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New Britain herald., 1929-10-31

Washington. Oct &l lP)- Senator Watson of Indiana. republican leader, announced in the senate to- day that President Hoover wanted the tariff bill passed as soon as pos sible, and urged that all factions approach the subject in a cOncilia- tory manner to see that it is done.
 Tells of Conference
 Watson, who is preparing to leave for Florida for his health and to relinquiSh temporarily his lead crship to Senator Jones, of Wash ington, arose at the outset of the senate session and told of a con ference he had at the White House last night with the president, at which Senator McNary, republican, Oregon, also attended.
 Mir. Hoover. Senator Watson said is anxious that the tariff bill be passed as part of his special ScS- sion program which called for farm relief through q marketing act and tariff legislation.
 Watson said he had not asked the president if he would sign the tar whether he would make any con- sessions to the republican indepcnd- cnt democratic coalition program. He added he had no idea what Mir, Hoover would do with the measure but insisted the chief executive was ,yiT ,r' tn
 When we finally get this bill in to conference with the house, then and then only can we consult with Mir. Hoover on the legislation" he asserted.
 Sure It Can Be Passed
 Emphasizing his statement by pounding the dcsl, the republican leader said:
 "I think this tariff bill can hc passed and l think it ought to be passed"
 While there were some rcpubli- cans of the administration group dcsirous Of adjourning the scna,r at an early date. Watson said ha for one would never agree 10 ad- journ without passing 3 tariff bill. .
 Whatever the president had in mind" Watson asserted 'the hous" passed a bill and the senate had nothing to do but consider it."
 Asserting the senate twice hal rejected moves 10 cOnfnc the revi sion to agriculture, he added thcr" were men on both sides of the chamber who felt some industries needed tariff increases.
 "The trouble is We 8avc not ap- preached the subject in a conciIi- atory way" he said, adding that the twill to pass a tariff act is an in evitable precursor to passage of the bill itself"
 Plays Frequent Conflicts
 'As long as men hold each other at arms length and hurl epithets We will never get anywhere" Wat son continued. But if men sit down at a table and contemplate the situation with a will to do d thing it always can be done
 There are men here who rep
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New Britain herald., 1929-10-31
GIRL THIEVES TELL OF FEMALE FAGIN
Taught to Steal by Woman,
 They Inform Police
LISTED LOOT TO BE TAKEN
Iittlc sisters Carefully Plotted f.N- petitions of ThiCNcry to S:nrcs- Boy Shop,iftcr Aged E, Caught With stolen Wearing Apparel.

Two sisters" aged and II years, have been turned over 10 the pro- bation department by Sergeant r. 4. Mc.Ayay for theft of articles in Main street stores, their system being 10 make out q list of things they want cd before going out to get them.
 According 10 their story to the po- lice, ,, they supplied themselves with paper bags bearing the name of q store and as fast as they could grab merchandise off the counters they stuffed it into the bags ronSc- qucntly they were not forced to hide their loot in their clothing aS most Juvenile Shoplifrcr3 io, Clerks in the store noticed the children. however, and kept watch of them until their actions betrayed them and they were detained for the police.
 Questioned by Sergeant McAvaY. the girls said a woman who former ly kept house after the death of their mother taught them how to operate in stores. They had box of candy and a few toilet articles when apprehcndcd. Their list called for three boxes of candy but they had
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New Britain herald., 1929-10-31

THE WEATHER
 New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy, probably occasional rain tonight and Friday; ris- ing temperature Friday.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-31

Average Daily Circulation For oci' %ssH ss3H s1''"s ing l5,59O
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19

based on returns for 1858 manufac-
turing establishments in 81 of the prin-
cipal industries of the United States.
In July these establishments had 1885,
174 employees and pay roll totals of $685.
576,416. They furnish O fair index of
conditions prevailing throughout the
country. One hopeful sign was found in
the fact that manufacturing industries
in July, 1929, had pronounced increases
both In employment and pay roll totals
over July year ago. Outstanding in
creases In employment this year as COM
pared to last year are found in cleo
trical machinery, shipbuilding, machine
tools, petroleum refining, foundry and
machine-shop products and agricultural
products. Cotton goods employment
was 4 per cent greater in July this year
than In the same month last year;
hosiery, 8.5 per cent greater; iron and
steel. 7.8 per cent greater. and automo-
mobile employment, 6 per cent greater.
Another encouraging feature Of the re-
port was the fact that the earnings per
capita were IL pers sent higher in the
July just passed than they were in the
same month q year ago. This is the
season for canning and the increase in
in that industry for July
over June was IS per cent.
The conditions and measure of en-
ployment in the United States, judging
from the report Of the bureau, are en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
Reciprocal Agreement
Planned With France

From the Baltimore Evening Sun.
The State Department has just con-
cluded tentative agreement with the
French government under the terms of
which French fonctionnaires, or job
holders, will be permitted to come to
this country, enter into American manu-
featuring houses and examine the books
and cost sheets of private concerns.
Thus the State Department proposes
that in addition to the constantly grow
ing number of domestic tobholders who
already harass business men it shall
import foreign jobholderS as well as
give them legal right to pry into domes-
tic affairs.
It is true that certain American bust
ness men have for long time de-
manded that our jobholders should have
the right to examine the books OF
French manufacturers. This precious
scheme IS a part of the present tariff
law. If the foreigner wants to sell
goods in this country, he must allow our
jobholders to examine his books or else
face the prospect Of an embargo against
his products.
Several countries have already &C.
corded our jobholders this right rather
than face the loss Of their American
market. But the French manufacturers.
unaccustomed to such prying. have
stoutly resisted. The State Department
has been negotiating the point for q
long time and the reciprocal agreement
our guess that the American business
man who is faced by a demand from a
French fonctionnaire for the right to
examine his books will begin to wonder
whether reciprocity is all It's cracked
I'D to be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
Comeback Ends Gloom
I'm Cotton Industry
From the Schenectady Gazette.

From the Schenectady Gazette.
This Summer has marked q distinct
change in the kind of materials used
for women's wear, bringing cheer to an
industry that for the last decade has
besn fearful of its future. One Of the
results of the war 10 years ago was to
encourage women TO discard COTTON
goods in favor of silk.
The prosperity that came to the
country generally had much to do with
this, for previously silk had been q
luxury, worn by many only on state &C.
casions. With greater purchasing
ability, and comparatively lower prices
for real or artificial silk, the latter came
into general use.
Cotton producers and manufac-
turers Of goods in this country were in
despair. They saw their business steadily
decreasing before the superior attrac-
lions of silken garments; and efforts OF
many kinds were made to save the day
for them.
Among other things there was an ap-
peal to the artificial aid that was ex-
pected to be derived from increased pro-
lection through higher tariff rates.
Looked upon as the sole hope, this soon
proved its inefiiciency, and the gloom IN
the cotton industry became deeper.
Then those connected with it began
to realize that success lay In other
directions. They set themselves to the
production of types Of cotton goods. for
which there would be demand; and
this demand they fostered by providing
attractive things that appeal to the
feminine taste.
The result Is apparent to any one who
walks along our streets. More cotton
apparel In attractive styles Is to be seen
than for many years past. There Is un-
questionably place for such articles In
our everyday life, although doubtless
the day Of the cotton stocking Is past
forever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
The Senate Here Again.

The Senate Is oflcially in Washington
once again after its two months Sum-
mer recess. Under solemn vote Of the
body last June 1t was compelled to re-
sumo its sessions at noon today, but
with nothing to do. The tariff bill Is
still In the hands Of the Senate finance
committee and promises to be there for
another two weeks or so. The Senate
leaders, therefore. have reached an
agreement to keep merely corporal's
guard in Washington and to hold per-
functory meetings every three days for
the next two weeks. Neither the Senate
nor the House Is empowered to take
recesses lasting more than three days at
q time without the consent Of the other
body, and the resolution providing for
the Summer vacation specifically stated
that the Senate should reassemble Au-
gust 10 and the House September %.
The effect Of the gentlemen's agree
ment between the Republican and
Democratic leaders, however, % to give
the great majority Of the Senators an
other two weeks holiday. Few Of them
are expected to spend the last two weeks
of August in Washington with nothing
demanding their presence. They have
q long fight ahead OF them over the
tariff bills fight which may carry them
nm to the. opening Of the regular ses-
- IL x,a<.nzulsok p&rnaSaa the senate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

, is lila degrees Fahrenheit. Its chief
advantage is that it melts to gas
directly.
@. In a recent game of auction was
playing the hand, and my partner, who
was dummy, pushed one Of his cards on
the trick. Do have to permit this
| play to srand?-E. w. K.
| A. Rule 80 OBJ (2) of the Laws of
| Auction Bridge says: During the play
dummy may not suggest lead or play
by touching. or naming card or other
wise. Penalty-Either adversary may
direct that declarer make such lead or
play such card (if legal or refrain from
doing So" You will see, therefore, that
either Of your opponents had the right
to insist that the play stand.
O. Where was Irving Berlin born?-
A. Irving Berlin was born in Russia,
May IL, 1888, the son of Moses and
Leal Gipkin) Baiine.
@. In what year did the elephant
Jumbo die?-G. w. S.
A. Jumbo. the big elephant, was
owned by P. T. Barnum. Jumbo was
killed when crossing railroad track in
Canada in 1885.
@. How is the elevation or altitude
of a given point of land above sea level
computed?-G. F. D.
A. The necessary instruments for de-
termining the elevation of a given point
of land above sea level are spirit level
and level rod, which is graduated to
decimalS of feet or yards. The instru-
ment is set up and leveled at point
some distance from the water. The rod
is then held on point which has been
determined as sea level. The level tele-
scope Is pointed at the rod and read
ing taken, which gives the height OF
the instrument, or H. L." as it Is
called. The rod is moved then to q
point for which the elevation is de-
sired. the telescope directed to it, and
the elevation read from the rod. This
is the whole proceeding, except that
the point for which the elevation Is
desired may BE one mile or a hundred
miles away from the starting point. in
which case it is a matter of repeating
the operation described above at inter-
walls of a few hundred feet at a time
until the objective is reached.
O. Face powder containing orris root
gives me hay fever. Is it possible to
buy face powder which does not con-
tain orris root?-T. L.
A. Some manufacturers of toilet
preparations have taken into consid-
Grafton the discomfort which orris root
causes some women and have made
powders which contain no orris root.
Orris root seems to bring about in some
cases a condition similar to hay fever.
@. Why was Puget Sound so named?
M. H. D.
A 1t was named for its discoverer,
Peter Puget.
@. Who was the first American killed
in battle in the World War?-A. M.
A. The first members Of the combat
ant forces of the American Army to be
killed in front-line action were Corpl.
James B. Gresham, Pvt. Thomas F. En-
right and Pvt. Merle D. Hay, all mem
bers of Company F, 10th Infantry.
These three men were killed on Novem-
Der 3, 1917, at practically the same time
in the course of a German raid on
trenches occupied by American soldiers.
Previous to this Americans had been
killed while serving with the British
forces, and also by bombs which were
dropped upon United States Army
base hospital.
@. How tall is the Iowa State Capt.
tol?-R. T.
A. It is DTS feet high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
EMPLOYMENT Of Labor.

Employment of labor in the United
States, according to the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics of the Department Of
Labor, Is on O high level. In q report
Just made public 1t is shown that 40
Of the 81 manufacturing industries re-
porting had more employees at the end
Of this 12-month period than at the
beginning. Furthermore, while 1t was
shown that employment decreased OF
per cent In July Of this year, as COM
pared to June, employment In July OF
this year greatly exceeded employment
in July, 1928. July, it is explained, Is
customarily O month Of inventory
taking In manufacturing establish
ments. Mining and retail trade cper-
atoms are also curtailed during this
Midsummer month. To Offset these
conditions, public utility companies are
usually having a good deal Of outside
work done, hotel employment at Sum
mer resorts Is at q maximum and the
Summer canning season has opened.
But the net decrease Of employment
In July. as compared to June, was only
10000 employees out Of o total OF
100000. The decrease In employment
In manufacturing industries, 1t Is said.
was smaller during the month Of July
this year than in any year since the
bureau began It's present series Of re-
ports on employment back in 1922.
The report for July. ls2 now made
~ the Ba,reaaz az Labor EtakixfscS e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
Warner Brothers Get
$1,000 a Day for Life

From the Oregon Daily Journal.
One thousand dollars day for life,
so fixed that 1t cannot be changed by
any future freaks Of fortune, Is the
happy financial status of the three
Warner brothers, Hollywood movie pro-
ducers.
Five years ago they could barely
meet the pay roll Of the small organ
ization on which they were then doing
business in the motion picture world.
One Of them mortgaged his house and
lot to help meet obligations.
Financial matters were so tight on
their street then that to help them tide
over a tight place one Of their stars
loaned them SIS, 900 of the $4,000 she
had accumulated. She was secured in
her loan with stock in the company
and earnings on the $4,000 have since
mounted to 100000.
The great stroke in their financial
affairs was development of the talkies.
The first big sweep Of fortune in their
direction came with AL Jolson's singing
pictures. It was financial tidal wave
that drove away all threats of lean days
and landed Warner Bros. on Easy street.
Like many another case when dark
clouds spread gloom over struggling men,
marvellous fortune was waiting for the
Warmers just around the corner. It
may be waiting for any one in the very
hour OF the deepest gloom-and the
moral or 1t Is, never give UP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
Farm Board Action
Held Encouraging
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Two items Of especial interest are
noted in the first financial action Of the
Federal Farm Board-items which will
be invested with at least a momentary
significance because they do lie in the
boards initial functioning. The $780,
900 loan was made. not to one of the
great grain interests which were ex-
pected to be the principal benef1ciaries
Of the program, but to the citrus grow
ers of Florida, and the loan was made,
not as routine movement to bolster
and stimulate permanent marketing
organization, but to meet an emergency
situation arising from the depredations
of the Mediterranean fruit fly.
These aspects Of the loan are as
suredly encouraging for many reasons.
They indicate upon the part Of the
board a genuine sensitiveness to agri-
fected or whatever the cause of the
exigency. It Is not to be expected.
and certainly not to be hoped, that the
board will continue to utilize the half
billion-dolllar sterilization fund for
similar purposes, even II continuing
need arose. But the action was prompt
and showed a commendable sympathy
with the problems Of an agricultural
industry which faces just now most
critical and formidable crisis.
The loan will enable the Florida ex-
changes affected to meet the Govern
ment regulations which the fruit fly
has made imperative. It is described
by the board as IAN emergency loan to
meet an emergency marketing situa-
ton" Its deeper significance, perhaps,
lies in the implicit recognition of ex-
traneous factors as disrupters of normal
marketing conditions. Marketing pro-
grams have nowhere contemplated the
interference Of meddlesome fly. The
fly had no part in the farm relief
scheme, but it appeared, and the Farm
Board acted Immediately to oppose it's
threat. That beginning Is suspicious
for the South.
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of day. So he becomes tired of his new
toy which will not exert itself for his
benefit and soon forgets all about 1t.
| " X X X
What is the child's establishment
some days later to discover that green
leaves are poking their soft noses
through the cruSty earth!
The child has been taught, although
by indirection, that Time and the seed
cared nothing for him; in fact, did not
know he existed.
The seed functioned not only in the
earth but In Time. 1t took as much
Time as 1t did moisture and warmth to
| stir 1t into plant motion.
| A serious gardener soon learns that
all his worry and all his plodding
around cannot stir his plants into any
thing more than Time has outlined for
them.
They grow in Time and have their
| being in Time and, when Time DEGREES,
come to the end of their curious exist
ences. And it is because the gardener
knows this, or rather feels 1t, that he
experiences the shadows across his
mind at this period of the year.
There is no particular shade Of sad
ness in this shadow. It Is rather ac-
ceptance, not only of the facts of life
but Of the essential rightness Of life as
1t is.
y n X
What right have we to kick because
everything in life Is not to our liking?
The flowers grow. live and die the
same as the rest of us, and they have
nothing at all to say about the process
from beginning to end.
Human beings have a great deal to
say about 1t, but the processes of birth,
| life and death do not seem to change
much for all the protests. lamentations,
Wailings, rejoicings, calm considera-
tions religious musings. ecstatic visions,
which have gone through the minds of
men since the beginnings Of historic
time.
We are like flowers in the garden,
although we don't know it, and prefer
| not to admit 1t. Secretly in our own
hearts we see our kinship with these
living. growing things which flower
grandly and nod into decay. We know
that our lives, based firmly on unknown
principles. go through similar process.
We believe, and we cannot help be-
lieving rightly, that the lives of hu-
mainly are so much fuller Of conscious
ness, OF ability, Of creation, that it Is
the flowers OF the field and to be no
more in the long run than the with
cred blooms in yonder vase.
X II 4
All that the flowers are and that we
hope to be comes out Of the crucible of
Time.
That is why we sometimes grow tired
Of listening to the eternal admonitions
not to waste it.
There is so much Time that we do
not see how we can waste any of 1t.
Time is not a natural recourse, like
forests, which may be wasted against
q day when we have it not
There always has been more Time
than any one knew what to do with,
and there seems to be no possible Short
age of 1t.
Wherefore, like Walt Whitman, we
lean and loaf at our ease, observing a
blade of Summer grass. seeing in the
first brown tinges Of Autumn the end
of our horticultural enthusiasm for an
other year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19

Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Massachu-
sets Congremmwoman, is utterly indie
fatigable in the multiplicity of her &C.
tivities in behalf Of her constituents and
her country. Her tariff labors are second
to none. Veterans disqualification, rail-
road rates and ocean differentials, radio
and navy yards, all claim her personal
attention. She has just completed an
inspection tour of New England Army
posts and military training camps, and
was accorded 19-gun military salute on
the assumption that an M. G. rated as a
major. general. 1t turned out that that
only holds true when assigning state
room accommodations on Army trans
ports. Mrs. Rogers usually travels by
airplane to save time. This week it is
disclosed that Government chemists
are trying to discover self-extinguishing
cigarettes and fireless matches at the
express instigation of the solon from the
Bay State.
It Is discovered that the White House
laundry still boasts old-fashioned wash
tubs, hand wringers, and the ordinary
old-styled fiatirons. This, too, in an
electrical age, with the Chief Executive
an engineer and efficiency expert. Here
Is a fine opportunity for the electrical
equipment companies to get together
and present a model electrical laundry
installation to the First Lady of the
Land.
(Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
Fred Erb's Case Might
Be Bungled by Men

From the wichita Beacon.
The court of last resort will decide
the fate Of Fred Erb, 75-year-old
pioneer Of Lawrence, Kans. Fred Erb,
you know, killed his wife one day last
week. They had lived happily together
for a half-century. She was desperately
Ill. Fred Erb feared they might come to
want, that he might die before she. So
he killed her.
Fred Erb is one man who is beyond
reach of the law. Suffering from the
infirmities Of age, worried unto death,
the end Is near for him.
You are stunned at such a tragedy.
None voices harsh criticism Of old Fred
Erb. He appears sane. The law may
temporarily handle his case and his
affairs. The law may confine him in
cell for few short days, acting for
the time as his guardian.
The law cannot punish Fred Erb.
The law can infiict no humiliation on
him. The law is powerless in such
case. Even the courts Of the State can
not pass judgment, really, on this aged
man. The people will not pass judg-
ment on him.
The people of Kansas for the first
time know all about the Erb family,
which has been highly respected. 1t is
pity we did not know ABOUT This
elderly man and his aged wife before
this tragedy occurred. It might have
been prevented.
1t Is too late now. Old Fred Erb
calmly waits the coming of death,
Death will take him to meet his Maker,
possibly to reunite him for eternity
with the wife he loved, whom he killed,
to stop her suffering.
Old Fred Erb in a short time will
pass before the judgment seat. The
evidence will be before the all-highest
court. What will be the verdict?
Thou shalt not KILL" said the Lord.
There is not enough wisdom in all
this world to say what should be the
fate of old Fred Erb.
1t is well that his case will go to a
higher power for the final decision.
For the chances are that men, know
ing the law, but knowing nothing about
the soul, might bungle this case.