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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

graveyard. His residence over looks the placid
 waters of Lake Zoar, his lands re in g GO d heart, and his stock is fat and rugged. We all hope that Will 1ia a m Schielke comes through on Monday. We can use a lot more men with his character
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
Women's League

Mrs. John Hayes, president of the Women's Bowling league, is calling a meeting of those women interest ed in bowling, at the Community House, Tuesday evening, at 7:30 Mrs. Hayes asks that former mem- bers who wish to bowl, if unable tc attend this meeting, to kindly send in their names as the league will be formed Tuesday night. The bowl alleys at the Community House will be opened October IA and from all reports will be in tip-top shape and in better condition than ever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
POOR DIET CAUSES DISEASE

About 100000 Americans suffer from pellagra, a disease appar- ently caused by poor dies lacking milk, eggs, liver. greens and fruit Juices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
SOUTH BRITAIN !. BRIEFS
By BILL GARRIGUs

On the list of candidates printed on our paper ballots, we note the name of William Schielke, the toughest -old-timer in this town.
 MT. Schielke is one of the few men in this area who owns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

ana ms KnoWledge Of road work.
 Years ago, when politics was game with no holds barred, the Republicans in this township paid for the adverstising of a caucus of the Democratic Party. A can- didate who is now running for a seat in the Congress of the United States was in charge of the local correspondents and a checkup proved that the Southbury Rews person was at fault. The error was corrected.
 Looking over the list of candi- dates for the school board, one misses the name of men like Frank Evarts. MT. EvartS raised fine peaches on Squaw Rock and kept his finger on the pulse of the com- munity and on educational mat ters. During his term of office, South Britain School always had a good looking teacher, and bright pupils who were amply provided with chalk, pencils, and text books.
 When the first train steamed over the Highland Division through South Britain and South bury, our own Bill Smith was brakeman and the town turned out to welcome him and cheer the improved transportation facility. Bill Smith lived in Southford. He was a lover of good cider, fast horses, and coon dogs that could follow cold trail. Bill never went through this section without a cheery wave to the kids along the way.
 Elections are not what they used to be. Years ago, when almost an unlimited number of votes could be purchased for as low as two dollars a head, our political lead- CTS developed a method of finding out whether or not their constitu- ents were voting as ordered. Be- side the Town Hall window that lighted the voting booth, look out stood on a block of wood and kept his eyes peeled. If hired man put cross in the wrong circle, he usually had to pack up and seek work elsewhere after the report was turned in. People were quite meticulous about their vot- ing those days.
 We note with pleasure that Mrs. William R. Brlnley Is now writing the southbury news for the Waterbury Republican. News from the other side of the hill will now be managed with efll. eleney and genuine accuracy. Mrs. DFinkIey is the window Of Blll nFlniey, former tax collector, eon- stable, and one-tlme commander Of Newton Post. v. ?. W.
 Democratic Town Chairman oerRofy Cassidy k to Do congra. tulAted ln bringing Co South Britain the caucus of all Demo- crats in the iTth Senatorial Dis. tFlet. South Britain Is certainly on the map and the fact that the Democratic party 70 recognineg the fact Is comforting lo all loyhl Democrats iIi this region. Eaoh Chase enme io ihe vlllaef | en "Wednesday evening Miih | better heafa than we've ssos
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
GERMAN PEOPLE
 PRAY FOR PEACE
Rule of 'Barbarians' to End, Predicts Max Brau=
 CT in Address Here

Max Brauer, German refugee, said here last night that there are really two Germanys-one dominated by the Nazi government, the other composed of peace-loving people
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
President

The society will receive commun- ion in a body at the 7:30 o'clock mass next Sunday. The first meet ing of the fall and winter season will also be held next Sunday eve ming in the parish hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

chorus, which was organized last winter, is planned soon. The chorus had successful first-year program, ending with concert last spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
goUR cOUN TRY
We Must Learn to Say NO To Some Questions About America Sophie Kerr

Thirteenth of 24 articles on @Our Country, written exclusively for NEA Service and The Waterbury Democrat by the nations most famous authors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

selection There fore let us ask ourselves som e plain questions.
 We have four basic freedoms here, freedom of speech, freedom of ass e m b ly, freedom of re- ligious worship and freedom of the press.
 Do we want to give up freedom of speech?
 NO!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
BY SOPHIE KERR

Author of Big Hearted Herbert, l" 1,
 seThere's Only One" Fine to
 Look At," etc.
 MT. and Mrs. America, to make up our minds about what we want in this country, we must also make up our minds about what we don't want. To discard is the first step in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

Bernard Coyle of Sylvan avenue is a patient at St. Mary's hospital. MT. Coyle is a local fireman and is stationed at headquarters. All of his friends hope he will be around with them in a short time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
6-6 Battle

A very interesting baseball game was played at the Washington Park diamond, yesterday afternon be- tween the two clored teams, the Eureka Stars of Waterbury and the Virginia Black Sox f Brooklyn, N Y. The game was well played and was called off on account of dark ness, score at that time was 6 to 6 The catcher of the Waterbury team was injured about the middle oi the game. being hit by Q pitcher ball and had to be taken of the field and received medical attention He was e great loss to the local team, being their star catcher and his absence from the game wal quickly detected by the fans. They had . great following of colored people, old and young, from all over the state and seemed to be Q very -------...---. ,a-se..',,,.. -----.-..- .-''--- grown At BquAw Beck these many
 years. The Lone Ranger tried Co
 have Deb maae veter, but lt
 seems the old.tlme educational
 system en Short Wood Brock was
 about on par with cur present
 facilities ln eouthbuFy. Bob didn't
 mnke the grade whom they flashed She statute book on him and or.
 aered, silead fhefel" thIr. Chase
 may be . little sloW on boek.
 learning. hul he can WeFk any
 nlan we've ever known Into lhe
 ground sad he can whip twloc hln ] uolshi in Nll1eaial
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

happy and congenial crowd. They all had good time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
Personals

Mrs. Richard Linehan has re- turned to her home in Brooklyn, N r., having spent the weekend with her brother and sister-in- law, MT. and Mrs. William Blacker of Sylvan avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

Why put up with the bother and in- convenience of old outmoded cooking and heating equipment that is neither satisfactory nor economical? Now prisingly low. Tn this one beautiful range are all of those outstanding cooking features which make Roper Gas Ranges favorites the nation over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07

Eaoh Chase enme io ihe village en "Wednesday evening Miih better heafa iAan we've seen
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Worlds End



Up hundred Of this novel, story Of
Sinclair
primarily interested human beings He is social theor
the attitude
produced immortal literature
practical; hence
personally carefully
written There is little the
casga-and to caslgae usually
faing this novel of
with obectiViy
all the agreeable surprise certainly
Of the experience of 14yeaod boy
reared
temperament American munitions king
with into of the fashionable
Auences mysteries selling
him that socially acceptable
achievements his artists truth
both of instruction.
might setup Sinclair
with downright loahng
almost overcome 1t.
He Lanny Engishman
immediate
Scloss yachting the Medi
grinding
maintain
led-very
Versailles he job
Then, gradually
and worth much when meet them AS
much not greatly he just decides
back his music.
point
with joyful brings Communist agiaor
munitions
all that accumung
effectively destroys the atmosphere
a conscientious work of fiction.
The novel is good reading up to that point however
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Etiquette Books at Library
Answer Social Questions

ness. when We Meet Socially" by
MLedge Moffett, is one of the brief
concise guide books to good form in
social conventions.
Many books on etiquette for young
people have appeared recently.
These discuss such subjects of spe-
cial interest to girls and to boys and
young men as rules to be observed
at home, about town, at parties
with dates, in business, at college, on
being a good mixer. correspondence,
smoking, telephone and many
others. For both boys and girls are
Horace Gardners The Courtesy
Book" Betty Aliens Behave Your
self, Etiquette for American Youth" 4"
and Lawrence B. Goodrich's Living
With Others, Book on Social Con-
duct"
Intended especially for young men
are William o. Stevens The Cor
rect Thing, a Guide-book of Eth
quette for Young Men" Ralph H.
Barbour's Good Manners for Boys
Kathleen Blacks Manners for
Moderns." Charles H. Townes
"Gentlemen Behave" and N. H.
Jonathan's Gentlemen Aren't Sis
sizes, Modern Guide-book for the
Young Man About Town"
For girls the library suggests
What Is She Like, a Personality
Book for Girls" by Mary Brockman;
Good Manners for Girls" by Inez
H. Irwin; ITS More Fun When You
Know the Rules" by Beatrice Pierce,
and Co Etiquette. Poise and Popu-
larity for Every Girl by Elizabeth
Eldridge.
Evening star., 1940-06-16

Requests are being made con-
stantly at the Central Public Ii
brary, Eighth and K streets NV,
and its branches for dependable
guides in answering questions on
approved social conventions. The
library suggests list of books on
etiquette. some of which are general
some written especially for men and
boys and others for girls and young
women.
Perhaps the most widely used of
all books on etiquette is Emily
Posts Etiquette, the Blue Book of
Social Usage" comprehensive
work giving elaborate details COW
ering almost every imaginable situa-
ton in which social conventions are
involved. Lillian Eichlers The
New Book of Etiquette" describes
many of the customs from which
modern etiquette has evolved and
adds general chapters on manners
and correct conduct.
The smallest niceties of personal
habits and manners are discussed in
Sophie Hadida's Manners for Mil
lions" "Vogue's Book Of Etiquette
not only gives the letter of the law,
but stresses the spirit behind it. as
does Margaret Fishbacks Safe
Conduct" slightly humorous and
based on the primary rule that all
successful social intercourse ema-
mates from kindness.
Emphasis in Margery Wilson's
The New Etiquette" is on gracious
ness, charm and naturalness, rather
than mere propriety and correct
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Brief Reviews
General.

General.
POLITICAL HANDBOOK OF THE
WORLD. 1910. Edited by WAL
ter H. Mallory. New York: Har-
per e. Bros.
The Council on Foreign Affairs
issues a new edition of its annual
handbook on the worlds govern
msnts, with changes that take us
up to the present parlous moment.
Highly useful.
BE YOUR OWN GARDENER. BY
Sterling Patterson. New York:
Harper & Bros.
Much useful information for the
average person with the average
purse and ground space-who wants
to make garden.
THE BRIDGE OF ETERNITY. BY
L. L. Gary. New York: For
tuny's.
Intimate story of nervous break
down and recovery. True, incident
ally.
ACCULTURATION OF SEVEN
AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES
Edited by Ralph Linton. New
York: D. Appleton Century Co
Scholarly, dry account as subject
indicates. Tribes are Puyallup
Shoshoni, Ute, Arapaho, Fox, Alkat-
cho, Pueblo.
THE WABASH. BY William E
Wilson. New York: Farrar &
Rinehart.
One more in the F. and r. series
of books on American streams
Pleasant reading.
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained in Wash
ington by The Star and in New
York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
How Green Was My Valley"
Richard Llewellyn; Might In
Bombay" Louis Bromfield;
"Stars On the Sea-" F. Van
Wyck Mason; Kings Row."
Henry Bellamann; Chad
Hanna" Walter Edmonds:
Native Son. Richard Wright;
kitty Foyle," Christopher
Morley; The Bird In the
Tree" Elizabeth Goudge; mfr.
Skeffington." Elizabeth; This
Land Is Ours Louis Zara.
Non-Fiction.
American White Paper"
Joseph Alsop and Robert Kint-
ner; Il Married Adventure"
Osa Johnson; Failure of a
Mission" Sir Neville Hender-
son; How to Read a Book"
Mortimer Adler; This War"
Thomas Mann: "ThiS Is On
Me" Katherine Brush; "The
Voice of Destruction" Her
mann Rauschning; isolated
America" Raymond Buell.;
Polish Profile" Princess Paul
Sapieha: Ethan Allen" Stew
art Holbrook.
Evening star., 1940-06-16
The Bird in the Tree
By Elizabeth Goudge. NeU
York: ColDard, Mccain G. Co.

YOTk. COUdTd, WcCdnn 0 co.
Moving slowly but inexorably
through more than 300 adjective
laden pages, Miss Goudge arrives at
the conclusion that life is what you
make 1t; that a life of service and
sacrifice is rewarded in the world
to come, and that acting a part is
not always synonymous with lying
it is far more often the best way
Of serving the truth"
Miss Goudge's plot is thin and
unoriginal one, acting only as a
framework on which to hang her
moral, or morals, since the book is
sprinkled with axioms. What little
action there is to be found is sepa-
rated by page after page of descrip-
ton. Miss Goudge describes every
thing-from a gnarled oak tree to
the sun shining on birds wing.
Her setting is the rambling and
half enchanted Damerosehay, a
manor in an English coastal town
that once flourished as a harbor
There an aged but still beautiful
grandmother directs the lives of her
children and her children's chill
dren, making her little maxims work
to the extent of breaking up a ro-
nance between the divorced wife Of
one son and her grandson by another
son. Before Miss Goudge, grand
mother and an octogenarian servant
are finished, the ex-wife has gone
back to her husband, the pet grand
son has seen the light and everv
thread of the feeble little plot is
neatly tied.
There is also a fashback to the
early history of Damerosehay,
merely to point out that all the
dwellers in the manor have lived
lives of service and sacrifice. The
author is at her best, however, when
she forgets moralizing and adjec-
tives and concentrates on the three
charming youngsters of the ex-wife,
who are variously rambunctious,
sensitive and whimsical.
MIRIAM OTTTNpEpc
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Lobyrinthine Woys
BIZ Graham Gr

By Graham Greene. Ne1u
York Viking Press.
This is tale of a Catholic priest
who is trying to flee a Mexican
province in which he is trapped by
a political faction, the Red Shirts.
All his attempts to escape are
thwarted, however, and he is the
only priest left to minister to the
spiritual needs of his devout people.
In the end, he dies a martyr, be-
trayed by a peon. But faith lives
in the hearts of the people-even
in the heart of the ostensibly athe-
istic commander of the Red Shirt
firing squad before which the last
OF the padres goes to his death.
Mr.. Greene's delineation of char
acter is convincing and his literary
style impressive. His book may not
make the best-seller lists, but it is
well worth reading, nevertheless.
JOHN G. SWANK. Jr.
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Lillian Russell Biography
Leaves Actress Great
Success Unexplained
Authors Thorough Research
Provides Good Background
For Life of Noted Beauty
By Mary.Carter Roberts.
Lillian Russell: The Era of Plush
Lillian Russell: The Era of Plush
By Mary.C arter Roberts
Bu Parker Morr

By Parker MorreH Neu York: Rdndom House
biography
b S @ Brady Brad 18th w m as needs
low will He relied authority
last AND here he the biography W the Woman
tells the nduted the wnng dining theatrical world
a. p Helen 5oqss H.! H.
fiction would expression of
bod bod Vhu dr. lisa is fairy tse quite ~s ar nf at that hat
flowers It is devoid of the Customary chapters Of youthful struggle
reign before she 20 and kept her ROYALTY to the day of
mphed eoessy over eveyhng PEOPLE had only to @ her be
that she could do no wrong The public for the most par
Loved her and those few people who the M
a magnificent absolutm.
This tale is told by Mo which leaves
or o b oe @ g @ sg % and mat the hs bss a @ M the
was that made such career possible That factor lay within
could have been engmac But if Mr. Morre in his found
to the effects criticism he
@ his s hav So h ee aHe @ on
that thai the the secret has been lost The Of the plush era
left record of aduaion little that particular The queens
splendors
No Hint ast
reader observing ser this @ hiatus as can can hardly help wondering Lillian
her sweet really M
acS OF AWNING 10 say? Nr Naoe would nave
have lacking needo particularly
oaph 5fsa aS received He writes theatrical history and
of herself
then might look for the secret in descriptions of the establish
furnished
told
everything
AS
practically
proved to be gams The third Giovanni Pergno her leading
fourth Lillian
pink plump
Plump bonds always existed plenty. And
Lillian Russell
background theatrical
history
reasonably popular style consistently
entertaining
Evening star., 1940-06-16
New EnqIond Sampler
By Eleanor Early. Ne1D York
WdUerly House.

" uCCf W llCuCC
Miss Eleanor Early has been writ
ing guidebooks for some years, and
at least three Of her compositions
have dealt with New England.
More than that, she is a native of
Boston and has worked on New
England newspapers. She appar-
emily has accumulated some steam
In the preface to her present volume
she announces that, at last, she is
going to let fly. AS she puts it:
Il would not hurt a Colonial
dame for apples. nor even a D. A r.
But I am rather tired of being
polite, and now I am going to tell
some of the things I know about
some of the ancestors of our best
people" This dire warning, how
ever, produces nothing anywhere
near 50 terrible as Miss Early evi-
IDENTIFY wants us to expect
Her book is a sort of New England
version of Margaret Halsey's pep
perry volume about Old England
with Malice Toward Some" She
follows no particular plan, but just
skips about through the history of
her native section, choosing this or
that episode for fun-poking. Bund-
ling and witchcraft. ghosts and sea
captains, love affairs and crimes,
Lizzie Borden and Lydia E. Pink
ham, and finally recipes and formu-
las for drinks-all these Miss Early
puts into her sampler" using a
sharp needle when she wants to (as
in the case of Jonathan Edwards
and Gov. Winthrop and certain
hanging judges, but displaying a
familiarity with her material which
obviously means affection. A witty,
spicy, laugh-provoking volume, ex-
cellent to read. NC. R.
Evening star., 1940-06-16
The World Over in 1899
Edited by Leon Bryce Block
and Charles Angof. New York.
The Lining Age Press.

The Lining Age Press.
This is the second of an entirely
new annual series-based upon an
entirely new method-of presenting
the chronology and Interpretation
of world history.
Nineteen thirty-nine was a year
of acute international strain-a year
in which the second European war
within a generation began. This
volume, therefore, has special sig
nificance because of the develop
ment, month by month and country
by country, of the break which led
last September to the German in
vasion of Poland.
The technical handling of the
material makes this book a ready
reference manual for 1899. The first
half is devoted to monthly commen-
taries on developments in each
major country; the last half is a
chronology, and the whole is CO.
ordinated in an index which refers
both to commentary and chronology
The principal value of this work
is for students, teachers, statesmen
and editors, but it is not without
use for the layman who sets himself
to follow closely the war and the
events which led to its outbreak.
CRESTON B. MULLINS.
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Sold to the Ladies!
Ru Bennett York: GeorQe w Ste1part

Museum Assistant Dorothy Bennett Employment Bureau Exec-
Social Gibbons New York
working girls who bought themselves yacht TO be sure the vessel
welding
When first the full of dirt oil
plainly unloved being
paid $3.50 unany thing and
of it. This is the of the making
Miss Bennett tells tied the
Gowanus Canal the changed derect
penthouse complete with
cabin into residence Of charm and The sooot deck painted
and aWnlnged
gymnasium And had left gamorous
of Island Sound
the cheerful life of yachtsmen
The reviewer found the the pioneer
bagewomn immensely entertaining
tanks scrubbed
water supply They scrape and waterprooed
lhey bt tin roof The constructed lockers hunks kitchen
nets They pumped out bge They pounded chain cuked
seams with oakum And all this while
offices during the day Intrepid spirits they
graphic evidence their barge
the hearts that
cauking with JOY and anticipation.
Miss Bennett tells her pleasantly of
that grgle accounts
manual toll She not and she does twter She writes
indeed like such regular that
next New York visit Manasset and
And
the C R.
Evening star., 1940-06-16
European Federation Idea
Continues to Spread in
Spite Of Present War
Englishman Advances Latest
Modification of STREET Plan;
Includes Totalitarians
By Blair Bolles
A Federation for Western Europe

BY w. Iuor jennings NeD York: The Macmillan Co.
victory belongs
the Allies will
establishment
eloquent and hooughgong peder Of federation
Clarence STREET. launched the movement Since his Union
London University with his contribution making df
ferng details Sts based principles
Mr. Jennings premise the meaning Of international relations
shows changed the worlds opinion
Wilson forth his
last nearing its he self
determination
and Mr. Jennings write that totaaan could
play their European federation although would
right membership only the dmocracies his opinion the
collaboration authoritarian
ample Of all
than the enforcement democracy
Nations sanction scheme failed federation
could do
Of Strong
Feelings Is Problem
Jennings beginning small
the problem
thinks the reduction natonaic feelings
blue federaions function
constitution the blueprint both before
the invasion Of the Countries section article
quickly
dream Of placid future:
Amy following giving
Netherlands
this constitution"
Jennings membership
Republic
Ireland the Grand Luxembourg the Kingdom Of
Netherlands Sweden the Swiss
three Of countries battle
that his
contemplates the resabshment
Should all
be speak of federation.
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Clara Schumonn
By John N. Burk.

Clara Schumann probably the greatest pianist Of all time
lasting spread the music
of the 10th romantics before public and professional critics
held in the rigid grip of established Her heroic story
artist nextraby linked with that of her husband
makes truly fascinating reading especially in the flowing unpedantc
physical, which Clara had
and cruel that she them to conquer the
world child prodigy under tueag driving
exactng denied activity
children of AS the beloved Of
irreconlabe Eventually happily
cuivaing the time her artistic abilities
could have sustained the
deterioration and death.
originally took the of the romantics
from the inspiration Of husband later from Johannes Brahms
loving Robert She
that from the One of those exceptional artists who
Clara
the profound Schunnn
Bach whose
more than glamor and superfciahy
exceedingly we'll shows keen proportion
in his pertinent background material
search serious entertainment will not be disappointed this
romantic biography" j. W. STEPP.