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The Washington times., 1937-02-04
HOPE FOR FULL
AGREEMENT
IS SEEN
Lewis and Knudsen to
Try for Complete
Understanding
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and Homer Martin. president Of
the auto workers union. were at
tending the conferences.
Today's parley was resumed at
1912 a. m. The negotiations
again were held behind guarded
doors. Today, Knudsen was &C.
companied by Donaldson Brown,
company treasurer, and John
Thomas Smith, company counsel.
John L. Lewis. chief strike
strategist, was flanked by Lee
Pressman, CIO counsel. and
Homer Martin, head of the United
Auto Workers Gov. Frank
Murphy. working under directions
from President Roosevelt, served
agaln as mediator.
Secrecy again surrounded the
movements of the principals as
they arrived in the court room
office Of Governor Murphy's
brother, Judge George Murphy.
Unions Hold Plants
Sit-down strikers holding Fisher
Body plants No. l and No. 2 at
Flint have been under court in
junction to vacate the plants by
3 p. m. yesterday. They an
nounced, however. they would
rather die than submit to eviction.
Sheriff Thomas Wolcott at
Flint said he was set to carry out
the court order even in face of
the death stand" Of the strikers.
Standing by were 1000 Michigan
National Guardsmen.
With the peace conferences un-
der way in Detroit, however, au-
thorities, headed by Governor
Murphy, agreed not to attempt to
oust the sit-downers at this time,
and they were still holding the
plants there today.
PicketS Defy Court
Defying the court Injunction
which contained an antipicketlng
clause. 1000 union pickets gath
cred at Flint Fisher Body No. l
last night after rumor started
that an attempt would be made to
oust the sit-downers. A crowd Of
5000 curious gathered but dis
persed without violence.
Any showdown over the sit-down
issue appeared indefinitely post
poned today. Under Michigan pro-
cedure, G.. NJ. attorneys must again
enter Judge Paul V. Gadola's court
and show proof that the strikers
had refused to obey his first in
junction. Judge Gadola would then
issue a writ of attachment. under
which the sheriff would be forced
to clear the plants. G. NJ, it was
indicated. would make no such
move while the peace conferences
at Detroit were under way.
The Detroit peace parleyS came
as climax to a series of dramatic
events. Lewis, chief strategist of
the auto workers union in his ca
pacity as C. I. o. head, had ar
rived in tbs city early to confer
with union leaders. Less than Two
hours later he was in the peace
conference with Knudsen.
The Washington times., 1937-02-04
GOV. RIVERS
LAUDS TIMES

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 4.
Georgia's new chief executive. Gov.
E. D. Rivers. told a joint session
of the State house and senate here
today that The Washington
Times and Publisher John Lam
bert are among the States most
valuable friends"
The praise came during the
governors introduction of Mr..
Lambert before the joint session,
when he declared:
The Washington Times and
Mr.. Lambert were very helpful to
me, and also to the State Of Geor-
gia, during my recent visit to the
National Capital. It was through
their help that I was able to make
the acquaintance of the important
personages in the Capital with
whom my office and the State
must deal.
Mr.. Lambert, who is here for the
celebration marking the twenty.
fifth anniversary of the Atlanta
Georgian as Hearst newspaper,
had been especially invited by the
Governor to meet the assembled
legislators.
Last night. Governor Rivers
gave a dinner at the executive
mansion in honor of Mr.. Lambert.
Also attending were T. j. White,
general manager of Hearst Enter
prises; Richard E. Berlin. general
manager of Hearst magazines, and
Herbert Porter, publisher of the
Atlanta Georgian.
The Washington times., 1937-02-04
RAIN OR SNOW
DUE FOR D. E.

More rain, or possibly a light
snow, was forecast for the District
today by the United States
Weather Bureau. Tonight, how.
ever, will be warmer than last
night. The mercury slid to a low
of II degrees at S a. m. The low
est expected tonight is SO degrees.
The bureau predicted clearing
skies and lowering temperatures
for tomorrow afternoon or night.
The Washington times., 1937-02-04
WESH1N68lM|l7fNES

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The Washington times., 1937-02-04
Live Furnace Goals
Start School Blaze

BALLSTON. Va, Feb. 4.-Fire
that broke out in the basement
of Westinghouse High School at
$3.50 o'clock this morning was
quickly extinguished by fire COM
panieS from Ballston and Claren-
don. The damage, confined to a
locker room, was estimated at $75.
The Washington times., 1937-02-04
ARDSMEN CALM FLINT AS STRIKE PARLEY CONTINUES
MRS. ROOSEVELT REPAYS A CALL
Visits Girls Training School

MRS. NKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT at the National
Training School for Girls,
where she was guest Of honor
in return for a party at the
White House last May. With
the First Lady in the photo
graph are DR.. Carrie Weaver
Smith (left), and Miss Nancy
Cook.
The Washington times., 1937-02-12
DR.. Warren 10 talk
OF Lincoln at Church

DR.. Louis A. Warren, an au-
thority on the life of Abraham Lin
coin, will speak on Some Little
Known Episodes in Lincoln's Life"
at the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church tonight at 8 o'clock.
DR.. Warren, who is director of
the Lincoln National Life Founda-
tion. has assembled a library of
4.500 books and pamphlets exclu-
sively devoted to Lincoln's life.
He has done research work on the
parentage and childhood of Lin
coin, and for a number of years
was editor of a newspaper in
Hodgenville, KY, the community
where the martyTed President vas
born.
The Washington times., 1937-02-12
WPA HAD PICK
OF 6,4O2,OOO
J0BLESS
International News Service

Works Progress Administration
had 100000 unemployed, eligible
workers to select from last year
in its work relief program, which
provided a maximum of slightly
more than 100000 jobs, Admin
istrator Hopkins reported today.
More skilled workers in the
building and construction industry
were unemployed than in any
other classification, his report
showed. OF the 6,402, 900 eligible
unemployed workers, ATT ,606 were
building trades and construction
workers or foremen.
Office workers showed the sec
ond largest number of unem-
ployed, totaling 240,043. Skilled
workers in manufacturing and
other industrial enterprises were
next with 335,141. Idle statesmen
and kindred workers numbered
183,300; professional and techni-
cal workers, 120,961, and proprie-
tors, managers and officials,
o3,304.
1,79O,3O6 Women
WPA rules limited jobs to one
member of a family, and those
preferably family heads, the re-
port said. A total of 3,722,572 OF
the eGgibleS were male heads of
families, and 682,4 ,430 were women
heads of families. Women work
ers totaled 1,790,306.
Hopkins further explained:
I'VE not only had to give peO-
ple work, we also had to give
each community the sort of pub
lie improvements and service
which its officials wanted.
Moreover, we had to give the
jObleSs-as many of tSem as we
could possibly take-the Kind of
work which would preserve, re-
store or increase their working
ability, and thus make them bet
ter competitors for private pObs.
"a considerable number of
these people cannot take works
program jobs at any given time
because of illness, temporary
disability, because they have a
temporary private job, or for
other reasons"
Eligible workers were persons
over the age of 16. More than
$4,000 of those listed were per-
sons who had no previous work
experience
Seeking First Jobs
Over half of these we're between
the ages of 16 and "a, just out
of school, and seeking employment
for the first time, the report said.
Hopkins said:
"There were 61S.OOO persons
experienced only in domestic
and personal service work.
There were 10000 retail store
sales clerks, 100000 office work
ers, $4,000 unskilIed IabOrers
and 435,00O farm laborers."
The report listed more than 100
occupations, classifying the eli
gtble workers by occupation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Surviving Drama

While some people are still wailing about the decline of the theater in this country, Alfred Lunt, one of its dis tinguished representatives, asserts cheer fully that it is enjoying "a great renais- sance." He has found business lately the best in years, and not merely in New York, but lon the road", where the movies were supposed to have killed the stage.
 MT. Lunt's enthusiasm may be de- rived from the fact that he and his wife, on road tours, play to full houses. Kath- erine Cornell and Helen Hayes have the same experience. So do few others. The popular response to their bold excursions into the region between Broadway and the Pacific Coast may be attributed to the fact that they are all first rate actors and that they appear in good plays. Also, they have never betrayed their following by turning down long tours even when their current productions might have run indefinitely in New York City.
 It is true that the commercial theater has had hard struggle for survival tn recent years. Many people would rather see three good movies week than one third-rate stage show. But no one need ever have worried for moment about the drama. The human race isn't ready to give up this art, although it may be more critical of commercial productions. But the play will go on = in Little Theaters, in private dramatic groups, in schools and colleges.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Housekeeping

2 Is the German "goose-step", used in military parades, to be abolished? Such action seems foreshadowed by recom- mendation in the Military Weekly, an army organ published in Berlin. For 200 years this strange practice has prevailed in Germany. It has been considered in- separable from the German army, although usually ridiculed abroad. It is indeed a most absurd way for human beings to walk, in military formation or otherwise.
 The motion required is contrary to the natural locomotion of the human body. The legs are swung high, with the knees held stiff and straight. Thus the walker is carried forward in a manner which indeed suggests the walk of a goose. It is funny, and yet impressive, because the reach is much longer than the natural step taken with flexed knees. It is hard to learn and hard on the soldiers, because of the jerky motion and long stretch and the thud of landing stiff-legged. Men can march farther, of course, with more ease, in the normal way
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Many Will Differ

Many persons throughout this state will differ with the recent statements III the New Haven Register, which are taken exception to in an open letter from the secretary of the governors commission to build new state school for detectives. Considerable criticism was heaped upon the commission for it's work to date and it's plans for the future. But if you are fortunate enough to read the commls- sion's retort, which will be printed in the Waterbury Democrat, if it has not al- ready appeared, you will Sympathize with and openly support the commission.
 The need of additional facilities to care for mentally deficient children was ap- parent years ago, even before in 1885 the Legislature was finally persuaded to set up special commission to proceed with the task of securing land and building a proper institution. The plans that have been made public to date are certainly encouraging, but they more than pro- duced criticism from New Haven. We don't think the facts warrant the attack.
 If there were any substantial claims to be advanced against what the commits sion has already done out at Southbury and plans to do, certainly they would have been brought to the fore during this hectic legislative session. That the Reg ister might differ in policy with that of the commission is believable, but once again we point to the letter as proof sub- stantial that we are not stepping off into deep water. We're inclined to string along with the commissions plans and support them at every turn for better care of our
 mentally defective children, over thou sand of whom now await admission to an institution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Roman Vegetables

We think we have discovered the health values of fresh vegetables in recent years. We certainly have changed national eat ing habits in a generation. But it seems to be only another lap in an old cycle. Long before Jiggs and Dinty Moore made corned beef and cabbage national head liner or Popeye did the same for spinach, vegetables enjoyed considerable prestige.
 Pliny tells of 1,708 cures which could be effected by use of garden plants. Cucum- bers could accomplish 30 of these cures, parsley 31, leeks 71, and cabbage 87. The last named was used to cure ailments of the eyes, ears, spleen and stomach. It also stopped bad dreams, insomnia and drunkenness. Or so Pliny and his con- tenporarieS believed.
 The Romans of the first century didn't talk about vitamins, but they certainly gave those common vegetables credit for . lot of health work It would be great b know today how they cured drunken ress with cabbage. That old problem IS still with us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Misnomers

A Nebraska psychologist warns par ents against giving their children "odd- sounding names and those of ambiguous meaning" "The name which child IS given at birth," he says, "may be de- termining factor in his development of personality, in the ease with which he ac- quires friends, and, in all probability, in his success and failure in life"
 Perhaps the gentleman is right, but it's just as we'll to put a little extra em- phasis on the may in his statement and then not worry too much. Review ing the names of some of today's ce- lebrities, one is drawn to the conclusion that personality is more likely to give character to name than the other way around.
 There may have been times in his youth when Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis wished his parents had given him an ordinary name, but on the other hand, many a plain John Smith has wished for something more distinctive. Yet Judge Landis and the John Smiths have gone their. several ways through life apparently without enslavement to their names.
 -Shakespeare's slant on the subject seems more sensible than the psychol- ogist's. "What in name?" he said "That which we call rose, by any other name would smell as sweet"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Lobbyists All

In my childlike inexperience I came to the conclusion that their presence was an accident; that they just happened to be sight, seeing all over the shop on that particular day; or that they were, like myself, searchers after the facts of government. To my com plete astonishment I was told by attendants slaving around the Capitol building and I learned from stray scraps of conversation heard in the repository of all Capitol feed-box information, the barber shop, that the flights of females which had aroused my in- terest were there all the time. They were all concerned in getting passed or getting killed some bit of legislation which had aroused either their affection or their hatred. They were In other words, feminine lobbyists. They represented some organiza- ton, or themselves, or some speci- fic Little Group of Serious Think CTS all hot and bothered over the welfare of somebody else. Best of all they seemed to be in the hair or hanging off the ears or bully ragging irritated lawmakers of both parties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Law vs. Human Nature

The nations experience with prohibit tion demonstrated wildly how difficult it is to enforce law without the whole hearted cooperation of the public. That the task of banning gambling contains the same stumbling block likewise has been proved time and again.
 In midwestern city, for instance, po- lice have just impounded all token-eject- ing slot machines, after pondering the move long while. Suddenly, then their attention was directed to the fact that hundreds of citizens were pouring into a downtown office, and shedding out a steady stream of silver to some gentlemen who were conducting a variation of the chain letter scheme purported to offer the prospect of a return of $640 for an investment of $590 What are you going to do with people like that?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
The Way Of All

Glorified air flights on a glorified air boat, the magnificent Hindenburg, will be no more. As have all her predecessors, she vanished, so to speak, into thin ar last night. Her long journey from the home hangar in Friedrickshafen, Ger many, practically over, disaster struck her as she was about to anchor at her American destination, LakehurSt, N. J. Fate, or something else, picks a mighty Wallop and seems to use it on those who venture into the mysterious upper regions surrounding this little old planet of ours:
 The Hindenburg was the mightiest ot those air monarchs that have sailed so maiestically through the skies, bridging the mighty Atlantic as if a mere pond. Her ten round trips in 1886 between Germany and the United States seemed to convince the world that here was fool proof and entirely safe means of air travel. And why shouldn't the world come to this conclusion? The facts were there and they were convincing.
 The air is a capriciods mistress. If you don't think so, look at the fearful list or air crashes on regularly established air passenger lines in just 1887. Perhaps the list shrir1ks when you lay it alongside the myriadS of successful trips, but the fact remains that air disasters, unexplain- able, too, have unnerved a portion of the air-minded populace.
 Of course Uncle Sam's luck with dirigi- bleS is notorious, And now Dr. Hugo Eckener, conceded the peer of all airship builders and navigators, joins the ill., fated Explain it any way you will, man has not yet gained mastery of the air; neither has he as much mastery of other forces of nature as he thinks he has. All the explanations possible can't take away the uneasy feeling that perhaps after all the giant airship just isn't meant to be-. Perhaps, too, we'll laugh at this 20 years hence
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Why the Minskys Alone?

Admitting that the presenters of the strip-tease type of Art made the mistake of knowing where to start but not where-or when-to stop; that the show erroneously called "burlesque" became odor- ously rancid: and that 1t is no loss either to Art or entertainment that they have been put out of, business (for the time being), the question arises "Why pick on the Brothers Minsky and their kind2" If the operators of the burlesque theaters were the only offenders against dccency there might be some sense in writing finis to the Minsky Dynasty Period Strip Tease. But they are not nor have they been for years. I can re- member when the only theaters in New York where one could be sure of seeing . clean show even though 1t was low comedy, were the burlesque houses; when bur- lesque fun makers were neither inclined nor allowed to. wallow in. filth while their musical comedy brothers could and did go the ur- : mitigated limit; and when women were stripped naked in Broadway theaters where $5.50. was the ad- mission long before tWo-bitS strip teasing was heard of. The morality mop-up squad has done . long needed job on the Brothers Min sky. Let's wait and see what It, does tO other theatrical pOriaO-, graphers who are not 2 whit more decent. Af.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
A Book a Day
Here's New Survey of "MiddletoWn"
BY BRUCE CATION

About 10 years ago, Helen and Robert Lynd moved in on 8 thriv- ing mid-western town and studied the place just as anthropologists study the folk of some South Sea island. When they got through, they embodied their findings in book, ''Middletown," which has been re- quired reading ever since for any, one who wants to understand the state of American culture.
 What the Lynds are doing is re- cording hte stresses and confusions in a culture which still clings to out-of-date habits of thought: a culture which lives by beliefs and slogans that no longer apply to the changing world in which 1t finds itself.
 The people of the representative little city-and I guess it's no sec cret that ''Middletown" is really Muncie, Ind. = have not changed 8 great deal since the Lynds first visited them. By and large, they look on this post-depression world much as they IOOkeu On lC III CLle boom years. They believe that progress is a natural law of Amer ican life; they remain Jefferso- nians in a world of which. Jeffer- son never dreamed.
 This doesn't mean that the people of "Middletown" are provincial and benighted. They aren't. They're just like all the rest of us-a fair cross-section of America, at its best and at its worst. The point is that America as 8 society is still stub- bornly refusing to see that its economy has profundly changed. Therein lies great and real dsn- ger.
 For even 8 kindly and placid people can be stirred to cruelty and repression if it insists on trying to make a new world it an old set of beliefs. From such an effort comes Fascism. And the Lynds are not entirely convinced that America is going to make the necessary mental and emotional adjustments in time to avert that danRcr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07

started an antitrust prosecution against the Mellon controlled Aluminium Corporation of Amer ica. ,,e x
 Merry Go Round
 The Supreme Court shattered all speed records when 1t took under review the two social secur- ity test cases pending before 1t. In the Alabama case only g days elapsed between the decision of the lower court and the Supreme Courts acceptance of the case, and in the Massachusetts, case only F days. The usual interval is months. Experts predict that the air conditioning of the Capitol, now being installed, will greatly prolong the life of import ant congressional documents and historic paintings. The Se- curities & Exchange Commission is concentrating its drive against blue-sky stock salesmen in the larger cities on the Canadian bor- der. This is due to the discovery that the racketeers have moved to these communities so they can hop across the border in case of detection. Canadian authorities are cooperating with the U. s. by trying to keep the crooked oper- atorS out of their country.
 
 Copyright, 1887, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07

approval hereOn shall Dc fur- nlshed to the League of Women Voters with the suggestion said League inform an its members of its passage to the end that they may be relieved of the privstiOEis from which they are now suf- fcring; may avail themselves of the convenlences placed ct their disposal; and be freed from the necessity of erecting tepees, lean-tOs, Igloos, and dugOuts on the Capitol lawns while they are engaged i'm the work of preserv- ing the safety of the Common wealth of Connecticut and en. gazing in minding everybOdy's business save their own.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

o. What benefit is gained by pasteurizing milk?
 A. Efficient pasteurizing destroys some disease germs, as tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid, and de- stroys a large proportion of the bacteria present, which delays sour ing. It does not, however, insure against future contamination, and pasteurized milk requires the same careful handling as raw milk.
 c. Why does point on the rim of a wheel travel faster than a point on the hub?