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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
Warburg Sends Appeal
 Waterbury Rabbis
Chairman of American-Jewist Distribution Commit. tee Asks Consideration of Drive During Holidays

We are approaching the high holiday season when the Jews of America may give prayerful thanks for living in this fortunate land, but we Jews in America cannot full fill our duty to our God and our fellow Jews with prayer alone" said MT Warburg.
 At this time when we are most conscious of the common destiny of all Jews, and, as we look upon the great distress of so many of our fellow Jews in European lands. It is imperative that every American Jew contribute to the service of our less fortunate brothers overseas. We have the perfect instrumentality at hand for this service-the joint distribu- ton committee which represents all organized forces of American Jewry, -Orthodox, conservatives and re- form.
 Demands Increased
 "The joint distribution committee Ildo olllCS ACAT BafCAA oCAFANC Aa AAhS with the priciples of the Mainoni- dean code, the highest expression os charity known to man. It has made 1t possible for American Jewry to give anonymously and thus with out embarrassment to the recipients overseas. and :condly--and this Is the peak of all human service-it has enabled the needy to help them- selves, to become once more self reliant and to hold their heads high once more as equals of other people in the world.
 T need not tell you of the in- creased demands made upon the committee in recent months. You have read in the daily paper of the terrib,3 ordeals through which so many of our people overseas are passing. They ask us to view their plight with con passion and that we do whatever is in our power to help them raise themselves out of their misery. Here is an opportunity for real service. Tn behalf of oppressed Jewry. I ask you to devote part of your Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur services to the program of the joint distribution committee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

Felix M. Warburg, national cam paign chairman of the American Jewish joint distribution committee, today asked rabbis and leaders of Jewish congregations of Waterbury to devote part of their synagogue service during tho high holidays which begin September 6, to further the current fund-raising efforts of the joint distribution committee, foremost American agency extending aid to Jews in Europe and other overseas lands.
 Rehabilitation Work
 This request in behalf of the joint distribution committee which Is seeking this year $4,65o,o00 to con- tinue its work of relief and rehabil- tation among Jews in Germany, Poland, Romania and other coun- tires in eastern and central Europe was contained in letters which MT. Warburg, now abroad, sent person. ally to Rabbis Maurice L. Zigmor, William P. Greenfield and Moses D. Sheinkopf.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

taken care of. It maintains It's own shce-repairing shop. store, postof- flee, radio station, and plant where pie erect all it's buildings, too.
 The people are vegetarians but a steak or lamb chop is permitted when . doctor prescribes 1t. They eat at a community table, abund- antly supplied from their own land.
 The Alma White college and It's preparatory High school are part of the community. Cosmetics are forbidden. The girls wear tini- forms of long brown skirts and tan nliddies. small boys are gay in blue shirts with yellow ties, adult men appear in black shirts, and adult women adhere to < straight dresses of black or navy, worn with small white collars.
 Up and down across the. coun- try, Bishop White goes. visiting the more than 50 American Pillar of Fire branches, and overseeing all property purchases and build- ing plans. She believes that God is her strength and through Hin, she can do all things. To prove 1t, she learned to drive an auto mobile at 50, to swim at S5. and to paint in oils at 70. One oF Eleven Children Bishop White was one of a family of II children born on Kentucky farm. When she was Il7 Alma White began to teach. Two years at the Millersburg Fee male Seminary in Kentucky fol- lowed. At % she went to Mon- tana to teach. More college foi- lowed and in 1887 she married Kent White, a young Methodist minister, of Denver.
 q wanted to preach,v sine ren- inisces, but the church where my husband was the minister object ed so I began to orsanize mission ary societies"
 That was the way it started, One church followed another, the colleges and radio stations and communities developed. Tn 1906 while speaking in New York. she went over to a farm beyond Bound Brook, N. J., to, see girl who wished to enter the Belle view College in Denver.
 The girls mother had mort gagged farm - the one with the green acres and slow canal. Bish. op White bought It, named 1t Za- repath, and transferred her head quarters to the East.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

Warren, R. l., Aug. 3i - King Oyster was crowned today with due ceremony worthy of such a great occasion. The dapper Gov ernor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence plantations, the Hon. Robert H. quinn, with his military aide in a splasfing uni- form, received the key to Davy Jones Locker from Davy Jones in person.
 Federal officials, state officials from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut were present to lend weight and dignity to the launching of the New England oyster season. Each and every one brought a keen and apprecia- tive appetite for the first oysters of the season. fresh from native waters. Our New England oysters are superior in taste and quality to any other oyster-you can get any New England oysterman to admit this to be fact. Anyway 1t was great show and a large gathering of dignitaries the like of which has not been seen since General Beezoo was buried with with military honors.
 Celebrities Attend
 Dr. Lewis Radcliffe of the Oyster Institute came up from Washington, D. c. especially to be on hand for the great event. Howard w. Beach, president of the Oyster Institute. Arthur Mil- Ter of the United States depart
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

By NEA Service
 zarepath, N. j.. Aug. 3l-Serene in green pastures, beside the still waters of an old canal here, Bishop Alma White, the worlds only wo- man bishop, has established what is probably the sole Matriarchy of the present day. It's a pleasant place and she uses it to train religious storm troops.
 She calls her movement the. Pillar of Fire. She defines 1t as old fashioned Methodisnl. Mot Meth odists as you find them today" she nastens to tell you. She organized her cohorts for the battle-line when modernists began to reject the old- fashioned Gospel. While thrones have toppled, banks closed, and lla- tions gone to war, she has continued to preach about "a topless Heaven and a bottomless Hell, uttermost salvation or everlasting damnation."
 Therefore, Bishop White, now 75 but still blest with the dynamic en- ergy of a dozen ordinary people, has built up a religious organization that astonishes the world. With a preach ing itinerancy that would push the Apostle Paul's straight of the New Testament map she travels 45,o00 miles a year (partly by planes) ,buy- ing property, raising money, and urging people to conform to the ways of the Lord. She breaches 21 sermons a week. Five is her Sunday average. She also edits eight Pillar of Fire Journals.
 She has travelled distance of more than three million miles in her preaching, been to Egypt and the Orient twice, crossed the ocean S6 times, written 35 books and l50 hymns the books all have been published and 100 of the hymns are in church songbooks - built and maintained 49 churches, three col- leges and two radio stations, and founded her village (and matriar- chy) of zarepath.
 She gets up at five o'clock every morning, usually taking part in the daily broadcast over her station WAIVE.
 Sees Bible Prophecy Fulfilled
 Bishop White, kindly, imposing looking old lady who parts her snow white hair in the middle, attriutes her energy to faith in God and courage of her convcitions. we are coming to. the end of the Gentle age," she says. Every thing which Biblical prophecy fore tells is coming to pass. All over the world moral standards are being broken down. Sex magazines are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
IFEW GRADUATES PLAN TEACHING
Enrolment Indicates Ins terest at Low Ebb;
 Conditions Blamed

Less than a half dozen local high school graduates of last June will enter freshmen classes in any of the state normal schools and teach ers' colleges this fall, it was learned by The Democrat today.
 The information Is interesting in view of the fact that yesterdays session of the board of education was turned into a long debate be- cause some members thought that teachers who spent long years train- ing to teach one particular subject should not be transferred to start. in trying to teach another.
 M Not Surprising
 The fact that only few local high school graduates have turned to the teaching profession this fall, however, is not surprising. The long waiting list here has brought about Ia reduced number of prospective teachers each year and in the last yearly report of the superintendent of schools 1t was suggested that young men and women with such AGdAAAAk6o tAh8HV uO gCtUCT II .Ulcy looked for some profession which of- fered more opportunities for ein- ployment in the not too distant future,
 No accurate figures could be pro-. cured at the three high schools to. day but 1t was generally believed that the number was very small This figure, incidentally, does moi include those high school graduatei who are going to college this fall and who may, after receiving de- grees, apply for positions in the To- cal schools. Nor does this figure en- nance the college graduates chances for employment because the waiting list here Is long enough to last many years.
 Reports from the State Teachers college in New Britain and from other state normal schools in re- gard to 1937-38 registration, incl dentally. point to the fact that there will be just as many students en- rolled this year as last.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
TT WON'T BE LONG NOW
Nearer and nearer approach the school days, As August goes out in typical haze.
Spinning the wheel

Spinning the wheel Mailman Paul Geraghty has been given discharge papers from St. Marys Hos pital Patsy" Muiville cute daughter of MT. and Mrs Joseph Mulvle patient at the Franklin Street institution Dot Casey and Katie Keane are spend vinn their annual vacations at the shore Helen Far en who will middleaisle-t with Tom Phalen Septem-
 ar llth was guest at dinner Wednesday night at the
 nurt Hotel attended by hospital classmates. Mrs Vim eet Shea and Mary ODonne were responsible for the ktrSessful venture "Packy" Shea and Officer N5ossno" Murphy were disappointed when the Louis Fa bout was postponed Thursday They made the trip fo New York early in the morning figuring on taking in the duubleheader between the Giants and Pittsburgh but that, too, cancelled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

Between puffs . (. Jimmy Calvin is back on news paper row after two weeks of nothing-to-dO Jimmy had real Calvin vacation weather, rain rain and more rain. Helen Orlando has taken Dr. Bevan's advice and now sports cheaters John Cluney and Harry DeVorken ringsided at the LOusFarr title go in New York last night after catching the Giants Cincinnati thrilled with the soothing rhythns of Chick Webb and the clever vocal nterpoations of Ella Fitzgerald at Lake Compounce Sunday night Chick Kelley has been named one of the officials for the first foot ball contest in the state tomorrow night. He's going to time the Danbury Trojans Brooklyn Dodgers night fracas at Lee field in the Hat Town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

Dia1ing . Julie Atkins of the Fourth Estate IS on the first of her two weeks vacation Ruth Pryor, Adeline Sciarretta Eleanor Miller and Martha Ostrow Beach . Frank Dillon, more famliarly known "Cddle" is patient at St. Marys hospital undergoing treatment for sore throat. Mary Faherty and Yer onca Fitzgerald are back in the directory again after pleasant vacation in the Quaker Town, Harry Mel vn Johnny Flaherty, Jack Garry and Messy Fitzger. aid board rattler tomorrow to take in the annual national postal convention in Kansas City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
CULHANE-ROWLAND,
 CLUB IS ORGANIZED.

Major John M. Burrall. republi- can candidate for mayor two years ago, has accepted the presidency of the Culhane- Rowland club. The clubs first meeting was held last night at fusion party headquarters on Cottage place, with Major Bur- rall as its principal speaker.
 Organized in the past week the club will support the candidates of Senator George Culhane and Sher- wood Rowland for mayor and con- troller, respectively.
 Success for the fusion ticket In the coming election was predicted by Mir. Burrall. He urged party members to make last-day drive to enroll new voters. today being the last day for the filing of ap- plications.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

Washington, Aug. 3l-No end oi people and organizations have been telling of the State Department and the White House what they ought to be doing in the current Japanese warfare against China.
 But figuring out what to do and what not to do is no fun at all. You can only say with certainty that the American neutrality act gives the president a tremendous amount of discretion and that the people who worked hardest for such an act now seem to think its spirit is being vio- lated by failure of Roosevelt to in- yoke its provisions.
 The President Is pro- Chinese, if
 one Is to believe those who best know his views. He hates to think
 that Japan may conquer China.
 Application of the neutrality act,
 he thinks, would handicap China
 the victim and thus aid Japan the aggresSor.
 If he didn't feel that Japanese victory would mean no good for the United States, he might before this have applied part of the neu- trality act, failed to send addi- tional marines to China and ne- glected to indicate this govern ments displeasure.
 At the same time there is no
 valid reason for suppOsing that
 Roosevelt Is not as anxious or will
 not eventually go as far as would
 the neutrality acts promoters to keep us out of war. .., | The thing that stands out is the enormous amount of discretion which he demanded and which Congress gave him in this act. He needn't embargo munitions or take any other neutrality" steps un- less he finds a state of war exists and nations these days always seem to fight wars without declar- ing them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
COMPASSION

1 love unfolding night,
 Whose Silken threads are bound Around the starry hills
 Where roses red are found | love the snow-white clouds That nature hurries there, Like proud professional To heal my souls despair. I hear the pines sweet voice Above the silent vale, 4 gentle voice that sings, And tells the mountains tale. It lives in spiritland.
 And like life's living flame, It breattes . silent prayer To calm the worlds great pain. e night Of far-fiung fiistl Soon we win softly part: May compassion's tender voice Bring peace to every heart
 0noR0E |. LEE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
Tall Tower Topics
Good Evening.
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
GOOD MoRNINGl CTo a Switchboard Cab

GOOD MORNINGl
 (To a Switchboard Cab Good morningl this is the Central Coal-hod company Don't you love that opening liner The girl at the switchboard sounds a note Of pleasant greeting she answers to 2-4-9 How much nicer than the more terse words, Hullo what is it, who do you want? Is the genial good morning from business firm, The grocer, the butcher, uncle or aunt. Good morning! this is service, Two orange juice, bacon and scrambled eggs? Breakfast tastes better with that opening And you consume all down to the coffee dregs Good morning! Atlas American Amagamated, Yes I'll connect you right away; Now doesn't that pleasant good morning! Set you right for the dayr
 FEM EM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
ITALIAN WOMEN TO HOLD DANCE Francis O'Donnell Speaker at Democratic Gather.
 ing Last Evening

A dinner dance will be held al The Elton Sept. 20 under the auspices oi the Italian Women's Democratic club. Plans for the event were made at meeting of the club last night. Mayor Frank Hayes, Controller Daniel J. Leary and other members of the city ad- ministration will be among the guests of honor.
 Applications of new voters were submitted at the meeting. The largest number was submitted by Mrs. Domenic Altieri, treasurer.
 Francis O'Donnell, president oi the Young Democratic club, ad- dressed last nights meeting. He re. ported on the national convention held recently at Indianapolis.
 Barbers of China have been or-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
Titles for TiriIlers

Titles for Thrillers If you happen to have yen for mystery stories do you get kick out of of the titles? There's horror in every hatful In idle moment we thought up few that the authors have skipped. How about THE CORPSE IN THE CUPOLA, MURDER IN THE MALL THE CLUE OF THE CLAIMING CRAB THE CASE OF THE GRUB. RATHER, THE CASE OF THE ROWLING HYENA, INSPECTOR HILL HITS A HIGHSPOT, MURDER IN MUFTI WHY POISON A PALOOKA Shall we 20 on?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
mV R0pNEH DWrcHER--s

President Shuns War, but Fears Neutrality ActP Pro- visions Would Hamper Chinese Cause !. Nine Power, Kellogg Treaties Violated l4-Year- Old Roosevelt Views Take on New Signi6- canoe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
ACTOR TURNS CHEF

William Henry, young Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer actor. Is following in the footsteps of Edgar Allan Woolf, writer. Entertaining q party of friends at his home. he personally cooked the foods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

E Chatter. [. . Mrs. Ellen Sheehan of South Elm Street. was released from St. Marys Hospital yesterday waere she had been patient for two weeks undergo. ing observation for a sore leg. Harry Molasky, Helen Conlong and Robert Farley are burned to crisp and Winnisquam Camp at Lake Winnisquam,, N, Ill.,. Bobby Southland remembers the Tower with card from New York City where her dance assistant Ruth Martin, and protege, Mae Go0dall, are being taught new tap dance routines by the famous Jack Stone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
Secuted War Danger

|
 Fourteen years ago Roosevelt wrote an article for Asia mag. azine which becomes of interest again today. At that time he had recently been assistant sec. retary of the Navy and knew well enough that both Japanese and American navies made most of their secret war plans against each other.
 Roosevelt's thesis was that there
 was less reason to anticipate an
 American Japanese war than most
 persons In both countries then
 supposed. He praised the check on
 the naval race by the Washington
 conference of 1891. revealed that
 Navy and Army chiefs agreed that
 the Philippines could not be held
 In event of war even with an
 Anne rican navy twice the size of
 Japan's. and said they were con
 fident this country was invulner-
 able to Japan and vice versa. His idea of such a war was "Ja- pan and United States. four or five thousand miles apart, making faces at each other across a no-man's water as broad as the Pacific .. Some ge nius might then arise to ask what 1t was all about and what the use was of the atrophy of national life and development Or jingoes might arise and one or both nations bled to death through their pocketbooks." Especially, as a good sign for peace, did Roosevelt hail Japan $ adherence to recent treaties her withdrawal from Chinese terri tory and her promises to respect China's territorial integrity. That was back in 1928.
 (Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl The Irish Free State will issue Q new set of postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
Ans,Ders To
 Test Quesfions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6.
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 ,. Lake Superior and Lake < In tropical and subtrop- lcai countries, particularly in the Far East. 1T
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 6. New Y0Fk City.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

WHAT DO YOU KNOW |. . {. Sino, which you see daily in the combined as SinoJapanese is contraction gage and literature and sinology, meaning the sys tematized study of the Chinese language, literature laws and history. Sim Fein, an Irish political so clety, defined means i've ourselves" Manhattan Island bought from the Indians for the of SPA Kate Greenaway, originator of the picturesque Kate Greenaway dress style was was famous English juvenile presidents in early years occupied themselves thusy George Washington was surveyor; Andrew Jackson was a saddler; Willard Fillmore woocomber and James A. Garfield canal boat driver.
 Waterburys census in the 1880 tabuation 99902.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

Barbers of China have been or- dered to wear face masks to pre- vent infections.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
Grand Stand Play

Present procedure might be dif- ferent under another President who happened to be pro-Japanese or in a case where American sym- pathy was preponderantly pro- Japanese, instead of pro-Chinese, as 1t Is. The declaration of neu- trality and arms embargo as ap- piled to Spain hurt only the Spanish republican government but there was heavy pressure for it-mostly from Roman Catholics and 1t gave Roosevelt a good chance for a grandstand play, sin the country was and Is over- whelmingly anti-war.
 Senators Nye, Clark and Bone, framers of even more drastic and mandatory neutrality legislation than exists. admit the application of the law would help Japan but insist the purpose of Congress was to prevent any President from be-
 in- forced by necessity to choose sides. On the other hand, the Pres
 ident is reminded that traditional American policy calls for an open trade door in China, that the Nine. Power and Kellogg treaties to which we are parties have been
 violated.
 He docs not feel that, as the National Council for Prevention of War suggests, he is "flouting the will of the people" by failing te invoke the ne utrality act. From, the political angle he remembers that important American interests including the cotton South, would raise 8 great roar If he hampereo export of raw materials to the Orient now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

books and all periodicals except those published on Pillar of Fire presses in Denver or England are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

The Irish Free State will issue c new set of postage stamps.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-27

IL easier for business men TO recover
from the depression. One cost in do
ing business is the rate that must be
paid to the banks for borrowed
money. It was argued that low rate
would be help to recovery Govern
ments also found 1t helpful to them
selves since they tot could borrow
the large amounts they have needed
at low cost.
Now that business Is more active
there are many who believe interest
rates should be higher. They argue
that there is serious possibility that
business Activity may expand too
rapidly and that the brakes should
be cautiously applied. One such brake
is higher rate Z, interest. IL would
make doing business a little more
expensive and perhaps should be
used to moderate the rate of the adj
vance.
There are many different rates of
interest. some .luch higher than
others. Fun Is are borrowed for
great variety Of purposes and for diff
ferent length OF time. But there are
three elements that are involved in
all OF hem. One Is that the lender.
say q bank. must perform service
and has certain expenses which must
be met. Some Of the interest is neces-