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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
Clark COmmandery

State officers awarded Clark
commandry Knights Templars, a
perfect rating at the annual in
spection last night in Masonic
temple. Members of several state
commentaries accompanied the
visiting officers. Dewitt Hotchkiss,
Of Torrington Is eminent COM
mander Of the local commandry.
Previous to the inspection a tur-
key supper was served.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
Z Division 5

Mrs. John Lynch, president,
will be in charge of a meeting Of the
Ladies' Auxiliary, Division S, An
Gent Order of Hibernians, which
will be held on Tuesday evening.
The annual election of Officers will
take place at the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
Order OF Ahepa

Presidency of the Waterbury
Chapter of the Order of Ahepa
was conferred on Peter Laskas at
a meeting of the group last night
Other officers named were: vice.
president, Harry Mikalakos; sec
rotary, John Yampanis; treasurer,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04

Nick Makros; chairman Of the
board of governors, Peter Stavros;
other members, Peter Koutsibos.
Peter Savakos, John Vlecides,
Constantine Paganis and Basil
Katrakis.
The installation will take place
on January IS.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
ZION BAPTIST

All day services in honor of the
18th anniversary Of the founding
of the Zion Baptist church and
the 9th anniversary Of the arrival
Of the present pastor, Reverend
B. w. Crowder, will take place on
Sunday. Judge John F. McGrath
will speak at the morning service.
Special services will be held in the
afternoon and evening.
At the morning service, devo-
lions will be led by Deacon Jones
and Deacon Towns; Thanksgiving
period: selections.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
Federated Societies

The large group Of units belong
ing to the local Italian American
Federation Of Societys and Clubs
have already commenced electing
officers.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
YOlanda Club

Following the next meeting,
which will take place on Deem
Der II, the annual Christmas
party of the Yolanda Club will
take place. The arrangements
committee of the club Is In charge
of the entertainment.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
ST. PAuL,S

Edwin III. Jones, Of the Water
bury Savings bank, will discuss
the social security act at the Sum
day morning meeting of the
Everyman's Bible class Of st.
Paul's Methodist church. The
meeting will start at $3.50 a. m.
and will be open to the public.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04

Elections of officers of the Fed
Grated societies are usually follow
ed with interest by the so-called
pioneers CT the italian American
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
Activities In The Local Churches

The following books have been
added to the Second Congrega-
tional WOmen's association library
which is In the ladies' parlor:
"Six Years In the Malay Jungle"
byCorveth Wells; Brown Amer
lea" by Edwin n. Embree; "Cong0
Cross" by Julia Lake Kelersber-
ger; "The Return TO Religion" by
Henry C. Link; peace and the
Plain Man" by Norman Angel
and "Jane Adams" by James A.
Linn.
The next Second Congregational
communion service with reception
Of new members will be held on
January 3, 1887. If there are any
who are contemplating uniting with
the church at that time, pleass
speak with one Of the ministers.
The two young people who quail
flied for thep rize I'm the Second
Congregational sermonette con-
test are Miss Mae Guffie and Miss
Janet Surgener.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
Italian Brotherhood

The Italian Brotherhood will
elect officers Sunday morning at
the Liberty hall. John DePastino
is completing his sixth term.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
State Board Approves
35 Waterbury Nurses
Formal Notifications Received Here By Graduates Of
st. Mary's, Waterbury Hospitals

Thrty-five young nurses, who were graduated from
the training schools Of the Waterbury and ST. May
hospitals last September have received notification Of
cess their state nursing board examinations which were
taken early in October
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04
BUNKER HILL

A meeting Of the executive board
of the Litchf1eld district Of Congre.
gational Women of Connecticut will
be held Monday, December z, from
II a. m. to 3 p. m. in the Bunker
Hill Congregational church. Every
church woman Is cordially invited.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04

London's Big Five" banks are
conducting campaign against
bucket shops" and high pressure
securities statesmen.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04

The annual meeting Of the Wa
terbury Council of Religious Edu-
cation will be held Monday eve
ming, December IA, at 1880 p. m.
in the parlor Of the First church.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04

Sunday night at 1880 o'clock a
union mass meeting viii lbe held
ut the First Baptist church. DIR.
Walker will be the preacher.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-04

An appeal Is being made by the
missionary council Of the Congre-
gational and Christian churches for
a special contribution at Christmas
time. We heartily commend this APP
peal and TRUST that many people
will avail themselves Of this oppor-
tunity to help the missionary or
benevolent budget, especially those
who do not contribute to missions
through the pledge envelope system.
Evening star., 1936-02-20

that much to critics who prefer to meas
ure life by the yardstick of economic de-
terminiSm.
Meanwhile primitive savages obey the
compulsion Of universal urge. Some
thing in the soul Of barbarian and civ
ilized peoples alike prompts the decora-
ton of even the most commonplace
utensils and instruments. The museums
of the world are filled with objects to
prove spiritual bond between humanity
and its artifacts.
Nor does the so-called machine age
signify any termination of that con-
nection. On the contrary. the porcelain
and china of today witness to its perma-
nency as cultural form. Thomas loft
of Tinkersclough, John Dwight of Full
ham and the Wedgwoods and the Min
tons are dead and gone, but their works
live after them to inspire modern pottery
OF whose texture, glaze, line and color
they would not be ashamed
Thus visit to pottery. porcelain
factory or china shop may encourage any
doubter who apprehends a decline in
civilization. So long as people can make
and appreciate such fragile but gracious
things the race is not doomed.
Evening star., 1936-02-20
Uniform Fares.

The Capital Transit officials say that
one Of the benefits to follow merger of
the bus line with the street car COM
pany will be free. interchangeable trans
fers. That is good.
The Public Utilities Commission is
understood to feel that the general ques-
tion of fares cannot be made a part of
the hearing now in progress on the
purchase of the bus line by the street
car company. That may be reasonable
But If the purchase is approved and
Is completed, the first and the most
pressing question confronting the COM
mission will be the fares to be charged
on the bus line. These fares, as Peo-
pies Counsel Roberts argues, should be
the same as those charged on the street
Car line.
Washington has variety of different
fares for street car and bus service diff
cult to reconcile with any grSat differ
ence in the services to the public. The,
Pub: Utilities Co-lrx....ss,o.a. as it has
minated 1t wuu.u do, should strive to
bring uniformity in fares as well as
Evening star., 1936-02-20
Modern Pottery.

One need not know great deal about
the art of pottery in order to appreciate
it. The appeal of beautiful ceramic work
is essentially democratic, arising as it
does from folk instinct ages old and
fortunately still unspoiled.
But perhaps there may be some ef-
ficiency in pointing out that pottery at
present is enjoying renaissance. The
hand-craft movement initiated by Will
liam Morris and John Ruskin in England
has created a revival of interest in those
products of the potter's genius which re-
fleet the esthetic impulse of the race.
OF course, an ugly plate or bowl or cup
might serve a utilitarian purpose quite
as well as lovely one would meet the
need. Dinner eaten from the crudest
dishes nevertheless is dinner to hungry
man. There is no occasion for argument
about the pragmatic values involved.
Even conuoisseurs are willing to concede
Evening star., 1936-02-20
Townsend Plan Inquiry.

A sweeping inquiry into all proposed
old-age pension plans has been ordered
by the House of Representatives. The
vote on the resolution providing for such
an inquiry, by bipartisan committee
of eight, evenly divided, was over
whelming, 24O to 4. The debate in
volved bitter denunciations of the meth
ods of the promoters of the so-called
Townsend plan, which, originating in
veritable vision of an elderly local
Office holder in California about to lose
his municipal employment, has swept
the country until it has included vast
number of advocates, allured by the
promise of comparative afluence with
out labor of any kind. 1t was de-
nounced as veritable racket, with huge
sums pouring into the treasury of the
organizers.
The economic fallacy of this plan has
been repeatedly demonstrated in the
course of the agitation for its adoption.
1t has been shown that the "transac-
tIOIlo Idh PlOk1oCo oS VIC oOulSC VI CllC
funds to be doled out to beneficiaries,
at the rate of 5000 month for each
individual pensioner over 60 years of
age, all of which must be spent, would
amount to a staggering sum. It has
been shown further that the admins
tration of such scheme, requiring
minute examination of the monthly ex-
penditures of all beneficiaries, would en-
tail the organization of great army
of supervisors. And it has been clearly
indicated that under the loose terms Of
the distribution the working forces of
the country, in all branches of industry,
would be depleted to the point of the
virtual paralysis of numerous lines of
productive and necessary labor.
The utter fallacy of the scheme does
not require further demonstration, and
yet so great has been the response on
the part of the people in all sections
OF the country in support and even de-
mand for the adoption of this measure
of relief that a thorough exposure of
the delusion is required The House of
Representatives has acted to that end,
commercially placing the investigation
upon the basis of -partisanship The
cost of the proposed investigation may
be viewed as sound investment in
economic security. incidentally it may
develop that there has been prohteering
in the promotion. Charges to that effect
were yesterday voiced in the House. If
the scheme has become racket, as has
been declared, the exposure Of the man
ner in which the honest supporters of
this fantastic proposal have been duped
will effectively put an end to the game.
Evening star., 1936-02-20
Prettyman's Resignation.

The many expressions of regret which
have followed announcement of Cor
poration Counsel Prettymans forthcom-
ing resignation indicate the high value
placed upon his services by the Commits
sionerS and the members of the commu-
nifty. Mr.. Prettyman has been a good
corporation counsel. He brought to an
Office which assumes increasing impor-
tance in municipal affairs fresh view
point and willingness to work. The
fact that he is good lawyer whose
pleasant personality enables him to get
along with people has strengthened his
effectiveness.
The corporation counsel is far more
than legal adviser to the Commissioners
and the municipalities chief legal off,
Ger. In recent years, especially, large
part of his work has been the examina-
tion of legislation affecting the District,
the preparation of reports thereon and
serving as sort of chief liaison officer
between the District Building and the
District legislative committees at the
Capitol. These duties require knowl-
edge Of municipal affairs and of local
public sentiment only to be gained
through study and experience. 1t is a
matter for general regret that Mr..
Prettyman is leaving the District service
to enter the more remunerative private
practice of law at time when his serv-
ices have become more valuable than
ever through his sympathetic under
standing of many local problems.
Evening star., 1936-02-20

There are strong indications that the
present abnormally cold Winter over
most of the United States marks a
Genealogical turning point.
Since 1914 the mean annual tempera-
ture Of the country has been rising and
the mean annual rainfall declining.
Henceforth, 1t is likely, this trend will
be reversed. There will be colder,
snowier Winters and cooler, wetter
Summers.
Such is the belief Of Joseph B. Kincer,
chief of the Genealogical division of
the United States Weather Bureau. Mr..
Kincer does not, he emphasizes, make
this as a prediction. The data are two
tenuous and elusive to form the basis
of any sort of forecast. The fact is,
however, that twice before in the past
125 years when the cumulative 10-year
temperature and precipitation average
reached about the point they had
reached in 1885 there was quick turn
in the reverse direction. Betting is in
favor of a recurrence of the same phe-
nomenon.
During the past 20 years of increasing
warmth there have been ups and downs.
with some of the coolest Winter weather
on record. The fact remains that by
treating the mean temperatures sta
tistically the accumulation Of tempera-
ture above normal and the deficit OF
rainfall below normal have been greater
year after year. It is like the accumu-
lation OF bank balance. At the end
of month when there are bills to be
paid it may sink almost to the vanishing
point, but at the end of the year. II
times have been prosperous, it will stand
a little higher than at the beginning OF
the year. In the same way heat sur
pluses are built up.
It is practically certain, Mr.. Kincer's
figures show, that climate moves in
cycles. He has been unable, however, to
find any time factor in these cycles. It
cannot be said that warmth accumula-
ton period will change to a period of
increasing deficits after running def
mite number of years. The climate hops,
skips and jumps. It doesn't swing like
a pendulum. So the statement that the
world has come to a Chronological
turning point doesn't necessarily mean
that next Winter will be colder than this
one, or as cold. It may be very warm,
Just as the Winter of 1918 in the period
Just passed was very cold. But the aver
age for the next 20 years, it is likely,
will be colder than that for the last 20
years, with warm Winters, normal VIM
tiers and abnormally cold winters all
punched together. s.-
One of Mr. Kincer's most valued long
time records is that for st. Paul. This
station is about as representative of
Chronological trends in the United
States as could be asked for, due to its
position in the track of descending cold
waves. Just before the middle Of the
last century there was long, hot, dry
spell. There are no authentic records
to show how far 1t extended into the
past, but it probably went back for at
least 70 years. In ths early bos the
Evening star., 1936-02-20
The Great Well Mystery.

How the Corps Of Engineers of the
United States Army, which built the
Panama Canal, and is now engaged in
harnessing the tides of the Bay of
Fundy, the construction of a canal
across the State of Florida, and other
notable and stupendous undertakings,
can stump its toe over such an appar-
emily simple job as digging a we'll to
supply water to the hospital at Glenn
Dale is hard to understand
The engineers are represented by Col.
Sultan, Engineer Commissioner, one of
their best. The actual well digging at
Glenn Dale is being done by a con-
tractor. But that we'll seems to be the
source of more trouble than water, al
though Col. Sultan and the Geological
Survey both agree that plenty of water
lies underground. The question of
possible olunSer in selection of the site
for hospital arose some time ago, when
there was trouble with getting an ade-
quate supply of well water. Now the
been delayed since December because
the well digger dropped the drill bit in
the we'll and has been unable to rescue
it. And the expensive proposition of
running a new main from the hospital
to tap the mains of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commissioned an
additional cost of 100000 to local tax
payers-is again under consideration.
There seems to be something of a
mystery about the well digging at Glenn
Dale. If the water is, there, why can
the well not be dug? If the water is not
there, somebody is apparently guilty of
a rather grave blunder. What is the
trouble?
Evening star., 1936-02-20

transfers. With the exception Of some
bus lines which actually offer extra
service, there is no good reason for
charging the passenger more when he
rides on bus than when he rides on
a street car. The bus fare on the lines
to be acquired by the street car COM
pany-a transaction involving the sale
of one subsidiary of the North Ameri-
can CO. to another-should be the mini
mum fare, which is street car fare.
Cannot the traction officials take a
leaf from the book of experience of the
power company and seek to popularize
service by making it efficient and cheap?
Reduction of fare on the Sixteenth street
line and Interchangeable, free transfers
with the street cars should increase pa
tronage and eventually increase profits.
Evening star., 1936-02-20
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

rainfall average had fallen to "a inches
year. There has been proportional
temperature accumulation. Then came
the turning point and the precipitation
average, accompanied by declining tenn
peratures, went up to 80 inches. Then
the hot, dry trend set in again and con-
tinued until the early COS. Once more
the 10-year average reached "a. Then
came the turn. The cold, wet period
lasted until approximately 1910 and
10-year average precipitation of "a
inches again. Then started the hot,
dry period from which we are just
emerging. The rainfall average fell to
the 24-inch mark again last year. There
is every reason to expect that history
will repeat itself.
The United States Weather Bureau
is cooperating member of an inter-
national organization which collects and
publishes the records for 500 stations
scattered over the world These records,
extending from 1910 to 1927, have just
been published by the British meteoro-
logical Office. They show clearly, Mr..
Kincer says, that these alternating
trends are worldwide. They might not
be apparent at any one place. Strictly
local conditions have profound effect
on climate. But taken over a period
of 20 years or more almost any station
tends to fit itself into the world picture.
BY and large, the trend in Washington
will be about the same as the trend in
st. Paul, although in any particular year
Washington may be having an abnor-
mally warm Winter and st. Paul an
abnormally cold one. Given time, this
all will even itself out.
There is doubtless, Mr.. Kincer says,
some worldwide factor involved. Me-
teorologists can come to no agreement
as to the nature of this factor. 1t is
something sufficiently powerful to domi-
nate widely different local conditions
and may have a definite time swing.
Records are too short to determine
whether this is true.
Specifically, meteorologists can give
q reason why this Winter is abnormally
cold. An excess OF cold air has been
piling up somewhere in the Arctic basin.
Very likely it has been accumulating
there for 20 years. Now it is spilling
over. Great masses of it are rushing
down the valley Of the Mackenzie River
just east of the Canadian Rockies, over
the central plains area Of the United
States, and then eastward through the
Central States to the Atlantic. 1t is as
If somebody had pulled out a plug to
let out the cold air. But what the plug
Is, where it is or who pulls it are COM
pletely unknown. Physically the Mac
kenzie Valley has been just as clear
for the past 20 years as it is today, but
for some reason or other, it hasn't, been
letting the cold "highs" through in such
quantities.
1t might be compared, MIR. Kincer
agrees, to a cold tide coming in. Prob
ably some time in the next 20 years the
high cold mark will be reached, but
sircs 1888. the Genealogical expert
Evening star., 1936-02-20

points out. he has been predicting that
the Genealogical turning point was
Just around the corner and combating
dire forecasts that the United States
was on the way to becoming another
Sahara Desert. Now he is just as cer-
tain that we are on the edge Of another
ice age. The cold trend will reach its
peak and turn just as suddenly into
warm trend.
There might be some possibility of
prediction, Mr. Kincer says, if an ade-
quate observing service could be main-
tained in the Arctic region, especially in
Northern Siberia There q good deal
of the Northern Hemisphere's weather"
probably is made. Considerable prog
ress has been made in this direction in
the past few years, but there have not
been sufficient observations to tell
whether there has been measurable,
cumulative upbuilding of high pressure.
Maybe such q service will be functioning
by the time another change in climatos
logical trend Is due.
Evening star., 1936-02-20
THE POLITICAL
MILL
By C. Could Lincoln.

Senator William E.. Borah takes to the
air the night of George Washington's
birthday, Saturday, at 10:30 o'clock. This
will be the Idaho Senator's first speech
since he appeared III Brooklyn at a
Borah rally some three weeks ago. He will
be speaking over national hook up, and
Borah-for- president boomers in many
parts OF the country are expected to
listen in. 1t Is expected that Senator
Borah will take the policies of George
Washington as his text and show their
value and pertinence today. This may
be "horse and buggy" stuff, but it is
likely to go well on Washington's BIRTH
day still.
Although election day for the country
at large falls on November 3 this year,
there are two States in the Union which
will do quite bit of voting on earlier
dates. One Is in the Far South and the
other In the Far North, Louisiana and
Maine. 1t has been the habit of poll
ticians and others to say "as Maine
goes, so goes the Nation" Louisiana, in
the Democratic solid South, has not
been considered barometer-it always
went Democratic. This year the Louisi-
ana election falls on April 81, when the
State will elect State and county officers
and Senator to fill out the unexpired
term of the late Senator Huey p. Long.
Mrs. Long, who already is serving by
appointment in her husbands place, is
slated to be elected to the Senate on
that date. The Maine election is set for
September IA, when it will elect SEN
ator, three members of the House, and
State and county officers Louisiana
differs from Maine in that it elects its
Senators and Representatives on Novem-
ber 3.
Thirty-siX States elect Governors this
year. In fact, this is to be a big year
all around in the matter of politics.
In addition to the 435 members of the
House of Representatives who must be
elected, there are 33 United States Sem
ate seats in the political pot or one
more than one-third of the Senate
membership. This extra seat is that
once held by the late Senator Bronson
Cutting of New Mexico killed in an
airplane accident last Summer, a seat
now held by Dennis Chavez under ap-
pointment by the Governor And, finally,
there is the election of President.
X
All of the candidates for these various
oI1ices have still to be nominated-ex-
cept in Louisiana, where primaries were
held January 81 which resulted in a
sweeping victory for the Long forces.
The list of State primaries and conven-
tions for such nominations, their dates
so far designated and the Senators
whose seats must be fought for are as
follows.