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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29

fish type for filling in warrants for on-commissinoed officers. . A leak in the marble cell ing of the senate lounging room created a discoloration that is a perfect bust portrait of George Washington Daniel Calhoun Roper, secretary of commerce and least heard-from of all the cabinet members, is regarded generally as the most astute and experienced politician in the presidents official family. But he doesn't cut much ice with business Rumors are that John Nance Garner may re- linquish his role of vice-presi- dent when the 1896 elections arr rive, and that Hugo. Lafayette Black, Alabama's airmail fnves- tigation senator will be the Roosevelt running mate. Nor are the rumors so illogical. Black is from the old South, an ex- cellent parliamentarian, and uni- versally recognized as an honest crusader. Whether the airmail contract cancellation would nnili- Idlc d5dlhSI AlllIi POlASlSdAy Ao G matetr of conjecture.
 HONEST HAROLD
 The secretary of the interior is not called Honest Harold" for nothing. He has trained him. self in reading honesty in mems faces. You can't build up character without having it show on your face" says Ickes. "and I can always tell a crook when l see one. I have never known it to fail" A distance rel- ative of the President, living in Chile, bears a strong resemblance to him. A descendant of the Delanos, (Roosevelt's mothers family) the Chilean family mi- grated south more than cen- tury ago. Young Elliott Roosevelt. second son of the President, takes his new wife with him even on business oc- casions. Together they were in- terested attendants at the hear ings of the Presidents Aviation Control Commission.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Big Dinners and Prosperity

The caterers of America are doing what they can to solve the agricultural problem. They have made a pronouncement in favor of eight-course dinners for the citi- gems of the United States. It will be all right, they say, if we work up to this gradually through four, five and six course dinners at first. When we can di- gest these will be time enough to move on to the seven and eight courses.
 The eight-course dinner is not composed entirely of farm produce. The caterers had more to say about the right sauces and wines for each course and the return of "game"-pheasant grouse, venison, wild duck-to favor. But vegetables and salads and buildings and rolls and cheeses and preserves and other odds and ends of foods 20 along with the wines and sauces. At that is where the farmer may benefit. The wise farmer, too, will let little of his crain and vegetable acreage return to woodland and will take up the cultivation of grouse and pheasants to meet the new 9ame requirements.
 Forward, caterers and chefs You may he the nation's salvation. Your eight course dinners will benefit almost every body. including linen and tableware mak' rrs. dlshwashers, Florists, dressmsxers 1nd manufscturers of all the accessories
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Help for Poor Lo

[ It is pleasant to hear that the American Indian, ignored, misunderstood, scorned and cheated, publicly and privately, ever since the white man first started taking his land and living from him, is to have self-determination. And it is about time, for soon there would be nothing left of him but name and reproach.
 The policy pursued by both political parties for half century is to be re- versed. Instead of making fourth-rate white man out of the Indian, the idea is to try to make him first-rate Indian. His languages and customs are to be respected and cherished. His tribal organization is to be restored as far as possible. His dwindling land, absorbed by white neigh bors and speculators and alienated by his own incompetence-for the Indian is sell dom able to stand against the white man in business deal-is to be built up again until there are reservations capable of SUD- porting the deciminated tribes.
 In short, the latest word from Washing ton is that the Indians are to be treated no longer as incompetent wards and inmates of national poorhouse, but as people to whom the dominant race is indebted, who are capable of governing themselves, and who will be encouraged to do so in their own way.
 If our government is really deter mined and able to handle the Indian prob lem in this enlightened way, both races will gain. There is often good stuff un- der red skins. The aborigines may yet become useful part of our tribal group.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29

of his intimate "fireside" radio talks to the country, the unob- trusive, but potent, counsel of his confidential aide and adviser, Louis McHenry Howe, will be bearing fruit. Inner Adminis- tration circles say that Little Louey" has been telling his chief that the time is ripe for another "chat with the folks" EZRA authorities are watching with keenest interest a daring economic experiment, modelled after Upton Sinclair's EPIC pro- gram, launched by Ohio's State Relief Commission. It has rented several idle factories, has put unemployed to work manu- featuring food stuffs and cloth ing to be distributed to the workless needy. Business men have protested vociferously. 1n- cidentally employees who worked for these same plants when privately operated nova re given first preference atthe jobs un- der government operation.
 WANING STAR
 Senator William Gibbs Mo- Adoo's alliance with Upton Sim clair, despite previous coolness, was no surprise to Washington politicos. Mass" personal popularity in California has waned since 1892, and his lep to the Sinclair bandwagon was a willy move Being a wor- shipping office assistant is not the limit of Miss Frances Rob- inson's attributes. She is also an accomplished cook, one of her specialties being Irish stew, the favorite dish of her ex- boss, General Hugh Johnson :. John L. Lewis, leonine-maned president of the United Mine Workers has served private mo- tice on his fellow-labor leaders that at the A. F. of l.. conven- tion in San Francisco next Mon- day he will renew his unsuccess- ful fight at the 1883 meeting to increase the executive councils membership from II to "A. If successful, this move would give the rank and file greater voice and power in the inner affairs or the OTSdHlZdtlOu nus oo- tus E. Giegengack, recently ap- pointed Public Printer, served overseas as private under Steve" Early, then captain, now secretary to the president. Both were staff members of the Stars and Stripes, official A. E.. r. organ, Giegenack being mechan- ical superintendent.
 JANISSARIES
 The havoc made by lobbyists is illustrated by the conglomer- ate mess now developing in the many million dollar public build ings group in the Mall. Origin ally designed as a homogeneous architectural plan, the "fixers" from far and wide have got in their work. All wanted building materials ordered from their states. Net result: some build ings have facing stone of one ma terial and color, and columns of another; some have finished stone, others rough; altogether it makes an aesthetic jig-saw pug gle '. The Navy Department has a typewriter with Old Eng
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Rep. Goss Renominated

For the third consecutive time Con- gressman Edward w. Goss has been the choice of the convention of the fifth con- gressional district to be its standard bearer. That the twice-elected congress- man from this district was again honored by the delegates without opposition points clearly to his credit as we'll as popularity generally throughout the district. Water bury, we feel, too, is honored in having the republican party select man of his type, win or lose, to once more run on the ticket in November.
 Without going into detail at this writ ing it is safe to say that the conduct of MT Goss the past four years in Washing ton has been nothing that can be pointed to with discredit. He has carried on his office honorably and above board and in keeping with his convictions. While we may not altogether agree with those con- victions, we feel sure that at all times MT Goss has felt that anything he has done and for what he has stood has been for the best interests of his constituents.
 However, in congratulating MT Goss upon his renomination and his record at Washington we cannot pass over the fact here that in the coming election in the selection of Major Joseph Smith, likewise, of this city, he has foe worthy of his steel. Both candidates are citizens of Waterbury we'll entrenched in the every day business welfare of the city and for that reason command the highest respect of the community. In the election of either Waterbury's interests should be we'll taken care of. The congressional battle, as we see it, will be won or lost for either of these candidates right in our own backyard. With that setting, the Waterbury Democrat wishes both contend CTS success = let the best man win!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
So They Say

In the French villages I saw, the town crer called the people to the square each morning. When all had come he read the rules of their government for that day. He told them what they could and could not do. You people have gone back to the town crier days. e. Wayand Brooks, Illinois republican candi-
 date for congress.
 Women are just suckers for your money and I don't think I'll have anything to do with them. Jackie Cooper, film star.
 The government would view the export of mill itary planes from this country to Germany with grave disapproval. Secretary of State cordell Hull
 The functions of citizen and soldier are in- separable. -Benito Mussoln
 What goes on in the capital is of no great im- portance one way or the other. Laws do not save a country. We are too strong and resourceful d people to be hampered much by legislation. Henry Ford
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29

Washington, Sept 29.-Since the late William H. Woodin stepped out as active head of the treasury, eleven executives of the department have walked the plank. But the Liquidation" process, apparently, is not fin- ished. The latest treasury whisper has it that young Thom- as Jefferson Coolidge, of the Boston Coolidges, may soon join the vanishing herd" Appoint ed assistant secretary in charge of government issues several months ago, Coolidge has shown himself to be an efficient, prac- tical banker, but of such con- servative views as to be out of step with the liberal monetary trend of the administration. Morgenthau and the president personally both like the dapper New Englander; but, like recent ly resigned Budget Director Lew Douglas, with whom Coolidge largely agreed, it is case of a square peg in a round hole More than 5000 letters, from all sections of the country, have been received by Chairman Ger aid Nye, of the Senate Munitions Investigator committee. Only three writers denounced the committees exposures.
 REAL SPEED
 There will soon be nonstop transcontinental airnail service. The Post Office Department is working on a plan for coast-to- coast express delivery, expects to put it into operation before snow flies Washington authorities were deeply im- pressed during the recent gen. eral textile strike by the signi- ficant fact that in practically all instances of violence, the strikers were aided by non-strik- ing elements in the community. They attribute this sympathetic support to the ranks of the un- employed, who, in many sections of the country, are organized in Unemployed Councils. One of their principles is the support of striking workers.
 PRESIDENTIAL PRESIDE
 When President Roosevelt sits down soon before a microphone on his desk in the Oval Room of the White House to deliver one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Selected Poem
ALL NIGHT ON THE MOUNTAINS

ALH MULTI ON THE MOUNTAINS (Peari Strachan in The Christian Science Monitor) All night the mountains I was marching
 through the sky. Swinging the moon for lantern, low, now
 high. The Cygnet and the Wagon I rode in long ago Floated past the Dragon. miles below; And under them the trees close like drifts of
 purple snow I heard again a song I made for orpheus and the
 Bear Ten thousand ages back-a song we strung upon
 hair Into necklace of bright words, which broke off
 one by Because they cracked frosty nights and melt
 cd in the sun. The tune has lasted: that was made before speech
 was begun.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29

What was lost last April 29 will be regained tomorrow with the end of day. light saving. One hour is small thing to lose, but judging by some of the anti daylight saving folk it is too precious to lose However, opinion is divided as to this juggling of time which has been go- ing on now for good many years. Amer ican and Canadian towns and cities where daylight time is adopted number only 33,000,0O0 persons. When the clock is pushed back Sunday railroads, air lines, bus lines and steamship lines will also revise their schedules. We are not the only country that steals an hour, many European and South American countries also adopt this schedule. Across the water the long twilights in England and Ireland are made even longer with the daylight saving schedule and during the early summer months there is still daylight at eleven o'clock. Next week when you find the sunset an hour earlier, remember you are ahead of the game until next April. And though you lose an hour of daylight, you gain an hours sleep Saturday night, which is something.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
ChuckleCorner
JUST POULTRY By Ruth Fross

I'm telling you, so please take heed,
 There's reason why Our hens are laying double yokes--
 To furnish vitami.
 There's a reason why a hen has a beak. She's her own bill collector. And she grows scales on her legs to do her own weighing.
 There's a reason why hens have such red wattles. Didn't depression put us all in the ''red?" Just as there's a reason why she cackles. She can never find things where she lays them.
 We thought last winter some of our chickens had pip. 1t turned out to be cheap"
 There's a reason why our hens are all speckled. "'Taint payin'." Just as there's a reason for them roasting in trees. Don't they rule the roost?
 When they begin eating their own eggs they're "self-feeders."
 Biddy knows that cacle day keeps the hatchet away. And there's a reason why a setting hen clucks. She's fostering a stale proposition. Just as there's a reason for hens having wings. Gives them the right of ''pinion."
 When eggs are cheap, hens are UooorD And fharass a reason why chickens have feathers. Don't they do their own dusting?
 There's a reason too why each hen does her own cackling, her own scratching, and works alone on the range. She's nurturing "shell' game.
 And may her son never "set."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Horosco cope
BY OCTAVINE

For persons who believe that hu- man destiny is guided by the plan- cts, thls daily horoscope is out- lined by q noted astr0loger. In ad- ditlon to information of general interests, 1t outlines information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates. OCTOBER 1
 Today Is q good day to go to the dentist or have anything done 10 improve your appearance. IL is for- tunate for buying clothes, per- fumes, handling any form of lux ury, for seeking favors or for chs tertaining. You should take ad- vantage of Venus influence of toe day and make new friends where you can or deal with women.
 Birthdate
 Your year ahead should Do pieas- urable and more social than ununl. You have much courage and should Do interested in guns. There la h financially favorable period lndlea. ted for you from Nov i1ssi. 1884.
 Danger Dec sb, 2e, 27, gs. Socially favorable oct n.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
A Book a Day
The Most Critical Moment In History
BY BRUCE CATION

The crisis that confronts man. kind today, says Gerald Heard in These Hurrying Years" is not only greater in size than any pre- vious crisis; it is crisis of an en- tirely different kind than any the race has previously faced, and the present moment is possibly the most crucial in all human history.
 Troubles of the depression. of war, of class antagonism-all of these, says MT Heard, are only symptoms of the underlying diffi- culty.
 That basic difficulty, he contin- ues, is this: that all of our funda- mental ideas about man and the universe have changed more rap idly and profoundly in the last generation than in all recorded time before that.
 We learned, he says. that we are creatures of our environment; in the next moment we began to dis cover, not only that we can re- make our environment at will. but that we can actually condition our response to it. In other words. we found that we could shape our own destinies. and the trouble is that we have just as goo da chance of shaping them in the wrong direc- ton as in the right.
 It is impossible. in the space of brief review, to do more than hint at theoutline of Mir Heard's thesis. His book is survey of world events in the goth century. through which he seeks 10 trace "a profound and suddenly accei- erated change in human con. seriousness"
 The book is . stimulating docu ment, Occasionally no becomes q bit foggy and vague. so that his argument is har dt0 follow, hut ho does offer an interesting nov slant on a confused and nervous world.
 Published by the oxford unIveF. slty Press. the book sells at 60.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29

"Apple-green west and an orange bar .. frost tonight - so clear and dead still". F.. It won't be long now until the sharply defined autumn sunsets take on the vivid colors peculiar to autumn, and when the frost comes, we will see a bril- liance on all sides; picture that New England is proud of, and picture that travellers from far and near like to view when the frost is on the pumpkin" in good old New England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
"Makers Of Wars"

A newspaper reader recently criticised an editorial touching too gently, he thought, on the scandalous methods used by munitions makers to sell their goods. The editorial writer, after noting some of the chief revelations in the United States Senate inquiry, proceeded to mention some of the current war activities of several foreign governments and the proud an- nouncement in America of new and more deadly gas. Then he suggested that there were other war makers and war causes than those dragged forth by the Senate committee.
 There are. The committee has been do- ing important and valuable work; but there are far bigger causes of war and armament than the profiteering methods of arms manufacturers. Selfish interests merely exploit the popular jingo spirit, in all countries, which perverts patriotism and thus plays into the hands of ambi- tious statesmen and political patrioteers controlling the war machinery.
 If there is ever to be an end of inter- national warfare, it will hardly come until people everywhere analyze their patriotic emotions, distinguish between genuine love of country and mere belligerency, see that foreigners are human beings like themselves, and learn to practice interna- tional good will instead of hatred and suspicion.
 Wars come from peoples minds. Ma tional psychology goes wrong. Twenty years ago almost the whole world went mad. When it is regarded as patriotic to promote peace instead of war, the armament racket will be starved out, and not till then. The citizen who damns sincere and intelligent pacifists is more of a war-maker than the bribe-paying arms manufacturer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
London Letter

London (UP)-In their brief lives, Princess Elizabeth, aged eight, and Princess Margaret Rose. aged four. daughters of the Duke and Duchess of York, have set at least three fashions which have been adopted by children in all parts of the world.
 First, the no-hat vogue which so startled mothers and nurses the first time Princess Elizabeth was seen driving through Hyde Park in her nurses arms with her yellow curls blowing free in the wind.
 It is only in bad weather, or on formal occasions, that the prin- cesses wear hats-but they always wear gloves.
 Sleeveless Frocks
 The second fashion is the wear- ing of sleeveless frocks in summer and winter, fashion that always has been preserved in the royal family. as a glance at early pho- tographs of them will show.
 Then there are the famous stream-lined coats. There is hard ly mother in Britain who is not anxious to know where the Ouch. ess of York has these coats made. They have been widely copied since Elizabeth first appeared in an absolutely plain. perfectly tail- ored coat, with it's back and front panels. slightly nared skirt.
 Fur Used
 Sometimes there is a scrap of fur or velvet at the neck and q row of buttons down the rfont One year the coats were scarlet, another season beech brown. then yellow. This year they are apple green.
 So famous have these coats be. come that foreign fashion jour- nals refer to n la Princess Teilza- both.'"' and livery Princess Eliza. beth"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Press Comment
LOCAL OPTION (NeW Britain Heraldl

The state liquor control law is most satisfactory in its workings concerning the right of towns to choose whether they wish to be dry or wet. Thus the spirit of liberty is retained in a field which can best be regulated by an actual express sion of the wishes of the people at the polls, as distinct from legis- lative fiat at the behest of minori- ties.
 Among the towns in Hartford county which will vote upon liquor sales on Monday wil be Newington: others will be Rocky Hill. South Windsor, Bloomfield, Granby and Marlborough.
 Newington is likely to go dry, or remain dry. Obviously what this means to persons in Newing- ton who are not dry in practice is easily comprehended. what with Hartford and New Britain so close. But Newington probably will con- tinue to oppose the sale of liquor within its borders and if that is to be the wish of the majority of resi- dents .it is distinctly their busl- ness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Daily Almanac

High tide at Milford Sunday. Sept 20, bi4O q. m.. daylight time; low tide. i2;ob ?. rn.. daylight time.
 All vehicles must bo lighted not later than 1909. daylight time, tonight.
 Sun risoH 6i4b n. m.. daylight time; sets si3D D. fa., daylight fhne.
 Moon rises iOs47 D. ni,, daylight eme.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29

Q-In what game did Lou Gehrig
 hit four home runs In succession? !? A--In a game at Philadelphia against the Philadelphia Athletics,
 June 8, 1892. The hotners came
 in the 1st, 4th, 5th and 7th in
 nings.
 Q--How far is it from New York
 to Syria? What is the difference
 in time?
 Alt is about 5o5O nautical
 miles. When 1t is noon east, in New YoriS city, it is p. m. in Syria.
 .Q--Is gotten as a form of got, good English? A--Gotten has been good Eng
 fish since 1340 and was used by Shakespeare, Gladstone and others. But in recent years it has fallen
 into disrepute and few of the mod
 ern masters of English use 1t. Q-What is the botanical name
 for the plant commonly called snapdragon? A--Antirluntim. Q-How many columns are there around the exterior of the lower portion of the dome of the United States capitol, and how many around the lantern at the top of the dome? Does the number of columns have any special signifi- canoe?
 A-There are 36 columns around the lower portion, representing the 36 states of the union at the time they were erected. There are IS columns around the lantern, em- blematicsof the 13 original states.
 C--What is the student enroll ment at the University of London, England, and how many instruc- tors are there? Student body, approximately 12,327; and 1243 instructors. Q-From what countries does the worlds supply of aluminium come?
 A-The United States produces about 40 per cent, Canada about 10 per cent, and the remaining 50 per cent is produced in Europe,
 chiefly in GMermany, Norway, Swift zerland and France. New York, Tennessee and North Carolina are | the chief aluminum-p producing states in the United States. 0. What relation is my wife's
 brother to me? A. Brother-in-law. Q-Where is the Mary Baldwin Junior college? A-Staunton, Va. Q-What building was torn down | for the erection of the Empire State building in New York? A-The old Waldorf Astoria ho- tel.
 Q-What is the best way to clean a stuffed animal? A-Eirst rive if a good brushing