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The Washington times., 1938-06-14

mack will deliver the valedictory,
and Richard ]. James. former
Yale law faculty member, will
speak.
Father O'Connor celebrated the
senior class mass this morning. in
the Chapel of Gibbons Hall, and
Rev. George B. Stratemeyer, O.P.,
chaplain of the university, gave
the farewell talk. This evening
seniors will entertain their fam
lilies and guests at a tea dance in
Mullen Library.
ARCHBISHOP TO PRESIDE
Archbishop Curley, of Baltimore
will preside at graduation ex-
ercises tomorrow morning. Rob
ert Hamilton Kelley, law school
'08, of Houston, Tex, general
counsel of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, will deliver the address.
Among those who will receive
degrees are:
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Master Of ArtSs
John F. Brown Rev. ]. N. Helldorfer
Rev. ]. F. Burke Rev. Urban Keber
Gerard R. Carroll John c. Murphy
Wilfred NJ. Corridor Sister NJ. C. O'Briea
VIM. G. Downey. jr. "Rev. L. ]. Ouska
Edward NJ. Durkin John A. Park
Manuel Falcao Helen E. Richards
Walter ]. Gallagher "Rev. A. c. Send
Mother st. Michael Mother r. Walker
Guinan Mary A. Wilson
School Of Social Service:
Helen Cannon Elizabeth Mortell
Mary R. Conlin Catherine A. Pratt
Marie Couderc Mary M. Roll1e
Anna NJ, Delaney Nora Rothschild
Elizabe Men. Kehr Jane NJ. Sachse
Katherine K. Keith Emily r. Seaman
Marie F. Landers Esther o. Wagner
Rita NJ. Mccain Kathleen A. Vessel
A. e. McDonouSh Rosemary ZulliEer
Lucille Marks
Doctor Of Philosophy:
Sister H. A. Hurley Gladys sellew
Stephen C. Y. Pan Rev. Gilbert Wolters
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Master Of Science:
Rev. E. J. Brock Sister NJ. Isabella
Francis ]. Connolly McKeague
Bernard J. Cronin Rev. John A.
Rev. NJ. S. Dwyer Macdonald
Rev. Thomas E. Gill Miss Ruth Michel
Sister NJ. D. Grauer Charles j. Murphy
Joseph F. Harvey Daniel E. O'Keefe
Rev Frank L. Francis A. Paul
Harrington Nelson ]. Post
stephen Kandrac Frank e. Rooney
Laurence r KirVan Jerome G. Sacks
The Washington times., 1938-06-14
TUNNEL PLANNED

In laying the first link OF this
sewer project, the contractor plans
to tunnel under the highest parI
of Bald Eagle Hill, las feet high.
Director of Sanitation john
Blake Gordon said the project,
long neede for the Oxon Run Val,
lev washington Highlands and
neighboring sectionis-had been
planned for years, but had to be
held up until completion OF the
a ,OOO, 900 sewage treatment plant.
The Washington times., 1938-06-14
KIWANIS LUNCH

The Kiwanis Club will hold q
luncheon meeting at the May.
flower Hotel Thursday at 1890.
The Washington times., 1938-06-14
NEW LINKS DUE

Major Gordon added as appro-
priations are made in coming
years, new links will be added TO
the sewage chain until the entire
section is serviced by sanitary
sewage. He also said the project
involves a connection with the
Maryland sewage system.
The civic workers who attended
the ground breaking" ritual ir-
cluded Frank P. Ragonese, cor
tractor; E J. Read, president,
Congress Heights Citizens ASSocla-
ton; w Earl Nair, Charles E. Rob-
erts, Rev. George j. Cannon, p.
H. Cole, of Washington Highlands
Citizens Association, and A. J..
Driscoll, citizens associations edi-
tor of The Washington Times.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-12-01
REVEALS ARE SUCCESS


Robert Buche1e, theater manager, announced yes
destined to popularity and had resul ted in flood
of suggestions and enthusiastic boxoffice
Greenbelt movie fans have compiled a list of re-
quests that will keep the management busy
to come. and from the horror pictures of
CLANCY and the dramatic triumph of Marie Dressler
up to the recent historical of Paul NUM-
and Walt Disney's immortal Three Little Pigs.
The revival program is based the theory that
movie-goers would rather have the opportun ty
week to the great pictures of the past rather
than be treated to full of is viii CHI
would necessarily include many pictures of less
merit. The response to the first REVEALS
Good Earth" and Adventures Of Robin Hoods" has
greater than the response to many of the current
flicker attractions. These revivals Thurs
day nights, for night only
Mr.. Buchele advises that local student of the
celluloid drama has submitted list of sixty sug-
gestions covering hits going back to 1925. while
another has hook crook up, a total fiji
ty requests for Grace Noore's zone Night of Love-
Among the films most requested HMarco Po1o",
"Lost Horizon", "Tom Sawyer" Mt Happened One
Night", Wife Of Louis Pasteurn and Mr. Deeds Goes
TO TOWN..
Mr.. Buchele pointed out further that many of the
films suggested may not be available the local
exchanges do not keep complete files Of their pro-
duct after few years. He said that after he has
determined which available he will post voting
list in the theater lobby and then follow
1y as possible the results of the voting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Goes Up In Flames

Connecticut is very anxiously awaiting word from Washington as to what share of the federal funds, earmarked for fight ing forest fires, it may expect Repre- sentative William M Citron of Middle town is interesting himself in this states share of the fire allotments in behalf of State Forester Austin F. HaWes. One of the heaviest drains on funds set aside for the State Board of Parks and Forests. At present there is an appropriation be- fore Congress calling for only S100,O00 to be used by forty-eight states in combat ting forest fires. This is the original House bill, but the Senate increased it to $2,500,000, so House and Senate con- ferses are now ironing it out.
 Just what good $1OO,OOO would do forty-eight states is hard to tell The higher sum is more nearly what would prove to be of some benefit to states now hard pressed to keep pace WI damage caused by forest fires. Connecticut is no exception in this respect. Although we are one of the smallest states in the Union damage done annually here by forest fires compares, we must use the adverb unfavorably, with damage in other states. We said unfavorably because we don't like to compare forest fire dam- ages. And the reason lies in the fact that all this destruction wrought by forest fires is due in the main to careleSsnesS.
 You hear and read a lot today about waste in government due to politics and patronage. There are good government groups and there are merit system groups. All were created to set up eco- nomical forms of government by elimi- hating waste, graft, inefficiency, etc. Yet every year governments are paying more and more for forest fire protection. Here's field for some group. The care lessnesS that causes forest fires could be eliminated if the same amount of energy was put into campaign by the groups that are now waging war on politicians. When it's necessary to raise the fire-fight- ing ante from $100,000 to $2,500,O00, you've got national problem that de- serves whole-hearted attention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16

Now that Uncle Sam has all the gold in the world buried in vault out in Port Knox, Kentucky, he's decided he'd better corner all the silver and bury that away, too. Accordingly plans are now afoot whereby bullion vault will be ready for occupancy at West Point by June. Into it the federal government will pour all it's available silver supply. All sorts of gad- gets will make the valult burglar-proof, it is hoped. There are concrete walls, steel doors that operate in tricky fashion, tur- rets for guards, flashlights, foodlights, and lastly, but not leastly, guards. The vault is on the West Point Reservation and is not more than 500 feet away from the Storm King Highway. The vault is costing more than half million dollars to build and about 10000 tons of silver can be stored there. Inasmuch as Con- gress has put price of $129 an ounce on silver, you can see therell be $2,580,- 100000 worth of silver in the vault some day. But there's catch-in the money market silver only sells for 43 cents an ounce, which reduces it considerably. At any price most of us would take it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Called a "Misht"

When man is called "nlisfit," it's apt to provoke an argument, perhaps even a fight. When a public official is called 'misfit";; nothing is apt to hap pen, because public officials are hardened to such criticism and expect it. As a mat ter of fact if they don't get it they're actually afraid their public is forgetting them. But when justice of the United States Supreme Court is termed "mls- fit", well, then there's apt to be reper- cussion. So far there haven't been any, because the court as whole hasn't seemed to rise up in it's wrath and con- slider itself insulted by application of this appellation to Justice Hugo L. Black.
 Yes, it was Justice Black who was publicly termed "misfit' Marquis w. Childs, well known among the Washing ton newspaper correspondents, used 1t Tn a lengthy article in Harper's Magazine. Among other things the writer very bluntly said about Justice Black were that his deficiencies in background and training" have lied him into blunders which have shocked his colleagues" The worst part of the situation, though, lies in the fact that other writers, reading what Childs had to say, took the trouble to inquire of other members of the court as to what accuracy there might be in the claims, in which they were involved. The result seems to have been disastrous for Justice Black
 As matter of fact it is claimed among the newspaper correspondents in Wash ington that the meat of the Childs' article could only have been obtained from within the source about which It is writ ten. In short they conclude that the complaints lodged against President have come from those who now work with him and who are best informed on his ability and capacity. If they are right then it is rather amusing con- mentary on all the excitement that pre- ceded Justice Blacks appointment. Op- position to him then was based on his former Ku Klux Klan membership. In the face of this present revelation" that dwindles away to a mere nothing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16

Congress is going to get strong pe- tition very shortly, if it hasn't already re- ceived it, to put the project calling for erection of new bridge across the Con- necticut River at Hartford on the pre- ferred PWA list. The state commission which has charge of construction of this bridge has started action to this end. Much of the success of the bridge project depends on the passage of the Roosevelt spending-lending bill by the Senate. The House has approved the $3,OOO,O 100000 bill; it now remains for the Senate to fol- low action. Sooner or later the bridge is going through. It's just question, evil dently who is going to foot the bill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
EARN MORE, WORK LESS THEORY IS NOW FOUN-
 DERED ON SHOALS

May 13, 1888. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 A great many reformers have thought we could earn more by working less, but Governor LaFol- lette has recently brought home to us graphically the bitter results of the experience we have been through in trying to do so. Getting less from agriculture, less from in dustry and business and less from labor, can only equal less for all, instead of more for all. "**Millions of people without enough clothes, so we produce less cotton and less wool; millions of people without adequate food, so we produce less hogs, less wheat, less corn, less beef; millions of people without enough shoes, paint, shingles, wire, houses, billions upon billions of man hours of work waiting to be done, and yet we decide to work less and produce less"
 We have been confronted by so many political experiments in the more or less theory that we are all too apt to regard them even care- lessly when we are asked, for exam pie, to borrow and spend more in order to add to our purchasing power, to grow less for the purpose of increasing farm Income; to limit production so as to raise prices;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Revolt In Rio

Getuio Vargas, whether Liberal or Fascist, is brave man. His vigorous suppression of the palace revolt on the night of May II is in the best Latin American tradition. We Norte-Ameri- canos can spare him a round of vivas. Maybe we're getting our Portuguese twisted, but never mind. That defense of the presidential palace by Vargas and his sons and daughters, through long and perilous night, armed only with pistols, against small army of inSur- gents, picking off rebel after rebel from the darkeAed windows, is an episode worthy of Richard Harding Davis.
 The political ethics of the situation are not entirely clear at this distance. There is still strong tendency in this latitude to regard Vargas as Fascist, aiming to make the United States of Brazil - as big as our own country - totalitarian. He certainly has concentrated good deal of power under the roof of that palace. Yet the insurgents in this case were Green Shirt Integralists" reported as wearing rebel uniforms under the marine uniforms of the presidential guard, while attacking the man it was their sworn duty to guard.
 "Integralist" seems to be the South American term for "Totalitarian" The rebels are charged, whether truly or not, with getting support from the Italian Fascists and German Nazis. There are about 100000 Italians and 500,000 Ger mans in Brazil Vargas has insisted that the government is still democratic, although he has had to use forcible measures in the capital and some outly- ing cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16

hastens to add, however, that the town is still unorganized and the FILA has received no complaints as yet from workers.
 What would happen if uniOn- ism does come to the tOwn," he was asked, land the company in an effort to smash it starts throwing union workers out of these houses"
 I don't know" replied Co., lean, shrugging his shoulders.
 Would the FILA have any authority to step in and stop that sort of thing?"
 q don't think so," Colean re- piled, Our interest is solely of a financial nature. We have nothing to do with labor pOli- cies."
 Scared Stiff
 The flowers may bloom in the spring, tra-la, but not for Sena- tor George of Georgia.
 The Sonorous Georgian has far more serious matters on his mind these days; specifically, his chance. for reelection in view of the smashing Few Deal victory in Florida.
 George has been one of the most persistent Administration foes in Congress, but until the Florida primary it looked like he might slip through without opposi- tion. Since that election, however, the New Dealers have been mak- ing strenuous behind-the-scenes efforts to get a candidate into the field against him and George is scared stiff.
 He is so jittery that when several of his conservative pals approached him on the plan to fiIibuster against the wage hour bill, he excitedly told them he would have nothing to do with the scheme-although he bitterly opposed the original measure.
 There is very good reason for Georges fright. Georgia is con- ceded to be one of the strongest Roosevelt states in the south, and a White House endorsed can- didate would just about spell fin- ish for George.
 RGOsevcIt's choice to run against George is GOVERNOR ED RIVERS.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, May 16.-Charles At las is the brawny Adonis with the Perfect Physique that has made him rich. And the paradox of his life is that he risks spelling his perfect figure by spending his at some of the popular cabarets where we often spy him.
 They say Atlas is millionaire by virtue of his mail order business in muscle. He is an interesting back ground, not unlike that of Johnnie Weismuller who Tarzanish as he appears now, was frail and sickly as a child. When Atlas-who performs much feats as tearing not one, but two telephone books Manhattan directories, tooD in half, lifting 12O penny bars and striking nails through three inches of pine-boards with his bare hands-was IT, he weighed only little over 90 pounds.
 Three years of a strict calis-- thenic regimen, apparently, chang ed his life and poundage. For though he was the despair of his parents and grave problem for the doctors at IT, he was already posing as a model for artists and sculptors who demanded physiques of heroic proportions when he was 21. Enthusiastic over what he had accomplished for himself, Atlas in 1922 went into the business of physical culture by mail.
 The greatest thrill he ever felt (even a muscular Adonis feels I thrillsD was brought about four years ago by 8 vacation jaunt he took to India. Passing through Ceylon, Atlas was stirred to find a bronze statue of himself in the corridor of a public building wi., an Eternal Light burning in frcnt of it. A tribute of the pop ulace to what they most revere a perfect body.
 And speaking of statutes, 1t is ironic that one of Atlas strong man feats-he doesn't perform them much, now that his business is boomhg-consists of ripping phone books apart. For all the telephone directories have on their front cov- CTS statues of an heroically carved figure holding bolts of electricity ir an outsrtetched hand. Ironic, fol Atlas happens to be the man who posed for that illustration!
 Though he is wealthy and happy in his calling, Atlas has one wistfu ambition. He would like to rip thu Brooklyn, Manhattan and Bronx di rectories at one tear, though the A T. & T. might not care so mucf for that herculean antIc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 10:14 D. m. (daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:34 a. m; sets 8:03 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Last Saturday mornings lunar spectacle was quite beautiful one. The moon had ridden high in the skies to the south and somewhat west of the city after midnight gloriously clear. Suddenly tiny segment of 1t was plotted out as if by some black cloud. It bit further into the great globe of yellow cheese. The eclipse was all that could have been desired, spectacle of nature worth arising from warm bed for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Safety Through Effort

Safety contests for drivers of delivery vans and trucks produce good results A Feb February % of this year the drivers sias of of 7s companies had no accidents at all In February of 1887 the 76 companies reported 60 accidents.
 Several factors are combined in such an achievement. Drivers must be intelli- gent and careful. The trucks and vans they operate must be kept in good repair. Traffic regulations in the area where their business lies must be sensible to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
A Book a Day
Sea-Going Wonder Worker
 By BRUCE CAPTION

If you can imagine Paul Bun- van gone slightly bawdy and trans ferred from the tall pines to the ocean, you may be able to get slight foretaste of the flavor of "Bowleg Bill: the Sea-G Going Cow boy" by Jeremiah Dlgges (Viking: $2).
 MT. Digges was doing a job for a WPA writers project in Massa- chusetts, when he began to hear weird, fantastic tales about a Wyoming ranch hand who had gone to sea in the old sailing ship days. These yarns were typical tall tales; MT. Diggs speedily realized that he had stumbled across a bit of authentic American folklore, and he lost no time in turning it into 8 book.
 The book is salty somewhat out rageous. and-if you don't offend too easily-extremely refreshing.
 Bowleg Bill, it seems, is eight feet tall and, having been cowboy, his knees won't sheet home" He Car- rieS his siX-gunS to sea with him, laSSoS and breaks hoSS-mackerel, captures a mermaid-a disappoint- ment to the crew, being half-wom- an and haddock-teacheS a Nantucket whaling skipper some new tricks, rescueS a herd of live steers when clipper ship founders in hurricane, and does various other quite incredible and frequent ly improper things.
 MT Diggs got on his trail mostly along the waterfront of Cape Cod towns. He has made an extremely readable and highly unusual sort of book out of it all.
 As far as this reviewer is con- cerned, Bowleg Bill is lots more in teresting than Paul Bunyan ever | was,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16

Truck gardeners claim that the weather the last two or three weeks has con- pletely mitigated the fine warm weather of April that enabled early seeding and brought vegetables up in no time. Things haven't moved at all this month and plant ings from now on will catch up to the mature just as quick as the early ones. That's one of the perversities of New Eng land weather
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16

1. Does Philadelphia have an elevated railway?
 2. Should one say somebody's else or somebody else's?
 3. Name the two capes at the en- trance to Chesapeake Bay.
 4. In medical practice, what is carries?
 5. Name the author of the "Lame Duck" amendment to the Constitu- tion.
 6. What is the function Of the lachrymal glands?
 '. Name the first Chief Justice of the U. s. Supreme Court.
 8. Does the Republic of China use the same calendar as the U. s.?
 9. In which country is the city oi Nice?
 10. How is 1492 written in Roman numerals?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Selected Poem
OLD SAILOR

(Kimball Flaccus in the New York Times) These things happened Before you existed: My mother died
 And my eyes were misted. l ran away then
 And took to the sea; The deck of a ship
 Was home to me. l sailed to the north
 Where the wind was inhuman; I sailed to the south
 Where the wind was 8 woman; sailed where the canvas Exploded like thunder, And green seas buried The bowsprit under. And when I was thirty They made me a skipper. To China and back
 drove my sweet clipper; I raced like demon
 Around the Horn. All this happened
 Before you were born.