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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10

During the first half Of 1895 Wa
terbury had Q mortality rate lower
than those Of similar periods for
recent years, II was stated today at
the health department office. The
local mortality rate reduction
agrees with that for the entire state,
the Connecticut department OF
health reporting today In its week.
~ bulletin that mortality rates for
the. first six months Of 1888 were
"vefy favorable.
The local and state reports re-.
fleet Q continuance Of the extreme
" healthy conditions which have
prevailed In Connecticut In recent
years. In Waterbury during the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
Health Officer

Ah@@sVAs VAAhSSA
first half Of the year, reductions
were noted In deaths caused by the
various serious diseases accepted 90
Ilorrns by health authorities.
In addition TO reporting o 70.
duced mortality rate, the office OF
Health Officer Or. Edward j. God"
frey announced today that the birth
rate for this city thus far In 1885
hrs been higher than IN previous
years. Unless there Is an unexpect-
ed reduction during the remaining
five months Of the year, the Water
bury birth rate Is expected TO DO
the best In the last several years.
The bulletin contained mortality
statistics for o selected list OF "a
causes Of death from January
through June, inclusive, showing
that the death toll had been dc.
creased for II causes ana had been
increased for ten, with one exactly
even. Total deaths from the az
causes In the first six months OF
1893 were 0,47o as against 0,624 IN
the corresponding period Of 1895.
One Typhoid Death
Commenting on the half year
statistics, the department said:
every distinct decreases ore TO be
noted for typhoid fever, measles and
scarlet fever. Owing TO flood condi-
tons In March and April OF this
year, there was imminent danger Of
q typhoid epidemic, but II was not
until June Of 1885 that single
death due to typhoid fever appear
cd. In the same period for 1895,
there had been six deaths. This
speaks eloquently Of the control
measures pFacticed during and I'm.
mediately after the disastrous floods
Of 1885.
I'm 1895 measles was pandemic
In the state, with more than $4,000
cases reported for the first elk
months Of that year. There has
been no such incidence Of this
disease In 1886, which will explain
the large decrease In mortality.
ut Is encouraging to note that
diphtheria Is again apparently
under control. In 1895 there was O
disturbing increase In this disease.
As diphthefia can DO absolutely pre-
vented by toxoid incubation, and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
Statistics Reveal
Remarkable Changes
Within Few Months
State Health OficiaIs Issue Statement Indicating
Mortality Rate Declining - Local Authorities Con.
flrming Claim Point to Gain in Births for 5 Months

increase must lead to the conclusion
that somewhere an imHnunization
program Is failing.
There Is O large and splendid de-
crease In deaths due to pulmonary
tuberculosis. In Q similar review,
published in August, 1885, there was
o slight increase Of that year, 1895,
over 1884. This years experience,
therefore, speaks eloquently, and aS
this cause Of death has been de.
creasing regularly from year TO year,
II may confidently be expected that
at the end Of the year 1898, o new
low record death rate will be re-.
corded for tuberculosis.
Cancer Increases
1.-THE cancer deaths have increas.
ed. This increase Is by no means
tranSitory. II has been appearing
aS q regular increase for many years
In fact, cancer Is In second place %
o large cause Of death In Connects.
cut, diseases OF the heart being the
largest and In first place. These
facts serve to emphasize the liecess
Sity Of the Connecticut state Can
Ger program as adopted by the State
Medical Society In conjunction with
the state Department OF Health.
1.-THE pneumonias show increases
and the increase In diarrhOa In
children "a due to the fact that the
year 1885 yielded the lowest infant
diarrhea rate In the history Of the
state; 1885, therefore, Is being com.
pared with q record, and while there
10 an increase for 1885 II is still be.
low the average six months NOR
tally. Favorable decreases are 10 be
noted for deaths due to puerperal
diseases, suicides and accidental
deaths"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
CHASE

Life Saving tests for the children
Of Chase and Hamilton Parks will
begin tomorrow afternoon under the
local Red Cross instructor, George
Chapman. The Junior life saving
class ranges from children over IL
years Of age while In the senior de
vision they must be over II years.
The classes will be held as follows:
Tuesday at 2 o'clock the boys will
meet at Hamilton pool. Friday at
4:30 o'clock they will meet OF Chase
pool. The girls hours are as follows:
Tuesday at 4 p. m. at Chase and
Fridays at 1880 p. m. at Hamilton.
Bill Kalosky swept into the lead
last week In the Athletic honor roll
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
DIVISION ST.

The final rehearsal Of the enter
tainment to be presented Wednesday
evening at the North End Y, M. q.
A. by the children OF the Division
street. playground will be held this
afternoon under the direction OF
Louis Adams at 2 o'clock,
Mrs. Leona 0ravellne will also
conduct the regular weekly meet
Ing Of the folk dancing class this
afternoon at 3 o'clock. The children
are busy preparing for the "Pa.
geant OF Nations" TO be held at
Hamilton Park August 20.
The sleeping Beauty" will be
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
FIVE PERSONS
GO TO HOSPITAL

Orange, Conn.,, Aug. l0-(UP)-
Five persons were admitted TO New
Haven Hospital today suffering
from various injurious concurred IN
an automobile crasha on the
Milford Turnpike. All were occu-
pants Of the car.
They were: Michael Vaccaro, Il,
1881 seth street, BROOKLYN, Joseph
Vaccaro, (o63 42d street, Brooklyn,
John, 10 and Mary, u, children OF
Michael Vaccaro, and Salvatricia
ManncaSsro, SO, Of the seth street
address.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
HINDENBURG is
MAKING RETURN

Lakehurst, N. j., Aug. i0.-(UP)-
The Zepplin Hindenburg sailed east
ward on her 18th commercial voy-
age over the Atlantic today with
81 passengers, 285 pounds Of mail
and l,400 pounds of freight, which
included an i,l62-pound furnace.
The furnace was billed to Copen-
hagen, Denmark, but Zeppelin COM
pary officials would not reveal the
name OF the consignee nod speculate
about why he needed o furnace IN
such expensive haste. Capt. Ernst
Lehman radioed the naval cir sta
ton that his ship passed over Bos-
ton at approximately ! a. m. It left
Lakehurst at i0:36 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
WEATHER REPORT

Boston, Aug. l0.-(UP)--Woathor
forecast:
MassH chuBotts and Rhode island
ShoworS ana cooler early tonight
Tuesday fair and cooler.
ConnectIcut: Showers and colder
early tonight. Tuesday fair and
cnnlnr,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10

presented ct the Pearl street com.
munity house tonight at 8 p. m.
The Nature Club meets this AFTER
noon and the girls softball team
will practice for the game with
Washington Park tomorrow night.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10
MASSES

OF requiem will be celebrated We'd
nesday morning at g o'clock, at the
Sacred Heart church, for the no.
pose OF the soul Of tho late Thorn
as Fleming.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-08-10

Misses and women's sizes
in pastel and dark shades.
Also included are pastel
sheer frocks-broken sizes
only. Regularly $2.9S and
more.
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is an instrument Of liberal democracy.
Its methods as well as its ideals were
and have remained democratic. 1t
was the first organization Of nations
in which the small powers were rec
ognized along with the great; If they
were not on an even footing in the
Council, they shared the rostrum In
the Assembly and worked side by side
with their powerful neighbors in bu-
reaus or committees.
idea Of Wilson.
Moreover, the method was that of
free parliaments-open discussion. The
fundamental idea Of Woodrow Wilson
was that the League was to be the
repository of a Monroe Doctrine for
the world" by which he meant the
safeguarding of national liberties from
aggression by the strong and an op-
portunity for democracies to express
their will in their accustomed ways.
Whatever the League has been, 1t
has kept this ideal in view and has
not violated it in form. In substance
it has at times yielded to politics of
power, but upon the whole it has
kept to its professions as well as
most governments. From first to last,
the League stands as q symbol of
democracy in international affairs.
Now, this Is just where the test Of
today strikes hardest. The institu-
tions of democracy are not keyed
to crises. They call for deliberate
Evening star., 1936-09-27

action; they weigh all kinds Of argu-
ments, the foolish with the wise and
the experienced. Their capacity for
action is lessened by their tolerance
of debate. Witness the long delays
in dealing with the Manchurian and
Abyssinian wars. The result is that
as the war clouds grow more and
more ominous over Europe, the
double fear which they create-fear
of both invasion and Of civil strife
tends to turn mems minds to more
ready means of action.
Problem One Of Speed.
The strategy of defense must be
quick-incredibly quick-in the era
of air warfare There is no time for
discussion in Geneva or anywhere
else If the squadrons of death are
on their way, or even if they are
poised for flight. The problem OF
security is largely one Of speed. 1t
also is one of adequate armamentS.
when others arm instead of going
to Geneva. Under the circumstances
the League must fit its parliamentary
structure to action. Unless it can
move with q speed equal to that Of
the nation that resorts to war, 1t
will be ineffective and will be dis
carded utterly.
But this Is what most people today
are saying the League cannot do.
They point, with good reason, to the
Evening star., 1936-09-27
BY JAMES r. SHOTWELL,
'rofsssor Of History at Columbia University.

BY JAMES T. SHOTWELL,
Professor Of History at Columbia University.
TINE drama being enacted at
Geneva is much more than q
crisis In the history Of the
League Of Nations. Behind the
scenes other forces are at work than
those in evidence. The talk is about
the Leagues failures and the way to
reform its structure; but the real is
sues have now quite left Abyssinia or
Manchuria behind. The problem Of
averting wars between nations has
taken turn which brings it back from
distant exploits of imperialism and
raises new and peculiarly sinister pos
sibilities at home.
The civil war in Spain has smeared
a handwriting on the wall. Behind
the menace of international war rises
the specter-more terrible still. If pos
sible-of civil war. The double line
up has already begun; for the first
struggle, the opposing ranks Of hostile
or suspicious nations; for the second
one, the forces of revolution confront
ing those Of reaction. The question
of the Leagues future is part of the
larger one, whether the institutions of
liberty and representative govern
ments can protect themselves against
such dangers.
It should be remembered that the
League which was set down in war
shattered world in 1919 was and still
Evening star., 1936-09-27

fact that its failure 70 anticipate
war and prevent its happening Is the
vital weakness of the organization.
Once a war has begun it cannot be
stopped without police measures too
dangerous to the. policing nations to
be taken on except when their own
interests are imperiled.
The League lost out in the Man
churian episode in the first 10 days,
when its indecision, due chiefly to
cross purposes with Washington, gave
the leaders of the Japanese Army
time to move on and commit the
honor of their country to their cause.
Mussolini calculated on the same
delays and cross-purposes at Geneva
and played them to his advantage.
Why should not this always happen?
Is so, what use Is the League as a
bulwark for peace?
New Detection Serious.
The simplest answer is that the
League has already shown its futility
and that the sooner people stop talk
ing of collective security the better.
It is not only Rome and Berlin that
speak in these terms now; British and
French conservatives, never fully con-
verted to the Geneva experiment, are
reacting almost as strongly against it.
As that experiment can succeed only
If it has public opinion solidly be-
Evening star., 1936-09-27

"HE secretary oI otdVc en
phatic reafiirmation of the
kellogg pact and its coroa-
L larry, the policy Of non-recog-
milton Of territorial gains by force,
viii be Enthusiastically received by the
statesmen and public opinion OF
Latin America.
DENYING reports that his admis-
sion. in a public address, that the
kellogg pact had been impaired by
certain powers amounted to q sug-
eestion of its abandonment, Secre-
tary Hull stated that he saw no rea-
son why, because the pact had been
weakened by repeated violations, the
United States should abandon 1t or
any other international agreement
to which 1t is committed. On the
contrary. the Secretary added, he
sought in his speech before the Good
Neighbor League to keep alive and
perpetuate the Kellogg pact by link
ing it for the first time with the
Jeffersonian formula Of peace, COM
merce and honest friendship with all
nations, entangling alliance with
none"
This IS particularly reassuring at a
time when q persistent campaign OF
isolation and indifference toward
world events had begun to make other
governments somewhat skeptical as to
the support which could be expected
from the United States in the defense
of the existing instruments Of peace.
To Stand BY Position.
The Latin Americans, sincere inter-
nationalists not solely because Of their
political philosophy, but because Of
their material necessities, may now be
confident that the Roosevelt-H ad-
ministration has not the slightest In
tention to modify the position taken
previously by the State Department
one which they considered q guarantees
for the maintenance Of peace in the
Western Hemisphere.
It was In his Pittsburgh address d
October 49, 1882, that Secretary o.
Evening star., 1936-09-27
CAMPAIGN OF ROOSEVELT
IS HELD ONE OF DEFENSE
Administration Decidedly ''Tax Con
scious," Observer Says-Communists
Believed Supporting President.

written or oral intended or
calculated to lead any person to be-
lieve that any part of the price at
which such article Is sold . or
offered for sale - a. consists Of a tax
imposed under the authority Of the
United States -" shall be guilty
Of q misdemeanor and, upon convic-
ton thereof, shall be punished by a
fine of not more than 81 900 or by i'm
prisonment not exceeding one year, or
both"
To this statute Mr.. Cummings called
public attention. He expressed the
"hope" that no one would put him
in the embarrassing" position Of
bringing prosecutions under it.
Law Passed in 1918.
For the presence Of this statute on
the books there Is a simple explana-
ton. It was passed in 1918. It was
passed during the war, in the spirit in
which it was made crime to say or
do anything that might hamper the
country In the prosecution Of the
war. 1t was part of the same spirit
which made it crime to give sup
port, even the moral support of words,
to any one resisting the draft. It was
part Of the spirit which sold Liberty
bonds by means which included un-
oficial intimidation, in the spirit Of
super patriotism.
No prosecution was ever brought
under this tax-silence statute, at the
time or since. If any prosecution
were brought under it now It is
quite safe to say that no American
jury would bring in q verdict Of
guilty. The local juries of America,
rejecting neighborhood sentiment, are
our salvation against q good many
attempts to make crimes out Of actions
which the average man does not be-
ieve to be crimes. It was the refusal
Of local juries to tndict or convict
that largely brought about the down.
fall Of national prohibition. And ii
N. r. A. and the Blue Eagle had not
been overthroWn BY the unanimous
(Conttnued on Ninth PaGe.)
Evening star., 1936-09-27
LATIN AMERICA Halls
HULL'S STAND ON PACT
Administration Will Con-
tinue Kellogg Treaty Stand
Taken by StimsOn.

State StimSon formally committed the
United States to a policy Of consistent
support Of the Kellogg pact. Refer
ring himself to the two occasions in
that year in which the Washington
Government had called the attention
of quarreling countries to their obliga-
tions under the anti-war pact-the
Manchurian crisis and the Chaco con-
troversy-the then head of the State
Department clearly set down the course
to be followed by the United States in
future emergencies.
Starting from the premise that "the
declaration in the treaty carries with
it the duty of performance" he said:
I'VE have made it clear that it neces-
sarily alters the whole attitude of the
world toward war; that, whereas dur
ing the centuries hitherto war has
been one of the natural functions Of
government, giving rise to legal rights
and obligations, hereafter among the
signers Of this treaty war will be an
illegal thing disease instead Of .
normal state function; that whereas
hitherto . breach Of the peace be-
tween two nations has been nobody's
business but their own, now, under
the treaty. it has become the rightful
concern Of the whole world, because
practically the whole world has
signed the treaty"
Invoked in Manchukuan Case.
In this spirit and as natural cor
ollary Of the observance Of the Kel-
logg pact was born the so-called Stim-
son doctrine of non-recognition OF
territorial acquisitions obtained by
force of arms. This policy was first
invoked with reference to the estab-
lishment OF the Manchukuan state
under Japanese pressure, but on Aug
ust 8, 1882. the governments of the
American republics jointly adopted
it through their diplomatic repre-
sentatives in Washington and later,
by its inclusion in the Argentine anti
war pact, made it q formal and con-
tractual pledge. More recently it was
one Of the main bases for the conclu-
don Of the Bolivian . Parasuayan
Evening star., 1936-09-27

M the New Deal are on the
wv defensive with respect to
v actual votes is q matter of
statistics which will not be
complete until November 3. The elec-
ton in Maine this month suggests
that they are; so did the recent pri-
maries in Massachusetts, and Michigan.
However, it be about actual votes,
it is clear that psychologically Mr..
Roosevelt and his campaign strategists
are on the defensive. Very little Of
their campaign Is attack; almost the
whole Of it Is defense-a strategy Of
defense which includes attempts to
spike some of their opponents guns.
The administration is tax con-
scious"-in q sense different from tax
consciousness on the part Of those who
pay the taxes. To put it accurately,
the administration is conscious that
the country is tax conscious. This.
apparently, the administration does
not like. It seems fair to infer this
administration would like the coun-
try to remain In . world Of dreams, in
which the only taxes are those which
"soak the rich"
Old Tax Statute.
When the Republican campaign
managers, and many eager volunteers
from the public, began to call atten-
ton to the element of taxes to caus-
ing advances in the prices Of food,
clothing and other commodities, Mr..
Roosevelt's Attorney General, Mr..
Homer Cummings, took AN extraordi-
nary step. He dug up statute-long
ignored both by Government and the
public statute which seems TO make
it q crime to make mention Of the
amount Of tax included in the cost
of any commodity. The part Of the
statute pertinent to the present situa-
ton reads:
whoever In connection with the
sales . or offer for sale Of any
article, or for the purpose Of making
such sale 80 makas any statement.
Evening star., 1936-09-27

armed struggle over the Chaco. The
two contending parties, as well as the
six neutral nations under whose aus
pices peace was re-established, agreed
that territorial gains resulting from the
Chaco war shall not be recognized and
that final possession Of the land in
dispute must be settled by diplo-
matte or, if necessary, arbitral pro-
cedure
As to the Kellogg pact itself. from
which this doctrine may be said to
have sprung, it was in Latin America,
too. that it was first put to an actual
test. After direct representations had
failed to secure the return of the
small town of Leticia, forcibly seized
by Peruvian citizens, the Colombian
government formally invoked the Kel-
logg pact, late in 1882, and placed the
facts of the controversy before that
of the United States, one of the sig
natories and sponsors of that treaty.
Reminded Of Obligations.
Acting at the request Of the Colom-
bian authorities, the State Department
reminded the Peruvian government of
"its obligations under Article II of the
Briand-Kellogg pact, by which the
high contracting parties agreed that
the settlement or solution of all dis
putes, of whatever nature or origin
they may be, which may arise among
l.@n ha
pacific means"
Furthermore, the Secretary of State.
in his note to the Peruvian minister
of foreign affairs asserted that the
reported intention of the Peruvian
government to support the action OF
its citizens holding Leticia would con-
stitute - recourse to war for the set
tlement of an international contro-
versy and the employment Of war as
an instrument Of national policy in its
relations with another signatory pow
er and be contrary to Article I OF the
Kellogg BRAND pact" and concluded:
"If 50, as set forth in the preamble OF
that pact, such q violation Of 1t would
entail denial Of the benefits furnished
by that pact to the signatory power
which violated it." It Is unnecessary tc
stress the important role which this
outspoken attitude of the United States
played in averting q major war ovei
Leticia.
Having thus tried, and definitely
adopted, the principles Of the kellogg
pact and the non-recognition of terri.
torial gains by force, the nations Of
Latin America will be pleased to learr
that the United States has not with
drawn its support Of these perhaps a
vet imperfect but well-intentioned at
tempts at the organization Of peace
and that 1t Is still committed to thl
theory that the pledge involved II
them carries with it the duty o.
performance.
tcepvrisht 1852
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Evening star., 1936-09-27
BY GASTON NERvAL.

.HE Secretary Of Staes en-
phatic reaf11rmation of the
kellogg pact and its coroi-
, 4ho po1icv NJ nor.recOC.
Evening star., 1936-09-27
BY MARK SULLIYAN.

w WHETHER Mr. Roosevelt and
M the New Deal are on the
wv defensive with respect to
actual votes is q matter Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-02
FIREMEN CALLED
 TO BRUSH FIRES

Firemen were called out six times yesterday. Three of the alarms were for brush fires and one was for a fence fire on the property of John Hoskol. 24 Pearl Lake road, at 9:04 o'clock last night. Three trucks were sent out, in answer to a teIe- phone call and a box alarm.
 Other minor fires were as fol- lows: Roof fire at q garage, 333 Walnut street. at 8:43 o'clock: dump fire off Manhan street at 7:56 O. clock, and the brush fires at 2:55 o'clock on the Faber estate, Faber avenue; property owned by Frank Hayes. Eagle street, at 3:30 D. m., and on land of Mrs. J. Dick, Oak vile avenue at 5:26 o'clock.
 Bremen were called out 12i times for brush fires during the past month, according to summary compileI at fire department head quarters today. April is ordinarily one of the worst months in the year for brush fires. A high mark of l76 was set in 1881. The record last year was I45. High winds and the infiammabIe condition of the brush during early spring result in scores of fires. During the past month as many as ten brush fires a day have been recorded.