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Evening star., 1935-08-10
Better Cars and Service
Will Yield Transit Profits
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A question for the Capital Transit
Co.: Why not think Of the patrons first
before you take off q man on every new
car? One-fnan cars slow up the serv-
ice, because the motorman operates the
car, collects the fares and would do
work that two should do. Instead of
making it harder for the riding public
from an economy standpoint, get the
Public Utilities Commission to counter
mand several rerouting orders. No need
to tear up the tracks on Kennedy street
from the pillow pit on Fourteenth street
to Georgia avenue. OF course, to
double-track Kennedy street from the
plow pit to Third street would be a
service that is needed and will help
business on that line. Put off for sew
eral years the changing of the tracks
at Fourteenth street and New York
avenue.
Several hundred thousand dollars have
been spent on new busSes that will have
to last for years. I have been told 5
to years is long time for a bus to
be good enough to give service. The
older the bus, the more fumes it throws
out. That is where street car shows
its reliability. 1t will last several times
longer than a bus and call that the
proper kind of economy. Yes, the tracks
have to be repaired once in a while.
So do the streets. I still advocate more
street cars like those on the Fourteenth
street line. I understand they were over
hauled right here in the shops by the
company, and lots of the old cars can
be made over in the same way. I am
glad to see that The Star comes out in
favor of two-man cars, and do hope
that popular opinion will show that one
man cars are not increased and that
some day in the near future they
will be eliminated entirely. Pay the
workers just wage, give the best service
possible and the Capital Transit Co. will
make everybody satisfied and in that
way it surely will make money and in
time pay dividends to its stockholders.
Treat the car riders right and in the
long run money will be made by the
transit company. FELIX A. URY.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Memories.

The things people remember are not
invariably consequential. On an eve
ming recently a group of passengers
gathered in the lounge of a trans-At-
lantic liner, fog-delayed, and, reacting
to the occasion, talked of weather. One
said, 81 recall a time in my boyhood
when fog hung for days over the Ohio
River below Pittsburgh so thick that
the chickens thought it was night and
went to roost and stayed there" And
another declared, I'VE used to have
fog on Nantucket that really seemed
to have the consistency Of soup. 1t
would come right into the house and
fill the rooms like smoke, and we were
afraid of it and would cry because we
thought we would be smothered." But
q third speaker capped the climax with
q reminiscence of his childhood in Lon
don. 1.-THE classic fogs." he affirmed,
"are ghoStly affairs. John Galsworthy
tells about them in one of his books,
and have always believed that he must
have found an incident for his Forsyte
Saga in the fact that my father once
stumbled over dead man in the street
on foggy night-the poor chap had
been run down by cab at crossing
and no one had seen him lying there
until my father came along"
From fogs to storms was natural
evolution, and the group exchanged
impressions of thundershowers, bliZ-
yards and hurricanes. Gradually the
talk drifted to extremes of temperature.
A wit in the circle told a prodigious tale
of Manitoba. There was certain
winter" he related, when it was so
cold that the sounds of railroad whistles
and bells froze in the sky, and we had
to wait until Spring for them to thaw
out for us to hear" Thus prompted
Evening star., 1935-08-10

They've lost the feel of the road since
they have been getting home relief" he
complains; "they don't ride the rods like
they used to-"
This is disheartening. 1t is cutting
at the roots of an institution which had
become firmly established. Yet the
travelling panhandlers have been soften
ing for quite long time past. The
advent of the motor car and the develop
ment of the art of hitch-hiking have set
new standards of transport and widened
the range OF the wanderers. And the
institution of public relief stations has
simply shifted the burden of giving
sustenance to them from the tender
hearted housekeepers to the community
purse.
Has the system of communication be-
tween these restless rovers that once
reached the proportions of secret Ian
guage gone as we'll? The tramps' argot
was once the subject Of profound study
by philologists. Now they talk like
economists and professional correcters
of social ills. President Dalton Of the
hobo college thus states his prescription
for the cure of the evils of which the
tramp is supposedly symptom: II will
call for a five-day week, the four-hour
day and insist on six months vacation
for every man; it's a simple and easy
way to end the unemployment problem"
This is just going little further
toward the goal of universal idlenesS
than some of the prescriptions of the
sociological doctors who have been seek
ing to administer restoratives to the all
ing body polite. The Dalton plan calls
for a maximum of $40 hours of work
year. 1t does not go so far as to indicate
a rate of pay or how the pay roll would
be provided. But at that it is no more
lacking in definition of ways and means
than some of the other schemes that
have been seriously advanced, and even
seriously considered, in the line of equal
division of means and opportunity and
responsibility, regardless Of qualifications,
talents and capacities.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Education an Asset
And Not a Liability
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
An opinion expressed by personnel
interviewer or official in a Government
department reveals that he observes the
average college graduate seeking po-
Sition to be conceited and is not given
any more consideration than others
making similar applications. Such a
statement naturally calls for protest.
Is it justiflable to describe an edu-
Gated man thus when probably he slaved
his way through an institution of higher
learning by working at the humble post
of dishwashing? The very fact that a
man accomplished a college education
is a most severe test in itself of in
genuity, initiative and capability. Pity
the employer who does not comprehend
the great asset in a college-trained
mind! JOE EDDY.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

enjoy the work. he or she should not
take up gardening.
This statement scarcely holds water,
because there are thousands of persons
who honestly love gardens and the
things of the garden, but who, through
various forces of circumstances, hon
estly do not have the time, and, in some
cases, the physical energy to carry on.
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For all these, nothing is quite so
good as the garden reduced, not to its
lowest terms, but to just one tone
The green tone:
A great many home owners tend to
forget the primary value of this beau
tiful color.
1t is quite beautiful, in itself, to justify
a garden of nothing else.
Evidently the Massachusetts, Horti-
cultural Society thought SO.
Most of the persons who look at the
pictures of the Winthrop estate will
think so, too.
There is no gainSaying that the word
garden" is very wide in meaning.
There are all sorts of gardens, ranging
through all the branches of speciality.
Not only are there gardens devoted to
informal ones, large and small gardens,
costly and inexpensive gardens.
Recent years have given impetus to
rock gardens and water gardens.
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There are so many gardens that there
is room aplenty for what might be
called trees-shrub- garden.
1t is really no new thing.
Many a home owner has achieved it
solely through lack of time or inclina-
ton to raise flowers
When thought and effort, however
are put on the same project, it is mani
fest that something exceptional may
result, as in the case of the beautiful
estate mentioned.
Let no backyard gardener think an
| estate, in the ordinary sense of very
large place, is at all necessary if he
| desires to garden primarily with trees
lawn and shrubs.
The joker comes in the shrubs.
These woody perennials are as f1ori-
ferrous as anything in the plant kingdom
A proper selection of shrubs would
give succession of bloom from very
early Spring to very late Autumn.
Such a common thing as the althea
sometimes called Rose of Sharon, fur
nishes exquisite flowers all during the
latter part of July and the month OF
August, when blooms are at premium
in many gardens.
The witch hazel will come into flower
at frost.
There are any number of shrubs, some
common, some not so well known, which
will supply all the floral beauty any
| one could wish
The green garden, with or without
| flowers, is beautiful garden
One thing it does is. to throw the
attention more on the condition which
grass, shrubs and trees ought to have
all the time.
This will mean that more care is
given them, thus bringing about a
wholesome circle of interest In the
ordinary garden, with many flowers
care Of detail is often permitted to go
by the board.
If grass, trees and shrubs were all
one had, no doubt even the LATEST gar
dener would see to it that they were
| kept in the very best condition possible
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Refutes Objections to
One-Man Street Cars
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The objection to one-man cars appears
to be based on the fact that it has been
customary to employ two men on
street car. Nobody suggests putting
two men on a single-deck bus, even
though it may accommodate nearly as
many passengers as q car, simply be.
cause from the very first such buses
required only one man. And yet, in
addition, the operator of the bus must
steer his vehicle and usually does not
have the benefit Of electric power, which
necessitates the shifting of gears. ,
If street cars continue in use, the
one-man car will probably become uni
versal because we maintain a Patent
Office to encourage the perfection of
mechanical devices to supplant human
labor wherever possible, but we are re-
luctant to put in practice that which
we invite. j. F. SMITH.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Deterioration.

Deterioration of Americas most leis-
urely class, the knights of the road,
otherwise known as hoboes-once upon
time called tramps-is attributed to
the promiscuous sustenance admin
istered to them by the Government
under the general relief program which
has formed so large a part of the re-
covery procedure of the New Deal A
dispatch from New York states that
Ralph E. Dalton, head of a newly estab-
lished hobo college, declares that relief
methods have all but knocked the props
from under that system of livelihood and
that the knights" have turned softies.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Banished Laughter.

Banished Laughter.
"I've lost my sense of humor,"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
ITO almost every rumor
A threat of battle clings.
A plot for weapon making
To kill us each and all
Seems like a jest, forsaking
Whatever we recall
OF simple early teaching,
OF piety and sense,
Ridiculously reaching
To foolishness intense.
The boy in martial training,
The girl in study deep,
While science she is gaining,
Must also learn to weep.
AS ultimate consumer
OF jests, I fear such things!
I have no sense of humor,"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

Thirty days annual leave for Gov
ernment workers will stimulate business
in a way. More golf clubs and travel
accessories will be needed, and those
who serve Uncle Sam will find the en-
thusiasm of recreation which prevents
the depression of dull routine.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
The COad

There are two men of kindly ways
Who one another daily praise
And quickly catch passing mood
That each to each may not be rude.
Yet when they part at close OF day
They find themselves quite sad and gray.
There are two men-I know not why
Whose right hands fist as they pass by,
Without a smile they barely nod.
AS If each would the other prod.
Yet as they 60 a separate way
Each feels new vigor for LIES frayl
Evening star., 1935-08-10
The Waiting Hostess.

From the Kansas City Star.
We are told that hostess should wait
dinner twenty minutes for delayed guests,
and after that to use her own judgment.
One trouble with that arrangement is that
she usually has lost her Judgment by that
time, along with her temper.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Special Stamps.

From the Lowell CMsss.) Evening Leader.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
for the issue of special stamp commence
rating the organization of the @. A. r.
But at the moment there's no sign that
the G. o. P. will come In for similar recos-
nttion.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Somewhere.

Somewhere.
When one Great Intellect speaks out
Another one expresses doubt.
And still another will disclose
Opinions differing from those.
The patient and inquiring mind
Some solace presently must find.
In all this reasoning, day and night,
Somebody Surely Must Be Right.
Everybody says he favors de pursuit
of happiness" said Uncle Eben, "but at
present nobody seems able to be happy
unless he's maxim trouble fob somebody
else"
Evening star., 1935-08-10

Divorce is so easy and the dollar has
become so cheap that it is hard to see
how ladies should go on killing their
husbands, even for mercenary reasons.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

Hints on fashions are still offered under
Paris date line for the benefit of old
fashioned folk who think Paris still sets
the fashions.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

Perfect politics would avoid an equit-
able distribution of taxes that would
prevent anybody from feeling that he
has been selected for soaking"
Evening star., 1935-08-10

France demonstrates the need of more
collegiate influence to enable the
mortar boards to assert more authority
over steel helmets.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Prepared for Peace.

"I apologize!" said one diplomat.
"But you have given no offense," said
the other.
"I know there is no present reason for
my apologizing. But I wish to be on
record with an expression of willingness
to do so on the slightest provocation."
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Seven-Eleven.

Seven-Eleven.
We say this life we're leading
Is but a game of chance.
The numbers we've been needing
Increase at every glance.
We once would mention millions
In a spirit all perplexed.
Well soon say Seven Billions,
And Eleven Trillions next.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

Former President Hoover celebrates
his sixty-first birthday today. AS cam
paigner he is still below the retire
ment age.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

BY flying to the edge of Ethiopia
Mussolini will show courage. When
marched into the interior his soldiers
will show even greater daring.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
Luxurious Travel.

what expect to see," said Senator
Sorghum, sis a series of broad high
ways with fountains and flower gardens
in the middle"
"I'll appreciate that" said the motor
ist "a great deal when I am travelling,
but more when pause for refreshment.
Your philanthropy will not be complete
until it provides shade trees and free
lunch."
Jud Tunkins says loaf of bread Is so
handsomely wrapped up that he hates
being obliged to throw so much of his
purchase into the waste paper basket.
Evening star., 1935-08-10
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Evening star., 1935-08-10

Q. What is the origin of comic opera?
"A. M.
A. 1t is said to be lie Jeu de Robin
ct Marion" Of Adam de la Halle, con-
sisting of an ordinary pastourelle with
songs set to music.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

G. How many Government insurance
policies under the Veterans Admins
tration are in force?-M S.
A. AS of May 81, 1885, there were
SOL ,681 policies in force, amounting TO
$2,610,114,219.
Evening star., 1935-08-10

O. Was the Grand Canyon formed
by the erosive action of the Colorado
River?-M. H. S.
A. The Grand Canyon has been worn
by the ceaSeless flow of the Silt-laden
Colorado River, by the storm waters
that occasionally fall into the canyon,
and by weathering processes. The most
effective of these agencies has been the
river itself. However, it has not directly
carved the canyon to its full width, nor
cut the embayments that scallop the
rims of the plateaus. 1t has cut its
way vertically downward, maintaining
its course almost without change. Mean
while, the rocky walls of the canyon
have been exposed to the destructive
action of rain and rill, Of frost and
landslide, of wind and chemical action.
@. What is contango day2-W. F.
A. 1t is a day upon which premium
or interest is paid by buyer to q seller
in order to be permitted to defer pay
ment of the debt.
@. When the new style calendar was
adopted in England and this country
what days were Skipped?-C. M.
n. Ii Was dOOPICu III 4tOS dA1o ."CQ~
neSday, September 2, was followed by
Thursday, September IA. Eleven days
were omitted.
@. What was the occasion of Mark
Twain's famous witticism about the
report of his death being greatly exag-
gerated?-H. l.. M.
A. According to the book, Mark
Twain: Wit and Wisdom" edited by
Cyril Clemens, the humorist and his
cousin, DR.. James r. Clemens. were
staying at the same hotel in London
when the latter became seriously Ill.
The two ClemenSes were confused by
the press and a contingent of reporters
came to the hotel to get the latest news.
So disappointed was one young Ameri-
can reporter at not getting a big story
that Mark Twain suggested to him that
he cable his paper the sentence that
soon became famous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-28
EVENTS OF INTEREST

February 2S-Civic Theater Play at club rooms. February 28-1nter-R Racial Com niittee's Baked Ham Supper at Peagl Street Neighborhood house. February 28-Frolic and Dance of Local Barbefs' Union, No. 732, at Buckingham Hall. February 28--Social and dance of Employees Association of Water- bury Manufacturing company at the Central Y. March 1--Overlook- Cottage Park Club meeting.
 March I-Radio Show and Card Party for Church of St. John of the Cross in Middlebury. March 1-St. Joseph Societies Rube Dance at St. Joseph's Hall. March 1-Casper Davis Auxili- ard card party.
 March 1-Church Family Night at the First M. F. church.
 March 1-Wolcott Fire Depart ment Dance at Lakeside Tavern.
 March 1-Card Party of water- bury College Club for Student Loan Fund in Davenport Hall.
 March 1--Co-ed Froiic by Ce- dars of YMCA at Women's Club.
 March 1-Hopeville Community Club Welfare committee meeting.
 March l. Sacred Heart Parish Minstrels at Hamilton Park.
 March - DeMolay Minstrel Show at Temple Hal.
 March 1-Civic Theater Play.
 March 1-Women's Benefit As. sociation Minstrel at Washington Park.
 March 2--Kappa Chi Phi meet ing at First church.
 March AR. F. Worden's An- nual Get-Together at Hamilton park.
 March 4 - Missionary Benefit movies. "New World", at St, Johns Episcopal church.
 March 4-Ball and Chain dance at Central Y.
 March 5-Card party by Mems League of Sacred Heart Church.
 March 5-Second Congregation. al church Evening Departments Hash and Pancake Supper at Dav- export Hall.
 March 7-Lawrence Dennis at forum at Women's Club.
 March S-Rebekah lodge rum. mage sale. =.
 March S-"World Day of Pray CT" at Second Congregational church.
 March 9 - Dental Hygienists convention at Hotel Elton.
 March 1O-Daughters of Italy initiation and dinner at Hotel El- ton.
 March 11-First M. D. church meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-28
12 Civil Actions
 Listed In Courts
Damages of s4SOOO Asked To-day in Suits Over Auto Accidents, Mishaps in Local Stores, Also Dog Bite

near the curb, and knocked to the pavement. severely injuring her legs.
 Auto Collision
 Lillian Kravitz asks s2,0OO dam. ages from Aiphonse Sirica for inc juries she suffered when struck by the defendants car while she was crossing Cooke street at North Main street August 17th. Alexander Zimmerman of West Haven seeks $10,000 damages from Leila A. Wallace and Clifford P. Wallace of Prospect for injuries arising from an automobile collision sat Pros- pect, November 21, 1934.
 Louis Grasso claims e5,000 dam- ages in an action against Robert B. Coates for injuries suffered when struck by the defendants car while crossing East Main street, near Wolcott street July Sd.
 Gladys Rylander asks $8,00O damages from the Waterbury Ma. tional bank for injuries suffered when she fell on the stairs of the defendants property at 16 South Leonard street, March 26,
 James Montanari of Naugatuck asks $4,O00 damages from Paul and Doris Wilhelm for injuries arising from an automobile col. lision on the Naugatuck-C Cheshire road, May 24, 1884. Harold o. Dell of Thomaston asks $500 dam ages from Phillip Warcholic of Am sonia for injuries suffered in a col- lision on Thomaston avenue, Feb 10th.
 Stores Defendants
 Edwin and Mildred Smith arc plaintiffs in a $4,000 civil action against Freeman Smith, brought on a common count writ. Ethel Smith casks $3,000 damages from the w. T. Grant Co for injuries suffered in a fall on the defend- ants property on Bank street, Oct 4th. Edith Dickenson sues tho A & P stores for injuries suffered in a fall on an alleged icy side- walk in front of one of the do. fendant stores at 40 North Main street February 17th. Henry Cushing asks $3,000 damages from George and Anna Gale of Union City for injuries he suffered when attacked by the defendants dog on their property at Union City, January 23. .Y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-28
WOLCOTT FACING POLITICAL BATTLE
COnstables Resent Criti- cisim of Their Work;
 Meeting Monday Night

The political dispute revolving about Wolcott's constables will come to a head Monday night when a special meeting is held at Vol colt Town Hall. The present con- stables and their friends state in no uncertain terms that are not going to take any criticism lying down the promise to take the of- fensive when the meeting is held Monday night.
 Claims that constables failed to answer an alarm were made after Dr s. L. Whitright was held up in his garage Monday night and rob bed of $55. The constables deny that claim emphatically. and de- clare that Hitchcock Lake, where the doctor resides. has adequate protection of residents of that sec- tion would take advantage of 1t.
 Constable Howard Kraft declar- ed to the Democrat today that four Wolcott constables live at the lake, but that only one of that number was called Monday night.