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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20

study labor legislation in Great Britain and other European coun- tries. All the necessary informa- ton, they said, was available in the United States.
 No one, however, was more Sur- prised than members of the Swe- dish group which accompanied the Crown Prince of that coun- try to the United States. Owe OIsson representing labor in the Crown Princes party, visited headquarters of the American Federation of Labor recently and confided:
 "What is the idea of Presi- dent Roosevelt in sending . com mission to Sweden? Haven't you any libraries in the United States? Don't you think Swe- dish news services are authen- tic? It seems to me you must have all the information about Sweden that you already need. without sending another com mission over there."
 Olsson, however, gath cred @ lot of information here about the Wages and Hours Bill the National Labor Relations Act most of all-the dispute between the c. l. O. and the A. F. of l. Labor in Sweden, which is occu- cupied largely in mass produc- ton industries like lumber, paper and pulp, and still, is organized chiefly along industrial lines, simi- lar to c. I. O. unions.
 Trust-Buster
 Here is what trust-busting Thur man Arnold, assistant attorney general, says of the people he has indicted for violating. the trust laws.
 Some of the men I have in- dicted are fine people. Take Ford and the General Motors group. They are like the dignified college president who has a highly paid and highly successful football team, and he doesn't want tc know how he got them."
 Senator White
 Senator Wallace H. White, Jr. of Maine, is not troubled by re- election problems this year, but he has encountered problems of another kind.
 They are principally concerned with distinguishing between the brake and the accelerator in his automobile.
 White, who has not driven a car for 8 couple of years, got behind the wheel again recently, and practiced driving around in the lanes of his own home. He thought he was getting on famously, wher suddenly he stepped on the wrong pedal and the car leapeo ahead, smashed into the house took off a corner of the building and was wrecked.
 The blue-eyed senator from Maine was not injured.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
A Thought for Today
The Market - A Barometer

It is quite usual to think of the 1925 29 era as a time when everybody was buying stocks; there were jokes about bootblacks taking a flyer in the market. We think of that as bygone time, as strange phenomenon which flared up and died away That is why it comes as sur prise to see Barron's financial weekly asserting that there are today more stockholders in the country than ever before.
 The result of a survey made by the magazine indicates that there are prob ably 25,OOO,OOO holders of common and preferred stock in the country today. Allowing for Implications due to those who hold several stocks, the estimate is that somewhere between seven and eight million Americans own stocks, half of them being stockholders in the 1000 leading corporations.
 Now that is very large number of people. It is four or five times as large as the American Legion, which eXerts very considerable influence on national af- fairs. It is probably as big as the whole of organized labor, both A. F. of L. and c. l. O. taken together. It is equal to the whole population of great states like Illi- nois, Ohio, or Texas. And, despite the Q1SllluSlOLmenC or 19ZS-oo, QeSplCe elgnC long years of depression, the stockhold- ing group is found by Barron's to be growing rather than declining Further than that, it has been growing recently at faster rate than it did in the days before the depression.
 Thus it is small wonder that the recent furry in the stock market caused thrill along the whole business community It Is all very well to say that the stock mar ket merely reflects or discounts in ad- vance business conditions. But with seven or eight million people directly in- terested in stocks, the psychological effect of the course of the market is bound to be great. Thus "the market not only is in- nuenced by business conditions, it is in itself an influence on those conditions.
 Whether you deplore it as new mar tialing of lambs for some future shearing, or welcome it as evidence of more people having direct stake in the national economy, the bare fact that more people than ever before are stock-owners is a significant one which ought not to be left out of the calculations of all political and social soothsayers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
4 Final Chabter
Conn. Co.'s Reorganization Plan Recalls Old Heydays of Trolley-Much Money Poured in for Expansion When Electric Cars
 Were Believed Here to Stay
Believed Here to Stay.
HARTFORD TIMES

holders to realize handsome profit.
 The reorganization proposal en- visages other things than merely watering the stock. It represents also vast shrinkage of plant. Among other purchases by the Con- necticut Company was that of the Shore Line Street Railway, which operated in eastern Connecticut Practically all the lines there have been abandoned because of lack of patronage. Today scarcely a trolley car wheel turns east of the Connec- ticut River The cities of Norwich, New London and Willimantic are entirely without street railway fac ilties.
 Moreover, all the properties of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company in the southwestern part of the State and in New Britain, which the Connecticut Company operated under a 999-year lease, have been returned to their actual own- CTS.
 The property owned and operated by the Connecticut Company has shrunk vastly. How vastly is indicat- ed by the fact that the company management believes it can be operated today upon capitalization of slightly more than two millions of dollars.
 Inasmuch as capital stock is all owned by the New Haven, which is itself in bankruptcy there is not likely to be great objection to the reorganization plan. Debtors, aside from the New Haven, will be satis- fled with cash, so they have nc reason to protest.
 At this late day no particular moral needs to be drawn from the incident. There is no danger today of any further wildcat ventures in street railway investment.
 The trolley car was indeed sky rocket. It came as a great boon in the 70's; contributed enormously to the convenience and the pleasure of the people through the 80's and sos; helped in spreading population into suburban areas and then almost in a flash is gone; its value destroyed by the activities of MT. Ford and others who set the nation travelling behind gasoline motors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
TO OUR STATE PARKS
(New Britain Herald)


 Progress in transportation: You no longer need to own an automo- bile to get to the states parks.
 Something was started in New Britain when the Conn. Go. and the c. R & L. asked for and got per- mission to operate excursion busses to various state parks. Immediately bus lines in other cities sought and obtained the same permission. As PUG Commissioner Joseph w. Alsop blurted out, no favoritism can be shown and all corners can get per- mits for the present. The public, he said, had right to get to its parks by bus.
 Certainly and absolutely! They have been doing that by special chartered busses for years, but now the general non auto public will re- ceive it's just opportunities every weekend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
|PressCOmment
A STATE CLAIMS COURT
(Hartford Courant)


 The proposal of the Legislative Council that new tribunal be set up to handle claims against the State and to hear appeals on state taxes would remove an always ex- asperating and sometimes unjust situation. AS everyone knows, the State cannot be sued without it's consent. Unless statutory provision is made for recovery, a person can not force Connecticut to reimburse him for any damages he may have suffered from it's actions.
 The usual procedure when a per- son has claim against the State for which no regular provision for repayment existsis to search out a member of the Legislature and get him to introduce a special act ap- propriating the funds with which to settle the claim. If the claim is just, the Legislature usually passes it, but the process is slow and not too certain. As the Legislative Coun- Gil points out, the settlement of the hundreds of claims that are pre- sented to each Legislature unnec- essarily clogs the calendar. AS 1t did not point out, but might have, the settlement of claim ordinarily sets up a political debt owed by the claimant to the legislator who press ed the special act for his benefit.
 Establishment of a special tribunal to handle claims against the State would at once remove the obstruc- tion to the efficiency of the Legisla- ture that the settlement of host of claims present; at the same time, it would insure prompt hearing. Further, were the members of the tribunal chosen according to the high standards that should govern the selection of men charged with an important responsibility, the political aspects of the present method of settling claims would be eliminated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
Current Comment

Children have impulses to kill and these are developed at home -Lauretta Bendre, prominent psy' chiatrist.
 wish to make the point tha, American conservatives cannot for a moment afford to discriminate in their defense of civil liberty. --Grenyille Clark, New York attor- ney.
 One has to admit the govern. ments of the democracies have done nothing tangible or practical, not even to protect their own interests. Mime. Chiang Kai-shek, wife of China's generalissimo, on the Sino-Jap war.
 Chemical warefare, as evidenced by World War statistics, is the most effective method of using force yet devised by man. with relatively light destruction of life and property and the minimum of human suffering and after effects. Col. Adelno Gibson, chemical of- ficer of the Second Corps Area.
 
 If human being ate the same food monkey does he would be a lot better off.
 William Roadhouse, caretaker of the Buffalo Zoo.
 The only "court" in matrimony should be courtship. If a fellow can keep out of police court and divorce court, it's cinch. Eddie Cantor, on the Cantors' 24th wedding anniversary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
A Book a Day
Luckpenny's Leg Lends a Hand
By BRUCE CATION

Jim Luckypenny was an underpald accountant for a British munitions firm. He had wife, a son, and a daughter. And he had a hollow wooden leg.
 It was his artificial leg that lift ed him from humdrum desk to the exciting adventure in love and international intrigue. If the leg hadn't been hollow, Luckypenny wouldn't have tried to smuggle five million lira out of Italy, he wouldn't have met zenaida, and he wouldn't have looked into the muzzles of the rifles of Spanish nationalist firing squad. And Bruce Marshall's biting satire, "Luckypenny" (E. P. Dutton & Co.,: $250), wouldn't have been the story it is.
 Intensely interesting, vitally hu- man, Marshall's novel moves quick ly, carrying its middle-aged, egotis- tical hero into the inner circle of the Roman Fascist party, where, aided by the love of a charmingly feminine spy (Zenaida), he wins the arms contract for the Ethiopian war. He becomes a director of the munitions company, and the per- sonal danger he undergoes is match ed in intensity only by the tangled love affairs of his son and daugh- ter. his employer, and his employ CTS daughter.
 A full-fiedged merchant of death Luckypenny moves on to his ulti- mate fate, after discovering his wealth brought only unhappiness and tragedy. He might have escap- ed. but there was money to be brought from Spain, against cus- toms restrictions, so the hollow leg came in handy again.
 Vividly drawn. Marshall's story has the power of making the reader forget time completely until the last page Is finished.-T. J. H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20

The way aggrieved parties try to get around such immunity usually results in suit against the actual operator of the fire truck, which in itself always seemed to us unfair. Most communities take the trouble to protect their employees against just such claims by liability insurance. In the event they fail to do this far greater wrong is imposed than immunity may seem to impose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 12:19 a. m daylight time)
 Sun rises 5:36 a. m; sets 8:2O D. m. (day- light 'time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The last seven-day period governed by the fulling Of the moon close to midday was moist to say the least. The same prediction holds true again for the next seven days as the noon entered it's :>st quarter phase this morning between and 8. standard time. The outlook is for wind and rain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
T est Y o UT Knowledge
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. What scholastic degree is rep resented by the initials M. E. O.?
 2. Who was Virginia Dare?
 3. On what island in the Pacific did the mutineers of the ship Bounty" settle with their Tahitian wives?
 4. What is the name for the elas- tic tubes or vessels that carry blood from the heart to the tissues of the body?
 s. What is the nickname for Wis conSin?
 6. In what year was the Battle of Gettysburg fought?
 2. Does bread lose its food value when toasted?
 8. What is another name for wood alcohol?
 g. Which South American coun- try produces the largest coffee crop?
 10. Name the Egyptian king who built the Great Pyramid in Eavnt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
Questions and
 Answers
By Frederick M. Kerby

Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Be sure all mail is ad- dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, l013 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 THE EDITOR @. How far inland can large steamships navigate the St. Law renee river?
 A. Ocean steamers of the largest size ascend the river to Quebec and large vessels go as far as Montreal. @. Are coke ashes beneficial to the soil?
 A. When sifted and incorporated with heavy clay soils they improve the texture.
 o. What is the strength of the U. s. Army and Navy air forces?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
Selected Poem
APPLE-WOOD

(Frances Frost in the Christian Science Monitor What fire is better than one made of twigs that once gave rabbits shade? On a wet evening when the storm shakes the Woodshed door, the heart grows warm watching the burning of crooked boughs that once shook over autumn ploughs the fruit of summer. The branch burns high that once blew slant on a rainy sky. The wood of apple, dark and bent, gives the heart it's flaming element.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20

Germany withdraws her military ex- perts from China, where they were advis- ing the Chinese, because they did too we'll Now she might send them to help the Philippians
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20

If you want copy of our booklet SEA FOOD COOK BOOK" write to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washing ton, D. C. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20

We all live, broadly speaking, by taking in each others washing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
Chinese Wheat Loon Is Dropped to Avoid Offending Japan; RooseveIt's Pre-BorkIey Kentucky
 ToIk Revives Anti-New DeoI Hopes
v DREW PEARSON
' RoBERr q ALLEN

WASHINGTON, July 20. = For days Washington has buzzed with rmors that this government would make wheat loan to China Inside fact is that such proposal was debated but abandoned Here is the story of what
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20

o. When aliens are deported from the United Sttaes is the money paid for their bond lost?
 A. No, the bond is returned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Finance is pronounced fi-
 nance; not finance.

A. The Army has 1000 new planes, nearly all of them less than 3 years old, and another 1000 are on order. In addition, it has on hand several hundred serviceable planes, classified as obsolete. On June 30, 1887, the Navy had 927 service and 195 obsolescent aircraft on hand and 820 new aircraft on order.
 o. What percentage of the pop ulation, 65 years of age and over, are receiving old-age pensions un- der the Social Security Act?
 A. In April, 1888, there were l. 671 ,223 recipients of old-age assist ance in AT states, the District of Columbia, Alaska and Hawaii, com- prising approximately 21 per cent of the estimated population aged 65 and over.
 o. What is the quotient of zero divided by zero?
 A. It is indeterminate.
 O. How is mineral wool made?
 A. By heating rock, clag or glass to high temperatures and drawing the molten material into long, con- tinuous flbers with high pressure jets of steam.
 o. When aliens are deported from the United Sttaes is the money paid for their bond lost?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20

o. What is the strength of the U. s. Army and Navy air forces?
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