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The Washington times., 1935-06-13
The Greatest Men in History

Dear Mr.. Hill:
Will you please tell US in your
interesting column, "The HUI.
man Side of the NeDS," tDho, in
your opinion, Dere the 10 great
est men in human history?
That particular subject has
been under discussion in our
literary club for the past week,
and none of US comes anywhere
near agreement. All lists are
different.
J. S. v, Allentown, Pa,
No wonder they are different,
my dear j. S. V. Much wiser
men than this writer have en-.
deavored to select 10 outstand.
ing leaders from the long hui
man parade of 5000 years. And
all have failed because of the
very nature of the speculation.
There cannot be 10. Either
there are five or there are 500.
In the first place, what is
meant by greatest? Great in
peace? Great in war? Great in
arts or sciences? Or great in
their predominant influence for
good on vast masses of human
beings? The last, it would seem
to me, is the true test of great
ness.
In any other category, it is so
easy to select multitude of the
great. If eminence in war COM
bined with statecraft is the
standard, one thinks at once of
Alexander, Of Julius Caesar, of
Napoleon, of Washington.
If science is to be the yard
stick, great names spring in
stantly to mind: Newton, Cali
leo. Aristotle, Edison, Marconi.
WHAT YARDSTICK?
If the glorious field of art is
the carpet upon which we shall
marshal our heroes, we bow be-
fore the genius of Michelangelo,
Raphael, Leonardo de Vinci,
Rodin, Valesquez.
If we hold statesmanship-
the genius to guide whole peo-
Piles through the strife and
storm of human life as the test,
we think of Cromwell (even a
greater statesman than he was
a generaD, Lincoln, Bismarck,
Cavour, Metternich (for all his
shiftiness).
But these measurements,
these tests, these yardsticks,
won't do. They fall short of the
colossal ideal which the truly
great must meet. And. there
fore, I think that in spite of all
the noble achievements of a
multitude of men ever so centu-
ries of time, the search must
come down to this test:
In all the worlds history
what men have most greatly in
fluenced human life-nOt for a
decade or two, or even a few
centuries, but over a grand
sweep of time: influenced whole
continents, whole races; held by
the power of the spirit hundreds
of millions of human beings in
voluntary subsection?
In the opinion of this writer
only five names can be found
on this majestic roster: Moses,
Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and
Mohammed.
Search all history and you
cannot find their like. Thirty
centuries have not erased the
indelible influence of him who
led the Hebrew people from
bondage in Egypt to the portals
of the promised land. States
man, prophet. law-giver, he
formed and nodded a nation
which exists today, scattered
though it may be over the sur
face of the globe. retaining still
many of the stern and indomit-
able qualities engrafted upon 1t
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

And g OF y,
how I hate it!
Yes, I know
there a re
plenty of nor
m a | people
who like to
Take Things
Slow. But not
for me! If I
were 80 I'd
still want to
be a daring
young gal on
the fly i n G
trapeZe.
Life, for me,
- 4lr1y4vc
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

SNAN0AOSN~
former of early India, some
$500 years ago. At least $50
million people today bow in
alteration before his images in
India, Burma, Tibet, China and
Japan. Oddly enough, there are
almost 100000 Buddhists in the
United States,
Gautama Buddha (Gautma
was the family name, Buddha
was a title meaning "the En-
lightened OneD was born of a
princely family, in the center
of luxury-loving sensuous
court. In his young manhood he
determined to escape from the
illusions of life. And so he be-
came a mendicant, a beggar
with a bowl, treading the dust
of the highroads Of India, con-
demning evil, preaching the
good.
Preaching that when a man
dies he is born again, and that
his new shape will be according
to his merit or demerit in his
former life. Preaching, too, that
at the end of it all, the human
spirit goes into the one great
godhead.
Preaching that love is the
cardinal virtue of life-love and
sympathy for all living things.
The prophet Mohammed,
whose followers today number
at least a quarter of a billion
human beings, arose in Arabia
to found, Is centuries ago, one
of the worlds dominant faiths.
He was a camel driver at The
age of 40, when he received his
first divine" communication.
He was told that Allah COM
manded him to preach the true
religion.
After years of adversely and a
terrific battle against the super
stition and idolatry of his peo'
pie, he welded them by the mil
lion into a conquering spear
head, into a sect which over
flowed western Asia and came
as near as anything could to
submerging Europe, halted at
the last hour just north of the
Pyranees by Charles Martel.
The Moslem faith which he
established is written down in
the Koran, the Mohammedan
Bible.
After Is centuries, that faith
is still as vigorous as it was in
the early centuries when Omar
and Ali we're sweeping westward
with their conquering armies
and their green banners.
FIVE GREATEST
There is little need here to
expatiate on-Jesus, the Christ.
AS Mr.. H. G. Wells once put it:
"YOu see clearly a quite cardi-
nal figure in human history, a
very definite personality. After
nineteen hundred years we still
catch something of the magnet
ism that induced men who had
seen Him only once to leave
their business and follow Him.
He filled them with love and
courage. He spoke with a knOwl-
edge and authority that baffled
the wise. He brought about the
most revolutionary change of
thought that had ever stirred
the human race.
"The world began to be a diff.
ferent world from the day His
doctrine was preached, and
every step toward wider under
standing, tolerance and good
will is a step in the direction
of that universal brotherhood
Christ proclaimed"
Here, indeed. as this writer
sees it, are the five greatest men
that ever drew the breath of
life: Moses, Confucius. Buddha,
Christ and Mohammed.
Copyright. 1888. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

tOIIlng Of the D. HAM LEWIS
bell and looked up at the huge
bell to say:
IF it had not been for your
empty head and long tongue I
would not have been here"
Employees of the Research and
Planning section of NRA are
hopeful that if the life of the
Blue Eagle is extended they will
be taken care of on the skeleton
staff.
The contention is that Re.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

I n t h e
course Of the
d i n n e r Mr..
Tiller called
on one of his
oil d friends
from Georgia
to make a
speech.
The speak
err said that
err re-
minded h i m
of the man
who went to
church, sum-
moned by the
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

Now that the surgeons have
managed to rectify the upside
down stomach. the psychologists
might try curing the upside
down hearts, upsidedcwn mar
riages and upside-down love
ideas, with which this world is
afflicted.
Woman is always making
life harder for a man. He
used to have to chew pepper
minis to disguise the cocktail
on his breath before kissing a
girl. Now he has to wipe the
lip rouge off after kissing her.
If a man is not content with
all the freedom of bachelor
hood, asks the Cynic, why does
he think he is going to be
happy under all the response
bilities of matrimony?
The day has passed when it
required four or five petticoatS
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

to attract a mans admiration;
nowadays, it requires merely
four or five coats of makeup.
Next to scrambled eggs, moth
ing cools and hardens so quick
ly as a gold-digger'S heart when
an elderly Lothario has moth
ing to offer her but love.
King Solomon found seven
hundred wives, who were per-
fectly satisfied with a mere
fraction of his attention and a
parking space in his affections
but a modern man can't seem
to find ONE woman as "rea-
Sonable" as that!
Men are perverse! When a
girl turns a man down, he al
ways sWears that he never will
love another woman; but when
she takes him up, he is not
quite so certain about it.
VoaooSe ~ 4ct oFfoo+i1,o 1I,ov, ~
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

It was at a recent banquet
where Senator James Hamilton
Lewis was guest speaker.
Theodore Tiller, publicity di.
rector of the Hole, was toast.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
We Speed. Burners

Took the count lately. Three
weeks with flu. Now I'm back
at the old deSk-inching along.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen ROUL1nd

''Upside-DOwn" Hearts
This is the time of year
when every bachelor has half
a mind to get married-and
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
OLD FAVORITES
The Turn of the Road

The Turn of the Road Alice r. COe
Soft gray buds the willow,
Warm moist winds from the bay,
Sea-guls out on the sandy beach,
And road my eager feet would reach,
That leads to the PARKWAY.
Dust the wayside flower,
The meadow-arks Turing tone
Is silent now, from the grasses tipped
With dew at the dawn, the pearls have slipped
Far have Jared alone.
And then by the alder thicket
The turn of the road-and you!
Though the earth lie white in the monday heat,
Or the swift storm follow hurrying feet
What do care-we twO
IReaders are nved to send to the editor their suggeS-
tions of old favorites among the poems for repntg in
this space.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

The day has passed when it
required four or five petticoats
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
How Easy It Is

How easy it is to be fair on such things as city government was exemplltled by the Meriden Journal in recent edi- torial. Occasionally the Journal likes to taunt the city and The Waterbury Demo crat on our democratic proclivities. The Journal even claims that Meriden today is banner city of the state, although we might be tempted to say that if Water bury is to be denied the honor Hartford certainly ought to get consideration.
 However, that's not the point. Some days back the city fathers, not just Mayor Frank Hayes and Controller Daniel J. Leary, but our Board of Finance and Board of Aldermen, comprising demo- crats and republicans alike, presented facts and figures which will spell the city budget for 1886. It contains pro- vision for half-mill reduction in the tax rate; return of per cent in salary to all city employees; and is based on 93 per cent tax collection in 1886. It was praise worthy indeed and most people were llb- eral in bestowing it.
 However, chronic dyspeptics, of which we seem to have quite few in this city of ours, lose no opportunity to pillory Mayor Hayes and Controller Leary at any conceivable excuse Even the glad tid- ings of few days ago brought forth from them the same mournful and far-fetched mouthings But over in the Silver City they have the grace to say, Waterbury, which was among the cities hardest hit by the depression, seems to have been making nice comeback, to an extent that the city fathers feel justified in mak- ing appropriations for the new fiscal year on the basis of a 93 per cent collection of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
The Fire Marshal Reports

Fire Marshal D. J. Lahey presented his annual report last week and 1t was encouraging to note that a substantial decrease in the fire loss of the city was disclosed and reported by this official. It signifies that Waterbury is well provided to meet any emergencies that might oc- cur; it means that our present force and equipment ranks with the best. 1t is al- together fitting that the report should come at this season of the year when the danger of fire in the home IS increased.
 With the Christmas season at hand there are all types of contrivances that might be responsible for blazes in homes. The presence of Christmas tree in any house is signal for every householder to exert precautions to prevent a blaze. There no longer is the danger of lighted candles, such as existed before the days of electric light strings for decorative purposes. But many people still do burn candles around the Christmas holi- day and often allow them to burn ur-, attended and at hours when no watch is kept.
 Then again many man believes him. self to be unusually adept at electrical work and will attempt all sort of jobs just to make the tree lights operate properly. Improper wiring, bad connec- tions, and the like are responsible for many blaze. The safety of your home and loved ones comes first at any time of the year. There is no logic in sacri- ficing them at this, the most joyful and holy season of the year. We urge every one to make their Christmas free from all dangers of fire, one of the worst men, aces of mankind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
Next Years Improvement

If Col. Leonard P. Ayres, prominent American banker-economist, is right in his annual business prediction, 1886 will be 10 per cent year. He foresees about 10 per cent in iron and steel production, non-residential building, railroad freight, electric power output, industrial payrolls, wholesale prices, living costs, farm in- come and stock prices. Iron and steel, he adds may go little higher than this, but not over 20 per cent. Industrial pro duction in general will not go above 12 per cent. Soft coal and bonds may rise per cent.
 Residential construction is the best bet it will increase more than 50 per cent. But lest anyone get too optimistic about that, he reminds them that 50 per cent of this years home-building is really noth- ing to get excited about. The statistical colonel may be unduly peSSimiStic. Or rather, not sufficiently optimistic. Most observers, especially those who trust to casual observation rather than statistical data and business charts, have been ex- pecting more progress next year.
 No one really knows. The big fact is the recognition, by professionals and amatuerS alike, that we .are now defin- itely on our way out of the big storm. We may reach solid land sooner than the cautious forecasters expect, if nobody on the side of business or government, or in between, does too much boat-rocking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
And--Or. Etc.

One of the judges of the United States Supreme Court recently remarked on scanning a legal document, that if the expression "and-or" meant anything at all, it merely indicated mental lazineSs in the lawyer who used it. Now the Su- preme Court of Wisconsin officially bans 1t. Justice Chester A. Fowler, in declining a case involving an insurance policy, de- livers this crushing verdict: Tt is mani- fest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and-or', that be- fuddling namelesS thing, that Janus faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of brain of some one too lazy or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by law yers in drafting legal documents, through carelesSneSs or ignorance or as cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to further ing the interest of their clients. We have observed the. thing in statutes, in the opinions of the courts, and in briefs of counsel, some learned and some not"
 Maybe this will hold the lawyers for a while. And maybe it will help to simplify and clarify legal terminology. It is too bad that Justice Fowler didn't extend his remarks to cover that other meaningless rnonstrosity, '.if, as and when"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17

Every so often something is heard about selling or raging Bristol's famous old mansion-the Rockwell home, better known as Brightwood Hall. The home is one of the most pretentious in the state. It was built at a fabulous cost. It is in every respect a showplace, although of recent years it has not enjoyed so much light due to it's unoccupied state. But in it's heyday it was without doubt one of the finest houses in the state, if not the entire country. It was reported ready to be sold at auction last week to the Italian Roman Catholic Church Society of New Britain. The idea of the group was to secure the valuable materials that went into the making of the house, as nothing was said about buying the land. Most of the land around the estate now comprises BristoPs well-known Rockwell park.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
Alike Yet Varied

Automobile standardization, after all, hasn't gone so far as it seemed. The cars, to be sure, are superficially more alike than used to be- Car after car whose name used to suggest definite individ- uality, now looks much like a dozen others in form and acts much like them in function. Yet there are still many differences in form, mechanism and color. And the cars of today are so much more complex in their build and equip ment that there is far more room for variation than there used to be.
 So it comes about that, if the automo- tive mathematicians figure correctly, the car buyer today can choose from more than 100000 possible combinations of design, equipment, color and material. There is still plenty of individuality for the fellow who wants it. A little more variation of detail, and every one of 25,- 100000 owners might have a car differing in some way from all tho others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17

Yale has decided that this business of tearing down goaP posts after a football game should end. To this end formation of the Association for the Induction of Decent Decorum in the Bowl has been accomplished. Its membership had better include the "townies" as well as the col legians. Our observation has been that you'll usually find the fellow who isn't attending college more apt to be in the thick of the fight to tear down the goal posts Students ought to be organized to the point where they would protect their Alma Matters property against in- vasion and destruction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
TO-DAYs COMMON ERROR Never say, q am not going any
 place." say, anywhere"

the motion picture Elmer the Great"
 A. Second base.
 o. What is the derivation of the name Delaware?
 A. It was first applied to the bay which Lord de la. Warr entered in 1911. o. When was the first English Christmas celebration? A. According to tradition, it was that held by King Arthur in the city of York in 521 A. D.
 c. Who painted "The Harrow Gypsy?" A. George Romney, an English Portrait painter. o. Where is the myocardium in the human body? A. The name is given to the mus cular part of the wall of the heart.
 o. Of what religious faith is the king of Italy? A. Roman Catholic.
 o. What horse won the Cam bridgeshire stakes at Newmarket, England, October 30, 1885, and which horses ran second, third, fourth, and fifth
 A. Commander III won, with Mans Pal, second; Finalist, third: wychwood Abbott, fourth; and Law Court fifth.
 o. Who played the part of Nor ma Shearer's mother-in-law in Strange Interlude?"
 A. May Robson.
 c. How many stars can be seen with the naked eye?
 A. The number visible to the av- craze unaided eye is between 5000 and 5000. If you want copy of our book let THE PARTY BOOK, write to the Waterbury Democrats Wash ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Northwest, Washington, D. 0. En- close 10 cents for postage and ham ding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
Question Box

o. Is there any kind of wood that can be used in a bed to render it absolutely proof against bed bugs?
 A. No.
 e. What does the name Bogle mean?
 A. It is an Irish surname, Celtic from Gaelic, and means hobgob- lin.
 o. What is the seating capacity of the stadium of the University of West Virginia at Morgantown?
 A. About 33,0OO.
 o. When was the steamer Tran sylvania," of the Anchor line, com- pleted, and on what date was her maiden voyage from Scotland?
 A. She was completed in 1925, and her maiden voyage from Glas- gow was on September 12, 1925, ar- irving at Boston on September 20, and New York on September 21. Her first sailing from New York was on September 26.
 e. What is the sum of 25 0?
 A. o.
 e. What position did JoR E. Brown play on the baseball team in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17

A "stingy" president is what we need and Gov. Ali M. Landon is termed just that bv ex-Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas in a recent interview. However, he didn't mean it as an insult, but as compliment. Still many "stingy"' man in the White House has not proved as "stingy" with government funds as acterization that might lead to dire re- suits in these crucial times
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17

REASON IS the Supreme Court plus the fact that Monday is the day on which the nine old men hand down their decisions.
 In four decisions pulled out of the Supreme Court grab-bag last week, the New Deal drew a blank every time.
 And it is beginning to get on New Deal nerves.
 What is getting on their nerves even more is the fact that the majority of the court appears to have gone out of its way to crack down on the ad- ministration whenever possible, \and to muddy up the issue, when not possible.
 This makes it look extremely bad for such major issues as the AAA, the Wagner labor disputes act, the Guffey coal law, and the holding corporation act.
 TechnicalitieS
 What happened last week was this:
 When the anti-administration majority on the court was not able to throw out completely the law which was at stake, they side-stepped a clear-cut declara- tion on the main issue and con- fined themselves to technicalities. At least, that is the opinion of New Dealers.
 But when they were able to throw out the law in totp, they did so with gusto and vengeance.
 Take for instance the Hastings case. This involved the federal warehousing act by which the government stores cotton and other staple crops, issuing re- ceipts to farmers on which they borrow money.
 As Mir. DO01ey Said
 The act has been in effect for 19 years. To have thrown it out as unconstitutional would have thrown into chaos the entire eco- homie structure of the south.
 Mister Dooley may or may not have been right when he said that the Supreme Court follows the elections. But no court could have declared the federal warehousing act uncOn- stitutional without causing viO- lent political repercussions throughout the nation.
 Whether the court considered these factors is known only to the nine old men. What is known, however, is that they dodged the issue of interstate commerce which they once took up in the Schechter sick chicken MIRA case and decided against the gov-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-17
Selected Poem
RECOMPENSE

RECOMPENSE
 (Elizabeth Virginia Raplee, in The Lion
 and Unicorn) We who remember the first daffodil And fields where daisies sway before the wind Who have stood silent on a sunset hill, Drinking deep draughts of beauty, while the still Slow twilight gathered on the slopes behind Who have stored treasure thus against the chill Bleak days of winter, may, rejoicing find There is an austere beauty winter shows. These somber trees, sharp-etched against the sky, Speak to us poignantly as does the rose. Though summer, with all her riotous blossoming,
 goes, And autumn, robbed in scarlet, passes by There comes the crystal magic of the sonws. So beauty, eternal, waits upon the eye