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New Britain herald., 1930-04-17
Shoe Dyeing

This department offers a most complete service in the art of dyeing shoes to match your dress or coat. Satisfaction is guar anteed by artists in this line.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-17
Hats Cleaned

An unexcelled service is offered to men and women who desire their hats cleaned, blocked or refnished. All work is under the careful supervision of a HAT MAKER NOT A BOOT BLACK.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
Veteran. Asks Public
To Back Bonus Bill

To the Editor Of The Star:
Regardless of what the American Le-
gion and Andrew Mellon have to say
about the veterans cash bonus" as a
needy and disabled World War veteran
I respectfully ask in the names of mil
lions more comrades of arms that every
body cooperate and back up the bill
introduced recently by Representative
Patrnan of Texas, and to see that we
get the full payment cash of our bonus
by the end of this year 1880.
BY doing this the Nation not only will
save about 100000 of her defenders
from starving to DEATH with their fam
lilies, but will help a great deal to end
the present depression by putting this
big sum of money into circulation.
OF course the $4,000 members of the
American Legion all over the country
may say they do not need that money,
because most of them are fortunate TO
have good jobs, but remember the num-
Der of the American Legion members
does not amount to anything compared
with an army of 100000 war veterans
some of them disabled and millions
out of work all over the country.
Every member of the Congress of the
United States of America and every
citizen of the United States should
back up Representative Patman to put
that bin through at once and pay of
the veterans bonus by the end of the
year 1880 instead of 1945.
The writer served two years in France,
and awaiting disqualification there are
thousands more like me in Washington.
JOHN ALFERI,
Co. E, 10th Engineers, A. E. F.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
Predatory Crime Rise
Reported in 700 Cities
lie Houston Post Dispatch

From the Houston Post t-Dispatch
According to report from the Bureau
OF investigation OF the Department Of
Justice, there has been a marked In
crease in the number of robberies and
theftS under $50 in TOO cities of the
country during the last few months.
There has been very little increase in
other varieties of crimes, 1t is reported
Widespread unemployment and unfavor-
able economic conditions Immediately
suggest themselves as the cause of the
rise in predatory crimes. 1t is rather
remarkable, considering the situation
that exists, that the increase in these
otenses has not been greater than it
has. With thousands and thousands out
Of work and IN need for the bare neces-
sites of life, 1t is to be expected that
some OF these will become desperate
enough to take what does not belong to
them. Yet in no city does it appear
That there has been any epidemic Of
robberies and thefts, and burglaries have
not increased at all during this year.
The public can cooperate In keeping
down predatory crime at this time hy
not placing unnecessary temptation in
the way of those tending to resort to
crime. BY keeping automobiles locked.
doors in homes secured, avoiding carry-
ing valuables on the person when going
ABOUT, especially at night; by abandon
ing the practice Of sending pay roll mes
sengers with cash through the streets
and by other precautionary methods,
temptations and opportunities to thieves
ana prospective thieves can be reduced.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
Girl Flyers Persevere
Despite Hard Knocks

From the Utica Observer Dispatch.
These are trying days for our girl
flyers who are reaching out for new
records in the air. Mrs. Miller,
the Australian pilot, came to grief on
her. attempted flight from Havana to
Miami, and after an unpleasant landing
on Andres Island was obliged to walk
Is miles TO the nearest telegraph sta
ton. Winifred Spooner, on her way
from London to Cape Town, Africa,
made an unScheduled stop in the Tyr
rhenian Sea off the coast of Italy and
had a two-mile swim to shore Only
Ruth Nichols, of the recent feminine
air riders, with her record flight from
New York to California, has gone all
the way through as planned.
But in spite of their mishaps the
girls continue to fly. If they cannot
reach their goal by air, they are pre-
pared to walk or swim the rest of
the way. Danger and difficulty does
not dismay them. One might suppose
that in the face of the many tragedies
that have befallen transocean flyers,
including a number of women, girls
would not leave home to fly all alone
across dangerous stretches of land or
water.
Evidently, they do not mind in the
least if they have to walk home from
an airplane ride. Give them sport
model ship" with perhaps a compact
and kind of rouge that will not wash
off in salt water, and they will try
anything more than once. Who can
remember when a girl who rode a
bicycle was considered an unmannerly
tomboy and the one who ventured
alone in canoe was reckless creature
with no sense Of slame?
Evening star., 1930-12-17
Investigating Cuba.

Senator Walsh, Democrat of MaSsa-
chusstts, yesterday demanded that the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions institute an inquiry into Cuban
American affairs. He based his pro-
posal on manifesto" Of grievances
signed by a large number of Cuban
citizens. In further support of his in
quiry project, Senator Walsh informed
the Senate that the manifesto" had
recently come to the attention of the
Machado government at Havana, and
that the signers, including the most
distinguished professional men and
educators Of the island" have been
imprisoned. In view of all this, Sena-
tor Walsh desires Senator Borahs
committee TO determine whether our
relations with Cuba, as set forth in
the manifesto" are being impaired.
The Machado administration has sur
vived stormy times since it was per-
petuatsd in Office for q second term
two years ago Within the past few
weeks events at Havana and in the
provinces have bordered closely upon
revolutionary conditions. That an ex-
traordinary state of affairs still pre-
walls is evident from a declaration by
DR.. Molinet, Cuban minister of .edu-
cation. yesterday. The government, he
said, sees its situation in one sentence
viz: Peace throughout the republic, Oh
Intervention (by the United States)."
Anything but peaceful conditions nov
prevail. Using the special power which
he recently obtained from his Con
gress, President Machado last weel
suspended various constitutional guar
antees. Since then the National Uni
versity and the public schools hav
been closed. these being measures de
signed to suppress further group agita
ton by students. Meantime Mr.. Gug
genheim, the American Ambassador,
subjected TO constant pressure b
Evening star., 1930-12-17
ANSWERS TO CE.s5 rrONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

by q number Of other cities IN the
United States.
@. Please give biography Of Booth
Tarkington.-C. r.
A. He was born in Indianapolis,
at Phillips Exeter Academy, Purdue
University and Princeton University.
He has been married twice. He was
member Of the Indiana House Of Repre-
Sentatives from 1902 to 1908. He has
twice won the Pulitzer Prize. Among
other things, he has written THE Gen.
tlemsn From Indiana" Monsieur Beau
caire," "Penrod and Sam" Seventeen"
and The Intimate Strangers"
@. What population must q town
have before it Is called a city?--L. G.
A. The Bureau of the Census says
that the population has nothing to do
with the matter of town being called
a city. This is a matter Of State
legislation. The Post once Depart
ment says that town must have 10000
population before it can be given city
mail delivery.
@. Among the prisoners at Fort
Leavenworth which State has the
largest repreSentationp--K.L L.
A. At the close Of the fiscal year 1890
worth. Missouri headed the list with
497. Texas was second with 422 and
Illinois third with $50.
@. Why Is the expression bloody"
considered particularly obnoxious by
Englishmen?-C. N.
A. The reason is not known, except
| that it is most often used by the rough,
\ low classes, and Is considered vulgar.
Probably it was first used as q refer
once to the habits Of the bloods OF
aTistocratic rowdies at the end Of tht
sekenteenth century. An early expires
siorh "bloody drunk" meant as drunk
as a(blood or lord.
@. WHAT caused the accident which
resulted in the death of Maj. Segrave
e. M.
A. On june IA, 1880, according tc
newspaper Nreports, the branch Of a tres
floating on kiake Windermere caused the
disaster to the Miss England II which
resulted in the death Of Maj. Seeraye.
Q. What is sonsidered the mos
S. x.
A. The choice seems 60 lie among pie
baked beans, spoonbreadN made OF corr
meal, and gingerbread, or ff39lasSes cake
At the National Food Show g form OF
pie was chosen. 1t was New England
apple pie dowdy. This is made in
deep dish. Tart apples are sliced into
the dish, sprinkled with maple sugar
cinnamon and nutmeg and pinch Of
salt. Pieces Of butter are dotted over
it, perhaps a little water sprinkled on.
and rich pie crust added. It should
be baked slowly to be sure apples are
thoroughly cooked.
O. Did President Wilson make the
statement that modern war is purely
commercial?-L. E.
A. President Wilson said: THE seed
Of war in the modern war Is industrial
and commercial rivalry. This war was
commercial and industrial war. It
was not political war" It was part
Of speech made at st. Louis September
S, 1919, and conveyed Mr.. WILSON'S idea
that the desire for commercial and In
dustrial advantage bred jealousies and
strife which eliminated in war.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

it was a bit of tug at her heart
strings to pull for the Army in Yankee
Stadium.
Senator Arthur Capper, Republican,
of Kansas has just resumed his weekly
radio activities over the Columbia
Broadcasting System from Washing
ton. He takes the air every Monday
morning for Is minutes. Evidently the
farm editor-statesman just intends
holding heart-to-heart talks with the
girls-"sort of friendly chat on sub
jects that seem to be of interest to
the homemakers," as he said in his
opening remarks the other day. Cap
per pledges his invisible matinee au-
dience that he won't make single
speech all Winter" Those Sunf1oWer
politicians have acquired great respect
for air power since the recent election.
A goat-gland specialist, solely through
the use of his own high-powered radio
station, talked $4,000 Kansans into
writing his name onto the ballot and
voting for him for Governor.
Latest Washington prohibition wise
crack: When Congress gets a chance
to vote for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead act,
there won't be a dry aye in either
house"
X X X
"Car' Coolidge had Judge Ben Lind
sey, companionate marriage champion,
sized up a long time ago. Somebody
was talking to the then President about
the Juvenile Court system and asked
Coolidge if he'd ever heard of Judge
Lindsey. YES" drawled the Vermonter,
I've noticed his capacity for getting
into the newspapers"
x X X
Don't let anybody run away with the
idea that Senator Jim" Davis isn't a
politician. One of his farewell acts at
the Department of Labor was to sign
sheaf of personal letters to persons
of high and low degree throughout the
Federal service-men and women with
whom he's been in official contact for
the past 10 years. Jim" bade them re-
member that, though now lost to sight
at the executive end of Pennsylvania
avenue, he's still their friend and at
their service. The thing about that is
that Davis means exactly what he says.
The prediction is here ventured that
the little Welshman will build up a
personal following in Pennsylvania that
Penrose himself might have envied.
(Copyright. l930)
Evening star., 1930-12-17
Christmas Recess.

The ultimatum has gone forth from
the leaders of both major political
parties in Congress that there is to be
no Christmas recess for the legislators
unless the two relief bills now pending
are finally disposed of. Neither side
cares to take the responsibility of ad-
journing Congress for a week or two
weeks with the measures for the relief
OF unemployment and the drought still
hanging fire. Indeed, the failure of the
Congress to put through these meas
ures within the three weeks between the
assembling of Congress and Christ
mas would be commentary upon the
neffectiveness of that body which it
would not care to court
The bill for the appropriation of
$118.0 900 to be used in Government
construction work designed to help re-
duce unemployment, is in the confer
ence stage. The drought relief bill has
passed the Senate and awaits action by
the House Committee on Agriculture.
The Senate majority, composed of
Democrats and insurgent Republicans
hostile to the Hoover administration,
has amended the unemployment bill in
several respects which are disapproved
in the House and by the Chief Execu-
tive. With all its majesty, which some
times appears rather childish, the SEN
ate majority is threatening to go to the
mat with the House on this relief bill.
Yet the Senate cannot legislate alone
as it well knows. What it can do is to
delay final action on these relief meas
ures, which have been promised the
country. If the Senate desires to take
the responsibility for such delay it may
do so. Doubtless Senators will attempt
to place the blame for the delay on the
House and the President. But they
cannot make it stick.
The country Is interested in the pas
sage Of this appropriation bill, the terms
of which are generally known. 1t is not
interested in the Senate amendments
which have been attacked on the
ground that they tie the hands of the
Executive when the Executive needs a
free hand in bringing measure Of re-
lief to the unemployed. But the Sen
ate having mounted its high horse,
hates to dismount. In the end it will
have to do so, or stand before the peo-
pie as the disturbing factor in a gov
ernment which should be animated by
desire to relieve the conditions in the
country. The impression left upon the
country, II these relief measures are
held up by the Senate, would be that
the upper house of Congress cares
more for its own opinions and for an
opportunity to strike at the President
than it does for the suffering of the
unemployed.
The Congress, including the Senate,
can promote a Christmas spirit in the
country by acting favorably and with
out undue delay on these relief meas
ures. 1t will have earned Christmas
holiday itself by dealing with these
measures effectively and in a spirit of
cooperation. But if the measures are
not finally enacted into law, the Con-
gress would be in sorry situation II 1t
adjourned for the holidays.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
MelOdrama i'm Russian Court
Considered a Staged Event

are good patriots, sacrificing themselves
to save the face of their government"
concludes the Sentinel.
X
Fact may have been blended with
fiction in this trial, suggests the Ashe-
vile Times, which thinks that "for the
most part the story of the court pro-
ceedings reads like melodralma ar
ranged for the teaching of the Russian
people the lessons their Soviet rulers are
determined that they shall learn"
In the opinion of the New Orleans
TimeS-Picayune, "the Soviet witnesses
'overspoke themselves destroyed conf
dence in their own confessions, when
they tried to implicate in such a con-
splracy responsible leaders and officials
in other lands"
AS the Memphis Commercial Appeal
puts it, there was conspiracy, never
theless. We are confident it was not con-
Sp1racy in which Poincare, Churchill and
Lawrence of Arabia participated The
conspiracy was born in Moscow, It was
not against but for the Soviet regime
The conSpirators were eight engineers
and Soviet officials. The purpose was
to rouse the peaSantry of Russia against
Britain and France. Conversely, the
purpose was to bring back Russian peo-
pie to a nationalistic consciousness,
which has necessarily waned In the face
OF vague public grasp of an interna-
tionalistic program which Is itself too
wide for average minds to comprehend"
concludes the Commercial Appeal.
So also the Jersey Journal, which sees
IN the trial and in other deluges of
Russian publicity "barrage" which is
not intended so much to mystify and
distract foreign enemies as to keep the
eyes OF Russia centered upon anything
and everything except the plight of
Russia" According to the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch, 1t is necessary to CON
slider the Russian temperament In ap-
praising the extraordinary procedure
their intense emotionalism, their moody
introspection, their fatalism"
Evening star., 1930-12-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A Genial Pause.
We're obliged to face the blowing
OF the cruel Winter gale
We must travel through the showing
With no blossoms on the trail.
Through contentious we are straying,
But it's all friendly game,
And well pretty soon be saying
Happy New Year" just the same.
There are harsh recriminations,
Like the icy shafts that'hy.
But the old-time salutations
viii be given by and by.
And though Maytime is delaying.
In advance good cheer we'll claim,
And we'll pretty soon be saying
Happy New Year" just the same.
Evening star., 1930-12-17

Thousands Of Government experts are
working constantly for the benefit Of
all citizens of the United States They
will work directly for you II you will
call for the fruits OF their labors through
our Washington bureau. State your
inquiry briefly, write clearly. and, in
closing 2-cent stamp for personal
letter in reply. address The Evening
Star Information Bureau, Frederic J..
Hasktn,, director, Washington, D. G.
@. How many men are there in the
orchestra which broadcasts for the Gen.
eral Electric Pr. E. d.
A. This orchestra. conducted by WAL
ter Damrosch. is composed of 55 to so
men, the number varying with the re-
quirements Of the score.
@. What percentage of the women in
cities are engaged in gainful occupa-
tions?-S. A. r.
A. In most cities Of more than 100,-
600 population more than 80 per cent
OF women l6 years OF age or more are
Q, What is meant by cfuzzy- wuzzy"p ?
M. T. M.
A. 1t is the name given by the Brit
ish soldiers to black warrior of the
Egyptian Sudan.
Q. Who conceived the idea of re-
storing Williamsburg, Va.?-S z. H.
A. The restoration of Williamsburg
is the dream of Rev. William Goodwin,
rector Of Williamsburg Old Bruton Par
ish Church. An article in the Septerp-
Der, 1928, issue of the Review Of Re7
views says that DR.. Goodwin was fired
by vision of Duke of Gloucester street
as it must once have been. He con-
ceived the plan of restoring Williams
burg, with modern buildings removed
to side streets, old buildings brought
back to their original beauty and others
reared upon their original foundations
in reincarnation of the past" John D.
Rockefeller placed at DR.. Goodwin's dis
posal more than $4,000000 The article
says that all buildings ON Duke of
Gloucester street were bought by Will
liamsburg Inc. The modern build
elsewhere, the old ones restored, the
missing ones artfully contrived to look
just as they did $50 years ago"
@. Which OF the Latin dialects be-
came the Italian of today?-A. B.
A. This dialect is the Tuscan. the
native language of Dante. The language
of Tuscany, more particularly Of Flor
ence, is thus the classical language of
Italy. 1t was established as such by
grammarians, who chose it chiefly be-
cause the 6Three Crown" Pc
trarch and Boccaccio-used it.
@. How does a hawk fly upward
without Tapping its wings?-E. H.
A. The Biological Survey says that
the force which enables hawk to soar
to great heights without Tapping its
wings is the same principle as that by
which a kite is flown. The bird rides
on an ascending air current. A good
example of this is a gull flying along
side ship.
@. When was the first community
Christmas tree lighted?-H. r.
A. The various accounts of the COM
munity Christmas tree seem to agree
that the first tree of light was erected
in New York City on Christmas, 1912.
The practice was Immediately taken up
Evening star., 1930-12-17

the wild life. The help Of all sports
mems organizations and individuals Is
asked during the period when natural
food is at its lowest ebb and when wild
life needs human assistance the most
To provide an additional incentive for
the feeding of game this Winter the
Commission of Game and Inland Fish
cries of Virginia announces series of
prizes fer both organizations and indi-
viduals from December l6 to March is
who feed the most birds.
A very good method which has been
used is to suspend from a limb or post
a barrel with both ends knocked out
with the feed placed inside. The birds
will soon use this contrivance as din
ner table.
Another effective method is to tie
around the bottom of trees cornstalks
from which the corn has not been
husked, the ears suspended downward
so that wild life can reach it from The
ground.
The Maryland Conservation Depart
ment reports it has found that grain
such as scratch feed corn, wheat and
rye are the best feed A we'll fed bird
or animal can stand bitter cold weather,
whereas when they are underfed they
die very quickly from exposure.
Shocks of corn left in the field fur
nish excellent dinner tables for wild
life and are readily visited. These
shocks can be opened at the bottom,
furnishing cover, and the birds and
animals soon find the shelter and feed.
More birds to those who take care
of the birds they have" is the slogan
of the campaign.
Evening star., 1930-12-17

various factions for intervention under
the Platt amendment. The enemies Of
the Machado regime, evidently con-
scious Of their inability to overthrow
1t by force, are bent upon unhorsine
alleged tyranny" with American aid.
Uncle Sam indisputably has assumed
certain obligations for rule of justice
and for domestic tranquility in Cuba.
But 1t is clearly understood-and has
been ever since Secretary Of State
Elihu Roots Interpretation OF. the Platt
amendment in 1901, that the United
States right of Intervention shall only
be exercised when there is no respon-
sible Cuban government in existence
We have adhered consistently to that
policy. No government existed when
America intervened in 1898 and won
Cuba's independence from Spain. None
was functioning when the United States
second intervention, lasting from 1906
to 1909, took place.
It must be assumed that the WASH
ington Government is keeping vigilant
eye on developments in Cuba. The
State Department apparently has no
reason, as yet, to think that a third
intervention in the islands affairs is
necessary. AS long as the government
at Havana is government in being,
American tradition would seem to be
opposed to arbitrary interference. We
may not approve of the things any
given government stands for, but that,
after all, is Cubans' concern, not ours.