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Evening star., 1936-09-30
COUNT DENIED ALIM0NY
Titled Austrian Loses Second Plea
for Support by Wife.

LOS ANGELES, September 30 Up.
Count Rudolf Stefenelh yesterday
lost his second appeal for temporary
alimony pending trial OF his wife's
divorce suit.
The commercial artist, member Of
q titled Austrian family, held q
handkerchief to his eyes az he told
Superior Judge Caryl NJ. Sheldon he
was without funds. He also fled
cross complaint and demanded sepa-
rate maintenance.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
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INsTALLMENT XVIII.

~ ODGING the busy local room
Of the newspaper that en-
ployed him, Riley Blackwood
- sneaked into his own pigeon
Evening star., 1936-09-30
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Evening star., 1936-09-30
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

very purpose. We need 1t right at the present moment, for it is ripe for Over- lures from the debtor-nations for reduc- ton of their present bill or an applica- tion to run up a fresh account. Good old Uncle Sam, however, is protected by law which forbids new loans to nations that have defaulted on old obligations.
 If Congress does not become slightly mellow when it conveneS in January this mandate will not be placed aside. It is rumored that many nations of Europe, particularly those trembling on the edge of wars volcano, are anxious to get back in our good graces so that in case money and ammunition is needed, our money markets and our workshops will not be closed to them. A campaign now to har- den American hearts to all such over turesis quite in order.
 There will be plenty of people to fight for the European nations. There will be millions who will call us all sorts of names. Let them apply any epithet they can find. A bit of American stubborn ness and lengthy memory that keeps finger on past events are what we want to display when borrowers, come knock ing at our door. It won't hinder our return to normalcy. We've achieved it in spite of European breaches of promise. They have millions for militarism, not one cent for Americanism. Let's not be the fall guy for European diplomacy any
 longer, despite the pressure from within and without.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Fewer And Better Ones

There is much logic in the claims ad- vanced by Dr. Charles G. Chakerian, sec retary of the state commission named to study pauper laws in Connecticut, that we have in this state too many alms- houses. As Dr. Chakerian pointed out, in so small a state as this, it proves less beneficial to the aged and inf1rm to have 8 large number of poor-houses not glv- ing efficient service than to have few performing such duties in commendable fashion. One of the major recommenda- tions of the commission to the incoming Legislature will be abolition of some ot our almShouses.
 To our way of thinking, though, the commission could perform real service to the state by submitting the names of the present almshouses that come under the category of outmoded and decreplt institutions. No fault has been found with the management of the various almshouses examined and studied by the commission, but conditions remain un- satisfactory in them despite such atten- ton on the part of officials and faithful discharge of duties
 The three recommendations of the commission will, in Dr. Chakerian's esti- nation, result in a material decrease in the number of almshOuses now existing and will also act as check on the estab- liShment of new ones. Inasmuch as adoption of the commissions plans will do away with inferior types of aims houses, it would seem as if the General Assembly would be serving the state by moving towards it's adoption when pre- sented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Let's Remember

From all indications, this is one of the busiest holiday seasons in years Every body by now has been reminded that it is more or less of public duty to shop early and. undoubtedly, has been eagerly scan- ring lists of Christmas gift suggestions. In this regard, maybe it would not be amiss to suggest that we do not overlook public and private individuals who have contributed so generously to the gaiety Of the nation, during this eventful year.
 It would be sad, indeed, if Christmas setting sun would find no good deed done, or gifts provided, for these celebrities. Such a lack of public appreciation could not be due to difficulty in choosing proper gifts, since no task could be simpler.
 For Adolf Hitler, for instance, there must have been considerable wear and tear involved in ripping up the Versailles Treaty. So what could be more suitable for him than new, be-ribboned treaty, already perforated?
 For James J. Farley peer of post masters and pastmasters at prophecy, nothing seems more apt than turban, robes, and crystal ball, though it is doubted if he would need the last-named item.
 There is no need to remember the Duke O1 IOTk UT MIO. OuiJoOll. E1C1 HOO already received splendid gift, one get ting a kingdom, the other an ex-king.
 For both CLOS John Lewis and A. F. of L.'s William Green, nothing seems more appropriate than pair of heavy duty boxing gloves.
 A can of tale would seem the service able thing to present to the Literary Di- gest, the face of which, at last accounts, was very red.
 To the Liberty League and Halle Se- lassie might be sent the very latest in wailing walls.
 Among the choicest of Christmas gifts are certain books. Of the best sellers, Gone With the Wind" seems suitable for politicians of the late campaign, and Hive Alone and Like It." for the Ameri- can envoys forbidden to wed foreigners.
 These are just few suggestions that come to mind, and there are others un- doubtedly far more appropriate. But it would seem base, indeed, if we were to let the season of cheer and good will pass away without remembering those who. during the past year, helped keep our minds off lifes stark realities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

Waterville's petition for skating rink is one that should merit consideration from the proper authorities. Several years ago we took up the cudgels in behalf of the residents of that section of the city in an effort to secure some assistance in creating a skating pond there. As we recall it an effort was made to provide skating facilities in Hancock brook but brook at best is rather hazardous and unsatisfactory spot in which to allow children and grownups to skate. It IS barely possible that there is section of the baseball diamond, probably the outfield, which could be flooded and might make a worthwhile skating rink. There are large number of children and young people in this end of the city. And municipal skating rink up there would draw from many neighboring sections. such as Bucks Hill, upper Watertown avenue, Overlook, etc. It's worth more than just talking about, we think.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Isn't That Just Too Bad?

Eleven nations, all of them European, had expressed, or expected to, on their inability to meet war debt payments to it's record immaculate by an early notifi- cation to the State Department that it's debt installment would be met. We pre- sume the eleven defaulting nations regard their actions as justifiable. Were the tables turned we wonder what would be the reaction in Europe.
 Too much publicity can't be given this act of default on the part of the eleven nations. An organization ought to be formed in the United States for just this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Wage Improvement

Cheerful news comes from the steel industry, which used to be regarded as backward, with long hours and low wages. Current payrolls are now $1,000,O00 a month above the 1929 average, and they go to 531, ,O00 employees, 15 per cent more than the industry had in 1929. Hourly wages averaging 66.3 cents were raised to 73 cents on November 16.
 The example should have wholesome effect on some other industries which have not yet caught the new spirit. It isn't merely matter of generosity, either. Hard-headed business men are now agree ing with the economists, that liberal wages are the biggest factor in creating and sustaining prosperity. Good wages make good business as surely as rain makes rivers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

Closing of the Gaffney School due to the lack of pupils at the institution probably recalled the fact to many Wa terburians that there was such a school It was named for the late John Gaffney and was one of several school buildings erected about the same time - 1924. It was beyond Lakewood and stood on the east side of the road that connects upper North Main with the new Wolcott Road. Such actions as these show quite clearly how population shifts from one section of city to another. Twelve years ago this looked like growing section. School figures today prove it isn't It's the way it goes in an industrial town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

almost forgotten islands alon, the British trade route until they are now miniature Gibraltars.
 These, plus airpIanes and sub- marines, which Italy can send out overnight from her own shores, make the lifeline of the Empire to Australia and India
 untenable in case oR war.
 THE BALEARIC ISLANDS IN THE HANDS OF ITALY WOULD ERASE ALL DOUBTS IN THE MATTER.
 That Is why the lords of the British Admiralty have dysted off their charts of the much longer route via Cape Town and are preparing bases on the tip end of Africa in case of emergency.
 Merry. Co., Round
 washington.-In spite of the Presidents assurances to the Ar gentines, 1t will take 6 lot of pres- sure to get Senate ratification of the Argentine Sanitary Conver- ton. U. 8. meat producers here are up in arms against the treaty. Opponents of the Florida Ship Canal charge wide discrep- ancies in cost estimates. Yet latest army engineers estimate is $l62,- OO0,00O, compared with the first formal estimate, made by engineer Henry H. Buckman four years ago, of $160, 0,000, 900. Mich igan's rookie, Senator Prentiss Brown was a Detroit newsboy at age 10, later . bell-hop in 8 hotel on Mackinac Island. Geor- gia's Senator Walter George is president of the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters George. A Co., lumbia Broadcasting ofacial. conn- menting on radio in the carn- paign, states: Senator vanden- berg's pseudo debate with MT. Roosevelts voice on the phono- graph did the Republicans no good, yet 1t cost them plenty" Friends of Brazil's ambassa- dor to U. S.. Oswaldo Aranha, forecast that he will be Brazips next President. Now in Buenos Aires, Aranha will return to Washington in time for the inau- guration of President Roosevelt.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

make the state and nation safe for the deserving - on merit alone. Having held offices, or are still holding offices, which they obtained through political contacts, they want others to be kept in the bread line. They are not concerned about the state or the federal gov- ernment. They have had "theirs". They have held jobs which paid mighty fine salaries for little effort. They would have more, that is some of them, if the republicans were in the drivers seat. As for some of the democrats interested in camou- flaging the movement they already have their hands out for bigger and better jobs. They intend to get them not on merit, which is only idealistic, but through politics, which is more practical to them.
 Why didn't MT. Taxpayer go just a little further in venturing his opinion. How many lucrative jobs, alias jobs with big, fat salaries, are going to be created for some of the boys on the ground floor. They are asking Waterburians to sign up and contribute. They have the same dis ease of the old political parties get the money, first boys! In the recent elections some of the promo ters of the association sent letters to candidates of both parties de- manding to know whether or not they would support merit" legis- 1ation.
 In words, if not in actual demon- stration. they conveyed the impress sion you must support our move ment or else :" No movement with any merit to its principles or objectives needs to intimidate or coerce support or recognition. Let some of the leaders practice what they are trying to teach and they will find more persons willing to lend an ear or two to whatever arguments they have for reform, a 100 per cent reform, that would af- feet and include everyone. There IS to be no exemption or special favors for the "disgruntled republicans and the grab-all democrats.
 R. F.J.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
|PressConnlent
The eco
(Hartford Courant)

(darC1OrQ COuranC)
 The annual report of MT. Robert Fechner, the director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, is brief, factual and persuasive. As compared with other agencies set up during the emergency, the eco has cost little. approximately 492,000, 900, of which $154 900 900 was paid out in the form of allowances to enrollees, who sent $l23,000, 900 home to dependent rela- tives who might otherwise have been a charge on public relief.
 Yet the primary benefits of the eco have not gone to the boys who enrolled or their relatives or the communities from which they were drawn. The primary benefits have gone directly to the nation. which has gained, first, in the salvation from idleness of hundreds of thou sands of boys for whom no private jobs could be found, second, in the conservation of thousands of acres of land that otherwise might have deteriorated as rapidly as the young men themselves. The people of Con- necticut are well acquainted with work done by the eco in the for- ests If the state. reducing the haz- ards of fire, cleaning out brush. draining marshes and building ponds and cutting trails so that the woods can be made more readily available to the people who want to enjoy them. Tn the Middle West they have done valuable work in checking erosion, in erecting small dams to halt the run-off and in other activities designed to main- tain the fertility of the soil.
 Each sectior.. indeed. can point to the achievement of the COG, and each can bear testimony to the fact that, in addition to saving natural resources, the eco has also saved hum .nresources. Mir. Fechner re- ports that employers are favorably inclined to boys who have served In the corps, realizing that they have there learned the clements of discipline, industry and cooperation The eco has escaped the dangers, both of FeGimentatio nand of laxlty,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
A Book a Day
Tale of Irish Life
 Has Charm, Magic
By BRUCE CATION

"The White Hare," by Francis Stuart Macmillan, $2.50), is 8 slow moving, beautifully written novel of Irish life, remarkable for its inten- sity of feeling and consciousness of the richness of simplicity in life.
 The story involves Patrick and Dominic de Lacey, and Hylla Canavan, whom both boys love. The two boys live in a large, ram- shackle house six miles from the west coast of Ireland, supported by a small allowance from their father who is journalist in Paris, and watched over by Annie, a faithful family servant.
 It is a strange life and 8 happy one, but 1t does not meet with the approval of their aunt, Miss Longworth. She tries to send Dominic, who is II. off to school, and Patrick, who is in his early POS, to a job in 8 Dublin indus trial plant. This calamity is averted when Hylla arrives to tutor Dominic. x1ylid nlhAlACo 1dLiCh dltSE q long struggle against the conven- tions, but 1t is Dominic, the younger brother, to whom she is most akin. In moth Hylla and Dominic is a passionate heroism, a remoteness, a brave despair, which Patrick, beloved as he Is by the pair, cannot share. It is Dominic, wild and dramatic, who brings to the story its tenseness. There is a glamous about the De Laceys which holds the reader from beginning to end. There is comedy and pathos in their im- practicality, their blissful uncon- sciousness of the conventions their relatoins with each other and with the outside world.
 They feel harmony only in the contradictions and the strange nesses of modern life. These give the novel its charm and magis.-- E. M. T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
SUPPORT OR ELSE" MEAN ING CONVEYED TO ONE
 INDIVIDUAL

Dec. IS, 1936. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 A recent contributor, who so modestly signed his name as "Tax- payer", paid his compliments, as he believed, to the so-called Con- necticut Merit Association now "propagandizing" the state for needed reforms.
 MT. Taxpayer conveyed to me the impression that he would like to be considered worldly wise in his opin- ion of the Pro-Merit boys. As a matter of fact the gentleman or lady, who penned the article, showed in his or her writings only super ficial knowledge of the new outfit. He is right when he says that few disgruntled republicans and some grab-all democrats now want to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "I can't hardly hear | you"; say, "csn hardly"

A. Harry B. Mitchell is a demo crat.
 @. Who wrote the noveLtitled "MS Little Sister," and when was 1t pub lished?
 A. It was written by Elizabeth Robins, and published in 1913.
 Q. What was the total number of men and women enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States in 1884, and how many graduated that year from these institutional How many are enrolled for the pres- ent school year?
 A. Six hundred and fifteen thous- and, seven hundred and twenty men and 439,640 women were enrolled in 1884; estimated enrolment of both sexes for this college year is l,l79.- 900. The total number graduating was 136,156, including 82,34l men and 53,8j5 women.
 e. Is Edward Alexander McDow- ell. the song writer, living? A. No.
 If you want . copy of our book let on "The Book of Games" write The Waterbury Democrats Wash Ington Bureau 1912 Thirteenth St., Northwest, Washington. D. c. Enclose cents i'm postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Selected Poem
THE ROOM AT THE HEAD OF THE STAIR LRY Stillnan ClolRh Davis Cnntoocook N H

THE ROOM AT THE HEAD OF THE STAIR ,y Stillman Clough Davis, Contoocook N. H
 in the Boston PosU There's an old spool bed, rocking chair, A hand-wrought latch in the door There arc wavy paneS In the window sash; But love it More and more, For halcyon hours of the long ago In fancy attend me there In that little haven Above the we'll The room At the head of the stair When the storms of winter dim the view And castles grow bleak and gray, I long for the lull Of the waterfall And the llacs' Breath in May. There's happiness waiting me, sweet repose And respite from strife and care In that little haven Mid hallowed walls The room At the head of the stair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Answers To.
 Questions i.
Bs Frederick M. Kesby


 c. Where does the hair sold in wigs and switches in beauty parlorS and department stores come from?
 A. The greater part IS imported through French dealers. For many years the peasant girls of southern France, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands gave many of their locks and tresses for making sWitch- es and curls. The shorter hair of- fered for sale is more commonly picked out from women's combings that have been saved and combed out.
 e. Who is President of the U. s. Civil Service Commission and what Is his politics?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
T ct Y Q q 2 Knowledge
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.

"-@S
 1. To which country do the is- lands of Sardinia and Sicily belong? 2. Name the great artery which. on each side of the neck. distributes blood to the different parts of the head.
 3. Where is Columbia University? 1. Where Is the source of the Nile River?
 5. Tn Egyptian mythology. who was the sister and wife of Osiris? 6. What Is isinglass2
 2. What does ad valorem mean3 9. Who was Max Reger?
 Q. In meteorology. what Is the name for lines that connect places having the same temperature. for . dAy month. or for any given the tervai of timer
 10. In which state k the sci0to Rivcr7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
IN TODAY'S MAIL

This responsible opinions from its readers Anonymous communications the writer's and address will Dc accepted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

Yes, that mechanical cotton picker will save a lot of work in world where people want lot of work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
A Thought for Today

But Jesus perceived their wickednesS, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?-St Matthew 22:18
 No degree of temptation justifies any degree of Stn.-N. P. Willis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

It may be true that peace weakens men, but war abolishes 'em.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets 8;l8 p. m. Sun rises 7:li a. m.: sets 4:26 D. m. All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

and 1t has not fallen Into the hands of spoilsmen. The recommendation of Mir. Fechner that it be continued until the laat need for it had disap peared is likely to be heartily en- dorsed by public opinion the nation over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

ROME, December IT, For long time Cordell Hull in his trade treaties among the major countries of Europe But now, suddenly, they are being taken seriously though not for reasons MT. Hull might entirely
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17

Not in a great many months has Wa terbury experienced three-day rain like that of last week. We may have had more rain fall in shorter period, but there have only been few three-day downpours to compare with the prelude to winter of last week. We presume it was just taste of what we may expect. A month from now we'll probably be la- boring through snowdrifts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-17
Daily NN~~,.r,- .Rn,1rnr1 Washington ..sSs z - - sss1@ Italy Offers U. s. Free Goods
 For Cancelled War Debts
sV DREW PEARSON and ROBERT < d

EDTTORs NOTE: PcarsOn 6 now in EurODe doing foreign capitals Robert S. Allen covering Washington for the eOumn.)
The Washington times., 1936-04-17

ALLOW Is minutes to the pound.
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