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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-06
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ton, Mass
Mr. ana Mrs carr Mattsoh ol
walnut street, spend the weekend
MISS Helena carlson OF Willow
streel, mas returned 70 her nome
after spending several days al AT
ianfic City.
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tertown avenue. spent the week
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Mrs SMargot M. devoss OF south
street, arrived TO-DAY on the city
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afternoon at 2:So o'clock at the
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-06
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By WIN. Il. MCKINNEY
Secretary OF the American Bridge League

opener Most Important Lead Of First Card BY Alert
Defense May Prevent Declarer From Making
His Contract. " al
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-06
Colonial Exhibition
Closes On Sunday

More than 1000 persons have
already visited the big costume ex-
hibition which the Connecticut So
ciety of the Colonial Danes Of
America is sponsoring at the Nor
gan Memorial in Hartford. This
display, which is open to the public
without charge, will continue until
May IL.
Both artistically and historically
the exhibition has been the wide
appeal to, visitors who have come
from all over the state. The show
contains not only a great variety
of women's clothing worn during
the last 200 years in Connecticut
but hundreds of interesting access
series such as combs, fans, hats,
shoes and 'kerchiefs, not to mention
antique dolls. babies clothing. old
portraits, period furnishings and a
display of military uniforms.
The military exhibits range from
the semi-armor of Colonial times
to field officers uniform of the
Great War. Every major war In
which the United States was en-
gagged is represented in this group.
The item which has occasioned
most interest is the sword pierced
shirt and waistcoast of Colonel
Ledyard, who, is will be recalled.
was brutally run through by a
British officer Immediately after
his sword after the sur
render of Fort Griswold.
The exhibition is open each
weekday except Monday. Daily
half a dozen members of the So
ciety are present to guide visitors
about the memorial. The Sunday
visiting hours are from to p.
m. The exhibition is considered one
of the finest of it's kind ever ar
ranged. The articles which COM
pose it were assembled from the
homes of old families all over Con-
necticut.
Apleasing dance recital was CIV
en- on Friday evening at the Wa
terbury Women's club by Miss
Peggy Minnaman and her classes.
Many intricate numbers were pre-
sented and attractive costumes
and backgrounds added greatly to
the program which Iuadea marked
impression on the large audience.
One of the features of the evening
was a toe dance by Miss Minnaman
during the presentation of the
Blue Danube Waltz" one of the
outstanding numbers of the pro-.
gram.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-06

Miss Helena Carlson of Willow
street, has returned to her home
after spending several days at At
lantic City.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-06

Mrs Margot M. devoss of South
street, arrived today on the City
of Hamburg" from Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-06

& Joseph and Martin Shea of Wa
tertown avenue, spent the week
end in New York. ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-06

Mr. and Mrs Carl Mattson of
Walnut street, spend the weekend
in New York city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-20
Today's Science
by DAVID DIETZ-

NTASH1NGTON, Dec, 2o.-A study of the heredity
w OF the thoroughbred racehorSe, new knowledge
OF the development of the embryo OF the monkey
new evidence OF the antiquity of man in America a
new technique for securing samples of the geological
layers OF the ocean bottom. and new finds in the
Mayan history of Central America are among dis
plays at the annual exhibition of the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington this week
The exhibition is splendid tribute to this re-
markahe organization with its far-fung laboratories
and researches-the Mount Wilson Observatory the
Desert Laboratory at Tucson, Ariz the Geophysical
Laboratory in Washington, and so on. II is likewise
remarkable tribute TO the farseeing genius OF An
drew Carnegie, whose requests made possible the
institution.
THIS years exhibition, coming at the one hun
Il dredth anniversary of Andrew Carnegie is-par-
tcularly fitting. The Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington was founded by Mr.. Carnegie on Jan IS 1902
with an endowment of registered bonds of the par
value Of S'0,00000o Later gifts brought the total
endowment of the organization to approximately
s25O00O00.
The articles Of incorporation of the institution de-
clare that the objects of the corporation shall be
to encourage in the broadcast and most liberal man
investigation, research and discovery and the
application of knowledge to the improvement of
mankind"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-20
AcceIerdLiRg the Pace

A a playwright with sharp an inspired,
social conscience Clifford OdeS faces one diff
cult problem in every play he writes. He wants to
show how the world in which we live crippes and
dwarfs the spirit of man. And yet he is unwilling
to preach the defeatism OF the old Greek theory
of many against the gods. OdetS knows that al
though humankind may be losing in the struggle
this defeat is by no means inevitable.
The double formula of handicap and defeat as
conttasted with the possibility of triumph was best
solved in Waiting for Lefty" There at the end the
call Strike! Strike Strike!" which resounded
throughout the theater sent the audience away with
spirit of elation. The final speech of Leo Gordon
In Paradise Lost is not as good that.
1t is an excellent speech, but 1 question whether
1t properly from the character to whom it was
assigned. The conversion of middle class humani-
tartan into radical orator much too sudden
1t was as if here were another Saul blinded by heav
emily light on the road to Damascus.
I'm quite sure that people do change their eco
nom1c and social point of view, but the process is
generally gradual and often little too subtle
for the theater to handle. I suppose the dramatist
ought to have license to speed things up
But chiefly I want to go record as saying
that in my opinion Clifford OdetS stands out as the
white hope of the American theater. He has more
TO say and he says it better than any living drama
fist in this country.
l want to make reservation in stating the
opinion that this young man is far greater figure
than Eugene ONeill ever or will be- 1t isn't
enough to say that Paradise Lost" is promising
play. 1t is not only the American theater of the
days to Gomez it is the best stage has to offer
here and now
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Times Books

ME modern method of writing detective story
seems to be to invent outlandish and eccentric
a detective as your imagination can contrive and
tnen turn nm loose, trusting that he will carry by
sneer force OF human interest whatever Deficiencies
the plot may develop.
ordinarily this leads to some excruciatinglv bad
mystery stories; but here to testify that it has
proVoeo at least one good one-to wit THE Ticking
Terror Murders" by Darwin L. Teilhet Crime
Club So.
Mr. Teihet has invented the Baron Won Kaz a
PENNIES put Jauty Austrian who drifts out to Cali
lorna on MS uppers, connives his way into the en-
poy OF a movie star and Unexpectedly finds himself
with string of murders to solve
HERE are times when everybody Gpcluding the
reader) suspects the baron of being pompous
ana WINDY faker-a sort of Austrian Major Hoople-
but IN the end he triunphs, and his antics are so
engaging and the mystery he tackles is so cleverly
constructed, that the book is delight from start to
finish
Another good mystery just published is Murder
With Pictures" by George Harmon Coke (Knopf,
So. newspaper photographer is the central figure
in this one, getting involved in the mystery nvoun-
tarily when pretty girl fleeing from the scene OF
the crme) bursts into his apartment and gets into
the tub with him while he is having a shower and
although he is not exactly like any newspaper photo
grapher have ever met he is plausible character
and the plot which Mr.. Coke has provided is in
genous and properly battling
All in all, you'll find Murder With Pictures" wen
worth Your while. lBy Bruce Cation.
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The Creator and the Characters

A FTER all, Clifford Odets is dealing with the
N muddle medicines of the middle class. While
the author is privileged to stand little apart from
the folk he has conjured up, the divorce never
be complete. think the reviewers make a mistake
assuming that some OF the murkineSs in the minds
of the people Of Paradise Lost" may be attributed
to lack Of clear thinking on the part of Clifford
Odets.
He is a propaganda in the best sense CT the
word because most of his message flows directly out
of action and incident. The of the disnherited
may be all the dramatic when the oppressed
individuals are quite unaware of the nature of the
things which are happening today.
In other words one may write about the class
struggle and deal with characters who are almost
wholly lacking in class consciousness.
Mr. Odets has chosen peculiarly fertile field in
paradise Lost because he writes of the spiritual
and material decay of mddle-caSs family under
certain kinds of economic pressure of which they
wholly unaware.
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DECLARER SET BY DISCARDED ACE

showed you the value of retaining
a deuce for an entry card. To-
day, I showed you the rather I'M
usual play in which you must get
rid of an ace, to defeat the con-
tract.
After all, when you are on the
defense, what you are trying to do
is to defeat thee ontract, and your
first duty is to assure this defeat,
then try to take as many extra
tricks as you can after you have
it set.
Against the four-spade con-
tract, West makes the natural
opening of the seven of hearts.
Declarer plays low from dummy
and East wins the trick with the
jack. West now plays the king of
hearts, upon which West discards
the eight of clubs.
East then plays his ace of hearts
and when South, declarer. fol-
lows with the 10 spot, I an. sure
that most players would make the
mistake of discarding the deuce of
diamonds from the West hand.
If West were to do this, of
course, South could make his con-
tract. Should East return club,
declarer could trump with a small
srade, pick up the trump and cash
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to exist Water merely evaporates the form
changes but the reality is everl sting.
Remember how at the opening of the recent Century
of Progress Exposition in CT cago the thousands of
cleaning lights switched by the power picked up
from beam of light that Lad left the star Arcturus
more that 40 years ago?
7 SUPPOSE that any Arcturus would think that
~ little ray of light had oIed because disappeared
from his world But far from being destroyed had tray
eed through space for 40 light years-wth who knows
what fascinating adventures Then
planet and caught by astronomers; energy
was amped and transmitted by them to throw
ter switch at great exposition.
The form cfanges-but it never stops existing Just
think about that minute I have young cousin who
has just of 1t is claimed that body
is renewed every seven years and, if this is fact my
cousin at 81 has already had three bodies is begin
ming to build the fourth But don't worry about
discarded bodies; and don't spend much time signing
But If he had stayed baby, would be heartbroken
because he had not developed normally according to
the great law of Life
Man is progressive spirit. And though the divine
spark was always in him. the started from
pretty low state of understanding to his present
manhood 1t is state that is far from perfect Which
IS the best reason offer why God wouldn't DESTROY us
He is just God And He certainly going to give every
one OF us chance to the powers still latent within
How going to rouse these inactive powers? By
recognizing and cutvatng them.
TOMORROW-Your Idle Potentialities.
Copyright 1885, by the Pickford by United
Feature Syndicate)
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EUen Comic Strips Enrolled

THE Italian press has been weapon of state 50
long now that Italians, even in Official ranks
VINO nave had experience in the United States find
IL hard to understand why American paners ara
anoWed TO denounce Italy's Ethiopian war as the
WanCon invasion of sovereign country. They can
hoC cure their minds of the thought that these eY
presslonS must represent the view of the American
government otherwise why doesn't the government
make them shut up? o. 'O
WV: II lGaHan papers were suddenly to tear into
eIe OhlCeo States and give us a daily lecturing on
some particular issue you would know AFT once that
the Italian government was sore about it and was
using the press as weapon of state to warn lis of
Ii DuceS dlSapproval and his reasons for doing 81
us method of expressing official views in an
uhonlcai way much more freely than thew could be
oppressed an 1revocable official correspondence
Mlc soeS nto the archives to stay. Papers 90 into
me aShcan and are forgotten. When the press is a
weapon OF state even comic strips crossword puzzles
sporting news fashion news and advertisements are
enrolled in service and the result after while is
mat the people, seeing nothing to remind them that
Cnere might be another side to the question become
almost all OF one mind behind the dictator
some oictators take over the press by force
MuSSonnl, however, used bait and used it 81 pener
ously that very little effort was required
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Norris Dam is quite spectacle.
It's the only IVA dam so far
built in canyon, like Boulder
Dam. The others are low dams,
where the river is wide. A canyon
dam is always more beautiful,
more awesome. more inspiring.
There is a terrific fascination
about a growing dam. The height,
and the hundreds of men scam
pering all over it, and the trucks
running around, and the stacks
of lumber and steel piping every
where, and the immense gray ce-
ment mixers and stone crushers.
and the huge cables across the
canyon, and the temporary roads
running here and there, and dirty
cars rushing up, with tanned men
in leather boots and jackets Jump
ing out of them, and the water al
ready rushing and foaming
through the spillways at the hot
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II knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 90
IN Norris Dam is about finished.
You can walk along the fiat top
Of it, among the machinery and
scraps of lumber. They haven't
put on the cement guard rails yet.
Mr. Schlemmer can step right
over to the edge and put one foot
on the brink and look straight
down for about Is stories.
But when I look over the edge
= of Norris Dam, I get down on my
knees and elbows, take a death
grip on a couple of steel rods
sticking out of the cement, and
then just sort of peek over, lit
tie at time.
The difference between Mr..
Schlemmer and me is that he's
the guy who built the dam, and
I'm just fellow who likes to go
around the country seeing big
dams, but can't stand to look over
the edge of them.
Norris Dam, as you know, is
part of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority. And while we're on the
subject, I might as we'll warn you
that I'm down here to write some
pieces about IVA.
IVA is one of those things that
everybody knows exists, but no.
body seems to make head nor tail
Of. So came down to give it the
works. 1t is my ambition to be
the first American to explain IVA
so that a child can understand it.
But first, let's get Norris Dam
off our chest.
TT is TWAS most spectacular
l. piece of work so far. The dam
is across the Clinch River, 25
miles northwest of Knoxville.
1t is a miniature Boulder-not
so miniature, either, for it's 200
feet high. But Boulder, you know,
is more than 800. Norris is no
longer, because one bank of the
canyon slopes back gradually. in
stead of rising straight up. Nor
ris is about a third of a mile long.
They started on Norris dam two
and half years ago. The last
of the concrete viii be poured in
a couple of weeks, and. then it's
just matter of finishing the
power house and cleaning up the
rubbish, and getting everything to
looking pretty. They're a year
ahead of schedule right now.
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Question of Values

L would have been expensive for their EMPLOYERS
- TO- fire them under such law, and ANYWAY the
same plan in its wider application would have nro-
vded owners with subsidy or guarantees against
loss on the ground that the press as a weapon of
State must be maintained, though it cost tax
payers something, just as the army and navv must
De kept IN good shape and good morale This NAV
seem TO place very low value on the SINCERITY ~
Ihe newspaper business profession and executions
would nave to be dealt with according to the good
of the country ~ e0N
Even IN Italy Journalists and publishers we're not
won over UNANIMOUSLY. Some held out while and
were reconstructed under pressure and Others amt
reconstructed yt, the old Georgia folk song Does
but thoSe who aint reconstructed Wit" are ont of
luck now and the Italian press is for Mussolini and
his regime without a dissenting syllable
newspaper reporters and publishers unfortunate
~, are not made of the clay that martyrs are made
o. except IN rare cases. And when man comes face
TO lace with facts that he must either plav ball
uhoer highly attractive conditions or lose his Ivel
MOOD ne is likely to think of his family and the
mortgage on his home
~, IL may be said that Huey could not have done
diIs IN LOUISIANA under the American Constitution
put to say that ofhandedy is to overlook some other
miracles which Huey performed without exceeding
Che constitution. AS for the use of public funds tn
supSdlze the press it should be kept in mind that
long ago Huey had passed law which made il nm
ecesSary Tor MIN to account to anybody for public
IundS He merely reported that his Dictatorship had
received so much and spent it ALL
MuSSollm doesn't go into petty details either
WAeh 0Ie press is weapon of state it's subject IN
the same sort of discipline and pressure that gov
ellS Uhe army and the navy and everything the
papets 40 uhoer orders becomes automatically right
ana patIlotlc. The army and the navy NAV some
Times be used on tasks which individual members Of
Vie services oeeVe to be morally wrong but it's trea
son 10 refuse duty on such grounds
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by M A R Y
P &c K F O R D

lonsand hungry lions they were too-but they never
touched him. Daniel simply knew he Gods highest
handWork, man. He knew that this confidence ban
ished fear and gave him dominion over the fiercest
beasts And because he knew it completely, the lions
knew It, And they let him alone.
Il ME thinking of Daniel was good. He had built it
Il strong and true. Even the lions sensed his friendly
loving attitude toward them and responded to it. All
great thinkers have made unsettled love the living
because man and beast must react rightly to it. When
Danlel-ke other mengraduated into another life that
the part of him that marched forward He left his
earthly body behind But his right thinking body went
Went where? From light into the splendor of
glory Those grand hopeful words from an ancient
Hebrew Wrtng-Words that cheered me so much that
you might like to know the of verse; 1t says:
"And time shall no longer age them.
For IN the heights of that world shall they dwell,
And they shall be like unto the angels,
And be made equal to the stars.
And they shall be changed into every form they desire
From beauty into loneliness,
And from Ight-nto the splendor of glory"
Nothing in this universe is lost Do you realize
tnat? substance may and does change form; but it
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press ana passed some laws through his Legislature
at baton Rouge to give newspaper men double pay,
conpel owners to give them, say months vaca-
uon win pay every year and a bonus of several
months pay on being fired.
Inc only reporter Huey ever befriended however,
was sort OF political contact man with no standing
IN the newspaper business who was entered on the
state pay roll at salary bigger than his newspaper
could pay. The public duties which he performed
Tor his salary were nominal if not entirely mythical
ana Che general run of newspaper men looked on
his case with disapproval
But II Huey had done in Louisiana as MussolinI
mas done in Italy he would have reached the self
interest OF the craft, and it would not have taken
majority OF newspaper men long to convince them
serves they were honestly loyal to the great leader
ana that everything he did for the good of the
state and eventually of the nation
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course where the rooms would be,
there is solid cement.
There are four big corridors
running the entire length. One is
clear down in the foundation, be-
meath the river bed, one is about
the poWerhouse level, one just
above the center of the dam, and
one just beneath the top.
They are big corridors, too,
about eight feet wide, with arched
ceilings that give you three or
four feet of headroom. They are
all dusty with cement now, but
when the dam is finished they
will be as clean and shiny as an
apartment hallway. There are
elevators too Cor will be- to carry
you from the top down to any
level inside.
These corridors are there so
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tom of the dam, and the raw
earth all around. There is a
boom, boom, boom about it that
gives me the same thing the rush
of Amidst and Broadway gives
some people. I don't give a boot
for a dam that is finished.
T HAVE been all over Norris
l. Damon both abutments, on
top of it, down at the bottom,
and even inside! That's what
f1oored me-to think that such q
colossal hunk of cement actually
has an inside to it.
Norris Dam is like building
inside. At least partly like
building. 1t has big corridors run
ming all through it, both length
wise and crosswise, like the hall
ways in an Office building. But of
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EHZnough
BY
.ESIbROOk

D ONE, Dec. 2o.-We may to be induging in
~ too much newspaper shop talk in these some
what restrained compositions out of Rome, but the
press under strict government control is weapon
OF state, and we have here the model which would
be copied in a general way if dictator ever should
take control of the United States
OF course, we had form of dictatorship during
the war to end war and American papers having
created warike public opinion suddenly found them
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the ace, king and queen Of dia-
monds.
Vests proper play is to discard
his ace of clubs. Now he is GER
tain of defeating the contract.
East will return club and even
though declarer trumps in with
the king of spades, it impossible
to keep West from making
trump trick.
Copyright. 1885. NEA Service. Incl
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selves afraid to talk back to it.
But the war was soon over, and
they were glad to get back their
freedom.
Looking over the career of
Huey Long now, I suspect he
made a serious mistake in at
tempting to bulldoze American re-
porters with insulting remarks in
his public addresses and with
strong-arm attacks on individuals
by his bodyguards. While Huey
was at it in Louisiana he prob
ably would have done better for
himself and his ambition if he
had assumed the pose of friend
anO nrNtectn,. If tho io,,r,,nI-.,.n..