New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 6

L) New Bnhm Herald PUBLIBHING COMFANY Easepied) wreh Birest HERALL Hapued Datis (Suntey A Heald Biag, Y — SUBSCRIPIION RATES: e 8 Year 8208 Thiee Montos fie & Monih Batered at the Post Ofice st New Britaln | o0 Becond Clase Mall Matier TELEPHONE CALLS Business Ofice Editorial Roem pedium 1 Member of The Associated Press Bhe Amsoctated Press s axclusively entitled 40 the Use far re.publication of all news oredited to it a1 not otherwise oredited in this paper and alse local news pub Haned herein tion " to both mnatienal New Times Entrance Anily &0 News Htand ulta News Stand 4 Central, 4ind Htreet. HARD ON THE GOVERNOR The conscience of a judge, In ad ministering the death penalty to a convicted murderer, is clear, He cons soles himself with ‘the thought that the jury found the victim guilty and he merely applied the vided by law But frequently In such governor of the state is asked to grant a reprieve or to change the death sen- tence to imprisonment. The governor is made to belleve that he, being in the nature of a court of last resort, is responsible for the execution if he permits it. The claim usually is un- fair, but one can, with slight exercise of the imagination, realize the emo- tions of a governor when confronted with the necessity of making such a decision, 2 Gov. Cox of Massachusetts the other day was faced with this dilemma, If memory serves rightly, It was not the first time that he had to choose be- tween letting the death penalty take its course or changing the sentence to imprisonment. Fortunately, he had no evil precedents behind him, and he could act in conformity with justice and the law unswayed by maudlin sympathy. The Massachusetts governor had be- fore him the case of one Cyrille J. Vandenhecke, who had murdered the husband of a woman with whom he previously had eloped. Vandenhecke vehemently protested his innocence and the governor was told by his at- torney that if he changed the sentence of death to life imprisonment he was convinced new evidence favorable to the prisoner would be unearthed. Such a claim will put any gover- nor in a quandary. The Massachu- setts executive critically examined all 4 the evidence and rightly decided to rmit the death sentence of the court { stand. The man went to his death proclaiming his innocence; and there doubtiess were many persons in Mass- achusetts who concluded that an in- nocent man was put to death. The governor of a state should not be expected to function as a court of last resort: It is the business of the eourts, not the governor, to try prison- ers. By reviewing the evidence and ‘listening to the opinions of counsel for . the condemned man, and likewise ob- taining the opinion of the prosecuting attorneys and perhaps other experts, the governor was forced to give quite as much time the case as a re- viewing judge would hage done. In- deed, the governor in effect acted as & reviewing jurist. Tt must be said to of other with went to penalty pro- cases the to his credit, as to the credit governors when confronted aimilar situations that Infinite pains to fulfill the task unnec arily imposed upon him, When by the courts after fair and impartial he onerous criminals are convicted trials, governors should not be forced to function as a final court in a vain attempt hy their caces for their olients, defense counsel to win TROLLEYS GAINING According to figures sent onut by the Amevican the trolley companies of the country have railway association, showed 2 slisht advance in patronage the past year; some of them are mak- Ing a little holders. These statistics indicate that in 1023 the 16 passengers, which is 700 million more than the year previous and a billioa 1917 maney for their wlectric lines carmed billion half than in and a tevenues in more than ir of this operating charges, The of \overis i1 more 1923 1922 thsorbed in increased were 2.0 per cent but one per eent was fares the country In 1918 the was 5.00 conts average cents Bge of fare The as L effect” 48 has co-operated lines, the “less where such operation has b rect competition with Other words. motor busses try over are making it less iation reters to the “good of motor bus operations whers with the electric and adverse effect” nin di the trolleys. In the couns for the electrics to survive, But it #hould be noted that this has nothing to 4o with isolated cities where such eompetition has been of a devastating effect C stock- , fifficult | pde statistios from the metrepeli or electric llu centers, where trelley & Decessity of the frst | in the transportation of | = | masses. The assoclation @se in- ludes Nre-oent fare area of New York magnitude l i the city, and the millions whe are trans. | | parted on the five cent principle there and this canuot but have an important bearing statistics the eountry over Moter stabilized 1o & great extent throughs 1t is veported by the tates require proof | before motor busses are compete with established | Wild line operators are fewer, and manufactur- | érs of motor busses are nojonger dis. | Fully 140 upon bus competition has heen Wit the eountry ssaciation that ¢ | of necessity allowed to trolley lines eat” bus posed to encourage them electriotrailway eompanies have .nnr! inte the motor hus transportation bus : iness, operating them as feeders to | their main lines, both in freight and | passenger business, Entire substitu. | | tion of husses for trolley cars haa fall. | in several flupmum cities, auch | as Bridgeport, Des Moaines, 1a,, Toledo, 0., Akron, O, and Saginay. Mich, The association points out that it has heen proven in such cities that trolley cars| ean best handle mass traflie Althongh the association does not touch upon this subject in its report, | it is evident to observers that trolley | or eloctrie transportation in the large cities 1s quite a different thing from similiar teansportation in the small [ towns. The most ous competitors | of trolleys in the small towns are no longer motor busses, which fire being left to tuke up such traffic as the trol- | Jey cars find unprofitable, but consist of | private automoblles. TIn the large cities automobile owners Nving in the | suburbs use them Nn riding to their places of business or employment to a far less extent than Is the case In the small towns. Conditions are radi- cally different in the large cities; it is impossible to find enough parking space to accommodate hordes of au- tomobile owners, and a long ride through suburban and city streets, with their 4nevitable traffi¢ jams, is far less alluring. In addition, it is slower, as the electric lines, operating through the subways and over elevat- ed structures, are miich speedier and more convenient, It is in the small towns where the trolley companies have their most serious problems. It is no exaggeration to say that most of the lines in the small towns fail to earn a reasonable return; and this is the chiet difficulty being faced by the Connecticut com- pany. BOBBED HAIR ¢ l‘l.'.\Tlf)N" Women citizens, or women who vote, may he greatly or mildly—we helieve the latter—agitated over the | political situation; but unless we are more,mistaken than customary when contemplating the inner workings of lovely woman's mind, their thoughts also are somewhat engrossed with the infinite varieties and possibilities of hohbed hair. Consider the Salem, Mass,, who celebrated her 82nd birth- day by having her hair bobbed. Mrs. Eliza Heffernan is her name, Her verdict, after the barber had done his that she woman in best—or his, worst—was “felt like 18." Now if bobbed hair makes a woman of 82 feel that way, there is no longer | any need to seek the fountain of per- petial youth of Ponce de Leon fame. This woman experienced its effects when her locks were shorn, and in a jolly frame of mind she danced a jig forgetting to use the cane with which she previously had tottered around. Barbers who have been doing the ! | bobbing have been forced to acquire special schooling to do a neat job. This | has become so onerous in some cities that specialists are being developed aft who consider them- zor among the ¢ selves superior to the shears and r wielders of the average crafesman. | The specialists do not claim that it requires a college education and an art course to bob hair properly, but | they do claim that it is essential for | barbers to “go ta school” to learn the tricks, Of course, these experts be- lieve they larger income, | commensurate with their skill; which require a | { women are willing to pay, it appears. | At the Cosmeticians society in Chicago the convention of the American astounding information was broadeast | that expert bobhing barbers are doom- a new invention, nothing less by | be worn | | | [ than faise over any assortment of hair, By fall, “nearly everybody will | that it bobs which can it i& predicted he wearing false bobs,” and won't make any difference what style | | 1 is desired. Shingled, Dutch, snakes, hips, hottle-opener or any other | special bob ean be seenred from hair pecial gooda merchants, it s announced. | Sinee these false bobs merely slip over is ‘as it is now worn," it there will be no trimming to | the hair stated de.” | | But that kind of false bob must be ; will care | | imitation of the false teeth——an resl thing which nobody b «o long as she has real hair to Half the thrill of bobbing hair, of since singe said, is contemplating the loss locks—cherished mowing | it 1 the cherished then the hands of false bot girlhood—and the barber ! take it process at the pecizliet. A we comld not have made the Salem wom- feel like 15;" it requires the genu- ine article to bring that about | | Having a bobbed hair wife is some- | thing that every dutiful husband faces| an | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1924, 15 fiee from the possibility of secing tter half made to look even bet. The virtues of bobbed hair is & topie that the supper table just at & time when friend hus. band is wondering how long fthat nearly worn out tire on the family fiiv. will last; it is & faverite topie wherever women gather) and nothing oreates s0 mugh interest as when a hitherta staid matron suddenly ap- pears at a function with the former locks missing and an eye.compelling hob taking thelr plaee. As sserted—and hereby assert it in so that he or she who runs and reads may not fail his & ter oreeps in at previously we |te take notice=-politica is one thing that may Interest women votel but the bobbed hair situation Interests them all, those who vote and those whe don't, 1t something about bobbed halr were on the election ballots in every state a phalanx of women voters, 100 per cent of the available feminine forces of the nation, would treop te the voting bboth, We believe that the vote for bobbed hair and perpetual youth would be mnr.wmlmmm BLTLER MAY STAY Gen. Smedley D, Butler, director of public safety in Philadelphia, whom politicians would like to see return to the marine corps, whence he came, mhy not accommodate them, The general has been In the city of Brotherly Love long enqugh to dis- cover the why and wherefore of the machine’s power and Is inclined to remain long enough to smash the in- ner workings. The Philadelphia situation has at- tracted nation-wide attention. It is the first successful attempt of an “‘out- sider” to set things to rights in an alleged stronghold ot corruption, 1t is likely that a native Philadel- phian, no matter how exalted his in- tentions, could never have attained the success of the general from the marines, Gen., Butler, in the first place, has heen ldentified with an organization where efficiency and honesty is the first requisite, and if ‘these two attributes are not obtained, the boss speedily finds out the reason why. Obyiously, his methods were of the “high handed” variety, but there is no doubt that other methods would not have sufficed in a place like Phil- adelphia, a city in which reformers have been unsuccessfully battling with he iniquities of corruption for years. Gen. Butler ought to stay and com- plete the job he began so ausplclously. It he does not it will mean the great- est victory for machine politics in the history of American cities for a gener- ation. He can at least put in a few good licks before Mayor Kendrick, the reform mayor who is supposed to be courting the favor of the machine element in his efforts to be re-elected, can have an opportunity to throw him out. The general is a speedy actor and should show the mayor and the ma- chine what a hair-raiging finish looks like before he steps out Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN It's a case of pure love if she ls homely and he is poor. 1f it has five filling stations, it has emerged from the village class. The party that will do most fér you, however, is the one that wears your hat. Fable: One woman candidate was homely and the other pretty, and the pretty one lost, War scars heal quickly and in time everybody will be forgiven except those who get rich. Peace is a delightful period during which nobdy expects you to sing the Star-Spangled Banner. A village is a place where a youth can make a good showing as a sheik on $15 a week. Some extravagant wives spend as muech to set the table as their hus- bands spend for cigars. A cynical writer is one who calls people “boobs” and is famous because the hoobs applaud. The average man would have more time to read if he could get caught up with his day-dreaming. One should be prudent. Tt may be opportunity knocking at the door, and it may be a dry agent. An Arkansas man who beat his wife | hecause ghe wouldn't let him go out won't be out for 60 days. Fvery jmportant citizen portant he is in other towns 1t is easy to put up a bluff in a metropolis, bt in a small town every- body knows the size of your overdraft. Hurray! less than four and one-half per at cont row than to collect taxes is ideal thosge rare A republie on occasions when enough people want | the same thing at the same time. sughboys were actuatsd Perhaps | | The association’s figures, of course, | nonadays. No man, howsver vIrtuous. ' o ;516 metives, but see how many should | travel at times to discover how im- | Government is borrowing | which makes it cheaper to l:or-] | you can find whe will admit hav killed & man Still & hobo must chuekle when he » men working hard in order to get rvich and loaf, Correct this sentence; Fide in a bathing suit,” said s I'm going in just the same T look like e, "but BITS FROM THE BARNYARD + (By George 8. Chappell) The rooster is & sultan ga And set and lay and lay and set, .. Said a snow-white gull to a coal-black crow; “Let's take a bath in the under-tow." “That stunt's all right,” sald the crow, “for you, But I don’t show dirt the way you do," From Our Book of Knowledge “Do you know the difference be- tween a presiding officer and a vaude- ville dancer?" “Can't say T do.” “One entertaina motions other's motions entertain —Francis C. Cook. and the Touching First pickpocket:—'Keep an eys on that guy—he's got a roll Second pickpocket:— keep in touch with him. ~—Mrs. Harold Phillips. Why the Idea! Lois:—*So you were in the water for two hours! Why didn't you swim ashore? Everyone thought you had been drowned.” Louise:—"I gouldn't. suit was ripped.” —Mrs. Arthur Hoppin. My bathing The Comedy Next Door There is a great deal of comedy Goes on next door— Supplied by the sheiks And the would-be sheiks Who laugh and joke and try to Make dates with the latest Thing in baby vamps—of the loveliest Voice and sweetest smile above The newest vogue in summer frocks! There is no doubt the girl next door 18 a knock-out. She smiles and plays a lively game And holds the heart of every male Bhe meets in her little white hands. But I do not love the girl next door— She is my rival! —Patricia Stoner. He:—"Dick's a regular ¢ard.” She:—"Oh, yes. Quite a joker. —Mont Rees. Information “What is it, ma’am?" asked the thealer doorman of the kindly old lady who had bheen eyeing him for several moments. “I just wanted to say,” she answered with an uncertain smile, “that I hope you movle people aren't as wicked as they say you are.” —James Allitt. A Stock Joke Salesman:—"Can I interest you in some stock in the Keep Kool Ice Co.?"” Brown:—*I guess not. All they have are frozen assets; and if this hot weather continues their stock will be watered."” ~-P. M. Whitney. Department Rudolph Wick—Can anybody tell me who sald, “Give me liberty or give me death,” and why ? Dear Rudy:—Ask us any one. King Solomon Is the unhappy author. One day, while celebrating 4! wooden, 28 tin, 11 crystal, and 9 silver wedding anniversaries—all his own-—he com- posed the following quatrain: Am I their hushand? Did T wed a town? sight of all these women takes my breath. TI'll never live to live this household down— Oh zive me liberty, or give me death! ’ e The Mabel Mayfair—Can you supply me with the text of the following— “The proper study of mankind is man?" . . Dear Mabel:—"Why not? John Sereleaf Whitter wrote the line, It oceurs in a poem about a rakish maid | called “Maud Miller” and it goes like this— | | T’ stick it out all summer, if T can, And get myself a nifty coat of tan. Then from my shoes I'll shake the | dusty clover, | And go to town and look the fellows over. A girl must use whatever tricks she can— | The proper study of mankind is man' Auto-Suggestion Friendly motorist:—"Little trouble?" Other: an airing motor No, only giving the parts Smerson McElroy. The Losers in dudgment “Miriam fells me that she's marry- ing a man that will save a nicked out of every dime he makes." “Yes, 1 know him. And her, €he'll save the other nickel. ~Louis Schneider. too. DAL Ruggles:—"Have you ever done any public speaking Tugglesr—Only once. 1 ecalled a #ir) up on a rural telephone and asked her to go to a dance with me" ~A, MeCartney, Zas so? Myers:~—"You know it is said that no house is large enough for tweo I've never yel seen one ‘was large enough for ene family,” ~Harry J. Willlams. Harperi—"Let me sell you a rua- about.” Perkins;="Nope—got one "™ Harper:~"Where did you get it?" Perkins:="Married it." ==Mrs. Marshall Michell, One of the 10,000,000 Blessings on thee, little car, Body black and wheels of tan With thy fenders all askew, Caused by bumping a truck or two, When driving you T get naught but joy, You're such an inexpensive i, =D, E, Crabb, Model Hushand ‘Am yo' husban' a good ~~Richard Rosenbaum. Copyright 1924, Reproduction forbidden). The Wun Shop 1s & natioual fustl iutlon conducted by newspapers of the country, Contributions ceaders, providing they are original, unpublished, and posses eufficlent 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 Bhop Editor,” care of the Herald, who will forward them to New York. Unaccepted manuscripts will not be returned. (Taken from Herald of that date) Max J. Unkelbach spent Sunday at Manhattan beach. E. E. Linke and family for a month at Madison. As a sequel to the finding of the missing kangaroo, White Oak guards today located the peacock which dis- appeared from the park about the same time and which was in posses- sion of a Plainville man. The work of macadamizing = Ken- sington street from its junction with Arch street to the bridge at the trol- ley line terminus was commenced this morning. A large force of hands is at work on the job. The payroll for labor under the se- lectmen this week amounted to $106.50. Alphonso Porter has gone to Lake George for two weeks. Work was started this morning on the foundation for the base surround- ing the soldiers’ monument, The erection of the foundation is only the matter of a few days' work. left today Observations On The Weather ‘Washington, July 81,—Forecast for Southern New England: Probably showers tonight and Friday; slightly cooler tonight; moderate north and northwest winds. Forecast for Eastern New York: Showers probable tonight and Friday, except fair Friday in north portion; slightly cooler tonight in north por- tion; moderate southwest, shifting to northwest and north winds. Conditions: TLight scattered show- ers have occurred during the last 24 hours in nearly all districts east of the Rocky mountains, The heaviest rainfall reported was 1.76 inches at Syracuse, N, Y. The pressure is low over Maine and Utah and high over Michigan, Alabama and Washington. The temperature is lower and the humidity higher than it was yesterday in eastern portion of the Lake region and New FEngland. The cloudy showery weather will afford some re- lief to the crop situation but it is hardly probable that the rainfall with ditions now prevailing. Conditions favor for this | vicinity cloudy and showery weather followed by fair and slightly cooler on Friday. Egotism of Intolerance, (Ohlo State Journal) In a'letter to this newspaper, Rev. Dr. John Collins Jackson of FPorts- mouth,. a retired Methodist minister, discussing the case of Gov, Smith of New York, makes these truthful and liberal statements: “Sectarianism is almost altogether a matter of heredity, environment and education. An exchange of these conditions batween his (Gov. Smith's) adherents and his defamers would have made them almost 100 per cent the opposite of that which each now is. That is simply human nature” These facts are perfectly obvious but many people deliberately look the other way and do not see them, and that accounts for much of the re- Iiigous intolerance which uphappily exists. 1f the Methodist had been (horn and brought up a Catholic he {would be a Catholle today, and viee “\»r!a. The accident of birth and early training determines church affiliation, as Dr. Jackson (says, in almost 100 per cent of the |cases. 8o to feel superior to a fellow mortal and hate and persecute him because he is not of your sect is like suming that attitude toward him secause he did not go to your pre- paratory school. Religious intoler- ance is pure egotism, than which nothing is more shallow and absurd. {How do you know that yon and your |opinions are so much better than |your neighbor and his? As a memorial to Harry Hawker, tae aviator who was killed in 1921, a lofty white marble cross has been erceter] opposite his home in & churchyard at Hook, England. SHAVER CONFFRS WITH DAVIS TODAY Democratic Nominee Takes Up | Campaign Work in New York cally opened his campaign on the re- turn trip from Maine ten days in ad- vance of the formal notification of his nomination as democratie presidential candidate, John W, Davis arprived In New York early today and immedi. ately began to acquaint himself with the various details of the campaign plans as they have been worked out while he was on vacation in the Penobscot Bay islanda, Reaching his personal headquarters after an all-night journey from Rock- land, Me, Mr, Davis went into con. ference with his field marshal, Clem M, Bhaver, Questions of organization were disoussed chiefly, but several de. velopments in the world of politics since Mr, Davis left for Maine were taken up, Virtually isolated on seven hundred acre island as he was for nearly two Information on a number of subjects, among them the refusal of his run. he sufficient to break the drouth con- | one's | ning mate, Governor C. W, Bryan, to co-operate with the Coolidge admin!. stration In ecarrying out national de. fense day in September, Greeted by friends as he stepped from his private car, Mr. Davis told them In response to inquiries that he felt “one hundred per cent nt." Before starting for home, Mr, Davis completed all of his acceptance ad- dress with the exception of one para. graph, the nature of which he has not disclosed, With this exception the text is now in the hands of the printer and the candidate will devote part of his time dpring the remainder of this week In revising the proofs and In completing the final section, which he desires to talk over with ers hefore reducing his thouehts to writing. Trom Rockland to Dover, N. H., seething erowds gathered to meet Mr, Davis' train last night. He spoke briefly at hoth Rockland and Bath and shook hands with a number of persons at several other stations. A erowd of sevaral hundred gathered at Dover at midnight, hut did not see the nominee as he had retired an hour carlfer, FTRPO AT SARATOGA, Albany, N. Y., July 31.—Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight pugilist accompanied by his corps of trainers, arrived here from New York City to- day, enroute to his training camp at | White Sulphur Spring, Saratoga Lake. The South American fighter had | breakfast at,a restauramt, and then called on Mayor Willlam H. Hackett, city hall, where the mayor and his caller donried boxing gloves and posed for photographers. Tirpo and his retinue left for White Sulphur Spring after a two-hour stay. | i Tour of Countr) BY GEORGE some Nellie”, svhich he says he ha by buggy, however, his first, is to gather color for a the Ynited States. O’'Connor of the local -fire departs house number 2. well kanown turf champion, was where he pawed the sawdust of continue his travels, On a former transcontinental each day. After “After Five Years.' It was a record of the League of Those who have championed and have been so hot that it is difficult So far as we can see, the facts in are united in it 5 The League neither does what its pone jealous of its national sovereignty as w "4, The most of the wewknesses refusal of the United States to becol ¥rance and the collapse of Germany fneal. 1f we had taken our place, as 5. way to end war, but it is some way. nations to become world minded by 7. 1t is impossi eithér cooperating v Every form of activity tends to col merce. Some way ghould be found to the other peoples. We shall have to without entering. three things. No man lives forever, n | other of the irreconcilables. Nothing an idea at the bottom of the Leagu welcome to the world Tt was the i not die. * New York, July 81.—Having practi- | weeks, the nominee was without full | Mr. Shaver and other campalgn lead- | ens what its antagonists declared for it. nts had supposed; it is less valuable than its defenders had imagined. The League has demonstrated itself to be in no sense a super state Every nation, and particularly those who are members of the League, is ag League without reservations, to enter it with reservations, OPEN SWITCH GIVEN AS CALSE OF WRECK One Dead, 7 Injured In Long Island R, R. Crash ——— New York, July 81,~A premature. |1y opened hand switeh which caused the derailment of three r passen- | ger coaches on a Long Island rail- | road train bound for Port Washington |in the Sunnyside yards at Woodside, L, I, yesterday afternoon, resulted in the death of one woman and in the injury of 27 other passengers, The | mafority of those hurt were in the third car from the end, which side. swiping an electrie engine on an ad-. jacent track, was hurled on its side, The dead woman was Miss Wal. burta Buck, 30, of Flushing, L. I, She died in New York hospital, Thirteen of the most serfously in- jured were brought to the Pennsyls | vania station in a special train and then transported ambulances to Bellevue hospital, he others were taken to hospitals in Flushing ana Long Island City, James J. Moore, assistant engineer [ of the sideswiped electric engine, was placed under arrest on a technical charge of homicide, The police say he admitted opening the switch after only six of the nine passenger coaches of the Port Washington express had passed it, According to the authori- | tles, he could glve no reason for this | action, | Eastbound traffic on the Long | land road was tied up for more than an hour, Because of the 'delay the concourse of the New York station | was congested with more then 20,000 | commuters and it was necessary to summon reserves from four precincts to maintain order, REPARATION ON PAYMENTS By The Assoclated Press, Parls, July 31.—Germany's total reparation payments in cash and merchandise are given as 8,405,932, 000 gold marks in a revised provi- sional statement from the reparation commission as of June 30, made pub- lic today. About one third of this amount, consisting for the most part of book- keeping credits for cables, ships sub- marines, etc., remains undistributed. The statethent shows a revision in a number of credits becauss of re- valuation of German payments chiefly downward. There is no allowancs' for the costs of the American army of occupation. [ YACHTING RACES. annual international yachting race for class R boats for the George cup be- gan today at Chaumont Bay. There are to be three days of racing over a 14 miles course, The entries are the Huskie IT, Crescent Yacht club of Watertown, defender the cup; Lil- {lian B. Royal, Canadian Yacht club, Toronto: Riowna, Toronto Canoe club; Cheer Yia I, Kingston Yacht club, and the Latonka 1I, Oswego, N. Y., Yacht club, e O SRR PRI eI o Y LSO et Connecticut Author, With “Old Gray Mare,” Making in Buggy to Get “Color” For Story H. MANNING. (Washington Bureau of N, B. Herald) Washington, D. C., July 31.—Weatherbeaten and dusty after a four months' buggy ride, from Meriden, Conn., George D. Brown, 63 year old author, of Simsbury, Conn., arrived at the capital yester- day on the first lap of a tour of the south, middle west and north. Accompanied by his Scotch terrier “Taffy’” and his horse “Hand- § driven 65,000 miles, or more than twice the distance around the earth, the veteran buggy tourist has heen across six states since his departure from Meriden on March 15. He expects to leave the capital today, bound for Florida, whence he will drive to New Orleans, and then north into Canada. Florida Mr. Brown will take a side trip to Cuba and Jamaica—not The object of his journey, which 18 by no means ‘While in book which he intends to write on The author was received in Washington by an old friend, Chief ment, and quartered in fire engine His steed, which was sired by Sir Richard Wilks, put up at a nearby riding stable, his stall restlessly as if anxious to trip, Mr. Brown says, he left Ban Diego, Cal, and reached New York in 240 days, driving eight hours DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL Five Years By DR. FRANK CRANE In a rceent number of the Atlantic Monthly an article appeared called Nations since its formation. those who have opposed this League for either side to see the exact facts These will only come out after time has sifted them, the case at present are as follows: 1. The League never has been, and never will be a partisan question, for it is a matter of engaging the cooperation of the whole weorld. 2. Some forty-seven out of the fifty-three or more nations of the world protagonists claimed for it, nor threat- It is more valuable than its op- e ourselves could be. of the League have been due to n:! me a party of it. The militarism have been very largely due to this r was proper, in the League, and pa cipated in its discussions, it would not have heen necossary, for instance, L ¥France to assume the imperialistic and intolerant ideas that she has done. The League may not be, as it was hoped, an admirable and perfect 1t has prevented wars by merély fur nishing an opportunity for all people to express themselves. 8. The lLeague has influence, but not authority. That is, it assists the virtue of bringing everything into # place where the good of all is discussed. ble to live in the world svithout doing one of two things: 2 th it ot being independent of it. operation such as art, letters and com enable us to cooperate politically with do one of three things: To enter the ot to kesperat: 1t is impossible for us to maintain a consistent isolation. Wien the people of the country have had time enough seriously to digest the idea of the League of Nations they will decide upon one of these ot even a Lodge, or a Johnson, of any livee forever but an idea. There was e: a beneficent idea which showd be dea of coeperation and that idea will Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Watertown, N. Y., July 31. — The * »