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Evening star., 1938-02-01

New justices are made welcome to the
U. S. Supreme Court while old ones lend
their services to tribunals that may re-
quire them from time to time.
Evening star., 1938-02-01

1t Is not question of whether we can
e1ord new warships, but of whether we
can afford to go without them.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Chance for Revenue.

From the Chicago Daily News.
Two men in Chicago made tidy in
come by fainting on doorsteps. The
City Council might pick up a bit of
revenue by licensing doorstep fainters
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Something Wrong.

From the Fort Wayne Star.sentinel.
There Is something wrong when q
young New York prosecutor can make q
national reputation merely by doing his
duty ofacsntly.
Evening star., 1938-02-01

MusSolinis son is fine aviator who, If
he were little older, could tell South
America about more things than Avia-
ton.
Evening star., 1938-02-01

1t is due to the public to demonstrate
that for every sorrow there is somewhere
q smile to cure 1t.
Evening star., 1938-02-01

Japanese warriors are proud of an
ability to employ able lawyers in any
language.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Mathematical Barraee.

From the Ashtabula Star-Beacon.
They say the League of Nations is do
ing q good work with statistics. It would
be great If an undeclared war could be
ended With q barrage of mathematics.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Shooting Stars.
Back 70 Eden.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Back 70 Eden.
When Adam was from Eden sent,
No more to dream and shirk,
He found, with direst discomfort,
He had to go to work.
And Eve must learn more clothes to wear
Than when she gamboled free.
Through ages long of weary care
It's thus our fate must be.
But now the expiation seems
Almost complete at last.
Perhaps we'll realize the dreams
OF blisses long since past.
Man only tolls five-day week,
With each days task but small.
The garments that the girls. will seek
Are nearly none at all.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
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Evening star., 1938-02-01
News in Canada.

From the Fort Worth Star-Teleeram.
Two Canadian gunmen supply a new
wording for that old definition of news"
by capturing two Northwest mounted
policemen
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Obedience.

From the Worcester Gazette.
An association of women's clubs de-
plores the general breakdown Of treaty
obligations. Yes. and what about the
word "obey" in the marriage ceremony?
Evening star., 1938-02-01
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TUESDAY February 1, 1888
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Evening star., 1938-02-01

Honesty may be de best policy" said
Uncle Eben, but out our way 'tain't allus
counted de best politics"
Evening star., 1938-02-01
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Evening star., 1938-02-01

Hypocrisy" said Hi Ho, the sage OF
Chinatown, rs exercised for the benefit
Of those who find courtesy 80 scarce that
they are willing to pay for it."
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Painful Memories.

Painful Memories.
Could remember all the things I've read
I'd surely have to pause and hold my
head,
For it would be most seriously panied
By all the seething nonsense it contained.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
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Evening star., 1938-02-01

Terrier Times.
While reading communistic news,
As teachings curious 1t spreads,
I hear a tune they call the Blues
hope they never play the Reds
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Optimism Defeated.

Optimism Defeated.
1T YOU can't say something pleasant,
keep quiet"
Impossible. I'm weather forecaster."
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Nursing q Job.

"You think grave perils confront our
republic?"
1T has always been part Of the business
Of every statesman to think that way"
replied Senator Sorghum. If it were not
for the perils, there would be no need Of
statesmen
Jud Tunkins says he may not love his
fellow man, but his business compels
him to hide his feelings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
A Thought for Today
McLevy Is Willing

Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport has taken a good opportunity to inform the state at large that he will be candidate for governor again this fall, but it will be on the ticket on which he has always run and in behalf of the party to which ne owes allegiance. This is characteristic ol the man who has managed to upset all political predictions in Fairfield County for quite a few years now. Even Ii re- nublicans hadn't come out with de- fermined stand on coalition tickets some weeks ago this latest blast of the Bridge port mayor would have settled the issue once and for all.
 Those who fancy the mayor as vote retter will have to look alive if they are going to capitalize on it this fall. He IS preparing to accept the nominaton Of the socialist party for the eighth time. AS Ill the past it is doubtful if his chances are enhanced one bit by his continued good record of civic government in Bridgeport or his refusal to deal m politics. With both the major political parties resolved to present strong tickets this fall and the possibility of at least one or two more, such as a labor ticket, the outcome seems to lie between Governor Wilbur L. Cross and his COP. opponent.
 In a sense Mayor McLevys announce ment and his triade against the double machine" will prove more harmful to re- publican chances this fall than Demo- cratic. A clean sweep of the state again is in prospect at this early date Much can happen to change conditions between now and next November, but it is safe bet now to predict that the Democrats will be back in office. We cannot see that even an extraordinary campaign by the Socialist mayor of Bridgeport will change the political outlook in Connecticut this fall. He is not desirous of personal achievements at the polls, so sticks with his party. That's commendable, but it will not attract the votes necessary for a victory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
Take Care Of It

With all the talk about government ald it seems pity that Connecticut can't do anything right now about the State Farm for Inebriates at Norwich. Characterized as absolutely worthless" by the Public Welfare Council in a recent report to Governor Wilbur L. Cross state officials are now considering the possibility or abandoning it or making it over into some other form than it's present one. It is an adjunct of the State Hospital at Norwich, but reports claim that it is no more than a "jaiP'.
 It is quite evident that if the state in- tends to maintain this type of an inSti- tuition it must embark on new method of treatment Officials at Norwich are probably as aware of their shortcomings as anyone, but when the facilities and funds are not forthcoming, what more can be done than the meagre and insuf- ficient care now provided under what are termed abominable conditions. Rather than continue such state of affairs we think that all citizens of the state would like to see the present system abandoned entirely until such time as proper envir- onment and care can be given patients.
 It has been suggested that if the state had a iail farm it could commit patients, only trouble would be, we are afraid that it's capacity might soon be taxed. That apparently has been the main reason at Norwich for failure of the system to keep pace We know that it has become in- creasingly hard of recent years to have patients committed to the Norwich State Farm owing to crowded conditions. This is all the more reason, we think, why the State Hospital should not have to suffer.
 It should be allowed to expand as have and will those at Middletown and New town. When funds permit State Farm for Inebriates might be created as part of what sooner or later are going to be one large central jail farm or number of county ones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
Wars Children

Twenty years ago, on July 25, 1918, the Germans were training their big guns on the French village of Saint en Goele. At the height of the bambardment, Mrs. Ma rie Marlot gave birth to triplets, all boys. the mothers thoughts. And her prayers were certainly that her babies would not see another war.
 But that was 20 years ago., and 20 years is time enough for nations to rebuild their war machines and prepare for their next blood spilling. Armies are still made up of men. So the other day Leon, Emile and Camille Marlot, entered the French mili- tary service. And some day soon the three youths may even be fighting for their country. And thus will one more Flu ropean mothers prayers go unanswered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21

The artistic nature of the proposed presidential series of stamps is under fire. A critic has come to the fore in the per son of Ely Jacques Kahn of New York, chairman of the Committee on Allied Arts of the American Institute of Architects. He says, "That such abominable designs could be approved by the Postoffice De- partment is warning signal to any one who is aware of what might have been done by any one of horde of American designers. There is no excuse whatever for the mediocrity of these stamps and though their esthetic value may seem un- important, they do represent a point of view that is dangerous. :" And as an after-though MT. Kahn took potshot at our American coins and bills for their lack of beauty. All of which might be answered by saying that when you are compelled to combine beauty with prac- ticality, something of each must be sacrificed. Stamps, coins, and bills are made not to be looked at, but to be used for certain purposes. If a certain amount of beauty can be put into them, and we think it has, so much the better.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
Inhationary

New talk of imitation has started com modity and stock prices to rising moder- ately, even in advance of inflationary legislation. It is realized that the pro- posed increases in federal expenditure for recovery will naturally have such an ir1- fluence. Big spending and big debt both tend to higher prices.
 There is little talk this time, however, of runaway inflation" Fear of such monetary excesses as were seen in Ger many when a workman got billion marks day and ran down the street to spend it while it would still buy some thing, is no longer felt by intelligent peo-- pie. It is realized that, deplorable as most Americans consider the vast increase Of national delft, our resources are great; we are pretty steady and dependable in com parison with many other countries; and at present we have established controls over financial expansion which formerly did not exist.
 These controls may be even too etfec- tive, as we learned last year when the gov ernment put the brakes on credit, spend- ing and prices The sudden jolt of those brakes is blamed for some of the follow ing business recession. Such powerful controls require delicate handling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
F0rtune:S F0rSythia Little Known 25 Years Ago Brilliant Foliage To- day Widely Distributed to China,
 Now Common in Many Countries.
Common in Many Countries.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

tural Society naturalist, discovered and named the plant for his fellow Scotsman, the botanist William Forsyth. In the days when China's interior was forbidden territory to foreigners, Fortune, on salary of GAO year, roamed the land dis guised as a native and obtained for the Kew Gardens score of indis- pensible plants. From China also the English horticulturist John Reeves brought that gorgeous laven- der climber, wistaria. There Ernest A. Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, surviving serious accident, discovered the famous Regal lily.
 Back in the seventeenth century the Dutch obtained the parents of today's geraniums from Cape Colony. South Africa, too, gave us the pro- genitors of our modern gladiolus, of which nearly 100 species grow wild in that iand. From South America came fuchsias and begonias, and still other gems of loyeliness were brought from the South Seas and Australia-but richest of all floral sources is China.
 Plant hunters first brought home food plants to the western nations which sent them forth. All who read "Mutiny on the Bounty" will recall David Nelson, the young Kew gar- dener, who accompanied Captain Bligh to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit trees for the British West Indies. Horticulture, agriculture's hand maiden, gratifies mans aesthetic yearnings after agriculture satisfies his bodily needs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
Selected Poem
DOWN IN ESSEX HARBOR

(Nancy Ann Williams in the Poets Column,
 Hartford Courant) Down in Essex harbor Where the fishing schooners lie The gulls fly around, and then are bound For seas that meet the sky. The small boys come to dream of ships Which they, too, long to sail They sit and hug their sturdy knees And dream when all hopes fail. Each boyish eye is eager AS he waits to hear good news He dreams of days when his own ways Will be his own to choose. The tide goes in and out each day Each change brings in new ships curse or blessnig of the luck Falls from each sailors lips. Old sailors walk the wooden docks Just chatting of the sea: They wait for ships to make their trips And then with them they flee. The river ruSheS on and on Way past the Essex docks To join the sea and wash the shores, Just wearing down the rocks. The wavelets ripple heath the sun And make the small boats sway The lighthouse blinks when each star winks Down at the peaceful bay. When daily suns go down And twilight shadows earth The harbor's lights sweep OCT the blue And the moon beams down in mirth. Down in Essex harbor
 Where the boats all come and go It faScinates to watch the traits Of those do not know.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
PreSsCOnment
NEW STAMPS
(NeW York Sum

The revision of postage stamp de- signs and denominations announced by Postmaster General Farley seems 8 wicked political trick to Repre- sentative Bruce Barton, a plot to exile Republican Presidents to bar ren islands of philately. It is true that the average consumer of post age stamps will rarely see the portrait of Calvin Coolidge if that portrait appears on the five-dollar stamp. It seems equally obvious, though apparently 1t did not occur to Representative Barton, that putting the Republicans on the high-priced stamps is bound to identify them as economic royalists. There is one consolation for Re- publicans. If he plotted, MT. Farley seems to have done it too complete ly. Under the present scheme of affairs the three-cent stamp is in the stamp world what the one dollar bill is in the world of cur- rency; hence MT. Farley's plan calls for the glorification of Thomas Jefferson, whom some ingenious genealogists have placed among the ancestors of the current Democratic party. This publicity for Jefferson can be described literally as first class, particularly since it will be associated in the public mind with the Jefferson nickel, soon to dror into subway turnstile slots.
 But-there is horrid but-tht three-cent stamp is only tempo. rarily top of the heap. It is tenn. porarinesS which has lasted long time, it is true, but on some not toG remote day flrst-clasS postage wil go back to two cents and who vii then be the popular hero of stamps, Nobody but John Adams, secont president, whose likeness cannot b' kept from the two-cent stamp i MT. Farley is to follow his too con fining pattern. In fact, all who thinl that Jefferson will get just a bi too much notice from combination } of two-dollar bills, nickels ant three-cent stamps may snub him a l; little inconvenience. It will be al most as easy to range the Wash Iington one and the Adams two sid by side as it will be to delegate al first-class mail to the Jefferson three.
 Deep-laid plot indeedl MT. Bartol and MT. Farley are advised to for get all about it and meet on tn common ground of insisting upol ] good designs. fair likeness and tol
 erable ink for the new series 0 stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21

We'll, well, the starling has come into it's own. It develops that this bird is fond of the Japanese beetle and will eat enormous quantities of them. There's the answer to every city-father's prayer All they have to do is plant large corn fields around the outskirts of their city or town Soon the beetles will make their appearance, for they always do when corn is planted these days. Next the birds will descend on the beetles and finding a goodly supply of them will move their roasting spots near the cornfields. And even if they don't live too near the corn-field the amount of good they do in eating the beetles will make up for their annoyanceS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21

TWO: Kleberg IS an owner or the King Ranch, largest in the world, is one of the country's biggest cattlemen.
 Butter Defender
 In the veterans appropriation act of 1882, Congress wrote pro- vision banning the use of oleo- margine or any other butter sub stitute in veterans hospitals. But several weeks ago, when few mem bers were present in the senate, Senator George of Georgia slipped through an amendment repeating this restriction.
 The House, however, refused to agree and the matter went back to the Senate. This time the sen- ators from the dairy states went on hand in full force and after hot wrangle succeeded in rout- ing George and rejecting his amendment.
 Leader in this counter-attack was Wisconsins Senator R. Ryan Duffy-who is under doctors or- ders not to eat butter because of overweight and high blood pressure.
 Merry-GO-Round
 When son John Roosevelt visits the White House he doesn't use an official car but his mothers personal roadster 7. The week ly news column written by R. B. Stortz, government clerk in the office of Senator Burt Wheeler. and distributed free to Montana papers had short-lived existence. Heavily loaded with propaganda favoring Wheeler, the colyumn encountered such a bad reaction in the state that Stortz hastily announced its suspension. Until just before the Federal Re- serve Board announced a lowering of reserve bank requirements, Elliott Thurston, the boards press officer, was steadily denying that any such change would be made.
 Copyright, 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicaet, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21

Fairfield County's grand jury probe is drawing to a close Whether or not there'll be more indictments remains to be seen. Certainly after the many long weeks of probing into purchases of rights of way for the Merritt Parkway the jury must have unearthed vast amount of material evidence. It may prove some thing which only time will reveal to us. Rut ha hng it w settle for n1ann all time letting one man be reality agent for the bureau.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
A Book a Day
The Bloody Ground That Is Kansas

The bloody border wars of Kansas find no parallel in American his tory. Kansas bitter struggle with Missouri over the Free-Soil question bred the widest, cruelest band of ruffans the country ever knew, and their depredations ended only when the Civil War had spent its final fury. *.
 So here is a fertile field for the historical novelist, and w. R. Bur nett tackles 1t with full vigor in his fast-moving novel, ''The Dark Command" (Knopf: $3).
 MT. Burnett builds his story around William Quantrill, the Jay hawker who sold out his home town of Lawrence, Kan, and be- came the widest border ruffian of all. At one time Quantrill com- manded 1000 men, won captaincy finally in the Confederate army. And at his side the James boys and Cole Younger rode rough-shod across the Free-Soil Kansas towns, pillaging. murdering, giving no quarter.
 In the end Quantrill destroyed his own town, Lawrence, burning 1t to the ground. He then shot his enemies and made good his retreat across a flaming hostile country. All of which produces stirring story, whipped up by the intro- duction of a pretty woman, Quan- trills wife, and a bitter rival for her love, Johnny Seton.
 But one feels finally that Mir. Burnett has somehow fallen short of his story. His characters gallop but they do not breathe. MT. Bur- nett dimmed his realities.-P. G. F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, April 21-At long last they are getting around to official recognition of the night club steer er."
 Of course, "steerer" is not the polite description of these suave- hammered, impeccably groom e d young men whose office hours are II D. m. to 4 a. m. and whose ad- dresses are the same as those of the smartest clubs in town. Society pages may refer to them as sports men," Gossip columns may call them "gigolos."
 The "steerer" is a comparatively new being around Manhattan. In Europe, the occupation is legitimate and the number who practice it are legion. The Europeans are drifting over this way where business is bet ter. but many local boy is making good at the job. If the majority of the steerers are of foreign origin and of titled stock-the minority of American steerer hail from May flower oncestry, whose family for tunes have been ravaged by the re- cession (circa 1929). It's liveli- hood, not a racket.
 Sucker System Working hours for the "Steerer" actually start at 10 p. m., unless he has been fortunate enough to snare a dinner invitation. His method of attack, while working, is SO subtle that few folk sitting about night club, seeing him calmly slipping a drink or cavorting on the dance floor, are cognizant of his presence He usually starts the evening alone, but invariably meets up with some Park Avenue denizens of more than passing acquaintance. Before anyone in the party realizes it, he has quietly, but firmly, injected him. self into the gathering. He is not asked to "scram" politely. So he stays on. From that moment, ht life's work is cut out for him.
 For your usual Manhattan rev. eler, be he of the social strata ol tired-old- business man, is restless One place bores him to distraction after couple of hours. The urg' to move along to another costl! oasis, another set of phoney palm trees and leather-back settees, be sieges these folk frequently in tn course of the night. And this where that soft-spoken gent we cal the "steerer" steps into the breach
 why not" he nonchalantly sug gests, move over to So & So place? There's always a good crow over there"
 His victims acquiesce. They al ways do. Little prodding is requir ed. And the next stop - anothe round of drinks, champagne pail ct al, and another mounting chec that sometimes looks like an an nual statement for the nationa debt. Out of these cash receipts the svelte 'steerer draws his pay. NC that night. But the next day whel with the proprietor of that part cular spot, he settles for a liberf cut" of the cash he brought in tn night before. On good nights,
 persuasive steerer" might steer h. friends" about to five clubs an clean up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21

Forsythia's golden rain-first joy ous bloom of spring in the North Temperate Zone-is almost as com mon as the dandelion today, yet twenty-five years ago it was little known. A century ago its sunny brightness was confined to its native China. The world owes forsythia to one of that unsung band of intrepid plants hunters who penetrate re- mote regions to add new shrubs and flowers to the gardens of Europe and America.
 Robert Fortune, Royal Horticul-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-21
Current Comment

No military force that can be raised could prevent Germany from taking Czechoslovakia.
 Albert Bushnell Hart. historian.
 The longer the list of telephone numbers the better chance of mak- ing a happy marriage. Prof. c. D. Potts, Franklin and
 Marshall College.
 I am not looking for money. would like to help the little chap. Edward Derrick, Detroit, who
 offered his eye to Roger Laverty,
 of LanSdale, Pa.