The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-14

Named as Democratic Party's standard bearer for fifth success sive term.
 ticle of Amendment to the Consti- tuition of the United States and that after the repeal we fought with success for a centralized ad- ministration for the control of the manufacture and sale of all al- coholic liquors.
 Efficiency
 Attention has been given to cre- ating higher efficiency in all the institutions and departments of the state. It will be recalled, for instance, that the cost of receiver ships of closed banks has been re- duced to a minimum by a trans fer of the administration to the bank commissioner. A survey is now being made of three other departments with view to elim- mating such Implications in their work as may exist.
 The new commissioner of educa- ton is preparing to make a study of our whole system of education. The new president of the Connec- ticut State College is raising the standard of instruction so that this institution of learning may take rank with the best of its kind in the United States. The normal schools have been converted into teachers colleges by adding @ year to their courses of study, making four years in all. An urgent de- mand for skilled workmen has led to a marked extension of our trade schools where the founda- tions may be laid for practice and further training in our manufac- turing plants. Tn addition to the restoration of the teachers retire. ment fund, 1t now remains to move forward towards the aim to give so far as possible equal edu- cational opportunities to all chil- dren of the state.
 Agriculture
 Agriculture has received its share of attention. During the last year the milk administrator has succeeded better than form erly in an effort to stabilize the milk industry. The general assem- ply of 1887 appropriated thirty five thousand dollars towards the cost of a Connecticut building at the Eastern States Exposition held every September at Spring. field, on the condition that twen- ty-flve thousand dollars should be raised by subscription to complete the estimated cost of sixty thou sand dollars. I am pleased to an- nounce that with little effort sub- scriptions were recieved amount ing to thirty-nine thousand dol- lars. As a result. our agricultural and manufacturing industries will have more space than was at first anticipated for their varied ex- hibits. The building, of which the foundations are now being laid, has been designed after the style of the Old State House in Hart ford. At the next session of the general assembly there will be in- troduced a bill drawn by a com- mittee of farmers and approved by the legislative council, fnerg- ing the departments of agricul-. ture, dairy and food, and domestic animals under one commissioner. The legislative council has also requested the governor to appoint a similar committee to consider all questions connected with a proposal to establish a regional market.
 Field of Labor
 In the field of labor there has been very little disturbance of a serious character. Nearly all dis putes between employer and etn- ploye have been so quietly settled by the board of mediation and arbitration, or by their secretary, who is Q member of the depart ment of labor, that they have been unknown to the public at large. Never have the general relations between labor and capital been better in this state where prevail liberal laws such as have been enacted during recent years like the act prohibiting child labor and the wage and hour act for women and minors engaged in the indus tries. Though Connecticut is in the first rank of progressive labor legislation, much yet remains to be done. The unemployment in- surance act, owing to the depres- sion, put a heavy strain on the department of labor, which was, however, ably borne. Tn accord afice with the law the unemployed have already received more than ten million dollars. The Blum clearance act has failed to meet the approval of the municipal tiles where 1t has been seriously considered. Clearly the act needs some revision, which I hope will be made at the next session of the general assembly SO that our cities may everywhere be cleared Of all dark and shameful spots where life is hardly worth living, the home of disease and often of vice and crime. Likewise the flood control compact failed to secure the approval of the congress and the president. There should be an immediate restudy of the prob- lem for the protection of life and property in the Connecticut vAl- Icy and elsewhere.
 Budget Director
 The general assembly of 1887