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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-23
coast unprotected until the locks could be repaired.

U. s. authorities have no routine legal right to search vessels pass ing through the canal, but they are finding excuses to look over those which seem suspicious. CASH AND CARRY
 It is fairly good bet that the Pittman neutrality bill will get a Congressional OK, thus abolishing the arms embargoeS placed against belligerent countries under the present neutrality act. Instead, any nation can buy anything in the USA if it pays cash and sends it's own ships to get it.
 Obviously this plays into the hands of France and Britain, and Senator Pittman frankly says it is meant to do so. Those two nations have the ships to "carry" and much more "cash" than the Relationships.
 Also it aids Japan which has ample ships, though it does not aid Japan so much as the old neutrality act-had Roosevelt put it into effect.
 SOME SENATORS WILL BALK AT THE BILL, AND THERE WILL BE BURSTS OF ORA TORICAL FIREWORKS, BUT LIKE THE FRENCH AIRPLANE SALE, IN THE END TT WILL BE APPROVED.
 (Sopyright, 1889, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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WAGNER LABOR ACT NEEDS AMENDING TO REMEDY
 INJUSTICES
Editor Waterbury Democrat:

Editor Waterbury Democrat:
 No bargain is equitable unless it benefits both parties. No bargain can stand long unless it continues to be fair to both parties. No legislation regulating bargaining can indefi- nitely override these natural laws, which always have and always will be condition of all bargains.
 When the depression started in 1929 and millions of employees were laid off, wave of popular resent ment attempted to lay the blame on the employer. This expressed itself in three successive efforts to compel collective bargaining by law. The method used placed the employer in so prejudiced a position that the employees right to collective bar gaining could De enforced regardless of the rights of others. The Wagner Act which set up the National La- Dor Relations Board so ordered it.. AS a result labor troubles increased in number and in violence and bit- terness. 288,572 employees were in- volved in strikes in the United States in 1929 and they lost 5,351 $40 working days. 1860, ,621 were involved Tn 1887 and they lost 28,424,857 days of work. Probably not all of this in- crease can be laid to the false hope aroused in the minds of the workers that the rightfto collective bargain ing under law carried with it the right to exact from the employers whatever demands the members of unions could agree upon among themselves.
 The Supreme Court issued a ser- ious warning in the first cases conl- ing under the Act, in which 1t sus- tained its constitutionality when ap- piled to concerns engaged in inter state commerce. In the case of the Associated Press v. the National La bor Relations Board, on April IS. 1887 1t said: "The Act does not compel the petitioner (ernployer) to employ any one. The ac. permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collec- tive bargaining with employees - for any cause that seems proper save only as punishment for or dis couragement of such activities as the act declares permissible" "The act does not compel agreements between employers and employees. It does not compel any agreements whatever" These warnings of the Supreme Court were not needed, and the Ma tional Labor Relations Board is now told by the Supreme Court that 1t has acted in an arbitrary and high
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Boston motorists have been warned to be on the lookout for animals in the streets or highways. All drivers who fail to slow up when they see dogs or cats crossing streets will be prosecuted in new orders just issued at police headquarters. All cities and many states are starting o crack down on motorists who have little regard for dumb animals and run over them as callously as trampling on ants or bugs
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In Today's Mail

handed way in attempting to compel the reinstatement with back pay of employees who were discharged: CD for participation in sit-dowr strike; (2) for aiding and abetting sit-down strike; (3) for striking in violation of a contract entered into through collective bargaining; (4 for striking without having attemp- ted to enter into collective bargain ing with an employer.
 The decisions of the Supreme Court, handed down February 27, 1889, have endeav0red to correct some of the evils which have arisen out of the efforts of the board to shield those who have endeavored to claim rights to which they were not entitled. In these decisions the Court has now said: "To justify such conduct Gas Sit-down strikes and breach of contract) because of the existence of labor dispute, or an unfair labor practice, would be to put premium on resort tc force, instead of legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundation of society,"" And again, There is not a line in the statute to warrant the conclusion that it is any part of the policy of the act to encourage em- ployes to resort to force and violence in defiance of the law of the land. On the contrary, the purpose of the Act is to promote peaceful settle ment of disputes by providing legal remedies for the invasion of em- ployes' rights"
 The source of the failures of the National Labor Relations Act is it's assumption that the denial of the right of collective bargaining by some employers can be remedied by setting up certain guarantees of these rights without regard to those of others. Also, this remedy falsely assumes that fair bargain could be set up on the basis of two wrongs making right. This is most defi- nitely expressed in the following features of the Act:
 l. It gives the employer no right of appeal to the National Labor Re- lations Board to secure an election by the proper bargaining unit. 3. The Act forbids the employer to coerce, or even attempt to in- fluence the employe in any degree to join or not to join labor union, but does not forbid coercion from any other source.
 3. It creates a board which at one and the same time is the investigator. prosecutor and judge of 8 complaint against an employer of having com- fnitted an unfair labor practice for bidden by the act. It thus compels the bord to assume biased position to sustain it's own charges. No one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-23
Selected Poem
SAP BUCKET SONG

Qouis Stoddard in the New York Times) We tap the sugar bush and tap world No longer numbed by ice, we grow aware of wide horizons; and the year, unfurled, shakes out its catkins on the fragrant air. Distinct and poignant as single string struck by loving and remembering hand in rooms no longer used, the sap of Spring taps in the pails of sugar maple land. Winter is gone. The sunlight visibly fingers on the high boughs, the northward-fiying birds. We point the birds out with our thawng fingers and Winter leaves us in rush of words that gives new meaning to old verities like the thin sweetness running from the trees.
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Daily Almanac

Moon sets 9:02 p. m.
 Sun rises 5:53 a. m.; sets 6:06 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Do you recall the Latimer prediction for March as carried in these columns "The latter portion of the winter will be quite try ing the cold lingering, until March ex- pires more like lamb than lion.'' It can't come too soon, those lamblike feelings.
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Current Comment

I thought their whole attitude was that women didn't count. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt when told that Nazi papers resented her writing on foreign affairs.
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 People with an overabundance of dignity and an oversupply of power have always, in the end, been tar. gets for laughter.
 Charlie Chaplin, speaking of his forthcoming film, 'The Dictators.
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1. For which State is Panhandle State" a nickname?
 2. What is the name for the main cabin of ship?
 3. Where is the British crown colony of British Honduras?
 4. Name the Director of Inves- tigations, U. s. Department of Jus tice.
 5. Which two Presidents of the U. s. were born in the same city?
 6. What is round trip" or "roundhouse" in Pinochle?
 '. In which State is the Painted Desert?
 8. What is the correct pronuncia- tion of the word lithographer?
 g. How many times was the great race horse, Man O War defeated?
 10. What is founding hospital?
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mate in this histrionic venture is his manager, the ubiquitous Joe Jacobs who generally can be found at the neither end of 8 fat big cigar.
 The idea is that Joe will talk back to Two-Ton and vice versa. Anything for a laugh. Nothing is too bizarre for the garrulous Gall ento, by the way, if there is pulp licity in the offiing.
 For the contract-signing cere- mony in this enterprise, he turn- ed up Gas the press agent order ed) in top hat and spats. He was moderately funny.
 101st ARABIAN NIGHT
 Latest wrinkle in midnight madness locally is Joe Zelli's new place, The Arabian Nights. His, apparently, is meant to be the 101st. Of this one, it could be truly said, "an oasis" even if the adjoining outland isn't quite as dry as the Sahara.
 Anyway, zelli the suave French man who once urged Americans to greet their ladies with T kiss your hand Madame" has gone wholly Arabian, disguishing the performers as shieks and Bed- ouinS.
 But he also has lined his new venture with two interesting in- congruities. For one of his att fractions is the dancing Roberta Jonay, whom he advertises as Eleanor Roosevelt's protege. That is true, for the First Lady did en- courage the Jonay girl and her dancing,
 Another girl in his Arabic an- tics is Doris Grant, who says she is a direct descendant of Presi- dent Ulysses s. Grant. Not that these Presidential pets have much to do with the atmosphere in Tu- his or old Morocco.
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 IRONY IN INK
 An ironic yarn was related to me the other night by an Austrian refugee. It seems that he was a successful Austrian lawyer until Der Fuehrer decided upon less law and more orders. So he fled to America. Behind him he left his sister and her husband, who are striving desperately to escape the Nazis.
 The strange feature is that his brother-i -in-law, who wants to leave Austria, has an excellent job. He is a salesman for @ printing concern that does a booming business with affidavit forms for the thousands of hope full emigrants. But he cannot get one of these affidavits himself. CHANGE OF CRANIUMS
 Press agentry be,ng what it is, you must have heard about the Kidnapping of Charlie Mccarthy the other night and about his safe return (sans ransom) to his right full owner, Edgar Bergen.
 A dummy mapping" it was de- .. scribed officially on the blotter, and it all was practical joke.
 But here's the postscript. After Charlie's restoration 10 his men, tor Bergen, it was decided to safeguard the future. So they unscrewed tn head of the tim Der radio star and adorned him from the neck up with substi- ute pate.
 The original was vaulted away in a hiding place which they like to assure us, is known only to a couple of people. Half of Charlie, at any rate, is safe from the dum- my-nappers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-23
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, March 23-Smarter than the cynical boys say he is, Two-Ton Tony Galento, that pugilistic and dialectic marvel (Tony would be the last to know what those mean), has become
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law means ruling glory"
 o. How long does the average print of motion picture last?
 A. About POO screenings.
 o. What is Demarara sugar?
 A. A raw cane sugar, the crystals of which have a superficial yellow brown color, due to treatment with sulphuric acid.
 @. It is necessary to pass mu- sical and physical examination to join the U. s. Marine Band?
 A. Yes.
 e. What is the chief industry of Turkey?
 A. Agriculture. The chief prod ucts are tobacco, cereals, cotton figs, nuts, fruits, opium and gums About twenty million acres are in forests.
 o. Name some states which tax soft drinks.
 A. South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Georg.a and Tennessee.
 @. Compare the sizes of the moon and the earth.
 A. The moon is 2,16O miles in diameter, about IA that of the earth. The moons mass is about 1-81.5 that of the earth, or about 30 quintillion short tons. Gravity on the moon is about one-Sixth that on the earth's surface, and an object that weighs 150 pounds on the earth would weigh only 25 pounds on the moon.
 @. What is the proper abbrevia- tion for twelve o'clock midnight?
 A. 12 D. m.
 @. Why do stars twinkle, while planets do not?
 A. The phenomena of twinkling, or scintillating, does not originate with the stars, which are far too distant to show such effects It is wholly an atmospheric illusion caused by heat waves rising through color strata, similar to the heat waves arising from stove. The twinkling of star is more pro. nounced when viewed horizontal, than at zenith, on account of the greater destiny of the horizontal att mosphere. As the planets shine by reflected light, and show disks, their twinkling is scarecely perceptible, and sen only when upon or near the horizon.
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one or GOLuam $ leading g oofy characters.
 Having cata- quilted himself intocurrentring annals, T W O. Ton Tony has embarked upon a stage career. Well, n ot e K actly a career TOT neS mere- ly S ig n e d up with a vaude- vile show.
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A Thought for Today

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in tr0uble-Psalnis 46:l.
 As comtenance is made beautiful by the souls shining through it, so the worlds is beau- tiied by the shining through it of God.-Jacobi.
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If you want a copy of our book let WEATHER AND CLIMATE" send to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington. D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
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Whats Your l. O.!

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, "He has proven himself a false friend"; say,
 proved"
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Washington Merry Go-Round
copyrisht tsse. NEA
D R E W PEARSON
 ROBERT s. ALLEN

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@. Where is the Canadian town of Parry Sound?
 A. It is port of entry of On- tario, on Parry Sound, an inlet of Georgian Bay, 70 miles northeast of 'Collingwood.
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o. What does the termination slaw or-slav on many Slavic names mean?
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@. Has Attorney General Frank Murphy ever been on the bench?
 A. He was Judge of the Record CTS Court in Michigan from 1923 to 1880.
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A. Glory" For example, vladis- law means ruling glory"
 o. How long does the average print of motion picture last?
 A. About 200 screenings.
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(Sopyright, 1889, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-23
Questions
 and Answers
By FREDERICK M. KERBY

Enclose a three-cent stamp fop reply when addressing any Ques- ti0n 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 WATERRtIRY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU. REAU. l01? Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 THE EDITOR @. Is there an insignia for the profession of chemistry, similar to the caduceus, (entwined snakes) of the medical profession?
 A. No.
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Q. What is Demarara sugar?
 A. A raw cane sugar, the crystals of which have superficial yellow brown color, due to treatment with sulphuric acid.
Evening star., 1939-05-27
THE EVENING WASHINGTON c. SATURDAY, a. 1885,

on it, and only 2 per cent in plas-
ter. In wood,.i If there is more, there
Is likely to be a defect somewhere
which Is adding moisture steadily,
though in small amounts, perhaps
all year round. Take a good look
at your walls, see If there is blis-
terirG OF the paint somewhere, then
scrape the paint of that spot and
see If there is actual water or moist
ure underneath it. If so, look for
the Scource of trouble.
Moisture may gather in wood be-
cause OF leaking roofs or down.
spouts, improper caulking around
windows and doors. improper install
lation or omission of fashings to
catch the rain water and melting
snow, perhaps even leaks in the
heating and plumbing system. If
the wet-underneath blister is ada
cent to or just beneath these pos
sible sources of unwelcome moisture,
look into their condition before you
start painting.
A new instrument for painters has
come on the market in the last few
months. 1t tests the moisture con-
tent of the wood and helps locate
the source. If any, of excessive moist
ure. We saw it in operation the
other day-a little black box, which
looks like an old-fashioned box
camera. Two little hypodermic
Evening star., 1939-05-27

needles are attached to a cord; these
are stuck into the wood, and light
goes on as you twirl dial, show
ing the exact percentage Of moist
ure in the wood. Twenty-four per
cent is the saturation content of
wood f1bers, so 1t doesn't show any
more thap this-but If it's that
much, look out!
With this instrument you can
help locate the source of moisture
simply by testing various parts of
the walls, and noting in which part
most moisture seems to gather.
That's where to look for leaks,
vapors rising from water in the
basement or even-in the case OF
new houses-vapors from wet plas-
ter. All these have a tendency to
condense on the back of the siding
where the wood breathes them in
Then when the sun shines on the
outer surface, there may be enough
pressure to lift a paint film.
Plasterers have had testing ma
Evening star., 1939-05-27
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON,

Cleaning the outside of the house
means to most of us a new coat of
paint. Between paintings we usually
let the rain do our cleaning. Houses
should be painted every three or
four years, not only for that spick-
and-span look, but to protect the
wood or other material But you
can clean your outside walls between
paintings. There is a paint cleaner
on the market which can be ap-
piled to outside walls as we'll as in
side ones, ceilings, stair treads, wood
trim; in fact, any surface not in
itself injured by soap and water. .
The ingredients of this brighten
ing-up material are of the cereal
family, containing no scrubbing
abrasives or poisonous chemicals.
The powdery material is mixed with
cold water until it is the consistency
of thin cream. Then it is applied
to the wall with a sponge, a cloth
or brush, whichever you prefer,
and wiped off while still wet. No
rubbing or scrubbing is recommend
ed. The surface dirt comes of with
the cleaner. It's something like the
cleansing cream women use on their
faces at night.
If the outside of your house looks
a little shabby, but it isn't time to
repaint. it won't cost you much to
clean the paint. A 5-pound pack
age of this cleaner costs only 81.
And, if you are repainting, you can
give your new paint job longer life
by cleaning the old paint before you
apply it. 1t makes the new paint
go further, besides.
Small 1-pound packages of the
cleaner-for use in dozens of places
inside your house-cost under 80
cents. You needn't be afraid it will
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hurt, your hands, either, for its ef-
fects are not harmful to the skin.
Y X X
Since we are on the subject of
house painting-and it's the right
time of year for it-we'd like to
warn you not to paint blindly over
wet spots. Not that any one would,
knowingly, but many's the time
there is too much moisture in wood
or new plaster of your house with
out your realizing it.
There should not be more than
IS per cent moisture content in
wood which is exposed to the out
door air when the new paint goes
Evening star., 1939-05-27

chimes for determining the moisture
content Of plaster for some years.
1t should never be painted until it
is sufficiently dried out. Once dry,
it won't get wet again, unless there
are leaks or improper construction.
But even If your painter hasn't
a machine to test the wood or plas-
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ter in your house the wood testers
cost $36 and the plaster testers 500
do a little investigating on your
own to Danish the most serious en-
emy OF paint-moisture-before you
start house painting.
X X
Editors note: For further irfor-
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nation about products described
here write Misses Ducas and Gordon,
230 West Forty-flrst street, New
York City, N. Y, and inclose
stamped, self-addressed. envelope.
Evening star., 1939-05-27

Mexico Is urging It's growers to
diversity their crops.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

- ARMAMENT, familiar front page topic
these days, becomes ma jor issue in the
Il = sports world too, as the spiked warriors
of the diamond begin mobilizing this week
along the Southern front.
Never we're so many famous arms lost as
there were last year. And, as result, never,
since Cap Anson bundled off the first carload
of ballplayers to the Southland, has the train
ing camp aroused as much interest as the
sixteen big-league outfits will create this
spring. Because, you see, it will be in the train
ing camp that the owners, managers, players
and fans will learn the results of the fall and
winter "rearmament conferences" clinical
consultations, and scalpel sculpting on Clipped
elbows.
Truly, this years major-league pennants
will be won in the training camps as last
year. victims of the worst sore-arm epidemic
in baseball history peel off the bandages and
start oiling their arms for the forthcoming
campaign.
The New York Yankees will be anxiously
watching the reaction of some elbow carving
on Wes Ferrell and Spurgeon Chandler the
Cleveland Indians will be worrying over
Johnny Aliens scraped elbow; the Boston
Red Sox will be listening for pulse in Lefty
Groves portside paw: the Chicago Cubs will
be looking for Dizzy Deans old speed; the
Giants will be waiting for Carl Hubbell to
cut loose with his scissored soupbone, and will
be only too glad to hear Hal Schumacher
talk about his operation; and the Detroit
Tigers will pray that the old fire has been
rekindled in the right arm of Schoolboy Rowe
These are just select few Of the great men
of the mound who fell wounded by the way
side last season. There were plenty of Others
such as Paul Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals
and Van Lingle Mungo of the Brooklyn
Dodgers. and Lefty Grissom of the Cincinnati
Reds, and Bob Klinger of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, and Claude Passeau of the Phillies
The epidemic was so bad that, for the first
time in baseball history. the owners were