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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
Duke Plays ''Low-Down"

Jazz musicians have term for a certain style of performance which they call "low-down." We wouldn't know ex- actly what that is, but it must be the style adopted by Duke Ellington when he played recently in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. For the stage of the Palais is 100 feet underground. It's built as a bomb-proof against the day when Paris ians may have to huddle there to get what diversion they can while the bombers soar and zoom overhead.
 It is said that way back in the primeval days when man first began to stand erect, his first shelter was in the caves he found among the rocks. And now after all the Towering of Egypt and Greece and Rome and France and England and the arrival in the very age of science it. self, man descends once more into his cave and covers from the Frankenstein of his own building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
NORTHWARD THE APPLE BLOSSOM QUEEN.
(New York Sun)

Summers northward march once was marked by the advance of the migratory wheat harvesters. The combine has greatly reduced their number, though they have not been eliminated. In recent years another and earlier phenomenon has served to verify the calendars promise of longer days and warmer air. It is the Apple Festival.
 Let the pundits trace it to the fertility rites of our remotest an- cestors; the participants need not bother about its beginnings any more than children do about the significance of the May pole dance, It is a community merry-making indulged in when Nature is in one of her most bewitching aspects, with apple blossoms bedecking the coun- tryside and youth and age welcom- ing them and their promises of trees heavy with fruit. There are process sions, dances, feasts and the Apple Queen is crowned. Those who look for tears behind every gay mask will think of disappointed aspirants for the royal honors; they will re- fleet that many perils must be evad- ed, overcome, out-generaled before the blossom fills the pie. Leave them to their anticipatory sorrows: the lanes are abloom, the air is rich with lovely fragrance, and the royal court is all prepared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
Maybe, But When

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin prob ably shuddered bit last week when he heard ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross pre- dict that Connecticut would return to its former custom of holding legislative ses- sion every year instead of every two years. Certainly the first legislative ses- sion that Gov. Baldwin has had to experi- ence as chief executive of the state has been rather trying one. We doubt if His Excellency would care to go through an- other six months like it. Still if one as- pires to high office he must expect to take what it produces with equaninity.
 No one last January would have pre- dicted that the governor couldn't have se- cured from the 1889 Legislature just about what he wanted. Yet today we find the session practically over and the ending coming on discordant note, such as has not disturbed the June peace of Hartford in many year. We don't think Governor Cross predicted, would be so- not forthcoming. That in a word was what was really needed this year at Hart ford, but with the changing political view. points it was not possible.
 There are many things that might be said both in favor and against the legisla- tive session on yearly basis There is the expense for one thing. Another is the development of one session that would be lop-sided. You'd find more business being transacted in one year. The obvious ad- vantage would be, of course, to take care o{ an annual budget and allow the state e operate on such a basis. This might prove more economical than the present ti<nuIum arrangement, but you have to t4ke into consideration other expenses
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
German Lard Deal

The prospect of some sort of a German deal for American lard, of which there is a surplus, keeps coming up. Probably some means will be found to carry this through eventually, for despite nation alistic feeling, despite tariffs, despite exchange difficulties, it is 8 natural. Germany desperately needs lard and all kinds of fats. Large stocks of lard are hanging over the American market, de- pressing the price to the detriment of the farmer and packer. Eventually some way will be found to do something about it.
 Last February it was widely rumored, so strongly as to cause price dislocations in the Chicago lard markets, that Ameri- can cooperative associations were work ing on such deal, perhaps preparing to take fence wire or other farm supplies in return on a barter basis. This was soon denied by the central organizations of the U. s. co-operatives. This time it is supposed to be large packers, operating under auspices of the Institute of Ameri- can Meat Packers, who are taking the lead. The only question seems to be: what can Germany supply in exchange for the lard which will not be highly com petitive with products of American in- dustry?
 Harmonicas and Tyrolean hats would not seem to offer much scope for trad ing basis. Acceptance of Aski marks seems out of the question, for the United States has officially vetoed any traffic in this "trick" trading medium which has brought SO much grief to other American countries which have been forced to ac- cept then.,
 Every large-scale deal proposed with Germany meets vocal opposition from groups who see nothing wrong in leftiSt Mexico selling oil to Germany, or in Com munist Russia being Germany's best cus- toner. Such people are quite willing to see left-wing countries regard German trade as business matter, while insisting that the United States regard it as an theological or sentimental matter. There doesn't seem to be much sense in that.
 The whole essence of any such deal with Germany is matter of smart trad ing. Certainly it is silly to sit here hold ing greedily to great surpluses of lard, enough to distribute to our own people, and yet to veto on sentimental ground any plan to send it to countries which badly need it.
 The great thing is: what do we take in exchange? Certainly there is no point in exporting surplus lard to help the farmers and packers if goods are taken in exchange, which means less work for American artisans. If we can arrange to swap this lard for raw materials or good either not produced in the United States, or not produced in sufficient quantity, then it would seem good place to let the natural forces of trade function. Peace and good will certainly lie along the highroad toward wider and more normal trade relations, not along the by-path winding between narrow nationalisms and artificial barriers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

Count that day lost when a strike of some sort is not called. One wonders if SO much striking is wholly in the inter ests of the poor workingman or just that strike leaders have their orders to keep them going, willy-nilly. Rev. James M. Gillis, Catholic commentator, says in a recent column on this subject Of ubiquitous strikes: "It's time we got wise to ourselves. If we don't get our heads together and devise some peaceful civilized Substitute for that relic of sav- agery, the strike, we shal. go the way of thre mastodon and the plesiosaurus that grew very big but didn't know how to adapt themselves to the conditions of existence and so perished."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

ing back stronger than ever in September.
 What actualyly happened was this:
 Wearied from five months double duty as legislators and investigators, the Congressional members of the Monopoly Com mittee proposed adjou,ning the investment banking investiga- tion until September when they widl have a summers rest.
 Chairman Frank approved the plan. Leon Henderson felt that it would be better to hold few pre- liminary hearings in order to pep up the SEC Investigators. In the end, however, he agreed to wait until next September.
 Hearing garbled version of what happened, Joseph Kelly, crusading young attorney, re- signed. But when informed of the facts, he withdrew his resig- nation.
 Inside facts is that the SEC plans some startling revelations, one of them almost similar to the Whitney expose. The Commission has caught one firm in malprac- tices which may result in a pen- itentiary penalty. Most significant point is that if the governors of the Stock Exchange had listened to the SEC after the Whitney trial
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Views of The Press

their inability to keep their jokes to themselves, or, at least, to prevent other performers giving them to an audience. It must naturally be up- setting for a comedian to see his own original jest plagiarized, and to find that instead of Haunting a meteor gag of England that should yet terrific burn, he has very soon to pull 8 chestnut" out of the fire.
 It is difficult to suggest a solution It would be hardly practicable to ex- pect performers to copyright mater ial that is produced at such a rate and often spontaneously; that is anyway, ephemeral, and that, how ever successful, has in many in- stances not been wrested from in- spiration so much as rescued from oblivion.
 Nor would 1t be at all easy tc make such a copyright secure. Il would seem, therefore. that the comedians must continue to grin and bear 1t; unless, indeed, they car come to some agreement among themselves to keep of the laugh One cannot help feeling that such resolution would find nearly all the pros" without any cons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
Current Comment

Wake up, Boss Hitler. Remember kaiser's experience.
 Abe Pickus, Cleveland interna-
 tional telephone call addict, in
 birthday wire to Der Fiefrer.
 It's pure nonsense to say that censorship in Italy restricts truth. Ezra Pound, American literary
 expatriate who made good in Italy.
 Our present unneutral national policy may bring things to Q head far more rapidly on the continent of Europe than any other course we could pursue.
 Dean Helen Manning Taft of
 Bryn Mawr College, daughter of
 late President Taft.
 He's an old man and hasn't long to live. Why should I make him more trouble?
 Mfrs. Mae Rosseau, Grafton, O., widow. asking grand jury not to tndict Will Case, o4-year-oid fars mer who killed her husband.
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cerned with detectMg Q He we are today. It was the be- lief that anyone who could with stand severe punishment without serious physical damage was tell ing the truth. One primitive tribe, for example, made every one place their arms in boiling water. The one whose skin turned too red was branded liar. That probably was the origin of our current exclamation of self-em- barrassment, Is my face red!.. GOT HIS IDEA
 FROM A TOY
 Post didn't start by experiment. ing with boiing water. But about fifteen years ago Post took an interest in the old Cartesian Divers that were sold in sealed bottles. With the slightest pres sure on the sides of the bottle, the diver would go to the bottom. He reckoned that any devise so sen- sitive must be accurate in meas uring the slightest increase in blood pressure. So the Cartesian Diver, which sold for nickel, be- came Posts initial lie-detector.
 He looked up the books on hu- man emotions and studied the James Lang theory, which asked if people cry because they are sad, or are sad because they cry. Post tested it with his simple de- vice and came to the conclusion that people are sad because they cry. And he traced all human emotions, to 8 pair of adrenal glands which react to stress and strain in the flash of less than a second. These glands control the blood pressure, breathing and body temperature. So, armed with these dat.., Post created tn, Postometer. The idea is that when this machine shows that the sub- ject's blood pressure, respiration and temperature increases, he is telling a LIE!
 REGISTERS REACTIONS
 TO TRICK QUESTIONS
 Post knows that the psycholog- ical effect of the questions is mighty important. He asks no in- eliminating questions. He never accuses. Suppose that $l34 has been stolen by man with 8 po-- lice record. Several suspects are questioned. All have to answer the following questions with a blunt "Yes' Or ''No."
 Do you like celery?" DO you drive an airplane?" Have you ever been in an automobile?" Do you live near 134th St.?"
 Simple questions like these wouldn't excite the average man. The person who stole the money will react to the fourth query. Only the guilty one would know that exactly $134 were stolen.
 Post has proven that no matter how hardened the criminal, he cannot fail to react. He says it's physically impossible.
 Posts new lie-detector is so sensitive, so difficult to build that there is only one model in work able condition. He uses that himself. It isn't for sale. And that's no lie, as the Postometer will prove.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
. HIGHLlGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
New Book Guide To Americanisnl

\ V ASeSAAAeAAa What America, Is. how its people
 came into being, what part
 Americans should play as cit-
 ixens, Paul B. Sears describes
 graphically in a timely little
 volume, 'sWho Are These Amer
 icans?" Macmillan: 60 cents)
 Here is Sears thesis briefly.
 Millions of Americans today seem lost, uncertain, insecure. It Is easy to get lost in crowd. A man may say:
 T am only one of millions. What can I do to make the United States 8 better place to live in? Nothing I say will help. My one vote will make no difference. What, any, how, is the good of trying2" That man is lonely and afraid. He cannot believe in himself or his fellows. He is like one thrown among strangers, lost and unsure because he has not yet taken the measure of his surroundings. Tn truth, he, like many of the rest of us, has not quite sized up his fellow Americans.
 To add to our confusion, we are changing the world around us to rapidly to do a good job of it. We are like men tearing down an old building faster than we can move the bricks away, and trying to build 8 new one in its place without talk ing time to secure the foundations and to allow the cement to set so- idly.
 We have come to worship the giant rolling-mill and forget that 1t is the creation of man and should be his servant. We trust the adding machine and disregard the brain which made it possible. We use the laws we have learned from nature to try outwitting nature, when we should be learning better how to live with her. We see & world in arms, and men in their panic mis- trusting one another, turning in their desperation toward the loud- est voice.
 These things do not need to be. It is a point of sober truth that every individual who lives in the world changes it somewhat by his presence. Each human being most asuredly should count for some- thing.
 The Sears book is one volume in the new series, The Peoples Libra ". Others now available from Macmillan at the same price are "Let Me Think" by H. A. Over street: (Which Way America" by Lyman Bryson; Here Comes La- bor" by Chester M. Wright, They Worked for a Better World" by Al- ian seager. and "The Attractive Home" by Lydia Powell.
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and put through certain reforms. this particular scandal would not have happened.
 MAIL BAG
 V. L. S., Durham, N. Claw renee Wood Roberts, Jr., member of the Democratic National Com- mittee, got his nickname Chip" from the fact that his fathers middle name was Wood, so the son was a Chip of the old block" =. M. H, Washington-Regard- ing possible U. s. acquisition of the Colombian islands which lie near the Panama Canal, the Co., lombian Embassy says: Colombia has never sold an inch of her ter- ritory and does not intend to" !. :. s. M., Br0oxlyn-Gulf Oil of Penn- sylvania (GOP) is listed on the New York Exchange B. l.. A., Sioux City, Ia--The 48,000 pounds of Argentine beef which the Navy las contracted to buy will prob ably be admitted In spite of Sen- ator O'Mahoney's efforts. The Senator has asker for strict ap- plication of the specifications, which call for U. s. inspection during packing. This would be impossible in the case of Argen- tine bee!
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bound to accrue by almost year-round presence of lawmakers.
 Pressure of business eventually may re- suit in stmmoning legislators every year to Hartford, but we'll wager that it won't come until some group of law-makerS have just run through speedy session or else SO much business remains to be done at the completion of the regular term that can't be put of for two years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

1. At what temperature does we. ter boil at sea level?
 2. What is the unit of weight fos precious stones?
 3. On which continent is the Sa- hara Desert?
 4. What fam6us gold rush occur red in 1896?
 5. What is the correct pronuncia ton of the word galaxy?
 6. Will a body weigh the same q the equator as at the poles?
 T. Name the largest river in Rus sia.
 8. off the coast of which State in the U. s. are the Farallon Is- lands?
 g. Is a naturanzed American cit- izen eligible for the U. s. Senate? 10. Name the famous waterfalls in the Zamhesi River, Africa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

Q hoNsehold word Land the new- est Ae-detector is | n Q m c d the "Postometer," in tribute to him. ITO be truth ful," he was tell- ing a few of us
 the other night,
 "the history of
 the lie-detector goes back to ! 2000 B. c. The
 tribes ir1habiting ' the earth then { were just as con-
 . Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
Daily Almanac

Moon rises l0:S7 p. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:2i a. m.; sets s:ie p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Three phases of the moon this month are almost Identical as to time of occurrence. Reference to the almanac printed on the first of the month shows the full moon, last quar- ter, and first quarter ell coming an hour or 70 before midnight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
A Thought for Today

Absalom said moreover, Oh that were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!-H Samuel 15:4.
 
 Justice discards party, friendship, and kindred, and is therefore represented as blind.
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Selected Poen,
HOUSE OF THREE BEARS

 2. Moore in the Christian Science Monito Would you suppose That a family of bears, Would have real house With table and chairs? With soft puffy beds, And a kitchen fire, And warm pyjamas, When they retire? Yet all of these things Also three bowls The picture books show; In 8 steaming row. It's just the house I should like to own, As it stands in the woods, Where roses have grown All over the door And the windows too: But would not move in, Unless knew That the family of bears Were all quite through With this little house, And had another; Then would live here With my father and mother
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

They are now trying to find a way out for the small business man before he per- ish, that is if he has not already per- ished. Business loans to small businesses anywhere with economic conditions such as they are.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

This week will start the exit of the grand old seniors going forth into the wide world, and goodness knows where.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSE

New York, June H.--Don't try telling lies to Roy Post. Nowadays. nothing would be quite 90 fatal.
 You see, -Mr. Post is the fellow who has made the ''lie-detector"'
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Basic troubles in this country-frozen capital, frozen debt, frozen prices, frozen wages, frozen thought.
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Questions
 and Answers
Ry FRRDERlCk e. kERHy

Enclose c three-csnt stamp for reply when addressing any Qnes- tfon of fact or information tO the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu. renu ae Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given. mnr can extended research De un- aertaksm. Be sure all mall b ad- dressed Co the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS. SERVICE BU- REAU, l0le Thirteenth Street
 THE EDITOR
 O. Why is the term alight-year" used to denote distances in as- tronony2
 A. When the distance of star is expressed in miles, the figures become too cumbersome to handle. For instance, the distance of some of the farthest stars from the earth is l,293, ,572, ,675 900 ,O00. .000 miles. Con- seuuently, larger units were invent ed to eliminate this inconvenience. The unit used in scientific work is the s'parsec, ,"-the distance at which a star would have parallax of one second of arc. In more popular dis cussion the "light-year" is usaully employed. This Is the distance which light travels in one year-5,8sO bil- lion miles.
 o. Have the wages of municipal employees increased or declined dur ing the last few years?
 A. A recent survey by the Inter- national City Managers association of 777 cities of over 10000 popula- ton, showed an average increase Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

Did some one say, millions for defense but comparatively little for elimination of the mosquito?
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FUNNY BUSINESS (Christian Science Monitor)

According to a recent report in
 the English press, professional conn.,
 edians in Britain are disturbed over
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Washington Merry-Go-R Round
DIR E " PEARSON ROBERT s. ALLEN

Justice McReynods will not in his seat 1888 39 illness fourmonh
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

Four of Jupiter's nine satellites are named: Csllisto, Europa. To-. and
 4 koanymede. The Ave smallest arc
 unnamed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, ''His name is Sir John Smith; His name Is
 "John Smith" and "Sir" is his title.
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If you want copy of our book let VEGETABLE COOKERY" send to The Waterbury Democrats Wash ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
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Whats Your I. O?

Can you answer seven cf these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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 $50 a year in 1888 over 1887. but $80 per person short of the 1886 average. The survey covered all employees ex- cept for schools.
 o. In 1921 my mother, father, two brothers and 8 sister returned to their native land and remained there for three years, during which time I was born. When was two years old they returned to the United States. My parents are not American citizens but my brother and sister are. Am citizen?
 A. If either your mother or father Is naturaliZed before you are 2l, you will become a citizen auto- matically, otherwise you will have to apply for your own naturalization papers when you attain your ma jority.
 O. How do the Mississippi and Yangtse-Kiang rivers compare in amount of discharge.
 A. That of the Yangtse-Kiang is estimated as 770,00O cubic feet per second; that of the Mississippi as 675 ,OOO cubic feet. Both the Amazon and Congo rivers have a greater discharge of water.
 Q. How much radium has been produced?
 A. About one thousand grams. slightly more than 32 troy ounces.
 Q. Are there any stoneless peaches.
 A. No.
 @. What are shock troops? A. Soldiers that are specially suited and chosen for offensive work, because of their high morals, training. and discipline. c. Do college men marry earlier than college women? A. In general they marry earlier and in larger proportion than the women. Western college graduates marry earlier and in larger propor- ton than those from other sections of the United States. If you want . copy of our book let VEGETABLE COOKERY" send to The Waterbury Democrats Wash ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
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@. What are shock troops?
 A. Soldiers that are specially suited and chosen for offensive work, because of their high morals, training. and discipline.
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Copyright. 1889, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
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$50 a year in 1888 over 1897, but $s0 per person short of the 1886 average. The survey covered all employees ex- cept for schools.