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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14
A DARK HORSE AT CLEVELAND

Viewing the results of state primaries there is and to believe that Gov Alfred M. Landon of Kansas is not the great potential standard bearer the Republicans will be looking for at Cleveland While Landon consistently figures in most of the balloting pronounced swing toward him is definitely lacking. Ohio Tuesday though its dele
 gates not bound, revealed decided strength for the "favorite son." Robert Taft son of the late
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14
TAXING CASH RESERVES

Having frequently admitted that this certainly is funny world William Allen White, veteran Re publican editor of the Empora, Kansas Gazette, has laid aside his occasionally irksome duties booster of his fellow Kansan, Governor Landon, and paid his respects in an editorial to the "God-gven stu pidity of Franklin Roosevets enemies" follows
 The Presidents recommendation for federal taxes shows again how smart he is. Economists may say, and may possibly be right in saying, that great corporations can not function through term of years without heavy cash reserves.
 The answer is, neither individuals. Moreover the fact is that in the last eight years the cash reserves of 90 per cent of the individuals in this country have been used up for living expenses.
 The further fact remains that in the coffers of many of the great corporations lie hundreds of millions of cash reserves un- touched and unattached by any federal agencies.
 Those millions are used to stife compet- ton and foster uneconomc monopoly
 It will be difficult to justify federal tax policy that soaks the average man and leaves these piled up hundreds of millions, in which lies anti-socal power, untaXed
 The average American says, "all right,
 look at the Liberty League And the Liberty League has identified itself so closely with ill., gotten gains; with what Theodore Roosevelt used to call predatory wealth. that any charge the League may make against the President in this controversy is support for his plan in advance
 MT. White has sounded of the salient points too often overlooked in discussing tax matters today As he states the greater part of the population has cash left; it has gone for living expenses The only big reserves in the great corporations, controlled not as so often claimed by thousands of stockholders, but by one or two major stockholders The cry is made that taxing these huge reserves would put the big corporations out of business AS matter of fact wasn't it the size of these gigantic corporations, overlapping into one holding company and then another making one dollar do the work of six that put this country financially the bum in 1929?
 Reasonable taxing of their reserves may well be the very thing that will keep these set-same cor porationa from putting themselves and the nation into the same kind of a jam the Roosevelt Admnis- tration is dragging them out of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14

Too many people are trying to thumb their way 9 Utopia.-Toledo Blade.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14
H A P P - --B I R T H D A Y

The Empire ertendS congratuld- tionS and best auiSheS todGy, their birthday anntDerSary, tr ehe folloto- ing:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14

A Davenport, Ia, scarlet fever serum center offered $5 for small amounts of blood from recent suf- ferers with the disease.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14

Republican Fletcher accuses Jim Farley of tear ing up his campaign mail. Jim says it's "asinine v We suppose he both
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14

Somebody should suggest to Marion zioncheck that he hire a chauffeur Preferably one who can drive without hitting something
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-14
SAVE THE EATE!

Girl Scouts Goodie Sale, Sanitary Grocery, 10 am, Saturday, May 16. adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

Bicycle accidents on the increase. Po- lice authorities everywhere are planning to resurrect old statutes relative to opera tion of bicycles on public streets and side walks. Waterbury is probably as much interested in this interesting development as any New England community. We don't know whether the bicycle craze is coun- trywide, but certainly 1t has been notice able around Connecticut the last few years. Not merely are there more bikes for boys and girls, but for older persons. The number of women riding bicycles and quite publicly, too, is steadily increasing Bicycling is fine sport for anyone who can indulge in it. It is healthful and if the rider Is careful and observant he or she should not get into trouble or be the innocent cause of any trouble The thing to do is to remember that a big automo- bile takes up lots of room and moves with such speed that the force of its blow is tremendous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Name-CalIing Battle

If someone doesn't soon equip 1t with a pair of water-wings, this campaign IS apt to sink clear beneath the surface into an ooZe of bitterness, anger, and unreas. cning name-calling such as has stained few presidential campaigns in all our history. There is some talk of issues, to be sure, but the issues are mostly per sonalized. If you raise such an abstract question as the relation between state and federal governments and their pow CTS, for instance, you will presently hear someone using it to prove that President Roosevelt is a hair-brained BolShevik, while someone else uses 1t to show that Governor Landon is blind reactionary.
 Indeed that sort of thing usually is only starter. People go on from there. They see visions of Americanized storm troopers marching through our streets, or they make out the shapes of an American OGPU snatching citizens from their beds and sending them off to AL aska They enshrine that Well-to-do country gentleman, Franklin Roosevelt, in the mantle of Lenin and Stalin, and wrap up wholesome Ali Landon in the bemedalled tunic of Benito Mussolinl. The tocsin is sounding on 24-hour shift, and clubWomen, Ward-heelers, union leaders, and college professors are leap ing into their saddles constantly to dash of and announce that the redcoats are coming-from the right, the left, or dead- center, as individual prejudice may in- dicate.
 Now all this sort of thing is very ex- citing, but 1t does not help us to make an intelligent choice at the polls. There are important issues to be settled this fall, but they won't be settled wisely If each side pretends that the other iS out to ruin the government and destroy our liberties. Can't we get 1t straight, at the outset, that both President Roosevelt and Governor Landon are honorable and pa- triotic Americans, each anxious to serve his country to the level best of his ability in an hour of great need?
 Can't we understand that the demo- cratic party is not branch of the Corl- rnunist International, and that the re- publican party was not nurtured by either Mussolini or Hitler? Can't we see that business men will not be sent to prison If the democrats win, and that the laboring man will not be reduced to serfdom If the republicans win?
 There are real differences between the candidates and the parties; differences that will stand great deal of examina- ton and discussion during the campaign which has just begun. The citizens will be called on to make an important choice this fall, and what they say at the polls will help shape the course of American history. But the bitterness, the name calling, the senseess accusations that have begun to crop out-these are utterly uncalled-for. If we persist in them, we shall simply prove our inability to make democracy work smoothly in time of crisis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

One of the funniest spectacles of this political campaign is the h gloomy picture o deSeFaS Ss Se fSnfr stee Ad nt B1 SeoesSe S0nSe ports and other statements showing that business in various lines was never bet teGH te %e es others Tso are slowly gadus ana ana you can find a dozen clues to this fact. Take any newspaper and youIl find a picture of despair painted by an "out".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
This Is Getting Interesting

Out in the cold with other hopefuls at the big gathering of republican notables at J. Henry Roraback's Harwinton farm some weeks ago. Colonel John Q. Tilson was very much in the running Sunday at political gathering in Mt. Carmel, sponsored by the Republican Registrars Association. He was openly boomed for the gubernatorial nomination and insinu- ated that he was as willing now as he was prior to Mir. Roraback's guardianship of the Brown-for-governor drive at the Har- winton festival to accept a g. o. p. nom- ination.
 An outstanding event of this gather ing, though, was the espousal of Col. Til- son by Clarence G. Willard of New Ha- ven. MT. Willard is secretary of the Re- publican State Central Committee and has long been MT. Roraback's right-hand man in New Haven county as well as elsewhere when the occasion demanded 1t. Speaking at Sundays session he said, If there is anything within the power of the people of New Haven to give, 1t is worth giving John Q. Tilson ...
 Of course this statement doesn't com init MT. Willard to anything like endors- ing Col. Tilson for the gubernatorial nom- ination, but the general tenor of the out ing report indicates that the New Haven republican was actually endorsing Col. Tilson for governor. All of which may mean more than is written on paper or said in public. This public endorsement of States Attorney Arthur Brown by State Chairman Roraback may not carry the significance generally imagined. Republi- cans will do well to wait for their state convention before lining up behind can didate who looks like the "candy kid" un- der the hot glare of an August sun.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

til the happenin of Q contingency or performance of Q condition, and then by him delivered to the grantee.
 e. Are the justice of the '. s. Supreme Court federal employesr
 A. Yes.
 e. Give the dates of the last wars fought by Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
 A. Denmark, 1864; Sweden, iSi3- 1874. Independent Norway has not engaged in war against any for eign country for about six hundred years.
 If you want copy of our book. let GOLD DISHES, DRINKS and DESERTS" write to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau l0l2 Thirteenth St., Northwest Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents In postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Waterbury Escapes

In the current monthly bulletin of the State Health Department, Warren J. Scott, director of the Bureau of Sani- tary Engineering, lets Waterbury off mildly with respect to stream pollution. That is the topic of his article and 1t con- tinueS to show that Connecticut has not yet caught up with itself in this modern means of making our water supplies pure nd clean for bathing, domestic use, and human consumption. Bri @ port and New Haven come in for the worst condemnation due to their con- tinued pollution of the waters of Long Islam Sound. In the former pl:cc a start towards improvement has been made.
 With respect to the Naugatuck valley MT. Scott says, speaking of the western part of the state and the Housatonic river, "In the lower reaches of the river, the three cities, Ansonia, Derby and Shelton, contribute large volume of pollution. The river at this point re- ceives the flow of the Naugatucl- river which drains thickly populated valley that includes Torrington, Thomaston, Waterbury, Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, and Seymour. At the headwaters of the river, Torrington is cleaning up No active steps are yet under way in the other communities except that connect ing sewers in some cases have recently been or are being constructed :. :"
 It is very easy to dispose of Water bury's drive against stream pollution in this manner. True we have only built connecting sewers and one trunk line, but that spells thousands and thousands of dollars. The rest of our task is an- cgher trunk line, more lateralS, and then the linking of the entire system to the outlet into the treatment plant in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

Miles City is port of entry for Montana and the West, and through 1t, like sand through the neck of an hour.glass, streams this horde of the destitute from the great plains section. They are going west once more, just as their fathers and grandfathers did before them. But this time they're not pioneers, they're not breaking soil or paving the way. This time they're starting all over again, hoping for land. work and food.
 What most of them don't req ilze-it wouldn't make much dif- ference if they did--is that there is little room for them in the west. The Pacific coast is settled, California, Oregon, Washington don't want and can't take droves of unemployed and homeless refu- gees. Already the scourge of the coast Is the "frult-picking tramp" DesOlation
 WHERE DO THESE FAMILIES COME FROM? WHY HAVE THEY LEFT2 Where are they zoe ing? The combined answers lie in tho story of the Bjornsons of Her. reid, South Dakota, typical farm. CTS of the great plains typical suf- ferers from the drouth, and soon to become typical wanderers In the west.
 Herreld stands in the middle of Q hot, llfeIeSs, arid plain. A few weather-beaten farm hOus- es and filling station mark the town" itself. The Bjorn- sons live three miles out, on the dry, hard waste. The road to their farm Is strewn with dead
 jack-rabblts, gophers and birds. A wire fence trails along. brOk- en, dragging.
 There is no sign of life at the Bjornsons'. A dirty gray house, the windows closed, blinds down, porch broken. Across Q flat patch of soil is Q barn. Between the two stands Q windmill, It's vanes broken, the big round tank at the base dry and empty. By the barn are a few farm implements, rust ed, unused for many months. A brood of dirty chickens peck at the parched earth. A woman comes to the door.
 Despite the years of wind and sun, Mrs. Bjornson still preserves some traces of neatness. She smooths her wrinkled dress and we can see past her into the house. It too is neat, but bare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
AUGUST 5

AUGUST s
 Prsons who are most likely to be influenced by today's vibrations are those born from Feb. through March 20. General Indications for All Morning-Unreliable. Afternoon-Rash. Evening-Depressing.
 The whole day is adverse. Today's Birthdate You are likely to be a sceptical person. You may profit by cultivat- ing more tolerance.
 Danger from fire, accident or rashness from August. 27 through Sept. 3. 1886.
 Socially favorable, seek favors and plan clothes from Nov. l through {, 1036. Avoid signing papers or con- tracts from Feb. 22 through 2S, lo30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

Father Coughlin's brief visit to Water bury showed that the radio priest has a tremendous hold on thousands of Water burians. Had the news that he was to celebrate mass at the Immaculate Con- ception church leaked out, we don't doubt but what this huge edifice would have needed to be three and four times larger to hold the people desirous of seeing him and worshipping at mass that he was celebrating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Selected Poem
WHIPPOORWILL

(Seumas O'Brien in the New York Sun) The whippoorwill is noisy bird, At times think he's most absurd; He waits until the night is still, And breaks the quiet with Whippoorwilll
 He wakes the sleeping lark and linnet, As though he took a great joy in it. Now If he wants to have his fling Why doesn't he at noon-tide sing? Perhaps he fears that lark and thrush Would die of shock in brake and brush. Bad cess to him is what I say And all who turn night to day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Current Comments

I demand that a person who stu refuses to see Q horse galloping on a tomato should be looked upon aa a cretin.
 Andre Breton, leader of the sure realist movement.
 
 In the next war. as in past wara the United States will have to be governed by the public opinion c1 it's people as to what attitude tl will take. If public opinion ie sutic. ientIy passive, all participation iu war may be avcrted. l--Eroderic R. C0udert. New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

Two small children play on tho floor. Her husband is off with 0 relief gang working on the roads for the day.
 Moving
 "Ycs, we are moving. He's been here forty years and I came from Nebraska. Our Chll- dren was born here and we built all this place ourselves. There was nothing when we came, not even Q house, and he built 1t with his own hands, and the help of some neighbors. I con- tributed the mill. My dad give mo Q few hundred dollars as Q wedding present and so I put up Che windmill It's dry now, but it don't matter much.
 "ICs the same story every where, ! guess. No rain we haven't had rain here since . year ago fourth of July. How we've managed to hang on I don't know. It's been pretty awful too, part of It."
 Oregon Bound
 "Wc're sort of glad to be goln'. It's hard on the children though. They hate to leave the farm and lt hurts them some- thing awful to 60.
 we wouldn't go # VIC was much older, but ! get so dls- couraged at seeing him work 50 hard and so long. and for what? Course he hates to 60, too; he's been here oil hls life and he hates the idea of givln' up and leavin.' With me its different. I'm thinking of the children and what they're gOln' to be # we stay here.
 "Our plans are to go out to Oregon and join some cousins we got out there. They're d0ln' right well and they wrote and suggested we come out and buy . farm out there. So that's where we're goln' beglnnin' of next week."
 She looked out over the flat, empty waste. Then with a half- shy, Undersigned smile, added Don't know. Guess we can't do much worse, can we?"
 No Mans Land
 We drove away. The woman and her little girl stood in the door watching us. All around hundreds of grasshoppers jumped ana flew Far out on the plain three COWS were standing heads down. A horse slept on his feet. No trees No streams. No grass. No clouds Nothing. Just land, land, mileI and miles of 1t. Flat, dry, dusty an arid, uncharted desert of land Not a living thing as far as thu eye could see.
 We couldn't help thinking O the family that would load itI every movable possession on ar old Ford, which would join count less other old Fordrs on the high ways west, and of the great home less stream that was moving wes across the plains once more. Onl! this time 1t was July, 1936, tn, l6lst year of American independ ence, the independence of thu greatest and most civilized na ton in the world.
 Then we drove back to Pierre.
 Merry-GO Round
 Tn his Congressional biography Candidate Lemke lists his recrea' tions as gardening and going t' the ZOO" .. Roosevelt prI nounces drought" as if it werI ''drout." Wallace pronounces 1 "drouth." Webster accepts both preferring "drout" Asked | he were not once a member of thu republican party which he nov excoriates, Ickes replied "Xes, bu I am not like Lots wife. I am 90 ing straight ahead" -. Copyright. los6. by United Fea'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

IT O S V y AAbCES
 viewers W h Q t he would do if Congressman Le m ke was elected presi- dent of these here now Uni- ted States and, after taking omce, also took Q run-out pow- der on all his D r e . election promises. The Rev. 8 m 1 [ h
 having proper
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Answers To Questions
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By Frederick M. Kerby

@. How far do rats fore under Q wall2 .
 A. AS Q rule e two foot wall will stop them. On the other hand when they get leads formed by rain, washouts, etc., they dig consider ably deeped, sometimes to thirteen feet.
 e, What does escrow mean in law2 A. It is particu:arl applied in legal phraseology to deed delivered by the grantor into the hands of Q third person, to be held by him ur1-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

Effort at judicial usurpation blocked. The judges in a public spelling contest ruled boy out because he spelled "esthe- tic" just that way. They insisted there had to be an "a" in 1t, but the lad appealed to Supreme Court Judge Webster who overruled them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04


 1. Name the last book in the King James version of the Old Testa- ment.
 2. Where was oscar Wilde born9 3. Tn what church is Extreme Unction Q sacrament? {. Tn what country was indigo first employed as Q dyestuffp s. Who wrote the poem, "The City of Dreadful Night2"
 6. Did aliens who entered the U. s. Army during the World automa- tically become American citizens2 T. Name the last battle fought in the War of 1872.
 8. Tn science, what is environ ment?
 9. Who was Maurice Brazel Prem dergast? 10. What famous Boston, Mass, building Is called Cradle of Amer ican Liberty?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

south end of the city. We would like to urge all speed toward this objective, but knowing what it entails we can only trust that the opportunity will soon be afforded to allow the city to complete its vast sewage program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Daily Almanac

Moon rises S:44 a. m. daylight time). Sun rises $50 a. m.: sets S:05 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty mtn- utes after sunset.
 High tide at Milford Wednesday, Aug. s, i:O8 a. m.; low tide, 7:37 p. m. daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

The short of "relief load" that should be frightened is that which amounts to a subsidy for relatives who could but won't help their own people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Horoscope
BY OCTAvINE

For persons who believe that human destiny Is guided by the planet, the daily horoscope Is outlined by Q noted astrolOger. In addition to information of gen- eral interest, 1t outlines infOrma. ton of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

If the election year bugaboo and tra- ditional summer slump can be held off just little longer, they may lose their ancient grip on the public mind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

Herreid S. D., Aug 4-Every day, travelling vest ward through Miles City, Montana, there passes of the stranges and at the time most pathetic cara vans in the world. It is an exodus-a flight of many thousands of homeless, futureless, aged farmers and their families broke lost, finished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Ware the Axe

At the rodeo Of the Town sendites in Cleveland the Rev. Gerald "Share-the-W Wealth" Smith of Louisiana was asked by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

ToDAY's COMON ERROR Never say. "Are you going any place today?" say "any- where"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
T est Y o UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
A Thought for Today

And when He was at the place, He said unto them Pray that ye enter not Into temptatlOn.-- Luke 22;4O.
 To realize Gods presence is the one sovereign remedy against emptation.-Fenelon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Daily Mavprxz. Round Washington -v-0-. - PRAIRIE FARMER AGAIN
 STARTS ON LONG TREK
- BY DRE,Y PEARSON and ROBERT 5. ALLEN

Editors continuation of the Merry Round of the northwest drought area)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

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