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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-07
T est Y 0 UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn Co last page for the answers.
 1. What Is another name for the game of draughts? 9. What Is the approximate cir conference of the earth?
 3. What Is an epitaphP
 {. Name the first great English poet.
 5. What is the full name of Joe Louis, the Negro pugilist?
 6. Why does cream rise to the top of milk2
 '. What is sub-marginal land? 8. Who explored the Hudson River in the ship Half Moon?" 9. Tn which state Is Lake Che- lan2
 10. Name the Soviet Govern ment trading organization in the U. S. A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-07

Out in Colorado they are importing flocks of turkeys. The state is infested with swarms of grasshoppers and the turkeys are being groomed to gobble up the pests. At that rate there ought to be plenty of western turkeys, fattened on grasshoppers, on the market next Mo- vember and December. In Wyoming it was Mormon crickets and not grasshop- pers which disturbed the farmers and caused worry for crops.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-07
Current Comments

Human liberty is never more deeply appreciated than when 1t is temporarily eclipsed. ]. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
 
 A husband should not support his wife if she has e job or if their earnings together will fnske for a happier and better home. Virginia Gildersleeve. Barnard CoIleRe deall.
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Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

o. Were there any colleges for women in the United States in 1800P Which were the first colleges for women founded in the United States?
 A. In 1900, women could not en- ter any college in the United States. In 1921, Emma Willard opened a seminary for girls at Troy, New York; in 1887, Mt. Holyoke seminary 0ater college) was opened by Mary Lyon in Massachusetts,; and in 1928, Catherine Elizabeth Beecher found- ed the Hartford Female seminary, These three institutions mark the beginning of higher education for women in the United States.
 c. What Is earmarked gold?
 A. Gold held by @ bank in e special account, especially gold held by the central bank of one country for the special account of a bank of foreign country.
 e. At what altitude could the earth be seen as sphere?
 A. 1850 miles above the earth's surface.
 e. What is Dizzy Deans pitching record against the Chicago Cubs?
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WASHINGTON, July q - All is far from serene behind the among the foes of the Presidents court plan The cocky threat of Senators Burke Wheeler and Vandenberg to stage protracted fbuster stirred lIn a hornets nest of controversy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-07
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "He got no place
 with his argument; say.
 "got nowhere"

A. Up to the beginning of the 1887 season his record against the Cubs was 12 games won and IA lost.
 e. Where are the Clifford lec- lures given?
 A. They are divided among the four Scottish universities, Edin- burgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St. Andrews, and are held annually.
 c. Which British king, within the last 160 years, was not crowned at Westminster abbey?
 A. King Edward VIII.
 c. Is the negro child actor, "Buckwheat," appearing in Our Gang" comedies, boy or a girl?
 A. A boy, whose real name is William Thomas.
 o. What makes a bee hum?
 A. The very rapid vibration of the bees wings makes the sound.
 c. What man served as both president of the U. s. and chief justice?
 A. William Howard Taft.
 e. How many bound volumes are in the library of Columbia univer- sity in New York city?
 A. One million, five hundred and twenty thousand.
 o. Which country suffered the greatest number of casualties dur ing the World war?
 A. Russia. That country had total casualties of approximately 9150,0o0, of whom 1,7oo,0o0 were killed and died; 4,950,000 wounded; 2500,000 prisoners and missing.
 0. Were the inventors of the telegraph, sleeping-car, automatic car coupler, automatic block -signal system, air-brake, vestibule-buffer, refrigerator car, and electric loco- motive, which have been called the "milestones of railroad progress, /" railroad men?
 A. No. The telegraph was in- vented by Morse, an artist; the sleep ing Mlar by Pullman, a street con- tractor; the automatic car coupler by Janney, dry-goods clerk; the automatic block-signal system by Hall, a retired textile manufacturer: the air-brake by Westinghouse, Q carpenter-m -machinist; the vestibule- buffer by a physician: the refrigera- tor car by meat packers; and the electric locomotive by Farmer, a school teacher.
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The old Spanish costumes will prob- ably go with the old Spanish customs. Bullfghting will never be the same with matadorS in black shirts.
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In politics especially the Chinese sage was right: Truth is hidden at the bot tom of well'
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newspaper responsible facts Opiions from communications unless accompanied with the writer's address will not be accepted.
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Daily Almanac

Sun rises 5:26 a. rn.; sets s:27 D. m. (day- light time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thiry minutes after sunset.
 High tide at Milford Thursday. July 6. 121o a. nn.: low dite. SIS q. m. daylight timeJ
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After we get the lever normal granary," how about the ever normal dollar?
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e. How many bound volumes are in the library of Columbia univer- sity in New York city?
 A. One million, five hundred and twenty thousand.
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o. What is Dizzy Deans pitching record against the Chicago Cubs?
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c. What man served as both president of the U. s. and chief justice?
 A. William Howard Taft.
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o. What makes bee hum?
 A. The very rapid vibration of the bees wings makes the sound.
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e. Which country suffered the greatest number of casualties dur ing the World war?
The Washington times., 1937-01-29

LONDON, Jan. 20 QN.S).
Slaughter of so elderly nuns and
abduction of 20 younger ones from
the convent of Santander by Span
ish soldiers was described by one
who escaped in an interview re-
layed to International News Serv-
ice last night.
The fugitive nun told her story
to Pierre L. Hermite, widely
known Catholic writer now at Hen
daye, on the Spanish border. The
account of the interview was
brought here by Marquis Del
Moral. Hermite was quoted as
saying:
when the young nun came in
with a group Of people waiting
outside my study it seemed to
me as though one of MurillO's
virgins had stepped out of a
picture frame"
Asked by Hermite how she had
come there the nun replied:
The Washington times., 1937-01-29

From the cruel hardships Of a
rung on the journalistic ladder.
frontier mining camp to the top
That would be a capsule biography
Of Elsie Robinson, author Of the
daily Listen World" newspaper
column, and one Of the most be.
loved and widely read women
writer's in America.
But the story Of the rise of
Elsie Robinson would not be the
story Of one person. With her she
has lifted the hearts and the lives
Of countless thousands of news
paper readers.
Born of frontier parents with
a frontier tradition, Miss Robin
son writes with a flavor that is
typically American.
Miss obinSon particularly
likes to help young people. And
she knows their problems, because
she makes it her business to see
things for herself. She visits
CCC camps, she goes to factories
and CampuSeS, she talks with
The Washington times., 1937-01-29
'PAWNEE BILL
IS STILL KING

AWNEEE, Okla, U.NS).
"Pawnee Bill" one Of the last of
the plainsmen, now rules alone the
vast frontier empire so long made
CHEEKY by his beloved wife, the cele-
brated Mae Lille. Mrs. Gordon
Lille died recently from injuries
received in an automobile accident.
Major Gordon B. Lille CPawnee
BilD, was hurt painfully in the
crash also.
The 76-year-old plainsman's
show place home is called Blue
Hawk and is a great stone hall
containing tire a ureS gathered
from every part of the globe when
he was trouping with Buffalo
Bill"
A prairie principality unique in
the fast fading West is that of
"Pawnee Bill's" stretching for
many miles and embracing count
less trails and streams. It is truly
a land where the buffalo roam"
HIS herd-One OF the largest IN eX-
istence-grazeS over 1000 acres Of
lush prairie.
Housed in square Of his West
ern manor court are several of the
stage coaches that sped through
the rough trails Of '89, when the
little Welshman, who came to be
recognized as the chief Of the Paw
neeS, was leading homesteaders
into Cherokee Strip. They survived
the attacks of Indians and the
raids of such outlaws as the Dal-
tons and James brothers.
Near by are trophies from buf-
falo huntS-gifts of Indian chiefs
and warriors who named the white,
bobbed-hair scout little Bear" be-
cause he was as skillful in the hunt
and on the trail as themselves.
The Washington times., 1937-01-29
COUNCIL POSTS
SOUGHT BY I

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 20.
Two of the three at-large mem
bers of city council will be candi-
dates for reelection in the April
primary, they announced today.
Friday, February 5, is the deadline
for filing petitions.
The two candidates announced
are Mayor E. C. Dawson and
Councilman A. Slater Lamond.
DR.. John r. Ashton will not run
again because he plans to make
his home in Belle Haven in Fair
fax county.
Although candidates for the
three posts have but one week to
file, Armistead L. Boothe, chair
man Of the city Democratic COM
mittee, said none has turned in
his petition to date.
The Washington times., 1937-01-29
D0VOt0S One Column
"A Week to Youth 6

young vagrants in the "jungles"
and she learns the feelings and
desires of young unemployed per-
sons at home.
Recently Miss Robinson decided
to devote one column each week
exclusively to youth. In it she pro-
vides young persons - male or
female, rich or poor-the oppor-
tunity of expressing themselves
on any subjects not relating to
religion, race or politics.
The response to this gesture of
hers has been most gratifying.
Letters began pouring in from all
parts of the country.
The Washington times., 1937-01-29
NEW 'NRA' ACT
T0ASK PUBLIC
SUPPORT
By WILLIAM 8. NEAL
International News Service

04NSA@=ANN@S@AA@@
The Roosevelt Administration
plans to avoid the compulsory
code system Of NRA, in propos-
ing legislation controlling hours
Of work and minimum pay, mem
bers Of Congress were informed
today.
The new plan is expected to be
based upon the original 30-hour
week proposals, under which pro-
vision would be made for maxi
mum hours and minimum wages
with a Federal authority having
power to adjust hours to meet
emergency conditions. Whether
a 80 or 40-hour work week will
be proposed has not been dis
closed.
Entirely New Plan
While the plan is expected to
include expansion Of the Federal
trade commission plan, to en-
courage voluntary organization OF
business to outlaw fair trade
practice, it was authoritatively re-
ported the plan will bear little
resemblance to the original NRA.
In seeking to shorten working
hours. the Administration is un-
derstood to be seeking q simple
plan designed to take up most OF
the present employment slack.
The wage plan is designed to boost
the national income.
Harry L. Hopkins, WPA admin
istrator, in teStifying before a
House Appropriations subcommit-
tee, disclosed that a $4,000, ,000,-
900 national income is the Admin
istration's goal.
Congress Fight Likely
The maximum hour.minimum
wage proposal is expected to bring
two sharp fights in Congress on
the question of conStitutionality
and length of hours.
The administration plan is un-
derstood to be based upon PreSi-
dent Roosevelt's liberal interpreta-
ton Of the power of Congress to
control interstate commerce-an
Interpretation not yet accepted by
the Supreme Court. A new chal-
lenge to the courts power also Is
regarded as likely.
Both the American Federation
Of Labor and the Lewis group are
seeking a 30-hour-week bill. A
Congressional bloc already is be-
ing formed to battle for this 1imita-
tion on work hours If it Is not re-
commended by the Administration.
The Washington times., 1937-01-29
Massacre of 50 Nuns
BY Spain Reds Told

at is like a miracle. The reds
shot 50 Sisters-alI the elder
ones. They took the rest. I don't
know what's become Of them. 1
was left alone in the convent
with all those wild men.
"They passed in and out, all
armed with revOlvers. Hourly /
expected to be murdered. Then
a young officer, apparently a
Russian, handed me over to a
young truck driver who under
instructions ran me to the bOr-
der and told me the route by
which 1 escaped to France.
"After a night of terror /
eventually found a French peas
ant who took away my nuns
head-dreSS and gave me her
peasants head-dresS, saying: 1T
will be safer that way For q
moment 1 thought she was an
other paSsiOnaria but she spoke
French and I knew was saved"
The Washington times., 1937-01-29
Park and TiIford
President Dead AT 81

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 QN.S).
Gordon Stewart, 81, president of
Park and Tilford, died yesterday
after q brief illness.
Evening star., 1937-01-19
WildLife Welcomed
Deer Returning to Settled Area Under Friendliness
of Today's Humans.

Chesapeake Bay, q considerable tract
of land has been restored partly to
wild conditions by the national Boy
Scout organization.
From either Of these sources our
deer could have come. But they would
have had to cross at least q score and
. half of miles Of closely settled farms
and villages. Some instinct, timor-
ously emerging after generations OF
hard pursuit. must have told them Of
q new spirit Of friendliness. Ger
tainly the friendlineSs Is here. We
will not begrudge them what they may
nibble from our fodder stacks if they
are driven to that after the ground is
snow covered.
Quail and Pheasants Fed.
The spirit Of the community is hos
pitable to the returning wild. One Of
my neighbors, Harvey Cook, each Fall
goes through his meadow setting into
the ground here and there sticks about
3 feet high, with the tops sharpened.
When the snow comes he takes ears
of sweet corn, hollows out the pith
Of the cob, and places an ear upright
on each sharpened stick. He renews
the supply two or three times a week
so long as snow and ice cover the
meadow, making the ordinary food Of
the birds difficult to get at The quail
and pheasants express their apprecia-
ton by increased confidence.
Last Summer, during week ends
when I came here, my morning
alarmer" was not the lark Of English
poetry, but the other, and am sorry
to say. less musically voiced. English
bird, the pheasant. A male of the
species took our vegetable garden as
his Summer trysting place. I some
times wished he might have chosen
more secluded spot. His morning
love call seemed. to a human sleeper.
raucous squawk, but suppose 1t
was seductive to those to whom nature
intended it to be so. The pheasant,
Of course. is not a native bird, but
his bright colors have become a fire.
quent and agreeable addition to our
oSCAANs oS q 1CodlL Va
importation and breeding begun by
Gov. Pinchot some 10 years ago.
1t is only friendliness that can save
our wild life. As objects Of pursuit
they fight a hopelessly losing battle.
Year by year rifles and guns are
heightened in range. increased in
accuracy: year by year powder grows
more potent, all ammunition more
effective: year by year improved roads
push farther and farther into the
natural fastness Of the wild. All the
forces Of destructiveness grow more
deadly. The animals defenSes-of
speed. or WEAKNESS, or coloration-
cannot grow greater.
tCopyrisht. 1877
Evening star., 1937-01-19

A few years before his death Thomas
Hardy wrote to my friend, John Cow
per Powys, Of his search for some ulti-
mate distillation of precise thought
and feeling in a poetic word or line.
Mr.. Belloc, in world Of fiat money
and fat words, takes the same tack.
The big, blocky British author and
critic, with his black pancake hat
and ankle-length greatcoat. arrives in
New York to join the faculty Of Ford
ham University for the Spring semes-
ter An ecstatic young reporter once
described him as "a distinguished
novelist, long distance walker, theo-
logan, ethnologist, biographer, his
torian. typographer, critic and de-
batter" That's less than half the story.
One Of the most distinguished Of
Catholic lay writers, he carries the
baton HI nded him by the falling Ches-
terton in that endless controversial
relay in which Belloc and CheSterton
contended against Shaw and Wells,
two amateur theologians against two
amateur historians. providing endless
edification and enlightenment for the
realm.
His books include essays, biogra-
phies, critical studies, childrens
stories, political and religious contro-
versy, novels. satires, sonnetS and
volumes of light verse.
He has mastered one Of the most
important tricks Of the newspaper
columnist-the art of writing seriously
about small matters and writing light
ly Of great matters. His ancestry
might account for that-French and
Pennsylvania Dutch. He has the
French tierce and riposte, no matter
how weighty the subject, and, like
those Pennsylvania Dutch theologians
OF 100 years ago, doesn't mind using
a cannon when he's cunning for q
gnat. II that seems important. He
was born in France and educated at
Balliol College
tCopyright, 1937J
Evening star., 1937-01-19
WASHINGTON WOMAN
WILL MARRY ATTORNEY

Mrs. Mary Browder Lynch, daugh-
ter Of DR.. and Mrs. ]. Bailey Browder,
1901 Connecticut avenue, and a sister
of Mrs. George H. Earle, wife of the
Pennsylvania Governor, will be mar
ried to Thomas r. Wickersham, Har.
risburg Pa) attorney, February 2.
Announcement Of the marriage was
made yesterday at the Governors Of
nee, according to an Associated Press
dispatch. The ceremony will take
place at the executive mansion in the
Pennsylvania capital. with only MEM
bers of the immediate families and
several friends attending.
Mrs. Earle will be matron Of honor
and John C. Kunkel Of Harrisburg
best man. After their marriage the
couple will live at Harrisburg.
Mrs. Lynch's father is engaged in
research work here for Temple Uni
versity.
Evening star., 1937-01-19

and replied loudly that the system probably would double the
metahrowng would
single turret etc, etc The suspect Immediately departed
Frisidaire plant made
workings the inside
sailors sensitive suspicious against that
particular example they tell about the Navy tanker
which encountered fighting ship of this said foreign nation out on the
captain
salute they passed His
attention the
visible
One trained
Santa Maria her dimensions
Evening star., 1937-01-19

technique to work out solutions
pepexng modern craftsmanship tenn
poraly confusing uncertain so all exploratory work.
Presidents confidence believe the method
being the best They are looking fowdd
to at least touchdown shortly, possibly tpo.
Noe-n of this explanation, the second inaugural Is probably
The President apparently ready to tell ALL What
fully disclosed by
inauguras couple of months hence
developed
important preliminary dealing has all been unof
position deny everything However,
that the
neutrality conflict with the Roosevelt
suggestion somewhat amazing Mr.
u foreign trade saesmen They had not
seriously before.
will either be belgerent supply
depot neutrality
either be stopped The British
which would be cut on
when it would be most needed from her standpoint.
pointed the sighted British
Britain could still
That unbalanced trade,
admittedly not aturno
found. before
problem
adopting neutrality program similar that likely
that short gentleman with the mustache at inaugural
Evening star., 1937-01-19

quick bound into q ROADSIDE tnlcket,
told him it was deer he had seen.
Another neighbor, a week or two
before, was told one evening by his
wife that during the afternoon she
had seen three deer in the meadow.
Skeptical, he took the statement as an
example Of woman's greater credulity
or her less acute observation. But the
following day, on the sandy banks OF
the meadow creek, he found the hoof-
tracks Of q buck and two doe.
There are Of course many places In
the United States where wild deer
Is not an uncommon sight. And since
deer began to have rigid legal pro-
lection in New England and New
York State, occasional ones have been
seen almost on the fringes Of the outer
suburbs of New York City. But was
born on this farm and happen to have
exceptional familiarity with the local
lore of the community, and I am
confident 1t Is fully a century and a
half since the last wild deer was seen
in this neighborhood.
Sectl0H ScttleO EdTlys
The death Of the last local Indian
is authenticated by memorial markers
set up by the county historical society;
she was Indian Hannah" and she
figures in a rather important Ameri-
can novel. She died in 1902 and had
long survived her tribe in this locality.
The deer must have disappeared long
before.
This community. about 40 miles
west Of Philadelphia. is within the
earliest-settled part Of Pennsylvania
and one of the earliest settled in the
country. The return of the deer is
not due. as elsewhere, to any retire.
ment of the human population-we
know no such thing as an abandoned
farm" On the contrary, Chester
County. Pa, continues to be listed as
1t has been for two centuries. among
the most productive agricultural coun-
ties in the country. Excepting the
wood lots on each farm, 1t would be
difficult to find an acre that Is not
either cultivated or grazing meadow.
Reservation 50 Miles Away.
In the community talk there Is
much speculation about what has
brought the deer back. The nearest
mountains are some 50 miles away,
and these are mountains more by local
pride than by elevation. In them is
a game reservation, fruit of a policy
Of conservation inaugurated by Clifford
Pinchot when he was Governor some
years ago. Some 80 miles in another
direction. near the mouth of the Sus-
quehanna River. is strip of poor land
We call "the Barrens," belt of stunted
oaks and gnarled pines, fertile only in
murky legends about ancient high
waymen and the fates of lonely trav-
elers. Where the Barrens approaches
Evening star., 1937-01-19
EDUCATOR TO BE GUEST
University Of Chicago Club to
Honor Prof. Bartky.

DR.. Walter Bartky, associate pro-
fessor of astronomy at the University
of Chicago. will be guest of honor at
q dinner to be given at the Cosmos
Club Sunday by the University of
Chicago Club Of Washington. Dinner
will be served at $50 pm. with an
informal reception at 6 pm.
A preview Of three new education
sound pictures, THE Solar Family
The Moon" and THE Earth in
Notion will be shown at 8. These
films, with a fourth now in produc-
ton. will be used in physical sciences
course for freshmen at the University
of Chicago and will be made avail
able for other colleges and high
schools.
Evening star., 1937-01-19
News Behind the News
President Ready for Touchdown as Forces Maneuver
the Ball Around.
BY PAUL MALLON.

happenings relating and have purred
speculation about what President Roosevelt be up to on the
" Of his second inaugural
political pal Senator Norris Is rounding the liberals
drive although the
John Lewis who holds
Democratic National Committee suddenly
negotiating settlement Of the auto strike The most
poicobun authority in England Walter Runciman
coming end at the White House French
What these
best summarized by Of his devoted
associates, who
President pushing the ball around and letting every
they the right position he Di take
ind run
This also the being offered super uthotatvey to the
behind not behind
Evening star., 1937-01-19

Winter early dark
the other evening,
saw his headlights
focus on an ami
NAL. At first
glance. he sup
sed 1t was
a ng COW
strayed from q
nearby field. But
the small, high
held head told
him 1t was not
q COW: and the
W hite flash Of
the tail, suddenly
raised high in
alarm. and the