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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
More Spinach

Pennsylvania finds that it's 1887 spin ach crop is going to be 28 per cent greater than last years. We don't know why. A few years ago spinach was at the pinnacle of public respect everywhere. Few would admit liking the stuff, but almost every one was convinced that it's place in the diet was of terrific nutritional irn- portance. Health could hardly be hoped for without it. Children had to take it as regularly as cod liver oil. Adults ate 1t, willy-nilly, because of the example they had to set their offspring.
 Then doctors stepped forward and said it was all big exaggeration. Spinach was wholesome enough vegetable, but there were others just as wholesome. There was no point in making dietary fetish of it. So it became possible to take spinach or let it alone, according to personal taste. If Pennsylvania is growing more spinach than ever before, it is not to meet any nutritional emergency. Perhaps it is just because this leafy vegetable is really liked and consequently profitable. Or the Keystone state may have more Popeye devotees than it used to have.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Fat Chance
Current Comments

Nine-tenths of the troubles in the world today are caused by bad mo- thers. If they would stay at home and care for their children, what a different world this would be.
 Mrs. 0. B. Gray, Omaha, Neb.,
 chosen as American Mother
 of 1937."
 @Ns 6 For the first time since the Cru sades, anti-Semitism is being given the ofdcial endorsement of govern- ments.
 --Dr. A. Sacfar, Cleveland, O., national director of IIillcl
 Foundation.
 The child enjoys it's childish pleasures and d!slikes 10 give them up. If compelled to abandon them before 1t is ready, 1t may react with a morbid disgust and develop ncu- roses.
 --Dr.. 6. Blanton, child psyeholo- gist of Cornell University: s:a II ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
A Thought for Today
Call Of the Bond Sales!

The administration of Mayor Frank Hayes should realize that this is election year and all it's actions are to be subject ed to not merely microscopic attention on the part of constant critics, but also to an never-endirg series of insinuations. Sale of bonds by the city for various purposes has started Naturally it didn't start un- til the legislative assent was secured. We presume the sale of the bonds could have been put off until year from now, which would be after our biennial October elec- tion and thus the cry of election year" avoided.
 But then had this been done the very obvious thing to find fault with would have been the failure of the administra- tion to carry on it's work as it should. Look at our streets in miserable condi- ton; what about extending sewers to this part of the town; how about finishing up the Mad River trunk line, so that the day when Waterbury will cease polluting the Naugatuck River will be nearer at hand. These are merely possible complaints that could be voiced in the event that Mayor Frank Hayes and his aides merely accepted the Legislatures grant to sell bonds and then did nothing.
 But it's more fun to get em going and coming. In short nothing that the ad- nlinistration will do this year can escape without the cry of politics being raised. There is begrudging praise given for ex- tension of the water main from Morrls down through Watertown. Hope it can't be proved that an editorial critic lives along the proposed new water line or will be able to tap the proposed second pipe line. That would be the last straw. And you can rest assured that straws will be as plentiful this spring, summer, and early fall as bees around the apple blos- some these days This is election year, so in addition to promises and jobs, also look for "expert" predictions and smart criticism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

case of trouble. Great Britain and other powers had increased their forces in China for the same purpose. Endless civil wars and banditry had been tearing at China for years. Suddenly the Nationalist forces, under Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, began to win dramatic and spectacular successes and to gain control over large part of China.
 Nobody knew what would happen or where violent trouble would break out. Hence the marines. But the Chinese authorities apparently had no more ill feeling than the marines themselves. Hence the umbrellas. It's all rather sur prise, however, to learn that marines are fussy about their quarters at such time and in such place. What next?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
A Generals Umbrellas

Forty-one United States marines who were in China in 1927 have just won a claim of $25,000 against the government The deciding factor was couple of fancy Chinese umbrellas owned by General Smedley Butler. The marines contended the money was due them because made quate quarters had been provided for them in China in 1927 The government, through the Controllers office, declared the quarters were quite adequate, since the marines were in the field, "in the presence of an enemy"
 Not at all, said the marines, and finally proved their point. They were not in the presence of an enemy. The Chinese were friendly, so friendly in fact, that they had presented two ceremonial umbrellas to the American general
 As matter of fact, American marines were in Shanghai in 1927 not to fight an enemy but to protect our nationals in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

But that's nothing. In connection with reorganization we could have done something about the present set-up in the General Assembly. For example we could have strengthened out the mess in our senatorial districts. We have thirty-five of them and could use few more, because several have expanded so rapidly in the last twenty years that they are far out of proportion to what they were when the present lines were drawn up. For a long time we have been fighting for sena- torial district realignment; surely with reorganization in sight it would have been wise to set the political subdivisions in order first
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

Chief headache is the collection of funds for the Spanish war by various organizations. This can be regulated under the Neutrality Act, but Spanish sympathizers have posed some stiff porblen1s.
 One is the query on what the State Department would do if labor union dipped into its reserve funds and sent money to aid the Spanish government. This would not be collection" of funds, since they would be already collected.
 Another is the inquiry of the State Departments position in case a collection should be taken up for the Spanish government during a church service. Would the State Department rush in and arrest the pastor and deacons?
 Bishop On Horseback
 As a matter of fact, one group friendly to Spain is maneuvering to force the State Department to arrest a prominent bishop, rabbi, or labor leader in order to create a test case on the collection of funds. They know that public opinion would boomerang against the career boys.
 The law requires that in order
 to collect funds for either side
 in the Spanish war, you must
 have a license from the State
 Department. Any brother caught collecting funds from his sister without a license is subject to five years Imprisonment.
 Real fact is that the State De- partment, instead of regulating the big munitions dealers, have found itself in a predicament such that 1t will have to arerst entire labor unions and churches-if it is to enforce the law.
 Funniest angle is that the law was written in the State Depart ment.
 UnwelcOme Guests
 Those guest speakers sharing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

After four and one-half months of the unicameral system in Nebraska its law makers are we'll satisfied with the results. They'll never return to the tWo-house system out there, according to John N. Norton, former congressman and chair man of the Assembly's rules committee. He says, "It's working too good to change" AS to the spread of the unicam- eral system to other states the Nebraskans aren't so sure They think that if the plan were better known, it might take, but so long as the legislators themselves have the say the unicameral system won't replace the two-house plan. The initiative will have to come from the people, so they say in Nebraska and they ought to know. We thought right along that there might be some discussion of the one-house Legislature in connection with the reorganization of our state government, but that's too much like deprivng the boys of their jobs isn't it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Selected Poem
THE OLD SETTEE

(By Herbert Durrell Smart-A poem for Apple Blossom Week. Nashua N H., 1937 in Boston PosU By the stump of the dear old apple tree, In fancy today is the old settee That once against the trunk inclined, And weathered storms of every kind. Caressing zephyrs still softly blow Bringing memories of the long ago; And the blossoms fall from the old apple tfcc, AS they used to do, on the old scttee Happy childhood days in memory loom, And the air is filled with sweet perfume; In retrospect once more The foot-worn path we wandered OCT; The grass is green where oft we strayed, And sentiment now shrine has made; And you and on the old settee, Are showered with blooms from the old apple tree. In Sprngtme when first the daisies sprung In those far-aWay days when we were young; And OCT the apple orchard ground, And the air was filled with fragrance sweet In that hallowed spot where we used to meet, We prayed that we might always be As happy as then on the old settee. But that was long, long ago. ween, And changes have come to that pleasant scene And can't help thinking, as recall Those bygone, happiest days of all. That you may remember, as do now. The fragrant blooms on the bossoming bough; And often wish we could once more be, For old times sake, on the old settee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
A Book a Day
Odds Are Against Book on Edward
 BY BRUCE CAPTION

Hector Bolitho, 50 his publishers tell us, writes standing up. If were no tasured of this would suppose that he wrote kneeling, with a plentiful supply off brickbats piled by his right heel; for his new book, King Edward VIII" Gippincott: $3), is the oddest mixture of syco- phancy and petulance that has come this way In a long time.
 MT. Bolitho has written the form CT kings biography and internal evidence indicates that he wrote the bulk of 1t while Edward was still king. It is overladden with breath less, ecstatic air of adoration, al- most of idolatry he must have written 1t kneeling
 But before he got finished with the job, his idol blew up on him. From being king, Edward became a duke in exile, bent on wedding 8 non-royal American person, So the mod changes. Flaws are dis covered in his character, even in his training. That pile of brickbats came in handy, after all.
 All of which is to say that King Edward VIII" is a queer book, and a vastly irritating one. Amer ican readers are not apt to like either the cathedral hush of the earlier chapters or the queru- louS criticism of the later ones. Neither extreme is very edifying; when you combine both of them in one book-nay, in one chapter. sometimes-the result is very odd. The old New York World once remarked that kingship---whatev the personal merits of the incurrl- bent--is essentially business of S1obbery. I never realized before how true that is. .e.- :.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

Either person named as co-owner may redeem the bond in the same manner as checks may be, cashed on a joint bank account.
 @. How, fast should the cutting edge of a circular wood-saw travel?
 A. Ten thousand feet per nin- ute.
 20. My sixty-fifth birthday will be in July, 1887. Under the social security act, will I be forced to stop working at that time?
 A. Nothing in the social security act prevents an employe from work ing after age 65.. sf Y '
 If you want a copy of our book let on FAMOUS WORLD STRUCTURES", write the Water bury Democrats Washington Bu- reau, 1912 Thirteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, ID. C. Enclose cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

It's the largest since the war - the World War we mean. And the largest is Uncle Sam's official family. There are now 917,760 persons employed by the United States federal government. That's just few short of the million mark. And when we hit that surely the peak will be touched. That's a lot of people to be working and there should be some good government resulting. So long as there is, there will never be complaint.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

John Hamilton's Sunday night radio programs are not voluntary additions. They are forced on the g. o. p. national chairman.
 When Hamilton arranged the four weekly broadcasts with out consulting or notifying other republican leaders,, he announced that he would be the only speaker. The first Sum day night this was true. But thereafter, Hamilton divided his time with others.
 The second week he divided with House Leader Bert Shell and Rep. Chharles A. Halleck of Halleck of Indiana; last week with Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Representa- tive Francis H. Case of South Da- kota.
 REASON for this change in plans was undercover pressure by the congressional leaders.
 Hamilton is far from popular with this group. They not only dislike him personally but they have low regard for his political talents. So when he sprang his broadcasting plan they went into a cold sweat for fear he would loose an tatack on the Presidents court bill.
 COP Strategy
 It is g. 0. p. strategy on Capitol Hill to keep all republicans in the background; letting the demo- crats take the lead in warning on Roosevelt. This canny plan pre- vents the administrator from raising the partisan cry and ex- erting the pressure of party loyal ty on dissident democrats.
 Hamilton assured the con- gressional leaders he would not barge into the court isspe. but they were not satisfied. To quiet them he agreed to share his broadcasting time with other party speakers.
 However. as a slap at the vet erans, Hamilton ostentatiously invited Young Republicans to speak with him. Shell was the only old-timer; Bridges, Case and Hallock are newcomers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

their gues5es than even the sOOth- savers who go into the silences to find out how . certain dog or 8 certain horse is going to run. There is the repeated declaration by those who arc fighting the President that the Judiciary Com mittee's decision. is already in the bag and that ten of its eighteen members are slated to cast their votes,-and mayhap their poIit- ical futures = into the scales against the proposal. We will know probably when tomorrow mornings papers arrive with the coffee. s-4..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

o. On whose radio program did Bob Burns make his debut?
 A. Rudy Vallee's. %av
 Q. Who founded the Nobel prizes?
 A. Alfred B. Nobel, Swedish scientist, and inventor of dynamite, who died December l0,. 1896.
 Q. My sister and I wish to buy a United States saving bond together. Can we register it in both our names?
 A. A United States savings bond may be registered in the names of not more than two individuals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

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 ident R oos e. velt'S proposal to house clean the s upre m c Court, will vote to report on the measure. Dope sterS on the possible actions of United States senators, partic- ularly of those who are mem- bers of the le- gal profession, are more likely
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Not Always Right

Messrs Pearson and Allen are not always infallible in their state
 ments nor always right in their interpretation of facts. These col- umns have several times been given to corrections of their stuff. But in the main they are well in- formed and while well over on the gossipy side usually know where of they speak.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
BY WAY. of NO.HARM
James William FitzP Patrick
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CThe and conclusions ose of te writer alone They necessarily those editors DEMOCRAT they to be construed invariably
 as . reflection of their viewpoint.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Daily ~
 @ Washington .< ] co
Neutrality Career Boys Find Enforcement a Headache
snd ROBERT 6. ALLEN
" DREW PEARSON

Washington May 18 = Almost every day grey hairs appear in the heads of the state department boys result of the neutrality act They have taken it's enforcement from Attorney General Cummings and theV certainly wish they hadn't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

Sure, there's dictatorship in this coun- try. Everybody dctating to everybody else and nobody doing what he's told to do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

The question now is, who'll be the crownless ruler of England when Stanley Baldwin steps out?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Report Due

Sometime today the Senate Ju- dietary Committee, which has been gassed for the last ten weeks by those in favor of and those op-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Chance For Libel Suit

If what they say in The Nine Old Men at the Crossroads" about the motives which are spurring' on Senators Burke of Nebraska, Il Tydlngs of Maryland, Connally of Texas, and George of Georgia isl not true 1t would seem that these gentlemen have perfect action for criminal libel against the authors. So has Supreme Court Justice McReynolds who is alleged to have remarked that he would never resign from the bench "as long as that crippled :. Is in the White House." But buy the booklet and see for yourself. It only costs twenty-five cents, quarter, two-bits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

last page for the answers. 1. Where Is the island of Jamaica with relation to Cuba and Haiti? 2. How tall is Premier Mussolini? 3. In Greek mythology, who was the God of War? S @ 4. What is spinet?
 5. On which of the Great Lakes is Chicago, H.?
 6. What is liqueur?
 '. Do retired Presidents of the U s. receive pensions?
 8. Who was Thomas Moore?
 9. What is graphology? Y 10. Who was the highest salaried baseball player in 1880 and 1881.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Washington Comment

If you take any stock in the comments which are written by the newspaper correspondents in Washington the stand of the Democratic senators from the East, Middle and Far West who are fighting the Supreme Court measure tooth and nail and vocal chords is highly suspicious. In their supplement to "The Nine Old Men" (The Nine Old Men at the Crossroads), Drew Pearson and Robert s. Allen make short; work of this opposition bloc. They say that this particular group of tOga- wearers has it's hatchet out for the President for one O. two reasons: -either they are raging because of disappointed patronage hopes, or they are suffering from wound cd self-esteem because of some snub, real or imaginary. which they have received at MT. R0Ose-i vclt's hands or from someone connected with his Administra- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 1:54 a. m. daylight time) Sun rises 5:32 a. m. sets 8:05 p. m. day light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- utes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

TODAY's COMMON ERROR Never say, '1t was superior in every way than the other one" say, ito the other One."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

Copyright. 1937. by United Press Feature Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18

stitution nor because of t.acif adoration of the constitution nor because tfIcJ' regard tid Presidents prcpos.l ns a dic- tator'S grab for power. Rather isl it, I believe, a sort of act of E.'4ti- tude to the presen. Court foi pre- serving the social and fna1c:al Set-up which Glass Bailey. ct al have held sacrosanct all their lives. The President who urged the passage of measures intend- ing to advance the progress of hu- mane government in the country, . progress to which the Southern BOurbons are unalterabIy Op- posed), must be fought. The Su- preme Court which threw out those measures must be supported. Consistent
 One thing to be said for Glass Bailey ct al: they are consistent in their opposition to the Pres idents plan. It assails what they believe to be the substantial things in our American scheme of things. To this department their attitude is relic of early American social barbarian. Whether 1t is or not may be a disputable point but so far as Glass is concerned I think he is absolutely honest in his po- Sition. MT. Roosevelt stands for almost everything the senior Sem ator from Virginia hates with an abiding bathing. I think it is principle which aniInates Glass. About the rest of the opposition ists I have my doubts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Test Y o u r Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Meantime

WAC6I1ClU1C
 In the msantimc while the dis sident Democrats CD in the Sen- ate are whistling to keep Up their courage to the sticking point they have the satisfying Knowledge that their actions are being applaudcd by high priests of the Republican party as samples of noble patri- otism. Listen to Frank Gannett the publisher of the Gannett (Ready to Wear) Newspapers clapping his hands at the New York Young Republicans State Convention:
 T hope and expect that the Republican party will show its appreciation of what these Democrats and the others who have opposed the President have done by endorsing their renOmi- nation and working for their re- election when they come up be- fore the voters. It seems to me that they are entitled to our support because they will have the strongest possible opposition from the President and the Far ley machine"
 e + .6..,. Fat Chance
 If Republicans, young and old, do not do any better for Senators Copeland, Burke, Wheeler, and the rest of their pals who are op- posing the President when they come up for reelection than they did for their own candidates all over the country last November, it is to be feared that the patriots have small chance of being re-, turned to office. They have pre-. cious little as it is with or with out Republican aid. And so have: others whose names are not mem. tioned. 1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Not For Love

I do not think l. Is because of tIleiF love for .iit Court as at iIl-
Evening star., 1937-04-09
UNCERTAINTY HITS
BALLS RAIL GIFT
Exact Purpose Is Unknown,
With Talk of Senate
Investigation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April 9.-Consider-
able uncertainty today settled about
the details of yesterdays surprise
announcement that George A. Ball,
wealthy glass jar manufacturer Of
Muncie, Ind, had donated to charity
his common stock holdings in Mid
america Corp, estimated recently at
$l0,000,000.
Advices from Wall Street indicated
leading rail men believed the move
was first step in the entry of a
new group into Eastern rail direc-
ton. Midamerica is top holding cor
poration for the vast 28,000-mile,
$3,O00 100000 Van Sweringen railway
empire. Ball transferred his key Mid
america holdings to newly created
charitable trust, the George and Fran
els Ball Foundation.
There was possibility of a battle by
creditors Of the late Van Sweringen
brothers TO obtain control of the rail
system from the Ball Foundation. The
issue lay in the hands of Probate
JuOSc NSlSOU y. bIeWSI Ol CleVeld1lO,
who said he expected to decide next
week whether to grant the necessary
specific authority to J. Paul Thomp-
son, receiver of the Van Sweringen
estate, to seek to exercise an option
to buy voting control of Midamerica
Corp.
The option was obtained by the
brothers from Ball after Ball bought
key collateral in New York in 1885
Both brothers have died since. The
question according to Judge Brewer,
was whether a receiver may exercise
an option obtained by persons now de-
ceased"
In New York some financial leaders
hinted about possible use of the Ball
Foundation to sell Midamerica shares
and receive proceeds without tax de-
duction
In Washington there was talk Of an
investigation of the transfer of the
stock by the Senate Railway Finance
Committee. Chairman Wheeler. Dem
ocrat, of Montana contended the In
terState Commerce Commission should
be consulted in such matters.