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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
Pape-lican Logic

Mayor Hayes received 16,750 votes.
 John M. Burrall received 14,e7s votes.
 Roger Conner received 2,821.
 John Ring received 1,141 votes. Therefore, concludes the Pape- lican logician Mayor Hayes won by "an actual adverse majority of 2,19O."
 bulls made by the Pape-lican office boy editors in thought. word, deed, and omission. In the first place how can 8 majority be adverse? It is 8 majority or 1t is not 8 majority. It can only be adverse" ip the sense that it is unpleasant to those who hoped 1t would be a minority. The basic blunder in the computation as made is that it ignores the ac- cepted American concept of what majority is. According to the reasoning Of the office boy editor if there were ten candidates for the office of mayor and one of them got twenty thousand votes and the other nine added together received forty thousand votes the winner actually lost by. twenty thousand "adverse majority" It is too silly even for the Pape- lican paper to print. Mayor Hayes is reelected to serve an-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

The real act is that neither boycott is of any immediate threat to Italy.
 A financial boycott already has been in force against Italy as far as London and New York money markets are concerned. To off, set this, Mussolini has 8 hoarded war chest of $500, 100000 in gold and about the same amount in foreign securities. He figures this will be enough. And if the war is short 1t will be.
 The economic boycott is even less Worrisome - for the simple reason that nations always are ready to sell but not buy. Mus- Solini knew this when he snapped his fingers at the League.
 Italy on Top
 Already his premonitoin has proved correct. Switzerland has intimated privately to League authorities that it could not en- force a trade boycott against Italy. Italy is its best market. A boycott would mean cutting off about 75 per cent of Swiss exports and fi- nancial ruin to many industries.
 Austria, Hungary and even Jugoslavia are in the same fix. The latter cOuntry-l0ng 8 bit- ter encmy-nOw is finding Italy a lucrative market. In need of war supplies, Mussolini has re- " duced tariff barriers to Jugo- slavia and is buying large quan- titles of wheat, pork and lumber.
 Probably these countries will accept the economic boycott in theory, but ignore it in fact.
 This is why the British idea of naval blockade to enforce the boycott makes Mussolini see red. And that is why the French have been so loath to go along with the British on a blockade, except at the price of aid against Ger many.
 Ambassador ROSSO
 Italy's Ambassador, Augusta Rosso, finally has laid at rest long and poignant worry.
 Cause of concern was not the Ethiopian controversy, but a much more personal matter.
 He was fearful that when he went to Rome to confer with his chief. Mussolini would raise the question of Rosso's unmar- ried status. II Duce's dictum that Fascist officials must get married or get out long has dis turbed him.
 Before the conference with Mussolini, Rosso asked counsel of a friend. :. What shall do if he raises the question? I would like to tell him it is my private
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

going 70 eApO~
 rate upon now, the campaign took on the features of Q Roman holiday and Waterbury was transforni-
 ed for the day into the arena of the Colis- scum. It W as not an infre- quent sight in those bygone tim es to see brother fighting aHainat hrnthar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
SYNOD FIGHTS SUNDAY SALES

Toronto, Ont. (UP) - The synd of the Toronto diocese of the Church of England in Canada re- gently adopted @ resolution urging that gasoline service stations should only be opened four hours each Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

OCTOBER 1s Most favored ones today are those who were born from March 21 through April 2l. GenaraI Indications of the Day for
 Everybody
 Morning-Bad.
 Afternoon-Nervous.
 Evening-Aggravating. The day is a bit jittery. Guard your nervous reactions toward small things.
 TOday's Birthdate You should have much personal magnetism. You should be able to make the electrical business a sat- isfactory employment.
 Health conditions may call for at- teition from December, 193 through April, 1886. Someone in your home may form some connection with a hospital at this time.
 Your most beneficial period for the coming year is indicated for the months of February and June through July, 1896. You should gain through travel, publications, lera- tives or correspondence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

MT. Pape, come out in an editorial stating where you were wrong. Just a few more comments. Jack Barry's prediction campaign speech on the Hill" endorsing Mayor Hayes was stupendously effective. He nail- ed Pape to the cross of black-and- tanism. Jack said to me one day: "IiA, ha, an Englishmar1 trying to convert an Irish vote." Well the 6. o. D. beer on the "Hill' was delicious It made us pull the top lever more vigorously. Pax vobiscurn to every body.
 Y Very sincerely,
 V. w. e. P. S.--"Long may Mayor Hayes flag of ascendancy wavel"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
Current Comments

You know as well as do that the federal government can't go on pouring out $5,000, ,000.Q00 . year in soothing syrup to keep the unem- ployment imp from raising hell all over the nation.-Gen. Hugh John- son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

Interest in those quintuplets wanes somewhat with the news that they now aggregate more than 100 pounds In the multiple baby game it's number, not bulk, that counts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

Let's not be too discouraged about our 10,OO0,OOO unemployed. Think occasion ally of the 40,000,000 and more who are at work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
Something Like 1t

A reader of this department has written me what follows. He is 8 man whose intelligence is to be respected and whose deductions are sound. Any question which he proposes deserves serious con- sideration and should be answered at greater length than is, for to- day, at my disposal. From time to time, however, I hope to return to it. He writes:
 '"The usual vote in a city elec- ton has run, with the excep- ton of 1883, about 80as of the total voting list. Based upon a voting list of 40,889, which is I think the local registration, the normal vote this year would be 32,711.
 Mayor Hayes received 16,8O0 votes. Of the 2800 votes cast for the Independent Democratic ticket it is reasonable to say that 2000 of these voters would vote the regular Democratic ticket. Your friend Pape suc- ceeded in his attempt to beat the administration to the extent of deprNing the mayor of two thousand votes he would other wise have received. Assuming then that there was no Inde- |. pendent Democratic ticket in the field Mayor Hayes would have gotten 18,800 votes.
 with the normal voting strength of 32,711 this would leave 13,911 votes to be account ed for. Deducting the Socialist vote of HOO would have left 8 Republican vote of approx imately 12,800 and would have left 8 Democratic plurality of 4,000.
 "The Republicans actually boiled 15,096 votes. How do you account for the increase?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
Daily Mo>...xy. Washington z=~== z = =-- ===-== WHY MUSSOLINI DOES NOT
 FEAR A BOYCOTT
Nsh. Da Iy News
u pEARsoN and ROBERT S. ALLEN

By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN -
 Washington, October Il = Confidential cable reports received here indicate that Mussoni was not bluffng when snapped his fingers at the threat of an economic and financial boycott by the League.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
Horoscope
BY OCTAVINE
Talburt.

For persons who believe that hu- man destiny is guided by the plan- cts, the daily horoscope is outlined by 8 noted astrologer. In addition to information of general interest, il outlines information of special in- terest to persons born on the des- igneted dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
He Has It

The election which took place on Tuesday last recalls the days of the eladiatorial cornbats. In many respects, which I am not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
All Part of the Plan

It is inconceivable that the Re- publican vote gotten out by the party in Waterbury is the re- sponse to Hamlet" Pape's de- mand that an administration he dislikes be turned out of, office. The tactics his papers adopted for the campaign and the meth ods they followed in conducting 1t would, under ordinary condi- tions, have driven a vast number of Republicans, to stay at home. That they conquered their disgust sufficiently to make them come out in the greatest numbers in local political history proves the existence of @ motive far more vital than appears on the sur- face. That motive is If we can beat the Democratic administra- tion in Waterbury now we will be beating Roosevelt 8 year hence." The Republican leaders from other parts of the state who came here to speak for the Republican candidates said the same thing in so many words. The editorials which appeared in such Tory Republican newspapers as The New London Day and The New Haven Register ex- pressed the same thought. The wish to defeat President Roose- celt at the next national election is the spark plug which is ener- gizing every Republican organiza- ton in the state and in the coun- try at large. Democrats new and old, independent and regular, must open their eyes to what is an incontrovertible actuality. The realization that the move is on to put an end to liberal government in this country and that the forces to accomplish that end are being mobilized in every city, town. and village in the country should shock every Democrat and every progressive thinker into vigilance and industry. More of this on Tuesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
BY WAY of NO HARM
 by James William FitzP Patrick

e connents opinions and conclusions appearing below those They necessarily those of the editors DEMOCRAT they to be construed,
 invariably as . reflection of their viewpointl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
A Thought for Today

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich; he hrinreth low, and Mfteth up-I Samuel 2:7.
 
 The bad fortune of the good turns tner faces up to heaven; the good fortune Of the had bows their heads down to the earth.- 9aadi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
One Explanation

Some of the increase may be accounted for by the new voters made this fall. But that theory is not to be entertained as & complete explanation of what happened. The Republicans got out the biggest vote the party can ever hope for or get in Wa terbury in a city election. Po- litical observers tell me they nev- CT witnessed such g.o.p. activity and as far as my own memory goes neither did I. The question of importance, 1t seems to me, is not that so many Republicans voted but why they voted at all. Missing out purely local consid- erations altogether for the time being the answer is plain. It is the determination to beat Presi- dent Roosevelt in 1936.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
After Glow

Analyzing the result or elections is an interesting pastime. Even after a victory 1t is the practice, as well as the G:::..y, of successful military strategists and tacticians to review in detail every phase of the engagements ended. The losses indicated and the mistakes apparent are studied so> that at the next battle between the op- posing forces the losses may be reduced and the mistakes avoid-. ed. Political leaders, the success full ones at any rate, follow the same procedure. Other leaders, SO called, never learn anything from their defeats. If there have been casualties and errors on the Democratic side 1t goes with saying that they will receive care- full and intensive study by the party leaders. The Democratic organization in Waterbury is probably the most effective in the state. It was not built by fools . nor developed to its acknowledged efficiency by blinking at facts. It functioned to it's utmost poten- tialities on Tuesday, It got the desired result. It won!
 Weird Reasoning
 It was to be expected that the Pape-lican papers would not fail to print alibis for the unexpected defeat of their owners candidates. Unexpected it certainly was. So sure was the Hamlet of Printers Court his ticket would win that the automobiles, which were used from sun-up to slln-down to hus- tie Republican voters to the polls, were held in reserve for the post election parade that never came off. After the cup of disappoint- ment had been drained and the draught of gall and wormwood had been drunk to it's last bitter drop 1t became necessary to issue a communique in explanation of the disaster. The announcement took the form of editorials in both Pape-lican papers and are such fiawless specimens of ira 7 tional thinking that they should be preserved for the benefit of students who are taking courses in elementary logic. I cannot be bothered nor should readers be bored, by reprinting them word for word. The figures are taken from the Americans alibi and are, naturally, inaccurate.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
CurfetO Here Urged
To Save Youngsters

To the Editor Of The Times:
Juvenile delinquencieS are show
ing an alarming increase and
youthful rowdyism becomes more
and more annoying each day.
It is becoming more and more
unpleasant in the evening to en-
dure the sight of scores OF yount
sters, mostly less than is years
of age, running the streets, shout
ing, Skylarking and playing their
pranks when they should be at
home and in bed.
AS the evening wears on, these
large groups of children break up
into smaller groups and it is rare,
in the neighborhoods where these
groups roam, that some sort OF
depreciation is not committed by
some of them each night.
1t is then the burden of the
local police and Juvenile Court
to apprehend these Uniformed
children and impose the punish
ment their parents failed to dis
pense. Naturally, the punish
ment imposed by the law is
crueler than that of the parent.
maintain that a good, old
fashioned 9 o'clock curfew bell,
to be sounded in every neighbor-
hood of the city each night.
would have the effect of blight
ing a growing crop of public
enemies. J. j. S.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
DriVer Holds Traffic
Police Too Insolent

To the Editor of The Times:
OF course, there may be many
arguments pro and con on this
recently spotlighted subject Of
fixing" traffic tickets.
There is another matter. how
ever, right along that line on
which, in my opinion, a popular
vote in Washington would reveal
a large affirmative vote. That is
a proposal to have a traffic Off.
Ger fixer."
BY that I mean someone to
whom motorists could appeal
when they have grievances against
officers-someone who would be
sympathic toward the aggrieved.
It has been my experience now
and then, and-that of my friends
as often, that when I am stopped
by a traffic officer when l may
have been guilty Of some small
traffic violation, I have to stand
for being inSulted by the officer.
Now, don't like paying traffic
fines any better than the next
one, but in a case such as that
just described I wouldn't mind
paying the traffic ticket half so
much if could have some re-
course in the matter of the inso-
lence which I have to take from
the arresting officer.
Let's have a "fiXer" who can
and will elk" the officers when
they attempt to flaunt their au-
thority in an unbearing manner.
A DRIVER.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Civil Service Test
Time Limit AssdiLed
To the Editor of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
I would like to speak for myself
and 1 know for quite a few other
young women. A Civil Service
examination was given on March
%. There we're lots Of young girls
and some older women who took
the examination. The time al
lotted was one hour and Is min
utes for an examination that easily
required two hours. If it was just
myself, who was unable to finish
the examination due to lack OF
time. it could be charged to my
unusual lack of speed, but there
were many of the girls talking
afterward and I heard them say
ing it was impossible to complete
the test in time.
I'll admit the examination is a
sure way of elimination. but most
certainly not fair one. In any
examination 1 like to have time
to concentrate a little. In the
type of work for which I took the
examination, have proved in the
past that I can be as speedy and
efficient as the next one. 1
think that in these examinations
unlimited time should be given, or
at least reasonable time in which
to answer 80 or 40 questions.
j, B.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
SAILOR SOUGHT
in RAZOR DEATH.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 8
0.NSO.-Police combed water
front hangouts today in search Of
a husky young seaman wanted in
connection with the bizarre muir.
der of Mrs. Betty Coffman, "a,
whose nude body was found in a
hotel bedroom Saturday.
Her mouth had been sealed with
adhesive tape and her head bound
with a towel. Her body had been
mutilated with a razor blade
which police found in the bed.
She had been choked to death.
The woman's husband, AL Coff-
man, proprietor of a rooming
house, told officers he last saw his
wife Friday evening when she said
she was going to q movie.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
A. A. j. v. TEA
SET FOR THIS
AFTERNOON
BY MARY PADGETT

The American Association OF
University Women will meet for
its regular tea and business meet
ing, this afternoon at 4 o'clock
in, the clubhouse, 1884 st. N. w.
Mrs. Harold Whittle will be
hostess. assisted by Mrs. Leo Paul
ger, Miss Janeiro Brooks, Miss
Emma Grams, Mrs. George Woods,
Miss Helen Esgate, Miss Edith
A.sgate and Mrs. Warner J.
OLeary.
The players group will be enter
tanned tonight at s o'clock at the
home of Miss Sara Lerch, 1926
Seventeenth st. N. w.
Mrs. Frederick Widmer, who
was guest of honor last night at
the University Women's buffet
supper at the clubhouse, sang
Swiss folk songs in costume, &C
companying herself on the &C
cordian. Miss Florence Fritz
was hostess.
A meeting of the Music Appre-
citation Group will be held tomor-
row at 4:45 o'clock in the lounge,
with Miss Marta Brokaw as
leader.
Miss Mary R. Parkman will re
view "A Backward Glance" by
Edith Wharton for the Evening
Book Review Section tomorrow
night at 7:15 o'clock. The group
will dine together at 6 o'clock in
the Wistaria Room, and the book
review will follow promptly at
7:l5.
1.-THE Changing College" will be
the subject of the panel discussion
sponsored by the Education Com
mittee Wednesday night at 7
o'clock. DR.. Dorothy Stimson,
dean Of Goucher College, will be
the chief speaker.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Now He Kn0UUs What
Time Thieves Work
To the Editor of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
I sat up all night in an effort
to catch the thief who, using a
duplicate key, robbed my car OF
all my personal clothing. He only
took what he could carry, so I
was expecting him back for type
writer, laprobe, etc.
Here is what I saw: Young
people returning home in droves
between and a. m. Some Of
them were young girls unaccom-
panied. One couple, much under
the influence of liquor, parked
their car in the very middle of
the street, turned off their lights
instead of their motor and fell
sound asleep in each others arms
I shook the boy awake and urged
him to park close to the curb.
Twenty minutes later the fire
wagons roared past.
One half hour before signs OF
daylight the street lights went
out. My Fagin did not show up,
but I now know the hour at which
he did the trick.
had a police whistle, under
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
u. D. c. Dance

General ]. E. B. Steuart Chap
ter, United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, will hold its annual
spring dance on April q at the
Women's City Club, 736 Jackson
Pl. N. w.
Members of the committee ar
ranging the affair are Miss Mary
B. Boyd, chairman; Miss Doris
Casey, Miss Margaret Cockrell,
Miss Marion Hardy, Miss Frances
Phillips, Miss Mary Waywick, Miss
Margaret Walden, Miss Leila Cliff,
Mrs. Albion w. Tuck. Mrs. Albert
Mustain, and Mrs. Edith c. Hattie
way.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Letters to the Editor

Editor should They
signed
confidential initials publication
Readers nUed of interest
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
MAYOR CARSON
To RUN AGAIN

RIVERDALE, Md, April 8.-W.
c. Carson, mayor of Riverdale,
has started election gossip here
by being the first to throw his hat
into the campaign ring. He will
seek reelection to a fourth term.
A mayor, two councilmen, and a
referendum on raising the two tax
rate from Is to 80 cents will
center the attention Of the elec-
torate on May 6, when, for the
first time, polls will be open all
day from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Vot-
ing will be at the fire house.
Registration of new voters will
be held this Thursday and April
IA
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
New POtentate Busy
With Shrine Plans

Robert P. Smith, Washington
attorney, will have a busy time
on his hands in the next few
weeks, making arrangements to
welcome several hundred thous-
ands visitors to the Capital dur
ing the Shrine convention in
June.
Mr.. Smith, who has been &C.
tive in Masonic circles here for
many years, has just been
elected potentate of Almas TEN.
pie of the Shrine, and in this
capacity will be the official host
to the members of the organiza.
ton.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Tea for D. A. R.

Mrs. Howard M. Bailey, vice
president general of the D. A. R.:
Mrs. Mortimer Platt. State regent
of Missouri; Mrs. Clyde Hender.
son Porter, State vice regent, and
the delegates and alternates from
Missouri, attending the Cont
mental Congress of the organiza-
ton, will be guests at tea given
in their honor at the Women's
Congressional Club, 2001 New
Hampshire Ave-, on Tuesday after
noon, April 16, from 4 to o'clock.
The tea will be sponsored by the
wives of members of Congress
from Missouri.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Young Democrats
To Hear NOtables

SILVER SPRING, Md, April 8.
Two prominent guest speakers,
Senator Rush Holt, of West Vir-
ginia, and Daniel Roper, secre-
tary of the National Democratic
Central Committee, will be pre-
sented at a meeting Of the United
Young Mems Democratic Clubs of
Montgomery County to be held to-
night in the Saddle and Hunt
Club on the East West Highway
near here,
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
CORNERSTONE LAID

DANVTLLE, Va, April 8 (Spe.
ciaD The cornerstone Of the
new church Of the Ascension was
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
No Divorce Runs
Among Wild Geese

WARSAW, Mo-, April 8 G.N.SO
Wild geese, unlike humans, Oh.
serve a very strict marriage"
code-there is no such thing as
divorce among the fowl once they
are mated. J. K. HALEY. custodian
of a goose preserve, has found.
HALEY said:
''When a wild goose chooses a
mate it is a lifelong union. In
the case of the death of either
the goose or the gander neither
will ever mate again."
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Taxpayers to Get
Advice on Election

ARLINGTON, Va, April 8.-The
Arlington Precinct Democratic
Club has appointed a committee
to assist taxpayers in the Demo
cratic primary August 6. Those
on the committee are Thomas
Garry, chairman: G. w. Ferguson,
Thomas Flynn, Edward Webb, c.
L. Moncure, Charles Fletcher and
j. F. Fox.
It will be the duty of the COM
mittee to remind taxpayers to get
their poll tax paid in time and
see that they are registered. A
special meeting will be held April
"a, at Village Inn.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
2 Tough" Youths
Die for Staying

BELLEFONTE, Pa, April 8
UN.S0.-Two youths who had
boosted they were "hard-boiled"
were electrocuted in the prison
here today for the killing Of
Policeman william C. Wilson, As,
during a holdup last Labor Day.
William Talarico, 81, displaying
no emotion. was the first led to
the chair. Walter Tough Guy
Mika, "a, leader of a gang Of
robber youths, followed a few
minutes later. Talarico reiterated
that he was innocent and blamed
Family difficulties" for his life
of crime.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08

the delusion that if I caught my
man all I needed to do was to
make a great hullabaloo and
scout cars and the officer Of the
beat would come to my aid. But
not one officer or scout car passed
this address G300 block Vermont
Ave.) all night. And this is a
downtown area in which people
have been dubbed.
The poor tired policemen wer"
probably home in bed after hard
day of ticketing cars parked over.
time. B. L. F,