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Evening star., 1938-02-20
GARDENING SPECIALIST
WILL TOUR COUNTIES
University Of Maryland Profes-
>sor to Be in Charles and


.sor to Be in Charles and
st. Marys Soon.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Feb. l9.-
Prof. w. r. Ballard, landscape garden
ing specialist of the University of
Marylang, will start his annual tour of
Charles and st. Marys Counties next
week to help residents plan for the
coming season.
He will be In Charles County Feb
ruary 20 and March / to advise mem
bers Of homemakers' clubs. Miss
Mary Graham, county home demon
stration agent, has requested all who
need his assistance to call her office.
Prof. Ballard will visit st. Marys
clubs later in March.
Evening star., 1938-02-20

Recruits for the British army now
average over 1000 a month.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
CLUB TO MEET
Silver Spring Homemakers to
Hear Miss Turner,

SILVER SPRING, Nd, Feb 10
Especially "A meeting OF the Silver
Spring Homemakers' Club will be held
Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Ever
EFT Littlefield. 622 Woodside parkway
it has been announced by the presi.
dent, Mrs. Thomas Altemus.
Miss Edythe Turner, home demon.
stration agent for the county, will give
talk on aids in buying shoes and hose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Should Start Something

From two sources this week came news of considerable interest to the state. we refer to the items that related of the tre- mendous building program which will be inaugurated, we presume, in the lmme- diate future It involves large number of state institutions It also involves an expenditure by the federal government III Connecticut of well over one million dol lars. The remainder of the millions to be spent on the several institutions favored will be forthcoming from the states available $25,OO0,000 bond issue.
 Reading down the list of institutions that are to benefit in the form Ot new buildings, additions to old, and general improvements, it reads like a who's who in our state hospitals, Sanatorla, ana schools. We can't help but conclude that if such huge building program can only be started and successfully carried on all through the remaining months or 1888 it should go long ways toWaros relieving the present unWholesome pres sure being put on business throughouI the state. As an incentive to normal con- ditions it should certainly be a most likely one.
 According to Governor Cross with the federal governments grant of $l,34l, loo in WPA funds there is no reason why the states complete building program cant be completed. By that we presume he means the program that has virtually been decided upon by the state officials to whom it was left by the Legislature to designate what state institutions would benefit from the huge bond issue to be floated by the state. At first it must be recalled now, it was felt that 1925 100000 would not only be enough to care for ln- stitutional needs, but also to retire the state deficit. But that was at first.
 After all the state institutions started bringing forward their requirements It was realized that not even 25,OOO,O ,OOO allocated for them would be sufficient. As a result a list of those that would ben eft from the twelve or fourteen millions to be earmarked for institutional eXpan- sion was set up. This, no doubt, IS what Governor Cross meant would be cared for when he said that the states entire bulld- ing program could be completed under the contemplated WPA grants All of which is certainly gratifying and indl- cates that finally the state will be able to catch up with itself in caring for its sick, neglected, and needy individuals. It has been long coming; let's nope that it will be pushed to swift completion now that the money is declared there TOT the spending.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Free State Feeds

Members of Congress naturally take good deal of pride in their states and state products. They believe in advertlS- ing and also, like many other human beings, they enjoy showing off now and then. That mood is the origin of the "free lunch" counter set up occasionally on Capitol Hill, to which proud legislators invite their colleagues to somple delica- cies from back home.
 It is an old congressional custom, but has been particularly in evidence this year, with rivalry among statesmen run hing strong. So far, it is reported, guests have been treated to Rhode Island oys- ters, Texas grapefruit, Wisconsin cheeses, New Jersey champagne, Louisiana chicken gumbo soup with deep-dish apple pie, Washington State salmon and baby alligators from Florida. The last-named were not for consumption
 This ought to be as much fun as the covered dish sociable of the Ladies' Aid Society and other church auxiliaries. What a banquet could be spread if all the states were represented in one great feast!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

Twenty years ago you and you and you were giving until it hurt to the third Liberty Loan drive for $3 ,o0o, ,O00 OOO As you look back now you wonder where you got the money. But added years pile up added responsibilities. Since those days when you were piling liberty bonds in your lock box there have intervened the reconstruction years, the too good years, the depression years, the almost out per iod, and the present slide back to what is politely called a recession in business. While, as it was pointed out in those days when one was prompted by noblest mo- tives, the bonds were sound investment, the buying was actuated by spirit of patriotism The money that bought bonds twenty years ago has to go for many other things, most people finding their obligations endless.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Some Good Suggestions

There were many important matters discussed at the Highway Safety Confer ence held in New Haven this week. We mentioned one of the most important in these columns last night. But far from least important were some of the topics that various speakers at the con- ference brought out, such as matters relating to the conduct of our smaller courts. For years there has been con- siderable criticism of the manner in which so-called roadside" justice has been dispensed to erring motorists. The matter has been carried to the Legisla- ture with little or no apparent good resulting, to this writer's way of think ing.
 Now and then some particular town court will be subjected to harsh criticism for the manner in which it may be levy ing fines against motorists taken in "road-traps". Jealous constables, too, have come in for their share of con- plaints. Small fines and heavy "costs" are always subject of editorial conl- ment in our state newspapers. It re- mained for several of the speakers at the conference to touch on one aspect of court-scandals that the accused motorist seldom mentions. We refer to fixing.
 Quite few of the speakers touched on this subject in the course of their re- marks. All were practically united in the expression by one man, who said, "The day of fixing is over in Connecticut" If that's true, then it may be that enforce ment of the rules of the road will be tempered by fine appreciation on the part of the enforcement agents of the fine points of law, the lack of knowledge of these by the average motorist and the need of universal method of treating motor vehicle violations in the small as we'll as the largest court, if not in special traffic violatorS' section.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
PresSCOnnnent
A MODERN HERODOTUS
(NeW York TimeS)

The president of the New York State Historical Association (Dr Dixon Ryan Fox, president of Union College) tells in a brief article Gin the publication of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences) of his wanderings last Summer in the footsteps of Herodotus over a large part of the ancient world. Penetrat- ing history to the depth of five thousand years made the historical background in New York seem "ra- ther thin" but he found it very in- teresting to make comparisons be- tween the two. Despite the rugged beauty of the landscape of Greece "here and there," it was nothing like as winsome" as that which our forebearers found in the hills of New York - or, indeed, their pred eceSsors in the Mohawk Valley, who called themselves, as Chateu- briand tells us, the Men of Always. But even in the region of the bar ren slopes of Greece" as President Fox found them, there lived some of the real men of always. The college president thinks it no wonder that in such an unattractive environment the Greeks wrote philosophy and poetry. Yet he reaches the conclu- sion that lon the whole" and for the ordinary citizen, the New York CTS seem to have had by far the best of 1t. Happily they can have both the Greek philosophy and poetry - and the "winsome" land- scape of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
The Old Tunes

The controversy aroused by the jazzing and swinging" of old, beloved songs is growing louder. One indignant pariot writes: "If unchecked, probably the swing-mad radioers will be trying to pep up "Nearer My God to Thee, Lead, Kindly Light" and other fine hymns, and invading our churches with big apple dances and leering saxophones.
 'These songs, and many popular songs almost as sacred, do not belong to the swingers. They belong to us and our fore bears who composed them, and they are woven deep into our hearts.
 "If the air must be cluttered up with unearthly howlings and yelpings of the instruments of swing and jazz, for good ness sake let the jazz-minded create their own songs, and not debauch those which were produced by their betters."
 The language is violent, but the cause is just. To people who love the old songs, the familiar music is as precious as the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
T'he Costs" Bug Many Cities, Towns Find It Profitable to Make Fines Small, Costs Large in Motor
 Vehicle Law Violations.
MERIDEN JOURNAL

Towns have long offended; cities are beginning to.
 Here's Bridgeport credited with knocking over $18,0O0 in court costs last year, with net fines of approxi- mately $15,Ooo. Compare that with Hartford where costs were $5,7C0 and fines $18,000 before $500 had beenremitted. Meriden was quite de- cent about costs, which amounted to less than $500, while the fines that went to the state were in excess of $4,000. Incidentally, we had 169 motor violation cases last year against 105 in the previous year and original fines were about $ 800 more.
 Windsor's town court stands out with the collection of more "costs" than any other town in Hartford county including the City of Hart ford - more even than all of the town courts put together in Holland county or Windham county.
 Berlin, as might be expected. led smaller towns with BOA cases. Half of them were nolled on payment of costs. There were no outright nolles. Original fines amounted to $5,093 65 with remissions of $1,819. Actual fines turned over to the state came to $3,274.65. while $4,614.72 stayed in the town as costs.
 Berlin was not the largest offen- der when it is recorded that East Hartford had 560 cases and man. aged to roll up costs of $5,220. But the town also batted we'll for the state, turning in $5,475.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

and certainly nothing to get excited about. Hoover asked for the same power, and the Re- publicans who now rave against Roosevelt's having it, urged that it be given Hoover.
 Furthermore, Roosevelt him. self had wide powers to re- organize the Government in 1883 but let them expire over a year ago with very little &C., complished. Either he prOcras- tinated or did not have time to do much bureau -junking.
 One look around the bureau cluttered Washington horizon would convince anyone of the necessity of government re- organization. Some of the pres ent bureau, like the Bituminous Coal Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, are in such state of internal bick- ering that you can't help wonder why Roosevelt doesn't start on them first.
 Last Blue Eagle
 Although the NRA officially has been dead for more than two years the Blue Eagle" still carries on in the Senate Office building, where a card bearing the Thur derbird emblem and the motto "We do our part" occupies 8 prominent place upon the door leading to the office of Senator Morris Sheppard, Democrat of Texas and arch-foe of alcoholic beverages.
 In addition to the senator's name, the card also states the hours and days on which the office is open. It is believed this is the last stand in official Wash ington of the one-time nationally familiar insignia.
 Merry-GO-ROund
 New Deal leftwingers are burn ing up Secretary Henry Morgen- thau by referring to the business recession as the "MOrgenthau de- <. pression." They hung the label on him because of his persistence in opposing spending measures to reverse the downward economic trend .. Scanning the floor of telegrams he received during the Reorganization Bill fight, Utah's Senator Ebert Thomas was struck by the fact that seven came from the same address. Investigating. he discovered that all seven wires had been sent by the head of the family, who telegraphed one un- der his own name, another un- der his wife's, a third under his wifes maiden name and the other four under the names of ser wants.
 Copyright, 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Current Comment

Almost any foreign policy is bet ter than duality or repeated stops and changes. Winston Churchill.
 
 I would like to have all girls and boys to know that, no matter what they do or how naughty 1t seems, it is better to tell mother and daddy all about 1t and be punished than to break their hearts. le.s --LaVern Edgar, St. Louis, IA,
 who tried to commit suicide
 because of poor grades.
  There Is no place in Europe to- day where an artist. or any sensi- tive person for that matter, can feel at ease. The feeling of freedom I have here cannot be described.
 Thomas Mann, winner of the
 Nobel Prize.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

Among the Austrian refugees who arrived in New York the other day was Rene Kraus, Catholic author, Viennese baron, a sausage manufacturer, and others who escaped the Nazis. He said mo single nations can stop Hitler's drive to the East" He classed Great Britain and France as second class powers, and said in effect, that the democracies would find it necessary to form world alliance to check Germanys rapidly increasing power
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
A Book a Day
Lighter Side of Navy Life
BY BRUCE CATION

BY BRUCE CAPTION
 A navy is one of the grimmest in struments ever forged by the hand of man, but it does have its lighter side; and what that lighter side is like is blithely portrayed in Naval Odyssey" by Thomas Woodrooffe Sheridan House: $2.5O.
 Commander Woodrooffe is an off, cer in the British navy, and he undertakes here to present few sample months in the life of a junior officer in his service. He moves the time back to the very early 192O's, and puts his young officer on British light cruiser; and then he shows the cruiser calling at Spain to represent the British government at an interna- tional celebration, going to Smyrna to help evacuate refugees and visit ing Constantinople to uphold Brit ish prestige during the parlous tmie when Renal was first kicking over the postwar status quo.
 All of this provides the writer with a number of amusing incl dents and WlCn several genulnely dramatic situations - his chapters on the Smyrna affair, for instance, are highly exciting-and he makes the most of them.
 At times he seems guilty of pass ing superficial judgments. He finds the sainted Alfonso XIII of Spain popular monarch who worked hard and well at the job of being kind, which leaves one wondering just why the Spaniards threw the gentleman out on his ear; and some of his remarks on the Turkish im- broglio have quaint, insular-Brit- ish tang.
 In the main, though, he does what he tries to do: furnish a colorful and entertaining picture of life in the wardroom of a man of war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

Like the weather, everybody talks about court costs but nobody does anything. The lesser tribunals con- tinue in auto cases to make fines small and costs" large because fines go to the state for highway and patrol uses and costs remain in the towns for the good of those con- nected with police and court, or just for the good of the town treasury.
 It's a nifty system and one which gets Motor Vehicle Commissioner Connor's goat, as well as arousing the ire of motorists who may be fined a moderate sum for petty violation and then find they are taxed huge costs for local benefit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

The spirit of 1881 was revived in lower Manhattan yesterday when exercises in honor of the restoring of Bowling Green were held. About 5000 attended, but the game of lawn bowls planned did not materialize. Lucille Manners sang "The Last Rose of Summer" as Jenny Lind of old did in her debut at Castle Garden in 185O The sheepskin deed as of 1701 in which twas ceded the land of the East Ward south of Richard Sacket's dwelling commonly called "The Bowling Green" was exhibited.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

1. Where are the Jura Mountains? 2. Who appoints federal judges? 3. Name the first three-year-old to win the Santa Anita Handicap. 4. When did the 20th century be- gin?
 5. How many centimeters are in two inches?
 6. To which automobile manu- facturer did Governor Murphy of Michigan appeal to establish a minimum annual wage system for labor?
 '. What color is emerald?
 8. How long is the term of Unit ed States Senators2
 g. Where are the Nicobar Is- lands?
 10. Who is the author of "Coro- nado's Children?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 12:51 a. rn
 Sun rises 5:27 a. m.; sets 6:22 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The weather is just about ripe for nice or'easter, what with conditions phase of the moon, and advance weather advices from Washington. The cold snap is apparently broken and the days unpleasantness might well extend into one of those customary spring down-pours of long duration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Selected Poem
TO A UNICORN FLOWING
(M. E. Nschold in the New York Sun

(M E.. Nschold in the New York Sun) What dire need or grave misfortune brought You here? Were you, from an uncertain home, Tempted by certain oats and bed of straw To yield your withers to the currycomb? Is your heart humbed, your proud horn brought
 low,
 Or is the flame of heights still in your eye? Is your soul dropping like your head as, slow Straining against the traces you go by? You may grow reconciled, at long, long last To rksome prisonment by pasture bars; Patient to furrow sullen, stony earth Who used to blow the stars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

words. Why should anyone take such liberties with it as some of the swing artists have been taking? Let them com pose new swing tunes as much as they like; but they have no more artistic right to change the old tunes than they would have to change the wording of familiar poems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

There used to be an old saying, mind your own business" But the fresh cOm- .mand doesn't work out so we'll today in the case of the business man, for some- one else is always minding it for him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

Winter in April. Snow flurries. Ther- mometer down to freezing. The Easter Bunny is working hard to pierce the win try gloom of an un-springlike April.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

If you want copy of our book let WEIGHT CONTROL" write to Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth street, Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS


 New York, April This is a news flash from the Aquarium which hasn't yielded a fresh, piscatorial item in quite a little while.
 It is about Charlie, the Aquar- ium's newest tenant, who moved in a couple of weeks ago and now is occupying the star dressing tank. He is getting along swimmingly, &C., cording to the attendants pres ent, though they expected worse from this son of a sea lion. Charlie is as talented and as weary a sea lion as ever plowed through the brine, which he de- serted, not of his own free will, at the age of 3. He left the sea for a stage career under the management of a man named Ray Huling who, incidentally, bequeathed Charlie to the Aquarium. For IS years, Charlie trod the boards under Rulings aegis, headliner wherever he went.
 Out of appearances all around the world, he earned some $300,00O for MT. Huling because he had natural faculty for neighing like a horse, cooing like 8 dove, barking like a dog, tap-dancing like Bill Robinson, hula -hulaing like a bona fde Hawaiian, smoking pipe and blowing out a lighted match, buzz ing like a bee, snoring like any hu- man and bleating like a lamb. Not to sneak of a few other tricks in his repertoire.
 Don't draw any nasty conclusions about MT. Rulings disposing of Charlie to public institution. When Charlie retired, his manager and mentor had built vast pool for him in upper New York where he coul cavort to his hearts content without worry over curtain calls and encores. But Huling had business in town and Charlie frequently got lonesome. There was one thing left to do; provide him with the com pany of some of his own friends.
 And SO Charlie, the sealion, now frisks about with two juvenile sea lions named Frisco and Cally, who will get over it. They are frankly awestruck by their recent roommate, for Charlie wears his glamor on his furry sleeve. MT. Huling has not forgotten nor does he feel less sentimentally at- tached to his meal ticket. He's more than a pet" he was saying the other day, T wanted him to be in some place like this where could come in and see him every three or four days"
 Ceremonial Snifter
 There is nothing objectionable about the ceremonious manner Tn which fine restaurants serve their cuisine to the customers, even though they often conduct the ritu- als as if 1t was handed down from divine sources. But sometimes a restaurateur who mistakes proten- tiousness for showmanship goes too far.
 I am told about an eating place, not far from here, where bust of Napoleon occupies niche in the corner of the dining room. When a customer orders an aged Napoleon brandy, the waiter brings forth a magnum of the excellent cognac. marches military style to the bust of the Little Corporal, bows in rever- ence, salutes his general, wheels about and solemnly pours snifter from the bottle before a much-im- pressed patron. This ceremony IshoWs up on the check. of course.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

o. What is bluey? ..
 A. It is an Australian name for a bushmans blanket, shirt or blouse, often blue; also, a swagman's bun dle, often wrapped in a blue blanket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

The Easter parade, however, will run according to schedule, with the line fornl- ing as usual.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Department of State Censored lckes Speech Labelling Hitler "Despot";
 Reorganization Fight Pqrt of Drive
 To Knock Down Pres Jent Roosevelt
N DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT R AELEfI

WASHINGTON, April 7. = It has just leaked out that shortly before Secretary IckeS let off his Chicago speech blasting Hitler the State Department censored it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Questions and
 Answers
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
By Frederick M. Kerby

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
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 THE EDITOR
 Q. Is Japan constructing a canal across the Isthmus of Kra on the Malay Peninsula?
 A. According to information that we have, no one has ever actually begun the construction of 8 canal at this point. Many countries have been reported at one time or an- other interested in the construction of such a canal, but nothing has ever been done.
 o. Was there a political party in the United States named Locofocos?