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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27

know it and have known 1t for 7ezrs We make gestures towards relieving the property owner of some of this burden of eovsrn- mental cost, but without actually doing so. Right now we have committee. authorized by the Legislature to make survey of the tax situation in Connecticut It was denied us in lo3l. but granted in 1893.
 We lost two years in just getting sur- vey of tax conditions started, although in .lo3l it was just as apparent that the man who owned property was being overtaxed in proportion to the cost of operating mu- nicipality. By the time the state commit tee has exhausted the field of its study and reported back, it will be 1895 and we have no guarantee that even then will our Legis- lature grant any requests that may be made of it towards changing our tax system. But until the tax burden is distributed more evenly we are afraid that the man who in- vests in property (and it is rightly an in- vestment of the first elass) will be strug- sling continually to keep his head out of out of this difficulty. He. she Or they would confer favor on all of us by pointing 1t financial chaos Somebody must see a way ut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
Courtesy Signals

A peculiar innovation in automobile sig nals has appeared in. England. It is sign adopted by Sir Stenson Cooke, head of the British Automobile Association. consisting of movable sign fastened on the side of the side of the car about where we used to carry rear-view mirrors, and worked by a lever inside. The sign says Thank You" It is raised by the driver whenever another driver shows him any courtesy of the road.
 That would never do with us. We like road courtesies, all right, but we just grab them and rush on. There's good idea. though. in the mechanism. All we'd need to change is the words. Any manufacturer who puts such device on the market. regis tering curses for the drivers to display whenever other drivers annoy them, thereby venting their feelings and saving their voices. would reap fortune. There should be a scale of abusive remarks varying to suit the occasion. With the growing speed of Amer ican driving and the growing need of pro- fane self-expression it has become too diff feult, by ordinary means. to give the other driver an adequate notion of what we think of him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
A FIRST CLASS FfGHTiNG MAN
lNsw York Times)

New York ought to remember Major Gen Halstead Dorey, who has just been promoted, for In 191e he coiiltnarded the business mems training camps at Platts- burg. He was one of General Woods right-hand men in carry- ing out the Plattspurg idea. Not until a soldier qtatins high rank Is his record known to the public. General Dorey has been g gallant comniander of troops. He was graduated from West Point In 1897 and the following year served with credit in the Santiago campaign.
 Tn the PhilippiKeB he was in many engagements as aide deNcari1p of General Robert +. Haii. He was wounded in action with the Moros later on. When Vera cruz Attached tia to the Fourth Infantry, conmaa.nded q compaty. It was colonel, he went tc France in April, 1913. He was frequently in action, and took part in the Aispe- Marne, St Mihiel mad Meuse-Argonne of. twice wounded. on one occasion Colonel Dorey. although suffering from a painful wound, made his way through "a heavy baraFge. steadied his sh aken troeps and drove the enemy out of q fortified rayine, taking . large number of prisoners. He was q capable stan officer who was also .s, first-class fighting man."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
Paris Letter
By IIAMAR NfIDDLETpN

United Press StaH CQrrespOnQent
 Paris (UP)-French militarists, aroused over paciflst resolutions adopted by federations cf school teachers, who repeatedly have up. held. conscientious objectior to military service, find anfnunition for an opposition campaign Tn the arrival here of copies of German textbook. preaching the glories of combat, and the inevitability of another World War.
 The work, entitled 'Introduction to the New National Science" IS written by pr Ewald Banset who Is identified by the press here as the man officially charged. by Chancellor Hitler with persuadins the youth of Germany of the neces- sity and gilory of dying for the
 Digger Army Arguments.
 French advocates of q bigger evidence that the young Germans are being. prepared fors another France. They cite such .provoca- tive; passages, for example, as the following adponitions addressed to
 aThe Versailles Treaty covers us with rfdicuie. We must take our destiny in our own hands, and prepare ourselves by full knowl- edge of the meaning of war"
 "No one doubts tor an instant that another war will be declared, and that In 1t the destiny of Ger many lies. But we must under kstand that war today does not mean I bands, waving flags and military decorations, but Is realistically a bloody and destructive struggle. II means armored tanks spiting death, air bombings, flying steel, bacteria logical oensives. famine and sacn-
 A Start youths at IA.
 pr Banse's exhortation to the youth of Germany. as described Fin '.Le Journal" "Figaro," " Echo de Paris and other newspaper I advocates here of military prep. aration, concludes with q recoln- menation that German boys be taught to shoot. beginning at d2 He writes:
 "War is not altogether destriuc. tive. The actual demolition is only
 q transitory phase of combat. ou'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27

valuable tn combating shs numsroas insect pests that have come into our lives in the last few years. It has been ascertaincd that the Japanese beetle spread many be controlled by dry weather. The drought of 1852 during the breeding months of June and July is believed to have cut down the number of beetles that went into action on our crops. lawns. vegetation. etc. this year. All that may be true. but we cannot depend solely on Mother Nature to exterminate such pests as the Japanese beetle. We've got to adopt every, means possible to beat them. This means we must spend money. Uncle Sam could confer great favor on the nation some one of these days by launching a nationwide drive. backed by rnan-power and money. on all the insect pests that now bedevil us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
Insurance Plan Loses

So far as the proposed deposit insurance for banks is concerned in this state it does not look as if the idea would be accepted. Deputy Attorney General Ernest L. Averill has handed down two findins to State Bank Commissioner Walter H. Perry, which seems to put the kibosh on participation of mutual savings banks. state banks and trust com panes Uncle Sam proposes in inaugurat- ing deposit insurance that corporation shall be formed. This corporation will ex- ist in temporary form from January to July, 1884. The permanent plan of operation becomes effective July l. lo34.
 In finding for the mutual savings banks Deputy Attorney General Averill issued a categorical statement. He stated that the bank commissioner should not allow them to join the Federal Reserve system. He also said they should not be allowed to partici- pate in either the temporary or permanent plan of the federal deposit insurance eorpor- ation without first becoming member of the Federal Reserve system. We hardly think in the face of this rather extraordinary finding there will be rush for mutual sav- ings banks to join the Federal Reserve sys- tenn. And if they don't they are naturally excluded from availing themselves of the deposit insurance feature.
 As regards the state banks and trust com panies the deputy attorney general ruled that they should not be Authorized to join the Federal Reserve system so long as such mem bership carries with it mandatory obliga- ton to become member or participant in the permanent plan of deposit insurance. =" The bank commissioner can approve of such banks as the above joining the Federal Re- serve system. but it is his opinion that sub- seribing to the temporary plan. which lasts only six months, may open the door to some thing which is not expected, inasmueh as the permanent plan is enforced on all banks accepting the temporary one. It is caution that is being preached to us. Perhaps it should be. but there are many people who believe that until depostors are guaranteed insurance banks are going to be regarded with somewhat hostile. if not suspicious eyes. by certain class of people. And that is not desired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27

Hartford's plan to bottle up the valley of the east branch of the Farmington river to form huge storage reservoir for it's metropolitan district is baked by four property owners. They are the sole barriers between the success of the plan and failure. They have thus far refused to sell their land in Barkhamstead and Hartland. Condemns tion proceedings. of course. will force them to accept some offer eventually, Legislative approval of the water supply plan having been given the affected property owners sute- ly must see the handwriting on the wall. Fair or not they must give up what they own. of course. being suitably reeompensed for 1t. That seems to be the law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
America Planning Society

The time has just about come when it is possible to survey the whole field of reeapt government endsavor and get line on the direction in which we are heading. And while such survey reveals good deal of progress toward entirely new fields, it con- tains very little to delight the radical or to frighten the conservative. The various acts taken at Washington begin to drop into plaee. now, and their interrelationship begins to be clear. Let's have look at some of them.
 A rigid scheme of production control and price adjustment in the great oil industry is getting under way. Production control is being exercised in broad. sweeping way over agricultural commodities. The cotton textile industry voluntarily has given to the NRA the power to veto the installation of additional productive machinery in any unit of the business.
 Senator Robert F. Wagner. chairman of the National Labor Board has served mo- tice that NRA penalties can be used to en- force the boards decision in industrial dis. putes, and he adds that the conduct of both business and labor now is 2 matter of pub- lie interest" The Federal Trade Com mission is beginning to investigate the sal- aries of executives and directors in practically every big corporation which does an inter state business.
 Lump all these things together and add them to such plans as the Muscle Shoals scheme, the federal housing plan. the "sub- , sistenee farms" program of Secretary Iekes. pnd similar ventures, and what do you get? You get coherent definite. and spirited advance toward that glttering abstraction. . planned society. Now planned society is new thing under the sun, on this side of the Atlantic. Yet the form which this plan is taking is not in the least frightening.
 It certainly is not Socialism; it certainly is not Fsseism; it seems to be, in fact, new and distinetively Ameriesn effort to solve problem which has driven many other nations to dictatorship. If it works, it will De great achievement. Ifit fails, it will leave us in good position to try something else.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
Farm Price Fixing

Nearly all American farmers are agitated by their troubles and their slow progress. to- ward prosperity. But like other classes they vary greatly in their ideas of what should be done. One of the few farmers spokesmen who know exactly what they want is E. E. Kennedy, secretary of the Na- tional Farmers Union, He wants cost of production" for the farmers crops. His idea of cost of production is worked out in detail as follows:
 Crop prices must be high enough to as- sure the farm owner per cent return on his real estate investment. plus deprecia- ton allowance for his equipment, plus a salary of $l03.46/a month for operating the farm. He has worked out scale of farm prices which, he thinks, would meet this requirement satisfactorily. There would be bushel for corn, $l.37 for wheat. 50 cents for oats, "A cents for barley. 78 cents for rye, SLY for timothey seed Sll.42 a hundred for hogs. Sl3.50 for veal, Sl2.6S for lambs, 26 cents pound for chicken, 40 cents for wool. S2.74 hundred for milk. 62 cents pound for butterfat and 35 cents dozen for eggs.
 This list. or something like 1t, very likely. would bring salvation to the farmer. But getting it into tffeet is another question. Is the government obliged to peg every pro- duct at the level given. and hold it there? And what chance is there of such miracle. when the government has failed so disast- rously in begging wheat and cotton? It's much easier to fix prices on paper than 1t is on the market.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
(Denlocrat Washington COrrest,OnCentl

Washington--When dead cats fill the air, Farm Recovery officials want the corpses to fall where they belong.
 It was General Johnson of MIRA who predicted the cat barrage. He has plenty of worries, but so haa the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- irinistration, which among other things fears popular reaction tc price rises in Ahe necessities of life.
 Vigorously attempting to see to it that the farmer gets the full benefit of farnls product price in- creases, AAA also is determined that retail increases caused by MIRA and other factors shall not be attributed to the gradual arti- ficial process of restoring farmers to pre-war purchasing power par fly.
 It called in the owners of Washington department stores tho other day to see why clerks were blaming increases on bed sheets and other cotton goods on the cot ton processing tax.
 The department stores all agreed that the tax was g negligible fac tor" which was what AAA wanted publicly admitted. Previously il had forced textile manufacturers to back down from the conten- ton that the tax was ruining them.
 
 Cost Variations Shown
 No one here knows the ratio of the MIRA and 'AAA added cost fac- tors in processed, retailed farm products. But interesting figures on cotton cloth recently worked out by Gardener Means, brilliant brain trust economist, now may be revealed.
 Means studied 17 types of cot ton cloth, of which a a'given amount averaged 31.25 cents in pfice in 1919 and PISS cents last month.
 Here's how the price varied at different dates, and how that cost was divided:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
A Book q Day by BRUCE CATION
sfs@S fsF ~I.ssass' 7 At...>t'sr sltt " 70 Amazing Tale Of A Change In Sex
BepsLecE<

It will be . long, long time be- forc you read a more completely amazing book than Man Into Wo- man." which Is edited by Niels Hover.
 This book, seemingly an authen- tic account of an actual occur- renee. tells of . Daniel artist who was horn . male and died 2 fe- i The artist was one Einar Veg ener. Born in Copenhagen. he moved to Paris as young man, married q young women who was also an artist. aiid- established quite a reputation as a painter. For a number of, years he lived a life which seems to have been per fectly normal. Then his health and his nerves began to fall. He suffered an acute and prolonged spiritual depression and q variety of physical ailments which seemed both causeless and insurable. At one time he was ready to commit suicide to end his troubles. At last he consulted some Ger man gland specialist. This man, after examining him. told him that nature had played a cruel joke on him. His body contained female
 glands as well as male glands He
 was new kind Of dual personality "a Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde. If yoi please.
 He could be cured, said the spe- cialist, by a series of delicate oper- atipns. only, when they wepe over,
 he would be a woman. and not a man.
 The operations were duly per formed. Einar Wegener emerged as . woman. He took tue name of LII Efbe, his inarr.age vas dis
 solved. and he-or shsset gut # to
 another aperatiSn was needed, and
 All Of this, freakishly interesting
 leaves a petty bad taste Ia oHe's mouth. .. Man rfitQ WQmAhf | is published by nutt9n fp ss.s0.s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
Nero York
nY JUI.rA HT,ANsHaHD

R@ ~&+&N- 4.f -P= author and lecturer on Russia, just back from Moscow, says that the BolShevii<s insisted on viewing the Lindbergh flight there as e fore runner of Americas recognition of Russia. Col Lindbergh denied any dip- Iomatic significance in his flight and repeatedly insisted that it was a private business venture. But the Russians merely shrugged their shoulders and all had one answer.
 sWeil,. they said, sisnificantly. "LindberEh never. would have | flown here under Hooverls Hindus' new book, The Great Offensive,'s IS the Book-of-the- Month Clubs November choice and he win be guest of l1pnor at q round of literary teas. He 0 work ing now on q novel with . plot laid In Russia.
 Men and Food
 Woman's place may be In the kitchen, but e new fashion quar- terly for men (etited by men and | for rnen), shows that the masculine contingent has . certain pre-occu- patton with the subject of food. Out of a dozen articles by well-
 known men four have to do with
 cooking. George Ade writes 2 Tewns 1ssai,ss Semoans SM oasi the lost art of l ordering a dinner, pr Arthur F. Kraetzer writes his thoughts about food, and Godfrey Kerr. well-
 known actor. xelsl men how not te Alfred Lunt is .another ac-
 serioSsiy. e y He haSituaiiy con cocts a new dish of his own ip-' opens and names 1t for the author of the play. Most Of
 his special friends, too, have had some Lunt cuisine mas terpiece created just from
 them and named for them. The Close Shave in Politics | There Is a certain fine advan- tage in politicians having a schoolgirl complexion. In the present. nayoralty race in New | York, Joseph McKee's smooth. fine, pink face needs only one shave a day to keep 1t sleek and we'll groonied. Fiorello La Guar dia, however. has the stiffest Kind | of stuBble and he must take time | to rage 1t twice ' day in order to keep looking facinlly fit. Visitors seeing La Gpardia in his office be- | tween five and six, these busy days, are apt to find him collar
 less. with 3 barber:s apron around
 his neck. being shaved by D barber I who comes in regularly. l He's an agile barber. He has to
 be. for La Gaurdia Is never. still 2
 minute, talking. moving this way
 to reach some papers or that way
 to pass them to someone else or | waving his arms for emphasis.
 Watching him, you are refninded of the dynamic energy tnas .staSepa Seps
 HooseYelt on the moys every mn
 For Martial Happlness
 D. Nj. Delatieid, popular English | authorcss of s.The Diary of a Pro- | yincial Lady" and other fayorites. l advises separate vacations for hus-
 bands and wives. as one step tow ards long. happily married lives.
 ~ tea for her. she told how her husband likes cold weather, shoot ling. tramping about soggy moors of Scotland. She likes sizzzling hot weather, lying on the sand. swim
 ming aud long tramps in glaring sunlight.
 isso he goes to Scotland and l
 go to South France or Italy and we come back both thoroughly sure that our kind os vacation is perfect," she says. She also thinks that breakfasting alone
 and if bed--woiiid be ideal.
 "But no English husbapd would
 ever stand that" she adds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27

in an age whose publicity is gar rlered BY more hafnbQxhnt, ifistitu- tipns. pr Nptt's career bumnted the Union tradition. He was president from 1SO t9 tSss.a . peri9d which spans dearly ths iirst hatf Of our deyeiop pinent. from the fnql sstab- lishmeht of the dernpcracy as a functipAing unit to the flhaal test of its sotidarity. And thrpuEholit his long preaidencx, pr Nptt was eyer ih the lead 0f the more Iiberal edp- cat0th freqhsptix shocking crth- cdox cphservatives, continually sSiia'ps sss IA hls shsFss into ! fdsHdsa Rs As,s Hsst l. P sssd,sss gss y,ss ;,sa, ss%ossd ssssss E 4f.Is Sss dsssE Sgssss sss. tas hs scheduies of certain students, a
 RiSn sao% eswa esons snsD Mso nr rs
 iNpS Ri NppssssiSs ss ths ossIy Nj Iss sure ibasi'
 iioMed wi{h anotHsr more hsretioai
 rockihE sariy iSineteenth century edpc9t 9tienRl opanion in dismay'
 loSy ss tks oniy tfue hope for pro. Eress, Dr Mott inUtituted courses
 In chemistry and engineering. Hs
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 ws5 HSE, he bslisved. to 'pFpd d1cs s
 :.isl' ss issSIsss sa slssassss ssssss' sss As pr Edxerd Ellsry, pressnl s tsSs sheessss ss i5 nt Estts iidsak i'i Fe' i Union college has presented Con, necticut with a long, series o1 noted sssasdsys 1SasssSs ssTssasL RsEs fsccssi a' tion of this fact.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
Daily Washington Letter Range Is All Wrong in Dead Cat Barrage But No
 Time Is Wasted in Correcting It.

tax added four cents to cost of the cotton itself, and by mid-Septem. Der the division stood as indicated
 If there IS any great variation in fact from these figures, the wage factor probably is' lower. and the overhead -proht itep, higher, as there was nc means 0i measuring the effect of stretch: outs, speedups, and improved ma. chinery since 1929.
 Other MIRA costs are added before the product reaches con sumers in ffnished form. Store executives told how manufacture CTS, for instance, itemized the tax on dozen boys blouses at 60 cents dozen and increased labor costs at s3. An invoice for cot. ton sheets billed $274, of which $107.S1 was attributed to process tax and increased labor costs.
 First Lady Is Tafxly
 Mrs. Roosevelt. who usually makes out her Christmas list iii April, this year, found time to de so only a few days ago. Three nationally famous women have been Intensely Interested in the la. Dor problem in. the steel industr, and in its captive coal mines Secretary of Labor Perkins spoke for steel workers at the code hear ing and insisted on addressing them in the field. Mrs. Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania had defied obstructions to denouncc steel bar ons in a speech to coal miners. And Mrs. Roosevelt, as isn't gen neraily known. privately insists that mine and steel mill workers must have square deal. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador, dog. ed at the British American dehi conference the other day. Sec. retary of the I'reasury VIII Woo- din, not yet recovered in health, is away most of the time and doesn't work much when here, The treasury hpd Is carried by keen minded Undersccretary Deaf Acheson.
 Copyright 1893, N1sA Service Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
Here, There And Evetywherv,
BE4TER' THAN THAN "A AA:CIRGUjs' ]: j'
(Meridon Journail

Happy leisctian saAys are here again. Eyefyboay is haping q swell elections seriously because they need the money pr have friends Nho need t: 4 few places . Ike Waterbury, panbury and New Lon don can stand aside and watch the battling in Bridgebprt Hartford. N New Hsysn iiefs N {, yCting M IS !. in N No 2 ping In Metidsn, where the voters do their buaitess in nscetahet. X
 The threk-cornsrsd light n la.i Hyiagspors SI, NSysmbsFg lnsl;i hSIes teal program. Jasper McLeYy, the socialist oiferinS. who first ran fer mayor 9 2yeats ago; Is the ohtv sanding candidats h view of hil run two years age when be pushed the fepnbiicans aside and nsArly putnosed the denioStats. The old- line organizatioiis have made nom- inatichs pf no special cphseQterce and in the event of success for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-27
To-day,s Selected Poem
ovER.NIGHT CAMP


 (By Aieen l.. Fisher in The Christian Science
 Monitor) had forgotten for the moment how Blue bonfire smoke blow bitter in the eyes, How resin crackles in the hemlock bolIgh. And cedar snaps and pithy poplar sighs. had forgotten-how the stars hang thick Tn all the branches of the steepled trees, How darkness falls, % chilly y-clad and quick. And night wind patters on the aspen leaves. But as stood and watched the sparks prick
 holes
 Tn the deep depth of night. it all came back That feel of woods, the ruddy glow of coals, The throb of other nights rc stIil and black. And fsnif- f-forgotten memories by the quire, Lit un aeaAA and danced before the fire.