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Evening star., 1939-01-20

tice," Mr.. Kerensky said. Among
the imminent and existing forces
of darkness" he enumerated Hitler's
designs on the Ukraine, the large,
rich area in South European Russia,
and the tragic" incapacity of the
illiberal Soviet government.
Mr.. Kerensky. man with Prus-
sian haircut, who spoke with a deep
Russian accent, read from a manu-
script with spectacles. But he put
the glasses aside in favor OF a
monocle for his left eye when a
member of the audience rose to dis
pute some of his points. Often, as
he groped for the right English word,
he looked to DR.. Walsh for help in
a language with which his emotion
heightened his unfamiliarity.
Sharp Critic Of Stain.
He spoke sharply of Lenin, the
first Soviet hero, who grew up with
Mr.. Kerensky in Tashken, a town
in Siberia, as sick fanatic" He
reserved his sharpest distaste, how
ever, for Stain, and he listed three
reasons why Russia was impotent to
act in the European crisis of last
summer which ended in the Munich
pact: Stain could not fight, Stain
had no intention of fighting, Stain
wanted others to do the fighting.
From there he went OIL to jibe at
the opinion that there is a natural
union between Russia and the
democracies.
Never has the world had a more
repugnant alliance than democracy
with Communism" Mr.. Kerensky
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Downfall Of Soviet
On |nternationa|ism
Seen by Kerensky
Demoeroey's Triumph
In Russia Predicted
By Speaker

With the emotional oratory which
long ago won him applause from the
masses of Czarist Russia, Alexander
Feodorvitch Kerensky last night pre-
dicted the eventual downfall of
Russia's Soviet government, to be
overwhelmed, he said, by strong
nationalistic uprisal against Soviet
internatlonalism.
The former president of the short
lived Russian republican provisional
government of 1917 traced to the
establishment of the Soviet govern
ment the rise of Fascism and Reich
fuehrer Hitler.
Mr.. Kerensky spoke at Constitu-
ton Hall on will Hitler go to
War;" Democracy and Soviet Rus
sia After the Munich Pact" and
WAS the Russian Revolution a Jew
ish Conspiracy"
To the first question, his mo" ap-
peared hesitant. On the second sub
ject, he decried the viewpoint that
links the interests of Soviet Russia
with those of democracy. On the last
question, he pointed out that the
Russian revolution was financed not
by Jews but by Germans who now
under the Third Reich would be des-
ignated "Aryans'
Introduced as History Itself.
The slight, gray-faced man who
has been rover without a country
since the counter-revolution ousted
him from his supreme position in
Russia 81 years ago, was introduced
to the audience by DR.. Edmund A.
Walsh, vice president of Georgetown
University, who assured the listeners
that they were enjoying an oppor-
tunity to meet history face to face
to see leader of ''one of the greatest
changes ever recorded in human his
tory, the Russian revolution.
In the last struggle with all the
forces OF darkness, my people will
win back democracy and social JUS
Evening star., 1939-01-20

common law wife, on the arm with
an ak.
Mary was reluctant to testify and
there was question as to whether
she could be forced to testify. AS
this was debated, Judge Newman
took hand.
He asked Mary if she wanted to
marry Frank. Mary said she did,
very much. Then Judge Newman
asked Frank if he wanted to marry
Mary or 60 to Jail.
I'D rather marry her if she'll
have me-" Frank replied.
So, smiling at each other, they
walked out to make the arrange
mentS.
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Symposium on Mental
Hyqiene Tomorrow

Five speakers will participate to-
morrow in a symposium on mental
hygiene at Miner Teachers College.
The program, beginning at 2 pm,
will bring to the teachers group the
results of a recent three-day SYM
postum on the same subject at Rich
mond, Va.
The panel of speakers will be
composed of DR.. Lawrence Kolb, di-
retcor of the Mental Hygiene Di-
vision in the United States Public
Health Service; DR.. Paul B. Cornely,
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Cupid Saves
| Man From Jail
| By Marriage

With Judge Hobart Newman lend
ing helping hand, Cupid had his
way in Police Court today.
And instead of going to Jail, Frank
Jackson, 81, colored, walked out of
the courtroom free. He was brought
into court on a charge of assault, ac-
cused of striking Mary Rich, his
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Doueherty Will Speak

Carroll Daugherty, assistant ad-
ministrator of the Wage and Hour
Division of the Labor Department,
will address the Washington Com
mittee of the Women's Trade Union
League at 8 pm. Tuesday at the
Y, w, C, A.
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Howard University Medical COL

Howard University Medical Col
lege; Emory B. Smith, Washington
Bar Association; the Rev. William
E. Darlington. Howard University
School of Religion, and Prof. E.
Franklin Frazier, Howard Uni
versity.
DR.. Dorothy B. Ferebee is chair
man of the General Committee and
DR.. Frazier, chairman of the Pro-
gram Committee for the symposium.
Exhibits will be open from to S
pm.
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Colored Man Executed

RALEIGH, N. c., Jan. 20 P.-
King Solomon Stovall, 24-year- old
Negro, was put to death in the
North Carolina gas chamber today
for the robbery Staying last April
16 OF r. T. Moore, a Granville
County storekeeper.
Evening star., 1939-01-20

said. wherever Russia has tried
to set up its form of government,
the result has been the establish
ment of Black Shirt or a Brown
Shirt (FascisD regime"
Evening star., 1939-01-20

The world has issued more than
$4,000 postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
Unredeemed Czechs

Some day it may prove to have been Hitler's great mistake - the seizure of Czechoslovakia. The Rhineland, the Saar, the Sudentenland, even Danzig, perhaps, there is an argument here. All these were German in population and spirit. But Czechoslovakia, despite all the talk of ancient German living-room, ? was and is peopled by Czechs and Slo- walks. There is evidence that they do not take kindly to the efforts to Germanize them, any more than Italians incorpor- ated into the old AuStria-Hungarian empire before the World War responded to similar efforts
 In Poland, in France, and in other coun- tries, refugee Czechs are organizing into Czech legions when the law permits, or joining the armies of those countries when it does not. General Lev Prchala, last Czech governor of Carpathia, hints that should war break out, even the Czechs still under the German fist in the home land would know what to do."
 Thus it may come to pass that Hitler's great mistake will have been the one in which he violated his own stated principle: that all he wished was to bring into the Reich the adjoining German peoples. The Czech state, healthy body when it existed by itself, may prove cancer when ao- sorbed by the body of the Reich.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
One Touch of Nature

Those of us who live in the city are apt to forget the wonder of weather and the vital importance of sun and rain to mill lions who still live close to the earth. In the city, it doesn't really matter much whether it rains or shines. A trifling in- convenience, perhaps, some slight change of plan, or some momentary interruption. That is all.
 But among people who work on the land and in the earth, rain or no-rain means the difference between the success or failure of whole years work. That is why only those who have lived in the country can fully appreciate the drama of an incident at Kintyre, N. D., the other night when Governor John Moses was delivering high school commencement oration. Suddenly, in the midst of his own oratory he stopped, lifted a finger. There was hush in the school auditorium.
 "Listen," said the governor Hear that? Isn't it wonderful?" It was rain- ing. And everyone present, including the speaker himself. knew that nothing he was saying, nothing he could say, equaled in importance the blessed batter of the rain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

turn again to try to reconslltute a better way of handling these things than by force and threat? In it's main objectives, the League of Nations has failed. It is easy now to see some of the reasons. Too heavy dominance by the victors in a great war, too close a tie to the terms of settlement of that war, these are factors of failure which are easy to understand today.
 Yet the League has done good work in some fields, has adjusted many minor problems, even though it failed in the great ones. It has not been entirely in vain. The experience gained in the lex pertinent, noble in purpose" will be a guide-post when the effort comes anew, as it must come some day. It is a ghost, perhaps at Geneva, but it is ghost of whose presence men are still constantly aware,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

The Catholic Women's World, which announces itself as the first national Catholic magazine for women, published it's first issue last week. The magazine is timely and well set up judging by its contents as we'll as it's cover. It is pub lished in Detroit at Marygrove College, Florence E. Cox the editor. There is room in the magazine for this type of periodical, crowded as the market is with magazines. Unfortunately many of the magazines Tn circulation are objectionable or silly or something. Many of them are not. This magazine has for it's aim the counter action of subversive literature that offends good taste and morals, and contains cov- CTS fiction fashions, features, child care, women's clubs, books, drama and so on. It is not, essentially, a religious magazine, but presents the Catholic attitude to- wards the subjects it discusses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

'The outcome is wholesome" says the Hartford Courant editorially on the de- feat in the House of the Townsend plan. So many sad lessons have been learned from the passage of unavoidable plans and bills, that it seems to be in order right now to look before you leap, and the ex- penditure of billions on experiments is not too popular. The editorial contin- ues, "yet vote against Townsendism means little unless accompanied by other votes and measures that will make for sound recovery, the chief of which is a reduction of the borrowing and spending that at present is wasting the capital of the nation without adding to it's power to produce that is essential to prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
Once Again, Eh!

Not that it's likely to impair the quality of the judges who will be named, but today it seemed as if Governor Raymond E. Baldwin would be assigned the task of naming judges in our minor courts. Two years ago this pleasantly fell to Wilbur L. Cross, because there wasn't agreement in the Legislature over the officials to be designated in the numerous courts af- fected. Thus, for two successive legis- 1ative years the method as set forth in the Constitution of appointing these court officials has failed to meet. the test.
 It would appear, therefore, that some thing is wrong. Of course, it is admitted that where one party has no dominant control over both houses of the Legisla- ture there is apt to be bit of difficulty in satisfying both sides. But that's where good party leadership should manifest itself and force through an acceptable slate of judges, etc. It must be apparent by this time that with this increasing diff ficulty in securing appointments some thing should be done about the system.
 We aren't going to make any impas- stoned plea for minor court reform We've made that so many times, though, we're afraid repetition has reached the monot- onous point. Everyone is pretty familiar with the proposed changes in the minor courts, but no one seems to think that such drastic shake-up is necessary. AS a matter of political expediency it isn't. And we doubt that the quality of the judges would be raised, for the majority of city, town, and borough courts are well manned and we'll conducted. BUT, ene elimination would be this rather un- edifying spectacle of court officials hav- ing to spar and feint for their jobs every two years at Hartford. That could be eliminated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
A Shade Appeals to a Ghost

There must be somewhere in Geneva, among the fine marble buildings that house the physical plant of the League of Nations, large filing case to which the appeal of King Fog of Albania has recently been consigned. King Zog's letter to Sec retary- General Avenol of the League was 8 request that the facts of the conquest of Albania be called to the attention of League members, with request that they refrain from recognizing this "con- quest achieved by blood and iron" and brought about "by all modern means state of 44,000,000 has at it's disposal when it plans an act of aggression"
 In that same file would be numerous documents from Halle SeiaSSie, the King of Kings of Abyssinia, faintly protesting from his English retreat, the occupation by Italian troops of his remote African domain. And beside it somewhere must be the files from China, couched in the polite and gentle language of the Chinese diplomat, asking the League to do some thing about the invasion of China. The file grows apace, wherever it is, and yet, of course these documents are doomed to no better fate than to yellow and fade, and await the attention of the historians of the future.
 These shades of kings and governors are appealing to the ghost of League, and there is strange unreality about the whole procedure. The League still exists, twenty-or-so members still adhere to it and maintain the marble buildings and the thinning secretarial staff that still goes through the motions of conducting q going concern.
 Perhaps even SO shadowy perform auce is not entirely in. vain. May there not come a time when the nations of the world. weary of the eternally-increasin burden of armament, sick of living be- feath the perpetual shadow of crises, will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
Views of The Press

tution at once. But only less sur- prising than the charges is the timing. Why in the world does the Democratic leader in the Senate wait until these final hours of the session to make charges so darnag- ing? How does it happen that this information has just come to his attention; or if he knew of it before, why didn't he say so? Certainly the attack does nothing to clear the legislative prospect.
 Senator Downes made his charges in the course of debate on a meas ure setting up a commission to study the whole question of state care of the insane. That question needs studying; and it is to be noted that the Senator does not rest with the familiar plea that we are spend- ing too little on the program of care. On the contrary, he insists that funds have been unwisely spent though there is no suggestion of anything more. He feels that the staff personnel at Norwich is not what it ought to be. He has spoken late; but he has said enough to make the state certain that it wants the proposed commission to look into the matter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
. HlGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS

It's Plague Year
 For New Workers
 If you remember How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" you have some idea of the hilarious dish awaiting you in Irving D. Tressler's newest book, with Malice Toward Alr' (Stackpole Sons: $2), A piece of the Tressler mind is given below.
 The roads leading in and out of
 New York city will probably see the
 greatest mass movement in history this year. It will not be alone be-
 cause of 22,00o, ,000 expected visitors
 to the Worlds Fair. it will be just
 as much the New Workers who are
 fleeing the city to escape the out-
 of-town friends" swarming in on
 them to room and board. Every person in New York is
 faced by the blunt fact that every
 nodding acquaintance he has in
 the United States is a potential overnight sleeper during 1889, The
 Romans called such 6 situation Quid Pro Nihil: Something for Nothing" ..
 Removing the telephone is futile. for then your friends arrive unan-
 nounced without giving you that ten-minute interval in which to let your wife change her dress and put away the expensive wine and substi- ute the gallon jug from California.
 And if you deliberately give them the wrong address or try to confuse them with your directions as to how
 to reach your home, then they hire bloodhounds.
 Something about New York at tracks every last friend who hasn't seen you lin simply ages" Every week your phone is rurfR by someone who has 'just got in" and who begins his conversation with, Don't you recognize my voice?"
 and follows 1t up with. sWell. I suppose since you've moved to
 New York you're too high-hat to
 speak to an old frined from .
 hick townl"
 This year if we have to take
 more than ten couples down. to
 see the Fulton Street Fish Market or point out the Normandie at her
 dock. we're going to raise our
 muzzles and howl till the RCA
 building vibrates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

gently have shown a definite skep- ticism regarding Chamberlain policy.
 So, two things have happened to the far-flung dominions of the British empire:u) the mother country has become poorer, with less to give and more to ask; (2) simultaneously the Dominions themselves have become more sus- picious of the mother country, suspicious of the motives prompt ing her present government, and suspicious that they, the Dom- inions, may become involved in 8 war not of their choosing and of no concern to them.
 So when you read about the King of England and his long trek across the Canandian contin- ent, you can appreciate that he is up against a tough job not of his own choosing. For it is his job to weld together the British En- pire at 8 time when England is on the downgrade economically, and when the different parts of the empire are getting less and less compatible politically.
 Copyright, 1889, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

Dr. Cross (we refer to our former gov ernor) is still governor in the minds of some, according to the present governor, Raymond Baldwin, who said at legisla- tive reunion: Ut will be good many years before Connecticut gets over the idea that Governor Cross isn't still gov ernor." Both governor and ex-governor swapped compliments, while the latter slipped in the statement that he thought there would be, eventually, a return to annual assembly sessions in the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

ner suddenly was served with brand new sailing instructions. Instead of steering his vessel, the s. s. New York, from Man-
 haitian to Albany, he was conn., manded to head into the East River from the Battery and de-
 posit his passengers at the
 Worlds Fair grounds on Flush- 1, ing Bay.
 And being a veteran captain under company command, Cap- tain Warner took his revised or- ders with calm and routine pre- cision. If the mercenaries who control the vessel he commands want to change the point of des- tination, that's outwardly all right with him. But, underneath the indifferent surface, the captain feels the cleavage of tradition and the end of family heritage.
 WARMERS LIKED
 MONOTONOUS ROUTE
 Back in 1885, the first Warner at the helm started to steer a course between New York and AL bany up the Hudson. Steamboats were rickety contraptions then and the trip took two days instead of a few hours. When he died, his son replaced him at the steer ing gear and put the old captains cap on. The course remained the same and the pierheads at both goals never changed.
 They piled their route without reStleSSnesS, never seeking to steer their craft to open sea or to escape the monotonous course. They were well satisfied, and when the representative of the third generation of Warmers took command of the s. s. New York, he was content to sail from here to Albany-and back-the rest of his active life.
 RIVAL LINE
 IGNORED HIM
 The unhappiest phase of Cap- tain Warmers career along the Hudson has been the legend that his passengers consist, mainly, of love-birds. For he has thought of his vessel as a ship of com- merce and romantic means of transportation. He is proud that businessmen with trade in upper New York have chosen his craft, rather than the land route, to travel. Thus he resents the can- ard that his ship has been used mainly by sailing sweethearts. Since the s. s. New York was &C., customed to making overnight trips between here and the State Capitol. the Captain personally supervised the quality of the din- ner cuisine. He aIways made sure that it was on a par with the food and drink of the metropolis bet ter restaurants.
 His proudest possession is 8 plaque, presented to him after fifty years in the New York-to- Albany service, by rival steam boat company!
 He has no desire to broaden his marine horizon, never has been to Europe on transatlantic vessel and doesn't think he'd care to. Nor does he feel any yearning, just as preceding Warmers didn't, to command a boat along the Great Lakes or Mississippi.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

Vickers, the giant armament company, owns a big block of stock in Terai, the Italian metal works, operated by a rela- tive of Mussolini's son-in law; while Douglas Vickers is a di- rector of Technomasi0 Italiano, electrical manufacturers.
 British capital controls Sofina, the huge Italian electrical trust, with Sir George Grahame, Sir Percy Lacy, and Reginald Me- Kenna, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the board of direc- tors.
 Lord Swinton, a former member of the Chamberlain cabinet, is 8 railroad and power magnate with subsidiaries in Germany and Italy; Lord Hailsham is a sugar baron; and Sir Samuel Hoare is a big reai estate and insurance official, with insurance interests throughout the world.
 SKEPTICAL COMMONS
 This is the financial oligarchy which rules Britain today, an oligarchy which inspires no great degree of confidence in the Bri- tish Dominions. In fact. sound- ings taken in the Dominions re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
Current Comment

The progress of our political car is not helped by the clamor of back seat drivers who point out the ap- parent smoothness of the detours of compromise and subterfuge. and complain of the speed of our going.
 President Roosevelt.
 
 Consider the situation of the newspapers If war really comes. A constructive critic, suppose, would suggest that the newspapers gang up against the current war-mongering and SO try to prevent 6 khaki elec- ton. but 1t Is probably too late for that. Henry. L.. Mencken.. Baltimore editor. s sNf
 Humanity sails Q troubled see. Your duty Is to determine those qualities Of spirit that achieved American independence and then to live that spirit e your own.
 Mfrs. Henry M. Roberts, IT, D A. R. president general.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
SKEPTICAL COMMONS
PASSING OF THE THIRD
 FLOOR UP
Christian Science Monitor)

Christian Science Monitor)
 A report, published recently by the advisory council of the Science Museum in London, holds that it is unwise to erect museums with more than three stories of exhibi- tion galleries; for "the public are averse voluntarily to mounting higher, and upper galleries remain unvisited mausoleums." One feels, all the same. that highbrows would not be lacking in the upper story; but one can quite appreciate that. in their quest for knowledge, casual students might renounce the higher flights, out of consideration for their "understandings.p
 That is to assume that they must climb step by step; but is there any reason why their progress should not be made less toilsome, why stairs should not be accompanied by lifts to speed the ascent to Pieri- an heights? With such aids the museum should soon Ee able to look back on the time when
 The heights by great men
 reached and kept
 Were not attained by sudden
 flight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
Selected Poem
HOLIDAY

(On the Main Highway to Anywhere) (Rebecca Helman in the New York Sun) Wheels going somewhere--anywhere- Just to be going; With far less purpose in their roll
 Than swift wind blowing. Wheels that whisk by other wheels
 In the hurrying throng; A thousand faces nonchalantly Rocketing along. Whiffs of air and gasoline
 From dawn to grayer dawn Wheels going somewhere -anywherel But going, going-onl