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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-10
By NORRIS GILBERT

NEA Service STAFF Correspondent
Paris, Aug. Torrance is giving
the United States lesson what to
do about boost in taxes. "Yell,
but take it," seems to be the way
it works.
Special classes in weeping the
biggest tears, uttering the loudest
howls, and beating the breast in
unison are being held throughout
the land as the Grand Penitence"
commences. The effect is remark
able and floods and earthquakes.
noted here recently, have been
traced directly to the national
cuts and slashes instituted the
other day by Premier Laval.
The Grand Penitence" is the
way Premier Laval decided to save
the Franc. He had to do this alone,
by executive order, since the cham
Der of deputies seemed unwilling to
face the job. The purpose was to
balance the budget by slashing al
most 70 million dollars in govern
ment expenditure. At the same time
Laval put pressure on private in
tereStS, such as landlords, NUM-
tons makers, ordinary income-tax
payers, farming interests, banking
and business.
Prediction Comes True
Laval predicted a few weeks
ago, that he would soon be the
most unpopular Frenchman living.
file was right. Everybody in
France, from the butcher-boy to
the millionaire, is sour. Every
Frenchman, however, has one con-
ISOLATION. His neighbor is hurt, too.
Some people feel the grievance that
the rich man isn't taxed as heav-
lily, in proportion to wealth, as the
poor man. But nobody is left off.
Starting in, Laval reduced direct
government expenditure by cutting
every possible cost ten per cent
Pensions of war veterans--all but
the totally disabled-went first.
Then came 10 per cent off salaries
of "functionairs," government en-
ployes. Then, to make everybody
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-10
YELL, BUT TAKE IT. is FRENCH
REACTION TO LAVAL PROGRAM


has been state controlled In
France. And, to make the farmers
less unhappy, he tried to balance
that loss to them by cutting the
legal price of chemical fertilizer
To keep down the bowls that
were breaking out in socialist di-
rections, Laval slapped q great
big tax Of % per cent on all prof
its on munitions bought by the
state from Frances magnificent
armament ring.
He soaked all incomes over So
900 with so per cent increase in
tax land he eased upon the slashes
on the little-salaried state employ
es by letting them off with 5 or
even per cent cuts as opposed to
the average 10.
Proof of Scheme In October
Americans will have to wait UNI
til next October to know how sue
cessful the system of boosting
taxes and cutting wages, as insti-
tuted by Laval, really is. For
that is the date the chamber Of
deputies comes back to work
Then Laval's DEGREES must be rat
flied.
Meanwhile, there's no doubt
about Laval's unpopularity. The
low-paid gendarme in a little
French village is grumbling that
at his wages, even 3 per cent puts
him and his children under the
famine line. The farmer in the big
wheat fields around LIE Mans takes
his hand off the motor tractor long
enough to say that the millers and
the wheat combine are passing
along the bread-cut to him. The So
cialist infiationists accuse Laval Of
being hand-in-glove with the mum
itioneers and bankers to Cypress
the poor.
But most of France takes the
agony, after a few preliminary
howls and tears, the way a dem
lists patient takes the pain Of a
newly wrenched tooth. The swell
ing may go down some day, he
thinks. Maybe the wound will heal.
And IL it does, he rather ruefully
supposes he'll be all the better off.
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UNCLE SAM, John Bull and La Belle France
-. they all are boarding the same vehicle
the tax lift-to carry them to upper economic
levels.
Deals Notwithstanding tax bill, it is interesting
(and importantly to know how other major
nations are solving their own vexatious prob
lens of taxation.
IN the two accompanying articles, noted for
eign staff correspondents for the Waterbury
Democrat and NEA Service show how Great
Britain and France are solving, in part, their
domestic needs for greater, revenue.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-10
Lonergan Requests
Constitutional Aid
State Senator Asks Research Units to Furnish Mate
rial for Ideas on Which Legislation May Be Based

Washington. d. C.-The Brook
ings Institution and other research
organizations have been asked by
Senator Lonergan CD Connecticut
to furnish material and suggestions
on which he can base legislation to
provide for a constitutional court
to give preliminary opinions on the
constitutionality of laws proposed
by Congress.
The information, the Senator
said, will supplement material
which he has already assembled
in an effort to find a way to OBJ
tain accurate guidance for Congress
on constitutional questions. At
present, he said, the Constitution
provides for a division of judicial
powers from the executive and leg
isiative and that only cases and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-10
The Air Force Leader

due to deliberate purpose, as
Mussolini understands that a
people such as the French or the
Italians like certain amount of
display and pomp. They like
their dictators to look the part.
He understands the value of
advertisement. Therefore, he is
the friend of the newspaper pho
tographers. A statesman must
look earnest. Therefore, he has
tabooed pictures showing him In
the act of eating. as undignified.
But pictures of him surrounded
by troops or Fascist militia or
children or peasant farmers -
these he likes.
AS an orator he is swayer of
crowds who can be compared
justly only with William Jennings
Bryan in America and Adolf Hit
Ter in Germany. He understands
all the arts of public speaking
and all the articles which move
the multitude.
But in him there is difference.
Byran probably loved this crowds.
Hitler enjoys their acclaim. There
are signs that Mussolini despises
the very masses he moves.
TENDER AND MERCILESS
He can be tender, as witness
his delight in his own little chill
dren and his deep and abiding
love for the tots of the murdered
Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria.
But he can also be hard as nails.
The arid Lipari islands, Italy's
place of exile in the Adriatic,
bear witness to this.
Popular as he is with millions
of his countrymen and feared as
he is by others, the Italians can
not refrain from 'lazzi"-as they
call funny stories. Typical as
any was the one that dealt with
his unexpected arrival in a small
provincial italian town.
Tired out from his journey.
Mussolini decided to go to a
movie. In the darkness he sat
down unrecognized by anybody.
A picture of himself was flashed
on the screen.
Everyone else rose; the tired
Mussolini sat stolidly. The keen
eye of the manager espied him.
Coming over. he tapped the Duce
on the shoulder and said:
"siEnor. you must rise"
Then. in his ear. In q confiden-
tiai whisper:
"You know hereabouts we all
think like you, but rise all the
same"
Mussollnl was never ashamed
Of his origin nor Of the manual
work Ne had performed. Instead
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young to be taken into his conf
dence.
His best friend and counsellor,
his younger brother, Arnaldo,
who succeeded him in the editors
ship of "Popolo dItala," died in
191. Mussolini wrote in Arnal-
dos biography that from this
death he suffered and would con-
tinue to suffer.
Intellectually, Mussolini is the
most gifted of modern dictators.
Fairly well educated in the
schools. he has taught himself all
his life.
Where Hitler can speak only
German, where Renal Pasha
speaks only Turkish and a smat-
tering of German and French,
where Stain understands only
Russian and Georgian. Mussolini
is accomplished in both French
and German.
MARRIED TO HIS JOB
After he became master of
Italy, he learned English, because
it is a language of facts, a Ian
guage of verbs and nouns with
out the florid adjectives of other
tongues. His reading is far more
vast and electric than that of the
other dictators here named. In
his early manhood he wrote
poems, novels, and dramas. some
of the latter having been acted
in Italy and many European cap
itals.
When he became dictator. he
wed himself to his job. For a
long time he kept his family in
a flat in Milan. He said he would
allow nothing to distract him
from his labors.
Later, he established a simple
home near Rome and q farm In
his native Romagna, where he
works In his own wheat fields.
For outdoor exercise he in
dulges in horseback riding. fenc-
ing, and driving a car at high
speed. He once said that all he
got out of his Job was a fine
horse. When he wants to relax
he listens to music, plays his own
violin, or looks at films. He
cares nothing for society or the
Establishments OF great men and
pretty women.
At one time there was a meas
ure Of gossip that small body
OF persons influenced his moves
50 ooebbeis. ooering and Rosen-
berg do Hltler'n.. Mussoiinl dubbed
this as just plainiy idiotIc, do
elNfin3 ala deqleinaa are made
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The Sportsman

only by himself, sometimes in the
solitary watches of the night in
his library.
ACCUSED OF JEALOUSLY
Frequency with which he
changed his closest co-workers
has been attributed to jealousy
of any other man securing a
Smeasure of popular acclaim.
Two of his closest co-workers in
the early days of Fascism were
Italo Balbo and Dino Grandi. He
made Balbo air marshal of Italy.
When Balbo returned from his
popular mass flight of air ma
chimes to America and back.
Mussolini and the crowd gave
him a regular Roman triumph;
then he was packed off to serve
as encouragement in Italy's
North African colonies. People
said Mussolini was afraid of Bal
hos acclaim from the crowds.
II Duce made Dino Grandi for
eign minister. After some years.
Grandi, who had been the nomi-
nal boss of all Italy's ambassa-
doris, was sent to London as a
mare ambassador to the Court of
t. James's. Again people said
Mussolini was jealous of his
handsome, stalwart young lieu
tenant.
RATIONALIZES HIS WORK
Without warning, Mussolini
four or five times suddenly has
dismissed his entire cabinet and
put in new men. This has been
given as more evidence of the
same thing. But the Fascists,
who understand him best, said It
was q mere changing of the
guard, a matter of discipline.
Explaining how he is able to
stand his terrible burden of
work. Mussolini said:
ITO achieve this. have given
my human motor a regular re-
gime. In other words. have
rationalized my daily task.
have cut to minimum all waste
of time and energy. allow no
long, wordy reports or interviews.
Be brief. factuai, those are my
orders. l never leave any work
unfinished. Each day must stand
on its own bottom. The desk
must be cleared"
THEATRICAL EFFECT
MussOllni has often been ac-
oused OF being vain and Of loving
the theatrical. II h, perhap,
partly true 4 u also, perhaps
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happy in misery, he knocked ten
per cent off the interest paid on
government bonds.
Local government expenditure,
as opposed to national, took a
beating to the tune of 100 million
dollars. The sinking fund got a
minor knicking, and the state
owned French railroads must chug
along with less state money to the
amount of 200 millions.
Evening Things Up
Just to make all square, Laval
commanded reduction of ten
per cent in rents. To make it up
to the landlords, who are as sac
red in France as anywhere else,
he also decreed a slash in mort
gage interest. Next, he cut the
price of bread, which for years
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IL DUCE is A "SOLITARY" WHO KEEPS HIS REAL
THOUGHTS TO HIMSELF, STUNNING COMPLAINTS

to the grave with him, unless he
leaves behind him state papers,
diaries, and perhaps new au-
photography in which he unpacks
his heart.
He is solitary who keeps his
real thoughts to himself. His
wife built his home for him, but
to her he unburdens none of his
troubles. His children are too
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-10
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Stan Corresponds

NEA Service STAFF Correspondent
What sort Of man is the real
Benito Mussolini?
Despite the fact that many
books have been written about
him and miles of newspaper and
magazine articles, nobody really
knows. He may take his secret
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f .
the hands of the dead testators to
the heirs. The 'soak-the rich" cry,
now being heard in the United
States as result of President
Roosevelt's taxation proposals, was
heard then throughout Britain. But
Sir William pressed ahead with his
bill and 1t became law.
And here is the piquant fact:
This measure, designed merely to
be a temparory one, has become a
permanent feature of Britain's tax
alton history. Many Of the men
who criticized it, when they were
in opposition, themselves proposed
1t when they came into the gvoern-
meht. Every cabinet since then has
retained the principle and, in fact,
has gone on increasing the tax. in
fact. for some years it has pro-
duced about ten percent of the
budget.
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crossroads of his dazzling life
story. He must willy-nilly win
a big stake for his country. TO
do anything less would be tre-
mendous letdown.
THE END.
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Mussolini as Fascist Leader

This is the last of a series of
six stories by Milton Bronner,
telling of the intensely inter-
esting life of Benito Mussoli.
nj, prcmier-dictatOr of Italy.
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EFFECT

Muss0lIni has often been ac-
cused OF being vain and Of loving
the theatrical. II h, perhaps
partly true Il q also. perhaps,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-08
Alumnae Bridge
Event Played
at Price Home

Mrs. Glen Price, 1856 Wynnedale-
I'd, entertained members of the In
dianapoliS Alumnae Chapter of
Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority at an
annual bridge tournament today at
her home.
The hostess was assisted by Mes
danes Theodore Marbaugh, E. M.
Singer, Lester Smith, Frank Cox,
Richard Mills and j. Douglas Perry.
Mrs. Herman Phillips, tourna-
ment chairman, was assisted by
Mrs. James Obear and Mrs. Lester
Nicewander. Miss Marie Sullivan,
president, was in charge of buSi-
ness meeting when the national con-
Vention to be held July to 8 at
Lake Forest, Ill, was discussed.
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Forming of New
Groups Will Be
Leagues Topic

Organization Of new voters leagues
throughout the state will be dis
cussed at an executive board meet
ing of the Indiana League of Wom-
en- Voters scheduled for Thursday
morning at the Propylaeum. The
latest group to be organized is the
Richmond League, formed in May
with Mrs. Quincy Mann. president.
In a report submitted to state
headquarters, Mrs. G. T. BOyntOn,
Elkhart, state chairman Of the de-
partment of government and child
welfare of the league, rated Indiana
high in comparison with other
states in school attendance laws.
Statistics for her statement were
taken from a pamphlet on the
school attendance law in the United
States written by Edith Putnam
Mangold and published by the Ma
tional League Of Women Voters.
THE members of the Indiana
League may well be proud of the
fine work they have done in the
Legislature in initiating, preserving
and strengthening this law when
they see how frequently the Indiana
law is cited as an example OF good
legislation in the Mangold report, p"
Mrs. Boynton writes.
She named it a violation of the
principle of attendance service to
make the attendance officers polit-
ical appointees or superannuated
teachers. "They should have definite
qualifications for their work and
their appointment should depend
unon such qualifications"
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are fine mathematicianS and while
they seldom get an opportunity to
play in the big tournaments, be-
cause of the fact that they have
to conduct them, they usually can
explain the theory of play better
than some of the experts.
When Mr.. Mailman first took up
his various duties, I asked him to
look out for something new in
bridge, so he prepared the first
complete series of articles on this
unusually interesting play.
IN his first article it looks as if
i it is almost impossible for the
declarer to keep from losing heart
trick But let Mr.. Mailman show
how the play is executed.
West cashes the king and ace of
spades and leads the third round,
which South ruffs. The queen of
hearts is played. West refuses to
cover. This is followed with the
jack and again West refuses to
cover.
Declarer takes three rounds of
clubs. Then he cashes the ace and
king of diamonds and follows with
a small diamond, which throws East
into the lead.
East has a club and a spade.
South holds the 1919 Of hearts, West
the king-eight of hearts and dummy
the ace of hearts and deuce of
diamonds
East leads one of the black cards,
South ruifs with the nine of hearts
and now comes the smother play"
If West under ruffS. South's nine
spot will hold the trick. But if West
plays the king, the trick will be
won in dummy with the ace and
a diamond returned, which South
will win with the ten of hearts.
In other words, this odd end play
smothers West out of a heart trick.
Copyright. 1885. BY NEA Service Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-08
Home
to Be Occupied
by NewlywedS

After Monday. Rev. and Mrs.
Junior P. Miller viii be at home at
Somerset where Mr.. Miller is pastor
OF the Christian Church.
The marriage Of Miss Elaine VIII
son. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs Bert
Wilson and Mr.. Miller, son OF the
Rev. and Mrs. V. Hayes Miller. e.
wood. took place last night at the
University Park Christian Church,
the father OF the bridegroom off,
eating. A reception followed at
the Wilson home. 1902 Cornelius-av,
with Miss Violet Wilson and Miss
Jean Miller. assisting A THO COM
posed Of Miss Beth Wilson, pianist;
Miss Billie Bailey. violiniSt. and Miss
Roberta Wilson, Cellist, presented a
program.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Miller attended
Butler University and we're gradual
ed from Bethany College. Bethany,
w. Va. Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Rowland.
Indiana. Pa: Mrs. Charles Baner.
Chicago: Miss Dorothy Fell. Punk
sutavney. Pa. Miss Josephine
Sheets. Brownsville. Pa. and Edward
Addy. Pittsburgh. Pa. were the out
of-tOwn guests.
The bride. given in marriage by
her father. wore dotted white organ
DIV with ruffied cape and Iulle veil
and carried brides roses and baby
breath.
Miss Arleea Wilson. maid Of hon
or. we white Powered orgsndy and
carried blue delphinium. The brides
maldS. Miss Marc Wilde. Miss AlIne
Detweiler. Eureka. Ii: Miss Roberta
Wilson. Miss Helen Miller. ElwOOd.
wore white orgsndy with green
sashes anO carried garden flowers.
Mona Rowland. flower girl, wore
white orgG1dy and carried rose petals
Harold Jones was best man and
uShers included Jesse McHahon.
Muncie: John Thewlls. Joliet. Ill;
Garnet Clark. Somerset. and Ralph
BroyleS. ElwOOd. Miss Martha Jean
Miller. Dayton. o.. sang. and Thomas
Poggiani. violinist. and Miss Lenore
Wilson. organiSt. played wedding
music.
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Ito Be Continued
Wedding Party
Members to Be
Dinner Guests

Members Of the MacDonald-Loof-
bourroW wedding party will attend
6 o'clock dinner tonight at the
home of the mother of the bride
to-be, Mrs. Abbie Hall Macdonald,
2444 N. Meridian-st. Rehearsal will
follow.
The ceremony will be read at 3
tomorrow afternoon for Miss Gladys
Rolfe Macdonald and Guy Norman
Loofbourrow, Westmoreland, Kas
at st. Matthews Episcopal Church,
Bishop Joseph M. Francis, off1ciat-
ing.
The bride-to-be will be attended
by Miss ClariSSa Becker, Chicago and
Miss Agnes Calvert. Deborah Cleve-
land McDougall will be flower girl.
Mr. Loofbourrow has chosen Rod
ney M. Schadt, Jewell, Kas., and
Paul Hostetter as his attendants and
John Macdonald, brother of the
bride, will come from Knoxville,
Tenn, to give her in marriage.
Peach and turquoise blue appoint
ments will be used on the dinner
table and Johanna Hill roses will
be the table centerpiece.
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CHURCH TO OBSERVE
1O2ND ANNIVERSARY
Long History of Central Christian
Will Be Celebrated.

The history of the Central Chris
tan Church, Delaware and Walnut
SITS, from its early beginnings in a
rude log cabin church to its pres
ent size and importance to the COM
munity will be celebrated at the one
hundred and second anniversary
service Sunday morning.
The church membership is now
1900 with weekly attendance in the
church schools 800.
Speaking as the Prophet Speaks, +"
will be the topic Of the Rev. w. A.
Shullenberger's sermon at the morn
ing service. Don Watson's orchestra
will play during the anniversary
banquet at the church.
A concert at 7:45 by the church
choir directed by Fred Jerry, will
close the anniversary program.
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Bridal Shower
to Compliment
Miss Funderburg

At a linen shower tomorrow after
noon at the home Of Miss Emily
Dorgan, 5140 Washmgton-blvd. Miss
Dorgan and Miss Sue Scotland will
entertain for Miss Regina Funder-
burg.
The marriage of Miss Funderburg
to c. Willis Adams Jr. will take
place June II. The hoStesSsS will be
assisted by their mothers. Mrs. VIII
liam Dorgan and Mrs. Michael Scol-
lard. Terre Haute.
Yellow appointments will be used
with peonies as floral decorations.
Guests with Miss Funderburg will be
Mrs. e. Willis Adams ST.. mother Of
the bridegroom to-be: Mrs. w. H.
Fun6erburg. mother Of the bride-to-
be; Mrs. J. E. Kiefer. Mrs. Earl
Grimsley and Mrs. E. c. Badger.
Others Will include Misses Betty
Gender, Betty MearS, Rowena Hay
ner. Bette Sue Woolling. Frances
Griffin. Shiela Brown. Vida Bess
Osborn. Mabelle Sherman. Muriel
N-illett. Virginia Foster and, Nancy
Kalleen.
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MRS. YEAGY HEADS
MOTHERS CHORUSES

Mrs. Irwin Yeagy is the newly
elected president of the Federation
of Mothers Choruses of the In
diarapolis Public Schools. Other
officers elected this term include
Mrs. Irwin Hessel, second vice
president; Mrs. Duncan G. Nc
Dougal, corresponding secretary,
and Mrs. Morris Masten and Mrs.
Virgil Hancock, board of directors.
Annual all-day picnic will be held
at Bro0kside Park, Tuesday, with a
l o'clock luncheon in charge Of Mrs.
G. A. Niles.