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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
Going to See for Himself

Some one of these fine March days Governor Wilbur L. Cross is planning to steal away from his duties at Hartford and drive over the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County. He isn't going to an- nounce this beforehand and by this writ ing may have concluded his first-hand study of the much-maligned road. His idea is to see for himself just how the contours of the road strike the average motorist driving along it's surface. He'll probably stop under few bridges, to see if there's enough room there, or maybe he'll get out and study few over-passes.
 At any rate the governor doesn't seem to be satified with the plethora Of pie lures that are floating around the state, supposedly proving and is proving the various aspects of the arguments. That's probably the best way to procure some sort of an opinion, but after all is said and done it will be only Governor Cross's own personal opinion that has been secured. To be sure that will help him if he is asked to decide certain issues, but he may be influenced by other considera- tions without intending to be anything but entirely impartial in his judgment.
 To this writer's way of thinking the way to secure an unbiased opinion would be to subject the road at disputed points to technical scrutiny Whether this should I've secured within or without the state might be debated, but to keep the case again most impartial, it would seem as if individuals for removed from COnnecti- cut and without the slightest knowledge of the controversy between the state de- partments - Highway and Public Works would serve the best purpose.
 A jury of three or five engineers might be persuaded to pass judgment on the merits of the road in two ways. First, let them examine it in it's entirety and pre- pare comment; second, let them exam inc the particular points raised in con- troversy; third, let them comment on the criticism of the embattled commissioners. That may be long drawn-out; it might be expensive. It surely ought to decide the issue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
At Long Last

For number of years efforts have been made to combine several of our state departments, whose jurisdiction has tended to merge in many phases of activ- ity. Now the Legislative Council, pro- duct of 1937's law-making session, has come out flatly for further governmental reorganization. Under the heading of the State Department of Agriculture would be grouped the present Agriculture Department and in addition, the Dairy and Food and Domestic Animals Depart mentS.
 Some of the duties of the Dairy and Food Board would be transferred to the State Department of Health, as would also the slaughter house regulation, now entrusted to the Department of Domestic Animals. There probably would be other switching this way and that The fact remains, though, that two departments would be eliminated with two others taking over most of their duties, now claimed by the Legislative Council, to be appropriately theirs.
 If this proposal goes to the Legislature next spring (one year from noW) we can see pretty good battle developing. It might mean loss of commiSSionership by both E. G. Woodward, head of Dairy and Food, and E. R. Dimock, Domestic Ani- mals. Whether or Not Agriculture De- partment Commissioner, Olcott F. King, would be involved in any shifts remains to be seen. Another possible loss would be the office of Milk Administrator s. Mclean Buckingham, whose duties would be assumed by the new Agriculture De- partment
 Those in jeopardy have been given year in which to prepare their defenses We can see the legislative lines now form- ing. There may even be some effects noted in the fall elections, when senators and representatives will be elected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
Japanese Trouble

Little Koki Hirota, Japanese foreign minister, told the Japanese Diet the other day that Chiang Kai Chek, the Chinese ommander-in-chief, twill be beheaded by the Japanese military whenever and wherever he is found" So all the Japa- nese army has to do now is to find Chiang. That, however, seems difficult. Crafty Chiang keeps moving around. Perhaps he also uses disguises. Then, too, wherever he goes, he is surrounded by large force of able fighting men.
 His effective army at present, he re- gently told an American correspondent, numbers about 100000, and there are 2,000,000 more in training. He says their morale is high, and recent setbacks of the Japanese substantiate that. In fact, at present the invaders war machine as whole seems stalled. The Japs are great fighters, but they have gone too far, tried to grab too much territory, bitten off more than they could chew Mean while, as the dead come home and the war appropriations soar, the Japanese people at home show signs of discourage ment and discontent and lawmakers riot over the budget in the Parliament build ing at Tokyo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
Ambassadors Abroad

Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, presented his creden- tials to King George VI this week. The ceremony was conducted with the entire solemnity and form for which the British are noted. Ambassador Kennedy throughout the entire proceedings could not have been anything but his natural self. Newspaper accounts nowhere state that he displayed any perturbation. He wouldn't, for Ambassador Joseph F. Kennedy was born a leader and will die one.
 Whether or not he will enjoy what is known as spectacular amoassadorship depends to a certain extent on world events. He will, however, be healthy advertisement for the United States in London. He will, also, be eternally on the job. Somehow or other we think that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11

London is going to take to the Kennedys. Everyone here in the U. s. A., who knows them, has always felt that way about it.
 And did you know that English news papers have already started boom for Kennedy-for-P President in 1940? That's stealing march on our American jour- nals, although his name in the last year or so has been frequently linked with more than one high public office. His family is now on the high seas, enroute to take up residence with the Ambassador at London. We rather fancy that their presence in diplomatic circles will lend strictly American touch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11

Senator Augustine Lonergan has just been notified by the Post Office Depart ment that there won't be a special commemorative stamp for New Haver's 3OOth anniversary. The P. o. boys ruled that it would be Complication of spe- cial issue made in 1885 for the state as a whole" By that they don't mean, we be- lieve, that the Connecticut tercentenary stamp, depicting the famous Charter Oak, would be reissued What they mean is that New Haven's tercertenary was actually covered when the state observed it's 300th anniversary. There have been few if any stamps issued for individual local observances, unless they had a tremendous nationwide significance. New Haven insists that it's founding was of great national importance and naturally the 300th anniversary should be appro- priately observed We don't think, though, that the P. O. decision will be changed. And this, too would seem to put the damper on special commemo- rative coin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
A Book a Day
A New and Great Book on Lincoln

It is a long time since there has been published as important book on Lincoln as "The Hidden Lincoln" by Emanuel Hertz (Viking: $5).
 For MT. Hertz finally got access to the richest mine of Lincolniana in existence; the papers and letters of William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner for many years and the one man who had the wisdom to authenticate and preserve the great wealth of "Lincoln stories" in the years just after the Civil War. Herndon wrote biography of Lincoln, many years ago; but he was too truthful and uncompromis- ing for the tastes of his time, and kind of censorship descended on him. His collaborator blue-pencilled him, and his editor blue-pencilled the collaborator; and then the gen. eral public denounced what re- mained as bit of unprincipled mud-slinging.
 Much of Herndon's material was destroyed. But much remained, and MT. Hertz has at last dug it up and presented it. It makes the most ab- SorEing book on Lincoln I have ever read-and one of the most import ant.
 For here is Lincoln with the bark off; a cool, calculating Lin coin, consummate politician and profoundly ambitious man, who kept himself aloof form his fel- lows and used them remorselessly, who was deeply moody and fre- quently superstitious, who fought dark battles with his own passians and sometimes lost them-who had, in short, his full share of human | frailties but who somehow rose to greatness in spite of them all Divers Lincoln myths go craSh- Ing down before Herndon's unspar- | ing honesty. Lincoln did not rise by dint of hard fight, he says; he got more Of helping hand from friends and neighbors than any man Herndon knew. He was not the great reader" of tradition; on the contrary, he never read for pleasure, and dipped into books He admitted no one to intimacy with him; many, many people in Springfield disliked him, thinking him stand-offish.
 Lincoln's mother, says Herndon.
 was illegitimate Lincoln himself may have been so, although Hern- don sets this down as mot proven"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
Selected Poem
CALL OF THE TELLS

(Edith' Doyle in the Christian Science Monitor) By winding river and sunlit tam By stony paths up the steep hillside By rocks and bracken the sheep tracks lead Out on the fes of the west moorland The sun gloWs hot and the wind blows cool White clouds sail over the soft blue sky The rugged hills rise purple and brown Round the gray-green fells of the west moorland. The vista widens of woods and meres With range beyond range of distant hills So space and vision and freedom reign Ger the open fells of the west moorland A distant sheep through the silence calls stream flows softly over the stones Quiet descends, the heart is at rest On the peaceful fells of the west moorland. A child's dear memories youthful dreams Sorrow and joys deepening calm
 All are here, and the heart is at home On the friendly fells of Westmorland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
The County Jails Connecticut's Rate Is Better Than Those in Most States - State Can't Afford to Remain
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Complacent About The
HARTFORD COURANT

cut Prison association the other day the county jail is by it's very nature inefficient, wastef,l of human values and dangerous to society.
 By and large, the inmates of the county jails are the prisoners who are likely material for reform. Most of them arc sentenced for minor crimes; many of them are first of lenders. For no small number of the prisoners, the jail term deter mines whether they Shall return at the expiration of their sentences to useful life or shall continue their criminal careers. Yet the county authorities are able to do little to influence their future course. Space is too limited for enective Segre- gation of the reformable prisoners, equipment is usually lacking for training for useful occupations, and such founds as can be used for edu- cation are insufficient.
 The alternative to the county jail system is the regional institution, administered by the state, with suffi- cient facilities and funds for in- dividual treatment of the reforma ble offenders. Such a jail would be more in the nature of a reformatory than a prison, an institution dedicated to the theory that it is more economi- cal in the long run to return g pris- oner to useful life at a slight extra expense than it is merely to feed, shelter and guard him as cheaply as possible and take the chance of turning him out a confirmed crim- inal.
 The county jail system is rela- lively cheap, but it is pound foolish. It's immediate saving is at the ex- pense of warped and ruined lives and of new criminals, manufactured behind the bars and turned loose, at the end of their short sentences to prev llDOn society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
SCHICK TEST
Boston Post)

Millions of school children are subjected, with parental approval. to the Schick Test, which is gener- ally credited by the medical world with having done more than any, thing else to make the long cam paign against diphtheria a success. By means of this test, those who are susceptible to diphtheria become known. Dr. Bella Schick, distin- guished pediatrician, who made the remarkable discovery and for whom the test is named, has now been honored by the New York Academy of Medicine with its gold medal Having in mind that diphtheria is no longer the scourge of childhood, the Academy's spokesman, in pre- senting the medal, referred to Dr. Schick as occupying place amongst the great benefactors of mankind. The description is au- propriate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
In New Yor..
BY GEORGE ROSE

New York, March 11-Contrary to popular belief, Manhattan's after midnight glow and glitter is not confined to the gay-spots fre- quented by noisy, rollicking sun dodgers.
 A large number of matter of fact New York folk come out of their domicilies only at night, take a deep Whiff of the nocturnal air antI-go to work.
 You can spot them in the subway trains in the tiny hours Of the morning seated next to dizzy, home ward-bound celebrants. They are a sedate looking tribe, these news papermen, photo-engravers, tele- phone operators, technicians, nurses, hospital attendants, transit en- ployes, beef and barley merchants. Their own relaxation takes place not at night, but beneath the glare of a mid-afternoon sun
 A glimpse from the topmost pinnacle of Radio City before dawn l affords firSt-class view of their working habitat, and offers convinc- ing proof that the illumination from the night club belt is nothing more than rite in the Manhattan mazda firmahient.
 The offices of over a dozen tele- phone exchanges gleam brightly through the Gotham gloom, the various newspaper shops sprawling throughout the midtown area are | diStinguishable by the blue lights from their photo-engraving plants. And stretched out along both water fronts are the wholesale food en- poriums, where the hired hands go | to work at o'clock in order to get out the rolls and coffee for MT. and Mrs. New Workers morning break | fast.
 There's 8 dusk to dawn death watch among the city's newsphoto and neWsreel headquarters, too. For news cameramen are on call for fires, cataStrophies and what-have- you no matter how late the hour. As for the boys in the city's fire houses, only tiny, shaded lamp burns over the desk on the main floor near the fire-flghting trucks l themselves. The firemen in this city, with the exception of the one on duty--and those who maintain 24-hour vigilance at headquarters sleep like any other citizens.
 Vigil of Silence On the East Side, up beyond the illumination from the towering mass of steel and stone that is the Cor nell Medical Center, the lights are never dimmed in block-long build ing fronting the river--the Rocke- feller Institute. Here a scientist or two-in keeping with the not-so- fictional tradition of Sinclair Lewis "Arrowsmith" - is constantly keep ing sentry duty over some bacteria culture or another. Out of these vigils one is liable to read, in the years to come. of how a now dread disease was finally conquered for all time.
 Of all the lights that burn stead- | fly throughout the Manhattan night, none has the eerie quality of the pale, green lamps fronting half a-hundred municipal buildings from one end of the island to the other These absinthe -colored beacons are the sole signal lights offering sanc- tuary to the harassed, the troubled and the beguiled. Ironically enough they are the identifying symbols oi 1.-the New York police stations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11

The political situation n New vo'' '.. State is becomir mOy, "omDley s,.y day. The other It tf " G:se Of the Democratic par |, ield Malone, boomed Governor l. Leh- man for the presidency in 19E :, yaning him the "kind of statesman of ability and courage the American people need in leadership today" Political observers think that in advancing Gov. Lehman for the presidential nomination MT. Malone also put in psychic bid for the gover- norship himself. Outwardly, though, he advocated either Attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr., or Morris s. Tremaine opposing Solicitor-General Robert H. Jackson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11

Connecticut's county jails, old, crowded and poorly equipped as most of them are, still are better than those of many Other states. Tbe conditions in even the poorest of them are high enough to meet the relatively low standards set by the department of justice institu- tions for the temporary detention of it's prisoners. In many states the county jails fall below even these modest requirements.
 But the fact that Connecticut's jails rank well in comparison to those of many other states does not mean that it can afford to be com- placent about its jail system. AS James V. Bennett, director Of the fede- bureau of prisons, pointed out as the meeting of the Connecti-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
essCOnment
PETITION ON A POSTAL CARD
(NeW York Sum


 On Wednesday, according to the Congressional Record, the Vice. President laid before the Senate a postal card from O. o. Hootman of Compton, California, relative to measures to bring about world peace, which was referred to the Commit tee on Foreign Affairs.
 The thoughtless may see in this incident the right of petition re- duced to an absurdity, but they will be entirely wrong. The right of petition is never more solidly seated than when one citizen, famous or obscure, can write his opinion on any subject. whether well grounded or not, on a postal card, drop it into the corner mail box and go home serenely sure that what he has to say will be as respectfully re- ceived as petition signed by mil lions and representing the demand of an important organization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11

A Charlestown, Mass, legislator urges laws that would give boys who steal auto mobiles and Hoop the loop' at 75 miles per hour through Bunker Hill streets 10 years in CharlestoWn State Prison. Need of some sort of juvenile training in Charlestown and vicinity is apparent if such drastic punishment is being urged Organizations ought to interest them selves in child welfare and get growing boys off the streets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11

mittee where he is constantly at loggerheads with other members. One of the latter is Represen- tative Paul J. Kvale, a war vet eran, which May is not. The scrappy Minnesota Farmer-Lab- orite not only takes no Zip" from May, but once repaid him in kind. May humping his gavel, an- nounced that there would be no public hearings on a certain piece of legislation.
 "Why not?" demanded Kvale.
 Because it's my bill and don't consider 1t necessary"
 "Sez you," snapped Kvale. "WhO do you think you are. God? Now that you have shot off, let me tell you something. There will either be hearings on this bill or we'll get a new chairman of this committee. It's been needing one for long time."
 At which point May agreed to hold hearings on the bill.
 NOTE-May's so-called measure to take the profit out of war has absolutely no chance of en- actment. He claims it has Ad- ministration approval. Actually. the administration is vigorously opposed to 1t, claiming it is full of loopholes. and that instead of appropriating war profits, it real ly throws the door wide open to profiteers.
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 Barred by the state constitution from running himself, ex-Gover- nor Gene Talmadge of Georgia is reported to be considering Ma Ferguson" by putting his wife into the field for the governorship Apparently distressed by the cri- tical "press" they received on the recent mass reception staged for High Commissioner Paul McNutt. his managers have called in publicity agent to handle the big big dance being given for the 1ndianian this week.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
Daily Almanac
Moon sets 2:53 a. m.

Moon sets 2:53 a. m.
 Sun rises 6:l2 a. m.; sets 5:54 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Frost is settling in the ground again. There has been steady but sure decline in the temperature this week, each morning finding the ground that much more solid Even sap stopped running and that's sign that there's no thawing. Watch for a storm, followed probably by a cold period then good break into springlike ssuff
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
Test Y o UT Knowledge
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for tho answers.


 1. What is the name of the native beer and common stimulating drink of the Japanese?
 2. Who is president of the New York Worlds Fair of 1889, Incor- porated?
 3. Name the sister of John and Lionel Barrymore.
 4. Which French seaport is on the estuary of the Seine?
 5. Tn geography, what is reef? 6. What is the mode of execution for the crime of murder in Alaba- ma?
 '. Who was Mark Matvyeevich Antokolskii?
 8. In what year was Charles Evans Hughes nominated for Pres ident of the U. s.?
 9. Name the legendary founder of Carthage.
 10. When are Dog Days3"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-11
TODAYS COMMON ERROR Never pronounce bargain - bar-gun; say, bar'-gin.

enrolment only 68,716 came from rural farms. (The information for 9S enrollees was unreported.
 Q. What size wire is used in manufacturing wire coat hangers?
 A. The size varies somewhat. No. 12 wire is widely used, but often 1t is as large as No. 9. The wire is plain carbon steel wire, cold drawn sufficiently to give it strength and stiffness. Hard cold-drawn wire is not suitable on account of the diffi- culty in forming the article by bending. UngalvaniZed wire is often used, the fabricated hanger being finished by dip in an air-drying enamel bath.
 Q. What is the difference be- tween chocolate and cocoa?
 A. Chocolate is the ground and caked cocoa beans which have not had the fat extracted and cocoa is the ground and powdered beans de- prived of a large part of the fat.
 
 o. How old was the Hauptmann baby when the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped?
 A. According to news accounts the child was born in November, 1883, and the Lindbergh baby was kid mapped March l, 1892.
 Q. Please give the nationality, age, and description of Alice Faye. Is she married?
 A. She was born in New York, May 5, 1912, and is of Irish German descent She is married to Tony Martin. Che is feet, inches tall, weighs III pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes. Recent pictures in which she has appeared are You're Sweetheart and Tn Old Chicago"
 If you want a copy of our book let Modern Contract Bridge" write to Waterbury Democrats Washing ton Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth street, Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.