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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

We find ourselves agreeing with the Springfield Republican when it points out to the ndependent-republiean faction of this estate that it possibly could advance further in the political world by abandoning its support of dry candidates and dwelling upon the earlier attacks upon the public utility abuses that our lax state laws permit. The Republican claims that There seems at this time, more future chance for the ndepen- dents, who have sworn to maintain per manent organization, in their other chief is- sue, which is the more effective regulation of public utilities, with special reference to J. Henry Roraback and his dual position as republican boss and power magnate.
 If the independents prefer to be known as the party of the drys in Connecticut why then they should devote all their time to fos- tering such campaign. As it stands now they seem to have taken prohibition stand in this past campaign solely to defeat Sen ator Bingham. There were candidates seeking office on both the major tickets who must be rated just as wet as the senator. In fact his victorious opponent. Represent ative Lonergan, is every bit as wet and will doubtless play as important part in the wet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
Delays Are Costly

If as Mayor Hayes stated last week, the work of installing satisfactory storm water drain at the intersection of Homer street and Thomaston avenue in Waterville has been held up for years through the in- ability of the Connecticut company to finance cost of repaving between it's rails at this junction. we think that the residents in that neighborhood have a just complaint against the public utility company. If the amount of damage that has been caused at this point was totaled we imagine it would be far in excess of what the trolley concern would have to expend in the course of a drain installation.
 We are glad to see that Mayor Hayes will no longer permit the demand of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
MONDAY, NOVEMBER A, 1882
Praise Where Praise Is Due

The Hartford Courant has been one of the few republican papers in this state that was quick to praise Governor Wilbur l.. Cross for the splendid showing he made at the polls last Tuesday. There can be no question of the popularity of the democratic executive in Connecticut now. Two years ago there might have been some question about it in some peoples minds, but not now. He certainly demonstrated that he IS one of the most popular state officials that we have had in recent years. His increased majority this year indicates that his admin istration was well liked.
 Nothing can give a public official more satisfaction than to find himself endorsed in glowing fashion by plurality of votes. Certainly the manner in which Governor Cross was returned to office last week should persuade him to redouble his efforts in the next two years to give Connecticut an ad- ministration that will take away complete ly the bad taste left in our mouths by too much republican domination. We cant quite agree with the Courant that some of the governors appointments in his first term can be improved upon. On the whole we think the state approved of them. He showed wisdom and restraint that few before him did.
 We believe he will continue to do so throughout 1893 and 1854. although he might be tempted to act in as dictatorial manner as have the republican executives of recent years with the backing of party ma iorities in both houses of the Legislature Governor Cross being assured of democrat ic control of the Senate does not seem in- clined to regard this as splendid oppor- tunity to people all appointive posts with democrats worthy of reward. However, his position with regard to appointments is more secure than it was two years ago. That is gratifying, because some of his de- sires were lost two years ago in the face of much gop. opposition which he could not hope to override.
 .''While awaiting developments we feel safe in saying that the reelection of Gov ernor Cross affords the State larger degree of satisfaction than his very substantial plu- rality indicates. ." says the Courant. And that is re-eehoed through the state by all solid citizens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
Can't Be Done

Oklahomans are sponsoring movement to install Franklin D. Roosevelt Tn the White House in January. lo33. instead of two months later. They base their hopes on the lame-duck amendment which now needs only about seventeen more states ap- proval to be ratified. These same citizens have requested Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray to call special session of the Ok lahoma legislature so that this state can ap- prove of the amendment. It IS also their intention to ask governors in other states, that have not as yet acted upon the amend ment. to call special sessions.
 This is all quite unnecessary, as regard less of state action upon the amendment it cannot possibly go into effect before Jan uary. l934. and by then Franklin D, Roosevelt will have been in office almost a. year and the 73rd Congress may have been called into special session. The amend ment itself declares that it will not be effective until the October 18th following the ratification by the required three-fourths of the states. Therefore 1t would be impossible for Governor Roosevelt to be inaugurated in January. unless Con- gress first changed the wording of the Norris constitutional amendment. And even then it would have to go back for ratification again by the states that had once approved of it.
 It would be far better for these Okla homans to spend their energy in working out far different plan of having Roosevelt assume office at the first of the year. This one has been suggested from time to time and was first conceived by the late Wood row Wilson when he faced defeat in 1916. He has stated in his papers that had Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States Supreme Court defeated him for the presidency in 1916 he was prepared to name Hughes his secretary of State. Then both Wilson and Vice president Marshall would resign and Hughes being next in line of suc- cession would be sworn in and could shoul- der the serious problems confronting the na- ton. A World War confronted us then. A world crisis now faces us, together with national distress. Maybe the situation is ripe for just some such action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

Never can we recall in recent years state election that has provided so many close contests as this past one. It is customary. to be sure. for the vote in many of q our smaller towns to be close. but when con- Qressional and senatorial district fights are decided by less than hundred votes then there is every indication of some thinking upon the part of the voters. The democrats gained control of the state senate by win- ming the 35th district with l06 majority. Our own congressman. Representative Ed ward w. Goss is the victor over Judge Mar tin E. Gormley of Naugatuek by less than 100 votes. The office of lieutenant-gover- nor is still in dispute and there is possibil- ity that the entire second congressional dis trict may be rechecked. When such things as that occur in Connecticut it shows that the g.o.p. is no longer the dominant party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
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I Federal Reserve Board and the
 secretary of the treasury to bring about a restoration of prices, would have worked out. A large majority of the House republicans
 voted for 1t.
 But these infiationary measures
 are not going to become laws un- | less they can pass the rigid scru- | tiny of such fiscal authorities as Senator Carter Glass of Virginia
 and conservative advisers of the type of Owen D. Young and B. M Baruch, to say nothing of the va
 rious republican experts. s't aA' The House measure for the guar antee of bank deposits might or
 might not have been good law support and it's burial in the Sen ate was another demonstration Of | the difficulty any important bill has in passing House, Senate and White House if anyone suspects it
 to be unsound.
 The famous $1,200, 100000 Gar ner public construction bill, called
 ''pork" by Hoover, presents an other controversial point, involving
 the question of the value of public
 works as a depression remedy and
 the fact that pork" is an old com
 plaint here. It was endorsed by the American Federation of Labor
 and by other groups which sought | to stimulate employment. M x; Good or bad, none of these
 measures has any early prospect of enactment. Events have indi.
 cated that they will be successful only in case of a large popular de-
 mand. backed by the weight of ex- pert opinion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Here's Defense of Football
 By a Former Star

Barry wood, Harvard university's brightest football star last year, comes galloping down the field in defense of the sport in What
 Pricce Footbalr' and insists that most critics of the game are talk ing through their hats.
 woods book is a straightway de- scription of what big league inter- collegiate football looks like to the man who plays it.
 Far from being "drudgery,r he says, football is lots of fun, and shortening the schedules would simply deprive the players of their favorite pastime.
 The blood-and-thunder coaching tactics of the old days, he says, are gone forever. Practice sessions are not, these. days, gruelling and bru- tai; the players enjoy them and the coaches who direct them are, in most cases, good sportsmen and decent, sincere gentlemen.
 Overemphasis? The reams of newspaper publicity usually slide off the football players back and leave him with his, head unturneds The boys themselves realize that football is just a game, even if the public doesn't And Wood wants no one. to forget that footballs big "gate'' ordinarily sports univer- sity's entire sports program. Here, quite plainly. is 8 chap
 who played football because he liked the game. His book is per- suasive, and it gives very inter- esting picture of the inside" of the sport.
 Published by the Houghton Milf lin Go, it retails for $1.76. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
A BTCYCLE BOOM

(ChrfSttan Science M0nttor)
 Consternation Stirs the bosoms of British motorists. The cause Is not the automobile tax, high as 1t is. Britishers have grown used to tax es. anyway. If any part of his in- come should percharlce be left aft CT Somerset House and the inland revenue office have done their dire but necessary work, the Astonished taxpayer feels this is a pretty good old world, after all.
 At the risk of mixing metaphors, ic should be said at once that the agitation is due. to horse of quite another color. By which is meant a bicycle, or, rather, battalions of bicycles. After a gloomy decade of being jost1ed off the road by the naughty snotorist, the yelocipede is coming into it's own. Phalanxes of care-free cyclists present q barrier to the shrinking a,itomobilist as inl- pregnable as was once the British square to the onslaught os foreign foes. English lanes are ciuttered up with bicycles built for one and sometimes twOs and hay wagoners teams, long inured to the noisy mo- tor, shy toward the hedge at sight Of the silent cycle.
 Manufacturers gleefulIy report . boom in bicycles, q rotary reyclu- ton, SO to speak. Fifteen months ago. declares one executive, I've were faced with ruin. Then nsndden- ;ly the cycle boom appeared, and within three months we were em- ploying 30 per cent more worlpep- pie than at any period during the last twenty five years.
 The prospect pleases. One of the picturesque sights of the late snine- ties was the return at nightfaIl into London at the close of a days holi- day of thousAnds of happy cyclists. Chinese lanterns dangling from the Hiandlebars of their machines. Sing ing, and often hand in hand. they were a gay company riding home from many wold and wood at the sBA se . Rerfecs day, c tAousand |twinkling lights wing with the stars above. Motorist. watch your 'WAes5s M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
Here, There And EuerylDhere

fish were too tame to furnish real sport. It was said that in state- stocked streams the fish had been raised by hand to the time of their release and that they lacked the gameness of their wild brothers and sisters: also. lacking in flavor on the table. They were too easy to catch for all except the novice or the story-teller.
 There are similar kicks now about pheasants which have been raised and released in great num- bers by and for the hunters. They're so tame that it's like shoot ing into g flock of hens, ]" has been the sentiment expressed by more than one disgusted hunter of the sold school. Up in Marblehead, Mass, the chief of police was so aroused by the slaughter of pheas- ants that had taken refuge in woods at Marblehead Neck that he took it upon himself to protect them, ignoring the complaints of the alleged .'sportsmen." The birds had become so tame that anyone could approach them and feed them.
 ( Everywher. public sentiment seems to be growing against hunt ing in residential sections where such game as pheasants Is almost uomesticated and where the killing arouses indignation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
So They Say

Tn Manchukuo today there is a civil government, the like or Wnlcn does not exist anywhere In China. AS soon as that government over comes it's present disorders, the condition of the Manchurian people will be in conspicuous contrast 10 what prevails throughout China. We cannot throw the new state ip- to the melting pot. -Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's envoy,
 to the League of Nations.
 fla woman can carry around a pearl necklace worth $75O.000 she knows where her breakfast Is coming from--and she knows where she can get strawberries and cream on Gee 10, even If that pearl necklace goes.
 Arthur T. Barry, noted jewel
 thief, srecaptured after an es-
 cape from Auburn Prison, N. Y.
 Our national pastine is passing the buck. Every man or woman in this life must work out his or her own problem, but how many have the courage or the will to do SO? And that is defect mot cin- fined to those who go to jail. Rev William E. Casf1ih, chaplin
 at Sing Sing prison for IF years
 The presence of the American fleet in the Pacific unnecessary ir- ritates the minds of the Japanese EAdmirar Keisuke okada. Japan's
 Minister of the Navy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

The New York World Telegram last week declared that bootleggers expect to reap golden harvest during the Thahksgiv- ing and Christmas holidays It based its theory on the decided swing to modification of the Volstead Act which most political ob- servers believe is just around the corner. If the lame duck session of Congress does noth- ing about prohibition we can rest assured the next Congress with its large wet majorities in both houses will. We wonder, though, if some bootleggers aren't too optimistic. Won't people rather shun them on the as- sumption that beer will be readily obtainable soon and perhaps light wines. So why pay 18th Amendment prices for illegal liquors!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
RADICAL RELIEF BILLS STAND LITTLE CHANGE OF PASS.
 ING PRESENT CONGRESS

Washington.-Am the few consultations that can be conjured up from the recent election is the iact that the democratic House of l representatives, like President Hoover, is not as bad as it has
 Jeen painted.
 We are going to have demo- cratic House for quite a while and the short session of Congress which begins in December will ex- hibit exactly the same one that you have been hearing about in the campaign speeches.
 So many harsh things were said about that body of men by the re- publican orators, from President Hoover on down the line, that there must be millions of folks thoroughly convinced that if a democratic house ever sits again the country will be ruined com pletely instead of only partially. So this dispatch is dedicated to those who believe that, with the hope that they may be somewhat reassured. s
 Even if one should grant that the present House passed some dangerous legislation. there Is still no reason to believe that additional doubtful bills could get through the Senate or past a. presidential veto. s,.a
 The mere fact that Governor Roosevelt failed to "disavow" cera tain of the measures passed by the House under Speaker Garner. as Hoover demanded he should do, convinced no one that he favored them or would favor them unless they were first demonstrated to be sound.
 Cash payment of the bonus is one instance. The bonus bill was passed in the House only with the aid of many republican votes and killed in the Senate: only with the help of many democratic votes. Democrats, either in the White House or Congress, will not be found supporting such a bill as a party. A democratic Senate can be counted on to kiilii again.
 The large, unwieltly House is all ways likely to act like Q herd of sheep in matter of veterans legislation. Republican majorities have overridden both Hoover and Coolidge on other phases of the bonus issue. So there is little cause for alarm as to the cash bonus, even if the veterans try again to stampede our congress- men.
 Demands for imitation, or Ire fiation,'' such as found effect In the Patman. bonus bill which would have provided more than $2.0OO, ,O0O,0 GOO of new currency and in the Goldsborough price stabil- ization bill, will continue to be heard as long as the depression lasts.
 And there will continue to plenty of intelligent, serious debate as to the merits of such a policy. Sup porters of the Patman bill took advantage of the prevailing in- fiation sentiment, attracting aid from the inflationists.
 Nobody knows how well or how badly the Goldsborough measure, which would have ordered the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
THE REsULTiIN CONNECTICUT
.(springfield Republican)

The political history of Connect icut, as it may develop during the next few years, has acquired g new interest through the reflection of its democratic governor, Prof. Cross, the defeat of Senator Bing- ham, leader of the republican vets, and, the contribution to the latter result. of the Independent republi- can party, which had made Bing- ham it's special target.
 Warned by his experience in 1880, J. Henry Roraback, Connec- ticut's republican boss, did not make the mistake of regarding Gov Cross as just a dear old gentle man. and underestimating his racy and pungent ability. as g cam paigner. In order to make things certain he drafted from pleasant retirement in Plainyille ex.Gov Trumbull, who had ben a popular executive, had served three terms and had the further distinction of being John Coolidge's father-in- law. But while Connecticut proved to be one of the six states to go for MT Hoover, all the Roraback strategy was of no avail so far as concerned the governorshtp and the. senatorship. s.
 The Connecticut senate, which. under the peculiar Connecticut sys- tenn, Is the legislative body more nearly proportional to population, was at last reports in some doubt. probably to be settled only by a recount, with a possibility that 1t would be under democratic con- z trol by a single vote. The lower chamber, in which representation by towns; still persists. is strongly republican. as usual, but if repre- sentation there. were based on population" frankly observes the Hartford Courant, "the House would take on Q very different complexion"
 The Independent republicans cast approximately $500 votes for their over of Yale, or about 2,000 more than the margin by which Con- gressman Augustine Lonergan de- feated Senator Bingham. Evidently the independents, like the Cana dian mounted police, ''got their man." Prof Conover's message of congratulation t., MT Lonergan was not so much the salutation of a defeated minor candidate as. the victorious cheer of an ally.
 As reflected in their leaders. the nucleus of the Connecticut inde- pendents. was a group of drys an- xious to punish Senator Bingham for his efforts to swing the repub- ucan party in, state and nation to the vets. Yet MT Lonergan is just as wet as Bingham, or wetter. and it is obvious that Connecticut is overwhelmingly a wet state. There seems, at this time. more future chance for the independents, who have sworn to maintain q pernla- nent organization. in their other chief issue, which Is the more ef- fective regulation of public utili- ties, with special reference to 'J. Henry, Roraback and his dual posi- ton as republican boss and power magnate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

Josephus Daniels. secretary of the navy during the Woodrow Wilson administration and prominently mentioned for like post in Roosevelt's. in his Raleigh (N. @ News and Observer, declares that it is time that the democratic party returned to its flrst emblem, a Growing rooster. Mir Daniels used one following the democratic victory of last Tuesday. Once upon time there wasn't paper in the South that didn't use the rooster to celebrate. It will take some persuasion now to relegate the donkey to the background.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
To-day's Selected Poem
WHAT THE SONNET IS

Fourteen small brodered berries on the hem Of Circes mantle each of magic gold
 Fourteen of lone Calypso's tears that rolpd Into the sea, for pearls to come of them. 1t is the pure white diamond Dante brought To Beatrice. the sapphire Laura wore When Petrarch cut 1t sparkling out of thought; The. ruby Shakespeare hewed from his hearts
 core;
 The dark deep emerald that Rosetu Wrought For his own soul, to wear for evermore. Eugene Lee-Hanriiton. in "Sonnets of the
 WinglesS Hours"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
od evening.
 o-O-o OF NOVEMBER

OF NOVEMBER November days are here again Some think them sad and drear; But there are compensations About this time of the year. The sunsets glow is brilliant The air wine clear in the main; Days are fair and snappy, That is when it doesn't rain. Streams run along right merrily The ground is white with frost; You can enjoy a brisk walk in the
 country,
 Although summers flowers are
 lost. Winters activities are beginning, :Thanksgivings near at hand: The contract fans are contracting The winter styles are grand. Though the season lacks the colo; Of the summer and the fall; Still there's the joy of living In any old season at all. Just one thought in closing Be cheerful and never surly; And above all things else do Your Christmas shopping early,
 o-O--o It probably won't be necessary this year to notify the democratic candidate that he has been elected president.
 O-O-0 M What this country needs is the sort of resourcefulness shown by the Altoona Tribune, which offers the news item that bustles are coming back and that "old papers are for sale at 10 cents per bundle
 GOO MT Hoover apparently sees no need for a recount.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

and dry fight in the next Congress In the up- per house as be has in lhe lower. So what did the independents dry stand avail iheml Better to wage war on the electric power interests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14
Personal Health SerUice (By William Brady, M. D.l

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or
 treatment, will be answered by pr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat. senoins | stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

Tell Duweir. believed to be the site of an ancient Amorite city in Palestine, is to be: excavated for the first time this winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

Remember during the World War how we used to buy a bale of cotton!" Now how about buying bushel of wheat!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

Another thing this country needs is five-year political moratorium.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-14

All vehicles must be lighted not later than sos tonight.