The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

very wide. but on some of the main business streets the sidewalks seem as wide as a whole street in many New England cities.
 think I have counted thirty ho- tels, and some of them, the Statler and the Book Cadillac for example, are as big as any in New York-ex- cept the new ones around the Grand Central terminal. It is here the Kresges began business. I have just been through their office building, only one year old and more luxuri- ously furnished than the palaces of kings. The hotel at which I am stopping, the Wolverine, is small one. had no reservation and had to take what could get, but some huge structures are in view from my win- dow, one of them thirty-four stories in height. After the meeting this morning, Superintendent Cody of this city took me and Carroll Reed, who used to be superintendent at Bridgeport, and is now filling a like position in Minneapolis; Superin- tendent Child of Salt Lake City and Superintendent Fitzgerald of Cam bridge. Mass; through one of the biggest high schools in the whole country, the Cass Technical High school, about a mile from the center of the business district. There are nearly 5000 students in the school, and in the same block with it is a commercial high school accommo- dating over 2,000 students. If we built schools in Connecticut as they build them here. the law would land you in jail. The Cass Technical school is nine stories high. Many of the students in passing from one class to another on a different floor use the elevators. When was com- ing down from the 9th story. I think there were nearly forty students on the elevator. One of the show ex- hibits in this building is the cafeter- ia. which feeds tEe pupils of Cass Technical High school as we'll as those of the adjoining commercial high, nearly 1000 in all. There were over 1000 being fed in this cafeteria when I went in.
 A strange thing in this technical school is that no foreign language is taught except a littfe Latin-no German, no French, no Italian, no Spanish. Yet the principal says he sends many graduates to the Uni- versity of Michigan. And the city of Detroit has its own university. There were more varieties of shop work than I ever saw before in any other high school. In one room the class was deeply concentrating on Ford engines, in another, about a dozen girls were making models for jewelry.
 But really the day is too short where one is attending a convention. Yesterday at the morning meeting the mayor-a very boyish looking fellow named Frank Murphy. made very good speech of welcome but he grew somewhat pessimistic at the end of his talk over the unern- ployment situation. The man on the street will tell you how badly De- troit has been hit since its main in- dustry is the making of luxury. (Is the automobile a luxury, I won- der.) I have been so interested in our meetings and I have had to spend so much time noting for rec ord what I saw have not had time yet to visit any of the factories.
 One of the speakers at the main meeting yesterday was William Me- Andrew, who once was superin- tendent of schools in Chicago. But he was unsatisfactory to the great and almost omnipresent Big Bill Thompson, so he resigned. Me- Andrew is as rugged looking and almost as homely as Socrates must have been. He talked well as usual displaying an irony almost as for midable as that of George Bernard Shaw. He knows personally hun-