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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
Biggest Flower Shop

One bumper crop is forecast this spring which causes pleasure instead of anxiety. Dr Pennell. curator of botany at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. says the profusion of wild flowers is likely to break all recent records. ''Advices received from number of states" he says. especially those in the far northwest. indicate most favorable conditions for all kinds of flower ing plants. The alpine flower in the west ern mountain region may be well worth fraveling far to see. and in lower attitudes north. south and east, there is promise of such flower shows as have not been seen for many years"
 They are free shows, too Here is fresh incentive to get outdoors as much as possi- b1et. If transportation to distant displays is difficult there are shows as possible. If transportation to distant display is difficult. lhore are shows close by in every section of 1he country. City people can sec them in iheir own public parks. Ramblers in the opsn country or along rural highways may rs f1cm. Farm meadows and even city r>rsnf lots share in the display. Many 5IrnIs caIIfd weeds are truly to the seeing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
Hours And Machines

It grows plain that the 30-hour working week. as a national plan made mandatory by Congress, is not so simple. a proposition as the sponsors have appeared to think. As human ideal, meant to divide up avail able work in. bad times and give all work CTS leisure at all times. 1t is admirable enough But the more it is considered the more complicated seems the task of putting it into immediate practice.
 Here is one angle that evidently hasn't occurred to many of the advocates. A writer in the New York Times says: What would the bill do to the menace of the machine and to teehnologieal unemploy- ment? Those who believe that our ills are largely or even chiefly due to the progress of invention in the years after the war and there are many people who insist on so believing = cannot fail to see that the cut ting down of the working week to com. pulsory 30 hours will enormously stimu- late machines and other labor-saving devices
 That is self evident when once you think of it. The shorter the working hours the moro employers will want to get done per hour. and so; the more machinery they will install, displaeing more men. How do we meet this new dilemma?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
Third Degree Cure

It may be set down as general princi- pie that the third degree" in police work, modern variant of the Inquisition. is not only uneivilized but unintelligent. Clubs. blaekjacks. fists, feet and other instruments of torture used to extort confessions are substitutes for brains. It is common knowl- edge that innocent prisoners often confess falsely under the stress of cruel treatment.
 Various methods are adopted in Ameri- can cities to rid their police work of this disgraceful form of medevalism. The clev- crest, perhaps, is Detroit idea. There. every prisoner confessing to crime is ques- tioned by judge and examined at hospital to see whether he bears any evidence of physical abuse. With such vigilance, police officers disposed to violence are likely, after a few exposures. to return to legitimate methods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
Discard the Airs

Some of the youths who have enlisted in the forestry army are finding that life In the open is somewhat different than what they imagined. The majority of them are nat urally accepting their lot and are quite con- tent with it. But no crowd of young men. between the ages of Is and 25, could be rounded up in this nation that would not include certain number of complaners. The officials will do we'll to ship all such back to their homes as fast as transportation can take them
 We presume that a quasi military aspect will surround all the camps that are to be established. We note at this writing that twelve sites have been authorized for this state We sincerely hope that the enlisted men won't think that their job IS more or less of summers outing in the woods. We're afraid that they are in for rude awakening. if that is the case. Certainly the preliminary training to put their bodies into shape for the strenuous duties of the camps should have warned all and sundry of what was to come.
 Incidentally it is apparent that radical organizations have succeeded in getting
  camps. They are melting revolts which isn't hard in these days. And with Uncle Sans soldery now only getting $l7.50 month, while the forest recruits are to be allotted $50 month. even during the training period, outbreaks can be expected in more places than merely Camp Dix where recently 45 discontented were ship ped home.
 There is only one way to handle the camps and that is by strict discipline. There is work to be done in this nation in our reforestation program. It is as necessary as the task of finding jobs for the millions of unemployed Now that Uncle Sam is trying to put half million youths to work to reduce the ranks of the idle and lessen the burden on the fortunate workers every bit of cooperation possible is needed. It's an army that is being mustered not sightseeing tour. Let's deal with the recruits fairly. but firmly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
BILLY GETS ENGINES GOAT

Boonville, III - (UP) - Billy, patriarch of large herd of goats at the Catherine Roetzel farm here, is a nuisance to Southern railroad engineers.
 Sometimes the herd gets onto the right-of-way. Invariably. it is said, when Billy sees an ap- preaching train. or hears the whistle, he drives the herd to safety, then goes back to defy the train himself.
 Knowing how goat hair clutters up machinery, the engineers stop their trains and wait for Miss Roetzel to coax Billy off the track with a leaf of tobacco. He is like a lamb when she feeds him to- bacco.
 Miss Roetzel raises goats, the Ozark breed, as a hobby and a business. She sells most of them to mine reserves, because they keep the underbrush neatly eaten away from the surface. Some- times a team buys one for a mas cot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
Here, There And EDeryOhere

"a few of them who. Will visit 1t in the future will, one feels. meet more kindly greeting than would be theirs were Carlyle in the flesh. for in hisr later years he was not social. Living none too happily with his wife during her lifetime, his direction for her mounted rapidly after her death. He was sirritable, dyspeptic, she was highstrung, and their home was more than often volcanic during her lifetime. Then, after the manner of men Carlyle deified her. Had there been child ren in the home the life of the couple might have been different. As 1t was, Carlyle lived out of joint with his time for a score of years after.
 He was steeped in German thought; yet 50 years ago Yankee young men and young women read "Sartor Hesartus' and the French Revolution" with delight and re- gretted the brevity of both works, only to meet defeat when they es- sayed to read his 'Latterday Pamphlets" compared with the Book of Lamentations" seems al- most light reading. There are, though, in "Sartor Resartus'' and the French Revolution" especial ly the latter, passages, that come to mind after the passage of half century and which are likely to remain. One inclfnes 10 think that Carlyle is not to be forgotten and that. though he cared nothing for te United States, Americans will not forget him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10

New York city is trying to explain to the U. S. Supreme Court why it has failed to comply with an sdict directing it to stop dumping garbage at sea to De washed up on Jerseys coast. The city was ordered to construct incineraiors and already has start ed this undertaking. Unfortunately its ]. finances have not permitted it to expend the money necessary for such an undeftak- ing. As result only one of the ineiner- ators is now ready and two won't be in. operation until April l. l934. The city was ordered to build four. However that isn't the only public work on which the city has been forced to postpone operations. There are several others so perhaps the Supreme Court will be lenient The same is true in all cities discussing new ways of eliminating stream pollution. Finances don't permit quick change to the modem system. ss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
. So They Say

History shows that great re- yival in spiritualism has always followed previous Impressions and great disasters. Victor Helperin,. movie director.
 tell the farmers to stop .rais- ing so many hogs and so much cotton and start raising hell. Delegate Tom Rickard of Okla
 homa, at National Farm Holiday association meeting.
 Jaded, immoral. burned-out phil anderers excite the minds of young people by moving pictures and low class literature.
 -Dr Samuel S. .Drury, headmaster
 St Pauls school.
 The world must be grateful to President Roosevelt for his fore- sight and his decision in taking the initiative of these Washington meetings. Guido Jung, minister of finance
 of Italy.
 We desire only to defend Man choukuo. In the event the Chinese challengers continue or they dis turb Manchoukuo, the imperial army is prepared to draw the sword as often as necessary. --Sadao Araki. war minister of
 Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10

When we said the other day that there were several hundred bills left for legis- lative consideration and less than twenty days in which to take action we did nor realize that the number was 500. That just about explains the situation in Hartford. Under normal conditions the General As sembly could not possibly dispose of all these measures and do them justice. But we presume extra sessions will be called in the remaining weeks of May. So far as we can see these sessions will have to in- clude both Mondays and Saturdays. There are any number of important bills to be discussed. too. They can't very we'll be postponed or conveniently lost. in some legislators desk drawer. There is the im- portant matter of state finances. unemploy- ment relief social welfare legislation. and last but not least the proposals dealing with consolidation of educational units of the state We also can't forget that Hartford and East Hartford are seeking a new Con- ncetieut river bridge involving some few millions. The i933 Legislature is apt to go down in our annals as one of the busi- est and yet at the same time the one that failed to finish it's work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
NEA Service Writer

Washington-The hodgepodge of opinion on the 30-hour-week bill has piled up. in great contrast with the simplicity and ease which marked it's consideration and pass age by the senate.
 An enormous field of controversy has been opened by such delated questions as federal regulation of hours. the minimum wage pro- vision, import embargo proposals, the production controp' feature, constftutionallty, effects and pur- chasing power. ability of industry to regulate itself. minimum wage fixing by localities rather than in dustries, sweatshop competition, peculiar problems of particular in- dustries, antitrust law revision. Z
 Even. the labor movement and its friends became mixed up and unable to agree.
 Committee Is PfO-LabOr
 The hearings of the house labor committee were colorfui and in- structive-eyen after Mrs Roose- welt and Ishbel Macdonald had paid their. visit and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins had con- cluded her testimony.
 The committee was distinctly pro-labor, kind to labor leaders and relatively severe with manufactur- ers-aithough sometimes its mem- bers weren't quite bright enough to handle the industrialists suc- cessfully.
 Small, bald headed, spectacled ~ |. l nxn said little except for occasional wisecracks, and his persistent de- mand for the witness's opinion on his pct proviso for an embargo on imports produced by foreign labor not on 30-hour schedules. The best cross- if any, was Wood, whose special delight was to shoot holes in the numerous unavoidable proposals and to point out that in- dustry had maintained trade asso- citations for years without doing anything that would re-employ the 13,000,000 or more persons new. out of work, ls,,s7
 The manufacturers seemed to feel themselves on the defensive for the first time, since they all agreed tailt something should be dohe to CISdtc. cih hpfVyHlchl ~dHu tnut ISS uN lations of trade associations should be subject to government approval. But although they were anxious to get out from under the antitrust laws, they showed no enthusiasm for federal encouragement of la- bor's right to collective bargaining. Textile manufacturers were the chief, proponents of federal wage and hour regulation.
 Green and SwOpc
 President William Green of the A. F. of L., favoring the 30-hour week and opposing minimum wages on behalf of the skilled trades as against the desire of unskilled. underpaid and ssweated labor for minimum wages. pleaded through his testimony like an able old
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
It's About Time

We never could quite see the justice ot taxing the domestic consumer for electric power. And Congress is beginning to realize after September under terms of House tax measure. In its present form the bill provides that the tax of per cent shall be cut to Z per cent and shall be levied upon power companies and upon those industrial users of electrical power whose products are shipped in interstate commerce.
 Just why the domestic consumer of elec- tric power should be taxed for using cleo tricity for which he must pay the power company IS more than we can understand. There was never any sense to the proposal. There certainly is some reasoning behind the idea that power companies be taxed per cent on their gross receipts if you can reconcile yourself to the thought of taxation.
 The proposed tax measure carries with 1t also one other good suggestion that we presume will be adopted It is namely, reduction from three to two cents of postage on local mail If the revenue from this warrants it this reduction to the old two- cent rate will be extended to include inter- city mail. And it really ought to be. Two cent postage is liked, three cent isn't, so why not stick with that rate to which the public is accustomed and which in the past 1t has supported.
 First class postage never showed the deficit that forced the increase in rates It was other classes. Why single out the one class that pays its way to bear the bur den of others? We can predict that once local postage at cents is established it won't be long before we'll have it back on all mail, local and intercity. Uncle Sam may need additional revenue, but who doesn't. He may think that pennies will produce it here and there but many man counts his pennies carefully before parting with them. These nuisance taxes are just what their name implies
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10

ginia, North Carolina. Virginia. Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Tn North Dakota and Georgia and Kansas the Legisla- lures have already adjourned with out action, which in itself is equiv. alent to a Dry victory.
 Against this may be set the fact that the legalization of beer. when permitted by the federal govern ment, was accepted in number of states which were supposedly dry. Tn fact the "beer bill' swept the country in manner which sur prised it's most ardent adherents.
 The Drys have on their side the advantage Of needing only 13 states to hold their advantage. while their opponents require 36. On the other hand there is no denying the fact that the sentiment of the country as a whole is for repeal and this sentiment may have the ultimate effect of convincing even the Dry strongholds of the futility of holding out against the rest of the nation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CAPTION
The Study of a Chinese Home

"The House of Exile" by Nora Waln. is a book that belongs on the same shelf with "The Good Earth p"
 In it. this descendant of Phila- delphia Quakers tells how she lived for years in the home of a Chinese upper-class family, In their homestead, along the grand canal in the north of China. The picture of Chinese life which she gives is. in its own way, as reveal ing, as faithful and as fascinating as the picture Mrs Buck gave us.
 The Lin family, with whom Miss waln lived, exemplifies perfectly the way in which China is gov , erned by families. Its homestead "a vast, rambling building Tn which some 80 members Of the family lived--was built $50 years ago; but because the main branch of the family still lived in Canton. to the south, the place was known as "The House of Exile"
 The family had written records of it's existence for 104 genera tions; furthermore, each member had these records perfectly mem orized. The family had seen IT royal Chinese dynasties come and go. Is it any wonder that such people feel that the ups and downs of government are minor matters, so long as the family itself sur wives?
 Chinese life, Chinese. culture, become infinitely clearer to one who reads this book. So, by the way, do the current developments of the Japanese imbroglio. which Miss Waln describes at length. Read it and you will; un- derstand why the Chinese look on all the rest of us as barbarians; you may even sympathize with their viewpoint.
 The book is an Atlantic Monthly Press publication. issued by Little, Brown & Company at $3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10

New Britain, for example. is so hard pressed for ready funds that it may be forced to tax all those who use its tennis courts this summer It's either. that or go with out the courts, say the park officials. Of course, the charge would be a small one. merely enough to defray the cost of pro- viding the park department with chloride which is necessary for the particular kind of dirt used in the construction of the New Britain courts The officials have figured it out that it; costs $1.67 "a court per day for maintenance. That would entail 10- cent person charge for one hour of play ing. It's too bad cities are forced to this pretext to raise money. Parks should be free to all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
Our Daily Washington Letter A Hearing That Heard A Pro-Labor Committee GpfA.,N rf uIlSap
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

s1edgehorse. Sometimes committee members tried to help him out, but he didn't seem to realize it.
 In contrast was the urbane, fast thinking Gerard 5Swope, president of General Electric. a man with an aquiline nose, deep set eyes and irony in every line and corner of his face. Swope had a definite plan of his own. He seemed to have his answers ready before the questions were half out of committeeman s mouth. The answers were Some- times subtle and indirect,i but he appeared to believe firmly in fair relations between labor and indus try as we'll as the necessity for con- trolling industrial outlaws"
 Two Venerable Men
 President Henry I. Hartman of the U. S. chamber of commerce ap- peared scholarly, gracious New Englander with touch of the pa- ternalistic. He was willing to grant the president power to control in- dustry, but couldn't stand for the Black bill with the Perkins amend ments. That would create govern ment boards, thus injecting gov ernment regulation into every branch of private business would be mot only must undesir- able, but probably unconstitution- al"
 Few witnesses were more impress sive than white-haired Edward F. Cassidy, head of the Big Six typographical union in New York and a man of great dignity and boise. Supporting the original Black bill. Cassidy told how a third of his II. .00O members were unemployed, another third employed one day week and the remainder working on full time but giving up one day a week to the less fortunate mem- bers. Because union members had taxed themselves 10 per cent for relief work no member of No 6 had yet been on public charity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
OR AGAINST REPEAL
(Meriden JournaD

A simple sensible way for tile voters of Connecticut to decide the wet-or-dry issue would be to, go to the. polls on. June 20 and cast ballots as in a state election, vot- ing 'yes" or mo" Thus Connec- ticut's position on the 18th amend ington, which is all that is neces- Sary.
 But that would be too easily simple for a nation that has to vote for presidential electors. who in due time notify the victor of his election.
 On June 20 we will vote for 50 wet delegates and 50 dry delegates to a state convention to be held shortly after election. But on the voting machine one set will appear only as For Ratification" and the other Against Ratification, so there will be no splitting of tick cts.
 We will vote on an amendment to the constitution to repeal the 18th amendment. Therefore, we ei- ther want to ratify the proposed amendment to repeal or we don't flor" or against. "-It would be less confusing to label the levers wet" and dry" and would have eliminated the probability of per- sons voting wrong.
 A few states already have voted, and to repeal the 18th amendment. The outlook in Connecticut is in that direction, as indicated by the special referendum last fall, and in that event the ratification dele gates would control the state con- vention, and that is all there would be to it, as far as Connecticut is concerned.
 However, elections are not decid- ed by opinions and it will be up to the people to record a large and expressive vote from Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
FIFTY YEARS AFTER
(Hartford Courant)

$.
 Admirers of Thomas Carlyle in Englarfd are making an effort to in- crease a fund for the care and up- keep of the house in London. No "A Cheyne row, in which he wrote Hero Worship" and .'Sarter Re- sartus." It is said that f1710 are required to make up the fSOO needed and that f300 have been promised on the condition that f700 more be raised within six months. It is also noted that more than one hundred thousand Amer jeans have visited the house and it may be inferred that gifts from this country will not be spurned.
 Carlyle. misanthropic and dys- peptic. died more than 50 years ago. but we feel sure that there must be many Americans who are both willing and able to contribute to the preservation of his home. Not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-10
PROSPECTS FOR REPEAL.
lBridgeport Telegra.ml


 The Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform warns the nation that ratification of the repeal of the 18th amendment will not be a walk-over. The Organiza- tion has prepared Q map in which the prospects of repeal, or non-re- peal are shown graphically.
 The map sets down 20 States as surely wet and for repeal This number includes Connecticut.
 It lists six additional states as good prospects for ratification"
 It puts down II states as hope full It numbers as ''doubtful" and three as Dry"
 TO defeat the repeal of the 18th amendment 13 states must either vote No" or refrain from voting. The map sets down Kansas, Okla homa and Arkansas as surely Dry, and Idaho, Utah, Nebraska Ten- nessee, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia and South Carolina as doubtful This makes II. states in which the Dry have a reasonable chance to procure negative action, or to prevent a vote. ai
 It is in the remaining states put down as "hopeful" that the real battle must be fought. Those states include North and South Dakota, Texas. Iowa, Kentucky. West vir-