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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-12
Democrat -YMCA
 Basketball Tourney Notes

The second round of the Demo- crat-Y, NJ. c. A. statewide tour nament will get underway Thurs day night and conclude Friday eve ming at the Central r court, and looking over the schedule of games for both nights we predict the $. R. o. sign early.
 Here's the way Hennie DcspilS, official scorer who has seen all the games to date, picks them for thls week:
 THURSDAY
 Bridgeport SpringwOOds over Waterbury Boys Club Cadets.
 Hartford Renaissance over Man. chester Army and Navy.
 Meriden Boys Club over Water. bury Raymond Hillies.
 FRIDAY
 Waterbury Worden's over Wa. tertOwn PrincetOns.
 Waterbury SpeedbOys over Wa. terbury Y. M. H. A
 The Bridgeport Springwoods set some kind of 6 record in a Recrea- tional League tilt last week rolling up & Ill to 12 victory. Believe 1t or not but Bobby Nemergut, dim- inuative but speedy forward, &C., counted for exactly fifty. We are just beginning to wonder if Ne- mergut is faster or not than Gen Damelio of the Boys Club Cadets. We'll see Thursday night.
 Leo KOvis, blonde guard and high scorer of the Manchester Army and Navy combine, leaves in two weeks to join the St Louis Cardinals hurling staff. Leo exc poets to be farmed out in a minor league club, but welcomes the Op. portunity. "I'll have one big night in the tourney before I gO," says Leo, ''and that'll be at the expenss. of the Renaissance Thursday. I'll show those boys how cOlOrful I can be when I want to-" .
 The best passing team in the tourney appears to be the youth full but well drilled Meriden Boy6' Club who should have little diffi- culty disposing of the Reymond Hillies Thursday in the opening tussle. The blue and white com bine have two crack shots in Eddie Skinnon and Duke Stanley.
 Manager Freddy Ware of the Hartford Renaissance has prom ised to have Bill Oliver of the Meriden Endees in his lineup Thursday against Jeff Blanchard's Manchester Army and Navy team. Jef1 by the way is World War veteran and well known to many Waterburians, being asked to be remembered to Jerry Griffin Of the fire marshars stan.
 The Ansonia Blue Devils gain the quarter finals by drawing a bye this week. The Devils, formerly the White Flashes, have strength ened considerably this season and feature good looking Harry Kelly, demon reporter of the Bridgeport Herald. Kelly shoots them from all angles and is leading McKar- lin's boys in scoring.
 Dick Tuckey will not be with the Princetons Friday. Ditto for Eddie Stevens who sustained water on the knee. It will be treat to watch Joe Swasey, playing in Wor. den uniform, opposing the Prince tons who mhe played several games with this season. Yes, and the Princctons would like to have Joe in their lineup, but they won't.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-12
GenlOt Team Beat Hartford WOOsters

Erroneous reports were made through misunderstanding of con- ditions of a special bowling match at the Genlot alleys Sunday night featuring Hartford Wooster and Genlot mems teams. On total .pinfall basis. Waterbury won the match by q pins with Jack Slat- tery hitting high single of 146 and high three of 400 and Genlots get ting high game of 549 and high team pinfall of 1.792. Here's the scores:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-12
ROWE SIGNS

Lakeland, Fla, March 12-(UP) It took Schoolboy Rowe adn own CT Navin two minutes to agree on salary and sign a 1895 contract when they met last night. Navin came from Coral Gables and will remain with team the remainder of the training season.
 All Detroit players are now signed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-12
ThOmastOn ROvers Win Duckpin Match
Especial to The Dcmocrat)

Special to The DemOcrat)
 Thomaston, March 12-The Row CTS took two out of three games from the ABC's in Women's Bowling league match at the Re- creation alleys last night. The Trailers took two from the Town Hall. The Seth Thomas Rangers match was postponed and will be rolled at a later date, so the league standing is not yet complete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-12
AMA TEUR BASKETBALL
Troians Come Through

IrOJAnS Come ThrOugh The North End Y Trojans de- feated the Whippets at the North End Y hut recently, 42 to 2S. The box score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-12
PRINCETONS-WORDEN'S CLASH
 IN TOURNEY CONTEST FRIDAY

The pairings for M. C. A statewide basketball morning George T. Dnlon director
 THURSDAY EVENING p. m.-Waterbury Reymond Meriden Boys Referee, Henry Darlington. m.-Hartf0rd Renaissance Manchester Army and Navy. Referee Tom Carney. m-Waterbury Boys Club Cadets Bridgeport Spring. woods. Referee Tom Carney.
 FRIDAY EVENING m-Watsrbury speedboys Waterbury Y. M. H. A. Referee, John A. Cluney. ss p. m.--Watertown Princetons Waterbury wordens Referee, Tom Carney. f Blue Devils (Byel.
 Results 17. WOrdens Fairfield 27.
 0. Cadets 90; Hartford FelOwcraft H. Waterown PrincetOns S2 Glastonbury II. N. A. 20,. Waterbury r. M. H. A. 30; Naugatuck St Hedwiss 20. Waterbury Speedboys Bristol Boys Club 33. Army and Navy 46; Hartford Sport Ceners s. Blue Devils AZ; Bridgeport Lewis Clothes 4s Merldcn Boys Club 67; Oakvile Kieseis 2e. Renaissance Stamford Question Marks S5. Bridgeport sprinswoods s4; Hartford Atlas is.
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Referee: Serduck.
 Time: Four 10-min. periods.
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High single-C. Root, 125. High three-H. Colby, 348. High game-Colby team, 523. High total--S. Smiths team 154S.
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5S2 561 649-1792 High Single-J. Slattery, 146. High Three-J. Slattery, 400. High Game-Genlots, 649. High Team-Genlots, 1792. Genlots won match by 21 pins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-12
HOPEVILLE COMMUNITY
 LEAGUE
GRAPE NUTS

45s- .47 9 .5Os 14se
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
L. S. SHIPPING

IF any appreciable percentage Of all the
charges against American merchant ma
rine subsidy practices be true. the situation
demands review and reform almost as badly
as the Teapot Dome mess did.
II is not merely that we have the old ia
miliar charges Of dishonesty and inefhciency;
not merely that our governments effort to
protect the lives of American travellers at sea
is reported to have broken down; more than
this. we seem to be defeating the very purposes
for which the subsidy law was passed.
The whole idea Of the subsidy, of course,
was to build up our merchant marine.
Under the law, government loans are made
for ship construction, government moneys are
paid to ship operators in the guise OF mail
contract fees, and government-built ships
are sold to private operators far below cost.
This was justified on the theory that it was
the best way to build up a merchant ma
rine service which would be of commercial
value in peaoetime and of great military value
in time of war.
And vet one of the charges made by the
special Senate investigating committee is that
all of this has been useless. This committee
asserts that in spite of all these subsidies, the
merchant marine is steadily declining.
It declares that even with the best possible
administration, the present subsidy plan could
not succeed in rebuilding our commercial fleets.
A subsidy plan is, in the very nature Of
things, open to abuses.
When you have the government shelling
out huge sums to private concerns, you open
the way for all kinds of trouble. Under any
Administration and in any field of business,
this will be true.
Some official is bound to weaken under
pressure; some business man is bound to I'M
sheath his chisel and start using it.
1t takes the strictest kind of oversight to
keep such evils at a minimum; where the
overseeing is not strict, the evils will multi
ply like mushrooms.
That is what we let ourselves in for with
the subsidy plan. Now if, on top of all that.
the plan doesn't do what we hoped it would
do. the argument for some new method of
conserving our merchant marine becomes
overwhelming
The Senate committee suggests two alter
natives; outright government ownership and
operation, or government ownership with pri-
vate operation.
Whether a third scheme could be worked
out. and which of these two would be prefer
able. if that should be possible are things
yet to be determined. Enough has already
been revealed however to make it clear that
something pretty drastic in the way of reform
is imperative.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
SOUTHERN SENATORS RAPED
AS DELAYERS OF BONUS
By Bernard Warren.

BY Bernard Warren.
In the opinion of war veterans,
their families and friends, there are
about six Southern Senators who are
always among the first to block the
soldiers bonus. One Of these. Sen
ators, who is chairman of the Sen
ste Finance Committee, had the
nerve to offer a bonus bill that
would have paid the veteran only
$3.50 on a $500 debt. Does this Sen
ator think the veterans are dumb?
A news dispatch reports this same
Senator held a secret conference
with the Secretary Of the Treasury
and urged him to use his influence
to not raise the tax issue at this ses-
sion. because it would be impossi-
BILE to prevent a bonus rider being
attached to the bill, and yet they say
they are trying to get bonus bill
passed at this session Of Congress.
The Democratic speakers bureau
should assign these gentlemen up
North, East and West for speaking
dates during the 1886 campaign
where they will find the veterans
and their friends just as mentally
and physically able as any Of them
and where they will find the sentl-
ment was for the payment in 1885.
After the 1886 elections these
same Senators power will be in the
minority and they will assume their
old familiar positions as figure
heads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
A LESSON LEARNED TOO LATE

ONE lesson. at least, the German militarists
~ seem to have learned from the World
War: it is bad policy for any European power
to enter a naval building race with Great
Britain.
However much they may differ on some
matters, statesmen of England and Germany
are now in agreement on naval policies. Ger
many willingly accepts a program by which
her total naval tonnage can not exceed IS per
cent of the British strength, and the program
is embodied in a two-power treaty which is
valid regardless of the naval programs OF
other powers.
One can not help thinking how different
world history might have been if such agree
ment could have been reached say, in 1910.
Fear of Germany's naval ambitions was
tie one great motive that drove England into
the entente. Between 1914 and 1918 German
statesmen learned once and for all that Ger
many's way to greatness does not lie in a
naval program. That much, at least, can be
written down as definite and positive fruit OF
the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
LINDBERGH. SCIENTIST

NEWS from the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Resesrch-that heart. kidney
thyroid spleen and other whole organs from
She body have been made 10 grow in test
tubes-iS thrilling because it may mean the
eventual understanding and conquest Of
gland disorders and dread organic diseases,
perhaps even some kinds OF cancer.
The magic name OF Lindbergh IS not needed
10 make the news worthy Of the front page.
Yet We find Col Charles A Lin6bergh as the
collaborator OF famous Dr. Alexis Carrel en-
gagged in one Of the most intricate and ad-
vanced pieces Of medical experimentation.
Is27-Lindbergh flies the Atlantic alone
1e55-Carrel and Lindbergh publish The
Culture Of Whole Organs" In eight years the
Lone Eagle has evolved into the scientist.
AS scientist he is no dilettante. He has
worked five years with only two previous hints
as 70 what DR.. Csrren and he have been doing.
A hundred years from now at least it's pos
sible-svistion may forget LindbeTgh while
MEDICINE remembers him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
A VOTE ON WAR

vTErIF debate increases on the advisability
w Of amending the Constitution to cope
witt, messing economic problems. congress
sional subcommittee hears arguments on an
other proposed amendment of great potential
importance.
II is the Ludlow amendment providing for
a plebiscite on war and for taking the profits
out OF future conflicts It would require ref
erendum on United States entry into any war
except in the case Of defense to -cpel in
vasion."
Back to democracy lies the belief that the
people are capable Of self-government, and in
no other governmental activity can the peo-
ple be more directly interested than in send
inc their youth to spill blood on foreign soil
On a question OF entering a foreign war,
the people back home may be better quail
fed to decide than are the politicians in
Washington's artificial environment, DR.. Mary
wilhelmine williams. professor of history at
Goucher College. told the committee.
7 do not hold that the voice of the people
Is the voice Of God" she said. but do have
considerable faith in the common sense Of
the common man and woman.
They are likely to be more practical and
10 90 straight to the main point, rather than
have their vision warped by theory as at times
happens to people in public Office.
This clearer vision is commonly due TO
possession Of only the larger facts in connec-
ton with the question Government officers
who are more fully informed as regards de-
tails at time are confused BY them and are.
so TO speak. unable to see the woods for the
trees
Remembering the devious diplomacy and
the then unseen influences that led us into
the World War. we hear in her words the
ring OF truth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
GREAT NEED FOR HOUSING

A MERICA'S boast of its high standard OF
n living is dealt terrific blow in the PWA
report that lists 100000 of the nations
homes as definitely in the slum class
If a third of the country's population is
dwelling in houses and neighborhoods Of a
character ito iniure the health and endan-
ger the safety and morals and interfere with
normal lives" then our boast is hollow
mockery.
Whether or not the time has come, as the
report insists, flor private enterprise to
abandon an impossible task and let the COM
nurity take it over" conditions call for i'm
mediate action on a huge scale, whatever
agency is chosen.
With thousands of building craftsmen
idle. with material business at low tide, with
thousands of householders willing to borrow
money if reasonable credit terms can be OBJ
tanned. and with surveys showing a growing
shortage of good rental property, it seems
that concentration on this problem would do
more than anything else to help relieve de-
preston and alleviate misery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
EQUALITY IN PIONEERING

TT is interesting 20 note that the very first
Il acts considered by the pioneers who went
UP into the Matanuska Valley in Alaska con-
cerned the health of the colony.
The question of garbage disposal, the con-
troll of stray dogs, and the distribution Of
milk for the children became the first sub
jects of Importance 70 the colonists, and the
council of Is delegates from the nine camps
made rapid progress for the benefit Of the
200 families settled there.
But even more interesting than this is the
fact that the Is persons forming the first
council in this pioneer colony included nine
men and nine women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
So They Say

I believe that if there is to be
any enduring peace, international
measures must be taken to improve
condition of the maSses.-Kemal
Ataturk, president of Turkey.
We are not going to let Huey Long
continue to use the Senate as a
medium for making himself the
Fascist dictator of America.-Sena-
tor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Wash
ington.
The stage will stay dead because
we are raising a generation of young
people who don't even know what
the legitimate theater is.-George
Jessel, famed actor.
There never has been nor never
will be freedom when powers of
government are lodged in man or
in a group of men.-Herbert Hoover.
The wisdom and strength of the
Constitution explain our persistence
as a going concern in a world where
almost all other democracies have
failed.-Bainbridge Colby, one-time
Secretary of State.
I believe the days of letting people
live in misery, of being rock-bottom
destitute, of children being hungry,
of moralizing about rugged in
dividualism in the light of modern
facts, are over in America.-Relief
Director Harry Hopkins.
Children need less coddling and
more lickings. The woodshed may
be gone, but we have the garage,
and it is used too little for chas-
tisement Of the erring child.-The
Rev. j. B. Hubbard, addressing wom-
ans club in Chicago.
Conquest Of the last element, the
air, seems to me the only major task
of our generation.-The late T. E.
Shaw Lawrence of Arabia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

that those who have the most should
pay the most for government. Again,
as a matter of ethics, in view Of The
present economic system, no man
can amass even a reasonably sized
fortune without having oppressed
fellow human beings.
It is a cause for wonder that
Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the
rich, has come forward with such
a program as he has. Could it be
possible that the program is insin-
cere-that it is a makeshift to lull
the dumb working class, and post
pone for little time more the in
evitable day when every man and
woman who works shall receive the
full social benefit Of their toll? That
is something to think about.
The late lamented NRA, with its
starvation wage levels, looked good
to many when it first appeared. But
in practical use, it tended to pull
down wages. Given little more
time to become entrenched, its
s14.50 a week minimum wage would
have become the maximum.
Not until the profit motive is dead
shall there be such a thing as real
economic justice. So long as thou
sands Of men toll for long hours
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
sAruRpAY. JUNE 2. lsss.
FLEXIBLE FARM CONTROL

THE AAA amendments now before the
Senate carry the New Deals farm crop
controls much further than did the emergency
act Of 1893. Yet they are logical if America
proposes TO deal with its basic industry on
long-range basis and embrace the bulk Of its
SIX and one-half million farmers
Triple has worked more than tolerably
vel as a brake on agricultural over-produc-
ton. Last year It retired 50 million acres Of
surplus crops from production. Farm income
has increased s2.749. OO0O 600 Of which 30 per
cent was independent of benefit payments.
But as AAA Administrator Chester Davis says,
restricted production VIII not be the focal
point Of a permanent policy for agriculture"
A permanent policy must reckon with the
vhims Of nature. The amendments would
fcrestaH danger OF crop shortages BY permit
ting the Secretary Of Agriculture to use rental
and benefit payments to increase as well as
eurtan crops. They also provide storage
device which Secretary Wallace calls the
ceremonial grarary." This modern Joseph's
scheme permits the government to acquire nom
perishable food, feed and hbres (such as cot
tom as pledged security for loans to farm
ers. These commodities would be sealed on the
farms or in warehouses and returned later to
producers to cooperate in the adjustment
program. If this plan works the government
can maintain ample reserves without being
forced to dump as it did its wheat under the
Hoover scheme.
Finally. the amendments recognize that al
most forgotten aid to agriculture, foreign
trade
Calculating that the farm population is 80
per cent Of all Of US. the amendments pro-
pose that 30 per cent OF all gross customs re-
csipts approximately S1OO,oOOOOO. be used to
encourage farm experts. Or it can be used
in expanding home markets through pur-
chases OF relief food. the buying of submarginal
farms or otherwise fitting production to con-
sumption. The export subsidy experiment, re-
calling the >debenture plan, may or may not
work in spreading tariff benefits to the
hinterlands.
We trust these amendments meet the eX-
actions Of the Supreme Court and work to-
ward higher living standards on the nations
farms-without which cities car not prosper
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

pend on the company's income. workers and
management have reached an agreement as
to the percentage Of each dollars income
which is to 90 to pay checks, and fixed
proportion OF profits will be set aside and
distributed as a bonus when business is good.
Here seems TO be a healthy step in the
direction Of the assured annual income. The
workers pay may drop pretty low, at times,
under such a plan-but at least it will keep
on coming through.
It ought to be an excellent scheme for
cushioning the wage-earner against depres-
sions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
PRESIDENT RATES ACE HIGH
WITH THIS CONTRIBUTOR

BY Geneva BOgdon.
Well, I see where they blame Mr..
Roosevelt for the bank panic. I
knew we had those kind of people
in the world, people who blame the
innocent, but little did I know they
were getting this bad.
I am not a bit surprised at Wal
ter H. Newton for saying such
things. You remember he was once
secretary to Herbert Hoover. I guess
that accounts for it. They accuse
Mr.. Roosevelt of wrecking the re-
covery that they say had begun be-
fore the 1882 election. Well, have
several years over my head and
that's the first I or any one else
knew about it. I think I know why
they kept it secret all the time.
They must be afraid of the outcome
in 1886, so they are starting in
plenty of time.
Do you folk believe all that? Well,
here's one who doesn't care whoop
what they accuse Mr.. Roosevelt Of
I still say it isn't so, no matter
what comes or goes.
Three cheers for Mr.. Roosevelt in
1886 and first lady of the land. Long
may she live.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
SOnnets of a
Sojourner
BY BERTRAM DAY

Across the sea! Such words quite
thrill my soul,
I want to sail away and go some
where,
To seek a change and find another
goal,
To travel on and on without care.
I want to roam away from every
thing,
To wander over hills Of unknown
lands.
To walk where'er my fancy may
take wing,
To ride a camers back across the
sands.
I would acquaint myself with tabled
streams
And learn of customs different from
ours,
I long to prove the fabric Of my
dreams
And gaze on foreign castles many
hours.
Such musings feed my heart with
happy glee,
And set my long imprisoned spirle
free.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

then. In other words, they will
never approve such action and will
fight to the last ditch to prevent it.
Organized greed never, never
yields. If we can't play in their
back yard unless we play just as
they say we had best give up play
ing for the time and determine once
for all who is who.
The President certainly knows his
Henry George. George dwells at
considerable length on the increased
increment; from whence it comes
and to where it belongs and should
90. He does not lay down the prin-
ciple in discussing corporations but
elsewhere. wish every one who IS
not familiar with the teachings OF
Henry George would go to their
library or buy copy OF his
progress and Poverty" and not
only read it but assimilate it. 1t
viii only prove how helpless our
case might be if it we're not for
men like Franklin 2. Roosevelt, who
is not afraid and can not be in
Inundated.