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Evening star., 1938-01-23
Pictures Under Water
Add to Diving Fun
Mckinley Student Developing
Sport With Homemade
Helmet and Camera.
BY MAXINE GORDON,
Mckinley High School Student

VIM under water IN homemade helmet for oysters
ana Just for fun unusual hobby
mckinley High School
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For two years George Hawood of
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Evening star., 1938-01-23
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Evening star., 1938-01-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Let's Be Fair About It

The announcement from Mayor Frank Hayes that the salaries of all city employees are to be cut 10 per cent, eftec- tive June 1, has met with varying com- ment. That in Waterbury from his con start critics the morning evening news paper combination, was that he was being unjust by forcing something on employees, many of whom the paper "combo' says in the same breath shouldn't be working for the city. So when you get right down to it, no step Mayor Hayes might take to meet the present situation would be right in this critics eyes.
 On the other hand out-of-toWn news papers attempt to analyze the situation. For example, the Bridgeport Telegram states that the pay-cut is to care for the city's deficit, acquired ir past years Un- fortunately that isn't the way cities meet deficits, no matter how they may be acquired. There are charter requirements calling for set-ups in the budget to cover deficits. Another reinstatement" is this -"Its present administration while ordering pay cut for all city employees has just made mass appointments of new firemen and policemen, apparently to pay political promises. ="
 That's without foundation and merely due to the fact that the Telegram editor has listened to only one siGe of the story. In the first place there weren't any mass appointments to either fire or police department Department personnel ad- mittedly below par for many years, was brought up to par by advancements, re- tirementS, and appointments. In both departments the new privateS were less than thirty. The departments now are able for the first time in many years to say they are efficiently manned. All of which is different story than the Tele- gram editor presents to his readers.
 As to Waterbury's tax rate, admittedly higher than that in Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, New Britain, and other Con- sAecticut cities, itWas brought down to this figure from an even higher figure, the drop being accomplished when other communities were seeing their tax rates increase annually. And the situation right now in Hartford, for example, is that a 33-nill rate, higher than Water bury's present one may be needed. This past winter in New Britain talk of special tax rate was uppermost in public discussions.
 We are not attempting to gild the lily. We don't even contemplate White-Wash- ing job for our city administration. But we do object today, as we have done for more years past, to the state accepting as gospel truth, everything that is printed in opposition to the administration and policies of Mayor Hayes. Waterbury is not seeking to vie with Bridgeport as a paragon of political virtue, but we do seek some justice and not condemnation without a hearing of both sides of the story.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
essConrnent
BOOM AT MOUNT TAURUS
(New York Times)

(NeW YOrk 1lHeS)
 While most business hereabouts is very slack this Spring, the business of destroying scenic beauty along the Hudson is thriving. Up at Mount Taurus, flfty-two miles from Times Square, there is more ac- tiyity t.yan for years. Here the big job is to tear down a fair, rock ribbed hill 1,400 feet high, crush it into small rock and ship it down the river in barges. In addition, there is the job of wrecking Little Stony Point, charming little head land rising fifty feet above the wa ter, faced by great gray rock and crowned by evergreen. Little Stony Point, in this boom season, is being dumped into the river to make wa terfront real estate.
 So the whole gate to Hudson Highlands around storm King. Gro Nest, Breakneck and Mount Taurus echoes with the thunder of blasting and the roar of k-crushing and trucks, clouds of dust fill the air. i With billions of dollars available to make work, it is pity that no funds are set aside to stop work of this kind. The amount of em- ployment provided by the wrecking of Mount Taurus is insignificant; the loss to the people of this day and for generations to come is in- calculable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

From the inquiry he has thus far made, Congressman J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey is amazed at the Amount of money being spent for publicity purposes by the vari- ous departments, bureaus and agen- cies at Washington. Noting that be- cause of deficit of $1O0,O0O in the Federal Bureau of Investigation a number of G-Men have been laid of, MT. Thomas ventures the as- sertion that more than that amount is going out each week to main tain the propaganda services of the New Deal. As the public well knows, the Federal. Bureau of Investigation is waging an ineessant war against crinleg: and it. strikes MT. Thomas as ,ironical that it's work should be curtaiIed for lack of funds while so much is being spent on prop aganda by other agencies.
 Here, for example, is the Home Owners Loan Corporation asking for an appropriation of $55O, ,OOO for printing and ail. additional $96,l1O for mimeographiag information per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Wreck Weather Coming

Summer approaches, the pulse of nature quickens, life begins, and shortly the country's motorists will start slowing up one anotherS pulses and ending their lives. Traffic cops know that good weather breeds bad accidents. The safest time to take a spin is at the height of rainstorm or the tag end of good thick blizzard. Most people are more than ordinarily cautious then. When the sun comes out and the roads dry off, every body does a little relaxing, lets it out, and turns his car into kind of travelling nut house. The season, therefore, is ripe for taking stock .. of your own assets and liabilities as a driver, the ones that appear to be those of the average driver you encounter, and those of your car as something to entrust your life to.
 How long it will take to make the na- tion's highways as safe as it's sidewalks nobody cares to guess but the problems of traffic have never commanded such concerted countrywide study as they are now receiving. National organizations, community groups, city, county, state, and federal officials are going after satis- factory solutions from every conceivable angle.
 Highway improvement is one idea. The chairman of Connecticut's Highway Safety Commission has recently expressed hope, as have others, for compulsory car inspection prior to any transfer of owner ship of a secondhand automobile The imposition of driving tests and other ex- aminations on license applicants is grow ing. A Chicago traffic court judge has gone to the extent of having traffic law violators examined by psychiatrists, and induced to take treatments whose purpose is the correction of the personality twists" responsible for their abnormal behavior at the wheel.
 The greatest movement, and the most effective one, is the safety education com paign among children and adults. Figures on traffic deaths and injuries in cities all over the country show startling reduc-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Puritanical Laws

Legalized lotteries and gambling have been puzzling New York State legislators for many years. It was long time before the state would place any sort of sanction on betting at horse-raceS, the result being that bookmakers had a flcurishing, but very much illegitimate business, at the several tracks maintained. Finally the bookmakerS were placed under the pro- lection of the law, just when the state thought it was going to legalize the pari- mutuel system of betting on horse-races
 Right now there's fight afoot to rip out of the state constitution the "puri- tanical provision against gambling. N. Y. legislators contend that it's foolish for the state to allow millions of dollars to fall into the hands of professional gamblers and to go out of the country to foreign nations where lotteries are being supported almost entirely by American money today. That's situation that confronts almost every state in the Union; few have done more about it other than humble indistinguishable phrases.
 We don't propose that every state adopt legalized lotteries as a means of raising funds for various purposes. That's the last thought we have. But we do think that our states should cease kidding them- selves with their old and archaic laws which permit all sorts of schemes to be floated legally, apparently. AS one N. Y. legislator put it: "We must determine once and for all whether we are to have gambling in any form or not. We must do one of two things wipe out gambling entirely, and foreign lotteries and stop race track betting or if we decide that they can continue as they certainly are conducted now they should come under strict state regulation and supervision "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

For the first time in four years State Constitutional Court will assemble in Hartford on May 26 to consider the con- stitutionality of a state law. The purpose of the court convention will be to take what steps are necessary to see if the religious sect - Jehovah's Witnesses - was within it's rights in distributing it's literature in various Connecticut towns. In several communities agents of the sect have been arrested and charges pre- ferred against them. However, a recent high court ruling found that such action against this particular sect was suppress sion of rights. The particular Connec- ticut statute which was invoked to bring about arrests is the one under fire It may be proved that the law is in contra diction but that isn't going to help this particular sect In fact we are inclined to think a court victory will center such attention on the group that it's agents may find their door-to-door canvas meet ing with forcible resistance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

President Franklin D. Roosevelt now has chance to make name for himself among the Polish people of this nation. He has on his desk right now a bill which would proclaim October Il as General Pulaski Memorial Day. This campaign to recognize General Pulaski with general observance has been carried on for many years with varying results. In many states proclamations are issued for Pulaski Day. The nation has also recognized him in several forms, one of them being a beautiful monument at Savannah, Ga, where he was mortally wounded. Roose- velt's favorable action would complete the picture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Concerning Propaganda Vast Amount of Money Spent for Publicity by
 Governmental Bureaus = New Agencies
 Consume Millions in Telling Natinn nf Wnrl1
Nation. of Work.
HARTFORD COURANT.

taining to its activities. MT. Thomas has found that the publicity di- vision of the Federal Housing Ad- ministration expects to spend $100,- 900 during the fiscal year 1889, and that the information office" of the Tennessee Valley Authority has staff of forty persons living on payroll of $84,570. In addition, the IVA is spending $10G00O year ,ostensibly to promote the use of electricity in remote areas. Actual ly,"- says MT. Thomas, "the money
 is a clever guise for spreading the gospel of the New Deal" which, he says, is maintaining with public funds the greatest and most expen- sive propagana system in the his-. tory of the American government. :"
 Representative Thomas recently asked all departments, bureaus, boards and commissions of the gov. ernment to furnish him with detail- ed information on the amount they were spending for publity purposes. Such request from a. member of, Congress is not to be denied, and that information is now coming in. When it has been assembled and the statistics tabulated the facts will be given to the public, MT. Thomas predicts that they will prove start ling" His one-man probe into the propaganda that is being dissemin- ated by the so-called research agencies" of the Administration is likely to prove of more value to the taxpayers than the attempts of Senator Minton's lobby Investment Investigating committee to smother criticism of the New Deals per- formances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

the basic foundation for trade and peace, has sent many, notes of protests to various countries against treaty violation.
 There is every justification for this. And were it not for the fact that the Secretary of State now has his Tennessee, noun taineer dander up, he would be the first to admit that there is good reason to keep inviolate the treaty of peace with Germany. For that treaty contains many things beneficial to the American people.
 It contains, for instance, Ger man guarantees to respect the graves of American soldiers buried in the Rhineland.
 It contains pledges that Ameri- can shipping can use the import ant Kiel Canal and certain Ger man rivers.
 It contains provisions for pay '. ment of damages suffered in the famous Black Tom explosion and i, other sabotage by. German agents . in the United States before this country entered the World War. ] IN. ADDITION TO OTHER THINGS, IT CONTAINS provision for payment for American occu- patton costs in Germany. And the State Department, although ignoring the treaty's provisions re- garding arms shipments, has chos- en to protest vigorously that costs of the American army in, Ger many, now in default, nust be paid.
 MT. Hull may have, had. some of these things in. mind in. 1885 when Germany was beginning her great rearmament program. For the record of his press confer ence for March g, 1885, reads:
 "The secretary pointed out that all who believe in peaceful settlements of international problems of all kinds have felt increasing concern over ten- dencies to fail to live up to the letetr and spirit of treaties. Sec retary Hull believed that the moral influence of the United States and it's people must all ways encourage living up to treaties"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, May 13.-Add to the list of outlandish occupations that of Fingernail Counsellor.
 The Fingernail Counsellor, in this age of specialization, offers solace and succor to folk who chaw their cuticles without reserve. Such a practitioner is Natalie Gibbs, who has shop over on Madison avenue, and it would impress you to read the confidential list of her nail biting clientele,
 What Miss Gibbs undertakes to do, in effect, is beautify those cu- ticles that have been molested by mischievous molars. Her clients are both male and female, and include many leading ladies and leading men of the stage. Prestidigitator's Bounce
 Paul Duke, the magician who makes command appearances at Park avenue parties for fancy stipends, tells it.
 He was called by an eminent but insolvent socialite, to entertain at, midnight soiree recently, But Duke was wary of his blue-blooded patron who also is renowned for not paying off. So Duke politely re- minded his would-be employer that he is accustomed to being paid in advance. Y.
 But why not after the show is over?" demonstrated the socialite. Well, Sir," drawled the magician, "in the finale of my act, do my. biggest stune-that,s when I vanish into thin air. And if I get paid off now, it'll save me the trouble of coming back" Velly Clute, No? The broad bosom of the Hudson river will be the scene of still ar1- other entertainment venture under the plans of Lum Fong,@ the Chi- nese restaurateur who is the part Ter, strangely enough, of Moe Levy, the cloak and suit magnate. ] There have been showboatS galore on the Hudson, and only last year several promoters lowed barge out to midstream and tried to run a burlesque show (thus avoiding the New York city ban).
 But Lum has something new. He is importing Chinese junk which will be moored not too far from the New York shore as sea-going chow mein and chop suey dispensary witt entertainment of one kind or an other. He will call it-heaven hell us-the Swingapore.
 Lo, the Poor Indian
 Recently a play required one O those traditional wooden Indians a' a scenic prop, and q a canvass O the tobacconists revealed that llt more than, shalf-dozen mahogan. redskins were available in the city And, by the same rule of extinction the wooden horses that used t. grace the boots and saddle shop have passed away--save for . fev saddlers' places on East 24th street where the old insignia remain re lspected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Current Comment

I'm drunk again. Send over the same cop that took me last time, please. ~~ Herbert Bendon. New York, tele- phoning police headquarters.
 S
 So far as I am personally con- cerned I deprecate and almost de- plore third term for any President on the ground that it contravenes our essential American spirit. -Dr. w. H. Foulkes, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. ''*..' To my mind, the work of a grand jury ranks first in the machinery of the law of the land. Supreme Court Justice Nathan D. Lapham of Rochester, N. Y. There are more ways to destroy a navy now than ever before in history.
 l Senator Royal s. Copeland. 7.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Selected Poem
DISCOVERY

DlSCOtERY
 Anita Laurie Cushing in the Christian
 Science Monitor) We walked out under clean May sky The terrier and l. He pushed at the grass-roots in surprise; His unblinkng eyes Were bright with joy when he snffed the air He was everywhere, Running his fast cratic course Like rocking horse, Up and down in the springy green Having seen Trees bloom and seedlings sprout before, I was more Decorous. expected spring And everything Was as remembered Dogs forget And yet I wondered, for all my fine memory, Was the locust tree Always that sharp clear green? Was the flight Of bird as bright In the sun? Oh we who remember seem wise, But the terriers eyes Were shining. I turned and following him thro,er The field and too round that each spring is fresh surprise
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
A Book a Day
Indictment of a Big City
BY BRUCE CATION

BY BRUCE CATION <,
 The modern big city has defeat ed its own ends. Rising by the cult of sheer bigness-around which are eritwined innumerable tentacles of the profit motive-it has grown so unwieldly, helpness an congested that it has developed the seeds of it sown doom.
 So says Lewis Mumford in "The Culture of Cities" (Harcourt. Brace $5), penetrating and acutely dis turbing book.
 The metropolis, says MT. Num- ford, is no longer what city is pri- marily supposed to be: a civilized agent, in which the national and racial heritage of culture and tradi- tion is nurtured and enlarged. On the contrary it has become what he calls. de-civilizing agent. It des- troys the very values which it was created to foster.
 It must have slums-because it is keyed to set of values which make sluns inevitable. It must have. an ever-increasing traffic. congestion because any remedy for congestion simply paves the way for added con- [gestion in the future. And it can- not, in 9 profit economy, conceivably remove its disabilities, for they are Eintegraf parts of large-scale capital
 So runs MT. Mumford's indict- ment. The remedy, as he sees it, is decentralization-of industry, of finance. of human population with the development of .semi-auto- nomous regions in which a number of small cities would fulfill the func- tions now reserved for a few large ones. E With much in this book you may Idisagree profoundly. You can hardly Tread it, however, without being forced to do some serious thinking about modern society and its effect upon the lives of the men who live | in it. It is by all odds one of the most stimulating books of the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

Connecticut authorities are going after PWA grants for highway construction, so it was announced this week at Hart ford. Several loans are being sought and are anticipated Of course state funds will have to match federal. so it might be wise for the highway department to check up on what it's going to spend on new highways this year, particularly magnificent big parkways.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Questions and Answers ..
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By Frederick M Kerby

Enclose a 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.
 THE EDITOR
 o. What is the name of the arti- ficial ice-skating surface, recently invented by Mrs. Bessie Pastor of Toledo, Ohio? 4t
 A. Iceolite. Q. Are municipal governments exempted from paying federal ex- else taxes on gasoline, oil, autonlo- piles and accessories, etc.?
 A. Yes.
 o. Who wrote He's an absent minded beggar, but he heard his country's call?". ,t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
Daily Almanac

Sun rises 5;37 a. m.; sets 800 p. m (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Further proof that the season was advanced until this weeks chilly blasts set in and pro- duced the springs coldest rain, much needed, can be seen on Chase Park Boulevard where solitary sprig of laurel in one corner is about to break in bloom. Laurel before the middle of May is unseasonal to say the least.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

Ion which continent are the Andes Mountains?
 9. How many cubic inches are in one cubic foot?
 3. Under what government de- partment is the Bureau of the Gen. SuS? 2 4. Are seals fish?
 5. Is Kate Smith the real name of the radio singer?
 6. Which state is called Bay Slater"
 2. Name the capital ot the Re- public of Ecuador. i
 8. What is embalming?
 9. Where in the Holy Land was the Valley of Kidron3
 10. What body of water separates France and Englandf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

tions where such campaigns have been pursued. If present efforts in the direc- tion of highway safety are kept up with continued interest, traffic death in the future will really be news.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Coincidence is pronounced kon- l do'-lens; not kOn'- do- Hence.

A. Rudyard Kipling, The Ab- sent-Minded Beggar.
 0. How many aliens were natur- alized in 1937? .H<
 A. 164,976.
 Q. Where are the Fiji Islands and to what country do they belong? A. They are 8 group of 200 to 250 islands with an area of 7,O83 square miles, situated in the South Pacific ocean, due east of northern Australia, and belong to the British Empire. Viti Levu, the largest with an area of 4,053 square m.les, Is the site of Suva, the capital
 o. Did James Roosevelt. son of President Roosevelt, graduate from Harvard University?
 A. He did not receive diploma from Harvard.
 @. I am. unable to remove a con- crete casting from metal mold. Can you suggest way to remove it intact?
 A. The concrete adhered to the metal because the metal was not oiled at the time the concrete was poured. It will be difficult to loosen the metal, and the only method that we can suggest is to strike the metal with a hammer at points all over the surface. This may slightly des- troy the surface of the concrete, but if carefully done, may enable you to remove the casting satisfactorily
 
 0. Was Bob Burns, the radio comedian who speaks about his home town of Van Buren, Arkan- sas, actually born in that town?
 A. Yes.
 If you want copy of our b0okle PERSONALITY AND CHARM write to Waterbury Democrat Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir teenth street, Washington. D. ( Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

Japanese naval men say Japan regards herself as "denfender of the Western Pacific Region. So that's why she is protecting China?