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7 SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1935
A Thought for Today
Oh let te wickedness of the wicked contc
to an end; but establish the just: for the
righteous God trletli the hearts and reins.—
Psalms 7:9.
Faith makes, life proves, trials confirm, and
death crowns the Christian.—Johann Hopfner.
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Bring Them Back Alive
In past years the apex of the motoring
season usually came with the Labor Day
weekend. Then, if ever, came the long list
of dead and maimed, the result of motor
crashes on highways all over the nation.
It is with some premonition that officials
this year are uttering words of caution to
all who plan to be out on the roads at some
time in this period. Vacationers neces
sarily must be home, it would seem, on
Labor Day. The working man may have
to be at his job on Tuesday, but in a good
many cases the haste is wasted.
As regards getting the children home
for school in our own locality that excuse
is out this year. Therefore, may we urge
the gospel of less speed for the weekend.
More leisurely driving will have to be
come a fact and not a fancy in Connecti
cut. We are normally and legally obliged
to respect a speed limit of 45 miles an
hour. That may seem far too slow for
the man who is accustomed to drive at 50
to 60 miles once he is out of city traffic.
It may seem slow, but it won’t take the
driver long to become accustomed to it.
Once upon a time 45 miles an hour was
traveling pretty fast. But then motors
were speeded up and brakes were improved
and the higher speeds were easily attain
able and in some cases controllable. But
modern day traffic seldom allows opera
tion of cars at such excessive rates of
speed as our modern cars easily attain. |
Your car may be under perfect control at
60 or 65 miles an hour, but that of the
approaching driver, perhaps going ten or
fifteen miles an hour slower may not be.
And the result will be the same—death or
serious accident.
This business of mowing down pedes
trians and occupants of automobiles has
simply got to stop. It may become nec
essary to adopt even stricter regulations
than those now proposed. For the bene
fit of the millions who enjoy safe and sane
driving along our pleasant highways,
please realize that every automobile is a
potential killer. It can afford much
pleasure if not abused. It is up to the
driver to see that it is not abused. It
your fellow driver does not seem to be
cooperating with you in this safety cru
sade, that’s no excuse for you to go and
do likewise. Mayhap your example will
be all that’s required to bring one more
erring driver into iine.
Hitch-Hiker Is Menace
It is impossible to drive anywhere in
America today without encountering a
patient, droop-shouldered chap who stands
by the roadside and continuously jerks his
thumb across his chest. He is the hitch
hiker, one of the strangest products of the
auto age,’and he is getting to be a promi
nent part of the American landscape. He
is also getting to be an intense pain in the
neck.
Just why it should be considered proper
for a man to stand by the roadside and beg
free transportation from total strangers
is something of a mystery. If he should
amble up to a pedestrian and say, “I want
to take the next train to Bingville—would
you mind slipping me three ninety-five ?”
the pedestrian would lose no time in tell
ing him where to go; but put the pedes
trian behind the wheel of a car and let
the hitch-hiker make a request which
amounts to precisely the same thing, and
neither party sees anything especially odd
about it.
But the hitch-hiker is something more
than a nuisance. America is full of nui
sances anyway, and one more or. less
hardly makes enough difference to be
worth talking about. There are times and
places when the hitch-hiker is an actual
menace to public safety. For instance:
the police at Wichita, Kansas, got curious
recently and took all the hitch-hikers they
could find down to headquarters to be
fingerprinted. They found that two of
every five had criminal records.
For another instance: murders of mo
torists by hitch-hikers have been recorded
recently in Oregon, Virginia, Nebraska,
New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Oklahoma,
as a matter of fact, ascribes more than
half a dozen recent killings to hitch-hikers,
while Oregon has had three. It might also
be remembered that when Pretty Boy
Floyd was finally hunted down and killed
in Ohio he was in the process of hitch- •
hiking across the country.
The ordinary American is a pretty good
natured sort of'person, and it is this fact
that the hitch-hiker trades on. He collects
a great deal of free transportation, pro
motes the existence of a vagabond class
which does the country no good, and cre
ates a fine opening for a lot of old-fash
ioned highway robbery. As an individual,
the hitch-hiker may be a likable chap. As
CB institution, he is getting to be pretty
trying. One wonders just how much
longer the American motorist will put up
Administrations, Please!
Probably only a few people noticed the
avidity with which the Waterbury Ameri
can leaped at the chance to link the Isola
tion Hospital on Watertown avenue to the
administration of Mayor Frank Hayes. A
well-timed statement of Roger V. Connor,
mayoralty candidate on the Independent
democratic ticket, given to the Waterbury
Republican, furnished the fuel by which
the evening half of the Leavenworth
twins kindled what was supposed to be a
glowing conflagration.
For instance there is this remark: “The
administration has never thought of using
it for sick people. . . .” What administra
tion, pray? Does the writer refer to that
of Mayor Hayes or his predecessor, ex
Mayor Francis Guilfoile? Or perhaps the
writer might even stretch his memory
back to the days of ex-Mayor William
Sandland. Perhaps this writer is not
entirely familiar with the facts surround
ing Waterbury’s Isolation hospital. Per
haps he was not even in our midst
when it was perpetrated upon unsuspecting
citizens.
We don’t recall tfyat there were sarcas
tic remarks when the hospital was made
available several years ago as a waiting
station for tubercular patients seeking ad
mission to state sanatoria. The Isolation
hospital, that handsome edifice up there
on Watertown avenue, can never be laid
at the doorstep of Mayor Hayes. If the
Waterbury American wants to toss its
political mudpies this way and that it
might better get the facts before so doing.
If the city is taxed today for upkeep of
this tenantless institution, lay the blame
where the blame belongs.
Beer At Coney Island
Beer is now the favorite drink at the
famous old seashore resort, Coney Island.
Very little hard liquor is sold. Speakeasies
have almost entirely disappeared. Inter
esting reasons are given for this in a mag
azine which is the official publication of
the State Liquor Authority of New York.
First, hard liquor seems to expensive to
most of the patrons. They buy a hot dog
and a glass of beer and move on, satisfied.
Another reason given is the presnce of
women at bars. The stag party is said to
have died out, giving way to family part
ies. Diversity of entertainment for fam
ilies is also given as a cause for the change
of taste. There are movies and radio and
the whole family goes out to the beach
in the flivver, eats its picnic lunch and
finishes up with a few bottles of beer, gin
ger ale and pop according to individual
taste.
If hard drinking is really giving way to
the moderate and pleasant use of beer as a
beverage, cool and refreshing, instead of
whiskey and gin as stimulants inflamma
tory to the emotions and deadening to the
brain, then repeal was certainly a benefi
cent measure which can be approved by
wets and drys alike.
Senator Fraticis T. Maloney has returned
to his home in Meriden after eight months
of legislating in Washington, D. C. Ac
cording to the Meriden Journal, he does
not show the effects of the long congres
sional session. He is anxious now to rest
after the rigors of the Senate. His first
term in this body was as distinguished as
have been all his legislative experiences.
While admittedly an administration man
Senator Maloney did not hesitate on occas
ions to display that independence of
thought and spirit which has long charac
terized his political career. He will re
main in and around Mariden until Janu
ary, 1936, when he returns for the re
mainder of the 74th Congress. That will
enable him to participate in the Meriden
city election in December. Mayor Stephen
L. Smith, democrat, is expected to be a
candidate to succeed himself.
We never knew until this week that
oyster beds are subject to taxation. Prob
ably that’s a confesison of ignorance, but
we must be truthful. However, some of
the oyster beds in New Haven harbor are
not going to be assessed this year, because
they were ruined by dredging in the har
bor. The tax rate on oyster beds is $12
per acre. It may be recalled that when
dredging ol the harbor began the oyster
men complained that their beds were go
ing to be spoiled. It looks as if they Jcnew
what they were talking about. We’d say
that there might be some cause for dam
ages with the State Shellfish Commission
backing the oyster growers.
Settler’s Village is rapidly approaching
the state of perfection which its cor
porators anticipate. By that we mean in
a few more weeks there will be no more
construction work going on and visitors
will see the village in its final and com
pleted stage. We sincerely hope that the
exhibit can be maintained for many
months to come, perhaps not during the
bitter cold ones, but after they have
passed, surely it should be reopened to the
public. _
1 1 as
Well, anyway, a bag with $9,000,000,
000 of gold in it will support quite a bit
of government credit.
Selected Poem
IN THE CARDINAL'S STUDY
(Harold Willard Gleason In The New York Times)
Across blue velvet carpet like a leaf
Spun by some vagrant gust, a kitten prancing
Capers, back arched, tail (ludicrously brief)
Stiffly erect. . . On four paws Impish dancing
His mate pursues. ... Beneath a carven chair
Beside the table heaped with scrolls portentous,
Quills that have scratched how many crowns away
Appurtenance of statesmanship momentous,
Crouches an ambushed elf in fluffy fur,
* Spitting mock spite. ... A sudden scuffle, ended
As suddenly—in sleep! . . . And Richelieu,
His face a carven mask 'mid shadows blended.
Dispels state cares and, smiling, doffs pretense,
Disarmed by round-eyed kittens' impudence. . , .
Daily Almanac
Monn sets 8:H p. m. (daylight time).
Sun rises 6:16 a. m.; sets 7:28 p. m.,
(da! light time).
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
utes after sunset.
THE MOST IMPORTANT
LABOR MOVEMENT RIGHT NOW
TO EVERT employer and employe there comes
today the opportunity to make the coming
year one of sanity, toleration and Justice in the
conditions under which men work.
Recent weeks have seen a marked tendency to
adjust long-standing labor troubles, to arrive at
sane, fair agreements by discussion rather than
dragging through mutually-exhausting strikes.
With measurable business improvement already
apparent and in sight for fall and winter, there is
every incentive for a period of wise thinking and
action on the part both of those who work and
those who direct.
rPHE rise of movements like the Toledo plan to
A consider the interests of the whole communit)
as no less vital than those of the factions directly
involved, indicates a thorough trial for such in
formal means of giving the public a chance to be
heard, too. For after all, it is the public that suf
fers when industrial strife becomes violent and
widespread.
What the Wagner-Connery act will mean to
labor is not yet clear. Much depends on who is
appointed to the labor board which has such wide
powers in administering it. But it is certain that
in such industries as steel, automobiles and rubber,
another determined effort will be made to organize
workers. Those groups whose object is to raise a
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rumpus rather than wages will renew their activ
ity. There will probably be conflicts, as there un
fortunately must ever be in any democratic system
where neither labor nor capital is under the thumb
of a dictatorial government.
BUT the trend of the time is toward tolerance,
sanity and decency on both sides of the peren
nial labor problem. One need draw no sugary pic
ture of a silk-hatted capitalist shaking hands
with a paper-capped laborer to recognize this
essential truth: labor and capital are indispensable
parts of the same machinery that keeps us all
alive. Capital is necessary even in a socialist state
—all that is changed is the manner of control of
capital, and a driving bureaucracy may be as hard
a master as the unenlightened capitalist. Before
there can be enterprise and production under mod
ern conditions there must be capital.
There must be labor, too. And Siamese twins,
though they may not like each other at all times,
have no alternative than to live together as har
moniously as possible. Neither can be well if the
other is sick.
It is In this spirit that American workmen
and employers must approach the coming year if
the present signs of improvement are to fulfill
their promise.
IN TO-DAY’S MAIL
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This newspaper is not responsible for facts or opinions from its readers.
MR. CAMPBELL TAKES EX
CEPTION TO AMERICAN’S
EDITORIAL ON RUSSIA
Waterbury, Conn.
August 30th, 1335.
Editor of the Democrat:
Many of the readers of the Wa
terbury American of August 28th
must have thought that they had
picked up Hearst’s New York
Journal or New York American by
mistake when they read the edi
torial entitled “Russian Fantasy
Ends.” Certainly this could not be
the Waterbury American, whose
editors are well known for their
liberal policies and thoughts, and
who have boasted time and again
about their disagreement with the
policies and yellow journalism of
William Randolph Hearst. Cer
tainly this could not be the news
paper whose publisher is proud of
the fact that he defeated Hearst
for the vice-presidency of the
Associated Press. But it WAS the
Waterbury American, and ex
ploded is the myth that the ed
itors weigh their subject matter
carefully before they put their
thoughts into print.
It is hard to believe that if the
State Department's note to the So
viet Union and the answer of the
Soviet Union had been carefully
analyzed, that the editorial would
have appeared.
When the Roosevelt government
signed the Litvlnoff-Roosevelt let
ters, it knew that the American
workers would continue their fight
against the intensified attacks of
that government on their living
standards. Roosevelt knew that
the Communist Party of, the Uni
ted States, section of the Com
munist International, would con
tinue and intensify its activities to
mobilize the masses in the broad
est united front possible against
the danger of war and fascism
which Roosevelt’s “note” and the
editorial of the American, now
tend to stimulate and encourage.
It is editorials such aB this, Mr.
Editor, that breeds hatred of the
Soviet Union, the only country in
the world that is actually carrying
on a fight against war.
THIS IS GRIST IN THE MILL
OF THE WAR-MAKERS, MR.
EDITOR, A BLOW AT WORLD
PEACE.
I can Imagine with what joy
Hitler and Mussolini must receive
from the news of the President's
note and the glee with which they
take note of the editorials of ap
proval which appear in the capi
talist controlled newspapers in the
United States. Editorials like this
not only tend to strengthen the
hand of the American fascists and
reactionaries of every stripe, but of
reaction everywhere.
Hitler must have been overjoyed
with the prospect of spreading the
news across the front page of
every newspaper in Germany, to
take the minds of the German
workers off the fact that their liv
ing conditions are ever growing
worse, that thousands are being
tortured in the concentration
camps. The Nasis must welcome
the news As added fuel to feed the
flames of their policies of race
hatred and religious persecution,
which they plan to firing to a cul
mination in an imperialistic war
against the Soviet Union.
Mussolini must regard the news
as a welcome distraction, to take
the eyes of the world away from
his criminal war of conquest
against Ethiopia and concentrate
the attack on the Soviet union.
How the news must have been
hailed by the militarists of Japan,
who are only waiting their.earliest
opportunity of attacking the Soviet
Union.
How William Randolph Hearst
must have gloated when he re
ceived the news in his feudal cas
tle in San Simson, California, and
how he must chortle with glee
when he receives notice that the
so-cailed ‘liberal newspapers are
taking up the cry of the dirty
Hearst sheets "Destroy the Soviet
Union! The only workers’ govern
ment must be smashed if democ
racy (for the millionaires) is to
be saved!”
Following is a partial list of
prominent individuals and organ
izations who have sent protests to
the State Department condemning
the note to the Soviet Union:
Federation 01 Dyers, Printers,
Finishers and Bleachers of
America.
William E. Kuehnel, president
Central Labor Union, Hartford.
Frank Benti, labor candidate
for Mayor of Lodi, N. J.
Margaret Bourke-White.
Charles S. Zimmerman, Inter
national Ladles’ Garment Work
ers Union.
Ilev. William B. Spofford, ex
ecutive secretary of the Church
League for Industrial Democ
racy.
Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Ab
bysiniun Baptist Church.
Roger Baldwin, director Civil
Liberties Union, .
H. Lawrence, Chicago Federa
tion of Labor.
Edward Strong, president
Olivet Baptist Youth Council.
Ji Martin, National Research
League.
secretary
Socialist
A. G. McDowell,
Cook County (111.)
Party.
Maynard C. Kreuger, member,
National Executive Committee
of the Socialist Party.
Sam Weisberg, Young Peo
ples' Socialist League.
Mary van Klech, Russel Sage
Foundation, New York.
Dr. Harry F. Ward, Union
Theological Seminary.
Hundreds of other members
of the American Federation of
Labor and the Socialist, Party.
Dr. William Van Essen, chair
man of the Social Party of Alle
ghany County.
Prof. George Counts, Teach
ers’ College, Columbia Univer
sity.
Quincy Howe, editor at Simon
and Schuster Publishing Co., and
many other prominent teachers,
educators, editors, clergymen
and individuals.
Hey wood Broun, president. of
the Newspaper Guild criticized
the Roosevelt note in a radio
broadcast Monday night over..
station WOR as follows:
"The position taken by the
State Department in Its note
seems to rest on the wholly er
roneous point of view that no
body in America ever has a rad
ical thought or utters a radical
word unless he has received a
picture postcard from Joseph
Stalin. Severance of relations
with Russia would not abate
radical propaganda by one Jot.”
The people of America and of
Waterbury will resent the issuance
of the Hearst-inspired provocative
“note" to the Soviet Union and
such editorials as appeared in the
Waterbury American.
CHARLES E. CAMPBELL.
247 South Main St.
WHITER THINKS REPUBLICAN
CARTOONIST PUT FINISH
ING TOUCHES ON PARTIES
Waterbury, Conn.,
Aug. 30, 1935.
Editor of The Democrat:
In last Sunday’s issue of The
Republican I saw a political car
toon illustrating the republican
and independent democrat parties
as insects. It was positively insult
ing in nature. It was skltched by
"Mort.” Who ever he is, the gentle
man put one over on Mr. Willie
Pape.
Well, here is what I want to
get at. The bug marked republi
can party looked something like
a "horsefly,;’ and the one marked
Ind. Dems resembled a “hornet.”
Now let us dig up the dictionary
for the revelation of these words:
1.—Horsefly, noun. A two-winged
fly called also gadflies and breeze
flies. Bloodsuckers and annoyers.
2.—Hornet, noun. Any of several
large, strong pugnacious wasps, the
sting of which is very severe. Also
-troublemakers. I say, good gosh!
what is the world coming to when
political parties are classified as
bugs.
Locally speaking, the g.o.p.-ers
are now known as the horsefly
party, and the Ind Dems as the
hornets. That is the Republican
artist’s conception of them. Mr.
Pape must have been fog-eyed In
allowing the cartoon to be widely
published. What a political mizup.
Before election day bedlam will
break loose.
In conclusion, gee willlkens, how
Is it the Evening Democrat never
makes a faux pas?
Yours with sensibility,
I. M. ALERT,
Prospect Road.
Current Comments
• * *
I regard the NRA as dead. In
spired propaganda will not bring
it back, and straw votes will not
scrap the American Constitution.
—Governor Hoffman of New Jer
sey.
• • •
Anybody who can’t carry at least
five of ’em (sliver dollar cart
wheels) In each pocket is a sissy.—
Reb. Compton I. White, Idaho.
Americans do not know enough
about their bodies—Dean Henry
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DKKW FEAHSON
ROBERT S. ALUCM.
Democratic Leaders Await Farley *.. . ,
Washington, Aug. SI—A smalt group of high democratic mo- -
guls will gather here next week, immediately after Big Jim Farley's
return, to plot political strategy for 193C. . . The exact route of
Roosevelt’s trip west will depend on latest political dope from Big*
Jim, who has been en route from San Francteoo. . . . Missing from
the meeting of master-minds will be the long and dolorous face of
Raymond Moley. The former No. 1 Brain Truster Is now off the _
White House list. It would be . 1 "■ —.. j
much easier for A1 Smith to get
a Roosevelt invitation to lunch.
.... Others crossed off the
White House calling list are
tall, gangling Gifford Pinchot
and his Titian-haired wife, Cor
nelia. As governor of Penn
sylvania he was a bosom friend
of Franklin Roosevelt, spent
frequent week ends at Albany,
later dined often at the White
House. But ever since Gifford
opposed Democratic Guffey as
senator from Pennsylvania, he
has been “off the lisif’.
Gridiron Bound
If democratic members of the
Senate Lobby Investigating com
mittee have their way, the Amer
ican Liberty league will get a
public probing. The senators
want to bring out the source of
funds enabling the league to
maintain a large suite of expen
sive rooms in the National Press
building, employ numerous “ex
perts”, and pay Jouett Shouse,
dapper executive director, a sal
ary of $36,000 a year ....
As a result of New Deal conser
vation work, forest fires this
year hgve been kept to a record
low. Only 38,000 acres of for
est have been destroyed as com
pared with over 120,000 acres in
1934 .... California’s Repre
sentative John Hoeppel, indicat
ed last spring on a charge of
selling an appointment to Ann
apolis, sponsored a bill in the
closing days of the session “to
establish the civil service merit
principle more firmly in the fed
eral gpvernment.”
Last Days of Congress
Philadelphia’s Representaive
Daly tapping the bald dome of
Massachusett’s Bill Connery with
an unllghted cigar to emphasize
points in a private argument.
. . . Klngfish Huey telling a
group of reporters: “I expect to
be very busy next month get
ting my football team and uni
versity band ready for the sea
son” . . . The House passing
bills in 45 seconds by the watch.
. . . Arizona’s grandiloquent
Senator Ashurst deftly side-step
ping a tenacious young interro
gator: "It is a good thing I am
not a woman, young man, be
cause I couldn’t resist you” . . .
New York’s plain-talking Rep.
Fred Sisson unconcernedly smak
ing a cigar on the floor of the
House ... A voice from the
republican side shouting at
Texas' W. D. McFarlane as he
rose to speak: “Half-man, half
mouth,” and his fellow demo
crats letting out hoots of deri
sion when in the course of his
remarks he boastfully said, “I
Just made two telephone calls
to the White House.” ....
Vice President Jack Garner ex
citedly pulling at hiB bushy eye
brows .... Carnation-wearing
Sen. Royal S. Copeland mocking
Senator John Bankhead by re
ferring to him as the “Senator
from Allah-bahm-ah”.
National Theater
Without quite meaning to
Harry Hopkins has played direct
ly into the hands of Eva LeGal
lienne. For years, Actress Eva
cried out for a national theater,
a la France and a la Germany.
Now Hopkins, by giving jobs to
actors on Relief, is creating a
federally subsidized theater. To
an even greater decree, the same
thing is happening in music,
where relief orchestras are fid
dling to audiences which prob
ably will never let them go. ...
After Congress adjourned, En;
rlque Bordenave, Paraguayan
minister, settled down to studi
ous perusal of the Congressional
Record and Huey Long. “I
must learn how to do this fili
buster,” he said. “Perhaps I
shall import filibuster to Para
guay.” . . . Restless unem-'
ployed in Washington’s Transient
Camp blow off steam through a
newspaper they print themselves,
called “Fighting Transient.”
Their motto is: “Give us the
facts and see if we don’t dare
to print them.” FERA directors
effect no censorship.
Air Revelations
Among the facts that will be
revealed in the coming senate
investigatoin of the crash that
killed Senator Bronson Cutting,
based on Department of Com
merce findings are that the pilot
was not authorized to fly the
route, tha the co-pilot had no
scheduled air transport rating,
and that the two-way communi
cation apparatus of the ship was
not working when it started on
its trip.Senator Duncan
P. Fletcher will'be paid a high
honor next month by his home
town, Jacksonville, Fla. A por
trait of him, purchased by popu
lar subscription, will be hung in
the city hall. Fletcher, second*
Horoscope
(BY OCTAVINE)
For persons who believe that
human destiny is guided by the
plants, the daily horoscope is out
lined by a noted astrologer. In
addition to information of general
interest, It outlines information
of special interest to persons born
on the designated dates.
SEPTEMBER 2
Most favored ones to-day are
those who were born from Oct 12
through 80.
General Indications of the Day for
Everybody
Morning—Good.
Afternoon—Doubtful.
Evening—Bad.
The middle of the morning is
the best time.
Today’s Birth date
Yod should show much defer
ence and humility.
You should make use of a good
influence for travel, study and
philosophy during June and July
1888.
Guard against opposition from
those older, from colds and a de
pressed outlook on life during Jan
uray and Ferbruary, 1986.
Danger Jan. 23 through 27, 1936.
Socially favorable Feb 3 through
6. 1936.
Readers desiring additional in
formation regarding their horo
scope are Invited to communicate
with Octavine in care of The Dem
ocrat. Enclose a 2 cent stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
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oldest senator in lengin »» wr
vice, r4g chairman of the senate
banking; committee, has giuded
all the administration’s history
making banking bills through
the chamber .... Things are
booming in agriculture. The
farm implements report an estl- ^
mated sale this year of $**<>,
000,444, compared with $*00,-__
000,000 last year. Employment'
in machinery plants is 36 per i
cent higher than 1934, with pay- „
rolls up over 60 per cent. ••
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Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Q. Does Canada pay any taxes'
or tribute fo the British govern-'
ment?
A. No.
Q. What is the value of a U. S/
large copper cent dated 1835?
A. They are cataloged at 1 to 2Q,
cents.
Q. How many Fu-Manchu stor
ies did Sax Rohmer write and whet,
are their titles?
A. In order of their publica
tion they are: "The Insidious Dr'.
Fu-Manchu,” 1913: "The Return of
Dr. Fu-Manchu," 1916; “The Hand
of Fu-Manchu,” 1917; “The Book
of Fu-Manchu,” 1929; “The Daugh
ter of Fu-Manchu," 1931; “The
Mask of Fu-Manchu,” 1932 and
“Fu-Manchu’s Bride,” 1933. *
Q. Who played the role of
George Dwight in "Moonlight and
Pretzels?”
A. Roger Pryor.
Q. What is the title of the
poem quoted in “Lives of a Bengal
Lancer” by Franchot Tone?
A. "England, My England," by
William Ernest Henley.
Q. What is the name of an in*
sect that lives only one day?
A. Some Mayflies in the adult
TO-DAY’S COMMON ERROR
Never say, “I saw a write up
of him In the newspaper”; -
say, “report about him,” or .
“description of him.”
stage, flutter about for an avening,
mate, drop their packets of fer
tilized eggs, and die before sunrise.'
Q. How long was the American
Army of ■ Pacification in Cuba?
A. From 1906 to 1909.
Q. What Is the Jewish tradition;
about making the first sale of the
week?
A. There is an old tradition in
Judaism that, if a merchant is suc
successful in selling to his first
customer of the ijeek, it is a good
omen for the rest of the week;
Some hold so closely to this tradi
tion that they will offer a piece of
goods for almost nothing in order
to make that sale.
Q. What are the dimensions of
the Arctic and the Antarctic
Oceans?
A. The Arctic Ocean is approx
imately 3,000 miles long and 1,700
miles wide. Exact measurements
are impossible on account of the_
varying coast line. Oceanographers
have decided that there is no Ant
arctic Ocean, but that the Atlantic,
Pacific and Indian Oceans extended,
to the Antarctic regions.
Q. What is the gauge of the
Russian Trans-Siberian Railway?
A. Five feet.
Q. How many salesmen and
saleswomen are there in the Unit-'
ed States? ■<
A. The 1930 U. S. Census of Oc*'
cupatlons enumerates 1,508,233
salesmen and 560,720 saleswomen, a
total of 2,069,003.
Q. What are the left wing and
right wing in politics?
A. Left wing refers to those ra
dicals who advocate swift and vio
lent changes in the politico-econo
mic order, and right wing refers to
the conservatives who oppose any
change from the existing order. „
Q. What are the legal qualifica
tions for President of the United,
States ?
A. The Constitution define^,
them as, a natural born citizen 6f
the United States who has attained,
the age of thirty-five years, and.,
has been for fourteen years a resi
dent within the United States. ,,
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test questions? Turn to last <•*
page for the answers.
1. What Is the official, name of
Persia?
2. Where are the Good win
Sands?
5. Name the three largest fresh
water lakes in the world.
4. Who was St Chrysostom f
6. Are passports required when,
flying to foreign countries? *•
6. Where , was John Milton, the
English poet born? *
7. What group of islands lie1
north of the mainland of Scotland?*
S.. Where is the main plant of
the Goodyear Tire ft Rubber Co.?
6. In which motion picture was
the song “Charmalne” played? ...
10. What is achupatty?
A