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New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
Andrew BernOtas

AnHreW BcTnOtaS
 Funeral services for Andrew Der notas, 62 years of age, of Hartford. who died Saturday afternoon while al work at tobacco plantation. were held this morning at o'clock at St Andrews church, this city. Rev Edward V. Grikis, pastor, off Ciated
 Father Grlkis conducted the com initial services at the grave. Burial was In St. Mary'S cenietery. The body lay in state 2t the home of his brother, Paul Bernotas, Of Connerton strcct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19

the public had to complain about. A
brief money panic in 1907 caused more
trouble and taught us that the national
bank act was not sufficiently elastic to
take care of the credit needs of business
at all times.
From this experience grew the Fed
eral reserve act. the essence Of which
lies in making the actual resources of
the country. agricultural, mineral and
manufactured products, the basis for
bank credits and in turn for currency
support. Between 1907 and the start
of the World War we also adopted the
income tax amendment to the Consti-
tuition When we entered the greatest
conflict of all time, the Treasury had
these two useful weapons at hand for
money-raising and currency stabilizing,
McAdoo and Mellon.
Political partisans still like to argue
who is the greater man, Secretary Nc
Adoo. who financed the war, or Secre-
tary Mellon, who has financed the peace
Some will summarize the dispute by
asking whether it is more difficult tc
borrow money or to pay it back Such
disputes are rather futile, except for
party purposes. The McAdoo plan of
war finance and its successful direction
by President Wilson'S wartime Secre-
chapter of accomplishment. A vast
share of the cost was raised by taxa
ton and mammoth program of bond
sales was driven to success by stupen-
douS energy. For us 1t was a fifty
billion dollar war.
We stood the imitation, bought the
bonds. kept business as usual and could
have stood more, although how much
more We cannot exactly estimate. After
1t was over the national finances were
sound. but occasionally trembled slight
~. Liberty bonds dropped 10 points
below par. Prices were very high. Spec
ulation WIS rife. The currency was
badly inflated and it remained to be
seen whether the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn could stand the strain. When that
system deliberately raised the interest
rates. called in loans, and adopted the
1920-1o21 policy of deflation there was
financial suffering, but not disaster.
The Federal Reserve System stood the
test. It could and did debate fictitious
values without destroying production
and industry. Secretary Mellon. taking
the helm in 1921, began his drive for
economy. tax reduction, reduction of the
debts. It was strong medicine. An
easier method seemed to many people
to offer itself, postponement of debt
reduction. passing more and more of the
obligations along for future years and
future generations. Perhaps Mr.. Mellon
recalled the words of President Hayes
about resuning gold payments after the
Civil War. THE way to resume is to re-
sumo" Melons way to pay was to start
paying.
1t is worth noting that among the
allied war powers, England was the
first to adopt the same plan. that of
starting to pay, however hard 1t seemed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.
VII-Financing Wars.

When Abraham Lincoln called Con-
gress into special session in 1851 TO
handle the situation arising through the
secession of the Southern States he
asked for $400 100000 to support an
army of 100000 men in a short and
decisive war" That sum was five times
the Revolutionary War debt, but the
Nation was eight times larger. Almost
half of the Nation, however, had left
the Union and was outside the scope
of taxation.
Heavy taxation. large loans, increased
import tariffs we're resorted to. The
Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P.
Chase. strove to keep the public credit
intact. calling for rigid integrity in eX-
penditure as a means of maintaining
public faith in the ability of the Nation
TO finance the struggle. Nevertheless,
as the hope for short and decisive
conflict faded before added years of m
tensive warfare, the credit OF the Ma
ton trembled and faltered.
Greenbacks Issued.
Treasury notes in small denon1ina-
tons we're issued in great volume, the
celebrated greenbacks. Few Americans
realize that these notes were, and still
are. nothing more than a promise OF the
United States Government to pay to the
bearer the value marked on the notes.
In our time they have always been per-
fectly good, and hence we think OF them
as money, the same as gold coin.
During the Civil War their value fell TO
below so cents on the dollar, and for
wears after the conflict they remained
below par, A national political party
grew up, based on a plan to redeem the
greenbacks below par. In our present
prosperous era it seems incredible that
the United States of America should
consider rating its cWn money at less
than full value To maintain that tull
value even in theory for 20 years after
the war between the States involved
many political battle.
Gold and silver practically disappear
ed. paper money being issued even for
purposes of small change. Meanwhile
it was necessary to sell bonds. The
national bank act, sponsored by Secre-
tary Chase and passed at the height OF
the war, was designed both to create
market for Government bonds and to
increase the circulating medium and
stabilize commercial credits. National
banks could buy Government bonds and
issue bank notes on the security of these
bonds. Thus the basic resources OF the
banks became available to the Govern
ment, and the currency, while indirectly
inflated, became a combined bank and
government currency with added local
strength back of it.
Today there remain in circulation
some $3.50 900 900 in greenbacks, while
the national bank act remains in
force and some $75o,000,000 in national
bank notes are part of our currency.
The war developed our first super
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
BEALL GIVEN 5 YEARS
IN CORRECTION HOUSE
Takoma Park Fireman Sentenced
on Conviction of Charge
of Arson.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. June 19.-Arthur
g. Beall, 19-year-old member of the
Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, found guilty in the Circuit Court
here last week of setting IRE On the
night of February II to an unoccupied
house at the corner of Maple and Tulip
avenues, Takoma Park. belonging to
George l.. McCarty of Washington, was
today sentenced to five years in the
Maryland House of Correction.
A new trial was asked on the ground
that the verdict of the jury was against
the weight of the evidence and because
of newly discovered evidence. The
court held, however, the new evidence
was not material and that 1t was in
the possession of the defendant at the
time of the trial.
A suggestion by Attorney Welsh that
the boys mental development had been
retarded prompted the court to hear
testimony of his mother and another
relative. They told the court that while
the young man probably knew right
from wrong his mentality had been re-
tarded and cited some incidents to SUBJ
stantiate that theory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19

France. italy and other nations, delay
ing and postponing the evil hour, went
through long and serious periods Of
falling money values, climaxed at last
by accepting deteriorated currency as
a permanent condition and readjust-
ing their treasures to new basis Ger
many could never rally to meet her
overwhelming debt situation, and was
forced finally to wipe of the books i1er
entire domestic obligation, reorganize
her currency, ard start paying her
foreign debt While much of the result
must be attributed to the longer period
of costly warfare suffered by other ma
tions, the fact remains that by start
ing to save and to pay, the United
States has taken her place as the world
standard of sound national finance, and
has become the worlds greatest creditor
nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
HEALING ART LAW
PROVIDES. PUZZLE
Application to Soda Clerks,
Mothers, BARRIERS and
Others Studied.

Whether a clerk at q soda fountain
must be licensed to practice the heal
ing arts before he may sell a customer
q 'pick-lne up" for the morning after"
feeling, or whether barber must be
licensed before he can sprinkle tonics
on masculine hair, or a mother before
she may annoint her bruised child with
arnica, without violating the new med
ical practice act these are some of
the problems that are causing the men,
bers of the Commission on LicenSure to
Practice the Healing Arts to scratch
their respective heads in puzZlement.
Of course, a law is a law, and the
law seems to insist that they should,
but If the commission undertakes to
enforce the law literally in such cases
as those cited above, nothing but woe
and grief are expected to result.
All the trouble is caused by the
figure "43" inserted in section of the
law. Section says that no person
shall practice the healing art in the
District of Columbia who is not licensed
to do so, or who is duly registered"
If exempted from licensure under Sec
tons AZ or 43 of the act. Section AZ
holds that the sections of the act for
bidding the practice without license
shall not apply to surgeons of the Army
Navy. Public Health Service, or other
oNt OCNOAOii soy .
that the sections of the act shall be
construed to apply to the treatment Of
actual cases of emergency tfor instance,
the arnica application referred to above),
or the practice of massage. dietetics, or
hygienic measures (such as the selling
of cake of facial soap) or to the use
of ordinary hygienic, or dietetic, or
domestic remedies. The persons ex-
empted from licensure under this Sec
ton, apparently therefore are required
to be registered before practicing any
of the healing arts. And registrations
costs 81.
The definition of healing arts" is so
broad that 1t would include any of the
simple actions mentioned. Part of 1t
reads, Preventing, relieving, correcting
or curing, or attempting to prevent, re-
lieve, correct, or cure, any disease" And
the word disease itself is legally defined
to extend to any blenish. defect, de-
formity. in1rmity, disorder, disease or
injury to the human body or mind.
1t will be seen, therefore, that drug
store clerk, who sells customer a cake
of toilet soap designed to correct facial
blemishes, or a cough drop to cure
disorder of his throat without being
registered, violates the letter of the law.
The commission is expected to hand
down some Interpretation of these am
biguous rules soon, and will probably
ask Congress to clarity them at its next
session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
WAR FINANCING IS DECLARED
PARENT OF RESERVE SYSTEM
Jay Cookies Methods Followed by Secre-
tary McAdoo in Floating Bonds to Pay
Expenses in Conflict of 1917-18.

salesman of Government bonds, Jay
Cooke of Philadelphia A private
banker with all of the instincts of a
great promoter. he organized the sale
of bonds until his agents were right be-
hind the Army, selling to the soldiers
on pay day. Some tales said that
Cookies agents broke through the lines
and sold bonds to the Confederates.
People Joked about his spectacular adj
vertising and promotion methods. but
they bought his bonds. These were, in
deed, more often called Jay Cookies
bonds than United States bonds, which
they were. AS tribute to Cooke, his
portrait hangs in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, the only pri-
vate citizen thus honored, alongside our
Secretaries of the Treasury. Secretary
William G. McAdoo. in the World War,
took few leaves from the notebook OF
Jay Cooke when he launched the Lib
erry bond drives.
When the North triumphed in 1865,
the national debt reached $4,000, 900 900.
The actual debt, considering inflated
currency, was much greater. Lincoln
original estimate of the war cost had
been multiplied many times, but the
Nation had stood the strain. The Con-
federate debt was of course wiped out,
and the currency of the Confederacy
became but souvenirs. Months before
the end of the war Gen. Mosby, giving
a $1,000 Confederate bill in payment
for a chicken, had said Damn the
change That money went the way
of German marks after the World War.
Integrity in Finance.
All sorts of schemes we're proposed to
reinstate the currency after the war,
but increased prosperity, larger revenues
and plain, solid return to a gold basis
with payment of all debts in full was
the method adopted, the true American
method of absolute integrity of the
finances of our Government. BY 1898
two-thirds of the debts had been paid.
The hard times of the early nineties
revived the ideas that by some fancy
scheme the Government could enrich
itself or its people and make money out
Of nothing The free and unlimited
coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 ounces
of silver to one of gold was the panacea
proposed by William j. Bryan in 1896.
1t was not then a new idea, the Sher-
man silver bill of 1890 and previous
schemes to enhance silver values by law
being its basis. The country. after a
vast educational campaign in behalf of
a single gold standard, repudiated the
silver dream.
The short Spanish War placed no
strain on the Treasury, as 1t came at
the beginning of a new era of CONNER
cial development and prosperity. A few
nuisance taxes were about all which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
PLANS TO PERMANENTLY
LOCATE WORLD EXHIBIT
Interdependence Illustration, on
View at Geneva, May Be Brough
to Washington.

The Andrae World Interdependence
exhibit, which will BE- shown IN
Geneva from July q to August ~,
during the congress of the World Fed
Grafton of Education Associations
probably will be permanently eStab-
lished on its return to this country
either in Washington or in New York,
by its founder, Mrs. F. Terry Andrae
of Milwaukee, it Is announced today.
The exhibit shows the interdependence
of nations in art, industry, finance.
health, transportation, etc.
Elizabeth c Watson of New York,
exhibit director, sails for Europe to-
morrow to take charge of the Geneva
showing Nine Westinghouse are
members of the exhibit committee.
They are: DR.. Charles L. Carhart.
william G. Carr. Mrs Alvin Dodd,
Mrs. Gordon Dunthorne, Miss Adelaide
Hasse, Mrs j. Borden Hartman,
Duncan Phillips. j. David Thompson
and Mrs Florence Brewer Boeckel.
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TWO TO RECEIVE MERIT.
CERTIFICATES FOR VALOR
Red Gross Chapter will Recognize
Rescuers at Ceremony Friday
Morning,

Albert F. Sinyard and Edward F.
Belts will receive certificates for first
aid and Captain John r. Graves of
the department Rescue Squad No l,
District of Columbia Fire Department,
will receive a certificate of merit for
lifesaving outside the line of duty,
from Gen. George Barnett. chairman
of the District of Columbia chapter,
American Red Cross, at 821 18th street,
at IL O'Clock Friday morning.
The awards will be given to Sinyard
and Belts for reviving through arti-
fetal respiration James Harrod, colored,
who had fallen into the B g. o Canal
November 10, 1928. Capt. Graves
will receive the certificate of merit
for rescuing E. A. Brown, 80, of $50
Pennsylvania avenue, from the bottom
of the Potomac River at Chapel Point
Md and then reviving him by the
respiration method. on August 1S, 1928
Capt Graves holds the senior Red
Cross life saving certificate and an
advanced first aid certificate for first
aid courses given by the Red Cross.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-26
FLY ATLANTIC,
FAIL OF GOAL:
Spanish Aces Land Short
of Rio de Janeiro at
Bahia, Brazil.

81 UDtCeG Press
BAHIA, Brazil, March 90
Captains Francisco Jiminez and
Ignacio Iglesias, who took off from
Seville, Spain, in a single-motored
land plane shortly after noon Sun
day landed at the Camassary air.
drome here at 10:30 a. m. $3.50 a..
m. E. S. T) today, almost 800 miles
short of their goal at Rio de
Janeiro.
The fiiers were taken Immediately
from the airdrome, almost fifty
miles from the city, by automobile
to the Grand hotel here by the
Spanish consul and high govern
plent and city officials.
Captain Iglesais was reported to
be i'll, but his condition was said
not to De serious The fiiers said
they will remain in Bahia for two
days before resuming their trip to
Rio de Janeiro.
The plane and its motor were in
perfect condition, mechanics who
went over it at the airdrome re-
ported.
The Spanish colony, the govern
nlent and the populace generally
are planning sunptuous entertain
ments for the fliers during their
stay.
The aviators missed establishing
a new long distance flight record
by approximately 379 miles, accord
ing to figures of Captain Nelson De
Guillobel OF the Aero Club of Rio
de Janeiro.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-26
GRAF ZEPPELIN
At JERUSALEM
Battles Way Through Heavy
Winds to Fly Over
Holy City.

BA United Press
JERUSALEM, March 26.-The
dirigible Graf Zeppelin, which sailed
across the Atlantic ocean to Lake
hurst, N. j., last fall, and back again
to Friedrichshafen, Germany, today
dipped its great silver gray nose out
of the wind-torn sky, and glided
low over the Holy City.
After battling strong head winds
all day, DR.. Hugo Eckener, master of
the big air liner, brought his craft
with its twenty-seven guest passen-
gers over Jerusalem at tbs p. m.
Eckener had planned to arrive here
shortly before noon.
Hundreds OF thousand Of people
filled the streets of the city and
shouted greetings.
Passengers could be seen at the
windows of the dirigible's cabin
waving to the people below.
1t was the first time since the
war that dirigible has been seen
over the Holy City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-26
STREET LEVY URGED
Need for Scent Widening
Levy Is Explained.

Need for a scent tax levy for
street widening and Strengthening
was pointed out by City Councilman
Albert F. Meurer Monday before the
Scientech Club at the Chamber Of
Commerce.
"I don't think the price of real
estate will be much cheaper in the
near future in Indianapolis. 1t
seems to me that now is the time to
buy the property needed for widen
ing streets before the price is in
creased" Meurer declared.
Meurer said he believed the street
car company should reroute the
downtown cars so as to eliminate
some of the congestion on Washing
ton street,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-26
Louisiana House May Vote
Today on Nineteen
Charges.
BIZ United Press

RB United Press
BATON ROUGE, La, March 26.
-Af1davitS charging Governor Huey
P. Long sought to hire an assassin
to kill a member of the state legisla-
ture and 'leave i is body in a ditch
by the side of the road" will be in
troduced late today when the
Louisiana general assembly meets
to hear charges Of impeachment
against the Governor.
1t was learned this afternoon the
impeachment committee of the
house, which voted the charges
earlier in the day, had in its pos
session an affidavit containing de-
tails of the alleged assassination
plot. The document was signed by
H. A. Battling) Bozeman, former
personal bodyguard for Governor
Long.
Near Riot in House
Reports that Governor Long was
planning to call out the National
Guard to prevent the legislature
from reconvening climaxed a night
OF state political convulsions en-
brancing the following develop
mentS: e
l. A near-riot in the house of rep
resentatives caused by the charge
that Governor Long had tried to
induce his former body-guard, one
Battling" Bozeman to assasSinate
State Representative j. @. Sanders
of Baton Rouge.
2. An attempt to introduce an af-
fidavit to that effect and the subse-
quent quashing of the move by the
chairman Of the house.
8. The convening of the commit
tee to draft impeachment articles.
Governor Long said he would not
call soldiers unless it was necessary
to stop rioting.
Other Charges Made
The assassination plot against the
Governor was made by Representa-
tive Cecil Morgan during argument
over motion to adjourn.
He said Bozeman hold told him
the Governor had urged him (Boze-
mani to assassinate Sanders. And
had offered him immunity if he
would kill the legislator.
The impeachment articles, in adj
dition to the murder plot charge,
charges bribery, misuse of appoint
i've power, misuse of state funds and
violent abuse Of state officials and
the public.
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was dra m against it before she
knew that anything was happening.
Fortunately the clasp parted. Her
hand flew up instinctively and she
etched frantically at the brush of
the fur as it's tip disappeared from
her sight. simultaneously she
ycreamed but for a few seconds she
vas too bewildered to move.
Then she jumped to her feet and
ran through the cars to find guard.
He could do nothing for her. 1t was
not new story to him. He advised
Mildred to leave the train at the
next station and return.
Her helplessness brought a sense
Of complete loss to Mildred. The
only good fur she'd ever owned!
The thief would be many blocks
away before she could get back un-
less he were caught.
There was a chance that someone
had seen him snatch the fur, she
told herself encouragingly as she
hurried over to take downtown
train.
She found a crowd gathered at
Me scene of the theft and when
she had pushed her way into the
presence of the officer at the center
0f it she was too breathless to speak
for a moment
n n
LIE HAD expected the owner to
Il lreturn; had, in fact. delayed in
starting for the police station with
the man whose arm he held In an
iron grip But he couldn't wait
any longer.
The crowd would not disperse SO
long as there was something to be
seen and the officer knew there was
fTurf1 In Pare Eleven
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-26
JUDGE IGNORES
JONES PENALTY
Refuses to Send BootIegger
Up for Five Years.
Bg United Press

DB CWtttU IDTGSS
SANTA ANA, Cal, March 3d.
Until an opposite ruling is made by
the state supreme court, the drastic
Jones law and it's heavy liquor vio-
lation penalties will be ignored by
Superior Judge James L. Allen of
Orange county on the theory that
the law can not be applied in Cali
fornia, he said today.
Judge Allen Monday declined to
impose the jones law penalty in the
case of convicted Sunset Beach
bootIegger,
Deputy District Attorney Collins
had asked that the man, w. P. Sny-
der, be given the Jones penalty of
five years imprisonment and a $10,-
600 fine, but Judge Allen sentenced
Snyder to the county jail for six
months.
The jurist held that the Wright
act, CALIFORNIA; liquor prohibition
enforcement law, was overstepping
its constitutional rights when it pro-
vided that California would accept
federal amendments to the accepted
Volstead act.
"The Wright act accepted the Or
iginal penalties provided for in the
Volstead act, which was legal in this
state" Judge Allen ruled. However,
that could not provide for accept
ance of future amendments Or
changes.
"The constitution of California
provides Iawnaking power be vested
in the state and that it can not be
delegated to other states or outside
agencies"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-26
OPEN BURGLAR TRIAL
Slow Progress Is Made in
HabituaI Criminal Case.

Slow progress was made in Grim
inal court today in the trial of Will
liam Oils, 80, of 1914 Naomi street,
alleged burglar, charged with being
an habitual criminal.
Oils is alleged to have stolen a
diamond ring, valued at 5000, and
other articles, including clothing,
from the home of Thomas Skinner,
1905 South Sheffield avenue, in
August, 1928.
George Kinney, Nickel Plate rail-
road detective, who arrested Oils
and a companion in an empty
freight car in the Nickel Plate
yards, and William Miller, city de-
tective, who questioned Oils at
police headquarters, were the only
witnesses this morning. Skinner
identified Oils as the burglar Mon
day.