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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
SECOND HARTFORD
PLAYER INJURED

Macon, Ga, April 6-R0y Hum
phries, an outfielder. broke his
leg I'm the ninth lining in a play
around second base I'm yesterdays
game with Brooklyn. He was the
second Hartford player to suffer
q Hike fate In two days, Charley
Sherrin, from Fordham, breaking
his leg here Monday in the same
spot and under similar circum.
stances. Those were two in the
ninth inning on both occasions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
MATCH GAME.


Knoxville. Tenn, Apr 6...-(UP)
Seeking revenge for their 10 to Z
defeat yesterday, the Knoxville
Smokes were determined to win
to-day's concluding game Of the
two-contest series from the Wash
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
Irish Card Nine 1888 Games

Notre Danes 1888 football
eleven will meet Kansas, Indiana,
Carnegie Tech, Pittsburg. Navy,
Purdue, Northwestern, Southern
California and Army on success
sive Saturdays.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06

At Portland. Me.-Jim Londos,
st Louis, Mo, threw Tiny Roebuck,
Oklahoma; Jack Washburn. Cali
fornia, threw George Wilczewski,
Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06

494 474 530-149s
High Single (Tie)-Stanley and
High Three-Snyder, BAT.
High Team Total Pinfall--Robin-
son, 1912.
OFFICE GIRLS RECREATION,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
Training Camp
Tid-Bits

Dodgers
Macon, Ga. April 6-(UP)-Max
Carey was considering cutting his
squad to-day as his Dodgers met
Hartford. Yesterday Brooklyn
won z to 5. Paul Richards, catch-'
er, and young pitchers Johnny
Krider and Phil Gallivan probably
will be left with Hartford. Yester-
day Roy Humphries, 19-year old
Hartford center fielder, broke his
leg sliding into second.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06

Baltimore, Md. April 6.-(UP)-
The Baltimore Orioles were enter
tanning the Boston Braves here to-
day in a one-game stand. Yester-
day the Sox defeated Richmond.
Va, II to 4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
white sox

Louisville. KY. April 6.--{UP)-
The Chicago White Sox were here
to-day for a two-game series with
the Louisville Colonies Of the
American Association. Yesterday,
the Sox lost to Nashville, s to 4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06

Indigestion Brought
Sudden End To Great
Career OF Phar Lap
By DAN BOWERMAN

Perry Stables Menlo Park, CAL April 6--(UP) -Phar
lap the mighty wonder horse from Australia and Of
farm. sa.s~ safsa A{
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
Yankees

Indianapolis. Ind. April 6.-UPl.
New York Yankees were here to-
day for a game with the Indian
apolis club. Yesterday the Yanks
defeated the Reds, 9 to 5, at Gin
cinnati. .s' HI ~ =
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-06
Browns.

Nashville, Tenn, April 6.-(UP)
After beating Chattanooga, 3 to
/, yesterday. the st Louis Browns
were here to-day for a game with
Nashville.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
WORK FOR 10000 MEN


A 17,0OO-ton challenge to the depression
will be launched on June II, announces D..
Stewart Iglehart, president of the Grace
Line. For on that day the Santa Paula,
$4,5OO,OOO sister ship of the recently launch
ed Santa Rosa, will glide down the ways of
the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Com
pany at Kearny, N. ].
Mrs. Edward T. Ford of San Francisco,
wife of the president of the Panama Mail
Service of the Grace Line, will christen the
new ship, which is the second of four in the
$20,OOO,0OO building. program which has
kept 10000 men at work since February,
1881. There is not state in the union that
has not contributed labor and materials to
these new vessels according to the shipbuild-
ing company.
The four new ships will make their
maiden voyages next fall and winter on the
only New California service which in
cludes seven Central and South American
ports. The vessels have been designed for
comfort while cruising in tropical waters,
novel features including dining salons on
upper decks, with roofs that may be rolled
back when desired.
Besides giving many men much needed
employment in building, this new fleet will
facilitate and doubtless greatly increase tour
1st travel and commerce between the United
States and countries to the southwark
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
WHEN A CHILD WON'T EAT

Parents who coax and coddle and threat.
en- when child refuses to eat are on the
wrong track, according to DR.. Frank How
ard Richardson, noted child specialist:
They are merely causing the child to become
neurotic and self-centered by paying too
much attention to his whims.
Instead of humoring the child by urging
or bribing him to eat, he should be made to
sit down at the table five times day, for 30
minutes at the three regular meals and for
20 minutes at mid-morning and mid-after-
noon lunches.
Suitable foods are 10 be placed before
him each time, but no effort whatever is to
be made to induce him to eat. He may eat
or he may not as he chooses But at the end
of the time set he should be made to leave
the table whether he has eaten or not.
Dr. Richardson dclares that there is no
danger that child will starve himself under
such circumstances, but that within two OF
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
MISS EARHARTS FLIGHT

Recently Lady Mary Heath, one of Eng
lands most famous flyers, had an article in
an American magazine in which she express
ed the opinion that no woman would ever fly
across the Atlantic alone, and that an at
tempt to do so would be suicidal.
Hardly had the ink dried on the maga-
zine pages when Miss Amelia Earhart flew
alone from New Foundland to Ireland in 13
hours and 80 minutes, covering distance of
about 1900 miles, thus proving that Lady
Mary was wrong. Miss Earhart's feat has
been widely acclaimed as second only to Lind
bergh's New York to Paris flight.
She is the only woman ever to cross the
Atlantic in an airplane and has done so twice,
the first time as passenger with Wilmar
Stultz and Louis Gordon in June, 1928. She
made the first flight from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and back in an autogiro last year,
and has made numerous altitude and speed
records for women.
Miss Earhart, who in private life is
Mrs. George P. Putnam, said after making
her transatlantic flight that she only want
ed to show that a woman could do it, and
modestly added:
"Outside of demonstrating that a woman
can fly the Atlantic alone, l don't see that
I've added anything to aviation, science, or
anything else"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
WIFE SOLD AT PROFIT

Few of the present generation, particu-
larly in the North, know that before the Civil
War great many negroes in the South
owned other negroes as slaves. Some inter
esting facts concerning the subject are given
in Prof. Carter Goodwin Woodson's book,
"Free Negro Heads of Families"
He shows that as far back as 1880 one
seventh of the negroes in the country were
free, some of them rich, owning large plan
tations and other valuable property. In 1856
one negro in South Carolina owned 200
slaves, in louisiana four negroes owned re-
spectively 81, 80, so and Al slaves. Many
others owned smaller numbers, it being esti-
mated that 10000 free negroes owned nearly
100000 slaves at one time.
The story is told of Charleston negro
who admired female slave owned by a
neighbor and bought her for wife. Later
on when she had failed to behave herself as
he thought proper, he sold her at profit
of $50
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Ancient Wooden Locks
Burden for Strong Man

The most common lock now in
use on exterior doors of buildings
is the cylinder lock developed by
Linus Yale, Jr., and this leads us
back into history. Primitive pro-
totypes Of Yale's invention were in
use in Mesopotamia and Egypt as
early as 1000 B. G. These were
huge wooden affairs requiring cum
bersome keys, as we may gather
from the Biblical passage Usaiah
% :22): "And the key to the house
Of David will I lay upon his shOul-
der" This key, or muftah as it
was and still is called in the East,
is a stick of wood from 15 to 80
inches long, 2 to 4 inches broad
and 1 to inches thick. Into the
face Of one end are set a number
Of wooden or iron pegs about an
inch long. These pegs correspond
with as many holes in the wooden
bar or bolt which locks the door
and can only be lifted when these
pegs enter the holes and lift a cor
responding series Of pins which
drop home by force Of gravity and
keep the bar locked until pressed
up by the key with its pegs. Such
huge keys opened the way into the
mighty palaces Of Nineveh and
Persepolis and admitted to "hun-
dred-gated Thebes." Today in min
iature and more refined fashion, the
small key that enters the cylinder
lock pushes up the little brass pins
inside and permits the opening of
the door.-Detroit Free Press.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
A QUIZ ON WORDS

In recent QUESTIONABLE sent to num-
Der of eminent persons it was asked: "What
word seems to you most annoyingly overused
or missued?"
Among those suggested were Intrigued
kiddies, awful, gorgeous, very, sure, nice,
grand, glamorous, colorful and 1.
Another question was ''What word in
English seems to you most beautiful in
soud?"
Replies included the following: Mother,
love, violet, lake, laughter, willow, melody,
and /. A wellknown educator voted for pay
day, with which most teachers will agree,
while a Mexican poet liked the sound of GUS
pidor best.
In answer to the request to pick the
most useful word in the language, these were
suggested: No, yes, the, of, and, in, is, have,
do, and l. An editor thought eat the most
useful.
1t may be observed that the pronoun I
was selected in answer to all three questions,
and prominent physician declared it to be
at once the most beautiful, the most useful
and the most annoying overused of all words.
Many of our readers will probably agree.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY

While experiments which led to the
development of photography were made as
far back as about 1778 by Schelle, a Swedish
chemist, followed by the labors of Wedge
wood in England, Seebeck in Germany, and
many others, it remained for two French
men, Niepce and Daguerre, to give to the
world the first practical Photographic pro
cess.
Niepce discovered method of making
photographs that would not fade in 1925,
but it was not Until 1889, six years after
Niepce's death, that his co-worker Daguerre
developed the daguerreotype, which marked
the beginning of commercial photography.
In their earliest experiments, it required
exposures of three to eight hours in bright
sunlight to secure Photographic copy, but
the first daguerrotypes were made by ex-
posures of about half an hour. In the begin
ming only landscapes, monuments and the like
could be used as subjects, as no living thing
could be kept quiet sufficiently long.
The first Photographic personal portrait
was made by Prof. John w. Draper, an
American chemist, in 1910, after which i'm
provements in processes followed in fairly
rapid succession. Before 1910 the only
means of preserving the likeness of persons
was by the making of death masks or
through sculpture, paintings and drawings.
Now the goal of Photographic science and
art is to produce pictures in colors direct
from the subject, toward which some prelim-
mary steps have been taken
In view of the wonderful advances being
made in every branch of science, it can hard
ly be doubted that direct color photography
will one day be an accomplished fact.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Gas Pressure Used to
Stimulate Use of Oil

In the operation of oil wells a
period usually develops when the
well is not good enough, and yet is
too good. When it has reached a
point where the natural flow is too
weak through lack Of pressure be-
low the ground to produce oil at an
efficient rate, period Of real
worry is encountered.
Ordinarily, while the flow is too
light, it still is too strong to per-
NIT the employment Of pumps Of
the plunger type. 1t is at this time
that a new method is being attempt
ed, the gas-lift method, Of bring
ing the oil up. Some success has
been attained in forcing gas under
pressure down into the ground
either through a concentric or par
allel pipe. The pressure Of the gas,
Stimulating the natural gas pres
sure, throws the oil up with some
thing like the original vigor. The
method in question, however, is still
far from perfected, as almost every
well presents a problem Of its own
and no standard can be set for the
operation of gas-lift device.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
First Colonial Surgeon

The first surgeon to come to
Philadelphia is believed to have
been John Goodson, Of London,
who came over as surgeon to the
Society of Free Traders before
William Penn arrived. On the ship
Welcome, with Penn, was Griffith
Owen, the Welshman, who per-
formed the first amputation In Phil
adelphia. To DR.. Thomas Bond,
one of the co-founders with Frank
lin of the Pennsylvania hospital,
when that institution was started
in the middle of the Eighteenth GEN.
tury as the first hospital Of the Col
onies, belongs the credit Of having
performed the first lithotomy In
America and also Of having estab-
lished the first clinic.
This was only a few years be-
fore the medical school Of the Col
lege Of Philadelphia, now the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, was found
ed In 1765.-Detroit News.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Much Sunken Treasure
May Soon Be Salvaged

Many Of the difficulties Of deep
water salvage have been success
fully overcome, and the prospects
are that much wealth will be re-
covered from the sunken hulks Of
the sea bed. One of the chief fac
tors which have contributed to this
success is a new diving apparatus,
invented by a Kiel firm and used
with great success. 1t looks like
the coming tower of a submarine
and had a trunk made Of steel, the
upper portion Of which consists Of
windows Of hard glass.
This trunk not only contains
measuring and respiratory appa-
ratus, but also telephone and
buoyant tanks. These tanks enable
the diver to obtain complete con-
troll Of his equilibrium. If he
wishes to descend he lets water In
through a tube. If, on the other
hand, he wants to ascend, he blows
1t out with compressed air. With
this it Is possible to make descents
Of 500 feet, and there are many
wealth-laden wrecks on the floor Of
the ocean within that distance Of
the. surface.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
-.-ar-nGes Largest of
Laoano1's Many Cults

Ciblical Lebanon, Asia's only
Christian state and the smallest one
In the world. has seven different
confessions among it's S26,618 in
habitants, according to the last GEN.
sus. Despite mass emigration
among people of their faith, Chris
tians again maintain their major
ity. The largest group is the
Maronites with 214,313 adherents. In
addition there are 20,44S emigrants
of this faith in the United States
who still pay taxes to the home
land. They form one Of the oldest
Christian churches. It's history
goes back as far as the Fourth GEN.
tury, retaining Aramaic as the
church language. Since the Middle
ages, the Maronites have recognized
the pope, although they have q
patriarch of their own. There are
only 5,421 Prctestants in the Le-
banese republic. The ancient
churches as the Syrian Jacobite
and the Assyro-C -Chaldean claim the
majority Of 1000 church-goers
classed among the minorities. Next
to the Maronites in strength are
the Sunnite Moslems with 136,040
and the Shiites with 1855.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02

order to readjust ourselves to the
present situation a cut of one-third
in all public expenses is necessary.
The other way to a readjustment is
a higher price level that will bring
our national income back to nine
ty billions year or more.
Most everyone favors an infla-
ton of the currency and credit to
the point of bringing back 1929
yprice levels, but most people with
some means are afraid that an in
flation once started would be diff
icult to control and might run into
excesses in the other direction. The
thought of a controlled initiation
was the basis of the vote for the
Goldsborough bill, which set the
limit sought at the average price
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Babcock Urges Use of Left
Side for the Pedestrians
Highway Commissioner Gives Ap-
proval of Campaign for Safe
Walking

The Minnesota Highway depart
ment has placed it's seal of ap-
proval upon the recommendation to
walk on the left side facing traf-
fic," according to a recent highway
bulletin.
After a careful study of the prob
lem, we are convinced that the
safety of pedestrians on highways
can be greatly increased if it be-
comes the practice to walk always
on the left side of the highway so
that oncoming vehicles are faced,
Commissioner Babcock said in ex-
pressing approval of the campaign
being launched by the American
Legion and the Minnesota Safety
Council to get everyone walking on
country roads to use the left side.
Experience has demonstrated,
Commissioner Babcock adds, that
when people are walking along a
paved route the danger of being
struck by a motor vehicle is great
ter than on an unpaved route. This
it is explained, is because of the
temptation to walk on the pave
ment. Cars have to swing out to
avoid the pedestrians, but if it hap
pens that a vehicle is approaching
on the opposite side, the tendency
of the motorist is to crowd the
pedestrian rather than take chances
on collision.
While the law gives the pedes-
trian the right to walk in either di-
rection on either side of road, ex-
perience and common sense, the
bulletin points out. seem to fully
commend the Recommendation for
all walking to- be done on the left
side of the road, facing traffic. A
number of states have erected signs
along their highways urging the
use of the left-hand side by .pedes-
trians, and it is probable, the bull
letin states, that the subject will be
one to receive legislative attention
in the future.
School children in particular are
to be urged in a campaign being
jointly sponsored by the American
Legion and the Minnesota Safety
Council to walk only on one side of
the road, and not few on one side
and few on the other as has been
a common practice. This has been
found to have resulted in a large
number of accidents through chill
dren running across to join the
others on the opposite side without
looking behind to see If any vehicle
were approaching.
Hitch-hikers, the highway bulle-
tin cites, seem to want to stick to
the right side so as to be able to
signal motorists for rides, but as
many motorists have encountered
costly experiences from picking up
these travellers, fewer and fewer
are being picked up. If none at all
were picked up who are walking
on the right side it would help in
bringing the left-side plan into full
er observance, the bulletin con-
cludes.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Modern Kitchen "Slavery"

The aproned figure at the sink
gazed sadly at the accumulation of
plates and dishes, pots and pans.
Was this all that marriage meant?
A heavy sigh, a rolling up of
sleeves, and the kitchen was soon
filled with the clatter of washing
and securing. The toiler paused
from time to time to listen to the
steady thrash of a typewriter in
the next room.
Suddenly the noise ceased and
large, spectacled woman, lofty Of
brow, appeared in the doorway.
Hercules, darling" she said, ad-
dressing the little man, II never can
remember-do you spell cave man
with or without a hyphen? ?-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Lobster's Speed

One unacquainted with the lob
ster would not give it credit for
much speed, but it is graceful
swimmer and possesses the power
of shooting with great rapidity
through the water. That Is accom-
plished by the broad plates at the
end of it's tail. These, put in mo-
ton by the powerful muscles con-
Meeting them with it's body, strike
the water with immense force, en-
abling the lobster to project it.
self many feet. Observation has
shown that one stroke is sufficient
to propel it from eight to ten yards
in a second-the speed Of fast
sprinter.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Charleston "Sugar House"

The old Sugar house at Charles
ton, s. O., was the name given to
the workhouse, a place Of deten-
tion for fugitive slaves and the pun
ishment of slaves and free ne
groes. It was here that the lashes
were applied, and hence the name
Sugar house. The workhouse was
under the care Of commission Of
five citizens, with a master or keep
er. It was a city institution and
was conducted under the ordi-
nances, with prescribed rates for
the care Of the inmates-dieting,
lodging, number Of lashes, etc. The
building stood on the corner Of
what is now known as Logan and
Magazine streets and was de-
stroyed by fire In the conflagration
Of 1851.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Public Waste Can Be
Stopped Court Decision
Public Officials May Be Held Lii
able For Public Extravaganza,
Supreme Court Rules

Taxpayers now have a new and
effective weapon with which to
prevent graft and carless waste of
public money, under a recent de-
cision of the Minnesota Supreme
Court. The ruling holds that the
public official who is responsible
for excessive payment in purchas-
ing things for the city, county,
school district, or state, can be held
personally liable for the over-pay-
ment, officials of the Minnesota
Taxpayers Association state.
A case from st. Louis County is
involved in the decision. Members
of a Board of Education had pur.
chased lots at $500. The question
of purchase had not been SUBMIT
ed to the electors of the district.
Upon the property acquired a club
house was erected by day labor, at
cost of $4,000. No bids were
advisted for.
The Court held that the sale of
land was void since the cost of the
club house exceeded by $3,315 what
had been determined as a reason
able cost. Members of the school
board were ruled personally liable
for the difference between a rea-
sonsable cost and the actual cost.
Installation of electric wiring in
the building was made also at a
cost of $807.05. The contracts in
volvec two separate jobs, and no
bids were therefore required. It was
required. 1t was disclosed, however
that reasonable cost for both jobs
should not exceed $500. The school
district suffered a loss of $487, and
the Court ruled that the school
board members were personally
liable for the difference between
contract price and actual cost.
Thus we have a new interpreta-
tion of the responsibility of a pub
lie official since official actions
are based on the reasonableness of
costs in public buying.
Previously, there had been Dis
trict Court cases, similar to this
from st. Louis County, in which it
was decided that no redress could
be made to the taxpayers for over
charges, except in cases of proved
graft, outside the weapon that the
voter could exercise at the ballot
box.
Regardless of whether there is a
breach of criminal law, public Of
ficials can now be held, even for
careless waste in tax spending. Or
dinarily open bidding is required,
where certain sums are involved; !;
yet in cases where no bidding is
necessary, the public office holder
is held to strict accountability
when he participates in the pay
ment of more money than the SUBJ
ject matter is reasonably worth.
That he received none of this over
age for himself does not free him
from responsibility it is declared.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-06-02
Told of Lincoln's Safety

The phrase, "plumes delivered,
nuts safely" was a secret code
which was sent to Harrisburg, Pa,
when Abraham Lincoln had arrived
in Washington soon after his elec-
tion to the Presidency. His orig
inal route Of travel, which had been
through Baltimore, had to be aban-
doned because Of the bitter feel
ing against the Union in Maryland.
Mr.. Lincoln went from Harrisburg
to New York secretly and took
through train from there to Wash
ington. Several books Of Lin
colniana state that the code had
no special significance other than
that these words had been chosen
to mean Lincoln's safe arrival.