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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Honest Dollars

Much bunk is being peddcd by honest people about honest dollars or sound money" The extreme deflationists are as extravagant as the extreme inflationists What is d sound dollar? The pre-war dollar9 The war dollar' The postwar dollar? Or the depression dollar' All these have varied in value or purchasing power automatically changing contract terms between creditor and debtor, and therefore have been essentially unsound
 Look at any recent price index or com modity price list and see how the cost of scores of things intimately affecting our lives has fallen since 1928 in terms of the dollar Apparently everything was out of step but the dollar. What is the view of sound dollar deflationists. They do not seem to suspect, or will not admit, that the dollar might be out of step with everything else.
 There is talk about bondholders and other creditors being cheated by such moderate imitation as is now sought Cheated howl Owners of government bonds nearly all bought their bonds with the inflated dollars of the war or the recent boom years. Holders of mortgages and other evidence of debt nearly all lent boom money; there have been few long term loans made during the depression. How can such creditors sui fer from payment in d dollar lowered 30 per cent or so to point where it will buy no less than it bought when they lent it?
 Foreign countries? What right have they to complain All but Switzerland and Holland have devalued their gold units or gone off the gold basis, or both. The fact is that by letting an unregulated dollar get out of step with prices. we have been cheat ing debtors and upsetting things until even the money business itself - banking - was ruined and came near running all of us Now properly handled relation. or read iustment of dishonest dollars to something like honest parity with prices, should be fair to at least 90 per cent of us, and poss- ibly good in the long run for e9 per cent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Here, There And EDerywhere

lenged; no new evidence was pre- sented; a pardon was requested be- cause of the i'll effects her impris- onment had upon her two children. The suggestion has also neen pre- sented that Mrs Perkins has al- ready been sufficiently punished by her own conscience. that further imprisonment would be q form of social vengeance, not social justice. A partial answer might be supplied by the reflection that if her con- science had punished her sufh- ciently after her car had killed a youngster some ten years ago, she would never have driven into the recent accident. A complete an- swer can, perhaps. be supplied with the statement that conscience -rctri- button has never been considered adequate in any legal system and is quite beyond the pawer of any board to estimate.
 At Mondays hearing States Att torney Hugh NJ. Alcorn, opposing leniency, met a difficult situation with courage and integrity. He cut neatly to the central issue with the question:: What does the pubic expect of me, what does ir expect of our courts and what does it ex- meet of this board?" His own an- swef was exemplary: T think the law ought to be administered as fairly as possible :. try to treat all alike. I don't care whether they're poor and friendless or whe- ther they're rich and with plenty of friends" For the suspicion re- mains that is petition might not have been presented had Mrs Per kins not fitted the latter classifi- cation, that the majority of cases parallel in fact but not in condition never reach the Board of Pardons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Depression Troops

Canada has something corresponding to the working crops that our government IS forming for reforestation and reconstruction work Like our corps. it IS meant primarily for unemployment relief. taking some or the surplus labor from the cities and using it in public service. But some of the terms and conditions. while apparently sanctioned eheerfully by the people of Canada, would be criticised in this country.
 Depression soldiers is what those Ca nadan workers are called. They are organ zed as semi military body and are util- zed in building airports and repairing mil itary works. Their pay IS 20 cents day. In comparison with this, our dollar day looks munificent. So far there are only 2,5OO of these Dominion labor troops. l per cent of the number we expect to have. But there will doubtless be more. The de- pression hit Canada later than us. and has farther to go yet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05

sumc that the parking fee is way out of this difficulty.
 However, it looks to us like poor pol icy for the state to create parks and forests for the people of this state and then to charge them admission to go into them. The parking fee for automobiles may be superseded in time by an actual admission fee for every person who enters the state property, for it is safe to assume that where it is possible good many people will not park on state land but leave their cars on the public highways or private land where there is nobody to order their removal for trespassing.
 We are encouraging our people to make more use of the areas that are being set aside for them We have of recent years been trying to establish series of sea- shore parks Attendance at them has been phenomenal It, is reasonable to believe that even the small charge of 25 cents will deter numbr from thronging to them in the future We may be wrong, but we eer- tanly think that it was an error in tactics for the state park and forest board to ask for the right to charge admission to parks, even if it is only a parking fee. Time will either prove or disprove this theory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
So They Say


 Experience has shown how diffi- cult it is to direct discussion at in- ternational conferences into practi- cal channels of definite accord. James A. Farrell, chairman Of
 The National Foreign Trade
 Council.
 A real hair cutter is an artist. He doesn't merely cut hair. he sculptures the head. A. N. Naso. president Ohio Hair
 dressers Association.
 When a man is hungry he sel- dom evinces much interest in. Q beautiful woman.
 Cecil DeMille. movie director. My individual view is that the American public should suffer in- calculabic injuries in other respects before the freedom of the press should be injuriously affected to any material extent whatever. Secretary of Stnte Cordeil Hull.
 
 Unfortunately, depresslons have to run their course liko. everything else.
 -iiichard Whitney. president New York Stock Exchange.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Japan Has Another Chance

Practically. Japan is out of the League of Nations. The chairs occupied by Japa- nese representatives there during sessions of the Assembly or Council are vacant now. Japanese delegates gave notice of their with drawal and departed In theory. Japan IS still in the League. The covenant pro- vides that no signatory power may just walk out on the others. Its resignation at any time constitutes merely a notice of in- tention to withdraw two years later.
 The advantages of this provision are numerous. It gives a country chance to change its mind and return to the fold easily at any time within the two-year period. It allows time for reconsideration of the events leading up to the resignation. In this in stance no one is competent to prophecy the outcome. But anyone may hope that within the next "A months Japan will have repented of its extreme natlonalism and misguided militarism and will want to play a more constructive part in world affairs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
Harried The Spanish Main
BY BRUCE CAPTION

BY BRUCE CAIION
 Sir Henry Morgan was a rough, tough Englishman, and he harried the Spanish main like a destroying angel. He attained responsibility, in the end, and lived to be touchy about his reputation; but aside from that he was a very fair sam pie of the successful seventeenth century pirate leader, and his bi- ography, sir Henry Morgan" by w. Adolphe Roberts, makes excit- ing reading. Morgan went out to Jamaica when the colony was young and soon made himself a leader of the buccaneers. He was free-lance, for a time, but later he sailed as a recognized British sea captain-al- though his most famous exploit the sacking of Panama, took place after England and Spain had signed treaty of peace, and Mor- gan seems to have known it at the time.
 Sea fights had small part in
 his program. He was raider, in- stead, bringing landing parties ashore to storm Qualifications and pillage cities. He was a wild rois- teTST, all lHlpctuOuS HE utcts C. OAS of a strategist at times and cruel cutthroat when occasion demanded. Bloody massacres, torturings and uncontrolled debaucheries get plenty of space in his life story.
 The latter part of the book drags a bit-chiefly, one suspects, be- cause the latter part of Morgan's life also dragged. He was knight NI F. h4 0f maica, he sued a London pub fisher for libeling him and won his case-imagine a pirate suing for libel!-and, all in all, things got pretty dull for him. There was nothing left but to drink himself to death, which he proceeded to do with whole-hearted fervor.
 Published by Covici-Friede. this hook SaliS for S3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05

While many New York citizens are re- gretting the fact that Joseph V. Mckee. president of the Board of Aldermen. has retired from politics there are others who are praising him for his fortnight stand. He served New York ably as its chief ex- eeutive for short space of time. In fact his administration was hailed by both re- publieans and democrats as an honest en- deavor to separate the rule of the city from machine politics These efforts aren't al- ways appreciated, though. in political cir cles. As result Mckee was not well liked by Tammany Hall. Despite its ban we think he might have had himself elected mayor this fall had he so desired That he wants to rid himself of the many influences that are brought to bear on New York $ political leaders is seen in, his latest action. More power to Mckee and may his tribe increase.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
SOUND JUSTICE
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(New Haven Journal-Courier)
 On Monday evening the state board of pardons met to consider the petition of Mrs Helen H. Per- kins of Hartford, sentenced early this year to serve one to two years in the state prison for women on charges resulting from a fatal au- tomobile accident last October. The original sentence was eminent ly just. Mrs Perkins was driving without her license; the unfortu- nate victim was struck when leav- ing a street car; Mrs Perkins re- fused to stop and, despite damage to her car, hurried immediately home.
 The decision of the Board of Pardons met to consider the peti- tion of Mrs Helen H. Perkins of Hartford, sentenced early this year to serve one to two years in the State Prison for Women on charges resulting from a fatal automobile accident last october. The orinigal sentence was eminently just. Mrs Perkins was driving without her H. cense; the unfortunate victim was struck when leaving street car: Mrs Perkins refused to stop and, despite the damage to her car. hur- ried immediately home.
 The decision of the Board of Pardons to deny leniency was also eminently just. The facts as orig inally esta blished were not chal-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Our Daily Washington Letter Mir Herriots English = Mrs Roosevelt Objects to
 Public Kissing
Public Kissing
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

Washington NJ. Edouard
 Herriot of France either per
 formed the surprising intellectual
 feat of learning the English lan-
 guage overnight or else all of us
 were being kidded.
 The eX-premier came here and operated through interpreters. President Roosevelt talked to him in French. Everyone was given to understand that ,Herriot and our language were unacqualnted. (Someone asked him what he thought of Roosevelt's French and he shrugged with what seemed to be the French exclamatory equiv- alent of "Huh;".)
 Then it began to be noticed that M. Herriot was paying, close atten- tion to all utterances in English before they were translated to him by the interpreter. Usually he seemed to have the answers ready before the interpreter finished. Spoke in English
 The climax to local suspicious came as the visiting statesman stood on his trains observation platform the day he left, to deliver | a farewell message of love and af- lection to everybody, with Ambas- sador Laboulaye translating. The ambassador was saying "steps toward" when he faltered. Restoration" broke in M. Her. riot. And a moment later he chimed in, using perfect English, on the translation of his last few words. Then he grinned at the reporters and they grinned back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
COMMON LAW MARRIAGE
(Sew York sun)

The common law marriage was
 one of Americas inheritances from
 England. True, parliament apoi-
 ished it in 1753, but that act dlo not carry beyond the seas. There- fore the informal marriage was
 legal in this country except where
 a colony forbade it by statute. In
 1909 Chief Judge Kent of the New York supreme court accepted common law marriage as binding. A year later the high court Of Massac chusetts ruled the other way. In 1927 the New York legislature
 tablished by statute the right of persons to marry by oral agree ment, and for more than seventy years this rule was not disturbed. In 1901 1t was removed by amend kment of the domestic relations act.
 Six years later. In again amending this act, the legislature repealed, perhaps inadvertently. the provi- sion against common law mar rlages. although the change was not generally known until 1917. when the court of appeals. up- holding q common law widows suit for compensation. revealed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Substitution Of Prank For
 "Hot Dog" Is Blocked
Winsted, Conn May4.

WlnSted, conn May4. Editor Waterbury Democrat:
 The movement to eliminate "hot dog signs from the highways in Connecticut and New England by substituting the word frank short for frankfurter-is travelling a rocky road just now. It is quite possible the matter may have to bk fought out in the United States supreme court.
 The executive secretary of the Litchfield Hills Feredation has been formally requested by large Mill waukee meat firm; Frank & Co.,, not to use the term frank" as the claim is made that the name is protected by numerous copy rights and 'in order to avoid a gross Misrepresentation" it is sug- gested that a change be made from frank" to "frankfurterS or "frankforts.''
 Able counsel has been consulted and it is the opinion of those question might as well be fought out to finish onetime as an- other and preparations are being made to fight the opposition and if necessary raise a fund to carry the matter to the United States supreme court.
 A letter has been addressed to the Milwaukee firm asking them to state exactly what their copy rights cover and to produce fur ther evidence to back their claims.
 Meantime a large packing com pany in Albany. N. Y. in a letter to the executive secretary of the federation sends its approval of the movement to "clean up the countryside" The writer says, i've cent" adding in another paragraph We want to thank you for your cooperation in the elimination of this misleading, degrading, and un- appetizing term"
 For over eight years this firm has made it's customers execute written contracts prohibiting them from placing signs on which the words "hot dog" appear on or near the establishment where their pro- ducts are advertised or displayed. The contract states the term "hot dog" Is a detriment to every con- cessioner, retailer, and manufac- turer of sausage and advises the proprietor to refrain from using 1t verbally" and to instruct his employees accordingly.
 l. E. MANCHESTER,
 Executive secretary
 Litchncld Hills Federation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
AS TO THAT "sOP"
(Hartford Times)

Men who want to be iurymen are precisely the kind of jurymcn which Connecticut has been desir- ous of getting off of the panels. The men who like to be called to ihc jury like to please the prosecutors, They form tlp, basis Of what is called the professional jury. They are not all inferior jurymen by any means but they are not as likely to be impartial or to be keen IS are the men who have no wish to be- come welded to jury chairs.
 In voting to permit women to become "jurynen" when they no- tify the prope.' authorities of their desire. the Connecticut senate has adopted suggestion which is per- haps preferable to that of imposing jury duty on women whether they want it or not. And if the house shall agree with the senate in the matter 1t will not wreck the com monwealth. But why draw to jury duty people of either sex whose chief animus in serving is self qualification? It would seem as though the principle of the law would aim at a different result when it can.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Why Isn't It Needed?

We can't quite see the claims of those legislators who claim that Connecticut doesn't need to redistrict. They maintain that representation in Congress is now on proportionate basis. Evidently they are not aware of the shifts of population in this state If they care to glance at the annual Registrar and Manual they will quickly see that there IS noticeable difference Tn the size of the five districts into which this state is now divided. One reason why we redistrict IS to correct just such changes m population centers.
 If it wasn't necessary for Connecticut to redistrict itself it certainly wasn't necessary to reapporton eongressmen in the entire nation. Yet that is now compulsory every ten years whether or not Congress takes the initiative in doing this. Certainly it is just as proper for the state to redstrlct It. self as it IS for the nation as a whole to shift the number of representatives to which one or more states may be entitled. We claim that whenever redistricting IS called for it should be followed up by the states where so ordained.
 Majority Leader Raymond A. Baldwin of Stratford remarked in the House Thurs day that he would like to see all the state s representatives elected at large. Certainly we would prefer to have the six of them lected in this fashion than to have only one elected that way and the remaining five represent definite district. It is apparent that no state can properly redistrict itself unless either political party is dominant in both branches of the legislature. And even then we don't doubt but what the squab- bling over the new alignments of the dis fricts would be hotly contested by party factions. Still it is as necessary in our opinion as making each senatorial distrie, as alike. as far as possible. in population strength.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05

We'll, the republican organization of Connecticut can now proceed with its plans for finding job for Harry A. Mackenzie, boss of Fairfield county. He lost his fed eral job "Wednesday. At the same time Labor Commissioner Joe Tone was given Mackenzie's job as federal director of em- ployment for Connecticut. However. there is one slight difference. Mir Tone will draw salary of $l per year. whereas in Mir Maekenzie's tenure of office his pay was $3.20O annually. plus expenses, Originally the Labor Department at Washington planned to abolish all the federal labor jobs that were created in the last part of the Hoover regime. but a good many of them
 will be turned over 10 democratic officials 10 carry on gratuitously. It is an odd CO., incidence that ''Joc" Tone has now sut- eeeded Harry Mackenzie in two jobs On July |. I93l. he took over the state labor position. Now he gets the additional fed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05

Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, tn, spontaneous First Lady, won't be found kissing other women = or
 babies, either for the camera. She kissed Ishbel Mcdonald the British premier's daughter
 goodby at the railroad station and then observed that a photographer
 had recorded the incident. She
 asked him if he wouldn't please
 destroy the plate and he did.
 Informality Rules
 Most press conferences in the
 new administration continue to be
 pleasantly informal .. Here's
 the way I'd put it if were writ
 ing the story =" MT Roosevelt off,
 ten says when asked to elucidate a
 matter on which he doesn't want
 to issue statement.
 One rule of the White House conferences is that you can't leave the executive office until the. ses-
 sion is over, no matter how enorm- ous the import of whatever the president may announce at the out set or how strong ones desire to flash the news to the world at once.
 "You can edge toward the door" Roosevelt explained, but you
 mustn't go through it." s
 Plot Against BlantOn The most awful thing that ever happened to Congressman Tom Blanton of Texas was on the re- cent occasion when wet speech by Roland of PennSylyania was
 accredited to Blanton in the Con- gressional Record. The Texan soon began to hear from shocked subscribers.
 So he spent half an hour of the house time getting the blunder strengthened out and accusing cer-
 tain employees of the government printing office of a fiendish plot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
Fred S. Eaton, New Ravens city fol

Fred S. Eaton, New Haven's city for ester, is nothing if not resourceful. Ap- propriations for his department are not plentiful in these days. Therefore Mir Eaton is using all the means at his com mand to further his work. For example, he needs hardware and wire cloth. He ad- vcrtised this fact and said that in exchange for some he could offer shade trees He also has supply of mature trees that will be traded for small stock and seedlings This should be good offer for landscape gard ners or nurserymen. We don't doubt but what his bartering will meet with plenty of success.