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hole There's a transom above a
door into the hole and it's the only
visible means of getting air in the
hole. It's pretty stufy," AYERS his
affidavit.
It's kind of chilly at nights. so
I'd leave my clothes on. I'd use my
shoes for a pillow. You couldn't
sleep on the board very we'll, IL was
hardly wide enough" are the simple
schoolboy words of Little in his
statement.
"StOTeroom" as Blind
Visitors to the state farm escorted
for tours of inspection pass the
hole" by thinking it is another
storeroom, relates Little in his affi-
davit.
1t says 'Storeroom on the door
next TO the hole This door leads
to the storeroom The hole door
had nothing on It, but visitors go
right past it and don't ask what
that door leads to. for they think
it is part of the StoreroOm," he
says under oath
II is another "storeroom."
Censoring of letters at the state
farm prevents inmates from dis
cussing any incidents surrounding
their lives as inmates.
Can't Tell Relatives
They can not tell what they have
been doing, the time they spent in
the hole"
One Negro wrote to his sister
He didn't have anything tn say,
because he couldn't say anything
about the farm. so on a big piece
Of paper he wrote. Dear Sis: Get
ting along okay. Please ser/ me
five cans of tobacco and then
signed his name, says Little's affi-
davit.
Another former inmate relates of
a husband who wrote to his wife
thus:
Dear Wife: If YOU can't send me
any tobacco. don't answer this let
ter" and the cramped missive ended
with the signing of the husbands
name
Inmates Near Riot
Machines in the shirt factory
clicked industriously on one of Lit
ties days at the farm
Collars of shirts were being sewn
on Cuffs were stitched TO sleeves.
Task Make Task" hummed in
the minds of the inmates. as they
turned out their double dozens.
Then red riot. unreasoning rage,
arose in this state factory of con-
tract labor, manned by petty Offend
ers.
A inmate held up two fingers. 1t
was the signal to 60 to a restroom.
The guard shook his head. No"
Il saw a screw, of
the shirt factory hit a man in the
ear when the map wanted to go.
He wouldn't let him go Then some
of the boys started toward
and the runner made them get
back. II Just about started a riot"
relates Little in telling of the in
cident in his affidavit.
Knick- Knacks Are Traded
One of the state farm inmates
paStimes is making knick-knacks to
trade for tobacco and alleged favors
from guards. according to Little.
AS he made the affidavit he. boy
iShly proud. told of a sailors knot
he had obtained in a tobacco trade
from former navy man incar-
cerated at the farm and how it
could be used for a watch chain.
And he told. too, of the Mexican
who made horsehair watch chains,
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In the Air

Weather conditions at 8 a. m:
West wind. Is miles an hour; tenn
perature, 80; barometric pressure,
1908 at sea level; general condi-
lions, clear; ceiling, unlimited; Wis
ibility. 10 miles.
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Bank cOnservator Named

HW NTFFU FFFFN
NOBLESvILLE. Ind. July 20.--A.
II Baker. Democratic chairman Of
the Sixth Indiana district. today
was named conservator for the Citi-
zens State bank OF Noblesville. The
institution was closed last week By
the state banking department.
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He tells OF rats the Dlpeds ana
quadrupeds
He tells how it feels 10 stand up
all day with your hands cufied 10
bars and living on bread and
water.
I was sentenced around
June /. 1882. in the court Of Munci-
pal Judge William II. Sheafer. on a
vehicle taking charge" begins the
story Of Little in affidavit.
Sent TO Shirt Factory
They put me to work in the shirt
factory when I first went there
4 had a fight with the manager
OF the factory. - for not
making task. I was supposed TO put
out forty-five double dozen That is
what is called putting cuffs on
shirts and forty-five double dozen,
n DAYS task. means you turn shirts
with cuffs on them to the extent OF
forty-five dozen. says the youths
sworn statement.
i was putting out about thirty
dozen a day. Is a civilian.
They had rung the bell to quit.
called me into his Office
and said. Say. how many shirts did
you get out. Little?
Hit With Fist, He Claims
I told him" continues the
youths affidavit. thirty double
dozen. He took a pop at me with
his fist. I stood there and warded
of the blows as ne struck. If I
had fought back, the screws
(gIards} would have black lacked
me. He gave me a shove out the
door and told me TO make task the
next day" Make task is doing
your allotted amount of work.
But the youth with the fuzz on
his face didn't make task
Il got put in the hole I was
in there four days. handcuffed to
the bars Bread and water three
times a day. I was all alone in the
hole until the fourth day. when
they brought a fellow who was on
the next machine to me for not
making task I think he stayed
three or four days says Littles
sworn statement.
Rats His Cellmates
The loneliness of that hole" for
Little during three Of those four
days graphically printed an impress
sion upon him.
Rats and reaches scurried around
him. past his cell into other cells
always ide-and-seek, his affidavit
relates.
The smell in the hole is bad
They let you down at noontime to
drink water Captain Arment comes
in and lets you down He stays
there while you're drinking water
Then he handouts you back to the
bars" declares the youths notarized
statement
The head doctor comes in with
Arment and asks you if you're all
right.
You tell them you're all right.
adds his statement. If you don't
I've heard they blackjack you.
Must Keep shifting
standing in the hole all day. I'd
get my feet up on cross bar and
kind of squat down to rest myself
You get tired and rest yourself
against the door and il pulls against
your wrists and the handouts and
hurts. You got to keep shifting
around, for il gets tireSOme," charges
Little'S affidavit.
The last day I was just about
hanging there. was tired and
hungry. Rats ran all around says
the youths sworn statement.
There's a Storeroom above the
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furnishing the new state library. II
was announced today The furni-
ture will be made az Shelbyville.
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FAILURE TO MAKE TASK IN
PENAL farm SHIRT PLANT
SENDS LAD TO THE HOLE
Youth of 10, First Offender, Tells Narrowing
Story of Blows and Cruelty;
Handcuffed to Bars.
This conditions the Indiana penal farm
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times stan Writer

is On
farm they put failing the
numbe Of factory. declares
He on
And affidavit
Ind lines Of he o
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Frankfort Painter Is Killed

FRANKFORT. Ind. July %
John E. Martin. ~. painter. was
fatally injured when he fell from
a truck in a collision here.
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LIBRARY CONTRACT LET
Bowman Elders Firm Is Awarded
Contract by State.

indianapolis Office Furniture
Company. of which Bowman Elder.
McNutt adviser. is treasurer. was
awarded a s39. 1850 contract for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11

give ground. His present status is some
what Of an enigma. Probably he real
ICES himself full well what the program
is and viii act accordingly. In short it Is
being made as easy as possible for him to
retire gracefully from the scene.
We don't suppose for one instant that
he will go counter to the handwriting on
the wall. To date be has kept mum on
the subject of sound money and all the
other expressions which lead so many men
into difficulties. In this respect he is
wiser perhaps than Dean Acheson, former
undersecretary, who was outspoken in his
views and as a. result is now merely an
onlooker so far as government work is
concerned. While Connecticut will regret
that Mr. Hewes could not remain in the
Treasury Department, it will not censor
him for his monetary views nor for con-
duct of his office. He has acted for the
best interests of country and party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11
Geneva Letter

Geneva (UP)-Germany and
Japan are copying Washington's
method of maintaining contact with
the League Of Nations without be-
longing to it, or paying dues.
They are establishing large con-
sular offices which, like the u. S.
Consulate, will transmit lengthy
and retailed reports regarding
League activities.
This system allows them to re-
main an outsider" without losing
the many advantages of close con-
Washington, after snubbing the
League for years, decided 1t need
ed more information on what was
going on. 1t sent Prentiss Gilbert
to Geneva as Consul and gave him
a large staff.
Attend Meetings
These officers are seen frequently
in League corridors. They attend
all public meetings, taking their
places quietly in the diplomatic
tribunes. After the meetings they
inform Washington of develop
ments.
They are we'll received. League
officials go out Of their way to fur
nish them information interesting
to the United States.
Japan was the first to copy the
plan. Toxic appointed M. Masa-
yuki Yokoyama Consul General
here and told him to follow the
American system. A new consulate
was established near the League
and half dozen industrious con-
suls and vice consuls started send
ing reports home.
The Germans now are doing the
same thing. DIR w. Krauel, German
Consul here, has been sent several
new assistants. Their Offices are
only across the street from the
League Palace. 4.
Although Japan. and Germany
remain full-fedged members of
the League until 1886 they follow
differing methods in their "offi-
ciaT relations with League bodies.
Germany, SO far, has refused to
send Representatives to any COM
mittee or commission meeting held
under League auspices.
Japanese on Committees
The Japanese on the other hand
continue to send delegates to meet
ings of the Leagues social and
technical organizations. Japan, for
instance, sits on the Mandates
commission, the Central Opium
Board and Health Committee.
The Soviets, who with the
United States. Japan and Germany
form the group commonly known
as the great outsiders" do not
follow the liasion methods of the
Americans, Japanese and Germans.
Officially they ignore Geneva ex-
cept during sessions Of the dis
armament conference. They have
no consulate, no liasion. no contact
except through the invaluable rep
|resentativc Of the Tass Agency, M.
Vladimir R0mfn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Here's The Seasons
Funniest Volume

You are not apt to find any fun
snier book this fall than my Life
and Hard Times" by James Thur
Der.
This book, I suppose, is an auto
biography-but what an autobiog
raphy! Told with perfectly
straight face, 1t includes some of
the most thoroughly insane anec-
dotes and "reminiscences anybody
ever heard.
There was the time, for instance,
when the residents of Columbus,
o., thought that O dam had burst
and loosed food waters on their
city. Everybody started running -
young and old, healthy and infirm.
male and female-and what Mr.
Thurber does with this frantic he
gira is nothing less than sidesplit-
ting.
Then there was the time when
the Thurber family heard footsteps
downstairs at night, suspected
burglars, and called the cops; then
grandfather, the old Civil war vet
eran who slept in the attic, got the
idea that the cops were deserters
from McCleellan's army trying to
hide under his bed, and managed
set straight on things.
Grandfather, in fact. b swell
character, who almost steals the
whole show. He helps make my
Life and Hard Times" book
which deserves that overworked
phrase, "screamingly funny"
Published by Harper's, 1t sells
for $1.75. :.
II you read "The New Yorker"
you're familiar with o. Soglow's
delightful sketches of the little
king. Well. they're collected now
in book form titled "The Little
King" and the book Is a dandy to
keep on the living room table.
It's offered by Farrar and Rine-
hart for 80, and 1t is remarkably
full of laughs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11

State Highway Commissioner Mac
donald can be subjected to all sorts OF
criticism from Fairfield county residents,
but he is not obliged to consult with any
individual down there before beginning
actual construction of the proposed ex-
press route. This opinion is legal and
binding because it was delivered by the
Attorney Generals Office, Assistant At
torney General Raymond A. Johnson CIV
ing it. 1t was asked to clarity the position
of the Merritt Highway Commission, set
up some time back so far as we can see
this commission will not enter the picture
until the road is, built. Then it will have
something to say about the regulation OF
traffic. 1t will also more or less control in
a sense the right of way abutting on the
road proper. There is a provision that the
highway department may cede its powers
of maintenance and improvement OF the
read to the commission after the project
is finished. However, unless the commits
sion can raise large fund, from which
to draw, there is no sense in it taking over
an expensive proposition such as keeping
up the Merritt Highway will be. That's
something all of us will contribute to by
our annual motor taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11
MONDAY, DECEMBER II, 1888
Up to the People

The eighteenth amendment is history;
the obituary has been read; the mourners
have done about all the reminiscing that
the situation permits Now we are facing
ahead, and most of us, probably, are Won
dering just what the wet era is likely to
bring us. Like practically all human
devices, it will bring us just about what
we make it bring.
Prohibition, which was to have cleared
up century, problems of crime, crook
edness, and misery, failed because we
thought we could take out of it more than
we put in. It's failure was tragic and
expensive; looking back at it, we might as
well resolve right now not to make the
same failure with the post-prohibitlon
regime.
A lot of factors went into the decision
to do away with prohibition. None, how
ever, was quite as important as the ma
tons desire to get out from under the
speakeasy and the beer-runner. They were
a load too heavy to be carried, any farther.
We have dropped them. But when we
dropped them, they didn't break into little
pieces. They still are lying there, waiting
to be pickd up again. And if we do pick
them up again, we shall find that the ex-
pected gains of prohibition repeal are
illusory.
That is to say that, just as we couldn't
create perfect temperance by passing
law, we likewise shall be unable to abolish
speakeasy and beer baron by statute. The
job requires widespread cooperation. The
man in the street - the ordinary citizen,
who likes his drink now and then and is
willing to pay for Unjust help. 1t he
BUYS what he buys from legal sources,
and from legal sources only, he will be
giving the illegal booze traffic blow
from which it never will recover.
That trade, like any other, can't exist
without customers. Its customers now
have the chance to get what they want in
a legal manner. If they do so, the speak
easy dies and the beer baron goes and
hunts for job And right there is where
the big test of the new regime will come.
Will the people who protested against pro-
hibition support the new laws with their
pocketbooks? Or, to put it more exactly,
will they stop supporting the speakeasy?
If they do, the new regime will work. 1t
they don't, it will fail very miserably.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11
Liquor For Revenue Only

It is quite in keeping, perhaps, that the
democratic administration at Washing
ton is proposing levy of $3.50 per gallon
on distilled spirits. The democratic party
believes in tariff for revenue only. That
seems to be the underlying purpose OF the
So. go tax in contradistinction to the pres
emit rate of $11O. Whether or not this is
going to prove as successful as the ad-
ministration thinks remains to be seen.
However, if consumption of spirits con-
tinues unabated the revenue from such
tax should fit the picture.
It is hoped that $500,000,000 revenue
will be raised through liquor taxes. This
certainly would be just what the country
needs. We have been searching every
where for some source in which taxes
could be found. This writer always
claimed that liquor provided just such
one. However, that viewpoint was not
exceptional. 1t was one shared by thou
sands of people, officials included, in this
nation. Now that we have the chance
to avail ourselves of the opportunity
to increase tax revenues without burden
ing the public, let's hope we don't muff it.
We're wondering now whether the fed
eral tax will be supplemented by state
ones, too. 1t has been suggested that
Uncle OaIn pToTdte SolHe Pol IloH VI '1i0
$3.50 he receives to the states. But Uncle
Sam may not be so inclined at this point
of the game All of which would make
us wonder if in higher taxes on liquors we
are not playing right into the hands OF
the very interests that we hope to destroy
by legalizing liquor once more in these
United States. 1t is admitted retail prices
are too high right now for the average
man to swell liquor receipts. They must
come down. But can they in the face OF
mounting federal and state taxes? We
wonder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11
HISTORY

The new minister had preached
here before November 1899 and
and was later accepted as the new
minister. AS yet, no regular meet
ing house was erected. An impor-
tant arrival in the community in
100 was that of Joseph Lewis who
appeared on the list of town Off
GERS as fence viewer. Certain
divisions were notable during this
period, Judd's meadows in the
southern section, SCOTS meadow.
Warmers meadow, Andrews mea-
dow; and on the east side were
Beaver meadows extending to Pine
Hill, Hop meadow, Bucks mead
ow. the meadow above Jericho
bridge (Reynolds Bridge region),
Popple meadow Welton,s meadow.
English Grass meadow, and one
known as the Plum Trees, and
this covers as Anderson's history
states, "the meadows bordering on
the Naugatuck from "the Straits"
to the plum Trees, about eigh-
teen miles.
The old township also had
twelve islands, among them Pine
Island just above the mill dam at
Platt's Mills, Southmayd's island.
Gaylord's island, Bronsons island,
Scovih's island, supposedly which
was opposite the Watcrville sta
tion. Upson's island. the Butchers
is" ~fard others.
Many hills with their names de-
rived from the owners, and such
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11
Losing Another

Connecticut seems destined to lose
another federal appointee in the U. s.
Treasury Department. 1t has been ru-
mored for some time that Thomas Hewes
of Pennington, Assistant Secretary,
would be asked to tender his resignation.
Mr. Hewes is simply another individual
who does not see eye to eye with the Pres
ident and his present monetary advisers
on the money situation. In this he does
not differ from great many men. His
departure from the Treasury Department
will not be blow at his prestige either
at the Capitol or in this state.
Mr. Hewes' authority has decreased of
recent days. When he went down to
Washington he was placed in charge OF
the Internal Revenue Bureau in the de-
partmept. With the advent of Henry
Morgenthau, Jr, as acting Secretary OF
the Treasury during Secretary Woodm's
danarture. Mr. Hewes has been obligated to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11

Washington, Dec. 11-Try to
buy a copy of the last issue Of the
Yale Review at any Washington
book store. 1t Is almost impossi-
BILE. They are as scarce as legal
liquor on the night of December
5. The book stores will tell you,
IL you press them, that every
one of their Yale Reviews was
purchased by the Japanese em-
bassy.
There's a reason.
The last issue contains two
significant articles. One is on
Japanese Strategy In the Far
East"/by General Peyton March,
once military observer with the
japanese army during the
RnssO-Japanese war. The other,
is ON "ManclIurian Diplomacy"
by John v. A. MacMdrray, for
mer American ambassador to
China, now minister to the Baltic
states.
MacMurray says that Japanese
policy may develop into "a gran
dose imperialism which would
be menace to the world" Gen
eral March diagnoses the posi-
bilities of war between Japan
and Russia and indicates that
Japan would be the winner.
STILL SUPREME
The last presidential election
saw the powerful force of the
Mellon-Reed machine in Pitts
burgh overthrown.
Despite this defeat, Mellon and
Reed are still sitting in the driv-
ers seat as far as the Roosevelt
administration is concerned. Two
recent developments indicate
this. one well-known the other
so far secret.
The well-known development
is the fact that Melons Alum
mum trust has been able to hold
out against the MIRA. The de-
velopment, so far secret, Is one
regarding Pittsburgh glass.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Under republican administra-
tons the tariff protecting Pitts
burgh glass was boosted fifty
per cent. The boost was widely
criticized, especially by Senator
Costigan of Colorado. Finally he
pushed a resolution through the
senate calling upon the tariff
commission to investigate the
cost of production of Pittsburgh
glass under the flexible tariff
plan, in order to see whether
Pittsburgh was really menaced
by foreign competition.
The tariff commission, still
under republican chairman,
recommended u decrease. The
decision was unanimOus--three
republicans uniting with the
democrats. They found foreign
firms could not easily compete.
Furthermore they recommended
the maximum possible tariff re-
ductiOn-fifty per cent.
Under the law, their recon-
mendation went to President
Roosevelt for PRONUNCIATION. His
action was not doubted. During
the campaign he had advocated
tariff reduction when not preju-
dicial to American industries.
Several weeks delay, and
nothing happened. Finally the
tariff commission got note
from the White House. 1t stated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-11
SO They Say

To be trusted Is a greater COM
pliment than to be loved.
N Ramsay Macdonald
You don't know anything. You.
don't appreciate anything. You
have never known anything and
never will-Ethel Barrymore, to a
Philadelphia audience. e.
would as soon eat out of a soup
house as resign and embarrass the
president-Eugene r. Black, gov.
ernor Of the Federal Reserve
Board.
Every time France makes her
self safer for herself, she makes
her neighbors feel less safe.--Vis-
count Astor.
They call me gang leader. but
the only gang ] ever have led has
been myNwife and two children
Roger Touhy.
Mr. Aidrich has been reminded
before that this committee will
conduct its own investigation in its
own way, and will not be dictated
to by Mr. Aldrich or any one else.
Senator James Couzens, In sem
ate finance committee investiga-
tons.
There can be no status of infer
iority for Germany, Germany needs
peace. Does she want It? We hope
so and we must find out.
Stanley Baldwin.
A good many divorces have been
averted by a wife. remembering to
wave goodbye to q husband when
he leaves for work.
Judge Joseph SABBATH, famous
Chicago divorce judge.