New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1924, Page 8

e e e e e e — f i i D ———— - W s b e New Britain Herald/ HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY (Bunder Eaie () A0 Hesld Blag, 81 Chwich SUBSORIPTION RATES: s Toar, e 0 Toree Moatna T8 & Meath el 4t 1he B New Briaie o8 Becond Clase Mall Maiies TELEPHONE CALLS Busines OFie Editeria) Roows Member of The Asseciated Pross. Pross o eaciuniely ghllcation of o wise ore ocal Bewe pub Viened herein. Member Audit Buresa of Circulution LI h fursl Laers with & elreula Our elreuiation statist Pased upen this audit, This tnsur tection against fraud In news tribution figures 1o both nationa! local advertisers n oon eale aling's News s News fod Sty The Hesid Tork at quare; Boh Grand Central, REPAIRING CROSSINGS Mayor Paonessa I8 tackling some. | thing that is close to the hearts of all who travel the Crossings in the city when he seeks to obtain the privilege of having the ecrossings re- | paired and the bilis sent to the rall-| road company. [If the public utility | commission gives the mayor to under- wtand that he has such & legal right, it in to be expected that the city ad- | ministration will specdily make th orossings fit for easier traflie, -nmr-vj thing that the rallroad company seems | ‘ungble or unwilling to do. The New Haven raiiroad, the mayor | points out, has attempted to make re- | railr with amesite, but such repairs are | deemed unsatisfactory the eity. Citizens will agree with the mayor that to have the rallroad cross important u}reu(l at Important points is bad | enough, but to be made to suffer with Amproperly repaired crossings is even worse. It appears a thing to keep crossings in repair, and | perhaps it 1s not more properly done by ‘the railroad because of this very fact; but the necessity for a continua- tion of smooth pavement between the rails looks more important to those who use the streets than it apparently does to the railroad. by comparatively small | ( WHEN WEATHER IS NEWS *Normal weather does not possess | the elements of news value, except | the daily weather bureau (orccustu.: which of course are among the most | important news of the day to many | persons who rely upon them to deter- mine thelr activities during the next 24 hours. _ But when the weather becomes ab- | normal, either too much rain qr too littie, or too hot or too cold, with | protracted spells of any of these di- | vislons .of*weather, then it takes on the aspects of the unusual and invari- | ably “makes the first page” in the newspapers. | " The recent dry spell, or drought, in | Connecticut was a case In point. Not | only was news of the extent of the drought—which by the way had most of New England within its grip—wor- thy of heing chronicled alongside lhl:; most important happenings of the day, but it occasioned quite as much, if not more, conversation and discussion | than any other ncws story. The drought, so far as New Britain terday: | was concerned, was broken how much or how effectively is yet | to be determined. But we had a rain | of fair proportions, and it was re- esived with more amiles than a circus parade, | POLITICS AND DEFENSE DAY Republican party | Expectation of organs that the views of Gov. Bryan | “mobilization day" of Nebraska plans would tend to cause a disagree- | Davis. | on ment between him and John W. the Democratic presidentlal candidate, have heen frustrated hy Davi olear. cut statement that he is in nnlvrn‘ agreement with Bryan. in thrown tnto politics. | AlL events of major importance this country are 1t was certain from the inception of | the mobilization plan that it eould not | escape the siough of political. strife, | especially during A presidentis With the Republicans in 1 eam- paign year, power in Washington, it was to he ex- pected that snch an innovation as a mahilization, or defenge, d would teet with the disapprotal of the DPem- ocrate, not to mention the La Fol 1atte party s is not criticising the Demoerats sa much as criticizing the gretem, When the Democrats were i power virtuslly everything they at- tempted was howled at by the party not in power, except when the war came and co-operation was a patriotic but as as the conflict was rongh duty over the political house again started and even the league of nations was decided as a political issue The lo; t 80 far as mobili- zation day is concerned, ie that Repub- | ra will co-operate with Jican gover the entire pl of the war department governors will refuse such ahn hag al #nd Democratic this Go mind “ote the plan. with a few exceptions as Raxter of Maine wnd happens to of of his own I | set of men service 1o which | the Dawes { the increase of | people explanation; - @RI T roowas B TR TRAFVIO IMPROVEMENY trafic police are & competent resgnsive 1o the public's the kind of Our wishes and keen to give the eity administra- tion ean peint with pride Tniprovements are being Inaugurats astantly, The traMc department New Britain, it is evident § 10 heed every suggestion made carefully isena, W igh rits, and adapt those that appear y. This is as it should be; and is one of the reasons why the de. artment is functioning In suech an ently satisfactory manner t & week ago the Herald ealled than an might be Abe ttention to the possibility augmented trafie squadron utilized at the center if after an in- formal | waa considered estigation it nditions at several pignts peak of That the traffie departy investigated and ikely that ¢ uring the eongestion found conditions in the As represented, is Indicated by the fact that trafic several additional main policemen have stationed at for from elsewhere hean points wervice during the hours, policemen were theraby o sitating no additions to the force The Churek t crossing at Main strest is heing adequately looked after, | nuch to the satisfaction of pedestri- ans; and the southern extremity of the center, of shoppers cross from one side of Main street to where hundreds 'the other, is likewise being regulated with a trafMc policeman, Of course, this refers only 1o those hours of the day when conditions are at their worst During the peak hours the perils of the center are being alleviated hy the main trafc poli n at Main and | West Main; another at West Main and the northwest corner of the center; one at the southern extremity of the center; and one at Church and streets. When this quartet is in ac- tion traMe and pedestrians are hand- | pairs from time to time by “filling In" | 1ed with & dispatch and eclat that | & Gathoun. does the system and the city credit. New Britain's traffic department has attracted attention in other nearhy cities; in fact, it is an advertisement of municipal efliciency that every transient motorist notices. CONFERENCE PROGRESS | Although it looked for a time that the London conference, called to apply plan, was going on the rocks, New York bhankers have heen optimistic and appear to have guessed right. The conference appears likely to pass the shoals of disagreement that have been worrying some statesmen. Of course, final success has not yet been announced. The disagreements between England and America, on the one hand, and the French diplomats on the other, could not be smoothed over quickly; from the seat of verbal disturbance in- dicate that a satisfactory compromise of differences is in sight. European mnations fnvolved could not afford to do otherwise than agree upon the matters at issue. France, for instance, needs the Dawes plan quite as much as Germany; and In the end would have to agree to any reasonable method of application or face finan- cial, political and domestic dificulties of the first magnitude, The Herriot attitude was at first all right for poli- tical show window purposes, but in the end reason would have to be en- throned. The bankers have disclaimed at- tempting to coerce the decisions of the statesmen; but let that be as it may, | | money some way found a method of | speaking—and it Is money that is primarily involved in reparations set- The bankers had a way of making money talk and that gave them more than enough power to be optimistic from the beginning, no matter how gloomy the statesmen occasionally became during days of the conference, when “all looked lost." extraordinary tlements. very Unless something turns up, the conference will end with complete victory mon sense TOO MUCH POPULATION A New York newspaper informs its | readers that the metropolis will attain 10,000,000 population within the next L that of new ades, no amount by population, and that the continued necessity for people to live far removed from their places of | employment in the great eity will steadily increase the congestion in the on, the paper adds, can be streets, The situa is entively hopeless: nothing done about it hut snffer. Gne of the mysteries of modern’ life 10,000,000 £,000,000, of st to erewd into one is hy New an fact pusiness in New York than anywhere naturally Yorl that i The paper to the there is more olee and that people will f& business life migrate to where thers Many pereons will not agree with this millions of people are in New York to think that endeavoring to exist happier and elgewhere, when t opportunitics which and that the business Araws them there could well be distributed there are no available Although statistics upon a fair degree of or any veis, it can be sald with of safety that a | proportion the w York population of Ne other commercial eenter, lives by pro- seeds of the remainder, The euch iding for the primary as food Airectly frdirectly living, or necessities of is wils { | thelr rush | shifted | Main | but latest dispatches | for sanity and com- Ay constriction can keep up with | says it is | they will be more inclined which to base an anal- | | housing [&n = politan activities The greater the higher the renta; the more the NEs [the housiug more numer train of evila that eome with bad Wh people live in ¢ housing several thousand dominates and immorality is likely 1o He exsts in such & eommunity find & fruitful seil ne life searcely and the ideals of eivilized life are trodden u der the feet of the hurrying throngs. sticatlons York City habitants There have been Progi that within a eentury New win 0,000,000 | The And one contain : imagination recls at the prospect ahaut lowing re ta come of the f it that we eentury, what century? A way W such eong ist be found to break up fon, Cities as a rule ad | heyond onerous that living in the which congestion becomes so midst of it is an ant-like existence. CNFAIR RIDICULE When Frank I, Kent in the Ameris ansalls can Mereury President Cool- A nonenity, falls of lidge as the next thing to ntal who to up to an aceld president the nad measure the demands high office, and & Harding lived renominated as his running mate, citi- f “optnion man ho, would not zens of all shades of politl at such unwarrant first will take umbrage ed ridicule of the land, Kent among that Coolidge would not have Harding lived, have been the man in says that it had heen agreed Republican ains party chief been re- nominated, had and that this | time that a vie would -president was ditched o, This is in error, from a party tic as the late James & Sherman was the !nnl\‘ Republican ever renominuted as viee-president since the days of John Two others, previously, George Clinton and Daniel D. Tomp- kins, were thus honored. Kent is a Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. The editor of the American Mercury is H. L, Men- cken, a learned exponent of English and with an original but not always refined vocabulary. He wrote for the Baltimore KEvening Sun for years be- fore becoming editor of the Smart Set, a New York magazine, and latter- ly of The American Mercury. Kent evidently told Mencken he could pro- duce some “hot stuff” against Cool- idge, and as anything against Cool- idge was acceptable to Mencken, no matter how far-fetched and unfair, the Kent diatribe got into print, PERSIA MAKES PROMISE The promise of the Persian govern- ment that it will punish those guilty | of murdering Vice-Consul Robert Im- brie and attacking his wife is, as Washington points out, a full ac- ceptance of American demands follow- ing the incident. There is no reason to believe that the Persian government will not live up to its promise, and the unfortunate incident will he considered as | closed. The fate of the vice-consul soon who met death while carrying on their duty in a foreign clime—a lfst by no means short, A RIFT WITH PERSIA The 10,000,000 inhabitants of Persia United States. Most of them probably are disposed to be friendly. The un- provoked attagk upon Vice-Consul Robert Tmbrie, causing his death, was but there was no have mistaken identity; reason why his widow should been attacked. Our government, representations to the men in author ty at Teheran ‘and in all probability the officials there will meet the de- mands. If they do not diplomatic re- fons will be broken with that back- this will not be to has made suitable and from a ward nation its advantage | standpoint. The trouble in Persia undoubtedly has been due to a fanatical religious | authorities lost con- | over which Be that as it may, the Persian sect trol. government it in duty bound to make | amends for failure to give protection QObservations On The Weather for Foreeast Fair Aug. 1 Fngland Saturday; Was Southern New night and northerly winds Forecast for Eastern Ne Jersey Fairdonis : moderate northerly winds Conditions The along the Atlantic 1tocky Mountains and is high ¢ Migsissippl valley and the coast. DPleasant weather with mode temperature pre in a the 1 districts, favor to- N York and t and Satur temperature pressure is low er the T the coast and ate vails north tions for this vicinity cather with cool night FREDERICKSON STAYS HERE Lnsign Carl Frederickson has turned from the Falvation Army vention at Worcester, Mass, Although many changes were made at this ses- | Enclgn Frederickeon wae allowed Ito remain in New Britain for another yeaf. efon lock it is clear that | " In, civilization; but there is & limit | | gome the | winner! first | | proving | eharging for both. | touches or trimmings, 1 get trimmed goes down in the annalg of Americans | have no cause to be at odds with the | Inights, so that I really don’t need & the result of religions fanaticism and | commercial | adequate | ontgomery) Rohbed hair to the of Bobbed hair 1o the Bobbed hair' behind Tresscs asundered. Some with a heavy erop, Fome with a light crep, tnta the barber shop Walked the bobbed hundr right left ua, Women of high degree, Women past fifty-three Determined that they shall be One of the numbered, Women of every class, Mother, daughter, little lass, Bweetheart, sister, join the mass Of the hobbed hundred with bangs, some without, are shingled round about Some in curls, and some in doubt, In case they have blundered Some of them do look real awell, of them do look like-—well, It's sometimes not just well to tell How look the bobbed hundred! No Need “My wife never asks me Payne where 1 go. Blaine:="You don't say so!" Payne *n, she's right there be- | night 2 | to say when mother got throug! NEW RRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1924, wonths, will you premise me you will handle your wife with gloves in the future Sure, Il promise prisoner replied One minute, Your Honer," the wife interrupted. “Make it plain te him that you den't mean boxing gloves™ =Vietor K uige” the | T4 Much Fiquidagion How did Billings lose all the fors tune he inherited fro mhis father?" “He promoted a company that manufactured a patent maehine for putting in permanent waves, and the stock was all watered.” W. A, Page I wilary Lahausted | What did your father say your staying out so late last Ve Dick about “There wasn't anything left Dolly ~—Mary Clark Dreamy Fyes I 1ooked into her dreamy eyes Like bright stars glowing; In fact she stole my heart away, Ero 1 was knowing: Her beauty and her dreamy eyes Roth had me going T leaned above her; 1 was wise, Though a beginner; “Dreaming of love" “dear Thinking to win he She anawered, “No, I'm wondering What's hers for dinner." -E D 1 whispered, K. Advice to girls: Curl while the fron is hot (Copyright 1924, Reproduction forbidden), hind me to sce for herself," ==J, Thomas Worthey. “Pon' yo tell me I cain't pick a| exclaimed Rastus, as he | deftly plucked the feathers from a white neighbor's prize rooster, A Subject For Congress | Teacher:—"Give one argument | Lincoln's birthday ought to be celebrated in the same manner as | Washington's."” | Johnny:—*I think Lincoln's birth- ¢y ought to be celebrated even more than Washington's and I can prove it. We only hear of Washington chop- ping down one cherry tree, while Lincoin chopped down enough trees to build a lob cabin.” —Anne J. Geck. It English is thes only tongue With which you are familiar, The langnage of a radio fan Will sound a bit peculiar, ~—8. L. Marshall. | The man who invented sure knows his stuff. oughts on My Tailor He has my number. He gives fits and misfits the alibi as well, He can size me up, if he oun't suit | me with a snit, He, at least, knows the measure of | his man. # He should he successful in love for | he has cut out the suit of many a man. Some day both fame and fortune will be his when he has invented a trousers pocket that'a man's wife can- not pick successfully. . When my tailor gives my suit@xtra in his bill. May my tailor go to heaven when | he dies unless, of course, he should wish to roast his goose. —George W. Lyon.i Not a Collector i Contributor to Editor of Fun Shop: | —-“As you have doubtless observed, | all my work bears a stamp of origin- | ality."” | iditor:—"Yes, but I have outgrown my stamp-collecting days.” Didn't Need Him A maiden lady of uncertain age, when asked why she had never mar- vied, replied: “1 have a dog that growls, a parrot that swears, and a cat that stays out husband,"” moderate | moderate Pacific P re- con- When the asleep the corn wakes up. font's 50-5 0 Kelly Our milkman left for | mountains this morning.” | ghbor 1 wonder why he doesn’t spend his vacation at the sea- shore Mre, Kelly There's a reason, The | slght of water troubles his guilty con- seience,” ~Mra, Edwin Kuhn. Ought to Work 1: ‘o you married this man | reform him Bride:—"Yes, | Friend:—"And, [ pect to do it?” I Oh, 1 ex- how do you shall feed him on | Harry J. Williams. An Understanding The judge in the domestic relations | court was trying to reunite an erring truck driver to his wife, The woman had caused the arrest of her husband, charging that he often beat her. “Don't vou realize,” began his| | Honor, glancing sternly at the prison- | | O'Leary’s lunch cart with only small {ings of the federal trade commission {to recover | Jones, geperal counsel in this state for The ¥un Bhop 1s & national instl: Jution conducted by n of the country. render: unpublished, 3 merit, will be pald for at rat: mg from §1.00 to $10.00. Write on one side of the paper unly and wend your contributions to the “Fun 8hop Editor,” care of the Herald, whe will forward them to New York. Unaccepted manuncripts will not be returned. $88506085088655 2889055600008 25 Years Ago Today Claken irom Uerald of that date) Albert Anderson, clerk at the Globe Clothing House, is spending his vacation with friends in New York city, here are now 12 patients at the generd] hospital, This is the largest number in the building at any one time since the opening of the in- stitution, It was the prompt work of M, J. Kenney in ringing in the alarm this |t morning that made it possible for the firemen to extinguish the blaze at damage being done The fire department was called to the home of Leon Leigey at 206 North street this afternoon to ex- tinguish a fire in the closet. It was squelched by hand‘apparatus. According to orders received from he adjutant general’s office yesterday Willlam W. Bullen has been made captain of Company E, First Regi- ment, Connecticut National*Guard. It is understood that the mason work being done on the new institute building will be delayed about two | weeks due to the inability to get a supply of bricks. This will retard the progress of the-building to some extent, i The biggest day In the history of the tax collector’'s office was enjoyed yesterday when the amount of money and checks received totaled $40,000, y INVESTIGATE ALLEGED MONOPOLY OF RADIOS “Sherman Law Section” of Depart- t ment of Justice To Investigate Find- ings of Federal Trade Commission, Washington, Aug. 1.—Recent find- alleging that a monopoly exists among certain radic companies have led the “Sherman law, section” of the | department of justice to determine upon “a further investigation for ad- ditional facts.” Whether Attorneys General Stone has declded to bring anti-trust law action against these or other radio equipment manufacturers and d tributors had not heen made known, but officials of the department are understood to be of the opinion that some companies are involved fn an | agreement affecting selling prices, | They have not heen willing to say, | however, whether the companies they have in mind are those cited by the trade commission, which included the Radio Corporation of America, Gen- eral Electric, American Telephonhe and Telegraph, Westinghouse, Wastern Flectriec and International Radlo companies, and the United Fruit and | Wireless Specialty ROYALTY SUITS SETTLED its Startad In United States District t Courts In Virginia By Music Com- posers Are Settled. Richmond, Va, Aug. 1. — All ex- cept three of a large number of suits royalties from various places of amusement for music pub- liehers, which were instituted in the United States district courts in Wir- ginia some time ago by .Collom B. the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, have been gettled out of court, The attorney | announced today that only the suits of J. H. Remick, publisher, against J, O. Stephenson, lessee and manager of the Marion theater, Marion, Va., and two cgainst T. Annamarine, proprietor of the Ttailan-American restaurant, Nor- folk, Va., were left pending. Locusts.came over the race course at Springs in South Africa in such thick elonds that spectators and [er, “that a woman is a frail ereature? |1t 1 place you on probation for six beokies” had to seek shelter. Facts and Fancies consumes while killing two hours, and some use salt on watermelon. pouting. cab is that you can feel neutral when “hysterics” “highsterics.” plan a bigger navy. seem funny, but the world snickered | when his beard. summer boarder. proves little, but you very seldom see a horse-hair sofa. | made them his roadstead. the sea than on the land, so scientists tell us. Wise, Smith & Co., Inc. HARTFORD HARTFORD'S INTERESTING STORE Will Be a Busy Place Saturday BECAUSE of our Great August Fur- niture Sale; : BECAUSE of our Sale of the Jerome E. Sage Stock; . BECAUSE of our Sale of Hoffman Summer Frocks at One Dollar; BECAUSE of our Dollar Sale at Housewares and Glass- ware Depts. BEC " 'SE of our lc Sale of Notions. Buy one article at the reg- ular price and get another of the same for One Cent. important as a rich man in a small town feels. The Olympic games are persuading many people to get down the atlas and see where Finland i BY RUBERT QUILLEN executive Lunch Is something an Yet every time you get a thrill you — sacrifice the capacity for being thrill- Some people respect divine things, | ed in the same way again. An eye-witness can remember de- Hushande are people who pretend [tajls of the crime for six months if o be thinking when they are merely | there is a good lawyer to prompt him, Our estimate is that the energy used in applying tonic to bald heads is equal to 22,465 horse power. As to the instructed delegates, how can you have a representative govern- ment without instructing your repre- sentatives? If you look seedy and have but forty cents to buy eats, the only vacant table in the restaurant is close to a window. One fine thing about using a taxi- | he fenders crumple. There is yet much good American- sm in districts where they pronounce The anoying thing about a vacation is the home-coming and the discovery that nobody knew you were away. Correct this sentence: twelve cantaloupes,” said she, not one was green or spoiled.” Low-class Japs sullenly cuss Amer- ca, but the hig boys smile sweetly ana “1 bought “and “Nerves” are things you have if rou aren't kept busy enough to quit hinking about yourself. Bellboys in one 'ol TLondon's larg- {esi hotels recelve special lessons in voice cultivation. Grandmother's bobbed hair may great-grandfather shaved off Never destroy & lumpy old mat- | ress, Some farmer can use it for a'| In some respects the world im- The world hasn't yet seen a man as DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL The Sea . By DR. FRANK CRANE 1 have been much troubled always by the passage of Scripture which says, “There shall be no more sea.” It was explained to me by a Quaker on shipboard who observed that whereas in former times the sea had been the barrier it had now become the common carrier of nations. A Time was when the crossing of the sea was a perilous event, one-to be undertaken only by the more adventurous portion of the population; for this reason every nation was more or less provincial and self-contained. Man, however, by his invention of steam has conquered the seas and At present no one thinks more of crossing the ocean than he does of crossing the ferry. This has brought foreign lands ki near to us, It has been difficult for us to accommodate ourselves to this idea and | we persist in conceiving of foreigners as being peoples totally different from us, whereas if we only see them often enough to find them much the same, The sea, therefore, has taken down barriers and has not made them. Someone has said, “We should study maps of the seas with the lands which lle around them, and not maps of the land.” On the surface of the globe, three-fifths are water. That is, the most part of our habitable sphere is made up of the sea. There is more life in But it is a_hidden life; sepa- rated from us by a curtain which we cannot penetrate. Man is a land animal and not adapted for breathing sea water. men drown in the sea, so fishes drown in the air. What goes on in that immense republic of the sca we can only guess. We know it has its monsters, its animalculae, its whales and its minnows, its commonalty and its grotesque gentry. As far as we can see there Is no creature in the water that corresponds to man. There s no thinking fish. But there must be some pyrpose in the great plan for the water population or there would not be ro mtuch of it. There are few experiences more refreshing to the soul than to be in the midst of the great waters, to look out for days upon an expanse of ocean with no land on the horizon. This makes one feel his littleness, his insignificancs, in the order of things. It Is as If one strayed amidst the immense distances of the stars, Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Just as