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The Washington times., 1933-03-22
z MOVES OFFER
HINT Of WHAT
i. IS To COME
New Set-Up Ordered for Farm
Agencies; Doak Machine
Already Scrapped

Reorganization policies of the
new administration, from present
indications, will bring about i'm
portant reversals Of methods in
troduced by the Hoover regime.
This was indicated today with
important announcements from
the Department of Labor and the
Department of Agriculture, whose
plans are rapidly emerging into
clarity.
Combination of the Federal
farm loan agencies under one d1'
rection, that of the Federal Farm
Board, of which Henry Morgen-
thau, jr., is the new chairman,
has been promptly followed by
the announcement that the enoT-
mously expensive Cotton and
Grain Sterilization Corporations
are being knocked in the head.
Doak Organization Doomed
Frances Perkins, Secretary OF
Labor, already has made it clear
that almost her first aim will be
to restore the department to ltS
function Of a Labor Department.
rather than an overgroWn 1mml-
grafton Bureau.
During the regime of William
Nuckles Doak, the immigration
bureau, which has been tradition
ally at odds with the rest OF the
department over a good part OF
the departments history, spread
out to a pre-eminence that oWarted
the functions of the Cancellation
Service, the Women's Bureau, the
Children's Bureau and the other
departmental adjuncts.
Then the institution of an ex-
banded federal employment service
was brought about, but not in
accordance with the plans OF
Senator Wagner CD of New
York, who had originally urged
such an expansion.
Program Discarded
His program was thrown into
the discard, and Secretary Doak
established service which from
the first was criticized as ineffec-
tive. Moreover, many critics felt
that political considerations had
BEEN given too much weight in its
personnel.
Miss Perkins has long advocated
a national employment organiza-
tion capable of fitting men to
jobs on a scale covering the
entire country. Such an organiza-
tion existed in the department
during the war.
Apparently, too, she feels that
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
was too much swayed by politics,
after the dismissal OF Ethelbert
Stewart as commissioner, for she
has announced that henceforth
no employment statistics will be
"doctored" for any purpose.
Hint Future Policies
Qualification of reorganization
plans in these two departments
may perhaps offer some hints as
to policies elsewhere.
At present, much interest Gen.
ters on the Department of Com
merce, which was President
Hoover's pride and in part his
own creation. What has already
happened there, plus the later
developments elsewhere, seem to
point to the probability that ac-
tivities that cannot definitely be
shown to accrue to the welfare of
the American people are likely to
be eliminated in short order.
The Washington times., 1933-03-22
High School Holds
Exhibit Tomorrow

The fourth annual exhibit and
display of the industrial arts de-
partments of Armstrong High
School will be held tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock. All shops will
be open with classes in full opera
ton. Masonry, ornamental con-
crete building, cabinet work and
mouse construction will be ex.
hibited.
There also will be battery work
mouse wiring, generator and motor
testing in the applied electricity
classes, automobile painting, shoe
repairing. print shop work and
millinery classes.
The Washington times., 1933-03-22
500 Fee for Buses
Demanded In Bill

A bill to require owners of
busses with a capacity of eight
or more passengers to pay a
District license of $100 for each
vehicle was introduced yesterday
by Representative Gibson, of Yer
mont. The measure was referred
to the House District Committee.
The Washington times., 1933-03-22
Virginia Season
For Trout Is Near

The Virginia trout season will
open in April. The State Game
and Fish Commission has stocked
several streams in the northern
Virginia counties with adult rain
bow and brook trout.
A list of streams which have
been stocked will be available
next week from w. Harry John
son, Alexandria and Arlington
county game warden. 1T Lawton
Ave-, Clarendon.
The Washington times., 1933-03-22
rADIES AID DINNER

A benefit dinner will be held
tomorrow evening in st. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church, Ken
Sington, by the Ladies Aid So
ciety,
The Washington times., 1933-03-22

The best thing to do Is to tOr-
get the incident"
The Dtamondback editoria
said:
"That the spectacle of an
outstanding member of the fac.
ulty planting himself before a
rOOmfuI of freshmen and losing
his temper so completely is
scarcely one which will reflect
credit upon the professor or
upon the faculty as group"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

securities? We passed a law clamping down on advertising of this nature and as a result not only have announcements of the fake oil and gold mine stocks been kept out of the columns of our newspap- CTS and periodicals, but also, according to a prominent investment banking firm, $6O0,000,00O in marketable issues has been lying dormant in brokerage offices, banks, etc, through fear of the buying public. An evil may have been corrected here, but in so doing a harm to a reput- able business has resulted.
 We'll agree with certain statements of Rexford G. Tugwell, assistant secretary of agriculture, that Frankly, modern ad- vertising of foods, drugs, and cosmetics does not always merit public confidence y, but in the instances that it does we are now going to look away. Newspap- CT editors can't check up on the scientific truth of their advertisers. It takes the government months even to do this. But in the main he accepts, and reputable ad vertising agencies offer only what they deem suitable for the reading public. We believe the food and drug act is abused, but we do not believe that killing off all who come under it's provisions is the prop CT procedure to end these abuses
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
Know Your Waterbury Its History, Facts and General Information
HISTORY.

Town Plot it was, and Town Plot it still is; but the young Farming ton men who returned from King Philips Indian War did not covet the hilly Town Plot section so ask ed that the town site be removed to the meadow lands which took in that locality now covered by Waterbury's "center." What was and is still known as the Green" soon came into existence and set tiers were soon busy putting up house sites of that location.
 Dwelling houses of 1874 were re- quired to pe eighteen feet long and sixteen feet wide. Soon the thirty one original plantation settlers of Mattatuck had thirty-one lots some on the south side of the Green, some on Bank street, and some on Willow street. Same sites were largely determined by the several streams that coursed through these original acres this more or less set- tied the water supply question. Mad river, then called Roaring river, was used as a mill site; Great Brook and Little Brook pass ed through tho house sites of the Bank and North Main St location. Streams from the east of the present Central avenue and from the west crossed West Main street near the site of the present. St Johns church, eventually finding their way to the Great river which was not called Naugatuck until comparatively modern days. known while the town was plantation as the Mattatuck river, and some- times referred to later as the Wa terbury river. The prevalence of water was accountable for the name "Watterbury."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
Canny Farmers

Farmers are always on their guard against city folk. Yet it is shrewd city man who gets ahead of farmer. Uncle Sam himself is no match for rurual citi- zens. Take this pig venture that Uncle has just been engaged in, for the farmers benefit. Uncle seeking to curtail over- production of pork and raise producers prices, offered to buy from the farmers, at good price, 5,000000 little pigs and 100000 prospective mother pigs. The whole idea was to cut down next years pig population. And what did the farmers do? They brought in and sold to Uncle 6,000000 little pigs and only 100000 sows. The other 800,000 they kept to restore the millions eliminated this year.
 Similar procedure is followed, in one way or another in connection with other public efforts to curtail farm surplus. When Friend Farmer is paid by the gov ernment to remove acreage from wheat or cotton culture, he just naturally tends to cultivate the remaining wheat or cotton acres more intensively, meanwhile raising other crops on the sequestered acres and threatening new surplus in other lines.
 It is problem in human nature. So is every economic problem City people in the country would do as the farmers do. For economic reforms people have to be changed, until they see their individual and local welfare as bound up with the welfare of their whole class and the whole national community. It can be done, and is being done-but very slowly, in spite of the present compulsion of all classes to- ward social-mindedness
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

Washington, Nov. 27 The most significant development of the New Deal is the increased concentration of government functions in the hands of the president.
 Franklin Roosevelt is rapidly supplanting his own cabinet. He has always been his own sec- rotary of state, and-because he has a weak spot for the depart mcnt of his youth--alsO his own secretary of the navy. Now he has added the treasury depart ment. In addition to this he studies and signs every MIRA code-and some of them are cx- tremely technical - does the same thing for the AAA, and keeps his finger on public works.
 No president in years has taken over so much detailed work usually relegated to cab inet members. Roosevelt even goes over the White House budget personally, a thing which in the past has been left to the ulIcClOE Ol tllo puu6Cb anu White House secretaries. FINE IF IT WORKS
 The result has been cen- tralization of administration which works beautifully up to a point, but bogS down badly when the pivot man is overload ed.
 The latter is happening now. Cabinet members literally have to fight to get fifteen minutes alone with the president. Even Little LOuey Howe, his lifelong confidant, spends days without seeing him. Professor Sprague had not been able to see ROOse- London conference in July to the day he resigned in Novem- bcr. Secretary Ickcs called up just before Roosevelt left for Warm Springs and asked for five minutes in orGer To get some important papers signed. Marvin MacIntyre, RoOseVelt's appoint- mcnt secretary, threw up his hands.
 Absolutely impossible" he said. Every minute is taken for the entire day"
 The result also is that when the president leaves town, inn portant government accomplish ment slows down almost to the stopping point.
 DISOWNED
 There have been times when
 
 smiled proudly when friends re- called that he had taught Roose- welt But just after his resigna- tion, Sprague was asked:
 Wasn't President Roosevelt a student in one of your classes at Harvard?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
The Penalty's Too Great

There is a vast mass of legislation now awaiting the disposal of Congress which seeks to strengthen the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and later amendments. There is much to be said in favor of some of the proposed measures, but passage of others would ruin an industry that gives employment to thousands and which con- tributes heavily to the upkeep of our daily newspapers. For this one reason, perhaps, many people would like to have Congress pass the measures. However, it Is the thing that shouldn't happen.
 Everybody recognizes the Tact that our drug and food laws need to be brought up to date. The existence of drug and beauty racket in the states is no news at this late date. But the existence of bona- fide manufacturers of drugs and foods to be used for self-medication is also fact. What the proponents of the revised drug and food laws are trying to do is penaliZe an entire industry for it's interruptions members. This seems bit harsh, particu- larly in these trying days.
 We did the same thing back in 1919 when we passed the 18th amendment. It was supposed to end the reign of intoxi- eating liquors in our midst. It did just the opposite. It created an appetite for alco- holic beverages. Today we are getting rid of this federal mandate and trusting to state laws to keep people within the bounds of sobriety. We are inclined to think that somewhat the same situation may exist if anything as stern and un- yielding as the Tugwell Bill is ever passed by Congress. And right now it's chances of passing seem bright.
 There have been examples of fraudu- lent advertising in every field. How about
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
So They Say

Like war, expeditions are won by preparation.
 Admiral Richard F. Byrd.
  When you're up in the movies, you're way up: and then. zoom! You go down twice as fast. Repeal will be a great help to the cause of music.
 George Gershwin, American
 composer.
  Strike me lavender if I've ever seen such winners us these Holly wood gels. Dear old London was never like this.
 --Lionel. Lord Tennyson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CAPTION
Benedict Arnold's Time Of Greatness

Some day the reading public will wake up to the fact that Kenneth Roberts is writing American his torical novels that are as fine as any in existence. It seems to me safe bet that people will be read ing Arundel and "The Lively Lady" a great many years from now.
 And now MT Roberts has added third, "Rabble in Arms" which is well up to his high standard.
 Arundel told about Montgom- cry and Arnold's gallant expedition to Quebec in the early part of the Revolutionary War. ''Rabble in Arms takes up the story and tells how Burgoyne was checkmated in his bold stroke down the Cham plain valley to the heart of Amer ica.
 It brings in such familiar char acters from Arundel" as Steve Mason and Cap Huff, and it spins romantic story about one Peter Merrill, a young state of Maine shipmaster who becomes>a scout for the Continental army. But mostly it is the story of Benedict Arnold-the Arnold who was America's best soldier, 8 Raming genius who could make even un- tained militia fight for him and who unquestionably saved the country he later tried to sell.
 MT Roberts shows just how Ar mold was driven to dishonor; how Jealousy and suspicion dogged him at every moment; how incompetent officers pestered and bounded him; how congress nagged and tor mented him. Later on. Arnold be- came infamous; in the Saratoga campaign he was matchles, superb. And MT Roberts also brings. the ragged Continentals to life. They are not picture-book heroes in this book: they are tired, ragged. sick, and discouraged men--one in four had smallpox, on that retreat from Canada-who managed. by virtue of a miracle and Benedict Arnold. | to save a country in which they almost had lost their faith. This really is a splendid book. What matter if it runs to more than $50 pages, or if it's romantic love story creaks a trihe? It Is interesting on every page. q mag niflcent picture on a great glowing canvas.
 Published by Doubleday. Doran G Go. it is priced at $2.b0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

Collector of Internal Revenue Edward G. Dolan of Manchester has gone Presi- dent Roosevelt one better in his choice of terms. Some time ago the President talked about "chiselers" and his use of this favorite expression of the day evoked considerable comment, until it was shown to have been used correctly and in good taste. Dr Dolan refers to republican crit ics of the MIRA and the Roosevelt admin istration as "chislers and hatchet men," Speaking of them he said recently, "They don't dare come out in the open because of fear of public ridicule." There's lot in that, but it was to be expected. There is a congressional election next year and if the republicans are to make any sort of headway towards regaining their pres tige in the national fight in 1886 they must start now. All attacks from now on are to be expected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

Q. In what general classitica- ton are mineral oils? l..
 A. They form a class somewhat by themselves, and include petro- leum and oils distilled from peat. shale, etc. They are generally thought to have been formed by the decomposition of animal and vegetable remains, although petro- leum is regarded by certain writers as of purely mineral origin.
 Q. What is the difference be- tween incendiarism and arson?
 A. Both refer to the malicious burning of buildings.
 o. Is chloroform infiammable?
 A. No.
 0. Give the source of the quo- tation "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
 A. Proverbs 23:7.
 Q. Was Isadora Duncan q negress?
 A. No.
 o. Was George Washington on a horse when he crossed the Dela- ware?
 A. No.
 Q. Was Chancellor Hitler born in Germany?
 A. He was born in Austria and is a naturalized German citizen.
 0. When did France acquire Alsace-Lorraine?
 A. France won the provinces from the Germans by war in 164S and held them for about two hun dred years. Germany regained them as the result of the Franco Prussian War in 1871. Under the treaty of Versailles, June 28. 1919. they were returned to France.
 c. What role did Mae West play in the motion picture Might After Night?"
 A. Maudie Triplett.
 o. Was there silent motion picture titled "Rasputinf"
 A. It was called "Rasputin, The Black Monk" and was released in the U. S. in 1917 by Peerless-Wo Pictures.
 c. What school uses the initials V. P. l.?
 A. Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute, at Blacksburg, Va.
 c. How many distilleries were In operation in the United States in 1918?
 A. Two hundred and thirty-six.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

While many are unaware of it, Con- necticut's oyster beds constitute one of the states main industries. Shell fishing in our waters has been raised to a high point of recent years. So much so that oyster growers are among the best or- ganized fishing industry in the state. Naturally such work centers along the Sound. Recent activities of the federal government in widening and deepening the New Haven channel has resulted in heavy losses to oyster growers. It is esti- mated that government dredges have covered up with sand 2,000 bushels of seed oysters This is merely a rough estimate. Probably if an extensive survey was made it would reveal that more beds were cov- cred Such an announcement calls for action, we think. The State Shell Fish Commission has already communicated with the U. s. Army Engineer at Provi- dence under whose jurisdiction the chan nel work falls. We trust that there will be some attempt made to prevent any further injury to the oyster beds in and around New Haven. We don't presume that those already covered can be saved. But certainly further damage can be prevented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

Chief Chewchki, the Indian wrestler, is nothing if not versed in the gentle art of giving his opponent the worst of the bout. The Chief, who has been somewhat of sensation in the Middle West, recently ap- peared in the ring with patented pair of tights. This wasn't discovered until the bout had progressed to the third and de- ciding fall. Then it was found that the willy redskin had placed in his trunks piece of sandpaper studded with tacks. Was his face red?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

| @. Where is the Bank or France? G
 A. Paris, France. Q. What Is the title of Zane Grey's latest book? & | A. Drift Fence."
 Q. Are Tigers native, to Africa?
 A. No.
 Q. What is the derivation of the adjective Luke? ,s3
 A. The middle English word Leuke meaning tepid.
 o. Give the number, of hotels in the United States; the aggregate capital investment and annual revenues.
 A. Approximately 25.000S hotels having an aggregate capital invest ment of approximately $6,0OO,0OO,- 900, and annual gross revenues of $1,315, 1000, ,00O. y
 c. Is J. P. Morgan a Jew?
 A. No. .....,
 If you want a copy of our bul- lctin on Cryptograms, write to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, enclosing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

There's certain element of humor in Chicago, which is fighting the govern ment's recovery program harder than any other city in the United States, sending a delegation of civic leaders to Washington to do their part" by taking all the relief money they can get.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
DAILYWASHINGTON .MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN
ITS of ashIngtOn and ~Alore Merry-Go-

President Increasingly TGes Over the Functions of His Cabinet System Worbs a0itk F. D. R. on AU Jobs But Fops When He's Aaocy; Litvinoff SGiled With Every thing He Vented LeuGing Us Promises; Main Issues of Debts aud Claims Against Soviets Never Settled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
Questions And Answers
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27
BRASS CITY FACTS.

The Plume and Atwood Manu- featuring Company was organized January 1, 1869 as Holmes, Booth & Atwood November 2S, 1870 changed to The Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Company; January l, 1880, was incorporated. Company started with line of oil lamp burners, heel plates, clock bells. and sleigh bells later added fancy oil lamps, common pins. brass hinges and hardware specialities: in 1906 added lighting fixtures and fixture parts. .,&
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

The Cuban government arrests a pub fisher for printing flake news" If there's going to be any of that kind of news pulp lished, it has to be official.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 4:56 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

In 17S3 the only wheeled ve-
 hicle in Waterbury was 0 two-
 wheeled carriage without a top owned by Ezra Bronson. In 1925 Dr Frederick Leavenworth bought four-wheeled carthage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

The Sc ond Congregational church was blown down on the night of January 1S, 1857.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

The first and original plant of the present Chase Companies, Inc. was the Waterbury Manufacturing Company, founded in 1887. It was called Hitchcock's later known as the United States Button Company; in 1876 1t was incorporated as the Waterbury Manufacturing Com pany, and in 1882 employed 37 men as compared with several thou sands today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

When Lincoln called for more men in 1862, Connecticut was the first state to respond, Waterbury ending POT; the total enlistment from here was 942.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

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