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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1883
Just a Bit Too Late

When the State Bar Association holds it's annual meeting in April recommendations will be made that the governor of the state be. given the power of nominating minor court judges. In addition the district court plan will be endorsed. just as 1t has been for some time by the lawyers of the state. Two years ago when the first bill inaugu- rating the district court plan in Connecticut was proposed to the Legislature it had the backing of the State Bar Association, the judicial council, and other organizations with leanings towards the law However, such support hasn't evidently carried much weight with our legislators, for the district court bill seems to be doomed for this ses- sion.
 If the district court plan was established in Connecticut there would be no need of giving the governor the power to name minor court judges They would be abol- ished under the terms of the bill. But the measure should include, of course, the pro- vision. that district court judges be named by the governor and approved by the Leg islature. as are the judges of our higher courts today. Chief Justice William M. Maltbie of the Supreme Court of Errors re- gently assaled in vigorous language the 'traficking" in minor courts in Connecticut.
 Certainly conditions in our minor courts are no different today than they were two years ago when the district court plan was first preached. If members of the State Bar Assn, as well as local and county bar groups, are serious in their intention of sup porting the movement they will move on the Legislature and reg ister distinct dlSap- proval with the present method dlsposlng of minor court judgeships by reported deals or by other means familiar to our legls- lators Had there been statewide response to previous endorsements of the district court bill perhaps it would not have been sidetracked in the 1893 Legislature as cas- fly as it was.
 While the State Bar Assn. and the ju- dicial council are no doubt sincere in their announced sponsorship of the district court scheme and the need of ending "traflcking in judgeships there seems to be too many in- dyidual members whose ambitions are directly tied up with court appointments to permit action. While we are glad to see men with legal training engaged in the business of establishing the statutes of the state we don't quite reconcile the opposite positions they too often take. The disagreement over the district court plan exemplifies this per- fectly. And "traffcking' in court jobs won't end until members of the bar are of one mind on 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02

Speaking to members of the New York Advertising Club this week Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida declared that the constant criticism of members of Con- gress, so widespread today, is going to have bad effect on public confidence in our national law making body. Of course sen ators and representatives have come in for more than their fair share of pointed re- marks and funny stories of late days. but some of it, we are forced to admit. was de- served. If the antics of our legislators pro- yoke both hiarity and anger why not con- sider both sides to the situation. We'll call moratorium on criticism if Congress will do the same on stalling and playing politics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
The House of Governors

Much is expected of the conference to be held the week of March 6, by President elect Roosevelt and the governors of the states. What used to be called rather hope gully the House of Governors has never realized its full possibilities. and has lost interest and prestige in recent years. Now it may be revived and strengthened to serve a great need. The fruits of such gathering may be all the finer because of its lack of formal authority. Members of rival parties, acting voluntarily, can often work together better than they might do under legal con- Strant.
 Those governors will know the country situation and state of mind better than Con- gress does, The new President can learn from them much of value. They can likewise learn from him. Together they can adopt broad policies or at least come to basic un- derstandings, which will enable the federal and state governments to do better team work than they have done thus far in fight ing the depression. There should be special value just now in this national group of executives threshing out together their cor related problems of prohibition repeal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
fNEA Service Writcr)


 Washington.-Unemployment re- lief will continue on the same basis, which everyone seems to agree is inadequate.
 Starvation and malnutrition may be inevitable and there's differ ence of opinion as to just how frightful conditions have been and are at the moment. But the dis agreement on the extent to which the additional $300,00O,000 In k, r. C. loans made available to states in the Wagner bill passed by the senate will alleviate distress has a definite bearing on the pos abilities of unrest and disturb ances in the country during the coming year.
 Relief needs have been pyra- mided by diminution of public and private funds and exhaustion of the resources of the unemployed.
 For months there had been out cries at a congress fritterinS away time while failing to con- sider the case of distressed mill lions, but when the time finally came and the senate was willing to spend a few hours on the La- Toilette Costigan and Wagner un- employment relief bills nearly all the newspapermen and nearly all the local interest were centered on the house, which was acting OH prohibition repeal.
 That's why the country heard little of the grim, dramatic fight that Senator LaFollette and Sena- tor Costigan made for their pro- posal for direct relief apropria- ton of $500,000,000.
 LaFollette, beginning the battle with speech characterized by sharp staccato, had trouble obtaining even order in the senate, let alone republicans and a dozen demo- crats on the floor. Democratic Leader Joe Robinson and Senator Pat Harrison had to have a little chat. The irritating Huey Long was slouching around the floor. The vice presidential gavel kept cracking for order.
 MT president" snapped the young Wisconsin senator, "I ask that senators not interested in the misery of the millions in the United States retire to the cloak rooms to carry on their conversa- tions." (Soon Vice Presi- dent Curtis was asking buzzing senators to retire, but the buzz ing went on until he had to de- mand order a third time.) |. MT president, I hope that the in- terruptions of this nature will re- main in the record, so that mill lions of people now ground down to the level of pauperS may under-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
Here, There And EDery1uhere

without the other. Yet it is actual ly in the base name of "turismo" that "El Sor' perpetrates the crime:
 Though our Castilian palates
 demand that our national dishes,
 Biscayan codfsh, squids. churros
 and other gastronomic delicacics,
 should literally swim in olive oil
 that churros, to mention these
 alone, should even be prepared
 in bad olive oil in order to be
 really good-the fact remains
 that this tastiness is not to the
 taste of the foreigner.
 let "turismo" flourish! It is like order that the tourists access to Switzerland may be made more easy. Granted at once that the olive oil puts a heavy strain on the un- accustomed palate, that Is only to say that Spain can be dour mis- tress who demands something of her, admirers. Churros-almost un- pronounceable, doughnutlike fried cakes, very light and crisp and un- sweetened are, as matter of fact, anything but inedible when fished hot from a street-corner ket- tie on 8 chilly Spanish night: while the olive oil in all the other dishes can be mastered with a little pa tience. Far better make the effort than wait until provincial Spain has been transformed into one long succession of bad limitations of French cookery-at which time, of course, one would better stay in France anyway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
A Timely Warning

Governor Wilbur L. Cross issued timely warning the other evening in the course of an address when he called attention to the fact that if Connecticut turns her back on the 1 9th amendment she should not cater to the evident desires of politicians. Governor Cross datribe was directed at those individuals who are. endeavoring to control the county commissionerships under the impression that with prohibition re- pealed these county officials will control, as they did before prohibition. the issuance of licenses for liquor sales and manufacture. Evidently the governor is in agreement in part or whole with certain remarks that Senator Frank Bergin made in the Senate last week in the course of his attack upon Thomas J. Spellacy.
 Majority Leader Bergn referred to an apparent effort to link the county commls- sionerships with future liquor-control pol icy in Connecticut. Governor Cross says / There is great deal of talk about deals
 in police. town and borough courts. But that isn't what the politicians are expecting wholly. They are looking forward to repeal and for the proper division of county com missioners . The one who was to re- ceive the license depended on the county commissioner. You can see what that meant. Licenses were sold and what beautiful racket you have there-county commission CTS and municipal town and borough courts in the hands of politicians of either one par ty or the other.
 By no means consider Governor Cross remarks as against prohibition repeal. He believes that even if the 18th amendment isn't repealed now prohibition will be dead letter" in many sections, like New York. New Jersey and Connecticut where wet sentiment is so pronounced and disre- gard for the dry laws so openly practiced. But he wants the control of liquor in this state or in any state voting for return of it vested in the proper authorities and not in the hands of public office manipulators. He's right in this respect. And for that reason Connecticut should pay some attention to the report of the states fact ct-hnding commission that will be named shortly. Our future pol icy with regards to state control of liquor sales transportation, and manufacture may be guided by it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02

appropriation of two and one-half millions for such an enterprise is unlikely. The home is not needed now and Connecticut can do with out it for years to come. if not forever.
 There is a strong feeling that such an institution, if built at all should be built by the federal gov-' ernment. There is certainly small excuse, in times like the present, for scrapping the Fitch home at Noroton ( which was a gift to the state) in order to spend millions in duplicating form of veteran aid which Is properly within the sphere of the federal government.
 The only chance of getting the appropriation, as we see it, is to induce the legislature to issue bonds for it, and the commission has one good argument in the fact that the building of such a structure at this time would probably be much cheaper than at any time within the past decade and would provide much needed work to boot.
 However even this argument be- comes insignificant in the fact of the fact that there are many other public improvements, much more vitally needed, which are either be- ing curtailed or indefinitely post poned because of conditions. To provide two and one-half millions for the Rocky Hill White Eele- phant. while stopping work on public highways as a measure of economy, would be a policy too fantastically inconsistent to con- tempiafa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
The Islands
 Adventure In

Life or Death in LuZon,' by Samuel E. Kane, carries one back to the days when America glowed with delight at the thought of building an overseas empire and taking up the white mans burden the days when we had never a doubt that it was a duty and privilege to confer the blessings of civilization on brown islanders on the far side of the globe.
 MT Kane went to the Philippines shortly after the battle of Manila Bay as sergeant in a volunteer regi- menft. Led by 8 snappy young major named Peyton c. March, who seems to have been Q stick1er for discipline, his battalion chased Aguinaldo over hill and dale, fight ing, sweating, cursing and dying in the best Kipling tradition.
 Finally things quieted down, and MT Kane got paid off. With two buddies he went to the interior to look for gold. There wasn't any. and the buddies left. MT Kane found that he liked the LuZon mountains; also, he found that he liked the savage, warlike head hunters, and that they liked him.
 He settled there and became 8 rancher and sort of father-con- lessor to the little brown brother. Later he became government supervisor, and eventually he was made a provincial governor.
 All of this meant lots of adven- ture. MT Kane managed to keep his head from being detached by the head hunters, studied their tribal ways with a sympathetic eye, helped establish schools and good roads and, in the end, looked back with fond regret at the gay days before civilization came.
 Life or Death in Luzon" makes good reading. Published by Bobbs- Merrill, it is for sale at $35O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
To.day's Selected Poem,
EMIGRANTS DEPARTURE.

co. J. M. TURNER, in the New York Times) The island coast was aptIy yelled in mist His going day the friendly hills In line Came in and out behind the amethyst From hidden sun; the some gray wine Spilled in the bessel of the seekers brain, Which pierced the mists and saw the cottage
 home
 Among those hills where creaked his fathers
 vain,
 Making its evening way across the loam. Once o'er that first and friendless night at set. The morning brcke sea -dawns break so fair, And then he rose and watched the mountainy Cold waters combn2 out tAeir spumy hair. Seeing the sun coming dripping from the brim, The Houng man felt the gray wine tipsy him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02

All sorts of proposals are being brought forward today to lift this country out of the doldrums. They involve hundred and one different ideas. We have had suggested var ious methods of affecting economies in government all probably good if they could be initiated, More and higher taxes seem to be the favorite resort of those who don like to think too deeply about the problems of local, state or federal government. It has been the contention of the Waterbury Democrat of recent years that taxes had reached their high water mark and should start downward henceforth Few com munties have been able to indulge them selves in this procedure. Economy in gov
 ernment can be achieved in dozen differ ent ways if our officials can shut their eyes and close their ears to the cries of the party machine workers. Political ramfica- cations may be broken in bringing about governmental economy, but it's worth the price. One little suggestion for Connectl- cut we culled from recent news item from Indiana, There won't be single munich pal election in that state this year, all off cials who might come up for reelection hold Ing over for another year. This is going to result in a $300.000 saving. Could the idea be initiated in other states, like Connee- ticut, where there are town elections annu- ally and city elections biennially?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
So They Say

The decadence of it's navy is a sign of a decadence of a nation. Rear Admiral William A. Moi
 fett, chief or the navy bureau of
 aeronautics.
 The day of the alibi of the tired business man seems to be in it's twilight. For generations he has kept our national intellectual status at low average. His alibi-no time for cultural aspects of life-is about to be snatched from him. Miss Fannie Hurst, writer.
 The French think we are welch- CTS, and are guilty of trickery and fraud, through the Hoover mora torium.
 -Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons, his-
 torian and economist. on return
 from abroad.
 When a poisonous snake bites you, don't obey the natural impulse and jerk away. Wait until he can be persuaded to let go. Robert Knowles, expert on rep-
 tiles.
 Something will come along to give us new impetus, some develop ment that's unseen. Charles M. Schwab. industrial
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.


 Recently I became deaf suddenly Went to doctor. He removed some accumulations of hardened wax. Hearing perfect now. Is there anything | can do to prevent recurrence of this trouble? (M. l.. S.)
 Answer-Best way is to syringe ears occa- sionaIly with only lukewarm water containing teaspoonful saleratus to the pint Better ask your doctor to show you how to do this Never insert anything in ear canal, unless under phy- sicans direction.
 HydrOphOba -phObia.
 Daughter aged $ scratched on check by dogs teeth. painted 1t immediately with mercuro- chrome. Is there much danger: How can find if the dog has rabies? (Mrs R. k.)
 Answer-Best course is to have dog confined two weeks under observation of veterinary physician. If at the end of that time the vet erlnary certifies the dog is well, forget 1t. Your treatment sufficient in any circum- stance 1 think.
 Consult a EiZZican
 Is carbOnic water healthful drink? What effect has it the kidneys? c. D. Answer--Carbonated water is wholesome and refreshing for occasional use. 1 do not recommend habitual drinking of 1t. It has no other effect than that of tap water on the kid- neys.
 (Copyright. John F. Dille Co.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
Our Daily Washington Letter
No Change in Jobless Status
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
tive body in this land there is nc
 interest in their suffering and

tive body in this land there is no interest in their suffering and degradation"
 That finally had an effect.
 An old-timer recalled how Sem during the Taft administration people would take care of sena- tors indifferent to their interests and how 12 years later he had checked to find that 33 senators who had opposed him had been voted out of congress.
 |:
 But LaFollette's story-of what he called "the most appalling total of human misery in the his- tory of any country in the world' -is buried in the Congressional Record. And Costigan's, too.
 The two senators told how only 12 per cent of relief was now be- ing met by private funds-as against 30 per cent last year, of many gruesome statistics which no one challenged.
 They told how 616 mayors had said they couldn't meet the prob- lem, now SOcldI WOrkerS WalleQ III all important cities, of the increas- ing pauperization and misery un- der R. k. c. relief by bankers" of garbage pail subsistence and even of rare starvation diseases heretofore found almost only in famine areas of postwar Europe but now discovered in the United States.
 Wagner of New York said he was pragmatic. He wanted some- thing congress would pass and that MT Hoover might sign. So when defeated on their own bill, LaFollette and Costigan voted for the Wagner bill, perhaps realiz- ing that even R. F. c. relief might have been unobtainable except for their annual efforts for "ade- uuate" relief. A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
TONSILLECTOMY HAS BEEN OVERDONE
 IN ENGLAND roo.

Rich children in England are four times as l likely to be subjected to removal of tonsils as are poor children, according to a thoughtful analysis of the tonslectomy situation by Glover and Wilson in the British Medical Journal
 This is just another reason why it is lucky for kid to be poor. After all 1t is not the poor llt tie rich kid that gets all the breaks.
 These English physicians call attention to the fact that tonsillitis is at least as frequent among the poor as it is among the rich. Reading between the lines, as some of us low fife scoundrels do it would seem that the doctors over there prefer to operate when the outlook is bright for a good fec But you can't get the right view of the situation that way. You must take into consideration also the fact that rich children are pampered more than poor children are, With excess Of clothing. overloaded abodes, pap or refined food. and
 hence they more susceptible to overgrowth of adenoid tissues so that their tonsils appear more abnormal to casual inspection.
 These investigators report that the effects of tonslectomy rheumatism, chorea and heart trouble doubtful and they declare there is sufficient for the routine removal of tonsls in a rheumatic or potentially rheumatic chld simply as measure of prophylaxis against rheumatism. Qn ye ode countree the doctors still stolidly call it rheumatism, the weather and climate being what it is over there and it never to anybody to remark Indeed? And what is the nature of this rheumatism, Doctor?")
 Then the English investigators describe ob- servatons made the relative incidence of upper respiratory infections among children of moderately well-to-do people in boarding schools, some 14,000 children in their early teens, some of them still having their tonss intact, than half having had tonsils re- moved. They could see no advantage from the operation in this respect, including the ques- ton of susceptibility to diphtheria and scarle. fever, middle inflammation, and mastodi- tis Their observations confirm and support the observations of pr Ruby l.. Cunningham in re- spect to the effects of tonsillectomy in a sim liar number of college women. We told of Dr Cunninghams disting guished contribution here some time ago.
 The final opinion of Drs Glover and Wilson is that large proportion of the tonsillec- tomies now done in children are unnecessary, entail some risk, and give little or no return. 1 not sufficiently familiar with the status of medicine in England to say whether they have brass specialists over there, but they have Harley street, and if the country can tolerate d bit of hokum like that it is quite likely that the specialist evil prevails nearly as ex- tensive as it does here. At any rate 1t is no credit to English good sense or hardheadedness that more than half of fourteen thousand children in boarding schools have been sub jected to tonsillectomy. Not that removal of tonss is wrong; it is often quite necessary for the child's well being. But it is surely ab- surd to think that more than half of the we'll to-do class children require such an operation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02
OLIVE OIL.
(New York Herald-Tribune)

(New York -Tribune)
 Whatever it may imply-whether the growth of benign international ism or only the spreading blight of machine-age standardization - it seems increasingly the fashion to contemn the gastronomic gifts of ones native land. The English, odd people, have long made the dispar- agement of :heir very sound, even admirable, cuisine into an article of national faith; American au- thors, however. are now beginning to initiate them, and only the other day one was pouring out his hatred of the American tea-room salad to the extent of column or more. We'll, admittedly. the American tea-room salad is hard to defend (though Is that any reason for un- periodically attacking it?) while the English are peculiar. But when "El Sor', of Madrid, raises an inn pious hand against the olive oil of Spain-that omnipresent element which pervades the scenery, the economies and the cookery of the peninsula as the luminiferous ether pervades the universe-then. in- deed, one realizes how fragile is the world we live in.
 To the traveller, Spain and olive oil are practically synonymous; 1t would be impossible to have one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-02

With the road past the Wigwan and the Morris reservoirs under state maintenance we presume this section of Morris some day may be entirely landscaped. A rather beau
 tiful outdoor park could be created around the reservoirs Unfortunately public parks and water works don't agree. The public has the bad habit of not protecting munici- pal water supply from abuses without giv- ing a thought to the health of thousands dependent on a wholesome water supply.