The Waterbury Democrat. [volume], August 19, 1931, Page SEVEN, Image 7

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TEMPORARY POST OFFICE OPENS SUNDAY
Moving Equipment
This Week; Old P. O.
Closes Saturday
Colgrove and Assistants Doing Smooth Job—Decks,
Boxes and Files Shifted to Old Boston Furniture
Store Building “At the Junction”
Uncle Sam 1» moving'. After hav
ing hie mall sent to Grand street
for 2< yeare, he la going to try
and feel at home at the familiar
junction, Scovlll, Brook and South
Main streets. It's tough to leave
the old homestead, but the sus
taining thought Is a cheerful one.
Within a few months he will be
back on Grand street, to bigger
and bette- quarters and without a
••reformed” pie station for hie
parcel post quarters.
The general public Is not to un
derstand, however, that Uncle Sam
has officially moved until Post
master A. N. Colgrove has Issued
a formal announcement of tne
change. From all Indications, how
ever, the present post office will
close at * o’clock next Saturday
night and the temporary office at
the corner of Scovlll and Brook
streets will be open to the public
Sunday morning. Desks are being
dismantled at present and moved
to the new site. Box holders need
not worry. They will And In the
temporary quarters an exact dupll
catlon of the present lay-out in the
old office and as a matter of fact
boxes used by big mall receivers
will be shifted to Scovlll street.
Twenty-six years have passed
since Uncle Sam experienced a mov
ing day. It will be a novelty to
many of the present staff, but there
are a few veterans on the pay-roll,
who worked In the P. O. when it
was located on North Main street
back in 1905.
Carpenters and painters are add
ing the finishing touches to the
temporary quarters at present.
Postmaster Colgrove has sent in an
outline of his plans to Washington,
D. C., for approval. He will issue
a formal statement acquainting the
public with the necessary facts at
the proper time. Mail will be re
ceived and stamps sold at the pres
ent quarters as usual next Satur
day up to the usual hours. It the
plans are sanctioned and no
‘‘hitches" developed Uncle Sam will
be at home Sunday morning to all
his friends, customers and visitors.
To-day desks were being made
secure and properly marked for Im
mediate shipment. The basement of
the present federal building has
been emptied of records and ac
cumulation of articles for years
past. Within a few hours the
change-over can be completed. The
postal authorities wjll be unable to
equal the record of the telephone
company for ‘‘cut In,” but the Job
when completed will be Just as ef
Relent.
And next Saturday Postmaster
Coll?rove will probably be saying in
the words of the old Boston Furni
ture company "ads”—"Meet Me at
the Junction."
BETTER SCHOOLS
AID CHILDREN
Chicago—(UP)—Modern school
buildings should be built within a
community through application of
a definite yardstick of speciflca
tlons, If any correlation between
the various plants is to be arrived
at In determining the relation of
school architecture to child health,
the City club of Chicago has found.
After two years study of building
and housing conditions In the Chi
cago public schools, the housing
and public health committee of the
City club discovered that the prob
lem is too vast, the differences be
tween school plants and their loca
tion too great to permit of definite
conclusion in regard to child health
and architecture.
Standardization of school con
struction on the basis of varying
conditions Is vital, the committee
found. In order to give children of
all classes equal chance.
During the last five years ac
cording to the committee repart,
there has been evident In Chicago
a new style of school architecture
based on the needs of children,
which has resulted In a much Im
proved school plant.
Although It was possible for the
committee to obtain statistics on
defective health of school children
In Chicago an damong children of
cities of more than 100,000 popula
tion throughout the country, It felt
any conclusion establishing the re
lation of architecture to heathl was
unwarranted.
Therefore, standardization was
urged In building conditions, in
order to deal with the problem of
chuld health.
Marlon, Va, (UP)—Charged with
scratching the wrong person's leg,
Henry Vernon was fined $10 In
magistrate’s court here- Vernon
said he thought he was scratching
his own extremity, but a young
woman neighbor, who made the
complaint, testified otherwise.
CAPITOL HIDES
2 CRYPTS FOR
WASHINGTONS
Built at Request of Presi
dent Monroe, But
Never Used
Washington.—Few of the thou
sands who annually tlslt the capl
tol here realize that In the base
ment. under the dome of the
structure, there are two vacant
vaults, hewn out of rock, for
Oeorge and Martha Washington.
The preparation of these two
tombs and the reasons why they
remain unoccupied are an Inter
esting bit of the personal history
of George Washington, which has
been brought to light In prepara
tion for the Oeorge Washington
Bicentennial celebration In 1 !)32.
When Washington died, histori
ans believe, there was no doubt In
his mind that his body would be
claimed as national property ami
suitably interred In a national
monument. —
"It Is certain that Washington
never gave even a hint of his
views or wishes, in regard to the
disposition of his remains, except
what is contained in his will,”
wrote George Washington Parke
Custls, Washington's adopted son,
in his "Recollections of Washing
ton.”
"He, no doubt, believed that his
ashes would be claimed us na
tional property and entombed with
national honors.” Custls continues
"hence his silence on the subject
that has agitated the American
people since his death."
Custls remarks that "the high
authorities of t'ho nation begged
his remains for public interment
at the seat of national govern
ment.” Part of the resolution
passed by congress read:
"Resolved by the senate and the
house of representatives of the
United States of America in con
gress assembled,
“That a marble monument he
erected by the United States in
the capitol, att he city of Wash
ington, and that the family of
General Washington ho requested
to permit his body to be deposited
under it; and that the monument
be so designed as to commemorate
the great events of his military
and political life.”
President Adams followed con
gress’ Instructions and received a
reply from Martha Washington,
saying that she had been “taught
by the great example which I have
so long had before me never to
oppose my private wishes to the
public will,” and that she was will
ing to acquiesce regardless of the
"sacrifice of individual feeling I
must make to a sense of public
duty.” The only reservation Mar
tha Washington made was that
she should be entombed beside her
husband.
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Ex-Prosecutor Fights For Life
NBA Los Angeles Bureau.
David H. Clark, former deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, Is
pictured ticre with his attorneys In court during Ills trial for the double
murder of Charles H. Crawford, millionaire politician, and Herbert F.
Spencer, political magazine editor. Deft to right are: Attorney Leonard
Wilson, Clark and Attorney W. I. Gilbert.
Lack Of Vitamin “A ”
Night Blindness Cause
Inhabitants of Newfoundland Overcome Ailments By
Eating Bird or Rabbit Liver—Relief Comes
in Few Days
HV DR MORRIS FIKHHKI.V
Kdltor, Journal of Ilie American
Medical Association, und of
llj-Rcla, the Health Magazine
Newfoundland Inhabitants live
largely on what they can get out
of the sea. Agriculture Is scanty,
cattle are difficult to house and
feed for cattle during the winter
Is hard to get. The people In New
foundland therefore live on diets
corresponding to that of sailors
when sailing on small ships for
long voyages. They get white flour,
molasses, small amounts of pota
toes, cabbages und turnips, salt
pork and oleomargarine.
As might be expected, these peo
ple suffer from dellclency diseases.
Scurvy Is not particularly common;
In fact, not us coon as might be
expected. Hut berl bcrl and various
forms of plyneurltis are fairly fre
quent, and disturbances of the
eyes, such as develop In animals
fed on diets deficient In vitamin
A, are exceedingly frequent.
The most common deficiency of
the eye to be found Is called by the
physician "functional hemeralo
pia." The common name for this
condition Is night-blindness. In this
disease the person Is unable to see
by night. Incidentally the night
blindness is associated with other
disturbances of the eyes In the
form of Inflammations which are
easily produced In animals by put
ting them on diets which are de
ficient In vitamin A. These disturb
ances are readily cured by adding
FASCIST IDEAS
OF STATE USED
IN NEW PEN CODE
Crime Character Given
New Conception By
Italian Laws
Rome. (UP)—The principle be
hind the elaboration of the new
Italian penal code, which went
Into effect recently, derives from
the Fascist conception of the state.
That Is to say, crime In all Its
forms is considered In the now
code in its social and political
character us well us In Its private
relation.
In the new code more stress Is
laid on tho social character of the
offenso than undor the old code.
This is because Fascism con
siders the Individual chiefly as a
unit of tho state—a unit that has
Its own personal liberties up to a
certain point but must forego them
Immediately they clash with the
Interests of tho community.
For Instance, strikes and lock
outs are now offenses In Italy,
while they are considered perfect
lawful weapons of offenso and de
fense nearly everywhere else. The
reason is based on the contention
that In these cases Indivlrual llb
ery of action exceeds Its preroga
tives and by combined action dam
ages the community's interests.
Notable Change
Notable among tho changes is
the reintroduction of the death
penalty. Italy was one of the first
nations to abolish capital punish
ment. After 40 years she has re
sored In certuin cases.
unoer iit-w .
punishment in extended to Home
other cases, as, for Instance,
slaughter In mass such ns is im
plied by letting off bombs and
killing several people; brigandage
when murder Is committed, and
also to certain common crimes
which have an "atrocious” char
acter and menace the safety and
transqullltty of the state.
Many reforms have been Intro
duced Into the prison system by
the new code. The fundamental
concept of prison is still that It
should be a form of punishment,
but the code sets out to organize
the form of the Imprisonment In
such a way that the time spent
under restraint shall help to re
generate as far ns possible the
character and mentality of the
prisoner.
The changes in the prison sys
tem Include the ubolllon of soli
tary confinement, the establish
ment of the obligation o work, a
large extension of the practice of
giving convicts outdoor work
where possible.
Minors are detained In estab
lishments which are not to have
the appearance of prisons. Young
offenders do not wear prison
clothes under the new code.
Another important reform Is the
amplification of the concept of the
"state’s territory." This is now ex
tended to Italian ships and air
planes wherever they may be.
A novelty In penal procedure Is
the Introduction of the system
whereby finest are graduated, ac
cording to the pecuniary possibil
ities of the person condemned. The
regular fine for a certain offense
as proscribed by law may be In
creased as much as three times In
the case of persons of means.
In the manufacture of a tele
phone receiver there ere employed
aluminum, silk, copper, rubber,
flax, nickel, mica, shellao, lead, cot
ton, sliver, Iron, platinum, sine and
gold.
vitamin A to the diet.
Apparently the Newfoundland
ers have found that the condition
may be overcome by eating bird's
liver, cooked or raw, rabbit’s liver,
cod's liver an cod llvpr oil. All of
these substances contain vitamin A
In considerable amounts.
Strangely enough the natives
have the custom -of steaming the
sore eyes over the cooking liver,
which Is then eaten. French sur
gcaons, as long ago as 1811, de
scribed a similar method of treat
ment for sailors with night-blind
ness. Most of the cases of night
blindness clear up a few days after
a few meals of liver.
In the body of a child before,
birth practically all of the vitamin
A It has Is found In the liver. In
the early months of growth the
liver is very large and It tends to
become smaller up to the time
when the child Is born.
SECOND 5-YEAR
PLAN’S SHADOW
OVER RUSSIA
National Propaganda Ma
chinery Set in Motion
By Soviets
By EUGENE LYONS
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Moscow.—The shadow of tho
second five-year plan cree|>* oml-1
nously upon this hard-tried land
of Soviets. Already the gigantic
machinery of national propaganda
has been set into motion. TIiIh Is
one of the Important things which
came to pass in this observer’s
brief absence.
The writer found a few other
changes, or rather the deepening
of tendencies In existence when he
left. They seem significant Indica
tions of how Soviet affairs are
shaping up.
First: The system of piece work
has become almost universal. In
use In various Industries from the
very beginning of Soviet history, It
hash now been uoctended to every
branch of the national economy,
Including tho socialized sector of
farming.
Cost Accounting
Second: A system of cost ac
counting Is being made obligatory
for every Soviet undertaking.
Every undertaking must run on Us
own resources and Justify its ex
istence by showing a profit. Of
course, It has the support of the
government as In tho past, through
credits and technical guidance.
Stalin's recent "orders" that
oversized, unwieldy trusts be split
Into smaller units, as well as his
demand for Individual rather than
collective administration of Indus
trial enterprises, are in line with
this general tendency.
Third: Firm measures have been
taken to fix personal responsibility
for the quality as well ns quantity
of work performed.
Fourth: Tho so-called free mar
ket, where goods can ho bought
without restriction by anyone who
can pay the inflated prices, has
been greatly extended. The gov
ernment has entered into com
petition with the private trader
and opened hundreds of shops.
Soviet Tempo
These changes are a startling
confirmation of tho statement,
now platitudinous, that tho “tem
po" of growth and change In tho
Soviet Union Is dizzying In Its
speed. Processes which under a
private system of economy require
years are forced through here by
a few sharp edicts.
These changes have one char
acteristic In common. They all
draw upon capitalistic methods.
Plccc-work is tho pet abomination
or those who struggle against
"capitalist exploitation”—It la at*
tanked aa a method of driving the
Individual worker. No open
minded communist can deny that
piece-work here has the same
function. It la only the motives
that differ.
■ Personal responsibility for qual
ity of production, and for effi
ciency of business and technical
administration, follow the capital
ist technique. The enlargement of
the free market Is a necessary cor
relary to piece-work, since there
would he little Inducement to earn
more without an opportunity to
spend more.
Put Into Its terest form, the
whole tendency may be described
thus: The Soviet State, In Its ca
pacity of large capitalist—owning
and operating the largest complex
of Industries and businesses In the
world—resorts more and more to
the ordinary capitalist methods. In
its capacity It develops the world's
most ambitious paternalistic ap
paratus of social Insurance, educa
tion and health protection. But In
the role of business directorate It
Is Increasingly more practical and
hard-boiled.
Soviet Technique
To the Soviet leaders there In
no real contradiction between their
communistic aims and the appllca
< ' r,mm
tlon of well-trlad capttalMic toch
nlque.
"Wo will toko ovar any capital
lot methods that wo can uao In one
own communist economy,” one ol
them said, “Do we have any
scruples about adopting capitalist
machinery. conveyer systems,
mechanised farming? No more do
we scruple to adopt your tech
nique for raising productivity of
labor, or eliminating waste. It is
not capitalist efficiency we obpect
to, but capitalist chaos. We see
a world of difference between your
workers tolling to pile up fortunes
for a few and our workers tolling
to enrich the country as a whole.”
Certainly this Is a decisive dis
tinction for the minority of the
Hovlet population which » “sold"
on the dea. How much the dis
tinction means to the least com
tnon denominator of the whole
business—to the individual worker
being driven, or cajoled. Into
working faster and better—Is a
question.
The phenomenally fast growth
of collectivization In agriculture
continues. Ily the time spring
sowing was finished some 13,000.
000 peasants had Joined In 200,000
collectives: about 55 per cent of
the whole farming population and
more than two-thirds of the total
planted acreage.
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