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Evening star., 1933-10-05
Retirement OPPOSED
BY PREFERRED HOLDERS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 5.-A group
Of holders of the prior preferred stock
Of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Cor
poration, headed by George S. Kemp Of
Richmond, Va, has announced its op-
position to the proposed retirement OF
84,87l shares Of that issue now held in
the treasury of the company. Cancel
lation of these shares, Kemp alleges,
would reduce the outstanding amount
below slO,0O0.o0O and thus. under the
company's charter. terminate the right
Of the preferred holders to name a ma
jority of tie board.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
COOPERAGE FIRMS WORRIED

NEW YORK, October (P)-
Cooperage houses are worried by the
if1roads being made into the market
for wooden beer kegs by the steel
barrel. The steel people are credited
with doing more alert merchandising
job with the result that their product
has increased in favor
Evening star., 1933-10-05
BOY TRUCK FIRE VICTIM
Clarendon 18-Year-Old in Hos
pital a9 Result of Accident.

Crandall Matter, 18, Of Clarendon,
Va. was in Emergency Hospital today
suffering from burns about the legs,
arms and face when a laundry truck
caught fire last night while in the 800
block of Park row southwest. Mateer
was thought to have accidently started
the fire by striking match near the
gasoline tank.
Fire apparatus was summoned to put
out the flames on the truck, which was
badly damaged.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
FOOD INDEX DROPS.

NEW YORK. October (P).-The
Dun & Bradstreet food index drop
ped cent to S191 in the week ended
October 3. The current level dupli-
Gates that Of a month ago
Evening star., 1933-10-05
REQ OUTPUT CLIMBS.

NEW YORK, October (P).-Reo
Motor Car Co. reports 1888 production
up to September 20 totaled more than
the entire output of 1882.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03

A tax shirker" is property owner who
could pay his taxes and doesn't. He is ae-
curing a little of the unpopularity that
draft-dodgers had during the war. Cities.
school districts. counties. states. bitterly need
the money he owes them. In many places
it is frankly stated that schools now closing
could be kept open. pulie employees could be
paid and essential services in peril of aband-
onment could be continued. if such debtors
would pay their tax bills.
Their failure to pay often amounts to a
tax strike" Many citizens are SO indig-
nant at the heavy taxation of the last few
years, and at past expenditures for unneees-
sary purposes, that they want to teach the
tax-spenders lesson. But it is tragic
time for that. And the lesson is already
learned in most localities. Many delinquents,
too. delay payment in order to take advan-
tage of moratoriums, interest and penalty
remission, and other concessions. This may
be good business" according to the private
standards of pre-depression times. but it is
not good business now, either public or
private. 1t is not sensible. fair or honorable.
Those who can pay should pay and pay
quickly, lest all lose together.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
Soft Men And Machines

An interesting example of how one thing
leads to another as the industrial pickup
gets under way is the experience of an Akron
rubber company. 1t called back large
number of men who had been unemployed
from 18 months to two years. 1t expected
to resume production at the l929-30 rate.
Two unsupported obstacles appeared. In
the first place, the men proved to be soft
and out of condition. Eager as they were
to work. they could not Immediately strike
the fast, efficient pace they had formerly
maintained. Time will remove this obsta-
ce In the meantime it teaches lesson
about human deterioration under enforced
idleness.
The second delaying factor was the de-
terioration which had taken place in the
machinery. Parts broke frequently. Belts
broke. Elevators got out of order. All sorts
of things went wrong and stopped work un-
til repairs could be made. The deprecated
machinery cost the rubber company time and
money. but it stimulated industrial recovery
in another way Scores of tool and factory
equipment plants began to get rush orders.
A lively replacement business enabled them
to call their own workers back to various
jobs. Similar experiences in many other
industries and plants are helping to spread
employment more rapidly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
Economic Education

In response to real demand for infor-
nation on many puzzling subjects, publish
ers-and authors-are getting out numerous
works on initiation, banking. scrip, and so
on. An economic professor who also writes
a newspaper column on business says that
no less than dozen books along these lines
have come to his desk in a single week re-
Gently.
The reader has only to glance over book
review columns and publishers advertising
in newspapers and magazines to see how
numerous these are. On the other side of
the Atlantic the output is just as great John
Maynard Keynes-who sounded warning
Immediately after the war in his Economic
Consequences of the Peace Sir Arthur
Salter. Sir Josiah Stamp and others of inter-
national fame keep right on writing books
explaining everything.
How widely are these volumes read? How
much influence on the trend of events do
they have? That is hard to estimate. They
do not all agree among themselves as to
remedies. One thing seems certain. > Their
readers are getting large doses of education
in subjects to which they paid little atten-
ton before the depression. Jane Adams
once spoke of education from the current
event" That is what we are getting these
days, with the books referred to available
for those who want further light after read
ing the papers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
Can't Kill Ideas

Hitler and his Nazi leaders would do we'll
to 60 into the silence and mediate upon the
words addressed to German students by
Helen Keller. History has taught you Moth
ing if you think you can kill ideas she
wrote. "Tyrants have tried to do that
often before. and the ideas have risen up in
their might and destroyed Them The ideas
in the books now being burned in the pro-
cess of purifying" German literature have
seeped> through million channels and will
continue to quicken other minds con-
tinues Miss Keller.
1t is always curious to see human beings
trying to fight ideas with material
measures eensoring and burning books.
banning speeches. arresting speakers. If the
disliked ideas are false. the surest way to
check their influence is to allow them free
circulation along with the truth. In such
contest. truth must win. Ideas may be
sdetracked by making other ideas more at
tractive. They cannot be killed by martyr
ing the people who hold and express them
or by physical destruction of the means by
which they are disseminated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
It's Just About Time

It has taken the Legislature long weary
years to decide that tax survey in Connec-
tcut is essential. One of the first things that
Governor Cross proposed in 1881 when ne
took office was that the tax situation war
ranted thorough probe so that it might be
corrected. He pointed out the inequality of
the burden borne by the man who was
heavy property owner. Today there are few
heavy property owners, unless you place the
banks in that class or real estate concerns,
loan agencies, etc.
There are still great many people own
ing their own houses, but the number IS
much smaller than it was few years back.
A good many people lost their homes be-
cause they were unable to keep up payments
on their mortgages. Others saw taxes steadily
mounting and sold out before they were
pinched in the crush. As result property is
now in the hands of few agencies. 1t is to
correct just such occurrences as these that
tax survey of the state is required.
In appropriating $4,000 for this work
the Legislature is not being over magnani-
nous. Had this money been spent two years
ago we might today be enjoying the fruits
of its investment But the system still re-
mains at fault and hence it behooves state
officials to act quickly and permit an unde-
sirable situation to be corrected. Our sole
suggestion to any commission that may be
named to make this study is that its recon-
mendations. brief or lengthy. contain the
added suggestion that all changes in existing
conditions be accompanied by more eeonom-
ieal government than even we are enjoying
today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Goats Milk

T have tho and am unable, for financial
reasons to go to q different climate. 1 have
heard goats milk is very good. Do you ADVISE
me to drink it? Please tell me about goats
milk. Miss M. o.
Answer-Why go to another climate? So
far as the records show your recovery IS as
sure here at home as 1t is in any other climate
if YOU "a have good doctor and CD always
follow his advice and nobody else's Goat
milk is fine if you can afford it or better, keep
a goat but should not advise you to pay more
for goats milk than you have to pay for cows
milk, Goats are almost immune to tubercu-
losis Hence goats milk is less likely to con-
tain tubercle bacilli than is cows milk. Any
family with bit of yard or roadside where a
tethered animal may Craze, is lucky to have q
goat for the two or three quarts TO milk she
gives daily.
WhitfeId's Ringworm Ointment
Will you kindly print again the recipe for the
salve for foot itch (F. Cd
Answer-Twenty- five grains benzoic acid. Is
grains salicylic acid, 2 drains soft petrolatum
and enough cocoanut oil to make one ounce OF
ointment.
Flat Feet and varicose Veins
Would walking about is miles day tend to
give n persons HAT feet or enlarged veins? am!
go. i'm good health, and like to do lot Of
walking. (B. j. WI
Answef--On the contrary 1t tends to prevent
or cure both conditions Especially IL you 90
barefoot or wear the right shoes Send stamped
envelope bearing your address and ask for In
structions for care of the feet and selection Of
footwear.
.lCopyright 1sss. John F. Ollie Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
The Waterbury Democrat WASH
ington Correspondent

Washington.-The political i'm
plications Of the Morgan disclos-
ures are likely to be, numerous. The
country has never heard anything
like those disclosures and reports
indicate that it is pretty sore. .
Much more startling than the
revelation that the Morgan part
ners paid no income taxes was the
fact that the Morgan firm, with
its hands on vast network OF in
dustry and finance, had distributed
favors impartially among leaders
Of both the democratic and repub-
lican parties.
Half dozen men who had been
seriously mentioned for the presi-
dency Of the United States were
among those to whom Morgan
secretly sold stocks at not much
more than half the market price.
It is fairly certain that none of
them will be seriously considered
again.
Subject to Attack
AS long as they participate in
politics they will be subject to at
tack as Morgan men,"
In both parties the cleavage will
be accumulated between those who
believe il is quite all right for a
public figure to maintain a profit
able friendship with the House Of
Morgan and those who don't. Pro-
gressives in both parties have new
ammunition and new battle
ground involving the great Morgan
spider web" Of control.
There's a real political philoso-
ply in the investigation. The men
who have pushed it-and President
Roosevelt himself has at least CIV
en- It his blessing-want to reduce
the. Morgan power. That power has
been less obvious in this admins
tration than in any for a long time.
Roosevelt, ever quick to seize q
strong popular reaction and capt.
talize 1t, is expected soon to move
in some way which will strengthen
his popular support and leave him
in a better position to place the
Morgan and associated interests
where they can no longer be con.
sidered an invisible government
| Opponents ON List
The list of prominent Democrats
who received Morgan largesse was
strongly reminiscent Of the bloc Of
conservative party leaders wht
stood against Roosevelt when ne
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
An Enviable Career

Yesterday marked the 18th anniversary OF
the appointment of Hugh Alcorn to the
present position he holds, states attorney
for Hartford county. We doubt if any pub
lie prosecutor has enjoyed such reign as
this, Certainly no other one has held the
spotlight as long and as steadily as has Mr.
Alcorn. And whatever honors have been
heaped upon him in this quarter of CEN
fury were richly deserved. In every sense OF
the word Hugh Alcorn has been public
servant. His was no will to be bent to that
of ruling political parties or public officials.
He regarded his duties as trust and acted
accordingly.
First named in 1908 his last appointment
came last year. He succeeded man who had
served 20 years in the states attorneys OF
fee. Evidently Hartford county goes in tor
staunch officials for this type of duty. How
ever, Hugh Alcorn's name has come to be
highly regarded by criminals who may come
into this state They realize that If per-
chance they run afoul of the law in his ter
ritory they must expect to pay the penalty
of the transgressor. 1t was States Attorney
Alcorn who sent Gerald Chapman to the
gallows, astounding the underworld and
sounding warning to that gentry to keep
away from the Nutmeg State.
But his fame does not depend solely on
the Chapman conviction. He has figured
prominently in many sensational trials. OF
recent years he sent Roger Watkins and
Frederic E. Kingston to states prison for GER
tain misdemeanors in the handling of secur-
tics. But the list of Alcorn convictions is too
lengthy to be narrated here. Suffice it to say
that his reputation was sufficient to warrant
efforts to bring him to Washington to work
in the Department of Justice. That he was
denied this advancement to high federal
post can only be blamed upon the fact that
he consistently refused to let politics rule him.
He was above it and perhaps for this fact
alone will always be regarded by Conneeti-
cut citizens as its outstanding prosecutor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03

Tomorrow the Spanish War Veterans of
Connecticut will dedicate group of me-
mortal urns at the government hospital IN
Newington. The story of the purchase OF
these beautiful urns is most interesting and
should 60 down in the war history of Con-
neeticut. In 1918 fund was created in this
state by the Spanish War veterans known
as the Pershing Fourth of July Fund. Con-
siderable money was raised and taken to
France to, be distributed to the Connecticut
doushboys on the Fourth of July for spend
ing money. 1t was mighty task to find all
the state veterans. Doubtless many were
skipped. AT any rate the fund was never ex-
hausted but lay in French bank depreeiat-
ing as the francs value dropped in world
currency. Last year the fund was transferred
back to Connecticut and now will pay for
the hospital urns as well as keeping them
filled with flowers in summer and evergreens
in winter. Not bad idea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
Much Too Radical

The bill that was passed by the House
this week compelling all schools to open
and close on standard time is far too radical
for this state. according to this writer's opin-
ion. Well admit that we like daylight saw
ing time and hence may seem bit preJudic-
ed But the bill is an. out and out attempt
TO legislate out of existence the use OF
summer time in Connecticut. There is no
getting around the bill by changing the
hours of opening and closing the school day.
as the bill specifically prevents this
As it now stands any city or town OF this
state that adopted daylight saving time in
1884 would have to open and close its
schools one hour earlier during the daylight
time period That would disrupt household
schedules all over the state and naturally
cause such an uprising among fond mothers
and fathers before which not even the many
advantages of daylight saving could stand.
IN short il would cause every home where
there are school children to remain on stand
ard time until the schools had closed for the
summer recess.
To forestall any attempt to authorize the
opening and closing of schools at such hours.
standard time, as would conform with the
present schedule. daylight time. the authors
# The bill inserted the provision that no
.rnool hour might be changed during the
rear. In short if school opens at S:45 a. m.
Z must continue to do 50 regardless of per-
Ional likes or Disks Of daylight saving.
KS hope Governor Cross won't ever see
is way slsx to signing such ? proposal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03

We were glad to read that large group
of Amherst students broke up mass meet
ing of some of the radical under graduates
at which the objectionable ofense of burn
ing the American flag was committed. We
don't know what action the faculty of Am
herst College will take. but if the eulprits
escape with merely reprimands they are for
tunate. Their act of dissertation is heinous
offense in the eyes of the law and those who
participated in it can be both fined and inn
prisoned. A taste of prison life or the mere
threat of it. naturally would be enough to
cause some of these would-be communists to
forsake their new principles forever. Better
still their parents might step in and apply
some old-fashioned remedies Spring always
finds the exuberanee of the college youth at
full tide. but fortunately for the nation it
rarely takes the course that this latest cpl
sode reveals We don't mind college boys
working off steam by pranks. even though
they sometimes do immense damage to
property and endanger lives. But when the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03

Do you know any century-old homes in
Waterbury? If SO communicate your infor-
nation with the American Institute of AR
chitects. 1t is conducting survey in New
England for the purpose of filing authentic
information on old structures. No building
that is not 100 years old is considered. There
should be some in Waterbury that date back
to the early part of the 10Th century. but
it's question whether many of this gener-
alton know where they are. 1t seems to the
writer that Cooke street boasts couple of
houses that might answer the query.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Avert The Crash
Why We Failed To

More than 20 years ago Norman
Angel wrote q book explain
ing that no nation could possibly
gain anything by modern warfare.
He was Immediately derided as a
visionary incompetent by his bet
ters in every land ;and his betters
then got the world into a new war
and proved that everything he had
told them was the literal truth.
Now he has written a new book.
"From Chaos to ControT; ana II
is a book which is very much
worth reading in these troubled
times.
In it he suggests that our chief
trouble today Is the failure OF
organized education to prepare
modern democracies for the kind
of complex, specialized world In
which we are now living. Our
great problem now, he says, Is not
to find a way out of economic dis
aster. but to get that way accepted
by the ordinary man once 1t Is
| found.
AS an example, he remarks that
every reputable economist has long
insisted that there can be no recov-
cry until reparations and war
debts are forgotten and tariff walls
are lowered. The experts agree, In
other words, about what our first
steps must be-but we won't follow
their advice.
Eventually, he says, we must
learn to look on political and
economic problems as objectiveiy
as we now look onsmedical prob
lens. If plague threatens our
town we do just what our doctors
tell us to do, realizing that we can.
not save ourselves otherwise. But
when economic disaster Genes VIZ
will not listen to our experts. We
prefer to stick to our own preJu.
dices.$ AS q result, our civilization
is on the very edge of an abyss.
This enlightening book is offered
by the Century Co. at ~.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03

the towns and cities are crying for
state assistance, that we should go
blithely on spending millions for
concrete roads.
No citizen in his senses orders
his private life in that manner.
The factory employee who Is out
of work and whose house is about
to be taken away from him be-
cause he cannot pay his taxes ana
interest does not seize the time 10
buy a fine new automobile. Num-
cipalities, burdened with the care
of the unemployed, are not spend
ing money wildly in laying out new
bCulevards and putting up public
buildings. Business institutions
are withholding expansion until
they can see a time when they
may write the record of theit
transactions in black rather than
red ink.
In the face of all this the repub.
lican organization insists upon the
usual millions to build new TRUNK
line highways. Probably 1t vii
argue In the same breath thai
there is no money to buy a site fol-
a new institution for the feeble
minded, in spite OF the telling ar
guments in favor of that procedure
which have been made in the las
few days by Miss Marjory Cheny
To carry on road building undel
the circumstances Is d piece of un
warranted extravaganza. We coult
wish that the governor had pu
in his veto and had counted upoi
public sentiment to support hin
as it did with reference to liquo
] control legislation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
Here, There And EUeryUhere

Judgment demands.
For no sovereignty exists, no
liberty, no freedom, for itself alone.
That government which fails to
make adjustments demanded by
social needs will simply find itself
superseded by other forms. The
American people have never SO
worshipped ideas for their mere
symmetry that they would pre-
serve them after their usefulness
had passed. 1t thus becomes in
cumbent on those who wish to
maintain the old and valuable
American precedent Of states
rights and individualism to bend
to the new needs which the mod
ern age and the depression have
thrown up.
This applies especially to min
imum wage laws. unemployment
insurance, old age pensions and
other similar legislation. The
choice, 1t is quite clear, IL no
| longer between having such re-
forms and not having them; 1t Is q
choice between which government
shall bring them. Plainly the wild
est measure OF local adjustment
the clearest orientation of new
movements to old and localized
needs. makes state action on these
points essential. If we still be.
lieve in states rights we cannot
eyade progress by waiting FOL
| washington. For every time Wash.
ington acts, states rights decline.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-03
PROTECTING STATES RIGHTS
New Haven Journal-Courier)

There can be no doubt the sem
ate has acted in accordance with
social trends in enacting the mini
mum wage law. Those opposed to
such legislation, be 1t noted, no
longer rest with simple rejection
of its usefulness. Mr. Goss Of Wa
terbury, speaking for the organized
manufacturers at a recent hearing
did not oppose the minimum
hours law and others like 1t be-
cause he objected to their princi-
pie. He merely pleaded with the
assembly to leave such laws to
the national legislature, which Is
enacting them with a speed ana
alacrity hitherto unparalleled.
Yet the paradox should not DO
overlooked by which those form
erly opposed to state legislation OF
this sort because it was not
nation wide now oppose it because
it is. Nor should the observer miss
the right-about in sentiment OF
those who up to now have coun-
selled state sovereignty at all costs.
For what we have seen at WASH
ington, of course, is the natural
and inevitable intimidation OF
state sovereignty when the states
refuse reforms which the pubic