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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

prior to his death, we pulled our punches on George Dern.
 And we are glad we did. Politics
 Occasionally one of our many newspaper bosses gets the idea that we are too hard on one po- litical party or the other. We have had squawks from both sides, and some cancellations of the column.
 Those of our readers who think we are pro-Roosevelt might be amused to know what Mir. Roose- welt thinks of us. This may be bragging 8 bit, but we think we are about the only newspapermen to whom he has devoted a good part of a cabinet session--in cuss- ing us out.
 Twice during private meetings with the American Newspaper Editors Association he has bawled out some of our colleagues. But this doesn't put them in a class with us. You have to be. bawled out in Cabinet meetings to be tops.
 Roosevelt
 However, we don't hold this against Mir. Roosevelt. Probably if we were in the White House we would do a lot worse. To have 8 bunch of newspaper columnists writing up everything you do every day, both public and pri- vate, and even interpreting your innermost thoughts, must be tough. ,,
 Some day, before elections, when we resume writing this column-we are going to try to summarize the character and achievements of MT. Roosevelt. And we are going to try to do the same for MT. Landon.
 Undoubtedly this will send 8 lot of dead cats in our direction from both sides, but as long as they keep comng from both sides, we're probably safe.
 Either Senator Borah or Mayor LaGuardia is going to carry on this column tomorrow while we go out to Coney Island.
 Sincerely,
 DREW PEARSON
 ROBERT s. ALLEN WASHINGTON, D. c.
 Copyright, 1886. by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Horoscope

SEPT. IS. Those most likely to be affected by today's vibrations are those born from october B through Novem- Der 22.
 General Indications for All
 Morning--Active. Afternoon Bad.
 Evening Bad.
 The early part of the day is good for active work or imagina- : tive things. ".
 TOday's Birthdate You should have the power to fascinate those who are favored with your company.
 Be careful to guard your health in March, 1887.
 Beware of extrayaga1ce in No vember, 1886.
 Advance yourself or expand your activiteis in the departments of children romance, pleasure or speculation during April 1887. You have c better chance to become stlc- cessful than is usual. Danger November ? through s10, 1886.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

We wouldn't be surprised to see Cover nor Louis J. Brann of Maine go into President Roosevelt's cabinet now that the election "down east" is over and the popular and likeable governor has gone down to defeat. Of course there is a chance that democrats will press the ir- vestigation into the voting down in Maine, but then again that may not amount to so much. We are more inclined to think that perhaps Governor Brann could be persuaded to accept cabinet post, although he is not as much friend of the New Deal as many others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Selected Poem
SIGNATURE TO sUN1MEI

SIGNATURE TO SUMMER Frederick Ebright in the Christian Science Monitor) Southward blackbirds glsten in the stubbled field Pausing for brief respite from their flight; Swelling grapes take color from the suns calm light And apple branches bend beneath their yield Now the distant hills are filmed with azure haze, And gossamers float silkily upon quiet air: The corn Is shocked; and harvested, the plum, the
 pear; &5 MI The aster skyward lifts its tanguil gaze And if cicadas sing throughout the golden afternoon, The scent of evening comes on earlier now; The horse drinks deeply, unharnessed from the 4 blow: Beyond the river mist, ascends the orange harvest
 moon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

A. Gran and Ernest Ball, in 1912.
 e. What does the name Jacque- line mean?
 A. It is a French feminine form of the Hebrew Jacob and means a supplanter.
 c. Is Rex Ingram, who played the role of "De Lawd"4 in the mo- ton picture "The Green Pastures" 8 negro? Did negroes play the role in the original stage production?
 A. Rex Ingram is a negro. The role in the original stage produc- tions has always been played by negroes.
 If you want . copy of our book let FOOTBALL SCHEDULE AND FACT BULLETIN FOR 1886, write The Waterbury Democrats Wash ington Bureau, l0l2 Thirteenth St, Northwest, Washington, D. 0. En- close 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

rest.
 Occasionally one or the other of us have taken a trip to Maine or the Middle West or to Mrs. Roosevelt's pet homestead project in West Virginia. But never be- fore have we both quit work and Washington at one and the same time.
 Now, however, we are going to do that very thing. Despite drouth, floods and Harry Hopkins, the outpourings of Ali and F. D. R., and the fact that the inde- fatigable Mrs. Roosevelt still car- ries on "Her Day., we arc going to quit.
 We who are about to quit salute you! And hereby propose to write some deathbed confess Sions.
 Magic Formula
 We have had a lot of letters from people who want us to ul- fold the mystery of how we work, of how we dig up news, of how we manage to get under the table during Cabinet meetings.
 We'll, Houdini never revealed the secrets of his magic nor the supreme court the legerdermain by which it declares laws uncon- stitutional. So we have ample precedent in continuing what little illusion we have created with a blase public.
 We have to gather news while it's hot, and write it while it's hot. Sometimes it takes days, or even weeks to trail down story. Sometimes the story unfolds in an hour or in a minute. 4n
 Mistakes
 We confess that sometimes also we make mistakes. We made one very recently when we reported, :. with a tinge of admiration, that Governor Landon was refraining from kissing babies. But after we had gone to press, the governor, as if to spite us, kissed a baby.
 But that wasn't the worst of it. He also. posed for the photo graphers while kissing that baby,l and some papers carried the picture and our column side by side.
 Sometimes we have made much more serious mistakes though we believe not often. One mistake which we have deeply regretted did a great injustice to a fine southern gentleman, MT. Hugh MacRae of Wilmington, N. c. Pulling Punches
 Readers sometimes have asked us if we have ever pulled our punches in regard to any indivi- dual in public office. We plead guilty in one inStance-our stories, about the late George Dern, sec- retary of war.
 It came about through Eddie Bowling, a little Irishman who has a heart of gold and thinks everyone else should have one. Eddie sat beside Dern at 3 din- ner in New York one night and told us that tke secretary of war was agitated because we had taken him for some pretty fast whiris on the Merry-G Round.
 Mrs. Dern had told the secre- tary he ought to resign rather than permit such things to be said about him.
 We'll, Dern, we discovered was a sick man then. He had been a good governor of Utah, but Q civilian running the generals has c tougher time than Maine fisherman catching lobsters on deserts of Utah. So for two years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

Use of the old Hopeville school as d community clubhouse has been sanc- tioned. This action might be profitably followed in other sections of the town where schools have been abandoned. Some use for the buildings certainly can be found unless they are so old and so dan gerous that further use is prohibited. The Hopeville Community Club was the first to seek the chance to provide itself with nice quarters We're surprised others didn't follow suit. .s' ,3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

e. How many persons graduated from colleges and universities in the United States in 1884?
 A. 1s6,156.
 e. What is the address of Helen Keller?
 A. 71i1 112th street, Forest Hills, Long Island, New York.
 e. Who wrote, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18


 1. Is the U. s. a member of the League of Nations?
 3. What is a rneteorite? 3. Name the capital of the Ma deira Islands. 4. Can the President order the coinage of U. s. money?
 5. Name the discoverer of the North Pole.
 6. Who was Richard L.ovelace? T.. What animal produces the smallest offspring at birth in pro- portion to its size? 8. What is the official abbreva- ton for Pennsylvania? < 9, What is a chevron?
 10. Name the sacred mountain of Japan. 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

OOAAAHNAAtCo VA Connecticut by the delegates to the republic can state cone ventiola Master of Ceremonies, J. Henry Rora- back, tossed a bouquet into the lap of Gov. Cross and a life-sized scare into the g. o. p. peri formers. Disreg ardil1g the traditional
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Daily Morrv. Round
 Washington =. ====== =======z= MERRY-GO-ROUNDAUT INTRODUCE GUESTWRITERS
. BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN =

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN -
 EDITORS few Senator Borah Co Kennedy and others will as guest writing The Washington Merry Go Round Dear Editor: p
 For four long years we have been pouring daily column upon defenceless public 365 days in the year. including Sundays Christmas, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. And now about to take little
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 7:55 daylight time)..
 Sun rises 6:S5 a. m.; sets 6:S7 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min ! utes after sunset. High tide at Milford Saturday. Sept ls, ' 1:29 p. m: low tide 7:az q. n. daylight time). TN s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

Those, Philippians are so slow. to take in "a new idea that Mussolini himself may have to go there and explain to lem that they're licked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Rouauet

Bouquet
 Tn opening the benefit perform al1ce given in Hartford on Septem- Der 8th for the relief of the poverty stricken public utility
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

Those Olympic games were started some 2,50O years ago to promote peace among nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Test Your Knowledge

Y Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

ToDAY's COMMON ERROR Never say, staggering along pitifully, we stood and
 watched the drunkard;;" say
 We stood and watched the drunkard staggering along
 pitifully.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
A Thought for Today

And the fruit of righteousness Is sOwn in peace of them that make peace.-James 3:17. . = Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles es.-Emerson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

veto means nothing since 1t can be over-ridden by a majority vote of the legislators. Between Ses- sio1s of the Assembly conduct ct the state rests in the board Ct Finance and Control. With these facts understood the fallacy of MT. Roraback's statement about the responsibility for Connecticut's debt resting upon the democratic party becomes at once evident.
 AsS . s 3, eg The Reason
 Gov. Cross was elected in 1881, returned to of1ce in 1883, and re- elected in 1895. The party rep- resentation in those years was:
 Rep. Dem. Soc. 1881 (HOuse of
 Representatives) 1S2 SS es 1888 (House of
 Representatives) 19S 72 1885 (House of
 Representatives) 1s0s s 2 1881 (Senate) 20 IS 0 1883 (Senate) IT 18 O. 1885 (Senate) IS 17
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18
Chop Suey Vote

Gov. Brann's alllsion to China men brings up something which should worry the Democratic Ma tional Committee more than the result of the Maine election. The news has just been broken bJ William P. Lee Ono kin to the Lees of Virginia), of g Pell Street, New York City, that 30 percent of tho Chinese laundry men, chow mem shredders, and chop suey mixers are for Landon. MT. Lee $ the Number One Boy of the Chinese Eastern division of the Republican National Campaign Committee and he knows his bamboo shoots, fresh pork, and noodles like noe body,s business. The reason, the chop suey vote is going to Landon is because MT. Lee thinks pros- perity has not arrived for laundry keepers and restaurant wotkerS. we are worse of than we were under Hoover, MT. Lee coni1ded t0y the New York Herald Tribune. \ am willing to concede the Chinese voters to Ali and Frank if it VIII help the boys out any. But I cail- not agree that anyone, including the Sons of the Flowery Kinedora, China in Yale, and the members of the Chinese Shirt-tail FolisherS Union, Is worse of than he was under Hoover. If he was esWnui0 not be running . laundry Q res taurant, or a curio shop waitinl for customers. He W0uld bo yery
 very dead and glad Of it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

From the Beginning or GOV. Cross incumbency his party cofl- trolled the Senate by ONE vote in 1883. In 1881 and 1885 the repub- licans were in the saddle in that body due in the latter year to a deal with the Socialists. He nor his party have ever been in con- trol of the House.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

A. Graf and Ernest Ball, in
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
IT'S TRUE

There was church opposition to in
PRODUCTION of the potato into Scotland
because it wasn't mentioned in the
Bible.
Pigs can be trained for use in
hunting in place of dogs! These can
be excellent retrievers, steady on the
point, and with a good nose for
game" says Fact Digest.
George Washington danced five
hours without a rest with the pretty
wife of one of his generals.
Emperor Antonious of Rome chang
ed the name of this month October to
Faustian, in honor of his wife. His
successor changed it back.
Jeff Hargis asks for repetition of
a statement he once saw here con-
corning cells which travel thousands
of miles. The European eel breeds
only once in it's life, and crosses the
Atlantic to the West Indies to do it.
After the spawning season it dies
without returning home. But the
small cells, or elvers, cross the ocean
by instinct and return to the very
waters from which their parents
came. There they remain until their
time to recross the Atlantic, to spawn
and die.
Wonderful? Yes, but their migra-
tory instincts are no more highly de-
veloped than those of the birds hat
ched on the shores of Arctic Circle
which are left behind by their pa
rents long before they are grown and
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
CALDWELL SEEKING !
ELECTRIC PERMITS
1913 Miles of Rural Lines
Proposed by Coopera-
tive Association
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY j. G.. Baskerville

Raleigh, Oct Z. = The Caldwell
County Electric Membership Corpora
ton, incorporated under the laws of
North Carolina, appeared before the
State Utilities Commission here this
afternoon seeking a certificate of con-
venience and necessity for the con-
struction of some 1913 miles of rural
electric lines in that county. The
hearing started at o'clock before
Utilities Commissioner Stanley Win
borne.
If the certificate is granted, the
county membership corporation is ex-
pected to start construction of some
of these lines at once. But unless this
certificate is obtained, the corpora
ton will not be able to build any lines
since the 1885 law requires that the
permission of the North Carolina
Rural Electrification Authority must
be obtained before any lines can be
built and it in turn has ruled that it
will not approve the construction of
any rural lines .sy county corpora
tiOnS unless such a certificate is OBJ
tanned from the Utilities Commission
The reason for this ruling is that if
such a certificate was not granted, a
private power company might go into
this same territory and build it's own
lines before the cooperatives could
build theirs. In fact, this happened in
one county, before the State Author
ity passed this ruling, with the re-
suit that it decided to protect the
local ccoperatives from outside COM
petition.
Accordingly, if the Utilities Com
mission grants this certificate of con-
venience and necessity, no private
power company or other corporation
will be permitted to built rural cleo
trio lines along any of the routes in
Dictated on the map which was sub
nitted today.
The Duke Power Company now mas
between so and so miles Of rural lines
in Caldwell county. But there was
nothing to indicate early this after
noon whether this company would OPP
pose the granting of the certificate
sought by the Caldwell county mem
bership corporation. This corporation,
formed by the people of the county
without any assistance from the State
Authority, has already received loan
of $43O,OOO from the Rural Electrified
ton Administration in Washington.
The proposed 1913 miles Of lines will
serve some 1850 rural customers.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
H;fe@
York
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kIQMESHS@2U


New York, Oct. flush and HUI
labaloo: Jimmy Walker, the former
mayor of this hamlet who galloped
abroad during an investigation tenn
pest some years back, is said to be
much improved in health and is en-
crying one toe at a time into the
towns after-dark festivity as we'll as
into the political swim A valued
patron of such spots as Reuben's and
Dawes in the neither hours is Wolf.
the police dog owned by Dairo and
the Dairo and Dianne dancing pair
The beasts manners are so per-
feet that when he sits, bibbed and
tuckered, at table, some of the less
refined patrons suffer no end of en-
barrassment. incidentally, Dairo and
Dianne are soon off to Hollywood
where they will traipse in one of the
smoother cabarets patronized by movie
darlings..
The youngest playwright with a
Broadway play at the moment is
twenty one-year-old Joseph Shapiro,
son of the owner of the French casino
most ornate of Manhattan whooperies
80. His piece is a frenzied indict-
ment of military schools called $50
Proudly We Hail"-and all agree that
1t is pack-jammed with bitter FER
vor. Young Shapiro wrote the play
a year ago, when he was twenty and
already an honor graduate both of
Staunton Military Academy and Har-
ward. &. His great difficulty, however,
in getting sympathetic attendance at
his drama of young brutality and re-
preston is the fact that so many in
the audiences have gone to military
schools themselves, including some of
the accredited critics, and look back
upon the whole term through rose
colOred glasses.
Unlike so many plays backed by
wealthy friends or parents for as
piring playwrights, this one shows
clear talent and bespeaks a rising
career arc for the author, once he
has outlived his indignation
1 CHANGED to be at the corner of
45th st. and Eighth Avenue the other
evening when the DOyly Carte opera
audience was dispensing. What a
definite and warming cross-section of
the American middle-class stratum
people who are intelligent, hard-work-
ing, imaginative, generous and in
formed. "A D'Oyly Carte audience,
summoning the lovers of Gilbert and
Sullivan, also manages to summon
those people who make you feel there
is no danger, really, in store for the
Republic. They are older people
for the most part, although the new
generation of Savoyards is getting it's
recruits too. They do not dress ex-
tremely; indeed many of them ap-
pear to have removed aprons and car
pet slippers at $40 p. m. to rush off
to the theatre.
And there are really pretty girls
here and there in the crowd Try
to find a girl, however comedy I'M
painted and unbedaubed with mas
cara and phoney sophistication, at a
premiere of a fashionable Broadway
play.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07

FOR SALE: DESIRABLE NORTH
Carolina and Virginia Farms 681
acres near Clayton, N. C. $50 in cul-
tivation, excellent tobacco and cot
ton land, Colonial residence, tenant
houses, other outbuildings Price
$4,000 or will sell divided if de-
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529 acres in Dinwiddlie County, Va.
200 in cultivation, excellent tobacco
land, balance in nice young timber.
good residence, room tenant
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240 acres Dewitt, Va. 100 acres in Gull
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land, balance in beautiful young
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tobacco barns and pack house.
Price $4,000 Good terms.
102 acres Dinwiddlie County, Va. IS
in cultivation, good tobacco land,
good residence, tobacco barns and
pack house, nice location, price only
$500, good terms.
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IN cultivation, very best tobacco
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Splendid terms
Write or wire me at once for appoint
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M. D. Goodrich, Box 22O, Peters
burg, Va. 3O-7ti
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
Crimson Clover
Low Price
High Quality.
Legg-Parha Co.

WANTED - FEW YOUNG MEN -
mechanically inclined, for TELE-
VISION. RADIO and SOUND PIC
TURE INDUSTRY. Training divis-
ion of large manufacturer will pro-
perly prepare men selected. For
personal interview give age. present
position, phone. education. DEFOR-
EST'S. Care Dispatch, Henderson,
~ Z. 6-3ti
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
ANSWERS

ANSWERS
1. AS of December 81. 1888. the
grand total including ordinary. in
dustrial and group insurance, was ST.
1885, 181 $1,000
2. From 1912, when $4,000 was ap-
propriated for drainage of Lake Mat
tamuskeet, to 1860, a total sum of
$2O0,6O8.48 was expended on swamp
territory projects. The returns from
this large expenditure amounted to
$22,294.S9.
3. Following a controversary be-
tween Governor Arthur Dobbs, of
North Carolina and Governor Glen,
of South Carolina, in 1855, the Tar
Heel governor took the matter up
with London authorities. Shortly after
wards the South Carolina executive
was removed from office. The trou-
BILE arose over boundary disputes, dur
ing which time the sheriff of Arson
county was seized by mob and put
in Jail.
4. In 1870 the average family was
nearly eight persons against less
than fight for 1890.
5. The North Carolina senators were
instructed by the State legislature in
1884 to vote for the resolutions than
before the U. S. Senate expunging
from the records of that body resolu-
tions, formerly adopted, condemning
President Andrew Jackson's removal
of federal deposits from banks. Sena-
tor Mangum refused and shortly aft
erwards resigned.
6. Hooper wrote, in 1776, "the gov
ernor was given just enough power to
receipt for his salary"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY

20 Years Ago Today-The German
submarine U-53 paid an unexpected
and brief call upon Newport, r. l.,
and it's skipper, Lieut. Comdr. Hans
Rose stepped ashore with mail for the
German ambassador.
BY international law the sub was
privileged to stay "a hours. But
within "a hours it was again beyond
the II mile limit, sinking British ships.
In a day it sent down the Strathdene,
the West Point, the Stephano, the
Kingston. Each of the doomed ships
received sufficient warning to insure
safety in small boats of those on
board
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page

1 Science of the improvement of race
or breed, especially the human race
by restricting mating to superior
types.
2 Helena.
3. No.
4. Tuscarawas River.
5. Greenfield, Mich.
6. Denmark.
7. The upper arm.
8. Fords Theatre.
9. Department of Labor.
10. On the Feather river.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
TODAY,S HOROSCOPE

Today gives person of subtle dis
position, given to mimicry and imita-
ton; possibly successful as an actor
if other aspects favor. You will be
receptive and psychic with probable
ity Of Benefit by marriage. Cultivate
sincerity to avoid the tendency to
deceive yourself as we'll as to hold
the respect of your friends.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-07
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1886, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association

Wednesday,, Oct. flames Whit
comb Riley Day in Indiana, the only
State which observes a poets or writ
ers birthday as a holiday. Zodiac
sign: Libra. Moon: last quarter.