New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 5

PRESIDENT ADVISES RESPONSIBILITIES ‘szmum 15 RECORD OF EXPENSE Washington's Account Book Says He Lived Economically Albany, N, Y., Feb, 22.-—An item- ized list, by which George Washin, ton accounted for his houschold ex- penses from ‘May 24 to August 24, 1789, when the White House was lo- cated at New York, s contained in a collection of Washington's papers owned by the state and held in the vault of the Education building at Al- bany, Washington, upon assuming the presidency, expressed his unwilling- ness to recelve money from the pub- lie treasury in excess of actual ex- penses. With the upkeep cost of three months as a basis, Washington's yearly household expenses amounted to 4,926 pounds and seven shillings or about $25,000. The account never has been published, aceording to a statement issued by Secretary of State Hamilton today. The expense is kept with detall characteristic of Washington, and covers the upkeep of his entire house- hold, which included a secretary, as- sistant secretary, three aldes, 18 ser- vants and a livery of 16 horses. The coal bill for the three months was only $30, but wood cost $145 and candles $85. The butcher's bill ran to about $660. Items‘indicating that the president carved turkey on four occasions, Fresh vegetables cost $290 and milk and cream $145. Lobsters necessitated an outlay of $45, but the president spent only 17 shillings for cake., PrevVolstead indulgence in liquor is represented by payments totalling $170, of which $105 is for claret, $45 for porter and five shillings for cor- dial, Expenditures for servant’ hire amounted to 164 pounds and 11 shil- lings while the secretaries and aides drew remuneration in the. sum of 266 pounds, 13 shillings and four pense, Carelessness on the part of his at- tendants cost the president $65 for broken dishes and $115 for wear and tear on linen. Washington, Feb, 22.-—That eitl- sen who regards himself as a model of civie proprieties because his pres. ent conduet is impeccable but whe does not co-operate with the elvil ' authorities or exert his influence In behalf of the best possible adminis. tration of the laws, greatly overrates his usefulness as a citizen, President Harding stated recently in summing up his idea of the responsibility of individual citizens for proper admin. Istration of the laws of his country @and his city, The message of the president was addressed to the eiti. #ens of the United States through Rotary International in connection with the eighteenth anniversary of the organization of the first Rotary wlub at Chicago, February 23, 1906, The full text of President Hard. ing’s message follows: . “To the wpembers, Rotary Interna- tion *“The individual citizen's responsi- bility for executive government be. gins with the selection of the execu- tive, This implies the duty of every voter to vote; a duty that many mil- lions of them regularly fail to per- form, Before that, it implies the duty to vote Intelligently, to make the vote represent a dellberate deci- sion based on the claims of the op- posing parties and candidates, “Finally, the executive being duly selected, it implies the obligation to give him the support of all good citi- zens in every effort of administration of the law, That citizen who regards himself as a model of the civic pro- prieties, because his present conduct is impeccable; but who does not co- operate with the civil authorities or exert his influence in behalf of the best possible administration of the law, greatly overrates his own use- fulness as a citizen. The responsible officers of government, whether it be municipal, state or national, need and are entitled to the fullband ef-J fective support of all citizens in the enforcement of laws. “If the effort of Rotary should be effective in impressing this concep- tion of the citizen's duty it will have performed a most useful service.” POOR BUSINESS The Slump in the Diamond Market Has Seriously Affccted British Co~Report Shows Big Decline, London, Feb. 22—The slump in the diamond trade has affected seriously the Premier (Transvaal) Diamond company, whose report for the year ended October 1922 shows that reve- nue from diamonds declined \from 439,636 to 253,934 pounds sterling. Two years ago the revenue from this source was over two millions - ster- ling. A new method of cutting diamonds as come into vogue in London. 'he stones are cut without facets in marrow ‘slits, It is more expensive than the old way, but there is a de- mand for the new fashion in finger rings. A London jewelér had to pay $300 each for a couple of small stones cut the new way. Under the erdinary system the cutting could have been done for $50 a stone. SENIORS 10 BANQUET Older Members of Methodist Sunday School Plan Novel Social Function Tomorrow Evening. A banquet at which each class will try to entertain the others in turn with some original stunt, will be held by the senior department of Trinity ‘Methodist Sunday school tomorrow evening. The banquet will commence at 6:15 o'clock. Music will be furnished by the Audio Novelty orchestra, composed of five young men all under 16 years of age. The singing will be led by the Sunday school song leader. Plans for the future will be out- lined, and an effort will be made to break the department attendance rec- ord of 96. Superintendent Harry G. Hancock will explain plans for a con- test to be started next month. The department officers are as fol- lows: Elmer Wilcox, president; Charles Basney, secretary; Miss Mur- fel Stockwell, vice-president and Miss Isabelle Westlake, treasurer. COL. J. L. RICE DIES. Former Springfield FPostmaster Was for 30 Years a U. 5. Commissioner. Springfield, Mass,, Feb. 22.—Colonel John Lovell Rice, former postmaster and city marshal, and for 30 years United States commissioner died in Jhis home in this city last night of angina pectoris. He was stricken in his office in the federal building a week ago. Colonel Rice was born Februnry 1, 1840, in Wethersfield, Vermont. He (® served throughout the Civil war, i o ner . PENN STARS INELIGIBLE. Three Athletes Are Barred From Varsity Track Team. Philadelphia, Feb, 22.—Three Uni- versity of Pennsylvania track ath- letes—Sayman Kerr, Hoyer Jensen and E. Lommasson—have been de- clared' ineligible through scholastic difficulties. Their loss to the team at this time is disappointing, Coach Robertson said yesterday. Childrens HICKORY. Garters HICKORY Garters are strongest and last longest. Good dealers everywhere recommend them, Ask for themby name. Bluebirds are often seen in this country as early as February. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE OPENING OF THE Marion Hat Shop February 24, 1923 WITH A'TULL LINE OF SPRING MILLINERY 149 MAIN STREET NEW BRITAIN Your Patronage Is Invited NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1923, Kern, Salt Lake City boy, was @& member of the Penn four-mile relay team which ren against Oxford and | Cambridge in London last year. Jen- #en formerly starred on the (‘adar Rapids, Towa, relay team and was expected to figure in the relay raece agalnst Oxford here at the Penn re. lay meet, This was Lomansson's| first year at Penn, having entered from Cleveland, track record. COIN mwuu-:u FATE, English Maid Loses Toss and Stays to Marry Man of Her Ohoice, Capetown, Feb, 22,—A young Eng- lish girl came out to Bouth Africa recently to marry her flance, but on her arrival found that she did not on the next ship, The ether 150 unmarried English- men in Cape 8t. Vincent, persuaded | her to allow them te spin a coin and | it she guessed wrong she was to re- main and marry one of them, If she won she was to depart, The girl ac- cepted -the challenge and lost, Iater selected a man from among the | 160 and married him, her former fiance acting as best m TEA AND WHISKEY, London, Feb, 22.—~Tea has ad- vanced a penny a pound, Almost every pockethook in England feels the effect, Merchants say one reason is an increasing demand; that people are drinking more tea than befgre where he had a lw-l’ he | the war. It is suggested that this lof Col Di Lana, a cone shaped moun- increased consumption is partly due tain in the Dolomitio Alps, 9,000 feet u hllhr prices of whiskey and in helght “Col DI Lana was the eye of the enemy,” he said, “that spied* every read of access, that looked over our |defenses and our = rear, e were called upon to blind that eye. An umull was ordered, And in the at- tempt to scale the bare and precipi- | tious flank of the mountain, mwu of our bravest men met death." | Then, Prince Caetani, an efficer of engineers, was sent to the sector to 'vreplqw an ofieer who had fallen in [the assauit, “We had almost reached the peak; |we hung with out fingers and shoe | Famous Italian War Hero Ex plains Grumt War Exploit | |nalls on the iey eliffs. But try as we |might we could not make that last | - New York, Feb. 21, (By The Asso:|step* he continued, “Time and again | 'ciated Press).—Prince Gelasio Caetanl, our plucky little men tried to :ulh Itallan ambassador and formerly a ' [the gap, but machine guns mowed | mining engineer in this country, re-|them down and their bodies remained counted last night for the first time in 4 frigid No-Man's-Land, [fetalls of his famous war exploit—| “One day Colenel Perelll asked | the blowing up of the mountain Col me what I thought could be done, I Di Lana, the “eye' of the Austrian|teld him we ou.hl to get underneath | army, in 1916, |them and blow ‘em off, And so the Addressing the Ameriean llllll!lllf‘,m"m was started, the u}n of Jan- | of Mining and Metallurgical Engi- uary, neers, Ambassgdor Caetani, whe was| Finally we started tunnelling tow graduated from Columbia and oh-'ardn the center of the peak, We b tained his first job as a “slag car|ed 160 feet, then drove a 42 degree |pusher” in a4 mine in Utah, spoke raise with the intention of getting modestly of his feat, attributing his |close to the surface under the enemy's success to tHe knowledge he hndlrlrn line trench, gained in America, | "By that time the Austrian sen- He sald two other engineers, Bon. [tries were feeling our blasts under fiolo ands Grimaldl, had con(rlbutad’lhvlr feet, They notified headquar- equally to the success of the mining ters that we were mining the Austrian GAETANI TELLS HOW HE MINED MOUNTAIN position, Headquarters answered not ip get usclessly excited; that the Jtal 1ins were probably only mining for | days phon shelter, They lost three {ing up and. dewn and to this we owed CUr success. | “April 15 we loaded five tons of 95 per cent gelatine in two ehambers | about thirty feet apart | “At 10 p. m. April 17, 1 eonneeted the electrie wires, 11 p. m. all our garrison was withdrawn inte the sev. eral galleries and our trenches re- mained for a moment completely u.f serted | YAt 11:30 we received orders ullnl ,.ull-«i the strings of the detonaters, “There was & dull noise, a slight tremor. 1 thought the mine had fail- | ed and rushed to the nearby entrance, | luminated by the white glare of the {moon, when suddenly all became dark A cataract .of earth and roeck fell When the stones stopped falling 1| erawled out of the half obstructed entrance, The snow cap of Col Di {Lana had become biack, The whole | topography had changed, Everything was silent, deserted, dead “Our soldiers crawled out | galleries, walked quietly up peak and oceupied the huge Col Di Lana was ours!" of the | to the crater, | MOTORLESS P : RECORD | Biskra, Algeria, 2,—~8ergeant | Major Descamps, a Frenc h aviator, yesterday covered a distance of three miles In a straight line 4o set a dis- tance record for motoMess airplanes, Marshal Lyautey, resident French ' | prize for the MISERABLE FOR TWO YEARS “rm-mmu Her Mouuouvu-u, Oulnu.(h .L H, ‘I was all run down and work was burdensome owing to Indigestion, and gas on my stomach which caused me 1o beleh a good deal, My heart soemed to he affected, It was two years ago that T was in this eondition and began the use of “Fruit-a-tives”, which proyed the vory remedy Trequired, I was freed of the Indigestion, which I attributed to my heart; and I ean consclen: tiously recommend ‘‘Fruit-a-tives" the great Fruit Medicine”, Mrs, FRANK W, WALLACE, G0e a box, § for §2.50, trial size 25e, At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, N.¥,. has offered a flight over a course, making three minimum distance to be governor in Morocco, longest straightway {miles the flown. ‘What the eXperts discovered the whole family acclaims / FROM the most popular brands of coffees onthe market theExperts,inablindtest, picked Putnam, unanimously and unhesi- tatingly, as the best—the best on all points. 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