New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1923, Page 6

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This inaures pro- tectlon aguinst fraud in newspaper dis tribution figures to bheth national and lo cal advertisers, 8 E——— THE PEOY DO NOT CARE | Attendance at the caucuses to nom- inate s of the board which were held last proves pretty conclusively, people of the city do not care a great deal who has charge of the finances | of the city., The people will object to | our efr meeting | cevening, that the | membe city the tax rate; the people will object to | what the politicians do. The people will do these things—Ilater. But last | night they did not take the trouble to raise their volees to see to it that | their interests would be protected. It is true that the people do not have much to say about government; it is painfully true. But the events of last night show that the people them- selves are to blame in a great meas- ure. Non-partisan caucuses were sup- posed to be held to select the names of the persons to be put on the city meeting board in place of those whose terms expired. Those names selected last night will be printed on the bal- Jots. Of course, when election to the city meeting board comes the people do not have to vote for the names printed; but they will so vote most of them; it is so much easier—and, in- cidentally, mighty few of the people will vote at all. The average number at-each caucus was probably seven or eight, or perhaps a dozen. Those in- terested in the city government, or in politics, did the natural thing; they prepared slates. In the third ward an attempt had been made to get electors to come. About half a dozen were there and it took all of seven minutes to nominate the slate. The Tack of a decent representation—decent in numbers, not in quality—was none's fault except the people’s who did not| come | The fact of the matter is that any politician would have been able, hud‘ he so desired, to get one influential | number of his party in each ward to| “pack" the various caucuses and to obtain nominations for members of | his party only. Their names would be | printed, and, with the prospect of a very small vote in each ward tonight, those whose names were printed would be elected. Thus, as there were 48 vacancies to be filled, 48 persons of the same party pledged to the person who had secured the *pack- ing” of the caucuses, would become | members of the city meeting board.i And, be it remembered, there are often no more than 48 persons in at- | tendance at sessions of the board. | The finances of the city would thus be | in the hands of one man—one politi- cian. This “packing” being repeat- ed from year to year as vacancies come, would result in complete dom- ination of the city's finances by one man. And it would be the fault of “the people.” Probably nothing of this sort hap- pened last night. Those active in: politics did the natural thing—prob- ably their selections were all proper— in making up slates to facilitate pro- ceedings. If they had not done so no one would have known at the cuucus-: es just what names to suggest, no one | having taken the trouble to find out] who were eligible. In one case, for in- stance, a vacancy was filled because the former “incumbent” was not a voter, Great! Anyone may go to the elections to- night and vote for a person not on the “glate” in his ward—a person whose | name is not printed. This is the| theory that makes it seem the cry of | an alarmist to urge people, another | year, to attend these caucuses. But in practice the few people who will| take the trouble to vote tonmight for | members of the city meeting board will not take the trouble to scratch names and insert others. Possibly all names on all slates are good name: That is not the point. The point is that the people have no right to com- plain as to the manner in which the finances of the city are run as long as they, the people, refuse to incon- venience themselves enough to se it that the persons in whom they for | to ave | confidence are nominated and | elected to that board. “THE GENTLEMAN" In speaking of John Drew, whose fiftieth anniversary on the i { [ | stage _"\belnt celebrated by the “profession,” his qualities which brought him al- ways the characterization of “a gen- tleman” are invariably mentioned. Fs- sentlally an actor engaged in “society | | between | Drew was and is a greater | ple may have partisan | next winter things may be | wisely wags its shaggy head and | sold in New Britain. It says “condition Off the stug® he was and is as polite quired, always the same John Drew, and courteons on his own veranda at in whats | his Long Island summer home as he is as the “first gentleman” ever play in which he takes part, The trulg remarkable feature of his acting, emphasized, 18 his| great difference’| different | and one seldom ability there to pleture the exigt between “gentlemen” accustomed to the same | may surroundings, It 15 comparatively an impression and to bring admiration | for versatility when an actor assumes | Qiffering roles during | his stage car Mansfield, with his | change from Richard 111, to Monsieur cnsy to create many greatly Boaucaire, 18 an example—and there be no attempt at and Mansficld, gentus that | comparison | But there is a certain is in- | finitely in the actor's ability to | play the same sort of part all through his career—the part of the “gentle- | man” which 18 bring to each part a shade of differ- | ence that makes cach one gadividual, | and not the same John Drew | whom we may know personally, As there are sound waves vibrating 80 rapidly that they may not be heard by the of acting so fine that their good quali- scape full recognition. John actor than sometimes he is given credit for being, popular and satisfactory as he has been always. Drew fine he naturally—and | cach human ear, there are ‘shades ties THE WOMAN'S CLUB The closing of the season for activi- | ties by the Woman's club of this city emphasizes its splendid place in the life of New Britain. Its great mem- bership and its varied interests make | it a force for culture, education and entertainment that deserves emphatic approval. It is probably more truly representative of all the better forces of the city than any other organiz: tion aside from those of a religious character, and the spirit which pre- dominates whenever its members meet is the sfiirit which keeps alive many of the strongest standards and strengthens the traditions of New England. The charm of the side of the Woman's Club is equalled only by the earnest purpose which | inspires it to make the days and | | social | who Kknow with a souvenir from Tut's tomb, and it into-a fire house to exhibit the long-forgotten liquid as one of the terrors of the past, enrry HERBERT ANSON STOCKING When these with whom a man has worked for the last ten years of his life, dies and in passing inspires those him best, know lis efforts to give all that is in him to the task that is set before him, to sincere, calm words of appreciation of him, little may be added by others to whom he was not so 'inllmnlfly known, Of Herbert Anson:Stocking, who dled day, such close assoclates have said: ideals and attainments, of clear per= ception, and ever had the courage of his convietions * * * While the sor- row which comes with the passing of one long known and respected will in time be lessened, the example of a life lived in manly fortitude and Christian trust remains and will remain,"” Other details of the life of this man might add to the respect in which his memory is held, but no fulsome praise is needed when this tribute is repeat- ed and is given its full significance, This newspaper, to which he gave of his ability years ago, but add that it joins with the others who knew him in expressing appreciation *Mr, Stocking was a man of fine may of those qualities of his which made the example’ of a “life lived in manly fortitude and Christian trust”—the example which remains and will re- main. \Facts and Fancie BY ROBERT QUILLEN, The ‘“undeveloped peoples” those who are still happy. One thing we give up right cheer- fully during Lent is March, About the only thing as worthless as a German mark is a button on a coat sleeve. It is unreasonable, however, to ex- pect any motor to run as smoothly as the agent talks. The remarkable thing is that hu- man nature has survived with so many laws to cramp its style. weeks worth while. Those who are fortunate enough to be able to profit | by its inspiration feel, at the end of | each winter of activity, that the ses son has been a better cne, the ind vidual more worth while, because of the Woman’s club. Sincere is one's wish for a happy continuation of this splendid organization which does so | much for the women of New Britain. COAL | Well, it's come down at !flstérmrl‘! the people are not wildly excited | about it. We are referring, of course, | to the price of coal. Men will walk along the, street, wag their heads, and | declare that the dealers could have cut the price long ago if they wanted to. Others will tell of the losses suffered by some dealers and will insist that they have done the| best they could. Possibly some peo- | imagination | had strong enough to suggest that had | the emergency fuel bill been passed eaglier in the season the price would ! not have remaind so high so long. | Others will come back with the asser- | tion that if the emergency bill had been passed earlier New Britain would | not have had as much coal as she had. Some folks will urge buying now | for next winter; others will declare that they will be darned—or thing stronger—if they will. will be radicals who will prophesy a coal revolution, the weapons bits of the black stuff purchased at a ridicu- lously low price. Be these things hither or thither. Let sleeping dogs lie or waken them moments more thrilling. The fact remains that| New Britain has not suffered for lack | of ‘coal as much as some other place: have. Blame whom you like or praise{ that we some- There | to make the conversational whom you like—only hope will never be worse off for coal than we were this winter and hope that| better. —— - “COURANT” TOPICS The Hartford Courant smiles graci- | ously from its pedantic of | perfection because the Britain has adopted pedestal New Fire department a rule which forbids the liquor on fire department forbids members of the use of intoxicating | premises, and partment from entering places uhl’l‘f'; fire de- | intoxicating beverages are on sale. | crudition | | goes | | ity, | may The esteemed medium ot on, in its vene le vein o to take it for granted that there liquor .1 | Britain they | places where intoxicating is there New must be so crowded that the are such places in firemen ‘ in danger of injury if thirst | would he or duty forced them to enter, Wg can't | that Hartford certainly is confronting a | " The no doubt that believe such places exist now." not a theory provi- the was inspired by the terrible n sion of fire department liquor is actually sold in Hartford, and that g0 thought might the equally terrible a to | heing | New Britain fireman Hartford, befor in Hartford, do as people he dies, and, seem to do | than the old days, but they About the only perfect neighbor- hoods are those found in real estate advertisements You. seitvia i The VI Polks at Home now. Ior that matter, the old folks seldom stay at home. To the lay ear, about the'only dif- ference between a violinist .and a fiddler is $200 a night. Europe can't start another war yet. We haven't appointed our official, government observers. here are many pretty signs of spring, but the first elbows to appear are not included in the list, Life is harder out in the great open spaces, no doubt, but at least you don't step on chewing gum. An educated man study the Buropean sit tingui 8 one who can ation and di sh between patriotism and mul- | ishness. this sentence: “Spring is but I don't be- rearrange the furniture here, lieve T shall this time."” Still, the modern girl who puts on rouge is no more objectionable than the old-fagshioned girl who put on irs. Poctic license is all right, but as we read some of the spring verse it oc curs to us that the license should be higher. When an alienist isn't testifying at a murder trial, he can pick up a little money by selecting popular songs to be published, The coroner is becoming hard-boiled enough to call it a natural death if is occurs while one is diving through a windshield. Not only are women's clothes looser » more eficient at the business of making old Dad loosen up. Our idea of zero in sorrow is that of an American when he reads that some BEuropean noble has been com- pelled to go to work for a living. B — 25 Years Ago Today§ (Taken from Heraid of that date) s o transferred to house and lot John Corbett has Miss Annie Corbett a on North street. I*riends of pushing him auditor. Carl Lorenzen, florist, Mas a handsome moths and butterflies in his window. There from North and Sou Haigist for are city George for candidate i arch street collec the are | NEW 'BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1923. before they had @ chance to get into the stere, Prosident MeKinley delivered his memorable message to Congress in which he made public the findings of the board appointed to Investigate the blowing up of the ‘Maine, Local militiamen ave’ getting rveady for a call for service, Although they can- |not be sent out of the country, most of them say that they are willing to serve anywhere that duty calls, The foremen of the different hose companics are making an inventory of the appargtus entrusted to their care, OUR STORE COMMUNICATED - | Daylight Saving l As reported in the "Herald” our worthy offigers of the Chamber of Commerce are in favor of Daylight Saving, from April 20 to' September, | The Chamber of Commerce say, do rot change the clocks—hut go to work un hour earlier, This is only beating the Davil around the stump, 18 this obeying the law? This same oheying the law is why the Volstead act is so violated—the one thought is to get ahead of the law, Can you inform us through the col- umns of the “Herald" how many of the officials of the Chamber of Com- merce got to work or husiness’ at seven o'clock at the predent time, also how many of the factory workmen have been consulted as to how they stand on the standard or day light saving time? It has the appearance of what Van- derbilt of the New York Central rail- road said some years ago—"The Pub- e be Damned."” SPECIAL NOTICE MAY 1ST. Coats, At $22.5 via, Polo STANDARD TIME, To the minds of teachers, the pro- [ houncement of spring has been of- | ficially declared in the agitation which | roils the regularity of educatiomy and blurs a bit the working vision of |those who wonder why March minds | permit themselves to lose sight of the | necessity for educational as well as Jrnleludalrinl progress if one’s to know I the sun that's summer in the citizen- :'shlp of the life of the city's tomor- | row: Relative to the question of proper accommodations; if proper accommo- dations means only the providing of |space to relieve youth from pedal ac- tivity on sidewalks, New Britain wont ‘hwml a building program for another 10 years. If proper accommodations hasn't anys concern with its obliga- tion to the health welfare of the young, there are still a few basement rooms which may be utilized and |like enough the results of the ven- tilation possible in such wont be any the more unsatisfactory nor obvious- ly vicious—youth resists much,—in |youth—than were the youngsters | herded in any other crowded pen each breathing back the poison of himself land all taking in the poison of the| masse. i | If it's just a question of numbers| per room, any experienced teacher | can take care of 80 or 90 with as| iuch ease as shie now experiences dif- fieulty in really«reaching 30 or 40. | If, however, proper accommodations takes into account what teaching| | means——the academic, social, cultur- | ial day by day progress in thé lives| of children to better fit them for life | | activities, the number in a room bears |an exacting and definite relation to llhf,‘ results to be obtained. | The writer controls as much physi- | |cal energy in vocdl expression as do {many spellbinders— in her opinion, it ‘1511'! much more than a pretty good trick, to hold the attention of 1,400 | or 1,500 people, young and old, in a | now-and-then talk, speech or holler. To hold, to direct, to make notice- |able progress with 30 in day by day routine of assigned work would tax the best efforts of the strongest op- | ponent of lesser numbers to a greater extent than it taxes her. She'd lke to wateh them do it! Talking with one of those epposing | the bond issue I Jistened to a state- ment that our public schools are palaces. The.analogy is good enough—makes one realize y Kuropean castle hold- ers are trading them in—and they don't need any more expenditure pro- | § portionately to make them livable | fthan does New Britain need the same ! to provide proper accommodations for | her growing life. A million doesn't | ®O 80 far. | It would seem that the parents of | New Britain should concern them- selves with the question and support | the school committee in the forward ! movement. which demands the elim- | ination of portal and basement rooms and a n which doesn't give more pupils to any one teacher,——if one imagines the number too few, 1'd suggest the spending of a day in one of the public schools. | »lv might be enlightening if he| wished enlightenment, Unless the g Coats of sted Tailored Skirts. Crepe. TAILORED SUITS lined with Silk Crepe. \ very novel features. 'LOUISIANA ELECTION AT PRIMARIES IS VERY CLOSE public Official Count May be Necessary to is satis- progress slip back | into the dark, neither “politics nor | pocketbooks” will be permitted to in- | |terfere with the program of educa- 3 tion whose proper accommodations | Orleans,” March 25.—Confliot- | requires the building of schools, |ing claims for nomination as ‘lusm‘lll::‘ And - after spring—summer's in.|Justice in yesterday's election in 12 [ evitabie: | parishes (counties) the first Loulsiana [ ¢lection in which the Kii Klux Kilan issue has entered as an ‘open factor |indicated that an official count would {be necessary to establish whether a | sccond primary would be néeded. | e . s The newspaper tabulation from 147 | Have “Never Again” Club |, i 75 boveineta in- the district | | Atsntie Bity; Merch 58 | : Judge H. ¥, Brunot, anti-Kian, | aition 1o the B o ,211; Judge R. Ellis, 3,379 and L gurencit Wy ke A . udge Columbus Reid 8,272, s \'\"‘“h;":‘"f"":"”; depu. (The Tast two were supported by the ‘\.\‘)'l{:\.\wfl ussociation h_;w Brunot's headquarters claimed his | &e m/.wl.vh_\ members of the A”"'““";mmmallm'l by a majority of 396 City police depi JThe new as-| oreq llis and Teid headquarters City Detective | oo1apnd Branot lacked 800 votes of o h’":_’”‘"-i ‘l‘fi'L::" majority and conckded the defeat of | otty of the as-|Justico Reid, asserted Judges Brunot wanisation, i8 “Naver Agaif.” nd Ellis wo have to contest in a | A bachelor, they say, “might ea |fall for a designing female,” but the run off primar: |announcement say ‘those who have thaveled over the rough and thorny connubial path are like the burned | |ehild who dreads the fir Find if Second Primary is 10 be Held. New A. D. MURRAY, |Widowers, Real and Grass, In oppo- | helors’ club recently | | Sowney, of De tives I'rank urer, The offi | Bdward HARDING'S GREETINGS | Congratulites King of Egypt Upon His Anniversary Day | Washington, March 28.—President Harding has sent the following mes- of ry greetings to BROTHERHOOD OFFERS ¢ Cleveland, 0O, March 28. — The Brotherhood Investment Co. con- trolled by the Brotherhood of T.oco- |I"ouad 1, king of vpt: | motive Engineers is . offering about| *“On this anhivgrsary of your ma- { 82,000,000 of T per cent cumulative |jesty's birth, 1 extend the assurance | | | TOCK | { EXCEPTIONAL VALUES I TAILORED SUITS Stylish- Stouts in Blouse, Box and Straight Line Effects —Poiret Twill, lined with Silk Handsome Suits ' of Unusu- ally Good Quality Poiret Twill STUNNING 3-PIECE SUITS That Embody tke Very Newest Dictates of Fashion Shown in Many New and Distinctive Models that are sure to appeal because of the | Assoclated Press).—Charles I. 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CENTRAL DIVIDEND FOSTER MAY BE GALLED ; New York, March 28, — The New ;\'Ol’k Central railroad today declared mined | its regular quarterly dividend of 1 1-4 |per cent payable on May 1 to stock of ccord April 6, ENFORGING DRY LAY Pindhot Law Likely to Be Next Witness E; After Defense Finishes With Ruth enberg Today. | St. Joseph, Mich, March 28 (By enberg, executive secretary of the workers party, the legal branch of the illegal communist party today faced the final period of re-direct examination by counsel for William | Z. Foster, charged with violating Michigan's s¢ndicalism act. Iloster may be ‘the next witness for the de-! fense. The state during cross-examination of Ruthenberg yesterday introduced minutes of a communist party exec-| The link that legally connected the utive committee meeting to show that'saloon with the state through the Moscow's influence over the com- license sysfem was broken when Gov- munist party of America brought|ernor Pinchot, six hours after the about a postponement of the party's| house passed the bill affixed his sig- convention near here until two rep-|nature to the measure. resentatives of the executive commit- The new law repealed ‘the Woner tee of the communist internationale | enforcement law which prohibited the could arrive. sale of liquor in violation of the 18th |amendment but permitted the licens- |ing of saloons to sell beverages con- taining less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol. The new Pinchot law wipes out the, license system. Saloonkeepers' were in a ‘quandary today as to the real effect of the new law, Other legislation_ is contem- plated by the state administration to regulate the sale of liquor containing |a lawful amount of alcohol. ow in-Effect in Penn, All Licenses for, Saloons Are Made Non-Effective, Harrisburg, Pa., March 28.—The Pinchot prohibition enforcement law was in force in Pennsylvania today. Havana, March 28.—According to a tabulation of reports from a majority of the sugar mills in Cuba, published today, this year's crop is estimated at 300 long tons. Other estimates, published recently, place the crop at from 100,000 tons lower than today's report, to a maximum of 4,121,000 tons, With DOROTHY GISH FOX'S NEXT An effort was made Saturday night to burglarize P, J. Riley's store on The Big 9 Reel Drama of the Seas plays” despite his occasional journeys | there. He might not only enter there | pregerred stock to the general public|of my high regard and good wishes into e more ambitious drama, he|a place where intoxicating beverages g b vhe e of manne :' 1d, but. he might bring a bottle |Bast Main street and aithough the [on the basis of two shares of prefer-|and the hope that your majesty's PSS % 3iis best when grea ot Budeb b b oty | burgiars succeeded in ruisng the rear |red, with one share of the no par country may continue to enjoy peace and evident good breeding were re- |of the stuff Lack, proud as a person |window, they were {rightened away common stock and a bonus for $200. and prosperity.” MON.