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New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
Flashes of Life

By the Associated Press
 New York - The nations health jest girl avoids alcohol, tobacco and rouge, and eats meat but once a week. Miss Florence Shock of Eus- tis, Fla.s IS, won the title at the last congress of All clubs in Chicago, is visiting. She revealed her s. o. S. (secret of success) as surf. oranges and sunshine. She likes citrus fruits, swimming and tan.
 London Viscount D'Abernon believes a vast fortune and the grat- itude of humanity await the discov- erer of a good substitute for alco- commission on licensing that the world greatly needs it.
 Hadlym, Conn. Sherlock Holmes is enjoying himself these days running a locomotive. William Gillette, retired actor, has a minia- There are trestles and switches and cars and an engine. In a cap like that he wore when playing the role of the Detective Gillette often is at the throttle giving guests a ride.
 Washington The oldest retired army officer, the oldest on record, is Major John V. Lauderale of Brooklyn, 97 years, s months 10 days.
 London - Norfolk house, home of the Duke of Norfolk in St. James Square and birthplace of George III is for sale, but $12,250,000 is not enough to by it. Such a bid was made at auction. Then it was an- nounced that private offers were higher and the auction was cancel led. The house is 200 years old.
 Sound Beach, Conn. - T. Ward Ritchie loves to play golf. Hunger thirst and heat will not stop him. On the hottest day of the year he played ITO holes in Is hours, starting at 4:30 a. m. and keeping at it till darkness.
 Roosevelt Field, N. Y. - Robert Black and Louis Reichers are get ting a beautiful tan up in the air. They are endurance fliers and are wearing nothing much but para chutes.
 Washington Two presidents would like to make a swap but can't. Senor Ibanez of Chile, where 1t is very cold now, conversed over the telephone with Mir. Hoover.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
Old Ledger Owned By Berlin Man Recalls Time When Rum Was Sold
 At 4 Shillings 6 Pence Barrel
Young Curtis Sued for
 Failure to Get "JObs"

Chicago. July 23 Pi-Harry K. Curtis, Chicago attorney and son of the vice president, has been sued for damages by two archi- tects and a contractor who charge they paid him to secure government contracts which never materialized.
 The architects, Angelo Zucco and A. M. Friedman, in their complaint charged that they gave Curtis $500 to secure the con- tract of drawing plans for a post office at Ottawa, III.
 Max Kovarski, the contractor, alleged he paid the attorney a like sum and in return was to receive the roofing contract on the proposed new Chicago post office.
 Damages in each suit were placed at s1,000. Both con- plaints set out that Curtis, in a verbal agreement. promised to hold the checks in escrow until the contracts were awarded. h. stead the compliments charged, the attorney indorsed and depos- ited the checks in his bank.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

London, July 23 P}-George Ser nard Shaw will be 74 years old July 2C-and his first novel soon publish ed.
 It is called "Immaturity." and written just IS years ago when the noted playwright was 25 years old.
 T hawked it around to every pub fisher imaginaoie and they all turn- ed it down. Some would scarcely look at it." Shaw said.
 But, Confound it. I have been able to read it again with interest now, mind you, with all my experience . so it must have been good 4S year sago. It is nice respectable novel. IL wrote it be- fore had Karl Marx, before I both- cred with politics, before 1 was a socialist"
 The dramatist takes the greatest care of his health. Wood chopping is his favorite exercise, then walk ing. He may often be seen abovt
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
GRAPE CAMP PAIGN
 WEARS SUCCESS
Cooperative Marketing Case
 Shows Progress

Fresno. Cal. July 23.-Pl-Al- though lacking 10000 acres 10 make an S5 per cent signup, the campaign to organize a government sponsored cooperative marketing organization for Californias s350,O00, ,00o grape growing industry appeared success ful today.
 As the campaign ended last night Wylie NJ. Griffin, chairman Of the campaign committee annouhcec sufficient provisional contracts were in sight to bring the signup to 65 per cent and his workers would con- tinue soliciting until Friday night.
 The federal farm board program, which requires an S5 per cent sign up of the states 519,000 acres ot vineyards, calls for an advance of s20,0OO,o00 to aid in marketing this years crop and the formation of an agency to buy or convert into by products the indicated 100000 tor surplus.
 Growers will pay to the coopera- tive agency s1.50 for every ton Of fresh grapes marketed. The pro- ceeds will be used to buy up the surplus.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
ACTS TO AID
 AGRICULTURE INTERESTS
Government Will Increase Duty On Wheat By 50 Per Cent-Tax
 Sesame Seed Again.

Jerusalem, July 23 tP>-The gov ernment. with the approval of the colonial secretary, is taking a num- Ter of measures designed to be Of benefit to the agricultural interests Of Palestine.
 One measure is an increase of approximately 50 per cent in the i'm port duty on wheat. four and semolina. Another measure is the regulation Of these imports under a systems of licenses controlled by standing committee on commerce and industry. Unrefned olive oil cannot be imported until further notice while an import duty has been reimposed on sesame seed.
 Sir John Hope Simpson. who has been here since May on behalf ol the British government Investigating colonization. immigration and tn" general development of the country has completed his studies and has left for England.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
MAYOR ID CONFER
 WITH MACDONALD
Will Discuss Presentation Of Bid for Highway Grading

Mayor Quigley will confer late to- day with John A. Macdonald, state highway commissioner. preparatory to presentation of bid in behalf Of the department of public works on grading of the new trunk line high way between Hillcrest avenue and Gilette's corner.
 The project will be discussed with members of the common council at special meeting which the mayor will call next week. Before the de- partment of public works can enter into competitive bidding it will be necessary to obtain the councils consent.
 At the special session the mayor will make a formal report on the condition of the storm water sewer on Hartford avenue where an in spection early this week disclosed dangerous condition. The inspec- tion was made after the mayor had climbed down into the ditch at the Piper brook culvert and detected signs of breakage upstream.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

his country estate with a bleaming axe on his shoulder and his white beard flying n the wind.
 He eschews all meat, eats only vegetables and fruits. He gets as much sunlight as possible and al- ready he has become a legend at Cap Antibes, France. where his tall, almost nude, figure is seen for hours at a time prone on raft enjoying his sun baths, or walking about in q monkish looking dressing gown.
 No man in Loadon is more adept at gettin ga taxicab after the the- ater than Shaw. He is out of his seat in a jiffy and while the rest of the audience is still standing at at tcntion to the strains of God Save the King the 73 year old socialist probably is well on the way home.
 Shaw's poin-ed pen has jabbed so many people than it isn't surprising when some of them jab back. The Royal Academy of Art, which he has
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
Actors and Actresses In Poverty As Chicago Show Business Flops
 For First Time In Many Years

congregated all day at the entrance to the building where the casting offices are located
 Vaudeville Fairly Good
 Yet half a block away the booking office of a vauedville corporation re- ported that there is no lack of work for standard vaudeville acts, and it vas learned that the organization now is signing up acts for S7 weeks work instead of 45. But only 20 lt the corporations chains of 250 thea ters are booked out of Chicago.
 Last year popular motion pictures stayed in one house from five to six weeks in the summer, but the best any have done this season has bec1 four weeks, and the general run ls two.
 However theatrical people he~e are looking for a marked impove- ment in the situation next month as several outstanding musical and dramatic productions are booked for August. One of the big movie chaiN: has plans ready for immediate con- struction of two large motion picture houses here.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
Chorus Girls Take Wait ress Jobs and Leading Men Run Elevators - Equity Association Says Situation Worst in Ex- perience.

Chicago, July 23 P}-Chorus girls CT route to Broadway in their dreams are detouring behind cigar stands and hosiery counters in Chi cago these days. for the theater here i3 suffering it's worst summer in the citys history.
 But not only is the rank and file Of the profession affected. A matinee hero is running an elevator in a Loop skyscraper. A popular juvenile lead has found employment in :, lumber yard. Leading ladies are say ing "Order, Please?" and a villain IS selling neckties in a shop.
 Take Any Jobs Offered
 In fact, despite reports that vaude- vile is in increasing demand, stage folks are taking any job they can get-and are glad to get it-it was learned from the Actors Equity As scciation and various theatrical enl- ployment agencies.
 The talkies, too many applicants to d JOp' d CL4dilSS III tHt puUllC taste, and the stock market hang over" were blamed for the situation by those in the theatrical know. Yet their theme song is Better Times Are Coming"
 About 2.000 actors. actresses and performers look to Chicago for their ham -and-eggs in the summer. Near ly 500 of these are still making the rounds hopefully even though some of the employment agents are re- ported to have gone fishing"
 Many Stock Shows
 The main source of pay-checks in the profession in summer in Chicago are the stock shows that are cast here and sent out on the road
 But-not one stock show was sent out of Chicago this summer and generally there are from 25 to 30.
 It was also an off season for tent shows, as only a few were made up here. and several Of these are reported folding up or ios- ing money.
 The chances for substitute work jn local current attractions are slim. because for the first time in nearly a century there is only one leg'ti- mate attraction playing here. Last year in the middle of July there were five.
 Pedestrian traffic along Chicago's Rialto is slowed up by the actors
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
POPULATION TOTAL WILL
 BE AROUND 123,O00;000
Estimates Made With 8 States Miss ing Place National Figure At
 About 122,9o ,OOO

Washington, July 23 (P, - When the census bureau totals up the pop ulation of the nation for 1880. A figure somewhat less than 123,000,- GOO is expected to be the result
 On the basis of preliminary re- turns from 40 states and the District of Columbia, the Associated Press has calculated the population at 122.957, ,000 persons.
 The enumerators reported for those states a total of 10O,S07,723 as compared with S6,667,S5S ten years ago, an increase of IA, 4,139,S45 or 11631 per cent.
 Applying this rate of increase 10 the country as a whole, the esti- mated total was reached. Should the final returns bear it out, the figure would represent an increase of IT, 246.000 for the last decade.
 Reports still have to be received from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Louisiana, Miss tssippi, Arizona, and Idaho.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

often belabored, refused a few months ago to hang his portrait by John Collier, although accepting a companion picture Of Aldous Huxley by the same painter. Collier sad he considered the rejected picture the better of the two.
 To this day, Shaw is never so happy as when taking pot shots at some revered English institution, casting aspersions on the British national character or ridiculng some empire foible.
 His comparison Of Lenin with George Washington was one of his most severe digs at the British. He accused them of treating both of these men alike, crucifying them while alive and canonizing them when dead.
 Between criticism Of England and the United States he attacks his own Irish with zest.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
ZERO HOUR NEAR IN TOKYO FLIGHTS
Bromley and Wark to Take Of
 Within Few Days

Tacoma. Wash, July 23.-tP'- The zero hour drew near today for the starting of two projected air plane flights from Tacoma to Tokyo,
 Lieut. Harold Bromley, thrice thwarted in attempts to make the transpacific flight, said he would be
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
Police Halt Contest
 Begun On Sidewalk

Chicago, July 23 P-The en- durance contest of Mrs. Emily Young, 40 year old Negress and heavy set, has ended.
 Mrs. Young took up a position on the sidewalk at East 34th street and South Parkway Sat- urday with the announced inten- ton of remaining there 90 days, reading and singing.
 She fortified herself with dozen cans of corne dbeef and a can opener. She also had large clothes basket with fur coat for a cover, and there was a frying pan and a small alcohol stove.
 Last night the police stopped the contest. The charge was blocking traffic.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
FEVER BATTLES DOCTORS

Istanbul, Turkey, July 23 P1A malignant fever which has baffled physicians is sweeping through the Smyrna region, with 15,000 persons already stricken. Medical men have been unable to identify the malady which is spreading rapidly.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
Atlas Powder Company
 Shows Drop in Sales

Wilmington, Del. July 23 tp-The. report of the Atlas Powder Company for the six month period ended June 30, 1850. issued today. shows sales of sS,664,19o, compared with s11,- 1S3,S27 in the corresponding period of 1929.
 Net income for the period. amounted to s725,O22. and earnings on the no par value common stock amounted to s1.94 share. Earn ings on common stock for the sec ond quarter of 1880 amounted to 91 cents a share.
 A good English waiter is said to be the best servant in the world.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

ready to start his new plane City of Tacoma" after tomorrow on re- ceipt of favorable weather reports.
 Robert B. Wark, Bromley's rival, announced he would be ready to take off Friday morning, Bromley and Wark have denied any intention of racing to Tokyo but their flight plans have been going ahead neck and neck.
 Bromley and his CO., pilot, Harold Gatty, last night began installing gyroscopic instrument for blind flying. /
 Bromley expects to stop some where in Alaska to refuel. Wark plans a nonstop flight with a. re- fueling somewhere over Alaska or the Aleutian Islands. ISF, HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
FEAR FOUL PLAY

Glens Falls, N. Y. July 23 Pl- The possibility that Eleanor Good speed, A, of New Haven. Conn, was a victim of foul play was being in vestigated today by police. Her body, clad in pajamas and bath robe, was found yesterday hanging to tree in the woods near Lake Luzerne.
 Miss Goodspeed was spending the summer at the lake. The cord of her bathrobe was used in the hang ing.
 An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of her death.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
FINNISH LEADER MISSING

Helsingfors. July 23 P) - Profess sor Tigerstedt. noted Finnish pyhsi- ologist of Helsingfors University. disappeared on a sailing trip today and fear was felt that he had been drowned.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

The National Guard now contains 17031S officers and men, an in- crease of 2,330 since last June.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

The "carrian plant" an Indian jungle native. has strong smell of tainted meat. which attracts flies to it.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

The Brooklyn Dodgers rested Daz- zy Vance, the clubs star hurler, nine days for an Independence Day game with the Giants, and he lost it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

A ND BabS0n said to his guest:
n Tell me. my friend, what line of re-
search will see the greatest development during
the next so years"
Mr. Steinmetz dropped his head In his
hands," declared BabsOn- "He had q massive
head On a little, insignificant body. One of the
finest heads / have ever seen. For several
minutes he was quiet. I think he was seeking
words for the answer he gave me- 1t was,
you see, most extraordinary statement on the
lips OF a great scientist
{" The greatest discoveries he said, will be
made along spiritual lines. We scientific men
faave spent our lives studying physical forces.
And now--having made the most sensational
discoveries In the history Of the wOrid-we
Aearn that our knowledge has nat brought peo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

the church for more money. Surely the world
needs to return to the Ten Commandments and
to the sweet teachings of Jesus
Educators should be compelled to teach rs
much about God and spiritual forces as about
gravitation, electricity and all the physical
forces that make up our knowledge of science.
Furthermore: Just as Catholics. ProteStants
and Jews all use precisely the same multiplica-
ton table. and study chemistry, physics and
algebra from the same text books, so, Sensihly.
they should unite in studying the greatest thing
of them al-spiritual power. Religion must be
put on a scientific basis.
THE five great teachings of Jesus are based
upon definite fundamental laws. and can be
studied in any laboratory, or discussed in any
lecture hall. Beauty. dignity and art have fit
place and I'LL q useful end. But they are not all
in all. We don't depend solely on pulpitS, and
candles and organs to put religion across.
Jesus messages are as sound and demon
strable as q problem in geometry. And can
prove their wisdom. Not as q preacher. I am
not q overwhelmingly I once thought I
wanted to be one But as q hard-boiled business
man. who has to be shown.
Here they are:
Love of God.
Power of Human Love,
Effect of Human Prayer,
The Golden Rule,
Eternal Life.
"Jesus was practical psychologist. The mod
Continued on SirteeRth Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

TT may surprise some people to know that Mr.
BahsOn says his prayers. Lots of people be-
heve that only ciergymen. women and invalids
pray.
'-They seem to think comments Mr.. Bah
son. shat there Is something about prayer
that Is not exactly red-bioOded, or twO-fsted.
II am told, however, that Jack SEnarkey says
his prayers- so does Sergt York, whom men
call the fOne-Man Army Sharkey and York
are certainly red -bIOOded and tWO-6sted.
~Nor n Tong time R has been considered
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happiness"
rather smart to be irreligiouS. I wish that
could get people back to God Most Of ALL 1
wish could get them to saying their prayers
again. I'd like to get them to pray like John
Wesley, who wrote In his autobiography 4 have
so much to do today that must pray for
two hours this morning.
Most people would think it plain waste
of time to pray for two hours. especially If
they had q great many other things to do. But
Wesley prayed on the same principle that q
farmer spends half an hour sharpening his hoe
before going out into the field to do an hours
wedding"
Mr. Babson wishes he could make people
realize how comforting it is to turn to God in
time of trouble.
IF something worries me-" he says, ~I think
Of God. II some one has been unkind to me,
think Of God II should come face to face
with dire grAef-Or diSaster-or death ITSELF /
should think Of God Jesus voiced q sublime
thought when he said Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy SOUL and with all thy mind, and thy
neighbor rs myself
EENIERvE specialists say that great amount
of trouble does not hurt uS-So long as
there is VARIETY It Is broOding ON one thing
too long that causes mental breakdownS. And
50 the psychOanalysts think they have invented
SoAA.~ sAAAS SA1eS SoA tAAOushe AahSAcAenCc- <1A
that Is necessary, they declare, Is TO transfer
our thoughts from the subject that hurts. or
is tempting us. Jesus had the same notion
1900 years ago. when He told us TO love Him,
and think about Him.
Jesus was really an ultra modern. although
the agnoStics, who think themselves so smart,
consider him an old fogey. If you win read
Jesus program, you win see that 1t was made
up primarily of healing. giving faith to the dis
couraged and good cheer TO the creStfallen. He
constantly taught that the worth while things
of life come through freedom. naturalness and
love for God and man. He urged people to for
give. To love. And trust, that they might have
life more abundantly.'
He never preached that we should, for self
glorifcation, do right just for rights sake. but
I'm order to live more fully and completely.
The trouble 10 that Jesus simple messages
have been buried I'm the Fubblsh Of Theology.
the Welter 0f church politics and the desire o.
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Babsons Statistics on Christian Religion

''7he Wiza,d Of Wellesley Hills" Considers
This Spiritual Surrey One o His Great
est Reports, for Here He Charts the
Future Trends o. Research in The Realm
ofMan S Intangible Asset-His Soul
and Finds Place for God in a World
Thar Worships Big Business.
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pie happiness. Material things win never
bring happiness.
Scientists must now turn their laboratories
over to the study of God. and prayer, and
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Consider for instance, the late
President Wilson Henry Ford says
that he and President Wilson agreed, during
the war to read their Bibles every day. The
President kept that promise to the day of his
death and Mr. Ford has never missed day.
Yet Mr. wilson was an intellectual, and Mr..
Ford is a very smart man himself.
Roger Babson deeply religious man. has
given much thought to this subject He ad-
mits he doesn't read his Bible as methodically
rs Mr.. Ford But he does say his prayers.
Every night and morning. And grace, before
and after meals.
One of the brainiest men ON earth was
Charles p. Stefnmetz, the great electrical engi-
neer. He was a scientist If ever there was
one. A great many people believe that 1t is
hard for scientists to reconcile themselves to
faith. In fact, agnostics say that scientific
men rarely believe in God Yet observe the
deep feelings which Steinmetz revealed to Roger
w. Babson shortly before his death.
Steinmetz had gone to Wellesley to visit his
friend, and the two, scientist and statistician.
discussed radio, aeronautics, power transmission
any number Of things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
BY ELEANOR EARLY.

Y LITTLE, unimportant men are apt to
sneer at faith. But hig men are
often prayerful
Consider, for instance. the late
President Wilson, Henry Ford says
Seward daily gateway., 1930-11-14

receive all kinds of fatherly ad- vice from Louis Strauss, under whom Andrew received his mer- cantile training when Strauss was at Unalaska as agent for the Alaska Commercial co mpany. After that deponeth saith not, as to the doings of this gentle man, but 1t is believed he will have lots to tell upon his re- turn, and maybe lots that he won't tell.
 Ed. Note. Since the above was written word has been re ceived that Andrew changed his mind and went Outside on the SS Northland
 Since the departure of the August SS Starr, Unalaska has been without a M. $. Marshall, which is probably the reason for several acts of laW-breaking that ' has occurred recently in a com munity singularly lawabiding in the past
 The evening of September 21, about half a dozen fox skins were stolen from the store Of \ the Alaska Salmon Company Immediately after the theft a i transient fisherman of the name ' of Charlie Johnson was appoint ' ed to ferret out the culprit, but
 to this date no trace has beer \ found of the missing fur. MT
 Martin valued the fur at about ' $1,OOO
Seward daily gateway., 1930-11-14

FOR SALE-Good Majestic range
 Mrs. R. C. Ingram.