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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Barber, Mrs. Gertrude Calvin, Mrs. Kenneth Driscoll, Mrs. George Mur- phy, Miss Julia Donahue and Miss Mary Kirwin.
 Bishop Francis Mcconnell of the New York area of the Methodist Episcopal church will deliver the an- niversary adress at the Centennial service of the local Methodist church Sunday at 2:30 p. m. The Rev. Hen " E. Kelley and the Rev. T. Ber- tram Anderson will take part in the service. The newly organized. junior choir vii be heard for the first time.
 Honeymoon Over
 MT. and Mrs. Nelson Smith have returned from their wedding trip and have taken an apartment on West street.
 St. Anthony's Circle, Daughters of Isabella, will receive Holy Commun- ion in a body at the g o'clock mass Sunday morning.
 Alexander w. Peck of Litchfield has been appointed art editor of the Yale Record, student publication at Yale University.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Mary D'Angelis, Angeline Sciota.
 Grade 5 (90-100) - Harriet Stu eSsi, John Krawchuk, August Gerard, Shirley Fenn, Henry Taraszkevich, Frances Petecchio, Sophie Mendyka, Geraldine Carosella, Peter Pagliaru- 10, Albert De Foe, Anthony Lenti. Grade 5 (85-90) = Henry Santelli, Frank Mencio, Joseph Corbo, Carlo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05
sO-POUND SALMON LANDED

ROCK Island, Wash. (UP)-The largest fish ever caught east of the Cascade Mountains in Washington was taken here by R. w voss. Us- ing 30-pound test line. he hooked a 50-pound salmon. and landed it after an hour and . half battle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Grade 3 (9O-1OO) - Marion Kos lowski, Lucille Pelosi, Joseph Ga lasso, Helen Tarasiewicz, George Folwell, Harry Owens, Philip Becker, Natalina Varrone, Palma Sette.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Although the public welfare de- partment case load has been some wln frightened by the transfer of many persons to the WPA, an or der issued by the WPA today con- corning this working in private in- dustr.' and receiving supplemental
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Grade 3 (85-9O) = Joyce Rivers, Mary ValIetta, Paul Miller, Mary Nanni, Ralph Capuano, Lucy Burgio, Anita Pettincchi, Richard Del Gob- ba, Wilfred Couture.
Evening star., 1935-11-21
Admiral JelIicOe.

Probably the long distance verdict of
history will be necessary definitely to fix
Admiral Jellicoe's place in the annals
of the World War. whether the
Grand Fleets mighty clash with the
Germans at Jutland was q decisive Brit
ish victory, as Britain and her allies
claimed, or was at least a strategic tri
umph for the Kaiser's fleet, because it
got away before it was destroyed, has
been bone of contention for twenty
years. Earl Jellicoe's death reopens the
debate, but resultant discussion is hard
ly likely to end it. Jutland seems des-
tined to furnish controversial material
for sea pundits as long as memory of
the battle endures.
One thing about the engagement IS
incontroVertible and cannot be affected
by the rival judgments of posterity.
That is the fact that the Germans, al
though they inflicted considerably more
loss of British ships and lives, were forced
at the end of the greatest naval conflict
in modern times to seek more or less
ignominiously the safe refuge of their
harbors and never again, during more
than two years of war, ventured onto the
high seas to accept combat. 1t is true
that Won Tirpitz resorted to submarine
warfare thenceforward and pinned his
faith exclusively on that murderous form
of attack At any rate, having had q
full taste of open surface fighting with
the British, the Germans decided that
discretion was the better part Of naval
valor, and on no subsequent occasion
dared to challenge the ironclad power
which a few months later passed under
the command of Beatty, Jellicoe's more
impetuous subordinate at Jutland.
Jellicoe's basic defense for his failure
to pursue the Germans and annihilate
them was reputedly that he was under
admiralty orders not needlesSly to risk
the loss of a single vessel of his battle
ship squadron. The enemy had essayed
a bold and brilliant, but unsuccessful,
stroke to seize command Of the sea. Hav-
ing foiled it, Jellicoe conceived it to be
his supreme duty to conserve the
strength of the Grand Fleet, on the
broad back of which in q very literal
sense the fortunes of the whole allied
cause rested.
His decision and tactics may have
lacked the Nelson touch" but in the
cardinal circumstances that the Kaiser's
"high seas fleet" only emerged from its
hiding place after Jutland to surrender
at scapa Flow in 1918 is glory enough
for the gallant, modest sailor in whose
hands was reposed the allies fate at
the most critical single moment of the
war. His name is assured an honored
place in it's chronicles.
Evening star., 1935-11-21
The First Call to Battle.

There is nothing unusual or significant
in the call issued by the chairman of
the Republican National Committee for
a meeting of that body in this city
December 16. That is the usual course
every four years. The Democratic Ma
tional Committee will also meet in Wash
ington next month and the purpose will
be the same. These committees will make
arrangements for the national conven-
tions of their respective parties at which
nominations will be made for the presi-
dental Offices. incidentally and of even
more Importance than the choice of
meeting place will in the case of the
Republican Committee meeting be the
making Of plans for raising the sinews
of war, the campaign funds. Officially
there will be no mention of candidates,
for the National Committee of party
is, in theory at least, quite non-partisan
as respects presidential personnel.
InaSmuch as these National Com
mittee meetings are only preliminaries to
the conventions the major interest in
them lies in the possibility in the matter
of selecting meeting place of an indi-
cation Of the nomination trend. But
Evening star., 1935-11-21

even that is lessened in value as clue
to nomination chances by the fact that
the choice usually goes to the city that
makes the highest bid. Finance rather
than faction determines the geographical
question.
Nevertheless December 16 will be a
highly interesting day to Washington
and incidentally as well to the country
at large, for although the major busi-
ness is that of city selection and fund
raising an indication is likely to be
given as to the line of attack to be
adopted in the campaign. The party
platform, of course, will be written at
the convention, but speakers at the COM
mittee meeting-especially if it is held in
the open-will without doubt "view with
alarm" along several lines that will con-
verge into the grand assault six months
later.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

more space must be given, says the board,
to planned recreation, with the segrega-
ton of areas on . large scale. Fur
thermore, the railway system needs rcyi-
sion, with the abandonment of dupli-
eating lines and the consolidation Of
terminals. Schools should be consoli-
dated, especially In the higher grades
Of instruction. With the development
of highways and the use Of motor busses,
centers Of education can be maintained
at greater distances from homes.
This study of the needs of State
illustrates the magnitude OF the problems
that are confronting other States. Their
Topsylike growth has brought grievous
ills and has made remedies necessary.
The States themselves must work out
their solutions. No New Deal Of national
planning can avail. To small extent
public works aid has been given In the
execution Of projects which have to do
with the spread of population and the
improvement of access to business CEN
ters These undertakings, however, are
but the evidential fringe Of the problem,
which must be attacked by the cities
and the States, working in close CO.
operation. Though much precious time
has been lost and the errors of the past
continue to be perpetrated, there is
ground for belief that if the people will
they can avert the evils of crushing
and demoralizing congestion.
Evening star., 1935-11-21
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Michael and /.

Michael and /.
Tomorrow wen change the old attic
Where my brother and I used to play
To a gay guest room, like q new-sweep
broom,
Modern in every way.
So at dusk we're climbing the stairway
With flashlight. big Michael and I;
Going half tender, where old brass
fender
Rests on "Swat-the-ry."
Here's wing of the grooming windmill!
Here's the tank where we. kids once
flShedl
My doll with blond crest, your garret
wasp nest
Remember, Bub?-I wished
I wasn't in skirts and kid curriers'
Ant today on our 7-mile hike,
In bob and breeches, took the ditches-
We change like attics, Mike.
You bought me the doll, Michael dar-
ling
Now I'm earning more money than
you.
I've let my doll crashl Mike. turn OF the
flash.
Lets 60 downstairs 80. I'm hluei
Evening star., 1935-11-21

ions. lamps and electric light cords from
those lamps. There were curtains at
windows, over glass doors. There was
. multitude Of things no kitten born and
brought up In the downtown ever saw
before.
Hops would have leaped out instantly,
but his drum was too deep.
So he squeaked.
That Is one Of his peculiar.ties. He
always Squeaks. The famous cats
meow" is not heard from him. He may
and probably will develop it with age,
but for the present he emulates the
mouse.
So intrigued was Mr.. Hops with all he
saw that he made an instant hop for a
light cord.
Since it is well to train cats from the
beginning, he was promptly pulled away
and given q slight slap.
Back he went at the cord.
Another slap, and he went back to the
cord.
From then on he hunted out and pes
tered everything in the house which the
human occupants thereof did not want
him to touch.
No amount Of persuasion, physical or
otherwise, had any effect on him.
His reply to all reproof was to lie
down on his side and look up in a rather
surprised manner.
1t is needless to say, at least to cat
fanciers, that these tactics never failed.
k% ~
Friends called him GrasShopper as
well as Hops, but the former designation
was not apt, because the kitten was afraid
of grass.
Placed on 1t for the first time in his
life. he hoped unusually long and far
and found the delightful flower borders
These he loved instinctively. He leaped
between the stalks of marigolds and zin-
MAS in bloom, for it was long continued
Autumn.
No amount of coaxing thereafter would
induce him to remain on the lawn.
Once downtown cat, always a down.
town cat seemed to be his motto.
Often he reminded his friends Of q
typical street gamin, at no time more
than when he insisted on sticking out
his exceedingly red tongue every time
he scratched himself with one Of those
long kangaro-like hind legs.
r
While he had no malice in him at all,
he did not seem to be able to resist any,
thing which moved, or appeared to be
movable.
His recation was always the same. In
stinctively-no doubt he is good mouser
he reached out with a paw, and took
jab at the thing.
Never once has he been known to fail
In this. Most cats, after time, come to
recognize in house what they are sup
posed to leave alone.
But not Hops-he hops and leaps and
spears light cords and curtains and
fingers and all else which deft paw can
touch and thereby induce to move.
The curious thing is that this waif of
the streets is at one with his more aristo-
cratic brothers and sisters when it comes
to reaching out paw at human hand.
There are no pins" in it.
Evening star., 1935-11-21
Aliens Forbidden Work
For Paw i'm Other Lands

To the Editor of The Star:
In Seattle recently was Bostonian
He held q small interest in q Canadian
gold mine. His savings otherwise were
wiped out by the depression. To sup
port his family he gladly accepted q
clerical position at said mine.
After his second pay check his COM
pany was ordered to discharge him. mo
alien may thus take bread from a Ca
madam" was the reason. Beyond our
borders are none more nearly akin ra-
cially to us than the Canadians Yet
they, too, must follow the stern law of
elf-preservation.
The United States is the only country
with such blind idealism that accepts
new immigrants while permitting some
10000 900 aliens to take pay checks while
taxpayers support Americans on relief.
Is it not time we extended the quota
to all Western Hemisphere immigrants
and deported at least our alien criminals2
Congressman claim we have $500, 900 OF
these. g. NJ. GOETHE.
Evening star., 1935-11-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEwELL.

Hops Is O cat with q positive genius
for doing the wrong thing.
Maybe that Is the way downtown cats
are trained.
Or not trained, rather.
He came by his name legitimately.
Any one who saw him take one Of his
famous leaps knew instantly and in
stinctiyely that Hops was good.
About half foot long, with tiger
stripes and very large white whiskers,
he was sitting calmly In front of the
right front wheel Of q truck.
It was scarcely o good position. but 1t
did not worry Mr. Hops
He was not very old, Of course, and
had no way Of knowing the dangers Of
trafic.
At this point friend of cats spied him.
The man at the wheel of the truck
didn't. He pulled q lever.
There was O grinding sound-one Of
the famous noises familiar in q motor
age.
The cat friend reached down, grabbed
the unsuspiciouS kitten, pulled it out Of
harms way.
A lively purr rewarded him, but did
not prevent the animal from struggling
to get down again, which it accomplished.
One long hop-it was Just that, owing
to unusually long legs, resembling those
of a kangaroo-and the kitten was of
again, this time beneath parked car.
At this moment the owner of the auto
mobile came out the door and got in
behind the wheel.
He stepped on the starter.
Just a minute" called the cat fancier
There is kitten under your car"
The driver got out, peered under.
Want him?" he asked.
The man didn't really want him, but
he didn't know what else to say.
YES" he replied.
That was how he found the cat in his
arms.
A liberal mixture Of oil and street dirt
streaked his new tie.
The kitten purred Justify.
If you have ever tried to give away
cat on the sidewalk you know the thing
Is next to impossible.
One flnds oneself in the very position
OF the famous gentleman who offered
silver dollars for so cents-to find no
takers.
The world is suspicious OF dollars for
half price, and of kittens at any price.
Friends of cats everywhere-and prob
ably no one else will be reading this
far-know the salient features Of this
story from now on.
The cat went home, Of course.
Before he went, however, he reposed In
q barrel in an Office. 1t was not typical
barrel, but, rather, cardboard drum Of
generous dimensions.
The kitten could barely reach the rim
with his front paws. After one or two
attempts he desisted, curled up at the
bottom and went to sleep.
He stretched himself leisurely when the
lid Of the container was removed and
found himself in a new world. It was q
world Of soft rugs, chairs with deep cush-
Evening star., 1935-11-21
New Jersey Growing Fast.

New Jersey, the Garden State" is
concerned as to the future in regard to
congestion and the proper use Of space
for business, population and recreation.
Although one of the oldest of the Com
monwealths, 1t has done little toward
organized arrangement, and now it is
feeling the need of some methodical
adjustments. A State Planning Board
has been at work for year and now
presents its first annual report, which
points out primarily that the State is
suffering from over-concentration Of
population in badly organized metro
politan areas and urges that efforts be
made toward orderly decentralization,
probably involving the development Of
satellite cities and the establishment of
new rural-industrial communities"
The prescription for this remedy Is
easily written, but it is going to be hard
to fill. 1t is necessary to contend not
only against established conditions,
which are deleterious to the economic
as well as the physical health of the
people, but against an increasing rate
of population growth. The population,
the board points out, is growing more
rapidly than the Nation at large. There
is tendency toward concentration in
the neighborhood of two large centers
in adjacent States, New York and Phila-
delphia.
One of the difficulties in the way of
proper Statewide planning is the fact
that there is an excessive number of
local governmental units, county and
municipal. The wholesale consolidation
of counties and municipalities is advo-
Gated, with the elimination of the rural
townships. This recommendation will
not be easily adopted and carried out.
New Jersey is not peculiar in this respect.
Practically every State in the Union
would be advantaged, economically, adj
ministratively and materially, by the
merging of small administrative units.
A restudy and revision of the New
Jersey highway program, legislated In
1927 and little more than half COM
pleted, is urged. In other words, the
State has outgrown its communications
plan adopted only eight years ago. And
Evening star., 1935-11-21
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The great adventures that we meet
AS earth rolls on its course
Themselves with certainty repeat
For better or for worse.
A modern story echoes clear
Some tale of classic lore,
And so, no matter what we hear
We've heard it all before.
Our happy homes we have to leave
Because we get too gay.
The reason Adam said to Eve.
We'll have to move away"
The apple juice sent them to roam.
ut tasted very good,
But cocktail parties wrecked the home
And spoiled the neighborhood.
Samson slew his naughty foes.
Delilah trimmed him soon.
The Trojan Helen'S story goes
To many an epic tune.
And whether slings and arrows speed
Or cruel cannon roar,
We sadly say as we take heed,
We've heard it all before"
Evening star., 1935-11-21
ZerOiSn1.

ZerOiSm.
Existence reveals a precarious lot
OF mortals who strangely proceed:
Some loudly protest they need more than
they've got
And others have more than they need.
Well strive just the same and keep
playing the game
And hope it may never befan
That debt makes us equal in fortune
or fame,
With each owning nothing at all.
Some speakers" said Uncle Eben, "is
like a whistle Oh q locomotive. Dey
makes a loud noise. but dey don't push
anything"
Evening star., 1935-11-21

A prominent Ethiopian deserter has
shown that Selassie experiences a not
unprecedented difficulty. He can control
many cohorts in the field without being
able to exercise rigid discipline in the
family circle.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

A little German steel was purchased
but not enough to create hopes of q
wealth that may redeem little Of the
German paper money that reposes in
many American curio cabinets.
Evening star., 1935-11-21
Fading Elegance.

Fad1ng Elegance
When all the year was bright and gay
when do we lunch?" we used to say.
Or, taking a more liberal line,
We might inquire when do we dine?
But now we ask our fellow men
What do we eat and If and when.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

Japan has succeeded in asserting much
formal authority in some sections Of
China, but it is impossible to dispose Of
various local bosses.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

If w. P. A. goes out of business, the
needy shall not starve. That is one
element of American principle that did
not have to be written into the United
States Constitution.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

The authority of brains is shown by the
foot ball coach who, although himself
aging and perhaps trif1e rheumatic, is
none the less hero in the game.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

Boycotts throw Italy into economic
perplexity and suggest to that nation
the desirability of a new deal Of its own.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

Some of the work done by artists on
relief may encourage Andrew Melons
belief that the U. S. A. can find use for
more and better art galleries.
Evening star., 1935-11-21

Trade relations with Canada can
always depend on the unwritten law
so long respected, "be good neighbor." !"
Evening star., 1935-11-21
Hazing.

"Is there much hazing in your school?"
EYES," said the student. Were rather
polite among ourselves, but every now
and then we stir the Board Of Education
up to haze a professor"
Evening star., 1935-11-21
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Policy.

"Have you decided on what policy you
will favor?"
The perils of daily traffic have taken
my mind off political business" said Sem
ator Sorghum. II can't concentrate on
anything except life insurance policy"
Jud Tunkins says he seldom seeks to
punish an enemy. Why should he do
him the favor Of trying to reform him?
Evening star., 1935-11-21
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OdBC OCClLlo W NC WAGAA bAAS ACoAQC1lL
this matter, however.
\ X X
Criticisms of the new Canadian recip-
rocal trade agreement are on the way,
Every politician would like to know what
the farmers think about it generally.
Some of the politicians are trying to tell
the farmers what to think on one side
or the other. Secretary Wallace of the
Department of Agriculture is doing his
best to convince the farmers that they
will be benefited, not hurt, by the pact,
which will permit of the entry of more
farm products from Canada into this
country at lower tariff duties. The
President is precluded by the law from
reducing any duties more than so per
cent in making these reciprocal trade
agreements and from placing any ar
ticles now dutiable on the free list. The
contention of the supporters of the
Canadian agreement is that the greater
employment given American industrial
workers through greater exports of
manufactured products to Canada will
give the American farmers greater mar
kets in the United States. The critics of the
agreement, like former President Herbert
Hoover. hold that the benefits under the
agreement will go to the Canadian farm
ers, not the American. Another bit of
the more abundant life, according to
Mr.. Hoover, but for the Canadians.
If the Canadians are enabled to send
more farm products to the United States
and SO reduce the demand for American
farm products, the program Of restric-
ton of American farm products by the
administration may appear to be all the
more necessary, and the Government
checks to the American farmers for not
producing may be all the more welcome.
It Ia all very puzzlins. s,-.--ss,.s-,-..
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-05-03
The Floor Show


The highlight of the show was
the poppy, sure-fire dancing of
Kelly Stone, Eddie Esters, Selah
Fulson, frankie Wyche and Katie
Steele. They have an expert touch
to their stepping which places them
head and shoulders above any other
local products. They go through
their routines in a business-like
manner which shows that they
know what they are doing. Stone
and Esters are up to, if not better
than, lot of dancers who come to
town with colored stage shows. The
three girls put up a far better ap-
pearance than some of the half
starved looking, skinny sepia
chorines who also go through their
PAGES in the aforementioned shows.
June Hawkins singing Of might
Winds" was tops. She puts her
numbers across with a certain sort
of professional sureness and sticks
to the type of numbers suited to
her voice. Marionne PEBBLES re-
peated the torch she put over with
bang at the style show a few
weeks ago, "When The Moon Turns
Green" Hilda Moses sang "Soli-
tude," although bothered with a
cold which she hadn't been able to
get rid of. The child was so love-
ly that I doubt that anyone noticed
it. Josephine Ballenger rendered
Sleepy Time Down South" to get
the handclaps, and Tommy Lewis
crooned "Blue Moon" Tommy's
voice is really better suited to a
smaller, more intimate place than
the large Wheatley gym, but as
long as he sang something, his ad-
mirers were satisfied. Arnie Walk
er was pinch-hitting for Paul Oden
as M. C. I think Walker would
have been little funnier without
the comic get-up, because he has a
type Of humor of his own which is
effective enough, but seeing the boy
had to fill in at the last minute, he
was okay.