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Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

ments have been spent in aim
less vacillation.
If I only had been born with
a strong will power, like some
people," you've sighed enviously.
But no one is born with a
Will-strong or otherwise. Wills
must be developed and trained
as strong muscles must be de-
veloped and trained. An ath-
lete starts with the soft, stringy
fiber which is the makingS of
muscle, and from this he de-
velops the Sinewy band which
gives him his power.
And, in exactly the same man.
ner, man starts with the ability
to choose, wherein lies the max
ings of a Will. And by exercis-
ing that ability, he develops Will
Power.
MEET DECISIONS
Will Power is simply the ac-
cumulated choice-power of your
past decisions. If you haven't
any past decisions, you haven't
any Will Power.
And so it happens that a poor
choice is better than none at
all. For even though you may
suffer unhappy consequences
from a poor choice, you have
gained by the experience, for
you have increased not only
your wisdom but that which is
far more precious your ability
to decide.
Never duck a decision. Never
alibi your way out OF making
one. No possible penalty for
making a, poor choice could be
as disastrous as the punishment
you inflict on yourself by not
making any.
Make your own decisions even
though you have to face a bat
tie in order to do so, for your
ability to decide is your first
duty, most serious responsibility
and most sacred obligation.
And let others make their
own decisions. If you MUST
wrong another human being,
steal from him, lie about him,
cheat him or betray hin-BUT
NEVER INTERFERE. WITH
HIS RIGHT AND DUTY OF
MAKING HIS OWN CHOICES.
You may crafty your own
egotism by doing so-but you do
irreparable damage to his i'm
mortal soul.
And that goes for EVERYONE
including, first of all, your
own child.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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should keep an eye on the Orient
after any announcement was
made that fortification plans
were to be carried out.
He cOntended that Japan
knew that once the Aleutians
were fortified and airplane
bases established that it would
materially alter Japan's present
comparatively safe position as
far as air raids are concerned.
Bombers loaded with high
explosive shells could fly from
the Aleutians to the Orient IN
a short time, possibly having to
refuel at sea.
The attaches view was that
an Oriental power would much
prefer, and might not wait for
the United States to fOrtify the
islands, before melting trouble.
Pleas for silver legislation do
not echo through Capitol corrl-
dors these days, but that doesn't
mean the silver block isn't
bearing the subject in mind.
All of them are anxious to
find new methods for use of the
white metal.
ecently Representative
Compton I. White, Democrat Of
Idaho, wrote to Sergeant at
Arms Kenneth L. Romney ad-
vising that he wanted the
House disburSing office to pay
off employees in silver dollars.
White contended that he had
sought to secure silver dollars in
the disbursing office without
success. and insisted that they
be in evidence.
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Our Foreign Policy
By James T. Williams, T.

There is one major policy of
the Roosevelt administration
now in power which has the
whole-hearted support of an
overwhelming majority of the
American people.
This is the policy of minding
our own business and not med
ding in the domestic quarrels
Of foreign countries, big or small.
In spite of the pressure of or
ganized minorities, in spite Of
the sincerity with which some
of these press their claims, in
spite of the natural antipathy
which all true Americans feel
for those who provoke civil
strife by racial or religious per-
secution-in spite of all these
considerations, President Roose-
velt has refused to permit the
Government at Washington to
become entangled in the domes-
tic quarrels of other countries.
AMERICAN TRADITION
This policy of minding our
own business in such matters
did not originate with the Ad.
ministration now in power. 1t
is traditional American policy.
Under the American system of
government the people possess
the right of petition but the
conduct of foreign relations is
a responsibility imposed by
their Constitution upon the
President of the United States.
This is not to be confused
with the final control of policy
which the Constitution entrusts
to the Senate of the United
States. The two responsibilities
are separate and distinct.
Organized minorities which
attempt to take away from the
President the conduct of foreign
relations and give it to Congress
are not following the procedure
fixed by the Constitution. SINH
larly, organized minorities which
seek to take away from the Sen
ate and give to the President
the final control of policy are
equally far afield.
This whole question of the re-
1ations between the United
States and foreign countries has
been much to the fore in recent
months. One group in Congress
has been pestering the President
to take action respecting Latin
America that would inevitably
threaten grave consequences.
He has persisted in his refusal
to lead this country into any
such dangerous path.
Other groups have been striV-
ing to force his hand with re-
gard to no less distressing hap
penings in Europe.
Like every other true Ameri-
can, Mr.. Roosevelt is a firm be-
lever in freedom of worship and
in the absolute separation of
Church and State. Under the
Constitution he has sworn to up
hold American principles in
this regard.
But when it comes to foreign
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countries the American Consti.
tuition does not apply. Foreign
countries have governments Of
their own. Foreign countries
claim the same right to govern
themselves tn at Americans
claim for themselves and freely
acknowledge to be the right Of
other members of the family Of
free nations.
The policy which the present
Administration has thus far
pursued in resisting the pressure
of organized minorities to med
die in the domestic quarrels Of
several other countries was de-
fined by that truly great Ameri.
can, Theodore Roosevelt, as
straight Americanism." Said
Theodore Roosevelt on this sub
ject:
eve of America form a new
nationality. We are by blood,
and we ought to be by feeling,
akin to but distinct from every
nationality Of Europe. If our
various constituent strains en-.
deavOr to keep themselves Sepa-
rate from the rest of their feI-
lOw-cOuntrymen by the use of
hyphens, they are doing all in
their power to prevent them.
selves and ourselves from ever
becoming a real nationality at
all.
TWO DUTIES
"An American who is loyal to
this great American nation has
two duties, and only two, in In
ternatiOnal matters. In the first
place, he is bound to serve the
honor and the interest Of the
United States. In the second
place, he is bound to treat all
other nations in accordance
with the ultimate needs of man.
kind at large; and not in ac-
cOrdance with the interests of
the European nations from
which some of his ancestors
have come. If he does not act
along these lines, he is derelict
in his duty and he is guilty of
betraying the interests of his
country"
On both sides of the Atlantic
President Roosevelt, when op-
portunity has offered, has used
his good offices to moderate
certain excesses that have nat
uralIy shocked the American
people. Theodore Roosevelt and
other American Presidents did
the same before him when sim
liar situations arose.
But insulting the flag Of a
foreign country, with which the
United States is at peace, is not
the American way. And the
government of the State of New
York ought to prevent a recur-
renee of such an outrage when
ever or wherever within its bor-
ders there is no local govern
ment willing or capable of dis
charging this imperative respon
sibility.
| Copyright, 1885, The Washington Tim.
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Greatest Show On Earth
Bu John SnuFe, W.

The disbursing office dis.
burSeS more than 100000 per
month to members OF Congress
and employees.
It would take considerable ad'
ditional space to store all the
silver dollars that second
termer White requests.
Back to Congress on an In
spection tour recently came
jeanette Rankin, the first wom-
an to be elected to Congress.
Elected in Montana, she
served in the war period and,
as the only woman in Congress,
voted against the resolution
which projected the United
States into the conflict.
She was, and is, a Republican.
and has her views on the pres
ent Administration.
At the Capitol she stops to
discuss current affairs with
Ellis Belts, Capitol elevator
operator and one Of the most
dyed,in-the-wool Democrats ever
to set foot beneath the great
dome.
Just the other day, after
being absent from his rostrun,
for some moments, Speaker OF
the House Joseph w. ByrnS re-
turned to take up the gGvel and
peruSe q note on his desk.
The note, written on ordinary
memorandum paper, bore the
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How valuable
a citiZ Ze n?
Four q u e S.
tion S. Y o u
can a n S W e r
them all py
one test
w A T c H
YOURS E l. F
WHEN Y o U
N z ED TO
M A K E A
DECISION.
What's the
most impor-
tant thing in
human life
Il ~ 4 ~
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Everybody Pays Taxes

Everybody pays taxes, though only few know it.
man thinks that because his income small he gets
off without defrayng the of his government is living
Fools Paradise.
This little extract from recent article in The Common
veal may be unpleasant reading you you have the de-
1uson that you escape scotfree from the taxcoector
But read it.
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would fOrtify
the Aleutian
Islands, begin
ming in 1886.
Not so long
ago, the mill
tary attache
of an embassy
h e r e W a S
discussing the
f o r t i f i C a.
tion by this
c o u n t r y
of that island
group.
His vie W
was that the
United States
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WISE WORDS

And the light shineth in dark
ness; and the darkness compre.
hended it not.-John lis.
He who would climb and soar
aloft must needs keep ever at
his side the tonic of a whole
some pride.-Arthur Hugh
Clough.
No sadder proof can be given
by a man of his own littleneSs
than disbelief in great men,
Carlyle.
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climbed t o
the elevated,
roared past
the thi ird
stories of the
city's tene-
ments and
headed for
the op e n,
rolling a n d
green spaces
of WeStcheS-
ter county.
Most of the
passengers
SaleSmen and
business men,
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AAASAAANA S@A4 - SAAA4
words:
RULES Com
mittee at S
o'clock"
Underneath
that inScrip-
ton was the
advice:
Mint juleps
prepared b y
a NVAANOCAS
X e n t u ck Y
colonel.
The session
in the Rules
m mittee
W hich is
headed by
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gas companies might furnish
him a statement showing that
in his years total of bills he
had paid SIS in taxes. The tele-
phone company could show a
similar statement aggregating
at least another $5. BY this
time the 'tax.exempt' citizen is
contributing at least SAB a year.
"But the landlord has still to
do his share. In the present
low estate of real estate, about
One-fifth, at least, Of every dol
lar paid in rent is tax money.
The landlord might include
with each months rent an item
of $1O.83 credited to taxes. Our
citizen would now make a quick
total and discover that through
five channels alone he is sup,
porting the Government to the
extent of $173 a year. That
would probably be more than 10
per cent of his income, more
than five weeks salary, nearly
five months Of rent, or enough
to feed his entire family for IA
weeks"
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heaueu by speaker nyFH"
Representative John O'COnnoE.
Democrat of New York, was for
leaders who wished to discuss
the tax bill.
The added incentive was the
inscription concerning the de-
lectable julepS.
Copyright. 1895, The Washington Times
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Can You Make Up Your
Mind?

How civilized are you? How
grown-up? How reliable with
yourself or the other fellow?
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LET us look at a few Of the
taxes which the 'tax.exempt' in
dividual usually pays. A man
who smokes a package a daJ Of
cigarettes pays taxes on them Of
about SIS a year-and yet he
might grumble nightly if he
had to pay that in Federal In
come Tax! But cigarettes are
only the beginning. The mil
lions of automobile owners have
become used to ignoring their
annual license fee because the
word license is SO m u h
more smoother than tax But
suppose that filling stations
handed the custOmer a slip
stating that with every ten
gallon purchase of gasoline he
paid a combined Federal and
State tax of Ito be mOdest) 80
cents. At the end of the year
the tax exempt automobile
owner might find that he had
paid upward of SIS in gasoline
taxes.
'Next, the electric light and
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Your contribution to the branrusters boondogger and
others in the various under which you live thus
up- you average with average job-to
about $173 year.
Better that in your mind before you congratulate
yourself that the spending at Washington and elsewhere
doesn't hit YOU.
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Secretary of the Navy Claude
Swanson has announced that
the United States probably
The Washington times., 1935-08-02
By Nelson Harding

Huge and strong, but rendered helpless
By the self adjusted handouts;
He is led away prisoner
By a small but well-armed captor.
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Homes For Orphans

The train pulled out of the
underground of the great Grand
Central Station in New York,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-10

soldiers carrying obsolete rifles wrong end to through the African desert.
 To come across this picture of these two All Club prize winners was like get ting a drink of cool water on hot and dusty day. For it was reminder that the country is not, after all, as cock-eyed as some of it's happenings seem to indicate. Health, good sense, and plain, everyday decency and sanity looked out of the page, to reasSure us about Uncle SamS fundamental SoundneSS.
 A country that can produce young people like these has little to worry about. 1t may fall over it's own feet trying to de- vice farm program and lose flywheel or two in adjusting its industrial produc- tion. It may bring forth it's annual crop of crooners, fan dancers, and half-baked politicians as long as it can bring up youngsters like these, we needn't lose any sleep. It is a country that is going places, after all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-10
Last Hope Vanishes

It seems apparent that Bruno Haupt- mann, the stolid German carpenter, will 20 to the electric chair convicted of the murder of the infant son of Colonel Charles Lindbergh. Denial of his plea by the United States Supreme Court yester- day was the signal for preparations for carrying out the sentence imposed on Hauptmann last spring. Whether it will make any difference in the demeanor of the accused man, who has been rather wildly claiming his innocence from his death cell, remains to be seen.
 It will long be moot question in peo- ple's minds whether Hauptmann is really guilty of the crime, one of the worst of this modern age when crime is so ram- pant. We say this without any knowledge of what may turn up between now and the date of execution. If the German goes to the chair still maintaining that he is not guilty it is but natural that many will also remain unconvinced of his guilt. If he should confess to the crime, it will be another mark to the credit of law enforcement.
 It was Walter Winchell who just re- gently pointed out that since the deten- tion and conviction of Hauptmann not a single piece of the ransom money has come to light. Then again despite all claims to the contrary the trail of wood that led from beneath the nursery wood of the Lindbergh home in the Sourland mountains of New Jersey to the Bronx attic of the accused man still stands forth as masterpiece of evidence con- Struction. Our only contention is that ii Hauptmann dies still maintaining inno- cence, many of us will hear his pleas and see the headlines for long years to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-10

part of the funds for the "em- ployables'.
 To date, the Works Progress Administration has all0cated 8 a total of $1,14O,O00,0 0,00O for job- creating projects. To this, the localities have added another $2SO, 100000.
 The situation in the Public Works Administration is even more striking. In this field the states and cities actually are putting up 8 larger share than the government. t
 The PWA has $324, 100000 for outright grants. Localities through cash appropriations and loans, have outmatched this to the tune of $412,000,0 ,000-one-fourth more than the governments share.
 That the states and cities especially the latter-are now paying the greater share of relief is practically unknown to the public. Harry Hopkins press statements always take great pains to play it down. In fact they always emphasize the idea that the localities must pay more. Rock Bottom
 This, many of them say, is fi- nancially impossible. The only way out is further pairing of the already low relief standards.
 At the Mayors Conference some city executives openly charged the Administration with putting the squeeze" on the To- calities in order to make record in economical handling of the $4,- 100000 fund. They contended that instead of spending this sum on a one-year basis, as promised when the measure was before congress, it is actually being stretched to cover two-year period-with the states, cities and the needy taking the rap."
 To reverse this policy and re- open federal purse strings will be the object of localities at the coming session, and the three cornered struggle will furnish the major fireworks of congress.
 Merry-GO O-ROund
 Agriculture officials see in the flight of the China Clipper the danger of new infeStation of U. s. plants by Oriental pests and dis eases. The rapidity of travel makes importation of thriving pests much easier Harry Hop- kins has issued a confidential memo to his staff ordering them to curtail long distance telephone calls. In the rush to get WPA projects going, officials have been in the habit of telephoning all over the country The Thanksgiving dinner laid out by the CCSC camp in Sperryville, Virginia, when Boss Robert Fech- ner came to call, was more than he could eat. He was offered both pork and turkey, with all the trimmings, minec pie,. pumpkin pie, and cocoanut cake.
 Copyright 1895 by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, >Inc)
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You couldn't buy it today for less than $25O,OOO, but when Connecticut pur- chased it in 1900 it only cost $500. That is the famous Gilbert Stuart life-size portrait of George Washington which the state of South Carolina rejected because the artist made it "Mr. George Washing ton" instead of General George Wash ington' as had been ordered. The high value is not paper one. It was recently placed on the portrait by the Automobile Insurance Company when appraised for for the first time fully covered by insur- ance and to Comptroller Charles c. Swartz goes the credit for taking such action. A policy amounting to $428, ,450 was recently issued on this portrait and 125 other valuable items in the State Library The investment will be well regarded, we know.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-10
A Thought for Today
Turn Back, o Time

The tirade of Governor Wilbur L. Cross last week on conditions as they exist to- day in our state institutions which care for the insane and feeble-minded is like balm to lacerated flesh. It's long time now since The Waterbury Democrat first took up the cudgels in behalf of the ex- pansion of our state institutions. We have labored editorially through long years of waiting and cabling. Some success has been achieved, notably in the field ot the tuberculosis sanatoria. But even there much still remains to be done, as can be seen from the biennial reports of the commission
 With regards to the state hospital at Middletown everyone has been mace fully acquainted with the fact that this institution is sadly lacking ln many re- spects. So much so that on more than one occasion has it been publicly referred to as a fire-trap. And rightfully so, too: Yet all such charges seem to fall on deal ears so far as the legislators of the state are concerned. AS the governor said m his remarks of last week it struck him that more concern was actually felt over the minor court judgeships than over the thousands of inmates who are today crowded into hopelessly inadequate ana inefficient quarters.
 The need for another home for the feeble-minded was supposed to have been brought home forcibly in the interim be- tween the 1883 legislative session ana tne opening of the one held this year. In fact everything was arranged, so It seemed, for the Legislature to take care of a new home. But politics evidently reared it's ugly head for all that was done by the Legislature was to empower the governor to name commission to Study the advisability of new home for men tally detectives. Two years are thus lost.
 Back in republican domination days the need of institutional expansion was Toreseen and abandonment of the tradl- tional pay-aS-you-go system urged by such 2. o. p. stalwarts as John H. Trum- bull, then governor, Frederic c. Walcott, then in the State Senate, John H. Wad- hams, also in the Senate, and others. It resulted in a rather famous republican gathering in Hartford, the upshot of 1t being that those who wanted to bond the state or issue short-term notes so that the institutions might be given much needed attention reversed their posi- tions. From that day to this republicans have never been whole-heartedly behind institutional expansion. And today they are behind it only at democratic insls- tence, which might be a whole lot strong CT than it is. The same thing goes for the socialists, who, too, wanted such expansion when they were running Tor office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-10
A Bright Sign

You could work up quite nice little argument, if you cared, by asking people to say what is the most valuable thing America produces. There's wide field to pick from. This country is workshop and granary for half the world-or it used to be, anyway, before world trade went democratic-and it can give you any thing from autos to bran mullins with the air of merchant who handles noth- ing but the best.
 But the things that are raised out of the ground or put together in factories are not one-tenth as important to the country as the people who do the grow ing and the putting together. If we are producing the right sort of young people, we don't need to worry much about what farm and factory are producing. That will take care of itself-or, to be more exact, the right sort of young people will take care of it.
 Now all this was brought to mind by an ordinary photograph in a newspaper; picture, if you want the details, of Miss ROmayne Tate of Paragould, Ark. and William Hamilton of Good Hope, Ill. Miss Tate and MT. Hamilton seem to be healthy youngsters in their teens, or .fhereabouts, and the picture showed them holding two rather elaborate loving cuus-the President Roosevelt trophies awarded them for outstanding achieve meuts as All Club members.
 Since this world is sinful and human nature is weak, the people who do things fhat cause their picture to get printed in fl1e papers are not always representative If the finest flowers of civilized society. An ordinary day;s grist of pictures will IncIude a criminal or two, gawking snovfo actress, some gOof who is roller sIrnflng backward from Hoboken to Pike's rsak. newly discovered society female, zrf q handful Of bedsleeted Ethiopian
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-10
Question Box
o isss SEA

o. What are the salaries of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the U. s. Supreme Court?
 A. The Chief Justice receives $20,500 a year, and the Associate Justices receive $20,000.
 e. What is a classic in art or literature?
 A. Any book or work of art that may be regarded as a standard or a model.
 o. From whom can information about the service record of a man who served in the World War in the British Army be obtained?
 A. The British War Office, Lon- don, England.
 o. What is the source of the fol- lowing: "Woe to the land shadow ing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia?"
 A. Isaiah 18:1.
 o. When does the cotton gin- ming season begin and end in Bra gil? What is the language of that country?