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Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-26
GUNSNITH KEEPS SECRET

OMRO. Wis. UD-William Sta
tege, 56-year-old popular Omro
gunsml1h constantly refuses to
diVulge his secret formula for
making guns. Most OF my meth
DDS are fashioned after those used
n the making of the gun used by
Daniel Boone he says.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-26

it, choose a print that has back
ground color OF one Of the dresses
you already possess. NcT then q.
what have We? Wear your print
dress and jacket costume one.
When the weather permits, do1
your jacket and add your fur
scarf costume two! And II
you have followed my suggestion
carefully. some days you VIII wear
your jacket over that other dress
that the background matches .
and you have costume three .
which was more than you ever got
out of a single purchase before.
What Length, Jackets?
I am not one to tell you yea for
some and nay for others. for this
season is one when anything goes.
If you like the little tiny short
Jackets and have a figure that does
right by them you are ioolsh
female if you don't wear them.
But. if your proportions are on the
ample side. it would be fatal 10
wear any jackets but those that
are swagger and IN the longer
length. / can tel you that there
are just as many stunning longer
ones as there are short, and per
sonally I can't make up my mind
which I prefer. There IS something
about the brava5o Of a sW82ger
iacketed dress that can't be rival
ed by the most suaFe OF the niue
fitted jackets.
Spicy Varieties
II YOU ere a lucky gal with an
extensive wardrobe. YOU won c
have to follow my suggestion Oh
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-26
SIDEWALK CYCLING FAVORED

ALAMEDA, Cal. up A parent
survey showed a ten to one vote
in favor Of bicycling on sidewalks
instead of streets. Police records
showed only two minor accidents
from sidewalk bicycling in recent
years as against several deaths
from street accidents.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-26
RATIO FOR 4 ACES FIGURED

TOLEDO. U.P - The probability
of the bridge player receiving a
hand with four aces but no kings,
queens or jacks. IS 922, 1893 ,263 ,252,-
800 divided by 1885, ,338.006. .460 .608, -
0OC-take it from Dr.. John B.
Brandberry, professor of mathema-
tics in the University of Toledo
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-26
Shoulders Rate High
When You're Talking
About New Sleeves
BY MILLICENT

Readers, We give you Madame
Schiaparelli. the lady who likes to
design architecturally. She knows
that shoulders squared, make waist
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Art on War Footing

The League of Nations, with new wars threatened in many quarters, recom- mends measures for the protection of art works from military destruction. There would be bombproof shelters built for portraits and, if possible, a restoration of the old sanctuary" system for statues, monuments and shrineS, such as prevail ed in the barbarouS Middle Ages.
 Museums would be equipped with bombproof endorsements where their treasures could be hidden from air bonn- bardment. Special means would be used to protect stained glass windows and ex- ternal sculpture on fine buildings Pre- cious historic buildings which could not be made bombproof, and might serve as targets for air vandals, would have space cleared around them where it is possible, so that they would be more distinctly recognizable for what they are.
 Plans for slowing civilians, especially women and children, in great bombproof basements in the big cities, are already well under way. Lovely civilization, isn't it, to make such precautions necessary?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Sensible Eating

It is difficult not to be too much con- cerned with diets and balanced rations, with experts always turning up new ideas on the subject and discarding accepted ones. Food fads rise and vanish without much regard to individuals. It is just as well to be calm about dietary novelties.
 There's spinach. It turns out that peo- pie who have taken it and those who have let 1t alone have been equally sensible. It isn't the indispensable superfood it was considered for while. The food elements which recommend 1t may be obtained elsewhere by those who dislike spinach or with whom it disagrees.
 There is also milk. A doctor, address ing the recent international assembly at St. Paul, shocks us with the news that milk isn't invariably the ideal food it is supposed to be- Some persons can't assim- Hate it properly and few find actually poisonous. But human luck holds. These folks can get in other foods the nourish- ment not available to them through milk.
 About all that food research has settled so far is that we still have much to learn about food, and that normally healthy persons are wise to follow varied food regime. That way they are pretty sure to get all the different food clements they need and not too much of any group.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Campaign's Over-Forget It

The last week has given the country's editorial writers a fine opportunity to describe the tremendous responsibility that the one-sided election put on the shoulders of President Roosevelt. They are entirely right, as far as that goes, but there is another side to 1t that hasn't been given so much attention.
 The election also put responsibility on the rest of us, as ordinary American citizens. MT. Roosevelt has to live up to an extraordinary triumph. The rest of Us have to live up to the extraordinary emphasis with which the nation regis tered it's will.
 That is to say that some of the tall tales and shuddery prognostications of the campaign might very well be retired at once to the limbo of forgotten things. They were used overtime and the people just naturally didn't believe them. The citizens voiced their disbelief 80 loudly that we might as well take their word for 1t.
 You remember, perhaps, some of the more feverish calnpaigners who an. nounced that the American way of life" was in dire peril? Some of them even in- sisted that the republic itself was in danger. Others swore that second term for this particular president would lead ultimately to a third term and a dictatorship. The responsibility which the election puts on citizens is that of shrugging off and forgetting this wild talk.
 All that has happened has been that the American people have registered their determination that, under the frame work of their traditional system, there shall be erected social edifice which will provide due protection against pov- erty, injustice, and want. This threat to the American way of life ends right there. Isn't it up to us to recognize the fact?
 We have had landslides before. Mak- ing allowance for the fact that no Demo- cratic candidate can lose all the Solid South, Coolidge and Hoover were elected by majorities as decisive as the one Roosevelt just got.
 It is idle to talk as if we had suddenly turned to one-party political system. A party which can poll 16,000,000 votes, as did the Republican party, is neither dead nor dying. There is no need to assume that we must at once become unanimous in support of the administrators pro- gram. To argue that way would be silly.
 We can discharge our responsibility by discarding the synthetic terrors of the campaign and by realizing that it was neither hurricane nor revolution which struck us on November 3, but just the will of the people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Christmas Club Millions

Within the next few weeks 1,063,5O9 depositors will receive $43,863, 809 from their Christmas Club savings accounts. There are 117,013 more of these accounts this year than last, and the total savings gain is $6 48,586. The average account Is $41.24, which is $1.29 more than the average in 1885.
 The release of those millions just ahead of the holidays ought to make fine start toward lively Christmas trade. Not all the money will be spent for gifts and general festivities. Some of it will be transferred to regular savings accounts. Some will be used fcy emergency needs - dentist, doctor, coal, clothing. Most of 1t. however, was saved for the purpose of Christmas spending and will go prompt ly into the department stores, grocery stores, speciality shops, and so on.
 The Christmas savings or thrift clubs have been a great success. They surely demonstrate the usefulness of saving for definite purpose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14

Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the Supreme Court of the United States celebrated his eightieth birthday in the same quiet and unostentatious way he lives from day to day. "The Crusader, as he has been termed, is one of the most quiet and retiring, but at the same time outstanding figures in Washington today. At eighty he is spry and alert, and his heavy shock of hair has whitened but not thinned. MT. Justice Brandeis is in Wash. ington and acknowledged liberal, although he, himself, does not classify himself as to this or that persuasion, but he has championed many of the New Deal projects. He is valuable man in his position by virtue of his keen mind and the clearness as well as thoroughness of his logic. He works for the cause Of the welfare of his fellowman. May he live through another decade and more like his late friend, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Sic Transit

An era seems about to end with the selling by the government, next month, of Al Capones white villa on Palm Island in Biscayne Bay, Florida. It is to go for some $51 ,O00 of taxes in a suit filed against the gangster's wife, in whose name the property stands. It was in that stucco palace that the boss mobster was wont to take his ease and pleasure in the cold winter months, with his favorite henchmen, guarded by the lake like a medieval robber baron by his castle moat, while the boys back in Chicago kept on selling his contraband beer and exter- minating rival gangs.
 Capone is still serving out his ten-year term in the federal penitentiary for ti-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14

They say that everything of the current age is streamlined. Even Thanksgiving dinners. In old days this holiday dinner was just big meal served at a long table that accommodated from six to sixteen. Turkey, chicken and ham, score of vegetables, several kinds of pie, and, of course plum pudding were served. The plum pudding had the kind of brandy sauce that grandma made which could measure against Oscar of the Waldorfs or any other such food specialist. To- each course taking its course. The tout ensemble is not massed for your inspec- ton when you enter the dining room. The question is, which do you prefer, the streamlined or the old time feast of plenty?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14

One of the most interesting things we have come across dur ing the past few weeks is an item dealing with the discovery of fake postage stamp racket which was discovered in Boston and which was thought to have had national significance. Five men were taken into custody by Boston Federal officials after a wide-awake postal clerk began to notice a large 8 appearing in the name of George Washington on one of the stamps used by the racketeers.
 Information in the possession of @ Boston Federal official indicates that at the time there was dis- tributing plant in New York which enabled the five men to turn out more than 100000 fraudulent stamps. Thousands of these stamps had been sold in Boston drug stores before the dis covery was made. The stamps were said to be similar to the counterfeit ones uncovered Tn New York last year, when secret service agents found that an at. tempt was being made to sell stamps of this kind to collectors.
 It has been rumored in Wash. ington that after the return of Postmaster James A. Farley to that city, an announcement of the date of release of tho Army Navy series of stamps will be made. It has also been said that the election of President Ro0se- welt for another four years pre- sages the oft.dlscussed issue to supersede the current designs which will probably be announced next year.
 Send covers to the Manlius School Stamp Club, Manlius, N, r., for Thanksgiving cachet. Standard eN size, lightly stuffed, ready to go, with one cent extra for each cachet. Indicate lightly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
NOVEMBER IA

NOVEMBER IA Those affected today by stellar :rl- fiuences are likely to have birth dates falling between October II and 30.
 General Indications
 Morning-Social.
 Afternoon--Business.
 Evening-Activc.
 The day is favorable. Business and clerical work are slightly fav- ored.
 Blrthdate If you were born on November 14 you should not take advantage of those around you who are Tn a subordinate position.
 You should feel Q change in some department of your life within the coming month.
 February, 1897, should be @ per- iod of constructive activity and a time when hard work should repay your efforts. Deal with elders. March, 1887, should be fortunate for travel, study or dealing with foreigners. All affairs should pros per for you.
 Danger-February IA through 25.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14

come tax evasion, the legal subterfuge on which so many crooks have been caught.
 Too bad about Capone, too. He is very able citizen, with some really fine quail ties which might have been turned to bet ter use.
 Well, sic transit gloria hoodlorum-h that's passabIe Latin. It's incredible how a generation of thugs that seemed recent ly to have American civilization by the throat have been shot up, put away and sold out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14

that in 1883 a crossing was made from the same two First Ladies, and the result was @ chrysan- themum which Mrs. Wallace named "GeOrgia Peek. That was in the days when Georgia's husband, George, was Q regular New Dealer, and the right hand man of husband Henry Wallace.
 Now that Peek has been cam paigning for Landon, the same cross produces not Peek" but Puck.
 NOTE-Since Mrs. Wallace has withdrawn her christening hand, the task is performed by two officials of the Bureau of Plant Industry. One of them, B. Y. Morrison, named Q new variety for his father, Lisle Morrison, but such is the fear of adverse publicity that 1t is not displayed with the other new varieties.
 Most of the new names are safely conservative: 'Delectable," "CrinoIine," and "Quakeress". Post Election Farley
 Of the many New Deal projects that were pigeonholed until after the election, one in particular is close to the Presidents own firm convictions.
 It calls for Q joint federal and state conference here, prior to the converting of congress, to map out @ broad program on the vital subject of conserving the nations natural resources.
 Plans already have been ten- barley. By summoning the ex- tatively proposed for such .. perts to meet here, cOnserva- ton minded New Dealers be- lieve they can dramatize the waste of natural resources that has continued for years and arouse public opinion In behalf of remedial legislation.
 In at least a dozen speeches this year, the President has em- phasized the problem. At one White House press conference he urged the reading of David Cush- man Coyle's book Waste" on this subject.
 NOTE-Many inside the admin istration regard conservation as the best approach to the ques- ton of a Constitutional amend- ment. It is argued there would be e minimum of objection to an amendment authorizing the federal government to act in this field.
 Army Mule
 When the Army football team trots out on Franklin field, Phila- delphia, to meet the Navy on Mo- vember 28, it will have as escort the traditional Army mule-with Q difference.
 This time the mule will be an imported animal, brought in specially for the occasion by EcuadOrian Ambassador AlfarO, son of the former president of Ecuador.
 Alfaro bought a mule in Ecua- dor-where he says these quad- rupeds are particularly lively and full of kicks--had 1t shipped to the United States to be the Army mascot.
 NOTE-Alfaro is a graduate of West Point, has two sons now atetnding the Academy.
 Copyright, 1936, by United
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Answers To Questions
Q sssa NEA
By Frederick M. Kerby

c. Who invented the gyroscope7
 A. It Is credited to Jean Bernard Leon Toucault (isie.6e), whose famous experiments with pendulum and gyroscope proved and meas. ured the diurnal motion of the earth.
 e. When is Whitsuntide?
 A. The seventh Sunday after Easter.
 e. What is the federal Internal Revenue tax on cigarettes?
 A. Three dollars Q thousand on cigarettes that weigh not more than three pounds per thousand, and $7.2O per thousand on cigarettes that weigh more.
 o. How old Is Secretary of Labor. Frances Perkins, and what is her husbands namep
 A. She is 64 and is married to Paul 0. Wilson.
 e. Is 1t required that the Presi- dent of the United States must previously have been Q Governor of a State?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
A Book a Day
Not a Reprint, but New York by Biographer of Johnson
 BY BRUCE CATION

The outstanding literary event of the month, to date. is undount" edly the publication of Q new cal. ton of James Boswell's Journal or a Tour to the Hebrides with Sam uei Johnson, LL.D." (Viking: $b.
 This Is vastly more than re- print: 1t is Q new book, for Bos- wells original manuscript was found only recently. and 1t devel- oped that 1t had been much abridged and expurgated In all ear- Her editions. -
 Roswell seems to have been his- tory's first stooge. He was a toady and q yes-man, and as an ndiv- idual he must have been rather sorry specimen; but he was Q great biographer, and for its rich human flavor and its three-dimensionai portrayal of Q salty and individual istic man. this new edition of the Journal is worthy to stand beside Boswell's more famous life"
 Altogether, 1t is Q box eminently worth adding to your library. :.
 Wnlle we aEo OAh sAaS o~SSS
 the classics, mention should pc made of some of the excellent edi- tions now being published by the Heritage Press. This house is bringing out some of English liter ature's greatest books in fine, ar- tistic dress, illustrated by first-rate artists, printed on durable paper and encased in bindings both or- namental and lasting.
 So far, l have seen "The Adven. lures of Tom Sawyer" splendidly illustrated by Norman Rockwell; Green Mansions" illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias; "The Com- pleat Angler" illustrated by Robert Ball; and - last but most certain ly not least-- 'The Pickwick Pa- pers." with well-nigh perfect iilis- trations by Gordon Ross.
 You might profitably keep these editions in mind when you make up your Christmas list. The pric- es. by the way. range from e3.s0 to e3.75.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14

Miss Agnes Repplier, famous woman of letters, at the Book Fair held this week in New York City, is of the opinion that the flood of books on the market will swamp individual authors. There would be a question, she said, of the survival of the writer under the steady influx of all manner of books. Miss Reppliers talk, we read, was marked by hun1or as well as barbs. From the authors point of view" she said, "there are too many books in the world"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IA, 1886
A Thought for Today

nut suffer not woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man. but to Dc In silence-I Timothy 2:l2.
 The dignity of c woman consists in being un- known to the world. Her glory N the esteem of her husband; her pleasure the happiness Of her family.-RousSeau.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Selected Poem
TO PEGASUS IN BONDAGE

By Elizabeth Virginia Raplee in the New York
 Sum- Pegasus, they have clipped your wings; You hop ungainly as e toadl No more your mane m splendor filings Itself against the sky. Your road Leads through barren land indeedi Surely your golden hoofs must spurn This arid soil. You cannot feed Upon these husks-you must return To those enchanted pastures vast Where once you grazed--the fields of gong Come. Pegasus, escape at last yxUm bondage you have borne too longl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Current Comments

President Roosevelt has more power now than any other man ever had in the world. Tn the flu. ture, historians will devote less time to Caesar and Napoleon and more to Franklin Roosevelt.
 --T'he Rev. Charles E. Cough
 lin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
By J. F. D.

in pencil on cover which of the following is preferred for post. marking office:
 TURKEY, N. O., Ark, Ky, Tex as: LEGO, Mont; WING, Ark; OYSTER, Va; TOMATO, Ark; PARSLEY, w. Va; BREAD LOAF. vt; SUGAR. Idaho; CORN, Okla; SAGE, Ark, Wyom.; OLIVE, Mont, N. M, Okla, Calf; NUT, N. M.; RAIS- IN, Calf; GRAPE, Ky; OR- ANGIE, Calif., Texas, Fla, N. J.: CRANBERRY, Pa., N. O., W. Va; M1NTs, N. O., MAYFLoWER, Ark, Ky, Texas; PILGRIM, Ky, Mich, Texas; INDIAN, Va; COZ FEE, Calif., Ga.: TEA, 8. D.; GRACE, Idaho, Ky, Mich., Miss.
 The annual repor. of Canada's Eastern Arctic patrol, released re. gently in Ottawa, states that c. Fl. Lawrence of the post0ffice de- partment handled more than 10,- GOO pieces of philatelic mall, and in addition several thousands parcels and packages for Gov ernment officers, trading company officials and mission workers. Ma tives have also made use of the arctic facilities to send their friends letters in symbolic writ ing. This is method used by the Eskimos in writing letters to each other and Is one which is also in common use all through. out the North.
 Requests for copies of the re- vised edition of the United States Commemorative Notes, released in conjunction with the New Jer- sey exhibition, continue to pour into the ofilces of New York newspapers. It has been an- nounced that they may be pro- cured for Q service charge of ten cents per copy, covering the cost of postage and handling. Copies are obtainable at the New York Sun office or at headquarters of the New Jersey Philatelic asso- ciation.
 Walter Czubay, 3117 Thirty. sixth street, Long Island City, N. Y., will sponsor Q cachet for the last day of the Texas Cen. tennial, to be mailed from the U. s. s. Texas. Send covers, ready togo, with one cent postage OK. tra for forwarding.
 Reports from London indicate that collectors in England are showing Q much earlier interest in the British Empire stamps which will be issued for the coro- nation next May than was taken in the popular King George Jubi- lee issues of last year.
 Immense sums are being in- vested in long commitments on the stamps, one dealer having set aside 230.000 for this purpose, and the expectation are that more than E250000 worth of the new issues will have been ordered by the trade before the stamps are placed on sale.
 An unann0unced series of six stamps of the regular 1895 Phil- ippine issue, ovcrprlnted with the word Commonwealth" was re- gently placed on sale at Manila and supplies are reported on their way to the office cf the Philip pine trade commissioner i'm Washington.
 The denominations are 2, c, 40, 16, 30 cent and one pound (equiv- aIent to S2 cents in U. s. curren- cyl The overprinting was done at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. No erders will be accepted by the commissioner until the supplies gre received.
 T.,w~A,sA Cawvax~nAvsea
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14
Horoscope
BY OCTAyINE

BY OCTAVINE
 For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the planets, the daily horoscope Is outlined by Q noted astrologer. In addition to information of general interest, 1t outlines information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-14

There are at present in the New York theater boards two melancholy danes with the critics having merry time con- trasting the merits of the two, with not too sad result.