New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1924, Page 6

e e ey e e e s New Britain Herald WERALD Tasued Herald PUBILIBH Daily (Hund Bldg., § A SUBSCRIPTION 000 & Yeur $2.00 Thiee Ofice a Witain econd Class Mail RPHONE Business Ofice Editorial Reoms Matte CALLS The snly profitable advertls the Cuy, Clrew N room Always open to [ Avertisers Member of The Associated Fress The Associnted Press 1 exclusiiely entitiad 1o the use f eredited to in this Tished h Member Audit Bureau of Circulation The A. B, C, 1s & national which furnishes news tisers with a strictly | lation. Our clrenlatie d upon this audit, This nsures pro. ectlon against fiaud In newspaper tribution flgures to both national local advertisers, organization ad i The Herald ia anle daily York at Hotaling's News Htund Bquare; Schultz News Stand, nd Central, 42nd Street, n_ Now Times Entrance on THE WATER SYSTEM, Description of New Britain's water service given by W. L. Hatch, chair- man of the water hourd, at a Rotary elub meeting, the workings of an important munici- pal function and gave ecltizens an Inkling of its tasks and achievements, which too commonly taken for granted and scarcely appreciated, Mr. Hatch likewise informed hearers that the paid by mestic consumers Is much in most other cities and that sev thousand pay less than they did 15 years ago, before me- ters were installed. The water board belleves, he sald, that the charges should be revised and made more “equitable,” and- suggested a serve i¢e charge, The service cliarge, he would be applied to small consumers of water for whom pipes and metérs must be maintained as welil as for the large consumers, If the water board can arrange charge that would be equitable for all consumers the| plan would have some chance of | being seriously considered by the city government, charge for | small consumers only is an idea that is opposed by the small consumers, who form the vast majority of citi- zéns. i These small eonsumers, that the water system is municipal property and consequently their property in greater proportion any other class, do not want a serv- jce-charge that is only charged to the | small consumers. Their opinion Is that if ‘water is being sold below cost and it is found necessary to raise the cost to consumers, that all consumers ‘sRould be treated equally. 'he theory that a municipal enter- prise should charge itself interest on | the investment, as Is the case in pri- wvate enterprises, is debatable. If the postal department of the government did that, letters probably would not | pass through the malils for a’paltry two.cents; interest on the investment in school buildings is not consider- ed as part of the costs of &ffucation; interest ‘on the market value of park | lands not as’ part of | the cost of parks. A difference ip | ®ookkeeping Is one of the funda- wental differences between municipal | and private ownership. . A service charge by the water de- partment, based on the plant invest- | ment—if not the cost of duplicating it, which is customary—and with de- preciation charges, all loaded upon | the small consumers exclusively, would cause such a furore as the city has never seen. The furore will ever; an unequitable, oné-sided serv- lce charge will not permitted in New Britain, served to stress is his do- lower than | rate consumers declared, | a service A service knowing than considered never come, how- be EST END JITNEYS, w The necessity the for a jitney route in favorably E. com- end bheen brought the Elwell the mission, and it pose he has been impressed with the west to attention of C. of public utilities is reasonable to sup- advisability of a new route, In the event of tabligh such a route, the question then arises, who will obtain the franchise? jit- | permission to es- There are first class, competent neurs in New Britain who have the confidence good thesa should The given of They give of the publie. gervice at low rates. One obtain the franchise Connecticut Co. should not be the franchise and should not even be considered as a contender for the franchise Britain doe operated by Connec has failed good high fares and arbitrarily ued the Arch street trolley Co, jitneys It at New not want ticut Co. to give service tiscontine The Connecticut cares nothing about New Britain possibilities and except to exploit tra portation pre others from giving hetter lower rates, New Britain re by caring very little about the Con necticut Co 1t there is to be a west Jet an independe peur receive the franchi | succes | bearing his name is jeopardized by | government currency has been considerably stabil- | | type. | Donald | it matters | mental and economic prineples. | save plying MAC DONALD AND HERRIOY PPrime shake s of th premier ining The Ethiopiar widplle was to he o I'olneure seonered s to whose disposition and | He it time rule or rin i thrpugh ruling nd now thinks to ruin But thanks to two premiers who ean the they T pheriod the venomous cirn from the chaos ¢ past e b mut neilintory h Wwn A spirit, and have Poincare successtully, so he thrusts of M that the two nations will able to the M, Poincare, who has hoeen definite enter conference In aceord linked with reactionary Interests in A tirade his gountry, started ngainst changing the character of the reparas tions comminsion, which all observers for a long time have regarded as & purely French commission by dint of fact that in of a deadlock between the French and other mem- the chairman, is French, ia given declding It has a the case hers, who the vota, ! been the desire of Premier MacDon- ald to make the commission conform with more liberal suggestions, and has let it be known that in event this 18 | not done his government could not he expected to pledge its support to the decisions of the commission, M. Poineare has wanted the com- mission to remain dominated by the French reactionaries because It is the duty of the commission to decide when Germany is in default, and such de- | cision 18 reached according to its rules ;\-_\‘ a majority vote, Premier MacDonald not only wishes | the reparations commission modified, but in case of a question of possible German default, that this question be submitted to some other body, It is belleved that the successful applica- tion of the Dawe splan will hinge up- on this point. The British premier has gone 80 far to allay French attacks by fore- going his earlier plan to use the League of Nations er 'the Hague tri- bunal to determine a ‘German default, but insists that an American,arbitra. tor should be employed. Republican newspapers in America, scenting a rehound against their can- didate for the vice-presidency if the sful application of Poinchre's politics despite his suppos- | ed retirement, have been strongly sup- porting the ideals of Messrs, Mae- Donald and Herriot and harshly con- demning Poincare. They have every right to feel irritated. German tractable; republican the The present appears jzed; regular payment of reparations seems assured if the conciliatory spirit of MacDonald and Herriot is allowed to dominate the coming conference. The Dawes report is regarded as the best hope for Kurope and must not | be endangered by a packed repara- tions commission under the aegis of I'rench ‘reactionaries of the Poincare The United tSates has an inter« est in the outcome, If the Dawes re- port goes down in defeat it will not only be a slap at Gen, Dawes, but will irritate the Coolidge campaign mana- gors. How the administration feels about it ean be gathered from the fact that | Ambassador Houghton has heen or- | dered to stick to Berlin during the in- torpolations and Secretary of State Hughes will be in Berlin about that time. Both will give ad- vice to the Germans and are expect- od to keep sanity In the saddle. Mac- try to keep sanity in charge at London. in behalf of sanity remains successful, little M. Poincare meanwhile raves in Paris Here is what Gen. Dawes recently said, with reference to Poincare and likewise will how his demagogic satellites: “I have recently returned from Fu- rope, where I have seen in prostrated industry and human suffering the ef- foets of five years of demagogic polit- jeal appeals to the passions and preju- dices of the diffcrent peoples as dis- tinguished from appeals to their rea- son and common sense. To the ver . brink of the abyss has Europe heen brought by this method of treating involving great ele- To has abandoned the serious questions, harself she demagogue and returned to common sense,” MacDonald, Herriot and the report hearing Dawee' referred. mon sense to which he “ON DECLINE” altorney gen- JUSTICE Harlan I, Stone, U. 8. eral, gave the American Bar associa- tion something to roll under its col- lective tongue when he told the law- annual convention the yvers assembled in that the actual administration of “was not im- “multi- wae in a Jaw in the United States there were that proving” and that evidences” it tiod of decline.” decline, he added, began fore the World War and was greatly accelerated by the 1t Aus to “our failure to dsvalop that fa in translating legal into he confliet cility rules the report | It the campaign | name typify the com- ratio Progrossiv tandarvds crgasing numbers the legal profession out the adequate tech and experience and without the kground of liberal edu ention, experience and associations which make for moral responsibility," ‘Ihis sounds too professional; it fols lows the line of argument of that tamiliar all old-timera in all professions the younger eloment entering the train- Inefficient and a detriment to the charmed circle is inadequately ed calling, comer competition, My questions 1t is the old ery against new- | wked some When runs afoul of the Stone might well be like the following a “rich malefagtor” law, whom dows he rely upon to im- | pose the endiess technicalities to de- The enced lawyer, of course foat justice? vipa and experls | The yout legal hack In beating the lnw [ | When great corporations attompt | {10 evade the law, the .\'{ | employ, the experienced Jawyer with | | ful “Inadequately traine has no chance at all to be emp whom do |a reputation for “cleverness,” or the | recent graduate from a law school? | When a man with some money Is in criminal allegation, does he seek? The “criminal | enmeshed a whom | lawyer” with a reputation, of course; | the man who has gained a reputation of being able to unearth technicalities | and becloud the minds of the jury with frrelevant piffle; the lawyer of ch seasoned brilllancy that he can | even fool the judge. | And s0 on. The legal profession”is lone In which inadequately trained | persons have small ehance of being | successful. The attorney general and | | his listeners must be well aware of | the time it takes to work up a prac- tice, and nothing hut ability can win | | out in the game of piacing the shin- | gle on the door and waiting for cli-| ents, If the attorney gener the best lawyers I's thesis were the | take | re- correct, and least in | place in those states where | quirements to become a lawyer are | | the highest. But the facts do not| bear out such a contention. In some of the states nothing but a good moral character is needed to be- | come a member of the bar, some of | the best legal minds have developed. | 1lndlann is such a state. Would any- | | justice would the decline where one claim that ex-Senator Bevetidge, author of some of the heaviest tomes | |in 1egal lore and whose volumes on | [ the life of John Marshall are classic, | had any the less chance of hecoming | successful hecause his state had no | | bars up for entrants to legal practice? | | or dia this handicap Senator Ralston, | | who could have been nominated for | president had he wished the honor? | Has the east not had a recent oppor- | | | | tunity to judge of the ability of Sena- tor Walsh of wild and woolly Mon- And what about the immortal Lincoln. Can Mr. Stone make a more effective speech or write better? And | yet Lincoln never enjoyed a tenth | of the legal and general education Mr. Stone thinks is necessary to become a good lawyer. Mr. Stone doesn’t make any allowance for native ability. | The facts are that the decline of | justice is due to a certain class of lawyers themselves; to those sparkling minds in the profession who enn make Jspnrt of the law and make money | because of their abilities to do just | that thing. As a recent critic aptly | | |tana? | said, they the men who talk | about law reform for public consump- !Hnn but den't law reform be- | cause there is vastly more profit to he had with conditions as they are, 4 are want " Automatic train control has been a | among railroads considerable objections | hone of contention and after against the orders of the interstate | commerce commission a start is be- | ing made with the system. This comes ;'m an opportuns time, following sev- | eral severe wrecks recently which | | many believe could have been pre- vented with an automatic control de- | vice. Strange to say, the rich eastern | roads have heen the most serious ob- | jectors to the control device, castern | managers evidently thinking their | roads were operated sufficiently well | to avoid wrecks without @utomatic | preventatives. The three rdads which | will make a start with the device are |the Southern railway, the Atlantic and the Chicago and | Coast line, Northwestern. | paid edi- | etc., stand- | | Arthur Brisbane, “best torial writer on the globe,” by of the Hearst papers, has sul of ect- | l'ea considerable razz | by Brisbagie boldly | proclaimed a few days betore the end that for J. Pier- | himself to a the lesser lights, of the Democratic convention, | John W. Davis, pont Morgan & Co.,” | nominated. At | Brisbane will let the weather bureau | | attend to the forecasting. “lawyer would never be the next opportunty tax pavers in it looks as With more income | New Britain than formeris | it thers ars more people to tax or else | 'actual control of action which is es- | there is more honesty. ‘ | were going to buy | it sort of livens up things. ! soda fountain, my name on Only a Little Bee bee upon the wing, seemed a very little thing o yet | knew its single siing ild move a president or king Jim Cralg, | HBenefit of Clergy | A Young minister noted for his punning, was dining at eur houes last | Sunday, and he was passed a plate he: with roast chicken, | “Well, here's where that ehicken | enters the' ministry,” he remarked, | with a twinkle in his eye, | “Hope it does better there than it Hd in the lay work' rejolned the | bright son of the family, | -1, lara, | No Substitute Wanted Dear Stork: 1I'm writing You today, To send a brother, Down this way, I'd be glad if He would come, I truly hope you'll send me one, But please listen, Stork, 1f you are onf, Don't send a alster-— They fuss and pott! Clara Gilliam, | Mmmm-Daddy? | Fatehri—"What Is Gertrude do-| ing?" | Mother:=="8he's husy in her room, | Jearning the dance of the seven vells." ¥ather:—"I want to see her, Tell her to drop everything and come right here." idmund J, Kiefer, Tree o'Clock in the Morning Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse found a flask clock, Three drinks of that stuff Made the mouge feel 80 tough That she chased every cat in the | block. | ~Margaret Smith, Caution up to Date "es, children,” said mother, * may go and play on the railroad tracks. TBut be sure to kep off the streets, or the autos will get you.” —Janus Gotch | in the Liquid Profits? Testaurant men pore night and day O'er profit sheets to learn The answer to the question deep— “What does the coffee urn?" win Wesselmann, Birds of Passage Wife:—"“A little bird told me a brooch for my birthday."” Husband: t must little cuckoo.” | —1 me you diamond | have been a —Victor Dennis. In the new ‘Ziegfeld Follies” Will Rogers successfully runs for and fis clected senator from Oklahoma on the platform of *“What the people want is rain, a place to park their cars, and another orange for thoss soft drink stands.” Health Hints for Motorists 1 Always give a woman driver room enough to change her mind— and then some. 2 Avoid trying to beat the fire truek to the fire—plcking you up may delay the fire fighter: 3 Don't use a rubber tige when you want to chip off a chunk of curb- ing. > 4 Don't crowd a heavy truck to the curb—you may be a truck driver your- self some da 5 Always try to beat the engineer f the limited train to the crossing— —George 8. Paul. We don't see why George Washing- ton gets so much credit for telling the truth. He never had to fill out an income tax blank. Tlaming Youth For seven long years T have realized that sometime or other, T shall have to make the extreme sacrifice (for my country) and marry. Now that I am approaching twenty, the thought per- turbs me. er, if an eligible millionaire iteresting” age falls madly in love with me, 1 shall marry and have three beautiful children; an author, a surgeon, and a prima don- na. I have decided on these, inasmuch as presidents and attorney generals as- gociate with so many plebians that one never knows (with graft and all of that) which temptations may confront them, 1 Yes, T shall surrender by spinster- hood, providing my intended’s heart has helonged to no one else previous- | Iy. Otherwise I shall continue at the —Dee Furey. No Doubt About That “What a poor excuse for a bathing suit she is wearing.” “Well, a poor excuse is better than none." . —E. J. Kref. The Broadoasting Society Jack and Jill went up the hill, Jill looked very winning, When they came down The whole dern town Was awful busy chinning. -—~James A. Sanaker. The Jdingle-Jangle Counter bluebird brings happiness we often mention, the stork brings a federal tax exemption —Waiter F. P The But Reineke. . Abscnse malkes the heart grow fonder; Big meals makes the form grow rounder. —E. 0. The Advantages of Culture Mistress ‘Why Bridgett, 1 don't' alieve vou dusted today. 1 can write he library table” Bridget:—“Sure, mom, that's the advantage of an education.” —Anne Furtz. (Copyright 1924, Repreduction forbidden). | presidents named hob. | way. Saturday—Last Day OF OUR MID-SUMMER Inventory Sale Women’s Coats and Suits At Lowest Prices This Season 22 Suits, wereupto$29 ............v0 vvve.... Now Marked $14.50 35 Tailored Suits, regular $39 . . 75 Tailored Suits, Boyish Models, were up to $59 .... erininnessdun s e i NOw S18.80 .. Now $25.00 SPORT COATS. ONE LOT OF 19 SPORT COATS | Were Up To §19.98 ONE Were Up To $25.00 LOT OF 15 SPORT COATS ONE LOT . $9.50| ONE LOT $16.50 | Were Up To $39.00 Were Up To $42.50 OF 27 SPORT COATS $18.50 OF 49 SPORT COATS $22.50 35 Extra Size Coats, sizes up to 54, were up to $39 ..... Now $19.00 Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN | And we have had so darned few | A second class nation is one that still looks to'God for protection. The Japs who feel most insulted about exclusion wouldn't come any- The way to number tha splits in the radical party is to count the mem- bers, It might aid the cause of peace to forbid all Latin statesmen to use metaphors. Congress isn't such a bad institution if one is blessed with a sense of Tiumor. \ Y For a great many people, home is Just a place where they can quarrel in peace. How still it seems since the dough- | boys quit cheering madly for the| bonus granted. | | Of course there are crooks in pon-[ tics, but no other profession is denied its share. A bitter-ender is one who cusses | about the shortage of liquor in this | kind of weather. | You can tell how big a man feels by the scorn he exhibits when asked to be vice-president. The world must be in pretty good shape. Nobody is hinting about the “great heart of America.” Nature is kind, and Lodge doubtless feels comfortingly superior to the | world that kids him. Philanthropy: “Let ma live in a house by the side of the road and furnish free air to man.* . Every growing town passes through a stage when it yearns to be called “The Convention City."” Low-brows know that a fly wm'ksl but only the high- | havoe in Africa, brows have to pronounce him. Another boundary line that should be deftned in Ireland is the one be- tween patriotism and mulishness. European nations could learn not to hate one another, even without the services of an American expert. Correct this senten: “1 had the best time over at Willie's,” said the small boy, “and 1 kept my clothes nice culean.” The Fun Bhop 18 a national insti ‘utlon conducted by newspapers of the country. Contributione from readers, providing théy are original unpublished, and possas eufficient merit, will be paid for at rates ng trom $1.00 to $10.00. Write on one side of the paper ofly and send vour contributions to the “Fun Shop Editor.” care of the Herald, who will forward them to New Yotk Unaccepted manuscripts wiil not be returned. 2555525858589 80585 985088 25 Years Ago Today (Taken irorn Herald of that date; PVCTPIPTIIPVPPNTIINIIIY The recent election of three com- missioned officers of Company E, Connecticut National Guard, has been declared null and void and another election will he held. that the formalities were not adhered to. Charles C. Highy has purchased from 8. H. Wood, the New Britain agent, an Edison concert phonograph. It was tested today in Mr, Wood's store, and proved eminently satisfac- tory, giving a remarkable clear, full volume of sound that would easily flll & large hall, The matter of fixing up the cycle path between this city and Hartford is again belng agitated. A meeting will be called in a few days, it is re- ported, to find out the whys and wherefores of the proposed work, A party of 14 members of the New Britain Athletic club will enjoy a sail down the Connecticut river Saturday, the trip to include the distance be- tween Hartford and Middletown. A handsome St. Bernard dog owned by a resident of Tiberty street, was killed by the third rall recently, BRICKS AND TEETOTALISM Bishop of London Tells of Cause of Being Led Into Prohibition Fold London, July 11.—Brickbats were the chief cause of the conversion to teetotalism of the Bishop of London, this prelate said recently at a public gathering. “I was led to become a teetotaler in a fit of youthful enthusiasm 40 | years ago,” the bishop declared, “be- | cause 1 saw brickbats being hurled at women trying to hold a temperance meeting in a town I will not name. When I saw that these devoted people had the whole of the publicans in the | place heaving bricks at them, I said |to myself that a cause that wanted |backing up with brickbats was not | the cause for me, I have been a tee- totaler ever since, and I am glad of it Lapor does not create, Capital does not create, It s mind that creates. possessions. in its thinking class. toilers. gies and Monte Cristos put together. father's farm. out as a peddler. He trud and—with a big iden. world. entire world.” | reapers and ueers, 1t is claimet | |accident victim had This big idea has since proved itself the backbone of it is the center, the nucleus, of world rebuilding now. terson was the lad’s name, and from his idea grew the Bank of England, which laid the foundation of the commercial prosperity of England and m#de a safe, sure and secure financial center for the commercial enterprise of the Observations On The Weather ‘Washington, July 11.—Forecast for Southern New England: Fair to- night, warmer in north portions; Saturday partly cloudy; gentle vari- able winds becoming southerly. Lastern New York: Falir tonight; warmer in north portion; Saturday partly cloudy; gentle variable winds, becoming southerly. Conditions: The disturbance which passed down the St. Lawrence valley yesterday caused thunder storms in the afternoon in the eastern. portion of the Lake region and New England. It is followed by an area of high pressure which is producing pleasant weather with little humidity and brisk westerly winds in central and eastern sections. The tempera- ture is slightly lower along the northern border than it was yester- day. White River, Ontario, reportéd a minimum temperature of 32 de- srees, Conditions favor for this -vicinity fair weather with cool nights and warm days, DEAD? NOT AT ALL. Waterbury, July 11—Arthur Wrogg who yesterday was officially reperted as dead, due to a fall from the side- walk into an excavation for a cellar, was in police court here today, charged with breach of the. peace having been arrested in Naugatuck last night on complaint of his wife. The case was continued until tomor- row. Wrogg's supposed deéath was a case of mistaken identity., After the been errone- ously identified as Wrogg, the cor- rect identification, that of George Fitzgerald, was established. Wrogg's arrest, in Naugatuck, came about when a polic® officer heard him tell- ing some friends that he was the man reported as dead in Waterbur$ news- papers of last evening. Your lucky number may be found by adding the day of your -birth- month, the number of the month and the year of your birth, and then reducing the sum to a single digit. |l DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL e ———— ———— — — ———— ——— " The Great Creators By DR. FRANK CRANE The great creators are the great minds. Even the creator of the world, that First Cause which reason forces us/ to suppose was not a banker nor a laborer,was a Thinker, informed, “is a Spirit,”” and a spirit is pure mind, not pure hands, nor pure For God, we are The real wealth of a country therefore lies not in its laboring class, but ‘We could name half a dozen Thinkers who have added more to the wealth of the world than any hundred millionaires or any hundred thousand Take Edison, who devised many things, and Bell, of the (elephone, and | Elias’Howe, who invented the sewing machine, and Whitney, v ho conceived the cotton gin, and Fulton, who thought of the steamboat, and Ford, who developed a great automobile industry; these men have added more to the wealth of the world than all the Croesuses, Rothschilds, Reckefellers, Carne- Sometime ago the Wall Street Journal raid: “Once a Scotch boy gathered some pieces of silver together—not many-— the result of some years of saving from his labors as a plowboy He walked to Edinburgh, where he invested linen and laces, beads, ribbons and gaudy things, attractive to feminine fancy. He made.a pack of them aM, which he belted on his back, and he started ed to London, on his his silver in He arrived in dirt and in rags, the economic William Pat. \ And every man, in every business, éeverywhere, so 16ng as our economie systam lasts, is, whether he knows it or not, more indebted to this gian's one | idea for his own comtert and happiness than to all of his own best exertions, | The great minde are thé creators of the wealth of the world. The rest of us, Copyright, 1924, by The MecClure Newspaper Syndicgte.