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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13
A Thought for Today
Success, Perhaps

It was interesting to note the head lines that papers used throughout the state in connection with the story about state government departments achieving sIashes in recurring expenses, as ordered by Governor Raymond E. Baldwin. The desired reserve of per cent was not quite reached, although many of the ITO agen- cies exceeded that amount. To some editors the savings, slightly less than $500 ,OOO, told the entire story; to others the failure to meet the governors require ment was the tale.
 To the average individual with no un- derstanding of the fine points of budget ing of our state government we dont imagine that any shade of difference III meaning will matter much. What he IS concerned about is the fact that 1t costs him bit more every year to support the government He'd like to see the trend the other way The best way to decrease taxes or to eliminate the nuisance ones IS to make government cost less. Ihls isn't an easy job, but it can be done.
 The reserve of $589,O00 set up by the states department against it's operations in the coming 12-month period may be exhausted before July, 1940, rolls around, but at least good start has been made towards achieving more economical op- eration. What remains to be done IS operation along restricted lines and Wlth the general idea of keeping within the budgetary limits, no matter what sacrl- flee may be necessary in services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13
FBr SCHOOL IN WOODBRIDGE
(New Haven Journal -Courier)

(New Haven Journal-C -Courier)
 Oh, SO an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is going to set up an FBI police school in New Haven county, is he? Yes, he is. And just where in New Haven will the courses be offered and how will the New Haven police department ar- range to have its men attend? Oh, but the courses aren't to be given in New Haven. Not given in New Ha- ven? Tn Waterbury, then. perhaps, the second city of the county? No, in that teeming county metropolis, that surging center of modernity and progressiveness, the town of Woodbridge. In Woodbridge? But isn't that a little odd? Yes, it's a little odd, but 50 far as Woodbridge goes. Q very admirable oddness.
 And as far as several other towns in New Haven county go, too. for that matter. Because the Wood- bridge courses will be open to police officers of towns throughout the county. Guilford, North Branford. Orange. Bethany. Cheshire, East Haven, Branford etc., will be repre- scented. So far as we know New Ha- ven officers will not be on hand as students. though Captain Clark will give some instructions on Inc
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Complete closing of the state inebriate farm which was formerly part of the Norwich State Hospital is going to prove quite puzzler to many minor court judges, as well as judges of probate. In the past it has been their custom to com init regular offenders to this institution for various periods. When the institu- tion went out of existence on July there were 65 patients at the farm from all parts of the state. Their transportation was provided to their homes and hence forth if they prove troublesome to author ites or family they won't be committed to Norwich. The Norwich institution was established in 1915 and was always well patronized once officials in communi- ties learned the routine of having con- mon drunkards admitted to it. Abolish ing of the farm should be of benefit, however, to more competent operation of the state hospital, so recently under legislative criticism.
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And still we read of great housing projects being planned for this state under private auspices. New Haven is the latest city to come forward with plan for development of large tract in thor oughly-modern manner. A section near the Woodbridge town line is to be de- veloped somewhat along the lines of that great project planned for West Hartford. Included in the New Haven area will be a small lake. These are healthy signs for all Connecticut to observe and copy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin is to be commended for his foresight in issuing an early appeal or quasi-manifesto that no billboards be erected along the Merritt Parkway. We have been under the inl- pression right along that this was to be the case. As we recall it when the park way was first under consideration the complete absence of outdoor advertising or other forms of commercial enterprise was desired While the state can't con- trol land beyond its 300-feet right of way, the towns can and should certainly do so to protect the parkway in its entirety.
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exploitation of WPA materials and labor, plus the construction of houses for state officials. On the day following publication of this story, number of state senators and officials, known to some in Louisiana as the "Pie Boys," assembled In Baton Rouge and went into a three day huddle with Governor Leche.
 LECHE RESIGNATION
 They were desperate. With an election coming, they could not af- ford 8 public scandal, 50 they de- cided some sop had to be given the public and demanded the res- ignation of Dick Leche. At first he refused. They insisted. He baked. Finally they called in Hampton Reynolds, father-in- of Leche and his adviser on WPA projects, who in addition to a state sal- ary, draws a handsome retainer from the New Orleans Public Ser- vice Corporation.
 "The Pie Boys" intlmated that if Leche did not resign they would impeach him. So on June 2l he announced his impending resignation. This was four days after the Merry. Co., Round ex- pose and one day after Doc Smith had closed out his flyer in wheat.
 Governor Leche, however, did not know about Docs disastrous speculation until June 25, when "Jingle Money" Smith told him. Leche Is now suspected of giving his friend time to get out of town. Whether this is true or not, 1t Is Q fact that Leche suddenly changed his mind about resigning.
 Apparently he figured that Doc Smith, not he, now could be the float, for he announced that he had reconsidered his resignation.
 "The Pie Boys," however, would not consider. And on the eve- ming of the same day that Leche belligerently announced he would not resign, EARL LONG WAS SWORN IN AS THE NEW GoV- ERNOR OF LOUISIANA.
 Another column on the situa-
 ton in Louisiana win follow shortly.) { } Copyright, 1889. by United V Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13
In Or Out

The status quo of Paul V. McNutt, handsome, urbane, and perennial preSl- dential candidate is difficult to analyze. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has just nominated him to be the chairman of the important new Federal Securities Com. mission. All sorts of interpretations of this action are appearing in print One apparently is as good as another ana very few of the "inside-dope" writers seem to be in agreement.
 It's rumored that the President took this means of removing McNutt definite ly from his path as presidential nom. inee contender in 1940. Contrary-mlnded point out the importance of the McNutt position if he is ratified by the Senate. They rate this new chairmanship as spring-board to the presidential, non- ination and that Roosevelt very dellber- ately placed McNutt on the end of 1t for the catapult.
 Others merely see McNutt elevated for the purpose of replacing Garner on dozens of explanations for the action, but the safest thing to say is that the Presi- dent showed great political wisdom and sagacity in nominating McNutt. Admin istration critics, however will immeol- ately go to work on the McNutt person. ality and ability as quite unfitted for the exigencies of the new job, which is no sinecure, but a tough predicament in which to drop any ambitious politico
 If Paul V. proves his worth by doing good job with the Securities Commission 1t may be that eight months from now he'll be able to steal the show as he mas done so many times before in events of minor importance. Stealing presiden- tial nomination performance requires not only build-up, but certain amount of luck. The McNutt luck may still be run ming well by spring, 1940.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Agassiz Wonders About Leisure

It Is an exceedingly meaty, human
 biography of the great 18th, cen-
 tury scientist and naturalist. Louis
 Agassiz, that Mabel L. Robinson
 has written in Runner of the
 Mountain Tops" (Random House:
 S3). Here was 2 man who made Q
 tremendous dent In American life.
 One of his first impressions of
 America as he came here from
 Switzerland Is quoted briefly be-
 low.
 He somehow got the impression that we as a people were always in hurry about the business of liv- ing. And that impression from Louis Aggasiz, whose own pace at times seems slightly swift. should give us a pause! He travelled from Boston to visit Yale by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, a breathless trip to the man who had always depended upon his own legs and European trans portation.
 "The rapidity of motion is fright full to those who are unused to it," he says, but you adapt yourself to a speed, and soon become, like all the rest of the world, impatient of the slightest delay. I well understand that an antipathy for this mode of travel is possible. There is some thing internal in the irresistible power of steam, carrying such heavy masses along with the swiftness of lightning. The habits growing out of continued contacts with railroads, and the influence they exert on a portion of the community, are far from agreeable until one is familiar with them.
 "You would cry out in dismay did you see your baggare flung about pell-mell like logs of woods. trunks, chests. travelling bags. hatboxes. all in the same mill. and if here and there something goes to pieces no one Is astonished Never mind! We go fast. we gain time-that Is the essential thing"
 It occurs to him. watching us race past him, to wonder what we do with the minutes we work so hard to gain. What is wanting in ell those man is nsithsr skilI nor
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ing. with word that another legal opinion was being asked for. This legal opinion came on June 5, but Fenner and Beane refused to ac- cept it. They asked Smith to take up the bonds.
 By this time the grain market was convinced there was to be no war in Europe, and the price of wheat was dropping with sicke1- ing regularity. It fell from 78 1-4c on May 31 to 75 5-8c on June 5, and when you have $500 900 bushels of wheat, that means whale of lot of margin. Doc Smith was desperate to find more collateral, and finally brought in some bonds on the Bienville Hotel in New Or- leans.
 This may be the tip.off as to
 Docs other associates, for the
 Bienville Hotel is owned by Sey-
 mour Weiss, pal of Leche, May.
 or Maestri and Governor Earl
 Long. Furthermore, Fenner and
 Beane were told that the hotel
 was to be purchased by the
 State, which was to turn it in-
 to a nurses home in connection
 with the Charity Hospital.
 CHARITABLE CONTRACTOR
 This gives another sidelight on politics as known and practiced in Louisiana, for the Charity Hospi- tai, built by Leon Weiss, .aslo of damaged by cracking and sinking the governing gang, has been before completion. It now stands, Q $l2,500,000 monument awaiting still more funds.
 Doc Smiths brokers didn't like the smell of the bonds either, so after sparring over more LSU bonds, and with the price of wheat still dropping, Doc finally dug up a check on the Louisiana Savings Bank for $i00,000. This was on June 10. On June IS, Doc (and his associates) decided to quit. They liquidated part of the account on that date, and the balance on June 20, five days later. M The doctors little furry in the market had cost him, and others, $430 900. His account was finally closed on June 20. It was on June 17, three days before this, that The Washing ton Merry G0- Round first ex- posed other scandals at Louisi-
 ana State University, the private
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What's Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Of which State is Olympia tho capital?
 ?. Whom did Joe Louis defeat k win the worlds heavyweight title?
 3. Where is the Aisne River2
 {. What does the Irish phrase Erin go bragh" mean?
 6. Should olives be eaten with the fingers or fork?
 6. Are Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. s. required to be lawyers by the Constitution or by statute?
 2. Who won the 1889 National 8. How much Negro blood has an octoroon?
 9. What is the correct pronuncia- ton of the word nostrum?
 10. Where Is the region called Painted Desert?
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udo AFcH up the ghost. And now the cognos- centi, who used to know 1t in hal- cyon days, wander from Mulberry Street to Sheridan Square with pained expression and puzzled wonder.
 The old crowd has vanished.
 Romany Marie's where the lit- erati once enjoyed limitless cred- 1t, long has departed and its cheerful proprietress is among the missing. Those early patrons of Romany Marie's who became suc- cessful authors, actors, play wrights and actresses, have mov- ed uptown. And some never came back to settle their old tabs.
 The landmarks are coming down, save for lonely few. The Provincetown Playhouse, where Zig" Cook, Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell cut their niches in theatrical history, is weary and unused site. A tavern known as Vagabondia, where the Village crowd used to meet to- exchange ideas over 8 table and bottle, is now decrepit bar-room.
 A FEW STRAGGLERS
 STILL COME BACK
 There are few brave survivors. Occasionally I drop back to Lee Chumley's and find there @ fam- liar Village face. Chumley passed on several years ago and strang- CTS took over. The ever -sympathe- tic Chumley had a soft spot all his life for the bonafide artist. He summed the phonies and fra ternized with newspapermen, show folk and painters, f:s:-ning will- ingly to their tales of woe and cheer.
 They do make a dauntless ef- fort to recall the old Greenwich Village spirit at the Vanguard, which is a bandbox room with 8 few tables and chairs, ,inconven- tional service (which means that you are lucky if you get any) and a makeshift scheme of decor ation.
 Stragglers of the old Village guard come back here, if they re- turn to haunt any part of the old hobohemia. For in this abbrevi- ated oasis, a group of five ener- getic young people are putting up nightly shows which comment and philosophize on current events. They are mighty clever, too, but they know that they will hardly revive the old Romany Marie era. SOME STANDBYS
 CARRY ON
 One Villager who is impervious to change in those nondescript precincts is Jimmy Kelly, oft-time known as the Mayor of Sullivan Street." His night club, a two- story rowdydow in the heart of the Village belt, is one of the towns "must-stops" for the rub- berneck visitors. For his shows are on the noisy and nekkid side and he dispenses an atmosphere of subtle sin in an air of jollity that both shocks and delights the out-of- -towner.
 And there are the variety of holes-in- -the-wall that make pa- thetic attempts to keep up the old hobohemian appearances. Splat- tering candle tallow on the walls, floors and tables, they simulate an atmosphere of intrigue and aban- don, with sleezy results. And the Latins, both authentic and pseudo, have taken over with tiny cubby- holes and sets of secondhand musicians who create dir, by not playing in tune or in time. And there are few permanent and ever-popu,ar institutions. like the Spanish Fl Chico and the bucolic Village Barn.
 But, or the whole, the Village has seen its last days of old-fash- toned, unconventional glory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 2:24 a. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:30 a. m.: sets SPA p. m. tday- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 High tide at Milford Friday, July i4 s:5l; low water. 3.49 daylight time.
 July to date has probably produced greater rainfall than both May and June put together. And the July rainfall is ordinarily scant, save for last year when an eight-day rainy period made an all-time record in New England.
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Questions
 and Answers
Hy VREDRRiCK O. KERBx

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 e. What proportion of the civil employees in the executive branch of the federal government are paid from funds appropriated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation acts of 1888 and prior years?
 A. Of the total number of civil employees 7.7 per cent, or 68,449 were paid from these funds in April, 1889. @. Do the one-cent pieces that were privately issued during the Civil war have any numismatic value2 A. Very Ii tile. Geneal infoma- ton about these Civil war tokens. and the names and addresses of coin dealers, may be obtained free
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Views of The Press

clude that the Danbury example Is worth copying or at least worth studying. Surely a town which be- comes known for having plenty of free parking space is likely to win shoppers attracted by knowledge they can find suitable place to leave their cars while they do their trading.
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from our Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. O. Send stamped, self-addressed en- velope for reply.
 e. Is there Q trade association devoted exclusively to pie bakers?
 A. The National Association of Wholesale Pie Bakers, 3l59 0 St., NW., Washington, D. 0.
 c. How many automobile maru- featuring companies have ceaseo operating since 1928?
 A. Eighteen.
 e. What Is the correct pronun. ciation of Jaurez?
 A. Whar-ezz, with @ strong ac. cent on the first syllable.
 e. When did Canberra become the capital of Australia? A. The Australian parliament met for the first time in the new parliament house at Canberra on May 9, 1927.
 c. How many aliens have been naturalized in the United States since 1925? A. 2,22O,243.
 @. What is the average cost of a novel printed in Braille for the blind?
 A. One dollar per volume, and the average novel runs to three volumes.
 e. What became of the movie comedian, Walter Hiers?
 A. He died February 27, 1883. e. Which roses are among the longest boomers? A. Baby ramblers and continuous blooming, hybred teas. c. Where is the Amelia Earhart lighthouse?
 A. Rowland Island, 1,600 miles southwest of Honolulu. If you want copy of our book.
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 send to the Waterbury Democrats
 Washington Bureau, 1913 Thlr-
 teenth St., Washington, D. c. En- nlnaa 1A aAvaAs avs sanak0
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uOt WndC Sne used to be, the al fresco artists who hang their d a m p oils in hob oh e m 1 as s treets To- ok lackadaisical in- stead of dreamy eyed, n d the studi O. dwellers general are d a m s els who buy for depart ment stores.
 The Village ha0 @iS,nn .,.~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, July 13-The old, incandescent glow that shone brightly from Greenwich Village geniuses seems to have embered out.
 Rose of Washington Square is
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Current Comment

Neglected sickness Is less often the cause of economic misfortunes than vice versa.
 -Dr. Haven Emerson, testifyine against the national health bill. We need somebody to put shot in our arm and help raise the giv- ing for benevolences. -Dr. Joseph Broadly, Birmingham. Ala.
 Most people, in a general way desire what they shouldn't have. Arthur Whiteside, president oi Dun and Bradstreet.
 
 In fact, economics is what war is all about. -Graeme K. Howard, vice chair man of the National Foreign Trade Council.
 The public interest is not served by exposing to congressional com- mittee the private financial affairs of citizens who have no chance to resist by appeal to the courts. Harry F. Ward, chairman, Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union.
 
 Certainly. this administration wants to see the private economic system work, and has great confi- dence in it. I simply do not un- derstand the defeatist attitude of men or great wealth that this pri- vate economic system cannot be made to work. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins.
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"Here, Doc" he once said to "Jingle Money" smith, "get your self 8 board of supervisors that you can handle and run the uni- versity to suit yourself. You're the King, but I'm the Kingfish. See?"
 Result was that Doc Smith was all-powerful. His board was 8 rubber stamp. He would take a piece of paper at board meetings and pass 1t around, folded so no one could see what was on the other side.
 "Sign here," he said. And the board signed. It might be an au- thorization for a new building or 1t might be @ new bond issue. Thus Doc Smith could borrow money for and from the univer- sity, appropriate bonds or do any, thing else. He was king.
 In fairness to Doc Smith, let 1t be said that until the time of Huey's death, he was 6 pretty good collegian, built the university up from an enrolment of 2,100 to 5000, and constructed 50 many new buildings that alumni couldn't keep track of them. AFTER HUEY, THE DEUCE
 But the Kingfish died, the sys- tenn he had dictated went hay wire, and five days after Governor Leche took office, Doc Smith, "King" of Louisiana State Uni- versity, began to gamble. Who was with him in his gambling is not yet recorded, but the people of Louisiana have their suspicious, and 1t is @ safe bet that when a man buys 3,500,000 bushels of wheat with a loss of $430,000 he is not operating alone.
 Doc Smiths gambling opera tions did not get to be interesting until December 10, 1886. when J. M. Brown of the Chicago Board of Trade was given power of at- torney and filed for Doc the code name "J. Monroe"
 Seven days later Smith depos-
 ited as collateral S214,00O of s
 1-2 per cent Louisiana State
 University bonds, series CA,
 dated June 1, 1884; plus $50,00O
 Orleans Levee District 5 per cent
 bonds dated December l, 1885. BROKERS BALK
 Smith kept his trading pretty Sxxa1i Sv,ttk%ixa thtu onl1a laval ytyattI December, 1888, when he depos- tied additional collateral of $375,- 900 LSU 4 per cent bonds dated October IS, 1886. This date, 1t will be noted, was after Huey Longs death and at a time when Doc Smith was running the uni- verslty with wide open throttle. Perhaps knowing this, or perhaps because Doc was now up to his armpits in wheat, the broekrs, Fenner and Beane, asked for a legal opinion regarding the value of the LSU bonds as collateral.
 However, either they didn't
 ask it right away, or else 1t
 wasn't given right away, for 1t
 was not until April, 1899, that
 Fenner and Beane raised
 enough fuss to get the $375,000
 of LSU 4s withdrawn. These
 are the bonds on which the sig
 nature of the late Governor o.
 K. Allen is now alleged to have
 been forged. In their place Doc
 came across with . cashiers
 check for $300,O00 on the Ma.
 tional Bank of Commerce.
 Three hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money for a university president to be handing around. and by this time Fenner and Beane were worried. They hired a detective.
 MORE BONDS
 On May 20, these same $375,- 900 worth of LUIS As were given back to the broker for safe-keep-
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knowledge. Tn both, they seem to compete with us, and in ardor and activity they even surpass most of our savants. What they need is leisure"
 And what we still need is leisure leisure to observe. leisure to think. leisure to find our place in the universe before we are snatched from it. Quite likely. though, we shall never have it; we are too sure that leisure and iaziness are synon- ynA
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handling of traffic. Indeed. the les- sons will probably be keyed Co the needs not of metropolitan but of ru. ral and suburban policing. Nevesthe- less, New Haven may well take ad- vantage of FBr instruction when it canL