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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
The Best Drivers

While the notion persists that truck and bus drivers are road hogs'' bent on getting in the way of passenger cars, the fact is that these drivers have been largely instrumental in lowering the total num- Der of highway accidents. From Ly observation" says the chief statistician of the National Safety Council, motorists are more inclined now to commend rather than condemn the bus or truck driver. We are getting some amazingly skillful bus driving, and passengers have been quick to note and appreciate it."
 The figures support this praise of com mercial drivers. In the period from 1927 to 1887 the fatal accident rate of passen- ger cars increased AZ per cent. In the same period the truck accident rate de- clined Is per cent and the rate for busses 35 per cent. The only explanation is that the commercial drivers have become the most skilled and most careful group on the road. Their courtesy, too, is thing to be admired in day of bad manners
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
The First Families

You often hear the expression, 'the first families" Usually the term is misleading. What the people who use it mean is, "the richest families" or "the oldest families, :" or "the socially snootiest families" But the Social Security Board has discovered the real "first families" First in num- Der of people to bear the name.
 First of the first are the Smiths. With magnificent phalanx of 418,00O, they head the list. Then march the JohnSons, the Browns, the Wiliamses, the Millers and the JoneSeS. There are your real American "first families" certified in that position by the elaborate statistics of the Social Security Board itself, first in war, first in peace, and first on the charts of their countrymen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
Looking for Trouble

Frequently criticism is heard of "radi- calism in the schools" Too many teach CTS, say the conservative element, are dabbling with "subversive doctrines" and teachings which do not coincide with the Americanism of William Mckinley. We doubt that it's true, to begin with. Teachers as class have been loyal and answering in their devotion to the American system" for beyond what might be expected.
 But If some of them waver occasionally, the situation in Shamokin, Pa., might give a clew to why. Teachers there, facing un- paid wages going back as far as a whole year, finally went on strike to collect them. Now they are being fed at soup kitchens. We don't know the particular difficulties which led to the Shamokin situation. We do know that of all things that democratic government cannot af- ford to do, the first is to treat in any such manner as this the people who are teach ipg the next generation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
Minor Court Difficulties

The Legislature is just getting around to the problem of the minor courts of the state It is veXing one. If 1t wasn't, 1t would have been disposed of some years ago when first brought up during the Cross regime. Even then it irked legiSla- tors and inasmuch as they don't like to be irked they just simply disposed of minor court reforms in short fashion. But pub lie opinion and the weight of judicial opinion can't be shifted from shoul- der to shoulder year after year without producing some strain. A noticeable de- sire now to get rid of the burden is evil dent
 The very fine suggestions of the judi ciary itself won't be ignored at the 1889 legislative session, we feel sure. Some thing will be done to end or curb abuses in our small courts. Judging by what Governor Raymond E. Baldwin said this week to leaders in the General Assembly he wasn't counting on complete minor court reform, such as abolishment of these tribunals and replacement with a new system of district courts, but that reforms must be made is Self-evident. We know that the constable and justice fee racket will be expunged. That is an accomplishment.
 Calling on legislative leaders to agrce on appointments to the minor courts is a pretty good indication that if such slate is drawn up and actually presented for approval, there won't be further drastic move by the same lawmakers to remove these same approved officials from their courts And that's what it would amount to if minor court reform was carried to what we now know is its logical conclusion Both Democrats and Republicans are bound by party plat forms to do something, though, about the minor courts. They should not need to be reminded about it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
Book A Day
Botanist Writes Plant Omnibus

Whether you've ever stopped to study the first green shoots of spring or the closest you get to flowers is your wife's orchid bill, there is a wealth of interesting reading for you in c. J. Hylander's bulky book, "The World of Plant Life" (Mac- milan: $7.5O.
 There is a wealth for the gen. eral reader because MT. Hylander has succeeded in humanizing the country'S botany. Here he has told the whole exhaustive story but you get it in such rare chapters as Warfare Among the Plants" how some plants kill insects for food, and how others live in co-opera- tive colonies, dividing their days work and days reward with com- plete harmony.
 Hylander, assistant professor of botany at Colgate University, traveled several times across the continent to gather the full story for this book. He has written per- haps the most comprehensive vol- ume you will see in a long time. There is something on everything from the most primitive forms of plant life to the composites. such as the chrysanthemum tribe.
 Except for his excursions into the unusual stories of plant life. Hylander describes each plant. lo- cates 1t, enumerates its species and uses. Often he devotes many pages to cover all of the members of q family which accounts for the size of the volume, 722 pages. In sharpest contrast as to size but e handy little plant book is "A Book of Wild Flowers" by Mar garet McKenny and Edith F. Johnston (Macilian: eO. Here is e book which covers only q few of the most representative flowers f-om the arbutus to the fall asters. lBA 1t covers them uncommoniy we'll, with short stories and full color \ lilstrations.--P. O. ?.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
Selected Poem
VILLAGE BAND CONCERT

Frances Frost in the New York Sun) Those summer evenings on the grassy square, beneath the shadows of the dropping elms, while the supper-smoke grew thin from village
 chimneys,
 music drifted through the warm blue air. Like swimmers plunging into precarious tides the lovers came on nasty feet and stood gazing at gleaming trumpets leaning together their fingers meeting shyly at their sides. And Drowned men leaned against the trees or
 sprawled
 on the dewy grass beside the waves of sound; and women, holding children, sat enchanted listening as if some dreamed-of phantom called The old ones. gnarled hands folded fingers crossed stiffly, looked out of eager spellbound eyes at the darkening hills, and signing briefly climbed mountains now dim-remembered and long lost
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

Of all things it sounds sort of ridiculous to be talking about buying sand for beaches. Yet up near Boston that's serious problem right now The hurri- cane of last fall so wrecked many resorts that their sandy beaches were literally stripped of the stuff that bathers like to loll upon and crunch through with their feet. New sand can't be bought for Bos- ton beaches this year because of an economy movement brought about by Mayor Tobin. All the city is going to do is rake the beaches and remove stones and shells. Thatll be hard on "tootsies", but not on pocketbookS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
Press Comment
GLEN FALLS CENTENNIAL
(New York Herald-Tribune)

\NcW 1OIh 11cI dlu- TlUuIle) Like so many other American towns, Glens Falls begins with Indian legend and a blockhouse outpost of European settlement in North America. Cooper's greatest novel, "The Last of the Mohicans." makes the center of Glens Falls the center of it's stage-that cave on a Hudson River island now environed by steel and concrete and hidden beneath heavy motor traffic, where Mohicans met in mortal combat the bloodthirsty HuronS. An important strategic point on the great strategic route from Canada, a blockhouSe near by later was garrisoned by troops of the French or English or their colonials or mercenaries many times in the long eighteenth cen- tury struggle between the two European nations; also by American English or German troops during our Revolution.
 European rivalries kept the site of Glens Falls a hot grid for gen. erations. in fact. American in- dependence and the peace that fol- lowed gave Glens Falls its oppor- tunity for uninterrupted life and growth. Since then its great natural resources in water power and the enterprise, by no means merely legendary, of its pioneer founders have made their descendants and later arrivals flourish into one of those smaller cities of the state that produce real wealth on a solid foundation of human energy and material means. Generations of steady industrial growth may not be as lamorous--more's the pity--as the early years of struggle and bloodshed. reverberating from politi- cal rivalries of the Old World. But these energetically developed arts of peace do e thousand times more honor to the century of growing prosperity that olens Falls is cele- brating this spring. New Workers wish the citizens of oiens Falls many more centuries of peaceful productivity.
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ate. For Henderson's vote would give him the three votes neces- sary to elect chairman.
 FRANTIC SCRAMBLE
 While this personal drama was taking place, a group of red-hot SEC hopefuls took advantage of the situation to stage a scramble for the vacant commissionership. Everybody wanted the job.
 Chief scramblers were Max Truitt, son-in-law of Senate Leader Barkley and holder of a temporary Maritime commis- sionship; Milton Katz, Landis pOrtege who quit the SEC when Douglas became chairman and is now with the Anti Trust Di- vision of the Justice Depart ment; also Allen MacDuffie, in the SECS New York office, who was enormously publicized as one of the authors of the se- curities act.
 These young men looked much better to Wall Street than Hen- derson. So various powerful traders adopted the strategy of happening Henderson by boost ing the much milder young of ficials in the SEC.
 One Wall Streeter even went to the length of calling on Ches- ter Lane, able young SEC gen. eral counsel, and urged him to try for Henderson's job. Then leaving Lanes office, he went to Henderson and told him Lane was opposing him. This trick came near causing a fight between Henderson and Lane, but it was discovered just before the ex- plosion.
 Several other big brokers lobbied against Henderson on Capitol Hill in an effort to make the White House drop him. Others tried to induce Ganson Purcell and Sam Clark, two Douglas proteges in the SEC, to drum up political backing for their candidates. But like Lane they kept strict hands off.
 Had Roosevelt not finally be- stirred himself and put an end to the turmoil by appointing Hen derson, it is hard to say what would have happened to SEC mor- ale. The agency had become. a seething cauldron and was about to boil over with devastating eff feet to all concerned. As it is, the job of placating ruffled feel- ings and restoring harmony is going to be one of the big jobs of Leon Henderson when he fin ally steps into the job which was delayed so long.
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 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

If Waterbury's new athletic field on Watertown Avenue isn't made available for use this season, it will, indeed, become a laughing-stock. We urge all officials concerned with the project to make every effort to place the field at the disposal of the city's amateur athletes. Let the stands and such facilities wait but make the baseball diamonds playable and keep in mind football and perhaps soccer for the fall.
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nation would be much easier.
 So White House strategists pro- posed to take the curse off Hen derson by making Jerry Frank chairman first.
 TWO REPUBLICANS
 But here they ran into trouble. For the SEC elects its own chair man among its five members, and the two Republican members baked. They are George c. Mathews, massive Wisconsin con- servative, and Robert E. Healy, a conscientious New Englander.
 Hitherto both had cooperated with the administration. Both had voted for Douglas, and for other Democratic chairmen-Joe Kennedy and Jim Landis. But this time they kicked over the traces-each for different reasons.
 Mathews wanted the chairman ship himself, and Healey was irked over disagreement with Douglas, who forced the resignation of c. Roy Smith, director of SECS util- ity division.
 Douglas demanded Smiths custer after secret investiga- tion of the meddiing of cer- tain of his subOrdinates in the internal affairs of 8 big utility corporation, Standard Gas and Electric. Healy defended Smith, who was his man. But Doug las, with the backing of Jerome Frank and New Deal Commis- sioner Edward Eicher, fired him.
 (Smith's resignation, still un- announced, is effective July 1.)
 Healy said nothing to Frank at the time, but apparently held this against him. And when asked to vote for Frank as chairman, he stalled. Later Healy went to the extent of writing Roosevelt personal letter saying he could not see his way clear to cooperate. With the door thus slammed in his face, the President had no choice but to leave the chairman ship questioner unsettled and to send Henderson's name to the sem
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1. Name the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America.
 2. In astronomy what is occula- tion?
 3. From what country did the .. s. obtain the Louisiana Purchase?
 4. How are race horses handi- capped?
 5. Does the Social Security Act require beneficiaries Of the federal old-age retirement system to be American citizens?
 6. Who is Virginia Gayda?
 T. Name the second letter Of the Greek alphabet.
 8. With which Major League base- ball club does Charles (Red Ruff fling play? g. In which State is Mount Whit ney?
 10. Name the capital of the Ter ritory of Hawaii.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
Daily Almanac

Moon rises io:57 D. m. tdaylight time).
 Sun rises 5:45 a. n.; sets 7:52 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Our worst brush and forest fires are occur ring now. April was e chilly month, but not as wet as oftentimes. Winds are drying up surface water and the cold prevents green growth, SO perfect conditions for spread of fires prevail. Do your share to prevent forest fires.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

Fair but nave wound up, in- stead, on the midway, amidst
 the hurly-bur- ly and bankers. The temptation is too strong. For that world of yesterday seems as fas- cinating as the WOrl0 or UuOC~ row.
 Hope no one noticed tn a t long glance I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

Sneaked at the pnoLO or yours truly in the Rogues' Gallery Nor ris Gest set up before his Worlds Fair exhibit.
 Irving Berlin ought to be worth space in a medical journal. Oscar Levant, his friend and Boswell, says the more Berlin eats, the thinner he gets.
 Wonder what it could be Dor- othy Lamour is so grateful for in that gracious note on scented sta tionery from Hollywood? Can't imagine any extraordinary service I performed for the lady-with- the-sarong while she was here.
 Even the cab drivers seem more polite since the Fair opened. One even said Thank you" for a tip last evening.
 If Grover Whalen doesn't do something about the steep restau- rant tariffs at his Flushing pa geant, he is going to have open revolt on his hands. The guests are squawking - and loudly.
 If George s. Kaufman is so in different to the press, as he pro- fessed to an interviewer, why does he protest items so often, via telegram and letter?
 MIKE
 PARALYSIS
 They lured me before a mike" for the second frightful time. And the same thing happened. Tongue-tied helplessness before that monstrous little black box
 Never so much lowing from the hips and hand-kissing in this town as at present with so much royal ty around.
 Dizziest book-title is that which lies before me, Jerome Weidman's "The Horse Who Could Whistle Dixie"
 Made/a new discovery tonight at the Tavern - sarSaparilla and ice cream out of the matted milk mixer. Teeeotaler's highball is what the bartender dubs it.
 All those busses that run from Manhattan to the Fair and are initialed w. F. belong to a man with the right name for it-Wil- liam Fox, the film magnate.
 The other night 8 few of us played host to an ex-Broadway columnist who had been away a long while. He pleaded sleepiness at II p. m. the sissy.
 Harry Richman, who boasts of having entertained Europe's crowned heads, reached his ca reer's peak a couple of afternoons ago. He made a personal appear ance in the window of a depart ,ment store, demonstrating cigar cite cases of his own make!
 The Atlantic fleet is in the Hud- son, being shown of to the land- lubbers, and the Pacific fleet is sore because, by being ordered back to its station, the personnel was deprived of sheenanigans in New York.
 TALKER
 WITH HANDS
 Tallulah Bankhead is at her best conversationally when she is hold ing hands. Did I say I mind?
 The Hotel Astor was one of the few that didn't increase rates in anticipation of Fair throngs, sacri- flcing $100,000 of cash for a mil- lion dollars worth of good will.
 No lady has managed to buy a drink in the Mems Bar at the Waldorf-Astoria yet, but many certainly have tried.
 Ten to one that Helen Hayes could get around unrecognized in any public place. She's one of the rare blessed celebrities who need not fret about a retinue of auto- graph hounds.
 Several Sportswriters were in an informal session. Funniest Hello, Mom," speech any of them ever heard, they all agreed, was Jack Roper's, after Joe Louis had anesthetized him: T shoulda zig ged but I ragged"
 Manhattan's weather refrain: II y-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, May 6 = Stray Thoughts: Thrice now I have started for the mammoth com mercial exhibits at the Worlds
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

From harmony, from heavenly har- mony, this universal frame began" sang the poet But there doesn't seem to be much harmony in the present universal frame-up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

AS spring comes on, the great Americal problem is what to wear at a wedding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

We Americans believe in education, but distrust men who go much beyond the average.
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 individual to fix expenditures with in estimated income.
 o. Where was the worlds first street railway built? A. In New York city, in 1892. o. Can a justice of the United States Supreme court be im- peached?
 A. Yes. Samuel Chase, associ- ate justice of the U. s. supreme court, was impeached in 1904. He was tried by the senate and was acquitted.
 o. What is the name of the or ganization that operates the Suez Canal?
 A. Compagnie Universelel du Canal Maritime de Suez or Suez Canal company. It is controlled by a board of directors made up of 19 Frenchmen, 10 Englishmen, two Egyptians, and @ Netherlander. Its shares are largely divided between French inventors and the British government, with the remaining less than ten per cent scattered among a dozen nationalitieS. 0. Did more people return to Great Britain from the United States in 1888 than emigrated to this country from there?
 A. The annual quota of Eng land, North Ireland, Scotland and Wales in 65,721. The total number of immigrants admitted under the quota of these countries in 1888 was ,2636 and the total number of persons who left the United States for permanent residence in those countries was 3,159.
 o. What is the origin of the name OzarkS?
 A. From the French aux arcs, meaning at the bends or arches.
 c. How do iron ore deposits in the United States compared with | the rest of the world? A. The U. s. has about 75 per- cent of the world total. | @. When was Cole Porter's song Begin the Beguine" published?
 A. In 1885.
 @. Name the U. s. Presidents who had no children. A. George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, James Buchanan (un- marrieD, and Warren G. Harding. If you want . copy of our book
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
D R E w PEARSON ROBERT S. ALLEN

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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, There were less
 than five hundred persons in the audience; say, fewer than five hundred"
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Whats Your I. O?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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If you want . copy of our book let HOME OWNERS" send to The Waterbury Democrats Wash ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
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o. What salary do newsreel cam- aramen receive
 A. The range is from about $S5 to perhaps $200 a week.
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o. What is a budget? A. A plan or program for financ-
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Questions
 and Answers
R1 FREDERICK m. kERRY

Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington Legal and medical advice cannot be given. nor can extended research be un- dertaken Be sure all mail Is ad- dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, lOl? Thirteenth Street. Washington. D. c.
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ing state, organization, group or individual to fix expenditures with in estimated income.
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o. Where was the worlds first street railway built?
 A. In New York city, in 1882.
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o Please describe the 4-H club

o. Please describe the All club emblem.
 A. It is a four-leaf clover with the letter "H" on each leaf. The national colors are green and white. The white background of the All flag symbolizes purity and the green emblem represents natures most common color and is emblematic of youth, life, and growth.
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Copyright, 1889, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20

File No. 54I65.
ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION FOR
PROOF OF WILL, LIMITING TINE
TO FILE CLAIMS AND FOR
HEARING THEREON
State Of Minnesota. County Of Hennepin.
In Probate Court.
In Re Estate Of Martha Elderkin, Deeedent.
Order for Hearing Petition to
Prove WIN
II Is ordered, that all persons interested
show cause, II any they have, before this
Court on Monday, October %, 1899, at 10
apolis, Minnesota, why the petition of Allie
May Lane, Of Hennepin County, Minnesota,
for the allowance of an instrument pur-
porting to be the Last win and Testament
of said Decedent and the probate thereof
and for Letters thereon. should not be
Order TO File Claims and for Hearing
Thereon
It is further ordered, that within four
months from the date hereof all creditors
of said Decedent file their claims in this
Court Proofs will be heard and claims
examined and adjusted before this Court
on Monday, February 5, 1910, at 10 O'Clock
A: M. in the Court House in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
These orders shall be published in the
Minneapolis Spokesman and a copy mailed
to each Of the heirs, legatees and devisees
Of said Decedent at least IA days before
the date of said hearing on the petition to
prove will.
Witness the Hon. ManIey L. Fosseen,
Judge of Probate Court. this 2Sth day of
September, 1893.
CSeal of Probate Court
ERNEST P. LORENZ,
Clerk of Probate Court
ALFRED A. DoNAGHUE.
AIS Masonic Temple,
Attorney.