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The Washington times., 1930-08-19
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

I lay in the grass. It was not
very tall grass. but, lying there
with my face pressed to the
ground, it seemed as high as
the forest and as filled with
mystery and menace.
Here we're long, winding tun-
nels and secret dens and yawn-
ing pits. The pits were, per-
haps. an inch deep and the
winding tunnels were but Sits
of shade between the tangled
stems of weeds. But I was so
, close to them that they seemed
as huge and terrible as any jun
gle. Among those tunnels mon
sters rambled and coiled -
great, hairy spotted beasts
fanged winged car
riers of death. Tiny ants and
spiders and inch worms they
were, in reality, but magnified
to horrible Importance by my
nearness.
For long, sleepy moments I
stared at these horrors as an
other bug might have stared.
had forgotten my normal, man.
size world. / had forgotten the
power and beauty of freedom
which were my right as a man.
I could see and feel only he
dark and dreadful little world
that lay beneath the grass stems
in which life squirmed,
trapped in darkness.
Later, toward evening, I
climbed a mountain. Not an
easy climb. A narrow, steep
trail, tangled in. chaparral. But
presently I came out into the
clear. Far below me the land
stretched out and out-tumbled
hills - deep ravines - small
clearings set like golden tiles in
the dark bronze of the forest.
And over it all twilight flowed
in quiet green tide.
Many things lay under that
tide. Farms lay under it. with
the going and coming of men
and their hopes and fears. The
forest lay under it, quickening
now with the stealthy night life
OF the beasts And, some
where, my little patch of grass
lay under it-with its mimic
dangers that had seemed so real
and near from my bug's-eye-
view. All this lay below, but,
from the n1ountain.tnn NV vieur
was so wide that none of it
clutched me. I knew it was all
there. L knew there was ugli.
ness there as well as beauty
pain as well as joy-but they no
longer filled my senses with
their terrible Importance. They
had gone back to their natural
place in the scheme Of things.
They were all Of q piece with
the rest Of that resting, stirring
t-'Aght hour Of life.
The Washington times., 1930-08-19

had parked there all last week
without being disturbed he
said. that it was because he
had not been on duty. On my
observation to him that in the
papers it said that the park
and police commission had
given permission to sleep in
the parks the gracious member
of the park police force said
that the papers were not run
ming:
This park, and I am. Get
out before I run you I'M"
Things are coming to pretty
state of affairs when peace
full law abiding citizens can
not enjoy a public park even
in daylight without being bull
lied for nothing at all by q
park policeman. who does not
realize that he is Just a small
part of a great system of law
enforcement and not the law
himself.
WALTER p. wHITTTNGTON.
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

The speaking in perpetual
hyperbole is comely in nothing
but love. Bacon.
Age is like life, it cannot be
hid. Decker.
Two low they build who build
beneath the stars. Young.
Idleness overthrows all.
Burton.
What is now proved was once
only imagined. Blake.
Say what you will, It's better
to be left than never to have
been loved. -Congreve.
All liberal and humane
: studies are linked together by
certain bond of union
Cicero.
Time and industry produce
every day new knowledge
Hobbies.
He who does not know how
to use leisure makes more bust.
ness Of it than there is business
IN business itself f.-EnniuS. ~"
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
Writer Urges Housewives
TO Buy Vegetables Now

Editor, Times
On account of limited quanti-
ties of all vegetables received
from the surrounding counties
of Maryland and Virginia which
has been caused directly by the
small amount of rainfall in the
last six weeks, stores will be
compelled to advance their
former prices this winter. due to
the shortage of the present crop
Of vegetables.
The conditions at this time
are that none of the great can,
ming plants of the United States
are producing the full capacity
of their output which, according
to statistics. would actually
mean a great shortage in
canned foods for the coming
winter.
I personally feel that this is
a warning to the housewives not
only of Washington, D. c., but
to the nation.
I myself am not in coalition
with any chain stores and do
not derive any personal benefit
except to feel that the warning
is to help the people of this
great United States and to ad-
wise them Of the conditions
which are actually going to
exist.
If any one reading this feels
that am exaggerating. l will
refer you to the daily newspaper
of any city in the United States.
r, C., S,
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Hearst Papers Advocate

/. "Peace and amtty with all nations: entQngling
alliances NTH none" as advocated by George
Washington. -.
e Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, State to haze less than tOo Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portiommemt IN the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department of the Army, of the Nary
and of the Air Forces, all united 0nder Secre-
tory of National Defense.
a. Federal action to the limit of Federal po,vers to
abolish iUiteracy in the United States under
Secretary of Education.
s. Installation of the President on the first of IAN
uory folloaoing November election.
6. SelectUe immigration to admit only those suitea
for American citizenship
2. Deportation Of undesirable aliens.
Q. Complete publicity for income tGres,
The Washington times., 1930-08-19

Then. presently, the twilight
deepened into amber-the deep
ravines flowed with wine until
all the land lay drenched in
purple. And the sky which had
been a brittle. white film
opened. Opened, veil upon veil,
into the dark corridors Of the
night. And all about me. like
lamps hung low along the end
less miles of space. the great
stars burned-Sapphire, emer-
aid, topaz, diamond white.
And my mind opened--aS the
sky had opened. While I lay
in the grass, with my face
pressed close to the earth and
darkness, had seemed a part
of that earth, bound by its
dumb and helpless terror. But
now, that I sat with the earth
below me and my head in the
stars, / felt that I. too, was an
inhabitant of space-moving
along a wide and endless trail.
And 1t came to me that life
was like that. just a matter
of perspective. If one lay too
close to the ground-too close
to self-any trifle was tragedy.
But III one chose a mountain
no matter how hard the climb
one rose above pain and took
ones place in the stars.
couyright 1880. King Features
Syndicate Inc.
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

A man kept company with a
girl for five years. He was fond
of her. He enjoyed her COM
panionship. He did not care for
other girls, nor did he go out
with them.
But somehow he never felt
the tremendous urge of love.
Why, he did not know. He
thought he ought to, but some
thing indefinable seemed to
hold him back.
Then one day he called to
take her for a drive. This he
had done many times before.
On this particular day, how
ever, the girl greeted him in
muslin frock, with a wide
brimmed, lavender straw hat.
When the man saw the girl
that peculiar and vague some
thing which had been the bar
rier between them suddenly
vanished.
On the instant he fell in love
with his friend and an hour
later he proposed.
What had happened?
The muslin frock and hat, !
by associations stored up in his
unconscious mind, brought back
to him a picture of his mother
when he was a boy.
He had idealized his mother.
Now he felt in the girl a re-
kindling of the love and its
ideslization.
The first beloved objects that
the child learns to know are
the parents.
The mother-and-father influ-
ence, coming at a time when
the child's mind is open to
any suggestion, writes itself in
delibly upon the infant brain
and exerts a predominating ef-
feet during the individuals
entire lifetime.
And, of course, nature Is wise
in this respect.
No one could possibly love
the baby more than its fond
parents.
No one could possibly wish It
well more than they.
Now. according to the laws
Of nature. opposite sexes at
tract more than the same
sexes.
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
Civilization and. Power
By Archibald Henderson

Until we can see the present
age in a long perspective, it
will probably be impossible to
settle the great debate con-
corning the contributions Of
power to our civilization. But
already we feel sure that, from
. a material standpoint. power
has served as a mighty agent Of
release for the work-facultieS Of
mankind. The case for power
has been admirably put by c. F.
HirShfeld in the arreSting book
edited by Charles A. Beard
Toward Civilization"
Machines, notably the engine
and water-wheel, are called
prime movers. In 1849. through
prime movers, some 10000. 900
horsepower were available TO
the inhabitants of this country.
BY 1923 this figure had been
multiplied seventy times. Today
the total primary power in the
country is one hundred times
what it was in 1S49. The great
advance is indicated If We COM
pute one horse power as equiv
alent to ten men in work1prO-
ducing ability.
On this basis. each man.
woman and child in the country
in 1S49 had the equivalent Of
five human slaves available for
service. Today the power avail
able per capita Is 50 vast that
each man. woman and child
now has the equivalent of abUuf
100 slaves
The triumph Of such . ervii
ization Is that nens q ths
power represents human 80
cry. There are - snark1Ez.
no aucticn blocks. - ssTv1-Ezs
Power q at the ssrvszs m |[T
one. dang rs g hsz wUk e.
The Washington times., 1930-08-19

The surest way to be cheated
is to think oneself cleverer than
other people.
La Rochefoucauld.
A crowd is not company and
faces but a gallery of pictures
Bacon.
Ignorance of future ills, is a
more useful thing than knowl-
edge. Cicero.
Unless what we do is useful,
fame is folly. .-Phraedrus.
Corrupted freemen are the
worst of slaves.-Garrick.
Gentlemanliness, being an
other word for intense human
ity.-Ruskin.
The ear is a less trustworthy
witness than the ~eye.-Herodo-
tus.
A good judge judges accord.
ing to what is right and good
and prefers equity to strict law.
Coke.
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part of the contrlSutiun e 80
power age to the dsTsiuum@wH
Of q new culture. n m o.
tribution Of power tnTwEEmzG
the population whaEk r. w
precedented In the wnri&E m@
tory. II is laying the nmwGE
foundations for the SzzwerHerllr-
ture Of q great new wara9 e~
ture.
The contemporary. frun 80
power standpoint. b Sc rw98
as well off as the f4zws fzse-
men Of ancient CEeeCs-
The contrfbufian e - azEo-
motive industry tgW8E6 - 49,
civilization is far wzze~r -EEu ~
popularity sl1pposea- n E3z3 a.
most threeazarfegw sF 81 -
pTinem0wer emwmw - -
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hoods uf aWtmwmmwm -
Even mere mNtnaw ~ rMW
fact that ahusEf W wEr ewwE -
this huEP frarsMm w W -
cent Cf an tfg nywsR 49, -
parity IN tn uszwfvT- wNH go
tribsfted ~ - reas 80
Of autuunnslRf
Is P0wEr sErxz - -
man nearer - 49, E
uhich i6satzss e aE aEwE EN@
pictuFe1 ss kas go - ~
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Fr@nkENEsE1n mE E3
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"All right, get out of here
and get moving. Get going!"
AS had not been violating
any law I resented being pub
licly bawled out, as 1t were.
Nevertheless I started my
machine and when I came up
to where this policemen was
standing I asked him why we
were being driven from the
park and received an answer to
the effect that:
Because I told you to get
OUT"
After I had told him that I
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
Capital, IS Cents
Gross Profit, S..

You don need million dollars business
sef-not if you know how
A. schuerholz of Bethlehem Pa approached rsesy
by stranger who asked him for the loan Of II csns Ts
stranger said that he already had cents but required
capital. Schuerholz gave him the money.
Two days later the stranger returned repaid
He explained that he had needed total of Is
of wallpaper remover and that he had then gone
house to- house canvass and made S..
"NOw that hGOe got a start" he said, 81 inssm4
to stick to it. You don't need much capital ys9
really work."
The Washington times., 1930-08-19

park during the hot spell every
evening along with quite a
few thousand other citizens to
get the cool breezes from the
Potomac. On the evening desig-
mated the temperature had
dropped a few degrees. but it
was still far from comfortable
in the city. Well, to get to the
reason for this letter. the Of
ficer "a misfit on the force If
there ever was one) started
toward my machine and in a
very. abrupt. discourteous. bel
low brought forth:
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
Tennis
Sissy No Longer.

Tennis, formerly looked with suspicion by hemen az
game for sssies at last achieving its place the ranks
now close to baseball manly sport And Bill Tden
pon Of the United States has helped put there
T1den quit the courts at Rye Y Monday disgust
the crowd booed him because his performance up
schedule few odashoned souls who remember tennis
was more OF sport than business will regret the incident
But the majority of the spectators probably will it
step toward making the game democratic popular
When the gallery begins to throw pop bottles play
ers and threatens kill the referee lynch nesmen
old stigma under which tennis has labored for many
will be completely removed 1t getting along well no-and
in time may even attain the level of boxing.
Lovers of the game will be pleased to making such
gratifying progress
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
Asks Artillery Fire
To Stimulate Rainfall

Editor, Times
/ thought to write you a few
lines about some way that may
help bring the rain. Maybe you
experimental yourself, or you
may have heard that it never
rained as much in France as in
war time and they said that
firing cannon so much was the
cause of it.
Don't you think it could be
tried somewhere in a lonely
place, as the war is over and
we don't want to kill anybody.
I heard also that cannon has
been used in the country some
time to save the crop from a
heavy hailing.
This is just a suggestion
which I thought might help us
ALL Yesterday l received a
letter from France. They have
a very rainy summer and it
caused deficit in the crop of
so per cent.
The potatoes are a complete
failure. The papers say that in
Ireland, they are experiencing
the incest summer they ever
had. / am only afraid that
when the rain does come, we
will get more than we wish, and
then some.
PRAY, FOR RAIN.
Park Policeman Accused
Of Rank DisCOurtesy,
Editor, Times:
washington police as a gen.
eral rule are very polite and
courteous group of men, but I
had the displeasure Of coming
IN contact with an exception
to this rule on the evening Of
August II in Anacostia Park.
] had been going 70 this
The Washington times., 1930-08-19
KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Fill each blank:
/. Adonis was a beautiful
youth beloved by -.
2. A Belgian hare is variety
of domestic --.
8. Natural history is the study
OF -.
4. Genre painting deals with
5. Sage is a granulated
s. Spanker is a kind of
7. ITO take up the gauntlet"
means -.
8. Washington pie is --.
8. Lard is the rendered fat of
10. A decimal fraction is a
fraction in which the denomi.
nator is some power Of -.
Match correctly:
ii. GarrulouS-inSipid.
IL. Peremptory-fair.
Is. Impartial-talkative.
Il. Jejune-charlatan.
IS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
CAnSwers On Magazine Page.I
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New Britain herald., 1930-09-05
SURPRISING TWO BANDITS

Policeman James J. McHugh Of the New Haven vice squad gave two holdup men a valuable lesson early Thursday morning when they at tempted to rob him in West Haven, One of the men is in no condition to appreciate it. for he lost his life in the experience. The other probably will have considerable spare time on his hands for the next few months to mediate on the theory of high way robbery as practiced in the best circles
 Officer McHugh was en route 10 the West Haven police station to confer with officials there on series of holdups in that vicinity, when the two men suddenly drove their car across the road in front of him, hoped out and confronted him with a revolver as he stopped. Their commands 10 surrender his valuables immediately did not phase the officer, but only spurred him on to courageous action. He jumped out Of his car, drew his revolver and began 10 fire at the two men. One
New Britain herald., 1930-09-05
25 Years Ago Today

Attorney Arthur W. Upson will preside over the Oliver W. Stuart meeting next Monday.
 The New Britain Turner society was second in the athletic contests held yesterday at Turner park. The team representing Holyoke finished first.
 Wilfred Beloin has purchased a piece of property on Liberty street
 The fire board will hold a meeting tonight. Absence from the city of several commissioners because of va cations made it necessary for the meeting to be postponed several times.
 Judge J. E. Cooper and Mrs. Cooper returned after their summer vacations.
 St. Matthews German Lutheran school opened today with an enroll ment of 100 pupils. About 100 girls enrolled at the Normal school.
 There was a long session of police court this morning, Many of the cases were the result of Labor Day argunentS,
New Britain herald., 1930-09-05
COSTE'S GOOD WILL TOUR

Prominent business men and philanthropists are reported dis cussing plan to have Coste and Bellonte, the French fliers who spanned the Atlantic and landed on Long Island, make a good will tour of the United States in their ia nous plane. Both aviators are re- ported in a receptive mood. All that remains is to raise sufficient money for the expenses of the trip. Ger tainly it is to be hoped that the plan will materialize, for nothing could be of more help toward cementing friendly relations with France, recently so sorely strained by the tariff raises, than sight of the two air heroes.
 Coste and Bellonte, leaving out Of consideration the possible lack of practical motive for such a hazard ous flight, symbolize the highest type of of air achievement in the minds of the American public They are decidedly in the public eye; both are undoubtedly experts in their line; both are thorough going avi- ot ai sational feats before they attempt them. Such men are likely to prove of real service to the air industry. for they inspire confidence in planes through their accomplishments.
 There is still time to raise the necessary money for the tour. The fliers are not due to return to the east until Sunday, when they will arrive in Washington if everything goes on schedule. They will be guests at a private reception that day and on Monday they will -~attend d luncheon given in their honor by President Hoover, Public interest in their presence will not begin to wane for a good week yet, so during that time the good will tour can be arranged.
 One reason the trip would do enormous good is that the average individual still confines his interest in airplanes to observation. The country is gradually growing more air minded, but Mr. and Mrs. Peo- pie, as a general rule, still stand back and watch the planes fit over- head. Coste and Bellonte coud focus interest on aviation as it has not been aroused since the flight of already beginning to be hidden in history.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-05
TORRINGTON MEN WILL BE TRIED FOR MURDER
May 0 Set As Tral Date-Jury Panel Is Drawn-McEyoy
 PreSides.

Litchfeld, Sept 4.-1Pl-Donlini Chiarello and Theodore Alamo of Torrinston will go on trial for their lives charged with first degree mur- der in the staying of Antonio Russo on May 9. A special grand jury yesterday returned indictments against the two men who are being held without bail in Litchfield county jail.
 Today panel of talesman was to be drawn for the trial.
 Edward Mascolo of Waterbury. counsel for the pair, made a motion for separate trials. The motion was taken under advisement by Judge Frank P. McEvoy, hearing his first cases in superior court.
 The Russo case complicated by evidence at the outset tending to indicate the Torrington cobbler had taken his own life. On the basis of a suicide note and a revolver found beside the dead man, Medical Ex- aminer Harry B. Panchett of Tor. rington returned . verdict of sui- eide. Later an autopsy showed Russo had been shot in the back as we'll as in the head, and the"sui- eide note" lost its significance when authorities found Russo could not write. Chiarello and Alamo were arraigned in Torrington po- lice court late in May and bound over with ball.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-05
PROGRESS OF THE 2 PER CENT
 PLAN

Progress on the plan to collect two per cent of the salaries of city employees and teachers for the relief of any sufferers from unemploy- ment here seems to be meeting with considerable success. there is little surface protest at least among any but the teachers against paying the money into common fund. 4>espite the novelty of the plan and ,ne fact that it will raise about s9,00O we are far from satisfied that the scheme attracts any favorable notice for New Britain from points outside. It is not q good reflection upon a town when it IS known that salaries were attached by permission" to relieve starving mouths, it is better that a tax be laid to cover the deficit of the charity department in caring for the needy as Ernest Humphrey suggested. The plan of a bond issu- anCe, sponsored by Bartlett, amounts to the same thing but it is doubtful that the efforts necessary to raise money through bonds is necessary.
 Admitting that the motive of charity is a good one and that there probably will be need of tidy sum before the winter is over, it al- most seems as though the Mayor has put the cart before the horse in his methods. Connected with the city is welfare department, charity department if you wish. which administratcs certain sums annually in taking care Of the needy and the unfortunate. As an adjunct to that the Community Chest raises another sum yearly to put 10 several uses, one of which is directed to- ward the same end as the city de- partment, There was no concerted drive 10 raise funds for the Con- munity Chest this year. as far as the public was concerned, though money was received through solicitation of
New Britain herald., 1930-09-05
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER B. 1eso

went down, mortally wounded, and the other escaped, only to be captur ed within few hours
 Few people will be bloodthirsty enough to gloat over the fact that one of the holdup men was killed, but on the other hand there will be little sympathy aroused. Men who resort to robbery with violence must expect to take long chances. When they lose their lives they have only themselves to blame. All in all Officer McHugh deserves consider able credit for his courage.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-05
Film of Ocean Flight
 Being Shown at Strand

New Britain was the first city in the state to receive a sound film of the arrival of Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte in New York after their nonstop flight across the At lantic in the "Queston Mark" ac- cording to Manager Jack Samson of the Strand theater. where the pie lures are being shown.
 The film arrived yesterday after noon and was shown for the first time in the evening. It will be part of the program for the rest of the week.
 Although the "Question Mark" did not land until dusk, the views are clear. The cheers of the crowd are distinct on the sound track. An announcer gives details of the trip including statistics and descriptive matter.