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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-24
Answers To Questions
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
cgVsiAl W''. M
By Frederick Al. Kerby

QUESTIONS ANSWERED
 Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton of fact or information to The Democrats Service Bureau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be- undertaken. Be sure all mali is addressed to The Waterbury Democrats Serv- Ice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street : Washington.
 THE EDITOR.
 0. Is radium used in surgery for diseases other than cancer and ma lgnant sores?4 sa..-c >-'A
 A. No. The X-ray is better for other purposes, being much cheap CT; and more easily controlled.
 c. Which actress won the Pan ther Woman" contest, conducted by one of the major motion picture studios g few years ago, and what was her first picture? %
 A. Kathleen Burke, who won the title, played her first role in Island of Lost Souls"
 e. Does poison ivy grow at hign elevations?
 A. It has been observed growing near Denver, Colorado, at. attitudes of more than 5000 feet. <. e. Must one give a reason for declining to accept q formal, social inyitato1? tt@yS-
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How Would You Like 1t?

''I have w0i led in - - for thirty five years" he said. "HOw would I feel if the boss came to me tomorrow and said George, I've got to let you go Saturday night I would ask him if he had any real fault to find with my work. He would have to say that he didn't. Then I would say, Well, what's the idea of letting me go?' All he could a1- swer was that I had been work ing too long in the shop and that there was another fellow locking for my job. l v--. ask him Can he 6o my work! I Lat do you knew &bout him? Can you depend cn him to be on the job day after GGy?' And the boss could only say I don't know anything abOIt him. don't knew whether he can do your work or not. don't knew whether I can depend on him or not. All I know is that he wants your icb and I'm going to fire you becaage y0, have been here tco long What a swell argument that would be wouldn't it? How long do you think that boss would have his jcb? How long do you think the heads of the factory who built up the shops ability to get out rush orders at short notice and make 8 worldwide name for themsc-ves for the'r efficiency would keep him on his jcb? They'd fire him. in a minute wouldn't they for destroying what they had built up? How would my boss like 1t if he was fired from his job because hcN had been too long on it? How would my doctor who has taken care of me and my family for years, who came to me all hours of the night and in all kinds of weather, like it if I fired him because he's been the family physician too long? What kinI of a fool would I be to fire him and take on another guy that I didn't know anything about? This change business gives me a pain. If there's anything in it why shouldn't every school teacher who has been teaching more than a few years be fired? Why shouldn't every cop that's been on the force for any length of time be fired to make room for somebody else who wants his job? Why shouldn't every fireman get the bum's rush to make room for some bird that wouldn't know one end of a hose from the other? Why don't my wife fire me because I have been bringing home my envelope to her every pay night for too long a time? Why don't ! chuck her. out and get myself another wife because we have been mar ried too long? Why don't ! stop feeding and clothing my kids because I've been doing 1t too long? Nothing is good just be- cause 1t means a change. It's only good when 1t produces something better than the thing whose place 1t takes. My boss is going to hang onto me be- cause I've proved what I can do. I'm going to hang on to my doctor because he's proved what he can do. I'm going to hang on, to my wife because I know what she is. She's proved 1t. AND IF ANY DAME TRIES TO TALK ME INTO FIRING MY ! WIFE AND TAKE HER ON. BELIEVE ME I'M GOING TO DO sA LOT OF INVESTIGAT-H [ ING BEFORE | MAKE THAT KIND OF A.SUCKER OF MY SEEF,"
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T0DAY's COMMON ERROR Never pronounce 'acclimate-- ak'-klim-ate; say, .ak-klP-
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; h A. It is courteous to give 8 req son for refusing, the, invitation, but unnecessary to go into details.
 e. What Is the nationality of Joe vosmik, well-known Major League baseball player? H , A. He is an American of Bohe- milan ancestry, born in Cleveland. Ohio. April 4, 1910 < @. Did George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company have a son?
 A. George Eastman never mar ried. His closest living relative al the time of his death was niece, Mrs. Ellen Andrews Dryden of Ev- anston, Illinois.
 If you want . copy oS our book let, EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNI TED STATES GOVERNMENT write the aWterbury Democrats washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Northwest, Wasing- ton, D. c. Enclose 10, cents in post age.
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two there will be many millions swing ing back and forth in seasonal rhythm, to the Great Lakes and the Gulf, to the mountains and the sea, seeing new things, having good time, improving thelr health, and fertilizing business as they pO
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Selected Poem
:, FARM BOY AT SCHOOL
 (Eleanor Alletta Chaffee in the Christian , Science MonitOr)

The whole wide forest was his book until Yesterday. All the meadow was his lore
 He knew whose flight made small furred things
 so still t t.. , That nothing stirred in the grasses. All the lore Of footprints at the ponds edge he knew well: How to build fires with birchwood peel On rainy days and broken twigs could spell 'f The passing of deer. The spiders seal Was both barometer and weathervane {. To eyes that read the .earth's most secret page Small wonder that he loitefs down the lane A., A most pflrlly and reluctant sage, ". .s..s .s- To learn what seems to him not worth the knowing With summers air still through. bis bright hair
 blowingl .3 4t -t
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ANOTHER CALIFORNIA BOOST

visAlia, cal. Slu. p Frank Day. bell does not think so much of the famous English fog. After living a few years In England and . few years in the San Joaquin valley, he declares the latter can produce foes that would make the English variety look tame.
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Ing to. l nope0 to hear or read a new and val- i'd argu ment
 advanced for voting against the Democrat ,ic ticket. To date (this is being written
 on T Thursrday afte rnoon), I h 8 We b e e Il grievously dis a p point e d. Nothing tn a { has been said
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{ Feet Y Q UT
 Knowledge
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers. F

1. On the shore of what body of water is the city of New Rochelle, N. Y? .a
 ?. What is the principal alkaioid of tobacco? 5'E f.1s ' F.-
 3. Who wrote "The Virginian?" :
 4. In military parlance, what is a countersign2 ses1% x ,'st' <
 5. Name the capital of Madagas. car.
 6. Which has the larger area. con. tinental U., 8. A. or Canada? .s
 2: Of what sea Is the Persian Gulf an arm? ', E t# ss f,T 5V@
 8. What is a cubicle? 3'a i;a s4 {
 9. Name the representative flower of Nevada. ~, ( 10. Tn. which Soutl1s American country Is, Lake Maracaibo2 ss @ -z " ,y .,s 7, <,
 Japan was tic largest pllfchasel Of Uruguay,s wool ili the lD36s37 season, with tic United states . close second, s.i, z !
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 9:24 p. m. daylight; ;tine).
 Sun rises 6:4i a. nn.; sets SAT p m. (day- light time). yf E%.Gaf,4 ss,% Z All vehicles, must be lighted thirty min- .lItes after silnset siH sgs NsS { 5 High tide At Milford satuFday Sept. a, 3:Oa ?. m; low tide, sp:4e sp m. tdayiight
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The civilization of Ethiopia has ad- vanced to a stage where guerilla warfare is waged in every section of the country and there is general famine.
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All China needs to win the war is to hold her casualty rate down to four Chinese for one Jap ..
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of Cousin George" adopted party. I would hate to think that the men and women of Waterbury who, regardless of party afilia- tion, have cast their ballots for the Democratic tcket did so for any other reason than that they were convinced that the adminis- tration had done a good job and should be continued in office. I. do not believe that Republicans who have voted for Mayor Hayes and the administration candidates in the past did so because they (the Republicans) were dishonest or for 8 price. do not believe that Democrats who voted for Cousin George" on the two occa- sions when he was the Democrat ic organization nominee for the state senate did so because they were dishonest or for 8 price. They voted for him thinking he was a Democrat and for no other reason. It was unkind of Cousin George" to insinuate that those who are opposed to him now are not interested in good govern ment, that they are dishonest, and that they have sold themselves for a price,, The insinuation was reflection not only upon "Cous- in Georges" political sagacity but also a slur upon the character of those who elected him to the state senate when he was the Democratic organization candi- date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-24
Factory Worker

SSSVVAJ VVANNA
 It seems to me, and I think it will appear so to all other citizens of Waterbury as the campaign ad- vances, that the only argument the anti-administration candi- dates have to offer is the argu- ment of change. It is silly argu- ment and its folly is plain when one applies it to himself. A con- versation I had a night or two ago with a man employed in one of our local factories was most en- Tightening. For purposes of con- versation I asked him how he felt on the subject of change. He was pretty explicit in his expression of opinion and because he had evidently been applying the change" theory to himself, became slightly irreverent in his speech. I cannot quote his language but I can reproduce his thought. It was as follows below.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-24
BY WAY of NO HARM
by
James William FitzPatrick

(The opinions conclusions appearing those of the writer necssariy those of editors DEMOCRAT they to De construed nvartaO
 a reflection OG their ViewpontI.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-24
Promises

Promises
 The conductor of these columns has been waiting expectantly for the anti-administration nominees to say something worth listen
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FDR STARTS ON HIS 6,OOO-
 MILE FENCE-BUILDING TRIP
R BREW EEAR00@

(EDITORS NOTE: Robert Allen President his trip to the West Dispatches the p den train will regular feature this column during the next two weekS). -,,,Iss ;
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ABOARD THE PRESIDENTS TRAIN -; So much printers ink has been spilled describing the dire things Roosevelt is going to do to his Supreme Court foes that the general public would be justified in thinking he was armed this trip with machine guns and heavy artillery
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A Thought for Today

WhOsoever hateth his brother is murderer; and we know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.-JOhn 3:l5.
  Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rue.-Buddha.
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the appearance of novelty. The same old, exploded, refuted charges have been made: the al- legged high tax rate, the alleged waste, the alleged extravaganza. Promises to produce the evidence to support the allegations have been made. The promises have gone unfulfilled. The reason they have gone unfulfilled, to my mind at least, is that the evidence does not exist.
 No Proof
 I listened with close attention to Cousin Georges" premiere performance over the air. I studied carefully the printed re- port of his speech the day follow ing its delivery. I found nothing in it but a dreary rehash of every thing which had been said by other opposition candidates for years back. Cousin George" charged this and charged that un- til it seemed to me that he was doing nothing but opening a charge account against the Dem- Ocratic administration But of proof of his accusation there was none.
 Unjust
 Now that sort of thing is pal pably unjust and does small credit to the person who resorts to it. It is, I think, the belief of the ordinary man and women that if a candidate for office makes spe- cif1c charges against his opponent
 he should produce proof of his charges at the same time-not a week or a day or 8 moment later. If, for example, say that Cousin George" is a fathead; that he does not know what it is all about; and that his candidacy does not merit the serious consideration of low grade moron common honesty ccmpels me to produce at the mo- Inent the evidence to substantiate my statements. I should not promise to bring out the proof next day, next month, or next year. Cousin George" should not in fairness be compelled to prove that he is not a fathead, that he does know what 1t is all aoout, and that his candidacy deserves serious consideration by the best brains of, the community.
 Not GeneralitieS l. I want iy unoefs.ood, here and now, that I am not saying "Cous- in George is a fathead, and that he does not know what it is al about and that his candidacy does not merit the serious considera- ton of a low grade moron. am simply using that illustration to bring out the point that when Cousin George" made his charg- es against the Democratic admin istraton, injustice to himself and to his campaign, have followed them up immediately with the evidsnce he said he had to sup port them. And when say proof mean proof. Not gsneralittss. Or what someone told someone else who told some one who told Cousin George" that someone told them that the Democratic administration had done thus and so.
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tically its entire length. The portion
east Of Twelfth street and nearest
the Capitol appears at an early date
to have been more or less heavily
wooded, while from Twelfth street
westward to the river was largely
marsh and farm land, titled. where
tillable. by the so-called obstinate"
David Burnes, whom the record shows
was not obstinate at all.
Squatter sovereignty seems to have
prevailed, for about 1902, according to
Christian Hines. colored man called
Old Jack had his house on the south
side OF the Tiber not more than two or
three hundred feet from where he
and his brother were catching drift
wood. which was in the vicinity of
Seventh street. He also says that
Old Jack was buried on the south
side of the Tiber, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets. now part
OF the Department Of Agriculture
grounds.
A BOUT this same period, Hines
says. what is now the Smithson-
Ian grounds was the scene of a fair
for the amusement of the country
folks and to draw custom to the city.
Until l848 no improvements had
been made to the Mall. and at this
time only the section lying between
Seventh street and the Potomac River
Hn6 it'll, =,
However, this must have contributed
but little to the appearance of this
park, for an early writer tells us
that prior to 1850 from Seventh to
Twelfth streets and from the canal
to B street south presented supr-
face of yellow or white clay, cut into
by deep gullies and without trees ex-
cept one or two scraggy and dying
sycamores The streets running
through it north and south were SIM
ply mud roads. used principally by an
omnibus line that rumbled over 1t once
or twice day to the steamboat
wharves. and those who were forced
to travel afoot this unimproved muddy
or dusty street-Which it was in turn
were compelled to do so in a zig
gag fashion.
1t was in 1851 that Andrew Jack
son Downing began to lay out the
Smithsonian grounds and the grading
and laying out OF the Department of
Agriculture grounds. between Twelfth
and Fourteenth streets, was not COM
menced until 1868. when the work was
begun by William Saunders, botanist
and superintendent of propagating
garden, from plans prepared by him.
The old Department OF Agriculture
Building was not occupied until it
was completed in August, 1868. and the
old building of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing was not begun until
1873. and not completed until the fol-
lowing year Before this building was
erected the site was occupied by one
or more small frame residences and
shops, for it was here that Samuel
w. Lloyd lived and had his carpenter
shop. and where his daughter, who be-
came Mrs. Willis. was born. From
1861 to 1865 this same ground was oc-
cupied by part Of the Quartermaster
Corps, which included a commissary
that distributed supplies for all the
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varied activities of the Army. includ-
ing the rationing OF pensioners and
Army officers.
Necessarily, this required a large
storehouse and probably several OF
them, for here was also a bakery,
presided over by John Gately. who
later went into the baking business
for himself at 2438 K street NV.
There was also nearby a wheelwright
and several blacksmith shops and
FORCES and a butcher shop conducted
by Jesse, Oliver and Rose Varnell.
These commissary buildings, shops
and other structures were in plain
view OF the White House, as we're the
horse and cattle corrals which lined
the dirty. sluggish Washington Canal.
as we'll as the old stone LIGHTHOUSE at
Seventeenth street and Constitution
avenue, erected in 1887 for the use
of the lock keeper of the Washington
branch of the canal Here James Nc
Guffin. who hailed from Baltimore.
Nd, was at one time the lock tender.
and another man to serve as such was
a Mr. Bryan, whose daughter Fannie
D.. was born, there in 1857. and mar
ried Mr.. Carter. A year ago she
was residing in Mount Rainier, Md
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THIS canal was distinct from the
Chesapeake g. Ohio Canal, q
part OF which We may see today in
and above Georgetown. and which
was commenced on July 4. 1923. How
ever, both canals had their terminus
in triangular shaped and walled
basin which occupied a large section
OF the northwest part of the Monu-
ment grounds. beginning at Fifteenth
street and widening out toward Sew
enteenth street, beyond which was all
water
The Washington City Canal was
first mentioned on October IA. 1871.
when proposals were called for to
connect the Tiber with the James
Creek. Evidently work was begun
as scheduled. for we find that during
1895 work was abandoned Later,
though, upon slightly different plan.
so far as route was concerned. a new
beginning was made on May 10. 1910,
when President Madison turned the
first sod. Following this the usual
financial difficulties we're encountered,
and its completion was not celebrated
until October. 1915. and 1t continued
TO function of and on tmostly off
until February Is. 1879. when work
was begun in filling up that part
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WHITE HOUSE IN LINCOLN DAY
Views South Which Interested Civil War President for Period
When He Occupied Mansion-Old Canal That Passed
Along Line of Constitution Avenue.

washington. He was, it seems, stand
ing at the time in one of the south
rooms of the mansion. talking to a
friend who was telling him of a GER
tain sighting remark made by a pub
lie speaker about this good man and
Father of his Country, when Mr.. Cool
idge, turning toward the great white
shaft and gazing upon it intently,
said, We'll, the Monument still stands,
anyhow"
I INCOLN, of course, had many rea-
sons for admiring this marble
tribute to Washington. for it was dur
ing his entire administration that his
government was fighting for the pres
ervation Of the Union. for the achieve
nlent Of which Gen. Washington
played such an important part-in-
deed, an indispensable part. It is
also true that the Civil War Presi-
dent was Member of Congress when
the cornerstone of the shaft was laid,
July 4, l848, and as Congress did not
adjourn until some time the following
month, after this event took place,
it can well be assumed that he was
present at the exercises and listened
intently to the Grafton delivered upon
that occasion by Robert c. Winthrop
Of Massachusetts,. Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
1t is also probable that he had the
pleasure of seeing some of the no.
tables invited to be present at that
time. including Mrs. Hamilton, the
9l-year-old relict of Alexander Ham
ilton, famous American soldier and
financier. Mrs. Dolly Payne Madison
also was among those present, as we'll
as Mrs. John Quincy Adams, Martin
Van Buren,. Willard Fillmore, Lewis
Cass. Gen. Sam Houston, Chief JUS
tice fancy. George Washington Parke
Gusts, adopted son of Gen. Wash
lngton, and others.
When the United States took title to
the Mall, in 1871, the Tiber flowed
along its northern boundary for prac-
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By John CIagen Proctor.

"HE southern view obtained from
the windows of the White
House during the period Lin
L coin occupied that famous
structure, was quite different, as one
might imagine from the view Presi-
dent Roosevelt sees today when look
ing in the same direction. But,
whether the scenery is more beautiful
now than it was 70 years ago depends
upon the trend of ones mind, for
many people rather prefer rural and
rustic landscape, such as Lincoln saw.
to the o,cre improved and up-to-date
landscaping and architecture one sees
today in the Capital However. what
we see now in this particular section,
speaks for itself, while what was there
In Lincoln's day is no longer and
consequently must be described to the
many thousands of residents whose
memory does not run back SO far.
Naturally, the Washington Monu-
ment was the principal object that
met Llncoln's gaze, for even at that
time it had risen to the height of ITO
feet, and, standing alone. with no high
structure near it, undoubtedly looked
quite formidable even in its incom-
pleted state. And, besides this, no
man loved the first President better
than did Lincoln, whose tribute to
him will ever live, when he said;
washington is the mightiest name
on earth-long since mightlest in the
cause of civil liberty; still mightiest
in moral reformation. On that name
no eulogy is expected, 1t cannot be.
To add brightness to the sun or glory
to the name of Washington is alike
impossible Let none attempt it. In
solemn awe pronounce the name and
in its naked deathless splendor leave
1t shining on"
When in the White House. Presi-
dent Coolidge, we are told. made
statement, brief as 1t was. that showed
his great reverence for President