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Montana labor news., 1933-04-20

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana labor news., 1933-04-20

The American standard OF
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10

In fact we're inclined to believe that he is right in bis assertion. However, it must be admitted that even our government has always recognized Koscuiszko as of Polish rather than Lithuanian nationality.
 Tn view of the fact that this year is to mark the l50th anniversary of his natural ization as an American citizen it seems to be some little consequence that his nation ality be establishedsfpr once and for all. We have never seen any. proof advanced that be was a. Pole other tlian the accepted fact that he was one In fact. he seems to be recognized among the Polish people of the United States as one of them. Perhaps that is ex- plained by reference to Father Kripss letter in recent edition of the Democrat in which it could be learned that Kosciuszko lived much of his life before coming to America in Polish territory. in facs, served in the Polish army.
 In glorifying Kosciuszko we think that he should be raised on high by all three nation- alities concerned with him = Americans. Lithuanians, and Poles. Glancing at the reference books we learn that Kosciuszko was born in l746 in the province of Minsk. west Russia He was descended from noble and very old Lithuanian family. That should be enough to convince anybody that Kos ciuszko- was Lithuanian by birth, but ap- parently Polish by adoption, or better still profession, since his career was military. one. It is perhaps unfortunate that hrs birth is overlooked while the deeds of valor he performed redounded to the glory of an other country than that to which he be- longed by birth. x it
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
Our Daily Washington Letter
Old Timers Will Run the Show
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

since in the organization of the senate the democrats give theni- selves majorities on each com- mittee. Some important new dem- ocratic figures have just entered the senate, such as William G. McAdoo of California and Ben- nett Champ Clark of Missouri. But no matter how brilliant and ex- perienced. they might be, men who have been here for years will get all the chairmanships.
 McAdOO used to be secretary of the treasury, but he will be noth- ing more than the lowest man on the list of the banking and cur- rency or appropriations committees if he happens to land on one of them. There is much chance for individualism in the senate-wit- ness Huey Long-but the demo- cratic majority will be so strong that the leaders are expected to exert more control than the sen- ate has experienced for some time Senator Robinson of Arkansas becomes majority leader instead of minority leader and Senator Harrison. will become chairman of the finance committee because he ranks the job. Carter Glass has been the big shot on the banking and icurrency committee, but Fletcher of Florida outranks him there and so will become chair. man, while Glass will become head of appropriations, where he ranks highest. Pittman of Nevada comes in line for the foreign relations chairmanship because Senator Swanson of Virginia has been taken into the cabinet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
Calm Your Fears

People need not be concerned about the {. safety of the nation with the national pro hbition bureau shifting its attention from speakeasies to the source of this form of law-breaking. There will still be minor raids conducted by local and state authori- ties on breakers of the dry laws. If just to keep up the morale of the law enforce ment bureaus this will be done. But even if there weren't raids, we don't think that speakeasies and clubs will enjoy any too much patronage in the months to come. In the first place there is right now reaction against them.
 At this present moment we are putting aside prohibition and its accompanying mis- cries. We are concentrating on financial matters When they have been cleared away, we will return where we left off on the pro- hibiton question. But it is obvious to most of us that the day of prohibition in the United States is done. Ratification of the repeal of the 9th amendment is very clear ly indicated. States are already beginning to consider what plan of liquor control they will adopt In tfR excitement attendant upon all this discussion there isn't much thought given to the speakeasy. As result it becomes less of menace in our midst.
 The end of the speak-easy or the so-called social club could almost be accomplished by means now at our command. Withou; patronage or attention how many of them could exist9 It is only when lot of noise is made about them that they really begin to enjoy sufficient patronage to exist. With draw the glamor and much of the appetite for the drinks they dispense will also vanish. Of course, by that we don't mean to insin- uate that the United States is becoming temperate over night. Quite the opposite We'H always Be, a nation of drinkers. Social and racial customs have inbred that habit into .us
 But when a man is denied sweet it be- comes twice as sweet as 1t actually IS. If liquor is made available in unrestricted quan- titles it is apt to cloy the appetite. In time the demand lessens. We think that this principle can be followed out once liquor IS legalized just as it can now prove effective in making speakeases as harmless as soft drink emporiums. By no means counte- nance law breaking. But by all means hasten the return of sane conditions where there actually will be some control of liquor manufactures and sales
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
A Book a Day $ .-.-is- .a. ''e~r Is
 by BRUCE CATION
Fighting For A Gold Mine

Mark l.. Requa, famous as a
 mining engineer and a co-worker of Herbert Hoover's, has turned novelist. His first venture Is ''Grubstake," story of mining days in time Nevada, and it is a fast-moving, exciting and emil nently readable yarn. MT Requa takes us to the boom town of Sulphide in the '70s of | the last century. One Shorty, veteran prospector, chases wan dering mule of a barren canyon and stumbles on fabulously rich gold vein-a bonanza big enough | to make him millionaire many | times over.
 | The fun begins when Shorty gets back to town with his sam- ples for assay. The assayer turns l out to be 8 crook. He reports to r Shorty that the ore will run only a few dollars to the ton, hardly | enough to make the vein worth | working; but to Bill Patrick, hard eyed saloon keeper, he reveals its true worth, and he and Patrick l scheme to get 1t away from Shorty l before he finds out what a prize he has got.
 1 The rest of the story tells how | Shorty, and the two youngsters l who grubstaked him foil this plot,
 and the book winds up with a gun battle as thrilling as the one
 which climaxes Wister's "Virgin- ian"
 Aside from the melodrama, the
 book is interesting because of the l picture it gives of the old-time l mining town and mining folk.
 The picture is well drawn and
 authentic. If you like westerns"
 you'll enjoy "Grubstake."
 Published by Scribners, the book sells for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
A REAL NEED
(Hartford Times)

Connecticut has a real need for the new institution for the care of the feeble-minded which was urged before the legislative com- mittee on humane institutions yes- terday.
 It is true the state has not the means to proceed with new con- struction at the present time and will have to limit such expendi- lures strictly until the business skies are much brighter than they are.
 The institutions at Mansfield are filled to capacity and there are applications for the admission of 800 children who require custodial, care. The lack of an adequate place to send such cases also has a serious affect upon other institu- tions, notably Long Lane Farm for Girls at Middletown, the Connec- ticut State Farm at Mantle and the state Reformatory at Cheshire.
 All of these institutions contain numerous offenders whose crim- inal acts are more due to a lack of mental capacity than to willful intent. For the lack of proper place to commit such offenders they are sent to institutions whose purposes are reformatory. Their cases do not lend themselves to the treatments and methods in vogue at these places. with the re- suit that they simply serve the periods for which they are com mitted and are then turned back upon society. in many cases to repeat the of1enses which get them into trouble. Not only is 1t impos- sible to work reform in such cases but their presence in institutions hampers the work for inmates who may be benefited.
 There is a genuine need for an institution to which boys and girls who need custodia1' care may be sent and where they may receive special treatment which their cases require. It will be unfortunate If economic conditions prevent early steps to provide for it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
Here, There And Everywhere

the question whether the accused judge has been guilty of the Thigh crimes and misdemeanors" which the constitution fixes as ground for impeachment. @F
 With so many vital problems de- manding the best thought that con- gross can give them, an impeach- ment trial would be a national misfortune. The Impeachment process, it is true, is rarely in- voked. The Senate is recorded as having sat as court of impeach- ment only 10 times, but one case may fairly be eliminated since the impeached judge resigned before the trial could get under way.
 Of the nine impeachment trials to which the list reduces, the first, that of William Blount of Tennes- see, was brief. He had plotted in 1797 to attack Spanish Florida and Louisiana, in company with Indian1i and with the aid of the British fleet. The case was dismissed f0t lack of Jurisdiction, the senate, having already expelled Blount.b Most of the other eight impeachs mentrials dragged on for months some for more than a year. While this did not mean that the senate was exclusively occupied with therA from the day of the first proceed- ings, it meant that the senate was at least heavily burdened by them. In the case of an effort-more serious than Congressman McFad- dens' recent attempt to impeach MT Hoover-to impeach the president or a justice of the supreme court the senate is the only appropri- ate scene for the solemn proceed ings. Yet for judges of the in- ferior federal courts, who have caused six impeachment trials, some trial body other than the senate might profitably have been established.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
Time For Banking Reform

We have the bankers on the run! goats speaker, addressing an intelligent audience of men and women eager, as peo- pie are everywhere, to know more about finance. And the audience applauds. This unholy glee at the plight of distressed pro- fession is not fair. But it shows how peo- plecfeel about the banks and@recognizes that the profession just now is on the defensive. Out of the unfortunate situation should come constructive action for the benefit of both bankers and public. 4.
 It is a time for plain talk American bank ing with its many thousands of failures during the last three years, is a scandal. The blame cannot be laid entirely to the bankers. Legislators also are to blame, because the laws regulating banking in this country are a scandal
 Why should the United States have abou, 5000 times as many bank failures as Can ada or England? Because we don't run them so carefully, don't make such wise and strict requiremnts for them, don't insist on the degree of training and fitness that they demand, take more chances than they take in our banking practicesi We are all to blame. And now, what are we going to do about 1t! This looks like good time to clean up the whole mess. straighten out the whole sys- them. provide better machinery and safe- guards for the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
(NEA Service Writer)

Washington.-The new congress will be full of new faces, some of them shielding heavy brain power and others failing to indicate the vacuum that lies behind them, but the old-timers will be running the show. While the happy new arrivals are getting into their offices and waiting for the reporters to come and be told what will be done for their congressional districts now that the people have at last put their friends in, office, the old democrats-nearly all southerners whose home f olks have been sending them here year after year, will be deciding what com mittee jobs to give them and how to use their votes during the com- ing session.
 ruler in both the senate and the l house. Some of the men who l will be making the wheels go around played rather important l roles when the democrats were in l power during the administrations of Woodrow Wilson. I
 The house leadership wouldn't be changing at all if Speaker Jack l Garner hadn't been prevailed upon l to accept his party's vice presi- dential nomination last summer. | The only man in a major position | there who lost out in the election was Chairman William Collier of the ways and means committee, who became involved in Missis- sippi's redistricting deal.
 But Henry T. Rainey of Illinois won the speakership, moving up from the next highest step on the house ladder, the party floor leadership. That meant that va- rious other men would each move up a peg. The way voters in the various congressional districts can get their representatives into the most powerful positions is to keep on electing them over long periods of years. Raineys con stituents first sent him to Wash ington in 1902, and the fact that Rainey was the one northern democrat who had been favored to anything like such an extent resulted in his.advancement.
 He happened to be a good man l LOO, put leHSCA Olt ScINACO "oo A.As chief talking point for the speak ership this year just as service plus geography and the desire to avoid an <all-southern cast, made him floor leader two years ago He had been more or less obscure during the years of republican Eascendency, though one of the leaders in his own party contin- pent The fact that he had been regarded as radical didn't count against him.
 Joe Byrns of Tennessee has served consecutively since 1909. Thus he became chairman of the powerful appropriations commit tee and one of the chief house democrats in the last congress. Now he gets to be majority lead CT, succeeding Rainey, while other democrats not heretofore so conspicuous move into bigger chairmanships.
 In the senate, which hasn't been democratinc for years until just now, the minority leadership simply becomes the majority lead ership and the presiding officer, Garner, is a democrat instead of a republican.
 
 Ranking minority members of committees become chairmen,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10

We hope that the judiciary committee will look with more favor on bill intro duced by Representative Peck of Bristol con corning changes in the election laws than it did on the many bills concerning voting ma chimes, most of which were rejected he Peek bill seeks to remove the names of pres idential electors from all machines and bal-' lots. In place of them would be substituted the last name of the candidate for president and vice president. That might not be legal but it certainly is space saving. Our ma chimes and ballots are so crowded now many people haven't any idea for whom they are voting. Why add eight names when one would serve the same purpose?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
Scanning The Breach

Nothing is being overlooked by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. the members of his Cabinet. and his confidential advisers in our bank crisis. In extending the national hol- iday indefinitely the president acts for the best interests of all concerned. In having Congress detail to him extraordinary powers he simply indicates that war has been de- clared not on people, but on depression. As virtual dictator over all banks. President Roosevelt occupies position that no other president ever did. That the situation is acute and fraught with tremendous possibil- ities of grave danger is evident in the speed with which Congress enacted the emergency bank measure.
 Never has Congress moved with such decision and less wrangling on a matte- of national importance. Never has there been such leadership as that displayed by both parties in con- curing to give the president the power that he sought of them. It speaks well of the future of the 73rd Congress It has got off to a good start. Its special session should not be extended at the rate at which it disposed of the first emergency measure yes- terday. And special sessions are primarily intended to take care of emergency legisla- ton and not the routine measures that might accumulate between sessions. We trust that until a proper banking reform has been -ac- complished Congress will hew to the line.
 We don't expect President Roosevelt to bring about reform in our banking system by the diotatorial powers granted him this rTL,e ,.,;u p,,t Lo can control the situation as it should be- Nothing will be left to chance. If banks < opSn for business in the next few days they will be banks of impeachable standing and of sound financial backing. If the govern n1ent issues currency, it won't be imitation. but merely seizing opportunities now avail- able under terms of the Federal Reserve Act. If hoarders are held up to the pitiess light of publicity it will be merely because they constitute menace to the financial welfare of the nation.
 The outlook is certainly encouraging despite the small endorsements that ma jority of us experience by having no medium of exchange in our business transactions. That is condition that will sTectify itself very quickly when the more important mat ters of guarantees of safety and soundness of our banks are established. It's best to regard the whole situation philosophically. It could be worse though that may not seem possible to some people. We don't know what day normal conditions will appear, but we do know that when that day comes s eYeryone will be SO much better off than he os she is today. That's something to an- ticipate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
So They Say

The United States can for a specific purpose and limited time associate itself with other powers, but when that purpose has been served, the United States must in- evitably return to its former im- partiality.-Walter E. Edge. retir- ing U. s. ambassador to France.
 
 Let us not ask for a return of our former false prosperity, but for a return of integrity and honor and responsibility and duty among us. Bishop William T. Manning of New York.
 Here we had this giant industrial era. rushing through the country to land like tiger in a ditch. But what is there in fiction to show for it?--Theodore Dreiser, author. No administration can do for us what we don't do for ourselves.--- pr Virgil Jordan, president of the National Industrial Conference Board.
 The credit structure of the U. s. Is a disgraceful failure, our entire banking system does credit to 6 collection of imbeciles. = Senator William G. McAdoo of California.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10
Shame the Hoarders

If there is one thing that should result from the bank holiday, it is bringing into full publicity those citizens who had so little confidence in the future of the nation that they sapped the strength from our banks by heavy withdrawals of currency and by pur- chase of large quantities of gold for storage purposes alone. A great variety of ways and means of bringing to light these hoarders has been suggested. Almost any one of them would succeed in holding up to publicity the names of the ones guilty of hoarding. It has actually come to the point where hoard- ing is regarded as sin and almost a crime. Hence we speak of the guilt attached to it.
 In the old days the man who hoarded his gold or his silver or his currency was looked at askance by his neighbors. He was talked about behind his back. Miser was a familiar appellation for him. However. the nation today is filled with people of similar ik. And they are people of considerable wealth too. If they weren't. they wouldn't have been able to secure the large quantities of gold specie that they have of recent years. Inasmueh as most of this has to be secured through federal reserve banks the names of tRlC PuISlldoSAo dIe hHoWu OI dlG tdolly OU- tainable. It is this information which federal officials believe will result in the return of large supplies of golds to the banks.
 TConditions are bad enough in the nation without adding to them We certainly trust that Uncle Sam will bring to prompt ac- counting those individuals who are trying to sell him short. Our banking system may not be of the best. Of course it is open to correction. but it is the best we have at pres ent and we must make the best of it until the necessary remedies are applied. However, there is no excuse for anybody carrying dis trust to the point where institutions. upon which depend to great extent the conduct of our daily business, are Haunted Put some confidence in them by normal banking ac- tivities. depositing and withdrawing as us- nal not becoming panic stricken and taking all our money from safe keeping.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10

The democrats in tbe House of Repressn- tatives of the state Legislature are going to ostracize any members of their party who engage in deals on county commissioner ships, This was voted at caucus held We'd nesday afternoon and virtually means that the offenders will be read out of the party. At the same time the caucus went on record as backing the democratic candidates nom- mated at county caucuses this week. A resolution adopted declared that the repre- sentatives believe the choice of such com missioners belongs rightfully to us and to the democratic senators and that any deal whereby other democrats might be presented with such offices against our express decision would tend utterly to demoralize our organ ization. -" That's common-sense at- titude. X
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10

The newly-appointed state liquor control board will hold its first meeting next week
 with separate sessions in Hartford and Bridgeport. At the latter meeting State Senator Frank Bergin and Dean Edgar 5. Furniss of the Yale Graduate school will hold forth. The remaining five commis- sioners will be present at the Hartford gathering. It is expected that the commis- sion will not be obliged to hold more than these two sessions. The public can attend to submit proposals for control of liquor manufacture and sale in this state. However there will be no controversial discussion ot the merits of prohibition or its repeal. The purpose of the meetings is solely to find out facts and not sentiments. Inasmueh as the commission must report back to the Legs- lature by April l4, it has it's work cut out