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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
BY HENRY w. BUNNs+ :, :

The following is brief summary Of
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended December z:
UNITED STATES-The first regu-
lar session of the Seventy first Congress
opened December 2. The next day the
Presidents message was read to both
houses. The annual presidential mes
sage affords an unexampled oppor-
tunity of a grand survey of the ma
tional scene; therefore, the following
paper is exclusively devoted to an
abridgement thereof, including what
seems to this writer its chief state
ments and recommendations. Notice Of
the "outcountry" developments of the
past week-even the fantastic Sino-
Russian buSineSs-may well go over
to next Sunday.
/. I'm January. 1925, the Senate gave
its consent to adherence to the Court
Of International Justice with certain
reservations" The statute establishing
the court having by the action Of the
signatory nations been amended to
meet these reservations, our adherence
should be conSummated.
2. I'VE still have Marines on foreign
soil. In the large sense we do not wish
to be represented abroad in such a
manner. About 1900 Marines remain
in Nicaragua at the urgent request Of
that government and the leaders Of all
parties pending the training of a do
nestle constabulary capable of insuring
tranquility" We are anxious for such
Improvement Of the situation as to
justify further Withdrawals.
We still have TOO Marines in Haiti,
but the problem is a much more diff
cult one than the Nicaraguan, 1.-The
solution being still obscure" The Presi-
dent proposes, Congress approving, to
send commission to Haiti to study the
problem with view to a more definite
policy than the present one"
II Is hoped to reduce our remaining
force In China (about $4,000 to the
normal legation guard.
The President proposes to improve
our relations with the Latin American
countries by strengthening the diplo-
matte missions thereto. heads of mis-
SONS TO be appointed who combine long
oiplomatic experience with mastery of
me tle languages OF the countries to which
they may be credited.
8. The Presidents remarks IN ma.
tlonal defense will set the ARMY and
navy doVecoteS a-fiutter. He sets forth
the mounting costs of those services. in
cIuoing the National Guard land other
forms OF reserves" He recommends
mat congress give earnest considera-
LION 10 the possibilities Of prudent ac-
ZION toward reducing said costs. The
remaTK mat improvement in the Ma
Uohal Guard and the advance of avia-
ton have definitely strengthened our
national security" Is not likely tn warm
the cookies of the regulars.
=. Inc FINANCES of the Government
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are in sound condition" The public
debt stands at sic, 693, 000, 900. as against
the maximum, in August, 1919, of $26,-
SOC, 900, 900. A budget surplus of about
$226 600, 900 is offlcially estimated for
the fiscal year 1890, and one Of $123,-
100000 for the ensuing fiscal year The
President recommends that a portion
surplus be returned to the taxpayers
by way of reduction by l per cent of
the normal individual income tax rates
and of the corporation income tax, re-
Spectively; these reductions, however. to
be only provisional, in view of the small
size of the surplus estimated for 1881
and the uncertainty of that estimate
"a bill in the above sense has already
been introduced in Congress.)
S.. The total funded Indebtedness of
foreign governments to our Government
is $11 ,579, 466, 900. The President In
vites attention to 1.-The measure of
American compromise in these settle
ments."
6. AS the question on the general
economic situation" is being universally
quoted at length, resist the tempta-
ton to dwell on it, The President is
convinced that the measures instituted
by him in cooperation with business
institutions and with State and munich
pal authorities have re-eStablished the
confidence threatened by the specula-
tive Embarrassment. wages should
remain stable A very large degree Of
industrial unemployment and suffer-
ing which would otherwise have &C.
Cured has been prevented Agricult-
ural prices have reflected the return
ing confidence" The prophylactic
meausres taken by the Federal Reserve
system, together with the strong po-
sition of the banks, carried the whole
credit system through the crisis with
out impairment. The capital which
has hitherto been absorbed in stock
market loans for speculative purposes
Is now returning to the normal chan
nels of business"
Z. 1.-The agricultural situation is
improving" The gross farm income
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The Big Parade
BY BRUCE BARTON.

Ign; and was discovered some
months later in Hartford. Cues
toned az to why he left his
family, he replied that he had
done his duty as q father and
believed himself entitled to a
little peace in his old age. He
had taken a job as night watch
man in a deaf and dumb asylum.
Why do take up valuable
white space to set down these
apparently unimportant and un-
related incidents? Because, my
friends, one Of the biggest and
least expensive Of all pleasures
10 reading the daily paper and
narveIins at the eternal fresh
ness and variety Of the human
race.
Let those who are bilious rail
at the Standardization of mod
ern life" 1t is true that many
of the things we eat and use are
standardized, and living is much
simplified in consequences.
But have no fear that color
and interest will disappear out
of the world. Every baby has in
him some little spark that makes
him different from every other.
4 X X
Life will be always amusing
to those who have sense enough
to enjoy il. Practice the good
and Inexpensive habit of being
etsrnaIly entertained by your
fellow human beings. Forget
about yourself for a little while
every day, and enjoy the big
parade.
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Note-"I had no idea what the
United States Army means to the
American people until I became
Secretary of War. It is one Of the
great peace-time departments of the
government"
Secretary Good made this remark
few weeks before his death. He
willingly consented to write what he
had found out about the army, be-
cause he believed the civilian should
know the facts.
The day before he died Secretary
Good added paragraph, debating
1t to Lieut.. Com. Boone, physician
to the President. who was attending
him. Speaking as peace-time man,
loyal, understanding servant of the
people, in sending this message he
performs an important service to the
nation.
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A L. this happened in one
n A 20 year old boy
4 n came into our office to
apply for q job. When we asked
him about his present oceupa-
ton, he said he was a parachute
jumper.
~ like the work all right" he
added, "but parachute jumping
isn't steady"
I met q mother whose son is
about to graduate from college.
What do you think he wants to
be? A bond salesman? A movie
starr
He wants to be an arehsOIO-
pist.
A man named VoIk died in
New York City. He claimed the
distinction Of having torn down
more big buildings than any
other man who ever lived. But
he died without realizing his am
bition. He wanted to live to
tear down the WooIworth Build
ing.
Think of it. Six million peo-
Pile walking daily through the
streets, each with his separate
home and desire. Who would
ever imagine that one Of them
was constantly saving to him.
self; "oh, IL could only tear
down the Woolworth Building.
That would crown my career"
\ \ \
A man with a noisy wife and
seven grown children disap-
peared from his home in Brook.
(rfoavr,
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come in contact are suffering from NAL
nutrition.
The Red Gross of the island, which is
in perhaps the best position to know
what conditions actually are. for 1t
has trained workers visiting the fam
lilies, tell me they estimate now that so
per cent of the children of the entire
island are undernourished. OF this go
per cent, large number are literally
slowly starving. OF course, the result
Is obvious; in their weak and depleted
condition they go down before attacks
of any serious disease.
On the roads time and again have
passed pathetic little groups carrying
small homemade collins.
Statistics Compiled.
An investigation by the Red Cross
not many months since of a poorer Sec
ton of this city gave the following sta
tisticS: Eighty per cent of the children
under 3 years of age were found to be
suffering from chronic intestinal trou-
bles; two-thirds of the children were
both underweight and understood; 10
per cent had decayed teeth; as milk was
too expensive, the babies were fed black
coffee or boiled herbs, Sweetened with
a little sugar. Rice and beans in small
quantities were the principal nourish-
ment.
All Of these children could offer but
little resistance to diseases, especially
tuberculosis. The Won PirquetS test
showed that 95 per cent of the children
in that section of the city gave posi-
| tive reaction. In another section OF
the community 95 per cent of the chill
dren examined were underweight and
undernourished. The same percentage
| had intestinal parasites and u per
cent had trouble with their respiratory
systems. Our infant mortality in the
island Is approximately two and one
half times that of the United States
In one house in this slum which my
wife visited there was family Of eight
children. The father was sick, bedrid-
den and out of employment. The
mother was in a hospital. The eld-
est child, a girl of IS, was not only
attending school, but looking after
her seven brothers and sisters as well
I have seen in the same quarter a
12-month-old baby in bed with its
mother. who was in the last stages of
consumption. tuberculosis is one of
our worst menaces. and under the
present condition of affairs is fasten-
ing on the children, who have no
strength to resist it.
Sanitation Lacking.
In one poor quarter there was a
municipal HOSpiIdl WHICH, COHSiSCeQ Ol
a couple of ramshackle board huts. In
them were men and women in the last
stages of tuberculosis. Sanitation and
means for preventing contagion were
almost entirely lacking. In addition
to the patients, there was an 8-month-
old baby. Around the hospital crowd
ed families in the little board huts
the children unquestionably being in
fected by the disease. We have sue
| caadad in arranOinO for the moving. M
this hospital, but there are others like
| it. and there are thousands of infected
individuals for whom we can provide
/ no disqualification
The death. rate on our island from
! tuberculosis has more than doubled ir
the last fifteen years. According II
our Department of Health, 1t Is nov
301 to the hundred thousand-in otheI
: words, more than four times as great
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Porto Rico I'm Dire Straits
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CONTINUED From First Page.)
ment situation there. Housing facili-
ties, Of course, are woefully inadequate.
Six or seven people sometimes live in
one small room. In some of the poorer
quarters I have seen as many as 10
housed in a makeShift board room not
more than IL feet square. OF course,
disease has spread, for living conditions
of this sort always beget disease. Be-
sides, the lack of funds and the in
creased work have rendered it impos-
sible for our health department to
cope satisfactorily with our increasing
problems.
Children Suffer Most.
As usual. the children have suffered
most. Less able to bear privation than
their elders, they have felt it even more
keenly. The basis of health is ade-
Quate food, and this the children of
Porto Rico have not had-and do not
get today. Hundreds of thousands are
on starvation diets. Our local Parent
Teacher Associations, composed Of peo-
pie many of whom are very poor, have
provided certain meals at the schools.
In this they have been aided by the
Junior Red Cross. Unfortunately the
funds at hand are so limited that we
are able to take care of only a very
lew children. Even these resources are
rapidly dwindling now
In the last six weeks I have Travelled
all over the island, have been through
school after school, have seen hum
dreds OF thousands of children and
write now not Of what have heard or
read, but Of what have seen with my
own eyes. / have seen mothers carry
ing babies who were little skeletons I
have watched in a class room thin,
pallid, little boys and girls trying to
spur their brains to action when their
little bodies were underfed have seen
them trying to study on only one scanty
meal day, meal of few beans and
some rice. I have looked into the
kitchens of houses where a handful of
beans and few plantains were the fare
for the entire family.
Here in San Juan, our capital city,
there Is a public school near one of
the poor districts. The enrolment is
710 boys and girls. OF those ITO, 223
fast; 27S have no lunch. We are able
to provide in the lunch rooms now
food for just 81. The rest go hungry
The funds Tor this are raised in vari-
GUS fashions here among ourselves, but
our means necessarily are very limited
And now this school is faced with hav-
ing TO close down even this scanty aid
The parents of more than half Of these
children are now out of work.
~ Per Cent Underweight.
Nor do these figures I have giver
illustrate the full malnutrition of thi:
school. Many of the other pupils are
given for breakfast only cup Of black
coffee. Sixty-seven per cent OF the
students are underweight In othel
words, 81 per cent of those children
are struggling against malnutrition
Four hundred and seventy-flve children
in this one school are underfed anC
weakening day by day.
This is one of our bad schools, bu
many others have similar records. Thu
Redemptorist Fathers, whose work take
them into the small villages and coun
try districts, advise me that they con
slider that fully IS per cent of the chill
Gxen In the schools with which the.
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ltC,15O men. III was OBVIOUSLY moueSt
In size, there being less than one SOL
der for every 900 of our population. 1t
was well balanced, well fed, well
equipped and in process of being well
housed.
Because of the widely varying char
acter of its duties, the Army is spread
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
BY JAMES w. GOOD.

you ask me what I found in the
~ department when I assumed the
duties of Secretary of War. I
Il found a well trained Regular
Army of 10000 officers and
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~ AN a boy or girl be taught to be
sympathetic, honest and cour-
apeoug2
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job.
New Revenues Provided.
To meet the emergency caused by the
low value of the currency from another
angle MIR. Smith saw to it that artificial
support OF the crown was terminated
and that the projected new bank of is
sue, based on sound, conservative prtn.
ciples, was started. The economic plan
laid down by Sir Arthur Salter and his
associates of the League Finance Com
mission had meanwhile been put In efA
feet, and under Mr.. Smiths direction
produced by September a new volume of
revenues In excess of the advance estt-
mates. With obstacles to trade removed.
the unfavorable balance Of imports over
exports was, cut down and the currency
began to recover in value. The !atereSt
requirements Tor year on the interna,
tlonal relief loan were covered in No.
Vember, in period of three months, or
one-quarter of the prescribed time, SO
rapidly did Mr.. Smiths unremitting ef-
forts show results.
BY January Of 1925 he was i'll, how.
ever-seriously exhausted from over
work. Reports began to circulate. that
he must relinquiSh his post. Just rest-
ing" he cabled to his sister in Boston.
70 quiet any alarm and settle these
stories. In two weeks he was recovered
sufnciently to dispose of any impression
that his health was in critical danger or.
that ne was incapacitated. The reasons
for the speed with which the news got
around that he must quit became an
parent when. In February "diplonafia
rumors" began to circulate that he waE
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lopyrisht, 1921
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
The chart shows the positions Of the signs and planets
IN the heavens looking south at the time Of
rise. Moon decreasing IN last quarter
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3
By WILLIAM SHWADER
VOICE OF HEAVENS


MOTHER unmpOrtan day The good aspect Of the
unfortunately in the early morning
be utilized by the "eary birds" Most urbanites
begin activities The day that will lose
nothing by taking q week end in the country
LOOKING AHEAD
If tomorrow birthday the coming will be good
affairs Since the Sun is in good to
Jupiter should cherish and cultivate influential friend.
for will profit thereby You will be in hopeful frame Of
mind and have clear vson short the coming period will be
both beneficial and prosperous.
child born under harmonious blend of the
Sun and Noon which both posted their signs Leo and
Cancer This the only combination in which both mnaes
in their signs While sometimes produces dent and
individuals they have strong magnetic and
attract influence and success and rise in lfe
WAR IN THE NEAR FUTURE?
The world slow learn from history Each repeats the
mistakes Of the preceding Bsmark said that Aace Lorraine
prove boomerang, but the military Won Moke declared
country the spos victory The
Versailles provocative the treaty of 1870.
Astrologcay the present the heavenly indications that
period of testing All nations being weighed h
and their sincerity be found wanting, the
Armegeddon will follow. An old prophet said when they shall
the sudden devastation begins Every nation
signs peace treaties, but few willing
vast difference between peace the lips and Of
paper peace the hearts of particularly so-caled
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know
l. What State is called the Empire State?
q What is meaning Of the phrase "alter ego?
g. What is the Greek fable about oedipus2
A. Why is the name of Sappho famous?
s. How many gallons in a hogshead7
g. What city in Michigan is named for Greek prince
T. What is the principal avenue in Washington
Match correctly
g. Emile Zola Spanish
8. Blascp Ibanez American
TO- Leonard Wood English
IL Giuseppe Verdi French
IL Ellen Terry Italian
In what country is:
49, Mt. Fujiyama
IL Loire River.
1S Lake Miraflores.
Answers to today's test:
(Answ-rs on Magazine Pagsl
The Washington times., 1929-08-02

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New Britain herald., 1929-08-26

Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson and Mrs. Alice Steed and . daughter. baroara' nave gone to Atlantic City, where they will spend two weeks.
 Surprise Party Held | Mrs. Anna Higley, formerly 3f henslngton, was pleasantly surprised i at her home in TerryvilIe yesterday Wnen group of 10 girls from kensiDgton visited her. She worked for many years for American Paper Goods Co.,, in Kensington, and re- gently moved to Terryville on ac- count of sickness. She is making her home with her daughter there. A picnic luncheon was served during the party.
 Wins First Game | The kensington Tigers defeated the Victory Market team by a score or II to 4. yesterday afternoon. The game was the first in a series be tween the younger boys of Kensing ton. The next game will be played ln day or so at the Victory Market diamond.
 Sl1O Theft From Truck
 Morris Leville of 450 Main street. New Britain, reported to Capt. Kelly Of the New Britain police station that a pocketbook containing s11O and a check for $7.10 was stolen from his truck yesterday afternoon as he was making a delivery at Edel- sons roadstand in Berlin. The mat ter was reported to the Berlin police earlier in the day.
 The check was made out by tho Scars Roebucli company to Tony Naples, and had been accepted as payment by the driver of the truck. The truck is owned by the New Haven Dairy Ice Cream company and the money was funds which the driVer had collected during the day.
 Help EXtinguish Fire
 James Ellsworth, Leonard O'Roole and Paul Giana of Kcnsington helped to get a bad fire in East Hampton under control Sunday. They were passing by when the fire had just been discovered and helped in the effort to get the flames un- der control. The fire did great damage, the lunch room and the Economy store being badly guttel by the fire. The chemical company of the town arrived after delay of ten minutes and the fire was soon under control.
 Miss Jenny Ferino of Percival ave- nue is reported as resting comfort ably at Hartford hospital after an operation for appendicitis.
 East Berlin Items
 MT. and Mrs. John Coughlin of Middletown were the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Patrick Holigan over Sun day.
 The Wesleyans will meet this eve ming in the church parlors at S:OO, o'clock. MT. and Mrs. Wallace Kel- tContinucd on Page 1S)
New Britain herald., 1929-08-26
6 FIREMEN OVERCOME
 AT BIG MEDFORD FIRE
Explosion in old Residence Causes S20,O0O Blaze State Fire
 Marshal to Investigate.

Medford, Mass, Aug. 26 (UP)- Six tiremen were overcome by smoke and damage estimated at $20,00O re- suited early today when an explo- sion followed by fire destroyed the old Dutton residence on Governors avenue, now occupied by Nicola Dianchardi.
 Dianchardi and his family wera away when the explosion occurred.
 Bremen who required first-aid treatment were: Lieutenant Fred Meagher, John J. Henson, Roswell H. Hassam, Francis Wye, Lewis A, Rich and Lewis Boisvert.
 After the blaze had been checked, Fire Chief Thomas A. Dudley asked State Fire Marshal George c. Neal to investigate the cause of the ex- plosion. Dudley said another explo- sion and fire had destroyed the stable on the same estate about a year ago.