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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
New Architecture

Modern economics. not modern archtec- ture is to blame for any disturbing effect the buildings at the Worlds Fair have upon visitors, according to an architect. Many changes from the original plans had to be made because of the need for economy. Set tngs which would have made the fair more restfu and impressive in general effect had to be eliminated
 The defender adds rather sensible state- ment; Modern architecture, he says, lis in its infancy. Comparing it with the highest forms of the classic is unfair You will find among the early forms of the Greeks, es- peeially the Dore, many which fall far short of the Parthenon Modern architecture is not mantle hung on framework to suit the whims of the hanger. It is a principle of aesthetics based on new materials and methods of construction. It will continue to exist and will improve long after the scoffers arc gone.
 Perhaps the scoffers have merely been patient. Surely they would not want to abandon all search for new approaches 10 beauty through right use of new materials. No one can deny that much that is ugly has been erected in the name of modern architecture and decoration. It IS likely. however. that the ugliness will be dropped and new loveliness remain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
Wheat Enthusiasm

Wheat above dollar bushel; and while the grain pit bois over and business bubbles happily. Nebraska farmer remarks: That's a mighty good priee-if you have any wheat to sell Most farmers haven't. Their dream is realized. but so far it is spectators who are making the money. And the farm CTS have to choose between planting next fall or spring to get in on the new prices, or accept a government bonus to keep their wheat land out of production. That prob lem will give many farmer headache.
 Nevertheless the grain boom is good thing. It makes tens of millions in the country and in the cities, feel more hope ful. Wheat, like gold, is largely a super stition. It is important because it comes nearest to being "eash crop" exchange able at will for money: but it is not the most important crop. Corn, as vulgar as wheat is aristocrate. is more valuable. The really important thing is the rise in price of farm crops generally. Thanks to cruel weather and kindly government, farmers are to have another inning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
Autos Wrong End to

According to Merrill C. Hernc, writing in the Automotive Daily News, automobile engineers so far have merely played with streamliningD The lines they give late mod els look swell. but don't do much good. If they were really serious about it, he sug. sests, they would turn their sedan bodies around and run them backward. They would need less power that way
 Aeronautie engineers make their planes and dirigibles blunt in front and then be- hind, to gain speed. because that's the way air currents flow most easily Air behaves much like water, and Nature knew what she was doing when she gave fishes thick heads and thin tails, rather than vice versa. The problem may be solved eventually by put ting the engine in the rear, and the pas sengcrs in front. Some of the first auto. mobile builders did that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
THE POLITICAL FEUD TWIxT TOWNS AND CITIES
(New Britain Herald)

Judge Raymond Baldwin of Stratford set up a spirited defense the other day of tho Connecticut system of representation in the Legislature.
 God help the state If tho rotten borough system Is ever changed he said. "To-day tho House repre- sents tho towns and the senate the cities, and no change should be made to give enc eide or the other complete control."N
 This sounds likc tho check and balance system to perfection, In theory 1t ought to work to pcrfec. ton and in practice also. Whether 1t does or not gives point to n di- versity of opinion.
 The towns not only have m overwhelming Influence in the House but they also have more than q fair share of influence In the Senate. As MT Baldwin's party nominatcs its governor on tho basis of the samo system, 1t follows that tho small towns have the larg- CT Influence in naming the gov ernor.
 But the linen is washed In the voting. That is on a straight plu- rality basis, which makes 1t possi- blo to elect q democratic governor with more ease than clccting . dem ocratic legislature.
 And while the governor theoret. ically Is the representative of all tho people in Connecticut. the man behind whose election no rotten borough system prevailed, he Is de- prived of some of his power by the fact 1t requires only . majority vote in hte legislature to override his policies. This Is requires q two-thirde vote of Congress to override the president.
 Small towns manifostly should not be put in a position where the more populated districts can easily override them; but the reverse should not be true also. Not only that. but the governor also is in n sort of political strait. jacket. oft entimes the victim of simple ma jority in the Legislature who are led by able leaders who know just what they want and how to get It.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05

It is good news to many residents of this state that the Mclean game refuge will open this month probably about the 18th. The refuge is the idea of the late Senator George P. Mclean who made provisions for it in his will, donating not merely the necessary land, but also the money for upkeep. It is a spot that will always be open to the public and where wild life will be free from attack. As Senator Mclean put it it will be "a place where some of the things God made may be seen by those who love them as l loved them and who may find in them the peace of mind and body that have found
 Let all who visit the refuge keep this in mind It is not hunters or anglers para dise.f Quite the contrary. It is not a place where wild flowers Of shrubbery may be unrooted It is place where all may come to find peace in the great outdoors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
A Book a Day by BRUCE CAPTION
De Valera's Fight
 For Irish Freedom

The way in which fighter for political freedom can gradually develop into a social revolutionary iS strikingiy brought out in "Dc Valera" a biography of tho fn- nous Irish Free Stato cheiftain by Dennis Gwynn.
 MT Gwynn starts by tracing De Valora's long fight against Eng land; the fight that began with tho Easter Week uprising of 1915, when De Valera emerged over night from obscurity and became n national hero. md which mas continued down to tho present row over tho onth Of allegiance.
 In this fight De alera has been amazingly successful. He has been, as MT GWynn points out, obstinate, opinionated, vain. sometimes down. right tankerous--but he hnt brought Ireland to tho very thresh. old of full independence, and he hns shown himself to be one of tho abiest political strategists Ire. land ever produced.
 Now, MT Gwynn points out, DC Valcra's struggle for self-con' .nined Ireland has taken new tack. It has become not so mucf a flight for freedom from British political domination as q struggle for the masses against the money power. Do Valera speaks not onlS for political independence but also for economic freedom.
 Mir 0wynn has his doubts about tho ultimate success of this plaf for economic independence. But he admits that De Valera is more than ever the man of the hour IT Ireland. and he makes very cleai the mans unyieiding determination and his uncanny ability as strat' eglst. sells for S5.60.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
Quietly, Accomplished

A good many people in this state were probably not aware of the fact that three important commissionerships changed hands last Saturday. unless they were following tho newspapers closely. The transfer was accom- plished quite simply and without much os- tentation. The retiring officials, all republic cans, were succeeded by three democrats The offices affected were those of the tax commissioner, athletic commissioner, and ag- rieulture commissioner. Joseph H. Lawlor of this city becomes the new head of ath- letics. mainly boxing, in the state; William H. Haekett of New Haven is the new tax commissioner and Olott F. King of South Windsor succeeds s. Mclean Buckingham as agriculture commissioner.
 The retiring officials in the tax and atf- 1ctc departments were William H. Blodgett and Thomas E. Donohue. Commissioners Lawlor and Haekett were both members of the State Senate. In fact Commissioner Lawlor is the veteran of that body, having served in it for five successive sessions; Com- missioner Hackett was a member in three successive sessions and during most of that time was actually spokesman for the dem ocratc party on matters of finances, taxa ton, etc. Mir King is we'll known as to- baeeo grower and has considerable influence in these circles.
 Naturally there was much regret in re- publican circles that such able men Messrs Blodgett. Donohue and Buckingham were being replaced. But the only way of looking at such thing is to think that per kaps the three retiring officials replaced other men before them And even though politics has played its part in the appointments merit was not overlooked. In all three cases Governor Cross acted in the best interests of ths state. As result the same careful atten- ton to the respective departments is assured We know that Connecticut is assured of ad- mnistration as efficient as any in the past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05

When it was recommended few years back that the government sanction addition al supplies of medicinal whskey, there were many seeptiss. Yet to-day we are face to face with prohibition repeal and the fact that the present supplies will not be ade. quate if it comes in the next year. Guardians of the governments medicinal whiskey de- clare that there will be shortage. Our present laws decree that whiskey must age four years before being sold. Even if the 1893 output was trebled it could not be consumed before l937 and who is willing to wager that prohibition will be with us then. This year we are drinking Chat is, those who are sick enough to warrant pre-. scriptions are drinkin9) whiskey manufac- tured in 1929, Next year l930's manu- faeturc will be available. In 1929 Uncle Sam renewed diStillaton of medicinal whis. key at the rate of 100000 gallons year.
 In 1917 there were l67.000,000 gallons consumed lt is safe to assume from this that considerable more than the million gallons available would be consumed if pro. hbition were to end in l9}4 and the new illegal liquors declared legal. Dr Doran naivcly explains that the supplies could be stretched by a method followed before pro. hbition, but little known to the general public <. This consists in reetifying the whiskey by mixing alcohol with it. Others call it cutting and sometimes don't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
So They Say

 Drinking Is an art, and while In France 1t may be productive of good conversation, In Germany of music and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen.--Henry. Noble. Mac- Cracken, president of vassar.
 Human life was never so cheap and insecure in the United States as 1t is at the present time. and murder is decidedly more common in this country than in any other country which claims to be civil- ized.-Dr Frederick Hoffman, in- surance statistician.
 In case of war, the giant modern dirigibies, with their long cruising range, high speed and scouting planes which they carry. would af- ford a protective weapon of un- equaled valuc.-Lieut-C J. l.. Kenworthy, Jr, Lakehurst naval air station.
 Our progress in dealing with crime has not kept pace with our advances in science, industry and other important phases of life.-Judge Henry $. Sweeney, Detroit,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
Our Daily Washington Letter
The Larger Ones Fasten as We'll as Adorn
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

ington attitude were reflected in the wave of snickers that greeted President William ID. Anderson of the big Blob Manufacturing Co.,, Macon, Ga., as he went into enor- nous detail as to happy conditions in southern mill towns. In one such town, he said. people had de- livered 5,803 punches of flowers to convalescents within year, and 5,911 trays of foods to invalids.
 Child labor? Well, what is Q child, anyway? Child labor really existed only on farms. He was sorry the matter had been brought up.
 Then a prominent recovery ad- mlnistration official tipped the press tables that Anderson not long ago had recommended $1.35 as u good budget for n textile workers family of four--it would buy 24 pounds of flour, four pounds of lard, eight pounds of potatoes and peck of meal. The Anderson Co.,, 1t was added, retired 50 per cent of It's preferred stock in 1890.
 Copyright, t033, NEA Service, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05

will be taught modern methods of perform ing ancient household tasks. The children will attend up-to-date schools Gardening will be encouraged on small plots near the houses. It is expected that many of the families will raise large part of their own food supply.
 What all this will do to the habits and manners of that region is hard to estimate Something should be learned. certainly. about the possibility of instituting new social order for whole community accord ing to plan laid out by social theorists. If the opportunities offered by the project are wisely used, this side show may prove to be the most important product of the whole Muscle Shoals development.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
Again He Attacks

Now that the l933 General Assembly IS merely history Mayor George A. Qugley IS taking up the eudges to attack. We don't blame him in some respects for eritleIzlng our law making body. It has failed repeatedly of recent years to follow the dictates of the public. But then isn't that expected! We never yet heard of or saw Connecticut Legislature which didn't pretty much as politics dictated it to do. It was in 1o33 as is has been in the past. It did put through some good legislation; it also failed to pass other worthy measures.
 Mayor Quigley was ready to take issue with the Legislature, though long before 1t assembled at Hartford. In l932 he was the most outspoken official in the state demand. inq special session. We are perhaps in more amiable frame of mind today than we were year ago and this without the spe- eal session which was deemed so necessary The relief measures that were so necessary in l932 have not been invoked and so far as we can see no city or town in the state has yet gone into bankruptcy, although 1t still may hang over some of us.
 Another little item that Mayor Quigley can't forget is the apparent dlsdaln with which the solons at Hartford regarded hs sales tax bill. At one time 1t seemed as though Governor Cross was swinging sentiment to the sales tax plan as outlined by Mayor Quigey. But then when it came right down to it there wasn't enough strength in the Legislature to push across the contemplated measure In fact the idea of further taxation was repugnant all the way through the legislative session. And it certainly should have been. Connecticut. as we'll as other states. should realize that what the people want today is less taxation
 We have for a long time been trying 10 establish in peoples minds the idea that ad- ditional taxation is unnecessary. For long time public officials have labored under the deluson that whenever it was necessary to raise money for public projects or to pay of debts the taxpayers should be the ones who do this. Naturally every man wants to pay his fair share of something that he enjoys or from which he will derive much benefit. But there comes point when taxation is bur- densome. We are at that point now In l775 it provoked great revolution. When public offices become just that and not means to satisfying political expectancy then perhaps taxes will drop. Our first and last warning in raising taxes is to make sure that you've cleaned your own house before doing it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
Model Town

What a California editor calls the Muscle Shoals Side Show" deserves some special attention. This is the experiment in living which is to be promoted in the work CTS town to be built near the site of the Cove Creek dam in East Tennessee. The town. constructed from plan, will house about 1000 workers and their families
 people recruited from the mountain towns and farms of the region. It will have wide. pleasant streets. and modern houses
 Since the hours of work on government construction projects will be short, there will he leisure time for men. It is to be used for Instruction in carpentry. electrical engineering nasonfy and other useful trades. There will be other schools in which the wives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
< voLsTEAD RIETIREs
tRridgeport Telegraml

one of tho minor tragedies of prohibition reform, coupled witn tho new economy era In Washing ton Is the fact that Andrew J. Vol stead, that great and good man, is losing his job in the prohibition enforcement bureau. He goes out July 1.
 The poor fellow! We can Just hear tho sobs of sympathy. yelling up from tho deeply affected nation. Or perhaps 1t is suppressed laugh. ter. At any rate, some Kind or
 When Andy volstead was in con: gress he was tho bright spehrhead of prohibition. After the enactment of the 18th amendment. he spon- sored that famous law known as the Voistead act, with its rigid de- finition of m intoxicant as any. thing containing more than 1-2 of one per cent of alcohol; and its drastic penalties for disobedience of thls newest excmplificntion oI sweetness and light.
 volstead bore his honors proud ly, apparently unaware Of the stig- mn which the average citizen at. tached to the law In question. But tho folk back in Minnesota dld no' think so well of the author of the volstead act and they retired him from Congress. As q lame duck Andy started to look for federal job and most naturally sought It m that vast rabbit warren of bureau- cracy which was his own creation So they made him legal adviser te the dry administrator in tho eightf district, in his home state.
 There Andy has remained. some. what in eclipse to be sure. but still drawing c salary. We arc sure he gave good service. Who could in' terpret the law better than thu man who drew it up2
 But the old order changoth, yield ing place to new. and. Andrcw. Vol stead retires July I. shortly there
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05

World war veterans held rendezvous with death Sunday. It was at the grave of Alan Seeser on the battlefield of Os- yuary at Ljfons, where Seeger and other comrades in the Foreign Legion fell fight ing. Seeyers regiment was practically wiped out in this conflict by burst of mach;nc-sun fire. He and his comrades were stormng the German position. The Legion went on to capture the German held village of Belloy -En-Santerre. Seeger's body was never identified. but his spirit still lives in this never forgotten line of his -"I have a rendezvous with death"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
The Waterbury Democrat Wnsh-
 ington Correspondent

Washington - General Johnson sat with tortoise shell glasses perched high on his forehead and cast his customarily free and skeptical gaze upon his "goldfsh bowl"
 That's the term Johnson uses in describing the operation of the Industrial Recovery Act and the formulation of It's codes. That's the way 1t Is. Public setting with seats for all and amplifiers. 1ndus- try may squims and labor may shrIek, but they'll fight out these questions of minimum wages and maximum hours across q long table on the raised platform of the ornate Commerce building auditor ium, which resembles q good-sized theater.
 The cotton textile industry's code is up for presentation, defense. at- task and scruting--with it's 40-hour week and it's $10 and $11 minimum wage.
 Crowds Arc There.
 Everybody is there but Herbert Hoover, who sponsored this mann moth temple of trade. Lobbyists. newspnpermen, hundreds of men from industry and labor who want to know how this thing Is going to be worked. They sit between mag niflcently paneled walls, with sen. green marble trimmings. under a colored panel ceiling of intricate design. Above are a dozen balcony doorways with brass grille and marble bnse.
 Administrator Johnson, Deputy Administrator Allen, Counsel Rich- berg, the industry, labor and con- sumers' advisory boards. various aides, the witness and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins are on the stage. Outcome Important. &
 All hands listen with their minds on the fight to come. They believe---though Johnson denies it that the decision on this code will indicate whether America will have q standard 90, 32, 30 or 40. hour working week and what mini. mum wages will be like. Mill owners drone through long papers insisting that 70 hours and $10 oi $11 are the best they can do un- less many of them are to be ruined
 Labor argues that industry has been working less than 90 hours, that the pool of 12,000,00O unem. ployed must be cleaned out and that no one can say $10 is Q decent wage.
 Mill Owners Plca.
 Temper of the recovery admin iBtratton and tho general Wash-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
EVEREST UNCoNoUERED.
fNew York Tlmesl


 The third British expedition to climb Mount Everest, led by Hugh Ruttledge, was better organized than the enterprises of 1922 and 1924, but 1t was unable to carry the assault on the last one thous. and feet, which cost Mallory and Irvine their lives nine years ago. Every expedition has encountered bad weathers, the Ruttledge tho worst of all Mot one day was continuously fine for high climb Ing" says the leader, "and 1t was never possible on two consecutive days" A last gallant effort to reach the top was made by Smythe after Ship ton had succumbed to ill., ness, but he was stopped by deep snows and head winds. It was the opinion of Ruttledge that the sum- init could not be gained ESQ long as the deep snow remained on the outward sloping slabs of the north face and on the dangerous slopes of the north col ridge" In 1924 Somervell and Norton got up as high as 2s.200 feet (the peak is 20.141, and Mallory and Irvine failed several hundred feet short of achievement. There was only q little way to go, but death lay in ambush for them. Harris of tho expedition of 1033 found in the upper snows m Ice axe which had been used by one of the men who were casualties in the forlorn hope of tho second expedition.
 This Inst expedition was import. ant for the lesson of gradual ac- cllmatizatlon. Thirteen of the four. teen members attained the north up to 28,000 feet without oxygen. The porters showed more endur- ance. With longer time for ac- customing heart and lungs to the highest attitudes, success might be commanded in a season when, In an interval between storms, there was no covering of snow on the peak rocks. Mir Ruttiedge testi- fies to the appalling steepness of the ultimate bulwark of Everest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-05
Living Caricaturcs

Living Caricaturcs
 Newest fad Is tho wearing of masks at parties, sophisticated and apparently sane adults donning the false faces of easily-caricatured people such as Jimmy Durantc, Major Hoople, Joan Crawford and George Bernard Shaw Most successful playwrights maintain costly sylvan retreats, but there Is ono who does his work in the New York public library. He Is John Colton, born in Japan, q former newspaperman in Minneapolis, and the author of Rain, "The Shang- hai Gesture" and. more recently, Mine Pine Street." Ho goes to the library every morning, finds n place in the public reading room, and writes steadily until five o'clock. He says the library's spa ciousness inspires him: reminds him of a theater Two mem- bers of the theater's royal family, Ethel Barrymore and her son, John Colt, lunched on the Waldorf ter race the other day and talked long and earnestly about something. Possibly about tho youngsters movie offer, which his mother doesn't want him to accept before he has had few years of Broad way seasoning.