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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-25
High School Notes

Crosby
 The Home Economies club of Crosby, directed by Mrs. Mabel Jor- dan and Miss Elizabeth Whitehill, have extended an invitation to all students and friends to attend a fashion show at the school assem- ply hall on Friday evening. The speaker for the evening is Miss He- len Risch of New York city.
 Volley Ball
 Miss Florence Turnbull has an- nounced the standing of her volley ball league. The Hawks and the Evereadys are tied for first place following yesterdays games, at which time the Everready's defeat- ed the Cadets in two games and the Hawks split two game series with the PDQs. Twelve new members, three on each team, have been add cd to the league.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-25

While 1O3 of Connecticut's 16o towns have found employment of public health nurses a good invest ment, towns which do not have pulp lie health nursing service should consider the benefits to be gained by it, especially since state financial as- sistance is available for this work, in some instances, Elizabeth s. Tay- Tor, director of the bureau of public health nursing of the state depart of health, urged in the departments weekly broadcast today.
 The objectives of public health nursing service, Miss Taylor said, social conditions that affect health; are fourfold: 1. To assist in educat- ing individuals and families to pro- tect their own health; 2. To assist
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-25

of the Italian Women's Democrat Club at Waverly Inn, Cheshire, Thursday evening, April 16, it was announced this morning by Publici- ty Chairlady Doris Jacaruso.
 The publicity committee met at the home of Miss Jacaruso recently and outlined plans for the affair next month which is expected to be onS of the outstanding social functions of the year. Others on the committee are Mrs. Fred Had don, Mrs. Frank Pasquariello, Mrs. Nelle Sparano and Lucia Mattar- A1zo.
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BURGLARS KEEP BOOKS

Vancouver, B. c. - (UP) - Four burglars who kept business like ''ac- counts" of their activities have been arrested here. Police seized a set of books in which the four men care- fully recorded the places burglarized, likely prospects for raiding, the class of goods kept in stock, and estimates of the sales value.
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IA WOMEN PLAN
 DANCE IN APRIL
Freddy Hall to Entertain at Waverly Inn Dinner
 of Italian Club

Freddy Hall, who broke into vaudeville with the incomparable
 Nal Hallett many years ago, has been secured to act as master of ceremonies and to furnish few laughs, at the annual dinner dance
Evening star., 1936-06-30
INSURANCE MOTIVE
STUDIED IN KILLING.
$4,000 Policy Is Cited in
RattIesnake Wife
Murder Case. St 4
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 30.-Insur-
ance angles of the Robert s. James
wife-murder case came to the FORE
front today in the place of two dia-
mond- back rattlesnakes presented by
prosecutors as the oft-married bar
ber's first chosen agents of death.
The fearsome reptiles, buzzing, rat
Ting and thudding their heads against
their glass cage in full view of the
Jury and courtroom spectators, Gre
ated a sensation. There was an audi
bic sigh of relief yesterday when
Judge Charles Fricke ordered them
hidden behind the court clerks desk.
The snakes were identified by their
owner as the pair he sold Charles
Hope, star witness for the State, who
testified James turned one Of them
on his seventh wife before drowning
her for insurance monsy.
$4,000 Policy Cited.
With that spectacular part of the
case out of the way, prosecutors turn
ed to an effort to prove $4,000 life
insurance motive in the death plot.
Louis Berry, an insurance man, tes-
titled yesterday he sold $4,000 policy
on Mrs. James and that her husband
insisted the policy provide for double
Indemnity in case of accidental death.
Her body was found in a fish pond
back of her home last August S.
At the very time the State charges
the body was floating in the pond,
Berry testified he asked James about
his wife's health and was informed
she was feeling pretty we'll"
Niece Gives Testimony.
The defendants pretty niece, 81
Sear-old Lois Wright, who grew hys-
terical on the stand, testified James
also discussed insurance with her. In
q previous case he was convicted of
q morals charge involving her.
During recess the stocky, green
eyed defendant told his attorney, I'D
Evening star., 1936-06-30
MEXICAN HIGHWAY
RITES TOMORROW
Garner and Cardenas to
Take Part in Dedication
Ceremony.
Hy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated P-esS.
LAREDO, Tex, June 30.-A new
bond Of international amity will be
forged here tomorrow in dedication
of the Pan-American highway, new
motor route from the romantic boder
country to the scenic Mexican interior.
High officials of the United States
and Mexico will take part in cere-
monies Signalling completion of one
Of the Southern republics proudest
engineering feats. Vice President
Garner and President Lazaro Cardenas
will head the list Of notables.
The road, built almost entirely by
hand in nine years of arduous toll
over tropical streams and rugged
mountain ranges, represents an invest
ment Of about $17,000,000.
The Southern republic deliberately
routed the road-the only passable
automobile highway traversing the
remote district - through imposing
mountain ranges and the most inac-:
Evening star., 1936-06-30

cessible. although beautiful, region in
the Eastern part Of the nation.
In 1925 the then President Plutarco
Elias Calles-now in exile-envisioned
the social and economic possibilities
Of modern motor transportation and
particularly of the highway then being
considered.
Foreseeing that route through
beautiful, rugged, virtually unexplored
Evening star., 1936-06-30
JOHN BARNES,

like to take look at those snakes
myself"
He peered into the cage and grew
pale.
John c. (Snake Joe) Houtenbrink,
snake dealer, testified Hope pur-
chased the rattlers for So after buying
some snakes elswhere that weren't
hot" He quoted Hope as saying he
wanted some hot ones"
Evening star., 1936-06-30
Newspaper Tax Upheld.

PHOENIX, Ariz., June 80 (P.-The
State Supreme Court ruled yesterday
that Arizona newspapers must pay a
per cent sales tax on their gross in
comes under the excise tax law en-
acted year ago.
Publishers contended the Legislature
struck any reference to newspapers
from the bill before it became law.
Evening star., 1936-06-30

territory would more probably bring
tourists with dollars to spend, the
government held to its plan.
Dedication Of the road will be
marked by q brief ceremony on the
international bridge here.
Evening star., 1936-06-30

Telephone rates between the Philip
pines and the United States may be
reduced.
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He's O. Hard Worker

A S matter Of fact, they have something in COM
n mon in addition TO party name. Both belong
to the energetic faction in Congress On the whole,
think that Vito Marcantonio is the hardest-work-
ing legislator in Washington.
His leadership of an unemployment demonstration
in Madison Square Park wholly logical Marc
antonio feels that the maintenance of adequate
relief is the most important issue before America to-
day He thinks that it has been meager at best, and
that right a concerted drive is on to make
slashes all along the line.
Both the contendng major parties are talking
their heads off about economy, and when politicians
speak of curtaiment they invariably refer to cuts in
the bread and not in the crcuSes.
There many self-appointed watchdogs of
the Treasury that it is vitality necessary to have
somebody in Washington ready to raise his voice
against that form Of budget balancing which is based
upon the theory that there should be grouse in
every pot of the favored few.
When a man is making the fight of his life for
oppressed groups think it is very small potatoes to
accuse him of playing politics Marcantonio must
run again this fall and in a difficult district He
was elected by vote two years ago, but his
record of achievement has been so good that he
might have walked in a winner this fall if he had
chosen to play politics.
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Times Books

r LITERALLY born into the labor movement, Ken
IL netn Patchen, son of steel worker has plunged
into the front trench of Americas left-wing poets
with his book Before the Brave" random House,.
Unquestionably poet of high merit, the Is
year-old Patchen is none the less sometimes almost
impossible to understand 1t is at times puzzle
poetry"-but extremely worth pulling over.
There is power and beauty to his work. Take the
first poem in the book:
Turn out the lights around the statues.
Unlock the vaults of unhewn stone; put down
An order for Place high the value
OF those others: Do not forget what they DONE
Do not destroy. They built world we could not use,
They planned course that ended in disaster.
Their time is up The curtains down. We take power.
We're sorry they left SO little. We wonder
If any will say of Do not forget Do not destroy
We wonder if they will mean it much do now.
Turn out the lights around the statues.
What do you think the dead will wear next year?
Here are few of his striking phrases:
The gaunt driven light of prophesy that dances
their graves" Answering the good bird in the
bough Of eternity" Like a wonderful lion in
dream of redemption" I'VE hear the dark curve
Of eternity go coughing down the hills
The best poem in the book is rJoe Hill Listens
to the Praying. 1t doesntsne explanatory notes.
CBy Norman z. Isaacs.)
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Gen. johnson Saws

WAssHINGT.o-N, Feb 2O-There have been three
w Democratic Presidents since the Civil War;
Under two of them-Wilson and Roosevelt-the
greatest expenditures of public money the history
of this country have been made
In both vast outpourings, there has not been even
much considerable charge of graft or specu-
lation.
There were scandals galore in Republican emer-
gency expenditures in both the Civil and Spanish
American War. The postwar corruptions under
Grant and Harding notorious.
Any incumbent Administration is accused of polt-
1cal Job-mongerng, but the last two Democratic Adj
mlnlstrations appointed more men of the opposing
political party than any in experience.
TAFT, Hughes and Hoover held important posts
under Wilson, and majority of leaders of the
war emergency organizations were Republicans.
In his first glorious year the same disregard of
politics was shown by Roosevelt appointments. Wal
lace, Ickes, Peek Davis, Brand, Richberg Hopkins
and majority of the Industrial Advisory Board,
were Republicans.
You can hurl at this Administration any epithet
your fancy favors, but-like Clevelands and Wilson's
it stands apart in freedom from corruption and
political bigotry.
Copyright, 1886, by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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Ieaguers. Long ago the star of Bethlehem rose to
the rank of national oracle. 1t is not for ordinary
men to question or reason Why. However, Mr.
Schwab has suggested of the contributing causes
behind his rejuvenated optimism 1t is the recent
masters report to Federal Court in Philadelphia
finding that instead of SchwabS Bethlehem owing
the government $19,000000 plus for alleged prof
iteering in wartime shipbulding, nearly 20 years
ago. the government owes Schwab'S Bethlehem
$5,0OO00o. Furthermore, the master finds that
Schwab, who stepped out of Bethlehem temporarily
to take charge of government wartime Shipbuild-
ing didn't let his company prohteer
This all goes to show" Mr. Schwab concludes,
that if you play the game squarey the public will
recognize it in the long rum
That's why these New Dealers needn't expect the
public to give them 100000 awards. They've been
trying to fox us.
DOLTrICAL Parade:
l. A partisan nationwide poll soon to be
published shows Gov. ALT M. Landon we'll ahead of
the field of Republican presidential aspirants. . .
Old guard Republicans in New York, under the
leadership of Charles D. Hilles have taken control
of the New York Republican delegation f1attening
out Senator Borah's supporters. But Mr.. Borah has
enough friends in the state to make trouble for the
organization from here out =.
One reason for the high cost of government: In
certain MiddeweStern CITY, one of the civic leaders
who had been complaining about government
penSes was found negotiating for the government to
spend $4,000 for land assessed at 5000 an
acre. Gravel costing 1915 cents at the pit was sold
to the government for s1.13. Ohio paid $4,000 rent
in three years for building that has stood vacant
state bureau moved out but they forgot-or did
they?-to stop the rent. .
CALIFORNIA; Republican Gov. Merriam has Just
made speech saying Roosevelt was raised UP by
God to cleet this crisis In extenuaton of Gov
Merriam it is explained that he is hedging himself
against movement to recall him. Another plausible
explanation is that the government, having reached
the age of indiscretion, recently took bride
THOSE who insist that the Supreme Court is a
i jewel of consistency will have to explain why it
seized upon the Brooklyn Schechter case to throw
out the whole NRA. and the Hoosac Mills tax protest
to throw out the whole AAA, but found that in the
Wilson Dam contract the whole IVA idea was not
involved. A
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doorkeepers might be on relief
roles if they were not "door-
keeping" just as is the case in
other administrative departments
that could be culled by private in
dustry managing the organization.
The "white-collar" administrative
worker needs a job as badly as the
WPA non-relief worker or the
pick-and-shovel employe. The job
kept him off relief and for the
salary he receives he gives COM
parative full value.
The stalling on the job is a
degree greater than in private in
dustry due to the higher pres
sure of industry in competing
with other industries. WPA has
no competitor.
2. Charges are made that poll
tics are rife and key positions are
are held by Democrats. There
are also allegations of nepotism
and the hiring of workers who do
not need jobs.
Il n
A NSWER-The state admins
filtration of WPA operates I'M
der a benign Democratic admin
istration with Republicans on the
pay roll to far greater degree
than in any other department. IN
the state or county governments
of Indiana. Wayne Coy, state ad-
ministrator, is q converted Demo-
crat, who took the job Of Re-
publican director of the Cover
nor's Unemployment Relief Com
William H. Book, man
ager- director of the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce. He is
"boss" and indications are that
Gov. McNutt does not permit po-
litical patronage to cause him to
interfere with Mr.. Coy's nom
partisan administration of WPA.
The state district supervisors
show a high percentage of Demo-
Gratis in the eleven districts al
though state officials declare they
do not know the politics of their
district supervisors. DR.. Carlton
B. McCulloch, Marion County
WPA director, is prominent
Democrat.
Incidents have been reported to
The Times of workers employed
in administrative divisions as we'll
as in non-relief work who did not
need jobs. One man is employed
by a district Office, The Times
finds, who has wife working at
a good salary. ''It saves his face
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the operation of punch press. A
shortage of punch press operators
is reported.
Index of how the millions of
dollars spent by WPA in Indiana
filters back to the states manu-
facturers is seen in the employ
ment bureaus January report.
Indiana manufacturers paid more
to their employees during Janu-
airy. with he exception of Deem
Der, 1885, than in any month since
December, 1881.
T>HE business barometer fur
Il ther reveals, in the bureaus
report. that state manufacturers
in survey were reported within
SO per cent of normal employment
bases on the normal years of
1923-1925. November, 1892, was
ebb-tide in employment for the
manufacturing group with an in
dex average of Sc per cent of the
1923-1925 period of normal bust
ness operations.
Gross income tax collections
serve as another reliable meter
for gauging industry's clearer tone
with a range of between 16 and II
per cent more tax collections dur
ing 1885 than in 1884.
Marion County is to be bene-
fitted to the extent of $1,192,757
by PWA work projects beginning
in March.
Criticism of state WPA and the
II district administrative offices
as we'll as control of projects has
been frequent.
THE "squawks" and their rela-
Il ton to facts are summed up
as follows:
1. The charge that employees in
state administrative offices Stun
BILE over themselves in trying to
find something to occupy their
mind.
Answer: The Times finds some
justice in this charge. In one
case two doormen barricade the
way at state WPA headquarters,
217 N. Senate-av, and one may
find his proffered card to see "Mr
So-and-So" tossed in a forward
pass from one doorkeeper to the
other Before WPA took charge
one lookout" sufficed to keep re-
porters, peddlers and business
men from interfering with the
busy executives.
But The Times found the genial
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years ago we wanted change.
Now we want one worse than ever.
Mrs. Perkins, Secretary of. Labor,
says unemployment has decreased
and William Green, American
Federation of Labor president,
says it has increased. Who are we
to believer"
Adolph Fritz, Indiana State
Federation of Labor secretary:
my private opinion is that labor
wants WPA continued in prefer
ence to basket or grocery order re-
lief. Labor in Indiana has been
able to satisfactorily settle most
differences over wages paid on
WPA projects. Unfair contractors
have taken advantage of the Sc
curity wage but for the most part
we have no complaint"
Roland Slagle, secretary treas
urer Indiana Lumbermen's and
Builders Association: Men in our
industry, I believe, feel WPA and
work relief should be handled
locally. The lumbermen have not
benefited through contracts.
Fifty per cent of the dealers re-
fuse to bid on government WPA
materials because the government
in buying direct obtains materials
cheaper by cutting out the re-
taller"
Theodore B. Griffith, l., S. Ayres
& Co., vice president: "Rellef
measures have given more
steady tone to retail business"
Frederick E. Schortemeier, at
torney and former Republican
Secretary of State: "First, every
citizen should be provided for.
Second, the Federal government
must curtail expenditures if con-
fidence is to be restored. Instead
of spending money on WPA
projects credit should be extended
to industry. This will promote en-
ployment of a permanent nature
and the Federal funds will have
been loaned instead of being
spent"
INDIANAPOLIS banker, Demo-
l. crat: Work relief is the only
way we can help the unemployed
and business. I can see where in
the wears to come we are going TO
need unemployment relief in some
form to aid the jobless, and work
is infinitely better than grocery
dole"
Leonard A. Murchison, sales
merchandising manager, H. P.
WATSON & Co.: Indirectly our
firm has been affected by WPA
pay rolls. In general business
conditions are better than they
were"
Samuel B. walker, controller,
VIM. H. Block Co.: Our sales are
appreciably over last year. We
noticed at the beginning of WPA
an increase in the sale of radios
and other merchandise of similar
cahber."
Meyer EfromySon, president,
Star store: ct is better to have
persons on relief working than on
grocery orders. Our business has
been helped. December was bet
ter than one year ago. Severe
cold weather has stopped shoppers
to a certain extent"
Retail merchant, banker, broker,
taxpayer, coincide in one view
that business" has improved
since the beginning of WPA ex-
penditure of work relief money.
They place relief spending and
its curtailment as question of
national policy to be determined
as soon as relief rolls can be cut
without injury to the home life of
relief clients.
THE END.
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A Finish Fighter

TIE needed to incline his head only slightly
Il in the House of Rmmon to make all things
easy. He could have chosen the which La
GUardia took when he went to Madison Square
Garden and paid ia it tribute to Mussolini Marc
antonio did not attend that Italian Red Cross
demonstration nor did he avail himself of any such
simple device a heavy cold the press of official
duties in Washington. He to New York on the
night of the meeting and dined publicly in an
Italian restaurant in his district.
That required a great deal of courage on the part
of man whose district is heavy italian, and Marc
antonio Is as brave a fighter as Washington has
known. Commissioner Valentine and his men
making the mistake of their lives if they think that
little Vito can be showed aside as poser and pub
1icity hound. Marcantonio is six-round boxer.
When he squares off he to fight out the issue
to finish.
Copyright. 1936)
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
and ROBERT S. ALLEN

10 hObEhI ,. ALLEN-----------------
chiefs present knew, including
Secretary of Commerce Roper.
In the general discussion of I'M
employment statistics which fol-
lowed, Secretary Roper was par
ticularly critical of the Nathan
estimate. He characterized it as
guess work." declared that it's
publication was unfortunate"
At this point, a White House
clerk tip-toed to the President
and handed him slip of paper.
He glanced at it, then burst out
laughing.
1--WE located Mr.. Nathan" he
said. "And it's a good joke on
you, Dan. He is on the staff of
your Bureau of Foreign and Do
nestle Commerce.
NOTE: Nathan's unemploy-
ment estimate was based on a
private, personal study, and in
making it public he stated
specifically that it was an in
dividual view with no official con-
nection. How it got into the WPA
report was not explained.
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A Natural Mistake

GTILL, there were other men all dressed alike in
~ blue gray, with wings embroidered on their
clothing. Undoubtedly those would be soldiers of
the aviation branch, wouldn't they? But my friend
enjoyed another pleasant hysteric over that one
too. Those, he said, were poultry farmers, and the
wings merely represented the harmless fowl in their
barnyards.
1t is not easy to be proved wrong in serious
matter had seen many 5000 men in apparel
which seemed to be that of soldiers, and had reck-
lesSy accused the peaceloving Nazi regime of con-
vertng the winter Olympics into military demon
straton and the marching had turned out to be
nothing but an habitua method of going for nice
long walks.
foreman of cobbers came by and my friend
gestured which reSembled military salute. asked
him about this but he said he was only shading his
eyes.
The Nazi press bureau released the other day a
quotation from dispatch to the New York Times
insisting that any reporting the presence of
troops at the Olympic games was liar. guess
that's me, but the mistake was natural, as you
can
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main street Sunday afternoon during Adolf Hitlers
visit to pronounce the closing ceremonies the
benson of a great protector of the worlds peace
Are you soldier?" I inquired
why me?" he asked. mo I'm cobber All of
us in the black costume are cobblers"
Then why do you dress in military uniform?"
persisted.
That's where you are wrong" said my cobbler
friend. This isn't military uniform. It's a shoe
makers uniform, and this big clothes stabber in the
scabbard at my side, which may look like bayonet
to you, is merely little knife which we use when we
cobbe."
But" I asked "why do you march in military
formation?"