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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
Beer At Coney Island

Beer is now the favorite drink at the famous old seashore resort Coney Island. Very little hard liquor is sold. Speakeasies have almost entirely disappeared. Inter- esting reasons are given for this in a mag azine which is the official publication of the State Liquor Authority of New York.
 First, hard liquor seems to expensive to most of the patrons. They buy hot dog and glass of beer and move on, satisfied. Another reason given is the presnce of women at bars. The stag party is said to have died out, giving way to family part ies. Diversity of entertainment for fam lilies is also given as a cause for the change of taste. There are movies and radio and the whole family goes out to the beach in the flivver, eats it's picnic lunch and finishes up with few bottles of beer, gin- ger ale and pop according to individual taste.
 If hard drinking is really giving way to the moderate and pleasant use of beer as beverage, cool and refreshing, instead ot whiskey and gin as stimulants inflamma- tory to the emotions and deadening to the brain then repeal was certainly benefl- cent measure which can be approved by vets and drys alike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
Bring Them Back Alive

In past years the apex of the motoring season usually came with the Labor Day weekend. Then, if ever, came the long list of dead and maimed, the result of motor crashes on highways all over the nation. It is with some premonition that officials this year are uttering words of caution to all who plan to be out on the roads at some time in this period. Vacationers neces- sarily must be home, it would seem, on Labor Day. The working man may have to be at his job on Tuesday, but in good many cases the haste is wasted.
 As regards getting the children home for school in our own locality that excuse is out this year. Therefore, may we urge the gospel of less speed for the weekend. More leisurely driving will have to be- come fact and not fancy in Connectl- cut. We are normally and legally obliged to respect a speed limit of 45 miles an hour. That may seem far too slow for the man who is accustomed to drive at 50 to 60 miles once he is out of city traffic. It may seem slow, but it won't take the driver long to become accustomed to 1t.
 Once upon time 45 miles an hour was travelling pretty fast. But then motors were speeded up and brakes were improved and the higher speeds were easily attain dDie dIlu III SOulG CdScS COIltl lOlldUle Dul modern day traffic seldom allows opera tion of cars at such excessive rates of speed as our modern cars easily attain. Your car may be under perfect control at 50 or 65 miles an hour, but that of the approaching driver perhaps going ten or fifteen miles an hour slower may not be. And the result will be the same-death or serious accident
 This business of moving down pedes- trians and occupants of automobiles has simply got to stop. It may become nee essary to adopt even stricter regulations than those now proposed For the bene- fit of the millions who enjoy safe and sane driving along our pleasant highways, please realize that every automobile is potential killer. It can afford much pleasure if not abused. It is up to the driver to see that it is not abused. Ii your fellow driver does not seem to be cooperating with you in this safety cru sade, that's no excuse for you to go and do likewise. Mayhap your example will be all that's required to bring one more erring driver into line.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
Hitch-Hiker Is Menace

It is impossible to drive anywhere in America today without encountering patient, droop-shouldered chap who stands by the roadside and continuously jerks his thumb across his chest. He is the hitch hiker, one of the strangest products of the auto age, and he is getting to be promi- nent part of the American landscape. He is also getting to be an intense pain in the neck.
 Just why it should be considered proper for a man to stand by the roadside and beg free transportation from total strangers is something of a mystery. If he should amble up to pedestrian and say, Il want to take the next train to Bingville-would you mind slipping me three ninety-five?' the pedestrian would lose no time in tell ing him where to go but put the pedes- trian behind the wheel of a car and let the hitch-hiker make a request which amounts to precisely the same thing, and neither party sees anything especially odd about it.
 But the hitch-hiker is something more than nuisance America is full of nui- sances anyway, and one more or. less hardly makes enough difference to be worth talking about. There are times and places when the hitch-hiker is an actual menace to public safety. For instance: the police at Wichita, Kansas, got curious recently and took all the hitch-hikers they could find down to headquarters to be fingerprinted. They found that two of every five had criminal records.
 For another instance: murders of mo- torists by hitch-hikers have been recorded recently in Oregon, Virginia, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Oklahoma, as matter of fact, ascribes more than half dozen recent killings to hitch-hikers, while Oregon has had three. It might also be remembered that when Pretty Boy Floyd was finally hunted down and killed in Ohio he was in the process of hitch hiking across the country.
 The ordinary American is pretty good- natured sort of, person, and it is this fact that the hitch-hiker trades on He collects great deal of free transportation, pro- notes the existence of vagabond class which does the country no good, and cre- stes fine opening for lot of old-fash- loned highway robbery. As an individual. the hitch-hiker may be ikable chap. As fn institution, he is getting to ke pretty irving One wonders just how much longer the American motorist will put up with him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31

We never knew until this week that oyster beds are subject to taxation. Prob ably that's a confession of ignorance but we must be truthful. However, some of the oyster beds in New Haven harbor are not going to be assessed this year, because they were ruined by dredging in the har- bor The tax rate on oyster beds is SIP per acre. It may be recalled that when dredging o1 the harbor began the oyster men complained that their beds were go- ing to be spoiled. It looks as if they knew what they were talking about. We'd say that there might be some cause for dam ages with the State Shellfish Commission backing the oyster growers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31

ITO EVERY employer and employe there comes today the opportunity to make the coming year of sanity, toleration and justice in the conditions under which men work.
 Recent weeks have marked tendency to adjust long-standing labor troubles to arrive at sane, fair agreements by discussion rather than dragging through mutually -exhausting strikes. With measurable business improvement already apparent and in sight for fall and winter there is every incentive for period of wise thinking and action the part both of those who work and those who direct. THE rise of movements like the Toledo plan to consider the interests of the whole community less vital than those of the factions directly involved, indicates thorough trial for such in- formal means of giving the public chance to be heard too. For after all, it is the public that suf fers when industrial strife becomes violent and widespread
 What the Wagner-Connery act will mean to labor is not yet clear. Much depends who is appointed to the labor board which has such wide powers in administering it. But it is certain that in such industries steel, automobiles and rubber, another determined effort will be made to organize workers. Those groups whose object is to raise
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31

Senator Francis T. Maloney has returned to his home in Meriden after eight months of legislating in Washington, D. c. Ac- cording to the Meriden Journal, he does not show the effects of the long congress sional session. He is anxious now to rest after the rigors of the Senate. His first term in this body was as distinguished as have been all his legislative experiences. While admittedly an administration man Senator Maloney did not hesitate on occas- ions to display that independence of thought and spirit which has long charac- terized his political career. He will re- main in and around Mariden until Janu- ary, 1886, when he returns for the re- mainder of the 74th Congress. That will enable him to participate in the Meriden city election in December. Mayor Stephen l.. Smith, democrat, is expected to be candidate to succeed himself
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which they plan to bring to cul- imitation in an imperialistic war against the Soviet Union. Mussolini must regard the news as welcome distraction, to take the eyes of the world away from his criminal war of conquest against Ethiopia and concentrate the attack on the Soviet union. How the news must have been hailed by the militarists of Japan, who are only waiting their earliest opportunity of attacking the Soviet Union.
 How William Randolph Hearst must have gloated when he re- ceived the news in his feudal cas- tie in San Simson, California, and how he must chortle with glee when he receives notice that the so-called liberal newspapers are taking up the cry of the dirty Hearst sheets Destroy the Soviet Union! The only workers govern ment must be smashed if democ- racy (for the millionaires) is to be saved!"
 Following is a partial list of prominent individuals and organ izations who have sent protests to the State Department condemning the note to the Soviet Union:
 ;. Federation o1 Dyers, Printers, Finishers and Bleachers of America.
 William D. Kuehnel, president Central Labor Union, Hartford.
 Frank Benti, labor candidate for Mayor of Lodi, N. J.
 Margaret Bourke-White.
 Charles $. Zimmerman, Inter- national Ladies' Garment Work CTS Union.
 Rev. William B. Spofford, ex- ecutive secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democ- racy.
 Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Ab- bysinian Baptist Church.
 Roger Baldwin, director Civil Liberties Union.
 H. Lawrence, Chicago Fedora tion of Labor.
 Edward Strong, president Olivet Baptist Youth Council.
 j., Martin, National Research League.
 A. G. McDowell, secretary Cook County (Ill.) Socialist Party.
 Maynard c. Kreuger, member, National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. Sam Weisberg, Young Peo- ples' Socialist League. Mary van Kiech, Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Dr. Harry F. Ward, Union Theological Seminary. Hundreds of other members of the American Federation of Labor and the Socialist. Party. Dr. William Van Essen. chair man of the Social Party; of Alle- ghany County. Prof. George Counts. Teach CTS College, Columbia Univer- sity. Quincy Howe, editor at Simon and Schuster Publishing Co.,, and many other prominent teachers, educators, editors, clergymen and individuals.
 Haywood Broun, president of the Newspaper Guild criticized the Roosevelt note in a radio broadcast MoncSy night over station WOR as follows:
 ''The position taken by. the State Department in its note
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31

rumpus rather than wages will renew their activ- ity. There will probably be conflicts as there un- fortunately must ever be in any democratic system where neither labor nor capital is under the thumb of dictatoral government.
 BUT the trend of the time is toward tolerance. D sanity and decency both sides of the peren- nial labor problem. One need draw sugary pie ture of silk-hatted capitalist shaking hands with paper-capped laborer to recognize this essential truth: labor and capital indispensable parts of the same machinery that keeps all alive. Capital is necessary in socialist state all that is changed is the manner of control of capital, and driving bureaucracy may be hard master the unenlightened capitalist. Before there be enterprise and production under mod ern conditions there must be capital
 There must be labor, too. And Siamese twins though they may not like each other at all times, have alternative than to live together har- moniously possible. Neither be we'll if the ; other is sick.
 ASf It is in this spirit that American workmen and employers must approach the coming year if the present signs of improvement to fulfill their promise. <s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
WRITER THINKS REPUBLICAN
 CARTOONTST PUT FINISH ING TOUCHES ON PARTIES
Waterbury, Conn.,, Aug. 30, 1885.

Wdterpury, COHn.s
 Aug. 30, 1885. Editor of The Democrat:
 In last Sundays issue of The Republican I saw a political car toon Illustrating the republican and independent democrat parties as insects. It was positively insult ing in nature. It was sketched by Mort" Who ever he is, the gentle man put one over ron MT. Willie Pape. We'll, here is what I want to get at. The bug marked republi- can party looked something like a "horsefiy. and the one marked Ind. Dems resembled 8 hornet" Now let us dig up the dictionary for the revelation of these words: 1.-Horsefiy. noun. A two-winged fly called also gadfies and breeze flies. Bloodsuckers and annoyers. 2.-Hornet, noun. Any of several large, strong pugnacious wasps, the sting of which is very severe. Also say, good gosh! what is the world coming to when political parties are classified as bugs.
 Locally speaking, the g.o.p.-ers are now known as the horsefiy party, and the Ind Dems as the hornets. That is the Republican artists conception of them. MT. Pape must have been fog-eyed in allowing the cartoon to be widely published. What political mixup. Before election day bedlam will break loose.
 Tn conclusion, gee willikens, how is it the Evening Democrat never makes faux pas?
 Yours with sensibility.
 I. M. ALERT.
 Prospect Road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
MIR. CAMPBELL TAKES EX- CEPTION TO AMERICANS
 EDITORIAL ON RUSSIA
Waterbury, Conn. August 30th, 1885.

WaterDuTy, conn.
 August 30th, 1885.
 Editor of the Democrat:
 Many of the readers of the Wa terbury American of August 2Sth must have thought that they had picked up Hearst's New York Journal or New York American by mistake when they read the edi- torial entitled Russian Fantasy Ends" Certainly this could not be the Waterbury American, whose editors are we'll known. for their liberal policies and thoughts, and who have boasted time and again about their disagreement with the policies and yellow journalism of William Randolph Hearst. Ger tainly this could not be the news paper whose publisher is proud of the fact that he defeated Hearst for the vice-presidency of the Associated Press. But 1t WAS the Waterbury, American, and ex- ploded is the myth that the ed- itors weigh their subject matter carefully before they put their thoughts into print.
 It is hard to believe that if the State Departments note to the So- viet Union and the answer of the Soviet Union had been carefully analysed, that the editorial would have appeared. - When the Roosevelt government signed the Litvinoff- Roosevelt let- ters, it knew that the American workers would continue their fight against the intensified attacks of that government on their living standards. Roosevelt knew that the Communist Party of. the Uni- ted States, section of the Com munist International, would con- tinue and intensity it's activities to mobilize the masses in the broad est united front possible against the danger of war and fascism which Roosevelt's mote" and the editorial of the American, now tend to stimulate and encourage.
 It is editorials such as this, Mir. Editor, that breeds hatred of the Soviet Union. the only country in the world that is actually carrying on a fight against war.
 THIS IS CREST IN THE MILL OF THE WAR-MAKERS. MIR. EDITOR, A BLOW AT WORLD PEACE. a S&%
 can imagine with what joy Hitler and Mussolini must receive from the news of the Presidents s note and the glee with which they take note of the editorials of ap- proval which appear in the capi- talist controlled newspapers in the United States. Editorials like this not only tend to strengthen the hand of the American fascists and reactionaries of every stripe, but of reaction everywhere. <
 Hitler must have been overjoyed with the prospect of spreading the news across the front page of every newspaper in Germany, to take the minds of the German workers off the fact that their liv-' ing conditions are ever growing worse, that thousands are being tortured in the concentration camps. The Nazis must welcome the news as added fuel to feed the flames of their policies of race hatred and religious persecution,
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oldest senator in length of ser vice, s4s chairman of the senate banking committee, has giuded all the administrations history making banking bills through the chamber Things are booming in agriculture. The farm implements report an esti- mated sale this year of $32O,- 00O,444, compared with $200,- OOO,OO0 last year. Employment in machinery plants is S5 per cent higher than 1884, with pay. rolls up over 50 per cent. <
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To-DAY's COMMON ERROR Never say, 'I saw a write up of him in the newspaper; say, report about him." or description of him."

stage, flutter about for an .avening, mate, drop their packets of fer tilized eggs, and die before sunrise'
 0. How long was the American Army of Modification in Cuba?
 A. From 1906 to 1909. z"
 O. What is the Jewish traditioF about making the first sale of the week? o
 A. There is an old tradition in Judaism that, if merchant is suc- successful in selling to his first customer of the week, it is good omen for the rest of the week. Some hold so closely to this tradi-. ton that they will offer piece of goods for almost nothing in order to make that sale.
 O. What are the dimensions of the Arctic and the Antarctic Oceans?
 A. The Arctic Ocean is approx imately 5000 miles long and 1,700 miles wide. Exact measurements are impossible on account of the. varying coast line. Oceanographers have decided that there is no Ant arctic Ocean, but that the Atlantic. Pacific and Indian Oceans extended to the Antarctic regions.
 o. What is the gauge of the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway? J
 A. Five feet. IT
 
 Q. How many salesmen and saleswomen are there in the Unit ed States? V
 A. The 1880 U. S. Census of Oc.I equations enumerates 1,5O8,2S3, salesmen and 560,720 saleswomen. a total of 2,O69,003. ,4
 o. What are the left wing and right wing in politics? Y,
 A. Left wing refers to those ra-. dicaIs who advocate swift and vio- lent changes in the politico-econo-. mic order, and right wing refers to- the conservatives who oppose any. change from the existing order s
 c. What are the legal qualifit a- tions for President of the United,
 A. The Constitution defines, them as, a natural born citizen of the United States who has attained the age of thirty-five years. and, has been for fourteen years a resi- dent within the United States. :,
 If you want a copy of our new Booklets STAINS 8 SPOTS, write to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, enclosing ten, cents (1Oc) for postage and hand. ling. s.
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Question Box

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 THE EplToR.
 O. Does Canada pay any taxes or tribute to the British govern ment? A. No. . O. What is the value of a U. g.. large copper cent dated 1855?
 A. They are cataloged at l to 20, cents. . o. How many Fu-Manchu stor- ies did Sax Rohmer write and what are their titles?
 A. In order of their publica- tion they are: "The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu," 1913; "The Return o1 Dr. Fu-Manchu," 1916; "The Hand of Fu-Manchu," 1917; '"The Book of -Manchu," 1929; 'The Daugh- ter of Flu -Manchu," 1881; "The Mask of Fu-Manchu," 1882 and "Fu- Manchu's Bride" 1898. O. Who played the role of George Dwight in Moonlight and Pretzels?"
 A. Roger Pryor.
 O. What is the title of the / poem quoted in Lives of a Bengal Lancer" by Franchot Tone? , A. England, My England" by William Ernest Henley. . Q. What is the name of an in+ sect that lives only one day?
 A. Some Mayflies in the adult
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seems to rest on the wholly er- roneous point of view that no- body in America ever has a rad- ical thought or utters a. radical word unless he has received a picture postcard from Joseph Stalin. Severance of relations with Russia would not abate radical propaganda by one jot."
 The people of America and oi will resent the issuance of the Hearst-inspired provocative mote" to the Soviet Union and such editorials as appeared in the Waterbury American.
 CHARLES E. CAMPBELL.
 PAT South Main St.
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SEPTEMBER 2

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 You should show much defer ence and humility. You should make use Of a good influence for travel, study and philosophy during June and July 1886.
 Guard against opposition from those older from colds and g de- pressed outlook on life during Jan- uray and Ferbruary, 1936.
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Settlers Village is rapidly approaching the state of perfection which it's cor porators anticipate. By that we mean in few more weeks there will be no more construction work going on and visitors will see the village in it's final and con- pleted stage. We sincerely hope that the exhibit can be maintained for many months to come, perhaps not during the bitter cold ones, but after they have passed, surely it should be reopened to the public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
Horoscope
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For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the plants, the daily horoscope is out lined by a noted astrologer. In addition to information of general interest, it outlines information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
Selected Poem
IN THE CARDINALS STUDY (Harold Willard Gleason in The New York Iii

(Harold Willard Gleason in The New York Times) Across blue velvet carpet like leaf
 Spun by some vagrant gust kitten prancng Capers, back arched tail (ludicrously brief) Stffly erect. On four paws impish dancing His mate pursues. Beneath carven chair Beside the table heaped with scrolls portentous, Quills that have scratched how many crowns away Appurtenance of statesmanship momentous, Crouches ambushed elf in fluffy fur,
 Splitting mock spite. sudden scuffe, ended As suddenly--in sleep! And Richeeu, His face carven mask mid shadows blended, Dispels state and, smiling, doffs pretense, Disarmed by round-eyed kittens impudence. :.
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Current Comments

I regard the MIRA as dead. In- spired propaganda will not bring it back, and straw votes will not scrap the American Constitution.
 Governor Hoffman of New Jer-
 sey.
 Anybody who can't carry at least i've of 'em (sliyer dollar cart wheeis) in each pocket is a sissy.- Reb. Compton I. White, Idaho.
 Americans do not know enough about their bodies Dean Henry
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31
A Thought for Today

Oh let te vicxedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.- Psalms 7:8.
 Faith makes life proves, trials confirm, and death crowns the Christian.-Johann Hopfner.