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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-02
Explanations Needed

The sudden and unexpected attack that Senator Joseph B. DowneS launched against the Norwich State Hospital in the State Senate late Wednesday afternoon
 may have been inspired for different req sons. Senator DoWneS, who is resident of Norwich and the Democratic leader in the Senate, may have in his possession facts that bear out his claims about the management of the institution Or he may plan to focus sufficient attention on the hospital so that the state will learn just what steps should be taken to mod ernize it and relieve congestion there
 A general denial of the several charges brought by Senator Downes was entered promptly by Dr. Chester R. Waterman, Superintendent of the hospital An invi- tation to investigate conditions there was also offered. Maybe this should be ac- cepted by those officials within whose province would lie such a duty. And we're inclined to believe that fault will be found not with the individual nor the manner in which he conducts the inSti- Wich hospital has long been overcrowded and no place can successfully be operated under such conditions.
 Overcrowding has long inconvenienced efficient and modern operation of our state hospitals, as well as other institu- fions, like the tubercular senatorial Ef- forts have been made and still are being made to bring all such retreats up to standard But when many of them are forced 10 accommodate several hundred more tIan they are supposed to do, some En1ng must give way. Our state hospital
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Press Comment
vANDALs IN THE WOODS
(New Haven Jounal-Courier)


 The vandals who go into the woods possibly to enjoy but certainly to destroy are always with us. They begin their malign practises very early in the spring. The New Eng land Wild Flower Preservation Com mittee was complaining in early May that over wide areas of the region, the lovely moccasin flower or pink ladyslipper was dying out. A mem- Der of the orchid family, this flow CT is a slow grower and takes several years to develop from seed to bloom. Since the flower is dependent upon insects to fertilize its seed, it is all the more slow in its expansion and all the more difficult to revive once it is gone.
 But it is not merely the rarer beauties of the woods and field that suffer from the outdoor vandal Picnic grounds filtered with relics oi old repasts are one of his major manifestations and raids on ground evergreens are as numerous as those upon flowers. The mountain laurel finally had to be protected by specific mandate against the depredations of people who could show their appreciation of natural beauty only by destroying it. It's a pretty good rule, long since adopt ed by the nature lover, that every thing afield should be left as 1t is found. Nature, in short, knows best
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administrator, when he insisted on strict enforcement of the law there.
 HOT SEAT ANDREWS
 Actually Andrews has been sit- ting on hot seat for some time. Kindly and cautious, he has tried to avoid the crack-downS of the MIRA by following middle-of-the- road course. Also he has been handicapped by a serious shortage of funds.
 Although he had to enforce a law nationwide in scope, Con- gress started Andrews with an ap- propriation of only $350,O00 For months, therefore, ne had to work with a skeleton staff while thou sands of violation complaints poured in from both employers and workers.
 To date over 15.OOO complaints have been filed. To handle them Andrews has had a staff of inspec- tors recently increased to only 123. Administrative experts estimate that this field staff shouold num- Der not less than 500. Of the 15,000 complaints, only HOO have been acted on, and only IT sub mitted to the Justice Department for prosecution.
 This shortage of funds not only has blocked effective enforcement but has ledt to serious personnel difficulties. Most of these have been quietly ironed out, but sev- eral months ago there was such undercover turmoil in the agency that several top officials, among them Paul Sifton, Andrews execu- tive assistant, were on the verge of resigning.
 v Andrews himself has been reported looking for another job. Although he was appoint ed on the recommendation of
 Secretary Perkins, there have been sharp differences, and a marked cOOlness has developed ebtween them.
 Andrews requested a budget of $3,350,000 for the new fiscal year. The House cut it to $3,173,000 and the final appropriation is now be- fore the Senate. Whether ampler
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Bridgeport is the second large Con- necticut city in recent weeks that has gone on record as favoring parking me- ters. This week a proposal was made in Bridgeport that meters be tried out to solve present parking problems. One cent would be charged for park ing for prescribed periods in cer- tain areas A trial test of the meters certain areas A trial test of the meters may soon be authorized by the city off, cials if they don't disagree with the find ings and recommendations of the traffic survey and safety groups. New Haven soon will install meters for trial. Others, no doubt, will follow the example.
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If legislators ever earn their salt, it is during the closing days of a session. Certainly the hectic moments that Con- necticuts legislators are spending at the Capitol this week and expect to spend next week until closing day should con- vince them of the value of getting an early start on all the controversial and puzzling problems like judgeships, bud get, bond issues for special projects, etc. We wonder, too, if it doesn't bring home to them the need of preserving some on semi line the legislative program. This is just what the Legislative Council was created to do and what it actually did do for the 1889 Assembly. But most of it's work went for naught So too, so far as we can see, does much of the work of special commits sions named to investigate conditions with the state government.
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Selected Poem
SECOND BLOsSOMING

(Ruth Lechlitner in the New York Times) Now that the hunger born of Spring Burned in her blood no longer, Now that fruit Drew its sweet milk no more from hidden root Nor bent the heavy bough, no urgent thing Stirred in her flesh: so must the heart grow wise, Serene, with Summers ending as the skies. But when from some high portal Marching the great winds blew their flaming
 trrmpets Till each calm hill Rose from burning valley to fulfill Its dream of second blossomng, the mortal Cry of her own dream broke against the earth With the sharp agony of second birth. Compassionate she knew In this too perfect and suspended hour (For second dreams are brief) Tenderness for the green, unfallen leaf. Trembling. she touched the asters starry blue; And plucked the last red dallia, petal-tossed From the dark fingers or the reaching frost.
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Chickens Home to Boost

Sometimes it takes chickens a long time to come home to rooSt. But event. ually they come Belatedly, 20 years afterward, some chickens now come home to roost in the rigging of the British mar itime power British merchant Shlps have been halted off the China coast by Japanese war vessels, boarded, and made to give an account of themselves. The British don't like it at all. They have lodged strong protest with the Japa- neSe government.
 It is just A years ago that American ships were being halted off the Euro pean coast, boarded, and made to give an account of themselves. The United States didn't like it at all It lodged strong protest-with the British government That wasn't all. The United States had to sit and watch the rights of neutrals whittled away. Contraband, before 1914, had meant supplies and munitions defl- nitely and directly useful to the armed forces. The British expanded the terms to mean anything at all except halr tonic and billiard balls.
 The doctrine of "continuouS voyage" was devised, by which it was assumed that goods shipped to neutral countries were really destined for the German army American ships were not only halted, but forcibly taken into neutral or Allied ports for examination. The U. s. mails were broken into and searched. The United States didn't like it. It protested. At one time the country was measurably close to war with Britain over British denials of what had been thought of as freedom of the seas"
 The British justified all on grounds fairly stated like this: After all, we are fighting for our lives in righteous cause, We cannot respect rights Of neu- trals which conflict. We must make new rules to fit the present game" And now Britain is confronted with Japan which, desperately involved in her Chinese ven- ture, says blandly, Ut is not question of having the right to search these ships. It is necessary, and we are doing it. So what?"
 It is not enough to grin at this partic- ular dilemma of the British, confronted by the absence of rights of neutrals which they themselves helped to abolish. The United States may be confronted with the same problem at any moment. The liner President Coolidge is now in the Jaranese search zone" It. too, may be halted. But if it is, the United States government may well choose to consider the incident, not in terms of what one used to think international law" guar anteed as the rights of neutralS, but in terms of what 1914-1917 taught that the desperation of necessity may allow to neutrals
 There is reason to believe that the Chinese adventure is not going too we'll < for the Japanese. They are getting desperate. Though there is little Ameri- can sympathy for the Japanese cause, to the Japanese it is becoming a life and death matter. And what warning coun- tries will do to the theoretical rights Of neutrals" when they are desperate has always been learned in a grim school whose term was between 1914 and 1917, and one of whose best teachers was none other than Britain herself
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The State Motor Vehicle Department is sending out pamphlets to civic bodies and police departments urging action be taken to curb the increasing number of bicycle accidents. The increase in the number of bicycles on public streets and highways prompts the department to issue measures that may be used to form regulation rules throughout the state. Several years ago The Democrat cooper ated in bicycle safety campaign. Young driving.
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funds will solve his administra- tive problems remains to be seen. MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Federal authorities have re- ceived confidential information that Berlin, alrammed by reports that Attorney General Murphy was planning vigorous drive against Nazi spies, has hastily transferred their North American headquarters from the U. s. to Canada One feature of the Townsend convention in Indian apolis this month will be huge banquet in honor of "The Mother of TownSendiSm Mrs. Francis E. Townsend, wife of the founder of the movement. Ten thousand are expected to participate William Allen White, noted Kansas publisher, has written a Declara- ton of Tolerance and Equality which will be issued by the Coun- cil Against Intolerance in America on July 4 The firstt hing SECommissioner Leon Henderson did after taking his seat was to take Paul Shields and James For restal, prominent Wall Street fig ures who opposed his appoint ment, to lunch and tell them, q hold nothing against you. I be- ieve you were sincere and I want your cooperation to help us make the law work I. Senate Re- publican Floor Leader Charles McNary has 100 per cent att tendance record for the session, hasn't missed a meeting this year. BEAUTY TROUBLES
 If you work for the govern ment, and have both beauty and brains, better not let anybody dis cover it.
 Miss Mabel A. Sugnet, WPA stenog, won Beauty With Brains" contest conducted by a Washington newspaper. She ap- peared with A other contestants on the stage of local theater while Senator Tydings of Mary land, Representative Randolph of West Virginia, and Eleanor Powell, the dancer, scrutinized and judged.
 Then she answered such ques- tionS as: Who owns the island of Madagascar? and Who wrote "Lord Jim"? Reward was a silver loving cup and a trip to the New York Worlds Fair Accompanied by young Representative Ram dolph, who wanted to go, tool.
 But when the young prize-win- ner came back, she found nothing but trouble. There were cold glances at the office. Her su- perior at WPA rebuked her for being absent, warned that she might lose her job. The atmos- phere remains very frigid.
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tall and reasonably spare, of course. The most unforgettable Lincoln i1npersonator of this gen. eration was Frank McGlyn, who was a double for the immortal President.
 Massey spends two and a half hours with the greasepaint for his role in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" because the play covers such long span in the Presidents life. Not only must he carefully blend wax and putty to build the Lin- coin nose, but he must change wigs three times every evening and furrow his face with the lines of age.
 There are virtually no photos of Lincoln as a young man tc guide the actor. Henry Fonda, who now is the Young MT. Lin- coln," had no photographic ex- ample to go on when he made up for his part. The last picture of Lincoln beardless was that of him at fifty. So Hank Fonda worked backward, trying to imagine what Honest Abe's features were like when he was twenty-five.
 Probably the best natural" Lincoln around here was young Stephen Courtleigh, who used vir- tually no makeup at all. He just looked like Abe Lincoln of Illi- noiS without half trying.
 Everyone in acting circles speaks admiringly of Walter Huston's impression of Lincoln. The late Chic Sales version of Lincoln was one of the top-heaviest of all, weighted down by too many whis- kers and an overartificial wart. REPETITIOUS
 HISTORY
 With the foreign despatches what they are, Phil lDuschness, the bibliophile, naturally was confused when he came upon this clipping from the Connecticut Courant, dated Hartford, Monday, October 29, 1764:
 "Paris-August 10. Within these last three days no less than IS different .couriers have been de- spatched to Madrid. All is hurry and confusion at Versailles. Ex- presses are every moment sent to different Seaports, and if some whispers are to be credited, we are on the eve of a new rupture with the most formidable of our neighbors. This, and the distrac- tions which are but too justly ap- prehended in Poland, threaten to deluge Europe with fresh blood!"
 It doesn't look as though things have changed much during the past 175 years, comments the rare book merchant. PERSONAL
 SERVICE
 Impressed by the success that others have, enjoyed in the field, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt now is heading personal service bureau and invites folk to let her perform all kinds of chores-from sewing on a stray button to arranging ho- tel accommodations in Singapore. She's doing quite well, too.
 The leader in this feminine field, though, still is Mrs. Richard Rod- gers, wife of the famed tunesmith. Her Repairs, Inc, is a thriving venture. specializing in mending any broken household article or even pair of run-tortured stock ingS.
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i. Name the state flower of Ohio.
 2. When is the length of day and night equal all over the earth?
 3. How many gillS are in gallonf
 4. What is the correct pronuncia. tion of the word epitome?
 s. What was the first name Of the Hungarian composer Liszt?
 6. Name the science which treats of coins and medals.
 2. Name the European explorer who discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River.
 8. What was the name of the plane in which Howard Hughes flew around the world?
 9. With which Major League base- ball club does Al Simmons play?
 10. Name the U. s. Secretary of Agriculture.
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. HIGHLiGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Tells How Czech Nation Died

4NdClOIl DlCu
 The circumstantial story of the
 death of a nation, by one who
 stood there and saw it die, is
 told in We Shall Live Again.
 Doubleday, Doran: $3) by Mau-
 rice Hindus. Hindus' measure of
 the CzechOslovakian tragedy.
 What a nightmare! Here was a people in servitude for 300 years; then history beckoned to them and with their courage and their blood they won back their independence. They built up their industries, their agriculture, their education, their democracy, above all a fresh method of reconciling races and nationali- ties that had always hated and war red with one another.
 Despite wrongs and blunders which they had never concealed, they had achieved under a system of freedom pleasurable standard of living such as few people in Europe enqoyed :.
 Then Power Politics 1ooSened up- on these people one attack after another. Then came Runciman. Berchtesgaden, Godesberg with their best friends pushing them deeper and deeper into a policy of self annihilation. Then came Munich. Then the Fifth Zone. the Sixth Zone, Chodsko, the Vienna settle ment, the agreement with Hungary and Poland, the smashup of trans portation, of industry, of agriculture. of education, of democracy, of the very spirit of the people. Never in all history had a nation so enlight- ened, so prosperous, so secure, so powerful, on its own soil been com pelled by its own best friends to break itself to pieces, ito tear its own heart, yes, with its own hands, as a Czech editor had once cried out, land spit on it."
 sit any wonder that so many of them have become dismayed and brutalized and deep in their hearts hate not only the Germans, but the French, the English, the Jews democracy, humanitarianism, the professors" and all that in the pre-Munich days the Republic had espoused and emulated?
 My father wanted me to be a democrat and Q gentleman" said one young man, But .. l want to make of myself Q Fascist and c barbarian"
 It was Munich and all that fol- lowed which had briiitlised. though perhaps only temporarily, not only the tongle but the mind and the heart of this young Czech and oi many Of bis countrymen.
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 8:4s D. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:22 a. m; sets SIT D. m. tday- light time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset May may safely be recorded as c month of extreme drought for Connecticut. We had scattering showers towards the end of the month, but they were not enough. The last heavy rains In this section came about April 27 or 2B.
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A. Tour-Kings, Nassau, Queens and Suffolk.
 @. Has my employer right to open my letters without my per- mission?
 A. No.
 0. Why is St. Andrew Under- shaft in London so named?
 A. Because its eteeple was lower than the May-pole which the citi- zens used to raise there on May day.
 @. Name several of the larger American owned yachts. A. "Orion," 3,015 gross tons: "Alva," 2,265 gross tons: Sea Cloud" (formerly "Hussar"). 2,323 gross tons.
 o. How much wool can be shear ed from the average, mature, male Angora rabbit? A. About 12 ounces . year. o. How can I trace 6 missing relative or friend? A. Suggestions for finding miss | ing persons may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to our Washington Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Wash ington, D. 0. o. When was McGill University in Montreal, Canada, founded and how large is the student body2 A. It was founded in 1921, and has 2,689 students. e. Please state the number and dimensions of the columns of the Parthenon of the Acropolis m Athens, Greece. A, Forty-six columns, eight on each front and seventeen on each side, counting the corner columns twice. They were fully six feet In diameter at the base, and 34 feet high.
 o. How many American citizens live in Italy? | A. As of January 1, 1889, the es- timated number was 23,330. e. Has Kate Smith ever ape peared in motion pictures?
 A. She has played in two feature films; "The Big Broadcast" and Hello Everybody @. How many dentists are there | in the United States? A. About 71,000, of whom 64.00o are in actual practice,
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50, or laCe, hopeful Broad way actors have been studying DOT tr aits of Lincoln and have dropped in to have a look at or chat with Ray mond Massey, who bears an uncanny resem- blance to the Rail Splitter.
 All stage Lin- coins, they con- fide. must be
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expansion program is progressing, but until additional space is available at Newtown and the Norwich and Middle town plants have been revalnped, there will always be criticism. Some of it should be directed at officials in Hartford not at the institutions.
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Current Comment

The actual formation of a new government is merely a matter of Q telegram to Czechoslovakian col- laborators in Washington, London, Paris and Moscow. -Bohus Benes, nephew of former Czechoslovak president.
 
 Neutrality There ain't no such animal.--Bernard M. Baruch, finan- cier, testifying before senate foreign relations committee.
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 a, If the soot from smoking chimheys that falls on large in- dustrial city like Pittsburgh, Cleve- land or Chicago in one year were weighed, how much would it amount to?
 A. A recent project in Cleveland. reported by the International City Managers association to lessen the damage by smoke, indicated that in that city the fall of soot weighs about 100 million pounds, or ap- proximately 100 pounds per family. and causes an annual damage or SIG. 100000.
 o. How many counties are on Long Island, N. Y?
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In New York
BY CEoRcR Ross

New York, June 2-The coun- try-wide revival of interest in plays and pageants about Honest Abe" has put pressure on the sup- ply of thespian Lincolns.
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Thrift isn't always thrift. Did anyone ever get ahead by wearing the same suit of clothes for ten years?
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Washington Merry -Go-Round
D R E W PEARSON ROBERT s. ALLEN

the Supreme Court the Unlo
  Capital pograps the Justices in order of seniority and then
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The U. S. Senate has joined the other "have-nots" in demand for peace.
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Whats Your l. O?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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A Thought for Today

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an in nocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen-DeuterOnOmy 27:25.
  Murder itself is past all expation the greatest crime, which nature doth abhor.-Goffe.
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TFIR EDFTOR

|>TODAY's COMMON ERROR
 Do not say, "The family has moved to another house." say, removed"
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