New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1924, Page 6

| I it _at a town meeting there evidently re- | - all the facts, . ereasing its value, to which there can 6w New Btltiul Herald BERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Bosued Dty (8Bundar Earey M Herald Plag. &1 Chunch & f SURSCRIPTION 009 8 Yous (LX) BATES: Meatia 85 & Menth, Thiee Batered at the Post (Mfice a1 New biriaty 8 Ciase Mail Matier TELEPHONE €A Bysiness Ofice Bditarial Rex i T rafi1a b "ug ™ the Citew wn and pres POOm AINays open 18 adveiilesia Member of The Associaied Press Associated Piess '8 exol the use for wiited to i 1his paper and lshed herein, Member Audit Bureau of Clreulation The A B, ¢ A nutiona on Which furnishes newspa and adver Lisers with strietly b it analysis of elreniation, Our clrculation statistics are organient based upon this » This insures pios tection against fraud In pewspaper die triby figuies 1o both natienal and local advertisers, The Herald 1 on York at Mot Square; Bchulte Grand tral, SETTLE 1T Mayor Paonessa has his hands nnj the garbage problem and it is in a, falr way of being adequately solved in the near future, | By the end of this week It will be definitely known whether the city can 8§0 ahead with an appropriation of | $12,000 for garbage disposal, or whether It will be necessary to ex- pend more money for & service that will satisfy the publie. The mayor, it appears, 1s convinced | that a poor service which arouses the ire of innumerable houscholders is "dear at any price; and that If it is ecessary to expend more money to obtain a proper service for this city, there is nothing to do about it but meet the hill. ‘Thia is the only proper attitude to take, Garbage simply must be collect. | ed regularly and if four wagons are insufficient, more must be added to | meet the requirements, The necessity for an expanded gar- | bage service in New Britain should be & cause for satisfaction rather than municipal complaint. It indicates that the city is growing constantly and that there are more people to be| served. Under such circumstances in- | creased costs in collecting garbage is! an increase on the surface only; there Aare more people here to pay for it, noi that the increased cost per capita can- not be much, There is more property | here to tax in order to pay such Rkills, | and” there are more people here la‘ foot them. The public wants good service nt£ the lowest possible price; and dnes} pot want bad service at a lower price. NEWINGTON'S KICK 1t garbage being taken to Newing- | ton were dumped upon the highways there would be just cause for com- | plaint by the residents of that town | but the manner in which refuse from | New Britain is being disposed of there at present, to residents of New Brit- ain at least, does not appear detri-| ‘mental to the town. Objections volced | sulted from propaganda that ignored | * As long as it is not contrary to the law in Newington to possess pigs, it will net be contrary to the law to fead them upon such garbage as the pig appetite demands. Garbage that is/ used as fertilizer enriches the soil, in- | be no logical objection. Garbage that | is spread upon land leased for the pur- ‘pose becomes a part of the soil and injures nobody. There is plenty of land in the town of Newington. The population f{s small, It garbage is disposed of near residences, that is something for the Realth authorities to regulate. | Our Newington friends, many of whom are employed in New Britain, should endeavor to see tifs mmh'r‘ with fairness to all Britain would not unnecessarily harm | the prospects of this beautiful section | concerned. New I .%o the north; in fact, the city is inter- ested in Newington's future and| wighes to ges {t develop to the full extent of its possibilities { END THE FIASCO | Common sense seems to have en- | tirely departed from the Democratic eonvention in New York. It is running wild and nobedy appears on the hori- zon with sufficient power and authori- ty to stop it. A boss is needed—an old-time, hard-fisted, hard-headed ruthless bose who the can shove | of representatives, proverbial monkey wrench et sidered and 19 go ahead and nomit AS It is \ ' i ihe exes o P To many ned § so the Rwilal . & Notaing like it was ficted wpon 4 party » P y had the greatem op) b dinee the ) a¥t toward the presid 1t has gatten 1o the point that wher s nyenion referred 0 ane "™a It 18 a serlous hrust against democracy when a great poiit party, rud s and witheut A commander enjoying confidence, is tossed about the winds of passion nd cannot Mmook it WEATHER VANES how journalis. ad Al and out of season for montha 1t is eurious 1o note have heen ums whe i namination of ¢ denly begun falling away with remarks in effect that he eannot ninated be ne next he no man of presidential eall. iim that The step is t has beer that he well enough liked her in not in atates outside of New York, New J#sey, Connectient Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware and Mary- land; and that he could not he elected If nominated, 1t turns out tod that Emith not materially lost his chances at the Democratic convention, that he still had suclent votes today to veto Me- Adoo on the basis of the two-thirds rule, and that what good has been said of him in the past holds equally well has for the present, The governor's attitude throughout the entire convention has been proper. He s willing to quit if McAdoo is willing to drop out, 8mith's followers, it is said, have about given up hope of mecing him nominated; but they haven't given up hope of preventing | McAdoo from attaining the nomina- tlon, It is their duty to the Demo- eratie party to stick to their guns as long as McAdoo is in the fleld, Mc- Adoo is no longer entitled to nomina- tion and Smith does a service to him- | self, his party and the country as a ! whole by holding on until the McAdoo | menace is definitely waved aside, SOCIALISTS CHANGE TACTICS The Soclalist party of America in convention assembled at Cleveland failed to nominate a candidate for president, but instead formally enlist- ed under the banner of LaFollette. In other words, Socialists, despairing of attaining success as a party, will line up behind the independent candidacy of the Wisconsin senator, The plat- form of LaFollette, consldered as con- taining most socialistic planks of | value, naturally was endorsed. 1t i the first time that the Socialist party in America has definitely given up its Independence and compromised with another party. The party was strongest in 1920, when it polled 919,- 799 votes for Debhs for president; but this did not represent a great increase over 1012, when Debs polled 897,011 votes, In between these years the party went down to nearly 600,000 votea for Benson. 1t can be assumed that the Socialist party in 1024 represented nearly 1,- 000,000 votes, This number not oniy is insufficient to win an election, but as it is spread over a wide expanse of territory the party can not attain representation in congress anywhere near in proportion to its numbers. The throwing of this 1,000,000 to- ward LaFollette will be of benefit to | this aspiring gentleman on the whole, | but more particulary in those western gtates where he will put up his live- lest battle. In addition to the Socialists, LaFol- lette can count upon the followers of the Cleveland Progressive conven- tion, Farmer-Laborites, insurgent Re- publicans, and the radicals and antis of avery hue, At no time in the history of Ameri- can politics have the radicals heen 8o united behind a, man of national vote- getting prominence, and an ostensible Of course, La- Republican at that. defeat Follette does not expect to either the Republican or the Demo- | eratic candidate, hut he does ex- pect to carry sufficient states to put a crimp in the old parties, and throw the alaction if possible into the house | which his bloc would control He then would dictate the president. It s a grandiose scheme, more like- 1y of fulfiliment than at any time in American history. Conditions have never heen go jumbled, and never so favorabls for somabody to throw the into the national political machine lette has the wrench in his possession y. LaFol- | managers into a “smoke-filled room™ ,nq s practicing the art of accurate and tell them what they need to know, eliminate the useless and force them to speedily nominate & body. Gov. Bmith's offer MeAdoo Ald the same was characteris. tic of the man, McAdoo's refusal to throwing. persifiage " ON'S WRONG GUESS Last year, when Secretary of Treasury Mellon was fighting the idea for war the to withdraw if of adjusted compensation veterans, he pointed to the condition an argument of withdraw also was characteristic of the federal treasury a the man. Smith puts his party above against the proposal. Nothing but ambition; McAdoo puts himself above financial disaster was ahead, he polnt- party. ed out; and instead of arranging to Ralston should not have withdrawh spend additional sums, it should be ¥y to retrench to the point of He is well liked, is capable and wonld | nac make a strong run Ralston has a | parsimony better chase of defeating Coolidge | Then aiong came October and the than either &mith or McAdoo, a8 secretary gol a little more optimistic. He surprised the country by estimat- things now stand. The need for some ing that the aational treasury wouid strong hand-—a bose—here Is again apparent. one who could tell delrgates fthat Ralston's two withdrawals should | end &f the fiscal year, June 30, 1924, have a surplus of $329,000,000 at the | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY §, 1 The end the Asoal year rolled ° ool 00U Faets and Fancies iy o 1y made a report (hat (he BY HOBERYT QUILLEN ' s was § 66,980 S The government surplus e t i Current history isn't required to re. hetwesn the eridinary re P ' L ' peat iteelf. The gossips de it fitures chargeable E Ary Almest all things are quoted on the ipa and the expe The spluins his bad guess by saying' a | 510¢K exehange now except witnesses mall percentage will make a big alt At 3110 the day, they are “fine forenve In either receipts or expendis iers;" at $3.60 the day they are tures. In the Mellon case receipts were “darned aliens.” crestimated $32.000,000 and ex. — A change in the momey market was go i declared 1o have been an important — taoter In the arros The happlest people, perhaps The gross publie debt taday stands these whose greatest thrill is afforded at more thun $21,000,600,000, a redue- by lodge night tion of more than a hillion since a About all that Ameriean eulture has | year ago. The bulk eof this publie | contributed in this age is jazs and moonshine, debt was incurred during the World wir I'he reduction amounts to $45,. annually, a of 060,000 in interest only 513,000,000 short paying ins creased postal saluries cHiLn MITION New England is hit harder | hy southern child labor competition than any other section of the country, The most pecent statistics those of the commeree department of the government, tell a story of aston- | | Ishing industrial aetivity in the south- ern cotton spinning mills and lethargy in the northern eotton mills, | More important than any | lengue race, hoat race or horse race, {this race between southern and north- ern mills incessantly goes on, Tt s | a race for bread and butter, with the short ra- eo-worker, AROR COMY heing Those who live in ono room, Those who live in five Poor; Middle class avallable, | vooma that are large enough to make one decent room, A woman writer says normal wom- prefer conceited men to others. | What others? haseball It Is an especially good idea to fill chest, A fashionable restaurant 1s one where fashionable folk pay for the at- northern worker golng on | mosphere they furnish, tlons while his southern ‘ We have traveled & long way when tolling longer hours at less wages and |y o oee nasds the endorsement of a | 'with wvirtually no limitations as to | politieal platform. | youth in the mills, Is getting not only | {the full rations of bread and butter, | We know the stage is improving, in a way, but we can't help missing the but most of the bacon as well, \‘,“m",. riding boots, 1t is fortunate indeed that much of | —tie Connecticut's prosperity is not bound | Paris still furnishes the styles, hut |'we have learned to provide our own | naughty plays. Sz | up with the cotton spinning industry. In May active spindle hours worked {in the cotton-growing, or southern, | states, totalled 3,742,570,704, The number of hours worked in the New | England states during the same period | totalled only 1,914,198,506. Active hours per spindle in the southern mills was 219, wWhereas in | the northern mills it was only 102, | Massachusetts still has more than !twice the number of spindles in any other state, but they are not operated }nnythlnk like the southern states, Of | nearly 12,000,000 spindies in the Bay |y, nover realize how sordid and State, nearly 8,000,000 were active | gofled the world is until you try wear- during May and the active total of | ing white pants. spindle hours were 1,122,917,398, Compare this with North Carolina. ‘With nearly 6,000,000 gpindles in place, 5,823,775 were working, and their total of active honrs was 1,224,- | 022,466, which was 101,105,068 more than the total for Massachusetts, South Carolina, with fewer spindles in place and operanfix than North Carolina, kept them going for 115,- 073,052 hours more than the total for Massachusetts, The average of active hours spindle in place for the month was { 210 for North Carolina, 238 for South | Carolina, and 95 for Massachusetts. How much child labor enters into the record of the southern milis is not confers many diploma privileges—the privilege, for example, | of contributing annually to the alumni and fraternity funds for the rest of A college your lifes | The idea of dividing all property | might geem reasonable to Americans except that so few of them are dead broke. Things even up. Europe hag finer art galleries, but she can't compare with us in the matter of billboards. We know a pretty boy who isn't bright and we're afrald by the time he grows up there may be no demand for movie sheiks. Correct this sentence: “Ah!" sighed the sweet young thing as the re- juvenated old boy led her to a seat after the dance, “you are so wonder- ful!” per (LIRS AR A A T A T determined, except that employment [% of children In the southern mills ad- 225 Years Ago Today mittedly has been and is a strong fac- ,3 ol i ' &(Taken from Herald of that date) tor in southern industrial develop- | % | FOPPPRPIIOE ment. It is a kind of competition that PEIPETIPIITIIE | is unfair to states possessing due re- A citizen made himself conspicuous gard to the future of the race and |O Main street today by wearing a | pair of nile green linen trousers. is monstrously unfair to the children This mornihg's rain storm flooded | themselves. The labor employed in |the cellar of the Samlow block on | the southern mills, enile and | Arch street to a depth of eight adults, mostly consists of native born |inches. N 40 i The question of the disposal of the whites, the ‘“poor Whites” of the ;.\ "ro)00 which has been removed south. | from the north end of the park came Strange to say, ohjections are being | up at a meeting of the park commit- volced in New Fngland to the pro- | '€ last night. It will be soid to the posed child ‘lahor amendment o the |Nighest bidder. S Pawnee Bill has come and gone, | constitution, The objections Aré y,¢ hig banners still hang from the £lnufl-4r~r, in Massachusetts, Connecticut | guy wires over Maln street and there and Rhode Tsland. This can only be |18 question as to whose duty it is to . at |remove them. The trolley company SEpRInEQIRMUBILREE p‘rem(se 1] took them down once and they were northern eapital is heavily interested | put back again. | in southern mills. And a southern | The next state bicycle meet will be state, Arkansas, was the firet to ratify |held at Berlin park on July 29. The | events will include one mile, 2:50 e ciass open, one mile tandem, a r lay race and several exhibitlon races. Over 500 tickets have been disposed of for {he excursion of the Young Men's Temperance sociely to New | York and Coney Island on August 1. |Regular Army Troops to Escort Coolidge Cortege | Southexn New England: 8howers | Boston, July 9.—The regular army and thunderstorms tonight and Thurs- | troops stationed at Camp Devens will | day; not much change In tempera- send military escorts to Northampton ture, gentle south and southwest and to Plymouth, Vt, for the services windg, becoming fresh Thureday. | tomorrow in connection with Fastern New York: Ungettled, | funeral of Calvin Coeolidge, Jr. A ! with showers and thunder #torms, | troop of the Third Cavalry will go to | probably tonight and Thursday; | Piymouth to patrol the narrow road cooler fn north portion Thursday; | gver which the body wil he taken moderate southwest winds becoming | from the train to the cemetery. The Observations On The Weather Washington, July 9.—Forecast for frosh, Fifth Tnfantry will send a detachment. | Conditions: Pressure is high on [t Northampton for the &ervices| the Atlantic coast and over the Rocky | there. Governor Channing H. Cox, | mountaing and is Jow over the upper | with a etaff officer, will - attend the Mississippi _valley and the Lake |gervices at Northampton, it was an- | reglon. Cloudy and unsettied | nounced at the state house. He ex- weather with local showers prevalls | pooted to leave this evening and will in nearly all of the northern and | eturn tomorrow afternoon. castern states. The disturbance cen- | tral over upper Michigan will move ' eastward and probably pass out the ‘Atl‘{eml)tfim Llfg Of ]:}:IVOJ rom numania in London St. Lawrence valley on Thursday nn:l‘ | Connecticut will be on the lmll“ll'l'l\‘ 1iod Pross, London, July 9.-—Two shots were edge of it fired today at the Rumanian consul- Conditions favor for this vicini unsettled weather with local showers | ate an1 legation here, neither of them taking effect. A Rumanian student is and not mueh change in temperature, Half Fail to Vote Washington—Almost 50 per cent of |the qualified voters of the United ates fail to exercise their voting | obtaining hie advise and assistance. | privilege, researches of Simon Miche- I Further details of the shooting were let, a Washington lawyer, reveal. The | withheld by the police and consulate. largest vote ever cast for prekident _— | was in 1920 when the total vota for | Corn sugar can be made as cheaply {all presidential candidates was 26,- |as the cane product by a newly per- | 713,832, _ |fected process. | nection with the shootings. The stu- i dent had called upon the Rumanian your chest with air if it's a medicine the | | being detained by the police in émn- | | consul ostensibly for the pirpose of | | dear, THE SONG OF THE PEANUT (By Frank B, Woodward) o ) I'm a dainty listie morsel, From Virginia's sunny land, And wherever there's a eireus I am always in demand, are I am found at all the ball games, And I'm at all the county fairs, I'm the sure, ace-high favorite Of all the yendor's warea, I've a dread Of the Zoo 1 For it sure would ba raw To repose : In an elephant's craw, | |1 always come two to the shell, | 1 am eylindrically formed; |1 have a super food value | | When I'm roasted and I'm warmed; | 1 always await your pleasure | In a small, neat paper sack, |And I'm guaranteed to be fresh Or your money pald back, And T shout Thank the Lord With my heart aflutter, | For I might | Have bean made | Into peanut butter! Spoaking of Tulipse— | Bome love to ralse tulips | other raise l_wo lips to love, while He Misunderstood A negress, having just recelved her Insurance on her late husband, step- | ped up to the silk counter of a large | store, “Ah wants some flesh cullod silk," she sald to the clerk, The clerk brought forth a bolt of pinkish goods, “Laws! 1Is you all blind? T ask vo' for flesh-cullod sllk. Ah wants | black silk.” ~Armin Nix, 1 Care Not Who Makes Its Laws, Let Me Write Its Songs.” 1 sing the joys of wedded bliss (But bachelor life suits me) Thelr ecstasy when lovers kiss T sing, and joys of wedded bliss, For I write go-cart ads, and this Earns me my weekly salary. I ging the joys of wedded bliss, (But bachelor life suits me). ~—L. C. Beutel. The Diplomat She (looking at simple birthday present) :—"I'm a little disappointed, I thought you were going to get me a string of pearls.” Hubh, “Pearls? What do you want with pearls, darling, with such Girls who are handfuls in child- hood usually make best armfuls later. Expert Advice visiting with a friend I While picked up her chubby daughter and I asked: “Why Hazel, what do you eat to get so0 fat?"” : She answered, very sweetlyi— “Breakfast, dinner and suppe: —Mrs. F. Craig. The Jingle-Jangle Counter Rubber heels are safe ground-grip- pers, Banana peelings make good slippers. —F. C. Bald. D) My girl uses lipstilk, with an orange flavor— Now I get the orange free I used to pay for. \ —P. Lanting. Peace “Scrappington and his wife have geparated,” the gossip told us. “What 18 the trouble now?" asked. “There isn't any trouble now. They have separated.” -—Tom P. Morgan. we Judging from the following epigram published in a current magazine (writes Miss Edwin McLean) they must be making trousers higher- waisted, “Never judge a man by the olothes he wears, for many a patched pair of trousers covers an honest heart.” Innocence Our little girl's so very pure; 8o gentle and go sweet; We dare not give her anything But angel food to eat. —Mrs. Edith O'Brien. hooting Stars best way to view | stars is with a telescope.” Ralph—"No—with a girl.” Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. The Last Straw . “Why did you leave your asked Bill's friend. “Because she was always me to do somethin',” snarled burglar. “No matter how busy or how tired 1 was, she was always naggin' at me wite?" wantin’ the The Fun Shop 18 & naton cutfon conducted by newspa, the country. Contributions readers, 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 one side of the paper only and send your contributions to the “Fun Shop Editor,” care of the Herald, who . will forward them te New York Unaccepted manuscripts ®ill not be returnad. F {10 do somethin', Last night was to ' | mueh?* How was t) “Well, T came in at three o'clock mind you, and all worn eut from | work, I eracked two strong boxes, and finished up by openin' a eouple safes, | 1o say nothin' of openin’ a vault early in the evenin', And when I got in, what do you suppose that woman | wanted me to do?®™ £ ‘fi_in'l guess.” | | “Of course you ean't," growled Bill the Burglar, “That fool woman | | wanted me to open a hox of sardines | tor heri" =Paul 8 Powers, Papa Spank Bhe asked her papa for the car She sald she wouldn't drive it far, She tried to keep her promise sweet, | And hit a tree across the street, | ~Mona C, Foulk, | Tt Happened in the Rockles— Amateur hunter (to his guide):— “What was the name of the apecles I | Just shot ?" Guide:~"T just looked and he his name in Jones," ~-Rose Lang. Etheli=~"Did you hold your breath | while Tom kissed you, dear Clara;—"Heavens, no! been smothered to death!", I'd have (Copyright 1924, Reproduction forbldden), 00 PRIZES AT YALE Freshmen Awards Made, of Which 22 Go to Connecticut Boys and Five to | New Yorkers, . New Haven, July 9.-—Reciplents of 22 prizes offered by the Yale club of New York for excellence in freshman courses at Yale announced today, e@how that 11 Connecticut, 5§ New | York, 2 Pennsylvania and one each Washington, D, C,, and Kentucky stu- dents won the awards, Among the prize winners were Al- | fred M. Bingham, son of Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale, who took three, and John H. G. Pierson, son of Charles W, Pierson of New York, Harry Resnick, Jr. of New Haven and Hebdon Har- | ris, son of Frederick T. Harris of New York, who topk two each. Other Connecticut winnera were: Robert B, Flint, West Cornwall; John H. Speer, Bridgeport; Willlam Gins- berg, Myer Mermin and Herman M. | Levy of New Haven, and Sheldon J. Kahn, Hartford. i Other winners included Walter A, | Burke, New York city; Wm. M. Day, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Edward Darling, | Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Leonard B, Clarke, Portland, Me,; Jerome J. Pickard, | Seattle, Wash,; Morris Starr, Wash- ington, D. €., and Harold N. Tague, Loulsville, Ky. Honorable mention was made of John A, Sherman, New York city; Martin A. Mayers, New Rochelle, N. Y. and Augustus R. Rogowski, Shel- | ton, Conn, HELD AS SLASHER Man Arrested in Ansonia for Mass. Police is Accused of Having Wield- | ed Knife in a Fight. | | Ansonia, July 9.—Thecodore De- Bonas, aged 29, and single, was ar- rested in Ansonia last night and turned over to the Massachusetts state | police for a stabbing affray in a con- | struction camp at Brimfield. Two men who were stabbed are said to be in a critical condition. The Mascachusetts state police heard that DeBonas was in Ansonia, and coming here last night with a pic- ture of the man wanted, Officer Breda of the local force soon located DeBonas, The prisoner agreed to re- turn to Massachusetts without requi- sition papers and the Bay State of- ficers left soon after for Springfield with their prisoner. ELKS’ NEW LEADER FOR TRAINING NEW CITIZENS | John G. Price Advocates Educational Assistance for Prospective Americans, Boston, July 9.—The education and (training of prospective American citizens deserves the earnest support | of the Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks, John G. Price of Colum- bus, O., newly elected grand exalted ruler, said in his address of accept- ance today. “The peoples of foreign countries who have come to our shores to share the protecting influences of our un- paralleled form of government offer us an exceptional opportunity,” he sald. “We should never lose the op- portunity to enrich the government | by uplitting, education and training of those who are yearning to become citizens of our heloved country.” Consideration of reports the second executive grand lodge, occupied samsion of the | But the public'ls skeptical, s WHAT'S GOING ON * IN.THE WORLD By CHARLES P, STEWART NEA Service Writer Politiclans—those who admit apy- thing at all=-agree that the past week has improved the progressives' pross pects enormousy, Of the progressives themselves, the more hopeful are even claiming vietory, The more cautious ones don't go quite this far, but they |do express confidence that*La Follette will get more votes than either the republican or the democratie candi. date, though perhaps not more than both of them put together, NOT WORRIED If #o, with the house left to decide the issue, the present political division might make it impossible for the rep. resentatives to agree on a president, In sueh a case presumahly President Coolidge would go on holding office pending his successor's selection, But this isn't worrying the progressives, If they get a plurality of the votes, they say it will mean the speedy end of both old parties and a reallgnment along liberal and conservative ideas, with the latter certain to sweep the country at the succeeding election, BOTH ALIKE While the progressives have hoped all along to draw a good many votes from the democrats as well as the re- pubieans, the general impression, until the New York convention was pretty well along, that thelr heaviest toll would be taken from the republicans, But .the way the convention has split | the democratic party has changed this opinion, The bellef now Is that voters in shoals will desert both old groups | to get under the progressive banner, OIL AGAIN According to officials of the District of Columbia, where ex-Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, Edward L. Doheny and E, L. Doheny Jr., were indicted on charges growing out of their ofl deals, the trial of the quartet will be as good as the senate's Teapot Dome investigation. Judging from the comment, the general bellet is that nobody will go to prison as a result of the inquiry, that the cases simply will string along indefinitely | until finally they peter out altogether, JUST DETECTING It looks, however, as if Gaston B. Means, the investigators' star witness in the Daugherty inquiry, will go to prison. He's still fighting his case, but the prosecution has progressed as far as a conviction and sentence, Means will have to get the lower court re- versed to escape and it may be dif- ficult. He was found guilty of helping to get 50 barrels of whiskey out of the government's hands, to be sold by the drink. Means admits he did | help but says he did it as a detective | —to get evidence against bootleggers. JAPAN The , Washington government {isn't worried over the anti-American “in- cidents,” which have occurred in Japan since the new United States im« migration law passed. The perpetra- tors have been private individuals and the Japanese officials honestly have done their best to run them down and punish them. But there' isn't:- any question a lot of ill feeing exists which may lead to something later. MAY RETURN TO HOSPITAL As a result of the attempt by agents of the department of the state agen- cies and institutions to separate his family and take his wife and children away from him, Joseph Andrews of Elm street, whose family difficulties have heen in the papers several times within the past few weeks, may be forced to undergo another surgical operation at the New Britain gen®ral hospital, He has already lost a week's time because of an injury and now is unable to do anything except the lightest kind of work. Andrews was in the local hospital for an operation and during that time his wife was forced to appeal to the authorities for aid. The néed of outside help continued for awhile after he returned from the hospital, and he accepted charity while en- deavoring to pay off his hospital bills, The department of state agencies and institutions conceived the plan of transporting Mrs, Andrews and her four children, three by a former mar- riage and one the child of her pres- ent husband, back to Belchertown, Mass,, their former home, from which place they later returned. 4 Inquiries are heing made hy An- drews and his friends to ascertain whether or not he has grounds for a damage suit against the state aid de- partment. WILL SELL ICE HOUSE At the July meeting of the common council the water hoard will recom- mend the sale of the old munieipal ice house to the Glenwood Ice Co., at a price of $355. Other bids received were: A, P. Marsh, $200; Paonessa Brothers,” $275: M. J. Warren, $175; T. F. Higeins, $200; Hartford Wreck- ing Co., $1. American honey is being used: in Erigland as a conserve at breakfast or tea time. [ DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL Let Things Alone By DR. FRANK CRANE Pascal sald that most of the evils of life come. from “man’s baing unable to sit still in a room.” 3 . Certain it is that we have all often fared badly by acting without suffi- cient thought beforehand. The trouble is with our inherited traits. In the simple early times of the human pace the man who worked the hardest, the man who killed the most deer, the man who caught the most fish, was the man who succeeded. ‘ All the inducements of early Foclety were to immediate action, and all the penaities fell on the man who paused. Times have changed, however. Civilizatfon has become complex. It is no more so important to get up and go somewhere as to sit still long enough to know where you are going. Back of all the hustling folk who “do things” are the quiet folks who think up things for them to do. Sallors codld not find their way ip the markless waste were it not for the dreamy astronomer gazing at the stars and the mathematician poring over his logarithms. All the hustling activity you see in the factory, the department store, even in the battle, depends for its efficiency upon some brooding mind that plans in the stiliness of thought. Nothing is idler than the person Who is alwayz busy, just as no one Lays less than the person who talks all the time. Every actual deed is a eort of running jump, where how far you jump depends on how far you run. Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate, i i) t