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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-22
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be moved by my own plight, for
the organization for which I work
will doubtless go out on the big
wind with all other organizations
when, as Mr.. Sinclair has triumph.
antly prophesied, private bust,
ness and private profit come to an
end in California" But these are
not the issues which move me.
/ am moped By the thought
of fathers as desperate as my
father wdS, of children as pitt
fully in need as my little son,
OF mothers as broken-hedrted as
myself.
/ am thinking of them as
t0rite by day. am terrified
for them as make BY night.
For / see, as only q Domdn
with my opportunity can see,
that If Upton Sinclair comes
into po1Der, the poor people OF
California are going to knoW
the most hooking misery in our
history.
Mr.. Upton Sinclair won his
huge primary majority because
he advanced glowing scheme for
the relief Of the poor and idle.
Most popular and appealing, to
the average lay mind, was his
Back To The Land" scheme.
THAT SCHEME WON'T WORK,
AND 1T IS THE CRUELEST BAL
LYHOO TO CLAIM THAT TT
WILL.
Hits Farm Movement
You can't solve our unemploy-
ment problem by putting the idle
flotsam of our cities back on the
soil.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT A CAR
ROT COSTS?
DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG
YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR
EVEN ONE CROP OF THE
HARDEST VEGETABLES?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT ARE
THE CHANCES OF THAT CROP
MEETING MATURITY IN THE
FACE OF FROST AND
DROUGHT?
I know. I am a farmer. I work
in the dirt myself. 1 plant car
rotS. I know what it takes to
plant carrots. More than that, I
KNOW WHAT 1T IMPLIES TO
LIVE WITH CARROTS AND
DIRT AND NOTHING ELSE
BUT.
Even if Upton Sinclair could
put millions of people back on
the soil
Even if they knew what to do
after they got there, or were will
ing to learn
Even if they would work after
the first novelty had passed
Wouldn't Stay on Soil
BIZ the end of three months
they's be back on city streets
again.
THE RAGE MODERN
AMERICAN WILL NOT STAY
ON THE SOIL.
HE WILL NOT ENDURE THE
MONOTONY, THE LONELINESS,
THE DREARINESS AND
DRUDGERY OF FARM LIFE.
He Mould rather StGrUe and die
in a city gutter, under a city
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TO HIM. The simple fact is this
we workers of America would re-
bel against communism or social.
ism as keenly as we would against
slavery or breadlineS. We do not
object to private business" or
breadlines. We do not object to
private business" or private
profit" WE SIMPLY WANT A
CHANCE TO GET SOME OF TT
FOR OURSELVES!
Take a tip from one of 'em-
writer's listen lovely, BUT UNTIL
THEY'VE SWEATED FOR THEIR
WORDS THEY DON'T KNOW
WHAT THEY'RE ALL ABOUT!
And heaven help you, fellow vot-
ers, if you try to turn Upton Sin
clair's Talkie into a LIVE.
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0ngtnuG0 from rage
shabby. accustomed to weigh all
arguments. 1 knew that there
were not only two but at least a
dozen sides to every question.
Yet, in the main, I believed in
Upton Sinclair-and felt that the
salvation of the working people
of America lay through such
faith and fury as his.
Today, Upton Sinclair has been
nominated for governor of Cali
fornia by a tremendous majority.
I am not going to Uote for him
or anyone else. I am going to
throw my vote away.
Politically, this is utter folly
but to my mind there are issues
greater than politics, and it is
because of those issues that 1
am writing this unsolicited ex-
preston.
Charges Sinclair Turned
I have turned against Upton
Sinclair because I honestly believe
that he has turned against him
self, against all that he stood for
and, worst Of all. against the peo-
pie he professed to serve.
Get me right. I believe Upton
Sinclair is a good man and sin
cere. I am sure that he honestly
thinks that he is as unSelfiShly de-
voted to the welfare of humanity
and that he would be a conse-
Grated and capable leader. But /
think he's fooling himself.
In the first place Upton Sinclair
is writer. A good reporter to be
sure-intereSted in practical prob
elms-but, nevertheless. a writer
living in writer's world. I. too,
am a writer and know my tribe.
And I'm telling you that the aver
age writer is utterly worthless as
a leader.
FOresees Deeper Despair
Not once in a thousand times
does a writer contact the callous
realities of life for an extended
period. Unless and until he has,
his theories aren't worth a boot.
Moreover, his very ability to make
words live makes him a DANGER
OUR WILL O. THE WISP. Upton
Sinclair is no exception to this
rule.
It's because know the unre.
hahAity of Mr.. Sinclair's back
ground-and the tragic fascina.
ton of his alluring promise-that
I am writing this article. Our
starving millions have known
enough disappointment and de-
spair. But if this man is elected
he will lead them into deeper,
darker morasses than they have
ever yet experienced.
I am not a capitalist. Since my
boy died I have given away every
thing I have earned above my
living expenses. And these living
expenses have been largely de-
voted to building ranch for those
who are as unfortunate as I once
was. No one can accuse me OF
playing politics or serving the
privileged classes" My heart is
where it has always been-With
the workers, of whom I am one.
Fears for Poor
7 should perhaps be moved by
the plight of Big Business If Mr..
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02

towns and cities where public support will be sought in bringing to one common pitch the cry for this new institution.
 At the session in Hartford, which was as far back as March, we recollect one speaker, Dr Stanley P. Davies, remarking that 'To continue piling up the Mansfield Chats our present home and training schooD waiting list is to court the worst kind of social disaster. That waiting list should be on the conscience of the Legs lature of Connecticut and of the public at large. -"
 There doesn't seem to be much opposi7 ton, so far as this writer can see, to the expansion of such social service work. We believe that all our citizens, who would be vitally interested in new home, are doing all they can right now to secure one. But there are any number ot others who will never take more than passing ln- terest in the school. There really IS no sense in appealing to them other than ask ing their support if it should ever become necessary to convince the members of the Legislature by actual numbers that the plea IS good one.
 The main point is to have the proper committee of the Legislature in the right frame of mind when the appropriation IS preached And before that is possible the State Board of Finance and Control must certainly indicate in what way the state may finance the construction of an instl- tuition that will eventually cost close to S5,OO0,OOO, but which may only demand from next years General Assembly mere S1,5OO,OOO. There are to be many insti- tutional demands in 1885. We don't see how the state can meet all of them and not issue bonds. That's subject for some healthy and intensive consideration be- tween now and next spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02
Scarcity Or Abundance

"In spite of all the grumbling, which we may have been doing" says Edward A. Filene, leading Boston merchant, Amerl- can business men will go along with the New Deal, because i've are beginning to realize that we cannot get along without it." Business could discard the New Deal and "go back to more years of poverty and general helplessness," but Eve cannot return to the times when the old deal would work" There is division of opln- ion about this. Many business and pro- fessional men still believe the old ways would work again, if we quit the new re- straints and controls.
 MT Filene continues, to meet the objec- tions of these conservatives: "lf the masses live according to the old standard of living, we cannot use the new methods of producing wealth. We have learned now to produce an abundance and we must learn to distribute that abundance, or business will again be ruined"
 According to this view, now widely ac- cepted, it was our social system of dis tribution that broke down. It was fall ure to spread products more plentltully that caused want in the midst of abund- ance. And here the New Deal itself IS mt to a test. As administered so far, WlCn all US pIollloe, IL Hao o0ohiSu in it's relief work, to illustrate the "philos- ophy of scarcity" instead of the 'philoso- phy of abundance" It has sought to limit production, as if people could not and would not use more if they had it.
 This has been done for purpose praise worthy under the old doctrine - to main :. tain prices. But it is evident to millions of onlookers, and may be clear by this time to the New Dealers themselves, that what MT Filene says about abundance is true. Things must be produced more abundantly, and must reach consumers more abundantly, if we are to keep our great production system going. We must assume abundance as matter of course and get it distributed somehow or other Otherwise the system will jam again worse than ever, and keep on tanning periodically at shorter intervals, until 1t destroys itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02
MONDAY, JULY 2, 1884
Probably The Best Way

The appointment of the former republl- can assistant to the office of U. s. District Attorney is certainly surprising, but no more so than the numerous actions taken in connection with this position since President Roosevelt went into office Tn 1883. If the democrats are now bit dis gruntled they can only blame themselves. We presume that the brunt of the crlt'- cism will fall on Senator Lonergan, but to our way of thinking he is no more re- sponsible for this strange state of affairs than any other principal in the case.
 Had the democrats acted promptly to fill the office of district attorney, as we'll as the other federal positions in Connecticut, there might not have been the stir over them that we witnessed. But no, we had to wait and wait while various state lead CTS or pseudo leaders decided the fate of those who were seeking the jobs. The powers that be at Washington made their mistake in not forcing factional leaders Ill Connecticut democratic ranks to come to definite showdown during the summer ot 1883. That's when the appointments should have been made.
 As it was, time dragged along and eventually the U. S. District Attorney, the Internal Revenue Collector, and the C OI LU0 OIG WSl0 Stll 1lelAlSu' Envy were given recess appointments. The democratic senator, Augustine Lonergan, was eliminated from all consideration. He started to reciprocate and succeeded in lining up the Senate so that 1t refused confirmation of the first two above. This was the situation of which the republicans took advantage. And we don't blame them. If the democrats want to squabble over high offices, let them, but we'll step in and seize what we can. That seems to be the thought behind this latest move.
 No doubt it will cause President Roose- welt to make a quick recess appointment, because he leaves on his Pacific trip soon. Failing to do this George H. Cohen, the assistant upon whom Federal Judges Ed win s. Thomas and Carroll c. Hincks de- cided, will hold office, as will such other assistants and office help as are now em- ployed. We don't know but what Presl- dent Roosevelt might bring the warning democrats of Connecticut to their senses by allowing the appointment to hold. It still does not bring recognition to Senator 1Lonergan, who by all rules of the games, deserves some.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02

Washinton, July lon his present cruise, Franklin Roose- welt actually will be the com- mander-in-chief of the American navy at the helm of his flagship.
 For the president has studied the charts for this cruise until any helmsman. He knows, for instance, how to get a vessel into the tortuous channel of Chris tiansted in the Virgin Islands, through which no strange pilot is allowed to take vessel. He knows the depth of water and the form of the harbor in every port he will touch.
 Studying navigation charts is one of the presidents hobbies, and of laZe he has had good time doing 1t.
 Never before in history has president of the United States served in person as commander in-chief of the navy.
 PROMISING YOUNGSTER
 Ohio's Senator Robert Johns Bulkley was a classmate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Harvard. Bulkley was editor of "The Crimson" Roosevelt was a reporter.
 "Yes," confided Bulkley the other day, the president used to / work for me at Harvard. He was a promising young man, too. knew he would amount to something"
 NEW SEA MONSTER
 It is not supposed to be known outside the State and Navy de- partments, but already blue prints for giant new battle ship are in the works.
 This is the first gun in what looks like another cut-throat naval race to begin after the 1885 naval conference which seems headed for failure.
 Americ>l naval designers have been working on these blueprints for more than three months. and the product of their work will make the new sea monsters as far ahead of our present battleships as the pres ent day automobile Is ahead or the 1914 model.
 OCEAN MAIL
 Contrary to general belief, the ocean mail probe is by no means concluded. Investigators for the Senate committee, at work quietly for several months, have gathered a mass of documentary evidence. The postoffice depart ment alone has turned over scv- eral bushels of records.
 The inside whisper is that some of the news information is of a highly sensational char acter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02
A Book a Day
Ring Lardner Tales Put In Book Form
By BRYCE CAPTION

Some of the funniest things Ring Lardner ever wrote arc to be found in First and Last Ring Lardner". a collection of his newspaper and magazine articles compiled by Gill bert Seldes.
 Since MT Lardner's death, the highbrows have had a field day telling about his cruel disillusion- ment with American life, his sav- age satire. his hatred of the great American moron, and so on.
 They have been pretty much in the right to be sure. but the stuff in this book is a healthy reminder that he was. first and foremost. a humorist: and humorist, what ever his other qualities. is primar- fly man who makes people laugh.
 Doubtless these pieces do not attaches to his short stories. The have the artistic significance that bulk of them were written offhand for daily newspaper publication. But they are exceedingly funny, and the book as whole contains about as many laughs as you could reasonably ask for in any one vol ume.
 Here are his reportorial efforts his stories about world series, yacht races. prize fights and the like. And while the events he GOV cred have long since been buried by the dust of the years, his stor- ics are as fresh now as they were when the newspapers first printed them.
 Reading these pieces gives one a new admiration for the mans abil- ity. It also gives one lot of good. honest amusement.
 Published by Scribner's. the book is nriced at &2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02
Press Comment
NO MORE AIRSHIPs?
(New Haven Register)


 After the United States fleet maneuvers in the Carlppean. rumors gained circulation to the effect that the airship Macon was not a particularly useful element in the service. As if in answer to such rumors, it is reported now thatt he navy department this summer will study the Macon's services in particular and the utility of gigantic aircraft of this type in general. The study. it is said, will aim at a definite air. ship policy for the future.
 Concerning the practical utility of such craft in actual service, the layman is no person to pass judgment. The truth is. however, that a great part of the public has become skeptical on its part in regard to their worth. In view of the disasters which they have brought, great many people would welcome abandonment of them, and certainly most well come would be an exhaustive in- quiry and final determination of yes-or-no policy.
 Some foreign governments al- ready have made up their minds on airships. They have had ex- periences as bad as or worse than our own, and decided months ago to have no more of them. If the navy department should decide to confine it's attentions, and funds, elsewhere, the landlubbing public undoubtedly would miss these occasional glimpses of what becomes of the taxpayers money; there is good chance, however, that such regret would be tre- mendously overshadowed with satisfaction that there would be no further Shenandoahs or Akrons. The time certainly is ripe for a decision.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02
C.huckleCorner
CAN YOU IDENTIFY By Elizabeth Porter

The High street girl who doesn't believe in fighting, yet wears col ors that clash?
 The Terryville parents who got their daughter so well-raised she now looks down on 'em?
 The Bridgeport dentist who &C., cused his doctor neighbor of "un- fair competition" when he saw the latter looking down in the mouth?
 The Fairfield county farmer who applied to the government for drought relief, and, asked if he had any money, answered Sure, but I'm saving that for 8 rainy day.?
 The Cottage Park lad who rap- idly climbed the ladder of suc- cess? By eloping with a million aires daughter.
 The West Side couple whose marriage is about washed up'' because the dishes aren't?
 The Thomaston mother who wouldn't let her daughter read this modern literature except that she wants someone to explain it to her?
 The Litchfield county town so small that when a piece of gossip has been around it can still be recognized?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02

dar of the new federal commit nications commission.
 President Roosevelt is the au- thor of the idea.
 He considers these charges decidedly excessive, thinks they should be drastically trimmed, would like to see the commission dig into the matter.
 The presidents view regard ing these rates has strong docu- mentary substantiation in a sur vey made, under congressional authority, by Walter M. M. Splawn, recently appointed to the Interstate Commerce com mission by the president.
 MAIL BAG
 A. C., Atlanta, Ga.-The deficit of the democratic national com mittee. as of May 31, was $54l,- 97O. The largest outstanding obligations were $S0,250 owed to John J. Raskob, and $33,576 owed to Joseph P. Kennedy, of New York. The first is a hold over debt from the. Smith cam paign in 1928. l.. L.' Danielson, COnn-Mrs Roose- welt addresses the president as "Franklin." When she refers to him she usually uses the expres- sion. "my, husband" F. T.' Decatur, Ala Senator Hugo Black is rated as an upper bracket member of the chamber. He is an effective legislator, also one of the most facile debaters on the democratic side. E. B., Boulder, ColO-The fed eral bureau of education reports that 19 of the nations presidents have been college graduates. Tn addition six were college presi- dents. four college professors. Twenuty-three of the 31 presi- dents were lawyers, one a plant er-and surveyor, one tailor, one a mining engineer. =. k. n.' Joplin. Mo.-As of June ~. 305.SS7 individual no m s throughout the country had been refinanced by the Home owners Loan Corporation. Tn addition there were on that date over 35S,O0O applications which had been examined ana ap- proved and will receive ald as soon as they can be put through
 (Copyright, 1884, by United
 Feature Syndicate, me-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02
In Today's s Mail
 What do you tMnk-Send aii ,ctters and communications witn your opinions to the Editor o' tho Waterbury Democrat.
Aid Asked In Helping New York Families To Get
 Relief

Editor. Waterbury Democrat:
 Yesterday the fresh air registrar of our Episcopal City Mission so- ciety gave me this letter rom mother of four, who asked noth- ing for herself:
 After this long. hard winter, my little boy is a wreck again--skinny, anaemic. seven pounds under weight really do my best. But every time my husband gets a lit- file work, the home relief is stop. ped: then when his work runs out we have no food.
 "We have been trying to live on potatoes and cereal and more pota- toes. I am enclosing a doctor statement. It is the awful truth Can you take my boy to the coun- try? Health means so much. only somehow he can survive tnese terribly hard years, I feel he Will amount to something when ne grows up"
 While I was reading this. hos pital social worker telephoned asking for country care for 2 mother fin dangerously lowered condition from prolonged malnour- ishment." The mother was the same woman who had written about her boy.
 Will you not help US to give such families fighting chance for health-some respite from hunger some new strength for hard months ahead? $15 will give each child or mother two weeks of country care. SIS will take an en- tire family of five. Every dollar will help.
 Checks should be made to Eugene w. Stetson, treasurer, and mailed to the Headquarters of the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission society, 3S Bleecker street. New York.
 Sincerely yours.
 L. ERNEST SUNDERLAND. Superintendent.