The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-25

Liberty League chorus al expenditures"
 To them, federal funds have been literal 1ife-savers, rescuing their communities from financial collapse and civil disturbance. Their big demand was for MORE government money.
 The most rouSing moment of the three-day meeting occurred when Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, discarding his prepared manuscript, declared that the government of the United States has put it's hand to this blow (Of relief and it Is never going to be taken away"
 Permanent Problem
 With a few exceptions the city fathers attending the conference consider unemployment @ per- manent problem.
 Baltimore's Mayor Howard Jackson, talking informally to g group of colleagues, voiced the idea in these words: T look for- ward to a steady and strong irrl- provement in business in every line and at the same time prac- tically undiminished number of unemployed"
 Pathological developments and the increasing mechanization of production were held responsible for this condition.
 Next to the mayors demand for more government money, was their clam0r for . long range relief policy. Washing toms policy of shifting to dif- ferent plan every year - first direct relief, then the CWA, then back to the dole, and now the PWA--makes for wsate and inefflciency.:
 They want to see permanent federal relief program, combin- ing all these formulas if neces- sary, but one which the cities can be sure of and base their plans upon.
 TelevisiOn?
 A hearing which will materially affect the future of television and cheap telephone communication opens here today.
 The federal communications commission is re-hearing the peti- ton of the American Telephone and Telegraph Go. to lay a coaxial cable between New York and Philadelphia.
 Made of one wire inside 8 large cable, instead of the usual twist ed wires, a coaxial will carry about 240 telephone messages si- multaneously with about 2,400 telegraph messages. Also 1t will carry instantaneously the thou- sands of impulses needed for the dots and lines of television.
 Last April, the American Tel. and Tel. was given permission to lay the cable provided 1t allowed other scientists the privilege of its use for television experiments. ton. In a huff, A. T. and T. withdrew the application, de- manded a monopoly or nothing. Inside Stuff
 Members of the federal corn- munications commission believe the company fears that laying the new cable will prove how cheap telephone costs can be made, thus lead to wholesale lowering of rates.
 Public criticism of the com- pany has been expressed by Commissioner Paul Walker, in charge of the $75O,O00 senate inc vestigation of the A. T. and T.'s telephone monopoly. He claims the coaxial cable Is testing the sincerity" of the company's ex- pressed aim to cooperate for the
 benefit of science, cheaper rates and the public.
 Meanwhile the entire question is up again before none too friendly commission.
 NOTE--No coaxial cable has ever before been constructed any where in the world.
 Mayoralty
 Merry. GO.ROund
 Wisconsin, with fourteen may- ors, had the largest representa- ton of any state at the mayors conference in Washington. t. Oldest city executive in point of service was Charles s. Ashley, mayor of New Bedford, Mass, for thirty-two years. Next oldest was Daniel W. Hoan, socialist mayor of Milwaukee for twenty years. Youngest in service was Harold H. Burton, elected to the /mayoralty of Cleveland, Ohio, the 9th of this month. Tn the course of one of his extemporaI1- eous speeches, New York'S Fiorello La Guardia matched President Roosevelt's phrase breathing spell" with the remark: What the unemployed of this country need is e good eating spell" ., Relief Administrator Harry Hop- kins explained his tardy arrival to address the conference by say-