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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13

, Of II heads OF departments 10 sal
aries OF teachers, total, @2,200: re-
duction OF S2i, 0b0 resultant from thu
change from a supervising princi'
pals In elementary schools 10 II.
Drop 80 Teachersl
Abolition OF at least 80 unneces.
sary elementary school teaching
positions, thereby saving s02,4s00 90;
Abolition of from five to seven as
sistant kindergarten teachers, co..
800; TO make o total OF Se7,ie0 IN
possible savings.
The total requirements for 1899
II recommendation listed In the
report are put into effect would be
81 ,222, e2o70, the report states.
This would represent q total saw
Ing OF s2s3 ,32i.bb for 1910 In the
school department.
The proposed five per cent add.
toinal reduction Of high school sal
aries would represent saving u
the city OF S24,426.00.
The proposed three and one-hali
per cent reduction OF the elemen.
tary teachers and principals would
represent S2e,67b.7b.
Six additional elementary school
clerks would have TO 90 hired In
the event the proposed supervisory
principal scheme were carried out,
Their pay would be 5000 each.
"There are too many positions fof
the operation OF plant In the high
schools and salaries are too high
for part-time positions In some Of
the elementary schools. Reductions
we're made In the ie39-S9 appropria-
tons but corresponding reductions
were not made In the staff. As o re.
suit the appropriation for this year
will be exceeded. Even prompt re.
ductions at this time cannot prevent
this condition" according 10 the In
formation Of the report.
The amount expended In this de-
partment In 1887 was $o3, 1880. Tit
estimated requirement for 1898 OF
the basis OF present payrolls Is 992,'
4e0.70, while only ee2, T30.70 was al
lotted. The estimated deficiency vii
be So,730.
Dismiss Janitors
II Is recommended that four posi-
tons In the Crosby high schoo
building STAFF be abolished. Two o.
the four assistant janitors should b
dismissed and one fireman shoult
be let 60. All three firemen could b'
retained II three janitors were dis
missed.
At Wildly high school one assis.
tant janitor and one fireman shoult
be dismissed. At Leavenworth higf
school the staff should be diminish
cd by one assistant Janitor.
Insofar as grammar school jani'
tors are concerned, 1t Is recommend
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13

1 cd that drastic pay slashes DO Inn
posed. The following are the recon.
mendations:
Abbott school from Si,522 10 81
400. Anderson school from $i,392 70
81, 400; Barnard school from $i,e72 "a
Si,700; Begnai, $l,1o2 10 $1,000;
Bishop, $i,0i2 10 $1,000; Bucks Hill,
abolish entirely: Bunker Hill, oi.772
TO $500: Chase School, allowance
for additional part-time help, in-
crease from sl,e22 TO $4,000.
briggs school, one janitor at o..
600 and another at Si,404, or O total
OF $500. The present allowance u
5000.
Duggan school, two janitorS, to-
tai $4,000 as compared 10 present to-
tai OF $3,0i2.
East Farms School, one janitress,
decrease $3.50 10 $500; East Noun
tain, S024 10 $500; Hendricken, $i,-
1871 10 $1,000; Hopeviile, Si,772 10
81 900; Kingsbury, $i,8o7 10 9i,700:
Lincoln, recommend abolition; Ma
loney. recommend additional part
time help, increase, Sl,7T2 TO $4,000;
Merriman, recommend additional
part time help, $l,se2 10 $4,000.
Mulcahy, 81 400 10 $500: oronoke,
abolition; Reidviile, $3.50 TO 800;
Roosevelt, $3.50 TO $500; Russell. al
low for part time help, increase, ST.
o22 to S2.i0o; siocurn. allow addi-
tional help, 92,062 TO $4,000;
sprague, more help, si,7e7 TO s2,i0o;
Tinker school. more help, 81 ,872 "a
$4,000: Walsh school, employ two
janitors, e2,032 TO $4,000: Washing-
ton school, 1892 to $1,000; Webster
school, employ two janitors. si,oSa
10 5000.
welton school, sl,5o2 TO $500; Will
son school, 1882 10 $i,400; Utility
man, 81 $50 to si,4o0: two . substi-
tute janitors at ei,274 each-abolish
one position.
The total Of the present payments
Is $53,il0, while the totals under the
recommended payments Is s48,07S'
Maintenance
Maintenance Of plant Is also con-
sidered by the report. This depart.
ment expended $2e,eb3T7 IN 1887
The 1898 adjusted appropriation wal
S2e, 7S0.83. The estimated unexpen'
ded balance ct the end OF the year
will be $3.50.
"There are too many positions IN
the maintenance staff FOR q city the
size Of Waterbury" the report states
considering the amount OF work
done by the WPA on school build
ings and their present conditions oi
repair, several positions will not bt
needed"
The following are the recommen'
dations In that department:
Inspector, continued at $3.50. Thu
budget requirement, as stated ir
the proposal to the board OF finance
Is $4,000.
No reductions In salaries are rec.
commended, but several posts shoult
be abolished. Among them are tina
of mason, at 81, 022; plumber (retaiI
until old boilers have been replaced
then abolish), 9l,022; carpenter, 81
s72; painter. si,e22; electrician. e.
o72.
Under the present payments
the total payroll Is s3l,582. while
under the proposed one. the tota
would be S2a,8o4. II the PROPOSAL
are carried out, Q saving OF $3.50
would be effected for the remaindei
of 1888. The total requirements TO-
1889 would be s2i,604.00.
All Of the recommendations are
of course subject to the approval o
the economy commission Of thu
board of finance.
All personnel Of the school de-
partment, from the sowest to thu
highest brackets would be affected
II the terms Of the report wer'
placed into practice. They viewes
| the report With alarm today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13

Ing loads and pay higher salaries
than do smaller cities" This con-
clusion Is In regard TO high school
salaries.
An additional five per cent reduce
ton from their present reduced
levels Is recommended for high
school teachers on this basis.
In the elementary schools the re-
port states that tho average salary
10 Waterbury teachers Is $l,873 90
with the 10 per cent reduction
subtracted. Even with the reduce
ton, these salaries represent 1874
per cent more than salaries received
by the average teacher In cities be-
tween 100000 and 10000 according
to the report.
Using the Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts cities as O standard, II
would appear that the salaries OF
the elementary school teachers In
Waterbury could be reduced 36 per
cent below their present reduced
levels, the report states. Once
again, however, the report states
that the defect In this recommends
ton Is that the standard cities are
larger than Waterbury and larger
cities usually pay higher salaries
than do smaller cities.
Five Per cent Cut
In It's actual summary, the econ
omy commission recommends that
additional reductions OF salaries
be imposed as follows: High school
teachers. five per cent: elementary
school teachers, three one.half per
cent.
In the final stages OF the report,
the question OF regular salary re-
q,iiremenb for 1898, 30 and 40 are
considered.
It Is indicated that II present
rates are continued In the adminls-
tration department, O total OF $685.
5000 will be required. In 1887
the total amount expended In this
department was e2e,020.i6.
The report points out that the
teachers are now under contract and
that no salary cuts can be made
effective before SEPTEMBER, 1889. The
amount expended In this depart
ment In 1887 was 81 ,32e.l2. The
total l938-30 payroll on the ten
months basis, not including the ten
per cent reduction, Is 1888, 1000.
Total requirements for the last
four months are $500, 057.20, or Co.,
78o more than the adjusted appro.
priation.
The following recommendation
are made with regard to regular
saleries for instruction TO take place
at the beginning Of the l930-1e4C
year, or September !, 1899.
Reduction In salary Of one vice.
principal at Crosby to teacher saw
ing OF $500; reduction In salaries
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13
IARAB ATTORNEY
SHOT TO DEATH

-~...s1s.~ur~nus.
tioai headdrens, troops could not
distinguish rebels from peacetuI
Sir harold MacN6ichael, lofd high
commissioner Of Palestine, Yves leav"
ING London BY airplane today en-
route here after . week Of CONFER
ences with colonial once autnori-
Ties. The ONCE announced that ~.
Ter receipt Of the special Wcodhead
commissions report later this month
Il would make q further statement
regarding Palestine policy. n
Lawyer Well Known
paiany was known TO every news
paper correspondent who had visit
cd Palestine In recent years TOR
his moderate views on national poll
ICY, particularly as applied 70 the
immigration Of Jews, the basis for
the uprising.
He had defended many Arabs in
civil and military courts, had visited
Jaffn recently and obtained defenHe
evidence for three Arabs now on
military trial.
WNt ~ W38Wb
London, oct. ~ ~ (U.p,) - The
sensational publication "The Week"
commented today on the situation
In palastine,
"War on q grand scala Is Faeing
In Palestine and In the opinion Of
two extremely competent military
observers there Is an sven chance OF
the British getting driven out alto"
gether.
Impartial observers are agreed
that the problem u no longer one OF
rounding Up Q few terrorist gangs
armed and financed by Germany
and italy. Instead o position
has been created In which the e1tire
Arab population n In revolt, waging
q fairly highly organized form Of
guerrilla war against the British
forces"
The article asserted that talks
here between Malcolm Macdonald,
colonial minister, and Dir Harold
MacMichael, high commissioner for
Palestine, had shown that the plan
10 partition Palestine between Arabs
and Jews must DO abandoned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13

this force, apparently. that tho
Chinese depended 10 save Canton.
japanese Mt Attack
Hence II was believed that the
Japanese would have 10 attack Wal
chow before they attempted 10 &C.
cupy the railroad In force, ns other
wise they would leave big army IN
their right flank.
D.: Smentary reports told Of Japa-
nese mass airplane and warship
commandments along the south coast.
Airplanes also attacked the Canton
Hankow Railroad, extending north
ward into Central China, as well
as the Hong Kong Canton line.
Chinese asserted that their planes
raided the main japanese cir base
for southern China on Queinoy
Island severely damaging some han.
gars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13
TWO COTTAGES
COST Is CENTS

FALMOUTH, Mass. Oct. iS--tUp)--
Robert y. Farren today held a bill
Of sale for two cottages. Total
cost: as cents.
The houses. washed into Farren's
prcperty by last months tidal
wave, formerly belonged 10 Walter
w. williams OF Brockton. who sold
the matter surveying the damage.
Farren planned to use one cot
taee to replace bis garage which
Yves carried away in the storm. The
other cottage win be used fuf ma
icrlal " repairing his QNn home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13
YANKEE CUNBOAT
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raids, authorities OF the American
Lingnan University at Canton sus.
pended classes. Women attached Ia
the university were advised 10 leave
the area.
The Japanese first cut the Hong
Kong Canton railroad by destroying
three bridges In airplane raids.
The main force Of the south China
Japanese army was expected to make
for the railroad OF O point near
Cheungmaktau, 80 miles from Hong
Kong.
However, large forces Of Cantonese
troops were rnassing at Waichow, 90
miles east OF Canton, and II was on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13

Cora Witherspoons role In "Marie
Antolnette" has made her one OF the
busiest comediennes In Hollywood.
She went from that picture into
Three Loves has Nancy" and then
was assigned 10 Vacation from
Love"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-13

Orion, generally conceded 10 be
the finest OF all the consultations,
Is visible In part from every por-
ton Of the earth.
Evening star., 1938-10-30
Collins
Continued From Page CID

Mr.. Vesecky suggests a simple program
that the Government fix farm prices
enough above cost Of production to give the
farm family living and the farmer Sc
curity in his old age.
e. A. O'Neal, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, which was CO.
author of the present A A A. with the
Department Of Agriculture, has been speak
ing in the Middle West on behalf of reten.
ton Of the A. A. A.
More fundamental than all this is the
plight into which agriculture is being forced
by the use of machinery. A book could
be written on this phase For instance 20
years ago Kansas used to plead for the
importation of $4,000 harvest hands to save
its wheat Last year, with the largest
seeded acreage in its history, it advised
foreign labor to stay away. The tractor
and the combine is the answer. The big
machines, cutting 20-foot swath, can
harvest up to IS acres a day with two
men; the little 6-foot outfits, of which
there are thousands in Eastern Kansas and
Missouri. can do IS acres with one operator
running both the tractor and the COM
bined harvester thresher connected with
a power take-off. We saw an Illuminating
example of the labor-saving quality of
power machinery the other day. a two
row corn harvester with an elevator which
elevated the bundles of feed grain being
cut for silage into the wagons. The farm
manager explained that the big labor
cost in putting up silage lay in the job
of throwing the bundles into wagons. With
the elevator on his binder. he said, five
men and two teams were being eliminated.
Shucks Corn in Field.
A new piece of equipment is the ltts
corn harvester. machine which shucks
the corn in the field, throwing the ears into
the wagon. Operated from the tractor, one
man can run it, and it will shuck to 10
acres a day. 1t is a good hand who can
shuck IL acres day on foot.
This all means larger and larger acreages
being operated by one man. A friend with
a big farm told us that one man with
tractor and the new Arrow implements could
take care of 800 acres of corn and still be
available in oats harvest. The A. A. A. is
acceierating this development. With its
acreage allotments, many land owners who
had been operating with tenants or share
croppers have been taking all the allotments
for themselves, forcing the share croppers
or tenants into the nearby towns to 90 on
relief or apply for w. P. A. jobs.
Out of all the welter of confusion over
q democracy attempting to find itself, one
fact stands in bold relief: Mr.. Roosevelt
still is popular with the rank and file. This
was emphasized the other day in Hutchin-
son, when an Oklahoma farm leader got
up to pan Secretary Wallace because Of his
low loan policy on wheat and cotton. The
shirt-sleeved speaker worked himself up to
the point where he declared the farmers
weren't going to fool with the Secretary Of
Agriculture any longer. they were going
straight to the President He was heartily
cheered while Mr.. Wallace looked slightly
confused.
Evening star., 1938-10-30
Saito's Prospective Promotion
To Bring 'Errorless' Diplomat
Horinouchi, Shy, Sober and Word.Weshing
Scholar, to Assume Japan's Ace
Foreign Post Here
BY Relman NORM.
Correspondence of the Associated Press,

TOK1O.-There will be no surprise here.
If Hiroshi Saito, just recalled as Ambas-
sador to the United States. becomes foreign
minister after few months at home
III health was given as the official reason
FOR his recall.
Saito is reported to have declined the
appointment as foreign minister when the
Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, tele-
phoned and offered him the post the other
day. Nevertheless, informed political circles
insist that he is scheduled for the promo
ton.
Janans new Ambassador to the United
StateA Is shy, wistfullooking Kensuke
Horlnouchi, "the man who never made a
mistake" After little over two years
as vice minister of foreign affairs he has
been assigned to what Japan considers her
most important foreign post
Alike as Black and White.
Black and white are hardly less alike
than Saito and Horinouchi.
Saito is dapper, wise-cracking mentally
agile, un-Oriental in appearance He was
quoted as explaining his youthful appear
afternoon-every afternoon"
To reporters question about Japans
alleged desire to seize Alaska he retorted.
What do we want with frozen country?"
There will be none of this when
Horinouchi moves into the japanese
Embassy in Washington. Yet foreign
diplomatic circles in Toxic expect him to
N of r;f1,
fully equal to Saitos.
1t will be of a different type, and for
totally different reasons
Horinouchi is quiet, unassertive, scholarly
The air of the cloister clings to him. He
speaks slowly and with great deliberation
and as little as possible.
Voice and Manner Gentle.
His manner is gentle, like his voice.
There is dreamy. distant quality in his
eyes. He is neither careless nor meticulous
about his personal appearance, giving the
impression of being unconcerned, even
oblivious, to his immediate environment
He Is So years old. wears horn-rimmed
spectacles and scattering, close-cropped
u1oustache.
He neither drinks nor smokes and has
no hobbies. Before he became vice foreign
minister he used to play golf But he
hasn't been near a tee in the past two
years.
During that time he has been spending
an average of IA hours day at his desk,
condition made necessary by the fact
that the foreign Office has no under.
secretaryships of sufficient status to re-
ceive ambassadors and ministers The
work has fallen on his shoulders and he is
known as Herculean laborer
His reading tastes run to religion, philo-
sophy and political theory He is a Chris
tian. His wife's family have been Chris
tians for three generations.
Evening star., 1938-10-30

most vulnerable nations in the world. The
tinguished themselves for the speed with
which they can put distance between
themselves and determined emmy.
People Have Learned Truth.
So ardent was Mussolinis desire for peace
that in the Anal conference at Munich his
enissaries were the only ones who showed
anything like spirit OF aggressive insist
ence for moderation Of the Godesberg de-
mands.
From Munich Chamberlain returned
again, and this time he spoke OF having
achieve dpeace with honor few nights
later, facing his fellow members in the
Commons, he said:
II hope members will not be inclined to
read into words, uttered in a moment of
emotion, after had driven through crowds
of excited people, more than intended
to convey"
The next day he retired to the country
to rest. The frenzied acclamation that
greeted his return from Munich subsidized
with the same speed that saw it rise. Now
his pictures appear on the screens Of
London picture theaters to be received
with stony silence.
The people here have begun to discover
the truth, and they are finding it bitterly
unappetizing. Thousands are asking why
German troops have advanced beyond the
boundaries set at Godesberg and why
Prague stands today within 20 miles Of
the Reich frontier.
(Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1938-10-30

sponsibilities to cover the thousands of
miles Of South American coastline, both
on the Atlantic and the Pacific
American naval strategy in the past has
been based on the idea of highly mobile
fleet which could be transferred rapidly
from the Atlantic to the Paciic-and vice
versa-tnrough the Panama Canal. How
ever, changed world conditions which raise
the possibility that the American Navy
may be fighting simultaneously in both
oceans and the further fact that the
Panama Canal might be blocked overnight
by well-placed bomb are causing naval
men today to think more in terms Of two
fleets which may operate independently in
each ocean.
Work Would Take Years.
The construction of a new Atlantic
fleet would require years, and that is what
is required if our power in the Pacif1c-
none too strong now-is not to be weakened.
Meanwhile, the only alternative is to MAIN
tain in each ocean the part Of United
States naval strength which political con-
ditions seem to require.
Where does the American Navy stand to-
day?
From the end of the Washington Con-
ference until 1888 the United States Jagged
far behind in naval building. No imme-
diate political threats menaced U.s. save
spasmodically in the Far East, and success
sive administrations, pinning their hopes on
world disarmament, kept new construction
to minimum. So, although the United
States ended the World War with the
strongest fleet of any power except Great
Britain, the lag in building even normal
replacements resulted in our falling far
behind even treaty strength in some cate
gories.
Including all types Of ships, over-age
(ships which have deteriorated below their
full ef1ectiveness) as well as under-age ton
mage, the United States has numerically
the worlds largest fleet, 428 vessels. OF
these, however, 2l9 are over-age. All OF
Americas first-line battleships have reached
or are approaching obsolescence. Six new
ones are building or appropriated for. Also.
large percentage Of the American de-
stroyer and submarine fleets are of World
War construction and it is in these two
categories that a large building program
may be expected in the near future.
At the present time, 80 destroyers and 16
submarines either are being built or have
been appropriated for. Americas most
modern strength lies in cruisers, both light
and heavy "a Of which are now in COM
mission while IL more either are being
built or have been appropriated for All
are of post-World War design and con-
struction. The Navy is strong. too, in air
craft carriers, the latest development In
naval building. Il will have seven OF
Evening star., 1938-10-30

these when the present program is COM
peted.
Officially. no nation ever amasses naval
strength against another. No one in public
Office in Washington would say for moment
that the United States Navy is being ex-
panded with reference to any certain
power Yet world political conditions make
it obvious that the nations whose inten-
tions the United States has reason to fear
are those combined in the so-called Fascist
bloc"-Japan. Germany and Italy.
How does United States naval strength
and that of the other two great democ-
racies, Great Britain and France, compare
with that of the totalitarian states?
International naval comparisons are
more difficult today than ever before be-
cause the totalitarian states within the
past year have adopted policy of giving
no information on their building programs.
Their construction bills are not openly de-
learns of their rising sea strength only
haphazardly.
The tables printed with this article sum-
marize the strength of the various powers
SO far as they are publicly known. 1t is
quite possible, however. that they under
rate the Fascist bloc" especially Japan.
which has made public no naval figures
for almost two years.
These tables, perhaps, are oversimpli-
fed because they omit all reference to tom
mage, speed, armament and other vital
factors of naval effectiveness. These vari-
ants, however, cannot be discussed with
out begging down in morass Of techni-
calities, many of which are in dispute even
among naval experts.
Modernity Important.
However, these figures do present rough
picture of world sea power as it stands
today. The democratic powers are su-
perior in the numerical size Of their fleets.
However, much larger percentage Of their
ships are obsolescent than in the navies
of the totalitarian states, which are largely
of postwar construction.
Modernity is Of great importance at sea
today because Of the development of the
submarine and airplane, whose deadly tor
peeoes and bombs call for specialized pro-
lection which is lacking in ships Of the
World War period.
The most modern American vessels an
built with heavily protected deck armol
to resist bombs. They are elaborately com.
partmented below the water line in ordel
to isolate any section Of the hull which
may be struck by q torpedo. All carry
heavy batteries Of anti-aircraft guns. The,
are, too, from to 10 knots speedied thar
vessels of the World War era.
As the 2l9 over age ships Of the Nav!
lack some or all Of thea modern require
ments, they cannot b considered full,