have been donats ed to the unemployed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

The historian Pubus Marccus scorpone (De Hist Civ 27) tells the fin much greater detail than Pobius Lvy. According to him appears that bought of with bribc of thousand pounds gold doing something about sacred; psrmages came look hem selected grain and purified such quantities that they grew boated had spend much time cican- that they could perform their proper tasks But of attention the geese popular acclaim they began importance They forgot they were geese imag believed they and not the citadel preserved the city, Being their heads there getting grain water got insufficient for wished attract attention to their existence fakery. dark night when the sol asleep and not within would rush out and set furious deceit had been pacticed a realized they being hoaxed on paid the slightest attention to the Capitolne bi became to the just annoying hard they taking weIl-earned filled with for the piece
 
 SWOLLEN, PUBLICITY HUNGRY. SEEKING, NOISY SELF APPOINTED GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC VEAL ULTIMATELY CACKLED THEMSELVES 
 Republican American they the wit to appreIlcnd it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

It's the way of all trolleys evidently. They seem to be passing out of existence, slowly but surely. The Public Utilities Commission has just been asked for per- mission by the Connecticut Company. to abandon line in Bridgeport. Motor bus service would be established in it's stead. The line is on Boston Avenue. Ten years from now street car lines in Connecticut will probably be spoken of in the past tense entirely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

The eco is now getting around to teaching woodcraft to Indians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:39 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

Q. Can corn be heard growing? 2, A. No. %
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-26

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