The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08

the increase of malnutrition
 Some confidential figures re- garding this were laid before the president recently by WPA, Pub- lie Health Service, Farm Security and the Labor Department. These showed that 3,0O0, 900 families (ap- proximately 10,000,000 persons, of . whom half are children) were suffering from serious dietary deficiencies"
 Most of these families, accord- ing to the secret report given the president, receive some form of public relief, either state or fed eral, but their average income is only from $19 to $34 a month. This is far below the $55 WPA average for the country. State, or so-called direct, relief averages around $22 a month.
 Three proposals have been given Roosevelt to cope with this dan ger zone" problem:
 1. Purchase of large quanti-
 ties of surplus food commodities
 for distribution to these fami-
 lies.
 ?. Give a certain amount of
 direct relief to lower-bracket
 WPA workers.
 3. Boost these lower-brackets
 from lows of $19 and $22 a
 month to at least double that
 much.
 In arguing for immediate re- medial action, the relief and health officials warned Roosevelt that a prolongation of "mass malnutri- ton" not only would create a dangerous health hazard to the entire nation but would be a ser ious menace to national defense. Absent Supreme Court
 No school boys ever cleared out of boarding school faster than the Nine Old Men left the Supreme Court and the Capital this spring. Scarcely more than week has passed since their final sessions, yet all but two have shaken the dust of Washington from their feet, bound for Maryland, Cape Cod, California, Italy and else- where.
 The Chief Justice set the pace. It was only g few hours after his siIken robes were hung in the robing room closet that MT. Hughes left Washington.
 And on Saturday of this week, he will leave the country. He and Mrs. Hughes are booked to sail on the Italian liner Rex June Il, for 8 European motor trip. Like any ordinary tripper, the Chief Justice is taking a tour arranged by the American Express Com- pany. A car will meet the Hughes when they disembark in Naples, and take them through Italy and Switzerland, with other countries to be added as their wishes-and the inquietude of Europe-shall determine.
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 They will return to this coun- try August g, spend a second holiday in New England, then turn south to Washington in time for the fall term of the court.
 The Chief Justice probably will cover greater distance this sum- mer than any of his colleagues, but runner-up will be Justice Stone, who will make tour by car, rail, and steamer across the country and back via Canada.
 The Stones are scheduled to leave Washington today (June 8 motor tour to Vancouver and Prince Rupert in British Colum- bia. Next stop is Lake Louise and Banff. Then will come the east ward journey to their summer home in Maine, where they will spend the last seven weeks of . fourteen-weeks holiday.
 Though this is a strenuous itinerary, the Stones expect to find more quiet than during re- cent days in Washington, when they were visited by three small granddaughters all at once.
 Justice Brandeis left last Sat- urday (June A for Boston, and has now settled down with Mrs. Brandeis at their Cape Cod cot tage Later in the summer they will have a houseful of family guests-daughte Susan, now Mrs. Jacob H. Gilbert, and her three children, Louis, Alice, and Frank.
 At 72, Justice Butler is all en- unused over new home. He is still in Washington, but as soon as he can make the new place habitable, he and Mrs. Butler will move into 1t, to look out proudly upon their 800 acres.
 It is farm in Maryland, about twenty miles from Washington, and near but not neighborly to