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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-20
RURAL EMPLOYEES
RECEIVE BACK PAY
Checks Are Sent ReSettle-
ment Workers at Belts
Vile and in California.

Back salary which until this week
had gone unpaid for more than a
month has been sent to scores Of
Rural Resettlement Administration
employees following inquiries incident
to publication of story describing
the unpaid workers plight
Oficials of DR.. Rexford G. Tugxell's
rehabilitation agency To-Day credited
the breaking Of the salary log jam to
an account in The Star last Friday
of the widespread tardy salary situa-
ton White collar workers as we'll as
unskilled day labor on about % prof.
ects here and in the field were affected
and in some cases were said to be
in almost desperate circumstances.
The delay in salary distribution was
attributed to the mass merger of
agencies now operating together under
the Rural Resettlement AdminiStra-
ton.
The situation was most acute among
workers on Berwyn. Md, and Cali
fornia projects. Checks for the full
amount of back salary were taken by
automobile to Berwyn Saturday The
men there are engaged in map-mak.ng
and surveying in connection with ex-
pansion of the Beltsville experimental
farm. simultaneously, checks were
mailed to the unpaid California work.
ers. Other projects, where salaries
were as much as six weeks to two
months behind, we're reported to have
benefited similarly.
One official Of the Resettlement
Administration blamed this impos-
sible red tape" for the situation now
being remedied. When workers were
transferred from other agencies to
DR.. Tugwells unit, they should have
been paid under their former status
instead of not at all, he said
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
Only 3 in Incubator

So on my first visit, entered
a small, lamp-lit room I well
knew, where the space was most
ly taken up by the big double
bed upon which the mother lay.
weak but smiling.
In the corner, however, was
something new - an incubator
built to hold one baby. In it now
lay three babies crosswise. Along
side, on two chairs, was BUTCH
err basket. Lifting up the cover
I found two bundles, each a lit
tie larger than the three in the
incubator. The butcher basket
had been ingeniously arranged to
serve as an incubator, too. 1t
was heated by hot water bags Sc
cured to the sides of the basket
with towels and safety pins and
covered over with clean flannel
cite blankets. The air was allow
ed to circulate through ventila-
ton holes here and there.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

Gone but not forgotten The march of progress, CIV
izaton or call it what you will to be always onward
1T is march of destruction. City fathers took
trip around the town last week and halted at the
ton of Baldwin and Piedmont streets. The familiar
stone watering trough caught their eyes Seldom does
horse pull up this trough for some years back
the city stopped the flow of water into it's several basins
1t was quite fine piece of stone work in its day. being
bit imposing than the common type OF watering
traffic and shortly will be replaced with prosac rotary traffic
standards In the old days the watering troughs of this
city institutions Today the few remaining ones are
people dwe in the peace and quiet of their homes and did
not the excitement and rapid of amusemen and
worldly pursuits.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
On Brink of Eternity

For the first few weeks of their
lives, the quintuplets had an
alarming trick of turning blue.
then white at intervals. This was
bad sign, occurring ever so
often during the first weeks. 1t
meant, literally. that these pre-
maturely born babies got tired of
breathing, threatened to give 1t
up entirely, and we had very
quickly to stimulate their waning
energy by giving them a drop or
two of rum. Later this means of
stimulation was replaced by oxy-
gen tanks that had been sent
down from Toronto.
We never knew moment real
ly free from anxiety in those first
days. If 1t was not one baby
turning blue, 1t was another,
most often Marie, being. the
weakest and smallest, and Yvonne
in spite Of the fact that from the
first she was the largest of them
all.
incidentally. the sisters were
called for convenience, until they
were named, A, B, c, D and e.
NEXT: The Five Little Dionnes
pass other important milestones Of
their early life.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
New Incubators Arrive

Almost Immediately three small
incubators, one for a C h OF the
smallest babies, and large one
divided in two parts were INSTALL
ed. They had been especially de-
signed under the supervision Of
the Canadian Red Cross society
and donated by The Toronto Daily
Star. We thought 1t best to keep
each baby in her own private in
cubator room to prevent cross In
lection between the tiny inmates.
The incubators were SO construct
ed that the air taken in through
screened opening at the lower
part underneath the baby's bed
shelf, passed over hot water
pigs through wet sponge and
reached the baby properly heated
and humified, to go out through
another screened ventilator at the
top. Two thermometers and a
humidity-guide inside each incu-
bator made it possible to keep the
air just right.
During the flrst twenty-four
hours, the "pigs" having been de-
layed in transit, we had to make
bags which meant forever boiling
water in pots and pans and heavy
iron kettles on the kitchen stove,
and eternally running in and out
to fill hot water bags between
feelings. And, of course we had
to keep careful watch over each
baby's precarious condition.
I don't think the stove in the
kitchen during all those summer
months June, July, August -
during which the babies were
nursed in the home of their birth
ever was less than redhot. Wood
and water had to be carried in
from almost hundred yards out
side the house. That in itself was
a man-sized job carried out eff
GENTLY, punctually and quietly by
Mrs. Dionne's brother, Elias Le-
gros.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
BY LOUISE DE KIRILINE

BY LOUISE DE KIRILINE
Copyright 1885, NEA Service Inc)
"Get into you car and come up
here at once!" :,
It was the familiar voice Of DR..
Allen Roy Dafoe, speaking by tele-
phone from Callander to me in
Toronto, Ontario, where I ha.l
been for few days on leave of
absence from the frontier district
nursing service had been con-
nected with for SO long.
Every WE'LL" I answered obedi-
emily, just as had answered that
same laconic call from the doctor
many times during my, six years
of service with the Canadian Red
Cross in the outpost of Bonfield,
northern Ontario.
Mentally, as I talked, also
crossed off an engagement was
to have had that afternoon with
a deputy minister to set forth nv
rights to the land upon which I
had built my cabin in the wilder
ness about 20 miles from Callan-
der, land which somebody who
also fancied it was trying to take
from me. Friends would have to
carry on the fight for me, that
was all.
Still unquestioningly following
the directions Of the man, wi h
whom had worked in an effort
to teach Woodworking mothers of
wilderness region how to look
after themselves and their num-
erous children, I got into my car
and drove as fast as I could to-
ward Callander, two hundred and
fifteen miles away to the north.
In five hours I was there and
ready to begin the great adven-
ture of my life.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

scrubbed walls, ceiling and floor
with warm water and soap. UNI
nailed the windows and threw
them open for fresh air, tackled
mosquito netting carefully to the
window frames to keep out mos
quitoes and back flies, SO preva-
lent in the north country at that
time off the year. At first We
hung sheets in lieu of a door, TO
emphasize the need for seclusion
in this little impoverished nursery.
These sheets later were replaced
by mosquito netting to protect
the babies from the invasions Of
the common housefiy, which soon
became real menace to their
lives.
To make the essential and nee
essary separation from the babies
less poignant for the mother, a
window was built in the wall 20
that we could show her the little
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
Peak of Exciting Career

L call helping to pilot the Di-
onne quintuplets through their
first year my Great Adventure -
even though I had not lived tame
ly up to then. There were one
year of war nursing in northern
Russia, one year in a children's
hospital under Soviet regime and
several years with organizations
connected with the Nansen Relief
Mission during the years Of fam
inc in that country.
But the fight for the lives Of
five tiny babies prematurely born
within a few hours to one mother
was the greatest adventure of all.
Are they really alive, won
dered with catch in my throat
as I looked down at the five ba-
bies for the first time? They lay
SO still, d g in their nests of
soft warm cottonwood, their little
wrinkled blush brown fac e S
covered with the light down that
often denotes premature babies.
Then one tiny creature moved
a little and, bending closer, i
heard sound like the mewing Of
a very feeble, very new kitten.
Yes, they were alive. But that was
about all.
The Dionne sisters were i've
and a half days old when DR..
Dafoe's summons to come to them
caught up with me. The h o m e
into which they were born was
not strange to me. In fact. If I
had not been on the long planned
leave of absence, my place might
have been at the mothers bed
side when they m e into the
world, for the Dionnes were
among the three thousand per-
sons in my nursing district of
four northern townships, approx
! imately 1000 square miles in all.
The Dionne house was like
hundreds Of similar houses into
which I had gone to help mothers
| before and after the coming of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
Tall Tower
Topics
Good Evening.
ST. sWITHIN LEGEND
By THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Signs, omens, Dreams predictions,
plague on you, and maledictions!
Why should you control the elements
Creating havoc with wild vehemence?
Today is recalled the st. Swithin legend of old
When if it rains, as we have been told
On this the fifteenth day of July,
1t rains for forty days, why, why
But who wants forty days of rain?
Call off your floods! what's to gain!
For fair and cooler weather put in call
Regardless of predictions, st. Swithin and all.
EN- EN-.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

ones every day until she was well
enough to visit them herself. A
large, clusmy dining room table
with six or seven legs was turned
into a nursery table, covered
with a clean sheet and padded in
the places where the babies
bodies would rest during the
morning oiling and changing.
Shelves were put up to serve as
a .washstand, as holders for thd
oil lamps and as a table for the
important preparation and mea-
surfing of the feelings. Nails were
driven into the walls to hold nee
essary implements and, most inn
portant of all, the chart Of the
daily nursery report on which ev-
cry smallest detail of each baby,s
condition was carefully recorded.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

Seven of them :. Some days ago a reader asked
Information ON the number of covered bridges left IN
this state. AT the time had definite facts ON
four of the old felloavs still a0ith However
check-up reveals that there than that Our
data moao includes siG although one source OF informal
ion reported This latter, though included the
Beacon Falls structure Och has been defunct since
couple of months ago When 1t aOas torn doa0n to make
aoay for steel girder type Of bridge The sac
ton, New Hartford Cornwall Bridge, West Corm.0au,
end Kent The latter three all span the Housatonac
river.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
Parlor Made Nursery

We decided to turn one room
about ten feet by twelve facing
northeast, that the family used
as parlor, into the babies nur-
jsery. This was because it was
secluded and quiet. Adjoining
was the mothers bedroom in
which up to then the babies had
been kept. Outside was a large
room eighteen by fifteen feet run
ming. the whole width and length
of the house. This was to be
nurses rest room, Office, recep-
ton room, dining room and store
room. The rest of the house. all
the upstairs rooms and the kitch-
en-, were left to the ramily.
We moved everything out Of
t he prospective nursery. We
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

The morning after my return
to Callander / began my new as
signment, my long anticipated
leave forgotten in the interest of
the new work = a hard job, but
one that I never even in darkest
moments let myself think of as
hopeless. For, while at first we
faced death every hour in the
twenty-four, day by day we had
faith that we could conquer 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
Picked up at random

Picked up at random Elizabeth Skoblicka and
Helen Meleski had all fixed them Saturday even
ing at Lake Quassapaug where they made their debut
striped sport Stacks Helen Kenny, Marge Connor
Mary Boulanger keep in the proverbial pink of
dton nightly executing the shy steps of the dance
craze, the shag, which has taken the city by storm
Jack Drscoll, demon roller and Adele Mack
nersup in the prize waltz at the Quassy danceorium Fri
day evening Jimmy Colgan and Vernon Pickup the
Judges Julius Barbette has all the natives at Ban
tam going gaga since he put his motor boat the
water julie claims the boat is the fastest thing you'll lay
YOUR peppers on in many And who do you think
will christen the chug in the future? None other
than that nimtabe quartet Ed Williams, Jim Brady Dick
DAILY and wolf" Larson.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
Head Nurse eKies O1n Stirring Story Qui First Year
LIVING FIVE YEARS S E e.; s'; e 6
IN TWEL We MONTHS r IT, T.! if r..

Behind the headlines that
have told the world of mile.
stones in the Dionne quin-
tuplets' first year lies an.
other story >. q dramatic,
humanity stirring story OF
the grims seemingly unend-
ing struggle between life and
death that went ON in the
babies nurseries This is
the story that has been writ
ten exclusively for The Wa
terbury Democrat by Louise
De Kiriline, head nurse for the
quintuplets, who has spent
more hours than anyone else
with the w0rld-famOus ba-
bies. There follows the first
Of six articles by Nine. De
Kiriline.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

Come one, all If you get to your waiting
equpage from the stands down at Recreation Field in Maui
gatuck next Monday night you'll be wonder .Convu
Bions will undoubtedly prevent spectator from max
ing this short trip Commissions you say, why it'll be
connpon fits or whatever it person succumbs to after
long minutes those deep beyaughs that Irwin Cobb talks
about The of such hilarty will be the Jackass
baseball game which picked teams representing the Fire
men and Fourth Estate of Waterbury will be opponents
Baseball on donkeys??????? Never heard of Neither
did but seeing is believing and that's what will
convey along the optic to the brain and back again
next Monday night the donkeys begin threeday stay in
these parts proceeds of all games in which they allow their
riders to participate be donated to the Waterbury City
Amateur League. Ride 'em cowboy. Ypeeee-ee ~!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

their babies. AS a matter Of fact,
four years before DR.. Dafoe had
asked me to go into that very
house to help the mother carry
her newest baby through a bad
case of ricketts, and malnutrition.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

"A shilling and your pants" the price Bemja-
min Kapam thought he avould haze to pay for drink
schen he oent to Dublin from Atlantic City to collect
the $500 he the Irish Sweeps RECENTLY 1t ap
pears that the first place the Jewish shoemaker headed
for upon landing ireland after rough voyage
pub. He ordered whiskey. And, By the a0ay, Kap-
Ian said bad aUhiskey But he drank 1t and asked
the price SHILLING tuppemce" said the barkeep in has
brogue. "What", exclaimed Kapan, IN has brand
of brogue mot only you aUamt shilling from me, but
yoM aUants my pants too?"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

copyright. 1895. NEA Service. Inc,,
NEXT: What great ruler unit.
I'd the Persians? IS
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

Not much left Some aOeeks ago a writer to
the Toner inquired to the significance of the
rags on the arch oat W0Lcott street Boutey
s MGn0r The Toa0er replied that thts the
mains of of the stone carving IN a0ch the late
Hobart v. Welton indulged in during has Uery full life
&c this city, The old Welton farm sOhich still stands
little to the south of the oddoppearing arch, has
short flight of steps leading up from the road that also
qives indication of the skill of Mr. Weton IN thas par
tcuIGr field of sone-carving. DrUing By the place
the other eveiag the aoriter took special pains to
notice the carved stone pieces At one time fence
ran along IN front of the property s0hsch bore Gn-
Nsist0kGble traces of the hand of skilled career.
Then and now What treat it was in the old
DAYS when of the kids in the neghborhood would get
Irish Mail You this type of toy auto
mobile anymore yet at time it was as common as the
eapumpng autocars of this age with their fancy bodies
1irDane type and forth And once in a while the
irish Mail pump handle would be replaced with two
handle means Of propulsion. Then there the wagon
that looked like Flexible Flyer for its wheels 1t
sven had brake to be worked by the hand And some.
BODY once produced long blackboard that seated
Ealf dozen kids comfortably 1t steered with wheel and
>so had brake contraption And then there were
aeons with wooden seats that were removable and even
4n8 4 whip socket . That was before the day Of the
recent type Of express cart and ell metal body and wheel
46N the popular kind
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

FIFTEEN years Of difficult and
= dangerous exploration in the
wilds of Australia won Capt.
Charles Sturt the honor of
knighthood just before his deathy
but not before the terrible hard
ships he had endured made him
totally blind.
Sturt started his explorations
into Australia in 1927. He first
discovered the Darling and other
rivers. In June. 1880, on a Sec
ond expedition, he discovered the
important Murray river and de.
scended 1t to its mouth. In 1874,
he discovered the stony desert Of
central Australia. Then he be-
came registrar-general and CO.
lonial secretary of South Aus
tralia. but his trials Of explora-
tion weakened him, rendered him
blind, and he had to return to
England. where he was knighted.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15
AnssOers To
Test Questions


Below are the answers TO
test questions printed ON
page 0.
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as the most learned OF the
Romans.
2. Schleswig-H Olstein.
Sonderburg- Gluclsburg.
3. 1886.
4. "Green Mountain
State"
5. low Ayres.
Q. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Easter.
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Judah, Dan. Cad, Asher,
Naphlali, xebulun, IssncliaF.
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10. Lake Ngie.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-15

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tralia issued the
stamp s h o W n
here, commem-
Grating t h @
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, 1935-08-08
San Benito And
Local Lions To
Play Thursday

A friendly enmity Of long stand
ing will be settled on the 80" dia-
mond Thursday night when the
Brownsville Lions club plays hostile
host TO the San Benito Lions club
in a baseball clash. due to begin at
Q o'clock under the floodlights.
San Benito will be headed by the
Ole maestro OF softball in the VAL
Icy. L. Fl. Warburton. whose losses
have caused countless numbers OF
would-be hitters TO retire via the
strike-out route. 1t IS authentically
reported that Warburton has struck
oJt as many hitters as he has hair
CT his head.
Marshall Cause, super ry-chaser.
Is manager OF the visiting team,
and. in addition TO Warburton, will
bring such tried players as Joe
Taylor, John Chapman, Buster
Collins. Nicely Newman, Nick Mich
olson. H. j. Glasscock and Carl
Miller. The San Benitans have an
entry In the San Benito Softball
league. and with more experience,
are favored to take the locals into
camp.
L. T. McCollister. mentor Of the
Brownsville contingent, will use
Charlie Pickett on the mound, with
A. G. Reece his battery-mate. Ten
tatively, the infield will be composed
OF Dick Ayers at first base, Ellis
Perry. second, McColister. shortstop.
9rd Bob McMinn. third base. IN the
outfield. John Van DYKE. Johney
Snow. Carl Heatherlv. Rene Sauber.
". p. Stevens and Leo Bourst will
probably see service.
, 1935-08-08
WASH OUT
Is MILES OF
KIDNEY TUBES

Win Back Pep Vigor ... Vim
Medical authorities agree that
your kidneys contain Is MILES OF
tiny tubes or ilters which help to
purify the blood and keep you
healthy.
II you have trouble with too fire.
uuent bladder passages with scanty
amount causing burning and dis
comfort the Is MILES OF kidney
tubes need washing out This dan
ger signal may be the beginning Of
nagging backache. leg pains loss OF
pep and energy, getting up nights,
swollen feet and ankles, rheumatic
pains and dizziness
IL kidneys don't empty 8 pints n day
and get rid OF more than . pounds
Of waste matter. your body will take
up these poisons causing serious
trouble. Don't wait. Ask your drug
gist for DOANS PILLS -. an old
prescription 80. which has been used
successfully by millions of kidney
sufferers for over 40 years They
give happy relief and will help TO
wash out the Is MILES OF kidney
tubes. Get DOAN'S PILLS At your
druggist g 1894. Foster Milburn CO.