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Evening star., 1937-02-28
gress he said he favored giving the
justices this retirement right.

gress he said he favored giving the
justices this retirement right.
Whether any Of the six justices
who have passed 10 years of age will
avail themselves OF the retirement
privilege at this time Is not definitely
known. They are Chief Justice
Hughes. "A; Associate Justices Bran
deis, 80; Van Devanter, II; Mercy
nolds, IS; Sutherland. "A. and Butler,
10. Senator Ashurst said yesterday
he had no intimation what their
course would be.
Ever since I have been chairman
of the Judiciary Committee" said
Ashurst. the only topics I have dis
cussed with justices Of the Supreme
Court are the weather and art. I
have never heard Of any Justices who
contemplate retiring"
Senator Pope in his radio address
insisted that Historically, there is no
doubt that the makers Of the CorHti-
tuition never intended to give to the
Supreme Court power to declare an
constitutional convention on June 5
and 6, July 81 and August IS, rejected
proposals of James Madison and
James Wilson to give the judiciary the
right to pass on the constitutionality
Of acts of Congress. Never did they
receive the votes of more than three
States"
When Chief Justice Marshall de-
clared the right of the Supreme Court
to pass upon the constitutionality OF
law in the case of Marbury VS.. Madi-
son. Senator Pope said. there was i'm
mediate protest from Thomas Jeffer-
son, who declared it an attempt to
force upon the Nation a dangerous
doctrine, one which would place us
under the despotism Of an oligarchy.'
Pope said that during the first rs
years under the Constitution, only two
laws were declared invalid, during the
next 60 years, up to 1924, So acts
were declared unconstitutional, and in
the last IL years, % acts were stricken
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down, IL Of which have occurred in
the last two years"
Before Jefferson was elected" Pope
continued, Adams packed the court
with Federalist judges. Jefferson tried
to unpack it. Before Lincoln was
elected slavery Democrats packed the
court and Lincoln protested. Before
Roosevelt was elected, Harding, Cool
idge and Hoover packed the court with
judges, the majority of whom are set
upon destroying New Deal legislation
Roosevelt is trying to prevent that de-
struction.
What are those who desire to i'm
prove the conditions Of the farmer and
the laborer to do? Are they to cease
their efforts or shall they try to find
some way to preserve the recovery pro-
gram? After four years, during which
social legislation has fallen like domi-
noes under the judicial touch, the last
resort seems to be the Presidents ef.
fort to unpack the Supreme Court, te
replace some Of its disciples OF reac-
tionary economics with liberal-mindec
judges just as the people have re.
placed reactionaries in the legislative
and executive branches"
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W.P.A. JOBSURvEY
DATA SOON READY
Hopkins Says First Report
Will Be Ready in Two
Months.

The first report on the findings Of
the w. P. AS comprehensive study
of the effects of changing industrial
technology on the volume of employ
ment and unemployment will be made
public within the next two months,
Administrator Harry l.. Hopkins an
nounced yesterday.
A progress report, Hopkins said,
shows that in the last IA months the
project, a w. P. A. research effort.
has surveyed $50 manufacture & pants,
more than q dozen industries. and
touching every State in the Union.
An unusual feature Of the project
Is that investigators are going into
the industrial centers to obtain first-
hand case histories of workers and
former workers.
Years Wori Summarized.
Hopkins announcement was &C
companied by 42-page report sum-
marizing the first years work Of the
project, which Is being directed by
David Weintraub.
Because the study delves SO COM
prehensively into the causes and ef-
fects OF the mechanization Of indus
try. its findings are expected to be-
come a focal point in discussions OF
what the Governments plans must be
with relation to the unemployed.
There is no question" Mr.. Hop
kins said. that changing industrial
methods have an important 1ect on
both the volume Of product, and
the volume Of employment. This
project is going into the question
from dozens of angles 1t is Eleasur-
ing the amount of work a man does
under modern methods 1 compar-
ing it with what he did in previous
years. 1t Is studying changes in kinds
of machinery. raw materials, hours of
work, occupations and ages of work.
ers and the relation between actual
output of plants and their full pro-
duction capacity.
Problem Is Complex.
This problem is infinitely complex
The project is attempting to present
tremendous fund of information
which can be used as the basis for in
telligent conclusions by Congress and
by numerous Federal agencies which
are attempting to solve various phases
OF this riddle. =
Not only Congress but many Gov
eminent agencies, including the De-
partments Of Agriculture, Commerce.
Interior and Labor the Social Sc
curity Board and ourselves have great
need of such information.
Here are only few Of the ques-
tions which need answering: At what
age is man useless to modern in
- dustry? What can be done about
stranded populations in areas from
which industry has moved away? In
what degree can changes in occupa-
ton result in jobs for the jobless,
where is this possible and to what ex-
tent?
1T is our hope that the findings of
this project will be helpful, not only
TO public agencies but to the man
agements of the industries surveyed
and to students of the country's eco
nomic problems"
tcopyright. 1897. by New York Herald
Tribune)
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1884 I

Of University Women Club, 1884 I
street, at pm
The men will be Senator Joseph
O'Mahoney Of Wyoming. Representa-
tive Emanuel Celler of New York and
Raymond Clapper. The women par
ticipating will be Miss Annette Young
man Of the Washington Post. Mrs.
Robert Oleson, formerly on the faculty
at Cincinnati University. and Miss
Marie L. Obenauer. joint chairman
Of the Board Of Governors Of the Home
Owners Protective Enterprise
Discussion, which will be informal,
will be directed by Miss Obenauer.
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vice versa has been prevented by the
change of date for the opening of the
Senate hearings They will begin on
March 10, instead OF on March 9. as
originally proposed by the committee.
The explanation given by Senator
Ashurst, chairman of the committee.
for the change in date is that it was
impossible to obtain the big marble
caucus room in the Senate once
Building. where the hearings are to be
held on March 9. but that 1t was pos.
sible to get the room on the following
day
The President has not revealed the
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be corrected by appointing new
Justices"
New Dealers Pleased.
The administration forces were
tubilant over the Wisconsin Governors
attack on opponents of the court en-
largement plan. The youthful leader
OF the Wisconsin Progressives, as the
administration views it, still retains
hold on the Farmer-Labor groups
In the Middle West who followed his
father, the late Senator Robert NJ
La Toilette. His eSpouSal of the Presi-
dents court plan, administration lead
ers profesSed to believe, would 60
long way toward offsetting the defec-
ton of Senator Burton K Wheeler
OF Montana and would tend to keep
in line Senators Lynn J. Frazier and
Gerald p. Nye of North Dakota, Sena-
tor Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota
and william J. Bulow Of South
Dakota.
Senators Nye and Frazier have come
out against the court enlargement
plan and opponents have been count
ing on Senators Shipstead and Bulow,
thus far uncommitted. to join their
side. Senator Shipstead, however, is
Ill and probably will not be able to
attend to his duties in the Senate for
from six to eight weeks.
While the uproar about the court
continued, the Supreme Court justices
prepared for their first decision day
tomorrow. They have under consider
alton rulings in two cases involving
the constitutionality of the Wagner
labor relations act and of a WASH
ington State law imposing minimum
wage standards. Also they have for
consideration request for a rehear-
ing OF the New York unemployment
act, on which the court split four to
four early in the present session.
The opponents Of the Supreme
Court bill said that within the next
few days other Senators would leave
the non-committed group and declare
their opposition to the measure. They
insisted that If the bill is brought into
the Senate in its present form, as it
relates to the Supreme Court, they
would be able to muster a majority
against it. So far as any compromise
Is concerned, particularly if 10 pro-
poses to add additional justices to the
court, they expressed confidence also
they would be able to defeat it, even
If they are compelled to 60 to q fili-
buster. They much prefer to win the
light, however, on straight-out vote.
ProposaI Held "I%SaI,
Senator-elect Smathers, in his state
n1ent, said:
The Presidents proposal to reform
the Federal judiciary. to pump new
blood-youth-into the personnel of
the Supreme Court, has my whole
hearted support" He insisted that
the Presidents proposal Is legal and
constitutional"
THE only cry we hear" he contin-
ued, "is that the Presidents motives
are improper. During the last four
years every piece Of progressive,
humanitarian legislation proposed by
the President and enacted into law
for the benefit of the masses has been
assailed by the same crowd with the
bdine CIy thdI tAc TIcSioeHlS inoIlVcS
were not what they should be. I will
take my seat in the United States
Senate in time to support the Presi-
dents Federal judiciary reform pro-
posal to the limit Of my energy and
ability.
II ran on the same ticket with
President Roosevelt, with campaign
pledges to support the liberal and
progressive policies Of the President,
to represent the people and not the
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WOMEN WILL DEBATE
new ECONOMIC ORDER
Three Matched With Men for
Discussion Wednesday Of Their
Place in Change.

A Senator, . Representative and a
newspaper man will match wits
Wednesday with a panel Of three
women from the local National Asso-
citation OF University Women on the
question. Under the New Economic
order, Where Do Women Get Of or
Get On?" at the National Association
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School Dance Tonight.

A dance, sponsored by the Mont
gomery County Inter-High School AS
sociation. will be held in the Gathers
burg School tonight.
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be corrected by appointing new
Justices
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11

office, are making a survey of elIns in the zone of infection which now covers the shore line from the New York to the Rhode Island border of the state and extends westward in Fairfield county as far as the town of Sherman. These men have cam pied thousands of elms that showed visible symptoms of the disease - yellowing and willing terminals and, on cross section, brown streaks in the cambium layer of wood under the bark. Among their findings were the 87 new cases reported above.
 Scouts Assigned
 Connecticut has employed eight scouts to make a similar survey of elms in parts of the State outside the zone under federal supervision. This includes areas to the north and west, with the exception of the northerly border where no scouting seems to be necessary at the present time. The scouts are college students directed by Philip Wallace of the Station. They travel on all passable roads and explore elm regions ex. tending back from the highway, as well as roadside trees. The intention Is to have them cover their territory twice or possibly three times during the season, hunting for unthrifty trees.
 Already these men have visited 81 towns once or twice, have travelled over 8,400 miles of road and in- spected approximately 100000 elms. Finding the symptoms, they have sent 320 samples of seemingly af- fected twigs to Dr. Florence McCor- mick at the Experiment Station.
 Doctor Mccormick is a plant pa- thologist and makes cultures of the wood submitted to get a positive diagnosis of the diseases. So far she has found no Dutch elm disease in samples from outside the zones of infection. Most of the symptoms in the specimens examined were caused by another elm disease that Is not necessarily fatal to the trees.
 MT. Filley says that the scouting will continue until Lobor Day after which time 1t is difficult to dis tinguish disease symptoms in the field.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11

cinema portrsyer of strong-heart- ed figures.
 The companion feature is "It Can't Last Forever, an expose of the fake mind reading and fortune telling racket, with Ralph Bellamy Betty Furnes, Robert Armstrong and host of other favorites in the giant cast.
 Jack Benny in Artists And Mod- els" is coming to the State on Sun- day!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11
ARTICLE NC. Hobbyists Often Get Last Laugh On Skeptics

The B. & o. Railroad has amassed 8 remarkable railroad museum in Baltimore. The American Optical Go. maintains a museum to show their collection of old spectacles telling the history of the business. The United Shoe Machinery Go. of Boston has collected museum of footwear. 4
 In fact, there is even an associa- ton called the Early American In- dustries Association( 300 Inembers) |, which is group of business men who collect primitive and outmoded tools used in American history. Henry Ford'S passion for antiques is better known than his almost equally absorbing collection of early American autos and other means of transport.
 Hobbyists Not So Crazy
 At a recent New York hobby show one man turned up with hundreds of sets of old false teeth. A Winona, Minn., woman has amassed more than 250,000 postcards. Today, ths only thing nobody seems to be col- lecting is their wits.
 Just how nutty are all these hobby bugs anyhow? Not so nutty as you might think, ayers o. 0. Lightner, the hobby-show promoter, who has collected more lobbyists than any other man in the country.
 "The normal, smart people, used to laugh at the hobbyists," says Lightner, while investing in stocks, oil, and other sensible things. In late years, however, the nut has found that he at least still had his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11
Dutch Elm Disease
 Spreading In Areas
67 New Cases Discovered in Sections Previously
 Listed Waterbury, Naugatuck Valley Escapes ]

Maps. specimens of wood and in- sects, pictures and cultures showing the statue of the Dutch elm disease in Connecticut are to be among the exhibits at the annual field day of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- ment Station on August IS. The day-long meeting will be held at the station farm at Mount Carmel and will be open to the public after 10 a. m. E.D.T. A brief tent program Is scheduled for 1:30 p. m.
 67 New Cases
 Asked about the exhibit, Forester w. O. Filley of the Experiment Sta tion summarized the Dutch elm sit- uation as of August this year. He reported that 67 new cases of the disease had been found in the state between June l and August l. All of the trees grew in the southern area: 42 in Greenwich, 12 in Stam- ford, 2 in Darien, 4 in New Canaan and one each in Norwalk and Wilton.
 These figures are significant, MT. Filley pointed out. Tn the first place Wilton is the only new town on the list, no cases were found In the iso- lated zones of infection around O!d Lyme, Branford and Guilford, where a few diseased trees were discovered last season; the number of cases ex- actly corresponds to the number found in the same period in 1883, no increase. - All of these facts are en- couraging, and many indicate that the Dutch elm disease is being held in check by the control masures, MT. Filley believes.
 Lines Of Action
 Work on the disease follows three lines of action this year, he said Federal and State scouts are exam ing elms for disease symptoms in all except the very northermost sec- tions of the state. Laboratory cul- lures are being made to- detect cases, both in the federal laboratory at Moorestown, New Jersey, and at the Experiment Station at New Haven. And two entomologists are studying the habits and distribution of the disease carrying beetle at the sta ton.
 The federal scouts, working un- der T. M. Cannon of the Stamford
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11
STATE

"The Toast of New York" first of the sensational new array of hits booked for presentation during the 1887 Fall Hit Parade" begins a four day engagement at Warner Brothers cool State theater today.
 Based on the life of Jim Fisk, "The Toast of New York" is a gripping and entertaining dramatic romance, its high emotional appeal being in its love theme-the fam boyant courtship of fascinating Josie Mansfield by the financier..
 Frances Farmer is ideally suited to the role of Josie Mansfield, the woman for whom Fisk tries to sol- idify his financial empire by gain- ing a corner on the world gold market. Her pleasing ccntralto is heard in three songs one of which is Sweet Alice Ben Bolt" classic of the post-Civil War era.
 Edward Arnold steps in the 1865 frock coat and square-toed boots as naturally as did Fisk himself in his heyday of big railroad stock man. ipulation when Commodore Van derbilt, Daniel Drew and others battled with him to gain leadership of the financial world. Arnold again proves that he is the most able
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11
CONTEST EXPECTED
 AT INDIANAPOLIS
Rival Factions in Young Democrats Sending Dele-
 gates to Meeting

Delegates who will represent the so-called Charter group" of the Connecticut Young Democrats at the national convention in Indian apolis late this month were named today by Joseph DePaola, of Merl- den, state president of the group.
 Whether the Charter group" will be recognized as the official Young Democratic group of Connecticut is a matter of conjecture, for the Constitution group" chief rival faction, is also sending delegation.
 The delegates of the Charter group are: MT. DePaola, John Walsh, Middletown; Winona Corn wall, Durham; Anna E. Flaherty, Seymour; Hazel McNamara, New Britain; James w. .Hawden, Enfield; Hampton Robb Greenwich; Francis Hicks, Winsted; Matthew Scully, Naugautck.
 Alternates - Mrs. A. Murphy, Stonington; Walter Gallagher, New Haven; Joseph Robinson, Waterbury; Cornelius Caldwell, Derby; Dennis Brunnock, Anso- mia; Bernard Mullins, Water- bury; Walter Murgoff, Beacon Falls; Thomas King, New Haven; Raymond Thatcher, East Hampton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11
STRAND

Marxmania at its gayest is seen in "A Day at the Races" which be- gan a 4 dy engagement at Warner Bros. Strand theater today, as the newest laugh extravaganza of that trio of uninhibited and inimitable laughmakers, the Three Marx Broth CTS.
 While the picture is titled "A Day at the Races" it might just as aptly have been called "A Day in a Sanitarium," for the plot switches between the. two locales at break neck pace, and 1t would ze difficult to say which is funnier-the antics of the Marxes in the sanitarium or their uproarious conduct at the race track.
 The companion feature is Mid night Madonna" with Warren Will liam, Mady Corell and darling lit- tie Kitty Clancy, a native of Bridge port, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11

This is the third and last story on those people who cOl- Iect everything from beetles to bedspreads, the gleaming-eyed, badly- bitten lobbyists. -.-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11

Pioneers among collectors, the autograph hounds blithely crash police lines to shove a program, note paper and sometimes blank check into the hands of celeb
 rity.
 pestilential nuisances who write for autographs" but their children and grandchildren are still writing for them and showing dance programs and an occasional blank check un- der the noses of celebrities.
 Speakeasy Cards Scarce
 Thousands of young people are launched on an autograph career,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11

He veteran stage and character Played his first big in The nformer which has since been followed by Maid of Saem" Pennies From Heaven" "Love on the Run" "Three Wise Guys" and "Parnel" He is short and often plays characters who described by his
 The above one of contest
 twenty pairs Of thater tickets offered for originality and neasness count Contest
 Friday 18th at Send answers all at time to Hidden Contest editor at Democrat office
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11
BY WILLIS THORNTON

To say that all lobbyists are mildly moonstruck is an exaggera- tlon. As a matter of fact, any post age stamp collector will tell you that only those are dizzy who col- lect old horsepistols, and the per- Hume bottle enthusiast will swea~ that 1t is the collectors of auto- graphs and match boxes that are a little off-center.
 When Joe Cook, the professional comedian, started his famous col- lection of objects no larger than a mans hand, he did 1t for laugh. Friends who saw the vast room chock full and hanging-from-the- ceiling with anything and every thing smaller than 8 mans hand, andulged in chuckle at profess sional spoofer.
 But that is no dizzier than the Phoenix, Ariz., man who collects strange things, cak blocks, links e iron chain, and the like swallowed by animals. He was a packing house inspector, and ran onto few in the course of his work. That started him out.
 Match Covers Lure Many
 But he would probably consider D bit queer the Connecticut man who collects wooden legs, or the Ne braskan who collects samples of hair shaved from the heads of fa- nous criminals when they enter Jail.
 None of them would probably see any sense in Arthur F. Samme, the English collector of match boxes, of which he acquired more than 500 over. a period of 25 years. Others collect only the labels of match boxes, and the rage among the younger generation for amassing cardboard match box covers is al- most as great menace as the cig- aret picture flends of yesteryear. One collector has at least 30,000 of them.
 It is now 40 years and more since William S. Gilbert told of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-11
POLI's

Today Loew,s Poli presents a heroic new figure of the screen. The real Karloffl As he is todayl
 Meet the man you know only as "Frankenstein" new role in an amazing story of strange men and lovely women, conspiring un- der cover of nightl
 Boris Karloff has yielded to the process of evolution. The star has sloughed of the makeup of the monster and emerged as man.
 The transformation takes place in. his latest starring picture, Uni- versals Might Key" which opened today at the Loew Poli theater.
 Playing his first straight role since he rose to stardom, the actor has discarded his weird characteriZa- tions of the past and portrays a warm, human sympathetic role.
 The actor has an unusual story for his bow into straight dramatics. He is seen as an inventor of burglar alarm systems. When his partner robs him of . new. improved sys- tenn, he turns with fury on the pa- tent thief. With an instrument which neutralizes burglar alarms, he enters one store after another to prove the ineffectiveness of the sys- tenn operated by his foe. A gang chief, seeing the value of such an instrument to him. seizes the inven- tor and makes him an unwilling partner in crime.
 Skillfully building the story around this plot, Director Lloyd Corrigan has created a picture of suspense and excitement. Tn the supporting roles are J. Warren Hull and Jean Rogers, as the romantic interest.
 You can't say we didn't warn you this time. If you have a weak heart or c sour disposition, you'd better stay away from this theater, where "Three Legionnaires" Is being shown for a three-day run. From rib- -tickling opening scene to fadc- out that leaves one gasping with laughter. this comedy is just what the doctor ordered for all-around entertainment.
 Outstanding portrayals by all of the cast, excellent direction and beautiful photography combined with as funny Q story as has left Hollywood since TWO Arabian Knights" compels this writer to ad- wise you to put this on your "Miist" list.