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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
The Russian Vote

In recent years more and more eligible voters in the United States have been enticed to the polls on election days, although there are still too many indif- ferent citizens. Politicians, reformers and good citizens generally may look toward Russia with wondering admira- tion because that country expects 90 per cent of the electorate to vote on Decen- Der 12.
 This remarkable feat is to be accom- pliShed by the greatest effort to "get out the vote" that the world has ever seen. Already, writes Walter Duranty, there are hundreds of thousands of election and discussion centers throughout the country, and scores of thousands of agi- tatorS have been enrolled to speak.
 If more than half the electors fail to vote, the new constitution provides that the election will be void and must be re- peated within two weeks. Perhaps it IS all as democratic as some of the ex- pounders say. Anyway, it is certainly an interesting spectacle to watch from this side of the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

Security Act in directing primary attention to rural and economically distressed areas, 1t may be found, when a general survey and tabula- ton of the children needing atten- ton is studied, that In some cases large urban sections want just such attention. Nor will it be easy to locate the thousands eligible for this service throughout the State, in spite of the number of physicians, . institutions and organizations ready to yield whatever information they can. Registration will need to be as complete as Is possible, inasIauch as 1t is the very broadness of this state program that makes 1t SO beneficial. -. ,... '
 The activities of the medical social worker who will have the re- sponsibility for determining the financial status of the children and
 informing the parents of the social
 problems of the crippled child will
 be highly important. After -care
 treatment at home should be en-
 sured by arousing the interest 'Gf
 other agencies and giving tho par ents adequate knowledge of what Is required. To. every aspect, of the program, however, the State De- partrnent of Health has given, lts attention. If 1t has the cooperation of private agencies shreughout the State whose special services 1t may need, and if it,,is aided by other state department, 1t should be able to establish a yearly service of which the State will be proud. # .5. .&
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
Quarantined War

No person ever caught smallpox by staying away from an infected house. It's the one who goes near, if only to tack a "quarantined" sign on the doorpost, who runs chance of taking the disease. As long as the United States stays con- pletely away from a war, isolated hail way around the world, there is little chance of being involved. But any move, however worthy, carries threat of ulti- mate, dire results.
 "We can't be neutral and write sassy letters" fiery ex-Marine Major General Smedley Butler declared in speaking ct the Far Eastern situation, warning that similar steps led to Americas entrance into the World War; If "quarantined" Slgn must be tackled on Japan's doorpost, let someone else do it. The United States caught the disease 20 years ago. The lesson should be fresh enough to remind the nation to protect the next generation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

Innocent pranks are often the cause of endless annoyance. Some times, how ever, what seems like prank is nothing more or less than law transgression. Take the incident out on the Prospect road Saturday night as an example of the latter. Two youths were having a fine time Tagging cars and causing them to detour over an old unused road that ends in sandbank. They accomplished their task to the tune of police whistles, plus the aid of red lanterns, and road con- struction sign. The seriousness of such trick is never apparent until the dam age is done. All sorts of drivers operate cars on the highway today, some gooc, some bad, many indifferent. Causing all indiscriminate group of motorists to leave the main road and fare into foreign fields is like putting a novice into the pilots seat in an airplane. Fun can be carried too far and it's wise youngster who knows when he has gone far enough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

Those of you who gloried in the au- venturous pages of "The Man from Glen garry or "The Sky Pilot" will be sad dened to learn of the death of Ralph Connor, who wrote them and many more stirring tales back in the days before the World war. We don't recall that he wrote many novels after the war, but Ii he did they weren't as successful as those he produced prior to it. Ralph Connor was the authors pen-name. He was ac- tually the Rev. Charles William Gordon, an eminent Canadian churchman. Dur ing the World war he was chaplain of the Cameron Highlanders His age at death was 77
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
Crippled Children
State Health Department Has Fine Program De- signed to Provide Maximum of Relief for Less Fortunate Youngsters
 of Connecticut.
of Connecticut.
HARTFORD COURANT

Under the powers designated to 1t Children, passed at the last session of the General Assembly, the State Department of Health has worked out an integrated and far-reaching plan for providing health services to crippled children in areas pre- dominantly rural or suffering from severe economic distress. The State has taken advantage of that section of the Social Security Act which provides matching amounts for work with crippled children. By ap- propriating $60,000 the State has received the same amount from the Federal Government so that $l20,000 is available for the first years program.
 No wiser step could have been taken by the State, since the num- Der of private agencies for caring for crippled children, such as the Connecticut Society for Crippled Children, the Newington Home, the New Haven clinic and others are by no means able to take care of the large number of cases where fam fly Is too poor to make even the smallest payment. The excellent work of these organizations Is sup plemented and furthered by the Connecticut State Plan for Crippled Children Services. Certainly the scope of the plan leads to the be- lief that few crippled children un- der twenty-one in need of examina- ton, diagnosis, care and treatment will be overlooked.
 Five permanent diagnostic clinics will be strategically located through out the State so that they may be accessible to districts where their services are most needed. For hos- pitalization a large list of hospitals will be compiled when final ar- engagements have been completed. Although the plan follows the Social
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

investigation made by the Jus tice Department, many New Dealers claim that Miss Perkins is only acting against Bridges in order to curry favor with the AFL, which recently snubbed her and accused her of partiality toward John L: Lewis.
 Some of her own Labor De- partment advisers oppose her on this, but weanwhile Governor Martin demands immediate ac- ton.
 Aviation Expert
 Assistant Commerce Secretary J. M. (''Esowboat") Johnson was being questioned by newsmen rec garding the qualifications of Miller 0. Foster to investigate the recent western aviation disaster in which 19 persons were killed. Foster is Johnson's assistant and before coming to Washington was a state judge in South Carolina.
 "EOw did you come to ap- point him for this wOrk?" a re- porter asked. "EIe Is not . flyer. He doesn't know anything about aviation"
 'It Is true that Judge Foster is not an aviator" replied Johnson. "But he has flown. He flew to Cristobal 0nce."
 NOTE-Foster took no chances in getting to the scene of the Utah crash. He went by train.
 Mail Bag
 V. K, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.-It can be said that Mrs. Roosevelt is indirectly Q member of the CIO. As an active newspaper woman, she is a member of the American Newspaper Guild, which recently voted afilliation with the CIO. K. c. w.. New York - Reduction in WPA's Federal Theater Project will be made principally in the manage ment and off -stage forces. which officials here believe to be over- staffed. J. B. S., Pittsburgh The reasons the Haitians and Dominicans insist that their current controversy is not a boundary dispute is that 1t has nothing to do with fixing the boundary between them. Thus 1t is different from the present controversies between Peru and Ecuador or Nicaragua and Hon. duras, which are disputes about the frontier. The Haitian -Domin- icah fracas was at the border, but not about the border.
 Copyright, 1887, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl 7,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
A Book a Day
Capturing Grandeur of Taos Mountains

Anyone who has gone down the alluring road to the purple Taos Mountains, with the smel off sage in his nostrils and the vel low New Mexican sunshine melt. ing his densities, will get few nostalgia twinges out of Mabe Luhan's Edge of Taos Desert (Harcourt, Brace: 3. For what ever Mabers idiosyncrasies, she can describe things m way that makes them spring into life. All her senses are aware, pulsatingly alive. She tell, of the abodes built without benefit oi plumbline, of collecting Santos and serapes of the midnight flagellatlons of the Penitentes, of ceremonial pueblo dances.
 But description is the least of this, the fourth volume of her in- timate memories. It deals chiefly with the metamorphosis of Mabel. Gone arc the tinsel and bauble of the old days when, as mistress of the salon at g Fifth Avenue, she felt herself the instrument through which the dangerous ideas of the before-the-war intelligent sia developed into movements which eventually shook" civiliza- ton.
 Her life broke in two, she says, when she hit the untarnished, primitive life of Taos. She cut off her hair. She swan into brand- new kind of freedom. She pres- ently found herself allergic to the Indian Tony. .
 When she begins to describe how the stream of life began flow ing towards Tony-Tony. the per- fectly poised, who seemed to have the ease and the unconscious balance of rock on the edge of an abyss" you begin to smile a smile of recognition. And she al- most gets back into the old "in- strument of fate" idea when she decides that she and Tony were brought together just so she might show the rest of the stale. dull world how life may be, must be, lived."-D. S. E.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

There's nothing like going up to a mountaintop to find out what kind of weather we're enjoying. Maybe that's why the Swiss government has estab- lished weather bureau atop the famous Jungfrau. It will be Europe's highest weather station and perhaps the worlds as it is at point more than 13,O0O feet above sea level. Wonder if the observa- tions will add to our knowledge of weather conditions?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
Selected Poem
EXILED

(Jance Blanchard in the New York Times) When was child, lived by the ocean And shared each day it's mysterious motion; The tide rose high, the tide ebbed low It takes twelve thousand tides for child to grow Catching starfish sailing a boat Putting to sea whatever would float: But now have only river miss the dank smell of the tide flats the booming Of breakers, the miraculous silver bepuming The tips of the oars when we roWed at night: The whirring of wings when the sea -gulls took
 flight: O fresh water running fast Close to my mind to that which is past For now have only a river.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
Press sConnent
GOOD BYE TO THE BEST
(New York Herald Tribune)

It Is not only gourmets who will
 be grieved to hear that Foyot's res. taurant has closed. Host to fivc generations of epicures and good livers-great statesmen, artists, no. bility and royalty among them Foyots defeat by the quick-lunct counter comments harshly once again on the decline of high quality in the modern world. Even the man who orders roast beef and mashed potatoes or steak and French fried comme specialize at the Marathon Restaurant, or he who finds just what he wants, and promptly, with a fistful of nickels in the automat, will be shocked by the closing of Foyot's brown-paneled doors.
 For in good measure all of the people love excellence most of the time, however humble the individ-' ual's requirements upon 1t may be in c particula: field. The moun.. tain climber ascends the peak, but the rest of us admire 1t as much as he, perhaps, from the seat of the notorious or the chalet porch, The end of Foyot's Is the collapse of Mont Blanc or Popoctaepetl, the last subsistence of a snow-c capped range, rather, for before its disap- pearance Voisin, the old Cofe de Paris, the Cafe Toy, Tortoni's and, other high places have gone down in recent years. None of them, 1t, seems, was defeated by newly ar-s rived superiors but merely by the. likable and indispensable quick lunch, The dark ages for the su-, premely excellent cooking, in Paris at least, seem to have begun again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
Daily Almanac

Sun rises SPA a. m; sets 4:47 D. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 In the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church the present period is an extremely holy one, recommended to the faithful as a time of prayer and devotion. One of the newer feast days of the church was observed Sunday--that of Christ the King. Yesterday was All Saints Day; today is All Souls. On the former prayers are asked for the saints, particularly those for whom no special day is set aside in the church calendar: today prayers are recommended for the suffering souls in purgatory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
In New, York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, Nov. 2 = A Manhattan Miscellany: Over in Brooklyn, Con- stance Dwight Morrow and Margct Morrow, sister and sister-in law respectively, of Anne Lindbergh, are running @ theater-for; their own amusement.
 They are starting offlcially with the bewhiskered meller-d -drahma, Sweeney Todd, and in time. they hope to put on more modern, works. And both the Morrow girls have the moral support of Mrs. Lindbergh who has sent them her, best wishes from England. There is the likeli- hood, by the way, that Mrs. Lind bergh may contribute script or two. For in addition to her literary fling in North to the Orient, they report that Anne Morrow Lindbergh also has interested herself in dram- aturgy, ,-.r.,.,
 Profitable Kudos r.
 Bing Crosby won a Doctor of Music degree at his alma mater, Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash, and thus entered the aca- demic ranks that include Rudy Vallee, Graham McNamee, Kath- arine Cornell and Arthur Murray. But 1t seems that there was a mer- cenary side to Crosby's wearing of the cap and gown: for Gonzaga was O,0OO the richer when the croon- CT completed the ceremonies and went home. These proceeds came out of the public appearances in Spokane. for all the proceeds twenty grand-were turned back 10 the university's funds. !.
 ss'4ss
 Other Side, of Manyille
 There, was rumor around that Tommy Manville, the asbestos heir, was getting to the bottom of the sugar barrel when he promised his fourth wife, Marcelle Edwards, $i,- GOO a month and sundries. Tommy effectively put ,a stop to. that gos- sip when he shelled out $3,0O0 for a special train to bring Dolly (Honey. Chile) iGoering, his secre- tary, back from vacation.
 The point of this item Is that a close associate of ManvilIe,s cor- fides that he is as shrewd Q busi- ness man as there is in town. Ana that he never lets his marital pee cadiiloes. interfere with multiplying his fortune. This fellow adds that Tommy still can pay of the Finnish debt and have enough left over for 6 carload of blordes. u
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
White House Experts Expect November Business To Show
 Whether Slump Is Permanent;
 Prices, Key To The Situation
pRgW FRARsOu

Washington Nov. 2-White House master minds awaiting the trend of business developments during the next few weeks with bated breath Government ex pertS have informed them that November will tell the story of whether the business slump is merely tenn porary recession or the beginning of another major daf1rnCsinYn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

One trouble with government in this country is that, as soon as a man makes good in public job at home, people want to send him to Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
Answers To ; Questions
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cVSElsAt ,sla MA
By Frederick M. Kerby

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

Psychology of bear market-peope don't want bargains in stock; they pre- fer to buy when it's expensive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
THE EDITOR.

e. Is the credit of the United States government back of the fed- eral reserve notes or are they guar anteed only by the federal reserve banks9 4.
 A. They are obligations of the United States and Q first lien on all assets of the issuing federal re- serve bank. .l ,y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

C.. When going around curve, which wheels of an automobile have Q tendency to leave the toad2
 A. The car will tend to be thrown
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

~ .s,t. -.i e.. 2
 1. Where is the Assuan Dam?
 2. Name the brightest, star of the Pleiades.
 3. For which state is Evergreen a nickname?
 {. Can a woman be President of the United States?
 s. Tn what country is the city of Lota2
 6. What is peleobotany? .. Name the Spanish conqueror of Mexico. ,
 6. Who was Bernard Palissy?
 Q Mamie the capital of the Re- public of Panama.
 10. Who won the 600-rnile Memor- ial Day auto race at Indianapolis in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

toward the outside of the curve by centrifugal action, which tendency lWill be resisted by the sidewise fric- ,tion of the wheel. The center oi 'gravityyof the car being above the
 road, the car tends to overturn to-
 ward the outside of the curve. Con. sequently there Is Q tendency for
 the inside wheels to be lifted of the
 road, S(SH N.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

TODAY's COMMON ERR0R
 Never pronounce 'Dlgestion-- : di-jes-chun; say, ide-jes'. chtn. /" la"Y$ <" %
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

If you want . copy of our book let "SEx INSTRUCTION FOR YOUR AND YOUR CHILDREN write the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. 0. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
Feet No us Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last. page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

c. A recipe for pop corn balls says boil the syrup ingredients gently until, when tested by drop ping a little in cold water, 1t forms into ball that clicks" How is this test made? .,. ...
 A. Press the bit of syrup dropped in the cold water between thumb and finger, then pull the fingers apart. The ball should be definitely brittle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02
N What Is a l1unanist?

Wnat IS humaniStY
 A.. One versed in or devoted to the study of the humanities: es- pecially those classical scholars who, in the revival of learning at the close of the middle ages, devoted themselves to the. study of Creek Roman literature and art.
 c. I manage large apartment house and was recently told by the letter carrier that we had to pro- vide directory board showing the initials or given names as well as the last names of our tenants. Is this local or national regulation? A. It is a national regulation re- ,Quired in all first class post o4aces of apartment houses containing 26 or more apartments. o.
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Bedtime Stories
Drummer Works for Living

good luck to start with he didn't visit
that suet.
You're silly" declared Sammy Jay.
That's what you are-silly. The idea
of working SO hard when you can
get all you want without working at
all! I don't have to 60 over to Farmer
Browns house for my breakfast. I've
hidden q lot Of sunflower seeds where
I can find them when I want them.
But I believe in getting things while
you can. II Farmer BrCwn's Boy
wants to feed me I am willing he
should. Come over with me now"
Drummer shook his head. If
can't find anything to eat I'll 60 over
there, but not until am sure that
I can't find anything for myself. I
guess you never have found out what
have found out"
What is that?" demanded Sammy.
THAT you get lot more satisfac-
ton and enjoyment from what you
get for yourself than you can from
what some one gives you," replied
Drummer.
"NonSensel" scoffed Sammy. Don't
tell me that you would rather work
hard for a thing than to get 1t with
out working"
IT didn't say that" retorted Drum
mer. IF Unexpectedly I should find
something I wanted I would enjoy it
Just as much as If I had worked for
1t. Anyway I would enjoy it almost
as much. don't think anything you
get without working for can be en-
joyed quite so much as something that
has been worked for, but a thing
that isn't worked for, and you do
not find for yourself but is given
you, Is something else again. Now If
you'll excuse me I'll get busy again."
He started down the trunk of the
tree, backing down. He went almost
to the ground. Then he flew to an
other tree, and the thoroughness with
which he looked that tree all over
actually made Sammy Jay tired.
And SO far as could see he didn't
find q thing. 1t was lot of hard work
all for nothing" muttered Sammy Jay
as he flew over to Farmer Browns
for the sunfiower seeds he felt sure
would be there for him.
(Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Brain Twizzlers

BY PROF. ]. d. FLINT.
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE w. SPROWLS.
Emotional Adjustments,

THE average adult is daily con-
= fronted with perhaps hundred
emotional situations. Many persons
undoubtedly face a few hundred such
situations during a single day.
Growing up mentally is largely q
matter Of emotional maturity. There
must be many more emotional
morons" than intellectual morons'' in
our general population. Emotional
immaturity is the cause of most Of the
unhappiness of this world.
It seems that as we grow from
childhood to maturity we gradually
learn to adjust ourselves to ordinary
situations. In other words we ac-
quire a few basic patterns for re-
sponSeS. But none Of us acquire as
many ready response patterns as we
need for the multitudinous and varied
situations which arise from day to
day and year to year. Complexity Of
society calls for versatility in emo
tional patterns. Every time we are
faced with a new emotional situation,
no matter how unimportant, we ex-
perience a certain amount of bafle-
ment and uncertainty. Unsatisfactory
emotional adjustments Immediately
throw our judgments out Of commits
sion. We are apt to think In terms
OF wishes rather than straight con-
nections between causes and probable
consequences.
One may easily observe ones own
emotional bias. Take any decision
you have just made. Trace that de-
cision to its source. Nine times out
of ten you will find an emotional an
chorage-a wish. a prejudice, or per-
hapS an anxiety.
(Copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-28
~NoNsENsE!" scoFFED SAMMY.

result u that he Is one Of the hardest
workers among all the feathered folk.
Most Of them who live chiefly on in
sects 60 South in Winter, 60 where
insects are plentiful and easy to catch.
Most Of those who eat seeds have only
to flnd where the seeds are and then
pick them up. It Is very different
with Drummer the Woodpecker. The
food he lives on Is hidden under bark
Or In the wood of trees. Not only must
he work hard to find 1t, but having
found 1t he often must work hard
to get 1t.
While the trees had been covered
with ice Drummer had been glad to
live on the suet that Farmer Browns
Boy had kept out for him and for
some others. But Is soon as the ice
,wNs on the trees he again went to
work for his living. Every morning
he was out at daylight hunting for
his breakfast. II he had hard luck
and could find little Or nothing, he
would 60 over to Farmer Browns for
enough suet to give him energy to
20 on with his hunting. II he had