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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
Troop 5 Rally at First
 Baptist Church Tonight

A Troop V" rally has been plan ned for this evening at the First Baptist church, with the parents of the scouts invited to attend. There will be a supper. and a mystery program in which all may take prat This will be the last regular meeting until September and it is hoped that all scouts and their par ents will attend. Louis F. Hubbard, chairman of the troop committee, is in charge of the program.
 London may ban smoking in theaters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
CLEARS LAFLAMME OF BRACIULIS DEATH
HOUSE CONNECTIONS
 ON BALDWIN ST
Not Necessary to Make the Changes Unless Pipes
 Are Out of Repair
TO SEND OUT NOTICES

Property owners on Baldwin street will be interested to know that the street Is soon to be paved and improvements made on the curbs and walks, work which demanded attention for some time. In the near future the usual notices will be sent out to all abutting property owners requesting them to make all neces- sary sewer, gas and water connec- tions before the permanent pave ment is laid.
 The city notices have not been mailed, but when people receive them, they must not think that street connections in good condition have to be taken up and new ones put in.
 There appears to be some doubts in the minds of people about this matter, but there is no reason to be alarmed. Such notices are always sent out when 8 street is to be paved so that connections that should be made be attended to without waiting to rip up the new pavement and be put to the added cost when connec- tions are made in paved streets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27

13, and, after some discussion, voted to endorse the recommendation contained in the majority report.
 Since the association of the New Haven Railroad with the Pennsyl- vania through the holding of stock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
An Economic Council

year ago when Senator La Toilette and other
liberals suggested that national economic council
might help our economic sickness. their plan
garded visionary and radical
In year opinion has changed. Today industry
is looking with growing favor upon the idea. Some Of
the most efficient business in the country have
come to Washington during the last week to record,
with the senate committee on manufactures, their
Willingness that such plan be tried
This 10 probably the most significant development
OF the hearings now in progress, the first govern
mental attempt to get at the root of present
troubles and correct them.
1t is true that some bankers who have testified
before the committee have been cold to the national
economic council idea. Their eyes have been fixd
upon Europe and upon the need of restoring Europes
buying power and private debt-payng capacity Much
OF their treasure lies abroad and mems hearts and
thoughts are apt to follow their treasure
Industrialists, on the other hand, whether or not
they engage in foreign trade feel acutely the gravity
OF the problem at home, and the need of dealing
with it integently. Some Of them prefer to attempt
this without the help of the government.
Some Of them feel that the government alone
can tie together the many different elements in the
economic situation which must be considered in form
ing competent opinion on any phase of it.
Economists and social workers. without exception,
nave the JOB is SO necessary
1t is going to be done somehow soon"
If there any doubt of this other than in the
minds OF the bankers the appalling figures presented
at the beginning of the hearings by E. A. Golden
weser, chief of the federal reserve boards division
OF research and statistics and L. H Sloan of Standard
Statistics Company, would force unwilling belief
These men told the committee that the present
depression is the longest and worst of history that
the national income is Is per cent less today than two
years ago; that a billion dollars is being boarded;
production is off so per cent; employment down at
least q per cent with very large percentage part
time work; farm prices have reached their lowest
point; 1924 banks have failed far this year, and
$500 commercial firms including banks have failed
an all-tme high; interest payments bonds valued
at two billion dollars have been defauted this year.
the net income of corporations has declined by two
thirds since 1929, and, after paying dividends this
year, their reserve funds show deficit of $500000OOO
To this picture the economists have added that
while other depressions have been ended by growth
of industry or discovery of new gold deposits
neither Of these seems to be possibility at the pres
ent time. And the social workers have translated the
story into terms of broken bodies and spirits into the
inca,culabe cost in human life.
So what is left? What, indeed, but human intelli-
gence the wit and will to master our situation and
plan that may not have to face this again. Only
the counseors of despair deny that can help our
selves If we will.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
SOlOmOn's Grandchildren

The three grandchildren all over TO- of MiIwaukee's
founder and first mayor, Solomon Juneau. have been
granted old age pensions under Wisconsn's pension
law
Juneau once was the wealthy owner of vast tracts
OF land donor Of the site of the Milwaukee county
courthouse. Bad investments impoverished tho fam
lily. His three grandchildren would have gone To the
poorhouse had it not been for Wsconsns progressive
law
This story is all too typical Who of us does not
know family like the Juneaus? The depression has
served only to emphasize how feeting is wealth. how
insecure is life itself Ours therefore should be more
than altrustic interest as we watch the spread Of
OLD age security legislation throughout the country
1ooay IN seventeen states old age pension laws pro-
CecC oooOO aged poor In New York 43 900 aged in
ogehCs nave been saved from the disgrace of the
poor farm. In Massachusetts 6,412 aged men are
drawing an average of $5.S6 week. California pays
an average of $23 a month to s,75o men and women
under It's new security law. Pennsylvania Ohio Ore
gon Illinois have strong movements for similar meas
ureS, all given impetus by the fact that taxnavers noun
pay less in the pension states than they did for Door
house care
Senator G. G. Dill announces that he will intro
duce bill in the coming congress GRANTING fedoro,
AID to states for old age pension funds Senators
Couzens SchaH and others urge similar measures
Inc time Is here when the federal government with
taxing access to the great fortunes and inhertances
should help out the states especially the poorer ones
IN creating old age security reserves
BlSnop Francis Mcconnell estimates that for $3.50 :
O0OoOo year all the nations 100000 needy who are
over 90 years of age can be pensoned. Surely rich
America could assume portion of this burden To
make secure and happy the declining Years Of its
useful citizens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
TT STEMS I'M MT NJ HAYWOOD
L l. OZAA4VAO 4 ~ 1V1L Dl BROUN

A GENTLEMAN from New Zea-
IA land is making an interest
ing pilgrimage around the world. 1t
is his purpose to see banned plays
and read suppressed books in the
lands where those outcasts are al
lowed to flourish.
He went all the way to Paris to
read Ulysses" and after that he
dropped down to- Italy, where Lady
Chatterly's Lover is not contra
band. Eventually he purposes to
stop in America and England.
The Times, in commenting on his
quest. feels that we will have little
to offer him here. And it even
grows a little captious in regard to
this unusual tour, and wonders
whether the pilgrims progress is
actuated by mere morbid curiosity
Without having the slightest &C
uuaintance with the gentleman in
question, it seems to me that the
Journey is not only sincerely mott
waited, but of exceptional interest.
Travel, so they say, broadens a man.
And I can think of no way in
which this process may be better
expedited than through an exam
ination of black-liSted literature
End drama.
Indeed, the best way to know a
nation or an individual is to dis
cover the things which it or he will
not tolerate. The truest index of
any person is his shock point.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IT might affect industry unpleaSantIy but what a
Il relief it would be to the individual if we could
adopt a hve-year plan for women's clothes
If cur skirts could be fixed, subject to no fuctua-
tlonS and we knew they would remain static for that
time; If we could select hats conscious that thew
still would be smart next season; if we could buv
gown and know it would not make us feel like last
years bird nest in six months what sense of we'll
being and freedom would be ourSl
For today'S woman is obliged to spend too much
time springing after the fashions Given a reason
able amount of pride she is compelled to keep up
good appearance, if only that she may reflect credit
on the relatives.
This necesstateS the use of enough energy to have
worn out Hercules Moreover she hardly catches her
breath after season than the next one is licking
at her heels She must buy her autumn hat in August
and her spring gowns before the SHOWS are gone.
She is slave to style in the literal sense of the
term.
MEN, being much less mutable, live much more
1V1 comfortably. You don't catch them jumping
through the hoop of any style dictator. They may be
little set in their ways to be sure but the pleasure
they derive from garments that all Of samenesS
must be considerable
Trousers as we know them, never are out of style
They bear reasonable similarity year after year. and
the average man feels adequately dressed in any
model that reaches his waist and covers his ankles.
woman, on the contrary who must appear in a
skirt longer shorter than the prevailing mode is
not only self-conScous and incapable Of logical
thought, but completely miserable.
In the interest of our peace ofOruind and the
family darning, it's time we tried SOL thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
HEALTH
Minor Factor in Overweight

of various races vary greatly in the
amount of sugar and fat that they
contain.
Most people who have paid little
attention to diet underestimate
greatly the amount of food that
they actually eat. The majority of
people who are overweight claim
they eat like canary birds and that
they never indulge heartily in food.
eff, however, a careful invoice is
made of all of the food that is
taken in, it is usually found that
they eat excessively.
Furthermore, when they are put
On diets containing very small
amounts of food, they begin to re-
duce weight Immediately.
Moreover, an analysis of the pre-
vious diet usually shows that it is
rich in sugars and fats, whereas
the diets ordered by the physician
are likely to be rich in protein and
weak in sugars and fats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
Hold the Excitement

OUCH items, as we'll as many more
- of similar import, warrant a
certain degree Of optimism, but let
us not get too excited.
We have been fooled several times
during the last two years. If the
tide has turned, it proves only that
we were fooled again, since this was
about the first time we were dead
sure such a thing couldn't happen.
Who looked for wheat to take
jump, or British business to improve
on suspension Of the gold stand
ard?
Sometimes, you wonder whether
the shrewdest Of us can see an
inch ahead of his nose when it
comes to a change in general con-
ditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
SIGN on the Line

CPEAKING of war debts, no one
~ can review the Hoover-LavaI
conference without suSpecting that
this government will have to do
some smooth trading to avoid re-
sumption of the sucker role.
According to the program, Ger
many is going to ask France for
a new reparations deal, while the
President asks congress for power
to revise war debt settlements.
That leaves France in a position
to grant what We are willing to give,
or vice versa. In other words we
are expected to pay for all the
mercy she shows.
A virtuous task, no doubt, but
what, or where, is the reward? If
it's an agreement to disarm, we
ought to get somebody's name on
the dotted line before going too far
Or is ours the only government that
signs on the dotted line?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02

The Republicans Haze No
ont, Except to String
Along With Hoover, and
Thut's Not a Sure "Out, "
By Any Means.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-wheat ad-
Il vances, the outflow of gold
ceases, Mid Continent crude goes up
Is cents a barrel, and nine major
industries report increased produc-
ton.
Twenty-Five countries agree to a
years holiday in armament con-
struction as proposed by the League
of Nations.
Japan and Russia accept each
others assurances, and Japan says
that she won't declare war, even if
China does.
Trade revives steadily in Eng
land, and the Sankey committee
prepares a tentative constitution for
the government Of India.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
HEALTH SERVICE

therefore eat too much and exercise
too little exactly as their parents
eat too much and exercise too little.
There is, of course, something to
be said on both sides. Certainly
there must be some hereditary ten
dency to overweight, because the
excess fat is deposited in the chill
dren in relatively the same places
about the body as in the parents.
In other words, in one family the
woman will tend to have fat arms
and relatively thin hips, whereas in
the other group they will tend to
have fat hips but relatively thin
arms.
Certainly, however, there is much
to be said for the influence of en-
vironment and the habits of the
family as regards eating.
There are certain families of for
eign parentage which attempt, in
this country, to maintain the diet
airy habits they had abroad. Diets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
GumShoe Politics Out

WHATEVER else happens, one
w hopes that both parties will
give the people of this country a
chance to express themselves on
certain issues, particularly with re-
gard to foreign policy.
1t looks as thought they might be
compelled to do so, regardless of
gumshoes politics.
With England getting ready to
show us what the tariff really
means, with the Manchurian mud
die promising to continue and with
Europe all set to move for another
cut in war debts, it looks as though
the parties would be forced to line
up on some really important ques-
tions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
They Surely Can See

TINE Republicans have no out,
Il except to string along with
President Hoover and that is not
a sure out by any means.
Indeed, their ablest leaders are
betting on the usual Democratic
blunder more strongly than on any
thing else, preferably a break be-
tween Smith and Roosevelt, a split
over the wet issue, or something
else which would result in the selec-
ton of a weak, compromise nomi-
nee.
Accommodating as the Democrats
have shown themselves in the past,
it strains the imagination to sup
pose that they can't see the oppor-
tunity which is knocking at their
door.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
BOrah Is Right

CENATOR BORAH has a large
~ following. He could put up quite
a battle if he went at it in earnest.
But, as he says, the man in power
has distinct advantage when it
comes to corralling delegates, espe-
cially from the south.
The late Theodore Roosevelt
found that out twenty years ago.
Though able to run away with more
than one-half of the Republican
party's rank and file, he couldn't
take the nomination away from
President Taft.
The best Senator Borah, or an
other opponent of Hoover, could
hope for would be such a split in
the Republican party as would make
a Democratic victory inevitable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
Pretty Much the Same

IF the inquiSitive reporter from
= New Zealand undertakes any in
tensive study of fragrant pictorial
misdemeanors, I am afraid that he
will be doomed to disappointment.
After all, in the lowest stratum the
Righteousness of one nation is much
like that Of every ov2ler.
During the required reading which
I had to do-Whether I would or no
in collaborating on the life of An
thony ComStock made one useful
discovery. And that is the fact that
pornography, among other failings,
is afflicted with a deadly dizziness.
1 never have understood why the
cenSorS Of civilization fear so much
the actually outrageous. 1t con-
tains SO little of imagination or in
gently. Indeed, there is a certain
logic in the fight which Mr.. Sum-
ner, Mr.. Comstock and others have
made against the contention that
art sanctif1es all things.
After all, it is true that the erotic
becomes persuasive. and possibly eff
fective in the formation of charac-
ter and impulse only when it is ami
mated by a touch of talent or au-
thentic genius.
Even if odds were offered to me
I would not undertake to corrupt
the most susceptible community
with the ordinary commodities of
commercialized photographers. Not
so much as a single soul ever has
been endangered. I believe, by peep
ing into the picture-bearing cigaret
holders which form a staple in the
commerce of Cuba.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
ZHXNS
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Nov. 2
TWO SHIPS TORPEDOED

NOV. K
ON Nov. 2, 1917, the transport
" Finland and the steamer
Rochester were torpedoed, killing
twenty-six men.
The Rochester sank, but the Fin
land managed to limp into port.
Seventeen men, including two en-
listed men acting as armed guards,
went down on the Rochester. The
survivors suffered terrible hardships
before reaching land.
Three naval gunners, four mer-
chant seamen, and two enlisted
army men lost their lives on the
Finland.
General Won Berrer, commanding
the Wurtemberg armies on the
northeast front, was shot dead while
visiting the trenches near Riga.
The Italians abandoned the east
ern bank of the Tagliamento river
from the Fella valley to the Adri-
attic sea after fighting on the mid
die and lower sectors of the river.
Meantime, the Germans retreated
from the hilIy sections of Chemin
DIES Danes on the western front.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

ID LA IL I'LL -
How Science Works TODAY to
Usher IN TomOrrolO's IN
dustries Is Told Graphic
ally By Westinghouse En-
gineerS.
CCIENTIFIC research has made
- the present machine age. Much
of it has gone on in the laboratories
of universities and scientific schools.
But a great deal of it also has gone
on in the laboratories Of the ma
tons larger corporations, as for ex-
ample, the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company, the
General Electric Company, the
Eastman Kodak Company, the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, the Dupont enterprises,
and others.
Some of the recent accomplish
ments of the Westinghouse engi-
neers are told in an attractive book
let Just published by that company
under the title of Stories of West
inghouSe Research" The booklet is
the work of Colin K. Lee and
Hendley N. Blackmon, general en-
gineerS.
The reason for scientific research
is told in a brief preface to the
booklet by S. M. Kintner, vice-presi-
dent in charge of engineering.
Railroads, leaving settled coun-
try and venturing into the unknown
difficulties of the west, sent out
scouts to reconnoiter; surveying
parties, which, ranging the country
widely, far ahead, sent back infor-
nation to guide bridge builders and
track layers by the most practical
BILE routes to their goal.
Research is the reconnaissance
party of industry, rowing the UNI
known territories ahead independ-
emily, yet not without purpose,
seeing for the first time things that
all the following world will see a
few years hence"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
Research Vital Today

"NFTEN, seeking the best route
~ to some definite goal" KNIT
ner continues, "they come upon at
tractive paths that lead elsewhere.
and come back, like old Jim Bridger
from the Yellowstone, with tales of
marvels unexpected.
To-day is the creation of techni-
clans; it is in the research labora-
tories that tomorrow is being pre-
pared"
The Westinghouse research labo-
ratories now are housed in a large
building at East Pittsburgh, Pa.
Research, under that name, Lee
and Blacknon write, is twenty-six
years old at Westinghouse. The
thing itself, of course, is as old as
the company, for it was an investi-
cation Of the mysterious alternating
current that first led the airbrake's
inventor to organize his electric
company in 1885.
Before 1904, research was a
function of the engineer; then a
separate department of specializa-
ton was organized under G. E.
Skineer. In 1910 it was isolated
from the plant. and facilities and
space were more than doubled in
1890"
The doubling of research facili-
ties in 1880 is an indication of the
attitude of the wisest industrial
leaders of the present day. They
realize that they are not only in
competition with other industrial
and commercial leaders, but with
scientific leaders as well.
AS DR.. Harrison E. Howe, editor
of Industrial and Engineering Chem
istry, recently observed, the man.
ufacturer who ignores scientific re-
search is likely to wake up some
morning and find that the discov-
cry of some research worker has put
him out of business.
Il Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02

in 1885 and Tibet between 1904 and 1914 Many i'm
portant ports like Hongkong were put under foreign
domination. Russia swooped on Manchuria and
Mongolia.
1t is for this reason that Japan is not moved to
tears by the tender sympathy which the west now is
expressing through the League of Nations
1t is quite true that Japans hands are not clean.
She has snatched up much Of China as she has
been able to get away with. But the western powers
taught her how to pilfer.
Further Japan has stolen from near necessity.
The western nations have operated after the fashion
Of wealthy shoplifter, who stands in no vital need
Of her spoils
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02

But the sociological passion de-
serted me at the last moment. The
preliminary sales talk of the ven
dor was tactfuI to the point of ge-
MUS. Hailing me at a sidewalk cafe
in Havana, he began by remarking
"You are an actor, aren't you?"
After that I would have met him
at least halfway on any PROPOSE
ton. But when he followed this
promising opening lead by adding:
st suppose you would like very much
to buy some postcards?" I recoiled
from his offer.
1t was not that the judgment of
my personal predictions constituted
an insult. But I felt that he was
casting aspersions upon a great pro-
fession in which happened to be a
humble hanger-on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02
Who Can Be Sure?

NTERE just twelve months away
w from the presidential election
OF 1882, but is anybody sure who
will be the Democratic nominee,
much less which party will winP
1t is taken for granted that the
Republicans will renominate Presi-
dent Hoover, but some people even
doubt that.
Senator Borah of idaho is report
ed to have had some attractive
offers of support if he would become
a candidate.