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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

ship which grew naturally Gas well as sometimes balefully, sometimes helpfully) where native capital was scant and all credit was high. And the tariff. And freight rates.
 The facts of cause and symptom in the south are too vast to be denied: sixty-one per cent of all the nations badly eroded land is in the southern states. But the population of the south is growing more rapidly by natural increase than that of any other region. A LAND
 AND ITS PEOPLE
 This poor, crowded land and its people lie behind every aspect of the south. Behind the southern schools which must educate the most children with the least wealth, behind the twins of malnutrition and disease, behind the two and a half million below-standard houses, behind the half and more of all southern mill workers who earn less than 37.5 cents an hour al- though in the rest of the country less than 10 per cent work at, such low ratess
 The crowded land lies behind the child labor fortunately de- creased), the long working hours for women, and the little buying power which makes the south 8 poor market for the many things (made everywhere in America) which the south needs.
 So far as legislation goes, so far as formal acts in solution are con- cerned, I think the President has dug up more snakes than he can kill.
 Despite the trade treaties of his secretary of state, there seems little prospect that the tariff will be sub- stantially altered to serve an agri- cultural south. Indeed, above its big sprawling agriculture many of the new industrialists of Dixie are most articulate for tariff protection for themselves.
 Escape from freight rate discrim- ination must come slowly-though it seems to be ahead-before com
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
ADVISORY GROUP
 CONFIRMED TODAY
Deputy Motor Vehicle Commissioner Hogan Re-
 appointed By IVA

Confirmation of ten appointments to the advisory committee of the Connecticut National Youth Admin istration by the national headquar- ters in Washington was announced here today by State Director Thomas J .Dodd. The committee will serve for the fiscal year ending July l, 1889.
 Three of the members of the com- mittee are reappointments, while the remaining seven are all new members. It is the function of this group to serve in a general advis- ory capacity on matters of policy, etc., for the state administration.
 The three reappointments are Francis Hogan of Torrington; Dom- mick J. McNulty, Meriden; Miss Katherine Blunt, president of the Connecticut College for Women, New London.
 The new members of this commit tee are: Mrs. Ward Duffy, member of the State Welfare Commission, West Hartford; John Mccarthy, manufacturer of Newton; Alderman Joseph T. Rourke, agent of the electricians union, New Haven; James Lee, postmaster, Willimantic; !; Mrs. Alvin Bruel. member of the Bridgeport hospital board of direc- tors, Bridgeport; John Robinson, Cheshire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

Fashion Notes . Our Schiaparelli scout tells us that wee hats do and will adorn the bean during the early winter months. Also noted in hattery are wee ricorns in amusing version of the dolls hat Gin other words you get laugh from most of the hats, wee, mid dle-szed big) Tiny leaves (we get wee-ish agaln) made of silver buge beads form girde for the Grecan evening gown should you be stepping out nights to the "boogie-woogie" swing rhythm. Ginger Rogers In
 Carefree" has diagonal stripes of gold kdSkn on the bodice and sleeves of black wool street rock ry that one your Singer sewing machine you nmbe fingered ones) You must be in a suit this winter ending up later in the in the typical snowut But right now you should have of those with the tubular jacket ef feet longish coat and your manniSh suit must be straight and slim. Which brings us to the man who also must wear annsh suits straight and slim, but not like the ladies' but rather in the masculine Clark Gable stye in the new fall browns and rusts, and something truly de rgeur and that would pass muster under the eye sa Lucus Beebe should he encounter you at one of the honkier-tonker spots in gay Gotham And nd pour le sport you gentlemen and ladies both must be sporty but careessy so just enough where they should be and just enough where they should not be- you know what we mean. Ladies, have you new dull velvet in your sartoria repertoire? If not you should have Something in grey to give you that picturesque look
 like the Lady in Grey hanging in the Metropolitan Mu- of Art or is that the Lady in Red? And don't we beg of you forget that absolute necessity is the cos tune velvet otherwise in the vintage shades (JuSt bring to mind your favorite wines, and there's your dress, should we say frock?) And what dear reader you going to do when you get going at the plads Big plads and medium paids and then the wee (there you have the influence again) plaid which some call the check And with all this whatever the day. whatever the costume the upintheback hair sets off the dolls hat or the trcorne, or does it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

 "You ought to buy these books, sir; If you had these books you coulo farm twice as well as you do."
 The old man settled himself more comfortably in his chair. "Hell, son. :. he said, T don't farm half as well as know how now"
 POVERTY .... PREFERRED
 And by the same token, the re- port of the National Emergency Council to the President on the economic conditions of the south was not necessary to. make. .the nation aware that the south was not an Eden without a snake.
 Congressmen and president, sena- tors and businessmen have been aware of that for half 8 century longer, indeed, than that. The south was poor and men in the other sec tions were willing that 1t be kept poor. The south was poor and some southerners in it preferred a poverty which maintained 8 sectional integ- rity, even if it was a ghetto integ- rity, in which their rule (not al- ways wise) was undisturbed.
 The report lists the symptoms of the blight upon a land which should be, but is not, garden. And be- heath the symptoms the causes are arrayed with considerable diagnos- tic precision.
 And causes, like conditions, are familiar; misuse of land the young migrating from hunger, and the cash crop farming in an agricultur- al region which never could ac- cumulate enough capital and credit at home, and the absentee owner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
Suicide! Rated As Tenth Cause of Death in Connec- ticut - More Com mon in West. N

Accidents, homicides, and gui- cides rank high in various sec- tions of the country as leading causes of death, according to the5 statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In the Rocky Mountain States of Mon- tana, Idaho, Wyoming and Ne-s vada the accident death rate is exceeded only by the heart dis ease mortality rate. Suicide is sd common in Nevada, Washington and California that 1t stands ninth among the chief causes of death, while in both Connecticut and Colorado it is tenth in im- portance. Homicide is listed among the ten leading causes of death in Georgia and Alabama.
 In the entire western part of the country accidents as a cause of death usually rank higher than third. "The chief factor of taiS high accidental mortality in -the Far West" the statisticians say lis the automobile. Apparently the wide open spaces are an invita- tion to excessive speed and lead td indifferent driving habits; per- haps not so much among the irl- habitants themselves as anone the many nonresident transienta in these states"
 Pneumonia takes high rank. not in the Northeastern and North Central States, where the climate is trying and changeable, but ir the Southern and Rocky Moun1 tain sections. Its mortality rate dd exceeded only by that of hearl disease in Colorado, Utah, Texas Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama Tennessee and Kentucky, whild in New Mexico pneumonia is ths leading cause of death.
 Nephritis prevails chiefly in thd South Atlantic States. In Dela1 ware, Maryland, North Carolina South Carolina, Georgia, Florida Mississippi and Louisiana thd death rate from this cause is mex to that of heart disease.
 Tuberculosis, once the most dread disease of all, and nov ranking only seventh among thd causes of death for the country as a whole, is. nevertheless, so pre- valent in three states that "it is in the vanguard of the forces O death." Tn Arizona it outrank' even heart disease and pneumonia as the "chief menace to human life." The high tuberculosis nor tality in Arizona and New Mex ico may be laid to the influx of sufferers from the disease, but in Tennessee the situation is unex- plained.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
LIONS CLUB HOLD
 DINNER SATURDAY
Ladies' Night to Be Ob- served at Morris COf1-
 munity House


 Celebrating the clubs successful season at the children's health farm at Bantam this summer, mem- bers of the Waterbury Lions club will forego the regular weekly meet ing and will hold ladies' night. card party, dinner and entertain ment at Morris Community house, Saturday night at 7:30. The Morris Ladies' Aid society will serve the dinner.
 Only four members were absent at the 100 per cent meeting Thurs day and these, all out of town, attended Lions club luncheons in the cities where they had business: Adolph Raymond at Washington, D.. O., three other Waterbury members
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
SCOUTS PLANNING
 MEMORIAL GROVE
Grove of Trees to Be Planted at Plymouth
 Camp

Increased registrations in seven of the nine districts of the local Boy Scout council were reported last night by Fred Smith, organiz- ation chairman, at meeting of the council executive board. MT. Smith reported that there are now 1,271 scouts registered, and that new troops have been organized by the Casper s. Davis post, American Legion, Waterville; Troop l, Mid- dlebury, by the Parent-Teachers as- sociation; and new sea naval group, Ship l, of Naugatuck. A large grove of trees is to be planted on. the hillside .West of the new camp site in Plymouth. The grove, which will be known as Con- E.itution grove, will be "a living monument, part of the local observ- ance of national rededication to the fundamental principles of American democracy as outlined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights" according to Chief David F. Bab- son.
 Veterans groups and organiza- tions of all kinds will be invited to plant a tree in the grove, to be dedicated as they see fit. The dedi- cation will be held early in Novem- Der.
 Frank Schwartz, former scout master of troop 2, was appointed assistant district commissioner for the central Waterbury district.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

Otto Kruger believes he either is the victim of mon
 nental kidding from his fans that he's master at feipnng illness Almost four years ago Kruger played nlrn scene wherein he stumbled blinding through storm and threw himself, weeping on his wifes grave The next scene showed him nearly dead ot pneumonia He reported on the Thanks for the Memory set at Para mount today that he is still getting mail about it. Some write their surprise to see him in other pictures ire d gurg wrote that they thought the studio very cruel to make me get out in the rain and catch my death of cold" Kruger relates. T don't know but think they're kld ding"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
AVIGLIANESE PLAN
 VICTORY BANQUET

The Aviglianese A. c. will hold 6 dinner dance Saturday evening, October 1, at the Club Germaine, in honor of the club team winning the championship of the Italian-A -Ameri- can Baseball league.
 The committee in charge of the affair is made up of Bart Martinelli, Domenic Accousti. Frank and Will liam Martinelli, Anthony Romaniello Leonard and Anthony Santoro.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

of reinforced concrete pavement be- ginning at Newtown avenue and ending at Easton road.
 Towns of Westport and Fairfield :: About 18,290 feet of reinforced con- crete pavement beginning at Easton road and ending at Congress street.
 Towns of Norwalk and Westport: About 3150 feet of single rail type and about 4780 feet of double rail type rustic guide fence.
 Work on the above projects will be started immediately.
 Another small award of a drainage contract on Route in the town of West Hartford involving the expen- allure of $89650 has been awarded to the Bloomfield Construction Co., Bloomfield, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

Daniel Allyn Morelli bashful soda jerker in con Sect;onary in the theatrical dstrct tells his heart throb is complaining because he's always seeing park inp spots in front of his eyes, Kitty COndrick was back at her Prudential Insurance desk bright and early yesterday morning after week of great vacation weather during which the alarm clock did not sound until noontime Chick Webb and his ork, featuring Ella Fitzgerald the yOcas opens the winter dance season at Hamilton Park week from next Sunday ming followed by Blue Barron and his Blue Notes. Congratulations - It's an 8A-pound butcher boy, Charles Thomas, at Frank McWeeneys on the Merl- den Road, born Tuesday, September 15.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
SPORTSMEN'S CLUB
 PLAN FIELD DAY

Numerous local sportsmen plan to attend the field day sponsored by the Federated Sportsmen's clubs of Connecticut Sunday at the City Service Gun club, East Haven.
 Events on the program include trap and skeet shooting, archery, fly casting, plug casting, pistol shooting and rifle shooting. The competi- ton is open to the general public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
|1O2 APPLICANTS FOR CITIZENSHIP
Naturalization Court tC Hear Petitions at Sept.
 Term Tomorrow

The September term of the wa terbury naturalization court will be held tomorrow in the court o| common pleas, with lS2 appIicant| for citizenship attending. Thl class was postponed from an earIie| date because of Q large number O| candidates who otherwise would not have been eligible.
 Judges Edward J. Finn and Mile F. McNiff will preside at the ses| sion, which will continue through out the day. Clerk William M Gillette of the court of comrnoi| pleas will administer the oath o| allegiance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

Tmmie Grove and his orchestra will feature the benefit program the Norwood A. C. will offer next Sat- urday evening in the Ansonia Opera House. The money will be turned over to the family of one of thelr be- loved members who was drowned in an auto accident early last month. Dolores PaOlini left Lake Com bounce Sunday evening happy young lady She se' cured beautiful photo of Guy and Carmen Lombardo band wound up successful engagement at Saratoga Lake Saturday night They have irons in the fire for winter job down south.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
THE RAINS CAME
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

How the rains come pouring down Flooding the countryside and town, DeuQing the garden znnias and phlox, A disturbance approaching the fall equinox Always and ever the rains are true to form, In the old days they called it line storm. The rains the rains came harder and fast, We said: wonder how much longer they'll last. All night long against the window pane, An ever increasing, deluging rain, Leaves drop down and in rivulets float, The melancholy days are here:-quote. Rut one logs about ones work halfway cheery, Again quote: some days must be dark and dreary
 Elm. En-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

had preceded me to the porch of the big commits sary where this gentleman sat in rocking chair and ha d undertaken to sell him a set of books on scien . tifc az riculture. The old m a n thumbed through the books.
 "Naw, son." he said, T dol mt want 'em."
 But the sales
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
LINER TO HAVE 7o-ToN RUDDER

Clydebank, Scotland - (UP) - The new Cunard White Star liner Queen Elizabeth, the largest vessel in the world, will be controlled by a rudder weighing more than 70 tons, wit han area of 509 square feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

Moonlight" floods Stage at Paramount It is night in Paris Perched porch railing Jack Benny ana Joan Bennett approach crisis of their love affair in Artists and Models Abroad" Just when "clinch" impends Benny falls backward into hedge. Silver coins shower tinkngy from his pockets to the floor Good report Cameraan Ted Tetzlaf and Sound Mixer Charles HsSe- rich But Director Mitchell Leisen frowns We shoot 1t over Leisen orders Beny is supposed to be pennless but he sounds like slot machine paying oil JacKpot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
STAR SIGNED

Fay Bainter has ben signed | Metro Goldwyn-Mayer studios fd an important role in "The Shinin Hour, starring Joan Crawford Margaret Sullivan, Robert Your and Melvyn Douglas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

and court. No President or Congress can retroactively repeal the fully grown inequality which grew while the south was held de- liberately at disadvantage.
 The monopolies are mature. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
At Torrington.

at Torrington.
 A meeting of the board of dired tors will be held Thursday at 6:j o'clock at Merwin s. Bronson's res| dence at Roxbury. The new Conned ticut Lions district will be host the New England conference at tl
 Hotel Bond, Hartford, Oct. 6-9.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
Rx JONATHAN DANIELS

By JONATHAN DANIELS
 NEA Service Special Correspondent
 A year ago when I was travelling about the south, trying as a south erner to discover my own land, l came upon an old gentleman in southeastern Arkansas. He was one of the squirarchy of that region, the landlord-merchant- banker far mer of his world on the dusty road.
 A book agent, young and brash,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

Rev. James McGrath organizer of the Holy Name society of St. Donatos church. New Haven is busy these days completing preliminary arrangements for the an nual smoker Monday evening October 24 He dropped in yesterday and made promise to take in the event and renew acquaintances with Raymond "Ducky" Pond Yale coach who will be the principal speaker. Entertainment will be offered with Francis Patrick Sheehan see. Okah, my lads, the mike is yours
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
Teday's Answers to
 cRANIUM CRACKERS
Questions on the Comic Page

MT. Brown has 13 descendants.
 He has three children of his own, plus his children's children, which number 10. The stepson is not a descendant, nor are the stepson's children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
Holds Solution Awaits Equality Of Regions

This Is the second of three articles on the south and its problems by Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh, N. O., News and Observer and author of the current best seller "A
 Southerner Discovers the South"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

Bob Patrick was honored at a surprise party in Ob- of his birthday at his Pleasant street home Saturday evening. Andy McDermott bid happy adeu to his appendix at st. Marys Hospital this week ~. Mrs. John Hogan of Sylvan avenue celebrated birthday by entertaining at her Tyler Lake Cottage Friday evening" Bill Murphy is accepting congratu- lations for passing the state ebalmng board exams recently He's now practicing at Mulvlles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20

homie Problem No. is problem for the people of the southland of the east and west-for us all.
 NEXT: The two alternative solu- tions to the south's problem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
South Economic Problems Belong Motto South Alone, But to the Entire Nation, Writes Daniels

tariffs are fixed. The freight rate discrimination will not quickly dis- appear. And wage and hour and similar legislation sometimes seems by itself dangerous as an independ- ent item when it would be virtuous as 8 part of a full program for equality.
 NATIONAL
 PROBLEM
 Poverty and sweaty wages were never anywhere good. If the south by law is to be required to pay decent wages Cas I think every sec ton should bel, it should in equity also be qualified to pay by the re- nnoval of inequality.
 The problem of the south is not a southern problem. It is the prob lem of the possibility of federal union.
 Grants troops did not solve it. Solution awaits upon the possibility of equality in happiness and hap piness in equality of the regions within it.
 And no one President--or a dozen of them-armed with the best in- tentions in the world can quickly demonstrate such possibility. Eco-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
AnslUers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6. 1. San Francisco Bay. 2. Treasury. 3. Islam. {. Sister-in-law. 5. New Orleans, La. 6. A on-conducting device, or material. used to separate two electrical conductors. 2. Golf.
 6. Colorado. 2. 1883. 10. Tale.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-29

economic system will collapse unless
the protectorate is extended. They
will be submitted to the next con-
gress. probably by special presiden-
tial message, as the basic for
amendments to the Philippines in
dependence act which was passed
in 1884
In an accompanying report the
Joint committee proposed that a
special post independence trade
treaty be drafted as soon as pos
sible to provide preferential trade
relations until Dec. 81, 1860, when
the protectorate would expire.
President Quezon, in a corol-
larry statement, said that "the sta
bility of the future Philippine re-
public and of its national economy
will not be possible unless the rec
concentrations are given effect
President Roosevelt said that the
proposed changes were important
and urgent" to prevent the dis
ruption of several Philippine in
dustries, and to define "the future
commercial policy of the United
States toward an independent Phil
ippines.'
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-29
Donkey Bite
Worth S12,5OO

PHOENIX. Nov. %. tUPl=The
bite Of buro is worth $125O0
or 50 the Arizona supreme court
was on record in a ruling today.
The high court upheld a ruling
of the Yavapai county superior
court which awarded damages to
that amount for injuries received
when a buITo. owned by the Ari-
zona Livestock company attacked
Mrs. w. D. Washington Of Ash
Fork.
Blue Boy The burro, seriously
injured Mrs. Washington when She
attempted to help a boy capture the
animal.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-29
Triple Slayer
Gets Life Term

NEW YORK, Nov. 20. CUP)-
Robert Irwin, 31-year-old confessed
triple slayer, was sentenced to life
Imprisonment today.
Irwin, former inmate at the
Rockland State hospital, confessed
to the Staying of Ronnie Gedeon,
20-year-old artists model, her
mother, and Frank Byrnes, a
ledger in the Gedeon home, on
Easter morning, 1887.
Judge James G.. Wallace split the
sentence into three parts-99 years
to life for the Staying of Byrnes
and 20 years to life each for the
Staying of Mrs. Gedeon and her
daughter, a total of 139 years in
state prison.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-29

spots here and there, such as AL
berla's ill-fated Social Credit. Her
nationally owned rail system is a
heavy burden. On the whole, how
ever. she has had good, sane, COM
nonsense government. There is
every rcson for optimism.
what Canada Means TO u. 5.
What does all this mean to citi-
zens of the United States? Briefly,
it means better business, more jobs,
higher wages. There are not two
countries in the world which are
closer knit economically than the
United States and Canada. The
Dominion's business cannot grow
without boosting business in the
United States and Vice-Versa. This
is why the new reciprocity tariff
announced last Week-Should be of
mutual benefit to both nations as
a whole, although it hurts certain
communities. Canada'S bullish out
look should mean some good invest
ment opportunities in the securities
of Canadian banking, industrial, and
utility concerns. They should give
American investors an anchor to
the WindWard from the unSound
trends in the United States.
Most important of all right now,
the British movement to Canada
means greater protection for both
United States and Canadian citi-
zens against foreign aggression.
Here is a unique case in modern
history where a stronger neigh
Dor means a better ally rather
than worse enemy.