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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
Our Daily Washington Letter
Miss Perkins a New Joan
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
and the administration.
 Getting Together

Getting Together
 The big things the labor boys
 got together on were the proposals for huge public works bond issue and legislation on the principle of | a 30-hour week. President RooSe- velt's serious consideration of a $5,000,O00,000 public works pro- gram and the progress of the Black | 30-hour week bill in the senate show that these proposals are not ! visionary. Labor argues that the bond issue would be a sound na- tional investment, and offers fig- | ures to show that the federal pro- | ject would be sure to be doubled | by an automatic stimulation of pri- vate construction and rehabilita-
 tion. Union chiefs promised that
 millions of union funds would be invested in the bonds and that they would urge their purchase by
 members still employed.
 President Sidney Hillman of the
 Amalgamated Clothing Workers | perhaps best epitomized the thought of the conference when he pointed out that a bottom must be
 found for the defiation and insist
 ed that although perhaps capital structures and mortgage and bond
 burdens must be reduced, the only
 real defation bottom would be the 1 purchasing power of the majority,
 which must be begged somewhere. That was the basis of Hillman's | somewhat controversial proposal | for system of boards which would l enforce legal hours and minimum
 wages in industry. Assuming a federal 30-hour week principle, the boards would have the power to
 apply 1t equitably to the various industries and establish or admin ister measures in the interest of
 stability of employment or of the incomes of wage earners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

Here's more sad news for the country. especially New England. A beech tree blight is believed moving down into the United States from Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick. It is just as devastating as the chest nut blight of two decades ago. Outbreaks of the beech scale have been reported in both Maine and Massachusetts, so it seems safe to conclude that New England has been success fully invaded by the disease which forest pathologsts have not yet been able to diag- nose sufficiently to provide counter attack. There should be a determined stand in this country one of these days to get rid of the numerous plant and tree diseases now so prevalent and so destructive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
LESS BATHING AND MORE HAND
 WASHING

sorebow if has become noised about that | I am against bathing. That IS a HistaRe. % ; . | believe moderate or temperate indulgence IS | nuite harmless in most cases. It IS only when | bathing is carried to excess that It pecoi,es :, l harmful to health. Of course greae Ihans " | persons who happen to have old skihs are , | more comfortable. and hence on the Whole W more healthy, if they eschew the west wash, TOT not matter whether it be hot or cold water , thev only bathe to itch. But want you to understand precisely where l stand so tnaI when the propaganda director of the beauti, ful Bath institute gets to work on you, the ola ''sanitary' bunk wont make any seiiou" "o in your pocketbook. .,o
 The frequency with which person pa.nGs has nothing whatever to do with his susceptl- hilitv to or his immunity against any known disease If any alleged health authority seems to hold a different opinion about this. just ask him to name the malady which bathing pre- vents Then we'll have some fun with hlm. am unalterably opposed to all bath tubs except the minute fraction of one per cent. or them owned and controlled by indlviduals as
 transferable equipment NO ge.ihe t,,n to use if somebody else has used 1t before you, not even if the last user has taken pains 10 leave no high tide mark or other data Tor you to pom der as you soak. A shower bath is unobjectionable. doupt
 if anybody ever catches even athlete Ioot III
 a shower bath, though there IS 1alr cnahce lo pick up the trcophytosis fungus gong ana coming from the shower, if you dont wear your own individual slippers
 In my judgment entirely too much ,, empha, ma
  too little on the duty of washing the hands Bathing has practically nothing to do With the
 health. Washing the hands has a great deai to do with the health.
 No license or permit to sell food or drink to be consumed the premises should De granted by the city unless the place is equip ped with adequate facilities for the patrons to wash ahejr hands before taking the food or drink Too many such establishments are tol- erated in towns and cities where the lavatory facilities, if any, are nothing but nuisance as nuisance is defined in the sanitary law. We should give less thought, time and money to compelling children to brush their teeth and more to teaching them to wash
 their hands before partaking of food. No child should be permitted to come to table straight from his play or from school without having
 washed his hands with soap and water. Never
 mind whether he has combed his hair. Just see that he comes with clean hands.
 | Soap and water is the best antiseptic cleans CT for the hands, in any circumstance. Even where surgical cleanliness is the purpose, soap and water is preferable to all other agents. If we are concerned with health and not just with esthetics, let have less bathing and more washing of hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
MAKING HASTE SLOWLY (Hartford Times.)

After making a two-year study of mployment problems in the United States and abroad, the | Connecticut Manufacturers asso- | citation has concluded in it's public ] report that no job insurance law
 should be enacted by the general | assembly until experience may have shown a better basis of fact | than at present upon which to | build a scheme of unemployment insurance.
 As far as we know, manufactur- CTS, or, for that matter, employers of any class, seldom have rushed | forward eagerly with schemes of
 social betterment formularized for the statute book.
 Just how many years elapsed
 before Connecticut factories were
 inspected adequately, safety-de- vices were enforced, and the com pensation law enacted, we do not
 know. It was, however, a long time during which public senti-
 ment gradually grew to insist that certain reformations should be es- l tablished.
 It is much the same way with | the matter of legally compelling regular assistance to the unem- ployed, and with pardonable ex- cuse, because in times like the present, when the unemployment
 is in maximum figures in. all tn- dustrial countries, the unemploy- ment insurance systems long Tn vogue abroad have proved in- adequate and in more than one way vexatious.. Certainly, just now. 1t would be hit or miss guess-work, if anyone should attempt the inauguration of compulsory job insurance in Connecticut. And we are not sure taht anyone really wants It. The employe will not cry for 1t If the cost has to come out of his pocket. even in substantial part. He may be willing to contribute to the un- employed, and do so. but he does not want the law to force him into it. Voluntary schemes to handle the situation appear much more alluring both to the worker and to the employer.
 On the other hand. communi- ties are now spending great sums to relieve the unemployed. They wish that in good times some where and somehow a sufficient fund had been accommodating so that in bad times the hurt of un- employment could be alleviated by the thrift of past good times. At bottom, unemployment relief is matter of savings. It has to come out of profits, or it would tend to
 be a bankrupting influence in any long run.
 These times are teaching every one the importance of saving.
 when savings are possible. which
 Is nearly. always where there Is
 the will for 1t and any substantial revenues are coming in.
 ] If the laws must provide for fob
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
NEA Service Writer

Washington. - The American labor movement may be rehabili. tated in spite of itself.
 Labor (by which one means the American Federation of Labor as well as the labor groups such as the railroad brotherhoods and the Amalgamated Clothing. Workers) has long preached the theory that there can be no recovery until the purchasing power of the vast mass of wage earners is restored.
 But labor has been unable to sell that idea to the gentlemen in power. MT Hoover stuck to the not uncommon idea that if you sprinkled enough water on top of the economic bush little drops of prosperity would "dribble down to the masses"
 Now comes the "New Deal" and there is some reason to be- lieve that President Roosevelt is impressed by the argument that he can't put the country back on it's feet unless he does something toward the unemployment of some 12,000,000 persons who have no jobs.
 Certainly most of the econo- mists among his advisers are con- vinced of that. And so, as has just been well demonstrated. is Secretary of Labor Frances Per- kins. It is at least faintly anus ing to realize that little Miss Per- kins, after all the snorts and bel lows of protest against her ap- pointment from the American Federation of Labor-which con- siders itself the spokesman and backbone of labor, may become the Joan of Arc of the American labor movement.
 A Fruitful Conference
 Since the conference of all leading labor organizations met at the call of Miss Perkins, the more intelligent labor leaders have been imbued with the hope that at last they have an admin istration which feels that a coun- try's standard of living is always based on the earnings of the great mass of its people and That the relationship between labor and the rest of society is at least as important as any other factor III LIIe cCOiiOIlIC plCtutCs II thio ID true, 1t becomes as necessary to handle the problems of banking, industry and agriculture.
 The conference was quite un. precedented and it may even be- come a landmark in American
 history. Labor itself had never been able to assemble such unit ed front. Miss Perkins. who re- gards herself as the official advo- cate of the wage earners, rounded them up and made them demon strate the increasing solidarity of the labor movement.
 Although the conference and its attendant circumstances may have accentuated the commonly admit ted economic impotence of labor,
 leaders of the unions came away convinced that it had been much
 more important and fruitful than they had supposed it could be-. After all these years, they had | devised the first national labor take care of both the employed about an economic revival with out subsidies. The keynote of the program was tho thought that the government must do whatever it could to put people back to work and to restore purchasing power. Labor buys goods, labor pays
 rent and taxes. Cut its payroll totals two-thirds and then what :?
 That's old stuff, but the confer ence saw it's first translation into a co-ordinated program of labor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
So They Say

The trouble with law and govern ment is lawyers. Clarence Darrow. Chicago attor- ney.
 {: We have had too much efficiency. and what we need is to bring about inefficiency for time in or- der to eliminate this cycle which merely stimulates low wages and lack of consumption. -Dr Irving Langmuir, chemist. Nobel prize winner.
 
 Beer will be a great help In our fight against repeal of the 18th amendment. Mrs Rushmore Patterson. vice chairman. Allied Forces for Pro- hibitIon.
 .4: They beg for bread and we give them beer; they ask for fish and We give them stone. --Tiev Forest w. Hall. member oi Ohio legislature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CAPTION
Cynical And
 Very Modern

While the highbrow authors have been striving to evolve new form for the novel, certain less pretentious writers have gone a. head and produced type of novel which, while following all of the old forms, is nevertheless distinc- lively. and unmistakably modern.
 This kind of book is completely hard boiled, disillusioned and cyni- cal. It has a serious undercurrent and a light, frothy surface. It seems flippant without really being so. It's writer. usually possesses much skill at characterization and an uncanny knack of reproducing current speech with photographic accuracy.
 A fine example of this type is 'The Captain Hates the Sea-" by Wallace Smith.
 This tells what happens on a. liner proceeding from Los Angeles to New York. The usual con- giomerate handful is abroad; a eporter-novelist fleeing from a too-devoted movie star, private detective trailing batch of stolen securities, the light-fingered lad who stole them, two once-loving couples who are meditating a swap of partners. a pompous judge a gay widow who wants to kick up her heels-and so on. tI takes the spicide of bedrag- g1ed cabaret girl from Central American port to jar these folks into making the decisions they have been trying to avoid. They get tangled in complex jam-and sudden tragedy knocks all the pieces into place. And the story of what these people are like, and what happens to them, and what they say and do, is exceedingly readable. touched constantly with salty. biting humor.
 Published by Covici-Friede, the book retails at $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

One thing stood between Vermonters and Cbamplain. If it had melted sufficiently to Champlain If it had melte dsufhciently to permit the Burlington ferry service to the New York side to go into operation beer was assured those who didn't mind boat ride Lake Champlain waters are under federal jurisdiction. therefore it would be perfectly legal to serve beer on boats operating on its surface. It doesn't become legal in Vermont until the first of May.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
Teaching Athletics

Some of the colleges around the country are starting special courses in physical eduea-' ton which will prepare students to teach this subject in modern way in high schools They may include the fundamentals ot football basketball, track sports, boxing and wrestling. In doing this, the colleges are not really going out of their way so much as they may seem to be. The athletic courses are supplementary to the academic courses Their students will also be qualified to teach the subjects in which they have majored.
 On the whole. this looks like good method. It is usually better for high school students to get their athletic instruction from competent persons who are primarily teach CTS of science. history. language. etc.. and who combine the intellectual with the ath- letic viewpoint This is the way it used to be done before the competitive athletics craze struck the secondary schools. From present indications. there is not going to be so much use for professional athletic coaches in the high schools as there has been in re- cent years. They begin to stop aping the colleges and get back to a sensible plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
National Paralysis

This striking comment on the present sit nation in Germany was written by Karl H. von Wiegand. brilliant American core- spondent. who has represented American newspapers in that country for 20 years: An amazing sort of paralysis is admitted. and hclplessness reflected. by men high in finance. busoincss and politics, which is reminiscent of the last days of July. 1914. on the eve of the World War"
 There is something ominous in this refer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
WE'LL REJECTED


 The rejection by the legislature of the 10 per cent luxury tax pro- posed by the league of municipali~ ties assured the defeat of that. pro- jected legislation.
 Extended comment upon it is, therefore unnecessary. At the same time we cannot refrain from ,sny- ing that it seems to us the commit tee and the senate have reached a right decision. Many, or most, of the articles it was proposed to tax are already subject to a federal tax. The levies suggested are all in the nature of nuisance taxes. The time may come when 1t will be ncc- essary for Connecticut to impose such levies. We do not believe that 1t yet has. It is gratifying to see its face firmly set. against legisla- tive innovations quite as radical that the legislature seems to have for Connecvticut. A retail sales tax would be difficult of collection and highly provoking. If we can do without it so much the better.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
UP AND AWAY
Thoughts ride galleons,
 On tlie.sca of time, Providing bits of poetry, Metcring Iifc's rhyme.

O-O-O Life used to be an ordeal. Now it's the popular new deal. !
 o-O--o
 People who seem to know what they want, very often must be satisfied with what they can get.
 O-O-O First the law puts the bars down and then the bars are put up.
 O--O-o
 Members of chiurch choirs get a tough break at Easter. Their robes cover all the lat est fashions worn by members.
 O-O--O A Chicago professor says money is just a backstop for tfpe game of life. Which is an unusual way of putting it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
o---O--o LINES

Rain on the roof, Sounds good at that, But the fccIiHg's different, When 1t rains on your hat.
 o-O-o The dealing in bristles for brush es, generally is said to have stiff proposition.
 o-O-o Perhaps the country would be on the move if everybody started in to dance.
 o-O-O Dancing will be one of the many features of beer gardens. Perhaps they'll use the stagger system.
 O-O-o With beer gardens getting all the publicity, it looks like poor summer for the once popular rock gardens.
 o-O-o And they might label a beer keg, "A Barrel of Fun.
 O-O-O
 IT'D ANh ANUAV
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
Here, There And Everywhere

insurance. let them do it by some-
 how establishing savings somc- where.
 In two years the Manufactur- ers' association does not appear to
 have accumulated constructive idea as to how job insurance can
 be effected beneficially. The ab- sence of spede in this matter is conspicuous everywhere, largely because the various countries are not being run by those who are out of work, or by those. either. who have to pay the heaviest taxes,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

Incidentally Mrs Bucl B. Basscttc of New Britain isn't at all dsmaycd by the thought that Connecticut viii probably elect an ovcr- whclming number of wet delegates to its state convention this summer. She has just
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
Personal Health SerUice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to persona' health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr brady' Address hlnl. care of the Democrat. sending stamp md addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
Good evening.
 o-O-o UMBRELLA DAYS
"A SMILES THE THING.

April brings umbrella days. Guess you know this. too, Every day shower day. Rain drops coming through, Brilliant sun at morning, Changes pretty quick, So one always brings along. Yep. the old rain stick. April brings umbrella days, Showers triekling through, Skies are very tricky now. Gray instead of blue. Nature has no fault to find. Rain from up above. Brings forth grass and flowers dear, Oft the work of love. April brings umbrella days, Guess you know this. too, Every day shower day. Rain drops coming through. But when May comes round the bend.
 From the great out there. Showers will have glorified, Blossoms in its hair.
 o-O-o Congressmen will investigate the Akron tragedy. Now we'll have a heavier than air probe for lighter than air machine.
 o-C-o
 The school of experience issues no diplomas. So that saves you the price of a frame.
 o-O-o We repeat. With beer back, the old slip of state takes on the the familiar appearance of a schooner.
 o-O-o
 Beer is being taken for ride. o-O-o The modern victory loan. Any body able to negotiate loan this day considers it victory and then some.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

It seems queer. too, that so bold and brave a crowd as the goose-stepping Nazis should have to use such strenuous measures to pro- tect themselves from less than per cent of the country's population.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

"The Judiciary Committee of the General Assembly will be well advised if it reports out liquor control bill that preserves the essential features of the recommendations made by the Governors special commission. The proposal to vest in county commission CTS, instead of a state commission of three members appointed by the Governor the granting of permits would be a reversion to the old order of political control which is inconsistent with any proper system of regu- lation. The evil alliances that had been form ed between liquor and politics played no small part in bringing about the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment. Merely because Connecticut has the enviable distinction of not having ratified that amendment affords no excuse for the Legislatnre's feeling that it can afford to play fast and loose with the liquor question :" Hartford Courant. All of which is sound advice of the kind that won't appeal to the several varieties of poli- ticians now trying to create such confusion of opinion at Hartford that it will be inn possible to turn out a liquor control bill that bears any semblance to the excellent one proposed by Governor Gross commission. We hope that public opinion will rise to the occasion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

The New Dear' at Washington seems to call for one of those high-speed shuffling machines
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:54 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-07
so TT GOES

Life's a game
 Of courage and of heart, And some are picked to play,
 A lonely part.
 The advent of beer was marked by parades in many cities. Which proves that beer, like water, will seek its own level.
 o-O-o
 Rudy Vallee and his wife have parted. It's said to be final-or something. After they parted, she departed for Cali fornia.
 Rudy is said to be writing new song, 'In the Vallee of To-mor- row.. Why not finish the title, "In the Valle of Tomorrow, Will l Find My Love To-day" It's about as sensible as the average croon- CTS song.
 A technocrat is merely a robot gone to immortality.
 o-O-o
 Sometimes a person who be- comes star thinks the gift is heaven sent.
 o-O-o
 PIECE MEAL
 Times will improve,
 Says Otto White,
 When the six o'clock whistles
 Heard each night. o-O-o Who can remember the good old days when mothers economized by having the cobbler nail iron cleats on the toes and heels of their children's shoes? O-O-o When Roosevelt's swimming pool is completed, he may use it for ducking congressman and senators who fail to agree with his pro- gram. This concludes our regular Fri day evening program. It was broadcast by DBD and came to you through the courtesy of the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pio- neer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time, to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour. o-O-o Good night.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-10

The gayety of the Partisan is
like that. Behind the hghtness
of his famous joie de vivre
weighs the heaviness of his
provincial peasant origin, and
this mixture appears to find apt
expression in the solemn swell
and airy Tilt of the accordion.
Aware Of this affinity, the mu-
nicipality has recently added a
course in accordion playing to
the many other subjects taught
in its free evening classes. The
class is already we'll attended by
pupils whose ages range from
II to so years.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-10
Hindus Gaze upon Sacred Book

Thousands of Sikhs, a Hindu
community in the Punjab of In
dia, have been f1ocking to gaze
upon one of the historic manu-
script books of their faith. The
book. known as the Adj Granth,
has been put on display at the
residence of the Guru, their
spiritual chief, at Kartarpur.
The Adj Granth was written by
the fifth Guru more than 300
years ago, and it is said that
only two men have read it. The
Sikhs originally were a religious
community founded by Baba
Banak, who was born in 1869.
Banak discarded idolatry, cast
and superstition, preaching the
existence of one spiritual God
and advocating d higher moral
life