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same breed. pretty much alike under the skin.
 Capitalists are prone to feel that they have most at stake in these class strug- gles. They are probably wrong about that. When an employer is "broke," he usually has thousand dollars or more tucked away somewhere, or can borrow 1t . from friend. When workman is broke, he probably hasn't a dime. The depres. sion has been harder on workers than erl. ployers. Millions of them have been en. tirely cleaned out" and millions are still unemployed. For the first time America is developing a 'proletariat"--a great class chemically out of work, without property and dependent on charity, or on the edge of dependency.
 It is we'll to remember these facts, even when violence occurs. Violence may come from desperation. It is we'll, also, for so- ciety in general to proceed as rapidly as possible with the only policy likely to ease off the industrial conflicts now threaten ing-measures offering reasonable secur- ity for men made desperate for lack of 1t.
 This means more than mere observance of such rules as are sought by the NRA. It means sympathetic attitude. It means effort to lessen the hazards of employ ment. It means willingness to arbitrate and conciliate. It means unemployment insurance and old age pensions and other enlightened modern devices which have too often been regarded us mere senti. mental "social reform" but which are now becoming essential to the preserva. tion of our social system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
From Bonus Army Go eco

Three leaders, two extreme radicals and q former marine corps sergeant, led a "bonus army" of more than 1000 mem- bers to Washington in May. The march CTS were permitted to camp at Fort Hunt, an old army post on the Mount Vernon boulevard. They were given food, sleep- ing equipment and such clothing as they needed. Then it developed that the rad ical leaders had been more interested in fomenting trouble than in working for bonus legislation. The marine sergeant and the rank and file of the men began quite sensibly to turn away from the agi- tators
 Fortunately another "army" was ready for their enlistment. Registrations were opened for Civilian Conservation Corps camps, and more than 800 of the bonus army signed up the first day. Before the headline for leaving Fort Hunt arrived, the great majority of the men were on their way to one or another of the CCC camps. The two Communist leaders had a mere handful of followers.
 An observer of the whole affair writes : "The men weren't hilarious But neither was there any evidence of bitterness or a desire to cause trouble. They were men whose initiative has been destroyed by years in breadlines or footsore marches across the country. But they were not men ready for rioting. A chance to work and chance to live where the next meal is a surety were what they wanted"
 And those things, after all, are what most of us want. It is continued and ufl- just deprivation of them which gives the advocates of violence their little appeal to small groups here and three in the coun- try.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
The Battle Still Rages

Democratic ranks in Connecticut were never SO sorely tried as they are right at
 this moment The threat of Senator Au-
 gustine Lonergan to prevent confirmation of the three federal appointees suggested
 to President Roosevelt and sent into the . Senate by him has come true. It is not personal dislike that caused the senator . to adopt such tactics. It is not, as the Hartford Times points it out to be, his de- !. sire to ally himself with any definite fac : tion in the democratic ranks that actuated him.
 If the democrats of Connecticut were really concerned with forming a united party they would readily believe that any democratic senator might act as did Sen Ator Lonergan if not given some consid- eration in the distribution of federal pat . ronage in his own state. Even if the administration did slight Senator David l. . Walsh of Massachusetts in the same fash ion we could not expect our own senator, the first one the democratic party has elected in how many years, to sit back calmly and accept the ignoble fate of be- ing ignored.
 Presumably President Roosevelt will not back water in this controversy over patronage if he accepts the advice that caused him to send in the three names that have been rejected. It is expected that he will wait until Congress adjourns ard then make three recess appointments the identical persons who have just been denied senatorial confirmation again being named. However, he must provide for one slight matter-salary. Senator fIonergan provided for just such an emer- gency as this some time back by securing passage of bill which withholds pay from all appointees who have been denied senatorial confirmation,
 Without taking sides in this conflict over the right to name ofFice-holders doesn't 1t sound logical to give the first democratic senator this state has known for half q century the right to name just one federal appointee? That's all Senator Lonergan wanted to do from the very out set. He wanted to appoint Attorney Da- vid Wilson of Hartford the district attor- ney. That's all he wants to do right now, if he's quoted correctly.
 In the interest of party harmony con sessions are certainly due from all con cerned. If the administration wants to take credit for losing this state next fall it will antagonize persons who are neither democrats or republicans, but whose vote may be counted on to swell the democratic total. If Senator Lonergan's demand for recognition were going to wreck the party we would counsel him to desist. It cer. tainly won't, hence we look to Washington to prevent further disruption of plans for continued democratic success in Connecti- cut,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
Our Chuckle
 Corner
A HIGH BAWL
By R. [. Noble

A woman enraged at high prices on liquor In n window smashed the display, showing how badly she wanted a drop.
 The -year-old stuff never saw another birthday. It leaked out and was blended with the common run.
 A cop. seeing how whiskey had come down, decided the woman too had drop too much. She had displayed her high spirits too high. ly.
 Her ride on high horse ended In fall. Couldn't make the hur- dle. on the water wagon. into the patrol.
 The judge gave her a fine corre- spending to the price of the liquor. Though no judge of liquor, he had firm convictions about women who downed it, and threatened to keep her bottled without bond until mel. low with age.
 Eyes red from weeping over red eye, she promised to cut out cutting Up. Paying the fine. she es- capped sentence. which the judge already had parsed and was ready to pronounccd---as soon as the bos arrived with his dictionary. With the warning of the judge ringing in her ears. and without fine rioney which once jlngled In \ her purse, her red-ietter day cams to a crlmson sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
A Book a Day by BRUCE CAPTION
The Novelists Are The Real Radicals

The novelists, one after another, seem to Do expressing . doep and vindictive disgust for tho ways Of rugged indlvidueiism, predatory capitalism, or whatever you wish to call it; and they are doing it in such mannor that some critics can sco bohlnd these books great ground swell of public resentment against capitalism.
 Thcre is, for instan nee, "Manhat. tan Prodigal," by George Tiehe. nor; n sensitive and eharminRly written story of Tennessee noun. tain lad who wandered to Now York In the poSt.war decade, made himself . part of the dollar. collecting machine, and finally dis. covered that it was all pretty frutt' less and soul-killlng.
 Ho got n Job In . Wall street bank and married n girl who liked 10 noat about tho edges of Qreen' wieh Village boheminnism,
 on tho ono side he had tho get. rich quick Wall street atmosphere; on tho other, tho fake liberalism of tho poScurs and the half-edu. cated young sophisticatea; and the combination was too much.
 So, in the end, tho youngster got out of New York and drlfted to stony New England farm. Here ho might work hia lifo out on hlN barron acres, but at least he would be doing q decent job unaceon,- panied by bunk, and he would be away from emaneipated, gin. swillIng youth.
 And tho point of view reflected In this book--n very common onu in present. day literature---may in time become infinitely more dan. gerous than anything which has been done by the new dealers at Washington.
 Published by Farrar and Rine. hart, it sells for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05

Washington, June - The meeting of the Republican Ma. tlonRl Committee In Chicago to- morrow presents a rare and sel. dom- witnessed spectacle.
 Assembled to choose q success. or to the alling Chairman, Ev- erett Sanders, Republican leaders arc wholly at sea.
 Usually such meetings are cut. and dried affairs, with the big boys doing the picking, the rest doing the acclaiming.
 Hut now N ls different.
 In tho six weeks intervening since the convention call went out not n single personality has forged to the front. A number have been protected, but none has tho necessary qualifications money, prominence, political "savvy," and background not too old guardish.
 A chairman will be chosen but it is a wide open race, . rar. fly, indeed, In the annals of re. pulican politics.
 NUDE LADY
 Henry Wallace, shy secretary ot agriculture, finally has un. yelled tho portrait featuring tho nude lady and dedicated to American agriculture.
 Tho mural, with tho lady re. clining In the very center, is tho first thing to attract the eyes as ono comes up tho stairs to Hen. ry's ofilco.
 Some people have said Henry was not good politician. But they aro wrong. Lest visiting farmers diaapprovG Of Hcnry's morals or think he has been wan. tonly spending tho taxpayers money on portraits of nude w0m. on. ho has madd it all too clear that ho is not responsible.
 Below tho portrait he has tackled little brass plate which reads;
 "APPROvED-iss2
 "Andrcw W, Mellon, Sec.
 rctary Of the treasury.
 "lIcnry N. Hyde, secretary
 of Agriculture"
 WHEN IS A SALE"
 Roosevelt's restriction on tho sale of arms to those ineurable belligoronts, Paraguay and Bo. iiVln, may bo rather futile,
 Bolivia already has ordered six giant bombing planes from tho Martin factory In Baltimore, ono million rounds of ammuni: ton from Remington and several transport planes from the Curtis company in Buffalo.
 And according Co tccinlcAlitlcs Of the law, . "salc" Is cOnsum. mated when . cash payment ss made and thc materials arc lAtM aside ready for construction,
 Slnco Roosevelt can only pre- vent tho "snlc" ot arms, not tho shipment, it looks as if Bolivia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
So They Say

Great Britain has never sisntd any treaty to preserve the territo. rial integrity Of China.--3ir John Simon.
 lt is difflcult to train q man who does not shave and seldom takes n bath to make automobile parts With Gxactness down Co one.thouBahdth of C millImeto r.---Stophan Simon. 0yieh Dybets, Soviet auto and trac. tor manager. r
 Insofar as star power is con. cerned, we have definitely pasgod the era of handsome mon and tpret- ty womcn.--Jcsso l.. Lasky, film producer.
 The German imperial crown lies on tho battiefleid. | doubt whether the German people wish to fight for lt there.--frInce Auguate Wilhelm, third son of the former kaiser.
 You have in extreme social radi. calIsm tho samo thing as In fun. dam0ntalIsm: thoy have found the absolute, perfect truth, and know it.--Rev pr Henry Sloane Coffin, president, Union Theological kem- iEary, New York.
 The thing I try to do is to. make tho moment of excitement agree with tho moment of reading.-- Gertrude Stein. famous novelist.
 We'll tolerate no lynch law in southern California. District Al. torney Byron Fitts of Los Angeles,
 The national policies of this country are being determined by q group of men who are not in sympathy with much that we hold sacred to our capitaIlstic system. I don't believe that the two plans can live sido by side---George H. Houston, locomotive executive.
 If strike is the only language some persons can understand, we will have to use their ianguage.---- William Green, labor official.
 I've taken some awful licisings, 50 I must love the theater.--Ethci Barrymr re.
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would go this consignment de. spite the speedy action Of con. gress.
 CONSTRUCTION vS
 DESTRUCTION
 The Roosevelt administration will go down in history as e great spender of money. Accord. ing to its present budget a total of ten billion will be spent dur. ing the New Deals first 24 months.
 But consider the record of the nineteen months from April, 1917 to November, 1918. In that period we poured into the war a total Of a2 billions--22 billions for shot and shell, troops and transport; S9,40O. .000 written on tho cuR for the Allies.
 And every penny went for the twin purposes of death and dc. struCti0n.
 Now we are spending less than ono.third of thia mount for feed. ing unemployed, for developing our forests. for building roads for new public buildings, for a great water power project, there are screams and yells aii over the country.
 MERRY.GO.ROUND
 In case you didn't know it.
 Tho White House has it's own green. houses, from which come fresh flowers daily for the living quarters and tho office desks of each secretary The long, rectangular fiowor bed in front of tho North fountain is ono Of horticulturo's perfect examples of tho value of scientific plant. ing Ages ago, q First Lady gave orders that the bed be os. abolished, and that it bo so ar. ranged that some kind of flower be Rroon or blooming all summer Tho groundske eeper of that day probably spent many slcepiess night before he figured out the formula, but he did a ssSss sinss Job First. aa"snS nss s'iS .S. 'ssr ss. treme outer edge, ho planted jonQuils, intorspersing tho bed itself with enough to give the imprssion- q dwitha oish hrdiuct tn oin imp! impression M ! n from the ..,. street of . timo whom these were gone, he put m odglng tjust inside tho jonquils) of pure whito phlox Ky the timo the jonquils arc gone, thoro arc high enough to hide the ratty jonquil tops and take possession of tho bed They arc in full bloom through most of Juno and carly July Mean while, heavily. .prunod hydrnngcas have been growing on the Interior of the rectangle ny tho time tho phlox are ready to bo cut down, tho hyd. rangeas arc abIo to stand on their own, . voritablo sea of white pancakes And, spoak' Ing of tho White House. green. houses, # perchanec you arn ever lucky enough to get flower from thom, take it to your near. est nurBeryman and have him graft it to aomo living stock 50 it may bo planted in your yard You've no idon how much preatigo it adds to havo n grow. Ing roso bush that GamN from seryman's charge will be trivial, if it is anything at all in- eidentaily thoso greenhouses have thoir own White House mint. tCopyright, 1888, by United Fca.
 turo Syndicate, Incl
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London Letter
By c. T. MAILMAN T jnitNsl Press Stan Correspondent ]

(Vnttcu prchh Stnu SOrFcsIDUucHtb
 London tUP)--Always enam. cured of Latin, educated circles in Britain are digesting with interest tho new crop of "modern Latin" words nut out by tho "Soetetas La. tinaa" of Munich, the society oi scholars founded not long ago to keep that ancient tongue alive for modern international use.
 The now crop includes:
 Crossword puzzles -- cruel. gramma,
 Bobbed halr--eomptus pueri. Us.
 Lipstick--stilus fucans.
 Leading editoriai--eaput pri.
 rnarium.
 Skiing---soica nivalis.
 Bill of exchange--syngrap
 1884 Latin
 Tho society'a review contains articles by technlciana suggestlnl words and phrases which will keaI Latin abreast of tho times in all the sciences and c useful medium for international conversations.
 All this is quito in tho British key, where the teaching of Latin is. In many schools. highly modern, British school boys, age ten. art now busy transiatlng into Latin "Who's Afraid of the Big Bud Wolf" Boys of the Westmlnstc or school give each year an original play In Latin which contains sa many amusing jokes and bits oi modern slang that the London Times prints it In full for the bcne. fit of readers. "Cruci-gramma" is now a household word in thou. sands of British homes.
 An contemplating match-selier on Regent Street, near Piccadilly Cir. GUS, bears . sign above his tray: "This is tho tooth Anniversary of the Invention of the Match" He does n fiourishing bushes, with passersby who. not unnatur' ally, are Impressed with his histor. icai erudition. He says. in reply to queries. that he read about Il in a public library. Pundits agree that the modern match came into use in 1884. but nobody had no: ticed the centenary until he called attention to 1t.
 Election of Mrs bod Proctor ai an A.R.As (Associate Member oi the Royal Academy) straighteni out the strained relations between that wcll-known woman painter and the august Royal Academy. In 1929 the Academy rejected her picture. "VirginaI," the DOT. trait of . nude girl holding dove This became the talk of the towr and drew immense crowds wheI 1t was subsequently, thown at private gallery. In 1881 the com mlttee of the Royal Academ, made another embarrassing mis take when 1t hung her picture ''The Haii Table" upside down.
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since June, 1032, without formal declaration.
 0. What is the difference. be. tween a mutual and a stock insur ance company
 A.. The profits of mutual com panies are distributed as dividends to the policy holders, and In stock com parles profits go to the share' holders.
 q, Is mercury h magnet for gold?
 A. There ts no magnet for gold. Mercury aniaigamateg with gold. Ff
 If you want a copy Of our buiie- tin House AntB''. write Co The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau. enclosing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
Industrial Troubles

It looks like summer of labor troubles. Strikes multiply and there is talk of gen. eral strikes tying up whole cities. It may be a summer to try the patience of capital, labor and public. It is well in such situation to keep cool and make an effort to be fair and to see both sides. It is hard for either employers or employees to do this. It should be easier for bystanders to recoRnize that rich and poor are of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05

Ws ANuhut Nhunb bhD VI Os army from the lowest to the high. est.
 A. Private, corporal. sergeant, star sergeant, first sergeant, mass ter sergeant. second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain. major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, brign- diod general, major general, lieu. tenant general, general.
 Q Which is the largest Island In tho world. not including Aus trAliap
 A. Greenland. e. Is the territory of Alaska larger than Texas? A. Yos.
 Q. Whore did the terms "wop" mad "dago" originate?
 A. Wop is m American vulgar. ism that probably originated in tho "unde derworld." It may havo been borrowed from tho Italian immi- grants and it is often said that it Is \ shortened form Of "wap. parousa," supposedly q sieiiian dia- lotleal word meaning a good. .for- nothing follow. "Dago" ia prob. ably derived from the Spanish Diego. which ig common in tho namos of places in Latin America. The natives Of those places arc dark. k.skInned, and Amorican snii- OTIS and trnvciors applied the gen. eric term "dago" 10 all dark.skln. nod foreigners of the Latin races.
 Q. Whore and when was George Arliss, tho actor, born?
 A., London. England. April 10, 1888.
 Q. What organization ia spon- sOrlng tho BtratoSphere flights of Captain stephens and Major Rep. ncr, scheduled for this summer? A. The National Geographic society. Washington. D. C.. and tho U. s. army air corps. Q. How large is Rock Creek park, in Washington, D. C.?
 A. i.776 acros.
 Q, Whom is the main tourist season In Yellowstone National park?
 A. From June i4 to September f3, during which time all the park utilities are operated. Between Juno and 14 and September f3 and October 15 limited accommo. dationB Of an informal nature are available at certain places in the park for motorists.
 Q. What Is the average life Of railroad locomotive?
 A. About 46 years. Q. Does the sun maintain ap. proximately the same altitude daily at the North Pole? What is six months day?
 4. At the North Pole. the sun maintains approximately the same altitude during each day. About March 20. the center of the sun Is on the horizon for an observer located on the pole, and does not at any time during the next six months, pass below the horizon, On about September 22, the cen. ter does pass below the horizon and does not rise again for an- other six months. The period when the sun Is seen is called ''six months day" ~ o. Where is Colonel E. E.. Bradley's famous Idle Hour stock farm? 3 A. Near Lexington, Ky. c. Is the king of England pro- hibited by law from leaving Great Britain?
 A. No.
 Q. Did Bolivia declare war against Paraguay in 1032? A. A state of war has existed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
WOMAN TO SEE AFTER is
 YEARS.

Nebraska City. Ne. (UP)--After i3 years of darkness, Mrs Sterling M. Copeland once more is looking out upon the world. overJoyed at the results of thyroid operation, which began fhe process by which her sight is being restored. Mrs Copeland at 6S. is plapning to re- adjust her life Co che new world of light and eolore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN

Wanted RepwblcaH Chief Must Be Rich, Wise and Seem Liberdi So Far C. O. P Has Been Unable to Find SWc- cessor for Samdsys; South Aericom Arms Embargo May Be NUlifed By Pocsd Orders; New Deol Expenditures CoMtvasted With Those For War Purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05

There wasn't much publicity last Au. gust when the death of William C. Bixby of Baldwin, Long Island, was announced Yet to-day the Department of Interior is busily engaged negotiating with his wid- ow for the purchase of his hobby. On his Long Island estate were collected the greatest variety of nut trees in the United States. There must have been several thousand different kinds. Experiments to improve the varieties and produce newer ones were continually going on. Famous nut growers from all over the world used to congregate at the Bixby farm at regu. lar intervals during the year. particularly the autumn when the nuts would be har- vested. They would feast on something like the Japanese heart nut, a combina- tion hickory and black walnut whose ker- nal came out shaped like heart. What a hobby to devote lifetime to!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05

Congress prepares to adjourn. It.. wonderful how heat waves in Washington speed up statesmanship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
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However, it isn't in the usual varieties that our Department of Interior is inter- ested, it's the black walnuts of which MT Bixby had some 400 different kinds at his death There may be real value in the development of these trees. We should have thought the work on the chestnut tree blight would have occupied most of his time. He spent years importing Chi nese chestnuts and experimenting with them to develop blight-free species. Suc- cess never fully crowned these efforts, but if there's any consolation in it no scien- lists seem to have yet gone any further than did he, which is great pity in itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05

Whats become of the rain-making pro- fessors, in all this recent drouth?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05

All vehicles must be lighted not later than $50, daylight time, tonight