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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Lost Tribes

The discovery of another lost tribe is announced by Dr. Arthur Torrance of Los Angeles who says he found it in the south ern part of the Sahara Desert. Dr. Torrance has travelled l8.000 miles through central and northern Africa and contends that very likely the origin of man is to be found there rather than in Central Asia. The tribe he tells about is one living in underground vil- lages. guarded by hostile desert nomads The underground folk are of the Negroid type.
 It will probably be long time before mankind comes to any reliable conclusion about its origin and early history. The mat ter is not SO simple as it once appeared. Every week new evidence about the history of mankind is being unearther somewhere There will be much more discovery and much collecting of the results in the next few years. The certain fact which stands out is that more men of more different kinds have walked this earth since time began than this world dreams of.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Happy Belgium
of water,

At least one country in Europe is not crying calamity. And that, of all countries. is the one that suffered most from the big war! With black depression all around her, Belgium is SO cheerful that surprised world is inclined to pause in its whining and take a good look at her. Belgium's finances are sound. Her gold reserve is 66 per cent. Her bonds are above par. Her bank discount rate is only 2 l-2 per cent. Savings de- posits are still growing. Her. exports just about balance her imports. She has only 62,000 workers lacking jobs in population of S.Ooo.0o0.
 A survey by the Associated Press gives these reasons for Belgium's comparative prosperity: After the war; she entirely re- built her industries along the most modern lines, in contrast to England, where anti quated methods and equipment are still used. This has given her big advantage against European competitors. In doing this her industrial leaders, instead of yielding to demand for bigger dividends, piled up re- serves. Her industries are owned by nufner- ous small stockholders instead of few large ones, and the management is democratic.
 Industry did not over-expand. Finances have been wisely safeguarded. Transporta- ton of all kinds has been greatly improved and freight is moved eheaply. Workers employed in cities are able to live in the country, where every house has patch of cultivated land.
 A further factor of importance mentioned should interest Americans. This is the in dividualsm of the Belgian. He relies upon himself, not upon his government, to find a way out. He doesn't hesitate to change his profession or occupation if necessary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Our Big Bridges

We have just been reading about bridges in a bulletin of the National Geographic Society. The new George Washington Memorial Bridge across the Hudson river will be the greatest in the world when com pleted. Between supports its span will be 2.500 feet. Its entire length, however. IS only 8.700 feet which is somewhat shorter than that of the Detroit River Bridge, 9,700 feet. and the Philadelphia Camden bridge. $500 feet. And yet greater bridges than the one spanning the Hudson are in the making. New York will have another mammoth one when Staten Island and Long Island are linked. Its span will be 5000 feet. or slightly less than one mile between supports and we'll over it in entirety.
 And out at San Francisco they are going to bridge the Golden Gate with structure that will have channel span of 4,200 feet. While engineers differ on the probable size suspension bridges of the future will attain practically all are convinced that beyond two miles disaster will be encountered. Mod ern steel cables would break of their own weight at 50,000 feet. It is possible that there may be some new development in the tensile strength of steel permitting of greater cable length and hence longer spans than are now believed probable. If longer and better bridges are to be built We certainly expect to see American engineers doing 1t.
 Naturally the bridge builder of l93l has little thought but for the suspension type. There are several others, notably the canti- lever steel, arch. simple truss. and. of course draw bridges which can be incorporated in some of the preceding. There are many famous bridges in the world today but most of them are falling before the onslaught of the American engineer. For instance. the famous cantilever bridge at the Firth of Forth. Scotland. had two channel spans of 1.710 feet, but the Quebec bridge across the St Lawrence river has span of 1900 feet.
 Australia is also losing Its coveted posi- ton as first in steel arch bridges. The 1.650 span in Sydney Harbor which has just been completed must shortly bow to New Jersey and New York. The new Kill Van KulI bridge from Staten Island to New Jersey will be completed in l932 with channel span of 1852 feet and one inch which is just two feet and one inch enough to take first place. The Hudson is leading all rivers with mighty spans. There is the new memorial bridge. Then up above PeekskiIl is the scenic Bear Mountain bridge wifh in l.632 feet of channel span. The Nid-FIudson bridge at Poushkeepsie is 500 feet long over the river Both the above are suspension type while a' castleson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
THE CONGRESSMAN PARKS
 HIS CAR
(New Haven Times.)

It Is disclosed that an act of con gress passed last winter revises the District of Columbia traffic regula- tions to give members of congress exemption from virtually all the parking rules. It is not only pro- vided that certain parking areas shall be for the exclusive use or congressmen but that the congress sional sticker on car permits the driver to park almost anywhere ex- cept in the door of a fire engine house or on top of fire plug.
 Washington gets its government from congress and the congress men have authority to vote them selves exemptions from rules en- forced against the subjects Of the district. The subjects have not votes and the congressman cannot be held responsible to them. Gov ernment in the capital under con- gressional legislation is producing one of the most lawless cities in the country, not an unexpectapie consequence when a prerogative of authority is immunity from the rules 1t lays down for common ob- servance.
 The members of congress nave long maintained the right under Volstead to drink where they pIeased-in which privilege they are joined by most of the admins trative officers of government and 1t is not remarkable that they reserve the right to park where they please.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
RAISES THE ANTE
(New Haven Times.)


 The dear old gentleman down at Yale" continues to justify the judgment of the voters who thought he'd make the most sensible gov ernor we'd had in years. His stand on beer is a case in point.
 Governor Cross addressed the Connecticut Federation of Labor over at Bridgeport the other day. In the course of his remarks he expressed sympathy with organized labor's demand for 2.75 per cent beer. But I'd prefer four per cent beer." he added.
 Then he went on to say that la bor was wise in aiming its efforts toward modification of the Vol stead act rather than putting its head against a stonewall of prece- dent in trying to get the 18th amendment to the Constitution re- pealed.
 The governor is an avowed enemy of the 18th amendment. It was his discerning and constructive criticism of the amendment which started his gubernatorial boom, in fact. But he does not allow the brilliance of his aspirations 10 blind him to the true situation that no amendment to the Consti- tuition has ever been repealed an: that there is a tremendous body of precedent against tampering with that great charter.
 A lesser man, a demagogue, might allow himself to be carried away with the prospect-shout aimlessly for repeal. Not so Uncle Toby. Instead of aiming at the moon to hit the treetops he aims at the treetops when its the tree tops he wants to hit. It's not a bad idea. though rather unusual for a man in politics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

What both democrats and republicans ought to stress in their elections this fall and next year is the transposition of the repub- lican and democratic tickets on the voting machines. Where paper ballots are still cast there won't be any confusion. but the use of the machines will cause plenty. As is the custom the party whose candidate is gov ernor has top place on the machines. That means the democratic voters will pull the
 top lever, while republicans pull the sec ond. This his been going on now since the days of Governor Baldwin which is longer than most of us have been voting. There should be plenty of stress laid on this change in the respective tickets with both parties reminding their supporters of the change. Even at that there will be many people voting the wrong ticket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

The depression has certainly hit New York Usually New Workers or visitors to the largest city in America are the most curi ous in the world. However. you can't con- vince the marines doing duty aboard Old Ironsdes of this. The famous old frigate has just left for Wilmington, Delaware. af- ter two weeks sojourn on the Hudson. The highest attendance in one day at New York was 17,000, while in Boston it was almost twice that and even in Providence, R. l., 15.000 inspected the boat daily. A 10000 average was hoped for in New York. Probably if the boat had anchored beyond the 2-mile limit its clientele would have increased.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
TO-DAY'S SELECTED POEM
AUTUMN FRAGRANCEs

.-.---- AUTUMN FRAGRANCES (By Glenn Ward Dresbach in The New York Times) The obvious perfumes that had assaied The nostrs soothed by summer drift away Upon the wind. The last wild rose has paled, The darkened clover drowses. but today secret richness fingers in the grass, mellow fragrance hides within the husk, And senses jingle where old orchards mass Through shadowed vines the fragrance of ripe
 grapes Drifts over horse mint that our steps have
 stirred; We touch new richness in famfSar shapes Of bush and wall as if all these deferred Their fullness till this time when hearts must
 need Fragrance of harvest---and new faith is seed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Quotations

 believe the "man in the street" is not such a fool as politicians, censors, theatrical managers. and cinema people take him to be. -C. R. w. Nevinson. English painter.
 These gang pictures-that's ter rible kid stuff. Al Capone
 
 ! still think I can beat Max Schmeling.
 w. l.. Stribling
 
 Business stability will be built not only on the foundations of the individual efficiency of the indus trial unit. large and small. but upon their united effort in anaIyz- ing their common problems and their cooperation in q sound pro- gram. President Hoover
 
 Our era Of isolation is over. ---Governor Rltchle of Maryland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Here, There And EUerywhere

a gaudy spectacle would afford. For the redskins have decided to in- trust their claim to the tender mer- cies of the courts rather than resort to the old-fashioned Potawatami tactics of taking what they wanted. as they took the site of Chicago from the Illinois. Certainly. from the dramatic standpoint, the de- cision of the powwow at Shawnee. Okla, to hire a lawyer instead of marching on the object of theii claims is to be regretted. Even viewed politically. the Indian re- conquest of Chicago would probably have been a blessing in the palmy days of Big Bill Thompson. And bad as was the former reputation of the Potawatamies. their public manners could be no worse than those of the gangsters who now roam their old hunting ground.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
O-U-O OHMIGOSH

We read a lot of cold controls, And much for them Is said, How about cold controls next win
 ter
 When VIC have colds in the
 head?
 o-O-o You can stiffen shirt with starch but it takes more than that to stiffen a backbone.
 O-O-o
 Now they've got a dean for girls at Wilby. But so long as they keep flapper for boys, our higher education will not be a failure.
 o-O-o
 If they give us a ten month year, whats to become of Christmas? And Thanksgiving too, for that matter?
 o-O-o They advertise optional free wheeling and that means addition al money for the free" wheeling feature.
 guess the only man who actually does his Christmas
  shopping early is Santy Claus.
 o-O-o It's a wonder the dry fanatics don't put up a holler about the canning" season in dear old America.
 O-O-o Automobiles are always horning in at some parking station.
 o-O-o This completes our regular Tuesday evening program. It came to you over DBD and was broad cast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time, to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour. GAA3 ss4n~f4t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL.
(New York Times)


 In an atrabilious world Colonel Amos Woodcock. director of pre- hibition, is beacon of undimmed hope. In his business. the enforce ment of prohibition, there is no such word as fall" "One little bit of effort more on the part of us all will make victory assured Surely that little bnt of effort will not be wanting; and the brilliancy of past successes should be a happy omen of final triumph. It is an ex officia doctrine of prohibition di- rectors and administrators, when their robes of authority are young upon them, that the sources of illegitimate liquor must be dried up. In time they fall back upon commercial violations" The Col onel's cardinal policy now seems to be to shut up the speakeasies. He dwells on the old methods uadlock, injunction. abatement of nuisance. What do these amount to? When one place Is shut up. another one opens.
 Production and consumption de- pend upon desire and demand. The utmost activity of enforcement agents Is intellectual and superfi- cial. They do not and they cannot accomplish more. More and more public opinion is arrayed against them. The experiment noble in motive" is now watched with a hort of weary contempted instead of the earlier indignation. The will for a change of the system if not the expectation of its im- mediacy, gathers strengths every day. From time to time the en- force ment authorities, Coast Guard Customs service, even Colonel Woodcock's trained and instructed and partially reformed pupils. are useful to the i-prohibitionists by applying fresh irritants.
 Colonel Woodcock himself has enjoyed general respect. His in- tentions are of the best. He has sought to give his force a better discipline. a greater regard for law and the rights of citizens. but the lure ftheir task makes dere- lictions almost inevitable; and the Colonel is rather indulgent than severe. His latest restraint of his speakeasy soldiers is to forbid them to drink liquor in the course of duty. They are to practice 'ob- servation" without inbimition: or they may buy but mustn't taste. The continual scandals o fthirsty agents should have prescribed tee totalism on duty as well as off long ago. Colonel Woodcock believes that official liquor-bibbing is no longer necessary. But he has no pride of opinion. Tt is conceiv- able" that there may be places where the agent provocateur can't get his evidence without drinking 1t. In such cases the agent msut be provided with a permit or H. cense from the prohibition admin istrator of his district before he sallies out to meet the enemy and put him in his mouth. II
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
AN INDIAN 'IRREDENTA
fNew York Heraid-Tribune)

(New York Herald-Tribune)
 Word has come from Okianoma that the Potawatami Indians in- tend to assert their tribal claims to the land on which the City or Cni- cago Is built. They now demand re- possession of their old home by Lake Michigan. plus the increased phy- sical valuation and unearned incre- ment. Our imagination would ike to picture the embattied braves starting out. with Governor Mur- rays blessing on their heads. on the long warpath that leads froin the reservation 10 state street.
 But in ali probability we shall have to foreso the thrills that such
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
IT WAS EVER THUS
She made fresh jello,
 For the party, you bet, But when she went to serve 1t, The ie1IO hadn,f Sef


 For the party, you bet, But when she went to serve 1t, The jello hadn't set.
 O-O-o What has become of the old fashioned man, who just about this time of the year would take a peach stone and a pen knife, and turn out little peach basket to be used as a watch charm?
 O-O-O The man who walks in his sleep has less explaining to do than the man who talks in 1t.
 O-O-o The old fashioned blacksmith wore leather apron when he did a job for you. The modern one puts the leather to you.
 o-O-o
 Long Island Sound has been the scene of several mysteri- ous murders this summer. But as usual, not a sound from Long Island.
 O-O-O Fashions in women's headgear are stiff this year, the derby pre- dominating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
TODAY IS THE< ANNIVERSARY @agk6
PROCLAIM RUSS REPUBLIC

PROCLAIM RUSS REPUBLIC
 On Sept 15, 1917, Premier Ale. ander Kerensky of the provision government proclaimed the Ru sian republic as follows:
 General Korniloffs rebelli, has been quelled. But great is th confusions caused thereby, an again great is the danger threaten ing the fate of the fatherland an its freedom.
 Holding it necessary to put a.- end to the indefiniteness of the states organization, remembering the unanimous and rapturous ap- prova1 of the republican idea ex- pressed at the Moscow state son- ference, the provisional govern ment declares that the constitu- tional organization, according to which the Russian state is ruled, is a republican organization, and it is hereby reclaimed the Russian re- public"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

Dr. E. Porter Felt of the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories in Stamford reminds people that raising or lowering the level of pond is equally disastrous to trees along its shores While we would imagine the former to be true, the latter comes as news to us. However, it is obvious that sud- den withdrawing of plentiful supply of water would have some reaction on trees. It's a good thing to remember.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Personal Health Service
 (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

the longest simple truss structure. l,008 feet. is located. It's heroic work. building bridges Our famous ones are worthy me- morials to their designers and to the men who labored to fling them across vast bodies of water.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

We'll never be able to understand the English. Here are the leaders of the three political parties ignoring their party re- sponsibiity and merely representing the nation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
DING, DING

Free wheeling Is great" Said smiling Tommy Claire, "Soon they'll have free wheeling
 gas
 And then free wheeling air."
 o-O-O What the nation needs is a mor- atorium on politicians and maga- zine salesmen. Hearst says the dole has just about bankrupt England. Doleful news of the dole, as it were.
 o-O-O He also declares there will be aonther war in Europe. Sounds like headline from the New York Journal, the particular pet of Hearst.
 Freckles are caused by too much iron in the blood. So the gals use creams to iron 'em out.
 o-O-o A political steam roller runs on hot air, not steam.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Good evening.
 o-O-o A RIDDLE
"A SMILES THE THING"

O-O-O
 A RIDDLE If the diplodoeus dodged the
 dolphin When the dolphin dueked for
 cover, And the triceratops, in anger. Hooked the Phython in the eye, Would the mastodon or rhino Be called the perfect lover. Or could the petrodactyl beat
 them If he started out to try? Now this riddle has me puzzled And I fain would know the
 answer, Ere my tetrahedron tangles With my parallelograml Soon I'll be as temperamental As an Errol Carroll dancer. And the bats will leave my belfry And I won't know where 1 am. So, dear editor. have pity, Start the linotype typing: Perhaps twill find the type of This riddle to expound! Some professor down in Eequadoi Or a Manehu out in Pieping. For I'll have no peace nor comfort Until this wonder man is found.
 M. J. McDonough Waterville
 o-O-o Hay fever reminds one of the Japanese beetle. One is about as alleged complaints.
 O-O-o
 The new derby for women put Danbury on it's feet. Now if Danbury could only invent a style that would do the same to Derby, we'd all be satisfied.
 o-O-o When a man succeeds in hav- ing a magazine publish a thumb sketch of himself he's certainly got a finger in the pie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

Taking vinca roses in the form of n tea as e remedy for diabetes is quite q common practice n Africa and Australia. Now science has decided to find out tho actual remedial value of the plant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

High tide at Milford Wednesday, Septem- Der l6 2:5S p. m. daylight time) low tide, o:5l p. m. Daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

Democracy with all its faults has proved to be the steadest form of government in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 Rv RODNEY BUTCHER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

government standing the immense difference in expense. Contribu- tions lately have been 16 cents from employers. IS from exche- quer and 14 from employed work CTS, but the dole cost $4s5.000.000 in the fiscal year 1891 and em- ployers and employees com bined paid in only $145,000,000. Bene- fits, meanwhile, have been raised until a man with a wife and d couple of children is paid about a dollar a day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:33 Daylight saving time) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

The Bank of England is per mitted to brew beer for public sale without license. or 1t might turn to pawnbroking, which the terms of the charter are wide enough to cover
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
Circumventing Court Rulings
On Search Warrants

When police vice squad get telephone message that
there dead in certain building and rush there break
down doors and find nothing but bookmakng parapherna
for gambling purposes they doubtless within their rights
though they did possess the search warrants the courts
have uniformly decided they must have.
The gamblers will assert that frame up to cir
cumvent their rights under laws and may be all that but
what would happen should truthful message of this kind
reach the police department and they failed to rush to the
scene and do their duty?
Through devious and possibly legally dubious schemes the
police have been bounding the boomakng and gambling estab-
shments since that outbreak of underworld murders here
until the gambling game has become anything but profitable
The gamblers are least cute the police though and
manage disappear when these raids but they longer
find it wise to be active.
TO what extent the police will be upheld by the courts in
their latest activities is for the future to determine but it
has least been by police department that
when vice and crime get too rampant in this city there are
ways the haun of the voator and put fear
into their hearts.
In those cities controlled by political machines and where
the criminals political leaders, plans that have been
successfully followed by Washington policemen would not be
permted by the political BOSSES One consolation Of Washing
tom people is that there any police cousion with crime
here it is sporadic and has approval from high officials
Our seemingly slow to pass upon these police
Crcumventions and may be that there anxiety
the part Of judges about decent Washington than there
about listening to and passing techncaes sprung to
free law violators from police interruption ...'