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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
THE LAST OF THE
 "GHOST FLEET
(HartfOrd COurant)

Never has the inevitable economic waste of war been better demonstrat- ed than by the fleet of red-sided freighters that for years has rusted in expensive idleness on the Hudson river. There were more than 150 of them, built by the Shipping Board during the war and paid for by the government at wartime prices. Many of them never made single voyage but were lowed d. rectly to their idle berths on the Hudson and forgotten. A few care takers pumped them and touched up the paint on their sides. Only the actuaries in Washington, who had to figure their cost in the war debt, ever knew how much they have cost in idle. interest-eating capital charges.
 At last the government has taken the matter in hand. and now. thir- teen years after the Armistice. they have been desposed of for what they would bring as scrap metal. A few hundred dollars each the govern ment received for them. = ships which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece and which never have earned a hundredth of thelr cost. Had they boon completed m time to be used during tho war. when any bottom that would hold together for a transatlantic trip could find a profitable cargo. they would have boon priceless, In peaeetlmc, when wages and fuel consumption became the determining factors of mercnnt. tile operation, they were worse than useless. The cost of the construction and subsequent idlenesa of the Hudson River "RhoHt fleet" K but e minor item in tho total of costs of the war for which every citizen is still paying taxes. hut for years it was a visible symbol Of the expense of ( war. no matter how distant, As A symbol, v mny have had ita value in impress lRg on paeaerahy the expensive waste Of modern warfare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
THE NAUTILUS DISABLED
(Bridgeport Telegraph


 The attempt of Sir Hubert Wilkins, Sloane Danenhower and their col leagues to reach the North Pole in the reconditioned submarine Nautilus would be hazardous under the best of circumstances. In an old ship whose engines have obviously seen ,their best days, the hazards are greatly multiplied.
 After having been reconditioned the Nautilus got into trouble on her first run from Philadelphia to New York. Before the start of her Att lantic trip, one of the Diesel engines cracked a cylinder head and tempo Irary repairs were made. In mid-At- lantic about S90 miles from Queens town. the main engine stalled. ap- parently with cracked cylinder head, and the Nautilus used electric power from her storage batteries to keep headed into the heavy seas and thus avoid being swamped.
 Crippled and practically helpless. the submarine was taken in tow by the U. s. battleship Wyoming and at this writing is being lowed to Eng land.
 No immediate danger seems in- volved and Captain Simon Lake says mat the accident VIII proDdDiy not interfere with thte trip. as spare engine parts have been shipped ahead.
 One cannot help wondering, how ever. what would have happened to the Nautilus and her crew had such a breakdown occurred under the Arc tic ice. There would be no friendly battleships standing by in that re- zion. ready to throw a line. The most that the world would know of the date of the Nautilus would probably be a pitiful (and hopeless) plea for assistance. over the radio.
 The incident does not inspire much confidence in the probable success of lthe undertaking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
UNNEIGHBoRLY WEsTPORT
(Hartford Courant)

Westport is not a popular town with the people of Fairfield county. no matter how 1t may be esteemed by its own citizens. Its neighbors have discovered in the last week or ten days that Westports public park, compo Beach. which was formally opened for the reason on Memorial Day. will he closed this year to out-of-town visitors on Sat- urdays. Sundays and holidays. on week days they will he tolerated, but on other occasions they are to be stopped by police.
 Other towns have made similar rules to preserve for their tax.pay. CTS the maximum pleasures of pub. lic beaches, but such action ht Westport comes with especial force soon after the close of the last sess sion of the general assembly. Every one in Fairfield county who is inter' crested in such matters now knows that the state owns c good beach in Westport. They know that the state park and forest commissioner wouid like to see this holding des vei0ped for the benefit of the people of the state. They know, too. that f.'~ds sDnropfiated for thls purpose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
Quotations

When people talk of free will they talk nonsense.-Clarence Darrow.
 Either we have got to prevent trusts and monopolies or regulate them.-U. s. Senator King or Utah'
 would steal before l would starve.-Daniel Willard.
 The growing congestion Of the cities prevents constantly new prob- lems of physical and mental train. ing of children on one hand. and the growing leisure by shortened hours of labor presents increasing prob lems In provision of opportunity for the proper use of increasing leisure for adults.-President Hoover
 Racing is eseantini for air pro- gross. s.--colonel Eddie Rickenbacker.
 The surrender 10 industrlalinm-- In itself a too early confession Of the defeat Of the ndividuhl--implies the subservicnce of man not only to things, but to things he has made without love, uses without thought, and destroys without oompunction'-- Louis Untermeyer,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
TODAY. IS THEA
 ANNIVERSARY s sAGeZA
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

On June IT, 1917. the Russian Duma, in secret session, voted in fa- vor of "an immediate offensive in close cooperation with Russia's al- lies"
 The offensive began on July 1 and it's initial success was encouraging. It seemed as though the miracle of the restoration of the Russian army had been achieved. Here" as John Spargo said, was an army whose dead and wounded already amount to more than 3,000,0O0 men, an army which had suffered incredible hardships, again going into battle with songs.
 ''On. the first of July more than 36,OOO prisoners were taken by the Russians on the southwestern front Then came the tragic harvest of Bol- shevist propaganda. Regiment after regiment refused to obey orders. Of ficers were brutally murdered by their men. Along a front of more than 15O miles the Russians retreat ed without attempting to fight, while the enemy steadily advanced. This was made possible by the agitation of the Bolsheviki, especially by the mutiny they provoked among the troops in the garrison at Petrograd.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
Railroads Ask More

The heads of eastern, southern. and west ern railroads have asked the interstate com meee commission for cents advance in freight rates. The railroads will claim that many of them are earning hardly more than the interest on their bonds. and some afe not canning that The people who own the stock of these roads. they maintain are entitled to somt. return. fl railroad stocks pay no divi. asnA@ psepls wiI zb lonssf buy them. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17

Henry Ford is going into the muskmelon raising business He isn't gong to compete with truck farmers who specialize Tn these deli cacies. He intends to use his melons tor aleo- holc purposes. Now that doesn't sound like Henry SO more explanations are necessary. type of alcohol to be used in the paint tor Mir Fords cars may be obtained. Maybe others will find other uses for such alcohol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
Personal Health SerDice (Bv William Brady, M. D.

1 Signed letters pertaining to pcrsohai health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Dr Brady Ad- dress him. care of the Democrat se"'N"s stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17

If all the people who went in for stocks and all the people who went in for real estate and who are sorry now would just exchange their holdings maybe everything would straighten out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17

Smith had been elected And so on far into the night whisper the Hooverites with just bit of apprehension evident in their glanees this way and that to see how their explana- tions are going. Tut-tut and again tut-tut!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17

Paving the fiddler is all right, but it goes hard to pay for inflated music with defiated money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
nNIn Lnn TOn MANY

aeld reslsnsd aa poilce chief when inc seleetmen announced that in Ad. ditl0n Co his duties an chief ne would
 have to drive the pollce ambulance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17

All vehicles must be lighted not later than S:57 o'clock Daylight saving time) tonight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

a complete departure from the &C.
cepted idea of a motor car, and in
some features it resembles the Gold
en- Arrow. in which the late Sir
Henry Segrave established a world
land-speed record of 23l.3 miles an
hour.
The streamlined body enables the
power of the engine to be devoted to
propulsion with as little loss as pos
sible through atmospheric resistance.
The fan-shaped arrangement of
the engine cylinders in three groups
of four neceSsitateS peculiar but
attractive design in front, and the
rear extends in the form of long
tapering tail behind the rear wheels.
Two vertical fins at the rear act as
stabilizers.
Wizard Smith has called the car
"the Fred H. Stewart Special" as a
tribute to the wealthy Sydney omni-
bus proprietor who made the build
ing of the machine possible.
Smith for 10 years has been Aus
tralia'S outstanding motorist. For
three consecutive years he won every
prize offered by the Royal Automo-
bile Club of Australia in his home
state of New South Wales, and the
tranScontinental record of Australia
stands to his credit.
In this latest attempt special cleo
trical time-keeping devices will be
used over a measured mile. Wizard.
using a first gear of 100 m.p.h., a
second gear of 300 mph. and a
third gear of 800 m.p.h., will run
for about 4 or S miles before reach
ing the measured mile.
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Americanizing of Golf Terms
Arouses British Players Ire

wood lies at Sunningdale are as good
as ever"
To which an English editor agrees
and scotches what he terms "wretched
American slang expressions" And then
he adds: Wherever we go we hear with
increasing annoyance. especially among
the older generation. these crude Amer
lean terms. such as Old Man Par.
can. shooting brides shooting eagles.
traps 'pard,' sticks o. X and Nos.
/, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., irons"
"AIl Very Depressing"
eve agree with our correspondent en-
tirely in that the good old words soon
will be shades of the past. 1t is all very
depressing. Surely the English language
is good enough in which to express one
self. We must not forget that golf was
played in this country years before
America heard of it. The terms cleek,
mashie, midiron and battle convey some
thing to the ordinary golfer who is
taught to play mashie shots. battle shots
and cleek shots. But now with these
numerical sets he must forget the old
historic sets and play his shots with
irons from No. l TO 10. inclusive. We
are of the opinion that these historic
names must not be forgotten nor al
lowed TO rot away"
All of which the average American
golfer will regard as very interesting
but unimportant He will concede that
golf was played in England long before
we knew the difference between niblic
and sickle. But upon consulting the
championship records he also will come
to the opinion that the game has not
been played so we'll in Britain during
the past 10 years.
None OF New Terms Offensive.
We took the cIeek, the battle and the
mashie from Britain when We adopted
golf and along with it such expressions
as "sclaff, baff and dormie
equally as meaningless as birdie or
eagle" 1t is quite obvious that with
the growth of golf in America a GER
tain amount of new slang should be de-
veloped Since none of the American
terms can be construed as offensive,
there seems no good reason for Britons
to get warm under the collar about
them They do not have to play our
new ball, and they are under no obli-
CATION to use our expressions. They
can call a No. iron midiron or a
No. masl1ie, but still Messrs. Jones or
Hagen will play it with the same amount
of skill.
The practice of numbering irons
came with the development of addi-
tionaf clubs, and the idea was to factli-
tate the use OF the irons by the average
player. The old names were good
enough when only five or six irons
were employed, but when the number
grew to 10 or more, it was found easier
to designate them with numbers rather
than invent new individual designations.
And it is far easier for the average
player to determine the range of club
by number than by such names as mid
iron, nidmashie and so forth. America
has contributed much to the modern1za-
ton of the game-tfle ball, steel shafts,
etc.-and, for the most part, the world
is satisfied with its share, including its
slang.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HYDNEY, Australia, March IA
Some time this month when
wind, tidal and other condi-
tions are favorable, Australians
foremost racer, Norman Wizard"
Smith, will attempt to lower the
world auto speed record.
Using a powerful car which has
been completed in Sydney, Smith
hopes to travel 300 miles per hour
in his assault on the new 245-mile-
an-hour mark established recently
by Capt Malcolm Campbell on the
sands at Daytona Beach, Fla.
The designer and builder of
Smiths car has had the cooperation
of the British and Australian gov
ernments and many private COM
panies. He is young Don Hardness,
regarded as Australians most brilliant
internal combustion engineer.
On Ninety-mile Beach, near Kali
taia, on the northwest coast OF the
north island of New Zealand. the at
tempt will be made. The beach has
a perfectly straight runway of %
miles about 1000 feet wide at low
tide.
The motive power will be supplied
by a 12-cylinder, 1,700-horsepower
Napier. Schneider Cup type, aero
engine, lent to Smith by the British
government under a pledge OF Sc
crecy.
The general shape of the racer is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
ROD AND STREAM
by PERRY MILLER

States win be in the class of California,
where this animal is now extinct.
The Forest Service game estimates,
as of January /, 1880, showed that
Alaska had most of the $500 grizzlies
Cincluding Alaska brown bear remain
ing in the United States national for
ests. Montana had approximately $40
and Wyoming and Idaho more than 100
each Idaho, Montana and wyoming
had most Of the $50 moose. Elk were
numerous in many Of the. national for
ests of the Northern Rocky Mountains,
N82, $40 being listed, with more than
2S,700 in wyoming.
There were more than $4,000 black
and brown bears. the California ma
tional forests leading with 17,400. APP
proximately 21,050 mountain goats,
1880 mountain sheep and 10000 ante
lope were found In Western national
forests. Bevers numbered approx
mately 106,660.
OF the big game animals, deer were
most numerous, total of 800, $50 beir G
reported in national forests of %
States and Alaska. California led with
254,0O0 and Alaska, Arizona, Idaho,
Montana, New Mexico and Oregon had
more than $4,000 each.
n 0diI EAuiiCioNO SAhOhiSiS says.
i las long as there are restrictions
against the sale of game birds, FISH
or animals, there will be people who
will be willing TO pay for the privilege
Of having that game.
Just As long as there Is an available
market there will be hunters engaged In
supplying it. Too many times the fam
lilies Of the sportsmen who condemn
the bootlegging of game the most are
the ones who are responsible for the
illegal practice.
Hunters who obey the game laws at
all times, who never break limit regula-
tions and only shoot during the open
season, allow their wives to purchase
quail out of season or in season and
smile when 1t is suggested that perhaps
the practice Is not ethical A united
front by the sportsmen and demand
that the non-sale laws be enforced
would go long way toward stop
ping the practice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

THE latest game census" by the
Forest Service, United States
Department of Agriculture,
shows that most types of big
game continue to increase in the ma
tional forests.
In the last five years the estimated
number of antelope in the national for
ests has increased IS per cent; of black
or brown bears, 9 per cent; of deer, 80
per cent; of elk, is per cent; Of noun
tain goats, 10 per cent, and of noun
tain sheep, per cent, with decreases
of 81 per cent in grizzlies, So per cent
in caribou and IS per cent in moose.
Unless more protection is afforded to
the grizzly, said the report, other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
Barry Wood, Harvard, Is Star
In Classes as i'm Athletics

Robins in their fight for the flag.
Most peculiar things appear to hap
pen in boxing matches between Billy
Petrolle and King Tut. On one oc-
casion, when Tut won, Petrolle was i'm
mediately taken to the hospital and OPP
Grated on for an abscess. Petrolle
Knocked Tut out the other evening and
the latter was instantly rushed to a
hospital to be examined for appendi-
citis. He is out of the hospital now and
his appendix is still with him, but the
Boxing Commission wants to ask lot
of questions before the boys get their
money. There Is no doubt that Tut
was Knocked out Even If the commits
sion thinks that he didn't do his best,
it will be hard thing TO prove, for he
certainly took lovely sock on the chin.
TOE MCCARTHY has been putting the
Yankee pitchers through some
strenuous fielding practice. This
seems a good idea. In order to field
ground balls. pitchers must stoop over
which is excellent for the waistline
Meanwhile. Babe Ruth Is playing golf
with the best of the pros and not doing
so badly. The Sultan of Swat shot nine
holes of tournament golf l under par
He did not do so well on the other nine;
but few do.
Frank @. Menke has just issued his
All Sports Record Book for 1881. II
contains the history, as well as the rec
ords of each sport. Menke has done a
swell job Of compilation, much appre-
ciated by those of us who have con-
tinually TO look up records. 1t is the
most valuable book Of its type known
being both Informative and interesting
Lott and Van Ryn still areywinning
tennis matches. They appear to be the
most formidable doubles team the
United States has had in some time.
tcopyright, 1881 By North American News
paper Allianee.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
French Miss Yank Net Stars
Gate Receipts Cut as Ranks of Amateurs Are
Trimmed to Youngsters.
; And no money. either.

D'Azur. And no money, either.
Hard times hit tennis, as every
thing else. Which accounts for the
absence In France Of international
players, both men and women, OF
many nations. Rene Lacoste was
all primed to provide thrills at
Cannes, Nice and elsewhere. but
was stricken with appendicitis.
Henri Cochet, however, has been
playing there; the one and only
great attraction, whose contests
lacked zest because Of inadequate
competition.
But a bit later players Of this
country will grid themselves for mi
grafton. The latter rounds of Davis
Cup play in which Americans will
be involved will be held abroad and
then. too, the challenge round will
be played in Paris. So from the
standpoint of international interest
the Summer will hold great deal
for the French. And the English.
too: for Davis Cup players of
various nations, including the
United States, will be on hand at
Wimbledon. Mrs. Moody will not
unless she yields to pressure from
ahroad-and this will be q great
flaw in Wimbledon week. Tilden
will be another important absentee.
But all In all, the game of tennis
has come to be bigger than any
player or group OF players.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

A N overdue wall comes from
~ the French Riviera, where
n Winter lawn tennis has
been proceeding without
benefit of Yankee highlights. Hence,
diminished gate receipts and q gen.
eral drabneSs. where in former years
there was the sparkle of Tilden
and Johnston and Hunter and
Richards and Mrs. Moody, Mrs.
Molla Bjursted Mallory and the rest
Of the American luminaries.
This Winter only two players,
two American girls not of the first
fight by any means, have been our
sole representatives on the courts
Of the Riviera. Big Bill Tilden Is
now a pro and out of the dulcet
amateur plane Of Mediterranean
Winter play. In which connection
it might be remarked that Big Bills
detection has had repercussions
worldwide in their scope.
Francis T. Hunter, another inter-
national figure, Is a mercenary now
and so out Of amateur competition.
AS for the outstanding amateurs,
they are all youngsters, either still
in college or making their way in
the marts of trade. They have no
time for disporting themselves be-
fore admiring tourists on the Cote
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
G. u. NINE MUST HURRY
Squad Reporting Yesterday Will
Play Within Ten Days.

Realizing that there can be no loaf
ing If the squad is to be in shape for its
opening game a week from Monday
against Washington and Lee at Lex
ington, Georgetown's base ball candi-
dates, who took the field for the first
time yesterday planned to get out again
today. About 80 reported to Coach
Johnny Colrick. Light work of linn
bsring nature was the order.
With Paul Donovan and Butch Tier
ney, last seasons first-string catchers,
missing, the battle for the receiving job
promises to be hot O'Toole, Murphy
and Orifice are among aspirants for the
post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
Fish Must Be Big
To Draw a Prize

ITO encourage better sportsmanship
i in angling $685. in prizes are
being awarded by Field and
Stream Magazine for the largest
fishes caught during the legal open
season.
Six prizes will be awarded to the
largest fishes caught in the following
classes: Brook trout. brown trout,
steel-head or rainbow trout, small
mouth black bass, large-mouth black
bass, muskalonge, great northern
pake, Calico bass, lake trout, striped
bass, channel bass, bluefish and
Weakfish.
The contest is limited to fish taken
with rod, reel and line and with
specified lure for certain classes of
fish.
Affidavits giving the length, girth
and weight Of fish, signed by the per-
son making the catch and by wit
nesses, must be sent to the Prize
Fishing Contest, 57e Madison avenue,
New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
Pointers ON Golf
BY SOL METZGER.

Getting out of the trouble the golf
duffer gets himself into, has one
consolation. 1t adds to both the
physical and mental exercises of the
round. At times. though, it does
take some tall figuring to play ones
ball. Sometimes there is no prece-
dent to go by. Even the pros en-
counter such situations.
Stuart Murray did a few years ago
when he pulled his tee shot on the
short fifth at his home club, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
SURFACE TEAM WINS
BUREAU PIN REMNANT
Sims Averages los to Capture In.
dividual Honors, With Hal
loran Runner-up.

With margin of four games over its
nearest rival, the Surface team won the
pennant in the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing Bowling League. Engrav-
ing finished second.
The individual title was won by Sims
Of Machine, with an average of los, q
point better than that of Halioran Of
Section 9. The final figures.