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ical building on that corner Beneath
the store will be the drugroom for hos
pital supplies, operated by the drug
firm under the supervision of hospital
authorities. The present drug store at
Nineteenth and l streets will continue
under Maxwell & Tennyson at the
same place.
Connecting the two medical build
ings on either side, owned and oper-
ated also by physicians, dentists and
affiliated professions, a ground-fioor
passageway will run from Eighteenth
to Nineteenth streets, through the
hospital in the middle. The three
structures are to use single telephone
system and central heating plant
Ambulance Facilities Provided.
Ambulance facilities are provided in
the rear of the first floor so that
patients can be transferred either to
an emergency room or through a spe-
cial passage to the stretcher elevators,
without passing through another cor
ridor. The first floor will include
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JOHN CARSON TO SPEAK

Democratic Women to Hear Coun-
sci for Bituminous Commission.
John Carson, former newspaper cor
respondent and at present consumers
counsel of the Bituminous Coal Com
mission, will discuss current events at
a luncheon meeting of the Woman's
National Democratic Club at 1890
pm. tomorrow in the clubhouse, 1926
New Hampshire avenue NV. Mrs.
Robert E. Nelson will speak at a
meeting of the Education Committee
at IL am. Thursday, 1t was an
nounced.
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sources Committee and the Public
Works Administration.
DR.. Robert C. Weaver, adviser on
Negro affairs to the Secretary of
the Interior, will be tomorrow's
speaker, his talk being one Of the
Know Your Department" series.
The u. F. W., affiliate of the C. I.
O., also is taking an active part in
the movement for a five-day week
in the Government. Following an
nouncement that President Roosevelt
had asked the Civil Service Com
mission to determine the cost Of
this innovation, Jacob Baker, national
president of the U. f. W., announced
yesterday its research staff had been
offered for the survey. Baker will
speak over WJSV in behalf Of the
plan at Gas pm. November 2.
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and special studies at oxford Uni
versity, England.
He informed officials at the law
school here last week that he has
entered oxford to take courses in
Roman law and the history If English
law. He is particularly interested in
the latter course, having taught a
similar one at Georgetown for sew
eral years. In addition, he wrote, he
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is doing research work at the Bodloian
Library.
While at oxford, DR.. Fegan has
taken up residence in Camplon Hall.
This is the residence hall for most Of
the Catholic students, especially ec-
clesiastics, who are attending oxford.
A native of Washington, DR.. Fe-
gan obtained his college and legal
degrees from Georgetown and followed
Evening star., 1937-10-31
1000, 900 Expected.

More than 100000 visitors from
East and North are expected to, enter
California for the 1899 Golden Gate
International Exposition. kti
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G. U. LAW PROFESSOR
is STUDYING AT OXFORD

Granted sabbatical year by
Georgetown University, DR.. Hugh j.
Fegan, assistant dean and professor
of law, is engaging in research work
Evening star., 1937-10-31
with Phi. D. degree. A few years
ago he was made an honorary LII. D.
of Mount st. Mary's College.

Ecuador is shipping most of this
years coffee crop to the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14

conditions being bad and the outlook dark, he persuaded the German people to listen to him and to confide their future to his hands. He "loosened avalanches back in the mountains"; does any sane American want similar avalancheS loos- ened in this country2 Hitler is not the only example, of course. Every dictator ship in Europe got It's start in precisely that same way. And when you stop to think what democracy really means, the fact is not hard to understand.
 Democracy is based on the assumption that people will use their grap matter rather than their feelings to solve their problems. It takes for granted that there will be enough coolneSS, patience and good sense to permit issues to be argued out, and that things will be settled ra- tionally rather than emotionally. Of all the thtings that our America does not need, a rabble rouser - whether of the right, the left or the dead-center-Stands at the head of the list.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
The Cat and the Monkey

Before we go very much farther with this international cooperation idea, It might be a good thing for us to review the old fable of the cat, the monkey, ana the roasted cheStnuts, You may recall that the cat and the monkey agreed on little cooperation to get the chestnuts out of a hot bed of coals, It worked out so that the monkey pulled the chestnuts out and got his paws burned, while the cat, quite unburned, enjoyed the meal of the chestnuts after they had cooled. And while no one would question the high purposes or the integrity of the great nations with which we are associating ourselves, the fact does remain that some well-roasted chestnuts are now resting on an exceedingly hot fire, and that great many statesmen overseas would De quite happy If Uncle Sam would see his way clear to pull them out.
 Specifically, the danger arises from the fact that while our government Is con- centrating It's attention on the aggression which Is going on in China, the great democracies of Europe are much more worried about the aggression which IS going on in Spain.s Spain Is much nearer to France and England than China IS. The military machines of Italy and Ger
 
 Paris, than the military machine of Japan. It can be taken for granted that neither France nor England will get more than knee-deep in any oriental con1mit- ment until the affair of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco Is strengthened out.
 There is another fact to consider The Japanese campaign in China hits the British purse much harder than the American has something like $340, ,000, 900 invested in China; Britain's investment Is well above billion. Every shell that bursts in Shanghai knocks chip off some British investment. From 8 dollars and cents standpoint, Britain has much more reason to wish the Japanese con- quest stopped than we have.
 So 1t Is quite possible that America would be encouraged to take the lead in action to restrain the Japanese and then be left all alone, way out in front, while England and France concentrated their attention on affairs nearer home. Our statesmen at Washington can avoid that danger, If they are sufficiently cagy. They can swing this country's weight on the side of decency and fair play and against international gangsterlsm without get ting into spot where we have to send out the fleet to make their words good but they will have to be cautious.
 The point to bear in mind Is that the danger does exist. The chestnuts are on the fire, and there are plenty of people who would enjoy seeing Uncle Sam play the role of monkey. Caution ought to be the watchword in Washington from now on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Rabble RouSers

Walter B. Pitkin's plea for "a rabble rouser of the right" would seem to be about the least helpful of all the many suggestions that have been made for the preservation and regeneration of this great nation of ours. Professor Pitkin voiced this plea in an article in the cur rent issue of Advertising Agency. He was complaining that those who have most reason to want to see the traditional American values preserved in this era of change are not being vocal enough about 1t.
 He wound up with the following ex- hortation: "The hour has come for words which smell, for words which set fire to men and things, for words which loosen avalanches back in the mountains. The pat phrase, the polite batter and the unctuous argument will never save Amer ica. Heaven send us rabble rouser of the right"
 One would suppose that a man with Professor Pitkin's broad outlook would realize by this time that of all calamities which can descend on nation these days, none can easily surpass that which is embodied in the person of really gifted rabble rouser. When you get such per- son uttering words which loosen ava lanches back in the mountains" you never know just what those avalanches are going to sweep away. The postwar history of Europe offers some shining examples.
 For the rabble rouser is a man who calls on men to think with their emo- tions rather than with their minds. His words which set fire to men" are, by definition, the kinds of words which men use when they have grown tired of trying to solve their problems by intellectual eff0rt. And when men get into that state of mind, they are headed for trouble just as surely as night follows day.
 Hitler went up and down Germany for years, his entire stock in trade consisting M just the sort of words Professor Pitkin as talking about. In the course of time,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14

The New York public library needs money for new books. You might have an idea that library in city the size of New York would never want for books, or the appropriation to buy books. But this seems to be the case. One feels that the librarians and boards are justified in asking for more money, and 1t seems al- most certain that the appropriations will come from some source. It is hard to believe that this library is unable to fur nish the books that are demanded. Com- nenting on this fact the New York Times editorial states the longest waiting lists there are for such books as "The Flow ering of New England" "Outline of His tory", "An American Doctors Odyssey", "Jane Eyre, "The Good Earth', and books that are classic or on the way to become so."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
War As Q Business

There are two obvious reasons why Japan is making war in China today with more energy than usual. One is business enterprise. The ruling class in Japan, the old Samurai plus the modern busi- ness barons, who are often the same per- sons, want control of the economic re- sources of China and larger Chinese market for Japanese goods.
 The other reason is political This war started immediately after national election in which, for the third time, the party in power was repudiated at the polls. The last majority against the gov ernment was so overwhelming that 1t left scarcely half dozen of the Old Guard in parliament
 A foreign war is the traditional remedy of a ruler or ruling party when his do- mestic support fails The drums beat, the trumpetS sound, the subsidized press obeys orders, and the people rally in due form to support the discredited govern rnent against the foreign enemy. The success of this move Is seen in Tokio to- day very clearly. Patriotism" brings the political opponents and critics into line.
 Can the inperialists get away with 1t? And will 1t pay? The German imperial ists thought so in 1914 when they marched into Belgium. They have been paying for 1t themselves ever since. And yet new breed of German imperialists are preparing for another adventure of the same sort-again with the apparent approval of the national. Italy thinks so, under Mussolini. The old traditions die hard. Ambitious and ruthless states men will not see or admit that peaceful foreign trade is more profitable than vio- lent conquest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Ogden L. MilLS
U. s. Suffers Loss in Death of This Distinguished New Yorker - Had Served Country
 We'll. and Long,
We'll, and Long.
NEW HAVEN REGISTER

for his later service in tho Treas- ury Department of tho United states. Ho became Secretary of the Treasury in Q period which In every respect demanded fiscal stewardship by tho most alert intelligence and by the most steady hands to bo found in the country, And In that period, when natural gifts for ad- ministrAtlon and the knowledge that comes of extended experience in !t were in utmost need, the active, continuous and foreeful service ot his talent was eliminated,
 It Is on illustration of one of tho weak points in American govern ment In tho first place, mon of his calibre do not often offer their services in public offiof, for reasons that are only humAh, There iS natural reluctance to make tho necessary sacrifices. The eompensa- ton is unequal, The physical strain is heavy, If the obligations are per- formed adequately. And so often, the service ls too widely unappro. elated, The reward Is retirement,
 The country would have been fortunate to have the sane views of Ogden L. Mills availed of in the past few years. It may safely Do said that much of tho anxiety which de- presses national enterprise today and tho problems which vex public administrators would not now ox- ist If his typo of courage and in- telligenee had been made the rule, It is unfortunate that death should como to him at 90 untimely an age, for hls talents and his ambition to be of service could have been Of valuable use and advantage might have been taken of them when tho pendulum finally swings back to sober, reflective thought
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, Oct. 1a--A ARuy 1ieB~ field has moved into town and in. Vaded tho inviolable male domain. she Is going to produce musical shows. And personally look after oil details. That means midnight rows with authors, composers and temk permetal principals m- broglios with eccentric customers, scenic designers and chorus girls, It means c Mans Job, withal.
 Moreover, Alice Alexander, the lady ziegfold In point, Is 23 years old, blond, quite beautiful and is forever being taken for Q show. girl in her own show. She could double for one If she ever had to to the optical delight of Bald headed Row. Alice iS not mere" ly on executive In name. There are no angels lowering about backStage. She Is using her own bankroll. Win or lose, 1t is her own, private gamble.
 Born to wealth \ and blue-blood in Q Boston Beacon Hill family, this youthful and Vivacious blonde early gravitated toward tho footlightS. When she was 14, she joined the stogie-Smokings comic, JoO Frisco, and in the capacity of stooge accompanied him on Q barn. storming tour of the United States. At i8 she paused in California and invested her pay checks in real es- tate. One day oil guished up from one of her land holdings.
 The gusher Is providing Alice with her wherewithal for her Ziegfeldian activities. Incidentally, she has more than one thing In common with the late glorifier of American girls. Like him, she col- lects ivory elephants; carries one constantly about in her purse. Never knew until she was told the other day that the Great dlorifier har- bored the same superstition.
 
 Wacky White Way
 Where the Gay White turns right on Fifty-Second street, lies Swing Alley, also known as Amer icas Montmartre and Barbary Cast, which you will learn about soon from Q talkie.
 Here's Q word preview: To the highbroWs, this tumultouS thor oughfare between Fifth and sixth avenues is known as Bedlam Boule- yard and Raucous Row. To the low brows as Butbucket Grotto. Even to the uninitiated, Fifty-Second street is familiar as the birthplace of "The Music Goes Round and Around" (recall?), "1'se a Muggin" and the "skit Skat Skeet."
 This is the Fifty-Secord street which spoke easily when Vol steadism was in flower and the password at every iron gate was "Open up, Charley sent me" (re- member that, tooO It is the block of the high-Stooped and stately brownstones that once matched the residential tastes of socially elegant families. And now
 Swing is king along Fifty-Sec- ond street until the 3 @. m. cur- few. It is the street that deals in ''hot pash," served on the off, beat, incesant din, dense smoke and over-congestion. For the aver age night club along Swing Alley is so small that the headwaiter lets in the latecomers with c shoehorn. The service is terrible, the dance floor could be amply covered, in lieu of @ rug, with dime. The en. tertainers heckle the customers as if they-the customers-were paid st0oges. And nobody minds. No, indeed. For they are having fun.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14

There was a degree of sound wisdom In some of the utterances of Henning W. Prentis, Jr., of the Armstrong Cork com. pany speaking before the American Bankers Association the other day. He touched on many phases of current at- fairs Among other things he said: "In- fammatory speeches and publications of incomes and salaries have created class hatred in America to degree that is ap- ERsngd gGrd It is generally conceded that burdened with too many public speakers. Fewer and better ones are what is needed, seems to be the general feeling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Selected Poem
HARBOR DUSK
AhSAASASOAs DO6N lotto Freund in the Christian SCienca Mnnifnrl

(Otto Freund in the Christian
 Science Monitor) The dusk comes early now; the leaden grey Of winter sky grows leaden blue; the reek Of harbor traffic dulls the edge of bleak SkyScrapers thrust like knife blades at the day. Breastng the oily tide, up from the bay Barges and tugs and ferries churn and shriek:
 The bridge alone spins beauty in a sleek Steel spider web across the watery way. Suddenly as the dusk turns into night The city'S million windows blaze anew million windows burst, floor over floor With golden, twinkling, incandescent light; And beauty-struck, the heart goes seeking through
 To brighter, unseen wonder r-worlds once more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14

ference tho other day.
 'NEF. Secretary" said q NewS- man, what do you think Oe tho price Of September COrnS"
 Wallace, who carefully avoids comment that would stir tho speculative market said, "soptem. Der morn, did you aayS"
 IVA Row
 Senator George Norris, father of the Tennessee Valley Authority. is irked over Q letter that IVA Chairman Morgan wrote to the Federal Power Commission, seV- erely criticiSing study 1t made of three municipal power distribute ing systems,
 The commissions survey covered plants in Tupelo, Athens, and Al corn County, Miss, which sell IVA power ct low rates to individuals and business concerns In their areas. Morgan assailed the report as being unduly favorable to tho IVA and the system Of public ownership,
 Hts chief complaint was that Che FPC, Is considering tho rates charged by the plants, had failed to take into consideration the fact that L-:;ler theiR con. tract the IVA paid prOmotlonal and advertising expenses. Mors gan contended that these costs
 made lt possible for the pub~ llc systems to charge less than
 their private competitors.
 The Power Commission hotly defended It's study and accused Morgan of pro-Vtility bias, It also sent tho exchange of letters to Norris. The veteran NebrAAkan has been increasingly critical of Morgan the past year, and just before he became ill near the close of the last session, was Aconsider- ing c resolution asking that tho President dismiss Morgan.
 N0TE-TvA insiders say that IVA Commissioner David Lilien. thai who has repeatedly claShed with Morgan, has inserted Q Hnern- orandum in the official records of the IVA blisterinG Morgan for his FPA letter and pointing out that the contracts he attacked were approved and signed by him.
 Merry.G Go-R0und
 Hundreds of girls besciged Frank McNeil, hotel manager ct Quin- ault, Wash, for the privilege of waiting on the President and his party when they stopped for lunch on the drive through tho Olyn1- pic Peninsula. Esther Nelson, c veteran employe, got the honor of waiting on FDR himself Ru- fus Wood, Republican editor of The Wenatchee Daily World and father of tho Grand Coulee Dam project, greeted the President with 6 special edition bearing this banner headline, We Welcome You MT. President As You Visit Your Own Everlasting Monument" .... After Justice Hugo Blacks radio address some of the news HUI on tno FreSlueHth Jrhln JestS ingly organized "rhe Franklin Dee lano Roosevelt K. K. K. Klavern" and announced that 0 "flogging party" would Do staged in the near future =. The New York Cen- tral Railroad. which organized the Presidents special train, had Ira Rasp. one of its executives, aboard throughout tho journey as special conductor .... Dr. Stanley High, once head of Good Neighbor League and high in White House councils, is secretly making Q study Of the government propa- ganda machine for c national magazine.
 Copyright, 1887, by United
 Feature Syndicate. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Current Comment

 War Is c game In which both sides lose.
 Thomas W. Lamont.
  Much of the best work done by men today M done in their sevens ties. -The Rev. pr. Lyman ?.
 Powell.
 The Japanese war lords never will awaken to their mistakes until they have been completely defeated by the Chinese. Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, Nans king, China.
 We make plenty of mistakesi we're human beings. Inspector W. II. Drane Lester of the G-f1leFl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
ToDAY's COMMON ERROR Never pronounce c0nsplracy.- kon.spp-rR-cyi say kon- splFsA-cy.

less activity, and females respond with loud call notes, Hitting their wings and by other evidences Of interest,
 e. Has tho state old ago pension plan of South Carolina been ap- proved by the social security board for federal grants to the stateT
 A. It was approved on August {,
 c. What Is the rate of duty on shelied and unshelled cashew nuts imported into the United statesT
 A, Two cents per pound.
 c. How can I remove ink stains from wood9
 A. Put c few drops of spirits of niter (nitric aeid) in Q teaspoonful of water, touch the ink spot with c feather dipped In the mixture, and, when the ink disappears, rub iin- mediately with Q rag wet with cold water or 1t will leave c white mark. The wood should then Do polished.
 e. Was anyone elected to the American Hall of Fame in 1862
 A. No. The elections are held quinquennially, and the last elec- ton was in 1885, when William Penn, Prof. Simon Newcosnb, the as- tronomer, and Grover Cleveland were elected.
 c. How long were Elizabeth Don- ner and Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, married?
 A, They were married January i6, 1882, and divorced July i7, 1883.
 c. How many acts of congress were passed by the congress in the session recently ended, and how many did President Roosevelt veto?
 A. Congress passed 0TS measures, and the president vetoed 40 of them. Two were passed over his veto. He vetoed IT while congress was in ses- sion and 2S after 1t adjourned.
 If you want Q copy of our book let INTERIOR DECORATION" write the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teensh Street, Northwest, Wash- ington, D. 0. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
A Book a Day
Penetrating Study of Negroes' Lives

"Their eyes were watching God" (Llppincott: S2), Is the third and finest of Fora Neale Hurstons pen- etrating novels of her own people,
 With intelligence and compassion Miss Hurston tells tho story of Janie, c Florida Negress, and of the three men she loved and lived with,
 She married Logan Killielss, the prosperous farmer, because her grandmother desired 1t. When love did not come to her with time, as her granny had said 1t would, she left him for Joe Starks.
 When she and Joe first met. he had nothing. But chance sent them to Eatonville, and there his alnbi- ton and lust for power made him mayor of the town. As his power in- creased, his love for Jamie and his kindness to her diminished. At last, his cruelty goaded her to madness and she killed him.
 4 long time passed, and then one day "Tea Cake" young and debo- nair and swaggering, stepped into her store. What happened to Jamie after that brought her the only real happiness she ever knew.
 'Their Eyes Were Watching God" is a moving story, told with humor and great understanding. Miss Hurston has Q sense of the dra- matic which lifts and speeds her novel. There is tendency to write preciously and an intoxication with words, both of which tend to clutter a bit the simple story. On the other hand there is skillful writing and really magniflcently handled Negro dialog.
 This novel is certainly one of the seasons best, and adds weight to the conviction that one of these days Miss Hurston is going to pro- duce the great Negro novel destined to come out of Arnerica.-E. M. T.