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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-19
Stdfe Officers To Be
 Honored By Lodge

Mrs Walter White of Chestnut avenue was installed as president of the Rebekah State Assembly at the convention held at the Hotel Bond in Hartford on Tuesday and Wednesday. The appointive offi- cers include: Mrs David Weav- ing of Grandview avenue con- ductress and Mrs B. Hayward Of Woodlawn terrace as left support. About fifty members of Winora Rebekah were in attendance at the sessions which included, a banquet, receptions and degree work.
 Plans are being made for re- ception for the newly elected presi- dent and appointive officers which will be held during the latter part of the month.
 A birthday party was given re- gently in honor of Matthew Des- jardins. Those attending were: MT and Mrs Nelson Desjardins, Clovis Desjardins, Misses Martha, Annette and Mary Desjardins, Arr mand Desjardins, MT and Mrs FdHh OeSJdTull MT dnu MI D Frederick Normand, Miss Rose Normand, Gerald and George Nor mand, MT and Mrs Trepanier, Miss Loretta Trepanier, MT and Mrs Frederick Pellitier, Edward Pelle- tier, Phil Pelletier, Miss Blanche Pelletier, Al Rosato, Salvatore Rosato, Albert Perrella, MT and Mrs Jean Hebert, MT and Mrs Arr gus Grilley, Mrs Hebert, Phil He bert, Primo Hebert, Theresa and Rita Hebert, Cecile Bouffard, Ed- ward Bouffard, George Bouffard, Armand Lavasseur, Roland Lavas- seur, Miss Antonette Izzo, Marcel Lavoie, and Helen Bouthot.
 Miss Doris Mccormack of Pleas ant street entertained the members of the Feminette Social club re- gently. During the business meeting plans were made for the Easter party. Refreshments were served. Those present were Victoria De- Capua, Marion Rochette, Marie Mellen, Kaye Scannell, Rita Miller ick and Doris Mccormack. The next meeting will be held at the home of Victoria DePapua of Wa terville street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-19
CONTRACT BRIDGE
 By VIM. E. MCKINNEY Secretary of the American Bridge League

Deuces As Big As Aces of Lowest Card By Partner Reveals Distress And Demand For Attack
 In Another Suit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-19
age1nents
READ-REDDEN

Mrs Edward Redden of Bradley ville announces the engagement of her daughter, Eleanor to Franklin Brooks Read, son of MT and Mrs F. H. Read of Over street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-19

MT and Mrs Joseph Ryan of East Main street are spending sev- eral days in Newark, N. J.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-19

Mis- Marion Newton of Walnut street is spending the weekend in New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
LEADERSHIP

THAT the United States has only one lead
Grand only one-to lead this country
sanely to better days is conceded by all think
ing persons.
indianapolis men and women prominent in
all walks of life recently joined in approving
whole-heartedly the appeal made in the edi-
torial columns of this newspaper for leader
ship by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the naming
OF men and organizations who are attempting
to obstruct the Presidents program
Indiana has one United States Senator-a
brilliant and able man-who is NOT doing his
level best to pull shoulder to-shoulder with
President Roosevelt.
The Senator is Frederick VanNuys, who
has been doing splendid and efficient work in
behalf of the anti-lynching BILL but who, on
legislation vital to the Roosevelt program is
seeming to side with those Senators intent on
playing politics"
Senator VanNuys is too fine a man, too
able a legislator, to ally himself with the Huey
Longs of the United States Senate
He was elected in the New Deal landslide
that placed Franklin Roosevelt in the White
House His work in behalf of the Administra-
ton was given an Overwhelming Endorsement
when the people of Indiana sent Sherman
Minton to the Senate in the place of Arthur
R. Robinson.
The people of Indiana have not yet taken
back that Endorsement.
1t is up to you Senator VanNuys, to live
up to the pledges you made of sticking side
by side with President Roosevelt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
ANOTHER CLASSIC

D AGING automobiles are beginning to ar
~ rive in the city and already Deacon Litz
and Tony Gulotta, two popular drivers, have
run mount 500 miles on test schedule.
In other words the time is approaching for
the 50O-mile race that annually attracts thou
sands of Hoosiers and visitors from other
states and nations.
Each year the interest in the Speedway
race increases, as innovations in race creations
are placed on the track for the tough grind
and new ideas in the automotive industry are
born and put into practice.
Last years race was IDEAL 1t was a race
battled at new average speed for the entire
distance and was marked by keen competition
and, above ALL no losses of life.
The Times wishes the Speedway as much
and more luck this year. The annual race is a
great affair for the city and its glamour should
not be dinlmed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
THURSDAY. APRIL IS. 1895.
FREE THE FARM TENANT

GENT back to the Senate Agriculture Com
~ mittee for further study, the Bankhead
farm tenant bill should emerge a stronger
measure.
Few persons will object to what this pros
pective law seeks to accomplish-the CONVEX
sion of tenants and sharecroppers into farm
freeholders. But it can not succeed unless it is
wisely drawn and wisely administered.
Opponents of the bill argue that it can not
accomplish it's purpose, that it merely will
transfer destitute farm families from the bond
age of landlordism to the slavery of mortgage
indebtedness. They also argue that it will be
used to bail out large landowners; but this
argument presupposes a dishonest or inefficient
administration of the law.
IN the tenancy problem, both human
servation and land conservation are involved.
Nearly half Of the families who live on and off
the soil have no permanent interest in the land
they till. They are largely migratory class,
without roots and with little hope of lifting
themselves out of poverty. They do not live
under conditions that breed good citizens.
Seeking desperately each year to make a
cash crop to pay off their debts to the land
lord, they care little whether the land is left
poorer. The landlords primary interest also
is a cash return. Thus, each year, one-crop
farming and erosion waste away the nations
most valuable resource.
Senator Bankheads proposal is frankly
experimental. 1t may not succeed even sur
rounded by every conceivable safeguard. But
the conditions it seeks to correct are so bad
that immediate effort to right them is imper-
alive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
DEPRESSION DEATHS

A FORMOSAN or Persian earthquake, a
L Moro Castle disaster, war brings the
kind of sudden death which shocks the pub
lie. We DO not comprehend so quickly the
horror of disasters which carry slow death
for even larger numbers of victims. Such has
been the depression. Yet it has taken us five
years to discover the ravages of hunger and
what has happened to the health of millions
of unemployed Americans.
Not so long ago government officials were
even assuring us that the depression had i'm
proved the physical condition of the popula-
ton. Such figures, Of course, were taken from
full-time workers and other favored groups.
Now comes Josephine Roche, the new and
able assistant secretary of the Treasury, telling
the unpleasant truth which has been evaded
hitherto. Speaking as the Sub-Cabinet official
in charge of the United States Public Health
Service, she says that recent survey cover
ing the period 1929-1933 shows that mortality
in families of unemployed and part-time
workers increased 20 per cent. The sickness
rate was so per cent greater in the groups
hardest hit by the depression than in families
whose income had not been materially re-
duced.
Apart from the human suffering and in
justice involved in these figures, the economic
waste and financial loss to the nation is in
calculable
Still there are well-fed citizens and men,
bers of Congress who object to the proposed
public health appropriation of 100000 in
the Roosevelt social security bill which is be-
ing held up in a Senate committee. Probably
the Gay will come as forecast by Secretary
Roche, when the Federal government will in
vest in public health not 100000. but $685.
100000, or 81 a person.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
RACIAL WELFARE

NEWS that Germany has unsexed 1875, SIT
units as part of the Nazi drive for "ra-
cial welfare" will bring a bitterly ironic smile
to the face of the world
To sterilize feeble-mnded and epileptics
in the name of eugenics while glorifyir war
IS straining at gnats. In the Great War Ger
many lost nearly 100000 of her finest males.
That war cost the world 100000 of it's best
young men and blighted the lives of three
times that many. Just as the Napoleonic wars
cut inches from the stature of European men.
SO has this greater folly left wake of stunt
ed, diseased and generally inferior humans.
Modern war is eugenics' greatest foe In
clarifying war Herr Hitler becomes the great
enemy Of the racial welfare he processes to
worship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
[ Cover the World
by WILLIAM PHILIP sINIds

UTASHINGTCN, April 25.-According to
w sources which first revealed Germany s
secret armament, the neutral zone Of the Rhine
land is now being actively fortified from end to
end and the Hitlerian militia secretly trans
formed into a permanent army along the
French and Belgian frontiers.
Articles AZ and 43 of the Treaty Of Yer
saies forbid fertilization Of the left bank Of the
Rhine altogether and Of a strip 81 miles wide
down the right bank. Neither military forces
nor army naneuvers Of any kind whatsoever are
permitted in that area.
Undercover and continued violations of these
articles, the writer is informed, the chief
reason for France maintaining heavy forces
along her eastern border, and are partly re-
sponsible for Premier Mussolini's heavily in
creased contingents remaining under the colorS.
Great Britain is understood to have warned
all signatories to the Locarno treaties, Includ-
ing Germany, that should the ban against re-
arming the Rhineland be seriously violated,
Britain would feel herself bound to side against
the violator.
/ A CCORDING to the sources referred to above,
n immense quantities Of war material are
pouring into Trier, Coblenz, Mayence, Landau,
Kreuznach, Kaiserlautern and other important
centers in the forbidden area.
From Cologne to Switzerland, it is further
asserted steel and concrete classmates, heavy
gun emplacements and other preparations are
being feverishly pushed tc completion along the
Rhine. Heavily armored trains of a new type
are said to have been delivered for keeping at
the principal railway centers of the region.
Between the Rhine and the Meuse, mll1tar-
lied labor battalions are reported TO be eXca-
waiting for extensive Notifications under pre-
text of carrying out vast drainage systems
The same authority reports that not only
have the 10000 authorized Rhineland police
been augmented by almost as many more, but
that at least $4,000 well-trained forces occupy
the barracks, and have been assigned the old
traditional numbers of former proud German
regiments.
This is considered important foreign military
opinion being that Chancellor Hitler may plan
suddenly to expand the skeleton organizations
now in the Rhineland into divisions, corps and
armies of full strength, then announce it as
fait accompl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
DOUBLE CARE REQUIRED

TWO children were roller skating in
L residential street in Cleveland recently.
A notorist came driving along. He saw one of
the youngsters and swerved to avoid an acct
dent; but he did not see the second child who
skated into the autos path and was killed.
Common as grass. that tragic little story
and filed likewise with warning for all peo-
pie who drive automobiles.
The warning is self-evident; when driving
along a residential street. it is up to the
motorist to use infinitely more care than he
needs to use on an open road, through bou-
levard, or even on downtown street.
For children will play in the streets. They
will dart out suddenly from behind parked
cars or clups of shrubbery. They will run
right in front of approaching cars.
It's up to the motorist to govern himself
accordingly. speed which is perfectly safe
on a main traffic artery can be criminally
dangerous on street lined with homes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
A REAL FIGHT

THERE was nothing especially exciting
Il about the news that seven fat English
hedgehogs were landed in New York City the
other day. But that bit of news may be the
prelude to victory in one of the most amazing
fights the human race has ever waged
1t is to be the fate of these hedgehogs to
suffer and die of yellow fever, somewhere in
the aseptic rooms of the Rockefeller IN
stitute. If things go as the scientists hope,
the little animals will make possible the cheap
propagation of yellow fever vaccine and mans
conquest of this plague will finally be COM
plete.
1t is more than 80 years since the first
great battle against yellow fever was won.
Dr. Walter Reed and his colleagues in
Cuba discovered that the plague is trans
mitted by the female stegomyia mosquito.
They got no nearer to cure or vaccine
for the disease than they had been before,
but they at least made it possible for the
plague to be abolished wherever conditions
were such that the mosquito could be abol-
ished.
AS a result such plague spots as Havana
and Panama were cleaned up, and yellow
fever was driven out.
But the victory was only partly Won
There are many places in the tropics where
it is utterly impossible to destroy all mos
quitos. In such places yellow fever is as
great curse as ever.
So the scientists next turned their atten-
ton to the quest for a vaccine which would
provide immunity against the disease in the
same way that Immunity against typhoid or
smallpox is provided by existing vaccines.
The search has been long, difficult, and
dangerous. Many scientists themselves con-
tracted the plague and died of it during the
quest. For a time it looked as if no living
creatures on earth except man and the
stegomyia mosquito were susceptible to yell
low fever.
Then, in 1923, Drs. Stokes, Bauer and Hud-
son succeeded in giving the disease to the
rhesuS monkey of India. This was a great
advance but it still did not make possible
the production of cheap vaccine in large
quantities.
At last, less than year ago, Drs Findlay
and Clarke of England discovered that the
common English hedgehog can also be in
oculated with the disease. This brought
cheap vaccine within sight, the supply of
hedgehogS being more abundant than that of
rhesuS monkeys
Now the Rockefeller Institute workers are
to put the matter to the test using these
luckless little creatures from England in ex-
periments which may finally Danish yellow
fever from the earth.
It is 1onc and heroic Glory, Nav &c -,
nations have co-operated in the fight. The
whole thing is something to restore ones
faith in the human race
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
FACTS ON UNEMPLOYMENT

TT is interesting to notice that one of the
= big jobs to be done under the 81, $3.50, 900 900
Work-relief program is to be the taking of a
nationwide census of unemployment For
merly jobless white collar" workers will be
put to work on the task.
Here is something that should have been
started years ago. We have known ever
since 1880 that we had a great number of
unemployed people, but not until now have we
gone to the trouble of counting them and find
ing out exactly how many there are or what
circumstances they are in.
Our refusal to take such an obviously nee
eSsary step is shining example of govern
mental folly.
The job is long overdue; it is good to
know that it will at last be done, and it
would be even better to know that it would
be done at regular intervals hereafter, so that
we could have constant check on the size
OF our greatest internal problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
A REAL AWARD

THE Indianapolis Times takes pleasure in
announcing that in the next few months
some lucky indianapolis boy. who now is a
sophomore in an indianapolis public or paro-
chial high school. will be awarded : scholar
ship to the Staunton Military Academy,
Staunton, Va.
Good moral character, scholastic standing
and the youths future hope and possibilities
will be used as a basis for judging the winner.
Staunton Military Academy is rs years old
and is one Of the outstanding academies of its
type in the nation. Two years in this institu-
ton. with expenses paid, viii be Of great value
to the boy who wins.
Parents of high school youths whose age
would make them eligible for this honor, will
do well to urge their sons to make every effort
to achieve this award.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25

games. slct machines. marble games, baseball
pools and other variations Of these activities
take more than million annually out of the
pockets of indianapolis residents.
The sad part about the million dollars is
that it is not taken from the pockets Of the
wealthy. They have their own and exclusive
means Of losing their money.
The funds that are poured into the rackets
are supplied, IN the majority, by Iaborers, Office
workers and others who can not afford the
losses.
In horse-betting the man who places his
money on the line realizes his risk He has
some chance to win, when he is guessing
against only few horses on a limited length
track
But when you buy baseball pool ticket
your chances to win are hundreds to one
The same applies to slot machines. When it
is said a player can not win in the horse-bet-
ting racket then it would be foolish to con-
slider the slim chances of ever trying to win in
any of the others.
The policy games being foisted on the city
Negroes are worse than most of the rackets.
Many times the Negroes are not given an even
chance at losing because their tickets are
thrown out
The police department is attempting to
crash gambling here as in other cities of the
nation.
To make this attempt worthwhile no man
ner or form of racket should be overlooked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
CONDITION OF STREETS

MOTORISTS from other cities and states
4V1 are complaining that the condition OF
indianapolis streets make driving not only
uncomfortable. but unsafe.
When such complaints are registered then
it is time for the city to act. With spring
weather here the time has come to put the
streets in shape and give work to numerous
laborerS.
Local residents are so accustomed to the
street conditions that they merely swear at
the many bumps and drive on. But when
complaints come from outside the city, then
conditions must be serious.
The question of the safety of motorists
and pedestrians is paramount in Indianapolis
and if accidents can be reduced by street re-
pairs, then there should be no delay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
THEY'LL DRIVE To ANOTHER
STATE TO BET HORSES

By A. r. C.
can not refrain from comment
ing on Chief Morrissey's article ask
ing any good citizen to report cases
of bookie shop operations in the city
He should just go around the corner
and ask our officials where they
place their bets.
My husband and I both play We
look forward to being off Saturday
afternoons so as to go hear races and
mutuelS over the wire and we never
bet only what others would spend
for shows or other paStimes. No one
drags you in. Very few people are
that weak.
Any one surely don't enjoy clean
sport if they wouldn't thrill to the
horses coming down the stretch.
There used to be about 100 per-
sons go in one place. They closed
it. There never was any disturb
ance, every one enjoyed his after
noon. But since you have to bet out
on the street we have decided to get
in cars and spend weekend where
you can bet and have nice drive to
other states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
NEW DEAL is NOT FOR
MASSES, HE CLAIMS

By Arthur Jones.
We hear lot about the New Deal,
both pro and con. Whose New Deal
is it? If it is a New Deal for the
great masses Of the people, why did
siXty-five million of them get only
SIS each, barring relief money, out
of our forty-seven billion dollars
national income in 1884? If it is a
New Deal for the people, why is the
national business and advisory
council composed of such names as
Winthrop w. Aldrich, of Wall-st.,
Pierre S. du Pont; Walter S. Gift
ford of the American Telephone
and Telegraph; Henry Hartman Of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce; Fred Kent Of the Bankers
Trust Company Of New York; E. T.
Stannard, of Kennecott Copper;
Myron c. Taylor, of U. S. Steel, and
Walter c. Teagle Of Standard Oil?
How can we expect such a group
to cope with the depression? They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25

don't even know why there is de-
preston. These are the kind Of
men who meet with the board of
directors when business begins to
slacken and then make a report to
the stockholders something like
this: Gentlemen: We have in
stalled new machines that will
enable us to lay off about 60 men.
We have also doubled up many jobs
and cut wages. So we think this
will tide us over until things pick
up. Oh, I beg your pardon. I
should have mentioned that we also
raised the price of our product 10,
per cent. So think you will agree
with me that we have been very
proficient in working out our diff
cultieS"
They certainly have been very
proficient in making paupers with
about twenty-five million on relief.
It is up to the rich to buy the bonds
to enable the government to feed
these paupers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
Honesty IN Politics

In doing this it would be more
than simply loyal to Mr.. Ludlow
it would be politically aStute.
1t would give the normal Repub-
lican majority an opportunity to
assert itself in two-party bat
tie.
Such a course would demon
Strate the newspapers answering
allegiance to the conservative
principles of its readers. Any
other course would be not only
disloyal, but stupid.
If the newspaper will now come
out squarely for Mr.. Ludlow as
the Republican candidate for
Congress, then the next election
will be fair fight for and against
the New Deal. And everybody
will know what they are voting
for-and get it when they win.
The Republicans, if they win,
will get Congressman who is a
far better Republican than most
So-called Republicans now in
CongreSs-one who voted with the
most conservative of the Repub-
licanS to recommit the Presidents
relief bill, curtail the amount
and change jobs to doles. They
will get a Congressman so en-
tirely sincere and courageous that
he will include in his victory state
ment after election the strongest
phrases contained in the official
statement Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. Conservative
principles will be strengthened by
Mr.. Ludlow's election as a Re
publican. They car be only
weakened by the election of
Democrat pledged to unqualified
support of the New Deal.
The voters of Marion County
look to the newspaper to clear I'D
this present confusing situation,
in order that justice may be done
to Mr.. Ludlow, to its conservative
readers and to the general prin-
ciples Of out-and-out honesty in
politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-25
PERJURY MAY CAUSE
NUMEROUS TROUBLES
By Frank Sutherlin.

In an article in The Times con-
corning perjury, you only scratched
the surface of one of the most
hideous crimes there is in existence
today in the whole world.
Just stop and think-what Is it
that lie told under oath on the
witness stand can not produce? 1t
can finish the act of fraud, release
murderer, commit or cause to be
committed murder, put an honest
person in penal servitude, break a
million dollar man or bank, ana
the court or jury is the goat, for
they must decide according to law
and evidence, give the doubt to the
defendant, so all in all, what is law?
1t can't be any more than a tool
for what it is used.