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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-07

1aSt page TOT the anSWerS.
 1. Who wrote the novel, Henry Esmond?"
 ?. In which country is the city of Rangoon?
 3. Who was Stephen Phillips? 4. Where is the Abraham Lincoln National Park?
 5. What is an assay office?
 6. The eruption of which volca- no destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 A. D.?
 '. What river forms part of the boundary between the U. s. and Mexico?
 8. Where is the body of William Shakespeare buried?
 g. Of which country is Reykjavik the capital?
 10. What does B. T. U. stand for?
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Finished?

An eyewitness to the electrocu- tion of Bruno Hauptmann in Trenton last Friday night reports that the condemned man almost
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-07

Colleges Turn to Problem of Supply ing Average Mans Education" The aver age man doesn't want education. He wants job and good time.
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Japan and Russia seem to be practis- ing in Mongolia for their next war.
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Current Comments

 I expect to be much better in my profession as 8 result of this training.
 Thomas D. Fletcher, '56-year-old freshman, University of Chatta- nooga.
 vermonters are . reticent. slyly humorous lot and doubt # any place in the world you'd find a citizenry which so strictly minds it's own business.
 Sinclair Lewis. An automobile travelling AS miles an hour is extremely danger ous. Anyone wishing to go faster should get into the air for safety's sake. Amelia Earhart.
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Daily NNex.x CoRo,,rl
 Washington -v-0- y -- SEN. BORAH IN FIGHT OF HIS LIFE FOR THE PRESIDENCY

- By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN -
 EDITORS in articles in which will the personalities and the leading asDran for the Republican nomin will soOn
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tionable. But that it penned ''Finis" to the whole sordid story is doubted by many people who are ordinarily uninterested in trials for murder. For years to come, or until such time as all the present obscurities of the crime have been clarified in the light of absolute truth, Hauptmann's in- nocence, his complicity, or his complete guilt will furnish ma terial for discussion by amateur criminologists, by studious law yers, and by intelligent laymen. Leaving aside altogether the dead mans real or fictional connection with the murder one thing is def initely certain: the incidents pre- liminary to his execution shocked inexpressibly everyone except per- haps the prosecuting officers and those who insist that by the na- ture of the crime of which he was found guilty he was entitled to no consideration of humanity or decency. If the Kidnapping, and the death of the baby which grew out of it, were characterized by heartless brutality so was the treatment given the wretched be- ing who was condemned for it's perpetration. To be sentenced to death at a specified time only to have the execution postponed; to be led up to the little door through which there is no living re-entrance only to be dragged back while another legal techni- cality is wrangled out on court; to be put through the last minute head-shaving and the last minute trousers leg-splitting only to be informed that these grisly perfor- mances may have to be repeated within twenty-four or forty-eight hours may be details of Jersey Justice. But, to the writer at least, they connote savagery of vengeance altogether incompat- ible with the laws of civilized so- ciety. Tabloid sob sisters, cynical news reporters, and experienced officers of the law commented freely during Hauptmann's trial on his iron nerve. It must indeed have been iron otherwise a shriek- ing maniac would have been dragged into the death chamber instead of 8 composed prisoner who protested his innocence to the very end.
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Horoscope
BY OCTAYINE

For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the planet, the daily horoscope is out lined by a noted astrOlOger. In addition to information of gen. eral interest, it outlines informa- ton of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
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A Thought for Today

Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the mar kets, and the highest seats in the synagOgues, and the chief rooms at feasts-St. Luke, 2O:46.
 
 If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.-Horace Mann.
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Neither is he 50 cynically calloused as to believe Governor Hoffman lied when he made his position clear a day or two ago:
 Whenever it becomes neces- sary. for me as Governor of the State or as an individual to Stultify my conscience and to stop fighting for those things that I believe to be right, I will be glad to withdraw from . party that would require such . surrender of principle.
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Washington April 7-Three years ago William Ed gar Borah at the bottom of personal and political depression President Hoover whom he had been so 1n strumenta in electing, was to him bitter disappont
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It Doesn't Matter

It oOeS not matCer WIleCner CIlc hideous features of Hauptmann's last days were created by his law yers seeking a new trial for their client or by a relentless prosecutor insistent that the death sentence be carried out. Guilty or inno- cent the convicted man was the victim of 8 system of criminal procedure which smacks more or the barbaric jungle than it does Of twentieth century enlightenment.
  Gov. Hoffman
 Not the least disgraceful phase of the whole despicable mess is the accusation freely made and readily accepted (especially by newspaper editors whose horror Of the crime was heightened consid- erably by the idea that 1t became more heinous because 1t involved the child of a national hero), that political ambition actuated Gov ernor Hoffman in his efforts to get real solution of the crime. He is charged with playing for the German vote in New Jersey and with seeking to enlarge his chances of the Republican pres idential nomination by champion ing the cause of 8 convicted mur- derer. A move is underway to bar him from a place on the state delegation to the national conven- ton and to read him out of the party because of his activities in the Hauptmann case. If the charges and the accusations are true it speaks badly for Governor Hoffman's political sagacity. Noth- ing could bury his ambitions deeper than to be identified even remotelyswith any movement cal- culated to free Hauptmann or to uncover evidence which would se- cure him a new trial. The writer entertains no illusions or delusions as to the lengths political expe- diency will drive an expedient.
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BY WAY of NO HARM
 by James William FitzP Patrick

opinions conclusions appearing below writer They not necessarily those of the editOrS DEMOCRAT they to be construed
 invariably, a reflection of their viewpOnt).
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "The book which you loaned me, I will return 1t tomorrow; say, T will re- turn tomorrow"
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I st Y o UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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In NeedIewOrk
Vineyard

This graceful grape motif will be
perfect for your coasters and tray
cloths this summer when serving
cooling beverages. The designs may
also be used for a buffet set OF
scarf ends. The leaves may be out
lined. but the grapes should b.
done solid, either in satin stitch Of
varying shades, darker towar the
top. or in applique. using the orig
inal transfer to stamp. For a most
original effect, crocheted circles
might be used for the grapes.
No. cs272, q NUMo hot iron
transfer, that gives you several
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make large and small doilies for
q luncheon set.
To order, ask for No. C8272, or
tear out illustration and send with
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WOMAlV,S REALM La
Your
Children
By Olive Roberts Barton

I watched q mother lie other day
who had given an order to her boy.
She said to him, Henry, go and
brush your hair" That was all.
He went outside then, and In half
an hour came back and began to
romp with the dog. Henry, I told
you to brush your hair. 1t looks
dreadful"
I'm goin' to, Mud" said Henry.
you don't give me time. Anyway,
I'll just get 1t mussed again."
1T wouldn't hurt you to brush it
every once In while. Remember
what said the other day. I told
you I wouldn't keep on reminding
you about some things. know you
don't care about the way you look,
but I care, and that should be
enough"
Results At Last
With sidelong glance at me,
Henry went away. He looked much
better when he reappeared. But by
dinner time, he was all awry again.
Some people were coming In, and
his mother looked at her son.
Henry, please go up and fix your
hair again." Henry said Grossly, II
did, Mud. You're always nag-fuss-
ing at me about the way I look.
Oh, all right, I'll CO."
Her husband came home. He
threw his hat and coat on hall
chair. She said, Wont you put
your things In the closet, Tom? The
Smiths are coming"
ooh, they're all right" said Tom.
Always leave 'em there"
"Well, 1t makes 1t hard for me
to keep the hall cleared" said my
hostess. But mentally, N pictured
her day after day asking him
mildly to use the coat closet for his
hat, scarf and ulster. BY this time,
no doubt, 1t had become an issue,
the same as Henry's hair.
The maid had forgotten to moist
en- the lettuce before putting 1t
away in the ice-box. Mrs. Brown
went to the kitchen to see about
the salad and found the lettuce dry
and wilted. When she returned she
said, I'm afraid We'll have to skip
the salad. I have told Lolita over
and over how to cover the green
things before putting them away.
But she forgets the minute I say
1t. I hate to keep nagging."
New Slant On Situation
Right then a new slant on this
thing called "nagging occurred to
me. Why is 1t that people in a
house, with as much responsibility
to order and neatness as the mother,
have to be reminded repeatedly
about things they certainly should
do on their own account?
There Is such a thing as nagging,
but 1t can only be called by this
name when woman gets a real
obsession. Yet, even here 1t can Of
ten be excused on the grounds that
obsessions. are repeated irritations.
No, the family should not leave
all responsibility to her. Henry, and
his Dad and Lolita all knew what
TODD. They would not do 1t on their
own initiative. They waited to be
reminded daily. Then they called
1t nagging, or at least thought SO.
It is hardly fair.
Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, 1nco
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Cheer up, Sylvia! Even II you
do have to send that pretty dress
to the cleaner, don't make a clum-
sy fellow guest feel cheap.
Its really of no consequence,
lucky we didn't break the cup" will
save the situation and mark you
as poised.
Accept accidents in public places
with smile. It's annoying to have
some careless person step all over
your feet in the street car. But
you are merely showing yourself In
an ugly light If you meet a strang-
er's well-meant apology with a
frown and, you ought to keep your
feet on the floor" A smile and a
softly spoken, Certainly" strike
the right note.
Knowing how to handle social
emergency gives charm. Our 81
page booklet gives hints on travel,
visits, table manners, introductions.
A guide to the small but import
ant courtesies that make for gra-
cious living.
Send Toe for your copy of ETH
QUETTE FOR ALL OCCASIONS
to the Waterbury Democrat Home
Service, 635 Sixth Ave-, New York,
N. Y. Be sure to write plainly wour
NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME
Of booklet.
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In many articles on bridge, the
favorite theme is some well-played
hand, in which declarer, by one of
the standard types of play, makes
his contract, or in which a partner
ship, through exchange of informa-
ton, reaches a good contract. Not
nearly enough stress is put upon de-
fensive play, perhaps because good
defense is so much more difficult,
and the hands which illustrate 1t are
much rarer.
I am indebted to my friend. Sam
O'Connell, of Holyoke, Mass, for
an example of one Of the finest de-
fensive plays have seen in a long
time. 1t was made by his partner,
DR.. Robert E. Cleary, also Of Hol-
yoke, and was played in duplicate
game at the Holyoke Masonic Tenn
pie.
DR.. Cleary sat West and O'Con-
nell East. OConnell naturally
opened the nine of spades, in re-
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Latest Styles
Clarifying
Yourself
By Alicia Hart

To get the most out Of your win
ter vacation, whether you 60 north
for skiing or south for swimming
and golf, devote at least an hour q
day TO beauty routines which you
never have time to do at home.
You'll be getting adequate exercise
and sleep, Of course. Add to these
nightly creamings and vigorous
brushings and you'll return home
looking five years younger.
Just because the air around the
resort isn't filled with coal dust,
don't cleanse your skin less often
than you do In the city. II you
have oily skin, wash at least three
times a day with soap and water,
apply mask twice a week, and use
a mild astringent to remove night
cream.
If your complexion Is dry, cleanse
with cream, removing it with a
wash cloth that has been dipped
in very hot water and wrung as
dry as possible. Use your night
cream lavishly and every third
night, allow a bit Of 1t to remain
on while you sleep.
How to be an active sports
woman in the daytime and a
glamor girl at night isn't such a
vexing problem If you take along
a good eye lotion, some pine bath
oil, a cream mask and liquid pow
der.
After o day on golf course or ski
trail, cleanse face and throat,
smooth on the mask and get into
tub of steaming hot water into
which you have poured pine oil.
Relax there until your bones and
muscles have stopped aching.
Then take a cool shower, rinse
your eyes with warm eye lotion,
put cream on your skin, cover eyes
with cotton pads which have been
soaked in the eye lotion, and lie
down for half an hour. When you
get up to dress for dinner, make up
shoulders and back as carefully as
you do your face.
Don't try to get a suntan too
quickly. The first day, cover face,
arms, legs, back and shoulders with
suntan lotion and sit In the sun
for no more than twenty minutes.
You can stay on the beach for half
an hour the second day, and longer
thereafter until you get enough
brown to protect you from a bad
burn. Wear a hat to keep your
hair from getting dull, dry and
faded. Use cuticle cream every
night.
Snowburn is just as painful and
injurious to the skin as sunburn.
Apply a special ski lotion founda-
ton before you put on makeup and,
If your lips are likely to chap,
carry stick of colorless pomade
as well as your regular lipstick.
Hand lotions, good night
cream with lanolin not ininera,
oil = base and a rather oily lip
stick are very much in order at
q winter resort. If your perma-
nent is practically grown out or !.
too old and weak to hold a finger.
wave, better get a new one befor
you leave. 1t takes strong waW
to stay lovely and In place wher
snow dust Is blowing about your
face and your head is moist anc
overheated from strenuous exercise
NEXT: Regular beauty routines.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal Of the American
Medican Association, and of
Hygeia, the Health Magazine

E.01tUr, JOurnaI OF the American
Medican Association, and Of
Hygeia. the Health Magazine
A sore throat may be due either
10 an infection of the tonsils, to the
action Of a definite germ as in
cases of scarlet fever or diphtheria,
or to infection with Steptococci
germs which frequently occurs in
epidemics throughout the United
States. This latter condition is cal
led epidemic spetic sore throat.
Fifteen or 20 years ago, severe
outbreaks Of septic sore throat &C.
Cured In all parts of the United
States. In practically every instance
they wer associated with drinking
infected milk. During 1926 and 1927,
there were more than 100 out
breaks in various parts of the oOun-
try. The epidemic usually Is spread
by person with septic sore
throat who handles milk somewhere
IN the course of its travel from COW
TO consumer.
For e ample, cows udder may
be- infected with FERNS of septic
sore throat; when the mixer, who
Is In fected, milks the COW, the
milk is likely to contain the germs.
When the milk is collected, 1t is
mixed with other milk, If, then,
There Is failure in any part of the
pasteurization process, the condi-
ton may affect anyone who drinks
the milk.
Thus. 1t is important for any per-
son who develops sore throat and
who Is engaged In the milk bus
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The Family Doctor
Infected Milk Usually Causes
EpidemicS Of Septic Sore Throat

mess to stop work at once. Before
beginning his work, the mixer
should always wash his hands
thoroughly; In fact, 1t will do no
harm If he also will wash them fire.
quently while he is at work. Dairy
men should not permit anyone with
the slightest sign of sore throat
to milk cows, to handle the milk In
any way, or to take care of pals or
utensils used In milking.
In pasteuriZation, the milk Is
heated TO sufficiently high tenn
perature to kill disease germs, and
is held at that temperature for at
least half hour. Most milk In this
country is psateurized, and practi-
cally all communities of any size
have definite laws regulating milk
pasteuriZation.
Unfortunately, in times of severe
depression, attempts are made to
save money by avoiding the pas
turization process and by bootleg
ging milk, particularly on the out
skirts of large cities. This saving of
a few cents In the cost of milk may
result in fatal infections.
A septic sore throat differs from
an ordirt ~ one in the severity
Of the Inflammation and the fact
that 1t usually Is associated with
considerable systemic reaction in
volving fever, chills. a rapid pulse,
and occasional secondary complica-
lions worse than the sore throat
itself.
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Anyway You Had Better DO
Something

Anyway You Had Better DO
Something
According to the poet he that
fights and runs away may live to
fight another day. Physiologically,
he should do one thing In doing
both. But then, maybe the poet
meant to say he who elects to run
away may live to fight another
day.
In any case the physiological re-
action is the same, whether the
emotional is anger, fear, hatred,
jealousy, envy, rivalry, contempt,
irritation, annoyance, Indignation,
race or caste consciousness, super
iority or inferiority complex, snob-
berry, national sectionalism orp a.
triotism. The fundamental factor
is an out-pouring Of adrenin from
the adrenal glands into the blood.
This mobilizes fuel (glycogen) which
is always stored In the liver and
the muscles. The fuel Is oxidized
or burned to provide energy for
combat or fight. If civilization, ed
ucation, breeding, culture, custom
or habit forbids fight or flight,
there you are with your body ma
chjnery racing and nothing to take
up or absorb the excess energy. The
heart beats more forcibly and fast
err; the breathing is deeper and
faster; the CLOTHING or coagulation
time Of the blood Is shorter; the
entire muscular system Is tense.
Buty on can't fight and you can't
run away. 1t Is pretty tough on
your arteries. Your blood pressure
is high. Maybe there are fifty
thousand others around you In the
same plight-getting q big thrill
watching the ball game. Nerves?
That's what Yankee wiseacres call
it. High tension? Certainly. Hys-
terra? That's closer to the truth.
Now scream and stamp your feet
and clench your fists and make be-
lieye your are out there playing the
game. That's hysteria, sure enough
"a state in which an idea controls
the body.
Sedentary folk, office workers,
business and professional people,
students and others who do little
or no physical work and get little or
no daily exercise, should not be
sports tGns, followers or spectators.
They should play the game them
selves. No matter what game so
long as it involves physical activity.
Participation in any game in which
there is the spirit of contest or
competition, is the ideal substitute
for actual fighting or running away.
A reader suggests another sub
stitute. He is successful dairy
man, and acknowledges he Is neu-
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spouse to his partners bid. DR..
Cleary played low, when the jack
was played from dummy and North
won the trick with the ace. This
failure to cover was a good play,
but one that Is seen every day In
the year, as nothing could be gained
by covering, North being marked
with both ace and king.
North now led low club to dunn
my and returned the eight of hearts.
Here was the major play of the
hand. DR.. Cleary played the jack.
He reasoned from the bidding that
North held trump suit of at least
six cards, and the only chance
to beat the contract was for o.
Council to get the lead once more,
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of the North the wild news came"
or words about Little nellie. the uri-
fortunate maniac, and Enoch Ar
den.
Keener Competition for Classics
There were no motion pictures,
only improvised stages for home
made, home-acted plays, no radios
or automobiles or news stands crow
ed with bright covered magazines
one hundred years ago. The clas-
sizes had q chance. That children
OF today welcome them against the
swift-moving. excitable competition
y proof that the young school
master understood human nature
pretty well. w
Today, as we enter another year
that waits for science and liter.
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the compilations Of favorites from
the McGuffey Readers. It's the
children who are reading them and
liking them"
Text Books Libraries OF Y0re
1t was long, long before my time
that the young school master. Will
liam Holmes McGuffey. prepared
those first textbooks for the Middle
west and unconsciously became our
American educational Messiah. II
Is an older generation who came
under the spell OF his readers who
realize the profound religious. mo-
raj and ethical influence that he
egerted. The fact that todAy's boys
and girls are thrilling TO 'Old Fa-
vorites" from the McGuffey Read
ers. finding inspiration In the life Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-28
HELEN WELSIIIMER SAYS: :

their compiler. should be substan-
tial comfort to the parents who
have feared that johnnie and An
ME and Mary dida't know sonnet
from an essay--just q plane from
a saw. or a measuring cup from a
cake knife.
Back In the middle Of the 10th
century the range Of literature for
the home and all public occasions
conferred In the textbooks Of the
public schools. Those who now
contend that the value Of classic
Is lost II II becomes compulsory
reading In the classroom, must be-
iieve human nature has undergone
q great change OF spirit. Our pre-
deceasors never forgot their selec-
tiuns. They still recite: I'm arms
the Austrian phalanx Stood" "Out
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Youth does not change.
Boys and girls want to be
inspired, to sing and weep and
throb to the rhythmic march
of words as truly as they did
when Ohio received a land
grant and the covered wagons went
westward.
Listen TO this note from re-
lieved western mother: For a
long time ! have been worried be-
cause my children we're given an
intensive. extensive course at school
In household arts and machinery.
the sciences. and commercial fields.
I laimented that the younger gem
Grafton had lost It's love Of liter
ature. Then ! was given one OF