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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
WARMERS STRAND TO PRE- SENT SECOND DELUXE VAU- DEVILLE STAGE SHOW OF SEASON STARTING TOMOR- ROW

The second deluxe vaudeville stage show of the season will be presented tomorrow. at Warner Brothers Strand theater. AS promised by the management this new show is bigger and better than last weeks and that in itself is a big order.
 Headlining the bill is The Great Huber, magician, conjurer and mystic seer. Huber's act is full of thrilling illusions and feats of magic that leave his audience spell bound. Everyone has seen magi- clans and their ag-o-tricks are for the most part identical but not with Huber. His presentations are all new, many of them devised by himself after years of travel among the far countries of the East.
 The Three Page Boys, present a fast moving dance novelty. They have just returned from a trium. phant tour of the western states where hold-over engagements be- came so regular that their entire | booking route had to be changed Waterbury likes clever dancing and the Three Page Boys know theii taps and steps.
 King and Burnett, The Two Bronze Melbas", offering a comed, singing act that is original, tune. full and packed with clean whole some comedy.
 Roy Sedley, vaudeville favorite presents a novelty Sound and Un' sound" that is full of the sharI pointed wit that keeps audience. in constant laughter, blue: chaser who takes the press out oi depression.
 Alden and Claire offer a pleasing comedy, singing, dancing act Side. walk Psychology" that is bound tc appeal to Waterbury audiences.
 Here is another great stage show and to top it off is talking screen treat, Paramount's Caught starring Richard Arlen with Fran ces Dee and Louise Dresser. A love story that will touch your l heart, a tale of the west before the law came. Fast riding, dramatic action. tense dialogue, in short everything that could be desired in an interesting talking screen pre- sentation. Vaudeville is presented at 3:0O, 6:00 and 9:00 daily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
VAST GAS FIELD ENVlSIONED BY
 NEW WORKERS
Drilling and Leasing Ac-
 tivity Feverish Through aaA State

Wayne, N. Y.-The whole of Central New York state may con- tain vast underground pockets of natural gas, in the opinion of en- gineers drilling here.
 In the Wayne field so wells are now in operation, or are capped and can be made producers. Pipe lines are being extended to central and western New York cities.
 At Penn Tan preparations are being made for drilling test wells. It is believed the natural gas veins found in Pennsylvania extend through the entire Finger Lake region.
 Residents of Sherwodo, on Cayuga lake, have known for sometime that there was gas in the neighborhood. As long as 25 years ago drilling operatoins were begun in search of oil. A few of these produced a little gas; one or two a mere trickle of oil, and the rest salt water. Promoters were discouraged. Now, however, oil companies are busy leasing land at 25 cents an acre.
 Leasing has been particularly factive along the shores of Skane- ateles lake. Geologists are cer- tain the shadle strata found there contains oil as we'll as gas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

fion of the drama. For this pic- tufe, 1t is announced, is in no senses a travelogue, but q dramatic story. which is filled with suspense andEs exciting action. The film tells the, story of an American doctor who has literally buried himself in this wild region where he, the only4 white man in the entire country side, Is the personal physician of an Oriental rajah who rules his people from a ruined castle. Into this desolate spot comes the di-f vorced wife of the doctor, her re- kindled love causoing her to follows him half way around the world. It. is when her late husband spurnsx her and the rajah casts covetouss eyes on the beautiful white wonnau< that the drama reaches its climax. while the thunderous eduption ofAl a nearby volcano adds terror to- the scene. @,
 The cast of '.East of Borneo" is1 headed by Rose Hobart andMl Charles Bickford, and also includess Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar,~ Noble Johnson and many hundredsS of native Malays. Al
 A special surrounding programs to accompany this unusual featuret presentation is certain to add zests to the entertainment value of thisal hill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
WHAT THE PRESS A GENTS SAY
Edward c. Robinson in 'sF1ve Star FinaP Closing Record
 Week Run at State Tonight

Five Star Final.'' the years outstanding dramatic film starring Edward G. Robinson, closes a rec ord breaking solid week run to- night at Warner Brothers State theater.
 Five Star Final' written by Louis Weitzenkorn, himself an ex- newspaperman, portrays the havoc wrought in a respectable family, when the scandal sheet reveals a long buried skeleton = causing the suicide of the parents of a young girl who is about to marry, and running her future happiness.
 Edward G. Robinson presents the most dynamic and movingly human role of his career as Ran dall, managing editor of the paper |- who finally rebels against the unhumanity of his hypocritical big boss and resigns.
 The superb support includes Marian Marsh, H. B. Warner. Am thony Bushell, George E. Stone, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, Boris Karloff, Robert Elliott, Aline Mac Mahon, Purnell B. Pratt, David Terrence, Oscar Abel, Gladys Lloyd (wife of the star) Evelyn Hall and Harold Waldridge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
DEPRESSION PROVES NATION CANNOT AFFORD
 ANY MORE GREAT WARS, SAYS NOTED EXPERT
 Has Same After All Great Conflicts

and the construction boom run to excesses. General speculation creates fictitious values. There comes a time when the country districts, with their diminished purchasing power, can no longer consume their normal proportion of the goods produced by the cities. Then comes secondary decline in commodity prices, a collapse of city real estate values, and the secondary postwar depression, af- flicting urban communities and country districts alike.
 During this secondary depres- sion wages, prices and profits for both city dwellers and country people are painfully jarred and jolted back into working adjust ment that enables the nation, or the nations, to make progress in the long task of paying off the accumulated indebtedness.
 Apparently it takes about 10 years for the developments that have been described, to take place.
 The peak of commodity prices of the War of 1912 came in 1915, and the secondary depression was ushered in 10 years later by the panic of 1925.
 In the Civil War the peak of prices came in 1864, and the first full year of the secondary postwar depression was 1874.
 After the World War the peak of commodity prices was in 1920, and the first full year of the sec ondary depression was 1930.. Same Sequence Seen
 After All Wars
 In each case there seems to have been the same sequence of CD price imitation, CD farm prosperity
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
LEW AIRES, BUCK JONES AND LAUREL AND HARDY
 AT THE NEW GARDEN

The New Garden. theater takes real pleasure in announcing it's at traction for to-day and to-morrow. It is Up For Murder" UniversaPs absorbing love drama which pre- sents Lew Ayres as star. This colorful story is told against the seething background of a great metropolitan newspaper, and brings to the screen "The eternal triangle" in a new guise. 7 ,, A scub reporter falls desperately in love with. the beautiful society editor, only to discover that thii glorious girl is the mistress of the papers owner. The eyents which follow this startling dsicovery make of up for Murder" one oi the most powerful dramas we have ever shown.
 Appearing in Ayres snppoFtine cast are such favorites as Gene vieve Tobin. Purnell B. Pratt, Richard Tucker, Frank McHugh, and Frederick Burt. Monta Bell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
By DIR CLEMENT S. BRAININ Of the Columbia University Observatory Stan

It is surprising that the acute observers on ancient times left no definite record of these easily ob- served changes. The name Algol means "the demon" in Arabic, and would indicate that the Arabs or the Moors in Spain had discovered this phenomenon and were aware of the stars peculiarity but it was not until 1870 that our western science became cognizant of this fact through the observations of Montanari. Goodricke, in 17S3, definitely discovered the recur- renee of the minima of light and measured the time interval be- tween them. He, in fact. also sug- gested that it may be due to the passage of one star in front of an- other but hundrerd years elapsed before science advanced far enough to prove that such was actually the case.
 It is the spectrum of Algol which shows that we are dealing here with two separate bodies revolving about their common center of gravity. One of these bodies is much brighter than the other and they eclipse each other periodical ly. When the darker one eclipses the brighter, we have the great drop in brilliancy; when the re- verse takes place we have only a small loss in brilliancy because the minor component contributes but little to the total radiation. With out the spectroscope, the telescope would probably be unable to per init of the proof of Goodricke's s original theory. It is the Doppler effect change in the wave-length of the light beams which show us that the bright component of Algol isalternately approaching and re- ceding from us.
 The Planets
 Saturn is the only major plane tary body which finds place on this months map; for Uranus, whose position also ise plotted. is a tele- scopic object only. too dim for ob- servation with the unaided eye. Saturn is in Sagittarius, low down over the southwestern sky. Mars. too, is an evening star but it is only few degrees above the hori- zon at sunset and has set long be- fore our map-time. Venus is too close to the sun for observation this month although it Is tech nically an evening star; it is. how ever, improving its position so that 1t will be a fine object in the eve ming sky after the first of the year. Jupiter Is a morning star and an excellent object for observation by those who can rise before the sun.
 A Fifth Eclipse
 The fifth and last eclipse of the present calendar year takes place this month on the 11th. It is only partial eclipse of the sun. the third eclipse of this kind in 1881. Like the previous ones, 1t will not be visible from North America at all butoEiy from the regions aur- rounding the South Pole. At It's maximum phase about nine-tenths of the sun will be covered by the dark moon. Although the year 1881 will not go down at all in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

<Colonei Leonard P. Ayres auth or of this timely and interesting article, is vice president of the Cleveland Trust company and one 4E the nations most noted econ 3mists and business experts.-The EAitor.)
 By COL. LEONARD P. AYRES Noted Economist of Cleveland ys@ Trust Company
 This depression, and that of 1921 VIII probably be discussed in fut- uFe economic histories as holding important places among the major Consequences of the World War.
 Students of our own business history will not that we had a primary and a secondary postwar depression following the War of 1912, again a primary and a sec oHdary postwar depression follow ing the Civil War, and now once more a primary and a secondary postwar depression following the World War.
 Moreover, these pairs of posts war depressions have had certain definite characteristics in common that appear to indicate that they have formed parts of a specialized pattern that business activity fol- lows after all great wars.
 1t is not the event of war that shapes the patterns, but rather the fact that great wars cause sudden ana extreme advances in commod- ity prices. It is thiss sudden price advance which largely determines the nature and sequence of the business cycles of the following 20 year or so.
 Tn broad general terms we may think of all the people in the world as being divided into two great classes. In the first class are the people who live in the country, and earn their livelihoods by extracting valuable things from the earth through agriculture, min- ing, numbering and fishing. In the second class are those who live in t6Hns and cities, and support tliemselves by taking the things produced by the country dwellers and fabricating them, and trading in them.
 When war comes, and commo- dity prices mount, the prompt re- suit is a great wave of prosperity for the farmers. For some time their production costs increase but little, and the increases in the prices received for crops are al- most all profit. Under such condi- tions of very rapid price advances,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

October has always seemed to usa particularly good month for tA6 study of the starry skies, both for the beginner and the more ex- pefienced observer. The evenings at1e, as @ rule, quite comfortable and the light haze, which is so often found on summer evenings in smany parts of the country, does not dim the bright glory of Ihe stars. It is surely a royal assem- blaze that greets us from the depths of the evening sky. Many ofA our summer friends are still with us: Vega, Altair, Capella, the cofistellations Andromeda, Cassio- pkIa, and Pegasus all shine forth with perhaps an increased beauty.
 Algol in Perseus
 One of the most interesting in- dividuaI stars to be observed now is Algol in Perseus, the constella- tion lying northeast of Andro- ueda. This star is easily found by 1lrst locating the Great Square in Pegasus which at map-time lies just to the east of the meridian hikh up toward the zenith. The 1ifik of Andromeda stars extending IT0m Lnc IlOIluCdoL SOA ith VI sfAS Saoare leads us into Perseus. and Alkol is the more easterly Of the two bright stars of the latter con- sta1lation. The line of bright An Alameda stars points almost ex- aeflv to Alpha Persei; Algol is Beta Persei. It is a variable star fn which the change of brightness fs so rapid and pronounced that 1t cau readily be observed with the unAtded eye.
 Every three days, or more ex- actly. every sixty-nine hours, it df6fps from its usual stellar mag uftiIde of about 2.3 to a magnituYe o{ z only 3.5 which constitutes a dfrainution in its light of approx frnately two-thirds. The decrease takes place in about five hours and in xanother five hours the maxi mum is again regained. The rest of 8he time the star is practical lv Constant at its maximum bright nS1s: although very delivate meas 1rr&xnents have shown a secondary d{k in brightness about halfway hSfEeen the greater changes. This 1u76nth you will be able to observe fflM variation in AlgoPs light at the fd|Iowing times: on the End at 2:40 q. m.; on the 4th at 11:3o p. m.; oH@ the 7th at s:20 p. m; on the 21nd at 4:20 a. m; on the 26th n3El:10 a. m.; on the 27th at 10 ul en.: and on the 30th at 6:5O p. ~r These times are all given in ~. 6tern standard time and the s3>Sper adjustment should be made <5<<hose living in other standard <11@o belts. The time given is that
 Enc minimum stage of AlgoPs 11 10 that observations should
 Slarfed a number of hours be- 11I@ aud may be continued until FIT r19xImum stage is regained. [ I, sa rlaon of AIgol's brightness
 11ref of the neighboring staps
 readily show the progress of 1||E nhsnomenon. The other min |i1< of fhis month arc not 70 we'll IS 'I|&1 f6r obseryAtfof because they \ '1r during fhe d1yIifht hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
EXCITING SEA RESCUE
 " E. AT LYRIC THEATEH

Jack Holt in his latest thrill pie ture, Fifty Eathoms Deep,' closes tonight at the Lyric theater. It's deep sea drama with lots of red blooded drama, thrilling suspense and romance, the underwate- scenes of a rescue of one diver by another being intensely exciting. Loretta Savers, Richard Cromwell and Mary Doran are also in the cast.
 Sa So the funny clown and bis amateurs opened the vaudeville season at the Lyric theater last night.
 They were received by the au- dience in the most plaudible man ner. Sa So and his funny skits performers were boy seven years who played the piano accordian with the touch of grown up. Three radio artists were members of his troupe.
 Sa So and his acts will be a keely feature during the fall and winter season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

himself q former newspaper man. directed the picture.
 The companion picture IS Buck Jones in "The Fighting Sheriff" with Loretta Savers. Red-b -blOoded adventure and a sweetly shy love story told to the beat of flying iloofs-the thud of punching fists and the crack of deadly bullets! Other pictures are Harold 'Red"
 Grange in the second sfhrilling
 chapter of "The Galloping Ghost"
 and Laurel and Hardy in "Hog
 Wild" An extra feature to-mo-r
 row night will be Country Store"
 when 30 baskets of choice eatables
 will be handed over the footlights
 by Si Crabbee who will officiate as
 master of ceremonies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

and farm land speculation, (s) price sdefation and depression (4) city prosperity and speculation (5) secondary price defiation and sec ohdary depression.
 The Same sequence has been followed before in earlier war and post-ward periods, but. this time the whole world is involved, In stead of thinking about 1t in terms of country districts and city pop ulations, we must remember that this time it affects whole nations, and almost all nations. @f Our troubles are not the result of some mysterious and hitherto unsuspected weakness in our social system, nor can they be cured by adopting a five year, or 10-year, sor 20-year plan of reorganization of our industries, our banks and our commerce.
 The true lesson of this depres- sion is that we cannot afford any more great wars
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
WARNER BAXTER q AprE
 VkskiEk IN sek xks sou AEv MANI, AT FOX p6fN FAIiACM

W4iAN IN ,"I &3M 32 NA w MAN 1L AT FOX PQIH FALiACE The Fox Poli Palace offers q double feature program. the lead ing feature Wagner Baxter and Lupe Velez in "The squaw Man and 'The Big Gamble" with Bill Boyd. ay One of the. most enduring and popular stories the American staBe has known made it's local talking picture debut last night at the Foy Poli Palace for a four days en- eagement.
 It IS aThe lsquaw Man." mag nificently produced by, Cecil B. De- Mille for Metro Goidwyn- Mayer.
 DeMiile has assembled a remark able cast, for his presentation of play, rated with Uncle T0rr's Goblin, and -.Ben Hur" among the first three most popular stage tales the IT,. s. A. has known.
 <, Time has not dimmed In any way public enjoyment of this story, moving quickly between English castles and the Arizona cattle country. The action has been modernized, but the background is the same. as in the past, g strong. gripping melodrama with a con- fict of- blood ties, Indian and white. that drips with box ofice'' potentialities.
 Baxter Scores
 Warner Baxter is convincing as as James Wynnegate, who after the English episode, becomes Jim Carston, ranch owner.
 Lupe Velez is splendid Natu- rich. She doesn't speak twenty words of English, but her speeches in the Apache tongue are frausht with significance. The final scene, when she sees her boy being taken to England, as the posse arrives to arrest her for the murder of Cash Hawkins, is without doubt the finest thing this capable player has done. Eleanor Boardman is ef- fective as the English girl lead, Lady Diana; Charles Bickford scores as the villainous Cash Haw- kins, and Roland Young's Sir John Is up to the high standard he has set in previous pictures.
 The co-feature "The Big Gam ble'' with Bill Boyd, Warmer Gland, Doeothy Sebastian, James Gleason and sazyu Pitts. The Fox Movietone News and noveltieA completes the program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
WHAT DEPRESSION
 HAS TAUGHT US

Hour troubles are not the result of some mysterious and hitherto sun inspected weakness in. our social Ssys- s tenn, nor eau they be cured {, by adopting a five-year, or 10-year, or 20-year plan of reorganization of our indus tries, our banks and our commerce.
 sThe true lesson of this depression is that we cannot afford any more great wars" Colonel Leonard F. Ayres.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

eclipse history as a worthwhile one 1882 will make up in abundance what 1881 lacked. for we shall be favored with a total eclipse of the sun, whose track of totality will pass over eastern Canada and sev- eral of the New England states. Full information will. of course, be given here at later date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
TO AWARD CITATIONS.

Lynwood, Cal-Lynwoed Post of The American Legion will award this year distinguished service cita- tions to two citizens of Lynwood for meritorious service given the community in the past year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
NEW LEGIoN HOME.

Geneva, Ohio-Contracts for the construction of the new American Legion building which will cost $10,000 have been awarded by George Call post.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
ssEast of Bornco," Something
 New in Screen Entertainment

New in Screen Entertainment
 Opens at Warmers State Theater
 Something new in talking screen entertainment and perhaps the most novel picture to be shown in Waterbury this season is East of Borneo" which opens a four day engagement at Warmers State to- morrow.
 This remarkable photoplay was filmed in Sunatra and the Malay Peninsula among ancient ruins which form the setting for the ac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
Farmer Also First Hit
 By Primary Depression

With the depression comes a collapse of the farm land boom, and the farmers find themselves burdened with the heavy mortgages placed at the earlier high land prices.
 When this primary postwar price deflation and primary post war depression have run their course, there ensues a period of urban prosperity. Food is now relatively cheap in the cities, for production has increased more rapidly than demand.
 Food constitutes a large part or the cost of living of the industrial workers, and when food prices de- cline more rapidly than wages the result is a period of hard times for the farmers. but of prosperity for city people.
 The world was moving through such a period from the depression of 1921 to the end of the prosper ity in 1920. Two characteristic developments mark a period of that sort. The first is boom in city real estate. with great activity in building construction, stimulated not merely by the prevailing econ- omic prosperity of the city dwell lers, but also by the making up of the building shortage that ac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

cumplated during the previous war period of inflated prices. The other development is general speculation in almost everything except com modities.
 City Rooms Run to Excesses, Crash Follows
 A period of this sort can last a long time, but eventually it de- stroys itself. The real estate boom
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

the doubling of the amount re- ceived for a crop of given size may well result in tenfold increase in farmer profits.
 The next development is a great sl eculation in farm lands, the blowing up of additional fields, the use of profits to buy more land, and large increase in farm mort gages. Production is sharply step ped up.
 This proves rather difficudt for the city dwellers, for while indus try and trade are brisk, and every one can find work, the cost of liv- ing is high, wages do not advance nearly so rapidly as prices. and industrial disputes are frequent as pay advances are demanded.
 However toward the end of the war, or shortly thereafter, com modity prices reach their peak and turn down. With the price defia- tion comes business depression for rural and urban dwellers alike. After the Civil War this came in 1865, as soon as hostilities ceased, but after the World War the pri- mary postwar depression did not come until 1921.