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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-20
Automobiles
Autos and Trucks For Sale

FORD DEALER EXHIBITS THESE USED CARS
 IN THE
 OLD ARMORY
 PASSENGER CARS 1928 Buick Sedan ..........E.. $50 1929 Auburn Conv. Sedan ...... $0S 1881 Auburn Coach ............ $05 1030 Chrysler Sedan .......... $125 1930 Durant Sedan ............. $65 1881 Dodge Sedan ............ $150 1929 Oldsnobile Sport Coupe =. $95 193O Chevrolet Roadster ........ $60 1930 Ford Roadster ............ $60 1891 Nash Cabriolet ........... $65 1928 Chrysler Roadster ......... $25 1930 Buick Sedan ............. $150 1930 Ford Coach ...............$ $o5 1928 Chandler Sedan .......... $50 1881 Ford Touring ............ $125 1892 Graham Sedan .......... $50 1929 Buick Pass. Coupe ...... $45 1929 Pontiac Sedan ........... $05 1892 Plymouth Cabriolet ...... $25O 1882 Plymouth Deluxe Sedan. $275 1881 Chevrolet Coach ......... $125 1929 Hupmobile 5-Pass. Coupe .. $85 1894 Terraplane Coupe ...... $425 193O Auburn Conv. Sedan ..... $125 1886 Ford Cabriolet
 1936 Ford Sedan
 1895 Ford Deluxe Sedan 1884 Ford Deluxe Coupe
 COMMERCIALS 1930 Ford Panel ............. $95 1883 Dodge Panel ............. $250 1885 Ford Cab & Chassis ...... $450 1884 Ford Dump .............. $450 1881 Ford Dump .............. $225 1882 Chevrolet Pickup ......... $175 1891 Ford Pickup ,.. $125 1884 Ford Panel ........... $250 Cars listed above are at our new
 quarters at the
 OLD ARMORY Corner Savings St. & Phoenix Ave. MATTATUCK MOTORS
 Your Ford Dealer
 SHOWROOM & SERVICE DEPT.
 MAIN OFFICE
 428 WEST MAIN BRANCH USED CAR LOT AT CORNER NORTH MAIN ST. & SPARK ST.
 BRANCH USED CAR LOT AT CORNER FREIGHT & JUDD SITS.
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A SELECTION OF BUYS

A SELECTION OF BUYS 1897 Pontiac 4 Dr. Trunk Sedan Radio and heater. months old. A saving of nearly $200. 1886 Pontiac Conv. Coupe-Finished III fishscale blue. Radio and heater. Run only 1000 miles. It sure is a dandy.
 1896 Hudson Custom Built Sedan Has buNt-in trunk, radio, heater, electric gear shift. wheel deluxe job. Beautiful Aquamarine Blue. See this one. 1886 Pontiac Deluxe Door Sedan Has less than 1000 miles. Will perform like new car. 1936 Oldsmobile Deluxe "8" Town Sedan-Radio, trunk and many ex- tras. Looks and runs like a new car.
 '35 Graham Supercharger Sedan '35 Dodge Sedan '34 Buick Club Sedan '34 Chevrolet Master Coupe '34 Plymouth Special Coach '33 Ford Coupe-Like new '33 Plymouth Sedan (Radio) '32 Buick Deluxe Sedan '32 Packard Deluxe Sedan
 CREEL BROS., INC.
 299 WEST MAIN ST. Phone 3-5327 1885 Lafayette 5-pass. 4-door sedan with built-in trunk. This car with all new Goodrich -Silvertown tires is in excellent condition throughout and serviced and guaranteed by our Lafayette specialist. Price makes it an added tnducement.
 NASH-LAFAYETTE 395 West Main St. Dial 3-1l93
 (Open Evenings, 1936 CHEVROLET SPORT SEDAN Finished in black. New in appear ance and performance. Low mile age. A genuine bargain. 1892 FORD TUDOR sEDAN-very clean inside and out. Tires and mechanical condition excellent. A small amount down buys this car. HOTCHKISS MOTOR
 CO
 "The House of Confidence"
 17-25 WILLOW ST.
 DIAL 3-3177
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-20
Employment
Men Wanted

MEN WANTED-In this locality to act as direct representative for re- liable Nursery firm. All fruit trees, roses, etc., completely guaranteed. Investment or experience unneces- sary. Pay weekly. Connecticut Val ley Nurseries, Manchester. Conn.
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AnnOuncen1ents
Lost and Found

LOST-An 1e-foot length 1h inch rubber oil truck hose, on or near
 Watertown Ave. Finder please call American Oil Co, 4-3828. Reward.
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IA Service Stations. Repairing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-20

Vincent Lopez, maestro of the CD9 Speed show," is strong for speed in many ways. Lopez gets his script-wish music cues mark ed-tl1ree weeks in advance and holds one or two continuous re- hearsals rather than call his band men every day. This gives the nu- sicians longer rest periods and keeps them from going stale.
 I'd East and Ralph Dumke
 ~The Quality Twins" heard ever
 CBG twice weekly, are two Of
 radios most Tl;predictable c0m-
 edlans. Champions at the art 0f
 ad-lIbbing, Ed and Ralph have
 production men in . constant
 state of anxiety. as to what
 they'l1 do next. During . recent
 broadcast the comic pair put in
 IF seconds of additional ad-lib
 dialogue-making 1t impossible
 for the announcer to give sign.
 off credit to Columbia.
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Auto Springs Axles, Etc.

A1To SPRING co. Welding, frame. axle, spring works. 38 Brown Place. 4-O078.
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93 Money Loaned

MONEY TO LOAN on first mort- gage at 5h %. Ina. J. O. Herbst, 63 Bank St. 4-4370.
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THE CITY of WATERBURY, a municipal corporation. located In the County of New Haven
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-10
No Infringement Of CiD Or Religious Liberties Seen By
 President n Proposed Change Of The g. Supreme Cour

at your side in your fights for progress?
 And remember one thing more. Even if an amendment were passed, and even if in the years to come it were to be ratified, its meaning would depend upon the kind of Justices who would be sitting on the Supreme Court bench. An amendment like the rest of the Constitution is what the Justices say 1t is rather than what It's framers or you might hope 1t is.
 This proposal of mine will not infringe in the slightest upon the civil or religious liberties 50 dear to every American.
 Devotion Proved
 My record as Governor and as President proves my devotion to those liberties. You who know me can have no fear that I would tolerate the destruction by any branch Q. government of any part of our heritage of freedom.
 The present attempt by those opposed to progress to play upon the fears of danger to personal liberty brings again to mind that crude and cruel strategy tried by the same opposition to frighten the workers of America in a pay-en. velope propaganda against Social Security Law. The workers were not fooled by that propaganda then. The people of America will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-10

Dinner. Joe Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson's wartime secretary, who has made considerable wealth law yering and lobbying here, was chairman and tOastmaster. He sat right next to Roosevelt. Power conl- panies. lobbying against Roosevelt's pet holding company bill, hired Humility and paid him 433.0O0 in q single year. Others among the 90 hosts on the Victory committee in- cIuded Arthur Mullen of Nebraska, J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, and o. Max Gardner of North Carolina. All three worked for utility con-
 panies opposing the holding coEa- pany measure. All were members of the democratic national committee before Roosevelt decided such posts were incompatible with their nctivi- ties. Other lobbyists on the dinner committee included Donald Rich- berg. former Assistant Attorney General William Stanley, @waser sherley and BFice Ciaggett. a0n-ia- law Of Senator McAdoo.
 Copyright, i0aT. NEA Service, xne.)
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FOR Deliuers His
 First Preside Chat
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scribed. He reiterated the sound- ness of his policies and that recovery has come. But MT. Roose- welt warned of trouble ahead and cited a quiet crisis" now confront ing the nation. He said recovery is speeding to 8 point where the dangers of 1929 are again becoming possible, not this week or month per- haps, but within 8 year or two"
 MT. Roosevelt said his first ad- ininistration undertook to make the United States "bomb-proof against the causes of 1929" but that ra- tional laws are needed to complete his program. The courts, he com- plained, cast doubt on congress- abil- ity ito protect us against catastro- phe by meeting squarely our modern social and economic needs"
 Nation at . Crisis
 we are at Q crisis" MT. Roosevelt continued, Gin our ability to proceed with that protection. It is 8 quiet crisis. But to the far sighted 1t is far reaching in its possibilities of injury to America" Promising that his proposals would infringe neither upon civil or religious liberties nor destroy any branch of government, MT. Roosevelt said:
 T am in favor of action through legiSlation.
 First, because I believe that 1t can be passed at this session of con- greSs.
 Second, because 1t will provide Q reinvigorated, liberal-minded judi- ciary necessary to furnish quicker and cheaper justice from bottom to top.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-10
By RODNEY BUTCHER Democrat Washington
 CorreSpOndent

Washington, March 10-Aspirants for presidential nomination in 1940 are not entirely relieved by RooSe- velt's assurances that he looks forward to retiring to private life on Jan. 70, l94I.
 They won't be entirely happy until the president gives them a signed affidavit. couched in solemn language, officially sealed and rive eted on the White House front door.
 Roosevelt said at the Democratic Victory Dinner" here:
 My great ambition on Jan. %. le4i. is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor. whoever he may be !"
 But there are those who predict that when the time comes, the president may feel himself unable to realize that great ambition" l" They fear--peFhaps in some eases pretend to fear-that he will feel
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Third, because 1t will provide c series of federal courts willing to en. force the constitution as written, and unwilling to assert legislative powers by writing into 1t their own political and economic powers"
 Courts Tip Balance of Power
 In the past 50 years, the president said, the governmental balance of power had been tipped out of bal- ance by the courts"
 we have, therefore" he argued, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the constitution from the court and the court from itself.
 T want--as all Americans want. an independent judiciary as pro. posed by the framers of the con- stitution. That means Q supreme court that will enforce the consti- tuition as written--that will refuse to amend the constitution by the ar- bitrary exercise of judicial power amendment by judicial say-so. It does not mean judiciary 50 inde- pendent that it can deny the exist ence of facts universally recog- nized."
 Senate to Take Action
 With the presidents appeal to the nation the court dispute shifted finally to the senate for action after more than month of talk. Attor- ney General Homer s. Cummings leading of for the reorganization plan will be. followed this week by other administration witnesses be- fore Chairman Henry F. Ashurst and 17 other senators comprising the judiciary committee.
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not be fooled by such propaganda
Legislative Actlon

not pe tOOteu py suCn propeSanue now.
 Legislative ActlOn
 I am ir favor of action through legislation: First, because believe that 1t can be passed ct this session of the Congress.
 Second, because it will provide a reinvigorated, liberal-minded Jti- dietary necessary to furnish quick CT and cheaper justice from bot tom to top.
 Third, because 1t will provide a series of Federal Courts willing to enforce the Constitution as writ- ten, and unwilling to assert legs islative powers by writing into 1t their own political and economic policies.
 Out of Balance
 During the past half century the balance Of power between the three great branches of the Fed- eral Government, has been tipped out of balance by the Courts in direct contradiction of the high purposes of the framers of the Constitution. It is my purpose to restore that balance. You who know me will accept my solemn assurance that in o world in which democracy is under attack, I seek to make American democ- racy succeed,
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A SENATOR, who gets "A around the White House a lot, tells this Roosevelt an- ecdote:
 Joseph E. Davies. the newly appointed ambassador to Soviet Russia who had recently mar ried the s200.00O, ,000 Post Toastie heiress-Mrs. Marjorie Hutton--was discussing his job with the president. They got to the point where Davies asked:
 "Well, now. what do we do about that Russian debt?"
 Well, Joe." replied the president as if In all serious ness. "Why don't you and Mrs. Davies assume it?"
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at the age of 70. Congress has provided financial security by of- fering life pensions at full pay for Federal judges on all courts who are willing to retire at 70. In the case of the Supreme Court justices, that pension is $20,000 a year. But all federal judges, once appointed, can, if they choose, hold office for life, no matter how old they may get to be.
 Presidents Proposal
 What is my proposal? It is simply this: Whenever a judge or justice of any federal court has reached the age of 70 and does not avail himself of the oppor- tunity to retire on pension, 8 new member shall be appointed by the President then in office, with the approval, as required by the Constitution, of the Senate, of the United States.
 That plan has two chief pur- poses. By ringing into the judicial system 2 steady and con- tinuing stream c. new and young- CT blood, hope first to make the administration of all federal jus- tices speedier and therefore, less costly; secondly. to bring to the decision of social and economic problems younger men who have had personal experience and con- tact with modern facts and cir cumstances under which average men have to live and work. This plan will save our national Con- stitution from hardening of the judicial arteries.
 The number of judges to be appointed would depend wholly on the decision of present judges now over 70, or those who would sub- sequently reach the age of 70.
 Place Filled
 If, for instance, any one of the six justices of the supreme court now over the age of 70 should retire as provided under the plan, his place would not be filled. Consequently, although there never can be more than 15, there may be only 14, or 13, or 12. And there may be only nine.
 There is nothing novel or radi- cal about this idea. It seeks to maintain the federal bench in full vigor. It has been discussed and approved by many persons of high authority ever since similar pro- posal passed the House of Repre- sentatives in 1869.
 Why Fix Age?
 Why was the age fixed at 70? Because the laws of many states, the practice of the Civil Service, the regulations of the Army and Navy, and the rules of many of our universities and of almost every great private business en- terprise, commonly fix the retire. ment age at 70 years or less.
 The statute would apply to all the courts Tn the federal SyS- tenn. There is general approval so far as the lower federal courts are concerned. The plan has met opposition only so far as the Su- preme Court of the United States itself is concerned. If such a plan is good for the lower courts it certainly ought to be equally good for the highest court from which there is no appeal.
 Those opposing this plan alave sought to arouse prejudice and fear by crying that I am seeking to pack" the Supreme Court and that a baneful precedent will be established.
 Packing the Court"
 What do they mean by the words packing the court?"
 Let me answer this question with a bluntness that will end all honest misunderstanding of my purposes.
 If by that phrase packing the
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court" 1t is charged that wish to place on the bench spineleSs puppets who would disregard the law and would decide specific cases as I wished them to be de- cided, make this answer--that no President fit for his office would appoint, and no senate of honorable men fit for their office would confirm, that kind of ap- pointees to the Supreme Court.
 But if by that phrase the charge is made that would appoint and the senate would confirm jus- tices worthy to sit beside present members of the Court who un- derstand those modern conditions that I will appoint justices who will not undertake to override the judgment of the Congress on legislative policy--that I will ap- point justices who will act as justices and not as legislators-if the appointment of such justices can be called packing the courts" then I say that I and with me the vast majority of the Ameri- can people favor doing just that thing-now.
 Is It Dangerous?
 Is 1t a dangerous precedent for the Congress to change the num- Der of the Justices? The Con- gress has always had, and will have, that power. The number of justices has been changed several times before-in the administra- tions of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson-both signers of the Declaration Of Independence Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses s. Grant.
 suggest only the addition of justices to the bench in accord ance with clearly defined prir- ciple relating to a clearly defined age limit. Fundamentally, if in the future, America cannot trust the Congress 1t elects to refrain from abuses of our Constitutional usages, democracy will have failed far beyond the importance to it of any kind of precedent con- corning the judiciary.
 We think 1t so much in the pub- lie interest to maintain a vigor- ous Judiciary that we encourage the retirement of elderly judges by offering them life pension at full salary. Why then should we leave the fulfillment of this public policy to chance or make it dependent upon the desire or prejudice of any individual jus- tice?
 New Blood
 It is the clear intention of our public policy to provide for a constant flow of new and younger blood into the Judiciary. Normally every President appoints 8 large number of District and Circuit Judges and a few members of the Supreme Court. Until my first term practically every Presi- dent of the United States had ap- pointed at least one member of the Supreme Court. President Taft appointed five members and named chief justice--President Wilson three-President Harding four including a chief justice President Coolidge one-President Hoover three including a chief justice.
 Such a succession of appoint. ments should have provided court well-balanced as to. age. But chance and the disinclination of individuals to leave the su- preme bench have now given us a court in which five justices will be over 75 years of age before next June and one over 70. Thus a sound public policy has been de- feated.
 Younger Judges
 now propose that we establish by law an assurance against any such Unbalanced court in the fu- TAY<NTNAY
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idea as ~idlotie." The mere fact any such phanfasy reached such m point
 that it was raised at one of her
 press conferences, amply demon- stgatsd that people do got some
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and that if the legislative power is not left free to choose the methods of solving the problems of poverty, subsistence and health of large numbers in the cornmun- ity, then government is to be rendered impotent." And two other justices agreed with him.
 What Judges Say
 In the face of these dissenting opinions, there is no basis for the claim made by some members of the Court that something in the Constitution has compelled them respectfully to thwart the will of the people.
 Tn the face of such dissenting opinions, it is perfectly clear, that as Chief Justice Hughes has sad: We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say 1t is."
 The Court in addition to the proper use of its judicial func- tions has improperly set itself up as Q third House of the Congress "a super-legislature, as one of the justices has called it--rcad- ing into .n Constitution words and imp, Lions which are mot there, and which were never in- tended to be there.
 We have, therefore, reached the point as 8 nation where we must take action to save the Constitu- tion from the Court and the Court from itself. We must find way to take an appeal from the Su- preme Court to the Constitution itself. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution--not over 1t. In our courts we want government of laws and not of men.
 Independent Judiciary
 I want--as all Americans want --an independent judiciary as pro- posed by the framers of the Con- stitution. That means @ Su- preme Court that will enforce the Constitution as written-that will refuse to amend the Consti- tuition by the arbitrary eXerc'Ge of judicial power-amendment by judicial say-so. It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny the existence of facts universally recognized.
 How then could we proceed to perform the mandate given us? It was said in last years demo- cratic platform, If those problems cannot be effectively solved within the Constitution, we shall seek such clarifying amendment as will assure the power to enact those laws, adequately to regulate com- merce, protect public health and safety, and safeguard economic se- curity." In other words, we said we would seek an amend- ment only if every other possible means by legislation were to fail.
 Infuse New Blood
 When I commenced to review the situation with the problem squarely before me, I came by process of elimination to the con- clusion that short of amendments the only method which was clearly constitutional, and would at the same time carry out other much needed reforms, was to infuse new blood into all our Courts. We must have been worthy and equipped to carry out impartial jutice. But, at the same time, we must have judges who will bring to the courts present. day sense of the Constitution judges who will retain in the courts the judicial functions of a court, and reject the legisla i've powers which the Courts have to- day assumed.
 Tn AS out of the 48 states of the Union, judges are chosen not for life but for period of years. In many states judges must retire
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Dig It Up, Bury Again
Lots of Lobbyists

Joe Davies was about khe only conspicuous democratic lobbyist who didn't serve on the committee sponsoring the ei00-a-plats Victory
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BEHIND THE E. D. R.s Third Term Denial Cheers 1940
 HOpefuls, But They Want It In Writing
BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON.

, the country needs him desperately. And so they're whispering that his stateemnt is comparable to the rather enigmatic remark of Calvin Coolidge: do not choose to run" !"
 There seems to be no sound basis for supposing at this time that F. D. R. has any thought of seeking q third term. Suspicion appears to rest chiefly on the tradition that no president has ever been happy at leaving the White House, even after two terms.
 ScOf at Thought
 Presidential intimates scofT at the thought. Some already are busy specnlating as to ROosevelt,s i040 successor. if not actually laylng unobtrusive groundwork for cer. tain candidates. They say there Isn't any more reason for supposing Roosevelt harb0rs third-teEm ambl- tlons than there is for paying SeT- lous attention to suggestions Mrs Roosevelt might succeed him. Mrs. Roosevelt herself branded that last
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funny political ideas into their heads.
 Dig It Up, Bury Again
 Speaking of what must seem to most folks like squirel-cake eco- monies:
 Men are digging frantically down into the ground for gold. Last year the total gold production was 4,329.273 ounces. an increase of l7 per cent over 1885. The treasury paid e35 an ounce for this gold. But then, all 1t did was to bury the yellow metal in the ground again--s0me 90 or co feet down in Its vaults at Fort Knox, Ky.
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Amendment Unreliable

To them I say-we cannot rely on an amendment as the imme. diate or only answer to our pres ent difficulties. When the time comes for action, you will find that many of those who pretend to support you will sabotage any constructive amendment which is proposed. Look at these strange bed-fellows of yours. When be- fore have you found them really
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-10

It is the American people them