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New Britain herald., 1930-07-31
BROWN JACK WINS

GoodUood. England. July 31 tPl Brown Jack owned by Sir H. cup today by one length.
 T. Richards Jugo was second and F. Dennis's Fairy Prince was third. Five horses ran.
 The betting was to 3, 13 to and 3 to l.
 The stakes were sweep of f20 each with f1,000 added. The dis tance was two miles five furlongs.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-31
COTTON FUTURES STEADY

New York, July 31 Pl-Cotton futures opened steady, to g points lower; October 125o; December 12.75; January 12.s1. New con- tracts: October 1227; December 12,4S; January 1256; March 12.75; May 1o9o.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-31
SEEK MARRIAGE LICENSES

Applications for marriage licenses were received today from John \. -Steppe of 42 Broad street, and Stasia NJ. Urban of 42 Broad street: and from Joseph B. Stanfanski of 247 Washington street and Sophie V, Grzyb of 125 Broad street.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-31
FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE

Wlnsted, July 1.-tP-Fire early today destroyed F room house in Colebrook River at g loss of s5,000, The house, owned by James Nugent of Bayonne, N. J, vas unoccupied. The cause is unknown.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-31

savages only evidences of culture are their melodious music, elaborate carving and weaving. They offer up no prayers to sun, moon or fire, but believe in ghosts and the magic of their medicine men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
One Last Look

THERE is no gallantry in abb
L staining from frivolities you
never have known. The prodigal
son couldn't very well experience
the fine thrill of repentance until
he had something to repent about.
It would be overhunble for me
to contend that in all my life there
were no shameful episodes what
soever. AS a small boy I pulled the
pigtails of my sister, and it is pos
sible that one or two disgraceful
things have happened since.
Still, the best and liveliest sort of
repentance must depend upon err
rors not too ancient. Accordingly,
it was my scheme to have one last
fling before waking up to birthday
resolutions. This program failed.
One night club to which I went
was padlockeo, and the four others
had moved away without leaving
me the address. And so I had to
go to bed early, with nothing on
my conscience.
Please do not doubt the solidity of
my devotion to a new regime. From
now on the morning sun of MONDAY
never will stream into my bedroom
without finding me awake and ready
to arise and get to work very
shortly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Bravo. DIR. Wilbur

Denocracys worst enemy ignorance, is being at
tackled in its stronghold by national drive to stamp
out illiteracy in the United States by 1910.
In the war; the first strategy is to spot the enemy
This was made practically impossible by ruling Of
Attorney General Mitchell interpreting the recent
census act to forbid the census bureaus giving
out the names of illiterates taken in the census
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, who also heads
the national advisory committee on illiteracy has
stepped into the breach with plan to circumvent
Mitchells ruling and at the time protect indi
viduals from having their failings aired in public.
He will urge resolutions in both houses of congress
instructng the census bureau to furnish the names
to state boards of education not to individuals Thus
the enemy can be sighted and the campaign carried
forward intelligently.
uliteracy in this worlds richest land is disgrace
yet the 1880 census probably will reveal total of
about 100000 persons over 10 who neither can read
nor write. At this tine with immigration barriers
up. drive to educate everybody to read and write
can succeed if j. is unhampered by red tape.
DR.. Wilbur proves himself a practical educator by
his simple expedient.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Learning Nothing

wise old historian remarked that the great les
son which history teaches that we learn nothing
from history. This seems to be notably true with
respect to the economic depression which we are
experiencing. This point is presented admirably by
John T. Flynn in an article On 1.-THE Birthday of the
Slump in the Forum.
Mr. Flynr's thesis-and it is significant and valid
oneis that the worst thing about the slump is that
it seems to have taught little with respect to its
causes or At least the business and political
leaders of the country appear to have learned moth
ing OF value from our sad experience
According to Flynn the chief actual lessons were:
ID The futility of attempted price fixing and pro-
duction limitation en- a world SCALE % the result
ing worldwide overproduction; 90 the withdrawal
OF credit from other types of investment and pro-
duction especially Gripping building operations and
"a the development of irresponsible credit institu-
tons outside of federal reserve and reputable bank
ing control.
One would have thought that Mr. Hoover and
his business leaders would have taken such things
into account and tried to remedy the evils before
another calamity overtakess us. But they have not
and everything is heading up for another such cycle
as we have been through since 1927:
And SO we go forward in the old line of sequences
We will get business under way, get people back
to work, increase corporation profits, work up an
other speculative mania, produce more than we can
use. up credit resources on speculation cripple
the building industry again, overstoc ourselves with
everything, get business into a decline bring on a
stock market collapse, slide into depression, call
it healthy reaction if the Republicans are in Office
and blame it on the Democrats if the miracle of a
Democratic administration ever should happen
, Here is challenge to economic craftsmanship
Will anybody of consequence get out and get under?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
For the Veterans

Veterans who propose the immediate cash pay
r,en If bonus insurance certificates as an emergency
relief measure are chasing dangerous mirage. 1t is
one of those proposals that has tremendous Senti-
mental appeal but which violates reason
The fact that advocates of this measure have not
been able to answer any of the sweeping criticisms
of it made by Secretary Mellon probably indicates
that it has no chance in congress Nevertheless 1t IS
important that the veterans understand why, or it
will be bobbing up again every year or so.
Surely all Americans at this late day have come
IN understand the value of insurance distinct from
anv other kind of financial guarantee for the future.
The whole idea of this endowment insurance is that
henefcaries shall have security in their late middle
age or old age, when they need it most.
Admitting that the plight of some young and able
bodied veterans now is bad temporarily, their plight
will be worse when they have lost their youth and
possibly their health.
Neither the veterans, nor any other Americans,
today are sacrificing their commercial endowment
policies unless they have TO- Then why should they
be so short-sighted to sacrifice their government
policies? The principle is exactly the same.
The cash value today of the bonus certificates is
about 81 100000 In fifteen years their maturity
value will be more than 50 4oO,OOOOOo. The difference
is ,64oOOoOoo.
Do the veterans who have been led to support this
PROPOSAL realize that CaSn1ng IN now WOulQ mean d
loss to them Of upward Of and three quarter bill
lion dollars?
But let us say that congress under political pres
sure could be forced to pay in cash now the full ma
tlirity-which means forced to double the amount
of the present bonus-can't the veterans what
would happena
There is no doubt that the effect would be mo-
nentary artificial stimulation of business 1t would
stimulate business for the very reason that it should
not-that is because the veterans would spend most
Of t;1at money.
For few months it would be fine for the mer
chants and for the veterans. But then what? The
result would be just the same if the people Of the
country should draw out all their savings from the
banks and cash in all their insurance policies for
immediate spending. 1t would exhaust the purchas-
ing power of the nation: it would tend to wipe out
the consumers Market it would centralize the wealth
OF the nation in the pockets of the few and pauper
lie the many.
To conceive process more disastrous in the long
run to the people and to business would be difficult
The present depression and unemployment is not
veterans emergency, but national one. 1t is an
emergency that viii be met. And it is met, the
veterans along with others will be taken Of That
Is their privilege as citizens. Why then, on top OF
that should they consider sacrificing their special
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Heads in the Sand

ELEVEN years ago, the govern
- ment of the United States
was sqHarely in line with the facts
Of an obvious situation. Ever since,
the government of the United States
has not shown such obstinacy or
determination over anything as a
persistent effort to deny, ignore or
sidestep those facts by sticking its
head in the sands of sheer provin-
cialisn1.
We have been guided By the
sophistries of cheap and narrow
partiSanslip, instead of our implied
pledges, and have stultified that
very idealisn by which we ribbed
our own boys and their mothers
into emotional ecstasies over "a
war to end war"
We sacrificed $4,000 of our best
on the battlefelds of France. in
a firm belief that We were helping
to accomplish that object, manned
and crippled three times as many
more, and assumed a debt which
our children may not live to see
liquidated.
Scarcely had the echoes of the
last exploding shell died away be-
fore we turned our backs on the
whole proposition, with the COM
placent explanation that we had
decided to avoid "entangling al
liances," lest they get us into
trouble, just as though we hadn't
run into all the trouble without
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
HEALTH SERVICE ---
Overweight Raises Heart Disease Peril
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

trenlely nervous people or those who
have suffered a shock may have a
heart rate as high as 100 a min
ute, the rate slowing down and ap-
pearing perfectly normal after the
person has gotten over his nervous
ness.
By the use Of the stethoscope, the
physician listens carefully to the
beat of the heart to detect any abb
nornalities in it's sounds and par
ticularly the presence of murmurs,
indicating an insufhciency of the
valves.
BY the use of humping, he may
detect the size of the heart, out
lining it's borders and determining
whether it has become enlarged due
to overstrain.
The healthy person when sitting
should have a pulse rate between Is
and IS, which becomes somewhat
slower when he lies on his back. A
rapid pulse may occur in heart dis
ease, goiter, neurasthenia, and fol-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Employment Aided

IMPROVED machinery, blamed
4 by many for causing unemploy-
ment, in the long run creates more
employment, the report asserts.
Total unemployment, the report
adds, variously is estimated as be-
tween 100000 and 100000. Nor
NAL unemployment is from 10000
to 100000.
Whatever the unemployment
may have BEEN" the report says.
many families have been distressed
and every. one is the poorer.
"Out of the experiments and dis
cussions has. at least, come a gen.
eral recognition that better stabili-
cation is essential to the well being
Of all mankind.
Neurological unemployment has
received much blame, but on the
other hand many data have merged
to indicate that it is not the major
difficulty.
eff the facts are taken over a
period of years, regardless Of indi-
vidual and temporary situations,
improved machinery has made more
work.
"Over a twenty-year period en-
ployment has increased 40 Per cent,
as compared with a population in
crease of 80 per cent.
"Since 1909 the income Of wage
earners In the United States has
risen from thirty billion a year to
ninety billion"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
TT GEEMC tn MT NV HAYWOOD
L OL11V1O i ~ 4V11 Di BROUN

A T an early hour one morning
L n this week I became a years
old. This fact, trust, will show in
the column pretty constantly from
now on. My years entitle me to be-
come an elder statesman and a
Victorian. In fact, I am old enough
to know better.
In the short span remaining to
me I purpose to put aside childish
things. Already I have sworn off
poker, and very little about night
clubs and speakeasies will appear
here from now on. Reform of one
sort or another will be my chief con-
sideration.
Having seen the light myself, 1
am anxious to bring it to others.
Don't you realize, you wastrels, that
while you sit in stuffy rooms i'm
pairing the validity of constitutional
amendments the clock keeps ticking
away the minutes and the hours?
Can't you see that there are more
important things to be done in the
world?
To be fair and truthful, I must
admit that to an extent my new
devotion to duty has been helped
along by circumstances over which
I have no control. Before bidding
farewell to speakeasy existence it
seemed to me no more than just
that I should pay just one last
visit.
This hoped would reinforce my
impression that these gilded palaces
are but dull and tawdry places.
Naturally, before swearing off, I
wanted to be sure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Challenge Provided
THE depression of 1890 has n

I1b depression OF 1890 has pro-
Il vided a'challenge against which
American management could test
itself, the report claims.
AS well-built buildings remain
standing after an earthquake" the
report asserts, so certain organiza-
tions have been able to show good
results despite the economic up
heaval.
While all companies have been
hard pressed and some have re-
trenched more draStically than may
have been necessary, yet there
have been many instances of fore
sight in which management has,
considered the long-run possibilities
IS well as the present circum-
stances.
Apparently companies are less
pound by history and presidents to
continue policies laid down by the
founders OF the business, and they
are less inclined to go to extremes
merely for psychological reasons.
But nearly every company has
had to find ways and means for
securing satisfactory returns on its
investment from a smaller volume
Of business, so that every measure
has been tested as never before.
Thus a certain Qualification is
being made which will distinguish
between practices which are sound
for the long run, and practices
which are only temporary ex-
Dedients"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
- Il n CnN nv FREDERICK
ANA<A ANIL lands

TITO the inhabitants of this part of the world. this
4 recent trial in Moscow wherein five were con-
derned to death and three others to imprisonment
for term of years, then the sentences connnuted
was the most amazing judicial procedure of modern
times
The fact that the judges smoked necessarily was
not such jolt, for we remember not so MANY wears
ago, when the Indiana courtroom was so smoky one
almost had to carry lantern to find the witness
chair.
In those nicotine days the judge and the lawyers
smoked and the jury chewed.
That the way we divided responsibility
And we distinctly recall that when newly elected
judge put an end to it we thought he ablidging
our liberties
NEITHER did this Russian trial impress one with
its novelty because the order Of proceeding was
so different from our own, for every country has
its own different schedule the trial of Dreyfus in
France some years ago. for instance, mpressing an
American as being nothing short of riot
The astounding thing about this Russian court
room fracas that it confessedly was not trial.
but public entertainment.
The whole country was in on it and each witness
as well as each lawyer fed his remarks into micro
phone, through which they were carried to the
country.
nNE of the results of this that all the writ
~ nesses and lawyers talked four or five times as
long as they would have done had the audience been
restricted to those who we're physically present.
Which shows that it never would do to put micro
phones in the senate and house of representatives at
Washington.
Then it seemed useless to hold this trial day after
day, when all the defendants had made elaborate
LESSONS.
In this country it would have been plea of not
guilty and a short disposition would have been made
of it, unless the lawyers for the accused had pulled
proposition such as Darrow did in the Loeb-L Leopold
case.
The audience Missed and shook their fists and
callea fer blood and, all in all it lynching by
law
The spectacle drawn out to unnecessary length,
for the likely that the government wanted to
send cold chius up and down the back Of Others
contemplating movements against the present govern
ment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
The Refter Security

Possibly the lawyers and bankers who
are very jealous in behalf of the insult pro-
posal for a street car franchise may be mis-
taken in their declaration that it would be
inopossible to finance municipal ownership
program.
The emphasis of the bankers on this
point amounts almost to threat to the peo-
pie that they must give over their streets TO
this plan or face a chaotic condition of trans
portation.
Tonight. when attorneys for the bond
holders appear before the city council, some
inquiry might be made as to the situation IN
which investors find themselves under prl-
vate ownership.
It might be illuminating to future IN
vestors. It even might suggest that invest
ment in public enterprises has better basis
of security than privately operated utllity'
Il is significant that no word of protest
has been heard from these sources during
the years that the present system was going
m The rocks and that only now has the dis
covery been made that the city needs an In
sull guardianship to grow and develop.
There have been times when the street
car situation was presented forcibly to pub
lie notice. when underpaid employees asked
for living wage, when rates were before the
public service commission. They were silent
then.
Tonight might be an opportune time Tor
the public to learn just how much money is
being set aside for management of the dill
ferent pools of bonds that are to be traded
for new slips of paper, how much money IS
to be spent for expenses of these refnancing
operations, how much is to go to the brokers
who have presented the plan in deliberately
printed pamphlets that give little knowledge
to the layrnen, but are quite comprehen-
sibe to the financiers.
There are only two things which give Sc
curity to any investments In the street car
lines. The first is the amount of money to
be paid as fares by the people of this city,
That would be the same under either public
or private ownership.
The other is the matter of management
without waste. Under private ownership, the
first Capitalization admittedly is higher than
the value of the present system. There is one
element of waste at the start.
It is absurd to believe that the insult or
SANITATION has a monopoly of ability to Sc
lect able operators of street car lines. The
city probably could employ the very men on
whom the insult interests will depend for
operation, if it SO desired.
The proposed franchise starts with
handicap of generalization and the necessity
of putting value into securities where none at
present exists Public ownership has no such
hazard. Which is the safer?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

Engineers See Ray of Hope
Shining Through Clouds
of Industrial and Business
Gloom.
LIVERY dark cloud is said to have
~ a silver lining. One might have
difficulty in finding it in the present
industrial situation. but the man
agement division of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers be-
lieves that it has sighted it.
The annual report Of the division
was presented at the society's an
nual meeting in New York.
In the long run, according to the
report, the present trying condi-
tons will strengthen business by
teaching the value of sound practice
over expediency.
Charles w. Lyle, director Of in
duStrlal cooperation In New York
university, is chairman Of the COM
mittee.
IF the business cycle may be
epitomized by dividing it into stages
of confidence, doubt, fear, and hope.
then We believe we are well into the
fourth stage Of the cycle" says the
report, one of a aeries on industrial
progress which was presented at the
f1fty-flrst annual meeting of the
society.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
One of Them Is Wrong

XXTHAT could we lose by joining
w the League OF Nations that
didn't lose in 1917? What could we
suffer through participation in the
world court that we haven't suffered
without it? We still pretend to
want ''reign of law" but do we ex-
pect other governments to hand it
to us on a silver salver?
Taking up a more practical side of
the question, do we expect other
countries to help us promote trade
ii we won't help them promote
peace? Or has the gold gone to our
heads?
And do we imagine that we have
come to a point where we can live
and prosper alone?
We have sung different tune for
the last ten years than we did when
getting our boys ready to be gassed,
Shellshocked, or draped over barbed
wire fences.
They can't both be right, there
simply is no way of reconciling the
kind of peace we have shown
willingness to support with the kind
We told our boys and their mothers
we wanted, not to mention the
human race in general.
The question of whether we shall
join the world court, not frankly as
we ought, but with childish
reservations, is just one more in
cident in the sorry performance
Either we keep faith with our dead
and the rest of mankind, or we
don't.
Either we WEIGH for the sake of
temporary convenience or meet our
responsibilities squarely, no matter
what the cost. The problem is one
of morals, rather than expediency,
and involves a basic principle of
human conduct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12

lowing excessive indulgence in alco-
hol and tobacco.
Any time the pulse is over $50
minute, special studies must be
given to the condition of the heart.
If the pulse is regular, the ex-
aminer is pleased with the posi-
bility of the risk, but an irregular
pulse may be a manifestation of
anyone of several forms of disturb
ance of the heart action.
"The examiner viii base his judg-
ment on the condition of the walls
of the arteries as he feels them with
his finger.
The walls of the blood vessels
may be thickened due to an in
crease in its muscular layers. It
may be straight or curled.
If the wall of the artery is thick
ened with lime salts or curled by
contractions of its fibrous tissues,
special studies have to be made to
make certain that there is no con-
stitutional disorder likely to shorten
life.