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Evening star., 1931-11-28
NEW PUBLIC BUILDING
REACHES S53,487,129
Total Awards Last Week Are
Scattered Over 43 States
and the District.

Public and semi-public contracts
awarded last week have a total valu-
alton of s53,487.129 for 513 operations
in 43 States and the District Of Co
lumbia, the Presidents organization on
unemployment relief has reported.
Total awards since December /, 1880.
have amounted to $2,697,720,1l2 ex-
elusive of more than 1924, 1000 900 in
awards by privately owned public utili-
ties.
Elimination Of the latter item is in
keeping with lne committees new
policy OF not recording projects of pri-
vately owned utilities, such as tele-
phone line and building construction,
light and power, gas and oil pipe line
construction, street car lines and rail-
road stations and trackage, it is an
nounced by Fred c. Croxton, assistant
director.
Evening star., 1931-11-28
SAYS HOME OWNING
SHOULD INCREASE
Association of Real Estate Boards
Declares Bread-winners Have
Gained in Number.

In spite Of the talk concerning the
unemployment situation a statistician
has figured that there is at present one
working bread-Winner for each 2.7 per-
sons, which indicates that there should
be more activity in the home building
and buying field, according to the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate Boards.
Pointing out that families were able
to undertake home owning centuries
ago when it was uncommon for more
than one member of family to be en-
ployed, when both home costs and in
comes were lower, the association de-
clares many people are able to purchase
Evening star., 1931-11-28
REAL ESTATE
Home Owning Building Washington
PARLEY TO GET RESULTS
OF YEARS HOMES STUDY

Presidents Conference Building and Ownership
to Open Wednesday With Headquarters
i'm New Commerce Structure.
Evening star., 1931-11-28
AccOun

Continued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1931-11-28

attention of the home and prospective builders
of the Nation will be directed Washington Wednesday,
results year study experts
before the Presidents Building
Ownership
thousand specialists
attend the held with
In the new Department Of Commerc Building.
general findings resulting from the great of specialized
technical designed benefit
dua in cartng economies and methods which will bring
better housing and thus stimulate the for home ownership
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04
UTILITIES WEIGH
CITYS DEMAND
FOR RATE CUTS
Water and Light Companies
to Answer Next Week;
Mayor InSiStent.

Answer of utility companies to de-
mands Of the city for substantial re-
duction in enormous utility bills,
voiced at two conferences Monday
afternoon with Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan, will be presented early
next week.
In addition TO Sullivan and other
city officials, the parleys we're at
tended by representatives of the In
dianapolis Power and Light Com
pany and the Indianapolis Water
Company.
In announcing the conferences,
Sullivan pointed out the city an
nually pays light and water bills
totaling nearly 100000, based on
rates fixed during a period Of great
er prosperity than the present.
Drain General Fund
The city is buying electricity I'M
der ten-year contract expiring in
April, 1885. No contract is held
with the water company, rates be-
ing fixed by the public service COM
mission.
Declaring that IS per cent of gen.
eral fund revenue is spent on utility
bills and police and firemen's saIa-
rieS, Sullivan said the remaining 25
per cent leaves little opportunity for
tax cuts.
At the same time, he expressed
vigorous opposition to reduction in
pay of police and firemen, citing
the daily dangers to which mem
bers Of these departments are ex-
posed.
New Rates Due, Claim
The city Is entitled, he asserted.
to reduction in the annual S485 900
bill for electricity and $4900OO bill
for water. He said he was in
formed adjustment of rates, based
on cost of coal, provided in the
light contract, has not been made.
Light and power rates paid by
the city under the 1925 contract
are in excess of those paid by
larger city industries, Sullivan said
he has been informed, although an
exact comparison is not possible.
. The water company was repre-
sented by Howard S. Morse. man
ager, who said he would confer
with President Clarence H. Geist,
while the light company was rep
resented by Clifford l.. Harrod,
general manager; Emmett C. Raj
ston, engineer, and Elmer E. Scott,
legal representative.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

and commander-in-chief Of the
third Italian army during the World
war, Wednesday at the Holy Rosary
church, Stevens and South East
streets, at $50 a. m.
The duke Of Aosta died July 4.
A solemn high mass of requiem
viii be celebrated at the church.
The services are sponsored by the
Societa Francesca Crisp in CO.
operation with other Italian organi-
cations.
The Rev. Marine Priori will be
in charge of the religious rites.
James F. Barton, national adju-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04
WILKINS SUB DELAYED

Nautilus Lays Over in Bergen,
Awaiting Repairs.
BIZ United Press
OSLO, Norway, Aug. 4-The sub
marine Nautilus, at Bergen, Norway,
on a cruise toward the north pole,
will be delayed pending repairs to
valves in a spare motor, it was re-
ported today,
Three new and three reserve
valves are needed for one Of the
ships motors, not used on the vow
age to Bergen from England. The
largest factory in Bergen is work
ing day and night to complete them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04
4 Big Catch

By United Press
DENVER, Aug. 4.-Booth
Christian ordered fish for din
ner at a restaurant. Other
patrons heard him coughing
violently and called a doctor.
He was rushed TO a hospital.
where surgeons found it was
not fish bones, but fish hooks,
two of them, that were stuck
in his throat. The hooks we're
removed and he is recovering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04

tant Of the American Legion. and
Frank E. Samuel. assistant national
adjutant, are assisting in the ar
rangements for the memorial.
Governor Harry G. Leslie and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04

Mayor Reginald Fl. Sullivan have
been invited to attend.
The committee of ARRANGEMENTS
includes A. Scolaro, Nunzio Mazza
and L. Bailey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04
MASS TO HONOR
ITALIAN HERO
Holy Rosary Congregation
to Hold Memorial.

Italians of Indianapolis viii hold
memorial services for the duke of
Aosta, cousin of the king of Italy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04
VICTIMS PUT TO SLEEP
Burglar Uses ChIoroform in Three
Evansville Homes.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. A
burglar who used chloroform to in
capacitate eleven persons in three
homes he entered, got only cheap
watch and $40 for his evenings
work. One Of his victims was made
i'll.
Police are taking extraordinary
steps to trace the burglar today, be-
cause Of physicians reports that the
condition of the victims indicated
that the chloroform was impure,
hence may result in serious illness
Of persons affected.
Jasper's characteristic brownish
hue is due to the admixture of iron
oxide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04

what good cigarettes should Define to-
baccos kept fine, no matter where or when
you buy them.
The scientific germ-safe wrapping-no
plain ordinary Cellophane but npOisture-
proof Cellophane which costs nearly twice
as much-seals in all the factory freshness
and aroma, seals it so tightly that wet
weather cannot make CameIs damp, nor
drought weather make them dry.
Ii your taste is jaded with the heat and
sting of fast-burning dried-out cigarettes,
try cool, humidor fresh Camels for CRATE
full change.
Give your throat vacation-try Camels
for just one day; then quit them-if you can.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-04
women prefer them
THEY'RE FRESH!

~ ever appealed to women so
swiftly and truly as the fresh miIdness of
Camels In the Humidor Pack.
To the delicate feminine throat the
suave, cool fragrance of this perfectly con-
ditioned cigarette comes as a genuine and
welcome boon.
Now women smokers as well as men
are learning what throatfriendIy joy
fine cigarette in prime, factory-fresh con.
dition can be!
Now they can relish the satisfaction of
expertly blended fine Turkish and mild
Domestic tobaccos free from the scratch.
and-sting of parched and dusty dryness.
Camels in the Humidor Pack are lust
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06
Authors Ages

T don't want to seem to discourage young writer's says John Erskine, but few good novels are produced by writers under the age of 40. And even the exceptional authors who make good earlier lose in the end. They are likely to be sucked dry by their first suc- cess. Then they go into retreat in closet with books, and we hear no more of them.'
 He might have added that young authors who avoid this sad fate are likely to go to the opposite extreme, and not do any study ing at all, but go ahead writing the same stuff. until the public wearies of them and they fall out of sight for lack of resources. There are exceptions to everything. An occasional genuis seems born grown up. But usually maturity has to be struggled for and waited for. And it is maturity, rather than samrt- ness that gives books lasting value.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06
New Cure For Depression

2 It is surprising how many people nowa- gdays are saying that we need better dis ttribution of wealth" People used to say tthat, but they were nearly all poor wage Gamers or fanatical students of socialism. tThe remarkable thing about it now is that 5s such statements come so largely from calm, seomfortable well-to-do citizens, professional people. capitalists and industrial leaders. And
 for the first time, this new doctrine is being
 Treated seriously by the public instead of being damned without hearing as "radicalism' sor socialism
 z The reason is, perhaps. that it represents "a new economic philosophy which Marx and Lenin and Trotsky never thought of A
 more even distribution is sought not so much for social justice as for the purpose of mak ing our eapitastie system work better. Here sis typical statement from an American newspaper If one-half of the great incomes zof 1928 had been distributed as wages in-
 stead of being plowed back into making more things than the existing wages could z buy. we probably would not have had the
 bc-called overproduetion which has brought
 on the l929-30 collapse"
 The reasoning is that large weslth in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06
The Giant Saved

x. ss Constant efforts of the Sleeping Giant association to prevent quarry work despoil- ing the emnence which bears the same name have at last been rewarded. Judge Carl Eos ter has filed a decision in the superior court restraining the Connecticut Quarries, Inc, from further defacement of the rocky noun tain. Had not this order been issued 1t IS likely that the entire face of the Sleeping Giant would have been ruined and one of the natural wonders of the state destroyed. It required many years of litigation and picker
 ing to stop all quarrying into the face of the ss.nountain and the Sleeping Giant association
 $ entitled to every bit of the praise for ac- ssomplishing this.
 ss~ Everybody who travels the College High
 way between New Haven and Cheshire, is familiar with the Sleeping Giant, a tree capped hill that resembles Gargantuan figure sir recumbent position. It required years for the association which took the name of the smountan as its own to acquire a few hold sings on the hillside Finally the association sowned the entire hill save for the quarry at its head. Both parties consulted back and forth. but the recent court order caps the oli-
 max. There will be no more cutting away of ethe head of the Giant now sadly in need of TepalrS
 S~ It is too bad that the state didn' step in years ago. acquire the Sleeping Giant as
 state park and end all quarrying operations before they had done as much damage as can be seen there to-day Of course from busi- mess point of view the quarry company was
 n its own right But We are aware of the fact that the Sleeping Giant association for years tried to enlist as much support through out the state so that it might increase is hold ings on the mountain until they included the entire spot When the state finally does take over complete control of the Sleeping Giant it will be SO with the realization that 1t wait cd just bit too long. That should be re- aminder in the future expansion of our state park and forest system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06
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New York.-In an unnoticed sec tion of a great c.ty's routine, some of the grimmest scenes are staged.
 Thus, in the East River there is a spot where, if the weather is fair, the yachts of the rich lie at anchor. They are polished cloud-white and their brasses glisten in the sun. On deck gay folk sit beneath gay awn- ings and sip at cocktails or tea. Voices raised in chatter and laughter drift ashore.
 And thus, on the East River, fur nishing a shoreline background is Bellevue hospital, Manhattan's city hospital. From one point upon the the river. From the pier a boat leaves each day, and the weather does not matter. And this boat churns past the gay yachts with their gilt and white, and goes impersonal- ly upon it's way.
 It is taking the daily cargo of un- known dead of great city to un- marked graves!
 Some days it takes 20, and some days it takes 50. The average is around 150 a week; some 1000 a year. Seven thousand persons who can disappear. yet nobody knows and nobody cares. Seven thousand men and women without names; without identities; without homes.
 Incredible as it may seem, this happens year in and year out. If one man disappears or one woman disappears. an entire city is asked to take up the hunt. But 1000 can drop out of sight-and who knows?
 They are the John Does and the Jane Roes found dead in gutters! The vast army of unknowns you find huddling in doorways on blustery nights! They're the men who fill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06

hands of few cannot find an outlet except in investment. chiefly industrial investment. which enlarges productive capacity too rapidly. If more of the profits went to the wage earners and small salaried people. they would live better and maintain bigger demand for goods and services. Thus while production increased less rapidly, consumption would increase more rapidly. In this way the big system of mass production could roll on with out being elogged up.
 We might have fewer near -billionaires but there would still be plenty of wealthy capita lists. The general level of prosperity would rise. The nation as whole would be better off without really harming anyone: A proper balance of the earnings of money and the earnings of men would keep prosperity on even keel. avoiding wild booms and disastrous depressions. It is an attractive philosophy. which has adherents even among the multi millionaires. It fits in with the Henry Ford theory of wages. so novel IS years ago. or raising wages to increase general prosperity. but 1t goes further.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06
NEA Service Writer

Washington = There will be more reports from the Wickersham com mission. Now that the great prohi- bition report is out of it's system anything else may seem anticlimac- tic, but in a month or so the com mission expects to begin issuing from time to time a series of reports on 10 other phases of law enforce ment and observance which it se- lected for study.
 The II subjects selected, each of which was assigned to a sub-com- mittee, were:
 The Causes of Crime, Statistics of Crime and Criminal Justice. Police, Prosecution, Courts, Penal Institu- tions, Prohibition and Parole, Prohi- bition, Juvenile Delinquency, Grim inal Justice and the Foreign Born. LaWlessness by Law Enforcing Off, ficers, Cost of Crime.
 Twenty-Five Experts at Work
 Reports on statistics and prose- cutions, understood to have been finished, probably will be the next ones published. The chairman of the subcommittee on statistics is Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard prosecution is Monte M. Lemann of New Orleans.
 Between 25 and 30 experts and consultants have been more or less actively engaged on the vari- ous curveyS and reports. The com
 mission presumably will officially pass out of existence at the end of this fiscal year on June 30th and by that time it expects to have all It's reports completed except those on courts and juvenile delinquency. The | I. thorized a national study of law ad- ministration in federal courts through 12 university law schools, was made known recently at Yale University and the study is so com prehensive that the report is not likely to be in shape by July. Has $2OO,OOO Left
 At the first of the year the com mission still had about $20O.0OO or the $50O,000 appropriated by con gress for it's work and expected to ensuing six months. The II mem bers were appointed in May, 1929, and organized in August of the same year. For the fiscal year 1930 con- gress gave them $250,000 and although the commission didn't spent all that money, appropriated another $250,000 for 1881 and gave it the privilege of using the previ- ous unexpended balance.
 Most of the research experts, en- gagged on all the various subjects of study while congress and the country displayed interest only in the prohi- bition report, have served without compensation but with expenses paid. They have now done the bulk of their work and no one seems to believe that the life of the commits sion will be extended. although some of it's members believe more time for study of important problems could we'll be used.
 Interest Is Keen
 Some of the reports will be await ed with great deal of interest, even though the edge of popular excite ment has pretty well been taken off with the prohibition report, because they will have a bearing on such
 paramount issues of the period as unemployment and prohibition. For instance, the subcommittee
 on causes of crime, consisting of
 Commissioners Anderson. Pound
 and Ada Comstock, selected Miss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06

 There are plenty of people who could be first-class bridge players, but they have something better to do. H. G. Wells, author.
 . say nothing against slang. I rather admire it; it enriches the language.
 George Arliss actor.
  Russia has demonstrated that the man who has nothing wants to di- vide with the man who has some- thing. -Allard Smith. Cleveland banker.
 
 The public is beginning to look on the great colleges as new systems of garnerfng money in exchange for honor degrees bestowed on the unfit and undeserving. -Senator-elect J. Hamilton Lewis
 of Illinois. It's all right to standardize up and not down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06

the 10-cent flop houses and drink the fatal smoke" of Bowery joints. They're the men who have deliber- ately erased the past in one way or another; torn an old identity from themselves and drifted into com plete anonymity.
 These are a great city's beach, combers and a metropolis has beachcombers as surely as any fabu- lous South Sea island. You'll see them in the dark of nights prowling like stray cats among the city's gar bage cans.
 But when the little boat leaves the Bellevue wharf, a score of them go to an unmarked grave. This is a general burying ground they call Hart's Island. And on Hart's Island they cannot be any more particular about immediate graves than can men in war time. They are dumped 150 at a time into hole in the ground-and that is all!
 Another hole is dug and awaits the coming of another 150!
 Hart's is somewhat braky island, and there's sandy hill where the burial ground has been arranged. As near as New York can be said to have Potter's Field-this is it!
 And just as the bright and shin ing yachts lie at anchor down the river, Hart's Island looks across at. the homes of the richest folk of Manhattan = on the millionaires' castles and manors of Great Neck and Sandy Point.
 GILBERT SWAN. Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, Inc.)
 In the last 12 months 37 ships were launched from Danish ship wards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1881
Party Procedure

If we were to accept Representative William M. Citron's rules for conduct of the demo-
 cratic party in the general assembly at face value we might conclude that there was practically no sense of any democrat attending committee hearing or participating in any legislative sessions at Hartford. However we really think that the minority leader was try
 ing to outline program that would be to the advantage of the democrats and result in their securing passage of many bills that they are sponsoring. Too spirited conduct by the minority in the face of overwhelming odds to be sure will never win any votes.
 Cn the question of party program there can be no question but what the democratic party ought to be united Governor Cross needs all the aid that he can get from the Legislature in securing passage of such meas sures as he believes necessary for the state at large. A great many of the recommendations he made in his inaugural address are non- partisan. The proposed district court scheme IS not democratic measure. It was conceived Originally by the Connecticut judicial council. By throwing his support to it Governor NfooS Iildy Have dHldSOHlZeQ IepuDllCdHS tO whom the minor courts of the state are a Spurce of patronage. But to the unbiased mind the proposal. is worthy of the most se- xlous consideration by both parties.
 s We like to see a fighting minority rather 4han a passive one It is better for the party and for the state. If the republicans for one Instant thought that there would be no come back from the democratic party in the Legis- lature we think that the state would go to ruin. The democratic party is gaining in strength in Connecticut. It should emerge from our present business depression the real party of the people. A program of eonclia- ton. such as Representative Citron suggests, twill do some good But it can be carried loo far. To earn the respect of the majority pasty the democrats must have militant pro- gram. We have foothold in the state ad- minstration. We can't afford to lose it by subservience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06

We would like to see the United States ally itself with Canada in preserving Niagara Falls intact without bringing the St Law renee river waterway project into the discus sion. When Calvin Coolidge was president he sent the Niagara treaty to the senate for con- hrmation It had just been signed at Ottawa
 If the falls are to be preserved for all time there is evidently need of immediate action
 While there may be no further rock slides the chances of their occurring are good Efforts to correct the flow so that erosion will not be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-06

Superintendent of Game and Fisheries Titcomb reported that unless pollution of the Pennington river soon ceases there will be no shad left in this stream. The shad fishing in- dustry of Connecticut is but shadow of its former self. The Connecticut river was once the home of this fish. Now it is found in lim- ited numbers. The same is true of the Farm ington and Salmon rivers. where the fish once matched in considerable numbers. Communi- ties must get rid of their sewage systems that polluate water. The sooner the better for the benefit of the entire state.