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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
POP! GOES A BRANCH
(New Britain Herald)

Abandonment of railroad pas. senger service on the Hartford Saybrook line win Middletown ends q once popular service to the shore from the capital city. It means that another branch line turns Into one upon which a few freight trains may travel occasionally. For while automobiles have taken over the passenger business. with the help of busses, motor trucks have taken over the transportation of much of the freight that form erly went along branch lines.
 Why the railroads continue the branch lines after service over them has bee discontinued is due not altogether to their own fr- clinations. Politicians still like to tax such lines as source of in- come and easily listen to objections when plans are made to abandon such lines entirely. Yet the farm CTS who object to such abandon ment throughout New England rarely use the rails. Perhaps they figure that if such taxable prop erty is entirely eliminated they themselves would be forced to make up the loss to the public treasury. M
 { In Washington, however, Coor- dinator Eastman is losing no time in evaluating the branch line prob lem of the railroads under his wing. These branch dines cost the railroads so much money in up- keep and taxes that they force higher rates than would be neces- sary on the main lines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

We'll. at last Governor Cross and other democratic officials of the state have dipped into the pork barrel. We were allotted 100000 pounds of freshly-killed pork and Governor Cross wired his acceptance. The meat will represent this states quota of pork now being distributed by the federal emer- geney commission in Washington. Uncle Sam. you may recall, bought up alL the porkers he could recently to relieve the market The meat thus procured is to be given to deserving members of the great army of the unemployed. No doubt local and state relief rolls will be consulted for the most deserving cases.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
A Book e Day by BRUCE CATION
He Was a Kipling Hero in Real Life

When Cecil Rhodes was IS the doctors gavo him just six months to live. He chung to life until ho was 4S, became the incarnation of the empire builder, told friends that the world would remember him for at least 4000 years and led in os- tablishing the Union of South Af- rica.
 And on this side of the Atlantic we remember him chiefly because a number of American boys go to oxford each year under Rhodes scholarships.
 All of which. probably, indicates that a good biography of the man Is badly needed: and such biog. raphy ia at hand now In "Coctl Rhodes by Sarah Gertrude Millin. Rhodes i'll health was probably one of the big factors in his ae. complishments. He knew he did not have long to live: he had to work fast. he had to Jam many deeds into few years. He was enormously ambitionus. What he wanted was nothing less that ex. tension of the British empire over the whole earth. and to achieve that end he was willing to discard ordinary morality. N..
 Bribery, deception. force - all were part of his weapons. He started out with the support and trust of the Boers, and wound up by helping to bring on the Boer war. He befriended the natives, then crushed them, then defriend- cd them again. And whether you admire or dispise him, he built an emp mpiro in Africa.
 He was, In short. the incarna. ton of the kipling hero; and if he does not loom quite as large now as he did a few years ago. 1t is only because an ironical fate has robbed Kipling heroes Of much of their glitter. Imperialism doesn't look the same as it used to. But in any case. Rhodes is well worth reading about.
 Published by Harpers. this book sells for S3,7b,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

new party" now. What's the idsa5 Have our republican brethren already lost faith and only few months out of officsf You heard no such meanings as that during the long twelve years that democrats were tread ing the desert sands and waste lands. This g.n.p. idea doesn't sound as if it would be much of success to us. COP. is written too deeply into republican history to be erased overnight. And there always would be party members who would stick to the more euphonious abbreviation of g.o.p. The Young Republican League. which sponsofs the move, will have to show lot of strength before it can get any such radical change as that approved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
Vie1e1s of The Press
THE GREENWICH ExPERI.
 MENT
(Hartford Times)

I (Hartford Times)
 A type of town government. new In Connecticut, Is to be tried out by Greenwich this fall. Instead of using the mass town meeting method whih has beome unwieldy, the town Is to be divided into eleven districts and each district is to elect representatives to cen- tral, representative town meeting. This Is not the town council form of government, however, as the provision is made that Q delegate is to be hcosen for every 100 resi- dents or major fraction of Ithat number. As Greenwich has a pop uiation of fully S3,000 persons, It's Representative town meeting" may comprise 330 members.
 One sees the conservative New England spirit at work in this ex- pertinent. The wonder is that a community of 33,000 population was able to function at all under the old town meeting plan. The new experiment is a mild depar- ture. An assembly of 330 dele- gates is still a sizable gathering for conducting municipal affairs. but it gives the town-meeting pro- tagonist, a feeling of comfort in his being represented so "ade- quately."
 More progressive sentiment would prefer to discard the semi-mass- meeting idea altogether and have the voters choose a small number of representatives to a compact council. West Hartford made transition to the latter form of town government several years ago. Large communities like Manchester stil operate under the old select man-town-meeting type of govern ment and seem to manage quite we'll except when a dynamic issue gets the town stirred up and then it is found that not hall in town is large enough to accommodate those who wish to attend. Green wich may prove to be 6 brave. big brother in showing how transition may be made in a safe and gentle manner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
Moscow Letter
By EUGENE LYONS ntted Press Stan Correspondent

Moscow. (UP)-An Soviet rail- road and air transportation, like the farming of the country, now Is under the direct control of the central committee of the coms munist party.
 By the side of every government official of importance in railroad and civil aviation stands "politi- cal commissar" responsible only to the central committee. Firmer di- rection and more pitiless warfare against "enemy elements" in those industries will thus be achieved.
 The establishment of this poli- tical control for transportation fol- lowed the success<of similar sys- tenn introduced for agriculture. Just as political depts" with extra traordinary powers. named by true and tried Bolsheviks, were created at strategic points throughout the country to oversee agriculture, so political departments recently were formed throughout the railroad and civil aviation systems.
 The commissar of railroads, a rank equivalent to minister, or cabinet member, in other coun- tIl6S, IS AuuTcW AHQEcycF. put HIS authority is no longer what it was. By his side is the newly created chief of the political departments, V. Polonsky, whose title is merely vice-comniissar, but who is re- sponsible not to the government, or to the commissar, but directly to Stalin's Central Committee.
 Every railroad and railroad cen- ter. similarly, has a political de- pertinent, which is not subordih- ate to the regular road officials but to Poionsky. The picture in the civilian aviation is about the same.
 Early this year the Kremlin found itself faced by the most alarming situation on the "agra- rian front. since the famine days. Strong measures were necessary. They took the form of political de- partments with extensive admin istrative and policing powers. It was their task to exterminate op- position. to suppress disloyai or in. capable local officials and to use all methods. however harsh. to make the peasants work.
 Whatever the rest of the world may say about the methods used. and whatever millions inside Rus sia may think of them. the poli- ticai departments did succeed in their purpose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
KINKS IN LIQUOR LAWS
Bridgeport Telegraph )


 Connecticut is not the only state to have trouble with it's liquor con- trol law. Massachusetts has just dis covered the fact that the general court Gas they call their legislature in the Bay State) passed a tax measure imposing taxes upon beer of mot more" than 3.2 per cent alcoholic content and that is the law of the state today.
 But when prohibition is repeal ed, on or about December 6th. then beer of more than 3.2 alco- holic content will be automatically iegallzed. whereas the tax only ap- plies to beer of mot more" than that strength. It is easy to see-- unless the law Is changed-what kind of beer is going to be sold in Massachusetts after repeal
 California hotel men are up in arms because their Iaw--enacted in the form of an amendment to the state constitution--proyides that hotels may establish shops where liquor may bs cold by the bottle only, but the same law de- feats its purpose by providing. in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
So They Say

Any intelligent conception of modern governmental functions must embrace the Idea of effective consumer protection. -Rexford q. Tugwell. assistant secretary of agriculture. Hal said, Lets get married" and 1 said, "An right" |. --Jean Harlow. No denomination has corner on the saints. If that hurts your denominational pride, 1t may help your Christian humility. -Dr. Stanley E. Jones, missionary
  Parliamentarianism as such end- ed In Austria in March, and never will come again. A state without authority cannot rise. M -Engelbert Dolifus. Austrian chancellor.
 We have product to sell to the people.
 George F. Zook, U. s. commits sioner of education.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

We've read about the wolf in sheep's clothing and about keeping the wolf away from the door, but never about sheep killing a wolf Yet that is just what hap. pened recently in the province of Ontario. Canada. A farmer noticed several lambs in his flock missing. Searching for them he saw large ram in the flock attack wolf that had just seized another sheep. The wolf died from fractured skull and broken neck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

another section. that a guest who buys a bottle cannot open it on the hotel premises, even in his own room. The despairing hotel men see all their old troubles with "set ups. in the rooms. and with bribed beIlboys acting as bootieggers. con- tinuing after prohibition.
 conneticut's law won't allow a hotel fo sell liquor either tn the bottle ot otherwise. But there Is nothing to prevent a guest who has purchased q bottle elsewhere from mixing q hishball in his room if he desires.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
Silly Superlatives

It will be fortuante day for this coun- try when silly quests for the most beauti- ful' woman. the ''healthiest" boy or girl. the most perfect baby, and SO on. are dropped. They never prove anything, be- cause they never cover the whole field. They do hahn by the heart-burnings they cause. the disappointment and envy. and the false standards they set up.
 They intensity the besetting folly of American life. which is frenzied competition in unimportant things. They promote the silly love for superlatives which is an Amer iesn weakness. seen at its worst and fun nest in a circus handbill. These eompeti- tions and their unwholssome emotions will never be killed. though. by solemn eondem- nation. The only way is to laugh at them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

Anyway. fighting about how to prevent wars as the powers have been doing for l 5 years. isn't so bad as fighting wars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

In spite of the attraetiveness of glass houses we probably won't be living in them because it wouldn't do the lumber, brick, and cement industries any good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
OLD WARRANT COST STATE
 $1O5

Salem, Ore. (UP)-Oregon is out s1O5 as a result of the finding of an old, uncashed warrant for that amount by R. J. Berning, of Mt Angel. The warrant was seven years old had had erroneously been omitted from past "calls."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

High tide at Milford Thursday. Septem- Der 28. 6:l0 p. m; low tide, l2i00 3. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
Daily Washington Letter Securities Act May Be Made Even Stricter By
 Congress

ing by my side. He Is taking care in 0 small degree of the taxpayers and the people of Kentucky, and don't you forget it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
BY RODNEY BUTCHER Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrcspondcnt)

washington.-wall street's DOT. sistent fire on the securities act fs likely to develop a hot back-fire.
 The suckers will continue, under the New Deal, to be protected from investment bankers and other se- curity merchants who have fooled thcm in the past. The lobbyists will be out of luck next winter when they attempt 10 persuade Congress to modify the law.
 on the other hand, it's not un- likely that Congress will insert a few more teeth.
 Congressme in touch with home sentiment report that the country Is still quite "anti-banker." It will be more so after Ferdinand Pecora resumes the Senate's stock market investigation In October. Disclos. ures then are expected to be nas- tier than ever. They will demon- strate again the need for investor protection and, if the act is sub- sequently opened for amendment. will cause demands for stricter rather than miider provisions.
 strictcr Law Likely
 Hackers of the measure sought q "strict but reasonable" statute. They had to fight hardest for q "reasonable" law. because many members of Congress wanted to make 1t tougher. Promoters of se- curities were threatened with a straight guarantee clause which would have held them liable for absolute accuracy in all represen- tations
 They may face that again as a proposed substitute for the exist Ing fiduclary clause which only in- sists that they be fair and careful. Brookhart Likes Bible
 Ex-Senator Smith w. Brookhart who plots Russian markets for farm products in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, is an inveterate reader of the Bible. Clifford V. Gregory, editor of tho Prairie Farmer, Chicago, wiscrackh that the farmers can't blow any more because they're so busy sign ing afiidavits for the AAA.
 Governor Ruby Laffoon, address. ing the Kentucky legislature. claimed: God Almighty Is walking by my side today. He has walked with me through life. He is walk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:l2 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

They're talking about remaining the grand old party. They want to call it the grand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
Johnson Cautious

Johnson Cautious
 Johnson furnishes some sharr contrasts with the pre.R Roosevelt days when every recovery scheme from Washington wa s ballyhooed as certain to rescue the country from depression. Asked what effect the R. r. C. S1,000, 900. 900 plan to finance industries through banks would have on the NRA effort, he replied:
 If 1t works to extend credit. it should have q marked effect Whether 1t wiH or not, 1 don't know"
 Hardly anyone Is vory optimis. tic about it. Banks, borrowing from R. r. C. to lend to industries, will be taking the risks. They can have hll the risks they want right now The Federal Trade Commission under the securities act, is gath. ering evidence against fake tipstel sheets which provide "hot tops" to Investors on stocks their packers want to unload.
 Copyright, 1898. NEA Service Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
Question of Pricc.Fixlng

The fight over price. fixing in NRA codes has developed q per- of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Commerce Roper and Assistant secre etary Of Commerce John Dick inson lead the opponents of price fixing.
 Administrator Hugh Johnson, who has allowed price determina. ton provisions in most codes, ap- parentiy has been neutral. But he Is sore at what he regards as a dls, position of officials outside NRA to "butt in." So the Wallace. Roper. Dickinson group also has become somewhat emotional.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
Personal, Health Service
(By William Brady, M. D.

Il Signed letters pertaining to personal
 health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or II treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady
 Address him, care of the Democrat. sending
 stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27

Winthrop Amts, WIth tXcctuIHk grace, swooped down. gathered up the roast, deposited 1t on the plat. ter once more. George Arliss res- cued a few potatoes from under the serving table. other guests re. trieved the rest, someone arranged them neatly around the roast once more, someone else lifted the plat. ter proudly to the table, and all sat down to cat as If nothing had happened. No one commented up- on the incident the entire evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-04

(Continued from Page 1) mated to be in the neighborhoo cd of S4,000. So far the job has cost $3,000. The money comes out of the Fulton Park Trust Fund.
 Near tho Wading Pool
 The plot on which the game is played Is located near the wading pool. From the point where the ball is thrown, to the other end, Is a distance of 120 feet.
 For those who do not know how the game is played Q brief explan. ation might not be out of place here: One to four men make up Q team. Each is provided with two balls. First, Q small ivory ball about the size of a cue ball is roll ed down the course as q target.
 The players then proceed to roll their balls with such skill as will bring their balls close to the ivory ball. The ball closest to the ivory ball is give q point. The side scor- ing 2l points first wins the game.
 The balls used In play are jop- sided and weighed on one side. They can be skilifully rolled by means of out and iri-curves. or by forcing an opponents ball away
 Some of the balls o-vDvD from the ivory bali. Some of tho balls are made of high grade and expensive wood.
 Mir Moore and Attorney Finton J. Phelan have challenged Judge Dennis J. slavin and Attorney C. Bobbin to play the first game on the course when 1t Is completed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-04
Mayor May Ride Horse in Monster Armistice Day Parade
NEW TICKET PLAN
 FOR GOLF COURSE
Park Board May Issue Half.SeasOn Card
 for $lO

The board of park commission CTS are considering O new system of charging fees for the municipal golf course at East Mountain. which might be favorably voted upon before next golflng seasons roll around. The new system would call for the issuance of a half sea- son ticket for $10 which would permit any member of the family of the purchaser to use 1t.
 Under the present system the park department issues Q half sea. son ticket for $10 but only the pur- chaser of the ticket is allowed to use 1t in play.
 A standing committee consisting of John P. Elton, president of the park board, Thomas F. Moore, sec- retary of the board and Superin- tendent of Parks Irving w. Har- rison is considering the new sug- gestion which was offered at the last meeting of the park board.
 If 1t is decided to adopt the sug- gestion, the old system will not be dropped. Instead, the two systems will be maintained.
 It is figured that under the fam. lily type card, 1t will cost in the neighborhood of 33 cents per round. To those who do not have the cards the costs will continue to be 40 cents per round. The cards will run from August to February. A whole season card would cost $2O from February to February,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-04
Mussolini To Tell His Plan Wednesday
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modern industrial system cannot remain bound to feudal or individ- ualistic conceptions based on tho political and economic doctrines of the 18th century.
 Appropriately, the speech will be made to the National Federation of Guilds = the body that will guide the nations economic destinies un- der the supervision of the. 60-year old Duce.
 The guilds have been themselves fascism's greatest experiment. From the original conception of main guilds, there grew a national guild council to coordinate work, and that was in turn supplemented with central guild committee.
 Final details of the guild system. even now are being completed. They provide for subordinate guilds in the main divisions. For instance in the main industrial guild will be others, of which the steel guild will include, automobile, rails. loco. motives, steel cars, structural steel and senii.finished products such as bars, slabs and ingots.
 The National Federation of Guilds, the all inclusive body, will conduct and legislate on the enc tire economic program, such as ip- dustrial planning, markets, prices, currency, labor and supervision oi production.
 Workers and employers of 60 category guilds, as they, are called. will select delegates to the central body to control production. regI. late trade and organize the indus. trial, commercial and agricultura' activity of the nation and give Italy. as Mussolini sees 1t, a virile living new concept of government that never lapses or recesses but always works forward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-04
MINE STRIKE IN
 PENN TO CLOSE
Most Stubborn Labor War the Recovery Act Had
 to Deal With

Washington, Nov 4--(UP)-End of the Pennsylvania captive coal mine strike, most stubborn labor war with which the administration has had to deal, appeared definite ly irf sight today.
 Leaders of the 20, ,000 miners still on strike were enroute home to get their men back to the pits by Wed nesday in accordance with pledge made to President Roosevelt last night.
 The asurances that the strikers would return to work were given by their own local union leaders.
 In return for heir pledge the mine union leaders were assured that the government through the national labor board would guar antee them honest and speedy elec- ton for choice of representatives to meet with thecaptive mine own CTS in collective bargaining.
 The captive mines owned by steel companies have been center of unrest and violence for more than two months. Tens of thousands of workers in commercial mines laid down their tools in q sympathetic strike at one time and the dispute threatened. to spread throughout the great industrial areas of Vest ern Pennsylvania.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-04

Indianapolis. Ind. Nov. "A test of American legion strength in Connecticut is called for in Q challenge just received at national headquarters from 6 group of states in the northeastern section of the United States under the jur- isdiction of National Vice Con- mander Charles Woolley, of Provi- dence, R. l., it is announced.
 The challenge is directed at three other groups of states under National Vice Commanders Ed Carruth, Of Herington, Kas.; R. L. Gordon, Dcrmott. Ark, and Charles R. Mabey, Salt Lake City, Utah, totalling 36 states.
 The northeastern group com prises besides Connecticut, the states of Maine, New Hampshire Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Co., lumbia, Maryland, West Virginia Pennsylvania, New York and Yer mont.
 National headquarters also an' nounced today that each of the national vice commanders has ac! cepted the challenge on behalf ot their states and will make formal announcements of their replies In a few days as soon as the various department commanders can be contacted.
 "Connecticut is one of the key states in this battle" H. L. Pep Hummer, assistant national ad. iutant in charge of national mem-