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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
NEXT, The East.
F0REsTALL DARKNESS

Evanston, III. = Northwestern will start playing oil It's November foot. ball home games at i;50 o'clock next fail to avoid playing the last quarter in comparative darkness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
SOLDIERS MUST PLAY. roo

Paris au The French Sports Ass6s eiation has appealed for 10000 fe0t. balls which viii be sent tG troops back Of the frent iifiss for reeFess ti6f periods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
BETHLEHEM GIRLS
 HERE SATURDAY

On Saturday night. Dec. 30 the Bethlehem A. c. Girls journey to Waterbury to meet the Varsity Girls at the Boys Club gym. The !. A. c. Giris would like to hear from the following teams fin regard to a home and home series SC, Joseph Jfs,, Washington Hill Maiden's and Debs, Brooklyn Townies, Mount Carmel, St. Peters Reserves of 1'6rfingt0n or any other Jf. girls team playing boys rules. Communicate with Aines T. Minor, Bethlehem,
 West Point, N. Yr--Arniy viii play oil It's home basketball games fin the afternoon this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
A LIFETIME JoB9

Frank Hill has served as basket ball coach at Rutgers University for twenty-four seasons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26

New YoFk=Ldiigi Beceaij, who won the oiympts fb00snstefs champion slip for Italy in ie32, viii represent the New York Atbeitic club this winter,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26

fn reserve for the Bpaftafs VIII be: Bowling, Liebeek, Bueii, zurlls; for the Alumnii Bedeli, Bolahd, Jackson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26

Tokio, Japan, has an anti-noise b drive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
A Thought for Today
Not an Extension

Bridgeport residents in particular seem to be the most aroused of the Fairfield County population over the tolls charged on the Merritt Parkway. They don't like to think that this brand-neW road can ever have an extension if it is outside Fairfield County. The parkway is going to begin and end within their own county limits. Once it passes beyond them it's another road entirely. All of which doesn't make sense to motorists who hap pen to live in other counties, yet feel they have the right to travel over roads in all sections of the state.
 After all a particular roadway is not bounded by the particular township or county through which it may pass. The Merritt Parkway is no more Fairfield County roadway than it is Connecticut motorWay. It belongs to the people of the state and it is their tax dollars that will pay for it. It is their same tax dollars that will speed up the extension of this fine parkway all the way across Connecticut to the Massachusetts line.
 We see no particular point gained in arguing that the Merritt Parkway is built and extending it further simply means building new road. After all the motor ing public of this state pays high rates for its fine roads and If one section of the state objected to another section getting Q good road and refused to help pay for 1t where would our highway system be today. Lots of us don't ride over many improved roads in this state, yet we help pay for their construction and upkeep. To argue that we shouldn't keep on doing this is slightly screwy, to our way of thinking
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Change of Heart

It was interesting to read that Pub fisher William J. Pape of the Waterbury Republican-American inclines to the theory or belief that the city manager plan may be defeated at the forthcoming referendum in October. Speaking at the outing of Republicans held in this city last Sunday MT. Pape expressed such an opinion of the approaching election when he pointed out what the Republican Party faced this fall in November, the date set for an election of local officials in the event no change in government is voted month previous.
 This Is a different view of the local situation than the Republican press of this city took for good many years. It first propounded the city manager theory quite while ago and remained pretty faithful to 1t for years and years. Evi- dently the time has come, though to abandon any such thoughts or theories and proceed along the assumption that as much can be accomplished under a mayor-council form of government as under the proposed new city-manager- council.
 The Democrat always contended that 1t wasn't the system so much as it was the officials. Time has certainly proved this to be correct. We still incline in this direction, but we more than welcome the opportunity to be given Waterbury this fall to vote on a question that has been tossed around so long, We should decide whether We want our present charter or 8 new one at the polls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

ter between the movie producers and dis tributors and the exhibitors, with due regard for what the customers seem to want.
 To see such bill passed by state leg islature on the ground that public health considerations demand that shows be no longer than two hours and 15 minutes, anything longer being harmful to the eyes, is to make mockery of all reason For such a law, to afford any real pro- lection to public health would have to provide that all children be elected after seeing the picture through once, and, of course no child would stand for that.
 The whole thing is rather ridiculous effort to settle by law problem that is essentially business problem with no vital public interest at stake. In such cases Governor Horner is right: the law does best to stay in it's own back yard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Getting Soft?

We're all for humanitarianism. But sometimes it looks as though We are be- ginning to let it melt us down into rather pitiful bowl of gruel in some cases. Out in Ohio there is lady who, in an un- fortunate disagreement with her hus- band few years ago, bashed his head in with hammer. She was sent to a reformatory, where she led boresome but apparently not too onerous existence Trusted by the matron, she then took advantage of that trust to escape. Later she was caught, and as punishment the matron proposed to snip off her hair.
 Up rose the humanitarians with a cry of medieval barbarism to thus humiliate 9 woman" And we say, "Mush!" Ger tainly 1t is not desirable to return to an age when criminals were lashed like ami mals in solitary cells. But it is scarcely serving any recognizable social end to be so ultra-considerable of the feelings of murders and trust-breakers as not to hu- initiate them by shipping single lock of their head. To allow such maundlin sentimentalities to intrude on prison administration is to abandon reason for the most abject sentimentality.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Ignored Money

Federal government bonds issued dur ing the administration of George Wash ington are still outstanding. Treasury officials wish that whoever has them would come in and get his money, for the expense of bookkeeping on them is almost more costly than redemption. Of course it is likely that most of these secur- ities are destroyed or permanently lost.
 But people are unbelievably careless about money. More than $3,OOOOOO worth of the Thrift and Savings stamps issued during the World War are still out standing. Interest on them has long since ceased, of course. But somewhere in old trunks, disused dresser drawers, and abandoned lock-boxes, there is $3,OOO,0O0 for somebody. Anybody who can think back to where he laid a paper of Thrift Stamps in volume of "Heart Throbs" back in 1918 and forgot them, will be do- ing himself and the government mutual service by digging them out and cashing them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

"Pinocchio", it will be remembered, was the chldren's play that had to close at the height of its success. MT. Lavery states among other things that Federal Theater was "sold down the river" by it's own administration, by certain wing of the Work Progress administration And neither communism nor economy had very much to do with it." Mr. Lavery gives the credit of the breaking up of the project to Harry Hopkins and says, "Who killed Federal Theater? Harry Hopkins killed it when he left the baby on the doorstep of people who didn't care for it." The sad part of the story of the death of others as sincerely interested in good theater did care for it, but as he says "Pinocchio is just puppet once again"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

The WPA Federal Theater was doomed June 30, but it is just now going through the passing out stage with the dismissal of several hundred supervisors, but a couple of thousand workers will continue to be on the payroll for two more months. Federal government activity in the theater lasted about five years and during that time many out-of-work actors and actresses were given work and much new talent was discovered. Unfortunately the Federal Theater has died. Its director, Mrs. Hallie Flanagan, when so quoted, has denied that she plans or would sponsor Federal Theater by means of trade union support. In very enlight- ening article in the current number of Commonweal Emmet Lavery, connected with the Federal Theater, gives his opin- ion on the death of the Federal Theater in an article, "Who Killed Federal Theater?" and cleverly sub-headed, "How Congress Turned Pinocchio from an Actor Into Puppet."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

The art collection of Samuel H. Kress contains almost as many articles or museum pieces as his great store which is the delight of lady shoppers who find this glorified five and ten a joyous shop ping center. His collection and Mellon's, with no others, make the National Gal lery one of the worlds greatest museums. Kress is an example of successful man who sells at cheapest prices but buys the unattainable which all of us can see for as little or less as we spend in the great glittering emporiums that carry the art collectors name.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Views of The Press

countryside had the Wooden Nut meggers looking under theis beds It was only last January that the glawakus spring full blown in all his horrendous fury from the fertile soil of Yankee inventiveness. The beast was reported to be frightening the farmers in the neighborhood of Glastonbury, rending their sturdy dogs limb from limb and breaking the peaceful night air with unearth- ly bellowings. Things finally reached the point where an expedition went in search of the monster. And, of course, the glawakus was not found He never is. That is the chief dis tinction of the strange and terrify- ing beast.
 Well, the boys must have their fun, and certainly there is no harm in 1t. But if one were to meet a Connecticut wildcat, a Maine bear or @ Vermont catamount face to face on its native heath he probably would not thin kit so funny. As a matter of fact, wildcats turn up every so often in western Connecti- cut, in Massachusetts; 1t was only three years ago that 1t was reported 6 wildcat had been killed in the vicinity of Anthony's Nose, that his- toric promontory on the Hudson River where, among other spots, Mad Anthony Wayne signally dis tinguished himself. Not so long ago panther tracks were reported seen tn the Redfield section of Oswergo county.
 In 1884 q bear was reported seen In western Connecticut, but there was some question as to whether it was . wild one or one that had es- capped from . private goo. At about the same time c couple of iidcais ware killed noar Waterbury. News
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

agreed on was confined to deplor- ing the Lewis attack and express ing confidence in Gamers integ- rity.
 NOTE - Contrary tot he first
 impression, John l.. Lewis blast
 against Garner was not done on
 the spur of the moment. It was
 something he thought over for
 long time and rehearsed care-
 fully in advance.
 MERRY GO ROUND
 Senator Truman of Missouri is a dead ringer for Justice Felix Frankfurter.: So is Sen. Smathers of New Jersey for Atty. General Frank Murphy Eloquent Sen- ator Josh Lee of Oklahoma made a slip of the tongue in senate de- bate; he spoke of "the sale of spiritual liquors" McNary of Oregon laughted delightedly |. It was an odd pair when veteran Democrat Pat Harrison of Missis- sippi crossed the Senate aisle and sat down to chat with freshman Republican Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts Not odd was the pair of Bankheads chatting on a sofa at the back of the chamber. Speaker Bill Bankhead had strolled from the House side to the Senate to see his brother, Senator John Bankhead Artist Rockwell Kent has offered to donate his work to illustrate a WPA Federal Writers book on Hawaii. He would travel to Hawaii to make the drawings. He may do the same thing, also. for a Vir- gin Islands book |. Hallie Elan agan, who headed the WPA Fed eral Theater Project which Con- gress liquidated, says she will never be happy again on a col- lege faculty. Formerly Q Vassar prof, she has been in the storm of things, far from the cloisters, during four years past.
 GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
 The Library of Congress tele- phoned WPA Federal Writers of- flee in the Ouray building the other day and asked to have all borrowed books returned.
 But why?" asked WPA. "We have just gotten them."
 "Yes," responded Library, "but you are going to be moved out of the Ouray building, and we don't want to have the books banked around"
 But we're not going to be moved out" protested WPA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
. HlGHllGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
Man Can Build Better World

The next great war is certain to
 be an aerial war and SO the
 little book, "Air-War" by the
 Irish psychologist was scien-
 tist, w. O. D. Pierce (Modern
 Age: 50 cents), is extremely
 timely and vital. It is a pie
 ture of how aviation has de-
 veloped, what 1t will mean in
 the war of tomorrow. Finally,
 1t Is . study of a humanity,
 which, MT. Pierce says below,
 ought to do something about
 imperialism.
 Behind the bomber lies the work of the scientist, the expert, and the technician. These men, in their chemical and engineering labora- tories, work ceaselessly to perfect the bombs and poison gases which their aircraft will carry. They know that they are creating not new benefits for mankind but methods for the more efficient destruction of their fellowmen.
 Production increases to mass production, but the abundance produced is soon followed by mass unemployment. We have the curi- ous spectacle of nations burning and restricting the production of food while their unemployed starve; of diplomats discussing how many ships, tanks and air. planes shall be allotted to fight the wars they have all re- nounced"; of governments offering bonuses for large families while declaring their territories so over- crowded as to make colonies im- perative. All this is strongly sug- gestive of lunatic asylum.
 It is fooish, however, to believe that there is some fundamental defect in the makeup of man which prevents him from living in peace and brotherhood with his fellows. His brain is sound. In- tellectually he is quite capable of solving the problem of how to live in peace and how to pro- vide abundance for all. His de. sires also are sound. His trouble Is not insanity, but illustration.
 Let Us look at the facts. |. Powerful financial interests em. bark on . program of imperialism and attempt to- seise the markets controlled by weaker nations. This can be accomplished tMunich notwithstandinesl only by war. 30 against his wiii, and with nothing to gain from impsriaIist sxpansion to Gaiu from impesiAlisi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
ANOTHER GLAWAKUS? (New York Sun)

The world begins to wonder If the alleged wildcat that has the resi- dents around Honeoye Lake in western New York in Q dither is not another glawakus. To be sure, some thirty dead sheep seem to point to the fact that some animal other than a genuine glawakus has been at work. But when the beast is described as having "fiashlight eyes, 1t almost looks like Q glawakus after all. Not that it may not really be a wildcat, of course; wildcats though rare are not unknown in western New York. But with glawakuses rampant in the Northeast in recent months one Is inclined to be skepti- cal at any beast but . glawakus.
 The terrible tale of the dlaston- bury glawakus Is still fresh in mem- ory. The publIc's hair has barely had time to return to normal since the monster os the Connecticut
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Current Comment

I think this third term oppo- sition Is bit of political hokum. Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes.
 The A. F. of L. is still under the control of a small group, firmly entrenched and reactionary in their attitude toward public questions, who are tolerant of many evil conditions existing in the federal ton. John l.. Lewis. The real reason that he Gewis) does not want (labor) peace is be- cause peace would automatically end his autocratic control over 6 minority group in organized labor.
 William Green.
 It Is not enough to defend the status quo against reaction. Re- action must be defeated by destroy- ing those evils in our present sys- tenn which made 1t possible.
 Rabbi A. H. Silver of Cleveland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 9:04 ?. m. daylight tIme).
 Sun rises 5:48 a. m.; sets 8:08 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 High water at Milford Thursday. Aug. 3, l:38; low water, 6:06 daylight time)
 August dawned clear and cool which, however, is no omen of what is to come. Nog- maily August produces some hot weather, but Is apt to shade oa into cool nights with the latter end productive Of near frost6 and the hint Of autumn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
What's Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Name the principal river oS Venezuela. @
 ?. Which president wrote his own epitaph?
 3. In dry measure, how many quarts in one peck?
 4. In what year did the Boston Tea Party occur?
 5. How many stories high is the R. o. A. building in New York city2 6. What is the correct pronuncia. tion of the word predatory?
 2. Where is the famous Widows Tears waterfalls?
 8. For what degree do the initials Ph. D. stand?
 9. What animal produces Hudson Seal?
 10. What is the nickname for the state of Maryland?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
"Oh, yes you are," insisted Library.

Library.
 And Library was right.
 This is the way things happen in Uncle Sam's government. With the termination of Federal The ater Project also housed in the Ouray building, it was decided that the remaining Projects-Writers, Art, Music and Historic Records would not need the whole Ouray building, rented at cost of $28,- 900 a year.
 So an order was given to clear out. But the order never got to the projects principally con- cerned. The first word they had of 1t, before movers swarmed in to seize their desks and tear up their telephone lines, was from the Library of Congress.
 OIL THE REAL ISSUE
 Scandal has been breaking wave after wave in Louisiana, but the really big tidal wave is expected momentarily and is going to en- gulf every big politician in the state.
 Highlight of the blow-up is go- ing to be oil, may also involve a big whiskey ring and even nar- cotics - though all of this may not come out at one time.
 Income taxes also enter the pic- tire, though some of the top poli- ticians have been extremely care- full in chalking up their revenue and have not violated the income tax law. Ex-Governor Leche, for instance, reported a huge in- come, though his salary as gover- nor was only $7,500 a year. He did not state where this revenue came from. but merely Jumped 1t together under Other Income".
 There is nothing illegal about this, but federal investigators have been busy breaking down these Jump sums, to find out what the individual items were, and this is where the trail gets hot and inter- esting.
 Other important leads have come from one high Louisiana official who turned government witness.
 All in all, it looks as if almost every head in the old Huey Long machine would fall and that Louisiana would continue to be the hottest place in the U. s. A. this summer.
 Copyright, 1889, by United
 Feature Syndicate. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Selected Poem
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND

Gucia Cabot in the Christian Science Monitor Merry-go-rounds are such very gay things I rode through the air as though had wings A fine prancing horse, I caught by the mane Swung to the saddle held tight to the rein. A rabbit that wore pink ears and smile Lured me away and I rode him awhile
 A lion who had a very kind way
 Then asked me to ride the rest of the day. I climbed on the camel, and sat on his hump. While spinning around fell with bump. It quite took my breath; started to cough; Then we slowed down, and had to get of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

The weather prophets, some of them, have said the end of the drought would not be reached until mid-August. Local showers have helped, but actually no rainy season has been experienced, and it is only rainy season, many days of heavy, steady rain that will once more fill the presently oo-burbling streams
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
LOGAN MEMORIAL (Boston Post)

It is fitting that thet veterans with whom he was identified through such long period of his military career should be the first to under take the job of erecting a suitable monument or memorial to the late Lieutenant-G General Edward L. Lo- gan.
 The men with whom he served in the Spanish-American war, the Mexican border campaign and the World War knew General Logan best. The pla nto erect a monument to him and to the citizen soldiers, he typified so well, is one of excel- lence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

ing into a clarinet to go to c Pennsylvania farm and turn out what he fondly hoped would be an acceptable novel. It was to be on Blk Biederbecke, that fabulous, greatly misunderstood genius of swing.
 For he had roomed with Blk back in the coffee-and-cake days, when a five dollar bill was a rosy dream and three meals a day were the nearest thing they could imagine to Utopia. And Shaw considered Blk a godlike, strange and tragic person. Anyway, he put on paper whatever he knew about Blk. But 1t wouldn't jell - there seemed to be no beginning and no satisfactory ending, So he gave 1t up.
 TWO KINDS
 OF SWING
 But writing, curiously enough, influenced Artie Shaw's career. Some years ago, he was playing in a Cleveland band, earning just enough to keep going. One morning, paper announced an essay contest, the prize being a free trip to California. He enter ed, won and took the 5000-mile tour. That was the real Shaw be- ginning-for out on the gold coas his clarinet became eloquent and lucrative.
 He has been asked a thousand times what he thinks of swings chances of surviving. He thinks its chances are as good as those of the human race, which is saying 8 lot for that racy noise that de- lights the jitterbugs.
 But he would like to debunk swing-to take the nonsense, the ballyhoo and the tive jargon out of 1t. He says there are two types of swing. The first attempts to blow the roof off. It's a punch drunk form, grating, vulgar. An out-and-out menace. The second is smooth" or sophisticated" swing.
 Swing-and he speaks for all the musicians he knows intimate ly-is the creation of a mood. In 1t, there is blasting, purring, sub- telty, obviousness each in It's proper place. That's swing and that is what 1t always will be If 1t continues to probe into a tune, be the tune by Bach or Duke El- lington. NIGHTMARE"
 BORN AT DAWN
 For example, while he was play ing in Lexington, Ky, one night, Shaw was up at 4 o'clock in the morning, getting down on the manuscript a tune that had roamed through his head all eve- ming. He wst testing the notes on his clarinet. In walked his sax player, Tony Paste, who inquir- ed in his rough- h-and- tumble way, "What's up2 I thought I was having @ nightmare" So Shaw called the tune Nightmare" and has been l:5ing 1t ever since as a theme song.
 A few months ago, Swingster Shaw fell i'll with a rare blood disease. It was almost fatal. Ly- ing on 8 hospital cot, not know ing whether he would see the next mornings sun, gave him a new perspective on things. He realized that his career ia swing was important. But he also came to see that there are far greater tragedies than swing bandsman giving slip-shod off-beat or hit- ting "clinker" in a musical pas sage.