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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-25
Consumers Can
 Help Prosperity
Employment Insecurity Keeping Nations Purse Strings
 Says Noted Economist

aries aggregating about 50 billion dollars a year. Between five and six million of these were wholly out of work last January; others were on short time. or their wages had been cut; so that the total in- come of wage and salary earners was reduced by 20 per cent, or 10 billion dollars. But retail prices have fallen about 10 per cent, so that actual purchasing power of all workers has been cut only about 10 per cent, or billion dollars. Since business volume has fallen off about 20 per cent, we can guess that consumers who still have jobs are spending about billions less than they might. With the five billions they are buying security, instead of securities, instead of automobiles, and radios; and they will continue to do so until they are sure of their jobs.
 "There are signs that employment increased slightly in February and spring will bring more of an increase such as road building. public con- struction, and other outdoor work gets under way. But our informa- tion on employment is so fragment ary and slow that the country will probably have been pulling out of the depression for two or three months before we know about 1t from a steady rise in the employ ment curve"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-25
SINCLAIR LEWIS
 NOT DISCUSSING
 DRESSER, MUCH
He Gives Some Slight
 Praise to the Man Who Slapped Him in the Face

Washington, March 25.-(UP)- Anyone who expects Sinclair Lewis to discuss publicly his recent en- counter in New York with Theodore Dreiser, who slapped the younger authors face during an altercat1on, seems doomed to disappointment.
 The author of Main Street" and "Babbitt" spoke here last night on the emergence of American litera : ture from the English tradition, but not one word was said about the skipping. On the contrary, whatever reference he made to Dreiser was by way of praise for Dreiser's literary accomplishments
 only once did Lewis betray em- barrassment in connection with his contemporary. Referring to Ernest Hemingway as an outstanding ex- ponent of the new American literary tradition, he remarked that Heming- way lis about five years younger than myself and about 1b years younger than Dreiser.' Someone in the audience laughed, apparently scenting some occult reference to the New York affair, whereupon Lewis hastily added:
 "No, no-I didn't mean that |. we'll, let it go.''
 He spoke in high praise of Dreiser as lone of the original signers, with Frank Norris. of a literary declaration of independ- ence from British influence"
 Harking back to his speech in Stockholm in acceptance of thS Nobel prize for literature, in which he severely castigated Americans from an artistic point of view. Lewis warmly defended his attitude. He explained that, like H. l.. Mencken he is severe in his criticism oi America because he loves it and wants it to be as nearly perfect as Dossible
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-25

New York.-Consumer who have held on to their jobs through the present period of depression are spending five billions of dollars less than they might. They are buying security instead of securities. auto- mobiles and radios; they will con- tinue to do so until they are sure of their jobs. Dr Virgil Jordan. economist of the McGraw-Hill Pub- fishing company. so declares in the current issue of System. He cites insecurity of employment as the worst competitor of the manufactur- ing producer.
 People will not buy things mere- ly because they have money in their pockets" says Dr Jordan. They must feel that money will keep com ing. High wages alone will not bring about prosperity. Business must provide also a senes of secur- ity to income for the consumer.
 "There were in 1925-29 about 33 million persons in this country work ing for others, for wages and sal-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-25

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 Find Your Size in This Schedule
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
A FREE PRESS

President Hoover: "The most obvious thing
in democracy is that it cannot function except
when accompanied by free and constructive
press. Our government is and must be re-
sponsve to the will of the people expressed
through considered public opinion. That eX-
preston is more guided and revealed through
the press than any other agency, but it I'M
plies great responsibility in the press that the
news shall be accurately presented without bias
or color that the public may have an opportunl-
ty of formulating its views on the actual facts
that its expressed opinion shall be based upon
considered and constructive editorial sugges-
tions. Any newspaper, great or small, that ac-
curately disseminates information aids in the
promotion of good government and in the sound
development of the nation.-Superior Sun.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
LOCATION FOR A
MENON|TES COLONY

Benjamin S. Burneey, a
wealthy real estate dealer of
Los Angeles, has been look
ing over the Long H range
and ranch property with
the view of locating from 40
to SO families of Menonites.
There are about five mem
bers in each family making
approximately 200 souls.
1t is planned to lay off a
town site AT or near Sinking
Springs, with the view of
farming the Hunt valley.
They contemplate stocking
the range with sheep and
cattle.
They are experienced
farmers and are now in Ore
gon. Ii so late in the season
that it will be impossible
for them to take possession
before April.
The Long H consists of
about $4,000 acres of pat
ented land lying in the CEN
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
u. S. BIOLOGICAL
MEN CHECKING Up
THE PORCUP|NES

Whether The Coconino
national forest is overstock-
ed with porcupines will be
revealed in government re-
ports soon.
Stanley Young, executive
in the Washington D. c., of
flee of the U. S. biological
survey; Don Gilchrist, in
charge of predatory animal
control in the southwest
and Ben Foster, chief of the
Arizona predatory animal
force, are making a survey
in the Coconino county area
this week.
While investigating the
number of porcupines, the
government officials will
check up on the numbers of
other predatoryanimals, For
"pervisor E. G.. Miller
s:.ld.-Ccconino Sun.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16

tral part of Apache county,
and it is estimated the range
will hold about 10000 sheep
and 5000 head of cattle.
The land is now held by
land-holders in Los Angeles.
The Hunt valley lands
would be irrigated from the
Udall reservoir, the dam of
which would be raised and
sufficient water could be
stored to irrigate the Hunt
valley
Should this deal be con-
sumated it wo9ld be quite
an asset to taxpayers OF
Apache county.-St. Johns
Herald.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
EXIT

Patrons of Fox West Coast theaters will no
longer be annoyed with the screens only 'pest"
screen advertising. Instructions from the
Fox Film corporation went forward this week
to all Fox Film corporation chain managers
placing a taboo on screen advertising in their
theaters.
The decision affects over six hundred thea
ters west of the Mississippi and points out the
the fact that theaters and newspapers must
work hand in hand in each city for the COM
plete success of each.
The letter of instructions read in part as
follows: "We have no desire to enter the ex-
elusive and well covered field of the newspaper
in the matter of displaying commercial adver-
tising 1t has always been our ideal to
keep our theaters for entertainment purposes
only Advertising our screens
would interfere with that policy.
Screen advertising from a revenue stand
point to theaters is practically nil and a great
annoyance to all theaters-goers II has the
same deadly effect that advertising announce
ments have on radio listeners.
The Fox people are to be congratulated on
their decision.-Exchange
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
THE PRESIDENT THOUGHT OFT

labor leader has lately put forth the
suggestion that in time of depression, when
full time work cannot be afforded in given
industry, it is up TO the managers of that indus
try to distribute the work that can be done
equally among the men employed in the plant
just as reduced cash dividends are distributed
as far as they will go equally among all stock
holders. 1t is fine idea, and thanks to the sug-
gestion of President Hoover, made nearly two
years ago, it is being done to an extent never
before approached throughout the country In
former periods of partial unemployment it has
been the practice of industry to lay off GER
tain percentage of the men and give full time
employment to those retained. In January
1880, President Hoover suggested that instead
of following this practice, industry should
"stagger' employment SO that all employees
should have some work and some income, and
that is universally being done.-Exchange
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
GIANT BLACK BEAR
ALMOST GOT HOLD
OF NATE BANKHEAD

A fighting pack of hunt
ing dogs and accurate shoot
ing was all that saved Ma
than Bankhead, well-known
Flagstaff and Bellemont
sheepman, from being claw
ed to death early yesterday
by one of the largest black
bears killed in this district
in recent years. The wound
ed bear, with two bullet
wounds in its body, was
charging and almost on to
Bankhead when he shot and
broke its neck, other hunters
said.
The dogs fought the bear
off long enough for Bank
head to fire the third shot
and kill the animal.
Bankhead was a member
of a hunting party going in
to the mountains near Lon
Charlebois sheep ranch to
kill the bear that had been
raiding shep herds. 1t killed
10 sheep in a single night re-
Gently. 1t weighed appro-
X,mately 500 pounds Co.
conino Sun.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
COLD STRIKE RE-
PORT STARTS
NEVADA RUSH

Las Vegas, Nev,, Oct. 3.
An old-time gold rush
with all its attendant thrills,
excitement and profiteering
was under way here to-
day as hundreds of prospec-
tors and amateur minors left
or prepared to leave for the
Hidden Forest mountain
range located 48 miles north
east of Las Vegas.
Two prospectors, F. E.
Vassar and Leroy Mason.
apparently unable to keep
their find a secret after an
assay of samples of their
ore revealed a reported va
lue of 1000 per ton, caused
the rush. Filth II associates
they have staked out 81
claims.
AS soon as word spread
around the gambling halls
and speakeasies of this de-
sert town, gateway to the
huge Hoover dam project,
there was a rush to grocery
and hardware stores for sup
Piles and food to equip par
ties heading for the reported
find.
Automobiles t 90 k the
more fortunate of the would
be claimants to the noun
famous country. Others went
on mule back and some
started afoot.
A local restaurant man,
veteran of five gold rushes,
said he planned to go to the
scene and profit by the
strike.
'I'll get SO for ham and
eggs" was his boast.
Vassar and Mason have
sunk a 90-foot shaft on one
of their claims. They de-
clared the mother lode is 81
feet wide and proved for a
distance of 900 feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Time to Act

A poorhouse is always terrible. The one
maintained in Marion county is apparently
brutal and monstrous, almost unbelievable.
When an aged blind man, without rela-
tives and friends was charged with insanity
on the ground that he had "delusions" of per-
secution, the physicians appointed by Judge
John w. Kern inferred that the idea of per-
secution was no delusion, but we'll founded.
This man was forced to live in such
squalor at the institution that the physicians
were tempted to send him to nadhouse as
a means of escape.
Because he objected to conditions, because
he demanded the right to walk in the fresh
air and the sunshine, an official effort was
made to declare him crazy and to take what
little joy may be left to him in his few re-
naming days.
A few centuries ago insane persons were
chained in kennels, but they were fairly
decent kennels. That was because their
relatives believed the insanity was caused by
evil spirits and they were afraid of the
spirits.
AS whole we have progressed a little
since that cruel day, but not much. We do
not yet care enough about the unfortunate
to rebel against the oppression of the weak.
1t would seem impossible that such
thing as this unwarranted insanity inquest
over an INDECENT ward of the county could
happen in a civilized community without an
uprising that would force change in the
poorhouse.
A grand jury has demanded changes in
management. Another has denounced the
physical quarters. Now judge by infer
ence finds the officials guilty of oppression
in their unjustifed effort to send sane man
to an asylum.
Certainly the county officials who ignored
the grand jury can not longer refrain from
taking action.
Surely the people of this community will
make such protest that officials who have
long exploited the poor will not dare to con-
tinue policy of inhumanity.
The people pay enough to have these I'M
fortunates cared for in some comfort. When
outrage and brutality are added to squalor
and filth, the limit has been reached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

FTNHE enthusiastic announcer of a certain beauty
l. expert says that she talks to the largest audi
ence Of women in the world. She tells them to be
young and beautiful.
Over the air her advice sounds convincing But
just you try to follow in detail such directions from
any OF these experts and you will discover that you
have job on your hands that beats dish washing
when it comes TO being what the mountaineer called
plumb constant"
With pencil and paper sit down and figure out the
hours 1t takes to give your person the attention that
beautcianS insist it must have.
DY the time you have toned up the skin, exercised
~ the legs for shapeness cultivated the lashes and
eyehrowws tended the hands and nails, sroked sha-
pooed and oniced the hair, touched the floor twen-
ty-ve times day for suppleness, ridden an imaginary
bicycle fortylve miles for hip contour nassaged the
wrinkles and sofened the elbows soaked the feet and
applied cold to large pores, and besides all this
had the requisite amount of fresh air and sleep you
would according to strict computation, have just about
sixteen and half minutes out of every day to look
after the baby.
Nor is that all. Ere long you would be so obsessed
by yoE quest for comeliness that your husband
would divorce you, your friends would drop you
and your children would despite you.
The business of beautifying women is pleasant
and profitable one so long as the patients do not
take it too seriously. But if should, all at once
decide to follow the notions put out these days for
our improvement, goodness KNOW how the work
would get done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Applied Science


KTANY indications Of the dawn OF
1El the era of scientific humanism
already a. casting rosy streaks
upon the gray sky of the worlds
present difficulties.
First is the determination of men
of science to have a hand in the
application of scientific discoveries
to life. There was time, and it is
not SO long ago, but this writer re-
members it very distinctly, when
men of science prided themselves
upon their aloofness from every
day affairs.
The ideal scientist was a sort Of
hermit concerned chiefly with the
pursuit of scientific truth. The oc-
casional scientist who sought q
more direct contact with the affairs
Of the world, was regarded with
suspicion by his colleagues.
But the last decade has wrought
an immense change in the viewpoint
OF science. There is a general dis
satisfaction among scientists with
the way in which the world has used
the discoveries of science.
This state of affairs was expressed
some time ago by DR.. Burton E.
Livingston, permanent secretary OF
the American Association for the
Advancement Of Science. DR.. Liv-
ingston stated that science had
made enough discoveries to date to
insure the happiness of the whole
world, if only those discoveries were
put to their best possible uses.
But, as he pointed out, many dis
coveries have, at times, been put to
their worst possible uses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
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GREEK KINGS SPEECH
Aug. 6

ON Aug. 6. 1917, an Athens news
~ dispatch gave the text of a
speech which young King Alex
ander made from the throne after
taking the oath to the constitution
IN the chamber of deputies.
He succeeded his father. King
Constantine, who abdicated under
allied pressure. Alexander said in
part.
The conditions upon which the
transmission of the royal power
was effected clearly have shown
the path to be followed in the
future.
They render necessary the appeal
to the national sovereignty so as to
revise and consolidate at the same
time as the throne a form of gov
eminent established on the basis
demanded by popular Will, to decide
IN the most precise fashion the
extent. of sovereign rights of the
people as well as the extent Of
royal authority as defined by the
constitution by giving it the dem
ocratic character which il the de-
sire of the dynasty.
i appeal to your unanimous aic
IN studying the measures indicated
in the present circumstances as r.
CARDS the economical situation d
the state and the country"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Dogma

GONE preachers assume that be-
- yond the group which holds
fast to Christian doctrine there is
no way in which to build a belief
in survival. This, I think, is less
than accurate.
I am not even talking of those
dreams of heaven, which are in
cluded in Christian religions.
One may arrive at a very strong
hope of continuance without basing
his belief on any sort of dogma.
Fer instance, there is the approach
through chemical research.
I have known many to find COM
fort in the theory of the indie
structibility of matter.
One may object that his heritage
in phosphorus, iron and water is
but a feeble thing. These elements,
he can argue, are inanimate. But
that great gulf which once existed
between mind and matter begins
to grow more narrow.
Even a block of wood takes on a
certain dignity when one conceives
it as a cosmos housing an entire
universe of agitated electrons. And
the difference between some of the
more ambitious plants and the
most slothful shades Of animal life
is barely perceptible.
So it may be that our very essen
tial substance has within it soma
sort Of personality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HEE Yg27S

A YOUNG man in college writes
4 n What purpose is there in life
if at my death everything ceases;
i. e., ceases as far as I am con-
cerned?"
OF course, this is question which
has puzzled great philosophic minds
throughout all the ages, and a sim
pie columnist hardly can be ex-
pected to give an adequate answer.
And yet, it always has seemed to
me that there is and can be no
surety in the theory of personal
humiliation.
will grant that to the coldly sci
entif1c and rational mind revealed
religion offers something less than
pure laboratory proof. That is my
opinion. And, indeed, theologians
themselves have insisted that belief
must rest upon an act of faith.
Nor would I scoff at faith, for it
is powerful and largely uncon-
scious dynamo. All of us live by
some sort of faith, even though we
may be less than fundamental in
our creeds.
The most aggressive atheist is &C
tuated by his own sort of faith;
for in all fairness it ought to be
said that personal extinction is no
more provable than immortality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Polishing rice removes the vitamin
B. There are various forms of
nervous and digestive disorders
which are associated with an abb
sence of vitarnin B from the diet.
Most of the cereals are rich in
carbohydrate. For example, three
tablespoonfuls Of farina, weighing
about q grams, will contain three
grams OF protein, one-half gram fat
and 81 grams of carbohydrates.
Crapenuts, pulled wheat, pulled
rice, shredded wheat and wheatena
all have about the same COM
position.
Three tablespoonfuls of any of
these cereals will provide 100
Galleries to the body, a very small
amount of phosphorus, little if any
iron, and, in the case of the whole
wheat products, some calcium.
All of them will provide vitamins
A and B, except that the polished
rice products contain relatively
little if any Of these vitanins.
Thus, the cereals are energy pro-
ducers and weight builders, as are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06

all foods rich in carbohydrates. The
diet of the growing child should
be relatively rich in cereals for the
same reason.
The development of the prepared
breakfast foods has done much to
add variety to the cereal diet. BY
this means flavor and palatability
may be supplemented and increased.
1t must be remembered also that
the cereals usually are supple
mented with milk, cream and sugar
and that these serve to add to their
food value.
The proteins of the cereal foods
are not sufficient to serve alone as
body builders for most people, and
are best supplemented with pro-
TENS from meat and milk products.
The muscle meats do not provide
much more in the way of dietary
properties than do the cereals and
must be supplemented with cal
cium, sodium and with the various
vitamins.
Such experimentation comes from
such meats as liver, kidney and
giblets, generally also from milk
| products.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Human Relations

A MOTHER indication of the new
L n day is the general feeling that
something must be done in the field
OF human relations. This feeling is
not restricted to scientists. It is to
be found among business men and
professional men in every field.
A sample Of the present state of
opinion is to be found in a recent
statement of Robert D. Kohn, pres
ldent of the American institute of
architects
Mans major tasks Of the future
lie in the sphere of human rela-
tons, not in science and engineer
ing, Kohn says.
1--WE live in an age of idiotic con-
trasts," he says. want exists amid
plenty, and those who have an
abundance of material things are
spiritually starving.
"A new art superimpcr ! on ma
terial science must be created, with
the whole world as the field of &C
ton.
THE material achievement of en-
glneerlng and science during the
last half century are indeed ar in
dication of the wonderful possibili-
ties Of the trained mind.
But from my point of view, that
same mind has not distinguished
itself by meeting other problems
tnat have grown even more COM
pick in this same period.
1t seems to me that the very
real achievements of science and
engineering fail of their effect be-
cause the human side of the worlds
problems has been neglected.
I'VE have been absorbed in things.
We have neglected to notice the ef-
feet Of men absorbed in things on
other men absorbed in things =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06

try know that Indianapolis also
takes care Of it's citizens in a hui
man way. Here is how.
An ordinance taxing each and
every Indianapolis business man or
woman $500 a year for every out
of-toWn person this man has work.
ing for him here. There is the end
OF your panic in Indianapolis and
prosperity for your taxpayers. It
has been estimated between $4,000
and $4,000 people come in the
morning, work all day and go back
home at night.
We have about 10000 empty
houses, just rotting. The owners
can not pay the taxes. Fill up
those empty houses and where
would the rest Of those 100000 or
more people stay? It would mean
the biggest building boom ever
known here.
The Chamber of Commerce is
opposed to this ordinance, for
wages would jump from the low
rate Of 10 cents an hour, paid to-
day in at least one place, to so and
so cents, and the workers could live.
JAMES j. CULLINGS.