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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30
Silver Dollar Payroll

The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio plans to
meet it's August l payroll with 10000
silver dollars. 1t has made special ar
rangements with the Federal Reserve
Bank of Cleveland to deliver the enormous
load of coins. The dollars will weigh 1877
pounds. If they were stacked in one pile, it
would be $50 feet high-taller than most
of Ohio's skyscrapers.
The purpose of this strange plan, it is
said, is to make check, if possible, on
what happens to money in industrial pay
rolls. Stores have been asked to report the
numbers of dollars they receive. Whether
this be publicity stunt or piece of SER
ious sociological research, it is worth
watching An offhand guess, made in ad-
vance of the big silver payment, is that
a lot of those dollars will get back into
the banks at once. Some may go into the
old sock.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30

1t is good news to read that the Dutch
elm disease has not yet been discovered in
Connecticut outside of zone that consists
mainly of lower Fairfield county. 100000
elm trees were inspected in the last thirty
days and 1000 of these were suspected of
being infected. Laboratory tests proved
that not one of the suspects actually was
case incidentally FERA workers have
been trained to engage in this work OF
checking up on the elm trees in the state
and are now actively engaged in their
tasks of inspecting trees and bringing in
specimens where it is believed the disease
may have gained entry. It is fortunate
that to date the blight has not passed out
of Fairfield county into the rest of the
state. But we cannot let that fact inter-
fere with the more serious business of
curbing the disease and preventing the ex-
tinction of Connecticut's elms.
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Don't Write, Wire!

The defeat of the measure
which would have made the
United States a member of The
World Court has been attributed
in great part to the opposition
stirred up by Father Coughlin.
The advice to his followers to
telegraph protests to their rep
resentatives in Washington got
results. kilograms by the theus-
ands poured into the offices and
homes Of senators who were
either lukewarm in their OPPOSE
ton to the measure or avowedly
in favor of its passage. Fearful
OF the opposition they might en-
gender back home or tired OF an
swering the front door bell at
all hours of the night to sign for
q despatch, the lukewarm sem
ators became red-hot against our
entrance to the Court and to the
bitter disappointment to those
who wanted US in we did not en-
ter. Father Coughlin got the
credit for the victory but the
telegraph companies got the cash
for delivering It. With this In
mind the agents Of the utilities,
safe and sound In Pennsylvania,
decided that what had served
Father Coughlin 30 well would
answer their purpose equally
well. So, rounding up q horde
OF messenger boys 10 align the
names and provided with = de
luxe set of city directories 20
furnish them, they proceeded 20
loose on the inmates Of Congress
= tornado OF kilograms protest.
lns aGaingt The passaae q the
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measure known as the Wheeler
Rayburn bill. 1t is reported that
the investigation has already
impelled several prominent fig
ures in Washington political cir
cles to get out of the capitol to
escape the heat. Whatever hap
pens, after the sound and fury of
the hearings has subsidized, one
issue has already been definitely
decided. In the conduct of their
own case the Gas, Water, Light
and Power barons have won the
all-time, worlds championship
for unadulterated stupidity.
The Wheeler Rayburn meas
ure contains a clause which.
along about 1s45, will make the
holding company, as now set up,
quite as extinct as the Dodo
bird. Considerable opposition to
that particular section had de-
yeloped even among those sem
ators and congressman who or
dinarily go along with the Adj
ministration on everything. They
felt, and have no doubt honest-
~ so, that the bill as introduced
went a bit too far because 1t
ferded the sheep and the goats
of the utility business into the
same slaughtering pen. For a
time it looked as il the objec-
tionable clause would be stricken
out, The ground and lofty
dumbness shown by the utili-
ties lobby makes that probable
fly now decidedly hazy. To date,
at the hearings and in public
statements, the custodians Of the
dough bag have admitted pay
ing out $1,059,662 Of their stock
holders money to keep the hold
ing companies from being killed.
1t lis stiff price to pay for what
may turn out to be their wake.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30

And while on the subject of pests and
blights we might mention the fact that
termites have made their way into Meri-
den. To the sorrow of number of house.
holders the deadly termite has burrowed
into house foundations and already caused
serious damage. The termite is a serious
menace once it gets into house, especial
ly where there are wooden foundations
Its presence is usually not detected until
actual collapse of the wood it infests takes
place. Immense amounts of damage can
be done before the termite is removed and
the pests have been killed off.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30

tape conceived during the months
of master minding is having its
effect.
The result--some of the most
fantastic inconsistencies so far
Matched by the New Deal.
The following two examples
illustrate:
NUMBER ONE
All construction projects over
$4,000 are placed under the
jurisdiction of the PWA ruled by
Harold Ickes, while projects I'M
der that figure are turned over
to a new agency-the Works
Progress Division run by Harry
Hopkins.
Ickes decided that PWA
jobs as in the past, would pay
prevailing wages. Hopkins laid
down the security wages.
These range from $40 to $94,
a month.
In New York city the PWA
and the WPD are now preparing
to launch construction projects.
On Ickes' PWA jobs workers
will be paid a maximum of SIS
a month.
In other words, bricklayer
working for the government on
one side of the street will re-
ceive a $12-a-day wage, while
another doing the same kind of
work on the other side will re-
ceive a government paycheck of
$4.S5 a day.
NUMBER TWO
One of the basic rules of
Hopkins Works Progress Divi-
sion is that all contractors un-
der its jurisdiction employ at
least 80 per cent from the relief
rolls.
For more than 80 years
workers on Great Lakes
drcdges have done business
with their employers on a
union contract basis.
Several weeks ago their con-
tract expired. They, proposed a
renewal. The barge owners shook
their heads.
1--WE would like to, boys" they
said, but we can't"
"Why not?"
"For this reason: We are
going to work under govern.
ment contracts, and under the
terms Of these contracts we
have to employ DO per cent of
the labor from relief rolls.
1t looks like the boys will
have to go ON the bum"
VERSATILE
Appointment of John Dickin-
son as assistant attorney general
in charge of trust busting Is
causing lot of eyebrow raising
on Capitol Hill.
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Turn on the Tears -

Naturally and properly, ac-
cording to their lights, the hold
ing companies had no intention
of being legislated into the bone
yard without making a fight to
keep out of it. An appeal had
to be made to the great, sympa-
thetic heart of the American
people. 1t is a peculiar mark Of
our national psychology that, al
though we cheer the conviction
Of the stick-up artist who MUIR
ders a gas-station proprietor for
a lark and we applaud the ar
rest of a night club hostess who
feeds ground glass with the
morning cereal to the previous
Uninsured hired man, we expert
'ence a change of feeling as the
day Of execution draws nigh.
We recall, or are reminded by
counsel for the defense operat-
ing through the sob sisters of
the daily press, that the candi-
date for the hangman's moose
was darling daddy to his four
motherless kiddies and that the
sweet young thing on her way to
the electric chair was good to
her, sick mother, loved to grow
petunias on her penthouse roof,
has baby blue eyes, and lovely
legs. Knowing all this, 1t was not
surprising that the abolition
clause In the Wheeler-Rayburn
bill was promptly nicknamcd
'the death sentence" by the
press agents for the utilities.
The public was led to believe
that President Roosevelt, who
approves the holding company
legislation, was instigating a
massacre of the financial in
nocents. He was painted as d.
recting a dead march in which
innocent or, misguided utilities.
without having had their day In
court, were being led to the gal
lows when all they wanted was
chance to reform and lead bet
ter lives. Considerable SYM
pathy for the victims of Mr..
Roosevelt's pogrom was created
by the death sentence" nick
name. More was created by the
death sentence" tear jerker.
More was in the making when
the generals conducting the bat
tie against the Wheeler Rayburn
bill committed their colossal
blunder. They shifted oper-
ations headquarters from the
District OF Columbia to Penn
sylvania and, although they had
a we'll equipped, highly organ
lied staff Of experts in the kill
ling Off pernicious legislation at
work in Washington, they, forgot
all about 1t and put the develop
ment of an attack in which bill
lions were at stake into the
hands OF messenger boys hired
at three cents apiece.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30
Selected Poem
Observation-Disclosures

(Robert P. Tristram Coffin in the Christian
Science Monitor)
Evening is lifting up the sky,
The young barn swallows fly up high,
Their twinkling wings possess them wholly.
1t is beyond them to fly slowly,
They wheel and culver the towers
OF the alabaster showers.
The tal1est of the trees and least
Reach shadows out and touch the east.
The daisies stand back to the night
Facing the last of the low light.
thousand little ardent eyes
Drink the daylight from the skies.
The spiders cut their mending threads
And hang for night upon their heads
Through the last slow thrush's tune
Cuts the sickle of the moon.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30

It pays to advertise. The State of Mi
chigan is going to spend $4,000 to collect
$3.50, 100000 in delinquent state and local
taxes. The advertisements will be spread
among the newspapers in the state A
campaign is now being planned and it is
expected that the returns will be at least
100 per cent. This is a new way of col
lecting back taxes, but perhaps if proper
ly handled could be as productive as any.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30

Dickinson was a salubrious
surroundings as assistant secre-
tary of commerce where his
chief, Dan Roper, set as his high
duty the protection of Big
Business. In preparation for
this John once served a scoun-
sci for the Sugar Trust and was
a member of the prosperous
Wall street law firm of Sullivan
and Cromwell.
=, Also, he once wrote an article
in the American Bar Associa-
ton journal advocating import
ant notifications of the Sher-i
man Antitrust Act. Finally
he headed a committee which
attempted to ,stymie the Securi-
ties Act by recommending that
no legislation be passed for two
or three years. VIA.
After all Of which, Mr.. Dickin-.
son is given the duty of uphold
ing the Sherman Anti Trust Act
and Of enforcing the Securities
and Exchange Acts.
HONOR GUEST ~ "isi /.
The star attraction at Profess
sor Rex Tugwell's recent social
welfare conference at Buck Hill
Falls, Pa, was Mrs. Franklin
d. Roosevelt. x
In honor Of the First Lady
Professor Tugwell threw a
dance. The event was widely.
ballyhooed and a large crowd
attended. M ~
But Mrs. Roosevelt failed to 4
appear.
Her absence aroused much
curiosity and next morning one
of her local friends commented
on the fact to her.
1--WE all missed you very
much,' she said. NJ
II would have liked very
much to have come" Mrs
Roosevelt replied. 'rf y
well, why didn't your"
because was not invited"
NO TRANSMITS 10y
At Clarendon, Va, across the
Potomac from Washington, there
has just been completed the Col
onial Arms apartments.
Financed through the Federal
Housing Administration, the pur-
pose of the prophet was to pro-
vide low cost housing for gov
eminent workers.
With Capital rentals skylhigh,
the demand for these ESQ apart
ments has far exceeded their
number. and the other day a
group Of applicants descended on
the superintendent in person.
1t was hot. The small office
was filled to overfiowing. The
superintendent glared, then
climbed up on a chair and made
made this remarkable announce
r1ent:
''Listen. Get this. If any Of
yOu work for any Of these
alphamet agencies, the sAAA,s
FERA, PWA, MIRA, ETC., there.
is no use OF your trying to-
get an apartment here. Your
jobs are just temporary, and
we won't accept applications
from you"
MERRY GO-ROUND
The Post office Department
soon will announce issuance OF
two special commemorative
stamps: the centennial Of the
first state government in Michi-
gan and the completion of Boul-
der Dam =. To cool off after
the utilities row, Names Con-
gresham Ralph D. Brewster
took a long weekend Down
East. Felix Frankfurter, Har-
ward Law sage and counsellor
of the President, recently re-
ceived a letter from Amos Pin
chot, brother of Pennsylvania
former governor, who said:
Dear Felix: I've come to feel
that the New Deal has not mere
ly prolonged the depression; but
pretty thoroughly pitched (sic),
for the time beng, the possible
ity of a constructive political
and economic movement"
copyright, 1885, by United Fea
ture Syndicate, Incl
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THE EDITOR. !.
Q. Did the United States ever
issue paper currency In deroma
nations as high as $4,000?
A. The largest note that has
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Q. Who is the author Of The
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Q. Name the match king" who
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In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York, July 3O-Tne League
Of Nations, with little besides an
impending war in Africa on its
mind, is having an easy time of 1t
compared to Manhattan hotel men
at the height of the foreign tourist
invasion.
One Of the largest Broadway
inns found itself host, on the
same day, to parties of sightseers
from England, Canada, Germany,
France, Italy and Sweden. There
was a convention of pacifists at
the place; also a noisy group Of
war veterans. And a dozen Mo-
hammedans who would eat neither
neat nor fish.
Menus had to be printed in five
different languages. The German
party complained that the French,
in rooms directly across the court,
kept them awake all night. The
Moslems were insulted when a
headwaiter suggested Welsh rare.
bit because they thought 1t con-
tanned meat. The Italians were
surly because the English visitors
were seated nearer the dance floor.
And q few non Aryans declined to
remain in the dining room while
the Nazis were present.
Pent Up Curiosity
Everyone seems curious about
Manhattan penthouses, which
almost invariably prove disap-
pointing. Visitors expect to see
pretentious roof-top estates COW
cred with lawns and trees and
rich. New Workers. lolling around
slipping highballs. Aided by dime
in-the-slot telescopes, however,
{ ourists usually are able to spy
some theater roof where chorus
girls are summing themselves or
rehearsing.
I. Foreign tourists are good deal
more wary Of confidence men and
all manner Of gyp games than are
American visitors, I'm told. Sum-
mertime is the boom season for
shifty gentry who accost strang-
ers with offers of bargains in
Stolen, furs and perfumes. Some
times they even provide forged
bills of sale. The furs turn out
to be cheap, dyed limitations, off
course, and the perfumes only COL
ored water in fancy bottles.
The auction sales SO frequent
ly encountered throughout the
Broadway area are on a higher
plane of legality but deal in little
better merchandise. Auctioneers
try to create the impression that
they're selling off the fine stock of
some bankrupt jewelry company.
But most of the goods are brand
new, bought especially for the auc-
ton racket.
Misleading Guides
e Among other pitfalls for tour
lists are the uniformed "hotel
guides who work railroad and
bus stations. They're steerers for
third-rate hostelries which live on
the sucker trade, charging Ritz
prices for flophouse accomoda-
tfons. Many taxi drivers. espec-
cially the night cruisers, attempt
a little steering as sidelnie, col
Flecting liberal commissions for
every customer they bring to their
client hotels or night clubs.
A good rule for any tourist is
to stay as far as possible from
any kind of place gratuitously
recommended by any sort of
stranger. There are dozens of
hide-away clip-joints in the mid
town area employing both men
and women steerers who haunt
the bars and cocktail dens. Most
prosperous members OF the crook
category, though, are the bridge
sharks--a new crop of swindlers
who are not yet well known OF
the police.
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ny tWV oSPAE-
ate c o n g res-
sional commit
tees an inves-
tigation of the
activiti e 9 Of
lobbyists. The
present phase
of the investi-
cation is con-
cerned with the
day and might
doing of GER
tain individu
working against
the passage Of
the utility hold.
lar M Taaxiu
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Daily Almanac

Moon sets S:19 p. m. daylight time).
sun rises 5:44 n. m; sets S.12 p. m.
daylight tlme).
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
utes after sunset.
HGh tide at New Haven Wednesday,
July 81 1853 p. m.; low tide. 7:1s D. M.
(daylleht time). M.
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A. It is a proper noun. the
name of specific commodity and
should be spelled with capital. Z
@. Do senators take precedence
over cabinet officials at official
functions? =
A. Cabinet oficials take preced-
ence over senators.
Q. Is .The Man Who Could
Lose" by Richard Harding Davis
fiction?
A. Yes.
Q. Is there a marker over the
grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
mother of Abraham Lincoln? :
A. The grave in the state Park
at Gentryville, Ind, is marked
with a massive granite stone. =
@. How much weight does coal
lose by evaporation Of moisture N
twenty-rour hours?
A. Railroad companies allow
for a Q per cent variation ~
weight Of coal on account Of mcisr
ture content. The maximum
amount of moisture that can b
absorbed Is to 10 per cent OF the
weight and that is only in small
sized anthracite. such as buck
wheat.
Q. Who is Harrison Cady?
A. A we'll known American
illustrator who lives in New fork
city. III
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new booklet ETIQUETTE FOt
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Washington Merry Co Round
. By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN
authors "Aerry GoRound and "More Merry-Go-E sou

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which inner circle minds heaved and rocked who
to
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Horoscope
BY ocTAvINE

For persons who believe that hu-
man destiny is guided by the PLAN
cts, the daily horoscope is outlined
by a noted astrologer. In addition
to information of general interest,
1t outlines information OF special
interest to persons born on the
designated dates.
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test questions? Turn TO last
page for the answers.
/. Name the capital Of India.
Q. What does the word Elijah
mean?
81 In Greek mythology, who
was Cepheus?
4. What color is absinthe?
s. What game birds are native
In the Berkshire region OF Con-
necticut2
6. Name the long narrow lake
In eastern New York state In the
foothills Of the Adirondack noun
tains.
2. What 10 founding hospi-
tai?
8. In literature. who was Ro-
wena?
Q. Who was Jean Louis Ernest
Meissonier7
10. Near which city b the
Houpt * Qiives7
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Lo! The Poor Lobbyist

Down in washington, as read
ers Of THE DEMOCRAT are
aware, there is being conducted
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have been poor so long, !
couldn't get used to SO much
money. ttt
Mrs. Abraham Starr, part
heiress to a diamond for
tune. s.'l
am content. have earned the
right 20 rest.
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The lightning has been striking air.
planes lately, but no presidential candi-
dates as yet.
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Wheeler-Reyburn iniquity and
demanding that the addressee
vote against it. That threw the
fat in the fire! The messages
were identical in language, and
in no time II was disclosed that
the signatures were faxed. Also,
that the charges had been pre-
paid by the utilities bright young
men. Furthermore, not a few
of the alleged signers confessed.
when questioned, that the tele-
grams to which their names had
been signed did not represent
their feelings about the bill. And
IL anyone wanted to know, they
did not care tinker's dam what
happened to the holding com.
panies because they didn't even
know what holding company
was. l am informed, reliably,
that in the case of several con-
gressmen~and at least one Sem !.
ator additional resentment has
been reused against the holding
companies because these legis-
lators' self-esteem has been OUT (
ragged. 1t seems, not only did
they not receive the kilograms
sent to them to the House and
to the Senate but they have
found out that the messages
were returned to the sender with
the cruel words stamped across
the envelope, mot KNOWN. AT
THIS ADDRESS" S
80
No Excuse
When, as, and IL the Wheeler
Reyburn bill passes with the
date of execution for the holding
companies in It, the victims can
expect no sympathy from this
quarter. They should have stuck
to the sure fire policy of the past
and lined up their Widows and
Orphans. Years ago in the days
of steam, before ownership Of
the state of Connecticut passed
from the hands Of the New
York, New Haven, and Hartford
Railroad into those of the Con-
necticut Light and Power Conn
pany, 1t was the usual thing to !
see introduced into the legisla-
ture bills which the railroad
thought inimical to its welfare.
When all ordinary methods Of
lobbying against the passage of
the measures failed, there was
always one appeal that never
went answered:-"If you pass
this bill, what Is to become Of
the widows and orphans whose
money is invested in our stock
Think of them and vote mo-"
The plea Invariably reached the
hardened hearts Of the 1awmak-
ers and the bills either died in
committee or were voted down
in the sessions.
Why did not the utilities lob
bying in Washington profit by
past experience! r.
What senator, no matter how
radical, could Withstand the sobs
of Associated Gas and Electric
Orphans, LIST Preferred?
What congressman, however
under the thumb of the White
House, could follow out the Adj
ministration's orders with the
shrieks of Electric Bond and
Share so Widows ringing in his
ears?
Such resistance is neither hui
man nor possible.
The conclusion is inevitable:
the present day utilities should
return to the customs Of their
predecessors. They should stick
to the Widows and the Orphans
and leave the messenger boys
alone.