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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-26
THIEVES TRICK IRK GROCER

Columbia, s. c. UP)-The pro- prietor of a small grocery here didn't mind losing the cigarettes and chewing tobacco thieves took from his store one night. However he objected very much to the rob- bers having dumped sack of sugar into a sack of rice to get an empty bag to carry away their loot. He spent several hours sitting the two
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Her to permit normal childbirth is absurd as the companion supersti- tion that application of some oil or similar agent to the body will in any way promote easier deliv- cry.
 I repeat, If a woman can roll somersaults, run quarter mile and has all her teeth or function ally efficient dentures she should go ahead and have her baby regard less of her age.
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Ho1O To Keep WeH
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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the baby becomes i'll with serious case of pneumonia. To save its life serum must be flown from the west coast. A thrilling race against death ensues and the picture moves grippingly to a smashing climax that will have audiences breathless with excitement.
 Others in the cast include Charles Coburn, Lucille Watson, Ruth Wes- ton, Eddie Quilland and Donald Briggs.
 Included on the same show will be Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong in King of Chinatown"
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GO AHEAD AND LIVE

GO AHEAD AND LIVE
 Kindly advise me how old one can be and have child without danger to herself. Is 40 or 42 too old? (Mrs. T. A. D.
 I am glad Mrs. D. submits this query, and at the same time I am annoyed by it. I did so want to shook over to the bowling green this afternoon. But nasty glance through the booklet Preparing for Maternity" which any expectant father or expectant mother may have on request (enclose ten cents coin and a stamped envelope bear ing your address, indicates that I clean forgot to include word for girls like Mrs. D. Darn it all, why don't people ask me these things when I'm revising Little Lessons?
 One can be, say forty-six years of age and have a child without more than ordinary danger. An- other can be older than that at thirty-six years of age.
 Accurate records of childbirth in large series of cases showed that the healthy woman of forty ap- preaching her first childbirth may expect normal delivery, especial ly if she has kept herself fit by exer- else.
 The best exercise to favor easy, normal childbirth is a daily walk of a mile or two.
 The woman who does all her own housework, whether she is a primi- para or multipara (expecting her first or her second, third or fourth baby) generally has an easier de- livery than the woman who pam pers herself and delegates most of the housework to others.
 Perhaps women achieved anility earlier in the Victorian era than they do today AS late as the gay ninetieS 1t was more or less cus- tomary for woman to begin sac- rificing her teeth at thirty or thir- ty-five. For the loss of every tooth which is not immediately replaced by a denture which will carry on the function of the tooth, subtract a year or two from your life ex- pectation. Of course an denetulous old woman of thirty or thirty five should expect to encounter diffi- culties or dangers in pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth.
 So I answer Mrs. T. A. D. by asking her a few pertinent ques- tions:
 Can you roll somersaultS?
 Have you all your teeth or an efficient denture replacing any teeth you have lost?
 Can you run around the block or say one-fourth mile?
 If the answer to these questions is yes then it is of no significance whether you are thirty or forty two when your first baby is born.
 The old wives notion that a womans bones become too un- yielding at thirty-five or even ear-
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Latest Styles
-RAIsTNG A FAMILY- We All Have The Desire
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Rx OLIVE RoBERTs DAYTON

I am going to quote again that time-worn adage: Sow an act and reap a habit; SOW habit and reap a character"
 We all understand, think that
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Air service between Chungking China, and Moscow, Russia, will b' established.
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LAST ~Cafe Society" and DAYS! "One Third of X Nation
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CHEMISTRY Money against which each us rub leaving telae streak which much alloy have in characters
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Chairman Healey's Advice

We commend Chairman Frank Healey of the Board of Fire Commissioners for the sound advice and instruction as given two young men just advanced to member ship in the Fire Department. It was timely, to the point, and most impress sive, or rather it should be, not only to the appointees themselves, but to all others associated with the safety units of Waterbury'S municipal government.
 We have watched the various boards in control of the Fire and Police Depart ments for years, have followed their action in various instances, but at no time can delivered by Chairman Healey last Friday afternoon.
 Waterbury, we think, with such men as Chief Cavanaugh and Deputy Cam pion, assisted by Acting Deputy Bloom field and Fire Marshal Lahey, comprising the administrative branch of the system, has an excellent Fire Department, and it's rank and file stand out, we further believe, with any similar department of New Eng land. Their real worth has been demon- strated time and again in their work of stopping" fire. We sing our praise of the rank and file, because of our interest in the department of itself, and the fine cooperation extended to those whose duty it is to see that this special line of safety work is carried out to the satisfac- tion of all.
 Bremen are necessary to keep our good city free of destruction from fire; we must have them, and there is unity in strength, as they say. They are subject to duty at all hours of the day and night, and must be so prepared, as the chairman so ably outlined in his address to the new men.
 It wouldn't be bad idea, in our esti- nation, if Chairman Healey's address were put in printed form and distributed to all members of the force. Logical statements of this sort sometimes help many to realize just what is expected of them in their daily pursuits.
 We congratulate Chairman Healey He seems to be pretty well fitted for the posi-, tion he occupies. In addition, he strikes us as one who speaks out, and is not afraid to say what he thinks He desires for the good of the Fire Department and demands, as he properly should, respect and consideration for the Department Chief and his assistants, at all times.
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Some one of these days we'll find out for sure if the Connecticut Campers and Trailers Association is a political group or just an organization vitally interested in it's own activities. Its president last week unburdened himself of some scorch- ing criticism of the Public Works Depart ment and we wondered if this blast, com ing as it did hard on the heels of other "shots" at Commissioner Hurley's bureau was deserved or merely part of COP effort to discredit him. Of course the situation at Hammonassett Beach is the one that arouses the most talk. Terribly damage last fall the public area may not be ready for the 1889 summer season which, to those who are accustomed to patronize the spot, is rank heresy.
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There will be other commissions besides the election law revision group to seek to be continued for another two years so that work now started may be finished. We noted Saturday that the election law commission stated it could not possibly complete all the work that should be done in the short time allotted to it. That's quite true and the same applies to many other groups which were named at the beginning of this legislative session the General Assembly had adjourned. The time has been ali too short for thor ough investigation of important matters like revising the states election laws. When you start digging into such mat ters as this lot of useless facts are un- earthed that must be discarded. Then new code has to be drawn up. It requires not few months, but year or more.
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Book A Day
Here's Fiction A Bit Different

Assuming that you are looking for something a bit different and de- cidedly better than most of the cur- rent fiction, excluding the brilliant historical novels that have marked the season, you might very well turn to two books written by newcomers in the field.
 The more adventurous of the two is Wine of Good Hope" by David Rame (Macmillan: $250). The other an equally forceful story, is Mar ginal Land" by Horace Kramer Nippincott: $2.50). In subject they are as far apart as the two poles. In the matter of sheer, strong charac- terization they are closely akin.
 Rame's story, briefly, is the saga of Tony Lemaire who left his great white-gabled farm home on the Cape of Good Hope to find his own strength in the world of men. Tony encounters incredible adventures in that quest; revolution in Brazil, more trouble in Malaya, Londan. Tony also meets the girl of his dreams and there is considerable chasing about on her account alone including incidents in New York and Maine. In the end, of course, Tony finds both himself and his love but he has managed to chalk up a story of far wanderings in the meantime. Kramer's Marginal Land," on the other hand, is the story of frail Stephen Decatur Randall who went from Chicago and bookkeeper's job to wrestle with drought and dust and diversity on South Dakota farm.
 Randall loses one wife and gains another in the struggle but, unlike most rehoes of this "midwestern" fiction, he makes fair success of his farming. Here is no "dust bowl" fadeout.
 But 1t is nonethless dramatic Kramer has a fine feeling for the sensibilities of his Dakota folk. The result is a story creditable for its new approach and understanding as well.-P. G. F.
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In Again, Out Again

Recurrent are the rumors that Benja- min E. Harwood, chairman of the Repub- lican State Central Committee, will resign his position He dispelled any such talk early last week when he announced publicly and very flatly that he had no Intention of resigning. He might have amended his statement, and perhaps he did in an undertone, by saying he, had no intention of resigning while he thought there was any chance of J. Kenneth Bradley of Westport succeeding him. Whether he would have any objection to Paul Cornell being his successor is another question. But the first is defl- nitely out.
 The Republican state chairman who followed in the footsteps of the one and liking for his post, but he Is loyal to his party. That's why he's staying on the job SO long. If he had followed out his personal dictates he would probably have given up the job right after the Republi- cans were elected last fall And it may be that now after somewhat dishearten- ing legislative session has proved that a change from Democratic to Republican administration is no cure-all for real or imaginary ills the party wouldn't want to have to fill MT. HarWood's place.
 Of course stories about changes in committee officials are common. The Democrats are always talking about re- placing J. Francis Smith, but the doughty leader has proved so generally satisfac- tory in the years that he has devoted him. self to the betterment of the party that the majority of Democrats are quite con- tent to have him guide their destinies in political affairs. His record has been too good 70 have it said that the party turned him out after he had put so many of its members into office - locally, in the state, and in the federal government.
 In any party it is always easy to start story about resignations and replace ments, but when serious thought is given to the successor the old reliable chief stands pretty high in party estimation. And that's as it should be.
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production for the country were raised 25 to 30 per cent above the level of 1925 1925. He insists that this is not too great a rise to expect, and thinks it may come about two years from now
 It certainly should come if the re- sources of money, man-power and mate rial in the United States were released to supply fundamental needs. Productive enterprise, Dr. Jordan figures, has been retarded in the last ten years to the ex- tent of $100,000, 100000. If that amount tive ways, it would doubtless soak up the unemployment.
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Begin at Home

Waterbury has read from time to time of conditions that have been found in the schools of other communities, but somehow or other we always fancied that our local institutions were free from any such bad influences From what we now read in the daily newspapers there is need of urgent and positive action here to rid the community of forces that are under mining the character of high school stu dents. With no intention of being melo- dramatic or painting lurid picture of juvenile delinquency we merely state that it is up to Waterbury fathers and mothers to correct the situation.
 Local authorities are pressing home the point that persons who contribute to- wards juvenile delinquency are to be dealt with harshly. That is as it should be. The community should be rid of such characters; any establishments which are used for such purposes should be closed. 1ut beyond that there is some thing else to be done. That is where the father and mother enter the picture. After all the most serious duty of cor recting delinquency, particularly in their own families, centerS in their authority.
 Authority must be exercised by the parent or the guardian and until 1t is cone properly in Waterbury or any other community, there will be no lessening ln the trend away from sane and wholesome home life towards new and dangerous fashion of living The problem now pre- sented to us may not seem like a simple enc, but reduced to its fundamentals and stripped of all the trappings, it sinners down to the home becoming the center of family life as it has been and as it should be in the future.
 Let the blame for the unwholesome conditions that are claimed for this city be placed on many shoulders if the facts warrant it, but no father, no mother, no guardian should seek to escape the con- sequences of neglect in education, train- ing, love of children, lack of respect in the child for it's parent.
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In Today's Mail

seriously concerned over the public welfare. Its attempt to feature an angle while disregarding the actual proceedings of the meeting is noth- ing more than a crude appeal to prejudice.
 It Is regrettable that we should have such reporting on such an im- portant issue as housing and slum clearance.
 Though I am a member of the Communist Party I offered my ser- vices to the group as representa- tive of an unemployed organization and as an individual citizen of the community.
 Because of the intended purpose of this incident to hinder the growth of the Citizens Committee for Hous- ing and Slum Clearance and because I am sincerely interested in the well fare of our people I wish to make a public resignation as chairman Of the committee.
 MICHAEL RUSSO.
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Selected Poem
FISHING

FlSHlNG
 (Margery Mansfield in the New York Sum- As good excuse as any is fishing pole For sitting on the banks of Aprils stream, Watching the skunk cabbages unrol Upward and out like feur-de- of green. The odor (you may call it what you wD Is bitter as spring earth, and just as clean There will be time for thinking Gas we roam the
 Strand):
 The fishes that we seek went long ago. Or if ye find them, were restocked by hand; For every one we take, some man must throw Another to the stream That is the way with men. We seek the flash of beauty that is rare Until we've had it all-though in the glen Skunk cabbages bring beauty everywhere And willows make net against the sky Worth fishing for think, on any day; And there are herbs to feed the flesh and eye We daily pass, whose names we cannot say. A fisher may reflect that men are blind, And fortunate it is, lest by their greed, The valleys were denuded like the stream Which now will serve our sport, but not our need
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is one of the most extensive news paper readers in the Capital. If he finds a story he considers un- friendly to the AFL, he writes the editor a letter lodging a complaint against the reporter.
 REORGANIZATION JITTERS
 Government brass hats were in a high state of jitters all last week, but it wasn't for fear of war in Europe. What had the boys talking to themselves was govern ment reorganization.
 Word leaked out that the presi- dent was working on 8 drastic reshuffling of bureaus and com- missions under the recently en- acted law, and that his program would be contained in three ex- ecutive orders sent to Congress this week for its approval. The re- organization act requires that all changes must be submitted to Con gress at least 60 days before ad-. journment.
 Most agitated was REC Chair man Jesse Jones because of an inside report that his agency would be put in the Commerce Department under Harry H0p- kins. Jesse burned up the wires telephoning pals on Capitol Hill urging them to put the heat on Roosevelt. Friends of Jesse even hinted that if he was subordi-
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RUSSO REGRETS A. M. PAPER REFUSED TO REPORT MEET.
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Editor of The Democrat:

Editor of The Democrat:
 It needs no saying that the news papers of our city by their editorial policies and general sentiments are outrightly opposed to a housing program for our city. However, when 8 newspaper permits within it's pages the reporting of news con- trived to work harm for a movement which is of vital concern to the community then it is time that that newspaper be held up for public censure.
 The report appearing in yester- days Republican covering the Hous- ing and the Slum Clearance Con- ference held at the First Methodist Church is an example of what can be done by certain individuals sup- posedly reporting news for SUD- posedly responsible newspaper. The general tone of that article obvious ly intended to prevent any honest individual from participating in the work of a group of people who are
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l. Name the republic of Central America between Nicaragua and Panama.
 2. What is the first name of the compiler of Webster's dictionary?
 3. What kind of food contains the most iodine?
 4. Name the second largest pla- net.
 5. Was South Carolina one of the thirteen original States?
 6. Does the Chief Justice of the U. s. Supreme Court cast his vote only in case of 8 tie?
 2. With what sport is the name of Paul Runyan associated?
 8. In which war did the Battle c6 Jutland occur?
 9. What material is used to re- inforce concrete?
 10. What valuable medicine is ob- tained from the bark of the cin- chona tree?
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Hope For Recovery

Perhaps the deep pessimism which seems to hang over so large part of the Jordan. president n of the National ' 1ndus. ugn trial Conference Board and an epert on practical economics, cheered an audience of bankers the other day by telling them that it is unnecessary to expect perma- nent army of 5,OO0,0OO to 6,O0O,OOO un- employed people, prophesied in some quarters.
 On the contrary, he believes, it is possi- ble to do away with all but the normal
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In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, April 24-The Coney Islanders are getting their Midway ready, tuning up the calliope, scraping the hot dog grill, garg- ling the barker's larynx, and sweeping up Surf Avenue-all in anticipation of a summertime boom.
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mated, he would quit,


 The president took no chances in getting favorable start fol his recognizing plans. He called in Senator James Byrnes and Representative Lindsay Warren, the brainy Carolinians who put through the legislation, and asked their advice on how to proceed. They counseled that his first order should have strong econ- omy complexion, that he disregard '. backstage wire-pulling and do some hardboiled overhauling. WALLACE VS. SMITH
 Though Henry Wallace and Senator Cotton Ed" Smith are supposed to be mortal enemies, they shake their fists at each oth- CT only for the pictures.
 Once the two met at the Cap itol, and cameramen asked them to pose. we put on pant0mime," says Wallace, "and shook our fin- gers at one another, and then our fists. The cameramen wanted &C., ton, and we tried to oblige."
 NOTE-While the Secretary of Agriculture and the South Caro- lima Senator disagree on farm pol icy, they enjoy telling stories to- gether.
 Copyright, 1939, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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Questions
 and Answers
By FREDERICK Al kERBx


 Enclose . three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton Oe fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un. dertaksn. Be sure all mail $ ad. dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, lOl? Thirteenth Street. Washington. D. c.
 THE EDITOR
 @. What are Squaw men?
 A. Indians who do women's work or white men who marry lndlan women and live with their wives people.
 @. Were any civilians killed dur ing the three days battle at Gettys- burg?
 A. Jennie Wade was the only one. o. How many members consti- ute the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, and how much pay do they receive? A. There are nine members ana they serve without compensation.
 o. What would happen if the earth suddenly stopped its oroltai motion around the sun?
 A. It is the earth's orbital mo- ton that counterbalances the suns gravitational pull. If this motion was suddenly arrested, the earth would immediately commence its g, ,000 000-mile fall toward the sun. The first second it would fall about
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For Coney
 expects to pro- fit, rather than lose, by the Worlds Fair at Flushing Mea-
 dows and the folk with sand in their shoes" ;" are giving Con- ey a b e auty facial for the visitors. Sand in their shoes? T h ats Coney Island talk for folk who be- come centimens
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Daily Almanac
n sets 11:44 p. m

Moon sets 11:A p. m.
 Sun rises 5:01 a. m.: sets GAO p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Taking stock of April is an easy matter this year. It has been dud, weatherwise. Few sunny days, far outnumbered by those that were moist or cloudy. Many indications of spring. but few real samples of 1t.
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one-ninth of an inch, and there- after its falling speed would be amazingly accelerated. At the end of sixty days, with velocity that had increased to 380 miles a sec- ond, it would strike the sun and explode like a bomb, and its 92 chemical elements, as gases, would reunite with the original solar gases from whence it was born. o. Has the Congress ever im- peached a Secretary of War?
 A. William w. Belknap, Secre- tary of War, was impeached in 1876 for taking bribes, and acquitted.
 e. Where can get copy of the book entitled, '"The Problems of a Changing Population" prepared by | the National Resources Committee in May, 1888?
 A. Fro mthe Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. c. for the sum of seventy-five cents. Remit tance should be made by money or- | Ocr UT CGTCuleO CIlcCk pdydplC " the Supt. of Documents.
 Q. What does the name Nunzio mean?
 A. It is Italian and means meS- Senger or announcer, referring to the Annunciation of the birth of Christ in St. Luke. {. Q. Which is the largest Ameri- can breed of chickens?
 A. The Jersey Black. Giant. The standard weight of cocks is 13 lbs.; hens, 10 lbs.; cockerels, II lbs. and bullets, 8 lbs.
 @. On what dates were the 'Normandie" and Queen Mary" launched?
 A. "Normandie," on October 29, 1882; queen Mary" September 26, 1884.
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