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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
Which Will Win

There seems to be race on now for the honor of bearing the title of the 2lst amend ment to the Constitution. For some time people have been quite confident that the amendment repeating the 18th amendment would win out. but with all the fuss being made over the slightly dormant child labor amendment we're wondering if the battle IS yet won. The child labor amendment was first proposed in 1924 by the 68th Con- gress. Six states adopted it in the course of the next few years - Arizona. Arkansas California. Colorado. Montana, and Wis eonsin. Twenty-six rejected it.
 That was it's status up until about year ago when through some force as yet un- known the amendment came to light. SIX more states added their approval to those that had gone before. They were Miehl- gan, New Hampshire Ohio. Oregon. North Dakota. and Washington. Others have the amendment under consideration. There was some slight effort made to put the Connee- ticut Legislature on record this spring as favoring the amendment, but it petered out in the more active interest in the proposed liquor amendment repealer. We think that this interest will doubtless mean that the 18th amendment may be repealed first and then the child labor amendment seriously considered.
 At this writing there are just 2l endorsers of the liquor amendment. Missouri. how ever. is voting today and reliable forecasts were that the state would be just as wet az those that have already voted on the same topic. In this event there will be but fourteen more states votes needed to insure passage of the 2lst amendment and it will mean the repeal of the 18th. All signs point to this repeal before the end of the year in view of the fact that there are sufficient number of states voting on the amendment before 1893 ends. That would then open the way for more whole-hearted consideration of the child labor amendment.
 New Hampshire and North Dakota were two of the states that had previously re- .jected the amendment. as had also Conneeti- cut. That does not prevent reconsideration. though as can be seen by the above action. And with powerful interests. including Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt. backing the amend ment we're inclined to believe that it may eventually become. not the 2lst amendmant but the 22nd We're going in for amend ments these days, as witness the passage of tho 1Oth and tbp immediate consideration by the states of two more. one of which IS reasonably sure to become legal within six months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
Prefers To Remain Itself

Theodore Pratt, the young American writer who was expelled recently from the Spanish island of Malorca because the Mall lorcans didn't like some things he said about them in a magazine article. has returned to the United States complaining that Mall lorca has lost its big chance to cineh fat share of the worlds tourist trade. Mallorca is a pleasant little Mediterranean island where folk live much as they did in the days of Columbus. During the depression Amer ican and English travellers found it pleasant place to stay particularly so since it's scale of prices was abnormally low. As Mir Pratt remarks. the island had "the greatest chance in her history to become permanent world tourist center.
 However. the chance seems to have gone. The Malorcans saw that all tourists were exceedingly rich. by Mallorean standards. and prices began to go way up. Further more, as Mir Pratt points out. the Mallorcans tried to deal with foreigners with the cus- toms, ways of thing and stubborn point of view of practical medieval age" As a result. the tourists are disillusoned and the big rush is over Now all of this wouldn't be worth discussing at any length if 1t were not for the fact that Mir Pratt's com plaint illustrates SO perfectly point of view that has become all too common in the modern world.
 According to this point of view. an on- rush of tourists is the highest blessing that
 any out-of-th he-way and picturesque spot can desire A way of life that has re- mained unchanged for centuries. and that has provided its simple with real happiness and contentment. may be destroyed in the process - but that is minor matter. Let the dollars pour in and all is we'll no matter how the existing framework of society IS twisted out of shape. This sort of thing has happened all over the globe. It has de- based such an earthly paradise as Tahiti. it has rubbed theglamour off of Bali. it has helped to spoil African desert towns and Swiss mountain hamlets and American sea- ports and Asiatic trade capitals. It has ruined the lives of innumerable simple and trusting people.
 Now. at last. we find spot which seems to be having the good fortune to escape from it. Mallorea. by chance or by design. is cold d-shouldering the tourist trade. And there is a type of mind to which this seems nothing but blind stupidity and vast mis- misfortune!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
So They Say

? Americas greatest need today Is to breed a generation of children who would rather die than be dis honest.
 Rev Joseph A.. Vance. Detroit.
 Just as every loyal American was behind Woodrow Wilson In the World war, so every loyal American must support Franklin D. Roosevelt in this great war on depression. This is no time for slackers. secretary of War Dern.
 The world simply was not quite ready for 1t. Delegate James M. Cox, on fail-
 ure of London Economic Con-
 ference.
 America has just passed through a genuine revolution. It will move forward to a definite goal; either socialism, cooperative government or fascisn. Norman Thomas. Socialist.
 "LA-LA-LA" is the same in all languages. Edwin Franko Goldman. musi-
 clan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
SWAN BOATS IN GOTHAM (New York Herald-Tribune)

Looming to the gaze of pleasant ly astonished New Workers with all the wonder that the first white mans ships must have held for the Indians, Manhattan's first swanboat is daily visible stemming the placid waters of Central park. Conceived in the graceful form of its name- sake and propelled through the agency of a ghostly bicycle, ar- rangement, this stately pleasure barge is at the disposal of whoever has the very nominal fare for voy- ages of adventure and exploration. Primarily, to be sure, designed for the delight of youth, Central parks solitary swanboat will. if 1t runs true to form, exert all the appeal to the mature of mechanical toys at Christmas time and find its benches filled from time to time with elders to the exclusion of it's intended passengers.
 For while a swanboat Is a Workers, small fleet of them have for years and years piled, their courses in the Public Garden of Boston, and they are almost as familiar 8 hallmark of that city as the state house dome or the sym bolic cod. There, amid numbers of their animate prototypes, the swan boats have played part in the childhood of generations of Boston children almost as important as the barber shop at the Vendome, or roller skating on the Esplanadc. And many and many grown-up has recaptured for a few nostalgia moments the enchanted atmos- phere of youth from their deliber- ate motion and the rhythmic splash of their concealed paddles. As with pop concerts, subways and latterly, sidewalk cafes, Gotham is ready to adopt from Boston institutions that add to the pleasure and usefulness of its urban existence and 1t Is tc be hoped that Central parks unique swanboat may not long Ian. guish in solitary and lonesome grandeur.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Union Veteran, Now Operator, Supports Men
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

tenced for life. He was imprisoned six months. Edward r. Costigan, now U. s. senator, proved his in- nocence at a dramatic appeal trial which attracted national attention.
 Lawson's victory resulted in freedom for all other striker de- fendants and in his last campaign Costigans hand was shaken in several coal towns by persons who said he had saved their lives.
 Won Against Conservatives
 Lawson testified before Frank P. Walsh's federal industrial relations committee and special congress sional Investigating committee. Later he devoted himself to con- structive labor programs such as worker educational and industrial legislation. He was attached to the state mine inspectors office when Josephine Roche, who had worked with Lawson and Costigan in the 1913-14 strike days, obtained control of Rocky Mountain and made him coal operator. Lawson saw a chance to realize some of the hopes of a lifetime.
 Each of that trio. of intimate friends-Roche, Costigan and Law son-has achieved success against bitter opposition from conservative interests.
 How F. D. R. Does It
 Louis Howe, presidential secre- tary, was asked how Roosevelt had developed capacity for such an enormous amount of brain work.
 While you and are out play ing golf or week-ending," Howe re- piled, "that man has to sit still thinking or reading"
 Copyright, 1883, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
NOW HE SLEEPS ON (New Haven Journal Courier)

The Sleeping Giant has proved the power of his personality. A call tion, and his loyal subjects re- sponded in less than month with 9sepp'iGns ss9ooos HE siUmbers l0ras may % now De profound, untroubled by scratch ings about his head. Tuesday morn- ing the Connecticut Quarries Com. pany transferred the remaining IS years of its twenty-year lease to the Sleeping Giant Park Associa- ton, in exchangANfor q check com. pleting the $3O,O0O price. The asso. citation president, Arnold c. Dana
 sounded the proper boast: "Ciost to the entire amount has been sub- scribed, and there Is every reason
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION /

Sometime last winter, or there. abouts. a high-brow critic wrote in @ very high-brow magazine a long and humorless article to dem- onstrate that P. G. Wodehouse IS not really funny.
 It all proved, as nearly as can remember. that you don't laugh at MT Wodehouse's stories unless there is something essentially com mon and dull in your makeup.
 We'll, anyhow, MT Wodehouse has written a new book. Heavy Weather" and I imagine that prac- tically everybody except the above- mentioned critic is going to find 1t very funny indeed. It seems to me to be one of his very best, which means that as 8 laugh-provoker it is practically perfect.
 It's hard to outline the story, be- cause MT Wodehouse has outdone himself in the matter of concoct- ing complications and plots-with- in-plots. But there's an ancient earl who is all wrapped up in his prize pig, Empress of Blandings"; there's his brother, who has right ened the whole peerage by an- nouncing that he is writing his in- innate memoirs; there's a young chorus girl; a couple of those WodetNusian nincompoops from the Drone's club; a pair of fear sometitled ladies; a thieving pub- fisher and a private detective. The earls pig and his brothers manuscript both go astray, and all in all there are enough solid laughs in this book to satisfy the most exacting reader enough presume, to satisfy anyone ex- cept a true high-brow.
 Published by Little, Brown & Co. this book sells for S2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

And the liquor board'll git yuh. if yuh don't watch out! While 1t is being done quietly. nevertheless the recently-created liquor commission is checking up on the various permits that it issued in the last few months. It is necessary that the various classes remain within their own class. It is also necessary that nothing but the legal 3.2 per cent beverage be dispensed at the various emporiums. Keeping that in mind inspec- tors are making the rounds. Waterbury learned that this week. Other cities have also learned it in the past All in all this eheckup may result in more wholesome respect for the law. It has been sadly lack ing of recent years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
(Thc Waterbury Democrat Wash-
 ington COrrcspOndentl

Washington, Aug 19-John Law son, a hero in union labor history who used to be shot and shot at by coal company gunmen, came to the bituminous code hearings here as a coal operator.
 Twenty years ago he was sent to prison on an indictment charg- inghim with 13 murders.
 To-day he is vice president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. That's the concern made famous by Miss Josephine Roche, who as- stunned it's presidency five years ago, invited the United Mine Work CTS Co organize her mines and has since operated successfully while paying top wages in Colorado S only unionized coal area.
 CO-Operates with Union
 Miss Roche and Lawson came to help formulate and to support the
 general coal code which Rocky
 Mountain and other companies
 worked out with President John L.
 Lewis of the U. M. w. Miss Roche
 told how greatly reduced operating
 costs and increased production per
 man had been achieved in her | mines despite increased payrolls. Lawson, a tall. gray-haired, spec tacled, rugged but soft-spoken man
 who has always worked for work ing men, has direct charge of | Rocky Mountains labor relations. In 1913-14 he was on the U. M. w. international board and had charge of the Colorado strike. | Many attempts were made on his
 life and once he was shot up rather
 badly.
 Sentenced for Life
 When militiamen began bom- | barding the strikers tent colony
 at Ludlow he made his way
 through a shower of explosive bull
 let's, then went out again to bring
 endorsements for the miners. In
 his absence 23 miners, women and
 children were killed or burned to
 death; militiamen departed after
 burning the tents.
 Many more were killed in the
 warfare through Colorado which
 followed. Lawson was one o1
 dozens indicted for murder in com
 pany- y-controled courts. AS strike
 leader he was tried first and sen-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
To-day's Selected Poem
Rank Outsider

(Paul Rayson In The New York Sun) The heifer sniffed at me between Her pasture bars with naughty mien- It wasn't hard for her to tell My presence lacked a country smell. Looking as though we'd never met. She scorned my~b barnyard etiquette. Even the hens would hardly deign To peck my scattered gift of grain. So life went on in loft and stall Without regard to me at all. Lonely among the cabbage rows struck meditative pose, Musing upon those arts which yield Fruit of the orchard and the field. Nature. 1t seems. prefers a plan Strictly utilitarian. The pastoral touch may well evoke Giamorous dreams for city folk Don't be misled! Your poet stays At home to sing his rustic lays Hay can be raked. the heifer fatten-- I'll write about 1t in Manhattan!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
FILE TAX CLAIMS AGAINST RY

St Louis, (UP)-Claims for in- come tax liens totaling $4.111,726 against the Missouri Pacific Rail- road Co and the Missouri Pacific Corp in Nebraska. an affiliate were filed by the federal govern ment in federal court. where the Missouri Pacific reorganization ii proceeding under the new bank. ruptcy law. Agents said the rail- roads taxes were delinquent for 1920, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1929 and 1890.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
More Muskets

Nationalism in trade has not yet won much enthusiasm in this country. Our business men have realized only too well, in the past, the benefits of foreign markets. There is natural interest therefore, in the approaching visit of 40 experts of the Rus sian government to consider possible pur- chases of cotton. machinery, railway equip ment, automobiles and other products in which our country excels. Also more inter- est in the possibility of recognizing the Soviet government. which would stimulate Russian purchases here.
 Former Senator Brookhart, of the Agri- cultural Adjustment Administration. has been investigating the Soviet Union as a prospective customer and pronounees 1t a good risk. Since coming into power" he says. it has imported $4.200,o00,o00 worth of goods and exported $3,650, 0,000,- 900 of its own. It has never defeaulted on a cent" His estimate that with normal credit facilities we could sell the Russian government at least $300,000.000 worth of goods within five years is not very im- pressive. But in time when we are strug- gling for recovery. every little bit helps,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

Senator Key Pittman of Nevada is still trying to convince the nation that it should scrap the Monroe Doctrine. It seems to us that similar efforts have been going on now as long as we can remember. At least every time any sort of an international problem is presented we are warned that unless we modify the daetrine. we will find ourselves in hot water. We're inclined to believe that without or with the Monroe Doctrine we'll get into the same difficulties. Senator Pit man says of the doctrine. Tt is an outworn doctrine. It is a constant thorn in the flesh of South American countries. We do not need it to protect the Panama Canal territory. - While we don't think that if the Monroe Doctrine was scrapped there would be an immediate rush by power ful European and Asiatic nations to make some inroads into Latin America. we fully believe that there would be more than the present day efforts made to poison the lower part of this hemisphere against the upper half. And there is enough undercover ac- tivity against Uncle Sam without adding to it by our own acions The Monroe Doc Urine isn't doing any harm and we know that it's not the bugaboo in Latin American or South American countries that many of our statesmen claim 1t to be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

Oh. for the life of fireman! So ehortle those uninitiated. But not in Plainville. The telephone in the firehouse rang one night recently. A woman asks that hose company be sent out to her home. "Is the fire in your house. lady," she was asked. No" she hesitated, but I thought if you sent out hose company it could get rid of katydid in one of our trees that's mak- ing and awful racket. I'd like to have the hose turned on it." And once again we say, Oh, for the life of fireman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

After starting a fire by over- turning a chair into the fireplace while alone in the house of J. Holmes of Limayady. Scotland, a dog parked and summoned neigh bors who quelled the blaze before
 great damage was done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

High tide at Milford Sunday. August 20. l1:2l a. m.. daylight time; low tide. 5:43 p. m.. daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
Personal Health Service
 (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or
 treatment, will be answered by Dr Brady.
 Address him, care of the Democrat, sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

Speaking of commercial opportunities. there are still millions of people in this country who close the windows at night to keep out the bugs and mosquitoes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

An American traveller finds they're mak- ing over everything in Russia except human nature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19

All vehicles must be lighted not later thar 8:l6. daylight time. tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-09
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Big Bankers Turn to q. S.
for Help Like Hurt Child

Then the bankers turned to
Washington.
It is not strange that this should
be so; it is not Que solely to indi-
vidual incapacity in the face Of new
and mighty forces
For one thing, the federal reserve
system has supplanted great private
institutions as the nations princi-
pal banking structure.
For another, the United States is
a creditor nation, and must depend
upon its own Self-reliance.
Thirdly, the industrial and fnan-
cial structure has been enlarged
many times since 1907.
Lastly, the revelations before SEN
atorial committees have led to pop
ular distrust of bankers.
Ironically, the temporary break
down Of the old system Of banking,
in the opinion of more far-seeing
bankers. is a piece of luck for Mr.
Roosevelt in his task of rebuilding
the banking structure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-09
President, Not FinanCierS,
Must Lead Nation Out
of Finance Crisis.

BIZ ScrippS-HOieard NstcspGper Alliance
WASHINGTON, March 9.-As a
little child turns to its mother when
it is hurt, so the nations bankers
and fnanciers have turned to Uncle
Sam in the present monetary crisis.
In that contrast with methods of
alleviating previous crises lies ma
terial for a heavy book on the
growth and change Of the United
States.
Instead of J. P Morgan and
George F. Baker, it is President
Franklin d. Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Will Woodin who bear the
burden of getting the country out
of the mess the money changers
have made.
The night-and-day conferences
for immediate remedy have been
held at the White House and treas
ury rather than in an Office at
Broad and Wall street.
The bankers themselves seem to
admit that they have fallen down,
as Mr.. Roosevelt charged in his
inaugural speech.
Ten days ago, when terrific with
drawals in New York were leading
to the Roosevelt proclamation, one
of Americas greatest hnanciers was
appealed to. All he could suggest
was that the big banks raise $780,
100000 for weaker institutions. By
that time the total Of Withdrawals
for the week had gone above $780,
100000, and the proposed rescue
sum was only drop in the bucket
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-09
new CHAIN TAX
BILL MAY Get
MINUTES VETO
Governor Unwilling to Kill
Goose That Lays the
Golden Eggs

Governor Paul V. McNutt will
not sign the new chain store tax
bill which would increase rates on
chains Of more than twenty stores
from S25 to $3.50, it was indicated
today.
Following a conference with Rep
reSentative Fred Galloway dem,
Indianapolis), co-author of the bill,
the Governor was considering its
veto.
Whether he will merely not sign
it, and thus let it die by the pocket
veto" route or actually veto it, with
a message giving his reasons, re-
manned problematical.
He told Galloway that had Gal
loway permitted the top rate to re-
main at $75, as the senate amend
ments provided, he would have
signed the measure.
I'VE do not want to kill the goose
that lays the golden eggs" the
Governor explained.
1t is believed that the $3.50 rate
might not stand a court test and if
it did, the larger chains would dis
solve and reorganize in smaller
units to lower the rates, it was
pointed out.
Following his announced intention
of Wednesday, McNutt signed the
skip election" bill, postponing
municipal elections until 1884 They
were scheduled for this year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-09
HIT-RUN AUTO
VICTIM DEAD
Sixth Traffic Fatality Here
in Week; Years Toll
Is %.

Sixth auto death in Marion coun-
ty in less than week occurred early
today at city hospital when William
Griffith, so, 534 East North street,
succumbed D injuries incurred Sun
day night when he was
struck by a hit-run car
at 600 asSachusettS
avenue,
~ His death raised the
--- coGnty's traffic toll
since first of the year to twenty
three.
Three-day search by police for
driver of the car was pressed today
by accident prevention bureau heads
although Jews we're lacking.
Griffith, a pedestrian, stepped in
to the PAL Of i car which witnesses
said was a taxi. The driver did
not slack speed after striking C~if-
fifth, and was out of sight before
any Identification marks could be
SEEM police were told. Griffith re-
ceived~a skull fracture, internal in
juries and extensive body bruises.
Griffith, a waiter in a lunchroom
at Fifty-fourth street and College
avenue. lived at the East North
street address, a rooming house, for
the last eight years. Friends said
his only survivor is the widow, from
whom he had been separated. She
left the city and her present resi-
dence is not known.
Arrangements for the funeral
have not been made.
Hit-run drivers were responsible
for three other deaths occurring
since last Friday. TWO of the VIC
TINS we're hitch mixers and the third
a Negro woman. Drivers blamed for
both deaths have been arrested by
police.
Struck by car driven by Henry
Rood, II, of the Spencer hotel, at
Capitol avenue and Washington
street Wednesday night, Mrs. Mamie
l., Weir, SO, of 2111 Lexington ave-
nue., was bruised or the legs and
body. She was treated at city hos
pital.