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Evening star., 1933-12-26
ASPHALT OUTLOOK
FOR 1884 CHEERFUL
Increased Consumption Held
Likely Under New Deal
Program.
BY CHAS. p. SHAEFFER,
Associated Press Business Writer.

j. E. Pennybacker, managing director
of the Asphalt Institute, says 'the new
deal program to repeal unemployment
can, If faithfully followed, be expected
to increase greatly the consumption OF
asphalt in 1884"
Several coinciding trade factors" he
continues in year-end review OF the
industry, make optimism the asphalt
industry's keynote for 1884, chief among
them being the Federal allotment Of
S4OO 900, 10000 for highways, the insti-
tute's recent development of durable,
non-skid surfaces at low cost, and the
successful results of Army engineers in
revolutionizing Mississippi flood control
by paving the river bed with aphalt."
Mr.. Pennybacker explains the relation
between unemployment relief and as
phalt consumption by pointing out that
about 21a times as much money spent
for low-cost roads of the asphalt type
goes to labor on the job as is paid to
workers on higher-type roads Greater
employment of labor has been vital
factor in the popularity OF loW-cost
types out of each 81 600 spent Tor high
way construction the relative propor-
tions for direct labor are respectively
asphalt pavement. 1924 for low-cost
asphalt surface. and $44l for surface
treatment of stone and gravel.
The institute reports as part of the
favorable situation that the trend to
concentrate road funds on as many
inexpensive projects as possible In or
der to obtain the maximum of employ
ment is increasingly evident in the
$400,000,000 emergency highway pro-
gram of P. w. A.
In accounting for expenditures as OF
December /, when about half OF the
entire program was under way, the
Bureau of Public Roads reported that
s40,l7 2,3O3 was being spent for 2,545
miles Of asphalt roads. The States OF
PENNSYLVANIA. Texas, Massachusetts,,
Virginia, Maine North Dakota, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Florida,
all with large low-cost programs, have
the highest proportion of employment
to expenditures.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
CODE HEARING SET
FOR NATURAL GAS
Draft Submitted by Association
Will Be Weighed at Session
Here January 3.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the associated Press.
The N. r. A. has given notice that a
hearing on the code of fair competition
for the natural gas industry will be
held on January 3 with Deputy Admin
istrator Leighton H. PEBBLES presiding.
The industry's code was submitted by
the American Gas Association, which
claimed to represent 67.2 per cent OF
the industry.
The code, N. R. A. says, provides
maximum work week of 40 hours aver
aged over a four-week period for all
employees other than clerical and other
office employees. Clerical and other Of
fee employees will not be permitted to
work more than an average OF 40 hours
per week during any eight-week period.
The minimum wage that would pre-
vail shall be SIS a week in cities OF
more than 100000 population, sl4.5O IN
cities between 250,000 and 500,O 900, Sl4
in any city between $500 and 250, 900
population and s12 in any town OF less
than $500 population.
These rates would be 81 less in South
ern States.
Evening star., 1933-12-26

ion is interrupted by a season its
progress is only temporarily stopped;
When the next season comes around
the fashion starts just where it left off.
For instance. several years ago
hosiery manufacturers were in a near
panic over the vogue for stockingleSs
legs. Starting in Hollywood the idea
spread eastward through the Summer
and reached New England cities in
September. Cold weather stopped 1t
before it had run its full course. Some
retailers and manufacturers mistakenly
thought it was dead. With the warm
days of the following Spring it came
back, however, and starting exactly
where it had left off the previous Sep
tember, ran its full course. Wise man.
ufacturers who foresaw this carry-over
into another season made the best OF
the situation by manufacturing women's
socks. This gave them some business
until full length hosiery was again the
accepted fashion.
Copyright. 1888. by the Bell Syndicate, 1nco
Evening star., 1933-12-26
VISIBLE GRAIN SUPPLY.

NEW YORK, December 26 P.-
The visible supply of American grain
shows the following changes. in busnels:
Wheat decreased 1,445,00O. corn IN
creased l485, 900. oats increased 10000.
rye decreased $4,000, barley decreased
242,000.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
LEAF TOBACCO RECEIPTS
DECLINE AT BALTIMORE

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, December 26.-Re-
ceipts of Maryland leaf tobacco
showed a sharp decline with only 50
hogsheads, but sales amounted to 524
hogsheads. leaving a stock in State
tobacco warehouses of 2496 hogsheads.
No quotations were available yesterday,
the market being closed on account
of holiday
Evening star., 1933-12-26
HOME BUILDING CLIMBS.

NEW YORK, December rs Pl.-ReSl-
dental building contracts in the first
half of December in 81 States east of
the Rocky Mountains were reported at
5 per cent above last year. The F. w:
Dodge Corporation reported the total
building amounted to Sl3. .629 POO.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
BUSINESS IMPROVES.

NEW YORK. December 26 R.-
Moody's Index figures for freight load
ings. electric power production and
steel ingot output indicated consider
ably improved business activity last
week. The figure was 63D7, compared
with SIS year ago
Evening star., 1933-12-26
Dollar Makers
BY GEORGE T. EAGER.

Bankers who are wondering how
much their dollars will be worth three |
months from today can now appreciate |
the concern Of the manufacturer or re- |
Evening star., 1933-12-26

tailers who has his
dollars invested In
fashion merchan-
disc. What will
fashion trends do
to the value Of his
inventory.
Because millions
of dollars are in
volved, t h e be-
havior Of fashion
trends is being
carefully studied
ne interesting
discovery has been
made. When the
growth Of a fash
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15

Alfred E. Smith is only one of many who now believe that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has outlived its usefulness. Certainly it doesn't seem to hold much of place in the Roosevelt scheme of things. Critics may claim that this is because the R. F. C. was of republican origin. How ever. it must be remembered that democrats approved of it as we'll as republicans just as republicans now are giving Roosevelt as much support as democrats. Mir Smith be- lieves the functions of the R. F. C. could be transferred to some other federal body, such as the Federal Reserve Board. without do- ing any harm. Certainly of recent months it has not figured so prominently in the rehabilitation of the nation. Perhaps it has served its purpose. If SO, the sooner it IS disbanded, the better 1t will be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Return To Buying

When Detroit's two closed banks began paying out S131,OOOOoO recently, the town enjoyed spending wave as encourag- ing as anything that has happened Or been hoped for in long time It was said year or so ago that the nation could not 'squander' itself out of the depression. That was true enough as far as it went. The fact remains that the world can't get out of the depression by not spending either. Com modities must be bought if men and women are to have jobs.
 The next boom, remarks business writer, may be a commodities or consumers goods boom instead of securities boom. A lot of people are thinking bitterly of the fact that their savings of past years are now lost in bad stocks impounded in closed banks. and SO on. They have about decided that for while they are going to spend more of their current income on clothes and cars and household equipment. As the practice gains momentum. more of the wheels of industry will start turning again, which is one of the essential factors of recovery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
.NEA Service Writer


 Washington-A big boost for az riculture and a hard sock for the oil industry and all users of au- tomobiles is bound up in the pro posal to compel the blending of alcohol with gasoline as method of farm relief.
 There has been no end of a whoop-te-doo over this plan. which appears to have captivated large sections of the grain belt through it's promise of market for millions of bushels of corn and other crops.
 For while the movement, represented by bills in Congress seemed sure to be buried by a flood of propaganda from oil in- dastry Hobbies. But now the De- partment of Agriculture, follow ing a request from the Senate to investigate, has come forth with such a rosy picture of the proba- ble and possible happy results that the campaign has rageined momentum.
 There are about 2 1-2 gallons of alcohol in every bushel of corn, 2.S per bushel of wheat, two gal Ions per bushel of barley and lesser quantities in other starch laden products. Farmers and farm organizations want the gov ernment to force market so they can turn large surpluses into alcohol. Proposed legislation calls for blending of from ? to 10 per cent of ethyl alcohol with gaso- line, this to be achieved by impos- ing penalty taxes on unblended motor fuels.
 Would Boost Gas Price
 The economists. chemists. and farm engineers of Secretary Wal lace's department find that use Of ? per cent alcohol would utilize about 112.O00,000 bushels of corn, and 22,4O0.000 bushels of barley. A 10 per cent blend would use up 56O,OOO,O0 bushels of corn and 100000 bushels of barley.
 With corn at 50 cents a bushel and gasoline at 13 cents gallon, 2 per cent alcohol blend would increase the gasoline price by half cent a gallon and a 10 per cent blend would raise the cost 2 3-5 cents.
 The normal annual sale of gas- oline is about 17,000, 900 gall Ions, so that the foregoing official figures would mean an increase of s442,0OO.0 in the national gasoline bill.
 The American Automobile As- sociation and the American Pe- troleum Industries Committee es- timate the increase at SG00,000, 900, the latter claiming that gas- oline would cost cents more a gallon once the price of corn reached 50 cents.
 Corn and barley prices would increase materially the govern ment scientists say, and so would those of other grains to some ex- tent. Hog production would drop. with some increase in hog prices, Cotton growers would reduce their surplus by planting little less
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
A Chance For Ideas

Des Moines. Iowa, IS not waiting for the good old times to return. It is going to try to do something about creating good new times. An adult education program has been announced under the slogan, Ideas Have Chance in Des Moines." Promoters of the plan, which is already financed for five years believe that the continuance of Ameri- can democracy demands better machinery than now exists for the rational development of public opinion.
 It is setting up that machinery locally by means of series of forums on public questions, under trained leadership. These forums will not be formal classes, reads an announcement. There will be no text books, no fees, no enrolment, no assign ments, no tests. Any problem of current and general interest to the citizens of DeS Moines will be considered appropriate for discussion at any forum.
 The scheme is capable of much or little, according to the determination of the peo- pie involved and the quality of the leader ship At its best it should accomplish great deal in better general understanding of local problems and in development of com munity spirit and cooperation. A writer in recent magazine article suggested some thing of the sort for groups all over the country. Reforms of government. of busi- ness of industry, education, and the rest require intelligent, interested popular sup port This is one way to get it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
What Form Of Relief?

Last week Governor Cross assembled leg islative leaders at Hartford for conference to discuss ways and means of providing relief for many of the cities and towns of the state. It is still moot question just what form this relief should take. There have been various plans advanced. Probably none of them would fit exactly the case that is met in each individual community. For example right here in Waterbury there does not exist any great demand for state or federal aid right at the present moment Through our Mutual Aid Unemployment Fund we have managed to do valuable work in providing jobs and in distributing clothes food. etc, to those in dire distress.
 It is easy to understand how other towns have not been as fortunate as Waterbury. When it became apparent that the ordinary channel through which work and charity are distributed could not cope with the st- uation city officials and leaders in all walks of life quickly discussed the situation out of which came our relief organization. Its counterpart can be found in Community Chests etc.. all of which are founded on the primary purpose of aiding those in need, whether 1t be with actual money, jobs or other necessities of life. The towns where no such extraordinary means were at tempted are now in trouble. Their woes are due to the emergency that they have been battling against Such work warrants state aid
 Relief for the cities and towns should not involve partisanship. It is unfortunate that the two houses of our Legislature are divided in control. It would be far bet ter for the state at this moment if both houses were democratic or republican. Then one party could push through program of relief. As 1t stands now both parties seem anxious to submit the plan that meets state approval. We sincerely trust that legsla- tive leaders will for once forget party diff fcrenees and unite for one purpose only. Senator Alcorn and Rep Baldwin. the two g. 0. p. leaders have a plan. It is worth considering before being rejected by the democrats. But it may be that feature can be improved by democratic suggestions. All well and good. What we want is relief, not political dickering to secure public favor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Millions For Sums

There is more talk, of practical nature. about slum elimination. It proposes com bination of relief work. business revival and scientific construction for the future This might be che salvation of industrial cities. Discussion centers for the present in the American Ruhr.' the great densely popu- lated manufacturing region stretching from Pittsburgh to Detroit, containing several large cities. It has been harder hit by the depression than any other area in the coun- try. Its cities are cursed by slums and other blighted districts If the cities are to sur vive as places for large aggregations of human beings to live. work and play, in a state of civilization for which the world is ready. there will have to be good deal of rebuilding. And this is good time for it. Nothing helps more to revive business than construction work.
 Cleveland, which stands in the middle of the region. and greatly needs reconstruction. has her plans farther advanced and her forces better organized than any other community co far. She is submitting huge pionee. project of this sort to the government. hoping for an R. F. C. loan of several uiIIions to start with. It is suggested that $500. 000. 900 could be profitably spent on sut11 work in western Pennsylvania. Ohio. sad southern Michigan. If this work once
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
The Business Deal

It grows more evident every day that there IS new spirit and method at work. represented not merely in Washington, but throughout the country. and not only m government but in business. Secretary ot Agriculture Wallace expressed it very we'll when he told the Chamber of Commerce of the United States: From the old era of the needless expanslonists and the rugged individuaists, I think we are ready to turn to a new era of better human relationships with the emphasis less on production than on equitable distribution of the fruit of production.
 The industrial and commercial leaders represented in the chamber seemed to agree with this view. They knew that individ- ualism is not so rugged as it was. They were weary of alternative feast and famine, and eager for stability. So they responded with alacrity to the suggestions from many sources for an orderly. planned prosperity. and readily came to an understanding with the government for corporation In new deal for business.
 In this deal business organizing by indus tries is expected largely to run its own af- fairs, freed from some of the hobbies of the present antitrust laws, under the pressure of a new social spirit, and responsible to the government for the right use of its privl- leges. The idea as the President has ex- pressed it, is partnership in planning and in administering the plans, with the govern ment necessarily having the last word in case of conflict. This method. after the terrific failures of the laissez -faire policy. IS certainly worth trying.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
JOUR BILLY" RETIRES
(Hartford Courant)

"Our Billy he has been to Yale and to New Haven for ten college separations. and, though he con- ductcd his last class on Thursday, the university and the city will con tinue to boast affectionately of the possession of William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English .lit- erature, Emeritus, He has an- nounced that he has retired from active life. "Our Billy will have his joke, but the thousands of stu dents who have sat before him in stuffy old Lampson Lyceum know that there will be no retirement for those enthusiasms which carried the dullest undergraduate enthral- led through the nearly two hun dred involved pages of "The Ring and the Book. The old brick house on Temple street will be as full or appreciative young men as ever, and the current redition of Rufus Phelps will as of old, be the pam pered canine pet of town and gown alike.
 There is among some of those who have not been exposed to our Billy's" lectures a feeling that Ro- bert Browning wrote for an older generation and that the works of Alfred. Lord Tennyson are as out of date as the beard that graced the Laureate's countenance. There is, one hears, a sentiment among the uninitiate that Browning was more and Tennyson a sentimental prig. One hears the claim some times advanced that Messrs. Elliot. Cummings Pound and Jeffers can each put more of poetry into line is contained in the whole of Ten nyson and Browning together. To revise the old chestnut you can always tell a Yale man, but you cannot tell him that. He knows better, for has he not shared the enthusiasm of Billy himself for T.. and B? The detractors of the twain may gather round the fine old man. but, like the hero of one of his fav- orite poems, who saw the myster- ious them"
 -. ranged along the hillsides,
 met
 To view the last of me, a living
 frame
 For one more picture! In a
 sheet of flame
 I saw them and I knew them
 all. And yet
 Dauntless the stubborn to my
 lips I set
 And blew "Childe Harold to
 the Dark Tower came"
 No, "Our Billy" will not retire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Home Mortgage Limits

In one respect the government home mortgage plan seems to make an unfair social discrimination. Although it has lent money to large banks, insurance companies and railroads as well as small ones, and is going to lend also on large farms, it does not propose to lend on city homes of more than S10,000 valuation. The reason is prob ably this. A given amount of money will go farther among smaller homes, helping more families and 1t is the family rather than the property that is the important unit. But there are arguments on the other side.
 There is as large percentage of expensive homes in trouble as of humble homes. Larger, perhaps. In almost any city it is the fine residence sections rather than the more modest section that are full of empty houses. They are empty because the own CTS are forced to abandon them unable to meet mortgage payments or reflnance them. These families, too, deserve some consdera- ton. Those holding their mortgages are hard hit. And it does no city any good to have its attractive residence sections aband- oned and their values wiped out.
 Everything considered the limit fixed seems low. It might not be necessary, in most cases, to lend more on a somewhat more valuable home than would be lent on a $10,000 home. Many a home worth Sl2,OO0 or Sl5,000 could be saved by refnancing loan of less than S8,000. With out such aid. thousands of these homes will stand idle and sink to ruin, hurting adjacent property values and paying no taxes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
Here, There And Everywhere

rather than age, that determines the mechanical condition of the ve- hicle. It may be supposed. however that each of these 8,00O.0O0 cars has been driven about the average number of miles, with no more than the usual care, and as a con- sequence has suffered accordingly. But even if all of them were still in good running shape they are ne- cessarily obsolete as measured by present standards of automobile perfection. For example nearly all cars produced prior to 1926 lack the safety afforded by four-wheei brakes.
 Indeed. so great have been the changes in the automobile during the last three years.-so important the improvements with respect to safety, efficiency and comfort-that it is hardly an eXaggeration 10 say that all cars no further back than 193O are obsolete. This does not mean, of course, that they are not still serviceable and safe means or transportation, but 1t does mean that the owner is putting up with something that is more or less an- tiauated in comparison with those IeaLurcS IIldb illdhC tihS ySoi Se-A - q delight to drive. It nevertheless speaks extraordinarily we'll for the general excellence of automobile construction during all these years that 1,50O,00O cars now on the highways have been in service for Q full decade.
 Due to the depression. very large number of automobiles now being operated have not been kept up as they should have been. Many are mechanically unfit to meet the reasonable requirements of safety This fact is being brought home to many car owners, which perhaps explains why the automobile in- dustry is at present showing a much larger volume of production. Motor vehicle commissioners are giving more attention than ever to the hazard presented by cars that have reached condition where they should be ruled off the road. These old and defective automo- piles are accountable in no small measure for the accidents daily re- corded. For those owners who can manage the transaction 1t is wise precaution to let the "old bus go for what it will bring and invest in. modern car with all the fac- tors of safety it provides.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-15
So They Say

The average wage in the textile industry is now $10 a week for 50 hours labor. Thomas r. McMahon, of the United Textile Workers.
 
 I have read that Hitler suffers from hay fever. It is entirely possible that a few drops of pollen extract. would make him see the world in an entirely new light. pr Leo Felderman of Phi!adel- phia.
 Architecture is in a period of transition. Tn the boom period with it's hurried, sensational sty- listic attempts, only little has been done to find a fitting and beautiful expression for, the changing as- poets.
 Dean George H. Egdell, Harvard School of Architecture,
 Stipulations for (court) delay are too readily obtaiped and sanctioned.
 Chief Justice Charles Evans The average old type Sunday School is the fruitful ground for the revolt of thinking youth a. gainst an ethic that does not meet the changing order. Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor.