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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
Hours, Wages, Profits

"Every man and woman in this coun-
try who is able and willing to work needs
to be permanently and securely employed.
am convinced that we cannot do TINS,
that we cannot maintain permanent and
secure employment, except by snort
work week and short work day. 30
speaks Frances Perkins, secretary OF
labor. The government is being slowly
forced to this conclusion. So is the puDllc.
And so is business, however reluctantly.
A time may come again when, in spite
of the increasing productiveness OF ma
chinery, there will be so great demand
for goods that all available hands can be
employed for an eight-hour day and nor
NAL week and all the production can De
consumed. But such an ideal SITUATION
cannot be foreseen now. Even during the
depression, processes OF pr0ductlon nave
improved and new machinery has grown
still more efficient. Work must be divld-
ed up, or there will still be millions OF
UNEMPLOYED living on charity. A week
Of 40 or A hours may be ideal in theory,
but the practical outlook is for something
like six-hour day and five-day week for
q while, at least. The hours and days
will grow if needed.
Machines, moreover, says Miss Perkins,
0should be the servants of wage-earners
and pay them a share of their profits"
That means, workers should be paid as
good wages as possible. Which in turn
means that employers should be content,
at least during this emergency period,
with as little profit as possible: This is
not merely a gospel of social fairness 1t
is probably the only practical way to bus
mess recovery. There must be as much
spending power as possible in order to
consume the products of factory and farm
and the services of merchants and pro-
fessional and transportation people.
There may not be big profits again
per unit. The big profits, if there are
such, should be in the volume produced
and sold. Our capita1istic or profit sys-
tenn, if it survives, will probably survive
in this way. High producing profits;
high selling costs and low wages would
drive us into another depression. And
another depression or two might drive us
into a system that would use all the Idle
workers and means of production to make
and distribute the necessaries OF life TO
everybody without wages, profit or price.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
Boys And Trees

Officials of the Yosemite National
Park have reported to the Federal De-
partment of the Interior that forest pro-
lection work in that area has been adj
vanced several years by the work of the
Civilian Conservation Corps. Officials
of the U. S. Forest Service, checking over
their reports, find that in 1888, in the Is
national forests in California, only $4,000
acres were swept by forest fires. For the
past ten years the average area damaged
by fires has been $4,000 acres year.
At the same time, fire-fighting costs
have been reduced by 80 per cent, di-
rect saving of 100000. To that may be
added the saving in value of the timber
protected from ravaging fires.
This has been largely effected, accord
ing to regional forester, S. P. Snow, by
the work of the CCC. When the CCC
was organized and sent to camps all over
the country early last summer it was
thought of primarily as method for
salvaging young men, taking them from
heartbreaking idleness and giving them
healthful outdoor work with some earned
income The effectiveness of their work,
in many different sections, surprised the
whole nation. Boys and trees have bene-
fitted each other to the advantage of all
of us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
Prosperity For Palestine

"The German influx has been a good
thing for Palestine" says a returned
American traveller. Everyone is busy
supplying the needs of the new German
settlers. Houses are being built every
where going up it seems almost over
night. Bed makers, furniture makers,
makers of farm implements, and SO on,
are all busy working overtime to meet the
demands of the new immigrants"
These immigrants are Jews driven out
of Germany by the cruelty of the Hitler
regime. Much has been said about this
as an example of modern racial and relig-
ious persecution. Less has been said
about it's economic aspects. Germany is
obviously losing much economically, d.
rectly and indirectly, from the alienation
of so many thrifty and Industrious citi-
zens. And the exiles are helping to re-
deem Palestine in practical way.
Immigrants with funds to fit them
selves out are nearly always business
asset to the country they enter. 1t was
so mostly with our own immigrants. 1t
will, be so again, if we ever change our
exclusion policy as we probably shall
admitting people of sound bodies, minds
and morals, plus little cash.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
German Parity

Great Britain and Italy propose to al
low Germany to re-arm. France may be
persuaded to accept the plan, with some
notifications. This would virtually
shelve the Treaty of Versailles.
German equality of armament with
neighboring powers would have been una-
thinkable few years ago. Now there Is
growing appreciation, outside OF Ger.
many, of it's logic and fairness-providedi
Germany will behave herself. 1t would
have seemed fairly simple and safe be-
fore. Hitler rose to power. Under him It
Is harder to trust Germany to keep the
peace. And yet such move might disarm
Hitler by removing his greatest propa-
eanda weapon.
The German nation Is suffering today,
~ II did before the World War, from q
'smanla Of persecution" II thinks the
world Is against II. Hitler fosters this
deIuslon. Continued, II will almost ccr-
teinlv result n 9 great catastrophe. Free
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
HISTORY

Just previous to the beginning Of
the clock industry In Waterbury
the grand list of the town included
-four steel and brass clocks, a
wooden clock, seven watches, one
riding chair, twenty ounces and
ten pennyweights of silver plate
and money at interest to the
amount of SO pounds" This was
thought to be low rating, al
though at this time, about 1881,
the school house or academy was
built, and contracts for two new
churches were given out In 1894.
There was on all sides increased
trade and manufacturing, and 1t
was early in the nineteenth CEN
fury that, the clock business started
here; in 1902 the button trade was
beginning to flourish. Before this
time the cotton-gin had been in
vented, and the peddler, sometimes
known as the drummer" was be-
coming an institution. A native of
Wolcott stated at this time that
about ten peddlers from Wolcott
went south for many seasons. Con-
necticut's constitution was ques-
toned from time to time, and in
spite of the fact that the state had
separated from the crown, the
charter granted by Charles II in
1862, was in use. The struggle for
a new constitution went on, and
at the constitutional convention
that was held July 4, 1913, dele
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
Gold Now And Hereafter

The gold dollar is devalued, and as far
as anyone can see in his immediate vlcln-
ity it doesn't seem to make much differ
ence. The heavens have not fallen. The
bottom has not dropped out OF business.
The banks have not closed. The dollar
still passes, to some folks surprise, Tor
100 cents. Things cost, so far, about the
same, but with a slight tendency to rise.
business on the whole seems stimulated,
whether from the devaluation itself or
from the end of uncertainty, or both.
Business, men and financiers agree
pretty we'll that sterilization in itself IS
more important business factor than the
level at which it is accomplished - that
definiteness as to what paper or silver
dollar is worth in gold is more vital than
the precise amount of gold which it is
assumed to represent. And this is PROP
ably the truth.
If it is the truth, we may see 1urther
devaluations in the future, as similar con-
ditions develop again, stretching the gold
basis farther and hammering the gold
dollar thinner and thinner, IN order 10
make the available metal suffice for the
growing volume of money and credlt
needed by modern business.
We may assume, perhaps, that there
will be no more gold coinage in this coun-
try - perhaps little in any country. For
while gold bullion may circulate inter-
nationally to even trade balances. Some
day. in the natural course of events, this
thinning gold dollar, which is used already
merely as basis for bookkeeping on the
actual circulation, may be dropped en-
tirely, and bookkeeping system substl.
tuted which rests on some other form OF
wealth. or on values in general - COM
modify levels, or land, or what have you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

ten days before they become
effective.
Smaller producers complain
bitterly that this is nothing less
than q system to make them
raise prices. They say their big
competitors post a price and
then coerce them into adopting
1t. One large cast iron manu-
facturer frankly admitted that
he had fixed a price of $40 for
product that could be sold
profitably at $50, and had exert
cd strong pressure on COMPETE
tors to keep them from selling at
$35.
General Hugh Johnson has be-
gun reopening all these price fix
ing agreements. His intention is
to eliminate the "open price"
provisions. If there is no ten-day
waiting period, he thinks prices
will be quoted every time a sale
is made, thereby resulting in free
and open competition.
MAIL BAG
f. p. NJ, Philadelphia. NJ.
Brown, shipping board attorney,
and distantly related to President
Harding, demonstrated that he
was one Of the keenest lawyers
on the boards staff in his recent
examination of Harvey Miller of
the Pennsylvania railroads SUBJ
sidiary, Tidewater Terminal.
G. j., Minneapolis = The Soviet
government Is giving particular
attention to the selection Of its
military and naval attaches to its
new embassy in Washington.
They will be high-ranking Off
GERS with special knowledge of
the far east, which both Soviet
officials and Roosevelt fear to be
the potential theater of future
war. v. T., st Louis-The
old brain trust of Roosevelt's
campaign days has passed out of
the picture. Only two members
remain: Rex Tugwel1, assistant
secretary of agriculture, to-
gether with faithful Charles
Taussig, who, although not in the
administration, gives up three
days of his week to help out in
Washington. Each man is an i'm
portant and extremely useful in
fiuence in the administration.
III. T. j., WashingtOn-The
New York Social Register lists
Curtis B. Dali, son-in-law Of the
president, as residing in larry
town, N. Y. The Washington
Social Register has not hitherto
listed his wife. Anna Roosevelt
Dali, as residing at the White
House, but did so with the jan
uary list Of changes in residence.
Copyright, 1884, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
So They Say

Neutral spirits, colored like
whiskey, are what gave US cast-iron
stomachs In Michigan.
Frank Picard. chairman Michi-
gan Liquor Control Board.
There has been no attempt to
bootleg alien political PHILOSOPHERS
into our democracy.
Prof Rexford G.. Tugweil, brain
tfueter.
Poland has recognized Germany
as q state Of equal right.
Polish legation In Berlin.
Maybe TIL learn some day that
you can't win IN this game.
John l.. Dillinger. accused "a
leader OF murder gang
II ID. I believe, a historic fact
that every great improvement 10
better commercial communication
whether In the case OF railroads
Into new territory. or tho deepina
Of canals, or even tho cutting OF
the IHthmug OF Panama, all have
been subjected 10 opposition on the
part OF local interests.
-=HgoEidnnt ftoaaovelf.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
This Horror Story
Falls Rather Flat

An excess of ballyhoo has been
very harmful to 1.-THE Cadaver of
Gideon Wyck," by Alexander
Laing (Tarrar and Rinehart: $2).
The publishers have blurbed this
book as an overwhelmingly intense
and thrilling horror story. They
urge you not to read 1t unless you
can stand a terrific shock. They
assert that it combines the best
features of Edgar Allan Poe and
"Dracula."
Well, it just doesn't.
It's really a straightaway murder
mystery. The scene is a medical
school. A member of the faculty
goes insane just as he finds how
to exert prenatal influence SO as
to cause hideously deformed mon
sters to be born.
He himself thereupon gets killed
and his embalmed corpse Is found
in the mortuary Of the medical
school basement. A student Is sus-
pected, and to clear his name he
has to run down the murderer.
AS a mystery, it's fair. AS a
horror story, it's flop. It creates
distaste rather than horror; you
don't especially need strong nerves
to read it, but you do need a
strong stomach, in the dissecting
room and mortuary portions.
Two O'Clock Courage" by
Gelett Burgess (Bobbs- Merrill: $2)
Is somewhat better.
A visitor in Boston gets tapped
on the head and loses his MEM
Dry. He finds himself on a subur-
ban street at a. M, covered with
blood and carrying revolver, and
he can't remember who he is,
where he's been, or what he's done.
Next day he finds that a theatre
cal magnate was murdered in a
house near the spot where he him
self was wandering.
He is suspected Of having COM
mitted the murder. Since he can
remember nothing, he even sus-
poets himself. In sheer self-defense
he has to stick around and help
solve the crime.
The result is a pretty fair story,
although it Is entwined with one of
the sickliest romances ever put be-
tween covers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

@. How can 1 eliminate the
clicking sound in my radio when
a light Is turned on?
A. The National Radio Insti-
tute advises. that you probably can
eliminate the interference by u.s.
ing a good aerial installation which
Is not in close proximity to any
electrict light wiring in the house.
The trouble may possibly be due
to a weak or defective rectifier
tube.
@. How much silver does u.
s. silver dollar contain?
A. 1t contains 371.25 grains of
pure silver and 41.25 grains OF
copper alloy, making a total
weight Of 412.50 grains.
@. What is alcoholometry?
A. The determination of the
percentage of alcohol in a liquid.
@. When and where was the
Theta Delta Chi fratrnity founded
A. Union College, October 81.
1S47.
@. What is the seating capac-
ity of the Wembley Stadium in
London?
A. 1t seats $4,000, and is be-
lieved to be the largest in the
world.
@. Name the longest railroads
in the world and in the United
States.
A. The German State Railways
totaling $4,000 miles is the long
est and in the United States the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
Paris Letter
BY THOMAS COPE
Omitted Press STAR Correspondent

NOhtCu Il FUSS DUH OOfkGSDOUUcuIl
Paris (UP) - No excuse in
France for the literary procras-
tinator. More than 200 prizes an
nually await the poet, the author.
the dramatist-and the pamphle-
teer.
An accurate estimate of the
funds involved is not possible be-
cause dozens Of new prizes are
born, and the old ones die, every
pear. But the grand total runs
into hundreds of thousands of
francs and several thousand dol
lars.
There are several prizes for lit
erary encouragement of Franco
American goodwill. These include
the Prix Strassburger, $4,000,
"for the series of articles having
mostly contributed to Franco
America rapprochement": an
Atlantic Monthly prize of $4,000;
and the Prix Brentano. $1,000. ito
encourage relations bet ween
French and American letters"
francs each given by the Ameri-
can Foundation OF Paris.
The most effulgent prizes, OF
course, are those vouchsafed, by
the French academy. They are
about 80 Of these ana they run IN
total about 100000 francs year.
some are not awarded every year,
others, are split between cnndi-
dates, or only partly awarded ct
given time.
a very much sought after
award Is the main prize OF the
gooletv NJ pnoDlO Of Lelfafa -
10000 francs. This body also dis
tributes n minor prises Il tot siI,.I
brow awards are made By the
Ministries Of Education and
] Namssevs ugIzss Ger paesss ere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

1t is doubtful if any disclosure in the
long history of corrupt municipal politics
has been quite as shocking as the one re-
Gently made about conditions in New
York's city prison at Welfare Island.
From all accounts, this prison practically
was turned over to the most vicious and
degraded of the prisoners, to run as they
pleased. Even England's notorious Old
Newgate, in the heyday of Jonathan Wild,
could not offer a spectacle to match the
one presented on Welfare Island. How
even the most corrupt and callous of Of
fice-holders could have permitted such a
condition to exist is beyond the ordinary
mortal's understanding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

furnished by the House OF Poetry.
the chiG one being the Prix
Petitdier, 10000 francs. Then
there are the various "indepen-
dent prizes" = Goncourt. Femina,
Gringoire, Renaissance, Europe
Nouvelle. Secerine. etc.
TO be noted for their titles are
1.-THE Prize OF the First Novel,"
the Prlx ChrIstiane Of 500 francs
destined to succour the child OF
an invalid poet" and THE Prize
feasion."
There 10 also prize OF the
French Society OF Protection OF
Animals. The n est award,
created at tho end Of 1898, Is the
Prlx Roster Jeune fYouth Prise)
for the essay best describing how
10 ward on old age. No amount
has ~ yet been fxee fer th's
M|X#7.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

A London newspaper asserts that care
full negotiations are under way among
the United States, England and France.
looking toward the cession to this country
by the other two powers of certain South
Seas islands which might be used as aerial
and naval bases in the event of war in the
Pacific. According to this story, Wash
ington tentatively has offered partial
cancellation of war debts in return for
such action. And the idea back of it, of
course, is supposed to be preparation for
that much talked-of war with Japan. This
story may be utterly without foundation;
and, somehow, one may be forgiven for
hoping that is the case. The dangerous
tension in relations between Japan and
the United States has slackened in recent
months; but action of this kind would be
sure to revive Japan's worst suspicious.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

Recognition by the United States gov
eminent of the new Cuban regime headed
by President Carlos Mendieta brings the
troubled affairs of that unfortunate re-
public appreciably nearer solution. 1t
is only just, however, to recognize the
fact that great deal remains to be done,
and that lot of it must be done in WASH
ington, before Cuban affairs can be truly
sound.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

Relief for unemployed musicians,
coupled with boon for music-lovers -
this, apparently, will be one of the fruits
of the CWA work in Pittsburgh. Plans are
being made in that city for a municipal
symphony orchestra, to be supported by
CWA funds which have been allotted for
employment of idle musicians. If the plans
20 through, nearly 100 musicians will get
full-time employment, and concerts will
be given throughout Pennsylvania as
we'll as in Pittsburgh. Here is cultural
gain worth copying elsewhere and it is
the sort of scheme that kills two birds
with one stone 1t would make the best
kind of music available to people who
have not been able to hear such music
before.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
Selected Poem
TOWN AT TWILIGHT

AIIILE IOWN Al xWAAlASnI
(By Catharine Cranmer In
the New York Sun
At midday, when the world Is
measureless.
The SUMS far-driven force dis
mays the eyes.
It dwarfs such breadth as village
streets possess
1t robs small homes Of dignity
and size.
But when at dusk the tyrant sun
relents
And mellows all the west with
friendly hues,
The town energies, as though great
Had need Of II to sweeten even
ing views.
The tall elms tower. the houses
stand upright,
Their doorWayn gracious en-
frances to home,
Their windows giving out a golden
TO win the most untathored who
would foam.
No happiness. glare or seryitude Of
Can turn the twilight from thls
hemow9fd way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
DAILY WASHINGTON
\ MERRY-GO-ROUND
: By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN

Black Committee Digs Up Dynamite on international
Mercantile Marine; Sol Bloom Gets a Polish Medal
Pinned ON Him Not Just Once But Thrice; Roosevelt
Advisers Say RGiney Is All Wet About Stock Market
Program; Johnson to Reopen AU Price Firing Agree
ppents and XIII "Open Prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

Aimee Semple Mcpherson is sued for
$4,000 for engaging in q public debate
against atheism without providing an op.
ponent. II one-sided debating Is against
the law. there's q new wave OF lawlessness
sweeping the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

What was called Little Brook
entered Great Brook on the west
side at the corner Of South Main
and Scovill streets. This stream
turned the first wheel for strictly
manufacturing purposes at James
Harrison's clock shop, which start
ed in 1902 near the corner of
Spencer avenue and North Main
street. %4s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
Know Your Waterbury
Its History, Facts and General Information
BRASS CITY FACTS
Information

The Waterbury Wheel club was
organized in 1884 with ten mem
bers. The object Of the association
was to encourage the practical use
Of the bicycle and the encourage
ment of social and athletic inter-
ests among the members.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

dom to arm like their recent foes would
do more than anything else to overcome
the delusion and restore German self
respect. Then there would probably be
no war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

Green Kendrick was the third
mayor Of Waterbury, serving from
1882-1884.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

What was once known as Horse
Pasture, lands sequestered for the
pasture OF horses, was later known
as Hopeville.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

The Acme club was organized
October 6, 1885, with twenty-five
members. This was a mems social
club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

Up In the Arctic Ocean they use Ice
breakers, but down In AntarctN the Ice
breaks itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

gates from Waterbury were pres
ent. They were Simon Miles and
Andrew Adams.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
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See Gussner's beautiful Easter
display of Fruits & Vegetables.
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Good Friday Services
Announced by Pastors

Evening services to observe Good
Friday will be held In = number Of
local churches.
The sacrament Of holy communion
will be administered at McCabe Meth
odist church at 1850 o'clock. Rev. Al
fred Roe, district superintendent, Will
assist Rev. Walter e. Water, pastor,
in the ceremonies. which will include
reception Of boys and girls Of the pre-
paratory class for church member
ship.
Certificates for proficiency In cate
chism will be given to the candidates,
who will receive their first holy com.
n.union at the services. All members
and friends Of the church are invited
to attend.
Good Friday worship win be con-
Quoted at the Salvation Army at )
O'Clock, with Captain Fred Corliss
preaching on the subject, THE Story
Of the Cross. The public = invited
and members are urged to be present
by Captain Corliss.
Rev. Ira z. Herzberg, pastor Of the
First Evangelical church. viii preach
on "The' First Word from tho Cross
for the 7:45 o'clock service. There
win be distribution Of communion ct
this time.