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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

through the Stock Exchange and imposed on the public through what we used to call. ap- propriately. ''watered stock" and now quaintly call "equities'.
 The first big example, which remains the classic case. is that of the United States Steel Corporation. It was organized with capitalization of $l,32l, 752,5C0; of which S303, ,450,000 represented bonds, $510.000 900. preferred stock and $508,302,000 common stock. The bonds and preferred stock covered the properties taken by it at a liberal valuation. The common stock was water or air. It was given to the bankers and various organizers as bonus. Not one nickel from these shares went into the corporation. The recipients proceeded to realize on their paper millions. Here is where the Stock Exchange comes in. Dis tribution of such fiat stocks was, and is, made through its machinery. Through it, such stock bonuses are fed to the public.
 The actual capital of the Steel Corpora ton was about $800000000. The public through steel prices. and labor through steel wages, during the next 30 years paid on this actual capital, as shown by the interest dividends and surplus figures, $3,l72,427,- 900. which was liberal but might be re- garded as fairly earned. Consumers and workers also paid the original value of the fiat common stock. $508,302,000, which the corporation wrote off out of earnings. And far more than that. For the common stockholders got, out of their printed hope certificates, $l.o78,123,000.
 This statement is presented with no ani- mus against the steel trust. and no insinua- ton against present holders of common stock in any company. It is simply neees- sary to point out that this process, followed generally. virtually levies on the nation tax of billions year to support investments which do not represent working capital. These billions are not financing industry. They are tribute paid to vast body of ar- tificial, unproductive debt created by the "debt Machine" To the owners of such stock, it is capital. To all others it is a continuing and growing burden, threatening the eapitalistic system. One of the things most needed today is to get all corporate business down to sound, honest invest ment basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
Cost of Living

The American housewife. according to AAA figures from Washington, is paying 20 per cent more for her groceries now than she did last winter. Any advance in the retail price of food is naturally grievous to the city housewife. even though, as the AAA administrator observes, it means 50 per cent increase for the farmers. Just the same, newspaper caption which says, Only 80 Cents Worth of Food for $l.00 Now" isn't fair. As matter of fact. every body is still getting a great deal more than 80 cents worth of food for dollar, when you consider averages and normal values
 What is the average purchasing value of the dollar3 The very dependable National Industrial Conference Board assumes, for this purpose. the value of the 1923 dollar. If the dollar was worth 100 cents in that year. the board reports its purchasing value last August was l30 cents. And in view of the recent slowing down of recovery and prices. it isn't likely that the cost of living today is much higher than it was in August. To be sure. any price is high when you're hard up. Nevertheless it isn't right to complain of high prices when prices are just little higher than they were at the bottom of the depression. Food prices, the Industrial Conference Board finds were in August of this year. and possibly are now. one-third lower than in August of 1929.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
4 Book e Day by BRUCE CATION
It's Clean-Up Week For Tiffany Thayer

One of the most interesting minor news items in an autumn when history is being made seems to be the fact that Tiffany Thayer has given up Sex.
 oh, not entirely, of course. But his latest book, "One Woman" Is at least not an attempt to plumb the borders of the unprintable. Having convinced his public that he is conversant with all of the irrationalities and nbberations of the mating instinct, Mir Thrayer now proceeds to write a straightaway novel in which Sex is just a seasoning and not the main ingredient.
 Unfortunately, 1t must be re- corded that the book isn't a very good one. It IS over-long, full of contentious moralizing, here and there a bit dizzy. Halfway through, the reader has moments in which he wonders what 1t is all about. Those moments get moro frequent toward the end.
 The story has to do with sis. ter of sin in Chicago who is found QeuQ III CHSoP hosSh n Aes N boiled newspaper reporter under takes to find out who she was. His investigations lead him into strange places.
 As a study of the way in which odd trails cross one another in the jungle of 0 modern city, "one Woman" Is pretty effective. By tell ing the story of this perfectly or- dinary, party girl Mir Thayer gives us an Illuminating glimpse at the tangled, turbulent, sordid and com plex life that fills the metropolitan streets. Tn spots he does 1t very well indeed.
 But the story gets away from him. "One Woman" is good in spots and very dull in between. It's sympathy becomes sloppy sen- timent, its central character re- mains Q ghost, its outlines become fuzzy.
 The book is published by Nor row and sells for $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
Waterbury Never Bad Of

lSstSTo the well-earned tribute paid Mayor Frank Hayes for his decisive victory at the x polls last Tuesday by the Hartford Times x and reprinted in this paper last evening. the < Waterbury Democrat readily agrees with the Y one exception -- Waterbury to our way ot thinking was never so near state control as our esteemed contemporary was led to be- lieve. True. we had an expensive investga- ton by some Canadian auditors brought in here by charter commission, named by Governor Trumbull at the behest of the same element in our midst, which has been finding fault with Hayess administration ever since. The outcome, an eleven hundred page voluminous pamphlet. published, placed on the desk. then tossed into the waste basket of every legislator in Hartford, was the grand finale to this hundred thou sand dollar or more investigation.
 If that is to what the Hartford Times alludes, it was in the terms of the immortal bard of Avon, much ado about nothing. There did arise out of the reams of type written facts and figures accumulated the structural ground work for a new charter. which was bound sooner or later to have been adopted. Beyond this little or noth' ing startling or necessary to make Water bury snap out of it. was accomplished by the army of expert accountants unloaded upon thriving community. Waterburys name due to plenty of unfavorable press publicity similar to what the combination newspapers down here, the American Republican, have been giving it since. scarcely was enhanced around the state. But appar- ently we've lived it down.
 However. the Hartford Times. like WIT Rogers, only knows what it's editors read in the papers. and if from the papers mem ticned above it was enough to damn this city without hearing. Were the Hartford Times to delve into the underlying motives and original intentions, to say naught ot members sought of that famous charter commission. it would not have worried much over the possibility or even need of ''state control any time in Waterbury. But as someone or other once remarked, that waters gone over the dam, and even if we were not reduced to such low ebb as was evidently depicted. Mayor Frank Hayes. we'll agree too, has done wonderful job under the most trying times during the past four years His nine thousand majority was Waterbury's best and only way of letting him know it was gratefully appreciated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
Down Go the Buildings

At midnight, October 3l. crash will echo in Cheago's south side. It will be the first hammer knocking the props from un- der the greatest Worlds Fair, the Century of Progress Exposition. that has been held. According to present plans the fair build ings will go under the hammer and saw just as soon as the fair closes and October } is the closing date. All plans to open the fair again next spring have been discarded and wreeking plans will proceed as per plans now clearly outlined on a map in the office of Major Lenox R. Lohr. general manager of the fair.
 His map shows every building within the fair grounds. Those erected by the Gen. tury of Progress are marked with red. They come down immediately or as soon as all movable objects are gone In yellow are the structures erected by various concerns. To them falls the task of getting rid of what may be regarded as the bizarre in architee- ture but which without the glamour of worlds fair are nothing more than stone or steel piles. In blue are the concession build ings privately owned. It is presumed that these also will fall by the wayside.
 And thus one of the greatest displays that this little old world has witnessed will die after a few glorious months of baskng in the sunlight. A butterfys life was never more tragic than this. It has served its purpose well, though. Residents of the south side of Chicago will profit in one way. They will have after the buildings and debris are removed lakeside park that fiji. 1. al. growing there; thousands of shrubs are fourishing fine roads and paths are con- strueted bridges, wharves, and other per- manent improvements are left for the nearby, taxpayers. And if some of Chieago's plans now materialize few buildings will be left. not as reminders of the fair, but as a nucleus for super-playground for the city's waterfront. We could think of no cheap CT way of acquiring such worthwhile in- vestment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
Viezgs 0f The Press
THE CATTLE OF CIloNMEL
(New York Times)

John Browns body came a-near to being banged in Dublin the oth- CT day. There was an auction sale in Prussia street, the very name of which is an invitation to strong measures. The assistant registrar of the county of Waterford circuit court was trying to sell six cattle distrained on the land of Clonmel farmer for non-payment of taxes. In the circumstances and in view of the sympathies of the spectators, only @ boil man would dare to make an offer. John Brown had no sooner piped up "f14" than the crowd started after him. He hopped to Q. ladder in the hope to hide himself on the roof. Some of the pursuers were quicker. They nabbed him by the legs. He was in for @ bad beating, at least.
 The police arrived on the double- quick and in force. They found the crowd turner from wrath to laughA ter. Johns trousers had come off in the too eager hands of his eneE mics. The wrinkled front of war was smoothed. Johns lonely bid had been accepted, but the auc- tioneer put the cattle up again. Naturally there was no bid. The sale was off. A good-natured little comedy followed. The crowd chaired the farmer of Clonmel. that victim of distraint called for three cheers for the assistant reg istrar, ian old family friend who was only doing his duty" The cheers were given with a will. The audience scattered, dripping with the milk of human kindness.
 Later intelligence showed that John Brown was doing his duty, as he saw 1t. A Claremorris farmer. supported of MT De Valera's gov- ernmena, had bought the cattle to ship to SEngland. John Brown was his representative. It was held by the authorities that the second sale was invalid and John Browns bid was good. But the taint of distress was still 0 nthe cattle of Clonmel when they became the cattle of Ciaremorris. When they came to Dublin quay to be put aboard a steamship. lockers and drovers wouldn't touch them. The last we hear of the six unfortunates they are still waiting for passage. They are under the protection of the civic guards, whose cow-herding must have drawn sardonic com ment from Ioungers and gamins. Slight as this incident is. it rec calls the perennial charm of Dub- lin. . city highly civilized and capable of sayagcrys violent and Dleeabls. Eivsa tn greater part
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

And while on the subject of squirrels we can't overlook a recent item that caught our eye. It appeared in the Springfield Re- publican. It stated that the department of conservation in Massachusetts was releasing 23,000 pheasants and 5000 quail in all sec- tions of the state. That should be good news to the hunters up there. However, we suppose that the game will scatter SC quickly. SO many birds will be killed, etc that the usual complaints about no hunting can be expected. Game birds naturally drift towards protected areas, such as state parks, forests, private preserves etc. A good many people think that private hunting grounds should not be allowed for this reason. How ever. We must have some protection for the birds even though we do raise them for hunting purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
Berlin Letter

Berlin - (U.P.) - Speaking o1 uniforms :they are getting ever more numerous in Berlin streets Brown and black uniforms of the Nazi party differing in color and as to isignia in accordance whe- ther the wearer is @ stormtrooper, a picked stormtrooper, or 0 mem- Der of a factory organization; light-blue uniforms of the newly founded aviation association; dark blue uniforms of the police. Tc these are added scant sprinkling of the field-gray of the Reich swehr.
 By and large the party uniforms are snappier and at the same time more of one pattern than they were seven or eight months ago.
 Goering's Uniforms
 Premier Hermann Goering is entitled to wear all these above described uniforms. The brown and black uniforms of the party he is, of course, entitled to wear in his capacity as party leader; the light-blue aviators' uniform as Reich Minister of Aviation; the field-gray of the Reichswehr in accordance with his new rank as general of the army.
 Now he also may wear the uni form of a general of police - a rank which he himself created shortly after assming power in Prussia. The uniform is dark blue with green lapels and green stripes down the legs. In donning a police generals uniform, Premier Goering. so the official Prussian government news agency an- nounced. was complying with the entreaties of officers and men of the Prussian police force.
 Uniform Shops
 The sartorial trade is trying to make the mos fof the increased demand for uniforms. and as . consequence a large number of shops exclusively selling this new apparel have sprung up.
 It is. however, not always with otu danger to eater to this new uniform-oonsciousness of the Ger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
The Debt Machine

The government is reported as having set an advisory committee to work on leg
 islation by which it will try to curb violent price fluctuations on the New York Stock Exchange. This is important. but not so important. perhaps as some other evils centering in the Stock Exchange. One of them, though affected by the new federal law controlling the issuance and sale of se- eurities. has hardly dawned on present public consciousness. It is the common evil. which formed the heart of the vast stock speculation of 1928 and 1929. A bright light is shed on it by an article in Harpers Magazine for last July. written by cohn T. Flynn and entitled ''The Wall Street Debt Machine" It deals with ths vast capital debt created
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
Daily Washington Letter Every Time You Turn Around in the Capital You're
 Bound to Stumble On Code.

the National Bottled Gas associa- ton has been heard.
 Complaints arise that codes are hastily framed and imperfect. It is just as well to recall that the Lord took six days to make the world, and even He had to rest on the seventh. Surely we must bear with every human deputy administrator in making new industrial world against the stop- watch.
 Roosevelt Safeguarded
 Chief Moran of tho Secret Ser vice personally supervises the ar- engagements these days when Presi- dent Roosevelt enters or leaves the city. He is on the job In the flesh, personally inspecting every detail of tho protective cordon. Miami and the wild bullets of Zangara are not forgotten.
 Beer Is Not the Answer
 The return of beer has been e disappointment to hotel men, who were among the loudest criers for 1t as savior. At least so re- pOELSu w. Ss ksOPeE VI sAe <AshohNo Biltmore at the hotel code hearing. Too many licenses to small taverns and stands. the hotel men claimed. Now they look to repeal.
 "Come and Get tho Cash"
 Public Works Chief Ickes (he's also secretary of the interior, but nobody thinks of those old titles any more) is making desperate ef- forts to get the cities to drive up and haul away money for socially valuable public works. Pressure has been put on him to speed up.
 In an appeal to mayors to "come and get it," he conducted 0 stirring address with "A city can accept a 30 per cent grant without diminution of pride or self-respect, both of which would be impaired, If not destroyed, if 1t relied alto gether upon generosity of the fed- eral government" one Washington cynic grunted "Well, better to keep 70 per cent of your self-respect than Inone."
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
POISONOUS PLANT SPRAYS
Bridgeport Telegraph

In recent years we have had . great increase in the number and variety of insect pests attacking fruit trees and vegetable gardens and tho farmers have been fighting the attack with highly poisonous sprays including various compounds of lead adsenate and selenium.
 Lead arsenate which clings to the skins of fruits and vegetables Is a highly toxic source of lead poison- ing, which like other lead poison- ings, may increase in its toxic ef- fleets through long series of small doses. To eliminate this dan. ger the United States department of agriculture is seeking other sprays .and is now experimenting hopefully with Q substance called rotennone, compounded fro a plant extract. It is noxious to cold blooded creatures, including all in- sects, but harmless to warm blood ed creatures, either human beings or domestic animals.
 In the meantime various stand ards have been established as to the permissible amount of lead arsenate which may be left cling ing to the skins of apples and other fruits or vegetables. The best practice of all is to peel the fruits, which completely eliminates the danger. The second best pre- caution is thorough washing with soap and water.
 Selenium poisoning is even more difficult to deal with. Selenium on the surface may be removed by washing, but when the spray falls on the ground is penetrates the soil and may then be picked up by roots and absorbed into vege- tables and fruits. The danger from this source is not an imaginary one, as laboratory tests have shown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
EDITORS NOTE: This column is being conducted by Willis Thornton during Rodney Dutch- CTS vacation.
BY WILLIS THORNTON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent)

BY WILLIS THORNTON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent)
 Washington.-The codes for the big key industries were constructed in the spotlight, as befitted their vital importance to millions. The pulling and hauling, bluffing and calling, all were fully reported.
 Few realize, even here, the vast amount of labor, frenzied ar- gumont and protest, desperate in- sistence and driving, that goes into the making of the hundreds of codes in less vital industries No newspaper could report them fully. There are too many ot them; they come too fast; yet each is vital to It's own group.
 Talk Nothing but Codes
 On any of the fast trains into Washington from New York you will see groups of earnest men re- hearsing, in Q circle of brief cases the arguments with which they in- tend to overwhelm some deputy administrator on the morrow when their code is discussed. Smoking car conversation has changed from the off-color story to tho economic homily.
 Your correspondent was re- galed in the smoker on the Con- gressional Limited by an earnest industrialist, who spent half of the four hours of the New York Washington trip in marshaling his economic theories of what could be done and what couldn't in his industry.
 But when his hearing came in Washington the next morning, he was given five minutes to tell 1t all, told to stick to facts and never mind the oration, and finally presented with code that laid low every theory he so ex- travagantly had expounded on the train.
 Wide Varity of Hearings
 At one hotel Is being conducted the hearing on Q code proposed by the National Association of Manufacturers of Smoking Pipes and the American Association of Smoking Pipe Manufacturers. At another is scheduled the hearing of the Stationery, Tablet and School Paper Manufacturing association {. The Cast Iron Pressure Pipe h. dustry comes next. (That separates from the Pipe Nipple people.)
 Make way for the Novelty Cur tain, Drapery, Bedspread and Novelty Pillow Industry, which comes next, the Hair and Jute Felt folks, and the Viscose Ex- trusion Industry, all of whom must have their say as soon as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

If you want real applejaek prepare to have it about Christmas time. The first applejaek legally manufactured will be off, fered then by Laird 6 Co., which holds the first fruit distillers and bonded warehouse permit issued since the 18th amendment went into effect It is preparing now a million gallons of apple brandy for me dienal purposes" Owing to the fact that distilled applejaek requires less aging than most liquors of this type it can be aged in two months. And some people wifi tell you that even two days aging isn't neees- Sary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

man people. the publishers of a big fashion magazine found out to their dismay. They had as a cover of one of their recent issues a three-color print of a picked Nazi stormtrooper as companion of a beautiful lady smartly dressed in accordance with the latest autumn style.
 This cover caught the eye of Minister of Propaganda and Pub lie Enlightenment. He objected very strongly. pointing out that the display of a stormtrcoper's picture not only in the particular incident, but also In general was mot compatible with che sacred sternness and the traditional dig niyt of the uniform worn by tens of thousands of Easis."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
So They Say

One of the most important ele- ments of predatory crime is tho manner in which some members of the bar cooperate with tho underworld.-U. S. Attorney Gen. eral Cummings.
 Prohibition has ruined more people in this country than any other item.-Oscar of the Waldorf.
 
 Anyone with as much sense as two gray geese knows that throughout the length and breadth of this land there can be no moro delicious dish served up at q Thanksgiving or a Christmas din- ner than roast sucking pig Former U. S. Senator Atlee Pom creme.
 The German has a passion for his hierarchy and his uniforms.- Hermann W. Goering, German Aviation Minister.
 The fact that you are now lack ing in material work does not pre- vent you from doing spiritual.- Pope Plus xI.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

It's one thing to get golf ball off the tee and another to keep it straight. However, when Frank Paris drove from the l7th tee at the Topeka, Kansas, Country club, he landed his drive right in the tronser pocket of Frank Mover who was preparing to drive from the 18th. There were polite excuses and remarks made and Mir Paris tried his shot over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

Everybody is wondering what is driving the gray squirrels across Connecticut this fall. Game Wardens have noticed a steady migration westward of recent weeks and have been puzzled over this strange move- men,. The rodents sravel in groups of 100. say the wardens. That doesn't help the average person much in the way of expla-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

Not that we want to make any trouble but isn't that fellow at the Chicago Fair Oddtorium who draws three pictures at once breaking the artists eode3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

Drama, too, turns corner. Eugene O'Nell has written cheerful play.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5.58 tonight.