The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-01

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 The latter calls for fast travel ing with few stops, chief ones be- ing in San Francisco to visit the Golden Gate Fair, and in Seattle to see his daughter and son-in- law, John and Anna Boettiger, plus their new son, Johnny.
 At Seattle, Roosevelt will board the Cruiser Houston for a 10 or 12-day round trip visit to Alaska This will enable him to return to Washington before the adjourn ment of Congress fixed tentatively for about July IS.
 The President is anxious to get his westernt rip out of the way as soon as possible, in order to be back on the job in case the Eu- ropean cauldron starts boiling again in midsummer. It will be recalled that last year Hitler be- gan his Sudeten pressure just be- fore the harvest season, and it is expected that the drive against Danzig and the Polish Corridor will start in real earnest by mid- summer.
 TOWNSEND ACT
 There are several remarkable things in the Townsend pill on which the House will vote this week, one being the fabulous lan- guage of the second paragraph on page six which reads as follow: Throughout the Act the present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future the present. The masculine gen. der includes the feminine and neuter. The singular number in- cludes the plural and the plural the singular. 'ShalP means must and is mandatory. May is per. miSsive.
 Nobody seems to know quite what i. means.
 GENERAL MOSELEY
 General George Van Horn Nose ley, now featured as the embryo fascist leader of the United States, is remembered in the Army for two things, first the manner in which he got promoted to the top, second riot gun which he de- veloped.
 The gun was concocted during the days of the Hoover depres- sion when Moseley saw bonus armies and breadline riots behind almost every bush. He placed a mobile field gun on a specially constructed truck costing the army $15,O0O, and planned to use it against roiters despite the fact that the gun shot four miles,, would make mince-meat of a street full of people, and was so powerful that the rush of air from the projectile invariably knocked the glass from the trucks windshield.
 Mosely was one of the young est major generals in the army,
 and the manner in which he got that way was politics. A bill
 was being passed in Congress
 preventing any lieutenant col-
 Onel from being promoted to the
 rank of brigadier general with
 out first having been a col
 onel.
 Moseley was then lieutenant colonel. But friendly congress- man slipped an exemption into the bill so that it did not apply to lieutenant colonels with 22 years of service. It was no accident that Moseley and Hugh Drum were the only lieutenant colonels having years of service, so they, of all the other officers in the Army, were permitted to skip & grade.
 'FRONT MONEY" RACKET
 The Securities and Exchange Commission is quietly setting the stage for one of the biggest swindler clean-ups ever launched.
 Object of the sensational drive will be to smash the front money" racket, which has mulcted mil- lions from small businessmen in the last few years. Over 100 operators have been marked for the first prosecutions. which will soon he started simultaneously all over the country.
 Preparations for the racket
 drive have been under way se-
 cretly for more than a year
 through the SECS nine regional
 offices in New York, Boston. Ate
 ianta, Chicago, Cleveland, DeD-
 yer. Fort Worth. San Francisce and Seattle: with the sid Of pes-