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Evening star., 1939-01-05
Kerensky Will Speak
On HitIer's Ptuns

Alexander Kerensky. head Of the
first Russian democratic govern
ment and former commander in
chief Of the Russian armed forces
after the revolution, will express
his views on the possibility Of Hitler
going to war at a lecture to be held
at Constitution Hall Thursday night,
January 10.
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, vice presi-
dent Of Georgetown University, will
preside and introduce Mr.. Kerensky,
who was in Europe during the re-
cent political crisis. Other phases
OF the speakers lecture will include
Democracy and Soviet Russia After
the Munich Pact" and "Was the
Russian Revolution a Jewish Con-
spiracy?"
Mr.. Kerensky has lived In Eng
land and France in recent years,
editing newspapers and lecturing.
Following his lecture here he will
go to New York for two more en-
gagements. Tickets for the Janu-
Ary 10 lecture may be obtained at
the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, 910
G street NV.
Evening star., 1939-01-05

now," and things were left at that.
Rud tried to convey the effect Of
thoroughly dishonest, pushful and
able young man ready to sell and be
sold, a young man in q state Of in
voluntary admiration and natural
envy for q tremendously successful
newspaper owner, but even upon
these lines he was doubtful II he got
Bendigo.
What on earth did Bendigo want?
OF Rud or life or anything? There
was wicked scrutiny in his lord
ships disillusioned eye. Rud was
left with an uneasy memory.of that
eye. It was an eye that should have
twinkled, and 1t didn't twinkle. It
said for moment, with a touch of
the genial fellowship of adventurers,
"Well, what are you up to?" and
then hardened to "You don't get me,
my boy, whatever you want"
Dead Lark in His Hands.
It became the cold, resentful eye
OF an inordinate man in a disap-
pointing world. Bendigo had thought
life was lark, he had handled it
inconsiderately and found it dead
lark in his hands.
Steenhold told Rud there were
American parallels. Similar forces
produce similar results. Newspaper
proprietors were the most paradox
ical class in the world. Everybody
wanted to use newspaper proprietors
and nobody respected their ambi-
tlons. No one expected them to
have ambitions. They were vehicles
to take people to all sorts of desir-
able destinatiohs-and wait outside
Never, would the public recognize
any possibility of direct leadership
in them. They became resentful,
embittered men. All the world over.
In Britain they wore coronets.
often slightly askew, but that made
no essential difference. They were
at once powerful and infuriatingly
impotent.
Nowhere in the world, Rud re-
flected, was journalism anything but
a malignant and wanton power.
Later on, as the Commonsense
movement grew, he had to think a
lot about that. He had to spread q
new system of ideas throughout the
world, and journalism would neither
instruct nor inform nor lend itself
consistently to any sustained propa-
ganda.
Copyright. 1889. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncJ
Evening star., 1939-01-05
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALL


SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALL
MENTS.
Rudolf Whitlow-"Holy Terror" to
his nurse and dirty little beast to
old DR.. Carstall who had brought him
into the world-had pummeled and
schemed and GRATED himself into con-
troll OF the moribund Popular Socialist
party. He had around him q 0roup OF
unscrupulous,. energetic young men
Chinan. Bodisham. Rogers, Steenhold
-Wno saw IN him chance for great
pronounced talents for leadership and
oratory and his idea Of Anglo-Ameri-
can unity and pittins common sense
from the common man AGAINST their
governments. After the fiareup Of pub
tlcity from his capture Of the Popular
Sociansts and permanent ousting Of
among Ensland's powerful people, to
win vi either their support Of neutrality
n5y convincing them he was not a revo-
discontent of the masses. VAC
Evening star., 1939-01-05
Shores Bed With Snake

Lifting the mattress on which he
had been sleeping, a construction
camp worker near Edenburg, South
Africa, found two snakes comfort
ably coiled under it, and according
to marks on the ground the man
and snakes had been sharing beds
for weeks.
Evening star., 1939-01-05
Housing Theory

Scandinavian cooperating hous-
ing program is based on the assump-
ton that private business, organ
lied for profit, cannot provide ade-
quate housing for the lowest income
groups.
Evening star., 1939-01-05
More U. S. Cigarettes

Smokers Of Australia are con-
suming more cigarettes from the
United States than from any other
foreign country.
Evening star., 1939-01-05

Tomorrow: The leader goes to
work on labor, the liberals, the
politicians.
Evening star., 1939-01-05

US Observation-Disclosures to the point
Of perfdy. But it is all perfectly
simple. England is like q coin with
an diverse and reverse. Has been
anyhow. "A great democratic mon
archy is q contradiction in itself:
particularly with House Of Lords;
It must blow hot and cold"
II don't want support in your
papers," he told Lord Thunderclap,
the great press peer. "But want
space. Denounce me If you like,
but feature me. I'd rather be de-
nounced. I don't want to seem to
be in with you. I'm being perfectly
open with you"
"And I like openness," said the
great Lord Thunderclap, and re-
garded him, as far as he could
manage 1t, with the candid face of a
simple, responsible, old-fashioned
newspaper proprietor. IT think we
understand one another"
Anything but silence" said Rud,
looking. il possible, even more can
did than his lordship.
Run along" said Thunderclap,
like a benign god. "You shall
exist"
Evening star., 1939-01-05
The Isolated Isolationist.

The Isolated Isola ZIONIST,
Lord Bendigo, another great lord
Of public opinion in those days,
wasn't by any means as easy as
Lord Thunderclap. He was one of
Ruds more difficult problems.
Thunderclap thought in phobias
and booms, but Bendigo had ideas
OF his own. For the most part they
were extremely poor ideas. His
leading one had been the complete
isolation of the British Empire
from the rest of the world, which
Rud regarded as too obviously silly
and impracticable for serious treat
ment He thought at first that
Bendigo wasn't in earnest about this
fancy. Then he came to believe
that Bendigo was a man of great
obstinacy, fighting down SUBJ
conscious realization that he had
spent large part of his life pro-
mitigating puerile nonsense.
There was something about this
man that Rud found curiously con-
genial. He sensed a malignant will
fulness very like his own. This
very resemblance gave Bendigo the
quality OF an awful warning. He
has pushed himself into a corner
and away from power by the very
vlgor OF his egotism," Rud reflected.
He thought he could put over Just
anything through sheer willfulness.
Things aren't like that. I used TO
think 1t but I've learnt some les
sons. He got his luck too soon and
that spoilt him. Primary facts are
invincible. You have to respect
them. Fact is the mountain you
have to climb, and the way of it is
the way you have to 60. It's the
only way up. But Bendigo started
out to climb mountain that in
fact wasn't there =. And he
goes on with all the gestures of his
!solationist Crusade long after he
has realized its futility. -.
Criticism Of Bendigo Easy.
Il, too, have that disposition 80"
I hate going back on myself. I
hate checking up things with other
people, but know enough to know
I've got to do it. He must have
Just plunged into that imperial iso-
lationism Of his. Before he thought
over the change of scale or air war,
or any OF these newer things.
Plunged with a million readers.
And then held on, like child in a
tantrum. I did that sort of thing
when I was a kid"
Criticism Of Bendigo was compar-
atively easy, but how to get salts
factory publicity out OF him was q
riddle. Rud's guess was to go to him
for advice about going into Parlia-
ment. wait and I will tell you,'
said Bendigo; 'it's no time to start
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
STATE OFFICERS
 TO BE FITTED HERE
Degree of POcOhontas Plans Reception Next
 Tuesday Night

The annual dinner and reception for state officers of the Degree of Pocahontas order will be held Tues day night in Quaker inn, Water town avenue. Many of the states 34 councils will be represented. Ar engagements are being made by a committee comprising Miss Gel trude M. Wells, chairman, assisted by Mrs. Augusta Espelin, Mrs. Lottie Peirey and Mrs. Dorothy Christo- ferSon.
 Among the guests will be Mrs. Kathryn Quick of Stratford, great Pocahontas; Mrs. Mabel Osborn, East Windsor Hill, great winonah; Mrs. Harriet Tarrant, Danbury great Minnehaha; Mrs. Julia Bran- don, Hartford, great prophetreSs; Mrs. Harriet Wright, Middletown, great Keeper of records; Mrs. Susan Gastner, Elmwood, great keeper of wampum; Jennett Cole East Norwalk, first great scout; Miss Gertrude Noel, West Haven, great guard of the wigwam; Esther Blackman, East Norwalk great guard of the forest; Mrs. May Hall, East Hartford, deputy great Pocahontas; Mrs. Mary Doolittle, West Cheshire, past great Pocahon- tas; Ruby White, Bristol, past great Pocahontas.
 Miss Gertrude M. Wells is chair man of the arrangements com- mittee which includes Mrs Au- gusta Espelin, Mrs. Lottie Peirey and Mrs. Dorothy Christoferson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
CITY TO TAKE ON GREEN TINCE
Observance of St. Pat rick's Day to Be General;
 Many Societies Plan

Waterbury will take on a green tinge next week, with social affairs being held in connection with the observance of St. Patrick's Day. En- tertainments, socials and dances have been arranged by many or ganizations, Irish and otherwise.
 The annual banquet of the Irish American Social Club of which At torney Hugh J. McGill is president, will be held at The Elton tomorrow night. The annual banquet of the Irish American Social Club, of which William Boyle is president, will be held at The Elton Wednes- day night.
 The senior class of the Sacred Heart high school for girls will pre- sent 8 play, My Irish Rose" at the school auditorium Wednesday night
 Irish Night" will be observed with an entertainment and speaking pro. gram at the Y. M. c. A. Tuesday night
 St. Patrick's church societaies will hold their annual minstrel show and dance Friday night at the Lyceum. A chorus of AS voices will take part, directed by Joseph Cavanaugh,
 The second annual St. Patrick's Day entertainment and dance of the Waterbury Lodge of Moose will be held Friday night. The Chase Foremen's Association will hold two affairs. a formal dinner dance Fri day night at The Elton and an iu- formal dance Saturday night at the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
5-cENT FARE a . BILL GETTING
 GOOD SUPPORT
Tossed Around in Previous Years It Now Looms
 Strong in Legislature

State Capitol, Hartford, March II. - The five-cent fare bill, after being leased out" during the past several sessions of the Legislature, has risen again, this time stronger than ever. The bill may not pass, and probably will not, judging from the past, but never has 1t had such powerful backing. The Republican dominated iudi- ciary committee, which has the bill under consideration, may have difficult time having the House and Senate accept an lInfavorable report on the measure.
 In an unexpected piece of strate- gy. Senator George T. Culhane, of Waterbury, who is sponsoring one of the five-cent fare bills, secured the signatures of 26 of the 35 men- bers of the state senate on peti- tion urging passage of his bitll. The petition was presented to the judi ciary committee at the hearing on the bill this week.
 Senator Culhane is seeking to make the issue one of being for or against the workingman. In speak ing for his bill, he declared that the Legislature should give some con- sideration to the people whose votes they were seeking so avidly last fall. nder the terms of Senator Culhane,s bill, no bus company could charge a fare of more than five cents on lines within city or town limits.
 The judiciary committee, with its large Republican mapority follow ing the traditional COP stand of sympathy for the public utilities, will probably report unfavorably on the bill. Senator Culhane, judging from the petition, has enough votes to reject the committees report in the Senate, though strong pressureI will no doubt be brought to bear toI have Republicans who signed theI petition to vote against the bill.
 In the House the Republican, steamroller will be set into action though number of house mem- bers may refuse to follow the partyI leadership and support the bill.
 In any case the bill will be thel subject of sharp debate in bothI houses. Senator Culhane will SeekI to show that claims that a five cent fare would mean reduction ipI wages of bus company employees arel not justified. He will cite, amongI other things, the fact that when the5 railroads, against their wishes, were forced by the federal government to lower their fares. their passenger bushes simmediately boomed.
 The trolley and bus companies of the state are supported in their op-l position to the bill by the Manu- lecturers Association of Connecticut an organization with considerable influence in the legislature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
City Manager Plan Two Central Thoughts Prevail in Opposition to City Manager Form of Government Parasitic" Urge Sends Many People
 Into Political Jobs.
Into Political Jobs.

ing they have to admit that it is the poorer people that benefit the most. They find that when there is no graft in the public works depart ment there is more money for milk to be given to undernourished chil- dren by the health department; when 3 manager employs only that number of policemen needed to give protection, the public is often will ing to have the saved money spent on swimming pools. When the city manager of Hamilton, Ohio, cut the cost of coal to run the municipal light plant by four -fifths, the sav- ings in electric light bills helped many unemployed workingmen in that city to keep their homes during the depression.
 Like A Cooperative
 Usually those who claim that the plan is undemOcratic dislike the constant use of the terms business like and efficiency" in connection with the plan. They admit that the plan produces savings but they say that business is run for profit while government is run for service. Now there is a method of operating an ordinary business without so-cailed profit, along the lines of the R0ch- dale cooperative society. This is agreed by all economists to be the method of producing and distribut- ing goods which is based on the highest ethical principles. No profit is made. A price which experience shows is slightly in excess of the probable cost is charged for all goods; every three or six months teh actual excess is given back to teh customers in proportion to their purchases. There are now hundreds of millions of people who belong to such societies. How are they or ganized? Stock Is sold, but though you buy one share and your neigh bor ten, you bothe have one vote to help elect the board of didrect0rs. Similarly under the manager plan, each citizen, regardless of the taxes he pays or the property he owns. has the right to help elect g member of the city council.
 The board of directors of the CO., operative society sets the policy of the business but individual directors do not attempt to carry 1t out; for this they hire 8 manager whom they can hold responsible. This too is exactly parallel to the council manager plan. There is not CO., operative society in the world and there are thousands of them in which the manager of the enterprise is elected by the membership. In order that efficiency be had, he simply must be appointed by and responsible to the board or directors, Here again there is an absolute similarly between the two organiza- tions--the' one economic, the other governmental.
 Finally, the cooperative society's manager serves every member in proportion to his need and not his share holdings. In this least and fundamental thing--purp0se, again the parallel is absolute. The city manager, like the cooperative's store manager, gives service to all citizens according to need but not in accordance with wealth or taxes paid.
 The next article will tell about the citizens organization.
 Iis.A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
MERIT SYSTEM LAW
 LIKED BY LEAGUE
Women Voters Pass Res= olution Urging Legisla=
 ture Not to Change It

The state board of the Connecti- cut League of Women Voters at its regular meeting in Hartford this week, reaffirmed its belief Gas ex- pressed before the November elec- tions in blanks proposed for irIclu- sion in the party platforms) that the present state merit system law should be left substantially un- changed and that no drastic or fundamental amendments should be added.
 The league went on record as sticking to its principles" in the matter of two proposed amendments to the law now pending in the Gen. eral Assembly as follows:
 "Resolved: that the state board of the Connecticut League of Wo- men Voters once more affirm the opposition of the Connecticut League of Women Voters to any and all attempts to abolish the personal advisory committee or to substitute any other group for the personal advisory committee; and to oppose all attempts to make mandatory on department heads the appointment of top candidates instead of having the choice of the three highest candidates on the eli gible list as is provided for by the present law"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11

As the season of Lent progresses the church liturgy becomes impressive. Fisher Edition News published by J. Fischer and Bro of New York have an interesting article in their last quarterly issue by Cyr de Brant on the Miserere The Miserere, which is the 5Oth Psalm (he fourth penentia tells of the repentance and confession of the psamst David In his article De Brant tells of the Psalms significance and impressive ness which important part in the liturgy of the Catholic church during the penitental season of Lent
 particularly he says in the office of Holy Week. where at the end of the Tenebrae it becomes the climax In ceremony that is inspiring in it's simplicity Perhaps what is not generally known that the only three set tngs for the Mserere used today at the SStne Chapel III Rome are those by Alegri, Ba and Bain. The writer relates how impressed Felix Mendelssohn was during visit to during Holy Week of 183O of his most inspiring moments that week the impressive inter- val silence during the recitation of the Pater Noster followed by the pianso entrance of the Mserere com ing if from another world. The Allegri setting, it seems dates from 1638 Bas setting was first heard in Holy Week of 174 and in 1921 Bain composed ten part setting by order of Pope Plus V De Brant remarks that these settings out of the reach of ordinary choirs There other settings that adequate for the text and what will be heard in churche where the liturgy carried out in detail during Holy week. Of our present day church Petro Yon oganist at St. Patricks in New York City, has composed musical set ting for the Mserere Most people familiar with the English words of the Miserere which begns Have mercy me, God according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender merces blot out my inquities."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11

and stretches across the Lake and McHenry county lines between Volo and McHenry.
 The seven distinct farms are c.us- tered around an imposing mansion on the edge of the bay.
 Features are a private golf course and a training track for horses. Skidmore's horses have won many prizes at shows and fairs.
 In huge, modern, well appointed structures prize Percherons and show horse are stabled. One of Skidmore's prize equine performers, Lady Jane, has won numerous cups and trophies unGer the trainership of Lloyd Teeters.
 The farms are interlaced with paved roads and parts of the estate near the home are beautifully landscaped.
 HE'S A
 CAMPAIGN ISSUE
 Skidmore,s relations with City Hall have become an issue in the campaign of Dwight H. Green Re- publican nominee for mayor. With odds tremendously against him, Green is making a rousing fight against the Democratic machine controlled by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Patrick Nash.
 In one of Greens recent speeches he declared that, if Skidmore got
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11

An urge to increase better service among city department workers is seen in experiences with city mana ger forms of government. There is always room for advancement where good government is the prime and only motive behind the hiring of 18th of series of articles by the Citizens Good Government Asso- citation read how objections are overSome.
 ARTICLE XII
 The Manager Plan is Remaking
 Local Governments
 Objections to the Council Manager
 Plan
 All the objections voiced against the plan cluster around two cen- tral ideas. One is that you cannot go against human nature. This sometimes takes the form of declar- ing that graft, corrpution, waste and efficiency necessarily go with government, or else that if there are such evils the people are getting what they secretly want.
 Now it must be admitted that the desire to "get by" to be a parasite instead of producer, is found to be very strong in some people. In a government, an officer is always dealing with what MT. Justice Brandeis significantly calls, "other peoples money" so there is a tempation on the part of many with the parasitic urge to get into politics
 But the best way to prevent one desire from operating is to put an- other in its place; that is what the manager does. A young man who enters the service of a California city of four thousand people as assistant clerk in it's water-works at a salary of twenty dollars a week knows that there is pOssi- bility of one day serving the half a million people of Cincinnati at a salary of twenty-five thousand a year. He will hear of one manager who began in a small city i'm vir- ginia at fifty dollars week and re- tired twenty-five years afterwards, resigning e managership at twenty thousand year.
 While such 8 young man has this strong incentive to a career, he also knows that one black mark caused by the suspicion of laxity will close the door on opportunity outside the particular city in which he succumbs to temptation, and even in that city his tenure there-
 Must Want Good Government after will be very insecure.
 Of course if the desire for special favors and personal advantage is in the hearts of the people of a city, if one bitch favorite indoor sports Is playing politics." if high tax rate and poor service is not as im- pOrfant to most people as is the as is the knowledge that they have friend who can get a parking ticket torn up, or who can "fix it with the judge" then the manager plan would be bad for that town. Possibly 1t is bad democracy to give good government to people who do not want 1t.
 While the human nature" argu- ncnt will be used, the argument which will be voiced teh oftenest, and sometimes by those who are admirable citizens in many ways, will be that the plan is not demo- cratic, Quite often this will be voiced in labor circles, though when the warm -hearter philosophers 50 to, cities in which the plan is work