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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-03
A Book a Day
"Eve's Doctor" Is Story of Hospital

'Eve's Doctor" by Signe ToksviR (Harcourt, Brace & O., $2.50), pre- sentS a detailed picture of large hospital in Dublin. The story con- cerns Kate Ellison, an attractive self-reliant woman of Junoesque proportions who was brought up in America. .,..
 Kate, in spite of her 3o-odd years, has never been in love until she meets Dr. Michael Murrough, head of the Wethering hospital in Dublin This love draws her into the battle being waged for control of the tlos- pital.
 Dr. Murrough is the real protag- onist of the novel and its theme is the struggle of this highly skilled obstetrician and gynecologist for medical enlightenment and progress, against the forces of the Irish Cath olics and the Irish nationalists.
 Miss Toksvig has flair for de- scriptive incident. She keeps the plot at a fast pace, although she utilizes her talent largely in de- scribing what eventually seem to be countless operations.
 That the novel should represent life is indisputable, but the novel should picture life, not draw de. tailed map of 1t. The cult of mod ern realism which insists on de- scribing the most intimate physical details Is only endurable when 1t; exponent is writer great enough to border on genius. An average craftsman falls into an error oi being in bad taste. Only in few paragraphs does this happen, but these few lapses are sifflcient tc mar the book. In spite of the vehe- mence of the theme, 1t has beer ably blended into the plot and char acterization. Because of this theme the book may well arouse some con. troversial thought. .-B. N.
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to fight in the Chinese army. So far, about 200 American born Chinese have signed up. Most of them are young members of Wash ington's miniature Chinatown, which has population of around 5000.
 The secret recruiting office is in charge of George Moy, leading restaurateur and son of the late mayor" of Chinatown. Moy's place of blseiness is known among his people as "city hall".
 Aviat0rs and machine gunners are in chief demand, although all willing to fight are well comed. Experienced flyers are being offered as high as $1,500 a month, with . bonus for every enemy plane they shoot down. A number of young loca Chinese arc taking flying les sons at 8 nearby air school in preparation for Far Eastern ser- vice. .5 q Recruits are given a thorough physical examination before they are accepted. If they pass mus ter, they are then required to sign papers that divest them of Ameri- can citizenship and make them Chinese. subjects.
 The Chinese colony is financing the recruiting office, as well as paying the travelling expenses of the volunteers. "
 Kennedy'S Secret. -
 Chairman Joe Kennedy of the Maritime Commission has secret which other bureau chiefs, who shrink in terror of congress and the, comptroller general, would give a great deal to share.
 The dynamic, ed-headed Bos- tonian has not only wangled ad- ditional funds from congress but at the same time has adminis- tered a sharp trouncing to the COmptr0lIer General. Most agency heads wuold give a right arm to be able to score even one of these triumphs.
 Kennedy won his double victory on the issue of employing private certified accountants to audit the books of the old Shipping Board.
 When he tok office, he asked for a report on the several hun dred million dollars worth of property and outstanding balances that the Maritime Commission in herited from its predecessor. He expected a statement from cer- tified accountants. Instead he was handed a report compiled by Shipping Board employees fifteen years ago.
 Kennedy refused to accept it. He asked Acting Comptroller General R. N. Elliott for author fly to hire outside accountants at $50 a day to make survey of the books. D'
 Elliott turned down the request on the ground that not more than s day could be paid for such services, despite Kennedy's formal declaration that the experts re- quired for this job could not be secured for less than $50.
 Plain Talk
 Baked by the comptroller gen. eral, Kennedy took his fight die rectly to congress. Appearing be- fore the House Appropriations Committee, he blasted both the frner Shipping Board and Elliott. He remarked caustically that he had found the boards books "in 8 very bad condition, with the gem eraI ledger unpOsted for eight months"
 Elliott. he declared, had inter- preted the law so narrowly that the Maritime Commission had found 1t impossible adequately to protect the property an dinterest of the government.
 The committee, impressed. wrote . provision into the third deficiency supply bill overriding Elliott, then gave Kennedy $75,. 900 and full authority to make a thorough audit of the Shipping Board books.
 NOTE-under the Presidents
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Current Comment

I still think Bruno was innocent and I will not stop my search to find the guilty tilen.--Mrs. Anna Hauptmann. widow of Bruno Haupt. mann. e
 You won't get good picture if you stand as close as that. Try 1t about six feet away. king George VI. advising a nervous young pro- tographer. FISTS
 3 s. siss
 Men who get drunk ct coming out parties this year will ind them: selves blackiisted and Elot invited again Miss Mildred Chapman. New York.
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Selected Poem
SEQUENCE

SEQUENCE Milton Semoff in the Poets Corner,
 Hartford Times) Afar on hill Stand two trees, Straight sentinelS Twinkling with stars Wrapped in moon mist. Their musical silence And pointedness Vex me with their wisdom. Can there be solitude! II Calm stiffness of the night, Quietness of solitude The smile turned lips, The laughing eyes Are gone The party Is over Soft, mellow darkness Settles about, Weighting the eyelids; A fullnesS within Permeates throughout With warmth, So with the shadows Of my dreams go to sleep.
 III A faint mist Hovers over my thoughts Covering the landscape Of my dreams. The early morn Tn greyS And light colors AScends. ...... The shadows of trees The shadows of my thoughts Form Your lovelineSS.
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ROBIN KILLER LICENSED

New Lexington. O.. (Up) ---Aneri-
 cas- No. robin killer is D. L. Swartz of nearby Dumontyille, who has the only federal and state permits to shoot the birds. Swartz received his permits in order to be able to protect hIs raspberry patch.
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necLlcut MeTlb
 System Asso- ciation, Incor- porated, unbur-
 dened himself of another, e r, screech. I can not be bothered on this hot afternoon with MT. Smith. All I have to say, for the moment,
 is that I think Mir. Smith be- lieves in the so- called Merit
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A COPY OF THE PROPOSITION S$NDWICHED IN BETWEEN TWO SLICES OF PETR1FTED SHOE LEATHER. Like the pro- ponents for Prohibition, like the propagandists fer the hypothetical Child Labor Amendment, Mr. Smith and the organization he represents insi,t that only their plan can be considered at all. Ev- cry other proposal is a1atherna. If that is not self-assurance at it's worst I do not know whet'is.
 School Re- Opening
 Now that the schools are about to reopen. I think Waterbury Is to be felicitated on the character of its teaching corps. daresay, since 1t is made up of human be- ings, that it is not completely free from the faults of hun1ans kind. But its faults are insignificant compared with its virtues. Despite the growlings of the disgruntled, and by that I do not mean nleEn- bers of the Board of Education, it may be said that the schools of Waterbury are staffed by men and women who look upon their work not merely as 8 means of livelihood but as a vocation heavy with responsibility and laden with obligations in conscience to de- vel0p in their charges sound moral character as well as 8 knowledge, of the three R's-if any of the lAt- ter remain extant in modern edu- cation. I realize fully that even to suggest that education implies first of all training in moral values automatically puts the suggester in the category of the pedagogical heretics, and labels him Cor. iler) a medievalist who never used the pet phrase of the new educators CD, social mindedness", but who practiced 1t themselves and il1i- bued their pupils with its prin- c;ples as guideposts to life and living. It seems to me that the teachers in Waterbury are carry ing on the duties of their voca- tion in the best and highest sense even though they may be handi% capped in the eyes of the Mad Matters of Teachers College, Col umb;a University, and some local critics by tine demands of com mon sense and the necessity of impressing on the young ideas they are training to shoot that there are such things as objective right and objective wrong.
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1. On what island is the town of Oyster Bay, New York?
 2. In physics, what is repulsion?
 3. What species of bird Is larg- est?
 A. Who was Etienne Henri Me- hul? 'at.l :;
 5. How many eggs does an aver age laying hen produce annually?
 6. What is 8 trajectory?
 '. Is 1t against the law to wash an American flag?
 8. What is another name for Dutch Guiana?
 g. Name the product obtained by strongly heating coal out of contact with air until the volatile constitu- ents are driven off. @S
 10. In what country is the Sea of Galilee?
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 4:55 a. m. daylight time) Sun rises 6:20 a. m.; sets 7:22 p. m. day light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min utes after sunset.
 High tide at Milford Saturday, Sept 4 11:S6 p. m; low tide, 5:4l q. m. daylight time).
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 A. The final syllables are all pronounced gar, with the having the sound as in final.
 o. Where and when was David Rubinoff, the violinist, born? A. In Grodno, Russia, September 3, 1897. Grodno is now in Poland. o. Is blood temperature in- creased any by smoking tobacco in any way? A. No. ,a
 If you want a copy of our book let PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS" write the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, North west, Washington, D. c. Enclose cents in postage.
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With the Atlantic liners crossing in less than four days, Europe's getting so close that some of us want to move farther west.
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SySte m -a at least for purposes of public fool- ing. However, for his information l would like to pass on to him for his studious consideration a point raised to me by a worker in one of our local factories. It seemed to me to be an observation quite apropos. Said this horny handed son of toil:--
 T notice that most of the
 guys (his description not mine)
 interested in this Merit System
 gag have good jobs in the shops.
 How did they get them? By talk
 ing competitive examinations
 against all the other guys in the
 shop or did they get them be-
 cause they knew the right guys
 running the shop? Or did their
 old man die and leave them a
 job or did 1t belong to the fam
 fly? or what?"
 I told the horny-handed son of toll that I could not answer his questions because almost all of the names on the letter head of the Waterbury Chapter, Connecticut Merit System, Association, Incor- porated, were unknown to me as fear they are to other native born citizens of the city. did promise that in case I did go up and see MT. Smith sometime, would ask what I had been asked. I furthermore put in a boest for MT. Smith by saying that MT. Smith had the answers to every thing even though they weren't the real ones. So. MT. Smith, in the words of the horny-handed son of toll GOT what?"
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CHINESE RECRUITED HERE RIGHT UNDER GOVT. NOSE
A DREW PEARs0M
and ROBERT A ALLEN

WASHINGTON, September 3. = While the State
 Department is leaning backward to avoid embroil- ment in the Far Eastern conflict recruiting office almost in the shadow of the White House is busily enst1ng men
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Alike

Alike / .
 The difficulty in dealing with those who insist on cleaning up what they like to call "the Augean stables of American politics and industry" is that you have to let them use their own personal shovel and broom. It was so with the fanatics for, Prohibition. They would not admit that there was a happy mean between their theory and the virtue of Temper ance. Anyone and everyone who refused to accept the dogma of Prohibition became by that very fact a friend of the saloons a sup porter of the liquor traffic, and a worshipper of the Demon Rum. It was so, with the propagandlstS for the so-called Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution. They would listen to no suggestion that the language of the amend ment be altered to remove certain valid objections. Anyone and ev- eryone who declined to go along with them was howled down as a reactionary employer, an enemy of human progress, and spokes- man for child exploiters. It is so now with the pushers of the so- called Merit System Amendment to the city charter. Anyone and everyone who is unwilling to join in the movement to get the par ticular amendment sponsored by MT. Smith of Twin Lakes and his associate mcriteers, Is adjudged as an enemy to a merit system, branded as 9 political "spoilsmar1," and thrown out to be devoured by the wolves of respectable. intelli- gent CD citizenry.
 But It Has to Be
 I am for merit system which is just that. I am not for 8 change in the governmental struc- ture of the city from top to bot tom especially when those who seek to bring it about are unwill- ing to admit that is what they are after. am unqualifiedly opposed to the hypocrisy;-that compe- ten,e and service will, under an alleged Merit System, preserve public servant in his job so long as he does it well and keeps out of politics. The plan sponsored by MT. Smiths little group of ser- ious thinkers will not do this. It pretends to be something which 1t is not. If, under the provisions of the proposed amendment, I were to be made the Personnel Director or the head of a municipal de- partment and under its specifica- tions I could not find a hundred ways to get rid of an employe l disliked or of whom for any req son wished to be rid, I'LL EAT
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BY WAY of NO HARM
 by James William FitzP Patrick

The opntona COncu0ns appearing below thoxa uf the writer alone neceaRy hOSe f the editors of DEMOCRAT they to De construed vaEab
 c reflection of their ViewpOfn0
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Question?

QUGSCLUU.
 I noticed in Wednesday nights DEMOCRAT that MT. Laurence c. Smith of Twin Lakes, Conn, Executive Secretary of the Con-
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@. What is the correct pronun- ciation of the final, syllables in the words butter, better, color, after, and sugar?
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T est Y o UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, There are some people whom I cannot tell
 whether they are American or English; say about, whom"
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A Thought for Today

Where envying and strife is there is cOnfu- sion and every evil wOrk.-James 3, l6.
 We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but good life enables us to disregard them- Cato.
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Should Be Grateful

AIlQ II TOT nOC1lng else the p0rs ents of Waterbury school children should be grateful that they are not handing over their loved ones to the. direction of up-to-the-min- ute married teachers who incul- cate the theory of Evolution through the medium of baseball bat as did the Pennsylvania schoolmarn or to hospitable high school instructors who sharpen up the appetite for knowledge of those committed to their charge with a bowl or two of Martinis, as did the lady in Massachusetts. I am not sure, however, that if the few fault-1inders with the conduct of our local schools had their way we would not have on the school curricula course of study for the second grade in Cocktail Gargling and homework in. Shirt Tail Dancing for the eighth.
 Booing ,,r
 It would appear from the radio broadcast of the Louis-Farr af- fray that there was considerable booing on the part of the specta- tors at its conclusion. Fight ex- perts are as much at a loss to ac- count for the booing as they are to explain their predictions that MT. Louis would flatten, MT. Farr into a very flat flnnan haddie. The "concensus" seems to be that the expression of disapproval was due to nothing more nor less than desire to see the crown knocked of MT. Louis kinky head be- cause he had worn 1t too long.
 Proved
 Personally have no. objection to booing if it Is warranted. '. In fact I am thinking of starting & local chapter of the recently insti- tuted Assocation for Booirig Com- mercial Advertising in Motion Picture Theater Programs. I'm for that, breach of the peace or no breach of the peace. But booing for bOoing's sake and because there is nothing else to do is silly as well as stupid. It is like the political argunnent:-"They have been in long enOugh.", Which is an insult to any intelligence. The only valid argument for @ reyo- lution, either political or military, is that 1t must give something better than what Is already in ex- istence. And the promised gift must be more than g promise. 1t will not do to say Just give me a chance and I'll show you" ,"Those who are invited to- join in a movement to overthrow a political administration no matter of what party designation simply and solely because it has been in once too long are justified in asking and refusing to listen to anything but definite answer, What are you going to do, how are you Eo- ing to do 1t, and how much better is what you are promising than what the administration which is in HAS DONE?" Length of service. good and honest service, in public affairs should not be penalized on the score that 1t has been long. The booing of MT. Louis was due to the fact that he failed to deliver. If he had there would have been neither booiig nor any need of it. The Detroit Negro won BECAUSE HE WAS A BETTER MAN THAN HIS OF. PONENT AND PROVED HIS SU. PERICRTTY Thlmk fk aver.
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Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

@. When did the German army invade Belgium at the beginning oi the World War? ,
 A. August 3, 1914.
 o. Is there a solvent for ani- nal or hide glue without heating;
 A. Acetic acid diluted to 10 to l2 percent will do the job. The acid can be made by diluting commercial 28 percent acetic acid with 1.2 to IA times its volume of water.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-06-03
CHAPTER WI

All i'm less than two weeks, the
little settlement of Sapphire Lake
had become village-and was TO
bustly looking forward to the day
when it would be town. Jimmy
Moons airplane had caused it
Not that he any longer held the
monopoly. Two days after his first
trip into Wrangell, another gypsy
had flown in from the Alaskan coast
and begun canvass OF the town for
business. Then a third had found
his way up from Vancouver.
For days Jimmy Moon had been
chartered by Around the World An
ME, feverish for artisans, wood
workers, GLACIERS and their sup
plies. Olson's discovery of gold had
done great things for the morale OF
the camp. Other placer miners,
who had been content with mere
panning, now we're building rock
ers, or going in for greater sluicing
operations.
The whole psychology OF the
camp had changed, while hardware
and furnishing stores in Wrangell
sold out their supplies and the hur-
rying airplanes roared onward to
Juneau and Sitka, there to load up
from new sources and rush back to
the mining camp.
"Yeh." said Mckenzie Joe, as he
watched ship drop to the lake and
taxi to landing, "everybody's IN
a hurry. They could 60 for months
without glass in their windows
but now they've got to have 1T by
the next plane. That's the trou-
BILE with a new gold diggin's. No
body wants to let it stay the way
you found it"
Then suddenly he asked Ham
mond, "You going to work with me
today on that upper shaft, or are
you still sticking to Loon creek?
Hammond began to file the rag
ged edge of long-handled shovel.
Don't you think it's up to us to
get as much gold out of that creek
placer as we CAM Wen have to
be hiring men soon."
The older man shot him quick
glance.
That's the fourth or fifth time
you've brought that up" he said.
"Well?" asked Hammond. Didn't
we talk it over the other night?"
"We didn't come to any decision =
al did,"
"That doesn't make two of us"
A certain asperity had grown UP
between the two. looking back,
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bring you something besides myself
something I've earned. lp
but you can't work that claim
with your own hands.
"You said you'd get me some
men"
THAT takes money"
sI've got a little. A few hun
dred dollars. That will be enough.
Bruce gives Mother little to 1--we
on-because of Father"
"But suppose you don't hit it7'
She raised her head, chin high
in the moonlight.
"I've got to hit it. I can't have
you until do. 1t will be my dow
ry.'
Jack Hammond went down the
hill that night with the feeling OF
having kissed the lips of nobility. A
modest man, it had been inevitable
that he should have faced moments
of doubt-aH--tAat now was dis
PEELED.
A few nights later. >Ss Mckenzie
Joe scraped the sandy lnud off his
boots and prepared II start for
Jeanne store and new tin of to-
bacco, Jack Hammond Eapfe out OF
the semi-darkness of the cabin and
leaned against the doorway.
Listen, Joe," he began, i've
been thinking about something
"Yeh?" The old prospector tossed
aside the mud-smeared stick and
stood waiting.
We've been looking for that old
river bed in pretty haphazard fash
ion.
Have WEI" asked Joe.
aWeIl, haven't we? We dig hole
here and a hole there-just stab
bing blind, in tha dark. I've beer
thinking that we ought to map out
a campaign. Suppose we swing
away over to the right, almost te
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and running stitch, you'll find 1t
fun to emb: Older these large and
small nosegays. Choose all the
gay colors you wish, in wool, silk
floss or chenille anG know you're
in style. In pattern 580l you will
find a transfer pattern of one and
one reverse motif TIA by 8A
inches; one and one reverse motif
51a by inches and six motifs 3A
by ga inches, color suggestions,
illustrations of all stitches used.
To obtain this pattern send ID
cents in stamps or coins ICONS
preferred9 to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept, 259 W.
Fourteenth Street, New York,
N. Y.
Write pattern number, your
name and address plainly.
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the end OF our holdings OH that
Number s lease. and start putting
down series of test pits. Then, IT
those don't work out, we can start
slowly across the valley
The coldly appraising look in Nc
Kenzie Joe's eyes halted him.
What crooked mining shark has
been telling you the wrong place to
Dig" he asked blufffy, and walked
on toward Jeanne Towers cabin.
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Frocks Mode Coy
With Stitch Flowers

Fashion DEGREES that flowers
bloom on our dresses in embrold-
cry this Spring and Summer.
Give this smart touch to that new
surprise yourself and all
your friends too by what it will
do to renew that plain dress from
last year. So easily done in single