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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
Mussolini's Democracy

If you can make your own definitions, you can make any statement in the world and get away with it. So when Mussolini declares in Germany that Italy and Ger many are "the Soundest democracies that exist" it is necessary to look at his defi- milton of the word democracy.
 Elsewhere" he says politics are dom- mated by the great powers of capitalism, by secret societies and political groups which work against each other under the pretext of the so-called inalienable rights of humanity"
 If you accept that statement, and acc cept the corollary that Hitler and Musso- lini really embody, in all unselfishness, the hidden will of the masses, you may be able to accept the statement. Most Americans, however, will continue to define democracy, and to practice it, in the traditional manner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
No Place Like Home

Another Illuminating thing is the great scramble of Americans to get out of China. The opening of active warfare and imminent danger found 500 of them in Peiping, 700 in Tientsin, 2,000 in the Eankow area, 4,000 around Shanghai and another thousand or two elsewhere in the country.
 They may be in more danger than they were in the Boxer rebellion. Neither side wants them to get hurt, but neither Chinese nor Japanese are able to give much attention to them - the combat ants own immediate interests are too important Probably our warshipS, hang ing around the edges of the fray, will oe bringing most of those errant Americans home before long. The situation gets rapidly worse, and the war, in one form or another, may drag on for long time.
 As regards American citizens travelling or living abroad, it is a repetition of ex- perience in Spain, but worse because the Mongolian combatantS, seem even less responsible than the Spaniards, and the Far East harder to escape from. Similar troubles may blaze up in various parts of the world. It is good time for Ameri- cans to come home. Here is great isle of safety in violent and crazy world. We have our own forms of violence and crazi- ness, to be sure, but they are mild in com parison with foreign brands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
Slipping Stalin

Stalin of Russia has been strong and fearless man, who has done much for his country. But his strength seems to be slipping from him and his courage giving way to fear. Why else the purges? Why the manifest uneasineSs about Trot- sky and his followers? Why the excite ment and imprisonment of committee members who have allowed few farmers to leave the collective farms and go back to individual farming?
 Strong and successful governments do not need tyranny and murder to sus- tain them. The will of the people keeps them going Russia is large, it's peoples varied, many of them still ignorant of what is really going on in the central government. There is no such easy method as a presidential election or Gallup poll to find out what they really think.
 But it looks as if Stalin were beginning to be afraid that disapproval of him is rising. It is little difficult to associate personal fear with so decided a person. But certainly he seems to lack his former sureness that his plans are meeting the needs of the people. Nothing else ex- plains so many recent events so far deemed llnexplainable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

names of all writers of editorials, articles and news items. The government would also have authority to suspend publica- ton of newspapers not obeying this law, and to fine the publishers.
 In wise hands, tolerant of the tradi- tional freedom of the British press, such law might be endurable in time of great so obviously be liable to abuse at any time for political purposes, and in petty and sible that the British race, which created freedom of the press, and from which our own press freedom is derived, will endure such a threat to it's liberties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
Gasoline From Coal

When our supply of petroleum gives out, we shall have plenty of synthetic oil, says FloruS R. Baxter at meeting of the American Chemical Society. 'sWhen the prices of the products of nat ural oil become little higher, and they will not have to be much higher, the pro duction of oil by the hydrogenatlon of coal will become commercially teaSlole. When this process gets into large scale production, the price of the synthetic oil will drop, and undoubtedly the cost of gasoline and lubricants to the next or the second generation after us will be no greater than it is to us. It may be less"
 This is good news to chronic worrierS. Also to the automobile industry. It would be worth while, for the preservation ot that great industry alone, to concentrate on this problem of replacing the petroleum supply. Fortunately nature has stored in the ground vastly greater supplies Of coal than oil, and fortunately they are so nearly alike chemically that one can be turned into the other by chemical magic.
 Here, perhaps, will be the salvation of the bituminous coal industry, which has been suffering for many years for lack of an adequate market. There may be some question, though, about the further statement of MT. Baxter that "it is needless to worry about depleted natural resources; the chemist always finds way out" What will the chemist do, for instance, about our iron, copper and tin when they are used up?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

Speaking of Erasmus High sets us to thinking of the old boy, himself. One has to go far back in history to arrive at Erasmus. Born in 1466, died in 1536, he lived at time when scholars were scholars. He was gentleman of no few literary attainments, born in Rotterdam, studied in Paris, and taught theology and Greek at Oxford. He was associated with the great scholar of his time, Thomas More, who later became blessed, and U St h sees sress ss coT TnEmas %oNs M0s was s co collating from manuscripts s an aT edition @ % of the Greek testament with Latin trans lation. Thus Erasmus High set them selves high standard in seeking to emulate even in small way the scholarly equipment of Desiderius Erasmus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
ANtietnn1
Many Brave New Englanders Fell at This Bloody
 Battle, 75 Years Ago.
HARTFORD COURANT

"Fell at Antietam." On how many New England gravestones have those grim words been cuti It Is seventy i've years since Lees Army of Nor- thern Virginia and McClellan's Army of the Potomac met beside that little Maryland creek in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, but the name still echoes the sound of death. Rockers Corps lost @ quarter of its men. Sumner, over- nasty, was thrown back leaving half his men on the battlefield. By eve- ming, the Federal army had lost more than one quarter of its strength, and the Confederate loss was proportionately almost as large, though the number of men engaged on its side was considerably smaller.
 Lee had moved into Maryland early in September, hoping to find support for the Confederacy there. His first objective was Frederick, into which Jackson marched on that "cool September morn, resisted only by Barbara Frietchie, if Whit tier Is to be believed. Then he started south along the Potomac
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, N. r., which is the outgrowth of Erasmus Hall Academy, is celebrating this week it's 150th anniversary. Erasmus has maintained high standing and stand ard down through the years as second- ary school. The fact that boy or girl comes from Erasmus seems to place him as product of a fine educational system. "So well did these enthusiasts of 1787 build that the old, wooden Bras mus Hall Academy still forms part of the more modern Erasmus Hall High School" :" A colorful pageant is being enacted this week to honor the schools founding. Old Dutch life in Flatbush is depicted and to quote The New York Sun, "the tradition which binds Erasmus High Schools to the men who founded the Academy of 1787 still inspires its students to sound scholarship"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
toward Washington.
Mcclellan,

toward Washington. Mcclellan, worshipped by his men but already distrusted by the government which had so often seen him move with exasperating slowness, waited for precious days in Washington, until by accident he learned that the cap. ital was not Lees goal. Then, Inov- ing deliberately as always, he moved up the Potomac and on September 16 cornered the much smaller Con- federate force between the little Antietaln and the Potomac. The next day, he attacked.
 All day, the battle ragged. By eve ming, both armies were exhausted The bridge over the Antietam had been forced, but otherwise the gen. eral positions were about as they had been in the morning. The next morning Mcclellan refused to join battle again, although his force was still overwhelmingly superior, and that night Lee retreated across the Potomac unmolested. Some time later, Mcclellan woke up to the fact that he might legitimately claim a victory, although he had let slip the opportunity to crush the main army of the Confederacy.
 Today, both the criticism and praise of McClellan's handling of his magnificent army are forgotten. The pain, the bitterness and the grief that Antietam brought to both North and South are gone. It was a united nation that solemnly cele- brated the anniversary of the bat- tie. The causes for which 10000 men fell in e single day beside the little creek in Maryland are today merely grim curiosities of history, so well has time healed the old wounds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, Oct. 0-Cross- Town The rumor bobs up again that Jack Dempsey may quit his famous res- taurant and turn executive of a nationwide firm.
 A show based on the activities of Father Divine is slated for Broadway.
 Secreatry of War Woodring caught up with Manhattan's night life recently and found 1t more turbulent than a battle.
 Found: a more versatile fellow than Noel Coward. This one is Ivor Novello, who not only wrote London's latest hit, Crest of the Wave," but composed the music and also plays the hero and vil- lainl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

most. He sits in Q mOddnistiC office, surrounded by bkxers, inter-Office telephones aIi sec retaries.
 He has a go-getter persQality, can be 6uave and charmingbr as hard as nails, almost in thasame instant. Usually 1t is the Atter.
 Two things have put DavsBeck ahead in life. One is mail1 1-fist tactics, the others is sellinH em. ployers on union organiytion. And it was the CIO and East- ern sit-down strikes which 3gave him his biggest chance.
 When the sit-dOwn strikelgOt started Beck went to Settle employers, waved the dagger flag as to what would hapen to them if the CIO got 3 AOt- hold, told them to sign up kith his more conservative union in order to Stave off a worse ftc.
 The strategy worked. Employers don't particularly relish beck, but they give him credit for eep- ing his word. When he sign an agreement, he sticks to 1t.
 Boycott of CIO
 Beck uses the nnailed-fist and makes no bones about 1t. His Eaff includes a gang of imputed strong-arm men, known locall as the "gOOn squad". He rules his tough teamsters with an ron hand and questions are somethes put to them like this: "All in fEor say Aye; opposed, No and he prepared to go to the hOspitl."
 Beck's chief weapon againstthe CIO has been the boycott. Thi he has used with deadly effectiveess against the insurgent maritime unions in Seattle, Portland nd other Northwest cities.
 When the lumber mill workfs bOlted the A. F. of L., and in h election conducted by the Labr Board voted CIO, Beck prOmrly denounced the Board as biaSd and refused to allow his teah- sters to haul CIO-made lumEr. BackstOpping him in this Sla h. ing offensive, A. F. of L.. er- penterS, whom he also c0ntrls, slapped on still another b0y9tt declaring they would lot handle building materials FO-- duced by CIO workers.
 RESULT: Building opera lons have practically ceased, riversare choked with logs, mills and lnl- ber camps are shut down md docks and warehouses are filed to overflowing with millions of dollars of boycotted goods-Sme of it perishable produce.
 JurisdictiOnal warfare in I4Or never reached such ruinOus ex- travagance as is being witnesed in the Northwest today. Wen the President visited Seattle last week he was told that if Beck attempts to open the llm- ber mills with A. F. of l.. miniOns there will be violeAce and blOOdShed.
 This was one of the ia tors which made Roosevelt return East convinced that perhaps the. thief problem of the New Deal was not the Supreme Court, budget pal- ancing, or war in Asia, but the growing bitterness between the rival camps of labor.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
A Book a Day
A Good Preachment But a Weak Novel
BY BRUCE CATION

Robert Briffault continues with his bitter, passionate description of Q society collapsing through its own rottennesS in his new novel, 'Eu- ropa in Limbo" (Scribner's: $2.76).
 A sequel to his best selling Europa" this book surveys Eu- ropean civilization from the mo- lnent of it's catastrophe in 1914 to the confused and discouraged twilight of the early l920's. In 1t Julian Bern, the young British intellectual through whose eyes MT. Briffault surveys the state of the world, experiences the shock of war, drifts to Russia to witness revolution and counter.revolution. and returns to England to look on In utter disillusion As the empire strives to regain It's pre-war values.
 As Mir. Briffault sees 1t, Euro pean society = capitalist society, that is -- Is doomed. There re- mains, to him, but one question in the modern world: how soon and in what manner will capital isrn's collapse become complete, so that a complete Communist so- ciety can be builtP That anything but utter collapse can take place MT. Briffault indignantly denies.
 His theis is moving and his manner Is sincere; and yet, aS a novel, Europa in Limbo" seems to me to be Q complete failure. It is . tract, 6 preachment, e. cry of anger against great abuses-but q coherent, convincing work of fic- ton is asslredly is not. Charac- ters and incidents, alike become wooden, propped up to support an argument. The creaklng of the stage machinery can be heard all too plainly in every chapter.
 What Mir. Briffault has to say 6 we'll worth listening to. But why did he have to say it in the form of Q novel?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
Current Comment

Press agents surrounded one with so many assertions of happiness that 1t iS wonderful to have at least one person, my husband, ask if I really am, and then do something to keep me that way.
 Irene Dunne, movie actress. In all likelihood women flyers will engage in future wars of the United States.
 Rear Admiral A. B. Cook,
 chief of the Navy Bureau of
 Aeronautics.
 International armamentS ara bankrupting the world,
 -U. s. State Secretary Cordel
 Hull. | I should like to enumerate thrS facts, concluding a chapter in Get man history: Firstly, the versaillk Treaty is dead: secondly, Germany is free; thirdly, our army is gualr antor of our freedom.
 Adolf Hitler of Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
The Alberta Press

Freedom of the press is seriously threatened now in the Canadian province of Alberta, which has been kept upset for the last couple of years by its mayer ick "social credit" government. A press control bill introduced in the legislature would compel newspapers, at the request Of the provincial government, to disclose the sources of their information and the
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Answers To Questions
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
By Frederick N. Kerby

UOE0 44VGNS nN6W GNGlO
 Enclose Q three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any queS- tlon of fact or information to The Democrats Service Bureau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mail Is addressed to The Waterbury Democrats Serv- Ice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street Washington.
 THE EDITOR.
 e. Please describe the pitch called the "Fadeaway," made famous by Christy Mathewson.
 A. The best description of it Is that it is an outcurve delivered with the palm of the hand downward In the regular outcurve the palm is upwards with the thumb toward third base, and the motion of the arm is in the direction of" first base In the fadeaway the motion is much more of an overland throw than the outcurve, and the descending arm sweeps toward third base instead of toward first. It is an awkward DO. sition and puts Q severe strain on the wrist. It is not a fast ball and Mathewson used 1t for a slow ball most of the time. It literally faded away" when 1t came up to the bat ter.
 e. My son has recently become interested in collecting United States postage stamps. Where can he buy them at cost?
 A. The Philatelic Agency U. s. Post OfIlce Department Washington D. O. will send on request Q list of stamps available from their office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
HIRAM WALKER EXPANDS

London - (UP) - Hiram walker and Sons (ecotland) have purchased . big site near Dumharton for erec- ton o fa q, ,25O. 900 distillery. The export boom in Scotch whiskey, plus . growing shortagO of rnAtured whiskey. Is responsible for the move.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

Chicago is probably tired of being re- minded of the fact that they had big fire on October 8, 1871. One is prone to date many things from that event thusly, - ''you know that was the year before the Chicago fire," or q recall such and such an event because I was in Chicago at the time the fire broke out!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
Selected Poem
HERITAGE OF SUMMER
(By Sara Van Alstyne Allen in the Christian
 Science Monitor)


 Science Monitor What shall we keep as summers heritage Now that the autumn wind Is tuning in the West, Now that the bloom is withered from the sageP There Is deeper music where the lazy bee Dispelled the silence of the summer noon, A richer promise in the maple leaves, A hint of coldness in the deeper sea. We shall remember gardens dreaming in the sun, And dew that shivers in the moving grass, An heat like great bell of brass When first the frost flower Blooms upon the glass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
SATURDAY, OCTOBER g, 1887
A Thought for Today

This is faithful saying and worthy of all aceeptatiOn, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinneEs.-I Timothy 1:15.
 To escape from evil we must be made, as far as possible like God; and this resemblance con- sigts in becoming just, holy, and wise.-Plato.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

WASHINGTON, October g. = President RooeveIt met lot of politically powerful people his tripWeSt
 Governors, Senators, CongreSSmen; local bosses eWS
 paper publishers and leading business executives any one of whom commanded considerable weight and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

So in keeping with the trend of events October is declared National Fire Pre-. vention Day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
Free Ride On Merry Go -Rounl This Week Goes To Dave Bect,
 Northwest A.F. .ofL. Labor C.; IT.,
 Who Beat CIO On Pacific Cdst

Editors Note: The Brass Ring awarded this DaveBek boss the American Federation Labor stronghold the nOrwe h good for one free ride The Washington Merry ROundb
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As Advertised

AS AuVerC1Seu
 Big Business Initiative: A boot black in City Hall park keeps yell- ing: Shine, Shine, every job is guaranteed"
 On Third avenue Q window sign urged: Come in at 9:30 tonight, have our delicious special of Yankee Pot Roast with two vegetables and listen to Supreme Court Justice Black tell where he stands on the klan issuel"
 And Q barber on Washington street has a card in the window: Come on in. We don't talk your ear off-we just give you a quick haircut and shave. If you want Q massage or Q tonic, you ask us we don't ask youl"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09

The leaves are gently but steadily fall- ing identifying, so to speak, the melan- choly days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never pronounce cellO.-cel'o; say cheP-O.

e. Are parachutes carried for each passenger on transport air. liners?
 A. No.
 c. What is the mail address of Major Bowes?
 A. In care of the Columbia Broadcasting System 485 Madison avenue New York N. Y.
 e. When are Dog Daysp"
 A. The hot sultry season of sum- mer during parts of July and August so-called because the rising of the dog-star (Sirius) is during that period coincident with the ris- ing of the sun. The dog-days are now usually counted from July 3 to August Il; that is 20 days before and 20 days after the conjunction
 c. Did the United States coin in 19S6p
 A. Coins numbering s2,s5o,OOo pieces were rninted for Costa Rica, Cuba, Nicaragua, San Salvador, and Venezuela.
 e. How can I make an invisible
 A. An ink made of linseed oil, 1 dr., ammonia water, 20 dr., and water, 100 dr., leaves no visible stain on paper, but when wetted can be read. When the paper dries the writing again becomes invisible.
 e. How many states have en- acted the four laws proposed by the interstate commission on crime, which covered fresh pursuit of crim- itlals across state borders, extradi- ton. removal of out-of-state wit iaesses and reciprocal supervision of parolees? -
 A. Thirty states have acted fa- vorably on one or more of these bills. All four were adopted this year by Arizona. California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, oregon, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia. Other states that adopted one to three were Connecticut, Rhode Is- land, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Kan- sas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Tn. diana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Vir- ginia and Washington.
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Making the West Wild

Making the West Wild
 New York again is being hos pitable to Hannen Swaffer, that London play juror, who once was slapped by an American chlorine when he said unkind words about her. He turned the other cheek. A notable commentator of captious tastes, Swaffer generally lets Q ver- bal dart go at America when he visits here. This time, 1t was the middle west where, he told report CTS, people learn their manners out of books and grow charm by mail order. The middle west instantane- ously took him up on that. Unlike his British colleague, James Agate, this visitor hasn't ganged up on our American cuisine yet. but the de- lenders are at their posts, waiting for him to start. Let him dare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-09
Public Concerts GW....r.. N0....Is.

Hurly Burly: Joan Bennett lunches with George s. Kaufman before touring in the show, stage Door,"
 Kitty Carlisle, the songstress, and Albert Spaulding, the concert vio- linist, live on the same flight in 6 midtown hotel and that accounts for the small throng below. Both are advocates of the practice-with- your-window-open school.
 Ed Wynn, Burgess Meredith, Maurice Evans and Ricardo Cortez, are among the well known visitors at Sardi's, the afternoon oasis of the Taialto, of which the ubiquitous Vincent is host.
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Schedules Made
 Public Sailings
 To Alaska Ports
CBy The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 SEATTLE, Feb. 5, - The AL aska Steamship Company amour ced that the steamer Yukon will sail not later than pm. Sum- day for Alaska port, including to the westward as far as Kodiak.
 The s. s. Depere. a freighter, and one other vessel not yet sel- ected will sail for southeastern and southwestern Alaska about the middle of the next week. Captain C. A. Glasscock will com mand the Yukon, on its first post strike voyage.
 Other sailings scheduled are: The Alaska Feb. 18th, North western 2Oth, Victoria 27th, Alas ka March 9th, Mount Mckinley March 18th, Yukon March 10th.