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New Britain Herald i r HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Issued Daily (Sunday Ezcepted) At Herald Bldg. Church Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.00 a Year, 2.00 Three Months, e & M Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second UMes Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office Ed!torial Rooms . The only profitable advertising medium in the City. Circulation books and press room aiways open to advertirers. Member of The Associated Press. The Assoclated Press 15 exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news credited to it or not etherwise credited in thie paper and also local news pub- lished herein. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation, « The A. B. C. organization which furni pers and adver- tisers with a strictly honest avalysis of circulation, based upon this audit, This i tection against fraud in newspaper tribution figures to both mational tocal advertis sures pro- dis- and sale News Stand. Street, The Herald fs on York at Hotaling's Square; Schultz New Grand Central, d Entrance THE FRESH AIR CAMP of Generous as the people the have been in the past few y the Herald has asked for contributions to the Fresh Air Camp for the under- nourished children of the city, them know that to th children this a beloved institu- city ars when few of camp has become tlon. They think of it all winter; they pray that they will be allowed to go; to them it is a little bit of Heaven upon earth and in their childish dreams of happiness there is a very real vision of that camp and the won- derful feeling of strength it has given them to spend a week or more therc The tragedies of childhood are greater far than we, who have long since outgrown childhood, apgeciatc today. “There, little girl, don't they have broken your doll I know," runs the old song, ending with the soothing of young girlhood by forting words after the girl, they have broken your heart, 1 know,” but time and joys will heal the young girl's weary heart, while time and joys never heal the body of the young man or woman who, all the early days of their dreary suffered want and a breath-of the pure the country. It com- don't cry; other through from air of lives has is a.great happiness to be able to make this sort of an Appeal to the® for there is the con- brings it people of the city, that to the vietion such a plea no frown reader—rather, it in- spires a thoughttul vision of the evers lasting good the fund gives to the Httl our tions, would pass through the hot gradually growing a liitle a small contributign to ehildren of city who, without such subscrip- days ahead, thinner; gradually growing a little weaker and gradually losing interest In the life that may be made to mean 80 much to them ' This year an attempt is 1o be made to pug in more “chifd It wil be impossible to take at weeks,” all who need it least try henefits of it to the camp, but we may to help bring the thus greater axtent eaving ot only to Aght through of because they those strong enongh the heat with less physical lose who, 4 of this time health and happiness and strength than are 8o badly in nec in placs where hope e y the Tungs with And with the rencwed atrengt happiness, hepe, comes Ation of the Then th city or purity of thought, appre brauty of « e, re is ad all t of the childre apre the the lips irning strengther in mind ar which ma the da BUSINESS WILL 1MrRonv s nation ind not for long the pessimisit Mue of su fimists has doses in Possibly tho apoon know thar stowing down of more we do. Certain has been noted mit that the Riaten Kt Our circulation statistics are I'here little ulvannr motive in thus voicing hepe. |of complicated mechanisms were any | other rute to prevail. But ¢here is another aspect of the may most heartily en- that “In-| not long | At any rate we little agriculture the | dorse the statement While not legally responsible that are not plainly visible to anyone giving a ma- the seller or bound | to do the best he can for the purchaser | Adefect The | dealer, dustry and will matter. thrive on medicine of the pes-|for inhcrent defects | simists.” adls, | chine a casual inspection, “There are indications,” he “that we are getting out of the mood It has last- agent for a car is morally | of unjustifiable depression. and considercd optimism is not far of(.” | The paste in our hats and look is intended ed long enough a reaction to of a car which develops a caused by poor manufacture, to at once in above is a good statcmant honest dealer, the successful If he defect properly bound to use for of th emanufacturers of the car. the 1 while. No criticism those who have felt themselves forced can not remedy period of | himself, he is certainly all his cfforts to get moral justice | his customer, Not only is he morally bound to do this, but it case where honesty is the best policy. No to for a possible know do. 1 strong plea is made for optimism, as where | prepare a They others poor business, their af- fairs better than a is another | voiced by this leader industry, con- agent for a car can hold his bus- make the most who gains a reputation for car- little for the the question between extreme servatism and some slight hopefulness long pes- iness long, nor can he wiil not the of it, ing but sold { money for it, one. the is a close “Indutry his customer after car. When the he too often forgets all| about the of the man who purchased from him. This should not are some deulers who | make a point of doing for their cus- tomers what they would wish®done use all their in- thrive on medicine ot simists.” he he has “MOTHER NATURE" It is a fairly safe interest bet that the young man and maid who went out into the be so. There woods to catch rabbits and live by their hands alone will rather hesitate for themselves. They fluence to htave and to have the faulty car or part re- placed. ®he dealer's power is limited, usually by the success he has had in selling the make of automobiles he handles. Despite the decision of the court absolving the dealer from liabil- ity for an inherently defective car, the fact should be emphasizad that | selling a man a car is, in a sense, making a representation to him that| it is a perfect machine. This repre- sentation entails a moral duty he can not shift, namely to guand the inter- | ests of his eustomer, again to refer to nature as “mothe Mothers do not treat their children as nature evidently the young who hage now been found in his loss, adjusted treated people the wild Jersey—and New st part of New Jersey can be pretty wild wildeats known have and to rattlesnakes where are been seen, where abound. 1t is more than probable that neither man nor the maid knew anything the the rattie- and It looks a great deal as v did not know much ahout | the about wildeats nor snakes, though the catehing the rabbits upon which they were going 1o feed, They are sadder but wiser now, and if the thing was publicity they well for whatever advertising they get out of it. They “consented” to he taken back to civilization, say the reports and once arrived there the man want. d two or three while the yOung woman was loud in her | pratse of the evening meal of weeds in a tomate can they had been pre- pariag when found, ATl kinds of statements have and articles written, on modern tendeney to do new things; on the independence of women of to- day; tha various new thought movements which are popular, more or less, among those who enjoy being “different.,” The case of these young people who went into the woods with- preparation or proper outfits is perhaps the last word in IN GERMANY With the jeers of the communlsts ringing in his ears when he asked that the honor and good mame of Ger- many be considered, Chancellor Marx, of Germany, told the members of the Reichstag that only by prompt anf wholehearted work togetheér toward carrying out the Dawes report would | Germany be saved from disaster, The Marx-Stresemann combination | represents the moderates of that coun- | try., All of the world is hoping that [they will continue in power, and that ! the nationalists will not be a complete stumbling bloek in their way, as they ro in a position to bhe if they insist upon earrying out their half-formed plans. The nationalists did vot present even possible candidates to oppose Marx and Stresemann, Germany despite the failure of the nationalists to depart from their position ef re. fusing to bolleve that any sort of sub- mission aid thetr sl has sense enough to recognize fact, It Marx and Stresemann are able to withstand the mumbled opposition that they will know exists, there Is hope—and there scams 1o be hope in this way enly. Marx is far weaker as a man than Stresemann but it is possible that the latter's knowl edge, and the former's comparatively understanding a scheme, have paid meals, not heen made, the on out of any sort, expression of what things would come i noted at present continues, whether the stunt was done There is tendency to the tendency for publicity’s sake or not, will country, A great deal of good in the of women to stek Inde- pendence, Much it will from the addition of the product of their knowledge of the world, pendulum on the part be come constant brains to the 1t is well that the began to swing out of its old position where woman was absolutely helpless and completely dependent upon man., That pendulum through the other side to its limit, the momentum The Is bound to come down common sense, will the has swiung and up on It can go little it re- downward prevail, This is no lauding of either of the center men in power in Germany, Stresemann his previous Marx is | tendencies farther with | was not but experionce will count ! weak, and his moderate b the result of that whatever the reason ur celved in starting. a success, reaction, now, ®oon if not now. When it does swing it will #ot go 1p quite so high on the side whence it started, Never again in all probability will world see woman in that old, helpless situation, No swings back to its starting point. But it will go In direction and then begin again swing and tre other side nearly, but not quite, to the swing, the weakness, for g adherence fmay But moderate stand, the Dawes plan, evacuation of | the Iunhr favored but secondary, it is the wise attitude for Germany to take in her own interests nothing of the of the such the to with pendulum even that to may its downward up on of the interest rest world point of independence of women % is When at last, nowever, it L SN Yy Yy 325 Years Ago Todayt f R e e S gistercd 98 at It comes to rest and Is motionless, will be found pretty mear the happy wans between extravagant action by and (Taken irom lerald of that daie this edi- old, position of as that represented g couple he The thermometer r the corncr of Bouth Main and Main streets this.afternoon. In some of the actories many of the employes were & ot at work, and the heat in =ome of school buildings was inten ftev. Martin Gaudian will night Rondout, N, ¥ Frangelical Ministerium Foreman John Maher was at making repairs at the walering at the park, which will im- the service Abrabamson had his left hand gashed while at work in the works yesterday afternoon, stitches were taken in the ging-vine result will be good of the per we the to- stronger for to attend work s glad the babes in fed, teday trough proye heen BEYER BEWARS Johr tadiy cutlery Seven wound Alfred Schady of the and Level was elected capta men who formed the searching pa €3 look for the little girl who s ost near Mountain Grove, Tt was the work of Mr. Schady which play- ed a big part in the finding of the girl During the fire at M. J. Halloran's drug on Main street yestorday e fircmen had his hands badly el |ty o t 0 Hule the aniey to v =tore the A pur- iny attended the r legion, con and the Loyal in 1he stee “er ention o, Y] £50,000 Award Mndé to Vet Who Lost Legs N. J.. June The larg or made in the New Jer- the loss of limbs went James T. McKeon, 26 street, 4 war veteran, 4 him $50,000 after his discharge McKeon, Sept 1ogm Severed above reon H % courts for poy responsibility to 3 to 80y ury six 1 the and got off owe days army, d both Lacka Min & sucd ™ 1-citio Only on o8 by " heK cross. N6 006, South 81 at the on for — 1t gate the & ae The Ja= trial € in the sale | four days. has a strong pull and a long pull with | | Do things well, | That was tougher this ! P ) Che Br Maxsow FoxnaiL Juoew SLAY IT WITH SLANG (By Joseph 1. Pell) Do you dance? Then you're a “lizard."” and you're a “wizard,” | nervous”’ You're a liz Ave you “wiggler' In the “slanguage” 1€ you drink are a Got a “line"’ If you laugh, you are And as such, you are " of the o puzzler.” “giggler,” “Get my drift 2" means understand e, “Loose that hulf-Nelson,” unhand nie. He “packs a wicked wallop™ Mcans he's quite a hitter, son. 1 got this “info” from a “nec Who's a “vamp,” also a “wrecker She, “threw me to the how-we After “giving me a run.” Stand on custom ? You're a “quibbler; Yond of cake? A “cookie nibbler, A “bun-duste, a Vcake-eater,” Or whichever one you will. Shall 1 “dish the dirt” still deeper No, 1 think I'll “shut my peeper; Or some playful “little bimho" May “massage me with a pill!"” Wise Harold Aunt Jane:—*"The stork just brought you a little baby sister. Would you like to take a little peek at her?” Harold:—"If it's all the same to you, aunty, I'd rather take a peek at i the stork! —C. A, the eurrent books| the modern wife is haeband proves Andaerson, After ding and magazine, ! dieappointed if her true to her. The Modern Version (By L. pley) Samson made jokes coarse and funny, And Delilah was his Jittle honey, But she wasn't quite fair For she cut off his hair—— than alimony! . e Seven years Jacob labored for Leah,| 1 declare that's a funny idea, 1f 1 wanted a swife ‘ You bet your sweet life | 1'd knock off all work and go see her! ; .llnzh =Jangles Any funny, nonsensical rhyme that/ will make Fun Shop readers laugh is a Jingle-Jangle, It must be in two lines, ¥or example; 1 comes the spring; i like everything. After winter Tonsils hurt 2 Cows have horns and shécp have wool; Dentists have a lot of pull, You will undoubtedly eontribute funnier Jingle-Jangies than these. Ad- dress them separately to Jingle-Jangle Department, The Fun Shop, Herald, Onr Own 1HST AND FOUND Department G: Sparrow-—1 could be much hap- pier if you'd let me have that poem beginning: “Happy the man and alone happy he . Dear” Brother Sparrow;—-The blue bird for yours. Namely the verse below Happy the man and happy he alone On whom the kindly gods bestow A model wife who all through life Has never said: "1 told you so!” . e Henrietta Slocum—Didn't Kugene Field write the poem beglnning: “There, little girl, don’t ery" what is the rest of it? . s o Dear Etta:=-We are under the im- pression that Laura Jean Libby was responsible for a thing like this. and don’t cry, my dear. merit such rage, | ain't proper my dear, grand- There, little girl, Long curls may But a boyish bob 'Till you've reached your mother's age These Trusts! 1 was standing at the rim ol the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, writes Klizabeth M. Norris, and trylng my best 1o get some idea of the greatness of the chasm before me. An old lady, standing near me, interrupted my musings with the remark: They told me it was a mile wide and a mile deep and it t'aint either.” Turning away in disgust, she added: “Huh! I bet the railroad company dug this thing just to get p‘oplc to come out here.” Parents find the hardest task in striving to éonduct themselves in A manner that will meet with the ap- proval of their children. On With the Play Playwright: —"Everybody's writing plays nowadays. FEven my barber has ust finished & mystery drama called The Tonic".” Critie:~ “It must ~Morris Abel Beer. (Copyright 1924, Reproduction forbidden). op 18 & aational | cted by newspapers of . Comtributions from rs, providing they are original, unpublished, and posses sufficient merit, will be pald for at rates vary- ing from $1.00 to $10.00. Write on oue side of the paper only and send vour contribtions to the “Fun Shoy Bditor,” care of the Herald, wio will forward them to New York Unaccepted manuscripts will fiot be returned. ('u\lPITlTln\ CLOSES June 5.—The competition for the French section of the BEdward A B. M. Filene peace priges closed to- day. The essays recerved number 5, 719. A jury of nincteen, presided over by Pawl Appell, rector of the Univer- sity of Paris, has been appointed to udge the efiorts. It consists mostly of professors and academicians. but includes tweo ven, Madame 4 pd Atice La Mazicr & member ve Aszociation of Parislan Jour: Paris, A (for a world court, ' one. Facts and Fanczes BY ROBERT QUILLEN Simplest form of hmk passing: “Ask your mother."” Let us then be up aml doing, not dolng either the peeple or time, but . I ! N o Delays ? N g Disappointment ..’7\@ Tnconvenience - Once in a out to be Tt pays to observe clogely while a dark horse turns an ass, to “Only [ to | Only 1 1 mile mile Realty ad., 1904; school.” Same, 1924, exccllent golf course, The world is gefting better. The | attending physician doesn't make ,\uu‘ cat raw cggs. People who once buy their winter’s coal in the Spring- —continue to huy in the 1 | | Spring—It means | If multiplicity of other purpese, it at good memory test, laws serves least no provides a BETTER COAL AT LOWER PRICES PLUS SATISFACTION Jam is made of unfermented fruits. | The fermented kind is good only to | make traffic jams. We now have a supply i all sizes of Old Company’s Lekigh Coal and there i no better coal mimed. Many a graduation oration is pre- pared by an old dad who never gradu- | ated from anything. Every once in a while you mecet a | man who hasn't an idea of his own | iide s Make g note; In some instances politics is much | c‘u Ul o [he T.|.Ph°“ Tod.y like hide and seek. The man secks the | office and then hides, An old-timer is one who can remem- ber when he' could get more than a glare for a nickel-tip. If the host pours the drinks it may be hospitality and it may be an un- willingness to trust you, The Citizens Coal Co. 0!]“ Lptown Ofice oup. 164 Arch St Tel. Tel. Yurd Ihrlln station 2635-5. Card and Some graduates will begin at the | bottom, and some have fathers with a few more thousands to spend. DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL — The Call of the Blood DR. FRANK CRANE He read slowly and with Relief and convietion are not syn- onymous. The jury may believe she is guilty, but the belief seldom carries conviction. That strong man who lifts a 3,000- pound automobile has a snap com- pared with lifting the mortgage on He did not like music, nor art, nor books. | difficulty, | His wife was fond of all these things but he had no interest house except to oil his boots and leok over his fishing tackle. S0, when the Bpring came, with it came a great uneasincss, a desire to be away somewhere in the vast distances and in the wild woods. 1"or he loved all the living things that crept and scurried and flew in the wild outdoors, H& could tell one kind of insect from another; he knew if @ bird ltved on the fruit of the land or on vermin; he knew hickory from oak, and the best fishing places where the bass lie and the pools where the trout jump. | 8o he was lonely in the eity and the sight of the multitude irked him, Tn this great free country —eVery ... gyring came it hrought with it a great homesickness, American boy may get rich and be an .y o000 to he away, and, when he fixed his boots and rough jacket nnl angel for some presidential condidate. | e t,om on, he went away whistling to the north woods happy at what wi before him and no less glad for what was behind him, Refore him were still plae behind him the crowded streets and familios one upon another, in apartment houses He loved his kind but as the Indian loved his kind; the sort of man you 1|n keep still with and sit all evening by a fire'in the open and smoke tohar jco that you have cut out of a plug. He scorncd tobacco that came in pack ages, He seorned cigars and other pieces of tobacco that vou ameke in other [ places than in a pipe or in a cigarctte you roll yourself. Twy sucks of the r|l(|n‘r were worth more than forty otherwise, He valued tdbacco merely as the scent of human kind, A man should smel) of toliicco just as a woman should smell not at all or of soap. He liked cooking but it was beans and scwbelly that he ceoked for him {861t over the open fire. He seorned fancy food He liked cleanliness, but the cleanliness of the open, bathing in water whei« you had to brush the ice from the surfate and rubbing down with a coarse ¢ towel, not the cleanliness of the bathroom, oll or gas for fuel oil or 6ther pro-' Ho he went away whistling into the north woods. He had net spoken much duects or derivatives of oil or gas. [in the eity, He was going where they did not speak much at all, Drainage Dangers He wenti 1o the north woods hecause they ealled him by a thousand tengues Concrding the danger of drainage we could not hear, He left the city hecause it repelled him in a thousand of oil from the reserves, which had | ways we could not feel, heen emphasized by Fall as one prin- | Copyright, 1924, cipal reasons which actuated him in | —————— e e e raking the leases, the report declar- | ed the crucial inquiry so far as Teapot Dome is coneerned was “whether it ence of opinion that drainage was is better for the government to have possible between the Teapat Dome re. 22,000,000 barrels of oil in the ground and the Salt Creek oil fields or 1,666,666 barrels in tanks at the | although the extent and seriousness weaboard.” “This question, it was as of the drainage was in dispute, Drain serted, should have been left for con- age to an appreciable and serious ex grese to decide tent was occurring upon the two nava The Eik Hill lease to Doheny wi I reserves in California, it was added Presideat Harding was criticized 1o1 signing the executive order transfer in the The eensorship is a hateful and of. | ficlous thing, but not quite so much 80 if you have a 10.year-old daughter | ance except the “T knew Kvery wife has a el one whose husbands says: you would understand, dear.” ani Correct this sentence: “My husband | taught me how to drive,” sald she, “and didn't »ml-i me a single time.” 1 REPORT ON TEAPOT DOME COMPLETED (Continued from First Page) is restricted 1o the exchange of crude by The MeClure Newspaper Syndicate, six per cent of the oil in the ground and the lessce gets 94" cannot possi- | bly be in the interest of or just to the government. ‘Had the leases been awarded upon | competitive bidding,” it said, “there would have been no occasion to in- quire whether they are or are not fair or just to the government. x x x x ,The omission to Invite competition serve described as “unexceptional” but the subsequent contracts with Doheny un be a hair-raiser.” & casts a #uspicion on the transaction as one in the interest of the government. L “Not lease petition, hut he paid a fabulous price to procure the elimination of a poten- tial rival, One seeking only a fair contract from the government does not buy off his competitors; neither does he, when he secures it ordinar- submit to hlackmail in connection with it; nor does he, while negotia- tiens are pending, accommodate the awarding officers with loans.”” Sinclair's Realtions Discussing in more detail the evi- dence relating to Sinclair's elimina- tion of other claimants from Teapot Dome, the report related how lLeo 8tack of Denver associated himeelf with ). L. Doheny in 1920 in an ef- fort to seeure lease of some offset wells along the boundary of the re- serve, and how Stack later made an arrangement with the Pioneer Ofl eompany, which in turn made a set- tiement with Sinclair. “Stack then enlisted the interest of the owners of & newspaper in Denver, Colo,” the report continued, “which immediately upon the execution of the lease, began publications of articles denouncing it as corrupt and con- trary to public policy x = x sult was started in the name |of Stack alleging that company (the | Ploneer company), and Sinclgir, al- leging a conspiracy against Stack. % x % Sinclair settled this suit by an agrcement under which he paid 8 000 and agreed to pay $750,000 more. The attacks of the newspaper there- after |Wpon ceased, The proprietor of a the Sinclair leass had been signed fival newspaper, wpon a claim even & denounced “as a perfectly out- |mor: shadowy, if indeed ¥t ¢ rageous use of the armed forces of |called a claim at all, got $92 the United States” rcsorted to “avoid of the Ploneer Oil company a judicial inquiry into the velidity of |share of the moneys yiclded the Sinclair lease * Sinclatr. Discussing the leases as “hargains On the the report declared that a lease un- | draifagze der whjch “the govérnment receives |among g2olof der which government royalty oil was exchanged for tankage, were attacked, Reviewing the testimony regarding | the $100,000 payment to Fall hy Do- heny, the report declared that the es sentially corrupt character of a loan made under such circumstances rd, quired no comment, Loan Is Discussed “It would be imposeible for an of fiicer to accept a lean of such amount or perhaps of any amount un der the cureumstances,” it continued, “without a sense of obligation to the lender, which, unless his character was cast in heroic mold, would be re. vealed in subscquent official transac tions with him, “Ite simister import when it is borne in mind that, without competitive bidding, x x x x Doheny got from Fall, in the month of April ollowing, the contract for the con struction of the tanks at Pearl Har bor, and with it a preference right to a lcase of 4 large share of naval oil reserve number 1, to be followed without competitive bidding, by a lease of the entire reserve, compris- ing over 80,000 acres, estimated fto contain 250,000,000 barrcls of oil, out of which, Doheny told the committes he would be in bad luck if he 4id not make $100,000,000 proft.” In eritic g the use of royalty oil for construction of stee! storage tank- age the report declared that ste storage tankage should be constructed only upon a contract calling for the payment of money to he appropriated ongress for that specific purpose. | Condemns Use of Marines The sending of marines to clalmants from Tsapot Dome only was the Dome Teapot an | is appreciated by drive ont his by n as up Aanger of that question of the the report stated & there was no differ- awarded to Sinclair without com- | ring the leases without having “docn mentary support of any kind” for his action. The department of justice also was declared to have failed 1o ‘diligently assert and maintain” “h government’s title tu section 38 with {in the confines of naval réserve num ber 1, in California, the report stat ing that had this been done, and three other sections propetly protected the problem of drainage upsn that re serve would have been “relgtively Observations On The Weather Washington, June §.—Forecast for Southern New England: Fair to night; Friday increasing cloudinges probably followed by showers o |Connecticut and eastern Massachy setts; little change in temperatur {gentle to moderate variable wind becoming southeast and south. Vor Connecticut Valr tonig Friday increasing cloudiness probab followed by showers in Connecticw and Massachusci#s; little change § temperiture, gentie (o moderat variable winds becoming southeast. Conditions: A long trough of Jot pressure extending from Minnesotl: southeastward to Neéw Mexieo i causing unsettled showery weather between the Rockies and the Missis sipi river. Pleasant weather prevails generally from the Mississippi east- ward to the coast The tempers ture is slightly bigher in the Lake region and New England than it was yesterday but not much change has occurred in other sections. Conditions: faver for (his fair weather followed by incrrasing cloudiness and nol mueh change i temperature. Cleinity

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