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The Washington times., 1935-02-18

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thaw in February with sun, soft breezes and
muggy ground under foot will work with the mental
balance of anglers in general.
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
There's nothing much to do
after the club starts on it's up
ward arc in the golf swing. The
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
FLASHES SPLIT

The Southeast Flashes divided
a doubleheader. They defeated
the Macks, 48 to "a, and lost to
Army War College, Al to %.
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

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The Washington times., 1935-02-18

GRILLMEN PLAY
Olmstead Grill ssSeets the Acacia
quint tonight at 1880 o'clock at
Roosevelt High School.
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TEAM
At EASTERN
IN 1886
By GARRETT WATERS

BY OAhRETT WATERS
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to note that the champion East
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ADVERTISEMENT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
Wings Replace Sails

The man who is mournful because the age of exploration and high adventure is over ought to go out into the Pacific somewhere and watch those giant flying boats with which the Pan-American peO- pie are preparing to set up regular, pas senger-carrying ocean air service.
 Those huge airplanes may be the last word in 20th century up-to-dateness, but they are doing the same sort of thing that the creaking wooden ships of Captain Cook did - charting new trade routes and bringing to the worlds greatest ocean something new in the way of transporta- tion. If there was romance and adven- ture to the trips of Captain Cook, the same is true of these airplanes.
 They are the products of an age which is almost infinitely more sophisticated and scientific than was the age of the great navigators, to be sure. The world in which they operate simply is not the same world as that which the old-time explorers knew. Its map contains few blank spaces, it's distances are insignifi- cant compared with the old distances, and it's South Sea islands boast cham bers of commerce, modern hotels, and guides for tourists.
 But what is being done now is the sort of thing that the old-timers could under stand and enjoy. It is exploration in it's truest sense - a plunging forward boldly into something new and untried, with success or failure, life or death, resting in the last analysis on the bravery and cool competence of the navigator and commander. And it is hardly going too far to say that it's ultimate effects may be quite as revolutionary as were the ulti- mate effects of those old-time eXplora- tions.
 The voyages of the wooden ships of century and half ago put the islands and the kingdoms of the far east into touch with restless, acquisitive Europe, and started ferment working in human affairs that has not yet ended Spanning the Pacific with modern airline will do the same sort of thing in a different way.
 It will reduce the distance from Asia to America to something like sixth of it's presnt extent. China and al lthe Orient will be as close to New York as Boston was in colonial days. The bonds that tie distant nations and races into com munity of mutual inter-dependence will be drawn measurably tighter.
 It is easy to make the mistake of thinking that we live in a world in which all the great deeds of exploration and adventure are finished These great airplanes, soaring over the limitless wastes of the Pacific, are enough to prove that that isn't so. There is as much romantic achievement in the world now as there ever was - if we just know how to recognize 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
Health, a Public Job

The medical profession is still re- sponsible for the care of the sick, just as it always has been. But some of the bur- den now rests on the shoulders of states men and public officials, and the re- sponsibility cannot be shirked.
 So says Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical As sociation, in a speech before the Ameri- can Public Health Association convention at Milwaukee.
 No one has battled more strenuously against specialized medicine" than has Dr. Fishbein. His remark, therefore, is all the more significant It emphasizes the way in which sitting economic cur rents and new conceptions of social re- sponsibility have made the maintenance of a proper health level concern of the public at large as well as of the medical men individually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
Shrewd Tax Collecting

The state of Michigan recently spent $73,600 but of an authorized $75, ,000 on concentrated advertising campaign to stimulate collection of delinquent taxes. Most of the money was paid for news paper space, both daily and weekly. The ads proved a good investment, bringing in by September l, the deadline, a total of ten million dollars Of this amount, 75 per cent represented merely the first of 10 annual payments as provided under a special statute.
 The deputy auditor-general reports that more persons called at the. offices of the various county treasurers through out the state and at the auditing depart ment during August than during the preceding twelve months. There is a Surprising enthusiasm everywhere for when reasonable terms are offered to paying taxes, current and delinquent, long-suffering property owners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18

way of tsmadge's control of lot of mnV.
 If Harry topkins had put fed- era1 relief fhds at the governors disposal, an put Miss Shopper son in a sAndary place, where Gene thinksa woman belongs, there never puld have been any trouble.
 But Hopkis stood by Miss 9hepperson aFERA administra- tor. Talma(e protested, took the issue to Roosevelt. But Roosevelt ba9d Hopkins. Here the row began
 Talmadge Sn got the wo- mems clubs rise i'm protest against this lrginian, whose presence is "aSlot on the fair
 name of the waen of Georgia. But he cannot et them to take the next stephnd repudiate the party in nlional elections.
 The tide of Raevelt sentiment, having ebbed sohwhat from the emotional height of 1883, has turned and beguito flo win.
 Preparations bhg made here to receive the Trident when he comes to Warm Springs next month are far rire than mere program planning There is o glamor about it At makes the word "Homecomil" more than an empty phrase.
 Barring politicaleversals with in the next tSlve months GEORGIA WILL EPPORT ITS ADOPTED SON TREE TO ONE. G-Men Merry-0-Round
 When young menpply for jobs under J. Edgar Hoer, they are asked, among 4er things, "What do you read? If they an- swer, 'Shakespearennd Elmer son, they have lesshance than if they say, "the fAnies." Real purpose of the quesSn is to test truth-telling. .E-Men are provided with bulleproof vests that have been testeAut on pigs. For the Bureau of Nestigation, the Bureau of StarArds wraps a vest around 8 li' pig, fires shots at it from a Thhpson sub- machine gun. If he bullet pierces vest and pigsh, the vest is rejected. Hoer is pre- pared for little Valennes from the underworld. If heeceives @ suspicious-looking patage, he scrutinizes it with a iecial X- ray machine before tking the lid off. Hoover boas a per- feet batting average ste pass age of the "Lindbelh law" Number of Ridnap caseFeferred to the Bureau, 55. Numb solved, 55. More than 5,00D00 f1n- gerprints are on file in Ing cor- riders of steel cases. cotland Yard has only half amillion. Among ardent pss box rooters at the World Sees ball games was J. Edgar Hoder.
 Copyright, 1885, by Unit Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Ind
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
A Thought for Today
Waterbury Becomes Airminded

That Waterbury more than showed yesterday in it's reception to Colonel Clarence Chamberlain it is airminded cannot be denied after the response and welcome it rendered the transatlantic flier upon his arrival and sojourn at Mount Tobe flying field, the guest ot Waterbury Airport, Inc.
 Far into the evening the drone of his 27-passenger Condor plane could be heard circling back and forth over the city in response to the demand of the many eager citizens desirous of Sampling air travel on big scale for the first time.
 Yesterdays demonstration of what a real passenger airplane looks and feels like perhaps gave more impetus to con- mercial flying than that phase of travel has received in this vicinity for years.
 Citizens, including city officials, busi- res sand industrial leaders, are all agreed after various meetings and trips yester- day with Colonel Chamberlain that the possibilities of establishing a stop here on his Boston-New York route and the resultant advantages are of much i'm portance to the city.
 To the directors of Waterbury Airport, Inc, and especially Attorney Richardson Bronson, representative for the corpora tion and long since local enthusiast for the establishing of a commercial airport here, should go the thanks of the hun- dreds of people who had the chance yes- terday to witness and in many instances try the idea at close range. Who knows but what yesterday was the dawn of new era for Waterbury?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18

and decent living for a similar number of farm families.
 Nothing else will be really settled, no matter which party is in power or who leads it, until these things are settled. The questions involved belongs more in the field of impartial economies than partisan politics: The average American, in city or country, is more interested in making a living than in the fortunes of any political party. Political success, like business success, can come only from solving problems in practical way = getting the city people back to work and getting farm life on sound basis.
 It isn't merely matter, of helping these two distressed classes, either. Neither the Constitution nor any other American institution is safe," says MT. Gannett, "until we find the solution of these two problems"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18

The Brevoort, hotel of many famous gourmetS will soon close it's doors Wreck CTS will start to tear it down to make way for a nine story apartment house. The famous hostelry at the corner of Fifth avenue and Eighth street in New York was founded in 1854 and therein have been housed many celebrities including President Garfield, Don Carlos of Spain, the Duke of Marlborough, etc., etc. And theirin too, have dined and wined Edith Wharton, Feodor Chaliapin, Johanna Gadski Eugene ONeill. Chaliapin was outstanding among the epicures, who thought nothing of consuming half pound of caviar, twelve oysters, thick soup, a guinea hen, salad, cheese, etc. etc. And this was just simple lunch for the Russian singer who evidently needed plenty of fortifying for his tremendous voice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
Current Comments

Wars are never won. Wars are only and always lost both by the victor and vanquished alike.
 Bernard M. Baruch. Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned. .
 -Dr. Boris sokoloff, author.
 
 don't believe that a Christian state or decent state should be in the liquor business any more than a decent man.
 -Dr. Clarence True Wilson,
 dry leader.
 Are we driven by hard facts to accept the vieV that when an ag- gressor arises to smash the worlds peace machinery, international opinion must unite to protect the world against him?
 Senator Georald P. Nye.
 
 The butcher, the grocer or who- ever sits in the jury box is just as important and just as dignified an officer of the court as is the judge who receives $25,0O0 a year.
 Chief Judge F. E. Crane, New
 York cougt of appeals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18

Connecticut land in the western part of the state has proven more fertile than that in the east. For thisreason the an- nouncement by the Resettlement Admin istration of the acquisition of 12,000 acres of land in the eastern part of the state is of interest This undertaking involves the retirement of poor lands from culti- vation and their conversion into forest and recreation areas" This seems fea- sible move and the working of the "poor land' will give occupation to many many unemployed living in that territory; which is better still. It has been stated by the regional director of land utiliza- tion that farms have rarely been suc- cessful in this region the area lends itself well to forestation, and the pres ence of numerous small lakes and rolling hills offer excellent opportunities for de- veloping large outdoor recreation facil- itieS"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18

F. Burdette Parsons, writing in the American, consoles himself and his brother republicans with another after election postmortem to the effect that the only way Mayor Hayes could have been beaten was by fusion ticket. While this belated might-have-been solution of how it happened looks good on paper, we are of the opinion that both democrats and republicans still like their politics straight, win, lose or draw. AS a political analyst, Burdette is good bedtime story teller
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
Press Comment
CONNECTICUT SMALL TOWNS
 (New York Times)

Tn spite of Governor Cross, who may be forgiven as a sort of institu- ton or an exceptional favorite that has given the voters medicines, Connecticut is land of steady re- publican habits. The result of the elections in the small towns Monday shows a risin gremorse among the comparatively few that had strayed from the beaten path. Seventeen democratic towns turned to the re- publicans; three republican towns to the democrats. Fifteen towns stayed in democratic hands. That even that many out of some 150 should be dwelling in the tents of wickedness is surprising. One al- most suspects that Perpetual re- publican Chairman Roraback has been negligent to allow such rebel lion.
 The republicans made the New DCll the main issue. Chairman Fletcher, who never neglects his somewhat scanty opportunities for blowing the horn of joy, finds in those little republics of the brave and free "a decided drift" away from the N. D. course. The political reporter of The Hartford Courant pitches the note higher:
 The switch to the republicans
 was believed to be without paral-
 Tel for the republicans since the,
 election of 1893 gave them gain
 of twelve towns and forecast a
 trend which was to remove Con-
 necticut for nearly four decades
 from the ranks of the doubtful
 States.
 So much for the charts of the trend-readers. Connecticut was true to the republican national ticket in 1892. Apparently what has hap pened in the small towns is home- sickness for the familiar routine. Gone are the days of emotion, the belief in economic and financial miracles, the saving grace of "emer- gency" as a defense for plans oth- erwise of the shakiest and laws otherwise invalid. The New Deal can now be judged on it's merits and demerits without imputing to it an instinctive wisdom and righteous ness. Connecticut has received from it some evident injury and no fat lot of largesse. So from her judgment, or at least that of her country towns, no hint can be had of the feeling of other communi- ties fed with more luxuriant ra- tions and more easily affected by evangelists of the new gospel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
Mayor McLevy Out In Front
Bridgeport Poll Shows Socialist Candidate Heading For Reelection Despite the Fact He Plays the Came
 (FRoM THE BRIDGEPORT TIMEs-sTAR)

succeeded in regaIning the public confidence which was obviously lost two years ago, when a socialist mayor first came to office. Obviously, too, the voters of Bridgeport are not paying particular attention to the quality of the men Mayor Mo- Levy brought to public office along with himself. The poll figures to date would indicate that they con- sider the presence of Mayor McLevy himself adequate guarantee of a de- cent administration at city hall.
 The figures of the poll undoubted- ly will change as the poll progresses. But there is, so far, no indication that such changes will ater the probably result of the city election on Nov. 5. It would appear that the temper of the voters has already been definitely expressed.
 That honest criticism of the ad- ministration of Mayor McLevy is possible, there i6 little question. It is, like other city administrations, a human administration, which has, like other municipal regimes, paid its tribute to the rules and regula- tions of the political game.
 Whether or not there is any public change in sentiment before Nov. 6 may depend in large part, upon whether or not either of the other two candidates for mayor will offer the voters of the city a construc- tive program which may appeal to the intelligent voters of the city. The intelligent, independent voters of Bridgeport have been particularly active and expressive in recent elec- tions. They have, in the opinion of many observers, decided these elections. They will, in our opinion, decide the approaching election. But neither of the two old political par ties, it seems revealed by the Time Star Straw Vote, is going to win their support on this election unless it offers 8 new, intelligent, and con- vincing appeal.
 The first results of the straw vote should place both the democratic and republican parties upon their mettle. According to those results, these two parties do not stand a chance unless they convince the voters that they stand for something different than they have stood for in the recent memory of Bridge port, and unless they succeed in convincing the voters that Mayor McLevy has, during the past two years. been a better political sales man than he has been a mayor.
 That seems, from the present out look. to be nan-sized job for any candidate or party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
TO-DAYS COMMON ERROR Never say, "Carnera's first fight in the United States resulted
 in him being defeated"; say,
 "in his being defeated"

A. Native legends affirm that Ireland was inhabited first by vari- ous tribes, of which the most im- portant were Nemedians, Formori- ans, Firbolgs, and Tuatha De- Danann, who were eventually sub- dued by Milesians or Scots. AL though Ireland is mentioned under the name of Ierne in Greek poem five centuries before Christ, and by the names of Hibernia and Juverna by various Roman writers, little is known with certainty of its in- habitants before the fourth century A. D., when, under the expectation of Scott, the Irish armies became formidable by their descents upon the Roman Province of Britain.
 Q. Can a triangle have more than three sides?
 A. No, because by definition, a triangle is 8 portion of plane bounded by three straight lines.
 o. Who said, "One on Gods side is 8 majority?"
 A. It originated with Wendell Phillips in a speech on John Brown, delivered at Harper's Ferry, Nov. l, 1859.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
A Book a Fay
Dr. Cronin Writes Httrly of English Industralisn
 BY BRUCE CATION

Don't let yourself mis- sH"Tht Stars Look Down." by A. J. tronin It is far and away Dr. Croni's best book to date; 1t is also one eof the best novels of recent years.
 It is a long. bulky, md powerful affair, this book, rouh-hewn and bitter "a painstakirly complete study of the dry rot tht came upon English society durin the last two or three decades.
 It deals with the people of a north-country coal twn; with the greedy, dictatorial me owner and the patient drudges ho get out the coal; with ambitiop young men who try to rise in te world, with the idealists who try p make things better, and the grabks who make things worse; and 1t ders a mar velously real and symRthetic pic- ture of human beings taught in system that seems to be beyond remedy.
 Dr. Cronin showsAug igreat mine disaster, caused by the nprincipled greed of the mine ownG He shows us English industry in Nr-time, an obscene spectacle of proteering and gouging: he shows us a toung labor leader fighting his waypp to par- lament, struggling to Approve the lot of the miners and ktting sold out, finally, by his ownhssociates; he shows us the final tiumph of greed and cunning and af-seeking, and the crushing defea of ideal- ism and brave altruism.
 All in all, he has giver1ls book of vast power and profold human interest. It is long, but is never dull; it is impassioned, ut it al- ways remains pre-emlently 8 novel, a narrative. It is cry much worth reading.
 Published by Little. Bpwn and Co.,, it sells for $250.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
Selected Poem

(By Kenneth w. Portre in The New York TimesI Grasshoppers rising with whirr,
 Drifting and Darting butterflies Metallic wings and gossamer
 Elude the snares of dazzled eyes. As if blown by sudden gust
 From barren trees the grackles rise; In spirals with the golden dust
 They sweep and wheel with creaking cries. Saffron and scarlet leaves are whirled Like agitated finches through The glittering air, until the world
 Seems mounting on vast wings of blue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
T est Y Q U F Knowledge
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Which city first adopted the two-way radio system for the police department?
 2. In the Iron Age, who were the Comacines?
 3. What is paranoi?
 4. Why do woodpeckers bore into trees?
 5. Did General Grant ever own slaves?
 6. What is the name for the science of tracing the history of the origin and descent of Q family?
 2. Into what lake does the Gen. essee river empty?
 8. Who was William Sidney Mount?
 9. Who said: Mans inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn?"
 10. Name the European explorer who discovered the mouth of the Mississippi river.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18

First returns in The Times-Star Straw Vote covering the 1885 munic- icipal campaign definitely show Mayor Jasper McLevy, the city's first socialist mayor, heading, to- ward reelection.
 The conclusive verdict of the first returns leads to the opinion that the voters feel the mayor has been a creditable servant of the city for the past two years. Coupled with this may be a feeling on the part of the vUters that neither of the two tra- ditional political parties has, as yet,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-18
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 A. Two flat sheets of plate or window glass are placed in steam heated press, with the laminating material, usually pyrolin, between. The two sheets adhere to the py- rolin and will not break away from it, and if the glass itself is broken, it will not shatter or fly. An- other form of safety" glass is the triple-deck sandwich" which is bullet proof.
 Q. What is the derivation of the name Lolita?
 A. It is an elaborated form of Lola, 8 Spanish diminutive of Charlotte.
 o. Can mildew be removed from canvass?
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 @. How many photographers are there in the United States?
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