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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20

s. October 20 v Birthdates which fall between Nov. 22 and Dec. 2l are more likely than others to be affected by the stellar influences outlined below.
 General Influences Today
 Morning Genial.
 Afternoon Social
 Evening-Go
 Today is a strong improvement over yesterday. Social and love af- fairs should be fortunate.
 Birthdate-
 If your birthdate falls on oct 20, you should possess calm. courage and strength. Only one idea at a time should absorb your attention.
 You receive a friendly influence in November, 1886, which should benefit you through travel neigh bors, relatives or the study of some philosophic subject.
 Seek the company of the opposite sex, ask favots, ningle with friends or buy clothes from Jan. 2 through
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20

Td1lTOaQ QGpUL C1d141OA HE AN
 Governor Guy Park of Mis- souri who was accompanying the train on it's night. run to St.. Louis, took the nnicrophone on the back platform to explain the Presidents absence. e:-4
 My friends" he said, "the President has had, a very hard day. He has come across Kansas and as you know, if there is anything that will make a man sleepy it is to go through Kansas"
 Members of the Presidents party. who a moment before had been congratulating themselves on the success of the Presidents foray into his opponents home state, let out a loud groan. of anguish.
 Lucky
 At Ft. Francis. Warren, the big army post at Cheyenne, Wyo., where the President week-ended recently, a luncheon was given to the commander l-chief by Gen. eral Humphrey During lunch Roosevelt conplimented Hum phrey on the smart appearance of his establishment, and related this anecdote of his trip to Hon. olulu last year:
 While in the Islands he visited the great military camp there and watched a reveiw of the regi- ments. During the parade a bandmaster, just as he came abreast of the President, tossed his heavy stick in the air and without losing step or taking his eyes off the President caught 1t behind his back with one hand.
 The great crowd watching the review burst into applause.
 ''That was an amazing per- z. formance," the President re- marked to the !. commanding general. ''That was the finest exhibition of its, kind Eve ever seen."
 eyes, sir" replied the Gen. eral driIy, ''but all I've got to say is, it was damned lucky for him he caught that stick"
 Worried
 Big, amiable Clyde Tingley, Democratic Governor of New Mexico, visited the Presidents campaign special during it's stop in Denver. The ex-cowhoy was very optimistic about the chances of the President carrying his state, but he was not so cheerful regarding his own reelection chances.
 'How's that, Govefnor3s ask ed a newsman.
 ''WelI, you see it's this way" Tingley drawled. I've promised about 1O,OOO jobs and there just ain't that many to pass around. And the boys are crowding me and 1t doesn't look so good" Double, Double
 Omar Ketchum is the Demo- cratic senatorial candidate riin- ming against Kansas veteran Ar thur Capper.' During the Pres ident's campaign junket through Kansas, Omar appeared promin- ently in the presidential group on the rear platform Though the President carefully refrained from making any reference to him.
 (Capper, while paying lip ser- vice to Governro Landon, so far has dodged placing an unquali- field stamp of approval on him as g. farmers friend" Capper 1 gaunt and cadaverplls, looks like a living skeletol1.)
 Equally prominent on the back platform was Marvin Mcintyre. White House Secretary also gaunt and cadaverous, also Q living skeleton. 'NIac" acted as master ! of ceremonies.
 After several stops Omar final v took Mcintyre aside and pro- tested
 "h1r. Mcintyre, | don't think yUu ought t0 nppoaE on the platform while 9he President is going through Kan1as x'm iql1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20
Harvest

Harvest
 The only real reward a tiller or the soil gets for his labor is the crop he reaps. He prepares the ground, he sows the seed, he waits
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20

the mechanical drudgery of get- ting thoughts into words and sen- tences, goes as nothing. It was. therefore, with a pleasant sense of reward that I received the news of the attendance at the republican rally here in Water bury last week. The Public Util- ities candidates, for governor and lieutenant-governor, States Attor- ney Brown of New London couil- sty and Vice President Lavery of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Com pany did their stuff in Bucking- ham Hall to an audience of two hundred and flfty-fOur.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20
Daily Almanac

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Thank YOU

In8nk xOU M
 The following comes by mail: My dear J. w. F.::-
 Thanks for the hearty laugh out of your crack about the Landon campaign emblem, the sunfiower, and the use of which the seeds are put. When I was a kid we had sunfiowers planted in our back yard to screen of from the public eye a certain sanitary institution which is never mentioned in polite soc ciety nowadays. With that rec ollection in mind even a poet laureate could not be expected. to rise to very lofty heights Of poetic expression. The best I could do are the rhymes en- closed. I call them Advice to Sunfiower Wearers.
 The suhflower is . naughty
 dame,
 She rears her head on high As though ambition held her up
 In reaching for the sky. She turns her face from morn
 till night,
 Not knowing where to rest; She looks from side to side as
 though
 She searches for the best. EheyI bloom and blow with
 ponap and show Through August and September But fatal frost will lay her low To die when comes November. And when at last she's brought as to earth
 Midst IowIy beans and carrots The seeds which once had brought her life
 Are used as food for parrots. And 50, kind friends, don't
 emulate
 This foolish, showy member Lest you in turn will feel the
 frost
 As Alf will in Noyember. ANON.
 There are but two presiden- tiaI tickets i'm the field which have . chance to win. The democratic ticket Is an odds-on favorite. The republican ticket a dubious long shot A vote cast for any third ticket Is 8 vote lost Or . vete given indi- rectIy to the republican party. Readers of this fact are asked, respectfully, to keep it in mind at all times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20
Horoscope
BY OCTAvINE

For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the planets, the daily horoscope is out lined by noted astrologer. In ad- dition to information of general in terest, it outlines information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20

tilling, all my seed sowing which had seemed so much wasted ef- fort had at last brought Q har- vest. All but two hundred and fifty-for1r reckless members of the republican party in Waterbury had been wised up.
 @ @
 Last Warning
 It is to these stiff -necked fndi- viduals that this last warning is directed. You have been told re- peatedly to avoid everything re- motely resembling g.o.p. activity but you may still cherish the de- fusion that what has happened to others cannot happen to you. Be advized in time. STAY AWAY FROM THE POLLS ON ELEC- TON DAY. You still retain your pants, coats, vests, socks, and step-ins. You may think you can take these articles into the voting booths and emerge in possession of them. You haven't a China mans chance of doing any such thing. You haven't even the chance that Messrs Landon and Knox have of winning. And if in the face of this last you still re- fuse to accept the truth of the statement that fools rush in where angels fear to tread on your own lucklesS heads be 1t. But don't come around crying after Novem' Der 3rd and say you were not tipped off by one who has g sim cere regard for your welfare as compatriots and members of the. same human family.
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 The Rally
 Oh about the rally2 Well as near as I can find out States At torney Brown said nothing about Connecticut issues but did con- fess to the two hundred and flfty- four that he had been converted to the republican party at the age of three. (The accepted age of reason is seven.) Vice-President Lavery of the Bridgeport Hy- draulic Company confessed to the fifty-four left after MT. Brown got through, that his family had once lived in Waterbury and that he once consulted 8 tea-cup toss- ing fortune teller up on the Hill who predicted a great political tri- llmph for him sometime, some how, somewhere. Like all come ons, MT. Lavery has written his own ticket and has picked out 1936 as the date of the triumph. Our advice to the genial but de- luded republican-public utility candidate for the lieutenant g0v- ernorship is to study the election returns from the Hill Wednesday November 4th. He will then dis cover that that steadfast demo- cratic district has 3 way of tell- ing fortunes all its own. IT is with ballots, not tea leaves.
 Still Time
 While on the subject of States Attorney Brown this department would like to remind him that there still remains time for him to do the proper thing. He still has the opportunity of resigning his job as an officer of the court and campaigning as plain Arthur Brown not as the public prosecu- tor. The republican candidate for governor of New York, Judge Bleakley, got of the bench when he was nominated. He furnished 8 fine example for MT. Brown to follow. And Mir. Brown will do itl!ll Now it's your turn to tell one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20
Despair

The feeling of hopelessness and helplessness deepened into utter despair when learned what hap pened to typewriter (machine not operator) owned by our own Harry Post. Harry is republi- can commissioner on the Board of Education and big hearted when 1t comes to doing anything for the party he loves. In mos ment of responsiveness he loaned . typewriter to the local republi- can headquarters and never got It back. The disclosure was made late in September but there was no use in noticing it in this de- partment at that time. I was sick of working on 8 dead horse. If in spite of everything I had done to notify republican wallet carriers, republican fish dealers, republican bathing beauties, and g.o.p. saps frequenting republican rallies of the risks they were running and they saw fit to ignore the notifica- tion my conscience was clear. Be- sides, in the Post typewriter case, [ did not want to be guilty of an injustice. The disappearance of the commissioners machine might have been due to absent-minded- ness on the part of some of the boys in the back room at republi- can headquarters. There are peo- pie who pick up little things ike electric refrigerators, safes, motor trucks, trunks and such like with out realizing what they are doing. And who, when they do realize that the trifies mentioned belong to someone else cannot remem- Der where they lifted them or whose property they are. Tn any event I did not propose to go on strewing good seed on barren ground. Then came the news of the turnout for the republican rally and with 1t the sense Of more personal satisfaction l have noted above. All my laborious soil
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20
BY WAY of NO HARM
James William FitzP Patrick

cThe cnents Opinon and Conc1ns appearing below arc Oge e writer They not necaEiy tase q tne editors THE DEMOCRAT they to be conSttued
 invariably. reflection of their vswpoinO.
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Wol,t Wash


 The explanation from republ- can apologists that the attend ance was SO small because people who would ordinarily have been present stayed at home and listened to the radio broadcast of the event, just wont wash. They stayed at home because they fol- lowed the advice given, by way of no harm, several times in these columns. You may recall that, after Good Old Bill Pape acting as war correspondent at the re- publican national convention in Cleveland wired his stories of the grand and petit larceny practiced on the delegates. I felt called upon in the public interest to warn all innocent members of the grand old party to keep away from republican gatherings of all kinds if they had any regard for the safety of their pocketbooks. You may remember that I repeat ed the warning shortly after the zealous Young Republican Water bury fish dealer was nicked for his oyster knife, his clam tweezers, and his shrimp shredder at the fiesta at the Villa de Bisschop. I went to the length of counselling pulchritudinous young women en- tered in republican bathing beau- tv contests to take along a barrel if they wanted to get home with out being arrested for indecent exposure. At the risk of harping too much on the same subject reprinted the advertisements for the return of vanished pokes which appeared in the Waterbury Re- publican right after the Knox rally in Hamilton Park.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20

Copyright, 1886, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-20

@. Give the length and breadth of the Straits of Gibraltar.
 A. Length, about 36 miles; breadth, from l6 to 24 miles.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
CLARK PRAISES
GOLF COURSE
Is Reaction When Present
ed Rotary Annual Tour
ney Trophy

Archie Clark. winner of the an
Hual Rotary club golf tourna-
ment last week at the Henderson
vile Golf and Country Club. was
presented the cup at the meeting
Of the club at the Skyland Hotel
Yesterday.
The presentation was made by
+. 4. Fain, Jr., member of the
sports committee. and the prog
ram was in charge of c. K. Hoov-
err. chairman of the committee.
In accepting the cup Mr.. Clark
spoke briefly and stated that the
course at the HenderSonville club
as one of the best courses in this
entire section and that the green's
are better than those Of any
course in Western North Carolina
nth one possible exception.
He paid tribute to the group
responsible for the building of
the course here, declaring shat
they had started with nothing and
built a really fine golf course.
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BREVARD ART
SHOW PLANNED

BREVARD, July 8. (SpeciaD
Brcvard's second annual art show,
sponsored by the Mathatasian
club, will be held here three days,
July %, % and 26. According to
present indicati the show Will
be larger and better than that
held last summer. ..
I'm addition to paintings and
SCULPTURE, there will be shown also
many interesting antiques and
curios. A special feature Of the
exhibit will be the pictures, soap
carving and designs made by Bre-
ward school children who won
prizes in the state art contest in
Raleigh.
Among the well known artists
who have been invited to exhibit
their works are: Mrs. Elizabeth
O'Neill Werner, of Charleston, 5.
c.: Mr.. Jean Jacques Pfister, of
Blowing Rock; Mrs. Lille HAYNES
McMullen, of Danville, KY; Mrs,
Hugh Walker, of Greenvillc, ):
c; Mr.. Hoffman Kemper, Of
Hendersonville; Miss Beulah Bow
den, of Mars Hill; Miss Ruth Dor
is Sweet, of Southern Pines; Mrs.
B. King Copper, of Tryon; A,
Wolf Davis, of Clemson, S. c. The
department of architecture OF
Clemson college is also expected
to have an exhibit.
Those desiring to exhibit paint
ings or other objects are urged
to contact Mrs. j. B. Jones, chair
man of the. art, committee, OF
Mrs. c. L. Newland, president OF
the Brevard Mathatasian Club.
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message of the House of Long
Shadows? Almost as though the
answer had been spoken, came
the thought of Susie, and her sly,
searching.
Claire moved to the bookcase
and again took down the red vol
ume Of poems in which her uncle
had written the four lines of
verse. "Wedded pines above me
lie" She laid the book down on
the radiator. Why, the great pine
tree by the house was two trees
grown together! Could Lyman
Fosdick have been thinking of
that? The girl walked to the win
dow and looked at the majestic
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Hl~lzz<zE y SHADOWS
by Ida R. Gleason
q 1885 NEA Service, Inc.

"Susie, are you there?" Claire
called.
There was no reply. Puzzled,
the girl walked back into the
shadows. Susie undoubtedly was
back there and had not heard her.
This would be as good a place as
any to ask her some important
questions.
But, to Claire's establishment,
there was no sign of the house
keeper.
"Susicr' she called again. No
answer. Claire opened the cup
board door, as though she half
expected to find the jelly gone
and some mysterious opening in
stead. But the shelves still bore
their orderly rows of glasses and
jars.
| Claire smiled at herself as she
thought of Susie's plump figure,
and then noticed how little space
had been wasted in the cupboard.
She must have been mistaken.
Susie couldn't have come down
into the root cellar, after all. Per-
haps it just looked from a dis
l'tance as though she had. Claire
blew out the lamp and put it
back on the shelf, then hurried
upstairs to the open air.
| The girl circled a huge wood
pile, expecting to see the house
keeper, but there was no one IN
sight. She walked out to the big
barn that now. served as garage
and store house. This also was
empty. Claire looked about in be-
wilderment. Had lack of sleep be
gun to play havoc with her
nerves? She was starting for the
house when, to her surprise, she
Isaw Susie come up the root cellar
steps. This time the tray was
Fempty and the lantern gone.
| Claire's first impulse was to
call to the women, but, on second
| Thought, she stepped back into the
barn and let her go into the house,
unaware that she had been seen.
Then Claire ran to the cellar
steps and descended. A minute
examination of every inch of the
place revealed nothing. Where had
Susie been and why? Was there
some secret place under the house
THAT it's present owners knew
nothing about? Claire stood puz-
zling over the problem. If Pat
would only come she could tell
him about it. Perhaps he could
find a clew that she had missed
in the seemingly solid cellar walls.
At last the girl went IN to the
open again and walked into
Susie's kitchen.
ooh, here you are! I've been
looking for you," she began.
"Where were you just now?'
81 was up in the linen closet.
| Claire, sorting over some sheets"
iSusie glanced up sideways and
lneH WenI Oll WIFI iSi "o'N'
! For an instant Claire was
tempted to demand the truth
Then the thought came to her that
it would be better not to put Susie
on her. guard. So she asked, II
a matter-of-fact tone. HAS Mr.
| Magyar come in yet?"
II amt seen him since the doc
Itor left" answered Susie.
| Claire went into the library
Her growing uneasiness about
Pats absence, and now Susie's de
| Hibernate falsehood was beginning
to fray her nerves. She distinct!
distrusted the baby-faced house
keeper. Could she depend on DaI
Dallas? How much did the tall
scar-faced man know about wha
was going on? ,
| Claire stood before the mantel
looking at the cryptic broken ar
row. What could it mean? wa
her uncle trying, in vain, to pom
out something from beyond th'
grave? And why had he gone t.
such weird lengths to conceal thl
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determined to have a straight talk
with Susie as soon as she could
leave Bob. She had promised Pat
to stay until he came back.
But the hours went by and Pat
did not return. At last Claire cal
ed Hannah and went downstairs
to see if she could find him. The
house seemed deserted. Dan Dai-
las had been sent down to the
village for supplies, but where had
the housekeeper disappeared, and
why didn't Pat come back?
. Claire turned her steps toward
the little cabin where Dallas
stayed. She skirted the aspen
grove, aware of a growing uneasi-
ness, and hurried on to the cabin.
To her surprise, the door was
partly open. She hesitated, and
after knocking once OF twice,
went in. Nobody was there. Dan
Dallas possessions were arrang-
ed neatly and everything was
-scrupulously clean.
"Must have had military train
ing" decided Claire as she noted
how precisely his shoes were lined
upon a low shelf, with his clothes
hung carefully above. In one cor
ner stood his rifle. She picked this
,up and looked at it curiously. Was
this the gun Pat had quizzed Dial
las about the night before? She
put it back, just as she had
found it.
Giving another hasty glance
around, she went out quickly and
closed the door behind her. AS
she stood on the doorstep a rat
peeped down at her from the logs
above her head. At her slight
movement, it scurried out of
sight, but the next moment some
thing rolled over the edge of the
roof and dropped at her feet, evil
IDENTIFY dislodged by the tiny ami
mails panic.
Claire picked it up curiously,
then gazed at it wide-eyed. A
silencer for a gun. She remem-
bered having seen one in a play.
What was it doing on Dallas
roof? The shots that had killed
the watch dog, and come so near
to snuffing out her own life had
been fired from weapon with
silencer. There was no other
way to account for the lack of
sound. Dan would have to ex-
plain this to everyone's satisfac-
ton OF else. ..... Ia.
She fastened back toward the
house. AS she came. within sight
OF the Kitchen door, she saw Susie
carrying a small, covered tray
From her arm an unlighted Ian
tern was swinging. Something in
the housekeeper's manner made
Claire draw back behind a tree
to watch her. What on earth could
Susie want with lantern at this
time of day? The answer was
given when the woman walked
quickly to a large root cellar al
the back of the house, and dis
appeared down the steep flight OF
stone steps. .... .
Claire promptly followed. The
root cellar had always held a fas
cination for her ever since her lit
tie girl days. Now familiar cool
ness rushed up to meet her, min
gled with an earthly odor.
The cellar was very large ant
so cool that pieces of meat, Sc
curely covered with cheeseclotf
wrappings, could be safely hung
from it's rafters. Bins for vege
tables took up one side of the
room. Along the other side wa:
built huge wooden cupboard
Inside, Claire knew, were shelVe!
holding neatly labeled glasses Of
jelly and preserves.
-- But there was no signo fSusle
Perhaps she was back in the
/ shadowg end of thesroom storing
ts6methingSaway. 49,
:. :.
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spreading branches. Perhaps the
tree held the secret of the hidden
jewel.
Suddenly her attention was
caught by another sound. She
held her breath and listened.
Regularly and at even intervals
came the same tapping noise that
had startled her in Lyman Fos-
dicks bedroom. The room was
directly above the library. r
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