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The Arizona gleam., 1937-11-12

In loving memeory of Sgt. Geo.
T. Tinsley, who passed away at
Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Ariz-
ona ON July 5, 1887.
Sgt. Tinsley was loyal to his
Country, to his Church, Home
and Friends and is sadly missed
by all who knew and loved him.
"I cannot see you as I could
in by gone days, when near you
I stood and shared the joys and
the griefs that came. But you are
with me, just the same"
Your loving wife,
Della X. Tinsley
The Arizona gleam., 1937-11-12

Burial of Mary Ellen Wilson,
infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Amos Wilson, 1902 West Grant st.
was made last Saturday afternoon
in st. Francis Cemetery.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-11-12

The Doric Masonic Club will
meet at 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon, November 18th at the Ma
sonic Temple, 4th and Jefferson
st. The election Of officers will
be held.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-11-12

Mr.. Robert Mccoy of Kansan
City, Missouri, is a visitor I'M our
city. He is so well impressed with
Phoenix that he may decide to
stay for a while. Until recently
Mr.. Mccoy was connected with
Adkins Brothers Mortuary, well
known morticians Of Kansas City.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-11-12

The Church of God in Christ
has on a financial drive which
will close Sunday. Rev. Rucher
and his congregation will be with
us in the afternoon. Come one.
come all. Our doors stand open
for visitors with a hearty wei
come. The one that raises the
most over SIS will get trip to-
Memphis. Who is that? We
shall know Sunday night. We
are glad to receive members from
East that are coming to West.
Mrs. Orietha Steward, Reporter.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-11-12

The famous Five Soul Stirrers
IF Houston, Texas, a group Of
male singers spent several days in
the city and rendered programs a
several of the churches and over
Station KTAR. They left for
California this week end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
A Long At Last

It will be with some pleasure that Governor Wilbur L. Cross affiXeS his signature to the bill granting jury service to women of the State of Connecticut. The Senate passed the measure yester- day, only five of those senators present and voting, dissenting with the majority, opinion. The final vote was 29 to 5. The House had passed the bill some time pre- viously so all that remains now is to get Governor Cross to sign it, which he surely will, as he has expressed himself favor- ably on jury service for women on many occasions.
 There were all sorts of arguments pre- sented against giving women the right to serve on juries, many of our legislators setting themselves up as psychologists to judge by what they had to say. There were all sorts of references to the need of considering the nature of women and such tripe. All in all what was said is in- dicative of the fact that some of our legis- lators are not aware of the passage of time and the change in nature of the female of the species. What the male has always considered his personal preroga- tives just aren't today.
 Both major parties, we believe, were committed to jury service for women this year. It is, therefore, remarkable to find that both have lived up to their campaign utterances and platform promises this year. And to the women and their organ nations who have fought for jury service year after year this victory must be sweet indeed. We don't look for any startling upsets in court procedure by this change Things should go along just about as they have before and as they do in states where women are and have been serving on juries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Right Across the Street

Once again the subject of an express route across the State of Connecticut linking the metropolises of New York and Boston comes to the fore. This has long been cropping up in the news. We even had attempts several years ago to have private right of way granted diagonally across this state so that toll road might be built and operated by corporation. Naturally Connecticut wasn't giving any such concessions as this and anyway we had the Merritt Parkway bug in our bonnet.
 We still have this latter project on our hands. It looks as if it would be good year longer before we'll have it off them and the road can be traversed by motor ists. Then this will undoubtedly form a link in the proposed route which is sup posed to cut twenty miles off the shortest route between New York and Boston now being used. According to the outline printed in last nights Waterbury Demo- crat the route follows pretty much sev- eral accepted highways now in everyday use.
 But we note that few unimproved roads are to be brought into the picture SO that the complete highway may avoid congested areas as much as possible. In this way only can an express route be built across this state at fairly moder- ate cost. Any other idea along this line could only be developed at cost of mil lions and millions of dollars. By utillz- ing existing roads, even if they require undermining, costs can be kept down and a f1rst-class express, cross-country high way be provided.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

The recent death of J. Hal Steffen in New York City doesn't mean much to the average person, but we'll wager there aren't many of us who at some time or another didn't look at an example of Steffen's art. He was press photog- rapher; had been one for 31 years; and probably was one of the highest-regarded photographers in the news world, Some of his pictures rank with the best in am ateur or professional photography and yet they were simply snapped in the course of an ordinary days work. As camera-man Steffen was without a peer. He was also an ace reporter, although he never wrote news stories. He did his re- porting with his faithful Speed Graphic and more than once offered picture to the news desk that had beat the story itself. He worked on many papers and for many syndicates, but his best work was for New York newspapers. His best pictures were probably those at race tracks and are classic examples of the ponies in action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Sunday Procession

A maple sugar festival in Chardon, Ohio, on recent Sabbath - the first spring-like Sunday this year = attracted 8O,OO0 visitors They poured into the lit tie country town from large area, thou sands and thousands of automobiles nov ing slowly, bumper-to-bumper. And it must have been very late at night when that vast assemblage of motorists got back home.
 From the transportation viewpoint, 1t is an example of what the whole country may expect during the summer and fall. Those who remember the Sunday traffic of 1928 and 1929 will get the idea. Au- tomobile registrations are now past the old boom record, and in spite of strikes, and millions on relief, and debts ana everything else, the number is rolling right up. It is incredible how many new cars you see on the road everywhere. From now on, the Sunday traffic of pleas ure-seekers will be breaking all records.
 And will the crowds have good time? Well maybe. They will not suffer so much from congestion of the highways as they did decade ago, in spite of the more numerous cars, because there are more and better roads now, and fewer "bottlenecks," and the cars run faster, so that the big jams which used to keep homing motorists stalled for miles and hours will be less frequent now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Power For Farms

If rural identification progresses in the next ten years as now appears likely, it should give half billion dollars worth of new business to electrical goods manu- lecturers. That is the estimate of one of them.
 The farmer will use the power that comes over the wires to his door for more than lighting. There will be labor-Saving devices indoors for the housewife laundry equipment, and so on. Outside the house, the new power will be used to pump water, grind feed, operate milking machines and perform other farm oper- ationS.
 That half-billion hardly seems an ex- travagant estimate. Electrical manufac- turers today have an annual business of 35,OOOOO0 from farms already electri- fled. The more electrical gadgets con- sumer uses, the more he wants; and the more current he uses, the better rate the producer can give him and still make a good profit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Stiaed Learning

Not discouraged by the many refusals of invitations to the celebration of the 550th anniversary of Heidelberg last year, another German university is now inviting foreign institutions to attend it's bicentenary. This is Goettingen. A number of English universities have al- ready declined. Oxford is expected to do so soon.
 The refusals are based on the same reasons as last year, with probably new one added. The Goettingen celebrations begin on June 30, date with no partic- ular significance in the institution, but only too we'll remembered as the date of the ghastly Nazi purge" of 1884. That circumstance leads the invited educators to suspect that the occasion will be used as much for current propaganda as for historical tribute. Acceptance might be regarded as approval of the subjection of German scholarship to political pur- poses.
 Since the coming of Hitler in Germany ~ members of Heidelbergs staff of 180 nave been dismissed as have hundreds RprofeSSors and teachers in many other Ngher educational institutions in the aeich. It is said that the lack of resist ance to that stifiing of freedom rose from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Colo15ul Vocabularies Radio Announcers Still Stick to Adjectives That Have Served Them We'll for
 10 Long Years
NEW YORK HERALD-TRrBUNE
10 Long Years

ago among writers and painters who would blush to employ it today, creative" is tenderly preserved and worked overtime, it seems, in teachers jargon. "A recent investi- gation," MT. Eberhart says, reveals that it is employed on an average of 26.6 times an hour at conferences of English teachers. As fate as 1925 it was largely restricted to poems dealing with flora, fauna and un- requited love. Many writers, now, however, are employing it in such terms as creative janitorial service" !"
 According to Word Study" which quotes MT. Eberhart: MT. Eberhart apparently does not know that teacher attending Teachers College several years ago is alledged to have claimed that she had invented the educational CD use of the term, and was therefore entitled to a copyright fee on every employment of it made in educational circles !. and was prepared to collect $173,677 for the use made of the word in Teachers College alone"
 What would the royalties on .'colorful" and outstanding" as used on the radio amount to at only 10 cents word? There is no mathe- matics that could compute them; more shame to these energetic pur- veyors of novelty and glamour, ever announced by the tritest of adjec- tives?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

A song hit lasts how many weeks or days on the radio? Some one has computed it to split second, surely, and it is known to be a short life and gay one. Then how to account for the longevity of certain adjec- tives now overworked for about ten years in the radio announcer's vo- cabulary: "colorful" and "outstand- ing"? In world where nearly all is novelty why not let the old cat die, especially when she is as worn and mangy as "colorful" and "outstand- ing" have been for several years now? If the boys would only forget these words for week or month they might resume life in less pal sled state. But no; hour after hour, through the day and much of the night, these tacky qualifiers re- sound. Broken down and battered as they are, "colorful' and "out- standing" have no rest.
 In the field of education one of the most tormented adjectives, ac- cording to Wilfred Eberhart in "The Clearing House." is creative" First used with junction twenty-five years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
ssConl1nent
WHY DEFEND THE OLD JAILS
 (Hartford Courant)

\E16IIlOTu NOuId1lI/
 After hearing the officials of al- most every public institution 1n Connecticut ask for new and better buildings, what must the members of the General Assembly and the people of Connecticut think of those county officials who protest loudly against a state jail farm? Why should there be so much ardor in defending old and out-moded buildings such as the Seyms street jail in Hartford? No one can argue that according to modern standards, it gives maximum security or full opportunity for segregation, Work, training and exercise. No unquan- fled criticism of those responsible rests upon their administration un- der such handicaps, but their open and aggressive attacks on plans for providing better quarters are cer- tainly open to question. Why should they not seek improvements for the care of jail prisoners on 8 state wide basis, just as do those m charge of the state prison, the re- formatory, the farm for women ana the state hospitals for the mentally ill and deficient?
 The only answer is that they are not looking at the problem in the same light. They are not taking statewide view, but county view. They are not thinking about the reduction of offenses but of the preservation of the jail population under their administration. A full iail to them means good business" with a full allotment of jobs for guards and of orders for supplies. No one perhaps can blame them for this narrow view. They are not penologists first and elected county officials last, but just the reverse. The blight of institutionalism IS firmly fixed on these old jails just as it once was and in some cases still is on the county temporary homes for children. what the jail farm offers the state is just the reverse Of en- Itrenched institutionalism. It is a lab. oratory to cure and to prevent rep etition of offenses by scientific means that include careful medical and social diagnosis, segregation practical training for future sell support and sufficient work to pro- mote health and good habits. This approach is directly in line with other preventive work against di- sease, unemployment and crime. wise county off1cials see this. and welcome the jail farm plan as they did plans for giving every child q home as nearly normal as possible. That way lies hope for reform Of the county system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

A total of 43O children were taken into custody for various minor offenses breaking trees and plants, skating, cycling, and racing about the buildings. The Capitol Plaza with its Sleek-paved sidewalks is choice skating area, but the sport is prohibited be- cause of fear of accidents. When arrested, children are taken to their homes after a reprimand de- livered in the guard-roor1.
 Merry Col Round
 A press photographer got into the Supreme Court room with candid camera recently, but as he was about to shoot" the Nine, he was apprehended by a guard. Mrs. Owen Roberts, wife of the Philadelphia lawyer who be- came a supreme court justice, tells her friends that she now feels Philadelphia is a provincial town" compared with Washington :. Poe Conrad Aiken was on relief when Federal Writers Project picked him up for editorial work on the Boston Guide. Aiken won the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1929. His present WPA wage $96 month Democrats in the House have taken to twitting Republican Ralph E. Church by calling him not "the gentleman from Illinois" but e"the gentleman from Evanston" - a fashionable suburb outside of Chicago.
 Copyright, 1887, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

It must be noticeable to good many people that local authorities are tighten ing up on the liquor laws. Just glance at the raids and also the doings in the traf- fic court That will show how the police are going after the boys who believe the liquor laws were made to be broken. Only in this way can anyone ever be satisfied with the present set-up. And if we are to prevent a return of prohibition which is already on the lips of the drys, it will only be through strict enforcement of the law and as strict observance of it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
A Book a Day
Here's an Engrosing Picture of an Era

"The Old Bunch" by Meyer Levin (Viking: $3), has been, for this re- viewer, at least, one of the most en- crossing books of the season. Here is a book possessing such power, such terrific vitality, that one can honestly say, T could scarcely put it down until I'd finished" And bear in mind that the novel is 964 pages long.
 "The Old Bunch," although it is principally the saga of dozen Jew ish boys and girls brought up in the same Chicago neighborhood, leaves untouched nothing which happened in the world from 1911 to 1884. The odyssey of every class of society, from top to bottom, in those years is told here with veracity, penetra- tion, and fiexibility.
 From Chicago, its slumS, its suburbs, its universities, to Paris, to Palestine, to Greece, to Green wich Village, to Poland and back to Chicago for the Century of Progress runs the book, speaking with the voice of all the people. The people described in this book are more than just a group of Jew ish youths in Chicago. They are, in the truest sense of the word, "all- American" In them you will rec ognize yourself and your old gang. That these people happened to grow up in Chicago is coincidental. Others like them could be found at the same time everywhere from New York to Kankakee and turned out much the same.
 For a picture of an era and the kind of people it produced, this book is hard to beat. As entertainment, it is unsurpassed.-E. M. T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

the fact that many of the persons who would normally have been in the fore front of opposition were themselves re- moved and unable to speak, while others were afraid to do so. Many, of course, may have persuaded themselves that this suppression was for the common good. But to outside educators and thinkers Germany appears to have little cause for calling attention to its universities now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

@. Which president wrote his own epitaph?
 A. Thomas Jefferson wrote the following: Here lies Thomas Jeff ferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute for Religious Freedom in Virginia, and founder of the University of Vir- ginia."
 @. I am 16 years old, employed as housemaid, and live away from home. Since I am entirely Self-sup- porting and contribute ten dollars g month to my parents, can my fath- CT control the delivery of my mail?
 A. No. Mail addressed to a minor who is not dependent upon a parent for maintenance and support, and who does not reside with a parent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

Eighteen states will turn to daylight saving time at the end of this month. Six Canadian provinces will likewise join the procession not to mention ten foreign countries. It starts Sunday, April 9, this year, none too early in this writer's estimation, and will end Sunday, Septem- Der 26, which we have always thought was one month too soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15


 1. Who wrote Merry Wives oi Windsor? 9. Through which two states does the Androscoggin river flow? 3. What sort of material is hair cloth? 4. Who was vice-president dur ing the Wilson administration?
 5. What is depilatory? 6. Name the known major plan- cts of the solar system. 2. When will the next popula- tion of the U. s. be taken? 8. What is aphasia2 g. On what bay is Miami, Fla.S 10. What does the French phrase Ne passeront pas" mean?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Selected Poem
APRIL BABIES

(By Elizabeth Newport Hepburn Courtesy
 Good Housekeeping Magazine It may be merely fantasy I cannot tell you why But April babies seem to me Like bits of smiling sky. They come when gardens wake; they seem Alert, expectant, gay; They laugh, they cry, but tears soon dry Upon an April day. And all through life these April folk Keep something of the spring; They love to plant and prune and poke In gardens, love to sing; They lift your mood like joyful birds, Love you enchantingly. They work with seeds, or paint, or words, Knowing grief-and ecstasy. Could choose now, I'd be wild, Dream-haunted, elfin April childl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

TODAYsS COMMON ERROR Never say, "He was superior in ever way than his father; say, Superior to his father in every way"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
U. s. And France Thumbs Down
 On New York Paris Air Race
anA RODKRI @ AE1RlQ
N DREW REARSOBg

WASHINGTON, April Is. = It is still an official secret but the widely touted New air race scheduled for this summer is off The spectacular con- test was conceived by the French Government to con memorate the tenth anniversary of Colonel Charles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

If you want a copy of our book let on LAWNS" write the Wa. terbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1912 Thirteenth Street. Northwest, Washington, D. c. Enclose 4 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
T e st Y o UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

or guardian or with some one in whose charge he may have been placed, must be delivered to the minor, or in accordance with his instructions. tss
 @. How long has the animated cartoon character, Mickey Mouse,n been featured on the screen? M
 A. The first presentation of a4 I Mickey Mouse comedy, Steamboat l Willie" was at the Colony Theater, in New York, September 28, 1928.
 e. What is bees milk?
 A. The secretion from head glands of adult bees. It, is used for feeding young bees.
 c. Name the officers who were present at the surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomat- tox Court House. t | A. General Robert E. Lee and Col. Marshall of his staff were the, <, Confederate officers and Gen. U. s. ! Grant, Gen. Phil Sheridan, Gen. } Rawlins, Col. Badeau, and Col. Ely Parker, represented the Union Army.
 | o. Why do postmasters or postal employees always sell stamps with the glue side up? - l A. Paragraph 3 of section 137 Postal Laws and Regulations reads: ITO prevent the spread of disease, postmasters and post-office employ les who sell postage stamps shall :, hand them to purchasers in such ! manner that the gummed surface will not come in contarct with the base of the stamp window" 4s If you want a copy of our book let on LAWNS" write the Wa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
A Thought for Today

have showed you all things, how that so Iabouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said, It Is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 2O:35.
 Examples are few of men ruined by giving. -Bovee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

(By Elizabeth Newport Hepburn-Courtes!
 Good Housekeeping Magazine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-15
HUNCARYSTARTS
 TOPAY WAR DEBT

Washington, Dec. iBr-tUp)-- Hungary today made a debt token payment to the United states and thus became the first nation among ib to resume payments since the general foreign default Oil American debts began in io32. Finland haA paid regularly oil the time.
 Hungarian Minister John Pelenyi called nt the state department td announce officially that his gov' ernniOnt rendered the United States c check for 1o,o00 as Q gefni.ainual irStailment on It's debt. Attaches said the check actually was to be presented by the Hungarian cotiBul- general to the Federal Reserve bank In New York where 1t viii Dc ae- credited to the account of the United States Treasury.
 The amount is only half Of one per cent of what Hungary normally would pay. It is part Of c pian announced by the Hungarian gov. ernnnent to pay the United States one per cent Of what it owes fof At least three years. After that come other arrangement may Dc adopted by negotiations.