New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1924, Page 8

| 8 D A i New Britain Herald HERALD Tasued La At Heald B s said 1o suffer ficaps that the pres s endearoring te PUBLIBHING rding 1o ob SUBSCRIPT) than (IR Year ipment was paid for rep enter inadequate purchase is & property that w placed upon its feet v England is to be efficient manner There plenty of ilroads wh and condition v now ancin is cor t Cireulation, NeWSPAPEIS & ty honest analyeis o . 0 ulation siatistics This insu In newspaper o | th natienal st , there s the furnishes adver with & s tion, Our «ir upon this audit ection agalnst fraud tribution figures to b local adyertisers e butt of 4 million jokes irew more the entirely bilitated and LN reh an paying ite way, There Is & ars ago run Hmell into an finish hands of receivers; Baltimor O ignoble ning 1 & only a The Herald . York Hotaling's New #qu. Nohulls News 1 Grand Centra), J4ind Street, | r—— e ————— nouy = ing into the fow & ago It ed that the earnings during 1923 " WAS An- | were the t In ita career, equal- THE DEADLY AUTOMORBILE, | ling $13.21 a share “I speak after eight years in traffic Sae i eourt,” remarked Magistrate Hoyse in New York while sentencing a reckless driver, "The hattlefields of were safer by comparison highways, In eighteen lost 48,000 Killed in similar period in Ammerica, just closed, we had 96,000 persons slain by auto- mobiles, and 25,000 of that were chil- dren." greate day, ay the result of a with the Pullman company, Haven retused to divalge its wrangle 3 | the New France | jniarest in the Boston & Maine than our is a sample of the attitude of railroad Mcinls does not fit well with the public. What difference make if the interest In the Boston & months we month that France, In & h - would it Maine were actually admitted? Every- | terest In that railroad, dating from the time when an astigmatic former management attempted to gobhle up l'anl transportation in New England. Taking the public into one's confidence for the man- SUSPENSIONS OF DRIVERS, Connecticut's crusade against reck- less automobile drivers is bearing fruit; ‘a bulletin of the state motor vehicle department Indicates that nearly 3,000 drivers suffered suspen- sion of their licenses during the first half of this year. Although the effort of the state ve- hicle department against reckless | Ariving is bearing fruit In bringing | such persons hefore the bar of just- fee, the lack of complate co-operation | by the law is a subject of adverse comment. Practice of many nolle cases upon payment of money is branded as nullifying efforts to make for better driving through legal disci- pline. There appears to be no com- plaint upon this score in New Britain and if it is practiced elsewhere it is to be hoped that means are found to discourage it. Examination actual court cases indic: enforcement of-the motor vehicle law is becoming standardized and more severe, according t8 the department, and cases are being handled in a more | effeetive manner_than forimerly. Demands for increased safety upon | the highways i3 having the effect of pro- | would be a good way agement to cultivate public good will The New Haven, like all other raii- roads when efficiency reaches a low ebb, suffered from a plethora of caus- criticism, most of it no doubt de- The management of the lir tic served, to it is become sensitive is a good sign; feels it that it for a has which management and means the improving conditions would little commendation change. Fair-minded men will give it due credit when sufh credit is earned. The line has far to travel before it is as prosecutors to efficient in all respects as several of the great trunk lines, but southern New Bngland will not be slow to ap- preciate improvements when they ac- tually materialize, For such as have been made, without going into details, disposition of | the public is grateful; for such as can es that the of the be prosperity the public will await With the management by offering sugges tions, and if the management is wise, it will accept them thankfully. ‘The management of the Iirie, when that railroad was considered a joke the admitted the truth about the line and forcing courts to more adequate in railtoad world, tect the public interests, it is stated. after such admission let it be known that gestions would be carc- fully considered, The Baltimore & Ohio for years left blank space in its WHO'S GOING LOONEY Statistics indicate that since the number of petsons in the Unifed States who have heeg committed to institutions for the care of mentally afflicted have increased 455 per cen while the population of the count during that time has increased only | 110 per cent. [ feet, In this way the goodl will of the In 1909, according to the | public improve- census, the number of automobile fa- 'ment has heen constant until this day. talities in the United States totalled | The New Haven will €82. In 1922, according to the report | quite as much as it nceds funds, When of the committee on public accidents statistics, automobile fatalitics totalled | 14,000, This represcnted an increase | of more than while | the population increased only 20 per cent, during that time, Nowadays more people are taken to institutions for the mentally afflicted | because such things are looked after In former years only all sug 1580 time tables on which patrons were to [ write complaints and suggestions and ['mail them to headguarters, with. the be carefully weighed and all good ones put into ef- promise that all would federal was won over and needs good a former mismanagement all but put it on the rocks, causing thousands of thrifty New kn 2,200 per cent,, vestod in its securities to lose. heav- it could expect nothing else but "he public continues [ iy, [ verbal brickbats, | somewhat eritical hecause such an ex- perience does not wear off easily. But opportunities for a few houquets, will giad ta hand thef to the manhagement when if there are the publie be more careff the most ady fined. More people are hurt and killed by nced cases were con- | ! they are carned SOCIAL WELFARE The New Haven It is to promots formerly hecaus 3ut that isn't automohiles than more autos are in use f fatalitics Journal-Courier saying that most o are | says not preventable and represent a ter- fetitution the social wels (the proposed like rible waste of life fare of society in this Whereas insanity statistics & growing humanitarianism, autonio- blot the re ent | child labor amendment) and in manner elsewhere, this heing digtine obligation of the several stat their social bile statistics are a upon Iy the sanity of those who are not in insti- | who can best determine tutions for the insane ' ete. responsibilities, intend to Our contemporary may for golely to the proposed child labor NEW HAVEN'S POSSIBILITIES, | The lieved to be on the 1 1 New Haven railroad is be-|amendment, but a fair interpretation financially | of its wopds would lead one to be- lieve not to promote The lasting four constitution is bitity the il i elopment of they mean of New Eng end in the de ts give that ocial welfare which it gerves the kind of What Wall Street thinks portion ryice nation e in a eivil war vears in order to promote Ademands the railroad’s prospects is indicated in | the social welfare o black race in the The upon rize in quotation of its stock. The | the United States ime of Abra- served hy the s | ham Lincoin rests the accom- puhli the 1ine phishment, which is embodied in the 131h amendment to the constitution, The 14th and msolidating the citizes prosperity and thus the both § amendments, requirements ¢ Jasenger <hip rights of regard- the nst social no further Americant ewlee can be thing, a would be The New vnward ocidd Ifare legislation Haven | of cit 1 as a privilege port a surplus for th of this year, a feat ac s taxee amendment, relating to kes of the being to came part the railroad since 19 inary |4 & indjcated 1al legislation, ite aim estimates hat rplus | o tor the six monthe wiil, the | lighten the burdens of these least neighborhaod of $500,00 he weight of gavern- menta tn these better ahle to an Improvement this is ¢ nized from the Yact that ear euch hurdens | manufacture, gale or transportation of months of amendment. abolishing the 84,169,000, This | | body knows the New Haven has an in- | criticism, | like a | hieved as the road increases in | pleasure. Meanwhile patrons will help | vast | frankly | | farnians that the unamended law per- | glanders who had in- | not the husiness of the con- | nature NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1024, intosicating liqu and mendment, granting sultrag arded by wany as | category sovial legisiation Y New Brist Haven paper, in comme I Iy ss, fears that con gress might orcement legis ation exceeding the rigors of a ehild labor aw thus repeating the eaxperience of the Volstead act, which goes beyond the Sth amendment f may or may not be justi it is sufficiently import fied; whether ant to eause reasonable opposition to child labor amendment That the ial welfare legislation in the proposed is doubtful proposal to im bed more & constitution sheuld be seouted al- une is looking the together on that ace is backward The New Haven ¢ lines of the Corwin amendment to tor argues along the the constitution, submitted by ¢ 1861, but which was 1o the states in ratified, The amendment would prevented any later amendinent from authorizing congress to aholish or Interfere within any state with the domestie institutions thereof, includ. ing persons held to labor or service by the laws of such statea, Although the | sought to prevent the abolishm it would have en amendment nt of Corwin slavery, | eMcacious In preventing a child labor {amendment, such as is before the | statss for ratification today. | Every reform hurts some interests, some persons and in many instances |some states, Southern mills, which | compete with New England mills, un- | questionably exploit child labog; some | of them are partly owned by New | England capital, tatification of the amendment might enforcement proposed child | 1ahor be followed | by unwise provisions; [ the probabilities, however, “-urn enforcement will g§o no further | than forbidding the products’ of child labor from interstate Nothing could be more effective and nothing as simple. It is very unlikely that an amendment, ratificatfon of which would be devold of the fanati- | cism and hatred which accompanied the victory of the 18th amendment, womld have a repercussion of fanati- cism in congress, such as produced the Volstead act. 1f the proposed amend- are commerce, ents have claimed it will never be ratified. DUAL NATIONALITY EANDS. A contentious trouble-maker tween Japan and the United States is age in the Japan- | removed by the pa equally | that ment is as bad as some of its oppon- | be- | Fun OUR LESSON POR TODAY By Wallace M By crackie, boy, you're Whene'er you fell the They laugh, slate feigned many ounces they Bayliss gettin hi with joy fat men that un How | "By ginger, man That always makes the And instantly much talk To tell the pounds they getting thin fat man grin I8 loosed have redu: you's But listen, childhood! Keep in mind That talk like this must he confined Ta men alone, for women folks Iegard such stuff as uncouth Jukes A woman's nev Bhe's slender, sylphlike, willowy; Nor is o woman ever fat; #he's merely plump, And that is that These Days, When a love affair goes wrong usually the woman that marked the professor “Not if she hires & good breach-of- promise lawyer!” chuckled the cynie. ward H. Dreschnack, Too Much Heart, Gardner; “My hoart is in my work." Owner of eatate: “That's fine. Now how about getting your hands into it ¢, E. Stewart pays’ The dingle-dangle Counter, gunshine follows stormy weather; Cheese and crackers go together, Rlacksmiths keep' the bellows going; Boasters do a heap of blowing ~Richard Barthelimess, $liae ve In my jeans the coin did lingle But {n those days T was single. —George O, Reed, A . Some numbers are even odd fhail 1, or hair bobbed? shall 1 not, have Mrs, W, B, Connell, The Diagnosis, Helen: *I dess my daddy must be fallin' apart,” Liza: “Why yo' say dat?" Helen: “1 hear Mother ask Daddy to tell where de five hones she find in | his pants pocket come from —James A. Tor Divers Reasons, Flapper: “There must be something wrong. bathing snit.” Tactful Clerk: “Ah label reads: ‘Guaranteed Like Iron’ Rasor. no wonder! The to Wear —Henry Fisher, | ese diet of a revision of the law re- |lating to citizenship, an amendment eliminating the dual | Japanese born. in the United States. As a result, thousands of Japanese Pacific coast, who will be citizens gf the not at the {on the in this country | United States | same time citizens of Japan, | the case under the unamended Japan- only, and a wa ese law. Alarm has been expressed by Cali- mitted the up of a large army of Japanese in Cali- | fornia, while at the same time they | supposedly were the prote tion of the United States. In event of serious trouble between the two countries, it was pointed out, it would be a matter of conjecture as to | which citizenship they would recog- nize as more binding. growing citizens under The action of the Japanese diet in abrogating this old law and divorcing 1f from all claims upon American- | | born Japanese, is an indication that the Japanese government is willing to | go more than half way to be upon the most friendly terms with the United States, “A GENTLEMAN OF COURAGE" { Curwood's Latest Book of Interest to Lovers of Nature and Romance James Oliver Curwood’s, “A Ge ntle- man of Courage,” just published by the Cosmopolitan Book | will be found interesting reading by lovers of the big woods as well as 1those who place love and adyenture above description of natural scene: The childhood romance of Peter M | Rac and Mona, is interwoven with the Mounted Police and a group of pioneers in the lumber districts, even from the start, | tion in adult life it continues to be a part of the liufe history of the woods- men and their guardians of law. | Mona is the child of parents Arowned in a storm on the big lake. She was rescued by foster-parents whose one hope was a girl child. They were residents of a frontier vil- lage which they had hewn from the timber surrounding them. Peter is the son of a father who had commit- ted what was generally considered justifiable murder and who had sent him to a friend in the village to live while he evaded the police. At first meeting of the pair Peter destined to fight one of Mona's bat- tle with a hoy who later became a member of the provinelal police foree. The latter individual departs some- what from the us deliniation of a monnted policeman, he hecomes the villain, and a real convincing one, With the return of Peter's father, in dying condition, the feud hetween policegnan and the hero becomes intense From that time colorful events pile salisfactory, « was a the up until a nclusion i and final reached sarcasm or Pills “Pills, pills! England is a foundation of pille,” eaid Ratana, New Zealand London huilt on Tahu Wiremie ! faith healer, whe arrived here recent- to take part in the British Empire Fxhibition at Wembies You have €5 manv drug stores and pills and drugs and fond that you are sick most of the time.” nationality of | were born | the | corporation, | As it develops to frui- | the | on startling | | These salesmen are a funny lot, yl.afl week, when it was good and hot, | One drifted in; T don’t know yet Just how we got to talking Wet; | But I'do know most all his views | He gave me recipes and tips; Gave me a flask that fits the hips; Gave me bootleggers' names, some “gents” In whom I could confic He was some giver! Gave his time | To prove the Volstead Act a crime, He waxed so eloquent on gin nee, + We both forgot why he came in We parted lifelong friends, I think; The funny part is, 1 don't drink. —B. M. W. Aceuracy Always, A zealous Dfit untrained performer | had obtained permission to speak at the county jail. “Brothers,” he pleaded with them, “lose no time in turning to the path | Remember, we " of righteousness. |are here today and gone tomorrow. Gloomy voice from the r “I've got eighteen years here yet ~liugene an, N A Outline of History, | The lives of great men oft remind us We should choose our wives with care. Or the world will find behind us Lamenting widows everywher —S8tanley C. Morris plus M. A, ITEMS FROM THE BOGTOWN ENTERPRISE As Reported | Ry Gri¥ Crawford | The ball game between the Bog- town White Sox and the San Creek Tigers yesterday was called off at the end of the fourth inning, as many of the players had to go home to milk | and attend to other chores. It was fine game and will be finished tomor- row afternoon at Bogtown, Summary n H White 7 Tigers . Tt was a pitchers' battle, | 7otal admission was $8.50 — many | snuck in. Will Holmes, who is near sightgd, | was cs he took a sweater for third base and | stood on it several feet away. Adolph | F'alkner made a fine hit, but hecame | confuged and ran the wrong way around the bases and was called out. | Players ought to know what way to | tun ¥ S0X suuu 2 B2 38 others are | | my I can't swim a stroke in this | ‘pon that well-known subject, Booze. | led out by Empire Ruff when | OUR SALE OF THE ENTIRE STOCK OF JEROME E. SAGE Offering High Grade Merchandise at Irresistible Prices As was the expectation, still greater was the response yesterday, the opening day of our sale of the Jerome E, Sage stock. Hardly any need of further advertising of this event except to convey the mes- UICK ACTION We want as many of our customers as possible to henefit hy this sala Therefore we urge you to come tomorrow and sage of — Neckwear, Laces, Women’s and Misses’ Dresses, Coats, Skirts, Blouses, Suits, Evening Gow Hosiery, Corsets Silk Underwear, Muslin Under- wear, Knit Underwear, Get Your Share of the Truly Wonderful Bargairs Tahle Linens, Bed Linens, Dress Linens, Madeira Linens, Blankets, Comfortables And Everything That Jerome E. .Sage Carried All At Lowest Prices Known in Many Years ns, Gloves, Sweaters And Now — Just a Final Word Come Tomorrow While Assortments Are Still Good Facts and Fancie BY ROBERT QUILLEN day and fome men shave every some men are marricd, | X Another excellent your abdomen is & muzzle. device yhody should le arting with those who do. N car. | Even the cynic believes in Jove, but he lavishes all of it on himself. flee they when have no man pur- a million The guilt 1 sueth, unle dolia | S s Relatives are people who suspect that you bought the car on casy pa | ments. [T e /// il | | | | A womans' favorite Hat: The ons |'she sees in another window just after | buying a new one. | Now if only the landiord give us that two weeks without pay. would | Fven in villages they have evening gowns; but the cost is lower and the neck higher. | : The man who smokes eigars is at a | disadvantage. He can't_kep a box in | his pajamas. | . | And do you remember the ol pre- | press-agent days when a man had to | get by on his own merits? | You must be born t way to dis- | tinguish. betwen the visiting nobleman {and one cf the waiters, When it comes o solving the | world's problems | the best solvent we can think of. Several minutes were lost while they | | sewed up the hall that became ripped. | | They will have a new ball Saturday. Too much gambling at the game. Ye Scribe noticed geveral wagers run- | ning up to a quarter being made. | Baseball must not be commerciali The Awaken John (co | you'd bre Sue. Yon “dream’ girl.” { Jack: “She I woke up.” k your engagement with W Joseph Cohen, Jealousy, Two 1i girls were pretty another girl one of them remarked dimples are just too cute thing."” | Her little brother, playing on the finor, overhearing this remark, imme- | diately looked up and said: “Dimples ain’t nothing. 1 got warts.’ —Evelyn Walker (Copyright 1924. Reproduction forbidden.) ttie talking about was when “I think her for how solingly): “1 didn’t think | always sald she was your | & my dream girl, but | any- Rip Van Winkle got home twenty years late, but the theory that he was asleep has been discarded. He had ben driving home through downtown | traffic. “What is the age of discretion, if an 2 writer asks. Well, obviously it's not the twentieth century. Evidently the war is over. We saw The Fun Shop 18 & national et _ution conducted by newspapers of the country. Contributions from readers, providing they are original unpublished, and posses eufficlent merjt, will bs pald for at rates vary- ing from $1.00 to $10.00. Write on one #ide of the paper only And seno your contributions to the “Fup Shoj Bditor,” care of the Herald, wh will forward them to New fork Unaceepted manuscripts @il aot b roed \| from a German police dog. | to reduce | (and perspiration makes | at a “red hot” tho other day |region and along | Maine to Virginia. Conditions favor for fair weather with cool n the coast from |a man | without /sking whether it was made this icinity To avoid suspicion, carry it just as you would if it was a bottle of vine- “But if it was vinegar I wouldn't it at all,”” a friend prot BEBLBBNL89008 050 L% 3 i 325 VearsAgo Today § : \ 3 | he prize for self-restraint goes to | € Toi tedaby ol that aaie [ the paragraphist who reads that a diner held up and robbed a restaurant refraing from making a wise| g, crack about it Armour | e ! and Correct this sentence: I owe my suceess,” said the millionaire, while being interviewed by a representative, 1 owe my the fact that AN 4 | FPOTTFIIIIIVIVTEITICICIITS Adameg, a representative of the Co., of Chicage, was in town reanged for the transfer property belween the railroad tracks and Commercial street to the at packing house, lcox of Berlin as ent of the Kensington Water Power ‘o, ai the annual meet. ling held yesterday W, W, Bulln w, Company 15, Connecticut | Guard, at a meeting held fat the state armory. The iron doors of the soldiers’ Observations ioors | monument are being put in place, 0n The Weat/ler | It was voted, at a meeting of the e ———————ae—— Tucky.” | (I'votected by Associated Editors, Ine.) 5 eleeted captain of National last night | etreet commission last night to have Washington street macadamized, | he committee in ¢ for lizing in, this city a Iregular Army and Navy union [mecting with cons ble success. A path from the club house to the y tracks is among the improve- ments mapped out by the committee |at' the Maple Hill Golf club. A trol- ley station will be placed at the end of the path for the convenience of |elub mem N Washington, July 18.- Southern Fngland: night and Saturday; not much change northwest | Forecast i e w I'air to- is in moderate winds, temperature; k ox- fair winds. I'orecast for Kastern New Y I"air tonight; slightly cooler in treme south portion: Saturday gentle to moderate northwest Conditions: The storm which | out the Lawrence valley ay caused severe local showers cern portion of the lLake in New Lngland, "he | greatest rainfall veported inches at Bastport, Me. been a decided fall in temperaty the eastern portion of the RUS SECOND Sandown Park, Eng., July 18.-- Polyphontes, by Polymelus, out of St. Josephine, owned by Sol Joel, won the | Eclipse stakes of £12,500, at 1 1-4 [ miles, run here today, . Hornung's | Papyrus was second ai'6 | e Astor's 1. Germans, third. Eight ran, pas yester in the region and DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL i Thinkers and Politics ‘j By DR. FRANK CRANE A ittle hook by Henri Barbusse called, “The Knife Between the Teeth,” is a plea for mtermational communisn. As an argument it is not convincing. miuch as an ympassioned appeal. But in the first part of the ho some things in regard to the lduty o1 intellectuals in politics which are striking. Very often what a man the way, is much more interesting and convincing than the gist of ehment. tells us (hat most people, with the intellectuals at their head, affect They ard politics as a ficld particularly full of offen In fact, it is not an argument so he « | | 1to despise politics. sive vulgaritics, In the present time and under the present conditions, where the strugglc | between right and wrong is waging, he conslders that this attitude is viclous, | that it is “a sign of aristocratic myopin, or, rather. a pretext easily explain- able but little excusable, to remain comfortably hidden from the rough and | tumble of life amidst clouds and phrases.” | 1o tricks, the pettiness, the sordidness, 1he dull and narrow passions of politics ave but seattered instances, and to build upon them the generalization that politics is an essenial evil is an “infantine sophism unworthy of intelli eds then to give us some very burning words of exhortation and L in a passage that is almost a classic » living world is to achieve a better order, or if it is to remain where it ig, the matter m he effected by political measures, and all words and ideas are of no avail. To aect politically is to pass from dreams to from the abstract to the concrete, “Politics is the effective working out of social thought; politics is lite “If we admit any sort of connection between theory and practice, we must take our part in political life. To learve the men of practical politics alone in their ‘efforts, even if we | 4o #5 with an amiable neutrality, and to say that we will have no dealings with those men, this is to abandon the cause of humanity.” Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate.