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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
The Real Labor Issue

An unfortunate thing about insisting on an absolute limit of workin time. as pending labor bill at Washington does. is that it diverts attention from more vital questions. Isn't the real question today not how much work people should do, but how much work they can get? And doesn't it lead directly to the still more fundamental question of how much they are going to get, hereafter, of what their work produees1 On this last question may depend the whole fate of industry.
 Many eminent economists hold that the main cause of our American depression was this: that too much of the prosperity profit from labor-savng machinery was turned back into buying more machinery and un- duly cnlarging production, while not enough was distributed to the workers and the general public in the form of higher wages and lower prices. Thus buying power failed and the system choked. For the ben eft of workers, employers and investors alike this mistake should not be made again. Guarantee to workers as much as possible of what they make. Guarantee, to all consumers, prices as low as capital and management can afford. Then see if we don't all work and buy and prosper! The big job is to get business re-established on this basis. And events are working toward
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
SLAVES OF THE MIGHTY
(Hartford Courant)

Much publicity has lately been given to Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, who apparently has striven to take the place once filled by Senator Hefiin of Alabama, but 1t may be only fair to say that he can be fairly brief in speech, as well as very long. We venture to quote from his remarks of Satur. day last. which was the legislative day of Tuesday, January 10. He rose to a question of personal privi- lege, having to do with Q press item which asserted that it costs the United States $60 a year to give him a daily shave.
 After using Ill words in outlin- ing his subject, he said: Until a day or two ago did not know we have a senate barber shop. have never been in the barber shop, but I have found out there Is such an institution now that 1t has received notice in the press. Tn order that the gentlemen of the press may get the matter straight I wish it to be understood that while I have never been shaved in the senate barber shop, Abraham Lincoln was shaved in. 1t. Daniel Webster was shaved in it, John c. Calhoun was shaved in 1t, Grover Cleveland was shaved in it, as were other gentlemen from eighty years ago down to the pres ent time."
 And if Abraham Lincoln and Grover Cleveland were shaved there, why not Senator Huey Long of Louisiana?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
Dis guised Police Cars

>. Police Commissioner Mulrooney of New York is doing radical thing. He is going to get for departmental cars license plates bearing almost any serial number Hitherto all police ears have borne the same serial number A crook did not have to be ex- ceedngly bright to recognize such d car cruising in his vicinity. Now, plain clothes men can go about their work without gv- ing away their presence 10 the very people they are after.
 Nothing is said about siren horns on po- lice cars. The public has long wondered why. in so many cities, it was necessary for squad car full of police approaching the scene of crime to announce its presence blocks away by means of continuously shrieking siren.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

U s. District Attorney John Buckley of Union whose chief boast outside of the fact that its leading citizen is Mir Buckley. also leading light in the g,op. of Connee- tieut, is the fact that it's the smallest town in the state, won't have to give up his fed- eral job until March, according to the latest reports from Washington. lnasmueh as it is obvious that he will be succeeded by d democrat when the Roosevelt administration
 begins there has been no attempt to present
 his name at the present congressional ses- sonY However, some time ago it was rumored that republican officials like Mir Buckley, Colonel Robert o. Eaton, Collee-
 tor of Internal Revenue. and Federal Elm ployment Director Harry E. Mackenzie would not wait for the democrats to oust them. but would submit their resignations ahead of time. Unless the special session of Congress is called right after the Roose- welt inauguration it is probable that the president will make recess appointment. Until that is done, though Mir Buckley will continue to serve the state. It would be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
Here, There And Euervuhere

with so few seniors and 50 many juniors the rule of senatorial sem tority may count for less than in many years. .,s
 Borah, Norris, Hiram Johnson, Robinson of Arkansas-the demo- cratic leader whom Huey Long de- tests--will be in their familiar places. Borah, who became sem ator March e4, 1907, back in the days of Theodore Roosevelt, will not, only continue to be the best known and most often quoted mem Der Of the upper house but will stand alone in length of service
 In spite, however, of the in- creased moral ascendancy which may be enjoyed by Norris, author of the flame duck" amendment and the Muscle Shoals bill which MT Roosevelt will support, and by other republican progressives, the opportunity for younger. democrats whose party must provide the con- trolling organization, Is almost unique. As for older democrats, there is also an increased oppor- tunity for men like David I. Walsh, who, with an Interruption of less than two years after his defeat by Frederick H. Gillett in 1924, has served in the senate since 1918.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
It's Almost A Good Book

One of the unfortunate things about current literature is the face that so many writers combine a fine, poetic sensitiveness with distressing inability to master the mechanics of their craft.
 Thus we get novels brimming with genuine feeling and insight but spoiled by poor lot construc- ton and faulty character-drawing; novels basically worth more than some of the most glib and polished best sellers, but woefully lacking Tn the elements which carry the sense of reality.
 An example of this is "one Against the Earth, by Daniel Main waring.
 This is a story about a somewhat reckless lad who grows up In 8 little town in California. He is torn by two impulses-the desire to rove far off, see life in all its aspects and taste experience in all its forms, and the deep necessity to anchor him close to the earth.
 These rival impulses are de- scribed with fine care. They way in which the lad is driven by this con- fiict to destroy his own life and bring misery into the lives of others is sympathetically explained. There is poetry and beauty in the authors handling of 1t.
 But the book as whole falls fiat. Characters, dialogue and inci- dent become unreal. After good start the book fails to convince the reader. It should have been excel lent--and, somehow, 1t isn't.
 Published by Long and Smith, the book Is priced. at $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

Warren c. Harding Calvin Coolidge. and Franklin D. Roosevelt won't be mentioned in 1882 history, according to Dr David s. Muzzey. professor of American history at Columbia University. He has just compiled a list of 49 Americans now alive or recently dead who will find place in history 50 years hence Herbert Hoover and Wood row Wilson, to mention two presidents, are in this group, but Dr Muzzey said that it wouldn't be as president that Hoover would go down in history, but as the wartime food administrator and as Secretary of Com merce in another presidents cabinet. The list includes Senator Borah and Chief Justice Hughes, also Al Smith, There's only one woman, Edith Wharton, the novelist, which doesn't ring true to us. If the professors s list are immortals all then some of us can be thankful for being merely mortal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
MRS CooLIDGE.s PENSION
Bridgeport Times-sta

NoAA0SOPOhS 4AhiOb-0taiI
 Apparently Congress will not take any action at this session on the proposal to pay a $6,000 ari- rual pension to the widow of Cal win Coolidge.
 It has become more or less cus- tomary in recent years for such Q pension to be paid to the widow of president. Whether the hitch in the present case comes from the legislative jam which is causing 50 many bills to die, or whether 1t comes from the current demand for economy, is not quite clear. one report says that many congress- men feel that this pension Is not necessary because Mir Coolidge left his widow a fairly sixable estate.
 Luckily, Mrs Coolidge. is not in want, and the delay will not cause her any hardship. But as q matter of principle it might be well to put the pension enactment though anyway. This country is rich enough in bad times as In good times to provide for the widows of its presidents. It might be . good thing to make settled policy of doing 1t in all cases, without delay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06


 Washington The boys and girls in the government service are more than unusually busy these days because they have to spend so much time wondering what will happen to various indi- viduals among them after the fourth of March.
 They have divided between two schools of thought-optimists and pessimists.
 The principal source of specula- tion is whether the forthcoming change in political control will re- suit in q readoption of the spells system in 8 moderate way or in really dractic fashion. .
 Of course there are thousands of jobs which the administration in any event will take away from their present occupants to give to clamboring democrats.
 But two important questions re- main to be answered.: To what ex- tent will the democrats remove officials and other employees not now under civil service? And, to what extent, if any, will the demo- crats invade the civil service in order to get at various jobs now under its protection. '-
 Most federal employees need not worry, since roughly four-fifths of them are in the classified civil service and there is no thought of a complete replacement. But there are 10000 jobs not so classified- including 0 large group of unskill- ed labor which presumably will not be affected-and no one knows how far down that line the ad- ministration will care to cut.
 And there is also the possibility now under civil service will be re- moved from that protection. Upon the return of the democrats and republicans to power in 1913 and 1921-especially in the Harding administration--bot parties were rather ruthless about 1t.
 Among the bureau and division chiefs and other minor officials arc many who, whether with long ser vice or not ,have became regarded as competent experts in their fields, removed from politics. No one knows the extent to which their jobs will be raided.
 A president has the power to strengthen or weaken the civil service. Wilson in his eight years strengthened 1t considerably. Hard- ing weakened 1t, especially by his removal of about 15,000 postmas ters from the civil service list.
 Presidena-elec Roosevelt re- spending to inquiries has reitera- ted his devotion to the general principles of civil service. But he has said nothing to indicate that he will adopt and policy violently antangonastic to the good old game of patronage.
 Democratic leaders in congress sometime have seemed rather avid in their assurances that the Roose- welt victory meant many jobs for the faithful. National Chairman Jim Farley. who will be chief boss of the pie counter as postmaster general, was quoted as saying that there would be "150,000 jobs" to distribute-a number far in excess
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

In the death of Mrs Lillian S. Abbott of Norwalk last week the democratic party of the state loses staunch worker and de- voted member As national committee woman, Mrs Abbott came into considerable prominence. but it was not on her work in this capacity that she came to be regarded as one of the foremost women politicians in Connecticut. Her long years of service on the national committee won her much recognition, but it was richly deserved. She gave of her time and ability for the furtherment of her party and never did she demand pound of flesh in return. Such services as hers are too infrequent. The party owes Mrs Abbott everlasting gratitude.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
POINTING
The beer bill seems, A little ahOfldv.

The beer bill seems,
 A little shoddy,
 Like beer, 1t has
 More foam than body.
 o-O-o A soft word drlveth away wrath but 1t only serves to make the traf- fic cop 0 bit more ferocious in his deadly assault. A lot of women live in hopes of a new dress and then dye In despair.
 Now q representative has bill to coin q one-half cent piece. Also q one and one-half and three cent piece. They better leave the coins alone. This idea of reducing 'em is bad. Look what happened when they cut the size of the paper money.
 A lot of people to-day are merely stockholders in Wall street.
 o-O-o Air mall flying has reached n new record for safety. When all male flying can show the same re- suits, we'll rejoice plenty.
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 JOTyTINGS
 Bonuses for farmers.
 That's the cry to-day,
 Why class legislation,
 The city sllckers say.
 o-O-o Words of wisdom the wise men forgot: It's not how well you start q lob but how well you finish.
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 Spending so much time at Warm Springs, Georgia. will perhaps accustom Roosevelt to the hot water he may get in at Washington.
 o--O-o This completes our regular open- ing program of the week. It came to you over DBD and was broad. cast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pioneer in this type oi newspaper work. We are signinH off at this time, to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour.
 o-O--o Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
So They Say

It's natural that Q member should want to know what his secretary will look like. Some, you know, are very particular. South Trimble, clerk of the
 house of representatives, explain P ing photographic file of appli-
 cants for secretarial jobs with
 congressman.
 It takes trained men to investi- gate business for business hires trained men to help them cover up. Charles k. March, new chairman
 of the federal trade commission.
 More wealth has been dissipated by unwise political action since the armistice than was destroyed dur ing the entire course of the World war.
 Prof William B. Munro, histor-
 ian and political economist.
 The sales tax is Q painless" tax. And that Is why 1t Is Q dangerous tax. It operate like creeping par esis, like monoxide gas. The tax payer is not conscious that ne Is paying.
 ii. $. Senator Thomas P. Gore,
 (dem, Okla.). Harrisburg, Pa.--(UP)--State motor vehicle bureau officials want to know what an Al semi- driver" is.
 A person signing that name wrote the bureau asking clemency for another operator whose license had been suspended,
 Some one familiar with high way conditions suggested that the term may mean . "semi-con- scious driver"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
What does 1t matter, Failure, success, What does it matter, Nothing, I guess.

NOthtng, guess.
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 Who can remember the good old days when mother would keep the youngsters in Sunday afternoon while she washed and dried on the oven door, the red flannel chest protectors that the kiddies wore each winter?
 The trouble with fortune tellers is generally due to the fact that they tell your misfor- tunes.
 Many an old flame loses its warmth over the years.
 o-O-o
 Lew Ayres' wife, one of the popular screen ladies, has se- Lew called her "A dumb chuck" My gracious, the Ayres of Lew.
 o--O-o
 Japan is spending a lot of money with European munitions manufac- turers in order to get their good will for the slaughter in China. What does 1t matter if men die, go long as munitions manufacturers make their ill-gotten gold. And then preachers call this n civilized world. Civilized, what laugh this claim gives me.
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 One touch--makes the person touched little wary of every man who stops him on the street. It's got so now a fellows afraid to ask for Q match, for fear the man &C., costed will think he's trying to panhandle dime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

Hartford stores are considering drastic move to meet present economic conditions Accounts long outstanding may be charged with interest if plan now being studied IS put into execution. Such scheme has been tried with some success in the middle west. It is similar to the interest charge that the city, state or federal governments affix to bills not paid within the legal period. It's drastic but perhaps necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
SENATORS oID AND NEW
(springfield Republican,

With veteran republicans like Shoot, Watson, Noses and others defeated, in almost unprecedent numbers last November. and with possibly three or more of the strongest democratic cratic n senators at.., go. a whole may be moro changed af- ter March { than at any time since the Civil War and the reeonstruc- ton era. Under such conditions,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
THE TABLES TURNED

Kalamazoo, Michigan - Most people get into trouble because they go hunting without a license, but 1t was quite different in the ease Of J. o 2; Moe,man; ,,s na;, Mosrna foe ,, T ha t'sn taken sass,s out s s ar first s op na Saso Sa for ono ae yes PS' on Justice RiC Peter Koerts, and ordered to take immediate steps to apply for first naturalization papers. x
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

possible for him to continue in his office for several months. if the democrats who will handle the federal patronage for Con- neetieut. namely. Senator, Lonergan and National Committeeman MeNel, could not agree. But that is most unlikely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
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. r
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06
Good evening.
 o-O-O TECHNOCRACY
"A SMILES THE THING. :

GOOu evening"
 TECHNocRACY What is this thing, technoeracy. Of which the people shout. What are its simple A, B. Cs What is it all about, Will some one please define it, In language understood, And will they kindly prove to us The scheme is really good. What is this thing, teehnocracy, With erg and graph and chart. Is labor doomed by more machines, Or will it play part, We've heard so much of pro and
 con,
 Along this mundane sphere, It's time that Mir Howard Scott. Explained his presence here. What is the thing, technocracy. What does it plan to do. Oh, will it write column, I'm asking this of you, If this be in the offing, Here's where l take my hat, To study out teehnocracy, Become a technocrat.
 o-O-o Editor Day by Day: Letters from the tax collectors office are getting PERSONAL.-B.B B.
 o--O-o
 The man who goes through life with @ chip on his shoul- der, probably gives as an ex- cuse that 1t came from the old block.
 Strange but true. The rock gar den did not make its appearance until decades after the -called stone age.
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 If disarmament becomes universal, the sword fish must say goodbye to his sword.
 o-O-o The I'D auxiliary will celebrate its tooth anniversary with a ban quet at the Hotel Waterbury Sat- urday night. Peter Shea will be the toastmaster-From Sundays Republican. (100th anniversary, my my. Some of the charter mem- bers must be blushing.)
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 LINES
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

progress. But no matter what happens the Tennessee river will always be a river of romance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

Presnt day ideal - shorter working days and more of them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

The Japanese army just couldn't endure that Great Wall of China standing there and making shoots at it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5;45 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-06

The boycott on Japanese textiles by Chinese merchants in the Philippines has boosted the sale of American cotton goods.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-13

when an automobile in which he
and James Dugan, IS, were rid
ing, crashed. Henry, who had been
out of the reformatory only a
short time, was so seriously hurt
it was feared for time he would
die. After the crash, it was found
that the automobile which he was
driving had been stolen from Gus
tave Mani.
Dugan and Henry were taken by
deputies into court yesterday to
answer charges of stealing the au-
tomobile. Henry was taken in 4
wheel chair. Upon entering, ne re-
cognized his surroundings. He
again was to face Judge Prystal-
ski.
Because of his condition, Henry
was allowed to remain in his wheel
chair in a jury chamber adjoining
the court room. Dugan was taken
with other prisoners into the bull
pen in front of the bench.
AS court opened, the deputy
guarding Henry left him to step
for a moment into the court room.
He passed through swinging door
hastily. A moment later, women
in the court room screamed.
Catching fleeting gEmpses as
the door swung back and forth, the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-13
EXPLORER FINDS MANY
ODDITIES IN Pc AK S

WASHINGTON, (UP).-If you
should visit river bank in the
mountains of northern Siam some
evening and suddenly think you
hear rain falling and at the same
time seem to notice the ground
moving, don't blame it on what
you've been drinking, for Dr..
Hugh Smith, collaboration of the
Smithsonian Institution, has the
explanation.
DR.. Smith, who is also Fisheries
advisor to the Siamese govern
ment, explains that he recently
pitched camp on river bank, in
that vicinity, which was covered
with a living carpet of daddy
longlegs" with legs nearly three
inches long.
"Thc entire surface of the land
seemed to be in notion" Smith
says. "They become active at
dusk and when they moved over
the dried leaves they made noise
like falling raindrops."
On another of his expeditions
DR.. Smith assembled a reputedly
haunted" mountain after natives
had refused to accompany him be-
cause of their dread of the 'Pi"
(Spirits). Instead of the alleged
opp, he found at the highest
peak "a literal collectors para
disc" with pine and chestnut trees
decorated with hanging orchids,
and gibbons lcaping among the
branches. This strange forest,
Smith says, contained chattering
monkeys, barking deer, several
species of squirrels including one
rare giant form of bamboo rats,
porcupines and black bears with
nests in chestnut trees where they
fed on the nuts"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-13
NOTICE OF SERVICE OF SUM-
MONS BY PUBLICATION

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF SUM-
MONS BY PUBLICATION
North Carolina,
Henderson County.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Eta Thomas Graham, Plaintiff
VS..
Hugh NJ. Graham, Defendant
The defendant above named
will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been COM
n,enced in the superior court Of
Henderson county for the pur-
pose on the part of the plaintiff
of obtaining a divorce absolute
against the defendant, on the
grounds of separation, as provid-
ed by statute; and the defendant
will further take notice that he Is
required to appear at the office
Of the clerk of superior court of
county and answer or
demur to the complaint of the
plaintiff on or before the 18th
day Of August. 1888, or within
80 days thereafter. or the relief
demanded in the complaint will
be granted.
This July II, 1888.
]. P. FLETCHER,
, Clerk Superior Court.
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