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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-06
PmoIed Federal Prisoners Facing Jail CommittaI
N. Y. Circuit Court of Ap. peaIs Hands Down Start.
 ling Decision

Anumber of Waterburians now enjoying freedom may be committed to penal insti- tutions as the result of an unexpected decision by the Circuit Court of Appeals at New York this week. The court ruled that a federal fudge cannot include a prison term and a probation ary period in the same sentence.
 Federal judges sitting in this state have regularly followed such pro- Cedure and unless the circuit court ruling is upset by the supreme court then many now on probation or who have completed probationary terms may be re-committed.
 Federal Probation Officer James Milne has already begun Q survey Of federal district court records of the past five years to determine how many persons arc affected by the court ruling. No estimate of the number of WaterburianS affected is available thus far.
 Assistant U. S. District Attorney George II. Cohen of Hartford or. lered the survey. He termed the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-06
JAMBOREE TROOP
 PICNIC TONIGHT

David Babson. local scout sxecu- tive, announced this morning that several members of the local Jam- boree troop would be guests of honor ct a picnic spread at Camp pershing tonight, weather permit ting. Int group will make the trip under the direction Of Milton Hult- man, scoutmaster of the Jamboree troop.
 Following the affair tonight, each member of the troop, which recently
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-06

ruling "bombshell," and said that he would walt advice as to proced- ure from higher federal quarters.
 Many of those affected by the ruling are drug addlcts, who receive prlSofl sentences on one count and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-06

are placed on probation on other counts. Those found guilty or plead- ing guilty to liquor violations may also be affected.
 As the situation now stands, many men and women will bc remanded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-06

to prison. The ruling raises many technical questions, one of the most pugzling being whether those releaS- cd from prison and whose proba- tionary periods have expired can be rc-cornmitted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-06

completed a fourteon-day bus trip throughCut the northern New Eng
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-06

land states and Canada. VIII tell of some high spot during the trlp.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

cratic or Republican members
Of that committee were con-
cerned, they were just exactly
the same standard as they are
today, and I do not think any
member, be he a Republican or
Democrat, could have been in
fluenced by a lobbyist"
When the Democratic members
of the House condemn the pres
ence Of lobbyists in the halls of
Congress they might well recall
the name of certain gentleman
who eats lunch in the House
restaurant each day. And he
usually eats with members of the
House who have Democratic
tendencies.
He is Charles West, former mem
Der Of Congress, who spends much
Of his time travelling between the
Capitol and the White House tax.
ing little hints from the Chief
Executive to the boys" on the Hill.
When questioned concerning his
practice of eating in the House
restaurant each day, Mr.. West
attempts to explain his custom by
saying:
II like the food in this place"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
SPECIAL COINS

It has become the policy Of
the Postoffice Department that
special stamps would not be is.
sued to commemorate anniver.
sarieS of various cities in the
United States.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley said that the requests were
becoming too numerous.
The other day when the Senate
was considering certain calendar
legislation, it adopted two bills
providing that the Director of the
Mint direct the coinage of 50-cent
pieces in commemoration of GER
tain events in connection with the
history of Lynchburg, Virginia,
and Cincinnati, Ohio.
The bills authorized, coinage Of
10000 silver 50-cent pieces for
Lynchburg in celebration Of its
150th anniversary.
The reason for the authorization
Of the issuance Of same number
of coins for Cincinnati was that it
had been a center Of music for SO
years and for its contribution to
music for half a century.
When members of Congress can
not secure the issuance Of stamps
by the PoStoffice Department,
they turn to the Treasury for
coinage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROIUL011d
WOMEN, WOMEN, EVERYWHERE!

changing ribald jokes and "Smok"
'ing-car stories"
Almost nobody remembers the
time when the men shooed the
women off to the drawing room.
after dinner, and fingered alone
over their cigars and wine. When
the ladies rise, the men rise too
and tag right after them; thereby
admitting that there is no sex
distinction in after-dinner stories
and digestion.
No woman ever entered .
saloon" unless she carried tam
BOURNE or an axe. But, now that
it has become Cocktail Bar" and
is all prettied up with fancy
glasses, beautiful murals, and
chromium trimmings, "the ladies"
are warmly welcomed. And HOW!
And as for prize-fights! Those
once purely masculine scenes OF
carnage have gone feminine with
flourish. The frou-frou of eve
ming gowns and the glitter OF
jewels have transformed them into
smart social affairs. And the
shrieks and yells of the "gentler
sex" can be heard above the mas
culine rears, as they Historically
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

The radio Is Edwin c. Hill
new as a means of political expires
sion. It is old as a means Of en-
tertainment, by which I mean it Is
as old as the theater.
It is, as far as entertainment
goes, just another form of the
theater and the successful radio
performer is bound by the rules
Of the theater and follows the rou-
tine of the theater.
Variety is the spice Of life, but
also it is the life of the radio act.
The performer has to be good and
he has to be different with every
performance.
In the old days of vaudeville, an
act went along for years but, if
you remember, it was good for
only once a year in the same town.
It is rare, indeed. that a person
goes more than once to see a cur
rent play or a current movie.
ONE-NIGHT STAND
For each performance, the stage
and the films have complete new
audience, and when the show or
the picture has gone the rounds
Of the country, it is slowed away
in moth balls.
On the other hand, radio is a
one-night stand with the country
wide audience packed into the one
op'ry house. If tonight the per-
Torrance is EAST Lynne" it
cannot be EAST Lynne" tomorrow
night.
President Roosevelt is the first
President to make extensive use of
the radio. Others have employed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

Instead today there is no re"
peating on the radio. If you
must go around talking through
microphones, then you must
change the tune for every ap-
pearance.
Yes, the radio may have reVo-
lutionized campaigning, but it
can have its drawbacks as well
as its merits insofar as the can
didate is concerned.
How to best use it is a mat
ter for a brain trust to work out.
The good old days are gone,
such as the days Of 1920, when
I sat for a whole summer out
in Marion, Ohio. and watched
Warren Harding confine his cam
paigning to greeting the visiting
firemen. Harding would have
been a star before the micro
phone, but he wouldn't have
been able to use the same little
speech of welcome 80 times as
he did out there in Marion.
copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
CAUSTIC

Former Senator James A. Reed,
Democrat, of Missouri, clearly
demonstrated that he has not lost
his oratorical ability when he at
tackled the New Deal in his recent
Chicago speech
AS has been pointed out, Reed
delivered an address from the plat
form at Northwestern University
that caused 1000 student delegates
to cheer Justify.
There are few men of Reeds
type in the Senate today.
In those years when he turned
his caustic language against his
opponents there were only one or
two of his colleagues who could
retaliate.
On one occasion, Reed was en-
gagged in a debate with former
Senator Thomas Helm, Democrat
of Alabama.
Helm made some remark which
caused Reed to drawl:
1.-THE Senator is so humorous
that expect the stumps in the
Potomac River are bObbing with
Iaughter!"
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By Edwin C. Hill

commented on the failure Of the
audience in the armory to rise
to the points which the President
was making.
In seeking the reason, this
theatrical man went back to the
stage and came UP with the
opinion that the President has
become a little too familiar as
radio speaker.
"After ALL" he went on, ''hiS
material is limited and he has
used it pretty often. As we'd
say on Broadway, he needs .
new act and new scenery.
1t will be up to the Democratic
convention to give him that in
their platform and at their con-
ventiOn.
"Then, again, he'll have .
different role to play this sum.
mer and fall. That is o de-
fenSive role. OF course, not
all the time. But the rules
of the game are that he'll have
to answer anything the Re-
publicanS shoot ut him. The
radio audiences will demand it
and even q President has to
satisfy his audience, or it will
walk out on him."
NO REPEATING
The ex-President, Mr.. Hoover
seems to have found out tina
it is quite a job to get across
with a radio campaign. He ha'
expressed a yearning for thu
e-Wilson days when a speaker
could get along with about three
set speeches for the entire year
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
An Epic of Endurance

All the world waited anxiousy for word Of Dr. D. Robert
Alfred scaddng during the ten days they buried
alive in the desolate gold mine at Moose River tiny Nova
Scotian hamlet.
When Robertson whispered hoarsey through the COM
muncatons pipe that his partner and companion Herman
Mag dead seemed impossible that the rescuers could
reach the two survivors in time
But the hardrvng miners kept and after agonizng
period of suspense hoed through the where the
physician and scaddng trapped with the body Of Mag
The deed frightened by the courage Of both
and rescued It epic Of human fortitude seldom
euualled even in the grim annals Of the North.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
Fair Treatment

The District appropriation bill is in the midst of the
annual battle over the Federal share of the cost of main
tanning and operating and building up the National
Capital.
The Senate wrote into the bill provision for $780,
900 appropriation whereas the House had marked in
figure of $27O0O00.
The issue is therefore drawn between these two
figures
As the cOnferees prepare to meet on the bill Ue
appeal to them to forget any prejudice Which may
exist among them against the development of the
Federal City and UieJU the subject from the stand
point of national interest and fair treatment for
the disfrGnchised citizens of Washington.
Viewing the matter in that it should be pos
sible to arrive at equitable solution.
And in that connection we believe that the people Of
the country generally want the people of this powerles
community treated with justice by the Congress.
We believe that they also want Washington, the
National Capital, developed in manner BETTING the
position Of the country in world affairs.
On the other side of course is the way residents Of
Washington feel about their city.
We believe that they want the city to be developed
properly only National Capital but also their
residential community.
TO THAT END THEY ARE WILLING TO CARRY
FAIR TAX BURDEN WITH THE FEDERAL GOV
EMINENT PUTTING UP AS MUCH AS Is NECES
SARY TO BEAR The O1FFERENCE BETWEEN
THIS CITY AS THE CAPITAL AND ANOTHER
CITY WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE THAT ASPECT
The people already are paying more than just
tax bill.
AS recent surveys show Washington is at the top Of
per capita tax lists for cities which strictly
parable.
For that if for no other reason the Federal appro
priaon should be increased at least to the figure set
by the Senate figure which recommended by the
Bureau Of the Budget.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

lief in God-and that 1t was a
crime to destroy them.
But you might as well get
over that belief right now,
stranger, for no more miSchiev-
Gus lie ever crippled the hui
man spirit-Or sOftened the hui
man spine.
Illusions are NOT sacred.
illusions are NOT beautiful.
ILLUSIONS ARE SIMPLY AN
OTHER, PRETTIER NAME FOR
DELUSIONS-AND THE SOON
Err THEY ARE SHATTERED,
THE BETTER FOR YOU AND
FOR THOSE WHO MUST LIVE
WITH YOU.
EVASIONS
Yes, I know how lovely illusions
can seem. I have chung to plenty
in my time. I know, too, how they
can pad existence for us-Shield
us from the things we dread to
know or face-coddle our coward
ice and conceit.
But therein lies their very
viciOusneSs. For no twO-fiSted
human being, male or female,
has o right to a padded or cod
died existenCe-and no PROUD
human being would knowingly
desire or endure it.
1.-THE illusions of our youth
how reverently we speak of them:
how we grieve when we lose them
and what a swell alibi their loss
provides for all our future cussed.
ness!
BUT IT'S AS TRAGIC TO RE
TAIN THE ILLUSIONS OF YOUR
YOUTH AFTER REACHING MA
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TIE AIN 4OO1O oE1O4 4cC4 a.
OR TO TODDLE. AND THE
GROWN MAN OR WOMAN WHO
INSISTS ON RETAINING HIS OR
HER SENTIMENTAL ILLUSIONS
is AS CRIPPLED AS ANY IDIOT,
AS PERVERTED AS ANY DRUG
ADDICT AND AS MUCH A
MENACE TO THE PUBLIC AT
LARGE.
A harsh philosophy? Yet one
thousand years ago 1t was voiced
by a battling saint Paul OF
TarSuS:
"When was a child, I spake
as a child, I understood as q
child, I thought as o child; but
when I became q man, I put
away childish things"
Illusions are Childish things"
These adoleScent notions that all
men are 100 per cent brave and
chivalrous and all women 100 per
cent pure and tender-and If they
aren't you won't play - are as
childish and as dangerous in q
grown man or woman as belief
in witches, ogres or wishing wells.
FACE TRUTH
Stop living in fairy tales. Stop
hiding your head in dreams. Dare
to stand upright as a man and
FACE LIFE AS IT IS-not as your
ignorance or fear, sentimentality
or conceit would wish it to be.
DARE TO FACE THE TRUTH
AND LIVE THE TRUTH. .
Dare to put away your rag dolls
and kiddy karS and tackle life
with open eyes and fighting fists
Dare to see every illusion you
have, stripped from you. If a be-
lief CAN be stripped from you,
then it should be. For you can
not live a real or full human life
if there is an idea in you-or a
desire in you-or an ambition-or
a devotion-which masks or pads
reality.
I am no mystic or seer. Nor
even a very smart gal. But this
I do know-IT IS BETTER TO
FACE THE TRUTH FOR ONE
HOUR, THOUGH 1T BREAK
YOUR HEART, BANKRUPT
YOUR PRIDE AND SCAR YOU
FOR LIFE, THAN TO LIVE ALL
YOUR YEARS A CODDLED CRY
BABY, SWADDLED AND
SMOTHERED IN YOUR OWN
ILLUSIONS.
Copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate. In0.1
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from the madding female of the
species?
Where are all those masculine
retreats, once sacred from the
enervating presence Of women?
We never HEAR of them any more
in these co-educational days.
Apparently, the only places where
a man balks at having a woman
around are the golf links and the
altar!
Men used to take most of their
fun without women. Clubs, lodges,
smokers" poker games, bar
rooms and fishing trips all offered
them a welcome escape from petit
coat power. But, NOW, the men
no longer seem to feel that women
cramp their style. In fact, they
enjoy almost anything more, II
the girls are there.
Every day is LADIES' DAY"
to a modern man!
Women may have had to put
up a terrific battle for equality
in business and politics. But, after
they had won the decision, men
suddenly grew big-hearted and
cheerfully handed them equality
at the billiard table, the prize
ring and the cocktail bar on a
silver platter. And now, most men
demand that women shall share
ALL of their diversions.
Even the Smoking-car, that last
stand of maSculinity, has become
Club Car" and is so dolled UP
with easy-chairS, soft lights and
silk curtains that it looks more
like a debutante's boudoir than
like a he-man,s retreat for eX.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
CUT RATES

Capitol guides are finding 1t
difficult to refrain from the use
of harsh words" when discussing
a certain member of the House.
It is the custom Of the guides
to charge IS cents for persons
whom they escort through the
Capitol, although they reduce the
rate for student parties to is cents
per person.
This member Of Congress went
to the guides one day and told
them scores of boys were visiting
him and that they would like to see
the Capitol. He told them, how
ever, that the boys didn't have
much money.
The guides took the group
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
Words of Wise Men

No man is wiser for his learning.
The mouse that hath but one
hole is quickly taken.
Good company and good dis
course are the very sinewS OF
virtue.
He knows little who will tell MS
wife all he knows.
Fame sometimes hath created
something of nothing.
A little group Of wise hearts Is
better than O wilderness Of fools.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

ardors Of cam
paig ming via
radio bring up
an interesting
point. It Is this:
d Oe s CO n.
slant use Of the
radio by q per.
son for discus.
sion Of political
questions grad.
ually lessen the
drawing power
Of the speaker
as well as the
effect of his
speeches?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
Radio As Means of Political Expression
Changes Campaign Practices

speech. Such an act is what they
call a natural in such times. It
has action, drama, timeliness and
the thrill Of combat, not unlike
that of a heavyweight champion
ship or a football broadcast.
But what about off-season
speeches, and a lot of them?
Critics of the President thought
his Baltimore speech fell flat
after some political writer's had
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

He is the greatest artist who has
embodied, in the sum of his works,
the greatest number of greatest
ideas.
Talent is that which IS In a
mans power; genius is that In
whose power a man is.
IT'S strange what a man may
do and a woman yet think him
an angel.
knowledge and timber should
not be used much till they ere
seasoned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

urge their taVOrlte to beat him 20
a pulp!
Oh, yes, man has accepted
women as his PLAYMATES. He
can't seem to get a kick out of any
of his pastimes unless there are
plenty of women around to play
with him. And a woman no longer
feels that her husbands club or
his bachelor cronieS are her enc
mics.
She knows that her only rival 10
ANOTHER woman!
copyright. 1896. by King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

lions that have
S p r e a d their
shinmering veil
between 70 u
and harsh real
ity since t h e
days Of you
y GU h. A n d
you're broken
hearted-yes?
Worse t h a n
that, you're Bit
ter. For you've
always believed
t h a t illusions
1r,ara So ere n
things - on q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

tariff bill in the
days Of Repub'
lican c on 70 ]
had been sur
rounded by lob
byistS.
r pr eSentar
tive Isaac Bach.
arach, Republi'
can Of New Jer.
Sey, arose to
the defense Of
the committee
and said:
II want to
say that insO-
far rs either
the Dem n.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
THE ATTRACTION

The tax bill was being debated
in the House and Representative
Jere Cooper, Democrat Of Tennes-
see, made the assertion that the
Ways and Means Committee
which drafted the Hawley-Smoot
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
Greatest Show on Earth
BIZ John Snure, T.

through the building for total Of
S., or about cents per boy.
They asked the member of Con-
gress, however, not to mention the
cheap rate they gave him as an
accommodation.
When the boys returned to their
homes, however, they gave the
cheap rate wide publicity.
Now, when other visitors come
from that area, they insist that
they should also be given the re-
duced price.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

announced that it would be the
opening gun Of his campaign for
reelection.
Sections Of the press which
are on the Presidents side failed
to enthuse over it, and a least
one such supporter sought to ex-
plain what it lacked in going
over"
I listened to it along with a
man wise in theatricalS and he
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

Where are the stag-parties Of
yesteryear? What has become of
all those strictly he-man affairs
at which men foregathered far
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27
The Human Side of the News =

President Roosevelt's Baltimore4
speech on the radio and ex-Presi-
dent Hoover's comment on the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

it mostly during the few months
of the political campaign.
In the August, September and
October preceding the November
of q presidential election, there is
no difficulty in getting an audi
ence or holding it for Q political
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Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson
BE GLAD WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR ILLUSIONS

So someone, or something. has
wrecked your Illusions
Shattered those fairy.tale no
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14
TofaI Cana Cost May
BE Less Than Estimate
Sons Of Peace-Time Battle
Do job Quick, Walk Away Tough
If thcrc,s a dirty Job TO do

ii
assignment death hole somewhere III ts
trough American canal
If there's task under the heat that would
kill like flies
If there's they're all afraid to tackc-hey call for
caterpillar tractor
minutes dusty rumblcS out oi The con
blunt anything
anytime, anywhere-preferaby trouble
there who reckless and
swashDucng laugh the face o danger
is whOOp gasoline
qucksand whe gruns at mountain ana puse II
like battery OF french
Old Man Mars
the failure That's
the caterpillar.
Caterpars that do the dirty work front bumper device
buldO7cr pushes sand before
pushes there's hill sand earth to be moved
stubby beneath him plunges at 1t
clenche into the sand and
ahead Of him Others clear the way
the earth.
in a there's work
premature S stop GOd Man Devil
They job quick walk away tough
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14
FORCE ACCOUNT
RECRUITS CAME
OFF OF FARMS

The men of the force account
were recruited from Imperial Val
ley. They came from the farms,
and some brought their own teams,
many their families.
No fancy construction towns
housed them. They lived where
they could, in tents, covered wagons
or primitive camps along the canal
route. Their women cooked for
them, their children played about
in the dust and watched the men
working
When a section of canal was
completed they moved their homes
to the next place. Weary mules
were hitched up at evening time,
after the job was over, and pulled
the family wagon to the new home
site. There they camped and a
week or so later moved. Until the
last camping place, when the job
was finished.