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New Britain herald., 1929-07-10
Exchange Club Work
 Committees Selected

President Russell S. Gold of the Exchange club of New Britain an- nounced the committees for the year al the meeting last night at the Bur- rltt hotel. They are as follows:
 Speakers committee: Fred C. Hausman, Edward W. Irving, Rev Samuel Sutcliffe and Dewitt A. Riley
 Entertainment committee: Albert N. Scripture, Arthur Benson, Louis A. Oldershaw, Truman L. Weed and George E. Curtis.
 Charles J. Law was appointed chairman of the membership com mittee. He will pick the members of his committee.
 Lauren H. Bancroft and Robert H. Deming were appointed to the health committee. Emory Corbir was named as the publicity com. mittee.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10

lated into 500 languages and dia lects.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10
Youth, 17, Kills Bandit
 RObbing Fathers Store

Philadelphia, July 10 CUP)-Sur- prising two bandits in the act of holding up his fathers dry goods store here early today. Bernard Blasband, F. shot and killed one and chased the other from the store. The second bandit escaped.
 The slain n an was identified as William Raw Meat" Filevicz.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10
SUBMARINE SIGNAL
 GOES UNANSWERED; BELIEVE MEN DEAD
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 both the HAY and Liz were cruis- ing on the surface at s o'clock in the morning when the collision took place. The L-12 struck the HAY on the port side at right angles just abaft the foremost control room bulkhead. The L-12's bow pene- trated about two feet and the HAY sank in a few seconds.
 Down in 33O Feet
 The stricken craft went down considerably by the bow in a depth of 55 fathoms or 330 feet.
 Orders had been given to close watertight doors and abandon ship. From the evidence of Lieutenant R. J. Gardner, the commanding of ficer, and of the telegraph opera tor, who escaped from the control room, it did not appear that the doors could have been closed at the time.
 The L-12 was carried down 40 feet at an angle Of approximately 50 degrees, bow down, after the collision. The captain, officers and men on the deck were thrown into the water and considera ble amount of water entered the sub- marine before the hatches could be closed.
 The admiral, in his report, add ed;
 T am convinced that there is no possibility of any of the crew of the HAY having remained alive more than a very few minutes The weather at the moment is against the successful location of the sunk en vessel"
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10

The COW Is worshiped as a sacred animal in India.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10

geant Jobert of Go. I and three daughters, Viola, Jean and Edith Cavell, are staying at Mantle while Sergeant Jobert is in camp.
 Lieut.. Thomas Carey of Co. I and Lieutenant John I. DeLorenze of Co. H were prominent figures in court martial trial of Private Oscar Hintz of Bristol who was accused of steal ing an officers sabre" Lieutenant Carey was prosecuting attorney and Lieutenant DeLorenze was the at torney for the defense. The prls- oner was under a heavy mental strain, he being the only person who was not enjoying the trial, He was found not guilty. E. J. Cafferty of Bristol was judge.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10
ReScuerS Present

Pembroke. Wales. July 10 (P) - An impressive array of life saving apparatus-the most elaborate the British navy could muster-was in position today over the spot where the submarine H-47 went down other undersea boat, the L-1..
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10

According to an announcement made today by Colonel D. Gordon Hunter, more than $500 will be spent on athletic equipment during the two weeks of the encampment. The colonel made the statement that recreation is great part of the life in camp and that athletics of com petitive nature are beneficial to the men. Eighty-three medals of solid gold, sterling silver and bronze as well as several silver loving cups are now on exhibition at the canteen.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-10

The Liz was apparently only slightly damaged and proceeded to Milford Haven under her own pow CT. She anchored in the harbor there,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

From recent investigations, notably
those Of Dr. e. l.. Walker, of the Hooper
Foundation of the University of Cali
fornla, initiated in the Philippines
some years ago, and more recently con-
tinued in Honolulu and San Francisco,
1t would seem that the popular con-
ception that leproSy Is contagious Is err
roneous IN the extreme, as have indi-
Gated.
Disease Traced to Fungus.
1.-The causative organism is a priYni-
tive fungus of the genus Actiononnyces,
a soil-growing organism. It becomes q
parasite when 1t accidentally gains adj
mission to the living tissues of men
Infection takes place not through d.
rect contact with infected individuals
but through the contact of cuts or
abrasions with contaminated soil,
This does not mean that leper colo
MES are no longer needed The need
for institutions where the unfortunate
victims of this disease can receive
proper care and treatment is still as
great as 1t ever was. It should mean,
however, a realignment of our ideas
concerning leprosy; the establishment of
rational treatment of infected indivi-
duals; the removal of q UNDERSTANDING
blot on civilization in our human treat
ment Of lepers in the past, and an en-
tire realignment of official and popular
conceptions as to the nature of the dis
ease and Its transmission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Governor of Porto Rico.

TINE island of Porto Rico is neither
known nor understood by the
vast majority of our citizens in
l. the United States. Many of
them have no idea where it is.
Since have been here I have had let
tiers forwarded to me addressed Porto
Rico, Philippine Islands; Porto Rico,
Central America" or Porto Rico, Gu
ba." One college graduate even ad-
dressed me as Ambassador Roosevelt.
American Embassy, Porto Rico"
have had requests from various
people to send them the foreign stamps
Of Porto Rico. Even those who know its
geographical situation are often entire
" unaware of our island people.
We are a part of the United States.
The vast majority of Porto Ricans be-
came citizens of the United States in
1917. We number many men of literary
and intellectual attainments, some of
whom are now in continental America
but most of whom are here in the is
land. We have not only leaders in
literature and science but prominent
business men as well-such as Sosthenes
Behn, head of the International Tele-
phone 81 Telegraph Corporation, one of
the largest in the world.
We have splendid roads and good
school system. We have a university
that in the future may well be great
pam American seat of learning where
the North American and Latin cultures
will meet and merge in the hilly coun-
try that makes up the greater part of
Porto Rico.
Mountaineers Of Fine Stock.
We have mountain farmers who are
the descendants of the Andalusian
SpaniardS who came here centuries ago.
They resemble in many ways the hill
people of Kentucky, Tennessee and
North Carolina. Like the hill people
of those States, they have been isolated
by rough country and poor roads. They
are much like the mountaineers Presi-
dent Hoover found surrounding his
camp in the Appalachians. Like the
mountaineers of the States, they are
of fine stock and lack only the oppor-
tunity to demonstrate their ability.
The future of our island is very prom
Using. We have people of warm SYM
pathies and good intellect and 'charac-
ter. In the ordinary course of events
they will make for themselves the
chance to show their worth. Our trouble
lies in the fact that for a diversity Of
causes we are at the moment poverty
stricken.
To grasp our problem it is necessary
to have a glimpse of what Porto Rico
is. We are a small island, only hun
dred miles long by thirty-flve miles
broad. The country Is series of steep
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Porto Rico in Dire Straits
Crops Hardshps

As a result of the recent hurricane,
Porto Rico, for the moment, is In des-
perate straits.
haze stopped at farm after farm
,Dhere lean, underted wonren and sickly
men repeated again and again the same
story--little food and no opportunity to
get more.
As asuaI, the children haze suffered
most
Strty per cent OF the children OF the
entire island are undernourished. Many
are literally slotDly starring
OF the 710 boys and girls in one pub
Tic school in San Juan, 223 come to
school each day Without bredkfnst-27S
hGve no lunch.
These hundreds OF thousands OF
children are American.
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Leprosy Is Contracted From Organisms
In Soil, Declares California College Dean

The worlds conceptions of leprosy
and its ideas as to treatment and trans
mission of the disease are in need of
an entire realignment, according to
Dean Z. D. Merrill, of the University of
California College of Agriculture, writ
ing In the latest issue of the Review of
Reviews.
Discussing recent discoveries in the
cure and prevention of leprosy, in which
a University of California scientist has
taken prominent part, Dean Merrill,
formerly director of the Philippine Blu
reau of Science, said:
This race-old disease, long consid-
cred incurable, popularity supposed to be
highly contagious, and so thought of
by the majority of physicians, Is yield
ing to modern science. Yet 1t is only
within the present century that an
effective method OF treating leprosy has
been discovered. Based on research
done by numerous individuals in India,
Egypt, England, the Philippines and
Hawaii, on the application of certain
derivatives Of chaulmoogra oil as a cur
alive agent, really effective progress Is
being made in the cure of this disease
for which we all have an ingrained
horror.
Argues Disease Is Not Contagious.
More recent investigations seem to
clearly indicate that leprosy, rather
than being a contagious disease, is
really transmiSsible directly from one
individual to another only to q limited
degree If. indeed, at all.
In those countries where rather
strict segregation of lepers has been
practiced for long time the incidents
OF the disease among the general popu-
lation not at all in contact with the
segregated lepers Is today as high as 1t
was when segregation was begun. It is
not to the credit of modern civilization
that the unfortunate victims of this
disease are treated as worse than social
outcasts, as individuals to be Stunned,
who should have no contact with their
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been started In many of our coastal
towns. There is q great opportunity for
the development of more, and firmly
believe the future holds such develop
ments.
Our salvation clearly depends mainly
on two things-increased industrializa-
ton and the development OF Intensive
cultivation of the soil.
During the last 80 years conditions
have become steadily better in Porto
Rico. Education increased. Our health
department was developed. Our public
works of every sort multiplied. In this
brief period we had attempted to APP
proximate the conditions in the United
States which had been the results of q
hundred years of labor and develop
ment Even with that development the
conditions of the average man was not
good.
Then the cyclone struck us and in its
trail came disaster for all. More than
300 lives were lost and $4,000, 900 worth
Of property was destroyed. Schools
were blown to the ground; homes were
wrecked; factories were severely dam
aged; crops of sugar cane were cut by
20 per cent; the fruit trees were up
rooted, thereby destroying not only the
years crop but the capital as well.
Worse than all this, the coffee plan
tations, on which the greatest number
of the small farmers depend, suffered
most severely. There viii be little, II
any, coffee crop this year, and two OF
three years more must pass before we
get back to normal.
Outside Aid Limited.
Our people here rallied robly to aid
the worst sufferers, for our pride here
is to help ourselves where we can. The
National Government and the National
Red Cross also extended generous aid
but that was only along certain lines
and. naturally, was limited as a result
Of this disaster. We are for the mo-
ment in desperate straits. A cyclone
covering a small part of a large coun-
try would not be widely felt, but with
us the entire island was covered; nc
district escaped.
Unemployment, either total or par
tial, is present. everywhere. Men and
women can find nothing to do, and
therefore can earn nothing. We cannot
offset unemployment, as is often the
case in America, by an increase in
public works, for the government has
not the money. Riding through the
hills, have stopped at farm after farm
where lean, underfed women and sickly
men repeated again and again the same
story-little food and no opportunity
to get more for the present.
From these hills the people have
streamed into the coastal towns, in
creaSing the already severe unemploy-
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a visored helm and you have O fine
type OF the high-cheeked, straight
nosed, long jawed Norman baron, sound
and true bred at all points.
The ancestors were warriors, but
there Is a strong romantic and artistic
strain In this clan: they make better
administrators. diplomats and art pa
irons than colonies of guards regiments
and generals of divisions.
His Early Home Surroundings.
Ronald Lindsay was brought up in q
family circle In which the important
things of life were astronomy. philate-
ly, pictures, books and travel in strange
ana remote lands His father was the
wild-bearded twenty-sixth earl IA hairy
race, the LindSays), who carried tele-
scope IN his baggage as other men carry
tootnbruSh, was renowned among
DOCK dealers all over Europe as the
greatest collector of his time, accumu-
lated the second most complete collec-
ton OF stamps in the kingdom (his COL
lection OF American stamps was sold
after his death to a New York man for
s2OO,OOO), and roved the seven seas in
his steam yacht Valhalla.
Ronald Lindsay was 81 when he said
good-by to tutors, friends and family,
took himself into the diplomatic serv-
ice, and went off to Russia as aid to
the British Ambassador.
An easy, amusing, instructive Tin the
worldly senSe) life for an intelligent
young man; a frivolous and aimless, il
jolly, one for fool. You had to pos
sess all the graces of life to be a sue
cess in this old regime diplomatic and
court society, in one Of the raciest and
gayeSt sets in the Old World, and YOU
had to be quick, alert, level-headed,
unspoiled and useful IL you wanted to
be something more than a light yes
man TO your chief and marked out for
promotion.
Combined Both Qualities.
Young Lindsay combined both ouau-
ties and was an all around success
These Russians looked at the Western
World through the window of the sea-
grit capital created for that specific pur-
pose by Peter the Great. They were
half Orientals, ruling In barbaric state
over a three-part Oriental and nine
part savage kingdom. They made their
contacts with the West, for the most
part, in Paris, where the richest of
them maintained large mansions and
subsidized the prettiest girls of the
opera, and at Cannes and Monte Carlo.
where a season without the Russian
grand dukes painting the town red was
a ruined season.
waste Of time and experience? Not
for shrewd young diplomat with his
wits about him. His chiefs In London
found post for him at Teheran after
tney had broken him in In three years
at Petersburg. Two years they left him
IN Persia before switching him to the
other side of the world. to new world
ana new experience at the British En-
nassy IN Washington. He enjoyed him
SELF as 9 man Of brains and culture
would after years among barbarians and
semi barbArians talking French and be-
tCcnNnued 20 Seventh Pase3
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There are a lot of these Lindsays-a
prolific and virile stock. The trappings
of the feudal past hang on some of
them still. One of the cotemporary
Lindsays has been Norroy King of
Arms, Clarenceux Kingsof Arms Wind
sor Herald and Portcullis Pursuivant--
the ancient titles still survive and are
duly bestowed, although only members
of the College of TEeralds today can
say offhand what they mean. Another
living Lindsay has been private cham
berlain to four Popes In succession
Plus TX, Leo XIII, Plus X and Bene-
dict XIV. The Duchess Of Rutland,
mother of Lady Diana Duff Cooper,
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Drawn for The Sunday Star by s.

Drawn for The Sunday Star by s. J. Woolf.
who played in 1.-The Miracle" in Amer
lea, is a Lindsay.
Ronald Lindsay does not talk about
his family. He does not record its
history. The head of the clan does
that, carrying on family tradition
started 200 years ago by an earl who
suddenly realized that unless some
Lindsay began the family chronicle 1t
would be lost in the mists of time.
But he carries the family hallmark In
his face. The rugged lines are fined
down, the Norman eye has q genial
smile under the heavy brow. there Is
a humorous twist to the heavily mus
tached lip above powerful chin Of
almost Hapshurg length. But clap on
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tDrtte not OF ,Dhdt I hare heard or
read, but OF ,0hnt haze seen NTH my
DUN eyes.
hare seen mothers carrying babies
Uho Were little skeletons
I hare matched in class room thin,
paid boys and girls trying to spar
their brains to action phen their
bodies mere underted.
I haze seen them trying to study on
only one scanty meal day OF a fe'I
beans and some rice.
On the roads time and again I hare
passed pathetic little groups carrying
homemade coDinS.
/ haze looked into the kitchens OF
houses where a handful of beans and
teto plGntainS ,Uere the fare for the
entire family.
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NJ washington as 6ElIaLnS new
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary comes Sir Ron
Il aid Lindsay, K. G. M. c., G. B.,
C. v. o., p. c., shrewd, calm,
indestructlbly courteous, tall, cookbook
ing, very popular in his own service,
enormously experienced, with tales and
anecdotes from the court and diplo-
matte circles of a dozen capitals
member of one of the worlds oldest
and most famous houses, dispatched to
interpret at the political focus point of
the United States the mind and will
OF government composed of labor
organizers, trade union leaders and
journalists, all humbly born.
In going to Washington from the
London foreign office, where he has
been permanent undersecretary for
the last two years, Sir Ronald returns
to an old love, for he was counselor
there In 1919 and 1920. He also re-
turns to connections by marriage, for
Doth his wives (the first Lady Lindsay
aleo In 1918. and he married his pres
ent wife, who was Miss Hoyt of New
York, six years later were American
born and bred.
He has spent thirty of his fifty-two
years In the service, and into that pc
ROD has crowded posts at old st.
Petersburg, Teheran. Washington, Paris,
London, Cairo, Washington, Paris, Con-
stantinople, Berlin and then London
again. With the Washington appoint
ment he will have held three different
embassies In less than four years.
Chased as Brilliant Man.
A brilliant man of commanding fig
ure and great charm; a man whose
| powers OF conversation and fair of Ian
guage enable him to shine in any So
ciety, put still not man of command
| ing intellectually and devastating ner-
suasiveness, like Balfour; or of dazzling
ability, infallible wisdom and tren1en-
dous force of character, like the Earl of
/ Reading; or of fairy-tale career. like
Auckland Geddes.
This Ambassador is charming. aastute-
a trained and finished diplomat; and If
you seek an aspect of quite exceptional
human interest about him you will have
to put him against the background of his
clan, look at him as one of the most
firmly drawn and interesting figures in
the modern section of that very ancient
| tapestry, the house of Lindsay.
| This family has sat in the English
Parliament for 500 years It has taken
leading part in the deliberations of
the nation for more generations than
any other of the old island families IT'S
head is Ronald Lindsay's brother. the
twenty-seventh Earl of Crawford and the
tenth Earl of Balcarres, the premier
earl of Scotland, in which land It's first
| ancestor was that Sir Walter de Lindissi
noble and knight" who accomuanied
David Earl of Huntington to Cumbria
early in the twelfth century. The bones
of its more remote ancestors lie buried
deep in Scandinavian soil They were
Of the stock from which sprang the
vikings and the warriors who took Nor
mandy and founded the line of dukes
who subsequently conquered England,
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New Zealand Oysters
Grow at Base of Trees

Sir James Parr, high commissioner
for New Zealand, surprised some Of
his hearers in an address here by say
ing that in New Zealand oysters grew
on trees. Oysters. and excellent oys-
tiers, grow at the root of trees in tidal
waters, and when the tide has cleared
New zealanders take oysters as easily
as from q fish counter he explained.
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Norwegian Composer
Receives Rare Honor

Christian Sinding, best known Of
Norway's living composers, was recent
~ honored with the Norwegian gold
medal and chain in connection with the
250th jubilee of the Harmonien Mus
teal Society Of Bergen. This award
has been bestowed on only one man
before-Edvard Gries's grandfather,
ia l7O5
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hills, belted by coastal plain. We have
100000 people, most of whom are
dependent on agriculture for their liv-
ing. This offers a great problem, be-
cause not only have We population
density Of more than four hundred to
the square mile but, in addition, large
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tracts Of the mountainous country c.
unproductive.
Wages are very low, the average earn
ings of workman being only $3.50 to
5000 year. The small farmers get only
bare existence from their farms
Within recent years small factories have
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BY C. PATRICK THOMPSON.

THO Washington as Britain's new
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary comes Sir Ron
4 aid Lindsay, K. G. M. G., G. B.,
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.

TIME heart of this tariff fight, when
it comes to its closing phase,
will be the flexible provision.
i Flexible provision" is going to
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-01

Notice Is hereby given that the
Beard Of Directors OF Cameron
County Water improvement Dis
trict No. 8 will. at their meeting TO
be held August IA. 1929, at 1000
o'clock a. m. at the office OF said
district in Brownsville. Texas. re-
ceive proposals from any banking
corporation. association or individ-
ual banker, in Cameron county,
Texas, that may desire to be Sc
lected as the depository OF the
funds of said district. Each bid
shall be by sealed proposal, stating
the rate of interest offered on the
funds OF the district for the term
between the date of such bid and
the next regular time for the selec-
ton of the depository, and shall De
accompanied by a certified check
for $4,000 as a guarantee of good
faith on the part OF the bidder. and
that If his bid is accepted. he will
enter into the bond. as district de-
pository, as required by law.
Done under order of said Board
Of Directors, July "a. 1929.
MARGARET SEABURY.
Secretary of the Board Of Di-
rectors of Cameron County
Water Improvement District
No. 8.
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