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New Britain herald., 1930-12-17
WaU Street Briefs

New York, Dec. r (P-Pointing ! out that 1t Is necessary for oil re- liners 10 hold down their produc- lion of gasoline to avoid a bad gas cline market next year. the Stan dard Oil Co., Of New Jersey, in its publication, The Lamp" says its subsidiary and affiliated companies have consistently restricted their gasoline output for two years. The
 publication points out that whereas 1 the industry shows an increase of | 1G.19 per cent in the last two years, i Standard of New Jersey reduced
 stocks 5.16 per cent,
 The Republic Steel Corp. is operating all Of it's electric welding pipe mills 24 hours a day at Younss- town and Warren, Ohio.
 Comparison of the relative posi- ton of railroads in 1929 as against 1920, Standard Statistics Co. says, indicates that at the beginning Of this year plant facilities, equipment and financial situations were the best In their history The current business depression, the bulletin continues, and the emphasis placed upon the menace Of rate reductions. increasing taxation. Highway and pipe line competition by the roads themselves, have resulted in wide public overestimation Of present and potential adversities besetting railroads in general. Ultimate im- provement in fundamental business will unquestionably be followed by upturn in railroad traffic and earn ings, based on the progressive im- proyement in operations displayed over the past decade" the bulletin says,
 Most railroad bonds now legal for the investment of New York state savings bank funds will re- tain their legal status next year, says Moody's. A computation based on railroad earnings for the first 10 months of 1880 indicates that all bur tWo-Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, and Mobile and Ohio Of the 36 railroads listed will be able to report the necessary mar gin for their retention. The two, Moody's says, seem almost sure Of removal through the provision that Iegals must be bonds Of carriers which in the last fiscal year pre- coding the investment have earned their fixed charges not less than one and one-half times"
New Britain herald., 1930-12-17
SIS FOR RELIEF FUND

Mrs. Nellie McCrann, president of the Demorcat Women's club Of this city, called at the office Of Mayor George A. Quigloy this morning and presented him with SIS as a con- tributionof the club to a Christmas fund which he is collecting for the relief of families of the unemployed.
 The port of Mobile Ala, has han died more than 150,00U bales of cot ton since August l.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-17
THE MARKET AT 2:09-2:3o P. M.

Total sales 10 2:20 p. m.-5,96S, 100 shares
New Britain herald., 1930-12-17
LIMITATION OF CLAIMS

Certified from Record. F CIAEEN BY.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-17

The Republic Steel Corp. is operating all Of it's electric welding pipe mills 24 hours a day at Younss- town and Warren, Ohio
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-19

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tain to grammar. history. etiquette. drawing or whstnot see II you can
find them Then look at the scrambled word below-a-d unscramble, II,
By switching the letters around. Grade yourself 20 for each OF the mis-
takes yu find. and 20 for the word II you unscranble ~
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-19
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-19
CORRECTIONS

al Fragrance, i'm the mans conversations Is spelled incorrectly. Id
Ambergis comes from the sperm whale and thus As not floral essence.
~ The man should not have breast pockets n both sides or his coat
"a The mans troussr legs do not match. 80 The scrambled word Is
PROJECTHE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26

American Artists Professional League,
which was formed year or so ago,
with headquarters in New York City,
ana now has a membership of some
two thousand, both professional and
lay members, the former being those
who actually practice art professionally,
and the latter those who are concerned
IN the advancement of the interests of
art and artists, has gone straight at
the matter Of lettering the relations
between artists and those who market
their wares. 1t has just adopted forms
Of contract for use by its members and
members of the Art Dealers Association
and the League Of Antique and Deco
rative Arts. This contract form, when
signed and witnessed as in other busi-
ness transactions, establishes the terms
OF sale, the per cent of commission to
be charged by the dealer, the degree
OF risk to be assumed by dealer or
artist and all other matters affecting
the business relationship between the
producer and the medium of sale to the
eventual owner.
These contract forms simply bring the
matter of art dealings to a business
basis. The absolute need of the artist
OF course, is a market, which he NAV
find through the medium of a dealer, or
an exhibition. or direct contact with a
purchaser. In the history of art there
are pitiful tales of the exploitation of
creators of beauty by business agents.
dealers and middlemen. The artists got
mere pittances for their works. which
were then sold for many times those
amounts, works that perhaps in later
years went to galleries or connoisseurs
Tor fabulous prices. The artist got
what he could, and that was very little.
The dealer got what he could, and that
was great deal more.
This organization has already ac-
complished some material successes for
the benefit of American artists. It
has been instrumental in securing in.
the new tariff enactment a twenty per
cent duty on imported paintings and
drawings for reproductions and designs
suitable for textile manufactures. It
has also secured the passage through
the House of Representatives on the eve
Of adjournment in July of the vestal
design copyright bill, to end the piratinR
Of designs by giving the artist the same
kind Of protection now enjoyed by
authors. The final enactment of this
measure by the present Congress is ex-
pected.
American art will develop most surely
through the material success Of its prac-
titioners. They should have the utmost
protection from fraud, exploitation, I'M
fair competition and piracy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26

and they put enough In the checks 70
amount to that" which was about
$4,000.
There is only one additional para
graph that Clara should have written.
Through some oversight she failed TO
say that II found the people at all
those tables were doing what they call
gambling BY that mean I would do
what they call betting that when the
dealer had given me some cards the
total of these cards, according to the
funny value they put on each one,
would be nearer twenty-one than his
were. If they were, he would give me
back my chips and some of his chips,
too, and IL was SO much fun getting the
dealers chips But sometimes he
would get my chips and get them ter
Fibly fast and before I knew it he got
about ell the chips had and found
they actually tried to make believe the
chips represented money. 1t has
taught me a great lesson and I do not
like that game they call gambling and
they are mean old things to try to take
my poor little money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26
Street Cars Doomed
to Pass, Saws Rider

To the Editor Of The star:
In Behind the Plow one of the local
traction companies stresses the clearing
OF Boston streets to expedite traffic-a
very good stunt, especially II it applied
to street cars, which are the greatest
h1nderers of traf1e in this city with
their one-man ideas.
The paper fails, however, to men
ton that the Boston Elevated Railway
has just reduced its local fare to S
cents to promote business in several
OF the component towns Of that great
city.
Somehow 1t is not convenient for
argument that the fact that persons do
not operate their private autos to save
money should penetrate the minds of
the traction people. Private autos are
operated to save what Is more valuable
time and physical annoyance. Incl
dentally, those who are in fair circum-
stances also save money, for to them
time is money" II it takes 40 min
utes to go somewhere by street car and
10 by auto, the autoist can afford to
pay for the gas and also spend five or
The conservation of his health Is OF
no mean consideration, as have ex-
perienced.
The traction people are now reaping
the reward Of their 40 years of effort
fighting the public and giving as little
service as the business would stand.
Who wants to stand or sit in their
teeth-rattling vehicles for pleasure?
Their business is on the down grade,
and before many years they will be
ordered of the streets. partly because
their screeching, rafting cars furnish
50 per cent Of the noise which we are
beginning to notice and to eliminate
from the city. When a car posses
Ninth and G streets at midnight fSou
cannot hear conversation any iI,ter
than at midday. Try 1t for yourst1
w. e. ALLEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26
Unwarranted Recurrence
Of Wartime Psychology

TO the Editor OF The Star:
With reference to the report from
The Hague on the front page OF your
Friday issue on the proceedings before
the American-German Mixed Claims
Commission, which is at present hold
ing its session in the International Pal
ace OF Peace there, ] beg to call your
attention to the following:
In your caption to the telegram in
question you used the word Hun in
reference to Germany and the Ger
mans. AS German resident, repre-
senting q leading German paper, the
Koelnische Zeitung, I am deeply grieved
TO have to witness such recurrence to
wartime psychology on the part of a
leading American paper, published in
the Capital of the United States, and I
think many other Germans and Ameri-
cans viii feel as I do. I had believed
that the days of such language were
over long ago. and have in my activi-
ties as q reporter to Germany on Ameri-
can Affairs heretofore always had par
ticular satisfaction in informing the
German people that the spirit Of the
war was over in this country. Ny ex-
perience Of last Friday has made me
doubtful.
It may interest you and your readers
70 know that the so-called sabotage
claim which is dealt with by the Mixed
Claims Commission at its present final
session was voluntarily allowed by Ger
many TO be submitted TO the commits
sion, although the time allotted for
such submission had long lapsed, be-
cause the German government desired
that the allegations on which the claim
was based should be cleared UP by
judicial decision. The German gov
eminent might in complete Justification
have refused to acknowledge this late
claim, which, moreover, Is presented by
insurance companies for the purpose
OF recovering payments made by them
IL years ago, which latter payments
were part Of the disbursements of the
insurance companies against vast profits
collected by them during the war. 1t
Is for the claimants to prove that the
damages which they paid the insurance
companies at that time were caused by
German acts, and, although I am not
conversant with the exact present sit
uation, submit that there is very
strong counter evidence in rebuttal of
the allegations Of the claimants which
should in an impartial report be taken
into consideration to the same extent
as statements issued by the claimants.
DIR. GEORG BARTHEI,ME.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26

Why don't some people who sell
, things take the trouble to learn some
thing about the things they are at
tempting to sell?
They hold up the article, or poke q
catalogue at you in lieu OF knowledge.
We recall the time the electric refriger-
ator salesman contented himself with
hauling forth tray Of ice cubes.
He jammed the receptacle under our
nose, and said: "See?" We saw, all
right, but it wasn't enough. Every time
we asked him a question he smiled
brightly, pulled out the tray and held
it up for Inspection.
We discovered afterward that he was
only 10 years old and had been taken
ION" only that morning, so we forgave
himA But somehow we still picture him
1t up with a cherubic smile and saying,
"See?"
Not long ago we purchased the best
little radio gadget we have run into for
a long time. Buying trick articles for
radio sets is one of our hobbies. We
have purchased more miles of wire, ETC.,
than any radio fan" in the world, We
imagine
Mostly the things we bought didn't
work" or, If they did, not we'll enough
to permit one to call them a success.
But this jigger, we are glad to an
nounce, functions.
1t is a tone control which made a
set two years old sound as Deep low
and soft as some of the newest ones.
AS most radio fans" know, most sets
have either one or two power tubes.
The jigger under discussion has two
grid prong of each of the two power
tubes. If the set has but one power
tube, the other lead goes to the ground.
The salesman, a very pleasant young
man, showed us just how to install the
jigger on set with two power tubes.
But mine has only one power tube"
we said.
His face fell.
Then you can't use it," he declared,
positively.
We were disappointed. We had had
visions OF our old set sounding as full
Of bass as bullfrog at eve.
"You don't mind me taking one of
on, no, help yourself" he said, but
in voice from which sales interest had
departed.
Idly we turned over the leaflet, and
the f1rst thing that caught our eye was
the following:
IF your set has only one power tube,
connect one lead to the grid prong, cut
on the end of the other lead and fasten
to the ground"
"This leaflet says you can use it on
a set with one power tube" we called.
Does it?" exclaimed the salesman"
N a voice in which enthusiasm and dis
appointment struggled Tor mastery.
Eagerly he seized the piece of paper,
and quickly he read the above words.
His recovery was good.
"All you have to do Is cut this end
off," he cried, enthusiasm in the lead,
and put it around your ground connec-
ton. We have sold lot of these things,
and every one is pleased with them. I
sold man set the other day by at
taching one; he said he didn't want it
until I put this thing on it. Then he
was enthusiastic about It,"
What worried us about the young
man, was not that he didn't know, but
that he hadn't got up enough enthu-
slasm himself to read the leafiet first.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26
Bureau Government
a Burden on People

TO the Editor of The Star:
Last night I read with interest and
satisfaction your editorial Running
Afoul OF the Law" The most lawless
city has been discovered. It Is a hone
ful sign when The Star begins to sense
even dimly the dangers of bureau
cratic government. The principal job
OF every legislative body in the United
states Tor the past IS years has been
10 nulllfy one of the most important
principles underlying the Constitution
ana 10 combine in the same individual
legislative, executive and judicial DOW
ers. When a legislature gives to a
bureau the power to make necessary
rules and regulations" the bureau inn
mediately appropriates the rights which
the people previously thought they had
IN the particular field of activity which
the bureau is given power to regulate,
ana instead OF having rights the people
md that they have merely privileges
which are doled out by the bureau with
an eye always on the main chance
TO make a showing of busy business to
present to the Committee on Appro-
priations at the next session.
One OF the most useless (from the
STANDPOINT OF public welfare) encroach-
mentS on the right Of the public TO use
the public highways Is the recent
monopolization by the Trafic Bureau
OF John Marshall place and the north
side of @ street for it's so-called Eek
animation" of permit applicants. BY
making parallel parking on John Mar
shall place they have deprived us of
the equivalent of four blocks of go
ing space; by monopolizing the iEGCh
side OF street from Third street to
john Marshall place they have taken
a hall
have been deprived of five and a half
blocks Of parking space in this con-
gested section for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF the Traffic Bureau. Any permit
applicant who can't drive up John
Marshall place with right-angle park
ing ought not to drive at all. have
noted The condition of C street every
day since this rule went into effect,
and often several times a day, and
never yet have ! seen the north side
more than half occupied, generally
much less.
A rule or regulation promulgated by
q bureau ought not to have the sane
tity OF q law passed by a legislature
until 1t has been declared reasonable
and proper by q court, and in any
action brought by bureau against a
citizen for the infraction of q rule the
burden OF proof should be upon the
bureau 70 show the propriety of the
rule rather than upon the citizen to
show the improperly of 1t.
With the Prohibition Bureau invad-
ing the homes, with the Traffic Bureau
appropriating the streets, with the
ever-increasing number of permits and
licenses, taxes and fines, penalties and
punishments, what is to be the ulti-
mate goal Of the unfortunate public
that pays the bills to support our -four
ishing bureaucratic aristocracy?
HOWARD b. SMITH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26
Woman of 90 Jailed
For Son Missing School
Prom the oakland Trihune.

From the Oakland Tribune
Public opinion has been aroused e
the unfortunate application of the COM
pulsory education law which put q
woman aged so in jail because her son.
Just short of ID, was not in school.
Blame for the outrageous action.
which was remedied as soon as the
court heard the story, is not so mucS
on the law as upon the methods. q.
lack OF methods, of administering It in
the particular occasion. It would have
been possible, had the woman known Il.
Tor her to have secured q dispensation
permitting her son to work. as she says
ne wishes to work. in support of his
parents. Investigators responsible for
any action as drastic as this would do
well to carry their inquiry into all OF
the circumstances and then to offer adj
vice and assistance. There was no need
Tor that woman to have been taken to
iail, but there is, apparently, some need
Tor reform among some OF those who
are interested in enforcing the COM
pulsory school attendance act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26
Beautiful Rut-unluokv.

Clara Bow is beautiful, but nobody
would call her dumb-if they have
taken the trouble to read her prepared
statement explaining her unfortunate
experience in playing "a little at a
game called 'twenty-one' which they
call there black jack" For through
this sweetly naive statement Clara re-
veals her demure self as Just an in
nocent little girl who was placed in the
light of temptation by that scheming
villain, VIII Rogers. and now folks are
saying. oh. such hoTid thingsl
II began to play little at a game
called 'twenty-one. which they called
there black jack" iisps Clara. They
gave me nfty-cent pieces to play with
and / signed some checks In blank tell
ing the dealer TO Ill in the amount OF
the fifty-cent pieces he had given me
There were four checks. It now seems
they claim these nfty-cent pieces rep.
S~sented what they called 500 chips
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26

service, If elected, as seems probable.
His Republican colleague in this dis
trict will be Christian A. Herter, once
a Hoover private secretary and since
then a Hoover political lieutenant in
Massachusetts,. Messrs. WadSworth and
do not disdain humble places in public
service.
Herbert Hoover, jr, is compelled to
relinquish q business career of great
promise to devote the next few years
to regaining his health. The doctors
in announcing this week that their
diagnosis disclosed an incipient tuber-
culosis expressed confidence that COM
plete recovery would be achieved in
time. Previously young Herbert's hear
ing had been badly impaired by ear
trouble and recurring intestinal dis
orders had made heavy inroads on his
constitution. He Is to remain in bed
at the Rapidap Camp until cold wealth
er and then move to q different ch-
mate. This marks the third time the
Virginia mountain lodge has been uti-
lied as q convalescent retreat for mem
bers of the Presidents family. Allan
Hoover was in seclusion there for sew
eral months last year suffering from q
stomach ailment and Mrs. Hoover was
an invalid there last Spring recuperat-
ing from the effects of her fall in
the White House.
"The mills of the gods grind slowly,
but they grind exceeding fine" This
was the reflection of George Holden
Tinkham, M. c., basking in the
baths at Virginia Hot Springs while
reading the press reports of the latest
troubles which have befallen Bishop
James Cannon, jr.. Mr.. Tinkham
started after the bishops scalp two
years ago. when the latter was at the
height Of his power as Washington
lobbyist, influential Southern political
crusader and high churchman. The
Cannon episode Of the Caraway Senate
Lobby Probe Committee is now water
over the dam. The bishop was toppled
from his political throne and exited
from washington, but escaped I'M
trocking at the hands of the church
Criminal prosecution at the hands of
the Department of Justice sought by
T1nkham also failed to materialize.
NOW the bishop is hurrying home from
Brazil with his bride to face new
charges preferred by his church COL
Leagues. 1t appears that the last of
the Common business has not yet been
heard.
Such Washington newspaper corre-
spondentS as elect to accompany the
President to Cleveland next week will
be favored with choice seats for the
opening world series game Mr.. Hoover
Is stopping off at Philadelphia to see
the game and the official party will be
handsomely entertained there. Some of
the correspondents hit on the happy
idea OF covering the President as far as
Philadelphia and taking in the game
and then turning back But Secretary
Akerson saw through this little strata
gem and passed out the word that there
would be no base ball tickets except for
those press representatives who were
going the whole route.
(Copyright, lp30)