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La gaceta., 1939-04-15

Congratulamos a la logia Ia.
balleroS Leales de America POI
haber reiterado su apoyo a Ia
obra que Tampa realiza en- pro
de los espanoles echados de su
patria por ell fascismo interna-
cional.
Tenemos la certeza de que la
actitud de. la Logia sera imita-
da por las otras poderosas so
ciedades mutualistas y antlfas-
cistas de esta ciudad.
La gaceta., 1939-04-15

Petain esta disgustado-afir-
man en- Paris.
Quiere este decir que ell vie
10 mariscal eSta va convencido,
0 a punto de coHvencerse, de q.
fue una tremsnda equivocaci6n
traicionar a ESpaha para "apa-
cigrar" a dos "totalitarioS'.
Hitler Y Mussolini lie vienen
probando a Londres y Paris que
Franco eSta en- SIS manoS y De
elias no Sc escapara.
La gaceta., 1939-04-15

Dicese que Mussolini Armenia
"a sus tyopas en- Lydia y en- Es-
papa, a pesag de las promesas he
La gaceta., 1939-04-15

Deseamos un complete exito a
la Secci6n de Propaganda del
Centre Espanol, encargada de
socorrer a los socios sin traba-
jo o enfermos.
Dinero para una obra huma-
nitaria digna del Centre y de "a
colonia latina.
La gaceta., 1939-04-15

Miles de italianOs acaban de
desembarcar en- Cadiz y en- AL
geciras. Llegan con las arm&s
en- los ba1les y vestidos como
hombres civiles -.
A Inglaterra Y Francia Sc les
ha dicho que vienen a sustituir
q "veteranos' retirados en- los
Gltimos diaS -.
Chamberlain fingira creerlo.
GQue hara Daladier?
Evening star., 1939-01-28
REAL STATE.

mother or the family from which
you bought your house, you can
modernize it. The smaller strainer
costs $1.60; the larger $2.56-to your
plumber. Naturally you will need
to have your plumber install it for
you.
The new sink strainer for smaller
openings is of the basket type, with
q very large basket to gather up all
the pieces of bread and bits of foods
that tioat off your dishes when you
wash them. The basket has con-
venient handle on top of it, so you
can remove the whole basket with
out touching any of the waste mat
ter. BY a mere flip of the handle
the basket will act either as a drain
or stopper. One flip and the water
runs through, leaving the waste to
be emptied into your garbage can.
BY another flip it closes tightly, and
the water stays in your sink.
The larger strainer has a AZ di-
Evening star., 1939-01-28

erect one 2-story frame addition,
7131 Chestnut street NV, to cost
S700.
Estate of Victor J. Evans, 724
Ninth street NV, owners and
builders; to make repairs, 909-9l1
Grant place NV, to cost $500.
William C. Brooks, 1853 Fourteenth
street NV, owner and builder; w.
E. Dickinson, designer; to make
repairs, 3421 Fourteenth street NV,
to cost $500.
Arthur w. Holtsberg, Chicago. ILL.,,
owner; John A. Helsing, Woodward
Building, builder; to erect frame
garage, 5371 Twenty-eigh street
NV. to cost $3.50.
Samuel Perry, 4809 Sixteenth
street NV, owner and builder: to
erect three brick and concrete block
garages, 4911, 49l3 and 49l5 Forty
second street NV. to cost 5000.
Lulu E. Reeves, 324 Ninth street
NE, owner; R. c. Archer, jr, archi-
tect; M. Kapneck Construction Co.,
1856 Eleventh street NV. builders;
to erect one 2-story brick addition,
324 Ninth street NE, to cost $500.
George w. Huff. 1349 Otis place
NV, owner: A. B. c. Contracting
Co.. builders; to erect concrete and
cinder block garage, 1349 Otis place
NV, to cost S765.
Evening star., 1939-01-28
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ing OF aluminium paint. The sash and
frame are made of pine. All the
hardware Is rust resisting.
It you are old-fashioned about
basement windows, you probably
will not recognize these units for
what they are. For the frame and
sash are not heavy, bulky looking
things shrieking utility. They are
slender-Quite graceful as matter
OF fact. There are three panes of
glass IN each unit, with narrow
framing strips between them. And
as you open the window you discover
that ingenious hinges hold the sash
automatically in position for half or
full opening. It is therefore unnec-
essary to bother with hooks to hold
the sash up. The hinges are also
designed for complete removal of
the sash without a screWdriver.
For the Sink, Too.
While we are on this subject of
strainers, let's go inside the house
and consider another sort of strainer
the kind that goes in your kitchen
sink. There is nothing a woman
dislikes more than a sink that
doesn't empty quickly, easily and
completely when she has finished
doing the dinner dishes.
Sink strainers come in two sizes
one to fit old-fashioned sinks with
a 2 or 21a inch diameter opening
the other to fit modern sinks with
a 312 or 4 inch opening. So whether
your kitchen sink is 1899 model or
an inheritance from your grand
Evening star., 1939-01-28
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON,

Undoubtedly your house is well
equipped with an outside roof drain
age system-the cutters or caves
troughs and downspouts which in
sure the carrying away of water,
snow and ice without a waterfall
over the entrance of your home or
steady drip, drip in front of the
living-room window. But have you
thought about strainers for the out
side leaders?
II 1t is not too icy outside your
house these days, get out your lad
der and have look at the top of
the downspouts. A strong cast bronze
beehive strainer guard should be
fastened at the top of each one to
prevent leaves and twigs from COL
lecting and stopping up the spouts.
II this item was overlooked when
your house was built, or if the wire
strainer has worn out, consider get
ting some now. They come ready
made in various Sizes, 4, 5, 6, 7
and 8 inch diameters for round
spouts and also in 2 by 3 inch
and by 4 inch square strainers.
The ones we have in mind are of
solid bronze, practically unbreak-
able, we are informed, and designed
to last for the life of the house.
They cost from 81 to $3.50, depend
ing upon the size, and may be in
stalled easily, merely by pushing
the prongs at the bottom of the
wire basket into the top of the spout.
Prefabricated Basement Sash.
No part Of the house is neglected
these days. Even in the basement
new products for the improvement of
the neither regions are coming on the
market. Today we are interested
in basement window sash.
Those installed before the age of
attention to Easements were pretty
dlnky, unlmpressive things, giving so
little light that artificial illumination
was necessary even at noon. Not so
the new kind of basement sash. They
are designed with much larger glass
areas. while at the same time thev
afford even better protection against
cold. snow, sleet, rain and dust.
These new basement windows
come ready to install in the wall:
the frames are set up. the sash and
screen are fitted in the frame and
all the hardware is attached. Be-
sides, they are weather. stripped and
the sash. frame and screen are
treated to resist ternites. decay and
weather. then primed with a coat
Evening star., 1939-01-28
Windows Provoke Comment

In a recent exhibit of fall furnish
ings, the displays of complete win
dow treatments combining draperies,
curtains and colorfully painted We
nitian blinds, attracted great
amount of comment and attention
throughout the show. Daring de-
partures from precedents in color
and style characterized the displays
with such combinations as marine
blue and lemon yellow; turquoise
and cherry red attaining prominence
and favor.
Evening star., 1939-01-28

ameter flange with a az diameter
perforated strainer.
The small strainer- -and-stopper-
1n-one is made of brass finished
chrome plate. The large strainer is
OF chrome finish throughout, with
cast brass lock nut and chrome
coupling nut. Both are quickly and
easily installed.
Such a small item, to give so
much convenience to the task which,
perhaps more than any other, woni.
en- want to make simple and time.
saving!
Evening star., 1939-01-28

of French decoration is a prominent
part of a decorators exhibit house
in an Eastern city. The walls are
coated with ice-blue paint except for
the bed niche which is lined with
silver gray. The ceiling is also silver
gray and silver gray curtains hang
Evening star., 1939-01-28

from crystal rods. Two large French
chairs are upholstered with red and
ivory brocade. A chaise Tongue is
covered with antique blue satin-a
slipper chair, in Italian red The
floor covering is rug of brown and
ivory.
Evening star., 1939-01-28
Satisfactory Closets

Two feet is satisfactory depth
for clothes closets, according to
Federal Housing Administration off,
cials, who point out that there
should be minimum of one closet
for each bedroom. In large bed,
rooms two closets are desirable.
Evening star., 1939-01-28
In the Louis XIV Manner

A master bedroom done in the
Louis XIV manner but without the
recommendation characteristic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
Parkway 1949

The State Highway Department has been making plans for new vehicular bridge across the Thames River at New London. This structure has been as much in the news of recent years as has been the contemplated and proposed one linking Hartford and East Hartford, an additional one to the present bridge, no longer regarded as capable of caring for all traffic and being dangerously in peril when the Connecticut River is on ram- page, such as it was in 1888. One of the features of the departments plan is the proposal not to start the new bridge until 1949, ten years away. &
 We don't know how this idea struck the eastern part of the state, but we don't imagine that it made too good an impression. Eastern Connecticut, par ticularly New London and environs, wants a new bridge across the Thames right away and has been hopeful that the pres ent Legislature might take some steps towards authorization for construction. With the governors slashed budget star ing them in the face, though, we don't think the Legislature will take any hints for a new Thames River bridge.
 There is this much to be said for the proposed new bridge. The roads which it links are important ones and much traffic passes along the eastern shore and across the, Thames bridge. An alter nate route would be of immense value. But if the Highway Department finds that the present structure won't really outlive it's usefulness for ten more years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
In Today's s Mail

mitted ParnaSSus on Wheels, Inc. to discover that prisoners are in- terested in learning about their rights and responsibilities. However, one lecture a month in Jail, when possible, is not enough to impart the ideals of democratic Govern ment, and the intricacies of Ameri- can Law, and the glories of Religion. We plead that our coming Jail Farm Community shall provide for education in Religion, Government and Law, as part of the routine for our prisoners. We plead that our Women shall not be committed to Jail, but to Mantle State Farm, or to the House of the Good Shepherd where humanities and arts are re- garded. We plead for shorter sen- tences for State prisoners, and parole for Life prisoners.
 We believe that most American delinquentS and criminals are re- formable, but not mainly through fear; because both youth and age often fail to see beyond their im- mediate desire.
 We believe that our American Armies of delinquents and criminals can be lead to obey the trumpets of justice, and can march to drums of discipline, and can follow the standards of Religion and demo- cracy, to Victory over Crime.
 Genevieve Cowles
 Wethersfield, Conn. Executive Secretary of Parnassus on Wheels, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
Gas Tax Reform

Since the first gasoline ts7 was irn- posed in Oregon twenty years ago, state ard federal governments have collected $8, 8,093, ,398, ,000 from the motorists of this country. The original idea was to use the tax for construction and maintenance of highways. In recent years, with other public funds low or non-existent, gas taxes have often been diverted to other uses. Last year, for example, only little more than half of the $100, 1000 00O collected by New York State in motor fuel taxes was spent on it's highways. And the germ is spreading in Connecticut.
 The gas tax has been an easy one to collect, but there are serious students of tax problems who say now that the thing has been carried too far. The tax is out of proportion to the cost of the product on which it is imposed.
 Professor F. c. Crawford of Syracuse University, author of a book on motor fuel taxation, urges number of reforms in this connection. He proposes that the Federal Government surrender the gas tax entirely to the States, that county and city gas ts be abolished, that stronger laws be enacted to prevent tax evasion, that taxes on Diesel fuel be based on the use to which the Diesel engine is put, and that constitutional amendments be passed forbidding diversion of the gas tax to pay relief and other expenses. Ger tainly the situation needs study and clarification.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
Danger

A report for the first II months of last year shows that in Ohio alone there were 1,455 deaths from accidents in homes The deaths caused by motor vehicles in the same period were 1922. Obviously homes are more dangerous than highways. The highways have been made considerably safer lately through greater thoughtfulness and care in driving, better policing, better roads, car improvements, and so on. The traffic death curve has turned sharply down.
 That is a challenge to the people re- maining, as they quaintly believe, safely at home." They need to be as careful there as they are on public thoroughfares. It is a challenge also to architects and building contractors and the makers of household equipment, to make homes less perilous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

New London's city council has been warned that it can't do any developing down at Ocean Beach, with the idea of allowing bathing there this summer, unless it takes the precaution first to set up new sewage disposal plant. The state is going to ban all bathing at Ocean Beach this summer unless pollution. of waters in the area cease before that time. The present sewage system was badly damaged by the 1888 hurricane and will have to be repaired to prevent further pollution of the shore waters. Health Department officials are ready, the city has just been informed, to order the bath ing ban. All of which won't be music to the ears of the city fathers, but, never theless is good policy. After all it would waters are being contaminated. The same is true of all Connecticut shore areas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
Showing The Way

That powerful block of IT Democratic State Senators showed the state party yesterday that it's day in Connecticut's political sun is not done. For the first time at this session the Democrats were united in number and in opinion on several controversial matters which were of highest importance to the Republican Party. We don't heap praise on the Democrats for upsetting a planned Re- publican program or for going counter to what might have been considered pop ular belief. We praise them for single ness of purpose and for the courage to stand by their guns in the face of much criticism from high state officials.
 On three issues yesterday the Demo- crats arrayed a solid front for the occas- ion. On three occasions the little bloc of IT members had it's say in convincing fashion about the purpose behind the legislation at hand. True, party lines were crossed and recrossed in the actual voting, but when it came to the final test, the Democrats stood shoulder to shoulder; Republicans had to have the two votes of the Socialist members. And even on one occasion two members of the COP deserted the ranks to join Demo- crats. That was the vote on the dual job bill amendment.
 Democrats claimed that if this bill was to be effective and not just a shell it should be all-inclusive and they voted an amendment to this effect. This had been anticipated and the cry was up that this was simply means to kill off the entire measure. That's only one way o1 looking at it; the other look sees bill designed to cover just few instances of dual job-holding in state, county, and local governments To be effective and to approach actually the point that even Governor Raymond E. Baldwin con- templated last fall in his campaign speeches, it would need to include the jobs the Democrats forced into the bill yesterday.
 On the superior court judgeships we can understand the position of the Dem ocrats, but we are inclined to agree with Chief Justice William M. Maltbie that two more judges should be added to the bench. We doubt if he would allow him. self to be quoted merely for the sake of creating a couple of patronage posts for Republicans, as was charged in the Sem ate yesterday Still it is perfectly clear why the Democrats should assume such an attitude, for when Democrats sought to increase the superior court judgeships several years ago, they were accused of pldyllS PollIlCS W1Ill clae eouA Co. tnoAo was just as much need for them as there is now. But that argument again causes us to say that the Republicans were wrong then; the Democrats, per- haps, today.
 Even the Bridgeport refunding bond bill didn't escape without drawing Dem ocratic fire Nevertheless, they went along with those who did not believe the Legislature should penalize city by fore ing it's tax rate up three mills. The day was definitely the Democrats. It re- mained so even to the last minute, when Majority Leader Anthony Richs motion to adjourn failed and this privilege, cus- tomarily given the majority leader, was taken by Minority Leader Joseph Downes, Democrat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

Secretary Morgenthau brings his Great Dane puppy to the Treasury and lets him romp in the en- closure just outside his office Count de Saint-Quentin, popular French ambassador, keeps a bust of Lincoln in his office Tom DeWey's office is passing out word that various high-placed New Dealers, including Jim Far ley and Brien McMahon, enjoyed a ride on the McKesson- Robbins yacht of Coster-Musica Truth is that McMahon never was on the yacht, while Farley only took a trip on it to make a speech in Staten Island, and didn't know whose yacht he was on during that brief 20 minutes.
 TAFT'S RADIO DEBATE
 The series of weekly radio de- bates recently inaugurated be- tween famous Senator Bob Taft of Ohio and New Deal freshman Thomas Vernon Smith of Illinois. Is calculated to make or break Taft as a COP presidential white hope.
 Some GOPers already are bet ting it will be the latter. A storm of criticism has broken around the heads of COP National Chair man John Hamilton for approv- ing the debates, and of Taft him. Self TOT walking into this buzz saw.
 For Taft's radio opponent is
 the slickest article that has
 come down the congressional
 pike in long time. He has
 been in office less than two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

months, and already is being touted by colleagues as one of the most promising newcomers In the congressional crop.
 Smith is a former professor at Texas Christian and the Uni versity of Chicago, who won his spurs as a radio orator in 1884. when he broadcast his way into the Illinois state senate. His indi- vidualized microphone technique already has won him with mid- west audiences the title, Eddie Guest of Politics..
 This background, plus his nimble. intellect, makes Smith more than a match for the genial but methodicaI Taft. Network officials first tried to pit Bruce Barton of New York. no sl0uch himself as debater, against Smith, but Barton flat ly refused. Pick on someone Smiths size," he told the broad casters.
 Finally COP Chairman Hamil- ton and his press virtuoso, Frank lyn Waltman, decided to advise Taft to take a chance on the de- bate, both for trie publicity and expereince. When he agreed, his friends were furious.
 "f Taft is going to build up his presidential chances, he should be spending his time making a record in the Senate, not on the radio debating a New Dealer, they told Hamilton.
 Copyright, 1899, by United
 Features Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
EDUCATION IN OUR STATE PRISONS NEEDED MORE
 THAN EVER

Feb. 27, 1889. Editor Waterbury Democrat:
 No flying flags lead our Defeatist Armies; only the sentence - walls, bars! No "arins" for them, only "hands" to be exploited. No trium- phal march; their feet were com- manded to do time;" their minds, not to think, but to fear. Their or ders were toll and stag nation: their discipline, the solitary cell-silence, darkness: their objective, punish ment-their desire--escape.
 But early in the Century there was a change. By 1880 several Stat es had begun to shorten the sen- tences for crime, because it appear ed that stone and steel of maximum security, and ever lengthening sen- tences, had produced immense ex- penSe in boarding criminals, with out victory over crime, and America had become the most criminal of nations, partly from ner excessive reliance on punishment machines.
 Strange! that the fallacy of Force as a major corrective, should have deluded the New England Descend ants of Pilgrim Fathers, Refugees from Holland, where Force had vainly fought against freedom of thought and where William the Silent had declared: Force does not impress Conscience"
 Conscience is implied by the De- claration of Independence = That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
 Our Constitution of Connecticut maintains: "That every citizen may freely speak, write or publish his sentiments on all subjects being responsible for the abuse of that liberty"
 Has our Penal System and our County Jail System, in particular, taught our prisoners what their re- responsibilities are, in order to pre- serve their inalienabie rights? Has it taught them to see why they have lost their rights because of abuse and how to recover rights once lost? No. our old Penology was not pre- eminent in their teachings and our County Jail System insisted that its sentences were too short to teach their prisoners anything.
 Yet our kindly Jailors have per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

Credit another assist to the eco. We have just read that boys from one of the several camps left in this state have been instrumental in cleaning up 43 miles of roadside This is a tough job, for it in- wolves hard work for long period of time before any good results can be seen. But when the job is done you have road side that reveals all the beauties of nature without the tangled vegetation that re- suits from no care over long periods of time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

Give the Nazis the benefit of the doubt in the Baron Won Cramm case and be- lieve that perhaps after all they didn't intend to prevent the former interna- tional tennis star from further compe- tition on the courts. The story was spread soon after Won Cramm's release from a prison camp that his tennis playing days were over. Now comes the announcement that he can resume his part in this sport. He is to leave for eign tennis club he will unlimber the shots that made him internationally famous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
Selected Poem
INDEPENDENCE

(Jane Sayre in the New York Sun) She always comes to me when she is blue And fretful over problems of the teens To ask me what think she ought to do And if so to suggest the ways and means. listen quietly and ponder well,
 And often pray a little to be shown The way to solve her trouble and dispel
 The sense of fear that comes to girls half-grown. When emptied of her grief she lends an ear While give such advice at my command. She valves the same aside with Mother, dear am afraid you do not understand" But, once convinced her judgment will suface She gives me back-as hers-my own advice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
Current Comment

No guarantee goes with marriage licenses.-City Clerk Coffey of Buff falo, N. Y., when 8 man. married in 1884, demanded the return of g marriage license fee plus A interest since his wife obtained divorce.
 Garner simply Is Carmel. Elliott Roosevelt, discussing vice-president Gamers chances of being elected president, in 8 broadcast over Roose- velt's Texas radio station.
 
 I just came to see the show Miss Blanche Beebe of Oneonta, N. Y., refusing to accept $187.50 she won in a wheel lottery at 8 theater.