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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
Editor. Tall Tower Topics. |.

Editor, Tall Tower Topics. After rendering "Mel- ancholy Baby singing waiter in the Indian Village at Coney Island sided over to Cliff McHales table and lp and hit those notes the way old King does it? Yes sir it the old King" himself still maintaining his arrogant manner, product of this city who scaled the heights lyric tenor in the hacyon days of vaudeville Cliff McHae songster of note was quite willing to spread the word that when the many friends of John "King" Altman happens to be at Coney Island he Wlsnes they Would drop in and see the King otsey Pewgle.
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Barbs . . . . Time payments on the 15-cents-a-day saving plan have relieved automakers of one job. Buyers are nickeplating their models themselves
 Balloons will be sent up to look into the "eye" Of hurricanes. It will be well to remember that speck of dust has ruined many effort to outstare antag onist. .. Michigan now has law designed to raise the intellectual level of ures and at that it might be good for trial. The man who joins an Ananlas Club usually is the kind who could make his own bed and be glad to lie in it. new mineral detector, said to eliminate in locating ore, will go into mass production when they find out how to apply It to a touchy gold inlay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

fin to motorists The scenic Perkins Memorial Drive leading to the summit of Bear Mountain enables motorists to enjoy thrilling sights of the Hudson High lands never before visible to visitors of this beautu region Although this highway takes the traveller from an altitude of about 200 feet to than 300 feet high it does so easy grades and without any sensa ton of climbing The Perkins Memorial Tower on the summit sixty feet high, offers interesting views
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
AnslUers To
 Test Questions

Belot are the answers to test questions printed on page 6.
 l. A legacy of all that re- mains of an estate aftes the debts and specific legacies have been paid.
 2. East of Jerusalem. 3. Henrik Ibsen.
 4. The angle that measures the apparent distance of two stars as seen from the earth. 5. Burlington. Vermont. 6. American sculptor. !. The art of preserving the body after death.
 & The yen.
 9. Yes.
 10. Moccasin snake, or wa ter Hia0ccasin.
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yet, but don't ignore the order in which those names are placed. If you want to pick a presidential as- pirant from his senatorial opposition you can begin with Clark, Byrd, Wheeler, Copeland, and Burke and keep on going for quite while.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
COLLISION

Slight damage resulted last night when automobiles operated by Ed ward Shaw, of 1439 East Main street, and Amelio Favale, of Wooster street, Naugatuck, collided on East Main street. The incident took place at 8 o'clock in front of the Palace theater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

Breathers. Mary Martin of the Oalxvile Mar tins Josephine Varanelli and Kathryn DeCOsmo are back in the phone book after ten enjoyable days at the gwanky "Spotswood Arms" at Virginia Beach, Va. Mr. and Mrs William Moedebeck of Ashley street have moved to Thomaston Bills in the meat and grocery biz in the Clock Town while the Missus, nee Mildred Olson of Rose street. is affiliated with the Metropolitan Life Insurance company :~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
FELLOWSHIP FOR
 DR. DANIEL LYNCH
Unusual Distinction Given By American Dental
 Assn to Local Boy

Letters of congratulations from former associates, professors and students are being received by Dr. Daniel F. Lynch of Washington, D. C., on his election to fellowship of the American College of Dem tistry. The fellowships are consid-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

Waterbury Democrat WashlngtOn COFFtsp0hdenC
 Washington July 20-The congressional phase of the fight for power in America turns whether Roosevelt purge the Democratic party of certain conservative opponents whether those opponents away his power legislation and thwart his ambition to control the party in the presidential year of 1940.
 The immediate issue is the latest chapter of the Roose welt reform programthe Supreme Court plan compromise the wagehour b reorganization the dream of seven more TVA' to blanket the country effective
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
Remington flashes.

Remington flashes .. Neil Maloney, associate ed of The Dem is vacationng this week at Home Beach. He'll be back next Monday ayem with envabe coat of tan and sore back from raking and moving Charlie Audietis of Scovils has this week to himself it'll be Lake Quassapaug in a bathing suit every afternoon Jimmy Barry former Democrat newsle who just com field, will while away the summer vacation with the National Biscuit company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
vENrR11oou1sT AND COMPANY
sY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good Evening.

I have little dummy, His name is Jimmy Brown, He's always in my company A most entertaining clown. In many an argument. He has comeback quick, He's quite a smart little fellow, Yes, Jimmy Brown is slick. I always take him with me When travelling about, His clothes fill couple of trunks, Quite a lad, no doubt. can't complain about Jimmy, He's always bright and sunny, Figures greatly in my act And brings in lots of money.
 FEM. EM.
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(special to The Democrat)

Madison, July 20.-Funds for the benefit of St. NIargaret,s will be sought in a six-week campaign which opens tonight with large mass meeting at 7:30 o'clock in Madison Town hall.
 Dr. Maurice J. Mccarthy, organ ization director of the Madison Community committee, has an- nounced that the Rt. Rev. Maurice
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

Oracle Fields. popular English variety actress, has given over $5,- 900 toward the Grace Fields Orr. phanage at Peacehaven, England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
LOtta hOkum.

Lotta hokum. Money doesn't mean thing to believe word you say We so iong @ M see you in church! Give me my freedom don't want your old alimony! It's thing got this straight life! We will live love and kisses! wear my diamonds They're too conspicuous More anon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
ToDAY's BAR SPECIAL

Glass highly frosted and packed tightly with ice
 oin fruit iuce sugar and soda, yalu find ;t real nice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
Roosevelt's Fight For Power May Be
 Heading Party Toward Major Split
Coalition of COP. Machine and Democrats Fighting the
 President AmazeS Insiders

This Rodney Butcher interpreting bderng political of the day in terms of gigantic fight for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

Judging from past quirks of history, it's only a guess whether the Roosevelt endorsement in 1940 will be an asset or liability.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

NEXT: Roosevelt and the Su- preme Court.
Evening star., 1937-01-16

mantle spots so flsgrantly described
nowadays on the colored tourist cir
culars and via the movie travelogue
From the East he entered the con-
sular service. spending several years
in Russia and later in the Prague
Finally deciding to leave government
service he entered the field of jour-
naliSm, conducting a column on the
London Evening Standard in addition
to his numerous other writings.
His desire to reutrn to early scenes
took him, at middle age, once more
to the stamping grounds of his youth,
whence he comes with a Shrewd COM
mentary on changing times, inter-
mixed with his own reactions and re-
grets. Travelling by boat, plane, car
and foot throughout the Malay Pen
inSula. he was enabled, by the Lock-
hart prestige and his own inquisitive-
ness. to talk to high and low. He
visited old landmarks and old friends,
and from 1t all has compiled volume
which should have must" rating if
only for its complete coverage of the
whole Eastern situation, from eco
nomics to flora and fauna. 1t is a
thesaurus OF the East. an encyclopedia
of easily assimilated facts, a vivid pic
ture OF modern world trends and. above
all highly interesting personal tale
r. c. r.
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examine each others bearskins with
just the same cOldness and flatneSs
Tahitians meet they similarly calcu-
late the tastefulneSs OF each others
grass skirts. And that he is perfectly
right about the appalling nature of
OF this inhumane performance. And
that nothing can be done about it.
COME time ago there was announced
- In these columns the news that
a cooperative magazine was to be in
stituted, operating on the basis that
contributors should bear proportion
ate shares of production costs and
received proportionate shares of
profits. This idea moved the re-
viewer to mirth, and she said quite
frankly that she thought it funny
for any one to pay to get anything
of any nature-into print.
Now comes letter from the editors
of this experimental publication-the
American Yellow Book - defending
their sincerity. The reviewer had no
intention of calling that commodity
into question. 1t seems obvious that
any one undertaking such project
would be sincere-painfully SO.
But the more important question
rests in the quality of the periodical
which results from the cooperative
experiment. If it be good. its business
methods do not matter. Unhappily. to
judge by the first issue, it is just what
might have been expected-an arty,
artleSs sheet. OF course, one issue is
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another Swede." Woodrow Wilson
liked his photogra of him, but his
campaign managers SHE'D at using it
for mass appeal. Theodore Roose-
velt posed at Oyster Bay. his clothes
untidy, but his eyes flashing. Andrew
Mellon was the most taclturn man
Genthe ever photographed, but the
photographer was impressed with the
Grayson has told him that his photo
graph of the second Mrs. Wilson won
many friends for her.
This man, who has captured the
beauty of many women. famous and
unknown, refrains from selecting his
lovelieSt subject. He is. inclined to
favor Eleanora Duse because her
beauty WithStood the years. He ad-
mired ISadora Duncan, and tells in
tereSting stories about her. but she
was no great beauty. She simply
created beauty.
Not all of Mr.. Genthe's autobiog-
raphy is concerned with personalities,
although major part of it is. He
has travelled around the world with
his camera finding and recording
scenic beauty in obscure and mac
cessible places.
He is not q particularly lively
raconteur in these memories and they
are in no way unusual, but they are
Evening star., 1937-01-16

wounded, and with a pistol in his
hand.
IN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS first
term, at its very outset as mat
ter of fact, he was called on to dis
play courage of another sort. He en-
tertained a definite fear-it was more
than fear, it was certainty-that the
banks of the country were headed
for a smash. He closed them. and
closed they remained until the finan-
cial house had been put in order
Political suicide. That is what many
of his friends believed. The President
believed that for the safety of the
country the banks should be closed.
so he gave 'em tn pint in tn belly"
regardless of consequences to career
or self.
Jackson, late in his first admin
istration. ran afoul of Nicholas Bid
die, an eStimable gentleman who was
president of the United States Bank
Nicholas, he learned, thought him
self and his bank bigger than the
United States. This knowledge came
to him through the bankers refusal
to turn over public money and pen
sion records to an authorized Fed
eral agent.
I doubt that Andrew Jackson ever
heard the word economics. I am dead
certain he could not have spelled it,
but he did know that the fellow who
holds the purse strings is boss. Bid
dies fiscal lordship was vested in him
by virtue of his bank charter, which
did not expire until 1886. There was
no handle to the jug, until Clay, Web
ster and Calhoun supplied it, in their
effort to hamstring Old Hickory.
A resolution was introduced into
Congress four years before the bank
charter expired to extend its life four
years beyond 1886. Smart politics.
Jackson would veto; the resolution
would be passed over executive con-
demnation, and the man in the
White House, whom they hated, would
be on record as opposed to the bank
on the eve Of his campaign for re-
election. That's the way it read In
the scroll of Clay, Webster and CAL
houn.
When the dust settled, the trio of
practical politicians and Mr.. Biddle
we're eager to hire out in an arnica
factory for their board, there to lave
their bruises. Webster and Calhoun
made what the physicians describe as
a good recovery, but Clay always
limped after that encounter.
The Great Conciliator was begin
ming to believe himself the favorite
child Of misfortune, and when the
election returns were in that Fall he
was certain of it. Candidate Clay
got 40 of the 288 votes of the cleo
toral college and jackson 219. His
victory vote to succeed himself was
not so great as that of Roosevelt, but
it was sweeping Endorsement. The
forgotten man" of Jackson's day
had not sobbed himself to sleep over
the fate of the bank. In fact, his
reaction was the same as that of
today's forgotten man" toward Presi-
dent Roosevelt's financial policies. II
was clear to Jackson-it is equally
apparent to RooSevelt-that the "for-
gotten man" with a ballot Is q hard
chap to forget in November.
Evening star., 1937-01-16
OF EUROPE MADE TRAGIC IN PRIZE VOLUME
MARSHALS PAST
Iustrous Contributors Brought Back for Interesting Ami
vesary Issue-Men Who Write in Judgment of Women
Experiment in Cooperation.

not Summer If subsequent numbers
show improvement. the reviewer Will
be delighted to advise the world of
the fact.
THE new issue OF Stage is at hand,
bearing on its cover a drawing
by Jo Mielziner Of Miss Katharine
Cornell in her role in The WinglesS
Victory" The reviewer, having pro-
tested in the recent past against the
quite horrid caricatures which were
serving this magazine as covers, con-
graduates the editors on the change.
Miss Cornell, 10 be sure, appears
bit Simmer in this picture than she
did on the stage, but whether or no,
she makes q decorative page. And the
caricatures most emphatically did not.
This issue Of Stage is considerably
less spasmodic than is usual with that
periodical. A substantial article on
the Anderson plays of the season by
Stephen Vincent Benet, others on
Mrs. Fiske, Richard Mansfield and the
Cohan family give it q substantial
reading quality.
CORONET for January begins pres
entation of the line drawings of
Heinrich Kley, German artist extraordi-
nary. They are mordant, rich and
beautiful. Coronet seems to the re-
viewer the most completely modern
magazine, unless, Of course, one Is TO
consider as more progressive the
achievement OF the periodicals which
have eliminated reading matter COM
pletely. 1t is not completely salts
flying magazine, to the sure. for its
type is small, and to read anything
the shape of the Readers Digest is
incursbly reminiscent of the Digest
itself and the fearful influence which
its circulation shadow has cast on
one-time comfortable publications.
But Coronet, while paying homage TO
the current dual tendency of maga-
zines to shrink to the size of alma
macs advertising pain-killer and to
fill their pages with pictures, pictures,
pictures, still does get in some pretty
good reading matter. And not many
magazines do all three.
A S TO the Readers Digest, and the
other herrid little digests which
have followed in its impressive wake,
the reviewer sometimes dreams hap
PLY of the day when they will be
overtaken by the nemesis of their own
creation. That is the day when they
shall have driven all regular publi-
cations completely out of business
and then what will they do for their
digestion anyhow? They should re-
member something about the goose
that laid golden eggs and not shoot
ing Santa Claus. At present new
standard of exclusiveness might be
set by periodical courageous enough
to advertise that nothing ever pub
lished in its pages has been "digested."
1t seems worth thinking over, anyhow.
Evening star., 1937-01-16
Brief Reviews of Books

Co. Three girls and their hearts.
Trash.
GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE. BY
Constance w. Dodge. New York
Covici Friede. Romantic historical
novel of old Scotland. Average.
GRANDMA BATES SEES THE
WORLD. BY Eva Thomas Nettle-
ton. Philadelphia: Dorrance &
Co. Old lady turns lively. Bub-
bling stuff.
Mysteries.
THE MYSTERY OF THE TARN. BY
Carolyn Wells. Philadelphia: j.
B. Lippincott Co. Another Wells,
with all the liveliness that that
implies.
OUT ON BAIL. BY r. L. Goldman.
New York: Coward McCann. MUIR
der among the doctors. Fair.
THE HARVEST MURDER. BY John
Rhode. New York: Dodd Mead
g. Co. A new Dr.. Priestley story.
THE d. A. CALLS 1T MURDER. BY
Erie Stanley Gardner. New York:
William Morrow d Co. The author
OF the Perry Mason stories presents
q fighting district attorney.
THE EMPEROR OF EVIL. BY Carroll
John DAILY. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes Co. One OF those dual
personality things.
Evening star., 1937-01-16
Bv M..C. r.

- OMEWHAT late, due to the omis-
sion OF magazine notes last
week, the reviewer comes to
- the 5Oth anniversary number
of Scribners. 1t Is very handsome
mag, indeed, and well worth looking
up. The work Of such illustrious past
contributors as Theodore Roosevelt,
Bret Harte, Frederick Remington,
Harrison Fisher, Stephen Crane, John
Galsworthy, Howard Pyle and Edith
Wharton is reprinted or reproduced
In it, and it Is an achievement over
which its editors may quite reason
ably feel complacent.
FICTION PARADE for January
leads OF with q story by that
excellent but little publicized writer
Of stories, Elizabeth Bowen. 1t Is q
good piece, but then Miss Bowen
seldom or never writes any other sort.
The reviewer has more than once
wondered at her absence from anthol-
Ogies, although, actually, there is
less connection between this sentence
and the one preceding it than one I'M
familiar with anthologies might as
sumo. Anyway, her quiet little tale
of q bargain governess in January
Fiction Parade is worth reading. 1t
is reprinted from the Listener.
EICTION PARADE also has q piece
by James Thurber (reprinted from
the New Yorker, in which there oc-
ours a paragraph, which simply must
be quoted. The piece is called THE
Case Against Women" and except for
the one passage, is like q thousand
wouldbe funny efforts to state mans
resentment of womsn's lack of logic
and the like. But in the following
lines the reviewer is OF the opinion
that Mr.. Thurber has said something
Read and attend:
Another spectacle that depresSes
the male and makes him fear wom-
en-, and therefore hate them, is that
of a woman looking another woman
up and down. to see what she is wear
ing. The cold, fat look that comes
into q woman's eyes when she does
this. the swift coarsening of her
countenance. and the immediate
evaporation from it of all humane
quality make the male shudder. He
is likely to 60 to his state room or his
den or his private Office and lock him.
self in for hours. 1 know one man
who surprised that look in his wife's
eyes and never afterward would let
her come near him If she started
toward him, he would dodge behind
a table or a sofa, as if he were en-
gaging in some unholy game of tag.
That look, I believe, is one reason
men disappear and turn up in Tahiti
or the Arctic or the United States
Navy"
And the reviewer would inform
Mr.. Thurber that the Navy may be
all right. but that the Eskimo ladies
Evening star., 1937-01-16

accompanied by 1l2 superb photo
graphs which prove the lens mightier
than the pen. e. t.
RUTURN TO MALAYA. BY r. H.
Bruce Lockhart. New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sons
r H. BRUCE LoCKHART, author
Of the eminently successful Brit
ish Agent" and Retreat From Glory.
has, with the completion OF his latest,
and some say. best book. Return TO
Malaga" supplied the last needed bit
OF proof TO justify the claim OF his
myriad admirers that there is only
one Lockhart, all other chroniclers OF
history and adventure being shallow
imitators. And. perhaps, If they are
not entirely right. they are long way
from being altogether wrong.
Lockhart devoteeS will remember,
from his other works, that his early
manhood was spent in Malaya-ip
Singapore. Java. Batayia-al the ro-
Evening star., 1937-01-16

he says. This German-born artist,
who came to America as young
tutor, began his Photographic career
in San Francisco, where he took
imposed, but careful pictures Of a
rapidly disappearing Chinatown. This
led him to his life work. His pic
lures became the vogue at the turn
OF the century, when stilted, iron
clamp pictures were the rule. He
lived a gay, Bohemian life on the
coast, with such friends as Jack Lon
don, George Sterling, the Irwins and
Frank Norris. The earthquake sent
him East.
In New York he was Immediately
successful and the last rs years have
brought to his studio steady parade
Of celebrities. He took the first pic
lures made in this country OF Greta
Garbo and he believes they opened the
eyes OF the moving picture magnateS
to her possibilities when they were
ready to send her back home as lust
Evening star., 1937-01-16
on-FictiOn.

N0n-FictiOn.
LIFE ETERNAL. Excerpts from the
writings Of Baha'ullah and Abdul
BAHIA. Compiled by Mary Rumsey
Movius. East Aurora: The Roy
croft Shops.
CHRISTIANITY AND SECRET So
CIETIES. BY William Edward
Smith. Boston: Meador Publishing
Co. An attack on secret societies
on the ground that they are con-
trary to religion.
THE POWER OF KARMA. BY Alex
ander Cannon. New York: E. P.
Dutton & Co. The occult science
set forth by one who believes in it.
YACHT RACING RULES AND TAG
TICS. BY Gordon c. Ayman.
Foreword by Philip j. Roosevelt;
1870 action and diagram photo
graphs. A sort of primer on this
expensive sport.
SPORT SHOTS. BY DR.. Paul Wolff.
New York: william Morrow. A
book of fine photographs of Olym-
pic games and athletes.
Fiction.
NOT IN UTTER NAKEDNESS. BY
Thomas Alva Stubbins. Boston:
Meador Publishing Co. Biographi-
cal novel Of young man. Maudlin.
LADIES IN LOVE. BY Ladislaus Bus
Fekete. New York: 3. P. Dutton