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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
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Washington-The devil, who is supposed to find work for idle hands to do, never has to find work for the hands of Dr Leo Wolman.
 Dr. Wolman is chairman of the National Recovery Administrators labor advisory board. That's a strenuous, long-hour job.
 But Dr. Wolman is also:
 Teacher of economics at Colum- bia University, giving courses in labor, unemployment and social insurance.
 Member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
 A director of the Amalgamated Bank of New York and president of its investment trust.
 A contributing editor of the New Republic.
 Member of the executive commit for Labor Legislation. Review editor for the American Statistics Journal which means Dr. Wolman has to read and ex- anime all statistical books.
 Member of the Census Advisory Committee, representing the American Economic Association, which meets several times a year and goes over census plans.
 Author of three books now in process of productions: one on labor in national life. another Strength of American Trade Unionism," " which he is revising from an earlier edition, and third, Wages in the United States"
 Adviser and participant in ac- tivities of the Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers of America, including strikes.
 Each of those jobs requires work. But Dr. Wolman Is an amiable, humorous, leisurely-moving man of middle age. He smokes a curved pipe, is slightly bald and wears a bow tie.
 About That Budget "Well, Dr. Douglas, what do you know about the budget?" q corres- pondent demanded of Director of the Budget Lewis w. Douglas.
 What do know about the bud- get?"
 "Ycs, what do you know about the budget?" !" What I don't know about the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
The Conference Habit

With the Geneva disarmament confer ence and the London economic conference temporarily abandoned. it is easy for many persons to agree with Mussolini when h declares that all international conferences are futile. Two thousand delegates, he says, can't achieve anything but universal bore dom. Tt is. in Mussolinis opinion, an external pretense or conventional falsity to burn incense to democratic equality that neither exists in nature nor has ever existed in history
 Mussolini thinks the four-power pact which he pushed through represents the only vay to accomplish things. Let few big fellows get together and do what they know
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
When Repeal Comes

A couple of years ago repeal of the 9th amendment looked like very remote possi- bility. A year ago the possibility. far less remote. was still only a possibility. Two months ago it began to change into proba- bility. Today it is dead certainty. l he unanimity with which all sections of the country are endorsing repeal marks the elimination of one of the strangest and most surprising shifts of public sentiment in American history. But the truly inter- esting and important part of it all is still to come.
 A majority of Americans, evidently, have decided that federal prohibition IS mistake No one knows, yet, what laws all the states will devise to control the liquor traffic once the amendment is repealed and. for the mo- ment, that question is unimportant. Whether or not we are acting wisely in repeating the amendment will ultimately depend less on the new laws we pass than on the mental attitude with which. individually and col lectively, we face the problem ot alcohol itself
 To boil it down te- a colloqua phrase, It is the question whether We are going to have sense enough to take it or leave it alone. A complex industrial civilization like ours cannot operate on tradition of hard drink ing. Probably it was a dawning reeognl- rion of that fact that made us willing to ex- pertinent with federal prohibition B years Ago. And now that we have learned the failure of that method of coping with the problem. we are going to have to find some new system of social control which will Keep alcohol from becoming menace. Our beet bet, oddly enough, may well be this dawning economic system by which the ordinary workingman is going to get more leisure better living conditions and higher wage
 Strong drink. additionally. has been the wage slaves method of escape from un- pleasant reality. Excessive drinking was not so much the cause of abject poverty as abject poverty was the cause of excessive drinking And from this it is clear that the success of the repeal experiment will depend largely on the success of the industrial new deal Bringing the Submerged tenth up into freer and happier life is our best chance of making alcohol useful servant and not ruinous master.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
Plenty Of Work Ahead

With the appointment of Connecticut three members of the advisory board to ad- minister the federal public works act in this state there should be renewed interest in the manner in which funds allotted this state will be spent The three members named two democrats and one republican if their political affiliations are desired - are Arch ibald McNeil of Bridgeport, John J. Policy of New Haven, and Harvey L. Thompson of Mddletown. The first is politician the second railroad executive; and the third an insurance man. To them falls the task of saying just what will and what won't be built with the money Uncle Sam is going to give us.
 They have considerable of a task before them, because no matter what projects they may approve there will be those in the ranks to complain that favoritsm or politics played an important task in the award. For example. suppose the Merritt Highway in Fairfield county is built with federal funds, can't you hear the cry on every side that MT McNel used his influence to secure this, while guaranteeing his support of such work as either of the other two commissioners may desire done. No, sir. we don't envy the newly appointed administrators their job. However. if they remember that in this capacity they serve as federal agents and not as employees of the state, county or town perhaps their work will be simplifed.
 Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who is national administrator, has given out some good advice to his agents in the several states. He says that These boards must keep the financial status of their communities in mind at all times. They must not send to Washington projects which are not financed adequately. The taxpayer who is paying this public works bill must be protected at every step. Local government budgets must be carefully scrutinized. The boards must realize at the outset that it will be for better to reject firmly unqualified projects than to run city or other public body inextricably into debt. -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
Paris Letter
BY MARY KNIGHT United Press Staff COrrcspOndcnt)

Paris - (UP) = A tenor has no business having temperament. &C., cording to Richard Tauber who has just terminated his engage ment here at the Theatcr Borte Saint Martin.
 "All this talk about being tem- peramental is bunk" says, the fa- nous tenor who makes the most seductive Schubert on the modern stage. "A tenor should keep his feet on the ground, and if he does this and never gets a cold to spoil his voice, he can be the happiest man living.''
 Singing his last performance of "Dreimadelhauss' Richard Tauber was given such storms of applause that practically every sol through the entire light opera had to be repeated. He very obligingly and charmingly con.ormed to the de- mands of his audience despite the fact that so many repetitions de- layed the final curtain until after midnight.
 Richard Tauber made his stage debut at 22 in "The Magic Flute" at his fathers theater in Saxony. Before that, however, he studied TOT year dL CEAhhAoLt F " UCS0hiS an orchestra conductor. His en- tire musical career has revolved from a chance meeting with Franz lLehar, the Viennese composer, whom he met in 1924, Lehar and Tauber became great friends and the former since has written many roles for the latter. Tauber cre- ated the title role in Lehar's Land of Smiles" "Fredericka" and
 "Paganini," and in December he will interpret 8 new Lehar role in Vienna in the pera "Gufdftta''
 which Lehar has written expressly for him. In discussing musical trends and tendencies, Tauber is of the belief that relatively little mat iters except melody. People d. ways have and always will love melody, refrains that hum around lin their heads and that are not l too difficult for the average Irhusicaily minded person to di- gest. Complicated compositions thrill and inspire during their
 rendition but they seldom arc
 Remembered away from the thea ! ter"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

Railroad companies are just finding out that our legislators were one step ahead of them in phrasing the interstate commerce act at the past Congress Three little words were inserted that now work havoc. They were or holding companies. Hitherto the interstate commerce commission could not control railroad holding companies. Now it can. And worry is apparent on the brow of the big railroad moguls who had visions of giant railroad empires. All the holding company needs .n do is acquire huge blocks of stock in the lines it wants to control. l. couldn't be touched by the interstate com merce commission. Now it can and will get the same treatment as the railroads them selves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
WILD WETNEss
(Hartford Times)

The bell -wether among the stampeding stocks in recent weeks has been the alcoholic group. It's drop led the way downward as its rise was in the vanguard going up. There did not exist In pre-pro hibi- ton days the close connection be- tween alcoholic industries and whiskey production and consump- ton which now seems to exist in the mind of specuiators. The req son for the present grouping of the alcohol and whiskey stocks is believed to be the expectation that there will be shortage of bonded .whiskey when repeal becomes q fact. . The present supply of aged
 whiskey Is around 12,000.000 gall
 lons. As 1t requires from seven to ten years to age whisley prop 'eriy the expectation Is that it will be necessary to use large quantities
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
An English Village Is With Us Again

There is probably great deal to be said for these strong, compen- ing and intimate stories of Englisn village life. But only wish that people would stop saying 1t to me I can assimilate.
 for I've heard about all of 1t that
 This reflection is provoked by q reading of "The Dove and Roe- buck" by Ena Limebeer.
 Here we have story about . little inn in an English village, and what happened to the people who ran 1t. It seems that there was a sort of ne'er-do-wen family living on the edge of town, and when the inn was put up to let they decided to rent 1t and see If they couldn't make a go Of 1t. Being a somewhat ineffective and cantankerous tribe, they failed dis mally. In this group there was a girl named Lou Burton, who was beau- tiful and not very careful. and who got into one of those intense, twisted and vaguely incomprehen- sible love affairs without which no novel of English village life would be complete.
 And your reviewer is forced to wonder, perversely, just what all Of this has got to do with us. He has read stories in the "Ah, lass. thou'rt a braw number" vein until he half expects to hear the Ohio farmers talking that way; and he Is not, unfortunately, very much the better for 1t, intellectually, aestheticalIy or morally, "The Dove and Roebuck" is written with sim cerity. with intelligence and with feeling; but isn't that sort of thing, after all, just trifie beyond the horizon for an American audience? :?
 Published by Dutton, this book Is priced at $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

The wine nations of Europe are in the throes of feverish activity these days. With the United States fast approaching the day when the lid will be placed on prohibition laws they anticipate golden harvest in the first few days of regulated sales or free license. Some countries are even finding out what the nations tariff policy is going to be with regard to such alcoholic bever- ages as wines. Maybe we'll fool them and become wine producing nation ourselves Still we'd have to patronize some foreign countries until our first supplies were suf- ficiently aged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
Our Daily Washington Letter
 US. Labor Boards Chief Really Labors
budget would fill couple of bud gets"
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

puuSeI WOuiu hii d SVupi0 VI DoO- gets"
 Farmer-Dctectives
 It takes a farmer to catch a farmer-that's one of the theories of enforcement contained in the cotton reduction plan adopted by the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration.
 About 60 per cent of the farmers promising to reduce production are taking options on government-held Id cotton as their compensation. The rest of the farmers will take cash.
 The official, but unannounced, theory is that the holders of op- tions = on which the amount of profits will depend on the reduc- tion plans success as expressed in higher prices-will carefully watch neighbors blow up as much cotton as they promise. And that would mean, of course, that the option holders would be watched in turn. Our Present State
 Secretary of Labor Frances Per. kins, in an expansive moment. des- cribes the present state of affairs. nursing along an encouraging situ- ation-by every device known to man."
 Professor MOley's Return
 Assistant Secretary of State Ray mond A. Moley, still confused by events at the London conference, returned here to find his rcputa- ton somewhat defated, his ex- pense account questioned and a strong belief that Roosevelt had clipped his wings in England.
 Moley. promptly went to New York, for weeks rest.
 Copyright, 1883, NEA Service, Inc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
RENOVATED HATS.
lBridgeport Telegram)

There will be rejoicing in the hat towns of Connecticut over the fact that the Federal Trade com mission has joined in the war a. gainst shoddy made-over hats. The state, at the prompting of Repre- Samuel Shethar of Wes- ton, passed a law requiring the proper labelling of renovated hats in this state. Now the federal trade commission has ordered nine New York hat factories--wnich were the centers of this trade to cease selling old hats as If they were new. les
 There is no objections to any body's wearing renovated 1eit hal, ,if he wants to, and knows that he is wearing 1t. There ts every objection to the sale Of these hats
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
Here, There And Everywhere

as new, and even more objection to their sales as the new products of the original makers.
 Discarded hats are being pur- chased by a hundreds of thousands, cleaned, refined and sold as new uncertain cut-rate hat stores Now if any person wants one of these used hats as a matter of economy 1t is one thing, but when he is sold a renovated hat as new. and buys 1t on that basis, he is simply being swindled.
 The trade has felt this kind of competition very seriously. A hat that has been retrieved from a rubbish heap may be ,shined up and doctored until it looks like new, but 1t is not new, and to represent it as such is sharp prac- tfce of the worst kinds
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
THE MAN WHO SMILED
Bridgeport Telegraph

Bridgeport Telegraph
 There was once a man who
 smiled:
 Because the day was bright.
 Because he slept Ut night,
 Because God gave him sight
 TO look upon his child;
 Because the little one
 Could laugh and leap and
 run;y
 Because the sun smiled on
 the earth. f :
 He smiled. He smiled because the sky
 Was high above his head,
 Because the rose was red, Because the past was dead.
 He never wondered < why
 The Lord had blundered so,
 Why ali things have to go
 The wrong way here below
 The overarching sky.
 This bit of random verse bs some unknown poet. shows us the role of illusion in life. Here Was a man who smiled when he might nave SudTiC0s TIShS sW&oy t~AH VT timist who might have been ! cynic. Here was one who pre- ferred illusion to delusion; the fancies of the imagination to mel ancholy obsessions.
 To this sentiment the cynic may reply: Poor, deluded fool. living II a fiiinsy paradise of your own mak. ing. And both men are right IT their point of view, only, the mar who smiled is not merely entitled to his viewpoint, he Is fortified and by it. as the other man is dismayed and undone D, his. -, 2 There are more bright days than dark; more good health thar i'll, and the laughter that children bring with them far outweighs tho tears. The high. heavens give reacf for the soul; the beauty of tht rose makes up for the thorns, ant the dead past will bury It's dead. Let's go smiling through.
 Believe that life, is worth living and the belief will help create th' fact. M s M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
NOT FOR A NICKEL
.lNew Haven Register)

f An idea of why some of the beer tavern proprietors around the state are taking their own little private code movements against price cutting So seriously may be gained rom what is taken to be a typical cost sheet drawn up by the Beer, Wine and Liquor Merchants Association of Connecticut. The marketing of four barrels of beer in the course of a week runs up a total expense of $151.S7. This includes such costs as pretzeis' lights, broken glasses, rent. taxes, hot water. permit fees and the Ike: The four barrels of beer, retailed at ten cents per ten-ounce glass. net a return of $150.40. So the tavern keeper himself left with a profit of $4.53, and that leaves out of the question his investment in tavern fixtures. This is taken to be an explanation of why the fiye-cent glass which some opti- mists thought a few months ago was on the way, has not yet ar rived, 1t is what New Yorks New
 York States ! beverage commits
 sioner Mulrooney calls the egg cup" glass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, NJ. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Or Brady Address him. care os the Democrat. sending stamp md addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

of grain alcohol for blending. This may not produce very satisfactory liquor but 1t will at least meet a demand that will mean business to the alcohol producer.
 Insofar as the stock market tends to be sympathetic to the movement of the most active stocks it Is a demoralizing thought that the fore cast about the whiskey business should have operated as guide to the grain and other stock listings. This point can be stressed too much but 1t is a sobering reflection that already the whiskey situation has chased us up and then down the hill of delirious action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
To-day's Selected Poem,
BIRD NOTE.

BIRD NOTE. (Mildred Weston in The New York sun) Even nature Cannot be Sweet In perpetuity. Even June's Proverbial rose Cant forever Hold the pose. Idyls fade. Illysium wanes, And of Eden Naught remains. This is orthodoxy When Uttered By brawling wren
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

High tide at Milford Saturday, July 29 4:2o p. m.. daylight time; low tide. l0:l II p. m.. daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

Don't blame amateur fishermen for hav- ing their pictures taken. Fishing's one of the easiest ways for city fellows to show that they're still he'men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
Newcomcr Among Morrows

Just before the Lindberghs took off on their Greenland flight, the whole family celebrated the birth of a little son to Anne Lindbergh's fa- vorite cousin, Richard Brown Scan drett, Jr, and his wife. The baby is christened Dwight Morrow Scandrett, for his celebrated grand uncle, the late Dwight Morrow. :. Dick Scandrett was MT Morrow's favorite nephew. the son of his sis ter, Mrs Agnes Scandrett, and spent much time with his uncle. both here and in Mexico. .a His wife, Mary Emma Landenberger. was New York newspaperwoman who met her husband when her paper sent her to see him about getting an interview with the famous Lind berghs. She never got to Lind bergh for the interview. But Scandrett fell in love with her and they were married the following fall. The young Dwight Morrow Scandrett is their second child.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 8:43. daylight time, tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

Kidnapping naturally increases as business improves. Poverty's the best defense against the crime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
? IN HI NEW | | YORK
BY JULIA BLANsHARD


 New York-Not the least among New York's many wonders is the eficiency of its post office depart ment. Col Charles A. Lindberg has received many letters and one parcel from abroad marked merely ''Lindy," America. Babe Ruth, Amos and Andy and other celebri- ties have had delivered in short or der mail that had no address ex- cept New York Al Smith once got a letter without even a city or state designated, with just plain "Al," plus a donkey's head drawn on the envelope.
 In direct contrast to this Amer ican efficiency, Dr Harry Laidler. research director of the League for Industrial Democracy, has just ex- perienced an amusing London in- cident. In June he sent a letter to the world-famous George Ber- nard Shaw at his London address 17O4 Park street, London, s. w. l. Seems that Shaw has moved to the country and London doesn't know where its Shaw is!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
The Old Gray Home


 Gilda Gray's old home in Ocean, side, on the Long Beach road, has become a funeral home. It has a new coat of white and freshly painted green shutters. but every shutter still bears the monogram of Gilda's ex-husband, Gil Boag. c.. T. B." q
 The old colonial house is really the house that "shimmy" built. Gilda bought it with her money and 1t was her pride and joy. .. In the days when she danced both in the Follies and at the Rendezvous, sheused to drag her tired self out there every single week end. be- cause she loved it so. Sunday night she kept open house, serving delicious, strange Polish dishes that she herself prepared and served, dressed in colorful Polish peasant costume. When she and Gil separated. Gil kept the house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
CHECKING PETS

Checking unusual pets at hotels in New York is next to impossible. The Plaza turned down a man last week who wanted to leave a few snails in a safe box. The Wal dorf Astoria will gladly care for any dogs, cats, gold fish or birds, including 1oud-spoken parrots. But they drew the line at a couple of baby tigers that motion pic ture man brought home from Afri- ca. The New Yorker allows only the smallest dogs. You can take a Pekingese or a poodle or even a small Scotty, but if you go in for Russian wolfhounds, you must go elsewhere. Cats. however, are al- lowed. But once an out-of-towner brought along snake and the rep tile sneaked out of the room and down a corridor. soaring some wo- men on the same floor nearly to death. So no snake of any brand, age or value is allowed now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

Never in the past was 1t so i'm possible to be an atheiest as 1t is today. Rev John Haynes Holmes. New
 York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
So They Say

No wonder there is a lot of in the colleges-the always brings in a little and the seniors never take any away. pr A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard.
 
 I can see! And look, look-the flowers on the wall paper! ' First words uttered by E. A.. Griswold, 84, of Dallas, Tex, up on recovering sight after 50 years blindness.
 Golf is the only thing I've ever been in love with yet. Buchanan. 22, Trans-Mis- sissippi golf champion.
 The church today needs a new baptism of faith. religious zeal and eyangelistic effort. Rev P. N. Welshimer, Canton, O. There's no harm in exposing the human body. It Is q beautiful work of nature. ... Some people would want to put pants on horse.
 Joseph B. David, Chicago on nudism.