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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-03-31

Vincek sc mylil We sve ma
deli, re Sc We meste dozvi, proc
sem Havelkova jede. Kdyz
prijeli do krajnf ulice, poruci-
la mu: "Zastav!" Slezla potion
nejak namahave S brycky a
naTizovala mu: "Pockej tady a
nikam nezajizdej! Vratim Sc
hnedle a pojedeme hned do
mG."
"Snad nebudu stat ma uli-
Gig" tazal Sc Vincek udivene.
"Hod ma kone pokryvky a
cekej!" porucila mu zkratka a
spechala pryc.
Lekare zastihla donna a po-
vidala, re Sc j podebfra prs.
"Kojfte?" zeptal sc lekaf.
"Nemam detf," odpovedela.
"Tak Sc svlecte!" porucil.
Havelkova obnazila prs, ira
sla Sc rozcflen1m, hledfc 1zko-
stlive ma lekare a cekajic, CO
rekne. Prohledl 81 ranu a pc.
tom sc tazal:
eco jste 81 udelala?"
"Kousl mne mas pes, jal
jsem mu nesla zradlo a shybls
sc k nemu," lhala Havelkova.
"A je pes zdravy?" Ease sc
lekar ptal.
A Havelkova Ease lhala
"Zdravy je."
"Myslfm, nejevf-li pTfznaky
vztekliny?"
Havelkova Sc zachvela hrI
you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
Make It Permanent

The commotion that has been caused by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's an- nouncement that he will proclaim Thanksgiving Day in 1889 as of Noven1- Der g, instead of the last Thursday of the month, is not as bad as we though it might be. There is far less opposition to the plan than many others which have come from Mr. Roosevelt under the head ing of the New Deal. We did note that one COP politician tried to be facetious about the whole thing, but his humor was too far-fetched to get much attention.
 As matter of strict fact the President is treading on pretty solid ground when he says the Thanksgiving holiday should not be allowed to fall on the last day of the month. It shouldn't. Neither should it necessarily occur on the 23rd day of the month. But we honestly and really be- lieve that the entire nation would enjoy the observance of Thanksgiving year after year with more gusto if it was a fixed date not day. So far as we can see there is no custom that binds us to pick the last Thursday of November any more than the last Monday or Tuesday or even Saturday.
 If people would only stop to realize how much nicer a Thanksgiving at the begin ming or end of the week would be, weigh ing the advantages against all possible disadvantages, we think that the rank and file of the American population would side with the emotionless businessman who sees in the Presidents proposed plan an answer to what he has been looking for year after year. Fixed calendars may not have the flexibility of our presnt one, but they do restore lot of order out of chaos.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
No Other Route

State Highway Commissioner William J. Cox brushes aside any objections to the idea of boring through West Rock in New Haven for the proposed new Wilbur L. Cross Parkway with the remark that: "Tunneling West Rock is the only feas- ible route for bypass for this city (New Haven) for the proposed Wilbur L. Cross Parkway" To the highway engineer we presume this is the case To the aver age taxpayer it isn't He wants to be convinced that such an expensive under taking as this is really practical and not just great engineering feat.
 Naturally Connecticut hopes that the Cross Parkway will be pushed along much faster than was the Merritt Parkway in its initial stages. It took long time for this project to get underway, but once construction of the road itself started it went along pretty rapidly. The state has that much experience now in building a modern parkway and can act accord ingly. Tn this respect Commissioner Cox says the road can be finished within four years if given proper legislative support.
 We presume tfis includes the driving of the tunnel through West Rock. If it is possible to build a road Of such pre- tensions as that planned all the way from Bridgeport up to Hartford, avoiding cen ters Of population, in four years, Connec.. tIcut will bc really in the front rank ol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

Justice Roberts could hardly pose as a farmer. Nevertheless he could do a better job of farming than Calvin Coolidge, who once posed for close-ups of himself clad in
 overalls and swinging a pitch- fork.
 HOMEFOLKS ROBERTS
 Once James Quinn, circulation manager of The Phoenixville, Pa., Republican, got off the train at the railroad station and went up to a tall man in worn workclothes who was about to start his car. Quinn asked for 8 lift, got 1t, and has been joshed by his friends ever since about asking Farmer" Roberts for a ride home.
 Roberts has $50 acres of farm land near Valley Forge, Pennsyl- vania, which is his pride and joy, and few visitors leave the Roberts home without having fruit and vegetables piled into their cars.
 Perhaps because the Justice has no sons of his own, he has always taken a great interest in boys, and every year contributes $750 toward fund to take the Boy Scouts of Chester County to a summer camp in Maryland. Roberts is head of the county Boy Scout council, visits the camp every year and once gave a party
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

We can't quite see the logic of the strik- ing farmers in New York State who empty hundreds of cans of milk along the road side to prevent the fluid getting to the dairies. To this writer there is as much sense in wasting good food like that as there is in burning surplus crops There are loads of people in this nation alone who can't buy milk or can't buy bread that could be made from wheat and other surplus crops simply because they are destitute. They even burn coffee down in Brazil to pep up the market. All of which does not seem right in civilized world where on the one hand we have plenty and on the other want There should be some means of drawing con- meeting line between these opposing groups. Certainly wasteage of milk and other foodstuffs to gain an objective is not one of these means.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

Elimination of the problems of dust in summer and mud in spring is believed found in new type of road that has just been laid in Middletown. And the cost of the new type of roadway is less than that of macadam by fully one-half, ac- cording to early reports. A combination of crushed stone and calcium chloride provided the material which proves so Seasonable. It should be an inducement to provide more of such type roadways in hard-surfaced roads are constantly in need of repairs It is type of road ex- tensively built throughout the West.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
. HlGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
How Lardner Died In Spain's War

Vincent Sheean's new book, Not Peace but a Sword" Doubleday
 Doran: ($275), Is a stirring, highly
 personalized account of Europe
 from March, 1888, to March, 1899.
 After a brilliant analysis of the
 role of the British empire and the
 British people, Sheean leads into
 first-hand stories of incidents and
 men. One of these is the follow
 ing, the story of the death of the
 late Ring Lardner's son Jim in
 Spain:
 Tt was on Sept. g at about Il o'clock at night-the last night the Gincoln) battalion spent in the lines. They were holding Hill 281, at Corbera, and change had taken place on Hill 376, to the northeast. Lardner was sent with two com- rades, one Spanish and one Ameri- can, to establish contact with the unit that was supposed to be on Hill 376. It was very dark. He start ed out to the northeast but veered to the north in the darkness. At the foot of a hill which he took to be Hill 376 he stopped to listen and heard the sound of digging. He in- structed Tony Novakowsky, the American with him, to stay at the foot of the hill with the Spanish comrade and wait while he went up to see who was occupying the hill. They did so, and Lardner made his way up the slope. As he came near the top there was shout and Lardner challenged in Spanish.
 Loud yells broke out, rapidly followed by machine gun fire and a series of hand grenades. The Fascists on the hill, uncertain in the dark ness, threw out enough fire to repel an attack. The Spaniard at the foot of the hill was killed. Tony Nova kowsky had some cover and was un- touched. He remained under cover for Q long time-nearly two hours but Lardner did not return. He then made his way back to Hill 2sl and reported Lardner's officers, after questioning Novakowsky, had no doubt that he had been instantly killed.
 "On the following evening, Sept. 24, the Lincoln Battalion was with drawn from the lines and ordered back to Ripoll to prepare to go home. Lardner, the last American to enlist. had been the last to be killed"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
Safeguarding U. s. Lifeline

It is good to learn that the conStruc- ton of the third set of locks of the Panama Canal is to begin at once. More and more it is apparent that the Canal Zone is the jugular vein of the United States In any thew Munichs" that might be attempted in South America, the Canal is vital. In any quick shift of naval force from east to west, or west to east coasts, the Canal is vital. No pains ought to be spared to make it secure. A new military road into Panama, new air fields, new complements of troops and other defense measures are to be provided as fast as possible.
 When the Panama Canal was opened in 1914, it was not only wonder of the modern world, but it's facilities were con- sidered ample. Today even those mar velous locks, which operate with such precision, are barely big enough. The great British battleship Hood, passing through the Canal, overhung the edges of the locks, and even knocked off few lamp-posts in making the transit. Bigger ships are to come.
 So purely from the standpoint of facili- ties, the new locks will be good thing. But there is another aspect. In this day of undeclared wars it is generally pre- sumed that the first notice the United States would have of war on 1t by any other country would come in the form of an attack without warning on the Canal. This could come either by air, or by the blowing up in the locks of a foreign ship making the transit. Either, if luckily carried out, might block the Canal for many months.
 The new locks, when completed, will be understood to be for the use of U. s. naval vessels in general, with such exceptions as the military authorities might make. In time of crisis, none but U. s. naval ships would probably be allowed in them at all That would eliminate the chance of blow ing up a vessel and blocking them. Of course the new locks, while close enough to the old ones to be protected by many of the same aerial defenses, would be far enough off to require two very lucky attacks to close the Canal rather than one. Every country in the two Americas may feel safer when this job is done.
 But in addition, the Nicaraguan plan has not been abandoned. A commission of eight experts is on the way to that country to survey moderate-draft canal and parallel highway system for that country. This survey results from recent conversations between President Somoza and President Roosevelt at the White House. This would not be, at least imme- diately, a deep-draft canal that would handle the largest vessels, but it might afford some shallow-draft transit at comparatively small expense, and the be- ginning of what might later be made into second Isthmian waterway.
 All the American nations and espe- cially, of course, the United States, thus show that they are alert to the problem of hemisphere defense, and that they do not propose to neglect them while the world continues in it's present jittery condition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
Whats Your I. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Which river has the largest volume of flow in the world?
 3. Under whose leadership was the American Red Cross society formed in 1881?
 3. Was James Madison the third, fourth or fifth President of the U. S.?
 {. What is an assay office?
 s. Name the largest known s2e- cies of snakes.
 6. Between which two points did the French flying boat Lieutenant de vaisseau Paris" recently cross the Atlantic in a nonstop flight?
 2. In dry measure, how many pints are in l peck?
 8. Near the entrance of which Gulf is Cape Breton Island?
 g. For what college degree does Mus B" stand?
 10. Is the North Pole nearer to the center of the earth than the equator, and why?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
WATERBURY'S NEW
 CONTROLLER
(Hartford Times)

The appointment of 8 controller to succeed the late Sherwood L. Row. land in Waterbury naturally at- tracted attention throughout the state, inasmuch as the conduct of the controllership under the former regime was under fire and MT. Row. lands incumbency brought about the trial which is now in progress.
 The rest of the state obviously can have no informed opinion as to the appointment made by Mayor Hayes. It will get little help in forming any from what the Waterbury news papers say about 1t. The American which, with the Republican, both owned by William J. Pape. had Q large part in bringing about the grand jury investigation, headed its editorial on the subject "The Old Regime Comes Back"
 It said: ''The city would have cause to rejoice in any apparent intima- ton that the new controller is re- solved to observe scrupulously the same strong methods of accounting that characterized the administra- ton of his predecessor (RowlanO. !. In the circumstances, however, that probably is too much to expect"
 The American sems to fear that accounting methods of the Leary ad- ministration will be resumed.
 The Waterbury Democrat, which come only reluctantly to the conclu- sion that there was any Denmarkian rottenness in the Waterbury area. resents such suggestions. assails at- tack upon she appointee before he has . chance to do his first ofiicial act or to prove to his fellow citizens what his character, abilities and in- tentions may be-"
 The Democrat refers to Mir Sweeney as "a native of Waterbury, product of our schools, of high school and college education, of unblem. ished reputation, engaged in an hon. est effort to earn a living"
 MT. Sweeney would appear to be entitled to his chance. He worked for eight years in the controllers once under Mr. Leary in a minor capacity. That does not prove him to be untrustwerthy or incapable. Certainly under the situation which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
Selected Poem
A SHIP IS LAUNCHED

(Eleanor G. R. Young in the Christian
 Science Monitor) Glide slowly down the ways, 0 slender ship, Graceful and silent Tn the suns warm light. A sight That one will cherish Tn his heart A wondrouS thing Made out of wood and metal and plain paint" It may be said Yet hundreds of skilled workmen Wait to see Your finished lines Of grace and symmetry. Glide slowly down the ways Until you feel The welcome rush of water On your keel I hear the crowd roar out their thrilled deght Tears dim my eyes as gaze on the sight - Slowly, like some great gull, You find your place And ride the waves With poised accustomed grace. A ship sails forth Toward the waiting sea, Riding the waters lanes triumphantly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
THAT SIGN AT THE ToLL-GATE
Bridgeport Times-star)

A short time ago this newspaper recommended that, if the state high way department wants to deal hon. estly with motorists paying the Mer- ritt Parkway toll, 1t should put up sign at the toll-gate to tell them that the dimes collected there are being used to build wholly differ ent highway in an entirely different county, 40 miles away.
 And now the highway department has done 1t.
 The signs put up don't read ex- actly as we suggested, however. They say that the tolls are being used to "extend" the Merritt Parkway.
 Extend-Oh, fatal words for Fair field county!
 The extension" is in New Haven county, starting 40 miles from the toll-gate. When that extension" is finished, another will "extend" 1t still further, to Hartford. It does not need soothsayer to prophecy that, when the Hartford extension" is finished, there will be another extension" hooFed on into Litchfield county and another "ex- tension" east to the Massachusetts line.
 How many more extensions" there will be, farther and ever farther from the toll-gate on the Merritt Parkway, will be limited only by the general assembly's sense of stiffness and by the ingenuity of engineers in being able to button each "exten- sion" onto an extension" of an "ex- tension" of the Merritt Parkway.
 And the dimes for all this will keep on being collected at the toll. gate In Greenwich, as they are now. They will keep on being collected there because that is where the most motorists can be tagged and where the collecting is best. When the extension" being paid for out of Merritt Parkway dimes is . hundred miles from the toll- gate, the ridiculousness of pretend ing that 1t is just an extension" and not another road will be clear. But is 1t any less ridiculous. when the extension" begins 40 miles from the toll-gate? How far away can an ''extension" begin without being ridiculous?
 We say and have said from the beginning that the point of ridicu- lousness, if not deception, was reached when the general assembly voted to put . toll on one road which couldn't do that road any good at all and which could be used only to build another road somewhere else.
 More firmly than ever before. we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

on his farm for the 40 scoutmas- ters of the county.
 SWITCHING SIDES
 Chief characteristic of Justice Roberts career on the Supreme bench has been a weaving in and out between liberal and conserva- tive decisions. Roberts was defi- nitely member of the progressive bloc when he first joined the Court, and when his opinions re- flected the same general viewpoint as his Teapot Dome prosecution. Then gradually Roberts switched over to the conservative group of Justices and remained there until 1936, when during Roosevelt's court bill fight, Roberts reversed himself on the New York mini- mum wage act.
 Since that time he has been consistently favorable to the proponents of social legislation, old age pensions, unemployment insurance, and the public own- ership of municipal power plants.
 Why Roberts switched so fre- quently from one side to the other is a secret known only to himself. But perhaps-as MT. Dooley said -"The Supreme Court always follows the election returns"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

and Titania and the lot would be immortalized by jitterbugs.
 The perpetrator of the swung Shakespeare classic is Erik Char rell, who gave Europe one of its most colossal stage spectacles, "The White Horse Inn," and then gave 1t to New York-which gave it back. That was a waltz-time show, too mellifiuous for the me- tropolitan taste. So, then and there, Charrell resolved to attune himself to the Gotham ear and concentrate on the brass section.
 For he has hired Benny Good man and his band to play "A Mid- summer Nights Dream" and Maxine Sullivan, the dusky chan teuse of swing, to portray Tita- mia. The music will be Mendel- ssohns, but 1t will be such that from his heavenly roost, he un- doubtedly will be unable to rec ognize 1t. But that's the point. Swing out the old. Swing in the new.
 THEY CAN'T DO
 THAT TO US!
 A few days ago, John Krimsky, a lively impresario, announced that he is about to join the litter. wagon and breeze up Victor Her. bert's soft and sentimental op. eretta, Babes in Toyland." Krim- sky says that he is going to put the music were-wolves of Tin Pan Alley to work on Victor, Herbert's score until they can make 1t as dissonant as a concert in a steam roller factory.
 And when that's done, he is going to call it Hot Babes of Toyland," give it plenty of this and that, and let 1t run loose and wild over Manhattan stage. That should be quite right and earful, too.
 Less definite rumbles have been heard of similar plans. A gen. tleman wishes to whoop Up the fearful opera, Camille" and have the entire plot of the hap less garrett artists happen to an anemic Fifty Second street throng. What next? I don't know. But I have an idea that it will be best to get out of town before this thing goes too far.
 AND WHY NOT
 SWING LEAR?
 Even the Rockefellers feel sym- pathetic toward this swinging of the classics, for they have con- Sented to house that tive version of "A Midsummer Nights Dream" in the Center Theater of their Radio City.
 Shakespeare would have been grateful for such a vast stage when his fantasy was played straight, but jitterbugs have the advantage these days. Soon Ham, let will be shagging in to confer with his fathers ghost and what may be construed as hysterical fit by Lady Macbeth from foot note, actually will become the shim-sham- -shimmy.
 AS for Maxine Sullivan portray ing Titania, such irreverence does not feaze that ebullient negress, for she's the gal who sent "Loch Lomond" to town and did the same for Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
VALUABLE ASSET
(Bostor Post)

Many of our New England townS in the past chopped down their regal locking elms to make room for street widenings and the like. and did away with some historic trees.
 New York, however. found that it's Fifth Avenue looked bare without some foliage. At great expense trees were transported and planted there. and the fact that they are beginning to thrive is getting front pcge notice in the New York papers. This may warn us to be more careful about our own trees. They are indeed vslu able assets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

states whose road construction is at top peak. However we recall that the Will bur L. Cross Parkway is to be more than a connecting link between Hartford and Bridgeport. It is to reach from the New York State line all the way in diagonal line across Connecticut to a point near where Rhode Island and Massachusetts join this state. That leaves plenty of work long after four years are up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 10:24 p. m. daylight time)
 Sun rises 6:04 a. ni.; sets 7:47 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 High water at Milford Sunday. Aug. 20, 4:32; low water. ll:23 daylight time).
 The 1889 drought is still being felt around the state. More wells have dried up of recent weeks: others are used only with great care for the remaining supply of water 4 sufficient potable water supply thus becomes valu- able asset at such times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19
Views of The Press

believe that the signs at the toll- gate ought to say, as we suggested, that the dimes collected there are being used to build totally differ. ent highway beginning 40 miles away, which those who pay the dimes aren't using and aren't even likely to see.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

AA eAAS SSA1AAA0"
 graph a b 0 u t Stratford = at A on records suspicious vie brations under ground tn c s c days, that will be The Bard moving a b ou t restlessly in his
 vault. Swing, you see, was a little before his time and prob- ably he never dreamt that his fahle of P1ick
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

prevails in Waterbury it would cs quite as fooll ,rdy as 1. wotl.d be immoral for any person to undertake public service there with any inter- sions to serve other than faithfully.
 Mir. Sweeney faces both respon- sibility and opportunity. Surely the whole state will hope he measure. up to both.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-19

Already speculation is rife as to what effect the results of the conspiracy trial will have on the approaching referendum in Waterbury, Prior to Wednesday rela- lively few people conceded the city man. ager plan adherents the slightest chance of getting good vote in October. Now there are whisperings on every side that public opinion may shift away from the politically-controlled form of govern ment. The trick is to hold such senti- ment uppermost until October, though.
 Twin troubles - too many people in