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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
Spotlighting Brass City News
Housing Problem

, A dinner meeting of the Wa terbury Council of Social and Re- Egious Agencies will be held Fri day night at the Elton.
 Members of the local Housing Authority of the local Housing ing problems. In the group are William H. Harris, Rev. pr. Eu- gene P. Cryne, Rev. Dr. John N. Lewis. MT. Harris will preside at the dinner meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
Doctor Sues

Damages of $L0O0 are sought in a common pleas court action filed today by John Pichenk of Waterbury against Gustave Tews of SOuthington.
 Dr. A. F. VastOla is plaintiff in a $500 action against Bertha GwicazdOski. Medical attention from July to August, 1888 is the basis of the action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
NEWS . HUIIHES
SECOND CHURCH

SECOND CHUkCH
 Christianity was described as lacking sufficient foundation of common virtures by Rev. Moses R. Lowell, former pastor of the Sec Ond Congregational church, speak ing last night at the union ser- vices held at the church.
 The service was conducted by Rev. D. John c. Walker, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. Dr. John N. Lewis, rector of St. Johns Episcopal church; Rev. pr. James E. Gregg, pastor of the First Con- gregational church; Rev. Theodore c. Bobilin, pastor of the First Methodist church; and Rev. John R. Combs, associte pastor of the Second church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
ROBERT EVANS HURT
 IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Robert Evans, son of MT. and Mrs. Floyd c. Evans of this city, suffered internal injuries Saturday night when car in which he was riding struck a tree at New London, N. H., The youth is a student at Dart mouth college, Hanover, N. H.
 The boys father is director of music in the local high schools. A companion of young Evans, Gilbert Small, of Wayland, Mass, was also Injured. Both are patients at New London hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14

try" laws which set up customs houses" at principal crossing points on the state lines to enforce taxes, tolls and like restrictions on trade.
 Kansas, for instance, pioneer in the port of entry" system. has 66 such ports" Oklahoma 58, and so on. Usually there is no fiat discrim- inatory tax against foreigners" but in many cases inspections and re- quirements are such 8 nuisance that they definitely hamper commerce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
Getting Ready!

Possibility in anticipation of heavy traffic during the next few months, workmen today "chinked" cracks in the outside stairway of the county courthouse building.
 As far as can be learned, how- ever, no other orders for altera- tions in preparation for the con- spiracy trials have been ordered. County Commissioners Jacob Wall ter and Robert Gerrish visited the courthouse last week but ordered no changes made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
GRACE METHODIST

Growth of the consumer coop erative movement was described by Rev. Alison J. Smith, pastor of Grace Methodist church, Water vile, yesterday before the Sum- day Noon club at Second Congre- gational church. He said the move ment has been endorsed by Catho- lie and Protestant churches.
 Charles R. Suinpf, president in- troduced the speakers and Charles Doescher gave a report on the state meeting of Mems Bible class es held at New Britain Satur- day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
Agreement Filed

The following agreement in which compensation will be paid weekly during the period of total disability was filed today and ap- proved at the office of the com- pensation commissioner:
 N. Nader, Winsted and George M. Ford. Winsted, injury to left middle finger, $9 beginning Oct. g.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
City Chosen

The 1899 convention of the Southern New England Stamp clubs will be held in Waterbury. Albert Pope vof Waterbury was elected president and Dr. G. E. Jackson of Waterbury, secretary treasurer, at the 1888 convention which concluded yesterday at Hartford.
 Mir. Pope was also elected re- gionaly representative of the Southern New England Federation of Stamp clubs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14

1t can be proven that these rates were not reduced until the police department had brought about a decided decrease in accidents. It is only common sense to realize that insurance companies do not reduce their rates if the base of their risk is soaring too high be- cause of a great number of ac- cidents. In the whole the editorial is both unfair and unjust to the police department which is striv- ing constantly for the betterment of traffic conditions and the pro- tection of the life, limb and prop erty of Waterbury's citizens and there is not a fair minded citizen who will not agree with this statement"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
N. Y. Bank & Trust Stocks
 The R. E. Griggs Co. ,

CASH LOANS Up to $500 Privacy assured Rate of Int. 3% monthly on unpaida principal not exceeding $10O. and go on any remainder Personal Finance Co.,. of Water bury. 199 Bank St. Tel. 3-3103 Lie No. l66.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
Market Irregular As Business Got Started
Active Stocks Came Out in Large Blocks But About
 All Took Some LOsses-SOme Few Made Gains

many. Curtiss- Wright, Firestone Public Service of New Jersey, So- cony-vacuum, Deere and Wool worth.
 Trading quieted after the opening and prices steadied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14

London, Nov. 14-(UP)-Usually authoritative sources reported today that the trade agreement between the United States and Great Britain would be signed Thursday in Wash ington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
PLEBISCITE

Members of the Second Congre- gational church cast more than S25 ballots yesterday in the eco- homie plebiscite conducted nA- tionally by the Congregational churches. Seven economic and so- cial questions were on the ballots.
 All were forwarded to the na- ti0nal Congregational council, and the results will be announced by the council as soon as tabulations are complete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14

Rome, Nov. 14.-(UP).-The "Lit- tie Nun" who worked for 20 years in the slums of New York and Chi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
TWINS ARE AMONG
 VICTIMS OF AUTOS

Pleasantville, N. Y, Nov. 14.-(UP) Three college students, two of them twins, were killed today when their automobile crashed into tree. The dead were: H. Allen Viner and Joseph L. Viner, twin sons of Col. Joseph w. Viner of (Pleasantville road) Briarcliff, and William A. Rich of (15 West High street) East- hampton, Conn, son of MT. and Mrs. Howard c. Rich.
 Rich was a student at New York University Night School of Law, AL Ian Viner was taking a business course at Pratt Institute, and Joseph Viner was a postgraduate student in journalism at New York Univer- sity. Colonel Viner said his sons and Rich met at a dance near here and had been together over the week end. The car, driven by Allan Viner, swerved of the right shoulder of the road, continued about 300 feet and struck the tree, 10 feet off the pave iment. It was demolished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14

The British mint has issued 4S,59O,OOO nickel-brass threepenny coins. but nobody wants to carry them.
Evening star., 1938-01-01

ress, create stalemate, be in effect an
| approximation of death.
New Year Day, perhaps, is proper
occasion for saying that all is not lost
simply because all is not abnormally
serene So long as a vast majority of
age enough to labor for their dreams
there is no excuse for despair. History
proves that the only catastrophe which
people need fear is that of pessimism.
It is willful abandonment of hope which
civilization must guard against. En-
dowed by providence with natural as
piration, humanity has power to meet the
demand of any emergency, conquer any
Notwithstanding its present prob
lems
The challenge is the business of every
individual. 1t spares nobody. A chain
is strong or weak according to the char
acter of the links of which it is COM
posed and the lesson of recent events
has been that of the futility of the con-
trary doctrine-the theory that society
can be advantaged by processes of mega
ton, destruction and coercion. If the
world does not realize that self-respect-
ing independence is the primary req
uisite of life worth living, it cannot be
for lack Of adequate demonstration of
the elemental truth. New Year, with
its tradition of good resolutions taken,
reasserts the claims of personal con-
freer, happier place. if mankind con-
sistently and unfalteringly wished 1t so.
A new opportunity is provided by 1888.
Let the average citizen make the most
of it.
Evening star., 1938-01-01

shift their relative positions. with cor
responding changes in the properties OF
the molecule as a whole.
"At present the evidence indicates that
1t is this combination of stability with
molecular complexity. in compounds
controlling the general course of syn
thetlc metabolism, which determines the
special character and the reduplicability
of the developmental process. The
genes are regarded as consisting chiefly
OF complex protein molecules. and much
is now being made of their analogies
with ultra-viral material The virus ma
terial is protein of high molecular
weight, and crystallizable 1t can be
shown experimentally that it's presence
determines definite metaboic and forma-
tive changes in the infected animal or
plant. Changes induced in the virus by
physical agents like radiation may alter
the character of the changes which it in
duces in its host. There is here an evi-
dent analogy with mutation of species.
In the related field of immunology it is
known that slight substitutional or con-
figurational changes in proteins may
affect definitely their antigenic charac-
ter. The special action of engines also
is dependent on special molecular con-
figuration. 1t is reasonable to suppose
that similar slight changes in the pro-
teins of genes will have analogous effects
on their properties as determiners of
environment"
Evening star., 1938-01-01
National Diagnosis.

Principal requisite in prescribing a
cure, whether it be for the illness of an
individual or that of nation, is thor
ough and accurate diagnosis of the all
ment.
1t is welcome information, therefore,
that the Senate committee authorized
months ago to study the relief problem is
now intending to broaden the scope of
its projected inquiry to formulate a COM
prehensive analysis of the cause and
possible cure for the present sharp busi-
ness decline.
With unemployment being an initial
and most important symptom Of eco
nomic depressions information valuable
to the Senate committee should result
from the mail census of unemployment
now in process of completion. Recog-
nizing this fact, the committee an
nounces that 1t has invited John D.
Biggers, the census administrator, to be
its first witness upon opening Of hear.
lngs next month.
Subsequently, the Senate group plans
to hear from leaders of government,
finance, industry and labor and other in.
terested authorities. Theories, as well a
facts, are to be solicited.
From them AL, It Is hoped TO dsgivs
Evening star., 1938-01-01
Appreciation of Editorial on
Water Front Improvement

To the Editor of The Star:
Please accept the sincere appreciation
OF the membership of the Southwest Citi-
7ens' Association and of all Southwest
residents for the sentiments expressed
by you in your splendid editorial of De-
cember "a entitled Water Front I'm
provement"
1t is strange circumstance that finds
some editorial opposition to water front
rehabilitation at this time. Hence, the
strong argument in support of the build
ing program which calls for the moderni-
cation and Identification of our water
front facilities at a nominal total cost
to the District of Columbia of 1899 600
is so conclusive as to brook no reason
able reply.
The expenditure of approximately
$65,OOO per year by the District govern
ment on project, the total cost of which
Is Sl,650,O00, is comparatively small
price to pay for the results which will
not only change the appearance of our
water portals, but will rejuvenate a sec
ton of the city which had long since
given up hope that anything would ever
be done to restore it to its former estate,
We trust that nothing further will be
done to retard the wheels of progress
which have taken so many years to move
in the direction of water front improve
ment. HARRY S. WENDER.
President Southwest Citizens
Association.
Evening star., 1938-01-01

findings which will help answer the ques-
ton of short-term relief needs and the
more basic problem of how to level out
or effectively counteract the recurring
hills and valleys of economic well-being.
This is day of increasing social con-
sciousness and, despite the presence of
those who would swim against the tide
in this regard, 1t is obviously impossible
to return to policies of public unconcern
about the welfare Of great masses OF the
Nations people.
1t thus becomes essential that any
legislation directed at solution of these
problems should be conceived in intelli-
gent understanding of the needs and
that, II possible, it should be drafted with
such soundness that it will be truly cure
rather than merely palliative.
To this end, it is to be hoped that the
Senate committee will not allow its
vision to be clouded by political consid-
erations nor by the destructive plants of
any who appear as special pleaders. Ap-
plying itself sincerely the committee has
an opportunity to render distinguished
service to the Nation.
Evening star., 1938-01-01
Creenbelt Pets.

Greenbelt, one of the New Deals pet
projects. is having trouble over pets.
When it is remembered that Greenbelt
was built at the cost of about $4,000 900
one is inclined to regard the compara-
lively few citizens who pass the scrutiny
of Federal selection specialists and are
privileged to live there as pets-pets
of a bountiful Government.
But the most conventional of all pets,
dogs and cats, are prohibited in Green
belt by the town leases. In community
devoid of fences and back yards the
ban may reflect an uncommon amount
of wisdom on the part of those who
drew the leases. On the other hand,
such a provision was predestined to
become a bone of contention. For
humanity's attachment to dogs and
cats is deeply rooted. 1t is disillusioning
to see paternal Government showing
no more sympathy for the fralties of
men, women and children than heart
less landlord, inserting, as it were, a
clause in the lease that there be no pets.
Little wonder indeed that the manu.
facturers Of flea powder are protesting.
Children and pets are a proverbal
combination. And at Greenbelt there
has been much planning for children.
Under the circumstances it is not sur
prising that petition is being circulated
asking repeal of the prohibition on
pets. Neither Is it surprising that. ac-
cording to rumor, at least one dog has
been "bootlegged' into Greenbelt.
The whole teapot tempest should be
a reminder to the Farm Security Ad-
ministration that, justiflable as its pride
may be in having built Greenbelt one
achievement produces another challenge
1t has solved, for some, the problem
of obtaining good housing conditions at
low cost. Such problem, however,
seems puny compared to the one now
before the F. S. A. 1t must join the age
old search for the mystic formula that
will enable human beings to live to-
gether in complete harmony. When
such Greenbelt is built and populated
the millennium, indeed, will be here.
Evening star., 1938-01-01
New Year.

The sun Of 1888 comes up through
clouded skies. It would be unwise to
deny prevailing storms and foolish to
decline to notice the threat of even more
devastating tempests already heralded
In every quarter of the globe. The times,
incontrovertibly, ARE out of joint"
But trouble is no novelty in the ex-
perience of mankind. Wars and revolu-
tions, economic turmoil. class strife, con.
troversies of innumerable varieties have
plagued and tormented the human
species for scores of centuries. Indeed
there is a school of thought which in
sists that struggle has been responsible
for the survival of the race. It is argued
that condition Of unbroken peace and
undisturbed prosperity would halt prog
Evening star., 1938-01-01

LII spring sOHH bpdI1OWS duu tIlcAoeAFeo
to the throng.
The eye inexperienced in bird watching
will not detect the difference.
No doubt many of our most charming
sparrows have been Jumped off with the
English variety, and trapped and hauled
off, or given over to dire fate, by in
experienced persons who had grown
angry because the English variety
seemed to be keeping other birds away,
and they could not tell the difference be-
tween the kinds.
Sparrows, as a group, comprise one Of
the largest and most interesting bird
families.
A striving race such as Americans
pride themselves on being should not
look down upon the successful English
sparroWs.
These are the "go-getters" of their
family group.
1t is interesting to note on looking
over the new volume Of Audubon's paint
ings, the absence from the plates of two
birds which now are prominent all over
America-the English sparrow and the
startling.
This is easily explained, of course
neither is an American bird, and neither
was present in this land when Audubon
breasted the wilderness to sing and paint
his way.
The sparroWs We're brought here about
the middle of the century, and the
starlings even later, yet today these birds
either have conquered America or are
on the way to doing SO.
This is because they have solved the
problems OF survival. If we are honest,
we must compliment them on doing So
1t is more than many humans have been
able to accomplish.
If it were not for their numbers. the
English sparroWs would be admired by
all.
For really they are as interesting birds
AS any, and quite pretty in their way. In
the country and suburban districts they
lose the somewhat sooty look they have
in the city.
They also become more timid.
This Is curious phase of animal
psychology.
In the town areas this bird is i'm
pudent in it's lack of fear
1t will remain on the sidewalk eating
crust of bread until the pedestrian is
almost on top of it.
1t flies just overhead to its nest on
the facade of some building. No doubt
If 1t did not work up this lack of fear
Of man and his automobiles it would not
be able to survive in the city.
In the suburbs it becomes quite timid,
almost "jittery." as people say of nervous
persons. 1t will be feeding at a station
quietly enough, but just let door be
opened and away it flies.
In fact it seems to have developed a
system of short flights every few minutes
as protective device Of its own inven-
ton.
Scores Of these birds will be feeding.
when suddenly the entire band will take
off. fly the length of the yard, perch for
few seconds in the shrubbery, and then
all together fly back to the feeder
The most interesting and pleasant
habit Of this bird is perching in numbers
in the foundation shrubbery between 2
and o'clock every afternoon, and there
chirping its collective head off.
This is real concert, which those who
have driven this bird away must miss,
and it serves them right.
Evening star., 1938-01-01
No Need for Undue Speed
By Drivers of Ambulances
To the Editor of The atar.

To the Editor of The Star:
And so another life is flicked out by
a hospital ambulance! We have not
forgotten the entire family that was
blotted out year or two ago by the
same process. When will we ever come
to our senses and stop this insane
jeopardizing of human life by ambu-
lance drivers? On the average run, there
will not be three minutes difference
in getting to the place of call or back
to the hospital by insisting upon a
reasonable speed. and particularly a
slowing down at intersections where
there are stop and go lights.
I chance to live on street that is
an ambulance run, and witness them
driving through congested and noisy in
tersections, where it is well-nigh impos-
sible to distinguish either the light or
the siren from the confusion of lights
and sounds at the intersection. It seems
miracle that there are not more such
accidents. Let's put a stop to it once
and forever, and If we must have ambu-
lances driven at an inordinate speed,
let us require special and frequent ex-
aminations for the drivers
ALBERT JOSEPH MCCARTNEY.
Evening star., 1938-01-01
A New Nazi Cor Else"

Disquieting new year news seeps out
Of Germany via London. 1t purports
to detail what the Nazis will do if their
colonial demands are not granted, their
predominance in Austria not acknoWl-
edged, and French support of Czecho-
slovakia not withdrawn. Unless Hitler
is thus bought off, he is said to be ready
to raise the question of the territories
lost to France at Versailles. Thus, 1888
is born under the shadow of the menace
the ancient issue of Alsace-Lorraine-
which for generation kept Germans and
French at daggers drawn and held all
Europe in the grip of war fear.
The purported Nazi blackmail plan,
as Downing Street gets it, was disclosed
with brutal candor during recent Berlin
conversations which former French
Premier Flandin had with Hitler's prop
aganda chief, DR.. Goebbels, and Foreign
Secretary Won Neurath. The suggestion
naturally took M. F1andins breath away,
for Der Fuehrer frequently has pro-
claimed that Germany has no more &C
counts to settle with the traditional
foe" although remilitarization of the
Rhineland was anything but pacific con-
flrmation of that assertion. Goebbels is
reported to have told NJ. F1andin that
France and Britain were amazingly
stupid in neglecting to satisfy Germany
as and when occasions presented them
selves" Their unWisdom was the more
costly, the Pecksniffian Nazi minister
OF public enlightenment" pointed out,
because each time Berlin was denied,
Hitler took more than he originally
asked, and raised the level of his de-
mands much higher. Baron Won Neu-
rath, in language more reserved but
equally positive, supported the thesis
that return OF colonies, free hand in
Austria and unimpeded Nazi penetra-
ton OF Czechoslovakia constitute Ger
many's irreducible minimum II
thwarted in its achievement, restoration
of Alsace-Lorraine will inevitably" be
claimed.
Opinion has long prevailed in Europe
that. having successfully torn into
shreds the three r. provisions Of the
Versailles treaty-respecting reparations,
rearmament and Rhineland-the Nazis
would not hesitate. the moment they
think they are strong enough, to seek
recovery of the lost provinces" Frances
army today is probably superior to Ger
many's, but the republics air force is
notoriously deficient The immediate
effect of the Machiavellian program at
tributed to the Hitlerites will therefore
probably be an expansion of Frances
defensive establishment. Impregnable
as is the Maginot line of steel and con-
crete from the Alps to the Channel,
which was gravely checkmated by the
German move in the Rhineland, German
command of the air above it would place
the French at serious disadvantage.