New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1923, Page 6

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This insures pro- ‘%ection against fraud in newspaper dis- tribution figures to both nationsl and local advertisers, T ———— THE POLICE COMMISSION It is hard to see why there should be any desire to substitue one police commissioner for the commission of four members now having supervision of police matters in this city. That is, it is hard to see any plausible reason. Thé proposed ordinance would provide that the one commissioner, to take the place of the four commissioners, .would be appointed by the mayor, but he “would serve for such time and upon such salary as the common council may by said ordinance direct.” A significant phrase is seen in the amendment which authorizes this change. It reads: “When said single- headed commission is so established by ordinance, the number shall not thereafter be subject to change by ac- tion of the common countil.” other words this step once taken by the present majority of the com- mon’ council could not be undone by " any future majority—which might be of anbthef political complexion. More- over, while the appointive power rests in the mayor, the wording of the ordinance which would govern the - eommissioner, would be the choice of the present majority in the common couneil. Naturally a good and sound reason should be given for the change, Why the police department should be singled out as the department the management of which is to be chang- ed, is not clear. Certainly one man __could not be expected to serve in this capacity without pay, doing all the work transacted by the present com- mission of four, and it is equally cer- tain that a competent man would be required for the post. More sound rea- sons than any which have been sug- gested or privately intimated will have “ to be advanced before the benefits to ‘eome to the city from such a plan will appear. TELLING THE I'UTURE Two alleged fortune tellers were discharged by the court here because the evidence against them was insuf- ficient. It seems that they were in- formed of a law against telling what would happen in the future, but an attempt to narrate what had happen- ed to the “subjects” in the past broke no ‘law. Mogt of ‘us love things mysterious. ‘We like to dare people to tell us what has been our past, and, if we are credulous enough, we like to have them guess what is goihg to happen to us in the future. We put little stock in fortune-tellers’ predictions, we tell ourselves, but a hopeful prediction makes us pay the dollar or the half- dollar more cheerfuly. Probably our inability to actually know what is going to happen to us is one of our greatest blessings. And it is quite likely that this is the idea of the law in forbdding far-fetched predictions by fortune tellers. Look- ing back on what some of us have been through, realize we would never have been able to face life if we had known what was gom- ing. Today there may be great good fortune in store for us; there may be tragedy. The good fortune may hurt or help us in the final analysis; even the tragedy, once lived through, may do us no harm. It would be a listless world if there were some way to find out just our fortune was to be. The elements of courage, the determina- tion to fight, as well as the ¢ the air would disappear and we would | drift along like the pronounced fatal- we may stles in | ist, convinced that, after all, nothing mattered. What was to be would be, | despite us. The law is aimed at the| credulous—and there is a deal of credulity in many otherwise intelligent | people. | THE HOTEL MANAGEMENT The American Hotels Corporation | will manage the new hotel in this city, the contract having been arranged to extend over a period of 30 years. Thus the original pians for the hotel being carried out. The date set its opening, Jan. as could have been expected. It is obvious to say that New Brit- ain needs the hotel, and that it should Pe a4 moderately well-paying inatitu- %% provided it comas up to the are for {can’t make him drink” was !less Germany were somewhat idealized standard predict- ed for it. With the management will rest this matter,' and, as old hotel men, officers of this management probably realize this fact. This news- paper has encouraged the hotel move- ment as one which should be sustain- ed by those who could afford to take a chance for the sake of the city. Such people will be repaid if the hotel comes up to expectations, Any evi- dence of hitches in the plans that may have appeared seem to have faded, and it is the earnest hope of every- pne interested in the undertaking that the new hotel, under the management now arranged- for, will prove to be the benefit to\the city predicted for it. - GASOLINE SITUATION Wheat farmers and petroleum com- panies are in much the same position. There is too much production. The Standard Oil company of Indiana has announced that it would reduce the price of gas 6.6 cents a gallon throughout the ten states in its terri- tory, thus bringing it down to 16.4 cents a gallon. The independents will reduce prices b cents a gallon. The price fixed by the Standard Oil Co. is below the cost of production, it as- serts, and has been thus fixed, it as- serts, because of its policy of meeting any price fixed by its compeditors, and not, as it is accused of doing, to put competitors out of business. The danger to the smaller concerns, however, is apparent. It is reported that provisions are being made to store surplus crude oil and to avoid an abnormal increase in refining -to prevent prices of gasoline and other products from going down to danger- ous levels. Thus it is seen that the oil people are not secking government aid as are the farmers with their wheat, but are seeking” to rectify conditions by na- tural, not artificial means. With a full appreciation of the farmers’ unfortunate situation with his surplus of wheat, it would seem that the oil men, in curtailing produc- tion where possible and in storing the surplus are taking the more effective method of protecting themselves. THE FIRST SURPRISE “Political and official Washington received its first distinct surprise at the hands of the new Administration late this afternoon, says a Washington correspondent to a metropolitan daily, *when an announcement was made at the White House that former Representative Campbell B. Slemp, of Virginia received the offer of the office of Secretary to the President and accepted.” More of the mantle of independence and simplicity, cven of strength, has fallen from the shoulders of the new President. It scems the secretary to the President is a member of severa! clubs, a man of independent means, popular in sogiety in Washington, a possessor of large coal properties and actively interested in their manage- ment. Mr. Slemp has bsen active in republican politics for a long time and has been mych interested in the pro- gress of th€ party in the south. Of course he is eminently fitted to be the adyising secretary to President Cool- idge. Poor chap, he couldn't help be- ing comparatively rich, popular and wise; these things should not be held up against him. He will undoubtedly prove a great help to the President. But somehow, just somechow, in spite of the fact that the new secre- ‘tary is probably an estimable person in every way, it shocks some of the people to have the “first distinct sur- prise” come in the form of the ap- pointing of exactly this sort of a man to the position once occupied by our old friend Joseph Tumulty. Anyone who has talked with Joseph in the meetings at the White House where the press is given news of it, knows how much “the president” is, for the moment, the man who speaks for him. And some people who had hope that Calvin Coolidge would some homely strength to the Presidency are, indeed, surprised that he should have selected just this sort of a man to represent him from day to day to the country, as the press of the country sees him. bring “ORDER AT HOME" The world would feel much better about the prospects in Germany if it could believe that the new Chancellor Stresemann meant all that is implied by his statement “the best foreign political activity that we can develop is order in the situation at And it is quite likely that a big step would be ymade in this direction if the conditions, as stated by him, upon resistance” would be given up, ‘are at least partially ob- Chief of these conditions is that there be complete restoration to which “passive served. Germany of her rights of control over the Ruhr. Months old “You may lead a horse to water but you ago the saying quoted here as applicable to the situation in the Ruhr. No matter what technicali- ties are raised, no matter what the theory of the plan may be, the Ger- man workmen, it was then said, would not produce and the French were un- able to produce there as efficiently 1, 1924, is as early | as would willing German workers, un- given management her Ruhr While by no means advocating practical of matters. the withdrawal of Franch from the Ruhr it would seem that a less humiliating home.” | | | interference, with supervision main- tained, would do much to bring about the possibility of Germany, under Stresemann, abandoning the resistance which has resulted in benefit to no one and, at the same time, might re- store order at home. A BICYCLE A “VEHICLE" The Ansonia Evehing Sentinel, com- menting favorably upon the need of greater care by bicyclists as mention- ed-in these columns recently, seems to question whether or not a bicycle is a vehicle. It says: “The law is not incisive in its definition of a bicycle, but so far as it goes it seems to re- gard it as a vehicle, Those who ad- minster the law appear to treat it as a Jpedestrian.' But whereas they seem to make some effort to regulate the actions of the pedestrians, they allow dangerous license to the bicycle.” Sec. 87, Chap. 1. of the ordinances of the city of New Britain is headed: “Vehicles, etc, on Sidewalks not al- lowed,” and mentions ‘“bicycles or other vehicle of burden or pleasure 9 '."A()f course the section excepts bicycles drawn by hand from the prohibition of the section, but the point is that a bicycle is thus con- sidered a ‘‘vehicle” under this author- ity, and by implicaton, subject to the same traffic rules as are other vehi- cles. ENGLAND'S POLICY “England's German policy in brief,” says Robert Quillen, is “Don't cuss a customer.” And the veteran, if some- tjmrs cynical paragrapher, is about right, It is impossibie to escape the feeling that England, especially in the light of her last note, is' determined to do all she can for Germany and she is not espegially considerate of France's feelings in how she expresses herself. Lord Curzon, the writer of the note, is not known for his gentle phrasing of accusations, and his plain implication, as his ‘words are_inter- preted; that I'rance wants to stay on in the Ruhr indefinitely, are cal- culated to rouse the I'rench spirit. There has been repeated denial by France that she wants any such thing. She insists that her occupancy is for the purpose of making Germany pay what she owes, and for that purpose only. | It ordinary rules might bej applied to the situation it would secjthat the replacement of Cuno by Sfresemann wluld be encouraging. The new chancellor has been associated with the industrialists, and it is the indus- trialists that England is most interest- ed in, but the making public of Eng- land's note, offensive to France and Belgium, comes at a bad time. A pavement may be only semli-per- manent, but there's nothing ‘“semi"” about the crimp it puts in the city's bankroll. 4 Soon we'll be putting away the lawnmower and dusting off the gqod old snow shovel. You_can't make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear—but who wants to? Looks as though the only heat we'd get from the various coal commissions will be hot air and warm smiles, Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN, The normal child, however, turns out all right in spite of all (he par- cnts can do. Civilization would be a fine thing if the job of making it left us any leisure to enjoy it. It never is correct to say of a states- man, “He is a dirt farmer.” Always use the past tense. Home is a place where you have learned to adjust yourself to the queerness of the mattress. American doesn't approve European advocacy of “plural wives.” All Amer- ican wives are singular. There will be wars while "illustri- ous" applies more particularly to those who died fighting. The smallgr the car, the more ar- rogantly the driver can toot his horn. It works in the case of small men, also. In warning the grand jury not to be influenced by anything the judge always forgets to mention sex. You may call a truthful man a liar and get away with it, but it is dan- gerous to call a liar a liar. But if he tells you he wishes you to be a good fellow, my dear, his in- tentions never are scrious. Correct this sentence: ¥Yes, he is our only chitd,” boasted the mother, “and he is absolutely unspoiled.” There are few matters in the world | so urgent that they can’t wait until | the train gets past the crossing. At any rate the soda fountain pa- tron never is made to skid across the sidewalk on his ear when his last| nickel s spent. When the star customer of a hick- town bank fails to overdraw during the month, the banker knows he is mad about something. The rotogravure section has another good point, The red shoes worn by the young ladies portrayed never show red. A man is old when he can yawn and go to bed and leave the hero in the middle of a bad fix on Page 184, The boy who missed the thrill of running away to sea can get it now asa Qan by wearing knickers on Main street. “When his coat and collar become too oppressive, a man can get some relief by laughing about woman's silly styles, ' When a village boy goes to the city and makes good, the pride of the home folks is equalled only by their surprise, remom 25 Years Ago Today (Taken irom Herald of that date) o Several versions are current con- cerning a fight which took place near the billboard ‘on Chestnut street yes- terday, There were threec men en- gaged and all the stories agree that the battle was a flerce one. One of the combatants received a kick in the face and lost several teeth, John Salney has returned from his trip to Bridgeport and Niantic *and other points of interest along the Long Island Sound shore. William "I, Martin has gone to Har- winton where he will spend the next two weeks. Mr, and Mrs. William H. Butler have returned from a short visit with relatives in Meriden, A man giving his name as Samuel sSerafin was thrown out of a wagon on Willow street yesterday and had a gash cut in his scalp which required several stifches to close it. Dr. Mar- tin attended him. Robert Lindsay, Willlam Latham, Charles A. Rossberg and Louis Dy- son have returned from Lanphier's Grove, near Branford where they have been camping for a few weeks. Workmen at Roaring Brook yester- day came across a nest of red adders. The snakes were quite lively and while some of them escaped, the casualties numbered 12 in the official report, WILL LIVE IN CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Faust Squillace of 392 Park street left this morning on a two month's trip touring the coun- try by auto. Their destination is Los Angeles where Mr., Squillace expects to go into business. ¢ Mr. Squillace formerly owned the shoe shine parlor .in the Chamber of Commerce building, later selling out to his brother-in-law, Albert Pawlow and purchasing the repair shop at 123 Main street, which also now passes into the hands of the brother-in-law. He also played in the Palace theater orchestra. At the home of Mrs. Squillace's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Pawlow at 84 Prospect street last evening a farewell party was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Squillace and the former's cousin, Anthony Rosi, who accom- panies them. Vocal selections were rendered hy Miss Anna Pawlow and her two brothers Emil and JFrank. Violin solos™were played by Albert Pawlow, JACKSON HELD Bridgeport, Aug. 16.—Fred Jackson 36, of 23 Chestnut street, Hartford, and driver for B. Dworkin and Co. of that city, is locked up at Stratford today in default of $1,500 bonds on a complaint sesulting when his truck injured John Paster of Pembroke street, this city, in that town last night. Jackson sustained a fractured shoulder and other injuries. Cinema Baby e little Betty Eliason, galled the “jitney Juliet of the movies,” is &0 wrapped up in he work that she makes dresses from the cutting room scrap. Here's hoping she doesn't play with matches. WHAT’S GOING ON By CHARLES P, STEWART ) NEA Service Writer Presideént Coolidge is going ahead, at any rate for a while, without changing the Harding administra- tiow pérsonnel—cabinet or anything. This may mean: 1. That he agrees with most of the Harding policies. . 2./That he doesn't think it would be good taste or in the interest of efficiency to begin making changes too soon." M 8. That he's trying to hold the or- ganization together for political rea- sons, incidentally with a view to as- suring himself the republican presi- dential nomination in 1924, NOT SO DIFFERENT As for essential policies, Harding was a republican, of course. He was classed generally as conservative. Coolldge is the same thing, except that he's been advertised as even more of a conservative than Harding was. The commonest guess is that the new president will abandon the World Court idea, not dropping it like a hot cake, but just letting go of it gradu- ally. The World Court issue was a per- sonal matter with Harding rather than a party principle, anyway. PRETTY WELL SUITED Another guess is that the Harding cabinet really sults President Cool- idge pretty well. The only member believed likely to-drop out soon, if at all, is Attorney General Daugherty. He, again, was a personal rather l_thnn a party appointee. GEOGRAPHY AGAINST HIM &he republican leaders—of course meaning those without presidential ambitigns of their own—seem fairly willing to go ahead on the theory that Coolidge has the next nomina- tion logically “‘coming to him,” pro- ,vided he makes a "hit.” If he can do something perfectly wonderful in the next few months maybe he will make a “hit.” He has some big questions to try to find the right answer to—the HEu- ropean problem, the farmers' dis- content, the coal situation this com- ing winter and the prohibition puz- zle, for instance. * Yes, by finding the right answers to some of these conundrums he'd stand a chance of making himself popular enough to offset his handi- caps. But these are heavy—he classes as a conservative and there's a strong demand for a liberal; there's the most urgent reason for placating the west and he's from Massachusetts., CRISIS IN GERMANY After riots in which many were killed, Chancellor Cuno of Germany resigned. Dr. Stresemann succeeded him. L] Cuno represented the plutocracy. Stresemann is people's party leader. However, the latter is said to be even more determined than was Cuno on resisting the French in the Ruhr. England has offered to cut down her claims against Germany and also the sums due her, as debts, from the allies, meaning principally France, to the amount the British owe the United States, if the .question of Germany’s reparations is settled. The ‘English declaration to this effect re- ferred, more plainly than ever hd- fore, to France's Ruhr policy as “illegal.”” French statesmen's utter- ances give small hope that the English offer will be accepted. NO PROGRESS AT ALL Argentina’s considering a big appro- priation to modernize her army. It's necessary, La Razon, Argen- tin®s leading afternoon daily, says, because the recent Pan-American conference was such a fizzle. This was the same conference that the North American delegates, re- turning home, described as so much of a sutcess. La Prensa, foremost Argentine morning - paper, lamenting North America's ignorance concerning the southern republic, remarks: “I4¢ is imperative the United States should know the truth—that no progress was made at the Pan- American conference with any. im- portant subject.” Observations on The Weather Fair tonight and moderate For Connecticut: Thursday; cooler tonight; northwest winds, Conditions: The disturbance which was central over upper Michigan yes- terday morning is now passing out the St. Lawrence valley. It caused local showers during the last 24 hours in the eastern portion of the Lake re- gion and New England. ' There has been a slight rise in temperature from Ohio eastward to the coast. Conditions favor for this vicinity: Fair weather with slightly lower tem- perature, MILLS FACE HARD TIMES The British Cotton Trade is in a Bad Way Oldham, Lancashire, Aug. 15.—The British cotton trade is dull, and share- holders in Lancashire spinning mills are having hard days. Time was when these fortunate hol- ders received dividends of from 20 to 50 per cent with reasonable regular- ity, but today a list of 74 mills shows these concerns facing losses, on capi- tal and profit and loss accounts, of $50,000,000, To offset this situation an effort is being made to develop cotton grow- ing within the empire. TO RESUME PUBLICATION. The monthly bulletin of the heaith department will go to press this week, Dr. Richard W. Pullen, superintend- ent of health, has announced. For the past few months, these bulletins have not been pubighed with regul- arity. Reports of the several branches of the department and an article on health matters by the superintendent will make up the lAIll’ul'. 1ssu0. PROPOSED GANAL Danube and Rhine Bamberg, Bavaria, Aug. 15.—Char- lemagne Wwould have a bad half hour if he could come back to life long| enough to see how canal-diggdrs are gashing up the eastern half of his old empire to connect the waters of the Rhine and Danube, and make it pos- sible. for ocean-going ships to travel from the North Sea to the Black Sea by inland waters. The Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, which was begun in 1921, confem- plates a revolution in the transporta- tion system of Europe, and indirectly of the entire world. Freight routes will be changed, and cargoes loaded on ocean-going ships of not greater than 1,500 tons capacity will be able to sail from Rotterdam to Galatz, at the mouth of the Danube, touching Cologne, Mayence, Frankfort, Nurem- berg, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade on their way to the Black Sea. American cotton is promised a through trip from New Orleans to practically all the countries of Central Europe which has no seaports, and new tourists routes are to be opened up for excursion steamers which will rival the Rhine trip in beauty and historic interest and make it possible for visitors to eliminate the annoy- ances of frequent chahges from steam- er to trains, The new watexway will toych the territory of nine states: Holland, Ger- many, France, Austria, Hungary, Ser- bia, Bulgaria, Czecho-Slovakia and Roumania. But it is really more than a canal of continental Europe, as it will put all maritime powers in touch with central Europe, and afford a new entry to the Near East by way of the Black Sea. If the canal attains the success its promoters prophesy it will drain much business through Rotterdam in- to the heart of Europe which now goes past Gibraltar into the Mediter- ranean. Much business which now finds its way into the Black Sea through the Turkish straits is also ex- pected to enter the Black Sea through the mouths of the Danube. Odessa, which lies only a short distance each of the Roumanian ports at the Dan- ube's mouths, is expected to be great- ly benefited by the new waterway. PAYS 400 YEARS FINE Church of Our Lady of Willesden stll Held by Law of Henry VIIL London, Aug. 15.—The record for a long distance fine appears to belong to the office of vicar of the Chureh of Our Lady of Willesden, which ancient edifice stands in one of London's su- burbs, for that personage is required to pay an annual contribution of one pound, two shilling and a sixpence to the king, and he has been paying it for almost 400 years. This fine was iniposed after the Re- formation by Henry VIII on the medieval vicar because he allowed pil- grims to come to his church and bathe their eyes in the water of a well which is supposed to contain curative properties. The pilgrims in gratitude often left sums of money, which aroused Henry's ire, and the vicar es- caped the stake only by handling all the money thus collected over to Henry, and agreeing to pay an an- nual fine, and vesting his sins on his successors. Although Henry instituted many such gentle methods of increasing the kingly exchequer, this is the only in- stance of the fine still being paid. The well on the church property still attracts many pilgrims who come to bathe their eyes with the miraculous ‘waters, many of whom claim to have been cured thereby. A steel box with a flax-duck cover to keep water cold without ice, is now on the market. EVERETT TRUE GosH, THE BRITISH WELGOME Help in Reparations Straggle By The Associated Press. s London, Aug. 15.—The most wale come reaction yet received in London as a result of the British reparation note sent to France and Belgium Sat- urday is contained in the press re- ports to the morning newspapers that the Coolidge administration will make a ready response to any appeal to Amefica for assistance in settling the prolonged reparation strugsgle. This news, as reported here in the press dispatches, is almost too good for officials to believe. The report contained no qualification that the ap- peal to America must be from the, unified allies, Judged from this ap- parent deparfure from the original suggestion made by Secretary of State Hughes there was considered to be a possibility of American participation in the commission of experts which might be called together through in- | dependent British action after the Baldwin government becomes gon- vinced of the impossibility of ob- taining Franco-Belgian cooperation in estimating Germany’'s capacity to pay. On the whole the comment on Great Britain’s latest move to obtain a final and definite settlement with Germany has -been satisfactory, &e- cording to foreign officlals. The Italian reaction is distinctly fa- vorable, and the neutral countries are desirous of supporting any scheme which appears likely to restore nér- mal economic conditions on the con- tinent. 7\ Even frgm l‘ance. according to the Britiéh government's spokes- men, there is infijential opinion that the British proposals seem to offer a basis for discussion and not to call for summary rejection. % According to the British viewpoint the French hysteria of anger and dis- appointment upon receipt of thi Brit- ish note was based on the bellet of several years’ standing that nothing good in the way of a reparation set- tlement could possibly come out of England. i Opinion in Paris. A closer study by some writers who are considered in close touch with au- thpritative quarters in Paris is held to disclose that there is a possibility of an agreement tvith Great Britain. It was indicated in Downing street this morning that everything possible wauld .be done to strengthen this fa- vorable trend in Paris opinion. i No Modifications of ® View on Reparations By The Assoclated Press, Washington, Aug. 15.—Any impres- sion aproad that there has been a moflifiation in the American gévern- ment’s attitude on reparations was #aid on high authority here today to be wholly unwarranted. It was emphasized again that the policy and hopes of the Wuhmgton government as announced by Sacre- tary Hughes in his New Haven spsech last December were unchanged, ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. D. A, Perry of 147 Beaver street announce the engage- ment of their daughter, Genevieve, to Robert E. Burkarth of 21 Walaut street. Miss Perry is an auditor at the Mohican Market and Mr., Burk- arth is employed at the Hart & Hutchinson Co. First regular theatrical company seen in America came from England W\ 1762, landed at York, Va: and opened a playhouse at Willlamsburg, the capital of the province. v HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED AND GLASSES FITTED BY A. PINKUS Eyesight Specialist 300 MAIN ST. New Britain BY CONDO CSVERETT, HEAT “0 7 worip | 10 0PEN UP EUROPE| ANERICAN REACTION Route to Comnect the Waters ofBeliel in England Coolidge WAl - | N