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Evening star., 1937-07-01
WEATHER.
70. 3 Weather Bureau Forecast


Generally fair tonight and tomorrow
continued cool tonight; slightly warmer
tomorrow: gentle winds. Temperatures
today-Highest, IA, at pm: lowest, So,
at am. Temperature at l pm, 70.
Full report on page B-l2.
Evening star., 1937-07-01

GSee WEDDING, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-07-01

(See FRANCE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-07-01
Other Plants Stay Shut.

(See STRIKE, Page AL
Evening star., 1937-07-01

(See TAXES, Page A-6.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Glad of This

Revised estimates of what should be snent on state institutions have been pre- pared by Governor Wilbur L. Cross and submitted to the legislative appropria- tions commission. Previously the esti- mates called for in the governors pro- gram did not exceed the $11 100000 that will be available when the state floats It's $25 ,OOO, 900 bond issue. the major portion of which is to be used to retire the states deficit in its general funds. Now the new program has boosted the total to be spent for institutions, providing everyone IS agreeable, to $13,353, ,288.
 Part of this is given to Connecticut State College so that new dormitories for women and men may be built. This IS deserved and despite the fact that large appropriation was set up for the state college, we think that an increase is quite in order If any institution in the State has been neglected and even over looked, so far as appropriations are con- cerned, it has been the state college, no longer a land-grant or agricultural school, but real college, offering excel lent courses in many lines. We don't need to plead the cause of the college. It's too well known to require this.
 Incidentally we might also mention that plans for the colleges expansion have already been prepared and have presented them to the proper state off cials and legislators. The college is one dd two such institutions to do this. The veterans Home Building Commission has also come prepared and has filed it's necessary data at Hartford. We can't condemn other institutions for not do- ing this; we can't deny their right to a share in the disposition of funds for growth and progress. But certainly this action is bound to have favorable re- action with the general public and cause many to urge hearty consideration of their every need and request.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Killing the Goose

It is easy to kill goose that is laying golden eggs. Tn business it is usually done with high prices. In this country we are in danger of it right now, before recovery is really well started. In early every important industrial line lately prices are advancing. In some cases, no doubt, they might be said to advance themSelveS. It is natural process, forced by scarcity in a time of growing demand. But too often it is done by business lead CTS who are not forced, or who act before they are forced. They simply decide that tley~'can get 'its@ or that "prices are go- ing up anyway and they may as well boost their products while the boosting's good.
 The worst kind of price-raising is this last kind the epidemic sort, with every body expecting higher prices, and every body doing his bit to shove them up be- cause the other fellows are doing it. Such bullishness in the commodity market may become as hySterical and deStruc- tive as a selling wave in the stock market or run on the banks. It is bad psy- chology and bad business, in spite of tra- ditions to the contrary. Almost any en- {, frightened modern economist will say so. What the country needs is more goods, made by more people, working more time, to supply more consumers.
 In short, we want more abundance. Rising prices mean not abundance but scarcity. First scarcity for the great mass of consumers; and then, because they cannot buy and spend, scarcity also for the few who rejoiced in the high prices and profits while they lasted Too many business men forget that the best busi- ness is based on many small profits and widening consumption Let's not kill the goose now, as we did in those mad 1920's.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
A Greater Market

We need a larger market for goods, and we have right here at home the greatest market in the world It can be cultivated profitably by holding down prices and rates of profit and selling more things to more people. We need to make a great deal more work in producing things and passing them around. If there IS any way to re-employ the unemployed, to make work for young men and women who have never had jobs, to ease the government relief burden and balance the federal budget, to make our American system of private enterprise once more going concern and keep it going, isn't this the way?
 Tit is, don't we need statesmanship in Washington and in every industrial cen ter political statesmanship and indus trial and commercial stateSmanship, to Cork things out along these lines? Real estate houses and business buildings and well-situated land = may go farther ups in price for while. They have been rlinouSly low, and their recovery is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
An Era Has Ended

The announcement that starting with Sunday no parking will be allowed in Ex- change Place will certainly cause some of our real old-timers to shake their heads. They will be the ones who can go back to the days when clustered in Exchange Place would sbe all sorts of equipages, every one horse drawn. There hasn't been d hOrse-dnaWn vehicle lettering around Exchange Place now for many year. In fact it's rare now when one passes through the Center.
 Exchange Place without it's familiar ring of vehicles will be rather strange sight. We, imagine it will be some few days before the police can persuade everyone that both sides of the street must be left clear for the big busses to load and unload passengers. And we also imagine that some of the remarks that will be passed to the patrolmen doing duty in this sector will not be too kind. It will require considerable surveillance to patrol the area, just as it does to keep parkers in order in front of the Postoffice.
 There has long been difference of opinion in cities where busSes are oper-S ated on the rights of the city to set aside certain spaces for use as stops" In some communities. central stops" along the streets are not allowed and the conl- panies operating the busses are forced to establish their own stations on private property. Whether or not we'll ever come to that state of affairs in Water bury, we don't know But we do know that Waterbury has always treated the traction company pretty nicely with re- gard to use of it's streets. The custom is continuing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

Remember all the furore that was caused couple of years ago when fish started to die off by the thousands at the state hatchery in Burlington. We never did find out just what was the trouble over there, as at first thc authorities were baffled. However, reading the recent re- port of the State Board of Fisheries and Game we learned that it was faulty pipes which were supplying water to the pools in which the fish were placed. The pipes were made of wood and in many places had been broken or disconnected by tree roots pushing their way into crevices and forcing openings through which surface water worked it's way. The situation was precipitated by autumn rains which fil- tering' down through the leaves carried acids into the pools in which the fish were and resulted in their deaths. Now the entire system has been changed at the hatcheryaand there won't be a repetition of, this disaster. * ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
IF ressCo1nr11ent
FROGS AS FOOD Bridgeport Times-Star)

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 Constantly the glamour is being taken out of life by its increased conmerci alization. There was a time when the frog hunter was rather. a picturesque individual that is, we conceive of him as so being. Maybe he was quite the con- trary. However, that Is of no irn- pOrtance. What does matter is that the business of growing frogs legs, all to be nicely breaded and fried to a delicious crispness, is being so rapidly commercialized that the frog hunter as such as going out of the picture.
 According to food experts frog legs compare favorably with beef, chicken, veal and fish in food value, although not quite as high in pro- tein content. A characteristic ot frog meat is that it has very little fat or carbohydrates, which is cred- tied with the source of It's delicious flavor. But the greatest appeal which this sort of meat makes is due to its delicacy and palatability, which places the dish in the front rank of epicurean luxuries.
 But we really can use more than that, and that's why frog farming is one of our growing industries, especially in the southern states. Economists have said that one of the things we need to put us on our feet is new major industry. Per- haps this is 1t, for you see that there gre by-products in the frog business that is, there Is more to a frog than legs, just as there Is to Dietrich or Mistinguette.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

So far as Connecticut is concerned the Child Labor federal amendment is dead for this; session Should it now succeed sin being ratified it would be one of the <marveB of this age. The Senate, to be sure, passed the bill of ratification Wednesday by the, narrow margin of one vote, 80 close that even Lieutenant Gov ernor Frank Hayes thought the bill had been defeated ,Aput how much chance is there of; the House reversing its earlier position of opposition to ratification? We are safe, in saying the bill is dead and Connecticut will not ratify in 1887.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

protection to the employer. Yet Roberts changed his mind and OK'd the much more radical Washington measure.
 Even last October, however, he still stood with his conservative colleagues. When New York state asked the Court to review the minimum wage case, the court refused. Reviews are given only if one justice feels that reasonable doubt exists regarding his previ- ous decision.
 Justice Roberts at that time entertained no reasonable doubt
 What irked the Four Horsemen was that nothing in the law or the Constitution changed between October and March, but in that interim MT. Roberts changed his mind. There had been an elec- ton, also a Presidents proposal to revainp the Supreme Court. But there were no new laws or con- stitutiona1 changes which might arouse reasonable doubt in Rob- ert'S mind.
 Hughes Criticism
 MT. Sutherland also, had some ! caustic comments to make about Chief Justice Hughes reference to "the economic conditions which have supervened."
 "But," shot back Sutherland, "the meaning of the Constitution does not change with the ebb and flow of economic events"
 To which a prominent New Deal attorney, listening to the de- < ciSion remarked: 4 ~ < "Mr. Hughes. without realizing it, has gone back to his old statement as governor of New York that the Constitution is what the judges say it is.'
 But Mir. Sutherland says that regardless of judges, the Con- 2 stituti0n stands, immobile and immutable like the Rock of Gibraltar" s,3
 Copyright. 1887, by United
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
TODAY's COMMON ERROR Never say, "This side of the road is a clump of trees"; say, "On this side of the road"

e. Is it possible to determine the age of living trees? A. It, can be computed by means of an increment borer, an instru- ment especially designed to cut g round cylinder about the size of a pencil from the bark to the center of the tree. On this cylinder the rings can be counted.
 Q. Was Robert E. Lees mother buried alive?
 A. No. ss
 e. Can gifts be sent to Brazil free of duty? 5aS .''a
 A. All goods sent as gifts are dutiable at the same rate as com mercial shipments.
 If you want 3 copy of our book let on Weight Control, write The Waterbury Democrats Wash ington Bureau, 1912 Thirteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D. c. Enclose 4 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Selected Poem. |.

(Mary J. Daly in the Poet,&s Corner
 Hartford Times) Here on the hilltop cold the wind blows, Blasting the bloom from the last summers rose, Drifting the gray clouds, screening the sun, Swirling the leaves when falling is done. Yellow and brown leaves, crimson and gold, Clothing the pansies from winters cold. Naked the naples stand without shame Oak leaves enduring cling to their frame. Once where soft lodgings lulled by the breeze In woven gaskets. sheltered in ease Now the winds tumble, rift and divide Nests that the weavers fashioned with pride. Here on the hilltop how the winds blow Swaying the branches bending them low. Tossing the seedlings cradled in earth Waiting the Spring -call waiting re-birth. How the wind dancesl Feel its sjcaresS 4sff 4ssff Strong the wind battiesl Soft the winds hlessH Here on the hilltop heart disciplined ..a g.&t Sings with the music played by the wind. ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

Encouraged by the recent Supreme Court decision on the minimum wage law of the State of Washington, Connec- ticut's Labor Department officials in this state are going right after sweatshops and merchants who, are, suspected of vio- lating laws. Signs of this were recently seen in Waterbury; other communities have been feeling the weight of the Labor will be for everyones best interests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

nersIF repivifg values and shs .I Ito staDnize things as long as it'doesn.t run into wild speculation. But goods, mer- chandise, commodities, things that are used up, are different.
 If our industrial civilization is what it professes to be, and ought to be, it will make its products more plentiful and more easily ohtainable by all our people. Otherwise our capitalist system fails.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

ever is footing ,. w.TitaPatriek ] the bills has 8 well-filled pocket book and that he is no friend of the labor union movement. Dur ing the national campaign and be- fore it really got under way there were any number of weirdly named organizations dedicated to the defeat of President Roosevelt. Their activities were prodigious and their supply of money appar- ently inexhaustible. Ultimately it became 8 matter of common knowledge that the sucker list pro- viding the generous donors was practically synonymous with the membership rolls of the American Liberty League. That sturdy band of unselflsh patriots may still be dish- ing out the coin but I doubt it. They paid through the snout for the anti-Roosevelt propaganda and got precious little return for the expenditure on election day. So perhaps they have been cured of indiscriminate giving. It may be that the National Association of Manufacturers is the "angeP for the anti-union writers, pulp fishers, and also the stamp win- dows. That organization is 8 notoriously labor-baiting outfit but while it is tlnstinting in its con- tributions to any movement which will keep the unions off its col- lective neck, 1t is also pretty can- ny in its operations. Not only does it not let its right hand know what its left hand is up to but it also keeps the digits of the respective hands in complete ignorance of the movements of the other fin- gers on the same hand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

This was close to record delay. It took only 35 days to declare unconstitutional the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Law in 1923, 31 days to outlaw the New York Minimum Wage Law last June 6, to void the Arkansas law, and Il to veto Arizona's.
 Some of the inner factors which caused this long delay have now leaked out through one source or another, and are extremely signi- ficiant. There were two causes for delay. .se.s .~.
 FIRST, was getting. Justice Rob-. erts to make up his mind. It was his switch which swung the Court in favor of the act. To. find ex- cuseS for reversing himself within -four months was no easy job.
 SECOND. was the drafting of Justice Sutherland's dissenting opinion. He did not start writ ing it until after he had re- ceived copy of Chief Justice Hughes majority opinion, and af- ter that he took his time.
 Amiable Sutherland
 This Sutherland dissent is i'm portant.
 Justice Sutherland himself was 75 years old last week, and is one of the most picturesque fig ureS on the Court. Like Hughes, he wears beard, though it is a poor second in impressiveness to the chief justices. It is thin and gray-Mhite, helps divert attention from the underlying face, which is pink but not prepossessing.4 His skin is of a remarkable delicacy, as is everything about him, even the fine hand-stitcl1ing on his hlack worsted suit. a1 N 3;Sutherland'S hardshake is firm. His eyes are gray and colorleSS,. like his personality, yet they are bright. His talkis ambling and prolix, like that of 9 man of '. 3So void of color is he that in its way this is almost spectacu- lar. And even as he Is color < less, so also is he amiable. z Among the conservatives, he is the best t-dispositi0ned mem- Der of the Supreme Court. Even the liberals, who differ with him vigorously, find him
 courteous and fOrbearing.
 That one so kindly as Suther- land should have written a dis sent so cauStically fortnight, and indirectly SO critical of two col-- leagues, is highly significant a',' 4 ii Four HOrSemen
 Its .,vitriol was inspired FIRST because Sutherland was defending his own position taken IA years ago, in which he knocked out the first minimum wage act. It was as if he were defending his child.
 SECOND, Sutherland did not write the opinion entirely himself. Butler, who is more blunt and viz orouS, helped him. Van De- vanter and McReynoldS were con- suited. The dissent, Y therefore, represents the compact, completely unanimous opinion of the conSer- vative group.
 In fact. it may be the swan song of those who have come to be known as the Four Horsemen of Reaction.
 Target Roberts
 Their blast was aimed chiefly at Roberts, who had deserted them, and at the chief justice, who put changing economic conditions" ahead of the constitution. The names of these two were not men, tioned. but 1t wasn't necessary. They showed through almost every line of Sutherland,s burning opinion.
 Most vehement blast was aimed at Roberts. Remember that Roberts had stood with the Four Horsemen last June when - hy one vote they threw cut the New York mini mum wage act. That act was more conservative than the WaShimgt0m aek. 1k wavA wreAfaK
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

Q.Can you tell me how many manufacturers of air conditioning equipment there are in the United States?
 A. Approximately 175 lnanufac- turers are making air conditioning equipment and accessories for com- plete installations.
 o. What are the colors of South ern Methodist university at Dallas, Texas?
 A. Crimson and Blue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Someone is Paying

Whether the Liberty League, the National Association of Manufac- turers, the Republican National Committee, the Society for Provid- ing Ear Muffs for Suffering Lap landers, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, or the League Against Everything is paying the check for the circulation and dis tribution of the printed muck rakings about the unions, is un- important. The circulation and distribution is being carried on. someone Is backing it in terms of dollars and cents, and an inten- sive job is being made of it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

V
 1. In which state is Mount Grey lock?
 ?. What is the contemptous name applied to Americans by the Mex jeans?
 3. Is the four leaf clover men, toned in the Bible?
 4. When is All-Souls Day? 5. Who was Karl Gjellerup? 6. What is chigger? T. Name the mountain chain on the border between Spain and France.
 8, Why are the boots and stirrups of deceased soldiers reversed at mi- litary funerals?
 g. What is chronology?
 10. Name the last state to be ad- mitted to the Union.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
MENTAL LAzINEssI AssAII.Ep

Kent, Q. E (U !P.l M Much of tl1s present cynicisin toward reiiRion i traceable to Intellectual iaxines rather than to . coftilct with st ence, believes Dr. M; s5s Rllfii, head Of the Gpataisii dspAr rtlAeilf N Kent State University.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

AGuEes WuO 4 grubstaking the writers turning out the stuff, who Is paying t h c printing bills, and who is fattening the receipts of MT. Farley,s Post office Depart illent by mail- ing the prod- uct2 There $ no way of tell ing. It is a
 rinOy1 thot Wh0-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

Musso1ini's volunteers. have. been withdrawn from the Spanish battlefront and we gather from his recent remarks that from now on he's going to fight that war himself. e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Minimum Wage Delay Slap At Chief Justice Hughes
Ry DREW FEAEsoN
ana ROBEIeT q ALLEN

WASHINGTON, April 9 - It took 1O3 days for the Supreme Court to itself and hand down it's his torymaking decision upholdng the Washington Mini Wage Law last Monday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
All Rights Reserved

Since the fly leaf of the booklet shouts the warning, All rights re- served" all I can do is generalize about it's contents. I have made it a rule in my reading, and l think it is sound rule, when I encounter a statement which from personal knowledge I know to be misleading to discount everything else | meet in that particular printed matter. So when I Isaw in the New Haven masterpiece a quo- tation from the United Mine Workers "Journa1' practically ac- cusi1g John Brophy, now Exec utive Director of the C.I.O., ot coming back from Soviet Russia with Communist gold to finance his family row with the Lewis ad- ministration in 1928, I had to laugh. And when further along I saw Frank Palmer. editor of the Federated Press, hauled over the coalS for his participation in the RIGA. strike in Camden, and the statement that the selection of his paper as the official organ of the electrical workers union "mightv have been due to the fact that Palmer and Brophy were on the same trip to Soviet Russia, l roared with delight. Because I was on the same junket. No one on it brought back 8 thin kopeck. For that matter few of us had a quar- ter when we left Hoboken. If < Brophy and Palmer were subsi- dized by Comrade Stalin to .so- vietizes the United States, all I have to say is that I got a rotten deal because no one ever tried to do business with me while was in Moscow. Evidently I was cheat ed out of my bit and propose to do something about it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Anti-Union

one of the accofnpaniments t0 the industrial warfare being waged all over the country is 8 perfect flood of anti-union liter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
Let's Be Educated

But since Brer. Ramp is en- gagged in educational activities with g patriotic objective" I'd like to be educated a wee bit. I would like to learn who the Oflicers of the Constitutional EdueAt tionaI League are? What are it's dues. Who are its members? Where is the prlntshOp union label on its bOoklet2 How does one gct in: And for good measure "Why is q lump Of dry Ice like west without sleeyess Come on, teacher, givt us the rsal low down!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

Those European nations can't even agree about choosing sides for the next war. VT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
BY WAYof NO HARM
James William FitzPatrick

e oplnHons conclusions appearing eelOW ase those They not uecsssafiN ese s editors DEMOCRAT they Co De c0nsued nyssne
 as . reflection ee theIr veWP0lntl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02
A Thought for Today

And Paul went down. and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves: for his life is in hiM-Acts 2O:1O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-02

Remember that life is neither pain nor
 uleasure: it is serious business to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of sef-sacri- < nce.-De Tocqueville.