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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

I in e childish letter to the editor of @ prominent medical journal--if we may believe all the editor says and thus fortuitously gave the ver- satile editor of the medical Tnaga- zine a beautiful chance to castigate me, display his own erudition and, incidentally, maybe sell his own health column to fill the place of mine ct a substantial saving in cost,
 Dr. Brady's advice, the omniScient and ubiquitous medical editor pointed out ct great length in the editorial columns of what was once the medical associations ofiicial or- gan, "Dr. Brady's advice is Q good example of possibly perniciouS ther- apy, when one thinks that the tired college girl might be suffering the early stages of tuberculosis or be on the verge of neurasthenia from ur- hygienic living"
 Shucks-I had thought the trick diagnosis of "neurasthenia" was no longer perpetrated on the unwary layman. But how dumb I am, after all. Here 1t is resuscitated and again put into circulation by no less an authority on everything than the great Pooh Bah himself. How de- lighted the army of brass specialists who follow the Pooh-Bah's lead must feel, now that the old army game is restored to them and my "advice" has been branded "perni- cious."
 True to character the great Pooh- Bah makes 1t seem that I advised the mother of the tired college gir! to give her iodin. Tn truth I never heard of the tired college girl or hel mother until I received the letter quoted. No doubt the great Pooh Bah would have the nerve to assert that the advice that every ont should take Q suitable iodin ratior is pernicious, but I don't believe any real physician or health authority would or can take that attitude to- day.
 once more I invite readers to sent a three-cent- stamped addressed en. velope q positively refuse to pay the freight or to address your en- velope for you) and ask for instruc. tions for taking an iodin ration Particularly adults who have chronic tired feeling, lack former pep or ambition, fail to feel re. freshed by rest or vacation, take or some superfluous fiabby flesh. fee low spirited, turn gray too early have cold hands and feet.
 Some Doctors Backward or Bashku
 Is the injection method of treat. ment suitable for umbilicaI herniai If so. can you give me the name ol 8 physician in our community wht uses this method9 (H. F. L)
 Answer-Yes, physicians skilled ir the technic treat umbilical hernia successfully. regret do not know which physician, if any, in you community uses the method.
 MIX and Cream
 A says coffee removes the nutri' tious value of cream when cream ii put if. coffee. B claims the cream retains its nutritious value whether taken in coffee or by itself. e P.)
 Answer-B is right.
 Left-EHamaedneas
 When my son was a child he va naturally left-handed. and [ made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
Pretty Bouquet For Bathroom
 Or Kitchen

Even tea towels are bursting into bloom these daysl The designs shown represent four favorites from the garden-the columbine, pansy, poppy and morning glory. A flower pan holder set and sundower re- freshlnent set also are included. This is a NUMO transfer and each design can be used several times.
 To order, ask for No. C6060 or tear out the illustration and send with ten cents, stamps or coin. (Any three 10 cent Make It Yourself" patterns only 25 cents). Address your order to WATERBURY DEM OCRAT, MAKE TT YOURSELF PATTERN BUREAU, BOX 166. KANSAS CITY MO. Be sure to give name and complete address.
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MA8NEB
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BY Oliyo ROberts BartOM

When we need Q lesson in forti- tude the best thing to do is to hunt up Q real story of real tragedy that left it's victim not crushed, but filled with re-doubled courage and grandeur. Or to talk with some one whose experience has been tor is being) more bitter than our own, and observe stoicisrn as 1t comes.
 Occasionally I drive out to Q beautiful shrine set in our nioun- tains. It is dedicated to the white girl, Mary Jamison,N whose family were tortured and murdered by renegade Indians before her eyes. Mary herself was captured on her wedding day, and eventually mar ried to an Indian brave. Later widowed, she married another 1n- dian. Her life, though, was not through with bitterness. One of her sons murdered his brothers and eventually was murdered himself.
 Worked for Peace With Whites
 Beautiful, lovely Mary. She stands in soft glory today, her life.size statue in exquisitely colored Indian robes, Q startling contrast to the peaceful woods and the quiet old church built since the fatal day. Her copper colored hair, braided, frames Q tender girIish face that keeps you looking; later, no doubt deeper character lines came, not to prove an inner breeding (facial lines it1- variably indicate the secrets of the soui), but strong lines of purpose to do what good she could and be happy. She was always the white" woman to the end.
 To the day she died, her influence for peace between red man and the white never halted. Her ul1- tiring efforts were her real moll- ument. This uniformed girl, who tried to save her family while her brothers escaped, through sheer fortitude turned her broken life to good. Hers has become Q T1a- tional legend.
 We say that women of two cen- turies ago were different. Why should they be? They were wo- men. Girls were girls. Many of them, like Mary, came of finely grained stock. And we have Q way of adding that Q life of heart-tear. ing work prepared them for haz. ards. Tn this one case, we are wrong. There were few Indians where this girl lived, and the four who sneaked to her farm (with four Frenchmen) were strays far from home. The farm was isolated, but good one. Mary had her own riding horse, and her wedding clothes were dainty. Don't Emulate Lots Wife Where, we might ask, did this girl -in-a million get her courage? Where do any of the heroines of any day get theirs? From that rare endowment oE heaven that is far greater than any genius.
 Today has its Marys, women who refuse to be crushed by ad- versity or sorrow, and carry their banners on to q new sun. Courage is too likely to be associated with the past, in our minds. The pres- ent requires q different type of stamina, endurance, that is quite as heroic as that dictated by sav- age raids.
 Two things can be learned from Mary's life, Q determined fortitude to face life ahead, no matter what comes, and Q refusal to look back and re-live tragedy.
 Lots wife did 50. And from then on became inaniinate. When grief or trouble gre behind, let them stay there.
 (Copyright, 1886, NEA Service, Incl
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By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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cleansing.
 Select toothbrushes (everyone needs two) with firm, not soft, but not harsh bristles. Keep them hanging up SO the br!stles will have chance to dry thoroughly after each brushing. If, in spite of this, they seem to get too soft, rinse with strong solution of salt and water. Let the salt water dry on the brush.
 Incidentally, baking soda is one of the finest cleansing agents for stained teeth. You may not like the taste of 1t, but 1t will do the trick. If your budget doesn't allow for Q commercially prepared mouth wash, try plain salt and water.
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him use his right. He has always been less efficient than his naturally right-handed brother. If I had 1t to do over I'd never interfere with the use of the left hand if the child na- turally preferred the left hand |. (E. M.l
 Answer--Why interfere7 (Copyright 1o30. John 2. Dille Co.)
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Caroline Chatfield
Says Today

Correspondent Thinks the Hand-Rocked Cradle Is .
 Mightier Scepter in Woman's Hand Than Any
 Public Office, Business or Professional Career.
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Edited by LAURA I. BALDT, 4. M. For many years Asst. Professor of Household Arts, Teachers College Columbia University, New York.
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e incoming ship first into the pier and there is other start the return journey the home port put nSk out the of business They have pushed the boys bhs There for the women start the journey but back out VIII they do M Not until the haFborS profit pleasure and in But when they wake up their absence from home hazards their happiness that they don't return they VIII have no homes return to- then perhaps they will steam up and back out
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24

brokers to accumulate shares, CD short selling.
 Margin credit the operators still have in abundance.
 The specialist still remains un- checked. The Commission has been studying this subject but has done nothing about it.
 The floor trader still remains unchecked. Here again the Con- mission has been studying the subject but has not acted.
 Fictitious trading is prohibited outright by the act. The Commis- sion has hauled one broker - Mike Meehan, a large scale broker and operator-over the coals to prove that he conducted lot of ficti- tious trading in Bellanca stock. But the trial has lasted for six months and the testimony makes up bales of paper. Obviously the
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much further, break is sure, but that the break may be only tempor- ary and will be followed perhaps by a recovery. Even if the market does not go higher, there may be a tenn porary break to be followed by re- covery. But 1t also means that the whole price structure is based on a thoroughly unwholesome force and that sooner or later there must be an adjustment.
 The other force in the market must be noticed. The market seems to me to be a distributors market. That is, during 1883 and 1884, various operators and insti- tutions and corporations acquired by compulsion large blocks of securities. More recently. when Wall Street saw the definite infla- tionary character of the market, more active operators began to accumulate low-priced shares. With the lift in business these people have been selling their shares to the hopeful public. How much actual lIlhkllUulhb4O 4luo OCCA4 6OAAA6 OAA " effect this 1t would be difficult to say.
 This, perhaps, helps to explain how there has been so much &C., tivity without @ corresponding increase in bank loans in the mar ket. There has been a heavy dis tribution of low-priced stocks which many persons have been introduced to buy for cash and with out the use of market credit. Also, there has perhaps been a lot of floor trading either to help in distribution md boost stocks or merely to take advantage of the current situation. And. of course, lot of this trading is done with out either cash or credit.
 This is further confirmed by the volume of trading. It has been large but not at all record break ing. Thus last year there was q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24
Bank Credit Out of SEC Hands

The commission has laid down some rules under which se- curities are listed with exchanges. The facts which corporations whose shares are listed arc con- pelled to supply are specified by the Commission. But this is hard ly more than the stock exchange already required in listings. And some critics have even insisted that the Commission had actually mitigated the severity of the ex- change rules.
 Speculation with bank credit is not in the hands of the SEC. The power of margin rules is lodged with the Federal Reserve Board. Up to recently margin rules were scarcely more severe than any prudent brokerage house would have required. And even now, while for most active stocks mar gins of 55 per cent are required, this is not much different from the requirement. of sound corl- mission house even in 1929. How ever, there has been some i'm provement here. But the whole agitation against speculation with borrowed funds is by no means settled. There are men in Con- gress as well as in academic cir
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Commission cannot repeat such an effort often. One thing it can do is to make the punishment so severe when 1t does investigate as to make brokers fearful of being caught.
 Publicity, tips, rumors. etc, are of course all made unlawful by the act.
 The Commission may make rules against options, but as yet it has not done so.
 Thus we see that while the Commission has been studying many subjects and has made some good investigations, notably the investigation of the whole abuse of congratulations, it has not yet got down to brass tacks really to curb the market. If the market misbehaves. the Commission is going to be blamed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24
Stock Manipulation Hard to Prove

Next, manipulation. Can brok- CTS still manipulate stocks? And do they do 1t? The law contains a series of prohibitions against manipulation. One is that it is unlawful to do so. This is not very effective, since 1t is very difficult to prove manipulation in any given case.
 The only way to prevent man. ipulation is to take out of the hands of operators the weapons they use for the purpose. What are these weapons? They are in part CD margin credit, @ the collaboration of the specialist, (0 the aid very often of floor brok- CTS, (4) fictious trading, (5) pub licity, tips. rumors, etc, (6) op- tions and other devices to aid
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24

out taxation and with bank loans is a form of credit imitation. There is eleven billion dollars of purchasing power created not in the normal way by producing anything and paying out this sum in costs, but by the sheer tech- niuue of Uncle Sam borrowing and passing the money out to business through the medium of relief, etc.
 If you will go into a neighbor- hood and lend money or give away large sums of money to the people in the neighborhood you will be putting purchasing power into the hands of the customers of the merchants in that neigh borhood. If they show signs of prosperity you will know where it came from. This is what the government has been doing - putting billions of purchasing pow CT into the hands of the customers of our merchants everywhere.
 Wall Street knows this will con- tinue. The President has still left over five billion dollars in unex- pended balances already granted him to spend. He has also an- nounced that he needs another bil- lion and a half and maybe two bil- lion for relief. Also at least an ad- ditional billion is to be distributed to the veterans as bonus money. 1t is certain this will go on as long as MT. Roosevelt is in power. And Wall Street secretly knows that even if the Republicans win they will have to continue spending.
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market. Investors must under stand that the Commission does not aim to advise investors or to aid them in their investment or speculative problems. Its busi- ness is to see that the exchange is run as free, honest market place. While the Commission has done some good work, 1t has real ly not done very much, as yet, to change the methods in the mar ket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24
Securities Laws Still Ineffective

This brings us to ask-what has happened to Wall Street under the new regime-under the Securi- ties Exchange Commission?
 The answer, of course, is that nothing much has happened yet. The situation stands about as fol- lows:
 There are two acts affecting Wall Street. One is the Truth in-Securities Act. This has been beneficial because it forces bank CTS or corporations putting out new issues of bands or stocks to file with the Commission very full account of the essential facts affecting the securities. This act has worked fairly well thus far. But it has not affected the stock exchanges very much, since very few new stocks have been issued. This has been not because of the act, but because of the general investment situation.
 The other act is the Securities Exchange Act, under which the Commission governs the stock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24
Foresees Another Year of Imitation

What docs this mean in the terms of the market? It means that the inflati0nary policy push ing the market up Is going to last at least for another year. It means that, if the market continues up
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24
Second Of Two DemOcrat-NEA Service ArticI
Market Enjoys BooLet As U Spending Brings Credit Initiation
 But Later Adjustment" or Prices Certain Writes Flynn
BY JOHN T. FLYNN

BY JOHN T. FLYNN Copyright. 1s30, NEA Service, Ine.) NEW YORK, April "A - " Who and what has brought Cock Robin back to life?
 What force is it that has revived the stock market?
 Of course the general im- pression that recovery is set ting in is sufficient of itself to give an impetus to stock pric- es. But as already pointed out, a mere IS per cent rise in business activity would not be 8 sound basis for a AS per cent rise in stocks. Beyond the general notion that recov- cry is under way-a very un- certain and not at all fixed conviction-there would have to be a belief either way that recovery was going to continue for . long period or that some other factor was going to move stocks up for a while. What could this other factor be?
 Unquestionably it is the feeling that some kind of imitation is ur,- der way and that 1t will continue for while longer.
 The force making for higher prices is a combination of these two forces plus one other. The vague yet dominating impression of recovery is spread out among what might be called the invest- ing and semi-investing or semi speculating public which buys for the long pull. The more profess Sional elements in the market do not share this view. But they realize that this public impress sion is fertile soil to do business in. And they also realize that the improvement in proTts and the rise in purchasing power is the fruit of the credit imitation under way. They are convinced besides that this credit imitation will con- tinue for another year or 50. And so out of these clements, they have put on the pressure with some response from the public and the corresponding rise in prices.
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lot of heavy trading, yet the total sales of shares were only 38l,- 686 O0O or not very much more than 1884. And 1t was only a little over half what was done n 1883. This year, thus far, sales have been heavier than in the same months last year. That Is, they have been around 100000 GOO shares or somewhat less than 1883. This would seem to indi- cate that, since there is no enor- nous demand being exerted against the shares, the upward swing of stocks has been helped along by some of the old devices.
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cles who believe that margin trading should be done away with altogether.
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Federal Spending Must Continue

The confidence in imitation is, of course, based on govern ment spending. There is no fear in Wall Street of any immediate resort to currency imitation. But Wall Street is able to understand that the expenditure of over eleven billion dollars by the ad- ministration in three years-all of this eleven billion obtained with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24

RIGHT: B o 0 m days turn the floors of the New York stock ex- changes 1 n t c scenes of frenzy. A rare view of the Curb Ex- change during . Hall in the days hectic business is presented b ere by M GrgAr ct BOurke.White.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-22
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IF were easily frightened I'd be having the t-
tiers right now. From Washington acquaint-
ance comes a solemn warning printed in red, which
tells that conspracies afoot, that my govern
ment, my property and my liberty jeopardized.
do you realize" asks the warning that the
Communists maintain thousands of dancing schools,
baseball and basketball clubs theater groups.
film movements atheist Sunday schools, summer
camps and college chapters, all teaching revolution
airy spirit and tactics? Do you realize the Com
munists own large publishing houses?"
That made me feel terrible, but I chippered up
a bit at the next item. do you realize that the
Communists maintain over 100 so-called cultural
movements with thousands of local chapters en-
dangering millions of American women?"
Well I said to myself, if the Communists have
to wait to take my government, my property,
and my liberty until they get the women of the
culture clubs moving, I'm safe. They slow
blackstrap molasses in winter when it comes to
doing things.
Anyway I'm not joining the movement to be
called American Women Against Radicalism."
Several planks in their platform strike me be-
ing as dangerous as Communism Boiled down, it
looks as if they want to put everybody in Jail except
Good Republicans. They for deporting all agi-
tators-and wouldn't under that classical
ton occasionally? Besides I dislike having some-
body interpret my Constitution for me.
Down to this point. however, all was friendly
between us. Then I happened on another line at
bottom of the page which read: For further in
formation apply to the r. o. T. C. Association of
the United States" Just another case of one propa-
gandst accusing another you see. We'd be wise to
fsat shy of both.