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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Airplane Dangers

Airplanes are being made larger, in- creasing steadily in power, carrying capacity and speed. This tends to greater efficiency in service. And designers say that big planes are safer than little ones
 They doubtless know. Yet it seems to be true alike of men ard planes that the bigger they are, the harder they fall ' There have been two great air tragedies Ill the last few weeks, one in California and the other in Ohio, in which great, modern airplanes have crashed to the earth in normal weather without any adequate ex- planation, utterly destroying ships, pas sengers and crew.
 Such disasters, because they are so start ling, naturally give false impression Of the perils to which passenger subjects himself. Crashes are very infrequent com pared with the total number of flights and the mileage flown. There may be million miles or more to one disaster. And since there are risks not only in all kinds of transportation, but even in remaining at home in bed, it can be argued logically that it is foolish to be frightened out of flying because there is an occasional accident.
 Yet it is evident that some problems of aerial mechanics and safe flight are not yet solved. Too much still depends on the perfect coordination of pilots mind and body, on sound judgment, on the perfec- oion of land communication with flying planes, on motors and instruments and body structure and mechanism. The best experts in the world are at work continu ally on these problems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Town Without Politics

Mayor Hague of Jersey City is not the only unusual phenomenon in the state of New Jersey. Equally worthy of note and more worthy of national approval is the Glen Ridge, N. J., Conference Con- mittee which has just marked it's twenty fifth anniversary.
 The committee is nonpartisan organ ization dedicated to the cause of filling the municipal offices with Well-qualified candidates. It was founded a quarter of a century ago by Democratic editor and Republican industrial executive Today the committee of 24 comprises four mem- bers each from the Women's Club, the Republican Club, the Democratic Club, the Home and School Association, the South End Association and the Battalion Forum.
 The committee names municipal slate in which political considerations play no part. Since it's establishment, the con- mittee has always been upheld in it's choice by both major parties. Glen Ridge officials it may be assumed, run the towns affairs honestly and efficiently. Without adopting city manager form of government the local citizens seem to have attained some of it's objectives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Clock Tricks

The public attitude toward time IS nearly as hard to understand as Einstein's theories on the subject. Consider the weird things people do with clocks. There is the legislative custom of stopping the clock when it is clear that session is going to run beyond the day and hour set for adjournment. With the clock stopped, legislators appear to say, time itself stops, and the session can drag on for hours or even weeks and still be ended on schedule. A delegate to the New York state constitutional convention has sug- gested that this custom be prohibited there, but it will take more than one ef- fort to end the practice generally.
 Then there is daylight saving time A lot of people discovered a few years ago that the morning hours are pleasant and that it is also delight to have more day. light left after the days work is done. It didn't seem possible simply to get up ear Her or to start business earlier, so the movement arose for turning clocks ahead in the spring and back in the fall
 Widespread as that practice has be- come, there are still strenuous objections to it year after year. In Wabash, Ind both factions have been satisfied by another bit of monkey business. The hands of the town clock were turned ahead for daylight saving time, but the bell which strikes the hour was not adjusted. It strikes the hour by Standard Time and pleases the nti-daylight-savers. And now, what time is it, please?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Johnson's Advice

General Johnson talked to big business men like a Dutch uncle last week, at meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in New York. His theme was cooperation of business with government. Johnson is an independent, leaning uSu- ally little toward the business side. He had been checking up on the general sit nation, and insisted on these points:
 That business and industry haven't any choice at all of going back to unregu- lated economic freedom under futile anti trust laws It can't be done. The change of popular opinion in this country toward governmental regulation has followed great surge of popular opinion every where. The best you can expect is regu- lated freedom, like all the rest of the folks"
 Industry should take "the middle course" he said, and accept collective bargaining with labor. He criticised both the industrial leadership and the "third New Deal" as he calls it, saying there is plenty of blame on both sides But: '"There is an overwhelming popular de- termination against going back to the old deal so far as it involves any denial to the people of the neW-found right and power of federal government to function politically in economic fields to the extent of reasonable regulation"
 He urged industrialists to remove the popular idea that they are against every thing the government does. Many ob- servers, with an indirect but real interest in this problem, agree with Charles M Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion, who announced that he was "deeply impressed" by this advice and that the steel industry would do we'll to consider it." There should, of course, be com promises on both sides, and the time has come for it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Freer Travel

The London Evening Standard has had a sensible idea which it urges upon the British government. It recommends abolishing all customs examinations for American tourists in order to show them that they have an altogether special place in our hearts" We don't know about that sentimental reason. It may be little too emotional for many Ameri- cans and BritiShers But any govern ment that cuts some of the red tape now inconveniencing and annoying tourists will benefit itself as much as the favored foreigners.
 The Standard admits that such action would cost the British treasury "trifling amount" in customs revenue, but believes the enhancement of the esteem in which we are held in the United States" will more than offset the money loss. It does not say, although this might prove to be true, that the additional money spent in the British Isles by the greater num- Der of tourists might compensate for the lost customs revenue.
 One of the things that ails Europe to- day is that too much attention is paid to boundary lines. Passports and GUS toms inspection and money restrictions and a general air of suspicion instead of welcome probably reduce the volume of normal travel considerably less rigid system is desirable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Primaries, Past, Future Forecast for November Elections Hard to Make on Basis of What Has Occurred in State
 Primaries to Date
NEW YORK SUN.

The primary elections to date have failed to provide convincing fore cast of what is likely to happen in November. Voters in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, South Dakota, Pennsylvania and Oregon, in fact, have given New Deal Democrats, conservative Democrats and Repub- licans all some talking points. The easy victory of Senator Lister Hill in Alabama and the clean sweep of Senator Claude Pepper in Florida convinced New Dealers that the Roosevelt policies have as potent a political appeal in 1888 as they did in 1886. The Illinois primary elec- tion brought the Kelly-Nash ma chine of Chicago down to defeat, but the New Deal was not an issue, except, remotely, because it had failed to go to the rescue of Sen- ator William H. Dieterich when that faithful follower of the president was caught between two hostile party factions and politically wiped out. But on the same day that Florida Democrats gave clear majority of votes to Senator Pepper, South Dakota Democrats rejected a New Deal Senator, Herbert T. Hitchcock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

Former Governor Tom Berry, not conspicuous for his devotion to the New Deal, defeated both Senator Hitchcock and Representative Fred H. Hildebrand.
 The Pennsylvania and Oregon primary elections provided more con- fusion for those looking for long range forecast. In Pennsylvania both Democratic factions professed loyal ty to the New Deal, but MT. Farley's unsuccessful intervention in an at- tempt to win the gubernatorial nom- nation for John l.. LeWiss candi- date was generally recognized as in- spired, just as was the more success full intervention of the New Deal in Oregon to defeat Governor Charles H. Martin for renomination. Even in Oregon the Administration in- tervention and the alliance of the A. F. of L. and the c. I. O. gave the New Deal faction only little bet ter than 50 per cent of the Demo- cratic vote in the primary.
 The significant thing, so far as Mo- vember is concerned, is that the New Deal has won its unquestionable victories in the South, whereas in the North and West it has fared badly in its own party primaries. South Dakota, Oregon and Pennsyl- vania are all states which not so long ago had strong Republican leanings. The Democrats carried them all in 1886, but the factional troubles and the stirrings of discon- tent in these states suggest that many of the former Republicans in these states and others are on their way out of the Democratic party.
 August will be the big month for political forecasters. With the gen. eral campaign two full months fur ther along there will come a series of primary elections in Kentucky, Ohio, California and South Caro- lima which will go far to indicate the appeal of New Deal policies and the power of the New Deal to punish those who question its wisdom in the least instance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
A Book a Day
BY BRUCE CATION

The revolt of youth" has been going on for long time now, if one can believe all one hears, and the people who were first in- yolved in it now have sons and daughters of their own to worry about. But no one, so far, has ever tried to get statistical about 1t and show just how far youth is carrying it's uprising against the moral standards of former years
 This job is attempted, and rather competently handled, too, by Dor othy Dunbar Bromley and Florence Haxton Britten in Youth and Sex (Harpers: $3).
 To make their survey, the au- thors questioned some 1900 college students, by personal interview and by printed questionnaire. The youngsters met them halfway; that is, they gave them serious answers, and did not fob them off with the flip wisecracks one might have expected.
 The answers as the authors compile them, do show pretty clearly that American youth-col- lege youth, at least-is pretty def initely moving away from the ole standards of sexual morality. The youngsters don't seem to know just where they are going. but that they are dissatisfied with the olt code seems very obvious. People whose youth is Q couple of decade. behind them may receive quite z shock from these disclosures; fol these youngsters make it pretty clear that chastity on the part ol the modern young woman is by no means as highly valued, either by the young women or by tht young men. as 1t was generation ago.
 And yet 1t is not really so ter. ribly shocking afer all. It is no a gin swizzling, needless youth that is depicted in this book: i is a youth which may be mistaken but which is seriously trying tt work out a decent code of con. duct. And its behavior, all in all is not nearly as bad as some O the alarinists have been trying t l make us believe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

The church calendar is observing at this time some of it's most important feast days What transpired between Easter and Trinity Sunday which comes week from the coming Sunday is the fulfill ment of the greatest miracle of all times, that following His Resurrection, Christ would rise again, and forty days later ascend into Heaven. Following those two events comes the church feast of Corpus Christi, which is followed by Whit-Sun- day or Pentecost, the feast of the Holy Ghost. The church liturgy during this season is beautiful and impressive and while it is told and retod in our churches one is always freshly impressed by the amazing wonder of what it stands for - the season between the Resurrection and Trinity Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
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THE HIRED GIRL

Christian Science Monitor)
 The hired girl is vanishing, if not almost gone. according to the Bur-, eau of Home Economics in Wash ington. With her going she takes one more institution that was truly American. She was housekeeper, waSherWoman, dressmaker, cook and often valuable family counselor. The Bureau lists as one of the causes that sums paid out for household help are too meager for such service" They always were, no matter what she was paid.
 To many the deepest memories are those of kindly understanding confidantc of childhood. If little boy wanted a special favor from a parent often the best way was through the good offices of Martha May. She knew how well-behaved he had been for the past week. she conveniently forgot about last Thursday when he had tracked the kitchen with his muddy boots.
 Many homemaker would rather spend money for car and widen her social contacts" No doubt the modern homemaker is right. Mar tha May wasn't a social success, but she was kind and good friend. And now ahe is gone and in her place there are motor cars. wider social contacts, and even the mech anical hired girl" The report lists them all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

As each Memorial Day passes we are reminded that the old guard, that is to say, those who had part in the Civil War, are becoming fewer and fewer. Soon our veterans will be numbered from the Spanish-American and World wars only Just within the year Waterbury lost one of it's grand old men. He was missed in from the various ceremonials attending Decoration Day activities. We speak of Homer Northrop. Our lone Civil War veteran in Mondays parade was Wales Porter, ninety-four years of age. He hopes to participate when another Decor ation Day rolls around, and all Waterbury hopes he will be with us again in May, 1889.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

When the Agriculture Depart ment tried to name O. M. Regnier, former secretary to Murray, as State AAA director, Wheeler raised so much commotion that the appointment was dropped and another man acceptable to Wheel CT was substituted.
 And the other day Wheeler put one of his federal jobhold- CTS, Gene Burriss, a WPA off, ficial, into the field against Rep resentative Jerry O'ConneII be- cause Jerry has his eye on Wheeler's scalp in 1940.
 Politics, indeed, is funny. The pot can call the kettle black with out cracking smile.
 On a Limb
 The boys in the House caught Representative Bob Rich over a barrel the other day.
 The gangling Pennsylvania is a redhot economizer. No appro- priation bill gets by him without a vigorous effort to wield the knife. But when the $3,000, ,000- 900 recovery measure came up, Rich, who represents a rural dis trict, joined other ruralities in boosting the rural identification fund from $40,000,00O to $100,- 100000.
 Nothing was said about this at the time. But the other day, when Rep. Cliff Woodrum brought up the independent offices ap- propriation bill calling for a $6l,- 100000 increase over last year, Rich jumped to his feet and demanded hotly, "Why didn't the cOnferees cut down the expendi- lures in this biIl,,"
 Woodrum was on top of him in a flash.
 "I'll tell you why" the Vir- ginian said sardonicalIy, "be- cause the conferees were 50 dis c0uraged by the action of the Gentleman from Pennsylvania the other day. After seeing the gentleman vote to override the Budget Bureau and increase the appropriation for rural clectri- fication, they just didn't have the heart to cut the expendi- lures in this bill"
 The House roared with laugh ter and Rich grinned sheepishly. Woodrum continued his razzing-
 "The Gentleman from Penn sylvania will have hard time to purge his economy record. :, The gentleman by that action voted to increase the national debt; he voted to increase the 1, spending he has been complain ing of. My friends, years of penitence will not purge that blot"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

Up Boston way the last GAR postman passes away about the time the Memorial Day parade neared his home He was James F. Ward, aged ninety, last member of the John A. HaWes Post, G. A. R. Those marching in the Waltham, Massachu- setts, parade were gazing toward their comrades home, not knowing that "taps" had sounded for him as they marched along. Thus they pass on, this older generation, whose lives were full of in- cident, and who knew and saw the slaughter of Gettysburg, Antietam, and other well remembered battles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, June 1-O One of the most flexible trade jargons is the code of the soda jerker. Its voca bulary is subject to change without notice or likely to enlargement any day.
 For example, one of the counter men in a busy table d'hote drug store tells me that these code sym bols are comparatively new:
 A soda perker's call for a glass of water is "81," and if a large glass of water is in demand, his bark would be, Stretch an ST."
 Though you may have requested an English muffin, the soda man regards it is "Limey"
 Numerals play an important role in the system of communication be- hind the soda fountain. Give 37, for illustration, means Take spec ial pains with this customer. He's friend of the boss"
 By "6," the soda jerker re- fers to a simple cup of coffee, but why the Photographer of drug store talk hit upon those numbers to signify cup of java nobody knows
 An "87 1-2," incidentally, actually means, That's a pretty looking dol with shapely figure sitting at the corner of the counter"
 Oriental Democracy
 was asked why the inscrutable Chinese employees in most Orienta eating places take their meals ir the dining room with the customers whereas seryitors of all other ma tions take meals in their own quar- ters. So I in turn put the question to my old friend, the wise, philo- sophical Lum Fong, who plies g gastronomic trade on the fringes of Chinatown.
 According. to Lum, there are two reasons for the practice. One: 1t i. proof to the Occident that Chinese do like chop suey and chow mein Two: Orientals do not regard waiter! as hired help, but as trusted assist ants, lower in financial station, bu not in caste.
 Oriental Swing
 Jack Cole Is setting the 'jitter bugs" and swing addicts on thei ears these nights at the Rainbow Room where h edoes authenic Eas Indian dances set to such appro priate music as War Dance for { Wooden Indian" Music in a Mad house" and Dinner Music for { Pack of Hungry Cannibals."
 While blended Far Eastern dances and American swing may sount strange at first, Cole explains i was a union born of necessity. N modern orchestra can reproduce thu wieyd sounds of the real East Tn dian band, and even if they could no audience would stand for 1t. Sl Cole uses swing because he has dis covered that 1t is closer to tn, original native rhythms than tn, real thing.
 Ghandi should hear about thisl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Selected Poem
SOUTHERN ROUTE
(By Ruth Evelyn Henderson in the
 New York TimeS)

First the gold afternoon with the naples exagger- ating the sunset, then the fire-opal sky with clouds in ripple flame and camaradere creeping through the bus;
 Quickly, the pearl and magenta dusk and one ruby oak holding out against night. That airplane runs precarously on the thin edge of horizontal cloud.
 The cradng dip and rise of the, road the whistled duet of the boys in the seat ahead; They look like road boys following the summer Trees brocaded against the deepening horizon a woolen garment drawn up softly around the earth that seems less adult going to bed :. Finally, crowds of stars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

And then, if ever, May progressed with showers as of April, cool nights and cool mornings. But June has come with a milder breeze blowing through the floral shrubbery of the season Already butter cups are blossoming in the fields and the first wild rose is blooming, while frosts have been experienced in the colder spots up state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

1. Which state is known as the Sunshine State?"
 2. Name the surveyors of the Mason Dixon line.
 3. How did Ebert Hubbard die?
 4. Who was the first Congress- woman elected to the U. s. House of Representatives?
 5. What is the rate of letter postage to England?
 6. Name the strait that separates Greenland from the North Ameri- can continent.
 2. Who wrote the novel Hard Cash?"
 8. If a child of naturalized Amer ican citizens is born in . foreign country, is he also an American citizen?
 g. What is gold bullion?
 10. What is a wallabyf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Current Comment

was able to catch the best man, William Daly, before he fell .. I found the bridegroom was sag ging to the floor in a faint but the marriage vows had been taken. Rev. James Craig, describing a
 wgedding despite fainting spells.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Dais is pronounced day'-iss;
 not dah'-iss, or dice.

of the wheels is (4 x 28,200) 112,800 miles. This mileage divided equal ly among six tires gives product of 18,800 miles, the distance that each tire has travelled.
 e. Does Yukon Territory belong to Alaska?
 A. No; it is part of the De- minion of Canada.
 o. In what alphabet is A the tenth letter?
 A. Runic.
 o. What is the title of the mo- ton picture in which Beniamino Gigli appeared last year? Is he scheduled for another picture? Will he make any personal appearances in America this year?
 A. Last years picture was For ever Yours" He is currently booked for European tour, which also in- cludes appearance in a picture. He is booked for a United States con- cert tour next fall, and afterward may return to the Metropolitan Opera company for the first time in nearly ten years.
 Q. What bird is called the car penter bird?
 A. The California woodpecker which cuts small holes for storing single acorns.
 Q. In typewriting, how many spaces should be used after the colon and how many after the semi colon?
 A. Two spaces after the colon and one space after the semi colon.
 o. What is the largest city in the world not on navigable water? A. Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana. The White river on whose banks the city is located, is not navigable.
 If you want copy of our book let THE HOUSEWIVES MAN. UAL" write to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washing ton, D. C. Enclose 10 cents in post age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
Questions and
 Answers
By Frederick M. Kerby

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01
President, Congress Passing Buck On Emergency Aid for Railroads;
 Woge-Cut Demand, Resistance of
 Unions Make Issue Redhot Poker
Rv DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT q ALLEN

WASHINGTON, June l. = Not in long time has the Capital such plain and fancy buck-passing going behind the between the White House and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-01

o. If an automobile has travelled 28,200 miles, and in that time has worn out six tires, each with equal mileage, what is the distance that each of the six tires has travelled?
 A. There are four wheels on the autmobile, so that the total mileage