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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Licensing Pistols
Substitute for Earlier Proposal of Justice Dept. Introduced in Congress by Rep. Doughton
 of North Carolina
HARTFORD COURANT

to force it through congress. But the new bill is just as obnoxious in principle as it's predecessor and but little less burdensome to law abiding citizens who wish to eXer- else their constitutional right to keep and bear arms"
 The bill provides that every per- son possessing pistol at the time the measure becomes effective shall register it with the collector of internal revenue. If he shall sell or otherwise transfer the arm there after, it's new owner must fill out an application for license, furnish fingerprints and pay tax of $1 before the transaction shall take place. Anyone who fails to go through this rigmarole is exposed to the penalties of a fine of $500 and imprisonment for a year or both. Should the second owner de- sire to transfer the pistol again, the third owner must not only register it and provide his flngerprints, but he must have with him at all times the former owners certificate of reg istration as well as his own. Pistol fans are inordinate Swappers, but the bales of documents that an en- thusiast would be forced to lug around with him would doubtless put a crimp in his activities, even if the transfer taxes did not.
 In support of the bill, Attorney General Cummings said: Show me the man who doesn't want his gun registered and will show you a man who shouldn't have a gun." So saying he libelled the hundreds of thousand of law-abiding owners of pistols who do object to the bill, not because they want to use hand guns for illicit purposes but because they balk at further expense and red tape which, as experience in the states that have similar legisla- tion demonstrated, do not keep fire arms out of the hands of criminals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

groups holding public entertainments. As one commentator so aptly put it these schemes were wonderful money-makerS for the one who thought them up and put them into practice, but they simply were another drain on the slender resources of the persons who patronized them. That's the whole answer to the problem.
 By outlawing "bank night" the Su- preme Court, too, has put the quietus on bingo and it's allied indoor sports. Money makers, indeed, have been these "inno- cent" pastimes, but not for any one per- son save the one who financed and oper- ated the game. True they may have raised large sums of money for worthy causes or causes parading under worthy names, but they have by the same token reduced the small change that many a man rattled in his pocket or woman tangled in her purse. As distractions, calculated to harm rather than do good, the related chance-taking games are acknowledged at the top. If Connecti- cuts step doesn't prove fruitful we will be much surprised.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Spelling

Good spoilers are born, not made" says Paul Wing, spelling master ot the National Broadcasting Company. You didn't know radio companies had spell ing masters? Well, it's an interesting development. The most modern of our institutions has restored one of the oldest of them - the spelling match It's in- credible how much spelling-down is done on the air nowadays, and how the con- testants and the audiences love 1t.
 But to return to the dictum quoted above. Is MT. Wing right? Is it true that spelling is native gift, and that "the misspellers will never be good spoilers, no matter how they study?" Possibly the radio pedagogue is sticking his neck out there.
 He says "a good speller is picture minded, and viSualizes the word before him as if it were spelled out on an imag- mary blackboard" Such talent helps greatly; but what happens when the bright lad with the picture-mind is asked to spell a word he never saw? That IS where photographed principles come in. There really are rules and principles for spelling, and the fellow who knows them may beat the lad who sees his words floating in the air. Wide reading helps, and knowledge of languages helps more.
 The fellow who knows little Latin is not likely to go wrong on consensus" or "supersede" or "gelid''. Whoever can read Spanish will not stumble over "picador" or arroyo. The French stu dent will have no trouble with poignant" oy. "camaraderie" or "liaison". German doesn't help much, but Italian is useful, especially with musical terms. The long, est words may be easy for anyone who has studied Greek.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Something For Nothing

One of the worst faults of the average American is his ever-ready desire to take a chance. Nine out of ten American men and. yes. women, too, will chance any amount of money on the remote possi- bility that it will be increased many times by a lucky click of the wheel. The fever
 for gambling gstad of tH ssenng se bon it m aroWs e bv leaps and bounds But American law is not allowing itself to be outstripped. It is keeping pace.
 The Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors took a step forward this week when it outlawed "bank nights" and all the other similar chance-taking events that may be conducted by theaters and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

income taxes, and he has in- spected the incomes of all his own employees, sometimes with startling disclosures.
 Henry Is so painstaking in his efficiency that it is almost amus- ing. When he travels, he in- structs the railroad a day in ad- vance the exact minute at his morning orange juice is to be brought to his compartment. And in making appointments he is meticulous to the minute. Seldom does he lag more than five minutes behind with his appointment scheduIe-which is an achievement for any busy executive.
 Perhaps 1t is because of his ef- ficiency thtt Henry is not par ticularly popular. He struggles to please, is thoughtful and kind, but somehow rubs people the wrong way - that is, until you really know him.
 While Henry never will be popu- lar, he is getting stronger and growing braver in his job. Just two weeks ago he put across some thing which illustrates this growth.
 Henry's Procurement Division buys supplies for various gov ernment bureaus, and among other things periodically orders large quantities of cement. When the last cement bids were opened, there was every evi- dence of collusive bidding.
 So Morgenthau took the matter to Solicitor General Bob Jackson at the Justice Department, propos- ing antitrust prosecution. Jack son agreed, but suggested that they advertise for biGs a second time in order to be sure of the evidence.
 To this end, Morgenthau talked to Secretary of Agriculture Wal lace, Mhose Bureau of Public Roads is the heaviest cement buy CT in the government. But Wal lace, who has his eyes on 1940, was not cooperative. He said 1t was the wrong time to stir busi- ness up, and that the Administra- tion should lay off reform.
 This got MT. Morgenthau's dan der up and he went to see the President.
 "If can't do the right thing on a moral issue like this," he almost shouted, "there is no place for me in your Adminis- tratiOn."
 You're right, Henry" said the President, and signed the paper which his Secretary of the Treas ury had showed before him.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
A Book a Day
American Men and Their Dollars
 By BRUCE CATION

The dedication to the "elder states man, Senator Carter Glass" imme- diately sets the key for "The Mar ket Place" Gittle, Brown: $3.5O by Alexander Dana Moves, venerable financial editor of the New York Times. At 76, MT. Moves looks back over more than 50 years as fnan- cial news reporter and commenta- tor, a career he began under God kin of the New York Evening Post AS cub reporter, Moves was as- signed to cover the failure of Grant and Ward in 1884, and he draws an unforgettable picture of the broken U. s. Grant making his way through the disorder of the office from which his less honest partners had fled, to face all alone the sad music of failure.
 From thence Moves followed pro fessionally the ebb and flow of Americas financial fortunes, and he writes of the figures who rode those tides uncritically, gently, and with tolerance. Down through the panic of 1893 flows the tale, through the Spanish War, the panic of 1907, the Teddy Roosevelt era, the World War (Did you know that the controlling shares in the Suez Canal were act- ually put in hook by the British in New York bank vault?)
 On down through financial rap ids and meadows moves the writer, watching repeated pattern of mems optimism, cupidity and hope, mems pessimism, surrender and despair, to the present, where he offers to Americans who nowadays survey the troubled horizon" the re- assurance that their country is once more in the position of world economic leadership" and that past experience has shown them to be tenacious of the country'S best traditions" In short, though things look dubious under Roosevelt, we may hope that they arc fundament- ally sound.
 Looking through this book as ont lens of a pair of spectacles of which Louis Adamic's Dynamite" wa: the other lens, one would get an in teresting pageant of America since the Civil War.--W. T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Selected Poem
FOR A VERY YOUNG GAUCHO (Irma Wassall in the New York Times)

He would be old enough to wear them now The cowboy togs displayed behind the glass; Congomerate from Arizona cow Lands, far south pampas and the Texas grass. He would be wild to have the miniature Coiled lariat the chaps of spotted calf Skin black and white; and he would shout with pure Gee, dangling spurs accompanying hls 1augh How gayly he would set small sombrero On his hair black mine; and he would strap holstered six-gun on his hip, bolero With 8 rope to snare our hearts as in trap Let us go inside dead me- I am blind) And buy the spotted chaps, lariat And small sombrero; let us go and find gaucho five years old without hat, little gay one with dark sweet head: And we will give that gleeful black -haired boy The cowboy things. and in anothers stead Teach him to spin a rope and whoop for joy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

One of the greatest endorsers and proponents of the highway sidewalk died with Coroner John J. Phelan of Fairfield County. In recent years we don't recall one finding of his, in connection with highway fatality, that wasn't accom- panied by recommendation for side walks. He didn't live to see them in- stalled, but perhaps some day we'll have him to thank for paving the way towards this protection. The late Martin Scully, too, was an advocate of highway side walks. He talked about them and he wrote about them. We only hope that some day their advice bears fruit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
PressCO1nment
BEAR MOUNTAIN BRIDGE
 (Meriden JournaD

Many motoring users from this section have probably not known that picturesque Bear Mountain bridge spanning the Hudson near Peekskill is privately owned. Con necticut has no private bridges Of any consequence. New York state didn't feel like raising the millions for Bear Mountain bridge and let private capital do the job with the understanding that when the capi- talists got their money back from tolls, the span would go to the state.
 The state can't wait, it seems, and it's legislature voted recently to buy the bridge and the highway at tached for $3,50o,00o. The legisla- tors had in mind cutting the toll to 50 cents for passenger car, which is the fee at the state-owned George Washington bridge. The Bear Moun- tain connects with Westchester parkways and offers pleasant route to New York city and the south.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

When we wrote about transcontinental highways becoming military roads the other day we pointed out that Europe had become road-conscious. We read just recently that a 2,0OO-mile road is being built across nine countries. This road goes from London to Ostend Brus- sels, Liege, Cologne, Frankfort, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, and Istanbul. Only the stretch across the English Channel eliminates complete land con- nectionS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, April 23-That plunk- ing of guitars, the swish of grass skirts to the rhythm of undulating torsos, is the outward effect of the Hawaiian influence which has hit town with such impact that some free-hand prophets are predicting the soft music of the islands will replace the caterwauling of swing before the year is out.
 Meanwhile night clubs are ten tatively testing the hawaiian motif in the wake of the success of the Hawaiian Room, which has been doing turnaway business ever since it planted a papier mache palm tree in an unsuccessful for mer grill, began serving drinks in cocoanuts and brought in a band of musicians who sing in the vowel swallowing language of Hawaii.
 The Hawaiian Room is one of those Alger yarns of the hotel business. Charles Rochester, man. ager of the Hotel Lexington, had a Silver Grill on his hands which ran necessarily into red ink de- spite the talent he booked into it. One day, he saw travel folder of brown-skinned youth on a surfbcard. Presto-the idea clicked.
 So enthused was he that he did not find out until the room was finished that there was no Ha- waiian talent in the east. Thus, the brand new spot had to gather dust a couple of days while emis- saries flew out to the west coast and recruited native entertainers One of these was the shapely Prin- cess Kuulei, who had been a featured dancer at the Royal Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu. The Hawaiian Room has been a gold mine since then and gradually is undermining the French, Spanish and Cuban vogues that have held sway up to now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

The department of justice has prevailed on Representative Dough- ton of North Carolina to introduce a measure providing for the federal licensing of all pistols and revolvers. This bill is offered as @ substitute for an earlier proposal to license all firearms, which stirred up so much opposition that the depart ment of justice gave up the attempt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

i. What is another name for the game of draughts?
 3. Who was recently appointed counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow? 3. What is the approximate cir conference of the earth?
 4. Can women vote in the D. s. at the age of eighteen?
 5. Where is the volcanic crater Kilauea?
 6. In the manufacture of what commodity is cllicle used?
 2. What is the poetical nanle for Ireland?
 s. Who was Ernest Crofts?
 9. What is clabber2
 10. What religion did the French chemist Louis Pasteur profess?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Daily Almanac
Moon rises 1:ll a. m.

Moon rises HI a. m.
 Sun rises 5:02 a. m; sets sac p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Cherry trees are in blossom, unusually early this year. Shad-blow burst into bloc.n over night. Other towering shrubs and trees will follow close on ttssr heels as warm rains and warmer suns continue to send life-giving fluids coursing through stalks and trunks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Current Comment

People labor under the delusion that I'm a lady-I'nn not.-Rosi- lind Russell, movie actress.
 To go off on war-preparing spree and go navy crazy, is to get into war-Maury Maverick, U. s. Representative from Texas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Questions and
 Answers
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By Frederick M. Kerby

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 Enclose 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, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 Q. Is there singular form of the noun trousers?
 A. No.
 o. Where is the town of Rolle?
 A. In the canton of Vaud, Swift zerland, on the lake of Geneva, 16 miles southwest of Lausanne. It has 8 population of 2,186, according to latest estimates.
 @. Did Queen Victoria send the Pope a present on his jubilee anni- versary?
 A. Yes; rich golden basin and eWer.
 o. What was the population of the United States in 1882, and what is 1t now?
 A. The estimated population in 1882 was 124,974,000, and in 1887 1t was estimated to be 129, 9,257,000.
 o. Did Simone Simon actually sing in the motion picture, Love and HisseS?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
You Sleep Better, Too

You Sleep Better, Too
 More than mere nostalgia seems the current vogue for old "silents. A director of hotel grill had an inspiration several weeks ago. He decided to amuse his Sabbath night guests with showings of Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in "The Kid, a Pearl White thriller and a few with Mabel Normand. His Sabbath clientele increased and he has continued the programs. Struck by this success, other impreSarios have followed suit.
 Suddenly, the garrets of the film libraries are over-run with ex- humers of soundless cinema an- tiques. Chaplins. of course, are most in demand and old Harold Lloyds and Ben Turpins have a faithful following. One of these entre- preneurs of the "silents put forth a questionnaire the other evening l in an effort to determine what stars of the past his guests yearned tc see again. These were the leaders Thomas Meighan, Eugene O'Brien Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino Pola Negri, Mae Marsh, Theda Bars and Agnes Ayres.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

WASHINGTON, April g. = Henry Morgenthau, Jr, State since Alexander Hamilton but he will be known as faithful efficient servant who, with wry face raised the cash for the greatest spending program in history
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
A Thought for Today

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright Psalms 11:7.
 Right is might, and ever was, ana ever snan s he so Holiness meeIness, patience, humility, self-denial and self-sacrifice faith, love-each is might, and every gift of the spirit is might. Hare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Brass Ring This Week Goes To Man Who Raised Cash
 For Greatest Spending Spree
 In History, Sect Morgenthau
N DREW PEARSON
amA R0@GRI c ALLEN

EDITORS NOTE-The free ride The Washington Merry sere tary of the Treasury roster of the president and his cabinet all of whom Merry Go-Romd free riders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never pronounce facade-fa- sayd; say, fa'-sahd.
A. Yes.

A. Yes.
 o. Where are the U. s. army spe- cial air service schools located?
 A. Kelly Field, Texas; Randolph Field; Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala; Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill.,; Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio; Patter- son Field, Fairfield, Ohio.
 o. Will a 25-cycle radio receiver operate on 60 cycles?
 A. The National Radio Institute says that it will operate on that frequency, but 1t is not possible to operate a 60-cycle receiver on 25- cycle current.
 O. Who received the Pulitzer Prize for the best volume of verse In 1886?
 A. Robert P. Tristan Cofin for Strange Holiness"
 0. Will the United States gov- ernment manage the two low-rent housing projects in Louisville, Ken- lucky?
 A. The management of these projects was turned over to the Louisville municipal housing com- mission by the United States houS- ing authority on March l, 1888.
 If you want a copy of our book let "Landscaping," write to Water bury Democrats Washington Bu- reau, 1913 Thirteenth street, Wash- ington, ID. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Test Y UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven or these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Footlight Tragedy

The fast-fading dramatic season has witnessed an unusual number of on-stage fatalities and injuries. Most recent was the Stabbing of Joseph Holland in Julius Caesar" On the west coast, Joseph Green wald died of heart attack during a performance of Golden Boy" Chester Stratton, during mob scene in June Night" lost his bal ance and had his knee severely in jured. Then, too, there were the sudden deaths of Osgood Perkins and Helen Strickland during the out-of- town showings of Susan and God" and On Borrowed Time" re- | spectively.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

Anyway, they've quit bull-fighting in Spain.
Evening star., 1938-12-06

~ol1ldll Will d
zeal for social work and the en-
forcement Of laws that led to the
protection of workmen in factories.
Since 1888 Mr.. Saunders has been
Nine. Secretary Perkins financial
watchdog.
Mr.. Saunders is an administra-
tive, budget and contact officer. In
the city of New York he used to
pare down expenses. Now, under
the law, he boosts them to meet
the skyrocketing expenses Of the
Labor Department, since the New
Deal match has ignited many new
divisions 10 increase the status of
workers.
Richardson Saunders will leave
his mark on the integrity of Labor
Department operations. He is
likable, shortish man. with a merry
twinkle in his eyes, a humorous turn
of phrase and an unimpeachable
reputation for honesty and fair deal
ing. He also has passion for
anonymity"
His record and past performance
precludes that. He is the son of
the much-loved "Parson Saun-
ders," of Episcopalean fame in last
century's history of the Bahama
Islands. Mr.. Saunders was born
at Nassau, and divided his time
between the Bahamas, England and
the United States. He had his
education at the Polytechnic Insti-
tute and New York University. His
convictions are democratic ever
since he first cast his vote.
Evening star., 1938-12-06

case affords relatively little by way
of guidance in future labor cases is
that there is manifest dispute as
to what the evidence was and how it
should be interpreted, and a dis
agreement on various technical
points of procedure which make it
difficult to use the Consolidated
Edison case as clear-cut precedent
First of all. the Labor Board itself
recognized that the local of the
A. F. of L. was a bona fide labor
organization and that the employer
had not caused it to come into eX-
istence although the employer was
alleged to have shown a preference
for it.
Can't Void Contract Rights.
Now the Supreme Court, while
stating that the employer should be.
and in this case was, penalized for
discriminating against certain en-
ployes, held that the fact that such
discrimination existed was not Suf-
ficient to allow the board to break
down the contract.
The court takes the view that
whatever the employer does is one
thing and what the employees of a
bona f1de local such as the A. F. of l..
do is quite another. To put it more
concretely, Chief Justice Hughes in
his opinion says that the employees
of bona fide and independent
labor union cannot be deprived of
their right to make a contract with
ployer exercises a preference or does
something else which can be cor
rected, for instance, by ordering the
reinstatement of the employees who
were Disseminated against. The
Chief Justice points out that the
National Labor Relations Act was
passed to assure collective bargain
ing and that in this case the A. F.
of L. union certainly exercised on
behalf of 80 per cent of the employees
the right of collective bargaining.
The court went on to say that if the
company Influenced the election
there was no evidence to support it
and should have been introduced by
the opposing union, namely,
G. I. 0. unit, or by the board
Reed and Black Dissent.
There is no telling what the Su-
preme Court might decide in a case
in which the evidence plainly
showed that the company conspired
with an independent labor organi-
zation such as the A. F. of L. to
create unit to which preference
might be given over the C. I. o. or
some other labor unit The dis
senting opinions of Justices Reed
and Black clearly indicate that they
side with the Labor Board in its
belief that an act of the company
in collusion with union tends to
impair the right of the union in
making contracts with an employer
or the right of the employer in
making an agreement with the
favored union But even conceding
this view by the minority, the fact
remains that six out of the eight
sitting justices concurred on this
point:
"The act (meaning the Wagner
law gives no express authority to
the board to invalidate contracts
with independent labor organiza-
tions. We think that this authority
to order Affirmative action does not