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La gaceta., 1931-06-16
Sc HAN r. )GIDO SESEN-
IA Y UN DAVERES DEL
a4U ! DRl s.. PHI

Nantes, Francia, JUNO 49,
Varios vapores y aeroplanos es-
tuvieron toda la noche recono-
ciendo las aguas de Point St. Gil
bert, tratando de buscar los ca
daveres de los 442 excursions
tas que ~perecieron en- sl naufra-
gio del "St. Philibert".
A 1ltimas horas de la noche
Sc habian recobAdo 81 cuerpos
del mar, de los Wales 81 eran
mujeres. Los bud IS pudieron
realizar esta opera\ In debido a
los informes de los Eeroplanos.
Las escenas que So desarrolla
ban en- la costa entire los fami-
liares de las victimas cada vez
que los cadaveres eran deposit
tados en- terra resultan verda-
deramente indescriptibles.
I'm hombre que vino en- bici-
cleta hasta la orilla, lloraba CO.
mo un niho y decia a toda voz:
"He puesto toda mi vida en- un
solo ideal: TN hijo de Is amos
que iba a bordo de csc barco que
Sc ha lido a pique".
La identification de los cada-
veres Sc hace completamente i'm
possible dado ell estado de los
mismos. Pudo ser identificado
ell cuerpo de uno de los naufra-
gos, como ell del principal orga-
nizador de la excursion.
Sc ha confirmado oficiaImen-
La gaceta., 1931-06-16

tie que los p~asajeros a bordo del
buque desaparecido eran 426.
En- esta cifra no estan Includes
los memories de a amos, los cua-
les estaban excentos de pago y,
por 10 tanto, no Sc ~registraron
sus nombres.
La gaceta., 1931-06-16
Ell PAJAMA CANA TERRE-
NO EN- LOS BALES Y BOU
LEVARES

New York, JUNO 16.-Paul
Poiret, disenador frances, decla-
r6 hoy que la popularidad de los
pajamas Sc esta extendiendo a
todos los sectores de la vida So
cial, y que va este ha dejado de
ser una brenda fntima de casa
para invadir los salones de bal
lie, las playas y los boulevares.
En- la Quinta Avenida sc estan
ofreciendo al p1blico prodigio-
sas exhibiciones, y Sc esta ha-
ciendo publicidad a base de que
es una brenda propia para visi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1881
Crossing Elimination

The New Haven railroad expects to have Introduced in the legislature today or to- morrow bill repeating one sentence of the grade crossing elimination act about which we have heard so much since Professor Albert Levitt of Bedding became a political crusader. he statute requires that railroads eliminate one crossing a year for every fifty miles of track in use There are about 1000 miles of track (the exact figures are slightly below this, we believc) in Connecticut, so that would mean the New Haven road would be compelled to eliminate twenty crossings a year. lnasmuch as the state highway de- partment would be called upon to aid in such work and would of course, be expected 10 pay just share we can vision the magn- tude and the cost of the work.
 When the first grade crossing statute was passed in 1883 there were 1923 crossings in Connecticut. And there weren't any automo- piles According to figures of the New York, New Haven. and Hartford railroad there are 686 crossings in the state today. Nineteen of these are to be eliminated by orders of the public utilities commission. Twenty-six more of these crossings are on lines where service is no longer given, therefore their elimination is
 
 the public utilities commission has failed to make the railroad live up to the statutes We don't doubt that It probably would have put the company into bankruptcy had it tried to do so.
 As far possible the railway company states it is endeavoring to do away with cross ings on trunk line and state aid roads. It also calls attention to the fact that narrow and inadequate undcrpasses and overhead bridges are being reconstructed 10 care for modern traffic demands Most of the residents of Councolicut know that because the state pays good share of such work. The burden does not fall entirely upon the railroad We admit that the New Haven road would be embar- rasssd financially to map program of twenty elirainations year. It might feel urged to dcc-ease its mileage in Connecticut. And pub lie utilities commissioners might be named who would not be so indulgent as the present ones at whom MT Levitt pointed the finger of suspicion.
 Personally we see no actual need of repeal ing part of the statute. It has never been enforced and probably never will. However, 1t gives the state the right to demand that the rallroad maintain a good record for cross- ing eliminations per annum. Probably legs- latou will be found ready to amend the statute so that the number of crossings that must be eliminated would be decreased, but even then 1t would be up to the public utilities commis- sion. We don't anticipate any trouble for the New Haven road as long as it maintains good record in eliminating crossings and this despite the laws demand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
Postponing That Next War

Interesting suggestions as to how to slave off that next war" are found in recently translated book by Major K. A. Bratt mem Der of the general staff of the Swedish army, who saw the World war as an official mili- tary observer. There are two forces he be- lleves which should unite in their efforts to preserve peace They are labor and pene capital Peace capital is capital employed in businesses that can make more money in time of peace than in war. Labor should pledge itself to stop war with crossed arms. That seems to be the same idea as Professor Einstein's that there could be no war if enough men refused to bear arms.
 Agreeing that we do not want another war, the author says, is not enough to insure peace. Liberal forces must prepare definite pro- gram first 10 postpone war and finally to abolish it.. There is program which might interest even the men and women who say war is inevitable. All right, the liberals should reply, perhaps therell have to be war some day, but let's postpone it as long as possible by every means we can think of. Postponlng it from generation to generation might turn the trick eventually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
Keep Planting Trees

A bill introduced in the legislature this week would make 1t mandatory for all trees destroyed in public and commercial improve ment rejects to be replaced. The measure was introduced by Representative Joseph P. Lawrence of Stamford and while we don't im- agine that it will be passed still we think that it is something that should find support in the general assembly. Of recent years we have witnessed the ruthless destruction of hundreds of beautiful trees trees that required years to grow to their majestic proportions. Yet in the space of few minutes they were cut down to make way for what we call civilized progress.
 The Democrat has long advocated that where 1t is necessary to cut down tree for some public or private project two should be planted to take its place. We still believe that this movement 10 plant trees 10 replace the ones we destroy IS worth while and should be encouraged by municipal and state author ities. We demand new street or highway and sacrifice hundreds of beautiful trees in obtaining 1t. Fortunately for us the state highway department is going in for beautifl cation. Its landscape division cares for the existing trees along the right of way. It plants others where they are needed, It culti- yates native shrubbcry.
 There arc few cities that have a land scape division although some such duties may be apporioned to the park department The lattcrs work IS generally confined to public lands, such as the parks in our own city in which flourish many beautiful trees. Once upon time tree-lned thoroughfare was common sight. Nowadays d city with such streets IS rare. Connecticut cities are 10 be congratulated on their homey residential sec tons with their beautiful and wide spreading trees But as our cities expand and new streets are accepted or laid out the number of trees dimnshes. Trees are not merely a distinct ornament. but also an asset to any piece of property. They should be cultivated
 Public utility companies are offenders in waalon tree destruction. 1t wasn't so very long ago that we read of some Greenwich residents suing public utility concern for destroying trees that blocked their poles. Of course. trees aren't sacrificed for the pleasure ct Il. but because people grew up in the idea l1ai they were so plentiful that their value was too small to be considered where some building project loomad. Today a tree is to 'e considered as tangible piece of property. rated in dollars and cents. We are cutting them down too rapidly. Reforestation is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and What's What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER

the public service - Russell and King-had been trying to prevent the power people from padding the value of their dams and plants on public streoms. The value must be fairly fixed because under the power act the power companies are allowed a reasonable return on their real investment and because when their 50-year lease expires the government can take over tn plants at investment cost.
 Revealed Fictitious Value
 "The companies had to make an accounting to the government and King and Russell usually found more fictitious value than real value in their claims. All sorts of absurd items such as peckties given away at banquets and the banquets themselves-were charged up as investment. Naturally, Rus Sell and King incurred the enmity of the power trust and the power trusts men among their superiors.
 ''The first thing this new outfit in the power commission did was to remove those two on the pretext that they were trouble makers The senate naturally was incensed at the discharge of the only two faithful public servants connected
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
THE ALL-TIME BASEBALL TEAM
(New York World.)

Babe Ruth, asked to pick the greatest baseball players of all time named the following: First base. Hal Chase; second base, Larry Lajoie; short stop, Hans Wagner; third base, Jimmy Collins; left field, ole Jack son; center field. Ty Cobb: right field. Hary Hooper; catcher. Ray Schalk: pitchers. Christy Mathewson, Eddie Plank and Herb Pennock. Now the first curious thing about 1t Is that 1t contains 50 many names about which there can be no dispute whatever. Iajoie. Wagner, Cobb and Mathewson would have to go on any bodys team and of course Ruth him. self, although he modestly refrains from nominating himself for the honor.
 The next curious thing about 1t is that after you scale down from such Titans as these you get into a realm of everlasting dispute, where one mans choice Is about as good as another's. In the outfield for ex- ample, there will be many to raise a chorps of disapproaval over the rating of Jackson ahead of Keeler. At first. third and behind the plate there have been many good men; Chase, Collins and Schalk will not so unch1alenged. And for pitcher. once Mathewsnn js concealed. it is a rash
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
Ultraviolet Cucumbers

Tomatoes and cucumbers exposed to ra- datons of quartz mercury vapor lamps in- creased in growth 30 per cent at the end of hve-Week intermittent exposure, said Harry J. Fuller of St Louis to the recent convention of scientists. A physician who has been spe- clalizing in the use of the ultraviolet rays for curing the sick has been putting pound week in weight and an obvious increase in color in the cheeks of some of his patients.
 But just because such rays are SO powerful. they are dangerous in unskilled hands. The new lamps which take the place of sunlight in northern homes and rainy seasons can also burn worse than the sun, and cause danger ous reactions of many kinds little understood at the present time. They are extraordnar- fly useful. and their usefulness is bound to n- crease as time goes on. But like all good things, they must be handled carefully. The little boy being instructed about his first cleo tric train remarked: Yes 1 understand about rectricity. You have to be gentle with it. or it will hurt you
 Ultra violet radiation is like 'rectricty." You have to be gentle with it. Don't use it too long on any portion of the anatomy. Watch the reactions that ensue. If they are not wholly benehcient, take smaller doses un- til they are. Your nervous system is little more complex than the oucumbers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
Enforcement of Law

Crime and law enforcement are the prin- cipal topics of news and comment through out the United States since the issuance of the Wiokersham Commission report. The eleven illustrious gentlemen who composed the commission supplemented their report with frank personal expressions. They disagreed on all the important points with the result that there are morsels of satisfaction for per- sons of every shade of opinion. Deaths from all coholsm in the United States now reach about 5000 year, double the figures of 20 years ago. Ten persons out of each 100, 900 popu- lation in 3l American cities were murdered in 1929, and our prisons have doubled the num- Der of their inmates since 1904.
 It is interesting in this connection to glance across the Atlantic. Paris, with a popula- ton of 5,766,000, according to the World Almanac, has become as law respecting and as safe as any great city in the world It is regular safety zone as compared to Chicago and New York. The chief of police of Paris in the French metropolis decreased in number from 300 in 1920 to l03 in 1929. At the same time, he said, the number of burglaries have fallen off rapidly. The great increase in the number of automobiles in Paris. and not more crime, has made it necessary to increase the size of the police force. Our law enforce ment experts might profit by studying the req sons why city like Paris has grown better and safer, while on this side of the Atlantic crime conditions have multiplied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
NEA Service Writer

Washington.-The group of 13 re- publican senators who joined the
 democrats in defying President Hoover when they voted to recon sider confirmation of the three fed eral power commissioners who had I fired Solicitor Russell and, Chief Ac- countant King, is most conspicuous l |ly chara cterized by the fact that it's
 members vote as they please, with out regard to the wishes of the ad-
 ministration. All of them come from the west. What causes progressive senators and why do they all come from the | west and why doesn't the east pro-
 duce any and why are they all so
 interested in the power issue when
 most of the electricity is consumed
 in the larger eastern states?
 Your correspondent referred all
 this to Uncle George Norris, the Nebraska senator who has been so | progressive and so insurgent that some of the regular republican
 leaders have spent time and money l trying to get him out of public life. Vote Own Convictions "In the west" says he, "the people are progressive and inde- pendent. These Ia republicans rep resent the kind of people who be- lieve they ought to vote their own convictions. Most of us have seen our opponents campaign and lose on the contention that we ought to vote the way the president wanted use to vote.
 Most of the money of the coun- try is in the east and republican politics in that section, generally, is dominated by big business, which opposes anybody who would inter- fere with the activities of the power trust. All big business stands to- gether and the power trust is more powerful than any other part of it.
 'I'p inclined to believe that the rank and file of eastern people are progressive, but control of the re- publican party there is in the hands of big business and the power trust. I believe that progressives can be elected in the east, but we haven't had first-rate, outstanding men who would come out and try to lick the machines. How could 1t done? Well, I think what I did in Nebraska could be done in the east. Just step out and tell the political machine to go to hell and then go out and take the fight to IAlS pCOpiC III tHo OpcH.
 Says Voters Will Rebel
 "An outstanding man who would fight for year or two, promising to vote the way he thought was right, could win in any state. be- lieve we're going to have some pro- gressives here from eastern states because I believe the world moves forward The truth about the power trust vii ldawn on the voters and they will rebel. I don't know when that will be, but it's bound to come.
 'The progressives of both parties elieve it is thier duty to prevent the power trust from getting con- trol of all the streams in the coun- try and charging exorbitant rates for electricity on the basis of ficti- tious values. The fight over Com missioners Smith, Garsaud and Draper was a matter of simple com mon honesty and justice, but all the regular republicans subscribed to the theory that the wishes of the presl- dent power trust man, must be obeyed.
 "For several years two men in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
Mu01AT'Q%N8$
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IT MAY be that the human race is no better than it was 2000 years ago. But 1t is different and that in itself Is good thing.
 Sir A. s. Eddington. THE successful man is sometimes very pitiable object.
 Dean Inge. 2 AAswHE AMERICAN State Depart ment is fully justified and is acting in complete accordance with tradi- tional American policy in refusing to recognize a government (Russia) which violates the first postulates of international law.
 pr. Edmund A. Walsh. vice.
 president of Georgetown Uni-
 versity.
 THOSE who go abroad for war think they see it. It is like gossip. It only goes into ears that are ready to hear it.
 John D. Rockefeller. Jr. CERTAIN Chicago citizens point out, almost with pride, that if other cities have escaped the bootleg wars, it is because they are less strate- gically located than Chicago in the scheme of liquor distribution.
 Jane Addams. THERE can be no doubt that the inherent strength of our economic structure will enable our country to lead the world in a vigorous re- covery from the present depression as we have done in the past. Secretary of Commerce Lamont.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
We trust that his knowledge and ability will be enough to convince the proper officials that action must be taken.

You may not believe this. unless perehanee you have seen it, but the old Custis-Lee man. sion in Arlington National cemetery. right across the Potomac river from Washington. contains real wine cellar. Of course it isn't stocked but it is replica of the cellar that was probably well stocked in the days be- fore the War of the States when Robert E. Lee had to desert his ancestral home and seek refuge in the South. In restoring the Custis- Lee mansion to its former condition congress was persuaded to appropriate $l00.000. The last time the writer visited Arlington cemetery the mansion had been completely restored. but no furniture had been provided. Now the commission in charge is acquiring furni- ture of the proper period. some of which is actually linked with the Lee family. By 1932 when the bridge connecting the Lincoln Memorial with the cemetery is completed the mansion should be as complete as Mt Vernon now is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
AWAITING SPRING
. (Haftgord Courant)


 We have little us for those dusty calculators who tell us that spring begins on March 21 next at g o'clock in the morning. Such theorists should devote their powers to framing time tables for the railways instead of at- tempting to be arbitrary with Ma ture. There are a few who earnestly desire to see spring and who do not feel sure that they will live until the latter part of March. Reason ably enough, this remote date does not appeal to them.
 Already they have sought for and have found indications that Spring is already here. Narcissus bulbs set in border with southern exposure had thrust green spearheads through the earth on January 1, and despite the outlook 1t is fairly certain that these growths will bloom In theory the high gods of the weather are leagued against them. The tempera- ture may drop far below zero, and the greatest snowfall since 1717 may bury New England, but these bulbs will go on with their work. And, now that we think of it, we also saw . hyacinth breaking it's way, very cautiously through the frozen earth.
 There's another indication. fur. nished us by the sugar maple. Only yesterday we noted a tree its limbs sharply outlined against the western sky, and from a broken twig there hung an icicle. This meant neither . miracle nor defective vision, but that sap was moving upward in the tree on it's way to produce blossom, leat and seed. Sap is moving in the treea and that of itself is proof that naples know that spring is here.
 Because of the maple and the narcissus, we affirm our belief in as yet unseen by us. We feel sure that in marshy pastures of Woodlands there may be ribbons of green, marking the course followed by water from some small spring which may dry in midsummer but which now is a sign to be sought. It may mean little to youngsters, but to their elders who had misgivings a month ago as to whether they would see grass grow again, it is full of promise. There are two more sights which we await, one that of boys playing marbles on some pave- ment and the other that of kite fiy- ing. When these are viewed we await the future with much composure for, regardless of almanacs, we know that spring is not far off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29

The bill introduced by Representative Thoms of this city imposing fine or impris- onment upon any person removing sand from Long Island Sound between high and low tide marks is novel one, but at the same time highly enghtenng. It reveals that somebody must be profiting at the expense of the state or private property owners While most of us probably wouldn't object to a It. tie sand being removed We certainly do not think that it should be earted away in whole sale lots for profit. In time whole shorelines might be ruined Pollution is despoilng enough beaches without sand dealers adding to the plight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-29
A DOZEN YEARS AFTER
(Springfield Republican,

From Senator Lodges Daughter is the caption in the Boston Herald over a letter signed by Mrs Con- stance c. Williams, dealing rather roughly with Gen Pershings war memoirs. Probably it is permissible to reprint it,
 In taking a cursory glance at
 the autobiography of Gen Per-
 shing, I have noted two things.
 He says in his first installment
 that he, Pershing, was the only
 person who did anything for
 "preparedness' before our en-
 trance into the great war-that
 he did it by. training his men
 on the Mexican border. Of
 course, Roosevelt and Leonard
 Wood and August Gardner are
 all dead - cannot. therefore.
 make any statements.
 The other thing that has in-
 terested me is that Gen Pershing
 was, apparently almost alone in
 France. He kept few English
 and French marshals and gen.
 erals for the purpose of photog-
 raphy-but beyond that, he
 seems to have been practically
 the solitary inhabitant of
 France.
 One needs background to appreci- ate what went into that letter. The war hatreds that rankle most per- sistently in after years did not orig mate with the boys in the trenches.
 The writer of "Evacuation Hos pital," piece of war realism printed in the American Mercury, tells how a squad of American med ical officers, before sailing for home after the armistice, tore up without exception the certificates of meritor- ious conduct in the service that had been issued to them by Gen Per- shing. They did it as a silent ex- precision of their hatred of the vic- torious American commander of the force. To them he per- sonified their terrible experience in the battle of the Argonne.
 Probably they have got over their bitterness by this time. Yet one sees and hears and reads enough to know that being a conquering hero nowadays is not exactly and exclus- ively roses and glory.