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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
By RODNEY BUTCHER MIA Cevrvira XEritop

Washington-The most sweeping salary reduction in history is now fully effective in the worlds larg- est business organization.
 After weeks of excitement and uncertainty following passage by congress of the ecohomy act, the employees of the United States gov ernment know how they are to be affected by the cut and the fur tough method through which it is to be imposed.
 The economy act was one of the most complicated laws ever placed on any statute books. It had to be worked out for people of every conceivable grade and oc- cupation, working under every sort of condition in great maze of rules and traditions growing out of many years which had to be harmonized under one general statute.
 Comptroller General McCarl had to make nearly 200 rulings before the act seemed thoroughly con- strued and interpreted, the last of which gave the coup de grace to a plan to establish the five-day week in the federal executive ser vice.
 About 650,000 employees have re- ceived a pay cut of at least Ia per cent. About half of them are postal workers. Reductions on the higher salaries run from 10 per cent at $10,000 to 15 per cent at the top. The reductions are ex- pected to Save between $80,000, 900 and $90,00O,000.
 Those affected include all civil employees and the officers of the army and navy.
 The salary cut is imposed by the process of making each em- ploye take months furlough without pay. The actual loss to the employe is ths loss of pay for 24 working days in each year, Sundays and Saturday half-holi- days being excluded. But since many employees couldn't stand a whole month without receiving any salary, the deduction is made at the minimum rate of 1-3 per cent each fnonth-or about two and a half days pay. Burial mail carriers and certain others are not furloughed, but lost a months pay.
 MCdFl, Tn HIS rulings on the economy law, has followed the general policy that the law was designed to effect the greatest possible saving. The two big de- cisions that had to be made by his office were, first, how the de- auctions were to be made and, second, how the furloughs were be taken and credited.
 
 The law is effective only for the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
WAS THE ECLIPSE LATE?

(New Haven Journal-Courier). '. Dr Frederick Slocum, head or the Wesleyan University Expedi- ton, viewing the eclipse from Con- way Center, New Hampshire.
 found, according to his instruments
 that the total eclipse of the sun
 was three seconds late, and that it
 lasted ninety-eight seconds instead of the predicted ninety-nine. If this observation is correct then scien- lists will have to take new meas
 urements and plot new timegraphs. For, in the eyes of astronomers, it is most important to be correct in
 the matter of time whenever so important a thing as an eclipse is
 concerned.
 Astronomy is one of the subjects
 that receive considerable discuss
 sion., but about which the laity
 knows little. The astronomer. from
 his vantage point on this small planet looks through the universe and discovers a multitude of
 things. He has learned how to
 weigh stars. hdw to ascertain the temperature of planet, how to predict comets and the like. He
 thinks in terms of light years.
 terms which. when actually consid-
 cred. staggef the layman. An im- portant element to him is time. If tho eclipse was iato and tho moon travelled faster than scientists had
 thought, there will be considerable activity in astronomical circles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
The Legal Scapegoat SOCIAL WAYWARQNESS BLAMED ON
 LAW SYSTEM
BY JOHN B. GRECO.

the good of the mass and that of the individual. Humanitarian prin- ciples are frequently injected into
 them without the least invasion on
 private rights. Neither logic nor
 sentimentality prevail to the detri-
 ment of equity and justice. The bottom of the present trouble lies in the fact that most people "are much more interested
 in their own personal affairs than
 they are in the welfare of the state or in public morals"
 Beyond the excitement of politi- cal elections in which the spirit of
 contest rather than the common
 welfare are uppermost, the peoples
 interest ceases to hold out after they have left the polls and when the novelty wears off. Like the glamour of an athletic game or
 prize fighting, as soon as the shout is over the event is lulled into for getfulness.
 Unworthy citizens are being elected into public offices, bills are proposed, approved and leigslated into enforceable laws through lob byists, corrupt agenciesi and poli- tical connivance while the public gropes in the dark and talks in its sleep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
A Book a Day
Big Business" Spoiled By
 Too Much Chuckling
by BRUCE CATION

"Btg Business" by A. s. M. Hutchinson, might have been a very funny novel if only its mirth- giving qualities hadn't affected MT Hutchinson himself quite so strongly.
 I mean to say that MT Hutch inson has written an excellent farce, but he has spoiled 1t by
 underlining every joke and chuck ling immoderately at every hum orous twist of the plot.
 In it's essentials, the novel Is lots of fun.
 There are two brothers who lose their interest in a vast fortune be- cause they permit seven pug dogs to die (no, I can't explain 1t all just now); then one of the broth CTS vanishes, and the other one discovers that he can still collect the fortune if only he can prove that the missing brother is legally dead.
 Unable to do so, he finds a schoolmaster who is the living image of the missing brother. So he hires him to impersonate the brother, and lays @ plan whereby the schoolmaster can vanish, pre- sently, in a way which will con- vince the courts that he has died. Of course, the real brother, turns up just as the plot is to be sprung. and the novel comes to a hectic and really amusing conclusion, in- cluding an episode in which a grocer goes gaga and throws pastry all over London's biggest depart ment store. But Mir Hutchinson keeps jogging your elbow and whispering "Catch on?"---and it just about spoils it all.
 Big Business is published by Little, Brown and Co.,, at $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

was mereilessly killed ty aid of republican majoritiss in the Assembly. Once again the democrats call for a necessary reorgan- ization of the state and its various depart ments. We sincerely trust that the voters will give Governor Cross. if elected. the necessary legislative control to procure this reformation. A thorough study of the re- spective party platforms should convince an independent voter that His Exeelleney. the governor, has an enterprising and progress sive program outlined for him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

The Hartford Times in commenting upon the republican state ticket said, Tn insist ing upon dragging Mir Trumbull out of his retirement the republican managers seemed rather hasty in concluding that only he, or even he. could rescue the party after the defeat of two years ago. Their action seems to have been unnecessarily unkind to Lieutenant- Governor Spencer. He is per fectly competent to fill the office capably. Moreover, he enjoys the respect and conf dence of the people to degree that might well result in some resentment by the people that he should be pushed aside A more selfish man would have fought for what he regarded as his rights, .' But what of the rights of former lieutenant governor Ernest E. Rogers and J. Edwin Brainard Mir Rogers was defeated by Gov ernor Cross two years ago and his name wasn even mentioned, SO far as we know at this years g.o.p. gathering. When Mir Brainard decided that he had served long enough apprenticeship in the lieutenant governors chair. he aspred 10 the guberna- torial nomination and was promptly busted from further political participation in the Roraback organization. Take it any way you like, the republican machine is cruel and domineering. Republicans with ambi- tons should have realized that long ago and profited thereby Perhaps Lieutenant Governor Spencer did and can console him self with the thought that nothing ventured nothing lost
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

Last minute opposition to the candidacy of Colonel Clarence w. Seymour in the first congressional district failed to material ize Thursday and republican delegates nom mated him without much ceremony. His democratic opponent is as yet an unknown quantity, since Representative Lonergan. who defeated Seymour two years ago is now after Senator Binghams scalp There is some talk of nominating Attorney Thomas F. MeDonough of New Britain. He made the seeonding speech for the Citron nom- nation at the state convention Thursday and was warmly applauded for his effort New Britain delegates were eager for MeDon- ough's nomination as he is a resident of that city. However. there Is always the threat of Paonessa boom in the first dis. triet. But with the former New Britain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

During the present period of economic upheaval and general turmoil, our system of laws like
 the scapegoat is unjustly burdened
 with the brunt of the responsible ities for the social waywardness. II
 is seemingly becoming the target against which the biased opinions of the public are focused. Every
 disorder that takes place whether it is social, moral or political, the familiar phrase of bad laws" is
 sure to be used, as if they were
 shock absorbers into which all the
 jolts and jars of the crippled ve-
 hicle' of public affairs should be
 collected. Whatever evil there is in the body of legal provisions, comes di- rectly from the statutory branch of the law and not from the com-
 mon. The distinction between the | two fields must be clearly kept in
 mind if any one wishes to point his finger at the source of the present | ills.
 The judicial department is in no
 way to be treated as it's brothers keeper when one comes to analyze the defects and flaws in the legisla- tive enactments.
 Laws, good and bad, come into
 being by legions at every session of our general assemblies, a pro- cess over which our courts have no control, The connection between the judiciary and the legislature, in the creation of new laws by the latter, is analogous to the relation
 of the lawyer to his client with reference to a property transaction
 in which his sole duty is to deter
 mine the legality of the title in- volved and not the advisability of the deal itself.
 If the legislators make a bad law you can no more blame the judicial body than the client can hold his lawyer responsible for having made an improvident an improvident purchase. Its jurisdic- tion or authority over such laws IS exercised only when it is called upon by some aggrieved source to interpret the legislative intent or to determine whether the enact ment is in accordance with con- stitutional principles and in com pliance with the ordinary course of legislative procedure.
 Current decisions from the high est tribunals furnish most convinc- ing profs that they represent in every respect, both the will of the people and the dictates of justice. They keep in constant pace with gradual process of economic changes and social improvements. If the general welfare requires de- viations from already established precedents. the xigncy Is not lost sight of through political consider ations. The demands of public policy are cautiously balanced with the requirements of fairness.
 Out of the chaos of conflicting decisions of the past, new working rules arc constantly being brought Into practice in order to promote as far as can he accomplished. both
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
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present fiscal year, ending June 30, 1893, and what Congress will do about eliminating it or extend- ing it at the next session is pro- blematical. Meanwhile, about 50,- | 900 government workers are pray 1 ing that it will do something to alleviate the effects of unusually drastic economies in certain small
 Ter departments and bureaus which
 threaten them with total payless iayoffs of from two or three months , hr ugh administrative fur loughs."
 Other phases of the economy | law now in effect include:
 Money saved by the furlohghs
 is impounded and goes back to the treasury. Although no vacation
 leave with pay is allowed, a cer- tain Reasonable amount of sick
 leave with pay is permitted. All
 automatic salary increases have
 been suspended and no promo tions may be made except to fill
 vacancies, and then only by writ ten order of the president. No vacancies may be filled except in absolutely essential cases, also by presidential authority. Money
 saved by failure to i'll vacancies goes back to the treasury. Elm ployes who reach retirement age are now automaticallk retired ex- cept in rare cases when the presi-
 dent acts to retain them, although
 previous practice has been to keep
 many of them on past the retire.
 ment age.
 Subsequent articles will describe
 some of the more important ef-
 fects which the economy law has
 htd on the federal employe and on the government service.
 NEXT: How the wage cut leg islation was rushed through Con- gross in its complicated form.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
So They Say

I like writing. I've always had the urge.-Al Smith, magazine editor.
 No crisis in any country was ever solved by the simple process of running around in short circles and screaming, Isn't it awful ?"-Hey- wood Broun, New York columnfst.
 .
 I think it is only fair that a man who has given his best during the least favorable period in the his- tory of the state should have an- he can do when times are better other term in which to show what Governor Wilbur M. Brucker of Michigan, up for reelection.
 
 If she (Mrs Rudy) wants to throw mud, I suppose there's noth- ing I can do to stop her.-tudy Vallce. crOOner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

The Hartford Courant isn't too opti- mistic about the success of the republican party this fall. It warns the g.o.p. not to take the democrats lightly with all their factional differences. We are glad to see this. Personally we think that the Novem- Der tilt will be one of the most closely con- tested that this state has ever witnessed with the winning ticket sweeping all offices. state and national. And we're for Cross. of coursei
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
ALLIES ARE HALTED

On September 10, 1918, German reserves placed in the front lines to halt the rapid allied advance made their presence felt and allied gains for the day attained only minor proportions.
 Fierce fighting continued un- abated on the British front, with fresh German troops staging a counter-attack in great force. They failed to hold the few local gains, however, and by night-fall British positions were maintained in the face of heavy fire.
 The sinking of a camoufiaged German submarine, which carried no flag. by the American tanuker Frank H. Buck in the Atlantic on September 3 was officially an- nounced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

mayor now on Labor Commissioner Joe" Tones staff doubtless democrats will look in some other direction for their canGi- date and Mir MeDonough may just fit the ticket
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
DING. DING
Her voice was golden,
 Stopped his repining,

Her voice was golden,
 Stopped his repining, At last he's found
 The silver lining.
 o--O-o Garner hasn't said anything of late. And the less he says, the more votes he'll garner.
 o-O-o Kids returned to school this morning and some of the TO- mancing teachers returned to earth again.
 o-O-o Even authors are known to go into tale spins.
 o-O-o It's the fellows with lots of pepper who seem to be the salt of the earth.
 o-O-o What the colonists meant to say was that taxation, without good roads, lights and sewers is mis- representation as we'll as tyranny.
 o-O-O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
STUDY OF LAW ADVOCATED

young ni and interested in . faci- mating profession. then study law. That's the advice offered by Fran cis Riddle. scion of one of Fhila- deiphia's oldest families, who was one time secretary to Justice Oli- yer Wendell Holmes of the United States supreme court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

Algeria and Tunisia bought more American agricultural implements than any other country tn the first six months Of this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

Washington goes in for paternal govern ment, but Texas still shows strong leaning towards maternalsm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
IT WAS EVER THUS

We save few dollars for rainy And feel like giving cheers. And then, oh gosh, that rainy day, Just lasts for years and years.
 o-O-o The stock market is going up when the average person Is too far down to get in on it.
 o--O-o If they make bathing suits much smaller, girls will have to wait until high tide before making bathing safe.
 o-O-o With steel going up, the market seems pretty well steeled for a few months to come.
 o-O-O What has become of the economical wife who used to make armlets for friend hus- band out of her old garters?
 o-O-o A chain of eyes is no stronger than its weakest wink.
 o-O-o
 OHMIGOSH TIC way some pcOttc nutc h The way they seek to bleat. Invite new definition, The good old grumblc seat.
 o-O-o Lots may be cheaper but they seem a lot more now than ever be- fore.
 O-O-o Officials are worrying about the cost of heating the house and senate when the December session. takes place. Why not pipc the hot air generated by congressman and senators and then lot dear old nature take it's course?
 o--O--- Q After your car Is overhanled tho service station hauls you over.
 O--O--O Tho barber who is light on your farc is generally heavy on your pocketbook.
 o-O---o Good night
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

High tide at Milford Sunday, September II. 9:55 p. m, Daylight time); low tide 3:28 a. m. Daylight tme).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

'U. s. to Discourage Direct Home Loans" That's all right. if Uncle Sam also discourages the banks from discouraging them the way they've been doing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:4l Daylight, saving time) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him. care oi the Democrat sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

It's nice to go through life in a dream but when the awakening comes it's going to be rude one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

dream but when the awakening comes it's going to be rude one. o-O-o A profit doesn't seem to be without honor in Wall street these booming stock market days. State democrats talk of the old guard and the new guard but how about the van guard?
 o-O-o
 The doughnut seems to be about the only thing that can get in whole and make money.
 Then there was the girl who married sailor and saw the world through pictures his camera snapped through port hole.
 o-O-o
 Those new sausage tires on cars probably mean that the wurst Is yet to come.
 o-O-o
 When prosperity turns the cor ner they'll perhaps send the corner toithe Smithsonian institute for fu- ture generations to gaze upon.
 O-O-O
 TEE, HEB The tennis player merely smiled. The play came up, he cracked it, For after all, the game to him Is just another racquet. o-O-o The wheel of chance sends a lot of us spinning around in an effort to find the chance we're always seeking. o-O-o Sometimes we wonder which hurts the most, the string of defeat or the lash of victory. o-O-o Even a matchmaker (Krueger) wasn't a match for this worldwide depression. They always have beautiful cake at a wedding but the groom is generally pi-eyed by the time the last drink is passed. o-O- UP AND AT FEM Clothes make the girls, Sure as these lines I pen. And then the well groomed girls, Go out and make the men. O-O-O Times are so tough in New York that the gold diggers have to be content with a silver lining. o-O-o
 People who become blase and think there's nothing to sneeze about, should try snuff.
 o-O-O
 Ginger Rogers, movie star, says there's no man in her life. And snaps her fingers to em- phasize the remark. A sort of a ginger snap.
 O-O-o
 Men who live by the sword are generally sword swallowers.
 o-O-o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
so IT GOES

Germany would rc-arm. Her challenge is hurled, War and more war, Seems the way of the world.
 o-O--o The golf stance often becomes matter of circumstance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10

A profit doesn't seem to be without honor in Wall street these booming stock market days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-10
Good evening.
 o--O-o so IT GOES
"A SMILES THE THING.

Tho war chest, the war chest,
 So politicians shout, But they're the only ones at war, And know what it's about.
Washington Journal., 1932-02-12

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Washington Journal., 1932-02-12
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Washington Journal., 1932-02-12
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Washington Journal., 1932-02-12
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