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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
ITALIAN 6. 0. P.
 ] MEET TONIGHT
Series of Sports, SOcials Plan as Prelude to Open-
 ing of Fall Campaign

On Friday evening, April 24th, members of the Italian Republican club of this city, will conduct the first in a series of popular social and sports events to stimulate interest in the general activities of the club. A committee headed by Augustini Agnostino is at present preparing a program of wrestling matches that will bring together several of Wa terbury's leading mat artists. Other entertainment features and refresh ments will be provided. The event will be staged in Liberty hall.
 Harry Shackley, referee and matachmaker, will offlciate at the following matches: Little Wolf" Marucci and Albert Dutra; Harry Penerweski, former Wilby football ace and Polish champion of Con- necticut, will meet Chet Perry, an- other Wilby football player; Frank Bull" Rosa is matched with "Dyna- mite Gus; Bill Kusaila and Andy Hudebunko will engage in 8 ten minute exhibition of the popular sport; Francis Mulcahy, who com- pleted his wrestling course in the CCC camps of Oregon, will tackle Anthony Litze, Lithuanian welter- weight champ of the Y. M. c. A.; STiger" Navarro will meet George Kurtz, while Pat Delange and Mickey Teller will grapple in an eight minute setto.
 President Peter DeCicco has called a special meeting of the club for this evening in Liberty hall. Com plete arrangements will be made for the coming event and others in the near future. Reports are expected from the various committees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
INJURED IN FALL

Mrs. E. E. Hayward, 79, of 42 Holmes avenue, was injured in a fall last night as she was coming down the steps of The Elton where she had been attending the 10th annual state convention of the Rebekahs. Mrs. Hayward was taken to Waterbury hospital where she was found to have sustained an in- Iured right wrist and an injured hip. X-rays will be taken today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
Fl. N. GROUP PLANS
 BENEFIT SMOKER

There will be special meeting of the SIS. Peter and Paul Holy Name society Friday evening at 6 o'clock in the basement Of the school. Plans will be discussed for the coming smoker for the benefit of the school baseball team and also for the opening of the softball league.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
Deadly Tarantula Prize" Prisoner

If Maurice Etergino, 62 Brad ley avenue, had not already at tained his full growth he would have been scared out of at least a year of it this morning when he went to work at the Carlin Fruit company warehouse on Canal street. For the first thing that met Matrices startled gaze was a good sized and lively tar antula, whose bite is p0pularly supposed to cause death within several minutes. Like the cau- ti0us youth he is, Maurice called his boss, Francis Carlin, who captured the big insect with the aid of a piece of paper, and inn prisOned it in a small milk bot tie. Maurice displayed his new found pet at the Democrat of- flee this morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
SHOE DATED 1885

Watertown, Wis. UP1-Ncils Nielsen, Watertown shoe repair man, has a shoe made more than 100 years ago. ft was found on farm near here. The date 1885 Is in- ecrlbed on it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15

Cincinnati, O-Cincinnati proper was not affected seriously but its Ohio and Kentucky suburbs will spend thousands in rebuilding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
OHIO RIVER TOWNS RISE ANEW; FLOOD REHABILITATION MERGED
 WITH WATER CONTROL PROJECTS
Entire Valley Teens With Activity While Rebuilding Stimulates Trade and Gives Jobs to Idle Thousands
Copyright, lsss, by United Pressl

Huntington w va April IS Upl The productive Ohio River miles of fertile wheat and tobacco lands into the corn country y
 
 devastating flood that Pittsburgh measured in hundreds of mill
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A Significant Sentence.
The typist, though comely and graceful
in looks,
Like a prophecies sat at her sibylline
books.
Her air was distrait as she hammered
Her skill on the brand-new machine to
display,
The thought was sublime,
As lightly it ran
From the digits of Hortense McCafty:
Now is the time
For every good man
To come to the aid of his party.
And many statesman has fixedly gazed
On that sentence with sentiments sorely
amazed.
Its meaning is clear, though a trif1e
severe,
And finds application right here and this
year.
His hopes as they climb
He pauses to scan
The fray will be ruthless and hearty.
Now Is the time
For every good man
To come to the aid of his party.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Medicine Men.

From Monte Ne, Arkansas, comes word
Of the passing of william Hope Harvey,
who more than forty years ago essayed
the role of medicine man in the
drama Of American economics. Under
the pseudonym of "Coin" he flooded the
country with booklet entitled COINS
Financial School" in advocacy of BIZ
metalism, preceding the nomination of
William Jennings Bryan by two years.
That and other books ran to numerous
editions and were for a time "best SELL
ers." More than twenty years before
that Henry George had propounded his
single tax theory with q publication
entitled Our Land and Land Policy"
followed few years afterward by
Progress and Poverty" which exerted
large influence upon the economic
thought Of the American people. Each
man had his own specific for the cure
Of the Nations Ills.
In the same year that Coins work
appeared William 8. Coxey undertook
his march on Washington, accompanied
by an "arny" Of q few score Of jobless
people. to demand the enactment Of laws
radically amending the economic poll
cies. He, too. was q medicine man."
In that he proposed remedy. Since
then others have come along. scores Of
Evening star., 1936-02-12

Unless 1t flies away to the forests,
there Is nothing for miles to the south
any different than conditions it finds
here In the garden.
I There are the same trees, the same
sort Of shrubs, the same fences and
hedges.
Only in the forests can it find condi-
tions very much different.
Yet every evening, as dusk comes on,
1t flies away to the south.
1t Is when the number is reduced to
about dozen, probably about $40 p.m.,
that the essential theatrical aspects of
this familiar departure become manifest.
Then 1t becomes question Of:
Which bird will leave next and why?
There are eight sparrows, two male
cardinals, two female cardinals.
Usually the cardinals outstay all other
varieties, but sometimes it is one little
English sparrow which fingers longest.
Then 1t hops beneath feeder, appar-
emily needless of the fact that all of
its comrades have departed.
We are slightly ahead of our story,
however.
Twelve birds are in the yard.
Suddenly one takes of, flying low be-
tween the houses.
Then another, in a few seconds, and
shortly another.
That leaves nine birds.
Unless a very close watch is kept, the
remainder will fly away without being
noticed.
If the watcher is careful he sees the
flight of each and notes 1t always Is in
the same direction.
Nine birds beneath the feeders; soon
there are six
Six birds-four cardinals and two
sparrows.
A sparrow flies away, to the south,
and not more than feet of the ground.
The minutes pass, it is now $50 O'Clock.
Few birds stay longer at this season,
but still five birds are beneath the
feeder.
A patch of snow feet square has
been sunk about inches by birds feet
and bills all day long.
1t is not packed down exactly. but it
is visibly depressed.
Two cardinals leave, not together, but
one after the other.
This leaves a pair of redbirds and one
sparrow.
Which will be the last bird at the
feeder this evening?
Five minutes pass and the male car
dinal departs.
A minute-away flies its mate
One little sparrow is dark, bobbing
shadow on the white.
One wonders why he stays, or why,
suddenly, he departs.
Yes, to the south. and between the
houses.
They all fly the same way, making
the god behind the window believe they
must nest together, united in the bond
of good grub and the common knowl-
edge of where it is to be found and who
puts it out, he hopes.
Evening star., 1936-02-12

them, in fact, all prescribing their par
ticular potions.
The economic breakdown Of 1929
evoked a veritable revival Of economic
empiricism reminiscent of the days of
George, Harvey and Coxey. Quite re-
Gently Upton Sinclair, with his EPIC
plan; DR.. Townsend, with his old-age
pension proposal, and the late Huey
Long, With his share the wealth" slo-
gan-latterly echoed by Governor Tai
madge Of Georgia-have been adding to
the literature of American economic
experiments.
This, in fact, is perennial phenom-
enon. Whenever the country is in low
state of financial health the medicine
men come forward with nostrums. And
they will always do so. And they will
always have q hearing and a following.
If history repeats itself, these specifics,
however eloquently and persistently pro-
claimed, will be rejected in the future
as they have been in the past.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

stitution, in 1887, would be an appropri-
ate occasion for the christening That
valiant defender of the Constitution,
Senator Borah, was immortalized several
years ago by having the tallest noun
tain in Idaho, 1865 feet, named Borah
Peak.
Arrival of Mrs. Rose Mcconnell Long
of Louisiana in the Senate as the second
woman member of that body comedies
with a boom in woman candidates for
Congress. Two of them, both Repub-
Icans, have just thrown their bonnets
into the ring In New York. Miss Natalie
Couch, unsuccessful candidate for Rep
resentative at Large against Mrs. Caro-
line ODay. Democrat. in 1884, will seek
nomination in the twenty fifth congress
sional district, embracing Rockland and
WestcheSter Counties, Republican
stronghold. if Incumbent Representa-
tive Charles D. Millard does not aspire
to reelection. In the seventeenth metro
politan New York district, now repre-
sented by Representative Theodore A.
Peyser, Democrat, Miss Melinda Alex
ander, writer, lecturer and executive
director of the Alexander Forum
Foundation, has formally announced
her candidacy. She will campaign for
"untiinching support Of the Constitu-
tion," tax reduction. public debt retire
ment and aggressive war on crime.
Describing herself as "a political progress
sive," Miss Alexander was active in the
Bull Moose movement and stumped for
La Toilette in 1924. In 1927 she visited
Russia with party that included DR..
Rex Tugwen and others and came home
completely disillusioned as to the merits
of the Soviet system.
~
Politicians expect that John Hamilton,
general counsel of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, will soon retire from
that post to direct the preconvention
fortunes of Governor Landon. Young,
red-headed and forceful, a Topeka law
yer and longtime friend of Kansas
favorite son, Hamilton'S contacts with
G. o. p. leaders throughout the country
would be of immense value to the Gov
ernors cause. A Landon nomination
would almost certainly lead to Hamil-
tons selection as Republican national
chairman. the post for which he was
conspicuously mentioned prior to Henry
P. Fletcher's accession.
X X X
Germany's drive for restoration of her
war-lost colonies causes speculation In
diplomatic Washington as to whether
the Nazi hunger for overseas domain
may not some day revive the Reichs
old-time longings for a foothold in South
America. In Kaiser days there was an
intensive campaign to establish German
colonies" In Brazil 1t was in Teddy
Roosevelt's time that plan to send
German naval squadron on a debt-col-
lecting visit to Venezuela was countered
by a threat to have Admiral Dewey and
a United States fleet act as the reception
committee at La Guayra.
Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-02-12

God gives us to see the right, let us
bind up the Nations wounds; to care
for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow and his orphan-to
do all which may achieve and cherish
a Just and lasting peace among our
selves and with all nations"
No man or woman living today could
have for guidance q nobler doctrine than
that. The text should be deep-graven
in the memory, burned into the con-
sciousness of every American who wishes
to deserve the privilege of citizenship.
It's meaning is identic with the one
commandment of Christ: "That ye love
one another" It is imperatively ele-
mental; and, lacking it for foundation.
all the hopes and dreams of richer and
freer civilization are vain. Cynics may
mock, sophists sneer, but the fact cam
not be changed: This Nation, "con-
ceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created
equal" cannot endure and prosper unless
it be by grace of the development of a
spiritual democracy commensurate with
its compelling need.
The rail splitter of Illinois, like the
Carpenter of Galilee, points the way,
and the people, to the degree of their
willingness to accept 1t and faithfully
to abide by it, will accomplish progress
toward the peace of final and all-in-
elusive brotherhood.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Easy to Find Scapegoat
For the Sins of Rulers

To the Editor of The Star:
Your statesmanlike editorial of last
Friday on the Nazi assassination finds
responsive echo. No sober man can ap-
prove murder as solution to persecution
save in the direSt circumstances, for
shedding of blood not alone often defeats
its purpose, but visits suffering upon
many who are innocent.
In world sore beset, where our every
energy is needed and should be used to
solve our economic problems, and where
the cry in the inmost heart of man is for
peace, yet there Is no peace. And this is
particularly true In countries whose
spiritual progress is marked by that sym
Dol which stands for the Prince Of Peace,
the same who said to the angry waters
of prejudice and unneighborliness, peace
be still" and whose very advent was ac-
companied with song Of peace and good
will.
Easy indeed is it in times of stress to
find q scapegoat for our sins, but unless
we are to lose faith in the eternal verities
we must believe that until this canker of
persecution and prejudice is extirpated
there can and win be no peace and no
true civilization. HERMAN FELTER.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES &. TRAcEWELL

Where the wild birds sleep is Just as
much O mystery as ever to this observer,
after nearly three months spent feeding
hundreds Of them.
Every evening they fly away, one by
one, In a departure which becomes
dramatic the more one studies it.
Surely 1t is the beginning of migra-
ton, stopping far short of that, cer-
tainly, but on the way.
One by one the birds depart as twi-
light comes on.
This is essentially dramatic, If one
has watched closely enough to see actu-
ally how the birds do it.
Our belief is that only one bird leaves
at a time, no matter how many score
there may be in the garden at the peak
of feeding time.
About 4 pm, this month, is the high
spot of the day.
At that hour there are as many birds,
perhaps, as can be counted at any one
time.
At our three feeders there certainly
must be 300. birds, although the difficult
ties of counting them are large.
A watcher may be sure that there are
a great many more than a casual OBJ
server would estimate.
There is little danger of overestimat-
ing in this game.
All the birds that leave, regardless of
species, go in the same direction and
along the same route.
They fly south and between our house
and the one to the west, invariably
We say "they," but it is really he or
she, for each bird takes this course alone.
When there are several hundred in the
yard, the departures are not noticed,
unless one is looking for them spe-
cifically.
AS twilight advances, however, and
just few score are left, each departing
bird is easily picked out from the rest.
1t is only after this one-by-one de-
parture has been noticed that the dra-
matte quality of this homing stands out.
Perhaps there are many more worth
while dramas in this life which, because
of poor observation, or lack of steady
watching, fail to register on the human
consciousness.
It may be that the commonplace is
not always that, after all, but only the
average persons indifference and failure
to realize the interest and beauty which
might be found.
1t is so with showfiakes and everybody
realizes it, but very few, indeed, stop
to search out the loveliness of the
crystals.
Snow, instead Of being an unmitigated
nuisance. solely, is in reality an aggre-
cation of wonderful geometrical figures,
patterns which always have existed,
seemingly, but which now are being used
in many of mankind's designs.
y
Each little bird In the garden becomes
an actor in play which might well be
called Homecoming.
Its home is unknown.
Probably that is true of mankind, too.
Where the bird sleeps we do not know
and wonder if any one does.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Pegasus.

They said that Pegasus had wings
And flew above all earthly things.
His nostrils breathed celestial fire,
His pace was timed unto the Tyre.
And so full oft in mortal pride
Some youth the steed will seek to ride,
With ne'er thought of meat and drink
So long as he has pens and ink.
But Pegasus too oft appears
With shortened wings and lengthening
ears;
He does not travel through the sky,
But treads the roughest roads nearby;
And ere he'll bulge, the truth to tell.
Full oft he must be beaten well.
And Pegasus seems, as a rule,
To be a patient, plodding mule.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Member of the Associated Press.
The Little Red Rider.

CndlTIIldQ NOTGO1 VI IIlc 11OuoC DAo-
trict Committee promises to bring
bill to the floor of the House repeating
the little red rider. thus giving members
of the House who are fairly bursting
with opinions-asinine, bovine, leonine or
otherwise-on this important subject an
opportunity to deflate. That is good
plan, for if the Congress of the United
States wants to put statutory restric-
tions on teaching or advocating Com
munism, Hitlerism, Fascism, Townsend
ism, Darwinism, free-silverism or other
tSmS in the public schools Of the Dis
trict, the proper method is through
separate legislation, not through little
red riders or riders of any other color on
appropriation bills.
This little red rider is important, of
course, in it's way. The subject matter
is the stuff of which oratory is made.
But the parents Of children attending
Washingtons congested schools this
Winter are probably wondering why
members of Congress are showing so
much concern over the little red rider
when there are so many vastly more
important subjects awaiting their con-
sideration.
The superintendent of schools and
the Board of Education, for instance,
find that the system is undermanned
at present by about 500 teachers. A
Shortooo of toonLjnr
f1ected in diversified classes, inadequate
instruction, lowered standard of edu-
cation. The school authorities requested
240 additional teachers in the current
estimates and the Bureau Of the Budget
allowed fifty-five.
The same authorities have shown
that the District schools, especially the
senior high schools, where the majority
of pupils will receive their final formal
education, are disgracefully overcrowded
now and that the normal increases in
enrolment in the next few years will
make this condition more serious than
ever before. Yet practically nothing is
being done now to make up for the
shortage of facilities in the face Of the
realization that it requires years to build
schools in Washington even after the
initial authorization for acquiring sites
and preparing plans.
At the meeting of citizens with the
Board of Education on Monday evening
spokesmen for organizations of parents
described the deplorable conditions re-
sulting from large, unwieldy classes;
inadequate facilities and the age and
deterioration of buildings that have out
lived their usefulness. Speaker after
speaker urged buildings and equipment
that would do no more than meet nor
NAL needs.
The parents undoubtedly feel that
while it is important to save the schools
from the clutching menace of Red Rus
sia the more Immediately pressing task
is to save them from the insidious infiu-
ences Of neglect and decay. The parents
probably feel that they can take care
of Russia, but Congress, with the exclu-
sive control over local taxes and appro-
priations, must take care of the schools.
And that is not being properly done.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
A Naval Holiday.

Despite JapanS oefectlon, the Lon
don Naval Conference continues to make
progress. The ratio system of tonnage
limitation has gone by the boards, hav-
ing been wrecked by japanese insistence
upon parity with the British and Amer
ican fleets, but limitation in other ma
terial directions has been found possible.
Great Britain, the United States, France
and Italy have demonstrated that by
invoking good will, the give-and-take
principle and the spirit Of compromise
practical results are attainable. Though
incomplete, they are substantial and al
together satisfactory.
Two understandings have been arrived
at. The first provides for an annual
exchange of information concerning
building programs among the contract
ing powers, with view to avoiding sur
prises and spurts in construction by
any one of them. The most important
other undertaking establishes a FIVE
year holiday in heavy cruiser building.
bSIWc6I llOW dIlO 1871 I1lC 4OuA SOul1tA lCo
bind themselves not to lay down any
more cruisers of over 5000 tons or
mounting heavier than 61-inch guns.
In asserting to this plan. the United
States recedes from the position it has
consistently maintained since the Wash
ington Conference. whereby 10,0O0-ton
cruisers with 8-inch guns were de-
manded as Americas irreducible mini
mum. There is to be no scrapping Of
the 10,000-ton ships now in commission
in our own and other fleets. Indeed,
these may be replaced, under the agree
ment, as soon as they become over age.
New cruisers for the ensuing five years
will be limited to 8,000-tonners with
6.1-inch guns. There Is no restriction
upon the number that may be built
except that which is imposed by the
budgets of the respective powers.
Britain plans to construct at least
twenty new cruisers. Presumably the
United States, in consonance with its
policy of parity with the British, will
build accordingly. This becomes the
more imperative if full treaty fleet"
Is to be commissioned by 1912, now that
the big cruisers are out.
Other agreed limitations will trim
the size of aircraft carriers to $4,000 tons,
mounting 61-inch guns instead of the
previous treaty limit of $1,000 tons and
8-inch guns. The maximum size of
submarines is to be 1000 tons, with ST.
inch guns, instead of 1890 tons and
8-inch guns. There will be further
limitation of third class of auxiliary
craft of 5000 tons, with 6.1-inch guns.
One of the conspicuous failures Of the
four-power conference thus far is to
arrive at limitation for capital ship
tonnage. The United States has held
out for vessels of $4,000 tons, contend
ing that this country, lacking naval
bases remote from its own waters, re-
quires powerful craft of long cruising
radius. Evidently because of American
acceptance of the big-cruiser building
holiday, Britain was persuaded to aban-
don her previous opposition to $4,000
ton battleships. But France, backed by
Italy, is demanding 27,00O-ton limit.
There is now under discussion a COM
promise to stabilize the maximum at
10000, after each power represented at
London or to be included later-by
which Germany and Japan are meant
has laid down two 35,000-ton battle
ships.