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Evening star., 1935-04-11
CONSIDER THE COW.

SSINO4OElt ne WV.
THE problem Of buying meat for
the $4,000 Boy Scouts coming
here August 81 to 80 for their
jamboree was under discussion re-
Gently at a luncheon of the Presi-
dents committee for the event.
Harvey Gordon, engineer, was ex-
planning the fluctuating costs of meat
The meat dealers found that
housewives liked the hind quarter and
rib cuts of meat best. As a result
the price of these cuts jumped up
Then the prices got 50 high that the
housewives took to buying the front
quarter cuts. Now these cuts are
going up and soon will reach the hind
quarter prices
Whereupon Commissioner George E
Allen remarked:
Evening star., 1935-04-11
TRANS-PACIFIC PLANE
PASSES FINAL TEST
Big Clipper Flies Blind in Fog
Over Sea-Starts to China
Next Week.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
ALAMEDA, Calf, April l1.-Its
final test flight completed, the Pan
American Airways seaplane, Pioneer
Clipper, rested at its mooring today.
with the trail-blazing flight over a
trans-Pacific air route to China ex-
Lected to start next week.
On its test yesterday the big four
notored craft was flown blind through
clouds and fog off the California
coast under radio guidance. The crew
had no idea of the course to be fol-
lowed when the plane took off.
The steamship Malolo, $50 miles at
sea, was reached only three minutes
behind schedule. The plane then was
sent another 100 miles eastward on a
zig-zag course before turning back.
The craft carried a 24,O0O- pound
load. nine passengers and sufficient
gasoline for 5000 miles.
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LIZARD OF MYSTERY.

LIZARD OF MYSTERY.
FFICIALS at the new Post Office
~ Building have concluded to keep
their mystery. Unable to solve it,
they at first thought they would dis
miss the mystery by having it chiseled
of a capstone in an arch.
The mystery is small stone lizard
which perches at the top of the arch.
No one seems to know where it came
from. Explanations were conjured up,
but none of them appear precisely to
fit the case.
One story was that conscientious
stonecutter executed a sketch made
by an absent-minded architect poring
over the building plans. Another was
that it is the secret mark of some
contractor. Still others suggested it
might be a fossil.
At any rate the officials decided
that, as mystery fans. they would
neither cheat nor chisel.
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BARBOUR WOULD AID
WEEK END VISITORS
Asks Public Building Officials
That Sunday Hours Be
Heightened.

A campaign to have certain public
buildings and other points of interest
in Washington opened longer on Sun
days and holidays for the benefit of
sightseeing tourists has been started
by Senator Barbour, Republican, of
New Jersey.
He began by writing letters to off,
cials in charge of the Congressional
Library, the Smithsonian Institution,
the Washington Monument and the
Lincoln Memorial. He pointed out
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Plague Deaths Reported.
Several deaths from plague have
been reported recently in South AZ
RIGA
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that many visitors come to spend week
ends, arriving late Saturday and leav-
ing Sunday night to get back TO their
jobs on Monday. In many cases, he
said, they drive several hundred miles.
He said the problem was brought to
his attention during the past week BY
cherry blossom visitors.
The Senator found that the Sunday
hours OF the Library of Congress are
from 2 to 10 pm, the Monuments
from 1880 to 4:40 pm. and the Smith
sonian Institutions from 1880 to 4:30
pm.
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MARINES EXPECT
NEW STRUCTURES
Apartments, Post Exchange
and Other Improvements
at QuantiCo Planned.

The Marine Corps, virtually ignored
when the $4,000, 100000 public works
ALLEGATIONS were passed out, now is
hoping to share in the new work-re-
lief fund of s4,S8O ,oOO, 900, particularly
for upbuilding its post at Quantico, Va.
The Marines want to construct at
Quantico 7 six-family apartment
buildings for AZ non-commissioned
officers, at cost approximating $780,
600; IA six-family apartment houses
for officers, to cost $1,000,0 900; an
auditorium and post exchange, to ccst
$5G0,000; an officers school building
for $190,000 Storehouse for $685.
600, an administration building for
$120,000, fire house for $4,000,
extension of distributing and sewer
system for $150,000. overpass and tun-
mel, roads and walks to cost 5000, 900,
the Richmond. Fredericksburg & Po-
tomac Railroad to bear half the cost
of the tunnel; dispensary of 65 beds
to cost $225,000. and laundry for
$4,000.
Improvements Needed.
At the Quantico Flying Field a
number of Improvements are needed,
including: $4,000 for an aircraft
StorehouSe, $4,000 for an administra-
tion building, $4,000 for a distribut-
ing system, $4,000 for a garage, $780,
00C for lighting and air markings,
and $4,000 for reconstructing an
overhead bridge.
The Marines want to construct an
auditorium and two additional bar
racks at San Diego, Calf, at an un-
disclosed price. and the purchase of
land at Philadelphia needed for stor-
ing supplies.
Out of the s3,3O0,0O0 in the last
public works set-up, the Marines got
cnly S350,000 for new construction at
the Quantico flying field and $50, 900
for renovating buildings, railroads.
roads and service lines at the various
Marine Corps establishments over the
country
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PATENT COLLECTION.

nATENT OFFICE records show that
more than TOO patents in this
country have been issued to
Prof. Elihu Thompson, one of the
founders of the General Electric Co.
who has just celebrated his 82o
birthday anniversary. He has re.
ceived many awards of distinction
including the medal of honor of the
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, being
the sixth non-German to receive it.
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w ashington Wayside
Random Observations Of Interesting
Events and Things.

wonder what the COW thinks about
all this?"
Evening star., 1935-04-11
QUALIFICATION ENOUGH.

WAOaAN14SN puyoiCldl, Ouun-
~ mer resident of a Southern
Maryland county. seeking resi-
dent hunting license during the duck
season, and fearing too many ques-
tions if he applied in person for it,
sent deputy sheriff friend.
At the deputy's suggestion he had
described himself as a student In his
application.
The license clerk scanned the an
swers to the various questions.
HIN. Student, 38 years old. Pretty
old for student, isn't hep" he asked
the messenger.
"Yes, he is" stammered the deputy.
Then happy thought struck him.
But you don't know this guy. He's
dumb as hell"
He got the license
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les THIS EXTRA FLAKY
CRACKER-C R-COMPAN|ON

They'll meet today on thousands of dinner
tables :. those two old favorites, Sunshine
Krispy Crackers and cheeseI And who's
arranging these delicious meetings?
Housewives all over the country, Of coursel
They've discovered that the fine wheaty
flavor of Sunshine Krispy Crackers makes
cheese taste better than it ever did before.
Evening star., 1935-04-11
Cleveland Man to Sneak.

Howard Whipple Green, secretary
OF the Cleveland Health Council, will
speak at a meeting of the Research
Committees of the Council Of Social
Agencies in the Admiral. Seventeenth
street ana Rhode Island avenue. to-
morrow at 1890 pm. He will discuss
the use Of census tracts.
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HOMER NODDED, TOO.

~ RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and
ID Stephen T. Early, his secretary
in charge Of press relations,
i have been close friends for
more than 20 years-since
away back in the early part of Presi-
dent wilson's first administration.
And yet, on the wall of Early's Of
flee today Is a framed engraving Of
the President with the following in
scription In Mr.. Roosevelt's own hand
writing.
ITO my friend. Steven Early"
(Signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS

other causes are pesent, it may be the deciding force between war and peace. The war-profits bills are efforts to meet that prob. lem, and that problem alone.
 It is not merely a question Of profits. War profits are just one phase of that terrible economic upset which attends wars. As soon as the war drums roll something happens to the economic life of a people. Prices rise. Earnin.; .;s rise. Wages go up. Profits arc swollen. The spiral continues un- til before long the whole eco- homie life of the nation is de- formed. The war cost is inflated. When the war is over, the bubble collapses. Frequently the victcr is as seriously devastated as tie. vanquished. In the last war America was not invaded. But some poisonous evil swept over the country which left us wound ed and sick-and we are still sick.
 Because profits represent the cut of those who assume to be our economic leaders and because they are the ugliest side of the war Imitation, attention has been focused on them. The Senate bill. however, is designed to hit, net merely the profits, but all tho other economic evils which go with them. But as profits play 50 prominent part in all the dis cussions, let us see what turned the Senate's attention to this sub- ject.
 In the last war, we sent 2,000,- 900 men to France. The pay of those rnen-thc two million priv ate soldiers-for the period they were in France--was about $1,- 100 100000. This is the sum which one corporation--the Unit ed States Steel Corporation--- made in clear profits, over and above all taxes-in the five years of the World War.-1515 to 1919.
 As a matter of fact, however, huge as these earnings were. they were small in proportion compar- ed with the profits of some of the war babies. One steel company made 267 per cent. This may
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30

New York City, April 30---A pro- test against the trustees ban on agitation against or discussion of compulsory military training at Connecticut State College was sent this morning to Gov Wilbur L. Cross. chairman of the board of trustees. by the committee on academic freedom of the American Civil Liberties Union.
 Signing the protest were Profes- sors George s. Counts and William c. Bagley, Teachers College, Co., lumbia University; Professor Rein hold Niebuhr, Union Theological Seminary; Horace M. Kallen, New School for Social Research; Pro- fessors Henry Pratt Fairchild and Sidney Hook. New York University. No greater violation of free speech and academic freedom in a st. tc university" the commit tees protest said. ''has come to the attention of this committee.
 We maintain that teachers and students like other citizens h. the right to express their opinions on matters of public in- tercst.
 "We stand ready to protect that right of any teacher or stu-
 dent. who may be disciplined under the boards ruling.
 eve trust however that you will use your influence to have the. ruling resclndcd and make action on our part necessary"
 'This Ordcr," the American Civil Liberties Union declared i'm l .a..lI.g public the committees protest, "clashes with our dom- cstic theories of education, with it's faith in controversy, the con- 1iict of ideas and opinions, as the sOundcft technique of learning the truth. Does this mean that all student criticism of courses, of professors and their partlcu. lar theories is to be gagged? Such aD order attacks the intcl- Icctual integrity and indcpcnd- ence of every student and fac- ulty L. -mbcr at the college. It Is especially shocking n q state preparing to celebrate the 8OOth anniversary of its founding by { pioneers seeking fuller freedom of discussion and truer dcinoc- racy."
 The Union declared that it was calling the matter to the attention of it's friends throughout Connec- ticut and urging them to fight the rule. The action threatened in the letter. in case the students were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
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It is easy to grow wrathy at men for such evidences of greed. It must be that men do not un- derstand fully the deep implica- lions of their own acquisitive- ness. It is amazing how auda- cious some of these steel men were. The army was struggling frantically to get supplies. It had not the time to bargain too closely. What 1t wanted was munitions for it's soldiers. Manu- lecturers knew that. And they did not hesitate to take advantage of it. Some literally threatened to strike. Some complained that they were not being paid enough. The Federal Trade Commission made an investigation of the pro- fits of some of these com mplaining com panies. Here are the profits which some of the companies were making:
 Allan Wood Iron & Steel Co. 52.G3 Allegheny Steel Co. ...:.... 1892 American Tube & Stam-
 ping Co. .......... 40.03 Central Iron & Steel Co..... 71.35 Eastern Steel Co. ......... 30.24 Forged Steel Wheel Co .... 105.4O Follansbee Bros. Co. ......112.43 Nagel Penn Steel Co. ..'... 319.G7 West Penn Steel Co. .159.01 West ;Leechburg Steel Co.,. .109.cS
 The. copper companies did quite as well-or ill., The Utah Copper Company made $32,00O,000 in 1917. That meant 200 per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30

ing prices. The other wants to do it by taxes-"paying u we fight. One plan is put forward in what is known as the McSwain bill. The House has passed that. The other is known as the Nye bill, after Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Munitions Com mittee which has been investigat. ing the munitions makers.
 Before you can know what the "shootin' is all about, you must know several things about this Nye committee. It has been lock- ing into the business affairs of the intuition makers who sell at least four billion dollars Q year of their destructive products to the gov- ernments of the world. Out of this investigation many problems arise. The Committee plans tc propose legislation to cover ali these problems-whether or not the government will nationalize the munitions business, the qucs. ton of permitting the sale of mu- nitions to foreign countries dur ing peace time, the problem of selling munitions to belligerents during war, the difficult question
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30

The Calumet and Hecla made $9,- 5O0,000-800 per cent profit. The munition maker must hau sulphur. The Union Sulphur Company made sulphur for 35.73 a ton and sold 1t for $1S.11 ton The meat packers - Armour, Swift, Morris, Cudahy - in the three years before the war mane $19,00O,000 a year. In 1915 they made $36,000,000 more than that; in 1916 It was $55,O00, ,O0O more; in 1917 1t was $87,000,- 900 more.
 Flour millers in 1916 made 1s 1-2 cents profit on each barrel, which was large. But in the first six months of 1917 they made $2 profit on every barrel.
 In 1916 the DuPonts paid 1dO per cent dividend the investors got back their whole investment. Then in 1917 they paid 50 per cent and the next year 23 per cent. They got back the whole investment in those three years twice. At the same time the in- vestment itself increased from $74,000,000 to $308, 000,OOO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
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Somewhere between these two stories ies the problem which now faces the American govern- ment. Would Eugene Grace have worked for $60 8 week. $3,12O a year - If necessary to save his country Or would he quit in a crisis? He says he would have worked just as earnestly if he hadn't gotten that amazirs bonus. I believe he would.
 The issue Is no longer an aca- demic one. The war-clouds dark en over the world at terrifying in- tervals. Dollfuss Is murdered, Alexander is assassinated, Hitler threatens DanZig or Memel or Austria; Japan ravages Manchu- kuo, Germany re-arms, and tho nations of Europe draw their wea- pons and rush to their frontiers. At each such scare Americans wonder-can we keep out of the inevitable struggle? If we go in what will we fight for? And how? Grave statesmen tell us that, try as we may, we will not be able to remain aloof from the next world war. If we go in will We expose ourselves to all the follies, sins and, in the end,. the most prodigi- ous losses ever suffered by a vic- torious nation, as we did in 1917?
 At his moment, amid all the troublous controversies of peace, Congress is rolling up its sleeves for a real scrap about the next war. There are two groups. Both want to take profits out of war. One is strong in the House. The other is strong in the Sen- ate., One wants to take the pro- fits out of war by freezing and fix
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
STUDENTS ATTEND
 SESSION OF COURT

M. -Ibers of the graduating class of Anderson school attended this mornings city. court session in a body. They were greeted after court by Judge J. F. McGrath and then made a tour of the City Hall. The class was in charge of Miss Loretto FitzPatrick, with Misa Kathleen Crowl-y, probation officer, acting as their guide in the City Hall.
 The youngsters filled one whole side of the court room as they sat through the brief session, after which Judge McGrath spoke to them. The class was then taken to the various City Hall offices, with several city officials being intro- duccd to them.
 In the only court case aside iron, drunkenness. continuance was given Felix Bator, Al. of 1f2 Carl ton street, New Britain, who was arrested last month on charge of driving while under the Influence of liquor. .$
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
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of trading with warning nations and the delivery of any products on American ships, the policy to be adopted with reference to lending money to foreign nations, and many others. At his moment the Committee Is dealing solely with the question of profits in war. IL has been forced to advance this phase of the subject because the President has insisted on dealing with it now.
 No one pretends that taking the profits out of war will eni war. There are many causes be- hind war-old racial and reli- gious hatereds, political ambitions of dynasties and dictators and statesmen, trade rivalries, the pressure of economic difficulties, the hunger for land for crowding populations-many causes. But these basic war causes are accom- panied by many irritants. And one of them Is the vast profit that can be made out of war. It is an irritant before war begins. It is destroyer after war starts. When
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30

sound excessive until you are told that another company made 64S per cent. It would take a man 100 years and over on a guarap.
 teed investment of per cent to make what this steel corporation cleaned up in one year when it's country was at war. But save your gasps. Another company made 934 per cent, got back it's capital stock value nine and a half times in 8 single year as i.s dividends, on a national disaster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
PRINTING WAGES. HERE SHOW DROP
By PAUL MAY

Washington, D. c. April 30 - Wages in manufacturing and printing and publishing plants iE the Waterbury industrial area, ir- cluding New Haven County, drop ped from $16,7s3,4s6 to $15.771,- 667 in two years, according to a report made public today by tte census bureau.
 The comparison is for the years 1881 and 1888. included in the re- port are 131 establishments which employed 16,s69 persons in 1883. In these same two years, the number of establishments drop. ped from 140 to 131, and the num- | Der of wage earners increased from 16,2S7 to 16,S69. The cost of materials, including containe;.s for products, and fuel and electric energy, dropped fromb $29,616,432 to $27,347.324, and the value of products from s67,343,442 to $57,. 729,594.
 The figures given for New Ha- ven County for 1883 are: 765 cs- tablishments with 55,S59 workers, paid $4S,57S,766, bought materials costing $s4,550,567 and produce ] products valued at $194,s67,057.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
Liberties Union Files
 Protest With Governor
ledges Court Protection for Students Discussing
 Compulsory Military Training

disciplined under the order, would
 be an appeal to the courts, the
 Union i..dicated..
 The order was adopted by the boarI, of trustees of yConnecticlt State College following the student strike on April. 12th. It was made public on April 18th. It reads: Military training (compuls. ) is declared to be a part of the col lcse inst.uction. That any formal public agitations or formal public
 discu, sions on the campus promot-
 cd by individuals on the college staff or individual students. which reflect upon the college military in- structiop or tr. ming, t.ill subject such individuals to, cause for re- nloval." iT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30

Beno T. Wirth, a metallurgist iE work on the problem and solved 1t. But he received no bonus not even one million dollars, not even a thousand dollars. He got no more than the sixty dollars a week he had always earned. And, strangely, he was quite satisfied. What is more, he spent so many sleepless nights on the desperate problem that he undermined his health and died. A grateful gov ernment did not even give dollar to the large family he left be- hind. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30

head of the huge company which made ships and steel for Uncle Sams fighting men. For this he collected in one year-1918-a bonus of $1,386,193. The other officers of the com pany split among themselves $1,834,272 That makes total of $3,220,465. That was almost enough to pay the salaries of bri- gade of infantry at the front-privates, non- coms, all officers including the general.
 Here is another story told by Miss Mary M. OReiily the able and gracious lady who for many years as assistant director of the United States mint has actually managed that interesting insti- tuition. It is about another who did his bit during the war. His name was Beno T. Wirth. As millions of men made ready to go in armies to France, the government was making frantic appeals to citizens to turn in their platinum. Platinum was needed in making shells. The platinum all a rnnr tinn I2rf had fo ha aada infn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
PIG WENT TO. DENTIST

Hoopeston, III -- (UP)--J. 2: Calkins,, farmer, noticed one ,f his. pigs refusing to eat. On ex- animation he found the animal had an infected tooth. Calkin borrowed forceps from a dentist and extracted the ailing tooth. The pig now eats heartily, K
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30
Revelations Of Swollen War Profits Spur
 On Congress Drive On Dollars Of Death
HOUSE AND SENATE GO DIVERSE
 WAYS TOWARD SAME OBJECTIVE

Is huge sums are written fin battlcAeds Prices s,rinks clouds drift leaving caly devastcd land revealing wordpc of "Ths legislative contained three articles which have been prepared T. nations newspaper writings EXCLUSIVELY bury by the first
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-30

See what the war did for soine of our leading producers. Hero are their earnings for 1914 aud 1917:
 American Rolling
 Mil Co. : sss,sos s4,4os,el. Atlas Pow
 der Co 294,149 2,514,G2o Hercules Powder Co. ....... 1,2s1,a4o s,sse,Soo Colts Pat ent Fire arms Co. 275,569, 3,303,25G American Can Co.,. 5,so5so4 21,ss5,o4s American Car and Foundry Go. ...... 3,757,97l 10.3l0,S72 Meantime the managers were treating themselves we'll. The sal- ary of the president of the Ameri- can Rolling Mill was raised from $17,250 to $S7,000; of the Inter- national Harvester Co. from $8.,- 833 to $185,0OO. The President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. went from $12,000 to $75, 900 and of the Atlas Powder Co. fro,a $16,o00 to $69,090.
 These were mere sampleo. There are many far worse cases. When one says the, Senate is at- tacking the profit system," one may ask, What profit system ?" Is anyone in favor of this kind of profit?
 Along with, this went price rocketing. The old war dollai shrank. When you went to bu. round steak your old dollg, was. worth but 55 cents. If you bought ham 1t was worth 4s cents; eggs 50 cents, butter, 60 cents and milk only 50 centc. Some things went up three and four hundred per cent and more. And wages rose too, but far slow- CT than prices. It was not until after the war that wages staged their biggest rise.
 And when 1t was all. over we had piled up a debt of TWENTY TWO BILLION DOLLARS and depression. NEXT: What price war?