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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Nice to Know
Cold Comfort

Freen tip to Auto Owners: Melted ice is just as good as distilled water for storage batteries-only cheaperl The New Yorker Hotel uses nine tons of ice nightly on Its dance floor for the ice show.y. . This year is the Golden Anniyersary of the man. ufacture of ice. .. The ice indus try is the ninth largest in the U. s. /. Icicles grow as large as thirty feet :. Ice can form on the bot tom of a river as well as on top. {. When salt water, which has frozen, melts, 1t becomes fresh water. .. Ice doesn't float in alcohol. The largest ice box in the world belongs to the Cleve- land Ice company. The first place where ice was stored in this country was quarry pit on the spot where the Waldorf Astoria now stands. r'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 9:23 p. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 6:26 a. m.; sets 7:l2 ?. m. (day- light time).
 after sunset. - High tide at Milford, Friday Sept. 10, 2:4l a. m.; low tide, 8:66 a. m. (daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

boiled or disintereSted committee. Per haps a percentage of those which failed of passage in 1887 will be back in 1889; there are always certain "old faithfuls" that pop up every two years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
426 Willow Street,
 Waterbury, Conn. September S. l937.

MT. James w. FitzPatrick,
 Waterbury Democrat, ' t-~ :' Waterbury, Conn. / '-' Dear MT. FitzPatrick:
 The more I have thought about your article in regard to the March of Time" picture exposing the "Spoils System" of government, the more convinced I became that somebody should come to the sup- port of the proposed Merit System amendment to the charter of the City of Waterbury. Your effort to arouse the greatest percentage of voters in this city against this sys- tenn by claiming that the March of Time" in using the name "F. x! McG Gonnigle" was insulting to the Irish and Catholics, was to my mind an attempt to raise Q mud sling ing" racial-religious question. Please let me state that I'm Catholic and saw no insult in that film tand still can't see any) against our faith in using F. X." in fictitious name, despite, the fact that you certainly went @ long way to try to convince me and other. Catholics that we should BELIEVE we were insulted.
 Are you trying to use "mob psy- chology" against one of the most honorable steps taken in @ long while to modernize the system under which our city government works2 As 8 citizen and ,. taxpayer of Waterbury (and not as a paid booster" of the Merit System Asso. citation, as you so unfairly termed Laurence 0. Smith because he IS being paid for a, job which he is performing exceptionally welD, al- low me to give you my impressions of the Merit System, and also to ask you few questions.
 When I graduated from high school, not so many years ago, my ambition was to work at, the State Capitol in Hartford, but having no political pull", I just had to forget about 1t. (Thanks to the recently adopted Merit System in the State Government, high school girl- graduates of the future will have a chance to compete for state posi- tions.)
 Then as grew older, saw many 8 stenographer in our, own local marble palace" become a nervous wreck before election time for fear that the opposing political party" would take over the "City Hall Should that condition exist?-And that is only one example of what is going on under the ..'spoils sys- tenn" f@t..a'
 Why are you so opposed to the Merit System? The mere fact that the Merit System is connected with no political party should be 8 good reason for adopting such a system because
 It will not throw out employees
 under the present administration
 unless they are incompetent.
 Therefore, if the Democrats lose in the coming election, the pres-
 ent employees under the City Gov-:s ernment will keep their places IF COMPETENT.
 If the Merit System were in effect now, wouldn't it. be easier for man campaigning not to be
 bothered by job-seekers? He either has to promise jobs to voters and political boosters
 (under the present "spoils sys- tem")-or elsel They themselves ought to welcome the idea, and we (the citizens of Waterbury,
 will have men running for office on their own merit, because we will know that the people who will
 work with them in carrying on the city'S governmental work will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
BAR ASS'N. TO LAMBAST
 FDR AT ITS CONVENTION
N DREW PEARsOn

WASHINGTON, September 9. The Presidents battle with the judiciary is due for thorough ambastng at this years convention of the American Bar ASsoca- tion in Kansas City September 26-30
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
ENLIGHTMENT SOUGHT AS TO HAPPY MEDIUM ON MERIT
 SYSTEM

September 8, 1887. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Once again I ask your kind con- sideration for the enclosed letter, a duplicate of one I am sending MT. James w. FitzPatrick. Will you find space for 1t in your forum column in an early issuer l'i W f'S Thank you,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

You'd think, to hear New Workers talk, that mayoralty contest was a national election when it hardly ever works out that way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

This is the land of Service with every body else trying to keep up with the gasoline stations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
IN TODAY,S MAIL

This newspaper responsible facts opinions tS eade communications unless with the writer's address will be accepted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

Somebody said women don't cry as much as they used to. But they get mad oftener.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "He made con- temptible remarks about the governor; say, "contemp- tuOuS."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
A Thought for Today

Light is sOwn for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.-Ps. 97, H.
 Every house where love abdes and friendship is a guest, is surely home, and home, sweet home: for there the heart can rest.-Henry Van Dyke.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
MOB PSYCHOLOGY" VS. MERIT SYSTEM, CLAIMS FITZ-
 PATRICK CRITIC

425 Willow Street,
 Waterbury, Conn.
 September 8, 1887. Editor, Waterbury Democrat, Enclosed herewith is a copy of e letter which I am submitting to James w. FitzPatrick today, and which would like to have you pulp fish in your column at your earliest opportunity.
 Very truly yours,
 CECILE D. ROCHON.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS
o,pyTiShL 1887. MA.

New York.-On the prowl for a hot weather piece, your correspond ent has learned all about ice. His authority is a Jamaica negro, named Theodore Roosevelt, who is an ice artist by trade. Up at the Rainbow Grill in Radio City, he fashions stat ues of willing patrons out of the ice from the refrigerator. And, ap- propriately enough, he took an or- der for an ice statutette of Sonia Henie the other day in honor of her film, "Thin Ice" The statuette survived two hours. It was then chopped up for Scotch and sodas.
 Anyway. Theodore Roosevelt knows about ice. So cool off, fl you like, with the following facts: On high mountains, ice sometimes acts as sunglass and starts fires (frost fires, no doubt) The best way to remove chewing gum from carpets and clothing is to apply ice first. When 1t halls in Colima Mexico, the natives gather Up the pellets and sell them as ice tc neighboring towns.
 Michigan State college has found that ice is the best remedy for bruises in football games When the French built the Eiffel Tower in 1889, the Russians de- cided to top them. In St. Peters burg, the Russian capital, they built an exact replica of the Eiffel Tower-made entirely of icel dt lasted five years.)
 Because she fainted twice from the heat during the filming of Camille. Garbo now has a port able cooling system on her set at all times, consisting of an ice chest with @ suction fan run by silent electric motor. The latest wrinkle in cooling devices is Q strap loaded with dry ice which is worn around the wrist
 Nice to Know
 Statistical Department: Ice one and half inches thick will support . man Ice four inches thick will support @ horse. Ice ten inches thick will support crowd And ice IS inches thick will support train. (Now you know as much as we do.)
 Artificial ice melts faster than natural ice. The foundations of buildings are made with ice. War was different in the old days. Saladin, leader of the Moham- medan armies, in the midst of his war against Richard the Lion Hearted, sent his enemy @ gift of frozen sherbet. .thl
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-23
Weather Today III c Woafhar RureanN

Earthquakes were continuing intermittently at Fairbanks at g am. and had occurred during the past 24 hours.
 Mostly fair skies obtained over the interior of Alaska this morn- ing while rain was falling over the Gulf and in southeastern AL aslla. Fair weather is observed ov CT the Pacific Coast States.
 Barometer readings continue low over Alaska with the lowest readings over Boring Sea. High pressure is plotted over the Paci- ic Coast States. IL is likely that partly cloudy and unsettled weath CT will prevail for Nome and vic inity tonight and Saturday with little change in temperature.
 The lowest Nome temperature last ngiht was 49 and the highest yesterday ST. Rainfall .0l for "A hours ending at am.
 (Continued on Page Two)
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-23
Newberg Funeral

The funeral services for the late Andy Newberg took place at 10 am. this morning at the Fed erated Church, Rev. Vincent Wid- ney officiating.
 Interrment was made at Bel mont Point Cemetery. Pallbear- CTS were Andy Nuylen, M. J. Walsh, Andrew Watson, Chas. An derson, Hans Larsen, and Rich ard Lee ST.
 E. W. Reinholt Newberg, or Andy, as he was known to his many friends, was born in Swed- en and died July 2lst, at his cab in at the mouth of Jerome Cr, in the Solomon section, of heart failure.
 He was a shoemaker by trade, but like many, followed the lure of gold, coming to the Klondyke in 1897, via Valdez. He came to Nome in 1900 and went to the Solomon section where he became interested in mining, which he followed up to the time of his death. His body was brought to Nome yesterday, for burial to- day.
 MT. NeWberg is survived by a few relatives living in Brockton Massachusetts He was 62 years of age when he died. He many Solo, mon river friends, some of whom were unable to attend the ser vices today, sent their sy1npath- ies and regrets.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-23
Airplane News
 Nome Airport

Pilot Sig Wien of the Wien AL aska Airlines made trip to Taylor yesterday returning with G. R. Jackson. John Hegness was taken from Teller to Budd Creek. Rita O'Leary was a round trip passenger. Today pilot Wien hop ped to Fox Bar with Mrs. Patri- cia Meeker who arrived yester- day with pilot Hall from Falr- banks.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-23

Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow Air Service is expected to make a flight to Anchorage and to re- turn with gasoline for Prince Can tacuzino. round the world flier.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-23

Pilot Ray Crawford of the Mir ow Air Service is expected to ar rive today from Anchorage. and then is to make flight to Golo- win and Tubuktoolik.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-23
Derblay in and Out


 The s s Derbley of the Alaska Line arrived at Nome at 6 pm. last evening from the North and sailed south for Seattle at 9 pm.
 Passengers who disembarked at Nome from the North were John Schwegler, Miss Norma Robinson, Chas. H. Milot, and Butch Ben son.
 Enroute from the North to the Outside were Joe Armstrong, Wm. G. Young and Mrs. Bessie Rowe.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08
NASSAU CHARGE
]. n. Graham. pastor


Conley's, Sunday, Oct 10th: Sun
day School at 10 a. M, Aldan Hop
kins, superintendent. This will b
the home coming service.
II a. m.-Preaching. Rev. W.
Poole. no.
2.30 p. m.-Preaehing. Rev. Jos. H
O'Neil.
7.SO p. m.-Preacher to be an
nounced. i
Whites Chapel
Sunday, Oct. 10th: Sunday School
at 10 a. m, Harry Davidson, superin-
tendent. e'
IL a. m.-Class meeting, Green
Brittingham, leader.
Sunday. Oct. 18th will be observed
with the home coming services, morn
ing, afternoon and evening. The
committee is arranging to serve
meals in the basement of the church
to all visitors free.
Zion Church
Sunday, Oct. 10th: Sunday School
at 2 p. m. Raymond Lank, superin-
tendent.
3 p. m.-Class meeting, Reed Lev
erage. leader.
The home coming service will be
observed at Zion Church Sunday,
Oct. 31st, all day.
DR.. Cartwright was with US at
Zion Church Sunday. Oct. 3rd. and
talked to us about China, 1.-The Yes
terday and the Today" Those who
were absent missed a big thing.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08
COLUMBUS AND US

II you try to talk to boys and girl
about Columbus day. October IL, the.
may say that America was discovered
way back over $50 years ago, anC
they are not interested in anything
so remote. You can remind them
that the discovery of America
changed the whole current of life
and opened up great opportunities
from which every child in America
profits today.
When Columbus got nearly across
the Atlantic ocean, his superstitious
and ignorant sailors became more
and more uneasy and fearful. Amid
the terrors OF those vast and un-
known waters, they feared never to
see their homes again. They be-
sought the great navigator to turn
back. ''%
Suppose that matchless voyager
had listened, and had turned around
and sailed for his home port. The
idea of discovering land across the
sea would have been regarded as
a joke, much as it was regarded as
preposterous up to few years ago,
that man should ever learn to fly. 1t
ia possible that the world would
have gone ON to the present day
without ever discovering our conti-
nent.
1t is more likely that If Columbus
had failed, other bold navigators
would in time have come to our
shores. But the settlement and prog
fAss of our country would have been
greatly delayed. Europe would have
remained a hive of congested popu-
iations, struggling for mere exis-
tenee. The rapid growth of our
country and its devotion to educa-
ton have greatly aided the prog
ress of science, the gains of which
would have been much retarded had
America not been discovered when it
was.
& The discovery of America with its
rich resources. opened the way for
progress to go on at far more rapid
rate. Our civilization would probably
be centuries behind its present stage,
had not this great man reached out
into the unknown and opened up
these opportunities.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08
FOOTBALLS DAY OF GLORY

The average American is probably
more concerned about who will win
the college and high school football
games, than with the education the
young people get in those schools
Hence we see throngs of people over
flowing the football stadiums. and
enthusiasm reaching its highest
pitch. The partisans of the winning
team are thrown into fits of ecstacy,
while friends of the losers are plung-
ed into the most profound despair.
Some unsophisticated stranger
might ask how it is that people can
get so terribly excited over a mere
game. He would say that the ability
to kick or run with football is not
going to count greatly in a youths
later career, and that it is much more
important for him to get an A mark
in his studies, or make record that
gives him job soon after graduation.
But no, the American people like
q fight and scrimmage. and foot
ball comes near conforming to that
description. 1t tests the players
wind, his endurance. his courage, his
muscle, and his power to think fast.
A game that has such qualities will
always be popular.
: The professors may say it diverts |
attention from the study of litera- |
ture and science, and that when the
students are figuring on how to run
the football over the goal line, they
aren't doing anything to improve
their scholastic marks. Very true,
but it is also true that when they are
figuring on those football plays, they
aren't chasing around the country
with undesirable associates, and get
ting mixed up in situations that will
place a stain on their lives.
A young person of college or high
school age is bundle of explosive
II you pen those forces ,
up too closely there is likely to be /
. grand smash. Football allows such
dangerous gas to escape without (
much damage.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08
FISHERS DISTRICT
Near Greenwood

There seems to be quite few OF
this vicinity victims of the mumps.
Mancel Cade left on Saturday for
Wilmington where he will enter col
lege. We wish him much success.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Parker
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. S. F.
Collision on Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter OF Philadel-
phia spent the weekend with George
Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Collision. were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Rust on Sunday. @. .f,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gootee Brown and
daughter were Milford visitors on
Saturday evening.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08

Mrs. T. p. Morris. Mrs. George
Young, Mr.. and Mrs. s. F. Collision
and Mrs. Jack Rust we're guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgell Coates of Har-
rington ON Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Amos Cade was a Whining
ton visitor over the weekend. i
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Shouse were
guests of Miss Dorothy Rust on Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Robinson were
guests of Mrs. Ella .Edgell of Green
wood on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Ed
CELL is much improved after being
quite i'll the past two weeks.
Sunday school at Todd's Sunday
morning at $3.50 a. m. Divine service
at 10:30 am. A good attendance
helps the pastor.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08
Saturday of this week.

Saturday of this week.
The Blue Hens opened the season
last Saturday at Collegeville, Pa,
with Ursinus and dropped the game
IL to 6. The Blue and Gold made an
excellent showing and outplayed
Ursinus most of the game. A couple
of breaks In the final quarter gave
their opponents the victory. The
team should be one of the best that
hs- represented Delaware in recent
years
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08

IF PEOPLE SPENT LESS time
blaming the social system for their
Troubles, and more correcting the
faults in their own work and SER
vice, they would get ahead faster.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08

PEOPLE HATE THE appearance
of soiled clothes. which aren't seen
by so many folks as soiled refuse if
IL is allowed TO litter up your home
grounds.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08
UNIVERSITY NOTES

Founders Day will be observed at
the Women's College, University of
Delaware today. 1t will mark the
23rd anniversary of the founding of
the college.
Following the college tradition the
seniors that day will receive their
caps and gowns from their little
sisters" DR.. S. X. Cannon of Har-
ward University Observatory will
give an address that evening in Nit
chell Hall. DR.. Annon Is a daughter
of the late Wilson Lee and Mary
Jump Cannon of Dover and a sis
ter of Mrs. Hester Lewis oil Newark.
She is graduate of Wellesley Col
lege and has received honorary doc
torates from Wellesley College, Wo-
mems College, University of Della
ware, University of Groningon, HOl-
land, and Oxford University, Eng
land. Founders Day exercises will
be concluded with a dance at Old
College.
Final figures on the freshman en-
rollment at the University of Della
ware gives the total as 264. There |
are 174 in the entering class at Del
aware College and 80 at the Women's
College. The total enrolment in all
classes at the two colleges is slight
y in excess Of 800.
University of Delaware football
cam will play the first home game
n Frazer Field. Newark, on Satur-
ay Of pext week with Lebanon Val
~ as opponents. Delaware will play
lutgers at New Brunswick, N. j., on Y
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-08

Farm Buying POwer-The buying
power of the farmers income this
year will be virtually back at the
1929 level, according to the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics. Income
from sales of farm products in 1897
is expected to be about billion dol
lars larger than in 1896. and larger
than any year since 1929.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
COPPER SLUMPS
ON LONDON MART
Price Break Not Expected to
Affect u. S. Levels for
Some Time.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated PTeSS.
LONDON, January 12-The price
OF copper broke 80 shillings ton (the
equivalent of 1868 of cent pound)
on the Metal Exchange today on un-
confirmed reports that producing COM
panies had decided to discontinue their
agreement for restricting output of the
red metal.
A spokesman for one of the COM
panieS concerned later said no decision
had been reached concerning restric-
tion.
(The copper restriction agreement
applies to production in Europe, Africa,
South America and Canada. United
States output is not affected.
Heavy foreign and domestic de-
mand for copper in the last few months
has sent prices to the highest level
since June. 1890. with visible stocks,
both in the United States and abroad,
at the lowest in years. Armaments
requirements and considerable specula-
tive buying were said to have been
important factors in the European
demand.
price of American domestic copper
was advanced yesterday so of cent
a pound to 1880 cents a pound, while
copper for export was sold at 12.725
cents a pound.
I'm New York today it was said that
even If foreign restrictions were with
drawn the supply of copper for i'm
y,oeliofo da1iveru I1,oc en- chort Of tho
demand that price levels would not be
likely to be affected for several
months)
Evening star., 1937-01-12
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL. January l2 Pl-Silver
futures opened steady, lower. March,
A5.15b; May. 45.15b: July. 45.75b. Bid.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
CANADA DRY BUILDS
PLANTS IN FOUR CITIES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. q
NEW YORK, January 12-R. w.
Moore, president of Canada Dry Ginger
Ale, Inc. told stockholders at the an
nual meeting the company is building
new plants at Philadelphia. Pitts
burgh. Omaha. Nebr, and Winnipeg.
The new units, which will be operat-
ed in conjunction with the company'S
direct delivery system, will cost $780,
600 each. The expense is expected to
be written off within 18 months
through saving of freight charges,
Moore said.
Evening star., 1937-01-12

our recovery can all too easily de-
generate into dangerous boom cul-
minating in disaster"
An adequate control program would
include, he added, balancing the
budget, increase of Federal Reserve
system member bank reserve require
ments to the legal limit, further re-
duction Of excess reserves Of member
banks and other measures.
The latter would involve. he added.
handling Of the Treasury's gold
holdings derived from dollar devalua-
ton in such a manner as not 70 in
crease member bank reserves, the use
of the tripartite monetary agreement
between the United States, France
and Great Britain) as a transitional
step toward the reintroduction in an
appropriate form Of the gold stand
ard. and restoration of the regulatory
function of the rate OF interest"
James H. Perkins, chairman of the
board, National City Bank, told share
holders. 1T is the duty Of the hanks
to do all in their power to avoid the
pitfalls which increased prosperity
creates"
Addressing stockholders at the an
nual meeting, he said this warning
was in order in view of present re-
covery trends.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
CREDIT PURCHASES
MOUNT SHARPLY
InstalIment Sales Climb SO
Per Cent Ahead of 1885
in Year.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 12.-Install-
ment sales Of department stores reg
istered a gain of 80 per cent during
1886 over 1895, the National Retail
Dry Goods Association reported.
The SO per cent advance supple
ments an increase Of IS per cent in
1885 over 1884 These figures COM
pared with a IL per cent increase in
dollar sales in the field in 1885 over
the previous year. and a per cent
gain in dollar sales in 1885 over
1884.
"The growth Of installments SELL
ing both in 1885 and 1885," the re-
port said. has been influenced con-
Siderably by increased interest in home
furnishings, particularly in furniture
and household appliances. 1t was
noted the furniture department was
one of the departments most fire.
quently indicated by stores reporting
in the survey as having experienced
a substantial sales increase in 1885,"