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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-23
FRANCIS HAYES
 BANQUET GUEST
Doctor to Be HOnOred d Tuesday Evening at
 EIks Hall Party

pr. Francis I. Hayes will be guest of honor at Q testimonial banquet next Tuesday vening at Elks' hall. The event will be in honor of his recent marriage to Miss Josephine Connors.
 Thomas P. Kelly, executive sec- retary to Mayor Frank Hayes, will be toastmaster.
 Among the speakers will be Con- gresSman J. Joseph Smith, Albie Booth, Yale football star; James w. (Chick) FitzPatrick, Dr. Louis V. Hayes, of New York, brother of the honored quest; Dan Parker, New York sports columnist; Judge John F. McGrath, Judge Edward Mascolo, Dr. r. J. Shugrue, Hartford; Dr.. Frank Vaill, Hartford; Dr. William c. Harlow, New Haven; Edward J. Mcdonald and Boxing Commits sioner Joseph H. LaWlor.
 The committee in charge of ar- arrangements has arranged an ell- tertaipnnnt program. Those on the committee are Christopher J. Fitz- 8ASSOAAo, OAAUAAAuAAp AAs D. As - 6AssA 0J Jr., co-chairman; Jams Mccarthy, John Flaherty, Francis O'Donnell, John Brennan, Louis Bria.
 Martin Bergin, Patrick Bergin, Edward Keenan, William J. Clasby, Joseph Maloney, Dr. Howard Hogan, Dr. Jack Apirian, Dr. Joseph Borch- Ardt, Dr. M. A. O'f1ara, Dr. Harry Levin, Dr. John J. Mullen, Dr.. Henry Mc0rath, pr. Samuel Atkins, Dr. Vincent Shea, Dr. T. J. Tobin, Dr. John w. T'ruin, Joseph F. Mul- vile, Francis Feley, James T. Gal- win, Thomas F. Flanagan.
 John Freney, Donald Donahue, Thomas Mccarthy, Mert Connors, William J. Cavanaugh, Dennis Rear don, Henry J. Bowling, Dr. E. j.. Godfrey, Dr. Carroll Culhane, John (Chick) Kelley, William P. (Hank) O'Donnell, John A. Cluney, Patrick Mulligan, John J. Mulligan, John Brown, Michael Ryle, George F. F. Barry, Conrad Larson and Cor nelius Moynihan.
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Testimonial. Arranged
 For President Shea
Dnner.DanCe Planned in Honor of "MayOr of The
 EII'-New Uniforms For Popular Drum Corps
WASHINGTON HILL

diction of e committee representing the Washington park fife and drum corps. Formerly known as the St. Francis Xavier fife and drum corps 1t was for reorganization purposes that the change in name and juris- diction was brought about.
 Primarily, the corps Is composed of the same members that formed the nucleus of the St. Francis Xavier unit. but several new and younger members are now taking important part. Aside from this there are also several girl members of the corps, and a bugle section has been preparing itself and will be infused with the corps within e short time.
 One of the principal reasons for the compactness and unity of the carnival which they will sponsor corps is the competitive meet and commencing September 30. Elabo- rate plans have been prepared and with the cooperation of the friends and admirers of the unit, success will be undoubtedly met.
 Three Day Event
 The three-day event will be in- augurated with e parade in which five drum corps will participate, in.
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cluding the sponsoring group, St. Joseph's, St. 9tanislaus, Columbus Boys club of Thomaston, and Q girls corps from the same city. Fol- lowing the parade the visiting corps will participate in contest to de- termine the best playing group, with appropriate trophies to Dc awarded.
 The opening parade will be led by the Washington park corps and will be formed ct Library park, from where 1t will travel Grand, Union, Baldwin and Luke streets to the park. A large turnout of automo- bileS and novelties will make 1t an attractive procession.
 The drum corps committee, which is responsible for the arrangements includes Mrs. Henry A. Hayden, William Kelly, Martin Tehan, John Dalton, Arthur IPrageau, Ambrose eculiy, Ted Donahue. Frank sturges, William Qaughan and James dlad- ney. Members of the corps on the general committee are Gene Ford, William Regan, James Hartnett Edward HArtnett and Patrick Mur- phy.
 At Q recent meeting of the com mittee Frank Sturges was elected chairman of the booths committee; William Kelly, music; Mrs. Henry Hayden, purchasing; Arthur Fra geau, country store stand to be op. erated by the Earbenders; Mrs. Michael Kelly, cake booth, assisted by Mrs. Patrick Ford, Mrs. Catherine Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Albert Centerbar, Mrs. William Kelly and Mrs. James Rainey. Martin Connors was ap- pointed to supervise the committee on bingo; Joseph Donahue, candy concession to be in charge of the Gents of the Hill. John Shea, Wash- ington Hill Companionship club concession, and Frank SturgeS, the booth to be operated by the Com- munity club.
 Reunion Plans
 Past leaders and members of troop 9 of the Boy Scouts of America, St. Francis's parish, will meet tonight in the parish hall to discuss ar- arrangements for e reunion which will take place within the month. Lead CTS of the council will take part in the. activities.
 William J. Gaughan is chairman of the committee for the affair and with a large number of former members of the troop volunteering their services to assist in the ar- rangements,, definite announcement shpuld be forthcoming after to- nights meeting. Several past lead- srs and members of the troop at- tended a similar session to make plans last Thursday night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-23
ARE YOU ONLY A HREE.0UARTER WIFE?

TVHBRn are certain things A \ wonaaa has to put up with and bO . good sport.
 Men, because they arc men, can neveT understand q threo-uuarter wife--A wtfo who is ell love and kindness thrOe weeks in c month and hell cat the rest os the time.
 No matter how your back aches mo matter how loudly your noeves ocream~-don't talte it out on your husband.
 For threegpnerAtion one woman has told andthee how to 60 ''sniI- ing through" with LydiR E. Pink hams . Vegetable Comp pe'und. It helps Nature tone up the system. thus lessening tue discomfogts from ehe functional dissrders which women must endure in the three ordeAls of llBe: |. Turning from girlhood to womanhood, 2. Pre- pairing for motherhood. .. A@ proaching middle age."
 Don't be Q three-qunrtsr wifs. eake LYDIA E. p1NKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go Smiling Through"
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a place where music end dancing would accompany the service oI meals.
 Located in such a general position. and with plenty Of parking space, the new room of the Hotel Elton should rapidly become accepted ae e popular dining and dancing place.
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ton of the adjoining piazza and its inclusion also in the new room and of course the laying of a new dance floor.
 The dome in the present ceiling will provide excellent space for c beautiful lighting system and in conjunction with this the ceiling will
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be made lower by about two feet. All furniture and equipment placed in the new room will be in accord with the hotels aim to place 1t on a par with similar spots in New
 York. Mir. Jennings emphatically stated that 1t was not to be con- sidered c night-club, but simply as
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Approximately 100 couples will hon. or John P. Shea, at a testimonial dinner-dance at Moynihan's Hitch- cock Lake inn, one week from to- night, Thursday evening, Sept. 30. Arrangements are being made by members of the Washington Hill Companionship club, of which MT. Shea is president. ..
 Tickets Issued in conjunction with the dinner-dance state: "Testimo- nial Dinner Dance in Honor of John
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MARRIAGE INTENTIONS
 The following marriage inten- tlons have been filed at the office of the town clerk:
 Frank A. Pope, A Crescent street, and Lucy DiorlO, % Alder
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LATE REALTY
Warranty Deed,

Warranty Deeds: Liberator Giscci to D. Donald Zappone, property on Befkley Heights.
 Mortgage Releases: Peter J. Willis to Michael AkelaltiS and others.
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New Liquor Bill
 Of Territory Is
 Being Published
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 satisfaction of the Court that a majority of the citizens over the age of twenty-one years, residing within two miles of the place where intoxicating liquor is to be manufactured, bartered, sold and exchanged, or bartered, sold or exchanged have in good faith
 consented to the manufacture, barter, sale and exchange, or the barter sale and exchange of the same; and the burden shall be upon the applicant or applicants to show to the satisfaction of the Court that majority of the cit !zens over twenty one years of age have consented thereto and no license shall be granted in the absence of such evidence; provid- ed, that when it is made to ap pear that majority of said cit zens over the age of twenty one
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
(CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER)

years of any one place have con scented to the manufacture, barter sale and exchange or the barter, sale and exchange of intoxicating liquor no further proof of the consent of the citizens of the place where such intoxicating liquor is to be manufactured, bartered, sold and exchanged or bartered sold and exchanged, will be required for twelve mon- ths thereafter. ..
 Provided, however, that any application for a license coming from within an incorporated town shall have attached thereto in lieu of a majority of the cit izens of that district, list of at least five references as to the in tegrity of the applicant and the desirability of the issuing of a license for the premises mention ed therein. The Clerk of the Court, upon receipt of each ap- plication from within an incor porated town, shall notify the city council of that town of the necessity for action on the ap- plication by the council, in reg ular or special meeting and the
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filing with the Clerk of the
 Cour. of certificate showing the action taken. A failure Of the municipal officers to act upon
 applications for licenses with.h the period specified in the mo- tice furnished them shall be con sdered default and shall sub ject the city to the penalty of losing its right to a refund as herein provided. At the time set for the hearing, the Court shall consider the application and any protests that may be fil- ed against the same, and shall also hear the applicant or others appearing in connection with the matter and give its judgment. which shall be final. If the appli- cation is rejected the fee accom- panying the same shall be return ed. The licensee shall cause the license to be posted in a conspic uous position in his place of bus mess, so that anyone entering the premises may easily read it. No license issued under the provi- sions of this Act shall be trans ferred except after first securing the consent of the Court. No re- fund of license fees will be all owed after the issuance of licen-
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Der, or other information, so that the location can be definitely de- term;ned;
 (3) A statement. of the citizen ship CT corporate qualifications of the applicant;
 (4 The necessary license fee;
 G. Together with the consent of majority of citizens over the age of twenty-one years, residing within two miles of the place where the intoxicating liquor or liquors are to be manufactured, bartered, sold and exchanged, or bartered, sod and exchanged.
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APPLICATIONS

Section 4. All applicants for licenses mentioned herein shall file with the Clerk of the District Court an application in writing, signed and sworn to by the ap- plicant, giving his name and ad- dress, and, if corporation, exc cuted by the duly authorized of ficers thereof, containing the fol- lowing:
 CD Kind of license desired;
 CD A description of the place for which the license is desired, giving address by street and mum
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DIVISION c United States Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs-Reindeer Service Superintendents. V. R. Farrell-J. S. Rood Native Products Division
 Class HIvOry
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to the present time mass produc-
ton and prefabrication have not
cut costs, have not presented evil
dence Of superior construction,
and have not on the whole intro
duced anything except some con.
struction substitutes and novelties
which cost more than the good
old-faShioned brick and wood and
plaster Of grandfather's day, much
of which is still standing in the
older sections of the country.
1t isn't the philosophy Of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
me" which retards the popular ac-
ceptance Of prefabrication. It's
just that prefabrication hasn't met
the need of sound construction at
low cost. When it comes to build
ing the average American comes
from only one State. He's from
Missouri" And he hasn't been
shown anything new that pleases
him any better than the materials
and construction methods and
prices to which he has been &C.
cuStomed from time immemorial.
He may-and doeS-put in new
automatic refrigerators, the latest
thing in radios, kitchen ranges,
metal and porcelain sinks, built
in bathtubs, indirect lighting and
other gadgetS, but you can't sell
him four slabs of concrete or steel
or copper or lumber, slap a roof
on it, and get him to think Of it as
Home, Sweet Home" 1t may
come some day, but not yet.
1t is estimated in the steel trade
that in six years since the industry
began to experiment with steel
skeleton houses, not more than
1000 have been built in the whole
United States. The slab-sided
concrete houses and the copper.
paneled houses are even fewer In
number. Cinder block, concrete
block and hollow title have their
uses and their partisans, and now
and then you see a whole house
built of them, but they haven't
supplied the answer, notwithstand.
ing that they are cheaper than
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and the whole range of Mediter.
ranean Stucco houses continue to
find a more ready market than
those built scientifically of the
latest materials to come from the
industrial laboratories.
This doesn't mean the builders
are asleep. Nor does it mean that
the buyer of house always
knows what is in it. 1t is doubt
full. for example, if most persons
know that some of the best in
sulating and wall boards used in
stead Of plaster are made of corn
stalk or other waste products
from the farms. And they're
good goods" too-tough, re-
Sistant to moisture and air, and
useful in insulating against heat,
cold and sound. You watch some
of the modern houses go up, and
wonder how such light materials
can be expected to hang together.
Yet the fact is that some of
them are stronger than heavier
or bulkier materials which they
supplant, and certainly they pos
seSS insulating advantages which
make it desirable to incorporate
them into roof or wall construc-
ton.
But-again that "but"!-they
don't reduce the cost of con-
struction. and the houses built
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ousng Experts Providing LowCost

some competing materials. You
paint them, but they still look like
concrete or cinder block or hollow
tile, and the up-and-coming Ameri-
can, who hopes to see one Of his
sons in the White House, even If
he can't make it himself, doesn't
want to live in that kind Of a
house if he can possibly wangle
something with greater aesthetic
appeal.
Right here in washington you
may see about everything there is
to see in the way of prefabrication.
John ]. Early has built eight pre-
fabricated houses of precaSt con-
crete panels Of his own invention.
A well-known Washington builder
and real estate operator is erecting
in Chevy Chase group Of houses
with roofs and outside walls OF
copper, and with skeleton steel
frames. Elsewhere it is possible in
many places to find mail-order
houses of frame construction.
These houses sell, but they are not
cheap all things considered, and
there has been no great outburst
Of enthusiasm for them on the
part of the buying public. The
little vine-covered cottage, the in
dividually-designed studio or town
house Of brick, the brick row house.
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wealth should be so distributed as
to correct this condition. Instead
of attempting to bring down costs,
the protagonists of this principle
insist, the better plan would be to
raise incomes. If that could be
done it would supply one solution
for the high cost of shelter. But
is so happens that this line OF rea-
soning ignores economic law. Since
incomes are a part Of costs, in
comes and costs go up and down
together.
When people are prosperous
that is, when incomes are up and
wealth widely diffused-the in
creased demand for goods pushes
prices upward. When demand
subsidies as incomes decline and
wealth becomes concentrated, the
price level starts down again.
Rents, real estate values and con-
struction costs, like most other
things which enter into the cost
of living, trail along with the price
procession. All of which is to say
that, even Il it were possible to
raise workers wages in America
to an average of $500 a year, as
proposed by President Green Of
the American Federation Of Labor,
it wouldn't solve the housing prob
lem for these same workers. The
very increase in their incomes
would be expressed in higher con-
struction costs, since the conStruc-
tion industry is probably the
largest in the country and most
building trades workers are union
lied.
So that isn't the answer!
Occasionally 1t IS possib1e co d.
vorce costs from income in the
case of certain classes Of goods.
This happens not as a product OF
planning, but as a natural express
sion Of the law Of supply and de-
mand as influenced by the factors
of competition and mass produc-
tion.
Usder modern conditions mass
demand in a country like the
United States leads to mass pro-
duction. Mass production, in turn,
stimulated by competition, brings
into existence an excess supply of
goods, or an excess productive ca
pacity. The automobile industry
is, of course, the bright and shin
ing example of this sequence. Re-
suit: You can buy a better auto
mobile now for $500 than you
could 20 years ago for $4,000. The
same results are discernible in
other industries - better goods,
lower prices and increased con-
sumption. These factors interact
to encourage the downward price
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By T. A. HUNTLEY

By T. A. HUNTLEY
From that distant day in
the worlds dawn, when paleo-
lithic man first crawled into
a cave to seek shelter from
his enemies or the elements,
down to the present moment,
the problem of providing a
satisfactory shelter for the
human race has become in
creasingly costly and complex.
Mans materials remain the
same. The earth and it's prod
ucts 60 into the "topless
towers of Ilium" or the pin
nacled miracles of Manhat-
tan, as they did into the cliff
dwelling of the Aztec or the
adobe hut of his descendants.
But tools and techniques i'm
prove. Mankind d e m a n d s
more and more of comfort
and convenience and with
each advance of civilization
on the road of human destiny
the devil of higher costs keeps
step with the angel of a better
order.
You live in a better house than
your ancestors, but you pay more
for it. If there is a cure for that
condition, it has not become public
knowledge.
Is pre-fabrication the remedy?
Has the genius of American in
ventiveness something in reserve
which will make it possible for
man to build the house he wants
at q price he can afford to pay?
Can some super-formula of manu-
facture and distribution and con-
struction be devised which will
supply a solution? Can wood or
brick or stone or steel or glass or
concrete be put together in some
fashion satisfying the require
ments Of human beings without
making it necessary for most of us
to spend the best part Of a lifetime
acquiring it?
At the moment there IS only one
answer: Not yet. The good, low
cost house is not in sight. Homes
still cost more than most families
should pay for them. Costs are
too great in proportion to the
owners earnings or capital assets.
Rents still are too high in proper
ton to family income.
There is school of thought
which holds that earnings or
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UNANSWERED QUESTIONS CALL
FOR FASCINATING RESEARCH

NJ q Wanted: A loU-cost durable house! W1U 1t
NOo LOBE built of strip steel, like tim can or
trailer? Will it come in one piece "kmocked do1cn"
ready for assembling the ground? Reody-made one
piece bathrooms are here. VIII the reddy-mdde house
ner? And if does, V 1t Solve the high cost Of
housing? Unanswered questions! But its fascinating
story this tale of aOhat the ndustraists builders and
chemists and engineers are doing and thinking.
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of prefabricated materials or Sec
tions, and containing in their
innards the newest contributions
of industrial research frequently
cost more than their brick and
frame cousins down street.
Progress is being made in pre-
fabrication. You see it in garages
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No PGn1ceG

What he meant was that the
mass-production principle which
has made the automobile industry
one Of the greatest in the world,
and brought prices tumbling to
within reach Of the humblest wage
Garner, cannot always be applied
to other lines of industry. There
are two reasons for this:
l. There is not the quantita-
tive demand for most other
things that there is for the auto
mobile. An average Of four mil
lion passenger cars are produced
and sold in the United States
annually. The total number of
homes built in the United States
in single year, on the other
hand, has never reached a mil
lion at the peak of prosperity,
and probably averages around
half that. And a house lasts
much longer than an automo-
bile!
2. Many products, including
homes, do not lend themselves
to Standardization to the extent
that automobiles do. 1t is doubt
full if Americans would be willing
to limit themselves to so or 100
different models of houses-al-
though this is one Of the things
industry would have to discover
by experimentation.
1t is just possible that If the
price could be brought low enough,
some millions Of Americans might
be willing to buy standardized
houses, as they buy standardized
automobiles, sacrificing individual
ity for the sake of the savings re-
Sulting from mass production and
distribution of more-or-leSS ready
made dwellings. Some Of the coun-
try's biggest industrialists are
known to be playing with the
idea. And because the high cost
Of houses is right now the greatest
impediment to what may in any
event develop into the greatest
building boom in the country's
history, this possibility, compre-
hending as it does the whole move
ment toward pre-fabrication of
houses, is one of the major de-
velopments in the drive to provide
Americans with substantial, mod
ern dwellings, acceptable in design,
at price they can pay.
Plenty of Butts
But-and there are a lot OF
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trend until q balance or Satura-
ton point is reached. The con-
sumer is, of course, the chief bene-
ficiary of this economic formula.
Is it possible that the same
formula will produce the same
results in the mass production Of
new homes? Will American indus
trial genius do for American home
owners what Ford and du Pont
and ChrySler have done for auto
mobile owners? One answer comes
from Director H. A. Gray of the
Housing Division of the PWA, a
Chicago steel executive until he
came to Washington to put big
business efficiency back of the
Federal housing program:
1--WE seen more business ruined
by the automobile industry than
you could shake a stick att"
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But-and there are a lot Of
butts" in Americas housing story
to date-the fact remains that up
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