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New Britain Herald | Suiday Excented), | At Herald Widg, 67 Church Btreet, SURSCRIPTION .00 & Yoar, $2,00 Thres Montha, 762 & Month TATES; Entered at the Post OMece at New Tritain as Becond Class Mall Matter, TELEPHONE CAL Rnsiness OfMce 925 | Editorial Rooms 24 The only profitable advertising medium in the Ofty. Cirenlation hooks and pross room always open to advertivers, Membher of The Associnted Press The Associated Proes iy axclusively entitlad to tha use (ar re-publication of all news ereditad to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news pub- | lished hereln, Member Audit Rurean of Cirenlation The A, B. C. is a natlonal erganization which furnishes newspapcrs and advors tiners with a strictly honest analysls of efreulation, Our circulation statistica are hased upon this audit, This fnsures pro- | tection agninst fraud in newspaper dis- | tribution fgures to both natienal and lo- cal advertisers, B FLECTION DAY, Well, of course have all rushed to the polls toaay, our faces flushed with pride that we have the power of ruling through the fnstitution of the hallot; we have thought of the admir- | able names were on the We wondered how such great men have been persuaded to give of their time and intellects to the laborious work | of making our laws and administer- | ing them. We marvel at and we hesitate to think what a miserable | world this would be if there were no | unselfish people as those for whom we have voted. They, those who are elected, take their places | of honor, ing only the inter- ests of us, all of All that remains to be done now is to find out just which of these admirable the to do these things for us—to impartia ns is to Wi ourselves great cast our vote and ons whose we have lot have cast, them, such conside us, humble though we be, persons will be one; make laws v, ordinances and justly, wisely—all that rer count the votes and rejoice. There goes the alarm clock! | SCHOOL AUDITORIUMS, From time to time discussions have arisen as to whether riums in schools are sjdering the space they take up and, consequently, the additional expense involved. Broadly speaking it would | seem that room in each school building large enough to accommo- | date all the pupils at one time tends | to furnish means for broadening the education of pupil. Provision for such large rooms, or auditorium, is a step in the old methods ‘of instruction and certainly this is no time to make a backward or not audito- | necessary con- a each advance over move. But the great necessity at this timc is for providing cl rooms in the most economical way. The great is- sue for some years to come will lower taxes. Tt nient, perhaps, to use a school gym- | be may he inconve- nasium as the auditorium, but there this conld now being | buildings | | is no reason why done. The investigation conducted regarding school should bring out the facts in such a ‘way that means may be found to keep the Is meeting room, ith all its possibilities, without unneces- Two points e sary waste of ace. should be kept constantly in mind in| these discussions; first, that at least one large room should be included in the scheme of every school and second that the matter of lower plan, taxes is not merely the slogan of the penurious but it slogan that is| sweeping the country with force. is a growing SKILL-JOY certain people the honestly disturbed by There are in world who are the ineans others take to enjoy them- selves. They are worried about those they believe, people sin- fun | of them pleasure-seekers; cerely, that the are doing wrong— may be. In colloquial language they are called “kill-joys.” h other names for and explaing why such people feel as they do, be ing absolutely physically and wmer tally uncomfortable hecause they sec others cnjoying themselves in certain having as many Science them, ways. | The enjoyment condemned by such eritics ranges all the way from down- right abandonment to “the the flesh and the devil” what many believe to be pleasures. The “kill-joys,” to use the popular word, or the “reformers they sometimes become, are really | not to blame, according to for their attitude. sessors of the sort of a complex that makes them “like that.” And science | explains the reason for all this, im-. | ply stated it is to the effect fhat such unfortunate made un- happy by seceing things they would like to indulge in themselves and would like to enjoy | but which they cannot, for one rea-! gon or another, indulge in or enjoy.| The “kill-joys” may not be physically | unable to pagticipate in certain pleas- | fired he or she denounces; he may be | afraid to; or his conscience, having | taken a peculiar twist, may prevent| his ‘enjoying -that -thing although, in | there.may be no harm in it | ‘A common example of this situa- | flon—and one in which most of us| have been—is the chap who is always | sins of down to innocent scier They are the pos- people are others enjoy the deniouncing thoe drivers of motor ears, | alert in trying to remember to he on | o0 M5, can see no good in them; if they | | drive fast they aro reckless; if they | mistaking it for the bill of a | coming or NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1928, denomination, But comments by newspaper drive slowly they block traffie, This, until that eritic has a car himself, | Then his attitude changes at once, | on the subject of two-dollar bill is A more subtle example is the man | entirely out of placo because of their heen taught unfamiliarity with the subject mat- His con- ter of the discussion, No heed | men in childhood has that card-playing 15 wicked, who, will never allow him to enjoy “old-maid" with He becomes a violent eritio jamount all—and | thirty cents, frame sefenco the like his ! comments about money unless something playing even children involved Is of Us those who play cards at in that - | PROBATION, are other examples, touching | Whether or not putting offenders delicate | dgainst the law on ptobation 1s a that might be eited, but such ustra- | good plan 18 a matter of constant dis- tions, if applied to many of the “kill- The quarterly report of Officer 1. €. Connolly, except in so far as they therefore, is valuable as showing how to recognize and control their|it worked out for threo months. own prejudices, and will explain why | In the flest three months of this many of the campaigns to restrict the | yoar 41 people who had been placed | personal diberty of the individual fon probation behaved properly and absolutely no justification. remains of mind, The matters of a more nature, cussion, joys' of the world will absolve them | Probation of blame refuse | were released when their probation- a2 e expired, There were THE DANGER O 'EAR. | three who violated the terms of their Any physician will tell us that the | probation and were re-arrested, The person who is always afraid of being | obvious meaning is that 41 persons sick will be more apt to become m[w)m had done wrong and who had than the pergson who never fears it. | been summoned to court beecause of Any football player will tell us that]that wrong, led proper lives, went the chap who is afraid of heing hurt {.nlmm their business, and are prob- is the one who is injured. And Coue | ubly today better fitted to the has said many times that suggesting | right sort of people than they would to one's is | have becn had they served their sen- to | tences in confinement, They have not! bring and keep health, | the memory of humiliating imprison- he says that if a person imagines he | ment to cast a shadow over their fu- cannot do a thing, or imagines that ture lives, while they have shown, by have ary perlods la n he health tend that will Contraryw imagination is present that special | that a be 1 " ARMANENT PROBLEM “MAY 'NOT COME UP houd b pala 1o newspaper mev's| P American Conference Post- pones Special Meeting Bantiago, Chile, April Associuted Ithat the the comm plan Press) ittee 10 to (By the | Announcement meeting of the armaments | committee of the Pan-American con- forence which had been scheduled for this afternoon had heen postponed un- I Wednesday gave riso to for appointment rumors of a consider the armament question and report to the |next conference had been abandoned, Friendly Nation's Request, No explana tion | ment was given officially friendly nation” had asked for of the delay in order to “insure postpone- exception | agree- ment on some propositions that have | been formulated.” The jdentity of this delegation was ounced will meet delegation Argentina's Denial Emphatically denying reports that | Argentina had been responsible for |the postponement | Oca satd: Senor M | not made public but so far as could | med none of the “A B C" na- tlons was responsible, | The Chilean it is an-| this morning to | conslder what is described as a sua- den change in the situation which wil require a re-drafting of the armament | report, ontes de | death came. | necessary not be |” | realize t rduties thoroughl | from a certain thing is dangerous for him, | it will be dangerous. | In connection with the death of the | late Lord Carnarvon an interesting | fact has come to light, to which the | foregoing applies. It scems that a ways has he been in fear of the bite | of a mosquito—and it was through (the poison of such a bite that his|force, then surely these figures tend It is said of him that he once remarked that never, so long | as he lived, would he remain five un- | minutes in a place where he was liable to be bitten by a mos- quito. If it be graited that a per- | son's mental ffects him phys- | ically and makes him better or less| able to fight off disease, it is far more | possible to believe, as Coue undoubt- edly will that Lord Car- narvon, having been bitten by the in- | sect he dreaded, was less strong men- | tally to fight against the poison, than is to put any faith in the super-| stitions of that he was Killed y some mysterious malady resulting the tomb of the state believe, many from his opening ancient Egyptian King. POLICE AND THE PLEO 3 would seem to be little sig- | nificance 1n the story of the police- men who, ending their ball in Roches- ter, N, Y., found that all the choicest been | There furs and overcoats had from the cloakroom. In little significance it The policemen of the coun- r the most ! friends city of many in- wraps, stolen fact there is in at present. try are splendid men f part; they are regarded as by most of the this size, for instance. stances their kindnes: ympathy with suffering i people in n is marked and a their al- most unfailing. of the people as well tectors. And policemen would he their duty to p it it that They are the friends as their pro- Wi They 'm and the people best for they perform and impartially. this is the ¥y most e it have is cveryone concerned those | But will the legislators of the coun- try allow this happy condition to con- st? The present trend of lation, inspired in tinue to ex legis ure by over-ze great meas- ous people, seems to rties of the or- the statute | being clut- T that be to so limit the dinary individual hooks in danzer of tered up with laws of which not only the people but also the police disap- are prove. Under such a state of affai it would not be long hefore the po- to it people | breaking seme unpopular new law, | friends and pro- liked and but personal lice, forced arrs for would no longer be people, the people, be the tectors of the un- derstood by rather they would repre- sentatives of a government considered tyrannical and oppressive, and, as such representatives, they would be de condi- hated and pised, If such tions ever se, as they would were the present tendency to continue, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in this country would be far different it the and more serious offenses aguinst the w has been in past, police wottld be recorded in th that had the tendency news robbed. ation than they heen This s that of legis is a menac THE TWO-DOLLAR BILL, Probably the only people who will | the ol ing the two-do authori carry out| abolish- be be sorry if intention of .1 i their indic n the of | ocea- | will people who are in the business raising sionally profit by giving bills and those who change one dollar instead of two and gettin away with it. One can readily sce that the good thing-—back in the days when ! a chap put bill. in his pocket, go downtown, and come home again without than | that one bill. those days, would Kkeep a two dollar-bill was once a could one needing more Two dollars, in chap quite while —almost as long as a fiver will | nowadays, But toda The two-dol- | lar bill won't even fill the gas tank. | a Al it is good for is to keep the mind 1s it over | I watch for it lest one hanc < i | because of luck. | appropriating most | for office expenses. | old enough to be her papa. | chronic ailment of some kind. | of. | eut benefit | soma woman their obedience to the terms of their | "I have not the slightest idea what the change in the situation may be. robation, t. { a i )’"‘t the appreciated the | i) 1"yiow that is Argentina is most lesson. Only three have shown that anxious to have this question settled they failed to realize the importance [ here. We can prepare to discuss the of good behavior, | concrete proposition to limit arma- 1 1t may be granted- that it 18 1‘nont (“(pcn'll(nr(:s. If nothing is ac- RO Al Aol AN | complished at this conference the Ar- op character f{rom|gontine people will be greatly disap- within than to develop character by |pointed.” < Debate is Assured to substantiate the claim 'that the An interesting debate is promised probation system works well in prac- (IN the political .commirtee on Wed- ot fiRe. sitvation of pnsdny when members take up the Costa Rica plan for revision of the thought and the possibility of further | method of choosing the governing developing the probation system is board of the Pan-American union. worthy of consideration. | This project has unexpeotedly been | brought to the front what 1s described in some Tatin-American quarters as is worthy “the question of North American con- | A ° | facts and Fancxes‘ trol” over this Pan-American agency land several countries including Chile, BY' ROBERT QUILLEN, | Argentina and Brazil are holding dele- | gation meetings today to determine what attitude to take. Support Costa Rica Costa Rica is reported to have the | support of all the Carribean repub- lices and to have gained the sym- A failure is merely an ordinary | pathy of Individual delegates of some man who thinks the big ohes get by |of the other nations represented here. | Another good way to learn how to think fast on your feet is to be a pedestrian. ericans the import of their plan wera | frankly informed that it is designed to | e |give Latin-Americans more indepen- recelbls | gonce in managing the affairs of the | union, | The Central American explain that It isn't really necessary to buy a the provision for choosing a direct, | new car every year if every¥body |private representative as a member knows you can afford one, |of the governing board instead . of v | being obliged to name a diplomat ac- girl didn't call |eredited to Washington would free/ He seldom [the Latin-American representatives | from what {s described as the diplo- imatic influence of the American so- A common interest would keep the |Ciety of state. This feature is em- nations at peace, and even common |Phasized as more important for the| honesty |interests.of Latin-Americans than the | |fact that the scheme allows an Amer- ican country unrecognized by the | United States to be a member of the zoverning board. The Central Americans have re-| marked that they believed the United | § es delegation would not object to the plan but the impression is gained that they are mistaken, Unless in- |structions to the contrary are Modern charity begins at home by of the | hioned Papa.” The old- her sweetie would be a great help. expected to oppose the proposal the ground that it would make |union a less effectivé agency. o Y on The larger the diamond, the great- | the er the probability that it's paste. Our observution has been that one ! of the chief aids to 10NEEVIty 1S 0 | yeececemsemn oo o moas:aomdd | 25 Years Ago Today}| The marvel i (Taken from Herald of that date)§ | of olden time got that way without benefit of first-page headlines. that the great men O e It 1sn't so very difffeult to forgive | 11k O'Brien, joint inspector of | an enemy, unless you have done him [the work being carried out at Roar- some shabby trick you are ashamed |iN§ Drook, spent Sunday at his home lon Curtis street. Very nearly all the painters em- | | ployed by John Boyle quit work ye when Mr. Boyle refused to dis- | s two non-union men, Mr. Boyle | told the 18 men that they could con- sider themselves discharged. A man seldom feels that way with- | C. 8. Andrews stated this morning | of a good drink, but a that fully $100,000 ‘worth of bicy do the trick for a Passed his home on the Stanley Quar- . ’l(‘r road yesterday, | The Knights of the Maccabees will ¢ all stores have delivery | 1014 AN entertainment tomorrow eve- | about the only thing the |TinE: There will be recltations by| b 3 i and John bl the | james Gafiney age houscholder takes home 18 |aqqress on medicine by Dr. John E. SESUBIL | Martin and songs by P. O'Day, | TFrank Oldershaw has received no- Itice t there will be reunion of | , ‘95 Sheff, in 28 and 29, Judd has received a from the Yale freshman baseball team asking for & school at Electric ficld, April 16, The colloge hoys want expenses hoth ways. Workmen hegan this morning to luy hrick for a new building for the| The trouble is thui e many peo- | VUICEN Tron Works on John street. ple try to reduce by means of vielent | The Traut & Hine Mfg. Co., is huild Sroicl With & Nalfe und 3tk ing a large tank on its roof for water | P storage purposes, ; RIS i persar (0 There will be another pleasant con- A housing cxpert says the typical ...t ¢ he philharmonie society next | flat makes life unbearable. 1t A0€8 iy q oo voning 2 5 if it goes flat five miles from a serv- | ; ice station, | The critics choo. the world-beat- ers now, but the common folks who compose posterity will pick the im- mortals, | new hat will woman. his New letter | T | We trust nobody will interfere un- | til nee completes her efperiment in the matter of making ends meet without le Observations on The Weather . Fair tonight and temperature; The burglar's lot isn't a happy one. | doesn’t know at what moment | will mistake him her hushand and shoot. He | For Connecticut: fOr | Wednesday; rising | gentle variable winds, | Conditions: A long ridge of high Correct this sentence: “He was a | pressure along the Atlantic coast is poor man and feit out of place in the | producing pleasant weather in all the fine restaurant, hut he tipped the | eastern districts from Maine to Mlors waiter only a dime.” |ida. Cloudy and unsettled weather | with flurries of snow prevails in the The dyspeptic may learn what |lake reglon. things he can't eat and 1ot them | Conditions favor for this vicinity | Persons who asked the Central Am- | g Kelly and | | of school Friday. $169.00 Several Permits to Build Issued by Ins. Gilchreest The following building permits have been issued by Inspector John C. Gil- chreest: Yitzgerald brothers for the erection of a brick laundry at 121 Smalley! street, 40x50, at a cost of 3,000/ :John Lapinski for the erection of al three tenement house at 40 Puiaski| street, at a cost of $6,000; F. O. Rack- | re- | liffe, for the erection of a one-family | a cost of $13,000; Andrew Chiricki, {for the erection of a three family | housé at 76 Wilcox street, at a cos of $10,000. - E. B. Junior High School | Elects Class Officers Donald MeCrann was elected pres- Elihu Burritt Junior High school this morning. Marion Scheyd was elvr(ml\ vice-president; Frank McGrath, scc-| retary; Monroe Harwood, treasurer.| The class will be graduated in June. | N. B, H. S, NEWS | Ella Drobinis, a senior at the New Tiritain High school, has been ap- pointed to write the class will for the “Peehive,” it was annotinced today. The class night committec has heen meeting regularly every day for the| st week in the Academic building. | Songs are being composed for the an | nual elags night social. | The Noon group of the Senior High | school will give a dime dance in the gymnasium of the school at the close | Dominic Naples and | furnish the | his jazz orchestra will music for dancing. | The musical by the chorus and or-| Haven | chestra of the Senior High school will| not be held on Friday, April 13, but| cn the following Wednesday, instead,| |it was announeed today. | game with the local High| FElizabeth Burr and Catherine Tra- | |vis will sprak at the junior class as-| sembly tomorrow, it was announc |by the administration today. At a meeting of the musie commit- | tee of the junior class in the Aca-| demic building, it was decided to get| the Trinity Tacchanalinn orchestra | [to piay the music for the annual jul\»;. |ior promenade, | | ; i) i | Cast of Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon of Mos- | cow Continued to April 17, | | Moscow, April 10 (By the Associat-| ed Press)—The trial of the Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon former patriarch of | |all Russia and metropolitan of Mos: cow, has been postpomed until Aprni 1% | | | A Riga dispatch printed In Tondon on April 4 gave Rishop Antonin, head of the soviet supreme chureh admin-| | istration as authority for the state.| ment that the soviet church convoea-| tion, which meets April 16 planned to| place Dr. Tikhon on trial before an ecclesiastic board with a view to un- frocking him. After this step 1%is been taken the dispatch adaded the but when he finds something | fair followed by unsettled weather he can't drink it's too late. “\\'llh somewhat higher temperature, soviet tribunal may try him as a lay- man, Exactly As Pictured Abhove Nine Pieces,: including server, $198.00. “OWN YOUR OWN HOME” is a very good slogan which every one should try to practice, but-— “OWN YOUR OWN FURNITURE" is just as worthy a slogan and much more eqsily acconiplished. Why Pay Rent on Your Furniture Rugs '§ when you can buy good quality merchandise at much lower prices for ' CASH at B. C. PORTER SONS. We Buy for Cash and We Sell For Cash We pay for all our merchandise in 10 days and our financial “rat- ing” is such'that we buy at the Lowest Possible Prices. We have just ONE PRICE, plainly marked on each piece. EIGHT PIECE WALNUT DINING ROOM SUITE $169.00 Ten Pieces, including China Case, $249.00 'HUGHES ORDERED T0 PAY HIS 'WIFE $8 WEEKLY FOR YEAR | Woman Testifies She Left Him When She Learned Mc Was Taking Girls for Auto Rides, Reuben Hughes, who was arraigned ceived from Washington Dr. Rowe 1s{v!\u‘olling at 136 Kensington avenue, at| i, police court this morning on a of gullty on both charges. case of default the accused sent to jail for 60 days. Mrs. Hughes testified that her hasband in June, 1922, EVERETT TRUE | charge of nonsupport, was ordered by t | Judge George W. Klett to pay his wife |88 a week for a period of onc year. | Bonds were placed at $400, and in \here it was alleged B.C.PORTER SONS “Connecticut’s Best Furniture Store” tomobile rides with other girls. One child has been born of the marrjage, and Hughes told Judge Klett that he would be willing to support the child but not the mother, Mrs. Hughes {now lives with hef parents in Kens- | ington. | Roczo Rossman, arrested. yesterday | afternoon I Policeman Thomas | Feeney on a charge of driving with- | out an operato: license and without proper signal devices, was fined $10 and costs. The accused entered a plea Max Cherpack was fined $20 and costs on a breach of the peace chargs. | He was arrested last night py Patrol- man Joseph Moore on Tremont street, that he beat will be John Suchy of 45 Sexton street. Suchy she left when she lident of the graduating class at the discovered that he was going on au- | testified that Cherpack entered into an argument with him over money and then hit him over the gye with a i beer bottle, ] SHE CAST DRO IS NoT INnN T SLASS — P HE T's