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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
WESLEYAN

Middletown, Conn, Oct. 12-(UP) -The Wesleyan University eleven worked on pass defense today in preparation for the Haverford game Saturday.
 This department was noticecably weak in the Conn. State and Bow doin games, both of which were dropped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
CAPABLE MATCH-MAKER

The Bronx Coliseum has attract ed more than 100000 paid admis- sions to boxing bouts during the three years Joe McKenna has been match
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
PRETTY GOOD INCOME

Sam Snead, outstanding golfer has banked about $35,000 during the past twenty months as a result of his golfing activities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
C0MPLETES CIRCLE

.Johnny Rizzo, Pittsburgh slugger, made at least one home run in every National league baseball park this season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
GTICK TO WOOn CLIIRs

Willie Turnesa and Johnny Fischer are two of the few remain ing topfiight golfers who still use wooden-shafted clubs.
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PICTURE REVERSED

A quarter century ago, Eddie Col- lIns, former baseball star. played football for Columbia against Yale. This year, his son. Eddie Collins, sr, appeared for Yale against Co- lumhia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
ROWLTNG "BEE HIVE"

There are 9e6 accredited bowling leagues in Chicago. New York only has 2e0 such organizations. rl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
COAST GUARD

New London, Conn, Oct. i2-(UP) -The U. 8. Coast Guard Academy football team hoped today to break a three-game losing streak against Norwich University Saturday.
 The squad scrimmaged for an hour yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
YOUNG GOLF STAR

Patty Berg, 20-year-old golfer, has been 6 finalist in the national wom- en's championship tournament three times.
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| PERFECT SEASONS

Auburn football teams have fin- ished seven seasons with unbeaten records-in 1893, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1913, 1914 and 1882.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
HIS VULNERABLE SPOT

Between competition on the hockey rink and the football field, Bill Platt, Yale football captain, has had most of his front teeth knocked out,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
ATHIETE-PNILOsOPHER

Tami0 Abe, captain of the Jap anese Davis Cup tennis team, is an instructor of philosophy at Wa- seda university.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
RFORE TENNIS COURTS

Twenty-Five clay tennis courts viii be, laid out on New York's athletic fields at Randails Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12

- ohons inc Fodham bayhoo strong with his uooh pooh Purdue though the set Tor next
 e shadow of Coogans Grounds youe The Rams VIII nave to show college scouts will be as numerous as at a clambake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
CONSIDERED GMALL

Marqu(ete university has It's smallest football squad in years this season--only forty-three players.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12

Sorry to hear bedding of of the states most nnar sports writers posse) Curt Wilson ot the Dan bry NeWsTines his back with pneumonia Come on Curt hit the and with you!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
HoIy Cross

Worcester. Mass, Oct. 12-(UP)- Holy Gross brushed up on forward passing today as Coach Eddie An- derson readied the Crusaders for Saturdays Carnegie Tech at Pitts- hurgh.
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til he is past all potential tacklers the ball carrier must stay behind his interference as closely as pos sible, and most linemen would slow up his progress.
 Many good blocking backs also are very efticient on line bucks from close up, or on weak side reverses, which adds to their effectiveness And most coaches feel 1t is easier to make a ball-carrier out of e good blocker, than blocker out of a star ball-carrier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12

U,,v with voice like French Horn called tnis orng to settle argument which he maintained that mg Kona the wrestler coming Waterbury tomorrow night IS CHINA MAN. Quick, Watson, the Fit gunl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
B. O.

Boston, oct. Iz--(UP)-An unde- feated Boston College eleven was a slight favorite to defeat Detroit to. day in its first major test before an expected crowd of 35,000.
 Ira Jivelekian, B. C.'s best ball carrier and passer, was sidelined with leg injury. His left halfback position will be filled by Fella Gin- toff, Q senior.
 Detroit won last years game. played on a muddy gridiron, by a score of 14-0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
Ia. IL.

Boston, Oct. 12--tUP)-Coach Pat Hanley of Boston university scrim- maged his varsity today as the ter- riers readied for Q game with Up- sala on Saturday. Sophomore Al Clark was promoted to the team a backfield. replacing the veteran George Radcliffe. Sol Nechtem and Russ Lawry, regular backs, re- turned to practice yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-12
BROWN

Providence, R. l., Oct. l2--(UP)- Tom Nash, an end, worked out with the backfield today as undefeated Brown prepared for Saturdays game with a Dartmouth team which has held opponents scoreless in three decisive wins.
 Coach Tuss McLaughry made the move in an attempt to bolster the Bruins attack which has been weakened by injuries to Captain At. well and Sophomore Bronislaw Stepcyk. The varsity scrimmaged yesterday against Dartmouth plays executed by the reserves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
Steel Price Reduction

It is much too soon for the shouting over the price reduction made by steel, big and little, but it isn't too soon TOT hoping. A slash in the price of steel With out an accompanying reduction m wages has been one of the major Salients Tn the New Deals bitter struggle with buSl- ness. and there must have been consider able rejoicing in the Roosevelt camp when the word of the reduction went out.
 Independent companies started the price break and were followed almost lm- mediately by U. s. Steel. Just prevlous to the reduction announcement, U. 5. Steel and it's subsidiaries had signed an agreement with $. w. O. C., L. l. U. affiliate, guaranteeing, at least tempoI- arily a continuation of present hlgh hourly wages. To most observers the m portant thing about the reduction IS not the actual benefit which consumers Will feel under the lowered price of $4 a ton for cold reduced, oiled sheets. The en- thusiasm over the price reduction comes instead from related factors.
 Greatest Of these is the fact that an industry employing more than million men plunges into the experiment of re- ducing prices without reducing wages Tn the present recession. Other industries and other employers may feel that Ii steel can do it, SO can they It is the first break in the deadlock between business and the government which is blamed i'll many quarters for the slump in business. It may be the factor which starts tre- mendouS ball rolling.
 A reduction in the price of sheet steel IS important mostly to automobile manu- sacturers representing to them saving of approximately $2 car. But the par ticuiar sheet steel in which the price was reduced is now placed in direct compes- ftition with other and cheaper steel prod ucts and never in steels history has one steel product been reduced in price with out accompanying price slashes in most other steel products very shortly.
 Many believe that only high steel prices have held up the building trade and that with a reduction in steel building mater ials there will be sufficient boom in that industry to make steel price reduction profitable on volume basis. These are the things the New Deal hopes to see-a break in the blockade which will start an avalanche of returned business confi- dence, plus building boom that will unlock industry as whole and pull the country out of the doldrums
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
Coal In Pennsylvania

Governor George H. Earle of Pennsyl- vania has new solution for the problem of hard coal in that state. He wants the Federal Government to buy the anthracite fields. The natural answer is, Hasn't the government enough trouble already?" Pennsylvania is plagued with 95 per cent of the worlds hard coal. In former years this was considered a great piece of good fortune, but the old stand ards are changing.
 That coal is a vast deposit of great value to mankind, the cleaneSt and most wonderful coal in America. The trouble isn't with the coal but with some queer kink in our economic system which seems to make it hard for owners and operators to produce and sell the coal at profit. It's one of the ailments of our capitalist system and hard to understand. The governor says it has come largely from over-capitalization. There is new compe- tition, too, from oil.
 The situation is so bad that for years production has been largely in the hands of bootleg operators. They are mostly miners who formerly worked for the min ing companies, and now get out the coal themselves, taking and selling 1t, often with the tacit consent of the owners, be- cause it is their only means of making living. England, facing a somewhat similar problem, has now nationalized her coal mines, buying the properties but planning to let the former owners operate them. Our federal government will doubtless postpone any such action as long as possible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
Back to Simplicity

A city man, scholar and artist of old American stock, tells an interesting story of how he has weathered the depression. He saw it coming, he says, and in 1929 went out Unto the sticks" and built him. self a comfortable cottage without mod ern conveniences and luxuries - nothing but old-fashioned fundamentals. He has we'll and pump, oil lamps, oil range and wood-burning stove, 8 sod cellar a big living room with beam ceiling, kitchen and bunk room.
 "There have weathered the gale," he says, "self-contained and self-efficient, with two acres of garden land. Radio, electric light and telephone are taboo. The living room is full of book cases, and there can read or write or set up my easel and paint as suits my motion.
 My only trouble has been my con- forming children, who love the fleshpots and the lockStep of capitalism. They do not understand me at all, but I am simply a throwback to my ancestors who fought the battles and helped to establish this republic. I believe in work.
 Thousands of acres are lying idle all around me, held for speculation and thousands of families are on relief i'll town But would they dig their own gardens and chop their own wood and read by lamplight? No-they would rather beg or set up dictatorship. Democracy is in retreat"
 It's an appealing picture. in some ways. But what's wrong with it? More people could do as this man has done, and many of them would be happier. But could multitudes of them do it? Probably not.
 And what would happen to our con- plex industrial civilization if great num- bers of people tried? They would cer- tainly throw lot of sod into the machin- cry of our capitalist system. They might produce a greater depression than the one we have been passing through
 Our economic route is probably one way road, and we have to make the best of it. We might live somewhat more simply, and be happier for it, but we can't turn back to the time and life of our grandfathers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14

that is admitted, the country breaks up into innumerable advocates of this and that and the other method of preserving it. In the midst of much futile discus sion, they forget that peace is complex and must be approached by more than one route. The problems of armament, defense, security, justice, trade, and so on are all parts of the whole world peace problem. The only cure for war that looks at all hopeful to the realistic paci- fist is recognition of the causes of war, which are mostly economic, and world willingness to change them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
Too Many Peace Plans

There is practical sense in the proposed peace study program of the League of Women Voters. Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright, chairman of that organizations department of government and foreign policy, calls attention to the gap between theory and practice in foreign affairs. There is lag, she says, between the polit- ical leaders who are responsible for the conduct of foreign affairs and the pub lies willingness to support them in their pursuit of peace. That lag comes from a lack of understanding, which the league hopes to correct by 9 national study of the subject. It ought to do a great deal of good.
 The whole country is pretty well agreed that it wants continued peace. But once
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The American people are becoming ymphony-minded. And we do not mean those brought up in a background of musical tradition, or students of music. Listening to symphony orchestra con- certs over the radio are persons who do not know major from minor third, or what a leading tone is, but they know they like the music. It has something, as they say. One of our meaty broadcast ing sheets tells us of the symphony. It is sometimes said that a symphony orchestra is like great single instru- ment on which the conductor plays, as pianist plays on the keyboard of his instrument In sense that is true. The various individual members of an orches- tra are supposed to subordinate their own interpretative ideas to that of the conductor, and good orchestral players learn, through many years of training, to be very responsive to the conductors signals. But at the same time, the con- ductor finds it much harder than the pianist to put his ideas into execution. When a musician has mechanical in- strument at his finger-tips, and wants to bring out climax in piece of music, he can make the music thunder out just exactly as he wishes it to sound. But when he has the job of controlling the performances of hundred different hu- man beings, it is different story.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
PreSsCOrnrnent
LISTENING-IN

(ChrlStlan science MonltOr)
 In order to learn more of the tastes of its public, the British Broadcasting Corporation is circu- lating number of listeners, chosen at random, throughout the country The necessity, in planning programs of having the cooperation of lis- teners has always been emphasized by the B. B. C., and criticism and suggestions have been welcomed; but, if only as an aid to criticism, there is another form of coopera- tion that might be practiced, con- sisting in methodical attitude on the part of the listener.
 Only a few weesk ago a protest was made by B. B. c. official against the habit of some house. holds of allowing the radio to func- tion uninterruptedly throughout it's working hours. It is certainly a peculiar way of getting ones moneys worth, and argues complete fail- ure to appreciate the radios possi- bilities, except as a companionable noise becoming articulate when other distractions languish.
 The radio can be properly en- joyed at the cost of so little exertion compared with the theater the cin- ema, and the concert hall, that it is odd that some should shrink from undertaking that little. Those who refuse to study and select pro- grams in advance demand, of course. an impossible excellence that would please all the people all the time.
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Great Britain is that in time of emergency the American fleet can use British naval bases. This perhaps is an invitation rather than an agreement, so doesn't make a liar out of anyone.
 Religious Issue
 The religious issue has cropped up to worry some of the Con- gressmen who signed the greeting to the Spanish Loyalist Cortes. Catholic reaction has been so strong that one or two members fear they may lose their seats.
 Most worried are Mrs. Caro- line O'Day, Congresswoman-a Large from New York, Repre- sentative Robert G. Allen of Greensburg, Pa., and HERMAN KOPPLEMANN OF HART FORD, CONN. All deny any religious implications in signing the greeting to Loyalist Spain, but have been showered with protests from their districts.
 Representative James Gildea of Coaldale, Pa, is one of the few Catholics who signed the greet ing. He says:
 'I know what I was signing, and I would do the same thing again. I think the Spanish Par iament deserves 8 lot of credit. I have 10000 unemployed coal miners in my district and I don't believe they are going to get excited because I signed this. They have other things closer to home to worry about"
 Mrs. O'Day also expresses no regrets for her action, but a good many other signers now wish they hadn't, including staunch New Dealer Senator Minton of Indiana, who describes his signature as a fool thing to do"
 NOTE-Just before the greeting was circulated, Senator Austin of Vermont, rock-ribbed Republican, was dined at the Italian Em- bassy, which usually specializes in reactionary or pro-Fascist dinner guests. However, Austin not only signed the Spanish Loyalist greeting but stood by his guns and declined to have his name re- moved.
 Mail Bag
 A. S., San Francisco-To send a Catholic as Ambassador to Eng land is definite departure from practice, but the appointment of Kennedy has aroused no opposi- tion. The British agreement was promptly given. G. H. w.. Waco, Texas-The term Rough Riders" was not originated by Theodore Roosevelt but by the late Richard V. Oulahan, veteran correspondent of The New York Times. Oulahan first used the term in a story which he showed to Roosevelt before publication. The President struck out the words in every case except one, which he overlooked. But this one was played up and 1t stuck.
 Copyright, 1888, by United
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
In New York
Bv GEORGE ROSS

New York, Feb. 14.-The pigeon poisoning mystery on Verdi Square never has been solved. The Borgia who fed the amiable birds that fa- tai food which killed half their fiock-while the granite Guiseppi Verdi helplessly looked on-still prowls the town at large. She prob- ably is an old witch, with all her teeth gone, and sunken cheeks.
 The poisoner was a woman; that much they know. She has spread the fatal potion twice over the green grass where the pigeons innocently alight for their hand out. Once, last summer, in the early dawn, the only unsuspect- ing witness to her crime was a bootblack who was marking time until the park filled up. He saw an old lady, he said, sprinkling feed from a paper bag and he thinks he heard her cackle.
 But an hour later, when the hustle began-Verdi square is a triangle off Broadway-death was in the air. Lifeless pigeons fell in f1ocks, plummeting onto the pavement and before the statue of Verdi. The neighborhood was aroused. Posses were sent out, on the bootblack's meager descrip- ton, to hunt the Borgia to her lair. Without success.
 Then, in the fall, the old witch came back. A new pigeon flock had staked out a pasture before Verdi's graven figure. They fed from the hands of folk who could spare time for such pleasures and they " ere carefree enough. This time there were no witnesses to Borgia's foul deed. The pigeons dropped from the skies dead, and the autopsy" revealed that the poison was brewed of the same stuff.
 So a volunteer group of neigh borS around here is taking turns at keeping vigilance over the bird lovers" of Verdi Square. And woe unto the Borgia when she shows up.
 
 Prescribe Plugs
 A radio station that's unique on this end of the kilowatts is WQXR, a modest little studio. which oper- ates over popular wave-length, from attractive offices on Fifth ave- nue. The bulk of its programs con- sists of fine, recorded music, and originally commercial announce ments of any kind were taboo. List eners enjoyed an uninterrupted pro- gram of Brahms, Beethoven, Mo- gar, Tschaikowski, Bach, ct al, the evening long, unharrassed by break fast cereal puffs.
 Recently, WQXR was financial ly pinched and compelled to seek sponsors succor. And now the superb music is disturbed at long intervals by brief advertising matter. Not enough to annoy WQXR's devoted listeners, but distracting, nevertheless. And so a couple of WORKS faithfuls are talking about starting volunteer campaign to raise funds for a regular subsidy, whereby WQXR permanently can broadcast good music without fear of the sheriff 'barging in.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
TOII Roads
Free Highways Gradually Surrendering to De- mands of Motorists for Bigger
 and Finer Highways
BOSTON POST

A proposition which is meeting with favor in New York contem- plates the taking over of the right of way of the Westchester and Bos- ton railway, soon to go out of busi- ness, and converting it into toll roads tor trucks and busses. This would relieve the great congestion on the big highways to the north of the city.
 The interesting angle of the scheme is the toll idea. Not that the toll charge is something new. It is almost impossible now to get in or out of New York, or will be in a short time, without paying a toll. But so far the tolls have been confined to bridges and tun- nels. The new plan would extend them to roads.
 In the early days of the Republic toll was collected on most through roads and important bridges. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14

struggle. to free the roads from tolls was long ore. It was long after the Civil War when toll roads were generally abandoned and the vic- tory was considered great one for the public.
 We are now completing the cir cle. Toll bridges are now very com- mon and they are increasing as well as toll tunnels. The addition of toll roads will bring us back to the situation of hundred years ago.
 President Roosevelt has recently put the seal of his approval to a plan of Senator Bulkley of Ohio for the construction of coast to coast automobile highway which will be a toll proposition for its whole length. It is claimed that the income from tolls will pay the interest on the investment, and in time, the whole cost of the scheme.
 Despite the fact that toll roads and toll bridges would seem to be decidedly unpopular with the public, the New York toll propositions seem to have been accepted without much protest. We have toll bridges here in New England, outside of Massa- chusetts, and we have tolls on the East Boston tunnet here. However, we can imagine the protests if the new bridges over the Cape Cod Canal at Bourne were converted into toll bridges.
 Toll roads are probably coming. A few years ago there was a plan for a high-speed automobile road from Boston to New York, halfway between the Boston Post road and the Springfield -NewYork highway. The plan contemplated the charging of tolls on the theory that trucks and busses especially would be will ing to pay for the saving of time.
 One obstacle today is the existence of alternate free routes. But it does not require much imagination to see a gradual forcing of traffic into toll roads. if that seems necessary to provide more revenue.
 The free highway idea is perhaps surrendering to the changes wrought by the automobile. Yet it is strange that it should become necessary to consider charging for the use of the road when automobile owners con- tribute so much in taxes for high ways. It is case where more and more ways of collecting money from the public must be found.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-14
Selected Poem
STRAW-VOTE VALENTINE (By Seymour Gordden Link in the New York
 TineS)

(By Seymour Gordden Link in the New York
 Times) straw can be mighty thing: to men Who reach their desperate fingers out to clutch Distorted hope before they sink again, Or camels weary, laden overlnuch, Or homeward ant with barely strength enough To reach his hill, who finds across his path This sudden dam, this monumental bluff, Or any bird whose futile fluttering wrath Shrills in the air when nesting is delayed By breeze's larceny of beam. A straw Has often stood between stubborn maid And her ordered love; and grim, white-hooded
 law
 Stumbles upon its subtle menace often, And in the world it has presaged broken Nation, or hope, or peace 5ut how must soften The hardest heart to watch this myriad token Betake itself from any barn or rick, Symbol of chance, the wand of fate, and yet AS common as the clay it turns to brick, Turning the ways of life Your cigarette, Because there were no matches near, was lit By strow you held to the open fireplace; And I, all unawares, while watching it. Discovered luminous heaven in your face.