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Household Articles

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20

SEE US for Etove. replacement parts. oil burners. stove pipes, and plumb.
 ing supplies Waterbury Stove Re.
 pair Co.,, 26b Bank St. Dial 4-6255.
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Business Announcements
Aufom~b;iea
Autos aud frutRf FLr sale

WELL BE SAYING
 FAREWELL
 TO Waterbury-Soon Take advantage of the Enormously Favorable Offers on Used Cars in Stock before we CLOSE OUR WATERBURY
 BRANCH
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 1880 Ford Canopy Express
 1929 Chevrolet Roadster with
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Rooms. Board. Hotels
For Rent Real Estate

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Employment
Men Wanted

TIRE sALEsMAN-Must be .experi- enced. One who is we'll known throughout the South End. Salary and commission. Give references in letter. Write Box C-i27. Dem- ocrat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
FIGHTING RACKETEERS

A TTORNEY- GENERAL HOMER CUM
"A MINGS is reported to be studying the
possibility of getting additional legislation
under which the department of justice could
set to work to abolish racketeering in Ameri-
can cities
Under present laws, about the only way in
which federal authorities can bother the
racketeers is to prosecute them for failing to
pay their income taxes or for interfering with
interstate commerce.
1t is to be hoped that some code can be
devised whereby straight-out offensive can
be undertaken; and it is likewise to be hoped
that such offensive will be determined and
energetic
In all too many instances, state and city
authorities have demonstrated that they either
will not or can not make any sort of fight
against racketeers.
If Uncle Sam can find some way of get
ting into the fight, more power to his elbow /!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
WASTED EDUCATION

THAT delegation of college graduates in cap
= and gown who visited Washington to call
attention to the plight of the student who
gets diploma and then finds that there isn't
the shadow Of a job for him emphasizes one of
the most tragic aspects of the whole depres-
sion.
All through these difficult years our COL
leges industriouSly have been training young
men and women for leadership; and. whatever
the colleges shortcomings, they have in the
main done good job and they have had fine
material to work with.
But these trained and ambitious youngsters
have, for the most part, found no chance to
exercise their talents. Equipped for leader
ship, they can't even be followers.
Not least among the wastes caused by the
depression is this waste of brain power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
AN ARGUMENT FOR INITIATION

THOSE who are converted to initiation and
l. currency depreciation as major remedy
for the depression will get additional assur-
ance from booklet by Ambrose w. Benkert
and Earl Harding on How to Restore Values, ="
IN which the authors contend that most OF
the current remedies for the depression will
prove inadequate because the economic decline
broke upon us:
while the federal budget not only was in
balance but excess revenue was being applied
to debt reduction
while there was no concern as to mainte-
nance of government credit:
while there was no thought as to the
'soundness' of our money;
while there was no lack of public conf
dence;
while there was no shortage of bank
credit;
While these were no abnormal bank or
business failures paralyzing economic life;
while labor was receiving high wages and
there was no general demand to increase la
bor's buying power through higher wages;
while there was no mention of fear I'M
dermining business initiative"
In the opinion of Benkert and Harding,
the major reason for the depression lies in
the disparity between the prices of commodi-
ties and raw materials and the price level of
essential services, expressed in taxes, interest
and maturing debts, rents, transportation
COSTS and utility rates.
The price level of commodities and raw
materials is determined primarily by the laws
of supply and demand and has dropped to
an extremely low point. The price level of
many types of goods and of the above es-
sentiaI services, however, which depend upon
habit, contract of governmental f1xation, still
remain at very high level.
The result of this disparity is a complete
dislocation of our economic order. The man
who produces commodities and raw materials,
after meeting the cost of essential services
and fixed charges, has no surplus to exchange
for manufactured goods and other services.
Therefore, he has no incentive or capacity
to keep his factories going. They drift into
idleness unemployment piles up, trade falls
off, and the depression rolls up like a snow
ball.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
Faded Blue Chips

nNE of the favorite arguments
~ against the cooperative state
Is That II it took over the means
OF production it would rob widows
and orphans Of the stocks and
bonds which they rightfully have
lald aside to provide themselves
with a comfortable old age. But
nave stocks and bonds done this?
l know another old lady who
found herself with $4,000 as the
reward of a long career on the
stage, which is another nonparasitic
occupation. She took the money
10 a financial institution, which
snail be namelesS, and for her ac-
count and risk ar obliging vice
president bought Oliver Farm
Equipment preferred at 90 now
1872 bid, IA asked, Anaconda at
120, bonds of Chicago, Milwaukee.
st. Paul & Pacific, which recently
touched 4, and the stock of the Ma
tional City bank.
Her portfolio, as she still wistfuI-
~ calls 1t, now represents about
$500 and no income whatsoever
II Walter Lippmann really is in
tent upon the anXieties of old ladies.
l hope that next time he will sug-.
gest that their security never will
be assured in any community where
they must put the weight of their
hopes upon the honesty of an econ
nomlc system run upon the profit.
making motive.
Copyright. 1888 BY The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09

showed his astuteness or his power to weld
the dry crusade into unity. His. successors
got to fighting one another, and some helped
to discredit the movement. The Wickersham
report, despite Mr.. Hoover's nisinterpreta-
ton of its import was blow to prohibition
among thinking people
Hoover prominently had identified himself
with prohibition and his waning prestige
helped to discredit the dry cause. Finally, the
depression created a psychology which under
mined prohibition in the same way that the
psychology of the war period had worked in
its behalf. Even great dry industrialists and
fnanciers deserted the ship and the jig was up.
BY December, 1882, even the old dry con-
gress had shifted so as to produce definitely
wet majority, and in February, 1893, the real
resolution was put through easily. 1t was
adopted in as perfunctory and matter of
course a fashion as the resolution to ratify
the amendment had been in 1917.
The main danger lying ahead of repeal
is that the vets will regard their victory as
won and fail to follow up their congressional
victory by a strenuous campaign for repeal
in the several states. Here they may take a
leaf out of the book of the drys and emulate
the tactics of the latter during the year 1913.
The drys worked to the limit all the OPP
portunities that the war psychology and its
slogans afforded them. The vets have been
provided with the background for just as eff
fective slogans as the World war heaped upon
the drys. "Old Man Depression" has sup
planted the kaiser
If the vets are wise, they will exploit this
break" to the utmost. If they, lie down on
the job until prosperity returns, their excel
lent chances of putting the repeal resolu-
ton through the several states will be ifil-
paired gravely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
Quest for Security

1T seems to me that Mr. Lippmann
a. does not quite grasp the nature
Of her problem. At the end of thir-
ty-seven years of hard work, she is
willing to call it a day under the
assertion that as a reward for her
frugality and energy the world
owes her a living. She sets this liv-
ing very cOnservatively at an annual
income Of $1,000.
But obviously she would be I'M
wise, under our present economic
system, to maintain herself by dip
ping regularly into her capital. She
wants a 4 per cent and absolute
safety. Where can she get it? The
blunt answer is that she can not.
There are high-grade bonds. in
Guiding the obligations of the Unit
ed States government, which might
give her this approximate yield, but
II controlled imitation goes to the
extent Of IS or 20 per cent it will
fall below the limit of the purchas-
ing power Of the income which she
has set for herself. If it gets out of
control, she may be left in desperate
circumstances.
Even a government pledge of the
absolute safety of bank deposits will
not solve her problem. I wish the
old lady would grow more radically
minded and join with other old
ladies in a demand that the state
ltself should assume the RESPONSE
blllty of providing her with COM
Portable maintenance as a return
Tor her thirty-seven years of sery.
ice to the community.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09

through some curious scenery. and now, at
last, seems to have brought it to a great fork
in the road.
Russia has gone one way, Germany is
starting down the other; and the most i'm
portant question before the race today is
whether these are the only two paths avail
able
Must we all follow either Germany or Rus
SLAP Must an industrial society. in the very
nature of things. crush the last trace of in
dividual freedom and choose between hard
boiled Communism or ruthless Fascism? Or
is there, by good luck, third road?
The answer depends largely on our own
United States.
We have started, amid social changes that
We hardly have begun to understand, along
third road. We cling to the notion that
it is possible to maintain an intricate indus
trial society without discarding the old ideals
of liberty and individual initiative
Our new DEAL" if it is to mean anything,
must mean that we now are beginning a stu
pendous effort to prove that the notion is
justified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09

Democratic and Republican parties
the old ways of government. Our
world now might be in ruins.
Be assured also of this: We are
as. far today from the political
fetishes of the last decade as we
are from the feudal system. The old
ways would not work in March,
1888. So we found a new way.
1t is true that women should not
take their sex with them into polit-
ical fields. But I venture this as
sertion-they always will fail when
they leave their feminism at home.
We have a great deal to give to
politics, to our country, to the world.
and, whatever it is, it derives from
that quality of our natures that
made us feminine instead of mascu-
line.
1t has its source in the latent
motherhood that is our heritage.
And unless we diffuse our spirits
into any work we may do, political or
domestic, that work will be done TO
no purpose whatever.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
1t Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BRoUN =

NEW YORK, May 9.-walter
L Lippmann, in a recent column.
wrote a letter to an old lady. I do
not mean the old lady celebrated
in the New Yorker who could not
get along without orange juice and
Mr.. Lippmann's essay in the morn
ing. This correspondent sent a
challenge rather than a common
dalton. She wanted to know why.
In brief. she explained that she
had worked ever since the age of IA
and at so found herself with savings
amounting to some S31, 900. Although
she lost her job, she felt that with
her money earning per. cent she
might live comfortably for the rest
of her life.
Becoming disturbed over the
financial condition of the country,
she withdrew her nest-egg from a
savings bank and converted it into
gold. AT the call of the government
she returned the gold and took fed
eral reserve notes.
Her complaint lies in the fact that
in all probability the dollar will be
stabilized at a lower gold value.
which will deprive her OF part of
the value OF her property.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09

on the public debt, which must be
paid in gold.
When the bill was presented to
the President, he said, Il can not
fight two wars at one time" and
signed the bill and it is on all that
kind of bills put out by the govern
ment since that time.
The above act included the pro-
vision that this money was to be
taken up and bonds given in return,
drawing 7.3 per cent interest. AS
soon as this money with restriction
came out; it began to depreciate and
one time it required $2.65 to get a
gold dollar and the gold was in the
hands Of the money power.
At the close of the Civil war in
1865, Lincoln, in his message to con-
greSS, at the beginning of his sec
ond term, advised congressman to
let this money circulate until con-
ditions quoted down, but Shylock
wanted his pound of flesh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09

PUBLIC WORKS

WITH the federal budget nearing bal
ance, the ways are being cleared in
Washington for launching big public works
program.
This launching is long overdue Normally
we spend on federal, state, and local public
works some 100000 900 year. or quarter
the amount spent on all construction. Last
year this should have been doubled Instead
it was slashed by third.
In framing the belated project, the admin
istration would be guided by three principles.
First, the program should be large enough
to prime the pump Of private industry, AS
Senator Wagner says, you can't prime pump
with an eye-dropper President Roosevelt has
warned that his plans will fall short of the
huge spending bee demanded by labor and
many economists.
Probably it will total no more than $3,OOO,-
100000, including r. F. c. loans, under the
Wagner bill to localities for manipulating
projects and federal bond issue. If this
much money is quickly and wisely spent, labor
need not be alarmed.
Contrasted with year ago. there are other
unemployment remedies at work or i'll the
NATURALIZATION Muscle Shoals, forestation
domestic and international economic agree
ments.
Next, such practicable works should be
chosen as will employ the greatest numbers of
men at the earliest moment. Millions of Amer
leans can not be asked to subsist on meager
does when it is in the power of the government
to give them jobs.
Finally public, as we'll as private spending
should be carried on with view to the ma
tons changing economy.
Stun abatement for instance, stands first
as a social mandate. But when we wipe out
those blighted areas of America we should
recognize the trend of industry away from
cities to the suburban and semi-rural regions.
Instead of erecting model tenements on the
costly sites of the old lung blocks" we should
build workingmen's homes in the open spaces,
with bit of land around each of them. Where
the slums now stand we could create parks, or,
perhaps, parking spaces for automobiles and
landing fields for planes.
Similarly, highways, canals, bridges, and
grade crossing works should be built with
view to the railroad problem and the future of
our traffic needs.
Duplicating of unnecessary public buildings,
roads and pork barrel construction should be
avoided.
Post-depression America will be a far diff
ferent land from depression America. We
can plan our public works to help make it a
fairer one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT

NEXT to President Roosevelt's concerted
attack upon the depression the most
important event in American public life in
the next several months will be the fate of
the Joint resolution repeating the eighteenth
amendment.
There are number of interesting facts and
lessons bearing upon repeal which can be
drawn from study of the manner in which
the amendment was adopted. This was
brought out clearly in an article by M B.
Hamilton on Lest We Forget" in the Amer
lean Mercury of May, 1928.
If we wish to repeal the eighteenth amend
ment we shall do well to study the methods
of the drys in putting it over on the country.
War needs then were exploited to the ut
termost. President Faunce Of Brown univer-
sitv we'll stated this characteristic appeal when
he said that 80 long as we continue to pour
hundreds of millions of bushels of grain an
nually into the breweries, it would be hypo-
critical to talk about patriotism"
General Leonard Wood climbed on the
bandwagon by declaring that Kansas had
produced "the finest, the cleanest, the health
lest and the most vigorous soldiers in point
of endurance that we ever have known. We
attribute this to Kansas prohibition. Kansas
boys were brought up in clean atmosphere.
They started right"
Mr.. Hoover then a great war hero, also
Joined the prohibition procession and warmly
advocated prohibition as an indispensable aid
in worsting the kaiser.
The resolution submitting the eighteenth
amendment to the states was introduced
June, 1917, by Senator Shepard of Texas, one
of the drys who never has Topped. 1t was
damned through the senate rapidly, with only
thirteen hours consideration, most of which
was devoted solely to a discussion of tech
nicalities 1t was passed by vote of 65 to 20.
1t went through the house even more rap
idly. 1t was introduced by Congressman Webb
of North Carolina on Dec. II, at IL o'clock in
the morning and was passed by vote of 262
to 1913 at o'clock that afternoon. Congress
man Kelly of Pennsylvania made a typical
speech in its behalf alleging that lit would
strike the mightiest blow possible at the Prus-
sian idea"
The ratification went through speedily.
Mississippi ratified it on JAM 5, 1918, almost
Immediately after its submission to the
states. Nebraska, the thirty-sixth state, rati-
fed it a year later, on Jan. 10. 1912, BY March,
1922 every state had ratified it except Con-
necticut and Rhode Island.
The drys retained their stranglehold on
congress down through 1929, when even such
hard-boiled war horses as Reed of Pennsyl-
yania, Moses of New Hampshire and Edge of
New Jersey voted for the notorious "ave-and-
ten" act This was the high water mark of
the dry ascendancy. From this time prohi-
hilton became first a retreat and then rout.
A crucial item in the disintegration of the
dry crusade was the death of Wayne B.
Wheeler some years before. No other leader
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
a Challenge

BY Lucky.
T HAVE heard it said many times
i that every one has suffered
from the depression.
I do not agree with that state
ment. Most people have felt it's
sting, but I, for one, have not felt
it in the least, for which I am very
thankful.
I would like to say a word to
Mr.. Taxpayer who has had so
many comments on his views of
the depression. To prove to him
that I am not prejudiced, want
him to know have worked steady
for the last eight years and at the
present time am drawing a larger
pay check than I did in our most
prosperous years. have some real
estate, fine car, and some cash
and can have anything my heart
desires.
I, like so many others, do not
agree with you and think that if
we get acquainted we might get
together and understand you bet
ter. And since you are such a
brave man, come out from behind
the name Taxpayer and sign your
name and address and I'll assure
you will sign mine and we prob
ably can have a good time to-
gether.
All right, Times readers. let's see
how brave he really is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-09
M. E.TracySays:

lXXTHEN the hall had been darkened Profess
w sor Huntress poured certain chemicals
into large glass jar. blush white glow was
the immediate result.
This glow gradually increased until it attained
brightness easily discernible after the lights
were turned on. A piece of ice hoated in the
jar all the while.
Thus was a method of producing cold
light" demonstrated by its discoverer, Professor
Ernest H. HuntresS of the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology before members of the
northeastern section on the American Chemical
Society,"
Not man present, Professor Huntress in
cluded, knows whether he witnessed just an
other interesting experiment." or was present
at the birth of revolutionary innovation
For long time scientists have looked upon
the advent of cold light" as inevitable simply
because it is hard to believe that fish, fireflies,
and rotten wood can do what men not.
For science the advent of cold light" would
be triumph, but for the electrical business it
would be something else.
TODAY we look upon the nationwide hookup
l. of wires, dynamos and lamps as constitut-
ing great social and economic problem To-
morrow, who knows?
Forty years ago the railroads seemed to
threaten us with invisible government through
their power to control trade channels, agricul-
tural development, and industrial growth Now
we are trying to find ways and means Of keep
ing them from going bankrupt.
Who could have foreseen such change when
the first clumsy auto appeared, or the first oil
well blew in
About all that We can be sure of is that we
stand on the threshold of even more remarkable
discoveries than yet have been made, and that
life would not be half so interesting as it is if
we did not.
Change is the basis not only of progress, but
of hope. If We are here for anything, it is to
learn, conquer, and achieve not to lord 1t over
one another, but to break through the barriers
of human ignorance.
THE one solid excuse for liberty is that it en-
l. courages men to think and experiment. But
for that, dictatorship would be a better form
| of government.
| Disciplined action, however, involves sup
preston of those very faculties which seek new
ideas new forms and new methods
You can't have free science without free
speech and a free press. The god of efficiency
brooks no rivals Economic and industrial con-
troll eventually would become as cold toward
mechanical innovations as toward political OPP
position and for precisely the same reason.
While looking with favor on detailed i'm
provements efficiency could not and would not
stand for discoveries and inventions of a revo-
lutionary character.
If this country owned all the electric plants
and depended on them for large share of its
revenue, what would its attitude be toward the
possibility Of cold Lightly