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6 " New Britain Herald| HERALD PUBILISIING ¢ Tesued ba At Hemld Blig SUBSCRIFTION 0000 8 Year §2.00 ATES T At the Hecond ol TELEPHONE Business Ofice Editoval R . antusiol e 5 in tine Bhe only profitabie advertising medium | ; 4 the City, Clrvulation hooks ‘ 1y Toom Always open 1o advorils e Member of The Associut ®he Associated I to the use for credited to it In this paper lished heren, re-publication not also the A and nois Heate voti u of Clrculation & T NeWSpRpE! 8 nest furni tsers with & stil eirculation, Our ciroula V this Audit fraud ren to ertisers, statistlon Bre This insures pro voth trongly Renator Ir R It can b uttempt to put soems 1o favor Ialxton of Indiana ton beging idway taken w8 thut weross hias bhoen tributl 1o make looal ad v sure SIgn the MeAdoo and that abundoned The Herald s on New York at Hotaliug's Bquare; Schultz Grand Central, 42 n Beyan's followers have been 10 Indlana Times Stand, Entrance d Btreet, ancouraged jump to the senator 'ADOO STRUGGLE | Howing | York, Instend of being nomin- Demoeratic convention New benefit to the the in THE The high water mark of the ation struggle at the Democratic con- vention is centering around William Gibbs MceAdoo's battie suprema- cy, & struggle that has gone furth in his favor in forty odd ballots—the total at this writing—than had been | anticipated. Considering the spirited nature of the attacks that have been made against Mr. McAdoo, in which the cry of “oil" and alleged support have mingled, it is indeed sur- prising that he has done so well in the convention, The same forces that have relent- lessly attacked McAdoo have been | equally vociferous in buttressing the cause of Gov. Al Smith, who it must be confessed, is not doing as well had been expected, although his back- ers may be holding back for a drive | later on. | trd The alignment against McAdoo has been headed by that pallidum of Dem- the New York party, can ounly be such nominates Al 8mith, Nomination iy other candidute will grievously in the Mmplre In the loss of If i of for disappoint the party ight result Democratic serious factional Aght Mr. Bryan, the disagreement over Nations, has fnjured the Stute and n votes there, between the Klan many The the World and | kleavage and the League of | party. Klan IV BRITAIN AND WATERBURY Waterbury citizens from time to time complain that their widely known city suffers in possibilities for ad- vancement and is subject to incon- hecause it is the line” of the road. When the recent in schedules was effected d of Waterbury got the jon as any other town on a branchm not on Haven rail- change in by rail- | venience “main New* licials, it was sadly pointed out | same consid- or | line and not much more. Waterbury i in the same situation | as New Britain, and e on the | of the New Haven | “Willimantic to | Both game ailment. ocratic journalism, World, which has been cqually staunch in its support of Gov. Smith. | The alignment for McAdoo has been | < headed by William Jennings Bryan, who has been equally active in his $mith. The World | Danbury | cities sufter From a practical standpoint, it the main not of itself Myhich depends upon cities themselves the railroad that both a same minor line known as the from the system, opposition to Gov. in time table. is in high favor with eastern Demo- crats, while Bryan appears to remain | in favor with western and southern Democrats, The struggle has turned into a sectional contest, actuated by such bitterness and vituperation that it s difficult to see how the coRtestants | rather can join hands.in an attempt to elect | happens to be after somebpdy is nominated. Individual enterprise The Warld charges Bryan with portant than railvoad making forays in every convention | Britain and Waterbury may have done since 18068, A survey of hfs record in- the main line dicates that his chief foray was at the Haven, but the fact that| Baltimore convention, when he caused has not the nomination of Woodrow Wilson and the defeat of Champ Clark. In taying that Bryan “is the most unsuc- cessful Jeader and the worst adviser the party has known in this genera- | tion,” the World must mean {hat the | vomination of Wilson was a mistake. | don't*stop. It is such hectic criticism as this,| New Br terbury burled at the delegates during the | forged ahead steadily despite convention, that failed to annihilate | leged handicap of mot being McAdoo support. Much as we dislike [ where the going to and coming from | Mr. Bryan and his record of grape|is made e Both cities show & juice politics, cross roads jh.r;mny tendency to increase and egotistic domiuncering, it is not portance of the line serving them. well to deprecate him before his| New Britain, of course, has a slight friends. Bryan is regarded as a nincom- | advantage over Waterbury by poop in the east, but every time the | closely linked up with the Springfield- World threws a hook into him at the | New Haven line of the New Haven | wrong time and in the wrong way, it [ railroad. Travel via Berlin gives this reacts as a boomerang. Southern | city better supplemental service than | Democrats don’t appear to like it, | Waterbury; but essentially the two | Their mental complex is something | citics are alike—they have grown to like Bryan's, and it ought to be well | prosperity to take a little of this into consider- ation. One cannot very readily change | a mentad habit by hurling insuits. The World printed in large typ editorial from the St Leuis Post-Dis- | patch attacking Bryan. St. in Missouri, where Champ Clark came from. The purpose eof the ltlumh-r!‘ the benefit of how- makes no difference. Being line of a railroad does prosperity, | ever, on guarante than upon serving them. fm- New is mor line: | as well if situated on | of the I they lacked this advantage “hnhl in check their destiny as virile and energetic manufacturing centers. There are poor towns sprawled along the main lines of all railroads. They pride themselves heing on the “main line” but most of the trains New on W have the located ain and al- Yo the tm- economics | being and despite | importance their location. ! Emerson s credited with having d that if & person builds a better | mousetrap than anyone olsc the world will beat a pathway to his door. New Rritain and Waterbury have achicved this; both cities have attained dis lines of an Louis is tinction in certain manufaes main line can go hang. editorial was not for ture and the the public as much as it was intended | to influence delegates. | The was that the Missouri show-me crowd flopped back to McAdoo, after Bryan had talked to them. If the World had not centered “influence” on them |an as it did® they probably would have 1t appears they WANING STREET CARS for the street car company the' holiday. lines will be | the Missouri result Busines be fairly Cars on some of the ed. automobie—and there only practical will well over W Eyery person not operating its still remain a few in this class—will ride some- jitneys or by train. days in the | remained off McAdoo where on trolleys World's Bryan 1 little one of the best 1t will be for resented the preaching more than they disliked being as they are, ty by the World might gain 1« Smith and fewer for McAdoo, The forces that did not succeed in njuring MeAdoo 1id help Smith materially wrong Conditions | year the Connecticut., 1 urday more suavi- every normal day—or even Sat- sults and Sunday-—were as producs would wallowing in prosperity knee deep. cannot con- tive of business the eompany e naturally not | Conditions as they are Right or tinue indefinitely for the sstreet car A which ould in New companies or the public uses The old adage that will & vigorously to their plight, of dis- will show | it appears that too many of th gates scem to think that they s them time to bhe the tell appl and it tinetion to think that time not allow themselves fluenced in New York York newspapers. These the “hinterland” eoached to be on g from the World is more Ii spurned merely it in New York. With this appare of mind to combat, the proy Smith naturally have a difficult in the race with McAdoo. New 48 convinced that Smith would be strongest the Democrats eould ndminate. He would carry New York, New Jersey and probably Con- mecticut, the states having a|ing as well $otal of 66 votes in the electoral co Btreet car ol . by requires an optiniist ‘rustics” from been a vast improvement, Not jitn street provinces have A sug ard. stion only have lines partly cely to be | taken the place of - service widespread use of all el ased th hecause originated the cities, but the nt state wutomobile among es of diffi- Thou- : made ents of | the population has incr time | culties of street ear compani York the | re sands of patrons who formerly gular use of the street car line now on rubber tires, coming | them pleasure candidate ride around work and for [and going to on them rid- utilizing | three | service within cities ap- | have not been speed | transportations land wires, occasionally | being that | tions in Hartford, | with insurance companies and who re- | | are optimistic influence, and | ed by | Broad | abutting W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, prope remaining New | do not seem to judging from ARKONELTS Seen on Lhe to the itain \ @ Prosperous state, he fdue Phis muy partly numbers of pecsons pres P thun ' B ring to walk rather pay the evidently 188 y some of the remaining lines in the that conditions will Improye automobhiles of ity jit fact thiat private entirely take the place trunsportation service within the i5 indicated by the success of the These gnsoline buggies aps Keep y operate, indicating that city ney lines, pear to going successfully wherever the there remuins @ demand for transportation at & populur price, T'he Boston Elevated railway, the transportation octopus which attempts in Hoston, business on to give street car service his gone Jitney into the under the aegis of At from quite a large scalc the public trustees operating it it jitheys to the glves transfers , or wice many the points trolley ca jitneys supplement This would appear the city versa, 80 that the the trolley system, 1o wiy to solve 1 many persons prefer to see sane tation problem, the jitney lines remain in independent hands, The Coneeticut and some other companics going ! demons in lines, giving the impres- to expend in for sion they efforts in them; which warfare, jitney p attempting to ke other kinds of combat, fyou ple although | their annihilate | is fraught with the pn.ssl-‘ bility of losing in the economic strug- | gle. 1f the public prefers to travel tires it is the business of the interests to meet the demand. It may be a blow to pride unk expensive tracks and trolley cars but this may on rubber eventually happen anyway THE INSURANCE BUSINESS It is learncd from Harttord, wh political information o ance world, that the busines: derwriting life and approaching a record, the 1924 will 55 1920— high mark in the business. of which makes Hartford feel The intersper: fire insurance is sur the Al in good fettle, insurance business ap lines on the busines Prognosticators of business calendar. celve their inside information from | agents throughout the entire country, for the future. Business at present is below normal, near experiencing the summer solstice. It is better in some cities than in others, | but not breaking records anywhere— | except perhaps in the insurance line in Hartford. But by fall, these wise- acres say, business in all lines will be in large volume, The reasons given for this surmise is that production has not been above consumption for months ~in fact, lines—and that by fall increased buy- ing in virually all lines will be an un- | Added to this will | avoidabe necessity. be the finish of the presidential cam- paign in November and its unsettling then the steadying All of which sounds so reasonable that it is difficult to bring a successful counter-attack. It is further pointed out that New England is in line for a quick re- sponse to the fall business push. down process. President Coolidge says he is for economy, and then some more econo- | Sounds like a campaign slogan. P IS S my. language, and its coinage has been ac- celerated by the newspapers. We now have the “telephoto,” wire, B justice Means, former agent, and Elmer Gaston ment of Jarnecke, his secretary, . have sentenced to two years in prison each release | writ to A congpiracy distilleries, fled, department of ju for alleged whiskey from of error has bheen fine' agent, Mrs. ller Barrett of Vir- ginia, Kate W a delegate at the convention, got.a big hand for ing, “Wall street is as much a part o American as Main street.” What ghe overlooked to say was that Wall street Main street, actually is the main Down in Meriden residents down an street at that laying on the street oppose pavement That is property improved present. a reminder owners are when it Is a ques- spending money for street tially conscrvative tion of street paving. needs paving but their own. Every usually A woman acting as substitute mayor with news of the insur-| of un-| outlook | { house who can howl,as much as he rs to be one of the most stable | (il condi- Who are identified | studying the effects): | ; below consumption in many | a picture receiv- | depart- | w. | been | better to | | chickens took first prize at the poultry | | | i is ! i | | | i | | street car, Means was & |apd glaring at the fast disappearing | Democratic | say- | essen- | in Seattle has again put the town on | the map. All she did was to insist that | thelaws be enforced. to distinguish any large city. J That is enough | { wants and not be (‘Um'\- again 1 & A new word has been born into the ) | care a along | She was a three-toed tree toad, THURSDAY, JULY 1024, P hop HALL JUDELL LOVE! ned; loved she tead’s friendly twosloed toad ground That the three-toed tree toad tred. The [For the the But vainly the two-toed toad tried couldn't please her whim; tree toad bower with her veto power ‘ The shee toad vetoed him. tree 7z'm Maxson He In her KINGDOM (Ry Lucile - 1 1 nt 1o cupid's retreat, 1 wandered o'er the sand, 'he moon rose o'er the water As I held her little—parasol, or ¢l . It Made Him Cuss and Swear! Clergyman: "1 brought baeck this | second-hand car mm.gn from you last week, It's \nn shaky and nolsy,” Dealopi=— \\ hat's the trouble? Can't you run it Clergymani=-"N {ministry,"” ot and stay in the ~Mrs, Macon Seott, | n I hold her little parasol Goodness me! how fast time flies! he night was very lovely As 1 gazed into her—lunch basket, (Copyright 1924, Reproduction forhidden), Facts and Fancies BY RUBERT QUILLEN n I guacd into her lunch basket, And 1 longed for just one taste, Then sat beside my little girl With my arm around her—-umbrella handle, | same people, v With my arm around her umbrella huandle, OFf that churming little miss, The moon stole o'er the water | And 1 shyly stole a—syndwitch, It is seldom that all of the glass scattered about came from the wind. shield, . Once they went to Paris to see wild women; now they go to get rid of | them, he Connoisscur Weo heard a man at the theater the othor duy raving thus: “What beauti-| The people who laughed at Tolstoy's ful ereatures! How graceful in their| "piassive resistamee” hadn't scen motion! How pleusing to the eye! ! prohibition, Isn't thet one a ‘pippin'! And will| ¢ look at that one with the| Well, pink back? And that one with the president’s Right here we better explain, The | hopeless. man was in the lobby, and was admir- ing the goldfish, if Dawes can't make the vice. Job romantic, the case is ri the old-time robber t suy he was going to serve At any . baron di Noble of Her | the people. “So he kissed you against Did you slap him, like he Mabel: your will? It's a matter of poor distribwtion, The poor immigrant who comes over what | doesn't get enough to eat, and the the | celebrity gets too darned much, 1 ! remembered teaches, Bible and turncd chee th other i Sinbad.| The hard part about reading a man | out ot the party ll to define the party limiter All bet I lowered my eyes to hers, In which was a glinty shine, And when they met Her lips were set, And nlso, my friends, were mine, —Harry J. Williams, Some very rich men retire to run newspapers, and some dispose of it in other ways, | i | When a wife decldes to make the best of it, she becomes domestic; a husband hunts flappers, Enforcing law obedience made difficult by general cus | but by general apathy. Well Fed! “How was Jon your garden this year Hawking:—"Great. My neighbor's | is not show." sedness ~Victor Trapani. A Little Boy's Essay on the Radio The radio is a wonderful invention. | It is the one thing in the house at| which father can tulk freoly. : 1t is the thing which baby brother| Seience knows does not carry all over the house and | wiiyie denionstiation i after 5,060 miles, The Dignity the quality that saves a woman for an hour. everything except car isn't used radio 1s the only one in the| Shortage of water is becoming gen- | eral. Isn't there some way to use it taken to the wood- | after it has cooled the worm? It is a thing father likes be shoes do not eternally have to| e it. | This is a pretty good season shed. cause be bought for for eve | office should seek the man. ::tmnm-y woman will ba eaded and let the| it's bobbed. The easy v to judge a man is to wait and see whether he turns to| page 6 to finish the divorce story. —Ellanor Sewell. The Finishing Touch! Jane (applying the lip-stick “Are my In six days dare to go know and | lips | world you will let me lleLh' | them up a lnlh~' —Mrs, Sara M. ’l‘ux"h(tt] | The supreme court can make a law constitutional, but can't give it a very |s!rnng constitution. (By Griff Crawford) Daddy's at the golf club, gis at matinee, Mother has her face all Plastered up with clay; Grandpa’s at the drug store Uncle's on a tear, Grandma's at the barber Shop to bob her hair, this sentence: “Yes, sir," said the nurse, “he told the doctor about his symptoms and his wife didn't say a word,"” Correct [ PEBLELHES505850855588,89 425 Years Ago Today § Herald of that date e a kid is lonely Living now-a-da With his folks a-chasing Lvery foolsh craze House is big and quiet, My, but ain't it still! ess I'll duck my school And smoke another pill. (Taken from FIVVPTITVPPEVEPIPRPPPTEIIE G. W. Klett has been appointed a member of the committee to secure better accommodations and. more books for the local law library. Word was received here today that Attorney John H. Kirkham had been appointed prosecuting agent’ by the ogunty commissioners. The news was very gratifying to his many friends in town. He is considered one of the brightest of the young lawyers and should make a very efficient prose- cuting agent The zoological garden at White Oak Park has been running into hard luck of late. One of the young deer died yesterday and word was received here today that the kangaroo had escaped. A searching party was sent out im- mediately. The P. & I. Corbin works and the Cabinet Lock company will close at Undaunted by her final moswer, |6 o'clock this evening and will resume He replied, though fecling blue, | operations next Wednesday morning. “Ten knots in an hour s not so bad | ~Arthur W. Upson, of I For a teim little craft like you!” | ford’s office, who recently passed the les Ieldman, | examinations for admittance to the bar, took the oath of admission in the superior court Thurs Our Tnquisitive Reporter spoke to | every Chinaman in our town asking if they played Mah Jongg, but they told | him they don’t play any foreign games, | Famous last Lines Agent;—"1s your father in? Son (whose father just returned | from golf course): “He's all in."” Y —Merle A. I"arr. Crafty, I'h What? you," said the sailor, me? “Will “marry k you, my tot." the tenth time w She replied: “Ifor this hour 1 want to tell you: I will not,” Reverse English A stout man hurried out from his { home, ran to the corner, but reached |it a second late te catch a passing | As he stood there panting | AT QObservations On The Weather Wadhington, July 3.—I'orecast for Southern New England: Partly cloudy tonight; I'riday generally fair; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate winds, mostly northeast. Forecast for Lastern New York: Partly cloudy tonight; Saturday gen- erally fair, not much change in tem- perature, Conditions: The western area of high pressure is moving slowly east- ward and decreasing in intensity. It is producing pleasant weather in all districts east of the Rocky - Moun- | tains, except along the Atlantic coast, where unsettied weather with local showers prevails. No decided change in temperature has occurred in any section. | Conditions favor for this vicinity | fair weather and not much change in temperature, policeman in-| trying to catch| kind-hearted | quired: Wi Nr‘ you that car, sir? No,” replied the fat man angrily, “1 was just chasing it away from the corner.” . A, Hommel. Amiphibian Romance (By Robert W, Spice A tree toad loved a she toad That lived up in a tree; But a two-toed toad was he. The two-toed toad tried to win I'he Fun Shop s a national insti: :ution conducted by newsp ot the country. Contributio readers, providing they are orlginal, unpublished, and posses eufficient merit, will be pald for at rates vary- ing from $1.00 to $10.00. Write on one side of the paper only and send your contributions to the “Fun Shop Editor,” care of the Herald, who will forward them to New York. - Unaccepted manuscripts will not be | Al vegetables and fruite of Europe oLurnes, inow are successfully grown in Uru- guay. Friends are people who dislike the | man’'s face after he has argued with a | | the ybody except those who think the | L. Hunger- | @ THERE'S ONLY | ONE ¥ | is whatever may be in p | 1s there? Better Main Uffice H Dwight Court, Tel. 2198, Tel. A COMMUNICATED ’ GARBAGLE COLLECTION : Editor New Britain Herald: Please allow a space in your paper for me to say a word about our g: | bage collection, I saw by the report | of Dr, Bray, chairman of the health department, that the collection is being handled better in the last two | | weeks, I think it is about time, for the board of health are paying two of ex-collectors fifteen dollars a day | each for the last two weeks or more | to try to get the city cleaned wup once, | Will somcone tell us wh the money comes from to pay these men? | As 1 understand the job is out in contract. | But as the health department hirved | these teams it means the city will have to pay them, y Dr. Bray thinks that if the collector | had a truck to load the garbage on from off the wagons that they would be able to make better time going (01 Newington. The Good walled up to the ballot box and dropp It was noticed by most was significant and worth turning over 1t marks the ulter passage of the the Lord's anointed are certainly not Imagine Abdul the Damned or I be counted! sonr, that it's the twilight of the gods, Where are our libert 50 light and gay! And here comes to mind what we lan, rataplan. “So much for Buckingham! Of Le Roi Soleil, the magnificent barbarie splendors of Versailles, “The Stdte? I am the State,” neither Of the imperious Hapsburg: and attention. Of Russian Gy sickness, and Cossac temerity to present a petition. of slave ones into bondage. drels pfid crowned perverts. struggled for their favors. 3 been bilked, buncoed and browbeaten nobility, man's wife and the grocer’s clerk. of the fact That the banker lives in a fine ho holding our jobs, fare sumptuously every day, while ot rent— 1n spite of it all, it was. and for a’' that der right away. thing is in your favor.. The Citizens Coal Co. Berlin Yard opp._ Berlin_station | collectors’ pay. [lectors went to see Dr. Bray about it | pray newspaper possibly mentioned over the coffee cups as a picturesque item, but really it Of grand geigneurs of Bourbon day ing the horrorstricken parent a purse of gold and riding played with wan insulting ladies in the cafe while their escorts stood nd Dukes flogging moujiks for s shooting down the assembled people who had the | 3 reason for waiting until * Fall to buy coal—and that virgue there utting it off until you actually need it. And that reason falls flat over the logic of lower prices, better coal and sure delivery in the summer. So there really isn’t any reason for you to wait— héne us your or- Every- Uptown Uffice 104 Arch St, 2635-5. Tel. 3208, _ ENTInE CBNTENTS coPYRIBHTED 2K LY Why not get an airplane and pick up the wagons and fly right over and save the time of unloading and all of the smell that goes with it, The city is now holding last| year's When one of the col- he said that they did not finish the job right. A week after they finished a complaint came in from Broad street and that he and Dr. Pullen went up and the can was full where said complaint came from there are twelve tenements usimg the can and it was full in a week. 1f Dr. Bray will go up on Broad street now his chances of finding all cans on the street full are first class, Dr. Bray said that if Mr. Lawler |does not get down to work this week (Imt they will call for new bids for | the collection of the garbage, Let the city and all the taxpayers that the health department makes a better pick the next collector they pick. Thanking you for this space I will close, and watch the job, Yours truly, A TAXPAYER {l DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL T etmmmesia syt Old Days DR. FRANK CRANE A symbolic event took place the other day when the Queen of Belgium ed in her vote, readers with a cursive smile, and in the miind. old order. Kings and Queens and all pis the Magnificent waiting in line at \m! they used to be," the polls, or picture the Prussian Kaisdr or the Russian Czar standing up to Sometimes we grow peevish and inclined {o think the old world is getting the rich own the earth and Yttle son Tommy is entering upon a world game with the cards stacked against him, ? we ask, and it's Oh for the good old merry days Then a littie thing like a Queen voting brings us up with a jerk. have read: ys deflowering a mother's child, fling- away singing ratap- Of noble lords of Charles Stuarl’s day ordering his bullies to flog the impertinent tradesman for daring to send in his bill, Of Richard's summary command,s"Off with his head!” and then chortle, old lecher who lounged through the ns at Trianon, and said, did anybody deny him, * riding down peasant children in the street, respectfully at daring to complain of drivers Lying black meti o Whipping posts and selling their little Of all the cruel, dlrty, cowardly and unjust antics of privileged scoun- all the unhung rascals upon thrones that, haloed by superstition, ex- Hll(‘d by tradition and protected by soldiers, have trampled their gluttonous way through honest hnman wheat, defiling what they conld not destroy. And of how children were taught to honor them, crated them, how decent men accepted them as a matter of course and how bishops conse- How Goethe lived upon a noble's bounty like any lackey, Mozart cooled his heels like a milliner's maid in the antechamber of simpering duchesses that his divine genius might get a hearing. Of how for long centuries, from generation to generation, mankind has by the ancient delusion of hereditary And then when we gee Her Royal Highness voting, alongside the milk- ‘We are forced to conclude that the werld does move, and that in spite use and we live in a walkup flat. That Mary Pickford makes a thousand dollars or so a day while our Rachel works harder and only gets fifteen a week. That Wall Street gentlemen control millions while we have difficulty in In fine, that some are still rich and dress in purple and fine linen, and hers must hustle mightily to pay the and a’ that, it's a better world than Children have a better chance and shed fewer tears. Young men and maidens have cleaner dreams and a finer romance. 1t's no such disgrace and stigma as it used to be 1o be a workingman. That the winds of liberty blow free, from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate. And that altogether out of the blood and grime and dust and disease of the Past there is pushing up the white flower of Hopa. Anyhow, it's not so bad as it was. The Quecn votes, Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicats,

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