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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14

strike, announced the settlement after conference with J. and L. officials and federal and state me- diators. He said that picket lines were to be dissolved immediately and operations resumed before the day is over" returning 27,000 strikers to their jobs.
 Horace E. Lewis, president cf Jones & Laughlin, said:
 ."The agreement is tentative pend- ing an election on May 20." The men will return to work on the 5 o'clock shift this afternoon. When Lewis was asked to discuss the agreement, he said:
 "It may be little early. want to be sure the S.W.O.C. is in full accord.
 "The whole thing has been very amicable. The assistance of James Francis Dewey of the Federal Labor Department has been very helpful.
 Murray, speaking with his usual Scottish burr, nformer reporters of the settlement when he emerged from conference in the Jones & Laughlin offices. Then he hurried to
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CONFERENCE OF
 BRITISH HEADS
Prime Minister Baldwin Is Leader-Guard Mother
 Country From Attack
By WEBB MILLER

(Unte0 freSS SLaH COfreSpOn0ent)
 London, May 14-(UP)-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin opened an imperial conference "a veritable British League of Nations-today on the keynote of a national defense program which would free the mother country from the menace of attack.
 Nearing the end of a long poli- tical career, speaking not with the fiery eloquence of a dictator but the quiet f1rmness of a man addressing friends, Baldwin faced delegates representing countries peopled by 425, 100000 British subjects and at the outset of his opening speech showed what was uppermost in Brit ish minds.
 He referred to "the ruinous race of rearmament" and continued:
 with so many of the most pow erful nations of the world expand ing their armed forces we in this country have decided that it is our duty to put our own defenses ill or- der at a cost the magnitude of which you know. (That is, $7,500,- OO0.)
 No Other Choice
 we deplore the necessity but we have no choice.
 We shoulder that burden for the security of this island which is still the heart of the empire, but alsc that we may be equipped to fulfiil our responsibilities of the empire overseas and as loyal member o1 the League of Nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
GET $50
 IN LAUNDRY STORE

Fall River, Mass, May 14-(UPt -Thre masked bandits entered thu H. L. Hervey company's laundry That was at l a. m. today.
 They put a burlap bag over tn, head of Watchman Manuel Comes 42, and bound him to chair then started working on the safe with a sledge hammer and crow bar.
 The bandits finally forced open the safe and fled with $50. That was at 4 a. m.
 Comes eventually freed himself and notified police.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
GIRL DOING WELL

Whitinsville, Mass. May 14.--(UP) --Two-year.old Winona Nelson con- tinued to show improvement today after a two-week battle against gan grene and pneumonia that developed when she was lost four days in rain-soaked woods near her Upton home.
 Her name remained on the dan ger list.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
STUDENT LOST

New York, May IA - CUP) An eight-state alarm was sent out today Lisbon, N. H., a graduate student at Columbia uni versity who has been mis- sing since Saturday. His father, j. Leroy Thorpe, a retired grocer, reported the disappearance t o d a y. Thorpe was graduated from Dartmouth in 1885.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
DOCTOR DIES

New Haven, Conn.,, May 14-(UP)-Dr. Herman K: : White, AS, died today of burns suffered late yester- day when a bottle of clean ing fluid he was using ex- ploded at. his home. He died at New Haven hospi- tai. where he was a mem Der of thelstaff. He leaves his widow and two daugh- ters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
STEEL STRIKE IS SETTLED PEACEFULLY Y
Attorney Larkin
 President OF Bar
Selected This Morning to Succeed Attorney Walter MOnagan- Resolutions on Late Lieut. Col. Car-
 rOIl-Atty. Patrick Healey Is Vice-President

Attorney William J. Larkin Jr, prosecuting attorney the Waterbury court of pleas and former judge of the city court today succeeded Attorney Walter E. Monagan ST. president of the Waterbury Bar Associa ton Attorney Patrick Heaey named vce-president Clerk George H. of superior court reelected secretary and Clerk William M Gillette, of the court of common pleas reelected treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
Late Nelvs
 Flashes
FIREMEN HURT

Ansonia, Conn.,, May IA -(UP)-A fire truck skid ded on the wet pavement while answering an auto mobile blaze early today and five firemen were in- jured. George Clark, most seriously hurt, suffered a possible leg fracture when the truck overturned, spill ling the firemen into the road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14

Hartford, Conn, May 14.-(UP)- Funeral arrangements were being made today for Miss Katherine E. Costain, post office employe for 46 years, who died late yesterday. Miss Costain retired in 1884 when she was head of the second class mail department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, May 14-(UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May 12, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $6,532, ITO, ,003.51 $6,24S,S2l,S47.7S Receipts
 s4,26O,Oss .sOss6 .ss.4ss,seosso.44 $2,272,101, ,693.65 $2.77s,961,617.54 s1,75s ,o1o.s4s.s4 ss.s7s. .4sf.2 .24s.2s
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OLD CARETAKER DIES

Hartford, Conn. May l4.--- tUP)- Funeral services will be held Monday for William J. Bill" Duffy, 3S, care- taker of grounds at Trinity College for 55 years, who died last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
First Major WaLkout h Steel Industry Plans
 fCon1panyAgreeable
27,OOO Men Will Resume Work This Aft ernoOn; Government Will Supervise
 Election on May 20
BY EDWARD J. LALLY, JR. United Press Staff Correspondent

Pittsburgh, May A. - (UP) = The Jones & Laughlin steel srike first major wakou in the steel industry in Is years, settled at 11:17 today when the steel workers organizing committee agreed to company pro- posal for a government-supervsed election.
 Philip Murray, Union field marshal in the two-day-od
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14

Hurllor

Writers from far and near have written reaHns before, during and after the coronation ceremo- nies just terminated, over in England-pret- ty heavy stuff for the most part, but unques- tionably news. However today JAM ES WILL LIAM FITZPATRICK in his semi-weelsly col- umn presents another slant on the reviews and previews. the hu- 1nOrOus side as only he can describe 1t. For a few laughs now that the great ordeal is over, turn to page 8 sf today's
 Democrat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-14
The Weather

Rain, Cool Tonight;
 Probably Saturday Fun Weather Report Page ..
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The Washington times., 1937-01-21

On all hands we see System Of economic checks and
balances the result of which uncertainty They be
buggyke in Government but would it not be good
know what count in the way of utility CONTROL
taxes, labor policy money, etc?
This the direct result of that political policy which
sss Of promises and assertions of benefits TO all and passing
laws which merely general aims such Social Sc
curv' of legislation past few years might
we'll have ended with the "whereases."
After four long years of PWA and death sentence threats
what is the policy of the Administration toward public
utilities?
No be sure!
The President does not know-dops he not? He has Just
appointed commission headed by Ickp to find ("n
: couple of weeks'' what should he done.
The problem to be- shall the private light and power
companies be out Of business later. This
When shall the politicians take overt
After four long years of unemployment and strikes what
is the policy of the Administration toward labor?
The National Labor Board has been joke Neither Mr..
Lewis the motor company will consult it.
1t is announced from Washington that President Watches
Strike Developments He ntervened once TO allow all
labor groups part in collective bargaining Why doesn
he do something" nOw7
What is going to of that legislative known
the social security act?
The President himself that the election admits
that needs fundamental changes such doing with the
huge fund would up Are the way
ing individual become pensonr of the Governments
Are going to levy the entirely employers?
Are pad the Supreme Court in time insure
favorable decision as to the acts constutionaly?
Monetary stability Silver buying? Reserve requirements?
The old emergncy authorize Roosevelt devaue the
dollar and manipulate wobillon-dolar sterilization fund
are being renewed.
The power of the executive especially over Government
spendng is the proposed reorganization Of Government going
to be jammed through?
Any certainty about budget9 Taxation? The Consu-
ton? The Supreme Court?
And by the way what the Administrations housng policy"
just now
The Washington times., 1937-01-21
CANADA BONDS
TO BE SOLD

A banking syndicate headed by
Morgan Stanley q Co. today an
nounced issue of $85,O00,0Oo in
bonds of the Government Of the
Dominion Of Canada.
Issue will consist of two groups,
$50, ,O00, 900 seven-year ~ per cent
bonds, and $55,OOO,OOO 3O-year 3
per cent bonds. The offer is made
only by prospectus.
Prices of the seven-year bonds
are 991a per cent and accrued in
terest. and of the 30-year 3 per
cent bonds, SO per cent and ac-
crued interest. Other underwriters
Of the issue are:
The First Boston Corporation.
Edward B. Smith & Co., Brown
Hartman & Co., Inc. Wood,
Gundy & Co.. Inc, Dominion Sc
curities Corporation, A. E. Ames
& Co.. Inc. Mcleod. Young. Weir
& Co., Ltd. and Royal Securities
Corporation.
The Washington times., 1937-01-21
Gasoline Stock
Higher For Week

The American Petroleum Insti-
tute reports gasoline stocks in the
week ended January 16 aggre-
gated 66559.000 barrels. an in
crease Of 1.157000 barrels over
the preceding week.
Crude oil output was reported
as an average Of 3,183. $50 barrels
daily. a rise OF 66 1850 barrels daily.
Refineries operated at 1912 per
cent Of capacity. off IT per cent
from the preceding week.
The Washington times., 1937-01-21
Liverpool Advances
In Moderate OPENING

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 81 G.N.SD.
Moderate business developed in
spot cotton on the opening today,
prices advancing as much as BOD
a bale. Receipts were 1000 bales.
none American. At noon strict
good middling was 7.97d. good mid
ding 7.67d. strict middling 737d.
middling 722d, strict low middling
697d, low middling 650d. strict
good ordinary 620d, good ordinary
5.90d.
Futures opened steadier, 1Od to
l5d bale higher. January opened
at 6.93d, March 691d. May 6.88d,
July 6.80d. At noon futures were
unchanged to slightly firmer.
The Washington times., 1937-01-21

concerning our economic HE!
We have been "on the way for four years.
and have had a mass of legislation. But where
are we? Where are the laws so jauntiy pro-
posed and ruthlesslv passed?
At the very time that we are confronted by
a new and radical kind of labor strike that
needlesslv throws scores of thousands out Of
work, we are wrestling with the problem of
unemployment.
At the same time that we sterilize gold, we
rejuvenate silver. While We are piing up
huge bank deposits Chased on Government
spending, we are preparing to restrict the
already small volume Of bank loans.
The Washington times., 1937-01-21
Money Markets

NEW YORK. Ian. 81 G.NSO-Bank-
ers acceptance market was quiet with
rates Sis to 4 per cent for 80 sO and
90 DAYS u to 5-1s per cent for IN
days. and n TO 7-15 per cent for $50 and
$50 DAYS.
Commercial paper market was mod
srateIy active with rate unchanged At
\ to per cent.
The Washington times., 1937-01-21
HANEY: ss::::::'s .5%:s:::e ::';s';;: :: I s;:: 6:
N ~ - IA AA A Roosevelts Second Term
By LEWIS HANEY
Professor Of Economics, New York Ur

Some of the thoughts that to mind Mr. Roose
welt begins his second term, follows
Why is it that there is much uncertainty in all matters
The Washington times., 1937-01-21
Local Stocks

SALES
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@16, 1o@16, 1O@16, 1O@16.
Potomac Electric 51a% pfd.,
1O@113. 1O@113, 1O@113, 59113,
1O@l13b, 5@113.
AFTER CALL
Capital Transit Co., 10016, 10
ole, 1O@16, 1O016, 10@16.
Washington Gas SIS 1858, 81 900
@107, $5OO@1O8.
The Washington times., 1937-01-21
'Ex.dividend.

$500 paid May Is, 1875 SOC paid Ay-
Ig3s ''o '"'' >"'p'''er I''
81 per cent paid necAmhAr IL. 1NTk
al per cent extra. II y per cent extra.
h75c eXtra.
Evening star., 1937-02-17

roosMoors Foreign Lgonnaes
all weldcpned and excelenty Spaniards
pushed the foreigners who
thick OF the battle Their
forthcoming because the
These representing Socialist
country Uord
they supporting Lacking adequate cloth
and not eceng the promised
either deserving the ranks OF the Loyolst demanding officially
their repatriation
On the other hand the italian
taken care or not by Franco but by their
nes men went to Spain well equipped the commar
ded TO them by their shpoad of food
lary the rebel
them by their officers.
The British government the first realize that the
government some time to convince Blum
French that they
idea that Franco will be the leader of Spain henceforh
The British tried fears French general staff
regarding Frances government
lished the Pyrenee pointing
great need OF country
Neither Germany Italy. London pointed
FRANCOIS reconstruction Consequently Spanish
DH be compelled
cash and then the too
Germany and Italy longer application
blockade against the further
that both countries realize
and such blockade will be
the
Frontiers Europe have
and no longer geographical deimiatons like past
Evening star., 1937-02-17
Strikers Held
Claiming Job
Property
Work Sole Title of
Many to Economic
Welfare.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Ok JA L fhANhLINs
THIS column has taken beating
from correspondents, high and
low, editors included, for ad-
L vancing the idea that the Gen.
eral Motors sit-down strikers were
trying to assert q property right in
their jobs. This argument can be
sustained.
To begin with, this column holds
no grudge against @. M. II we had
accepted our bankers advice in 1922
and invested legacy in Mr.. Sloan's
p-brainchild instead Of in invalu-
able experience. this columnist would
have been q millionaire in 1929 and
q pauper In 1882, instead of being q
hard-bitten commentator on life and
politics between Cape Cod and Golden
Gate in 1897.
And, contrary to the impression Of
some Of its unreconstructed Republic
can Doubling Thomases, this column
is subsidized by neither the Federal
Government, the Democratic party,
the New Deal nor the c. I. o. 1t IS
still an undisguised attempt to see
and say what makes the wheels go
round. So, on TO Detroit!
Prosperity Inherited Honestly.
Property rights have rarely, II ever,
been acquired except by force or fraud.
They are inherited quite honestly, but
are constituted by strong-arm meth
DDS.
So far as Americans are concerned,
we have only two great precedents for
our property rights: Conquest and
purchase. When we bought" the
land from the Indians, it is said that
the Indians sold one thing and we
purchased another They sold hunting
rights in a wilderness: we bought
forests to be felled, fields to be put
under the plough, ores to be mined,
streams to be dammed-all of which
destroyed the game on which the In.
dians lived.
So let's go back to England, whence
our jurisprudence and our self
righteousness came. The typical Eng
lish estates we're created in Tudor
times by two acts of unblushing rob-
berry. The first was the confscation
of the monasteries under Henry VIII,
the second was the .nclosure of the
common lands by the great mobiles.
Neither OF these ways can be com.
mended to the student Of ethics as an
ideal title to real property. In the
second case, particularly. cer.ar
powerful individuals took lands which
belonged in common 70 The people Of
the neighborhood ard ce7sIope6 taeua
for their own exclusive oereH-
AS a matter 0: tzc- a ,c6 Is re
only form Of p-ope--Y'' 20 vhlca
most Of us can lay clam We "ow-'
little unmortgaged real crcrer-7 GU
stocks and bonds =e-e zxsc care ot
by experts from 1928 CT. ard. asi1s
from a few Household possessio1-
usually on the ins-sllmen- p.zr-sa
insurance policy and small ssyt.zs
account, job Is our only title 10
economic income.
Few of us like the idea that We
should hold that Job at the mere vhim
OF the manager, so long as our work.
manship is good and we do our stun.
We do not like the idea that we are
simply a raw material, to be bought
in the cheapest market, or equipment
to be scrapped at the first sign Of
weariness. We tend to have a wife
and children who expect to be fed
regularly. So We try to stabilize our
economic position.
(Copyrisht REGISTER and Tribune Syndicate.D
Evening star., 1937-02-17

Auntie. So he has jumped into the
kitchen for a cleaver. and the sure and
lasting cure. Nice fellow, the Presi-
dent. Can't bear the sight Of long
drawn out pain"
"Your metaphor Is fantastic"
II meant it to be. This is fantastic
world. Social ministrations with the
hatchet, real or figurative, are becom-
ing an international habit. In Moscow
political inconveniences are bumped
of. In Berlin they are sometimes
bumped off. but oftener retired on full
pay. Or put under protective arrest.
The President proposes to put the nine
old men under protective arrest.
watched by six young huskies, unless
they will retire on full pay. All the
same methods Hatchet. Decapitation.
Humane or otherwise"
Il take it that you object"
II am positively startled by the vigor
of my objections. Hence the attempt
to express myself fantastically. For
along about now the American people.
who are seldom interested in anything
for more than two weeks. will begin
to say, oh, let the President do what
he likes. He's good guy
Also. they really feel that the Su-
preme Court is nuisance. Why, they
think, should they bother to nurse her
along?"
Government by Decapitation.
"Well. and why should they? You
tell me-"
Government by decapitation be-
comes a habit The removal of OBJ
stacles by crying on with their
heads! was employed by the Queen
in Alice's crazy dream. 1t has now
become entirely too general for my
taste Besides, there is another cure
for Auntie's headache. 1t has been
used 81 times before. The only objec-
ton to it is that it takes time and
patient treatment"
But they say that a constitutional
amendment would take years to pass"
They also say that the people over
whelmingly want the things which q
constitutional amendment might give
them, don't they? You can't have it
both ways. The prohibition amend
ment, which a majority of the people
never wanted. passed in a few months.
II the New Deal hasn't as competent
a machine as the Anti-Saloon League,
I am astonished. If all the farmers,
all the working men and all the un-
employed really want what we are
told they do want. nothing could stop
such an amendment"
Evening star., 1937-02-17
Ak for aHeadache a
Government by Decapitation Seen in Rooseve1t's
Court PROPOSAL.
Court Proposal.

wouldn't an amendment really
amount to the same thing as the
Presidents proposal?"
Denies Similarity.
TT would not. The method Of
legitimate constitutional government
is to say: II you don't like the law,
change 1t. II you don't like the
powers Of the Supreme Court, limit
them. II the meaning Of the law is
doubtful, clarity it. That Is exactly
the opposite Of saying: The law means
what I and the current majority In
Congress say 1t does, and we shall Ak
it so that the judges and we see eye
to eye That method can only have
one result-after while there isn't
any law. The main difference between
democracy and dictatorship is that in
a democracy the judicial system is
there to protect the citizen and in q
dictatorship it Is there to protect the
state.
"But, II 7 we're you, I would not
talk too much about dictatorship.
For we have always had in this coun-
try the dictatorship Of one oligarchy
or another. And that lies in the
nature Of the state, which few since
Thomas Jefferson have realized Is by
It's nature predatory instrument.
The state is a means by which one
set of fellows legally despoil the
others. For long time business con-
trolled this instrument, and with 1t
despoiled those who were not busi-
ness men. and the Supreme Court still
represents their mentality.
Fight for Control.
''Now. the Congress and the admin
istration represent the groups from
the bottom who have got on to the
fact that the state is a means by
which they can get something for
nothing. And the Supreme Court,
since 1t still represents the other,
just ousted bandits, stands in their
way. This Is just another fight, and
this time a fight for control of the
means Of oppression, which the state
is. The chief objection to every
thing that has happened in the last
four years Is that the state, which,
by and large, is no earthly good to
any hard-working. honest and decent
human being, and only interests those
who want something for nothing, Is
getting so strong that soon we shall
all give up the struggle and let it
run everything. And when it does
q hiSfnru rrin
everything into the ground. For the
state never consists of people who do
things, but Of people who write
memoranda about doing things And
when it gets strong enough it finally
represents only one predatory group
that Of its own members. 1t takes
about third of the national income
now, and before everything is finished
it will probably take all of it. Any
thing which retards this inevitable
process is highly desirable.
Apropos Of Dictatorship.
"Also and apropos of dictatorship:
No people ever recognize their dicta-
tor in advance. He never stands for
election on the platform of Dictator
ship. He always represents himself
as the instrument for expressing the
incorporated national will. When
Americans think Of dictators they
always think of some foreign model.
If any one turned up here in q fur
hat, boots, and a grim look he would
be recognized and Stunned. Likewise
any one resembling six Roman EN-.
perors, or some one you must greet with
Evening star., 1937-02-17

Hitler planning erpdnd that
AtrlaCh1peHe
and join the Rhine the stretch Bos
needed
stdcles a clear field artillery.
The Sovlets have decided
Western border.
The council Of the considering
their long
forfcauon will be combination the
and OF the
lively short time all international frontiers
tected by mpregnable
by underground and with
Evening star., 1937-02-17

tator, Gold help us!. will be a great
Democrat, through whose leadership
alone democracy can be realized. And
nobody will ever say He'll to him or
Ave Caesar nor will they call him
'Fuehrer' or 'Duce.'
(Copyright, 1877
Evening star., 1937-02-17

stiff arm and a he'll But when
our dictator turns up you can depend
on it that he will be one of the boys,
and he will stand for everything ira
ditionally American. Since the great
American tradition Is freedom and
democracy you can bet that our die
Evening star., 1937-02-17
News Behind the News
Congress Seen Stalling in Effort to Get Court
Plan COMPROMISE.
BY PAUL MALL0N.

those Congressman lodging public stand
M President secretly against
it. At least they cussig privately leader In the
House and intimate of the administration in the Senate as
well dozens others limiting around to their
will
program uoud
be defeated majority both obutou that
good OF the boys do not wan to poe today and
that Roosevelt lead these whee ae.
he them
What this peculiar situation Roosevelt de-
feated in the skmsh stang
for
Evening star., 1937-02-17

the administra-
ton would VEN
ture to try it is
another question.
1t consists Of al
lowing the volun-
tary retirement
bill, which has
already passe d
the House, to go
TO a vote in the
Senate. n e re
happens to be
very little oppo-
sition to hi S
measure because
1t would enable
ii1stinac To rnfira
Evening star., 1937-02-17

l Ic1cT 10 LQG
Presidents way
with that bother
some old lady, the
Supreme Court.
He says the ST.
preme Court has,
and is, q head
ache. He proposes
to cure 1t. But he
Is q. busy man.
It's a long way
upstairs to get
the aspirin, and
the doctors dis
agree, anyhow, as
to just what's
w rnnn u,it h