New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 6

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Our this au traud s matonal anization ewspapers n both mpational News News 42nd Street Cal: Arcade Sehule Grand Central Los Angeles OF THE TIMIS thirty A SIGN Twenty there had hee ty of to the or ¥ o, if 1 take among the facul- eat uni Y. a vote propriety certain law Congre to the ¢ of a ss based passed by upon amendment law being on a matter similar to that it would have shock- the an almosy equal of prohibit ed the had such vots good people of country shown division of the faculty memtl on whether such law should be strictly enforced or modified. such large universities would their positions had by their votes, hers of nave jeopardized they dared to intimate, that t could be any question ubout the propriety o such a Did for everything espoused the law on matter. not the university stand by rformers of the world? faculty members thing so unorthodox as to indicate approval of the results of a campaign having for Well informs its Nows at Yale the university, us, faculty ballots since a week ago last Saturday in the Yale the 18th amendment News referendum on showed Volstead 45 members expressed the favored forcement of the act, 83 for Thus their law modification and repeal 131 ity dissatisfaction 86 fac with present us who enforee- against it members took ment o In other words 131 facul- 1y a stand that would have appeared outrageous n or more years ago, 1 less or ey It is quite probable that few of the members who voted for repeal modif it g the be to show ion would come ¢ aw, a g as it stand rded their Their votes wepe cast belief that dis the present to which situat is d both the ngerous, country and to the spirit it for so mai The o8 an upor has been strong and independent years matter | argument modificution o Volstead act necessarily, but rather to indleate the changing times and the greater free- dom allowed men and women to find ith ditions without 1 indicate but « fault v xisting co; bringing eriticism on their heads. is here mentioned to to those who are to see #ide of the prohibition questi ho opinions differ among men who Has devoted their to thought and study, oting, were governed rsonul prejudice, L who wey by the sumed as to followed rights fringed v couraged of forgetting portions of tution of the United amendment States effort to make one stand out as the most of a great docament mportant ol part freedom SELV-EDUCATED to a m ™! of this city who his application to Adevelopmen mind perso handicapped early to seize th those teaching of a colleg the ski Quit- reverse the opportus tion hi plan to mak portunity to let the chane tiewlar case, for f r educatior the o g0 by probabie persor spired these comments would position to has had he taken which he refused The point to be emphasized other hand, is that if there is the emary material to work man may develop his mind and erease his knowledge, no matter what handicaps he labors under The man referred to here V. Hamiin of this city who. although émployed as a painter by a loca eern, and although seif-educn Pecome an expert accountant gevera] languages fluently and intimate knowledge of anelent and medern history and philosophy. He far gre T upon. any is George ~1In most of the plans which failed to | 15 | an | mstitution—such { Faculty mem- | Could it be right for | their dis- iim world betterment? | recejved | 86 votes for en- | as | repairs that | is said to be a keen student of world‘ “nrmirs, and has been a contributor to | the Herald under a pen name. He is| interested in the things that count, | the contributors of | a plan to the recent Bok peace con- and was one of | test. [ | For the man's mental act his taste in subjects of study, and for | his energy, there can be nothing but | praise. His example is enough to en- courage any man, no matter what his position in life to study as| he has studied and to place himself In to the| the product v, for | may be, a position, possibly, to add wealth of the world by of his brain. But there that ant of credit due Mr. Hamlin, but | s another aspect of the | case takes nothing from the am which emphasizes the importance of | | knowledge in the matter of | ffairs, a lack of which marred | the palns of many of these who, like Mr. the best way of securing world peace. | Hamlin, made suggestions as to | be mentioned for the prize there is ideali of into p 1 touch of m impossible putting actice. The plan that would be considered by thefenate is| ,one which is timely and practical. | of A cation, which is the plan suggested hy | many, would eventually br ! such a campaign would have to be ca prospect immediate results | nust be seen campaign of edu- | g results, 1 on in conjunction with an practical ans of improving the one and adopted as soon as those who had been edu- cated up to the value of peace and the necessity for it come into posi- tions of power, Idealism is to immediately one as a be encouraged in | every way. Tdealism will permeate the | world if ever comes | near to human beings. - But in this practical day no plan for any great reform may succeed if based entirely | upon that fine of the| human soul. And practical knowledge of international affairs, gained by experience in them, is nec- @ fore one may present the international evils. the millenium characteristic s a essary panacea for all E OTHHER FELLOW | What is the mentioning it, | the coid, one may as Why discus that | than the| because to us all use of the sudden cold weather has | | come, colder thermomater the sun has seemingly shows merely been so kind Wi had I | | our ¢ | this winter thus ? all Perh with far it is cold s we trouble starting ups we were a bit uncomfe breaktast before furnace got go- g strong and perhaps, therefore, we | 1d The *cold | we the enjoy our meal " was the chief source of dis- eussion all the street this 1long morning, many smiling about impatiently of it had discuss an people it, or speaking e cause its sudde oming incon- them, Ro why mpleasant fact And there ar the others, some of ted the eold There and ould Vo who gre it nger ones, morning be wou with great pleasure would everywhere, 'l skating that d be splendid carcely wait until the few things that to be attended way have to were out o the %0 that they wo to enjoy this great winter cport. They | smiled about the cold. It would give | lot of | them a fun t many had slight it good tha of t to complain an a the dining room the house had ugh the who had warmed horough hat many artn of the co 1o overcoats out ? which they were able t the cold this morning and no great discomfort because nometer had fa and concer \ ad matter re glad casure ne how h drog And t to many with the skat- | ndid genuinely that the c¢old bring § ing that will res p would not to pic- feel rth discussing were it not esent a contrast and, from that f a contrast, make us all different this city ire of a here are people and in_every city who do a\ the ther- | mometr—they have other things to th ymething quite not stop to look o this day. There are those below and above the doors to so that the g in to home a broken e amount of mi is tha that m nehow And many not plan- ning to « m gather wood 1 others ir smaill way, to bring warmth to the little ones of the family he cold weather that has come discussing. small ¢ of one i« most decidedly worth Perhaps somecone owes memb i 1pe mount of money to a of these familice to the eold | P indly r some but brings teeror ford, not unk merely thoughticssly. has forgottrn to make betore the cold ther sets | other ¥ ome { some of ux may de mak |llnnl from the cold less severe for those who have a hard time, even in mild_weather, to make both ends meet. The coming of the real winter day, with its stinging, biting cold that takes the life from the none-too-well-nour- | ished man, woman, child, will remind us all of the other fellow and of the things we may do to help him. That | cold worth { cussion of the while. Think today, tomorrow, the next day, and so on—think of the makes di and other fellow who can not laugh about | the coming of real winter. And think | of his little children, cold. SPORT DICTATORS 2 The news comes that members of the National Boxing Commission, rep- resenting 19 states in which legal boxing is held, opened the annual meeting of the commission in Louis- ville, Kentucky, January 21st. The ense of the meeting” is that a pro- posal would be wise to create a post of Boxing Commissioner to corres- pond in boxing circles to the position in baseball filled by Commissioner K. M. Landis and Will Hays, of the base- bal land moving picture indus- tries. Both are industries ackmowl- edging that both and the moving picture industry have become commerc and feeling ame of boxing” is no long: the baseball sentially that the er a sport, one may wonder why the | activities of Hayes or Landis have encouraged others to believe that dictator in the bo: game would be of advantage, either to the game o the participant in When Mace fought in England, and when the Marquis of Quensbury formulated the rules of the boxing game which the game was a however, such sweet representatives of the “profession” as Jack Dempsey and others have drift- ed far from this spirit. There is no more reason for having a national die- tator of boxing than there was to an inexperiopced person as dic- tator of the movies, or to take a judge out his official capacity in which he has done spiendid work, and place him to dictate to men who knew about the tricacics of the game of baseball than did he, The Herald is intensely interested in all sportin, We are not above showing enthusiasm cven over a it. are still in force, sport. Today, have in a position far more events, zed | Jem | in- | gion. There has been a decided rise in temperature during the last 24 hours in the western and central dis- tricts. Freezing temperatures extend along the coast as far south as Florida; Conditions favor for this vicinity: Fair, followed by partly cloudy weath- er with rising temperature. Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN. Intelligentsia: People who have the same fool ideas you have. France has no organic trouble. It is simply a Napoleonic complex. Man never seems so mortal as when he appears in a divorce suit or pajamas. Fable: Once there was a man | forty years old who didn't think he {Mmad kidney trouble. [ Exercise may be a good thing, but nobody ever saw a village loafer who was unhealthy. Wild animals are not really more healthful than men. They, also, die early in captivity, | You never really know a man until you have slept on the same pool table with him during a convention. A dress suit is like a pistol. If you have one, you keep looking for a "lllilIIC\‘ to use it. | About the only thing in the world more inellicient than government is a tonsil, The man first called them easy payments was a darned poor {judge of adjectives. The world’s supply of horse scnse is divided as follows: men, 2.8 per | cent; the horse, 97.2 per cent. | Every once in a while you across a metropolitan who can | you where the library is. run tell | If he has made frantic efforts to get money, and failed, he calls this - The Father of Thrift Benjamin Franklin, Born January 17, 1706 EVBRY YEAR, more people are learning the wisdom of Franklin's motto: “Spend less than you get.” Why not commemorate Franklin's birth week by starting a bank account for systematic thrift? This bank will help you save Interest accounts can be opened for weekly deposits of $1 or more OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB IS STILL OPEN FOR MEMBERSHIP | a prize fight. The recent death of & | a sordid and commercial age, locally known young man in the prize | | Not | returned | nesday: | portion brought sincere sympathy for those to him But from siderable experience the ring, close con- remains that the profession of pugil- | ism, whatever its intrinsic faults may be, is no more dangerous than the work to which the ordinary man de- Those who would re- would dies. votes his life. form the world scorn pugilist until he clevated to the position of a~martyr Kkilied of the craving of the people hlood Then he is because for commercialism P'ossibly recognized will come, but we would this era as long as possible, only is there ating a national dictator 8f pugilism of sports postpone on for no r cre- | but the present czars of the movies | | and of baseball would be far greater to the world were they to be to the become precminent ssels fields in which they have 25 YeAgo Today (Taken irom Herald of that date) George H. Dyson and son, Harry, to spend a with re tives in Derby The committec off building the ditions to the Lincoin street Smith schools has awarded the tectural irtis. The lincup s “Ye Kids basketball team in Meriden tonight will be Sperl and Prelle, forwards Moore, center; Gilchrist and Judd, guards, Assistant han of the Sarg has under consideration sion of W. Holcomb and the Oldersha w, th having been rcleased by manager. A freight car passed through New Britain today containing a portion of the iron work for a bridge and on the car was a placard bearing the ing inseription: “The first American tron bridge to be erected in the Hawailan Tsiands by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co. The postponed organ given by John J. Bishop of church Friday night There four issued and office of the are few days ad- nd archi- of o ger John F. Hanrs it's block polo J. Slaney of Jatter team's two the follow ™" to b sy conee ing were marriage ths recorded erk jast n e Observations on The Weather Jar issued Washingtor burcau today storm warning: “Advisory etorm warnings dieplayed Atlantic coast at and ! Dela- ware breakwater, for strong south- west winds and gales next 24 Lours. Vorecast for Southern New England —loudy and warlner (onight and Wednesday; strong sou®west winds, probably of gale foree Forecast for Easters rily cloudy in south north portion tonieht warmer tonight Wednesd orth o New 7 flurries Wed- r soot! P in nd strong southwest winds probably In gaie force tonight For Connecticut: Cloady and warm- a4 Wednesda winds probabis er tonight “ronz omth or p wost Conditions. The pres ' o south Atlantic tiae northern portion of and er the Lake re- roast on convietion | the | | trained left. | | | The unless the right will triumph in the end, other fellow has a well- | A physical culture man says rolling makes one happy. This is especially roll. | true of the bank Of the 528,642 housewives who re- solved to keep a record of expendi- tures, it is estimated that 731 are at} it yet - | Girl friends are those who compare their diamonds when engaged and pan husbands when married, their is one who can re. the woman who used neck was considered An old | member | powder | daring timer when on her Correct this sentence: “There, the little thing is erying,” said the bache- lor; “let me hold it a whil 1 » Balloon Tires Start Flood of Questions | clalization is sthll at jarge in the dividing and then dividing gain. Now balloon tires have caused it to perform another division in the lalized business of es- | 8 alrcady . tion & more men find steady in one railroad ion their time to one thing— questions. Not so long ago agent answered all ques- | sideline while he | sold tickets, hand- th the n | employmen giving al statio ust a 1 vaggage, and legrams and kept hins {rom annoying in the crate on the tio o check led ma village ur ive ge truck Now comes this clalizati thor ican th Washington, vast amount of scientic | much of it potentially practicable to navigators, farmers and will acerue from a well-equipped ex- pedition 1o survey gion: This statement is made in a bulle. Geographic will eo-operate in n from ociety *onored ¥ “Th rea lies r both. “Notes the which pe the f Prestdent Coolidge, unexplored worl ut vast region, Texas. Indications of Land. of SCIENTIFIC VALUE OF POLAR FLIGHT \Will Be of Importance to Al Regions ig Arctic Is Explored D. C, the A National ar survey by navy which has been ordered by Hec- Navy Denby, d's the largest threshold territory—between Point |row, Alaska, and the North Pole,” | bulletin continu <or airplane—flies it Is 1287 from Point Barrow to the pole and the flight path cuts the center of this three times the size of Literally nothing is known by direct observation of this expanse— | not even whether it is land, or water, | navigators edges indicate that land exists there hand | Movements and age of the ice, tides and wave measurcments point 1o that | atest prank of spe- | conclusion. in question answering, And | vegetation will be worthy of study; it fhould land Jan. information “As the crow THE BANK OF SERVICE Open Saturday Evenings 7-9 'm tor, short distances apart, in much | pedition—it will be the first summer of the unknown zone. These would [expedition in the polar fdld’ excopt permit planes to alight, and would al- [the Nansen deift in the “Fram.' low the s of convoy planes to bring | May AWl Weather Prodictions. supplies, relief, and additional per- | wPractically all 1) tetafl nf sonnel. The fce flors ure virt SUPFIORIY. St WL SR NI | plane alighting in the water always | by o o Ly i would bo in easy reach of ice or, if ‘;I’h.”r“‘" 'n::;’,‘ r“"']"".'“ :I:“""" g under sufficiont control to land on [(LARTIEN BICE B8 TR BOIC. o P e {the fce it could there make repairs or | 1S 1I8 O8RS . Al Padie-bes valat. explored regions on the askan o and Canadian side will have high The radlo, of course, is a Prime [yujue n the predictions of our own factor in eliminating hazard in Arctic | woather burcau, | fiying. “It {8 even more certain that “Another important advants the | knowledge of occan currents will Arctic holds is the cternal calm of | groatly expanded by a study of the the waters. No high scas are ever |novements of Aretlc waters. The [encountered among the leads as fre-|punid multiplsing of ocoan » lanes quently is the case In the Atluntic. | jongy growing importance to the al- Comfortable Temperatures Probable. [most infant ocean current science, 1o “Comfortable flying temperatures which a notable addition was made are practically certain in an Arctic [by the late Rear Admiral John BI- {summer. The weather bureau has liott Pillsbury, a former president of {recorded 100 degrees at Iort Yukon, the National Geographie Sociely, ia Alaska, In this respeet the use of his painstaking observations of the aircraft gives the polar cxplorer a|Guif Stream, The great polar area |new-found advantage over the rpio-|is the one remaining ‘blind spot’ of neers who had to brave the extreme the great rivers of the sea which are cold of winter to gain the benefit o1 [so important to the navigator. unbroken ice, “Magnetic observations open an- “This fact gives rige to a note- other aliuring field for scientisis who worthy fact about the proposed ex-|will accompany the expedition. ERETT TRUE BY CONDO MR. TRUE, T WOULD UIKE You To MEET MY FrRIEnD, DR, VANPILLER, 1 ALMOST MeT NIM ONCE 1N HiS our be fishermen, retie re- the the U, 8. with au. of Amers Bar- miles along its exist the| s quietly into our lives, accom- |is entirely possible the islands some by very little “air,” on automobiles. panicd whee burea land I put on ball my wheels? faster? And bed many questions conjured up | ¢l to answer the balloon tires have ons- Do 1 have to) ¢ limited only by the magination. Akron tire makers Tire and Rubber Com %0 Tar as 1o designate lietributor establish- information bureau are interested in any way loon tire idea. Placards and alvertisements set forth that the gen- listributors’ are balloon Jquarters and the parent com- furnished vailable in- ATl questions are answer- igently and without obliga- 4 the guestioners are invited to in a car equipped with the big qu: stions g er i big of dr Ge 1he eral gone pe of its free one as a «ho Lvery ments places has all a formatio A inte tires This company particularly well fited to furnish its distributors with data because it has been teveloping the balloon tire Mea for past ten years. The balloon tire day is the magnification and re- f the Jumbo which the | any bullt in 1916.—advt, | anthentic | the | of finerm o Gen-ral com Well Informed Are Sou coming hom: at sure your know Stgdent I'm h them a whole hour sbout |it—Hamiiton Royal Gabooa. futare | grow {the ice may be plucked from hiding places for scientific study. Flying Conditions Favorable. “Should aircraft be used (o make | reconnalssance flight over the 1287- !mile course between |and the pole the flight will be an- other memorable |navy's initiative and daring, |will be far from the rash adventure | the layman might at first imagine. fiyers would have {some marked advantages over a sim- | |Viar distance meross Atlantic The continuonus daylight a polar suminer efiminates the handi- | cap that darkness enfalls in the svent of mechanieal troubics charted region the w the day may have an economic value, and Information | planting the Ameérican flag there may us are springing up all over the be accounted an act of foresight by generations as it med a patriotic feat automobile owners. | Americans. be ac- living i by “Animal life abounds in the Aretic, merge Norway “Gras “Indees | waters. 1" d, halp the on—the number of population turns more and more the sea for its life of the polar regions assumes eves increasing importance. Oceanic mam- ! mals, especially into reach of mankind's hab- food the whales a itations upon the Aretic's The worid's richest cated principally Arctic ocean waters meet the warmer | | waters of southern seas—notably off Newfoundiand and lceland. | plants and fowers= that housands of fathomg beneath At plae 24-hour ful fisheries are lo- Point exhibition n an Will they wear fish are plentiful and as a multiplying to submarine nd se outskirts. : 8 L DONT MIND MEETING HIM SOCIALLY, BUT PRO. FESSIONALLY I NOULD HESITATE FOR FEAR HIS METHODS ARE AS ANCIENT AS THE DOC-EAQS? MASAZINES ON THE TABLE o8 where their | Barrow of but the it ocean of un- | Aay is s iyers would encounter ieads of