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Evening star., 1935-07-28
M0eGzine Section

we've got something concrete in
view?"
IF YOU mean your head. agree"
| snapped
She relapsed into silence. but just
outside of Admission, she caught sight
of the roadster that she had given me
close behind us and signalled for both
cars to draw up beside the road. | fol-
lowed her out into the soft warm air.
and basked in the sun while Marcia
gave orders. We were on the edge of
what seemed to be large industrial
town. There was pungent odor on the
sun-soaked breeze. and overhead
several army planes flew In lazy
formation. Some soldiers drove by on
a truck singing in close harmony. |
tried to concentrate on this strange
new Southland which was so like, and
yet so unlike. what had pictured and
to tell myself that my thrill in being
here was the result of seeing something
new to me, but it was poor pretense
at best, and my hot-headed employer
soon hauled me back to the situation
was trying not to face.
"I'll drive for a while" she an
nounced. They can't fail to see us in
the open car. think it's a good
idea"
What thought Of the idea wouldn't
bear saying, so l took my place in
silence. We moved off, the limousine
darting ahead with instructions to
wait for US at Tuscaloosa. Presently l
pulled off my hat and let the wind
tug at my hair. Marcia kept eyeing
me. Presently she burst into food
of speech.
''Lookr' she said. DO you know
what's wrong with you? You're afraid
of life, that's what you are! You need
to relax, to loosen up, to misbehave
a little. I'll bet you've drawn back
from every darned experience you've
ever met except hard work. If you
keep on doing the right thing much
longer. you'll have nervous break
down. Go haywire, girl, go haywirer
She was so intense about it that l
couldn't help smiling. Marcia" I
said. Il don't approve of you. but
rather love your
I'D a whole lot rather be loved
than approved Of" was her instant
retort. What's the good of living at
all if you don't get excitement out of
it? And besides, so long as you're
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arranged, | found myself driving off
in the big car, while the Prince re-
NAMED with Marcia and the disabled
roadster. Night had fallen by now
but big silver moon was climbing
above the tall pines, and | could see
only too well what a striking looking
couple those two made as they strolled
back TO the little car. Marcia's laugh
rang out, clear and happy. on the still
air. Old Mr.. Du Bois called out
parting injunction.
Wen send someone right out" he
said, land don't forget - the Hotel
Tutwiler - we'll be in the dining
room"
The car moved on. and the fine old
man settled back into his seat with a
sigh.
Fine looking coupler' he re-
marked, echoing my own thought.
Fine night to be stranded by the
roadside! An, mon Disn' to be youngw
Then he closed his eyes and, paying
no more attention to the rest OF US.
appeared to fall asleep.
The Duchess, however. sat as bolt
upright as her fat would allow and
appeared i'll at ease. Madame Du Bois
made a polite comment or two. and
then she, too. from sheer age, began
to nod. Lady Emily prattled on in her
jaded. disjointed way. flinging bits of
gossip around her much as she might
fling salt over her shoulder, and asking
questions that she never gave one
time to answer As for myself. sat
still. dazed by all that had happened.
until the Duchess suddenly let off
steam.
You. mademoiselle, she said to
me with numbering pompousness. Il
have seen you in Paris. yes?"
With Olga" admitted. Duchess
de Dauphonse.
"Ah. yesp' said the woman. raising
her heavy eyebrows. But remember
now! You we're with her. but you were
the little stenographer of some big
business man, yes?"
We'll. in a way that's right" |
said. my gorge rising at her manner.
but trying to keep my temper under
control.
Then you are certainly not an
American heiress," she announced
with an air of finality.
could not repress giggle at that.
Mot if you mean money" re-
torted. "You see. Duchess, a lot of our
best families are as broke today as
we'll. shall we say. your Italian
aristocrats?"
Even she recognized this as a dig
and came right back at me.
And the other girl" she remarked,
"she | am certain is also little steno-
grapher? But naturally"
Rats and rubbish Lady Emily
put in with vigor. That other girl is
Marcia Kattleburg - the Kattleburg
Motors. Millions. My dear. she's
simply crawling with them. One of
the richest girls in America"
"Ahr said the Duchess. letting out
a long breath of relief. II thought she
was lady"
That's where you're wrong again"
snapped Lady Emily. Even Christie
phine here is probably incapable of
making her that!'
Fortunately, this conversation was
brought to an abrupt halt by our
noticing a sudden illumination in the
sky ahead - a leaping flaming light
which scared heavenward with rush
like that of great, rolling sound. A
city of tall towers and clustered trees
was briefly silhouetted against this
background - one of the wierdest,
most startlingly beautiful effects had
ever seen.
MY sainted aunt" calculated
Lady Emily.
What is it?" MIR. Du Bois had
aroused and was looking ahead
eagerly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-24
So Do We All

It is a very hot day in the spot where
this article is being written. The ther-
mometer stands at 90 outside and it is
going to go higher pretty soon. There
isn't any wind, and if there were it would
be hot one. Like everyone else who is
at work, the writer feels warm and UNI
comfortable. All of this is put down, not
in the belief that the general public is
especially interested in working condl-
tons in newspaper offices; but because it
somehow is gentle reminder that our
congressman and senators are also suffer-
ing from the heat.
Washington dispatches are full of sad
details about the weather in the capital.
We read that congressional nerves and
tempers are getting all warped out OF
shape with the heat, that a senatorial
medical expert is shaking his head sadly
over the possible results, and that Con-
gress as a whole wants to wind every
thing up quickly and get home. 1t is easy
to sympathize with anyone who is too
warm. And yet it is no more than fair to
rise and remark that congressman are not
the only people in that predicament these
days.
After all, the capitol building is nicely
air cooled. Congressman may have been
WORKING Sledully ever SLICE JduudTy-UuC
what of it? Joe Doakes, back home, has
been working steadily ever since the fall
of 1921 - and he hasn't had a spacious,
air-cooled chamber to work in, either, nor
does he drag down any $4,000 year for
his pains. The kitchen of a big bakery is
not cool place these days; neither is a
railroad roundhouse, nor gasoline filling
station on a sun-baked corner, nor the op-
orators corner of steam shovel, nor the
space behind the counter in 5-and-10,
nor hundred other places where the con-
stituents of congressman earn their daily
bread.
Congress may find Washington hot. So
do all the rest of us find the places where
we work. 1t would be nice if we could
suddenly vote ourselves vacation, to run
until the first of January; but we can't
do it, and it is little bit hard to work up
very much sympathy over the plight of the
legislators.
To put it more concisely, these walls
about the sufferings of Congress are
pain in the neck. Our solons aren't suf-
fering from the heat half as much as the
rest of us are. AS matter of fact, they
have it pretty soft. And so, if they have
work to do - as apparently they have -
it would be fine thing if they would
buckle down and do it, without quite so
much self-pity Compared with the over
whelming majority of their constituents,
congressman lead pretty easy life.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-24
Whistling In The Dark

Oh, wise Judge! Oh good and honor
able judge! Justice Charles Hall, Jr., of
East Hampton, has found two college
youths not guilty of breach of the peace
for whistling dance tunes while passing
cemetery after nightfall What judge
could fine any man, woman or child for
doing the same thing under similar cir
cumstances. We never yet heard of the
man, woman or child who ventured past
cemetery in the darkness of night without
whistling merry tune.
There may be quiet souls at peace with
their Maker who would walk by ceme-
terry at night without so much as thinking
anything out of the ordinary. But there
are thousands for every one who would
do this that would do just as the college
youths did on their way home from play
ing at a nearby East Hampton dance-hall.
The urge to break the silence that always
engulfs the graveyard is an inheritance
that many of us never shake in full
lifetime.
It is mans privilege to warn away the
eerie spirits that we conjure up around
the cemetery with puckered lips through
which emerge notes that may make tunes
or just noises. Had the boys continued
their singing and whistling needlessly, so
as to disturb residents of peaceful little
East Hampton we might think they were
getting off lightly, but so far as the news
dispatches reveal the offense was merely
in the neighborhood of the Lakeview Gem
etery, proving that tales of their child
hood probably returned in complete detail.
Perhaps they were thinking of Tom
Sawyer and his unholy terror of the grave
yard. But at any rate no Judge in his
proper mind would convict anyone for
whistling outside the cemetery when inky
night has cast her shadows
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-24
A Book a Day
Two Bulky Volumes
for the Book Lover
BY BRUCE CATION

If you like to bite of your litera-
ture in big chunks, to be car
ried to the arm chair and worried
down at your leisure. you will be
interested in two new Omnibus
voumes just printed. :.
One of them is IAN Anthology of
World Prose-" edited by Carl van
Doren, and containing some thou
sands of pages of excellent read
ing matter.
Mr.. van Doren has gone to all
great world literatures and has
dug up. in addition to excerpts
from the familiar classics, pages
from writers Of whom you most
assuredly never heard before.
His book contains almost every
thing-prose from Persia and In
dia, from China and Japan, from
Sweden and Russia, from France
and Germany. from America and
England - and Il makes an excel
lent volume to keep on the fireside
table and browse through from
time to time.
Incidentally. Il 10 80 amazingly
bulky that you'll be dipping into II
for years without exhausting Il.
The other book Ia entitled simply
mine Plays" and II 10 by George
Bernard Shaw. Here are collected
the plays that. have made Mr.. Shaw
famous - Caesar and Cleopatra,
Mrs. Warren's Profession. Arms
and the Man, Candida, Saint Joan.
Man and supeFman. Fanny's First
Play, The DEVILS Disciple. and
Androeles and the Lion - and you
don't need 10 be told that the
volume 10 well worth owning.
10 contains, also, dlseuFsive pref
aces IN which Me-. shaw speaks HE
mind about such things a. he has
not mentioned IN HE playsi ana,
all IN all Il u as nne = beck bars
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-24

under Spanish rule had left the islanders
resigned to their fate. To this smiling
tropic island came only warships and an
occasional freighter, as its port has been
closed under naval administration.
So the joy of the islanders now knows no
bounds as they realize that they are to be
a part of the great world. Planes flying
from California to Asia will make regular
stops and strangers from outside" will
find new delights in this garden spot of
the Pacific.
No more hospitable people live any,
where than the Chamorros of Guam, as
the few travellers who have visited them
can attest. When the first air cruiser
swoops out of the blue, every resident of
Guam will be at the landing place to cele-
brate the greatest day in the islands his
tory.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-24
'sWHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS
BE- IN PEACE
OR WAR
July, ~, 1885.
Waterbury, Conn.

OR WAR
July, %, 1885.
Waterbury, Conn.
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
In these days when we are so
prone to boast about the advance
ment of civilization and all the
arts thereof, it is well at times to
pause and take inventory. How far
have we really progressed in the
path Of brotherly love and orderly
conduct? What progress have we
really made in the live and let
live" policy which the world at
large must learn IL the stupidity
Cor cupidity) Of the human race is
not to bring about its own destruc-
ton?
There has not been a major in
vention within the span of our lives
which, with its potentialities for
the advance of the human race,
has not been studied more for its
usefulness as an instrument of des-
truction rather than an instrument
of construction. The rival army and
navy technicians of the different
udNO SSlASu uPOtk CdSA dA0
developed 1t to the point where
the most possible human beings
can be destroyed in the least pos
sible time. National, racial, and re-
ligious biogtry have been develop
ed and fermented until the nations
Of Europe stand to-day, a series of
armed camps ready to again plunge
the world into a war that will take
our Wanted civilization back again
into what we, with conscious sar-
casm, refer to as the Dark Ages"
Let us take Mussolini's proposed
invasion of Ethiopia. Italy has no
moral, legal, nor national right in
Ethiopian territory. A few years
back II Duce put into effect in Italy
a bachelor tax which was designed
to build up the population of Italy
to the point where she would be a
menace, or at least stumbling
block in the path Of other Eu-
poses in one fell swoop to sacrifice
the lives Of perhaps 100000 Ital-
ians who have no more to say in
the matter Of Italian governmental
policies than an ant in the tracks
Of the N. z, N. H., and H., has on
the policies of Mr.. Policy.
Hitler, the mad lion Of Germany.
goes tearing through his home
land in series OF insensible RACES.
He is prosecuting and making life
intolerable for those whose only
crime is that they wish to worship
their God as scores of generations
have done before them. Hitler Is to
be the only God in Germany,
henceforth, since its cracked idol,
the Kaiser, is entombed in the OBJ
livion to which his history entities
him, and into which Hitler will as
suredly follow him.
France with her pusillanimous
attitude stands calmly on the side
line with her army at fever, heat
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-24

A liberal IL q parlor pink with
insufficient intestinal stamina 70
admit he II q back-alley red.
Ed Howe, Kansas Sage OF Pc
tato HILL"
We have passed Q period when
the criminal held the stage. To-
day, tho news Of q crime whets
public expectation OF the criminals
apprehension.
Carl 70. Mliliken, former COVER
nor Of Maine.
! should never smash windows
Cor suffrage. We women have
better tasks. am against femi.
nlsm when woman wants I'll her
rights and negiseis her own special
duties.
Elizabeth. sz-oussa Of orsses.
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ready-not to see Justice done, but
ready to pounce upon the first op-
portunity to take what she can and
able debts. And what, may I ask,
has the populace of Germany and
France, who eventually pay the
freight to say about it?
And England? Merry England!
Magnanimous England! John Bull,
with that detached gesture Of nom
participation of which his history
is so full, generously offers to cede
a strip of her illgotten territory to
Italy to forestall warlike activities
between two of her dearly beloved
brethren. John deplores, and al
ways has deplored, mans inhu-
mainly to man." the while he is
trying with every means in his
power to starve out Ireland be-
cause Of De Valera has refused
to pay into Johns exchequer the
Irish Land Annuities. These an
nuities have been paid for in cash,
in the sweat and the service and
the blood of seven and one-half
centuries Of Irish men. But mag
unanimous John still wants his
pound Of flesh, while he too like
his neighbor across the channel
repudiates the debt in cash bor-
rowed with our backs to the wall"
which can be paid and the debt in
blood Of American manhood which
he never can pay.
An Ethiopia? What choice is left
her save unconditional and ahject
surrender? But in the words Of the
famous Scotch poet:
Lives there a man with soul
so dead
Who never himself has said,
This is my own, my native
land"
How deep is our so-called civil
ization? How much do we as ma
tions or as individuals let the prin-
ciple Of the Master enter our lives :?
"As you would wish others to do
unto you, do you also unto them in
like manner"
And the "Greed of Nations"
(Beg pardon the League of Ma
tions?) What has it done to fore
stall occurrences such as the
breaking Of the treaty Of Vienna,
the treaty Of Limerick, and Hitler's
recent disavowal of the treaty Of
Versailles? Nothing!
We ought to be proudly thank
full that we are citizens Of a ma
ton whose ideals are fixed on a
high plane Of personal liberty
despite the efforts and schemes Of
politicians) which the intrigue of
continental diplomacy has not yet
furnished and. we hope. never
shall.
THOMAS J. REIDY.
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Question Box

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THE EDITOR.
@. Is prize money won In q con-
test taxable as income by the fed
eral government?
A. Yes.
Q. What does I'll Duce" mean?
A. The chief.
@. Name the three usual forms
of city government in the United
A. Mayor and Council; Commits
sion, and City Manager. y
@. Is Abyssinia a protectorate?
A. No, 1t is an independent coun-
try.
A. How many persons named
Smith, johnson, and Brown are
there in the United States?
A. An estimate made In 1927
gives Smith 100000 Johson, L.
100000 and Brown 100000.
Q. What is the death rate of
Rome, Italy?
A. In 1928 it was about 10 Of
every 1000 population.
@. On what river is the city
Of Rome, Italy, located?
A. The Tiber.
Q. How |long was Nero the en-
peror Of Rome?
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TO-DAY'S COMMON ERROR
Do not say, '"That hat does not
compare to the other one";
say, compare with"

A. Fourteen years from AID. s.
to A. D. IS.
@. How is Tutankhamen pro-
nounced?
@. Toot'-angk-ah'men.
@. What Is an autoclave?
A. A steam sterilizer for sur
gical instruments.
Q. What is physiologic salt So
luton?
A. Ordinary salt (sodium chlo-
ride) dissolved in water to the de-
gree corresponding to the salt in
the blood plasma.
@. How much radium Is there
in the world?
A. The exact amount is I'M
known but probably ranges be-
tween eight and 10 ounces.
o. Name some screen actors
who are over six feet, two inches
tall.
A. Among the tallest in recent
years are John Aason, 8 feet 8
inches; Ivan Linow, 6 feet 4 inches
and Robert Milash, 6 feet inches.
@. When did Woodrow Wilson
serve as governor of New Jersey?
A. From January 1911 to Janu-
airy 1913.
@. Has a negro ever been pope
Of the Roman Catholic church?
A. No; Popes Victor (189-19s}
and Miltiades were Africans but
not negroes.
Q. How are modern javelins
made?
A. They consist of a wooden
shaft attached to sharp steel
point, with grip 16 centermeters
broad, formed of a binding of
whipcord about the center of grav-1
ity. The total height must mott
exceed 8 LIZ feet and the total
weight must not be less than /
3-5 pounds. The shafts of the best
javelin are made from the outer.
sunside layer Of the finest Finnish
birch trees.
II you want a copy OF our new
Booklet THE BABY BOOK, write
to The Waterbury Democrat.
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naval corps, visited the Pacific
coast recently, American naval
officers gave him the rum
around. He was permitted to in
spect only the Marine barracks
and similar innocuous establish
ments. Russians claim that
the United States and Russia
should cooperate against the
common enemy Japan.
Special Assistant Attorney Gen
eral "Curley' Ristine still is
working on Jim Farley's air
mail companies. RFC offi-
Gals are jittery over Max Lowen-
that's investigation of the rail-
roads, conducted under the
interstate commerce commission.
1t is expected to show up some
messy situations in which the
RFC loaned money to the rail-
roads with almost no warrant.
copyright, 1885, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Selected Poem
MARSH MUSIC

MARSH MUSIC
(Katharine Shepard Hayden in The Christian
Science Monitor)
There is a special music for the marsh
The Doggy pastures by a widowed stream
There where the red-winged blackbird turns the
harsh
Croak of his kind to threads of song that CLEAN
UP from the marshes. bright as the epaulette
or natty scarlet on his ebon wings
Music straight and vibrant as the wet
Tall-swaying marsh grass whose tips he swings
And underneath him choir the frogs. and over
The gurgling boys the long-beaked snpes so
flying;
The meadow iarks start up from the pink clover
Edging the coverts where their nests are lying;
And from the solid ground, the cose-cropped
height.
Comes down the swift sweet call Of the bob.white.