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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-26
TANKS SMASH
 THROUGH LINES
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Continued from Page 1.) 5O,O00 more men on the work of fortifying Madrid, believing that they could neutralize the tank at- tack when it reached the city's out skirts.
 For the moment the nationalist attack hammered at the area east of the Madrid Toledo railroad, only 16 miles south of Madrid.
 There were persistent reports that the nationalists had finally severed the Madrid East Coast railroad. De- parture of trains on the east coast lines, which hun soutlaward until after they pass Aranjuez, 28 miles south of Madrid, was resumed. But there was no word how far along the line the trains were going.
 It was believed the trains did not go far, for nationalist tank units. after cross country race, were re- ported holding an important junc- tion commanding the railroad and two good roads, one leading to To- ledo, few miles outside of Aran- juez.
 Severance of the railroad, how
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-26

New Hampshire and Vermont-there of the six states carried by Herbert Hoover in 1882.
 Euthused At Reception
 Referring to MT. Roosevelt's re- ception last week, Farley said:
 Not in the history of this country has a president, standing for re- election, been greeted by such inn mense and enthusiastic crowds as everywhere have awaited his coming and cheered him to the echo.
 That this was also the case in New England should be most re- assuring to those doubterS who have felt that President Roosc It must win without the northeast. It is difficult to say how overwhelmingly 8 vote of conhdence New England actually will give him. But am sure his most ardent followers will not be disappointed when the bal lots are counted"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-26
MRS. SIMPSON IS
 TALK OF ENGLAND

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-26

mate defense of the capital. With him were the other two key cabinet men, Indalecio Prieto. minister of marine and air, and Julio Just. rnin- ister of public works. Prieto had just returned from the east coast where he tried to speed up the sup- ply of war munitions and reinforce ments. Just reported on the de- fense situation here, and announced that the outer defenses now were backed by Q strong second defense line.
 Fifty thousand members of the General Workers union spent yes- terday on volunteer work digging the Madrid trenches, and paraded in the streets last night with their picks and shovels to the cheers of the populace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-26

fifth congressional district.
 The work of getting out sample lists of candidates to be voted on in each party is now being com pleted by the registrars, also. The voting machines have been distrib- uted to the various polling places designated by the aldermen at their last regular meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-26
NINE KILLED IN
 AUTO ACCIDENTS
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(Continued from Page 1.) Mrs. Mary J. Chicewski. 60 Bridge water, struck while crossing street Malcom Barclay, 25, Newport R. l.. struck by street car in Roxbury.
 Miss Sullivan, a first-grade teach CT at Parker School, Lexington, was accompanied by four other teachers in the same school, all of whom were injured when their automobile collided with one driven by Joseph R. Pullo of Wareham at South Mid- dleboro.
 Two, Miss Elizabeth E. Call, 3l, of Lexington, and Miss Marion M. Marston of Lubec, Me, were held at a hospitallfor treatment. Miss Alice T. Farrand. 29, and Miss Doris E. Bauer, 25, both of Lexington, return ed home after receiving first aid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-26
EDW. GIBBONS
 IS FOUND DEAD
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SOOutluueU 1IOIu SaR0 ~ to work. She found the door locked and when there was no response to her knock she summoned two neighborS, Stanley Foster and Don- ald Lawrence. The door had been locked from the inside but they managed to work the key loose and get inside. where they found Gib- bons dead.
 Window Open
 Lieut.. Detective William Pollard, who discovered the gas leak, said that the window at the mans head was open about 8 foot and that there was no strong odor of gas. Dr. Morrill's report is expected to be made later today or tomorrow.
 Police this afternoon were seeking to locate relatives. Funeral arrange ments have not yet been made.
 Gibbons is said to have been em- ployed at the American Cyanamid and Chemical corp. plant on Rail- road Hill street.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Carelessness, of Course

WHERE is nothing very profound in the observation
J. by Washingtons traffic experts that careessness
on the part of motorists and pedestrians is responsible
for the cty's high traffic particularly high during
the current month.
It has eenapparent for time that carelessness
a better word would be foolishness, is to blame.
But the obviousness of the cause does not minimize
the result.
The plain fact is that automobiles killing too many
people in this city.
FINDING THAT THE BLAME RESTS ON CARE
LESSNESS DOES NOT HELP UNLESS SOME
MEANS CAN BE DEVISED TO ELIMINATE THE
CARELESSNESS.
If those driving automobiles would realize that
less the accident toll be curtaled there serious
threat that all motorists will suffer through interfer
with the of automobiles it is possible that
greater care would be exercised.
The rate at which killing people in traffic
not be accepted by society indefinitely.
Sooner or later society will force halt.
It is possible for motorists to foresta possible radical
action if they wish.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Treat Them as
Americans
(TimeS, Palo Alto, Cdl.,
NoU. %, 1856

One of the curious facts in Amer
ican civics is that while foreign
born people may acquire full citi-
zenShip rights, including that Of
voting for President, native-born
Americans who are citizens in every
respect are denied that voting
boon if they chance to be residents
of the National Capital.
The full voting right and the
further right to representation IN
Congress are objectives of a fight
being waged by the residents of
the District of Columbia who will
once more seek adoption of a con-
stitutional amendment to remedy
those omissions.
All of the argument lies on the
side of the D. C. residents. They
are a populouS group (619,000
American citizens, literate and
mostly native born, residing there) :.
They are called citizens -taxpay.
ing and military duty-but are
denied the full electoral privilege
and the Federal right to legislative
representation merely because the
Constitution as it stands makes
no provision for granting those
boonS to the District in it's non.
State status.
The Constitution clearly pro-
vides, however: 1.-THE citizens of
each State shall be entitled to all
privileges and irnmunities of the
several States" In another article
it provides: "The right of the citi-
zenS of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any State
on account of race, color, or preVi-
GUS condition of servitude."
Those provisions clearly reveal
an intent to make universal among
the nations citizens the privileges
that the District OF Columbia resi-
dents are now seeking. The irrele.
want fact that the District of Co.
lumbia is technically not a State
should not be any greater barrier
to citizenship than race, color or
previous condition of SerVitude."
The Districts population, as
shown by the 1880 census figures,
is greater than that of eight States,
and the national taxes paid by it's
residents in the last fiscal year
exceeded the sums paid in such
taxes by 25 of the States individ-
ually, and was more than those
paid by nine States combined.
On such a showing, certainly
Congress should approve the pro-
posed constitutional amendment
that would right the long-endured
wrong to which District of Colum-
bia residents have submitted,
The Washington times., 1936-12-17

their lives away on sour weaklingS.
Gallant gentlemen and ladies
dragged into the gutter by jeal-
Gus naggers, vulgar bullies. Great
intellectuals beguiled by brazen
cheats.
But why? Why should any
big person permit such degrade
ton? Or submit to such trick
cry?
Ask Bill and Ellen and they'll
have an answer ready. It's be-
cause they're 80 sorry for them. "
Because they alone understand
them" And-raising martyred
eys, they'll quote the old motto
-"noblesse oblige."
EGOTISM
But that isn't the real reason
why big, fine people endure little,
worthless one. The real reason
is that which underlieS so much
of our mortal tragedy-EGO-
TTSM. Big, fine people endure
little, weak, silly, cheap people
because it flatters their conceit.
An equal or superior person
is always a challenge. 1t takes
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
SERVICE

The grumbling and groans
against the way the Senate rail
road in the subway is being run
have mounted until disappointed
patrons have taken to hurting sar-
castle remarks at the operators.
When both the ears are running
they keep up a cross fire. One
starting from one end at the same
time the other starts from the op-
posite terminus. Senators who de.
sire to use the cars push a bell on
the wall three times and the cars
come running. During the sum-
mer only one car has been in op-
Grafton, and that car runs in a
very desultory manner.
Passengers have hurried aboard
to find the operators reading a
newspaper which they very care
fully continue to peruse until the
spirit moves them and then
methodically folding the paper
they start out after minute or so.
This lackadaisical performance
frequently holds up passengers at
both ends of the road. One man
who wanted to get to the
Capitol became so irked he Strode
through the subway, after waiting
awhile, only to find the car rest
ing peacefully at the other end
while three passengers waited for
the operator to get started. AS he
passed he shouted:
"What's the matter, you only
run this car every half an hour?
The Washington times., 1936-12-17

his brother Harry H. SchwartE
Harry in directing the greatest
combine of orchards in his State,
Virginia. Dick is the Admiral
of South Pole fame. Harry is
none other than Senator Harry
Flood Byrd, whose plan to reor-
ganize the Federal Government
has put him in the national lime
light.
That should give Senator-elect
Schwartz sons something to
shoot at.
When the wyoming legislator
takes up his official position here
he won't be a stranger to the
ways of the Nations Capital. He
served in the Interior Department
in the West and in Washington
for IA years. Besides being an
accomplished attorney the new
Senator has been interested in
education and served on the board
of trustees of the Natrona County
Memorial Hospital which directed
nurses training school for
Wyoming girls.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
HAPPENS ANYHOW

Despite the guard Of two Cap
itol Policemen who are watching
the stand being erected in front
of the Capitol for the inaugura'
tion there has been an accident
Sylvester Shorter, year old, OF
331 A st. N. E., fell from the par
TALLY constructed photographers
stand on the northeast corner OF
the Capitol Plaza Sunday. He was
rushed to Casualty Hospital by
Hynes Terry, veteran Capitol
guide, and it is said his condition
is serious.
Guide Terry, who picked up the
lad, said he couldn't get any auto
mobiles to stop for several min
utes while he stood with the boy
in his arms calling for help. Fin
ally he stepped in front of a car
and the motoriSt, realizing the
emergency, took the boy away for
immediate treatment.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17

der the State constitution but no
provision was made in the case Of
the inhabitants of the little strip
of land where the national capital
was located. Their political status
is little above that of the Indians
or the Chinese.
Political expediency probably
plays it's part in blocking any at
tempt to grant suffrage to the peo-
pie of the capital. Party strate-
gists are timid about adding over
half a million voters to the total,
no matter what their constitution
ally guaranteed rights may be.
However, the Washington Times
is making a tremendous effort to
rouse public sentiment throughout
the nation to this hoary injustice,
and possibly Congress may be in
duced under pressure to take
action,
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Disfranchised
Herald Democrat, Leadville,

(HerGId Democrat, LeGdUtLLe, Co..,
NoU. 30, 1856
In an article in the National En-
cyclopedia on the District of Col
umbia, which comprises the city of
Washington, there appears what
purportS to be an explanation of
the fact that the inhabitants of
the national capital are disfran.
chised. It reads:
"Since the purpose Of the inde-
pendent status of the District is
that those connected with the
workings of the government
should be free from politics the
citizens do not have the right to
vote in municipal or federal mat
terS."
Although this is arrant nonsense,
it seems to have been accepted as
pure and unadulterated wisdom
handed down from the Founding
Fathers. In those early days there
was much that was suspect about
the people" and some timid souls
might have been disturbed over
the possibility of the harmful ef-
feet of conferring the right to vote
on the handful of people living in
the little clearingS near the banks
Of the Potomac.
However, the result of this alb
surd piece of fiction, is that over
half a million citizens of the
United States, paying nearly 10
millions in federal taxes annually,
are deprived of the right to vote,
though they have been knocking
at the door of Congress for many
years.
The remedy, of course, lies with
Congress, and so far the appeals
have fallen on deaf ears. The city
of Washington itself is governed
by congressional municipal COM
mittee, and it may be that the ma
tionaI legislature doesn't care to
give up the power and prestige of
running the national capital.
The washington Times is now
sponsoring a movement to arouse
the people of the entire country to
the injustice of depriving over 6OO,-
900 American citizens of their
right to participate in the affairs
of government. At the last session
of Congress a constitutional
amendment was introduced to give
to the citizens of the District this
fundamental right, and it will be
reintroduced when Congress recon
veneS in January. Here is a case
where the Founding Fathers admit
tedly made a mistake. When ter
ritories were admitted to state
hood the people automatically
gained the right to the ballot un-
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
ASIDES TO THE GALS
The determination with which q
woman refuses to forget a dead

love affair is exceeded only by the
resolution with which a man re-
fuses to remember it.
The man who complains the
loudest and makes the most fuss
about the results of an election is
usually either the one who forgot
to register in the primaries or who
spent election day on the golf
links.
When girl stops trying to daz-
zle a man and begins trying to
mother" him, that is the signal
for him to make his retreat.
Never expect to charm a man by
letting him know that you are dead
in love with him; because that is
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Let's Be Maqnanimous
(Evenino Ne,DS, DaytonG Beach,

NCOCGGGy NCUOS CGStOtW ON~S'SS
Fla, NoD. 20, 1856
A. G. Newmyer, publisher of The
Washington Times writes form
letter to editors asking support OF
a constitutional amendment giving
the franchise to residents Of the
District of Columbia.
1t seems the trainers Of the con-
Stitution provided that the "elec-
tors of the several States" shall
do the voting, and forgot that the
District of Columbia wasn't a
State, and so it got left out in the
cold in this voting proposition.
Similarly it is left out when it
comes to representation in Con-
gresS.
Publisher Newmyer says this
was done unintentionally, but of
course there is the suspicion that
maybe the constitution makers
had an idea that Washington
would become vast army of gov
ernment workers and that maybe
their votes would give an undue
advantage to their employers, the
administration in power. On the
other hand, they could not foreSee
civil service, which in theory at
least is presumed to make it un-
necessary for the Washington job
ster to care who is in the saddle
so far as his job is concerned.
That thought may make us smile
a little bit.
The was h ington publisher
points out that the District has
grown to the point where it's pop
ulation exceeds that of eight
States, that it has a voting-age
population of 433, 900, that it paid
some II million dollars in taxes
last year, that it sent more men
to the World War than any one
of II States. It has no word in
the spending of its taxes, he COM
plains, and that, of course, is taxa
ton without representation.
It is quite apparent that these
433, 900 Washington voters are con-
siderably irked about the matter,
and therefore, why not make them
happy and give them the vote?
Thinking only in terms of ma
tional employees it does seem
rather funny that a stenographer
in the Bureau of chronological
Astronomy, or what have you, can
not vote because washington is
her residence, while a fourth as
siStant postmaster in Seminole
Falls, Utah, if there is such a
place, can cast ballot.
Mr.. Newmyer thinks editors
should write editorials about this
subject and right great wrong,
and as every editor likes to do a
little wrong-righting every morn
ing before breakfast, here's to Mr.
Newmyer'S pet amendment. Let's
be magnanimous and give Wash
ingtonianS a. vote and spokesman
in Congress and help them to feel
that they do not have to take out
their AmericaniSm in contempla-
ton of public buildings and his.
torical museum pieces but can ex.
perience the thrill of taking part
in the making of history, the thrill
every American feels when he
drops his ballot into the box on
election.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen ROWLGnd

, the particular kind OF dead one"
that doesn't appeal to any man.
The kind of people who are
constantly going to soothsayers u
have their minds read and their
futures predicted, are mostly those
who haven't any.
A woman never seems to realize
the full worth of a mans love
until she decides to sue for breach
of promise.
Never talk to your husband be,
fore dinner, because then he is
too Ghungry to appreciate your
converSation-nor after dinner,
because then he is too sleepy to
listen to it.
BY the time the average un'
married man reaches 80 he has
had so many flames that the
divine fire in his heart has be-
come nothing but an ash-heap.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Votes for Washington

National representation IN Congress and the right to
vote for President be secured for Washington only
through the action of the people of the vGrious States and
their congressional representatives Foto1Dtng are fen
of the editorials printed By newspapers throughout the
country pedging support to the movement for adoption
of constitutional amendment granting the District of
Columbia representation IN Congress and IN the Electoral
College. They printed IN response to letter from
The Washington Times outlining the Districts Voteless
status.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Disfranchised
Americans
(Ohio State Journal, Columbus,
Ohio, NoU. 80, 1856

Ohio, Nov. 30, 1885,
It is quite generally known that
the residents of the District Of
Columbia, while having the usual
status of citizens, have no vote
and therefore no voice in their
Government. The population
totals 433,000, which is in excess
OF the voting populations com.
bined OF the 10 least populous
States. Is there any reason why
these persons Should longer be
denied suffrage?
Excluding entirely those Wash.
1ngtonian residents who go down
there to fill offices to which they
have been elected or appointed.
and who maintain residences
elsewhere, here is a great munici.
pality whose residents, though
taxed and though held otherwise
accountable as citizens, find no
polls open, no voice of their own
to say what their tax rates are
to be or how the tax money is to
be dispensed.
IN every other respect Wash"
ington is regarded as a regular
American city. Lodges, fraterni-
ties and other groups have Dis
trict of Columbia jurisdictions.
The city has its Chamber of Com
merce and other business and
civic organizations. It's people
are above the average in intelli-
gence, they are as intensely
patriotic as the citizens of any
State, they are as municipality
minded as the dwellers in any
other American city, yet they are
as practically disfranchised as
any alien who may be abiding in
our land unnaturalized.
The legal provisions making the
discrimination against Washing
tonians are archaic and unreaSon-
able. They should be removed
and that without any delay ex'
cept that which normally attends
the submission, consideration and
adoption of a constitutional
amendment.
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that should tie
up with such q
peevish wilmer!
That rud e
boo1' Elen'S en-
gagged to-what
b oS S e 81 e S a
lovely, cultured
person like El-
len to waste her
life on an i'll
natured loafer?
TT gic in
stances lik e
t h e S e-you've
S e en- the m
scores of times.
Fine, friendly
neoDle throwing
The Washington times., 1936-12-17

|Some huStling to live up to the
standards of a great spirit. And
frequently a fine friend, quite
unconsciously, makes us feel like
80 cents, by his very finenesS.
But we can always feel larger
by comparison with a smaller
nature. Nothing flatters a brave
man like a coward-or a wise
man like a fool. And the wise
man is always so sure that the
fool can't get the best of him!
Complac ntly he listens to the
fools idle prattlings, petty tan
trums or two-by-four terrors.
thanking heaven, meanwhile. for
his own superior brain and back
bone. And all the time the de-
spised fool is taking him for a
ride!
Strange that even in the
strongest natures, vanity should
work such havoc-yet it does.
Study of the life of almost any
great man or woman, and you'll
find a circle of flattering para
sites, scheming Eyes men," who
slowly, but surely, pull him down
to their own level.
EgOtiSm-that's one reason why
big people are undone by little
ones. COwardice--there'S another.
Jim comes to the office, pasty-
faced, after a sleepless night. The
wife'S been on another tantrum.
Jealous again!
Alice crouches in a darkened
room-a Sobbing, h u d d erin g
wreck. Fred's been on another
bender. Raised Cain as usual.
But why do they stand it? Jim's
a brainy chap-one of the city'S
leading attorneys, and a stubborn
battler. Alice has made a great
record in her own business for
years, and carried her worthless
husband along. Then why do they
endure such outrageS-allow their
lives to be wasted by such worth.
less weaklingS?
Again they have an answer
but the wrong one. "Pity," say
Jim and Alice, thinking with dis
gusted contempt of the creatures
to whom they are Shackled. By
any mental test, Jim'S jealous
wife and Alice's drunken husband
would make a low rating.
AFRAID
But often the single-track mind,
with it's malicious notions, has
more driving power than the big,
tolerant brain and generous spirit.
Jim and Alice are actually afraid
of these small, distorted people to
whom they're bound . afraid of
their vicious, ruthless determina-
tion.
Some day Bill and Ellen, jim
and Alice, are going to face and
rebel against the inevitable final
straw" When that day comes
they'll be filled with indignant re-
elimination and recount all the
humiliations they've suffered, the
indignities and brutalities they've
endured. And they'll honestly be-
lieve that it was all the Other
Fellows fault.
But they'll be all wrong. We,
alone. are to blame if we're cheap
ened, tricked, insulted and abused
by those whom we know to be
interiors.
Petty minds and poisonous ma
lures are as obvious as mad dogs.
If to flatter our vanity or serve
our cowardice, we endure their at
tack, then we have only ourselves
to thank. And we deserve the
beating we inevitably get!
Copyright. 1886. by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
The Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith

twas carefully graded and Sown
with grass. In order to provide a
way across it and to spare the
grass, a sidewalk was put in, run
ming diogonally across the strip.
1t just doesn't suit the pedes-
trianS, however. They won't walk
diagonally when they can go
straight across, and as result
there has been beaten out a path
way right across the lawn and the
sidewalk,