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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
A Book a Day
How One Man Tried To Escape Reality

Islands have always offered an irresistible lure to many indi- yiduals as an escape from the pet ty realities of everyday life. Mar garet Lanes theme in "At Last the Island" (Harpars; S2.60) is the desire and struggle of Rus sell Murray, English novelist, to remove himself and his cornpi. cated household to his particular island.
 The greater part of the action takes place in London. The eno- tional pecularities in RuSSell'S household are manifold. Russell himself, selfish and cultured, is Q poor business man and this ne- ceSsitates many false starts for the island. .MaiSie, his wife, kind, bourgeois and bewildered, and her plain daughter Emily dread the Island but of course Maisie never thinks of raising m obJec- LlOHsA v t'.,
 Nigel, Russell's neurotic son. diSlikeS going to the Island until Cornelia friend of his father ana stepmother. decides to join their exile. Cornelia, most attractive of heroines, doesn't particularly care where she goes as long aS it is away from London and 50 from her love for Tom iiliett. fiews- papermatl with CommuniStic Syin- pathieS, and wife. & l
 So at last the island. where RuAsell's Utopia betrayB him and accelerates Nigevs tragedy. The love of Cornelia and Tom finds it. conclusion in . chance for happi- ness ct the cost of old royalties.
 The characters in the novel are very much alive. Their actions and conversations ring true. Com. bining this authenticity with . probing wit that yeerg between sympathy and malice, Miss Lane achieves sparkling ease in story telling s-B. N. eEf tsyti
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
Smoke and Pneumonia

Another count against needless smoke in cities is brought by Pittsburgh doctors in g report to the American Health Asso- ciation. They say smoke carries pneu- monia germs. When high winds prevail, blowing smoke quickly away from the city, there follows period of less pneu- nonia. Calm days, in smoky cities, are likely to be followed about IS days later by, . rise in pneumonia.
 A large number of post-mortem exam nations revealed the pneumonia percent age definitely higher when smoke and dust were present in the lungs Soft coal smoke was worse in this respect than either coke or anthracite coal The Pitts burgl1 physicians have looked back over the record and Powered further that during the depth of the depression, when there was little factory smoke, the pneu- Inonia deaths fell to SIS per 100000. To- day, with active factories pouring out an Increased volume of smoke, the rate i3 167 per 100000.
 The moral to this is not to get rid of factories or to hope for their idleness, but to tackle the problem of unnecessary ISn1oke. The smoke volume can be cut down by improved firing methods, proper combustion and smoke consuming de- vices. It has been demonstrated before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
A Mysterious Slump

Economic specialists are still arguing about this curious slump in the stock market the last few weeks and, to a smaller extent, in industry. According to Wall Street firm, business executives believe the recession represents period of digestion of industry rather than the beginning of a major downward move ment in the business cycle" They quote many authorities for this view of an overproduction of goods that has to be absorbed before industry and business can go ahead again.
 On the other hand, a middle-western business writer with an excellent reputa- tion says: "You don't hear this fall of overproduction anywhere. When so many wants are still unsatisfled, it would be hard to make out a case for overpro- duction, save in incidental ways
 No one is yet questioning why there should be lay-offs before our needs were satisfied. This would be more pointed question than one which blamed employ CTS for deliberately slackening their out put to set back the organization of their men.
 "The break in the stock market cannot be easily fitted into theory. MarXian or otherwise, unless 1t is the theory of hu- man incompetence and international cussedness."
 In this last remark, we seem to be get ting somewhere. ,,. l..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

It looks as if the suit being brought by the Connecticut Rural Roads Improve ment Association will be necessary to de- eide who is to have charge of Connecticut roads-the State Highway Department or the State Public Works Department. Until some decision Is handed down At- torney General Charles Mclaughlin has advised State Public Works Director Robert A. Hurley not to assume any authority over highway construction. This is as a result of the action of the federal government in refusing to deal with the Public Works Department. It has in the past dealt with the Highway Department and only recognizes this bu- reau as the proper agency with which
 to continue it's dealings. It may be sim ply case of not notifying everyone as to the change in our governmental pro- cedure brought about by reorganization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

Actual work on the tramway to be built in Franconia Notch, N. H., so that better observation of the Old Man of the Mountains and surrounding terrain may be had has commenced. The profile line has been established and eco workers are about to prepare areas where cars may be parked. The tramway will run to the top of Mt. Cannon which probably is bringing this mountain into renown after being eclipsed by the profile" t. self. The work that is now being done consists of erection of a freight tramway which will take materials to the noun tain top where eventually the upper sta tion for the tram will stand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

high record of production will be set.
 In the advertising columns, 1t is noted that the cycle trade is soon to start a new campaign. Tn other words, the signs point to still more bikes on the streets (and sldewalks) next year than in 1887. The as- founding revival in the trade is credited in part to the Hollywood influence. The younger generations affection for bikes never died out; yet 1t was not until the screen beau ties indicated that the bike is great for keeping the figure ita shape that the production and sales figures took on the shape in which they now are see hand next year. appar- ently, are to be seen. l,.r5
 At the trade angie, the revival is all to the good. So much is heard about new developments as esSen- tialS' to progress that 1t Is refresh- ing to see an old standby contri- buting powerfully to the revival of trade and employment. At another angle. the revival Is partly one of problems. There are only short lapses of time between warnings from motor vehicle authorities on tho biking hazards. With the schools open again, and Q larger number of bicycles being used for transporta- ton between home and school, the street dangers are materially in- creased. ..'lr..'. T
 Regulations have been frightened Up oil such matters as lights and refiectors on bicycles after dark, on carrying riders on the, bars. AS to weaving in and out of traffic, riding two and three abreast, and trusting to automobile drivers to take all the care, the regulations remain largely of the common sense variety. School authorities and parents alike would serve children and all others using the streets and sidewalks by making Q point of laying special stress at this time on safe btking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
Press Comment
POLITICS SOMEWHAT IGNoREl
(Meriden Journal)

NMeEiueH VVuEHhIJ
 The governor causes political gog' sip by appointments to the attrac' tive county ComnliSSionershipS Democrats are not too pleased ovet the naming of two Republicans to these nice berths, saying the z. 0. D. machine never showed such finO consideration for Democrats, but they overlook the fact that tho gov- ernor owes his political success to Republicans. Ho knows 1t. If tho Delns. don't. and there would Do general disappointment If he deVel- oped into Q rank partisan.
 Naming Senator Cooney in Hart ford county, despite the governors digagreenent with the Spellacy or- ganigation, does not cause surprise in that region, in view of Cooney'S support of the governor in the clUs- ing legislative days. Nor b there surprise over A. Sidney Lynch being dropped in New Haven for Senator Daly. Mr. Lynch has never been re. gArded aS c Cross man. To outsid. CTS there ig significance iil the laiiis ing of senators to more good jobs, c practice that has been well devcl- oped by the Democrats.
 With his appointment the county commissioner score Btands at 10 Re- publicans and eight Democrats. For. merly 20 of the 24 commissioners ir tho state were Republicans.
 The governor was solicitous about the care of county wards as shown by his choice of c Kent school ir- structor in Litchfleld county and woman social worker in Fairfield.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

Somehow or other the new bridge at Middletown, connecting that city with Portland on the east bank of the Connec- ticut River remains bone of contention among organizations that are seeking to confer more than mere prosaic name upon 1t. The Hartford District Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has just gone on record as favoring the name. Seicheprey Bridge. It would honor the Connecticut men who fought in this memorable World War battle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
Selected Poem
PREFERENCES

(Perley A. Gilmore. New Haven, in the
 New Haven Journal Courier) You love the misty mountains And the flaming hills; You like the deep calm rivers
 And the laughing rillS. You Joy In stately forests,
 n the grassy lea: The messy bordered brook you woo And the surging sea. You rave OCT smiling pansies, OCT the blushing rose; Your choice is pinkS; for marigolds My admiration glows. Now you may have your mountains, And my flaming hills: Your rolling rivers, you, and My sea and laughing rillS. And brooks and forests you may have, And pilkS, and panSies fair; And the lea and t1arigolds, And roses blushing rare. But surely we'll not quarrel Ger simple things like these; We'll joy in others choices And love just what we please.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
A Page From the Past

Four centuries and fifty-five years ago some of our forefathers were happy, isolated people who knew nothing about the tourist trade in beads, in rugs, ln jewelry. They roamed the far stretches of great land without care that some where the Manitou of war sounded his trumpets on European battletields, Tn Asia, along the Nile.
 On such a day as this, marking the date of Americas discovery by Christo- pher Columbus, it would hurt none of the millions now claiming fatherhood here to turn back the calendar and read from the past, a recent page, perhaps, concern ing what happens when our great isola- ton fails to keep us immune to the call of foreign warfare. Nor is pacifism 1rl- tended, as 1t is popularly known, by this calling forth of the menacing shadows Of conflict.
 Rather, can 1t not be that by judgment and by an understanding of greater depth of the problems which should not concern us in lands less fortunate as to resource and size, we should place on equal pedestal with our love of country our determination that she shall not be in- volved in controversy impelled by com raercial loss.
 What short-sighted program would be ours should we invite another post war depression, the sacrifice of billions in loans not worth their paper, by heed ot a few who feel that money in hand is worth every immediate sacrifice. To
 There is lesson to be read from the history of Spain since that day when queens jewels, by ancient report, bought passage to the new land of America. There was the internal conflict of religious derivation, the long warfare with Eng land, loss of colonies which would have meant continuance of perhaps the great est empire of those centuries. There was Spain's elimination from the "NeW World" until, today, we see the remnants of empire in the mother country fighting among themselves over the kind of gov- ernment which shall be theirs.
 Once in blue moon child learns the first lesson of self-preservation when its hand touches a hot stove. The hurt makes indelible impression and there after there is care to avoid such unneces' vary pain.
 In terms of centuries, this country is but sucking babe, self-weaned from an empire through early conviction of right and wrong; lusty by necessity; awkward through rapid growth; rich by calculated attention to its resources. Thus, 1t has everything to lose should one slight sting as of wasp on the finger cause exposure of the corporate being to those who have far less to lose in greedy warfare for more domain.
 { There have been shouts about of a world war which could not fail to involve the United States. Now, if ever, observ- ance of strict and firm neutrality, an isolation beyond the reach of our leaders to imperil, must be the concern of every thinking citizen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
Test Yo uF. Knowledge
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Can you answer seven Of
 these test questions? Turn Co
 last page for the answers. /
 1. Which island Is separated by the Mozambique ChaiineI from the mainland of Africa? if4
 2. What iS the Tianie fot tliespro- cess of burning? "t@,g 4" a,
 3. How soon after it is rendered, does decision Of the U. Q. Sue preme Court become effective7
 {. How do the suits rank In tho game of Poker? lf V 8. What ig a telicoptAr? t(s
 6, What is hAyS < \ 45yr
 .7. Name the longest river of South Africa, which almost travers- es the continent from ocean to ocean. lnh s4s 4ss IVY,
 5. iii. jaw, what .is ai indictment? O.yiNhat river forms tlSe greater part of the ncrthefn boundary ,ct Q. WIG was Trans pstsr ssha- W04Nb ' 1 afaft
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
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A. The Shrinkage in weight ranges from 30 to ,4t per cent, due to reduction of moisture, ;cieaning from dirt, and chemical changes from fermentation. < AtEi% ' '
 c. Please describe the capital oi Honduras. ,'nIlMa gAH 3,&l
 A. Tegucigalpa, capital of Hon. duraB since 1880, is situated oil hle Choluteca, river, 60 miles north-eaSi of the Gulf of F'onseca. It is one of the old Aztec cities and lies or q plateau 3,260 feet high, An tn- posing bridge connects it with the suburb of Cofiayag,la. The govern lnent iiiaintaing a central institute with subsidized colleges and normal schools. Its cathedral ia tho finest building in tho country and there are five other churches, and other less pretentiouS public buildings Gold and SilVer mines are worked in the iieighborhood. which iS also a fertile agricultural diStrict. S
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 c. What is tho meaning Of the family nam eFairchild? ,'r
 A. This British name is Q trans. lation of the French Beaufiy meaning son-in.law, aS well as c fair child. ' ,Il"''
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
Safe Biking
Increased Use of Wheels Requires More Vigil ance in Seeing That Rules of
 Road Are Obeyed.
NEW HAVEN REGISTER

Four yeras ago. some 100000 bicy- : cles were made and sold in the United States. The next year, pro- duction jumped about 50 per cent. Last year, trade reports place at l,260,000 the total sale. So far this year, sales are reported to have run considerably ahead of last year, and with the Christmas gift demand yet to be met 1t Is predicted that a new
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

We were brought to realization that the Autumn season is in full blast when the last flowers in the garden were black ened by Friday nights frost, as well as by the riot of color that greeted one on the highroads in the Sunday tour of Con- necticut roads
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

that smoke represents waste to the manufacturer permitting 1t, and expense and i'll health to the whole community. Linking it definitely with such scourgc as pneumonia should bring more effective action against it. ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
Answers To
 Questions
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
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By Frederick N. KerOy

QUEbTIUNS ANSWERED.
 Enclose . three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques. ton of fact or lnforma tlOn to The Democrats Service Bureau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot Do given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure oil mail Is addressed Co The Waterbury Democrats SerVs Ice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street Washington. ,.a.iart@ ,PH
 I,"' THE EDITOR. c. Does tho Reconstruction Finance corporation supply money for loans on the 1887 cotton crops9
 A. The corporation has author izedlfa loan of SiB0,Oo0,O00 to thu Commodity Credit corporation tc enable 1t to make loans on the l9S7 crop, tn %ft
 Q. What is copper. bearing steel 2 A. A steel alloy containing quantity of copper.
 c. Does tobacco lose weight when 1t Is stored and processed? ."'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

son and secretary Jimmy.
 On the Presidents recent trans continental tour they discovered Jimmy was an efficient and alert liaison man. Until he joined the train the aewsrnen got no infoFna- ton from Mcintyre. But once Jimmy boarded the special, the whole picture changed. & l. Cold Water
 Following his two speeches aii- nouncing his intention to call a special session of Congress, the President asked Representative H. mer J. Ryan of Minnesota how the farmers in his district felt about the matter. '', '"'"i
 "They want Q crop control blll," replied the 10-year old New Dealer; .'y0u are right about that. But none C~' them said any thing to me about wanting special sesCloh. They are doing right vel by themselves this year and they are not excited about national affairs"
 "Weli," argued the President, "a farm bill passed in February or March won't do any good next year."
 No doubt that Is true, Mir, President" said Ryan, but can you get Q farm bill passed be- fore then by calling . special Sesslon?" ,.
 "Marvin Jones (chaIrman of the House Agricultural Commit tee) says he Is ready to pass Onc." 'A
 "sure he is," retorted Ryan. "Marvln has been ready to pass . farm bill for . year. But what about his committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee? Neither lifted . finger Inst scs- sion and unless you arc sure they will act at Q special session there is not much use of calling One."
 Merry.G .Go-Round
 Senator Pepper of Florida keeps Q live alligator in his office .. Chinese Ambassador o. T. Wang was once Y. M, o, A. director In Japan There IS division In the family of Chilean Ambas- sador Trucco; he and his son are pro-LoyaliSt in the Spanish question, while his three daugh- ters are pro-F'ranco .. John L. Lewis's mother was member of tho Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church. after its reorganization, that Is, after bigamy was disallowed .. Prince. ton University graduated Harry D. Green, son of Bill Green of the ATrL,, in the class of 1859. John L. Lewis, Jr. will graduate in i94o. ... When John CudNhy pre- sented, his credentials in Dublin as U. g. Minister to the Irish Free State, the address of welcome, spoken by PreSidOnt de Valera, was ii Gaelic.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

Japan tells the world that the Asiatic war is purely her own affair. Next thing she may want to annex the Pacific Ocean.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
HULL JAP NOTE TIMED TO
 FOLLOW F.D.R.'S SPEECH
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z WASHINGTON, Oct. 12-The State Department did
 remarkable piece of timing in laying down its barrage against Japan It was accident that the Presidents speech at Chicago followed day later by Secre- tarY Hus note to the League damninR Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

Take tip from that British yacht En deavor l, which lived up to It's name ant got there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, oct. 12-TIer iiamc is Mary, and she sinngs and dances on the stone fence at Columbus cir- Gle, the upper entrance to Central park. She is always surrounded by a good-natured crowd that showers her with ice cream cones, candles and varied tid-bitS. She possesses a limitless capacity a..l no one recalls tlle time when she spurned such gift offerings of confectionaries. l
 "Sing like Al Jolson," 6 voice yells rom the throng. Mary seems to pay no heed but continues in fiat monotone. Suddenly, however, she winds up with on explosive Nanny" that would surprise, the Nanny" singer herself. g
 Play like Benny Goodman" calls another bystander. Mary again sings in her dull monotone and ends with a shoutedS exhortation-"Swing it.' A blue-coated gendarme suggests that the group "break 1t up." It ia becoming daily habit with him, having seen Mary give her irn.- promptu concerts through the years He gallantly lifts Mary from the fence with a reverence due world famous diya-which some say she was.
 The legend built Up around this frowsy old woman would have you believe that she quit the opera 20 years ago because of an unhappy love atrair. Anyhow, Mary stands upon her bit ot fence nightly and walls away to the accompaniment of harmless heckling.
 There is only one complainant who resents the treble-voiced Mary. He Is an obscure surgeon who daily voices his hate to tho neighborhood cop whenever Mary starts to sing. He bitterly observes that her voice penetrateS his apartment and causes nim mental anguish.
 And to complete this Columbus circle vignettc, tho legend says that this carlcature Of 6 man suddenly quit e successful practice nearly % years ago when something went wrong curing throat operation on famous singer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
Life Itself

Biography fin q Nutshell--by Mor- ton Bowe. Born, welcomed, caresSed, cried, fed, grew, amused, reared, studied, examined, graduated, ifl love, loved, engaged, married guar. reled reconciIed. suffered. deserted
 taken H. died, mourned, buried, fog4 ] gotteni |.H@ @t1$,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
World At High Pitch

VVAhA fhW AhHBh HsOh
 The crashing stock market to the contrary, all must be well with the world because the pitchmen are coming back to town. No blood hound can scent Q fugitiVe'S trail any better than, e pitchman can espy 0 Vagarat nickel, dime, quarter, dollar, or even, sawbuck.. The high pitchmen (those who work from 6 platform) have monoply on Broadway with the favored articles of commerce.; hair restorers and natures remedies" Sergeant Frank Poulus, Q big, husky medicine man" still Is vending c rubber exerciser for the fragments But his confrers of the glib SpielS have deserted to more lucrative fields; they sell patent drugs and the harvest is bounteous.
 Pinchmen have Q peculiar fasci- nation for New YorKerg. Not long ago, police chased 75 of them off two blocks along crowded l4th street Most of them were selling razor blades and knife sharpeners. Those itinerant spiders of the facts of life," by the way, are taboo around here now. The law doesn't permit out -and.out expoSitionS of what "Only Me ana Women Should Know" This diversion went out with burleequeI '" ." ',
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12
A Thought for Today

Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide Is the rate, and broad Is the way that leadeth to de- struction; and many there be which so in 'nere' at-Matthew 7:l3.
 God gives to every man the virtue, temper ~ UT derstandinr. taste that lifts him into life and lets him fall in just the niche he was ordained to fill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

c. Does tobacco lose weight when 1t Is stored and proceSSed2 '' "'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

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