New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1924, Page 8

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The Herald 1a on eals dally fn New York at Hotaling's News Stand, Times Bquare; Schultz News Stand, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street. Los Angeles, Cal.: Arcade Btatlon, L S S S S o S S ZONING WORK BEGUN | lnan who could dispute | b o| Hamon, in his | | | adver- | | | | Yesterday was an important day in| New Britain’s history. The actual, technical work of a zoning was begun when Engincer G. V ville established offices in cit where the first work will be don: data already in possession of the city. Nor does stamping yesterday as the important one in the zoning plan take away any of the credit for the pre liminary work already done by Chair- | man Linder of the committee, and others who gathered the information which will be so valuable in this en- terprise and those who have take up' the movement with enthusiasm, tical, sound benefits that wiil come to every taxpayer In this city from this " work which will be less expensive by | half because of the full data gathered in the assessor's office long before the | plan was undertaken. Quite possibly enough has been said of the import- ance of the work, the benefits to be derived. But little has been said praise of the open-mindedness shown by the men of the city who, knowing | little about zoning and its benefit quite willing to be convinced and interest we who listened with intelligent to those would advance movement, Mayor [Paone down there has been shown an ness 1o learn about zoning #peedy recognition of its benefits, New B not fussed and objected and remained un- convineed in the face of who From r- and a tain, unlike other cities, has willing to be obyious advantages to be gained 1t remiing now to give ti und the experts who will do the com- mittoe work with the aid of the various sub- committees, all the assistance possible order that be pre- n this city will pared, the again, to ask for an enabling act and when legislature meets to put in force as quickly as possibic this plan which dopted throughout the with eagerncss to lose no time is being cities of the country before enjoying the full benefits of zoning THE SOFT PEDAL The first thing to be noted and re about Al Jennings' membered before the com- mony pot Dome { mittee is that the alleged pald e Senator Penrose, the $25,000 to Will Hays, then chairman of th the 1i tale 10 have been republican amount national committee; to Harry M. Daugherty Ohio man”, med, nings himself makes no asscriion that to to the unna is that Jen- such sums of money were paid says Jake these me is reprating the story told to him by fhe Jate Hamon, republic national cbmmit teeman from Oklalioma who, accord Ing to Jennings' story 1 1o 1w secretary of th Warren Ha it is te made the in | the | [ while experts | i vestigation | that from | | sought by | aceept, the NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1v24, tary of Boiea DPenrose, who, denies that he, latc also, constantly with the scnater, ever saw Hamon, Grant- ing that all these men, Jennings, Hays and llow that Hamon lied to Jennings. No one appearing as yet, has a right to s that cither Hays or Jennings have not told the truth, for the only these is dead. Both Hays and Jennings may telling the truth, It they are, then d Jennings words he late Jack Hamon call into private conversation for the pur- telling him a What have for doing this is a mystery. v of story wholly false. motive Iamon would It both Jengings and the late Jake k with Jenyings, pubdlication of all news! spoke the truth, then Mr, lays has something to explain. DAUGHERTY OUT. The vesignation of Harry M. Daugh- from the office of Attorney (",r-“: cral out of deference to the wishes of President Coolidge comes too late” ta take admi nistration the from the stigma of his continued presence in President praised for net forcing M out “until Le has had court.” The President completely. Coolidge has been Dangherty his in has changed s position 1t would ave been foreing a man's reticement had demand- in- was said ay under fire if the before 1t prevented the ed resignation the was begun, A sense of jus Some admired of the President’s. He was showing consid- He President from taking action. people this stand ation for man in trouble. would net prejudge his case. But what may be said of the Presi- deat’s action which has resuited not Mr. Daugherty's but in his retirement at a evidence other than only on retirement ‘under fi time when no ;Hm' unfavorable to him has been of- ¥ew, perhaps, realize all the prac-| fer for a man in trouble? Is this evidence of a sense of justice? The Department of Justice has long been demoralized because of the lack of confidence in its chief. Mr. Daugh- erty was of little help in the prosecu- Rather, he use tion of government cases, did not inspire energetie action even it ho was not to blame for inaction. But the last action a true sense of Justice would inspire would be the forcing of a man to resign from office when there 1 upon the record M. Daugherty’s day io court has not been granted him. is sprea only the evidence against him TRANSPORT. 'I'l(‘N An attorney for petifioners for jit- ney routes in Bridgeport declured yes- terday before the that ommended | | \ | public utilities com- mission, such commission rec- | 1o the 1921 legislature that municipal legislative bodies should be | allowed to deteriine the charvacter of | local transportation service, and fur- ther that *The common council of | Bridgeport is wi t the additional the wimously on record fqr routes which are petitions now beforc | You. We ask your honorable commis- | slon to follow out your own rycom- 1921 legislature and which have mendation to the routes been de- | termined Ly the eouncil,” He claimed testis | of the $250,000 | late | ! pany, namely t that jitney lines would give prompt five eent fare while the | Connecticut company continues the operation of street cars at a lm:lur! rate of fare and secks a further jne Thwen President Lucing Storrs, of Connceticut company spoke. One | the| | | might have expected a reiteeation of the stand usually taken by the vmn-i t there should never he the inference that | h any jitheys and jitneys could not give satisfaction the trolleys furnish might ex snpany on the commission 1 18 constderate of the company as it has been in the past. But o e seems 1o | peared in nphony. Sinee ommission ordercd t produce figures regarding lines of les imy t the citie | ident that the citie most profita aylor speak the truth, it must| Is this showing conside r;-tiuni | will be the candidate of the and be what the company wants—a transpor. the Connectjeut company own | operate thosc fitneys, seems to i tation monepoly. There is a good deal | thought of the Connectiedt company. | Certainly the company is a responsi- | | | ed—but in this there comes the vivid has been treated by the commission; there has been little cause for com- | plaint by the company for the manner of such treatment, | This new attitude, this new light may be seen in President Storrs' reply to the arguments of the attorney for the jitneymen, Thé reports have that he said coordination of street railway and motor bus service is the solution of the transportation prob- lem of Bridgeport and other cities of He added that in time the Connecticut company might offer the [ public such trolley-bus service, The “might offer it in | time.” The company wil loffer it, if past performances may be relied upon [ the state. company increasing demand for better trans- | portation and lower rates. The Herald for a long time has insisted that the day of the trolley as sole means of transportation is about over and that this company, as others, must rec- ognize the advances being nade iu all lines except in organizations such as this which have bLeen protected and favored ever since the day when pro- tection of them and favoring them was a good thing for the people. Under such protection they developed the country, but resting upon those laurels they expected to have the sane pro- tection forever, even after advances made in other directions which made a continuation of such favors impossi- ble, The way to salvage the Cennecticut company is for it to wake up and ac- knowledge that it, like absolutely private organizations not of a semi- public nature, must move with prog- ress in other lines, And meanwhil while the Connecticut company is waiting for that “sometime” to come” will offer t public bus service, the people want when it a troliey to ride quickly reasonable price, conveniently and at a LVITLE ENTHUSIASM I'olks just refused to be stirred to news of two | extreme excitement by ! matters that ordinarily would be in- teresting. One is rogarding the results of the South Dakota presidential primaries and the other is the re-) publican primaries to be held in New | Britain this evening, In regard to South Dakota #nd the effect theresults there will have on President Coolidge's candidacy, they | Coolidge will be dute for president, T has not become enthusiastic over Cal- vin Coolidge and his “firmness chavacter,” hils “quiet determination, and his splendid courage” for noth-| ing. Strictly partisan newspapers— o partisan pres [and they have a perfect right to be the they strictly behind president for a good reason: that they are behind man it would be sanely possible partisan—are the only for know the republicans to put forward. Un-| e something uncipected happens, | rtiing revelation” | President such as another st Coolidge | republi- in Washington, can party despite the pain that it has| caused many to wax enthusiastic over his personality. new ble organization an®could be regulat- | recollection of the way the company ! it| | only when it s forced to do so by the | do not affect the fact that President| he republican condi- | of | Lesser love hath no man than this that a man shall sell a sccondhand automoblie to a fhiend, Perhaps it would make motorists { more cautioys if lacomotives used a {tack out in front instead of a cow- catcher. The Graud Oil Iarf and the| Demoilcrats. What next? The Proil- gressives and the Socoilists? Zero in luck. A man named John | Anderson has opened 66,000,000 | oysters and hasn't found a single | pearl. Y The poet who wrote “All's right | | with the world” had never read the | | tront page of a modern newspaper. | The prize close-fist has been found. | He lost the ace of spades from his deck and tricd to buy another ace to | replace it. ‘\ ; And now one objection to uurc-n—g ventionality in the matter of merals | is that unconventionality has become | too conventional. PPoise is the quality that keeps _\nu; calm while exhibiting sock loles to the shoe salesman. | — | The working girl's problem: Wheth- er to stay single and work for uwmy! dollars a week or marry and work for | twenty kisses a year, 4 Five millions In the United States | who can’t read. But considering the average quality of modern writiy they're not missing very much. | Two millien golfers in the United | | States; 8o every dubb can console | himself with the thought that thero | can't possibly be more than 1,908,999 golfers better than himself, | It's useless to question radio | fiend. When you ask him “What's { potentiometer?” he tells you “It's a | Digh resistance rheostat’ and you're | no better off then you were at first, | Correct this sentence: “Doss, heah tip is too hig. Ah don't desehve | 'is much. Heah's yoh change.” | Qbservations on ! The Weather Washington, March 2§.-~Forecast for southern New Lngland- ! night;: Saturday cloudy and un somewhat lower temperature; moders ate westerly winds, | orecast for eastern New York: | Fair tonight, colder in north portion | Raturday, increasing clondiness fol- | lowed by rain or snow in northwest portion; somewhat colder, moderate | erly winds, | Yor Connecticut: Fair mnl;;ln;‘ Saturday cloudy and unsettied; some- | what Jower temperature; moderate westerly winds, Conditions: A well defined area of "low pressure central over Colorkdo is causing unsettled rainy weather as far cast as the Mississippi river. | | Pleasant weather prevails in the Lake reglon and along the Atlantic coast. The temperature is rising In the cen- | tral and western distviets, Conditions favor for this sicinity | [ atr weather and not much chango in | | temperature The lack of interest in the republis | con primaries here is due to the fact the \areus where that while friends of the candidates there are contests working for their eager to goe them win, the majority of he party, not knowing the candidates personally, feel that really it will make litthe different who are selected 11 they win, win loeal orgsni- a8 republican candidates ibiican candidates, they nicely into the oing the bidding of its leaders things w1 ge on in the n the past in which counell quite as they have they will beeome “insurgents’- in wiieh ease things will go on #s 1 past year just the officials considering whie have it same, will become Iy worth positio ) now occupied by t t members of the council iefinite, tocal its ciose . there were I organi-~d fight against publica ganizion with in of with with the state machin Witters the state leaders consiler wtanee to bother o interest in the primavies today a1 sometijing eles again Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILIEN ind man is but an s better, “Collector might be & more ftting titie try omen ath ) RS nd & is| [ NABASEHALE8580088800008009 FTPTTTIVINICTTTITIIVIVIV D The New Britain Pelo team defeat. |ed the polo team of Fall River in | that city by a score of 9.7 last night. | Principal White the State Nor- wal school spoke entertainingly at a meeting held in the Normal school last night. The gathering was for dissertation on ancient by | Principal White, A number of people rushed to [Mainviile last the freight wreck whieh occurred at that town shortly after inidnight hen abeut 13 freight cars were de- railed and bacly smaghed. At Khuttle Meadow this the rain gauge showed the rainfall te be 1.55 inches, The scholars at the Ceniral gram- hool have started the study of y under the dircetion of Miss mu, from ‘here night to see morning night's | nar s Flecttied MeArdle Ground was broken today for the |new factory in Berlin for the manu- facture of wagon spokes Bowery ('llurcin"\'ili Not Discontinue Its Dancing York., Mareh that there would New 28~ An indica- be no change at the Protestant Episcopal 1. 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