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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12
So They Say

Private shipbuilders will soon come to grief if they continue to feel that there's something im- moral and unpatriotic about the government building it's own ships.
 Senator Homer T. Bone. Academic freedom should be the freedom of the learners to learn and not the freedom of the professor to profess to indoctrnate. John w. Studebakcr, U. $. commissioner of education. It is not sufficient to be known "good cit- izenS'; we must be good for something. Our greatest problem is the number of intelligent peo- pie who are morally unemployed.
 Bishop Ernest M Stires. Private industry should be aided and en. couraged in time fo and in my opinion should not be subject to conscrpton the same as man power.
 Eugene G Grace, Bethlehem Steel president
 
 We will never molest, have thought nor will think of molest!ng the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Soma,iland.
 Emperor Halle Selassie of Abyssinia.
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Horoscope
BY oCTAvINE


 Por persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the planets, the daily horoscope Is out. lined by a noted astrOloger. in addition to information of general interests, it outlines information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
 APRIL 13
 The early morning iS fine but the day is discordant later on. The evening is also excellent. The safest period to use for advance ment is after the evening meal. Try to routine the day. You may feel disapjointed if you plan social en- tertainment in the afternoon.
 Birthdate
 You may be an active worker but you should learn to direct your energy wisely. March. 1886, should be a good time to push your financial interests.
 Danger July 1918, 1885.
 Social favorable June 28-July l, 1885.
 Write letters or clean out youl desk on April 20 and 21, 1885.
 Readers desiring additional in- formation regarding their hOro- scopes are invited to cOmmuni- cate with Octavine in care of this newspaper. Enclose a 3-cent stamp seIf-addressed envelope.
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EUROPE LOOKS TO UNITED STATES TO PREVENT
 ANOTHER WAR
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Waterbury, Conn.,,
 April II, 1885. Editor of The Democrat:
 Just think of it, they're buying gas masks in Europe because they fear war is just around the cor ner-still the same old war mad world clamoring for another world holocaust-with the graves of some three hundred thousand of our young men scattered over the bat tie grounds of Europe and Asia to make the world safe for democ- racy as they said in 1916. Look at 1t anyway you like, the World war was a sordid crime, and yet we are told that the second World war is still to come, before our world is safe for democracy or something else (and with the great generals, except one or two) who fought that war gone into the sacred un- consciousness, weary enough of war and battles for an eternity of sleeping.
 To look at the world situation from an emotional viewpoint. there is only one bright star on the darkening horizon. That star is the hope of the world-America! Europe looks to our newer civil- ization for leadership. Anyway in which the European aspect may be sized up, there is no hope of a permanent peace. As the United States of Europe, there would be a possibility of a union of interests amongst the different races, as Tennyson clearly and clairvoyantly foresaw with poetic inspiration in his world confederation.
 America cannot maintain her policy of selfish isolation. She has it in her power to guide the na- tions in the ways of peace, by as- suming her inherited role of world leadership. What we need in this country are great statesmen with vision who understand the viewpoints of the European na- tions. Statesmen who have the vision of Woodrow Wilson, the courage of Theodore Roosevelt and his broad mindedness.
 As long as our ships are scat tered over the seven seas, We nave no safeguard against being drawn into sny European war, as was demonstrated in the case of the Maine and Lusitania.
 As a matter of fact Europe docs look for guidance to America. The greatest shock ever experienced by the German emperor was when he heard with unbelieving ears that America had joined the Allies Such a possibility had never en- tered his widest dreams, and like Hindenberg, he knew that Gey- many was licked from that hour If the German intelligence service had been as efficient as 1t was re- puted to be the German high com- mand would never have made the mistake of defying our govern. ment.
 The greatest danger in the world to-day is the poison oi propaganda, chief of which Is oui own yellow press, which has al ways been our F'rankenstein in in ternatlonal affairs, 50 well de
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RoBT. w. HAYES.
LOW WAGES AND THE EVIL CONSEQUENCES
 OF THEM

Waterbury, Conn.
 April II, 1885. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Fellow members of the National Union for Social Justice: you will pardon me for making few brief remarks concerning the attitude we should adopt in the present crisis. These remarks are not made for any ulterior motive but l think the time has arrived when We should band together and prove to our legislators that we are going to stand back of Father Charles E. Coughlin, whom I hope and ex- pect to be our emancipator and liberator, providing we will De honest to ourselves and to him tn this hour of need.
 Since this present session cf Congress reassembled you are aware that not one bit of legisia- ton was put through that would be beneficial to our well being. They have put through a bill after 10 weeks of pickering appropriate ing $4,S0O, ,0O0, ,00O, by the way to put people back to work at star vation wage. Look at this bsll--- stripped of the amendment offered by the Honorable Pat McCarron te pay the prevailing wage. Fms amendment was obstructed by tEe majority of the senator's and rem dered futile. This bill as 1t stands is not adopted to remove the de. pression but to create more misery in our midst.
 To remove the depression by the means laid down by our Presi. dent is a mockery and deiusion You cannot have prosperity with. out paying a living wage to thu working man--at the least $3t per week: then and not until theJ
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scribed by Charles A. Beard. noted historian, and formerly president of the American Histor- ical Association at the sixty-fiftn annual convention of the National Education Association in Atlantic City, N. J., on February 24th, last.
 The first step to avert any fu- ture European war, is an offensive and defensive alliance between America, England and Russia-thc big three. To bring that about our foreign policy will have to be reversed to what it is to-day-a policy which should be unravelled on the floor of Congress.
 The free soil of the United States has been too often used by foreign groups to 'instigate ana plot murder and revolution in other countries, and if permitted to long continue, it will only react to the detriment of the American people. The foes within our gates are more dangerous to our coun- try than those without.
 Pertinent questions might be asked as to the activities in this country of the so-callod All-RuS- sian Fascity White Guards, but this is matter for the investiga- ton of the news dispatches that Committee created by Congress to investigate just such fiy-by-night organizations. There is no ques- ticn of the news despatches tha. report even our country as swarm ing with foreign spies. Plenty for all the war veterans organizations to do to clean up this phase of the situation.
 Yours respectfully
 FRED EDWARDS.
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will we be on the road to recovery. The cost of living has scared and is still soaring beyond the peoples capacity to buy. I think in the near future that the retailer, pro- ducer and worker will have 10 enter leaky boat and all sink to- gether. How does any sane per- son think that a man and wife and 2, or children can subsist on $50 per month and pay rent? lt amount specified above might sue- flee for an old age pension. 1t seems to me that our demands are falling on deaf ears. What do they care when they can butter their bread on both sides?
 A day of reckoning will conle around we know when all appropriations set up by the government will have 10 bo paid back through the medium of taxation. God knows we a.'s taxed enough already. Our toba1- co, cigarettes, shoes and clothing are beyond our limited means, then there Is the poor property owners who had the misfortune to put down a few thousand dollars, saved from hard labor, sweat and honest toll. Now it is passing away from them day by day owing to its depreciation and the tactics eni- ployed by interruptions bankers who would not reduce the rate Of interest even by per cent. l hap. pened to listen to an address over the radio Tuesday night delivered by his excellency, MT Hoffman, governor of the state of New Jec. sey. He stated implicitly that they would have to reduce taxation on house property by at least one- third and devise other means of raising revenue to carry on the projects of the state. The same situation prevails throughout the country. It might be well if the governor of this state took action to prevent bankruptcy.
 What is all the noise about this stupendous amount of money set up for relief work? It is not very long ago since we sent over to the European countries times the amount ($40,000,O00,o00) whei they had their backs to the wall. What did we get in return--a -e- pudiation of the debt. Together with that we conscripted the man- power of this country to sacrifice themselves in the battlefelds of Europe in war by the way to end war and to make the world safe for democracy. Did these prat-l tiers of peace, the SimoA-purcs ever sheath the sword? No! You fathers and mothers who have sons of military age owe a debt of gratitude to the noble and patrl- otic and honorable senators who stood up in the face of insur- mountable odds and denounced and defeated that obnoxious buI| known as the world court. ded signed and fostered here in ouH midst by none other than your 100 per cent Britishers who want th@ youth of this country again 10 5a sacrificed on the side of piracy, ra pine and plunder.
 I hope every worker will jOt0 the National Union for Social JusS tice.
 Yours respectfully,
 M. A. EASTMAN. | 255 North Main st.
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The United States Weather Bureau is sitting back and enjoying smile these days And the reason is this-the Bureau claims that it made no long-range pre- dictions for the winter of 1934-35. As result it can't be blamed because the sea- son hasn't been as hard on us northerners as was freely predicted by self-style prophets and other semi-official sources of weather information last fall. We well recall that we were told this winter would be as cold and as stormy as the last one. The bureau at Washington reporting on December, January, and February points out that the average for these three months was above that of 1933-34 in storms, low temperature readings and in- tensity of cold spells. However, we do note that the weathermen agree that the weather was colder than normal in the northeast corner of the U. s. That's us, but even we weren't as cold as year ago. The records prove it, if other signs don't.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, She is light conn., plected"; say "complexioned."

der which Natty Bumppo appears in the novels '"The Pioneers," and "The Prairie"
 0. Is Yale university older than William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va?
 A. Yale was founded in 1701: and William and Mary in 1893.
 0. What is the letter postage rate to Italy from the United States?
 A. Five cents for the first ounce or fraction, and three cents for each additional ounce or frac- tion.
 Q. How long would it take to count one million dollar bills work ing five 8-hour days a week?
 A. Allowing GO counts to the minute, it would take nearly seven weeks.
 o. What was the date of the first Tuesday after the first Mon. day in March, 1888? A. March 6.
 0. Who said: Mans inhuman- ity to man makes countless thou sands mourn?"
 A. Robert Burns in the poem, Man Was Made to Mourn"
 Q. What is the total population of the world?
 A. More than two billion, &C., cording to the 1930 estimate of the International Statistical In- stitute of the League of Nations.
 0. What causes rainbows?
 A. The reflection of sun-rays on rain-drops, or drops of mois- ture in the air. Q. Give the date of the estab- lishment of the first Civilian Con- servation Camp, the. total enroll ment to date, and the number now in the camps. A. The first one was Camp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

Headlines say Hoover won't run again. It's question whether Hoover could run again. So far as can be seen the ex- president is not completely out of the political picture. Seldom, if ever, in these hectic days can a politically defeated can didate regain his former prestige. Alfred E. Smith was famous example of this And certainly if Al Smith is out of the running, the man who defeated him so decisively in 1928 is as much if not more so. There'l be no ticket headed by Her bert Hoover in 1886. You can bet on this with safety right now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12
Deficiency Judgments

One of the most cruel things about the long, deep depression has been the ire ouency of deficiency judgments" against nropertv owners. Not only have the own- CTS lost their mortgaged property, with the money already paid on the mortgage, but their foreclosed property has been sold at prices so low as not to satisfy the debt, and the debtors have been left win the deficit hanging over their heads and no means of paying 1t.
 Various states have found it desirable to enact laws requiring that at foreclosure sales "fair value" for the property, an average value rather than a current mar ket value that may be absurdly low, shall be set off against the debt. An additional measure pending in one legislature would help those who have lost all their property, and who remain liable for deficiency, by voiding the judgment after one year if they cannot pay. Other states are trying other devices to remedy the injustice and give the bankrupt debtors new chance to get back on their feet.
 There is growing demand throughout the country to remedy the fundamental mistake in such cases, which is the effort to put all the risk of property devaluation on the debtor and none on the creditor. An obvious solution is to value the prop erty moderately in the first place, and then make both mortgagor and mortgagee stand by that valuation, so that if market value of the mortgaged property were greatly reduced by business depression or other cause for which the debtor was not to blame, the property itself would satisfy the judgment in case of foreclosure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

finds falling off in the num-
 Der of lewd and pornographic magazines attempting to use the mails. This does not neces- sarily mean that fewer such magazines are published. If unmailable, other methods of distribution may be used
 Oldest senator in length of ser vice is Idaho's Bill Borah, who came to the senate 2S years ago. But when Borah first came, Daniel E. Lloyd had already seen 30 years of service. And Lloyd is still on the job. Not a sena- tor, he has seen scores of sena- tors come and go, has recorded millions of their spoken words. Lloyd Is the dean of the official reporters of the seante
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

federal grants based on relief expendi- lures made directly by the city or town government The reasoning is poor. We hope that if the state relief bill goes through, the same style of reasoning will not prevail. We are rather worried, though, that it will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

corridors of the Capitol, say she is having even more efgfect on legislation to-day than when she was a member of, the House the first woman to sit in con- gress.
 She frankly calls herself lobbyist for peace.
 There is no measure dealing with war or war materials on which Miss Rankin is not well informed.
 She cannot go on the floor of the House, but she makes use of her parliamentary experience in coaching members who come off the floor for her advice.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 The Post Office Department
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12
Selected Poem
RONDEAU OF SPRING

(Russell Janney in the New York Times) (From the French of Charles d'Orleans Poet-Prince Of the fifteenth century.) The year has flung his cloak away Of wind, of freezing and of snow And now his mantle is aglow
 With broidery of sparkling day;
 There's not bird beast of prey That does not shout merry "Ho!" The year has flung his cloak away or wind, of freezing and of snow.
 Each river, fountain, stream at play Dons livery that jewels know, Great silver drops like emeralds show, The whole worlds dressed for holiday.
 The year has flung his cloak away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

among New Deal truisms that the Navy is the Presidents pet. What it wants, he gives.
 The result is more waste in the Navy than ever before; more cocksurcness on the part of officers, less efficiency.
 One bureau, where the new flood of money is most apparent and most amusing is in Naval Intelligence. Here the funds for espionage suddenly have been increased, with the result that espionage now is being carried on even in Great Britain though this undoubtedly will be denied.
 Results of this espionage for the most part are ludicrOus, es- pecialIy in Japan. But the Japanese arc getting great kick out of them.
 When the Navy Department was strapped, it got naval intelli- gence without charge from American business men in Ja- pan who could speak as real
  political conditions within the country.
 Nov with money to spend, Naval Intelligence is able to em- ploy Japanese agents. This Is what gives the greatest kick to Japanese government officials. For the agents always loyal to the emperor, immediately report to their own officials and feed back whatever information the latter want given out. Once a Japanese agent turned in a blue print of a new gun allegedly just invented for the navy of Nip pon.
 American Naval Intelligence officers, greatly pleased, sent the blue print over to Naval ord- nance experts. They declared the gun could not be manufac- tured. The Japanese apparent ly had a sense of humor. They put curve in the gun. SHOCK
 Henry I. Hartman, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce is also leading water power magnate. But he was a bitter disappointment: to repub- lican members of the House Interstate Commerce commit tee.
 The big business chief ap- m give his views on the utility holding corporation bill, pet project of the president.
 All other power witnesses had heaped fire and birthstone on the measure because of its provision requiring the dissolution of holding companies within period of five years.
 Hartman, while urging cer- tain notifications, expressed no objection to tle five year death. sentence.
 Republican members of the committee, who have been waging bitter war on the meas ure, were so outraged at this "apostasy" they literally sput- tered.
 Ohio's Cooper, New Jerseys .. WoIvertOn and Connecticut. Merritt ragged and fuIMcd. But inc quict-spOken Hartman calm. Iy stuck by his guns.
 PEACE LOBBYIST
 Friends of Jeanette Rankin, who see her darting about the
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Daily Washington Merry Go Round
BY DREW PEARSON ROBERT S. ALLEN

B. Navy Presidents Pet Becomes New Rh Cocue and Less Efficient NV Espionage Pansh Nppones Intelligence Republicans Faaure Holding Conpam
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The I. c. c. has authorized the abandon ment of a proposed railway line from Canada to Mexico. Incorporated in 1923 it remained "paper railroad" with only 41 miles of line in Wyoming, but the motor highway materializes year by year, so you can make the continental trip one of these days, anyhow.
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Your Questions Answered

VOu can get nn anBweR Co any anawernble question Of eace or tn- eOrmatlon by writing Co Frederick a.. Merby, Clmeaalon Editor. Tue Waterbury lDemorFat. WashIngtOn Bureau. fOl3 Thirteensh Street. Washington. n. C. enclosing THREBG cents in coin or postage postal eards. Medical and segal adviees cannot be given nor enn extended research he made. ALI other questions will receive a pers0nnl reply. Letters without name or addResS cannot be ans svyeFed. All letfers are eOHflden. tinl. You are cordially invited to make use Of this free service @S often ms you please.
 THE EDITOR. 0. Who is president of Switz. erland
 A. Rudolph Ringer.
 o. When was the Treaty oi Peace that ended the Spanish. American war signed?
 A. December 10, 1898.
 O. What period is regarded ai the quintessence of architectural beauty?
 A. The Golden Age of Greece the Age of Pericles and Phidias. o. Why did James Fenimore Cooper name his books Leather stocking Tales?"
 A. That was the nickname un-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

We keep an eye on Europe and keep up a friendly correspondence, but otherwise we are very busy minding our own business
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

Can you answer seven Of these
 test questions? Turn to last
 page for the answers.
 1. In which state is the city of Chippewa Falls? 9. Name the capital of Tennes. see.
 8. Name the founder of Eng. fish Unitarianism.
 4. Where is Mt Etna7
 s. In a court trial. what is . hypothetical question?
 6. Which state is niclknamed the Lone Star state?
 2. What is another name for palmistry?
 8. What event is called ths Nativity?
 9. Why is Biela's Comet 90 named? 10. For what name is Tillie . nickname? Roosevelt in the George Washing. ton National Park near Luray, Va, which opened April IF, 1888. Total enrolment has been approxt- mately 100000 and on March 1, 1885 there were approximately 370,00O in the camps.
 Q. Did General Grant ever own slaves?
 A. He was a slave owner at one time.
 Q. How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit in 1928?
 A. Fifty-four.
 If you want a copy of our bul- letin SHRUBBERY & HEDGES, write to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, enclosing cents in postage stamps.
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Test Y O UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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A Thought for Today

will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell m eafety-Psalms, AS. If we have not peace within ourselves, 1t IS in vain to seek it from outward sources.- 2Rochefoucauld.
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Q. How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit in 1928?
 A. Fifty-four.
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Washington, April 12.-Those in contact with the Navy these days note the same change which comes over many human beings who come suddenly into easy money.
 During most of the years since the World war, the Navy has had to fight for every dollar it got from congress. As a result 1t made every dollar go long way. During those years the Navy had an enviable reputation for econ- omy and efficiency. It's officers were on their mettle, generally considered more efficient than the Army.
 Now the situation is reversed.
 At no time since war days has the Navy had so much money to spend. And at no time, not even during war days, has the Navy been so close to the White House.
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Q. Who is president of Switz- erland
 A. Rudolph Ringer.
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A. The Golden Age of Greece, he Age of Pericles and Phidias.
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Q. Did General Grant ever own slaves?
 A. He was a slave owner at one time.
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o. What causes rainbows?
 A. The reflection of sun-rays on rain-drops, or drops of mois- ture in the air.
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der which Natty Bumppo appears in the novels 'The Pioneers" and "The Prairie"
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