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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25
Famous Free Silver Specter Has Arisen
 Again In Arkansas
Strange Political Convention Is Gathering in Home
 Town of "Coin" Harvey to Try and Save Nation

funds for building projects 10 end the present depression; for almost complete reorganization of the national and state government; for submission to the people of ref erendum on important questions, notably prohibition.
 All these Harvey has set down in a new pamphlet similar to his little booklet on free silver, Coins Financial School" estimated to have had a paid circulation of D. 100000 many years ago. The new booklet was published a few weeks ago.
 Since the collapse of his plan for palace of civilization" liar vey has applied himself to comple- ton of the concrete monolith he believes will mark the resting place of our civilization. The "pal- ace" was to have been a utopian university where economists could gather-when hordes of angry debtors had laid the world waste ito reconstruct the fiscal system.
 Harvey built the amphitheater. started conservatories and even branch line railroad to bring his Dub ttic pihh and ivy covers most of the lime stone foundations.
 The pyramid is a monolith 130 feet high in which he will place photographs of all modern inven- tions. book on the death of our civilization and g. symposium of opinion as to it's causes, hermetic- ally sealed copies of newspapers and other articles not yet selected.
 The site of the memorial has been chosen with great care. A mountain stream has been diverted to prevent erosion and geologists have assured Harvey that the monolith will last for millions of years.
 Some day, Harvey hopes when our civilization Is dead and the valley is filled with the sediment of the years, traveller will stum- ble upon the peak of the pyramid surmounted by its bronze placard:
 When this can be read, go below and find record and cause of the death of a former civiliza- ton"
 Now he is trying to postpone that day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25

Monte Ne, Ark, Aug 25--UP) s-The strangest of political con- ventions will convene to-day in the shadow of William H. "Coin" Har- vey's pyramid to posterity"--a last gesture by the famous free silver advocate to save the civili- zation for which he is erecting a memorial amid the green hills of the Ozark uplift.
 Hundreds of men and women of no definite political faith have come to this tiny Arkansan village to join the aged political warrior in the formation of a new political party to "save civilization" They will gather in the limestone amphi- fheater he built as utopian pal ace of civilization" They will draft a platform-already modelled by Harvey--and will chose candidates for president and yice-president of the United States.
 Among the leaders of the new party are William Lenke, former attorney general of North Dakota, and Wesley S. Roebuck, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Dr John k. Brinkley, "goat gland specialist who was defeated for governor of Kansas, also will attend the convention.
 From the speaker rostrum on a little island in the middle of stream which trickles past the amphitheater, Harvey will urge the need iof haste If the present economic system is to be effective ly substituted. He feels it is his last opportunity to remake the so- cial scheme, the flaming spirit that sustained him in his titanic battles with William Jennings Bryan for "16 to l" free silver. is burning low. He Is past 90.
 Nearly 30 years ago Harvey re- tired to Monte Ne to mediate on the shortcomings of the prevailing system. Now he says:
 The time has come. The people are awakened. The time for which l have waited, knowing 1t must come under the present financial system, has arrived"
 Through the years Harvey has been formulating the platform of the embryo party. It forsees pre- vention of bank failures by govern Ynent operation of banking sys- fenns; of a prefect money system.
 It calls for expenditure of idle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25
KIDNAPPED HIS. CHILDREN IN
 STOLEN PLANE
He Took Them Into Sierra Nevada Mountains After He Had Wrecked Plane

Independence, Cal, Aug 25.--- UP)--A father accused of kidnap- ing his two children and flying away with them in a stolen air plane was believed hiding to-day high in the Sierra Nevadas.
 Henry Billingsley, 49, of Lone Pine. took the children from their mothers home in Bishop, escaped in an airplane in which he had been taking flying lessons, and landed on the floor of a dry lake in the shadow of Mount Whitney, officers said.
 There, pursuing deputy sheriffs lost trace of the three. Posses searched the mountain trails lead ing away from the lake bed.
 Officers marvelled that Billings ley and the children, Jean, 8, and Harry, 5, escaped injury for he had had only nine hours of instruction in an airplane.
 Billingsley approached Stanley Shoemaker. from whom he had been taking flying lessons, and ask ed him to take the children for flight.
 Shoemaker spun the propellor, and before he could enter the ship, he said. Billlngsley seized the con- troIs and raced the plane down the field. The ship wobbled danger ously and Billingsley narrowly avoided crashing.
 Airports were notified to be on the lookout for the man. They were told Billingsley had threaten ed to kill the children and himself because of marital troubles.
 Officers expected reports that Bill kingsley had crashed in the noun tain peaks, lining Owens Valley, but when word came 1t was that the stolen ship had been found on the bed of the dry lake two miles south of Lone Pine and l6 miles south of here. The undercarriage had been smashed in landing. but there was no evidence that any of the three had been injured. Mrs Rachel Billingsley, cstrang- ed wife of the man. wept bitterly as she told of threats he had made to kill her if she would not give him the children, awarded 10 her by a court order when she sued | for divorce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25

2s passengers were taken ashore In iifeboats. The crew of 25 returned and spent the night aboard the Naushon, flagship of the inter-isi- and fleet, which was expected to be noated to-day.
 The Naushon, earoute from New Bedford to Vineyard Haven with an unusually small passenger list was nosing up to her dock here when the gale struck.
 Captain Webster Clifford sought to jockey the 936-ton vessel back onto her course but the terrific wind carried her down. harbor! For 800 yards she drifted dizzily before the gale. She crashed against the two-masted schooner Alice K. Wentworth. 200-ton craft at anchor, with such force
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25

that several passengers on the Naushon's deck were Knocked down and slightly bruised.
 The steamer continued on, bowl ing over a dozen small craft and then striking a 65-foot power cruiser. also at anchor. Radio distress signals brought aid to the scene from the Woods Hole coast guard base soon after the Naushon grounded 75 yards of the beach.
 The patrol boat CG-2S0,. while attempting to take off the steamers passengers, smashed her rudder and was driven ashore.
 Lifeboats were then lowered and the Naushon's crew took the pas sengers ashore. Though raging seas prevailed the water was al- most as calm as a mill pond on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25

lee side of the stranded ship and out great danger.
 Four other patrol boats and two destroyers arrived later and stood by. Efforts to float the Naushon, which appeared to have escaped with high water at mid-morning. The Naushon was built in 1929 at Fore River.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25
INTER R-ISLAND
 STEAMER WAS IN
 GRAVE DANGER

Vineyard Haven. Mass, Aug 25- (UP)-Fifty-three lives were inn perilled last night when the inter- island steamer Naushon, caught in a sudden northeast gale. was swept on q crazy course down Vineyard Haven harbor and grounded.
 At the end of her wild dash be- fore the wind, the stranded ships
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25

Large enough to supply 5000 portions, the worlds greatest ap- pie pie, recently made at Birming- ham, England, was 12 feet long. 10 feet wide. two feet deep and contained $50 pounds of apples, 160 pounds of flour. 50 pounds of lard and 28 pounds of sugar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25
Severe Irritation Prevented
 Sleep. Healed by CuticsTa.

"My forehead broke out with itching and burning nearly dove mad Later the breaking out turned pmpes that They fesefed and quite bad f three that scratched aud caused eppons also from sleeping Myfac was dsng ufed by them.
 bsgan using cua Soap and Ointment and after usirg three box of Cca OintentI healed
 sned Francis Stanton ls9 Orange St. Waterbury Conn., Mar N Soap e Ointment and M Sample each free Address: "cudsusa II, Maiden. Mss."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-25

The worlds volume of merchant ship building Is now lower than at Iany time since pre- war days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
Would End Problem
Of Russ Boy Gangs

IANGHAI.-Russian boys, men,
bers of closely knit gangs, are a
source Of constant annoyance to the
police, particularly in the French con-
cession, where the White Russians have
"colonized." Charged with anything
from rse-snatching to HOUSEKEEPING
they I'LL the French Mixed Court. Many
OF them are homeless and practically all
are uneducated.
There has been a Russian school in
Shanghai since 1924, about which little
was known. Occasionally the students
appeared in q public costume, wearing
the formidable costumes of their coun-
try. A small group Of the younger chill
dren took part in the international pag-
cant given by the club women Of
Shanghai last year-Serious, ugly little
girls, with their heavy hair strained
back into Incorporating braids;
broad-shouldered, quiet boys.
But it remained for the Shanghai Ro-
tary Club to take the first decisive step
toward the establishment Of perma-
nent Russian school. On October rs
they sponsored q huge ball at the Ma
jestic Hotel, proceeds to go to the school
fund. Some idea of the international
scope of the affair is given by the intro
ductory parade, where the flags of the
nations were presented to girl represent
atives. America, Great Britain, France,
Germany, Austria, CzechoSlovakia, Pal
estine, Italy, Denmark. Switzerland,
Canada, Japan and Australia were rep
resented. The proceeds totaled SIS, 900.
In 1924 the schools opened In q tiny
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and rediscount the notes with the Fed
eral intermediate Credit Banks, thus
securing release Of large part Of their
funds for further loans to farmers and
cattlemen.
The need, Of course Is for money now
when crops must be planted and cul-
tivated. No unnecessary. useless red
tape" must prevent adequate drought
relief And so. as soon as the farmer
has signed the application and 1t has
been approved by the local drought or
gsnization, whose members are inti-
mately acquainted with the farmer and
his needs, the requisition for the loan
Is speeded to the district ofnce-at
Memphis, ST. Louis, Fort Worth. Grand
Forks, N. OAK, or Washington. If the
application is for less than $780, 40 per
cent Of the money goes out Immediately
In any event, the application is passed
on within a few days time and the
money is on its way to where 1t will do
the most good-the farm home In Ala
bama, Michigan. Virginia, Arkansas or
any of the other States hit by the
drought
OF course, there Is a long. long road
TO travel back from the ravage and
wreckage worked by the drought. The
economic as well as the human cost Of
that unforeseen and unpreventable ca
tastrophe was stupendous. The funds
made available In the form Of loans BY
the Government form the lever which
will enable the farm people Of the great
drought area TO move the incubus that
crushed initiative and made recovery
impossible in the absence Of help.
But throughout many States. on scores
Of thousands Of FERNS, men and women
Who have spent all their lives on places
that they want their children and their
children'S children TO call home" now
are working with renewed hope and
faith and diligence for the harvest to
come. Thew are encouraged and spurred
on by the knowledge that their Govern
ment, the United States Of America, is
back Of them and has confidence in
their integrity and industry.
Something of what thousands Of our
citizens on farms feel can be read in
the lines-and between the lines-of a
letter received few weeks ego from a
little place in Virginia:
check for $3.50 first installment of $500
loan, duly received by me. for which
am much obliged and beg to thank you
I'm extending my thanks to you. to
YOUR department and to good old Uncle
Sam. also wish tn say this relief came
In good time and badly needed"
The Government has helped that man,
and many thousands Of others, by help
ing him to help himself. And as he
benefits. So will the Nation. which has
come safely through revolution. rebel
lion, flood. pestilence and drought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
Benefit in Trade Slump


"Now, II is important that this criti.
cism should be taken up by others thar
those woh use it for those revolutionary
theories which start from the presup-
position that the system itself Is wrong
over against the socialistic and COM
munistic doctrines, which offer a. ready
made solution, to q process as complies
as history itself there should be, anc
! fortunately there are at the present
time, open-minded, far-reaching studies
applying the objective tests OF science
In the search OF reality.
What we really want TO know Il
whether we can insure ourselves Dy
better thinking and more accurate
knowledge against the recurrence OF
hard times; whether, in our recapturing
of that elusive thing which is called
prosperity, we are any surer OF keeping
it within our grasp than has been the
case in the haphazard past. II and
when we rebuild the structure OF credit
and send cnce more our busy COM
merce out to reawaken markets, are we
simply rebuilding for some recurring
future catastrophe the same maladjust-
ments which have shown themselves
in this present crisis? If so, 1t surely
marks the ultimate failure Of inteui-
gence to control the economic relations
of the civilized world.
Yet most economists are agreed that
this is the picture of things as they
actually are. The theory Of business
cycles teaches that the business world
to prosperity and from prosperity 10
hard times with an iron precision that
can be calculated as soon as the factors
are known. Then the sad story begins
over again, each time, 1t Is true, with
the world a little better off, with the
standard of living raised so as to be
able to support the shock with larger
resources, but those resources often
nortgaged by Increased speculation and
extended credit Thus the repeated
blow at the end of the cycle tends even
to fall more heavily upon those who
have most fully entered into the work.
ing Of this fateful round.
THE theory Of business cycles as an
inevitable process Of business develop
ment Is in itself q condemnation of
the kind Of development which induces
such recurring catastrophes. Here,
then, is a major field for economic
study.
Questions Influence Of Trade.
Equally far-reaching and perhaps
still more dif1cult OF solution Is the
question whether capitalistic enterprise,
which holds open the possibility of
competition, does by that very fact
make for conflict among nations Are
we held by the nature Of modern bust
ness to recurring conflicts as well as to
recurring crises? Has capitalism by its
very nature the latent seeds Of war, even
when we were least aware of danger?
"Is the United States, as perhaps the
outstanding instance of capitalistic or
ganization, destined, In proportion as it
develops its economic strength, to be-
come greater and greater menace to
other nations, either by reason of It's
needs Of raw materials or by reason Of
It's trade rivalries with Its competitors?
Is imperialism inherent in the growth
of national business when that business
reaches out beyond political frontiers?
rs world trade at bottom q sinister,
disturbing and conflicting element in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29

1.-THE Conditions of. Enduring
- Prosperity" is the subject OF
Prof. James T. Shotwell's
study in world economy
which forms a part Of the
international Cancellation" document
issued by the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. The vol
olas Murray Butler, president Of
the endowment, and a study by Ray
mond B. Fosdick on THE international
implications Of the Business Depres-
sion" Or. Shotwell. who occupies the
chair Of history at Columbia University
and is director of the division Of eco
Monies and history of the Carnegie
Foundation, writes:
THE present economic depression has
at least contributed one major beneht
to the world at large, q benefit which
may ultimately turn out to be almost
proportionately great to the costs and
losses of the depression itself. For the
first time since our present economic
system reached maturity there is a
thoroughgoing tendency upon the part
Of all thoughtful persons to analyZe the
very nature of the system under which
civilization has reached such climax
Of organization and of maladjustment.
Hopes for Scientific Thinking.
"If, as seems likely, this analysis
means the injection into the social,
political and economic problems of that
kind Of scientific thinking which has
remade the relations of mankind to the
material world, 1t may be that the tenn
porary setback of these last few months
will help the world along to a new
stage of progress. We are so largely
dominated by ancient prejudices which
have hardly shaken themselves out OF
the still more ancient taboos that only
crises seem capable of forcing US to
face the commonest Of problems on the
catastrophe can help to make us civil
lied, 1t may yet pay for its cost by the
future progress Of those who can learn
by the lesson.
while prosperity Is with us we ac-
cept It as q normal function Of this
best Of all possible worlds. But when
the disturbance has already happened
and the credit born confidence no
longer guarantees the future, then we
turn to look at the economic world with
new and questioning eyes. The result
is that the worlds business will cease
some day to be a mystery beyond the
grasp of reason and become ineligible
in terms of ordinary, everyday language
and everyday experience.
There is no doubt that every part
of the civilized world is affected by the
Embellishments in the process which
produces and distributes the worlds
supply of goods Among bankers there
Is a preoccupation with the frozen
credits of crippled industry and the
price and movement Of gold and silver.
In the agricultural sections there is at
the same time starvation and overpro-
duction of food In the industrial
world consumption fails to keep pace
with a capacity for mass production,
but without any leSsening Of funda-
mental needs So deep Is the cleavage
between the production of wealth and
the capacity for its absorption that the
criticisms of today are as wide as the
sweep Of world trade and as far-reach-
ing as the capitalist system itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29

Of human knowledge. The appropri-
atoms for the department of education
were considerably increased for that
purpose, the number of public schools
was augmented, and "ambulatory
schools" created to carry needed edu-
cation to Indians in remote regions.
In addition to this intensive educa-
tional program, manual training espe-
cially adopted TO the needs and capa-
bilities OF the Indian pupils was intro
duced in the schools. And, finally.
institutions stated by the more adj
vanced Indians were established where
conditions were more propitious for
obtaining a complete active cooperation
Of the Indian.
A DIFFERENT STORY.
Realizing, however, that the Indian
cannot be redeemed and brought into
the national life simply through educa-
ton, the Peruvian government also
undertook to solve the agrarian problem,
so vital to the life of the natives of the
present generation. Briefly this other
part OF the governmental program con-
sisted In the proportionate legal distri-
button of lands, thereby making each
Indian small property holder Under
this plan the productive efficiency of
u
traditional servitude which the COM
munistic "redeemes" try to exploit is
done away with.
To carry out this part Of the plan
the Peruvian government acquired huge
tracts of land from wealthy owners.
Among these were the Hacienda
Lauramanca," in the province of Cuzco;
the "Pauranga," In Castrovirreina, and
the "Cajamarca," in Ayacucho, on
which there was altogether a native
population of at least 10000 Indians.
These lands were distributed among the
Indians who heretofore had lived on
them and titled them for their masters.
Likewise, and in order to encourage
native labor. the government of Peru
provided that considerable percentage
of the lands being put under irrigation
at the expense Of the state or of private
individuals should be distributed gratis
among the Indian workmen who were
engaged on such irrigation projects.
More than 10000 acres were In this
way distributed among the Indians who
toiled on the irrigation works of the
'Pampas del Imperial" in the Province
of Canete.
Thus Peru began to convert the
Indian into useful productive factor
In the life of the nation, driving away
at the same time the menace Of COM
munistic propaganda.
Peruvian statesmen know that 10 Is
an entirely different story to convert
the natives to the utopian projections
of communism when they own an acre
of land. Anybody is apt to feel like the
Russian peasant who embraced COM
munism in order to share his neighbor's
horses, but decided to abandon it when
It came to giving up half Of his own
chickens.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29

acute emergency" The thing can't be
kept up. The indicated solution Of the
farmers problem is reduction of
acreage and cooperative marketing.
Mr.. Alexander Legge. just resigned as
chairman of the board, was wont to say
That to make American wheat prices in
dependent Of the lower world level it
would be necessary to wipe out the ex-
portable surplus and, by way of q pros
tective tariff, keep out foreign grain.
He opined that a reduction Of 20 per
cent in acreage would be necessary to
eliminate the exportable surplus. He is
reported as saying at the time he re-
signed that one-half of this reduction
had been accomplished and that the
remainder was quite possible of &C.
complishment" by 1888.
Inc problem Of disposing Of the
boards great holdings so as to bring
the minimum pressure upon prices is
indeed terrific one
Statistics, of course, should be re-
ceived with caution, but it is widely re-
ported that the board has bought or is
obligated to buy 275,000, 900 bushels of
wheat, and respectable authority fig
ureS that, should this wheat be stored
Tor three years, the storage cost would
foot up to $146, 100000. This vast ac-
emulation of wheat was purchased at
cents above the world price. What's to
be done with it and the considerable
expected surplus of the 1881 crop. in
face Of world surplus. Indeed, a main
cause of the worlds present woe Is an
excess Of the food staple Of staples. Suf-
hclently grotesque, isn't It? OF course,
wholly apart from the danger of retail
1atory embargos, We can't dump" this
wheat. We're too decent for that, A
well-known statesman is reported as
suggesting that 1t be "sent to China or
destroyed" Yes, indeed, grotesque
enough, isn't it?
1t is said that the board has already
used $350,000,000 Of its $500 900 900 re-
volving fund. We seem destined to hear
a lot more in the future of equalization
fee" export debenture" and the like.
No doubt the optimists entertain
hopes Of helpful results from the World
Wheat Congress, which opened in Rome
on March &C. All the great grain pro-
ducing countries except the United
States are officially represented (Rus-
STA by an impressive delegation); we
have an unofficial observer"
It would appear that cotton pur-
chases by the board have been confined
TO 100000 bales of the 1929 crop. No
stabilizing action respecting cotton vas
taken in 1880, apart from loans to CO.
operatives.
If not dead. the price sterilization
policy" sleepeth. Vivid reflection of the
slump is presented by the income tax
returns.