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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Buried Treasure

Having inferred several billion dollars
worth of gold at Fort Knox, in Kentucky,
guarded by strong concrete walls and
guns and automatic flooding arrange
ments, the government is going to store
5000, O00,0 900 worth of silver at West Point
Military Academy, on the Hudson River
This deposit, not being so valuable as
the gold, will not be buried SO far under
ground. 1t is to go into building of re-
inforced concrete, with regular guards
and squad of machine-gunners on duty
day and night. The gunners will be sta
toned in inches around the wall, like i'm
ages of saints in an old cathedral.
What next? Maybe safe-deposit vault
for copper, which is more important than
silver in modern warfare
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Make 1t Permanent

On the fourth anniversary of the
founding of the CCC President Franklin
d. Roosevelt has asked Congress to make
a permanent organization of the youths
unit. We believe that Congress will &C.
cede to this request and that the nation
will join in endorsing such action. If any
one single endeavor of the New Deal
stands out in peoples minds, 1t is the
work of the CCC in the United States. It
has proved itself time and again. It
should be continued.
We need only look around our own
state to see what has been accomplished
by the CCC boys. Examine our state
parks and forests. Had not the labor,
provided by our several CCC camps, been
available much of the work of cleaning
them up, creating trails and roads, build
ing fire-breaks, and the diverse other lit
tie odd Jobs that are so necessary but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Keep Dumping EN-

1t is bit discouraging to find Water
bury legislators engaged in finding new
ways and means of increasing state rev.
enue. We note through legislative doings
in the Waterbury Democrat that Repre-
sentative John D. ThomS is prepared to
wage fight on the question of a state
income tax. We don't think Connecticut
residents are any more prepared to SUBJ
NIT to such tax than are the residents
of other states where this tax has not yet
made its appearance
Two years ago the sales tax met it's Wa
terloo; we think the state income tax
ought to be treated in the same way.
Revenue of the state from taxable sources
has increased in the last few years quite
bit. If it hasn't then we shouldn't have
cigarette, liquor gasoline taxes and the
like. Even receipts of the first two men
toned have exceeded all estimates. And
the increase in the gas tax has enabled
the receipts from motorists to be main
tanned at an even level despite decrease
in registration fees.
Any time we see agitation for new or
increased taxes we always check up to
find out what is being done about cutting
the costs of government. Governor Will
bur L. Cross has pointed out that reor-
ganization of the state government will
mean considerable saving. Would this
saving counterbalance what might be
realized through a new or increased tax?
If SO what endeavor are we going in for,
save capital expenditures, to demand the
increase or the new source of taxation?
Our reaction to new taxes is to demand,
first Of all, lower government COSTS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

We have never heard the criticism
voiced of the State Reformatory at Ches-
hire that has been uttered this year by
various speakers. Most of this talk has
originated at meetings and hearings
where the proposed state Jail farm has
been up for discussion. Of course some
of this has been occasioned by the fact
that a proposed tie-up between the re-
formatory and the jail farm has been sug-
gested AS a matter of fact it's more
that land adjacent to the Cheshire in
stitution is being advocated for the farm.
It would never do to mix county jail
prisoners and reformatory inmates
would it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Spending EleUen Millions
Question Is Not to Be Decided by Party suprem-
acy-Best Interests Of People,
Institutions at Stake.
lstitutions at Stake
HARTFORD TIMES

Legislative leaders at the State
Capitol see visions of controversy
between the political parties as to
how the 100000 which is to be
appropriated for building enterprise
shall be expended.
Governor Cross recently sub
mitted a list of projects which he
believes should be included. Repub-
lican leaders have now offered a
program of their own in which they
eliminate some items recommended
by the governor and substitute
others which he did not recommend
Let it be said at the outset that
republican leadership of the Legis-
lature has exactly as good right
to propose a building program as
has democratic leadership or the
governor. The expenditure of public
money is not in any sense a private
or party matter.
In considering program involv-
ing $l1,000,000, and with so many
institutions needing a share of 1t,
the Legislature needs all the light
that can be thrown upon the
matter. 1t needs the benefit of all
the information regarding institute
ions and the best business advice
it is possible to obtain.
There is no reason why any pro-
gram should be favored or rejected
because of its origin or party en-
dorsement. The Legislature should
consider all proposals. 1t should
weigh them with a view to determ-
lining their order in point of the
need of the various institutions and
the benefit the State will derive
from particular procedure.
Off hand we should say that UNI
less imperative reasons for it are
shown we should not put the need
CT {, new soldiers home before that
OF providing new facilities at such
an over-crowded, inadequate and
dangerous institution as the Hospital
for the Insane at Middletown.
Nor should we put the need Of
greater facilities at the State Col
lege above the needs of the tuber-
culosis Sanatoria, or other institut-
ions for the care of the sick.
There is merit in substantially
all of the proposals for new constr
uction. Considered by itself strong
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

If you've got five or ten minutes to
spare the next time you come down town,
you can certainly put them TO good adj
vantage by stationing yourself at some
strategic point in Exchange Place. It's
quite sight these days to see this once
congested spot quite barren of cars. Only
when the big, smooth-running BUSES of
the c. R. & L. Co. pull into the "stop"
areas are there any cars on either side
of the street. So far we haven't heard
any complaints from either merchants
or motorists about the police edict shut
ting off this section of the city to parkers.
We can expect in time, too, to find other
districts designated as bus areas only
when all the trolleys have gone from our
city streets and the bus rules supreme.
It's far cry from the old days, but we'll
wager that in few years people will
wonder how they ever came to like the
trolley
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

black type is the caption:
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
VS.. SENATOR WHEELER"
Most Of the pamphlet is devoted
to den0uncing the Supreme
Court, but this final punch Is
reserved for Wheeler:
From now on Senator Wheel
er, like Al Smith and John w.
Davis, former presidential can
didates, will be preserved from
oblivion only because Of the dis
gust Of his former friends"
Expensive Words
Included In the new independ-
ent offices supply bill, reported
out by the democratic controlled
House Appropriations Committee,
is an item reading: 5000 to pro-
vide a suitable inscription on the
pedestal of the bust of former
Speaker Joseph G. ('Uncle JOe')
Cannon in the rotunda Of the
old House Office building.
NOTE Speaker Cannon was a
republican bigwig for a genera
ton. |
Merry Ground
Robert Granville Caldwell, now
American minister to Portugal, is
one of the few college professors
who have made good at diplom-
acy. He is now being appointed
minister to Bolivia. Caldwell be-
gan teaching in India, more re-
Gently was professor of history in
Rice institute. Texas ]. Rep
resentative Joe Mansfield of
Texas has fathered a bill to APP
propriate $4,000 for a laboratory
to study "anaplasmosis." Ana
plasmosis, in case you also don't
know what it Is, is a blood dis
eace of cattle transmitted by ticks
:. WPA workers protesting the
abandonment of the Neurological
unemployment study project,
which has given hundreds of them
jobs, are destined to disappoint-
ment. The Labor Department,
planning to take over the study
and put 1t on a permanent basis,
will carry on the work with es-
pecially trained personnel. Only
a few of the WPA workers will be
retained in the new setup.
Copyright, 1887, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
A Book a Day
A Fascinating Story
of Maturing Youth
BY BRUCE CATION

The name of Paul Horgan is one
to be reckoned with among Ameri-
can novelists, not so much because
of his previous literary contribu-
tions, but because of the potentially
OF greatness which lies within them.
"A Lamp on the Plains" (Harpers:
$3.50 is his fourth and latest novel
In 1t he approaches his promised
stature.
When young Danny rolled, via
freight car, into the little town of
Vrain, N. M, he possessed inno-
cence, eagerness, and SIG rolled
up in a handkerchief. He was to
lose those possessions and gain
others; courage, comprehension,
and knowledge. He gained other
things, too, some good, some bad
"A Lamp on the Plains" is the
story Of Danny and these forces
which, good, bad, or Indifferent,
were to mold him into manhood.
Mr.. Horgan gives us a subtle,
sympathetic portrait of the COM
plexities of youth as revealed in
Danny, his protagonist. It is the
Professor" however, who is the
character most expertly portrayed.
He was, to himself and to Danny,
God OF both good and evil. He
was at once the most worthless
and worthwhile Of men. 1t was he
who held out to Danny the torch of
learning "the lamp on the
plains" In the Professor" Mr..
Horc1n has given us a remarkable
characterization, wise, considered,
gently ruthless.
! can think of no one who will
not be deeply moved by parts OF
this book, to whom 1t will bring
out Of limbo certain recollections
and regrets and joys. Though
some Of 1t is overwritten and lab
eled, much Of it is fine and honest
and beautiful.--E. M. T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
|PressConn1ent
RICHMOND PEARSON HoBsoN
New York Herald-Tribune)


Richmond Pearson Hobson was
one of those comparatively few men
who, raised by the chances of the
hour to the pinnacles of blatant
fame, refuse to allow the expe-
rience to get the better of them. He
was hero who was able to put the
hero-worshipping behind him and
settle down to long and busy life
for the good of his fellow men as
he saw it. The years have known
him as member of congress, an
ardent and indefatigable cam
paigner for prohibition, for pre-
paredness, for peace, for the stamp
ing out of the narcotic evil. 1t was
an honorable life, and his country
men will respect, even though they
did not always share, its earnest en-
thuSiaSmS.
But it will remember him as the
handsome young hero of the Merri-
mac, imperishably clothed in the
tropic glamour, the imperial excite
ments, the strange, brash romance
of the Spanish-American war. The
bright hard flavor Of Kipling and
colonial conquest will never wholly
fade from that name; the rustic
of palm trees, the crack of Mausers
and the booming of the surges
below Santiago's Moro will always
echo through its syllables. The de-
tails of the famous exploit, when
Hobson and his picked men ran
their blockship into the teeth of the
Spanish fire, may be growing dim in
the public mind, but the echoes
which it awakes will long reverbe-
rate in the memory. 1t was so ad-
mirably characteristic of the whole
war-distinctly amateur in concep-
ton, q bit less than successful in
performance, but carried out with
dash and cool boldness and conclud-
ing in the fully happy ending. Not
a man was scratched, the teeth OF
the Spanish fire turning out to be
less dangerous than had been sup
posed, owing to the fact that the
Spaniards could not shoot. But Hob
son did not know that when he went
in. He earned his place as the per-
feet hero Of what, in sadder retro
spect, now seems very nearly the
perfect war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

Freed of all leadership responsibilities
Senator j. Kenneth Bradley is having a
sion. He not only is proving thorn in
the side of various democratic members,
bit he also manages to get under the skin
of his republican co-workers occasionally.
However, he doesn't seem to mind the re-
tortS that come his way Undoubtedly
he will emerge from this session quite un-
perturbed and not having suffered any
reverses, since he is not doing the di-
recting, but merely batting 'em out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
A Thought for Today
Boondoggle Proves Boon

(. Three years ago our benign and faith
erly federal government furnished the
nation with a more abundant laugh by
announcing a scheme to criss-cross the
western plains with great shelter belt
.of young and hopeful trees. On plains
where trees never grew, trees were 10
grow by the thousands and the hundreds
.of thousands, in long windows reaching
from Canada to Mexico. Drouths would
be checked, dust storms would be killed
lin infancy, and the grateful shade OF
these trees would make the west blossom
like the rose.
This announcement touched off wide
blast of ridicule. Plant trees where ma
ture obviously had meant no trees to
exist? Conjure rain out of the skies with
a row of spindly saplings? The trees
wouldn't live, and they wouldn't do any
good if they did live. Here was boon
doggle land do you remember that
worldly on a scale to make all other
boondoggles look sick
The government went ahead with
the lob, in spite of all this laughter,
pirate any more money for it; and just
the other day the United Press wires
carried a little story telling how this
uckless shelter belt project looks now.
The funny part of it is that this much
derided project looks pretty good.
Today there are 1,277 miles of shell
ter strips. Government workers planted
an average of $50 trees to the acre; de-
spite severe drouths since the paintings,
an average of $50 trees to the acre have
survived These trees now range around
20 feet or more in height, and U. S. For
est Service experts declare flatly that the
shelter belt, as far as it goes, is a success.
Experience gained thus far in shelter
belt and windbreak planting" says For
est Service bulletin, demonstrates the
value of this type of work in the great
plains region, where an urgent necessity
exists for an extensive tree-planting pro-
gram"
Carlos G. Bates, silviculturist for the
Lake State Forest Experiment Station,
points out that an effective windbreak
such as belt of trees will cut wind
velocity from 10 to SO percent for dis
lance 80 times as great as the wind
breaks height. A belt of trees IS feet
high, therefore, would cut wind veloci-
ties for upward of third of mile -
and, to that extent, would stop dust
storms at the source.
Congress might very profitably give
more thought to this shelter belt idea.
Apparently it is not nearly so funny as
we once supposed. It is perfectly obvious
that something needs to be done to con-
serve the soil of the plains states; the
shelter belt seems to be about as good a
something" as anyone has yet suggested.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Answers To
Questions
BY Frederick M. Kerby


@. Must an orchestra leader
know how to play several instru-
ments?
"A. AS rule they can play the
piano and violin. but a notable ex-
ception was Samuel l.. Rothafel
C"Roxy").
Q. Why are the giant airships
called Zeppelins?
A. The rigid type airships are
usually referred to as zeppelins in
honor Of Count Ferdinand Won Yep
pelin who first designed them.
@. What is a rotten borough"
A. The term refers to any of
the boroughs of England which, at
the time of the Reform Act of 1882,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Test Yo ur
knowledge

Can you answer seven Of
these test questions? Turn to
Y last page for the answers.
I. What Is the motto Of the U. s.
Marine Corps?
2. What Is the Pater Noster?
8. For whom was America
named?
4. What is an anigram?
S. Who wrote the novel, "Thad-
deus OF Warsaw"
8. What does the legal term Lo-
Gus Deficit mean?
Z. Among the Hindus, what Is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Selected Poem
THE OLD IS RESTING
Louise Woodruff, in the Poets Corner,
Hartford Guaranty

Filled with wealth Of blossoms rosy misted;
Now the branches are brittle, broken, twisted;
Gone is the fruit that wasted, rotted under;
Even the gnarled trunk has cracked asunder.
The farmer, who owned the land, was too close
listed
To hire help for the reaping, so rnassisted
The fruit was left for hungry boys to plumber.
Beneath the new-dug soil the old Is resting;
younger man has come with fresh ambition
To grow the crops and gather fruit in season.
Already the ground is marked for the summers
testing.
The axe is laid at the root without contrition;
Why should the stump remain for no good
reason?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Final Accolade
n

a Guru?
8. who was Pietro Francesca
Mola?
0. Do Puerto Ricans require n
passport to COME to the United
States?
10. OF which king Of France was
Madame Pornpadour the nistress2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

We've been hearing that farmers were
raising more money lately and now we
notice headline, Cash Crop Scars on
Farms"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07
Macarthur And McNutt
Headed For Rough Sailing

WASHINGTON, April z. - You write it down IN
the book as certain that when Field Marshal Douglas
Macarthur and High Commissioner Paul " Mcutt both
get back to Manila sparks will fly the Philippines
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

We scrap our machinery faster than
any other nation. Also our men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
Never say, ut is awful bad
manners to pick your teeth
In public; say, very bad
manners"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-07

contained but few voters, yet re-
tanned the privilege Of sending a
member to Parliment. Hence, by
extension, the term may be applied
to any political unit In a republican
form of government that has much
less than Its due proportion Of in
habitants.
@. Which state in the United
States was known as the Rotten
Borough"
A. Nevada, during the early per-
iod of its history, earned this name
in the U. s. senate because SO many
of its rich-mine-ownerS were ac-
cused Of purchasing their seats in
that body.
@. Who commanded the Light
Brigade at the Battle of Balaklaya?
A. Lord Cardigan.
q. Is there any limit of time
within which the Child Labor
Amendment to the Constitution
must be ratified?
A. No.
II you want q copy Of our book
let ON "Child Health" write the
Waterbury Democrats Washing.
ton Bureau, 1912 Thirteenth Street,
Northwest, Washington, ID. G. En-
close 4 cents. in postage.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
Bridge Dedication
Set For Sept. 25-26

H. P. Watkins, secretary of the
Nogales Chamber of Commerce, has
been invited to occupy seat on
the speakers platform at the dedi-
cation of the new California -Ari-
zona interstate bridge at Parker,
Ariz., September 1926.
Governors of Arizona and Cali
fornia are expected to be among
notableS present at the dedication.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
SCHOOL CHIEF BACK
FROM VACATION TRIP

Superintendent OF Schools A. j.
Mitchell, wife, and son Max, re-
turned Wednesday from months
vacation at their former home in
Argyle, Wis, where the superin-
tendent helped relatives thresh oats.
He reports bumper crops in Wis
consin this summer. Also said he
ran into a grasshopper ''storm" in
New Mexico on the way back.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
FROM
THREE MONTHS TRIP

Mrs. John McCarty, Mrs. James
FRAZIER, Miss Jean FRAZIER, of Elgin,
and Mrs. H. B. Rothrock of Salem,
Oregon, were expected back yester-
day from a three months trip to
New York. Atlantic City, and other
eastern points.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
LOCAL NEWS
TEACHER RETURNING

Miss Lorraine Casanega, teacher
in the Nogares schools, and mother,
and Howard Bracker, are expected
back today from a vacation trip to
Mexico City. Harvey Bracker, who
is attending the Franco-Episcopal
College in Mexico City, will continue
his studies there until the Christ
mas holidays.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
TOURS EUROPE

Roger Debbaudt, Frenchman, was
here Monday enroute to his home
in Santa Rosalia, Lower California,
from a trip to Europe which he
toured in Dodge sedan purchased
from J. A. Jackson of the Nogales
Auto Company.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
MANSIONS RENT
BOWMAN RESIDENCE

James Manson and family, who
have been residing for the past sew
eral years at 536 Crawford street,
have rented Miss Betty Jean Bow
mans beautiful residence at 143
Court street and are moving to their
new location about August Goth.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
DEARING VISITOR

]. Frank Dearing, representing
the State Banking Department at
Phoenix. was a business visitor here
this week. He said that final liqui-
datiOn of the Estate of the Sonora
Bank & Trust Company is expected
to take place in about 80 days.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
KELLER FUNERAL

Attended by many of his oldtime
friends, including members of the
county bar association, funeral serv-
ices for S. A. Keller, 65-year -old
attorney, were held Sunday after
noon at the chapel of the White
Parks Funeral Home on Morley
avenue. Burial was made in the To-
cal cemetery.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
FAN DANCER AT
THE CAVERN CAFE

A Spanish fan dance will be spe-
cialized by Tulita, one of the new
floor show artists at the Cavern
Cafe, starting tonight. This new en-
tertainer is said by those seeing her
at the popular cafe, to be one of
the best character dancers ever to
appear here.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
RAIN ALL THE
WAY TO CANANEA

Cicero Martin, who was here
Tuesday from his ranch in Carr
Canyon, said the cloudburSt Monday
evening extended all the way from
Cananea to Nogales and that it was
the first heavy rain of the summer
at Fort Huachuca.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
OFFICERS TRANSFERRED

Customs Officer Dave Hopkins Is
being transferred from Ruby to
Lochiel, succeeding Jack Meadows
who goes to Sasabe to take Ed
Webb's place, Webb having been
transferred to Nogales Fred Valen-
zula is being transferred from Naco
to Lochiel.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
BEJARANO GETS
GARBAGE CONTRACT

Submitting the low bid-$247 a
month-Elizardo Bejarano was
awarded the city garbage contract
by the board of aldermen this week
for the 1937-38 fiscal year.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
@ NEws-wEEK

Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Jackson of
Iowa and E. VanDoren of Tucson
were visitors in Patagonia this week.
Jackson and VanDoren are former
Patagonia high school teachers.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
BUY CURIOS HERE
TO TAKE EAST

Deputy County Treasurer George
Earhart of Maricopa county, and
wife, and the latter's mother, were
here from Phoenix Sunday buying
Mexican curios to take on vaca-
ton trip to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
WEATHER

Maximum temperature the past
week was 104 degrees Thursday and
minimum, 81, Saturday. There was
sc of an inch of rain Thursday, .61
Monday, and IS week ago yester-
day.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14

I. c. Santacruz, manager of
Banco del Pacifico, and Alfredo
Toledo, broker, will return today
from Los Angeles where they wit
messed wrestling match.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14
THURMAN TO PRESIDE
AT TUCSON, PHOENIX

Superior Court Judge E. R.> Thur
man will hold court at Tucson Mon
day for Judge William Hall and on
August oath he will preside in wa
ter users case in the Maric0pa
county superior court at Phoenix.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14

l.. I. Bennen, former Nogallan,
was here Sunday from Tucson. SAID
he has slept inside the house only
once since he located in Tucson
thirty days ago, so hot has been the
weather.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14

E. F. Bohlinger and j. j. Farley,
the latter the father of State Rep
resentative Gordon Farley, were Wis
itors here Monday from Patagonia.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles v. Fowler
of Tucson, former Nogalians, were
here Saturday night for the No
gales-Tucson Softball games.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14

Miss Daisy Miller has been vaca-
tioning in California.
Nogales international., 1937-08-14

Mrs. Mark Boosinger left Tuesday
night for two weeks visit in Los
Angeles and vicinity.