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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
Wanted--A Chairman!

If party harmony were entirely in party chairman's keeping. what riot we would havel First. Senator Fess chairman of the g.o.p., drew republican ire by speaking his mind on prohibition. A few days afterward. John J.. Raskob. democratic chairman stirred up dissension = also in regard to prohibi- ton. Mir Raskob. who is known for his anti-Volstead views simply undertook to find out what 1928 democratic contribu tors thought of the prohibition question. and he set about it in the simplest way posi- ble. He asked them in writing. The reper- cussions were not very great. but the dry element in the party, headed by Senator Robinson of Arkansas was indignant. MT Raskob was politely rebuked by a reminder that prohibition was now overshadowed by more important matters. notably the de- pression.
 Senator Fess' transgression was more serl- ous. The earnest little Ohioan declared that the republican party would make fatal blunder" if it asked for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Immediately, three infuriated republican congressman turned their machine guns on the chairman. Repre- sentative Britten of Illinois compared him to "a director and officer of the Anti-Saloon League" Representative La Guardia of New York called him the best asset the democratic party has," and Representative Schafer denounced his "fanataesm. And their remarks for publication are said to be as nothing compared with some of the pri- vate comments of leading g.o.p. stalwafts. Wanted: A party chairman without con- viction on the prohibition question.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

According to alr reports. Albie. Booth,
 Yale's outstanding athlete to-day. has closed his athletic career at that institution. The diminutive three-letter star will be taken to Gaylord Farm Sanitarium this week for a rest following recent illness which has been reported as pneumonia and pleurisy. This news following SO hard on his defeat of Harvard via the drop-kick route will be , shock to his countless admirers not merely in this state but throughout the entire sport world, If Booth is lost to Yale for basket ball and baseball there will be a curious bit of irony in the incident. Booth explained the football team this fall and would hay. led the basketball team this winter He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
THE TREASURE OF THE
 LUSITANIA
(Hartford Courant)

Only a few days after the divers reached the bullion room of the $. s. Egypt comes the news that an expedition will attempt to recover the treasure lost with the Lusi- tania. The party is headed by Simon Lake of Stratford and Mill ford, the submarine builder, and by Captain H. H. Railey, who was the personal representative of Ad- miral Byrd during the Antarctic expedition. Other proposals of this kind have been announced in the past and nothing has come Of them, but the use of new device, invented by MT Lake and already tested in the English Channel, seems to give better prospects for this attempt. It is described as "steel-enclosed stairway" with an observation chamber near the low CT end from which the divers can descend and light be thrown on the wreck.
 No attempt will be made to raise the great ship, which lies in 240 feet of water, eight miles of Old Kinsale, Ireland. The value Of the metal might not pay the cost of bringing 1t to the surface. The salvaging company which has been at work on the German fleet at Scapa Flow has only recently an- Inounced that some of the ships will not repay the cost of recovery, and so the purpose of the Lusitania expedition will be to save only objects of value, intrinsic and his- toric.
 The chief treasure on the Lusi- tania was of course its human freight. Nothing can be done to recover the 1,198 lives lost. What gold bullion there may have been will still be bright, although all notes, certificates and other papers can scarcely have escaped destruc- tion, however, we'll protected. The pression of the ocean above will have demolished many other ob- jects. Whether evidence of muni- tions and other contraband of war still exist is a question only in- vestigation can answer Perhaps no one but bigots on one side or the other will now greatly care to have this point proved. It may be valuable for history books. but 1t can not change the essential tn- terpretation of the war. Little fear need be entertained that revivine talk of this old tragedy would rouse passions now dead. It will serve rather to impress on all who
 read the necessity of preserving
 the peace of the nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

We don't think that the boom for Samuel Seabury for president on the democratic ticket can be taken too seriously. At this early date any public official who is much in the headlines of our daily newspapers is a candidate for various high offices. It is natural that the public should turn to Mr Seabury who as counsel for the Hofstadter legislation commission is doing some fine work in probing graft and bribery charges in New York city. But why must Mir Sea- bury be made the democratic candidate? A review of his public career might reveal that he has not leaned towards the democratic party with any consistency. He might bet ter be ranked with the liberal factions that have cropped forth in New York state from time to time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

In commenting upon the victory of Repre-
 sentative Bertrand H. Shell over John Q. Tilson of New Haven for the nomination of Speaker of the House the Springfield Repub- lican lets drop this information: The fact that MT Shell is something of power mag
 nate in upper New York may also lead to suspicious that Conneeticut's own power magnate and republican boss. Henry J. Rora- back, who was ready to knife Mir Tilson for the vee-presidency if Mir Tilson got that far at the Kansas City convention in 1928, has had hand in Mir Tilson's present discom- future. ." Offhand we'd sayathat Mir Rora- back. whom we Nutmeggers know as J. Henry, not Henry J., didn't have any hand in Mr Tilson's downfall. Some time ago the two republicans were reported as making up whatever apparent differences had material ized between them. Some series of circum- stances evidently persuaded republican legis- lators to switch their allegiance from the los.;al successor to Mir Longworth to the up-and coming Mir Shell. Of course there was shrewd work afoot at the republican caucus Monday. The favorite-son booms were we'll timed. Had Tilson and Shell been the only contenders Tilson would probably have been nominated on the first ballot. As it was he lost strength steadily. while Shell was gaining. It was we'll unanswered. but doesn't reflect much credit on the party for throwing down Mir Tilson who had given two-score years in its service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
At The National Capitol
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

busy. You peek at him. though. He seems to be the most con- spicuously fat member of this con- gress, with a big black lock of hair thrown back toward his right shoulder and tortoise-shell glasses resting on the very tip of an am- pie nose.
 You decide to attend that recep- ton to Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and see for yourself whether his beard is really purple, as reported. It turns out to be brown. His hair is black, how ever, by virtue of vaseline or olive oil. No gesture seems more statesmanlike than Grandfs as he strokes that beard while thinking. A white handkerchief sticks five inches from his breast pocket; he wears @ square-faced wrist watch. His Italian-Ameri- can dictionary taught him to say 'victuals" (not "vittles') instead of food" He seems a re- markable combination of forceful- ness, dynamic youth and great
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
Quotations

The time has come to take the soap-box off the street corner and take it into the directors room. -Dr Glen Frank. president of
 Wisconsin University.
 Demoralized industry means de- moralized politics. Albert c. Ritchie of Maryland.
 I do not believe the nature of the Chinese race will ever enable them to embrace Bolshevism. Paul Koenig. wartime
 commander of German subma- rine.
 Birth control is socially unethi- cal. -Tsev Edward Robert Moore. asso-
 ciated Catholic Charities. New
 York.
 The brain can be abnormal two ways---by being too puckered or by being too mushy. -Professor Wilder ID. Bancroft.
 Cornell University.
 if you want my opinion. 10 years from now there will be much pros perity. -IIenry Ford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
PLENTY OF SPROUTS
(Hartford Timesl

lt1aTLIOTQ llIucSJ
 Request made recently in this column for information regarding surviving Connecticut chestnut trees has brought many responses. but of similar tenor. Young sprouts running to a height of ten or twelve feet are quite common. A very few have borne chestnuts this year. One of these, at least. has developed blight in it's upper branches. None reported to us are surely more than seven years old. We have learned of a chestnut tree which bore nuts two or three years ago but has since died. That Is the sad trouble with the sprouts-they die. Yet the search should he continued. Ma ture is marvelously adaptive. Out of her thousands, and probably millions of attempts to produce a blight-reslstan chestnut tree. suc- cess perhaps can come. Such a sur- vivor would have tremendous value.
 Among our correspondents Is one who asks if sprays have been tried against the blight. or other treat ments that have been efiicacious Research and experiment in that direction thus far hns proved vain
 An sntedested gentlcSnan has taken the single mntured chestnut he ms found of this years minute
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
HOKE SMITH.
Hartford Times)

f1dTLIOTu llIHeSl
 The death of former Senator and Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia serves to bring new remembrance to the country of one of the south's most famous citizens, a gentleman of high culture. a lawyer of mark worthy journalist, deTocrat whose liberal and powerful i'm fiuence was of important help to two great presidents, Grover Cleve- land and Woodrow Wilson, and whose public service to eGorgia es- pecially was recorded in two mem orable terms as chief magistrate of that state.
 Of New Hampshire ancestry, born in North Carolina, MT Smith, after education at his fathers school in Chapel Hill, took up the practice of law at Atlanta, quickly gaining prestige in his profession. During the late sos he became president and editor of the Atlanta Journal. He gained national repu- tation for his vigorous support of tariff reforms and of the nomina- ton and election of Cleveland, who later called him to membership in the cabinet as secvretary of the in- terior. In that position he won the country's respect, and the ad- miration of the south particularly for his advocacy that the govern ment should assume ownership and operation of the Union Pacific railroad in the interest of cheaper trans continental transportation. Opposing Bryanism. he retired for a time from the national political field. preoccupying himself with reformatory measures in Georgia. largely with reference to the local railroad situation and also in be- half of prohibition and of elimina- tion of the Negro vote. He was twice elected governor and in 1911 he was appointed United States senator to fill a vacancy and was elected to the office five years later, for the 1920-1926 term. During the first year of the war he was the British blockade policy. He sup ported Wilson except as to the league of nations. Senator Smiths character was dignified. forceful and humane. Washington and the country rgarded him with defere- ence. Eloquent and skiilful in de- bate, independent. stalwart in hts convictions. he deserved the hiGh rank in contemporary statesman- ship which was accorded him. Georgia has lost an honored and worthy adopted son. In whose car- ger New England also has Q share of pride.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
Here, There And EueryWhere

crop and planted it, hoping that q seeding may come from it and that the specimen may be blight resisting. If the nut had dried for many days before the planting 1t is unlikely to germinate. Even when chestnuts were abundant in the woods 1t was extremely rare to dis cover an instance in which seeds lings were produced under natures sway. Either the nuts dried or rot- ted before encountering exactly the conditions of warmth and mois- ture in which germination could take place. Almost exclusively the chestnut tree propagated itself from dormant buds in the stumps and roots. It is singular how that could have been while each tree bore thousands of nuts. By the way, who knows where there Is q Connecticut native beech rec which bears nuts fiat" and edible as such nuts are in upper New England? -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

The so-called "whoopee cruises which were so popular this fall may be banned if the U. S. Shipping Board has its way. American liners cannot compete with these cruises. which last from twenty-four hours to six days. British boats are well supplied with choice liquors which can be opened and sold beyond the l2-mile limit. American boats carry only enough for medicinal needs. Hence those cruises to nowhere" aren't popular with the American ship own ers We doubt if Congress will take action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

might also have held the baseball captainey had he not personally recommended the cleo ton of Ned Warren last spring. Warren was the sterling shortstop who beat Booth out for an inheld post Last summer War ren was thrown from speeding motorboat and one arm SO badly mangled that it was amputated. He is back at school but he will watch the play from the bench. Per- haps Booth will sit beside him. We hope to see him in action, though.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
To-days Selected Poem,
CERTAIN PRoCRAsTINAToRs

By Edward w. Barnard in The New Yorl
 Times) Time, as ever twas Times way, Swifter than an arrow flies; Presently will dawn the Day Looked for by unnumbered eyes: Whats gained by your doleful signs? Hasten, sister! Hustle, son! Do not stop for drowning skies, Get your Christmas Shopping done! Whats the penalty you pay
 When too long you temporize? Iris the early bird. they say. Carries off the major prize. And. besides. last minute buys Never pleasure any one;
 Dregs are something to despise: Get your Christmas Shopping done! What turns many salesfoik gray Prematurely? One replies: Tardy Christmas shoppers! They Bully us and criticize!
 Certainly you sympathize With these weary souls? Then run! Before the traffic terrihes Get your Christmas Shopping done! Laggards. don't you realize
 This delay will profit nonof Be conslderate! Be wisel Get your Christmas Shopping donel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr. Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
NEA Service Writer

Washington. - Sometimes you trudge all day and do not get any news. At the Capitol, where most news is now, nearly everyone inn portant is constantly in conference. You hang your hat and coat up in the the senate press gallery and look at the bulletin board. Correspondents can't be in their offices and on the hill at the same time, so the Postal and Western Union duplicate all telegrarhs to the bulletin board. You read a notice on the board: Garner daily press conferences 10:30 and 3 D. m." Borah for years has been the only member of congress to hold daily press conferences.
 Now Garner, the next speaker, has two dates day to tell report CTS he hasn't anything to say. It's after Il, but you mosey over to Gamers office and find he is conferring with Senator Pat Harrison. You stop and eat oceans with nice Mrs Ettie Gar ner, wife and secretary. She has mechanical pecan cracker, which makes it easy. Two sacks of oceans from the Garner planta- ton at Uvalde, Texas, are in Q cor ner. The Gamers never get tired of oceans.
 An electric coffee percolator sits on a small table. Mrs Garner, so- cial successor to Alice Longworth, never goes out to lunch. That takes time. So she and Harry Sexton, the ex-editor who Is Gar ners male aide, send out for sand wiches at noon and she makes col fee. These two daily reach the office at 7;ao a. m. and 9ii 9uit ;1.v: at $; with a pocietful of oceans.
 You catch Senator George Nor ris of Nebraska between a confer ence and his lunch and give him couple of oceans. .. At every sessions end Uncle George leaves town thin and haggard, worn and tired, discouraged. But each fall he returns fattened, refreshed, optimistic and glowing in health. That's the way he Is now. "a. He supervised renovation of his home at McCook last summer, do- ing many odd jobs and planting shrubs himself. Often he would shout from the woodshed for his stenographic secretary to come out and take dictations.
 Friendly delegations from other towns were sometimes entertain ed in the woodshed, sitting on nail kegs, blanks and saw-horses as they chinned about public affairs. |. Another senator's secretary tells you how he and three other fellows are beating the cigarette trust" by using a cooperative cigarette-rolling machine. |. You eat at the senate restaurant and see Senators Couzens of Michigan, Nye of North Dakota, Tydings of Maryland and Norris together at a long table. Ex- Senator Dan Steck of Iowa joins them, after little hesitancy. Steck was sort of an administra- ton democrat under Coolidge and Hoover and may get a lame-duck berth on the tariff commission.
 You try to remember which Del aware or maybe 1t was a New Jer- sey senator donated bushels of free strawberries for senators and cor respondents at the restaurant last year and hope he does it again. l ponlF fhn qanafo nff7Ca
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
M TODAY eeSas, eSas
 WORLD WAR N ANNIVERSARY &G9 ozfNSE. :.
FTGHTING NEAR CAMBRIA

On December ?, 1917, the Gers mans made 15 attacks on the Brit ish line and forced the British to retire from ground they had cap- tured at Masnieres, three and one. half miles south of Cambrai. -
 The Germans were finally re5 pulsed with greater losses than perhaps in any other 12 hours of fighting in the war. |
 The Italians were repulsed in an attack on Monte\ Pertica.
 The Krupp Gun Works opened . branch factory at Lucerne, Swift zerland, with $6,000,000 capital. :
 Jacob H. Schiff, at dinner given in New York city, raised $1,060,OO0 in two hours for the National Jew- ish War Relief Fund. He con tributed s2O0.000, and Nathan Strauss $30,000.
 Baron Lowen, the Swedish min ister to Argentina, quit Buenos Aires without formal farewells.
 amiability. Everybody's im- --...,n.~ nA I,iy,o vuaa fav0rahle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

That British Labor party is certainly com ing up in the world with one of its leaders heading the Conservative party and the other in the House of Lords.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

Pensions for salaried deaconesses and salaried lay workers engaged in wholetime work of an evange- listic or epiritnalistis nature iu the Church of England have been recommended by the London Di- ocesan Conference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

If the government had all the money col lected by private rackets in this country it wouldn't need to raise taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 455 tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

You try to remember which Del aware or maybe 1t was a New Jer- sey senator donated bushels of free strawberries for senators and cor respondents at the restaurant last year and kope he does it again. Back in the senate office building you keep finding every body out or in conference.
 Senator Marvel Mills Logan, the new one from Kentucky, is in but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02

aYniability. EverybOdys I'm pression of him was favorable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-02
so IT GOES

IAfe is just a book, We live q page each day, Until the time is finished, And gently laid away.
 o-O-o How about giving New Year resolutions as Christmas presents?
 O-O-O I suppose broad shouldered men have broad responsi- bilities.
 O-O-O Toy spells joy at Christmas time.
 o-O-O
 OH DEAR ME
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-25
Robs Store
During Busy Hour
LSneclal I'D Nd HeraIdl

EDINBURG, Aug. .. A store
theft during a busy hour Is a new
enc on Mrs. j. @. Aliens store IN
Edcouch.
A bold thief escaped with about
IS pairs Of mems work trousers. valu-
et at about $500 a pair. Saturday
night about 1890 o'clock. Deputy
Sheriff r. +. R0wson said yester-
day.
Fourteen pairs were lost on a
vacant lot across the street as the
thief was escaping, Rowson said.
The thief was a youth about 20 o.
Is. Mrs. Allen reported 10 Rowson.
He had been sitting in front Of the
store. and a next door store Tor
about an hour and a half before
the theft took place. The clerks
noticed him especially because ne
wore gloves. R0wson said.
He wandered into the store non
chalantlv and examined different
merchandise. AT a moment when the
clerks were occupied with customers
the thief grabbed an armful OF
trousers on a display counter and
ran.
Up 10 noon today no arrests had
been made. Rowson said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-25
Los FRESNOS
TALKS WATER
Other Conservation Hear
ings Set During Week
Over Valley

"A special meeting will be he'd
Tuesday night at Los FreSnos school
building at 8 o'clock for information
to voters on organization Of a VAL
ley-wide group on conservation Of
water. Speakers will be Frank ROD
ertsOn or San Benito and r. =.
Creager OF Brownsville.
Other meetings Will be held II
Cameron county as follows:
Rio Hondo High school, 5 r. m.
wednesday: Santa Rosa school. 3
d. m. Thursday: FL Jardin school
8 D m. Friday; La Fe-ia school, 3
D.. m. Monday. Nm.
IN Hidalgo county meetings VIII
be held al Donna on "Wednesday
night: Pharr-Sau Juan-Alamo High
school, Friday night and at McAIlen
on the night Of Sept. i.
A meeting will be held at the
offices OF the San Benito Chamber
Of Commerce on the night Of Sept.
l and a Valley-wide mass meeting AZ
Harrington will conclude the series
on the night Of Sept. 2. on the eve
or the election at which the valida-
ton Of the district will be decided.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-25
AMERICANS MAY
CROSS RIVER
Matamoros Checks Citizens
Except For Five Hours
During Day

Regulations affecting the cross
ing OF residents Of the United
States into Mexico have been
changed TO allow free access from
the American side OF the river into
Matamoros during all hours OF the
day, Matamoros municipal author
tiles announced this morning.
Residents Of Matamoros for the
remainder OF the week will observe
the same hours as were put in ef-
feet last Saturday, being allowed 10
leave the, city 10 cross the inter-
national bridges only during the
hours or 7 to 8 a. m, u 70 l noon,
and s to 9 .. m.
When first put into effect. these
regulations were also applied 70
Americans entering Mexico, but
this part OF the order has been
rescinded TO allow Americans TO
come and 60 as before during the
hours the bridges IN open.
All cars with a United States
license tag are being greeted on
entry into Mexico with a sticker
which is placed on the windshield,
bearing the word welcome" in
both Spanish and English.