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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04
Expenses Reported

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 The financial report of the school department for the two months of the fiscal year ending May 30, shows a net expenditure of $45, ,767.37. leav- ing $163, 3,132.63 remaining in the school budget of $208, 300. Gross ex- pense was $46,015.6l but credits amounted to $248.24.
 WPA work expense in the schools has amounted to $322.57 thus far, of which $3il.19 is for repairs. The re- port of Mrs. Gertrude Madigan, di- rector of evening schools, shows for May total enrolment of 70, in the naturalization classes of which 49 are men and 21 women, with aver- age attendance being 45.21. Mrs. Madigan teaches these classes.
 Glasses are held in Salem school on Tuesdays and Thursday morn- ings and evenings, and in Hop Brook school on Mondays and We'd nesday nights.
 The sale of peoples in the school netted $79.75 with Salem school con- tributing the largest amount, $27.65 and Beebe street second with $10 donated.
 Miss Elizabeth Weary, school nurse, reports chicken pox and measles predominated in the inter- mediate grades during the month with health conditions otherwise be- ing good. Routine health examina- tions have been made by physicians in their respective buildings.
 Of the 2,931 children registered, 1906 have undergone routine in- Spections. There were 26 minor in- juries dressed and eight class talks given. Six were treated in emergen- cieS.
 Miss Helen King, dental hygien- ist, report 123 examined and 9S pho- phylactic treatments given. In the Red Cross dental clinic there were 12O patients with p cases completed and $15.7O in cash received.
 The report on the nursery class for May shows that of the 25 regis tered the average attendance was 22 and there were IA supervisors. Miss Kuhn, assistant supervisor, visited the class May IA. Peter J. Foley, at- tendance officer, reported 2l absent of whom nine were truantS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04
Past Patrons, Night

The annual past matrons' and past patrons night was held at a meeting of the Evergreen chapter, Order of Eastern Star, last night in Masonic hall.
 The past matrons and past pa- irons in charge of the offices were: Mrs. Lydia B. Saunders, matron; Edward Miller, patron; Mrs. Charles E. Hobbs, associate matron; War ren D. Abel, associate patron; Mrs. Arthur Downes, conductresses; Mrs. Fred Melbourne, associate conduc- tress; Mrs. Jessie Perry, secretary; Mrs. Howard Bowen, treasurer; Mrs. George Hinman, chaplain; Mrs. Da- vid Beecher, marshal; Mrs. Alphonse Noble, aida; Mrs. Myran Noble, Ruth; Mrs. Ernest Lorentson, Mar tha, Mrs. w. J. Megin, Electa; Mrs. Marian Roby, warder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04

The Girl Scouts met at the Com munity House last evening with Lieutenants Evelina Hauser and Helen Stanley. The regular routine was carried out.
 Glasses in First Class Signalling = Carolyn Beardsley in charge.
 Second Glass = First Aid by Miss Stanley.
 Lucille Stewart passed table set ting, first aid and cooking tests.
 Later in the evening, patrol corn CTS were formed.
 The Girl Scout; attending were: Lorna Ashborn, Evelyn Corcoran Marjorie Pratt, Ruth Gross. Betty Corcoran, Mary Graney. Carolyr Beardsley, Barbara Adams, Mary Eileen Locke, Dora Hirleman, Violet Damico. Joyce Kuntzweiler, Mildred Bares, Peggy Budd. Aleatha Locke Delaige Fugliese, Josephine zacaria, Virginia Rogers. Lucille Stewart,
 The visitors were Florence Cor coran and Alice Cummings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04

The Junior choir will meet at the Congregational church Saturday at 6:3O o'clock and the senior choir at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Ethel ziglatzkl. is director.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04
Briefs

Tennis work will be resumed on the Court Saturday afternoon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04
1ea7 Reading Lists

The 1887 reading lists may be ob- tained from Mrs. Oscar Locke. This contains classified list of worth while books. Each have a brief description which is suggestive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04
GO 10 CanpOree

Members Of the local group or Boy Scouts who will attend the jamboree in Washington, D. C.. next
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04
WATERBURY MAN DRAWS PENALTY George Saviakes Pays $IO for Violating Rules
 of Road
BEACON FALLS Corresuondent, Wm. ]. S3axtef
 Phono Naagatuck 3S-4

Beacon Falls, June 1.-The list of names from which "A persons elig- ible for jury duty will be selected follows: Alfred Archambault, Wil- liam B. Bradley, ST., George Beach, Michael J. Bruce, Michael J. Car roll. Prank T. Clark, Milton Car rington, Ernest s. Clark, Augus- tine Ccntaldi. Harry Classey, Fred Q. Curtiss, Willett Dubois, Francis Doiron, David Gelmini. William Gallagher, William c. Gruber, John E. Hawkins, William Hagen, Robert Holmes, Richard T. Johns, Jr, os- car J. Johnson, Arthur c. Jones.
 Frederick M. Koerber, William Lennon, Joseph w. Mckinney, Vim cent Muleski, Andrew McLaren, Harry l.. Nettleton, David and John E. O'Rourke. Oscar Petersen, John J. Quinn, Edmund Ryan, George Ruppe, Henry Schmitz, Colvin H. smith, William Scheithe, John J. Smith, Jr., George w. Simpson, sherman D. Stocker, Henry J. Smithausler, Alois Tschauder, Prisuue P. Valois, Stanislaw Wis., niewski. William Worrell, Richard F. Walsh, Howard s. Wooster and Ludwig A, Zick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04

Waterbury Man Fined
 George Saviakis of IS Railroad Hill street. Waterbury was fined $1O on a charge of violating the rules of the road with $5 of the fine being remitted in local court recently, and was assessed court costs of $11.75. He was arrested Sunday following an auto accident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04
LUCILLE STEWART
 SCORES IN TESTS
Girl Scout Passes Three Exams at Meeting
 Last Night
OAKVILLE
 Correspondent: Mae Villa Babit 1877 Watertown Avenue

Oakville, June 4. = Perfect at- tendance at the Roosevelt school for May follows:
 Room I.-Girls: Madelyn Alsdorf, Catherine Calabrese, Dorothy Da- ponte, Carol Gilchrist, Susanne James. Eloise Meehan, Nancy Champagne, Anna Ouaranda, Mary Quill, Lorraine Ritter. Dorothy Flanagan, Nellie Kazlauskas, Valerie LeClair, Mary Ann Pierce. Bows: William Reid. Jr., Jerry Troendly, Nicholas Calabrese, Robert Keating, Anthony Angelicola, Philip Famigli- etti, Edward Meehan.
 Room II. = Justine Engval1, Mar ion Famiglietti. Helen Krizinauskas, Eleanor Krizjnauskas. Theresa Le- Page, Laura Testa, Robert LeClair, Joseph Meehan. Walter Thorne. Lawrence Wilson, Harry Alsdorf, Robert West.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-04

An air-conditioned ice refrigera- tor, insulated throughout with Armstrong Temlok, finished in white enamel with trim of black and chromium. With inner ice chamber door that saves one third of your ice! Sale priced for Saturday.!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
News Behind the News
Must Becomes Ought Legislation
Easier to Put OUer in Congress Not
So DictatOridl -.

WASHINGTON = Ought" legislation means
the same thing in the administration lexicon as
must legislation meant in previous years. But
someone thought it might be easier to get ought
bills passed than must" bills because the word
didn't sound so dctatorial. So they, changed the
name and continued to use the same old meth
DDS Capitol Hill.
The long lull in Congress has tended to OBJ
scure the fact that if Roosevelt gets the Ought"
stuff passed even in compromised form, this So
called "Stdown' Congress will have done more
to rejigger the federal system than any previous
one.
The outstanding items on the ought list are
the court plan the wages and hours bill, the
government reorganization program and the
Norris bill to create seven regional planning de-
veopments corresponding more or less to IVA.
The wage-hour bill is expected to pass. The
Norris bill is likely to go over until next session
A compromise is being worked out on the reor-
ganization program which probably will be
enacted court bill will pass if Roosevelt can
get what he considers an adequate compromise
with Congress.
The word compromise" in respect to the
court plan should be used in quotation marks.
The minimum which Roosevelt could accept
without taking licking would be plan which
would give him the appointment of two new
justices in addition to the filling of the vacancy
left by Justice Van Devanter.
Outstanding feature of the administration
sponsored compromise on reorganization is elm
lnatlOd of the section winch would nave given
the President control over functions of the in
dependent agencies such as the Federal Trade,
Interstate Commerce. Maritime, Federal Power,
Federal Communications and other commissions.
Congress would also be given a 60-day period
in which it could veto any transfer abolition
or consolidation of federal bureau.
But the general accounting office and the
post of comptroller general would be abolished
in favor of new Set-up which would eliminate
the situation which enabled John McCarl to
veto expenditures in the executive branch. Con-
gress would have -post-audit privileges.
The proposed new Department of Public
Works would be eliminated from the program,
but new Department of Public. Welfare with
cabinet secretary would be established. The
President also would be authorized to hire six
administrative assistants The Civil Service
Commission would be abolishedat Ito be replaced
by civil service administrator under executive
control.
The new agricultural adjustment act, spon-
Sored chiefly by the American Farm Bureau
Federation and providing for crop control, may
pass in spite of a rather general apathy on Capt.
tol Hill r.
Tax evasion legislation at this session seems
unlikely because the joint investigating COM
mttee about to start hearings on tax lodging
probably won't get its recommendations in much
before Congress adjourns. The adjournment
date is still guess however, and may come any
time after the first of August.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
New York Day by Day

son Bill. who had just been grad
uated from Wabash, meet him in
Chicago for a dinner and theatre
celebration together. Next morning,
as they were walking Michigan
avenue, the elder Hays stopped be-
fore a new roadster drawing up at
the curb. He noticed that the in
itials on the door were the same
as his son's-W. H. H. Jr. BY that
time, The Great Light had broken
over the boy. He realized it was
a plant. his fathers way of sur
prising him with a graduation gift.
Every young man should have one
of these surprises in his life. 1t is
difficult to recall them in later years
without throat twitch. Mine was
on a lesser scale muckle dun
pony hitched to the rack in front
of my fathers hotel on a birthday
morning. No matter If, spurred be-
yond a slow walk, the pinto suf-
fered from what is known In. veteri-
marian vernacular as "the heaveS"--
a breathing malady suggesting sour
notes from a tuba,-it was one of
the most memorable event of life.
A real pony!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Living Standard Key to Child Labor Issue

The child labor amendment to
the Constitution has been pend
ing ever since 1924. and from the
looks of things it may we'll be pend
ing 10 years hence. It is in an odd
spot: 1t seeks to effect reform
everybody favors, but it seeks to do
it in way with which a great many
people disagree.
A lot of people have tried to think
of ways to get around this obstacle.
The most recent attempt is being
made by Congressman Dudley A.
White of Ohio and Senator Warren
r. Austin of Vermont, who have
come up with a substitute amend
ment.
1t has been objected that the
1924 amendment. If ratified, might
give the federal government con-
troll over child training and educa-
tion as well as over child labor.
So this substitute lays down strictly
limited objectives, 1t reads:
The congress shall have power
to limit, regulate and prohibit labor
in mines, quarries, mills, work.
shops. factories and manufacturing
establishments of all persons under
'l6 years of age"
At first glance this would seem to
do the trick. Certainly 1t ought to
quiet the fears of those who have
visions of Uncle Sam stepping ineo
the schoolroom and the home to
say how children shall be feared.
But the child labor problem is
far from simple It isn't merely
matter of children in mines,
quarries, mills workshops, factories
and manufacturing establishments"
One of the greatest fields of child
exploitation, for instance, is to be
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

found in agriculture.
Many of the notorious tenant far
mer Setups are so designed that the
tenant cannot hope to make 60
OF 1t unless he has two or three
or four Children and keeps them
busy from dawn till dusk. Many
the farms that use large numbers of
seasonal workers hire whole pla-
toons and battalion of children. No
one can object to the ordinary
farmer whose sons lend hand
with the chores; but without inter-
fering with that sort of thing. it
ought to be possible to throw some
safeguard about the youngsters who
are exploited in the fields and Or
chards of commercial farms.
Then they are the sweat shops
that send work out to be done in
the home. 1t is hard to see how
this new amendment would touch
them: yet they offer some of the
most vicious examples of child labor
in all America The child that slaves
in a slum kitchen on one of the
novelty trade" needs as much
protection as the child who
punches clock in a facory.
In the long run of course, it is
not correctional amendment
that will end child labor, but gen.
eral country wide rule in pros
perity; a rise of the kind that will
end the proverty which compels
people to exc out insufficient in
comes with the labor of their chill
dren. Child labor is nothing more
than by-product of destitution.
1t won't vanish entirely until des-
titution vanishes.
Meanwhile, however, regulation is
needed. And the regulation needs
to be drafted with extreme car
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
Strolls Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD. June 81. U.p)-
When blonde Alice Faye goes to
work in B. G. Buddy DeSylva's
new musical this fall. she'll at once
score personal triumph and COM
plete one of those dizzy Hollywood
paradoxes.
1t was DeSylva, only half
dozen years ago. who looked the
lass over in a line of chorus ap-
plicants and told her to "be good
girl. and go home.
You're pretty said DeSylva.
but that's all. i don't think there's
anything in the theater for you
Miss Faye was II and a New
York girl trying to crash Broadway
then She went home. she admits.
and didn't have courage to an
swer another chorus call for weeks.
She made the chorus. after many
failures. and danced in some pret-
ty fair shows. including George
Whites Scandals but might still
have been in the line had it not
been for party and home re-
cording machine.
Miss Faye. who had a natural,
but then unframed voice. was per-
Suaded to sing to the machine. A
friend secretly salvaged the record
and later replayed it for Rudy
Vallee.
Vallee was impressed and wanted
her for his air show. but the spon-
sors couldn't see it that way.
I'VE don't want her." he was
told, but If you do, and care to
pay her out of your own budget,
it's all right with us
Vallee paid Miss F'ayes salary
personally for months before the
sponsors we're convinced.
From radio it was an easy step
into pictures. DeSylva, who once
thought that there's nothing in
the theater for you" has, spent he
better part of a year trying to bor-
row the girl from Goth Century F OK
Joan Blondell and Enroll Flynn
exchanged bevy of hard looks
when Flynn took the command
cut" too literally, and dumped
blonde Joan on her center of grav-
ity. a"
Script of the Perfect Speciman'
called for Blondell. pursued BY
Flynn, to run along a girder in q
hosting fall, whereupon Flynn
cranks a winch, and raises her a
few feet off the ground.
When the scene ended Flynn lei
go the handle. and girder. Blondel
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
10 IMPERIAL
VALLEY 4,
TWO FORMS OF DEATH
FOOLISH AND UNNECESSARY

In one newspaper last week were two
stories, both dealing with fatal tragedies.
One told of the death of a young man
on county road near Meloland, the
other was under French dateline and
told of the slaughter of women and chill
dren in bombardment of besieged Span
ish town. One story concerned the death
of one person, the other told of hundreds
of deaths. Yet they are not so far re-
moved from one another
Both stories concerned deaths that are
unnecessary tragedies. One was an isol-
ated instance of the greatest menace to
life in America TO-DAY; the other was
mass instance of how far men will go
in their ambition for power over their
fellows. Of both, we may ask:
What does it profit US?
We IN America regard the Spanish
slaughter as a demonstration that the
veneer of civilization wears very thin
when overweaning ambition arises. We
see it as something which could have
been avoided by democratic means. 1t is
nothing but the struggle between theories
of government, but it is struggle which
has taken its toll in countless lives. 1t
is utterly foolish.
The puzzle is, why do we not regard
auto accidents in the same light. Time
and again, this newspaper has repeated
that there are no unavoidable accidents.
Sufficient thought to mechanical equip
ment, enough care in driving, kind re-
gard for the other driver and a little
caution against what the other driver
may do-and we would have no acci-
dents
Accidents in this nation since the
World War have taken more lives than
this nation lost in that war. Surely,
then, the problem of accident prevention
is just as deserving of thought, and the
accident toll just as much matter of
horror, as the Spanish civil war.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

and all. sprawled. Actress was un-
hurt-physically
With flourish Sclznick Inter
national announces signing of
Carole Lombard to a picture a year
deal for three years. Lombard still
is under contract to Paramount.
but is permitted to make one pic
ture a year off that lot. Selznick
similar agreement.
Edward Sedgwick director. has
an lego uuencher" all his own. It's
picture called THE Winning Wal
lop.' which starred in and directed
some 20 years ago. ..-,'-
Whenever I find myself grow
ing bit chesty | haul the 'wallop'
out for a look" he explained. 1T
was probably one of the worst pic
lures ever made. a fact that never
fails to impress me-"
Frances Farmer and her cohorts
made a sudden exit from the "Ebb
Tide" set, when it was discovered
that tropical foliage which prop
men had collected in a canyon in
the Hollywood hills. was full of
poison ivy.
Wide -mouthed Joe f.. Brown has
been drinking milk by the quart
| these past three weeks in an eff
fort to take on weight. And it
works, he says. He's gained ID
pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
WHAT AVIATION MEANS
TO WORLD GOVERNMENT

Fllght OF three Soviet aVlat0rS over the
north pole en- route from their country
to the United States will cause many
people to think seriously of the changes
aviation has already made, and the still
greater changes it will make in the fu-
ture, in the government of the world. The
alarmists see in the flight demonstra-
tion of the vulnerability of the United
States to attack from the air. The paci-
fists see in it a closer bond, bringing
the nations of the world closer together
in interests and understanding.
Somewhere between the two opposing
views is the truth. Aviation undoubtedly
can become the greatest force this world
has ever seen for peace, since it will
breed the understanding on which last
ing peace is founded At the same time,
we cannot afford to overlook the poten-
tial lethal qualities inherent in huge air.
planes travelling at great speed between
nations.
Preparedness should be our weapon
against the menace of hostile air forces,
and an open mind should be our welcome
to the friendly contacts made possible
by those who come to us through the air
in the name of a closer understanding
When the peoples of one nation be-
come SO closely related to the peoples of
another nation that there is common
bond of understanding, that they regard
one another as human beings rather than
as crazy, half wild foreigners, then it
will no longer be possible for ambitious
leaders to misrepresent n c d e n t S
through official propaganda SO that a
mass hatred is built up. Air travel will
bring such an understanding closer.
Meanwhile, any nation would be insane
not to realize that there exists the danger
of attack, and that such danger is magni-
fled by weakness in the air. Prepared
ness does not mean aggressiveness.
Aviation, indeed, is changing the pol
itical as well as the commercial face of
the globe.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

NEW YORK, June 81 In the
manner of Arnold BENEFITS jourd-
nal: An English friend writes me
seeing Col. Lihdberg walking slowly,
head down. through o forest near
his countryside home "a frlorn
figure of inartieulate grief" It's his
belief the crushing tragedy has
made the Lindbergs permanent ex-
lies.
M. and l. drove aboue the great
Pocantico Hills, home of the elder
Rockefeller, the other sundown.
Death somehow always intensifies
the beauty of such estates. There
; was an odd calm and every bluff
and pinnacle .seemed starkly and
, affectionately silhoueted against the
lemon sky.
Perhaps it was the visual en-
chantment as we stopped at one
peak to gaze down upon the Hud-
son ruffed into silvery glisten
but the birds evening songs seemed
especially clear and lyrical. AS
though to carol hope and a mes
sage all was we'll. Pleasant twi-
light musing anyway.
Because of motor difficulty we
stopped beyond Tarrytown near the
trailer home of a gypsy caravan.
Two swarthy crones with rings in
their ears, adder eyes and incredibly
filthy. slouched over with a greasy
pack of cards. We shook our heads.
waved them away and they curse.i
us with a magnifience Mark Twain
would have loved.
How much we miss of little emo
tional raptures by clinging T., the
steel and asphalt of the city I was
telling v. v. McNitt that no musical
event l ever heard-and t'iat goes
for the several highly bespoken
symphonic offerings have the
skyey wallop of the rooins' choir
as night grays into tne Splendor
of a morning pink. And where may
one enjoy the exquisite melancholy
that goes with the croak of pond
frogs some place FIR back in the
Ohio hills?
Outside. of sporting a monocle
to the manner born. no Satorial
doo-dad excites my ambition like
wearing a white satin lined In
verneSs, with one corner of the
cape flung over the shoulder just
sol The only Inverness I ever saw
worn by Americans were on Phil
Simms when he was dramatic
critic IN Cincinnati and Dudley
Field Malone arriving nobly at
Ciro'S in Paris one night, I'm not
the Inverness type. Few are, The
only acceptable Inverness candidates
that pop into mind at thte moment
are Tony Biddle. Prince Andrew of
Greece and BerhAli Hagin.
Too. I've wished some stylist
would touch off muffler craze
and do away for time entirely
with collars and ties. Not many gad-
gets look SO jaunty as an expertly
knotted muffler. And they can be
worn every season of the year by
a selection of light, medium and
heavy materials. William Faversham
was really the first mufflerist. Leslie
Howard filings, aNmean muffler, so
do Warren William and Harry Ban
mister. But the most accomplished
of all is the British comedian Sey-
mour Hicks. He gives it pomp.
panache and punch. This about a
muffler: Take the sorriest Bowery
bum. shave him, cut his hair and
swath his neck in decent muff-
Ter and he will appear astonishingly
.daIdad LID 4 saw the. exlaerifaNfft
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
HUGE FLYING BOAT
PUT THRU THREE TESTS

SAN DIEGO, CAL, June 81. W.P
After an overland flight made
as an altitude test a huge flying
boat, which penetrated as far as
mountain-l locked Lake Tahoe, was
to return to San Diego today. The
boat, similar to those which the
navy will start on a nonstop Pana-
ma flight today, is being tested
prior to being sent to New Guinea
on scientific expedition for the
American Museum of Natural His
tory. t.'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
PEACEMAKER
SUFFERS INJURY

LOS ANGELES, June 81. WR-
Max Shapiro. IA. visitor from Tue
son, Ariz, was reported by attend
ing physicians to be in serious
condition today from wounds re-
ceived yesterday when he at
tempted to act as peacemaker be-
tween two fighting Mexican youths.
One slashed him with knife and
the other beat him.