New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1924, Page 6

New Britain Heraid!' HERALD tasued Herald PUBLISHIN Daily Bidg. Escen At Church SUBSCRIPTION RATLS $5:00 a Vear, $2.00 Three Montin, Month, Post Offics at New Britain Mail Matter. Entered at the as Second Cla TELEPHONE CAL Office Roomis Rusiness Edirorial um n piess and mofitable advertising Circulation books open to adve Member Ass Assoctated Piess is ex the use (o re-publication of a edited 1o it not othwrwise this paper also Ic news lished herein, The only the Uity room Always ted Press. lusively entitled news dited pub- of The and al Member Audit Bureau of Cireulation. The A, B U organiza which furni adier- tisers with a strictly an: of circulation, Our circulation sta based upon audit. Tl tection against (raud tribution figues to local advertisers. [t both New Times Entrance le daily in News Stand e Stand. 42nd Street, Arcade Station, The Herald York 8quare Grand Central, Los Angeles, Cal roPPIES The sunshine greets the week when the poppies will ‘blossom gradually along the streets as men and women, boys and girls, wearing them as little tribute to memories go about their work and play. And each of the red flowers will tell of the practical aid great or small, given for the sake of those who, having fought and faithfully, bear today of the battle and feel, perhaps, the physical pain and mental ng that comes from disability. To help the sick and sufer though the disability may not be great wherever sickness or valiantly the scars or permanent, suffering is found, s one of the b ings granted to the able-bodied. help those who are disabled today be- cause they fought for us is a blessing and a privilege which none who pause to think at all will fail to appreciate. All this week those poppies, made by the hands of the men who so fought and who suffer now because they tought, will be offered to us to buy. Fach little purchase will do just so much for the men who ean never for- have heen through-— To get what they for the men forget. whom we must never GATES AT RAILWAYS Tt is an awful bore to read warn- Ings: it is a tragedy to forget them. Many peopls, shamefully ignorant of mechanical and general practices—we may say “shamefully” because we are never stop to think a gate inclnded possibly what information prompts tender to lower the railway gates to prevent passage across the tracks at dangerous moments, Many of us have Mlindly relied upon those gates to pro- teet us and have gone ahead when they were raised; halted only because they were down The special becomes & duty that we can not gates absolutely, it is warning to which atiention, upon They are of great lite and in to eall rely rallway stage’ Lo have ex emotions or cvents de Dy e reason not impo that actors Jeffors ven the American stage, Joseph eaplaining why he, in the charac- Rip Van Winkle, s in the habit of utilized never but rather w of or to “Mine 15 though the animal were actu lly before the audience. Acting, as Mi Jefferson understood it, was in- a4 the nature “holding the mirror resenting nature itself was not drunken man playing not e acting, as a part of an inebriate would Crane T 1eurd enting tel Id that his check And of th perhaps Dr day Joseph J son pre f at the window of the rin was t must Liocanuse the te r «did not tor, With Jetferson away, a hint of tears in his cyves, the old ag perfectly simulated pathos turned lder vas here he Instantly “If mine dog Schne he s cd. had 4 and who had heard 10w me,” the teller, the who soen flerson upon st him speak thus affectionately of “mine dog Schneid was humble and & bit reverential in his apologics, cash- ing the check without hesitation. great actor might have wonderful the The cognized a pe- Had there heon with the he the dog which the the same a4 upon stage. cting which so overwhelmed teller would have been missed. have r the banker might animal-—some have culiar marking on tangible practical fact would brought evidence of identification. But dog his The one he loved was a creature Jefferson used no in f his imagination. He was present time, anywhers, at his call— this loved cre h made the actor know just how how he felt, at ony ature of the imagination whie he looked; feel nd see through his eyes, The great actor s able to feel emo- tions he has never experienced other than in imagination. The greatest Man of all time was able under- stand, to forgive sin though sin was to unknown to bis heart, NEWSPAPERS—SERVICTE Practically all men have some of an ideal. Did they not consider it worthy, they could not call it properly an “ideal,” W. A. Patterson; editor-in- chief of the Western Newspaper Union speaking before the National Editorial Association ha City, emph sized the spivit of serviee that should He sort In Oma constitute a newspaper's ideal sald: ' The right kind of newspaper Is one, the ideal of which is service to the community In which it is published—that degree of unself- ish servioe that places the in- terests of the community first, Newspapers should bhe more t dstributors of information. They shonld be builders of ideals, lead ers In community development and moulders of public opinion, There have been and probably are A few newspapers which think little of this sort ideal. Anything to increase circulation, I8 their ery. But newspapers last long unless their positions they have any of an seldom do such are unique; almost never do in- " prohibition, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1924, words, words, used Undd themsc may appro- privtely T e plan mem- bers of ne of Nations are not to call ¢s by their proper imes, but they are to be “signator- to change the names to They are all 1 order the vhims of humiliate them it our thin meet some senators. They are to elves and agree to “do way. 1o have the the World to is no desire vs adhere to, Court now functionii nor any world court, is shown by the names of the irreconcilables who, as repub- licans, support the gesture. Mc(or- their for wssaciation that wonld be partici- mick, Borah-—imagine giving their votes to a plan entry into Burope! Impossible! had demand the to the World Court v pated in by Something to be done, The that United States ad- here insistent, It jnst 1ld not be overleoked, especially All give the people something that before a presidential election, right; seems to be a promise of such nature, sure to make it something that the Pep! | but b can not be adopted. Hence henee the old guard suppoft Watch its dis- per plan- given it temporarily. cussion, slaughter and death. HIDDEN VIC the purpose of this granted that there reasons upholding the alleged let many I"or word it sound are improvement in the country made by ad- the not be mitted grant it moment. Agafn the plea is made that when arguments in favor of the con- dition that exists today, as a result of | prohibition. This may actually, but for are prescnted seriously, they may be reasons which do not in- volve sophistry—-reasons whicht are not based upon false philosophy. A person writing to the New York World, against prohibition recently taken by Dr. But- | d of ‘Columbia Formerly criticizing the stand ler, University, states whole sections of cities were given over to saloons and kindred institutions of. vice. Now it is not so. Such vice as exists is hidden from the public.” “Such vice as exists is hidden from the publie.” Could any intended p bition be more damning? honeycombed hiden vice the spr man might know, No community, e aise of prohi- No country rotting channcis of ding of which no by long exist, individ- could uals clever enough to carry on their degenerate desives in darkness, could Jong endure. A profound sense of ever- present danger comes with the thought that prohibition might bring the time when “such as will be “Wdden from the publie” If that is to be the result of the movement which many believe has brought good, then with viee oxists” indeed even those who ory out against the return of the will stand rd and protest, declaring "Better saloon forw tar the saloon ence more than a land where all vice, growing in the dark- ness it ereat fat on its se. curity; safe in its scclusion, is “hidden waxing from the publie.” Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN center man who thinks new ar- rivais should work for $1.16 the day.| is a 1 bly loses many tes hecause of his habit of before the customer be- The innocent wying “No™ zins talking. druggist pro You can alw pick the weaker | side in a controver: It gets madder about a joke. k | N No man would be conceited if his stomach could express its honest opin- | ion of his wisdom. | The only thing nervous people have | g in common is the delusion that the don't sleep more than three hours each night. two or s Some things ar but you don’'t hear anybody threatening to let his whiskers grow until his chaice is elected president worse, S sntence: “We could said she, “but 1g a home.” Correct this s get a car this summer, both of us prefer build: s Now &s I lie on my pillow, M Observations on The Weather Washington, May Iorecast for | . Southern New England: Fair to- night; Tu inereasing cloudiness followed by 18 late Tucsday af- ange in tem- winds New sterly lastern IFair tonight, Tues cloudiness, probah followed showers, slightly warmer by tonight; fresh westerly winds. I'or Connecticut: Iair tonight; Tuesday increasing cloudiness fol- lowed by showers late Tuesday after- noon or night; no change in tempera- ture; fresh westerly wind Conditions: A disturbancg central over southern Kansas is causing un- settled, showery weather in the western districts from North Dakota southward to Texas, sant weather prevails cast of the Missis- | sippi river, The temperature con- | tinues low along the northern horder, Conditions. favor for this vicinity fair weather with rising temperature followed by inc ing cloudiness. i} p it h BHLBIBVON8882880880888008) § 25 Vears Ago Today § (Taken from Herald of that date) FETPTEIITCIIIIVIVDINPIIIOP P The high athletes who d points &t the recent field day appeared on the streets today with the new school ps of red, the front of vach bearing N. B, H. 8, It is expected that if the takes the property action today powering jud to hire court stene ographers the local court will take advantage of the opportunity and hi a stenographer, Contractor Tuttle is busy cutting Russell street through Henry E, Ruse scll's property, from W t Main street to school senate em- e Grove, George Dyson and William Risley | are representing the local tribe of Red Men at the great ecouncil in session in Southington, City bonds to th mount of § fall due July 1 of this year, when a specialgeity meeting will probably be | called to renew them, I'rofessor Marcus White state normal school is in Massachusetts on busines with the school, The fire department has been par- ticularly busy of late and the men may safd to have been “sloeping In their boots” during the past few days, b 100 | of the castorn connected I p e r 4 A T Hardly had I reccived it, woman cient Heaven, that the bank hasn't 18 dollars?"” | tell us that truth erushed to earth will rise again, Is there any poetry that Broken Blossoms (By Samuel Rebarber) P weet was the flower you gave me, Sweeter than life's grim crown, weet was the token of friendship, Sweet as you threw it down. here from your window you cast it, Straight was its path and fair, traight for my heart you aimed it, Straight as I waited there, Hardly my arms had closed, traightway my brain went whirling, | JLeaving me indisposed, Thoughts to my mind just trot, fuch as I longed for the flower, to tons 1t can mean 15 or You also threw me the pot! The greatest disappointment a :an suffer is to look in her | usband’: Lurean drawer for lJetters | from other women ¢nd find the ones | she wrote him before marriage. No Cause For Alarm A lady gave her check for eighteen ollars to her grocer. A few days | later tife grocer called her on the tele- | hone and teld her that her check | ad been returned because of insuffi. | funds. Lady customer (excitedly): “Good ! Do you mean to tell me | Grocer (soothingly: 'es, they ave, but you haven't!"” | —T. Stevenson, GO REST, YOUNG MAN, GO REST A Passionate Desire The light of desire burned in his yes, Just one,” “No!" she Please,” “Johnny, don’t ask me again. I'm aking these cookies for company to- he pleaded, tossed her head. morrow.” ~=Willam C. Suntken, Our Ow LOST AND YOUND Department . Lemuel Hollins—My father ured to roves it? LY Dear Lem:—There cortainly I8, Wouldn't you call this proof positive? ruth crushed to earth will rise again; | good thing to remember when You'li Need Coal From October ht; 1924 May 1st, 1925 Seven Months. if your requirements are 15 1t can mean 15 transactions It can mean 15 deliveries It can mean 15 delays higher prices. You can order your require- ments from us RIGHT One transaction One delivery No delays NOW The very best coal LOWEST PRICES OF THE YEAR. Be sure and have a bin of Buckwheat— It ways fm a long e. and costs less, '!_]m Citizens Coal Co. nd Main Office 24 Dwight Court, Tel, 2798, Berl Berlin station Tel, Yard Uptown Office 104 Areh St 2675-5. Tel. 3268, DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL | Excitable Atoms By DR. FRANK CRANE The next numbor on the program, ladies and gentismen, will be by rofessor Compton of the Physics Department of Princeton University, Professor Compton's act is, to use the language of the showmen, new and novel, yvour kind attention “Shuffle Along” or * the act will now proceed, It has not appeared on any stage before, \d_if the orchestra will ples fove your feet there if you don't want to get arrested"” We thank you for e give us a few bars eof You have seen the antics of traincd seals, tame elephants, educated pigs, affectionate ourang-outangs, alro dogs, roosters and other tame animals, who have amused you by acting like people. But you have never seen the cavorting atom. Professor Compton has discovered d hy oratory Edison’s recent statement erowd of human heings sway This is quite in line with Mr, that atoms get excited just as any that, while he had considerable doubts about a human being having a soul, e was strongly Inclined to believe that molecules have rou atoms? Scientists in the past believed thet atems were cool, 'ular like themselves, Professor Compton explains, but now we have esigh sufficient experimental evidence toward our belief that the condition rather that it lish of an atom is not constant and intensity of excitation. but and if molecules, why not collected and reg varies according to the kind That would imply that some atoms are as sober as deacons, some as sly as bootleggers and others engage, occasionally, in high jinks. “The bearings of this is in its application,” 1t explains, at least, what ha's always been a mystery hero plore nate cussedness of inanimate things. i“or instance, it is a well known the in sciontific phenomenon that a blotter, sssistance in protecting many cases the hest means available | some false, fair woman hints, my son, That two can live as cheap as one. way to start a rea family physician tuence upon publie opinion, You can The | war s to let th tell all he just an ordinary blotter that you steal from the bank or that is given you by .- main where you pat it on the desk, 1ts per for making grade crossings safe—as 1ong as we must havg grade crossings. But it appears from the news of the day that the gate.tepder has no solute way of knowing just when he should lower the gates. He has to rely upon his sense of sight and hearing, W would appear from the news that eertaln gates near Ne ab- rtain were not lowered mere for the reason that the train came along 13 minutes before it had been in the habit, or ®ome time,” of arrlving Gate-tenders at erossings are usually trustworthy, consclentious the fa 1 r gates A failure They appreciate on their part to when & train 18 coming. may mean the loss of many can r parently time, ond of the tn & certaln exte trains will pass 2 Whether elsm for being ¢ A train comes tore a8 beer Quthority for net fool the public continually, The words here queted are not par- ticularly remarkable, They are the fons of a straightforward man the A newspaper expr telling of showuld occupy, place s he soes that place recog- Fortu- Fortunately most, newspapers his ideal nately most newspapers try to live up ideal. But often discouraging nize as the highest in the determined to keep iticisms come to that attempt faith with the public, ¢ d the WY ve 1 ever on the question at 8 pe done to harm t pereor tion is o him, or i " him Jone or failed ut that man has the " n t rather community to put NORDS" AGAIN knows, Add to famons last words: “On more word, woman, and 1'll slap you The ass that spoke in Bible times wasn't inviting & quarrel about his erecd, You can't blame the radio hot summer days even mortals sizzle and | On growl. One way 1o overcoms that feeling in warm weather is notes for relatives sleepy to sign’ me people keep right on buying beet steak when they haven't a axo in the houee, L] pho old tiine hell much One teason why the acher threatened his he didn*t flock with have find tain Al the grou new - born emale 1ook said what you policy wavs to Mentify by thumi ce of tonsils ins nces a genuine 100 per CROSSHAN BEGGING FOR HIS LIBERTY w e Ask Supreme Court fo Let Him trine ot as soon. L] Out on Bail mae Lily Bell Beale—Can you quote for somality scems to be solid and somewhat thick when you have written a letter and go 1o look for it, it has run tribute of Words- Sprin | . that levely orth's to Gentle . the insurance agent, will not r quiet, Yet, oft somewhere and hidden ftself to employ a blotter hound. The Nothing but canine subtiety and intellig You would expeet it 10 be way to keep track of blotters s nee can only Dear Lily Bell:—We're out of gen- | Keep track of bistters. Al efforts of the Burns Detective Agency have fajied e springs just now, but here's some- ' weet pring the hills with verdure clads, Tt stirs the poets’ best emotio A Washington, May 26.—Philip Gross- man, the former Chicago saloonkeep- er, held in confinement for con- tempt of court upon order of Judges Carpenter and Wilkerson, despite a commutation by President Coolidges, led the supreme court to re- lease him on bail- pending an appeal Grossman was sentenced to prison by former Judge Landis tor contempt the charge that he had iolated a prohibition padlock injunc. Before he was committed Presi- Coolidge extended executive Itecently the case was air- ed before the senate Daugherty com- A In ordering him rearrested T udges took the position that Groseman, having been sentenced for pt of cou, the president could ' t act without an encroachment on « constitutional independence of the now today w n 1 of court on cmency mitter the two conte letarsy legal poing raised is of such im- e that the deps licated it would cedings in order and final decision court, rtment of interver ) as e pre speedy ighest Pointing out that he Chicago House orrect . upon order of the two judges sman through counsel, Lowis an and Tobert A. Milroy, & supreme conrt in the motio that the syperintendent of of Correction refused fo re. o the commutation g President-Coolidge was ex- vidence produced that he with ite terms hy the 00 fine and costs . ir to sconre by the was committed his ad- i Hor tod by when complicd ot of & $1 ad paym Property Owners Object to Tomorrow Night’s Fight N York, May 26.—<Owners of property adjacent to the outdoor wooden stadinm in Brooklyn in which Pancho Vitla, world's fiyweight cham- is scheduled to defend his title Frankie Ash of England to- night, today applied in su- or an injunction against common nuk . owned by the Nos- the injunc- heid tomor- pion, morrow preme conrt the stadium as a trom your ofl stocks, Dentists have funnier Address them separately verb to nd dolls the billboards up with ads Of freckle lotion Morgan: —What dida you B 1 realized that there is one realize Alfred E. Mann Jingle-Jangles Any funny, nonsensical rhyme that il make Fun 8hop readers langh is ingle-jangle. 1t ‘must be in two | For example nes. | | fter winter comes the spring: onsile hurt like everything | 2 | have horns and sheep have wool; | a lot of pull | contribute than these to Jm:!v-‘ Fun Shop, New undoubtedly angles will Jingle- You angle Départment, Britain Herald If Yon Can't Get This, Get Hold of someone Who Knows Latin Professor:—"James, conjugste the jump. James (to classmate behind him): What is i Classmate:—Darned if 1 know.” James, with a triumphant look Darndifino, Darndifinare, Darndifi- Darndifinatue” avi Tohn Veshach Uieasy Ties the hend thal wears a rown (Copyright 1924. Reproduction forbidden). Tie Fun Shop 18 & mational insty- tuiion conducted by mewspapers of the count Contributions from readlers. providing they are original ahed, and posses Suftient will be gaid for at rates vars rom $1.06 to $10.00. Write on one side of the paper only and send your comtributions to the “Fun Shop Editor.” care of the Herald, who will forward them ts New Yorx Unaccopted mapuscripts will 5ot be retarned . T | Congress ot And row we know what s the matter, Something that you said or did got the atoms exeited so that the biotter just loped off and ran to cover, It also explaing why you get cut with a safety razor | ecannot possibly eut you. from an engagement with it and find a Only it does, The safely ravor Every once in a while you emerge slice of perfectly good cuticle missing Answer: the atoms got exeited and jumped the track There are many other things that are explained by the impatience of atoms as well as by the ungoveraed passions of atoms Perhaps the trouble is that they have hecn going along for several mil fon years undiscovered and now ome folks are that way, fupction quistly they make very little trouble hut, once yon nd begin examining all the records, there seems to he Dome investigations a mighty seurrying and seampering. the thrown upon them and they do not like As long a8 you let them alone and they can pitiless lias becn it light of publicity #tnrt your Teapol Indecd the latest resolution passed by the House of Representatives of the Atoms w with their activities, & ringing protest They claim that the against human heings Interfering have heen getting along all rght #0 far and eannot understand why they should now be interfored with Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. LONG WILL CONTEST IN HIGH COURT TOMORROW Appeal of Som Against Being Cat O In Will Scheduled for Hearing The appeal of John Long from the ruling of the local probate court in admitting the will of his father, James Long, will be heard tomorrow morn= ing in superior conrt The testator was killed at the Bim strest rallroad crossing several months ago. Hiss will provided that the en- tire estate go to a daughter, Mary, John being cut out of the will entire- iv. John fled notice pf an appeal through Judge Willlam F. Mangan. The adminietrator; James 1. Curtin, has retained Attorney Donald Gaffney. Several months before Mr. Long met his death he had brought suit against his son, John, for alleged non- payment of rent asd the case was tried out In city court. The appellant {now claims that his father did not have testamentary capacity and that undue influence was eferted npon him when he was making his will, Man Struck by Bic;cle: Leg Is Badly Fractured John Almeida, of 288 Park strect, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg when he was struck by 2 Ariven by William Afbrecht of * Park rius afternoon &t the cerner of Park and Maple creyele street yeet ington and Lafayette was removed 1o the New Britain General hospital, * Harry T. Calkine of 9 Raitroad stroet, Springficld, Mass, reported to the yesterday that in turning cut to avoid hitting a car on Washing ton street he had vum inte & car parked near the Burritt hote He tcld the police that both cars wer slightly damaged. Orazio Sericstirio of Oak strect reecived slight lacerations abowt the fece last night when he was strick b, 8 car owned by Mrs. Frank Rhodes and driven by Albert Leonard, Sor iestino was crossing the street and to avold being hit by an automobile he dodged back and stepped in front of the Rhodes’ Machine. He was taken to the New WBritain General hospital for treatment. He was discharge! at institution after medi treatment streete, He police from 1) John M of 5 Automohiies driven by Sanderson and Walter Tras Tremont strect came together on South Main street last night. The headlights on the Travers' machine was slightly damaged. William Majuary of 120 Commer cial street reported to the police last night that his automobile had struck Baba Elia, 9 years oid, of 183 W gton street at the eorner of Was streots. Ma- juary told the police that the young- ster was not injured. If the population of Bouth Africa goes on increasing at the present ratio, within the next 50 years the white popuiation will have growa to 060 and the black te 27,900,008