The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-06

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 REASON: They do an inter. national businesus; need State Department support in Latin America, the Far East, Europe.
 But the independent oil com- panies do not need that support. They operate only in the United States. And they have indicated to the Italian Embassy that they will sell Mussolini all the oil he wants as long as he has the cash to pay for it.
 Legal Paradox
 One of the bitterest pills gov- ernment attorneys have had to swallow was the decision by the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chi. cago releasing Arthur w. Cutten, big-time grain operator. He had been suspended by the govern ment from trading.
 What made the verdict hard to take was that the Court agreed with the government in its con- tention that Cutten had violated the Grain Futures Act In fact, the Court used language almost as strong as the governments in condemning his activities. It said:
 q. evidence points per- suasively to the conclusion that Cutten, knowingly and inten- tionally, during the deep de- pression years of 1880 and 1881, when agriculture was wag- ing a losing battle for existence on account of low and ever lower prices, violated and flouted that provision which requires him as 8 dealer to report the fact that he was short more than 50O,o00 bushels"
 Despite this violation, the Court said it had to rule against the governments ban.
 Paradox
 Reason for this paradox: the two-letter word "is".
 The court held that this word hidden in the section relating to individual traders, barred sus- pensions from the wheat pit in cases of past violations of the law. As the irregularities charged against Cutten occurred several years ago, he could not be puii- ished.
 The Grain Futures Act, inci- dentally, was passed in 1922 and has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
 The Circuit Courts decision served to reveal that the present. tense requirement. applies only to traders. It does not operate for grain exchanges. Any exchange is subject to punishment for past offenses.
 How and why the 1oophole came to be inserted in the law is unknown. But indignant govern inent lawyers say that under the Courts interpretation a district atotrney would have to catch Q man actually committing murder before he could be prosecuted"
 NOTE-The Department of Agriculture plans to remedy the joker in the act by an amend ment at the coming Congress. Secret Forts
 The French government has made secret but emphatic pro- tests to Hitler regarding large and ominous structures of brick being erected by Germany in the Rhineland.
 Hitler has replied that they are only brick factories. The French, however, are convinced they are forts.
 NOTE-The Versailles Treaty specifics that Germany shall erect no Qualifications in the Rhine land.
 Potato Cure
 AAA jokesters are trying to sell c bright idea to an AAA potato expert by which his new potato stamps can solve all the coun- try's ills.
 They propose:
 FIRST, the millions of tax-ex- empt stamps now being issued to potato farmers, should be two feet square and gummed with mucllage made from potato starch. This would consume enough potatoes to reduce the surplus.
 SECOND, the stamps should be stuck on hv Relief Labor