New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1924, Page 6

A sent, the péople of this country alter their arithmetics so that the figure 1 ew Britain Herald would be popularly taken to mean 1-2, ' the figure 2 popularly taken as 1 and I RUBIASHING. COMPANY | the figure 3 be popularly accepted as . Issued Dally (Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bidg., 67 Church Street. one and 1-2. Under such popular un- | derstanding, therefore, the alcoholic SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | | content of the aforesaid questionable $8.00 a Year, 2,00 Three Mouths, 5e. & Momth. | \would be, rather 1-2 of 1 per cent. In % Bk x Post Ot Bl | such a case, of course, the manufac- Bt o g r: o e, B8 | turers of the liquor would be obeying as Becond Class Mall Matter. the letter of the law by producing a { liquor would not be 1 per cent, but| 'NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSbAY, MAY 1; 1924, - the population is most dense is- just above the ears, | success, do nothing to raise another disturbing element at this time when each action may result in a gain or| loss of votes. ! It was no band of impractical fana- tics which stormed the capitol yester- And yet suffering in silence is no | fun unless you can tell your intimate i friends about it day demanding action on this con-| The weather man always keeps one more cold day in stock to use when veniently forgotten matter. Leaders in| (o, take down the stove, business, the professions—in religion, | R ian | there were. George Wickersham, Pres- | ‘ A partisan is-a man who honestly [1dent. Lowell of Harvard, Bishop | believes. thet anybody who disagrecs| | Brent, speaking in behalf of the | with him is feeble-minded. federal council of churches, Mrs. Parking . space ian't everything. IWORLD CONFERENCE ON N SPRINGRIELD Methodists From ANl Parts Assemble Today Bpringfield, Mass, May 1.—With g Che FurnChop 3 Y Maxsow. Juoss, Our Own Lost and Found Dept. Myrtle Broom—Can some one give me the rest of the poem beginning: I am dying, Egypt, dying. CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR " WARNS OF YELLOY PERIL Issues ‘Statement Calling Upon Yoters Not To Relax Their Vigilance San Francisco, May 1.—Next Tues- day’'s primary in California has as-- sumed a greater significance than a contest between individuals, as a re-. sult of the pending Japanese exelu- TELEPHONE CALLS: Business Office . beverage which, according to popular | James Lees Laidlaw, Walker D. Hines, Editorial Rooms open to advertisers. | i Member of The Associated Press. The Associated Press iw exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news pub-| lished herein. | Member Audit Bureau of Circulation, | The A, B. C a national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- | tisers with a strictly honest anal of circulation, Our circulation statistics are | based upon this dit, This nsures pro-: { tain only 1-2 of 1 per cent of alcohol | mighi | notice™ understanding of figures, would con- | representing 750,000 business men— all these and people from Maine to while, in fact, it would contain 1 per alcohol. 4nd even the court take “judicial notice” of the popularly changed method of figuring as, perhaps, it has taken “judicial of the popularly changed cusations against the committee of the senate headed by Senator Lodge, stat- cent “a measure originally considered so important as to call for wide publica- | California gathered to make their ac- ing, in the words of Bishop Brent, that | i | Where there is most emptiness an idea | finds it most difficult to lodge. | Habit clings. The old-timer \\'hu! worked his way through college is | now working his son's way through. | tioned as likely to take hours of going to work. How about it? THE CANDIDATE HIMSELF The names of various men are men- prominent ministration and which caught the at- tention of the ends of the earth has, | by tacit consent, been passed over for other proposals which, however im- ! portant, are little known to the coun- | | | | | | tion by the chief leaders of the ad-i 1 = | | Science can explain everything ex- H cept the reason a fly always lights on | | something you are unwilling to swat. | Dear Myrt—This is the best we can do: I am dyeing, Egypt, dyeing, Using henna, for I'm told That's the stuff for unifying Those silver threads among the gold Elizabeth T.—Can you tell me the finish to the. line: Call me early, Father darling. Dear Lizzle—It's Mother's finish, not Father's, which you are seeking. Thus: Call me early, Mother darling! Such a sale! I can't be late! Fifteen dollar Paris models Cut to fourteen ninety-eight. Why Not? delegates assembled from every part|sion ‘measure. Lieutenant Governor of the Unifed States and from over a | C. C. Young of California declared in score of foreign countries, the quad-|® Statement today. “For years this 2 state has been acutely alive to the rennial general conference of the,oig of japanese immigration,” the Methodist Episcopal church will open | statement said. “Every endeavor has here today, and before it oloses three Dbeen made to bring this peril to the or four weeks hence, questions of vital{attention of the people of the castern importance to -the many millions of | states, Suddenly, out of a clear sky members and communicants will have | €omes a déclaration by the Jgp@nese been discussed and decided by the as-| ambassador so nearly like a threat sembly, the official law-making body that to preserve our own national dig- nity congress passes an exclusion act. —the senate almost unanimously. “This exclusion act, merely from the circumstances of the ambassador’s indiscretion, if for no other reason, ‘nhould have received the immediate signature of the president. Such an- of the church. 2 Bishop Joseph F. Berry of Philas delphia was scheduled to preside at the opening session, the first import- ant act of which will be the election of a general sccretary for the confer- ence. Final organization will be com- ' tection against fraud fn newspaper dis- tribution figures to both national and t i, i oy T ok parts in the campaign of Al Smith, ! cratic nomination for the presidency. The thought comes at once, inspired | probably by a prejudice against one | or more of the men mentioned, that | & candidate 1s unwise to allow other | OUNCE OF PREVENTION | names to be mentioned more fre- Of ‘course no one will dare dispute | quently than his own. A candidate the authoritative statement, grown to | should, in other words, go before the partake of the solid character of the ‘ people as the “main guy.” , laws of the Medes and Perslans, that| When Mr, Murphy was alive his an ounce of prevention is worth more name, outside of New York state, was than a pound of cure, The Herald, | not so generally associated with that relying on that little ounce and hoping | of 8mith in the minds of the erdinary it might use it to advantage, has done voter. This was due in a measure to #ts best by referring to the “good of | Murphy's habit of silence and avold- the city” to prevent the removal of an | ance of the limelight but more, per- ‘, lent man from office and replac- | haps, to the fact that the ordinary ing him with some one who, probably, | voter does not keep track of all the has neither the experience mor the | political friends of a candidate for the practical knowledge sufficlent to fill | presidency. the position of superintendent of | prominent politician and the average charities as well as Willlam Cowli- | shaw has filled it. We have used up this or that candidate. When it was the ounce and hope, even yet that it | announced that in all probabllity Gov. has not been wasted, but the chances | Smith himself would become more do not look so good. 8o much for the 1 active in his own campaign, his dis- ,,.l‘lfl'l influence with the democratic | tant friends, not familiar with “poli- mayor. tics as she is spoke” felt rather glad Stiil pursuing the policy which |The bringing into the picture of others, fecognizes the value of that ounce of | necessary as they may be in modern prevention, we may now express our- politics, rather spoils the sentimental #elves as anxious to see the republi- | enthusiasm aroused by Smith himself. ©An majority refrain from.resorting to | Secretary of State Hughes declares pettiness by reducing the salary of the | that Calvin Coolldge's character is the new incumbent in that office if a new | main asset of the republican party one is appointed. This hope is express- | Were Calvin Coolidge the sort of per- @4 before any such action.is taken by | sonality to inspire as that of Al Smith the majority, Of course the move- | does, this announcement would have ment to reduce the superintendent of | been sufficient to make the president charities’ salary, if former Alderman |the outstanding figure of the cam- Gill 1s appointed, will be based in | paign. But try as we will we can not theory on the allegation that he will | conceive Caivin Coolldge fighting not be _worfl\ as much to the city in | alone through a mob of people to the that office as Mr. Cowlishaw was. But | White House. It is not difficult to ple- whatever the theory of the matter, the | ture Al Smith doing that little thing. faet will be that the majorigy will de- This vision, of course, emphasizes the _ #ire to punish Mr, GIll for deserting physical aspect of the picture, and his party at the last clection to the may be deprecated for that reason. extent of supporting Mayor Paonessa. But the “fight” referred to is not a Thus the situation will arise, if it physical one alone, One pictures Cal- does, where an appointment 18 made, | vin Coolidge surrounded by a more or #8 a reward for the new appointee’s | less hazy group of advisers, none too stand in political matters, and then indistinct, however, to be listened to. Bis salary reduced as a punishment for | Al 8mith does not belong in that sort that stand. The next step would be for | of a pleture. About him would be The Herald 1s on sale daily in New York at Hotaling's News Stand, Times Square; Bchultz News Stand, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street. Los Angeles, Cal.; Arcade Statlon. | governor of New York, for the demo- try at large. Senator Lodge in h|s! apologies for inaction damns the court | The reason grafters get quicker re- | ‘| sults than prosecutors is because they | | with faint praise.” | | are not handicapped by laws, In the face of such charge only tlie | saomiibid | terrible fear of the political heart | could inspire inaction. The only difference a man notices after spring cleaning is that the Nipp—*“How long did Gray down his job?” Tuck—"Until he made enough to buy a lounging robe.” ' C. H. Thompson. hold | pleted and the committee on enter- tainment will then announce its pro- gram. At the evening session reports of the last four years work in Europe, and Africa will be made by the bish- Back To Eden ops of those countries, and the mis- action would have heen deemed prop- er and natural by the whole world. But. under influence evidently stronger {than the influénce of California, he |delays, discusses the matter with the {ambassador, talks compromise, post- pones action, possibly until after May 6, the day of California’s primary. | RESULTS COU T Few people will dispute that state- davenport is against the other wall. | There is a vaccination for almost all | | disorders except the thing that in.+ They found him wandering around in a dazed condition, bearing the ear- marks of a vigorous quarrel, a black- ened eye, bleeding nose and a gap In sion and educational centers will hold | meetings. The outstanding issues forecast in | the annual conferences held last | “It on May 6 Californians, through carelessness or apathy or blindness to their own interests, seem to indorse the action of the president, they will Mention the name of a| man can not say whether he was for | ment, and it is getting to be more | trigues a young man's fancy at this| :nenrly true every day. But if anyone season. | ithlnkl it is absolutely true, or has/ i i been true always, such person has an- | Political wires are not tightened up | other guess. And it is quite proper that | until the political angels loosen up. 1 {1t should not be true always. A Man| oouact (nig sentence: “Yes, T know | | may “get results,” for Instance, sellitg | 1 could do well in the movies,” said | | goods, but his methods may be such | the beautiful girl, “but that kind of | ;thnt no employer cares to aeccept|thing doesn't interest me.” | | such results. The salesman's methods | | may bring disrepute to the house he | | represents, Methods strictly proper | when analyzed and which are con- | ohemations on The Weather view has accepted them. An old law= yer of prominence, who died recently Washington, May 1.—Forecast for would never allow a clerk te transact Southern New England: Fair to- certain business over the telephone. | night and Friday; colder tonight, Accustomed to the more dignified per- ,]"‘"tl ': exposed places; fresh wester- y winds, onal call, he thought it \llll(’(‘"'llv)' lory Forccast for Eastern New York: a mere clerk to talk with a lawyer of | Fair tonight and Iriday; cooler to- | standing, over the telephone. I night; fair in the Interior; As an example of this change comes ‘ “"':‘l"l'lé w““ll.i | 'or Connecticut: the news that Connie Mack, the great | by fair tonight baseball managér, predicts a great| Conditions: batting future for a recruit who ac ver Kentucky yesterday is now tually steps away from the ball when central over eastern Massachusetts, It has caused general rains and high he hits it. In the parlance of the dia- |34 iong the coast from Florida mond he, “tries to spike the w €r to Maine and as far west as Illinois. pall,” which, formerly and in sand- | Several places reported thunder 1ot games, stood by third base. The ::orn;u.l 'l‘hwdnlnru; I\;'III n:lxove out to | . " |sea today and be followed by pleas- | new player shy-foots—does not SteP|.,¢ weather, Irosts were i’o;:orwa forward squarely to meet the ball—irom Indiana and Wisconsin, The the correct method, of course in | temperature is slightly lower in the theory, A few years ago a pitcher at- "“"f:":;'|"’"'o""l‘,; tavee fob “thk | tending Yale had had great success .o,qy follgwed 1:\ fate \\Efjiuil:ol;’:il:;‘l, at achool throwing a “side-arm ball.” cool nights but warm sunny days, At that time such delivery was not | recognized as proper. A prnfcsslonul‘ [ | ¥dered all right today, were consider- | ed undignified years ago. A broader || fresh | Cloudy followed nd Friday, The storm central | GO08888099885088800889080 coach spolled his pitching by trying | to make him deliver the ball with 25 Years A:O Today | straight overhand delivery. (Taken from Herald of that date) Many great pitchers have used the FOPPPIICIIPIIIIPPP0909900 side-arm delivery since. Another player, .-rn.-..fid to the see- ond nine because the coaches declared he would never make a batter, led I Some one removed Constable M, E. |Hannon's wheel from the curbing en Main street today and the constable | was a trifle worried. He did not think quick sharp gasps. |ends of the bis. front teeth. Filled with pity they seized him by the arms, “Come, old chap, let us take you home to your wife.” He groaned piteously, “Don’t you understand?” he mur- mured feebly, “that's where T got it,” —Dennison Varr. month in preparation for the general conference will be the church’s atti- the proposed removal of the long ex- isting “amusement ban"” of the Metho- dist discipline and the proposed unifi- cation of the church with the Metho- dist Episcopal church south, A strong sentiment for removing the schism created 80 years ago by a southern bishop’s ownership of slaves has been shown in resolutions passed at a num- ber of reglonal conferénces last month, As regards the interior organization of thec hurch, eager discussion is ex- pected of a proposal to limit the ten- ure of bishops, who now hold office for life. Resolutions will be present- od, it is said, seeking to remove from the bishops to the pastors or congre- gatlons the power to appoint district superintendents, Commissions ap- pointed at the last general conferenc? to consider the admission of women to the ministry and the consolidation of benevolence boards will file their reports for discussion and action, The, church’s stand on the prohl- bition law and its enforcement will also come up for discussion on the floor and In committee it is stated. This subject was given special em- phasis by-a challenge issued yesterday to President Nicholas Murray Butier of Columbia university by Dr. Clar- ence T. Wilson of the board of tem- perance and public morals, inviting Dr, Butier to present his previously announced views against prohibition to the delegates. | The man who Invented work fhever | finished the job. Some Do Remain Faithful T noticed that she was quivering as T approached her, and I could not help | but see that her breath came in My heart soften- ed and I resolved that although I had been miserably hard on her, I would not be in the future. My er- rant heart had evén prompted me to leave her now that her first youth was passed, and T was ashamed. After all, she was my pal, my standby, She had ever been ready to follow my slightest wish, to go with me to the earth, My conscience smote me as I gazed on her today. She was still vigorous, still sufficiently up to the minute to p: muster any- where, All she needed was a coat of paint and a new set of tires. ~Mary F. Kingston, WILD WILLIES By George 8. Chappell Little Willie, with some ink, Gave the speaking-tube a drink. Then he whistled down to Lena; We had to send her to the cleaner! Willie, who's an awful cut-up, Told the minister to shut up. This made Uncle Luther say, “Aln't I often felt that way?" Newington Man Given Judgment for $5,000 In the case of Andrew Oleson of | Newington against John H. Hurlburt ]ol New Haven tried before the su- perior court Tuesday the jury has handed down a decision for Oleson to collect $6,000 damages. The plaintift alleged that on the evening of Janu- ary 24 he was driving along the Ber- lin turnplke in a wagon when an au- tomoblle operated by the defendant crashed into him demolishing the wagon, frightened the horse, break- ing Oleson’s leg and otherwise injur- ng him. F. J. Rundbaken appeared Falfilled “Phil, dear, for years everybody has | joked about the bride's first apple ple,” Yes, dear?” “So my first pie will be a lemon.” And 1t was, ~<Willlam M. Newman Oh, Abused Woman! If you have ceased to be in love, they cail you inconsistent, tude towards war and preparedness, | have themselves alone to thank if a |veto of Japanése exclusion is the re- sult and California’s wonderful oppor- tunity is gone, perhaps forever, Do Californians not see that at this crisis | their vote next Tuesday, will be con- | strued as an indorsement of the posi- tion in this matter, either of President Coolidge or of Senator Hiram Jolin- son?” HAMON'S REAL AMBITION - Widow Says It Was To Make His Son President of the United States Some Day. Chicago, May 1.—The ambition of Jake Hamon, Oklahoma politician and oll man, was not to be secretayy of the interior—it was to make his son, Jake, Jr., presidont of the United States. This was disclosed today by his widow on her return from Wash- ington, where she was summoned to testify before the Téapot Dome inves- tigation committee, and then was not asked to take the witness chai “He wanted to bhe nothing el chairman of the republican national committee,” Mrs, Hamon said. “UI'N get it and TN hold it for years, until Jake Jr, is old enough to take it over,” he told me,” she said. ““Then I'll make him chairman in my place and let him hold it until hie s wise enough and old ecnough, and when that time comes I'll make Jake, ar, president—ihe youngest president lof the United States.’™ Hamon swung his support from former Governor lLowden of lllinois [to Warren G. Harding in the 1920 re. ' {publican convention at her request, | Mrs, Hamon eaid, Tarding, she ex. plained, swas a distant relative of her {family, 'Then the widow, who was married to a Chicago man end ' di- |vorced since Hamon's death, paid a Itribute to the deceased. | "I want to be,known by his name: I shall have no other, 1 shall hene forth be known always as Mrs, Jak# {Hamon." TWO MURDER CASES R e ¢ the second team in Thitting even for Oleson and Lawrence Howard and | Toreington, May 1. = Two murder 7 the new appointes to so conduct his | real people Jut on thelr faces would | - process. office that all favors would be thrown | fn the direction of the party which | wsought to reward him, no matter how the ecity might suffer from such pl-’ tronage. He might even go so far, It | he were that sort of a person which Mr. Gill 1s not, as to make proselytes ., for the democratic party, and then it | would be up to those who sought to | punish him to discover some ingenious | WAy to get back at him for this at- ¢itude, Thus, the moment there is an abandonment of the broader outlook, and there comes a subserviency to po- Mtical expediency, the canker begins to spread and its ramifications extend :-Iel a distance that thelr evil may not be followed. | Political rewards and political pun- | fshments! The thought of them is enough to keep the men we would like o have in city affairs completely ot of them. THE LETTER AND SPIRIT It 1s sald that people in Connecticut a8 A rule are obeying the letter of | the time law by keeping publicly dis- played clocks running on standard time, but disobeying its spirit by turning their watches ahead and working and playing according daylight saving time, Well, let it go at that. The people of the state are not belng W84 up as objects of scorn becaus: they® are doing this courts, which construe the law, opening an hour earlier. One well, if not favorably known habitat Hartford, is going to work an hour earlier—and “they are estima- ble men.” Thus the spirit of the without upon the head of the violators, while the 1aw As being ohee fer. The eighteenth amendment forbids manuvfacture of intoxicat- Ing liguor for beverage purposes. Con- gress has stated and declared that Sintoxieating Nguor” is liquor of an Picoholic content great than 1-2 of 1 " Per cont. The “alcoholie eontent” of Bauor is measured by a certain ; Suppose that some quesdion- Wble Nquor i8 thus analyzed and the Fesults, unilier the present.understand- fog of muthematics and chemistry, S dlaw the ateoholic content to he 1 per _gent: Buppose that, by common con- to Even are organization, law is broken resultant obliquy falling ved 1o the lets and sale | Coolldge, taking the reins of govern- | be expressions of admiration for the | though he, like Connie Mack's recruit, man, not lines of anxious thought as | stepped away from the ball, In golf, to how they would advise him. | even, where “form” is considered so If Al Smith is wise he will rely upon important, one of the successful play- Al Smith as he has done all his life | ers in the city uses a most unusual from the time he graduated from the “stance” in putting—and no one scems Fulton Market gang. If President| surprised since he gets splendid re- Coolldge is wise he will draw closer | suits, about him the men whose very ap-| These are examples of the handie | pearance is a guarantee against any-| caps in the race for advancement men thing too radical. For from men like | have struggled under for centuries. Tt these the republican candidate will get | is not as common to hear a person in his support, while Al Smith's will | authority command a subordinate to come from those who want a Wise, ' do a eertain thing in his way because | straight, honest leader who knows bis ' the employer has always done it that own mind and acts on that knowledge, | way. “Get results” 18 more frequently the command, and a broader view- point has given men a chance to get | | results in their own way. The incentive | to initiative is growing strong. That| greater ae- | unafraid. THE WORLD COURT In the Herald’s mental notebook looms big the memorandum “World [ path leads to new and Court” written there when President | complishment. ment from the lifeless hands of the | late President Harding. declared that he would follow with fidelity the poli- cies of the late president. And op-| posite that notation is a reference | to the fact that if President Hardipg feft to his successor any one solemn ‘Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN ——— ¥inal proof of spring’s arrival is af- fo-ded by white shocs on the window heritage it was the duty of advocating | 4y, and urging the aiherence of the United States to that body. It was in 1t the last speech prepared, but never finishing touches on Mr. Harding, that he touches for loans. made such a point of this issue. It LT was his last, vital plea, and, being the | should the are happens that friendship frequently delivered by Another thing that should be plant- ed now is the grafter wio vifles the jast to be thus emphasized, public treasery have been the first to be taken up by > . him who would earry out the wishes A man never realizes what a burden dignity is until his back itches in a crowd of the testator. Yesterday, headed by a group of the most notable people of the whole country, a great gathering appcared the foreign . relations sub-committee to protest against the | . CEl L i how practicdl desertion of the world court | o i gets results without & plan as presented by the late Presi- | gunday school picnic. dent Harding. which the but he usually check when his The worm turns, turns over his ¥ wife finishes talking. before senate It was one of those administration pledged It has been one great policy which has, ap- parently, been forgotten. Let it rest in quict, bas scemed to be the attic tude, at least until the election is over, in order that mo new chance for di- vergence of opinion may mix things The republicans of the country “policies™ was to follow. th 1t 1s probable. however, that Noah began to look with longing at his golf clubs before the rain was over. up. #0, et are united—and quite properly <cemingly—behind one candidate that candidate, nor those wishing his | The office cyaic in s that where ;Il was a case of theft, however, A quarterly meeting of the city mis- #lon was held yesterday afternoon and | reports were made by Rev, Lyman 8, | Johnson. The mission is prospering | and all are satisfied that it is doing a gcod work, Abel Griswold has so far recovered | |from -the cffects of the operation he | oo recently underwent in the® Hartford hospital that he has resumed his em-k ployment in Bristol, The matter of the common council | meeting in some other place than in | the city court room has been taken up again. At the present time it felt that the courtroom is to small t accommodate the rather large eath- | ering of aldermen and councilmei. | 1t was announced this morning by most of the icemen of the town that no more five cent pleces of ice would | be delivered to the homes. Anyone | \\i!l’ng a five cent piece of ice will | have to get it from the man on the | wagon and carry it into their homes | themselves, W. H. Gibney tizs been reappointed | | deputy sherift of Berlin. ! Residents of the eastern seetion of | the city are all worked up over the | possibility of having a passenger de- pot constructed on the main line. In connection with the matter they have | written to President Clark of the | railroad company. | — | 'THIS MINER IS SAVEDBY | BROKEN DOWN-AUTOMOBILE, Otherwise He Too Probably Would Have Been in W. Vieginia Disaster Wheeling, W. Va., May 1.—Fate, in | the form of a broken down automo- bile, saved the life of Den Dukio, | who had been listed as lost with 110 other miners in the Benwood mine when it was wrecked by an explesion Monday, it became known today. Late last night Dukio appeafd at the mouth of the mine, and, as his name was listed among the missing a report | spread that he had breen resctied alive. | In broken English Dukio said that | on Saturday when he left the mine, | | he torgot to remove his eheck from the register board. On Sunday he went for a ride in his automobile and it broke down. He arose early Mone | | day morning, hoping to repair the car and go to work. But the machiné | was in such a condition that he had {10 stay away froin the mine and com- | {viete the repairs. While he wis | tinkering with the engine 110 of bis fellow workers were trapped in the mine by the fatal blast. « When mine officiais found Dukio’s check on the board Ahey decided that hie bad re- ported for work #nd listed him with the missing. 'Learns Child Has Died 1t you choose not to iove at all, they | call you indifferent. 1t you love anyone else but the.one they want you to love, they call you talse, and only When you give your- selt to. him whom they think you ought to love are you called loyal, Yours s a hard lot Indeed, oh, ~Batanello, Modesty Kriss—"“Modesty is trait in a girl” Kross—""But even blushing calls for certain amount of cheek.” ~—Kenneth Andrews. (Copyright, 1924, Reproduction For- bidden). an admirable | Contributions 1o the Fun Shop eol- wmn from Herald readers will be carefully considered as to their eli- ibillty tnder the rules and will be forwarded to the national head- quarters of the organisation in New York, where they will be finally passed upen by the editor. Accepted humorous _matter, Wwhatever its form, will be paid for at rates run- ning from $1.00 to §1 for prose, twenty-five cents a I for poetry. Address any communications to thie Fun Shop editor, care of the Herald. We have had many contributions, hut often they are not in accord with the vules for oue reason or another, Therefore we are again outlining the regyintions, as follows Humor nust be orl tofare unpublished. Contributions must be written on @he side of the paper oniy. Manuscripts Will wot be returned, even though accompanied by & stamped_envelope The Writers must be pinced paper cont Toasmueh this col are entering & nation contest it will prove excerdingly dif- ficult to_win for manus- eripin, Ehop from and here- e and address pon the Sheet of the tribution. he Herald ¥un decided to choose wtoff submitted by persons in this vieinity the three best bits 6f humor in the course of & week. These will be printed i the Fun Shop col- wmn Saturdey night of each week. be pald for #t the rat one doflar each. The copy il aise be went to New York and the con- tributor, in addition to the FHerald prize, w1l have oppertanity 1o acceptance in When He Calls Up Home | Friends of Eqward Caulfield, 2 waiter at Colling' restaurant on Church street, will be grieved 1o learn of the death of his danghter, Pauline. aged four years, at bis home in Middietown yesicrday. The Hitle girl has been suffering from pnen- monia but her condition was not con- sidered serious. When Mr. Caulfieid called his home on the telephone yes- terday to Inquire for her condition he was shocked o learn that she had i died. 'EVERETT TRUE R. F. Baldwin for Hurlburt, | cases are among the nine eriminal cases on the docket of the Litchfield | Bounty superior court which will open |its May term at Litchfield Tuesday { with Judge Allyn L. Brown on the beneh, The accused in the murder cases are Joseph Spoth of 8haron and | Michael and Louls Luria of Canaan, TAREE HOLD CONVENTIONS Omaha, Neb, May 1-Three poli- tical parties will hold state conven- tions in Nebraska today, the demo- era'ic and progressive organizations mecting at Omaha and the republi- cans at Lincoln. Eelection of state central committees and presidential ciectors and the adoption of platforms and resolutions are scheduled in the | Berlin did not observe May day as democratic and republican meetings, the usual labor holiday, all indusirial I'ndorsement of party candidates | plants and public utilities continuing nominated in the April 8 primaries is |in full operation. Pollce broke ur expected. }drmnnflrlflonl by the communista. * BY CONDO 1 DECCARE, CVERETT, WHEN YOU TRYITe ARGUE SOMETHING-, YOU QAN SPOUT Twe . SILLIEST TWADDLE, L EVER usxeuep'w“ AW HAW! — 1T 13 To Lavan ! ALL QUIET IN BERLIN « Berlin, May 1.-~The workers of /