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

New Britain Herald HERALD PUBI ssued L ierald HING COMPAY nday Excey Blug Church SUBECRIPTION I RATES: Year, 9 Thres M Entered at the Post Offic as Second Ulas TELEPH Rusin Member of Associuted Pr the v “DAYLIGHT SAVING” Tt looks as though &oing to have “daylight saving” but not “daylight saving tir This, of course, is the logical result of realiz- New Britain is ing that the clock has nothing at all to do with the hour of the day. We can not change that hour, we have no desire to. It has seemed wise 1o the merchants who always desire to consult the wishes of the patrons they serve, to open their and stores an hour earlier during the neriod of the year when daylight comes sooner; and it has seemed necessary to the man- ufacturers, in order to meet the rail- road schedules, to begin work an hour earlier also. The clocks may well run on just as they are now doing. No one is changing the time; people merely change their hours of in order to make the most of the daylight. There is no dispuling the fact that there is considerable objection in this eity on the part of many, perhaps a majority of the working population and most of us are gorkers and re- will labor quired to keep certain hours—to be- ginning the day's labors an hour carlier than usual. It has been said that mothers, also, object because the children will not go to sleep at the proper hour in the cvening owing to Mhe daylight that has not faded. Those who object to the change hours says, also, that the most sincere ad- vocates of daylight saving are those who do not have to get up early in the fmorning and who do not have to Loeep certain hours. Jtegarding the latter class the argu- ment is not convincing as most of the favored few are able to arrange their hours so that they can do as please, daylight saving or no daylight saving. It is with the peeple who have to “keep hours” we are chiefly concerned. It is unfortunate, but true neverthe Tess, that most of us have “jobs” to the performance of which we should give our best efforts, for it is because of the pay given us for our work on these jobs that we are able to live, All other constderations, such as caring for the garden, driving the flivver, going fishing or playing bascball or golf, are side issues. Time should be spent en them only when times is avaflable, If the job takes eight ten hours we ought to put in eight or ten hours before we do any- thing else, That is life, and the fact that many 4o not have to work thus regularly has nothing to do with the ease—that again and starts a they or those matter 18 something else discussion of the good luck or extraordinary skill some people have, while others are obliged te work along and receive pax from employers. It is not belidved that the workers of New Britain, the snergetic workers of which the city is proud, ob- jeet 1o the beginning work earlier be- cayge they longer in the morning after s up. If this be granted, and if it Is is to want to sleep an hour the sun granted also that our first duty the job which giv there can be us a then dr going to work an hour « living, no sou ason against arlier in sum- mer than in winter More 1 se, that fortunate it is, t equally tr hers and cl have extent by the ho ren simply to regulate their lives to & great rs of the breadwin- ner of Modernists declare the time he a wife and mother s( her own, nditions ority of worla 1o the hours w st heed Amily m As the clock has daylight oftthe change hoped that to work a We g0 sin will than in the 1 that clocks never had an Everyone winter m reminder “fooled™ fdea he 1 he ¢ fip an howr earlier, eve & .‘. ands of the clock declared the hour as the same This action N leavingjthe clocks as they are bu\ advaning working » one knew likes, i schedules is the wise, sensible thing to do if prople can remember—which, t, is Delieved, they able will be to do. The worth while point is that the best in al best that { the day to be 1o the lpour o is going rirness, we should give the is in then, after that rk im it we is done, we will still have an extra hour of daylight to get issues, THE MAN AND THE OFLICH The Herald, not being u participant discussions of wither demo- repuly i t city. knows little of t sntemplated pians of those Jors, That is position this newspapar p cupy. 1 is for is in @ position to consider cuss “contemplated chan in ity for instatce, without pre b ontay tha! Lontleatiarte general principles which, in its opin- ion, are sound, It isjn this spirit that emphasis is now for laid upon thesncces- sity a public oflicial, especially one who has the power of appoint- \ ment of others to paying positions, to disregard his own prejudices and in- terests completely in faveor of absolute consideration of \the interests of the city above all elsc, Sometimes it is humanly impossible for a nlayor of a city, for instance, to forget slights against himself per- sonally in the appointments he makes, as it s almost impossible to refrain from allowing his appointments to be influenced by persanal Mkes and dis- It is sasy for him-—and in some cases he may be wise—to remove one who has been what he considers dis. loyal to him personally, and replac him with one who has shown devotion to his interests. This ease is mentioned merely to Mustrate the general rules application. Frankly, this is the situation that confronts Mayor Paonessa to Willlam Cowlishaw, who has been an efficient official at the head of the charities department. ‘He is a repub. lican and the had not bhe- in regard is in mayor's graces according to reports, cause of his alleged activities in sup- port of Judge Alling for the mayopal- ty—sa strictly proper attitude for him to take if he considered Judge Alling would be the better man—but beeause of personal remarks reflecting Wpon Mayor Paonessa’s ability or intelli- gence, It would be & little ‘more than what is popularly called “human® for, the mayor to fail to resent sich remarks it Mr, Cowlishaw has made them, The natural thing to do would be to dis. pose of Mr, Cowlishaw and replace him with another who might or might not be as efficient as he has been, but who at least would be more pleasing to the mayor, But is there not a bigger, broader viewpoint? The Herald holds no britt tor Mr., Cowlishaw except as he Is re. ported to have been a remarkably of. | ficlent official in a position which re- quires not only understanding of hu- man needs of the:poor and suffering, but also & knowledge of the law regard to persons who may properly he taken eare of by the city, and of the law regarding the duties of other cities and towns as well, to the end that New Britain shall assume be forced to no expense which should be borne by some other city or town, Ex- perience gives tRis knowlcdge and Mr. Cowlishaw This orfe instance to bring broader mttitude which it for & mayer of a city 10 assume has this experience is referred to merely out that higger, is possible Alter he has considered all sides of the case—any cake; after he has heard remarks of possible appointees about himself; after he has ohserved the at- titude of men toward him personaily, would not the attitude of abmolute severing himse from the cffice he to take? personally holds be th I attitude Should “Who will sere splend not, after question be most efficientiy 2" Circumstan think We are all human . with and no man has the may alter eases which we we are familiar action of another But right 1o say of the “That is a wrong thing to de man is de i interests of the a general rule, any of praise who displays ath o vision, devotion to the people he serves, if he is able to put his own feclings entirely aside in his thing that is official acts and do the wat for the city. This may wot Ir practical polities,” but is is practic AN INTERESTING CHARACTER Wiether or not Governor Al Smith of New York, is given the democratie pomination for the presidency, there are few men, 1f any, in pubfe Jife carecr and achievements, compled with his personality, are more remarkable. There I8 absolute fasci- sation 1n the study of the advance- ment of a man such he that dis fingulshes it from the contemplation of the lives of practically all of the politicians, statesmen or leaders o lay Those cosmopolitan as owr own Hart- can who know New York's east side listrict, for instance, easily pictare the kid, Al Smith, born there, a8 an errand boy workidg in’ Fulton Market, a great magnet for all wives of that lower part of and the housckeepers from the bettag residential part of Manhat- Those who know the “wise ford avenue the ho! the city tan I=tand New York kid” have mo difficuity nl NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL ollowing this Fulton Market er boy into the crowds at the l{'!’l:l]!ll: of H e triendly | Brooklyn bridge. through his intercourse - with politiciuns finally to the office of clerk to the ioner of jurors, in which pusi- be cpmmi; he may imagined as making attractive, n for tri by his naturally franh ways, with politicians, s and faiths. He had Jittle schooling todi ays former Governor Glynn, 1- and of time sort of W 1 The provide for childr Providence N Journal of New York, called Al Simith “a gri uate of the University of Nature,’ terization . fits well if we the | char consider “nature” sy, evers . n hectic i in the New a8 1903 th York human being he went to the New state legist and it was ture, here that his quickness mind e foundation of experience behind him, His to sce straight to the of practical beease had a practical became most gvident. almeost in- genious ability point made him a force strengthoned por His no means limited to his po- by his arity. friendships were by litical allics; vepublicans as well as democrats recognized not only his per- sonal good points, but the soundness of his reasoning. Nor was his the sort of popularity the back type which appeals only pping-on-the- Dignified, old- singere hand-shaking, of men. school democrats paid him compliments when he went as a mem- her of the state constitutional conven- Elihu Ttoot himself has spoken of him in' commendation, and even the New York Tri- took occasion to tion, staunchly republican bune, at that time, cqplgsize the value of his work for New York city in his activities in the ! legistature, Al 8mith ‘was president of the New Yoffk board of aldermen in 1917, and since has becn twice governor of the state, one of the hest that state ever had, and defeating, at the last of the state's “best did the early which have aided undoubtedly, his ability to lead makes up for his loss when such leadership is based upon the sound, wind this man appears to possess, A politi- informed r through the reported to have declared His issue is being men- elec- tion, another Al udvantages Smith not have would but more than him inborn logical Iy trav south s that he can not be nominated, stand on the “wel tioned as his greatest handicap, and the fact that he is a Itoman Catholie inst him, it is said. Tammany Hall is will militate a His membership in another drawbaek as far as the people outside of the city ot New York is gon- cerned, Al Smith may not be the candidate; elected he to be named, But it speaks for this country that a man such as he, begin- | wing where he began and bearing the nandicaps he has borne, can reach the position he holds in the popular esteem, 5 may not be were well 288500800058588088008080810 25 Vears Ago Today § (Taken from erala of that date, & SIETIVENTIITITIIIIEII OIS At the Hartford hospital yesterday, Abel Griswold of this city underwent an operation for an injury to his nosc re fved while playing foothall with the high school team. The ning will mect this eves delegate and pate to the state convention. Mount scems 1o be the most candidate for altcrnate, George White, while team down Park sireet Iast evening, started to race with a man named Bird and near the intersection of Jokn street the two teams eame to. gether, White, being thrown inte the road and ‘vendered insensible. He was faken to a doetor's office where he was given megical attention. here marriage licenses jed and seven deaths recorded at town clerk’s office this week The payroll for the fire depart ment for the past quarter amounted $3,406.02 policemen 1o elect a alters Harry likely driving his were six l th Observations on ' The Weather April 22~ Forecas! New « England Rain this afternoon; clouwdy and cooler to- ight; Wednesday fair; strong shift- ing winds and probably giles, heeom- ng west and northwest, diminishing ate tonight Fastern New Yotk and cooler tonight, Jocal rain or snow in extreme north Wednesday fair, continued northwest winds and diminishing late to- Washington, for Southern Generally fair except probably portion; 1; strong probably gaies, night For Connectient Rain this after- cloudy -and cooler tonight; fair: strong shifting winds bably gales becoming west and late to- noon; Wedne and pr northwest and diminishing night Warnings for hich winds are dis- plaved on the const wein de pressure 1 areas of are moving o high and Jow rapidly across the country and caus- ing frequent and sudden changes in the weather. The disturbance which was central over Missouri yesterday morning is now over Ontario and will pass out the St. Lawrence Valley to- wight. It has caused showers during the last 24 hours from Illinois east ward to the coast_and from upper Michigan southward to Georgia. The temperature continues low along the northern border from Montana to Maine. Snow was reported in Ver- mont. Conditions faver for this vicinity wnsettied showery weather followed by clearing late this afternoon or to- pape Aitions to « 22, 1024, a4, \Facts and Fancies THE INQUISITIVE R! Our Inquisitive leportep yesterday 1 this question, of four people 1 at random: “What 18 ghe subconscious feeling | about the radio-activity of helium pro- | duced by spontaneous atomic disin- | tegration, or do you favor an attitude | more latitudinarian in specific con- | tent towards the universal use of red woolen ear-muffs?" Grace Mills, hotel ¢ irls wear our hair lon't need no err. m Crook, taxi driver: “I deny the irge. T was in Kankakee last Sat- layMight and T can prove it. . Peattie, bookkeeper, T al- that tired feeling in the but have you tried sul- Now that us freshie, get : 1005 ber: “You certainly | Next ! 1" { A Toast Iere's to those that jove us— If we only care And to those that we'd love— 1t we only dared. wi nna E. Gumaer, ard to Understand | Bibhs yme people get everything afte Yes, and others don't seem to get what's coming to them.” ! —C, L. P man is known by the ecar. he a woman by the car she rides | A drives; in, HINTS TO INVESTORS What to do with $300.000 VinanciNl Editor: 1 have been given the opportunity to acquire some Hot 3aby Oil at 10 cents a share on the partial payment system which will me entire and complete owner- | ship of my stock (10,000 shares) in 193 A My, Thompson is the agent and he says it will soon be on the 1aarket and bring anywhere from $10 to $600 a share, Now what T want to know is this: if everything comes out as we exp would it be better to ! invest the $300,000 T will make in raii- ! road or real estate bonds? ~—Harold Ross Weslo not think very much of rail- road bhonds at the present minute, Why not put it all back in the Oil Company, which secms to be a splen- lid proposition? itor: 1 wish 1o buy a little girl for her birth- What issue do you sug- Financial ¥ tond for my day present. gest? —A W, | B. & O, are’ pretty, ' though the | printing is better on gome of the western ronds, Municipal bonds would Le interesting for a child af three if | enly for the pictures. | Practical “Are you looking for a man Janie: with a future Flsie: “No, for an old man without | -H. D, spendtheift: One who has a differ. ent way from us in getting rid of his mo ( pyright, 1924, Teproduction Forbidden,) Contributions to the “Fun Shop” from readers of the Herald are welcome, Those ac- cepted will be paid for at rates running from $1.00 to $10.00. Poetry will be paid for at the vute of 25 cents a line, Address your communications to the “I'un &hop Editor” of the Her. ald.s Write on one side of the “Ppaper only. Only maiter that has not beeh published before will be considered. The humor may take any form, verse, epi- grams, sayings of children and so forth, The Herald wishes to inform readers, however, that the Fun 8hop s a national or- ganigation, the editor of the €oi- umn who finally accepts contri- butions is in New York and has the whole country to piek from. The humor, necessarily, must be very good before it is accepted. — 4 COMMUNICATED About the Clocks Editor Herald I wish you would write a few words in your valuable paper about the clocks in the eenter, Soon the time will be changed or rather, the factor- of | jes and stores will ‘'open up one hour earlier We do not object to that but we do object to the clocks on the South and Center ehurch being stopped. Last year one of them had theifhands taken off and the other was stopped as it was, and for all summer too, of course you know. Now, it*is a great convenience to the public to.be able 1o tell the time quickly by just looking | at either of those clocks. Many people do not own watches and are in the nabit of looking up at either of those clocks. How many times have 1 seen people get fooled including myself, I it only for a week or 80 it would not. be o bad, but for five or #ix months, it 1s a great inconvenience al- most a And why did they stop the clocks? Not for a good rea- son, but just {or spite. And is it fair 1o do =0 and punish thousands of peo- ple when it isn't their fanit at an? The ones who did it, did net want to leave the clocks at the standard time (and thus obey the laws) #o they stopped them to evada the law dnd g°1 their own way as far as they could, like a sulky child. Then besides the churches, some of the stores followed suit] stopped their clocks, and put up a sign, “Not Run- ning.” | 1t you will kindly write (print) a few words and try to influence those who hold it in their power to keep the clocks going. 1 know many who would appreciate it very mueh. —INTERESTED. | calamity. The thing about the movies that Tieappoints us is that when the villain | starts to choke the heroine to death | | the thought of young onions. | small precinet of trees and shrubbery, BY HOBERT QUILLEN Neighbor: Anybody who wishes te¢ borrow a cup of sugar. 1t is comforting at times to meet a man who isn't called an expert.’ The chief danger in platonic {riend- ship is that it so frequently ends in matrimony. And yet if be is the kind of ehap dad will trust, daughter probably calls Rim a dud, Holding the affection of France is just a simple matter of being Santa Claus at intervals, A hick town is a place where that kind of ankle wins no more stares than a man in knickers. We may have a low sense of humor, but it always amuses us to see pedes- ) trlans jump when an old-fashioned ! gentleman honks with a handkerchief at his nose. & Mah Jongg is even more fascinating | if you will throw away everything ex- cept the little ivory cubes, It is a wise child that looks stupid [ while parents spell thrilling things to keep it from catching on. Every normal householder buys classic literature, An extremist is one . who bothers to cut the leaves. Think how many women have talk- ed that way over a back yard fence without knowing it was “testimony.” At 20, spring thrills'you with the thought of young love; at forty, with A well-informed person is one who knows which Anderson you mean when you speak of Anderson’s fairy tales, I A brute is a husband who hasn't | enough curiosity to ask his wife what | he is erying about this time. — Apparently the ideal candidate must be prominent enough to inspire re- spect and not able enough to arouse suspieion, One can't help wondering what a wife thinks about while waiting to fearn whether the neighbors heard the shot, The difference between a barber's | chair ax the barber's chair you don’t pay extra for the gas, Correct this sentenc | read it," said the father to learn that side of life sooner or Bter.” MEMORIAL IN HYDE PARK WILL HONOR W. H. HUDSON | Great English Naturalist Will Be Vor. | ever Remembered if Plans Go Through® { London, April 22.—~The memory of | W. H. Hudson, English naturalist | whose parents were American, is to | be perpetuated by an unusual | memorial in Hyde park, near where | for a time Hudson lived a common- place existence while his wife tried and failed to make a living by keep- | ing & boarding house. | 1t was during this period that Hud- son labored on the nature studies| which are now almost a cult in Eng- | jand but like many artists his work | is being appreciated only after the death of its creator. The Hudson memorial will | be a| with a decorative wall and panel in deep relief as a background. In front | of .the wall will be a long, shallow bird pool and a small Jily pond. The little enclosuré which in summer, and | even during England’s mild though | disagreeable winter, is expected to b coms a refuge for the birds Hudson Joved and wrote about. The sculptup- 4 panel on the decorative wall repre- sents a maiden surrounded by birdsin | upward fight. GAMBLING IN YEN By The Assaciated Press. . Honolulu, April 22.~Japaness in Hawali are gambling extensively in foreign exchange as a result of the re- cent decline in tha value of the yen, according to Japanese bankers here, who are quoted by the Nippu Jiji language paper. Japanese have sent more than $300,000 to banks in the Tsiand Em- pire in the first three months of 1924, T s s e o 4 WATKINS. ~ *S0. MANCH BROTHERS ESTER, CONN. Fiftieth Anniversary 1874‘@ 1924 Our decorator de: won’t find it elsewhere. mahogany—that is, posts and stretchers are turnea from solid mahogany with side rails and panels of 5 ply veneer. Jubilee Special No. 11 Solid Mahogany " FOUR POST BEDS $33 signed this bed, so you It is made of solid Or if you desire you can have the side rails and panels of solid mahogany. Now on sale at our N full or twin bed sizes. *This Is the same compan Tanchester store in either y res at JAPAN FISCAL YEAR PROVED POOR ONE Tokio Baoker's Prediction of Fu- ture Is Anything But Bright Tokio, April dim- eulties of Japan's economic situation waere outlined by Otohike Ichiki, gov- ernor of the Bank of Japan, in a re- cent address before the annual meet- ~The great | ing of the bank of Tokio. Mr, Ichiki, after reviewing Japan's vear of disaster, 1923, drew a not very hopeful pieture of the future, “In this difficult situation,” he said, *it is ot utmost importance that united effort be made by the government and peo- ple for the economie rehabilitation of the country and the development of outr overseas trade in the same spirit \d & dentist's chair is that in | Of fortitude shown in the time of the, earthquake ealamity, “It {8 four years since Japan began | to pass through post.war depression. | The preceding period of prosperity | had left a crop of economic abuses, ' which persisted up to the time of the disaster. To make matters worse, in our foreign trade, which js of vital importance to us, imports had already greatly exceeded exports during the first eights months of the year, and moreover the import of a large amount of reconstruction materials had to be anticipated. The prospect of the export trade, on the other hand, gives but moderate hope, for, excepli. ing the United Sttes and Great Brit- ain, all the occidental countries are so deeply invelv in aconomie and po- litical ehaos that there ia little hope for a recovery of busines: | with China, the South Seas, India and Australia, no great or immediate ex- pansion of our export trade, can be expeeted.” Mr. Tehiki recounted the measures taken by the bank, the government's principal financial organ, to deal with the earthquake emergency, and of the EVERETT TRUE ldlrccl effccts of the earthquake he | said: “Never before in our history has isuch a calamity been .recorded. Yet, it we survey the whole country we shall sce that the foundation of our |industries was in no way disturbed. However, the damage inflicted on the capital was so terrible that the whole country was aghast; transportation and communications were out of gear; all sorts of rumors were in the air; every kind of business suffered a ! dreadful shocks, the effects of which spread throughout the country. Of the §4 member banks of the Tokio As- sociation, lost their main offices in the conflagration. The monetary ma- chinery almost ceased to function; the few of money was stopped and trade ! bloeked. The moratorium proclaimed in this emergency effectually warded off the storm thaot threatened to follow withdrawals of bank deposits, After the moratorium, however, things were quieter even than we had hoped, and !there was almost & lull in the moncy market,"” My, Tehiki then deseribed the grad- ual recovery of the monetary systom ,0f the country, and other features of the economiec history of 1923 to which | he drew attention were: ! The rise in prices following the carthquake: from an index of 200 in Aug viices rose to a general level of in October and for the rey of the year showed practically no ten- dency to drop. * The adverse balance of trade: ex- ports for 1023 totaled 1,447,000,000 yen, and importa 1,988,000,000, bal- anee against Japan of 534,000,00u, Owing to the destruction of stocks of raw silk at Yokohama by ecarthquake and fire the year's exports of #ilk were 15 per cent less than for 1922, Imports were greatly Inereased by post quake demands for building ma- terials and necessities of various Kinds, The decrease in national specis holdings abroad: the resources of the exehange banks ran so short, espeeial- Iy after the earthquake, a resuit of the unfavorable trade balance, that during the year the government and the bank of Japan together had to let g0 257,000,000 yen of their gold hold- ings abroad. BY CONDO “— AND L'l TELC You, EVERETT, THAT You WOVLDN'T FEEL SO QROVCNY |F You woulDd ADOPT THE SAmeE K)i 1 facL FINE L I'M FuLL o= PEP ND OF A DIST. WY, MY HEAD IS AS CLEAR AS A BeLL ~— The Herald eovers w Britain, Berlin, Plainvills, Fast Berlin, Southington, Kensington and Bristol. v P ’ s, CET/S TAP (T AND See il = - @éf -~ ‘r' ’