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The Washington times., 1935-05-10

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
Plenty Of Clean Water

According to Warren J. Scott, director aeof the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the State Department of Health, Con- necticut is fortunate in it's supplies of potable water. He believes that Connec-' 1icut and New England in general are . very well off in this respect, much more so than many other sections of the nation where polluted water must be treated to supply a community with drinking water. 2 That, however, should not lessen our ef- forts to clean up the badly polluted waters of Connecticut. There are few rivers Y within our boundaries now that have escaped pollution.
 We have said much on this subject lately in the hope that more communities ' would speed up their pollution elimination programs. We had fond hopes of Water- bury leading the way in the Naugatuck valley, but 1t looks now as if Waterbury samight be the last of the valley towns to join the list of those ending the practice of dumping raw sewage into the Nauga- ystllck river. Both Naugatuck and Torring- ton will operate disposal plants in the Immediate future, if the town authorities 1conclude that such operation is going to be of any practical purpose
 % As matter of strict fact, it won't. Unless every community in the river valley does the same thing, it really won't matter much if Naugatuck and Torrington desist. Once river is polluted as badly as is the Naugatuck the only way it can be re- claimed from source to mouth is wholesale correction. If Waterbury still pollutes the stream, it will remain polluted despite the fact that Naugatuck and Torrington have ceased doing so. And if Torrington, Waterbury, and Naugatuck all operate 1disposal plants, the river will remain pol luted until towns below Naugatuck join the list of non-polluters
 MT Scott says, ." Connecticut and New England generally can be considered ! as Fortunately situated in that most of our sslarger communities which discharge sew age pollution into waters are located along the shore or in the valleys of the larger rivers. This has made it possible up to the present time to secure water supplies mainly from the upland areas which are relatively sparsely populated and which | are free from serious pollution. .. Quite true but how much longer can these com munities hope to secure such precious water rights in the uplands. Waterbury was severely castigated in this session Of the Legislature by Litchfield county leg islators for doing that very thing-getting water rights on the Shepaug river. The day will come when polluted waters will be used for domestic usage unless we start now to end all pollution by modern disposal methods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
More Student Jobs

One of the American cooperative col leges, whose students take turns study ing and working in three-month periods, reports a reassuring change in the employ ment situation. For some time it has been very hard to get jobs for the students in the factories, stores and offices that wei come them in normal years. But now 9C per cent of those eligible for the work shift are placed. There has been decided pickup in the last two months. The best jobs offered have been in small and medi- um sized concerns in mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering fields, and in those connected directly or indirectly with the automotive industry.
 It means improvement in industry and 7 in the general business situation. There IS more than this. Employers are more in- terestcd in hiring students and college graduates than they used to be- They prefer young men with good special train- ing. As a result, says the college authority who handles the students jobs: College seniors should look forward to the bright est June graduation this year since 1930."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
Retrenchment In Order

Everything points to the introduction of special taxes by act of the l935 Leg1s- lature. In view of the many proposals for correction in our present tax structure, it seems fair to claim that some of the recommendations are bound to come to pass. Whether this will mean increased or lower taxation remains to be seen. It is the general purpose of the many measures that have been proposed to the General Assembly by the special tax survey com mission to lower taxation by ridding the present system of duplication and putting in it's stead simplification.
 Unfortunately there are many other factors entering into the matter. And the human element seems to be the main one right now. There is a pressing de- mand for more state revenue. Our deficit is on the increase. It surely will be in- creased by many millions if we adopt the several pieces of social legislation that are now pending, notably state aid for all cities and towns up to two-thirds of their relief expenditures and the old age pen- sions. To finance the former we impose sales tax; to pay for the old age. pen- sions we eliminate the present $2 poll tax and substitute $3 head tax.
 If it was the purpose of the tax survey commission to replace old forms of taxa tion with new ones, this is the way to go about it. We did think at one time, though, that out of this tax survey might come fixed opinion in the minds of all that taxes were too many and too high and to bring down their annual total per person efforts would be made to estab- fish in our governments such practices as would save money, like the fiscal year and coinciding tax-due dates, thus removing a tremendous interest burden from the taxpayers.
 This is proposed, but is also opposed on the ground that to put it into effect would cost too much money. No more so than the new taxes now being proposed will cost. Grant that the depression has thrown unusual burdens on the local, state, and federal governments. We must expect to pay for this sooner or later. But most men when the depression pinched them gave up certain things in the luxury field. Many dropped club memberships, cut down household expenses, adhered strictly to budgets. Governments have not fol- lowed this example. All the fancy serv- ices and side departments, the product Of the boom years, are still retained. What's more, they are steadily added to. Until government takes a drop in it's cost, all expedients for raising taxes have got to be regarded with a suspicious if not hostile eye.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
So They Say

In modern economic life there is no more crazy concept than that state lines controlling boundaries of American industrial activity Gen. Hugh s. Johnson. Why, Huey isn't the first to advocate limitation of fortunes. did that + years ago. --J. Thomas Hefin, former '. s. senator.
 
 have never been willing to accept the princi- pie of any restriction of what graduates should hear talk about. -President Ernest Hopkins of Dartmouth
  The Constitution is the bulWark of the poor and schemers-Herbert Hoover. One of the things forcing the people to relief rolls fast the government take them off is monopostic prices which eating away their reserves. Senator William F. Borah of Idaho.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

We have been noting increasing evil dence throughout Connecticut of rising tax rates in various towns and cities. Water bury has always been pointed out as a horrible example of municipal mismanage- ment where high taxes have reduced the citizens to state of abject poverty, etc. All of which is not quite true. Waterbury's tax rate is high. too high, we feel, but un- fortunately it's something that can't be cut in half overnight. Under Mayor Frank Hayes there has been decrease from the high peak of 40 mills We haven't made much progress in the last few years. But due to financing we have not jumped the rate, which is just what many other places are now forced to do. Our outlook is far more encouraging than that in other places. We say this with no idea of boast ing. We recognize our faults and frailities, but we also believe in giving credit when credit is due.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS FOR C F. D TO SWALLOW
 HUEY LONG'S FIGURES
Waterbury, Conn. April 12, 1885.

dteTDuTy, COHI, April 12, 1885.
 Editor, the Democrat:
 An editorial in Thursdays issue of the New York Daily News en- titled, This Is an important edi- torial. especially for newspaper
 editors admits that Huey Long 5 figures on American wealth dis
 tribution are substantially correct. The large majority of the press Is woefully ignorant of the facts pre- duced by Senator Long. Refusing to face the facts the press has coh'i tented itself by lam basting Huey Long from an emotional angle. The Daily News was positive that Huey was just a downright liar. TO prove that he was a liar the Daily News sent Lowell Limpus,
 one of their ace investigators, to Washington to dig up the true fiG- ures in order to refute this dena-
 gogue Long. After weeks of dig
 ging into the facts and figures
 Limpus wired his employers that
 his findings would prove startling and probably could not be pub lished. The News, after some de- liberation, decided to publish them nevertheless.
 Huey Long in replying to Gen. cral Johnson stated that 1 per cent of Americans own 50 per cent of America's wealth, while 4 per cent | own between S5 per cent and a5 per cent of the wealth. The Daily News investigator found these fig
 ures to be substantially correct and
 in addition he reported that more than 96 per cent of the worker s in the United States receive less than $2000 q year which Is regard
 ed as sufficient only for basic ne- cessities."
 Tho rest of the Daily News edi- torial is devoted to chastising .t- self for it's own blindness and rts- fusal 10 face the facts regarding the concentration of wealth in too few hands. In fact. the News, fCr
 the first time, views the situation with alarm if this concentration of wealth is not peacefully tedistrif'- uted. It fears violence will be adopted in time--as 1t always ha.j
 in the past when wealth became too concentrated.
 The Daily News invites all doubting editors to assign their best men to check up on the Linn Dus figures. This writer would aD-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
IN TO-DAY'S MAIL
This or opinions From its readers Anonymous communications the writer's and address will be accepted.
VOTING LISTS DIFFICULT TO PREPARE, MAIN
 FANS PRINTER
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 After reading Robert Hayes letter in your paper last evening regarding the Registrars of Voters, would like to write few lines in their defense. Being printer have worked on the voting lists of Waterbury for more than 20 years and naturally have come in contact with the men in question every year a list was printed.
 It Is not an easy task to put out voting list. The man who goes to the polls 10 vote little realizes how much work 1t is 10 put his name on the list and keep 1t right year after year. There are hun dreds of families with one or more voters that move from one street to another each year and each and every one of these families have to be traced and put on different streets.
 It is true these men were elect ed to office by the people of Waterbury and naturally the peo- pie expect them to do theIr work and do 1t right, but show me one wy 't %NV" I<Hb UT III LDs whole country that can truthfulJy say that their voting iists are 100 per cent perfect. I am afraid you won't find many.
 Tom Dillane and Henry O'Coh- nor knew how to do their work and in my opinion and in the opinion of good many others did their work well. As for letting somebody vote on a dead mans name, which was one of the sev. eral charges brought against the local registrar of voters office, that's possible no matter who held the office of registrars. Many q death occurs after the lists are issued and if somebody votes on the dead mans name, how can the registrar prevent 1t?
 However, the court a ys they must go and certainty am nor one to dispute the courts decision. l know, though, that Mike SlavIn and Al Taller, their deputies, are well qualified to succeed to tho offices of Registrars.
 E HEYER
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
Oriental Depression

We Americans stop pitying ourselves for moment as we read of conditions in large areas of China. In the Yangtze Val ley 12,000000 men, women and children are literally starving. They eat the bark from trees and the roots of marsh grasses. They make soup of fuller's earth, which is not nourishing, and often causes death, but eases the bangs of hunger. They have relief work" too, for limited numbers. Those who are lucky enough to get public employment are paid to cents day.
 There is plenty of heartbreak here from idleness exhaustion of resources deferred hope and shame over acceptance of char ity, public or private. But those Asiatics in our place would think themselves rich. We are incomparably richer than they are in two respects, at least. Hope is not lost. among most of our dependent people; and conditions are improving, slowly but esurely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

agers and railway executives. The meeting was held in the aristocratic Duquesne Club and the drift of the discussion be- fore Wheeler spoke was bitterly critical of any government in- reference with the railroads. But Wheeler, who IS chairman of the Senate Interstate Com merce committee, did not bat an eye. He launched q tirade de. nouncing private railway opera tion and told the executives why the government was going to take their roads over. The only thing he left out was the date of transfer
 California politicos who go cockily prophesied that last No vember's defeat meant the end of Upton Sinclair received a rudc shock in the Los Angeles muni- cipal primaries. Under the per- sonal leadership of Sinclair, the EPIC party elected one member outright to the city council and placed candidates for ten of the remaining fifteen seats in the run-off election of May z. Re- ports reaching Washington in- dicate EPIC will control the new city council. Commenting on his party's remarkable showing, Sinclair remarked: From now on we arc goinig to contest all elections in California" Threatened with congressional investigation of fees allowed re- ceivers of Detroit's closed banks. Currency Comptroller O'Connor revealed that an initial fee of $150,000 was paid to Frank D. Wood, Cincinnati attorney act ing for the receivers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
DESPERATE DRIVE

The administration be- hind the scenes effort to win senatorial backing for renewal of the MIRA is getting desperate and intense. Some of the inner council masterminds contend It is inconceivablc the senate should refuse to extend the life of the Blue Eagle, but the congress sional floor leaders arc not 50 sure. They are frantically seeking to clear away all ob- stacles. What is seriously han. dicapping them is the strong undercurrent of hostility to MIRA Chairman Donald Richberg and the fact that the administration is fighting against time. Unless the law is renewed by June 16, it expires automatically .. Flam boyant announcement by Oklahomas ten-gallon- -hatted
 Representative Gassaway as to what he was going to do to Huey Long have made no impression on Capitol Hill. Reason is cir culation of clippings from a McAlester, Okla, newspaper. IL reveals that in seven personal encounters, Gassaway came out second best in all Although he does not come Up for re- election until 1888, North Caro- lina's ebullient Seator Boy Rey- holds already has an avowci competitor. Former Senator Cam Morrison, whom Reynolds defeated in 1892 by charging him with being anti-labor and pro-power, plans to recapture his old seat three years hence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
essComnent
DOWN WITH TENT CATER.
 PILLARS!
(New Haven Journal-courier)

An ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure; and once you've let a bagworm get away from you there doesn't seem to be any cure Now is the time, then, for all good men to come to the support ot the foliage. For the tent cater Elllar is at his most defenceless stage in these later March days. We are in the midst of what state entomologist Britton euphemistic- ally calls "a cycle of abundance" of these destructive nuisances; what he means anybody knows who walked in the city's parks 2 year ago this May. The point Is, destruction of our trees can be warded off by action now.
 For in March the caterpillar egg masses may be easily discerned oil the small twigs of apple and wild cherry trees. They are covered with a brown substance that looks ard acts like varnish, and if the twigs are broken off may be read- fly burned. The very. eggs them. selves perish in such a holocaust; tnere Is nothing for the later worm to develop from. Neglected, how ever, the egg masses emerge into the hordes of wrigglers which we all know in their familiar tenth. on the old campground of our fa- vorite trees. A word to the wise Is sufficient: private and public tree custodians should now be oil their guard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

And speaking of tercentenaries we note that Waterbury's Settler Village will be built after all Chase Park seems to be selected as the site of it, probably no doubt because that is where the first settlers in Waterbury set up their rude dwellings. We encourage the complete cooperation of every citizen of Waterbury in making the city's observance a complete and joy ouS One
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

One of the few times that the Senate has ordered the public galleries cleared of spectators occurred last week. Senator Key Pittman issued the order. The order came during discussion of the pure food and drug bill. Senator Copeland holding the floor. Confusion in the chamber is said to have caused the stern mandate. Maybe the spectators were just trying to follow what was transpiring below on the floor of the Senate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
SENATE BEGINNERS

Senator Joe Robinson said on the floor the other day, Not one of the New Deal critics has ventured to plant their feet on the earth" The Congressional Record version gives Joe the benefit of good grammar, how ever, by changing their feet" to "his feet" Like college fresh men intent upon quietly learning their lessons, four sena. tors sit In the back row, right wing of the chamber, watching and listening. New to the sen- ate, they are more regular in at- tendance than any of the veter- ans except the floor leaders. They are: Burke of Nebraska, Schwellenbach of Washington, Moore of New Jersey and Guffy of Pennsylvania.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
TODAY's COMMON ERROR Never say, eve had company for dinncr"; say guests" or friends"
O. Name the world powers.

o. Name the world powers.
 A. The United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Italy and Germany.
 c. What was the name of the march played in the motion pie ture "The White Parade?"
 A. "The White Parade March, by Louis DeF'rancesco.
 Q. Where is Antigua?
 A. It is an island in the Brit ish West Indies in the colony of the Leeward Islands.
 0. Is Thanksgiving a movable holiday? On what dates will 1t fall in 1945 and 1851?
 A. Thanksgiving day is always the last Thursday in November and is not movable except by exe- cutive proclamation. It will fall on November 29 in 1945 and 1851.
 Q. How large is the Canadian navy?
 A. 1t was established in 1910 and it's authorized complements are: 1O4 officers and 792 men oi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
Selected Poem
SUBURBAN sENsUALlsT

(Agnes D. Moore in the New York Sun) Early magnolias spread their white Umbrellas to ensnare the sight, And hyacinths in tidy rows Assail my all too willing nose. The first ,or second) robin l Can plainly hear as-I stroll by, While zephyrs softly touch a cheek That never notes them through the week. My mind at peace, I can employe Each separate sense to give me joy, Anticipating as roam
 The taste of Sunday lamb at home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
ST LAWRENCE WATERWAY

Senate democratic leaders have been advised by the White House that new St Lawrence waterway pact will not be ne- gotiated with Canada in time for consideration at this session. Multitudinous duties of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion include enforcement of the Ash Pan Act. This specifies that no locomotive may be used in interstate commerce unless equipped with an ash pan that can be emptied without a man getting under the locomotive. It cost Stanley Reed money to accept the post of Solicitor General. As chief counsel of the REC, the Ken tuckian drew $12,000 q year. His new job, while a far more im- portant one, pays only $10,000. Illinois Representative Claude V. Parsons has q secre- tary named Bishop. House clerks refer to him as ''the Rev. erend" Elmer A. Lewis,
  House Document Room, has an amazing memory. He can supply instantly the salient fea- lures of the thousansd of bills introduced in the House and senate. Lewis says that the roth Congress (1926-28) was the most prolific In the 20 years of his experience. More than 32,00O bills were introduced dur ing the life fo that Congress. Eight of these were omnibus measures containing 9,333 sep- arate pension grants.
 OUR BOY CoNGREssMEN
 If the same age limit were ap. piled to the House as to the senate, two members would have been barred Ryan of Minne- sota is only 27 years old. MOnag- han of Montana has just had his goth birthday. This is his sec ond term. When first elected t0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
Horoscope
RY OCTAVINE

For persons who believe that hue man destiny is guided by the plan cts, the daily horoscope is outlined by a noted astrOlogcr. In addition to information of special interest to persons born on the designated dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

Congress, he was only 26 .. Seventeen other members were born since the turn of the cen- tury: Costello of California; Scott of California, Smith of Connec- ticut, Clark of Idaho; Halleck of Indiana, Wcarin of Iowa, Sadowsl<i of Michigan, Ford os Mississippi, Jennings of Missi- sippi, Hartley of New Jersey, MarcnntoniO of New York, Cole of New York, Setcrcst of Ohio, Ferguson of Oklahoma, MahOD of Texas, Randolph of West Vir- ginia, and BOileau of Wiscon- sin. Old-timers declare that never before has the House been flooded with such parade of youth.
 Copyright, 1885, by United cITa-
 tnre Syndicate. Inc.S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
Daily Washington Merry Go Round
.BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

 Faey Rhbeg Handap Administration Advid Ne0 Lavren Comet Up Session
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

Q. Is there a particular season when tornadoes are prevalent?
 A. They are more likely to oc- cur in the spring and early sum- mer. A few minutes warning Is obtained by the appearance of the clouds and the terrific noise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

Q. When did Charlie Chaplin
 make his screen debut? A. 1914.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

c. What is the altitude of Mount Rainier, Washington
 A. It is 14,408 feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

c. How old is Henry Ford? A. He was born July 30, 1863.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13

preciate 1t if the local newspapers would know Bomething about what they are writing when they attack the so-called. demagogues.
 COMMON CLAY. s