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The times-news., 1936-02-04
ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL TO
ANGLo-U. s. BOND ...
Bv BRUCE CATION

The hardy American may be rough ana
ready guy who has reverence Tor pfacti-
callv nothing but home and mother, buI II
does seem sometimes as if he had never
ouite outgrown his ancient habit of tipping
his hat whenever king passed oy. 80
The British empire is mourning another
monarch, and to judge by the amount OIL
sentiment stirred up in the United States
bv the event one would almost be led 10
assume that 1776 was all regrettaple
mistake; that the only thing we can do, as
gentlemen, lis invite the redcoats to come
hack and camp on the summit OF Bunker
Hill.
Even the people of London itself can
hardly have had the scenes at hlng
Georges deathbed served up to- them IN
greater detail. Certainly they can not
easily have gone, any, farther than we have
in the matter of awed speculation about
the personality, future, and possible mar
riage of the new monarch, Edward VIII.
We have had Edwards entire past re-
hashed for u.s. We have gone once more
into hisefalls from the saddle, into his abr
litv as a dancer, his sunny smile, his no
tions of styles for men and his fondness tor
the company of attractive women OF high
but not regal birth.
We have seen endless lists OF the Euro
mean princesses who will be eligible to
marry him, if he will have them.
We have had reams of good paper spoil
ed by sirupy articles about dainty little
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke
of York, who bids fair to attain an Amerl-
can popularity second only to that of Shir7
ley Temple.
All this might lead cynic to suspect
that there is something in the complacent
British assumption that the United States
is. after all, just one more British domin-
iona dominion which perversely fails to
take the oath of allegiance to the British
crown, but which, none the less, is funda-
mentally sound.
No wit would be easy enough to go on
like this for another column, wagging the
head sadly over the apparently mcurabie
Anglomania of the American people. But
once we have had our fun with the nation,
we might as we'll go on to recognize the
fact that all this intense American pre-
occupation with British royalty is the Wis
ible symbol of deep, underlying commul-
ity of interest between the two great Eng
disappearing nations.
When all the trite remarks about blood
being thicker than water have been made,
the fact remains that there is strong sem
timentaI bond between the great empire
and the great republic.
We exasperate each other almost to
tears, now and then, and we can remem-
Der some pretty severe squabbles, bat the
bond is still there. =
Americas innocent interest in England's
new king simply underAnes the fact.
The times-news., 1936-02-04
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

fT1HE OLD supreme court room IN
l. the Capitol is being kept oper
and unchanged as a shrine fol
visitors to look at.
Prior to 1859, when the court
took il over, it was used as the
Senate chamber. Some of the
greatest debates Of the Webster
Clay-Calhoun period echoed
through its narrow confines and
it's this early history, rather than
the courts occupancy, which is
given as the reason for its pres
ervation as something extra.
special.
A HALF-FORGOTTEN incident Of
"A recent senatorial history has
been recalled here in trying to eX-
plain why Senator James P. Pope
of Idaho tried to break up the mu.
nitions investigation committee. 1t
was Senator Pope, who, with Sem
ator George of Georgia, walked out
on the committee and threatened
to resign as a protest against con-
duct of the inquiry.
You may remember that Sena-
tor Pope went abroad last year
and sounded off so sensationally
as to European politics and Euro
pean-American relations that SEN
ator LaFollette Of Wisconsin in
troduced al resolution of censure..
The resolution was buried, but
among those who voted for con-
sideration of ii, was Chairman Nye
of the munitions committee.
Nye's vote, is said to have ram
kled with Pope, all the more be-
cause he had bowed to Nye on
the matter of the committee chair
manship to which Pope was tech.
nically entitled. When Nye voiced
his famous charge that Woodro"
wilson had "falsified." Pope was
one of the many eager to lear
upon the North Dakotan.
fconvrjrbt. 1895. NEA Service. IpaJ
The times-news., 1936-02-04
THREE THOUGHTS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT
WERE | AN INDUSTRIALIST

Were | an industrialist and a
capitalist | should get a lot of
fun out of it. l would say to my
employees and associates, "Now,
boys, here is the way this outfit
is going to be run;
at is going to be 100 per cent
cooperative. What | want out
of it is a reasonable interest on
nv investment, and a reasonable
salary for my services as chief ex-
ecptive. You, also, shall have rea-
sQnable salaries.
1.-THE profits from this business
after all expenses have been paid,
will be divided among us equal
lY-we will share and share alike,
from ianitor to president.
But there is one thing | shall
require: Each and every person
Connected with this organization
shall work untiringly, unselfish-
", and intelligently for the sue
csss Of this business. No person
can stay here who does not give
tio this enterprise the best that is
! IN him. There will be no drones
ion the payroll, nor persons who
have not the interests of this out
fit keenlv at heart. A trouble
maker will not last longer than
it will take the cashier to pay him
off. l shall expect every one of
you to keeps peeled eye on the
welfare of this business. and to
cooperate with me actively and
intensively in eliminating ineffi-
cheney. wastes dislovalty, and any
other influence which could be re-
garded as. shindering our prog
resS." Toy.
And I know that I should get
the biggest kind of a kick out OF
running a business tha tway.
The times-news., 1936-02-04
DEALS OLD AND NEW
Press Comment On National roht'cs ARD Issues.

eras and spasmodic slon,n n
hectic agitations and cvrn "'lS !, az
alities. P'l1,
Personalities are on ,b,
only for their little while "' Naa
Institutions that are FAM,
the eternal veriticS are b", b,ped 4
ever. E .@.
America is not 50 flu<l,5
temporal success and mat"r;., ,.rE 9lH
provement to take time "a. ID. y,
mere r: mud-slinging for no.:.. "J; %
ends and time-scrying goois s'1''s
Times are better, Of com' j.
the worst of the dcprcs<ioo,,' ~ \
over. q
But National destiny is No.. /
petually solved when a littIoo' -. T.
change rattles in the pccko, s9E !,
, yesterday. va
Nor when industries and l.. !
nesses are catering to " vs.
abundant trade, declaring +Il' Eot
dends and making profits, W.
The time for America Ia do
! profound thinking is not so HIy ~
when it is in the economic ~, ~
drums as when it is in the s.,, S'
mic climb. a'
For the very good rcasor :,
when a measurable amour,
prosperity is being cnioyc5 =,
spiritual senses are the more n
ly to be dulled and the tcmp,,s'
is hard to resist to fall into tSs 4
lusion that alps well when 81
accounts are ample.
Therefore, the time for an.
ca to be doing some Studious M,
ing is NOW.
Instead of that, the run Of 1
agitations today has to do MI
with surface matters. with ii
tentativeness, with what party ),
into power, with the name Of I
next President, with the conn
ion of the Congress. with n
flying of the immatcriaI whins a
caprices Of the time
We invcieh against such !;
lowneSs and superficial li,l
against the current tcndency
display the greatest artfulnes
singing mud, the greatest ye!a]
lity in wise-cracking. the ind
cnce in cheap and often wi
personalities.
Things are never settled d
they are settled right.
Therefore, unless every d
that is pending in America I'd
! is based solidly and immu
upon justice and RIGHTEOUSNESS
is by no means TO be taken 4
granted that the citizenship ota
country can safely be satisfied
This is a moral universe. -
universe hinging upon mere CEi
tunisms.
When moral laws are not I'd
: written upon every political q
cedure, every economic Hs5
every social philosophy, ever
dustrial practice, every buSlI
custom, then such proccdme
systems and PHILOSOPHERS anda
tees are customs are question:
America had better be thiEl
on this level rather than urt
around with loose and unrei
tongues, saying bitter, mean
often untruthful thing that Z
out of a split in passing ophi
spites, prejudices and passIon:
! Charlotte Observer.
The times-news., 1936-02-04

Il will take a
few minutes off
from Watching
the Store to tell
you how much
you hit the nail
on the head in
Y ur a b ov e
named article.
"There are mil
lions of small
store k e e p eir S
everywhere who
live the very life
that men lived
they must con.
stantly watch, and
The times-news., 1936-02-04
AMERICAN is WORLD
CHAMP GIRL SKATER

! STOCKHOLM, Feb. a. CUP)-
Miss Kit Klein of Buffalo, 1.-THE,
dark-eyed queen of American
speed skaters, Sunday won the
women's speed skating champion
ship of the world over a fleet
field composed of the racing rep
resentatiyes of six other nations.
The times-news., 1936-02-04
FRET NOT YOUR SOUL

Don't get too excited about this
world. Remember it is this kind
of world. But if you wish-some
eventful day-to go to a better
world than this, You must prac-
tice while here how to work in a
better world than this.
The times-news., 1936-02-04
AN ERA OF LOOSE TONGUES

Nothing is more patent than that
the new Presidential compaign is
drifting reclilessly into a question
of personalities to the exclusion Of
principles.
And nothing is more perilous o
the preservation of the American
republic than that!
Institutions bridge epochs and
The times-news., 1936-02-04
POET. HANDICAPPED

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-(UP)-
John Masefeld, poet laureate of
England, has been writing poetry
Tor two months with his left hand
because, Shaking hands with
Americans here and abroad has
injured my right hand so that
cannot use it in writing"
The times-news., 1936-02-04
WATCHING THE STORE

Here is the experience of a
man on the firing line; l am
quoting from his letter to me, as
Irfeel that what he says will be
helpful to his fellow men and his
fellow women too:
The times-news., 1936-02-04
Botany in Sixteeri Centur

A Sixteenth centnlV tierm'hi
enlist published a book on bS'
ito bring back 20 life Scien"'
most extinct"
The times-news., 1936-02-04
An Old Coronation City

Cracow. an ancient city Of "!
Inhabitants, on the ViStu'a, Vs'
lands cOronatio. city for o
years.
The times-news., 1936-02-04
Find Stars on Photograph

Modern astronomers do HcI =
for new stars by star gazlI- o"'
studying photographs Of the u
pnS.
The times-news., 1936-02-04

Texas solon says cowboys don't yell in
each others faces over guitar. Now, he'll
probably try to tell US hillbilly singers don't
wear clothespins on their noses. :
The times-news., 1936-02-04

Composers of "Musie Goes Round -
failed to show up, as scheduled, in Wichita
and Kansas City. The question is, who
warned them? .."t
The times-news., 1936-02-04

1t turns out that modern streamline autos are
not perfect having too many gadgets that interfere
with the smooth flow of air currents and pedest-
,fansS 3s5Rls sEs S ~ g - g.
The times-news., 1936-02-04

Suggested Democratic song: "Well,
we've paid up your debt, you, Raskob,
you." HkHi Nh
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
A Thought for Today
The Story Now Changes

The intent of the nasty little story printed in the Waterbury American the other evening is quite clearly revealed m the lines of bold-face editorial Whlch appears in this mornings Waterbury Republican. It seems that the story was written more or less with the hope of ...ruvoKing some sort of heated retort from Mayor Frank Hayes No regard for the truth of the statements was had; in fact, if we are to read between the lines, it didn't make much difference what was said, so long as public state- ment could be secured from His Honor
 Now that the mayor has answered and shown up the story as piece ot tlctlon, probably produced in the editorial offlce of the Waterbury American, the scene IS shifted quickly. But not too quickly TOT the audience to see the manipulation. The point that was up for discussion was not so much Mayor Hayes attitude on gambling, but why the Waterbury Amer ican had the effrontery to state on it's front page that Mayor Hayes was an habitual parker on East Main street ana because his parking spot was usurped by overflow "bank night" crowds he ordereo them SCoPPeu'
 The story was also to the effect that Mayor Hayes was unable to drive his car through the crowd, despite repeated toot- ings on his automobile horn. AS a result, so the American story-teller recounts, he was subjected to several "bronx cheers,, which, by the way, can also be produced without the aid of the hands, although this has nothing to do with the matter at hand. At any rate what the American should do right now is to admit that 1t had no foundation for it's story about Mayor Hayes waxing wroth over condl- tions on East Main street through any personal experience.
 The customary flag-waving and civic pride effusions that characterize the tvin-sheets of Printers Court are upon us again. So long as the Hayes administra- ton can be ridiculed, everything goes, even picayunish story that must have struck plenty of citizens as not merely kid stuff, but bit below the belt. If the story of the mayor bounded from "habit- ual' parking spots wasn't so ridiculous, more attention might be paid to the gambling crusade. AS it is now, it must be regarded as a continuation of the per sonal vendetta of the sour LeavenWorth street combination and it's dour editor-ln- chief (Mr. Pape being in Miami).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Hard Winters

As if the economic cycle were not enough, we seem to have weather cycle. That is, calculable period of years in which evil weather wreaks it's will on us. For several years there was a growing impression in this country that we had entered a new era of weather, milder and pleasanter and probably permanent But no such luck. The weather from mid January until the end of February rudely swept away that illusion. Now the weather Bureau, instead of pronouncing the recent zero spell casual freak, says it was probably the beginning of new cycle of "hard winters"
 Coming winters, according to this evil prognostication, are likely to be wet and cold. That is, wet and cold in the warmer zones, and frozen up solid in the more frigid belts It is dreadful to think of the prospect for the Northwestern plains, the Great Lakes region and New England. It should be good, though, for various kinds of business, particularly heating systems, coal, clothing and heavy food.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Human Termites

The elevator operators strike in New York brings a vivid realization of the artificialty of modern city life. The business capital of the greatest and wealthiest country in the world is para lyzed. Millions of people are helpless be- cause civilized man is unable to get upstairs.
 Seventy thousand men walk out of 5000 buildings. In those only four or five stories high, many people are still capable of walking up to their living or business quarters. But in 800 buildings, including the forest of skyscrapers that cover lower Manhattan Island, the situa- tion is appalling. Only firemen or youth full athletes could climb those dizzy stair ways circling upward for 20 to 70 stories. The denizens of those vast towers swarm below, powerless and baffled.
 For a moment, perhaps, human beings caught in such dilemma vaguely realize how unnatural, unhuman and absurd it is to cramp their lives in towers and can- yons, missing sun, air and exercise, liv- ing like termites instead of men and women, pitifully dependent upon ma chinery and the cooperation of small minorities, when they might live natural and wholesome lives if modern cities were reasonably planned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06

Chief Yellowtail of the Crow Indians of Montana is doing fine thing these days. He is building up big buffalo herd out on his tribal lands He is superintendent of the Indian reservation, known as Crow Agency. His idea is Ito help preserve the American buffalo on this continent; to take care of our people in periods of de- pression and to see the buffalo and all big game roam the hills again unmolested as they did years ago -" Surplus ani- mals from Yellowstone National Park are transported to the reservation to build up herds. In ten years the chief expects to have the biggest buffalo herd in exist ence Then he'll start giving them away, no doubt, for want of space.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06

Continuing our discussion of the bus ride courses that will give Connecticut teachers college credits this summer, we offer tonight the second of the two trips that are being made available as spe- cial course of Teachers College of Con- necticut. This one is southward. It leaves New Haven on July 20, going by bus to Washington, D. C., Richmond and Williamsburg, Va. The way is still south as far as Atlanta, Ga. From there inland to Burlington, Ala. Heading north the busses will pass through the Great Smoky
 Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley, Gettysburg, and eastern Pennsylvania, the Delaware Watergap, and up into New York state and along the Storm King Highway. Assigned reading on sections through which the busses pass is compulsory. Lectures at various stops are also included. An examination follows at the end of the trip.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Hard to Get Used to It.

The long years of complete republican domination of this state makes 1t bit hard sometimes to get used to reading in our state newspapers about former governors, former congressman, former senators, and former this-and-that, all members of the former all powerful republican group that brooked no interference with it's absolute control of every arm of the government It was a monopoly that brooked no interference or entrance of any outsiders, least Of all a mere democrat.
 Today we read about the foremost candidates for the g.o.p. gubernatorlal nomination. Up in the front rank is eX- representative John Q. Tilson of New Haven. And some months back when Governor Wilbur L. Cross appointed to the neWly-created office of Commissioner of Welfare ex-senator Frederic c. Wal colt he was accused of advancing the Norfolk mans political potentiality as gubernatorial candidate. And in the list of potentials is of course, the other eX- senator, Hiram A. Bingham.
 And now we find that included among the hopefuls who will do battle with Gov ernor Cross or the candidate that the democrats may select in his stead are State Senator J. Kenneth Bradley of Westport and State Senator Kenneth Cramer of Wethersfield, recent-year stal- warts in go.p. ranks And not to be out done we have also former Secretary ot State John Danaher, former Lieutenant governor Roy C. Wilcox, both of Meriden, and former Lieutenant-Governor Clifford B. Wilson of Bridgeport.
 Among those now holding political of- flee we have State Senator Benjamin Harwood of Chester, Representative Noah Swayne of Darien, to mention just a couple. The spectacle has it's amusing angle, though it is barely possible that the amusement can be turned into grief. But any commentator on political affairs in Connecticut will tell you that when democrats have advanced to the point where ex-officeholders in the republican ranks can be paraded out as they are now and will be until convention time in the fall, it's something to talk about. And t- democrats it should give but one idea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06

forward to speak to a girl stricken with paralysis. Simultaneously the old fellow pressed forward to shake his hand, but was showed back.
 He went away mutterlng: "rhey pushed me back. was going to shake his hand, but they pushed me back. Greatest President since Lincoln, but they pushed me back"
 Merry-GO-R0und
 You can play the numbers" in the U. s. Capitol without going out of the building. There is Q runner" in the senate restaurant who will take your bet any day in the week -. Sightseers in the new Supreme Court building often ask If this is the place where the NRA was declared unconstltu- tional. The answer is No; then they trek across to the Capitol building to gaze at the old court room ... At a recent session of the House, Representative Palmi- sano of Maryland fell asleep in his chair . The new government of Paraguay has discharged the country's diplomats in foreign capitals. Enrque Bordenave, able minister in Washington, got no salary for February, has to pay his own passage home.
 Copyright, 1036, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Question Box
o tSsS. NEA

o. Is 1t possible for a young woman to enlist in the U. s. navy for any sort of service?
 A. The only enlisted positions open to women in the U. s. Navy are nurses.
 c. What is the name of the book written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh2
 A. North to the Orient"
 c. Who is president of the American Liberty League?
 A. Jouett Shouse.
 e. Name the winner of the Na- tional Women's Singles Tennis championship in 1885.
 A. Helen Jacobs.
 Q. Who is the author of The Road to War2"
 A. Walter B. Mills.
 c. What is to be the height and length of the Bonneville Dam2
 A. It will be 170 feet high and l,200 feet long.
 Q. What happened to the battle- ship washington" that was under construction for the U. s. Navy?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06

Hundreds of unskilled and intermediate grade workers will be employed shortly on the Merritt Parkway, so we learn. The call has gone out and the Connecticut Employment Service is going to assume the task of placing men on this big high way project. We hope that this is really fact and not more of the fiction that has accompanied the Merritt Park way in it's long years of discussion, but little action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Selected Poem
IN A WINTER ATTIC

Edith Benedict Hawes in the Christian Science
 Monitor Here, where broods the dusty chill Of secrets kept by trunks And seed-corn hangs and catnip punches i'll The air with heavy scent, Safe in this tin. the poppy urns hold still The sunrises of summer bleak wind shakes the skylight pane and sighs-- The spirits of imprisoned peoples rise. Red peoples flare beneath the shadowed caves, And peoples delicate with lavender. or rose; Wee, shell-pink peoples peer from pointed leavse, Tall white ones stand like alabaster queens Prom winking seed the sunrise glory weaves. And ohl a winter attic knows a strange unrest A thousand peoples stirring in it's breast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Pulchritude and Politics

Governor Talmadge upon re. ceipt of the tidings that he had been beautifully beaten in for- mer stronghold, professed ignor- ance that primary was being held. MT. Roosevelt's campaign manager declared that the victory in Seminole was indicative of the situation throughout the state and that the President was sure of solid Georgia delegation in his cause at the national convention. The writer knows little or noth- ing of the political reasons for Governor Talmadges defeat but he has a suspicion that the news reels had a lot to do with 1t. We have been privileged more than once to observe Gene talking into the mike and looking into the camera. The effect has not been impressive or winning. The most unobservant hill-billy in Seminole County on Saturday night visit to any cinema palace could not es- cape the conviction that anyone who looks, talks, and acts like Gene could not possibly be right about anything. The oftener pie lures of MT. Roosevelt's opponents are exhibited on the screen the more certain his election becomes. Whether you like Democrats or not, whether you approve Of the Presidents policies, philosophy, or program you will have to admit that on sheer personal appear ance and positive appeal MT. Roosevelt makes his enemies Tn the Democratic party and his competitors in Republican field look like a collection of chromos. The news reels. if nothing else, will return him to office.