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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05

CHAPEL HILL, N. c., January S.
A new industry from cotton, utilizing
the entire plant except the roots, In
the production of rayon is the goal of
experiments being conducted by DR..
Frank X. Cameron. professor of chem
istry at the University of North
Carolina.
DR.. Cameron is being aided in the
work by Nicholas w. Dockery, one of
his students, whose mother owns large
cotton plantation near Rockingham,
N. G.
Results obtained after extensive ex-
Fermentation, DR.. Cameron said, in
dictate the material for making rayon
can be supplied at the cost of slightly
more than one-twentieth under present
methods Of producing lint for the same
purpose.
New Harvest Methods.
Methods of production are also
revolutionary The professor proposes to
substitute the same operations as are
now generally used in the growing of
wheat and hay, eliminating laborious
picking by harvesting the crop with q
moving machine.
DR.. Cameron said cotton is probably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
DRY BUREAU ASKS
1870 MORE AGENTS
Increase of Field Force Sought in
$543,37o Deficiency Appro-
priation Item.
BY the Associated Press.


An immediate increase of 100 dry
agents in the Prohibition Bureaus field
service was recommended to the House
today in the first deficiency appropria-
ton bill
The measure, reported by the Appro-
priation Committee, carried $543, $40
for the bureau. Besides the additional
agents, who are the first of 500 re-
quested by Director Woodcock for the
next fiscal year, 1t would provide AZ
Investigators, "a instructors and more
than SO miscellaneous employees.
The agents 70 be added, Woodcock
believes, represent the number that
can be absorbed before July /. At pres
ent the bureau has about 1,400 agents.
Eleven would be added TO the force in
the Washington area.
OF the allotment. $343, 300 for the
agents and instructors represent in
creased activities of the bureau, while
5000 .070 Is due to reorganization fol-
lowing the transfer Of the bureau from
the Treasury, which retained the In
dustrial Alcohol Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
lweavers' Strike Called in Sweden

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, january 8
R.-Thirty two thousand weavers
afiliated with the textile trades union
are affected by q strike order issued
today calling out workers from all mills
in which employers have decided to
cut wages beginning January IL. Me-
gotiations looking toward compro.
mise were Intellectual and the strike Is
scheduled TO begin on the date set Tor
the wage reduction. .-......-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
liberty REPAIRS ASKED

Famous Statue in New York Har-
Dor Favored by Committee.
BY the Associated Press.
A more brilliant Liberty, respondent
with new attire, may cast a prouder
glow of welcome to homesick Americans
next year.
Improving and refinishing the exte-
rior of the famous statue in New York
Harbor, installing a new automatic
elevator within and doubling the flood
lighting power without, was recon-
mended by the House Appropriations
Committee today in the Army supply
bill. The cost was set at $50, 465, plus
$6,997 for additional electricity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05

SAILING TO-DAY.
California-Belfast and GLASGOW
Conte Grande-GibraltaT,E Naples and Genoa
Bermuda-Bermuda.
Pan America-BeTmuda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
FOREIGN.

q am, Greenwich time, today.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
The Most Honest Race

At recent meeting of bankers, speaker was asked the question as to what racial ele- ment of the people were in his opinion the most to be trusted in the payment of debts. Representatives of the many races found in this country pricked up their ears, hoping to hear that their own descent was most com mended.
 They were somewhat erestfalen when the speaker said that the race which could be trusted the most in money matters. was the Chinese people. Testimony to the reliability of the Chinese in money matters comes from other sources. It seems strange that Tn this civilized and so-caled Christian land our people are called inferior in this respect to the representatives of a pagan country. Yet for some reason we are failing to instruct many of our young people in the principles of common honesty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
TODAY IS THEA
 ANNIVERSARY S5 agkXA
SUBMARINE ATTACK

On June 22, 1917, German sub marines attacked United States trans ports bearing the first contingerts of the American Expeditionary fore es to France.
 The first sign of the presence of submarines was noticed by the look out man high above on one of the big shops. He gave the alarm just as @ gleaming line of bubbles announc- ed that 8 torpedo was on 1t way. Then, in the words of an eye wit ness:
 Hell broke loose. Our helm was damned over. Firing every gun avail able, we swung in a wide circle out of line to the left. A smaller ship slipped into our place, and from what the lookout told me think one of our shells must have landed al- most right above the submarine. But they are almost impossible to hit when they are submerged and the periscope is no target anyway.
 "They fired three, if not four, tor pedoes. It was Gods mercy that they all went astray among so many of our ships. We drove right at them q suppose, the safest thing to do, as the. bow gives the smallest mark to shoot at), and no doubt he did not care to wait for us. Or perhaps a lucky shot disposed of him. Any how. he disappeared and we saw no [ more of him."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
Screen and Stage

In another five years according to a recent prophecy of George Jean Nathan. the talkies will be as dead as silent pictures are today He sees the first signs of their passing in the financial, statements the reductions of staffs. the curtailments in salaries, already in evil denee in Hollywood. People are wearying of this artificial form of entertainment and the legitimate theater, where human beings act and speak, is coming into its own again.
 Just off hand, we should say there might be other interpretations of the facts he ob- serves. Curtailment of expenses in the talkie industry may merely mean that producers are putting their business on sounder. better managed basis. That should be good for the pictures, in the long run
 It would be pity if the takies really went out of business. The fine, spoken drama in which artists act and speak" on the stage, before audiences in good plays, has never reached all the cities or all the people hungry for this form of art. The movies go every where There ought to be field for each type of dramatic expression. Competition be- tween them may force improvement in each. thus benefitting the public. It shouldn't kill either of them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
Drilling

Most of us. in spite of occasional scare tales haven't thought of the world as partieu- larly militaristic nowadays. Yet here is some thing to think about. Mrs Walter Ferguson. newspaper writer, is much worked up about the sort of thing she sees in the news reels at movie theaters. Tn the last six weeks, she says not one single program has neglect ed to show soldiers, guns battleships or mili- tary maneuvers of some sort. Entertainments are made hideous by reminding us that in every corner of the earth from Cape Horn to Copenhagen, the boys afe drilling. drilling drilling"
 Is this merely transient fad of the news film people, or is there really an increase lately in military and naval activity everywherel The nations ought to have something more useful to do than this drilling drilling drilling" Also something safer. Drilling shooting and bombing. though merely for practice, are dangerous when millions are idle and hungry.
 One of these days there may be a general showdown about this war business. Nations and individuals may be invited to stand up and answer some simple. plain, direct ques- tions. like these: Whats all the practice shooting for9 Are you for peace, or not' If for peace, why not act like it, and insist that others act like it?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
MONDAY, JUNE P, 1881
New Water Rates

While nobody disputes the fact that wa ter rates in this city may not be high enough, most of us are of the same opinion that large consumers deserve no lower price than do mestic users. For some time an adjustment in our water rents has been discussed. It is believed that if the scale that our present city officials contemplate is put into effect the more water that is used the less it will cost. That seems to us to be wasteful proposal. Certainly if factories find they get water at cheaper rate after their consumption has reached certain figure they are going to make sure that this much water IS used every month or year. no matter whether the water is just turned into the waste pipes.
 We have always contended that if any consumer is entitled to lower price on wa ter it is the man or woman who uses it solely for domestic purposes. He must have water for drinking and sanitary reasons both in- volving not only his own health, but that of the community. The factory that is a- lowed to buy water from the city gets 1t dirt cheap and at the same time uses this water to make the wheels of industry turn. He con- sumes water to make power. for washing metals and the like, but least of all for domes- tic purposes He derives profit from this use of the city's water supply Why shouldn't he be expected to pay for that3
 If more industrial plants are building their own water supplies or sinking artesian wells the city isn't done any harm. It will have more water for domestic consumption. for fighting fires. etc. The conclusion that we draw from the contemplated changes is that the city is endeavoring to increase its revenue on its water supply investment. If it were private water company. like the one that supplies New Haven and which is now seek inx higher rates, we could see why this would be necessary. However, the stockholders in Waterbury's water works are the taxpayers. They aren't seeking increased dividends. They want their returns in good service, good water, good pressure, and fair rate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
Too Much Gold

Gold continues to pile up in the United States. Recent Federal Reserve figures show that we now have 4.90O.000,000 of mon- etary gold. about half the worlds supply. Just why the metal should gravitate to this country as it does is not clear. Other countries need it much worse than we do. It has ceased to be an advantage to us. Here is exempli- fled the seriptural truth, Ito him that hath shall be given
 Our gold supply is naturally basis on which might be built vast structure of in- flation. That very thing is likely to happen. in spite of our recent bitter lesson. In another couple of years we may be in new orgy of land and stock imitation. Possibly eommod- ity inflation, too, though that seems less likely Increasing production. competition and sales resistance tend to hold prices down, even with an abundance of money and credit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
WHAT THE EDITORS TfIlS STATE AND ELSEWHERE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS. THAT AND THE OTHER THING

little, and we wonder how it is that dictionary bearing the honored name of Webster who was citizen of Connecticut, can assert that 8 doughnut can be "cut into rings. strips or twisted" Had he been born and reared in the really ideal part of Connecticut he would have realized that while a true cruller has a hole in its center, a doughnut Is solid, invariably"
 However. jet us note that Webster says that both should be boiled in deep fat, not fried in lard," as if they were slices of Indian pud- ding utilized because there chanced to be no cold boiled potatoes in the pantry. It required a degree of caution to place the uncooked doughnuts in the deep fat without causing 8 drop of boiling fat to touch ones hands; if it did, words came to the surface not proper to utter in a Puritan household.
 Yeast was invariably used in the doughnut, in other words they. were "riz," while the crullers were. of lesser value, and baking powder might be used. It was the dough- nut, destitute of any hole in the center which, with one or two cups of green tea, finished the third meal of the day during winter and early spring. And to think that the pres. ident should speak of mere fried cake as a doughnut!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
Prize-Winning Aftermath

Knut Hamsun. Norwegian author and Nobel Prize winner. has recently given away to various institutions. sums amounting to some thousands of dollars. His reason for doing this at this time and for making his generosity public deserves mention. Ever since winning the Nobel Prize, he says. he has received great numbers of begging letters. He could have given away several fortunes--if he had possessed them and still not satis- fled all the demands made on him. He de- eided to put himself in the position of not being able to give any more. so he held back enough to live on comfortably. and gave away the rest.
 Mir Hamsun might simply have ignored the begging letters. hiring a secretary to read them and dispose of them. He ehose an unusual way to end the flood, We hope for his sake that his method works All this is interesting because Knut Hamsun's experience is the ex- perisnee of anyone with any prominence who receives large - CT not 70 lafge--eash prize. There seems to be innumersble people in the world who do nothing else but write ie celeb. rites for financial sid for themselves Of their nst khemss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
CAR SEIZURES NODDED.

We are inclined to agree with Judge Raymond Baldwin of Strat- ford, author of the bill which re- suited in the repeal of the clause permitting seizure of trucks and cars engaged in the liquor traffic, that the law caused more trouble than it was worth.
 Under court interpretations the old law (now repealed) had become very drastic. Even a car stolen from an innocent owner and used in the transportation of liquor might be seized and forfeited, thus de- barring the owners chance of re- covery. Such a law had neither justice nor common sense in It.
 Most cars today are sold oJi time payments, or conditional bills of sale. Cars partly paid for, and seized by the authorities for infrac- tions of the liquor law, represented complicated question. The law said Gin effect) to the dealer who sold the car, "If the purchaser uses this car for an illegal purpose you may lose your equity" That was unfair. There is nothing miraculous in an automobile dealers's makeup which will enable him to tell whether a prospective purchaser may make an illegal use of the car which is being sold to him.
 This is only another of the ex- treme, oppressive and illogical pro- visions adopted in the attempt to enforce this law above all others. The clause in question seems to have been repealed by accident. since the repealer bill was only an amend ment and was referred to commit tee and forgotten. A substitute measure was to have been oiiereu but was not passed. There will not be another session of the legisla- ture for two years; in the mean time we are well off without this seizure clause.
 zThe federal authorities, under national law, still have the right to seize cars under the prohibition laws if they so desire. That is quite enough without duplicating this statute in our state code.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
Before You Go Away

The American Surety Company has five suggestions to make to householders who are going to leave their homes vacant during va cation absence. The purpose is to make things harder for burglars. Here are the rules:
 l. Notify the nearest police station of your absence.
 2. Make sure that deliveries of mail. milk. ice, papers, etc, are diseon- tinued.
 }. Do not draw all the shades, as it indicates to the burglar another home which he may loot with little likelihood of being disturbed.
 A. Make certain that all doors and windows are locked While locks do not keep out the professional burglar, they frequently deter the amateur.
 5. Do not place sign on your house indicating that you are away. Animal protective associations have some suggestions to make, too. The chief one IS to make adequate provision for pets. It is amazing haw many pet dogs and cats are left to shift for themselves or to starve miserably in the summer by owners who seem ordinarily too tender hearted to harm an animal or to kill pet for any reason.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
School Vs. Spring Fever

Truly wonders never cease The attend ance supervisor of large city public school system says that children play hockey less these days in spite of the lure of spring. h. stead of trekking off to the woods on fine April days for fishing or swimming. or mere ly to gratify the wanderlust, the kids go to school. This seems most peculiar. Have modern children no sense of the fitness of things? The supervisor has an explanation
 School hours are now so short" he says. that the average boy has plenty of time out side classes to satisfy his spring fever. And besides schools are more interesting now. and there is not the urge to get away We'll, there is an argument for the people who are opposed to some of the frills of progressive education. If school is interesting enough to hold boys to their lessons on balmy spring days it may be interesting enough to accom- plish little something in the matter of edu- cation, too
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
PLAGIARISM AGAIN
(Hartford Courant.


 Some time ago, the New York Times printed on it's editorial page over the name of Hilda Adrienne Marianni the following verse. "A Memory:
 My mind lets go q million things. Like dates of battles, names of kings, And yet recalls the very hour Twas noon by wonder village tower, The wind came briskly up this way Set down it's load of pine-scent spray And, as it passed, shook listlessly Two blossoms from that apple tree.
 The lines, of course, are by Thom- as Bailey Aldrich. Apparently the plagiarist who submitted it for pub lication by the Times hoped that others were less familiar with his work than was she. She must nave hoped that her name would appear in print as an able and honest poet It was a pathetic hope. fir the Times comments on the "cloudburst oi protest" that greeted it's publication over an undeserved name.
 Those many who habitually view with alarm the alleged growing ig. norance of poetry in America should take heart again. The simple and unintended test of the New York Times indicates what many have suspected-that the country SUI knows and treasures it's poetica heritage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22

New York.-Life is like that! But it's also like this:
 She is one of the most popular "gypsy' fortune tellers in town. She forecasts fates" from the tea cups. She picked up the trick of reading tea leaves" while a coed at college. Before leaving the uni- versity, she had made quite rep utation at the "drom" parties. Then she came to New York for her | career"
 Well, she Init the big town just at a time when the tea rooms were going in for "gypsies" in big way. At lunch hour crowds of supersti- tious and curious damsels would jam these tea rooms. They still do. There are scores of such spots all over the midtown section. She noted that tips were offered when particular Special" information was desired.
 | After few weeks. it began to look as though job might not come her way for a while. So she went to a costumer, got herself gypsy outfit and. being a young lady i of dark complexion, found work as I woman, she made an immediate inn pression. Soon all the dear, curious ladies were seeking her out; giving her good tips for special attention. | Recently she opened her own "psychic parlor" under the name of Princess something g-or-other. and the credulous speak of her as 'that marvellous gypsy seeress."
 Pardon me while l laugh. Fol her name is Ginsberg.
 And there's the old lady who selii papers in the Times Square sector.
 She, too, came to the big town 1T search of career. But love came along, she married and settled down. And the stage-doors have never seen her. except in her rolt of newspaper vendor. For her hus band died and left her little to live on; she was too old to go after th' "career" and now she merely stands and watches the "big parade" o
 Broadway go by stands ant
 wonders how many girls in th'
 crowd are even as she once wa
 and will wind up where {! And there's the case of n play
 wright who doesn't exist. He's beer
 dead for n number of years. Ye
 plays keep coming out under hi
 name. and stories appear in mag azlnes under hls name.
 And this is the story; for year
 this man has been e well know
 figure in the piay-belt. Almos ] every season saw one Of his piece on the stage. Some were successful and some nopped. A certain wel had been his closest frisnd also hI agent, to some extent; he'd ordere many of his stories and edited man
 of his plays. At any rate. the nlny wright and hls wife both met deht some gears A&e in co eutsofstow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
NEW YORK
wtlh GiIbert Swan

theater disaster. They had no chill dren and they left no will.
 The certain literary figure was in possession of number of manu- scripts. These have been rewritten and revised, and at least one has been turned into a successful play All under the name of a dead man.
 Inside the New Amsterdam the ater one of the sensational features of "The Band Wagon" is number called "The Beggar's Waltz" The tragic pantomime is revealed of street -beggar who dreams of the glories inside @ theater.
 And for the past three nights as the crowds left thNreal theater they have been startled by the sight of just such a derelict whining in Forty-Second street.
 For life is also like that!
 GILBERT SWAN. Copyright. 1881, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
DoUGHNUT OR CRULI4ER?
(Hartford Courant)

Many an earnest man is sore let and hindered. in his efforts to speak and write with accuracy by tho slip shod manner in which well meaning dictionaries define words. For in- stance, President Hoover was lateIy quoted as urging the public to look at the doughnut and not at the hole. The next day MT Zero was described as about to start a daily distribution of eruilers in Bryant park In New York.
 What Is n doughnut. and what is n crullar? Webster defines the crui-
 Ter as n small. cake, usually sweet. ened, often made with yeast anu
 fried in deep fat" The same au-
 thorlty asserts that q doughnut is
 n small, sweet cake, cut Into
 rings, strips or twisted, and fried
 In deep fat" The international dic-
 tlonary asserts that the d0ughnut 's
 n small cake made of d0ush and fried in lard."' and it declares that
 Q cruiier is "a cake outout Of dough
 made from four with sugar. butter,
 etc, raised with baking powder of It's equivalent, and fried brown th
 boiling lard, often fInE.ahaped." We fear that photographers, As guls. are persepA whs have tsevsled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22

Here's story for you people who dread to go to the dentist or to the doctor for fear of little blood-letting. It comes all the way from Philadelphia. where an interne at the Chestnut Hill hospital attempted an operation that would have made his name famous throughout the world had it succeeded. pr Charles T. Meaeham, 25. tried to cut out his own tonsils with the aid of mirrors and lights. He managed to clip the left tonsil with three-bladed tonsilectomy instrument, but when it came to using his left hand to snip out the other he found it more difficult and loss of blood forced him to hand over the instruments to fellow surgeon who completed the job. Local anesthetic was used. Dr Meaeham had praetieed for three weeks in an effort to operate successfully on himself. That's one way of avoiding the surgeon s fee