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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13

Of shunting large quantities of this
real bere in their direction before it
got dealcoholized properly.
Rise of Gangland
Most spectacular of all phases of
the Illicit liquor business, of
course, was the underworld gang.
Most of the large cities developed
booze running gangs during the
first decade of prohibition. No
where, however, did the gangs be-
cause as strong as insolent in their
activities or as incredibly blood
thirsty as in Chicago: and a brief
discussion of the Chicago gangs
shows the typical American under
world structure, as it has existed
under prohibition, at its most amaz-
ing and dismaying development.
Chicago, to be sure, has always
had lawless gangs and many MUIR
ders. Long before prohibition it
had crooked police and political
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13
Bootleg Liquor Industry Becomes big Business
And Gangs Rise To Riches AS Nation Goes Dry

garish collins in various cemeteries.
A year later, however, the federal
government struck at the gangs
to-day Capone Is serving time in
Atlanta prison-while Chicago
hears ominous- rumors that the
lesser gang leaders are shortly to
begin q new war. or series of wars,
for control Of the absent monarch's
kingdom.
Nowhere else did the gangs ever
become as notorious as In Chicago.
But every large city had them and
still has them; and every large city
has known its ''beer wars" In which
the leaders of a rich and flourish
ing business settle their disputes
with guns because the business has
no legal standing.
On Home Made Basis
AS the first decade of prohibition
passed, the illegal liquor trade grew
more systematized. Different To-
calities developed their own sources
OF supply. Smuggling became less
important in the general scheme of
things, especially since Canada
frightened up on the laws which
govern exports of liquor from the
Dominion.
The governments efforts to cope
with the traffic changed, too.
General Andrews, plain-spoken
and industrious, was the first to
present really comprehensive en-
forcement program-in 1925; and
although congress failed to give
him the legislative changes he had
asked for, It did, in that year, vote
to put prohibition agents under
civil service to separate the pro-
hibition bureau from the Internal
Revenue department, to increase
the prohibition bureaus appropria-
tons and to build new boats for
theh Coast Guard.
TO-MORROW: The rise of
rNFnhfhffinn nG q u1nlffiQnI foemp
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BY RICHARD L. GRIDLEY
Copyright, 1889, by Cnited Press)
New York, July 13.-CUP)-
Production in many of Americas
leading industries has dropped to
such a low level, that experts pre-
dict an automatic" production to
meet the demand for necessities,
the United Press learned today.
Production in some industries is
far below the actual needs of the
American people as computed on
the basis of consumption over the
past ten years.
If Americans hold their recently
acquired necessities" the family
automobile, the electrical refrig-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13
LIQUOR TAXES AND
ENFORCEMENT COST

The U. S. Bureau of Internal
Revenue in the fiscal year 1918
the year prior to the ratifica-
ton of the prohibition amend
ment-collected in liquor taxes
of various kinds the sum of
$443,S39,544.98.
This does not include state
and local taxes.
The federal budget estimate
for the U. s. Prohibition Bureau
salaries and expenses, for the
fiscal year 1928 amounts to
$11,369,500.
This does not include state
and local enforcement costs.
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BURNING
FEET Y
Get Relief In % Seconds
This Easy Way

oh! How good II feels to put your
tired aching feet In "TfZ" bath!
You can Just feel the pain being
drawn out and grateful comfort
being restored.
"TIZ" draws out the acids and
poIsons that pun up your feet and
make them tender and sore. u
takes all the soreness out OF e0rBs,
eaiiuses and strained muscles and
makes tight sh0es feel half sIzs
larger. Oct n boz OF "Tfx" at any
drug or department store and have
weeks OF foot comfort fer q few
eents,
Battle Them in "TIZ"
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FLOATNG "HOTELs,

A Cuban syndicate has an
nounced 1t will erect huge floating
hotels, 1000 feet long, in the Allan
tic ocean 40 miles at sea. Each
''hotel'' will be managed as club
house, and only open to members.
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leaders working hand in glove with
underworld figures. The advent of
the illegal booze simply played into
the hands of these gentry. They
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13
Automatic Upturn
In Production Must
Come In Industries
Financial Expert Has Just Ended In
vestigation and Finds That the
Necessities of People Will Demand
the Opening Of Factories

Telegraph The American
American public
of its financial
survey present industrial picture compared
follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13

duras. Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
The South American countries to
be connected are Colombia and
Venezuela. The Bahama Islands
will also be reached through the
new station.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13

David Owen, of Chwilog, Wales.
has completed 80 years attendance
at the Welsh Sunday school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13
IJnderworld's Grasp
OF Power Is Big
Chapter In History
OF Federal Pro-
hibitiOn

Editors Note: This is the sec
0nd Of four stories on the history
or prohibition, made especially
timely by the recent action OF
the republican and democratic
national conventions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-13

TO-MORROW: The rise o
prohibition as a political issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
A Challenge to an Industry

In a reference yesterday TO the current fortunes
article Americas housing we said:
mo one can face the facts without vsioning the
tremendous opportunity for social improvement that
lies the housing field when prosperity does return
And not only is the opportunity one for social i'm
provement. The opportunity for economic improve
ment is supendous if ways can be devised to put the
decent home within the reach of the yet I'M
touched market.
Were it possible for the building industry to do
what the automobile industry already done, there
would be such lift in the building business as to
make the best years of the so-called boom seem
skinny by comparison.
Henry Ford led the way in the automobile indus
try with practical application of the economic
philosophy of "the cheaper the price, the larger the
market"
He figured that so many persons could afford to
buy at 5000 many at 000 and still many
more at $500 and on down. He discovered that the
total volume at $500 would be lot more than the
total volume at $4,000, by sort of geometric pro-
erosion.
SO Fords multimillions were made by increasing
the number of possible customers through lowering the
price of what he had to sell.
Whether such formula can be made to work in the
building and selling of homes is question involving
elements not existent in the automobile industry, but
certain is as pointed the Fortune article, that
the building industry in the past has depended for
its market only the richest third of the nations
population.
eff the industry could build a good house to sell
at $780, it would double its postwar residential out
put, which in normal years has amounted to three
billion dollars says Fortune.
In other words, it would do six billion dollars worth
of business under present conditions, which is
three times the volume involved in the governments
great reconstruction corporation.
And when it is considered further that the build
ing industry is the nations major customer for lum
her, stone, brick paper paint and glass, the second
largest purchaser of steel and in normal times
Americas largest wage BILL the possibilities in terms
of national prosperity almost too great to copre
bend.
So that's the problem faced by one industry in
this time when all industry is on trial.
How it meets the problem will contribute much
toward answering the question of whether in
dustral system as we of this generation know it is
to survive perish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03

Semi-public committees which are trying to work
out solution for tax relief should not overlook
the demands OF Mayor Petro of Mishawaka.
His appeal to the Governor for a special session
had behind it a purpose of getting money for the
relief of human beings, but it would also accom-
plsh the purpose of giving relief from taxation
He proposed that there be a vacation in the con-
struction Of concrete highways during the present
year and that the millions collected from gasoline
tax and auto license fees be diverted to the funds Of
counties for poor relief.
In every county of the state it is necessary to sell
bonds to provide relief for unemployed, distributed
through the township trustees.
Some counties are having trouble in selling bonds.
In every county the bonds will be mortgage on all
the future, creating new problem Of taxation and
piling up more difficulties.
change in the laws that would send back the
gasoline tax to its source during the emergency,
spending it on dirt roads where be en-
poyed and in any event making the money avail
able for relief might help in the present situation
If Marion county could secure even modest
part Of the present payments for license fees and
gasoline tax there would be less discomfort the
amount of food that is given to families which
compelled to live upon the dole.
Surveys show that the discomfort is justified. In
the race between economy and human needs, economy
seems to be winning
Too many families in this county are living below
the minimum of subsistency and decency special
session to divert present special taxes may be the
way out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
Hearthreak Houses

Unless too many tugs on their heartstrings have
strained the sympathies of Americans, they will do
more than listen to the appeals of 100000 needy
old folks, most of whom are cooped like criminals
in county poorhouseS.
American public opinion can force removal of
these heartbreak houses and substitute as have seven
teen states, old-age pension system This is made
easy for the states by the Dl-Connery bill in con-
gress ito protect labor in its old age" by providing
federal aid up to onetird of the entire contribu-
ton.
THE modern poorhouSe is ulcer in the body
polite, recently declared j. B. Brown secretary of
the main od-age pension league. '"There always is
a heterogeneous aggregation in these institutions
They include the young and the old. the feeble
minded and the epilepc the broken in body and the
soul-quenched.
ITO continue to send our venerable citizens to
these institutions is to treat them arch-crminas
and to condemn them to spend the remainder of
their days in loneliness, frequently under the most
wretched conditions. 1t is unjust inhuman un-Ameri-
and expensive"
Od-age pensions no longer are experiments.
California cares for $500 old men and women
with pensions averaging $23 a month. This costs
only 25 cents inhabitant year and is SIG month
cheaper than maintaining them in poorhouses.
New York aids $4,000 at a cost of only Al cents
$1,000 in taxable wealth. Other pension states have
found it cheaper, due to do the honorable instead
of the shameful thing.
The Dill-Connery bill would appropriate $$10OOO,-
600 annually for federal aid to state that extends
pensions to its INDECENT citizens of SIS or over who
have no children to support them, and no property
worth more than $4,000.
In view of the increasing hardships endured by
American families, the furious tempo of industry that
drives wage-earners to the wall after So the cheap
ness OF pensions and the inhumanity of poorhouses,
here legislation that should have right of way
congress and quick approval at the White House
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
Honor at Home

A little affair of honor at home, as important in
its small way obligations in Asia, confronts
congress.
For generations the score of Pueplos in New
Mexico, flower of surviving Indian culture in the
west, owned and farmed their communal lands and
tended their hocks unmolested by the outside world
Spain and Mexico zealously honored their ancient
holdings.
The United States, their guardian since 1s48, was
not so jealous Hundreds of white trespassers moved
in, while the white mans courts often blessed the
invasion.
Ry 1910 some of the Puebos had been squeezed
into one-tenth of their former lands. Many faced
starvation In 1924 congress recognized the Indian
bureaus neglect and passed the Pueblo lands act.
This act created lands board to the In
dams losses and compensate them also to pay those
dispossessed whites who had occupied the lands in
good faith since 1912.
After seven years work and the expenditure of
some 100000, the board made its awards. But, in
stead of standing by its appraisers estimates, it
sashed the Indians award from ST 1878 to $3.50 226
The pending Bratton- Cutting bill proposes to add
not the full appraisers award but about $4,000 to
elected to stand by the lands board chairman, H j.
Hegerman, rather than by the Pueblo Indians coun-
sci and New Mexico's two senators.
While not directly opposing the bill, the admin
istration talks of economy and raises new legal
issue as to water rights
The attitude of the administration is disquieting
Senator Fraziers report on the squandering of
Mescalero Indians timber to support priced
overhead the protest of Fl Peck Indians of Montana
against the new grazing policy, and other criticisms
raise the question whether the reforms of Commits
sioners Rhodes and Scattergood yet have touched
the economic issues.
Until the government squares its economic re-
forms with those in education, health and personnel
it has not done its beIated duty toward our Indian
wards
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WAITER FERGUSON

MOST of our sins against our children are sins of
Avn commission. 1t is better to neglect the family
a little than to be overly solicitouS about it.
Mothers especially are afflicted with an urge to do
everything for their children. Nor do I speak in an
old-faShioned sense. that We dislike to have
them make their own decisions.
woman may not necessarily spoil her daughter
by relieving her too often of washing the dinner
dishes, but she can Go so by taking upon herself the
selection of all her clothes and her friendships.
When small boy starts to school, it is well that
he should realize this entrance into new and enor-
nous world. In sense, he is leaving his mother,
and he should know this too
She may advise him about classroom and play
eide all issues for himself If has not learned to
do this in the grades, he never will be able to do it
in college to say nothing of mature life.
THOUSANDS of dotng mothers will not permit
Il 15-year-old girls to shop for themselves They
90 not trust the younger Judgment they explain Yet
bow can they expect girls to develop any Judgment
II they are not allowed to exercise their own will
power?
Better one inappropriate dress selection at Is,
with the lesson it will teach than complete Inability
to make selections in after life
And girl who knows how to make I'D her mind
in the shops how to get what she needs with the
least money will be able to make other and far more
important decisions for herself in the future
We harm our children immeaSurably when we
teach them to depend upon too much. And we
should welcome rather than deplore evidences that
they disagree with u.s.
We should thank God that they are brave enough
TO have ideas of their and should encourage them
In their own opinions.
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heated to 60 or 10 degrees, and large
halls to so or IS degrees Fahrenheit
as a maximum.
CD The air in the home, the Of
flee, or the hall should have suf-
hcient amount of moisture in it.
Moisture can be obtained either by
devices associated with the furnace,
or by special electric devices that
have been developed for moistening
the air.
CD The clothing worn in winter
must be planned according to the
life Of the individual. If he must
be outdoors briefly and indoors for
long periods of time, a heavy coat
may be worn outdoors and the
clothing indoors should be planned
according to the temperature of the
room in which the person works.
Modern transportation methods
make it possible to dispense entirely
with heavy underwear and to wear
the same weight underwear all year
round.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

/ dampness induces a cold is through
the disturbance of the heat regu-
lating mechanism brought about by
sudden evaporation of moisture
from the surface of the body.
This causes a strain on the heat
producing mechanism to keep the
temperature up to normal.
When individuals are exposed to
drafts from an electric fan, there
is chilling of the surface of the
body and a change in the circu-
lation of the membranes of the
nose and throat.
Numerous Investigators have made
a search for the germ cause of the
common cold. Unfortunately, no
single organism has yet been abso-
lutely incriminated, so that it is
difficult to take specific preventive
measures.
In review Of the ways in which
one may do this best to prevent fire.
qUent colds, DR.. Howard lists as
items of Importance:
Cd Private dwellings should be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
IF Japan Is Wise

Peace in the far east is possible the moment Japan
is willing
Japan has asked the United States and Great
Britain to their good offices in behalf of peace.
China has made such requests repeatedly.
The peace result could be accomplished by simple
order from Toxic Withdrawing Japanese troops But
Toxic needs face saver. Having bitten off more
than she chew, she apparently wants to give I'D
part of her conquest with as little embarrassment
as possible
We use the word apparently" advisedy For the
truth is that Japan is acting so irraonay that no
rule of reason be applied to explain her acts or
policies or pledges.
Obviously her request for truce offers no guar
antee of sincerity while her troops continue their
invasion of the Shanghai international settlement.
where they have not the slightest right to be.
But Washington is in no mood to bubble The
United States government has a sincere desire to
stop the fighting. which is not only in violation of
American treaties but which is endangering property
and lives of American citizens
Because the American peace proposa1s were roada
following specific requests for such good offices by
both Japan and China, and because the American
proposals are joined in by Great Britain France and
Italy, the Japanese government can not reject those
peace proposals without destroying the remaining
shreds of world respect for her decency
Those joint armistice terms are as favorable to
Japan as any Toxic government could expect They
do not even insist on advance Japanese evacuation
of conquered territory.
They aim merely to stop fighting on all fronts and
to make special provision for the isolation of the
Shanghai international settlement from danger
pending discussion of final peace terms.
1t is to the interest of Japan to accept and to
observe these conditions. The longer she continues
her war of conquest the she will destroy her
future Chinese and world markets. the more she will
bankrupt herself, the she will force the rest
of the world to watch and distrust her
Japan can not win war against China. She
can win military battles the coast but the vast
China which reaches back from the roads and battle
fields will remain unconquered and uncomfortable.
Nationalist China not be wiped out. If Japan
drives that mighty and unawakened China into an
alliance with Soviet Russia, the day will come when
Japan will be wiped out-or go Bolshevik
The sooner Japan realizes that fact, the better
for Japan. Perhaps that explains her sudden desire
for an armistice. We hope So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
StateCraftIS Test

TINE only way to stop the ever
4 increasing neutrality-suspicious. OF
nations would be to stop inventions
and discoveries; to prohibit men
from thinking and imagining. That
will not be done.
Statecraft must meet the situa-
ton thus created, must provide for
peace and order in a constantly
widening area of commerce and ex-
change. If it fails, there will be
war, until some power arises suf-
f1ciently strong to dominate the
field.
In other words, if we can not ar
range matters in an intelligent way,
nature will arrange them for us. 1t
is for us to choose whether peace
for the civilized world shall be
brought about by orderly co-opera-
ton, or through the development OF
an imperialiStic dictatorship.
We have arrived at point where
most of us can see the utter i'm
possibility of trying to dwell in Sc
clusion, where there is no safety
for any one as long as quarreline
among nations is permitted to con-
tinue unrestrained.
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enough to smash the tradition es-
tablished by long line Of success
full "Follies" he must still conquer
another foe of weight and conse-
quence. Indeed, I think this gentle
man is the real father of the hipless
horde.
DR.. Freud popularized the Oedi-
pus complex. AT least, he made it
famous. 1t wasn't exactly popular.
Men were annoyed at being told
they were under an unconscious
urge to marry some person more
mature in years and figure. They
said in chorus, us that sol" They
undertook to prove the opposite.
The maternal type was done.
And from that day to this every
woman from Is to so does her best
to look like somebody's grandchild.
(Copvright. 1892 by United Pressl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
Peoples Voice

Editor Tines-It is amusing to hear
some of our best minds lay stress
on the cause of the depression of
the world.
In this country we have the gold,
we have the food, the wealth; in
fact we have everything a country
needs to make a prosperous, happy
country. This depression is caused
by the financiers of this country,
who have made mess of the f1nan-
cial system in their greed for profit
and power, and now are passing the
buck.
The business men of this country
are alternating or dead from the
shoulders up to allow depression
from existing causes to extend over
the period of time it has. The bust
ness men of this country with their
various organizations could, in a
short time, relieve this condition and
in thirty days could have the busi-
ness of the country on its way to
prosperity.
A step in the right direction would
eliminate any future financial or
unemployment crisis and business
would always be at par.
A DREAMER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-03
ISoIatjon2 BAIL

XXTHY talk about splendid isola-
w tion," when it generally is be-
lieved that a f1rst-clasS quarrel any
where in the world can involve the
United States?
We did not have an alliance with
any European country in 1914. We
were not committed to q single OBJ
legation. There was no reason to
suppose that we could be dragged
into the war, yet we were.
It was a bitter lesson, and we
would be dumb to forget it.
Our reaction to the oriental sit
uation shows that we haven't.
That situation confrontS us with
responsibilities which we can not
DENY, or evade.
So would any other situation
which involved the welfare of our
citizens and interests.