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Evening star., 1939-03-14

lived in Ashmont, Jake had the
Indian sign on her. She felt in
ferior and inadequate whenever he
was around. 1t made her furious,
even then, but she hadn'. been able
to shake off the feeling.
"Hilma, here's a looking
guy who says he used to live in the
same town with you. I've fatty told
him that shopworn type of artifice
wouldn't get him an introduction,
but he insists"
1t was Kent Belmont. grinning
from ear to ear. Kent had brought
Jake Hayford up to introduce him.
Jake was looking at her intantly, his
eyes a little surprised, little Gu
rious.
"Jake!" exclaimed Hilma cor
daily, extending her hand. How
are you? It's been years"
Exactly TO-" said Jake 1ayford.
He began figuring on his fingrs.
THAT would make you exactly %.
How are you. Hilma?"
Sign Returns.
And there it was. The Indian sign.
Brought about by Jake's confidenco
and his assurance. The way he fig
ured and annouDced her age Being
that familiar. Being polite and
charming at'ehe same time.
Later, thinking about it, Hilma
laughed aloud 1t was so silly. So
utterly ridiculous. Here she was, the
most popular, the most sought-after
girl at Bayfrorlt, feeling inferior to
Jake Hayford, who wasn't half as
good looking as the dozens of men
who waited in line for dates with her.
When Jake called her that eve-
ming and asked her to go dancing
with him she broke a date with Cal
Roberts so she could accept. She
was determined to prove to herself
that that feeling of inadequacy was
only in her imagination.
The evening was most successful.
They went to the club to dance, and
about everybody Hilnla knew was
there. She was cut in on dozens of
times. 1t should have annoyed Jake,
but it didn't. Around 80 he sug-
gested that they drive down the
coast and pick up a hamburger
somewhere.
Somehow during that drive Jake
directed the conversation into chan
nels that concerned himself and
Hilma learned what whooping sue
cess he'd been and that his prospects
for the future were bright. He
didn't, as she expected, try to kiss
her, even when he said good night.
Up in her room Hilma felt the old
inferiority coming over her. hun
dredfold. He was great success
and very sure of himself. He wasn't
enough impressed by her own charm
even to want to kiss her. The
wretchl
Jake called again a couple Of days
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Slightly Less Cotton
Consumed by Mills
During Month
Rute Far Above 1893:
Supplies Of Staple
Are Reduced
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau reported today
cotton consumed during February
totaled 562 ,293 bales of lint and
$500 of linters, compared with 591,-
991 of lint and IS 5,O54 of linters dur
ing January this year, and 426 1866
and 48,524 during February last
year.
Cotton on hand February % was
reported held as follows:
In consuming establishments, L.
558,8l8 bales of lint and 357,781 of
linters, compared with 1926, ,593 and
353, 1853 on January 81 this year, and
1905, ,467 and 272,834 on February %
last year.
In public storage and at COM
presses, 14,068, ,684 bales of lint and
114,O74 Of linters, compared with
14,782,233 and 114,344 on January 81
this year, and 1,474,802 and 86,095
on February % last year.
Imports during February totaled
1896 bales, compared with 2,28l
during January this year, and 1877
during February last year.
Exports during February totaled
263 1922 bales Of lint and 1885 Of
linters, compared with 289,514 and
1888 during January this year, and
398,744 and 2l.432 during February
last year.
Cotton spindles active during February
numbered %. 524 742. compared with %
ADOPTS during January this year and
22.}46.736 during February last year.
Cotton consumed during February in
cluded: In cotton-RroWing States 4751l2
bales. compared with 5O2 s72 in January
this year and 360.23s in February last
year, and in New ENGLAND States, II 1893
bales. comrared with 14,312 and 54.342
Cotton on hand February 2s included.
In consuming establishments in cotton-
growing States. .342.292 bales. compared
with 1.409.7l7 on January 81 this year
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back to the float with an effortless
and powerful crawl. Hilma didn't
! go near the water again. They
sat on the sand and after while
Hilma said, striving to sound light
and amused: You know, when we
were children, I used to think you
had the Indian sign on me. used
to feel inferior and inadequate when
you were arounc" Sne laughed, a
little too gayly.
Is that SOP" said Jake, looking
straight at her and smiling Hilma
j could have scratched his eyes out.
And so, during the month that
Jake was at Bayfront they con-
tinued o go out together, Hilma
determined each time to dispel once
and for all the maddening sense of
inferiority she continued to feel
when he was around. They played
tennis and Jake beat her every set
but one, which was worse than COM
plete defeat for he gave the i'm
preston he was letting her win.
They rode horseback, and Jake al
ways gauged his speed, or seemed
to, to accommodate her. They went
roller skating and she fell down. Oh,
she would have to fall down that day
for the first time in her life!
IF he'd only kiss mel" she thought
furiously. IF he'd only try to kiss
me. AL I want is one chance to
rise above him"
The chance came on the last night
OF Jakes stay. He kissed her and,
instead of rising above it, she wilted.
And then Jake asked her to elope
with him. He said he was mad
with love for her and would she run
away and marry him right then and
there. Tonight!
Vague Memory.
The whole thing was vague, de-
licious memory in Hilmas mind. A
week later she realized that a lot
had h ppened, that she and Jake
were married and living in New
York and she was happier than she
had ever believed possible. Yet
oh, curses-it had all been Jake's
doing. She still felt inferior.
There had to be an end to this
Indian sign business. She couldn't
60 on forever feeling this way. Two
years later, her chance came.
Jake" she said to him solemnly
one day, you've had the Indian sign
on me ever since we were kids. Well,
right now you're through. At last
I've found something that you can't
do; something where I'm tops and
you don't rate at all. and couldn't
if you wanted to. BY jinks, I'm
going to have baby!"
She did and felt quite superior
and adequate about it and Jake
Jake tried to feel important, but
didn't get very far.
Copyright, 1939J
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New York Suqor

NEW YORK. March IA R-Demand
from consumer interests steadied the SUI
gar futures market today
Domestic futures in midafternoon ranged
from UNCHANGED to ! higher. May was
up at l.o4. while January remained at
World futures moved irregularly de-
spite easlness in London. Late afternoon
September was off / at 1I2, but Decem-
per was Y higher at 1.141a after selling
"A local refiner bought additional SUD-
pneS OF duty free raw sugar and main
tanned SPOT price of 2.7S.
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Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK, March ii P,-Worth
street textile markets cooled off TODAY
after last weeks huge turnover. estimates
OF which ran as much as 1875 600 900
Yards OF all types of goods.
broader demand for sheetings an
peared. however. at firm prices Routine
trading in other. divisions was done at
unchanged quotations.
Commission men were in fairly general
agreement that If current mill curtail. .
ment plans we're drastic enough and were
adhered to for any length of time this
year should be record one for cloth sales.
Trade reports indicated pre-Easter silk
business was Disappointing but hope was
held out TO" late buying squirt. Prices
were steady to a shade lower.
Woolen mill activity continued brisk.
with inventories relatively low compared
with q year ago.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Federal Land Banks

later. He wanted
her to go SWIM
ming with him
and she went, even
though she had
to break another
date. 1t was too
good an opportu-
nifty to miss. If
she could do any
thing we'll it was
swim. 1t wouldn' t
do any harm to
snow JAKE now
good she was.
His Compliments.
Jake went so
far as to compli-
ment her casually.
Then he climbed
to the top landing
on the diving
tower and made
as perfect a dive
&c che hoS o,,er
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and 1.525.s62 on February 2s last year.
and in New ENGLAND States. 172,4S4 bales
compared with 173.O65 and 217,524
In public storase and at congresses in
otton-growing States "a 009.511 bales,
81 this year. and II 3S4,91 on February
2S last year. and in New England States
S0.30S.
Cotton spindes active during February
INCLUDED: In cotton-growing States, IT,
Dss $50. compared with 17,056,s76 dur
during February last year and in New
England States. 4,S19.5S4 compared with
4,76S,1 122 and 4.SS4,82S
Evening star., 1939-03-14
DAILY SHORT STORY
Indian Sign
By Richard Hill Wilkinson

When they were
c h i l Dire n they
called it the In
dian sign" 1t
was a feeling of
inferiority and in
adequacy that one
person exercised
upon another. If
a man had the
Indian ign on
you you couldn't
hope to cope with
him.
Curiously, when
Hillna saw Jake
Hayford coming
toward her across
the crowded floor
S h e remembered
her own child
hood experience
with the Indian
sign. When she
was II and Jake
IA and they both
Evening star., 1939-03-14
U. S. Treasury Position
BY the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury March II:
Receipts, S@o.S15. .32067 expenditures,
SD 500. $50 "a; net balance. S327I,l2f.-
10000. including S2.61s l54.20cs1 work
ing balance: customs rsceipts for the
month. S1l.5i9 $3.50
Receipts for the fiscal year (s,nce July
j. S3,sl5:l1 1863. IA expenditures. So
22l .3h9,044.21 including So.13S o61 .
1870 OF emergency expenditure; excess
of expenditures. S2.406 l91615 gross
debt, $50 942 3os 1850. an increase of
81; 45"2Si.25 above the previous day.
gold assets, Sl4956.266 l0O.36
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Metal Market

NEW YORK, March IA lP-Copper
steady. eectrolytlc, spot. IL 25; export.
1925. Tin steady: spot and nearby As %.
forWard 800. Lead steady; spot. New
steady; East ST Louis. spot and forward,
40 Pig iron. aluminium antimony
quicksilver. platinum and Chinese wolf
ramlte UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Odd-Lot Dealings
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
odd-lo dealers or specialists on the New
York Stock Exchange for March 13:
3.7S2 purchases involving 100 954 shares;
1859 sales. lpyolytng 1O9,339 shares.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
London Bar Gold

LONDON, March IA tP,.-Bar gold, 14ss
3D. up, u penny. Equivalent, S34 ~
Bar silver, 205sd. up Is. Equivalent,
43 53 cents)
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Freight Loodinqs

| NEW YORK March IA LP}.-Revenue
| freisht carloadings on railroads reporting
| today for the week ended March IL IN
/ cluded
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. March IA R,.-Crude rub.
Der futures opened to lower March
10 40: May. 1880: July. 16.43b.
Evening star., 1939-03-14

Georgia was named by and for
King George II, Of England.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Dividends Announced

=, NEW YORK. March 14.-Dividends de-
clared. Prepared by Fitch Publishing Co.
Initial.
Pc Stk of Pay
Rate riod. record. able.
JefIerson Lake Oil 12l2c 3-22 415
Okla Nat Gas 81 pf 75c @ $50 81
DO. -.~--. 25c $50 3-3l
Increase
Natl Steel Corp 4Oc @ 3-24 3-31
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. March IA P).-Inyest-
ment Bankers Conference Inc:
LNnnr nunt atinnc
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Potomac Electric Power 51aTs pfd-
10 at lis.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09
SCRAP IRON TRACKS
New Britain Herald)

The mayor, noting the popularity
Of removing abandoned trolley rails
from city streets, Is not inclined to
let up on the good work. Republicans
In the common council are wonder
ing why they did not think of 1t
years ago, just after the bus lines
substituted for the trolleys. After
Arch street was widened and mod
ernized, 1t has taken years to apply
the same treatment to other down.
town streets; and considerable work
Is yet to be done. AS the city readily
finds a good market for the old troll
ley tracks, 1t really costs little to
provide the Improvement Of their re-
moval.
1t was only about ~ years ago
that the erstwhile Connecticut COM
pany admitted 1t spent $4,000 to
fix up its rails on West Main street
beyond Grove HID so as to assist
the city In providing a smoother
pavement. The money was thrown
away. Not only that, but abandoned
tracks, both trolley and railroad
tracks, greet the eyes throughout
the countryside; abandoned railroad
stationsi AS one LOOKS up the road
along comes a bus or a truck!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09
Imported Republican Mud

Having exhausted their own vocabu-
laries and bags of mental tricks with
which to SANDER by imputation any and
every candidate for public office on the
local Democratic ticket, the local Repub-
lican politicians now add to their long
list of political plumbers by importing no
less than the Republican Lieutenant
Governor of the State the President of
University, politician in his own right,
to add his share to this cheap method OF
campaigning. Why one holding such
dignified position could so degrade him
self is only answered by the knowledge
that he is an aspiring politician in pref
erence to being pedagogue. Admitting
that he does not personally know any of
the three local candidates, the Scotch
professor of Middletown, quoting Yankee
proverbs, is willing to lend his name and
his tongue to the local SANDER campaign
of the Republican Party
His logic and reasoning, for a sup
posedly learned man, is pathetic and
would be marked failure" by any in
structor of logic in his own school, Be-
cause candidates on the local Democratic
ticket belong to party to which also be-
longed convicted officials, therefore,
argues DR.. McConaughy, all Democrats
are crooks and untrustworthy. Would
he apply this same reasoning to himself
and the local Republican candidates
because they belong to the same party as
Mr.. Harry Mckenzie and Mr.. Charles
williamson state Republicans, who were
Convicted in the Waterbury Conspiracy
Trial?
How far does he carry this reasoning
process? Does not Dr.. McConaughy be-
long to the same Republican Party that
gave us Fall, Doheny and Dougherty of
the Republican Harding regime? Can
he not name prominent Republicans
charged with crime Does one bad DEM
ocrat, or Republican, make all Democrats
and Republicans bad because they belong
to the same party, or is this just subtle
method of SANDER by indirection?
Go back to Middletown, Dr. McCon-
aughy, where you belong. We know OF
no better place for you. We don't need
your advice, or your interference, in local
affairs, especially when you admit you
know nothing about the conditions you
would favor or those you would oppose.
You have been used for an undetermined
purpose to attack honorable citizens Of
our city whom you do not even know.
You should know better, and until you
do, 60 back to your school and stay there.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09

Anybody who stops to think about the
story started in the Republican news
papers of the city about the Democratic
Party levying assessments on city en-
ployes to finance the current political
campaign knows that this just couldn't be
so. Democrats who are at all concerned
about the future of their party, and they
are in control of it's deStinies right now,
are very much on the alert to prevent any
such practices as this croppig out in
their midst for they know they would be
doubly criticized for it.
The claim of assessments on city en-
ployes is pure propaganda Some people
apply a harsher expression to it and
probably are justified in so doing. AS
Candidate Vincent Scully and Town
Chairman Joseph F. Mulville said yester-
day they are not authorizing this type of
campaigning nor do they expect to COM
pei any present or future city employees
to contribute from their salaries to cam
paign expenses. All of which makes it
apparent to right-thinking people that
mean effort is afoot to discredit the pres
ent Democratic candidates.
It's ALL of course, part of the general
Republican campaign to wipe every
Democrats face in the mud. There isn't
a decent Democrat in Waterbury if you
were to believe the words of the Republi-
can mouthpeces. BY the same token
there can't be decent Republican in
town, either, if all members of the party
bear the sins of their brothers into polit-
ical combat. And that being the case the
Socialists would be left high and dry and
spotless in this campaign.
Evidently man no longer is to be
judged on his merits, but by the political
party to whose tenets he subscribes, the
fraternal organization to which he be-
longs the church in which he worsf1ips,
the side of the town in which he resides,
where he buys his groceries, etc. If they
don't agree with those the Republican
dictatorS of Waterbury like, you're an
outcast. But do Waterbury voters agree
with this belief? Next Tuesday will tell
the tale.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09
No Influence

We don't think that the recent out
break of sickness at the Norwich State
Hospital will have any effect on the
report by the special commission which
is investigating conditions there, but it
is bit unfortunate that the disease be-
came rampant just about the time that
the report of the group is due. A week
or so ago 1t was announced that the
commission had about finished its work
and was preparing its report for Governor
Raymond E. Baldwin. And now comes
the news that a number of elderly pa
tients have died from dysentery and many
more have been isolated.
The heads of the institution gave
very clear explanation of the present
trouble, but oftentimes the average lay
man is misled by stories that are circu-
lated by word of mouth. These are usu-
ally not in praise, but in criticism.
That's true now. However, we are keenly
interested in what is to be made known
to us in the special report due any day
now. 1t should prove TO the state for once
and for all that it has placed too heavy
a burden on too few institutions of the
type at Norwich and Middletown.
The charges brought against Norwich,
however, were of such a general nature
that it might have been concluded that
the present staff in charge was as much
at fault as anything else. We don't think
that this will prove to be the case, but
we do think that it can be easily proved
that where there is overcroWding at an
Institution, like a state hospital, then
other abuses creep in unnoticed and con-
tribute to the complete let-down of eff
cheney. We don't believe in putting all
the blame for any trouble at Norwich or
Middletown or any of the state institu-
tionS on the shoulders of the officials
entirely, until cold facts have proved
them completely to blame for them
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09
ROADSIDE BEAUTY
New York Times

Reports of progress from widely
separated sections of the country IN
preserving natural scenery from the
invasion Of the billboard and in
creasing the beauty of highways
have been made to the roadside
committee of the Long Island asso-
citation. The Federated Garden clubs
of Pennsylvania have combined with
women's clubs in that state to i'm
prove the appearance of its road
sides. The California Roadside Coun-
Gil has succeeded In having the Leg
islature pass an amendment enforc-
ing regulatory billboard law In
scenic and rural areas. Connecticut,
New Jersey and Vermont all report
progress In the control of disflguring
signs. Communities In Queens Mas
sau and Suffolk counties have been
particularly active, not only In re-
moving signs but In planting trees
and shrubs and handspring local
parks and areas around open plazas
and railroad stations.
Treatment Of the roadside prob
lem as whole was urged before the
COMMITTEES by a representative Of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09

The good news is here! The Merritt
Parkway is completed. According to
word from State Highway Commissioner
William J. Cox the parkway all the way
from the New York State Line to its
terminus in the Town of Nichols, for two
way traffic, will be ready for use in week
or ten days. The paving has been fin
ished and only few minor details must be
taken care of before the route is completed
from end to end. Shoulders and land
scaping work are now occupying the
attention of the highway workers. This
is the best news that the state has had
with regard to the Merritt Parkway in
several years. We can recall when the
proposed route was just a proposed route
and nothing more. Many people never
thought it would be built, because it
dragged along so slowly. But once the
actual work on the roadway started, we
must admit that good job was done in
pushing it along to completion and yet
making of the job lasting memorial to
Connecticut highway construction.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09
Degree Mania

A proposal to convert higher education
from a mass production industry into a
sound cultural program comes from DR..
Charles E. Diehl, president of Southwest
ern University, Memphis, Tenn. Dr. Dehl
endorses the recommendation of DR..
Robert M. Hutchins, president, University
of Chicago, that everyone be handed a
bachelor of arts degree at birth SO that
ne can settle down to the serious business
of getting an education.
Probably nothing will be done about
this proposal. But it has its merits.
prexies Diehl and Hutchins aren't the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09
Current Comment

The United States must take the
lead in the unification of the
Americas.
Gen Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,
former. Dominican president.
We can best keep out of war by
making ourselves so strong that no
nation vii seek q quarrel with lis.
Senator Robert r. Reynolds
(Dem., N. c..
! am not a war refugee l am just
going to work.
Arturo Toscanini, conductor, re-
turning to u. s.
Repeal of the embargo would be
the first step leading TO our even
tual entrance into unfortunate Eur
oaean war Of the diplomats.
Representative Fred Bradley
sRcp.. Michl.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09

from Jim Wright Of The Buffalo
News, who recited this parody:
Hes riding high and he's rid
ing straight,
He's riding for the White House
gate"
To which Wright added: I'm
which direction, Mr.. PRESIDENT"
Even this, however, did not get
rise out of Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
Now, with Congress out Of the
way some real heat is being put
on and this time 1t comes from the
Democrats. It's being done very
quietly, but the pressure is plenty
severe. AL f
Chief needlers are Vice Presi-
dent Garner and Senator Burt
Wheeler, who have ambitious cam
paign plans and have been pull
ing every possible wire to get
Roosevelt to talk. Wheeler, who
was opposed 10 lifting the en-
barge, was said by Administra-
tionites to have intimated he
might go along with them in their
neutrality fight If the President
would agree to declare himself
after Congress quit.
Jim Farley and Paul McNutt,
also harboring 1910 hopes, like
wise would like TO see R0Ose-
welt speak up, but they are let
ting Garner and Wheeler take
the lead In prodding him.
Farley has had one personal
talk with the President about this,
at their famous Hyde Park con-
ference last August just before
Jim sailed for Europe. Roosevelt
told him he would state his posi-
ton before next spring, but gave
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-09
Selected Poem
LANDSCAPE BY NOVEMBER
Qnez Barclay Kirby in the Poets Column
Hartford Couran)

Gnez Barclay Kirby IN the Poets Column,
Hartford CouranD
November paints with brushes firm and sure,
Catching the tempered brightness of mood
That leans to quietness and solitude
His is the master hand, restrained, mature.
See how his landscapes hold the mellow light
And how he plays the changes on each tone
OF bronze and ochre grayS of bark and stone.
See in the sky, one dark birds lonely flight
There is no vagueneSs here, no mist Of Spring,
And on the woods, no blurred monotony;
Sharply he mns the beauty of each tree,
Each twig where brown, reluctant tatters cling.
For genre touch.--this field where pumpkins lie.
Ambrosal pledges of the harvest feast,
This rut-scarred lane that rambles toward the east
Where hearthfire smoke is wreathed against the
sky.