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ing man, but actually a nice old gentleman. He was the first gen. eral to raise the revolutionary flag north of the Yangtse river. He brides himself on not owning a car, and eating simple food. He gave us some wine with an awful bang in 1t for lunch. asked him If he thought the Japanese intended going south beyond Tsinan, cap!- tai of Shantung province. He said he could not see how they could get beyond his defenses at Tsang- chow. I hoped he wasn't whistling in the wind.
 Later found out he was.
 For two hours the Japanese have been pounding our trenches. Then the barrage lifted slightly and the shells passed over the lines. No one can get up from the rear. At noon the Japanese start coming along both sides of the railway. They crawl along the ground and then try to rush us. The kaoliang (wheat) is very low, and the Chinese mow them down with machine-guns.
 SOUTH OF PAOTING - I am retreating with the Chinese army. Just now sit here in 8 station in the midst of hundreds of soldiers and swarns of miserable, wet and hungry refugees in the mud and muck.
 There is a dead horse 10 feet away and bleeding soldiers all around me. I slept three hours ln the last AS and ate once during the same time.
 It is raining and I can't help i thinking of home and the smell of wet grass and leaves on our front lawn at home. But everything is different here. There is only the odor of suffering humanity. I hope it continues raining, then the planes won't come. Every once in while there is shot near us, but I don't care. My concern is about the planes. If they come now - well, they couldn't miss be- cause there are so many of us here. The retreat started at Shihchia- chuang. don't remember just when it is hard to keep track of time when one Is retreating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15
Ansuuers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed . on page 6.
 l. Mexico.
 2. A leap year. 3. Near Bridges Creek, WeStmOreland Co.,, Va. 4. The rapid vibration of its wings.
 5. Bolivia and Paraguay. 6. No; the correct form is, 'Tt is I who am to blame" !. Sir Veto.
 3. In the front of the upper arm.
 g. MayflOwer. 10. Goat Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15

Editor Tall Tower Topics The social held by the North End Pals Colonals Wolves and Collegians at the North End Saturday night went over with bang Mr. and Mrs Herbert Smith guests of honor who led the grand march which was directed by Dom Cobello and Bub Horrgan The boys who respons- ible for the successful affair deserve vote of thanks They Pete Toilette, John CarrierO, Buff CarlO, Herb Leece, Ed JankOwsk, Ed PaganO, Carl EscenkO and Jim Jannetty. .. North End Fan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15

 ahead. Our lights are dimmed and have difficulty in keeping up with him. We are stopped every few hundred yards by soldiers with flashlights and potato masher grenades in their hands. It is almost impossible to see anything.
 Once I hit a dog, and it ran of bowling into the darkness. Near Nanziang a peasant ran out into the road. I swung the wheel over, but the fender clipped him into the watery ditch at the side of the road. He lay in the dirt, blood streaming from his head.
 poured water from thermo bot tie on him. Police came up. We bought them lunch and 8 bottle of brandy for $10.
 This is a crazy war. In 10 years of knocking about the world l have seen nothing like it. An American bride and groom, stranded near Shanghai, complain bitterly about why all the fghting?" An Ameri- can pilot Is shot at by Chinese when he tries to land in Nanking and returns to Hangchow, refusing to fly the mail as long as those crazy gunnerS are around"
 At Suchow we stop at the Meth odist Mission Hospital and Mrs. Logan plies us with food and cold water. She is 70 and an adopted daughter of Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang. One of Feng's soldiers many years ago ran amuck and killed her hus- band. Feng took care of her since and sent her children through school.
 There was another woman who told us how Japan planes bombed and machine-gunned their school compound. She has been living in the hills around Mokanshan but went back to Soochow to salvage her belonging from little house.
 NANKING-An American pho tographer wanted to take Madame Chiang Kai-shek'S picture. Some how he gave people the idea that he was a reporter. Madame Chiang asked him if he would like to know something and he said yes.
 Well, ask me some leading ques- tions," she laughed.
 The photographer said he did not know what to ask.
 "I've been sent to get something different" he replied, embarrassed. Madame Chiang looked at him in funny way, and he asked If he could go. Later when I have 8 chance to think of our life here I'll wonder how we did 1t. My back and legs are sore from riding those ponies. To make it worse, got caught outside the barb wire in the front trenches in broad daylight when the Japanese planes came over and could not get back in time to hide.
 The battalion commander laugh ed.
 Our arms and backs are red and raw from lice and mosquitoes. FORTTETH ARMY HEADQUAR- TIERS OUTSIDE TSANGCHOW, 100 MILES SOUTH OF TIENTSIN. -Gen. Fang Ping-hsun has given US room to ourselves. The head quarters is in tiny village of mud houses along the Grand Canal. We had to take a boat across the flood waters and then horses to get here.
 Pang is fat and 50, a hard-look-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15

The thrill of lifetime was only mild way of ex- pressing it when Dr. Francis P. Barnes prominent Bank street dentist looked into his cards during game of p nochle recently and discovered he had 1000 and double pnochle He speeches. with surprise the three other players at that table There play ing for time all other players wanted to see that wonderful hand. This deserves UP flash
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15

ERAZIER HUNT wOd-famed globe rOttng correspondent"
 whose recent impressions of his fellow Americans and of gained reportOr which assignment from NEA Service The Waterbury Democrat widely which cryazes his observations of the world and it's people The fo lowing reproduced courtesy of the New York World Telegram.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15
HI! BOY SCOUTS!
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good Evening.

s-print in Honor of Boy Scout 28th. Anniversary
 HI! BOY SCOUTS Here's to the boys of the nation, Give them hand and shout; There are boys and boys, you said it, But we give you today the Boy Scout He's credit to boyhood that's certain, If he lives up to his Boy Scout creed, Honest and truthful and useful, In thought, kind word and deed. As hiker, he's quite winner, He chops his way through the brush; He can cook, pitch tent, make fire, Like the woodSman he's keen on the mush. So here's to those boys of the nation, Snappy, upright and a-going; We give you today the nations Boy Scouts Who've twenty-five years been a-growing
 Elm. Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15
PATENT GRANTED

William K. Simpson, president of the Hoffman Speciality Co, has been awarded patent for a steam trap and balanced valve, 1t was announc- ed yesterday. The patent rights have been assigned to his company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15

Rosalind Russell is the newest skiing addict Not only does she enjoy the sport but she recently pur chased skiing costume in New York which she is anxious to So she has gone with her brother-in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs Chester La Roche visiting from the East for week at Yosemite The La ROcheS agreed to go with the Metro Goldwyn-M star only because they have never seen Yosemite not to be in the that is the reason they left New York But the actress announced she was going to enjoy the skiing to the ful
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15

The John Ginartin Vocabulary Building project has added another story and has reached Hamden where the Teachers League there sponsoring two period in vocabulary Building and Word Pro- nunciaon These popular courses now in progress in many cities throughout the state, as we'll as in our own city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15
Notes From A War Correspondent
-olling over on his back and playing

random notes from the front lines Belden United Press Staff Correspond travelled 10000 miles through nine provinces of China and headquarters of various armies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15

Two white rhinoceroses, escaped from Hluhluwe Reserve. are destroy ing crops and fences in South Af- rtca.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15
By JACK BELDEN United Press Staff Correspondent (COuvriRht. 1888. By United PreSS)

EN ROUTE TO RANKING FROM SHANGHAI 1By Maio-GuP>.  A. driven photographer lent after decided not make the trip He supposed to have
  top saving his lhe losing her
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South Africa will pay $2,030,000 for A new federal railway locomo- tiYeS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-29

1 the captain. you know, in this Greg ory affair.""
 "Is he ill?" Isobel demanded, pre- tending a tremendous concern.
 HIP" The doctors voice was flat. No, he isn't i'll. l thought you'd all heard about it."
 We were just wondering why he was so late to dinner" Mrs. Porter told him.
 Dr. Gray frowned He was ar rested in Kingston" he said quiet ly.
 "Arrested?" Isobel echoed, thun- derstruck. What for?"
 "Embezzlement, Ran off with some bank funds, back in New Jersey" He spoke shortly, reluctant to dis cuss the man who had been guest at his table for so many days. Lets forget it, shall we? It's a very un- fortunate affair. Very"
 In amazement, they turned their attention to the food on their plates, each one too thoroughly SNOCRBu UO HldhC dlly dtCCulPO dN light conversation. MT. Gregory arrested! Joyce remembered her vague mistrust of the man; she recalled his peculiar outburst on the beach at La Playa. T only live once. Why shouldn't I have the same as anyone else?" So he had stolen, to get it.
 Mrs. Porter looked at her daughter, and her glance dripped contempt. You would make fool of yourself, it said plainly; you would come back here tonight and boast of his banking ingenuity.
 eYt of them all, Isobel was the first to regain her composure Well, it certainly goes to show she offered philosophically, "you never can tell. I'm glad he had those two Iron Heels. He'll have a longtime to cool off"
 Gro Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-29

A DOLE HlTLERS iron-heeled 1A troops tread the soil of Aus tria these days in bold defiance of all treaties and tiny Czecho- slovakia finds herself in a vice. like geographic grip. Already there are Germans who talk of Czechoslovakia going the way of Austria.
 But Czechoslovakia, which rose out of the ruins of the Austro- Hungarian Empire in 1918, thinks otherwise. In all Europe there is no more tenacious defender of democracy than this little nation. The Czechs want to get along with the Germans but they want inde- pendence.
 Key figure of this spirit is Edouard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia. As he crisply puts the situation, "We will fight for independence" The ideal means just that much to Benes, heir of the late President Masaryk and founder of the Czechoslovakian republic.
 Elected in 1885, Benes has main- tained the Masaryk ideal of de- mocracy and has come closer to realization than any other rulers in Central and Eastern Europe. He does not believe Herr Hitler will attack but if ever that day comes Benes has prepared his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-29
CAST OF CHARACTERS

CAST OF CHARACTERS JOYCE MILNER, heroine; she tok an Easter Cruise.
 DICK HAMILTON, hero; he bumped into the heroine.
 ISOBEL PORTER, traveller; she sought . mate.
 Yesterday, Joyce realizes at last that she really loves Dick but for the moment she does not admit it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-29
CR AMslsM CRACKERS

Which word in each of the fol- lowing lists does not belong there? l. Garbo, Armetta, Devine, Hem ingway, Withers.
 2. Ingenue, soubrette, "heavy," supernumerary. octaroon.
 2. Dolomite, Sangre De Cristo, Atlas, Netherlands, Pyrenees. {. Platoon, company. brigand, de- tachment, corps.
 s. Demosthenes, Socrates, Pe- tronius, Alcibiades, Plato.
 Solution on Back Page
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L U u II | I J lOi the blow, both through foreign alliances a n d military strength at home. Benes is shown here on a 1886 stamp of his country.
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Solution on Back Page
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Copyright. 1888, NEA Service. .Inc.)
 NEXT: What is the makeup Of CzechOsIOvakia?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21
How' It's Done

TT Is done simply through the
l. banks. Forty per cent Of the
bank deposits of the Nations
banks are in Government bonds.
The depositor steps up to the
window and hands half his
weekly pay check to the teller
to put in his savings account.
The depositor doesn't realize
that 40 cents out of every dollar
he has put in has been "bor-
rowed" by the Government poll
ticians-to spend.
Oh, yes! It's great stuff to
hear the Government is going to
spend between four and five
billion dollars to break the
back of the depression" just as
they spent $15,O00,O00.000 to
"break the back of the depreS-
sion every year for five years
but it's the PEOPLES money
that's about to be spent again.
Forty per cent of their bank de-
posits have been spent by the
Government. The people have
so cents, plus 40 cents worth of
I.O.U.'s signed by the New
Dealers to make up their dollar.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21

to present them for their educa-
tional value.
The one which appeared to
have the greatest educational
value is entitled why Straw
berries Grow Whiskers." Re
viewers say it clears up that pro-
found enigma which has been
puzzling the world for all time.
Other titles, "Barnyard Under
world" ST. B. or Not T. b."
Tale of Two Bulls"
However these are being pre-
sented without palms,.
mors of Congressman
switching positions for the new
wageS-hours bill are thicker
than flies and just as thin. One
o. two important changes of DO
sition may Ievelop in the House,
but probably not enough to
make any difference. Careful
rechecking of the House Rules
Committee indicates there will
be no wages-hours bill this Ses-
sion unless the Administration is
able to offer more convincing
inducements.
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Court Reorganization

A LITTLE shot-gu, reorgani-
"A cation of the Third Circuit
Court is being quietly attempted
by the Administration with some
success. A provision was writ
ten into the new judgeship bill
in the House directing that two
more judges be appointed to the
Pennsylvania circuit, which has
been plaguing the New Deal
with adverse labor and tax deci-
Sions.
The provision was obviously
designed to push out two judges
because it specified that after
their retirement, the vacancies
should not be filled. The two
judges, one 76, another II, have
announced their intention of
retiring.
But the New Dealers do not
consider their victory won. They
put in another provision speci-
flying that a judge over the re-
tirement age may not serve as
senior circuit Judge. With this
they are trying to force out the
senior circuit judge. who is SO.
Not much resistance has been
offered in Congress so far. on
the ground that it is a minor
situation, although it involves
the same tactics the President
proposed for the Supreme
Court.
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/. o. US Pile Up

THE more "pump-priming" re-
4 sorted to, the larger grows
the pile of politicians I. o. us.
The more I. o. us, the less
valuable becomes the dollar the
working man, the clerk and the
jobholder have deposited in their
banks. The only individuals who
can call a halt to this deadly
economic disease are the work
ing people themselves. They can
do it by the ballot-box.
If, on the other hand, they
won't or don't want to stop it,
then they can do two things:
Think first of the dollar they
put in the savings bank, then
think of the 40 cents worth of
I. o. us, then ask themselves
what happens when the next
four billions are exhausted?
When they are exhausted, an
other slump will come. Next
time the politicians may call it
little "retrogression"! Then
they'll say production outran
consumption-we must prime
the pump! And they'll seek
to spend some more billions.
And when they do, that pile of
I. o. us will grow larger.
The ultimate, of course, is that
there is nothing left of the 100
cents the depositor thought he
was saving. Only a pretty pile
Of I. o. us signed by the
Washington politicos.
Then some of the depositors
will wish they had remembered
the ballot-box-before it was too
late.
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Got Theater for $50

MIR. LORENTZ's efforts to
WA stimulate buying power
might thus have come to per-
sonal disaster. He might have
been forced to pay for it him.
self. However, his government
bosses recognized this aversion
20 business details ct the out
set and appointed an $1,800-a-
year clerk, whose duty was to
follow Lorentz around and keep
him from restoring prosperity
single handed.
The clerk got the theater
for $50 and kept production
costs down to 81 a reel, but ap-
parently went out for a moment
when the potted palms were or
dered. He now is stuck for the
$536.78.
However, the sticking may yet
come under the head of ill
nouriShment." The Govern
ment is pledged to prevent that.
at least the sips which were
taken before and after the "a
NOUS New Orleans premiere
eventually may go back to the
unartistic Comptroller Generals
office listed as drinks for the
thirsty or some such worthy
cause and thereby save all con-
cerned-except the Treasury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21

In the economy era which pre-
coded this new spending pro-
gram, the Farm Security Admin
istration employed motion pi
ture director to make two pic
lures at Treasury expense. They
were widely hailed by critics,
who apparently do not pay
taxes. A brilliant job of pres
entation was done on both The
Plow" and THE River" by the
director, Pare Lorentz.
Apparently Mr.. LorentZ
thought so too. His arrange
ments for the world premiere of
"The River" were in keeping
with the high caliber of the pro-
duction. Potted palms were
hired for the lobby of the New
Orleans theater where it was to
open.
Publicity kilograms were sent
to leading citizens of the city.
Everyone was invited around to
have a sip before and after. Very
long-distance phone calls added
to the promotional aspects of
the private showing "for holders
Of cards only"
The bill came to $53678. It
was duly presented to the comp
troller-less office of the Comp
troller General, and there the
trouble started. If the account
ing system had been changed as
proposed in the reorganization
bill, the trouble might have been
avoided. Under the post-audit
system the expense account
might have been paid.
Unfortunately the accountants
have no artistic appreciation of
potted palms, sips, ETC., and flat.
ly refused to sanction the $536.78
on the ground it was not au-
thorized under the law.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21
S. E, BOYS CLUB
IS COMMENDED

The Southeast Boys Club OF
Washington has received a certifi
cate of membership in the Boys
Clubs of America, it was an
nounced today.
Accompanying the certificate OF
membership was the following
message from Sanford Bates, ex
ecutive director of the Boys Clubs
of America:
''The board of directors of
Boys Clubs of America and the
$50 boys clubs in. the United
States and Canada extend to
the new Southeast Club of Wash
nigton, D. c., heartiest greetings
and congratulations. I have the
privilege of sending to you this
certificate of membership, tan
gible evidence that you have
Joined in a conCinent-Wide move
ment for the promotion of good
citizenship and preservation of
our American ideals.
THE new clubhouse which you
dedicated yesterday will serve as
a splendid memorial to the civic
leadership of Frank R. Jelleff,
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson and
other citizens of the Nations
Capitol. May the thousands of
boys who use it find many hours
of amusement and diversion,
and a stimulation toward in
telligent Self-diScipline, without
which the very existence of our
republic is threatened"
NOR ENR SUFFRAGE APRIL 80
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Forest Service
Dance Planned

Forest Service Section, Depart
ment of Agriculture, will hold its
formal function OF the season, a
dance, tomorrow evening at Ward
man Park Hotel.
Samuel r. Broadbent is head
of the floor committee, aided by
Mrs. Josephine Thompson, Henry
B. Steer, Harold w. Leath, Francis
Shoemaker, Mrs. Ruth Reichard
and Fred H. Miller.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21

Government wouldn't spend so
profligately.
Yet that is what the Govern
ment had to do 20 years ago.
During the World War when the
Government was busy raising
war loans, its speakers went out
into the highways and byways
and asked people to buy a bond;
to leave their dollars at the box
office when they went out, with
their names and addresses.
1t was the PEOPLES money
the Government was seeking and
1t was to the people the Govern
ment had to go.
Now, 20 years later, the Gov
eminent borrowS from the peo-
pie. But the people don't know
it. The method is painless.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21
$52,472 RAISED
FOR Boys CLUB

With three days to run, total
contributions to the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club $4,000 drive
stood at $52.472.77, it was re-
ported today. OF yesterdays
contributions. $3,692.69 was turned
over by j. Leighton CornwelI.
chairman of the Government unit
after a laSt-minute appeal to all
volunteer campaign workers in
the Government. Although the
campaign ends officially Saturday,
the proceeds of THE Dance of
the States" which will be held at
the Willard Hotel on May Is, are
expected to swell the fund ap-
Ipreciably.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21
~VUIE fun SUIT hAGE AFHTL u
'RFC Aide to Talk
At Business Meet

Emil Schramm, of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation,
will be the guest speaker at the
monthly meeting of the Fedora
ton of Business Mems ASsocia-
tions tonight at $50 o'clock in the
Hamilton Hotel. He will discuss
loans by the Government to small
business men. The meeting has
been designated as "Brookland-
Woodbridge night"
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
UnIucky in love so she turned crook to
rob bachelors. The police of Manchester,
England, had q hard time catching the
thief, and the quiet bespectacled land
lady they finally nabbed didn't look like
. criminal. Read this unusual adventure
In the American Weekly, the magazine
distributed with Asxt Sundays Washing
ten HsFald.TtmAas
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21
Eues Warn of Diseases

Mans eyesight Is often an
alarm signal Of diseases of the
entire system sounding the
clarion five to ten years in ad-
vance.
Seldom does the eyesight Try
wolf" either, said DR.. Thornwall
Davis and DR.. John N. Evans, re-
spectively. Washington and New
York opthalmologists, before the
postgraduate course of George
Washington University for eye
physicians.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21
Reserve Fund?

IT is estimated in the budget
I that the Government will
collect about $3.50, 900, 900 in So
cial security taxes this year.
Under the law, the Government
must invest those funds in Gov
eminent bonds.
Thus the Government collects
three-quarters of a billion more
dollars, buys it own bonds and
has another three-quarters of q
billion-to spend. Yet it kids
the working people that their
social security contributions are
nicely tucked away in a reserve
fund.-" The funds are only as
good as the I. o. us. How good
will those I. o. us remain if
mp-priming" goes on, and on
and on?
Copyright. Ledger syndicate.)
(BoGke Carriers opinions are
his otUn and not necessarily
those of The Washington TinteSI
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 3d.