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Evening star., 1939-01-31
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles z. Trace1oell.

from all over the world have lived in
Washington at one time or another,
including a member Of the Bonaparte
family.
1t Is interesting to note the change
from Cornaro, in Venice, to Conarroe, in
Philadelphia.
Such changes are almost inevitable,
when name is transferred from one
tongue to another Thus the Steinmetz or
Stamitz of Germany becomes StamatS in
are called, are made by others in trying to
pronounce the name, with the final re-
suit that the members of the family
adopt it to avoid confusion.
Cornaro becomes Conarroe, in Eng
lish, because, we believe, most English
tongues find some difficulty with that
"r" before the m" in Cornaro.
It is natural in English to pronounce
1t Con-" placing the "r'' later in the
word, and this is exactly what was done,
in this case.
One has to think, each time, to say
Cornaro, even to write it with type
writer, whereas Conarroe, despite its
very easily.
BY taking the first "r" in Cornaro, and
placing it alongside the second, name
is secured which is easily pronounced by
English-speaking people.
y 4
Louis, more properly Luigi, Cornaro
made name for himself for temperance
of eating and drinking in an age when
excess seemed normal to most persons
who could secure 1t.
Four hundred years ago is long
time, under any human standards, but
only as twinkling of an eye from the
standpoint of eternity, a grand word
which means absolutely nothing, from
one viewpoint, so incomprehensible is the
idea to finite creatures, but which also
means very great deal from another.
Louis Cornaro spoke up, in his day,
for cutting down on the amount of food
taken in "a hours.
Today many people in land across
the sea-our own America-find them
selves confronted by increasing stores of
fat, especially around the stomach.
Sedentary persons, as the phrase has
it, who feel themselves under the neces-
sity of reducing" should realize that
they are suffering from the exact opposite
of deprivation.
They have, in short, too much food.
The remedy is, of course, easy, but diff
cult, as many a person has discovered
Exercise won't do it. Reducing remedies,
so-called, are dangerous.
Louis Cornaro pointed out the only real
reduction method centuries ago. but it is
still very difficult one to follow, unless
one possesses the same determination
and will power he had.
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Takes Issue With Star
Comments on League.

To the Editor of The Star:
Editorially, The Star. in commenting
on the recent session of the Council OF
the League Of Nations, refers to "the
innocuous League" Says The Star: If
the League had categorically bulletined
to the world that for all practical pur-
poses it has put up its shutters, it could
hardly have chosen a more informative
method than the language which the
Council invoked for the side-stepping Of
the representations of the Spanish and
Chinese governments"
The League has not put up its shut
ters." "It is true that only part of the
world paws heed to what is being done
at Geneva" states recent writer, but
it is to our everlasting credit that some
where in the world the fame of human
progress is being sedulously guarded"
At the New York Worlds Fair there
is now being erected magnificent build
ing which will demonstrate the day in
and day out work of the League. AT the
laying of the cornerstone, it was said:
1T is easy enough to cite the postwar
disillusionment and to speak In terms OF
cynicism and disbelief, but emotion which
expressed itself at the end of the World
War in the desire to organize the ma
tions of the world in such way as to
prevent another holocaust was one OF the
most profound and the most to be re-
spected in human experience. 1t welled
up from the very depths of human ma
ture and it would be disloyalty to those
who gave their lives in the last war not
to recognize both its sincerity and its
vital urge"
The world today Is at the mercy Of
those nations which have rejected the
League. BY the votes of seven Senators,
the United States has been compelled to
remain in the company Of Germany,
Italy and Japan. The world is again
facing international chaos, but this time
there exists the League-innocuous it
may be to you. helpless it may appear to
others, nevertheless in the machinery OF
the League are rooted the hopes Of
countless millions. There is no other
alternative before us. In the end 1t
must prevail.
The machinery of the League, like all
machinery, can be improved and
strengthened. We cannot settle these
international problems by scrapping this
mechanism, and neither can we make
progress by giving way to despair.
AS was stated recently by DR.. Muzzie,
mo setback, however serious, is so dis
astrous as the weakening OF faith in the
worth-whileness of the effort"
MELVIN D. HILDRETH,
Chairman, Washington Committee OF
the League OF Nations Association.
January %.
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Dumbarton Avenue.

Dear Sir:
II wished to tell you how much we
appreciated your series on The Tenn
perate Life OF Louis Cornaro. A reprint
Of the work is priced possession, as my
husband, through his maternal grand
mother, is a descendant OF the family.
Luigi was, you know, a relative and
contemporary Of Caterina Cornaro, the
daughter OF Venice who was the Queen
of Cyprus and in whose defense Venice
sent a flotilla to Cyprus, which gave rise
to Shakespeare's story Of Othello.
Her golden curls and knowing smile
are preserved by Titan. The palace
and graves of many of the doges OF the
family may still be seen in Venice. The
nelian family of Rome, OF whom we
have all heard of Cornelia and her sons
her jewels, the Gracci
"The line from whom my husband de-
scends lived for generations in Spain
and in England, before removing to
Philadelphia. The wife of George w
Conarroe, the portraitist, wrote the in
closed poem, which Is quite in the feeling
of your quotations. Her likeness is our
most priced possession.
yours sincerely, L. P. B."
~
This brings Cornaro home to Wash
ington in an intimate way.
The poem referred to above is as
follows:
WHAT ARE WOMANS RIGHTS?
BY Charlotte Biddle Conarroe.
The right to wake when others sleep;
The right to watch, the right to weep:
The right to comfort in distress,
The right to soothe, the right to bless:
The right the widows heart to cheer,
The right to dry the orphans tear;
The right to feed and clothe the poor,
The right to teach them to endure.
The right when other friends have flown
And left the sufferer all alone,
To kneel that dying couch beside,
And meekly point to Him who died;
The right a happy home to make
In any cline, for Jesus sake.
Rights such as these are all we crave,
Until our last-a quiet grave.
This poem, according to our CORE
spondent, was written May II, 1856, being
published anonymously. 1t was reprinted
November 6, 1882, on the poetess' 8lst
birthday.
1t is not fashionable any longer to call
a woman poet poetess. The big diction-
aries even today define poetess as "a
female poet" when the adjective "fe-
male" long ago was discontinued in such
phrases, usage giving the preference now
to simply woman
Descendants of many famous families
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Lack Of Auditorium for
Miss Anderson Deplored.
January %.

To the Editor of The Star:
I have noticed quite few articles
recently concerning Marian Anderson
in The Star. I, too, feel that such an
artist as Miss Anderson should be well
coined with open arms regardless of
race or creed. Since Constitution is
about the only hall good enough and
large enough to accommodate an audi
ence for Miss Anderson, 1t seems pity
that 1t cannot be had for such pur-
pose. It is a shame that one of the
greatest voices Of the century cannot be
heard here more frequently and under
the best conditions.
And, to be sure, there are other splen-
did Negro artists, such as Roland Hayes
and Paul Robson, who should be heard
also. ROBERT BIRCH.
January ~.
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Replies to Critics
OF T. r. Amlie.

To the Editor of The Star:
Speaking at Progressive dinner here
a few years ago Thomas R. Amlie made
the statement, that if the total wealth of
the United States were $1O0 and the to-
tai population we're 100 persons, this is
the way it would be divided. One man
would have $50, two more persons would
have $40 each, Is more would have 81
each (their fair share) and all the rest
would have II cents each.
He then went on to demonstrate the
impossibility of restoring prosperity"
so long as 60 per cent of the Nations re-
sources was in the hands of the l per
cent of the population who were already
glutted, with all of their material needs
and desires oversupplied-and 80 per
cent of the population were in need of
everything but had no money with which
to buy.
This struck me as an example of rea-
soning and of clear thinking of which
we would do well to have more in our
public servants. An illustration of Mr..
Amle's statement can be found at any
wealthy debutante party at any expensive
hotel in any large city in our country.
Enough food is thrown into the garbage
cans on these occasions to feed multi
tudes of the hungry, who must, however,
take in their belts instead. To try to
justify this senseless waste on the spec
ious plea that 1t gives employment" is
as silly as indorsing an earthquake or a
flood. These also give employment"
In other words the rich destroy what
the poor are deprived of consuming.
If a man who is conscientiously trying
to find an orderly and non-violent meth
cd of changing this heartless state of
affairs is dubbed "a Red" and opposed
to everything held sacred in the minds
Of American citizens then I can say
only that Mr.. Amlies critics would do
well to take a few lessons from him in
economic realities, in common humanity
and In simple Christian charity.
THERESA H. RUSSELL.
January %.
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Praises Articles
BY Jay Franklin.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
It is most earnestly hoped that you are
paying no attention to the tories who are
advising you to discontinue the splendid
column of Mr.. Jay Franklin.
One of your correspondents recently
made the rash statement that many
readers of The Star would welcome its
omission. You have readers who turn
to 1--WE, the People" before glancing at
any other item of your paper.
Mr.. Franklin is brilliant writer and
one of the lamentably few columnists Of
the day who have the good taste to place
in its proper light the only administra-
ton Of our time that has cared for the
social betterment Of the common people.
For this worthy attitude hs 4 naturally
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Disappointing.

"Why did you waste your vote on q
candidate that didn't have chance to
be elected?"
"Well," answered Farmer Corntassel,
when vote for candidate who gets
elected he doesn't do what was mapped
out for him. The votes liable to be
wasted anyhow"
Evening star., 1939-01-31

prosecuted by the haters of humani-
tarianism.
If these disgruntled ones find the hon.
est truth too repulsive for them, why do
they trouble to read it? Do not silence
the only voice that is crying in the will
derness of hateful criticism and unfair
Interpolation of mighty effort to make
life somewhere near bearable for the vast
host of underprivileged.
FRANCES M. GOSS.
Japuarv an
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Shotgun Politics.

"You wouldn't resign under fire would
you?"
"1n the present state Of affairs" an
swered the ofi1cial, there is no other
way to resign"
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Not Fooled.

"You must remember that people who
sent you to this high Office did it be-
cause they esteemed and trusted you"
"No, they didn't" answered Senator
Sorghum, "they did 1t merely because
they didn't like the man who was run
ming against me-"
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Says Uncle Eben.

Les jine in an be thankful,
Tain no use to raise q fuss;
However bad yoh troubles Is,
Be thankful dey.S no Wassi
Evening star., 1939-01-31

"The Iurest proof" said HI Ho, the
sage of China town, "that good resolu-
tions have been forgotten is that the
money lenders keep coming around
looking prosperous"
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Before the Committee.

The present situation claims
Attention most expert,
With everybody calling names
And no one getting hurt.
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January 80.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27

ganizing a new fleet "intended to make secure Japan's command of the western Pacific"
 The spokesman said that the new fleet would be designed for opera tons in Japanese waters and would be unit complete in all categor- les.
 "The new fleet is to engage in training on a war footing to be ready for any emergency in CO., operation with the combined fleet" the spokesman said.
 He said that the fleet would be given special training but he re- fused to go into particulars as to categories Of ships or bases or oth- CT numbers. Also he declined to say whether naval reservists would be called up for 1t.
 It was believed that the an- nouncement was connected at least in part with the dispute over Jap anese concessions in Russia's part of Sakhalin Island.
 The spokesman said the navy was determined to defend Japan's "leg- itimate rights" in Sakhalin Island. He accused Russia of blocking Jap- anese food supplies and of attempt ing to confiscate the concessions.
 The newspaper Asahi. indepen- dent liberal, reported that British and Japanese delegations nesotiat- ing here had almost reached agree ment on questions relating to the policing of the British concession at Tientsin.
 Tt is virtually certain that there will be no conflict of views on any concrete issues and that the con- ference will be conducted smoothly without snagging," the newspaper said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27

tries. This, as he sees 1t, is even more important than handling com- plaints. With TOO investigators, he points out, he would still have only one investigator to every 15,7l4 workers covered by the law. New York state, which has investiga tors checking for compliance with it's state labor law, employs one for each 5000 workers covered--and the job of checking for compliance with the wage-hour law is the more com- plicated of the two.
 On Oct. 24 the minimum wage required by the law automatically rises from % cents an hour to 90 cents, and the work week shrinks from A to 42 hours. This, the wage-hour administration estimates, will mean pay raises for fully 550,- GOO workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27


 ors. He won't be able to hire more than 230 unless the deficiency ap- propriation Is passed.
 ANOTHER NRA
 CASE?
 A high official of the wage-hour administration remarks that the wage -hour law right now is dupli- eating the history of NRA. Non- compliance cases are piling up fas- ter than they can be handled. If something isn't done soon, there VIII be such a general breakdown of en- forcement that the whole structure will collapse.
 There are, of course, plenty of congressmen Who-knowing that their constituents feel the same way--would be glad enough to see just that happen. But if the de- ficiency appropriation Is not voted there will be one final flareback which will be even more unpleas- ant for the acts foes than for its friends.
 Under the law, an employe who has been paid less than the mini mum wage required by the act may sue his employer in civil court. If the court upholds him, he can col- lect double the amount due-plus fees for his lawyer.
 Now if this deficiency bill does not pass, and the wage-hour admins tration is unable to hire enough in- vestigators to handle complaints, it will probably make a final effort to secure compliance by making public appeals to all labor unions and to labor generally to resort to those civil suits instead of filing complaints. The flood of expensive litigation which would then be turn- ed loose on employers in the 700,- OCO plants covered by the law can only be imagined.
 OvERsEERS
 NEEDED
 As a matter of fact, Administra- tor Andrews remarks that he needs tlae added number of investigators, nA merely to handle complaints, but to make regular, routine checks for compliance in all covered indus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27
Embargo In January
 Seen As Possible
Continued from Page D

were coldly received. British and French statesmen declared that im- position of sanctions was an act of war. Five years later, under the strain of Germany's destruction of the treaty of Versailles and Italy's war of conquest in Ethiopia, the league council, under the spur of Britain and France, attempted to enforce economic sanctions against Italy, and failed.
 Japan's invasion of China proper followed Italy's successful conquest of Ethiopia.
 Meantime, American relations with Japan had gone from bad to worse. In January, 1882, the Jap- anese Navy attacked the great in- ternational metropolis of Shanghai. A Japanese army later was landed between the mouth of the Yangtze and Shanghai to support the naval attack.
 The United States dispatched the fourth U. 8. Marines to Shanghai to protect American nationals and their property. The regiment still is there.
 The United States then laid down the policy of "non-recognition of territory gained by force of arms in contravention of existing treaties" :" This policy later was officially adop- ted by the league of nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27
REV. BRODERICK
 IS NEW PASTOR
Continued from Page D

(Continued from Page D sistant pastor at the Immaculate Conception Church in Waterbury, he was made pastor of the Im- maculate Conception Church in Terryville. During his pastorate there the church was enlarged and beautifully decorated.
 In 1928 Father Frederick was promoted to the pastorate of St.. Peters, New Haven. Here he again distinguished himself for careful administration and skilled church building. The present St. Peters Church was erected under his gui- dance.
 In 1888 the New Haven priest was named diocesan director of the Pontifical Association of the Holy Childhood.
 Father Burke
 Father Burke was born in Nau- gatuck where he attended public schools. Later he attended Holy Cross College and took his theology at the Latin Seminary, Lemberg, Austria. Bishop Tierney ordained him on June %, 1905, at St. Joseph's Cathedral.
 His first appointment was to St. Francis, New Milford, where he remained until 1907 when he went to Sacred Heart parish, East Port chester. From 1910 until 1924 he directed the affairs of St. Pauls, Glenville, which had just been made a separate parish from that of East Porchester. In 1924 Father Burke was transferred to St. Thomas, Thomaston where he la bored successfully as parish head until 1894 when he went to St. Josephs, Willimantic.
 Father Hinchey
 Born in Northport, Long Island, N. Y, Father Hinchey made his preparatory studies at Niagara University, Niagara Falls. N. Y, and completed his priestly course at St. Bernard's Seminary, Roches- ter. He was ordained at St. Jos eph's Cathedral by the late Bishop John J. Milan on June 9, 1917. Fa- ther Hinchey has held three as- sistant pastorates. After a brief stay at St. Mary's Milford, he went to Blessed Sacrament parish, Waterbury, in 1917. Ten years later he was transferred to St. Ber-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27

in order to shoy consistency, would assure the people that Japan had been fully protecting American in- terests in China and therefore that the American action was an un- deserved affront.
 Eugene H. Dooman, charge d'af- faires of the American embassy, wis., ited Seijiro Yoshizawa, director of the American bureau of foreign of- lice, to discuss the situation in- formally with him.
 Evening newspapers spread the treaty abrogation across their first pages today-accompanying 1t with comments belittling it's effect.
 Newspapers asserted also that the United States had adopted an un- friendly attitude and that the re- suits would be unfavorable to the United States.
 The Domei News Agency said in c dispatch from Osaka that indus trial and commercial centers there, in the industrial heart of Japan, were calm and awaited more par ticulars.
 Industrialist quarters said here that the immediate effect of the abrogation would be negligible. But 1t was understood that, believing that the abrogation opened the way for more drastic action, industrial tsts privately were worried.
 During their recent anti British campaign in China, the Japanese had sought at all times to be par ticularly concliatory to the United States, hoping to Isolate Great Brit ain.
 Failure of their plan, and evi- dence that the United States was determined to take a strong stand in defense of it's rights, came as a surprise.
 News of the treaty abrogation ar- rived as navy ministry spokes- man announced that Japan was or-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27

nards, Rockville. In 1885 he was appointed pastor of st.. Patrick'A parish. East Hampton, where he has been since.
 Father Tyler
 Father Tyler is a native of Hart- ford. He studied at Nicolet College, St. Laurent's College and St. Ber- nard's Seminary, Rochester. Bishop Milan officiated at his ordination at St. Joseph's Cathedral on May %, 1920. As assistant pastor he has served at St. Joseph's, Willi- mantle; Immaculate Conception parish, Waterbury; St. Mary's, Jewett City; St. Francis, New Milford; St. Ann's, Waterbury; All Hallows, Moosup: Sacred Heart, Taftville; St. Ann's, Waterbury, and St. Stephens, Bridgeport. His appointment to St. Patrick's, East Hampton, will be his first pastoral assignment