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The Washington times., 1933-01-24
A Lame Duck Congress
Is a Menace

Is a Menace 49,.
However, because of the
propaganda of deception
and confusion in prograss
now, it cannot be too often
repeated that the Democrats
are not yet in power. The
Roosevelt administration is
not in office. The constant
reiteration by a portion Of
the press that the ''Demo-
cratic Congress" is not act
ing as it should is the most
perfect rot. It is more than
rot-it is false. And it is
known to be false by the
propagandists putting it out.
For the present Congress
now is not a Democratic
Congress-" it is not even a
Republican Congress, it is q
Lame Duck Congress; and
the men who have been re-
tired to private life after
March 4 for their country's
good have sufficient numeri-
cal strength to veto any
action they wish. These are
the mischief-makers.
Senator Couzens let the
eat out Of the bag delib-
erately the other day when
he lashed the lame ducks in
his own party in the Senate
for the part they played in
the recent fiiibuster. Senator
Watson - Senator Moses -
and others. They were play
ing politics, seeking to Gre
ate dissensions in the ranks
of the party soon to assume
power. And they have been
called back home.
We cannot be said to have
a really intelligent govern
mental system so long as
men repudiated by the people
at the polls can return to
their posts. and vote their re-
pudiated views for three
months after their repudia-
ton. In the English House
of Commons no one sits one
single day after he has been
turned out by the electorate;
nor is it true anywhere but
in this country. We have
silly system. A lame duck
Congress is not only a farce
and fraud-it is a menace
at any time, and in critical
times especially. The Norris
amendment should be hur-
ried through the legislatures
and written into the Consti-
tuition as soon as possible. It
makes government in q de-
mocracy square with COM
mon sense.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
The Rev. Dr.. r. S. IdIen,sn, Of the Church

Of Disciples Of Christ depores uttered faiths that rest
upon of magic Bible and magic wonder working Coo"
Some say that if you take away the magic the wonder
working mraceworkng you take away faith That should
not be so For divine power did not make great
fish" especially swallow JONAH carry him around for
little while and then cough him again. it is absolutely
tain that power did this earth that floats in the
ether the created other billions of
Of universe and many unverses outside of including
some away that takes light hundred million years.
travelling 1876, 900 miles second to from them.
The cosmc creation important than creating "a great
fish .....'.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Congress wants "foreign trade and asks

Congress wants foreign trade" and asks
the tariff commission How bargain with foreign
tries trade concessions using the tariff cub? The
answer You can't improve trade conditions while other
nations money cheaper than your money China will buy
goods England paying with deprecated pounds sterling
and buy from paying proud gold dollars Make your
money more plentiful You want business in this world Of de-
ureciated currences
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Another Little Beer Bill
New Flying Record-And Other Items

j. Congress every little while passes beer
BILL Beer fruit juices meaning presumably wine, with
not more than per alcohol will be permitted in this
Nation that foOshy thinks it can make vituOus by
law One sOOn injects into the bill stipulation that
II not be extensively advertised the radio Senator
Rorah adds to the bill, 'no selling beer to children"
European nations congratulate themselves
on American markets" for wine and beer They deceive
themselves not probable that European farmers viii
provide grain drunk America that EurOpes
wine growers will be allowed to compete with grapes grown
for wine in the United States.
Senator Borsh says the Government cannot
balance its budget until the currency question is settled
and prices stabilized"
Our Government has locked up than twenty thousand
million dollars Government bonds mountain Of frozen
capita has dollars general circulation
goes, white blackbirds
With Congress shovelng public funds by the hundreds
Of millions twelve million de Government expenses running
behind hundred million dollars month"; talk of balancing
Che budget seems futile. ~L
A new flying record is established between
France Argentina by French air mail pilot Jean
Maroz who flew the 1900 miles Buenos Aires in 81 hours
as minutes
Thus France establishes arpane mail to South America
Germany had already done with dgbles American citizens
willing build drgble aships for transatlantic passenger
decides whether it while let American ships Of
the carry American mail And cash subsidy asked
from the Government.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24

A damsel saith: Darling, tell
me the WHOLE truth! But a
widow knoweth that to be a lit
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Proposed Law Imperils
u. S. Interests in Greece

ATHENS, Greece. Ameri-
can interests here may be affected by
a bill now before the Greek Chamber of
Deputies, which would authorize the
foreign minister, in certain circum-
stances, to cancel contracts with for
eigners without compensating them.
The present bill has only the most
limited application, but it may be an
entering wedge leading to more serious
threats to foreign interests in this
country.
Meanwhile, it is officially announced
that there will be no further deprecia-
ton Of the drachma, Greece's monetary
unit, to help Greek exports.
A request from Greek currant ex-
porters for government help has been
answered by q decision to fix the ster-
ing-drachma rate every 48 hours for
them, In order to enable the exporters
to avoid risks involved In fluctuations
between the time Of naming the price
and the clearing of the acceptance.
California currant growers, the Greek
exporters charged, were winning the
British market, thanks to depreciation
Of the dollar
(Copyright. 1933l
Evening star., 1933-09-10

is illustrated by the situation at tie
big kr1vorosky metallurgical plant in
the Ukraine, where at the end of July
and the beginning of August railroads
supplied an average of l.150 cars daily
instead of the 1000 which the plant
officials were pleading for
Ia 1ndustrializatsia points out mean
while that no other section of Soviet
industry Is functioning so poorly as that
Of freight car building Measures de-
creed in the last six weeks to improve
the general condition of railway trans
port include: One, the establishment
throughout the system of political sec
tionS" similar to those established last
Winter in agriculture; two, the further
differentiation of wages and expansion
OF the bonus system with higher pay for
engineers and other skilled workers:
three, abolition of many surplus bu-
reaus and drastic reductions in office
staf1s; four. Inauguration of a regime
OF iron discipline among railway
workers.
Announcement Of these measures was
followed by a decree dismissing three
vice commissars of transport, including
Bill Shatov, one-time American an
archist and more recently In charge of
the construction of the famous TIrke-
stane-Slberian Railway. Elimination of
deadening bureaucracy which infests
the whole railway system Is stated to
be one of the chief ends in view Ia the
reorganization.
Evening star., 1933-09-10

What has happened to the sheriff's
office to make it so ineffective in pre-
venting crime and capturing law
breakers? The history Of local govern
ment shows that gradually the police
functions of the sheriff have been
pushed aside to enable him to care for
other duties thrust upon him by the
State-other more lucrative duties, Incl
dentally. Added to the complicating
influence CT this addition Of duties Is
the fact that in every State except one
the sheriff is an elected officer. and the
term is usually two years. There has
been practically no growth in the police
function and it Is no wonder that under
the pressure of other duties this func-
ton has atrophied until now it is little
more than vestige Of what it was in
days gone by.
The typical Southwest sheriff of to-
day is a county politician; he must be a
politician to be elected. When he is not
sheriff he carries on his regular busl-
ness of farmer, laborer. hardware mer-
chant or butcher, and the indications
are that he does not relinquish his In
terest in these outside occupations when
he assumes the duties of the sheriff S
Office. His compensation is derived from
fees. and his fee is the same whether
he apprehends dangerous criminal or
serves a subpoena or notice OF jury
service. Therefore he has strong eco
nomic reason for neglecting to perform
any duties toward the suppression OF
crime.
In most States the sheriff is not le-
gally required to ferret out crime. and
there is practically no way Of holding
him responsible for neglecting to act In
preventing crimes. Added to this Is
perhaps the strongest reason why the
sheriff is not a satisfactory police Off
cial. He prefers to be relieved Of his
duties as a police officer. and every
where that he has had chance he has
relinquished his police powers to other
agencies.
As for methods of criminal investiga-
ton. it is no exaggeration to say that
there has been no utilization of sci
entific criminal investigation methods
Evening star., 1933-09-10

the automobile and machine gun of
are hired to be policemen, trained to
be policemen and disciplined as police
men. They are held accountable for
crimes committed.
They do more than operate within
their individual States; they have af-
forded the first real opportunity in the
history Of American police administra-
tion for cooperation between States in
the fighting of common criminal enc
my. This cooperation throughout the
Northeast. where several neighboring
States have similar police units, is swift
and sure. Criminals are never able to
flee faster than the news Of their
crimes.
The New York State police, learning
Of crime committed in Albany, can
flash the news by teletypewriter to their
units throughout the State and to the
lice. If the crime warrants it, the
metropolitan police can then broadcast
the details to five State police organi-
Zations in as many minutes. And the
criminal fleeing from Albany is liable
to be apprehended by police fully cog
nizant of his crime, regardless OF what
route he may follow.
This type of cooperative force has
been given impetus recently by the
Federal Governments interest In kid
naping, and the resultant plans to set
up q Nation wide criminal investigation
unit modelled after Scotland Yard.
The Southwestern States, with the
exception of Texas, have been slow to
set up Statewide police systems. Yet
criticisms Of the sheriff constable sys-
tenn of rural police protection are ap-
pearing more frequently as fright
ened populace looks to its State gov
ernments to protect 1t from such des-
peradoes as Floyd, Underhill, Bailey
and their thousand and one lesser con-
temporaries who continue to prey upon
tionS,
Evening star., 1933-09-10

vamping of existing machinery and
methods Of law enforcement. Our in
vestigations make 1t clear that in many
States the police power is inadequate
to cope with the situation. Limited to
constables and sheriffs. whose jurisdic-
ton is localized. disconnected and tenn
porary, their results must suffer in
comparison with the tactics Of present.
day criminals with their quick firing
guns and high-powered vehicles for
speedy getaway. Inaugurated a century
age, the constable and sheriff systeD
has become an anachronism in this day
and age-a relic of the horse and
buggy days"
Police protection has always been
weak in these rural districts, but never
before has it had to battle against such
odds. In the old days when a sheriff
cleaned out community he usually
could rely on it being free from
banditry until the next wave Of outlaws
came along If We are to believe the
stories of Western sheriffs, they usually
could see this second wave of banditry
appearing on the horizon surrounded by
cloud of dust, so that they could get
out their six guns" and prepare to do
battle.
Isolation Thing Of the Past.
Today, however, hard-surfaced roads
reach into every nook and Granny of
these cnce isolated sections. Isolation
and freedom from metropolitan inter-
ference are things of the past. Crimi-
nails of the city can escape into the
country within a few hours, and they
operate over vast territories. The Bailey
gang is known to have operated in many
villages and towns scattered all the way
from Chicago to Dallas, well over a
thousand miles. Crime today knows
no boundaries.
The administration CT justice in the
rural districts has not kept pace with
the great social changes since the intro
duction of the automobile. Instead,
rural citizens still must rely on judicial
and police machinery that was originally
conceived to care for isolated villages
and towns In the original Colonies, or
at best for frontier settlements.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
BY BRUCE BARTON

7 HAVE long had in mind to discuss this subject ana
though my friend Philip Curtis beat to it in recent
magazine article + ne WIN iorge a III me Mira e are Coming
to 3O-hour working week the program be successful
we shall probably the labor of the world com
be possible that our week will extend from Thursday
night Monday. great boon then would come TO me
Nation should be revival of something like the
Those in middle years have vivid reco-
lections of day. It really started Saturday night
when all the children took their weekly turn at tne tun
right cheat the Lord being tired and doWsy on HIS
Sunday morning there was a different 1eeEng IN the
the streets, telephone calls no VISITORS
Breakfast was lesurey meal extended sometimes with
couple of chapters from new book read aloud by 1atn
Being in Sunday clothes we felt different, as the
uniform The church service sometimes seemed long,
and the ensuing dinner too heavy But we had the erey
big usually retired respective rooms to read
and to sleep the sleep of the just.
All this will strangely dull to the young people
today They only the resessness of modern life
fantastic devotion to the great god exercise The
excessive worship of this god will as weird to our
descendants the excessive pey of ancestors now
George Jean Nathan in his entertaining Notebooks"
quotes exercise exclaimng Look at the ami
mails they take lot Of exercise He himself has made
assertion and he remarks The great majority of animals
matter of take hardly exercise
at ALL Furthermore the particular species that do go in
life The tortoise the LATEST creature earth enjoys
the greatest longevity 200 to 300 years The elephant
ocraticay anguid sometimes reaches the o2year mark
On the other hand find that such devotees Of
exercise the dog die in from 10 to Is the squirrel
in from 10 to H. the hare in from to eight the mouse
in from three to four"
If we are three day week end, not than
two should be given to exercise the third should be for rest
people who will feel much better come Monday morning.
tcOpyrsht 1sssJ
Evening star., 1933-09-10

~ ANDITRY again flourishes in the
l. Southwest.
A few weeks ago seven ban
IL dts descended upon the little
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Soviet Railways Declared Failing
To Measure Up to Five-Year Goal

MOScOW.-Describing reports from
certain important railway districts of
improvements in the transport situation
as lust so much camouflage," Pravda
contends that SO far efforts at radical
reorganization Of railways have not met
with the expected results. To under
stand the real chaotic state of Soviet
transport it is sufficient, this journal
continues. to analyze the material con-
cerning the condition of the locomotives
and of car shops and to study the
freight car loading figures
In fact. despite the developments of
the "piatiletka," or flve-year plan,
there has been no substantial increase
of car loadings in the past three years,
and there was an actual decrease this
year over last-during the first quarter
OF 1888 loadings totaled 81 100000 tons,
against 100000 for the correspond
ing period In 1882, decline of 9 per
cent, and there has been no improve
mentS since.
What this means for Soviet industry
Evening star., 1933-09-10
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corresponding increase in purchasing
power. at time when credit should
have been used for the movement of
goods into the hands of the ultimate
consumers. If, as now seems likely the
President is forced to deal with this
problem of Indebtedness and the de-
mands of farmers and others for
rapid rise in commodity prices by going
in for imitation on large scale, the
result is likely, after a brief and riot
Gus orgy to be peculiarly disastrous to
labor. which will find itself caught by
wages more or less fixed under the
codes with some reference to the pres
ent price level and none at all to that
which may come. a.
Moreover, if we turn from the indus
trial to the agricultural picture there is
nothing to increase our optlmlSm.
Farmers still feel themselves driven 10
strike to get even the cost of producing
milk, although its price in the cities is
beyond the reach of those who need 1t
most. Our method of agricultural re-
covery is to subsidize an artificial short
age in the hope of stabilizing chaotic
and unsound agricultural system Wltn-
out as yet striking at any OF the 1unoa-
mental evils of tenant farming, tax
alton and the like. There is no worse
than that in an ill-clad world farmers
must make money by ploughing under
cotton and in a hungry world by re-
ducing the acreage of wheat. Certainly
none of the terms of the new deal
warrants hope of anything more than
temporary and precarlouS recovery DUR
ing which we shall gain energy to go
further. What will be the next step?
This brings us to our second possibility
Fascism Is Phenomena.
2 Fascism. FasciSm is somewhat
complex phenomena differing in Italy
and Germany. Its economics, how
ever, so far are the economics OF State
capitalism; and as MusSolinl has point
ed out. Mr.. Roosevelt has gone large
part of the way toward them. Mr.
Roosevelt has not yet given us, In any
true and Objectionable sense, a dlcta-
torship. Nor has he tried to make us
drunk or crazy with Fascist national
emotionalism. The question Is, how
ever good his intentions, whether we
can escape these things under State
capitalism. Sooner or later the work
ers are likely to ask: If the Govern
ment has to stabilize capitalism and
protect absentee owners, why should
the Government in the name OF society
not end absentee ownership?
IL is easier 10 divert Ille WoIhclS Wy
some tribal emotionalism than to an
swer this question. 1t is easier to give
some concessions to organized workers
and to deal with docile unions than 1t
is either to fight concessions or to deal
with an aggressive movement OF work.
ers who want Socialism. Our American
ultra -nationalism, our racial preJu-
dices, our present superficial contempt
for what we have called democracy, our
tendencies to violence and the state OF
our labor movement all make the fear
of fascism far more than an idle
dream. 1t is logically and emotionally,
as the world is now showing, the only
vay to stabilize the social and eco
Evening star., 1933-09-10
"New DeaP' Is Not Socialism,
But Estate Capitalism Says Thomas

nomic order even temporarily without
accepting Socialism
3. Socialism. The great hope of the
new deal is that it may make it little
easier for the masses of true workers
in farm, mine, factory, school, labora-
tory, office and wherever the honest
work of the world is done to advance
toward truly Socialist society. Such
society is not society without private
property. Thanks to our great pro-
ductlve power, Socialism will give us
more property in consumption goods
and more secure tenure in our home.
Rightly understood and applied, it will
give us more individualism than the
slavishness which modern Capitalism
and fascism inculcate. Socialism will
destroy no homes and no religion. 1t
Will give them better chance to -four
lSh IN cooperate commonwealth
Where the workers comparatively and
through the machinery of the state own
the natural resources and the great
agencies of production and distribution
and administer them, under experts,
according to plan, for the good of the
whole company OF human beings.
Now that the age of individualistic
matte control of markets is over. sure
ly the world must see that it is much
easier to plan production for the use
OF everybody than to plan to MAIN
tain an impossible balance between
profit, rent, interest, wages and a Just
return to working farmers Even the
most fervent admirer of the new deal
must occasionally admit that it is
strange business for the Government
to save the banks only to turn them
back to the bankers to see if they can
do it again: and equally strange to try
to rehabilitate the utterly discredited
soft coal industry for the benefit of
absentee owners who have mismanaged
it; or to put the railroads on their feet
| again only to make it more expensive
to acquire them later on, as unquestion-
ably we must
New Chance Offered.
It is in what the Government has
not done in regard to banks, mines,
railroads and proper taxation that the
inadequacies of the new deal are most
apparent. Yet for that I do not so
much blame the Government as I do
ourselves, our own inadequate philos-
ophy, our lack of program, our failure
| to build strong organizations of farm
ers and workers on the economic field
or the kind of party of the producing
masses which can intelligently and ef-
fectively transform our democracy.
The best that can be said Of the new
dealis that it may give us new chance
in orderly fashion to press forward. We
shall not take that chance if we keep
our racial hates and discrimination be-
tween white and colored workers, or do
not check bootlegging under the codes,
or If we fail to build our own organiza-
tions firm and strong. The new deal is
good only as it paves the way for the
new philosophy of the fellowship of free
men who own and control together our
natural resources and that machinery
which may either destroy us in the
holocaust of war or emancipate us from
poverty and exploitation.
Evening star., 1933-09-10

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-20
BAYVIEW

John Malone of Chestnut avenue
 spent a few days with his daughter Marge of orchard street. MT and Mrs Thomas Thyron of Oakland avenue are spending 8 month at there cottage on Prichard lane.
 James Hines of Plaza avenue spent several days on Bayshore drive.
 MT and Mrs Joseph Hosey and daughter Mary of Plaza avenue
 are spending two weeks on Law renee avenue. Louis Walsh and family of Mid- dlebury are spending several days as the guests of his sisters, the Misses Walsh, of Creeland avenue. ,, Francis Brown of South Main
 street has returned home from q weeks vacation at Bayview. :. MT and Mrs James Sullivan and MT and Mrs John Quinlan or Grandview avenue are leaving Bayview today. for Chicago. Mrs Mary Robinson and family of Farmington avenue are spend ing q week. on Orchard street. Miss Winifred Delaney of Water ville visited friends on the beach yesterday.
 Mrs Elizabeth sConlon and daugh- ter Josephine and son John. left Bayview for Chicago, where they will visit her sister, Mrs Frank Smith, former resident of Water bury. MT and Mrs John Greer Of Ridgew0od entertained at a party at their cottage Thursday evening | in honor of their son. Edward. Miss Elsie Warren is the guest Eof Mrs John Halon of Westland layAnlfA s.s,.f. s.ls ...at sa