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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
STATE Y COUNCIL
 CONFINES TONIGHT

Joseph F. Kenny will head a dele gation of young men from the Wa terbury YMCA to the meeting o1 the state council of the YMCA a, New Haven tonight. MT. Kenny 1: president of the state council Others who will attend from Water. bury are Francis Levesque, Joseph Blansfield Ind Raymond Leopold and Tom ;mith.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21

Victor McLaglen, famed for his s ,ashbuckling roles on the screen, gives one of his most virile portray als as a British army sergeant in RKO Radios "Gunga Din," screen version of Kipling's world famous b. Had, in which he is co-starred with Cary Grant and Douglas Fair banks, Jr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21

Thomatson, March 21 - State Commander Colonel Charles E. Lockheart of New Haven will be among the guests at the meeting here March "A of the Litchfield County Council of Veterans of For eign Wars. The meeting will take place in the Sons of Veterans rooms and will be attended by representa- tives from posts of Canaan, New Milford, Winsted and Torrington. Other notable guests will be Senior Vice Commander Edward P. Reilly of Bridgeport; Junior Vice Com mander Anthony Telesco of Tor rington; State Adjutant William P. Dibble of Hartford: and County Council Commander, Arthur San- dell of New Milford. Arthur Lord will be master of ceremonies. Guy Delemeter has been appointed chair man of the committee in charge. Members of the auxiliary will be in charge of the social time and re- treatments which will follow the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Miss Emma Hine of High street is a patient at Waterbury hospital.

A number of local teachers are planning to attend the lecture Thursday night in Hartford to be given by Dr. Mortimer J. Odler of Chicago University. Dr. Adler has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
SPRING IS HERE

New York, March 21.-(UP)- Spring arrived officially at 7:29 a. m. today. The temperature was 25. seven degrees below freezing. It was 26 in Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Trinity Lutheran Church

Rev. Paul O. Schultze. pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church, has announced that childlren's classes will meet on Tuesday, Thursday and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
VIEW. State Leader
 Comes Here Friday
Commander Charles Lockheart of New Haven to Speak at County Council Meet; Louise North at Hospital
THO ASTON Correspondents Frank Mattoon. l Judson stTe l95

within the past few years addressed Connecticut teachers at their con- ventions in both Hartford and Bridgeport and is highly regarded as speaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Chest Preacher

I OucSC FFeaCheF
 Rev. Matthew Madden of the Mill Plain Union church, Waterbury, will be the speaker Thursday night at the Lenten service at the Congrega- tional church. Mrs. Walter French will be soloist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Corps Plan Dance

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Girls Drum Corps will sponsor a dance in the Sons of Union Veter- ans rooms Friday night, March 3l. Helen Haney's orchestra will pro- vide music. The Corps will meet this evening at 2 o'clock in the Veterans rooms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Senior Play Cast

DCHIUH Huy VeSSV
 Early to Bed, Early to Rise," a three act play will be presented in the town hall, April 21st by the held under the direction of Miss Alethea Blakeslee.
 The cast of characters include: Helen O'Connell, Marjorie Hawkins Ruth Lister, Neda Shewchyk, Mary Lihota, Eleanor Whitbeck, Philip White, Henry Pawlicki, Francis Gibb Emil Hein and Wendell Plumb.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
New Pastor Assumes
 Duties Here May 1
Congregational Church Extends Call to Rev. Sumner
 Walker Johnson of Somers-Seni0rs Plan Play
TERRYVILLE E.

Foremen's rooms in the Eagle Lock company plant, has been changed and will be held at the Bristol Fish and Game club on Thursday night March 30th.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21

Louise North, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Ralph North of Grove street, recently underwent an appendec- tony at Waterbury hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21

The announcement that school will be in session Good Friday, to make up for the no school session March 13, caused by the heavy snow storm, has stirred up considerable comment. It is felt by many that Good Friday has been observed as a holiday in the past and to ask the children to attend school on this day would be violating the sacred signi- ficance of the holiday observed by the Christian world. It is likely the school board will be approached with request that schools close in observance of Good Friday and to make up the lost day at the end of the season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Elco club, originally scheduled in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Meeting Tonight

Meeting Tonight
 The Happy Home Makers All club will meet with Mrs. Stephen Nelson in the Holt District tonight at 2 o'clock. The study of foods will be continued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Meeting Tonight

A meeting of Terryville Aerie of Eagles will be held in their home on Mair street tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21
Two Engagements

Rev. John J. Randolph, pastor of St. Peters Episcopal church will preach two out of town services this week. He will be at Christ church, Watertown, Wednesday night and St. Paul's church, Waterville, Fri day night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21

NEW YORK CURB Elec. Bond & Share .......... 1OH Niagara Hudson Power ..... 8h
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21

Saturday weekly for instruction in Christian Doctrine.
 Rev. John Mohrmann of Water bury will be the speaker at the English Lenten services, Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock.
 A meeting of the Young Peoples society will be held Friday night at 7:30.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
The House Revolt

Inc actlon OF the House yesterday
in refusing to consider the admin
istration's $SO0,o0O,OOO Housing Au-
thority expansion bill marked the
elimination of legislative revolt
which has wrecked beyond hope of
repair the Presidents spending pro-
gram, keystone of the New Deals
formula for recovery.
1t is difficult to rationalize all
phases of the amazing rebellion in
the House, but it seems fairly clear
that there have been two principal
causes. One is fundamental. It
runs back to the growing awareness
throughout the country that the
reckless fiscal policies of the New
Deal not only have fallen far short
of producing the promised economic
recovery, but have also seriously
prejudiced our national financial
standing. The unexpected firmness
of the House in refusing to sanction
any further pump-p printing opera
tions, regardless of how they may
be labeled, simply reflects public
rejection of the fallacious theory
that depressed nation can spend
itself into state of prosperity with
borrowed money.
The other cause is incidental in
character, but none the less potent.
The administration has displayed an
incredible want Of tact in dealing
with the House. Perhaps the Presi-
dents cavalier attitude is attrib-
utable to the fact that Congress for
so many years meekly surrendered
its legislative functions, but the fact
remains that the tactics of the New
Dealers served only to stimulate the
spreading flame of resentment in
the House. When the final story of
the New Deal is written the poverty
of it's diplomacy will fill an important
chapter.
The administration was guilty of a
strategic blunder in tieing the hous-
ing bill to the lending spending
measure. Had it been offered inde-
pendently 1t might have passed, but
it had no chance once the movement
to repudiate the purchased recovery
philosophy had gained momentum.
The housing expansion program may
be listed as desirable, but it is not
an essential measure. Deferment of
congressional action will by no means
destroy the program of the Housing
Authority.
Nor does refusal of the House to
consider the measure imply repudia-
ton of the housing program itself.
Properly administered, it should be
one of the better New Deal projects.
The simple fact of the matter is
that the House, having already voted
some thirteen billions of dollars at
this session, would not add another
$500, 100000 to that total. It is i'm
material now whether that attitude
be considered a reasoned one or
merely impulsive. The fact remains
that the revolt is in full swing, and
the sooner administration leaders
are able to bring about an adjourn
ment the fewer additional embar-
rassments they will suffer.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Grody's Appointment

The excellence of President Roose-
velt's selection of Henry F. Grady to
succeed Francis B. Sayre as Assistant
Secretary of State need scarcely be
stated.
Mr.. Roosevelt has chosen an ex-
pert rather than a politician to fill
a position requiring technical skill of
high order. AS Assistant Secretary
OF State Mr.. Grady will be in charge
OF all phases of American economic
relationships with the rest of the
world-finance, tariffs and trade.
His major function will be to su-
pervise the trade agreements pro-
gram with it's constant search for
new ways in which to blast away the
barriers to trade, but the job is far
broader than that, embracing COM
mercial policy making and direction
In all its phases.
Mr.. Grady is fitted with a rich
background Of training and expert
ence to watch over Americas eco
nomic relations at a time of world
trouble. After the World War he was
successfully trade commissioner, COM
mercial attache, director of research
OF the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce, professor of inter-
national trade and later dean of
commerce at the University of Cali
fornia
On leave from his teaching duties
he was in direct charge OF the Trade
Agreements Division of the State De-
partment at its inception, and after
supervising negotiation of fourteen
agreements in it's first two years he
returned to California for a year be-
fore assuming his present post as
vice chairman of the Tariff Com
mission.
His membership on the League of
Nations Economic Committee further
enhances his value to this Govern
ment, for at Geneva he will speak
with authority on American COM
mercial policy. He will also be able
to contend more forcefully there for
the liberalized trade with which he
has been so closely associated in this
country.
The technical work OF the League,
including that of its Economic Com
mittee, has been its most successful
activity, skillful, objective and of i'm
mense value not only to governments
but~also to the work of gathering and
disseminating greater and more exact
information of the workings of world
economics. Mr.. Grady's participa-
ton in that work will helpfully sup
plement his State Department func-
tions.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Food for Thought

The Bureau of Fisheries has Just
announced that fish fed on cod liver
oil will grow to astounding size. Just
the same, it is doubtful if the discov-
cry will be of much help to anglers,
at least for bait. Aside from the
almost insuperable difficulty of keep
ing cod liver oil on a hook, there
seems to be some doubt whether fish
would go for 1t. It is feared that
young Tommy Trout and Belinda
Bass, with the obstinacy of youth the
world over, will steer clear of the
vitamins and perversely prefer the
wrong kind of food. It is already
known that they will take spinners
and refuse spinach.
Besides, there are many more pow
erful ways of making fish grow than
by forcing cod liver oil on them. The
escape method is the simplest and
therefore the best. In this, the fish
bites, stays on the line for a few Sec
onds, and breaks away, carrying with
him all evidence Of his size, and leav-
ing the angler free to claim whatever
he pleases or thinks he can get away
with. Almost as good is the fisher
man. in -the-woods- -with-a-guide-t
back-him-up. The average guide will
make small subornation charge for
perjury of this nature, usually run
ming to about dollar a pound for
trout, and due allowance for the ex-
pense should be made in the anglers
budget. ~
Evening star., 1939-08-04
The Taft Candidacy

In announcing his candidacy for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton, Senator Taft of Ohio did an ex-
cellent job of summing up what will
be the fundamental issue of the 1910
campaign. UNLESS the whole present
tendency of the Government is redi-
rected,' he said, I'VE cannot long
maintain financial solvency or free
enterprise or even individual liberty
in the United States -"
The Ohio Senator in those words
stated what will be and what ought
to be the essential philosophy of the
Republican party in the forthcoming
election. Too often in the past Re-
publican candidates, lacking the
courage to take an unequivocal stand
against the New Deal, have sought
office by processing faith in the broad
objectives of the Roosevelt admin
istration, proposing at the same time
to improve on the New Dealers
methods of attaining those objectives.
But the time for such stimulation
has passed. Experience of the past
six years has brought into sharp
focus the weaknesses and the dan
gers of the New Deal. Successful ap-
plication of the Roosevelt policies
involving close regulation of the af-
fairs of private industry and private
individuals-calls for the investment
OF the Executive with powers which
are foreign to our scheme of Gov
ernment. Lacking such powers, and
knowing that the American people
would not willingly sacrifice their
traditional freedom to permit of the
exercise of such authority, the New
Deal has proceeded by half measures.
And consequently it has failed to
achieve it's goal.
1t is clear, however, that conditions
throughout the country will not per-
nit of maintaining the status quo.
Eventually we must choose between
a progressively authoritarian New
Deal or the redirection of "the whole
present tendency of the Government"
called for by Senator Taft.
The task of r1directing Govern
ment policy will be both unpleasant
and difficult, a fact clearly recog-
nized by the Senator. But it is not
easy to see how the Republican party,
whoever its nominee may finally be,
can follow any other course and still
hope for success. The Senator from
Ohio, in effect, has tied his candidacy
to the doctrine that the grave prob
lens of unemployment and destitu-
tion can be solved only by a return
to sound fiscal policies and the free
ing of private business from oppres-
sive and restrictive governmental
regulation. For having the courage
to take that stand at critical mo-
ment in the history of his party and
his country, he merits admiration
and respect.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Trace1pell.

paper jacket where 1t presses up against
the backbone.
Jackets thus become a liability, no
doubt of 1t, since the mildew collects
there and escapes notice, unless q
planned inspection campaign is put into
effect.
Perhaps the best way would be to
keep paper covers on, in winter, and take
them on IN summer, especially If you
have trees and large shrubs around the
house.
Phonograph record albums must not
be overlooked.
Mildew loves to collect on them, too.
II the collection of fungi on leather
book Is too deep to wipe of readily. 1t
may be removed by the careful applica-
ton OF weak solution of oxalic acid
in water. About per cent acid is right,
but since 1t is a weak acid, more prob
ably would not hurt.
The solution should be dipped up with
cloth, and the cloth wrung out. so
that the rag is no wetter than 1t need
be to get results.
After the gray film is removed, the
book should be dried carefully and
placed where 1t will get plenty of fresh
air.
A little sunshine would help, but care
must be taken not to permit the covers
to warp.
This same solution may be tried on
cloth-bound books, but We have always
rather feared to use liquids on cloth, as
they almost always show stained places,
which are worse than mildew.
~ ~
1t is unquestionable that a home in
which the downstairs is kept tightly
closed until evening is cooler, but the
book owner must weigh this against
the damage to his book bindings by
mildew.
After one experience with a good dose
OF fungi on beloved volumes, the friend
OF books is willing to have a warmer
house for less mildew.
Thus plenty of sunshine and fresh
air remain the first line of antiseptic
treatment.
The second is close inpection at fixed
intervals especially after a home has
been closed up for any length of time.
The third is wiping carefully with
cloth or tissue.
The fourth is with the oxalic acid
treatment
Sometimes removed mildew leaves
stained spots behind it.
There is probably very little that can
be done about them. Let them remain
as warning to the booklover to keep
better watch, next time, also to keep
as much fresh warm air in the house
as possible. When the house gets too
damp, running the furnace for a few
hours is not bad idea at all. But don't
tell your friends about it.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Qualification Needed

One unfortunate result of the en-
actment of the Hatch bill has been to
create uncertainty concerning the
status of nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia municipal officials who hold
Government positions The situation
calls for an announcement from the
Department of Justice, which is
charged with prosecuting violations
OF the new statute, giving an official
Interpretation of the law in that re-
spect. Such an announcement should
be made as soon as possible, for some
officials already are on the verge of
resigning.
1t is to be hoped that the official
Interpretation will confirm the cur
rent unofficial view that the law does
not require the designations of in
cumbent local officials. In this con-
nection it is pointed out that al
though the law forbids Government
employees to take any active part in
political management or in political
campaigns" it makes no specific ref
erence to those already holding mu-
nicipal posts.
Regardless of the status of present
officials, the Hatch bill should be
amended as quickly as possible to
exempt specifically Government en-
ployes who participate in municipal
administration in the small towns
in the Washington area.
President Roosevelt himself has
proposed that Congress at its next
session specifically exempt local off,
cials from the operation of the bill,
pointing out that for many years
there has been an exception to the
civil service regulations to care for
them. 1t is desirable, as the Presi-
dent says, that this exception be
maintained.
The towns adjacent to Washington
are made up largely of Government
workers. To prohibit them from par
ticipation in municipal affairs would
IN effect be limiting the operation Of
representative government Further
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Cites Need for
College Trained Police.

To the Editor of The Star:
"A policeman should be college man
Of superior mental and physical endow-
ments.' Thomas R. Henry quoted DR..
Read Balm of Miami University in those
words in one of his recent columns.
Washington deserves and could have,
in the course Of time, college trained
police force, but Washington cannot lead
the way in this matter because it has
already been done. The results of re-
cruiting only college men by Chief of
Police Orlando Winfield Wilson, Wichita,
Kans, was reported in the Readers Di-
gest of December, 1898. 1t is worth
reading again. Other cities request
Wichita to send them college trained
cop" when they want a new chief of
police.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission has, in the past, held Nation
wide examinations for the Metropolitan
Police Force. Now it holds them locally,
believe. But in this time of unem-
ployment Nation-w wide examinations for
college graduates only would interest the
men Washington needs.
Even locally If the major and super
intendent of police, Ernest w. Brown,
would lecture to graduating classes of
high schools, capturing the imagination
of the boys, there would be young men
planning college courses that would lead
directly toward police work 1t takes
years, under civil service protection of
established jobs, to make an improve
ment in the personnel OF police force.
College men are joining the Washing
ton force because jobs for which they
were trained are scarce, but the number
amounts to trickle when it could be q
flood. A. STANLEY MOREAU.
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Evening star., 1939-08-04
A Big Opportunity

All good wishes, plus active CO.
operation, should be extended to
Robert E. Bondy, who shortly will
assume the sometimes delicate and
always difficult task of direction of
the Districts public welfare pro-
gram.
His long career with the American
Red Cross in the administration of
disaster relief and reconstruction
work, which involved the fate of
great numbers of the helpless and
disbursement of large sums, indicates
his fitness for handling hard jobs.
His pleasing personality should go
far in winning support from the pub
lie and Congress.
Mr.. Bondy correctly regards his
new responsibilities as a great op-
portunity and is ready to assume
them this fall with confidence. He
rightly construes the situation in
Washington as significant" in as
much as the appropriations for meet
ing it are approved by the same Con-
gress which, in his words, has put
the Government into the business of
social welfare, where, he believes, it
will stay. At the same time, this
theoretical centralization of legisla-
tive and appropriations authority
offers a unique problem for any pub
lie welfare director in Washington.
For while Congress, responding to
the Executive, has provided a pat
tern for social welfare work, its
individual committees-including the
House Appropriations Committee
have not always agreed with admin
istration philosophy. The result is
program laid down generally by Con-
gress for the Nation, with individual
and sometimes violent disagreement
with the implications. of that pro-
gram on the part of the appropri-
ating authorities, to whom the Direc-
tor of the Board of Public Welfare
is directly responsible.
This leaves any public welfare di-
rector in a precarious position, which
sometimes makes him an unwilling
target of a cross fire between the
executive and the legislative branches
of the National Government. The
position calls for tact, patience and
success in winning over the appro-
priations committees of Congress as
we'll as skill in public welfare admin
istration.