New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1922, Page 6

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Our ¢irculat based upon this Lodit tectfon against fraud tribution figures to hot! cal advertisor. = A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE, Putting aside treating the matter as a practical af- falr to be studled for the selfish:good that may be gained from such study, the example of Mayor Paonessa is the . best lesson of the public success that may be achieved in this country by an honest, hard working man, that has come to local notice, Nor is it |y the intention to hold Angelo Paon- essa up as all that is to be desired in n st This ir In news fon 1ll sentimént and every way—an example of political ! His case is cited as a simple, plain indi- cation of what a man may accomplish without extraordinary advantages. Twenty years ago Angelo Paonessa came to New He had been a construction foreman. He settled here. He treated people squarely and he took advantage of op- portunities. A little while Mayor of this city because people be- leved in him and liked him—the bet- ter people knew him the more they| trusted him. The night of election | someone called up his home to con- | gratulate him. He was not i | perfection or profound wisdom. Britain with his bride. He prospered ago he was elected 1 | | | | there. “You should be proud of Angel said the person to her. her fervent reply. Wednesday night Mayor Paonessa | read his message to the common | council. Those who supported him | and those who opposed him as being | of a different faith, politically, proud of him. felt that every member of the coun-| cil had a personal interest in seeing| Angelo Paonessa ‘“‘make good.” | This is the practical example of | what a man may do by the exercise of honesty and good faith toward others'and by making the most of the chances that come to him. It i " worth noticing. His wife answered the telephone. was “I am,” were | In a measure it was TRADITION. 1t has beer®suggested in these col- umns that the day will “'hrtni even the law will be strirfly‘ bound by precedent. Precedent, and the desire not to infringe upon states’ rights, compelled the declaring of the | Child Labor law unconstitutional. The | come less decision was good law as law stands | U | Moreover it would be no more | legally proper to say that law | should have been upheld because ni protected children, even though it did | it by means of an illegal action, than it is proper to say a murderer should not be condemned because the man | he killed ought to have been killed anyway. But discussing the decision the gen- eral secretary of the National Child | Labor committee raised a sound point, | looking to the future, ferring to ‘“tradition,” he said: Justice Taft says hav® preserved us for 150 years. | political traditions of Babylon, we are | told, preserved it 2,600 years, and the political traditions of | Egypt for a longer period. parison our own institutions are in | . their fhfancy and it might not he amiss for American statesmen to dis- cover some way of avoiding the errors by which the earlier governmental ex- | periments have failed."” Tradition is struggling hard to re- tain its supremacy. It holds many of our statesmen. It holds politicians who rely upon organizations of the past becauge they have been success- | ful. Men who believe that a certain plan has worked well in the | past it will work well always and that ‘nothing better may be found, still walk the streets in self satisfac- tion. Those who cry out “It was good | enough for our fathers, it good | enough fOr us,” are still at Jarge and | boasting of their titles of “leading citizens.” Many of them need education as | much if not more than the illiterate, | for they are in positions where their | narrow, blind words have weight | | | today. the in re-| “Chief when (traditions) The | ours for nearly By com- | because is proud The decision regarding the chill labor law was proper—it was “‘good ' languish necessary for the good - |sinful soul. | {of hell was more powerful than Spirit | Voliva's most ardent fo | 1y the election of N of the republics some partisan pape | opened North Georgla, | Mis- " Island, Delaware, New Rhode Carolina, are Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, IMlorida, sourl | SACRILEGIOUS VOLIVA | Wilbur Glann Voliva, Supreme Die- of Zion City, tator would be shocked to know that has been most sac rilegious in his assertion that heaven b the eartn, as | to usser- used to underneath hell tions, {8 now, according his but that it was moved away and | the earth, tradition, |carried above Voliva, bound by cannot it large-dimensioned fire which intimate out of his that get head his lake of he | deseribes with such minute- ness, must be down there somewhere ‘Hv cannot think of the spirit of an levil man rising: it must descend and, course, it flesh of must be clothed in the sort of we know about or the burning lake would not cause the of the Granted that devil will Voliva's lake of fire, lin whnich the perish event- lually, is located somewhere under-| Voliva's flat earth It to grant that heaven |ever located near it and that it neath not | possible is was was moved because hell was so close. To ronceive of this possibility it wouk be |necessary to grant that the proprie |nr‘nf't'=l~Sl!y a virtue and be forced into action that will give her a chance prosper. the | not move, This| Tlowers slmuml heaven—that forced of heaven, hell was to not grant. | It is submitted in all seriousness that discussions of such matters by | Imen whose intellects are of the type| lof | thoroughly as similar attempts to ex- pound divine truths by illiterate and | ignorant persons. | Voliva's are to be condemned as PERSONAL VICTORIES. Comment on the nomination of Gif- ford Pinchot in the Pennsylvania re- publican primaries, for the governor- ship of that state, has brought unanimity of opinion in one particu- | lar—it was a defeat of the machine, have beer significance, | of course Some people | looking honestly the politically, of the “personal victor for recently noted. | In Indiana the nomi eridge over New was of the machine. tion of Quigley over Curtis, if not a | defeat of the of its comparative weakness ation of Bev- | similar defeat Locally the nomina- was evidence Certain- machine, vor Paonessa W further evidence of the failing power n machine here. It is not neces: to go as far as rt that ! L pro- 1gainst the manner in which af- at Wash- there is ground and ¢ the nomination of Pinchot was test fairs are being conducted ington, although this argument. urge that Mayor Paonessa Wi ed here because the voters did not like | President Harding's way doing | for | It is not necessary to s elect- of But “personal will fail to victories™ in these a further devel- few see opment of independence of the elec- torate and a breaking away from sub- What nat serviency (o organizations. The that there is a follows? to conclusion answer seems be cy to leave the party which is nd which has been alwa of organization, the party constricted by conservatism, boasting of its *old | guard,” the party under which pros perity to the but the party which is losing its hold be- of rebellion politics”—the vs the party | has come country, cause against * Old Party.” nachine | “Grand RADIO TO THE RE Most lost in L 6 ON that reaching us have the of dreamed we were darkness, out which way to turn in every direction, not knowing The nightmare is have found themselves, groping in searching for a path to| terrible. Some awake but unable to see, the darkness L familiar place. Unpleasant as are such experiences they give but an indication of the ter- ror that must come to tho: aboard a lost ) of y if the hidden dangers may be iped. Such has the exper- ience of ships on Lake Superior. The master of many a vessel has cried out ship, but within easy reach safe esc been silently for knowledge of just where his ship, upon the deck of which he stood, was heading. This knowledge would mean safety. For the lack of it many a ship has gone down. Today mere up paraphernalia which, in more power- bo; are setting ful shape, will give that information. The first naval radio compass station | on the Lakes opened at W Fish | Point May 14. Passing shi fost in the fog hanks may call the station and | the position they travelling. Other will Over the desolate water will | g0 news that will save, ships, lives information that will be light a place terrible unseen dangers. The thought hope it brings. Never ha saying, "A word to the ite are | be | ask in which stations like a great | in because of is the trite | wonderful in the wise | th Facts and Fancies can’t understand the prairie country | froper consider |is because it is on the level. | | glor, | He takes away half the fun of it |always |lege professor at $1,900 a year or | aging EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1922, e e egame are interpreted by the dif- \( forent | When Secretary of States Hughes to the note of May I 11, some critics said he magnified its [l [l entrants. reterred Lussian importance, Yesterday Lloyl George On the City told the Russians plainly that it they | — THE OBSERVER - Makes Random Observations and Its People did not change their attitude (rom | W that as expresged in the memorandum of May 11 the Vith the news of labor scarcity in citles In Michigan and Ohio it would fall, as far as they were con- | ' expected that a tide of workmen A h et will flow to those points with the re- A What he I8 [ gpt that. the balance will #oon be quoted as saying sums the matter up. | changed and instead of a scarcity “When you are writing a letter ask- | there will be a surplus of labor, This for more credifs,” were his words, |18 freauently the case when it 18 re- ““mrlm‘l that any industry is pleking Plup and 13 in need of men. Unfor- him not in | tunately for many who do not ana- that letter enter into an eloquent ex- | lyze the situation, they rush to the position of the doctrine of repudiation | f¢ene only to find that all jobs have Th Ay e lEotad S hut 1otal been taken and their only reward for :') A3 DI S1the trip Is the scenery they have not diplomati, | viewed from a car window. The abandonment of this princi- | Tabor in the mass is very much A the adoption of the | ke a erowd of small boys out fish- | Ing. One catches a fish and imme- UPON diately sets up a howl tof delight. which busiuess Is based by the peoples | The others.rush to the apot on the of the world, is the “basis for trade" 1 bank where the fish was caught and to which Secretary of State Hughes |2!! lines are thrown in. som= of the without which | NeWeomers catch a fish but the ma- tthout Which|sopity of them are disappomnted. The there can be no ofiictal recognition of | fellows who did not abandon their Russia and no trade relations. | ishing locations in the meantime are Perhaps it may be, predicted that, | Pusy landing lhr"nnn_v denizens of 15, when th o {the pond, there being fewer lines out = 3 R n. nalionagImaay comparison with the number of at The Hague, Russia, which sces the (in fish in that locality. point now, will be ready to make| Carrying the parallel farther, work- | men hear of a certain point where |employment can be secured. They 101 ush thither from all points of the {compass, Some of them get what they started out to get, but more learn when it is too late that there |are more applicants than jobs. | Just at present there are reports | of renewed activity in industrial cir- cles in Detroit and Cleveland. These !two cities seem to have discovered S lan elixir that has sent the blood of Some mercantile fires are caused | girength flowing through their ar- by falling sparks, and some by fall- | (cries agaln. The former is engaged ing prices. :prlnclpally in the production of au- {temobiles; the latter in the manu- Maybe American charity will keep | facture of automobile parts, acces- Russia ‘going until Germany 1is|sories and tools. ~The automobile ready to take her in hand, | buisiness is booming. Production rec- S | ords are falling by the wayside. This It may be worth ten cents to shine | fact accounts for the sudden demand a pair of shoes, but the shine is sel- | for lahor. dom worthiten'cants: | A man who holds a job in a New 3 & | Britain factory should hesitate before The decay of civilization is in exact | giving it up to hunt a will o' the proportion to the multiplication of { wisp that is beckoning over the hills. EOVEEIRISNL 1008 | Soon we shall begin“to hear tales of large wages being paid. This may ' Fly traps will never be a complete |jnduce men in New Britain to pack Sy until somebody invents one|yp to go running for a job that is that resembles a bald head. Jpa_v!ng what seems to be fabulous prices. Some of them are doomed to disappointment. The situation {s improving here weekly. Nearly every manufacturer | will say that there has been a decid- | ed change for the better. This being the case, it will be only a short time, [according to calculations, Lefore lo- ! cal factories have returned to normal | and everyone is working full time. | The pick-up will be slow here and | there, but renewed prosperity is in | the air_and it will not be necessary to go to Ohio or Michigan to share in it. Genoa conference | some cerned. paragraph ot ing 1 let me give word of advice who .does it—let one anyhody of debts, ple by Russia a principles of sound business has so often referred, by June s (BY nmOBERY QUILLEN) That Florida tramp who courted | and won a rich widow knows the| process of turning brass into gold: o x The usual dilemma: If the boss dis-| Before the site for a new city hall likes you, you haven't the nerve and | g selected much water will pass over courage to hit him for a raise, and if | {he dam. It is proper that such he likes you, you haven't the heart. |ghould be the case. The site for the new building must serve for many One reason why eastern politicians | years and it should be selected with tion for all factors. Certain sections of the city will de- | teriorate, They will become ~run | A girl never appreciates the full| gown at the hecls. Becausc of their of womanhood until she learns |, oximity to factories or to congested | “Charge it to Dad, please.” |jyginess districts their value as a s | for a city hall will become less and At times we suspect that republics | ogg as time passes. On the other are more disposed to trust in God be- | yang, a site that is so far removed cause they find it more .ccessary. | from the center of business activities 73 as to become isolated is equally as Our idea of a generous wife s one | 1 qesirable. who permits her husband to use at| 1¢ secems to the writer that the least two of the hooks in the closet. | goraooing applies to the sites already £ | suggested, the old Burritt school, at the corner of Main and Fast Main streets, for one, and the Normal ! school for another. The Burritt school site is undesirable because the atmosphere of the immediate sur- roundings does not lend itself to a project of this kind. It is essentially business district, noisy and some- what unkempt, besides being con- tizuous to streets which are rather frayed at the edges. It is far from an ideal site. While the present locatfon of the Normal school has many advantages to recommend it, there are also ob- icotions. Principally, it is incon- venient for citizens having official business to transact at a city hall. It distance from any main To reach it one must to sa s it is all right for | Drat the man. A clergyman s oung people to kK Uncle Sam as an official observer at Genoa rveminds us that something| happens to the innocent by-| stander. b is quite a thoroughfare climb a hill, There are, no over- a play| incinded | fable that Aesop looked: Once upon a time was produced and the cast not a single girl named “Peggy. Here' A doubt, sites which would have the aflvantage of being centrally located and at the same time in a neighborhood which would -pish a zood seiting for a building this type. Some citizens favor entral park. "his, it is true, is in | | the heart of a business district, but a district that is improving in appear- ance. We would all miss the green which has marked the commercial center of New Britain for many years |and sentiment might be sufiiciently strong to block any projected use of this spot for the new city hall. Education is a wonderful 1iing and the bright student may become a col- coach at $15,000. Scrapping the treaty won't help. An agreement. between Jussia and Ger- many by any other name woull make France just as sore. It is easy to believe that a preacher is called when Tie spends sixicen Wy T The ooy years before the years getting educated and then| sl e i Ty new bullding becomes more than a works for $400 a year. | mass of imaginary bluéprints, In the meantime it is well to prepare the 3 t keys can he % A TRb e A ary encour. | PUBlic mind for the news that money taught g":n']m‘*"i‘ ”;M it will bLe|must some day be appropriated for crhaps ir e b & | its construction. possible to teach folk | v e | There is talk of spending $25,000 | for an cighteen-hole golf course at | the North End park. New Eritain s s rrmsmnnrerrersoces | ol have a golf o IhErS hFs enough en st here to warrant an 25 Years Ago Today {|sviviiie ot ome i expenditure of some The only (Taken from Herald of thlt‘ date) (Syndicated by Associated Tditors) golf clubs in the vicl v are clos to the average mar because of social 4 the fact thai the expense of membership is higher than he could afford tc pa Tt is therefore the plain duty of the city to provide barriors a today Twin returned at George 1. Damon fishing trip spent from a lakes law.” But the day is coming when w it will be held, as it has been held in a few isolated cases in “the books"” that “good law” is bad law in a cer- tain particular instance. Then tra- dition will give its death gasp. In thé meantime it would be well for those in a position to influence legislation in proper manner to aid in bringing enlightenment to the legis- Mtors of the cruelly selfish states : which are careless in their protection _of children. And fh this blacklist, - which does not include Connecticut, ficient,”” been better illustrated, or the great truth “Knowledge Thinking people bow in respect the achievement of ¢ is power.” for ience. GENOA It is over—the Genoa possibly, something may be done at The Hague, For the conference at The Hague will be Genoa taking its second wind, the nations trained for the contest of discussions and posses- sing knowledge as to how the rules of affair. Now is suf- The pay roll of the street depart- ment this week amounted to $286.81. The Stanley Works and the Rus- gell and Erwin factory teams will clash at Electric Field this afternoon F. B. Hungerford has been named aseistant judge of the New Britain city court. Mrs. H. B. Humason wiil speak on “BEducation and Religion™ at the ban- quet of the Epworth League of the Trinity M. E. church this evening. Charles J. Simonds will give a talk on “Spiritual Work."” The Turner society will give a pie- nic and athletic program at Mountain Grove on Decoration Day. suitable links for the inersasing num- ber of players. Spending $25,600 for laying out grounds is something else again, as erlmutter would say. It Is a tidy sum and its expenditure for such a purpose would create a storm of pub- lic resentment. The plain truth of the matter is that it is toor much to spend. A smaller sum wodld: well care for the creation of suitable links. It would be folly_to turn that amount lover to the development of a golf | course when it could be spept to bet- ter advantage in laying out an ath- | letic field which would provide enter- 1(amn\cnt and recreation to more peo- e — ple in a varled line of sports, The famous Scotch pastime has not reach- ed that point of popularity where it could hope to gain the support of the people for an appropriation of 826,000, o Knocking the public service is one of the most popular of all mental exercises In America. This 18 par- ticularly true in the case of the post- office department, A man will spend several dollarg for a dinner and declare that “everything's fine" for fear of offending the waiter, Byt when he spends two dents for a stamp he expects all the employees in the post-office department to stay awake nights until his letter is de- livered, When you feel inclined to harpoon the post-office department remember that— It is the largest business inatitu. tion in exlistence. It bandles one-third of the mall of all the world. There are posted each hour of the day, an average of more than 1,500,- 0600 letters, 200 tons of parcel post and seventy-five tons of newspapers and magazines. Each piece of mail matter s handled an average of eight times up to its delivery. More than seventy-five per cent. of all mail is handled between the hours of 4 and 9 p. m. If the entire number of letters mailed each year in the United States were laid end to end, it would make a belt that would encircle the globe about seventy times. The revenues of the postal service amount to more than $450,000,000 annually. * The postal receipts of New York City or Chicago are more than twice those of the entire Dominion of Canada. The postal service does a business of a halt billion dollars yearly, mostly in one and two-cent items. The money order business amounts to a billion, two hundred and fifty million dollars ($1,250,000,000) an- nually. The postal savings system has on deposit more than 175 million dol- lars. The parcel post handles and trans- ports three and one-half billion pounds of merchandise annually. One billion, two hundred and fifty million pounds of second-class mail are handled each year. Eighty-five millions are spent each year on rural free delivery, a sum which far exceeds the gross receipts of the business originating on rural routes. More than 52,000 post-offices are maintained and more than 300,000 people are employed. Now go ahead and knock. e Exit the ‘“sacred cow.” In large droves it is departing from the green pastures where it has been chewing its ruminative cud for lo these many years. You don’t know what a ‘“sacred cow” is? Vell, a “sacred cow” is a developmen? of the passing order of things in our industria! institutions, a product especially of t.e fat years when money was plentiful and titles as thick as leaves and evqry well- conducted factory was divided and sub-divided until it consisted of one large mass composed of many little pieces. In ecach sub-division a man was in charge. He took his title very seriously, was jealous of his preroga- tives and thought it was beneath his dignity to perform any menial labor which could be done by a subordinate. If he wishes to communicate with a man in the next office, even though he could see him through a glass panel, he called a stenographer, cleared his throat and dictated for half an hour. Then he ran his index finger up and down the row of pearl buttons on the side of his desk, tringing an army of office boys and girls on the run, and dispatched his communication with all the pomp be- fitting his station. He could easily have stood up, rapped on the glass panel and shouted: *“Hey, Bill, has that steel come yet?” but he couldn't forget that he had a title and it would be very undignified to do' such a thing. Besides, it would set a bad ex- ample for the plebeians. . And so the “sacred cow” came into He was full of orders and Un- fortunately for him, he was singled out for slaughter when executives be- gan to cast their eagle eyes over the horizon ‘with a view to cutting down expenses, Here was a man, they re. flected, who had a title, a roll top desk and all the trimmings, includ- Ing a secretary, who had to call out three assistant janitors to plek a plece of paper off the floor, If he wus asked to do something which was not strictly part of his duties, he found it impossible (o stretch a point, When a salesman called he was always “in conference” or sent the card back with the information that he was *'too busy,” When the executives began to check up on his dollar value to the firm they discovered that he was worth about three counterfeit Rus- slan rubles, 8o the “sacred cow" Is wending hi way out of the green pastures. Like a lot of other bright young men who had nice positions during the war, he has discovered that a cruel werld de- mands that he go to work and pro- duce, s Mayor Paonessa's message to the common <ouncil was one of the finest documents of its kind In the history of New Britain. It whas comprehen- sive in scope and analytical in char- acter, Without unnecessary words, it covered the situation with a com- pleteness that reflected credit to its author. There was hardly a phase of our municipal life that Mayor Paonessa failed to discuss, He viewed every proposition in his mind from several angles before putting down his thoughts in black and white, it s clearly seen. While unanimous agreement will not greet all his con- clusions, he showed that he had good reason for reaching them and had considered each from a common sense standpoint. A mayor's message is usually a dry affair, written because it is something which the law re- quires. The present executive's state- ment on civic affairs was an excep- tion to the general rule. % e Interest in the Arch of Honor at the entrance to Walnut Hill park is ‘again aroused by the ahnouncement of the Rotary club that its members will provide wreaths for the memorial posts for Memorial Day if no other ply and demand. they generally have wants. quite profitable. the Classified Column. organization has this work In hand The club s to be commended for its thoughtfulneas. A No person with red blpod in his veins can pass through the columaos of grim memarluls without paying a silent tribyte to the boys who mhade the great sacrifice for this nation, Ite- membrahce of their Brave deeéds is brought’ back afresh; ‘their glory is recalled, It is fitting that the posts should ‘bear token of our love and regard on the day set aside to com- memorate the valor of our mlilitary and naval heroes, LABOR DISPUTES COSTLY Estimates Place Upwards of 8,500,000 Working Days Were Lost Due to Trouble in Great Britain. Tondon, May 20.—It is estimated that 3,500,000 working days were lost in Great Britaln in March owing to la- bor disputes involving 280,000 work- ers. The principal disputes being in the engineering and shipbuilding in- dustries. Unemployment {n March, though still bad, showed a further slight im- provement despite the adverse effect of the engineering dispute, says the Labor Gazette, which publishes the estimate ahove. Among industries showing improve- ment were iron, mining, pig iron man- ufacture, the building trades, the cot- ton and wool textile industries and the clothing trades. Changes in rates of wages report- ed as having takén effect in March resulted in a reduction of over £223,- 000 in the weekly fulltime wages of about 1,350,000 workers and an in- crease of £800 weekly in the wages of about 10,000 others. Coal miners in Northumberland, Yorkshire, North Staffordshire, North Wales and Scotland sustained reduc- tions varying from under two per cent to over eight per cent, the paper states, A business directory which is edited daily can be ap- plied as another name for the Herald Classified Section; thousands depend on it to keep them posted on the rapid changes of business, or telephone numbers alphabetically grouped for the advantage of the readers of this paper. The automobile section will give you a good idea of the trend of the times in the used car line—prices are printed, the numbers advertised will give you a good idea of sup- Those who are in business are listed— Filling those wants is usually The only way that you can keep your- self acquainted with the daily wants is by daily reading Read Herald Want Ads for Profit It's the buyers’ guide and the sellers’ sales force. ‘8,000 Heralds are sold daily Which mcans 40,000 Readers—which means 18,000 Classified Readers. ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES The Giant Killer " BY 0. JACOBSSON | MAY 20 (93 s gty