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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23

4 Santa Claus scout questioned the cast of "A Taie Of Today" about What they want for Christmas. Lati. rette yiiibFandt, who plays Dot Houston, said she doeGnt like useful presents. Just give her something utterly frivolous and she'll De hap. py, Ten year old Frank Pacolii. Who is Biiiy Houston in "A Taie Of T'oday", likes toy aifplanes and says he will never have too many. Mefs cedes McCambridge, who b Flora Little in the story, hes her heart set on . dog, and she thinks she vii get it But alas for eanta's peace Of mindl Mercedes had one dog, c gcottie given to her for . GFeduation present After two weeks, she had to give t ID because the leases don't permit dogs where sine lives, But Mercedes hopes the iands iords heart will soften when he sees this new puppy. Carlton Brickert, Dad in the show, said there gauek be something to that more bIessed to give than receive" idea-- nc gets his biggest kick cut Of Christmas shopping for his family.
 Waterbury radio listeners viii be treated Co enc of the finest radio dfaniatizations ever to come out Of
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
Narcotics Shame i. S.

IL has returned from Europe with information that RE-
FLEETS NO CREDIT America
Attending conferences at Geneva where international
troll of opium discussed. he learned
That America ranks SECOND ONLY TO CHINA in the
illicit traffic of narcotics generally.
Americans SNUG in their assumption of advanced civil
izaton should be thoroughly ashamed of their tolerance of
SINISTER TRADE that would shame SAVAGE PEOPLE.
But being ashamed will not wipe out the evils of narcotics
Drastic laws enacted by the Federal Government and
EVERY STATE, and HONESTLY ENFORCED, will end the
evil.
The New York Legislature recently passed such law, by
establishing Bureau of Narcotic Control in the State
partment of Health.
No other Legislature in America has fully served the in
teress of its people until it has passed good law OR
RETTER
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

politicians who struggled with
newsmen for a story were not
matching wits to see what they
could hide but were working
hard to see if they could think
of anything on which to pin
idea.
It was hard, my informant
says, because he was there al
day Saturday and saw every
one who came and went and
has yet to hear any utterances
that could be interpreted one
way or the other.
Washington is such a citadel
of political conceit that this will
probably break the hearts and
the vanity of thousands.
A prominent doctor from Dali
las. Tex, was sitting in the
House gallery when the lecturer
said:
That's Speaker Will Bank.
head, of Alabama"
The physician looked around
and asked in all seriousness:
els he a Democrat or a Re-
publican?"
The lecturer was so astonished
that anyone in the United States
wouldn't know that the Demo
Gratis hold all the key positions
in Congress that he must have
:. shown it in his face, because
the visitor added:
"WeII, 1 didn't know. I
thought maybe he might be a
Republican"
And, on the other hand, he
might be Just as amazed if he
were asked what kind of a
scalpel to use in an appended
tony.
They are filling up the war
chest at the Republican National
Committee.
Recent reports are that in
March, April and May the party
received $115,360.71. But con.
trary to the repeated charges Of
the Democrats that the Republi-
cans have all the money at least
5000 contributions were received
of less than $40. The tidy sum
of $1,000 was the highest.
Some people never forget
there is an election every four
years. But, of course, the Re
publicans aren't the only ones
who have long memories.
Right now a selected handful
of Governors and Senators will
give you an idea there is some
thing in the wind" if you listen
long enough.
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
The Relief Middle

HE Congress of the United States is still putting the
i in front of the horse in PROVIDING FOR RELIEF.
1t is appropriang the peoples money not with specific
knowledge of what relief needs really but with sole regard
for what the SPENDING BUREAUS would like to have.
The Senate approving grant of billion and half dol
lars for relief with the House that this is ADE
QUATE SUM.
How do the members Of the Senate KNOW that?
They rejected proposal for of the unemployed
Without knowledge of how many NEED relief, how
they know what funds are NEEDED FOR RELIEF?
Estimates of the number of unemployed range from three
millions to twelve millions.
Estimates of the amount of money required for relief range
from one billion to two three billions.
All this is GUESSWORK.
Congress is guessing
Mr. Hopkins, the generalssimo of relief, is guessing
Isn't this matter too important TO BE GUESSING ABOUT?
The billion and half relief fund may be too much too
little
NOBODY KNOWS.
Least of all. the SPENDING BUREAUS, which should be
most concerned about the facts do not know
All they know to about is that it is enough
KEEP THE SPENDING BUREAUS GOING.
1t may be exacng money from the people than is
necessary
It may be insufficient to for the needy.
But it will support the political spenders in the to
which they have become accustomed which GOOD FOR
THE SPENDERS BUT BAD FOR THE PEOPLE.
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of interpreting it as a business
message and using his frank.
y X y
Congress wants to go home all
right. But, contrary to the pop
ular belief its not because of the
weather in Washington. It's be-
cause of the weather at home.
It's just matter of practical
personal politics and all deals
either open or secret that took
place, or didn't take place, on
jefferson Island over the week
end have very little to do with
the real urgency felt for an ad-
journment.
This is the time for Fourth Of
July celebrations, picnics, old
time rallies, Sunday school gath
erings, graduations and such.
Blue skies, white clouds and the
good old sun warming the most
important political unit in the
country, the voter, is the cause
of it all.
Members of Congress figure
pretty nearly to the point that
an off-year summer Is the time
to build political fences. Much
of the things they say in election
year they realize are charged off
to campaign tactics. A great
deal that they promise and de.
liver when the pressure is lax
means much more. So now is
the time. And, the time is fast
slipping through their fingers.
One thing that President
Roosevelt must have learned
at jefferson Island, if he
didn't suspect it before, is
that when the appropriation
bills are through on the Hill
it will take superhuman effort
to hold the gang here. If
they stay here a snarling lion
pit will be heaven to the
scenes that will be enacted on
the floor of the House where
free expression Is somewhat
more vigorous than in the
Senate.
X
At least / am informed as
authoritatively as possible that
on Saturday at jefferson
Island there was not one word
spoken or gesture made that
had anything to do with
political strategy.
Regardless of what might
have happened on the other
days it was just a party. .
Newssnen who struggled
with returning politicians and
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

The national income of the
people of the United States in
1896 was $62 500, 100000, it was
revealed in the course of Presi-
dent Roosevelt'S press confer
ence last week.
Almost % per cent Of all the
earnings of this nation are now
consumed by Government agen-
cies. In other words, out OF
every 500 produced by the peo-
pies labor nearly $2S is expro-
priated by Government col
lectorS.
Everybody pays an income
tax. For all the forms of taxa
ton used to gather the ST, AGO.
100000 are levied upon the
national income. The visible
income tax is but a small part
of the peoples burden. The
invisible taxes exacted by in
direct means, and contributed
by the great masses, make UP
the lions share of the cost OF
Government.
OF all the democratic ma
lions in the world, the United
States maintains far and above
the coStlieSt system of govern
ment. The rise in this respect
has been truly phenomenal. A
quarter of a century ago, in
1912, the aggregate cost Of all
divisions Of Government in this
country was $2,780, ZOO, 900, one
sixth of what it is today.
In the low depression year of
1882 the governmental costs
borne by the people of the
United States amounted to
$13, ass. 900, 900. The annual
bill Of Government maintenance
has risen by nearly $4,000, 000,-
600 in the last four years.
And the limit Is not yet in
sight. According to Professor
Kline, the continuous expan.
sion Of our yearly burden is be-
coming truly alarming. It is
certain that, with the wave of
strikes and violence, the current
year of 1897 will establish a new
record in Government expendi-
lures.
Although President Roosevelt
expressed the hope that the ma
tional income Of the United
States would reach $4,000, 000.-
900 In 1897, it is doubtful If it
will actually surpass that Of last
year because Of the paralysis Of
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

ing to take out patents any more.
Their sustained research, which
they must maintain with or
without a Patent Office, impelS
them into deep technical COM
pleXities, each of which is a de-
rivative or contributor to some
complicated process or idea.
Putting it in the Patent Office
would be like cutting off your
leg and sending it to the doctor.
So vast and interlocking is
this new pattern Of techniqueS,
materials and energies that the
great entrepreneurS of machine
production have in their virtual
monopoly of any main process
a better protection than they
could get in the courts. While
the Patent Office is one of the
few solvent and self-Sustaining
departments of government, the
entire machinery of administra-
ton of patent laws is beginning
to creak. Litigation is expen-
sive and it usually drags on for
years.
Our commercial genius has
been quick to utilize the find
ingS of science. The word vita
min" leaps from the laboratory
to the advertisement in a single
bound. Rivals in food process
ing lay claim to this or that
method of salvaging the vita
minis. 1t goes, to court. Prob
ably no judge in the world could
follow intelligently the opposing
arguments, for the process was
made possible by Einstein's vari-
ant which indicated the exact
stance in the spectrum from
which the safeguarding ray is
launched. All that is strato-
sphere mathematics.
Scientists help the lawyers
prepare their briefs. We all
know of brilliant criminal law.
yerS, like the late Dolphin M.
Delmas, who would bone up on
medicine and confound some
doctor witness. But this is all
too complex and too infinitely
specialized. The lawyers, like
the judges, have to take it all
on faith and do the best they
can.
There is a great forward
surge now in metallurgical pro-
ceSSeS. Here, again, the judges
and lawyers should be both
chemists and physicists, but
they aren't. France became
alert to this problem-the de-
mand for specialized knowledge
in the courts-and established q
technical high court. It is COM
posed Of three experts, one ap-
pointed by each litigant and one
by the court. Last year Sena.
tor McAdoo offered a bill in our
Congress to establish a similar
court. France sees in this de-
vice not only a possibility of
sound adjudication, but a means
Of, controlling and directing
chronological change in the in
terest Of social consequences,
in a manner which will lessen
the shock of sudden technology
cal upheavals.
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
49,. Syndicate Ins.C 4.
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

All engines of more than 150,-
600 pounds, now in use, must
also make this change. That
will cost the railroads some
where around $4,000, 900.
It has been maintained that
the old.faShioned johnson
bar" had a way of whipping
out Of its quadrant and wrap
ping seven or eight feet of steel
around the engineers neck.
Hence the governmental decree
in engine building. One can
have no quarrel with legislation
to safeguard life. To this de-
partment, the item is interest
ing as one more exhibit in the
endless elaboration and expan-
sion of government in its effort
to govern in a machine age.
The courts are swamped with
chronological subtletieS which
no mere lawyer-judge could
hope to understand.
Specialization in government,
reaching down even to an Grant
engine bar, moves forward at a
growing pace. Human beings are
plastic and can take a lot OF
punishment. Machines are not.
Their effective RECOMMENDATION
and control call for precision.
And here lies a zone Of in
creasing confusion and bewilder-
ment-the glut of patents in
the Patent Office, with 80 per
cent of them involved in itiga-
ton. There is the obvious in
ability of non-technical courts
to rule with certainty and pre-
cision in the bewildering COM
pick of mechanics, metallurgy,
physics, chemistry and bio-chem-
istry which our technology feeds
steadily into the hopper of the
law mills.
In November of last year,
there was celebrated the one
hundredth anniversary Of the
establishment Of the Patent
Office. The assignment Of a
patent monopoly by the found
ing fathers to the inventor was
one of their most definite as
sertions Of democracy an d
equality, unprecedented in the
world of that day. It nourished
our inventive genius. More than
100000 patents were granted
in that century.
But, rounding this particular
turn of a century, we find the
garnet inventor becoming as ex-
tinct as the great aux. Many OF
the great industrial concerns
and the great utility and equip
ment companies are not bother
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production resulting from labor
strife.
The cost of Government is an
index to its form. The purer
the form of democracy the
lower the burden of Govern
ment. The higher the form OF
dictatorship the higher the
tribute paid to Government by
the people.
In Fascist Italy and Nazi Ger
many the dictatorial govern
mentS take away 40 and 50 per
cent of their national income.
In Soviet Russia the Stalinise
regime expropriates at least IS
per cent of the value OF the
peoples output every year.
In the United States we haye
already attained the alarming
figure for a democracy of 20
per cent of the peoples income
being taxed by the various divi'
Sions of government. 3
According to this index, it is
time for the people Of this
country to pause and consider
whether our form Of government
is bound to be changed under
the memorable pressure Of the
tide of taxation. tr
Government lives on national
income. The more government
expands the more its appetite
grows. The more of the peoples
income it devours the greater
its power, the fewer the checks
upon its far-reaching control.
When a people surrenders to
its government an ever-growing
share of its income 1t is feed.
ing the hand which will throttle
its political freedom. Experience
has shown that governments
collecting the major part of the
peoples earnings are also gov
ernments which abridge civil
liberties and put labor IN the
yoke of a parasitic bureaucracy.
The right to produce is basic
to individual liberty. When the
value of the product is expro-
pr:ated by government, what is
there left of that right? In all
modern relationships hardly Q
memory of it remains.
The cost of government is the
weather vane of our turbulent
period of transition. When that
cost begins to fall, American
democracy will know that Il has
passed the shoals and that
there Is clear sailing ahead.
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

BIZ Elsie Robinson
E<rF YOU WERE A MAN, HOW WOULD YOU TREAT
L WOMENP'
They staged public debate in Dewitt, ILL.,, the other
night and asked me- late speak that half the
subject But there female who could resist the
makings of such nice little mass murderi Certainly not
this one! So come though the party over
chow WOULD 1 TREAT WOMEN IF 1 WERE
MANI" n
Really want know9 Prepared to take tf Then here
I'D TREAT THEM WITH GOBS OF SUSPICION AND
COMPLETE ARMORY OF sELF-PROTECTION.
Yes know that's a shocker. But must start
being shocking if to clean up this colossal Of
stupid tradition which now separates the sexes
so. I REPEAT IF WERE A MAN I'D TREAT
WOMEN WITH SUSPICION AND DUCK WHEN SAW
THEM COMING! -.- .. ..
Why so? Don't believe in my ssters' Aren't women
as fine men! do and they But they also so
chocu of tommyrot notions about themselves and their
that they almost tough to team with as their
cave-dweling great grandmas Ills.
Therefore, if man. dealing with women; I'd kick
Chvary of the window and get right down brass cks
First off matter how much it hurt masculine her
feminine one I'd face the fact that WOMAN is NEITHER
DIFFERENT FROM NOR SUPERIOR TO MAN Even her
physical dssmarity longer held to be handicap to
The modern girl athlete has long since knocked the
Clinging Vine theory into cooked hat.
Mentally and morally, woman is also on par with man
Which doesn't pin many medals either party Neither
Drawer brighter than the other Neither has
monopoly any virtue vice. In short there fem
nine nature" masculine nature There is only HUMAN
NATURE which sexles and heterogeneous OF what
have-yous -.
Nor has either sex branbuge the other Due long
centuries Of strictly domestic duties and environment womans
mental horizon has remained limited than MANS but
does follow that her mental capacity less than his
Also lacking in foundation is this dotc conception OF
Woman as the HELPLESS Sensitive Sex For when she wants
somethng-and when doesn't e-the frae little feather
weight become just about helpless herd OF
elephants, and as ruthless in her technique ...'r>.
And So if were man. I'd remember all this and act az
cordingy. I'd say to Women at large:
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
Boy Scout JambOree

THE assembling of some thirty thousand Boy
/ Scouts here for the National Jamboree of their
organization is a welcome event at time when dis
couragement with the general run of things is so
prevalent.
That thirty thousand young men and boys, acting on
their own initiative displaying their individual enter
prise and manifesting their own independence can
gather together without faint of any ism and with
out asking either the Government anyone else for
anything is healthy sign
THIS IS THE TRUE YOUTH MOVEMENT" OF
AMERICA.
subversive elements have long tried to get control
of the growing children of the Nation.
They have observed how the autocracies in
European countries have taken children scarcely out
of the cradle and stuck guns in their hands.
That of course is to tie the coming generation to the
fleeing dominators of peoples.
Those who would transform own Government
have wanted to and still want to treat children in
the same manner.
They cannot do it so long the Boy Scout movement
retains its hold on the industry and imagination of the
American boy.
It is peculiarly fitting that movement of this type
should bring the boys to their National Capital.
There is much here that will inspire them with the
traditions of country much that will instruct them
in the dangers that have been met and that must be
met in the future.
No group of boys or adults could assemble amid the
imposing monuments to Washington and Lincoln with
out realizing the essential stability of democracy.
No group watch the machinery Of Government
turn these boys will watch it turn in the next few
days without being impressed with the necessity of
eternal watchfulness the part of all the people if
those benefits are to continue.
We know that the Scouts will have good time while
they are in their Federal city.
We trust that they will learn lessons here which will
benefit both them and their country in the years to
come.
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
Words of Wise Men

A merry heart marketh a cheer.
full OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
o, how quickly passes away the
glory of the earth.-Thomas q
KempiS.
Let deeds correspond with
wordS.-PlautuS.
Unless the people can be kept
n tOtal Darkness 1t Is the Wisest
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

should inquire
in to his
h e a 1t h, an
nouncing that
he was get
ting along all
right but de.
nying the re-
quest for pic
lures.
AS the mat
ter was more
or less per-
Sonal the Sec
rotary attach
ed a two-cent
stamp to the
letter instead
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

way for the advocates OF truth to
give them full light.-Whately.
There's a divinity that shapes
our ends, rough-hew them how we
will.-Shakespeare.
Stern duties need not speak
sternly. He who stood still before
the thunder worshipped the stu
small voice.-Dobe1. -
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
The Human Side of the News
Bv EdWin C.. Hill

THERE'S odd and revealing bit of news slowed away
II in the newspaper dust-bn of small items After two
years. the Interstate Commerce Commission rules that all
steam locomotives built after September must be equipped
with power-operated reverse gear. 49, a.:
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

Listen, girls, you've asked
for equaIity-well, here 1t is.
You said you wanted to be
treated reg uIar-all right,
you'll have your wish. Hence
forth, Pm going to do my
darndest to treat you all like
regular guys.
Meaning what? Meaning
that I'll cut out my suSpic-
ions, if you'll cut out yours.
III drop my shield, II you'll
shelye yours. Wen be equals
really equaIs-if you'll prom
ise to make it . $3.50 break.
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
The Greatest Show on Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith

III still living up to his nickname. Photographic editor
sent him letter respectfully stating that he glad the
The Washington times., 1937-06-30
The Peoples Burden
IN isaac Don LeViIle

HE cost of government Federal State and local. in the
limited States reached in 1886 the staggering figure OF
ST. according to Joseph j. Kline associate pro-
fesor of taxation the College Of the City OF New York.
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

But there must be no excep.
tiOns no special privileges
.. no crying off when things
get tough, because you are .
woman!
Liberty? Yes! As much -
any man, with the same faith
that you'll use it sanely as .
decent man would do. But
with that liberty you'll have
the same responsibility which
q man must beaF-the same
self sacrifice. And the same
penalty to be faced IL it's
abused"
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

That if were man. is the bargain I'd make with women
Would the sisterhood like it, accept it, WONDER! Sup
pose YOU tell me YOUR bet Vest Fine! I'll be seeing
you!
This column aOeIcomes and requests comments Let.
ters presenting personal problems may also be SENT AL
letters 1viU be handled contidemtimy and Cnsocered
proptlv If slammed addressed envelopes Mcudedl
The Washington times., 1937-06-30

photographers lake a picture
The Secretary answered in a
short polite note expressing his
annreciation that the gentleman
Evening star., 1937-12-14
Housing in the Capital.

The Washington Housing Association
has focused attention on serious handi-
cap under which 1t and other agencies
for the community welfare are laboring
in their efforts to provide better living
accommodations for families of low or
moderate income. This is the lack of
up-to-date data on housing conditions
In the Nations Capital.
The agencies are in the position of a
physician called upon to prescribe for
a patient without first having had an op-
portunity to diagnose the case. That
the patient Is i'll there can be no doubt,
but curing him without ascertaining the
nature Of his ailment is large task.
The best estimate of the situation to-
day u based on statistics obtained in =
real property inventory made four years
aso. Much has happened to change the
housing picture in that time. The pop
uiation has increased and economic con-
ditions have altered. It is time for a
new stock-takins survey by some re-
sponsible body.
Such a survey would reveal that ap-
preciable headway has been made in the
movement to provide healthful shelter
for al Of Washington's families. The
lowest q no-income group, for example,