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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
2 THE WORST STATE
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We respectfully call the attention
of. Motor Vehicle Commissions
Connor to the fact that In the
proportion to motor vehicle fatal
tiles to population Connecticut has
the worst record of any state IN
the Union. Not only the worst this
year, but persistently maintained
on that basis over a period OF
years. .a
= We should say that no small part
Of the responsibility rests upon the
motor vehicle department for its
insistence In the past, that speed
10 not essentially q cause OF acci-
dents and that other matters, such
as faulty brakes etc, are more
frequently to blame.
As a result we have had for
years a persistent series Of drives"
against faulty equipment. etc,
while the department itself has not
only; deprecated drives against
speeding but has posted the high.
ways with signs encouraging all
an hour. A direct invitation to
trouble, because II As il set down
as reasonable speed. many Will
see no reason why they may not
drive so or so without reprimand.
yrA And yet any person. in five min
utes, taking the accident statistics
of the department could prove that
speed is the main cause of Connec-
tfcut's bad record, and that most
OF the attention Of the department
has been FILTERED away on triviali-
ties which hardly figure In the rec
ord at all.
We invite Commissioners Connor
to consider facts and put aside aca-
demic theories. He ID just begin
ming his administration and has an
excellent chance to save lives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

fore government board which is empowered
TO make its rulings stick.
But there are rumblings along the horizon.
Some of the very largest industries in the
country have never had any use for organized
labor and Spokesman for certain of these
industries have been limiting pretty broadly
that they don't propose to change their
policy now. no matter what the new law
says. Some of them are working feverishly
to organize dummy company unions. by
means of which they could thwart their
employees desires for self-expression in labor
disputes. Others are evieting employees who
join unions and blaeklisting men who try
to organize them.
Before very long one of these industrialists
is going to collide headon with the industrial
recovery law and then we shall see just how
progressive cur administration really is. IF
the administration sidesteps, ducks or evolves
a meaningless compromise which leaves the
open-shop Toryism of the industrial giants
essentially unchanged, it will brand its pro-
gressivism as fraudulent. If. on the other
hand, it stands up boldly toe to toe with
the reaetionary employers and starts battling
to make the law mean what it says it means.
then it will justify the hopes of the people
who voted it into power last November.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
Bandit Hostages

Frontier bandtry seems to be reappear-
ing in our Southwest, with Improvements
both ancient and modern. The chief mod
ern addition is the machine gun. With it is
found the primitive institution of hostages"
There is modern depravity. though, in
the use now made of the hostages They
were formerly exchanged by warning nations
or tribes, in treaties, as security for peace.
If either side then broke its pledges, its own
hostages would be put to death by the other.
Our modern enemies of society kidnap and
carry with them innocent people to shield
themselves from attack.
Missouri police, nevertheless. are given
the order Shoot to kill, disregarding who
ever may be riding with the escaping GRIM
inals. So if the innocent hostages are
killed. that's just their bad luck. They
might be killed anyway explains the SUI
perintendent of patrol, and it's better to
make sure that we get the bandits
There will be divided opinions about that.
A policeman serving as hostage would feel
differently. And many will say that it's
better to save an innocent man than to kill
a criminal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
Rights OF Labor

One of the things the events of the
summer are bound to show US is just how
progressive. or if you prefer the word. how
radical the national administration actually
Is. So far its actions and policies ought to
satisfy the most liberal of citizens. TIE has
put progressives in important government
positions. 1t has gone ahead with such
progressive programs as government opera
ton of Muscle Shoals. Most important of
al it has erected vast framework which is
the very essence of daring progressivism for
the control of industry, the expansion of
employment. and the raising of wages and
commodity prices.
What remains to be seen is how it will
act under that framework. The tip-off on
this is very likely to come in connection with
che administration attitude towards or
esnized labor under the industrial control
law. In its outlines that law is all that
the most ardent progressive worker could
devise. Every worker is to be free to join
labor union of bis own choosing. He is to
get direct representation in all disputes over
pay. hours and other working conditions be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
She Just Got Too
Much Protection"

"Protecting Margot," by Alice
Grant Rosman, is pleasant little
story about the unmitigated nuis-
ance that one of these managing
women can make of herself.
Margot, in this tale, Is a middle
aged Englishwoman of means VINO
lives by herself in a house in Lon
don. When she was young her
husband had run away with an
other woman, and all her rela-
tives--in particular an officious
and extensively virtuous sister-in-
law-had rallied round at once
to protect her from the cruel
AS result, the poor old girl
could hardly call her soul her
own. She could have had a good
time IL people had left her alone,
but they wouldn't think of 1t.
Margot needed to be looked after,
and they were only too ready to
do Especially since they could
sponge on her great wealth while
they were doing It.
All of this comes to a head
when Margot's cousin, a young
man some 20 years her junior,
returns to London from India,
jobiess and broke. He and Mar
got become allies. and between
them, at last, they confound the
other relatives and Margot wins
her freedom. /.
And after reading this book. and
rejecting on other English novels,
your reviewer is moved to wonder
IL there is on earth any form OF
life quite as disagreeable as the
upper class Englishwoman OF un-
certain years. Certainly the ones
that get into novels nowadays, are
enough to make one despair of the
future Of the empire.
This book is published by Min
ton, Balch and Co, for 81.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
Fundamentals

"Fundamentalism' hasn't been in such
good repute since some so-called religious
fundamentalists began applying their ideas
dogmatically to social and scientific questions.
1t has come to suggest shallow opinion
combined with bullheaded resistance to
knowledge and progress. And that is pity,
for it is. really a good word for a good
thing. "A fundamentals says DR. Robert
A. Millkan, famous American scientist, is
a man of enough intelligence, experience.
sanity and breath of understanding to see
beyond the trivial, the fantastic. the tran
sient, to the great foundation principles
which underie the forward movement of
the race"
In short, real fundamentals is one who
gets down to fundamentals. who goes to the
bottom of things and anchors firmly to that
bottom when he finds it. The word "radi-
CAL has suffered similar. and even worse,
corruption. Properly speaking, radical
thinker is one who goes to the root of
matter, and does thorough job, instead Of
oontenting himself with surface indications.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

Well, New Jersey has nice canal on its
hands now and probably doesn't quite know
what to do with it. The old Delaware and
Raritan Canal which is a. miles long and
reaches from Bordentown to tidewater on
the Rsritan river near New Brunswick has
just been donated to the state by the Penn
sylvania Railroad. Oddly enough the canal,
which will be 100 years old in 1884 has
been used constantly since it was built.
Chartered in 1880 the first boats passed
through it in 1884 and up until this year
continued to do SO, though perhaps at
rsrer intervals. Just what state would do
with canal, we don't know but on
behalf of New Jersey we'll accept it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
A Colossal Mistake

If there are now any active anti-prohibl-
ton organizations in Connecticut they
should call it to the attention of their ma
tional headquarters that the speech of
Governor Wilbur L. Cross to the state con-
venton held in Hartford Tuesday is excel
lent campaign material. There are states
yet to vote on the subject of repeating the
9th amendment. Though we have follow
ed in the footsteps of eleven other states
and others will follow US, the battle to Dust
prohibition laws from the federal constitu-
ton does not end until the thlrty-sixth state
shall have ratified the proposed repeater.
Addressing the repeal delegates assembled
in unique and historical asscmblage
necteuts first state convention to act upon
an amendment to the federal constitution
the governor showed considerable tact and
talent in his remarks. But more than that
he brought home the fact that in this state
as in others there are members of all
political sects united on one common ground
in their opposition to the prohibition amend
ment This he accounted as a remarkable
thing and a tribute to our form of govern
ment that would permit such transcending
of party lines.
In classifying the amendment colossal
mistake he merely echoed what many an
other man in public life has said In part he
said that. The federal constitution should
never be amended except in cases of neces-
sity and then only within the sphere OF, the
purposes for which it originated. The fed
eral. constitution is no place for the fixed
embodiment of experimental legislation
which at best belongs to Congress or state
government. so that if it does not work it
may be quickly repealed instead of being
nullified to the detriment of the enforcement
Of all law. - There is sage counsel. not
from wild-eyed fanatic. but an individual
Of sufficient years and learning to give it.
Let the nation heed the Connecticut execu-
tiye's advice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1888


Perhaps the most disheartenjng news that
we have heard or read in long time is the
admission of defeat by the Department of
Agricuiture at Washington in its campaign
to rid the country of the japanese beetle.
II does seem crying shame that this pest
which was brought into the nation from
foreign country should live and thrive on
bur crops and flowers to such an extent that
quarantine areas have been established in
fhe past. Yet it is evident that the few pre-
cautions that were taken to prevent the
beetle invading other sections of the nation
were not sufficient. Where now are those
trities who talked. long and loudly about
this foolish waste of taxpayers money on
few bugs?
Charles H. Hadley. head of the federal
departments research. laboratory. declares
that IF the quarantine area did not exist.
we probably would see the beetle on the
Great Lakes this fall. Because of the pres
INT restrictions it will be several years be-
fore the beetle gets that far Now the quar-
sntine includes all New England save Maine
and few northern Vermont counties, New
Jersey. Delaware. one-third of New York.
practically all of Pennsylvania, and sections
of Maryland and Virginia. That's a pretty
good advance for mere bug which wasn't
known in this country ten years ago.
And the japanese beetle isn't the only
pest that has been brought to our shores
from foreign countries. There is the pestifer-
Gus Mexican bean beetle which caused SO
much havoc last summer and threatens TO
do SO again this year. And what of the
oriental fruit fly? There are new pests ar
irving every day to add to the worries OF
In, farmer and the orehardman. And yet
when there is some talk of spending few
Thousands in studying ways and means of
controlling these insects there is'a hue and
cr7 from the very sources that would not
object to spending millions on public pro-
jeces that will erumble in the dust of the
next generation. If our fair land from coast
to coast is to be prey to advancing hordes
Of bugs we certainly don't deserve to inherit
the land then.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

That tiny item carried in several of the
state papers this week caused just about as
much excitement in certain circles as we
though it would. The Democrat commented
upon it yesterday by pointing out the am
bilious plans of Hartford becoming super
city some Is or 50 years hence. Building for
the future is Hartford, there's no two ways
about it. And the city is perfectly correct
in taking this attitude. However. we can't
very we'll overlook the fact that other Sec
tons of the state have the right to complain
if they notice any discrimination. And
that's what is being rumored now. The
Bridgeport Telegram comes right to bat
following the announcement that the State
Highway Department hasn't given up hope
for circular bypass around Hartford
which would include three Connecticut river
bridges. 1t points out that there is need of
establishing good highway communication
between other cities OF the state before Hart
ford which is now approached by the best
roads in the state gets further favors. In
particular the Telegram mentioned the
Shelton Nichols Bridgeport road. the main
highway between the latter city and Water
bury. 1t certainly needs to be widened and
to be improved at these stretches between
the concrete roadways. And there will be
many more complaints if the state highway
department should suddenly start a tremend-
Gus project like the Hartford bypass and
ignore projects that have been hanging fire
for years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

leader. is once more in the employ Of the
state. He has been added to the staff of
the state insurance commissioner and will
hold temporary position in the licensing
division. At one time MIR Mackenzie was
prohibition director in the state. Then he
held the state labor department job. Lat
terly he represented the federal governments
labor department in the state. That office
was abolished, so once more the state has
taken care of this useful official. You GER
tainly have to give Mr. Mackenzie credit
for his connections. To OUT knowledge he
is the one man who is reasonably sure of
political job no matter what party or
faction is in power. Long life to himl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
TAX.ExENGTT BONDS
ATTRACTIVE M

Cities, with waterbury, Bridge
port, New Haven and Hartford In
mind particularly, express salts
faction over the cordial reception
given their recent large bond issues
by the financial fraternity, despite
the admittedly bad conditions OF
the local treasuries.
There should have been no
pleasant surprise on this score. The
bonds were attractive to those
lucky individuals and corporations
that still have cash to invest. The
interest rates were high. as good
banks: the income Is not taxed by
either federal or state govern
rlents, and the security II good,
especially so now that the state
stands ready to take over the nsan-
afement OF municipalities that de-
fault and TO stand behind their OBJ
Z The lsx.sxempsion pfovislop =
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
Hardin
Letter
BY JACK HOWARD
Omitted Press star Correspond

(Un1te0 EfCSS sum NOTTCoIrUluSAsS
Hardin, Manchukuo. CUP)---
Pleasure for the people and proht
for the state Is an old idea being
put into practice in the new So
called paradise of Asia, Manchu-
kuo. In It's search for sources OF
revenue the government has as
covered two valuable assets close
ly related to the fundamental char
acter and taste Of the Chinese
populace. These revenue sources
are opium and gambling. Both are
being fully exploited by Japan
tutored Manchukuo.
Repeated denials emanate from
Japanese and Manchukuo sources
that state gambling or opium
monopoly exists and vet y 10 pos
sible to find many ESTABLISHMENTS
which openly cater to gamblers or
opium addicts. In such cases the
places are known to officials ana
the gambling houses actually be-
long to a state monopoly. opium
dens usually are run by private
enterprise with local sanction.
Less than block from kitai-
skaya treet, the main thorough-
fare here, is located one OF the
busiest and most pretentious opi-
UNI dens. An elaborate display OF
vari- coiored electric lights festoon-
ed about the face Of the building
speaks for security in the face OF
the law. Now that sumner 10 here,
the door Is wide open and yards
from the site the unmistakable
odor Of opium mingles with less
pleasant smells.
This establishment Is typical Of
many. These .dens pay no tax to
the state and theoretically are not
recognized. Hence It Is most easy
| for an official to deny that such
places exist. The sale prerequisite
which insures protection from and
by the police 10 that all opium
used In these dens be purchased
from the state monopoly and that
no gambling or prostitution be
tolerated upon the premises. A
proprietor securing license guar
antees to abide by these regula-
lions knowing full well that the
last two are easily eyaded as long
as he continues to buy large
quantity Of opium.
Gambling houses, rs q rule, are
not run openly. The Goddess Of
Chance can be found lurking IN
many tuckcd-away buildings doine
Ia thriving business which Is daily
Swelling the Goxcrnucn<eI co4eri
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

Old-time picture goers will recall the days
of the Biograph company. 1t was with Bio
graph that Mary Pickford whose marital
woes now make the front pages made her
debut on the screen. Well Mary's first
leading man for those early two-reelers, Ed
ward Dillon, has just died at Hollywood,
California. He was so years old and a real
veteran of the films. He developed Fay
Tineher and directed for D. w. Griffith for
g years. Time certainly passes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
To-day's Selected Poem
SUMMER LITANY
paul Rayson in The New York SUM

paul Rayson in The New York SUM
I grant the High Sierras are
Impressive from a Pullman car;
Roughing 1t In the Rockies may
Inspire disciples of Zane Grey.
Yet there are others who can live
Content without the Primitive,
Who. frankly. don't respond at all
When from afar the Red Gods call
Let zealots blatantly exult
In ozone and the Nature Cult.
Their epidermis barred with un-
Abashed citation to the sun.
Let summer come! I will not race
Forthwith to some Wide Open Space!
My pailid brow still proves me quite,
The sedentary troglodyte.
Who imperturbably can bear
TO breathe refrigerated air.
This job OF keeping cool Is no
Perpetual racing to and fro
! have Q window with a view
And like what I'm accustomed 10.
short shrift TO those egrogious boreg
Who glorify the Great outdoorsi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
A MEDAL FOR BENET
Hartford Courant) :.

1t has been amounted that the
Theodore Roosevelt Medal Will be
given to Mr. stephen Vincent Benet
on october ~ for a distinguished
contribution to American lliteratures
The Roosevelt Memorial aAssocia-,
ton has taken its time TO honor
Mr. Benet for his John Browns
Body" but few who have read the
poem will question the wisdom ~
the award. 1t was published -
1928, but those Who read II then
and who now study 1t once more
are not likely to revise their first
high opinion OF It. t.1's
Mr. Benet was born in Pennsyl-
vania in 1898, years alter the
civil War ended, and yet he
caught the spirit Of the contestants.
as veterans themselves admit, and
tells of their Thoughts and of their.
conflicts as they would have had
they had the poetic gift. He tells
the story sometimes In rhyme. now.
and then In blank verse and 4cc-
casionally In prose. I. He sees y 81,
from the slave ships bringing their
black cargoes from Africa to the
last day of Lincofn's life, and the.
return of the soldiers to their
uOIHcb dLtCI LUG . SdhhCAS1SAsst
notes the stockade at Andcrsonvilie
and Wirtz on trial for his life.
"A man called Writ,
A SWISS. half brute, half fool and
wholly q ciod. !.
Commanded that camp of
spectres.r
He is apt IN his descriptions, AZ,
Rough boarded Tecumseh sher-
who had tried most things, but
being cursed with taste
For honesty had found small
luck In his stars;
sEx-soldier, banker, lawyer. each
In its turn,
Ex-hcad of Southern military
school,
Untidy 'ex-president OF q little
horse railroad:
Talkative, nervous, salty Scotch-
Irish fightcrN
And, again regarding Grant,
now and then turning to whiskey
to take the sting from winter ana
certain fnemories-
Poor and shabby. old Gap
Grant Of Galena
Who should have amounted 70
something. but hadn't 80 far
Though he worked hard and
| was honest"
This, too, should be said for Mr.
Benet and his poem, that the few
surviving veterans. North ana
South. are Indebted to him for
bringing them ana their work to
memory. Veterans Of q more re-
\ cent war hold the stage. though
officially the Civil War survivors
were remembered when pensions
were cut a month ago, but Benet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
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. Grady.
Address him. care OF the Democrat sending
stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13
Here, There And EOeryDhere

rcsnrrected. at least for another
generation, the. survivors In blue or
gray, who Fought from Louisiana TO
Gettysburg. Mr. Benet Is yet far
from. being an old man and Will,
one hopes, write more. but the
county should be very thankfui
for what he has already given II.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

Well, well. of course. it was bound to hap
pen sooner or later. but we weren't exactly
expecting it at the moment. Yes. sir, good
old Harry Mackenzie. republican county
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

High tide at Milford Friday. July IA
6:18 a. M, daylight time; low tide. l2l
p m. daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-13

IT. as scientist maintains, man de-
veloped his intelligence by a prenatal fight
for oxygen" where did he get the intelli-
gence to start that fight1