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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-05
By ELIOT OAKS

Hurrying for the elevators Nancy was caught in the swirl oi eager women that pushed toward the French rooms. Nancy well knew what was going on over there
 in the ready-to-wear department, but she had stopped attending fashion shows two years ago, a year after the bank had closed, leaving Harvey jobless and swal- lowing the family fortunes as well. Time was when Nancy had strug- gled with the others for the best seat, to stare breathless over neg ligees and evening gowns. But to- day-well, why go to Q review of day-after-tomorro frippe e s when one had to skimp two weeks household allowance to buy plaid to freshen up the frocks of year before last!
 The elevators disgorged load of flying arms and smiling faces, the crush grew thicker and in the end Nancy found herself on the fringe of craning mob just as a sleek page girl trod the runway to an- nounce hostess gowns"
 Nancy didn't care one way or the other about hostess gowns. They were gorgeous, of course, but she wondered if any one ever wore trailing petunia- -colored velvet around the house of an evening. She couldn't exactly see herself serving beer and pretzels to her Tuesday evening two tables of bridge garbed in silver cloth and scarlet. Hostess gowns were some- thing remote. like the wardrobe of a movie actress.
 Beautiful" breathed the fat woman next to Nancy. "It's dirt cheap, too, only seventy -nine-fifty. 1 priced it."
 Seventy nine fifty stood for ex- actly one months rent, the gas, water, light, telephone and laundry bills and the children's lunch money for four weeks. It came to Nancy that you could give her any number and shed tell you what the dollars and cents would repre- sent in terms of her own household necessities. Fine for the budgeteer, perhaps, but not so good for the disposition.
 The page girl announced, Spec tator sportswear." Nancy shifted her bundles and decided grimly that she might as well stay and see what she'd be wearing if she and Harvey still belonged to the coun- try club. The packages only con- tained one Sunday shirt for Buddy, school handkerchiefs for Frances and socks for the baby. but they became inordinately heavy as Man. cy fulfilled guiltily to trim skirts, dashing sweaters. gay, bequilled hats and remembered that people used to say Nancy Connor wears the best looking sport clothes in the whole club"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-05
SHORT STORY STYLE SHOW Time Was When Nancy Would Have Been Finger ing Checkbook Instead of Merely Longing

1t had been e good thing, Nancy reflected, that penchant of hers for tweeds and wOolly things. She'd been able to make over lots of her things for Frances, and had man. aged to keep comfortably warzn. even during last winters sev cold when Harvey had nursed |n6. furnace along on a minifnuna ok coal.
 This year Frances had grown SO shed have to have something neeR. and Nancy could manage somehow with the same old froclxs. But she did yearn a little toward a russet and brown wool dress, or that dull green BWag1er coat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-05
DOCTOR CARRIES SIX
 WY TfvIJLG

Newport, Ark (UP)-When any one asks Dr W. D. Hinson, the time they may reasonably expect to get an answer. He carries six watch es-four of the pocket variety, ard two wrist watches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-05
WHOMd FIR5To| I IN AMERICA ' By Joseph Nathan Kane
 Author of Famous First Facts"

Where was the first dental college organized?
 When was the Congressional Library opened?
 Who were the first conscien. tious objectors?
 Answers in next issue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-05
Answers to Previous Questions

Answers to Previous Questions NTISS EMMA M. MUTT was 4sA hired by Edwin Thomas Holmes for the Telephone Des- patch Company of Boston. The Hurley Machine Company of Chi. cago put out the first complete. self.contained electric washer. Alva J. Fisher. its inventor. re. ceived patent on 1t Aug. 9. 1910. Professor Thomson was di. rector of the General Electric plant a. i'ittsfield. Mass
The times-news., 1935-11-12
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
NOTES ON FOOTBALL

| 1,:4,or+ of the intercollegiate scramble 1or
s.othon oIo.v is made by two Florida college presl-
| ,. Ioro,ad over what attends game that mas
| ;food IFS sport largely to commerclalzatioi''
I.Lou will survive the doube-barrelled assault
49,. - = has in past years, but it indicates reel
-. an the mart of thoughtful and concerned peo-
10 +bo+ nust eventually restore the game to sport
-. see il succumb in the manner college paSe-
bou has done in the face of commercalized promo
tion. .
DR. John J. Tigert president of the University
Of Florida and head of the Southeastern confer
ence. made the statement that he knows where anu
how TO get Rose Bowl team "but our boys Will
not associate with some of them Continuing, he
is quoted as having said:
when you come to the time and belief thai
football has nothing to do with the development of
character and education, then will recruit Rose
Bowl team for you outside Florida.
"It will have many foreigners on it-our boys
will not associate with some of them know where
and how to get such team"
The last statement should send lot of those
with roseate hopes to DR.. Tger for details and ad-
drossos of his prescription for Rose Bowl contest
avis MANY, seem to have that as the aim and end
of football.
Rnt il IS Dr. Ludd NJ Spivey, president Of South
ern college. which dropped varsity football as ar
intercollegiate sport last season, who brings fur
ther and in some ways more serious indictment OF
college football in the modern conception and
scbare Of things Dr. Spivey termed the game an
charlottesville financial burden" upon small schools
For If he finds intramura sports good antdota
bringing a new spirit onto his campus. Every STU
dent is given chance to compete in sports, con-
dtion hardly present where athletes are proselyt'd
in a subsidized program. Seasons are not the bur
den they formerly upon the academic pre-
cram, and each big game is not disorganizlns
factor in student life for several days before and
after.
Football can be a great builder of manhood,
character and sef-reliance. AS such it has deli
mite and worthwhile value on any campus But 70
its commercial promotion has been too much sacr-
feed that which made it sport, the feeling eX-
pressed by the Florida educators is natural de-
velopment and something to which football must
give attention lest it continue suicidal course IN
sofar as its nominal relationship with higher edu-
cation is concerned.-High Point Enterprise
The times-news., 1935-11-12
ABOVE PARTY LINES

It is unfortunate that newspapers opposed to the
theories of the New Deal are berated as reaction
aries diehards and Tories. Yet to many an indc-
pendent publisher the issue tranScends party lines
The issue is clearly as the Detroit Free Press eX-
planned in a full page editorial this week
The rights of the individual American citizen
against the tyrany of bureaucracy
The battle is for American independence against
Communism and Fascism.
Emphasizing the fact that it is neither pro-Re-
publican nor anti-Democratic, The Free Press re-
calls the Democratic platform of 1882 and consid-
ers it one of the finest presented the voters
by major political party.
What happened to this platform?
Roosevelt, explains The Free Press, gave his
word of honor at Chicago that he would carry It
out 100 per cent. He did; he carried it out to the
alley and dropped it into the ash can.
AS President he has gathered around him nebu-
lous collection of half-baked theorists some CON-
munistic, some Fascist, in their Ieanings. He has
imported to this country warning ideas from the
conflicting schools of thought that dominate die
tator-ridden Europe.
Therefore The Free Press opposes the New Deal,
as it is falsely called. 1t is NOT new deal at all
but an Old Deal that goes back to the tyrants of
Asia, government by despotism, with bureaucratS
telling the people what they shall do, how they
shall eat, what they shall wear, when they shall
work and how much they shall receive
The Free Press stands for American individual,
ism, American courage, American initiative Amer.
lean thrift and American industry
And we pray to God that it will carry on through
the generations to come against the forces thai
would Stalinize, Htlerze or Mussolini-ize our peo
ple-that this historic institution of journalism
will never deviate in its war to safeguard our Dem
ocratic-Republican heritage of government, of an;
by and for the people-Newsdom
The times-news., 1935-11-12
GORRIE BRIDGE Is
OPENED In FLORIDA

APALACHICOLA, Fla, Nov.
i12. (UP).-Speaking to large
crowd, including approximately
5000 visitors to this section, Coz.
Dave Sholtz yesterday officially
opened Golrie bridge, crossing the
Apalachicola river.
The bridge, six and one-half
miles long, is named for John Cor
rie. Apalachicola's most famous
citizen of any generation, who in
1880 announced here he had been
successful in making the first
piece of artificial ice. The total
cost of the span was 81 100000.
Opening the celebration at 1G
a. m. with three-gun salute, r.
Don Mcleod, member Of the legis
lature from Franklin county, who
served as master of ceremonies
introduced speakers including Gov.
Sholtz, U. S. Congressman Millard
Caldwell of the Third Florida dis
trict; r. G. Patterson of Pensa-
cola, president of the Northwest
Florida Association, and C. 3.
Treadway, chairman of the state
road department.
The times-news., 1935-11-12
A COUNTY CORN KING

Farmer H. B. McMakin again is in the spotlight
because of his wonderful success in the growing of
corn. For number of years he has specialized N
corn cultivation and his efforts have attracted wide
attention. This year Mr.. McMakin has field of
corn that has produced 10 bushels to the acre and
farmers from other counties and other states have
gone his place to his crop and learn his meth
ods of fertilization and cultivation.
1t is quite probable that Mr. MeMakin has Sc
lected his best land for the production of this crop
II may be land that he has built up to its present
state of fertility by patient effort. Be that as it
NAV, he has produced more than FIVE times much
as the average production per acre in Spartanburg
county, fact that should encourage others. There
are large profits in corn at 100 bushels to the acre
when used by the farm family as food, and fed to
cattle, hogs, poultry. and work animals Spartan
burg Herald. E
The times-news., 1935-11-12
z ASHEVILLE WOMEN
ARE KILLED In MOTOR
ACCIDENT in GEORGIA

ASHEVILLE, Nov. 12.-Death
ended a vacation trip to Florida
for two Asheville women early
yesterday morning when the car
in which they were travelling car
omed from the highway near Au-
gusta, Ga, and crashed into a fill
| ing station.
The dead are:
/ Mrs. Shelly L. Moore, Sc, Of 1874
Carroll avenue, wife of the pro-
prietor of the Moore Taxi CON-
pany.
Mrs. Eshtelle Hendry Smith, 81,
of 25 Starnes avenue, widow of i.
/ Frank Smith. World war veteran.
who died May q, 1882, at the L.
: S. Veterans hospital. at Oteen.
Injured in the accident was Miss
I Lillian Moore, daughter of Mrs.
Moore, who received a broken
ankle. Miss Vivian Smith. Is,
daughter of Mrs. Smith, was un-
hurt.
The party of four left Asheville
at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon foT
Grcenville, Fla, to spend & vaca-
ton with relatives Of Mrs. Smith.
The body of Mrs. Moore arrived
here last evening. Funeral ar
rangements are incomplete but
services probably will be held here
at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
with interment that afternoon at
Easley, s. c. Mrs. Smiths body
was sent to Creenville. Fla. for
services at time vet to be fixed.
She will be buried at Waycross,
Ga.
The times-news., 1935-11-12
WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY!
By WiCKES WAMBOLDT

would have been delirious with
joy had you been interested in
human uplift; for you would have
thought-and thought rightly
that with such an enormous force,
joined together and committed to
work together for the establish
ment and the advancement of the
noble principles on which all our
chulch are founded, graft.
greed, crime, and the whole brood
of human sins, would have disap-
peared or have become subordi-
mated to higher standards Of con-
duct. Yet, what do we see. when
we look about us and peer deep
into the affairs of men? You
know what we see.
The church has become too per-
functorv in its operations. Per-
sons join churches as they would
clubs, for business, social and pro-
fessional effects-it is the thing =
do: and all that is necessary is t.
join. Spiritual work and spiritual
behavior are not requirements.
Sometimes 7 think the church is
over-organized, and has too many
paid workers. Organization is
good. Paid workers are valuable.
But too much Of the one and too
many of the other make for n
mechanism with a mechanical eff
feet. The tendency is always to
pass the buck to the paid workers
if they will accept it, and they are
apt to hesitate to refuse to accept
it.
Some churches hire pastors and
expect the pastors to do the work,
to get in the souls and save them,
and to build up the congregations.
And not to preach anything that
will disturb SNUG thinkers, or
make the leaders of those churches
uncomfortable about their daily
behavior.
The church is used as a badge
of responsibility in instances that
The times-news., 1935-11-12

ken an Interest III tuS SHuiNh 40
an institution. What the church
has accomplished has greatly I'M
pressed me: but what it has failed
to accomplish, that it could have
accomplished, and still could ac-
complish, impresses me more.
Had you been on earth nineteen
hundred years ago, when the
Christian church was beginning to
get a toe-hold, and had you been
told then that by nineteen-thirty-
five, there would be such and such
a number Of church edifces, with
such and such a number of men,
bers, so many national, state ard
county church associations, with
so many domestic missionary or
ganizations in the United States,
you would have thrown up your
hat-or whatever headgear you
were wearing-and you would
have shouted "Hallelujahw You
The times-news., 1935-11-12

remind one of Al Capone and his
associates. There are cases where
great churches are controlled by
slicksters.
But what would this nation be
without it's churches? Weak as IS
the work of the rank and file, in
different as is the attitude Of the
average member, our churches are
a tremendous force for good.
What would be the glorious
achievements Of the church if
every pastor could induce his con-
gregation to become earnestly
spiritually active?
The times-news., 1935-11-12
T II E N wv . c Al
IN WASHING GTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

ms bee.line for the celebrated
mansion to look il over
Hired guides would bring 40 o.?
50 folks at time to show them
through And as there are no COZ.
ridors and you start stumbling into
desks almost as soon as you're in
the door, that couldn't be allowed
Just the same, there's plenty 0.
Official sensitiveness about the
place. Especially since it leaked
out that it would cost S25, 600 a
year, though the owners were once
willing to take $4,000, the amoun'
of the taxes
NR TUGWELL'S Resettlemenl
~ Administration has also taken
over a mansion. which Harry Hop
kinS insists is even gaudier thar
his WPA mansion. But RA got
fairly good bargain per square foot
Of floor space, even if it didn't dt
as well as the Rural ElectriticatiOr
Administrator with its mansion or
Massachusetts avenue, where room!
were small enough to fit into eff
cient office use.
incidentally, at REA, it's hare
to decide whether you prefer the
sun porch which Publicity Director
NJ l.. Ramsay has for his Office OF
the large room of Administrator
Morris Cooke, which has a lovely
mess Of honeysuckle, hummine
birds. bluebirds, and cardinals
right up against the French doors
and the French windows.
Perhaps the silliest thing about
RIA and perhaps it isn't silly al
all-is the station-wagons which gt
buzzins around town with Reset
tlement Administration" painted
on their sides.
RIA was the first New Dea
agency to get such vehicles here
not because it is going in for sub
urban housing projects, but be
cause it has lot of documents &c
distribute and many people to haul
around to conferences.
.fconyriRlit, 1895. NGA Service. Incl
The times-news., 1935-11-12

Recently l listened with inter-
est to a minister warning his con-
gregation of the evils that can
arise and do arise when the church
passes the buck to its pastor. This
minister spoke obviously of the
practice of depending on what he
termed professional sour savers"
to build up church membership
The times-news., 1935-11-12
BY RODNEY DUTLHEli

BY RODNEY DUILHEk
NEA Service STAN Correspondent
VTASHINGTON.-The Staunchest
w defender of the New Deal could
hardly profess that 1t doesn't have
is silly phases.
You wouldn't know where TO be.
gin or end ii You started IN Hst
those phases in detail. But most
Of the local folk would begin with
the celebrated old Mclean man.
sion. scene Of the widest and
gaudiest parties Of official and un.
official society here during Harding.
Coolidge-Hoover days.
The Works Progress Administra.
lion has taken over that huge nile
as Headquarters for handling its
projects for employment of unem.
pioyed writer's, artists, and musi.
clans. " '''''''
incidentally YOU aren't supposed
u call 1t the Mclean mansion
any more Orders have come down
TO the WPA boys and girls to refer
10 II as 1900 ! Street" which is
the address, with admonition that
.ne . less publicity given to the Ma.
'uIe OF the place, the better.
:, Mnal most Of the employees call
II, when not in the presence of su.
pellofS-and they're not very Sc.
rlous about it, either-is the pal.
ace OF Culture"
WA is distinctly selr-conscious
about those quarters. A puard
STANDS at the door to see that no
hon'employe gets in without an an.
continent. Even newspapermen
are told that they must get written
permission from an official MANY
DOCKS away if they want to go in.
sue and see anyone.
;Newspapermen compla,pins
anout this, absurdity are told that
its only the blmder of minor Of.
hcial and that the order will be
eountermanded. It seems that evarv
tourist sightseer, and unoccnniaI
m'idle,aged lady in town @gis max.
The times-news., 1935-11-12
MAYOR HEARS THREE
CITY COURT CASES

Three cases were heard In the
city court this morning before
Mayor A. V. Edwards.
Silas Wright was charged $6.70
in costs on charge of being
drunk and disorderly. =
Mckinley Johnson was charged
S6.70 in costs for being drunk.
Meridy Hyder was given 60 days
for being drunk; 80 on the charge
this morning and 80 on previous
suspension.
The times-news., 1935-11-12
IUsITANIA, SAD SYMBOL OF HUMAN
FUTHITY
FUTILlTI 7
(Bv BRUCE CATTON)


They have found the submerged hulk OF
the Lusitania, at last, deep in the water OIL
Kinsale Head, and divers have gone TO the
bottom and brought back rusty rlvet-neao'
for proof; and the whole triumphant en-
ploit makes up one of the saddest commen-
taries IMAGINABLE on the state of human al
fairs today.
Consider the implications of this whole
story of the Lusitania.
There was. first of all, the ship itself;
marvellous triumph of human intelligence
of human mastery of raw iron and brute
force, a floating city, more comfortable
and luxurious than any palace that Caesar
or Pharoah ever saw, capable of bridging
the Atlantic in less than week.
The mere fact that mankind had reached
a point where it could conceive, design
and build such ship spoke volumes about
the development of human intelligence.
Next, there was the Lusitania'S sinking.
A submarine lay in wait in the waters,
unseen by IFS victim, and man peered
through an arrangement Of mirrors to draw
a bead on ship which, in actual. fact, he
could not really see at aU-for he was ~
feet under water at the time.
A torpedo was released, it sped through
the water some hundreds of yards as ac-
curately as though Death himself perched
on it's nose as a helmsman, and the Lusi-
tania went to the bottom.
There, again, was another marvel of our
skill; for a submarine and its torpedo are,
between them, supreme evidence of the
fendish cleverneSs with which we can ma
nipulate inanimate materials.
And, lastly, salvage boat has found the
wreck, men hav egone down some scores
of fathoms to look at it, and in the course
of time every compartment will be exam
ined, valuables will be recovered, and
Davy Jones locker itself VIII be thorough
ly and competently rifled.
And now think of this: We, the human
race as whole, had the brains, the imagi-
nation, and the power to do all these re-
markable things; to design and build a
marvel lik ethe Lusitania, to strike het
genious, and to come ack two decades
later and explore the sunken wreckage-
but we have not at any time had the sim
pie good sense and good will to use all this
ingenuity and skill to our own advantage
Able to build ships like the Lusitania, we
are unable to protect them from our owr
destructiveness. We can make them, but
we can't use them.
We devoted quite as much thought ant
effort to the submarine and it's torpedo as
to the Lusitania itself. We learned how tc
equip ourselves for good life, and ther
wrecked our equipment; and today the
best thing We can do is send divers to the
bottom TO have peek at the wreckage
This Lusitania story will tell future his
torians all they need to know about us
that we won mastery over everything bu
ourselves.
The times-news., 1935-11-12

anu 70 dSSuIIS
responsibility for
the spiritual life
of the church
and its members.
He intimated that
there could be
conditions under
w h i C h churches
would be better
off without pas
tors. w..
AS the son Of
a minister and as
the grandson of
one, | have nat
urally always ta-
The times-news., 1935-11-12

Russians aren't so dumb When they learn thai
hateful capitalistic plan is the only one that vii
work. it becomes good soviet plan
The times-news., 1935-11-12

Uncle Sam would make good league member
In that Manchurian episode, ne proved his ability
70 talk big and do nothing. ,. .-.
The times-news., 1935-11-12

The President said he knew it was a
quake that had aroused him, since his
house moved sideways slightly. Still, it
might have been his son driving in.
The times-news., 1935-11-12

count it as one of the privileges Oh my ..- s.
calling to see almost every week OF my me I. -
Jesus Christ can transfgure sorrow. NE .sn'.S ~
and changes it from being a minister oI
tion. into a fruitful minister OF spiritual "e"it.
Jesus. the one Dehverer and TRANSFORMER u l'N
man need and woe!-Dr. J. H. Jowett'
The times-news., 1935-11-12

When1the Italian meatless days apply to
the army in Ethiopia, Selassie's troops
might build giant cow and try out the
old Troy strategy. a-
The times-news., 1935-11-12

With anti-Great Britain sentiment so
strong in Rome, billiard players there must
now be referring to it as putting reverse
Italian on the ball.
The times-news., 1935-11-12

It's no use, Mr.. Hoover. They
never forgive man who happens
to be on the job. when the ttddlerSs
bill arrives. ep ,.gs. i.,u.q e..
The times-news., 1935-11-12

There are people who never volunteer advice or
medicine till they see young matron with her 6,st
81 baby. 60" s-..t .+.' ,-.f...
The Washington times., 1935-11-18

Leather, silver and jewelry gifts
will be initiated at no additional
cost. Monogram or special de-
signs are engraved in this type
of merchandise and on other
articles of appropriate character,
at slight additional charge.
On the Fourth Floor is the Rest
and Retiring Room. On applica-
tion to the attendant here,
writing supplies will be fur
nished.
The Washington times., 1935-11-18
Are You Sending Gifts Abroad

the dates departure from New York; Of vessels
the last packages that be delivered the
n countries before Be to allow one week for
sent New York examples November 25h II
departure Argentina pack
ages being Washington should be in the mail by
NOveu
The Washington times., 1935-11-18

Parcels and wraps may be checked
(at no charge) at the checking coun-
ter adjoining the First Floor Service
Desk.
The G Street branch of the United
States Post Office is located on the
First Floor, beneath our G Street
balcony.
The Washington times., 1935-11-18

The eight flights of electric stairs
drumming from the Down Stairs Store
to the Fourth Floor) can transport
5000 persons an hour to the Down
Stairs Store, First, Second, Third and
Fourth Floors.