The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-07

Deal has made between then and now.
 I only cite this particular news. paper because you are naturally familiar with 1t. The same sort of comparison could be made in ale most any city.
 For the same reason wish to call your attention to certain headlines, that illustrate the prog. ress business of every kind has made. For example:
 In the early months of 1882 your newspaper told you New Construction in state declines sharply in year. of 06 per cent" etc.
 "Business at lowest ebb aS de- pression year ends"
 "Southern New England Tele. phone O., reports decrease of 30,000 telephones over previous year."
 "sisl.SoO,oOO loss felt in Steel Trade"
 Quotes Editorial
 I could read similar bulletins on the prostrated state of business for an hour, but you undoubtedly remember without further head. lines how things were in Connec- ticut as well as throughout the country when the present admin istration came into power.
 Your newspaper phrased it this way, editoriallyl
 "The hope when 1881 ended that the new year would see recovery well advanced has not been re. alized and still another new year opens with the clouds of anxiety undispersed."
 But within 3 months after the opening of the next year your newspaper saw signs of hope and hailed the New Deal in this fashion:
 NO proposed reform, whether temporary or permanent, but B likely to bring protests from some individuals and from some classes whose personal interests may be affected. Their complaints should not be permitted to impede, much less to halt, the measures de. signed for the benefit of the great majority. The present is not c time for quibbling over petty de. tails or for disputing over fine points. The President has as- sumed command of Q nation ready to follow him. Willful objectorS in the ranks, whether in congress or out, should be firmly ordered to the rear for the duration of the coming siege"
 Now let us jump to this year. I find during last month such headlines as "A Million Dollars Worth of Tobacco Sold Here" Mutual Life Assets Gain $78,. 620,9i3". "U. 8. Rubber Net Best Since l027." General Motors February Is Seven Years Peak.
 Sarcastic Comments
 Still your newspaper refuses to be happy over the administration that has brought about the changes that 1t so dramatically records in It's business headlines and that is reflected in it's own prosperity. It is sarcastic in It's references to the Presidents ef- forts and jeers at the idea that he has sought economy and that the delay in approaching a bal- anced budget is due in any part to huge increases in government obligations involved in enactments due to unforeseen commitments made in spite of him. It Is en- thusiastic over President Hoover's generalities voiced in speeches in which he is bidding for another nomination and 1t concluded @ recent editorial in this language:
 "The New Deal does not take kindly to any suggestions ernanat- ing from MT. Hoover, but 1t could immensely profit itself by the things he said in his Colorado speech. A republican platform built on the solid foundations of that speech ought to appeal to the country"
 That is quite all right-if your newspaper believes that MT. Hoover was a competent and successful President, and that his policies were better, and are bet- ter-for he has not changed than the policies which. have changed red entries to black on the ledgers of industry.
 Let me repeat that I cite one of your home newspapers only be. cause you are familiar with 1t. I could quote practically every anti- administration newspaper in every large city in the same way. Those headlines or headlines of the same import. were published in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and other big communities and the conflict between them and the editorial pages were perhaps even greater in these other cen- terG of population.
 It is not my job. of course. to edit the newspapers of the coun- try, but I may. I hope. point out that the cold facts of business are of vastly greater significance than the views of some publishers.
 InAustrlal Survey
 Now the Manufacturers Asso. eiati0n of Connecticut can hardly be accused of undue paFtiallty towards the Roosevelt administya- ton, but in its survey Of Connecs ticut industry last month t had Co record that factory employment declined by less than the usual