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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
|R. R. ISSUES IN
 DECLINE TODAY
Irregular Trading Marks Opening of Market;
 Steel Gains
BY ELMER Q. wALzER

Limited Press Financial Edlt0rD
 New York, Sept. 22- 2-(UP)-Stocks opened irregular and moderately active today with some of the lead- ing railroad issues registering small declines. Oils strengthened while Steels were mixed. Bonds and the dollar eased. Cotton was steady.
 Atchison led the decline in Rail- road issues, opening at 82 off l-4. New York Central opened 1,50O shares at 45- 1-8 off 1-2: Utiliteis continued firm. Commonwealth & Southern opened 1000 shares at 3 7-8 up 1-8. North American gained 1-2 to 32 1-2 on 1000 shares. Con- solidated Edison rose 1-2 to 42 S-4. U. s. Steel opened 72 1-4 up 3-S; Montgomery Ward 50 3-8 up l-S: International Nickel 62 1-4 up 1-2 and equal to the high: General Motors 68 1-4 off 1-2; and Vest ihghouse Electric 140 7-8 up S-4
 FOreignu Imports Grow
 Boston, Sept. 22.--(UP)-Flow of materials through Boston from foreign ports continues unabated, according to figures released today by Customs Collector Joseph A. Maynard.
 Last week increases in all depart- ments were noted with the excep- ton of wool imports which fell off, compared with the corresponding week last year.
 Figures for the week ending Sep- tember 19 against the like week in 1885:
 1886 1885 Wool Imports
 Imports for con
 sumption .$2,704, ,985 $2, ,497, ,322 Imports for ware
 Warehouse with
 drawals .... 465, ,45S T9,4SS Customs re-
 33O,S56 (lbs) 769,595 CbsD
 Total wool imports since last July were reported at 6,834,312 pounds compared with 11,412,8 pounds for the like period last year. Over the same period, customs receipts have totaled $6,686,870 as against $5, ,209,3 ,387 for the corresponding period in 1885. .e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
Leg Broken

George Frank, 72, of Willow street, was admitted to Water bury hospital with a fractured right leg last night after being struck by a car driven by Fran cis Sherwell of A Wilson street, on West Main street. According to hospital authorities, Frank, Tn employe of the Freight steet market, who is also known as Frank Freney, was stepping of the curb when he was struck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
Check!

Charged with having misap- propriated 8 WPA workers pay check for $30.25, Albert Jenkins, or Jancius, of this city, was giv- en a suspended sentence and placed on probation yesterday in United States district court in New Haven. The check as issued to Arthur Jenkins and was sent to Jancius by mistake, Sentence was deferred in the case of William Fullervitz, 28, also of this city, who pleaded guilty to vlolat- ing the liquor law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
V. F. w. Auxiliary

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Peters, Miss Helen 6hanahan and Mrs. Jane Meyer were named to represent Lieutenant Shea auxiliary, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, on the Armistice day celebration conn mittee ct . meeting held last night in the VFW rooms.
 Plans in connection with the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
Canadian Vets

This evening at 6 o'clock d the Franco-American hall On South Main street men who served with the Canadian army during the World war will meet for the purpose of orgahizing a local post
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
Italian Legion Auxiliary

The Italian Legion Auxiliary, Post No. 12. held its monthly meeting recently at Liberty Hail. Plans were discussed for partici- patton in the Columbus day parade.
 Louis Hria was guest of the evening. He gave a brief talk on the Columbus day program. Miss Marie Di Crosta presided. The next meeting will be held October
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
BIG PUSK MAPPED FOR SPRING IN STEEL COLONIZATION DRIVE OVER TRI-STATE BATTLE-GROUND.
Lewis Labor Faction Avoids Premature Showdown And Concentrates On
 Educational Campaign
BY FRED BAILEY United Press Staff COrrespOnden

Washington, Sept. 22-(UP) )-Can 100000 men beat S5,000,O00,OO0?
 That is the way labor leaders describe the drive of the Committee for Industrial Organization to unonze steel work CTS. The 100000 the 100000 members of the CO The $500000000O is the estimated of the mighty steel industries
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22

peraug River Sunday at tthe annual outing of the P. 0. Viz. neulles Post, Yankee Divisian Vet erans association, which was held was held at Lawlor's farm in Southbury. The outing was in charge of the following commit tee: John Lawlor, Jerry Griffin, Charles LaDau, William Alyward and Frank Downes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-22
YDPost

Various outdoor sports were played and boating and swim ming WsFs enjoyed on the Pom-
Evening star., 1936-01-06
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Real Music!
There was music in the brook that lightly
tumbled
Ger the rocks away up on the noun
tain side.
In the thunder that majestically rumbled
Was rhythm close to melody allied,
There was harmony both subtle and
appealing
In the murmur of the oceans mighty
These are nothing to the music that
comes stealing
From the cellar when they're putting in
the coal.
There's a sense of hope and keen ex-
hilaration;
A feeling of security and trust
As the carbon treasure finds its desti-
nation
Down there among the cobwebs and
the dust.
Oh, the music of the sky and stream and
ocean,
Though all impressive, cannot hope to
win
Such praise as that which greets the
glad commotion
When load of coal cascades into the
bin!
Evening star., 1936-01-06
Fires i'm Rooming Houses.

For the second time within week
fire has taken lives in this city. On the
first occasion three perished when flames
swept dwelling as result of . cause
not yet definitely determined. Yester-
day morning two were killed in fire
which originated. it is determined. in an
overheated hot-air furnace. In both
cases the flames swept through the
premises too swiftly to permit the escape
or the rescue of all the occupants. In
both cases. also. the frame staircases
became flaming Hues that blocked
escape. Yesterday one OF the survivors
was trapped in room. the single win.
dow of which was blocked by iron bars.
the removal of which was effected barely
in time to save life.
These tragedies plainly indicate the
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which have not been paid. Regularly
the telephone companies have SUBJ
mitted their bills, and quite as regularly
they have been ignored. save for frac-
tional curtail few months ago. Nor
has interest on the accumulated debt
been paid And by the same token the
service has not been discontinued, as
would be the case with any private sub
Scriber who neglected to transmit.
This is assuredly not case of a soul
less corporation" Perhaps it is a case
of confidence strained to the breaking
point. Yet there are no signs of such
dissatisfaction as to evoke peremptory
demand for settlement. There are other
creditors, who are not in a position Of
advantage such as the phone companies
supposedly occupy in the right to refuse
service until bills are paid. Wouldlan
actuary, examining the books of the
national committee-of course there
must be books to examine-be moved to
classify these debts as preferred" in
the sense that they are virtually nom
collectible at present?
A suit for recovery-which can not
be conceived as good strategy on the
part of the telephone OCTOPUS" would
be highly interesting in the matter of
details. A list of calls, from whom to
whom, would be most entertaining. if
not altogether revealing. A somewhat du-
bious prospect Of relief, however, has
opened in the case. 1t is said that the
high command is about to start series
of pleas. over the telephone, with party
leaders in each of the forty-eight States,
to spur them on to the raising of funds
sufficient to wipe out the deficit before
the 1886 campaign gets under way These
pleas will themselves cost money. But
If the party leaders come across with
the $40l,000 which now represents the
party deficit the additional tolls for wire
talking will have been profitably in
CURED.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Winter Is one of the best times for
reading.
Those who like to read-and not every
one does-need no special occasion, but
there is little doubt that cold nights are
good.
Despite the widespread and persistent
propaganda for going out. there Still
are thousands Of persons who stay
home"
Whole communities, indeed, remain in
doors these inclement evenings enjoying
the open FIRE, the radio, conversation
and books.
If many do little snoozing. even in
the face of these charms, it must not
be held too much against them.
All the pep" the world needs, GER
tainly, is in the safe keeping Of the radio
boys. How full of life. sparkle and pep"
they are, to be sure! Nothing is said by
them, or done by them, except with a
bang"
At times they become slightly tire
some, do they not, but it must be re-
membered that they are earning their
living and in big way, hence build up
their vigor as part of their stock in
trade.
Less vigorous persons, of whom there
are many, although it may not be just
the thing to mention them. will be in
at home.
What you need to do is to get out
more"
Is there any quiet person who has not
received that advice, always from some
nra Wy dnac i,1daal nl1t rNIantvS
It would be refreshing, now and then,
to have this standard prescription hurled
at a quiet head by one of their own type.
prescriptions They are on tap for all
emergencies, from common colds to the
blues" about which. by the way. one
doesn't hear so much any more.
Curiously enough, these prescriptions
seldom take in the patient at all. Almost
always they consider merely the doctor
He would be queer doctor, indeed, who
never considered his patients. Yet these
unasked givers of popular prescriptions
for what ails you" have little respect for
their patients" If they know you prefer
quiet, they advise sound and fury. If
they realize you have a fondnesS for
books, they prescribe the movies. If
they know full well that conversation is
best, as far as you are concerned, among
just few choice souls. they pretend that
the very thing you need is large gather
ing, to take you out of yourself" as If
it could ever be done.
Reading is gentle, wholesome Winter
diversion. Fortunately old books are as
good here as new ones, although surely
there are enough of the latter, if per-
chance the reader prefers them.
Whole batteries of new authors have
sprung up, men and women who really
write well, although whether you agree
that they are as good as some Of the
older ones is another matter.
Newcomers to the field. of course. do
not bother about that OF course, they
are best because the newest! Thus the
cult of the new has its adherentS in
every generation, and really there is no
arguing with them. Fortunately for
them, they know. They are right.
Yet surely it is a pleasure to pick up
an old book say Charles Dickens Hard
Times"
Perhaps it is the only novel by the
Evening star., 1936-01-06

need of a thorough survey Of dwellings
in this city to determine whether they
are safe for occupation by numbers Of
people. The present requirement Of the
law is that fire escapes must be pro-
vided in all cases where more than ten
persons are in residence. In neither
Of these late fires was that number ex-
ceeded. Yet the results proved that the
Lack of these means of escape led to
disaster. Should not the limit be low
cred? That question may well be con-
sidered by the Commissioners in view Of
these tragedies.
Furthermore, in the latest instance the
Use Of a hot-air furnace in building
occupied by more than the usual num-
Der is quite evidently source of extreme
danger. Should not that matter be in
vestigated. with the view of requiring a
safer method of heating?
The present congestion in Washing
ton, due to the large expansion OF the
Government services, is comparable with
that which occurred during the war
period. when all available housings were
crowded TO the limit and use was made
for this purpose of old structures. barely
suitable for multiple occupation. A
thorough survey of occupied premises
would doubtless disclose numerous cases
of dangerous conditions. Reconstruction
could not be effected in all cases at once,
but certain dangers could perhaps be
corrected. The coincidence of these two
fatal fires within few days assuredly
indicates the necessity of District
wide examination of all premises where
more than family groups are housed. to
lessen the risks which are incident to
the season of cold weather, when heat
ing facilities are taxed and evidently, as
il, this latest case, inadequately super
viSed.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Breakaway.

Breakaway.
Away from town to the long brown roads
In zesty Winter weather,
When the wind is high and blue the sky.
Logging it of together.
The dogs at our heels, no shouldered
guns;
Out for the sport of walking.
Where we loved the hunt well do our
stunt
Tramping along and talking.
On a hidden path in woods gone white
Wen build a gypsy fire,
And have canteen by q spruce tree
green
What more could we desire7
Evening star., 1936-01-06

elder master which the reader mas not
read.
What a wonderful book for a snowy
night
Just for a few pages the typical Dickens
atmosphere seems strange. with its EN-
phasis on the same words, sentence after
sentence.
Gradgrind. McChokeumchild - what
mouth-filling names, in the best Dick
ensian mannerl
Yes, at first they strike the reader.
even the admiring reader, as a bit
strange. No one writes thas way any
more Only a few pages. however. Just
one chapter, are needed to get one back
into the royal mood.
Then these names and many more,
so important in the history of Dickens,
so authoritative In the world Of Dickens,
seem to be the very best names possible.
The reader would not have them
changed and feels sorry for the earnest
young man who. several years ago. de-
cided to rewrite Nicholas Nickelby,
and did it, with what results we do not
know.
Maybe he did a good job of it.
But what Of it?
To ask Dickens TO be other than
Dickens is to ask the moon to be the
sun. the Washington Monument TO be
the Capitol, and bread to be beefsteak.
y
A Winters night is q better time than
most to renew ones Tagging acquaint-
ance with the great English author who
one time had the reading world OF
America by the ears.
They met the boat to find out about
the fate Of Little Nell.
Perhaps If more persons of this day
would learn the simple acceptance OF q
writer for what he is, and not ask him
to be something he is not the novels OF
Charles Dickens would be as much loved
and read as of old.
This would be good thing. surely.
1t must never be forgotten that be-
meath the sentence construction which
sometimes repelS a very modern" reader
lay a human personality, one OF the
richest and most vigorous ever known.
None of these bright, energetic radio
lads, with their CHEEKY hello, folks, y
had any more physical or mental energy
than Charles Dickens had.
II he were alive today no doubt he
would be on the radio every night of the
yCdl, Ildh41l6 dLOuooAIA NO1Ao4o o. dA6AA1,
and millions of friends.
He would broadcast his own characters
and scenes, without question, just as he
presented them on the lecture platform
of his day.
He was, fundamentally. an actor, one
who knew Just how to speak lines, TO
make entrances and exits. That is why.
basically his novels were plotted" just
as plays are plotted, with their char
acters appearing and disappearing just
in the nick of time.
Thus the modern reader who takes
up a novel of Dickens any one of these
cold Winter nights may not be SO lack
ing in energy as some of his compatriots
would have him think
Something of the old energy of Dickens,
a man who thought nothing at all of
walking Is miles Just for fun" infuseS
itself into the reader.
Good books are always so, whether
old or new, whether in the latest mode
CT the minute. or trifie old-fashioned.
They are always wonderful companions
and our only reason for writing this is to
remind some who seem to have forgotten.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
A Long Due Phone Bill.

Some statistician. 1t is TO be hoped
without any partisan purpose. has dug
I'D the fact that the Democratic Ma
tional Committee owes a telephone bill
of more than $41.0o0. incurred in the
course Of nearly four years Of active
campaign work, during the electoral
fight of 1882 and subsequently. The
high command of the party has been ION
the wire" constantly during these many
months. regardless Of mounting tolls
Evening star., 1936-01-06

After the polished address. perfect in
diction and classic in rhetorical form, TO
which the Congress has just listened. it
may not seem easy to find content in
the old homespun oratory. If all that is
worth while in scholarship is preserved.
the Harvard Classics may have to aban-
don the five-foot shelf and use six feet,
or even seven.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

lation encroaching upon the indepen-
dence and the constitutional rights OF
our Federal judiciary. This adminis-
tration is justly alarmed as to the fate
of q number Of the socialistic. un-Amer-
lean measures 1t has forced through q
subservient Congress"
Evening star., 1936-01-06

Thanks to the industry Of Omen,
public enemy No. !" has diminished TO
a point where it might be desirable to
find a way to indicate him in fractional
terms.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

The old annoyances assert themselves
the world over. The idea that citizen
can run away from trouble is one OF the
fictions industriously promoted by the
steamship ads.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
Continuing . Custom.

The cost of Twins high, they claim!
An though annoyed at present,
We 60 on livin' jes' the same
And find 1t really pleasant.
Evening star., 1936-01-06
In Doubt.

II suppose your constituents would be
benefited by cheaper postage"
Well" replied Senator Sorghum,
"after looking over my daily mail don't
know whether they ought to have the
least encouragement in writing more
letters"
Evening star., 1936-01-06
Comparison.

Comparison.
They tell us we are going wrong,
They sing very solemn song.
They cry, when they are at loss
For other words, Beware the boss!"
They say we're taking of our hats
Too much to ruthless plutocrats.
And make us wish that ours could be
Ancestral innocence and glee.
But rumor says, from far away,
That in that envied olden day
They used to pass the festal cup
And bid the voters "licker up."
A victory was seldom won
Before somebody drew gun.
And prattling children quit their games
To stick their tongues out and call names.
The private history on display
We would not tolerate today.
Though politics is not all pure,
It is much more refined. That's sure!
Evening star., 1936-01-06
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Evening star., 1936-01-06

Awake.
THAT man talks a great deal, but you
must admit that he's wide awake"
'well." replied Farmer Corntossel, re-
fiectively, you couldn't expect man to
fall asleep during one of his own
speeches"
Evening star., 1936-01-06
suxrestink an Alteration.

Suggesting an Alteration.
Nothing ON earth is all in vain, they say,
Even the drowsy talk that makes you
blink
May stimulate some weary brain some
day
To efforts on its own account to think.
A man who talks too much about what
he is going to do is liable to have to use
UP q corresponding amount Of valuable
time explaining why he didn't do 1t.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

that relief money Is being used In that
State for political purposes. With ma
tional campaign coming on, a lot is likely
to depend upon the extent to which the
expenditure of Government money for
relief may or may not enter into politics.
Mr. Pinchot, in this second letter to the
President, dealing with the situation in
Pennsylvania, becomes explicit. In fact,
he is prepared to give specific cases to
prove his. point that the Democratic
machine in the State is compelling those
who have Works Progress Administra-
ton jobs-work relief-to be Democrats.
Gov. Pinchot says in conclusion to the
President:
Nothing can relieve you of your duty,
under your pledge to investigate the
whole evil system of politics in relief.
And nothing can palliate failure to take
strong measures against the faithless
public servants who have dishonored
your public promise" The men whom
Pinchot is attacking particularly are at
the head of the Democratic organization
in the State-and, of course, include his
old enemy, Senator Guffey.
y k*
Chairman Fletcher of the Republican
National Committee, another Pennsyl-
vanian. today made reply to President
Roosevelt's congressional broadcast" at
the Union League Club In Philadelphia.
Mr. Fletcher found In the Presidents
address to Congress threat to the
independence of the courts. He inter-
preted the Presidents declaration that
the laws enacted by Congress should con-
tinue in force until finally passed, upon
by the Supreme Court as meaning that
he would propose legislation. Said
Fletcher:
IF the English language means any
thing, that means 1t is the intent Of the
New Deal TO attempt to force new legis-
Evening star., 1936-01-06

Rate by Mail-Payabie In Advance.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

@. Why is corduroy so caned?-B. S.
A. The name, meaning kings cord,
was first applied to the material in the
seventeenth century, when it composed
the uniform Of the French Kings hunts
men.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

@. Who is the oldest telephone oper-
ator in the United States?-A. A. P.
A. The Oldest telephone operator OF
whom we have record is Miss Mary Alice
Page of Port Arthur, Tex. She is II
years old.
Evening star., 1936-01-06

Night Final and Sunday Star----L - nlOI,t Ontn
Night n.ctTon rna sd. at the end OF each month
Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Ma
tional 5000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-04
AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTIONTO BE UP, CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Accord- ing to plans underway here, several constitutional amendments will be introduced at the next session of Congress. Among the amendments are the following
 Establishing Congressional right to control production of products by Interstate Commerce.
 Right of voters to veto declara- tion of war.
 Prohibition of American partici- patton in foreign wars.
 Authorization for conscription of money and factories during war.
 Giving Congress power to regu- late agriculture, commerce, indus try and labor.
 Requiring two thirds vote of Su- preme Court to declare a law un- constitutional
 Six year Presidential term.
 Civil Service for all except the heights of Administrative posts.
 Judging from past records, few of the proposed amendments have a chance to pass.
 Since 1889 only g amendments have been enacted out of 3,795 con- sidered by Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-04
FRED TRACY OF ALASKA S.S. GO.
 DIES IN SOUTH
General Agent at Seattle, Wellknown in North,
 Passes Suddenly

SEATTLE, Dec. 4. - Frederick Tracy, aged GA, General Agent of the Alaska Steamship Company with his headquarters here, died yesterday after sudden heart at tack. His widow survives.
 Tracy is known to thousands of Alaskans. He began with the AL aska Steamship Company during the gold rush days as purser on the old steamer Dirigo. This was at the time the company was organized by Charles Peabody. Later he went on the street" for the company and then became travelling agent. Dur ing the gold rush to Seward Pen- insula, Tracy was purser aboard the steamer Victoria.
 In 1910, Tracy was transferred to Cordova in charge of the Southwest district of Alaska for the Alaska Steamship Company and opened a steamer agency at Anchorage when that town was established in 1914.
 Tracy then returned South and took up his duties here, becoming General Agent for the Alaska Steamship Company in 1883.