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The Washington times., 1938-05-03
FEEBLE BITERS

OF course. this shy or timid
manner in which fish go for food
does not in any way affect their
fighting qualities and when once
hooked all their old zip and
tug is still there. And when you
come to hash the whole thing
over why it takes a smarter
angler to hook fish that only
nibbleS or sucks at a bait, than
to throw it into a fighter that
attacks head-on with its mouth
wide open.
If you are inclined towards
hardheading today's best sug-
tion is to take the Eastern Shore
and this also holds good for the
balance of the week. Our side
of the Chesapeake is under way
and will improve each day, but
for the time being, if it's thrills
and thrills you're after, beat it
across the bay. And when we
say thrills with the hardheadS
we don't mean taking them on
heavy tackle, for this can only
be had by using a very light out
fit. Get the habit of light equip
ment and learn what the word
thrill really means.
We received a telegram, toe
late for our Friday evening col
umn, from Stanley burlington
chairman Chamber of Com
merce, Chincoteague, Va. in
which he stated that the trout
were in at the island. He in
formed us that one party had
taken 165 large trout. under
Guide Joe Snead and that
two other boats brought in 90
big fish between them. This
famous fishing grounds is stu
ated on the ocean-Side Of the
Del-Mar-Va. peninsula, just g
few miles south of Maryland :
famous resort. Ocean City. Il
you're interested in some early
season weakfiShing, a note to
burlington will bring you al
the necessary information rel
atiVe to board and boat hire.
The Washington times., 1938-05-03
FOR TOMORROW

xApprentics allowance.
The Washington times., 1938-05-03

ng; Ia miles.
COMMENT
Looks like repeater
Can better recent races
Will be right there
Go well in here today
Has early speed
Two bad races
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Federal Economy

There is victory for governmental economy in the concession made by the House at Washington, allowing the President to reduce or eliminate any ap- propriation made by Congress except allotments for veterans. Heretofore the Executive has had to accept an appro- priation bill, or veto it, as whole. This makes possible considerable saving in any such measure, if the Senate agrees to the new policy, and if the President is as serious about retrenchment as he has professed to be.
 The House, in it's final action, was more thrifty than critics expected, voting only $15O,00O above the recommendations of the appropriations committee, in a measure carrying $1 ,414 968, ,O0O. Perhaps the Presider'; can trim some more out of it, although the recent rise in unemploy- ment creates new demands for relief
 Trimming enough to balance the bud get is obviously impossible while this business recession lasts. It will promote general confidence, however, if obvious Congressional pork" is eliminated as far as possible, and if this and subsequent appropriation bills are hewed to the line of real necessity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
"Bide a Wee"

The Hartford Times takes view Of the present complicated situation in Water bury that ends on a sage note. It takes recognition of all that has occurred since the first of this year when Sherwood L. Rowland, Republican, assumed the office of Controller and made public, through Republican-controlled sources only, cer-' tain facts which are intended to condemn individuals of the Hayes regime and the administration itself. Whether or not they should will be decided eventually by officials who are more skilled in this busi- ness than mere critics of a man and men, as representatives of a political group.
 The Times concludes a summingup of the situation with such words as these: "No great harm should come from quiet waiting until Griffenhagen Associates establish the true state of affairs in the Controllers office Controller Rowland has won his point in obtaining thor ough, independent investigation of the books of which he became the custodian after the November election As Mayor Hayes avowedly also welcomed such an investigation, it would seem that further controversy can bide wee until the facts tell the true story"
 Which is about the best advice that can be offered right now. Opponents of Mayor Hayes have won their point about an audit; the mayor has graciously con- sented to abide by the wishes of the States Attorney in the matter. It re- mains to be seen, now, if the ''non-par- tisan" citizens who are doing the gun ring" for the Democratic administration can wait in peace, until accountants have had their day So far there has been no non-partisan effort made to discuss civic government in Waterbury. Politics rears an ugly head every time good or bad word is uttered. Personally we don't think this should be non-partisan issue. it's distinctly political and might better be described as such, not only here in Waterbury but throughout the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Appointment Deserved

Waterbury will take genuine pride in the announcement from Hartford that the Rev. Francis M O'Shea has been made permanent rector of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. This ap- pointment is one to cause such general satisfaction that Father OShea will be Surfeited with well wishes and congratu lations. For the new permanent rector it will be merely a continuation of the work that he began here in Waterbury many years ago and which never has deviated one bit from the path of true Serivce in the legions of the Lord and high regard for his fellowman.
 Father O'Shea is and has been popu- lar pastor in Waterbury ever since he, as the senior curate, stepped into the va cancy caused by the death of the late Rev. William J. McGurk. He accepted the tremendous responsibilities that went with a newly-completed church and dis charged them not merely faithfully, as everyone knew he would, but most eff ciently. He continually displayed the necessary business requirements that obligations. His reward is at hand.
 Knowing that he is to be with us for the rest of his days those who know Father O'Shea intimately will rejoice in this knowledge. It will be of real import to more than the parishioners of his own church. Being the mother parish of the city, it is continually the exposure of at- tention from Catholic, Protestant, and Jew. We know that Father O'Shea will carry on in the best spirit of such dis tinguished predecessors as those of this century knew - Father McGurk, the Rev. Luke Fitzsimons, under whose pas torate Father O'Shea's curacy began here, and Monsignor Slocum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Simplifying It

Poultrymen of Connecticut took a subtle whack at the legal profession the other day when at State meeting they voted, practically unanimously, to draw up new marketing agreement from which would be eliminated all legal phraseology. Only ordinary" words will be used in the new agreement to be drawn up. We wouldn't be surprised to find this cleanup in agreements, pacts, clauses, etc, spreading to groups other than poultrymen. There is no reason, of course, why it need be restricted
 The poultrymen evidently feel that so long as their contracts and agreements are intersperSed with frequent "whereas'S" and "whereis's" there will be plenty of speculation among individual members as to exact meanings And perhaps, too, the average poultryman of the state doesn't care to puzzle over an agreement that may take him days to figure out. He wants simple form that will state the case succinctly and in few words. We
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

is it tendency to hold the playground space down and send the height of the building up. And usually, at least up to very few years ago, there has been money enough to make the city school building as ugly as sin. Any one who will in- spect some of the schools in New York City will quickly get the idea.
 Worse yet, if we take the results of a years study made by a con- mission of five architects for the Board of Education and released for publication this week, we are still making mistakes. We are dress ing up new school buildings with meaningless detail" but frequently we put them on inadequate sites, close to noisy streets. They look good in blueprints and elevations, but their classrooms are dark, their corridors are narrow and their re- creation space is limited. Think of housing student body as large as Princeton's or Amherst's on Hess than an acre of ground! Yet, ac- cording to the architects, this is what we have been trying to do "sad commentary" as they say, Ion the treatment of our youth in their most impressionable age" A A school building should not be more than three stories tall. Two stories are better. Ours are four or five stories tall. So it goes.
 The architects make number of suggestions for improvement of spe- cific buildings now under construc- ton, and for general program. The Board of Education has $45, ,000 900 building schedule under way. Before we are saddled with any more badly planned school buildings, poorly heated and on the wrong sites, the present report ought to be thor oughly examined. If we are on the wrong track, as seems to be the case, we should scrap our plans and start new. It may be that attractive school buildings, planned in a spirit of fairness to the children who will have to occupy them, will cost more in some cases than the barracks we have. In other cases there may be an actual saving of money. The children, in any event, are more i'm portant than the money. There is enough drabness in their lives. Let their school buildings be cheerful and good to look upon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

If Westchester County should get away with the idea of putting toll gates at each end of the Hutchinson River Parkway, what squawk would go up in Connecticut if our motorists were forced to pay tolls to get off their own Merritt Parkway. The idea is to have the Merritt and Hutchinson River Park ways merge into each other at the state line. Intrusion of toll gate would prob ably not spoil the symmetry nor beauty ot the pathways, but it would certainly spoil the tempers of the motorists. Still It may be the solution to future parkway expansion. Small tolls would pay biz dividends in year or two, the way they're used today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Selected Poem
NEW HAMPSHIRE ONCE

CFrances Frost in the New York Times There trails here through thick woods where
 snoWShoe thongs bore the bronze stealth and the feathered head
 The eyes saw then beyond the hill and into woods where nudged tWig foretold an enemy. cold star burned above the bitter ridge; wndow-light in darkness was a star, tnd chimney smoke against the wilderness rose straight with courage: the next white house
 was far. New Hampshire once was excellent with danger; beyond the nearest maple or the door man might take the shape of flint, and trouble immaculate snow with flakes of color more brilliant than maple or than ember. Songs were hardy first, then hoarse, and naked Sedge covered the pointed wars. New Hampshire once was dangerous. And we retain the edge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

look for an increased membership in the Connecticut Poultry Producers Coopera- tive, Inc.
 Although the agreement which is to be simplified has been in existence for the past thirteen years, it is evident that many of those signing it actually didn't know what it meant or what rights it guaranteed individuals. Now it is pro- posed that everyone who belongs or who joins in the future will know just what form of marketing is to be followed Couple this with reduction in the mem- berShip fee of $20 Qrom $25 to $5) and it looks as if the poultrymen look for big things in the coming year. We'll, why not?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, Jan. 21-The term, Cafe Society, has come to stay and the current interest in this charmed circle continues unabated. This, then, seems the time to chronicle the personal peccadillos of the folk who inhabit the nighttime pre- cincts.
 Query: What does the white-tie and ermine contingent do night after night in the so-called Swank spots? What do they talk about? What are their peeves and prefer enceS?
 Query: How do they prevent a pail from falling over them? Here are glimpses at several of them, culled from the notebook:
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., it seems, has a peeve, unrivaled by Hollywood's most temperamental cinema stars, against being pho tographed in the nightspots. He is on the alert for lensmen from the second he sits down for Ire taxation" Photographers are in- variably rushed into the back room the moment he steps across the portals.
 Marcel and George Sanchez, Cuba's. gift to Cafe Society. and the two largest spenders in New York, amuSe themselves by dispatching bottles of champagne to their friends seated around the ringside.
 Bob Tapping and Shipwreck Kelly are football fanatics.
 Tallulah Bankhead is the restless type. An average evening with the glamor girl from Alabama is like a Cooks tour of the night spots with the encourage usually winding up at either the Savoy ballroom in Harlem or slipping black coffee in euben's while daylight streakS in through the windows.
 Moss Hart never drinks, prefers to sit in one spot, watching the hoi- polloi parade by and playing host to those who drop by his table for a bit of conversational small-talk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

That man is in again. Meaning that Albert Levitt of Bedding, Washington, D. C., the Virgin Islands, and way sta tions is prepared to do or die for politi- cal cause. Although this is only January the erstwhile law school prof is champ ing at the bit This time it's down the line for the good old party. MT. Levitt desires to be back in the fold. His arch enemy of years gone by has passed to his eternal reward; there is work ahead for the republican party, so A. L. is willin and ready to go to work. He has proffered his services to State Chairman Ben jamin E. Harwood; he further advises that the republican organization get go- ing early this year in anticipation of much excitement along towards the first of November There's one thing sure, the Bedding politico will inject a strenuous note into the proceedings this summer and fall
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
PressConnent
R. I. F.
(NeW Haven Register.)

(NeW EaVeN IeSSIeT.)
 This is a great week for birth days. Yesterday was Benjamin Franklin's. Today is Daniel Web- ster's Tomorrow is Robert E. Lees Thursday is Richard Henry Lees. Friday is John c. Fremont's. Patriot, statesman, soldier, conqueror of the frontiers-there is timely material in this weeks anniversaries for any who still believe there was some good in the past.
 Although it is the political fashion of the day to drape the off, cial being in the mantle of yester- days great, it is not strange that some of these are let alone, their shades undisturbed by attempts to appropriate their regulations. Web- ster, for instance, who told what he thought, as only the prime orator of his day could say it, about per- sons who "carry on mad hostility against all established institutions .. would choke the fountain of in dustry and dry all streams |. . in a country where property is more evenly divided than anywhere else, they rend the air shouting agrarian doctrines"-his role can have few claimants.
 And as for Franklin, where is the one to claim his mantle?
 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
 "A man may, If he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone."
 Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other" "He that goes borrowing goes . sorrowing,"
 Poor Richard!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Big, Drub Sch00l Houses Little Red Structures Had One Great Advantage They Were Out in Open Where Pupils
 Had Room to Stretch, Air
 to Breathe
NEW YORK TIMES

The little red school house of song and story was ordinarily badly light ed, badly heated and insanitary. Its classes were conducted by an under paid teacher who was lucky if he or she could keep one jump ahead of the more advanced students. It went out of service when good roads and motor care came in-and for a whole flock of excellent reasons. But it had one quality that did more than anything else to keep its mem ory green. It was in the country. There was room to play. Often the surroundings were beautiful. Some times the school building itself was beautiful in a simple way, if only because the school district could not get enough money to make it ugly.
 Schools in big cities lack the nat ural advantages of the district school. Land is costly, and so there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

mediately recognized the Justice and, in the informal manner of Washington taxi-men, started a conversation. ,,
 This is real honor for me, Judge" he said. "I'm taking law and I hope to practice before the Supreme Court sometime"
 Then you ought to know, young man," observed Mickey holds drily, "that I am not a judge. I am an Associate Jus tice."
 The youngster subsided for a few minutes, then tried again. "Mr. Justice," he asked, what do you think of this idea of. Mrs. ROosevelt's appointing a woman to the Supreme Court?"
 "I don't think much of It."
 "Why not, sir?"
 "Well," replied McReynolds. "how would you like to be tried by a woman?"
 Merry GO-Round
 Henry Wallace uses his ghost writers less and less. He has a dictaphone in his home, and he composes his speeches by talking into the machine Proponents of the Florida Canal are quietly laying plans for passing their bill at this session .. Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, wife of the new Supreme Court Justice, is herself listed in Who's Who. She is top figure in the D. A. R. Dominican Delegate Manuel Jesus Troncoso de la Concha has despaired of finding wintry scenes in Washing ton; he plans a visit to Niagara Falls.
 Copyright, 1888, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
A Book a Day
Expert Tells About EurOp'
 of Today

There is a great deal of claptra gushing these days from some wh' spend six weeks in Europe and re- turn to write book. But not st from veteran journalist and polit' ical observer, Vernon Mckenzie, MT. Mckenzie has spent his summers studying the European scene nov for nearly 20 years. So he ought to know pretty well whereof he speaks. And apparently he does.
 The result is a remarkable eX- position of postwar Europe in a most significant book, Through Turbulent Years" (McBride, $2.75).
 MT. Mckenzie spent his summers taking Europe apart, so to speak, because for the remainder of this year he is director of the school of journalism of the University of Washington. You would expect an analytical sort of document, there fore, and he gives you just that.
 Entertaining, yet forever tossing hard cold facts straight at you, MT. Mckenzie points out for instance:
 That Hitler has so far removed himself to a pinnacle that he Is losing touch with his administration. That because of the recent purge, the Soviet army will not be ready to fight, if it can help it, for at least another year. That Gibraltar is no longer immune from attack in the Mediterranean. That the most significant event in Europe to- day is British rearmament since it is bound to stabilize toward peace. Finally, says MT. Mckenzie, world war before 1940 is improbable and if the world can hold out until then, it may escape for the. dura- ton of generation.
 Regardless of whether you agree, you ought not to miss Through Troubled Years" It is an absorbing book.-P. G. F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

It's almost unbelievable for the average European or Asian to realize that there could be unemployment or want in the United States. We have everything to make people happy; we are rich in ma terial goods. Uncle Sam controls the worlds gold. Natural resources are plen- tiful; land is still fertile. It's simply question of distribution and we have long prided ourselves on being able to bring to the average mans table things today that could never have been there twenty years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

l. Who was Peter Paul Rubens? 2. In the Roman Catholic church what is requiem mass?
 3. What state does Jennings Randolph represent in the U. s. Congress?
 4. When was the first U. s. Gen. sus taken?
 5. What is an amperemeter?
 6. When did the United States declare war on Germany?
 2. What nickname was applied to George Washington?
 8. To what country do the Falk- land Islands belong?
 q Who found the first Christian Science church?
 10. Name the capital of the Re- public of Andorra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Box Office Habit

Box Office Habit
 Sam Harris usually wanders about, taking peek or two at the cash register-if no one is looking. Clifton Webb is rarely without full evening dress regalia, and sell dom dances unless a fast waltz is served up by the clubs musical crew.
 Ben Bernie visits all over the premises, gets kick out of send ing the cigaret girls scurrying for those dollar cigars.
 Sonny" Whitney likes to tote along large parties, prefers to get ringside tables exclusively and can sit perfectly still for hours watch ing the dance couples on the floor.
 Elsa Maxwell is always in hurry never likes to spend too much time in the better bistros-perhaps be- cause some of her blue-blood party subscribers might get the idea that even she has fun without costume
 Gloria Baker, now on the high seas, however, just looks bored usually has three or four escorts and runs up the tinieSt checks.
 Maury Paul prefers the solitude of a corner table, and 8 leisurely 100 per cent pure Havana.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Daily Almanac
rises 11:28 p. m.

Moon rises 11:28 D. m.
 Sun rises 7:13 a. m.; sets 4:54 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 These are good picture days. Once the photographer leaves the beaten track he or she can find all sorts of strange things, cast up by the swirling snows, to image on the camera plate. Even the prosaic footprint pat terms in backysrds offer storiees in picture form if you can translate them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, educator and author, says American capitalism is now having it's last chance with Old Man Fate and he gets about as much serious at tention as Noah did.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
Questions and
 Answers
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
By Frederick M. Kerby

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
 Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ti0n of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended res,Mrch be un- dertaken. Be sure all mail is ad- dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. C..
 THE EDITOR
 o. If 20-gauge shotgun has the same barrel length and choke, and shoots the same size shot as a 12- gauge, will it have the same range A. No; the 12- gauge gun will have an effective range of about 7C yards and the 20-gauge gun is limit ed to not over 50 yards.
 o. When political reports speak of plurality in an election, what is the difference between that and a majority?
 A. The greatest of more than two numbers, whether it is or not a majority of the whole, constitutes a plurality in elections. Thus if the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
U. 5. Cruisers Sent to Singapore Are Liable to Renoin, Work with British;
 Roosevelt Also Has French Permission
 " To Use French lndo-Chinese Now Base
,@a Hoom . AAlM
BasW FRAR00@

WASHINGTON, January 21. = Don't be at all sur prSed the three U s. cruisers sent to Singapore for the February opening of the giant British naval base do not rat1rn t0 the TJnited States
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21

Why be surprised that militarists are liars?