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The Washington times., 1931-04-11

yO ur body.
The f a C t o +
t h a t makes
the long shot
long is the
winding u p
of the body
beyond t h e
poin t you
W ou d go,
even with the
S a m e club,
for a short
shot. Thus,
the & hort
shot is made
by withdraw
ing the club
The Washington times., 1931-04-11
GOLF
By CHESTER HORTON

The difference between a full
shot with a midiron and a pitch
of SO yards is in the Wind-up of
The Washington times., 1931-04-11

comes b a C X
just in time
to sign for
$4,000.
Next spring
/ am going
to make Griff
let me train
for Sc e n
weeks in Ha-
vana. BY the
time / report
back for duty
I will feel
like a million
dollars, b u t
will cOmprO-
mise on q
The Washington times., 1931-04-11
NICK
ALTROCK
Says:

BALTIMORE, April Ill
like AL Simmons system. He
trains away from the team and
The Washington times., 1931-04-11
PINCH POWER
IS BEST,
OGOIj
he ESAYS
CONTINUED from Page -

Continued from Page -
1nter-city rivalry and a desire to
weeks seasonal opening are the
incentives.
The Washington club boasts the
best reserve strength in its his
tory.
Manager Walter Johnson
ventured this prediction today.
He said:
"We will be set for any emer-
gency coming our way this sea-
son. I've never seen finer re-
serve men!
There's not one position on
our club that can't be ca
pably filled. If we could have
had the same strength a year
ago those AS would have been
bothered plenty"
The Washington times., 1931-04-11
FS RESERVE STRENGTH PLEASES WALTER JOHNSON
Ruth OnLv Member of Yankees With Team Ten Years A
Today's
Sportorial
BY KIRK MILLER.
Well, now, let's see!

wen, now, leu see!
Spring is here and the indoor
pools around Washington are
doing a big business afternoons
and nights.
The Washington times., 1931-04-11

Walter Tauscher, Dallas rookie,
relieved Brown in Baltimore's
end of the sixth and, though
permitting q run In the ninth,
The Washington times., 1931-04-11

There'll be meeting tonight
OF the Muddy Ruel Remem-
brance Committee to determine
the nature of the gift which
will be presented to Muddy a
week from tomorrow when the
Red Sox play Washington here.
The Washington times., 1931-04-11

Last year he formed the main
news coming out of the Griff-
mems training camp. This year
it was Myer and Hayes who
gave the writer's the most to
rave about.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
Better Real Estate Credit

It seems strange. as some real estate men are pointing out. that although half the wealth of this country is in real estate. this form of property lacks the credit facilities en- joyed by other property. Particularly there are lacking in nearly all our states discount and acceptance markets for real estate loans. The president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards recently announced that the next Congress will be asked to create a, Fed eral Reserve Bank for rediscounting ordinary real estate mortgages just as the present Re- serve system does with collateral loans and the Land Bank does with farm mortgages.
 Owen D. Young, testifying before the Sem ate banking committee, has urged retail banks exclusively for real estate loans. Such sys- tenn exists in Canada. where commercial banks are confined to commercial and industrial loans, and real estate loans are made only by trust companies corresponding to our savings and loans companies. It is time that constructive thought was being applied to this problem. Real estate has not been getting square deal in the matter of credit. This fact may have something to do with the general business jam in which the country finds itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
One More Tariff Wall

Not to be outdone by this government that of Premier E. B. Bennett of Canada has re- taliated in similar fashion. About 200 prod ucts, all of them in common use, were placed on list subject to new tariff rates by the Canadian government this week. Some ot these rates are as high as 40 per cent, but in every instance they strike directly at this na- ton for Canada just now is Uncle Sans best customer. despite the tariff wall that Messrs Shoot and Hawley laid down and President Hoover. Secretary Mellon, and others ap- proved last year. It wasn't for nothing that the foremost economists in the nation screamed warnings to the president.
 The Bennett government has placed heavy tariff attachments upon imported automobiles coal, steel. leather, fruits vegetables, and meats. Of course it is hoped that many American manufacturers will dodge the tariff duties by building branch factories across the border or establishing subsidiaries. Already large number of American industrlalists have done this very thing. When Canada jumped her rates last September to meet the Smoot- Hawley tariff there was immediate action upon the part of American manufacturers. Seventy-four branch factories were established. Probably the same response will follow the new increases. The total number of Ameri- can industries now with plants on Canadian soil is 1923.
 Certainly the retaliatory Canadian tariff will serve as an impetus to democratic politi- clans and to opponents of the high protective tariff. There are those who blame all the ills of the present day on Uncle Sam's tariff bar riers which are growing higher every day. We feel sure that much of the antagonism mani fested towards this nation can be laid at this door. We don't doubt that similar action to that taken by Canada will occur in other countries. We have had great deal to say about the evil of artificial trade walls among European countries and the folly of rampant nationalism in the realm of econom- ics at a time when business is going interna- ton. Now Europe may take few cracks at us.
 Mexico has also jumped into the game emphasizing national patriotism in business There has just been celebrated in Mexico City a national commerce" day with government officials and business organizations urging the people to patronze only Mexican merchants and products. All such efforts are under standabe and human. but in the long run probably do more harm than good. Nations grow rich not by boyeotting or outlawing other nations goods but by some reasonable system of exchanging commodities. There must be time to check the protective tariff that republicans are laying down to protect the industries in which they seem to be SO vitally interested.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
National Spelling

Canadian boys and girls won't be able to take up even moderately simplified spelling if the present trend of opinion holds. The Canadian Historical Society has followed the examples of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Geographical Society and adopt ed resolution favoring English spelling for Canada rather than American spelling. We suppose this means writing honour instead of honor" ''labour" instead of Tabor, and so on. The tendency in this country is to omit extra, silent letters.
 The British and Canadians are more con- sistent than We are. Our reformed spelling movement went only little way. Americans were willing to simplify some common words but not to go the whole distance and spell phonetcally such words as night enough and thought. Phonetic spelling in ads and comic strips may bring that change eventually. Perhaps it is to avoid that horrid development that the Canadians take firm stand against all American spelling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1881
Changes Recommended

Police Superintendent Joseph Mclean has recommended changes in the traffic regulations of the city that are closely aligned with those advanced by the Democrat week or more ago. At that time we commented upon the danger of permitting trolley cars to switch from east to west bound tracks near Exchange place. Until trolley cars finally become hls- tory Waterbury with its narrow streets all intersecting at the Green will be faced with traffic problems. Superintendent Mclean called attention to the Oakville cars switching on East Main street near Phoenix avenue What about the Cheshire and Green Line trolleys switching on West Main street oppo- site the Steele building?
 To our way of thinking this latter habit IS worse than any other as all west bound traf- fife must swing to the left side ot trolleys and when eastbound trolleys are approaching at the same time they wait for the Cheshire car to switch back The tracks are completely blocked and westbound traffic swings over into the eastbound lane. However. that con- dition has continued for so many years now that most of us accept 1t as matter ot fact. The Naugatuek trolley will always remain source of worry to traffic policemen. South Main street is too narrow for two-way traffic and moving trolleys without forbidding all parking along the street.
 Years ago 1t was suggested that the South Main street trolley be looped over different streets so that there would be no waits on switches or at the corner of South Main and Rank streets where the presence of the long car directly across the street is distinct men, aes. The day will come when local officials won't be so lenient with the Connecticut Company in permitting it the concessions that it does today. Waterbury is perhaps too len tent. Other cities keep traffic moving by hav- ing safety zones established for discharglng and taking on passengers. Where traffic IS heaviest the cars move along with the rest of the vehicles
 The recommendations of Superintendent Mclean have all been suggested before Tn some form or another. The city knows that it must deal with them some day. Five or six years ago when William J. Dunphy was safety board commissioner he brought traf- fife experts here to study our peculiar sltua- tion Their recommendations were too dras- tic for that day and year, but they are just the ones that our present officials are urging upon us. We think it is high time that they were carried out. The sooner they are the better off the city will be from standpoint of traffic conditions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
A Teachers Reward

A former school teacher tells of her efforts to introduce rather indifferent pupils to good literature. She took little time every day to read aloud to her classes She would let the class vote on books they wanted her to read. but she managed to slide in some fine things the youngsters didn't know about. She would read their choice one week and her own the next. Some of the children were frankly bored with her selections. Some were puzzled They didn't know what it was all about. It looked like an unsuccessful exper- ment. That teacher had her reward years later when some of those bored pupils began to tell her in person, and through grateful letters, what she had done for them. She had set before them standards which they had unconscously adopted. She had opened up to them world of literature md thought which they might never have discovered with out her help.
 Aren't kids queer' They don't know what's good for them, young business man remarked to her. He had been one of the bored boys of her teaching days. One of the genuine satsfactions of teaching must be the knowledge that one has been successful guidepost to youngsters who didn't know where they were going or how to get there and who are grateful for having been shown the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
Buried Gold

Another buried treasure yarn bobs up in the news. A Michigan man wants the board of supervisors of Eaton County to sanction his search for hoard of $l7,000 in gold coin stolen from the courthouse there 70 years ago. He says the money was carried in an OK cart to Steuben County, Indiana, and there buried in safe. He has map, of course. showing where the gold is buried. A son of one of the three robbers gave it to him.
 Now, as this information gets around, Steuben county will doubtless be pretty thor oughly dug up. We hope lot of diggers will find lot of gold. But the world vii! be surprised if they do. It's too bad to dis courage any such quest in too prosaic age.' Yet clam onlooker can't help wondering why it should take an OK cart for three men to get away with a quantity of gold weighing 5 pounds, and why, if they ever got it out of the state, they didn't divide it and go their ways.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
NEW JERSEY TURNS DOWN
 THE DRYS
(Hartford Courant)


 The republicans of New Jersey have not been terrorized by the threat of dry members of the party to bolt the ticket unless pro- Eounced stand were taken for pro- hibition. At the convention in Tren- ton on Tuesday a platform was adopted declaring for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the restoration to the states of their power to deal with the liquor ques- ton as they see fit. The, candidate for governor. David Baird, Jr, has put himself on record as being thor ou~hly in accord with the platform and with the views held on the sub ject by Senator Dwight w. Morrow. He does not favor the return of the saloon, in which respect his attitude reflects the overwhelming public sentiment, but he does want the regime of national prohibition end- ed because of it's disastrous effects on law. order, temperance and morals.
 The threat of the drys to put a ticket of their own in the held leaves the republicans calmly indif- ferent. They know the success that attended Senator Morrow's uncom- promising stand, and they feel that they are taking no risks in reaffirm- ing it. Unless the drys do not put up their own ticket they will have nowhere to go, for the democratic platform goes even farther than the republican in that it calls for inn mediate modification of the Volstead law and makes no demand for en- forcements while the law remains. Since prohibitionists have only one obsession in politics, 1t is logical that they should flock by them- selves. If it be true that they repre- sent the dominant sentiment of the country, they should be able as a separate party to demonstrate their strength to their liking.
 If the republican and democratic parties in other states will emulate the example set by New Jersey. they will force the prohibitionists to cre- ate their own organization, thus en- abling them the fullest opportunity to center their activities in single issue. Since the function of a po- litical party is to enable those who think alike to act alike, the prohibi- tionists cannot do better than to raise standard of their own to which all similar-minded voters may repair. Such action on their part would tend to sweeten both the republican and the democratic par ties and contribute to peace and un- derstanding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05

Maryland bolted the conventional topics of the
 annual governors conference at French Lick. Indiana, this week and advocated return of liquor control to the states. There was nothing new in this advocacy. It is what Governor Ritchie has been preaching for years. As the foremost disciple of states rights in the Union he is known from coast to coast, from Canada to Mexico. and prob ably even beyond these confines. If he be- comes an active candidate for the presidential nomination next year his platform will be certainly based on this stand. Governor Rit- chic declared that if the states controlled liquor manufacture and sale system of excise taxes could be built up that would ultimately do away with federal income taxes, thus reliev- ing many of us of problems that are now rather serious We rather admire Ritfhie's spirit in the face of so much apparent opposi- ton from within his own ranks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05

It is encouraging to note that the famous Bedford Gardens at Greens Farms will not be closed on account of the recent death of their owner, the late E. T. Bedford. Practically everybody in Connecticut is familiar with these gardens. For years they have been open to the public and have been source of wonderment to most of us. Exotic blooms. fruit trees trained on treNises were just few of the botanical curiosities that might be seen in trip through the estate Under the terms of the Bedford will just made public the gar dens will be maintained for the use of the general public The public certainly IS in- debted to the dead phianthropist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
0u0TATIQES8S QES8S 70 /V

The smartest women are voting wet.
 Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chi cago.
 The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie.
 Thomas A. Edison.
  College social life has made an attempt to duplicate night club life of New York. pr Lee H. Ferguson of Western Reserve University.
  Many law enforcement officers stoop to means as illegal as the acts they seek to punish or sup press. George w. Wickersham.
  There Is a very simple test by which 1t Is said we can tell good people from bad. If n smile i'm. proves q mans face. he Is a good man. If smile disfgures his race he Is bad man.
 William Lyon Phelps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
HERE. THERE, AND EVERYWHERE ELSEWHERE HAVE ABOUT THIS. OTHER

evils and hope to reform it; he re- garded it as good, as a part of the divine order. On his own plantation he inaugurated a curious system by which slaves were tried by their fel- lows in thc,r own courts, for petty Nocfenses; but this limited measure of democracy did not altar his faith that slavery itself was eternal. Like Andrew Jackson, another hot-tem- ppered frontiersman, he was stern fighter for Right as he saw it. with no hcsitant ability to see the other mans side of the case.
 Davis may have been responsible In part for the final military disas- ters of Confederacy. but he must be given part of the credit, too, for the struggle which the South waged for more than four years against the power of the North. Jeff Davis held his people together. No other man was seriously considered for the presidency of the South, and, as Sem ator Harrison says, Jeff Davis ''is to- day as much the idol of his people as he was their leader through the tragic days of his eventful career" The South loves q man who never gives in; and Jeff Davis died con- vinced and preaching that the South had been in the right in the war between the states.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05

While the ride of Paul Revere may be famous all over New England other sections of the nation have their horseback heroes. too, Take, for instance, down around Charottes- vile, Virginia. Jack Jouett is the hero just about this time of the year. On the night of June 34 some horseman gallops mady from Cuckoo Tavern to Charlottesville to warn more players in the drama that Tarleton and his dreaded horsemen are approaching. Just l50 years ago Jouett made his famous dash and warned Governor Thomas Jefferson at Monticello of the British raid. Since this year was the sesquicentennial the event was attended by unusual activity and interest in the occasion. The intention of Tarleton. so history tells us, was to capture members of the Virginia legislature, composed of Patrick Henry Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Nelson, Jr, and Benjamin Harrison, all notorious rebels in the eyes of the English All had signed the Declaration of Independence save Patrick Henry. And in addition there was the author. Jefferson himself. to be nabbed Jouett was at Cuckoo Tavern when Tarle- ton and his dragoons dashed by. Suspectng their purpose he dashed madly cross country, while the troopers followed the road. It was a perilous 40-mle ride. He left Cuckoo Tavern at 10 o'clock. The moon was shin ing brightly. By it's pale glow he reached Monticello at 4;30 a. m. Jefferson was aroused and shortly aftcrward Jouett reached Charlottesville and alarmed the legislators Jouett received sword and brace of pistols as reward. However. he is little known be- yond Virginia. Even Jcfferson's biographers fail to mention his name. We wonder if our own Jouett Shouse could be a desecndent through some family braneh'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05
At 7he National Capitol
 DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
A Digest of Who's Who and What's What , ,i,,t,...,.Ey RODNEY BUTCHER

wages and standard of living to those prevailing in Europe, in or-
 der to stabilize their vest European
 loans and investments, and are cov-
 ering their movements with smoke
 screen of talk about the vast foreign
 trade we might be getting in nations
 with from one-fourth to one-tenth
 our consuming power per capita, by
 letting such nations dump their
 cheap labor products on the Amer
 ican market to the displacement of l American labor, have been carrying on a tremendous propaganda in this country. But someone is going to l rise up one of these days and tear l off the mask"
 | Senator Hull contends that lem bargo tariffs" have kept this country
 and most others from disposing of i their surpluses.
 Prom 75 to 100 of our big in
 dustries turn out surpluses," he says.
 "and when these surpluses can't be sold industry stagnates. millions of
 men are thrown out of work and billions of dollars in invested capital 1 is tied up. The results of high pro- | tcctivc tariffs speak for themselves" |"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-05

Washington - Although the Hawley-Smoot tariff has been larl- pasted with great fcrVor as cn al- legged contributory factor in the de- pression, there is also a school Of thought wk.ch holds th@t the cure can best be found in q bigger ana better application of the protective tariff theory,
 This point of view is expressed by Gorge 5. Lockwood, former sec rotary of the Republican 4lctionai Committee and the editor and pub fisher of the Muncie Evening Press in Indiana.
 "rhe prosperity of this country could be completely restored, writes Mir Lockwood, eff the many hundreds of thousands of men now out of work in this country because of their inability to compete against cheap labor products being brought in from abroad were gwen a chance to supply the home market"
 Replies to Hull
 Lockwood replied to recent asser- tons of eSRator Corden Hull or Tennessee and others that tariffs must be revised downward to stlm- ulate international trade.
  of production in which the competi- ticn of cheap labor products has decreased or destroyed American employment. There will be an awakening to th's in due season which will be pretty hard on the party that goes out in 1852 arguing that the way to increaSt prosperity is to further destroy American em- ployment by buying foreign goods whose cheapness is based upon the cheapcning of the worker.
 Lockwood mentions oil and lum- ber as two examples.
 we are admitting duty free more than sl5O,OO0,O0 900 worth of foreign oil and oil products" he says. "wh!le our own oil fields ahe paralyEed. It would not be well for MT Hull to go to the western oil fields and tell them that this tariff should be re- duccd below zero rather than m creased. The same thing applies to the 300,000 men out of work in cur timber producing areas while we are importing vast quantities of foreign lumber and pulpwood carrying little or no tariff.
 "As to the decline in motor exports mentioned by Mr~ Hull. is it possible that the establishment of motor plants in cheap labor markets abroad by General Motors and Ford has had anything to do with this? For instance, was it our new tariff law that caused Ford to move his big tractor plant from Detroit to cork. enabling him to export these trac- tors to our market free of duty be- cause they are classified as agri- cultural implements? Certainly. II so. it is not the excessive protection carried.
 Every country in the western hemisphere had tariff higher than our present tariff before our present tariff law was passed.
 Cites "Smokc Screen" "The international bankers and industrialists who have set out on program of reducing American