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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
Communism, Anarchy Make No Inroads In
 Faith Of True Irish
Rev Richard Bowling s. j., Gives Inspiring Address at lrisf-American Club Banquet Reviews
 Accomplishments of Irish Race

Accomplishments of Irishmen and srish- Americans were lauded at the annual St. Patrick's day banquet of the Irish-American Social club at The Elton last night. Despite the hazardous travelling conditions and the raging snowstorm, the banquet nall was filled with an enthusiastic crowd.
 In the principal address Rev. Richard J. Bowling, s. J., professor of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass. praised the career of St. Patrick, recount- ing his conversion of Ireland to Christianity. The gifts of the Irish, he said. are needed to combat the threats of the modern age.
 The contributions made by Ire- land to the world and to civiliZa- tion were stressed by State Sena- tor Daniel J. Mccarthy of Ansonia. Other speakers were Attorney -iugh J. McGill, club president; Congress- man J. Joseph Smith, Rev. Francis ". O'Shea, permanent rector o. the Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion; Rev. Roger B. T. Anderson, pastor of Trinity Episcopal church; Mrs. Nora Mahaney Harris of New Haven, and James A. Phelan, chair man of the banquet committee.
 The Irish love for freedom was praised by Rev. Dr. Anderson, sev- eralaaf the speakers pointed out the Irish strong opposition to intoler- ance and cited the need of fighting strongly against various modern isins.
 Attorney J. Gregory Lynch was the toastmaster.
 Solos were sung by William o. Brien and Miss Ann Egan. Dinner music and concert of Irish airs were offered by string ensemble directed by Mrs. Mae Birt.
 Patrons were: Daniel T. Earring ton, William J. Pape, M. A. Daly, Dr. Andrew J. Jackson, E. J. Daly, Judge Patrick Healey Sheriff J. Ed ward Slavin, c. H. Shove, H. J. Car roll, William Butler, J. Gregory Lynch, Vincent Scully, Thomas J. Wall, John F. McGrath, John F, McDonuogh, J. Francis Smith, Fire Chief Thomas Cavanaugh, Police Chief William J. Roach. Mayor Frank Hayes, Dr. John M. Freheit Maurice w. lsh, Thomas G. Smith, Thomas Kelly, George Mulligan William Ennis and Miss Ann Daly.
 Assisting MT Phelan on the din- ner committee were: Arthur Lunny, My. McGill, John Reidy, Thomas Reidy, Henry Smithwick, John Car- ro1, John Dillon, E. J. Loughrain, ST., Mrs. Tracy, Mrs. Helen M. Reidy, Mrs. Ella Keavney, Mrs. Mary McGrath, Mrs. Mary Blum, Miss Ann Daly and Mrs. Ruth Tracy LaVallee.
 The text of Father Dowling's ad- dress follows:
 The Gifts of the Irish
 We have assembled here tonight to continue glorious tradition.
 Wherever the faithful Irish or their descendants are settled and their distribution is world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

they are hailed as Loyalists. Men in their foloish pride would again destroy God, and today, they use every instrument of modern ad- vertising to attain it. Now while it is true, that as yet, at least, your choice is not as was your an- cestors, between your faith and death, the danger is a real and menacing. We need right think ing, we need clear thinking, we need proper sense of values in these troublous days, of confusion, disorder and doubt. And our Irish heritage gives us the tools. We have the grace of the Christian faith, and consequently, the only true answer to the problems of mankind. We have an abiding sense of life's realities, and will not be swayed from our principles by cunning phrases or blatant promises. We have the gift of Irish imagination. which enables us to appraise the foibles of men, to keep our balance, and restore lost confidence. We have in a word the responsibility to prserve our own homes; our children the welfare of our nation, the founda- tions of civilization. For the spirit of the true Irishman has ever been, when his principles were at- tackled; bis rights assailed, his faith endangered, to stand and give challenge.
 Sacred Heritage
 Your gifts are not merely to en- joy, but to cherish. They are a sacred heritage, it is true, but a life responsibility as well. Your Irish blood as a name is but an empty boast; it is only precious for what it enables you to be and to do And in this hour of crisis in our native land, when nation is suspicious of nation, and the gospel of hate is pouring from our presses in high-sounding publi- city, hold fast to your traditions. You are the sons and daughters of a spiritual Patrick. Live lives then, that will make him proud to call you his own. Hand on to your children, unSullied and untarnish- ed, the gifts of the Irish, that they in turn may hand them on to their children. Thus, and thus alone. will the prophecy of Pat rick prove true, and the Isle of Saints and Scholars become in deed, the Isle of Destiny to a groping world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

wide -ollce each year, at least they gather to honor the memory of their renowned patron, the Safntly Patrick. Greece has her Alexander; Rome her Caesar; France, her Napoleon, but the Isle of Saints, green-jeweled Fire, fittingly has for model and ex- emplar canonized saint of God. the Shepherd lad who taught the lessons of Christianity to his. Druid flock, and left as his monument 8 nation welded to Christian ideals. Down through the cen- turies, the fire which Patrick kim dled, has famed, has flickered, but, despite thousand years of persecution has never failed. And, if Patrick's promise be true, it will not fail until the morn of eternity.
 Rightly then, it seems, that on this occasion, We Americans of Irish blood, should consider the gifts of the Irish race to civiliza- tion. Some of us have never be- held the beauty that is Killarney, and the dawn on the hills of Clare; no one of us as American citizens will swear allegiance to the Constitution of Fire, but in the lives of all of us we carry the heritage of the Gael. In the cha otic state of our present-day world, where there is a universal campaign to destroy the rights of man as an individual, and make him again the pawn of pagan state, it is the prticular respon- sibility of each one of us to look into his life and evaluate his pos- sible contribution to the common welfare, in order to make our own fair land what God meant 1t to be, a home of contentment and peace. We are not rash enough to claim for the Irish a monopoly of the graces which can elevate man, but we do believe that the predominant Irish traits are sorely needed in our present-day, mater ialistic, ism-ridden social life. And we, 1rish-Americans must realize our responsibilities.
 It requires no great research to discover the mos. precious of the Irish gifts, a persevering, in. domitable, Christian faith. Ever since that historic Easter morn in the year 433 when before the united assembly of the Irish chief tains at Tara, Patrick plucked from the sward, the lowly sham rock to illustrate the auguust mystery of the Trinity, Irish and, Christian have been synonymous. On that. joyous morn began the fulfilment of the Druid prophecy, that if the Ard-Righ allowed Pat rick to kindle the Paschal fire, 1t would never be extinguished. Pat rick himself led the way, since accounts of his life tell us, that he alone, consecrated $50 Bishops.
 With unselfish zeal. and desiring to share their precious gifts with their fellow-men, the Irish spread
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
Priest Eulogizes Irish Imperishable Gi
TROUT STREAMS
 BEING STOCKED
Season Begins April IS; Hurricane Floods Harm
 Aquatic Life

Hartford, March 13.-The state board of fisheries and game today joined with the ubiquitous first robin" in sounding a note of spring.
 Tank trucks, specially equipped with aerating pumps, have started transporting trout from the Bur- lington, Kensington and Windsor Locks state fish hatcheries in rep aration for the trout fishing season which begins April 15.
 Production of adult brook, brown and rainbow trout at the hatch cries and auxiliary rearing stations has reached a total of 123, ,0OO legal sized fish for planting this spring and early summer" the board an- nounces. Supplementing these will be 259,000 lingering trout distribut- ed to streams last fall.
 Higher water levels the past year indicate there should be larger carryover of trout through the win ter than usual. The effects o. last September's hurrican, however, may be serious in eastern streams" ac- cording to Lyle H. Thorpe, aquatic biologist of the board.
 Surveys of some brooks show that hurricane floods secured out stream bottoms, destroying great quantities of larvae and aquatic life which comprise the bulk of trout food. Anglers will find smaller 'natice' trout. in these streams as a result, Thorpe predicted.
 With country roads passable earlier this year than usual, the board plans to have approximately two-thirds of this seasons hatchery output distributed by April IS, if weather permits. The balance is to be planted thereafter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
EAST END CLUB IN
 SESSION TONIGHT

The East End Community Club will hold it. regular Semi-monthly meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at 8 o'clock tonight at Grange hall, Mill Plain. Important business mat ters vii come up for discussion.
 An entertainment program will follow the business meeting. Feat ured will be an exhibition of magic by. Adam Jentoch, and the Radio Follies, starring the Three Swing sters and the Four Harlemites. The entertainment has been arranged by Edwin J. Bolger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Greenwich. tamford, Darien and Norwalk was recorded This de- cretse represents bettre than s7 per cent. Two fatalities had been recorded during the last six months of 1897 but no fatalities resulted during the same period last year.
 However, part of the decrease on the "post road" was offset by the 89 mishaps on the parkway. Adding these to the post riad total makes the net accident reduction 75 cases of IT per cent as compared with the 1897 experience on the shore road between Norwalk and Green Mich, inclusive. .4s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
GOVERNOR BALDWIN
 TO DISCUSS RELIEF

Decentralization of Relief" will be the subject of Governor Ray mond E. Baldwin's weekly radio talk to be heard tonight at SIS.
 sThe Connecticut chief executive will discuss a plan for the states part in the distribution of relief funds.
 The broadcast will be heard over Station WTIC, Hartford, and WICC, Bridgeport, and will run IS minutes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
MERRITs PARKWAY ACCIDENTS LOWER
89 Traffic Mishaps Regis tered From June to De-
 cember in l938

Eighty-nine traffic accidents were caused on the Merritt Park way during the period from June % to December 31, 1888, according to report prepared by the safety promotion section of the state de- partment of motor vehicles for Com missiner Michael A. Connor. The commissioner states that the con- plete report will be issued within few days.
 During the last six months of 1888, when the Merritt Parkway was open to passenger car triffic, a reduction of 166 traffic accidents on post road" or S through
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
ONE HIGHBALL
 DECLARED SAFE

Cincinnati, Ohio = (UP) r- You can drink one highball or one Mar. tini or about five glasses of beer on an empty stomach and still not bs drunk, according to a scientific report on the effect of alcohol upon motorists prepared by the Massachusetts Medical Society for City Manager c. O. Sherrill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
DOG TRAINING

The newest features in dog train ing, obedience and utility trials, are devealed in RWO Radios Almost a Gentleman" James Ellison, Helen Wood and thescreens new dog star Ace, play the leading roles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
AUSTRALIAN NAVY BANS GUM

Sydney, Australia-(UP) - Aus tralia has no intention of losing the next war merely because its "gobs" have been chewing gum. The men are not only forbidden to chew gum, but they are not allowed to bring it aboard, and the can- teens are not allowed to stock 1t.
 Broadcasting of birthday greetings has been banned in South Africa.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
NEWSPAPER AND COMMUNITY

A newspaper is a kind of eXcep-
tiOn to ordinary commercial enter
prises. 1t is from one point of view
a commercial affair. whose business
it is to make a living for its owners
and workers. Yet il is far more than
that. 1t is an instrumentality work
ing for development Of its home
town. for aiding all its interests, for
rejecting and expressing its life and
thought. 1t is the duty Of local
newspaper to do everything possible
for the development of its home
community.
To fulfil that duty it can't do the
whole thing alone. People should be
ready to help by giving information
about news events and sending in
news items. Also the newspaper
can't perform its function unless it
gets adequate support through sales,
and advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
BATHING COSTUMES

What would the Old-timers Of the
beginning of this century have said,
il they could have seen in advance
the scanty bathing costumes OF to
day? 1t would have seemed to their
modest minds that the world was
deieriorating.
The modern world is keen on ply
seal well being II says that men
;.nd women, boys and girls, should
have every opportunity for healthful
exercise. AS the bathing dress Of
ycars ago made swimming difficult.
ne old ideas were modified, and peo
pie now have a large degree of free
dom on the beach. Local custom will
Lave to decide how far they may 90
in such breyity of attire, but the
world will never go back to swim
ming clothes that interfere with the
irCe movement of the body.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
THE ROME.RERLIN aAXISn

The governments of Germany and
Italy have signed what seems like a
very tight agreement binding them
together in peace and war Each
country promises to support its
partner in this treaty in case of war,
without regard to how il starts. The
English and French may think the
axis is creaking. but from this dis
lance it seems well oiled.
The fact that it seems to operate
noiselessly does not prove it is going
10 carry its l2O.OOO.OOO people into
any war. The axis drivers will ask
how they are going to get their war
supplies past the great English and
French warships. Meanwhile the
American people ask how they shall
deal with such a strong combina-
tion. They will not be moved by any
threats. but they feel that if they
nand out justice to both axis and non
axis powers. no one is going out of
his way to fight a war across 5000
miles of ocean.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER

Ministers of the gospel tell us
that we need a new social order,
which shall do away with the wrongs
of our present state of society. One
of the bishops of the newly united
Methodist Church tells the people
that he will work for such an order
through Christian love. unity, and
peaceful democracy.
That is a program for which we
all can work, and it contrasts with
countries where they try to.produce
a new social order by red revolution,
or by the suppression of the free
press and individual freedom. II the
new social order is obtained, it will
come because people love their neigh
Dors and are willing to cooperate
with them in peaceful effort for the
common good. But there is a tough
old devil called Selfishness that has
TO be cast out first.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
PENALTY FOR DISORDER

People who maintain disorderly
looking dwellings and home grounds
40 not always realize that they in
jure both their neighbOrs and them
selves. If a house is allowed TO look
1un down and shabby. if its grounds
ale covered with litter and weeds.
ih" places next adjoining do not look
so well. If person was cOntemplat-
ing buying home. he might hesitate
about purchasing it if it was located
hear such a shabby looking place.
If the neighbors are thus injured,
the owner of the place suffers still
more If he needed TO sell his home,
eople would be reluctant TO buy a
PROPERTY that looked so neglected.
They would fear they would have not
merely the expense of cleaning up
trc disorderly place. but that the
house needed costly repairs. A few
hundred dollars spent in improving
euch place would add large sum
to its selling value.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
THE coon OLD SUMNER TINE

On the whole the world votes In
favor of summer. The people curse
its heat, they mop their fevered
brows and they long for cooler wea-
ther. Yet the popular song about
the good old Summer time" shows it
is the years most popular season.
Few people write poems about the
6 ood old winter time.
Two views of summer are expressed
in contrasting lines of poetry. Wrote
James Thomson, famous poet:
"All conquering heat. o intermit thy
wrath.
and on my throbbing temples. potent
thus,
Beam not so fierce. In vain l sigh,
And restless turn and look around for
night,
Night is far off. and hotter hours
approach"
The many people who sympathize
With those lines would perhaps fare
better if they would remove some
superf1uOus clothes, HE themselves to
the nearest swimming pool. take life
a little easier. and not fret about
politics. the state of business. or the
dangers of war.
The opposite view of summer is
suggested by the words of Henry
LongfellOw, who wrote: THE air of
summer was sweeter than wine"
Also by Susan Coolidge, who said:
"All green and fair the summer lies.
lust budded from the bud of spring"
Summer descends OH us with
scOrching heat, but it opens up ev-
ely door that has closed on us in
winter. 1t tells us to go out and live
close 10 nature. climb her noun
tains. bathe in her waters, roam thru
her fields, drink in the beauty of her
forests, dance to the song of her
birds, and see new sights of happi-
ness in the bloom of her flowers. A
few hours of heat are a small price
to pay for all the beauty and free
fnm the good old summer time
gives.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
WEATHER kICKERS

The American people are great
kickers on weather. In most lOcali-
ties they seem to think the power
that regulates the weather is SER
'ously TO blame for its many mis-
takes. There has been a slow spring
in a few sections this year. and peO-
pie are kicking because the sun is
50 tardy in his job of warming up
the earth is these localities.
In few days they will be kicking
again because he is doing too good
job. and scOrches the earth with his
burning rays.
There is no country that has a
more favorable climate than the
United States for human develop
ment. Chilly winters put energy into
peoples muscles. and warm summers
create a luxuriant crop growth. In
De elaware we have climate that can
fairly be called ideal. If people can
not be comfortable and physically
well here. they will probably find
things to kick on when they get TO
Leaven.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
Milford, Friday, June 80. 1899
BIRTHDAY OF A NATION

When the fathers declared indie
pendence of Great Britain on July 4,
1916, the chances for the little repub-
lie were not good. The idea of a
democratic republic had been enter
tanned previously by philosophers,
aud experiments in maintaining such
a system had been tried before, but
without permanent success.
When republics have failed. it is
because the people were not suffi-
GENTLY intelligent and conscientious
10 make that form of government
: success. The founders of our gov
ernment based their actions on a SUI
Dreme confidence in the sense and
honesty of the people. They assumed
that the majority of the people will
prefer honesty to dishonesty. and
that they will have enough practical
sense so they will not be fooled by
selfish and designing men.
The fact that our government has
lasted $50 years, while many repub-
lcan governments have perished,
proved that in the main the fathers
'yere right To maintain this govern
ment with its liberty and justice, the
American people have to develop
Iatriotic spirit that shall be equal
10 that manifested by the fathers.
The independence of the United
States is the principal cause of what,
over welfare we have in our land.
Under American freedom, the piOn-
ee,s were inspired to conquer the
Wild forest and the sandy deserts,
and to bring this great land into
productivity and to produce wealth to
an extent never equalled before. |
reedom and liberty have allowed us |
70 develop whatever talents We have, |
and have given us the finest system |
If schools the world ever saw. They |
lave promoted scientific development !
that has filled our homes with COM /
torts and lHxafies. The country may
well celebrate its birthday on July !
Fourth with enthusiasm, and resolve
that it will never abandon the prin-
ciples which our fathers handed
down to us.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
town SPIRIT

A great deal is said in schools and
colleges about school spirit. BY that
1t is meant that the students of that
school should be loyal to its interests.
that means working hard SO the
school shall have good scholastic
standing. 1t means backing up the
athletic teams. and giving aid to ey-
cry school enterprise.
That idea carries schools ahead
and makes them famous. Ii should
also be applied to towns. 1t should
persuade people to back up their To-
cal enterprises, spend their money at
home, give aid to movements planned
to develop the town. cooperate in the
effort to create more beautiful place
by improving their own dwellings
and home grounds. If town has
that loyal cooperation, it is bound
to go ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
WHY RADICALISM STARTS

What makes radicals? According
to one of the speakers before the XII
W3nis clubs international convention
at Boston the principal cause of radi-
calism in this country is the belief
prevailing among millions of workers
Il at the wage -earners get only a
small fraction of the products of
industry. This speaker said millions
Of people believe that employees re-
Ceive less than ~ per cent Of the in
come they actually produce, where
as actually. according To government
authorities. the employees receive
from 50 10 81 per cent of each dollar
of income produced by American
manufacturers.
A cloud of suspicion has grown up
in America between the sO-called
wage-earning class and the people
who employ them. There are host
Of people who believe their employers
are getting rich fast, while their
'gOrkers struggle with poverty.
Meanwhile the reports of the larger
corporations show that many of these
companies are making profits so low
nat it will hardly pay them to CON
tinue i'll business unless conditions
Improve.
Many small cOmnanies are doing
business on practically no profit at
all All the owners get out of them
is a very moderate or small amount
paid TO them as salaries, which is a
low wage for the amount of work
they do.
How can the cloud of suspicion be-
tween capital and labor in this coun-
try be removed? 1t is not a universal
cloud. Thousands of companies have
been able to persuade their employees
that they are being dealt with fairly !
and hOnorably.
Feelings of suspicion and distrust I
take deep roots, and il is hard to re-
move them. Where such situations
exist, frank talk between employer |
and employe should do good. They
v T0uld better sit down somewhere in
open discussion, and correct misun-
by showdown OF ac-
tual facts.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
PLANTING FISH

Fishermen will be pleased to learn
that more than 7,OOO,0OO trout and
salmon will be stocked in the lakes
and rivers of Vermont next year
That is doing well for state of small
population. If all the states did
equally well in proportion to their
numbers, a tremendous lot of finny
.reatures would soon wiggle their
tails.
The lakes and rivers of our conn
try are capable of producing a tre-
mendous crop of fish each year. Only
to produce maximum results, the peO-
pie will have to obey the fishing laws.
Fish can't thrive in localities where
men slip their lines into the water
IN seasons forbidden by law.