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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27

schools and what not that never in her whole history belonged to her."
 Czechoslovakia could solve the problem easily enough, she thinks, if there were good faith and not imperialism behind the minority agitation. It could let every German-speaking citizen choose whether he wanted to live in that democratic country with his own culture, but sub- ject to the general laws governing other racial groups there. If he chose not to remain he could be given time and oppor- tunity to liquidate his affairs, take his property and move to Germany. The Czechoslovakian government would prob ably agree to that, making the conditions infinitely fairer than those imposed by the Hitler government on the Jewish minority in Germany.
 If Hitler pleaded lack of territory for such repatriation, Miss Thompson sug- gests, Czechoslovakia could take in return all the refugees from Germany who would rather live under a democratic system. They would change places. But it is hard to imagine the Nazis agreeing to that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
What Germany Wants

One fact ignored in Nazi claims for making western Czechoslovakia part of Nazi Germany is that those Sudeten Germans are where they are because their ancestors chose to live there. Though most of them seem inclined to rejoin the Fatherland, the reasons given for such a step are unconvincing. They are living where they or their ancestors chose to live, and they have not been persecuted by the Czechoslovakian republic as their leaders pretend.
 As regards the German arguments for their repatriation" Dorothy Thompson, who had ample opportunity to study the situation there, writes: "Those who listen to the German claims seem utterly to for get that what Germany is asking for is not German people, but the territory on which they live as well, territory which they colonized centuries ago in a great push eastward. Any German Nazi who wants to be joined with the Reich can join himself to it, with the blessing of the Czechoslovakian republic. But Germany does not want her Germans She wants lot of landscape, factories, mines banks,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27

One amendment submitted to New York States Constitutional Convention, now in session at Albany, N. Y, is caus- ing considerable alarm among conserva- tionists. The amendment would allow timber to be sold from forestry preserves. It is feared that if the amendment is added to the state constitution, eventu- ally it will open the door to raids on the states priceless forest lands. There is cause for alarm over such proposal, we think Sale of timber grown in state for ests and parks may constitute quite con- siderable item in New York, but it doesn't right here in Connecticut. For several years the state allowed timber that was cut in thinning out forestlands or cre- ating fireroads to be given to persons on relief And some was sold, but it was in small quantities. Evidently New York might contemplate making business out of it and if it did there would be every need of conservationists watching against inroads into fine stands of timber.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27

it put a revision of the taxation system by itself. Woman suffrage and a bond issue for the barge canal were also voted on separately in the elections of 1915. Thirty-one proposals, however, came before the voters in single sealed container. They constituted the essence of the new Constitution, and the voters, some for one reason, some for an- other, did not like the plan. Later, as MT. Smith says, most of these proposals were adopted seriatim, though in a somewhat different form from the one in which they were originally advocated" They probably could have been adopted in 1915 if they had been detached. The adverse vote of 1915 seems to have consisted of united front of minor ities, each of which disliked some particular section of the omnibus amendment.
 It may be difficult to sweat the new proposals down to six or even twelve. Perhaps a system of group ing by allied subjects, as has been previously proposed on this page, would work out. At any rate, the Smith procedure commends itself to common sense and the specific Smith proposals will, as usual, bear discussing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
Hope for New Britain

Communities that are hopeful or de- sirous or getting PWA funds with which they would finance construction of municipal power plants received walk" from the administration this week at Washington. New Britain is one of those communities Its new mayor, George Coyle, hasn't lost any time in finding out just what chance his city stands of secur- ing the needed federal aid in building such a plant, the mayor not being satisfied with the current service and rates, the latter in particular, being supplied by the private utility which services this as well as many other parts of Connecticut
 The administrations spending-lending bill plans to take care of a number of such projects as public power plants. But there is an amendment to this bill which prohibits use of federal funds in competi- ton with private utilities where satisfac- tory service is being given by the latter. This amendment is to be defeated, ac- cording to the latest advices from admin istration leaders. If they fail in this, then an amendment may be brought in and passed which allows community to build power plant when the utility rejects flair offer" from the munich pality. A combination of the two will likely prevail
 All of which indicates that PWA funds are eventually going to find their way into such projects as city and town power plants. But the fight isn't won as easily as all that. Although the funds may be found, there is the wide chasm to be bridged in local and state laws The util ities are well protected in this respect. By the time a Connecticut town has gone through the necessary routine of deciding upon municipal power plant, there may be no more WPA grants, no more New Deal, etc. In short years generally elapse in the process of approving such a project for Connecticut municipality.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
Good AdWce, Mr. Smith Al Tells New Yorks Constitutional Convention Some of Difficulties It Faces, Best Means
 tO OvoroOn,o TThan,
to Overcome Them.
NEW YORK TIMES

Considering the importance of the issues involved, the State Constitu- tional Convention, has been attract ing little attention since it held its first session seven weeks ago yester- dayday. Perhaps this is because the controversial proposals have imme- diately been hustled into committee, and of what the committees are up to there is little to report. The fire works will of course, begin when the committees bring in their rec- concentrations.
 Delegate Alfred E. Smith, whose perspective runs back through his several terms as governor to his part in the 1915 convention, makes two helpful suggestions: first, that the number of constitutional changes submitted be brief; second, that each amendment be submitted sep arately. He thinks that the public is not ready for brand-new, 1888 model, streamlined Constitution, in which the gear-shift mechanism can be worked from the wheel by flick of the little finger. He has in mind six major proposals, having to do with reapportionment, housing, the consolidation of counties, grade crossing elimination, limitations on local and special legislative bills, and biennial legislative sessions. These may or may not be precisely the six that some of the rest of us would choose, but he is certainly right in advocating a short list, and right in wanting each item kept separate.
 The convention of 1915 did not put quite all its eggs in one basket. It put apportionment by itself and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
Fear a Friend, Carrying Bricks

Then there was the man the Water bury Republican editor saw with brick in each hand as ye editor stood on the sidewalks edge waiting for a view of possible enemies Tuesday morning out side the county courthouse. So ye editor wrote an editorial about the man with the bricks, nice, clean, well smoked" bricks the man had procured from farm fireplace for friend, not for hurling.
 And ye editor, wondered about the police and their telling the crowd, "None of that, when the Well-coached chorus few feet from him sounded their soprano boos to an undercurrent of what may have been laughter from the more adult onlookerS.
 It was Tuesday morning when most who work were working. Ye editor was over at the courthouse watching for a man with bricks and the man accused Of putting telegraph in the "cheery fire place" in private office some time before election. He saw them both and the de- tective, John G. Purdie, denied that he was the demon of the telegraph.
 Ye editor didn't lose time to interview the man with the bricks for a friend His interview" about the bricks is the first to appear in print in spite of his own comment on probable reports about the booing and the bricks to wit: we imagine that his apologists will work it up into tear-jerking account of public persecution. However, if you hear any such tales embroidered with the fact that one fellow in the court house crowd had 8 couple of bricks in his hands and only quick intervention of the police saved his honor from mob violence you'll know how this lurid detail crept into the record"
 Embroidered with what fact and into what record, MT. Editor, except your mention of the affair?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27

There is still some discussion locally on the age of retirment for teachers. Superintendent of Schools Thomas J. Condon has remarked that so far as he knows the law always demanded 30 years of service. We mentioned that in New Haven the automatic retirement age now was 68 years. We have found out since that 30 years of service is also asked by New Havens city fathers in their pres ent retirement law Further than that New Haven ordains that the last twenty of those thirty years shall have been spent in public school of the New Haven City School District.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
TemperamentaI Byrnes

TemperamentaI Byrnes
 Whether or not a senator is up for reelection makes strange differences in his social philosophy as Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina demonstrated last week in secret session of the Senate Appropriations Commit tee.
 Back in 1895, and facing lin- certain reelection prospects, Jinl- my played a leading role in ob- taining PWA approval for giant South Carolina power project on the Santee-C Cooper rivers at a cost of $37,oo0,o0o.
 The project caused some diff culties for Roosevelt, and con- tributed to the resignation of Jay "Ding" Darling as chief of the Bureau of Biological Sur- vey, because he said the reser- voir would exterminate ono of the best wild animal and game preserves in the Eastern USA. However, Jimmy Byrnes at that time was supposed to be . good friend of Roosevelt's and the President put the project through for him.
 The project also aroused the opposition of the power companies, and the Duke Power company'S challenge of a neighboring project held up the Santee-C Cooper de- velopment for three years of dif- ficult legal fighting.
 Changed His Mind
 It was not until a week ago that the Supreme Court finally cleared away the last legal barrier to starting work on what was to become the South's largest public power project next to the IVA.
 But at this moment Senator Byrnes changed his mind. Sitting behind the closed doors of the Senate Appropriations Commit tee, Jimmy took an important part in writing into the Recovery bill a provision barring use of PWA money for public power plants which would compete with private utilities.
 The amendment meant virtual death to the Santee- Cooper project for which he had lob- bicd so strenuousIy when he was up for reelection. Jimmy now does not have to worry about reelection until 1942.
 NOTE-Original author of the "private power protection" amend- ment was Republican Senator Townsend of Delaware, represent tative of the du-Ponts, who had planned to apply it only to muni- cipal plants. However, Town send didn't want to offer it, and inducted Senator Freddy Hale of Maine, also Republican, to do so. Hale eliminated the municipal limitation and made tho amend- ment applicable to all public power plants.
 Copyright, 1898, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
A Book a Day
Harvard's "ked" "Bores" Gently
By BRUCE CATION

A short time ago Harvard univer- sity announced the appointment to it's faculty of Granville Hicks, who is a member of the Communist party. The 100 per cent patriots of Boston and vicinity immediately took to arms, and the air over Bos- ton Common has been full of their clamor ever since.
 One can only hope, therefore, that these people do not get a look at MT. Hicks new book-"I Like America" (Modern Age Books: 50 cents). If they do, their worst suspicious will be confirmed.
 Not that MT. Hicks brings any bombs or plots out into the open in lis book. Far from 1t. He is mild, soft-spoken, reassuring. But that is just the trouble; in his quiet, unconditional way MT. Hicks turns out to be devilishly per- SuaSiVe.
 He begins by voicing his deep, inbred affection for America. He comes ~ that affection honestly enough-his ancestors have lived here since colonial days-and he expresses it in a moving hymn to the towns, the countryside and the people of his native land.
 But, he said, he loves America too much to want to see it remain land wherein a third of the peo- pie are "ill-houSed, ill-fed and ill., clad" They don't have to be; the productive capacity already avail able, he believes, would provide plenty for all if it were handled right.
 So it is the handling of this productive capacity that he is concerned with. He argues that this capacity can be made to pro- duce plenty for all only through Socialism: and as you read his argument you may well feel that the Bostonian opposition to his ap- pointment is quite right. He is so alarmed persuasive!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
Daily Almanac

Moon rises $50 a. m. daylight time). light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Rabbits and birds are notorious for making inroads in gardens. Here's where wood thrush proved veXing to mankind, although his flutey notes are just the opposite. Several rows of sweet corn had just burst through the earth. A few thrushes found the tender shoots to their liking and went down each row systematically pulling them out and either eating them or flying away with thenl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
P PressCorarnent
LIFE INSURANCE DROPS
(New York Sun)

A year ago holders of life insur- ance policies were showing material recovery by taking out additional policies, paying of loans on policies and in other ways unmistakably recording return in earning power sufficient to permit of desirable pro- lection for members of the family. The United States companies show ed axets in excess of $26, 6,000, ,000, ,000 at the end of 1887.
 A survey of the first four months of this year shows change in con- ditions. Issues of new ordinary life insurance were 2l per cent below those in the same period last year. Last month the loss, compared with April of last year, was 27 per cent. The best showing was made in the West South Central section.
 A falling off in the writing of new life insurance and rise in the bor- rowings by policyholders are positive proofs that cash is scarce with many of the hundreds of millions who regard insurance as the safest form of savings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
Questions and
 Answers
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. How many units participated in the parade in New York City at the unveiling of the Statute of Lib- erty?
 A. More than 10000 individual units. ~
 @. Is Poland seeking to absorb Lithuania and was that the purpose of the ultimatum last March?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
Current Comment

The citizen who evades jury duty deserves badge of diShonor. Attorney Dewey of New
 York.
 Germany knows that we will not surrender, but fight. Hurban, CzechoSlovakian
 minister to the United States.
 No power is so precious to us, none could replace this power of truth. of open and plain speaking. It is the guarantee against tyranny. Governor Lehman of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27

Somebody's got to do something about this weather we're having Whats the ologists, anyway? They ought to be of Memorial Day, so to speak, and the only summer weather we've had to date was out of season away back in April. If somebody doesn't cover up those sum- spots pretty soon governments will use their anti-aircraft guns on em.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
Selected Poem
THE OLD INHABITANT

harles Madam in the Christian Science Monitor I was coming down from the hills. I was, going home. The thrush had sung in the dark wood; Dew was on the loam I saw small man under the ferns. He stirred not as I stood He looked at me and I at him Beside the silent wood. Among the hills of Vermont He was the strangest thing. heard a train in the valley I heard the cowbells ring. He looked at me with never a sound And stroked his beard's green hair.
 When I went back in the morning
 There was a toadstool there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27

l. Does ice contain heat?
 2. What is the difference in time between New York City and Rome, Italy?
 3. Name the oldest inhabited city in the world.
 4. What is a Maxim silencer? 5. Was Canada ever owned by the United States?
 6. Who is the present holder of the U. s. Open Golf Championship? T. What is the ancient name for the Black Sea?
 8. Name the last letter of the Greek alphabet.
 g. To what country does vancou- yer Island belong?
 10. What is cenotaph2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
PHEAsANTs RAISED AS HOBBY

Seattle = (U.P.) = Samuel A. Martin. Seattle clothier, in 1881 started pheasant-raising as 8 hobby. Since then it has grown into an ex- pansive business that turns out A. 900 full-grown birds each year. The birds are matched in special brood- CTS. They are guarded from maraud- ing hawks by 8 German shepherd dog. 35
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Culinary is pronounced kew i-na-ry; not kuP-i-na-ry.

A. The Polish Information Bu- reau says that, contrary to rumors, the Polish ultimatum from the out set contained no demands whatever, except for the resumption of diplo- matic relations. There were no hu- initiating conditions and no de- mands for the settlement of out standing problems.
 0. What is an ethical dative?
 A. In grammar it is a colloQuial use of the dative of pronoun for a person to which it imputeS a vague concern with the matter in question. It is really vague dative of reference.
 o. What is the name of the Brit ish possession nearest to Spain?
 A. Gibraltar.
 o. I am an American-born wo- man and married an alien several years ago. Does he have to apply for first and second naturalization pa pers?
 A. If you were married after 12 noon Eastern Standard Time) May "A, 1884, your husband can apply immediately for his final papers, provided he has had three years continuance residence in the United States. If you were married before the above date he has to apply for both first and second papers. Q. Who wrote the poem, I'm Nobody"
 A. Emily Dickinson.
 0. How many properties are owned by the Home Owners Loan Corporation?
 A. AS of January 31, 1888, the H. O. L. c. owned 70,101 properties with capital value of $356, ,291. .23S. It had sold 6,582 acquired properties valued at $24,623, ,233. If you want copy of our book
 let 1.-THE BANKING SYSTEM OF
 UNITED STATES" write to The
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, May 27-With curi- osity as his passport and enter prise as his ticket, any voyager can take a knife, fork, spoon and cup trip-around-the world right here in New York.
 Any globe trotter will tell you that gastronomically speaxing, no other city on the globe can offer such world . cruise n-a-Ginner- plate as can this fabulous town. For New York is the mecca of cooks from every race on earth, and these bring with them their native dishes.
 If the urge is strong enough, the diner-out can accumulate enough menus for a League of Nations diet. Cooks Tour
 For instance, the stalwart and the curious can settle down to corner table in basement brauhaus and call out for the rarest Hungarian delicacies, while a nondescript pair of gypsies-their earrings still intact play their vagabond melodies. They can climb to the fourth floor of a Chinese restaurant near the Bowery and present their culinary whims directly to the Oriental and obliging chef. The food will be as handsomely prepared as in the best banquet halls of Shanghai.
 Then can-by rounding the cor ner in Broadways Forties - de- scend into room aromatic with burning incense, where Hindu prepares curries from his native formula. There is wide choice of Swedish places that feature the generous Smorgasbord table. In at leas two localities are restaurants where soft-slippered Japanese de- vote their lives to stirring up Suki- yaki for connoisseurs.
 Those who care to prow the town can watch swarthy Spaniard cook their Latin dinners while waiting in his kitchen. take repast with the lamb-loving Syrians, order Molle among the Mexicans and have it served as fine as the do south of the Rio Grande. They can look on while waiter. disguised in CoSSack cos tune brings on flaming spit with Shashlik in a Muscovite setting dine with the Dutch, the Basques the Germans, the Czecho-Slovaki- ans and the Rumanians.
 They can choose from hundreds of Italian eating places that dot the island and find these well as- sorted, also, what with the Neo- politans, the Sicilians and the Milanese wing for attention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
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New Dealers Fear Spending Must Continue As Investors Sit Tight;
 People, Banks, Insurance Companies
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WASHINGTON May 27.- There is phase of the recovery-spending program being debated in the Senate, which you don't hear much about but which is one of the basic problems facing the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27

The political game begins to look like five-Suit bridge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-27
T est Y O UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven Of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.