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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
OUR DAILY NEWS LETTER
By EUGENE LYONS

tCnbteu Efet5 DtaII COffcepOn0cnt)
 Moscow.--The Russian writer An- ton Chekh0v once compiled 6 Com plaint Book now famous in Rus sian literature, in which simple peo- pie recorded their simple troubles. His imaginary complaints, however. are no more c0mical than those which one can pick out now from the petitions and protocols of the Moscow municipal courts. | Russians run to the courts at the slightest prctext, having q primitive 1 faith in the omniscience of judges. As might be supposed, the over- crowded housing iS responsible for a good many of the difficulties. We excerpt few of the more curious ones from actual Moscow judicial documents.
 The engineer Diakonov, in filing complaint against Citizencss Moi seyevna, shows how he used his | technical skill. He writes: Tn order to obtain evidence against the defendant, who during ! two years was rifiling my pockets systematically. connected the pocket of my coat which hung in the cor ridor with an electric bell. also established lighting of the electric bulbs in the whole apartment as soon as anyone touched my purse. In addition I fixed an automatic camera to photograph the thief"
 Here's Another 1 An indignant householder testi- | fics:
 "A husband and wife hired my room for two occupants. Three months later they became the parents of q new baby, born with l rtt SsaU inatf q f room for two and not for three, consider 1t direct breach of con- tract and ask the court to put them out"
 l "I. as q woman."' q harassed citi- zeness pleads in another document, "cannot possibly continue to live in the same room with q total stranger, whose name is F'eodor Petrovitch i Shishkin. =
 This situation is by no means un- usual, as witness another petition on the same type:
 | Another sample:
 "Citizeness W. complains that chased her out of the lodging to the staircase. But l did this. not be- cause 1 did not want to let her in, but because I was afraid I would beat her. She makes me lose my patience and 1t is for her own pro- lection against a good beating that I kept her out of the lodging Academician aergey Navashin. who died in Lcningrad recently, was well known to scientific circles in the United States. He was among the leading naturallsts in The world. At the International Congress of Botan- fists, held at Ithaca. New York. in l1926, Prof Navashin was honorary chairman. He was q member of the Botanical Society of America. |
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
SEEING DANGER.

London--Thousand of red cir cuiars being received in Great Brit ain arc being banned by postal au- thorities. The reason Is not because of Soviet propaganda supposed to be contained in the circulars. but because the color tends to ruins the eyes of postal employees. The sort ing of large number of these cir- culars would cause eve strain, 1t is said,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
On the towns merry -so-round

On the towns merry go round When Larry Laurizen Tower night that the party who catches the brides due for marathon the halter (corree Mister Opera tor h on) Larry just snkered silence (Try sniek ering silence it's the thing for the nonchaant Impossible" blooped Larry few moments later Why caught brides bouquet took and distributed the flow all the ladies present. And you I'm still bachelor looked Larry comfortable cool and cunning But Lany
 half expodedtbee when do things halves Larry you made the mistake you should have made ln of dsmanng the bouquet should have taken home
 slept that night and dreamed the lady love who would soon carry your Cary it. said Larry. Hook what's happened carrying why burden else With that be returned setting point sugs and goped of in the gathering dusk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

Gossip Dr John Mullen and Dr Bernie o fiara caught Al Jol- njoyed Loretta Ben Atty m Weimn Loretta popular lady from the behold Cheeks the borrowing privi- coming through slow l Waterbury be the tail end of the dough bag Catherine buresque testified pleas yesterday Cath
 attended Wiby high school before going kg She's hord reports Toledo for her tw in dear old burey
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

Shorts Mir and Mrs Don MeKelar sailed Saturday for Scot land attend the wedding of relative Olmsad Waterbury the will do the andap million dollar planned by John D. Roeke- The late Myron appears the honor Xavier basketball Myron donated the still Christmas thrill Jutu park Needles the hundreds of Christmas during holiday be found of parkway. And it makes you feel good at that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
Uncle Rays Corner
HIGH JUMPERS
How high can you jump?

How high can you jump?
 If you want to find out, 1t will be good idea to test yourself by try ing to jump over stick placed loosely on pegs between two up- right stands. If the stands are mark cd with inches, you can tell how high you are jumping and how much you improve in the course of time.
 It is important to have the cross- stick loose, so that if you do not clear It you can kick 1t out of hte
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

African high jumper making q
 leap.
 way. remember a wire fence which I used to jump over during my boy hood. That was not q wise thing to do. If I had not cleared 1t. might easily have ripped and broken one or more of my bones.
 Another good idea is to have loose sand or straw to land in. We must all have share of bumps and jars, but we may as well have ourselves n few of them.
 A record for the standing high jump was made by Leo Goahring in 1913. Without taking running start. he cleared the bar at five feet, and three -fourths inches.
 In the same year II. M. Osborn made q new worlds record for the running high jump. He Ieapt six
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
CENgUs IN ONE DAY

London.--When the official cen- sas of England. Scotland and Wales is taken here, starting April 26. 1t ia planned to complete the counting 1T. one day. 4 machine which sorts. counts and tabulates returns has been adopted by tho government for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
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Around tbe town

Around the Bobby Haight spent the wsek-en in Waterbury returning New York today. Bobbys the four months in the entertainment racket Pete Shea claims the St Francis Fife and Drum corps the best juvenile in the Step up boys and take gingerbread Here's human interest story. Nick Tea editor of the Italian Weekly frae- tufsd his left wrist several weeks George Fox advertising sol started pinch hit for Testa Then George fell and broke bis right wrist Now you finish the story.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

Here's for Waterbury who anxousy awaiting their compensation checks The Tower has learned officially that all appca- filed the first of March will coming through the March 23r other words Monday So cheer boys Uncle Sam be bit slow in honong the but he'll around em eventually They'll just be in time buy Easter clothes and late eggs for the junior members of the A. E. r.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
--loJ- THINK IT OVER
Don't take the easiest way.
 Beware it's road with bend, For after all. the easiest way,
 Is the hardest in the end.
tsY THE MAN IN THE TOWER,

My thanks John Barry of Fairwn Manor for of sham rock which Tower this morning before leaving trip to New York Patks day parade For the past four years failed remember the Tower St. Paricks day. Four spigs of shamrock best testify to this fact
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

Editor Tower Topics: People ask the Tower when they want an their troubles So here mn If the city manager form of government Waterbury, would they half the city h--F C. K don't know ask Harry Dow Judge Recves-The Ed)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

the purpose of putting over the quick count. The registrar-genera estimates that the population re- turns will show 39,000,000 people in Rrftain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

Many large modern busses which were sent from France to Algeria for the touring season are being re- turned to France for similar duty during the summer season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
APARTMENTS OF lisi

WashingtOn. = fhe apartmen. house was popular in the United states in 1181, long before the white man ever reached America. This sJs torn out in the findings of the Smithsonian Institution on the Zuni Indian reservation near Gallup, N. M. The institution found a whole buried village composed of four story apartments, some containing as many as 800 apartments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17

4 World War tank was sold re- gently in Hoiborn. England for 920J,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-17
LARGEST SHIP.

New York--A new giant of the seas which. 1t is said, will rival any passenger vessel in operation, is to be constructed by the French linc to succeed its flagship, the S. s. He de France. The new ship will be the largest and fastest of it's kind in the world. having length of r. 100 feet and c speed of moro than 90 knots an hour. It is expected to be ready for service by 1884.
 Matches shipped from Sweden in the last three months of 1880 weighed 11.66G tons.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-In regard to the
articles that Carlos Lane wrote
about the trustees charity baskets,
I wonder if he knows what charity
is?
If he or the trustee calls WORKING
sixteen hours for basket OF
groceries in which you don't see
what you are getting, and they put
anything in it and get by with 1t,
all right.
I don't call that charity. 1 call
it slavery of the worst kind.
A man with five in his family can
not get along on the baskets they
give out.
why not get rid of the in
vestigators that are drawing 500 a
month, and let that money go to the
unemployed?
Twenty-eight hundred dollars a
month is a lot of money to come
out of the taxpayers pockets.
I have read The Times ever since
it was the Sun and I think it is
the only newspaper that ever was
published here. I would rather do
without something to eat than to
miss one copy Of it.
I hope this letter wakes the public
up as to what charity is.
UNEMPLOYED SLAVE.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
Curtis Chooses to Run

With Republican chances very slim in the 1882
election, Charlie Curtis had to choose between being
Hoover's running mate again or candidate for the
senate. There was not much choice.
He announced Monday that he would stand for
the vice-presidency again.
Apparently his first inclination was to try the
other long shot. So he went out home to Kansas to
look the political fences. The Democrats had
captured his old senate seat Prospects for next
were bad.
If he would be running against odds in either case
why not stay where he was? That to have been
the logic of his decision.
OF course there was the added consideration OF
party reguIarity-a rather important point to a man
who has been kept in public office for almost life
time by c. o. P regularity AS the party leaders have
been putting the matter to him for months he could
not desert the Hoover team without advertising his
fear and theirs that Hoover would be defeated in 1892
That would have been too unkind After ALL
Hoover's plight is bad enough without added kick
from his partner in Office.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
Christmas Seals

A thirty-year war conducted by American health
crusaders has begun to conquer in this country one
of mankind's most ruthless enemies, tuberculosis
In 1900 the death rate in the registration area
from the White Plague was 2O1.9 per 100000 popua-
tion. BY 1929 it had been driven down to &c. This
means a reduction in twenty-nine years of sc per
cent. It means the annual saving of the lives of
10000 Americans.
This remarkable achievement was accomplished
by the recognition of the law of prevention 1t
about through welnourished babies open air schools
sanitary homes, preventoriums, and sanitariums
BY the same constant offensive warfare the other
killers can be conquered tuberculosis used to be
this country's greatest killer. Today the ugly dis
tinction belongs to heart disease which takes its
annual toll of 210.8 persons out Of every 100000
Influenza and pneumonia kill 1895 persons and can
Ger kills 957 persons annually out of every 100000
The annual anti-tuberculosis Christmas Seal sale
is on 1t is important that this be supported espe-
cally since the depression has become tuberculosis
ally and makes the fight harder. And the same un-
relenting warfare that is beating this killer should
be waged against the Others
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
A Welcome Addition

The newspaper profession whole will welcome
into its ranks Fred Mills, who has just purchased an
important newspaper at South Bend.
The public has very direct interest in the own
ershp of newspapers, greater than in any other en-
terprise Newspapers deal in ideas and information
What the people of any part of the state are think
ing helps to determine the state of government.
Mr.. Mills has won deservedly national reputation
leader in the field of advertising. He helped to
make prosperity for many industries But more than
that among his friends and acquaintances, he has
reputation for honesty and courage which essen
ta to any successful publisher He brings qualities
which commend him to the public. The people of
South Bend should be happy, if change was to be
made, that they secured a Mills
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

4 GENTLEMAN who is attached to the courts is
enbittered over the failure of women in politics
Women" he majestically asserts have not lived up
their promises Instead of working for better and
cleaner governments they have aped men, They go
into politics FOR what they can get out of it."
This diagnosis of conditions may leave us in a
somewhat gnominiouS position, but it gives the
cold comfort No laurels be pressed upon the
culine brow, since better and cleaner governments
never seem to have been accomplished by them
either.
Does any reasonable being honestly thnl, that
woman, with her paltry political power and her nat
lral human fraity could enter public affairs and in
4 jffy, clean up the world mess that men have
made?
FURTHERMORE it strikes nne as rather imperti-
nent for any member of the bar to call very loud
attention to the hardness of women since the failure
of the courts to function with speed is wel-recog
nized fact both at home and abroad.
Our celebrity in getting political things done is a
regular hundred-yard dash when compared with the
tortoise pace of the professional law.
Anyway, isn't it about time for to abandon this
childish idea that should do nothing in life
except moralize, renovate and reform? And if men
have the good of the country at heart why wait for
us to set better standards?
They've had good many generations in experience
and haven't done anything very exceptional. The
truth is, they do not want cleaner and better gov
ernment.
they did they easily could have it by some energy
and honesty on their part. What they want is a
chance to yel about faults SC that they de-
tract notice from their own.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
Gasoline BOotlegging


State Auditor Williamson collected one million
more in dollars for gasoline tax during his first year
Of office than was collected by his predecessor in the
preceding year.
The Governor simultaneously, starts an inquiry
INTO bootegging Of gasoline from other states.
It is fairly certain that little more gasoline was
lsed in 1881 than in 1880. Many industries using
trucks were running at less speed The depression had
lit many autos Of workers.
The one deduction is that If there is a great deal
booegging Of gas at the present time there must
lave been much more during the years when the
Governor was complacent and state officials COM
promised with the few culprits who caught on
an unconscionable basis
There was no inquiry, for example, into the sud-
den ownership Of bootleg stations by friendly politi-
clans after outrageous settlements had been made.
To be effective and fair, every gasoline vendor
there has been favoritism it that legitimate
concerns are at disadvantage and compelled to
compete with the law volator
The awakened interest of the Governor in this
matter may have some good results, if it merely
provides sufficient staff to strictly enforce the law
1t will do more If it goes back into the other years
and discovers just why state officials made compro
misses that carried with them strong odor of Off
cial favoritism.
In the meantime the mllion-dollar increase in
alertness of the present auditor Of state.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03

been treated in recent years somewhat too much as
one of cold fact and logic. He injected feeling.
Thousands and hundreds Of thousands today have
read in warmer light story they had read and
reread before in terms only questions and answers
and lawyers COLLECTIONS Walkers appearance has
given and virile life to Americas Dreyfus case
And because Of that it must be apparent to the
people of California and their Governor that the free
ing of Mooney and Billings is both national and
popular cause-and one that will not die
Walker knows the psychology of public reactions
as few know that psychology. When he Joined
the mountingy popular cause he proved among other
things that the crusade not doomed to fail but
had become mighty force
In California he faced opposition. He came under
two fires-the reactionary press which called him
'fmpudent," and the Communists, who charged him
with Stealing the show"
Fittingly he paid no attention to either Seriously
he pleaded for fellow American who, he is con-
vnced, has suffered of the greatest wrongs ever
inflicted by lawless justice
The mass of native Californians must have been
impressed by the earnest pleading The touches of
his oratoy that brought tears to the eyes of the audi
ence will be understood and remembered by many
who failed to grasp the constitutional questions in
volved in the long, long story of the Mooney Billings
case. His final appeal directed to Governor Rolph
will ring for long time in the ears of his exceency
the mayors friend:
"The President Of the United States the congress-
the standing army and navy can not give Mooney re-
prieVe Neither the Governors of forty-seven
states. The League of Nations or all the kings horses
or all the kings men-they can't help him.
'It remains exclusively and solely with one per-
son. and that sole individual in the whole civilized
world that can right the wrong and do justice is the
Governor of California"
And so, whether Walkers transcontinental jour-
ney brings immediate fruit not it has added i'm
measurably to a cause whose ultimate success must
come-unless justice has vanished from this nation
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03

Colonel Woodcock Is Try
ing to Do a Decent Job IN
Enforcing the Dry LaaOs,
and the Scandals Which
Keep Cropping Up SholO
HoaO Hopeless the Task
Really Is.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Having
II accepted the resignation OF
District Administrator Vivian and
fired Agent Dierks, Dry Chief Amos
Woodcock assures the people of
Colorado that "the federal bureau
will be placed on a plane of high
est standards"
1t all started with the killing of
Melford Smith, 20-year-old truck
driver, by Dierks in a scuff1e for
possession sof three ounces Of wine.
AS might have been expected,
popular tumult ensued, and Colonel
Woodcock came on from Washing
ton to investigate.
He found not only that the kill
ing was stupid and brutal" but
that Mr.. Vivian had negotiated
with Dierks for a $4,000 loan before
appointing him as an agent.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HEYMq9D RRG4%

"DAUL SWEARENGER, "a years
l. old and homeless, who was
released from Sing Sing prison less
than two weeks ago, will be ar
raigned in Yorkville court on a
charge of burglary after his cap
ture last night in a Park Avenue
apartment.
Swearenger has a record OF three
felony convictions, and if convicted
on the burglary charge faces a life
term in prison under the BaumeS
law. He says he entered the apart
ment only to seek food"
I am offering this brief news
paper paragraph as a specific ex-
ample of what seems to me an al
most insane prison system. The
court is not likely to take too liter
ally the young mans contention
that he was seeking only food. After
all, his record is against him.
Let us look back to the time, two
weeks ago, when he left prison
equipped with a new suit OF clothes
and SIS. 1t is difficult enough at the
present time for even a competent
and highly skilled worker to get a
Job. And it is safe to assume that
a man of "a, with three stretches
in Jail, has not had much opportun-
ity to make himself useful member
of the community.
Standing at the Prison Gate
NTOW, there are two ways OF
N looking at the relationship be-
tween us-the members of the COM
munity-and Paul Swearenger, "a
years old. Suppose we stand for a
moment at the prison gate. Those
who hold that our criminal proceed
IRE is much too kindly and that we
coddle convicts, might say with a
lot of logic that it was extremely
silly to let Swearenger out into the
world again.
who profits through his two-week
attempt to readjust himself in a
life for which he was traglcally un-
fitted?
Looking at it in realistic man
ner. we can waive for the moment
the question of whether the tault
was wholly his or whether the
world contributed to his incapaclCy.
The point is-a desperate, hopeless
man was 1oosed for no purpose
whatsoever. I imagine that the
odds we're, at least, 100 to 1 that he
would return.
The only betting proposition con-
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
HUGE WAR BUDGET
Dec, 8

ON Dec. 3, 1917, Secretary of the
~ Treasury McAdoo submitted to
the opening congress the largest
years budget in the history of the
United States.
1t totaled $13,5OO,000,0O0. This
was to carry on the war and gov
ernmental departments. More than
$11 ,OOO, 100000 of this was direct
war budget.
Following this, government war
saving stamps we're placed on sale
for the first time.
The Germans launched terrific
attack south and west Of Cambria.
The British were forced to draw
back east of Marcoing and at Vac
.querie.
The inter-allied war conference
in Paris closed with an address by
Colonel E. M. House, chairman OF
the American mission. He felici-
tated France on her sacrifices and
work.
Berlin stated that local armistices
had been agreed to by German and
Russian divisions holding the lines
from Pripet to Lipa.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-03
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

"Erpansion of Space" Is a
Neio Force in the Universe,
Dutch Astronomer Con-
tends.
ID ECENT astronomical investiga-
IN tions have revealed the exist
ence of a previously unsupported
universal force in the universe, ac-
cording to DR.. Willem De Sitter. IA
nous Dutch astronomer and author
ity upon relativity. 1t is the ex-
pansion of space.
Thus. according to De Sitters,
there are two fundamental forces
Of work in the universe.
The other, the force of gravity.
has been known for a long time.
Sir Isaac Newton stated the law of
universal gravitation, namely, that
every body IN the universe attract
ed every other one with a force
which was proportional to the prod
uct of their masses and inversely
proportional to the square of the
distance between them.
This has received certain modi-
ficationS at the hands of Professor
Albert EinSte1n. The mathematical
statement OF the law no longer is
quite so simple. But in general it
is still a statement of the facts in
the case.
The existence of the new force
has been discovered through the
study of the distant spiral nebulae.
Observations at Mt. Wilson showed
that all the spirals were moving
away from the earth and the far
ther away the spiral, the faster it
seemed to be moving.
The most distant spiral observed
it is 2O,0O0,OOo light years away,
was revealed to have velocity of
2,400 miles per second.