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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Crime Control End

Few Americans are apt to quarrel with Attorney General Cummings plea that broad powers be given the federal gov ernment to move against gangsters, kid napers, racketeers and other criminals. The offensive against organized crime, somehow or other, has taken on new life in recent months. A nation that looked on it's crime record with more or less complacency for a long time seems at last to be determined to do something about it.
 The program suggested by MT Cum nings probably will meet sympathetic reception. But it is worth remembering that such program, in itself, isn't nearly enough. We need to broaden our powers to catch criminals, surely; but we need also - and we need it very badly - to do something effective about the problem of handling them after we have caught them.
 The best crime detection service in the world can be no stronger, in the last anal ysis, than the criminal court into which it feeds it's product. And it would take a : very great optimist to say that our crim- inal courts today are anywhere nearly as effective as they ought to be.
 The American crimina1 court is cursed by many things; by archaic rules of pro- : CcuuTe, WHICH give IHe CTlIillIldl dll IHe breaks; by politically minded judges, who , periodically must run for reelection; by jury system which too frequently keeps off the panel any man who is aware even moderately of what is going on in the world about him; by vast horde of un- scrupulous attorneys who will stop at nothing to get their clients off, and whose only question, when case is offered them, is, "How much is there in it?'
 If we had the best federal and munich pal police systems on earth, we still would come up against this criminal court bar rier. We still would find smart lawyers interposing delay after delay between ar- rest and trial, until the case against the criminal collapsed of it's own weight. We still would find judges granting coptinu- ance after continuance to defendants who "had an in."
 We still would find the machinery of paroles and suspended sentences being perverted by politicians against the public z good. We still would find juries being fixed, witnesses being tempered with, and legal technicalities being used to block the course of justice Before we can make real headway in our war on crime, we must overhaul our criminal court system and the overhauling must be pretty drastic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

Congress starts breaking away from the administrations econofny measures by which the regular budget was balanced, that budget will soon be unbalanced. And then bang goes government credit, at a time when sound public credit is more nec- essary than it has been since the war.
 There are now two government bud- gets, regular and emergency. The latter is necessarily operating on borrowed money, to carry on relief work until pri- vate enterprise takes up the unemploy- ment. At least one of those budgets has to be balanced and the regular budget is the only one that can be. With it out of balance again, the vast public financing necessary in the next four months can be accomplished, if at all, only by ruinously high interest rates or by selling the bonds below par and knocking down all our gov ernmental bonds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Planning For Security

"The pioneer knew he had to make certain things happen in order to have a secure home and community" says Dr Goodwin B. Watson, psychologist. ''To- day the citizen feels impotent and futile as an individual. Social science has re- vealed trends and we resign ourselves to the straws on the surface"
 Making clearing in forest, building log cabin, planting grain digging well, spinning, weaving, and so on look simple and easy to us at this distance. At least, they made very definite and clear-cut program for pioneers to carry out. To- day a lot of us do not see the job ahead so clearly. The pioneer could get along with little money, but he had to put plen- ty of intelligence, energy, physical strength and moral courage into his work. Today we seem more dependent upon money and forget that the other require ments are the same as ever.
 It is still necessary to have plan and a sense of direction. The plan may re- quire more cooperation with fellowmen than did the pioneers. It may call for more enlightened leadership. But cer- tainly we need not feel baffled and re- signed to drifting just because our prob lem has changed along with other social changes since the pioneers day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Know Your Waterbury Its History, Facts and General Information
HISTORY

The "Bury" road was the name kgiven to a picturesque road half a mile above Waterville on the Hancock brook, to the Plymouth line" This was little below the house of Silas Hoadley who lived
 at Greystone. It was considered by
 many to be a better way of reach ing Plymouth Hill and Bristol. It kept the name of "Bury" hill as
 long as 1t was in existence. The time of the agitations about this
 road was in 1S40. History states
 that freshet carried the Hancock brook road away so that it be- came impossible.
 Many turnpikes at and near Wa
 terbury have not been included in the few paragraphs written con- cerning this phase of our local his- tory. Turnpikes and highways
 would fill a volume in themselves.
 It is recorded that Waterbury did not suffer greatly from it's exclu- sion from situation on the im-
 portant New Haven -Litchfield
 road. The place grew and in an
 1916 report are listed among the
 professions aud businesses here,
 four attorneys, four physicians and
 surgeons, three inn keepers, three traders, four grist mills, seven saw
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
RELATIVE EMERGENCY
Hartford Times)

In having to appropriate $48.000 for the removal of the present snowfall from the city's streets, the aldermen again illustrate the wisdom of placing the budgets contingency fund at more than s1O0,0O0. The cost of snow re- moval is very irregular and for that reason no provision is made in the street departments funds for this item. Experience has shown that this expenditure can best be handled through extra appropriations, if. as and when
 Although the new budget con- tains a contingency fund of more than S1OO,O00,1 1t may prove none too large. Certainly the current budget out of which the persent snow removal is being financed did moi begin to be adequate with its mere 34.250 contingency fund, While it is true that the amount Of snow is unpredictabIe and cost of removal Is classed as an emer- gency item in the budget. 1t is this only Tn relative sense. It is almost safe to assume that the cost wflI>be, on an average. above, rather below, the $40.000 mark Wise budget planning should take ! this into account in setting aside funds for this more or less blind item.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
Sweet 16, And She Liked To Be Kissed

' A smooth and migrating romance
 that unintentionally skids into a
 telephone pole in the final chap
 ters-that's Coningsby Dawson's
 now novel, '"rhe Moon Through
 Glass"
 It tells about a London girl,
 daughter of a clergyman, who de-
 velops a weakness for being kissed.
 That, of course, is common hu-
 man frailty; what complicates mat ters is the fact that her parents go on holiday in Belgium just as
 the war breaks out, get tangled up with the German invasion, and vanish from the face of the earth. This leaves sweet sixteen alone in, London = 6 London full of ro-
 mantle notions and romantic-Iook- ing young officers---and she has no mother to guide her. And that frailty of hers grows by what 1t feeds on. So, as you can imagine, things begin to happen to her. She winds up by marrying Sir
 Peter Sterry. a young nobleman who is serving with the Canadians. He goes to France and she dis covers that he previously had mar ried a Canadian nurse. Then he is reported killed in action, and the nurse stands right where an airplane bomb lands, so sweet sixteen's path is, cleared. She becomes musical comedy star, by some process never quite made clear, survives the war, and marries an idealistic young novel,
 ist. And then who pops up but Sir Peter!
 At this point the story performs the aforementioned skid, and everybody involved acts with such a complete lack of common sense that it all gets rather trying. Outside of that, however, it's a rather pleasant little story. Published by Knopf, 1t sells for $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Silver Hoards

The government now may get after the silver hoarders. It takes enough interest in them to send investigators to New York, to check up on speculative hold ings." Secretary Morgenthau says his department is interested in anybody who holds speculative silver"
 This interest obviously applies to bull lion or bulk silver. There are probably few people holding large quantities of sil- yer dollars. Many, though, have slowed away few of the "cartwheels' as hard money substitutes for the gold coins they had to surrender, which will always be worth their intrinsic value, no matter what happens to paper currency.
 It doesn't seem likely that the govern ment will bother these coin-holders. It is coining half the new metal turned in, and holding the other half. Apparently there are plenty of silver dollars to SUD- ply the present demand for them. But commercial of bulk silver is another mat ter. The government naturally doesn't like the speculation in it for profit, with the possibility of some group cornering the supply. It may want to coin more si!- yer some day, or issue certificates against treasury silver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
So They Say

The health of the people of this country, today, by the mortality statistics, is far better than at any time in the history of the United States.
 pr. Benjamin Goldberg, tubercu-
 losis expert.
 There's not been a successful marriage in Hollywood. Ramon Novarro, movie actor.
 
 The slaughtering of little pigs and the paying of government sub- sides to men who will fail to raise crops is against human his- tory and! illogical. Norman Thomas, Socialist leader
 Red causes a nervous reaction, and when a bridge player gets too many red cards 1t arouses the fighting spirit. --Dr. Lee G. Miller, optometrist, in
 a speech at Lincoln, Neb.
 The intelligent young woman of today does not conform to a cer- tain moral code because she thinks tradition or public opinion de- mands. Her conduct is regulated chiefly by what she considers good taste.
 Miss Harriet M. Allyn, academic
 dean, Mt. Holyoke College.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
CHEAP POLITICS
(Roston Transcriptl

(Boston Transcript
 It remains to be explained what of party advantage the 27 repub- lican senators who voted for full restoration of federal pay after July 1 saw in that action. They constituted all but one of the sem ators voting. Couzens of Michigan alone voting with the democratic majority. consequently their ges- ture bears more of a partisan tingc than looks healthy. Certainly they found themselves in Doubtful com pany, for the 13 democrats who broke away from the administra- ton are not of the type to whom the country is accustomed to look for safe leadership. It is said of the bolting democrats that they had to oppose the administration because of pledges made In their election campaigns. This may also have been true of some of the re- |publicans. but the solidarity of the republican vote suggests more ol partisanshtp than of statesman ship. It potentially would place the republican party in the posi- ton of failing to meet the Presi- dent at point where it could have been useful in saving the economy program. The admins. tration had proposed 5 per cent restoration as of February f another of s per cent July 1, and the authority to the President to restore the full IS per cent after Jilv 1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

cs.. 2. Of what rase were the A. The Gcrmanic race, first heard of on the southern shores of the Baltic.
 e. What is the political status A. It is a federal territory. Q. What period was called the Reign of Terror2v A. The period of the French Revolution from May N93 to Au- gust 1794 during which Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and thousands of the aristocrats of France were sac-
 rificed on the guillotine. e. What is the theory of the Divine Right of Kings? A. That the King is appointed
 by God, and is responsible to God
 alone.
 0. What is the highest order of
 knighthood in Great Britain? A. The Order of the Garter. Q. What are the. Romance Languages?
 A. They descended indirectly
 from the classical Latin, and di-
 rectly from tho "Lingua Romano Rustica," or popular Latin, mixed
 with foreign clements. The existing Romance languages are Italian, Spanish, French. Portuguese,
 Phaeto- Ronlanic and Roumanian. o. What is the Appian Way? A. It was originally a paved
 road, begun by Appius C1audius Carcus (312 B. C.) extending $50
 miles southeast from Rome to Brundusium (Brindisi.) It was IA to IS feet wide. and still exists. 0. What is the derivation of the word politics? A. From the Grek word Polls
 meaning city.
 Q. What Is alruism? A. A branch of ethics which deals with service for others. Q. Define animisrn, polytheism and theism.
 A. Animisn is the worship of
 spirits. both good and evil; Poly theism Is the belief in many gods;
 Theism is belief In God. c. Where is Sherwood Forest,
 the traditional retreat of Robin
 A. In Nottinghamshire. Eng
 land, extending from Nottingham
 northward to Worksop, over 20
 miles long and from 5 to 3 miles
 wide. c. Was John Adams the sec
 ond or sixth President of the Uni- ted States?
 A. John Adams was the second President and his son, John Quincy Adams was the sixth president. e. Iskthere enough area in the
 State oftTexas to accommodate the
 entire nupuiaticn of the worIdY A. Texas has 7,412.755.046.4 AGO square feet. which would allow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

Washington, March 2.-The executive personnel of the treas ury department divides itself in- to two distinct groups. There are Morgenthau men, and pre- Morgenthau men. In most cases the difference between them is the difference between the New Deal and the old.
 The story of Henry Morgen- thau's treasury house-cleaning is one of the most revealing of the Roosevelt administration. He found his department a bulwark of the moneyed powers. 'The unwritten rule of the Harding to-Hoover regimes was None, talks. Every treasury official listened.
 This idea continued under MT , Woodin. His appointees, most of them politicos, swore al Ieeiance to the Mellon-Mills creed. Morgenthau therefore bucked not only the old-line re- publicans, but the old-line demo- crats as well.
 MORGENTHAU MEN
 As his chief lieutenant in this drive. young Henry brought in HERMAN OLIPHANT, former dean of law at Johns Hopkins. Felix Frankfurter of the Har- ward law school, who has dic- tated a score of Roosevelts legal appointments, kicked like q wounded bull when Oliphant got the job. But Herman mas peen as liberal as Felix himseH.
 Nominally Oliphant is legai adviser" to Morgenthau. Actual, ly he is 'undersecretray. by ana large he is an excellent one Occasionally he gets little panic-stricken about the threats of Wall street revolt against government bonds. Sometimes he is not as hard-boiled about the Securities act as progressive senators would like him to be. But for the most part he IS a hard hitting, sure-shot right arm to Young Henry.
 HERBERT E. GASTON, left arm of Young Henry, was just as unpopular as his chief when flrst he took office. On him fell part of the onus of Morgenthaus press censorship. He was press liaison officer. He was stereo- typed and technical. He made mista kes, and with them enemies. LEARNS THE ROPES
 But gradually Gaston has learned the ropes and whipped himself into an efficient cog in the treasury machine. Actual ly he is more than a press offi- cer. He is Morgenthau's co1l- fidential secretary and policy adviser.
 An old Bull Mooser and La FoIletet man, Gaston spent sev- erai years as editor Of Non- Partisan League publications. As such he belabOrcd one y. F. T. O'ConnOr, q Tory and bitter foe of the league.
 "Jefty," appointed comptrol- Ter of the currency through the influence of Senator McAdoo, finds his ex-enemy, Gaston, sit ting very close to the secretary of the treasury.
 WILLIAM IT. McREYNOLDs is Young Henr%s administrative assistant. Let out of the Effi- ciency Bureau by Herbert D. Brown chiefly because he was far abler than his chief, McRey- holds came to Morgenthau's aid when grappling with the Farm Credit Administration. He per- formed so brilliantly that Mor-~ genthau took him tofhe treasury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

Last summer Otto Kahn, senior part ner in Kuhn, Loeb & Go, told the Senate Investigating committee that he deplored stock market gambling. Artificial activ- ities of any kind" were denounced by the banker; so were any activities (which interfere with the natural flow of prices" including both 'bull pools and bear pools" That was last summer. This winter the Senate committee brings out testimony showing that a sizable pool was organized the pool profit of little less than $400,000. And this pool, it develops, was in operation at just about the time that Mir Kahn publicly was deploring pool operations. So, as the boys down at the corner cigar store would say-what?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Little IS Per Cent

z The idea behind the Senate's efforts to restore in full last years IS per cent pay cuts for all government employees seems to be somewhat like this: That the amount involved, mere couple of hundred mil lions, is nothing compared with the bil- ployes earn and need the money.
 These arguments have force. But there is another argument more forceful. If
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Selected Poerr,
BEGINNINGS

(By Doris Evans Bard) This is a song of incipient things: Of birds with the nearest sugges- ton of wings. Of leaves that are little and golden
 and tight. And dusk that Is only the shadow
 of night Dusk that is happy with just one
 star Before night tells where the others are. This is a song of the scimitai moon-- Brief is the singing--the end
 comes soon: For everything magical and young Waxes great while the words are
 sung. Perhaps it's because these things
 do grow Cherish their sweet beginnings so
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

3,706 and a fraction square feet for
 each of the 2,00O,0 900, ,000 estimated
 population of the world. Q. Name the author of the play Justice" A. John Galsworthy. o. Did Tom Mix use the same
 horse in all of his stunt riding? A. He had five horses, all called Irony" which he used for different kinds of stunt riding. The original Tony" purchased by Mix twenty four years ago for $12.50. was re- tired about a year ago following hip injury.
 Q-Describes the action of an ob- ject dropped into a hole dug clear
 through the earth. Ali a hole could be dug clear through the earth, an object drop- ped into it from the surface would fall with increasing speed until 1t reached the center; rise to the op- posite surface with decreasing
 speed; fall again, and continue this action indefinitely: except for the
 fact that the earth's rotation would tend to throw it against one side
 of the shaft, and this friction
 would cause 1t to rise a less dis tance each time, until 1t finally
 came to rest permanently at the
 exact center of the earth. Q-Was the Count of Monte Christo a real or a fictitious charac- i ter?
 A-Fictitious.
 If you want a copy of our bul-
 letin ''New Deal' Government Or-
 ganizatfOns write to the DemOcrat's Washington Bureau, enclosing five
 cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
BRASS CITY FACTS

The Bristol company was organ ized in 1889 with W. H., B. H., and F. B. Bristol as partners, beginning with manufacture of steam gauges and steel belt lacing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

The Lux Clock company was started by Paul Lux in 1914 in a small shop on East Farms street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
DAILY WASHINGTON
 MERRY-GO-.ROUND
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN

Treasury Is Divided Into Morgenthaw Men and Pre- Morgenthau Men; Secretary Bucks Up Against Big Money" Tradition in Department; MGny HeGds Mag FdH Soon the HOuse-CIeaning Now in PrOgress OIiphant and Gasto Serue As the Chief Lieuenonts Nev Drue
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

In 1893, the Scovill House was the leading hotel in Waterbury. It was destroyed by fire February g., 1902.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

mills, two carding machines and one clock maker, four button makers, a bell founder, 8 woolen factory and a flax mill, three tan ners and shoe makers, two cloth iers, tailor, a saddler, a natter and "a cooper. eight blacksmiths, and ten carpenters and joiners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

Berlin Wright Tinker became superintendent of schools here in 1897.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Questions And Answers The Democrats Washington Information Bureau
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

The clock on the Green was the idea of the late Charles A. Colley, who was president of the Chamber of Commerce at the time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

Strange, how the rumors of coming war can be felt in far-off places and in the most peaceful of pursuits! Steamship traffic through the Panama canal is heavy, these days - and the imminence of war is largely responsible. During the first three weeks of February, for in- stance, 12 steamers passed through the canal bound for Europe with Chilean ni- trates - nitrates, from which high explo- sives are made. Rusty steamers, deeply laden, busy on the most peaceful of er- rands . but grinly foreshadowing the fear of war which grips the world!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

Senator Borah is renewing the efforts which he has been making for the last eleven years to get through Congress a law which would prohibit any member of Congress from accepting employment as an attorney for anyone engaged either in litigation against the government or in interstate commerce to which the regula- tive powers of Congress might. extend. About the only thing that is surprising about this bill is the fact that it wasn't passed long ago. The man in the street will find it pretty hard to think of any respectable arguments against it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
Slight Change
 A Urac aci0iIa Iitt1

Slight Change
 A gracious little anecdote re- called at the Actors Dinner club the other night: Minnie Maddern Fiske once found in her dressing room 8 note which read: "Mar- garet Anglin says Mrs Fiske Is the best actress in the world" Mrs F'iske added a couple of commas and sent the note back to Miss Anglin, who read it thus: Mar garet AngJin, says Mrs Eiske, is the best actress in the world"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02

The most interesting thing about the Factor kidnapping trial in Chicago is the fact that two gangsters, alleged to have been members of the mob which was ac- cused of Kidnapping Factor, turned states evidence and testified against their former pals. Here we have something relatively new in gangster trials; and if we take 1t as an omen, it is an uncommonly encour- aging one. The great obstacle in the way of prosecution of gangsters has been the fact that members of the underworld won't talk. In the past, gangsters always have been able to force observance of their code - no sequealing - on one another.
The Washington times., 1934-10-24
ST RATIO FL|ERS
GIVEN MEDALS

The Distinguished Flying Gross
has been awarded, the War De-
partment announced today, to
Major William E. Kepner and
Capt. Albert w. Stevens, both of
the Army Air Corps.
The distinction was conferred
on the two officers in connec-
ton with the National Geographic
Society-Army Air Corps strato-
sphere balloon flight which took
off from the vicinity of Rapid
City, South Dakota, July %, last,
and landed near LOOMS, Neb.,
the same day.
Major Kepner was pilot and
commander and Captain Stevens
was scientific observer. The bal
loon reached an altitude of 60,613
feet.
Major Kepner was appointed to
the Army from Kokomo, Ind,
and Captain Stevens from Grimes
Pass, Idaho,