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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08
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ing the previous year. Tkis is due largely to:
 Scarlet fever: At the end of the year 1892 and during the early months of 1893 we had slight epidemic of scarlet fever cases The majority of these cases were only slight so much so in fact that doctors were not called until the latter stages of the disease were reached. In this way tie disease had spread very easily. Four fatalities resulted, two being pre- school children, one school child and one adult.
 Diphtheria: Diphtheria increased this year, thirty-three cases being reported as against seventeen for last year. Of this number thirteen were pre-school children, nine were school children and eleven were adults. One can readily see that the number of school children having this disease was low which, no doubt. is due to the immuniza- ton work being carried on in the schools. The six deaths from dirh- theria were: two prc-school chill dren, two school children and two adults.
 The other cases and deaths of communicable disease averaged about the same as last year but two deaths from chickenpox and one from whooping cough were recorded. They were of pre-school age. The death from chickenpox is the first that has occurred locally in a great many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08
Waterbury Vets Seek
 Recruits In Drive
Wheeler Young Post Assigned Increase Membership
 Quota By Chief of Staff

to be subdivided into assigned shares for each local post within its area.
 For the purposes of checking the progress of the Veterans Defense Rally, which will be conducted con- tinuously from Armistic Day, No vember II, to June 30, 1884, a mythical French box car" has been adopted as a recruiting unit. A "box car comprises twenty new recruits. Each "box car' is to be reported, as soon as obtained, to the state department which in turn will report it to the National Head quarters at Kansas City, Mo.
 Appropriate placques will be pre- scented by National Headquarters to every department and post obtain ing its quota within the time set. and additional trophies will be awarded the individual posts and departments making the largest numerical membership increases and the largest membership per centage increases during the cam paign period.
 "The Veterans Defense Rally has been devised by our Command er-in-Chief James E. Van Zandt. Altoona. Pa, as the V. F. WIS launching of a 'coupter attack against the Economy Act of last March," Commander Mahoney said today.
 Repeal of the Economy Act, which, adopted during a period of financial hysteria throughout the country, has worked untold hard :. ships upon thousands of disabled and needy American veterans, is the most important Legislative ob- jective of our organization this year. Augmenting our present membership to proportions of im- pressive significance is an activity to which our members, in approx mately 5000 posts throughout the United States, will bend every eff fort between now and next July"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08

4SssNAS 4OB
 There was total of 1154 cases and 1855 deaths from communicable diseases for the year as compared with TOT cases and 1S6 deatbs dur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08

This is grave injustice te our practising physicians. A continu- ance of this invidious practice may eventually result in one or more of the clinics being closedI May I stress the point that the facilities at the clinics are available to those financially unable to consult pri-
 yate physicians. As I said in my,
 report a year ago. the clinics are
 not designed to interfere with tho
 practice of our local doctors. I would like to recommend the creation of licensing ordinance to include fish markets, meat mar kets, restaurants, bakeries. drug stores, etc. The present ordinance
 on milk licenses" could be amend ed and blanket ordinance so- called, adopted to license such hgndling of foodstuffa Such li- ccnses could be issued for a nom | inal fee, adding a little revenue to the city treasury and permitting the milk and food inspector to keep a better or closer check on such places.
 Supervision of tuberculosis cases, although capably handled by the Anti-Tuberculosis League, should
 I believe, come under the direct
 supervision of the health depart
 ment. It would permit a more per- sonal contact in the handling of this particular branch of public
 health work. In many cities the health department has direct su- pcrvision over all tuberculosis cases and the results have been gratify- ing.
 CONCLUSION
 This department is exceedingly grateful for the invaluable cooper ation received from all sources. in-
 cluding parents. organizations,
 press. etc. The local press is es- pecially commended for its help in carrying messages of caution in
 emergencies. I. personally. appre- ciate the counsel and support of each member of the health board and I wish. also, to thank my sub-
 ordinates for their faithful service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08

Instructions for local recruiting of new members were received here today by Commander Vincert Mahoney of Wheeler Young Post. No. IO1, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. from Chief of Staff A. D. Vandervoort. Lans- ng, Michigan, who is directing the countrywide Veterans Defense Rally of the organization
 Post No. 201 has been assigned an increased membership quota. Commander Mahoney was in- formed. Similarly, each state de- partment in the organization has been set definite quota, which Is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08

Peru has a new income tax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08
MEDICAL INSPECTION

Routine physical examinations were held in all the public and parochial grammar schools. Most of the defects found were remedial. Eye examinations and diphtheria immunization work was also done in all the schools. At the begin-
 ming of the school term eye exam
 nations were held in the high schools, every student being ex- amined and those taking part in athletics and the members of the freshman class were given physi- cal examination. Children. whose parents could not afford to pay their own physician for vaccina.
 lions were accommodated by the inspectors. Approximately 99 per cent of the public scbool children nave been vaccinated. The remain ing per cent have presented a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08
RECOMMENDATIONS

I feel obliged once again to call attention to the fact that certain families in position to consult private physicians are takiDg ad- vantage of the free advice and treatments at the piblic clinics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08
Public Health to Show Effects of Depression

Philadelphia (UP) Public health will show effects of the de- pression for the next 10 years, ac- cording to pr Everett Bristol, di- rector of health education for the American Telephone and Tele- graph company,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08

Three brilliant diamonds on either side 0f nm ex0Slis- ite larger center dinmOnd. Beauty that is hnrd to re- sist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-08

Addressing the Chamber of Commerce health committee, pr nervous diseases, tuberculosis and malnutritions in children all have increased in an, alarming degree" !"
 "Great effort on the part of the medical profession will be required in. the mex tdecade to overcome them," he asserted.\
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

Dor needs it, the world needs it, civil
ization needs it.
Greed is forging chains every hour.
Manhood is everywhere enslaved, wo-
men driven by the pitiless lash of
hunger, childhood cursed and blight
ed in thousand mills, babies fed to
the demon of machinery, corporations
insolent in their unchecked power, leg
islatures purchased outright, courts,
corrupted and rotten to the heart, JUS
tice debarred from her own temple,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01
WHO OWNS The
LABOR VOTE :!

To ask this question is to answer
it. The labor vote is not owned or
controlled by anyone. No politician
is powerful enough to boss it. Ram
pant individualism pervades the
ranks.
One of the most obvious facts is.
that there is no such thing as pollt-
ical solidarity in labor. Hence the
familiar wall: "If labor would vote
entirely for men and measures,
things would be different; why don't
somebody do something about it?"
When it comes to elections, "Vote
for labor's friends and swat its enc
mics" It means that labor is not
tied up with or committed to any
party. Labor has its own carefully
thought-ou program for reviving
and maintaining general prosperity.
It asks those in political authority
and leadership to be convinced of its
Those of them who do so and act
reasonableness and trustworthiness
accordingly are posted as the friends
of labor and entitled to its suffrages,
and this without regard to party.
1t is perhaps worthy of mention
that the more radical of the working
class movements seem to be far from
anything resembling solidarity in ac-
ton. The Marxians are torn into
warning groups and these are again
sub divided into factions bent on
rending each other. Radicalism has
less coherent unity than a Coxey's
army.
The cheering statements that Mr..
Soanso pledges the vote of a labor
group and that Mr.. Blowhard con-
trolls another bunch get the horse
laugh from the knowing. They rec
ognize it as the familiar sales talk
of the political goldbrickers.
The wise, sometimes made wise by
grievous experience, realize that
the vote of labor is absolutely
unbelievable.
AN DTIMER RACK AGAIN
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

miners parading the highway shot to
death in the interest of the coal COM
bine, labor's protest drowned in vol
leys from Gatling guns, her agents
clubbed, her leaders imprisoned;
pinched poverty everywhere blight
ing the lives and checking the prog
ress of the people, greed growing
upon it's success, demanding more
dvictims an forging chain for every
babe that is born
Into this slave mart of Mammon-
into this seething human hell-steps
the trades union and says to the pow
ers that be: The voice of justice
shall be heard 1t defends the help
less, cares for the sick, buries the
dead and provides for the widow and
orphans. 1t is as gentle for charity
as it is stern for justice. 1t short
ems hours and advances wages. 1t
maintains a decent standard of liv-
ing. 1t prevents the American work
err from falling to the Chinese level.
1t makes it possible to be working
man and a gentleman, and it's bene-
fetal influence is felt, whether con-
sciously or not, by every man, wo-
man ard child in this community.
The union secures good wages. Good
wages mean good living, and the city's
prosperity-makes the demand for
food and clothing and lots of it; for
homes and furniture, for necessities
and luxuries, for all the wares and arts
of civilization that bring profits to
business and professional people.
The union is as natural product
of civilization as is the corporation
and just as impossible to stop its
growth as to prevent the rivers flow
ing to the sea. We do not claim per,
fection. We are not angels. We are
lust like the people of all other hui
man institutions-go bad and in
different. But we protest against the
charge that the fall of a single mem
Der disgraces unionism.
What would become of all human
institutions if judged by the conduc'
of all their worst members? Wha
about the press, the bar, the clergy
the church? Why, if that position Il
sound, you couldn't find fragmen
of the pathway to heaven with
searchlight. The union is pure AM
it's purpose good, and on that rocl
we rest our case.
In spite of the rigors of unjust law
in spite of the hostility of courts
in spite of the shameless abuse o
hostile press, the union movemen
sweeps on to its full destiny; AM
those who would stop this mighty
surging. onward movement of tn
people might as we'll put their pun.
hands in Niagara's whirling tide AM
order the waters to halt. You canno
destroy a thing that springs eterna
in the hearts of the people. Trade
unionism will live and flourish whel
it's enemies are dead, and forgotten.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01
WHAT UNIONZSM IS

virtue by every government on this
etrth-'the greatest good to the great
est number. 1t stands for the people
against the plutocracy, whose grasp
/ ing greed is enslaving mankind. La
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01
By L. w. ROGERS

What is this union idea that we are
fighting for, and what claim has it
upon public sympathy and support? :?
Its basic principle is claimed as a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

Every man, woman and child IN the
United States consumes on the aver
age 67 oranges per year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

There were q metals more precious
than gold.
Evening star., 1933-12-03

is something naturally repugnant to any
Frenchman.
All that "funnyneSS" has gone out Of Fench
money these days. Americans here are behav-
ing toward it with proper respect. They've
jolly well got to- with the dollar buying hardly
more than 60 cents worth of French goods
OF course. the case of the big butter and
there were too many like him. but he wasn't
when a dollar bought 50 francs. Recently it
has been buying only around IT: and the fellow
who used to light his pipe with 1o0-franc notes
has disappeared entirely.
Still, until this last Summer theie was q
good deal Of franc-careieSsnesS among Ameri-
cans living in France. Notes of all denomina-
tiozls got worse treatment than calling cards.
Any pocket would do for them and II was
little humiliating to be too attentive to where
they went.
didn't improve the reputation of Americans
among the people Of this land: An American
girf would take q taxi On arrival the bill
would be. say, francs The chauffeur would
give her the change from 10 francs-a franc,
and 2-franc piece
A franc IS generous reward for 7-franc
ride. The chauffeur would take the tip. with
satisfaction.
But then there would be the doorman at the
place where the American girl left her cab.
The dooxnann needed tip. too. because he had
opened the cab door. And the girl-to0 lazy
or too careless to open her handbag-would
tip the doorman with the 2-franc piece re-
Evening star., 1933-12-03
With the Dollar Dozvu the Big Butter-and-
Bad-7aste Man Who Squaudered Francs
in La0iM Tips and A,rogant Display
Is Gone, and america IN France Is
Adobting the Moderation Of the
French.

naming out Of the l0-franc note the chauffeur
had changed for the ride.
Naturally, the chauffeur-who wouldn't miss
a thing during this operation-w would be burned
UP. A franc tip for a 7-franc ride-and q 2
franc tip for opening the door.
] very picturesque end slangy French. which.
fortunately, the American girl wouldn't under
standl
What are you doing about it, now that the
franc IS IT instead Of IS to the dollar?"
The question was put to an American,
moderately wealthy who has been living here
II years because his son is in business IN
France. his daughter has married Frenchman.
and his wife likes the social graces of this
capital
"Of course" he answered "it happens that I
probably won't ey,r be In actual want. II the
dollar drops much further. I always go
home as many Of my friends are doing. Even
the slump Of four yeas Ego wasn't as bad for
me as this My advisers ere shrewd and con-
servative and was able to maintain q good
steady income all a4one
This is different For US people living in
gold-standard countries. this American inffa-
ton is like sitting on top Of a landslide. You're
going along all risht-and then suddenly
something drops out from under you-and
you're mott"
So this American has taken these measures
eand they typical OF what Is being done by
many Americans similarly placed; He mas
rented his country place. furnished. to French
people He has put up one Of his two motor
Evening star., 1933-12-03

cars. His wife has given notice to one OF
four servants He is looking around for a
smaller Paris apartment, so that he can subet
his present place if things get worse. He is
systematically planning to reduce his expenses
of last year by SO per cent.
And he is carrying a wallet!
The standard of wealth among Americans
living in France is probably considerably
higher per capita than the average wealth OF
any community at home The American col
ony a whole is made up of people living on
their incomes-from moderate to big-and of
people whose jobs are pretty well paid.
But of the so 900 so Americans resident
here. it is estimated that between and
10 per cent have already packed up and
sailed home. They were the 'borderline"
cases.
lilies with incomes around 5000 q year. Such
an income is now. in French money around
So, 500 1t makes big difference.
DARIS Is the most expensive capital in
Europe these days. and comfortable living
here breaks off suddenly. Only . few dollars
below a certain level looms the zone of insufi-
cient heat for apartments. no electric icebox,
no hot water in the kitchen. no competent
service. and the doom of living in q noisy.
lower-class neighborhood.
Many families. of course. are untouched BY
the new stringency: more. though hanging on.
are retrenching Apart from giving up motor
cars. keeping fewer servants getting rid Of
expensive homes. here are other general
economies that Americans practicine here
today:
Gambling. Stakes are lower at the bridge
tables At the races. too And at public
gambling places. Where six months ago.
Americans would cheerfully lose certain sums
at baccarat roulette. and other games. they
are now buying chips in smaller denominations
from the croupiers. and quitting earlier. II
their vein is out
Holidays Shorter and more economical
Americans still patronize the big resorts There
were this Summer apparently more of them
than ever at Deauville, at Biarritz, at Touquee.
and along the Riviera. But they didn't stay
50 long They were content with less luxurious
quarters than formerly. They didn't dine SO
frequently extravagantly Tn restaurants
de luxe. And they counted their change!
And who shall say, in the long rum that this
is really undesirable thing?
Evening star., 1933-12-03

~ the franc, have undergone a re-
markabIe Transformation. The prin-
cipal sign ot this change Of heart
is that they are carrying wallets.
In the old swanky days, French paper cur
rency was just something to crumble up in wads
and stuff in any pocket. 1T doesn't look like
real money the Americans said. You can't
take it seriously. like $40 bill"
They scoffed at the serious minded French
man with his wel-ordered pocketbook. 1t had
. compartment for 1000-franc notes another
for hundreds, a place for tens and even
section devoted to humble 5-franc paper. 1t
looked parsimonious, much like nickel-pinching
this business of keeping track of change and
putting the dirty little pieces of tinted
paper carefully away in separate pigeonholes-
IT'S different Americans using bill
foldS-and are counting the change!
This is how it used to be-
Lets have the bill" the American butter
and-egg would shout, hamnaering the little
round table under the awning on the boule-
wards. Their, while the waiter counted the pile
OF Saucers to total the check, the American
would start digging in his pockets.
Out of his watch pocket he'd pull seiled
1.0OO-franc note-worth about $40. Folded
carefully in with it would be a 5-franc note
worth about 20 cents From his outside coat
pocket would come a roll of tangled 100-frsnc
bills
Out of his vest he would produce an assort-
nent of other crumpled money: and from his
inside pocket. a wad of all denominations big
and little. Stray notes would drop to his lap,
futter in the breeze. drift toward the ground.
"Here. garcon can't understand this stuff.
he would shout. rs that enOugh?"
THE bill might have totaled 10 francs. The
~ note the American handed the waiter might
be for 50. The waiter would signify that it was
enough and that there change coming.
Forget it," the American would roar. swing
ing up from the table with his party and hail
ing taxicab
The waiter would shrug his shoulders, pocket
the money. But the impression on Parisians
VaS bad There is measure In all things. the
Parisian thinks tip Is a tip-and there is
. firmly fixed ratio for such charges.
Even the waiter felt no particular gTatifca-
ton at the extravaganza He was not subject
for charity. A fair tip was his due. Such was
clearly understood the American ge1aer-
osity seemed to him. quite rightly, b00qlSh.
II vas buffoonery and also insulting. Worst
- ell. il waste, "gnspinaee." And that
Evening star., 1933-12-03
BY MORRIS GILBERT.
PARIS, November %.

PARIS, N0VemDef Z6.
A MERICANS here. suddenly impover-
n ished by the dollars collapse before
the franc have undergone a re-
Y markable transformation. The prin-
cipal sign ot this change Of heart
that wallets
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
DATA ON FARM LOANS GIVEN
IN LETTER SENT TO FOULDS

unable to apply to the federal land
bank of the district for loans on
account of the inability of the bank
to accept applications from such
associations, the farm loan COM
missioner shall authorize said bank
to make direct loans to borrowers
secured by first mortgages on farm
lands.
"These direct loans are TO be on
the same basis as the regular land
bank loans except that the interest
rate will be one-half of one per
cent higher" Foulds said.
1.-THE act goes on to provide, how
ever, that when there are 10 or
more of the direct loans in dis
trict that the borrowers may form
an association and obtain the cegu-
lar rate of interest of Az per cent
or less.
II am in doubt as to whether
applications for these direct loans
should be made to the federal land
bank at Berkeley or to the agent
of the farm loan commissioner i'll
care of the bank.
1T will take some little time be-
fore the new deal begins to func-
ton, but after reading the act l
am confident we will get in under
it. 1 know of nothing that would
help the farmers of Imperial coun-
ty SO much as to obtain these long
term, low interest, federal farm
loans"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
GLASS WINS POINT IN HAVING
PECORA DIVULGE HIS COURSE

WASHINGTON, May 80. (U.H -
Senator Glass (Dem0, Virginia, de-
manded today in secret meeting
of the senate stock market inveSti-
cation committee that Ferdinand
Pecora be summoned before the
senators to report on future plans
in the j. P. Morgan & Co. inquiry.
Chairman Fletcher of the inves-
tigating committee announced a Sc
cret meeting of the committee had
been called for $3.50 a. m. tomorrow
before resumption of the Morgan
open hearings-and that Pecora will
be required at that time to outline
his case against the international
bankers.
Both Glass and Senator Couznes
(Rep), Michigan, who have been
wrangling in private and public over
Pecora's conduct of the investiga-
ton, were present at today's meet
ing. Each hurried away without
discussing their actions in the Sc
cret session.
Fletcher assured queStioners that
no censorship was contemplated
against Pecora.
Glass yesterday charged Couzens
with seeking to undo him. The
rich Michigan senator has been a
stout defender of Pecora'S blister