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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
Popular Music

An orchestra conductor, just back from Europe, has interesting plans for the coming symphony season. For one thing, he is going to give a series of nationality programs. They should serve two purposes. The hrst is to interest different racial groups of the city in the symphony concerts by presenting in unified programs the great music of their home lands. The other is to give regular concert -goers better appreciation ot such music than they would get from hearing the different nurbers scattered through long series of mixed programs.
 It may sound as if the conductor had the education of his audiences more in mind than their pleasure. Not so Another of his plans is to make the concert patron feel at ease and comfortable by making formal dress purely a matter of inclination. lie maintains that 'the idea that one has to be done out in handsome clothes to hear symphony concert is foolishness.' There has been plenty of proof lately that good music, even grand opera, has great popular appeal when presented without the artificial ad- juncts of too much dignity, formality and high prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
Racketeers' s'Lawyers

In it's war on criminals and racketeerS the federal justice department apparently in- tends to be thorough. It has compiled list of attorneys suspected of underworld connections Wherever it can prove i'm proper connections. it intends to punish and disbar the lawyers involved. Without inhu ential connections in the upper world, the underworld could not have achieved the power and audacity it has lately developed.
 Under our system every citizen has right to legal protection and defense until he has been proved guilty of punishable crime. Even a convicted criminal has certain righs of appeal before sentence is finally impos- ed The lawyer who looks after such clients interests. honestly and fairly. is not the object of the justice departments drive. The lawyers the department seeks to curb are those who advise the underworld on how to eonimit and cover up crimes s'ho eonnive at criminals escape when caught. ,esorf to trickry in court defenses. and in general exceed the bounds of legitimate .eeaI protection.
 Bar associations have been trying to Iarkle this problem. They should welcome
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
Farm Buying Power

Farmers are going to be in the market soon providing more stimulation for city products. It is estimated that their income this year will be swelled to the extent of about $2,000,0 100000 or 40 per cent over last years. This will be accomplished partly through the government distribution of $4o0. 100000 to $500,000000 of farm benefits or subsidies, in return for farm crops curtaiied and products kept off the market. The rest is expected to come from rising prices.
 Nearly all of the rural gain, of whatever sort, will come from city pockets. It would be grim prospect for urban consumers if that were the whole story. Urban pockets haven't had much in them lately for any purpose. If the additional funds made avail- able for farm use will be spent mainly in the eities according to expectation, the city pockets will have enough in them to take care of the new burdens imposed on them, with some left over for their own benefit.
 The idea is to get more money into eireu- lation everywhere, It's somewhat like getting the blood to flow again after the heart has almost quit working Every part of the body gives and receives, and all the members and organs benefit. We'll know more about this later, At least, 1t seems worth trying.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
So They Say

hate biographies and will write no more of them. Biography writ ing has become an industry. Emil Ludwig, Biographer and historian.
 Think of something new. The public has seen my legs. --Mariene Dietrich, to persistent photographers.
 This Is the third anniversary of my marriage to George kelly--and what an anniversary! --Katherine Kelly, wife of MT chine Gum Kelly.
 Europe is not afraid of the in- fiationary acts of this government. What Is fears is that President Roosevelt will reduce the gold con tent of the dollar by half. Senator Key Pullman. Nevada.
 If beer of higher alcoholic con- tent than 3.2 per cent Is author ized by law, 1t should be sold only in bottles and In connection with hard liquor.
 William L. Goetz, president American Brewers Association.
 
 I believe that for the moral and political prestige of the nations. It would be advisable to place an eif- bargo on conferences.---Premier MuBsoiini.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
"VILI.AGE VIRTUE"
(New Haven Register.)


 The title of former Senator Harry Durant's volume of q couple years ago comes to mind mlnos It's disparaging sense in the late news of Old Lyme opinion. A group of the community's art col- ony members had been proposing to purchase the old Baptist church for use as a theater. Considering all the- notice which the mushroom growth of the Connecticut Summer theater movement received in past months, there may be surprising note in the fact that this item comes so late in the season. But the major note of interest is in the feature that anothY group has petitioned the archdeacon of Episcopal Di- ocese, which now uses the building as a mission. not to sell 1t. The antagonisn is said to be not toward theater as much, but toward q Main Street" theater. The com munity's present appearance is too well cherished to make a change in 1t welcome. A new screaming red store front was not so long ago more than one small conn munity's source of pride. In old Lyme the conviction apparently is that while there is room for prog ress. granting that the summer the- ater represents progress, 1t need not necessarily come through de- struction of the old, even Main Street appearances,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

When Virginia added her name to the steadily growing list of states in favor of re- peal of the 18th amendment there remair- ed no question but what the end was in sight. Prohibitions reign in the lUnited States is over. Early In December the last of the con- ventions will be held. And tempestuous era in American history will be closed There should have been no qusstion~of Vir- sinia going wet. And we dcn't see why any of the states that are yet to hold their re- peal votes should do other than follow the example of the 3z now in the wet column Having been shown a good example they naturally wish to endorse something that is now nationally encouraged. The Sooner the nation gets back to state control of liquors with a suitable system of taxation on their sale and manufacture the better off we will be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1883
Too Much Supposition

Writing 10 the editor of the Bridgeport Times.Star recently Albert Levitt of Red- .. ding. stormy petrol of Connecticut politics . and right now special assistant in Attorney . General Homer S. Cummings department at Washington. charges that the Connecticut . Light and Power company is going to tranS- , fer payment of the governments per cent tax on electricity to the consumer Some weeks ago this tax was transferred from the , consumer to the company by federal ediet. . In announcing the change the power com pany intmated that this might increase the cost of service. We presume that Mir Levitt has taken this as direct indication of coming increase Tn rates. Perhaps he is right. We don't know. . We only know that Charles l.. Campbell vice president and treasurer of the Connee' . tieut Light and Power company has de- elared the Levitt statement deliberate , falsehood." Time alone will tell just what /, the power company meant in the accom- panyng message that 1t dispatched to all pat" , rons in announcing the transfer of the tax . Waterburians received them. The eonelu- sion read like this .. taxes are part Of , the cost of service and this constantly in'
 eressing burden must be met from it's in-
 come the only source of which is it's eus' toners ." Commenting on this Mr Levitt declared that "this means in my opinion the company intends to pass the tax on to . the customer ." Maybe it will, but unless . it results in increased rates the customer won't know that he is paying it. And strictly speaking he won't be paying for 1t. We can understand the Reddinss man attl'
 tude. He naturally looks for the worst. since . he is a crusader where public utilities are {, concerned. But he may be taking too much
 {. for granted in ths one instance. But as we
 ]. said above, time alone will tell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

Carbon Mountain which has brought Colorado into the limelisht on many an oe- easion is again cutting up didees. The most recent action of the mountain was violent shimmy plus strenuous wisgle. It took of the top of the peak in an avalanche of stone and dirt that nearly engulfed several people who were on the mountain at the time of the upheaval. It is believed that the moun- tain was cut down anywhere from 60 to 100 feet by this latest tremor. And science is still studying the strange gyrations of this mountain which refuses to act normally and stay where it's put.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

radical dspsrtufs from the stdinsry souFss of events. It's only . mete question of time. We have had women sevstnots in other states We will have them again. We have now a woman senator and there are several women in the House of Representatives. Right in Connecticut we have had women in the Legislature. Some one of these days q strong candidate will appear in the field. It may be in the democratic party cr in the republican. It may be in some new alliance or independent group. At any rate we can feel sure that the day is coming when the women of this state will be cfiee-holders and not just voters
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
One More Blow

i. Whenever you take up the problem ot crime and its prevention, you are pretty like .ly to find yourself talking about the lawyers .bcfore you get through. Attorney General Cumming announcement that the Depart ment of Justice is preparing to open hre Ion lawyers suspected of underworld eonnee- ton should not be surprising. That there are lawyers who work hand in glove with notorious crooks is perfectly obvious-as, likewise, is the fact that the crooks can't be .eurbed effectively until something is done to .the lawyers. "One of the most important elements of predatory crime says the at- torney general. lis the manner in which some members of the bar cooperate with the Underworld
 Any man accused of crime, no matter how black his reputation. is entitled to the best legal defense he can get when he gets into court. That much goes without saying. But what the attorney general IS talking about is the lawyer who advises the gang ster on how to commit and cover up crimes who helps him slip out of the laws grip when he gets caught, uses triekery to guide him safely through the courts. and in gen. eral steps over the ethical borderline in looking after his interests There are lots of lawyers like that Everyone who has had anything to do with the criminal courts knows 1t perfectly well. So far the various bar associations of the country seem to have been either unwilling or unable to do any thing very effective about putting such law yers out of practice.
 As an emergency measure. action by the federal government would be very good thing. Uncle Sam has taken on a lot of un' familiar jobs this year; if he wants to tackle the raeketeers of the legal profession, now, we can do nothing but wish him lots of luck But in the long run the job is up to the legal profession itself. A much finer sense of the necessity of living up to the profes- sion's ethical standards finer sense of the lawyers responsibility to society as well as to the client who happens to be paying him, a passion for justice and recognition of the fact that lawyer can soil his hands by handling the wrong kind of busness-these are things we must have if the house elean' ing is really to be effective.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
LONG TRAIL OR SCENIC
 HIGHWAY?
(Hartford Courant) )

Vermont is split into two camps, one for and the other against ask ing the N. R. A. for seven million dollars to construct scenic high way running from the Massachu- setts to the Canadian border.
 It is easy to dub the two camps the nature lovers and the realists, but the question is not as simple as that. Among those who want this highway built are those who see in 1t not simply a means of making work for the unemployed in the state but for making accessible to many thousands the mountain beauty which they could not enjoy if they had to seek it on foot or on horseback. On the other hand those who would preserve even at considerable financial sacrifice the isolation and unspoiled wildness of the Green Mountain ridge see in this highway a constant source of expenditure for upkeep in the fu- ture with no attractions which would distinguish it from scenic highways in other states. In the Long Trail and the saddle paths Of the Green Mountain Horse associa- ton. however. the state of Vermont has something to offer not found In either New Hampshire. or New York in like extent and primitive ness. The existence of a highway through this hack country would
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
--In- .MezC York
mv PAUL HARR1sON

New York.--N6ither civic pride nor politics, crime, corruption pr the slurs of foreign critics can arouse in the heart of the city anything like that smail-town something known as commnnlty spirit. In its collective enthust- asms and dislikes, New York IS just one large blob of nervous letharsy Except when there's g base 0aIr Take, Ss1i for example, the cheer. fui sunny afternoon when mot ihy assortment of clerks and mil. | lionaires, gangsters and plump maj krohs, gamblers and sociaiites ana sportsnen, show folk and office boys mourning deceased grang- horseshoe called the Polo grounds af,d watched their National league | representatives trouhce their guests from Washington. Many of these people had not been in the Giant stadium in years; many others who had been loyal to the now vaSi- 6uished Yankees, probably never had seen the Giants play at all. Yet here they were, a seething sea of 50,000 fans, taking the team to their hearts In a pandentonium of violent partisanship,
 Among the Fans
 Tn the excitement of a home run, which incidentally was driven neatly over an MIRA sign on the right field fence, a district republi- can leader was pounded on the back by a babbling spectator bee hind him. who turned out, to be an official of Tammany Hall .... An elderly broker with Q gardenla in his lapel shared his score card with 2 .warthy young me nsisabor sSls,.,, T, sxpostulssac psh ssast' Pink snir. Kar a0rswS in
 friendly way. "Dese guys cans Down in the field boxes, be- fore which wandered photo- graphers in quest of celebri- ties, a starched youngster of sn,artly turned out mother.
 "You're lousy!" screamed the
 child in the direction of a Washington pitcher. His
 mother shushed him. "But
 mother" protested the boy. "he IS lousy"
 Farther along, in a box behind the New York dugout. sat the son of man who once had been the idol of the game, and who had led | this same team to championships. | The young man, pale, crippled | from an airplane accident, but still able to grin cheerfully. was christy Mathsws9n. Jr.
 Letting the World Know The press stand, exclusively male, contained the largest mum.
 Der of writers ever sent to report q world series. Two Of them were 900 typewriters recorded the hap
 penings of great events in the sports world, and scores of tele- graph operators flashed them to
 remote corners of the continent.
 From their crowded, hanging bRl-
 cony just below. photographers trained long -lensed cameras on
 each bit of action In the field
 A veteran attendant at such spectacles was One-eyed Connolly, once a hard -boiled vagabond, who
 now goes about complaining of
 failing health. One-eye is still an able -crasher, though, and
 seems to regret the ease with
 which he gains admittance past
 the toughest of gatemcn. In the
 old days, he had to disguise him.
 self as a hot dog salesman, or a
 carpenter; or he'd snatch some ice
 from a passing wagon and dash in
 with the cake on his shoulder.
 Lately, though. he has just been
 walking in, and suspects the tick Iet-takers of q rather unsportsnafi-
 like tolerahce in the matter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

A woman governor for Connecticut is possibility according to Governor Wilbur l.. Cross. He made such statement re- gently in the course of remarks at a demo- cratic rally in Fairfield. Discussing the wo- man governor His Excelleney remarked on the excellency of the appointment of Fannie Dixon Wech to the position of collector of the port. Then he said There may even be woman Governor of the state of Con- necticut some time" We don't doubt but what in the future there may be women candidates for state offices. That's not so
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
Vie1Us 0f The Press

undoubtedly place these mountains in the same general category with tourists as the White Mountains or the Adlrondacks.
 Much the same sort of contro.. yersy tore the inhabitants Of Mount Desert in twain a few years ago. The highway was built. and today motor cars mount the hills which for centuries had been the rewards youchsafed to climbers only. Tn that case, the number of the people to. benefit from attract ing automobile tourists was larger. and they were closer to the pro- posed road, and the project was less costly. Yet feeling ran ex.. ceedlngiy high. and many still hold that Mount Desert lost more than 1t gained by the change. whatever happens in Vermont. the sentiment of the two camps is not likely to be changed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
4 Book c Day by BRUCE CATION
It's Artistic, But
 That's About All

"The Mere Living" by 3. Berg son spiro, is one of those novelg that excite the highbrows .to spastns of praise but that make pretty dull reading for the ulti-
 IL may be, as sundry critics have said, that 1t Is Q fne artistic achievement. wouldn't know about that. can only report that 1t just isn't very interesting.
 In this book we meet four mem bers of an ordinary middle-class English famiiy--father, mother, son and daughter. We follow them through one day, watching their actions, reading their thoughts and seeing life, by turns, through Tour pairs of eyes.
 The father is e rather ineffec- tuai business man, lord in his own castle but something of dub In the marts of trade. The mother yearninE over her children and suffering from the first bangs of an incurable disease, is a pathetic figure, never quite taking tngible form hut towering over the story like Q ghost. The two children are more clearly drawn.
 The boy Is q dreamy adolescent intensely aware of life, not vol sure of himself, ecstatic and some what clumsy, eagerly savorlnG every minute of his day. The girl Is more sure of herself--or thinks she is; we follow her to her boy friends apartment. where sht starts to have an adventure and then backs out, and then we listen in while she argues with her sus. picious father about 1t.
 Finally, having told us all ol this, the book simply onds. And while 1t Is a sincere and thought. full attempt to give us q "slice oi Iife," I doubt If many readers VIII find 1t as absorbing as 1t might be- stokes Is offering 1t for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
By WILLIS THORTON Democrat Washington Core.
 (orreauOndent

washington-Your capital. sud denly thrust into the position of being for almost the first time the real capital of the United States, Is q little groggy.
 This correspondent, who knew the city on the Potomac in the gaudy days of Warren Gamaliel Harding, might be pardoned for being @ little confused by @ sud. den return today. Washingtonians themselves are slightly foggy. So much so, In fact, that one of the local papers published Q map the other day showing the location of | various new government activities.
 The paper Just printed the map 50 that native Washington ians wouldn't get lost, at least until they got Inside the bureaus they were looking for.
 Give These q Look
 Try this on your mental plano These initials stood out on the map. If you don't know what they stand for, you aren't keeping abreast of the new economic gov ernment that Is rising atop the old political structure, Here they are Go! eco, PWA, REC, EZRA, NRA, HoLc, FcoT. FTcA, IVA, AAA.
 Did you score 50 per cent? All right, go to the foot of the class! The answers, in order: Civilian Conservation corps, Public Works Administration, econ structio'i Finance Corpo ation, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, DnaauAeu a at ra inn Home owners Loan Corporation, Fel eral Coordinator of Transports ton, Federal Farm Credit Adminis- tration, Tennessee Valley Authority and Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration.
 Pop Up like Mushrooms.
 These new agencies are spring ing up like mushrooms. So fast, in fact, that when Major Robert M Littiejohn was appointed to the job of spending more than $76,- O00,00 for food and clothing, the job hadn't even been given name
 Major Littlejohn, posing. for the inevitable barrage of nashngn' photos, sat just trihe sheepishly at his desk, ready to begin work on 6 $75,000,000 job that nobody even had had time to name.
 Borah Dodges Tumuit.
 One of the missing standbys thii summer is Senator Bcrah. Foi years he has stayed in tn ecapital even when congress wasn't In ses' sion, holding general court TOT newspa permen every day.
 But this summer he apparently realized that newspapermen were all so hot on the trail of the elusive MIRA that he'd get little attention So he's pulled up stakes for Idaho and won't be back until late fall. | Borah hasn't been well, anyway and feels he needs a rest. Here's Chance For a Hat. | The AAA, concerned with sur uluses in terms of millions, also IS concerned with small surpluses. In the lobby of the new Agriculture building stands a large box marked 'The Open Chest" Employes. pass ling by, are urged to deposit sur pius clothing. which later is dis tributed to the needy of Washing ton. There were four or i've hats in it when your corresponden' peeked.
 Roller skates Return.
 Roiler-skating. always popular
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

Comique, and occasionally one Of the cast of "Werther," Merry Wives of Windsor" La Boheme" and "Le Poussin," was dumb in more ways than geological, that he lacked musical ear and pitch, and was known to below "in q. crude way" during tender pas sages between tenor and soprano. Moreover, he had to be kicked or pushed upon the stage, and lack ed that ineffable something called stage presence with which Su- zette was so richly endowed.
 So acrimonious, In fact, has the donkey.calf controversy become that Opera subscribers are urging the suppression of the Opera Comique entirely, while the latter sees no good reason for continu- ance of the Opera.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

The spot where the late Warren G. Hard- ing made his only address away from the good old front porch in Marion. Ohio. may shortly be enriched by erection of suit able memorial. The spot is in Wilson's Cor ncr, Madison county Ohio. A great native boulder will be set in place and bronze tablet placed on it. The rally was held on October 2. 1920, and the memorial may be dedicated on October 2 of 1854.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
Daily Washington Letter They've Got Those Puzzling Initial Letter Blues Over in Nations Capital
on the wide, smooth asphalt streets

on the wide, smooth asphalt streets of Washington, Is back {. compet- ing with the new bicycle craze If there is anything harder to see than @ colored man in blue suit roller-skating on the black asphalt pavement, ask capital motorist what 1t is. .. Police at the new public buildings are run ragged by parkers They all say they're on official business" walled one. Even the ones who are hunting for jobs. '' .... But they have to be careful. It might be General Johnson. .. Washington is taking It's baseball pennant in It's stride ... Little excitement .... nothing like the dancing in the street days" of 1924. Bigger things to get excited about now.
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