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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-26

proved of great advantage to the molding division as very often metal parts are com bined with the, plastic material during the process of molding.
 As the plant became adapted to the production of various novelties made to the customers order, the development of toy manufactur- ing division was natural step. The company therefore has large output of popular toys such as the spring-motor tractor, airplanes, boats, walking dolls, etc. Some of the more recent items in the toy line are the bakelite soap bubble pipes and whistles, which are to be found in almost every chain store in America and even in some foreign countries.
 To have weathered the storms of nearly 125 years, the Waterbury Button Company must have been fortunate in an alert and aggres- sive management and a loyal and efficient personnel all the way through. Coming down to recent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-26

BEES TRADED WITH SOVIET
 Sacramento, Cai = (UP) - The California state department of ag- riculture is negotiating with the Soviet government for the trading of 250.000 bees. Two shipments already have been made.
Evening star., 1935-12-15
GROUP FOR LONELY
MEETS WEDNESDAY
Brother and Sister Band of the
Widowed Is 26th Chapter
to Be Organized.

Lonely hearts of Washington We'd
nesday night will hold their second
organization meeting at the Y. W.
c. A.. when new members will be
indicted into the Brother and Sister
Band of the Widowed.
The Washington Band, organized
at a meeting at the Y. w. c. A. Fri
day night, is the twenty-sixth in the
chain. the twenty-fifth having been
formed at Baltimore Thursday night.
The meeting Friday was attended by
"a Lonely persons.
The Brother and Sister Band of the
Widowed got its start in Brooklyn a
year ago and since that time has
grown to a membership of several
thousand, according to its founder,
the Rev. Edward Eells, a retired Con-
gregational minister.
All Offices in the band are held by
pairs, one man and one woman to
each office. Officers nominated at
the meeting Friday night included
S. P Burkert, all-around brother,
and Mrs Ella M. Treynor, all-around
sister; Miss Jennie B. Fadner, sister
penman; Mrs. Grace Caldwell, busi-
ness sister; Grafton Wilmot Town
shend, welcoming brother; Miss Ellen
H. Edstrom, welcoming sister. Other
officers will be chosen Wednesday.
The band of the widowed, while it
Is a sort of lonely hearts club, does
not advocate marriage among its
members, although they do occur. 1t
is not limited to the widowed, but
membership is open to any one over
IS years of age.
Evening star., 1935-12-15
D. c. URBANLEAGUE
GOAL Of MEETING
80 Organizations Will Be
Represented Friday on
Anniversary Day.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the National Urban
League, Nationwide organization for
furtherance of better understanding
between the white and colored races,
will be observed here Friday, with
ceremonies at the Lincoln Temple
Congregational Church at pm.
More than so civic and business
organizations are to be represented
at the meeting, which is one OF A
held this month throughout the Ma
ton in cities having branch chapters.
The purpose of the gathering here,
as described by G. C. Wilkinson, as
sistant superintendent of schools and
chairman of the committee in charge
of arrangements, is to foster spirit
of cooperation between the white
and colored races to make possible
founding an Urban League branch in
this city.
Besides wilkinson the Arrangements
Committee consists of DR.. H. H. Long,
assistant superintendent of colorod
schools, research department, vice
chairman; Maj. Campbell Johnson,
secretary of the Twelfth Street Branch
of Y. M. C. A., secretary. and William
E. Taylor, dean of Howard University
Law School, treasurer.
The organization was founded in
1910 as a union of the Committee for
Improving the Industrial Conditions
of Negroes, the Committee on Urban
Conditions Among Negroes and the
National League for the Protection OF
Colored Women.
The league has had as its primary
objective the development of industrial
opportunities for colored persons IN
cities.
During the World War the league
arranged for series of conferences
with representatives of the department
which resulted in establishment OF the
Bureau Of Negro Economics in the
United States Labor Department.
Accomplishments of the league in
clude compiling statistical data on
Negro labor conditions, founding aca-
demic scholarships, setting up reliei
agencies in the 43 cities where branch
chapters are maintained. putting forth
Negro problems in matters OF State
and Federal legislation, promoting tu-
berculosis camps and establishing out
door health camps for colored chill
dren.
Evening star., 1935-12-15
Anglers Catch Aids Police.

A hsherman's catch" of coins has
led to the arrest of eight men in
Cologne, Germany. He hooked a
brown paper parcel containing IS
mark pieces (about S175) and handed
them to the police, who discovered
that they were counterfeit. It is
stated that the package was dropped
into the river when the police were
on the trail of the gang.
Evening star., 1935-12-15
URGES FAIRGROUNDS
Manager of Keystone Automobile
Club Makes Appeal.

George E. Keneipp, manager OF the
Keystone Automobile Club, in letter
to the director of the budget yesterday,
urged the speedy completion of "a new
Fairgrounds and greater utilization OF
those now existing to combat traffic
hazards to Washington children.
The letter asked for the immediate
appropriation of $1,000. 900 from funds
authorized by the Capper-Cramton act
for completion of work on Fairgrounds
where worl mas 0r-.. started and for
acquiring n, " play space areas.
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
Three-Minute Journeys
Blu TempIe Manning

courtyard that expresses graph.
cally the glories of Florent1ne
living in the Golden Age. My
correspondent writes of the
music performed in the high
ceilinged salons, and OF the
conferences on the arts pre-
sided over by world figures.
Just under the shadow OF the
palace. in the Piazza della Sig
norma, one of the most momen-
tous and dramatic events of the
festival took place. An Italian
playwright has written a most
engrossing and beautiful play
about the sad life of the tr1ar'
Savonarola.
The trial and execution OF the
Fifteenth century friar was re-
produced with exhaustive detail,
and the whole affair was ire
mendously impressive, according
to our correspondent. The audi
ence was seated in a temporary
amphitheater facing flight OF
stairs constructed between the
famous Fountain of Neptune
and the Loggia del LAMA. The
stage consisted of a great quar-
ter circle in front of the Vecchio
palace.
Across the city, the lovely
Boboli gardens, next to the mar
velouS Pitt palace, built in thN
Fifteenth century, offered a back.
ground of various musical events.
The Washington times., 1935-06-04

some $50 cattle and many
horses.
They are not Government
boarding" cattle from the
drought area.
He is not blowing under every
third row of his corn or other
crops.
There is no crop reduction
for him.
Pat thinks that a man should
raise Uhdt he can on the acre.
age that he possesses Without
regard to Mr.. Chester DGUiS, of
the AAA.
Discussing his farm, Hurley
says:
Il don't care what Davis
thinks.
81 raise my horses and my
cows and my corn.
81 don't pillow under every
third row.
Il think about farming as l
do about the bonus.
although l fought in the war
/ don't want the Government to
pay me for it and I don't want
it to pay me for not raising
crops or hogs or cattle.
One thing that the Hurley
family is doing on that estate
is riding.
Even the youngest girl, "the
Cabinet baby" they call her, be-
cause she tUdS born while Hur-
ley wuS Secretary OF War, is
riding.
She may show her pony next
year.
She will be four years old in
August.
Why should the AAA mean
anything to a family like that?
Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
majority leader of the Senate,
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
Mark Twain Was Wrong

Mark Twain wrong when he said that nobody did
anything about the weather.
Those who travel by rail- still do, know that Mark
has been shown by the anonymous genius who responsible
for air-conditioned trains
Whatever the temperature outside the always COM
Portable for free from smoke and dust enough
in winter, cool enough in summer
Chcagoa travelling out West during the sufocatng dust
storms there, writes:
81 rode through the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and
southwest Kansas in arconditioned Without any
discomfort whatever. Sometimes the dust thick
that couldn't the right-OfUay either side Of the
train. 1t odd thing to street lamps lighted
in cities and through Which passed in the
middle of the day. Uhe such automobiles still
using the highways crept along uOth headlights glea
ing
"ThrOughout the trip however, the train main
tanned its schedule In its ar-conditiOned cars dining
and observation there perfect riding
fort The Oentilating system failed to keep
impurities"
Western railroads have just completed $19ooo0oo air.
conditioning program and Eastern roads also have put vast
sums into similar improvements on their trains.
If you plan to take rail trip the continent this
er the San Diego exposition the myriad other arac
lions of the Pacific Coast you will be MORE COMFORTABLE
en- route than you would be in your own home.
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
Florence

This department has just re-
ceived a letter from a reader
who was privileged to attend
the second Maggie Musicale
Florentino, or the Florentlne
Musical May. 1t is proposed to
hold this festival every two
years, and it is likely the next
festival will be given in the
spring of 1887. If you are
student of art or music. such
an experience should prove in
valuable.
We know from hearSay, if not
from experience, of the beauty
of the Tuscan town Of Florence,
and surely there could be no
more worthy setting for a festi.
val of the arts.
So many musicians and artists
from all over the world ex-
pressed themselves grateful for
the opportunity Of performing
in the exquisite palace and
glorious gardens in which Flor
ence abounds. The performance
is given in the Palazzo Vecchio,
with it's neighboring cathedral,
which dominates the hills for
miles around.
In the place are the private
apartments Of one Of the MedicI
family. There are salons dec
Grated by Michaelangelo, and a
The Washington times., 1935-06-04

job like that!! Always so sure
of ourselves. Never weak and
beWildered n all washed up.
Why, if YOU could be like that
for Just One Day
But, of course, you can't.
There isn't even any use hop
ing. For you're-different.
You've always been different.
You've never had a chance like
other people. Right from the
first you've been sensitive and
timid. And the least little thing
Used You Up.
Maybe if somebody had tried
to understand you it might have
been helped. But no one ever
did. No one ever cared whether
you got ahead or not. No one
ever tried to spare your feelings
or bring out the best in you.
M so, you've just gone drifting
along-half alive-envying the
lucky people who have all the
breaks
NO SUCH THING
Yes. indeedy. That sounds
tough. And you'd like me a lot
better if 1 gave you a nice, sweet,
Sniveling answer. But I'm not
going to. For you're not getting
anywhere with this line of
thought, partner. You're neither
kidding the other fellow nor
helping yourself. The simple
truth is you've worked up a
SELF-PTTY RACKET.
All this talk about naturally
brave, ambitious people who
lead such exciting 1iveS"-piffle.
There's no such thing. And.
deep in your own heart. you
know there's no such thing.
But it makes such a swell alibi
to pretend there is.
Me, f'rinstance. You look
with loathing at the same old
dirty dishes. pick up my col
umn. listen to me walloping
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

the tar out of something. =.
wish you had my spunk. were
in a job like mine. Snap out
of it and stop telling yourself
fairy tales. I'm nothing like
that picture you're making
of me.
I'm not brave. I'm not strong"
minded. Nor confident, nor
ambitious, nor good-natured.
nor satisfied. I'm as lazy as
any old flea-bitten hound. I'm
sentimental and sloppy-Scared
pink of something or other 80
per cent of the time. And,
if you removed the pressure, I
wouldn't have the Spunk OF a
gelatine pudding.
AS for this exciting, roman
tic life"-baloney! Writings
no more exciting than ditch
digging and 10 times as hard
a job. It's plain plugging.
without a let-up, year after
year after year. And nine
times out of ten when I look at
the results want. to go jump
in the bay.
BUT WHAT OF IT? WHAT
DOES 1T MATTER HOW I
STACK UP INSIDE? SO LONG
AS I GET THE JOB DONE
WHO GIVES A HOOT
WHETHER I FEEL LIKE A
SHOOTING STAR OR A
BUSTED FISH WORM? AND
WHY SHOULD I PERSON
ALLY FEEL THAT IT'S I'M.
PORTANT NEWS?
THE TRUTH
It isn't. This is the way hui
mans are and always have been.
But did the worthwhile ones let
that interfere with their regular
programs? They did not. There
were jobs to be done and they
did 'em. And that was all that
mattered.
That's the truth about me.
That's also the truth about you.
Only you don't want to take it.
So you've fixed up this I'M
DIFFERENT racket. But it
won't go. You're not different.
I'm not different. Nobody's diff
ferent. Lies tough for all Of
us. It's tough in different ways,
but it's always tough-and we're
all pretty much Of a washout.
BUT, BIGOLLY, IF WE'VE
THE SPUNK AND SELF-RE-
SPECT GOD GAVE A WOOD
TICK WE CAN GO ON MAX
ING THE GESTURES! AND
IF WE DON'T? THEN WE'RE
JUST A BUNCH OF SPINE
LESS BABIES. \AND
THERE'S NO USE TRYING TO
PASS THE BUCK TO FATEI
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
Live and Let Live

The traffic toll in Washington despite the efforts of the
authorities, is growing by leaps and bounds
More than two persons have been killed during the
current calendar year. Every weekend adds to the death
list
How long will the city put up with this condition?
We cannot accept it indefinitely Won't the drivers Of
automobiles realize that each bears responsibility toward
the other?
Poweress place the streets the number Of
policemen need all that citizens do is to plead
with drivers to live and let live
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
The Human Side of the News

lone is reminded sharply of
this in returning to the United
States and seeing THAT appears
to be the decline of the family
as a unit. 1 am making no in
vidious comparisons, as 1 am
proud of my American citizen
ship, but I think, as one OBJ
serves these two nations, there
are conflicting and significant
forces at work.
lone might put it this way:
A strong, highly centralized
state makes for a weak family. :,
A weak, decentralized state
makes for a strong family. AS
the state and the protection it
affords begin to disintegrate.
the family builds up. This
The Washington times., 1935-06-04

often are, they seem to know
how to get a calm, sensuors en-
joyment out of each day as it
comes.
The family is a great insti-
tuition in China-much more so
than here. If one of your rela-
tives comes along, you must
take him in and care for him,
no matter how worthless he may
be. No Chinese would ever think
of disregarding this ancient. un-
written mandate. While they
are not supposed to keep these
relatives in luxury, they must
be maintained somewhat in &C.
cord with the family standards
decent food and clothing and
a bit of wine money!"
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
Portrait Gallery

By favorably reporting the Walsh resolution looking to
the establishment of National Portrait Gallery in Washing
ton the Senate Committee Public Buildings and Grounds
has brought step realization the objective Of his
torians and artists.
The desrabity of the gallery was amply demonstrated
by the witnesses who appeared at the hearing held by the
committee prior adoption its favorable report
pointed experts that the Federal Government
now institution in which properly display the
portraits and statues of those who have contributed notably
to the advancement of America And it likewise estab
hed beyond any doubt that such institution would be
fitting tribute the and the country should
delight to honor
The of the collection of portraits and statues which
would be placed in such gallery, it testified at the
hearing is already in the possession of the Government
through the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery
of Art
However Americans cannot the portraits of its famous
sons which the Government already BECAUSE OF
LACK OF ADEQUATE SPACE IN THE NATIONAL
GALLERY OF ART THESE PORTRAITS MANY OF THEM
OF GREAT ARTISTIC AS WELL AS HISTORIC VALUE
ARE STORED AWAY IN DARK ROOMS
The National Portrait Gallery which Senator David l.
Walsh establish would bring these works out into the
open place them display that citizens visiting their
National Capital could view them under ideal conditions
Experts the planning of the National Capital pointed
the hearing that there several choice sites in the
Mall which would be admirably suited to such building
would properly the Portrait Gallery would be the
duty the commission which would created by the Walsh
resolution to select one of these sites.
After the building has been authorized the task of select
ing and acquiring the objects to be displayed in it would
begin There already indications that patriotic
citizens will deuge the gallery with portraits and sculptures
"A fund would make it possible to acquire objects
which donated and to commission artists to execute
portraits which would be needed to round out the collection
gallery by Senator Tom Connay committee should it
to before the present session of Congress adourns
The Washington times., 1935-06-04

head and of shaving it off O.
his chin.
A girl who marries in haste,
nowadays, is usually kept SO
busy holding down a job that
she has no leisure" in which
to enjoy repenting.
1t is only infatuation that re.
quires a pulmotor. Real love
always settles down, sooner or
later, into that comfortable
"old-pal" feeling, which needs
no artificial stimulus to keep it
alive.
Still, there is no use in put
ting too much strain on a
mans heart by going around in
sun-goggles, with your face
smeared with cocoa-butter, even
though he OUGHT to love you
just as much that way.
It isn't real love unless a
girl can think of counting a
mans laundry and putting the
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
By Edwin C. Hill

family unit makes a splendid
repository Cor age-old wisdom,
for the canons of individual be-
havior and somehow, as it works
out in China, an organization
of society basically on better
terms with life.
'These people cooped up in
two-room apartments can't
have children. The family de.
Gays; society quarrels with life.
But in China, children just
come along, and they are
greatly beloved. The family
clan system takes care of the
aged, and they don't need any
old age pension laws. The old
people pack the children miles
on their backs to see the
peonies, and they seem happier
and laugh more than any peo-
pie I know, even if they have
only a bowl of rice and bed
of straw.
Seeing in America the in
creasing entertainments of the
State, as elsewhere in the
world; seeing the Government
taking over more and more of
the functions of the family,
one cannot help thinking that
somehow the family and the
State are at odds, and that
China, with its miseries, has
profited by not having had an
overwhelming state"
do you think" 1 asked Miss
Swan, that China is making
an adaptation to occidental
civilization in any way COM
parable to that of Japan?"
Yes Miss Swan replied, "it
is beginning to make such an
adaptation. Chang Kai-Shek is
bringing about vast changes.
Youth is alert to change, ad.
venturous and adaptable"
will China sacrifice its an
cient culture in making this
changer" I questioned.
ENDLESS RESOURCES
mot to a great degree, in
my opinion. There is some
thing deeply rooted in Chi
nese character which will, I be-
lieve, prevent them from sacri-
ficing any important essentials.
No matter how much you like
the Chinese, one realizes that
these changes must come.
"The airplane already is do
ing much to build national
unity and strengthen the cen
trail state. With the airplane
and the automobile they prob
ably will miss much OF the rail
road stage of world conformity.
That will mean, OF course.
that the change will be swifter.
and communication is exceed
ingly important in China. as it
has been the lack of roads
which has isolated large COM
munities and prevented effec-
tive national growth and soil
darity.
There is, of course" Miss
Swan concluded, plenty of pow
erty and wretchedness in
China. I am not one of those
Greenwich Village expatriates
who sees only good in other
countries and i'll in his own.
China has endless resources
and will, of course, develop and
use them in providing a higher
standard of living. But, in this
adaptation to the world, I do
not believe that it will, like
Russia, make a fetish Of the
machine. There is an ancient
and, 1 believe. indestructible
distillation of wisdom in the
Chinese people. and I don't
believe it ever will be lost"
Copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-06-04
Family Is Great Institution
In China

The Chinese are not slant
eyed. That's just one of a num-
Der Of startling bits of informa-
ton one gets in talking with
Miss Lucille Swan, distinguished
American sculptor who has put
in the last six years in Peiping
making buSts Of Chinese
notables - actors, philosophers,
statesmen and business men.
The general configuration of
the thick upper eyelid and the
tear duct gives that illusion OF
the eye being out of plumb.
Miss Swan, seeing the Chinese
eye-to-eye in her modelling, has,
of course, had an opportunity to
observe. TIL at oriental eye
slant seemed truer than the
axioms of Euclid when we used
to draw a picture of Chinese in
our schoolbook. It shows what
may happen to an old-eStab-
lished certainty when somebody
takes a good look at it.
Miss Swan finds that we, on
the other hand, have some Wis
ual slantS we haven't recognized
-figuratively, at least. Who's
cockeyed now? Old China might
ask young America that. So it
seems to Miss Swan, landing in
the uproar of New York after
her sojourn among a more
leisurely and decorous people.
She went to China to stay three
months. She stayed six years
and is going back. after a visit
with her parents in Chicago.
ANCIENT MANDATE
Miss Swan went from a
Greenwich Village apartment to
a house in Peiping which had
been the palace of a Monaghan
princess. She had outer gates
and inner gates, outer courts
and inner courts, gardens and
beautiful spacious rooms for
less than she would pay for
New York kitchenette apart
ment. Her ''house boys" may
install their families and their
relatives without anybody know
ing or caring whether they are
there.
II have tremendous admira-
ton for the Chinese" said Miss
Swan, a poised, charming, per-
sonable woman who has lived
happily and worked at her art
in many countries throughout
the Notwithstanding the South
Seas. "Peiping," she continued,
sis only about $50 miles from
Jehol pronounced Ra-hol, by
the way, and there was fight
ing within II miles of our city
gates. Nobody paid much at
tention to it. The Chinese
went on calmly about their
business.
Il found a woman could go
about the city unaccompanied
quite as safely as in New York.
1t is hard to put into words. but
the Chinese, suffering wars,
initiation, political tyrannies,
invasions and bandits for thou
sands of years, have put into
the national character some
thing of dignity, humor and
philosophy which is startlingly
absent in an occidental civiliza-
ton when you see them in
contrast.
I'VE hear much of the jap
aneSe as flower lovers. It seems
to me that the Chinese have a
much more passionate love Of
flowers. On the day the pc
onies bloom, lnultitudes, includ-
ing old people, will make long
pilgrimages to the parks, view
ing ecstatically and lovingly the
gorgeous blooms. Poor as they
The Washington times., 1935-06-04

m energetic
m eV cry
thing
And it just
thrills Poor
Little You to
think about
us, does it,
Twin g our
b i G, b r ave
lives in on r
free roman
tic world?
w h a t
W o III d n t
YOU give to
be like that
to have a
The Washington times., 1935-06-04

are becoming
real agricul-
turistS.
No AAA,
no r e x ford
G. Tugwells,
no Secretary
H e nry A.
Wallace for
them. They
uOu I DSllGV6
in that sort
of thing.
o n t h e
1,200-acre es-
tate that Pat
is + ar m ing
t he re ar