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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
Press Comment
A sHELLTIsH RETURNS
(Hartford courant,

Inland residents of Connecticut may have paid slight attention to recent news items to the effect that men are taking scallops from along the beaches between Old Lyme and New London. None the less, the story would qualify as news even under the exacting rule laid down by Charles A. Dana. Scallops, we surmise. have been rarities for sixty odd years so far as Connecti- cut Is concerned.
 When Grant was serving his final term as president, children would ask their elders who lived on the shore the purpose of the rusty rakes stored away in the shed. They were told that they had their uses when scallops were found; they were then told that no scallops had been seen in years. Recently fishcr- men have recognized the bivalves but lacked the gear with which to gather them. This must have been annoying. inasmuch as the demand is good and prices higher than the elders ever dreamed of.
 MT Webster describes the scallop as a ''pectinoid bivalve having . subcircular shell with an undulat- ing edge" but he omits to say that the contents of the shell forms q most desirable morsel when prop erly cooked. No one eats the pee tinoid bivalve on the halfsheli and one wonders what if anything would happen to the person who might try 1t.
 Whty did the scallop leave the north shore of the Sound before gathering them for the market had become recognized industry. For that matter. what impeIled them e reERkn2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
No Endorsement Given

Although it has been claimed that the w. c. T. U. of Connecticut was endorsing the candidacy of Hugh M. Alcorn for gov ernor there was no such statement of facts issuing from the 18th annual convention of this organization just concluded in New London. MT Alcorn, it is true, has been given approval by a local branch of the w. c. T. U., that in Watertown. Perhaps he may have received even more promises of aid than those made public, but ostens- ibly the g.o.p. gubernatorial candidate is committed to state control of liquor and some changes in the present law, what nobody seems to know
 In view of the unswerving stand that the w. c. T. U. took at its convention for prohibition and not moderation we hardly see how either of the candidates of the major parties can be given the vote of sisted, and with considerable vehemence, that he will enforce the liquor law. It's the same one he called iniquitous. Un- fortunately as governor MT Alcorn would actually have no more to say about it's enforcement than has Governor Cross. That is up to the State Liquor Control Commission, composed of three outstand- ing members of the republican and demo- cratic parties.
 MT Alcorn might have been charitable enough in his campaign remarks to pay compliment to Governor Cross for refus- ing steadfastly to call special legislative sessions to change the liquor law even when threatened with all sorts of dire happenings on November 6, 1884. There has been little attention paid by republi- can orators to this adamant stand of the governors, which, while it may have embittered temporarily interested parties, on the whole earned him more praise than criticism.
 Now that Governor Cross is preparing fo state just how far the democratic party is prepared to go in working for correc- tions in the present liquor statute we're willing to wager there will be cessation in republican insistence on liquor as an issue. It was the same with the New Deal. It looked like good strategy to at- fack it. It wasn't. Milk and liquor came next. They didn't mix. We predicted that. What's next? The w; C. T. U. failed to provide ammunition. Somebody must or Eht 1.o.p. campaign faces collapse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

increasing the expected Roose- welt vote confidence in Novem- Der.
 He Is holding. up postmaster ship until elections are over.
 Three votes, reasons Jim, are better than one. As long as d long list of candidates hope for {, appointment they will support the democratic ticket. Afterward they may not.
 EMBARRASSED
 Although he would not admit it for publication, scholarly Chairman Lloyd Garrison, of the National Labor Relations board, 2 was very startled and embar- rassed young man the other, day. Attorney-General Homer Cum mings' announcement that ..the Department of Justice would take no immediate court action against the Houde Engineering company of Buffalo placed Gar rison in a dual predicament:
 1. His board, after lengthy and careful deliberati0n, had found the auto-parts manufac. turing concern violating Section "a. On the strength of its decision of the MIRA had , "jerkcd' the company's Blue /. Eagle. But Cummings statc- rnent, in effect, refuses to fol- , low the boards final recOmlnen- dation. 2
 2. Garrison, after several private conferences with justice , department attorneys, had told reporters that action would be taken in the. form of q civil suit. From Cunlilings' announcement it was. obvious that Garrison either had been too optimistic, or had not seen the right par- ties.
 The nub of this extraordinary controversy between two great branches of the government lies in divergtng interpretations of the famous Section "a.
 In it's Houde decision the NLRB held that mere negotiat- ing by an employer with his unionized workers did not mean full compliance with the law.
 It laid down the dictium that the employer must not merely be willing to meet his employees, but, within a reasonable time.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
A. Book a Day
Mans Lone Struggle
 Is Depressing Tale
BY BRUCE CAPTION

A book of disturbing power is the "Death and Birth of David Markand," chronicle that scars ward at times, then with startling suddenness plummets to to the gutter.
 On type of reader will find in Waldo Franks latest book a work superior to his "City Block" An other type will be repelled by 1t, coming to the end weary and de- pressed. M
 An indefinable urge draws David Markand- from his berth in New York as finance expert for a great corporation, while his business star is in the ascendancy, away from his home, his wife. and his chfl- dren.
 Aimlessly wandering. searching for the peace that forever -eludes him, he is bartender, stockyards worker, freight hustler, assistant editor of a farm guild newspaper. and bum.
 Across the pages travels a con- stant procession of women, drawn to him by some strange force. his for a moment, then gone out of his life forever, Q morbid horde. from surfeited rich women to the dregs of society.
 Through the book runs a power full current of thought and revela- ton bearing on the workers stug- gle, a startlingly clear picture of the ''class war;
 The aim of the book Is tersely' told in it's dedication. ito the American worker, who will under stand"
 Published by Scribners, 'The Death and Birth of David Mark ana sells for s2.75.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
Berlin Letter
By PAUL KEcsKEMETI
United Press Stan Correspondent,


 Berlin-(UP-The most impor- tant feature of economic planning in Germany is state initiative in combating unemployment.
 Due to this initiative, the num- Der of unemployed dropped from 6,O01, 1000 in February, 1883, to 2,482,0O0 in June, 1884. Sinlul- taneously, the number of workers insured against sickness rose from Il, 1,500,000 to 15,600,000. Thus, tho number of laborers in employmen rose even to a greater extent than the number of jobless was re- duced. This was due to the fact that many jobless not receiving doles, and therefore not appearing in official statistics, secured em- ployment besides those who had been on the dole.
 Not Real Re-Employment A substantial part of the newly secured jobs, however, did not constitute genuine" re-employ- ment. Many of the rc-employed were employed on public road building schemes at wages which did not substantially surpass the usual dole. According to official statistics, about A per cent of industrial workers worked more than AS hours per week. while 40 per cent | worked from 40 to AS hours and 16 per cent less than 40 hours. The cost of living in Germany is high. The wholesale price index in June was 97.2 per cent of pre- war prices-by far the highest of all industrial nations, if prices are reckoned on the gold basis. Ger many, of course, did not depreci- ate her currency; hence, her do- | mestic prices are 30 to 40 per cent higher than those of Britain or the United States reckoned in gold. This margin between Ger | man and world market prices is largely held responsible for Ger many's export difficulties.
 Living Index High
 The cost of living index is 121.5 per cent as compared to pre-war ! times. This constitutes a rather substantial increase over last year, as the index in April 1883, was only 116.6.
 The rise in the cast of living was largely due to the increase in the prices of farm products. These were, in June, 14.5 per cent higher than in April last year. With the probability of a poor crop and ex- traordinary difficulties in the way of food imports, city dwellers are faced with a further rise in prices and scarcity of food next winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

Washington, Oct 1S.-It can- net be said that democratic cam paign strategists are not fast or the comeback.
 Last. week Republican Chair press conference at which he ex- pressed the solemn opinion that the democratic regime is buy ing'' the election through relief and recovery expenditures.
 ''The president" he said, fought to do something about it..
 Three hours later Jimmy Byrnes, South Carolina's astute chairman of the senate's canl- paign fund Investigating commit tee, announced that agents were being sent into Pennsylvania and Delaware - two republican strongholds-to inquire into re- ports of huge secret republican siush funds.
 Or, in other words-check and double check.
 To the republican outcry of democratic campaign poodle, the democrats reply with a senate probe into alleged republican misconduct.
 IRONY
 There is an inside ironic angle to the investigation in Pennsyl- vania.
 Last spring, during and after the republican senatorial pri- mary, Governor Pinchot not only charged his successful oppon- ent, David Aiken Reed, with ex- cessive campaign expenditures, but secretly besought the aid of the president and senate pro- gressive leaders for a congress sional inquiry.
 Pinchot's sensational accusa- tions played a iarge role in the authorization of the probing body.
 To-day, Pinchot is on the side of the fence to be investigated. Reversing lifelong political enmity with Reed, he is warmly backing him against Joseph F. Guffey, democratic candidate.
 In politics, as in the barn. yard, chickens have habit of coming home to roost.
 ATTENTION! RAILROADS
 Chairman Jesse Jones was expounding on his favorite cur rent topic, the importance of ex- tending the life of the REC when it expires next January.
 "A big holler would go up all over the country if that isn't done," he observed solemnly.
 "Wc;l, what is there left for the REC to do?" he was asked.
 "The biggest thing we can do now" Jesse said, lis to straight en out the real estate and real estate mortgage business.
 'What about the railroads?'
 "Huh," Jesse sniffed. "We' already have thcm."
 THREE IN ONE
 Jim Farley has worked out kneat and secret little plan for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
So They Say

Subjectively Americans may think they are reconstructing society but objectvely the present basis of society is being preserved.
 Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader. We're substituting brains for names.
 Ben Hecht, author, making his own film. I think that the doctrine of self-suficiency implants within any nation that adopts it the seeds of revolution and aggression.
 James P. Warburg, New York financier. The day that we get the American people to sit down at the table and take their beer "ge- muetlich. the better it will be for our industry. Mayor La Guardia of New York, talking to brewers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

It is quite interesting to note that the announcement of last week that EZRA teaching jobs would be available soon has not evoked the enthusiasm expected among the eligible persons in Waterbury. As we recall it year ago when such po- sitions were first made available, they were all filled very quickly. To date 5s applications have been received, which is not considered large number. Does this mean that most of the teachers in Water bury, who were chafing at idleness, have secured posts?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

must either accept or reject their demands.
 Cummings docs not see it that way.
 His present view is that an employer by negotiating with his labor is complying with the law, and any attempt to prosecute him for not going further is to risk a serious defeat for the government.
 Organized labor, which ac. claimed the NLRB's HOude de. cision as its greatest victory since the enactment of the MIRA, privately pr0fesses to. see n deeper significance in Cummings position than the legalistic issue he raises.
 The big point of the Houde de- cision was the NLRB's ruling :, that an employer must recognize the representatives of the ma jority union in his establishment as the spokesman for all his workers.
 In the opinion of the unionitcs it was this far-reaching inter- pretation of Section "a, and not the question of negotiating, that was being struck at by Cum mings' blow. ~
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Long, lean Blackwell Smith is the "baby" member of the new National Industrial Recov- cry Board now ruling the, Blue Eagle roost. Twenty-eight years old, Smith was brought. to the legal division of the MIRA, in its early days, by Donald Richberg. When Richberg left to become ecoonmic adviser to the presi- dent, Smith succeeded him as bu- reau head Stocky-built Leon Henderson, economist member of the board, has long record as a non-conformist. As a teach- CT of economies at Carnegie Tech he .flabbergasted the mill lionaire patrons of that institu- tion by taking his class to a lec-' : ture by the late socialist labor leader, Eugene V. Debs -. :. Short, dapper, spat-wcaring Arr thur D. Whiteside, who came to the board from the presidency of Dun & Bradstreet, is known forty" Last year, while serving { as an MIRA deputy administrator he repeatedly objected to fixing minimum wages above 40 cents an hour. with a. minimum work week under 40 hours Tousle-haired witty Walton Hale Hamilton, Yale's contribution, to the board, teaches constitutional lawAat the university, but is not a , lawyer. Known as "Hammy" to , his friends and students, he is a veteran liberal, a close friend of Supreme Court Justice Brandeis E. Born in Lithuania, then a part of Russia, alert, quick thinking Sidney Hillman, presi- dent of the Amalgamated Gar ment Workers, and the one la borite on the board, had to snug gle himself out of his native country at the age of Is. He had taken part in the 1905 reyolu- ton against the czar ., .l. Big, bulky s. Clay Williams, top ex- ecutive of the great Reynolds Tobacco Co, who is chairman of the board, is personal friend of the president, drops in to see him at the White House without ap- pointment =. Fifty-five years old, heavy-set Leon c. Marshall, professor of law at Johns Hop kins university, is the patriarch of the board. A member of the old National Labor Board, union labor took deep offense at him on the charge that he advised steel workers to accept a com pany union and ''save the board a headache"
 (Copyright, 1884, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate. Ine.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
Selected Poem
ON OPENING A HISTORY

Gle Garde s. Doughty in The New York Tmes) Whose weary fingers closed the volume here?N They snared a moth between these saber-cold Accounts of strife and struck a silver smear Across a chapters title: Blood and Gold" God knows am much like the ilver moth Scurrying through the leaves of destiny. Some certain day the ponderous binding cloth, Moved by the Mighty Hand. will close on me. oh, write a page beyond the somb'rous span Of these besodden lines of leaden prose; and let me reach the chapter: "God and Man.; And. if it must, then let tho volume close.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

Superintendent of Parks Irving Harri- son gave quite description of the build- ing of the clubhouse at the municipal golf course to members of the Park Board and other city officials who made tour of the city's recreational facilities Monday. It was something with which the general public is not familiar and to our way of thinking ought to be made known to more people than may have chanced to read about the city tour. It is a composite structure. It claims it's floor beams from the old Lewis home on Prospect street; stone step from the old Post Office is part of the fireplace; the old Quassapaug ice house furnished considerable timber. It is in all most romantic structure to judge by this. We'd like to have Superin- tendent Harrison commemorate this fact in some appropriate form. At least we'd have placed in the clubhouse in tablet or printed form the facts of the building, so that all who patronize may truly marvel at the ingenuity and economy used in erecting it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
(Copyright, 1884, by United Tea-
 ture Syndicate, Inc.)
ROADS AND FARMERS
(New Britain Herald)

Hugh M. Aicorn was telling farm- CTS that 1t is time to get relief from real estate taxation. The idea of course is to push the taxes onto somebody else. '
 What kind of taxation provided the fine roads in the. farming re- gions?
 The farmers have received somc good from these reads. bat they were not built 'frcm the procceds of taxes on farm real estate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

Another word or two for the Needle work Guild won't be amiss. Its campaign for membership is now open. All should join who are approached. Membership is two pieces of children's wearing apparel or the equivalent in cash. Not much, is it? The benefits are quite evident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
Horosc::o.p
By ocTAyINE

For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the planets, this daily horoscope Is out lined by q noted astrol0ger. In ad- dition to information of general in- tcrests, 1t outlines information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
Daily Washington Merry Go Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROE
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

industries. By far the most vals ,hia and most abundant resouIcSS ;s coal. From 1880 to 1880 Pennsyl- ,,o nia nroduced two-thirds or Ine .nn,,aI tonnage of coal mined III tha limited States while the propor- fion in 1929 was 39.3 per cent or the total output.
 o-Is the saxaphone classed as 2 wind instrument?
 A-Yes.
 o-Giye the full name of Jus flee Brandeis of the United states supreme court.
 A--Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
 O-How many slaves were en" gagged in building the huge pyr- amid of Cheops?
 A-Archeologist estimate that more than 10000 slaves were en- gagged in the building. They base their calculation upon the weight of the blocks, and the fact that man-power was the only power available to lift them. The total weight of the material iu the Pyr- amid of Ceops is nearly 7'ooo,ooo tons. Q-What is the latest work of Hamlin Garland? Ally Friendly Contempora- ries," published in 1882.
 If you want n copy of our bulle- tin The HUMAN BODY, write to the Waterbury Democrats Wash- ington Bureau, enclosing five cents i'm postage stamps.
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We'll, we'll! They're buying and selling stocks again at Wall and Broad streets, New York. Maybe the end of the capi- talistic world isn't due yet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
They Missed a Chance

The republican party of New York state missed a golden opportunity the other day. Some vandal toppled stone bust of Alexander Hamilton from it's pedestal atop the Palisades, the exact spot where the first Secretary of the Treasury (Should we say the best Secretary of the : Treasury, MT Mellon?) was nlortally wounded in his famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1894. Investigation later showed the remains of the bust lodged half way down the cliff.
 Now what chance the republicans had to claim this was the work of an embit- tered democrat. But softly, dear friends. That would have been the fatal error for which just such democratic newspaper as the Waterbury Democrat brides itself on being would be looking. Good old Alexander Hamilton had plenty to his credit. But sad to relate his was not the brains that were behind the republican party of today.
 That myth on which republicans leaned for so many years of national supremacy has been exploded long before this. True the noise of the explosion has not reached every republican ear, but that may be due in part to a temporary case of deafness. We'll borrow a few expressions from historically friend on Hamilton's political activities. "He was no more republican than William the Conqueror. He was Federalist and rabid one."
 He was fixed in the public mind as a g.o.p figurehead shortly after the Civil War when it came to republican leaders that use of some such name as Hamilton's would enhance the glory of the party. Little did they realize how the fruit of their imagination would flourish and thrive And Thomas Jefferson, the demo- cratic founder, was getting just bit toe much historical notice. A rival was needed. Hamilton fitted the part. He survived the acid test of time.
 Surveys in ancient archives of recent years proved a bit embarrassing. The British Foreign Office, for example, re- vealed that Hamilton, while serving in Washington's Cabinet, was reporting the happenings of secret sessions to the Brit ish minister That's serious accusation for it means simply treason. Yet the facts sustain the charge. Perhaps Washington, had he or Jefferson known of Hamilton's perfidy, anticipated Aaron Burr's shoot ing party atop the Palisades. Mo-, the republicans missed no chance to glorify their party hero in the recent vandalism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18
COMMON ERRORS

Never say. "The book is laying on the table,; say lying
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

Q-What is protocol
 A. preliminary draft or sketch of a treaty, law, or other official document.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

Q-What percentage of the whole wheat is the bran, middling, white flour?
 A---Approximately 72 per cent of the wheat goes into flour; 13 ner cent bran and 15 per cent mid dlings.
 Q-What is the worlds seaplane speed recofd?
 A-423,822 mile per hour.
 Q-When was the law enacted in congress to restrict immigra- tion from European countries?
 A--The present restricted im- migration from European and oth : CT foreign countries became eff fective Tn 1924 when congress pass ed the present law called The Immigration Act of 1924"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

<. Q-Give the date of the shooting of Alfred (Jake) Lingle. Was any, one ever convicted of the crime?
 A-He was shot June g, 1880. Leo ", Brothers, 8 St Louis gang ster, received sentence of IA years for this crime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-18

Q-What is the nationality and meaning of the name UbaIdo? What is its English equivalent?
 Alt is an Italian name derived from the Teutonic and means mind prince" The EnglishN is Ubald or Hughbold.