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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15

where oh where. are our party prineiplesl
Don't they count for something after all
these years of self-denial that democrats have
been praetieing until their time arrived Are
we to be placed alongside of those republic
cans whose regard for public office of late
years has been simply that of possession be-
ing nine points of the lawl We certainly
hope not. yet that Is just what criticism of
the presidents order amounts to in our
mind.
The democratic party owes it to that
great president. Woodrow Wilson. to re-
store system that he perhaps did not in-
augurate but certainly continued. We owe
IL to Grover Cleveland to carry on policies
that are as inherent in the party as are the
opposite in republican ranks. We don't
deny the fact that patronage is almost es-
sential today to the welfare of any political
party. Without it the fight is almost hope
less. Yet the democrats overthrow the
republicans whose IL years of rule had given
them complete domination of the govern
ment. And the republicans had availed
themselves of this opportunity during the IL
years. Still we think that patronage needs
to be tempered with fine regard for the
nations moral as well as physical being.
We're in agreement with the latest Roose-
welt manifesto. All democrats who stand
behind their party platform must also agree.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
It's Time To Act

Confirming our opinion expressed on
several occasions in the past few weeks the
state department of health has just issued
bulletin in which it calls attention to the
fact that all cities and towns of Connecticut
are at liberty to apply to the federal govern
rnent for funds with which to finance con-
struetion of water systems and municipal
sewage collection and disposal plants. This
city has plans in the offing for expanding
its water system and for building sewage
disposal plant. The work is being stretched
over lengthy period so that the city will
not 90 too heavily into debt in the process.
1t has been our contention right along
that. if proper application was made. the
city would not be denied sufficient funds to
finish its task of laying trunk line sewers
laterals, and a disposal plant. all to be
linked and to eliminate pollution of the
Naugatuck and Mad rivers. not to mention
other smaller tributary brooks and ponds.
AS the state board of health points out any
town can borrow up to 30 per cent of the
cost of labor and materials to back up its
local credit. 1t may be that Waterbury IS
not interested at this time in this necessary
work, but it seems golden opportunity not
to be ignored.
Surgeon General Hugh S. Cummings of
the u. S. Public Health Service declares that
s'.In no way could they appropriations
be more useful to this and future generations
than in the construction and installation of
ADEQUATE and safe water supplies and sewage
disposal systems. Although there have been
advances in all lines of medical science. in
no one field of endeavor. perhaps. has there
been such saving of life as in the installa-
ton of. water supply and sewage disposal
plants. - More than that Connecticut
streams demand action of the promptest sort
in ending their pollution. Let's have it.
If it does necessitate borrowing heavily.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
MIR MACKENzIE HAS A JOB
Hartford Times)

Citizens will take due notice OF
the fact that with the state run
ming several millions Of dollars be-
hind this year and salaries being
cut in all departments, q place has
been found for Harry p. Macken-
zie, republican state leader, In the
Insurance department.
AS the insurance business 10
much under normal It will surprise
most citizens to learn that the en-
ployment Of an extra person in the
licensing division II necessary.
However, ever since the Roosevelt
administration abolished Mr. Mack
enzie's sinecure as supervisor OF the
federal labor bureau It has been
und erstood that q place for him
would be found in the state en-
ploy. He already has been pr0ba-
ton administrator, state commits.
sioner OF labor and supervisor Of
the United States employment serv-
ice. such solicitude for his cons
tinued public employment 10 touch-
ing. Taxpaying citizens who re-
sent his assumption to direct pub
lie affairs ana checkmate the gov,
ernor Of their election, may regard
] that ~ aptly describing #.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
Our Daily Washington Letter
Roosevelt Calls frances Bluff AT Conference
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

prices as O whole may be freed
from great fluctuations as q mass
due to the world gold supply or
changes in demand for 1t and that
you can't materially change rela-
tive values of gold and commodi-
ties by printing paper money.
Explains Basic Plan
Professor Warren has this to
say about the rubber dollar:
1.-THE compensated dollar Is O
proposal to establish by law O
currency redeemable in gold, but
the weight Of gold for which the
dollar would exchange would vary
with the index number Of whole
sale prices Of all commodities;
that Is, II prices rose one per cent,
dollar would exchange would rise
per cent. the dollar would ex-
either as to weight or as to value.
It cannot have a fixed weight
This proposal would give It q
fixed value and a rubber weight.
It raises the fundamental ques-
ton a. to whether q medium OF
exchange should be fxed in
weight or fixed In value.
"A scientific money IL one with
a constant buying power for all
commodities rather than o fixed
weight Of one commodity. Our
whole tax and debt structure rests
on commidity prices. II this struc-
ture Is to be kept sound either
for the creditor or the debtor. II
is commodity prices that need to
be kept stable, not the weight OF
gold for which a dollar Will 'ex-
change"
(Copyright 1898. NESA Service Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
So They Say

No tailor alive can make a dap
per lady-killer Of a fat man. An
ample stomach is death on clothes.
--Adolphe Menjou, movie actor.
:.s
The attitude Of snobbishness Is
all too common among educa-
tors.
President Walter Dill Scott.
Northwestern university.
Tax evasion may be fair enough
according to law but when
ever we place the burden Of life
upon the shoulders Of others we
cease to live according to the law
Of God.
bishop william P. Remington.
Oregon.
Probably the greatest problem
for modern civilization to solve 10
how can individuals, communities.
nations and races learn to live to-
gether and solve their problems
without bloodshed and war.
Chancellor Frederick M. Hunt
er, University OF Denver.
!:
I'm willing to die for him, but
not to be seasick for him.
Secretary OF Interior Ickes. In
declining to attend President
Roosevelt's cabinet meeting
aboard U. 8. 8. Indianapolis,
though he later changed his
mind and went.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15

Arthur FsPotter of the state tax commits
soner's office gave quite little talk recently
to the Meriden Rotary Club in which he
pointed out the fact that SO of our l69
Connecticut towns now boosted boards of
finance. He also said among other things
that many of these boards had been created
through special legislation. We wonder if
he mentioned the fact that also some Of
them were created over strenuous opposition
of the very people who were to make up
the boards. We have Terryville in mind.
1t was given a finance board by the 1888
Legislature, but is having a hard time get
ting members to serve. simply because the
town didn't want the state to give it one
in the first place.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
(Witerbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent 80.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. we're CO.
ing to have rubber dollar" and
perhaps not.
That's what Roosevelt has been
talking about lately. beginning
with his assertion that the United
States sought 1.-THE kind Of dollar
which a generation hence will have
the same purchasing and debt-pay-
ing power as the dollar value we
hope to attain in the near future"
Such a dollar-often called q
Commodity dollar" or "compensa-
tory dollar"-might not buy the
same amount of bread or shoes In
1915 as in 1895, but It would have
the same purchasing power when
applied to general list of COM
modities.
Some economists and currency
experts here think the rubber
dollar. Is Just something Roose-
welt happens to be dwelling on at
the moment - that we probably
will never have one. They think
it's highly impractical unless
other countries become willing to
operate On the same basis, which
ID doubtful. &A -- :
Professor II Advisor
Nevertheless, the man to whom
Roosevelt II supposed to have
listened most intentiy OF late in
his money deliberations IL Prof g.
+. Warren Of Cornell, the foremost
present-day advocate Of q dollar
whose gold value would be based
on the prevailing price level.
Professor Warren Is considered
radical by many economists, but
the record shows that Roosevelt's
various recent currency moves at
home and abroad have closely
paralleled the professors theories.
Other of the presidents ideas,
such as the keeping Of all the
country's gold in vaults a. bull
lion, to be used only as collateral
for currency, have previously
been advanced by Warren.
Professor Warren's theory con-
sequently becomes Of much cur
rent interest. He contends price
levels can't be raised except az
moneys value declines. that
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
THE NUTRITION OF NERVOUS WRECKS

This is the thirteenth in a series of quarrels
with our neurotic readers. The gist Of the
whole subject is given in the booklet Chronic
Nervous Imposition which. II you are impa-
tient you can get at once by sending q dime
and a stamped envelope bearing your address
and asking for No II Of the Little Lessons In
the Ways of Health.
Neurasthenic individuals are not suffering
from weak or exhausted nerves. Their nerves
are no weaker and no more exhausted than
their stomachs or their feet are.
Most neurotics are poorly nourished. either
feeble, Of poor endurance All that may seem
what you would expect from bad nerves But
that is no explanation to anyone who knows
anything of physiology. Neurasthenics or neu-
rotics are poorly nourished because they're
afraid What they're afraid Of is the big secret.
Some neurotics-the crooks-will not tell. 9th
ers the dumb ones. don't know-the origin OF
the fear is hidden in the subconsciousness and
it requires a skilled doctor to probe for 1t and
bring it to the surface Besides the crooks ana
are a good many victims Of this and that or
ganic or functional disease who elect to fiddle
ascrbing their iii health to nerves. and in
dulging in much soolishness in the futile EFFORT
to build up their nerves"
With the microscope 1t Is possible to observe
the journey of meal through the alimentary
canal Normally meal remains for an hour
or two in the stomach. In a neurotic indtvid-
ual. or In a student worrying over an examine
| ton, the meal may remain Ave or six hours In
the stomach. obviously fear. worry, anxiety.
| interferes with digestion.
That's why neurotic individuals are poorly
nourished. The canker of fear not only Inn
pairs appetite but prevents normal digestion
Thanks to poor education -many ignorant
neurotics ply themselves with various medi-
cines or foods which purport to tone, build up
| or strengthen exhausted" nerves. Some years
ago q number of ignorant college professors
were induced by the almighty to sign testi-
monials for some such nostrum, and for time
a large portion of the moron population con-
sumed prodigfous quantities of cottage cheese
which came in beautiful package at an i'm
pressve price.
The truth is that neither medicine nor food
has any specific invigorating influence upon
select medicines or foods for such a silly pur-
pose. 49,
| It is a mistake to think the nervous Invalid
or valetudinarian Is weak because he doesn't
assimlate his food. He doesn't assimilate his
food normally because he Is afraid of some
thing.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
Why We Need A Navy Of Treaty
Strength

A few years ago great many Americans
would have been seriously disturbed by an
announcement that their navy was to be
built up forthwith to treaty strength and
made literally second to none. Today
the news that this is to be done bothers
hardly anyone: and this change Of attitude
measures the failure of American efforts to
get the other nations of the world to agree
on an effective disarmament program. No
peace-loving American need be ashamed
Of his countrys record in respect to disarma-
ment.
Shortly after the close of the World War
the United States fleet. counting vessels
already built. vessels laid down and vessels
definitely appropriated for. was by far the
most powerful fleet ever dreamed of. 1t
the program then in effect had been COM
pleted, no other navy on earth could have
hoped to cope with American sea strength.
The Washington conference saw this eoun-
try voluntarily throwing away the finest
fighting ships ever built. Of our own free
will we strapped our newest and strongest
warships, accepted parity with England
and pledged ourselves not to seek naval
superiority.
That was magnificent beginning. But
It was not followed up; and the fault for
that failure does not rest on the American
government. Repeatedly during the next
decade Washington sought to extend the
arms reduction treaty and scale down world
navies. and repeatedly other powers refused
to 60 along. Sometimes it was England
that stood in the way. sometimes France,
sometimes Japan.
As result. it has been made very apparent
that world sentiment has not yet reached the
point at which any genuine. far-reaehng
naval disarmament program is possible. We
have tried. we have made sacrifices but
it is no go. We have what is left of the
Washington treaty. but there is no likeli-
hood that anything better can be obtained
for years to come.
That being the case what is there left to
do but build up to treaty strength! The
time has not yet come in which we can
discard our defenses. If we continue to
maintain any navy at all. it has to be
good one; and since no one else is willing
( to 20 with us on new reduction program.
we can hardly do anything else than make
our navy the best navy that the existing
treaty permits.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
The Tragedy That
Follows A Divorce

In marriage in Gotham" Ishbel
Ross records in fictional form GER
tain Of the idiocies and meannesses
OF our privileged leisure class az
she has observed them during her
career az Newspaper reporter
a career In which she has covered
some Of the nations most sensa-
tional divorce cases.
She presents q cultured and
wealthy New York family-Hector
Tulloch, architect, his wife. Henri
eta, and their two children, q son
and q daughter
Hector is q kind OF genius, %
wrapped up in his JOB that 1t fails
to occur to him that he Is neglect
ing his wife. Henrietta, in turn, IL
bored, idle and hungry for affec-
ton. So when the son brings home
a college chum for q visit, 1t ID
more or less natural that Henrietta
should fan smack In love with the
young man. =.
That might not have been 30 bad
II she hadn't made the mistake OF
taking It seriously. Nothing less
that Hector has been quietly sup.
porting q mistress all these years
che sues for 1t. Hector files coun.
ter suit, and the case promptly be,
comes major scandal.
The result Of It all, Of course, II
that the whole family gets wreck
ed. The home IL smashed, the lives
Of the two children are perverted
Hector is sentenced to loneliness
and Henrietta to tragic disillusi0n-
ment. And in telling all this. Miss
Ross has s0mehow cOntrived to in.
dict our leisure class as a whole.
and to leave one wondering II IT.
total disappearance would be any
very great loss.
This book 10 published by Har-
pers and sells for 50.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
Ungrammatical Snootiness

One of the things the London economic
conference might place on its "agenda."
while revamping the same. is an international
agreement about the word itself. As far
as an earnest seeker is able to learn from
the dictionaries. this queer expression, used
latterly by diplomats and smoothly adopted
by newspaper correspondents without much
inspection, is Latin plural word meaning
things to be DONE" 1t may be applied to
a personal list for the day on business
mans desk. or to the proceedings of con-
ference or convention.
There doesn't seem to be any more ques-
ton of its plurality than there was of the
plurality of Brigham Young's wives. 1t is.
according to the dictionaries and grammars.
as plural as memoranda" or things to be
remembered" 1t is as plural as data.
meaning things given or facts to use.
1t is like "addenda" or things added"
Yet we find nearly all the writers and
news agencies speaking of this agenda'
and AN agenda." which don't seem to make
sense. Unless all previous ages were wrong
the singular form is "agendum." And APP
parently that form itself is proper enough
to signify "a program of things to be acted
on" But what's the matter with the good
old English word program" itself! Are
international gatherings too snooty for that?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
THE. PAL1sADEs PARKWAY
(New York Herald Tribunel

\
The permanent protection and
public use Of the long crest Of the
Palisades has been the constant
hope Of the regional planners. No
gift could be more opportune than
John D. Rockefeller, IRIS, offer to
the Palisades Interstate park COM
mission of his land on the stretch
from George Washington bridge to
the New York state line for q
parkway that will preserve the
northern link Ii supplied. to che
is a work of the highest popular
for the requisite allotment Of funds
from the great public works ap-
preparation. II the parkway con.
immediate opportunity 10 offered
provement Of lasting benefit.
The whole country has q con-
Germ in this project. As q scenic
possession the Palisades are equiv.
alent in interest to features Of the
national parks. Their conservation
in greater part was made certain
~ tHC dCQulEcucug 1OE. Jh0 1ubsI~
state park OF thirteen miles Of cliffs
and shore front. But the land on
top Of the Palisades, the broad
summit. completing the picture,
has been In danger OF q realty de-
velopment not IN harmony with its
natural beauty. unique in this re-
gion. The building Of the great
bridge, .accentuating this hazard.
prompted Mr. Rockefeller. to buy
the threatened. strips OF land for
safekeeping. His splendid gift,
added to the park commissions
property, will assure SO per cent
Of the broad right Of way that IL
needed. The advantageous chance
at once to provide work and to
preserve the unspoiled skyline OF
the Palisades should carry b strong
appeal to the federal government.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ROAD

Highway Commissioners Macdon.
aid IL now talking about q system
OF super-highways in and around
Hartford. which already has more
state highways leading to Il than
anyotheri city In Connecticut. al.
though Il does not have the traffic
that ID concentrated in this end of
the state. as the states trafIic count
has proved conclusively.
Meantime, those who would
travel between Bridgeport and
Waterbury, two Of the larger cities
In Connecticut, with string OF
substantial communities such a.
Naugatuck. Seymour. Anspnia.
Derby and Shelton Between them,
must use an old highway. badly
graded, narrow and inadequate.
and In parts surfaced with q much
worn, old oiled Inacadam.
Representative Harold r.
Thompson Of Shelton, In calling at
tenti0 INTO the diggraceful irade-
uuacy Of the eheitOn-N iehoIs-
Bridgeport highway did not over.
state conditions. Why do not the
senators and representatives from
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
To-day's Selected Poem
WEEKEND VIGIL

paul Rayson in the New York SUM-
A lone dog barks, the night wind soughs
Eerily in the apple boughs;
Miles off the Boston train salutes
A wayside village-three faint boots.
Sharp overhead a rafter creaks:
/ am surrounded by antiques,
Wrapped in such absolute repose
As only this New England knows.
No heavy trucking here to shake
Foundations. keeping one awake.
o Slumber. that for once can come
Unvexed by Pandemonium!
Yet here am I, stih counting sheep.
Vainly propitiating Sleep.
Confound that dog! A Banshee might
Envy those walls that rend the night
The darkness teens with creepy things!
Hopefully a mosquito sings.
well. here's a bedside book to con,
Pending the rosy fingered dawn.
The s:15 will get me back
TO town, poor insomniac.
Week lending in some sylvan spot
Pops up Q person quite lot!
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
80 Per Cent Lit


Once you published q recipe for o lotion for
red nose. used 1t and 1t worked fine. Now
notice my nose Is beginning to look very red
again. 1t can't be this 4 per cent beer can
1t? take only an occasional glass Of IT, (E
w. Az
Answer
Potassium sulphurated ........... One dram
zinc Sulpnato OAO uAoss
Rose water rOur OuhCSS
Shake the bottle and apply ae night, after 9
hot face bath. Let dry on nose and wash on
next morning.
Sand Pile Sanitation
Is q sand pile ON the ground In the rear
yard, partly shaded by trees, o heaIthfuI pro-
vision for children to play in? OH. K.)
Answer-Yes. The sunlight and air will
keep It sanitary.
The Best Skin Food
Please tell me what You consider the best
skin food one can use. My complexion seems
to lack sparkle, or maybe IL Is just because
am somewhat saIIow &c. RI
Answer-I think Lac bowls 10 the best thing
of the kind. You should take n quart day.
and give your skin plenty of ultraviolet to help
It assimiiate the food. The common name for
J lac bowls y cows milk.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15
Here, There And EUerysDhere

this part of the state get together
and make their influence felt In the
Legislature? Are these legislators
conetnded with being mere CATS
paws, pulling the chestnuts from
the fife for the big bosses, or are
they going to assert their inde-
pendence a. men and Americans?
It is time there was a showdown
In Connecticut and apparently the
best way to begin It ID to throw out
the old ring, lock, stock and barrel.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-15

Former Senator Joseph Irwin Francis of
Maryland is going after the honor that he
held from 1917 to 1923. 1t was DR. Fran
els who was forcibly elected from the re-
publican national convention in Chicago
last summer when it was feared that he was
going to nominate the late Calvin Coolidge
for president. At the time DR. Francis was
himself a candidate for the presidential NOM
nation. However. all his plans went for
naught as he was foreibly elected from the
convention. He seeks to succeed Senator
Goldsborough in Maryland.
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AT e5s THE PAGE
(New Haven Reslsterl

AAt0W 4AsSrOA SsS2<~~-~-kf -
That much goes Into the Con-
gfessi0nal Record that might bet
ter be omitted was never betetr
proven than during the recent SEES.
sion Of congress when q Missouri
senator was Obliged to take the
floor of tina senate and publicly
apologize for some thing he had
had inserted. IN the national diary
without even reading. Il seems the
subject matter OF the article he
wanted, preserved for posterity was
extremely unc0mplimentary to not
only the other senator from his
inscn a. we'll. The trouble arose
over an address made bya for
mer North Carolinian at = cpnver,-
ton Of the Veterans OF Foreign
sf hsIe r Hish tso' RsBaf L x y Il
i66fS well in the Congressional
Record and turned Il over TO SEM
ator Reynolds, 5unicr senator from
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ably the amendment viii remain effective
for some time after its repeal There's
time yet to change bur state laws without
any special sessions. e..