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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05
BY CLARK GABLE (Snecial to The DeKnOCratl


 Hollywood - Newspaper columns have become new American insti- tuition. The boys who write them have established 8 new and distinc- tive profession, but I think they are overlooking a good bet.
 The majority of the columns are devoted almost exclusively to movie news. That may be news to every body else, but 1t is not news to us who are engaged in the movie busi- ness. The rest of the world may want to know about us who live in Hollywood, but we in Hollywood want to know about the rest of the world.
 There is one element of the Amer ican population that receives less publicity, less printed pats on the back than any other class of citi- zens. It cannot be that they are shrinking violets cringing from the spotlight of praise, for the lives they lead are to me the most interesting lives anyone can live. Their faults undoubtedly is that they are too busy trying to find interesting things to write about other people who are not SO interesting.
 Yes, sir, the newspaper colunnistS have been overlooking big bet. Perhaps, it Is because they have been too clos> to the subjects, but 1t would be 8 nice gesture for them to hand a bit of praise to their own brother newspaperman.
 Inferiority Complex
 Until @ few weeks ago, feared all newspapermen. ran from them like Q rabbit from a pack of hounds. Whenever I heard that Q news- paperman had been admitted within the big iron Metro-G Goldwyn-Mayer gates and was steering his course to- ward the sound stage where I hap pened to be working, I ran for cover. I believed he was tracking me down for no other purpose than to blast my reputation, entangle me In 8 lot of scandal and to ask me questions on matters that should only concern my private life.
 And then l met newSpapermen, the real newspapermen who cover the courts, who give US the graphic stories of train wrecks, earthquakes, plane crashes and crime, on their own common ground.
 was with those boys for three days and they were three of the finest days I have ever had. They accepted me as they accept anybody else in their routine duties, friendly, If you are friendly, as @ person no better than they were nor no worse.
 As I mingled with those reporters and cameramen for those three days, I was awakened t0 the fact that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05

. Eddie Welch bright and clever jokes that will slay you when Jack 1enny's next comedy comes out will fetch . couple of years hence two groans Q dozen. Melancholy, isn't it2 Especially to a professional gag man, a comedy constructionist," like myself.
 Why are good jokes so short lived, you ask. Because they are topical { of the month, the day, the moment. They tie up with our lives, with to- days headlines, with the talk of the poolroom and the barber shop. They ere social commentary.
 A "pasquinade" means the wittiest of pointed jests. Once upon @ time c Roman wisecracker named Pas quin wrote jibes at the big politicos and nailed them to column in the ,snarket-place. They were the fun- niest things In Rome. Why? Be- cause they were timely shafts at the folly of human beings that very day.
 Had Comedians
 < Things haven't changed 50 much. The radio wit and the film gag-men ! dig their stun out of the headlines, the sports column and the news stor- aes. It's hard work. Time and again have seen Benny, Cantor, W. O.. Fields and Ben Blue, with ftirrowed brow and funereal aspect, sitting at the luncheon counter, going over the paper with increasing gloom.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05

"On Such Night" 8 highly excit- ing adventure melodrama with a punch in every line of its sparkling dialogue and overlapping scenes. Karen Morley and Grant Richards head a large cast that includes Eduardo Cianelli, Roscoe Karns and Alan Mowbray.
 Ronald Colman in "The Prisoner of Zenda" Is coming next Wednes- day!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05

Listowel, Irish Free State, has Q 13-year-old girl expert pickpocket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05

day to go through my files and cast out thousand of
 old jokes that had done valiant serv- ice but a few years back, and con- vulsed m illionS with laughter. The life had gone out of them. They are staler than last nights cigar butt, no more mirthful than the creak of a hearse axle.
 Like wise, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05

Tn Britain, retail distribution finds employment for more people than any other country. Even coal min- in gand building combined do not exceed the number of employees in this industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05
IRISH ACTOR IN
 STATE OFFERING
ErrOl Flynn and Joan BlOrl' dell Starred in "The
 Perfect Specimen

Errol Flynn, that handsome young Irish actor who leaped to fame overnight in Captain Blood" a couple of years ago and then car- ried on with "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Green Light" and "The Prince and the Pauper," comes to the Warner State theater today in a modern American comedy drama called t'The Perfect Speci- men,"
 The story deals with an eccentric old lady possessed Of many millions who has an ambition to see her grandson raised as an altogether perfect young man, and who for that reason supplies him with an abundance of tutors but keeps him confined to the limits of the fanily's vast estate.
 A young village girl-Joan Blon- dell-manages to break into the vir- tual prison and meet the young man. She succeeds in getting him
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tured Madrid suburbs.
Nov. spanish government fled
from Madrid to Valencia.
Nov Is Spanish rebels forced
crossing of Manzanares river and en-
tered one section of Madrid.
Nov. 18-Roger Salengro, French
minister of the interior, assailed by
rightists, committed suicide.
General Franco, Spanish rebel
chief, declared blockade of BARGE.
Iona.
Nov. 24-Dictator Stain presented
new constitution to Russia.
Nov. Military revolt in Quito,
Ecuador, suppressed by government.
Dec. Spanish 1oyalists launched
great offensive against Fascist inSur-
gents.
Germany decreed death penalty
for those who hoard wealth abroad.
New Russian constitution approx
ed by soviet congress.
British house Of lords defeated bill
to permit mercy killings"
Dec. british Prime Minister
Baldwin, loaded with King Edward
to accept cabinets advice to relin-
quish his intimacy with Mrs. Wally
| Simpson.
Renewed rebel air raids on Madrid
killed hundreds.
Coup d'etat in Greece foiled by
government.
Dec. SKIING Edward defied cabi-
nets demand that he choose between
the throne and Mrs. Simpson.
Dec. 5-Pope Plus stricken with
paralysis.
Russia's new constitution given
final approval by all-union congress
of soviets.
Dec. 6-Mexico offered to let
Trotzky, Russian exile, reside in that
country.
Dec. Mrs. Wallis Simpson an
nounced her willingness to renounce
her association with King Edward of
England to end the crisis.
Dec. 10-King Edward of England
abdicated in favor of his brother, the
duke of York.
Dec. 11-British parliament and
the dominions accepted Edwards
abdication and the accession Of
George vi.
Dec. 12-George vi was proclaim
ed king of Great Britain and made
Edward duke of Windsor.
Dictator Chang Kai-shek of China
kidnapped in Sianfu by mutinous
troops of Marshal Chang.
Dec. 17-Giuseppe Motta elected
president of Switzerland.
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ger, chief of Poland's air force, killed
in crash with two other officers.
July 18-Fascists and royalists
started revolution in Spain.
July 28-Spanish government
seized all church and school proper
ty and took control of industry and
finance.
Aug. 5-Premier Metaxas OF
Greece set up a dictatorship because
of Communist plot.
Aug. 19-Zionoviev, Kamenev and
IA others pleaded guilty to conspira-
cy to kill Stain and seize control OF
Soviet Russia.
Aug. 23-Russian conspirators SEN
fenced to death.
British liner Queen Mary set new
transatlantic speed record.
Aug. 24-Sixteen Russian conspir-
ators executed by firing squad.
Hitler doubled period of military
training in Germany.
Aug. &c. T. Wang made Chin
csc ambassador to United States.
Sept. 3-Great Britain put Pales-
tine under martial law.
Sept. 4-Calballero, Socialist lead
er, became premier of Spain.
Spanish rebels captured 1run.
Sept. 7-France decided to spend
$500, 100000 on army.
Sept. 11-British trades union con-
gress rejected popular front" ALI
ance with communists.
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Sept. 12-Spanish rebels captured
San Sebastian.
Sept. 18-Spanish 1oyalists dyna-
mited part of Alcazar at Toledo, kill
ing many rebel defenders.
Sept. 25-French government de-
cided to abandon gold standard and
devaluate the franc.
Sept. 27-Spanish rebels captured
Toledo and rescued the Alcazar gar
rison.
Oct. Gen. Francisco Franco be.
came head of the Spanish insurgent
junta.
Austria, regulating the treaty Of
st. German, called 5000 youth fol
compulsory military training.
French parliament passed franc
devaluation bill.
Oct. 4-Serious riots in Paris be.
tween communists and nationalist
Oct. 5-Italy devalued the Ira.
Oct. 11-Arab general strike ir
Palestine against Jewish immigra.
ton called off.
Oct. 14-Belgium dropped all mill
tary alliances.
Oct. 3O-Spanish rebel plane!
bombed Madrid, killing 189.
Military coup forced reorganiza
ton of Iraq government.
Nov,- 3-King Edward of England
opened parliament, pledging the ma
ton to peace.
Nov. 4-Spanish insurgents cap
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Nov. 16-American Federation Of
Labor convention opened in Tampa.
Nov. 17-President r zoos evelt
started on trip to Buenos Aires.
Army board Of engineers recon-
mended completion of Florida ship
canal.
r. G. Tugwen resigned as assistant
secretary of agriculture and resettle-
ment administrator.
Nov. 20-Joseph E. Davis appoint
ed ambassador to Russia.
Nov. 23-U. S. Supreme court up
held New York states unemploy-
ment insurance law.
A. F. of L. convention approved
suspension of rebel &C. I. o. unions.
Nov 25-Federation of Labor vot-
ed again formation of labor political
party.
Nov. 27-American Federation of
Labor convention declared for 30
hour week and reelected President
William Green.
Nov. 28-International Live Stock
show opened in Chicago.
Nov. 29-Herman Strelle of Alder
ia won wheat king title for fifth
time.
Dec. 1-Government chartered
ship sailed for Alaka with food.
Two more unions joined in mari
time workers strike.
Dec. 2-Libby-O wens-Ford Glass
company plant at Ottawa, ILL.,, closed
by strike.
Senator Borah announced opposi-
ton to reduction of French war debt.
Longshoremen at New York boy
cotted French ship.
Dec 3-Dr. F. E. Townsend and
two associates indicted for contempt
of house of representatives.
Automotive workers strike ex-
tended to Goodyear tire plant at Ak
ron, Ohio.
Dec. 4-Republican Charm n
John Hamilton announced he would
submit his resignation ond Dec. II.
Dec. 9-Final election returns
showed Roosevelt's plurality to be
II, $685. 500.
Donald Richberg resigned as spe-
cial assistant attorney general.
Dec. 15-President Roosevelt re-
turned to Washington from South
American trip.
Dec. 17-Republican national COM
mittee rejected Chairman Hamilton's
resignation.
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Foreign

Jan. 1O-Miguel Gomez elected
president of Cuba.
Jan. 17-Eleven acquitted, nine
convicted in great Stavisky fraud
trial in Paris.
Jan. 2O-King George of England
died.
Jan. 21-Former Prince of Wales
proclaimed King Edward VIII.
Jan. 23-Priemier Laval of France
resigned.
Jan. 24-Albert Sarraut formed
new French cabinet.
Feb. 13-French cabinet suppress
ed all royalists organizations because
of riots.
Feb. 16-Leftists won Spanish
elections. S.
Feb. 17-Paraguay government
seized by military revolutionaries.
Rafael Franco made president.
Feb. 19-Manuel Azana made pre-
mier of Spain.
Feb. 26-Japanese militarists re-
volted and assassinated several high
officials; government buildings In
Toxic seized.
Feb. 29-Japan rebellion quelled.
March 9-New Japanese cabinet
headed by Koki Hirota installed.
March 11-Franco made Paraguay
totalitarian state.
March 13-Serious Marxist riots
throughout Spain.
March 14-Franco government in
Paraguay recognized by the United
States and other nations
March 20-Mexican government
permitted reopening of 5000 Catho-
lie churches.
March -Mussolini abolished
Italian chamber of deputies and ma
tionalized all large industries.
President Vargas proclaimed mar
tial law in Brazil.
March 29-Germany gave Hitler
almost unanimous vote in reichstag
elections.
April Austria decreed general
CONSUMPTION, violating St. German
treaty.
April 7-Spanish parliament voted
President Zamora out of office.
April 10-Mexican government
expelled former President Gales.
April 24-Honduran government
announced SUPPRESSION of rebellion
April 25-Eleazar Contreras elect
ed president of Venezuela.
April REORGANIZATION of Commu-
nists and Socialists won majority in
French parliamentary elections.
April 28-King Fuad I of Egypt
died and was succeeded by Crown
Prince Farouk.
May 2-Wafd party won Egyptian
parliamentary elections.
May 3-Coalition of leftists won
control of French assembly.
May 10-Manuel Azana made
president of Spain.
May 13-Prince Won Starhemberg,
vice chancellor of Autria, dropped
from cabinet.
May 15-Chancellor Schuschnigg
of Austria decreed dissolution of all
private armies.
May 17-Bolivian army officers
forced President Sorzano to resign
and named Col. David Toro to sue
coed him.
May 2O-Miguel Mariana Gomez
president of Cuba.
May 30-Miltary revolt started in
June p. H. Thomas, resigned
British colonial secretary, found
guilty of disclosing budget secrets.
June 4-Leon Blum, Socialist, be-
came premier of France.
June million French workers
won strike as employers accepted
MIRA" of Premier Blum.
June 10-Spanish Reds and syn
dicalists fought machine gun battle
at Malaga.
June 15-Pope Plus created two
new Italian cardinals.
June 18-French cabinet decreed
dissolution of all Fascist ofganiza-
ions.
Evening star., 1937-04-06
Dictator: American Style
If Form Arises Here 1t Will Be Because People
"Want a Papa.' Observer Says

we are beginning to fear in America.
We fear we may have head Of state
who will ruthleSsly crush minorities,
who will deny any rights to minorities
or individuals.
The masses of Germans do not call
Hitler a dictator or think Of him as
one. The masses Of Italians do not
call Mussolini one. What the Ger
mans call Hitler is ''Fuerher." And
what the Italians call Mussolini Is
"Duce" The two words, I imagine,
mean much the same to the respec-
tive peoples. They mean leader,
leader in the sense Of a benevolent
leader The term as used in Ger
many and Italy includes an implica-
ton OF fatherhood
"Okay, Chief" Is Americanism.
If America had Mussolini or a
Hitler, and If we had an American
word for him, I should not wonder
if we would call him by some Ameri-
can equivalent Of "Fuerher" or
"Duce" Possibly we might call him
"chief" Instead Of Hell Hitler" we
will say "Okay, chief" Some OF us
already use the term Santa Claus"
II this point Is seen, it will help
toward clear-mindedness about our
American situation. 1t is not merely
what Mr.. Roosevelt Is doing; it is what
the American people are doing. A very
large number of Americans, probably
a majority in the last two elections,
want a papa. They want some one to
lean on, some one who will take care
of them. Provided they think he will
take care Of them, they refuse to
inquire into what else he does. Pro-
vided they think he will use his power
to give them largesse and otherwise
help them, they don't care how he gets
his power or keeps it or increases 1t.
So far as they are concerned, the more
power he has the better. Their attitude
toward Mr. Roosevelt is one which says
"Okay, Chief. go as far as you like"
And when Mr.. Roosevelt makes violent
attacks on those who criticize him,
the papa-minded part of the public
says "Attaboy, go to it, pop, be tough
with EN-" AS respects the proposal
to change the Supreme Court, all the
papa-minded type of person knows
about it is that Mr.. Roosevelt wants
it, and whatever Roosevelt wants is
okay with me"
The kind OF dictator America gets
will not be, in his first phase, the
sWord-in- hand, foot-on-the peoples
necks kind He will become that later,
or his successor will But at first he
will be head of state who solicits the
papa minded part of the people, fat
ters them, incites by violent attack
upon his opponents and critics.
Whether America is now getting that
kind of dictator is for any observer Of
the contemporary scene to see for
himself
I should not want this dispatch to
leave wrong impression in the
readers mind. I agree fully with Miss
Thompson and others that in America
the first steps are now being taken
toward the type of Government and
society that has been set up in several
European countries and which Is called
dictatorship"
tCopyright. 1877
Evening star., 1937-04-06

xLOOcCPClCS II u
manitarian objectives, and to MI.
Roosevelt personally.
Even when Miss Thompson clearly
foresees the consequences OF Mr..
Roosevelt's attempt to change tne
court, even when she realizes that
it is a step toward dictatorship, she
still absolves Mr.. Roosevelt personally.
IT have never suggested Miss Thomp-
son told the committee, that Presl-
dent Roosevelt is trying to establish
a dictatorship" And in radio ad-
dress she added that would be patent
nonsense" Yet in the same sentence
and in many other places, MISS
Thompson declares dictatorship Is
being brought about in America, ana
that the Presidents court proposal Is
step in the process. She told the
committee: If any President wanted
to establish a dictatorship, and 40
50 with all the appearance Of legality,
this is the way he would take
Many besides Miss Thompson, who
see clearly the inevitable consequences
Of Mr. Roosevelts action, nevertheless
exculpate Mr.. Roosevelt from con-
scious intent. This exculpation weak
ems the arguments Of all who claim
America is being taken toward dlcta-
torship. It gives the argument away,
1t is like saying man drives an
automobile every day, but he IS not
an automobile driver. Miss Thomp-
son, unjustly to herself, seems to make
herself illogical-and most decidedly
Miss Thompson is not an illogical
person. One feels like asking Miss
Thompson: "Is Mr., Roosevelt walking
in his sleep or something's The aver
age man is apt to say: How come?
If Mr.. Roosevelt is not trying to
establish a dictatorship, what's all
the shouting about? No one else Is
in a position to establish a Dictator
ship. This talk about dictatorship
must be all hooey"
Now what is the answer to this?
How shall Miss Thompson and others
explain that even though Mr.. Roose-
velt is not consciously trying to estab-
lisl. a dictatorship, nevertheless a
dictatorship IS being established. How
can the public be made to see just
what the danger is?
One source Of confusion lies in use
Of the word dictator" The Ameri-
can public thinks of dictators pri-
marily in terms Of the ancient ones,
especially the Roman ones. They
think of a dictator as a tyrant with a
sword in his hand and his foot on the
neck of a PROSTATE people. A dicta-
tor, they think, is man who holds
his power against the will Of the
people, who crushes them and keeps
them down by means of armed force.
That is the classic meaning of die
tatorship. 1t does not fit the modern
persons to whom we apply the term.
Hitler and Mussolini are called die
tators by Americans-but they are not
called that by their own peoples. Hit
ler and Mussolini do not hold their
positions against the will Of the masses
of the people They do not keep the
masses crushed down by means OF
| force.
The distinction between the con-
ventional dictator and Hitler or
Mussolini is plain "A dictator is a
man who represents minority-and
by force crushes the majority. A Hit
ler or q Mussolini does the opposite.
He represents a majority-and crtlshes
| the minority. That is precisely what
Evening star., 1937-04-06

situation complained Of by the en-
ployers.
If the reasoning used by Senator
Wagner in his speech in Senate last
week were to be followed, then the
refusal of the employers to accept
the Wagner labor relations act and
their insistence on getting court in
functions was in itself provoked by
Wagner and his colleagues who re-
fused to make the national labor rela-
tions act two-sided, in which case the
"sit-down" strike would have been a
violation of the labor relations act.
Then union labor could have like
wise applied for injunctions restrain
ing the courts and until the legality
of the issue had been determined in
an orderly way in the courts sit-down
strikes would have been held in abey-
ance. For the courts usually grant
injunctions whenever destruction Of
property is threatened and the loss
by failure to restrain the complained
of act is likely to involve irreparable
losses while the subject is being ad-
Indicated.
(Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-04-06

and we listened to the kiss you planted
on that kind old face Of Jim Farley"
Molly" DeWson won her spurs
politically when she persuaded up
town New York to vote for Gov.
Roosevelt.
Headed Democratic Women.
With characteristic energy and
humor, she plunged into the 1886
campaign as director Of the Demo-
cratic women's division. Her fair
for terSe and witty statements were
printed in million rainbow flyer"
pamphlets that informed $4,000 pre-
cinct workers on New Deal aims
claims. Her so-called Joke book"
dedicated to Mrs County Leader"
refuted the idea that you mustn't
make jokes in politics" A quarter
million edition caught the voters
fancy.
Molly" Dewson has found the
right woman for the right place IN
executive positions throughout the
New Deal Aggressively, she has
set up a remarkable party organiza-
ton in which women are to have
$3.50 representation with men.
Her "brain-chlld,' the reporter
plan" distributes authoritative in
formation on the New Deal activities
through a State organization as UNI
versal in CoVerage Of homes as the
well-known brush man makes"
You cannot stop such a woman,
She has the brains, initiative and abil-
ity to carry through what she starts.
She had only one setback, in 1922,
when she attempted to win a Dis
trict of Columbia minimum wage case
before the Supreme Court. She losC
by So decision.
Miss DeWson has consistently avoid
ed lines of least resistance. Born in
Quincy, Mass, she Summers in Maine
and votes in New York, her home
She started being a Democrat in a
Republican family at IT.
Because my mind ached and need
ed something to chew on Miss Dew
son stated, II went to Wellesley and
graduated in 1897"
Evening star., 1937-04-06
MOTHER OF D. c. WOMAN
DIES IN MASSACHUSETTS
Funeral Rites Today for Mother
of Mrs. George c.
Duncan,

Mrs. Henry c. Woodin, S6, mother
Of Mrs. Florence w. Duncan, 1900
Seventh street northeast, died Sat-
urday after short illness at her home
in Great Darlington, Mass, according
to word received here Funeral serv-
ices are being held today in Great
Darlington.
Mrs. Duncan is the wife Of ReI DR..
George S. Duncan, retired Presbyterian
minister and professor Of Oriental
history and literature at American
University. Her mother had visited
her and had number of friends here.
She also leaves another daughter,
Mrs. Charles Platt Of Great Barring
ton, and a son, Ray P. Woodin, Flush
ing, Long Island.
Evening star., 1937-04-06


find protection sympathetic court than powerful
method Of
frankly
to ct
Republicans rJefenian
politicians naturally
reudrds) solidarity possible Representative
leader the House, detly
gested judiciary reform sent
Thus he avoided another fight like the battle the public
holding
fellow Chairman House
Judiciary Committee.
isolated vocal than mportantth Southern
delegations responding
the bill firmly Conserva
tives like John Rankin Mississippi Woodum of Virginia
the the Dixie shows that from Texas
Southern Representatives Congress 20 to Is