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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
Legislatiue
 Notes

State Capitol, Hartford, March 13 Fairfield county legislators will caucus Thursday afternoon, with the nomination of county commits SiOners as the principal business. Senator John H. Thornhill, of Brookfield, seeking reappointment, has come into disfavor with his fellow-Republicans because he voted with the Democrats to extend the dual job bill, and is not expected to be renamed.
 The Waterbury courthouse prob lem will be taken up by New Haven county legislators at 2 meeting : March 28. A committee inspected the courthouse Saturday, and will report on whether or not the erec- ton of new wing on the building should be undertaken.
 Many Waterburians will be at the Capitol the 22d for the hearings on the liquor bills. Several are spon- sored by Senator George T. Culhane.
 The legislature is making fair progress, said Senator Joseph Downes, of Norwich, Democratic majority leader in the upper house, in radio talk Saturday night.
 The Bridgeport board of educa- tion bill, opposed strongly by teach- ers' groups, is still in the hands of the cities and boroughs committee.
 Two amendments to the charter of the Litchfleld Electric Light & Power Co. were approved by the House yesterday. One allows the firm to have funded indebted! ness of $1,000,000, while the other approves a merger with the Ridge field Electric Light & Power co. and Washington Light & Power Go.
 Nine proposed amendments to the unemployment compensation act were killed in the House yes- terday.
 Engineers are now studying the hall of the House, prior to installa- ton of an simplifying system. Members have complained that it IS almost impossible to hear speak CTS during the sessions. An appro- priation for an simplifying system was set up several years ago but never used. Rep. Martin Whalen of WOlcott is on the capitol grounds and furniture committee. which will decide on the type of installation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
REV. T. C. BOBILIN
 NEW BRITAIN GUEST

Rev. Theodore c. Bobilin, pastor of the First Methodist church and chairman of the Evangelistic Com mittee of the New York East An- nual Conference, spoke last even- ing at the Lenten services in the Trinity Methodist church in New Britain. His topic was Vital Reli- zion for this Crisis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
AMATEUR GOLFERS WARNED

London -- (UP)-Amateur golf CTS who accept gifts from manufac- turers of golf equipment will be barred from the amateur champion ship. This is the decision that has been made by the Royal and An- cient Club, governing body of the game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Patrolman John "Jingles" Don- ahue. Waterbury's poet traffic off, cer, will be heard in 8 radio talk on traffic safety from station WATR at 4:25 this afternoon. His topic is to be "Booze-the 100 Proof Traffic Hazard"
 The program Is one of the reg ular Monday radio presentations, sponsored jointly by Motor .ve- hicles Commissioner Michael A. COnnOr and the Waterbury Com- mittee on street and highway safety.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
SCHOOLS ENJOY
 SESSIONS HERE
No Vacation Today Despite StOrm-Week=endF Free
 of Auto Accidents
BEACON FALLS Correspondent Wm. J. Baxter
 Phone Naugatuck 3945

Beacon Falls, March 13-Despite the heavy snowfall which blanketed the town with nine inches of snow over the weekend, business was continuing as usual today. School sessions were held and there was no disruption of bus schedules here.
 State police said no accidents were reported here over the week end no arrests were made locally.
 Youngsters were enjoying sliding yesterday and today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
Attend Party

MT. and Mrs. Charles Mitchell of Highland avenue went to New York city Saturday and attended 8 bon voyage party for Mrs. Mitchell's sis ter, who left on cruise of the Med- iterranean,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Pawnshops of Japan are to be reformed by the government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Food costs in England are ten per cent less than a year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
Rev. Lewis Speaks

Rev. Arthur F. Lewis, rector of St. Michael's Episcopal church of Naug- atuck, spoke last night at a Lenten service in the United church here. Girl Scout Sunday was observed in the church yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Many Waterburians will be at the Capitol the 22d for the hearings on the liquor bills. Several are spon- Sored by Senator George T. Culhane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Nine proposed amendments to the unemployment compensation act were killed in the House yes- terday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

The legislature is making fair progress, said Senator Joseph Downes, of Norwich, Democratic majority leader in the upper house, in g radio talk Saturday night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

The Bridgeport board of educa- tion bill, opposed strongly by teach- ers' groups, is still in the hands of the cities and boroughs committee
Evening star., 1939-09-17
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
MAKE Your PICTURES Move
by Fulton Williams

ciples for yourself by taking different
angles through your finder. Indeed, if
you get your camera out right now
and aim it across the room, you'll see
the point. Hold it first so that more
ceiling than floor shows in the finder.
The room looks top-heavy. Now hold
it so that more floor than ceiling shows.
Doesn't that look as if the walls we're
probably going to stay up little
longer?
Proper spacing is likewise an ex-
pedient used to enhance the interest
of a given scene. Too many snap
shooters seem to be hipped on the idea
of getting everything in balance. In
landscape they contrive to get the
skyline or horizon smack in the mid
die; in shot of country road they
stand in the middle of the road; for
shot of ripping brook they must get
out on a rock in dead center. The
results are as uninteresting and mo-
notonous as it is humanity possible to
make them.
There's rarely any good reason for
letting a line cut your picture exactly
in half either from top to bottom or
from side to side. As rule the horizon
in a landscape or sea vista should come
about one third to two-ffths of the
distance from either the top or bottom
margin. And when you shoot at that
winding road or brook, get at one side
so the dominating line can come in
from the lower left of your picture
area and disappear at the upper
right, or vice versa. That will give you
optical balance" instead of cold, un-
interesting mechanical balance and
will enhance the feeling of the scene.
which made you want to take the pic
ture in the first place.
All of us have taken pictures that
are technically good but which fail to
satisfy us for some reason we can't
just put our finger on. Nine times out
of ten you begin to get somewhere
with pictures as soon as you start play
ing with the spacing. Which is good
thing to think of before you send your
best prints in to be enlarged.
Evening star., 1939-09-17

NY amateur snapshooter can
A avoid one of the most COM
4 d mon faults of photography -
bad spacing. A little simple fore
thought is the medicine.
A book could be written on this
phase of composition alone, but suf-
fee it to say here that you can make
or break picture possibilities by the
manner in which you handle the
spaces. For example, have before me
, a picture of sea gull in fight, moving
from right to left If frame this pic
ture so the gull is exactly in the center,
it looks just like a stuffed bird sus-
pended in mid-air. But if l slide the
frame so the bird is to the right of the
center i i.e., with substantially more
space in front of him than behind him
- it Immediately becomes live bird
going some place.
Why? Because now the eye senses
that the subject has ample space
ahead of it in which to move This is
purely an optical or psychological re-
action, OF course; you don't reason it
out, you feel it. But it's the things you
feel that invariably make picture
good or bad.
You can experiment with spacing
easily enough. Take, for instance, a
picture of a diver just coming off a
high springboard in jackknife. Crowd
the margin up close until the figure
dominates all the space and you have
nothing but picture of a man bent
double. Move the margin away so
that he has more space below him
than above him, as in the picture at
the right, and you can almost see that
figure moving through the air
Spacing is vital for other reasons
than to suggest movement, of course.
Take that snap of your wife leaning
over to straighten little Susan's bon
net: move the top margin down until
it almost touches her head and you
have a picture of a woman crammed
into space uncomfortably small for
her. Move the margin away until your
eye suggests that she has space enough
in which to stand erect if she wants to
Evening star., 1939-09-17

He's young, handsome, rich. He,
himself, doesn't know why he isn't
popular. Halitosis (bad BREATH, the
social fault no one will excuse, is
the reason and the major cause ac-
cording to some authorities is food
fermentation in the mouth, readily
corrected by Listerine Antiseptic.
The pitiable thing about people
who are guilty of this offensive
condition is that they are usually
not aware of it themselves. Are
you, for instance, certain of your
Evening star., 1939-09-17
Ewing Coiiowoy

Ewing Galloway
and now you have picture of
woman leaning over voluntarily rather
than one who has some curious
deformity.
In like fashion the alert photog
rapher juggles his spaces in lining
up his picture so as to suggest distance
or proximity, height, stability or what
not
You can demonstrate these prin-
Evening star., 1939-09-17
breath, right now?

breath, right now?
Yet, it is 50 easy to take precau-
tions. 1t is pleasant and agreeable
to gargle with Listerine Antiseptic
mouth fermentation is checked
quickly and efficiently, and its
odors are dispelled.
Get the Listerine Antiseptic'
habit. Use Listerine Antiseptic
morning and night, and before
every important business and so
cial engagement. Lambert Phar-I
macal Company, St. Louis, Mo.
Evening star., 1939-09-17
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Evening star., 1939-09-17
"Yes!" soy New York career
girls who got as much as
351 hours Of wear from
stockings washed night,
with Ivory Flakes

And they certainly lead active lives! Two have homl
and husbands to look after. One is the mother of II
children . At work they do lot of dashing around /
the busiest city in the world And that's plenty hard
stockings. So it lot to them-and should to va
toto find out how fattering sheer silk stockings
give you longer wear.
you CAN ACTUALLY SAVE ON STOCKINGS ~
I. Buying good stockings, like these Hnmmi
Birds, t51OX.
z. Washing them erery night with Irory Flax
eeMsMsER. DON'T SAVE W soMED STOCKINGS to wash
at once 1t pays sweet dividends in longer wear-to
a moment each night before you 60 to bed and wash
stockings with Ivory Flakes. It's healthy habit
your stockings.
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this helpful habit tonight.
Evening star., 1939-09-17
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Evening star., 1939-09-17
40 HOURS

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washed every ",s for ,29
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Job. through AosiI%r,~' sn;isren,
caring for the CUM"
Evening star., 1939-09-16
A Safety Aid

The report of the corporation
counsel for the last fiscal year sug-
gests that many citizens are CO.
operating actively in the campaign
to curtail the number of accidents
on the streets of Washington.
During the last year the courts had
fewer cases by more than one-fifth
as compared with the previous
tWelvemonth. Fines imposed also
declined, but not quite as much.
The decrease in the total number
of cases brought into court does not
indicate any lessening of activity on
the part of the police, since greater
attention than ever before was paid
to safety measures during the latter
half of the fiscal year. It may indi-
cate more cooperative attitude on
the part of many motorists. A de-
cline in the number of speeding cases
naturally goes hand in hand with
the remarkable drop in the number
of collision charges and their COM
panion offense, hit and run.
The darkest part of the report
from the safety viewpoint is the in
crease of drunken driving. The total
Evening star., 1939-09-16
Gambling Cleanup

The successful series of gambling
raids in the District yesterday DEM
onstrates the Importance Of care
full planning and coordination be-
tween the Police Department and the
United States attorneys office, and
indicates that the gambling evil
can be dealt with effectively.
Too often in the past extensive
gambling raids have failed to achieve
substantial results. In many cases
raiding parties descended on sus-
pected establishments, only to find
them locked or deserted, the law
violators having been tipped off"
that the police were coming. In
some cases the "tip-off" undoubtedly
came from some one connected with
the law enforcement agencies, but
more often it was the result of the
fact that the raiders operated openly
In official cars, enabling word to be
passed quickly throughout the gam
bling fraternity that a general raid
was under way.
These difficulties were overcome
yesterday by using taxicabs to trans
port the raiding parties after all
preliminary arrangements had been
made by squad of selected police
officers. Under the gambling law
sponsored by The Star and adopted
In 1888, raiding warrants may be is
sued directly to police officers. In
the past they could be issued only
to deputy marshals. Under the new
practice, used for the first time
yesterday, it was possible to assign
rookie" policemen to gambling work
with the knowledge that they would
be able to see the investigation
through to the end. These men,
whose Identities were unknown to
the underworld, were able to win
the confidence of the gamblers and
to gather the information which
must be assembled before any raid
can be carried out.
1t is regrettable that yesterdays
activities did not result in the ap-
prehension of any of the higher
ups" OF the gambling fraternity. But
the results that were achieved show
that Washington need not be happy
hunting ground for gamblers of any
description. Their peculiarly vicious
form OF racket can be effectively
curbed, if not stamped out, provided
the law enforcement agencies con-
tlnue to operate against it with the
determination and the skill reflected
by yesterdays cleanup.
Evening star., 1939-09-16

national interests, perhaps we would feel
freer to look at the "cash and carry
phase in a better light. But Americans
have been fooled by foreign propagandas
so many times in the past that they
hesitate to allow the lifting of the pres
ent embargo phase of the neutrality law
for fear that in the attempt to make it
easier for American and British trade
interests to benefit from the sales of
arms equipment to the countries de-
Tending the status quo something might
go wrong and thus pave the way for
another American plan to preserve So
called democracy throughout the world
Americans contesting the right to lift
the embargo believe that the present
neutrality law will prevent the sacrifice
of American lives and wealth and the
destruction of American democracy in q
terrific depression following the next
world war. +. F.
Sept. 13.
Evening star., 1939-09-16
Urges Repeal Of
Arms Embargo.
To the Editor of The Star:

~ INC 1uitoi "a 4Lc oldi.
In regard to the neutrality law, urge
that the arms and munitions embargo
provisions be repealed and that its CASH
and-carry provisions be re-enacted, en-
abling Americans to sell to anybody any
thing permissible according to interna-
tional law. No nation could criticize that
action.
The present situation greatly aids Ger
many, situation revolving to any Amer
lean and against all American interests
which would be much better off under
balance of power in Europe than with it
under German control
The latter is situation fraught with
great danger to the United States and
the Western Hemisphere, danger too
remote in time, however, to justify aban-
doning strict neutrality or going to war.
Whatever the outcome of this war, 1t
will be long before Germany can recover
from it and organize to take action
against our interests. Meanwhile, much
may happen and when our safety and
interests are directly threatened, Will bQ
early enough to resort to war.
In amending the Neutrality Act the
danger of our ill-advised and precipitate
entry into war should be thoroughly
guarded against.
To that end no discretion not inherent
Evening star., 1939-09-16
Sees America Endangered
BY Internal Enemies.
To the Editor of The Sta


desire to congratulate The Star upon
its fine article on page of issue of Sep
tember 3, Full Regeneration of U. S.
Population Due If War Comes This
means a general dictatorship, from
which there can, of course, be no return
without the benevolent consent of those
exercising the dictatorial power. Is the
way to crush relationships the estab-
lishment of another one here? Surely
not. The Supreme Court we'll stated in
EX Parte Milligan. 4 Wall decided in
1866, that "a country, preserved at the
sacrifice of all the cardinal principles of
liberty, is not worth the cost of preserva-
ton.
With constitutional liberty gone for
what would our youth be sent forth to
slaughter? What mother would sacrifice
her son in behalf of either Communist
or anti-Communist dictatorship or any
other dictatorship?
The "lift-the-embargo" issue should
not be beclouded. BY an act of 1887, We
adopted and proclaimed to the world a
firm national policy against supplying
arms and munitions to nations at war
with each other; in other words, to keep
altogether out of the blood business. Con-
gress, which passed such act by an almost
unanimous vote, is now asked by the
same President who approved and
signed such act, to reverse our national
policy in order to benefit one side to a
pending European war. Could such re-
versal possibly be construed as other
than hostile act deliberately intended?
Manifestly not. No sane mind can be-
lieve that such hostile act would do other
than embroil us in war. Can peace be
preserved by destroying it?
Let us not camouf1age, as peace steps,
steps which will inevitably lead to war
and which, consequently, must be treated
as so intended The American people
should not be again "tricked" into war
Every one knows that the American
people do not want war. They are well
able to defend our Republic against any
invader from without They are not able,
however, to guide or control the affairs
of Europe, and do not want to try to do
so. The only danger is from the enemy
within the gate, which seeks to steal our
Republic from us through trickery and
hypocrisy. GEO. E. SULLIVAN.
September Is.
Evening star., 1939-09-16
Park Expansion

Few functions of the city have a
greater bearing on the general well
fare than the development of the
system of parks. 1t is of special
interest, therefore, to observe the
progress made by the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion in the acquisition Of additional
land for recreational purposes.
The latest development is the pur-
chase of fifty-seven acres which
virtually completes the Palisades
park along the heights above the
upper reaches of the Potomac, the
new land connecting it with the
Glover -Archbold park. Condemna-
ton of forty acres for the Oxon Run
development not only opens up addi-
tional play space, but provides for
a large saving in the new sewer
system which now is under construc-
tion in that area. Twelve acres more
are to be acquired to rectify the
boundaries of the Anacostia parkway,
six acres where Battery Ricketts, of
Civil War days formed part of the
citys ring of Notifications are to be
bought and additional purchases for
the memorial parkway in Arlington
and Montgomery counties are about
to be completed.
These purchases represent ONLY one
of the functions of the commissions
work. They demonstrate the value of
foresight and intelligent planning
which has given Washington a mag
nificent system of parks. That sys-
tenn still is far from completion, but
its rate of progress since 1880 is a
tribute to Congress, the planning
commission and the city at large.
Evening star., 1939-09-16
THIS AND THAT
By Charles e. TrdceDeH.

Probably his folks are farmers, and he
has the need for handling farm tools in
his very blood and bone.
Farmers sons become everything, from
college professors to scientists, but they
always like to mill and null around in
their own back yards. Fortunately for
them, they have the backbone and tough
kneecaps to keep at it for as long as the
task in hand demands, and just how long
this can be will be known to all who may
have tried to cultivate even the smallest
patch.
It never ceases to be amazing to some,
just how much time you can put into
a yard without making it visible.
Consider the wild flowers, including the
ferns. These delicate little plants might
make a yard unique, yet the chances
are that the casual observer would totally
overlook them.
Different types of soil might be re-
quired, perhaps, for two plants within a
few feet Of each other, demanding real
thought and money and time, and yet
to visitor not bit of all this would
show.
Wherefore, the basic garden salts
faction, after all, comes not in showing
off to friends, though that is perfectly
natural, but rather in wedding out of the
mind any desire for the plaudits of
others.
Once this wholesome idea is watered
and given the sunshine of intelligence
the home garden becomes far happier
and healthier place than it has ever been
before. And We suspect that far more
gardeners have achieved this state of
mind than realize it, and have so long
cashed in on the fruits of it that they
are totally unaware that they are differ
ent. Which is all to the good.
The static garden, we call it. although,
of course, no garden can really be still
There is always growth and decay, and
new things and old things, side by side
But the stationary garden is achieved
at this time of year, in very real sense
especially if the owner has become rather
sophisticated about his garden, and has
planted evergreens and perennials and
shrubs which will more or less take care
of themselves.
His basic garden is the green yard. He
has come to see that there is no finer
color, after all, than green.
He tries to blend different green's,
backgrounded with the green of his
grass, and offset by the leaves of trees
This is about as near foolproof gar
den as there is, and in some ways as
beautiful a one as there is, and the most
tisfactory-especially after the initial
fun and fever of the home gardening
hobby has worn off