The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-12

perhaps it's hardest comes embargo arises today.
 If the Committee of Ei Italy immediately, it means either that Mussolini is finished or else that in desperation he plunges all Europe into war.
 For oil is the ife-bIo of the Italian military machine.
 Without it Italian naval vessels could not cruise the Mediterran- can. Italian transports could not carry troops and supplies to East Africa. Italian tanks could neither advance nor retreat on the Abys- sinian front. And Mussolini's crack air corps which has been breaking up Abyssinian troop concentrations, would be ground ed.
 No wonder Musolini threatened war against the world.
 To Dodge Issue
 Latest official prognostications received here, however, indicate the league will dodge the issue. The committee of eighteen will vote sanctions but delay applica- tion until around January l.
 Public excuse will be the desire to know whether the American Congress will vote an embargo on oil. N
 Present prospects are that if Geneva waits for congress, Mussolini should not have much to worry about. Legislation = now being drafted by Senator Bone, who forced the present neutrality act on the White House-calls for no embargo on oil. Other senators indicate an oil embagrO will be difficult.
 If passed, at all, certainly it will not come until late January, or even February.
 YOuth-Age
 The most conservative and recalcitrant member of the Su- preme Court today undoubtedly is Justice James Clark McReynolds. His voting record has been one hundred per cent against all New Deal measures, one hundred per cent for big business.
 When the court, by scant 5-4 vote, decided to uphold the gold decision, McReynOlds de- livered a scathing denunciation from the bench, virtually branding the decision a mis- carriage of justice.
 However, it was not always thus.
 As a young lawyer in 1907, Mo- Reynolds was with the famous New York law firm of Cravath, Henderson and de Gersdorff. He resigned, however, in order to prosecute the tobacco trust, one of the firms most important clients.
 Prison Goods
 Ever hear of Federal Prison 4lQuStrleS, 4IlC.!
 { It is a government owned and operated corporation which does a flourishing business in goods manufactured in federal prisons. Last year the company turned into the treasury a net profit of $226, 6,0OO out of a sales volume of $1,666.000.
 This year with prison rolls at a record high, FPI, Inc, expects to do even better. There are now over 15,0OO inmates in federal penitentiaries, of whom only 15 per cent are employed in the workshops.
 Products made in federal "pens" are sold only to the gov ernment and at market prices. They include shoes, uniforms, underwear, cotton textiles, rub Der goods, furniture, cast iron goods, br0Oms.
 Only inmates with good behav- for records are employed, and long term prisoners get the pref erence. The work week is limited to a maximum of 40 hours. Dur ing the MIRA, code hour regula- tions were followed.
 Pay is on a low-piece work basis, with most of the salary sent monthly to the families or dependents of the workers. Age of Specializing
 Most of the big prisons spe- cialize in one type or product.
 ATLANTA, for example. has a large textile mill that makes can- vas mail bags, cotton duck for uniforms, shooting and mat dresses. Last year the plants sales in these commodities amounted to $652 900.
 LEAVENWORTH'S chief indus try is shoes, of which it turned out a total of 100000 pairs in 1884. Sale to the Indian Bureau, Army and Navy and other pris- ons grosSed $600,000
 CHILLICOTHE was originally planned to make cast-iron mail boxes. However, the post office department objected to depriving a private concern of this bushes and the project was abandoned.
 ALCATRAZ, where Al Capone and other big-shot gangsters are incarcerated, concentrates on laundry work, doing the washing