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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
CHRISTMAS THEME
 OF PASTORS TALK
Rev. Dr. Walker Urges All Not to Forget Worthy
 Values of Holiday

"In all our getting and in ell our giving, let us not forget the larger, deeper, worthier values of the Christmas season." said Rev. John 0. Walker, pastor of the Second Congregational church, in his ad- dress yesterday morning.
 He said in part: "This happens to be the Second Sunday in Advent and although we belong to @ reli- gious tradition which made very little of Christmas and nothing at all of the Advent season in the years gone by, am of a mind to speak somewhat of these matters this morning. Tn these days of growing understanding among the church, we do well, feel, to profit by some of the good customs and traditions which have been followed in other churches. We of the Congregational faith and order need not to be afraid to borrow Q little here and there because we are not ashamed of our own tradition and witness. We have something to give to that larger and more inclusive church, something of New Testament sifrls plicity, something of wise tolerance, something of wide religious liberty, something of sound democracy in religion, without which that united church which is to be must fail of its God-given destiny.
 "So 1t is that have been doing Q little reading, and I beg you to do q little devotional reading, appropri- ate to the Advent season. may confess that I did not borrow the first text in the first Advent sermon I happened to find. I discovered that one of the worthies of pre- Reformation days chose as his text for sermon for Advent words from St. Paul, Now 1t Is high time to awake out of sleep It would seem to be @ dangerous note upon which to begin a sermon in these days, still more dangerous perhaps to use as q final appeal to action at the close of Q sermon.
 "Wisely or no. appropriately or not, have taken our text in the Book of Exodus and I have found our theme in the story of the call of Moses. No one can understand the full significance of Christmas without knowing something of the long history of the, travail of Israel. Foolish and thoughtless people have sometimes said how strange that Jesus should have been born Jew. I say to you that there Is nothing more appropriate, nothing more in- evitable in history than this stub- born fact, Jesus was Jew! The Hebrews had no genius for art or architecture, they were not the great builders, neither were they the great conquerors, of the ancient world. Tn the eyes of their contemporaries the Jews were feeble folk of lit- tie power and less moment in the affairs of nations"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

change for South American pro- ducts.
 The Japanese cards are being played differently. It is estimated that a third of all Brazilian cotton is grown by Japanese immigrants. Paraguay and Peru have impor- tant Japanese colonies.
 Japanese were for a time pour ing into Brazil at rate of 25,000 a year, but the bars have been put up there and in most South American states. The Brazilian Senate, alarmed, revoked 8 grant of 100000 acres of cotton land by Amazonas State, which would have amounted to a little Japan" in the Amazon basin.
 With all this, there is just enough Communist agitation steered by the Third Internationale and centering on Chile and Ecuador, to add to the continental jitters. The aims and methods of this invasion are roughly the same as those of the Fascists, though less successful. But they have been successful enough to provide a Fascist rally ing point against the Communist menace"
 Mixed With Propaganda
 The entire continent is contin- ually sprayed with radio pro- grams from the powerful German short-wave stations at Nauen and zeesen. The programs, in Castilian and dialect Spanish, or Portu- guese, according to the section aimed at by time and wave-length, often come in better than local stations.
 Music, folk =, songs, plays, Ger man lanugage lessons, news" and general programs are presented in such a way that many listen for long time before they realize that the source is Germany.
 Nazi propaganda is of course mixed into the programs in such way as to be unobtrusive but effective. It is all a part of the worldwide German program of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
Service Curtailnent
 Protested By Smith
Congressman Takes East Canaan-NOrfOlk Fight to
 COmmissiOn-N. H. Road Plans to Discontinue Line

revenue is, of course, the chief irl- come, and 1t would be loss cf freight service which would prove the most serious hardship to the people of Norfolk. For the record however, 1t is worth considering, think that the ski trains in 1885 had revenue of $5,240, and in 1936, when the snow- fall was very low, revenue of $1,167.
 Partly Discontinued
 "While the petition for abandon ment of track describes the length of the line as 15.l2 miles, the prac- tical fact is that sos miles has ale ready been discontinued with the permission of the Interstate Con- merce Commission, and the actual remaining service is 8.09 miles, from East Canaan to Norfolk Summit. Continuance of freight service IS asked by the people of Norfolk only to the Norfolk station, and not to Norfolk Summit, so that the main tenance costs would involve a dis tance of only 6.34 miles, and any es- timate of future costs should De on this basis and not on the basis of 15.12 miles.
 Abandonment of the freight ser- vice between East Canan and Nor. fold would compel receivers Of freight in Norfolk to trusk the freight from East Canaan or rom Winsted, which I consider an tn- warranted hardship in view Of the amount of bushes done by the corm- munity of Norfolk.
 Tt is my earnest hope that this service may be maintained as recom- mended by the Connecticut Punhc Utilities Commission"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

Editor, Tall Tower Topics was recently entertained by very enghtening epise from the worthy and es- timable Dog Warden of our city-Coleman OLoughlin ! never realized there much romance in the roe ot
 as he revealed in his soulstrring lines But perhap Dr. OLoughn wasting his talents on the des- ert ar-the city-yards-and should be devotng more 1 time to bellesettres the srophe the dacy and the like and produces relaxed contented condition in the anil
 als and reards the dogs from barking" pierced me to nouncement that nght-watchman is always duty to care for homesick CUTS What solicitude You know, Mr. Editor if were bit suspicious, would say that Mr. OToughin has ghost-writer. Now I'm not mentioning any names but have heard something like the Dog War des tribute the dogpound before Could it be the one and only gentleman of three initials? F. PlurlouS Multum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

binding to the homeland (and to Hitler) the 100000 German citi- zens and 10,000,000 people of Ger man extraction living abroad.
 South America is growing up. It's place in world economy is a great one. It was great enough in 1914 for German and British fleets to fight 1t out off Chile (Coronel, Falkland Islands) for the road to nitrates, beef, and wheat. It is greater today.
 South America standards of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
DARTMOUTH ALUMNI
 TO VIEW PICTURES

Motion pictures taken at Dart mouth and of the various games played by the Dartmouth football team during the past season will be shown at Q dinner meeting or the Dartmouth club of Waterbury at The Elton, Wednesday night. Plans will be made for the local celebra- ton of Dartmouth night in Feb ruary, and also for the state alumni meeting to be held here next spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
Waterburian Placed
 On Leagues Staff

Chase Kimball, of Waterbury, was chosen a vice-president ct Q meet ing Saturday at Hartford Of the Connecticut branch of the League of Nations association which met Jointly with the Connecticut Peace Conference. Four seminars on world peace were held at afternoon and evening sessions of the groups with about 250 persons attending.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

living are rising. Wealth and cap- ital are accommodating. It IS Q rich continent, and the inside track is paved with prosperity. That is why the scramble for South Ameri- ca IS becoming so hectic today.
 TOMORROW: The United States, temporarily eclipsed in South Amer lea, struggles by the good neighbor" policy and more direct means, to keep strong 8 natural trade and po- litical kinship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

Yo Yo's are in season once more. School boys and girls buying them left and right You can see them ward daily They sell for i've ten and twenty-five cents apiece. Recently Filipino invaded South School in Oakville and gave Yo YO demonstration. A contest was held and Robert BrOwnell of the eighth grade walked off with ton honors If you don't think the Yo No disease isn't spreading among schOolboys and schoolgirls, ask TOfe George.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
Today's short story

Todays short story Radio Operator John w. Taylor dozed off in his seat in the cockpit of the army plane Pilot Paul c. Ashworth was humming away to himself as the plane zoomed towards the landing field at San Rafael Calf Occasionally he glanced at his companion and chuckled. He sighted familiar land mark and centered attention his controls Taylor opened his eyes suddenly He blinked then strengthened in his eat; cornfeld coming right up to meet him, and coming awfuy fast too Taylor was trained to act promptly and impulse moved him faster than it did then. With movements that were almost simultaneous he out of his seat out of the plane and pulling the rpcord of his parachute. He landed safely but sad dandy pilot wonder what happened He looked around there the plane making as graceful land Taylor had awakened as Ashworth went into steep bank preparatory to pulling into the field He's Rip Cord" Taylor in the corps now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

It reflects interests and lnnuenceS in South America which have crept in almost unnoticed while the Uni- ted States was preoccupied with fighting the depression.
 The Monroe Doctrine, now backed by all the countries of North and South America, prevents any Eur opean or Asiatic country from es- tablishing colonies in South Ameri- ca. The old technique of actual con- quest by armed force, or virtual conquests by loans and investments, however, is going out of date.
 There Is a New Method
 Today there are better ways of getting all the practical advantages of colonies without the responsibil- ity. That is the game that is being played in South America today by hungry European and Asiatic na- tions.
 It is not too much to say that there is a scramble for South America today that is like the scramble for Africa 100 years ago.
 Italian Fascism, Japan csc Imperialist expansion, American democratic freedom, and Third 1n- ternationale Communism are all struggling for the advantages which would come from the great, rich continent to the south.
 Nobody is going to land an army in South America and take possess sion. The new method is smoother. This is how it works:
 You take @ nucleus of your for- mer citizens who have settled in the new country. You keep them linked closely to the homeland by inces- sant radio broadcasts, appeals to racial or nationalistic "culture." You prepare them to agitate for a gove- ernment in the new land similar to that in the old one. You grant trade concessions that are irresistible even though at temporary loss. You send military and police missions, sell arms, exchange students, offer scholarships.
 Then, should the government of the new country waver and fall, you are in position to see that the new government is a carbon-copy of the one at home, linked to 1t as closely as to be practically a colony, though nominally independent.
 They All Draw Cards
 That is the game in South Amer ica today, and Germany, Italy, Ja- pan, the United States, Britain and Russia have all drawn cards.
 In considering Brazil, for instance, a country larger than the United States and containing unknown treasurer of iron ore, 1t is well to remember that 35 per cent of her 45,300,0 people are of Italian ex- traction.
 There are a half-million Japan csc and nearly that many Germans.
 Practically all of them are ac- tive and ardent supporters of Mus- solini, Hirohito and Hitler reSpec- lively. That has 8 tremendous weight on Brazilian politics. The Integralistas or Green Shirts there have been claiming up to a mil- lion members.
 In Argentina, 35 per cent of the 12,300,00 people are also of Italian extraction, and in Uruguay it is 30 per cent.
 An Italian mission is now train- ing the Peruvian police in a coun- try whose government is tottering under the confusion of 13 political parties.
 No Little Japan Grant
 Both Germany and Italy offer military scholarships to young cadets of South American armies. Bolivia and Chile both have Ger man military advisers with their armies, and both Italy and Ger many are making attractive offers for arms and battleships in ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
SONGS THAT NEVER DIE
sx TEE MAN IN THE TOWER

Just a song at twilight
 When the lights are low, Seated at the old black upright
 In the bright fires cheerful glow. In the gloaming, do you remember
 The much thumbed album thickT In all that collection of songs
 You could take your pick. What poignant tones were articulated
 When you sang oh, for the wings of doVe' Songs dripping over with sentiment,
 contrast to the modern squaWks about love- Thy sentinel am I, oh baritonesl
 And those intrepid two grenad1ers, Songs of the sea, songs of the land
 Songs that brought joy and tears Just song at twilight,
 Melodies of sorrow and laughter Did you like the ones of old
 Or radios it's love I'm after.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Stan Correspondent

hundred Latin American revolutions in the last 100 years have produced nothing than yawn in the United States.
 But the d-ardfrst has kinded longoverdue n terest in what is going south of the Rio Grande
 Brazil which has confirmed Getuio Vargas position as Brazs strong not just another palace that playing over all Gen. and South America-forces political and economic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
CABLE OPENING TO BE
 MARKED

Honolulu (U.Pj--IIawai VII celebrate early next year the 3!th anniversary of it's linking 70 the United States by c 4,4l3-mile-long trans- Pacific cable system from San Francisco to Honolulu.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

Until qite recently, there was g mo mans land" in Switzlerand. A small triangular acreage was set aside more than 100 years ago as Q refuge for wayfarers without . Country."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
Out of the past.

Out of the past. Preparing and sending out
 most of the 5000 odd cachets that the Democrat got out for the First Day Sale of the Connecticut Tercentenay stamp Later buying up few sheets of the same is- sue at the local PO when news of reported error ln sheets heard. They're still collecting desk dust Grand Street when the Democrats then sports ed Clar ence Cassn, tossed them out every time Babe" Ruth glimpse of the late Connie" Hayes, aceeporer for the Democrat long period banging out copy on one of those old Smith typewrters with the double keyboard
 The old-fashioned Christmas joke of sending one Ci those huge pictures with highly ornamental frame and weighing perhaps 20 or 30 pounds around to friends Lining up for the second show Sunday night at the Garden Theater when it played to Standing Room Only"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

Brainlessness. Don't let anybody call you hadrosaurus unless you don't object to being called ''numbskul "bonehead" This hadrosaurus lived m Montana 1OO 900 year ago. It was huge creature with head more than two feet long and crest like the comb of rooster In all that twofeet of head the creature carried only two ounce brain The scientists think it must have been the dumbest animal that ever lived and left its bones to be assembled in museum
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
ARTIcIEs Brazilian Dictatorship SpOtlightS Four Forces Fighting to Control South America
Imperialism, Communism and Fascism Fight Democracy
 for Political Dominion

This is the first of amazing political situation threat of foreign influence which has stirred deeply interest of the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
ToDAY's SHOPPING LIST

Today it's handkerchiefs, stockings and books, The more one buys the more one looks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06

and l 
  hretsOr for the American
The Washington times., 1937-02-22
In Peace and War

THE tragedy aboard the y. S. S. Wyoming, in which
the premature explosion of shell killed six Marines
outright and wounded eleven more-one fataly-re-
minds the American people that even in peace time their
defenders constantly exposed to danger and DEATH
The highly complicated mechanism which is modern
battleshp, the drills and maneuvers under conditions
approxmang those Of war; the constant chance of acci
dent make service in the Navy pastime.
The land and air forces also face hazards which some
times develop into fatalities in spite of all precautionary
measures.
The Nation remembers sadly the loss Of dozen young
Army pilots called upon to fly the mails without the
training or equipment necessary in the emergency
Yet there word of complaint from the Army.
Orders are orders, and however mistaken, must be
obeyed.
The sympathy of all Americans goes out to the fam
flies of the Wyoming victims, the admiration Of all to
the GOODNESS with which the ships company acted.
And there is the further thought pertinent indeed at
the close of National Defense Week. that the of the
service stand ready always to risk their lives for the
security Of the people Of the United States.
The more need therefore, that the people should make
adequate return by program of COMPLETE PRE-
PAREDNESS Without that, the armed forces of the
Nation cannot carry out their duty NO NATTER HOW
COURAGEOUS AND SKILFUL the officers and men
may be.
The Washington times., 1937-02-22

lot to many girl-Why aren't
we girls told the facts which
we need to know as wives and
mothers? Why don't our mothers
talk to us about them?
"I am sure that If mothers
explained things in a quiet,
friendly way, great good would
be done. 1t would make the
most irresponsible girls think
seriously, and it would dispel
the ignorance which, I feel sure,
is the real cause of most girls
delinquency.
colder people misunderstood
us. They think because we wise
crack that we know everything.
They do not know how ignorant
most of us really are, how un-
protected not only against men
but also against our own ma
lures.
Instead of telling US these
things themselves, in q beauti-
full and dignified way, our moth.
ers let us get our information
from the most questionable
sources. What should be q sa-
cred experience comes to US &C
cOmpanied by nasty jokes, filthy
and often untrue talk.
"a few really nice girls whom
/ know, in their need to know
the truth, obtained books on this
subject. But when their parents
discovered the books, they took
them away or forbade them to
read them.
"OF ALL THE GIRLS I
KNOW, NOT ONE HAS RE-
CEIVED THIS INFORMATION
FROM THE RIGHT AND
NATURAL URGE HER
MOTHER.
This is inSufferably stupid.
1t is bound to result in unhappy
concealment or disaster. Life
has never been as dangerous
for girls as it is today. But If
some poor girl does make mis-
take, everyone bIames her and
pities the mOther-when it
should be the other way around.
''MOthers-as a girl, beg you
to help US. Let US come to you
without reserve. Do not try to
cover all the facts in one
hurried, embarrassed talk.
Start when we first begin ask
ing questions about little things,
and let the confidence and in
formation gradually grow. We
will do our share to become
The Washington times., 1937-02-22
Id - = - By Elsie Robinson
EN- GIRL MAKES MISTAKES -BLAME THEIR MOTHERS"

; DRINK AND SMOKE TEN.
PERATELY IN THE HOME,
OR SHOULD THEY REFUSE
TO ADMIT THAT SUCH GUS
TOMS EXIST AMONG MOD.
ERN YOUNG PEOPLE AND
CLOSE THEIR EYES TO THE
FACT THAT THEIR OWN
BOYS AND GIRLS ARE IN
DULGENG WHENEVER THEIR
BACKS ARE TURNED?"
There's Jane Bigelow'S RumpuI
Raiser, and we're giving her the
third S. prize, not because we en-
dorse her plan, but because we
know the subject she discusses il
one of the most-debated problems
in America today.
Dear Miss Robinson:
Have you ever sat in a night
club where a lot Of really nice
young people were cOngregated,
and wondered how many
mothers and fathers knew that
their children were sitting there
drinking and smoking? Not 50
per cent, I wager. And always
it's the child Of the fanatical
parent who smokes or drinks to
excess.
Because boys and girls are
forbidden to smoke and drink,
there's q thrill to it. Take that
thrill away, and they'll not drink
half as much.
"Let them smoke ut home.
Offer them q drink whenever
you have one. Wouldn't parents
rather know their children drink
and smoke than have some
buSybOdy come and tell them?
Many young folks don't dare
smoke in front Of Mother and
Dad, but as soon as they're out
Of sight, out come the cigarettes
or hip flask.
"YOu and 1 know that practl-
cally every girl or boy is going
to smoke and drink, no matter
WAGO OAACAE PHECAGS OAAANk &UVUb
1t. why force then to sneak?
Wouldn't 1t be better to estab-
lish a bond Of confidence, and
let them learn to drink and
smoke in moderation in the only
safe place-the home?
"JANE MAE BIGELOW,
"Age 18,
mt. Prospect, ILL.,"
Again, many parents may pro
test the printing Of such a letter
But we warned you we were pre-
Senting the world AS Is.
Do you want to know the truth
about your boy and girl, so thai
you may help and guide them
Or do you, because of your owl
prejudices, prefer to blind you
eyes, and erect a barricade Of SuS
picion and deception?
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-02-22
.Marry-GO-ROund
Bv Helen ROWLGnd

Agirl goes in for what It's prophets
call "free love experience, she
soon finds out that the man gets
all the freedom while she gets
nothing but the experience. It
means that he Is free to step out
whenever he has q change OF heart
q change Of mind, or sees a newer
or younger face-while she Is tree
to step out Of the way, ana LIKE
it!
Besides, no woman really wants
to be free! Even those who go to
Reno generally carry their hope
chests along with them and step
from the divorce court right to the
altar for a new pair Of handcufts.
It Is woman's nature to want to
"belong," and it may sound very
noble and generous and broad
minded for a disciple Of these
"free" theories to say that ne
wants his wife "to have perfect
liberty to seek romance or ad.
venture" But just let her try it!
Then he discovers that he's really
atavistic, and promptly reaches
for q club!
Only the dumb have to learn en-
tirely by experience that the secret
Of successful marriage is not "free-
dom" but teamwork. And that no
couple can do good teamwork
while pulling in opposite direc-
tions. They're bound to smash
the harness!
Copyright, 1897, by King Features
| Syndicate, Inc.)