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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Money From Where?

The new California plan, approved by a majority of voters in the recent state primary election, is probably the most dangerous example of the something-for- nothing gospel since the outbreak of the Townsend plan. Every unemployed Cali fornian over 50 is to get $50 every Thursday" It makes wonderful slogan, and 1t appeals powerfully to the indolent or the minimizing. It really represents, too, an extension of the Townsend plan. It lowers the age limit so that, although the promised largess to individuals is smaller the total sum per month that the state would be obligated to pay, out would be greater. With the age limit lowered, the number of beneficiaries scars.
 And what does any scheme like this mean, when you get out of the clouds of credulity and disguised greed and down to reality? Where would all that money come from? What is money, anyway? How much of 1t is there? And how long would it last, If such movement swept the country? The ordinary belief seems to be that money is something stored in banks, that bank vaults are full of 1t, and the supply is inexhaustible. But there is not actually much money in any bank, very little gold and silver, and mostly promissory notes that we call banknotes. Their value is based largely on public faith. Shake that faith and they grow almost worthless.
 Really, the so-called money in banks, or in bank accounts, or in the form of baled bank notes, is mostly matter of bookkeeping - not wealth - not values things to eat and wear and houses to live in. We have seen that fact proved many times in foreign countries. Wealth is goods and services that come from work. There is no other source. The idea that huge share of the population whether able or unable to work, can live on public largess of this kind permanently, is foolish dream.
 Their living, the real things they get from paper certificates, must be produced There is no great, self-perpetuating store of accumulated goods and services for them to draw on. And so if great numbers of people past middle age are to be SUD- ported in idle comfort regularly, on what ever pretext, the goods and services can be provided, in the last analysis, only by their own children and grandchildren, in labor and Self-privation from week to week and year to year However disguised, that is the truth
 And 1t is the way in which such SUD- port of the elderly and incapable has always been accomplished in civilized society, with this difference-that such proposals as the Downey plan would make vastly harder the lot of younger generation that is having pleEty hard enough time already. No, this is not the way for any nation to take care of it's people The way is for those to work who are able to work; to provide productive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

Just what might have been expected to happen when state and local laws on speed limits conflict has come to pass in Meriden. And 1t confirms our opinion that local authorities will have to be on the alert to see that their 25-mile-per- hour ordinances are supported. Over in Meriden attention was called to the fact that in addition to the new signs that the city officials had erected to conform with the city's new 25-mile ordinance there were older ones put up by the state and city conflicting with the new law. We commented the other day that every entrance to town, where there was 25-mile limit, should post 1t clearly. But such action also demands that other signs calling for higher rates of speed should be eliminated If this brings about conflict with the state, maybe therell be ruling on the right of the town to im- pose local speed limit. Something defi- mite would permit working program for other communities to follow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

Republicans are hard pressed for can- didates to run on their state ticket this fall. States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn announced that he wasn't a candidate and we don't see how he really could be one with plenty of work down here in Waterbury in the conspiracy trials. And James w. Hook, New Haven industrialist, doesn't want the senatorial nomination. He was proposed for 1t week or so ago by the Hartford Courant in a lengthy editorial of praise. He isn't interested in any nomination. All of which puts the grand old party" on the spot. The pending Democratic lineup must look "plenty tough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Carbon Copy
Mark Haskin Is Harvard Rival Now Seeking to Emulate Feats of Peerless Frank Merriwell
 of Yale-Stout Yalesians Rally to Flag
NEW HAVEN JOURNAL-COURIER

Mark Haskins is the Harvard rival now baptized with ink and he is the creation of @ Harvard grad who would have done better to use his own name, Robert Playfair. He's the first real Story-book athletic hero Harvard ever had" says Robert and the plaintive tone is apparent all the way from Boston. The story book quality, the fictional flair, ex- tends even to the explanation: Harvard always had better ath- letes than Yale but down the years all you've heard is Merriyell-and- Yale, Merriwell-and-Yale." Well, the result can be met in a volume appropriately titled "The Crimson Road" and he Is, apparently, noth- ing more than carbon copy, some- what modernized, of Merriwell the
 magnificent.
 His creator calls him "hotter than Merriwelr and cites, in addition to duplication of fearless Franks ath- letic feats, "some stuff in airplanes" and the fact that Mark, coming out of the west, "overcomes that Bos- ton social chill" Tut, tut, and tut again! To talk about airplanes is taking an unfair advantage. When Frank was mixing education and adventure, airplanes were unknown or he would have been capturing sky bandits while committing to classes. And as for that Boston social chill, Frank never had any difficulty conquering feminine hearts whenever he invaded the Crimson territory on Q little jaunt to help defeat Harvard at any sport the season provided.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

clesn-cut, two-fisted young man with a lot of ability and popularity and maybe ! won't be coming back next year."
 Unexpected FriendIiness
 The National Association of Manufacturers, one of the most upcompromising foes of govern nent lneddling in business, is tak- ing a surprisingly temperate at- tude toward the anti-trust inves- tigati0n, Monopoly probers are still pinching themselves, but it really Is true,
 Tn . special report to its mem- bers, NAM not only pooh-poohed fears of Q witch hunt" but ad- vised them that they could help keep the probe "objective' by aids ing in the collection of factual and informative material"
 "strong differences of opinion exist on the myriad of subjects to be considered" the report declared. Some things which appear to be bad practices to
 members of the committee viii be regarded as sound practices by representatives of industry, Such differences should not be taken necessarily as ground for questions as to sincerity, or self-inteFest on either side"
 Some pFohers are skeptical about how long this friendly attitude will last, but all are grateful that the NAM is starting off that way. It marks . great change from its unrelenting hostility toward other New Deal undertakings.
 Big-Friend Guy
 The other day a tall, lanky young fellow wohbled into swanky bar not far from the White House and truculently in- formed the bartender he disliked him because he wore glasses. Then he demanded a drink. The bar tender said "nothing doing",
 "Out where I come from in Oklahoma" shouted the visitor i've don't take that kind of lip from any harkeep, to say nothing of Q guy who wears specs. You better give me that drinkl"
 You've had all you can carry" said the bartender quietly, "Now beat 1t before something happens to you"
 "Wel, I like that" was the indignant fet0rt. "This is . fine way to treat a personal friend of Senator Josh Lee, I'm warning you now, I'm going to talk to Josh about this and you'll regret these insults"
 NOTE-Young Senator Josh Lee Is a teetotaler.
 Merry Round
 Governor Phil LaFoliette has been eounseled by Progressive leaders not to 90 to California to campaign for Raymond L. Haight. who won the Progressive nomina- ton there for governor. Only a few thousand votes were cast in the Progressive primary, and La- Toilette has been told that Gull bert Olson. the Democratic nom- inee, is . far more sincere liberal than Haight CIO chief John Lewis frequently keeps four stenographers busy handling his dictation. His clerical staff oon- sists entirely of college graduates.
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 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

John, Humperdink Stover was a stalwart yeoman of Yale in the pages of Q best-selling book for boys, but he is lost in the shade of that mighty man of yalor, the "king of Yale" Frank Merriwell. "Dink," after all, had human limitations. His pages were numbered, his exploits confined to popular possibilities. Frank had the heroic stature, the legendary outline. His pages through 200 and more volumes were as the leaves of the trees and his deeds defied mere derring-do. In studies he was an honor man; every sport was an opportunity for a new world record; ladies loved him, brave men acknowledged his leadership and villains either wilted at his frown or fell before his muscular prowess. He was clean-living, clean-rnind- ed lad with the wisdom of the an- cients and the perennial youth of the story-book hero. His like will never be seen again, not even on the printed pages of an upstart Harvard pretender to the crown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
PressConnent
sPoHLrNG A REUNION
tMeriden JournaD

"Of late years" comments the observant Waterbury Democrat, "the biennial conventions down at Eastern Point have more or less resembled reunion week for all the employed on Capitol Hili"
 There comes . change. Hereafter there will be more elbow room for good Democrats around the state who would be glad to so to the big pow-wow as delegates # for noths ing more than the ride and ( change of scenery. That Is indicat. cd by . ruling from State Pefsons mel Director Harry W. Marsh that under the new merit system state employees are deharyee from active participation in political nominat. ing conventions.
 Politicians in general will not he pleased. It will make their work more difficult without the assists ance of persons who may be con, sidered under obligations to them. But there is strong public support for the merit system. which assures better service and gives state works CTS Q fairer deal,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
A Book a Day
The Gentry Got Under Her Skin
By BRUCE CAPTION

" S~NNS~eS Sse e& = ~sN
 One of the most delightfully."- malicious books of the year is Mar garet Halsey's with Malice To- ward Some" (Slmon and Schuster $O. Tn this sparkling and witty book Miss Halsey steps right up to the hands-across- -the-sea tradition and gives its venerable whiskers an irreverent jerk.
 The American- born wife of an American professor, she went to England for year when her hus- band took an exchange professor ship in Q provincial English uni- versity.
 She liked the country itself very well indeed; 1t was neat, green and clean, its farms looked like parks and its parks looked like formal gardens, 1t had an appealing air of being fertile, hospitable, and well- cared for. And she found the low CT classes" very friendly and easy to get on with.
 But the upper classes were some- thing else again.
 Among them, Miss Halsey found an ingrained snobbery, an abysmal ignorance of everything not British, a thinly disguised fear and jealousy of all things American, a fatuous self-satisfaction and a tenacious adoration of things as-they are, which seem to be little less than appalling.
 Reading her account of the gen. try's habits of thought, one under stands many things = the teapot tempest over King Edward and Mrs. Simpson, the Archbishop of Canter- bury, Prime Minister Chamberlain's realism" and the decline and fall of Ramsay Macdonald.
 All in all, it's book which makes extremely entertaining reading.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 9:01 D. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 6:29 a. m.; sets 7:06 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 High tide at Milford, Wednesday, Sept. IA, 2:2i D. m.; low tide, 8:4S p. m. daylight time).
 Weather should start to warm up this week. If 1t doesn't frosts can be expected to raid the state long before October has set in. A September that does not produce a hot spell, however, is unusual. The records show that some of the seasons hottest days can be found in this month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

battle of the air is likely to develop in the coming political campaign here in Connecticut. Gone are the days when speakers took to the platform. Today they grasp mike" firmly in both hands and let go for all they're worth. The only thing that the radio fails to bring to the audience, which rarely is allured to public hall for a rally now, are the ges- lures and the facial grinaces, and import ant part of your political spell-binder in the dear-departed days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Selected Poem
NORA

NORA (Florence Ripley Mastin iii the
 New York Times) Nora's face was white as cloth, saw 1t at the blind Staring from the old house With the moon behind. They say that she is beautiful And cold as Galway rain, They say her laughter echoes Outdoors and in again. The night I took a sweet loaf And tapped upon her door, All I heard were mice's feet Creeping on the floor =. They say that she is beautiful And cold as mist is cold. They say her hair is golden And that her heart is old. Nora's face was white as cloth, I saw it at the blind Staring from the old house With the moon behind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

A. Old-age pensions sie.26 per month per pensioner; S23,i8 per month for blind persons; and to families with dependent children the average is $Sl.So per month per family.
 o. How many new autos were registered in Texas in leS7s
 A. 190,098.
 e. Were there any negro dele- gates in the i936 Socialist national convention?
 A. There were six delegates and four alternates. All of these negroes were from the southern states.
 e. How long will the old issue of stamps be used before the new issue of all denominations will replace them?
 A. Until the supply on hand has been exhausted.
 v. Wnat IS lepreenaunr
 A. The name is Irish, for Q fairy thought of as 6 tricky little old man. If caught he will reveal where treasure is hidden.
 c. How many Americans have been engaged in the Spanish civil war.
 A. About 5000, mostly in the Loyalist ranks.
 c. How did the name Lloyd's of London originator
 A. Originally, the London un- derwriters met at Edward Lloyd's coffce house, the institution dating as far back at least as ie0e.
 If you want . copy of our book let "The Formula B0ok", write to the Waterbury Democrats Wash- ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street. Washington, D. 0. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Current Comment

They have more experience of malaria than of spats.
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull, on members of the For- eign Service in the tropics and the Orient.
  I don't really want 6 Hitler in this country, but I am not sure 1t would be bad thing. It might be an improvement in a so-called dem- ocracy that is not really a democ- racy at all.
 George Bernard Shaw, speak ing in London.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

work end divide ik end It's rewards equita- bly,, for all our society, according to society's ability to produce things and pass them around. We can and must inn prove the methods of doing this. But there is no other way, no shortcut, no Utopia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

AhSE page xOK bne NusWeESs
 1. Tn which state is Rainbow Na- tural Bridge?
 2. Name the famous theater in Milan, Italy.
 3. Where did the famous ''Pick- ett's charge" oceur9
 4. What form of government has Finland?
 5. Name the birth stone of Nov ember.
 6. On which ocean does the South American country Peru horder3
 2. Who discovered the carbon arc for electric lights9
 6. In which city are the United States Botanic Gardens?
 2. Name the arm of the Me1iter- ranean which separates Italy from the Balkan peninsula.
 10. What is the literal meaning Of the same Philadelphia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, Sept. l3-Our favorite movie star is wonderful young lady named Marie Wilson. From what we hear, 1t seems she is every- body's favorite movie star nowa- days. In Hollywood recently we saw our dream girl in Boy Meets' Girl" which was being press-pre- viewed, and we haven't changed our mind. She is superb. We met Marie at the House of Murphy which is just about as fine Q steak-house as the transient will find west of the Mississippi. She was sitting at table across the room with a gentleman friend and a visiting firewoman who, we might as well tell you now, is the presi- dent of the Marie Wilson Fan club of Columbus, Ohio, and editor of Q quaint little quarterly called The Wilsonette.
 She told Bob Taplinger, the amiable public relations man on the Warner lot, that she would be delighted to join us as soon as she had read the last Marie Wilson paper. So we waited with some anticipation, because we had heard that Marie is the girl who replied, when once asked why she was so fidgety, T guess must be allergic to nerves'--'and with that, almost took the laureis away from Samuel Goldwyn.
 The Marie Wilson Fan Club of
 Columbus, Ohio, wrote . poem about her.
 Gets Big Fan Mall
 Her fan mail is the second largest in the Warner studios (Errol Flynn Is first) and if we felt any sophis- ticated amusement at the idea of the president of the Marie Wilson Fan club of Columbus, Ohio, dining out with her blonde goddess, MT. Taplinger said to forget it. Because fans have made Marie what she is today, and we like her as she is,
 Don't quote us, but they say that Marie came out here a couple of years ago with her folks and wad of Sl6,0O0 that a deceased uncle had left to her. So the Wilson's took the money and invested it in the project of putting-Mar e-in-the- movies. They leased an expensive house in the star sector, sank a couple of grand in Q wardrobe, an- other thousand in canned goods for just-in-case emergency, bought a couple of cars, hired Q couple of servants and waited on the studios to call.
 No calls. No offers and the bank roll ran down. First the servants went. Then one of the cars van- ished. The canned goods dimin- ished. And Marie used to coast down the hill to save gas. Or so the unembellished tale goes. Then she got a $25 day speaking part two lines) and an assistant director mo- ticed her and the rest of her brief but triumphant career goes on from there. Her fans are proud of her.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Questions and
 Answers
csR"sAt s's MA
By Frederick M. Kerby

Enclose . three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques. ton of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu. reeu at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un. dertaken. Be sure all mali is a6- dressed tO the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU. REAU, i0l3 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 THE EDlTOR c. Who was the last survivor of the Revolutionary war, and how old was he when he died?
 A. Daniel Frederick Bakeman, the last survivor, was one hundred and nine years, six months and eight days old.
 Q. What are the average amounts per capita for old-age pen- sions, blind pensions and aid to de- pendent children?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

The Filipinos are not so sure now that they want to let go of Uncle's hand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
A Thought for Today

Seek rood ,and not evil, that ye may live; and SO the Lord, the God of Hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spOken.-Amos 6:l4
 We can do more good by being good than in any other way.-Rowland Hill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Daily  Washington
Wooe-Hour Administration as Deep In clO-AFL Mixup as Labor Boord; Andrews ncurs clO Wroth by Naming
 AFL Representatives, end Vice Verso;
 Democratic Counter-Puroe Is Launched
Ry DREW RRARsON
and ROBERT Q ALLEN

Washington September 1S-Quiet-mannered Elmer Andrews has been Wage-Hour Administrator only a month but already he s up to his ears in the ferocious vendetta of the A, F, of L. and c, l. o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Test Y o q 2 Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test auestions7 Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Horizon is pronounced ho-rr-
 z0nj not hor'-i-xen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Realistic PoIitico

There h one congressman who is frank enough to admit he may be among the missing next ses- sion.
 Tn c letter to SEQ Chairman Bill Douglas recommending c young man for @ job, this House member wrote, "If I am re-elect- cd I'll be able to get him e job myself, but I'm facing . mighty uncertain fight. My opponent is q
The Washington times., 1938-03-25

You'll enjoy thoroughly "COtil-
lion Days." by Leila W. BathOn. a series
on the "WashingtOn Of YesteryeaP,"
starting Sunday In the Washington
Herald.Times Tel. Republic 1894
fOP Home DellVeFy,
The Washington times., 1938-03-25
'BIuebeord' Is
Due April ]

Claudette Colbert and Gary
Cooper are costarred in "Blue-
boards Eighth Wife," hilarious
Paramount comedy which comes
to the Earle Theater Friday,
April /. On the stage, the
youth Parade" will present a
group Of young and talented en-
tertainers.
Ernest Lubitsch applied his
famous touch" to the making
of "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" a
new version of the Alfred Savoir
play. Cooper appears as an
American multimillionaire, who
has married and divorced seven
wives. Miss Colbert, as the
eighth, proves a more difficult
problem, since she really loves
him instead of his money, and
is determined to make their
marriage a success in her own
none-too- quiet way.
Edward Everett Horton,
David Niven, Elizabeth Patter-
son and Herman Bing head the
supporting cast.
On the stage, the youth
Parade will present songs,
dances and surprises. The Four
Franks, the Five MaxelloS, the
ManhattaniteS, Richard and Car
son, Lucille johnson, Johnny
Bryant and Tom Barry are in
cluded in the cast.
NewSreel and selected short
subjects round out the program.
The Washington times., 1938-03-25
Wayne Morris
For the Met

Wayne Morris comes to the
Metropolitan Theater Friday,
April /, in "The Kid Comes
Back" romantic melodrama Of
the prize ring.
One of Hollywood's rising
stars, Wayne Morris has been
applauded for his roles in kid
Galahad," Submarine D-l" and
Love, Honor and Behave" THE
Kid Comes Back" finds him
back in the squared circle, the
picture being the action-filled
story of the pitfalls which him
der would-be fight champions.
Barton MacLane, June Travis
and Dickie Jones are in the sup
porting cast. B. Reeves Eason
directed the picture for Warner
Bros.