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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-03-25
Spend Your Money Where tt Is Appreciated
WILLIAM H. DREWERY'S
CHICAGO LETTER

Continued from Page Three
of things for the world markets
became less ableyto manipulate
the world price-fiXing structure
without mourning great loss;
Somuch so, that when the price
fixing structure failed to absorb
the world capital structure; it
collapsed.
But while the business shock
to the country and to the world
for that matter, was set off on
the stock exchange is New York
during the Hoover regime, the
economic slump which followed,
is not Hoover's, nor that OF his
government. They o u g h t to
smear and tag Hoover and his
governmest with that response
bilitv to the end of bringing
about his liquidation and the
defeat of the Republican party.
The scheme worked.
Ground Work
We have in this observation,
endeavOred to state the result
ant nature of the climax; and
the circumstances leading up to
same; but not the direct agents,
of those primarily responsible
for setting in motion the econo-
mic forces through which ur
troubles have come. While the
depression was a world disaster,
or pestilence, it was man made
and man engineered in effort to
recoup the losses sustained by
the great war. This country's
entering into the great war,
and its descriptive aftermath, en-
tangling alliances, and inter
national finance andcommerce
are the major factors of our
economic troubles today; and
may be laid at the door of the
White House during the Demo
cratic control of the govern
ment at Washington, under the
late Woodrow Wilson's regime
as chief executive
When the late Woodrow Will
son, as chief executive, allowed
his ambition to lead him away
from sound traditional principles
of Americanism by plunging this
country into a foreign war,
causing our government to lise
heavily in lives and in national
expenditures, he laid the found
alto for the worlds economic
depression.
Spade Work
The spade work began when
the financiers of Wall ST., sue
ceeded in selling America the
idea of undertaking the huge
task of underwriting the rehabi-
litation of the then, war torn
Europe with the free use of
money belonging to the tax-pay-
ers of America. This under
taking, involved the political
realgnment of the European
boundaries comprising more or
less, one hundred and fifty mil
lion people with irrecbncEhble
idealogies. The accumulative
speculation in Wall street to the
European end with the tax
payers money caused the stock
exchange crash in 1929 the
repercussions from which shook
and chilled the nerve centers of
business, everywhere, closing
down overnight, h securities
markets and the exchange
houses at all points throuhout
the trading world, causing q
world economic slump. or our
recent world 6orrocc;a
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-03-25
HOW OFTEN CAN YOU
KISS AND MAKE UP?

EW husbands can understand
= why a wife should turn from \
PHEASANT companion into n sbrev,
1or one whole week in every month
You can say I'm sorry" and
KISS and make up easier beSoro
marriage than after. Be wise Ifvo1
want 10 bold your husband Won
won I pc q three-quarter wife.
For three generations one WOMAN
mas told another how TO 20 "srnii-
ing through" with Lydia T.. Pins-
mans Vegetable Compound. n
heips Nature tone up the system
thus lessening the discomforts from,
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ofdeals OF life: 1. Turning from
grlhood TO womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3. An
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-uuarter win
take LYDIA Il. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE CoMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-03-25
First to Install Gas

baltimore, the first American citv
70 install gas, succumbed to the in
e,Wtable In 1921, after much opposi-
tion' AS late as 1888 a petition to
the Philadelphia common council
warned against gas as Equitable as
gunpowder and as nearly fatal in
us effects as regards the large de-
struction Of property"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
Private Initiative

Various state and federal agencies are interested in the offer of young Yer mont farmer-mechanic to take over operation of the New Haven Roads spur line that operates between East Canaan and Norfolk, Connecticut For some time the New Haven road has been abandoning off-the-main-line routes and this is one which no longer is to Ge used. Considerable interest was shown in the plan to give it up last fall, because it had been used in previous winters con- veying "snoW-trains" from New York to Norfolk.
 But "snow-trains" don't carry a spur line for an entire year, so the New Haven applied for and received permission to give up this route. Now comes the offer for the Vermonter to take over the line. Everyone seems to be agreeable, particu- larly the Public Utilities Commission Of this state which is overjoyed to find a private individual interested enough in railroad to want to assume ownership of line, even if it is only 15-miles long
 The Vermonter, James G. Ashley of Brattleboro, already operates small rail- road, Emile stretch from Brattleboro to West Dummerston. Most of his business is freight and is hauled by gasoline engine. The owner is the entire force, except when he's so busy that he has to call on his wife to lend hand. He would apply the same principles to his opera tion of the East Canaan-Norfolk line. We don't doubt but what if he can keep his overhead down and eliminate stock holders, he'll probably make a decent weeks pay and at the same time provide the necessary transportation facilities for the territory through which the road runs.
 Whether or not it's Public Utilities enthusiasm or Chamber of Commerce build-up, at any rate on the strength of his interest in the above mentioned line the P. U c. is trying to interest MT. Ash ley also in the Shepaug spur. of the New Haven road. That's the famous old "run" from Hawleyville, over near Dan- bury, to Litchfield. There are 32 miles of track here and decision on it's abandon ment by the N H. road is still pending, but expected to be granted. Selling both of these spur-lines would indeed be something.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
Sounds Encouraging

Latest reports from Hartford are to the effect that the state will finish up its current fiscal year with a balanced bud get. Corporation taxes are so encourag- ing that State Tax Commissioner William H. Hackett made this prediction yester- day. In view of what other officials have been saying in a sort of worried tone ot recent weeks, this is indeed worth noting
 It was only last week that attention was called to rising relief costs in the state and the need of departmental economies to make up for what looked like a size able over-appropriation for this work.
 There is another factor, too, that might throw the states budget out of kilter. That's the 54-hour week for state employees. That involves extra expense. However, even with these added burdens, the future right now is not depressing one from the state budget point of view. While most of the financial experts are waiting for the end of April to make their predic- tionS the mere fact that the corporation taxes show considerable gain at this writing is fairly indicative of additional funds to care for the over-appropriations
 Still, we presume that nothing will be done about selling bonds to take care of the states deficit until the current fiscal year ends. It's alomst a year now since the Legislature voted the issuance of $25 5,OOO,OOO in bonds and as yet it hasn't been necessary to float this issue. When 1t is done there will be not only the neces- sary millions to wipe out the deficit of past years standing, but also many mil lions for needed expansion, improvement, and maintenance of our state institutions. We are more than anxious to see this building program get under way, for the contemplation of $10000,000 or $12,- 100000 building program underway should have hearty effect on the entire state, particularly the building trades.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
Happy Days

Before you know it the human race just won't have any problems left with which it can occupy it's mind The heritage of the ages is certainly some heritage, but it can't hold candle to the intellectual fortune this age is busy amassing for the benefit of the next. The imagination is staggered, for instance, by the vast implications of the latest contribution of the field of architecture to the field of human welfare.
 The man who recently discovered, through an adventure in mathematics, the first new architectural curve to be landed on in centuries probably thought he had uncovered gem valuable only to archi- lecture. But no. The general public learns the true importance of the curve when it is discovered that it's application to the design of race tracks not only makes the course faster but keeps all the horses closer to the stands.
 Obviously it's only step now to the application of human endeavor in the field of curve improvement to the problems of Sagging business and employment graphs. Isn't the outlook wonderful? It's pity this generation can't stick around for another generation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

April to has been officially desig- mated as Connecticut Highway Safety Week by Governor Cross in a proclama- tion concerning same. It behooves the motorists to look before they speed, to exert caution, to obey the rules of the road and such like. The idea is to draw these things to his attention during the next few days, but for him to put them into practice ad infinitum. The governor says in part of his statement: "The state of Connecticut for three centuries has been a source of pride to it's people. We have gone steadily about our business and at the same time have made our state an increasingly better place to live in
 Not always has the task been easy, but our efforts for the most part have been suc- cessful." He goes on to point out the safety problems presented by the increase in the use of automobiles and resultant loss of life, and in conclusion urges a discussion of these safety problems in schools, churches, meeting places, in the newspapers and over the radio. The Con- necticut Highway problem is every- body's problems because a large portion of the residents are travelling the high ways in their own or someone else's car.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
OHuru RetTuCtS Complete Reversal of Form on Part of Former Race-Track Owner Has Friends, Ad- mirers Puzzled as to Pos
 sible Meaning
sible Meaning
NEW LONDON DAY

track head states that certain statements" in his newspaper, and by radio, which reflected upon the character and integrity" of Cover nor Quinn were misleading and without foundation in fact. They were made by me without justifica- ton and to serve my own purpose, ' etc. OHara adds that he desires to publicly avoW that I have never directly or indirectly paid any money or fees, or made any gifts or gratuities of any kind whatsoever to you, either as governor, as an attorney or as an individual"
 Just what the reason is for this complete retraction of charges made against the governor is not clear unless it is in relation to the law suits brought against O'Hara be- cause of these statements, or be- cauG O'Hara at last realizes how unjust the statements were and is suffering from his conscience. In any event the retraction constitutes a tame ending for sensational charges aired some time ago, and the re- moval of blot upon the newspaper publishing business in New England. Most newspapermen will feel grate- full that the former publisher of the Providence Star Tribune has public ly acknowledged his errors, and apologized, for the use of his paper for any such campaign was a re- fiection upon the newspaper pro- fesSiOn generally.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

of the old New York World; and George Bernard Shaw.
 Now these men have other things to do besides answer all the questions rural journalists put to them, and the chances are that The Connecticut Nutmeg is going to have to cool it's heels for while. The paper you are now reading feels no partic- ular obligation to join the bench-warmers and heel-coolers, however, so long as the office crystal-gazing ball remains in good working order.
 Scoop: Roosevelt, to reporter: Are you intending to write column?"
 Hearst Gan you spell exotic? No, make it 'alluring'."
 Patterson: "What kind of lens do you use?"
 Swope: Have you had any experience in scintillating?"
 Shaw: Gan you take dictation?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

Monsignor Fulton Sheen in one of his Sunday Lenten sermons Sunday deplored false "broadmindedness" of Americans and the "dictator's ideal" of rule by force He said in part, "the grave danger facing democracy is that some men will love truth less than other men will hate it. Hatred instead of love of truth rules the world today. And the doctrine of hatred is being preached with greater power than ever simply because we've lost our pas sion for truth. For example we find far greater hatred of capitalism than love of social justice"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

It would be interesting to know what some of the former supporters of Walter E. O'Hara. one time managing director of Narragansett race track, published of a Provi- dence paper, and political power in the Blackstone Valley, think of his recent public apology to Governor Robert E. Quinn of Rhode Island. O'Hara, at one time, had many loyal supporters. A lot of them, with no possible axe to grind, followed him blindly in his fight against the gov ernor, evidently believing that he was the victim of a gigantic con- spiracy, primarily intended to wrest control of the track from him. When O'Hara began running violent, if not scurrilous, statements in his paper about the governor some of these followers became alarmed at his tactics, but others appear to have assumed that O'Hara had something to support his claims.
 Now, however, the former race
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

lined up with the anti-Adminis- trationites.
 Next day, in the privacy of the House Republican cloakroom, Representative Bert Shell, COP floor leader, boastfully explained to group of colleagues "how he got Wagner's vote"
 q told our New York people" explained Shell, who comes from upstate New York, mot to waste any time and money on Republican Senators. They were all set. The thing to do, I told them, was to concentrate on Wagner. And they did. He got 10000 telegrams and that was what turned the trick"
 NOTE-Wagner is a candidate for reelection in November, rln- less he runs for Governor of New York.
 InfOrmerS
 Revenue Bureau records show that peaching on tax dodgers is very active and profitable pur- suit--both for the peachers and for the government.
 In the last fiscal year the bu- reau paid $75,641.18 to 75 inform CTS and as result collected $3,029,O59 in held-out taxes.
 Paying informers not only is authorized by law, but Congress gives the Bureau $10O,O0O year to compensate them. Though the law limits the awards to 10 per cent of taxes collected, the aver age payment is around 21a per cent.
 Most informers are dismissed boUkkeepers, though in several cases last year they were divorced wives with grudges against their former husbands. In one case, however, g wife secretly supplied the bureau with information regarding her husbands income, explaining that she did so because she wanted to keep him from going to jail" She refused to accept anything for the tip.
 Merry-GO-Round
 Playing penny ante poker with q group of friends, Mrs. Owen D. Roberts, wife of the Supreme Court Justice, discarded her hand and asked five new cards. She drew the six of spades and four aces .. Despite the business re- cession, federal revenue from tax es on lipsticks, perfumes and cos- metics showed a substantial in- crease last year over 1886, hiking from $9,246,844 to $11,114,227 in 1887 .. However, taxes on snuff fell slightly from $6,857,992 to $6,649,145. Snuff apparently is still popular in parts of the LISA. The mysterious confidential" business figures that certain Washington columnist informed his readers he would send them upon receipt of an addressed en- velope are neither mysterious nor confidential.
 Copyright, 1888, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
Current Comment

We have gone through war for centuries, and all the men who have the say in Germany at present, in- cluding Chancellor Hitler, have been wounded and know the horrors of war
 Hans Dieckhoff, German ambas- sador to the United States.
 
 I do not want to see another war, but what is happening throughout the world makes me fearful of an- other outbreak.
 Herbert Hoover.
  l get great comfort out of my radio and I like a nice fast ride in an automobile. Mrs. Lucinda Cline, Wisner, Nebr :, celebrating her 106th birthday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, April 5.-To the Ever green Cemetery in Brooklyn, on a recent weekend, trudged sizeable I number of Chinese to burn papers and offer pigs and other foods to the spirits of their dead buried in ! a picturesque knoll known as Celes- tial Hill.
 | No one remembers when Celestial Hill became a repository for oriental bodies, but 1t must have been long ago, for the few markers there are old and stained by time. The ori- ginal ceremony, which demanded that money be burned at the graves on certain weekend each spring, has been modified by time and cir constance and now scraps of paper are used to represent the money the mourners can ill afford.
 The food is intended to assist the spirits through another year. Second hand Memorial AS another macabre note: There is a firm on the lower East Side that specializes in secondhand tomb stones. Since it goes about its buSi- ness in .auStere reticence there is very little that can be told about it, but this correspondent learned that the firm gets most of its business from those unable to afford orig inals. .'.. 1000 to Chance
 Nora Foley, who is single, thinks it would be easier to keep 1000 huS- bands happy than one, and as ex- ecutive housekeeper of the Waldorf Astoria, she ought to know. For un- der her supervision are 2,200 rooms. 25 floor housekeepers, 25 maids, an army of housemen, upholsterers and linen workers.
 Chatelaine of one of the largest houses in the world, she replaces about 54,00O sheets, 30,000 table cloths, 75,000 napkins, 30,000 face towels and 1000 oversize woolen blankets a year. And in addition she takes care of redecorating any rooms that need unusual treatment to suit the ideas or whims of a guest.
 And since, says Miss Foley, all this is no effort at all, keeping house for one man would be far too easy for her taste. That, she says, is why she is single.
 
 Curio Shopping
 Manhattan CurioS: The insepa- rable couple around the Broadway sector-the 500 pounder and the midget.
 The ten-seat luncheonette ill the Brill Building which boasts of more beauty per capita than any other spot in town because that's where the Paradise Restaurant lovelies eat The night club which changed its name from the Original Maisonette Russo of Paris to the Original Merry Go Round.
 The former claimant to the mid dleweight boxing championship Sailor Grande, who guards the door of Billy's Gay sos Club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

A. Fannie Brice and Louise Ho- wick (formerly known as Gypsy Rose Lee) -..-
 @. What care should be given to Easter lilies?
 A. Plant your lilies outdoors after freezing weather is past and allow them to die down. They may then be taken up and the bulbs separated and replanted about 4 inches deep, or they may be left outdoors all win ter to bloom again in the spring. The larger bulbs may be planted in the fall for bloom in the house to- wards spring. - .-'-, r.. .
 0. What are the ingredients of salami?
 A. It is generally made of pork. beef, bacon, highly seasoned, col ored with red wine and finally pickled and dried.
 o. Is Shove Tuesday celebrated as Mardi Gras in any state except Louisiana? 5.
 A. It is also observed in Alabama and Florida. .,9 ~-' .,-'
 Q. Newspaper stories state that the national income in 1887 is high CT than in 1886. Does this mean that individual or family incomes are above 1929 levels? tel A. No. National income in 1897 is estimated to have increased 10 per cent over 1886, but present per capita real income is still substan- tially below 1929 levels. Recent studies show that family income does not change at the same rate as national income.
 If you want a 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., 1938-04-05
A Book a Day
By BRUCE CATION

Of printed exposes of the French penal colony at Devils Island there have been many, ill recent years But none that have seen is half as impressive, as forceful or as com pletely, shockingly damning as Rene Belbenoit'S Dry Guillotine" Out ton: $3).
 Belbenoit spent close to a decade in. the famous prison. He escaped three times, and was recaptured each time. Then he. escaped once more and made his escape good penniless and alone, he travelled all the way from Venezuela to the United States, most of the distance on foot.
 The part Of his narrative which describes this escape is an adven- ture story de luxe; the bulk of his book, which tells what hap pened to him in French Guiana, is long tale of horror-a sick ening revelation of graft, incom- petence, cruelty and corruption which almost pass the bounds of credibility.
 For this penal colony, as Bel benoit describes it, has not one redeeming' feature. It debaSes and brutalizes all who come in con- tact with it, guards as well as prisoners. It must be the most efficient factory for making wholly bad men out of half-bad men that was ever devised.
 AS you may have deduced by this time, Dry Guillotine" is not pleas ant reading. If you are the least bit squeamish it may well be too much for you. But as a sample of the horror which a stupid, corrupt and callous bureaucracy can create, it is a distinguished document.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
Question Period

The editors of The Connecticut Nutmeg, a new state periodical of limited circula- tion, among whose number is Haywood Broun, who also writes column, are reported to have mailed the following question to five men of considerable prominence: If you were hiring reporter and had just one question to ask, what would that question be?" Objects of this interrogation were President Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Medill Patterson, president of the New York Daily News; Herbert Bayard Swope, editor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
In Today's Mail Anonymous letters will not
 be accepted unless accom- panied with writer's name.
ORCHIDS FOR THE MAYORS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY,
 THOMAS P. KELLY

Waterbury, Conn.,, April 5th, 1888. Editor of The Democrat:
 There is an old and well-known expression entitled, "The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand" This condition is always simulated at the meetings of the aldermanic board by Executive Secretary Thomas P. Kelly, when he advises those recalcitrant aldermen as to what can be done and what cannot be done, according to the rules of parliamentary procedure and the provisions of the city char ter.
 It Is worthwhile to listen to the "slick repartee" of Tommie Kelly at those meetings, ana that pie ayune newscaster,, Little Boy Blue; Go Blow Your Horn, should be in- vited to attend.
 And that goes for you, too, Mo- Guigan.
 OTSEY PEWGLE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

The bestowing of the Einstein medal for 'hulnanitarianism on Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the president meets the approval of all. Here is a grand lady in every sense of the word The medal comes to her for "a lifetime of devoted service to every communal cause in the country" The ceremonies attending the presentation at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York were conducted by the Jewish Forum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05

The frost now completely out of the ground, secondary roads of tar surface present a sad appearance, and riding over them is like taking the hurdles. Most of them have buckled to such an extent that the motorist had to follow a zigzag course in his Sunday driving off the beaten path