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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Under Consideration

Down in Ansona folks are talking about continuation of the Merritt Park way up the Naugatuck Valley Captain Niels I. Poulsen, president of the Cham Der of Commerce there, is sort of direct ing activities along this line of thought. It occurs to us that year or so ago the State Highway Department announced that future plans included a parkway up the Naugatuck Valley, spur or branch of the big parkway that is to cut diagon- ally across the state. No doubt this plan is still pigeon-holed, to be brought out when the time is ripe.
 The matter came to a head, though, with discussion of new highway bridge across the HOuSatOnic river, intended to divert Merritt Parkway traffic away from the Boston Post road at Stratford, where it naturally would rejoin it. Don in Der by, Ansonia and Shelton authorities are interested and vigorous effort may be made to shift this proposed structure as near to the three communities at the confluence of the Naugatuck and Housa- tonic as possible. This, of course, would also be to the advantage of cities further up the valley such as Waterbury.
 Any such plans as contemplate mak- ing highway travel through the valley better will meet with the heartiest en- dorsement here It is high time that the authorities relieved the congestion of the valley road, itself a throWback to the good old days when roads wound in and out. While the road-bed itself is still excellent, the road is tortuOuS to the extreme. Its ultimate replacement by parkway is to be desired When it will come, we don't know, but we presume occasional men, tion won't hold it up
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Benjamin N. Cardozo

Speculation now centers around suc- ceSSor to the late Associate Justice Ben- jamin N. Cardozo of the United States Supreme Court. AS matter of strict fact President Franklin D. Roosevelt will be hard put to nominate worthy successor to Justice Cardozo. We don't hesitate to term him the courts outstanding figure just as he was regarded as the greatest juriSt in all the United States before his advancement to our highest court six years ago. Membership on it's body only served to prove that his reputation was we'll founded.
 Many and varied were the qualities of the late justice. Outstanding was his knowledge of the law, his love of the law, and his practical application of the law to the manners of men and his country. Lib eral to the utmost degree Justice Cardozo carried high banner of life, liberty, and happiness that was his heritage and to which he gave answering loyalty. A simple man with simple tastes his life was one of solid devotion to a better under standing of his profession that he might put it to his fellowmans betterment.
 Oddly enough his career was built on a shattered one. His father, also a jurist, caught up in the scandals that enveloped Boss" Tweed and Tammany Hall He gave up his profession as result. In an effort to wipe out this stain on the family name Benjamin N. Cardozo applied him. self completely to mastery of law not that he might win great legal battles for power full clients, but that he might interpret it wisely and judiciously for the masses.
 His entire career down to the very brief period he spent on the Supreme Court bench is ample testimony to his complete success. That a successor can be found to replace him we doubt. No one would try to walk where Cardozo walked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

Rep. Lawrence J. Connery of Massachu sets seems destined to be as formidable a member of Congress as was his late brother before him. Scrutiny of the Con- gressional Records last issue shows that Rep. Connery is on the trial of the Fed eral Communications Commission and several big radio corporations. He charges them with maintaining virtual mon- opoly in the industry and he charges that members of the federal commission work with them in preserving such state of affairs Praise was shoWered on one mem- Der of the commission, George H. Payne, for his stand. During the last weeks of Congress MT. Payne charged fellow com missioners with serious misdemeanors in office and wanted an opportunity to elab- crate on them. We don't doubt but what Rep. Connery's fight against radio mon- opoly will be brought out into the open, when new Congress convenes in Wash ington next January.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Boosting Places

Now France is picking herself some is- lands in the western Pacific, a coral group between French Indo-China and the Phi lippines, southward from Canton and Hong Kong. That is all right with Uncle Sam, and doubtless also with Great Bri- tain. All three of these friendly and democratic powers are now pretty we'll supplied with islands in that part of the world. The Japanese protest, but nobody pays much attention to them. They don't own the South Seas yet.
 Territorially, such coral reefs and atolls, with occasional harbors, are of no value. Their importance is strategic. Some of shem can be used as naval or airplane oases, especially the latter. They make roosting places on the Pacific frontier for the big air naves now building. We shall hear more of them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
LINES FORMING (New Haven Journal-Courier)

MT. Cummings came and saw, but if he conquered, the matetr is being kept excessively still. He departs for Washington insisting that not even his eyebrows have indicated what candidate he favors for the Con- necticut senatorship soon 70 be nominated for; and all sides are immediately sure they can find comfort for themselves in a series of remarks mainly remarkable for sayings very little. It is still doubt full however, whether the attorney general found enough of the 100 per cent Rooseveltism which he must necessarily hope to find; MT. Lonergan still does not 3cem to the naked eye to be in danger.
 Locally Republican politics are looking up with the announcement by MT. Kennedy that he's can didate for the place on the state central committee now held by MT, Willard. Since the Fairfield county grand jury report there has been some liklihood that MT. Willard would be questioned in any con- tinuing tenure which he might pro- pose; that seems to be the mean ing of MT. Kennedy's announce ment. Decision on the issues raised is @ purely Republican mat ter to be considered by Republicans. MT. Kennedy is known to the public as one who is likely to make the race both vigorous and interesting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Selected Poem
MY CREED
(By s. E. Riser in the Boston Post)

(By s. E. Riser in the Boston PosD This is my creed: To do some good,
 To bear my ills without complaining, To press on as brave man should
 For honors that are worth the gaining; To seek no profits where I may,
 By winning them, bring grief to others To do some service day by day
 In helping on my toiling brothers. This is my creed: To close my eyes
 To little faults of those around me; To strive to be when each day dies
 Some better than the morning found me; To ask for no unearned applause
 To cross no river until reach it.: To see the merit of the cause
 Before follow those who preach 1t. This is my creed: To try to shun
 The soughs in which the foolish wallow: To lead where may be the or.S
 Whom weaker men should choose to follow To keep my standards always high,
 To find my task and always do 1t; This is my creed-I wish that
 Could learn to shape my action to 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
RAgz0eed
Those Allergic to Pesky Weed Regard Season Now With Us With Watery Eyes - Why
 Doesn't Some One Eliminate Plant.
HARTFORD COURANT.

who have never experienced its tortures. Though his eyes may stream like Niobe's the experienced sufferer does not seek the sympathy that soothes the feelings of the vic- tims of other affections. Hay fever? It is to laugh!
 Millions of dollars are spent in the search for the cause of the common cold eff Dr. William Brady will for give the use of the popular term for chronic respiratory infection) But any qualified sufferer from hay fever will testify that 1t is positive pleasure to come down with a cold after siege with whatever pollen 1t is that he is sensitive to. A cold usually lasts but three days; an at tack of hay fever lasts as long as the pollen remains in the air which, in the case of ragweed, may through August and the better part of Sep- tember. When one has a cold, the doctor prescribes rest in bed and perhaps comforting medicaments. But when one has hay fever, the doctor can only shake his head and talk vaguely about the clean air of the mountains, which is small corn- fort to the great majority who can't get away. Yet, as the pollen victim could point out, the source of his suffering is known and could he re- moved for far less than Is spent in trying to discover the cause of the common cold.
 Ragweed, the worst of the offen- ders, has an unmistakable appear ance. It is easy to root up and a systematic campaign of eradication Is inexpensive to carry on. Dozens of communities have demonstrated how small is the most and how great are the benefits of eliminating the ragweed beds which flourish in the disregarded corners of nearly every city in this part of the country. An effective drive against the weed, undertaken now, could virtually eliminate it by the first of August when sad experience has taught the sufferers from its pollen to expect the first discomforts of the ragweed season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

Hartford has been engaged for some time in practical campaign to defeat the business recession Businessmen have been contributing ideas for making the most of opportunities that were at hand. Efforts were made to make Hartford an attraction for business that might go elsewhere. The plan became known as DO Something About It" and it certainly ex- presses the situation very nicely If more of us would do something about it, in- stead of sitting calmly by and waiting for things to fall in our lap, perhaps condi- tions would ease up gradually. There is no need for anyone to fear the future in this glorious land of ourS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
A Book a Day
A Humble Man COnfuciuS
BY BRUCE CATION

You will very likely go a long time again before you find a book with the rare sweep and the power to recreate the past, even though 1t be the sixth century be- fore Christ, of Carl Crows latest effort, Master Kung, the Story of Confucius" (Harpers: $3.50).
 You will remember MT. Crow for his two earlier books, 400 Million Customers" and T Speak for the Chinese" depicting the China of today and the current Far East crisis. Now he turns his hand to a biography of the man whose philosophy is still a main- spring in the lives of these 400 millions.
 Here is no formal book, how ever. but one of the most human of stories. For we see the great Confucius just as plain Master Kung, insufferably homely, deeply religious. a devoted husband but poor lover, @ man who gleaned more than his share of bitter dis appointment from life and finally died convinced that his work on earth had been a total failure.
 MT. Crow acquaints you first with the aged soldier father of Confucius, whom nature denied the blessing of this son until he had reached 70, and then only by a new marriage. When Con- fucius was three the old man died, happy in the knowledge that his clan would carry on.
 But he could hardly have guessed that this son would carry on into many centuries. Master Kung" traces the rise of this hum- ble man, his wanderings, reveal ing his philosophies against the fabric of the ancient Orient. Sc the biography becomes an exposi- ton of Oriental history itself. H. lustrations dating from TOO A. D complete the well-drawn picture -p. e. V.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
|PresSCOmment
SALVATION IN JUDGES
(New Haven Register)

At the Yale commencement last month, in conferring one of the University's principal honors Presi- dent Seymour noted that "in an age when the safety of the nation de- pends upon the adjustment of au- thority and liberty, upon coopera- tion rather than conflict between laws and freedom, we find our sal- vation in the upright judge. "If not salvation" then in other times our security" has always been found in him, and the sense of Indebtedness to the upright judge" is freshened, although with regret, in the death of John Kimberley Beach, for near ly a decade an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors.
 Former Justice Beach had an ex- ceptional distinction, in that he was named to the states high court without having served previously as lower court judge. It is not be- lieved that any other, at least in his generation, was elevated directly from the rank of advocate to that of the states supreme referee. His service in that post was of type to commend the selection and the exceptional circumstances of it.. Naturally less known publicly was his research into court procedure. his work in the re-statement of laws, and his service as professor of law at Yale. But those services combined to make him one of the leaders in his profession, and to as- sure many affectionate memories of a good lawyer and good friend. He was twice honored by degrees from Yale. He was less formally but no less sincerely honored by the respect of his community, and will be missed here as an outstand- ing citizen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

private car. The company has 38 others just like 1t which 1t will rent to anyone for $75 a day plus "commissary" expenes flood, flowers, etc.-and a railroad charge of IS fares for hauling it. The total cost of the car for the trip to the Pacific will come to around 5000.
 The interior of the Pioneer" is plain and utilitarian. The Pull man Company has added no spe- cial equipment or furnishings and the President has never asked for any.
 The first compartment is a small kitchen with 8 tiny adjoin- ing pantry. This, in turn, opens into a dining-room, about the sibe of two sleeping compart- ments, with a center table large enough for six persons with a little crowding. The linen, silver and chinaware are the same as in regular diners. Following his White Hocce habit, the President has breakfast in bed while going over the morning papers and eats lunch and dinner with his family and members of his staff.
 Next to the dining room is a sleeping compartment used by Thomas Qualters, the Presi- dents bodyguard, and another Secret Service man. Qualters and four SS-men are con- stantly on duty in the car, two at each entrance. At stops the entire Secret Service detail, plus local members of their corps and plain -clothesmen, take po- sitions around the car.
 Next to Qualter's compartments are those for the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. The Presidents drawing-room is directly in the middle of the car. His bed is placed crosswise and there is a small bathroom with shower.
 Adjoining the Presidents room Is compartment occupied by White House Secretaries Steve Early and Marvin Mcintyre. This is the first time both have ac- companied the President on transcontinental trip. Early will continue with the President on his fishing cruise, while Mcintyre returns to Washington.
 Completing the car is a small square reception room, furnished with several lounging chairs, a settee and a radio.
 The Press
 The two cars occupied by the neWsmen and photographers are regular compartment cars with two occupants to compartment.
 Newspapermen pay their own travelling expenses, as do all the "visiting firemen" Nocal poli- ticians) who board the train en route. Covering a President while on . campaign tour is strenuous and exacting work hours under terrific pressure. For their convenience dining cars are kept open all around the clock.
 Since the addition of air con- ditioning to Presidential specials, life in the travelling news-rooms is both more modest and more comfortable. In the Before-Air- Conditioning days, it was not unusual for presidential special to startle the gaping populace with the sight of perspiring newsmen, sitting in 8 row by their open windows, stripped to the undershirt and furiously pounding typewriters-tall drinks acting as paper weights.
 It was a cause of much anguish to the touring dignitary - espe- cially if he was a dry.
 Copyright, 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

A month or so hence, the rag weed will start to release it's pollen and the season of a considerable part of the populations discontent will have begun. They are a patient lot, those unfortunates who are al- lergic to the weed. Their eyes may burn, their noses may itch and they may experience general discom- fort unknown to those who are inn mune, but they have learned from said experience not to complain. For hay fever, no matter which pollen causes it, is a matter for the coarst jibes and the cruel jokes of those
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Daily Almanac

Sun rises 5:29 a. m.; sets 8:25 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 This has been one of the best years for plant growth that we have experienced in some years. Just watch the way the weeds grow That's an indication of how profuse all vegetation is. Unless we get some abnor- mally protracted dry spells the end of August vSll firrd householders exhausted from nnow- ing ard wedding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

Road construction is proceeding nice- ly in Waterbury. Most of us don't realize that important projects are underway The only time the average man knows a street is being fixed is when it incon- veniences him. Central streets under re- pair always produce comment. When the work is far from home many of us are apt not to know anything about it unti it's all finished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Current Comment

It is my deep conviction that many of our social evils would be solved, for large part of our people anyway, through the development of interest and participation in art. Prof. Clara MacGowan, North western University.
 
 People who are hungry think more in terms of bread and butter than political liberty.
 Ali. M. Landon.
 
 Romance is all right in its place but it's place isn't in the middle of a stream of traffic on a main- travelled road. Percy w. Foote. Pennsylvania highway police, att tacking romantic slowpokes."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Duty is pronounced duty; not
 do0'-ty.

sound-picture "The Phantom Presi- dent" In 1884, he starred in his only other sound-film, Gambling. e. When should tulip bulbs be re- set?
 A. Lift as soon as the flowers are past and reset elsewhere until the plants mature and the tops die down naturally. Then the bulbs should be taken up, sorted and dried, and stored in cool dark place until planting time; or they may be plant- ed at once in the permanent quar- ters if the area is ready to receive them.
 e. Which country has engaged in the most wars?
 A. Spain.
 e. Is the Fourth of July Gnde- pendence Day), observed as a legal holiday throughout the United States?
 
 Q. When was the Railway Express Agency established?
 A. It was incorporated December 2, 1928.
 Q. What is the elevation of the surface of Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire?
 A. Four hundred seventy feet above sea level.
 If you want 3 copy of our
 booklet GOLD DISH ES,
 DRINKS AND DESSERTS" write to the Waterbury Demo- crats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in post age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

woman protests that "darling' is used too much nowadays and another woman says that's o. k. because tits such a darling of a word"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

The Commonwealth of the Philip pines will utilize 60,000 square feet of space in the Pacific Area at the 1930 Worlds Fair of the Wast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

A difference of opinion is what makes a horse-race or an election. Also a business standstill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Secret Service Precautions for FDR On Trip This Year More Elaborate Than Ever; Made Without Presidents
 Consent; Fear Whispering Campaign
 Is sAimed to InfIome Attack by Maniac
N DREW PEARsols
anA R0n9Rr q ALIEN

ABOARD THE PRESIDENTS SPECIAL, July H. There is very important behind thescenes change this year the Presidents of travelling Arrange nents for safeguarding him are elaborate than aau nrevinllS tranScnntnental trinS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

1. Name the colors in a rainbow. 2. Where did the Allied and Ger man delegates sign the Treaty of Peace after the World War?
 3. Of which state is Harry w. Nice the Governor?
 1. How many centimeters are in 1 meter?
 5. What is the nickname for Montana?
 6. Is the moon enveloped in at- mosphere?
 2. What is the species classified ton of Holsters?
 6. Who won the recent French hard-court tennis singles cham pionship7
 9. Name the fourth ranking state in area in the Q. 6.
 10. Name the last letter of the CrAAk ainaahAt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

Capitalism is all right, but we don't seem to know so much about running it as we used to.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

Q. In what talking pictures has George M. Conan appeared, and was he ever in silent films?
 A. He was in six of the silent mo- ton picture versions of his Broad way plays, made in 1916-17. He did not appear in any more pictures until 1892, when he had role in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
T est Y o UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11
Questions and
 Answers
By Frederick M. Kerby

Enclose three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given. nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Be sure all mail is ad- dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington. D. c.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-11

Q. What is the origin of the lines He who has thousand friends
 has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall
 meet him everywhere?" A. The Persian poet Ali Ben Abu Taleb.
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