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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
WEATHER DRY EVEN IN TIME
 OF COLUMBUS
But Tree Rings Reveal Last Twenty Years Were
 Worst Cycle
BY FRED BAILEY United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

(OHlteu ETeSb StAH NOEEeSpOluenLD
 Washington, Oct. 1.-(UP) The year that Columbus discovered Arn- erica the weather was dry-had been for 28 years-the bureau of entomology and plant quarantine of the department of agriculture has discovered.
 But 1t started raining before Co., lumbus could get back to Spain to tell Queen Isabella about 1t. P. O. Keen of the bureau found by 8 study of annual rings fo trees. He described these rings as almost t1l- fallable weather records.
 A study of rings from trees cut in Oregon, some dating back more than 150 years, revealed that the ponderosa pine forests were in 1492 in very much the same kind of a growth depression as they have been since 1917, Keen said.
 Last 20 Years the Worst
 But, he added, the punishment the trees have taken in the past 20 years is the worst ever, with in- sect attacks added to drouth in- jury. Billions of board feet of tiIn- Der have been killed and desert has encroached on thriving pine stands, he said.
 Keen said the longtime weather record revealed by these trees is more reassuring than some weather records which seem to indicate an 80-year trend toward increasing dry ness. They show, he said, that there have been periods of relative dry ness for longer for longer than 80 years, followed by return to more favorable moisture conditions.
 Keen said his tree calendar had not revealed definite evidence, either for or against the existence of long term weather cycles, but that tests for the short cycles did not support any of the shorter cycle schemes for weather prediction that have been proposed.
 Ills survey included a study of records of 1,240 pine trees selected from five areas 50 to 50 miles apart B. cross checking average records from the several areas he was able to read not only the weather record but record of fires an dnisect at- tacks as well.
 Effects of Insects shown
 Wide rings mean plenty of mois- ture plus other godo conditions for growth" Keen said. Marrow rings ordinarily show drouth, but narrow or missing rings may reveal forest fires or insect attacks.
 Tree records studied by Keen date back to l268. Some of these trees were more than 700 years old, but accurate record was impossible be- cause heart rot had obliterated per- haps 100 years of Inner rings.
 For the period since Lewis and Clark eplored the Great Basin in 1905, tree rings agree with known history. The early years of the century were favorable to growth About the time the pioneers opened the oregon Trail there came @ l4- year drouth. Prairie schooners traversed the beds of shallow lakes late filled with water, hiding the ruts ia the trail. Recent dry years have brought the ruts into view again.
 Keen said tree records show the 18th Century was wet, the 18th dry and the l7th generally moist The 10 years from 1870 to 1880 was the wettest period in the lives oi Lrnns tioW growing he said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01

The selection of Benjamin E. Harwood as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee brings to mind that it was on his way home from the annual outing of Republican leaders at Harwoods Connecticut River Valley estate in Chester that the late William J. Morary political and legislative reporter for the Democrat lost his life in unfortunate automobile accident No one would have been more proud ot Senator Harwoods victory than "Bi", had he lived to witness it. "B looked forward every two years to this outing, Senator Harwoods "shad-roast Little did he like every assignment Bill Moriarty received he per formed 1t in the same graceful civil and courteous general esteem of everyone with whom he in con- tact Bill" was newspaperman of school which, sad to say but only too true, is fast becoming thing of the past-witness the profession today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
An annle a daV

An apple day. Here it is apple time again. Let's see what the National Apple Institute has to say Here's for the bowl the pie When all the apples now hanging the trees picked this Fall the crop will be one of the largest gathered It will be 65 per cent greater than it last year and every of our thirty million families will have at least six bushels of fine fruit to make into pies and and tuck into the pockets of the youngsters all the apples made into pes and no will object to that except Mother in the kitchen the basis of six good sized apples to ten inch pie and then the pies placed side by side they would make of pies that would extend around the world two hundred times There would be about thirty billion of them one pie to offset each dollar of the national debt and that would give each of six pies day every day in the year Even in New England where apple pie is still
 standard breakfast food that would be lot of pie But too much apple pie if there be too much pie is lot better than the skmpy servings have been getting since kitchens ceased to be the heart of the home Per haps the large apple crop we are going to gather this year will put more fragrant apple pies back on the table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01

William A. Murray, adJutant of Waterbury Chapter, D. A. V" has ben named chairman of the units committee In charge of Q series of fall and winter parties. Starting next Saturday evening m Knights of Pythias hall, II East Main street, the chapter will hold It's first blngo party of tho sea- son for the benefit of the welfare fund. The committee includes m addition to Chairman Murray Michael Callahan, Kenneth Trow- bridge, Augustine FlRherty, Henry Barry, Alfred, ,SavRrd, James Mar tone, Ernest MasSlcotte, Herman SChaefer, Thomas Casey, Dr. Rene Messler, William Keavney, Frank Roberts, J. Peter C0stlgan, Leon l.. Provost, Michael DeZinno, Amadee Payeur, Charles GOgglnS' Joseph Charpentier, Constantine Hud0bcnIko, Fred Schell, Leonardo DeYltO, Commander Walter Over ton and William B. Awkward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
Full Weather Report

Boston. Oct. 1--(UP)-weather forecast:
 Rhode Island-Partly cloudy to- night and Saturday. Slightly warm ,er tonight. Massachusetts - Partly cloudy with showers in the northeast pOr- -tion tonight and in the northwest portion Saturday afternoon. Slightly warmer in the north portion to- might.
 onnecticut-Partly cloudy to- night and Saturday. Slightly warmer tOnight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
WATER FREAKIsH IN LAKE

Yellowstone Park, Wyo. --(UP)-- Yellowstone national parks largest body of water, is 67 feet higher at It's center than at the shorelines, figures released by the superinten. dents office revealed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01

Swapfcst. LegiOnnaires still swapping yarns about their recent convention in N'Yawk. Many of the local members chatted with a former commander of Corporal Coylc Post in the person ot John Ticrney, now resident of Chicago. One Of the hghlighs for the Waterbury delegation was the observance of the 18th birthday of Mrs Ellen Fallowe a Gold Star Mother, while at the convention. |. Billy Dillon attended reunion of the 81st division his old group, and reported that it was the first time since returning from Ovesseas he had seen so many of his buddieS. Among the most active of the attending couples were Mir. and Mrs Charles Ladue. They at meetings than most of the boys put together.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
FINED $5

Charged with breach of the peace. Francis Meo. of Noble avenue, Wa terbury, was fined s5 and costs of Sll.l5 last night in Wolcott town court by Judge Harold L. Logan. Two Bristol men were fined for vio- lation of rules Of the road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01

On duty, sir. Forest fire lookout towers in ten different sections of Connecticut manned this week. the autumnaI forest fire season being with us There arc eight of these towers and they will probably be in service by next week. And, happy to relate not single fire has been observed by observer while On duty this week. This, no dOubt gave many an observer splendid opportunity to catch up on his reading and probably finish Gone With the Wind'.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01

coaches advances. but the equip ment has been built up over tIlc courses. of many years ko take the companys requirements
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
OCTOBER FIRST

Comes October with It's lovely colors and brides,
 Harvest moon and frost on the pumpkin besides.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
Would subway riders do without tabloid

What. Would subway riders do without tabloid to tide them until they reach their destination and come up for air Would columnists do if they didn't check up on Holywood-ers. Would onion soup be without toast squares grated cheese t onion soup probably Would the radio singers do If Oley Speaks hadn't written Sylvia" Herbert "The Italian Street Song" Friml, "Gianina Mia" . . Would steamship be without shufleboard, ping pong deck quoits and after noon tea. Would wedding outfits be without match ing accessorics' . Would writers of detective fiction do without the phrase in the very cold light of day"
Evening star., 1937-05-28
A Babe in the Woods.

Alice Kocher's picture was in the pa
pers yesterday. Half million people,
more or less, looked upon the portrait
OF the three-year-old heroine of Wash
mgton's latest adventure story" and
3ell in love. She was famous for, first,
getting lost and, then, getting found.
But hers was not an ordinary missing
ehild" sensation. It happens that she
possesses a special appeal to the imagi-
patton of the ommunity-because she
b deaf and mute. The Almighty Father
Of all little girls and boys sent her into
she world perfect in every other respect
yet bereft Of the power to hear and to
speak.
when she disappeared from home.
therefore, everybody Joined in the search
tor her. Remembering similar incidents
n the past, parents in general were con-
eerned. An army of volunteers pursued
the quest throughout the Southeast Sec
zion Of the city and adjacent territory
Ill night. But the privilege Of solving
the problem of Alice's absence was
granted to Policeman r. J. Poquette, an
0ndcer who had learned the practical art
" woodcraft in the forests Of Wisconsin
Ind the jungles Of Cuba. With his ex-
Evening star., 1937-05-28

perience to guide him, he finally reached
the spot where, on bed OF leaves in q
brush tract mile from her proper ad-
dress, he discovered Alice asleep. "She
smiled all with her eyes," the bluecoat
said.
Carried back to her mother, the young
ster received reporters and photograph
ers, neighbors, friends and strangers un-
disturbed. The half million applauded.
Who could blame them? 1t has been q
long time since any more poignant prob
lem or any happier conclusion has been
reported in the press Of the Capital.
Alice is lucky, her gallant rescuer de-
serves commentator and the public
breathes sigh Of relief which somehow
Is salt with tears concealed.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
The Unbeaten Dutch.

Those two sturdy outposts Of democ-
racy in Western Europe-Belgium and
the Netherlands-have now in prompt
succession rebuffed at the polls foreign
inspired attempts to impregnate their
national life with political "ideology"
alien alike to their soil and traditions.
The Eelgians several weeks ago, under
the gallant leadership of Premier Van
iceland, firmly repelled efforts to estab-
lish fascism at Brussels. This week
Dutch Premier Hendryk Collin, at the
head Of coalition Of moderate liberal
elements, received an unmistakable vote
OF confidence in the election for men,
bers OF the States General The result
is that Hollands national affairs will
continue to be dominated by the CAL
whist group, Of which the premier is the
leader, in collaboration with the Roman
Catholics and Socialists, the country's
two strongest parties, which are his
loyal supporters. The Calvinists have
slightly increased their parliamentary
strength, while Catholics and Socialists
remain stationary. The Liberal Demo-
Gratis, also adherents of the Collin re-
gime, made the most substantial gains.
Their leader, P. j. Oud, Is finance minis
ter In the Hague cabinet.
Most gratifying from the Dutch stand
point is the fact that the National So
cialists, domestic counterpart of the Ger
man Nazis, were decisively beaten. Pre-
senting candidates for the first time,
they anticipated sweeping successes as
the result of long and vigorous agitation,
but they emerge with fewer than half
dozen seats out of total of 100 in the
lower house. No less impressive and re-
assuring is the failure of the Communists
to make progress. Their strength OF
four seats had dropped to three in early
returns and may be still further reduced
by the final count.
To democratic Europe, fighting 50 des-
perately on many fronts to hold its own
against reaction OF the Hitler -Mussolini
brand, the Netherlanders' stand for per-
petuation Of representative government
is highly encouraging. Along with de-
velopments in Belgium, it is vivid proof
that totalitarianism's advance, at least
in the west of the continent, is effec-
tually checked. In Premier Collins
case, the result bulwarks his policy of
adaptation" to the Dutch economic crisis
and his refusal to be swayed by dema-
gogic demands for questionable panaceas.
Nazis and Communists alike sought to
persuade the counwy that salvation lies
only in extremist systems of dictatorial
pattern. Queen Wilhelminas people
have once more splendidly justified their
reputation for political steadiness They
have shown that it takes more than
Nazis, Fascists or Communists to beat
the Dutch.
Evening star., 1937-05-28

busy with the Leatherstocking Tales
and by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
when he sat down at his desk to write
Hiawatha and the Wayside Inn series of
ballads. Joel Chandler Harris with Uncle
Remus and L. Frank Baum with the Tin
Woodsman and the Scarecrow of the
Wizard Of or deserve more credit than
they customarily are accorded for their
earnest efforts. Nor should Joseph Rod
man Drake, Edgar Allan Poe, James
Russell Lowell and the anonymous
author Of the Paul Bunyan yarns of the
Northwest lumber camps be forgotten:
each Of them contributed something
worth while to the folk literature of
America. Mark Twain especially merits
commendation for Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn-they are living char
acters, quick with the vitality of an ever
lasting youth.
More, however, is wanted. The rich
Indian treasury of fables never yet has
been examined with sufficient zeal or
care; the Negro still remains made
Quately understood; the wit and humor
OF New England and the superstitions of
the hiu-country of Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee still
stand in need OF historians. Even the
current patterns of the national reaction
to the innovations of the New Deal are
unknown. Press, radio and motion pic
lures perhaps should combine to study
the folklore OF this age of transition. !"
Everybody. OF course, is familiar with
the symptoms. The problem is: What
are the fundamental causatives? Brain
trust theories OF them may not be az
accurate as their sponsors suppose.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Beneath the surface of congressional
executive hostilities over the Supreme
Court, relief, and other bones of con-
tentlon, some long range Democratic
presidential political discussion is rum
bling. The name Of Senator Alben w.
Barkley OF Kentucky figures prominently
in 1t, circumstance which lends interest
to his boom for the Senate majority
leadership, if Joe Robinson is elevated to
the high bench. Should Barkley inherit
the mantle, it can be assumed that he
would do so with the Roosevelt blessing,
and with the possibility that F. D. r.
might also smile on the Kentuckian's
national ambitions. Barkley has long
rated as White House timber. His role
as national convention keynoter at Chi
cago in 1882 and again at Philadelphia
In 1886 gave him wide acquaintance and
fame among the country's Democratic
rank and file. The fact that the Paducah
statesman, county judge and member
OF the House Of Representatives prior to
entering the Senate in 1927, will be so
this year does not, In the estimation of
his admirers, impair his presidential
eligibility. II he becomes Senate ma
Jorlty leader, more is certain to be heard
A~NA u
\
What has all the earmarks of a wide
open bid for the Democratic nomination
three years hence is about to be sprung
IN Washington on behalf Of Gov George
II. Earle OF Pennsylvania. On the eve
ming OF June 2 Senator Joe Guffey's
political playmate will be guest of honor
at an elaborate banquet, reception and
ball OF the Southern Society and will
deliver an address on THE South and
Our National Problems" Boosters of
the blowout, which is clearly intended
to "sell" Earle to Dixie, hope that among
those present will be the Governors and
congressional delegations OF nearly all
the 16 Southern States from which the
society's membership is recruited. The
Penn delegation has also been invited to
join the cheering section. Senator Rey-
nolds, Democrat, of North Carolina will
Introduce Earle to the assembled hosts
from below Mason and Dixons line.
X ~
Some foreign diplomats in Washing
ton wonder whether Italy's plan to re-
strict the activities Of Jews may not be
q Hitler-inspired reprisal against Mayor
La Guardia of New York, because of the
latter's italian extraction and Affiliations.
When the little Napoleon of Gotham
tangled with Der Fuehrer this Spring,
DR.. Goebbels, Nad propaganda boss,
limited mysteriously that La Guardias
outburst might lead to certain wholly
unsuspected consequences. The thought
now aired In local international circles
Is that the Na1 high command may
have thought 1t would be a neat thrust
At Fiorello II his ancestral land were
persuaded to join Germany in dragoon-
ing the Jews.
X X X
Is the President trying to divert at
tention from his Supreme Court trou-
bles? That's the question asked by
political observers, on and OF Capitol
Hill, as they survey the staggering mass
OF Federal business now piled up at
Washington. Mr.. Roosevelt chose the
height OF the judiciary crisis as the
Evening star., 1937-05-28
American Folklore.

Naturally enough, the folklore of the
American people Is largely imported.
Thousands of immigrants to the New
World, beginning in the seventeenth CEN
tury and continuing up to the present
moment, brought with them their leg
endary heritage. So it happens that all
the great body Of religious mythology is
as truly the possession of contemporary
inhabitants of the United States as it Is
that OF modern Europeans. The BEAU
tiful Christmas stories Of Italy, Germany
and England have crossed the sea in the
Holy Scriptures and likewise in the in
formal and largely unwritten traditions
which the memory of the masses elects
to keep alive.
Similarly, the immortality of the gods
and heroes of ancient Greece and Rome
Is assured; and the same observation
may be made for the central figures Of
the sagas of Scandinavia and Ireland,
the medieval romances of France and
Spain, the border tales Of Scotland and
even the Vedas Of distant India. The
labors of the brothers Grimm and
Andrew Lang have been matched by
those Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas
Bulfnch, James Baldwin and many
lesser but not inconsequential masters.
1t is defensible generality that Amer
lea has done as much for the preserva-
ton Of popular beliefs and opinions as
the Old World can claim.
But mere maintenance Of the past is
not sufncient. A nation, 1t seems. should
develop an indigenous culture; its pat
tern OF thought should be its own, arise
from its own community mind and soul.
Some such idea certainly must have
motivated Washington Irving In the in
vention Of Rip Van Wrinkle and Ichabod
Crane. It probably also was entertained
by James Fenimnrs Cooper when he Wa
Evening star., 1937-05-28

steel rails, 80 many tons Of coaches, 50
much freight hauled, 1t would never have
caught the fancy Of the world as 1t did.
1t built hopes and yearnings, along
with It's length; 1t made going away and
coming back home more than just wave
of the hand and careless good-by.
One had to go down to the station,
and there was always the slight fear of
getting there too late to see the train
moving out with all the majesty Of the
inevitable.
Not, then, in the old days, Just
stepping from the front steps into the
f1ivver and away We go, lipperty -lipperty-
lipperty.
No, railroad trip, at least for most
OF us, was real event, one to be talked
about for days in advance, and pre-
pared for by endless poring over time
tables.
Have they changed those timetables?
They have changed almost everything
else about railroading.
Maybe they will get around to the
timetables some day. Still, as confusing
as the rows Of numbers, hours, etc, were,
they carried certain surety about them
The train would leave exactly on the
hour. the table said, and it would arrive
in an unknown State, far away, at
certain station at exactly AIS o'clock
the next day.
The folks would know the time of
arrival and they would be there waiting
In their turn for the clang of bell and
the full-throated whistle the whirr on
the tracks and the slow slide to a stop.
The romance to railroading, it was
called, which the least imaginative per-
son somehow caught, and yielded to, lust
as people sit in a darkened theater and
give themselves up unrestrainedly to the
play of emotions before them.
We hope that the railroads do not, in
their turn, yield too unreservedly to the
present day demand for speed and more
speed.
Already they have begun to do so, and
what more natural thing, indeed, since
they were the speediest things on wheels
in their day.
The question remains, however,
whether the speed they attained in the
old days wasn't enough.
Wasn't it enough for romance?
Wasn't it enough for all the real thrill,
busiest business man?
Wouldn't the railroads be able, by call
Ing halt on speed, instead of following
the beckoning finger of the man at the
wheel, to lead the way in common sense
to Nation sorely in need Of it?
X
1t is terrible toll, the ungodly harvest
OF malmings and deaths on our high
ways and country roads, which once used
to be places Of peace and wild flowers.
Now all people are in such a hurry
that they have no time for wild flowers
or the peace Of the countryside.
Mechanical speed is at the bottom of
1t all, aided by an altogether insane
touch in the mind and heart Of hu-
manity.
In hurry-for what?
Just to be in hurry. There is no
other honest answer.
A little less speed. rather than little
more-that is the real need.
The speed We have is enough and the
railroads have demonstrated it for many
years.
Let us keep our transportation solidly
on the road of common sense, and then
we shall continue to get thrill out of it.
rather than have hidden fear of it.