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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

certainly did not want to spoil your pictures"
 "Spoil 'em?" they chorused.
 Boy, you made 'em! That was
 the best informad stuff we've
 been able to get since the King
 and Queen came to town. Those
 pictures will be wows."
 ROYAL MERRY-GO-ROUND
 The King made a big hit with cameramen during his Capitol visit. As he was leaving, he waved aside Secret Service man who was trying to shoo away some photographers. "They have to do that" said His Majesty, smiling, "and it doesn't really bother us at all. We, don't mind." :. The King has a marked British accent but the Queen, a Scots- woman, has very little Forty five members of the Senate ap- peared in frock coats and striped trousers for the royal reception in the Rotunda. The surprise among them was Senator William E. Borah, ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, who refuses to wear formal attire even at inaugural ceremonies Among the senators who came in everyday attire were Hiram John- son of California, Vandenberg of Michigan, Taft of Ohio . i. En- countering a friend after the re- ception, Michigan's Representative George Dondero said with a wide grin, Shake the hand that shook
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
A Happy Appointment

The choice of the President of Archi- bald MacLeish to be the Librarian of Con- sress is particularly good one. Mac Leish is not only poet and darned good one. but as well as being one of the coun- try's outstanding men of letters, he has been an artillery captain, a lawyer, and a magazine editor.
 The Red Scare, which has become stand ard procedure in Congress in regard to almost all appointments, has been dredged up, 1t being charged that Mac Leish has been fellow-traveler" with Communists in various causes. Congress men would do well to catch up to the fact That MacLeish's most recent literary pro- ouct was Q sIashing indictment In the Survey Graphic of the whole united eufi-Faaeist front" tactic, and as power [Hl 4n expedition as we've ever read of 1H2 1fcHinf feeling that the best defense 4<HI11E both Easc|sn and Communism
 '4 1eE behind democracy and push like
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
Career Cut Short

The sudden death of Richard D. O'Con- nell of East Hartford, former judge of the town court there and also former member of the Yale Law School and as- sistant to William s. Meany as the first State Director of the National Emergency Council in Connecticut, must have been shock to his many friends throughout this entire state. Certainly here in Water bury the news proved both saddening and unexpected.
 He was comparatively young man be- ing only 35 years old. Yet in that short space of life he had found time to con- tinue the successes that were his through out his entire scholastic career. His dis tinguished career really began back in East Hartford High School where he com pleted his course before reaching his 18th birthday. His academic studies were completed at Yale.
 It was while at Yale Law School that he formed lasting friendship with Con- gressman J. Joseph Smith of this city and Attorney Richard J. Smith, well-known public utilities authority and former Yale Law School professor Through all his formative years his brilliance and per- Sonality won him widening circle of friends as well as a splendid reputation. At the height of his career and when many further honors were surely within easy grasp he chose to add to his wisdom and learning by study at the University of Berlin in Germany
 Illness seized him there tkis spring and returning to this country he was taken immediately to the Brooklyn, N. Y, Hos pital, where he died Monday. His brief life had been full one; he leaves us the richer by memories of a brilliantly glow ing star in our mundane midst.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

The Town of Fairfield is not going to have its public beaches overrun with out of-state or out-of-town people this sum- mer. At recent town meeting the voters decided that only one of the several beaches available could be used by out of-town residents and no out-of-state resi- dents could use any of the public beaches Out-of-town residents who want to use the Road must show their drivers license or registration to gain access to it. If this trend is followed all along the shore, the state will find more requests for public bathing areas in the Sound.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
wESTCHEsTER THREATS
Bridgeport Telegraph

The threat of Westchester county officials to collect a tax on the Westchester parkway is rather a joke because they already are pre- pairing to do it before the toll on the Merritt parkway was proposed.
 Westchester is now building 8 new bridge right in the middle of the Cross County parkway which con- meets the Hutchinson River park way with Hudson parkway and is the main gate to Manhattan itself.
 This bridge which is already well underway is to be operated as a ten cent toll bridge. In other words any Connecticut citizen desiring to go to Manhattan over the Westchester county parkway system will have to pay 10 cents on the Fleetwood toll bridge and this will go directly to Westchester county. The same citi- zen will have to pay an additional 10 cents on the Harlem river toll bridge which is part of the Henry Hudson parkway. For Westchester to collect additional toll from Con- necticut citizens is quite unneces- sary. They propose to "get theirs" in any case and there is no sense in threatening to set up a toll against Connecticut. It is already on the way to being set up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
A Thought for Today
Why We Get Statutes

Secretary of State Sara B. Crawford is receiving information now which Is ot considerable interest throughout all Con- necticut. However, good many people will not even be bothered reading any items concerned with the fees paid to lobbyists. Once upon time it was inn possible to find out what fees were paid men and women to go up to Hartford and put a bit of pressure on legislators to secure passage of bill or rejection or another one. Today the law is bit more stringent and not only must lobbyists or representatives of interests register at the beginning of legislative session, but they must also file an account after the session ends.
 That duty is being performed now and we've read some of the fees paid to varl- ous individuals who are ready and pre- pared to appear before any legislative group armed with the facts and figures that may produce favorable report oy this group and ensuing favorable actlon in the House and Senate. It isn't always the appearance before the legislative com mittee that makes a good lobbyist. The most successful appear to be those who have the best contacts among legislators and know where to use their influence.
 We don't imagine that all the so-called pressure groups will be on file at Hart ford, for much of the best lobbying IS done by individuals or groups that. are not even considered in the lobbying class. An organized professional group can accomplish as much as paid lobbyist and frequently does. It was very noticeable during the past legislative session in Con- necticut that pressure groups were at work We may have had an 'unbossed" legislative session, as the Republicans are now boasting about, but pressure still can be and still is applied to force through legislation or defeat it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Pitkin Pushes Push Again

Push Again
 Challenging book for anyone under
 or over the age is Walter B.
 Pitkin's newest success guide,
 Making Good Before Forty" (Mc-
 Bride: $2). Briefed below is MT.
 Pitkin's chapter on "Push," one
 smacking of the entire book.
 All your life the man or woman with initiative has been held up to you as something of model. But, alas, few people use what they know about this valuable quality. Perhaps they don't realize that those who can stand on their own feet and start their own enterprises are helping others to live better on less time, less money, less energy. They are genuine labor-saving devices! They contribute toward the realization of the American dream.
 But the quality seems to be get ting rarer. Our homes and our schools have been going into the codding business too much. So the fellow who exhibits push stands out strikingly.
 It is useless to condemn people for their pathetic pushlessness. Loss of push is a major trend within technology. It's just what we should have expected after half century of labor saving inventions, each of which threw thousands out of work and created a proprietor class which never worked in the ancient sense of straining arm and leg and back muscles eight to 12 hours a day. It is the most natural outcome of enforced inaction in well-fed, we'll clothed, well-nourished society.
 ed to tell Hickey what was in it,
 Push stands out like a humpback in Hollywood beauty contest. Spectators, especially the young, re- gard it as deformity. Leisure is the thing; and if it's forced upon you, it becomes a virtue. Let the lower classes push and plugi Iris not for us alumni of Dear old Siwash. You know that by exerting live ly push you raise yourself head and shoulders above the crowd. When the rest of the world works less. you work more. Thus you take yourself out of competition. The world goes on a 40-hour week. So you should go. on an 80-hour week. Thus you amass early a huge fund of infor- nation and useful habits that will help you out-class your competitors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

They don't like all of our American comic strips down in Fl Salvador. A ban has just been placed on nine of them and more are destined to be forbidden to be printed. The government thinks that The strips have "bad influence on chil- dren and impressionable adults with week wills" Evidently the higher-ups aren't going to take any chances of hav- ing mere comic strip foster revolution in their midst.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
In Today's Mail
SPREAD OF BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENTS CITED BY
 SOCIAL SERVICE"
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Re-Birth Control, a number of years ago Los Angeles County, Cali fornia; established precedent by opening twelve mothers centers where contraceptive advice was giv- en. These centers have been oper- ated on a part-time basis but the Welfare Department of the County sensibly provides that the mother of every family on relief shall receive birth control instruction either in private or a county clinic at public expense. More recently the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has pro- vided the same kind of service for its relief cases. The Kent County Relief Clinic, now located in the Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids has served 1,500 mothers in the past year, numbers of whom had been on the relief rolls or had received prenatal or obstetric care from the welfare department. The entire state of Michigan is today taking pro- gressive and eminently sane attitude towards the problem of birth con. trol. The State Conference of So- cial Work at its last conference voted to cooperate actively with the Maternal Health League of Michi. gan, formerly the Michigan Birth Control league. There are now more than 12 clinics scattered over the state, and they serve large num- Der of families whose average week. ly wage runs from $2.21 to $10.
 All the clinics in the country have in the past ten years taken care of more than 100000 mothers, while the number advised by family phy. sicians is probably about half million. The National Medical as- sociation, sometime ago it is url- derstood, withdrew its objections to birth control. Dorothy Dunbar Brorl. ley, prominent writer on social problems. says" It would be hard to deny that the drain on women's health, the broken marriages, the toll of abortions, the hardships su1- fered by over-large families subsist- ing on relief, are medieval dis grace to a notwithstanding civili- zation.
 SOCIAL SERVICE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

II DULL Q 0WAA6 version of the ''Mikado."
 Why, even Tallulah Bankhead, although American, was discov- cred by English audiences and practically thrust down the throats of our own drama de- voices.
 Bramwell Fletcher and Vim cent Price are making Outward Bound" such a pleasurable enter tainment; Laurence Olivier is giv- ing theater-goers thrill in Kath- arine Cornell's No Time for Comedy" And the cinematic smash of the current show sea- son? Why, nothing else but Goodbye, MT. Chips" made In London with an English cast and written by the new English lit erary man of the hour-James Hilton.
 ROYALTY LIKES
 A SHOW
 Even as you and I, kings and queens and titled folks like the theater, whether it be images on a flickering screen, murmurs be- hind footlights, or voices via the wireless.
 Yes, there is an affinity between the theater and the throne. And many are the amusing tales told thereof. For instance, spend an hour or two at the Lambs Club and somebody will surely regale you with the story of Willie Col Hers appearance in London. Col Her was playing there in his great success, Nothing But the Truth" During his first week on English terrain, Collier was ask ed by a Duchess to come to tea. There she sought him out and asked: MT. Collier, tell, me, did you play Nothing But the Truth before the King?"
 Before the King?" exploded Collier. Lady, I created the role II played it before anybody else in the business!"
 NOT NEAR
 ENOUGH
 They tell, too, of the time the Earl of Lonsdale visited America. Richard Rodgers, the melody man, took the distinguished visitor to one of our night clubs. There the Earl requested malt drink. He was served concoction that left him nearly limp.
 "Just what was that?" inquired the Earl timidly.
 Near beer," Rodgers enlight- ened him.
 Near beer?" repeated the Earl. "Then all I can say is that you Americans lave a prodigious sense of distance!" ssy ssss WILDE
 GAG
 Sometimes royalty is gracious enough to come backstage and extend personal felicitations to a player. Ernest Milton, last seen on Broadway in the Alexander Woollcott- George s. Kaufman dramatic item, Dark Tower" once was commended backstage by the late King George in Lon- don. Milton strutted about Sa- vile Row for weeks, his nose in the clouds. George Bernard Shaw, noting him one afternoon at the Savoy Grill, loudly observ- ed: "Ah, the importance of being Milton Ernest!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
The BIuebelIs of England
Christian Science Monitor)

Six years ago the authorities at Kew Gardens in England laid down four plots of bluebells-and there- after proceeded to trample on some of the plants, to tear up others. and to snap off the rest at different stages of growth. The object of this apparent wanda. 5m was an attempt to assess the amount of permanent damage done by those who, each Spring, swoop upon the wild blue- bells in the woods, and gather them recklessly; and the result of the ex- pertinent is shortly to be given to the public. S
 It should be obvious that such methods do the bluebells no good; but an official verdict may help in awakening tl4e thoughtless. Beyond that the chief rope for the blue- bells and other wild flowers. must lie in arousing Q better apureciation of their beauty in the public. For the genuine admirer of nature, echoIng Herr.s.. plaint,
 Fair paffodils, we weep to see
 You haste away 90 soons
 is no less disturbed to soc the hlue- bells ste away even faster, carried back to town on bicycles and auto mobiles He would far rather bring
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

Old Army mules, no longer able to per form duties at various forts and posts, will not be killed as they have in the past under regulations and federal rules. A new law has just been passed by Con- gress which allows the old animals to be given away to humane organizations. Much excitement was created late this winter when it was announced that nine reprieves but eventually were killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
the hand of a King-and has held four kings A few times" J.P MORGAN

Senator Vandenberg need not worry about Wall Street support for his presidential candidacy-not after what happened at the Bri- tish garden party.
 vandenberg walked out of the Embassy drive looking for his car The traffic jam inside the gates had tied up everything. A lot of top-hat people practically had to thumb their way home because they couldn't find James to say, Home, James," to.
 In this predicament, vanden- berg found he was no worse off than J. P. Morgan, who carried his hulking frame painfully along the crushed stone driveway, only to find no waiting car.
 So Vandenberg went up to J. P. Morgan and put out his hand. 'I'm Senator vandenberg," he said.
 Just then a cameraman, seeing a good shot, moved up to take these two together. Instead of verring away, the Big Money Man turned toward the camera, say ing to Vandenberg:
 Lets be taken together. I'd like to be taken with you"
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 Featurfe Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
Daily Almanac

Moon rises S:b am. daylight time)
 Sun rises 5:is am; sets s:2S pm. tday- light time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Flag payi Let the Stars and Stripes wave proudly in the breeze of this mid-June day. Let every American home Haunt banner. large or small, prooi undying of great love for this land Of opportunity and freedom
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
Views of The Press
TOLL RETALIATION
(Hartford Times)

The threat of a Westchester Coun- ty, New York, official that if Connec- ticut charges a toll on the Merritt Parkway, that county will retaliate by imposing similar charge on the Connecticut line to the metropolis, use of the Westchester highway from sounds more rhetorical than real.
 The officials statement that New York motorists deeply resent the Connecticut toll plan may be true but that is hardly a reason for asking them to pay an additional toll on the New York stretch of the same trunk line.
 Since many more New Workers than Nutmeggers use the Westches- ter Highway, putting toll upon that as a matter of retaliation will penal- ize the very motorists whose wrath it is designed to assuage.
 Governor Baldwin is urged to veto the toll law which the legislature re- gently enacted. Since he was an &C., tive proponent of the plan, ably fianked by Highway Commissioner Cox, it is hardly likely that the al- legged disappointment of New York motorists will become a decisive fac- tor.
 Connecticut still has the free Bos- ton Post Road and New Workers. like Connecticut citizens and all other motorists, will still have choice be- tween paying a small fee for use of the grand stretch of about the finest highway anywhere or meandering along over the old Post Road. It is not difficult to guess how the Merritt Parkway will score in such a situa- ton.
 Considering the numerous popular toll-charging projects in and around New York City, it is doubtful that the New York motorist greatly objects to e modest charge in return for an up-to-the-minute transportation ac- commodation such as the Merritt Cross Highway will afford. Particu- larly as the tolls will pay for it's ex- tension.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
What's Your l. Q?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. What is cryptography?
 2. Name the longest river ip Africa.
 3. Do oysters live in fresh water? (. Name the foreign minister of Norway.
 8. Is a man deprived of his Amer ican citizenship because he receives dishonorable discharge from the Army or Navy?
 6. Tn which South American country is the city of Coquimbo? 2. What is faro2
 Q. What is the correct pronuncia- ton of the word hypnoticf
 Q. What is the biblical name for
 io' How many square rods in an ac7e7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

oAAtoAt Q 4buy@ inond Massey, for instance, is the greasepaint pro totype of our great hero, Abe Lin coin. Gil bert and s ul1ivan, the great gods of the Lon d on t heater, fur nished the in- spiration for 8 great Broadway m u S ical suc- cess, Bill Rob- in son's swing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
In New York
RY GEnRGE Ross

New York, June 14--If Their Majesties could have tarried on Broadway and caught a few shows, they would have found our stage monopolized by their own.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
MILK SAVES AUTO ATTIRE

Anaconda, Mont. n tUp) - Wil- liam Drivers automobile is intact. thanks to a fiye-galIon can of milk hc was carrying. When the auto caught fire. Driver cxtinguished the s'anaea wllh tho fluid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
THE RDITOR

e. How did the month name May originate?
 A. The origin is uncertain, but the theory most widely accepted is that it comes from Maia, mother of Mer- cury, or Hermes. The Romans iden- tified her with Maia Mjesta, an old Italian goddess of Spring to whom the priests of Vulcan made sacrifices on the first day of May.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
Q. What is 2 Niloneter2

A. An instrument for measuring the rise of the Nile during its periodi- cal floods. On the island of Er- Rodah, south of Cairo. Egypt, is graduated pillar, which stands in well that communicates with the river. In the time of Pliny, a height of t2 cubits meant famine, 13 scarcity, IS safety
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
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Washington Merry Go-Round
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
COLT BAIL DESTROYS EyE

Cleveland. Q. tUP)--Joscph May CT, a. playing catch with golf bail, Was struck il the eye with the ball The eye had to ns removed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

home Q memory of these tall wood- landers ranging. active and splen- did, through the glades. their blue bcnnets over the borders of every path, than decimate them to recruit q weary and broken escort for the mantelpiece.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

Magazines" used to be storehouSes, depots or warehouses. Now they're pho- tograph albums
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

o. How many persons are em- ployed in domestic service in the United States?
 A. The Department of Commerce estimated 2.o75,0o0 (full-time equiva- lent) in 1897.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14
TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, "The ancients maintained that the earth is fiat;" say, "contended."

and 16 plenty. At present the canals are cut and distribution commences when the river reaches IS cubits; 19 cubits is tolerable, 20 adequate, 21 excellent, 9 abundant, and 24 ruin- ous. In ancient times taxation varied according to the height of the inun- dationS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-14

@. When is Fathers Day?"
 A. The third Sunday in June.
Evening star., 1939-05-11
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Square Scarfs. Reduced to
-Rayon Crepe Capes with topper
attachments; also Printed QOo
Rsyon Toppers for suits
Kann1-otreet Floor.