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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19

lar by as much as one-half. issue
billions of paper money and or.
der Federal Reserve banks to bu,
So, 000,000,000 Of government
bonds.
Huge Relief Fund
Repudiate government prom.
ises to pay Its obligations In gold
Put the government into the
power business at Muscle Shoals
Regulate private securities and
drive out dishonest dealers In
stocks and bonds. a'sv
Prevent the Morgan and Other
banks from dealing in stocks.
Distribute 50O,000,000 In di.
rect distress relief funds and 49,.
800, 100000 for public works.
Exert new federal powers over
the railroads. (
spend $3.50, 0oo,0 900 or more or
reforestation camps.
Controls Postal Rates
Cancel existing ocean and air
mail contracts.
Pour out billions Of dollars ts
finance bonus and farm mort.
cages. /
Create free employment agen.
cies in states which haven't any
Increase or decrease posta
rates. sB......,tsts,
Disregard civil service laws II
choosing personnel for the va
rious new bureaus and admins
trations.
Raise tariffs and restrict i'm
ports.
And do various other littl,
things. 54 M
Copyright 1898 NEA Service, Inc,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19

These Roosevclts just about constitute the
student body az Groton School. Groton.
Mass. judging by the list of awards at the
annual graduation exercises there last week.
Five members of the family were honored
with Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt present for
the ceremonies Her own son. Franklin D..
Jr, graduated just 80 years after his illus
trious father. He also received two prizes.
Cornelius Roosevelt. son of Theodore, won
two prizes. while his brother. Quentin.
also was honofed with one. Archibald
Roosevelt, Jr. won prize and also a medal.
Kermit Roosevelt Jr. won the Grctopisn
prize. Another son of the president, John.
is still student at the school. 1t looks.
too, as if the Roosevelts would continue no
rule the roost at Groton. as they have for
years and years. It's nice family tradition
to preserve now that it is well started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
Opportunity For Youth

What chance are our young people going
to have as they enter the world3 Here's a
new idea. The head of technical college
says: In the future, young people axe
likely to be fewer, and to enjoy the premium
that goes with scarcity There's lot of
hope in that thought.
4. Results of the declining birth rate and the
shortening of adult working years have been
realized by few. BY 1880 says this edu-
Gator, the ratio of adults to youth will in
crease fourfold. Leisure is being transferred
to the grownups Work is being shifted to
the boys and girls, and they are being more
definitely fitted for that work. They get
less culture and more practically. There
are going to be jobs for them, and they are
going to be adapted to the jobs. If this
theory is correct, it is the old, rather thar.
the young, that society needs to be worrying
about. With the leisure and culture avail
able for them, as they are released from
active work earlier. there must be security
for them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
More And Less Relief

Committees in charge of relief are an.
nouncing gladly that their lists of people
who need the relief are lessening. slowly, il
is true, but surely. They announce in the
same breath that they will need more money
next year and that allowances must be
raised. 1t is clear that the people helped
in the beginning needed only food and per.
haps fuel. People helped now need every
thing clothing and toothbrushes and blan.
kets and new washboiler. Things will
wear out, as every housewife knows. Re.
placements are inevitable.
Another point emerges out of experience.
People need little Injuries The price of a
cheap movie may mean the difference be-
tween merriment and suicide. A eigaret for
Father magazine for Mother, cheap
toy or two, make the difference between a
hopeful home and place where the dole
keeps life in people only that they may
brood the deeper and longer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
The New Schedule Starts

When the state normal schools begin OPP
erations next fall new regime will go into
effect. In short the contemplated and
much discussed four-year courses in teachers
training begin in the fall. A majority of
those normal school girls who graduated this
year with the honor of finishing the first
full three-year course instituted by the state
will return for the extra year and thus re-
ceive the first teachers degrees granted.
Thus Conncctcuts first teachers college is
practically established.
1t will be interesting to watch the de-
velopment of this phase Of Connecticut edu-
cation. 1t has been gradual progress from
the first days of normal school training with
their minimum requirements. Now the
state embarks on a definite course Of train
ing which will fit the prospective teacher
for work in the various grades, junior high,
etc. AT New Britain, where the new
n Teachers College will be located in the pres
emit modern normal school building. courses
for those preparing to teach in seventh
eighth, ninth or junior high grades will be
given. In the past training for work in the
first six grades was given here. A class at
New Haven will delve into elementary
grade training. Thus one year from now
there will be degrees for minimum number
Of teachers equipped with general and special
knowledge requisite to meet the demands of
modern age.
To reeite the benefits of the proposed
four year course might be to tax the
patience of our readers. Suffice it to say
that the sadly overerowded teaching profess
sion will gain a respite through the extra
year of training. which, to our way OF
thinking is sufficient to recommend it. But
more than that the state is keeping in step
with the trend throughout the nation in
educational work. Isn't the step advisabe'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19

Once more Conneeticut's system of bor-
ough representation is subjected to an attack.
This time it is DR. Henry w. Lawrence. pro-
fessor of history and political science at
Connecticut College. who throws the brick
bats. He ought to be put in the ring with
Representative Raymond Baldwin of STRAIT
ford. The republican house leader recently
said something about He hoped to God
that we'd never see the day when the cities
would control the Connecticut Legislature.
That's all well and good. but we hope to
live to see the day when every representa-
tive in the House and every senator in the
Senate will have proportionate constituent
eies. AS lis today, they are far out Of
proportion. And that's not democratic
government
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
Gold Hoarders

A woman who has $4,000 in gold and
has been asked by federal investigators to
turn it over to the government, fatty re-
fuses. Through her attorney, she says that
she got the gold legally and intends to keep
il. This position is more common than
has been suspected. Though most of the
foarders have given up their gold. there are
plenty left who pay no attention to polite
requests and say that if the government tries
compulsion they will fight it out clear up
to the Supreme Court. 1t is possible. too.
that they are within their constitutional
nights. Their holdings probably aggregate
one-,aIf the three-fourths of a billion
dollars.
Whether they can hold out against public
opinion and the condemnation of their
friends and neightors when their names arc
published, is another question. Other people
have given up their gold as a patriotic duty.
People don't like bad sports 1t ought to
be clear to anyone who thinks il over that
with so little gold in the world to base cur
rencies on, the nations can't get back to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
Overproduction? No, Undercon
sumption.

The commonest way of explaining
Americas industrial depression is to say that
\ the nation is suffering from great over
production. This. as technical expla-
nation. is quite correct. But to accept it
without looking into the things that lie
back of it is to get an entirely. lopsded
picture of the days most pressing problem.
Technically, of course, we are over
produced. We can make more automobiles,
electric refrigerators. steel rails, rocking
chairs, electric light bulbs, Shoes auto tires.
plows and what-not than we can possibly
sell. In that sense we are up against over
production in very real and unpleasant
way.
But there is another side to it another
name for this problem. If, instead of call
ing it overproduction. we call it undercon-
sumption, that other side becomes clear;
but it also becomes evident that the tradi-
tional method of solving the problem is
very much out of date. We may be max
ing more of all of these things than we
can sell, but we are not making more of
them than we need. Not until every citizen
has all that he needs of this multitude of
goods shall we truly have overproduction.
During the last few years Iowa and
Kansas farmers have had to burn corn and
wheat while city workers have gone hun
cry: and the same farmers have had to drive
superannuated cars and wear wornout shoes
while the city auto and shoe factories have
been idle for want of orders. On every hand
I'VE have had millions of people needing all
sorts of commodities very badly because they
have been unable to buy them, factories
have operated at fourth or fifth of
normal capacity.
The administration industrial control
bill is designed to get around this trouble
by gearing production directly to con-
sumption. In the long run, however, this
will not do much good if it simply pre-
vents industry from producing more than
can be sold. 1t must increase consumption
lit must, that is to say, raise the general
purchasing power of the nation, if it is to get
us out of our difficulty. Let the ordinary
man get his hands on enough money to buy
the things he needs and we shall have
broad and enduring prosperity. We shall
not have to talk about overproduetion for
many, many years to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Coats Milk

Following a suggestion In your column we
have bought gOat. The milk seems richer
than cows milk. Should we use 1t in prcpar-
ing the baby's food Just the same as though Il
were cows milk And should banana for a
AZ month old baby be run throu a sieve or
not? Mrs II. H.
Answer-Use the goats milk as you would
the RICHEST purest cows milk. Press the ba-
mana through sieve at first. When the baby Is
months old the plain ripe banana is all
right If the banana Is quite ripe. yellow soft,
yet not mushy. II is all right to feed any baby,
without further preparation.
Copper Water Pipes
Two years ago i replaced lead water pipes
with copper. Since doing 1 have noticed
grcenish stains under both hot and cold water
faucets. Is Il harmful 10 drink the water? Our
supply Is soft spring water. Is. S. E.)
Answer-On the contrary, a trac eof copper
in the water is rather beneficial.
Mesmerize
Please enuncrafe briefly, for our biology
class, the chief reasons for pasteurizing milk.
MISS NJ. IT,
Answer-I know of but one reason-to kill
disease germs in the milk. Disease germs In
any fluid o. solid substance are killed IL the
substance Is heated ur To- las degrees + and
held at that Temperature for 20 TO 80 minutes
Copyright. 1898. John y. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19

New Britain is another city that is in.
terestng itself in the chance to obtain federal
funds whereby it may complete its task of
installing sewer beds that would end for all
time stream pollution by the city. The
Democrat has been suggesting that Water
bury should adopt this means of finishing
its task of ending stream pollution for some
few days now. The New Britain Herald
seems to look kindly on the proposal to
borrow federal funds If they are obtained
the city will only have to pay back 20 per
cent of what it received and it will be given
40 years in which to do this paying all
the time only IL per cent year. That's
loan that can't be ignored, especially when
it is placed right under your nose. Water
bury would get the same terms. as they
don't change for the individual city. 1t is
our personal opinion that Waterbury might
save itself money in the long run by adopt
ing this method of financing future work
on its huge sewer project involving as it
does one more trunk line up the Mad River
and neutralizing plant at the south end
of the town. If Waterbury goes to these
extremes to end stream pollution then our
manufacturers will certainly follow suit and
end their habit Of dumping raw acids and
other wastes into the convenient rivers.
brooks. and ponds of the town. Stream
pollution will never end until both indus
try and civic heads cooperate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
LEAP FROG

(New Haven Journal Courier)
This Is the season for the annual
tale to percolate east from Angels
Camp, Calaveras County, Califor.
MIA Of the International Champion
ship Standing Broad Jump for
Frogs. In 1925 the more celestial
inhabitants Of Angels Camp, CRATE
full to Mark Twain for their towns
one distinction, established the
contest In his honor. 1.-THE Cello.
brated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras
County" brought the author and
the town tall tale fame. Jim Smi-
ley's frog, "Dan'l Webster" has
been loaded with buckshot by the
opposition and defeated by the
bumptious swamp nonenity IN
more editions than even his Gre.
ator dreamed.
Last year the Broad Jump was
grand affair. From all sections
Of the Country $50 frogs were as
sembled; all shapes. sizes, from
the bull-voiced huskies Of Georg-
ian swamps to the chirping es-
thetes of New England park ponds
Each was shaken by its owner to
eliminate any buckshot, placed on
the line, licked into three jumps,
"Wilhelm" imported from Ber-
lin and streamiined by bath In
wart remover, had won advance
sympathy and odds. While 10000
people whistled. cursed, fired re-
volvers, he moved but four fee,
eight inches with his three efforts
."zenobia" pampered pet brought
from Kingston, North Carolina, IN
q tub of native water, leaped eight
feet six inches. There the record
remained. until the veteran Bud
weiser". swampmate of pride OF
San Joaquin" who won the pre-
vious year, jumped easily and
gracefully ten feet five inches.
We have seen no report-o a con-
test this year. 'Danl Webster
was weighed with. lead shot. Are
the frogs of this season weighted
by depression? The liquid Bud
weiser has returned to former
glory. The amphibious Bud
weiser' should again display his
legs and show business how to
leap into prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
Dys Depore Rush Repeal Prohibition with Seven Years
in Which to Do 1t

I Uncle Sam one. U. S. treasury fig-
ures for the license period 1913 to
| 1918 showed an annual average
tax received of $3.50. 100000. In
order to get this tax, u. =. citizens
haA to drink annually 4,049.465.s0
gallons of liquor, for which they
paid the brewers and their agents
| $4,000, 90 .00--meanwhile this vast
sum was diverted from legitimate
channels of trade, at the expense
Of manhood and womanhood and
childhood.
9. Repeal will hurt all useful
business. Every dollar spent on
liquor will be one less for the
merchant, the insurance man ana
the farmer. Tho liquor business
does not build. It destroys.
Z. Repeal will enlarge the cost
OF public relief. Commander Evan
geline Booth of the salvation Army
says that prohibition wiped out
/ so per cent Of the suffering among
the families Of the poor. The Eigh-
teenth Amendment has not failed.
but rather those have failed who
thoughtlessly buy and drink boot
leg liquor.
Repeal and drinking of liquor
sufficiently to produce revenue
will bring drunkenness, make the
streets unsafe for women. the
highways for automobiles. the
homes for children. II will increase
corruption in civic life. IS.
0. There Is no known, better
method Of dealing with the liquor
traffic. In Ontario, Canada, repeal
Of provincial prohibition increased
automobile deaths ago In four
years. It increased bookkeeping. In
the first four years after the repeal
Of provincial prohibition, the num-
Der of persons sentenced to prison
for violating the liquor control act
increased 220H6.
10. Do not be swept off your
feet by wet propaganda. The people
are not buying beer. The peer
barons are greatly disappointed.
Bread is more important to y. =
citizens than beer. The Eighteenth
Amendment is not 1000 success
full, but It has cut down the COM
sumption of alcohol. Only about
20eo Of the income of the racke-
teers comes from the speakeasies-
gambling give them q larger re-
venue. Do not repeal the gamb-
| ling or thieving or liquor laws. be-
cause of the onsiaughter or the
law breakers. Stand for law en-
| forcement, not repeal.
IL. Vote against ratification OF
the repeal Of the Eighteenth A.
mendment. Pull the second lever.
JOHN c. BRADLEY.
City Chairman
Citizens COMMITTEES opposing Rati-
| fication of the 21st. Amendment
Mrs Mabel z. Preusser.
Chairman Is District.
| Mrs May b. futile.
Chairman 18th District.
J. RUSSELL Putnam.
| Candidate 18th District.
c, Raymond Canning,
Candidate 18th District.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
Our Daily Washington Letter
Roosevelt Is the Big Boss From Now On
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

Washington.-Roo not only
has been given greater power than
any other president ever had.
He even has greater power
than J. p. Morgan.
And there's no escape for any
Of us. He can effect large changes
in the prices we pay for food and
clothing, In the value of our pay
envelopes, savings and insurance,
as we'll as in the amount of, our
incomes and the number Of hours
we work.
Congress has given him those
prerogatives and a lot more. Con-
gress can take them back. That's
the chief distinction between
Roosevelt's position and that of
the ordinary dictator, who seizes
power and retains 1t by armed
force. Also, there's no limit on
free speech. Anyone can yell his
head Off at this Dictatorship"
But few do.
Rules the Roost
For six months Roosevelt will
rule the roost, and we're in his
hands without even the POSSIBLE
ity of congressional restraint
Most of his power Is delegated to
cabinet members and administra-
tors, but they are only his instru-
ments and must carry out his
commands. Roosevelt can
Control industrial production
and wages and fix wages and
hours for everyone.
Put out Of business concerns
which defy his mandates and
suspend antitrust laws for those
that do.
Raise prices by various other
methods.
Tax professors OF agricultural
commodities and give bounty t.
the farmers at the consumers ex.
pense, regulate farm production
and take millions Of acres out Of
production under q leasing plan.
Supcrviscs Banks
Close or open banks and contro
credit.
Take the country Off the gold
standard--as he has, impose O
| gold embargo and Jail citizen.
who refuse to give up their owr
gold.
Reorganize the government
abolish bureaus and federal jobs
exert almost complete power over
federal expenses and fix with a
wide degree Of discretion the pay.
ments to veterans and their de.
pendents.
Cut the gold value of the dol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
Nv PAUL HARRISON

Nav York-The simmering city,
with an ennui measured in degrees
Tahrenheit, makes feeble ana fu-
fiie Attempts to escape the neat.
End In most cases gets all the hot
fer from the expended EFFORT.
avery day people faint in jammed
subways on their way to Coney|
Tsland. And highways leaving
the town are thick with traffic.
Jams and boiling radiators, clouds
~ noxious exhaust gases, and
thousands of Tuning travellers VINO
started out with the idea of getting
cooled off. Along the shores
neople finch under the stabbing|
sun. companionably daub each)
others scared shoulders with un-|
ruents into which, usually, have
blown small. sharp grains OF sand
IT'S a reasonably safe guess that
along about shutdown Of every
summer Sundaya half-million New
Workers explosively vow that they, II
never again, so help them gel
through all this on hot day =.
But by Thursday their resolve .is|
weakening; by Friday they're mi
viting friends. discussing routes;
ct Just heard of q new place. theyl
say, as they have said prior toI
every previous weekend. scarcely
ANYBODY knows about 1t, and
there's very little traffic on the
road"
Cool and Collected.
In town the Hobbies of the cool
ed movie theaters are cluttered
with loiterers lolllng in the icy|
draughts. And SO many OF these
Hobbies are there along the rialtc
that chill-seekers can, and doj
spend most of their refrigerated
DAYS being elected from one afteil
another, East side kids dive in !
to the oily waters of the East riverI
other tenement children invade
the public fountains of the down.
town area and, undisturbed by pol
| lice, dive for pennies thrown BY
sweltering bystanders =. =. Hero
ana there about the poorer sectiond
are sidewalk showerbaths, and
sometimes elders. clustering unde1
them on in ordinary clothes instead
Of bathing suits. Fire hydrant3
gush down cutters. making them
into flowing wading pools. A
night the tenement people go alofy
to lie close-packed on the graveled
and odorous tarred roofs, or ID
turn uneasily on the steel Stats Of
dusty fire escapes.
In the Upper Strata.
Luckier New Workers are find
ing ever newer and cooler places
to while away sitting days and
evenings. For instance, Ben Mari
denis Riviera. outjutting on th3
Hudson's palisade; the Mayfail
club, q nightery on the East Rivel
| which, by the way, has had a BID
| bar built for It in the shape OF I
fair-sized boat; country roadhousel
by the dozen--but no Texas Guinai
this year; hotel roofs with moder
ate tariffs. Perhaps the pleasant
est Of the roofs just now Is thu
Biltmore Cascades; partly because
Of Harold Stern's orchestra, and II
spite of the wigglings and warb
lings OF Ann Pennington, who
| by way Of becoming perennial.
The swank and expensive Col
ony restaurant, incidentally, ha
put in its own cooling system. And
the Hotel Brevoort-French, lei
surely and epicurean--has installed
q sidewalk cafe on the Fifth ave
| nue. side. Wines, ales and beer
decorate It's menu. But the frs
order taken there by the obsequiou
Louis was for lemonade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19
Mr.. and Mrs. Citizen:

Mr.. and Mrs. Citizen: 'N""'
Don't be stampeded into, repeal,
Why the rush? We have seven
years for this ratification. Why not
give the governors plan Of State
Centralized control o trial? Why
take q leap in the dark? Why
Jump from the frying pan into
the fire 2" The Eighteenth Amend
ment is the one big stick" we can
hold over the liquor interests,
while we experiment with State
Control Of beer. a.s,
1. Alcohol Is depressant, habit
forming, narcotic drug. 1t Is O
protoplasmic poison. 1t is drunk
to get the drug effect, and In what
ever amount, It exerts It's depres-
SAINT and toxic effects. It breaks
down physical and moral stamina.
| 1t attacks the mind and renders
its victim unsafe for movement In
this machine age.
q. Alcohol has wrecked homes
In untold numbers, clothed chill
dren In rags, taken bread from
their mouths, broken the. hearts Of
thousands OF wives and mothers.
1t has destroyed self control, and
has transformed thousands Of men
into beasts.
8. None of the vets will. deny
these charges. Their answer Is, to
regulate tan attempt that has
always completely faiied--From a
moral standpoint, we cannot legal
lie and regulate gambling, prosti-
tuition or drinking, even although
we cannot prohibit them as. thor
oughly as we desire.
4. The arguments for repeal on
the basis that the government
needs the revenue. Is an appeal to
the baser instincts of human. ma
ture. The United States Is not so
bankrupt, that for q price, 1t will
legalize one of the great evils Of
mankind.
s. The brewers have always COL
lected eight dollars In order to give
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19

Congress when it adjourned last week
did so for nice long vacation. Unless
serious matters occur between now and next
January, demanding another special session,
the Congress won't meet in regular session
until January. That's the result of Sena-
tor Norriss lame-duek amendment abolish
ing the short terms and changing the dates
of presidential inaugurations It's good
change and one that in time will cause men
to exelam why it wasn't put through before.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-19

gold standard. and stay on it. unless the
governments have the gold IN their treas
uries. Thus the hoarders might just as well
surrender. rights or no rights. If we 60
off gold permanently. what good will their
gold do themf The opticians and dentists
couldn't use it all.