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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
INFANTS DEATH ! RATE DECLINES

New York, March 6-Infant mor- DAlity is lower in urban than in eural districts, and since 1880 infant deaths have been curtailed at a higher rate in the city than in the country. Statisticians of the Metro Dolitan Life Insurance Company make this report after an inquiry into whether conditions in the ci- kies or those in the country have been more favorable to the preser- pAtion of infant life.
 By and large, infant mortality Was higher in 1884 in the rural areas than in the cities of the Unit ed States" the statisticians report, f,the rates being 62 and 58 deaths ue infants per 1000 live births re- spectively. Of the 48 states, how ever, 9 showed higher infant mor- baIity in the cities than in the ru- gal areas. In 21 states the situa- klon was reversed, higher infant mortality rates being reported in the rural areas. Tn five states, the infant mortality rate was Identical A the urban and rural areas"
 Tn Tennessee, Arkansas, and West Virginia the ratio of urban to rural infant mortality ranged from l4O to kas per cent, while California re- ported . ratio of urban to rural inc
 ezt mortality of only 7i per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Chairman

was opened as an experiment.. Now In 1886, there are seven stations, covering the various districts of Waterbury, and last year the infant mortality was but 37.6 per 1000 live Ing births.
 'Throughout the existence of the wunior League of Waterbury, there have always been Junior League vol- Iinteers assisting the Visiting Nurses who are in charge of these stations, which are each held once Q week. Only well babies attend the confer Nnces. They are weighed and their weights recorded by the Junior League volunteer. The mothers re- ceive invaluable advice from the nurse on the general daily care of the baby. When Q change in diet is indicated they are referred to their own physician or to the station doc- tor, who contributes his services.
 "The Junior League volunteers have been most faithful In this work and the service has been glad ~ given; for there Is e satisfaction In such @ task, that is hard to de- Ane. Week after week, month after month, the mothers and babies at- tend the conference and 1t becomes . joy to watch those little tots de- kelop in health and mind. It ts truly Q great thing that our well babies, arc 50 well cared for that they may become the fine normal eitizens that this country of ours needs"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
JUNIOR LEAGUE ASSISTS NURSES
Members Very Active in
 Support of Child Well ! fare Program Here

The Waterbury Junior League has been one of the most active or ganizations in the support of Child welfare in this city. Mrs. Elliott P. Goss is acting chairman of the child welfare committee of the league.
 The following article covers the Important role which the league plays in the every day trend of the lives of the babies of Waterbury:
 For 20 years there have been Baby Welfare stations in this city. Tn 1916 when the infant mortality was 135 per 1000 living births, the need for the proper care of babies was so greatly felt that one station
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
INTERIOR LEAKS"

Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes is carrying on an investiga-
ton of certain news "leakS" from
his organization.
In recent months bits Of in
formation have been circulated
concerning various conditions in
the Interior Department and the
Secretary has been touched on
tender spots.
He has put his investigators to
work. And his investigators make
up a large organization. AS a
matter of fact, the Ickes "ogpu"
is one of the largest departmental
inquisitorial groups set up under
the New Deal.
Whether or not the Ickes detec-
tives will be able to ascertain the
source of the information to
which he objected remains to be
seen.
If the "ogpu" discovers the
sources, those persons who have
given out the information will suf'
fer rather severe punishment in
all probability.
It is just one more effort Of a
New Deal agency to stifle all infor'
nation which might be embar'
RAISING and to place the gag on
employees.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
By Edwin G. Hill

scores the first net victory over
a considerable portion of organ
lied gangdom. That vast arcanum
of scholarship to which any Vic
torian would have first led the
Todhunter girls, and every other
repository of social gain, IS safer
because Of them.
One can make out a clean-cut
case for the newspapers, it seems
to me. by steadily ripping the lid
off crime news. It costs about
$5,000,000 a year to run Mr..
Hoover's bureau. That money
didn't grow on the magnolia
trees on the Capitol grounds.
Congressmen, appropriating it,
were prodded by an informed
and aroused public opinion-in-
formed and aroused by the news
papers.
WORTH KNOWING
Last year, since we are talk
ing about money, the Omen
spent their $5,oOO.OoO and re-
turned to Uncle Sam about $685.
100000 in loot recovered from
criminals.
Probably the Todhunter girls
didn't pick up much in the line
of statistics on their trip through
the crime laboratory with Mrs.
Roosevelt. But if they kept their
shell-pink ears open to all, they
learned a lot which young people
all over America ought to know.
They saw in action Federal bu-
reau which operates without
bureaucracy and which, thanks to
the diligence and disintereStedness
of Mr.. Hoover, hasn't been ham
strung by politics; they saw sue
cesSful cooperation with States. in
a distinctly national enterprise,
without any intrusion on State
rights or sovereignty.
They saw also a mobilization Of
enlightened social forces against
vicious anti-social forces, under
disciplined intelligent procedure.
This is not to under-rate the
Folger Library or the Smithsonian
Institution as worthy of explora-
ton by American youth. They are
at the core of a civilization which
might cease to exist if newspapers
stopped printing unpleasant news.
copyright, 1896. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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and PeeviSh PapaS throughout
Canada, America, and all way sta
tiors.
Theoretically, Of course, we
Americans believe that the Dear
Little Children do come first.
Proudly we boast of the superior
advantages given American chill
dren. Scornfully we speak of the
Dirty Deal handed by foreigners
to their progeny. And long the
things that really drove us into the
World War were the stories
largely fabricated by imaginative
propagandists-that Big, Brutal
Germans cut off little Belgian
children's hands.
Yes, theoretically, we Ameri'
cans give Junior and Sister a
swell deal. But in actual prac'
tice we do nothing Of the sort
When it comes right down to
brass tacks, much Of America is
as benighted in its treatment OF
juveniles as darkest Africa. And
I'm not referring merely to aliens
or illiterates, either.
SHAMEFUL RECORD
Despite our scientific advance
ment, America still has a record
in infant mortality which would
shame the Fiji Islands.
If the Little Darling survives
the cradle, he faces an even worse
risk. For then comes child labor
Before he has ceased to toddle
he is working in some mill OF
mine, orchard or beet field.
If he escapes death in infancy
or slavery in some factory-he
still has many a beating to take
For under the maternal tyranny
which dominates the American
home, Mama is always cher child's
best friend"-and heaven help
little Willie if he doubts it.
am-let me once more remind
you-a mother. believe mother
hood to be the noblest profession
on earth and the most important
social service. But, regardless Of
consequences, I again assert that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson
FIRST COME THE BABIES"

no worker on earth is as poorly
trained for his or her job, or
executes it in as sloppy and If.
responsible q manner, a. many q
Loving Mother.
If a plumber knew as little
about his joints and fittings as
said Mother knows about the
physiological and psychological
needs of her child, he'd be kicked
out of the union forthwith and
forever.
In our schools we train our girls
to be everything from tap dancers
to taXidermiStS but we usually
ignore the one job for which they
were expressly made and in which
they are most urgently needed
the job of Motherhood.
First come the babies" says
Dr.. Dafoe. And never did a ma
ton more need that reminder
than this land Of the brave and
home of the free.
Hitherto-despite all our ador.
ing Standardization children
didn't have "a China m a ms
chance" against the sentimental
ity, stupidity and downright mean
ness Of unfit parents. Mama
might and Mama did beat, be-
labor and brand a helpless child
and receive no more than a mild
admonition from court author
tiles.
HEARTENING NEWS
Nor was this situation greatly
improved by Woman's Emancipa-
ton and Female Suffrage. It
merely gave Mama a better
chance to storm into court and
scare the daylights out of the
judge by threatening to gang the
club vote against him If he dared
defy the Sanctity of Mother Love.
AS a consequence we have at pres
ent the disgusting spectacle Of
hundreds Of intimidated or servile
jurists who dare not defy the Fe-
male Voter, no matter how grave
the provocation, for fear of recall.
But, praises be, some of the
gentlemen possess backboneS and,
come what may, have the courage
to remember that "the children
do come first" for in them lies
the hope and future Of the human
race. So, now and then comes
heartening news Of a brave man
defying a brutal, greedy or nitwit
parent and defending - even
though it cost him his job-Some
helpless youngSter.
In that defenSe-though he may
not know it-he has the support
of every really intelligent, con
Scientious American mother. More
power to you, Your Honor-and
likewise to the modest little man
in Canada who dareS to defy en-
trenched sentimentality and give
the babies a break.
Copyright 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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Department of Agriculture, with
all its fascinating bug research;
not the Bureau of Standards,
where these girls could have seen
the fascinating testing machinery
at work to assure them their
moneys worth when they buy their
stockings; not the Capitol or the
House or Senate Office Buildings,
where historic issues are being
joined; not that cleaning of cen
turtles. OF scholarship which is the
Congressional Library - none of
these. Rather they saw ]. Edgar
Hoover's Omen.
If anyone has suspected that
this is to be a pedagogical rap on
the knuckles for the Todhunter
girls, he is mistaken. Their choice,
it seems to this writer, was natu-
raj and understandable.
Over in the Congressional Ii.
brary there are entombed the re-
searches of criminologists. They
learned a lot about crime, but
there was no next step. They
wrote their books. and that was
that, and nobody disputed them,
or got very much excited about 1t.
G-MEN EFFECTIVE
"Crime, Incorporated" as Mar
tin Mooney called it, kept on
branching out. It looked as if it
might win until Mr.. Hoover's
young Omen began shooting
gangsterS. That might have seemed
like an over-simplif1cation to the
crime researchers, but it put some
of the most vicious gangsters in
America on the run.
Hollywood, of course, overdid
the Oman business, and they
aren't quite like the handsome
heroes of the films. But take them
as they are, trim-rigged young
chaps, trained to a gnat's heel.
with their skill with the Tommy"
guns and their scientific crime
detection techniques, they GER
tainly are the most authentic
counterpart of young knights Of
the days of chivalry, jousting
against the bad men of those days,
or even ogres or dragons.
Theirs are deeds of high empriSe,
and small wonder it is that the
Todhunter girls wanted to see
them in action, rather than the
white-beared Merlins of political
hugger-muggery.
Every once in a while some we'll
meaning person jumps the news
papers for printing so much about
crime. Bank robbers sometimes
paint y picture of safe and work
successfully behind it, with lights
burning brightly and the watch
ma. strolling by. A newspaper
which falsely mirrors security and
fails to tell the news Of crime and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
School Needs

In preparing fiveyear building program for the local
school system the Board of Education has gone about as
far as it's limited authority permits it to 60 in keeping
our educational plant up the needs of the community
The plan is of course necessary step in rounding out
the school system.
UNFORTUNATELY, HOWEVER, 1T WILL PROVE
A USELESS STEP UNLESS EMBODIED IN BILL
AND ENACTED BY CONGRESS AND UNLESS THAT
ENACTMENT IS FOLLOWED UP BY THE APPRO-
PRIATIONs NECESSARY TO CARRY 1T OUT.
Once before a five-year building program for the
schools was presented to Congress.
The plan was approved and construction was author
lied"
The authorization was made effective because
the appropriations incident the program never
forthcoming.
If similar fate befaLs the present program the ctys
children uvH suffer and the community Oiu build
tremendous class room deficit.
The needs outlined in the program submitted to the
Commissioners last week give idea of the necessity
Of starting Immediately to enlarge and modernlze the
school plant.
The plan and the report accompanying it show that in
the next five years the city will need twentyfo new
schools will need additions to forty five existing build
ngs and will need to purchase foryour pieces of land
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getting it and his requests usually
have been of the Several-million-
dollar variety.
He recently called on President
Roosevelt and when he emerged
from his conference, the news
men pounced on him and asked
the purpose of his visit.
Buckley looked sheepish and
seemed greatly embarrassed.
He told the Scribes that he had
been to the White House on a
matter of Importance to him but
of no national consequence. He
said:
! 81 only wanted to discuss the
possibility of getting $15O,OOO
for improvement of the Cleve-
land harbOr!"
His other requests had been so
much larger that a mere pro-
posa! for $150,000 seemed child's
play, according to Bulkley'S atti-
tude at the White House.
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ated into a racket" has resorted
to new articles with which to at
tain its anti-American and wicked
ends.
For example:
1.-The mischief Of foreign in.
trigue" have recently spread to
American schools and colleges, the
American pulpit, various and sum
dry organized minorities and the
American press.
All sorts of inducements are Of
fered American educators and
their students to travel in Old
World countries at low rates and
to swallow whole the propaganda
of those countries which is delib-
erately designed to weaken the con.
fidence of Americans in their own
institutions and to entangle Amer
lea in the political quarrels and
racial hatredS and religious ami
mosities of countries beyond the
seas.
Disguised as world peace workers,
the walking delegates Of foreign
intrigue are organizing on Amerl'
can soil gullible groups of Ameri.
cans to combat the traditional
foreign policy of their own country,
to discredit the d tense authorities
of their own country and to defeat
the defense program Of their own
government.
At first the mischief makers en-
gagged in this foreign intrigue
angled chiefly among women's
clubs for their victims. Latterly
these alien anglers have been bait
ing their hooks for American
youth in school and college.
When a young American picks
up an American newspaper and
reads in one of its columns q
signed editorial Interpretation or
comment regarding national adj
ministration or national legiSla-
ton he assumes that, because the
commentator is an American, he
is interpreting his subject from an
American point of view.
GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY
If inquiring American youth in
school and college will institute a
searching inquiry they will hit the
trail of new mischief which for"
eign intrigue is making on Ameri-
can soil. This is the mischief
caused by employing American
commentators on American news.
papers to represent simultaneously,
and without the knowledge Of
their American readers, foreign
newspapers either subsidized or
under the control of foreign gov.
ernments.
Any 10-year-old boy or girl in
school knows we'll enough that in
dealing with national affairs an
American commentator cannot in.
terpret them from an American
point of view if he is at the same
time hired to interpret them from
a foreign point Of view.
mo man can serve two mas
ters," and those who would eluci-
date major questions of foreign
policy from an American point Of
view must be free from foreign
entanglements if they are to dis
charge their grave responsibility
to their readers and listeners with
fidelity and without fear.
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Mischief Makers
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

In the Farewell Address George
Washington bequeathed to the
American people, as he said, the
"counsels Of an old and affection
ate friend" And he did so in the
hope that his advice and admoni-
ton would in the years to come
serve the following purposes:
~ moderate the fury Of
party spirit"
~ "Warn against the mis-
chiefs of foreign intrigue"
~ Guard against the i'm
posture of pretended patriot
ISM"
Foreign intrigue today is en-
ploying the impostures Of pre-
tended patriotism" to undermine
American institutions by shaking
American confidence in their in
tegrity and their efficacy. And
foreign intrigue, If it is not
checked in time, will on some evil
tomorrow, aggravate "the fury OF
party spirit" as a means of reduc-
ing 1.-The household of the nation"
to the predicamert of that "house
divided against itself, which can
never stand"
TOOLS AND DUPES
During the Great War the Old
World witnessed the power of
America united and ever since the
end of that conflict the warning
nations of the Old World have
never ceased their effort to divide
our nation against itself.
Propaganda has been one of the
weapons employed by foreign in,
trigue against the unity of the
American household. Propaganda
is prepared by foreign govern.
ments and their subsidiaries and
distributed by their tools and
dupes to divide America politically
along lines of race, religion and
occupation.
This foreign propaganda is
brought here from time to time by
preachers, teachers, writer's anc
organizers from foreign countries
These agents of this intrigue come
in different DISCUSSES. They EN-
ploy many and varied "impos
lures OF pretended patriotism"
Some OF these purveyors of alier
mischief pursue their intrigue OF
American soil under the speclou
pretext that they are promoting
world peace. When has worlt
peace ever been promoted by di
viding the American family aloni
lines of race, religion or class?
Some of these foreign mischief
makers come as the advertisers o.
their literary and other wares
Some come for money, others TO
publicity, others for converts II
various causes except the cause o
America united.
Latterly this foreign propaganda
which. as Senator Borah trui
said the other day, has degenel
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
Wise Words

Glory is like a circle in the
water which never ceaSeth to en-
large itself, till, by broad spread
ing, it disperses to naught.-
Shakespeare.
Great deeds cannot die; they
with the sun and moon renew
their light forever, blessing those
that look on them.-Tennyson.
The worlds great men have not
commonly been great scholars, nor
its scholars great men.
National injustice is the surest
road to national downfall.
Error is a hardy plant; it. flour
iSheth in every soil.
A good book is the best OF
friends, the same today and for
ever.
Before man made us citizens
Nature made us men.
Looking forward to a pleasure
is also a pleaSure.-LeSSing.
All is not false which seems
at first a lie.-Southey.
He has no hope who never had
Q fear.-Cowper.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
OFFICERS PROTEST.

There is a housing shortage at
the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Maryland, which is
provoking some caustic comment
from Uncle Sans Junior officers
of the Navy.
Each year it is the custom to
order 200 or 300 junior officers to
the Academy for additional train
ing of two years.
AS a rule, these men are care
fully selected and are in posses
sion of high ratings. They are the
pick of the young officers.
In Annapolis, however, quarters
for them are far from satisfactory.
Many of them are forced to
ask their wives to live in one-room
apartments scarcely large enough
for one person. Others must go
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
FOOtnOte to Peace Day

As somewhat humorous sideight the Communist or
ganed celebration of Peace Day. in the United States during
which few thousands of young and in the
colleges took oath fight for their country read
this dispatch from Moscow:
"The following slogan for Russas army and ndUy is
published in the Soviet press:
"'Red army men and Red sailors: Be straight shoot
experienced arterymen fearless airen, bold sub
marine Sailors"
The date of that April 22-Peace Day here.
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which did not
improve h S
rating W i t h
t he Admins
tration. D e :
spite t h a t
situation, how
ever, he ranks
fairly well IN
the eyes OF
D e m o cratic
leaders.
When ONO
wanted Federal
money for varl-
us projects
Buckley W a S
ioSfr1luoeotal in
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HIS CHOICE

T, B. Kingsbury, superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, has been in a quandary
as to what to do about kilograms
ordered delivered to the Black
guard Committee in its wholesale
seizure of private communica
lions.
Particularly interesting was the
delivery of the kilograms of Silas
Strawn.
Mr.. Kingsbury, after much pom
dering, said he had decided to
await court decision on the constr
tutionality of the seizure.
Kingsbury said:
81 decided hat If the Black
committee put me in Jail the
court might get me out.
81 knew, however, that if the
court put me in jail Black
couldn't get me QUIT"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28

The "snoop" "keyhole" Department of Government,
Selling private letters and kilograms for the promotion Of
political purposes and crafty the spite Of individual low
grade politicians has learned the opinions Of editors and pub
fishers in the American Newspaper Publishers Association
Five hundred of its members have condemned the Govern
ments "odous shopping enterprises.
The committee freedom of the press defending the right
of American citizens communicate with each other free
from Government shopping and meddling greeted with
applause suggestion that criminal prosecutions and civil
damages should be started against all those involved in the
enterprise Selling other mems papers, letters and kilograms
Mr. Farley chief of the Democratic "elect-usagan
mtee knows something Of politics. and will be able to tell
his that to consolidate and strengthen newspaper
opposition to the New Deal is not wise
The professor this telegraph pole listening in the
publishers is hearing than he expected wanted to hear
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The Greatest Show On Earth
BY John Snure, T.

miles from town to secure suitable
housing.
Not only does this affect the
young officers, but it causes dis
content among instructors who
are ordered to the Academy to
teach the younger men.
The officers protest that authori-
ties should take a part of the vast
sums of Federal money spent in
boondoggling and build decent
quarters for them and their sue
cessors at Annapolis.
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criminals is an unwilling ally Of
thugs who work behind the fake
preSentment of a safe and orderly
W rid. It is a newspapers job to
rip away the painted canvas and
reveal the burglars at work.
But, more fundamentally perhaps,
it is the business of a newspaper
to be interesting. 1t is also its
primary business to report that
which !: ; important. Crime is both
interesting and important. In days