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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-24

Swell, isn't it? A. J. Lieblingy profile on The Shuberts in The Newyorker refers to the time they barred you for { years. Lee .ls quoted as saying he isn't grateful for your boosting of the Winter Garden show (which he admits yo'i saved) because "Winchell has roasted some very good shows"
 The hotel owners at Nassau ir the Bahamas are most unhappy over the reports that American: are afraid to risk coming there this season. I hear this is silly considering plane service Is avail able and the trip to Miami is only two hours. Nassau is g charming spot and I think I'll go for a 10. dayer :. Fritz Thyssen. the big German industrialist (who encour. aged and angela Hitler into pow. er) is one guy can't work Up $ tear about. Now that Thyssen has fled for his safety, his plight sfouls be a great lesson to all the other big shots who think that rabble rousers should b encouraged
 I see where a British official says that if Hitler changed his diet he'd be more reasonable man M I know is that if Hitler's diet lrl- cluded some arsenic we'd all have more reasonable world.
 Kermit Roosevelt. Jr., is a copy boy over at the Trib. He's Har- yard man and a Rhodes schoiat elect so you can see how tight the journalistic sitcheeayShun is right nok .. When Chesterfield dec. orates the highways soon with bill boards showing three girls. they'll be described as "the prettiest ano most popular posers of 1940' Tn. gels will be: Dana Dale. Florencc Dornan and Suzanne Shaw .. hear that a certain feature writer on an eve'g paper claims to know the murderer of Starr Faithful The murderer is allegedly working right now in a legitimate restau rant in town. The tip also said "There is also a damn good reasor why this does not become news Is that so? !. don't believe any newspape.man would keeG such scoop secret Anyway why don't you go after 1t?
 Excuse me while I shut off those hysterical child actors that go or between $40 and 6 D, m, Gosh how they scream, scream anc screaml Quite scene in iron! of the Stork Club the other night A drunk who was barred, threat ened to shoot (with an imaginary pistoD Joe Lopez and MT. Billings ley Groused he was planning tc murder them for months Wnel. a cop arrived, the stew soDered nr and looked very silly. Seems he's on the Lone Ranger program and is usually shooting people = iil scripts The Earl of Lancashire Gord Wolfe), who is only a kid almsot didn't get in one night. Be. cause he was wearing tennis shoes Such a reason Arthur Lycrs comment to a friend (when his wife Ila walked out on hlm) ts sadly amusing: T can't understand why she did it." groaned Arthur T just gave her jewelry valued al $25 5,000!"
 Charles Bayer. a former Times man, went to Medical Arts Center
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-24

the same proportion as the conner cial depositors. The point is pure ly technical one and Judge Cornell suggested that Atty. Walsh make the amendment as soon as possible. and indicated that when the amend- cd motion was presented to him he would approve the motion for, the payment of the dividend.
 Both the commercial and saving depositors of the bank have each been now paid dividends of 60 per cent,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-24
FLORIDA CLUBMEN
 BOOKED FOR PARK
Dean Hudson's Orchestra Makes Debut Here Sun-
 day Evening

Hamilton Park pavilion, where Connecticut music and dance lovers first listened to such present day big names" as Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller will see the Connecti-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
Business Takes Salt With Boom

Encouraging indeed is the marked
tendency of the business world to take
with large grain of salt the upsurge OF
business due directly and indirectly to
the European war Coming just when
it did, the upsurge was welcome, and
the prospect of profitable business is
pleasant to many firms who for the
past two years have been operating In
the red. But there is very little OF the
wild hullabaloo that greeted the war
boom" of 1915 and 1916. Like every
thing else, the business situation is dill
ferent And like everybody else, bust
ness men learned something last time.
It is entirely possible that direct war
business may not be nearly as great this
time as last, even if the arms embargo
should be repealed. In the first place,
the British and French are much better
equipped to supply themselves. They
have had a years clear warning, and the
horrible shortage of shells and war
materials which so hurt the British IN
1914 is unlikely this time. Instead OF
three important arms plans in Britain,
as in 1914, there are hundreds today The
French, whose best industrial territory
was Immediately taken from them in
1914, do not face this handicap today.
Such buying as these countries do in the
United States will be organized and
centralized this time, not wildly COM
petitive.
In fact, such uplift as business has
seen thus far is only to a small extent
attributable directly to war buying. Most
of it has come from the stimulus which
war conditions gave to domestic buying,
from our own arms program, and from
orders shunted to the United States from
countries cut off from Europe. Steel
production at above "a per cent of pro-
duction may not hold that pace, being
apparently far ahead Of consumption.
Farm commodity prices are up, but still
far below parity. Railway earnings for
August show that marked improvement
In that field had begun before the war
broke. Chilean, Brazilian, and Portu-
guese railway equipment orders in pros
pect are war business only indirectly.
So are other orders from neutralS.
The most hopeful side of this "War
boomlet" is the restrained way in which
business leaders are facing it. Repeated
warnings have come from many OF them
against over-optimism, over-speculation
oyerexpansion. Quick, excessive profits
will only be taken away by taxation,
whereas if such profit margins are turned
as far as possible into cheapened prices
leading to an expanded domestic market,
the gains made may be solidified and
made bulwark for the future when con-
traction follows abnormal war conditions.
This policy is no theory urged by i'm
practical dreamers, but a sound, states
manlike course put forward by such
pragmatists as the American Bankers
Association.
Such uplift as war conditions bring to
business must be regarded not as some
thing in itself, but simply as a chance
to reduce unemployment and the relief
burden, to get budgets back on sounder
basis, and, in short, to get solidly to our
feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07

With the arrival of a junk from
China Richard Halliburton has been de-
clared legally dead. Where and how ne
met his fate will remain a mystery like
the fate of Amelia Earhart Halliburton
was one of those adventurous persons
who roved and roamed and wrote OF
what he saw and did with lively mag.
nation stimulating his words. Many OF
his experiences may have been recorded
with a bit of over-statement, but they
made good reading and since he was not
recording facts of history it was up to
him to adopt his own style of writing.
Halliburton was last heard of in March
when he left China via the Pacific in
seventy-five foot junk. AS writer OF
far-away lands he had large and appre-
ciative following. He attempted the i'm
possible and gave touch of romance
t. the prosaic. Most travellers in the in
terests of science and the like record
their experiences with precision in
more or less chronological and some
times dull fashion. Halliburton, on the
contrary, did, or attempted to do, the
impossible and wrote about it in an
entertaining fashion. A junk from China
has arrived and has made it even more
certain that Halliburton has had his last
adventure. S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
Looks Like Hard Winter

The reception accorded Adolf Hitler'S
peace message, delivered to the German
Reichstag Friday, by European powers
was not the cordial one that might be
expected fol message supposedly an
appeal for peace. 1t is obvious that Hitler
is ready to call it quits with things
remaining just as they are now and no
interference from any other European
powers in Germany's plans for the
future.
And that's the nub of the troubled sit
uation in Europe. No one knows what
Germany's plans are for the future. But
everyone, even the powers that now are
supposed to be on fairly friendly terms
with Germany believes that Nazi prom
ises are relatively cheap They have
proved so in the past fewyears as Germany
might has pushed out its arms IN varl-
GUS directions. So far no proof has been
offered that the reign OF militaristlc ex-
panSion is over.
Consequently Britain and France are
not in any way sympathetic with the
present German attitude. We doubt II
the high ranking officials give anything
more than a cursory examination to the
speech that Der Fuehrer read to the
Reichstag. The outlook for Nazi-dlc-
tated peace is positively not encourag-
ing. If the European muddled
waters are to be Gained and cleared it is
apparent now that the real effort must
come from without the present three
great powers that are warning - Britain,
France, and Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
Time to Go to War!

It is time for America to 60 to war -
but not in Europe. The battle field is
right here - in your home and place
Of business. The enemy is fire.
It is no mean enemy. Each year it
destroys property worth several hundred
million dollars 1t kills thousands of
human beings. 1t destroys great num-
berS Of jobs. 1t destroys hopes, ambi-
tions, opportunities. 1t leaves behind
scenes of smoking ruin as grim as if
bombs had been the instruments of de-
Struction. It strikes when we least
expect 1t, and often where there is no
defense.
This year, as in every year for two
decades, definite date has been set for
declaring war against fire. The mobili-
zation days are October to A. The
occasion is Fire Prevention Week.
During that period every citizen in
the land will be given an unrivaled op-
pOrtunity to learn about fire, and how
It may be prevented and controlled. This
is no dry-as-duSt subject. It will be
taught to you wildly and dramatically.
Approach it with an open, interested
mind. Remember what you read and
hear and see. For fire prevention is of
the most direct Importance to you. No
one knows where fire will strike next
your home has as much chance to be the
scene Of ruin as anyone else's. Your
town may witness a cOnflagration that
will bring civic progress to an end.
There can never be too many soldiers
hi the fire-fighting army. Enlist for the
duration Of hostilities!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07

Officials estimate that if the new slate
blue uniforms are adopted in the United
States army the difference in cost will be
about sixteen dollars because it costs
now about $215 man for three years,
but with the new type uniform it will
cost about $199. The army circles report
that slate blue uniform will supplant
the olive drab. However, it will take
some time before the supply of olive drab
il exhausted 1t is said the blue will be
lots easier to manufacture, and it goes
without saying, it is an easier color on
the eye, and last but not least generally
much more becoming, which is import
ant, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
FALSE PROSPERITY
(Hartford Courant)

One thing is certain, and that is
that the war orders" which manu-
facturers are receiving are not go
ing to bring prosperity, recovery"
or any considerable reduction in the
cost of relief of unskilled persons
now out of employment.
The government Is spending mil
lions for materials and supplies. The
expenditure is necessary for our ma
tional security - preparedness for
possible eventualities.
But the expenditures come out of
the public purse. They must be met
by taxation. They presage further
increase in the national debt. They
forecast higher federal taxes.
Because they are expenditures Of
public moneys they are going to be
watched very closely. They are quite
likely to need watching, lest the
cry of "profiteering" rise again and
drown the calm voice Of the ma
tons demand for preparedness. The
profits made on these orders are to
be so heavily taxed that the net will
VIC ucB1SlDic. Lie SdulplllS VII
war babies" securities in the stock
exchanges these days Is an in-and-
out game. in which the sensible in
weston will have no part.
Steady rises in the cots of raw
materials will increase the cost Of
finished products, and that, unless
public income is increased, will
curtail non-government purchases,
Such situation would renew con-
fiict between. employers and their
workers over the old issue of earn
ing sufficient to meet the cost of
living and maintain the American
standard.
Prosperity" such as comes from
preparations for war is a delusion
After the surge Of abnormal pro-
duction comes the inevitable reac-
ton. The recent depression is toe
fresh in memory to be ignored by
the best brains in the country
which should be devoted to build
ing a sound economy that will as.
sure real prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
Selected Poem
MISSING YOU
(FOr b. e. Gu

(Ruth Vning Gracy in the Poets Corner,
Things are so hurried at this time of year;
From early till night comes corn knife swings
An early frost the farmers seem to fear,
It's all queer without you in the thick OF things.
The school bell rings and throngs are off to school
To learn the golden rules of life one dreams and
hopes:
Regardless of their ans-al rush. no time to fool,
All hurry bent, not one of them who mopes
Industrious diggers through the year now find their
harvest gold,
And lonesome souls keep busy on the hill;
The world moves on and yet when all is told,
It seems not right, and you so very STILL
Exciting politics yet run their course,
The secret meetings dear to every man;
Your joy of living brings SO much remorse,
BY day, your rush Of work; by night, your clam
From missing you there is no rule of cure.
The world moves on in town and on the hill,
Time gives us peace and trains us to endure.
But hurry seems so wrong with you SO STILL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
Current Comment

I wish Mr.. Roosevelt would
abolish winter.
Senator Styles Bridges (Rep-
resentative New Hampshire).
I can be just as thankful on the
23rd as on the 30th.
Governor Luren D. Dickinson
of Michigan.
The United States Department of
Justice cannot be threatened.
%. John Rogge, assistant u.
s. attorney general.
To Britain and France I say this:
1t is none of your business how
Danzigers wish to arrange their flu
tllre.
ALBERT Forster. Maxi leader In
Danzig.
The truth IS. Mr.. Garner left on
the practice (of playing poker)
many years ago.
Mrs John Nance Garner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
AUTUMN FOLIAGE
Boston Post)

This week in northeastern Yer
mont the fall foliage will begin to
reach its most brilliant coloring.
Gradually, through the rest of New
England, nature will complete its
annual show with the Massachusetts,
colorings reaching their peak some
time between Oct. 10 and IS.
The magic color transition from
green to flaming red, warm yelows
and entire spectroscopi range an
nually delight more and more visitors
from other states. From now until
well into November the fall tourist
will be amply repaid for a trip to
New England. Few other sections of
the world will compare with her in
her natural beauty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07

of the State Department walked
into Johnsons office in the Capt.
toll, noticed a picture on the wall
and said, That's a mighty fine
looking officer, Senator. Who is
it,"
THAT'S my son, Archie" re-
piled johnson.
ooh yes said Moore, II have
heard DIR. Wynne Of the State
Department speak Of him."
"He and DIR. Wynne were very
good friends" replied johnson.
Whereupon the Senator broke
down and wept.
Archie, a California lawyer, took
dramatic and difficult cases as at
torney for the Chinese tongs. And
when a case was over he frequent
ly went on a hinge. Meantime his
wife became estranged, and even
tually married another man.
On one occasion Senator Dave
Reed Of Pennsylvania came to visit
johnson in San Francisco, and
the latter asked Archie to show
the visitor about the town. Archie
did so. Reed left later in the day
for Chicago, and when he got
off the train, picked up a paper
to read that Archie johnson had
blown out his brains with a re-
volver.
GREAT SENATE RECORD
Probably Hiram johnson spent
his most fruitful years as COVER
nor of California, where he re-
organized the state machinery,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
Views of The Press

the line with the statement that
Lou Is lone of the most intelligent
young fellows I've ever seen in
sport"
Lou admits that 1t takes more
than mere beef to be a champion.
Although the great active con-
scious mind" is of no great use
when you take one on the chin, Lou
feels that the lack can be made up
by building up your subconscious
mind along right lines well in adj
vance," This statement alone is a
tribute to LOUIS intelligence, for a
prize fighter, like a rattlesnake,
must have a quickly functioning
subconscious mind for use in the
clinches. Even Gene Tunney didn't
claim any victories as result of
his study OF Shakespeare; he merely
felt that Shakespeare was a pleas
ant diversion from taking punches
Perhaps If he wins all the fights he
expects to, Lou Nova will tell us
what a fighter does with his con-
scious mind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07

There was complete black-out in this
city Thursday night and on into the next
morning. It was not possible to see a
foot ahead and the strongest headlights
and foglights could not penetrate the
gloom. The only sound in the night
was an occasional auto horn, backfire,
or the whistle of a train meandering
down the valley. There was little or no
excitement, but autoists and pedestrians
avoiding collisions. It was fog that
followed a day of summer temperature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07

Ferde Grofe, the composer, is
under her banner and so Is Cor
nelia Otis Skinner. They keep her
pretty busy. In fact so much so
she has been unable to move out
of her apartment ONCE, where she
employs four secretaries who pile
over one another in an effort to
get the days work done. Twelve
field workers travel from city to
city organizing her campaigns.
And she drives from town to
town herself-at a mad rate of
speed. She has been known to
travel 300 miles at the wheel and
go to dance or concert that
night.
She packed her daughter, Betty,
in an auto one day in Florida and
showed up in New York a day and
a half later. She had driven all
the way! But it's nothing to the
driving she used to do when she
was the youngest ambulance driver
of the last war;, She never has had
an accident ornaee vetaoiShrdll
an accident or even a slight fend-
er-scrape.
Though her chief interest in
small towns is the concert, she
generally winds up by offering her
services in other fields as well. She
aids in the raising of charity
funds, in municipal chores at the
mayors behest and all else that
might come up during the course
of her itineraries.
1t is swift-moving career for
a lady in her thirties, but Mabel
Embree seems to thrive on it. She
seems to be the busiest woman in
town-this town and a hundred
and twenty others!
MORE "UNKNOWNS"
CLICK ON BROADWAY
An anonymous little troupe la
beled the Strawhatters blew into
town with a modest musical show
the other night and won the
plaudits of the blase and sophisti-
Gated. Their unpretentious Offer
ing didn't cost much, about one
tenth the budget of the ordinary
extravaganza. But they won the
praise of flyet-nighters, anyway.
The Strawhat Revue generated
in an adult summer camp away
from the city and was produced in
makeshift scenery and with hastily
sewn costumes. A Rialto impre-
sario happened to be around that
way and looked in on 1t. He
brought it to Broadway.
Anonymity pays beyond the To-
cal footlights. More than year
ago, the ladies garment workers
entered quietly with their Pins
and Needles" and still are here,
endorsed by Democrats, Republic
cans, capitalists and proletariat
alike.
Even "Hellzapoppin" had no cell
ebrated past before booming here.
Olsen g. johnson were well known
in Manhattan's purlieus and far
ther west, but never eminent on
Broadway. You don't have to be a
five-star satellite to gain renown
in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07

introduced popular election laws
and championed the cause of la
Dor. Later, in the United Sttaes
Senate, he made possible Boulder
Dam, was in the forefront of every
power fight (until recently, and
led an investigation on Wall
Street long before the Pecora
probe.
In fact, Johnson's legislative rec
ord has almost paralleled that Of
Norris of Nebraska. The two have
gone hand in hand. Both are
about the same age, both have
been in the Senate almost equal
periods. But there is one great
difference between them. On
Norris face today there is look
of peace and contentment. He has
learned to grow old.
johnson, on the other hand, Is
as bitter as he was in 1910, when
he fought Harrison Gray Otis for
governor of California with a
speech which will go down in his
tory for its vitriol. T.
"He (Otis) sits there in senile
dementia," stormed johnson,
with gangrened heart and rot
ting brain, grimacing at every
reform, chattering impotently at
all things that are decent;
frothing, fuming, violently glib
bering, going down to his grave
amid Snarling infamy."
Copyright, 1889, by United
Eaati1rn GI,fadicate Tfan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
LATEST BOOKS
Breath Reveals
Mans Character

The drama of life and death is
played every day in the laboratory
as science opens new frontiers,
makes such discoveries as the
iron lung, the brain bath, miracu-
lcus vaccine for pellagara. ]. D..
Ratcliff tells the whole fascinat-
ing story in a boog eminently
readable, Modern Miracle Men"
(Dodd, Mead: $3). Excepted
briefly here is the story Of what
science has discovered in your
breath.
Basal metabolism Zone Of the
foundation stones Of modern medi-
cine) means, simply, the base rate
at which the body burns food into
energy.
It does not include the unusual
energy needed for getting mad or
worrying, for chopping wood or play
ing tennis. 1t deals exclusively with
such essentials as heart and lung
action, glandular activity, produc-
ton of body heat, production and
destruction of cells-all activities
that must continue even during
sleep.
The doctor screws an ugly rub
her clamp over the nose OF the
patient. Then he slips small rub
Der mask snugly against the
patients gums. For a few minutes
the patient breathes through the
mask. Chemical analysis Of the ex-
hailed air often gives more informa
ton about a person than his nearest
and dearest relative could supply.
1t may tell why a man Is Short
tempered with the children, or why
he rushes out of the house IN a
morning rage, leaving half I'm
ished breakfast. 1t may explain why
his weight is increasing at but
ton-snappping rate, or why his
heart pounds so alarmingly; why his
eyes bulge in such startling man.
ner, or why he has difficulty con-
centrating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-07

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O. What is the highway distance
from London to Exeter, England?
A. One hundred and seyenty-one
miles.
O. Where should azaleas be
planted for best results?
A. In any partly shaded area or
corner of the home grounds, espe-
cially II hedged or encircled BY tan
paintings or shrubs or trees, or
partly cleared patch Of woods. They
may also be used in the shrubbery
border and for other purposes.
@. What was the old Saxon name
for the month Of September.
A. Gerst-molsath, or barley
month, as barley was harvested then.
-
@. Is the United States ON q BIZ
metallic standard?
A. No; it is on modified form OF
the gold standard.
@. What makes windows sweate