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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
Feminisr, Again

The super-feminists are on the war path
again. They say women are losing all the
gains made in their fight for equality. They
regard laws fixing minimum wage or reg
ulating working conditions for women as
unjust discrimination against a woman's
right to earn her own living. Miss Alice
Paul. leader in the National Woman's Party.
sees rapidly approaching time when
women will disappear from the colleges and
the professional world because no positions
are open to them. She calls to women to
show more militaney, to become more fem
instic and to push Constitutional amend
ment establishing exact equality between
men and women.
This requires voting together and support
ing women candidates for public office mere
ly because they are women. 1t all comes as
rather surprise just now. when women are
holding public offices as never before. There
are many intelligent women who disagree
with Miss Paul and the National Womans
Party on several points. They prefer to
vote as public spirited citizens rather than
feminists. They regard legislation designed
to protect women in industry as steps to-
ward improving labor conditions and wages
generally.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
FRIDAY, JULY z, 1888
Higher Wages-Higher Profits

The encouraging part about the hearings
on the industrial recovery act now under
way at Washington is that practically every
body seems to recognize the importance OF
giving the laboring man better break. Those
minimum wage scales may sound extremely
low and there is no sense in pretending that
they are as high as we would like to see
them, but the trend they represent is healthy
one and the fact that their provisions are
being written into law stands for protection
of kind that American workingmen have
not had before.
What we are doing in slow and round
about manner is to adopt the viewpoint first
popularized by Henry Ford - that indus
try can prosper only in direct ratio to the
amount of money it pays out in wages.
That proposition has always been exceed
ingly simple. The more money the work
ngman earns the more he can spend on the
things the factories produce. That's self
evident. Yet its obvious truth has failed,
so far, to prevent wage reductions in this
country, because there is little catch in it.
IL it is to work, it has to be applied all along
the line. No individual employer can at
ford to follow it unless all of his COMPETE
tors do and in an unregulated society there
is not the slightest chance that all of them
will do SO.
The measures that are being taken now
do not as some suppose. restrict the freedom
of the industrialist in any very genuine sense.
They are intended to provide for him
fairly rigid basic code of the wages he must
pay and the hours he must operate; but be-
yond that they actually set him free in way
that he has never been set free before. He
is set free. that is. to reap the advantages
of this simple and important little equation
Of Mr. Ford's, that higher wages, in the long
run, equal higher profits. He is freed from
tho competition of the sweatshop, the fly
by-night operator. the industrial pirate. The
economic reimbursement of the worker is
going to mean brighter day for the work
inamans boss.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
So They Say

II a woman's voice 10 caresisng,
It has a soothing effect on the IT.
ritated or worried male.
Judge Eugene G. Bonniwei'
Philadelphia.
There Is nothing in the world
that in human hands does not
lend itself to abuse.
-Mahatma Gandhi.
(:
would not be fire extin'
guisher Of flaming youth. Rather
I would discipline youth to con-
fine and time the explosions In
motor to make Roadway toward
better social order.
Rev William H. McMaster, pres
ident Of Mt Union college.
: I:
So long as woman believes she
is young she retains her beauty. II
is the idea of youth, rather than
rouge, which keeps women beau
tiful.
|-Professor Frederick p. Woellner
University Of California.
Intolerance Is q matter OF tg'
norance. So IL tolerance.
DIR Max Kunitz. psychiatrist.
Nobody who leads q life worth
living ever writes about 1t.
--Vis0ountese Aston.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

Good old Rep Bertrand H. Smell, the
Potsdam, N. Y. manufacturer. isn't going
to let the democrats carry off all the honors
of the present business revival. He recently
issued long TRADE against the party, par
tieularly the new officials down at Washing
ton, in which they were charged with an
orgy of spending. "A double set Of books
was also included among the specific items.
Rep Smell mentioned. He states that the
budget is far out of balance among other
things. The only thing he failed to find
fault with was the president. And that from
republican was odd. For some time they
haven't seemed to like their presidents.
We're glad they do like Mr. Roosevelt.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

Mrs Mary Rumsey, chairman Of
the advisory committee which Is
charged with protecting interests
of the consumer while the indus
trial codes are being framed, is the
daughter Of the late =. II. Harri-
man, railroad magnate, and Is call
ed "the richest widow in Washing
tom" She dresses plainly and her
interests range far outside the so.
cial racket, She Is said to have in
herited about $25,000,000.
She has studied the possibili-
ties of and attempted to promote
a national cooperative economic
system. She has been active In both
producer and consumer coopera-
tives-among the latter the Emer-
gency Exchange association, leader
in the barter movement-and In
unemployment relief work in New
York.
She runs two stock farms In
Virginia and her experience with
them led to her intense interest In
commodity community and consul
mer cooperation. She lives In a
house here with Secretary Of Labor
Frances Perkins,
copyright 1898 NEA Service Incl
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

Sangerhausen Rosariun. at Sangerhaussn.
Germany. the almost impossible has been
achieved Ia black rose is declared to have
been produced. While most American grow
ers will want to see it before believing. there
are any number who declare that one could
be produced. Others said that it might be
possible to raise a pure black rose
in Sanserhausen. Germany but. If raised in
this country it probably would shade off a
bit, climate and soil conditions being re-
sponsible. The German producers say that
the true black was raised only after many
years of experimentation.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
The waterbury Democrat WASH
ington Correspondent

The waterbury Democrat WASH"
ington Correspondent
washington-The attempt to put
the country back on Its economic
feet by putting everybody back to
work 10 attended by innumerable
complications, many Of them intri-
cate.
That became apparent during
hearings on the cotton textile code
and officials of the recovery ad-
ministration make no secret Of the
Jobs difficulty and the uncertain
ty as to how some Of their plans
are going to work.
The code had been formulated
and presented when 1t suddenly
was realized that its operation
might be largely spoiled by the
"stretchout system" in the cotton
mills. Some manufacturers un-
doubtly would make workers
handle an unreasonable number of
looms or spindies and could there
by defeat the main purpose--to
increase employment while wag-
ing unfair competition. So COM
mittee was quickly formed to study
that problem and do something
about 1t.
Loopholes
Another loophole, not yet plug
ged, rests on the fact that mill
owners frequently own the homes
and often the towns where their
employees live. The recovery ad-
ministration hasn't figured out yet
what 1t can do IL the competitors,
upon establishment Of minimum
wages, raise rents and other
charges to take care Of increased
costs.
The COMMUNICATION was amazed
at the number Of different inter-
pretations which could be placed
on different codes, no matter how
clear their language might appear,
and how many unexpected condi-
tions might be discovered In the
affected Industries.
Gen Hugh johnson Is expected
to create some form of simple
machinery which can settle differ
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
BR1sToHs "CRINoLINE HALL
(Hartford Courant)


BristoIs old town hall, which has
been torn down in the last few
weeks, was not an imposing build
ing, either because Of it's antiquity
of its architecture. 1t looked a good
deal like an old factory building. a
plain substantial building such as
was considered proper for the pur-
pose, in the second quarter of the
last century. Yet even in the shah
by and unsafe conditionlinto which
in recent years 1t had been allowed
to fall, 1t was not without romantic
associations for those who knew Its
history.
It was privately built shortly be-
fore the Civil War for the main
purpose of providing a suitable
shop for the manufacture of Grin
dimes, those contraptions OF whale
bone and wire hoops by which the
ladies of the day showed Off their
ample gowns, and q place for hold
ing town meetings. The town hall
provided with gallery and platform
was on the second floor. There
many heated political battle was
fought; there too, were held fash
ionable dances and entertainments,
and there 1t Is said the first bas-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

The beer age is not without its dangers.
While towns and cities throughout the ma
ton are smaekins their lips over the new
brew and treasury Golfers are being enriched
with fresh taxes, danger turks in the full
beer key. A 70-year-old man in Salamanca,
N. Y, was killed this week when beer
barrel exploded. He was struck on the head
by the top of the barrel and died at the hos
pital. Here's a chance for the drys to pre-
sent an entirely different angle to the pro-
hbition situation.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

When fasteners point with pride to such
scenic roadways as those at Mt Desert Island
in Maine, the Storm King route and the
more recently constructed one over Bear
Mountain they imagine that the very apex
of road building has been reached And
when the proposed auto route through the
Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina
and Tennessee along the skyline is finished
there will be more Boosting. But away out
west the people can now push out their
bosoms with pride and ask any other section
of the nation to show road comparable
with that in Glacier National park. It's only
50 miles long. but it's declared to be the
engineering marvel of this age. The road is
known as the Going to -the-Sun" highway
and is taken from the mountain Of the same
name which it skirts at the peak. 1t crosses
the timberline of the Rockies so you can
see how high up you will be if you're for
tunate to traverse it some time in the fu-
turc. The road, according to description,
'perees Mount Pegan at an elevation OF
5000 feet. then slips through long hidden
Logan pass to crawl precariously across the
face of the Garden WALL backbone of the
continent, and wind down to the head of
beautiful Lake McDonold." 1t cost $780,
900 to build and was started II years ago.
Workmen were often required to dangle
from ropes TO blast out the route over
mountain erags In one place Mount Piegan
is drilled for 400 feet with apertures from
which travellers can gaze down on lower
peaks and valleys.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

PRELUDE TO STORM

(Phylis Mckinley in The New York SUM
Upon the waters Of the Sound.
Now whitecaps ominously Sit
The sky comes closer to the ground.
Two birds, alone, adventure 1t.
The huddled trees are covering
With terror that they cannot quell:
The grass bends down before this thing
That has tread invisible.
And nearly empty is the street.
And every doorway shelter, now,
For people who are loath to meet
What moves the blade and shakes the bough
For people who have learned to bend
More fexibly than grass or trees,
Yet must be broken, In the end,
BY their own windy destinies.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

the bells in the town were always
tolled on the anniversary Of his
execution.
The college has been as noted
for its piety as for its seriousness
Of purpose in other respects. The
professors who urvived from the
regime Of 1t famous preacher
president, DR. FInney, long continue
ed to open their classes with pray
err. It was for its moral zeal that
Oberlin was believed to be the
model for Mark Twain's Hadley-
burg, and 1t was out Of its crusad-
ing spirit that there sprang In 1898
the Anti-Saloon League. Time may
have moderated somewhat It's
evangelical ardor, but Its high
standards Of scholarship ana con-
duct remain.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
Here, There And EuerylDhere

ketball games in Bristol were play
ed and the first motion pictures
That factory and town meeting
should have been housed for SO
many decades under the same I'M
pretentious roof is commentary
on the history Of the town. It Is
noteworthy that the crinoline fac
tory was the forerunner of Bris-
tols two large spring manufactur-
ing companies to-day and that with
the growth Of its industry Bristol
outgrew the old town meeting hall.
No one regrets the passage of the
crinolines, but many wonder II
there will ever be devised a better
form OF democratic government
than the town meeting Of old New
England.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
DEAN ADHESION GUESSED
RIGHT
bridgeport Times-star)

Bridgeport Times-star)
Dean Acheson, son OF Bishop
Acheson Of Connecticut, Beau
Brummel OF President Roosevelt's
administration, is running the
Treasury Department these days
during the absence Of Secretary
william II. Woodin.
The secretary IL Ill In New York.
Acheson, the Under-Secretary, 10
handsome, according to the stem
ographers who work in his Office
He dresses carefully and has a
small red mustache. which he
witches when he gets excited.
He is the man credited with the
idea of taking the gold out Of the
governments gold bonds. His cri-
tics were COMPOUNDED few days
later when the government issued
more than $1,000,000,000 worth Of
these goddess securities. The critics
said none would buy the bonds.
They were oversubscribed six times
which was q triumph for the judy
ment Of Dean Acheson.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
A. Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
AS A Mother, She
Was Too Devoted

"The Marriage Racket" by Vina
Delmar, is a little bundle OF this
and that about a gal who was q
vaudeville dancer and who got SO
tired of the two-a-day routine
that she up and married q tired
business man whom she met while
playing in O. small city In upstate
New York.
The new husband turned out to
be O. rather unimaginative and
stolid sort of chap, but he wasn't
really so bad, and the marriage
might have been success If the
girl hadn't had a baby and devel-
oped q sudden, overwhelming and
quite unreasonable case OF exag-
lgerated mother love.
Because she did-she was the
kind who breaks up the party and
makes all the guests 60 home II
the baby so much as sneezes--she
ceased to be either q good wife or
O good sport, and the husband
must have been considerably re-
lieved when she finally left him
and took her baby to New York,
where she supported herself by
dancing in a night club.
Failing as a wife, she succeeded
a little better as a rich mans mis-
tress-though the author makes
her out to be such q complete and
cantankerous idiot that 1t is hard
to see how she kept the job ten
minutes. Anyhow, she lived in the
lap of luxury for quite a while,
and did her best to transform her
child into the most odious kind OF
mothers darling.
am sure you'll be glad to know
that It all turned out well in the
end. Somebody finally made her
see what a wart she had turned
into, and the end Of the book finds
her ready to reform and give the
kid, and everybody else. break.
And that. oh gentle and fear
less reader, IL that.
Published by Harcourt, Brace q
Company, the book sells for W.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
A COLLEGE, CENTENARY
NEW York Herald Tribune)

(New York Herald -Tribune)
Oberlin college, in Ohio, avails
itself of this commencement season
to celebrate the. hundredth ami
versary of its birth. A century Is
not old, as age goes in the East,
and even in Ohio five colleges are
older. Yet few other colleges have
been so great a force for learning
in the West. An offshoot OF Yale,
Oberlin has herself been the
mother Of other colleges in the
states farther West. Still a col
lege," 1t has never yielded to the
temptation for swollen growth that
its reputation for scholarship
might easily have afforded. Only
its endowment has increased until
only fourteen schools in the coun-
try are richer.
No other place Of higher learn
ing in the West has had So much
personality or, with all its con-
servatism, been such an innovator.
The pioneer of all coeducational
institutions in this country. 1t IS
older than any Of the women's col
leges n the East. Until recently the
oldest graduate was Mrs Sarah
Penfield, who died at the age OF
ninety-five while attending the
centennial exercises. While its pro-
hibited dancing and otherwise cir
cumscribed the social relations be-.
tween the sexes, It took text out
of st Paul and encouraged its
graduates to marry. It permitted
seniors who were engaged to call
on their fiancees until o'clock In
the evening, whereas less serious
callers were required to leave at
1880.
Oberlin was among the first col
leges to draw no distinction on the
score of color. The town was an
important station on the under
ground railway OF slavery days,
and on one occasion band Of pro-
fessors freed a fugitive slave from
a. United States marshal. John
Brown drew Izhny Of his most Ac-
tive partisans from its faculty and
student body and until recently
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

that have pleased the eye. The number Of
railroad stations in the United States so
be4utified must be Insignificant indeed COM
pared with the number of hopelessly ugly
ones, where einders and dirt form the lead
ing decorative motif.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

Nick Grilo. the Milldale rose faneier. will
have to look to his laures as Connecticut's
premier developer of new roses. His Grillo-
dale and American Pride are ranked among
the foremost contributions to the rose world
in recent years. Now we read that over in the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
Too Much Speed?

And Of course there's still the
big worry that factories will Gre
ate a sudden glut of production
before the national purchasing
power is granted to handle 1t.
johnson and his aids still regard
themselves as In rare to get their
program In effect before the recent
squirt in both production and buy
ing has time to sag and be follow
ed by a reaction which they fear
might be serious.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
Personal Health Service
(By william Brady, NJ. d.

Signed letters pertaining to personal
health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or
treatment, will be answered By DR. Rrady.
Address him. care OF the Democrat. sendtmg
stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

Bank deposit insurance is criticized as
tending to make bankers irresponsible It's
the demonstrated responsibility of SO many
bankers that has driven depositors to de-
mand insurance.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

High tide at Milford Saturday, July g..
1898 a. M. daylight time; low tide. 6:57
a. M. daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
Our Daily Washington Letter
Business Codes Are Different, Johnson Finds
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

ences as to Interpretation and APP
plication as quickly as possible
Otherwise, he fears. he might sud
denly find large part OF the pro-
gram all tied up.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

A motorist says there's no way to cure a
road hog. How about selling him an eighty
miles on hour car?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07

All vehicles must be lighted not later than
1857. daylight time. tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
Paris.
Letter
BY THOMAS COPE
United Press stafr Correspondent

UNITED Press Stan Correspondent
Paris (UP)-With Marianne re-
inforcing her proverbial stocking
against the long-awaited day when
metal will have replaced the finn
sy low-denomination banknotes,
an unexpected hitch has delayed
minting of the new five franc
piece. ..
Following a nationwide contest
in which scores of sculptors We'd
for the honor Of designing the first
postwar ecu, the governmental jury
in charge Of selecting the winner
Is in a quandary.
So many excellent models were
submitted by so many excelient
artists, who in turn had SO many
excellent friends that 1t was vir-
tually impossible to decide VINO
and which was most excellent ana
why. om
Consequently the Journal on
ciai, which promulgates govern
mental activity has just printed a
decree whereby a temporary nve-
franc nickel disc will be struck
off for use until such time as the
fury has made up its mind.
Meanwhile man with nothing
else to do has drawn up q tabula-
ton of the French currency as II
soon will be unless something Is
done about It and offers 1t with
many tears for bus-conductors ana
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
A Bird of q Heat Wave

A Bird of O Heat Wave
The heat may get New Workers,
but it's the humidity that gets
Gotham canaries -. This damp.
hot, heavy weather is causing a
mild epidemic Of asthma among
the city's songsters They be-
and suffer just like humans.
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
BOOTLEG M|LKD. c. POLICEMAN
SUITS LOOM FACES TRIAL

Possibility that the District of
Columbia Health Department may
prosecute local mike distributors
who allegedly bought milk and
cream "bootlegged" into the city
doomed today.
The disclosure came as a re-
suit of a request from DR.. Will
liam C. Fowler, head of the health
department, to Corporation Coun-
sci William w. Bride, as to
whether the health officials can
utilize evidence against the dis
tributors unearthed by the Senate
Milk Trust" investigating COM
mittee in definite court actions.
More than 100000 gallons Of
milk and cream produced by far
mers having no license from the
health department have been
quietly slipped into the city and
marketed through local diaries
since 1928, Fowler was told to-
day at a conference with Assis-
tant Corporation Counsel Elwood
Seal, special investigator into the
milk situation here for the Sen
ate District Committee, and three
representatives of the Maryland
Virginia Milk Producers Asso-
citation.
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
FINDING Of JAIL
F|NESPROBED

Investigation was continued to-
day into the finding of seven Dis
trict Jail envelopes. containing $43,
during raid on a Thirteenth
Street speakeasy last week.
Capt. M. M. Barnard, superin-
tendent of penal institutions, said
no evidence of criminal nature
has been discovered in the affair.
Captain Barnard blamed the loss
on "carelessness" of a Jail en-
ploye, who said he must have
dropped the envelopes.
The money in the envelopes rep
resented a portion of fines paid by
prisoners at the Jail in order to be
released after serving part of SEN
fences imposed after they failed
to pay the fines in court.