The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25

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 suspension eX- pires June 30, 1942, unless House action extending the suspension for two more years is confirmed by the Senate. The 1882 REC act prohibits laons "so far as practice able" for projects on which the work week is more than 30 hours. Fair Labor Standards act, Com munications act, and Walsh -Healy act also give hours restrictions.
 All of these l7 laws would have to be suspended by Congress or presidential executive order before longer work for less overtime would be legal. AS matter of rec- ord, the President has actually sus- pended some provisions of these laws for contractors building the Atlantic bases and for rush Army and Navy construction In the Canal Zone, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
 CARS STILL SOLD
 The ingenuity with which war time restrictions can be overcome Is sometimes amazing. Take automo- piles. Their manufacture in the United States for general civilian use IS stopped, their sale restricted. Yet, when one of the big auto mobile companies found chance to sell number of cars in Mexico, 1t simply had It's Canadian branch ship 800 cars in bond, clear across the United States to the Mexican border. South of the border, there are no restrictions on car sales.
 Government patriot of the week is Arthur Massey of Vernal, Utah, 20 miles from a railroad, up the back in the mountains. MT. Massey has written the weather bureau, giving up for the duration his pay check for services rendered as a snowfall observer. It amounts to $7.50 month.
 PRIZE FOR SILENCE
 Prize for the best speech not de- livered in Congress this week = 1t was printed in the appendix of the Congressional Record and there- fore can be credited as a speech goes to the Honorable Lawrence H.. Smith of Racine, Wis. The silent oration began like this:
 MT. Speaker, this is National Swiss Cheese Week, and e.. would like to say @ few words re- garding Green County, Wis, the Swiss cheese center of America. It is a friendly, fun-loving county, embracing two cities, five villages, and the two unincorporated settle- ments of Juda and Clarno ."
 It concluded with:
 "Wilhelm Tell lives again in this beautiful country The people as cheesemakers when they play their laughter and songs echo across the green valleys"
 Phantom Freight" is one of the dodges which price administration officials have to keep an eye on. The way 1t works is simple. Bills of lad ing are made out for delivery of goods at prices in keeping with es- tablshed ceilings. Everything so far is perfectly legal and above board But in few instances the sellers deliver goods in their own trucks and by agreement with the buyer an extra high price is charged for transportation.
 Answer to this racket is that il- Hated transportation charges are treated as violations of price sched- ules. Delivery charges must be shown as separate item on bill- ing and may not be higher than the lowest available commercial transportation rate.
 Considering all the hullabaloo you've undoubtedly read about how crowded Washington is, you would n't think there was room for any farms in the District of Columbia A Farm Security Administration survey shows there are 65. Soldiers Home and Department of Agricul- ture run the biggest, around SOC acres, but 46 of the farms are under 20 acres. Tn all, per cent of the District area is classified as farm land, 200O acres being in crops and about 1000 in pasture.
 OTTER BUSINESS
 Recent excitement about the de- velopment of the "Sea Otter"-the small, shallow draft, torpedo-proof gasoline engine propelled freighteri which can supposedly be turned oul at low cost and in great numbers by mass production assembly line inethods-has in general overlooked the real father of this invention.
 It was originally conceived by Warren Noble, an Engllshman bS birth, 6 surgeon, naval reserve commander and inventor extraor. dinary. The idea of the vertical pro- peller shaft was his, and he thought the ships might be constructed SC cheaply they could be taken apar' and sold for junk at the end of 2 voyage.
 Noble took the Idea to Com mander Hamilton V. Bryan who saw its possibilities and has been the prime promoter. Bryan took tho idea to W. starling Burgess, tho naval architect who designed three Americas cup winners. Burgess | supposed to have been the mar who made the tinal designs for seaworthy, practical and nauticaliS sound ship. It Is Commander Bryar who has been ordered to Washing ton to take charge of further ex-