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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
GO. P. CHAIRMAN
 UPSON ALARMED
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about reaching across democratic linse in selecting three democrats for his fusion ticket, namely MT. Culhane, Town Clerk Dora Egan and Selectrnan Domenic Barbieri.
 It was thought by the republican brain- -trusters that the independ- ents would be useful to them in the campaign. What actually has taken place, however, Is the assumption of leadership of the entire fusion movement by the independent dem- ocrats. The fusion campaign is being directed by the independents, and the situation may lead to control of the local republican, party by these same Independents. All this is most embarrassing to MT. Upson and his henchmen.
 4' Lack of Interest
 MT. Upson's statement shows that he is thoroughly dismayed at the lack of interest shown in the fusion ticket by. old-line republican voters. This adds to the headaches he has already from the strife in the fusion ranks. tu..N .r1",
 There are many republicans who believe that the, alliance with the in- dependent democrats will prove very costly to the local g. O. p. The republicans, they feel, could have waged Q much more effective cam paign with their own ticket in the field, and without any coalition with disgruntled members of another party. .' er .'-,' ,.',..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

Democrats continued to pile up large gains as more voters were sworn in at the city hall today. The board of registration will be in session until next Tuesday, with voters being made from 10 a. m, to 9 ?. Tn., daily.
 Y4S7 Made Yesterday
 Up to noon today there were 64 voters sworn in. of these 34 regis- tered as Democrats and nine as Re- publicans. Yesterday there were 4S7 voters made. Of these there were 303 who registered as Demo- crats, 57 as Republicans and 9 as Independent Democrats Monday, when the board first began mak- ing voters, there were 364 voters made. Of these who registered party preference, 264 were Demo- crats and 32 Republicans.
 Both Democratic and Fusion par ties plan to get as many new voters as possible sworn in during the re- maining days that the registration
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
DECREASE IN DISEASE

Toronto, Ont, Sept. 9,--(UP).- Health department officials, said to- day that cool weather caused the sharp decrease in the number of in- fantile paralysis cases reported over- night in Ontario. Throughout the province only 4e additional cases were recorded early today, bringing the total since June to l,24o with 42 deaths. Toronto had All cases of of which % have proved fatal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

oArd is in session. The number of voters made thus far has been somewhat below expectations.
 May Not Be Paid
 Eugene J. Sheehan continued to. day as clerk of the registration board, though facing the dreary prospect of not being paid for hls work. Corporation Counsel Charles s. O'Connor has ruled that Town Clerk Dora Egan had no lega! right to name Sheehar. Hence the city will not pay him.
 J. Harry Leary, clerk of the board for the past ten years but busted this year by Miss Egan, is sitting with the registration board, acting as a checker for the Democratic registrar of voters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

versary of the signing of the na- tional document, programs will be held in 30 local grammar and high schools. A list of speakers will be announced at later date in con nection with this program.
 On January 9, the 6ctc of the an- niversary of the ratification of the U. s. Constitution by the state of Connecticut, MT. Haddon explained, there will be a general observance program held in Waterbury.
 President Roosevelt last week pro- claimed that the period between September IT, 1897, and April 30, 1889, has been set aside as conn., memorative period. The Constitu-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
HADDON DIRECTING
 LOCAL OBSERVANCE
Patriotic Societies Ar- ranging Program For
 Constitution Day

Rawson w. Haddon, head of the Mattatuck Historical society, an- nounced today that his organiza- ton, in conjunction with the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolu- ton, will conduct two general ob- servances in Waterbury in connec- ton with the signing of the United States Constitution and its ratifica- ton by the state of Connecticut.
 Plans at the present time are of tentative nature, he explained to- day, but on September II, the anni-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Mayors Address
 To Be Broadcast

Voters of the city will hear their first political address of the city election campaign to- night when Mayor Frank Hayes speech of acceptance of the d c m O Ocratic nomination for mayor will be broadcast.
 Mayor Hayes address will be broadcast over Station VERY at 9:lS tonight. The mayor will speak from the alderInanic chamber at the City Hall, where delegates to the demo- cratic city convention will re- nominate him for mayor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
TO RENAME CASSIDY

Boston, Sept. 9.--tUP) .--G Governor Hurley said today he would reap point Thomas F. Cassidy to the Massachusetts racing commission "as long as he is able to perform the duties of his office" Hurley's statement was prompted by reports that William P. (E1iker) Joy would replace Cassidy, who has been in poor health for a year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Director

Most Reverend Maurice P. Me- Auliffe, bishop of the Hartford di- ocese, will be present at the formal opening of the new home of the Diocesan Bureau of Social Service and its volunteer organization, the Waterbury Council of Catholic Women, when both groups well come their friends and benefac- tors to the new headquarters, 56
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

sure The Waterbury Council of Catholic Women has cooperated with the bureau and given gen. erous financial assistance. The Diocesan Bureau and the Council will welcome members, friends and benefactors on Saturday af- ternoon, September IS, at which time their new home will be for mally opened. Also located at 56 Church Street is the Roman Catholic Cemeteries corporation whose headquarters will also be open for inspection on that date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09

The former Bronson residence on Church street Is now the new home of the local Diocesan Bureau of Social Service. It will be open for public inspection Saturday, Sep tember 18th. Bishop McAuliffe will Officiate at the opening cere- monies. Rev. Dr. Cryne is super vising arrangements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
34 More New Voters Sworn in as Democrats This Morning

ton was signed on September l7. 1787 and the last state ratified t on April 90. 1709.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Getting Into the Autumn Suit Game Early Skimming the Cream Off the Top of the Bottle
Established 1885

You can wear the new Autumn suits onytime-now-or later. The 0ssOrtment's at its peck now and after all it's nice 10 have as large selection as we ere now able to offer you-it looks almost e wholesale stock.
 But-thot's the woy we do things -this big store for men is seored : to do things in big, generous way. So - suppose we start 0t $32.50 -sood suits everyone of them with an extr0 trousers $37.50. Then to $55-you'Il like the style -the quoIity - the toiIorins of> these $35 suits. dIer-Roehester, Rosers-Pset end Hiekey-Freem0n suits $40 tO $60.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
~No> Maaan1e> not
 just stockings ... /

But fine silk hosiery knit to fit you exactly not only in foot size but in width and length, too. You don't have to put up with il-ftting hosiery if you don't want to And we hardly need remind you that your stockings don't look, wear or feel right unless they fit you smoothly from top to toe.
 Come in today and pick your shades And let us fit you with stocking that was knit not for all types of legs but just for yours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-09
Nine Others Enroll
 With COP. Ticket;
 DeadIine Next Week
Number Taking Oath to Date Below Expectations; Registrars to Be in Session Daily Until Next
 Tuesday, -Sheehan Continues as Board Clerk

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Drops Out

The announcement that Justice Willis Van Devanter will retire shortly from the United States Supreme Court bench will give President Franklin D. Roosevelt his first chance to make appointment to the highest court in our land. Whether It will be regarded as weather vane as to what direction his nominations would run in the event that an expanded court was voted in by Congress is highly prob- lematical But this resignation bears out what the Waterbury Democrat and other papers said some months ago when first discussion of the court plan was heard.
 At the time before the court plan had upset all party lines and had arrayed democrats and republicans shoulder to shoulder battling for and against the Presidents plan to enlarge the court, there was some speculation as to the Ob- vious intent of it. There were those who believed that the administration would never seek real test on the issue. There were many who Wagered that the real purpose of the plan was to drive out cer- tain justices long considered inimical to New Deal Legislation.
 We'll if you want to be regarded as one of the latter class, you con now point to the first resignation of the justices of the court who have had contrary opinions to those who are administering the Roosevelt program. Justice Van Devan- ters retirement on the other hand can very simply and logically be explained by natural causes He is not the oldest member of the bench in point of actual years, being outdated by Justice Louis b. Brandeis by three years, but he is the oldest member of the court in years of service. He was appointed by President William Howard Taft in 1910 and has served continuously since then, period of almost twenty-Seven years.
 The latter opinion will prevail, but there can be no doubt what the continued arguments over the plan of expanding the court and of set ting statutory age limits on justices for retirement has caused his present announcement. Whether or no others will follow suit remains to be seen. Whether or not the resignation and the thought there might be others will have any effect on the present political skirmish over the court also must be answered by what the future brings to us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Busting Trusts

The government seems to be entering a period of "truSt-buSting" again, such as the one which started under the first Roosevelt The move against the Alum mum Company of America, which has monopoly of oluminum production in this country, is reminiscent of the famous suit for dissolution of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company as contrary to the Sherman Antitrust Act.
 That suit was successful in 1911. It broke up the original Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey into its component parts, in theory and largely in practice competing with each other. Will the same thing be done with the Mellon fam ilys Aluminium Company, and with cer- tain other corporations which literally or virtually monopolize their fields of enterprise?
 The administration, at any rate, has started definitely in that direction, after period during which it appeared to be practicing a policy of controlled monop- oly. The latter was obviously the pro- cedure of the MIRA, which was found uncostnitutional.
 Without public control, monopoly is naturally inconsistent with both the Sherman law and the American tradition of free enterprise. So the tendency is to fall back on free competition as the regu- lator of prices and preserver of business opportunity, enforcing it by court orders when necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Don't Burn Elm

The House yesterday decided to take little time in deciding whether or not taverns in the State of Connecticut should be allowed to have rear door. Such liquor establishments can have rear doors now, but they must be so blocked and closed that they can't be opened. In short they can't be doors at all. If you want to get out of tavern in hurry (fire emergency you have to stand your chances with the rest of the patrons in going through the one and only means of entrance and exit, the front door.
 That's our law and Connecticut legiS- 1ators to some degree want to stick by it, regardless of local fire laws or the con- tinuous complaints of local fire officials. We are rather surprised that no recom- mendation has been forthcoming from the State Police Department of recent years on this topic. Time and again we have heard our local Fire Marshal show how dangerous it is to allow a business place to be conducted with only one means of gaining access to it and exit from it.
 Yesterday after the Senate sent in an amendment to the liquor laws to allow taverrs to have rear door, the House voted down the amendment. Why, we don't know, except that there may be some fear that patrons will sneak in and out of this rear entrance after hours, as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Max N. Oser

The death of Max Oser early this week was an occasion for much sorroWing among his friends and he counted them in large numbers. He was among our best known Jewish merchants and had long ago established his firm on firm footing in not only Waterbury but the Naugatuck valley. He was very gentle manly sort of man, quiet-spoken and very nice to meet. At his place of busi- ness or on the street or in his home he was always the same even-disposi- toned and kindly.
 He was held in high regard we know from the many tributes that were paid to him. But just as good things were said about him before he died. We know this for man with as many business dealings as Max Oser must come in con- tact with all classes of people. And when they almost universally have no faults to find and everything good to say, you can rest assured that the recipient of their remarks is deserving of them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

and Italian Fascist operations in the United States.
 Senator Gerald Nye and Sena- tor Bill Borah, sponsors of the probe, have received private as- surances that their proposal will be allowed to come to vote and will not be opposed by the ad- ministration. This virtually as- Sures its approval.
 In giving their acquieScence, Senate leaders Topped off one feature of the proposed Nye- B0rah inquiry. They ruled out any interrogation of AmbasSa- dor William E. D0dd on his charges of a Fascist plot in the U. S. with an unnamde 'bil- lionaire" angel. The two sena- tors agreed to this deleti0n.
 The investigation is certain to prove sensational. A great mass of evidence already is in the hands of Nye and Borah, including pie lures of secret Nazi meetings ill this country and documents prov ing gun-running and spying oper- ationS.
 Radio Fireworks
 Fireworks within the Federal Communications Commission have come to a head with 8 recom- mendation by cleanup minded commissioners that two radio lawyers, Paul Segal and George s. Smith, be summoned before the commission to show reason why they should not be barred from practice before the EGG.
 An EGG sub committee, in- vestigating EGG irregularities. has chcarged that Segal and Smith organized and char
 tered the Palmer Broadcast ing Syndicate, Inc, to use it as a dummy applicant for ... the purpose of deceiving and misleading the commission"
 It is further charged that the two lawyers knowingly and with intention to deceive, had the Palmer Broadeasting Syndicate file applications before the com- mission for stations or Construc- ton permits at Portland, Me, and Cheyenne, Wyo., for the pur- pose of deceiving and misleading the commission in consideration of said applications"
 Merry -GO-ROund
 Supreme court justices appar- ently feel that the spotless white marble floors of their building are a temptation to roller-skat- CTS. There is a large sign for bidding that pastime =. So far as is known, the justices them selves do not roller-skate. Justice Roberts walks about the corridors of the Temple of Justice at a fast clip, wearing high shoes which, on occasion squeak ... Jim Farley's post office depart ment has barred the shipment of white mice through the mails. A singing mice contest by a radio broadcasting chain brought too many shipments of the creatures.
 Copyright, 1887, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

Jonathan B. Bunce, Charles E.. Gross, Lyman B. Brainard, John R. Hills, and my good father. They are all gone now, but, what heritage they left for loyalty and honest dealing and each successive board has been chosen from the same type, forceful, courageous and yet wholly sympathetic in their deal- ings with the deserving"
 These very fine thoughts are de- serving of the most serious conSid- eration by the people of Connecticut at the present time. A bill to eStab- fish Savings Bank Life Insurance in i Connecticut is to be reported favor ably in the senate next week. This bill is patterned exactly after the Massachusetts act which has proven such a wonderful success during 30 ! years of operation.
 The bill is sponsored in the sen- ate, by Senator Walter E. Barrett, of Bridgeport, and by Representa- tive Charles L. Johnson, of Sher- man, in the house.
 The Bridgeport Herald, January 3, 1887, and also the Hartford Cour- ant April 9, 1887 printed speech by Governor Ely of Massachusetts in 1884, showing the achievements of the Savings Bank system. Includ- ed in the speech were the findings of an exhaustive study showing the possible annual savings of $24,000,- 900 out of $55,000,000 annual prem- 1 i,,p1c ,,oid o,, Ypds,cfriol Tifo Toc,,r ance policies. When we consider that the premiums on industrial life insurance policies in Connecticut are $2O,O00OO0 annually, that same study would indicate a saving of l $3,000,000 in Connecticut.
 The system of Savings Bank Life Insurance was conceived by the genius of MT. Justice Brandeis and established through his untiring ef- that deposits in Mutual Savings Banks and Reserve Liabilities on policies in Mutual Life Insurance Companies were exactly the same thing. They were the private prop erty of the individual depositor or policy holder entrusted in Mutual Associations, and on which they were to receive the net earnings of their assets.
 In Savings Bank Life Insurance, there is added to these deposits the cost of Mortality based on proven actuarial science under state super vision and all conducted at min- imum of actual cost. The system was devised to provide a means of enabling the average worker to help himself if he wanted to. to escape from the chicanery of the Indust- rial Life Insurance system.
 If there ever was time in the history of Savings Banks in Con- necticut covering a period of more than one hundred years. for the trustees to prove their labor of love, now is the time for them to whole heartedly support this act, and when it becomes law, to follow the principles and practices established and proven by the Massachusetts system and extend its benefits to tens of thousands of people of lim- ited means.
 | HARRY G. COHEN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
A Book a Day
Relief From Puzzle Novels of Politics

There have been plenty of novels about life in the nations capital with national figures thinly dis guised in sugar coating of fiction. They are often highly entertaining as puzzles-you try to figure out who is supposed to be who-tut they are seldom any good as novels.
 Marquis w. Childs contributes a welcome break in this succession with Washington Cailing!" (Mor- row: $250), novel that is really good.
 MT. Childs writes about the Washington of the new deal, and of the compromises that reformers inevitably have to make with things as they are.
 His story centers about retired senator who, making good living as a lawyer lobbyist, is retained by two railroad-grabbing brothers (and you'll have scant trouble identifying them) to sec to it that. a friendly federal judge is appointed in a dis trict where their toppling pyramid is about to get into court.
 The ex-senator pulls. his wires; in the opposite direction, wires are also being pulled by Q trust-busting attorney who is out to clean Up the receivership racket And the deS- perate fight between these two men resolves itself, at last, into oom- promise. The brothers get their friendly judge, the trust-buster gets senatorial investigation into re- ceiverships, the ex-Senator pockets $100,000 fec and everyone is happy.
 All of this makes excellent read- ing. It provides an authentic glimpse at the complex and baf- fling milieu in which any reform administration must work; it dis. plays the fatal compromises which reformers must make in order to serve their ideals; and, lastly, MT. Childs has filled it with life-like people in whose dreams an dstrug- gles you take real interest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

The Teachers Guild Associates of New York is down on record as opposed to sale of all types of war toys. Just imagine what ban on this kind of toys would do to the American market where guns, cannon, soldiers and all that sort of thing constitute an important contribution to toy products. A long time ago there was an effort made to curb the sale of pistols and guns for fear that young America would become bandit-and-cop minded. Whether or not this ever was put across can't be substantiated by the number of such devices still on the market.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

Here's new claim for the discovery of America. It comes from the Irish and was advanced by William M. Carroll of Buffalo, N Y. Speaking at gathering in that city Monday he said that histor- ical facts show that in 545 A. D. St. Bren- dan landed in the Carolinas He stated, 'While many historical and other records have been destroyed enough is known to justify our contention that St. Brendan and 40 monks landed there. I hope the day will soon come when he and his band will be honored for the discovery of America nearly 1000 years before Column bus set foot on San Salvador. .' Mon- day was the feast day of St. Brendan and Mr. Carroll was addressing the Buffalo Irish Foundation. This claim can now be advanced side by side with the sup porters of Lief Ericson and his Norseman as the real discoverers of America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

The frost still hangs heavy. Although this is mid-May and Memorial Day will be with us before you know it, we had frost Monday night. Changeable weather this spring. It waxes warm, then cools off, evidently the curse of an open winter. It's about time, too, that somebody started to talk about sun-spots They are still in our midst, according to the mete- orologists, but what they're doing right now, we don't know. Somebody enlighten us?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Current Comments

Boxing isn't boxing any more it's just big lawsuit. Tn the last five years boxing has deteriorated so much that all other sports have gone far ahead.
 Jack Dempsey.
 Our greatest need today is in knowing how to use our leisure. David Rennie Hardman, Uriver- sity of Cambridge, England.
 American feet are growing smaller for two reasons, because of vanity, which causes people to wear un- commonly tight shoes and because of the widespread use of the auto- mobile.
 John Bata, Czechoslovakian shoe magnate.
 Laboratory studies show that the same weather conditions that pro- duce bonuntiful corn yield bring on 8 good ragV eed season. -F. w. Brist, meteorologist, Mem phis, Tenn.
 The memory of my father will always bring inspiration to follow his high example. George VI, in his maiden speech.