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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10
Personal
Biz Attendance At Annual Dinner OF Catholic Council

Delaney, Mrs Joseph Delaney. Miss Sarah L.. Guilfoile, Mrs Anna B. Daly, Mrs P. J. McGrath, Miss Marguerite Nigro, Mrs Frederick Dauch.
 Misses Marguerite Maloney. Edna Maloney, Grace Daly; Mrs Maurice Altman, Mrs Angeline Spadola, Mrs James Reilly, Mrs Mary Antzarz, Mrs Mazski, Miss Pauline Asarasty, Alice McGrath, Mrs Frank Newcomb, Mrs John Black, Mrs William Fitzgerald, Miss Mary Fitzgerald, Mrs H. C.. Donovan, Mrs Thomas Fitzmau- rice, Mrs Rose Dunden, Mrs James O'Leary, Mrs James Lynch, Mrs William Guilfoile, Mrs John Smith, Miss Margaret Moriarity, Mrs James Lawlor, Mrs Patrick Leary, Mrs John Meegan, Mrs Jane Kane; Misses Anna McMahon. Mrs Thom- as Donahue, Miss Pearl Graves, Mrs James Reilly, Mrs Dorothy Ropelewski, Mrs Joseph Latosin- ska, Mrs Mary Splettstosher, Mrs Lucy Komarzienia.
 Misses -Rosalie Longo, Phyllis Renna, Rose Clarkin, Mary Mo- Carthy, Louise Kennedy, Helen Browne, Mary Browne, Mrs Joseph Brenneis. Mrs M. Bavaneski, Miss Stella Romanofski, Mrs Anna Giviazdowski. Mrs James Hennes- sey, Mrs John Shea, Mrs John Lynch, Mrs Edward Cooke, Mrs John Mitchell, Miss Mary Ray, Mrs Maurice Fitzmaurice, Mrs Freder- ick Stephen, Mrs Walter Malsch, Misses Mary Robinson, Agnes Cor man, Helen Stephen. Georgia Wolff, Marian White.
 The Alpha Omega fraternity of the Sencond Congregational church assisted by several women of the parish and a committee of moth CTS of Boy Scouts, will conduct a card party in Davenport hall, Wednesday, May Is, at o'clock. Mrs Frederick B. Webster will have charge of the tables. The proceeds will be used to send worthy boys of Troop to the scout camp.
 The Evening department of the Second Congregational church will hold a rummage sale Thursday, May Is at 25 Abbott avenue. Mrs Walter Robison will be in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10
.sAUNDERS.SANTORO

Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Angeline Sam toro of Charles street and Royal
 Saunders, of Abbott avenue. The ceremony took place on May 4th.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

The Naomi class of the First Baptist church will meet at the home of Mrs L. c. Schultz. Clin- ton street, Monday evening at 7:3O o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

Miss Winifred McNellis of East Main streete has been spending several days in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10
CONTRACT BRIDGE
 By VIM. E. MCKINNEY Secretary of the American Bridge League

Luck and Squeeze Work After Finesse Wins Declarel Succeeds In Making Grand Slam With
 Highly Interesting Hand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

MT and Mrs Arthur Cowper oi Waterville street are spending a few days in New York city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

Division 57. A. o. H., will hold 3 meeting this evening at 8. o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10
Weddings
Local Women To Attend Meetin

Miss Florence Greenleaf. presi- dent of the Waterbury Business & Professional Women's Club, win lead ' delegation of business wom- e4 to the annual convention of the Connecticut Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs which will be held in Hartford to- morrow. Miss Greenleaf, as presi-, dent of local club will bring greet ings to the other clubs around the state and will report on the club activities during the past year.
 Miss Emily E. Merriman. chair man of the state educational com mittee will also submit a report at that time. The convention meetings will begin at 9:30 in the Hotel Bond and there will be a luncheon at 1900 o'clock and the annual ban quet at 7:OO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

The Married Couples associa- ton of the First Methodist Episco- pal church will hold their final meeting at the Kaaben's club in Plymouth Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock. Clarence Folwell will be in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

The Evening department of the Second Congregational church will hold a rummage sale Thursday, May Is at 25 Abbott avenue. Mrs Walter Robison will be in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

ouen Father Circle of the First M. E. church will faeet ct the home of Mrs George Raeburn, Nelson avenue, Monday evening. at e;s0 o'clock. The efiicial board meeting of the church will bs held at o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10

Members of the Waterbury Girls club Athletic association will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock, at Leavenworth house. Miss Christine Kelly will preside. Following the meeting a card party and enter tainment will be enjoyed and re- treatments will be served.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12
U. s. Rule Not So Bad

When you let your gaze wander Tn tne general direction of France, you are apt to conclude that there is great deal to De said in favor of the somewhat stiff ana cumbersome type of government which the United States enjoys. The commonest criticism of the American form of gov ernnent is that it is slow to respond to shifts in popular feeling. An adminlstra- tion has a four-year term of office, and there is no way on earth for the people to shorten that term no matter how greatly they may disagree with the admlnlstra- lions policies.
 Tn France the situation is just the re- verse. The government there is almost like a weather-vane, compelled to veer about in obedience to the slightest change in public opinion on penalty of being blown down if it fails to do so. Since the formation of the Clemenceau cabinet in 1917, France has had upwards of oO governments. A few have lasted as long as two years at stretch; others nave lasted only few days. The recent gov srnment of Premier Fernand Bouisson endured exactly three days and 20 hours; Heriot once headed one which fell Tn 4o hours.
 All of this indicates degree of flexl- hility even more pernlclOuS CHdH IIle SIiAA- ness of the American system. You can best understand how it works by remem- bering that the French premier must re- sign whenever he is defeated on an inn portant vote in the Chamber of Deputies. That would be equivalent, over here, to having a president, resign instead of using the veto. When you recall that every recent president has used the veto num- Der of times, you can see what an ex- treme lack of stability the French system creates.
 Installed in the United States, it would put every president completely at the mercy of Congress. He could not fight Congress, for if Congress voted him down he would go out of office. He could hard ly even lead. His chief function would be to follow; and when you consider the extreme diversity of opinions reflected In any large legislative body, you can see that in many cases even this would be impossible. The peculiarities of parlia- mentary government in France are not, perhaps, of very great importance in the United States. But the inflexibility of the American form of government freqently comes under attack; and when it does, 1t is comforting to reflect that too much flexibility can be worse than not enough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12
Old Time Leader

The death of Peter B. Reeves recalled to many of the older residents of the city the days when he was chairman of the demo- cratic town committee. Long years before his son, the Honorable Francis T. Reeves, became mayor of Waterbury. Peter E. Reeves was an active and ardent worker in the ranks of the democratic party of the city He was not native of this city or even of this country, but once settled here he speedily became most interested and concerned citizen.
 It fell to his lot to be one of those men who served on the old Board of Public Safety during the dreadful fire of 1902 when Waterbury's business center was devastated by flames and the ordin- ary pursuits of the rapidly growing city disrupted for many days to come. Those were indeed trying days and it required men like Peter B. Reeves and others of his ilk who have gone before him and who remain after him to carry us through the trials and tribulations.
 Of recent years he has spent most of his days in the retirement of his home He gave freely of his time in his day to the fraternal, political, and business world. He preferred that his reclining years be spent in peaceful introspection. His death at the advanced age of 83 years ended a singularly happy and successful life. He had just passed his 83rd milestone a few days ago. He completed the allotted four score years. His was task well done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12

river. Texas is not in Mexico. It was once but it won its indepen. dence and then presented itself to the United, States. Keep that in mind, it presented itself without charge"
 Marcantonio staged a .snappier spectacle. His meeting was an American Legion affair at which were present large number of Italian ex-service men. In pre- senting Marcantonio the presid- ing officer fiamboyantly an- nounced that i've want no more hyphenated Americans"
 Marcantonio also hit the ros- trum running:
 s'You have just heard one of these stuffed shirts denounce 'hyphenated Americans We'll, I am a hyphenated American and so are millions of other good, loyal honest Americans. T h 6 swivcl-chair heroes who have only hearsay knowledge of gum powder seem to forget that the World War veterans we are gathered here to honor were only .hyphenated Americans"
 Having thus declared himself, Marcantonio strode off the plat form to the cheers of the as- sembled veterans.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12

JUNE 13 Most favored today those born from Nov. 21 through Dec. 21.
 General Indications for the Day for Everybody
 Morning-Good
 Afternoon-Bad
 Evening-Good There a number of conflicting influences operating during the afternoon. The early morn ing the evening is the wisest choice today
 TOday's Birthdatc Your birthdate gives variety of talents. You should be good churchman You should also be interested in rubber growing and dancing. June through August 1886, may be very dis appointing to you You should endeavor to keep your health in order to get plenty of sleep and rest.
 You may be financially successful during March, 1886, if you will avoid extravaganza and overin- dulgence. Make effort to agree with partners. You should use caution from Oct. 17 through 23, 1885. There is danger from fire, instruments, accident rash action.
 Readers desiring additional information regard ing their horoscopes are invited to communicate with Octa vine in of The Democrat. Enclose 3 cent stamped, self-addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12

recognized the right of labor to or ganize and to bargain collectively. Moreover the Christian principles of Social Justice were strong enough to keep these nations out of the seething caldron of the World war. Today, these countries are fiourishing. There is no de- pression in Sweden, for the reason that the government controls the banking system and the credit of the nation. Wages have been standardized under a system whereby the 1aborer is assured of just and living wage.
 No poverty is so pitiful as the poverty that comes of a nation that places its trust in gold. Gold cannot for long take the place of the general welfare of the citizens of nation. As soon as any nation places property rights above hu- man rights, she deliberately in scribes upon her monuments of greatness a prophecy of doom. What was true yesterday is true to- day. The course of true civilization never defects from a certain path of morality and virtue. When money is prized more than our principles, when international bankers are regarded with greater confidence than our duly elected representatives, the foundations of national greatness are fast becom- ing insecure.
 \ These concepts are not novel. They have been woven into every flag which our nation has raised aloft. Every hill and dale which marked the habitations of the early colonists give them life and reverberation.
 The walls of old Independence Hall at Philadelphia still resound with that melody of freedom when utterance was first given to that document which reads:
 "We hold these truths to be
 self-evident: that all men are
 created equal; that they are en-
 dowed by their Creator with cer-
 tain unalienable rights. that
 among these are life, liberty,
 and the pursuit of happiness"
 The Liberty Bell which first sounded the birth of this principle was likewise the requiem to the theory that the many existed for the few, that human rights must be Bubservient to property rights Our democracy was conceived in the thought that first of all. the power of government, is primarily inherent in the citizens of a nation Americans have sickened of the doctrine that tho might of n few constitutes the morality of tho many.
 GEORGE L. AXoTTE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12

Washington, June 12--There was nothing accidental about the recent furry of public appear ances and speeches of Herbert Hoover.
 They were all carefully ar. ranged and timed. Sources close to the former republican presi- dent say that from now on he can bc expected to perform in the limelight with increasing frequency and fOrcefulness.
 Hoover, they declare, has de- cided to re-enter public life. Whether this means he has his cap set for another shot at the presidency, his friends are un- able to say. They do, however. relate this significant story:
 In the original manuscript of HOovcr's book. published last year, there was a statement that he was not a candidate for the !. 36 nomination..
 But oh the advice of Ogden l.. Mills, secretary of the treasury in hls cabinet, and several other close political advisers, Hoover eliminated the declaration. It never appeared in the published volume.
 Strange Interlude
 Representative Jo h n J. Me- Swain recently had hectic ex- perience in one of the tourist. filled corridors of the capitol.
 The tall, distinguished-looking South Carolinian was hurrying through the corridor, deeply en- grossed in his thoughts, when he collided with a bevy of school girls escorted by a professional guide.
 McSwain started to apologize when the guide, seizing the op- portunity to show off his familiarity with notables, broke in with loud below:
 Ladies, meet Representative Robert l.. Doughton of your home state, North Carolina!"
 The smartly attired misses Uttered. McSwain looked pained.
 "The name is McSwain, John J. McSwain," he corrected in an undertonc. N
 "oh, of course, excuse me-" the guide said, Representative John J. McSwain of North Caro- lima, chairman of ." .ss
 ". : or SOUTH Carolina" McSwain corrected.
 "Ah, yes, my mistake" said t,.e guide, wholly unperturbed, "of South Carolina, chairman of the house of representative ways and means committee"
 "No, mo-" corrected McSwain for the third time, chairman of the house naval ..S I mean, mil. itary affairs committee"
 q beg y.ur pardon, congress man." said the guide pleasantly, chairman of the house military affairs committee and mem Der of congress for the past twelve years ~. :"
 "Fiftecn!" snapped McSwain.
 The guide grinned disarming- ly. "I'm sorry" he began, "you see t Is this way, MT Doushton
 
 But McSwain waited to hear no
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12
Promises Action

The first promise of Senator Matthew A. Daly of New Haven in his official capacity as federal administrator in Con 1,ecticut was to the effect that Connecti- ciIt's institutional expansion would not suffer by failure of the Legislature to take proper action. It has been claimed that since the just-dissolved Assembly did not 1,ass enabling legislation the state would i1ot be able to procure federal funds with which to finance part of the construction of much-needed public buildings.
 The state has visioned federal aid iR hnil5inr flls new e0Idiers' home at Rocky HilI: the needed 500 bed units at the Fair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12

Also, in order to give them discretionary power to raise or lower the taxes, they propose an amendment authorizing the sec retary of agriculture to take such action according to ex- pressly stated standards.
 Warning
 Presiding officers at public meetings are warned to be care-' full of th cir introductions of Representatives Maury Maverick of Texas or Vito Marcantonio of New York. The two scrappy leaders of the house liberal bloc are very outspoken young men. { Maury and Vito were speakers at separate gatherings in New York city q few days ago. By coincidence both administered sharp verbal spanIkings to their introducers at about the same time.
 At Mavericks meeting, his in- troducers eloquently presented him as ''the congressman from the goth district of Mexico" ? It happens that Maverick stems from an old Texas family. His grandfather was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Inde- pendence. So he preceded his re- marks with the following:
 ''It is high time that you east erners realized that the country is not bounded by the Hudson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12

and one-sided, as to support such policies as are in direct conflict with our government, and the Con- stitution of the United States, it ceases to. be, newspaper and be- comes a disseminator of propagan- da. M
 Beware ofsthe editor who swears by the bill of rights, but is always tinkering with 1t, scraping and var
 nishing, and twisting the Constitu- tion to meet his own selfish ends. On Mondays and Fridays he strings
 along with Thomas Jefferson, and
 the rest of the week, he is di- sciple of Machiavelli! In other words, his editorials do not make sense. His label is frayed. He is a lost maverick wandering on the vast ranges of the world of jour- nalism, politics and ideas- And he knows no brother.
 | The National Union for Social
 Justice has been attacked repeat edly by the editor of the Water-
 bury American, and its members
 have been held up to ridicule. The National Union for Social Justice needs no apologies. Any organiza- tion that can recruit over eight million members in the short space
 of eight months since it's inception,
 needs no apology. No other organ
 ization in the history of our coun- try has had such phenomenal
 rise. Citizens in every walk of life, regardless of political or religious affiliations have fiocked to the ban ner of Social Justice and have come to realize that if we guarded our citizens welfare as jealously
 as some of our editors guard our gold reserves, the future Of this country as nation should cause us little concern.
 This country so rich in material wealth, so progressive in the scien- tiflc field. so proud of its natural resources, is inclined to forget that the real bulwark of a nations strength and power are not in the created or natural wealth, but in the proper administration, ham
 ding, working, and distribution of
 this wealth. As proof of my con
 tention that Social Justice is not
 just another experiment, cite the
 Scandinavian. countries who adopted the Christian principles of Social Justice 40 years ago. Their
 central banking system owned and
 controlled by the government was
 the first to stabilize It's currency
 after the World war. Old age pen-
 sions, accident insurance, disabil- ity. maternity insurance, provide
 real protection for its citizens and
 was enacted long before the prin- clples of Social Justice were pro- pounded in thid country.
 Sweden. Denmark and Norway
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12
IN GOLD WE TRUST SHOULD BECOME NEW MOTTO OF
 UNITED STATES
June 12, 1885

! Suhc A%, AooO'
 Editor, Waterbury Democrat.
 Dear Sir: During the past few weeks, it has become a rather popular Journalistic sport to belit- tie our congressman and sheer at our senators, although they have been the choice of our people.
 Perhaps this sneering propagan- da has been instituted so that un- elected and selfish financiers can handle the international negotia- tions of our nation instead of the more capable and upright men whom we as conscientious citizens have elected to guide the ship of our political destiny. It is about time that the reins of management be taken from the hands ofsprivate bankers, and returned to the gov ernment, and into the bands of our duly elected representatives in congress.
 There is powerful propaganda being circulated that our congress and senate are detrimental to bus mess. There are voices which whisper through the columns of our daily press, that as long as these constitutional bodies remain in session then depression shall re- main to accompany them. Now that the MIRA has been scrapped and declared unconstitutional by the supreme court for the only reason that congress has delegated it's powers to the president and in- solar as the supreme court wishes to interpret the Constitution to the letter, why does not the supreme court render a decision on the questionable right of the federal reserve banks to coin money and regulate the value thereof? If this principle is embodied in the Constitution of our country and it has never been amended to read otherwise, why is this condition al- lowed to remain?
 Recently, sent to the Water bury American a communication on this very subject which was dis regarded. The Waterbury Ameri- can has consistently refused to publish articles of this nature, eith- CT through its editorials or through the "voice of the People," Fur ther, the Waterbury American has always been first to ululate about the freedom of the press. but 1t denies that right to others.
 It has always been my belief that newspapers were q medium of education, whereby the average citizen could read about current events. but whom it ceases to print lths truth and becomes 60 partisan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12
Taking No Chances

The AAA master minds are taking no chances. Having seen what the supreme court did to the MIRA they propose to lock the door before. not after. the horse is stolen.
 This Is what is back of an amendment they have sent to congress barring court suits to recover processing taxes from the government in the event the supreme court holds such taxes invalid. "
 These processing taxes amounted to &e00, ,0O0, ,OO0 Ia It ycar--a sum almost equal to the combined army and navy appro. priations. For the government to have to refund such an amount would be . terrific jolt.
 Triple-A lawyers say they are confident the court will uphold the legality of the taxes. But to Insure against any "slips" they are proposing two protective steps: (l) to write the specific levles into tho Jaw; and co to prohibit suits to collect refunds should tha court vula adverssiv.