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The Washington times., 1937-03-30
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
WHY DOES MARRIAGE GO ALL M


|some private failing which might
easily have been averted or ad-
juSted.
There was, for example, that all
too common miShap Of the work.
ing wife, the unemployed hus.
band. Edith Gordon-devoted
wife and mother, with her sud.
den, unexpected literary success.
Don Gordon-upStanding man
and mate-with his equally sud-
den failure, through the collapse
of his engineering job. Edith, Of
necessity, carrying all the bills
gladly, with gallant delicacy. Don,
watching her carry them, with in
creaSing bitterness his pride
CALLED. his viewpoint all warped
Why couldn't he see how hard he
was making it for his wife? Why
couldn't he be game about it, in.
stead Of bludgeoning her with his
hurt pride and self-pity?
TRUE STORY
Day after day, the breach widen.
ing. Until one night, reused by
the baby's Group, Edith heard
the sound.
"An engine running in the
garage. She knew it at once. It
seemed to her that she had
known it all day, known it for
weeks and months The care.
fully kept up insurance his
attempt to detach her from his
life so as to soften the blow. =.
this was what they meant"
Yet, in spite Of himself, Edith
saved him. More vital still, saved
his pride-brought him back to mis-
man world undiminished, un-
SCARED.
A true story, which probes that
abSceSs which is poisoning many .
marriage. Perhaps your own? A
vigorous, vital book which shows
marriage as it is-the greatest
spiritual, mental and physical
challenge instead Of a ga-ga fairy
tale. I wish I could give 1t to
every bewildered young couple.
How I wish I'd had it myself at
my peevish, self-pitying nineteenI
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Sentino personal problems may
also be sent. All letters tDtu be
handled contidentiGlly and ans.
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dressed envelopes are 'tncludedJ
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
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dI1O 1uoO W414CA4
doth corrupt" who have been its
most unrelenting enemy. They say
it is an eyesore, a discord in mod
ern Paris, aesthetically crude and
in wrong perspective. That is why
it is to be condemned. Possibly its
destruction will at last reveal the
story of that mysteriously sealed
room, 375 feet up on the second
landing.
Old GuStave Eiffel was the only
man who had a key to the room.
His secret died with him. After
his death, the key was taken to
the Department of the Interior
and Secreted there. The room
never has been opened since that
day.
Frenchmen will tell you that
M. Eiffel kept there mummy
which he had obtained in
Egypt, preserved by a lost proc
esS, unchanged in centuries.
Egyptian priests told him the
mummy would make eternal any
structure in which it was kept.
That's that story.
INTRIGUING TALES
Another Frenchman has the
deep inside on a death ray ap-
paratus secreted there, which
will destroy an air or land army
as it is aimed and operated from
a stance somewhere higher up on
the tower. Another tale is that
it is Gustave Eiffel's tomb, and
that he had designed the tower
as such. On a single night six
different taxi drivers will tell you
six different stories. I discov.
cred this myself one night.
The German spy service might
possibly have known what was in
that sealed steel chamber. At
any rate, there are authentic
records to show that when their
Big Bertha nicked off a corner
of the Madeleine in the World
War, they were aiming at the
tower. All through that long.
range bombardment, the German
engineers were triangulating
Paris down to a gnat's heel and
trying to plug the tower.
| Attila used to make a practice
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unkind thr e e
months later?
Is there some
sinister, secret
poison in these
solemn VOWS? Is
it impossible for
our human ma
ture to liv e
sweetly and gen
erously in the
close, continu-
GUS companion
ship of wedlock?
Or do we spoil
marriage by our
Wn unconsid-
ered cIlSSedneSS
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Wise Words

The last, best fruit which comes
to perfection, even in the kindliest
soul, is tenderness toward the
hard, forbearance toward the un-
forbearing, warmth Of heart to-
ward the cold, philanthropy to-
ward the misanthropic.
The desire for fame is the last
desire that is laid aside even by
the wise.-Tacitus.
Human experience, like the
stern lights of a ship at sea, IL
lumines only the path which We
have passed over.-Coleridge.
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F. air. w h e n
Gustave Eiffel,
it's builder, died
in 1923, at the
age of 81, he
said it W ou | d
stand for 1000
years. Possibly
it W o ul d last
that long, f or,
like the French,
it is whippy, pill
able and dur
able.
It is the art
lists and archi-
tects, not moth
and rllSt. which
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him for a long,
time.
All duri / n g
the last session
and indeed at
frequent inter-
vals at this ses.
sion, Mr.. Rich
mas interrupted
H ou Sc debate
with his insist
ent question as
to where the
Democrats ex-
pect to get the
money to fl
oonoo tho NnW
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ARRIVE EARLY

The discussion over the Supreme
Court has jammed the city so full
of persons wishing to see the
august body in session that some
of the smarter residents of Wash
ington get up to the court house
as early as 9 a. m. to insure seats
when it opens at noon.
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@~ON-AASOA-
by petulance and poSSeSSive-
ness which we'd never dream OF
exhibiting in any other form OF
human relationship by child
ish unfairness and unreasonable.
ness?
And does this all spring from
the romantic nonsense we've heard
since we were babies, and seen dis
played in films?
"AND so THEY WE'RE MAR
RIED AND LIVED HAPPY EVER
AFTER"-that'S the fairy-tall
ending we expect Of marriage in
1887, Just as other lovers expected
it in 1873. But never was there a
more mischievous whopper. For no
one ever married and lived happy
ever after"
BEDROCK TRUTH
No one "'lived happy ever after"
under any conditions, either mar
ried or single. We all live as happy,
as bravely, beautifully and gen.
erously as our individual char
acters permit. And if we're un-
happy in marriage, it's because
those same weaknesses would have
made us miserable as bachelors or
SpinsterS.
There's the bedrock truth about
wedlock-and that's why I'd like
to give every Newly Wed Modern
a copy of Mary Roberts Rinehart'S
book, MARRIED FOLK" For
Mrs. Rinehart doesn't depict mar
riage as some special, complicated
Boojum. She sees it, instead for
what it is-the most serious and
civilized contract which two people
may make with each other, their
world and their God; a contract
calling for all that each mate
possesses of kindness, courage,
frankneSS and common sense.
Bring these to marriage and any
two lovers may reasonably expect
to create a little heaven for them
selves, in spite of poverty, illness,
accident and the bewilderment
which besetS us all nowadays.
Omit them, and you're in for GER
tain hell, no matter how intelli-
gent or talented you may be.
One by one Mrs. Rinehart takes
the peculiar problems of our mod
ern lives and shows how their
tragedy developed, not because OF
outward circumstance, but through
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ANTICIPATION

Today Representative Robert r.
Rich, Pennsylvania Republican,
expects to get the answer to a
question that has been bothering
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WHATS wrong Win maTrlageF
Why do people, who are starry
eyed with ecstasy over each other
one month, become cool, indif-
ferent, increasingly suspicious and
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Tagging Behind

Il until late summer should not be permltted TO Iu
advocates of fair deal for Government employees in
the matter of salaries into accepting delay after delay
in considering that pressing subject.
Although the need Of adjustment of Federal en-
ployes salaries apparent and widely discussed
before Congress convened three months ago sponsors OF
the readustment have made little practical progress dur
ing the session.
This is attributable to two factors: The general
apathy with which members of Congress have viewed
all other legislation President Roosevelt sent up his
message on the judiciary and the report of the Bureau
of the Budget that the Executive Department max
ing general study of working conditions IN the Gov
eminent service.
Neither of these constitutes valid reason for the
Governments failure to deal fairly with its workers and
with private employers who being forced to along
a path down which the Government will not proceed.
Instead of leading private employers down that path
of fair wages and decent hours with proper COM
pensation for overtime the Government is persistent IN
adhering in it's personnel relations to program
which both the Government and private employers have
branded as outmoded.
THE THEORY ON WHICH THE GOVERNMENT
IS PROCEEDING is TO GET THE MOST IT CAN OUT
OF ITS WORKERS, REGARDLESS OF CoNsE-
oUENCEs, AND PAY THEM AS LITTLE AS THEY
CAN BE INDUCED TO WORK FOR, LIKEWISE RE-
CARELESS OF CONSEQUENCES.
increases
granting to their workers-and every day the news
papers carry many stories recording such Increases
are making it constantly urgent that the Govern
ment take action.
While it has been proven that any system Of trying
to tie Government salaries to mythical cost of ivng
figure is unfair to Government workers. there be
no question that the actual cost of living is still factor
which must be considered.
And there likewise be doubt that these salary
increases which are being given to private workers
tending advance the cost of living to the detrment Of
those whose salaries are tagging behind.
In these circumstances the Civil Service Committees
of the Senate and the House have clear duty to per-
form.
They should get down Immediately to the job Of con-
sdering in detail the bills introduced by Senator Pat
McCarran and Representative William Connery provid
ing for general readjustment of Government salaries
To wait for some report from the Bureau of Budget
which may may not be forthcoming is unfair to the
Governments loyal employees and to the houses of Con-
gress which the committees represent.
After ALL this matter Of salaries is still prerogatve
of Congress.
It one of the rights and duties which the Congress
has not yet surrendered to the Executive branch Of the
Government.
Let the Congress exercise this of its few remain
ing functions.
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Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen ROLUL0nd
UNSWEETENED TRUTHS

More would try to reHopnon Of the younger cynics,
form their husbands it didn't merely hangover
from
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Greatest Show on Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

,"early show" and go see the Bo'
tanic Garden or the Washing
ton Monument in the afternoon.
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A woman may lose all her H.
lusions about a man, and still go
right on loving him; but when he
starts wrecking her illusions about
HERSELF, the wine of her love
turns to vinegar.
The woman who used to sigh
for a husband who would stay at
homa evenings, has a daughter
who asks only for one who won't
insist on tagging along every
time SHE wants an evening out.
A woman feels that she simply
MUST go to beauty parlors-but
a man believes that, like honest
money, he should be accepted for
what he is worth, no matter how
passe or battered he may look.
Marriage is the microscope
which brings you so close to
romance that it becomes just an
everyday reality. In short, in the
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A married man is just an ex-
bachelor who has made love to
one woman too many.
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1t scarcely seems worth the ef-
fort to struggle your way into a
mans affections, now that the
traffic is so congested and the
parking time so short.
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The French are planning to tear
down the Eiffel Tower, built 48
wears ago for the Paris Worlds
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A man is something like a cat
No matter how hard or how often
he is thrown over, he always lands
comfortably on his feet and walks
off with insulting cheerfulnesS at
his escape.
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The only technique which
woman needs in the love-game is
the ability to be always amiable
and lovable; and at the same
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time to keep her heart at a slight
ly lower temperature than the
mans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
CITY TOLICENSE
 SHOE SHINE BOYS
School Authorities to Co., operate = Supervision
 of Workers Planned

In accordance with the city or dinance, licenses will be issued to shoe shine boys near the conclusion of this month, Miss Kathleen Crow ley, probation officer and one of the sponsors of the ordinance stated today. Several of the more con- scientious boys went looking for their licenses yesterday, having pre- viously been told that the licenses would be issued when school began.
 Miss Crowley supplied the infor- nation that among the requisites for a license is 8 recommendat ton from the applicants school prin- cipal, and such data could not be properly received until school schedules were organized.
 A definite system for the shine boys is to be placed in effect when the licenses are issued. A badge will be the emblem of license, and the number on that badge will cor- respond to a number to be placed on the shine box. Each boy will have a definite stand" and any poaching troubles will be settled by Miss Crowley, who will be assisted by the police department In order to assure each boy profitable stand. they will be shifted from time to time.
 Waterbury is one of the few ci- ties in the country with a shine boy ordinance. and Miss Crowley said that numerous neighboring cities had sought information on the sub- feet from her.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Woes of World To Descend on Assembly
By MILTON BRONNER

ny M1LlON bhONNEH
 NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 London, Sept. 9.-Figuratively
 lind in the left eye, deaf in the 'ight ear, with a broken ankle, rheumatism in the right shoulder
 nd flutters in the heart, but hankful it still has its health and
 rength, the League of Nations now
 lters upon its scheduled autumn
 leetings to make its usual futile dabs at helping a war-torn world n which the strong nations still oppresS the weak.
 The victims of the strong are the regular governments of Spain, China and Ethiopia. And considerable will be heard about them when. the League Assembly convenes Sept. 13 in Geneva-a Geneva that stirs in the twilight of world peace.
 Spain will probably figure in a ruction almost at once. The assem- ply has to elect three member na- tions to the non-permanent places on the league council. Those retiring this year are Spain, Chile and Tur- key. Spain in past years has be- come a semi-permanent member, because the assembly always has voted its re-eligibility. But this year, If the matter comes up, 1t is not improbable that Portugal, little Fascist brother of Germany and Italy,. will object, if by Spain is meant the regular government and not the Franco rebels. Many South
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
LICCETT DRUG co.
 AGAIN DEFENDANT
Sued For $1OO,OOO By New Haven Woman;
 Other Suits Filed

Civil suits and divorce actions filed yesterday in New Haven su- perior court duplicate several Wa terbury individuals and firms.
 The Thomas F. Moran Company and the Liggett Drug Company are party defendants in a $100,000 civil action filed by Rita M. Cole of New Haven. She claims to have been injured when fence collapsed on her. Other defendants are Yale University and the United Drug Company.
 John NoWakaski and Nicholas A. Movie of this city are defendants in a $15,000 suit filed by James D. Clyne, administrator of the estate of Ernest P. Brown of New Haven. The latter was killed in an automo- bile crash involving the Movie auto- mobile, operated by Nowakaski. Priscilla Prall of Waterbury is be- ing sued for divorce by her husband, Walter E. Prall of Cheshire, on grounds of desertion. They were married July 2, 1914, and parted in l930.
 Josephine Werner Hivon of Ches- hire seeks a divorce from Arthur Hivon, on grounds of cruelty and intemperance. They married De- cember IS, 1880.
 Mrs. Anna Banno of Naugatuck names John Banno of Norwich de- fendant in another divorce action. they were married February l2, 1910, and have five minor children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
PARALYSIS SHOWS
 DECIDED INCREASE
Only One Case Recorded in New Haven County;
 Warning Issued Here

Infantile paralysis showed a de. elded increase in the state during the week ended Tuesday, but the only case in New Haven county vas reported at New Haven, There vas one at T0TTingtOn, one at Middle. town, and the rest in Hartford county, t0taling ten eases or three more than the nigh figure Of seven for the preceding week,
 Although unusual at this time oi the year, health officials failed i1 find danger Of aD epidemic tn the reported increase, FemaTking that the peak probably has been reached RDd that there will be fewer eases nov that the cold weather hai shown indications Of arriving,
 DF, Edward !, 00dfTey, city healtll OffleeT, reported one ease 0f diph' lheris f0T the week before last but none last week, There weTe nG eases 0f serious sickness reported from Waterbury last week,
 WaTnlng 70 parents sending theu
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
STRAND

"The Road Back" heads another brilliant twin feature program ai Warmers strand theater today, to' morrow and Saturday.
 The polarization Of Erich Maria RemaFque's heart Touslng novel about conditions in Germany after the war has been six years on the way, The perspective Of time has added new values to hk story which are brought Into strong re- lief through the medium of tbs camera,
 Because 0i what he wrote ln "rha Road Back, RemhTauee was eslled from his native land, so strongly did hls book str national feeling The author saW the unrest eTow' Ing, say the revolution that tol' lowed food riots, haW returned kol' aiegs facing the lFap Of starvation
 The east includes Barbara Read J0ln Kng, Richard Cromwell, Slim RlmmaFvllle, Andy pevine, Louise FaaAnda, Noah beeFy, JEs MauTles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
M The Local I,heaterS
STATE

Performances this afternoon and eveninfi afford last corners 8 final opportunity to see Varsity Show with Fred Waring and his Penn sylvanians, Dick Powell, Rosemary and Priscilla Lane and 8 host of other Hollywood starlets also Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mccarthy in Double Talk" and Willie Howard in "The Affairs of Pierre" This grand show is on display at War ner Brothers State theater and is well worth finding time to see and enjoy.
 Tomorrow (Friday) the State proudly presents that record-break- ing saga of the sea that has been electrifying audiences throughout the nation, Souls at Sea-" Played by an excellent cast headed by Gary Cooper, George Raft and Frances Dee, Souls at Sea-" is the story of "Nuggin" Tayor, an ex- slave trader, played by Cooper, who happened to be returning from Eng land to the United States on the brigantine William Brown In mid-Atlantic the william Browns" master, played by Harry Carey, was killed and shortly later the vessel caught fire. Because of his rank, ,Tay- Tor took command of the vessel.
 Realizing that there weren't enough life boats to take care of all the passengers, Taylor held one of the Weirdest trials every held on land or sea. He ordered the entire ships company and passenger list to the quarter deck and decided who should be permitted to escape in the life boats and who was to remain behind and go to the bot tom with the ship. He included him- self among those to go to the life- boats, not, he swore to the court later, because of any cowardice, but inasmuch as because he was the only seaman among the survivors and therefore the only man who could bring the hfeboats through safely.
 On the same program the state will present that gay comedy or youth playing at love, Blonde Trou- ble," with a giant cast of tunmak. CTS headed by Eleanor Whitney, Johnny Downs, Lynne oyeFman. Benny Baker, Terry Walker and Bl Brendel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
News oddities,

News oddities. Penn State College is doing the mothers of the nation good turn. It has two home economists establishing standards whereby manu- lecturers of childrens clothes will all follow uniform sizes for the various age groups This is boon to the
 mother who wants something for Willie who is years old but big Mrs Jones' Johnny who is years old Mrs Nina Klingenberger of Bucyrus, Ohio has pet crow Amos, who taps at her window every morning at 430 his hour of arising With pet like that we'd soon take stern steps to eradicate the aarm-cock. Here's another extraordinary dog story This is about Boots 1Sear old collie of Farport Ohio who has been going to church every Sunday for the past 13 years However he only gets far the vestbule Howard Weldn, Jr of Wilmington, Delaware has the best autohef insur- ance we ever heard of It consists of pair of black snakes big fellows, which allowed to sleep the car seats when the owner is away. Out in St. Lous Mo-. people have hard time with Dr. Adolph G. SchoSsstens name They never put enough "Ss" in it. There should be three because his name German, is combination of the words, "Schoss meaning castle and "stein mean ing stone
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Troubled Geneva Awaits Petitions to Gust Spain From League, Erase Ethiopia and Spank Japan
Arab Delegates Fight Division
 of Palestine

up it's mind to a reconciliation with England. But it wants a measure of satisfaction. It does not ask that the league shall stultify itself by openly recognizing that Ethiopia has has been conquered and made part of an Italian empire. It will be satisfied if the league removes Ethiopia from the list of nation members of the assembly.
 If that is done, England can take note that the country has been swallowed up by Italy.
 Palestine Issue to Fore /
 One of the most important is- sues to come before the council is the report of the permanent man date commission. It will give its opinion upon the proposal of Great Britain to divide Palestine into three sections, a small section to be set up as a Jewish independent state ultimately, a larger section to De given to the Arabs, and a British mandate over the Holy Cities with an access to the sea. In the dis cuSsion of this the Jews will real ize their big disadvantage There is no Jewish seat in the league. On the other hand, the Arabian case can be pleaded by the dele gates from the Moslem states Of Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Persia and Egypt, Turkey may take an aloof attitude.
 Germany'S Colony Plea In view of the insistence of Ger many that it must regain its old African colonies taken from it under the Versailles treaty and given mainly to France and England-a matter of prime importance will be a report of the committee named last year for the study of the prob- lem of raw materials. The commit tee subdivided its work into studies of:
 l. Production and restriction of exports of raw materials.
 2. Export duties.
 3. International agreements for regulating production of raw ma terialS.
 4. Effect of monopolies.
 In general, the commlCtee IS eX- pected to report that 1t finds no actual legislation barring countries, poor in raw materials, from obtain ing them in richer lands, but in practice, it is often difficult for the material-hungry to be fed It will also find that there are few real monopolies, the principal being jute in India, quinine in the Dutch East Indies and camphor in the Japanese empire, but it finds that there is no need for apprehension as to the misuse of these monop- olies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
LOCAL MUSICIANS
 QUALIFY IN TESTS

Seven Waterbury musicians re- ceiyed notification yesterday that they had passed the yearly examin- ation in the theory of music, given by Trinity College of Music in Lon- don, England. Those who were suc- seccful in this city include Mis-: Mary Rice, organist at St. Patrick's church; Roy w. Beron, RidgwaJ Shinn Jane Ryan, Shirley Arm- strong, Vera Taylor and Plummel Alexander.
 The examinations were given ir Waterbury last June and gave local muSuc students the opportunity to compare their ability against g worldwide standard. Administration of the tests was. in charge of Miles A. Martin, chairman of the local mommittee, assisted by Professor John L. Bonn, Miss Fannie Me- Cormact and Henry Dunn.