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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03

Then and now |. |. :. What commentary it is to sit up in our homes and listen to election returns seep in via the radio from all the country and then to hark back to the days of old when things were different that returns were broadcast They had their teetype machines and before that their telegraph operators And before that there were the telephones What days those were in the newspaper offices. There were even magic lantern slides to flash on white curtain. And how conceive the time when 1t took days and weeks and months for election returns in one end of this vast and mainly wilderness nation to come to the nations capital That's why we had an election in November and an inauguration four months later News travelled slowly and so did elected officials in those far-away days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03
Tall Tower
 Topics
Good Evening.
LET'S GO, voTERsl
sx THR MAN IN THE TOWER

Let's gol It's Tuesday the third, It behooves us all to take note, Many things must be neglected today Because we've got to vote. Cancel that appointment at the hairdresser's Though your hair may need few rc-rolls, Count that out today by all means, For you must be at the polls. Today you should be up betimes, All day busy as beaver, Clubs and what nots must be dropped, Because you've got to pull that lever It's election day far and wide, With an overwhelming majority, So let's forget Mrs. Simpson today And get out to cast our vote.
 FEM EM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03
-"when King Loves" * Second of Six Articles Pert Street Urchin Won Hearts
 Of Charles II And All England
NELL GWYNS HONESTY GENEROSITY ENDEARED HER no NATION

Leaflng back through his-
 tory's pages, Willis Thornton
 brings you the glamorous stor- les of pretty commoners whose
 romances with royal rulers of
 their day made them then the
 most talked.of women In the
 world-just as today the name
 of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, fasci-
 mating American confidante of
 King Edward VIII, is on millions
 of tongues. Below Is the sec-
 ond of six absorbing articles
 prepared exclusively for The
 Waterbury Democrat
 BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service stain Correspondent
 Nell Gwynn, born in an alley slum, won not only the love of her king, but the tolerant and kindly love of an entire nation.
 The impudent little street-urchir who sold oranges in the pit of the Drury Lane theater before she wa, loved by King Charles II holds . special place in British hearts. Fol she was honest, and fortnight and faithful, and she never let dowr the friends of her youth.
 Nell Gwynn was truly a child oi the London streets. And the streets of Restoration London were rough school. The city was swept by gaiety and unrestrained reaction against the Puritanism that hao repressed 1t. Morals were lax and tongues were laxer.
 Into a sophisticated world ir which even the fine ladies" gambl- cd, cursed like troopers, and had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03

The Lithuanian Chamber of Com merce bowling league will meet to- night at the Congress avenue school. Bowling will begin at 8:l5 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03

The K. of L. bowling league will be continued tomorrow night on St. Joseph's alleys at 8 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03

Sponsored Veterans Homo
 So wise an observer as Madame dc seyigne noted that while de Querouaille was selfishly feathering her own nest as fast as she could, Nell was really that favored one, be- ing ."young, lively, careless, indis-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03
Study Club

The regular activities of St. Jo- sephs Holy Name Study club have been postponed until next Tuesday night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03

NEXT: King George TVS frenzled courtshlp of Mrs. Fltxherbert.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03

St. Joseph's senior choir rehearsal, originally scheduled tonight, has been postponed until Friday evening at 7:45 o'clock in the music rooms of the Congress avenue school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-03

REV. ,. ]. KRIPAS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
Cut Down the Bill

If the city of Washington were spending fifteen mil
lion dollars year for legitimate function everybody
in the city and in Congress would be studying the matter
with microscope to how the sum could be cut down.
But Major Ernest w. BrOUn, superintendent of
police points to I5-naiOn-dOLLGr item among the
citys annual expenditure WEich is receiving COM
par0tiUely little attention.
HE REFERS TO THE COST OF CRIME IN THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Admittedly Washington is not crimeridden as some
other communities its per capita crime cost is consd-
eraby below the average for the Nation.
Nevertheless this city paying heavy tribute to the
thugs and mugs who prey upon its citizens.
That tribute be cut down and it will be cut down
Major Brown and the group of pubcsprited citizens
associated with him given the support which they
deserve in their work among boys.
The Police Department is operating three Boys Clubs
and there in operation two other such organizations
in the community
ACCORDING TO MAJOR BROWN, JUVENILE DE-
LINQUENCY IN THE AREAS IN WHICH THE
THREE CLUBS ARE LOCATED HAS DECREASED
SEVENTY-FOUR PER CENT SINCE THE CLUBS
WERE FOUNDED IN 1884.
That is an important key to crime and its costs.
Good boys properly trained aren't likely to turn to
. life of crime
If Major BrOLUn and his men and the Others inter-
ested in the problem "catch" the boys Uken they
are young, and giUe them the advantages of the
clubs, Major BrOIvn and his men WOnt haze to
"catch" them later in life for violating the LGW.
These boys clubs both that Of the police and the in
dependent organization should be extended throughout
the city.
Full financial support of the community is warranted
for the effort.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
The super-charged cabin for high flying.
Listen, World = = By Elsie Robinson

o Cross from God-whose hideous
mystery must never be probed. So
the plague took its toll of millions,
Then at last q few brave men
dared to doubt that such a horror
was. the Will of God. Dared to
rebel. Dared to question and ex'
pertinent. And today the plague Is
a nightmare that has passed.
And once men endured tragic
barriers of time and Space-lived
walled and fettered by loneliness
and silence which seemed inevita'
BILE. Today the silence is gone and
the space is shattered. Across the
heavens wing the airplaneS. Along
the wave lengths ride song and hui
man voice.
There is no corner in his uni.
verse nor any niche in his mental
domain-which man dare not ex
plore. Save one. The terrible taboo
of Death still stands as it stood
in our jungle days. And, as we
did in our jungle days, we bow be
fore it-offer as sacrifice our
broken, bleeding hearts, and wall
1T is the will Of God"
ALL THAT MATTERS
But I who believe in God and
worship HIM cannot. I will
not believe that bereavement by
death is the will Of God, any
more than the plague was the will
Of God, or the seemingly impene
trable walls Of time and space.
/ believe that the horror ana
heartbreak Of death are the prod
ucts Of mans own fear and ignO
rance, and that we, will be freed o.
them when we are brave enough
to dare to dOubt-tO dare to rebe
when we dare to believe as much
in Life IS we now believe in Death
The grave does not matter. The
dead body does not matter, any
more than your cast off seven
year-old body matters. Life is al
that matters. And Life, I believe
passes triumphantly through the
shadowy portal Of the grave
waits, shining and victorious, II
a new and freer form to speak tt
us again WHEN AND If WE
HAVE THE COURAGE TO CALL
Copyright. 1895. By King Features
Syndicate InS.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

1oOUA4A3C1A
Gtter-you. cannot. ErotD. tDhGt
death means to the deScIGted ItU-
ing. You are not among the in
itiate. You cannot speak the neD
and dreadful language they haze
learned, nor can you tolIoID the
s7tGdoUy trail their feet must
tread.
For you aDho haze not EnoWr
hecrtbreGE By death this article
has, happily, no significance. !
tUrite to those tD1l0 hGUe-GS !
haze gone dotDn into the Craze
and come back again. And to you
/ say
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN
DEATH. ..
I do not believe that life can be
destroyed, nor that it ever ceases,
or is even interrupted.
It is obvious that this physical
body is-and must be-outgrown.
But this does not happen merely
in the phenomenon we call Death
It happens many times in our
active life.
SIMPLE FACTS
You are not the child you were
at 7, nor the youth you were 81 II.
Those young bodies disappeared
long since. They are as dead
as completely finiShed-aS any
mummy.
And you, a. you stand today.
are as new aS any angel-aS re-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

as it learned in the last war,
what it costs to wait. In the
big war, at the last minute,
one-dollar-a-year patriots, a
group of them better spend
ers than patriots, showed
how NOT to do things.
This machine, built espe-
cially for flying more than
twelve thousand feet high,
carries two Hispano-Suiza
engines, Of twelve hundred
horsepower each, and is built
like a knife blade, to cut
through the air with least
possible resistance.
Far up, the atmosphere is
light, offering little resist
ance and "supercharging,"
or condensing the atmos-
phere, is necessary to feed
the engines and the lungs Of
passengers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
PAINFUL DUTY

When Representative Everett M,
Dirksen (R0 Of Illinois, was
about to vote on the tax bill.
he pointed out that he was one OF
the seven members who voted
against the revenue measure OF
1884. DirkSen said:
III have the good fortune or
the misfortune to be one Of that
seven who voted against it, and
If I had the opportunity ] would
vote against it again today.
To-day, 1 am like the Shake
spearean actor who went into
o restaurant and ordered every.
thing on the bill Of fare but
had no money in his pocket to
pay for it. He was thrown out.
About a year or two later ne
went back and ordered every
thing on the bill Of fare and
then called the manager, and
he said, De you remember
the Shakespearean Hamlet who
came in here q year ago and
had no money and ordered
everything on the bill Of fare
and had to be thrown Out?'
"The proprietor said, Yes
Well he said, 4 think you will
have to perform that some pain,
full duty again today
~ expect it is going to be my
painful duty to vote against
thiS bill when the time comes"
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nurse doesn't come; and the man with the
broken leg waits in sorrow for the ambulance.
The able-boded man should not wait for
someone to pick him up and carry him, or sit
crying, because nobody comes.
If you can't be president of a great corpora
ton, then get job digging ditch or running
errands, and when you get job WORK at it.
Don't sit around wondering why somebody
doesn't hand you better job or how anybody
expects you really to work at something that
doesn't completely satisfy you. Fortunate is he
who realizes that the important thing about
work is what it does to OURSELVES
The young man starting on the running track
entering a gymnasium does not ask, "What
am going to get OUT of it," He asks himself,
what am I going to put INTO it?"
That is what he should ask when he goes into
job. If you put IN enough every day, train
ing yourself physically, you may rely on results.
If you put INTO YOUR JOB enough energy,
from start to finish, you need not worry about
the results.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, then run
up on the beach and throw bag of gold in
your lap. 1t won't do that.
PREPARE, BE READY!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

Journeys
JOHANNA SBURG

Few cities have made such pro.
greSS as has johannesburg, the
city of gold, whose very name has
a magic sound. A railway was I'm
known until 1892, before that time
all goods having been brought in
by wagons. Today, it is getting
ready to stage a magnificent EN-
pire exhibition to celebrate Its
so years of progress and expects
to play host to the world.
And it will, too, for South
Africa as a tourist attraction is
increasing every season. Cruises
put in at Cape Town and the side
trip to the Rand, the gold fields
of Johannesburg, the diamond
mines Of Kimberley, is always
booked to capacity.
Johannesburg is essentially mod
ern, Just about as socially-inclined
and charming q city as one could
find. Looking at the magnificent
buildings that line Market Square
it seems almost impossible to be-
lieve that less than SO years ago.
when wagon teams brought in
goods to the settlement, there
were sometimes 500 wagons with
their complement Of 1000 oxen
during morning in the old
square.
Alphabetically, the city is just
about the most modern Of the
British empire. With amazing
speed the civic authorities aban
doned one architectural period
after another. The tent and
shack of the eighties had given
way to the timber and cor
rugated buildings Of the ninetieS
then came bricks and mortar
then granite and fine marble
And now most of the new build
ings are 10-story affairs and made
of steel and concrete and glass
in moderniStic designs. The civic
buildings are solid and preten
tious as BELTS q gold metropolis
The Law Courts building has a
25O-foot frontage on busy Pritch
ard Street. The impressive city
hall covers Q two-acre area.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02


asked for reports on Federal spend
ing, Democratic leaders have voiced
strenuous opposition.
The objections raised against
this resolution in the House were
not unlike those recently raised
In the Senate when Senator Arthur
H. Vandenburg R) Of Michigan
demanded a report on AAA pay
ments over $4,000.
When the House tabled the reso'
luton concerning the Johnson re-
port, Representative Clarence j.
Mcleod (R.) of Michigan, said:
at is not to be denied that
much distress has been allevi-
ated by the WPA, but this fact
should not be used to cloak the
waste that has been proved to
exist. Hiding facts will mot cor
rect mistakes. Neither win it pre-
vent future waste Of peoples
money"
The Democrats, however, can
not be convinced that such dis
closures should be made.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

LEASED from the old body which
once you inhabited, which long
since you cast off because it grew
too small or weak for you.
There is nothing mysterious or
mystic about these statements.
They are simple facts which any
child in grammar school must
learn. And if we would follow
them through to their logical con-
clusion, we would have been re-
leased long since from our fear Of
death. But we have never dared
follow these facts through-just as,
for tortured ages, we never dared
follow other facts through.
Time was when men accepted
the plague as a Divine visitation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
In these days of lOGiting and hoping,
the wise york while they wait.

seized as it comes toward US. If we wait until
it goes by there is no way to hold and stop it.
Letters are received from young people, mere
ly complaining. They complain of the times,
the depression, the lack of any Government
plan, except the bad plan Of charity, the dole
or an imitation job.
Few of us notice the lack Of anything IN
OURSELVES, yet there, precisely, is where the
chief lack is. Until we realize that, we continue
sitting, whistling, waiting and hoping.
1t is natural for baby to sit crying, waiting
for the nurse to pick it up and carry it. 1t is
proper for the patient with pneumonia or both
legs broken to wait for the ambulance to take
him to the hospital. He cannot help himself. But
the grown man, and especially the young man,
should refuse to play the baby or the invalid.
He should look within himself, find out what
is the matter WITH HIM, why it is that he sits
waiting for somebody else to do for him that
which men in the past have done for themselves.
Every one of US do something, or he can
at least TRY to do something.
A baby not able to walk weeps when the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
Wise
Words

The mind is slow in unlearning
what it has been long in learning
Seneca.
Excess in nothing-thiS I regard
as a principle Of the highest value
in life.-Terence.
The deed is everything; the
fame is nothing.-Goethe.
Those who wish to appear wise
among fools, among the wise seem
foolish Quintillian.
Any one thing in the creation
is sufficient to demonstrate
Providence to an humble and
grateful mind.-EpictetuS.
It takes q wise man to dis
cover q wise man.-Diogenes
LaertiuS.
Well is it known that ambition
can creep as well as soar.-Burke
Be wiser than other people Il
you can, but do not tell them
so.-Lord Chesterfield.
Slavery enchains q few: more
enchain themselves to slavery
Senecas
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

You may mag
inc tn t you
knotD lDhGt such
loss means, but
do not fool your
self. Until the
stars haze been
torn from your
sky q n d t h e
heart from your
bosom - until
you haze been
drOtDned IN that
UGEt loneliness
Dhich lies like 1.
blGc k sea be-
tWee71 the Here
and The Here
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
The Greatest Show On Earth
BH John Snure, Jr.

made to force Federal agencies to
purchase only those supplies made
in the United States. language
was inserted in appropriation
bills ordering purchasing agents
to buy American-made products
when feasible.
Now, the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars makes q new move toward
Americanization.
Their representative recently
appeared before the House Appro-
priations Committee when it was
considering the appropriation Of
additional funds for WPA.
Representative James P. Blu
chanan CD Of Texas, chair
man. evinced considerable inter-
est when he was asked:
Include in this bill a pro
vision that would prohibit the
payment Of any Of this money
to any person not an American
or who had not taken out his
first citizenship papers unless
persons Of this type were abSO-
lutely unavailable.
Forbid the payment of this
money to any alien who entered
this country Illegally"
It was pointed out that on
many Of the work and emergency
relief rolls are persons who have
come here from other countries
but who have not taken out their
first citizenship papers. One of
the questions asked by a member
Of the committee was:
''What if they had not had
time to take out their first
paperS?"
The answer was:
"Tf they've been here a week
they have had the time"
It was also said that on some
rolls were persons who had
entered the country illegally and
who would never become citizens.
The request was:
Don't pay them a cent?"
It is reported that other patri-
otto organizations are in favor of
the proposal and there is reason
to- believe that with sufficient
pressure, members Of Congress
may accede to the requests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
Here Is Businesske Machine-New French Fighting Plane

This plane, built with
great secrecy for the French
Government, and by the
French Government, is the
latest word in 'shigh-flying"
at high speed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

This plane should do over
four hundred miles per hour.
That interests Berlin and
London, if it doesn't interest
Washington yet.
The American Wrig h t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

by Gen. Hugh
s. johnson, adj
nainistrator, the
vote was strictly
partisan.
Democrats re-
fused to permit
submission OF
the report to
Congress. Re
publicans made
the demandsfor
it but were de-
feated.
In rece n t
months when
the Republican
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
DRASTIC

When the Hole recently an
nounced that it was going ahead
with its policy Of foreclosing on
mortgages of home owners who
had not lived UP to obligations, few
persons thought they would be as
drastic as has been evidenced.
When a New York jurist recently
pointed out that the Home Owners
Loan Corporation had foreclosed
on the property of a man who had
been committed to an asylum and
whose family had fallen behind on
their payments, 1t caused consider
able furoye In realty circles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

The French Government,
different from ours, takes
the airplane very seriously,
knowing what it will mean
in the next war. Our Gov
eminent will wait and learn,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

brothers showed the rest of
the world how to fly. The
rest of the world may some
day show this country how
to use flying machines in
disagreeable fashion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
BUSY DAYS

The busy season is keeping Capt.
tol guides constantly active.
Since the first advent of cherry
blossoms, thousands of visitors
who have journeyed to Washing
ton have marched through the
corridors of the structure which
houses the legislative branch Of
the Government.
The trek will continue for many
weeks to come.
On recent Sunday. $4,000
visitors wandered through the
Capitol.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

IN HERE are two kinds of men One kind sits
L down and waits, the other KEEPS ON
GOING, doing something. You see both in this
picture Millions like them are scattered over the
United States. They are the young men with
nothing to do' except follow the old plan to
swat until their ship comes in" While they
wait let them work. Work brings the ship more
quickly.
Some young men, wise, like the one on the
right, build dock out to deep water, making
it easy for the ship to land and take them
aboard. The other kind sits, whistles or whites
with such, the idea is that the ship and its crew
should be only too glad to do all the work, it is
enough for him merely to be alive and sit wait
ing to be hauled on board.
THAT KIND WILL SIT LONG TINE.
The meaning Of this picture is that the man
who works. studies, reads, thinks and TAKES
ANY KIND OF WORK HE CAN GET, WHILE
WAITING FOR BETTER, is the man whose
ship" will come in.
That ship is OPPORTUNITY" and all the
opportunity in the world will do us no good if
not ready and able to seize it, when it
appears.
1t is good to remember the ancient Greeks
description of Opportunity a creature with long
hair in front but bald in the back. 1t must be
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
AMERICANS ONLY

Remembering the success of the
policy to BUY American" veteran
organizations are institutang Q
move to "Pay Americans"
In those days when efforts were
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
PARTISAN VOTE

When the House voted down the
resolution calling for the report
ON WPA in New York as drafted
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

To you-It you haze never lost 4
one yo:; loUed By death - this
article UuI haze little meaning.