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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Faults Of Democracy

People who enjoy living in democracy might as we'll make up their minds to the fact that democracy's shortcomings have to be accepted right along with it's bene- fits. During the last few days we have been getting a first-hand and rather frightening picture of one of democracy's worst drawbacks - knock-down and drag out industrial warfare.
 Naturally, this has caused great many of us to demand that some way be found to make impossible a repetition of the kind of thing that has been happening ir San Francisco. That's perfectly under standable viewpoint But we need to rec ognize the fact that this sort of thing, costly and destructive as it is, is, never theless one of the things we bargain for when we pin our faith to the democratic processes.
 Look abroad for examples, and you get an understanding of this Russia has no strikes, for instance. It has no strikes because there is not, strictly speaking anyone for the workers to strike against except themselves. Technically, at least. they own the country, lock, stock and bar rel. They can't have a dispute with the management because they are the man. agement.
 That's one way to make strikes impos- sihle = to iquidate the employing class. Italy is another land in which strikes are unknown. The Italian worker can't strike because, if he does, he strikes against the government which will have no hesitation in bringing it's iron hand down on his neck. He is no longer free citizen; he is' cog in a machine, and in that capacity he takes what is handed him-and likes it. So that's another way to prevent strikes = to liquidate the labor movement Under a democracy, neither of these so- llutions is possible. There must remain, sthen, an amount of freedom within which either the employer or the worker can, if he feels justified, precipitate industrial war; and there is no way of making this impossible except by sliding off in the di- rection of either Fascism or Communism - which, of course, means abandoning democracy.
 All of which doesn't make it any easier to endure or to codone the kind of theing San Francisco has had to experience. But it does help us to see the kind of deep water we get into when we talk about making strikes impossible. We have a democracy and we m man to keep it-and our strikeless millennium will just have to wait until the whole industrial field is pervaded by the justice, the public spirit and the sense of responsibility which are, ultimately, democracy's greatest safe guards.
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live. They must be convinced that trade is not war, but process of exchange; that in time of peace our neighbors are our customers, and that their prosperity is a condition of our own well-being."
 There is a growing tendency to come around to this view. Many members of both political parties realize that great changes have come since the war, that some of the old reasons for high tariff walls no longer exist, that recent prohib- itive policies among nearly all the trading nations have so stifled their trade as to stifle their industry also. So the reciproc- ity idea = lowering tariffs on imports not produced at home, in return for tariff concessions by the other country on our own exports - gain favor.
 On the whole, with a broad and varied base of goods and markets, all the nations should gain. There will always be some local objections, though, and some cases where general national benefit seems to be the expense of local interests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Baby Movie Extras

Among the people clamoring at the gates of Hollywood for contracts and movie jobs are thousands of parents. A Baby Leroy or Shirley Temple comes along, makes tremendous hit in pictures, and immediately fathers and mothers - but chiefly mothers - all over the land inn agine that their offspring are needed in the studios. Every child is a top-notcher to his parents. They think he will be so to the producers and the public
 So huge has this arm of fame and for tune seekers become that one company in Hollywood has issued a warning to par ents everywhere to stay at home. Doubt less," says this warning, "you have bud ding genius in your happy home but don't bring him Cor her) to Hollywood The motion picture capital is already over-run with infant sensations"
 In a single studio for example, there are on file close to 5000 names of children available for film parts. When child character is needed, the casting director starts working on that list. He doesn't need any more names. Every type of talent is represented, from three-week-old babies to youngsters in their teens. There is work for a small number of this army. A few spring to fame and contracts. 9th CTS get minor parts occasionally. The rest get nothing Perhaps, after all such a warning is futile, for mothers will say to themselves that their child is different.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
So They Say

I a candidate because 1 believe it is my duty to be one-U. S. Senator Simeon Fess of Ohio up for reelection.
 It seems to that official censors are get ting rightfully indignant about the wrong things Joseph l. Breen, new morals for the movies.
 
 Living with Eskimos is wonderful character builder for any youth-Rockwell Kent famous artist
 
 What the people of this country really want is prosperity, not desire for spiritual growth but for physical and material possessions James R. Bancroft president, American Institute of Finance. them a large possible scale, nobody has started any projections for humans sanctuary where they cannot be shot.-George Bernard Shaw.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

LIVESTOCK DEALER: can't see that I am much better off because I have to pay more for everything I buy and am not get ting much more for what I sell.
 LIVESTOCK FARMER: Yes, the sealing of corn has been of some help and when I get my corn-hog check I expect to be a little better off.
 Should Roosevelt swing more to the right or the left?
 LIVE STOCK DEALER: Whichever way will help farm prices. We need imitation.
 LIVESTOCK FARM FER: don't know just what is meant by that. 1 want him to swing whichever way will bring up farm prices.
 What is the weakest spot in the New Deal?
 LIV STOCK DEALER: Weakest spot in the New Deal is the fact that we still have lots of farm foreclosures and need cheaper interest rates.
 LIVESTOCK FARMER: The weakest spot in the New Deal is the fact that We farmers are having to pay the bills either through processing taxes or oth- CT taxes later.
 What is the most urgently needed next step the president ;. should take?
 LIVESTOCK DEALER: Tn e president should lower interest rates and put the Frazier bill in- ' to operation.
 LIVESTOCK FARMER: The next step the president should take Is to stop all farm foreclos- ures and fix the price of hogs.
 Do you favor the A. A. A. and its payments to farmers for acre. age reduction?
 LIVESTOCK D EA L E R: l suppose the A. A. A. is all right as a temporary measure. We need to open up foreign markets and get people back to work and then there would be market for all we raise.
 LIVESTOCK FARMER: Yes, 1 favor continuing the A. A. A. with elimination of some of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Moscow Letter
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent

~~N~@- Moscow (UP) There is n great gulf between the Communist attitude toward love and family life in those hectic days just after the revolution and it's viewpoint today.
 idicoy," which the youth of this workers state should sweep from its mind, romantic love and mar | riage the most ardent young Communists.
 Trend Towards Marriage It its true even yet that in the soviet Union marriage and divorce are easier than in the capitalists | world, also a man and woman may
 live together unmarried without
 violating either the law, or public | opinion. But the trend today is to- ward the conventions of courtship a: marriage rather than away from them.
 A recent incident throws light on the present trend. At one of agricultural school here, the edi- torial board of the college news
 paper decided there was entirely | too much romanticism and too many marriages among the stu dents.
 The paper started a campaign against love. It warned students to resist this deadly microbe." this
 barrier to socialistic progress among young workers and stu
 dents. That did no good. Finally
 couples, who had married, were
 called by name and were pointed
 out as horrid examples. l Intimate Details | But the waves of marriages and love affairs continued. As last
 resort the newspapers published 2
 number of intimate details about some of the current campus amours, thinking this embarass-
 ing publicity would deter other from the path of romance. The paper also warned that most of these school-day marriages would
 end in divorce.
 1 Just at this juncture the Young
 Communist Party entered the pie tured - not to support the news.
 paper, as one would have expected a few years ago-but to rebuke | Cupid's enemies.
 Komsomolski Pravda, official
 organ of the Young Communist
 Party, taking its cue from the
 school papers mention of divorce,
 suggested that the college director and the secretary of the campus l Communist party should be di-
 vorced from their job and party ! tickets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
A Book a Day
This Mystery Tale is a Real Puzzler
By BRUCE CAPTION

There's an air of professiona competence about the mystery novels of Kay Cleaver Strahan that puts them in the something speciar' classification. Her newest one, "The Hobgoblin Murder (Bobbs- Merrill: $2)) is right up Ito standard.
 This has to do with three old ! maids sisters living in a gloomy old house in a Pacific Coast town Two of them are nice old girls, but the third is a sure-enough battle ax, and so nobody mourns much when somebody helps her to shuffie off this mortal coil by sticking a pair of shears into her throat. You get a lot of suspects-the two surviving sisters, young grandnjece who came to the house for shelter shortly before the murder, three servants, and sanc- timonious old lawyer; but no mat ter how smart you are, I doubt that you'll be prepared for the surprise the author hands you at the end.
 It's a grade-A puzzler, this. and no mistake.
 "The Bachelor Flat Mystery" by R. A. J. Walling (Morrow: $2) is of the familiar British type-un- distinguished. but very sound. It deals with the strange taking off of amysterious Australian who samehow finds his wa, into the fiat of a young Londoner-about- town.
 Several gay young bloods and two charming young women come under suspicion, and the plot is worked out with mathematical precision. It's a good. average. run of -the-mill detective yarn.
 Then there's ''The Strangled Witness" by Leslie Ford (Farrar and Rinehart: $2),' which tells how in anti-New Deal senator gets shot to death in Washington in the heat of a fight against the power trust. Practically everybody except MT Tugwell comes under suspicion. and a retired army col onel finally digs up the villain.
 If you like political setting for your crimes, you might go fo- this one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Press Comment
Not An Experiment. (Hartford Times)

It is not clear what kind of bus mess policy lies behind the con- tract terms which require the United States lines to have the liner Leviathan make five Atlantic round trips this summer at heavy loss The ship has made two of these two-way voyages. The first one, in June resulted in an operating loss of $143,000. The big ship has just returned from its second trip, at the heiGth of the tourist season, with loss of $112,900.
 If the remaining three scheduled voyages accumulate even larger de- nclts than these two, the total loss for the venture 4nay mount to $7O0,O00 or more. Anything to be demonstrated by such huge total deficits would seem to be reason- ably evident from the first trip.
 The Leviathan retains its reputa- tion for being among the giant ocean liners but others exceed it for speed. Shrinkage in tourist traffic has put severe strain on all ocean passenger service It has led to the merging of the two leading British lines. Recognition of the unprofitable state of this business might well have dictated another policy than that now being carried out under orders of the shipping board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

Washington, July 25-On the walls of the office of the public health service hangs a graph. On it are lines that look like a jagged mountain range. Doctors call it the scarlet fever range, and point to the high peak of 1000 cases in the United States during the week of March IS.
 After eight years of experi- mentation, public health doctors think they have found a way to knock the top off this peak.
 They have discovered a toxoid, which shot into the arms of chil- dren, innoculates them from the disease. Eleven hundred people have been innoculated, then test ed. S3 per cent were immune. THE HITCH.
 But there is one serious hitch.
 This new toxoid is based upon a toxoid discovered by two Chi coga doctors. George and Gladys Dick. They worked out formula which also innoculates against scarlet fever, but public health officers find certain faults with it. Reaction to it by the patient is somewhat violent; also five doses are required.
 However, the Dick toxin is ab- solutcly essential as the base for the new public health toxoid. It cannot be made without 1t. And the Dicks have patented their formula.
 Furthermore they have declin- el so far. to relinquish it to the government. Dr George Dick has indicated that he might give the discovery to science, but his wife. pr Gladys Dick declines.
 Ani the justice department finds their patent valid. upholds their exclusive rights. If the pub lie health officers use the Dick toxin for the general public, they can be sued personally, and in- timations have been given that this might happen.
 Meanwhile public health doc tors watch the scarlet fever range with a peak 1000 cases high and hope for friendly adjustment which will level 1t to nothing. GOOD EGG
 Getting out of the vice-presi- dency seems to have done Char ley Curtis a world of good.
 His friends say he has now be- come the same good-natured poker-playing sagacious old In- dian he used to be before his vice-presidential days. Then he was one of the most popular and efficient members of the senate.
 Also Charley has regained his former frank disdain for the omnipotents of the gop. Talking to a friend the other day, he said:
 "The millionaircs are going to take a back seat in the present campaign. The republican party don't need 'em. They cause more trouble than they're wOrth."
 The truth probably is that Charley took his vice-presidential dinner duties too serious. Anyone WhO went out lO ulHHeT dS OIteH as he did was bound to get lit- tie crochety.
 NEW DEAL POLL
 Below is continuation of the cross section poll on the New Deal, taken by selecting average citizens in typical cities of the United States. Today's poll was conducted by The Des Moines Register and Tribune which in- terviewed a livestock farmer and livestock dealer. Here are the questions and answers:
 Has tho New Deal improved your economic condition?
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Restoring World Trade

sympathy with the New Deal, but goes along with the President on the tariff, is Russell Weisman of Western Reserve University.
 CT am satisfied he says, that high tar ifs, exchange restrictions, quotas, and other devices for promoting narrow eco homie nationalism, are in very large measure responsible for the depression. am convinced that the world must have more liberal commercial policy. Leading nations must adopt policy of live and let
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
State Aerially Mapped
Bridgeport Telegraph

< Photographers who have been busily mapping Connecticut from the air for a number of months have finished their job. AS a result of their labors the state now has 10,5O0 photographs, seven by nine inches in size. comprising a com plete mosaic map of the state. These photographs may be en- larged to a size sufficient to show surprisingly small details of the surface, including every hours, far age, or outbuildings; all highways, roads, or even woodland paths, the rivers, streams, marshes ad inlets, in more complete detail than any other existing maps.
 The separate photographs have not been pieced together in blocks This work will be undertaken by a group under the direction of the state highway department and the labor will require about six months The state will then be in possession of a highly useful photographic map which will me filed with the state librarian for reference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

red tape and speeding up pay ments. Farmers should have a chance to help themselves.
 What do you think of the brain trust?
 LIVESTOCK DEALER: Poli- ticians and brain trusts both give me pain.
 LIVESTOCK AR M E R: don't know much about the pres- ident's advisers or the brain trust but guess it would be better if they had more real farmers fix ing up some of these farm pro- grams instead of so many economists and administrative rulings
 If Roosevelt was up for re- election this year, would you vote to continue him in office?
 LIVESTOCK DEALER: It's too early to say but guess I will unless there is somebody better than I have heard about so far
 LIVESTOCK. FARMER: Yes. Roosevelt is trying to do some- thing for the farmer and the common man.
 MERRY.GO-ROUND
 Delaware's corpulent Senator Townsend, ardent sportsman, is a fisherman before a patriot. Despite the fact that his own state has a half dozen renowned resorts which have been trying tO ouild m reDuta tiOpS as fiSher men's-paradises, he passes them up for Maryland's Ocean City. The angling in Maryland is better, despite the Delaware ballyhoo.
 Copyright, 193i, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Chuckle Corner
THERE'S A REASON By Harold Mallicoat

There's a reason why many Oak. | vile engagements founder on a rock. The boy friend won't buy 1 one.
 There's reason why pretty gir | should not wear a tight garter. Il creates bad impression about her leg.
 And why a certain Watertown merchant never minds when his wife sings over the radio. He can always turn it off.
 There's a reason why people don't criticize the modern bathing suit. Not much to talk about.
 Also why Grove street con- ceited young man has the Yalls of his room lined with mirrors. He wants to surround himself with the people he loves.
 There's reason why many Nau- gatuck women have indigestion. Husbands don't agree with them.
 Just as there's reason why Winsted girls want to marry an economical man, but not to be engaged to one.
 And why some men join hudist colonies. So they won't have to waste time looking for collar but tons.
 There's a reason too why cer- tain house in Cheshire has no heating plant. It was built for Mae West.
 And why Torrington man We could name never smokes in the presence of his daughters. Add his smoke to theirs, and they couldn't see eaeh other.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
H cope
BY OCTAvlNE

The earlier. the better this morn ing. An element of social adven- ture is strong this afternoon and evening. Be on your guard. for this influence is far from safe, though appearing pleasant.
 To-slay's Birthdate
 You should be interested in studying and hunting in the ground from anything from traces of ancient to gold From now through Sept "A you are in a peri cd of change. It may not please you, but it will clear the atmos- phere. This infiuencve returns in April, 1885. Guard your finances from Oct 13 through IS. Danger Sept 1. Socially favorable Aug 16.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Railing Wall Street

Not more than one trader out of 20, Wall Street people say, has been making any money in the last couple of months. The wailing wall on that thoroughfare is we'll patronized. Unless the market picks up soon, they'll all be on the dole That's the way they talk And they are very sick of reform.
 To outsiders the situation, while attri- butable partly to government curb and control, is still somewhat of natural phc- nomenon. It has nearly always been a feast or famine in Wall street; and the bigger the feast, the worse the ensuing famine. Stock prices and market activity usually representation half economic con- ditions and half imagination, with hopes and fears working alternately to bedeviI the judgment of brokers, bankers and investors.
 At present good deal of the dullness may be logically charged to the new fed eral regulation system and the govern mental insistence on continued reform of business; but this is hardly so big fac tor as the pessimists maintain. The stock exchange commission has set about it's work very mildly, obviously aiming to re- assure legitimate business and investment.
 The seasonal dullness of summer and the menace of recent strike movements must be taken into account, too. Things are pretty sure to look better in few weeks than they do now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
EMPHASIZES
Wilkes Barre Times-Leade

Wilkes- Barre Times-Leader.)
 There may be more than a joke there may me philosophy-in what someone has said, that the world will have to have a big war pretty soon if only to get its mon- ey's worth out of the battleships that are being built
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Selected Poem
THE SOLITARY REAPER

 William Wordsworth Poems in The Christian
 Science Monitor) Behold her. single in the field Yon solitary highland lass! Reaping and singing by herself Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain And sings q melancholy strain: O listen; for the vale profound Is overtiowing with the sound No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt Among Arabian sands. voice thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending, saw her singing at her work, And OCT the sickle oending;- listened, motionless and still; And as I mounted dp the hill The music in my heart bore, Long after it was heard no more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
Questions And Answers
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Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT $. ALLEN

Authors o "wahingo Merr R Pre Potent Womn Co., o. Health Livesk Farmer and Dealer MerryGo
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A Thought for Today

A woman when she is in travail hath row, because her hour is come; but soon as she is delivered of the child, she rcmem- bereth more the anguish. for joy that a man is born into the world.-St John. 16:21.
 
 Men are what their mothers made them. Emerson.
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@. What fighter has been nick
 named "The rubber man?" A. Johnny Risko.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

O. What is the name of the decisions in Switzerland that cor
 respond to our states? A. Cantons,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

The remarkable thing about summer is the number of problems that solve them selves when you go fishing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

If you want copy of our bulle- tin Learning to Cook, write to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau. enclosing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

We've got to believe in some kind of supervision, so people disillusioned in other fields of endeavor resume their rev. erence for prize-fighters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

Yes, Mussolini "purged" his party, too But it wasn't bullets that he used.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

How is the week divided these days? On the basis of statistics gathered from a number of MIRA codes, an Investigating group states that the average individual spends " hours week in sleeping, eating and personal care. Work gets 40 hours and transportation to and from work 10 hours. The remaining hours of the week represent the much discussed new leisure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25

You can't beat nature. Just as the poul- try industry was beginning to get produc- tion down to consumption an eastern hen laid four eggs at once, and hen in New