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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31
LODGING THE JITTERS
 OF FIRST SCHOOL DAY
Act NOnchalantly Under Strain of
 First Parting
This is the first of series of twenty articles on School Days" 8 timely section of the popu- lar Raising a Family" series.
By Olive Roberts Barton

Are you going to loss little Jack this fall? Is he going to go to cruel school where no one will un- derstand him or care whether he is happy or not?
 This is the way so many moth- CTS regard the first wrench that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31

Not that the debt of gratitude obligations binds the marriage hey bind which inevitably tales to the ance prejudice against him. winning two her in with future will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31
Glorityimg Yourself
By ALICIA HART

NEA Service Staff Writer
 Strapless evening gowns and some of the new, softly draped necklines on fall street dresses call for beau-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31

Your girl hasn't let down. told there until and for it, predict you go places
 CAROLINE CHATFIEID
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31

NEW SHoW-TUEs.. THURS. SUN,
Evening star., 1938-12-11
.W.P. A. Is Playing
Santa Claus 10
100000
$4,000 on Relief Rolls
Busy for Months in
= Making Toys

Works Progress Administration
will play Santa Claus with more
than 1900. 900 toys and other gifts
which will go out to children all
over the country this Christmas
Children who otherwise might be
forgotten will receive presents which
SO, 900 men and women from the re-
lief rolls have been busy for months
turning out in w. P A. work shops
These workers have turned scraps
Of lumber and packing boxes into
brightly painted hobby-horses and
carts, made odds and ends of cloth
into stuffed jungle creatures and
rag dolls, repaired, sterilized and
transformed into new toys the dis
carded playthings OF more fortunate
children.
Credits Local Groups.
Credit for much Of the programs S
success was given to local groups in
the cities and towns by Ellen s.
Woodward, assistant w. p. A. ad-
mmistrator In charge of women s
and professional projects.
Each project" she explained, ''l1as
been sponsored by q local govern
mental or welfare agency and CO.
sponsored by charitable, fraternal
or civic organization which provided
workrooms and the few materials
which are need. School children,
Boy Scouts and Sunday school
classes have gathered toys side by
side with service organizations and
will help the sponsors distribute
the articles to children in relief
homes and institutions.
Nearly every branch of the w
P. A. and the National Youth Ad-
ministration is engaged in some sort
" Christmas activity. The recrea-
ton division groups Of these admin
1strations are making and repair
ing toys. Theater, art and music
projects and the education division
are sponsoring hundreds of Christ
mas meetings and performances.
100000 Get Wages.
The w. p. A. also points out that
aside from these seasonal activities
the security wages paid 5000 900 re-
lief workers will enable them to
buy a few toys for their children
and to get Christmas dinners. Wages
due these workers Immediately after
Christmas will be paid before the
holiday.
Thousands of home-relief recipi-
ents and other needy persons will
receive warm clothing produced by
200, 1000 women in 5000 w. P. A
sewing rooms.
Toymahng and repairing is a
year-around activity in the w. P. A.
Preparation of Christmas gifts be-
gins in midsummer.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Chinese Shadow Plays
To Be Presented

Under auspices Of the Washington
Committee for Aid to China, the
Red Gate Players will present next
Friday and Saturday Chinese col
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Publisher Defends
Taking Of Pittures
Al Public Trials
Camera Reporting Is
'InevitibIe.' Says
Col. Mccormick
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Dec. l0-Col. Robert
r. Mccormick, publisher of the
Chicago Tribune, defended today the
right Of newspapers to report with
typewriter and camera the conduct
of public trials.
Addressing the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation, Col Mccormick said news
paper reports of trials served to ex-
tend the size OF the courtroom, and
''litigants have right to this in
creased supervision"
1T is now proposed to change the
Constitution by the importation of
the English legal fiction that telling
what has transpired will interfere
with fair trial and the rights of
the accused" Col. Mccormick told
the lawyers.
'Of course. q newspaper must not
interfere with the rights of m aci
cused person. Nor must any one else.
But the repetition of what has been
seen does not jeopardize any right.
Il do not think it can be seriously
suggested that the conduct Of q
newspaper-how much I might de-
plore it. or you might deplore IT.
could affect the verdict OF a jury so
much as a partisan crowd in the
courtroom, which. while not an every
day occurrence, is common one"
Commenting upon the increasing
use OF cameras to picture the news.
the publisher pointed out they were
used extensively at sports events,
weddings. political meetings and
other affairs that can be held
privately.
There is only one event which
must be held publiclY-a trial. How
absurd, then, to argue that this
should be the only place a camera
may not go. Photographers need be
no more CONSPICUOUS than the re-
porters or the spectators. 80
Camera reporting can no more
be resisted than the reporting of the
debates of Parliament could be re-
sisted two centuries ago. Yet it is
being objected to by gentlemen who
think they dignity themselves bv
keeping their minds in the age Of
Blackstone"
Evening star., 1938-12-11
University Women
Sponsor Poetry,Contest

A poetry contest open to under
graduate men and women Of univer-
stiles here has been announced by
the Washington Branch, American
Association of University Women
Faculty members of local colleges
will act as judges.
To be eligible for the three prizes,
one OF $40 and two of IS, contest
ants are required to submit their
entries, no more than three In any
instance, to Mrs. Horace Torbert
at the association ONCE before jan
uary O.. -Four copies of each work
must be sent, and the entrants
name, college, class and poem titles
must be inclosed In q separate en-
velope.
Evening star., 1938-12-11

ored shadow plays with Oriental
music at the Foundry Methodist
Church. Proceeds will go to the
Chinese Red Cross.
The actors are made of gayly
colored parchment, and perform be-
hind a brightly illumined screen in
q realistic manner, enacting scenes
Of Chinese life.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Will Be Guests of Honor

Senor Don Louis Logrono, coun-
selor to the Dominican Legation in
Washington, and his wife, Dona Elsa
de Logrbno, will be guests of honor
at the annual donor luncheon OF
the Adas Israel Sisterhood, to be
held Wednesday at 1890 pm. at the
Mayflower Hotel. Mrs. Morris
Gewirz and Mrs. David Kushner are
in charge Of the arrangements.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Youth Council to Get
World PurIey Report

A f1rst-hand report Of the World
Youth Conference, held In Pough-
keepsie. N. Y, last summer, will be
brought to the Washington Youth
Council tomorrow night at the Y.
w. c. A., Seventeenth and K streets
NV.
The international conference will
be described In word and with COL
ored motion pictures by Joseph Cad
den, executive secretary Of the Am
erican Youth Congress. Mr.. Cad
den,. Vho arranged the world meet
Ing, has devoted himself largely to
youth movements since his Rradua-
Evening star., 1938-12-11

ton from Brown University. He
has served as executive secretary OF
the National Student Federation, the
International Student Service and
the American Youth Congress and
has Travelled through many coun-
tries in the interest Of these Or
ganizations and of the World Youth
Congress.
Evening star., 1938-12-11

Crank winds fllm to next
exposure and sets Compur.
Shutter and stop openings
read from top: all adjust
ments conveniently located.
Self-erecting hood. eye
level feature. Zeiss Tes-
sar F/3.5. $4,000 with
case,
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Radio ENGINEERS to Meet

The Washington Section of the
Institute of Radio Singers will hold
its annual meeting and election of
officers tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
in the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Auditorium.
A symposium on ultra-high fire.
quencies is to be a feature Of the
session.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Young Judeu to Meet

More than so members OF the
washington Council of Young
Judea will meet this afternoon at
the home Of the council president,
Rebecca Rabenovitz, 1856 Warder
avenue NV, to hear Sonia Dingol
OF Brooklyn, N. Y, national secre-
tary of the organization.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Sianu Nu Phi Is inflicted

Twenty-one pledges will be initi-
ated into Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Theta), Chapter of Sigma Nu Phi
international legal fraternity Satur-
day night at the national house,
1735 G street NV. /.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
PERHAPS ENGLAND
DOESN'T MEAN IT

An acute attack of doubtfulness might
very well assail close observers of the
international scene this week, after the
latest developments in the European
diplomatic -go-round.
In chronological order, this is what
has happened
Sir Anthony Eden resigned as British
foreign secretary because Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain insisted upon a
conciliatory attitude toward Germany
and Italy.
Adolf Hitler, German dictator, tight
ened his controls over Austria on the pre-
tense he has duty to the many Austri-
ans of German descent. Dictator Benito
Mussolini of Italy gave full approval.
Rumor spread through international
circles that Germany's next move will be
to gain similar control over the demOcra-
cy of Czechoslovakia.
British Prime Minister Chamber
lain continued on his course, avoiding
trouble with Germany and Italy.
Yvon Delbos French foreign minister,
in one of the strongest speeches by for
eign minister of majo power in recent
years, warned Germany that France will
not tolerate German attempts to gain
control of Czechoslovakia, declaring that
be executed if necessary" He meant
that France will go to war if necessary
to protect the small democracy.
After that it was revealed that Britain
had written to France, assuring the lat
ter nation Of Britain's faithfulness to
British French cooperation.
What do you make of that?
In some circles there is a very strong
suspicion that the astute British diplo-
matsts have scored another marker
against the dictators-by the simple ex-
pedient of using France to do the harsh
talking.
Whatever Britain processes to other
powers, it is beyond the widest stretch
of the imagination that the British will
desert the French. Their interests are
identical. They cannot afford to separ-
ate. Thus sthough Britain is friendly
to Germany and Italy on the surface,
the force of British opinion is behind
the French warning.
There are devious methods in interna-
tional diplomacy, and Britain is the
chief master of them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
News Behind the News
The Price Policy

WASHINGTON. - In case Roosevelt hasn't
made himself clear in his remarks as to prices
and recovery it may or may not be more lllaml-
mating to reveal what the administration ace
economists told him in their preceding huddies.
There had been heavy kickbaeks on previous
Roosevelt statements especially the one ABOUT
cutting steel prices and maintaining steel wages
and an increasingly Yociferous demand Tor a
definite statement of business policy.
So Roosevelt called in the economic Sooth-
sayers and asked them to figure out just what
they were sure of as TO the depresSion-paSt
present and future.
Everyone agreed that out-of- balance price
relationships a prime depression factor.
Such economists as Leon Henderson OF WPA. now
resting up from his price studies at johns Hop
kins hospital and DR.. Isador Lubin Of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics had been talking IN that
direction for long time. Either they didn't
speak loudly or distinctly enough or the Presl-
dent was hard of hearing.
Now however. the world is informed that
the administration has real business policy
In addition to hammering at controlled. rigid
or monopolistic prices on the hgh slde OF uae
price level after the manner of Robert H. Jackson
emphasis is to be placed on the need OF raising
prices driven far down on the low side in the
current depression
The campaign TO lower some prices and raise
others is for the moment of ballyhoo and
psychology.
The economists brought their fever charts
TO the White House by royal command and cited
outstanding parallel IN events ledulIS up
to the Hoover depression of 1888 and those
preceding the Roosevelt depression of 1937-38-?
Each time they said, raw materials had
Jumped out of bounds Normally, they explained
the raw material and the finished goods price
levels run up and down the chart in the same
relative direction.
History repeats. Late in 1886 raw material
prices after moving along at about the same rate
for l8 months of healthy recovery, again shot
ahead of the finished goods level. Demand had
speeded up-including that of the munitions in
dustry Drouth had raised prices. Controlled
price Industries raised prices arbitrarily. Manu-
facturers, believing materials were going
still higher, bought speculatiyely and forced
prices still higher-until they became overstocked.
So what? So oyerstocked manufacturers stop
ped buying over-priced material and raised
their own prices in order to compensate for
gh-priced raw materials and higher wages.
Raw material prices then tobogganed far below
the finished goods price levels as in 1908.
(They have dropped 16 per cent in the last
year finished goods only per cent?
Result: Another spiral all around except in
controlled prices. At least 30,000O00 persons de-
pend on the business of producing raw materials
on farms and in mines and forests. Unempoy-
ment low prices for their products and higher
prices for the finished goods they must buy hit
them amidribs, knocked their purchasing power
galleyWest.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
STREAM-LINED PUBLICITY
NEEDED, BELIEVES READER

EDITOR, The Post-Press:
As an outsider" of long standing-1
first saw this region about sixteen
months ago-I can testify to the fact
that Imperial Valley publicity methods
have not been entirely successful. The
impression prevails, in many sections of
the country, that the valley is a close-in
suburb of Hades, climatologically speak
ing, and that it lives under constant
threat of destruction from the Colorado
river. The river, of course is no longer
a threat; the climate is no liability, but
an asset of incalculable value. Adver-
tising, | believe, should emphasize these
points.
AS Industrial activity slackens, we may
expect a shift of population from the
cities to the farms. During the next few
years, centralized stream-lined publ
city bureau would doubtless attract many
worthwhile settlers to this region. After
ALL what better place is there in the
country for the man who has just lost
his shirt in the recent business "reces-
sion? He doesn't need a shirt here,
anyway.
FREDERICK w. HEBRON
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
Other Editors Say
BROKEN LIVES OF GIRLS
Ventura Star-Free Press

Because 19-year-old Montana girl who had
been sold into slavery for $3.50 had the courage
to fight her way to freedom, California may
succeed in breaking a vice ring that has en-
shared thousands of young girls
Country girls who go uneScorted to the big
city are the traditional prey of that type OF
human animal that lives off the misery and
degradation of fellow humans.
As in most deliberate and premedNated
crimes the root of the trouble here is economic.
The girl who has the money and self assurance
to take care of herself seldom gets into that
kind of trouble
The usual approach is the offer of job to
down. n-and-out girl Sometimes, however the
pickup method is used; the girl is taken for an
automobile ride or to a party by Well-dressed
stranger who turns out to be agent for the
white slave ring.
To the modern girl it sounds od-fashioned to
be warned against the city slickers. Most girls
believe they can take care of themselves under
all circumstances. The fact that they are wrong
is attested by the alarming increase in the num-
Der of girls who disappear annually from
modest homes. Most of these girls can be found
later Wracked by remorse and disease, broken
mentally, morally and physically
While We have men and women more inter-
ested in money than in their own happiness
and the happiness of others will have the
class of vultures that preys on girls. While we
have an unbalanced economic system that throws
girls onto the mercy of the community We will
have a plentiful supply of victims.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01


train for the beginning of tour
that might end in San Francisco.
The first stop was usually sleeper
lump to Boston.
But last night these days Is
the end of the run and the break
ing I'D of many solid friendships.
Mrs. Fiske always rushed away from
a closing on the verge of hysterla
and there are usually misty eyes,
firm handclasps and solemn pledges
of eternal friendships.
Now and then the star or pro-
ducer tosses a party back stage at
which everyone, stage hands, DOOR
men, ushers and cast, participate:
The one big happy family stuff
with a sprinkle of sobby speeches
and perhaps gifts for those VINO
have given of loyalty and service.
New York has a brand of ladies
who may be definitely typed as
Office Women. They have their
own outlooks, views and attitudes.
To many they are a bit glacial.
More than most women they know
how to put man in place. Over the
phone is casual matters they are
cordial enough but when business
bobs up they seem of sudden flint.
I think it was the industrialist
Thomas Watson who said 30 per
cent of the nations important busi-
ness is now carried on by efficient
woman secretaries. Margaret De
Hand at the White House is an
illustration.
Incidentally, the first to seize
upon the office girl as subject for
the comic strip was A. E Hay
ward, who from Santa Fe, N. M,
still limns his Somebody's Stenog."
He has drawn it for more than Is
years and it antedates such other
excellencies expressing similar
vocational meter as Winnie Wrinkle
the Brea1Winner and Tillie the
Toiler.
In a dining place the other eve
ming l had grand time peeking
sideWise at an Italian count toying
with his vast plate of spaghetti.
His meal consisted of spaghetti,
baked CLAIMS and a raw pear-noth-
ing more save of course the pint
of basketed Chianti. There is a
definite art in forking a spear of
spaghetti, tWirling it into the gen.
erous mouthful and sucking down
the fraz2led ends at almost single
stroke. Two heaping platefuls thus
vanished in gastronomic rhythm.
Another notable trencheerman l en-
Joy watching In action is Gilbert
Miller. Ordering a meal Is to him,
as should be all sort of light
of the day. He Is interested in every
phase of the serving and there is
a gustatory relish In each bite
Such gourmets are the delight of
high class restaurant men. They
fairly beam when they pop In for
meal.
The Great White Way that Rem
mold Wolfe named is. of course, no
longer white. Mostly pink and red
with oyertones of green and yellow
Mazda Lane thus becomes Neon
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
BAL.-$2,179,417

BAL.-$2, ITO AIT
Leaving over 100000 XVIII. if full
power development Is made for
further development and sale"
Imperial Irrigation District has
made three applications to Federal
Emergency Administrator of pub
lie works for aid in financing pow
er development The first was for
loan and grant of $13,500000 for
construction of five hydroeSctric
plants on the All American canal,
one diesel plant, substations, and
complete transmission and distribu-
ton lines. The second application
to PWA was for a loan and grant
of $10,450,000 for construction of
two hydroelectric plants, one die
sci plant, substations, and complete
transmission and distribution lines.
The third was for loan of S.
100000 for construction of power
plant No. 3 (noW called power
plant No. d on the All American
canal, 10000 XIV diesel plant, sub
stations and transmission lines and
distribution system. In these appli-
cations there were set forth certain
estimates of power sales in each
year from 1887 to 1850, inclusive.
On Diagram H the growth of such
sales is shown graphically. data
from report of April 1896 by VIM.
Fl. GoldsWorthy).
Lester S. Ready, consulting en-
gineer to the district in 1885 made
certain estimates of the growth of
electric consumpt on in the Impe-
ial-Coachella area and of the pro-
portion of this total load which
the district could expect to capture
from the power company, His esti-
mates were based on a more ex-
tensiVe hydroelectric development
than that now under way, except
for sales in Imperial Valley itself.
His estimates are also shown graph
ically on Diagram H.
ITO Be COntinued)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
Well I'll
TelIYou..
says
Bob Burns

| often wonder why actors are
misjudged so much by people who
don't know 'em. A rich, middle
west farmer moved out here not
long ago with his beautiful daugh-
ter. One day, a young fella came
TO him and asked him for his daugh-
ter's hand.
Well, sir, when the father found
out that the young fella was an
actor, he flew into rage and says,
"Now listen here, you loafer, l sup
pcse you think you can marry my
daughter and then I'll set you up in
a home and make you rich?'
The young fella says mo. sir, you
misjudge me-Im willin to take
her jest for my room and board!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
Bruce Cation Says
= The Odd Justice of English Law

perfectly the manner of admlnl-
stering the law and the public re-
action that administration found.
Four young men, all members of
exceptionally good families,
graduates of the best schools and
all with rich relatives, were found
guilty of robbery with violence.
The crime itself was enough to
shock the English public and press.
for the four enticed a representa-
tive of a jeWelry firm to small
hotel. beat him and robbed him
of gems valued at $1,000 pounds.
The lord chief justice who heard
their case listened to testimony of
their backgrounds, their schools,
their families and their surround
ings of wealth and position-and
then handed down sentences that
haven't been equalled for severity
in years in the British Isles.
He not only sentenced them to
terms ranging from nine years to
l8 months at hard labor, but he
added penalties of from Is to 20
strokes of the cat-o'-nine tails for
three of them.
For, said the lord chief justice,
the upbringing and the fine train
ing these young men had received
made their crime greater than if it
had been committed by some
warp Drained child of the slums.
The fact that these four young
men knew better and had been
fitted by their rearing to become
good citizens instead of thugs,
made their conduct all the more
ineXcusable.
In the United States the very
things which the English jurist
held against the four youths would
have bulked large in their favor.
For we in this country have way
of excusing perSonable young men
of good talent and upbringing. 1t
may be to give them another
chance to make good Or it maybe
the influence which those good
families bring to bear.
The English public opinion, care
fully noted, was solidly with the
court in the severity of its penal
ties. Americans might approve
such sentences too. But they don't
get much chance. They're too busy
approving leniency and probation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-01
Photographs

Out Of approximately 2,16O,O0
babies born in the United States
last year, more that $4,000 even
tually will die of accidental in
juries.
For centuries it was customary
for the Egyptian pharoah to marry
his sister or half sister so that the
royal line might remain unbroken.
Senator Alben w. Barkley, US.
senate majority leader, types all
his speeches in advance, using a
specially reinforced machine.