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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
It's About Time

We suppose that person Shouldnt DC surprised when the name of c. BaSeom Slemp pops into the news. Of course re- eentIv since his connection with a hoax Lindbergh Kidnapping clue was revealed the ersdite Mir Slemp has not been as active That is due to several reasons, none of which need be mentioned here. However, we learn with each passing hour that the accomplishments of Mir Slcmp were so many and varied that it will be impossible in one lifetime for any man to chronicle them.
 However, last week Mir Slemp's name cropped into the conversation that accom- panied the senate inquiry into ship subsidies This probe is regarded in political circles as the first one that has actually concerned the Hoover administration The senator's on the board are trying to bring out that the govern ment awarded some nice ocean mail con- tracts after bit of persuasion had been used upon certain officials. If nothing makes good reading and gives the average taxpayer an idea of where good many cents of every tax dollar that IS paid to Uncle Sam goes
 It seems that Mir Slemp figured in these ocean mail contracts. Of course he would. He figured in considerably more than that back in the days of Warren G. Harding and during the early part of the late Calvin Coolidge's regime. We don't know how MT Coolidge did it. but he allowed MT Slemp to remain his secretary from Sept. 4, l9Z3 to March 4, 1925. That, of course. was the remainder of the Harding unexpred term that Coolidge served. Probably he felt that he was duty bound to respect his predeees- sor's appointment. However, after being elected in his own right Coolidge lost no time in naming a new secretary.
 In his day Mir Slemp accomplished some good work for his party. He acted in vary inn capacities but certainly as an interven- tioa man he had no equal. He was also quite capable in rounding up votes in various see- tions of the nation, particularly in the Solid South. There was considerable talk about Mir Slemp being active in the appoint nents of southern postmasters. all of which was political chatter with little or lot of actual fact behind it, depending on which side of the fence you were standing We don't really know what we'd do without Ms Slemp in our midst. He eolors the na- tional political lfe although his tactics are distasteful to a good many people and have even won for him lack of support in the party in which he labored so expedltlousy for years and years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
The Shifting Scene

One of the exciting things about the eur- rent activity at Washington is that if you take your eyes of the screen for as much as five minutes you find the picture changed al- most beyond recognition by the time you look up again. It is doubtful if any world capital has ever before displayed the spec tacle of so many men working under such high pressure on jobs of such tremendous importance
 When Gen. Hugh S. Johnson last spring remarked jovially that he and his aides had to reo orient couple of thousand universes' and had only little time to do it in, it sounded like a good joke. Today it begins to sound like rather conservative deserip- ton of what is actually being done. Not until we get breathing spell and are able to sit down and add the figures up column by column will we able to estimate just how far the tide has carried us in the last six months.
 Look for example. at some of the mpli- cations back of the most recent trends of the recovery program. Uncle Sam seems about to plunge head-frst into the banking busi- ness with somewhere between two and four billion dollars in his fist. Just where, in the course of year or.so, will that leave our old banking system3 And just where will it leave our old philosophy that the govern ment ought to stay out of business3 Then there is the new organization set-up that seems to be in prospect for industry.
 People at Washington talk of grouping all industries into some six or ten grand di- visions, with Uncle Sam keeping finger constantly on the master switch of each outfit. Coupled with it there is the grand shakingup of organized labor. with strings running from each union to Washington; there is the vast network of priee-fxing profit -stabiizing, and protecting devices which seems destined to become part of our government; there is the ever increasing extension of direct federal financial aid to local governmental subdivisions that can no longer raise the money they need
 What are we going to look like when all of these things are in operation? No man alive can say right now. We are going somewhere at a terrific pace, but it may be year or more before we get chance to look at our tickets and see what station we're bound for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
FOR BETTER EDUCATION
{ (Hartford Times.)


 The opening of the new Teachers College of Connecticut at New Brit ain marks the significant event in the educational history of this state. To those who have been close to the struggle for educational uni fication of state-supported institu- tions, the incident stands for q welcome advance towards that goal.
 The larger program of concen- trating all teacher-training in one institution awaits further legisla- tive action and may need to bide such time as sentiment in several parts of the state becomes agree able to closing some or all of the state normal schools. That progress is more likely to come from suc- cessful operation of the new teach- CTS college than from any forced attempt by way of sweeping legis- lation.
 Interesting results In the way of better teachers will be evident only to those who know how to appraise teaching achievement but there is reason to expect beneficial returns from training, which measures in all important repects up to the best standards in the teaching profess sion. The grammar schools of Con- necticut promise to benefit from the new arrangements at New Britain. Impressed with the devel- opments, the next legislature may take further steps to concentrate, standardize and so improve the training of its teachers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
Rome Letter
u,n,tcd Press Stan Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 Rome (UP)-F'rom the dusty lowland stretches of the reclaimed Pontine marshes to the rocky gull leys of Piedmont, Benito Mussoiini is more and more becoming q real champion with the poorer classes. His recent sojourn near Garessio during the army maneuVers was one continuous round of direction, ate scenes enacted by the plain ana ragged country folk.
 Near a village called Niella Bal go during the military operations, Italy's strong man suddenly halted his auto. His eye had caught group of shaky old women Tn the act of raising their right arm Tn the Fascist salute as he sped past He pulled himself out of the car and walked toward the peasants some of them fell on their knees. This gesture irked the Premier. He almost scolded them for having done that. He asked them simple questions. At first the old women were dumbstruck. Then as polite word followed another, one replied "Yes I have children-all men. Several of them out of work" Be- fore Il -Duce had departed, an aide had given each old woman sum of money.
 Aided Aged Man
 At Mombarcaro, another village on top of a mountain, an SO-year- old man cognized the Premier as he sped by. Tn @ trembling voice but loud enough for Mussolini to hear, he shouted: "Duce, do some- thing about my application" Again Mussolini got out of his car and asked the villager details. It con- cerned request for 8 war bonus made months ago at the war min istry in Rome. Don't worry" re- piled Mussolini. "Tll write you about it." And the Duce kept his word.
 At times when Mussolini found himself before a veritable battery of persons seeking favors, his re- ply inviarably was: Write me about this or that direct to Rome. I'll handle it on my return"
 Another time, the Duce ran across a group of infantrymen who were tugging at ropes endeavoring to hoist a cannon over short mount. He stopped the car and toned in the general strain. He tugged with the soldiers for at least ten minutes, and once the cannon budged it moved steadily onward for 50 yards. One simple soldier later commented how he feared to doe of shame if that can- non still refused to be moved even with the Duce's hands on the rope. k Helped Speed Up Troops
 On the winding highway from Montelupo to Seravalle, Mussolini noticed that the soldiers of the 67th Infantry were somewhat dis heartened. The sun was hot. Their step was heavy. Without a seconds notice, Mussolini placed himself at tho head of the regiment and led the way. His pace was as fast and
 steady as that of the speediest corps in the Italian army-the cock -feathered Bersaglieri. His son flaw, Count Galeazzo Ciano, now head of his Press Office, later remarked to friends that he felt
 better when the march came to Ian end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
Daily Washington Letter Indians Claim Billion in Balm and They'll Get
 Most of It-Forestry Campaign Fizzles

paign, Governor Robert H. Gore of Puerto Rico offered $100 re- ward for apprehension of each per- son caught cutting down a tree.
 The reward plan didn't work, be- cause $100 represents fabulous wealth to most Puerto Ricans, whereas jail meant free board. Many buddics began to plot trcc- choppings.
 Widespread disappointment fol- lowed when the first tree-chopper went to the hoosegow for GO days and no reward was paid.
 Politcness Is Shocking
 Assistant Secretary of State Harry Payer, the eloquent Clcve- land lawyer who is called "Mr Pickwick" because that's the way he looks, is happier every day. He's the first secretary or assist ant secretary who ever bothered to visit every nook and cranny of the state department He was delight ed and amazed that the chief of the far eastern division was q cul- tured doctor of philosophy. Payer appalled, correspondents at a Hull press conference when he burst into fowery panegyric which referred to them as dis tinguished gentlemen" and ex- pressed his sense of the honor of being allowed to work shoulder to shoulder" with them.
 Worker Is Benefited
 Figure It out from availa bie wage and hour tables and you'll find that the average worker in manufacturing industries received q weekly wage icrease from $1S.05 teo $1S.72 between mid-July and mid-August. In the cotton goods industry, the effect of the NRA code, which became operative July 17. is shown in am average in- crease from $11.37 to $13.1S.
 Cost of living increased 2.3 per cent in that period, according to the national industrial conference board, so the average factory worker would seem to be about 25 cents week better off and the average cotton mill worker $1.S1 to the good. t
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
So They Say

I am an actress1An never inter- est myself in politics.
 -Marlene Dietrich.
 1: have learned that it is impos- sible to be part of the country where one lives without having social identity with the group. George Nelson Page, author and diplomat.
 {: would love to be a newspaper man because I love the classics and I love good literature. Mayor John P. O'Brien of New York.
 {: It is mans intelligence that makes him behave more stupidly than the beasts. G
 --Aldous Huxley, author.
 <: There are too many young spe- clalists. They come out of school and suddenly they are specialists -Dr William J. Mayo. famous surgeon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
DIsGUSTED AMERICAN
fRridrenort Telegra,nl

Bridgeport Telegram)
 A "Disgusted American" writing to the New York Herald Tribune, stated that she had s4.S00 in a bank here: that she returned to Germany to live and after getting there, sent for her money and found she would only get $3,800 because of the depreciation of the dollar in terms of the dollar in terms of the gold mark. She com plains bitterly about having been cheated.
 If "Disgusted American" had gone to Germany ten years ago she would have received billions of marks for the same number or dollars but she wouldn't have writ ten back to return the surplus to her bank, nor would she hayesex- pressed her gratitude to her gov ernment at home for making such an apparent profit for her.
 Our advice to "Disgusted Amer ican" Is to r,turn to the United States where her $4,S00 is not only worth face value but is actually worth more than $6,000 even now, in terms of what the same money would have bought in 1929. She can make money tJ staying home. As for those who spend their American dollars abroad, 1t is for the rest of us to express our opin- ion. In the words of Andy. Ives regusted."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03

There has been quite lot of comment about the fact that code was proposed recently for maearoni, but none for noodles. spaghetti. etc. Hearings on fair competition in the macaroni industry will start in Wash ington Thursday We can understand why r1aearoni manufacturers would not ask for a spaghetti code. Spaghetti is variety of macaroni. The use of the word maearoni to the average man means simply large spaghetti or spaghetti is small maearon. However, as we understand 1t, macaroni is the proper name for all the numerous spc- eies of wheat flour paste. dried and made into slender tubes, the size depending on whether you will have spaghetti, noodles vermieelli. etc. So naearoni code will certainly cover all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
Democrat Washington Correspon- ,' ionf

NDCLuOtGub NuSibu6tVh &ohhNePOhN
 dent
 Washington-The Indians claim more than a billion dollars in law suits against the whites. Eventual ly, they will get a part of it~
 Indian Commissioner John Col Her wants them to have some of the money now. At the present rate of speed. 1t will be more than q hundred years before all the cases are tried.
 Taxpayers now support virtually entire tribes. Allotted Indians' have lost their lands through fed- eral operation of what Collier calls the "indefonsible" allotment laws until two-thirds of them are pau perized, demoralized or headed that way.
 One of the first Indian bureau reforms under tho New Deal was prohibition of further sale or alienation of allotted lands. Now Collier wants money to restore land to landless Indians, claiming there are large future savings for the treasury in the plan, and a re. drafted allotment law which will prevent any more sale of Indian land to whites. .... The necessary money, he will tell congress, should be advanced against Indian court claims, repay able from the final judgment, which will he several times as large as cost of the land program Congress has approved the suits. Forest Campaign Flzz!cs ..
 As part of q forestation cam
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
BIG MONEY NEAR ROCKY
 NECK
(Meriden Journal)

The Rocky Neck state park, In the Lyme sector, closed the season with its popularity on a par with that of larger Hammonasset. Shell ter Island state park. down West port way. will porbably get going well next season.
 The stae bought Rocky Neck's 557 acres for $97,500. Lately q proposition has been in the works by the State Park and Forest com mission to buy a needed additional piece of less than two acres and the price mentioned was $14,500. Presumably the states operations in improving its tract had made adjoining land more valuable but 1t would appear to be colossal nerve on the part of those owning any of 1t to ask better than s5.- 900 an acre. Soupds . bit cock eyed but that's the story, and # Isn't possible that the state of- ficials will agree to any such sde- mnndk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03

general rule are men. and sometimes women. who prefer not to be bound by the ties of home or kin. As result they can't be confined to one job or avoeation for any length of time. The only thing they do practice assiduously is this business of moving from one community to another. Occasionally they are city charges. but only for short time. They soon tire of one locality and move along to another. It will be much the same in the proposed camps. They'll tire of camp life in very short time and unless foreibly restrained will be on the road. Of course if kept under surveillance these campers may last whole winter and spring on the range But if the work proves too arduous we know darn we'll the camp dwellers will be few and far between.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
-In NezC York
BY JUTIA BIlANsHARD

New York-New York radicals are chuckiing over what they con- sider significant discrepancy in | the new three-cent postage stamp which has been issued to celebrate
 Look closely at the design on this stamp and you'll see why. The farmer, the housewife and the laborer are seen marching along in unison. But the capitalist--the other member of the quartet-is out of step with themi Yes, it already has been called to the governments attention, so l you needn't write to your con- gressman about 1t.
 Today's Fad.
 The latest fad among Connecti- cuts "New York farmers (com- hunting Manhattanites) is to un. earth old cobblers' benches. The older and more worn, the better, Connecticut is being combined for them.
 He found a handsome, worn old cobbler's bench that might have ed 1t off, rubbed 1t until it shone, and installed 1t in his Connecticut living room as a table-of-many uses.
 Where the nails and pegs used to 20. cigarettes fit perfectly. Where the cobbler used to sit is space just the right size for tray with glass, and the center part will hold coffee services or bottles and ice. The benches are about IS inches wide and five feet long. You now can buy them in snooty stores (re- productions, that is.) But the trick is to SCOUT the countryside and find your own. Where you got it and .how and what price you finally Fpaid for it and how long. 1t took you to rub it up. by hand, furnishes the newest topic for conversation Literary Note.
 Upton Sinclair, lifelong Social ist who had just gone democrat, Is enjoying every minute of the fight the Communists started here over the fact that he allowed Eisenstein's movie, Thunder Over Mexico" to be edited in Holly wood. Probably no one enjoys good fight more than Sinclair. Ordinarily he is the most
 protected man in America. He | retircs daily to his study in
 his California home, has no phone there, has Q fiat rule
 that nothing and nobody must
 disturb him, and works his full day with absolutely no inter-
 ruption. His lunch is left out
 side his door for him to get
 at his convenience. His wife,
 Craig Sinclair, is a veritable
 policcwoman. Nobody can get
 by her while Sinclair is at
 work.
 He goes out rarely, doesn't enjoy social events because he has no small talk" never has been known to gossip of even listen to gossip, Is not particularly interested in people anyhow. He dresses plain- ly, drives his old flivver with real skill, and plays scientific game of tennis.
 Mabel Walker Williebrandt is just back from her first vacation In 16 years, which she spent in Bermuda. In this subtropic setting Mrs Williebranda was revealed as a true sportswoman. She swan with q handsome stroke, was one of the best anglers on the Islands, and was the envy of all because she can ride bicycle without handlebars!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
A Book e Day by BRUCE CATION
Wells Looks Into
 The Future Again

Mir H. G. Wells has been worry ing about the future again; and, as is usually the case with him, he has written a book about 1t, and a very ingenious and entertaining book 1t is, too.
 The name of 1t Is "The Shape of Things to Come" It purports to be a history of the world written some 200 years in the future, and in 1t MT Wells, peering through q glass darkly, tells what he thinks Is going to happen to. us.
 Eventually. he believes, things are going to be lot better; but first they are going to get a great deal worse, and If Mir Wells pre- dictions are right there is not a great deal of hope for any of us now alive.
 Our present troubles, he believes, are the first symptoms of a general collapse of capitalistic, individual istic civilization. Trade, credit and industry are sliding down to a bot tomless abyss, governments are be-. gining to suffer from dry rot, there is shortly to be a peirod of wild lawlessness in which gangsters will rule like medieval robber barons.
 Then will come new wars. None will be as bloody or as frightful as the last one. Mir Wells doesn't think that the horrific prognostica- tions of the experts will quite pan out. But they will serve to finish the collapse--and. says Mir Wells, to teach people that international cooperation Is unacceptable.
 Eventually, of course, Mir Wells swims to the surface with that old favorite, the World State, in his teeth. But even that won't be peri ment. There will finally be a pleasant and peaceful world soci- ety which will have little or no government because 1t won't need any. It will all be very nice-but none of us will live to see it. All of this, as you can see. makes interesting reading. The book Is ] offered by Macmillan for $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03

The governments plan to take all tram
 sientS off the road and put them in camps. at least during the winter months is sound in theory but weak in practice. It is one thing to propose doing this. but another to carry it to completion. Not that we don't think the camp idea should be encouraged. Perhaps with little favorable publicity it may even appeal to the so-called transents who will be thus affected Wanderers as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
Vie7Qs of The Press
A SMACK FOR LOGAN
(New York sun.)

NNeW OTk 6uu'J
 Senator Logan of Kentucky has certainly heard an earful. As member of a committee investigat- ing the election of Senator Over ton, colleague of the Kingfish. he saw fit to rebuke some Louisiana wonne nfor telegram complaining of a dilatory tacics on the part of the committee. Tn a pompously senatorial manner he wired to Mrs Hiida Phelps. Hammond to the ef- feet that he attributed the crit icsm to inexperience and igno- rance, but trusted that the commit tee would not proceed against her and her associates for contempt. He concluded with an admonition not to offend again.
 The response of Mrs. Hammond was to offend again and imme- diately. She accused the committed of frittering away its money in Washington without sending o competent investigator to Louis jana. She said:
 "Your telegram in reply to
 our previous recitation of facts
 suggests the possibility of pro-
 ceeding for contempt. Speak,
 ing of contempt, Senator, why
 do you refuse to proceed
 against the Long henchman,
 Seymour Weis, treasurer of
 the Long machine, who as
 witness called before your
 committee to testify, treated
 your committee to all the in-
 suits and contemptuousness.
 that could be handed out?
 We were present at the shame
 full exhibition and we have not
 forgotten it. In conclusion,
 Senator, let us explain quite
 clearly that the women of
 Louisiana cannot be frighten-
 ed off from statements of
 truth by any such telegram as
 yours"
 As Patrick Henry might have said, if this be contempt let the Senator and his committee make the most of it. Somehow the mind refuses to miagine. MT. Logan's committee dragging these Louis. jana women before 1t, perhaps sending them to jail, for thinking as they do and saying what they think. After all, it is reasonable te suppose that committee investi- gating the election of Senator overton ought to do most of its in. vcstigating in the State which elect ed him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03

Good old H. I. Phillips Hi of the Sun Dial, is in the news again. You simply can't keep good columnist down. Playing over the Raeebrook country club course last week Mir Phillips negotiated hole in one on the ninth He immediately eommun cated this information to his associates on the New York Sun who might at times refer seoffingly to the prowess of his game. We hope they were properly ehaSened.