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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
SCHOOL PAPER
STAFF CHOSEN
Robert HOebeI Editor-in-
Chief Of LeaveEwOrth's
"Tech-Liber"

Work has been started on the
'"Tech- Liber", yearbook published by
the senior class at Leavenworth
high school, 1t was announced IN the
latest issue Of the 'STech-O Scope"
which was released to the student
body this morning.
20 far there has beer, two official
meetings of the entire. staff, at
which all the details III connection
with the book have been thoroughly
discussed. Many pictures have been
taken and according to those In
charge Of the senior. class write-ups,
most Of these have been completed
and are all ready for the printer.
The members Of the 'Tech Liber"
board follow:
Editor In CHIEF, Robert aoebel;
Athletic Editor, Business Manager,
Edward Molin; Art Editor, Francis
Robinson; Assistants, Mary Joseph
Inc, Della Camera, Grace Ferrucci,
Lillian Underhill; Club Editor, Har-
ry Sanderson; Printing Editors, AL
bert Poskus, Edward Eteinnagel;
Picture Editors, Andrew StavroS,
Merton Hornbecker; Literary Edi-
tors, Shirley Bronson, Violet Hoff-
man; Assistants, Dorothy Miner,
Dorothea Cooper, Arthur Peterson,
Julius Johnson, William Boldysh,
George Andrews, Mortimer Hapken,
Anthony Bruno, Henry Belijsario,
Nicholas Gallucci, Victor Nonack,
Philip Sechow, Henry Jarkowski,
Josephine SteinmanIi, Harriet
Schneider, Edward Markawitz, Maui
rice Spellman, william valetti.
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Elm En-.

kindly and motherly voice is STILL heart that
beat with the breath Of life has stopped and face that
slone with the smile of womanhood is senseess to pain
Mrs Lena Sirica beloved manager of the Lido Theaer
has silently passed through the portals Of death and into
the bourne of the Great Adventure AS one who gathers
her coat about to lie down her couch to pleasant
dreams Mrs Sca drfted out to the eternity OF things
to meet her Maker Her passing removes from our midst
lovely creature It is her distinction, may say, to
have lived in way enrich the world and make life
kinder experience for many unshetered from Its hardness
and to have from all vino had privilege OF comrade
ship with her and knew her fine spirit and lasting
gratitude
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25

Here and there. James H. Dillon, director or
recreation in Hartford parks and husband Of the former
Irene Keefe Of this city, autthored sports column for
Bert Keane in the Hartford Courant Wednesday.
state Arory in Hartford April IT, for the annual dog
show being sponsored by the First Company Governors
Foot Guard Athletic Association Attorney Walter E.
Monaghan Jr, of Waterbury is a member of the First
Company the only Brass Ciye at present belonging to
this company Representative Daniel J. Mahaney was
recently rendered invitation to join the company
Somebody tried to tell the first robin arrived IN Water
bury yesterday but office seuth declared the first
one was seen in February. Pussywlows have never
been plentiful this year. probably due to the open
winter and frequent rains.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25

Underwood tips. Nancy Sheehy and Anthony
Ross will take in Clyde Mccoy and his Sugar Blues
orchestra at the Bristol POlicemans Ball at the Bell
City Armory the night after April FOOLS Day George
will arrive home Easter Sunday after several weeks Of
sun.tanning i'm Miami, Fla. Lydia Funk, pretty
Terryvle damsel has said yes to Clarence G. Wogman
of the Manchester WOgmans No date mas Deen set
for the which should be of the prettiest
in the Lock Town in years. Franklin Lodge, Odd
Fellows Thomaston will observe its Goth anniversary
April 14th. Gunther Mathes will be in charge OF the
celebration.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
Tall Tower
Topics
Good Evening.
EASTER SHOPPING
BIZ THE MAN IN THE TOWER


Make way for the Easter shoppersI
Out for TO buy and for TO see,
From near and far they gather
Busy as the proverbial bee.
This week they are out in numbers,
Intending TO spruce UP a bit,
The lady Of the house Is going to buy hat
II there's one that won't make her look
half lit.
The man OF the house hesitates,
Shall he favor stripes or checks?
Or get suit Of tweedy mixture
Scattered over with colorfu hecks
Next on to the flower department,
Shall 1t be Bermuda or Gala lily?
And you can't skip the junior department,
new outfits In order for Willy.
Dummies, ducks and Easter toys
Must be bought for the little tots,
Chocolate Eggs of every size,
or ther, you have to buy lots.
Then to merket TO buy ham,
turkey or pig II you choose,
Dozens and dozens Of strictly fresh eggs,
Then himself says, how about booze"
pint of this, quart OF that,
Because you have slight hunch
Callers may come In the holidays
For your celebrated Planters Punch.
Thus 1t goes also your money, =.l
While you spend busy day hopping,
Doing the shops in systematic order
For very big Easter shopping.
Elm Elm.
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JOHN M. HARMON


,tator, Harry Carlisle: prelate, A.
Henry Weisman: treasurer, Frank
J. Egan; trustee for three years.
Edward Harder: delegate to the
supreme convention. John M. Ham
nan; alternate, william Daley. it
Appointiye officers will be an
nounced at the annual election to
take place at the next meeting,
April II. Several supreme officers
are expected to attend the meet
ing, q feature Of which will be
the initiation Of class Of some
IS candidates.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
Liberty Lodge

An ofiicial visit 10 Liberty lodge,
A. r. and A. NJ, was paid last
night by Right W0rshipful
George w. Oliver. district deputy
Of the third Masonic district. The
entered apprentice degree was sz-
emplified ON q candidate 1t tho
session last evening. The district
deputy complllnented the local
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
WinOna Rebekah

A discussion in regard to a rum
mage sale which will be held at
270 North Main street next Thurs
day was the main issue Of busi-
ness meeting Of Winona Rebekah
lodge Of Odd Fellows, held last
evening in Odd Fellows hall. Mrs.
Mabel Bachman, Mrs. Agnes Bris-
tol, MRS. Agnes Finlay, Mrs. Louise
Clark, Mrs. Martha Cady. Mrs.
Edith Loether. MRS. Julia Granger
and Mrs. May Manville are In
charge of arrangements.
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AnslUers To
Test Questions

Below are the answers
TO test questions printed
ON page 6.
/. Germany.
2. HerpetOlogy.
3. Richard /.
4. Chicago. Ill.
5. Assignats.
6. Darling.
Z. Twenty-one years in all
the states.
8. A party who is called
upon to answer in proceedings
against him.
8. The process Of obtaining
knowledge Of secret or future
things by means Of Oracles,
ONE IS or astrology, from con-
tact with superhuman or d.
vine sources.
10. Richard Brinsley Sheri-
dan.
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Kaabans Club

A goodly portion OF the $780,
600 goal set by the Ancient Ara
bic Order Mobiles Mystic Shrine
for use in the cripple children
assistance work carried out, is ex-
pected to be raised here at a
charity ball to be given April 8
in Temple hall by Kaabans club.
Henry Fiege Is president of Kaa-
bans club, which Is q unit Of
Sphinx temple OF Hartford.
Twelve hospitals that, treat Grip
uled children with financial aid
from the Mystic order throughout
Canada and the United States
will benefit. The national fund
drive will last from March 20
to April 8.
Fifteen Waterbury children have
received treatment at the orders
hospital in Springfield, Mass.
Idris Anderson Is chairman Of the
arrangements committee for the
ball, and assisting him are Louis
Wenzel, George II. Wells, Fred "A.
Jackie, Edward D. Heiman, Clark
II. w. Newton and Robert J. Eg-
/. gleton. II
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And More and More

The Wagner-S teagall housing bill
will require extensive hearings and
debate, representing as 1t does new
government policy and formal fed
e-al entry into a new field of ac-
tivity. The administration has yet
to make up its mind as to future
relief policy, and the amount Of
money required for that. New fed
eral power policy may be expressed
in legislation and the social security
act cries for amendment. 1t is
sl) proposed to tax foreign in
vestments in the United States in
such a way as to get them under
control.
Your correspondent is emitting q
lot Of things, too. 1t certainly does
look like long, hot summer. One
CT several reasons Roosevelt will try
to keep the boys in session until he
gets nearly everything he wants is
that the next session will come dur
Ing an election year, when It's never
pc -sible to keep congress tied to its
job.
| Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25

Maybe you saw EN- CHANGING through Demo
crat file for 1927 tOther day came across billing at
the Palace Theater in the days when vaudeville played
there Among the acts was one Nat Burns. In the
reader accompanying the billing there reference TO
Nat Burns and Cutie, who played the part Of dumb
partner who turned out to be real hOOfer. Have
you guessed IL yet? Sure Nat Burns Is your good
friend Of the air wayes-Ge0rgc Burns and his partner
could be none other than the IoyabIe and Imixable
Oracle Allen. Yep, they played Waterbury back In
1927 and you missed the act, didn't you? -.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: This may be OF some
interest to you nasmuch you printed article ON
the four corners of Connecticut can't account for all
of Them but do know that the southeast corner OF
Rhode Island boundary line extends out into Long
Island Sound the exact is some distance to
the northeast of Fishers Island And the northwest
built up and maintained by three states-New York,
Massachusetts, and Connecticut. About the other two
corners can't say much Maybe some of your read
some surveying and checking yourself James A.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25

Dressmakers Of France are gloomy
over the prospects Of selliig their
wares In the United States, rising.
production costs having forced them
to raise prices, to which Americans
are not taking kindly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
L. 0. 0. M.

Members of the Waterbury lodge
Of Masons met last evening and
nominated Harry Hubert for re-
election as director Of the organi-
cation. The rest Of the nominees
are listed as follows: Vice die
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
. BEHIND |
TIE SCENES
WASHINGTON
@V RODNEY BUTCHER
Democrat Washington COrre-
spOndent

With Supreme Court Revision
Proposal BlOckading All
Other Important Legisla-
ton, 1t Looks as If Con-
gress Will Be in Session All
Summer and Perhaps on
Into Winter.
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one by which the administration
intends to nibble at the farm
tenancy Notwithstanding gov
ernElent credit and assistance to
tenants in the hope that many Of
them can again have land Of their
own.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
TOLEDO EaaPLosssENT HIGH

Toledo CUP -~E,mployiment has
reached tine highest poln here since
1891 with o total ef $500 workers.
This isc exclusive Of 10000 enc
ployed on WPA projeela.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
Word complex.

Word complex Alexander Woollcott called at
tention to recently so we've taken to noticing how
photographers go nuts" certain word for week
two Unconscously they manage to dig out the word
two or three times and hang in their sentences You
can just them arranging it and smoothing It off so
that it will look nice in print Some one of the New
York wordwrestlers happened on Bonace recently so
every restaurant-owner proprietor in the city is
bonface We read about the citys famous boaces its
oldest bonifaces and its historic bonifaces. Now
and respected word Long before George Faquhar the
Irish dramatist called his roundfaced and smiling inn
keeper in 1.-THE Beauxs Strategem Bonface there
Bonifaces. . There were nine Popes of the Roman
Catholic Church by the name of Bonface There is ST.
Bonface. So the next time you greet your favorite
restaurateur with Howdy Boniface! remember you're
comforting distinguished name upon him..
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
FRATERNAL NEWS

officers on their exemplification.
Worshipful Master Edward d.
lehman was in charge Of the
meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25

Washington, March 25.-Predic-
lions that congress will sit right
through the summer and perhaps
on into December are based on the
knowledge that there is a huge log
jam OF important legislative pro-
poSals piling up behind the battle
front on which the supreme court
isSue takes precedence over every
thing else.
Most bets are that the Roosevelt
court plan won't come to vote
In the senate before early May. 1t
may come to vote later than that
II a major filibuster develops. Mean
while, the hearings Of the senate
judiciary committee on the bill are
dragging more slowly than anyone
expected.
Congress marks time while the
administration concentrates all its
energy on the attempt to persuade
1t to vote to put new justices on
the supreme court. Many Of the
major legislative proposals hang
ing fire, 1t Is believed, depends on
a reyamped supreme court for SUBJ
sequeut valuation.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-03-25
Wants Showdown Now

Roosevelt is convinced by history
that every president has to face
a bitter struggle with the senate
in his second term. He wants his
big showdown now, ahead Of every
thing else. His FOLLOWERS believe
that II he can win the supreme
court fight he will have nearly
everything his own way after that,
whereas If he loses he will no long
er b, able to dominate legislation.
So for the moment congress Is
.dawdling. along with measures
which are mere chicken feed.
Statutes and power switch would
otherwise expire this year are be-
ing renewed, as in the case Of the
new neutrality law and the cx-
| tension of the presidents author
ity to renew reciprocal trade
treaties. Special excise and "nuis-
ance" taxes must be re-enacted
before July. Authority as to RFC
loans, dollar devaiuation and the
$4,000, 100000 sterilization fund
already have been extended.
Roosevelt's plan for drastice gov
eminent reorganization was a
huge sensation when 1t was pro-
posed a few weeks ago. But no
one has heard of 1t for at least q
month. A joint congressional COM
mittee on reorganization met once
or twice and did nothing except
sneer at the proposal that cabinet
salaries be raised from $4,000 to
$4,000. and other salaries for top
jobs proportionately. If Roosevelt
wins his supreme court battle, re-
organization will again be one of
the big 1887 issus. And 1t will
take up a great deal Of time.
Farm Bill Ahead
- administration bill Is being
prepared to provide for regu-
lation of wages and hours. 1t
probably will be tossed into the
hopper at hot point in the court
light, with warning to labor and
any other interested parties that
it's just the kind Of measure which
the supreme court as now con-
stituted can be expected to kill.
A general major farm program
Is Icing rounded out. Congress Is
unlikely to adjourn without pass
ing lew laws for crop control,
crop insurance, and the ever-nor-
NAL granary scheme, which Secre-
tary Wallace says are impossible
80 long rs recent supreme court
opinions stand. The present soil
Conservation act Is threatened, es-
pccially in the South, where pre-
dictions OF 20 cent cotton this fall
made by brokers who profit
through handlying volume-has
cause growers TO revert to old
tim. habits Of planting all their
land to cotton.
till another big proposal is the
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withdrawing 1000 Irishmen from
Spain.
O'Duffy says his men, fighting
since February 10, have lost seven
dead with $50 sick and placed in
hospitals. He complains Of lack of
water for drinking and bathing,
and the danger Of typhoid, and
says the trenches are wet and cold.
He itemizes many minor youths
who ought to go home, says they
only agreed to stay six months any
way, and finally declares that
since the Irish Free State has
passed nonintervention law they
can't get any more letters from
home.
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You'll want two or three Of
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Use them for mixing
salads, and dainty dishes
for the spring season.
Choice of Crystal and
Golden Glow.
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Danish moths and dis
ease carryin g pests
from your home with
this clear, clean insecti-
eide.
Evening star., 1937-11-22
You Al,rayS Look For
CHARACTERIZE i'm ACTING,

The william on the stage grabs the
heroine and you want to jump out of
your seat and beat him; the hero or his
mother dies and the tears come rolling
down your checks. When an actors
part is well-played, you live the scene
and enjoy the experience. Therefore,
when you 60 to the theater you look
for characterization in acting.
Productive advertising is characteristic
of the concern which uses it; a store
known for selling high-grade merchan.
disc and intent upon attracting GUS
toners for that type of goods makes its
advertising messages appear in keeping
with such established policies. The inn
preston which the reader gets from
advertising should be the same as re.
ceived in buying in the store; the
printed word is just another salesman
employed to impress prospective
buyers.
You always look for characterization in
acting; it's just as important to look for
RESULTS from your advertising.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

party during and after the World War,
to become the beloved leader and
elected Governor of Yucatan, and he
was murdered for his pains.
Ideas Were Preserved.
Fortunately he wrote at least one
article for an American magazine
(the Survey Graphic. May l, 1934). in
which his spirit and ideas are pre-
served. He said:
"Yucatan is Maya. Our people have
a fabulous history. q rich tradition. a
tenacious memory and infinite patience.
The conquered Indian has conquered
his conqueror in Yucatan. The
Spaniard here has absorbed much OF
our habits of life and is more like a
Maya than a Spaniard.
When the conqueror despoiled the
Indian OF his land he automatically
took his freedom from him. That ex-
plains our slogan, Land and liberty!'
Our revolution (and this holds true of
Mexico and other parts OF Latin
America also) has one main objective
to give the Maya Indian his status
as free man, to save him from the
evil consequences of physical slavery
and from cultural and spiritual stag
nation which slavery gradually i'm
posed upon him. All else is side
issue. The recovery of ownership
of land, as of old, by the Indian
communities, is the fundamental con-
tribution Of the revolution to date"
The hero of tonight's broadcast was
also a reformer and a protestant
against the iniquities Of the Spanish
conquest-Bartolome de las Casas.
who died in Madrid. 1866. Of whom
we shall write next week.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

to easy subjugation Of the conquering
freebooters and empire builders of
10th century Spain, who soon reduced
the weakened remnants to peonage
and slavery.
History speaks with pride of the
achievements of the MAGNIFICENT
Mayans." the greatest of American
aborigines, and of their l8-month
calendar of 20 days each with five
unlucky leap" days added regularly
by the priests to keep pace with
the sun.
At the Century of Progress Exposi-
ton in Chicago, in l933-34. nothing
that modernist architects could create
surpassed in interest or impressiveness
''nunnery of Ushmal," with its intri-
cate frescoes of orange and green
stucco and its high and stately ter
races.
Built With Massive Stone.
The MayanS built their carved and
painted temples and cities of massive
stone and their long white stone and
cement roads, 40 feet wide, leading
over marshes and through jungles and
valleys for scores of miles without
knowledge of the wheel or of the true
architectural arch, and they did it
alone. without help from others tSave
perhaps the Toltecs of Mexico), and
without contact with the white man.
or even the state building Incas Of
Peru.
II the latter with their strong DO
litical organization. their amazing pot
terry, their ornamental gold and their
natural sun-worship. were the Mace
domains. or even the imperial Romans,
of pre- European. indigenous America,
the Mayans with their maize, their
mathematics their architecture. their
triumphant priestcraft were certainly
the culture-bearing Egyptians They
built up their enduring civilizati ton
from a primitive, nomadic condition
Evening star., 1937-11-22

until they possessed the highest agri-
cultural, architectural and astronom-
ical attainments Of any Stone Age peo-
pie in the world.
Held Greatest Race.
DR.. Sylvanus G. Morley. recognized
authority, describing the Mayan victo-
ries over nature and the tropics, ex-
claimed: with consideration for the
limitations of the facilities, the Mayans
were the greatest race that ever lived
on this earth"
How did they do it? No man
really knows. Admittedly. the occult
power of religion, and Of religious
rather than commercial leadership, Is
a large part Of the explanation :.
The sacred we'll, the elimination Of the
aWe-inspiring religious ritual OF last
weeks broadcast. has actually been
discovered, in the famous city Of Chi
chen-Itza, in Northeastern Yucatan;
its dark waters have been plumbed.
The name of that famous city of
ruined. temples means THE Mouths
OF the Wells Of the Itzas." It was
built about 500 AID, and dedicated
to famous Mayan diety-the great
feathered serpent, "Quetzalcoatl" -
whose mystic symbols have become
the theme of the ornamentation of one
of the noblest of modern American
skyscrapers, the great Fisher Build
ing in Detroit
The man who explored the bottom
OF the sacred pool. recently. in
divers suit--a certain E. H. Thomp-
son. owner of a nearby sisal plan
tation-found proof that Mayan ritu-
ais were actually conducted there, in
the form of jade and jewelry broken
pottery, weapons and, most remark
able OF all. bones of young men and
maldens who had met death in that
sacred water, as living sacrifices pre-
sumably to the dread god of rain.
Little Human Sacrifice.
Contrary to the practices OF the
oiood-thlrsty Aztecs of Mexico and the
AraWakS of the Caribbean. there was
apparently very little human sacrifice
among the Mayans prior to the Toltec
invasion. The Mayan idea was that
| the privileged victims of the priests
might, If they survived the ritualistic
drowning, draw themselves up out of
the well to report whether the god
would save his people from drought
and famine,
The hero of last weeks dramatic
broadcast was a real Mayan, who
lived and died the life and death of a
humanitarian martyr a few wears
ago in Yucatan. Strangely enough,
the story of Felipe Garlic, the last
descendant of great race to deserve
the notice of history, cannot be found
in any American reference book, not
even the latest Of them. the Encyclo-
pedla Of the Social Sciences, nor in
the Brlttanica. He rose through the
labor movement and the Socialist