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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

New York State is nothing if not scenic minded. Last month there was quite a gathering of conservationists down there and the upshot of the meeting was that additional protection is to be afforded many points of interest throughout the state. Notable among these are the Hud- son Highlands, the Schoharie Mountains, the falls of the Mohawk River, and adding to the state preserves in the Cats kill and Adirondack mountains We are sympathetic with any efforts to preserve the grandeurs of the Hudson river. It is our water show-piece of the East and should be accorded every protection available
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
Some of the Reasons Why

Automotive and petroleum groups were quick to form battle lines to oppose the present plan of legislative leaders, acting on Governor Wilbur l.. Cross suggestion, to raise the tax on gasoline one cent per gallon. Meeting last week they pointed out in no time the dangers of further increase in our state tax on gasoline, which would be four cents per gallon, should the demanded jump be author ized And it will not do any good to point out the fact that such reaction is nat ural since it affects the business in which most of the compliments are entered.
 It is perfectly obvious that behind this proposed increase must be an ultimate plan to divert state highway or motor vehicle department funds for purposes other than department administration and expansion of the highway system in Connecticut At the present time the 1n- come from motor vehicles and gasoline is sufficient unto the needs, if we leave out such projects as the Merritt Park way with it's $15 100000 or more cost and the proposed new croSS-State route to cost us cool $1OO,OOO,OO0. We can only con- clude that the additional cent tax is for purposes outside the departments that will administer it. This is contrary to state policy; we oppose diversion.
 Incidentally motor association men claim that the state government has not yet exhausted all possible ways and means of economy so badly needed right now to make possible the many new services the state desires and also to aid in putting across gigantic building pro- gram. Nothing was said at the session, SO far as we could learn, about gasoline bootlegging. As the state tax increases so does bootlegging in gasoline. Ask any state that has advanced it's tax by one cent bounds. Two years ago we threw down sales tax, a general one. This year special one is proposed and it is further proposed that it be levied against motorists who are slowly but surely as- suning the burden of supporting the state. It's not exactly fair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
Pay As You Cross

There is pronounced movement afoot in the state at the present time to make the proposed new bridge across the Con- necticut River at Hartford toll Struc- ture. There are opposing opinions being voiced, as would naturally be expected. We don't recall, though, in quite few years when there seemed to be so much sentiment in favor of making this bridge. if 1t does become reality a toll one. We would like to be recorded as favoring the plan. It seems to us, particularly at this time, to be the way out of difficult situation
 As matter of fact we have long Sug- gested that toll bridges and toll roads were the only ways of this state building a great number of them at the same time and not imposing terrifically heavy burden on the motoring taxpayers. When the going was hard for the Merritt Park way there were timid suggestions that It be made toll road, but down in Fair field county they couldn't see this and it was Fairfield County which carried the day so far as we can see with regard to the $15,00O,0 ,0O0 roadway.
 Right now magnificent bridge is be- ing built across the Connecticut River at Middletown. One is proposed for the Thames River at New London. We can readily see that unless all such structures were made subject to tolls there would be no purpose in just having one of them subject to payments by crossing motor ists and pedestrians. Should, for ex- ample, the new bridge at Hartford be made toll bridge and the present Bulke- ley Memorial structure remain free, nat urally traffic would gravitate to the free ore That's the only drawback to toll bridges and routes, more so, naturally, where there are two spans close together. But it does allow for payment of con- struclion by the actual persons using the bridge or road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
dent it would be the knockout blow to the Roosevelt plan.
 Writing Prosperity

dent it would be the knockout blow to the Roosevelt plan.
 Writing Prosperity
 Returning prosperity is lifting a lot of writers of relief. WPA Writers Project is losing it's "clients" right and left. They go to magazine assignments, to newspaper offices, to Hollywood.
 Before long only the slag will remain-writers who will never have permanent employment again. They fall into three class es:
 1. Hard-drinking ex-newsmen, whose irregular habits are tol- erated by WPA, but who are too unsteady for the rigors of daily journalism.
 2. Men who were getting on in years when depression started, and who are too old now to get back.
 3. Writers, both men and women, who are neurotis cases, not temporarily suited to team work in any organization.
 Outstanding among writers who have already left the project are three who gained Guggenheim' Fellowships Approximately $2,000 8 year), and one who got poetry award of $2,500. This went to Charlotte Wilder, sister of Thornton Wilder, author of "Thg Bridge of San Luis Rey." She was on relief in New York city.
 Guggenhein winners are: Mas Norton (pen name, Max Nomad"), author of political articles in leftist journals, and supporter of Mayor LaGuardia in New York. He was on relief |. Kenneth Patchen, another New York city relief client. Ster- ling A. Brown, negro poet, former Howard university professor. Brown worked with WPA in Washington, was not on relief.
 Mail Bag
 H. J. H., Washington-Helium is now produced in Dexter, Kan- sas, Thatcher, Colo, and Anna rillo, Texas. No helium is pro- duced commercially in Canada. Helium produced at Dexter costs approximately $35 per 1000 cubic feet, but export price (when U. s. government permission is given for export) is over $75. .. J. J. w., Harlem, N. Y. c. - It looks as if the anti-lynching bill, which already has passed the house, had about 60 certain votes in the senate, provided the bill can weather a filibuster and get to vote. c. K. B., Chatta- noOga, Tenn. 1t was Andrew Jackson's successor in congress, William c. c. Claiborne, who served in spite of disqualification of age. Only 21 when he entered congress, he served five years. ... J. L. D., SIoans Valley, Ky.-John M. Carmody, rural identification administrator, was born in Brad- ford county, Pa, later lived in Bradford, Pa, which is in Mo- Kean county. G H. s., Mur- freesbOro, Tenn. - Designations from the Naval Academy for mental failures" this mid-year were strikingly higher than in any recent year. B. F. D., Pittsfield, Mass.-Salary of Dor othy Beck, resettlement admins tration's regional director for New England, is $7,000. Three other regional directors get $7,000, eight others get $6,500.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
lnc0n1e Tax For AH No Exemptions In Payments of Federal Levies Urged-Not Coercion But Cooperation

larger than the majorities by which President Roosevelt carried the na- ton
 At present, Federal officials are exempt from paying State income taxes wEile State and town officials are exempt from paying Federal taxes. An end to both exemptions would be proper all around.
 In one instance-that of the na- tional income tax-the congressman who passed the law have been care- full to include themselves in it, but congressman, say from New York State, though he must pay Federal tax on his Federal salary, is exempt from New York State tax on that same salary. He cannot appreciate the woes of his fellow citizens quite as keenly as if he had to pay both.
 It is sound principle that legisla- tors should pay their full share of the taxes they enact, and that all office holders, paid out of the public purse, should pay their fair share of the, taxes by which public activities are maintained.
 There are certain offices which have salaries wich may not be diminished" during the term of of- flee, because of constitutional pro- visions. These offices too have been immune from income taxa mistak- en interpretation of the law, it seems to us. The lawmakers intended that the incumbents were not to be threatened or intimidated by efforts to withhold or diminish their Sal- aries. To make the incumbents share a tax which is borne by all of their fellow citizens enjoying the same income, is not coercoin, nor is it, in the strict sense of the word "diminution" of the income-other wise this years tax would be de- ductible from next years income. Rut the deductiOn is not allowed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
In New. York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, May. 17 - With the bookmen: Ernest Hemingway, they say, writes his best stuff while his fishing trawler loiters of the Florida Keys.
 E. Phillips Oppenheim's sinister yarns were verbally composed while their author lay prone on downy sofa and dictated them.
 Margaret Mitchell is said to have insisted upon an oil lamp over her writing table while she waded through Gone With the Wind"
 Clifford Odets once confided that before sitting down to his pro- 1etarian works, he found stimula- tion in Beethoven.
 Now Mississippian who enjoys the friendship of William Faulk- ner reveals the idiosyncratic tastes of the author of Sanctuary" and "As I Lay Dying" Faulkner of whom Hugh Walpole once remarked He writes like an angel" happens to be swing addict. In the small room at Oxford, Miss, where he works, there is table, 8 desk, two chairs and an ancient phono- graph. Well, the photograph is as vital to his work, it seems, as the gnawed pencil he uses to compose in longhand.
 As Faulker sits down to work, 8 little negro boy places a record on the machine. No word passes be- tween him and the author at work. When one tune concludes, the little fellow replaces it with another disc. Up on investigation. these tunes turn out to be old renditions of "Beale Street" or Basin Street" Blues, played by the Original Dixie land Band or Benny Goodman's swinging contingent. The concert doesn't end until Faulkner lays Boon to Live
 Joe Jackson, the old-time clown with the trick bicycle, never has met Janet Gaynor or Frederic March or David O. Selznick, but they have endeared themselves to him for the rest of his life. Jackson is now filling a vaudeville date in Berlin. He might have been a passenger in the ill-fated Hindenburg but for the vast success of Miss Gaynor, MT. March and Mir. Selznick with "A Star Is Born."
 AS an executive at Radio City explains it, Jackson got cable in Berlin 8 month ago offering him the headline spot in the new Music Hall stage show. The only condi- tion imposed was that the comedian was to hurry over by the fastest transatlantic vehicle and with time short, Jackson chose the Hin- denburg.
 The Music Hall, however, didn't count on the prospects of "A Stal Is Born" holding over a third week When the box office receipts rolled in and the film remained on the Radio City screen, Jackson was in. formed that his booking had beer postponed. The comic cancelled hi. dirigible passage and took a job ir @ Berlin revue. x Good Out of Evil
 Anent the Hindenburg disaster, newsreel man confides that thu clamity proved a boon to al least one of his craft. A camera. man. struggling in from the west coast where he has lost his job won a free-lance assignment thai day to assist in. recording the Hin. denburg's arrival. He was to get $2s for his pains.
 When the Zep burst into flames lhis colleagues fled the sound-trucl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

Talk about rain. That of last week was just what the weatherman ordered and what we needed There must have been tons and tons of water poured over Connecticut Friday night and it soaked into old Mother Earth as if into sponge. Farmers will tell you that where it didn't do damage by washing out early crops it proved a life-saver, because the month has been hot and dry so far.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
Selected Poem
THE PLANTING MOON
Indian Name for May.) (Ella Waterbury Gardner in the Christian

Qndian Name for May0
 (Ella Waterbury Gardner in the Christian
 Science Monitor) The planting moon comes in merry May When showrs and sunshine tease and play; We blow the ground and plant the corn And work from very early morn. We plant new bushes, bulbs and trees, Some onions, lettuce, carrots, peas, Nasturtiums, pansies, four-o'clocks, Some cosmos, marigolds and phlox The planting month is lovely May When lacy willows bend and sway, The month we work with spade and hoe Then watch the new things sprout and grow. The redman planted corn in the spring. With brown-eyed papoose in his swing The good squaw hood the corn with care The Indians with each other share
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

The American Institute of Public Opinion, an organization which takes samples" of popular thought on questions of the day and then reckons up the temper of the nation from the result of these samples says that public opinion is over- whelmingly in favor of having public officials pay income taxes, as other citizens do. The question asked was:
 Should the salaries of govern ment employees, Federal, State .or local be exempt from income tax?"
 The answer was overwhelmingly "No," by majorities considerably
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
A Book a Day
A "Lost Generation" Brought to Light
By BRUCE CAPTION

James T. Farrell conducts another excursion into that dreary, hopeless, almost sub-human world which he knows so well, in 8 new book Of short stories, Can All This Grand- eur Perish?" Vanguard: $2.50).
 These stories are not up to the Studs Lonigan" level. A few of the msound forced-a fault never found in MT. Farrells. novels. One or two others seem almost too slight to be worthy of his talent.
 Yet taken all together, they make an impressive book. They deal with the people of Chicago's tenements and cramped, back street apartment houses raw neighborhood bull lies, with young married couples yearning confuSedly for "a break, v with pathetic high school youngsters in love, with Small-time ward heel CTS, with rootless and aimless youth that can neither understand nor cope with the complexities of mod ern urban life.
 And MT. Farrell, in truth, seems to be dealing with lost genera tion. Not the one that was lost through war or depression. but with a perennially lost group that is produced, year after year, by our great cities.
 These people, as MT. Farrell sees them, grow up in society which offers them to no standard except the single one of financial success Their world is almost unlivably monotonous without money = yet money is progressively harder tc come by. So they are lost, unhappy without knowing why, groping blindly for the unattainable in g world that is too much for them.
 Naturally, his stories are not light reading. They will depreSs you and occasionally shock you. But they will give you something that ordin- ary stories never give.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

1. Has Maine more lakes tha: . Pennsylvania?
 3. Name the largest and mos important city in Canada.
 3. Did President Franklin D. Roosevelt hold 8 government posi- tion during the World War?
 4. What is rhetoric?
 5. Who wrote the novel Blood and Sand?" 6. Which state is known as the Mother of Presidents?
 T. Name the largest river of Aus tralia.
 8. In which of Shakespeare's plays is "Shylock" a character?
 g. What determines the boiling temperature of water?
 10. Who was Giuseppe Montanel. Ii?
 South America ranked fourth in silver production during 1886, with 31, 100000 ounces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
RADIO LAWYERS DUE FOR
 FEDERAL CHECKUP SOON
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N D1RW RRARDOM

Washington May 17.-Watch for some fireworks within the Federal Communication Commission within the near future For long time the EGG has been one of the most haphazard and politically institutions in Washington and of the practices below it's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

They've found golden beads 1000 years old, in caves in northern Iraq. That might be a good use for the gold we've buried in Kentucky.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

People "pay like rent" for so many things nowadays that sometimes they can't pay their rent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
A Thought for Today

And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his GOd.-H Chronicles 1l:2.
 Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice 8 greater good to less Whately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "'We took turns set- ting up with her.; say, 'sit- ting up."

A. Service of more than 60 days in the armed forces of the United States during the World War be- tween April 5, 1917, and July l, 1919, and an honorable discharge from the service. The service must have begun before Nov. 10, 1918. o, Is the ink used to put the gov- ernment stamp on meats, injurious to health?
 A. The stamping fluid is made from 8 pure vegetable compound and is harmless. The imprint usual ly disappears in cooking the meat. @. Why are soapbubbles round, and what gives them their color? A. Equally distributed ( pressure within the bubbles, and the resist ance of a film of equal tensile strength at all points is responsi- ble for the shape. The play of col ors is caused by refraction and re- flection of light. @. Is there meat dish called | chateaubriand?
 A. That is the name for a meat dish consisting of filet of beef grilled between two slices of beef and garnished. @. How much money did the race horse, Gallant Fox, win?
 A. His total money winnings amounted to $328, ,165. o. Is a meter longer or shorter than 8 yard?
 A. A yard contains 36 inches; a meter, 39.37 inches.
 o. Is it true that the Los Angeles dirigible has been repaired and t again?
 A. The Los Angeles is kept in the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., and al- though inflated, it is used only to train men in the care and handling of airships on the ground. There is no intention of using the ship in actual flight service.
 o. What does the name Catawis- Sa mean?
 | A. It is an Algoquian Indian word meaning growing fat"
 e. When did the Supreme Court of the United States assume. the power to declare an Act of Con- gresS unconstitutional?
 A. On February 24, 1903, when Chief Justice Marshall handed down the opinion of the court in the fa- nous case of Marbury vs. Madi- son.
 i If you want a copy of our book
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 STRUCTURES", write the Water
 bury Democrats Washington Bu-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

machine, in fear of their lives. He stuck, disconnected the electric cur- rent from the cameras and by hand grinding, took vivid, horrify- ing pictures of the wreck. Inciden- tally, he brought back the best newsreel shots of the day. Not only has he won a permanent job with the company butt he has been rewarded with . sizable bonus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets 1:26 a. m daylight time). Sun rises 5:33 a. m.; sets 8:O4 D. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

o. Is meter longer or shorter than yard?
 A. A yard contains 36 inches; a meter, 39.37 inches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
T est Y o U r Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? :, Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

@. How much money did the race horse, Gallant Fox, win?
 A. His total money winnings amounted to $328, ,165.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

Q. What. does the name Catawis- Sa mean?
 A. It is an Algoquian Indian word meaning growing fat"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

o. Is there meat dish called chateaubriand?
 A. That is the name for a meat dish consisting of 8 filet of beef grilled between two slices of beef and garniShed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17

If you want copy of our book let on FAMOUS WORLD STRUCTURES", write the Water bury Democrats Washington Bu- reau, 1912 Thirteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D. c. Enclose { cents in postage.
Evening star., 1937-10-16
SEC. EXPERT FORMS
ASTROLOGY SOCIETY
But Ernest Grant Doesn't Use the
Stars to Decide What Stocks
Are Going Up.

Ernest A. Grant, who spends seven
hours during the light Of day working
for the Securities and Exchange Com
mission investigating such uncosmic
matters as the variation of stock prices,
announced last night he is leading 800
Washingtonians into the mysteries of
astrology.
Grant is chairman Of the new Wash
ington Astrological Society, y,>which held
its first meeting last night at the
Raleigh Hotel. He Is devoted to the
science and resents the charIatanry
Of those who prey on the credulous
with bizarre claims for the powers of
astrology.
For instance. Grant said he abso-
lutely would not seek from the heavens
the answer to what stocks to buy for .
quick rise, although he does believe
the signs of the zodiac control gen.
orally the course Of ones life.
Grants chief aides in the society
are William e. Covey, Swan A. Erick-
son. and Mrs. Bessie S. Anderson, who
will devote their spare time during the
coming weeks to seeking members and
framing set OF bylaws for the Or
ganization.
Evening star., 1937-10-16
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