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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-20

EDWARD F. FLYNN of Mime
apolis, director of public relations
for the Great Northern railroad,
aDill address the graduates at COM
mencement activities at Redwood
Falls High school June 2.
Mr.. Flynn practiced laaD at
DeuilS Lake, North Dakota, for 26
gears before taking his present
position in 1923. He is serving his
Sepenth term as president of the
University of Minnesota Dads as
socidtion and is also aDell knol1n
as a public speaker and for his
,Uork in amateur theatricdls.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-20
YOUR HELP PLEASE

The Diamond Jubilee iS an
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possible, a complete list of for
mer residents of the community
whose addresses are known
here. If you have friends whom
you feel would appreciate re-
ceiving a homecoming invita-
ton, leave the name and adj
dress at the Smith Agency Of
flee or phone SOB and give the
information. ..s+ 1919, .-sS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Many Such Claims

The Boston Post recently commented on the fact that the State of Vermont is pressing a claim against the federal gov- ernment for repayment of money loaned or spent on behalf of the nation during the War of 1872. What state hasn't sim liar claim? Maybe there are a few, but we don't imagine that the New England States would be out of that class. The hard thing, though, is to find the state that is able to collect any of this money that is claimed to be due the states for the part they played in helping the gov- ernment fight the British back in 1912.
 Connecticut has for number of years tried to have the state reimbursed. Num- erous bills have come up in Congress and while members admit that there may be considerable merit in them, they always fail of passage. The original Connecticut bill wasn't so very large, but interest charges for more than a century have brought the total up quite high now. Vermont is asking for $92, ,968, more than half of which consists of interest. Thus it is seen that the federal government may be piling up trouble for itself
 Some day Congress may sit in Wash ington that will pass all the bills seeking to collect back bills without questioning any of them And the federal govern ment will find itself paying out tremend- ous amount of money in interest which it could have saved many years before by simply agreeing that the state had never been reimbursed and should have been,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
A Thought for Today
This Will Pass By

There won't be any groaning and moaning in Republican circles over the fate of the bill that went down the legis- lative spout at Hartford this week. We refer to the bill, which seemed to get Democratic support mainly, calling for reapportionment of membership in the Legislature. This would necessitate re- vision of the Constitution of Connecticut, itself tedious and involved task, but in the present one worth the effort and time. Connecticut's system of represen- tation is as much at fault today as it has been for many years and only the mere fact that small-town legislators outnum- Der those from larger centers prevents 8 change.
 Both the House of Representatives and the State Senate are not what they might seem to be. When we speak of a House of Representatives we think more or less in terms of our national House of Repre- sentatives, which is composed of members who are chosen on the basis of population. The total number of members of the House -435-determineS how many shall be ap- portioned to each state. Population fig ures of the preceding decennial census are the basis of the estimation of representa- tives to which state might be entitled.
 Practically every state has copied this method if it's legislative body includes a House of Representatives. In Connecti- cut, though, representatives represent not hundreds or thousands of people, but in- dividual towns, whether they have 300 souls or 100000. The Town of Union with 8 population of less than 200 has two representatives, the same as Hartford, our largest city, And if that wasn't enough we have State Senate, which shall be composed of not more than thir- ty-six members. We have thirty-five now, because advantage was never taken of the chance to add another senatorial district.
 These districts are supposed to be fairly equal, not geographically, but in popu- lation size. They are far from that and growing more inequal day by day, as population centers in certain localities of the state. All in all the situation in our legislative chambers is one of dispropor donate representation, which is preferred by a majority of Republican members be- cause it allows them to maintain their control of the Legislature. On the basis of proper representation there is no logic or reason for continuation of the present system Democrats should continue to show that instead of people being repre- sented at Hartford, towns and districts control the votes in most cases.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
American Boys

Karl McCready, 13-year-old boy from farm near Louisville, Ky, has just re- ceived the title of typical American boy of 1889" and the $1,0O0 prize that goes with it. The Typical American Boy Asso- citation which makes the award reports that Karl rises about 5 o'clock every morning to feed the COWS on his fathers farm. After that, presumably, he has breakfast. Then he peddles his bicycle seven miles to school.
 There are thousands of boys who don't have to feed COWS at any hour of the day, and certainly not at five in the morning. And many children in country districts today go to school in the school bus. But the lad from Kentucky is probably typi- cal, nevertheless. He handles job along with his school work and doubtless has time for hobby and some fun besides. The country contains so many fine young typical American" boys that it must have been hard for the judges to make a choice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

seem to be general view that the ad- ministration has been fairly good, on the whole, and the engineering has been excellent.
 As for the value of this many-sided project as whole, aiming at soil con- servation, forestation, naturalization, recreation and rehabilitation of people, all on huge scale, time will tell Engi- reers handling the work express the opinion that, from present indications, it will be self-liquidating and pay for itself in little more than one generation.
 Such competition as the IVA offers to private enterprise in another question. But viewed diSpassionately, as a novel experiment in conservation on scale impossible of accomplishment by private capital, it arouses the respect and admira- tion of most people who go to the Ten nessee Valley and see for themselves what is being done there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
FRoHMAN's REFUGE
(New London Day)t

Officials of the Bowery Savings bank, in New York city, got almost enough free advertising the other day, when they determined to allow Daniel Frohman, dean of the Ameri- can theater, to continue to live in an apartment over the old Lyceum theater in that city, to pay them for withholding 8 foreclosure action against the premises. Frohman has lived for 35 years in g studio apart ment in the theater building, which he and his brother, Charles, built in 1902. The bank holds 8 $240,000 mortgage on the premises, and rumors had been heard recently that the bank was going to fore- close. Friends of Frohman, an 88- year -old man who now does little except direct the activities of the Actors Fund of America, of which he is president, and commune with his memories, interceded with the bank. The head of the institution announced shortly afterward that Frohman will not be disturbed in his apartment during the remainder of his life, so far as the bank is con- cerned.
 Frohman's last production was years ago-The Seven Sisters. His theater has not been in demand in recent years, the last hit show play ing there having been Having Wonderful Time," back in 1887. It has been sledding during the years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
The IVA Report

It was too much to hope that the IVA investigation, begun year ago with such blaze of controversy, could arrive at unanimous conclusion. The Democratic majority on the committee give a gen. orally favorable verdict on the Authority and it's work, and the Republican minority stand together in disappearing various phases of administration and policy, especially the "yardstick" device for fix ing the price of power.
 For the former chairman, pr. Arthur E. Morgan, there is both praise and blame. The public is left with the impression that, while able and honest, he was diff ficult to work with. Fortunately the partisan split, as evidenced in this report, Is not so wide as many feared There
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

Once again Waterbury's member in Congress, Representative J. Joseph Smith, comes in for deserved praise in connection with his fine work on the House Military Affairs Committee. It was Representa- tive Smith who was mainly instrumental in the government placing educational orders with various manufacturing con- cerns throughout the nation. This pro- gram, which has been arduously pro- noted by the Waterbury legislator throughout his entire congressional career, enables the War Department ito help educate those plants which have been allocated work on strictly non-com- mercial items. :" Right now depart ment officers are visiting plants through out the nation, assigned these orders to familiarize them with the needs of the service, with particular reference to such materials as are not properly produced during times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Views of The Press

for the one-time producer, who knew and in some cases starred, such figures of the American stage as Maurice Barrymore, John Drew Mrs. Fiske. Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, etc.
 Momentoes of these stage stars fill the rooms of his studio apart ment. Once almost garishly deco rated, and its walls covered with scarlet satin, time has mellowed the studio of the old producer. The satin wall covering has faded to an old rose. But on the walls proudly hang the pictures that Frohman prizes so highly--his only contacts with by gone years except a few younger friends who are deeply interested in the old time stage. The banks decision is indeed fitting gesture to man who, like so many of the theater, faces the closing years o1 his life in financial stress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Book A Day
A Somber Story of the Plains

Just year ago J. Hyatt Down. ing published his successful first novel, a story of the vests last frontier and of the transition from free, open range to fenced-in farm lands. He returns now in second and it proves immeasurably better than the first.
 This is Hope of Living Put nam's: $2:50). In a sense it is sequel to the 1888 book but where as "A Prayer for Tomorrow" told the story of the cattlemen, this tells the story of homesteaders who fol- lowed. It is a somber yarn. But you could expect little else with the characters Downing cre- ates this time; ignorant, dull witted Jake Walrod; his counter part, Bertha Schultze; Flint, the immortal minister; tubercular Michael Shea. Ann Walrod alone is a stout, courageous character, but the odds are against her from the beginning.
 They are against her, in fact the day she rnarries Jake Walrod, her fathers hired man, back in Wiscon- sin, and emigrates west with him to homestead on @ lonely 16O acres near Buffalo in northwest South Dakota. Thereafter she is to know no peace; what with the slow tor ment of marriage to a man she does not love; discovery that she loves another man instead; the struggle, nevertheless, to keep her first VOWS clean; her defeat finally even in the hope that her son may amount to something.
 It is little wonder that Anna Walrod found hope of living" at all, but somehow she did and her story, set against the bleak back drop of the prairie itself, makes 8 compelling novel. But 1t is not so much the battle against the soil as the conflict of the characters them selves that you remember. The book, therefore, strikes new note in this field. It should be well received.-P c. F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

There is still occasional talk about the Wilbur L. Cross Highway, which is to be a continuation of the Merritt Parkway all the way across the state. Meriden hears that the route is to pass through that city-along it's east side. Waterbury never entertained any hopes of getting the route up the Naugatuck Valley, for that would be far off the direct path which the proposed road would follow. But as we understood the original plans all large centers would be skipped and highways, following virgin territory all the way across the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

Dedham, Mass, has just decided to buy waterworks, so has voted to purchase the plant which has supplied the town for good many years now. The company values it's plant at $9OO,O00, which is a few hundred thousands above the price the city officials have set. The State Department of Public Utilities will prob ably decide what's the proper price, How ever, these prices prove that water sys- tems are a pretty good investment and the town that has one isn't too bad off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

Milk is not a food in the eyes of the courts. A ruling in New York just the other day made milk fluid. All of which probably won't make much differ ence to the milk-drinkers of the nation. They'll go right on imbibing this health full fluid and won't stop to think that they aren't consuming food. After all milk is milk no matter under what classi- fication it may come. The court ruling said: "The mere fact that milk in the terrninology of the medical profession is classified as a food cannot deprive the public of it's own definition. ="
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

operating the Scadta system in Colombia, where the lines reach to within a short distance of the Panama Canal.
 The answer to this competition, 1t was proposed, should be an extension of U. s. airlines in the same areas, using a commercial version of the army's Flying For- tress."
 WET GIFT
 Senator Morris Shepherd fath- cred the 18th amendment and still is one of the most devoted Drys in public life. Each year, on the anniversary of the amend ment's ratification, he makes speech acclaiming its virtues and prophesying the return of prohi- bition.
 Yet the gentle little Texan is the possesSor of a set of hand some wine glasses. He revealed the secret when some unexpected guests turned up at 8 party giv- en by a neighbor, who dashed oysr to Shepherds house to bor- row few glasses. E
 Certainly" replied Shepherd, laughing. But at that moment the neighbor recalled who Shep- herd was, and started to apolo- gixe.
 "Oh, that's all right" Shep- herd treasured him, i've have had these glasses since we were married many years. A friend gave us . set of two dozen. We had never used them but my wife kept them. You're welcome to take them"
 NO WAGNER CHANGES
 The wise boys on Capitol Hill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Current Comment

Banks do not yield up their build ings to armed forces; they are com- pelled by circumstances to invest depositors' money in government bonds and face competition from 34 federal lending agencies.
 George H. Davis, president of the
 Chamber of Commerce of the U. s. E ss
 Just as soon as industry-wide federations of employers are formed for collective bargaining purposes, you will make the labor boards heart turn a backward somersault of joy. You'll be right in their hands. Ivan L. Willis, of Standard oil of
 New Jersey.
 Celerity of justice Is more effective than severity. Sanford Bates, executive director
 of Boys Clubs of America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Selected Poem
THE SWALLOW BARN
(John A. Maher in the Poets Column,
 

(John A. Maher in the Poets Column
 Hartford Courant) It has no naughty mansions blazing eyes, refiectng embered fire of sunset ray; a warmth of invitation is its guise, for docks of swallows wheeling down from play. They have their sheltered nests beneath its caves, where gliding in one beam of setting sun they find sweet release in what 1t gives: a haven of repose when day is done. At dawn these rafters feel the rustling and stir of eager birds all skyward bound that quickly mount on joy-propelling wing to scale the heights where red-fringed clouds are
 found; where Mornings flare of rose-resplendent light shall free them from the ebony Of night
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

are predicting privately that this session will write no changes in the Wagner labor act.
 They say the AFL and other advocates of amendment missed the boat when they failed to start the ball rolling in January. Now, with the session well past the halfway point, it is too late. Supporters of the law are in a strong position to stall action by delay-tactics.
 The Senator Labor Committee starts its first revision hearings next week. But it will be 8 month at least before the commit tee will be ready to report to the Senate, which will be about the middle of May or just when floor leaders are laying plans for adjournment.
 By prolonging debate in the Senate, Wagner Act champions easily can use up another month, which. would eliminate any chance of Q bin being con- sidered by the House Labor Committee in time for final ac- ton. The House committee has no intention of acting until the Senate has taken . stand.
 NOTE-Several members of the Senate Labor Committee are con- sidering offering 8 compromise. This would call for appointment of @ Presidential committee, simi- lar to the one which studied Bri- tish labor relations last summer, to survey the operation of the Wagner law and make recommen- dations to Congress next January.
 Copyright, 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

1. For which State is Badger" . nickname?
 3. Name the poisonous element in the exhaust gases of an automobile.
 3. What is the correct pronuncia- ton of the word abdomen?
 4. Which anniversary of the U. s. Congress was celebrated with cere- monies in the U. s. Capitol Building on March 4, this year?
 5. Name the unit of weight for precious stones.
 6. What was the maiden name of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt?
 2. What is General Pershing's rank as a retired officer?
 8. Name the two kinds of teles- copes.
 g. What was George Washington's middle name?
 10. Does the marriage of an alien man to woman citizen of the U. s. confer American citizenship upon the husband?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Q. What is 1obscouse?
 A. A sailors dish of salt meat.
TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, Poison ivy was plenty in this area;" say, plentiful"

A. From the National Founda- ton for Infantile Paralysis, 12O Broadway, New York, N. Y.
 e. Is there a road across the government-owned strip of the Pan- anna Canal?
 A. No. D
 Q. From what animals are pony skins for women's coats obtained2
 A. The young of wild horses of Turkestan. They have short, bristly fur, ranging in color from mouse, gray, tan, brown and black. The fur is treated to produce watered or moire effect.
 @. What are the colors of the University of Tennessee?
 A. Orange and white.
 @. How many United States sav- ings bonds (baby bonds) have been sold?
 A. The last report shows that, between March 1, 1885, when the is- sue was inaugurated, and June 30. 1888, savings bonds aggregating $1,773, 100000 maturity value were sold for cash aggregating $1,329, ,900,- 900.
 @. Is helium a manufactured product?
 A. It is Q natural element, and occurs in the air in the proportion of 0.000056 per cent by weight. or about one volume of helium in 250,- 900 volumes of air. It also occurs in many minerals, in the gases of many mineral springs and is present in comparatively large amounts in sev- eral of the natural gases in Canada and the United States. Helium has also been found occluded in meteoric iron, and is one of the products of the spontaneous disintegration of radioactive substances.
 e. What public office did s. Davis Wilson hold before he was elected mayor of Philadelphia?
 A. City controller.
 @. What and where is the high est elevation in Cuyahoga county, Ohio?
 A. It is 1,263 feet above sea level, and is on the line between Summit and Medina, three miles southeast of North Royalton.
 @. How many hostesses are em- ployed by the 19 scheduled airline operators in the United States?
 A. Approximately 321.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Daily Almanac
Moon rises 1O:23 D. m.

Moon rises 1923 p. m.
 Sun rises 5:27 8. m.; sets 6:22 p. m.
 All vehicles must De lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 This is the season of brush and grass fires. It's very easy thing to let fire consume the debris that collects through the winter months Careful supervision, however, is required to prevent brush fires consuming the neighbours barn and house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

OrpneuS.
 The other day I stumbled up- on such medico- musical activity in w urlizter Hall. There, several times 8 week, 8 formid- able group of medical men sit down in the re- hearsal hall and play symphonic music under the baton of a pro- feSSional c0n-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
In New York
GEORGE ROSS

New York, April 6-Many phy- sicians and surgeons it seems, like to put down their stethoscopes and scalpels, pick up zithers and lyres-and relax in the arms of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07
Washington Merry -Go-Round
Copyright, 1888. NKA
DREW PEARSON ROBERT S. ALLEN

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