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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
81 SEEN AS BANNER.
BOND ISSUE YEAR.
Voters Considering Projects
of More Than Half Billion for
! Road and Water Systems.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated ffeSS.
NEW YORK, March 19.-The predi-
lection of Americans collectively to Dor
Row on the future to finance improve
anents promises to make 1881 the ban
her year in the volume of bond issues
authorized for such purposes.
Voters set new high record last year
Aln saying Ives" to bond issue proposals,
but municipal bond authorities here say
that the prospect that they may be even
more liberal in approving public expend-
itures this year is suggested by pro-
posals already under consideration.
The electorate of States, counties,
kcities and other governmental units APP
proved bond issues last year aggregating
1926 900 000 With les Sthan Z quarter
S of 1881 past, consideration is beiEg given
ito authorizing bond issues aggregating
more than half a billion dollars. And
this provides only a part of the picture
as only one-third of the bond issues au-
thorized annually are submitted to ref
erendum Through powers vested in
them legislative bodies account for the
other two-thirds.
Roads and Water Systems Lead.
What has caused this accelerated ac-
tivity? Municipal bond authorities
ascribe Il principally to highway inn
provement programs of States, particu-
plans for expanding water systems of
ciNes. The drought last year is said to
have shown present water facilities in
adequate in many instances.
Many elections already are scheduled
for the next two or three months.
Other proposals are in an embryonic
stage, such as the highway programs
OF West Virginia, involving $25 100000;
Tennessee, $79,O00,000 and Arkansas,
nf
Md, is considering 100000 900, mainly
for water purposes.
Texas and Iowa are considering the
largest highway bond issues. The Lone
Star States Legislature is debating a
5000 ,000,0 bond issue. According to
bankers here, no opposition is antici-
pated to the proposal to submit the
proposition to a referendum, probably
in the Fall Iowa will vote June 16
on bonding the State for 500, 1000, 900.
A referendum will be held in Mon
tana May on a $6,000,000 good roads
issue.
Many Elections Scheduled.
Proposals of county, city, village and
district units, as compiled by the bond
buyer. would swell the total ST. 100000
IL all were approved. In the last few
yeaFs the voters have acted favorably
on great preponderance of the prop
ostionS.
Among the scheduled elections during
the next three months are: March q,
os Angeles County. Calf, $12,720, 900,
schools: April Z, Duluth, MINI, ST.
F30.000, improvements; Lincoln, Nebr.,
3. OOO. 900. water bonds; Portland.
HOree.. $4,000 600, various municipal
improvements: May 10, Camden Coun-
ty. N. J., S3,500,0O0, park bonds; May
%. jackson County. Mo-, $4.200,000,
court house; Nav "a Kansas City, Mo,
ss3 600 900, various municipal improve
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
JUDGE HIT TAKES OATH
Police Court oficial Sworn in for
Another Term Here.

Judge Isaac r. Hit, recently selected
for another term on the Police Court
bench, was sworn in yesterday after
noon.
Ghe oath of ONCE was administered
bsvFr- nix A. Sebring. chief clerk, before
4 large number Of court attaches and
friends. Judge Hit enters on his sec
ond term of six years on the Police
Court bench.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-19
Chesterhiu

Rule Schofield, who recently un-
derWent an operation for appendf-
citis at Memorial hospital, Marietta,
was able to return last Friday. She
is spending few days at the home
of Carl and Edith Patterson.
Misses Ella and Lillian Hiatt return
ed home the latter part of last week.
Mrs. Clara Hopkins, who recently
underwent an operation for appendi-
citis, at Marietta, returned TO her
home here, Sunday. Mrs. David
Coler is i'll at her home here with
pneumonia. Mrs Alice Reed has
been spending some time at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Mary
Adrian of Stockport, who has been
quite ILL.,. Dean Calland had the
misfortune of having his collar bone
broken recently, while playing bas-
| ketball in the gymnasium here.
Charles, the six year old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Randall. suffered
very serious injuries last Friday
about one O'Clock, when he was run
over by an auto driven by Russell
/ Pickering. He was riding to school
with one Of the teachers, Miss Gan
der, who stopped opposite the little
school house, where he attends
school. He ran around in front of
the car directly in the path of the
car driven by Mr.. Pickering and was
knocked down and run over. One
side of his face was badly lacerated
and bruised. one bone being broken.
IT was thought for a time that his
skull was fractured. After being
given medical attention here, he was
rushed to the Memorial hospital at
Marietta The last word received
seems more favorable. and it is
thought he will recover if no COM
plications develop, -
Amy f. Smith Dies
Amy E. Smith. wife of Osborn
Smith, passed away at their home
Tuesday morning, after a brief i'll
ness. She was the daughter of Abel
w. and Lydia Jane Bye, and had
been an honored and respected resi-
dent of the village all her life She
was in her S2nd year, at the time
OF her decease. The funeral is TO
be at the home Thursday afternoon.
at o'clock Mr. Smith has also
been quite Ill for several days past,
and the parents have been cared for
by Mr.. and Mrs Harry j. Smith Of
Parkersburg, w. Va Amy Lizzie"
as she was affectionately known
throughout the neighborhood, was
an ardent supporter of the TEN
perance cause all her life. She was
member of the Society of Friends
See the New Poultry Supplies. at
the Malta Hardware Co. 19m2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-19
Page Five
The Busche Family Leaving


About the middle of next week,
Mr.. and Mrs L. V. Busche expect to
i leave here for Cardington, where
/ Mrs. Busche will remain few
weeks. Mr.. Busche. accompanied
| by his daughter Miss Dorothy
| Busche who teaches al East Sparta,
will return to McConnelsville The
last Of the week and close up their
affairs here, leaving in their two
cars, at the end of the week taking
with them any household effects
they have here. Mr.. and Mrs.
Busche will return to Canton where
they own property. They expect 10
leave there about the first of June
for Macatawa, Mich, where they
will spend the summer with Mr..
Busche's brother Mr.. Alf w. Busche
| and wife. Further than that their
plans as to where they will locate
are not definite. though they may de-
eide to make their home at Oberlin
where they have a number of rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Busche have been re-
siding here the last three years. be-
ing located in the Miss Pearl Muir
ray cottage on Kennebec hill, dur.
ing which time Mrs. Busche has been
taking treatment, under direction
from the Rocky Glen sanatorium.
Previous to their locating here, she
had been patient at the sanatorium
year, Mr.. Busche making trips
back and forth. Mrs. Busche leaves
here considerably improved in
health
During the time of their residence
here they have made many friends
who regret very much to see them
leave. Mr.. Busche being quite a
talented singer, and with the faculty
of making himself useful has been
prominent in church and Rotary cir
cles and in the better community
life in general His severing OF the
pleasant associations formed during
the time of their residence here,
comes with genuine sorrow on his
part.
Mrs. Lizzie Dollison. Sc. wife of
Geo. w. Dollison, died Monday at
her home in Roseville of compli-
cation of diseases, She was the
mother of w. w. Dollison, at one
time high school teacher at this
place
Betty Bright Mops, at the Malta
Hardware Co. 19m2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-19

Betty Bright Mops, at the Malta
Hardware Co. 19m2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1881
What's In a Name?

Doubtless more than majority of citizens will remember this last session of the 7lst congress in terms of drought relief appropria- tions and veterans bonus legislation It is an entirely erroneous impression. The drought relief controversy involved sum that was importance attaches to the bonus act, upon which there is so much division of opinion that no final verdict is possible. But the real significance of the session lay in these things:
 The Wagner Unemployment Bills which arc generally regarded as marking the birth of new and saner era in economic life and constituting possible remedy for the business cycles which bring with them recur rent depression; The Muscle Shoals fiaseo in which President Hoover reneged his good intentions expressed in the 1928 cam paign and threw the government operation bill back into the senate which could not rally a two-thrds vote to help effect its pas sage over the executive veto. The last-minute death of compromise agreement the Norris lame duck constitutional amendment, smothered by conferees of the house and senate:
 The revelation that the house could ac- tually break with the president, as it did over the bonus: that Andrew Mellon has so lost prestige that reference to the greatest sec retary of the treasury since Andrew Hamilton was greeted by congressman with jeers and misses; and that the new secretary of labor is sufficiently short-sighted or politieal-minded to attempt to substitute an inferior measure for better unemployment bill simply because the latter was tagged with a democratic iegis=~ 1ators name.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

suits of diseouragins him from business en- tcrprise
 Another theory is to look to the generous sentiments of wealthy people to use their money in ways that will benefit the public the most. When person who previously had been ungenerous, is induced to use money in ways the most helpful to the community. either by employing more labor. or by giving it to phianthropies which enable the people to rise above their difficulties. more is gained than if greater share of his money had been seized in taxation.
 A great many wealthy people are already showing very fine spirit of generosity. They pay high taxes cheerfully. and might be glad to pay still more. and their money is literally offered to good causes. They there by gain greater happiness than is ever won by those who merely spend money on personal employment without thought of those less fortunate than they are.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

sCarelesSly. she losses the cloak to, q maid and reaches daintily for the white cloth wrapped rope that has, come swaying monstrously down ouy of the gloom above. The band strikes up waltz, and before the crowd has, caught the rhythm she is floating ID. with the spotlight. smoothly, effort
 1essly. hand over hand to the rings There, minute figure under the vas, empty canvas, she swings and som. ersaults with the music. Almost be-. fore she has begun, she is through with the preliminaries and is kissing her hand in the ring again. Then. grasping another rope, she is hoisted, to the very focus of the tent. There. IS second of dead silence, as the band stops. The drum rolls. Slowly at first, but always without effort. she throws herself over her shoulder, pivoting on her wrist. The drum rolls on and she turns faster and faster. while the agonized crowd half aud- ibly counts. Eft, seventy five, a hun dred and more times the white fluff
 Whirls on it's spider thread. One she; did 1t 249 times. She stops, the band. plays a triumphant tusch. and she is lowered, smiling and lowing to the ground.
 Dead after fall from the rings in. Copenhagen, Lillian Leitzel was one. of the distinct personalities of the circus. For a long time she will be remember as a Hitting creature of the air swinging lightly over the crowd in sparkling ke-believe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
Our Fear Reflex

German neurologist has been studying fear reactions in human beings. He finds that everybody. old or young, wise or foolish. courageous or timid, has an identical first reaction. This fear reflex. which he believes fundamental in human behavior is an auto- matic bodily reaction operating on a level below consciousness. He has found 1t always occurs in its initial stages, regardless of age. sex or physical condition. The subjects of his experiment stood at case without knowing what was about to happen A pistol shot fired and a moving pictuF, which could be slowed up and analysed, was taken of each persons reactions The first move of every subject was to close the eyes, Other physical reactions followed in a definite order con- traction of appropriate facial muscles to bring a startled expression, bending forward of the head, elevation and forward projection of the shoulders. and
 All this took place before the brain got to work. Actions after the brain was on the job varied with the individual. The neurolo- gist cassed them roughly as spying. protective and flight movements. The first reactions are considered fundamental and racial. hang over from mans earliest days. when they must have been essential in preserving life. Their value is less today, but they hang on. It all sounds reasonable enough, but what becomes of the hero of fiction who never quivers an eyelash in the face of sudden and appalling perils? Isn't he human
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
British Farm Relief

British agriculture seems to be going, as Americans would say socialistc. At least in distribution. The Labor government is pre- pairing to go into the food business and mar ket British farm crops. It may handle the selling end of S2,O000000O0 industry, and would also have good deal to say about production
 By the marketing bill the ministry ot agriculture would take over the farmers crops when harvested and have complete charge ot grading, marketing, storing, advertising, trans porting and marketing them It would handle through supervising boards grain. milk, cheese potatoes, hops. wool. cattle, sheep, pigs, poul- try, eggs and fruit Its services would be provided in each district whenever any import ant group of farmers took the initiative Tn requesting such action. The other farmers in the district would then have to acquiesce. Mddlemen would be eliminated
 The government hopes, by such organlza- ton, that the British Isles eventually will be able to feed themselves instead of importing most of their food. What is the world com ing to economically3 Nobody knows. excep; that 1t is on its way to some new sort of or ganization. through many painful experiments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
The Nation and Wealth

Many people will never feel that it is right. while many millions of worthy folks suffer from poverty and can barely subsst, that there are many who have far more money than they know what to do with. Many of these people say that the government should curb wealth by heavier taxation, or by laws that would make it difficult to acquire great for tunes.
 Such laws, unfortunately could easily have tendency to restrict the development of in- dustry. If wealthy person is taxed too heavily. or if the laws bear down too drastic ally on him. he is apt to restrict his enter prises. He fears the future, and feels he has nothing to gain by expanding bis business employing more labor. improving his product and serving the people better. The dollars gained by taxing him too heavily might be far more tl,an offset by the unfortunate re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
Everybody Tap Dancing

Seeking to stimulate business little, theater advertised free lessons in tap dancing to young people who would buy entrance tickets on Saturday morning and call around an hour before show time. The first day of the experiment. happened to be stormy one. so the managers figured not more than dozen would-be tap dancers would appear Imagine their surprise when GAO boys and girls between 10 and 5 showed up damp as to outer garments but completely undamp ened as to enthusiasm. In subsequent Satur- days others came until there was a total en- rolment of nearly 1000 children. Several classes had to be formed.
 There are numerous stage schools and pri- vate dancing schools teaching this art in most large communities. Some Y. w. C. A. gym nasium classes have added tap dancing to their activities. Now and then one finds a high school gym teacher giving instructions in tap dancing too. Whats it all about? Why the tremendous interest in tap dancing3 Perhaps it's just another of these crazes that
 sweep the country occasionally. Anyhow there is no harm in such a fad; there ought to be some health. Good tap dancing involves considerable exercise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
War Taxes Again?

Nuisance taxes are talked of again. Almost everywhere public expenses have risen so rapidly that the ordinary forms of taxation do not suffice. This is,true particularly since the business slump reduced public income from the usual sources.
 In one state. which is facing present deficit of S15,000.000 and the probability of a larger ohe next year, legislators seem inclined to impose new taxes on tobacco. theater ad missions. soda fountain sales furs, perfumes and other "uxuries.'
 The legislators figure that as Sl05, 5,O0O, 900 was spent in the state for eigarets last year. it would be easy to raise SlO,O0O by 10 per cent tax. Theaters would bring in almost as much more, since in the last depression year. expenditures for shows amounted to $90.000,000. Other uxuries would probably provide similar amount, Thus the state would get out of the red, and have a surplus for new forms of expenditure,
 That way danger lies. The American pub lie will not accept such taxes with docllity as it did during the war. Tax burdens grow too great. They tend to break the back of business and discourage private thrift. It IS better for legislatures to practice public thrift than to devise new and ingenious forms of taxation to increase revenue. Temporary deficits are sometimes good thing, They serve as danger signals
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
WELCOME, ERGoPmLE.
(Christian Science Monitor.l

An ergophile is usually recognized
 often-times loved, sometimes appre- ciated, and always of worth to him. self and his community. Should the exemplary reader, who long ago acquired the dictionary habit, now reach, for his unabridged dictionary. that he may, before proceeding, acquaint himself with the meaning
 of ergophile,. let him know that his effort will be unrewarded; for not
 even the latest. enlarged revision contains the word.
 Those who are conversant with Greek will readily understand the
 word; those who vaguely recall their
 classroom days will more or less ac-
 curately guess its meaning; but if
 one persists, and finds out what the dictionary tells of. erg-a word sim liar to the first syllable of ergophile, and likewise derived from a Greek
 word, meaning work-he will learn,
 among other things. that an erg, we'll known to physicists. Is unit of energy. How many units of energy are reUresented by an ergophile it Is impossible to state, but an ergo phile is nothing if not energetic. The. secret is out. however, for il has already been made known in an- other column of this paper that ergOphlle IS word recently coined from two Greek words, ergon, mean ing work. and pliflOs, naesning low ing, or having a fondness for An ergophile, then, is one who loves his work. No longer are roundabo phrases needed to describe Roose- welt. an Edison, Ford, or a Hoover Such one is an ergophile, and the story is told.
 Work happily and gratefully done is work likely to be we'll done; and
 love for the task defeats weariness
 Encouragement, and non-success
 Those who. perhaps listlessly and
 without energy. are working unhap- oily under a sense of compulsion and tdiscontent, through gaining a love of right activity may find unfolding
 a new and fine concept of their par. land place in the worlds work. The lergophile. indeed. Is one who knows
 one of the secrets of happiness. May his tribe increase! S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
Cosmic Days and Nights

Dr Edwin B. Frost director of the Yerkes observatory y~-is much interested in the experi- ments and discoveries of Dr Robert A. MilIi kan, which suggest that new creation keeps pace with destruction While the stars are being consumed in the process of turning mat ter into radiant light and heat and scattering 1t through the universe, there seems to be evil dence that such radiation is being changed back into matter again in outer space. Dr Frost however, IS inclined to go farther than Milikan.
 When We consider the different units Of the cosmos, he says. it is difficult to say which is the end product and which the be- ginning. It is again the old unsolved prob lem of the cycle of the hen and the egg. But there are suggestive implications in the poss- bility of cycles in the progress of the universe. with developments from the simple toward the complex in one phase and, in the reverse direction, from the complex to the simple in the other phase.
 his is getting back to the cosmic phloso- phy of Herbert Spencer. Indeed. it is getting back good deal farther than Spencer. Thou sands of years ago Hindu philosophers were teaching that the world perpetually recreates itself Alternately, they said there are periods of evolution 'outbreathing" and periods of devolution or inbreathing.'' Alternately there is Day of Brahma'' in which the Universe is going concern; then Night of Brahma in which 1t rests and prepares for another unfolding. Edgar Allen Poe once wrote book setting forth the same theory
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and What's What
 By RODNEY DUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER

four to eight years. None of these ever got anywhere, although the democratic platform of 1912 rec commended one-term limit.
 Many Other Proposals.
 For decades, congress has been getting proposals from its members to empower it. by amendment to make uniform marriage and divorce laws for the country. It has been proposed to make po1ygamy uncon- stitutional and to get the Bible into the constitution. Many of. the pro- posals have been generally accepted by legislatures and applied in their own states.
 Among the more recent proposal Tor amendments have been those of exclude aliens from the count when congressmen are apportioned .u states. to give equal rights to men and women under the law to make war by thls country illegal, to ratify treaties by majority votes of house and senate, to give congress the power to enact laws against lynch ing. to remove the power of Congress to declar war in favor of popular referendum and to make ex-presi. dents fnembers-at-large of the sen. ate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
Bread Prices

There may be much in the claims of bak- that bread costs the American people to- day more than it used to because they are not willing to cat the kind that mother used to make. The bakers through their represen- tatives before the senate committee investigat- ing food costs, assert that the declining price of flour has been fully reflected in the price of bread But higher standards of quality production and distribution, plus higher labor costs have naturally raised the price of the finished loaves.
 There is something for housewives 10 consider. With their new and improved kitchen equipment better stoves, electrical mixers, and little more time gained through use of other labor-savng machinery - housewives might take to making their own breadstuffs again If labor and distribution costs outside of the home rise too high some of these oldfashioned activities may reappear in the home.