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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

, as put in operation, as in Idaho, where the average benefit is esti- mated at $21.44 month.
 Yet in Michigan, first state whose law was approved by the federal government, 500 letters were re- ceived from Detroit alone express ing gratitude for the pensions granted, though the average was around $16.50 a month.
 CRIMINALS ARE EXCLUDED
 Some states, such as Idaho, Washington, Alabama, specifically provide that the pensions may go only to state citizens. Other states, like the Townsendites themselves, exclude persons convicted of crime within a given number of years. Michigan and Alabama are strict about this.
 Generally speaking, the states have moved to exclude from pen- sions all who have sizable incomes or property. In the District of Co., lumbia allotments are purely on a bassi of need. Maryland, Washing ton, and Idaho admit those whose income is plainly insufficient; and Vermont and Michigan specifically mention those whose incomes are less than $50 a month.
 Several states, Nebraska and Maryland especially, provide that applicants must show they have no
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

Missouri, Nebraska, New Hamp. shire, Rhode Island, Vermont Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyom- ing are the states which were al- ready receiving federal money tc supplement their approved old age pension plans as of March 30.
 The other approved states, which will begin to receive the federal contribution soon, probably this month, are Arkansas, Connecticut Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla homa, Oregon, and Utah.
 Other states are struggling to gel bills through their legislatures be- fore they adjourn this winter. Bud get-balancing Kansas failed to gel its plan approved because 1t was optional with counties, which were also to raise the money, thus keep ing the state budget clear.
 Kansas may have to call spe- cial session of it's state legislature to provide the necessary changes and taxes.
 NEW YORK IN JAM
 New York's legislative action has damned, and meanwhile the com plaint is made that New York city alone is losing $10,000 day in dis bursements it would be getting fl the law had been passed. The federal-tate plan provides that the federal government will put up a dollar for every dollar raised by the state up to $15 a month, making $30 benson States can add as much more as they like.
 Illinois, for instance, though 1t has as yet no law approved by the federal social securities board, is already laying plans for pensions for $50,000, payments to start as soon as federal money begins flow ing.
 Indiana, now paying out $1,25O,- 900 a year into its own state pen sion system, will need $3,240, ,000 under the federal-state system, the federal government matching that figure. The legislature is trying to find 1t now.
 In many of the states surveyed figures on which are shown in the accompanying table, the number of accepted applicants actually get ting the pensions will increase There has not yet been time to re- ceive and investigate the apliea- tions. And of course the nlumber of aplications will also increase as time goes on. METHODS VARY GREATLY
 Methods of raising the money vary. Idaho, Washington, and Mis- souri do it by sales taxes. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Michi- gan simply draw on the general state treasury. Vermont and Ne braska provided head tax, Wyom- ing liquor tax.
 The greatest variation was found in the requirements. Many states have placed an income or property restriction about the pension. That has led to misunderstanding. New Hampshire, for instance, found 1t hard to explain to applicants that everybody over 65 didn't get the pension automatically.
 States strongly inoculated with the Townsend plan to pay $200 a month to all people over 60 with out regard to need have found the strongest criticism of the pensions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

Friends in this city of the late Rev. John McGun- ness who died in Litchfed the other day will miss the genial companionshp of the departed priest His death last Sunday, following very brief illness came as distinct shock not only his fellow toWnsmen in Litch
 field but to his friends here and elsewhere Those who had the friendship of Father McGunness spent many happy with him at his residence where he was con- tent to spend his days carrying his parish duties and persng his favorite volumes His closest friends who the habit of taking the pleasant roads that lead to Ltched to stop at the South Street rectory spend literature kindred subjects will miss the refreshing and intellectual stimulus of such companionshp Those oners for twenty-five years will miss sympathetic pas tor who had kind word for a and one whose sole ambition to end his days among his people in that picturesque town that had become home to him. where he was such familiar figure, priest in his little church and of Litcheds representative towns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

The good old days The death of Marilyn Miller yesterday New York city recalls the first time this paragrapher her pirouette and whirl around the stage of the New Amsterdam theater well as raise light but sweet, voice in Song It was the Zegfeld Foes and the time September, 1919.--A glamorous cast of names added to the brlliance of this show
 There Van and Schenck, the latter now dead John Steele raised glorious tenor voice Ray Dooey disported her puckish self here and there. Eddie Cantor hilarious performer. And if we're not mistaken the late Will Rogers had few sage observa never funnier Mary Hay pretter. But through 1t all danced and sang Marilyn Miller. Her climax in beautiful that Ziegfelds aides brought forth from some magic box. It typical old fashioned minstrel setting, but in modern dress Gorgeous hardly the word for it. Marilyn Miller sang Mandy of beloved fame and executed number Of softshoe routines that would have made George Pr1m rose the daddy of them all when it to the softshoe stepping clap his hands. That was my first picture of Mariyn Miller and was there abrghter nor more gamorouS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08
First Survey Shows How National Old Age Pension Plan Is Working
Checks Being Mailed To Beneficiaries
 In l7 States

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent. MORE than 100000 men IVA and women in IT states today are regularly drawing down old age pension checks under the joint plan of fed eral and state support which went into effect three months ago.
 A survey of this old-age pension situation today un- der the social security act shows the following facts:
 The 100000 who are actually drawing federal-state checks are only the advance guard of @ vast army, and only a third of those who have already applied. Any figures must be approximate, as thousands of applications and acceptances are going through state boards daily.
 A detailed canvass of 13 typical states of the IT to which the first federal checks went out in Febru- ary and March shows general ap- proval of the old age pension plan SO far as it goes, but general feeling that it doesn't go far enough.
 It shows that, of the flood of ap- plicants, many do not understand the law.
 It shows definite improvement is being made in states which for merly had old age pension systems of their own, as 35 of them did. 27 STATES IN LINE
 It shows that 27 states have now brought their old age pension laws into line so as to share in federal benefits, but that 10 of these have been approved so recently that the flow of federal funds to them has not begun.
 It shows that most states are be- ginning their pensions at 65 imme- diately, and not beginning with 70 and reducing that to 65 by 194O, as the law permits.
 It shows considerable variation among states to to how they are to raise their share of the money, and as to who is eligible for pensions.
 Of course the figure of 100000 does not include the total number of people drawing ol age pensions in the United States.
 Ohio, for instance, has 85,000 drawing the state pension today.
 Ohio's law has just been adjusted to meet federal requirements, and approved. When federal funds start coming in, these 85,000 and many more-like Colorado's 10000, Massachusetts 25,000-will be im- mediately added to the total num- Der of beneficiaries coming under the federal law. The grand total will certainly be well above 250,000 by midsummer.
 17 STATES GET MONEY Alabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

This and that. Lou Kelly is back in the phone book again after several months in Miami Fla. where he acquired becoming coat of tan. Elizabeth Shea and Kay Fitzsimmons, St. Marys RMS, spent the weekend in Brooklyn, N Y, guests of Attorney and Mrs. Stephen ONeil. Jane Dolecki, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at St. Marys hospital re- gently is convalescing at her home. Paul Gug-
 elmO captain of the behOps at the Palace Hotel de- serves bouquet for the assistance rendered at the Richmond apartment fire the other evening" Paul took Jeff Jarvis, pneumonia patient who was carried from the burning building, to relatives house on North Main Street The relatives lived the second floor "Gug" carried the disabled man his back up the stairs. A real humanitarian act executed without hesitation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

laugh that more discretion may be exercised as to the identity of future guests.
 The foremost political lawyer lobbyists with democratic connec- tions have had no trouble getting themselves invited to the formal dinner parties. It's good for their business.
 One of them even wangled an invitation for the head of race wire service who had retained the lawyer-lobbyist in the face of prose- cution-presumably on the theory that it would impress democratic U. s. district attorneys. The most recent bloomer was
 dispatch of a White House dinner
 invitation to Democratic State Chairman Elmer O'Hara of Michi- gan, who had to refuse because
 8 jury was busy finding him
 guilty on a charge involving cam paign funds. By the time of the dinner, O'Hara had been sentenced
 to from four to five years. The job of picking the general run of White House official dinner guests is left to the secretariat. Copyright, 1886, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08
GOOD FRIDAY

The stage is set for Golgotha. God Marshals all His might as never before. The altar of the cross will bear the weight Of His consummate genius. He will die! He will be led as lamb to the sacrifcial slaughter The candles of the western sky burn dinner And the faithful forces of nature await
 the shock
 The death of Goldman that will
 invade Heaven And make the very heart of His Father-God Rock, beat faster and louderl His death will rend most rugged rocks asunder And yet fail to soften some obstinate heart The dead shall come walking out of their
 graves To bear witness of unprecented God
 mans death The n-but temples veil will be rent in half And shall commence A life of love and joy unto the resurrection
 of every willing soul. Unto a predestined celestial being What deathl What towering might! To die upon the cross between two thieves That can bear the weight of His love! A God shall show by overwhelming
 example and practise The meaning of greater love. He pities not Himself No! Such thought Would be blasphemous! He weeps and dies
 for others His Jerusalem, His chosen race! While in His heart and eyes There burns special love and consideration For every being. He would call all unto Himself And alleviate their burdens He would but pave the way for all To follow unto resurrectional glory. Let all today take timely heed And consider the goodness of their God. Let them turn to Him in their every need And follow the footpaths where He trod Hay they apportion unto themselves l 2ir voluntary of kingly suffering So that glorious Easter Morning All Heaven may hear their Haleluiahs And forever rejoce That at last though it were by the detour
 of 8 Good Friday The prodigal returns
 
 Ray. J. J. KripaS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08
! BEHIND
 THE SCENES. WASHINGTON
kRY RODNEY DuTcHER-i Democrat Washington COrre-
 spOndent)

A Billion for U. s. Army and Navy-and No One Knows Why! =. There's Talk of War With Japan and More Talk of a 'RevOlu. ton" Right at Home Seems That Poor Judgment Has Been Used on Invita-. tiOns to White House Din- ners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08
Tall Tower Topics
A MEss OF pANpEL1oNs
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good Evening.

A MESS OF DANDELIONS Pour boiling water into your kettle Throw in piece of salt pork, Drop into this a mess of greens, It's really quite simple work For greens use fresh dandelions, They have hothouse ones right now; If you like a bitter taste, Youn relish the greens, and howl Combined with escarole or spinach, They have less bitter taste, You're sure to eat the whole mess up Without bit of waste. As an accompaniment to ham or
 roast beef In fact with any meat, Or just as a solo dish, mess of dandelions can't be beat
 -Em Elm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

Washington, April S-It isn't con- sidered good form to ask why con- gress is going to appropriate more than a billion dollars this year for the army and the navy. And any one who suggests economy or bud get-balancing in that direction t sure to be called un-American and Communistic.
 The senate army bill appropri- ates $384 ,699,619 for military pur- poses and Roosevelt's budget esti- mates $620, 184, orr for the navy.
 If you're still impolite enough tc ask why, the navy can give you a more definite answer than the army, which seems rather vague as to whom 1t is going to fight.
 The navy is sure that it's going to fight the Japanese sooner or later. That idea is shared by some officials in other quarters. Nobody seems to know how either the Japanese or the American navy could cross the Pacific and wage successful combat so far away from home-but the navy, at least, has a goal.
 The army obviously isn't expand ing for battle with Canada or Mexico. No one seriously contends that a foreign foe can break through the navy and land troops on our shores.
 And you can get any high army official to admit that the army is being built up-from 118,000 to 150,- 900 men and hundreds of new planes each year-to invade foreign territory. That's what makes it all so mysterious.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

ART LATEST CRIME WEAPON
 London, (UP)-Policemen are tc become artists with the pen. They are being taught to draw word DOT traits of wanted criminals. Lectures on the subject are being giver at Scotland Yard to senior detec- lives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

Great Britain has decided to con- tinue use of it's 10000 bicycles for delivery of special delivery letters, but will also add large number of motorcycles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08
No Shock if War Comes

A high state department off, cial, perhaps more cOnversant with Far Eastern affairs than any other, tells his friends this as to the imminence of a Russo-Jap- anese war:
 q don't think there will be war very soon. But If I were to wake up tomorrow morning and find the Japanese had started one, I'd be the least surprised man in the world"
  Someone Has Blundered Invitation lists to White House dinners have become such a toWr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08
TODAYS FOTO-FOOLER

The FOto-fOOler showed you how one of those fuzzy bits of twisted cotton and wire known as a pipe cleaner looks when it's greatly enlarged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08
They Fear Somebody"

Inside the congressional commit tees on military affairs, when these matters are up, there's only vague psychology of war-with an un- known foe in some unknown terri tory-and vague fear of the reds"
 Someone suggests the Japanese are long way off and someone else hastens to assure him that the Japanese are smart and might pop in on us by way of Alaska. Another representative or senator suggests that conditions are pretty bad now and we're likely to need that army at home.
 Committee sessions seem dOmi- mated by the belief of certain members and certain army off cers that the nation is menaced by bolshevik revolution. Cope land of New York, in senate de- bate last year, emphasized pos sibility of internal trouble" and General Macarthur, chief of staff who drove out the 1882 bonus army, was always stressing pre- paration for the necessity of American soldiers subduing Am erican citizens.
 Army manuals give instructions on how to attack mobs and in re- cent years troops have been con- centrated neared industrial centers. All this means, of course, that the army is preparing against strikes and serious labor troubles. Perhaps because 1t has nothing better to do. Stick to Old Theory
 Instead of building up a small, mobile, mechanized force for quick action in any necessary area, the army sticks to the theory or imme- diately mobilizing the mass man power of the nation in event of hospitilities.
 Mobilization plans call for an army of 100000. The peace-time army is scattered over the country now with the idea that it can serve as a skelton for vast force and you'd have hard time pulling it together.
 War plans call for an officers reserve corps and an enlisted mems reserve corps. You'll be interested to know that the former has about 10000 members and the latter about 5000.
 And next year you're likely to discover that the army needs a lot more than 384,000,O0O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08

Good Night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-17
By HUELL k. WARREN

COLUMBIA, Mo, Feb. 17.-Coach George Edwards of the University of Missouri serves up new system, or style of basketball. each season. He regards it as an changing elastic game that must be stretch ed to fit the material at hand.
 Tt all depends on the boys and the way they stack up on funda- mentals," says Edwards. In pro fessorial fashion, he lists the funda- mentals. CD goal shooting, O. passing and ball handling, t3) drib- bling and t4) footwork
 'Fcotwork is hardest" Edward says. and it's the basis of the fast break" He has specialized in the delayed offense the last few years because his material wasn't equip ped for the faster pace. Edwards made a mid-season change back to the delayed same last year for 2 successful climax to a season that began disastrously.
 Double Post Pioneer
 His Tigers are back at the sudden break game this season but they change the pace when it seems best.
 Edwards was a pioneer with the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-17
BYSTROM TAKES MAIN EVENT IN
 SKI CARNIVAL
Records Made on Douglas Course Tn First An
 nual Ski Trial

Setting the first official course record for the Douglas Ski Trail, Al Bystrom yesterday led field of 20 entrants across the finish line to win the first leg on the Dan Moller Gold Trophy.
 Aided by exceedingly fast and hard-packed snow, Bystrom whizzed down the run of almost four miles in nine minutes and 27 seconds. averaging over 20 miles per hour on the dips and tricky turns. Close behind him came Sven Saren. in 10 minutes, 33 seconds, while M. McAnerney placed third in 14:o7.
 Fast Times Checked
 A throng of more than 300 win ter sports enthusiasts which crowd ed the trail to witness the events was rewarded by plenty of thrills and spills and exhibition of expert skiing.
 Following the three winners across the line in the mems event were, in the following order: Con Car thum, Briand Harland, Bob Dav- lin, Ernest Parsons, Bob Ellis, Frank Foster, Jr., Algot Johansen, Bob Bowling. Gil Fabre, E. Gregorson, Bert Caro- and Orrin Kimball.
 Broken skis sent Ted Bowling, Lu Liston and Olaf Swanson out of the running. Dr. J. P. Mayer, race physician, assumed the role of spectator since no injuries were sustained by the contestants. The senior race for the Alaska cham pionship was run from the site of the cabin at the head of the trail to point quarter of mile from the highway.
 Young Skiers Perform
 The youngsters vied with their elders in prowess on the wings of wood, turning in remarkably fast times for the children's and junior races from the Treadwell ditch to the finish line.
 George Converse won the chll-. dren's event in three minutes and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-17
SPORT SLANTS

Eastern basketball fans who have the notion that they have been watching big court performers have big surprise in store for them when the champion and runner-up from the National A A. U. tourna- ment at Denver in March travel East to fight it out for the Olym- pic berths.
 College teams of the East will be dwarfed when they stack up along side teams of giants like the Santa Fe Trails of Kansas City, 1895 A. A. U. titleholders, with their G. foot Finch center, Ed Weir; the McPherson, Kas., G lobe Refiners, with Willard Schmidt and Joe Fort enbery, towering 6-feet-9 and G. feet8, respectively
 "Berwanger oi Basketball
 Bill Haarlow, slim court captain who is to the University of Chicago basketball team what his friend Jay Berwanger was to the Maroon football squad, seems we'll on his way to the individual scoring cham pionship in the Western Conference race again
 Despite the fact that the Maroons have lost all seven of the Big Ten games they have played this season and consequently have been of little help to him, Haarlow has been set ting the pace for the conference in both baskets and free throws.
 Haarlow, whose 156 points last year topped the individual perform CTS and enabled Chicago to salvage something from season in which the Maroons won only one game. has been running hot and cold" this season. He got off to Q great start in the Wisconsin game when he scored half of Chicago's 36 points. But the Maroons lest any way-38-36 in overtime.
 Crack-ShOt Free Trhower
 In the first game against Purdue, Haarlow went completely cold" and couldn't find the basket and the Boilermakers won by lopsided score, 44-21. He recovered somewhat in the Indiana game by sinking eight goals from the floor and his only free throw attempt for a total of IT points. Chicago lost that one, too, 33-30. His free throw eye is as good as ever. One he missed re- gently ended string of 22 con- secutive shots from the foul line carried over from last season. Haarlow went to Chicago from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-17
BROKERS TRAVEL HERE
 ON BOARD NORTHLAND

Among the returning commercial travellers aboard the Northland from Sitka were: N. A McEachran, Schwabacher Brothers; E. J. Rei- land, Schillings Products; K. B. Edwards, Heinz Pickle Company; R. Wakelin and J. Chamberlain, mer- chandise brokers.
 P. H. Adams. Seattle Hardware Company, and K. Louring, Pacific Bottlers Supply, are through pas sengers on the steamer from Sitka to Kecchikan. and Elmer Jakeway, Columbia Brewing Company, is a passenger from Sitka to Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-17

'double-post" play, stationing his ,wo big men outside the free throw area to meet the restriction impos- ed by the first 3-second rule. Con- sequently the more stringent 3-sec- ond rule adopted this year. for bidding any player, with or with out the ball, to remain in the free throw lane longer than three sec onds, doesn't affect his style
 "On the face or it" he says, the new rule looks like a big advantage for the defense and theoretically unsound. Practically, it has forced the offense to do more maneuvering and has increased scores"
 Burden on Players
 Edwards is on the fence regard ing the proposal to eliminate the center jump Absence of the center jump would speed up the game, but might make it too strenuous" he says. "Fiye-man combinations could not play an entire game because the increase of actual playing time from four to eight minutes would put too great burden on the play CTS. That pause after a basket with the center jump, may be good for the crowd. too" .-,
 The Missouri coach has an old