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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-29

Do you remember the bicycle races down at the old baseball park in the West End when you were kid? In those days Jimmie Lango who conducted bicycle shop where you rented your bke was the hero He was one of the fastest riders in the east. Do you member years ago when the sample shoe store and the sample clothing stores fourshed? They were supposed to be all genuine drummers' samples. In later years what racket it turned out to be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-29

Attorney Fred Palomba did mighty fine job as toastaster at the seventeenth annual Un1co Club am ner dance at the Hotel Elton Tuesday eve MIS- Bas- cla Pirro honors with invitation to the wedding of her daughter Rose to Samuel Srica at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Fourth of July reception Will follow at the Paradise Inn. Sue Maunzen or Emera9 another birthday Tuesday at which time she received stunning compact. .''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-29
BY JAMES E. GROWN (NEA Service Special Correspondent

QNEA Service Special Correspondent New Orleans June All Louisiana these remembering farmboy phrase Sicily Island Louisiana meeting friends speech historic:
 Nov, I'm going to skin skunk"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-29

Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. Clem Briotti had two candles on their wedding anniversary cake Wednesday, Bill Clancy of the YD who during the past few months has divided his time between Waterbury Hartford Tampa, Florida and Noroon assisted in the broadcast of the I'D convention parade at Hartford John W. Cotton of the Hartford Times has turned counist and editorial writer in lieu of covering the conspiracy trial MT Cotton VIII carry on in the place of F. P. Latner who is ill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-29
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 1. Columbia River. 2. A system of government in which . single person Is sovereign.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Almost At The End

It isn't too late yet for the Legislature to take action on reapportioning the sena- torial and congressional districts in Con- necticut. There are several days left in the 1889 session and any movement launched now to provide for reapportion- ment after the 1940 decennial census should not be regarded as controversial. It ought almost to be matter of general legislative policy that the session pre- ceding a decennial census year is spent in making such necessary plans as are dependent upon this federal custom un- der state law.
 The Constitution provides that the first Legislature after the decennial cen- sus may alter existing district lines or create new ones, provided the total legal number is not surpassed. We now have thirty-five senatorial districts and one more could be created under law. Fur thermore all the districts are quite un- even so far as population is concerned and are sadly in need of new district lines. This has been obvious for years even before the 1880 census was taken. Nothing was done in 1881, however.
 We believe that the present Legislature should take such steps now as will cause the proper procedure to be followed two years from now. A commission could be created and given authority to investi- gate the present condition of our sena- torial districts and to prepare a new alignment of them. This same could be presented to the 1941 session and either accepted, changed around or refused. But it should be started now so that therell be no excuse for action in 1941. And the same thing applies to our congressional districts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Voluntary, Not Compulsory

The House was willing that the com pulsory motor vehicle tests be abolished in Connecticut; it now remains to be seen if the Senate will concur in this opinion. We presume it will, for it seems to be generally agreed in legislative circles that the compulsory twice-a-year tests for all motor cars be done way with in favor of voluntary ones. Just why they are termed voluntary, we don't know, for we can't imagine that many drivers will, of their own accord, take their cars to testing station to have it inspected.
 The change demands the appointment of 50 new State Policemen and also com pelS the entire department to spend more time observing the actual operation of motor vehicles along our highways, the idea being to detect those cars which are not safe to be driven or which seem to be in an unsafe condition. If you are stopped by state policeman and ordered to one of the testing lanes, there's no backing out on your part, as we under stand the contemplated law. You've got to oblige the officer or face trouble. So what's voluntary about this?
 As to the actual value of this method of demanding safety in all vehicles oper- ated on Connecticut roadWays we pre- SulHc lL HuSHC De we'll IO say uoLIlllS until it has been proved success or a failure. But we can't see the much abused testing lanes with which we are familiar done away with without adding our vote of approval They did serve good purpose as they did accomplish what they set out to do. The facts prove this. Admittedly they inconvenienced motorists, but with expenditure of some of the money taken in at the lanes, this could eventually have been eliminated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Wings Over Atlantic

By chance or by. design, the first scheduled flight of the Yankee Clipper across the Atlantic comes just 20 years after the great flight of the NC-4, pride of the navy, after the World War. The NC-4 in those days represented all the lessons the navy had been able to learn from the World War - she was the last word in over-water flying development. Yet how odd the pictures of the Nc-4 look today in contrast with the sleek and streamlined clippers! They seem scarcely akin at all, and not as development one from the other, the N. c. dumpy and mass of strutwires, the Clipper clean lined ad smooth.
 With this evidence before us of what the past 20 years have done, who can doubt that great progress will mark the next 20? We shall fly to Europe as easily as we now fly to New York or Chicago. But will there be comparable progress in the uses to which these magnificent ocean-birds will be put? The same intel ligence that built the ships must provide the answer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
National Debt Week

AS if it wasn't bad enough right now what with conditions far from encourag- ing Republican big-wigs decided that their chances of winning the 1940 election would be increased if they contributed to the astounding number of weeks" for which the U. s. A. is famous. So this week is being observed in every state, where there is Republican governor, as National Debt Week. The reason it isn't being observed in other states is because the governor has to proclaim it National Debt Week and few Democrats would be willing to do that.
 Governor Raymond E. Baldwin had something to say about it earlier in the week, but somehow or other we didn't get the impression that he was overly enthusiastic about joining in any such demonstration. However, he did say that "I shall call on all our citizens to give sober and serious deliberation on the consequences to us and to our children of unbridled public spending and ever mounting public debt" of this most of us are aware, but we confess that we might have done the same thing had we been confronted with similar problems as faced President Roosevelt back in 1883.
 A touch of realism was added to Ma Gonal Debt Week Tuesday night when Congressman Bruce Barton told the story of "Johnny O'Hearn" over the radio. Johnny o'Hearn" was supposed to rep
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26

It may be parkway in the eyes of everybody else, but in the eyes of the Supreme Court of Connecticut the Mer- ritt Parkway is just trunk line high way'. So it ruled in settling a question in which the right of the State Highway Commissioner to take certain lands for the parkway right-of-way was involved. The issue was settled in favor of the land owner who had complained that his property in the Town of Fairfield had been bisected by the parkway and he thus had no free access from one section of his land to the other. The land was acquired by condemnation. One case is now back in the Superior Court, but we don't see how it can be remedied if the road actually has been built through the land concerned. Damages for the aggrieved would seem to be the only alternative with a possibility of cross-over being provided to provide ready access between the two split areas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
JOE AND HIS HORSE
(Bridgeport Telegram)


 For a quarter of a cenutry Joe Heaslip and his horse, Robbie, have made the rounds of Waltham, Massachusetts homes as the prop critics of 8 dumpcart. Joe claimed Robbie as partner in every sense of the word.
 Not long ago Robbie dropped in his tracks at one of the Watch Citys main corners. Passing motorists saw the inert horse and beside him a man kneeling. tears coursing down his cheeks. The man was Joe. His partner had died in harness. literal y.
 Robbie was never sick day in his life," explained Joe. T guess he just dropped dead. There wasn't a lazy bone in his body. He never hur- ried. He never let me down or got me in dutch" That was Boobies obituary, and people who knew the familiar team knew it was all de- served. Some day they will be able to say the same thing about Joe himself.
 Some people will smile over Joe's tears for Robbie. But others will un- derstand. There's not so many of us performing our daily tasks as faith fully as these partners to let the matter pass without comment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26

resent young Irish boy of New York City who wanted job. MT. Barton tried to get him job in 20 different concerns, but couldn't place the youth, simply be- cause of conditions imposed by the New Deal. At least that's the story that was told to radio listeners.
 Now we don't doubt MT. Barton's sim cerity in trying to find job for Johnny O'Hearn", but the first thing that oc- cured to us after hearing the story recited and marveling at the fine quali- fications that Johnny" possessed was why MT. Barton didn't put him to work in his own advertising firm His ability was such for so young fellow that an up-and-coming business congressman like MT. Barton shouldn't have missed the opportunity to retain his services. Maybe he's a Democrat and MT. Barton, a Republican, doesn't want to employ Democrats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Second American City

We have become accustomed to think of New York as the first American city, Chicago the second, at least in size. But now we shall have to be more specific, and say North American city, or "city of the United.States.
 For Buenos Aires, the beautiful capital city of Argentina, is now the second city of the Western Hemisphere Its popula- tion, which has had a phenomenal growth in recent years, is now 3,304, 900 as com pared with Chicagos 3,258, ,444. The two cities are almost the same size geograph- ically since Buenos Aires increased the federal district which marks the city as our own District of Columbia bounds Washington During the past eight years, Buenos Aires has grown in population by 100000 while the whole state of Hi nois was increasing only 100000.
 All this is simply visible evidence of the great forward strides that are being made in the more progressive countries of South America, destined to be great em- pires within this century.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26

"Hard-boiled volunteer leadership" in New England is demanded by Professor Carl E. c. Zimmerman of Harvard Uni versity. Speaking at public gathering recently he said that state and local governments had been unwise in their public expenditures in the past and should now correct these evils. He warned of the peril of high taxes and urged his listeners to exert themselves to prevent bureaucracy becoming so dom inant that it would override the New Eng land states. High taxes are no solution to current ills was his parting message.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26

that the affairs of the nation
 make it necessary for me to remain in Washington. I'll de-
 liver that economy speech on the Senate floor"
 NOTE-The speech will cost the taxpayers $55 page in the Con- gressional Record and Smith is usually long-winded, which means a lot of pages.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 FBI agents have reported to Washington that at a recent meet ing of the Los Angeles unit of 'sVindicators Association, Inc," organized by Senator Reynolds, there were present representatives of the Bund. One of the leaders of the l.. A. Vindicators is G. O. Hagberg, author of an article in 'aThe American Vindicator", Rey- holds weekly, warmly defending the Bund Arkansas two young rookie Congressmen, Clyde Ellis and D. D. Terry, played 8 leading role in the coup that upped the flood control appropriation from $110,000,000 to $135 ,000, 900. Most important revelation regarding alleged WPA influence in the Kentucky primary last sum- mer has just been made by The Lexington Leader, which publishes letters from George H. Goodman, WPA state administrator, instruct ing district administrators how to work for the renomination of Sen- ator Barkley, how to collect funds, etc.
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 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26

Roosevelt family, to ride as the honor guest of my district. Frankie is our man, though sometimes he does us wrong."
 NOTE-The opposition campaign manager was put on the train by Elliott Roosevelt.
 COTTON ED" SMITH
 Senator Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina may talk economy, but it does not begin at home.
 Smith recently was invited to address business organization in Des Moines, Ia., and said to his secretary and son-in-law, o. AL fred Lawton:
 I've been wanting to get . speech on government economy off my chest and this is . fine opportunity. They are offering $500 travelling expenses for my- self and a secretary. Tell them I'll accept providing they pay my usual fee of $500 in addi- ti0n."
 A few days went by and Smith asked Lawton if he had heard anything from those Des Moines people yet?"
 "Yes, I have, and I'm afraid it's all off. They say they can't pay more than $500 for yourself and a secretary"
 "What?" snorted Smith. And Iowa one of the richest farm states in the union! Those busi- ness men could we'll afford to pay $500 for 8 personal message from the chairman of the Sem ate Agricultural Committee. AL fred, you write them and say
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
HE'LL BE REMEMBERED
(New Haven Register

On a dreary day last March, Mario Izzo, a 63-year-old Italian im- migrant. died of burns in the town Aliquippa, Pa. He was buried in potter's field because he had no money. There was nothing startling about his passing. Fatal burns and pauper's graves are common enough in the world of today. But there was something about Izzo that pre- vented him from being forgotten.
 Izzo was on relief before his sud- den death, receiving weekly check for $3.60. But he was too honest and proud to accept a dole, so he volun- tarily swept the streets of Aiiduippa when the authorities refused to as- sign him regular work.
 At first he was laughed at as he went his daily rounds of the town. Now his critics have joined his friends in planning 6 memorial to his name. He was given a second burial this week and the monument is to be erected this summer.
 There are bigger men alive today who will leave Q smaller mark on life than Mario Izzo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Q HIGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
How Barber Shop Ballad Was Born

The story of Harry Armstrong's
 troubles in selling Sweet Ade-
 line" is told in one of the most
 interesting music books to come
 off the presses in a long time
 From Ragtime to Swingtime''
 by Isidore Witmark and Isaac
 Goldberg (Lee Furman: $S.50)
 Saga of a famous publishing
 house, it is really the story of
 the Towering of Americas
 music through 50 years.
 They took the song to Harry's (Armstrong) employers, but the Witmarks turned it down. They took it to Howley, Haviland and Dresser. who held 1t for nine months and then, on demand either to publish it or return it, returned 1t. They took it to the firm of Jerome H. Remick- -Whitney-Warne who held it for year and then sent it back. In desperation, Harry thought of his old love, Setchel, and forwarded it to Boston. Setchel played with it for another year, and might have had it yet if Armstrong had not met him by accident in New York, and demanded that either he pub- fish or return. He returned.
 Back to Gerard went Armstrong. There's something the matter with the song. Maybe you'd better change the title" Gerard changed the title; he rechristened Rosalie with the name Adeline. With this correction they resubmitted it to Witmarks. This time the firm said, "Yes" :. :. For a year it languished on the shelves of the stockroom. It was too slow, too old-fashioned, they all said. Then happened one of those things that turned a Paul West failure into an Anna Held triumph.
 A quartet came into the Witmark office-the Quaker City Four looking for a good number. They sat down and played it (Sweet Ade- line). Harry Ernest. manager of the quartet, exclaimed at the end, Why. that is just the song we've been looking forl" It was an instantaneous hit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Views of The Press
JUNE VACATIONS
(Boston Post)

N6OSpOIl EOStI
 That there should be New Eng land-wide emphasis upon June as a vacation month is clearly indicated by developments in Vermont and Maine. In the Green Mountain state owners of tourist homes, hotels and restaurants. who ordinarily wait un- til about July l, have been apply ing for their State licenses far ahead of the usual time. They are anticipating a bumper season in June because of the Worlds Fair travel. The Development Commis- sion of Maine has called a confer ence to discuss plans for booming June as an ideal month for recrea- tion within its borders. There is lit- tie doubt that New England will draw many thousands of New York fair visitors, goodly proportion of them during the next month. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Questions
 and Answers
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 Enclose . thrse-cent ssamp far reply when addressing any anes. ton of fact ur Information Co tha Waterbury Democrnt's Service am- reau st Washington. Legal and medica1 advice cannot be given. nor can extended research Do un. dertaken. Be sure an mail Is ad. dressed to GIho WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BB. REAU, lo1? Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. 0.
 THE EDITOR e. How much gold has been pro- dudced in Alaska since the United States purchased the territory from Russia? A. From 1880, when systematic mining began, through 1887, the value was $489, ,487 ,000. The estimate for 1888 is $21 ,917,0
 e. What bird is called "King of Birds?"
 A. The eagle.
 @. Who was the first woman to pilot an airplane in the United States?
 A. Dr. Bessica Raiche.
 e. When was the University of Geneva, Switzerland, founded2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Selected Poem
OF HEARTS AND HooFBEATs
Geone Rice Grelle, Mount Carmel, in the
 New Haven Journal Courier)

Geone Rice Grelle Mount Carmel in the
 New Haven Journal-Courier) We who have let our souls be owned by horses,- Ask us the way the wind is born, and where. It's in a mane! The artless, smoky lifting That claims riders heart. It's of the air That beats against your pulses on the gallop. Ask us of stars and we will tell you they Dance in the fine prick of a reaching muscle When trails are fast Ask us where Pixies play For we've been there when dawn was on the hilltops Ask us of song and we'll recall drum of hoofs that throbbed an undertone for thrushes We who are owned by horses finally come To measuring all things by how they passed And worshippng the bond that holds us fast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26

For many a year, this, aWkWard gawky caricature of 8 boat gave cruise-relief to Manhattanites on a sweltering night.
 On its decks thousands of en- chanted couples on a leisurely moonlight, sail to Tappan Zee, cooing to the strains of assorted mandolin strumming. Even the captain would not venture to say how many romances were born and fostered on his sturdy, if un- ornametal craft.
 The Bear Mountain never sailed too far, keeping a steady course between the Battery and Yonkers and back. But to numberless pas sengers, that brief excursion was the equivalent of 8 sea voyage and its gangplank was the ramp from tawdry, hot city into a temporialy cheerful world.
 No word has been heard of the Bear Mountains future, but the talk is that it will be conconvert- ed into a commercial craft and will carry freight up and down the Hudson.
 ACTRESS CHILLY,
 PUTS ON SUIT
 The bellicose playwright, Jack Kirkland, is in battle again. This time it's legal fray.
 Kirkland argument is with Martin Jones, who owns the Van- derbilt Theater where unwilling ly" he allowed Kirkland's show, q Must Love Someone" to play.
 Jones was shocked to discover that Kirkland'S show is quite risque, altho lgh the lovely Nancy Carroll and the titian-haired Iris Adrian are in it. So he ordered the show out and Kirkland resisted the eviction.
 The other coolish night, Iris was performing her disrobing scene onstage when suddenly the air. conditioning system was turned on. Shivering in the draft while, she began to cough and sniff1e. She caught cold and was fit to be tied. And with the moral assist ance of Kirkland, she says she is suing Jones for sabotaging her physical fahrenheit. Meanwhile, legal forms pass in both direc- tions.
 WOMAN BONIFACE
 IS MUSICAL SCOUT
 A little over a year ago, Blue Barron was young man with an insignificant band in Cleveland. Mrs. Maria Kramer, who runs the Edison and Lincoln Hotels here (the only active lady hotel pro- prietor in Manhattan, incidental ly), motored through and visited the little cafe where Barron was working. A short chat led to an engagement.
 And today Barron is in the mu- sical big-time. He is doing well at the Edison and is in demand at the college proms.
 That's Mrs. Kramers hobby, dis covering bands. PoSsessor of sev- eral millions, she gets her great est delight in uncorking some new rhythmic combine that might strike the public favor. She brought Gray Gordon and Jan Savitt out of obscurity and was the first to introduce Swingster Artie Shaw to Manhattan. Shaw has gone musical places since then.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 1:25 a. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:26 B. m.; sets s:l2 D. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Decoration Day and plants always seem to go hand-in-hand All over this climatic belt thousands of house-holders are busily en- gagged these days in setting out seedlings which soon will blossom forth into beautiful flowers--a miracle of Nature that knows no greater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Current Comment

This country is the only one in the world where unrestricted po- litical freedom prevails. and this freedom for me Is essential to the pursuit of happiness.-Dr. Paul Echwarz. former German consul in New York, in becoming an Ameri- can citizen.