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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Walter w. Holmes

The name of Holmes is 8 familiar one in Waterbury. It has long been linked with the city's business and industrial life. The death of Walter w. Holmes at his beautiful home on the Country Club Road marked the close of an active career which was almost entirely ceI1- tered in his native city. We say Water bury was Walter Holmes native city for he lived all save five of his years here. He was born in England at time when his father, the late Israel Holmes, was stationed there as agent for the Scovill Company. But he returned to Waterbury when Walter, the boy, was five years old.
 Many were the endeavors of Walter Holmes and he was generally successful in each and every one of them. He was fond of the outdoors and no more ardent hunter took to the fields, angler whipped the streams. He was Htally interested, too, in the preservation and propagation of Connecticut wild life. To this end he presented the state with several wild life sanctuaries, one in Pennington bearing his name. Of recent years he had lived a quiet life, dividing it between his Country Club Road home and Florida. He was, as so many members of his family, citizen of whom the city and state could be proud distinguished, successful, and conSiderate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Clarence Maclxay

The death of Clarence Mackay this past weekend gave many Americans a real opportunity to discover just how active and full had been the life of this great citizen. From early boyhood on his day had been long one, with much work and planning included. The fruits of such energy were realized in his later years when he was able to indulge in those hobbies and pleasures to which he had long been inclined. At his death he was still in the prime of life.
 The son of an Irish immigrant who rose to riches and power Clarence Mackay fulfilled all the promises and expectations of his father. The father planned a vast communications system; the son devel- oped and made it the powerful and far flung one that it is today. This in itself represented a lifetime of endeavor. But his interests included much more than this. He was noted as a music-lover and promoter of this art. His taste in paint 1ngs, panels was unsurpassed.
 He remained through his life devout churchman and had been given the highest honors a layman could receive from the Roman Catholic Church His was a life which any son of family of wealth could take as a pattern. Rugged Americanism was always uppermost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Selected Poem
SUSSEX WATER COLOR
GA. Jacqueline Shaw in the Christian Science
 Monitorl

GA Jacqueline Shaw in the Christian Science
 Monitor) Of course you know her. She was out last year From England, in the fall, and went half-wild About our naples. Take her driving-shed Be out of the car, and up hillside with Her box of paints! We've had to leave her there And bring her sandwiches She sent me this. Oh nothing much-a little two by four Picture of Sussex-cottages, few Trees and pasture. Do you notice how She's dipped her brush in gold? That's English color. The country lies in gold at sunset-time. Colds good color, like to sit and look At Sussex, when the world seems going dark. I think know the way that little path Crosses the meadow; the sheep know it. too. I've walked that field, and can stoop and pick Some straws, dropped from the clumsy wagon with Its heavy horses-touching the Sussex earth With accustomed hngers-and holding them in
 hand, Crunch them little-get all England there, Smell, sight, and touch. know the common flowers Late blooming that she hasn't painted in Chrysanthemums and dahlias and the like In the cottage gardens. Did you know tea-roses will often bloom as late as Christmas time? Oh, yes, they will. sit here and think: No one can touch 1t, really None at all Can touch this Sussex. It will surely stay Through all the thunderboits; it's stayed Q while It saw Elizabeth and Cromwell pass; Welcomed Victoria, and drowsed and smiled As 1t smiles now, for you and me, still gold.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15

Nothing provoked more honest sym pathy from the press of the state than the recent defeat of Gov. Wilbur L. Cross for reelection. Even the newspapers that opposed his reelection realized that when he was defeated the state was losing an official whom it would find hard to re- place. Said the Hartford Courant "He has been, despite all the aspersions cast upon him during the heat of a poli- tical campaign, good Governor, pop ular Governor, and he has wrought much for the state during these last eight years. He has brought great distinction to Connecticut by his erudition, by the fine literary qualities of his official proclamations, by the charm that his presence has lent to public occasions here and elsewhere, and by his mellowed philosophy and excellent sense of humor. :. Let us hope he now finds time to write his autobiography. It would be, without doubt, distinct contribution to the political, cultural and social life of Connecticut, and, we venture to predict, 'best-seller' :. :"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Hail the King and Queen!

1t will be a fine thing to have the king and queen of England as guests Of the United States next spring. Genuine lo- karat royalty is 8 rare sight in this iano' and all our citizens will doubtless be the better for having had look at the real article. But it is not too early for the people of this republic to make up thelr minds that while they are gong to pc cordial hosts they are not gong to pc III the market for any gold brlcks.
 Great Britain doesn't send her king and queen on transoceanic voyages Just to give them 8 change of scene and a breath of fresh air. British royalty does not ordinarily have much to do, but full dress foreign visit like this one ranks as one of its most important jobs. One need not be unduly suspicious to guess that this particular hand across the sea is coming toward us palm up ward.
 There are several things that England
 may have in mind. For one thing, there are those war debts, still unpaid. For an- other there is the Johnson act, which prohibits loans to defaulting nations. For still another, there is that vague and ill-defined thing, Anglo-American cooper ation. If Americas cordiality to King George and Queen Elizabeth brings on a revival of the old blood-is-thicker-than- water talk, we may expect to be informed that it is our duty to humanity to give on these points.
 Which means that we ought to do some straight, unconditional thinking before our guests arrive. For what we will be asked to do, in substance, will be to support Britain's foreign policy. It makes little difference what kind of support we are asked to give-whether we are asked to forget about the debts, repeal the John-. son act, or align ourselves in the Anglo Saxon bloc" in some other way; what Britain wants, obviously, is some definite sort of American support.
 But is Britaish foreign policy today anything which America ought to sup port? Is 1t working so strongly for a freer, juster, happier world that we would policy of isolation in order to give it helping hand? Every man will have to provide his own answer to that. In view of all that has happened in the last half dozen years, 1t is very hard to see how America as whole can possibly return ives" answer.
 If ever our tradition of isolation looked good, it looks good today. Everything that has happened overseas in recent years is designed to reinforce the old feeling that America can best serve the world by staying at home and minding her own business. If Mr. Chamberlain is the knight in shining armor who is to make us change our minds, his record to date hardly indicates it. America will be cordial to her royal guests; no doubt about that. But if 1t is wise it will keep its fountain pen in it's pocket when the salesman lays the contract on the table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Figures Don't Lie

The expression, figures don't lie, is quite true, but oftentimeS not very expressive. They don't always tell the true story. For example last week in the state election Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, run ming on the Socialist ticket, boiled over 13,O00 votes in Waterbury, which has never been known to display marked So- cialiStic tendencies. But ali of us know that 1t wasn't for Jasper McLevy the socialist candidate or Jasper McLevy the mayor that these 1S,000 votes were cast. Fms statement made with all due respect 70 the McLevy vote-drawing ability.
 It might be interesting to note how Norman Thomas, nationaly-k So- cialiSt leader, fared in the same election m New York state. MT. Thomas has been g presidential candidate on occasions and not so many years ago was advocating given the nation-federal work relief, old age pensions, unemployment insurance, etc. Last week he ran for governor on the Socialist ticket and ran well in the rllck. In fact in New York City, MT. Thomas boiled the amazingly low total Cf 18,052 votes. This is all the more ir1- credible when you realize that there were 2,270,000 votes cast in New York
 And what is all the more annoying to the Socialist Party of New York State is the fact that the Thomas total vote cast last week was less than 1 per cent of the total vote cast, which may mean denial of $ position on the official ballots in l8z0. But what caught our attention &Hs the Tho1llas total in New York City
 .C51 EI6 you realize that is only 5000 11fz votes (han McLevy got here in
 .6EhH1f2 Ik fDesn't prove, of course, MT Js16e< NffkYy will run for Presi-
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of official proclamations has been . labor of love in which his rich fancy, his learning and his affection for his native State have been given full play. There is a measured tramp to his sentences, 8 hint of the King James version in his phraseology and, best of all, a ripe appreciation in his figures of speed of the sheer beauty of his land. These qualities have made each of his proclama- tions . document to read and re- read and preserve.
 The latest Is no exception. "As the cOlors Of autumn stream down, the wind, scarlet in sulnach and maple, gold in the birches, a splendcr oe smoldering. fire in the oaks along the hil"-here speaks son of Con- necticut who for more than seventy years has seen and wondered at the miracle of a New England autumn. The last leaves 4uttef away and dusk falls briefly about the worker bringing in from the Held late load of its fruit and AFcturus Is lost to sight and Orion swings upward that great sun upon his shouldersp- this is the poet speaking, a brother nj spirit of one who wrote of another season:
 When liiacs last in the dooeyard
 bloomd
 And the greater star early droop'd
 in the western sky in the night,
 I Inoufn'd, and yet shall mourn,
 with eyer-returning spring.
 Finally, here speaks q brave and wise man who, for ail his recent dis appointment, can rejoice and give thinks that our "arc of sky has been darkened by no war hawk" that we @have been forced by no man to stand and speak when to speak was to choose between death and life" and that "the further inercies we have enjoyed, beyond desert or any estimation, of Justice, Freedom, Loy- ng-kindness, Peace" have not been denied us. One may search. its majestic phrases in vain for so much as a hint of bitterness. In his last proclamation the Governor reveals his courage as well as his wisdom and his affection for this land of freedom with all its glorious txadi- tiOnS. s
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chiefly by raising the bueaboo
 that his defeat WouId mean re- taxation of immigration laws. 'Tf | am llcked,D he would warn hls constituents, "Sabath Of H. linOis will become chairman 0k the Immigratiom Communities. The gates win be thrown wide <. open for everybody who wants to come Co this country because Sabath Is . foreigner himself"
 To Sabath, Burnett would ex- plain, Don't get me wrong. Adolph. There's nothing personal in this. It's just campaign talk. That's the way I get my votes"
 .Sure, \ understand. J0hn," Sabath would gay, "I'd hate to sec you defeated. If giving me hell gets you votes, 60 to It. I'm
 all for you.n
 Merry-G Co., Round
 Howard c. Hopson, defiant boss of Associated Gas 6 Electric. Is having plenty of government trouble. With the SEC already on his trail, now the Internal Revenue Bureau and Federal Pow. CT company are preparing to tackle him Of the more than l2,OO0, 900 men and women over 60 years of age in the D. g, only l,722, ,396 receive old-age pensions. . The various reception and sitting rooms on the main floor of the White House have silk wall paper .. IVA has proud. ly issued Q pamphlet quoting edi- torials on the collapse of the IVA Investigation" The an. nounced object of the European junket being made by F. R. Will cox, Agriculture Department marketing expert, was to find out- lets for surplus U. s. citrus fruits. Actually, his chief purpose Is to learn details of European wheat dumping So the U. s. can avoid overdumping A hot under. cover election contest is in prog-. ress in the American Automobile Association between Thomas P. Henry, Detroit manufacturer who has been president of the organ ization 14 years, and William Gable, youthful head of the Penn sylvania Motor Federation.
 Copyright. 1888. by United
 Feature Syndicate, IrcA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
PressC sCornnent
SAD FATE or MIR. THOMAS
(New York Sun)

Shed a tear for Norman Thomas and his party. Running once more for governor on the Socialist ticket Mfr. Thomas boiled only 1e062 votes in the city of New York, less than 1 per cent of the total cast for the once. MT. Thomas may very well reflect that there ought to be a law, or at least Q patent, to protect political ideas. Ten years ago, be- fore the major parties had drunk of the waters Of collectivism, Thomas ran for president on a platform calling for 6 publicly owned giant power system, " . flood control program, relief of the tlnem- ployed by public works, federal loans to the states: unemployment and health insurance: old age pen sions, . Aye-day tor shorter) week, abolition of injunctions in labor dis putes, more taxes.
 The New Deal has appropriated all these notions and added to them. If MT. Thomas ever thought of buying votes with relief money he would have xepelled 1t. But he saw his own beliefs taken over by MT. Roosevelt and, for that matter, supported by some timid Republicans. The New Dealers stole his coat and brooches. Labor's Non- Partisan league pinched his hat. Tn . city casting 2,270 900 votes for governor the Hociaiist nominee could get only le,062. lie and his followers had been robbed and Outbidden.
 If the s0cialikt party loses its legal existence, what is to become of its handsome leader2 We can see him only as . Cato crying Frank
 zaepe delendsn sstI"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
T0DAY's COMMON ERROR Meningitis may be pFenounced either men-iu.jy'.tis CT men. in-jee'-tis.

nitted if you had no job and there was possibility that she might be- come a public charge.
 e. To what nations have the Aland Islands belonged?
 A. Since 1923 they have belonged to Sweden, Denmark. Finland. and Russia. In 1921 the League of Na- tions awarded them to Finland.
 c. In what motion picture did Loretta Young play the role of a servant who marries the son of her wealthy employer
 A.. Private Number" with Ro- bert Taylor.
 c. Which three States were last to enter the Union?
 A. Oklahoma, November 16, 1907: New Mexico, January 6, 1912; Ari- zora, February IA, 1912.
 c. How many persons are ern. ployed on W. F. A. Federal Music Projects?
 A. Approximately 1o6oo.
 Q. Which is preferable, under. wear made of aii wool or siik-and- wool? #
 A. Generally, mixtures of silk and wool or cotton and wool are to be preferred to all wool. The mixed fiber maintains g more uniform body temperature and thus helps to pre- vent colds. An nndergarinefat made from 8 combination of wool and some other flber is much iess irritat- ing to the skin than all wool. It is also more easily cared for, as the silk eliminates some of the shrink ing.
 If you want . copy es eur book- Let, PIES and PASTRIES" write to The Waterbury Democrats Wash ton Bureau, 1e13 Thirteenth Street. Washington, D. 0. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
A Book a Day
The Picture
 of LaGuardia
(BY BRUCE CATION

The Picture
 of LaGuardia
 (BY BRUCE CATION
 one of the prerequisites of the build-up of . national political fis. ure is life story" book about him Fiorello H. La0uardia has his nov.
 It is .sThis Man La Guardia" Dut- ton: 93), and 1t does . breezy Jch of introducing New York'e Mayoe, twice victor over Tasmuaary, to United States that is likely to want to know him better.
 Lowell M. Limpus and Burr W Leyson, the co-authors, have not written and have not pretended to write either a detinitive and scholar ly biography or discussion of poll. tical principles. They have whipped together a rllnningf journalistic ace count of La duardia that leaps along as impulsively and Jnpredict- ably as the man himself.
 But what a man AInerican-boRn of Italian parents, reared i1 army posts in Arizona and all over the country, grabbing job as war cor. respondent in the Spanish War e a nefe boy, becoming American consul in. Austria, fighting through to mastery of law and several languages, going to Congress, voting for war in 1917 and then fighting in 1t as . flyer on the Italian front, Is Guardia had 1illed up three life- times before lao bean the public career that is part of tho scene to- day.
 Though admittedly Q friendly and ,incritical picture, this portrait oS one Of the most vital figures of toe day will help many to understand the firchrand who has hlaze4 through Congress and New xcrA City politics, shedding plenty e light and heat. Only the snersse speculation is made ct the enc about La 0uardia's future: Presls dent? Vice president? Cabinet mems ber9 Senator? New York g0vernogv Third -term New York mayor? Cons RressmanP Messrs. Limpus and Leys son aren't guessing g--W. T..
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 1. Of which country is Manitoba q province?
 2. what is the name for the less of the sense of srnell2
 3. What. is the name Of the new automobile, manufactured by the Ford Motor Go, which has been recently intrOduced2
 {. was Georgia one Of the orig inal 13 States2
 $. Name the port nt the Mediter- fanean. end of the Sues Canal. 6. What common name is applied to all sorts Of sEnAll Sish7
 2. In addreeying . female presid- ing officer. what $ the proper form of addresse
 6. Name the branch Of natural history that treats of reptiles. 9. Is. there any condition under which naturali1ed citizen of the U. 6. can become Hfesident2 10. What is flfe name for the doctrine thet there's ig 70 0cdf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
HARTFORD CoURANT

Until the first inauguration of Governor Gross a Connecticut Thanksgiving Day proclamation was 8 bald and perfunctery document announcing, between tedious where! as" and "therefores," that the New England harvest festival was at hand. The conventional tone of the document was that of an under. graduate fraternity's resolution mourning the death of . member formal, suited and as unimaginatiye as 8 coroner'g report. t
 To Governor Gross the drawing up
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dent on the Socialist ticket in 194O. It does prove, though, that party labels are fast losing their attraction here in Con- necticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15

New Workers complain of boys climbing onto their cars and cleaning their wind- shields unasked. We have too much serv- ice in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15

e. I am native-born American and married, in 1928, Canadian woman who has never been. natural ized. I am unemployed and my wife wants me to try living in Canada with her family. We have two chil- dren, who were born in this country Would we have any dificulty in re- turning to the United States in case we do not like living in Canads7
 A. You and your children would have no dihaculty in returning, but your alien wife might not be ad-
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Daily Almanac
Sun rises 6:ss a. m.; sets ASA p. m.

0uu 11sc5 U.00 Hs ILI., sctS asO4 Ps Iu
 All vehicles must De lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Early forecasts for the 1e3s autumn seem t have missed fire. Instead of being Q complete disappointment the season has been unusu- ally bountiful. From the day after the dread hurricane we have experienced beautiful weather, much of it unseasonal to be sure, but certainly pleasing to those who dread the cold months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Frustrssion-.,Sy per

8HUUvD0o1DlN"-
 We stopped in et one of these pre- arranged bacchanales the other night. There was Bettina, or what. ever her right name is, hitting around to the tables with the ebul- Hence of a hostess who has heard good news ct the cash register, glib with idle 1lattery and table talk.
 We haven't seen such a sad as- semblage of guests at a party as those who were there, being gay with desperation. Nor were there prospects of the names of those present turning up in the society columns the next morning. And the social climber knows no more heartbfekaing frustration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Daily.
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British Duchess Reveals Chamberlain Kept ln Power Because of RooseveIt's Support; Blessing of olo-Itolion Pact Saved Toues; FDR's Advisers Worried; Next Move Sell-Out ofLoyolists; Cabinet Wants U. 5. to Stay Cleor
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Questions and
 Answers
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sy Frsderiek M. Kerby

Enclose . three.cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton of fact CT information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot De given, nor can extended research he uM-- dertakeu. Be sure all mail is d. dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU. REAU, l013 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. 0.
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A Thought for Today

aauI hath slain his thousands, and David his len thousands.-I Samuel 21:11.
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 Dress 1t as we may, feather It, dauD N ..1 waCn it what is war nine times out of ten, but mur- der in uniform?-D Douglas Jerrold.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-15
Test your Knowledge

Can you AiasMer seven ok these test questions7 Turn to last page for the answers.
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Last For GoUern0r

Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1888 Ranks Among His Best--No Show of Bitter ness Over Defeat Seen in. His
 Latest Beautiful Word
 Picture.