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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-12-16
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

High on Bethehem,s quiet hills
strange and heavenly music thrills.
II startled shepherds in their sleep
While vigil DER their focks they keep.
It came through mountain mist and breeze
And fitted through the snow-clad trees.
"Peace on EARTH" the Angels sang
AL the courts OF heaven then rang
For Christ the Prince OF Peace was born
On that glorious Christmas MORN
message comes to us today,
Though Bethlehem hills far away.
It comes TO all-both far and near
Who help 10 spread the Christmas cheer
Here's His message
"Bon anew and dwelling In the heart Of you"
MARY Elizabeth Lynagh. r. N, Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-12-16

washington, D. O., Dec ia-Keith
Morgan cleft, National Chairman
Of the Committee for the 0ele-
hration Of the President's Birth
day, hands Commissioner George
4. Allen, Of the District Of Column
hia, his Certificate Of Authority
as Chairman Of the March Of
Dimes Committee for the Eight
Infantile Paralysis" campaign.
Commissioner Allen will direct
distribution OF March Of Dimes"
birthday cards In ell the states
which will be filled with dimes
and sent to President Roosevelt at
the White House.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-12-16
Good Evening.

sY THE MAN IN THE TOWER.

Sp DON'T your
Sanity CLAUS lot Is awful hard,
He has To be ever on his guard,
Not To disappoint single child,
(Wonder II he ever gets sort OF riled).
He's on duty all day long,
HIS lungs must be very strong,
How he chuckles-his voice Is deep,
CWonder when he gets time To Sleep.
Sanity talks to all the girls and boys,
He says he'll bring them just those toys
That they want--he'S got 1t all fxed,
wonder II the old boy ever gets Mixed
Sanity Claus Is jolly old fellow,
You never hear him shout or below,
Red cheeks, whiSkers his eyes are blue,
(Of course believe In him, don't your.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-12-16

There still Is a Santa Claus and always will be In
the minds Of the younger generation. That's why
Tall Tower Topics each year enters whole-heartedy
into the spirit OF the occasion by soliciting used toys
to be distributed In those homes where the holiday
spirit might not glow brightly were II not for the
kindly and neighborly spirit Of brotherly love which
OverfiOws at this season.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-12-16
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN
AZ C0olge Street

Rev. John N. O. Mohrmann. pas
tor.
Tomorrow morning at 0 o'clock
Sunday school will be held followed
at l0:l5 by English services.
The order Of worship viii be as
follows:
Organ Prelude by Miss Emily Wall
Opening Hymn
Gloria In Excelsis--
Epistle Lesson-lst Cor. 4, LIS
Hymn
Gospel Lesson-Matthew II, 2-i0-
Recitiug Of the Apostles Greed
Hymn
Third Advent Sermon by the pastor
Offertory-
German services will be conducted
ct II tomorrow morning.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-12-16
FIRST CHURCH
Order OF the Morning Service
December II, 1899


II o'clock
Prelude prelude In Z Major -.
,.,,...,..,,,...,. Saint-Saens
Professional - Zion, the marvel
Gus story be telling
Sentences
invocation and The Lords Pray.
Err
Versicles-
Responsive Reading
Gloria Patri-
Childrens Sermon
DR.. Gregg
Offering with Anthem - Prepare
ye The Way OF The Lord -,
.,,,,,,.,,.,,,,,.. Garrett
Doxology-
Scripture Lesson = Job 81: Go:
Pphesians 8: i4-2i-
Anthem-Spring In The Desert ;.
...,,,.,,..,....., JENNINGS
Prayer
Hymn-o Thou Great Friend To
All The Sons OF Men
Sermon-The Upwardness OF HUI
man Hearts
DR., Gregg
Prayer
Benediction-
Recessional-It Came Upon The
Midnight Clear
Postlude-Triumphal March 80:
Notices for the Day
500 p. NAT the meeting Of the
Chrismon Society the discussion
on Buddhism will be continued
led by Mr.. Phillips. Charles
dreeniaw will have the worship
service.
7:so D, m.-Meeting Of the Gregg
Fellowship at which Mr.. Phil
lips will lead discussion on
The Basic Principle Of Life,
Love.
Notices FOR the Week
Monday
7:30 D. m.-Christmas Party for
the Church School Depart
ments, Junior to Senior and
adults OF the First Church
Parish interested will be held
In the Church Parlor. The Or
chestra OF the italian Con.
gregational church will play
FOR the 35th consecutive year
under the leadership OF Rev,
Pasquale Codella. Carols will
be sung and then the Junior
Department will give o short
play In the Scout House 1.-THE
Least OF These. Santa Claus
will be there to receive gifts
for the baskets,
Tuesday
400 p. m-Junior Choir Rehear.
sal for the Pageant.
$500 o. m.-Twenty-Up Club will
hold It's Christmas Party.
Wednesday,
4:00-6:00 D. m.-The Kindergar.
ten and Primary Departments
will have their Christmas
Party. There will be O drama
tization Of the Christmas
Party. There will be O drama.
tization Of the Christmas
Story and also Santa Claus.
Thursday
TOO p. m.-Dress Rehearsal for
all taking part In the Christ
mas Pageant.
Friday
TOO D. m. - Members Of the
Twenty-Up Club will assist In
the decorating Of the church
under the craftsmanship Of
Miss Edith M. Sellew.
7:30 p. m.-Boy Scouts, Troop, No.
20.
December a.
$3.50 p. m.-The Pageant OF the
Nativity at the First Church.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
LIFE is EARNEST =
BUT WORRY'S NOT ITS GOAL

The more some people talk about what
human life and the human mind should
be, the more it appears that hfe's
pretty good thing Just as it is, and the
human mind-with notable personal eX-
ceptions-iS a fair piece of machinery
that will keep on getting better as long
as nature wants TO improve it.
Dr. Edward Adam Strecker, professor
of psychiatry at the University of Pen
sylvania, undoubtedly is a good profess
sor of psychiatry, which is the study
and cure of mental diseases, but the
professor lays himself wide open to the
charge that he is going too far afield
when he declares, as he did at national
convention the other day, that "the
temptation to utilize the escape tech
nique of the crowd-mind is becoming
stronger and stronger. There is some
danger of mammoth orgy of indulging
ourselves in kind of temporary insanity
by all going crazy together"
startling observation-until you
find out that the professor thinks that
comic strips, moving pictures, radio pro-
grams, novels and other similar things
are reality evading instruments de-
signed to supply maximum of unreal
ity for the expenditure of a minimum of
intelligence
The speaker didn't say so, but one
naturally gains the impression that he
would advise the world to forsake ro-
nance, refuse imagination, abandon
light entertainment, and go in entirely
for serious thinking about serious prob
lens.
Talk about all going crazy together
He has the ideal formula.
The worst of if all is that the profess
sor blames all this escape technique"
on modern times. He's forgotten about
the earlier panderers to mass degen-
eracy, such as William Shakespeare and
Edgar Allen Poe and Hans Christian
Andersen, whose best efforts were direct
ed with foul intention to Quoting the
professor) 'capitaliZe peoples desire to
escape from a cruel environment into
fansasy world of the bizarre and un-
natural"
At the peril of being labeled bit in
sane, We'll side against Professor Streck
er and with the fantastic Shakespeare,
who believes:
There are more things in heaven and
earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28

rrippled with rheumatism, had SUI
fered unnappineSs that had left her
cmbittered and sarcastic. In addl-
tion. she was foolish enough to re-
mark that she would rather teach
bows than girls because boys are
brighter
Naturally that remark made the
Girls self conscious when it came
to working out problems before the
BOYS Gretchen says that if q boy
stood near while she was at the
blackboard. she couldn't solve a
problem.
Then. one day this stupid teach
er shrieked before the entire class
at Gretchen: You idiot! You
idiot
There are two reactions to an
insult: one is 10 knock the in
sulter down. The other is to be
crushed Gretchen's spirit was
broken. her confidence gone.
GretchenS mother. boiling with
anger. demanded that the teach
er apologize. She did. But no apol-
ogy could undo the harm she had
done.
After that, Gretchen felt it use
less to try to learn. Il can't, l hate
it. am stupied," she would tell
herself She was even afraid TO
play a game OF criDbage
How did Gretchen conquer this
feeling of mteriority and develop
self-confidence? BY forcing her
self to tackle new jobs, by doing
things she was afraid to do, by
getting a record of successful eX-
perience behind her. For exam
pie, she engaged il amateur dram
atics She found she could win the
applause of an audience, what a
LIT that gave her. She got job
on a newspaper; she discovered she
could mold down a job as reporter.
Another boost for her courage; may
be she wasn't SO stupid after all
She asked permission of the tele-
phone operator to let her try her
hand at the switchboard. To her
surprise and delight. she found that
she could learn in ten minutes
something that other girls often re-
CURED ten weeks to learn. Next
she bought a cribbage board and
discovered that this hitherto dread
ed game wasn't SO difficult to learn
She had begun to realize that moth
ing is as hard to learn as We ina
CINE. if we really make up our
minds that we want to learn it, and
take it step by step
The last vestige of her mathe-
mates complex disappeared; hel
fear conquered, the scathing re-
mark of that stupid teacher was
finally wiped off her consciousness
Wiped off? Well, not entirely fol
Gretchen5 suffering has given hel
sympathy and understanding which
will help her to go much further
in the world than she otherwise
would have gone.
Have you suffered from an ex-
perience like Gretchen Weber's?
Have you conquered your unhap-
piness? If so, write and tell me
about it and together let's try tc
help others through your suffering
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
Railroads Favor
REGULATION
BY CHARLES p. STEWART

Water carriers of interstate
freight between this country'S two
oceans, the Canada line and the RIO
Grande or the Gulf OF Mexico are
not one bit enthusiastic over the
scheme to put regulation oil all our
forms of transportation under the
Jurisdiction of a single federal BODY
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission or some similar group, to
be created in place of the commits
sion. Neither do the auto-trucK
operators like the idea-not unless
they're subsidiaries of some one oil
cur big railroad systems. In TACT,
these independents are violently op-
posed to the whole notion. The rail-
roads, however, warmly favor 1t. IL
looks good likewise to holders OF
railroad securities - notably our
great insurance concerns. They're
a potent influence, too, with rail in
vestmentS running away up into the
billions. And lock at the number OF
their policy holders Incidentally
the general public is vitality con-
cerned, since it ultimately pays the
bill for freight carriage-passenger
fares also. l don't think the general
public understands the subject very
well. thoughts extremely COM
| plicated.
Chairman Burton K. Wheeler'S
senate committee on interstate COM
merce, as we know has been investl-
eating the situation for some time.
OF late it's been listening to expert
Witnesses. Said witnesses disagree
vehemently accordingly as they
are. on the one hand railroad own
ers or creditors; on the other water
carriers or truckmen.
Back Into History
1t requires a glance into rather
ancient history to get the point OF
the controversy between them.
Back in an almost prehistoric
era. when we had no railroads to
speak of except part of the way
westward across the continent, we
lid have little inland transp0rta-
ton. Beats chug-chugged up and
down the Ohio, Mississippi and Mis-
|
there was quite some shipping on
the Big Muddy Such streams
weren't improved. Boats ran on
bars. were torn by SnagS and had
all kinds of trouble, but they did
their darnedest.
Then the railroads broke in and
knocked the props from under that
primitive system. But the rails
were frightfuily greedy. They were
efficient but they got themselves
hated. They likewise enormously
overdid their various capitalizations
Folks began saying, I'VE must re-
develop our inland waterways, tc
counteract such brigandage.' /
was a slow job, but progress was
made with it gradually. Channels
were dredged out; river navigation
began to be a serious railroad men,
ace. Thus quite a crimp was thrown
into the railroads.
Then the auto made its appear
ance. 1t wasn't a serious railroac
worry at first, for there were M
! inter-city highways to mention, bu
now we have them everywhere.
don't know how much cheaper the
auto is than the railroad for freigh
shipments, for I'm not a treigh
shipper, but I do know that it,
about one-half cheaper (though no
as comfortable) as rail passenge
transportation Another railroad
crimp!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
Willis Thornton's Editorial Or.
papen Appointment Shows Hitler's Game

had cut such a social dash. he
referred to them as these idlotic
Yankees"
In bad oder at home because ne
had been caught, Won Papen was
sent to Turkey where as stall
officer he helped lose the war there
for the Turks.
Recalled to the government under
Won Hindenburg and Hitler, he was
sent TO Austria. There he vigor-
ously denied that he was intriguing
for the fall of Austria, maintaining
that spiritual and cultural union,
end not "the altering of frontiers"
was the German object. This was
shortly before the conquering Ger
man troops marched into Vienna.
Now he goes to Turkey called
from retirement at SO because oil
his peculiar abilities. To what use
he will put them in Turkey is best
Judged from their employment IN
the past.
At any rate, the Turks have one
advantage They too, have met tins
charming gentleman before.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
WAR TALK
LEADS TO WAR
{ lAlameda Iimes-SIarl

NAldillDud lllltS-oLdIt
You may like to think of the presi-
dents war talk as bluff but there can be
ne bluff in international relations. He
either wins by checking the madmen of
Europe or he puts the country's armies
on the seas and in the trenches. General
Johnson refers to it as a gamble and
says. Roosevelt is a great gambler He
has shot dice with destiny ever since
1880 billion dollars worth of debt
and experimentation for the stake of
recovery-and lost every time! This IS
the greatest gamble of all-20, 40, go,
God knows how many bilions-the very
heart of all that has been won here IN
$50 years of toll and sacrifice-a pos
sible range of human wreckage so great
that 10 one can measure 1t. Roll the
bones and let the whole pot ride.
No country can make threats and
shake its fists and when arms are drawn,
let the other fellow do the bloody work
and spend his billions. Want to or not.
it means battle of armament and wealth
to victory or the exhaustion of both. And
no victory can return that which has
been spent in life and in substance. It's
gone.
When and if this country is attacked
the physical force will rally to its de-
Tense as a man. But one experience OH
foreign soil is enough.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
You re Telling Me-

There's only one thing wrong
with that newly electric
manicuring machine. There's no use
asking it for a date.
If we have many more springs as
cold as this one they'll change the
spelling Of the season SO "s-brrr-
ing"
With about every able-bodied man
in their armies those European
countries by now should have their
unemployment problems solved.
To Hitler it must seem that Bib
lical phrases must read: What pro-
fits it to gain the world-if you have
to make speeches behind bullet
proof glass shield?"
There is no such thing as strict
neutrality newspaper editorial
Better not tell that to baseball
umpire.
Woman: a creature who would
give her life to wear hat no man
would be found dead with.
Scientist says most butterflies live
but "a hours but you must admit
that during that time they lead a
pretty high life.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28

WASHINGTON. - When Edwin
NJ. Watson, now one of the White
House secretaries and recently
sworn in as brigadier- general, gets
down to his desk in the morning,
he is apt to find it cluttered with
correspondence, to which are at
tached little memos reading like
this:
Pa: See the attorney general
about this. F.D.R."
Pa: Tell the senator to go
ahead. F.D.R"
For General Watson has been
called spa" by his friends ever
since he was a plebe at West Point.
And President Roosevelt follows the
same custom. The pa business II
seems, arose thus:
There were in his class at west
Point two plebes with the same
surname. One of them had q
Creeks god profile, yellow curls and
an ethereal look; the other-the
man who is now a White House
secretary-was husky bruiser pet
ter than six feet tall, with oroao
shoulders, an underslung jaw and
taste for football. So the cadets
called him PA" Watson and nam
ed the other lad Ma" Watson.
Presidents are nothing new 10
General Watson. During the world
War he served III France with the
second division, winning the Am
erican distinguished service cross
and the French Legion d'Honeur.
After the armiStice, he was called
back from the front, sent to Brest,
and made military escort to PreSl-
dent Wilson on the latter's Euro
pean tour.
Before America entered the war,
Watson had been Junior military
attache at the White HouSe-julSt
as, before becoming Rooseyelt's Sec
retary. he had been his military
aide. In fact, the whole business
of being a military aide is old stuff
to him. He put in a four-year term
as military attache at the Ameri-
can embassy III Paris, and another
four-year hitch at the embassy in
Brussels.
He is an eXtravagant admirer OF
his boss. and he loves his job. Next
to war" he says, this is the most
thrilling experience I've ever had.
Every day is an adventure. You
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

never know what will turn up next. y
The demands of the White House
routine don't leave him much Tune
for recreation, but he does manage
to get in a round of golt every
weekend at the exclusive Burning
Tree club. near Washington, with
Steve Early. the White House press
secretary. To get measure of daily
exercise General Watson walks to
the zoo every morning; doesn't look
at the animals or feed peanuts to
the monkeys, Just walks there.
As the presidents aide, General
Watson went on many trips with
him. and thus was introduced 10
the sport of deep sea fishing. He
is immensely proud of swordfiSh
he caught off the Cocos Islands.
This, properly mounted, he has
loaned to a Washington sea-food
restaurant.
He'll reclaim it when he moves
into a house that will have room
for it.
That. apparently, will take place
in about two years. For when Pres
ident Roosevelt leaves the White
House General Watson plans TO
move to a country place in Vir-
ginia and become a gentleman far
mer. He has the house all picked
out.
incidentally, there is a pretty
broad possibility that when that
day comes he may go into politics
seriously. He has had pretty good
insight into politics during his
White House career, and he knows
lots of senator's and congressman.
1t isn't at all unlikely that he might
decide to run for office himself
after this administration is out.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
IA |:
(Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monltor)
1t is not likely that the art of the
story-teller will ever lose its hold upon
the popular or the cultured imagination.
From the recited narratives of the HON.
eric minstel to the novels and thrillers
of today fiction in various forms has
continued to delight listeners or readers.
But it no longer holds the field undis-
puted. Today it has serious rival. An
autobiography has as good a chance Of
being best-seller as a novel,
But it is only in comparatively recent
times that persons in every walk of pub
lie life have been constantly solicited to
write their lives: and when they produce
their books, these compete successfully
against the novels. The fact is that auto
biography deals with much the same
material as fiction. In both, human be-
ings and character play a leading part.
Narrative carries the action on in the
one case as in the other. The writer Of
his own life may approach his theme as
intimately and frankly as the novelist.
There should be a unity in the theme Sc
lected by the novelist, but ones own life
seen in retrospect appears to have
certain unity of its own, everything lead
ing to the success or failure, or the half
success which men are apt to feel in
their own careers.
There is likely to be too much irrele-
want episode in the autobiography, and
much the novelist would certainly reject.
But the writer on his own life has this
great advantage, that he is describing
what he really knows what he has ex-
perienced and felt or seen others eXper-
iencing and feeling; and if he has any
talent for writing it is up to him to
prove that fact is no less interesting than
fiction
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
TALKING THE WORLD
INTO WAR

If war comes in Europe, it will be be-
cause national leaders talked too much
in the wrong direction 1t will be because
one nation officially and wilfully misun-
derstood another. 1t will be because the
ingredients of war were piled up where
the merest chance spark would easiest
find its way to them-and set of the
conflagratiOn.
Our own national leaders have not
been altogether innocent in this vicious
game of war making, either. If they're
smart, when war comes they'll close
their mouths, keep their powder dry, and
stay out Of the other fellows pasture.
Take the case of the United States.
For more than a year our federal Off
cials have been criticizing, castigating
and ridiculing the dictators. Is it to be
wondered at that the dictators refuse
to heed a plea from such source for
an international peace conference?
The dictators have been the only hon
est ones. They've been ruthless, cruel and
inhuman-but they've told the world
what they want. No other nations have
been quite frank about that particular
thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
Famous Sayings

How Turkey feels about the ad-
vent of Franz Won Papen as special
envoy from Hitler's Reich, we
wouldn't know. II we were turkey
we wouldn't be much pleased.
Won Papen has long record III
public life. and such of it as has
been laid bare is not very reassur-
ing to any country to which he Is
sent. The United States knows
from personal experience.
Won Papen was German military
attache here when the World War
broke. He was, and is, a hand
some, cultured, urbane citizen OF
the world, and his glittering Prus-
sian captains uniform and gleam-
ing monocle cut quite a swath in
Washington society.
Unfortunately it soon became
clear that the handsome Franz was
rot confining himself strictly to
his business as military attache-at
least not as such business had been
understood up to that time. In
those innocent days it was assumed
that the privileges and immunities
granted to diplomatic representa-
tives implied that they would not
monkey with the domestic affairs
of the country to which they had
been sent.
.## -
But Won Papen saw his duty
otherwise, and was soon hip-deep in
plots to blow up the Welland Canal
in attempting to corner various
war. supplies, and interfere with
munitions manufacture, and having
, a hand in the plot whereby Roger
Easement tried to start a rebellion
in Ireland. #.#
The United States invited Won
Fapen TO return home. His private
letters had revealed his real opin-
ion of the people among whom he
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY TO SATISFY LIEN

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, RUSSELL RAY, Bard,
Imperial County, California, will
sell at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash, at Ross Corner,
in Bard, ON Thursday, the 18th day
of May, 1889. at 10 AM. of the said
day, the following:
1882 Chevrolet roadster, En-
CINE No 329685l, 1897 Calf.
License 2L7020,
to satisfy a lien for storage and
costs under sections APT and 428 of
the civil code of the State of Cali
fornia.
(Signed) RUSSELL RAY.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
this 27th day of May 1889.
A. %, M.