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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
For the Sake of Dollars

Connecticut has just missed a golden opportunity. For three years it has had hidden away in the offices of the State Park and Forest Commission the priceless Rex Brasher paintings of North American birds. By many critics and authorities these are considered even superior to the better-knoWn works of Audubon, hither- to considered unsurpassed. Connecticut lost the collection, because MT. Brasher himself claimed them. And thereby hangs story.
 They were originally loaned or given" to the state as donation some three years ago with the proviso that the state must provide an adequate building in which the paintings might be properly displayed The plans of the state through the Park and Forest Commission was to construct a museum at the Kent Falls State Park. This would have cost in the neighborhood of $130,000. But last year the commission decided that it didn't have sufficient funds to put that much money in a museum even for such sought-for works of art as Brasher's birds.
 Hence MT. BraSher has decided that since Connecticut is not sufficiently lr- terested in his water colors, "perfect to the last detail in coloring", someone else may De ana He Has CldllllSu CuSIOuy ol them It is shame that Connecticut could not have kept the paintings which represent some $500 birds, all native of North America. They were done, so we are led to understand, with the most painstaking care and study. When MT, Brasher started to prepare the collection he found that to publish the 87O plates in four colors would cost fortune.
 Rather than sacrifice his work he had the plates printed in black and white then painted in all the natural colors by hand with results that have been inter- nationally acclaimed. Connecticut has lost what probably is today an art treas ure and certainly tomorrow will be one. It may be that we have not the money to build a suitable museum to house such a collection, but we wonder if more pub licity on the matter might not have pro- duced some results in the past three years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
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NOT "JERRY-BUILT" (NeW York Sum

From the government of Puerto Rico, Insular News Service, Box 22t San Juan, P. R., there comes dccu- ment the opening sentence of which is: .
 Most of the really venerable
 palaces, castles and mansions of
 Latin America were jerry
 built.
 The dictionary thus defines ths verb jerry build: <
 To build cheaply and unsub-
 stantially, as with cheap or in-
 sufficient materials.
 Some of the really venerable palaces, castles and mansions O. Latin America have withstood trop- ic hurricanes, torrential rainfalls the cannonades of determined en- emies, the rioting of townsfolk, for generations. Their proved power of resistance to the erosion of the ele- ments and the destructive engines of man should have suggested to the Insular News Service that jerry built" was not the word it wanted. What it wished to say was that the structures grew by addition over a long period of time-here a tower, there jail, now gallery, then a wing-they were built piecemeal. The government of Puerto Rico needs copy reader.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
State Coal Mining

A few weeks ago Americans were startled by news that the British govern ment had nationalized English coal mines, buying the coal in the ground and gaining control of the industry. That "couldn't happen here" But appar- ently it could. The Anthracite Coal h. dustry Commission in Pennsylvania is proposing that the state take over the mining of anthracite coal, by leasing or buying the lands in the counties where there has been so much "bootlegging." There are said to be 2,OO0,00O to 4,000 900 tons g year now produced by miners who, lacking employment, have been mining and selling coal on property they do not own.
 The proposed plan would regulate the whole hard-coal industry in Pennsylvania through cooperative market agencies, with the state assuming, whatever degree of ownership and management seemed necessary. The first thing it would do,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

Owing to the number of automobile fatalities in New Haven during the past year it's Board of Police Commissioners has just enacted traffic regulation set ting a speed limit of 25 miles per hour on all city streets. Out-of-town motor ists are advised of this new restriction and to be on their guard when passing through New Haven. The new speed law will go into effect on January Is and all police are to be on the alert to pick up violators. The new ordinance was drawn up by Mayor John w. Murphy. The only exemptions are police and fire apparatus. What about ambulance or private cars, rushing injured or sick persons to hos pitalS or medical attention. We presume that judgment on the part of the police or other officials will give leeway in such emergencies. For the average, everyday driver, though, the speed limit is to be 25 miles per hour Other cities will doubt less pick up the plan if it proves worth while in New Haven.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
A Book a Day
"Art Lovers" Given Choice of 8 Books
By BRUCE CATION

The art of painting seems to have got so far out of touch with the average citizens capacity to under stand and enjoy it that we speak of "art lovers" nowadays as of a class apart, like mathematicians, versed in mystery that is closed to the common run of folk.
 That being understood, let me say that "art lovers" are given vast treat in three excellent books just published by the Oxford Press. These books are '"The Disasters of War" by Francisco de Goya, at $50; "Cezanne," by Fritz Novotny, at $3, and '"The Impressionists," at $3.
 The Goya book is a reproduc- tion of 85 of the famous etchingS Goya made to record the things he saw in Spain during the Napoleonic occupation of that country. It is a bit of living testimony that both art and human beastliness are timeless; for these powerful, shocking sketches of the terrible things that happen in war might have been drawn this year, with another Span ish war than the one Goya knew as subject.
 It takes strong stomach to di- gest some of these etchings; but right now, perhaps, is the best possible time to have a look at them, for one reason and another.
 "Cezanne" includes 100 black and-white reproductions of the masters paintings, together with 18 in full color. It is accompanied by a learned commentary on Ce- zanne's place in part. Unfortunately (from my standpoint, anyway this is addressed to those already familiar with the jargon of paint ing; it offers little help to the humble soul who would like to know what 1t is all about.
 "The ImpreSSionists' contains approximately 10 reproductions, some in color, of paintings by Manet, Gauguin, Degas, Sisley, Renoir and others. There is an in- troduction telling what Impress sionism is. or was, and thumb mailing the leading members of the school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
Cotton Chopping

New Deal cotton experts are suffering a novel headache. They are facing the threat of new eft1- ciency in cotton production through the invention of a cotton chopping machine.
 Hardly had they recovered from the scare caused by the cotton picking machine-which is not selling widely-when this new. demon reared its head out of the. level plantations of Texas. ". It is a machine which the in-' ventors call "a hoe with a seat" It takes the hoe out of the hand of the Negro cotton chopper, and. chops 16,000 hills of cotton an hour the work of eight to twelve men. It is a wheeled, rubber-tired machine which can be drawn by a pair of mules or a tractor.
 The reason New Deal experts are worried is that, in the first place, the mechanical chopper, if widely used, will displace hum dreds of thousands of farm hands. Second place, it will cause increased production of cotton and tend to offset the reduction program of the AAA. Fool Proof Machine
 The Department of Agriculture tested this machine at their field station in Greenville, Texas, and the results were so astounding that they were suppressed, fearing that publication would boost the sales.
 Called the Dixie Cotton Chop per-" it is manufactured in Dal- las, Tex, by a firm of rabid anti New Dealers, who bitterly oppose the AAA program, and declare that WPA has spoiled Negroes so that they refuse to hoe cotton any more. They declare the me- chanical chopper cannot throw men out of work because field hands are all on WPA and unwill- ing to work.
 In addition to pushing domestic sales of the machine, the manu- lecturers have made sales ar engagements in the three South American cotton countries-Brazil, Peru, and Argentina-now potent competitors of the United States.
 Merry-Go-Round
 Henry Wallace puzzled eastern newsmen in a press conference the other day when he said, All champion corn huskers use the hook instead of the peg" He cleared the mystery by display ing on his desk the two types of corn huskilg attachments for the hand; one working with an up- ward movement, the other with 8 downward. The sWankiest luncheon Ambassador Martinez has set in a long time was the one last September in honor of the Cuban official Ruyde Lugo Vina. Shortly thereafter this gallant Cu- ban set out on a Pan-American flight. He crashed the other day with other Cubans and is now dead.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

There are very deep meanings, we suspect, in that ban clapped on your old friend Mickey Mouse in Jugo- slayia. It was found that MT. Dis ney's creation was Subversive of law and order, it will be remembered the peculiarly rigorous brand of law and order which the dictatorS, abso- lute and semi are won't to impose. The animated little rodent therefore will not be seen any longer by fanciers among Jugoslavia's young est generation; nor among the older, since the government probably isn't so much afraid of a new children's crusade as of ructions among those white, over twenty-one, but but far from free.
 The ban as we understand it was based narrowly on specific episodes in a recent Mickey Mouse sequence But if it hadn't been that we're quite sure there would have been other objections, for the very con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

So great was the criticism poured in on radio officials and others connected with the radio broadcast some weeks back of Mae West that moving picture com pany heads are fearful for the success of her current release In an effort to bol- ster it up ir New York prominent or chestra has been engaged as a supple mentary feature. It only goes to prove that public opinion, after all is said and done has weight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
Mickey Mouse, Rev0lnti0niSt Jugoslavia's Ban on Animated Cartoon Seems to Garry Weight of Government
 Eo,
Just Bit Far
NEW HAVEN JOURNAL-COUR1ER

1 cept of this comic parsonage is, we believe, revolutionary. For isn't Mic- key a walking, talking and think ing mouse? Doesn't he wear the | clothes of humans and in many other ways ape the manners and mannerisms of the superior beings among whom his creater circulateS? He does, quite obviously, and just as obviously such behavior is in the profoundeSt sense SubverSive. For this is revolution by the narrow definition.
 It is mere animal rising up and taking on the habiliments of man. It is being among the lowest in geological order coming to equality with his betters. How inevitably the thoughtful Jugoslav would be- gin to see himself in Mickeys pat tern! If Mickey takes on the ways of man, could not the conscript citi- zen of servile state, who after all, has something of a head start? If a mouse can not merely look at king but play him, how safe is tyrant among the slaves he allows to see the process? Mickey, finally, was hu- morous; and as everybody knows humo becomes a crime in the dic- tatorships.
 For, deprived of free press and speech, every one of the totalitarian peoples seethes with acrid wise- cracks against their leaders. And this is dangerous since humor by definition finds what is ridiculous. But the tyrannies are built on the premise that what is, is above criticism; and ridicule is about the most devastating form of criticism you can imagine. On several counts and all of them grave, then, Mic key has no place among the regi- mented. He illustrates the fact that the lowly may aspire; and he dares to create laughter which is dead | Her than bombs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

Tribute is due Senator Carter Glass of Virginia tonight. He observed his 80th birthday yesterday amid the plaudits of his colleagues in Congress. He is the oldest member of Congress and has also achieved a record by living longer than any member of his family, something he set out to do year ago on his 79th birthday. He is, as almost everyone knows, an outstanding senator and has established a proud record while in our national legislature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
Selected Poem
NEW YEAR ALIBI

Undine Brown Charlton in the New York Times) My mind is like most any other house, With window-panes really should keep clean, And chimneys that very prone to lean My way. While in the attic there's a mouse, Of which, indeed, I'm truly quite ashamed. The holes he gnaWS in resolutions fine EmbarraSs me, and ten times out of nine, My Conscience-cat is solely to be blamed For when her services I most require When that old mouse makes such trying mess, Of course you know-you do not have to guess My cats curled up asleep beside the fire!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05


 1. Was George Washington member of the Masonic Order?
 2. Name the chief river of Florida. 3. From what state is Robert Ramspeck (D) a representative?
 4. Where are the fangs of rattle snakes located?
 5. Who was Jean Francois Millet? 6. Where did the first Continental Congress assemble?
 2. For which state is Sooner" the nickname?
 8. Name the republican nominee for president in 1886.
 g. Name the oldest institution of higher education in the U. s.
 10. Who wrote Travels With a Donkey?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

says the commission, would be to help the industry make more money by reduc- ing the price of coal. This it thinks could be done by cooperative marketing and allocating production. To an old-faSh- toned individualiSt, these are strange times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
Daily Almanac
Moon sets 8:43 p. m.

MOOn sets o.43 D. m.
 Sun rises 7:18 a. m; sets 4:39 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 January, 1888, is the month of two new moons. The first one has already occurred on the first day and consequently was not vis- ible in this zone. There will be another new moon when it completes full cycle on the 31st of this month. the outlook now being for fair weather towards the end of the month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
RUSSIANS HONOR CYCLIsT

Moscow (UP} Russians have marked the 4Oth anniversary of the sports activities of the oldest Rus sian cyclist, A. F. Fedorov- -Lebedev. He is 58, but he still takes part in contests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never pronounce says-saz; say, SeZ.

conquest on the ground that it would have a good effect on Britain by removing the spectacle of liberty so nearby, but the plan was not car ried out.
 Q. Can ore be classified as a metal?
 A. The word lore" is defined in the Oxford dictionary as "a native mineral containing a precious or use full metal in such quantities and in such chemical combination as to make it's extraction profitable" and this is the sense in which it is used in commerce and by miners, al- though writers on mineralogy and petrology apply the word to metalli- ferrous minerals without the above mentioned limitations.
 Q. Are enrollments in the Uni versity of Alaska limited to resi- dents of the territory?
 A. Enrolment in the last year represented the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illi- nois, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and Washington.
 o. Name a few married couples both of whom are noted in litera- ture.
 A. Albert Payson Terhune-Anice Terhune, Sinclair LeWis-Dorothy Thompson, Charles G. Norris-Kath- leen Norris, Charles A. Beard Mary Ritter Beard, Fay-Cooper Cole-Mable Cook Cole, Louis Un- ternyer-Jean Starr Untermyer.
 If you want a copy of our booklet QUEER FACTS OF GEOGRA- PLY" write the Waterbury Demo- crat's Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth street. Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
A Thought for Today

Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And JOash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, o, my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horSemen thereof-u Kings 1914.
 He who always waits upon God, Is ready whenSoever He callS.-Felthaln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
Questions and
 Answers
oDyrasht iss7. MA
By Frederick M. Kerby

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
 Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- tiOn of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Be sure all mail is ad- dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 THE EDITOR @. What is the temperature of the ocean water at Bermuda during March and April?
 A. About 66 degrees.
 Q. I came to the United States on the Princess Irene" sometime in September, 1913. Can you give me the name and address of the com- pany that owned the ship?
 A. The Princess Irene" landed September 25 and was owned by the North German Lloyd line, whose ad- dress is 57 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
 Q. Was Ireland ever conquered by the Romans?
 A. No. Agricola proposed the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

A feminine friend says there ought to be squad of bright young "G-women," because they'd know instinctively how to "get their men,"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

The houseboy in Los Angeles who ran away with the yacht so picturesquely and murderously had taken the local films too seriously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, Jan. 5.-Some year ago, Clifford Odets woke to find that his play, Waiting for Lefty" had made him overnight. Well, Broadway has heard thunder on the left once more and again the bolt is not out of the blue, but out of the rebel skies of red.
 The new man of the hour is a young author composer nomed Marc Blitzstein whose "The Cradle Will Rock" exoked, when it was present. ed at the Mercury theater, the most effusive braves the theater has been accorded this year.
 The reviewers for the most part did not spare the adjectives, and "The Cradle Will Rock" like Wait ing for Lefty" became the dark horse sensation of the Rialto the morning after.
 Marc Blitzstein is a Social-con- scienious writer of prose, verse and music. The Mercury theater is a group which brought Broadway to its feet and unconditional surrender couple of weeks ago with tren- chant performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Having a Sunday night free, its players decided to keep busy with the Blitzstein opus and being equally unoccupied, the critics used up Sabbath night to see it, without a single evocation of regret.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
Justice Sutherland May Quit Bench At End Of Present Term;
 Gamers Plan Of Fixed Wage,
 Unlimited Hours Oked by South
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WASHINGTON January 5. = Justice George Suth-~ erand itimated to close friends that he seriously considering retiring from the Supreme Court in June
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
Rocky Road for Cradle"

Rocky Road for Cradle"
 "The radCle Will Rock" has had violent history. Originally sched- uled by the Federal theater in New York, it was cancelled by an ad- minitrative decree, allegedly because it was too red.
 So it has been lying around dor mant since last summer, waitinng to be rendered under private aus pices. Author-C Composer Blitzstein, (like OdetS, an erStwhile Phlladeu- phian), finally found his haven at the Mercury.
 It is an exciting evening of thea ter, whether or not you hold with ts clearly expounded prejudices. It employs no scenery. The imagina- tion will have to picture one, and the locale is SteeltoWn, where labor is having an altercation with the bosses.
 Blitzstein, presiding from piano keyboard, plays the entire score-a remarkably versatile one-for 21a hours. And a company of actors sit around the stage, waiting for their cues to rise and execute their lines and musical numbers. The theater seldom has seen so unorthodox a notion come off so stirringly.
 agerS think as much about the suc-
 Apparently, the commercial man. cess of "The Cradle Will Rock" AL ready there is a campaign to move this fighting operetta out of the limited confines of the Mercury Theater, where it can be given only once a week, and set it up as a reg ular attraction on Broadway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05
T e st Y o UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-05

Q. Was Ireland ever conquered by the Romans?
 A. No. Agricola proposed the
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Britain Reassured
On Tunisia by Italy

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 5.-Prime Minister
Chamberlain announced today he
had received assurances that the
italian government did not asso-
ciate" itself with the territorial
demonstrations against France.
He said, therefore, he saw no rea-
son to change arrangements for his
visit to Rome next January IL.
The Premier told the House of
Commons that the italian assur-
ances had been received after the
Earl of Perth, British Ambassador
to Rome, had told the Italian foreign
minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, that
such incidents must have detri-
mental effect on the prospects of
collaboration between the four
Munich powers" unless steps are
taken to correct the impression
created"
Mr.. Chamberlain, countering nu-
merous opposition questions, indi-
Gated French sovereignty over Tuni-
sia, Corsica and Nice was covered by
7 an annex to the Anglo Italian agree
ment OF April 16, which placed
Britain and Italy on record as hav-
Ing no desire to modify the terri
torial situation in the Mediter.
ranean. This accord came into
1orce November Is.
Evening star., 1938-12-05

ent-Teacher Association and the
Metropolitan Police Department.
Six additional Federal units, in
cluding the Department Of Justice
and the Civil Service Commission,
where Christmas giving has become
tradition, pledged their full CO.
operation yesterday Attorney Gen.
eral Cummings already has indorsed
the campaign.
In letter to Mr.. Daniel, William
c. Hull. executive assistant in the
Civil Service Commission, said:
I'm accordance with our annual
custom, the Civil Service Commits
sion Welfare Association is planning
a Christmas party to be held about
December 81 or ~. At this party,
employees Of the commission con-
tribute very generously gifts of toys,
clothing and cash to be given to
(see YULE CAMPAIGN, Page A-S0