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Evening star., 1936-12-29
Blanche Wootton Leads Girls.

A MONG the Rosslyn leaders were
Russ Spilman. many times prize
winner in Metropolitan Washington
tournaments. who shot 1852, and
Preston Ellis, who returned to ths
Capital on Federal service barely in
time to qualify, with 666, and who
ROLLED 2o-63l in the final. Mrs. Ellis
did well at Rosslyn. too. with $50, that
included handicap of only S. with
Blanche Wootton taking the lead with
1See BOWIING- page A-I20
Evening star., 1936-12-29

(See BOWLING, Page A-12)
Evening star., 1936-12-29
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The Panther Tries Again.

70 COMMEDABLE record
have Pittsburgh's Panthers
compiled in Rose Bowl COM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Russian Democracy?

The new constitution of the Soviet Union is a good, democratic document. It will give the Russians democracy-if the fine theories which it embodies are allowed to be translated into actual prac- tice.
 Whether that is to be the case is some thing that only time can tell. The out side world, having looked at nearly two decades of complete repression in Russia, doubtless will be pardoned for adopting wait-and-see attitude
 When some Russian has campaigned up and down and across the land on a wipe-out-comm program, and has done it without being liquidated by the OGPU, it will be time to announce def initely that Russia has achieved a real democracy.
 One thing these postwar years have taught all of us is that fine paper con- stitution is not enough to create a de- mocracy. Democracy is something that flows naturally from the spirit of govern ors and governed. If the Russians have created such a spirit within the tight framework of an autocracy, the western world will be greatly pleased-and not little surprised
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
What Tugwell Wanted

Now that it's all settled, and Professor Rex Tugwell is to leave public life for private business, it is possible to regard that much-discussed gentleman more calmly and appraise him more accurately. It appears, from all available informa- tion, very doubtful that he was ever either SO dangerous fred" or so important a factor in American government as he was rated by his critics. He was and is pretty liberal, and he has on occasion done some thinking out loud that might have been merely interesting speculation in the classroom but sounded dangerous in public address. Some of the things he has done are doubtless unwise Yet on the whole, the sort of things he did and urged were things accepted without ex- citement in other free, self-governing countries like England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Canada. He explains him. self thus, as a friend of private capital ism:
 "Everything that have sponsored or
 originated in the way of legislative
 action has been with view to secur-
 ing more permanent and stabilized
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Happy Omen

One very excellent sign of the times is the fact that contributions to organized charities have gone substantially upward this fall.
 In 78 cities that have been collecting Community Chest subscriptions of late, more than $38,000,0 900 has been paid in. In most of these cities final figures are not available; where such figures are at hand, they show that most cities have passed their objectives and have collected more money than they requested
 It has been hard for the charities, in the last few years to get the money they need. For one thing, people have not had so much to give; for another, the fact that the government is feeding and shel- tering millions of people has led to a mis- taken assumption that private charity has less to do.
 This fall money is more plentiful. It appears, too, that people are realizing that the organized charities still have . tremendous load to carry, and are con- tributing accordingly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Naval Advance

The average citizen naturally meas ures navy strength in terms of it's fight ing ships. A naval strategist has other standards. Prosaic things like drydocks, naval yards, and so on figure very largely in his calculations.
 So it is that the American navy plans to spend $15, 5,O0O,00O on the most amaz- ing floating drydock ever designed. This craft will be more than 1000 feet long and 165 feet wide. It will have pointed bow, and a stern gate which can be opened so that fighting ships can be taken aboard
 It will accommodate the largest naval vessels, including the giant aircraft car riers Lexington and Saratoga. It can be lowed at speed of 10 knots-something absolutely unheard of for structures of this type.
 This will make little stir in the mind of the layman. To naval strategists it is one of the most interesting developments in recent naval history. For if it works it will enable fleet to make it's base wherever it finds deep harbor.
 It will give the navy fiexibility and freedom from fixed bases such as no nav al commander heretofore has ever thought possible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Nature Comes To Town

One thing that civilization does for people is to make them more appreciative of nature, including wild life. As people grow in knowledge, and in the refine ments of life, less and less is it their idea of good time to Ego out and kill some
 thing" Legitimate hunting continues, but it is hedged about with more restric- tionS. There is less cruelty and indis- criminate slaughter and more apprecia- tion of living animals. More and more, hunting is done with no deadlier weapons than cameras and field glasses.
 The most remarkable evidence of this change is seen in the near cities, where birds, squirrels, rabbits and other wild creatures are now seen in greater num- bers than they have been since pioneer days. The most remarkable thing about them is their fearlessness. Only gen. eration ago they would have fled at the sight of human being, and with good reason. Now boys, their natural enemies, refrain from pestering them, and even dogs tolerate them.
 AS result, thousands of city families are able to enjoy the songs and antics of these lovely wild creatures in public parks and in their own yards. And it has come about not so much from strict laws as from the natural growth and understand ing Of the people themselves:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

operation of American industry and agriculture. It has been constantly before me that American industry can not go on indefinitely half boom and half bust, and that production and employment in industry must be sta- bilized, relatively at least, if perma- hence is to be given to the capitalistic system. A nation with 10,000,000 unemployed cannot boast of a stabilized prosperity; and until work has been found for the greater part of this num- Der, with their potential purchasing power for the goods that industry pro- duces, it is idle to talk prosperity"
 Most of us can agree now about that, anyway. Most of us are in favor of any reasonable device for flattening out the economic cycle, avoiding the periodic booms and busts, that can be accom- plished without giving up our system of free enterprise and civil liberty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

man. I've come to ask . favor of you. My son is in jail and IS going to be tried by you to- morrow. We've got no money to pay Q fine, and they'll put him i'm jail if he don't pay. I've got no one to support me, judge, If they take my son away. Can't you do something to help mel"
 Hull pondered moment, then without saying word pulled out his wallet and handed the woman forty dollars.
 Next day he heard the case, pronounced the young man guilty and imposed a fine. The fine was forty dollars.
 c. I. o. Vote
 There was a good reason why the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization unions were not ex- pelled by the Tampa convention.
 In the first days of the con- clave, A. F. of L. leaders talked loud and tough about what they were going to do to the rebels. But when the showdown came they contented themselves with merely confirming the action of the Federation's Executive Coun- Gil in suspending them.
 The inside explanation for this remarkable reversal Is re- vealed in the vote on the sus- pension motion.
 Of the 26 State Federations present at the convention, fif- teen sided with the council and eleven against. The lineup among the city Central Labor bodies was equally close, thirty five for and twenty-eight against. Small Fry For CIO
 Among the federal unions, small semi industrial unions, the count was strongly for the c. I. o. Out of fifty present, only 20 voted to sustain the Council and 30 were against 1t.
 THESE FIGURES TELL THE STORY.
 Federal unions pay dues direct ly into the federation treasury. In the last three years they have contributed $1,500,000-one-half the federation's income.
 Much as they privately would have liked to toss the insurgents out on their ear, the A. F. of l.. rulers didn't dare propose that because they couldn't muster the votes. As far as they dared go was to ask for an okay on sus- pension.
 Merry GO-ROund
 An exhaustive report on the history and operations of the NRA, which has been in process for more than 8 year, is approaching completion and will be sent to the President early in January. The work of 8 staff of special ists, on the Department of Com merce payroll, the survey will cover more than 1000 pages and will be divided into number of sections-labor, enforcement, price fixing, and administration. Representative Sam Ray burn, leading contender for demo- cratic floor leader of the next House, began his public career as a 25-year old member of the Texas legislature. At 29 he was speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
 Copyright, 1936, by United
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Bootleg Coal

The American soft coal industry, in despair for many years, seems to be com Ing back with the revival of general ln- dustry, and some areas are almost pros porous again. But the hard coal regions, whose output is comparatively luxury product, are slower to pick up. And thereby hangs strange tale. In the Anthracite fields of eastern Pennsylvania is situation that can only be described as economic anarchy.
 Production there, to large extent, has gone primitive. There is still orderly operation by coal companies, on grounds owned or leased by them, with miners working for wages according to the regu- lar capitalistic method. But around and alongside of them are thousands of "boot- leg mines" operated by small groups of men, usually four to a half-dozen per mine, digging and selling coal on lands where they have no legal rights.
 There are said to be 10000 such boot leg miners in Pennsylvania. They get their own fuel, and sell the rest produced by them, but average only $3 or $4 a day. The big money is made by the middle men who buy the coal and truck it away.
 The strangest thing of all is that mo- body stops this lawless procedure. Local authorities dodge responsibility and the state government refuses to intervene III what it regards as local problem The owners and lessees are helpless. Many Of them make no effort to interfere, and sympathize with the laWleSS miners, who have no other means of livelihood and many of whom have never known any other work.
 This procedure has been called "anar- chistic''. It would become socialistic if those squatter-miners began to organize and operate collectively. There would then be much talk of ground rights and natural monopoly" and "social exploita- tion of natural resources" In fact, there is quite bit of it now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

people amalgamating to utilize the ballot through Christian action. It is not only the duty of the church to reprove, to entreat and to rebuke in all patience and doctrine. It is the duty of the church to act. Faith CT Coughlin is not accountable to you MT. Cossman or to any polit- ical party. He is accountable only to his God.
 Christ not only reproved and pleaded. He acted.
 In fact he smote the money changers and drove them from the temple of God. The pussy-footing doctrine that we should only advise and rebuke and entreat is contrary to the doctrine of Leo and Plus. Plus XI regretted, when praising the unions and associations that were organized to obtain Social Justice, that they were still inferior in spirit and in zeal to the militancy socialis- tic and communistic organization.
 Have the socialists and commit nists monopoly on the right and duty to organize?
 It is granted that the church has no business in establishing a polit- ical party. But do not admit that good Christians have no right and duty to organize democratically in this nation or in any other nation to oppose at the polls either unlettered Christians who have not sufficient ability to understand Social Justice, or recalcitrant pagans who still cling to the abomination of individ- ualism and to the anemic doctrine of "laissez-faire."
 We behold Germany and Italy sacrificing their democratic rights, and then we ask ourselves: What has given power to this wave of radicalism that is sweeping the world?" Communists are not born. Communism and extreme socialism are nothing more than the off, spring of so-called modern capital ism which has forced men of puny understanding like yourself, into the ranks of destructionism.
 Had the people of France, Port uKdl, 0Ddul d4l4 4sACAANS OA oesAAA@S~s democratically against the we'll established organizations of com munists, there would be no need Of the church lamenting the excesses which have appeared in these na- tions. The people would have dis covered that not alone Is despotic domination concentrated in the hands of a few who because of their power to hold and control money, are able to extend credit thereby controlling the life blood of an entire nation.
 As Father Coughlin has retired from public life to the seclusion of his little church at Royal Oak, your attack MT. Cossman was despicable because it was unwarranted and un- sportsman-like, and uncalled for. The Greeks had name for your breed.
 I wonder if in the event Father Coughlin were again brought be- fore the tribunal of public opinion, MT. Cossman's voice would not be heard among the rabble shouting "Crucify him." I am constrained to believe that politics would again outweigh Chris tan faith.
 GEORGE L. AYOTTE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Working Age Limits

There has been a strong popular
 response to the Presidents appeal to
 employers asking them to take older men
 than they have been hiring. The Dem- .ocrat has carried a series of interviews on the same question, mostly in favor of
 older workers.
 {, Ut is widely known" the President 1. said, "that many of the larger industries will not hire workers over 40 years of age. To a large extent this policy is responsl-- ble for the relatively large number of older workers on relief. Leaders of busl- ness must recognize the consequences or this hiring policy - it condemns many : in this group of workers to permanent unemployment" There have been practical reasons, Of : course, behind such a policy. Speaking in general, younger workers are more energetic and efficient than the older . ones. There are such considerations, too, as accident insurance saving on younger men. Yet on the whole such discrimination is wrong. The average man starts to work, say, when about 20 years old At 40 he
 has worked only 20 years. If he is retired then, he may be doomed to idleness for the rest of his life, although he may be
 capable of useful work for 20 or 30 years
 more. Twenty years of service to society
 out of an average of about 60, and pos
 sible 70 or 80, is an absurd limitation.
 And, of course, in all those idle years, the
 actual workers are supporting the retired
 fellows, no matter how it is figured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Current Comments

There are two types of married men, those who won't go out unless their wives drag them out, and those who won't go home unless their wives drag them home. The second type is the greatest burden. Louis de Brough, psychologist.
 The more football develops as a public exhibition. the more 1t will be killed as a college sport. To see how his works out, you need only remember what happened to base ball as college sport when 1t was professionalized.
 pr. J. Fl. Kirkland. chancellor.
 Vanderbilt University. Nashville.
 Tenn.
 You seldom see brawl in Q prize fighters training camp, because everybody there Is in shape. It is usually when men are not prepared that they fight.
 Gene Tunney, former heavy.
 weight champion, scoffing ct
 European war threat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

A. From base to torch 1t is 151 feet 1 inch.
 o. What unit of length in France corresponds to the English mile?
 A. The kilometer. Q. Where is General Robert E. Lee buried?
 A. Lexington, Va. Q. Are fires caused by lightning more difficult to extinguish than other fires?
 A. No. 0. What do the words Nife, Uffizi, and Ikh mean?
 A. Nife is the hypothetical core of the earth; Uffizi is famous art gallery of Florence; Ikh. in ancient Egyptian religion, is the spirit of man.
 o. What is the average height and weight for boys 15 years old.
 A. Average height, 62.9 inches: weight, 108.4 pounds.
 Q. What is an Ouvreuse?
 A. It means opener" and is generally applied to the female box x-openers or theatre ushers in France.
 @. Which is the second largest city in France?
 A. Marseilles.
 c. Where is Boring Strait?
 A. It separates Seward Penin- sula, Alaska, from Asia and con- meets the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.
 c. Which presidents of the Uni- ted States were graduates of Har- yard University?
 A. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. If you want . copy of our book let on Bible Facts write The Water bury Democrats Washington Bureau 1912 Thirteenth St., Northwest, Washington, D. c. Enclose 4 cents i'm postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Test Y o ur Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
 l. What insect has the nickname Child of the Earth?"
 2. When did the twentieth cen-- tury begin?
 3. What is the surface distance from the South to the North Pole? {. Tn optics, what is 6 fluid lens? 6. Name the eleventh President of the U. 6.
 c. Who was Homer Dodge Mar tin? 2. What was the ancient name of the peninsula forming the southern part of Greece? c. Tn which of Dickens novels is the character. MantaliniS
 Q. What is fluorinef
 10. Where is Marietta Colleges
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Answers To Questions
0i0ss. NEA
By Frederick M. Rerby

o. Is there a criterion of be- havior that is applied to persons seeking to become naturalized American citizens?
 A. Section 4 of the naturaliza- ton law declares that an applicant for American citizenship shall have behaved as a person of good mor- al character, attached to the prin- ciples of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States"
 o. What musical selection was played by Frederic March, for the young nurse in the motion pie ture, "The Road to Glory?"
 A. Chopin's Prelude" Opus 28 No. 2.
 Q. How high is the Statue of ' ;I>n~kxy0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
IN TODAY'S MAIL

newspaper responsible opions communications unless accompanied with he writer's address will accepted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Horoscope
By OCTAvINE

For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the planets, the daily horoscope is outlined by . noted astroIoger. In addition to information of general interest, it outlines information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
FINALLY STEAKS

FINALLY SFEAAD Dave Chasen, playing role in Paramount's Arizona Mahoney," who has been an actor for 20 years, speaks for the first time in his career in that picture, 1t was re- vealed today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

DECEMbEh Affected by the vibrations today are those born from Aug. Il through 30, and all others in more or less degree.
 General Indications
 Morning-Doubtful.
 Afternoon--Good.
 Evening--Good. Noon and late evening are the best times today.
 Birthdate If your birthdate falls on Dec. you should be fond of your home and a good citizen. Guard your health, employment and relations with interiors during June, 1927. Changes may occur. Plan financial advancement for yourself during January, 1887. Danger-Aug. 28 through Sept. 5. 1897.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "He must of thought I was crazy; say, must have thought"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
Daily Morrv- Washington s@.= z ==== - CONGRESS FACES QUESTION
 OF DEPORTING ALIENS
RY DREW PEARsON and ROBERT 5. AI

BY DREW PEARSON and RUBERI & ALLEN
 WASHINGTON, December 3. - Three thousand guilty of no crime except illegal entry are headed for deportaton unless the incoming Congress intervenes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03
A Thought for Today

Thus saith the Lord; cursed be the man that txusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord Jeremiah H:5
 Trust God where you cannot trace him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud he brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is Gods; the promise is yours. Macduff
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

o. How high is the Statue O I Liberty?
The Washington times., 1936-07-02
FARLEY'S Post
TO Be OPEN
International News Service

International News Service
An announcement was expected
from the White House today that
big Jim" Farley was retiring
from the Cabinet to devote his en-
tire attention to once more man.
aging President Roosevelt'S elec-
ton campaign.
There was only one question in.
volved, according to those close to
the Administration. That was
whether Farley was actually to re-
sign as Postmaster General or
merely be granted an indefinite
leave of absence, from which he
would return if the New Deal" is
successful in November.
Even should Mr.. Roosevelt's po-
litical manager quit the Cabinet,
it was not expected any successor
would be named. The plan is to
leave First Assistant Postmaster
General William w. HoweS in
charge of the department for dura-
ton of the campaign.