New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1923, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1023 —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random,Observations On the City and Its People 'm— ‘ Descendant of Washingtor. REaPOASIBILITY K Very perses 1te respoasibi Boston that the i The ¢ v the | ETF8 L New Britain Herald Transoript said the ether day|May W COMPANY ) LD PUBLISHING (lassed Daily, Sunday Bacept A Hemld B L Strent \Facts and Fancies # free press in & free natior of Rdep berty 5 Ohurh ehampilon nationa - e we 1nid as SUBSCRIPTION RATES " . Year 300 Three Months, The & Moanth Batersd a1 th st Office at New Brltaln a8 Second Clam e Mail Matter TELEPHONE CALLS teing medium | and press o8 19 advertisers Arab PHrew always ®he only pro \ " Member of The Assoctated Press, ®he Assacinted Pross is exclusively entitied o the use f publication of all wews eradited 10 11 or Bot otherw redited 1 this paper and also local news pub fahed herein it Barean of Cireulation & national organizatiel neWSPA|ere N Member Al The A . whish furnii teers with a stricthy elreulation, Our circulats Based upen this audit, This tection agains ud In ne tribution fgures 1o beth & Jocal adveriisers, e ey GOOD BUSINESS FOR 1 Roger Babson sums up his weekly statement by the prediction that the| figures regarding prosperity for the most of 19 eral business,” he says, “is in & heal- thy position at about 1 per cent above pormal,” It will be remembered that a too high percentage above normal us based on natural growth, would be & bad sign. Thus far such omen has not appeared. DPenying the Impression that busi- ness is threatened, but explaining that it is not hard to gather a pessi- business indicate | “Gens ) the obligations g He 1 he inspired 1f it is Joya mora by ipposed its politk s sald more meore than this ay . ight e o than this the It is with a se this respa bility that per often calls ats ¥ 10 the ianger Also to private affairs and sit. tentior people in, but ot oy rights of the and the they may be uations over which that newspaper is a sense of this winter concerned. It is with responsibility when the and that, le is here there comes danger to ehildren from sliding down streets newss paper urges care in order that the This sense of responsibility prompts the newspaper iriving of automobiles, emphatically as pos. h traffie passes, a children may not suffer to urge safe AS dangers that come from and points to the careless driving. And with a sense of this responsi. bility & newspaper warns in n\.-l summer season of the danger of drowning and the wisdom of learning Last year this newspaper made a point of this accomplishment, stating that it would be worth while for everyone who could possibly do so to learn to swim during the summer months and, failing that, to take care and run no risk of drowning, It is learned that many people did learn to swim; that care was taken to a great extent, The warning and admeonition is now repeated merely to bring to people’s minds the terrible danger that exists every time one goes into or upon water thut is deep. The little plenic parties, near the water, may become the surroundings of tragedy sible to swim would BY BOBEST QUILLEN, Reeipe i nted boss I8 the A “libe el with a of #ero in prospect is 1 Aim against Germany A BUE ur A good to nging to Christ B, w Pir wh t w churehman is one Christianity never have Guite 0 vulgar as the suggestion that dancers wear bumpers seen st get man 0 can get having to whoe without n & ddnee It is estimated that this month will The reason there, A chicken crosses the street is because there is an inviting window mirror ove The seed of revolution is no more Some of the gage, but about all some of them take along Is the race problem, Negroes than the desire to enjoy advantages the other fellow now monopolizes, carry bag- For the most part, history is a bi- ography famous fly is the one in the ointment. of nuisar nces. It is unreasonable, however, to ex- The only RO Lest i the time possible 1o that good importas ¢ nas layli slore profe faylight saving 1w heuseholder may his show displa) tHm in man may his offiee and the Chureh serviees Will be worshippe " are or time | matters little the clock is running on standard time or running The only praes in his home téaded on time ™ rom hemes laylight saving whether 0 cloe and it ireh at not a require the purchase of 7,874 gravy|tical difference the iaw makes is that ! ladles as wedding gifts. th are denied the convenience elocks on the church steeples, Clocks | above the entrance to stores, aceord ing to the opinien of our corporation | counsel, may be on daylight saving time unless they proje over the street The Observer regrels that so many | of the people in the factories do not like daylight saving time. To them it |is no joking matter t business is | done an that time and looks as though |all of us would have to keep up to it | Certainly, the matter of the test case, New Rritain does not want to pose as a city anxious to fight the state in the courts, just for the sake of the fight, As long as no great practical confusion will arise under the law as interpreted by the official upon whom we have a right to rely, the decent thing to do is to leave matters as they are and go about our Lusiness | in I would not be a fighting chap And with the fighters atand I"or just the fun of showing that A thing s contraband, of course is the best 3 I figcor ered We re- e 10 people who aerver take any exe anyway for they deserve be hot and to suffer, As for those play baseball or golf there are ares from heat suffering In play an erroriess game and 3 won't notiee at al Ing beat your dub ne shets, and re- strai vocabulary, You'll swear that you love the hot weather and can't play golf upiess it 1a hot, Bim- X (R |3 se advis Las 1 the own v ) and you cat ve We'd never know The comfort of A dollar in our purses If we had not On some sad day Experienced reverses And so we'd pe'er appreciate The joys of dear December, If we had not the sizzling heat Of summer to remember. s & The suggestion is made that the city meeting board resort to its habit | of rescinding action previously uhu\.‘I as it did in the matter of the school bonds, This time the matter of the| bullding commission is the peint un-| der discussion, The point was raised at the last sesslons of the city meeling toad that the city needed no more | commiasions. Little was sald on this | subject, but the suggestion of the bullding commission is not unlike that of having a purchasing agent for the | eity, The bullding commission would be selected, undoubtedly, with the| idea primarily that it was a commis- | slon which would be engaged in bulld- _mu. selecting plans and supervising {the actual work. As a matter of fact the diferent boards, such as the | school board, know what sort of a building they want and thus the hoard's opinion should take prefer .. I Mrs, George Washington of Cedar Hill, near Nashville, Tenn., has been elected,president of the Tennessee Federation of Womn's clubs, Hr husband claims direct can general and first president wl kinship with the famous Ameri- 108¢ name he bears, mistic attitude if one listens merely to market and current gossip, Mr. Bab- son summarizes the situation by cov- ering the whole fleld, Commodity prices reached 200 per cent above pre- war prices In 1020 and then fell, They pect the farmer to keep on ralsing eats while the city keeps on raising wages, But when they tread upon my toes— My neighbor's toes as W I want to fight until the day A sea would freeze in—a place that & as warm as yesterday was, P It is with much concern that we | ence over the opinion of the building| YOUNG CORT GETS DIVORCE | commission in the selection of plans, i 4s @ matier of fact it has been customary to have the actual work of bullding supervised by a practical | r2an as It went on. Thus neither in the selection of plans nor in the if such care Is not taken. The most Innocent looking pool of water may be the grave of someona if thought is not taken of its dangers. The glory of the summer sunshine " OFFIGERS ASSIGNED | Declarcs His Chorus Girl Bride Would Major Reeves Is Transferred I'vom | Not Quit “Career.” | Bridgeport, June 23.-—Mrs. Maude | Fealy Cort, wife of John Edward Cort Another sign of returning to nor- malcy is that people no longer stand in awed silence when an efficlency ex- Second To Command Fivst Buttal- have come back to 78 per cent above such pre-war prices through a steady, orderly rise. The more numerous failures reported show nota condition to be feared, but indicate rather a general house-cleaning that augurs well for the future. National banks are borrowing but $730,000,000 whereas in 1920 their discounts were $2,827,008,000, and there is no danger now that they will have to call their Joans and slow up business in order to protect their reserves, whicl? are ample. Our imports are gaining ground, which is not a good sign for the moment, but which “from a long swing point of view" is a favorable factor. Business may now finance its needs for 5 per cent instead of 8 per cent, as in 1920. The transportation situation is getting better rapidly, and there is less inefficiency in work than in 1920. The one, or one of the few unfav- orable conditions, according to Mr. Babson's estimate, is the export sit- uation, although it is better than in 1913 and 1915. Mr. Babson has previously dicted good business up to about the beginning of 1924, and now his last word, after a full summary of the sit- uation may be repeated. ‘“General ‘business is in a healthy position . . the figures clearly indicate good busi- ness for the most of 1923. pre- GOOD WILL “The employer has spent a lot of time selling his honesty, his fairness and personality to the banker and the public. How much has he spent try- ing to sell that same personality honesty and fairness to his work- men?" Once in a while this sort of a par- agraph meets the eye and brings the wonder of why the thing has never been stated quite that way before. The quotation comes from a speech of a man whose is not important here—it is Sherman Rogers of New York city—but whose thought is im- portant. The man was discussing the settlement of labor problems and he said, further, “The world is bullt on ideals y are $ 99 ninety-five whether they wear overalls, want to play the of contact means @ %% There three question—your side, the other fellow's gide and the 1 don't be- lleve there was ever a question *** to the dispute was name Labor wants to he’ squa cent of men, Lack | misunderstanding sides to every per broadcloth or game square. are right side. where either side right.” These are They are firm piers to which to anchor. If not merely words. the men who work in industry and if the men who employed them—if they all believed them and acted ingly there D troubles. There are, always, You may be wccord- | would labor those three sides nearly right be nearly s his side and And it the | much time to a question and the other fellow all wrong—but there’ your side—and the right side the employer, maks first advance, trying to convince his employe of his| may who must spent as squarencss as he gives to his banker and to the public to try to convincr them of the same convince the of that ness—if he If, proached by the employer, the met him to a eonyince the employer of his square- ness, he would be able to do it—if Se 18 square, thing, he could worker square- is squarc being ap- worker man man a tried to | lowing personal | goet the humor of this comment-—what | whether { they have | would seem that Mr. Cobb will have | source would be darkened indeed were it to touch tragedy that is preventable, May this newspaper take the liberty of trespassing upon the private affairs of others to the extent of emphasiz- ing this warning against the dangers of the deep waters. Have the pleas- ure of the swim or the wading by all means, but see to it that every pre- caution be taken even though it may seem a needless precaution. YALE WINS Yale men, graduates of other days, dropped off to sleep quietly last night, a smile of peace on their faces, with the feeling in their hearts that at last things were getting back to normal. Yale oarsmen had made a clean sweep in the boat races that day and once more the country was safe; things were quite as they should be. From now on and henceforth forevermore, there wonld be peace with no disturb- ing element in the atmosphere of the land. But, Yale sympathizers though we may be, we may see something in the annual race far more important than the winning of the big event, as well as the 'reshman and Junior races by Yale. Again strong men of the two great! universities of Yale and Har- vard have met in a contest to which romance and beauty and sentiment add their attraction, and again the winner has been acclaimed by all, op- ponents as well as friends. Again young American courage has been shown by winner and loser and good sportsmanship has prevailed. There is a traditional dignity to this annual water classic that elevates the sport to & high plane of manliness. As long as that spirit surrounds the contests they will remain notable whether the triumph be that of the crimson of Harvard or the blue of Yale, fo! th BASEBALL RESTRICTIONS, Whether or not one Ty Cobb, more or less known to a deep student of the trend of legislation and its cffect upon the capabilitics of men, is a question. There is no question, however, about his being a good hase- ball player and manager. His team, the Detroit Tygers, is said to have fewer restrictions upon players than | American league. drinking fame, is en ua club the There are no other than prevail all over the coun- any in rules about try; golf is not forbidden; there are 1o rules as to the hours when players must retire. And possibly the great- est in importance in the matter of al- liberty to players, the wives of the players are not en- to accompany their trips out of town pu couraged hus- | bands on the cr follows is no attempt at humor. | we do not know |fo It is repeated; or not Mr studying the trend of legislation and i"” tend Cobb has the drawn for them. But if he 1s been thus engaged, and if he ha coen that the aforesaid line is being | straighter and By to drawn straighter and the strict people in every possible way, it lawmakers seem to want re- i o none of it as far as his Jur!:lrhrflm\i Es at per- libe goes idently he believes initiative, re- strength in his players. He is staking his reputation as a manager upon his belief. Well, we sonal tv induces it Al Bristol run tomorrow, ice. | ma pert appears, Appreciation of some movies means In a village you can reduce the cost It isn't hard that you have an evil mind, and ap- preciation of others means that you haven't any kind. of living by telling your neighbor that she hakes the finest bread you ever tasted. AT to befleve that the| world was created in seven days. The hard part is to believe that it was created at all. Confusion of tongues stopped work Correct this sentense: lucky boy,” said the mother, “and I never am uneasy when he is down at the swimming pool.” on Babel, but no doubt some enthusi- asts called it a melting pot right up to the last. “Willie is a Darn it. The craze petered and be- re any prominent thought to experiment and see how long monkeys can dance. evolutionist It is suggested that everybody take e air."” up aviation because “it is safer up in Being up in the air doesn't make France safer. O e O ) - %25 Years Ago Today (Taken irom Herald of that date) s s s s Mrs, Willlam Butler of Kensington street is visiting with Bridgeport. relatives in Mr. and Mrs, C. C. Holmes of Fair- view street have wold and daughter. Gr Frank J. after a severe attack of malaria. Porter is cor as their guests Mrs nvalescing Edward S8amlow has entered in the Rev, J. ce day. Mortime ted from er N, the Hi the a gh race that is scheduled to be Fitzgerald has accepted the invitation of the Fourth of July committee to deliver the public celebration of ddress at Independ- Judd who was grad- school will leave for Chicago today where he will remain until next his mother and siste today, ptember with About 30 people paid a visit to the Vocal home of Miss Katie Frazer on Chest- nut street last night. |strumental music and games occupied the attention of the company and a light collation was served, and in- Town Clerk Penfield is planning to iblic |make a record of all the | New Rritain men who are in the serv- It will probably he of use in the records and {and their friends later on. for th names of e soldiers “Mike" Parkinson was hurt in the 0ssing. ade to r the ac An invest Stanl igation Jor- |collision between the freight and pas- |senger trains at the street be ey will ertain who was to blame ident. Several people were been |hurt, but fortunately no one was kill- John Coffey was elected to head the sy of our worthy solons t0 (e of Chosen 1oriends make people walk a certain line which [mecting last evening lsatt he annual Eruption of Mount Etna Now Is Much Decreased The Rome, ount ¥t would ussolini June 23.- na has entered stage with periods of increase and de- | crease in its activity alternating. The flow of lava toward continuing but has slowed down to £o great a degree that at the present rate Assoclated Pross. The Lingualossa la‘ eruption of an erratic be weeks before the town ball | proper was reached. King Victor Emmanuel together Th and with visits of Premier Richard Washburn Child, American ambassa- are all in need of strength, resource-|go. g9 much teward heartening the fulness, initiative—we are all playing 'population of the threatened areas. | ever. note the conference of state govern- ors which the President intends to call for a discussion of the prohibi- tion cnforcement may be postponed until next fall. A report has it that it was said at the White House that the conference was “somewhat up in the air,” and one fecls instinctively that pretty nearly everything about enforcement of the \Volstead law is “up in the air” Of course there could be no conference if there was nothing to confer about. If there was no enforcement there could be noth- ing to’confer about and there could be no conference. There is no con- ference, therefore there is no enforce- mwent. Q. E. D. Thus may logical mathematical problems which are not true be proven to be true, for we all know there is enforcement. Which 18 a denial of the supposed truism that figures never lie. But then, several supposed truisms have been contra- dicted recently. It would not do any harm to get back to fudamentals— not the sort Bryan talks about, how- . v o “No monkey was my ancestor,” Says Bryan, Willlam J. “1 would be most humiliated “If things were that way; “If evolution ruled the world “Then othing would prevent. My changing from a candidate “To U. 8. President.” v The Observer has noted a good niany empty rear seats in automobiles the last few evenings when it seemed as though there was not air enough anywhere—except in a car—to keep people alive. Note has also been tak- en of cars with the back seats occu- pied by children, evidently not off- spring of the.driver of the car. There have been old people, too, in those back seats—people who seldom en- joy automobile rides and who showed their pleasure in escaping for a little while from the heat that came the moment one-remained motionless in one place. The children in those back seats were very happy. And it is safe to say that many owners of cars ex: perienced a feeling of pleasure from the expressions of thanks given them by those who were taken for a ride and who were thus enabled to have a little time* of comfort after a long, hot day. Many car owners do not take peo- ple to ride because they are so ac- customed to driving that they do not realize the treat it is for®others who do not happen to own cars. Such owners do not realize that a drive in a car at this time of the year is cspecially pleasant, bringing the cool- ness that comes as the automobile runs along even at a very moderate speed. The Observer would — enjoy seeing every back seat filled either with children or with people who gel- dom have the sensation of feeling the cool breezes on their taces while the weather is warm. " Let everybody take a ride— A “joy-ride,” if you will— Out In the open country past That rock, that rook, that rill. And let the joyous riders be The children and the old— dive them a little vision of The rainbow's pot of gold. e os The customary thing to do at this time of the year—summer's beginning . ow do to keep cool. Such advice has been given over and over and may be summed up by alvising people to re- train from doing anything thev don't | have to do—Dhe us uniike yourss:l os possible. For wnstance, a contem.por- | ary says, half apologetically: “Weo may eat non-heating foods, avoid the | sunny side of the strect, | tric fan, maintain a moderate pace it controversies, think calm But it might be well to | add to this advice the suggestion that one try to forget about the heat—not trying, however, so hard that one be- comes over heated over the effort, and try to forget all the advice ‘hat is given concerning the ways of keeping cool. The best way to keop cool is to keep on trying to be sensible and decent and free from the complain- ing habit. The worst way to meet the 1eat is officially—is to advisc people what to | use an eiec- | walking, refuse to be drawn .nto un-| | actual bullding would a building com- mission seem to be nceded any more | than a purchasing agent is needed to | buy supplies for the different depart- ments, which departments know what they want and, through prac- tice, have learned pretty well where they may get the best bargains. Oc- caslonal looking into the buying of the departments, as has been done, answers all purposes and has brought good results, However, there is certainly a place on the school accommodations com- mittee, for instance, for practical builders, just as there is a very big place on the school board for prac- tical men who understand the practice and theory of education. Put the point that is significant about the plan to “rescind action” is| that the actions of the city meeting! board wiil always be of a sort that rescission will be contemplated just as long as people are selected for that board who do not take interest cnough in the affairs of the city to attend the meectings. There may be some question as to whether or not the acts of the board would be repre- sentative if all the members attend- ed regularly. But when less than a third of the members go to these meetings there can be no question but that if their action is representative it is only by chance. The city meet- ing board is not much more than a joke as it is now. It will be a stale joke—a dead joke—Iif new life is not injected into fit. s . A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men; But nonsense isn’'t worth a cuss If it is taken serious. . Observations on The Weather Washington, June 23, — Weather cutlook for the week beginning Mon- day in north and middle Aalantic states: Generally fair and warm first half, local thunder showers and some- what lower temperature later half. For Connecticut: Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday; gentle variable winds. Conditions: The pressure has fallen over the New England coast districts and light showers have occurred in southern New England districts. Low pressure persists in the districts west of the Mississippi valley. Conditions favor for this partly cloudy and warmer for tonight and Sunday. vicinity weather Goes to Harvard - Miss Katherine H. Shea, honor grad of Barnard college, is to enter Har- vard school of Engineering in the fall. &he is specializing in electrical engin- eering. Miss Shea was awarded a scholarship to the big eastern univer- sity. lion of 192nd Field Artillery Hartford, June 23.—Orders from | the adjutant general's office today made a number of assignments in the 192nd field artillery. Lieut. Col. Charles H. Hull is made an executive officer. Major Edward E. Reeves is transferred from the second to com- | mand the first bat{allon. Captain | Otto H. Schroeter is relieved as ad- | jutant first battalion and made regi- mental adjutant, Captain Thomas E. Troland is relieved from command of Battery A and made adjutant, first | battalion. Captatn David Conner is| relieved as regimental adjutant and given command of Battery A. Captain Charles H. Metcalf {s pro- moted major ‘in fleld artillery from June 10 relleved as commander of Battery E and asslgned fo the second | battallon, First Lieut., Kieran, Hart- ford, is promoted to captain and as- signed to Battery E. | Gas Light Company Nine Defeats Firemen Outfit The New Britain Gas Light com- pany team played the tiremen another game last night, this time clashing with the second platoon. As was the case in the first game the Gas Light boys won. The score was 8 to 3. Driscoll and Robinson worked for the Gas company and Scarlet and Finner- man was the firemen's battery. The firemen played a fair brand of ball, but were somewhat shakey on their flelding in the early innings. The Gas company played a good brand of ball throughout the game, Driscoll holding his opponents down after the first in- ning. . 18-INCH SNOW IN ITALY Trent, Italy, June 23.—The cold wave sweeping Italy is extreme here. The surrounding Alps are covered with snow. At San Candido the snow is 18 inches deep. At Bolzano and Ortisci the thermometer has fallen to 24, EVERETT TRUE ~— AND /e THREE OR THG W mesPLEsSOoOME MOTHER~IN-LAWS, of Darien, son of the New York thea- trical man, refused to give up her “career” on the stage as a chorus girl, her husband Informed Judge Wolfe in superior court here, in ask- ing for a divorce on grounds of de- sertion, The decree was granted aft- er the judge had heard the testimony of young Cort and his father. Cort said his wife left him five days after the marriage, which occurred in Cincinnati, in January, 1920, Cort brought his bride to his father's home, but soon after arrival, he said, she re- fused to agree to give up the stage, and left him to rejoin the chorus of the show she had been with. He sail he had written to her on several oc- casions, but she answered none of his letters, Cort's father said there was no other reason for the alleged . deser~ tion by his daughter-in-law than the fact that she did not want to leave the stage. 20,000 Tourists Wazch Midnight Sun Spectacle Dawson, Y. T., June 23.—The Jand of the midnight sun provided its an- nual spectacle last night for nearly 20,000 tourists. The end of the long- est day last midnight, found the thousands out of doors, gazing with varied emotions at the big req disc of light which swung about the horizon at midnight and started again for the zenith without setting. Richards and Mis;ftyan Win Their British Games By The Assoclated Press. London, June 23. — Vincent Rich- ards, the young American star, defeat- ed 8. M. Jacobs of India 6-—2, 6—2 in the final of the men’'s singies in the London lawn tennis championships today at the Queens club, In the final of the women's singles, Miss Elizabeth Ryan, the former Cali- fornlan, defeated Mrs. Beamish of England 6—3, 1—6, 6—2. NOTICE, SVERETT, THAT YOL (MAKSE A MIiS- IT'S NoT MOTHER-IN-LAWS BUT RATHER You SHOULD SAY THE SvdiscT \S NoT . PAINFUL ENOVQ N —— [Came= HAVE To DRAG You QRAMMAR A ToO MOTHERS -IN~LAW. = = (A1) I