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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
Fred NORLING
TOPS TOURNEY
Goldman and KeiIIOr Lead
B Class in YMCA
Competition

Chess players IN the X. M. o. A.
have been actively engaged in this
two tournaments being run BY the
'Y" Chess club. The tournaments
are divided into three classes IN or
der to provide keener competition.
Fred Norling, former city cham.
pion, is leading in the A class by
virtue of two victories. In the B
class Goldman and Keller, both
have won two games. Maxwell
Radigan heads the @, or beginners
class, with three wins and no
losses.
In the ladder tournament there
has been three successive ladder
champions in class B. James Ken.
ney, the first champion, was sue.
ceeded by Francis Nash. AL Gold.
man then won top ladder position
from Nash.
Last week the Y. M. g. A. was host
to the Hartford knights for a match
in the State Chess league. The syn
team lost the match by a score Of
four to one. Fred Norling was tho
only winner for the home team.
Complete results Of the match
games to date follow:
Chess Ladder Tournament
Peter Masone defeated Harry
Tchakarides; AL Goldman defeated
Francis Nash; Harry Tchakaridea
defeated Alex Wolozin; King Keillor
defeated Fred Norling; AL Goldman
defeated James Kenney; Francis
Nash defeated James Keneny: John
Stanwich defeated King Keillor.
Championship Tournament
Maxwell Radisan defeated James
Kenney; Fred Norling defeated NJ,
Addison Cornell; King Keillor de-
feated Charles Powers; James Ken.
ney defeated william Toleman;
Maxwell Radigan defeated Peter
Masone; King Keillor defeated Jo-,
seph Torsky; AL Goldman defeated
Charles Powers; John Luke defeat
ed N. Addison Cornell; Fred Norling
defeated Louis Stanley.
State Chess league match between
the Hartford knights and the Y. M.
c. A. class A team:
Fred Norling defeated Spears;
Mitchell defeated Lewis; Berstein
defeated Cornell; Langon defeated
Luke; Caviello defeated Powers.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
Rise Of Dtators Challenges Democrac 20 Years After End Of War
That Was to Prove That Might Doesn't Make Right
Let Slide Idea
Has Meant
Loss of Liberties
(This is the second of five ar
ticles reviewing the historic 20
years since the ArmiStice.)
BY WILLIS THORNTON

BY WILLIS THORNTON
(NEA Service Staff Correspondent
The men in khaki who
grounded their rifles at IL
o'clock in the morning of a
November day in 1918 knew
pretty well what they had
been fighting for.
They were not schooled and glib
Of tongue. But they knew. A
force of violence and oppression
was loose in the world. It must
be stopped by force. That was
what they were doing, over there
in the mud.
Woodrow Wilson had said, as he
asked Congress to declare that
war:
"But the right is more precious
than peace, and we shall fight for
the things which we have always
carried nearest our hearts-for de-
mocracy :"
Now 20 years have passed, and
how fares democracy?
Four days before the Armistice
was signed, the brief Russian ex-
pertinent in democracy was going
up the spout. The Provisional
Government, in overthrowing the
Gar, had set up an effort at de-
mocracy. 1t would have made the
Allied and Associated Powers
really a democratic front. But
it wobb!ed irresolutely for a few
months and dropped like a rotten
plum into the otstretched hands
of the Bolsheviks.
TOTALITARIANISM
TO THE FORE
Fighting armed invaders, wrest-
ling internal strife and want, the
Bolshevik government won out i'll
the face of adverse predictions. For
years it has developed along its
own lines. Today opinion differs as
to what it has become, but on one
thing all agree: it is not Democracy
as Americans use the term
Instead, it developed along a
line which few before the World
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

, idea Of government is not mere
dictatorship. That is old. But old
dictators simply used military
force to make people do as they
ESaid.
The new dictators work on peo-
pie with propaganda, which they
control exclusively. Thus a 1888
dictatorship may actually he "pop-
ular" in the sense that 1t is the
peoples will. But that will has
been manipulated so that 1t has
had no free choice.
With this goes the "totalitarian
idea, that one party, one group,
is the instrument that governs for
the great mass Of people. The peo-
pies duty is to vote Eyes" at inter-
vals, and do as they are told. The
state the government, is like an
idol to which all bow down. The
idea is that If the state as a whole,
and people as mass, are all right,
then individuals will be all right
SHEEP
PSYCHOLOGY
In country after country the peo-
pie, tired Of worrying and think
ing about how to run their affairs.
have let their liberties slide into
the hands of those who said. Let
us do it. We will see that you are
taken care Of. Stop worrying. Fol-
low us!"
The difference between this idea
and the American idea Of democ-
racy is plain. Americans have al
ways believed that the state is
merely an instrument created by
the people to do certain things for
them. The welfare and rights OF
the individual person are what is
important, and If most individual
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

| depression, money initiation, and
internal division.
HITLER'S
HOUR
Then Adolf Hitler, Austrian war
veteran, who had been slowly
building his National Socialist
party, suddenly got his chance.
With the country divided into q
dozen discordant parties, his united
group while not majority, was
still the largest and best-knit fac
ton. And power passed to him
and his NaZis almost without
struggle.
That was the end Of German
democracy, and the beginning OF
'totalitarianism" there.
Portugal and Japan have taken
the same road. Democratic repub-
lies had no better luck. Poland
has practically abandoned popular
government in the American sense.
The Austrian republic, split by in
ternal dissension, fell into dicta-
torial ways and slid with sigh
into the hands of Hitler. Czecho-
slovakia was dismembered, re-
duced to satellite Of Germany.
The Spanish republic split from
within and was reduced to a prac-
tice ground for future wars. The
Chinese republic, never well-in-
tegrated, is on the ropes before
the Japanese invaders. Hungary,
Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria,
Greece, never really democratic
now incline toward the totalitari-
an system.
Twenty years after the World
War, "totalarianism" has democ-
racy on the defensive. This new
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
MOTHERSCLASSES
WILL OPEN TODAY

Miss Mary Farrar, for more than
10 years staff member Of the Visit
ing Nurse Association, will conduct
classes of instruction for new
mothers this afternoon at 2 O'Clock
at 81 Central avenue.
Among the subjects to be dis.
cussed will be: what happens ia
the body during pregnancy"
Clothes for the newborn baby"
Clothes for the expectant mother,
and How to Prepare for De-
livery at Home" There will also
be demonstration of how to bath
a baby properly, and discussion Of
meal-planning for the family. The
classes have received the indorse-
ment of DR.. e. ]. Godfrey, city
health officer.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

Along the main stem. -. When Bill Srica hits
N'Oreans with his nifty new costume, he's bound to
receive the prize that Orsen Wees would have received
if the latter should get there in time for the Mard Gras
John "Turk" Flaherty has passed the failing flivyer
plenty of headache powders. Jim Smith, former gas
dispenser sending the folks goodwill postal cards from
Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Brendon Flaherty celebrated
their second year of marital bliss at the Elton Copper
Room with little Junior gurging with supreme joy at the
two lighted candles on the cake. Cal Divigard who
recently returned from the land of the stars is showing
the North End lads autograf-photos of Gary Cooper,
George Raft and other favorites Joe KIey is
swinging and swaying the highway with one Of Major
Bowes auto-products.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
Good Evening.
MOSTLY LOUSY
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

you've got to measure up to something today
A happy medium between lion and mouse
Watch your step, never speaking out OF turn
Or someone terms you a louise.
There's word not used In potter days
Except to depict the insect life,
But 1t has made the speech of the very best OF men,
Is tongue -twiddled by husband and WIFE
Now make no mistake, it's not just tough guys
Or lads who write hard-boiled crime tales,
This descriptive word makes the best circles
AS well as low dives and jailS.
You NAV think it describes the lowest type Of man,
One of snide tastes and questionable knowledge,
But also bright young boys and bright young girls
store it up for vocabuaries at college.
Just suppose you've trumped your partners ace
Or watched the husband play the drunken souse,
There's Just one word for that today,
And the word for it is louise.
slightly disgusting inelegant word,
But at that it has become part
OF the speech of many persons you meet today
Who think they're awfuly smart.
EN- EN-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
Hot off the nriddle

Hot off the griddle. The three horsemen of the
Brass City, Connie Moynihan, Walter Kelly and John
Higgins treated the NYawkers to real taste of horse
back riding when they rode along the bride paths in
Central Park Junior Croce is having stomach trouble
which we're sorry to hear Vim Persio, mixologist at
Diorios has invented throat teaser which doesn't
have you running to the medicine cabinet for headache
pills. s.. And from those charming Sigma Delta Tau
sorority girls namely Viola Carserno Mary Carserno,
Lois Candee Ethel Mia and Ruth Mcdona tossed an
invite to join real oldfashioned hay ride BY heck
gals there's boss for sae we'll be there by crackie
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
Clio CONVENTION
OPENS SATURDAY
Six Delegates and Three
Alternates From Here
Going to Bridgeport

The waterbury Brass Workers
UAion last night announced the
names of six delegates and three al
ternates to attend the first g. I. o.
convention in the state Saturday
and Sunday at Bridgeport.
The delegates are John. e. Mir
field, Mrs. Marie Thibeau, Clayre
Atwood Driscoll, william @. Felt
man, Alex Cashin and John j. Dris-
coll. Alternates are Philip Brainard,
Michael x. Bowen and Raymond @.
Smith.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

editor, Tall Tower Topics-Once again I am writ
to YOU in concern of the "Sttch and Hope Sorority
We are getting along very well in the line of sewing
and members are cooperating very well with every
thing regarding the club. Mrs. Mary Kerwin, who
Just underwent major operation is recuperatng rap
idly at her home and all members looking forward
to having her with at next meeting. Sincerely
Madlyn A. Watts, president.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

kind In the world. 1t was established
nearly twenty-one years ago by this
kindly priest whose only mission
was to establish q home for under
privileged boys.
Included on the same show IS
Meet the Girls" starring Lynn Bari
and June Lang ct the head Of an
impressive cast Of favorites.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
BEHIND THE SCENES

What goes on behind the scenes
during a movie stars personal APP
peararice tour, when she has q
wacky press agent, is revealed in
RKO Radios "Annabel Takes .
Tour" co-starring Lucille Ball and
Jack Oakie.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
Today's Answers TO
cRANIUM CRACKERS
Problems ON Comic Page.

/. False. Lew Fields was "the
other half" of the comedy team Of
Weber and Fields.
2. False. The tallest structure in
the world is the Empire State
building.
s. False. Chrysoprase is a kind Of
quartz.
4. True.
5. True
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
AnslUers To
Test Questions

Below are the answers
to test questions printed
on page 6.
1. ANY fusibIe alloy used for
joining metals.
2. Spain.
3. He was hanged as a spy
during the American RevOIu-
tiOnary War.
4. Nathan Straus.
6. Nearsightedness.
Z. BY the Grace Of God
s. thermometer.
8. Seventeen
10. Yes.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

Jimmie Mcmahon dapper city yards super is con-
fined to his North Main street home with cold.
Richie Lawlor, Jimmie Gaynor and Tom Mccarthy
are worried their imminent initiation into the
Gents of the Hill Gay Price, chief deputy of the
local Internal Revenue office is his smiling self again
since the troubles of moving to his Bunker Hill
home One of his neighbOrs is John CarOlan,
also revenue man.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
BY BILL PORTER AND
GEORGE SCARBO

BY BILL PORTER AND
GEORGE SCARBO
Lola Lane is going strong /.
real name was Dorothy Mullican
specialized in music and
languages at Simpson College +. 4.
graduated from vaudeville to mus
ical comedy on Broadway Z,
and then to movies in 1923 !.
married Lew Ayres and divorced
him ditto Alexander Hall, di-
rector plays piano and sings
likes to design dresses +.
wants to travel all over the world
does setting up exercises and
plays tennis :. has frequent mas
Sages diets under her doc
tors orders.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

Manhattan Melodies Dan Parker now Occu-
pies Walter Winches old cubicle at The Daily Mirror
:. Mike Senich sketching portrait of Lupe Velez
Waterbury gatherer tackles with the spaghetti
to AL Sirica of Brooklyn Sam Albert entering the
foyer of ST. MoritZ atred in the latest midnight blue
with silk topper that is really the tops Bill Hen
Brass City would like to have Lieut. Bill Pollard of the
local detective force his guide And with our
powerful telescope lens detected the following boys
at the pro football game Vicente Zenich Johnny Crit
fin, Gene DAmbrOsi, Rocco Rinadi and Sony Friedman
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

Jerry Squires of the A. J. Lunny funeral parlors is
seriously i'll with pneumonia at ST. Marys hospital
Sammy Sirica rotund Union street butcher underwent
the heavy smell at the institution yesterday morn
ing and bid by-bye to his ailing appendix . Jimmie
Grove will take his orchestra to New Britain Saturday
evening for their debut at the Highland Country club
. Eleanor Brenneis Of Watervlle is under the doc
tors care with broken finger her little one at that
. Louise Kridell is receiving visitors at the Water
bury hospital after undergoing the surgeons blade Sum
day.
GOnd Nirhk
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

Heard in passing. Mr.. and Mrs. Arson L. Henry's
Lylanmay Captivating Jewel figured in the awards at
the 47th annual speciality show of the Boston Terrier
Club of America at Horticultural Hail. Boston, Sunday
Jack Shea, popular Goodrich boss in this city,
is in New York attending a meeting OF branch man
ayers from all parts of the east Revelstroke took
the eighth race at Narragansett last Saturday. just
of the local horse-fancers heard he would Vas
you dere Johnny???? The Victor Moore, William Gax-
ton, Sophie Tucker, Tamara musical Leave It to MI"
which made it's debut in New Haven opens on Broadway
Wednesday night Metropolitan movie critics speak
highly of Rosalind Russeps performance in "The Cta
de WITH however, Robert Donat carrying off the bulk
of the praise for his performance as the medico
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08

Bees and People -. "Bees pay attention to
months or seasons" observes nature-lOver. "They
work according to the weather and temperature On
a day in November they fly around just if it
were May. They will come out in January if it warns
up to SIS go degrees and there ISN'T too much wind"
1t would be good thing if human beings Sensi
BILE in this way as the bees Too many people regu-
late their outdoor activities and also their clothing
by the almanac rather than the weather.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-08
T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

AHNlLCLH SuPERSTITIOuS.ss
5FEET 50 WEIGHS 115ees
W0ET EYES. RUSTY 6LohD AAlQ.
The Washington times., 1938-01-04
SEEDED STARS
WIN AT FLA. NET

CORAL GABLES, Fla, Jan. 4
Q.N.SO.-All seeded players ad-
vancing through the first round
without difficulty. entrants in
the annual Miami-Biltmore tennis
tournament today faced SITTER op-
position in the second round.
Bryan M. "Bitsy" Grant, At
lanta, Ga, fourth-ranked court
star in the nation, and second in
the current tournament, began
defense of his title with a straight
set victory over Charles Carroll,
Miami, 6-1, 6-1. Grant won the
title last year.
A light rain forced postpone
ment of 10 first-round matches.
Of the seeded players that com
pleted their first-round yesterday,
Charles Harris, West Palm Beach,
Fla, defeating Bob Mcmillan, OF
Madison, Wis, was forced to IS,
90. Gardner Mulloy, Miami
lanky University of Miami tennis
captain, defeated Bill Hastings
Miami, 6-3, 60.
Other first-round results are:
Campbell Gillespie, Atlanta, de
feated o. ]. Hardges, Detroit, 6-1
g.; Leonard Clark, New York
ousted j. B. Kuhn, Crawford, N
j., 6-1, 60; George Toley
Miami, defeated H. Schleeger, Co
Ilumbia, Pa, As, 6-2, Ga.
The Washington times., 1938-01-04
DC. Grid Coaches Believe
New Rules Will Aid Game

Coaches of District of Columbia
college football teams are Of the
opinion that the new grid rule
changes, as officially regulated
at the football rules committee of
the National Collegiate Athletic
Association at Edgewater Park,
Miss, yesterday, are constructive
aids to the betterment of the game.
They likewise state that the
rules will definitely be an aid to
the offenSe.
TWO CHANGES
The changes made at the session
yesterday, and announced today
concerns:
/. All forward passes tossed
over the goal line and there be-
The Washington times., 1938-01-04

ditional chance without losing
the ball in the new forward
pass rule over the goal line. At
the same time the ruling should
open up the defense, thus per-
mitting additional deceptive
running plays.
"AS far as the change apply
ing to moving the ball in from
the side-line from 10 yards to Is
yards, a greater freedom of
operating plays is given the Of
fense. Defensive side band
defense is now put to rout. No
longer can the defensive end
drop back with the halfback
moving over to protect only the
Continued on Page rs, Col. u
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coming in complete. except
passes made on the fourth down,
will be treated as though the
ball struck the ground on the
field of play.
2. When the ball goes out of
bounds between the goal lines or
becomes dead within is yards Of
sideline, it shall be put in play
at a spot IS yards from that line
instead of 10 yards as hereto
fore.
LAUDS CHANGES
Both changes in the rules
will help the game" said James
E. Pixlee, head coach at George
Washington University today.
'The offensive team has All ad-
The Washington times., 1938-01-04
300 Teams
Extra Heavy Entry
In Pin Congress

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 4 UN.SD.
Teams entered in the American
Bowling Congress today we're given
an extra week for competition
through an official announcement
by Elmre H. Baumgarten, A. 3.
c. secretary.
The tournament as revised will
extend from March 3 to April l8.
An unusually heavy entry list
of 3,70O teams, with more to come
before the deadline February l,
led to the change.
The extra week will let $50 more
teams enter the meet than other
wise would have been possible.
Last year when the congress
was held in New York city an all
time high of 4,017 team entries
wet set.
The Washington times., 1938-01-04
'POssum' Holland
RalliesF Illness

Near death Christmas Eve,
Frank "Possum" Holland, former
Eastern High School and Mt. ST..
Mary's football star, has rallied
from his dangerous attack Of
streptococus infection of the
throat.
Holland played football in the
Dixie Professional football league
the past seatpn.
The Washington times., 1938-01-04
WashingtOn-Lee
Plays Wilson Quint

Washington and Lee High School
of Ballston, Va, will journey to
Washington today and meet the
Woodrow Wilson basketball team
in the Wilson gym, with the tap
listed for $3.50 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1938-01-04

tilities will find Lubeseal tangling
with Senate Beer to see which of
the two will give Federal Bureau
of Investigation, the defending
winner Of the Police Boys Club
tournament crown and the cir
Continued on Page "a, Col. y
The Washington times., 1938-01-04

SOME CONSTRUCTIVE bUgg6SIIUIIS as WbII dS d
little shirt-sleeve labor
1 believe even at this early date l can
assure you the Washington area will not be
found tagging when it comes to staging
seasonal sports events, not only during the
week of January 24-29, as you suggest. but
during the intervening weeks-with your
kind permission.
For, Mr.. Morgan, Washington is just that
good sports town, and has that big heart
that you couldn't possibly cram into one
solitary week the many boxing. wrestling.
basketball, bowling and swimming events
The Washington times., 1938-01-04
Bob Tow En- Route
To Training Camp

Scheduled to fight in a pre-
liminary to the Braddock'Farr
fight on January 81 in New York,
Bob Tow, Alexandria heavyweight
has departed for Pompton Lakes,
N. j., with his trainer, Harry
Raskins, for drills. :.
The Washington times., 1938-01-04

A carnival opening finds four
all-star teams battling for honors
with an all-Star cast of leading
Washington sports personalities
in the stands cheering them on.
Some 1,500 rabid fans will lend
vociferous encouragement to their
fayorites.
Top match of the evenings hos