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

New Britain Herald| PUBLISHING COMPANY garding the HERALL ay Eacepied) 1 Chueh Brigst nanders 2 that the SUBSURIPTION RATES 24 Tea 129 Thiee M #ihe s Menth Batered at the Post Ofice a1 New Britain a0 Second Clase Mati Maties, TELEPHUNE CALLS Pusiness Ofice , Eiiterial Reoms Mo oniy profitabie adyertiwing mediym n b . the City, Circulation bLooks and piess room always apen 1o adieriiners, Member of The Assaciuted Fress 100 Press I eRClUB €Iy EN ase for re-publication of all neas hie papel and alse Vened nerein Member Audit Burenn of Cirealution The A B C is & national erganization which furnishes tewspapers and #ds teers with & stiictly honest analy elreulation Our elreulation etatis Pased upon this AUAIL. This ineures pios tection against fraud in newspaper als | 5, tribution figures te both nstional and local advertisers, oale datly tn New | News Stand Times Stand. Eotrance Btieet, | The Herald 1s on York at Hotaling Bquare; 8chults Grand Central, 42nd THE O'NEILL MURDER : The finding of the body of James O'Nelll, who disappeared from his work as night watchman at the R'an~i ley Chemical plant in East Berlin | abeut two weeks ago, has furnished the state police a tough nut to cll'_‘k.‘ A big element of mystery remains and it is the opinion of many observers that O'Neill was murdered, bundled | into a machine and dropped where it} was thought he would not immedigge- | ly be found. The argument of th believers in foul play is easy to fol- low. Besion wnd Port Judnt ipposed senger liners are operated with the uts sulting back local mews pUb- Vhe oharges, rosulling in them being confirmed wholesomg navigation commenting upon garbage ! not to get too interested In the new method in vogue in New Britain but to communicate with Mayor Henry T. | King and learn all there Is to knovn"“kM; e owhee of & Nestonds i Mo about efficient garbage collections. | This confidence in the lord mayor | and his excellent garbage commendable—in Meriden. Some cit- | les do some things better than others; and it was | credited with having sald that if a fel- | low can make a better mousetrap than | anybody else the world will beat a pathway to his door. officlals of other Connecticut FINING COLLISION BLAME The report of the stigation ¢ tanker Airow which biames the eos f both casels, 15 surprisi public at the time of 1 ash was left t rinise that the tan ntively to blame. It was and rightly, that most caution, The charge sgainst both manders refers primarily to manner of emitting signals, the charge eing that the whistle was repeatedly | own comtrary to the regulations navigation, causing thelr courses 1o be misropresented and misinterpreted, No amount of insestigations and r eharges heiug the but a thorough sifting to life will have coastwi or disprosen effect upon methods [ ters are especially dangerous in view of the eriss-cross journeying of e s, and a tightening up of the w to excreise caution will command pub. | lic confidence TIP FROM MERIDEN The Meriden Morning Record stems, advises Waterbury system who Mr. Emerson sleamer large oft Arge pas- dead Constwise wa- collection | officials It may be that cities NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATUKDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924, —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People Mapy MU hare been lrened out The Russiana desired & Wanted millions of dol. \ging 10 Caarjst Russia whieh e | remuin in the English and nE asked for m.rm In return, the he Soviet promised! freedom from tariffs, trading rights and rights of coastal trade in Russian waters. Britain ad $,000,000,000 L aty 1o lare be banks ' vanced elaims totalli reprementing eonfiscated Russia, the recognition of publie and private debts. equitable plans for the restoration of private property to for. and guarantees that such would not be confiscated dealing” witheut in- cigners property and terference of | again free | If the two gorernmentsa have sue. e ° | as a remarkehie achievement MEXICO'S PROMPT ACTION Another threatened rift in our re- Iations with Mexies s avoided by the | capture by Mexican militia of the sup. | posed murderera of Mrs. Rosalie Evans. The announcement is made | that the bandits will be given a speedy | trial and if eonvicted, as is deemed probable, punishment will follow without dealy, | The murder had all the earmarks of banditry; it matters not whether the aassassins were discontented agrarians or what not. Mrs, ‘Evans, | & wealthy woman and the owner of .w o | in a large estate, undoubtedly was d|l-" !Iro nowadays usually is the object of | suspleion. Considerable agitation re- | garding Mrs, Evans had preceded her murder. It w regarding her thlt; the British agent, Cummins, was told | to leave the country by the Mexican | government, and it was beca: of this incident that the government w. blamed in some quarters as instigating the erime. 1t is hard to believe that a government which has been recog- is property in cended in compromising these gigantic | fte fasten the hall tree | Unfortunately, the open-throat shirt | appeals sapecially 1o the man wih au emotional Adams apple | 11 the ad writer ealls his eraft an art, he usually mentions the adyertis. | ed articie in & footnote, iy, L4 T | g . No argument against war will . press & man who ian't convineed bY pogjes the sight of a military eemetery, her a good time, | | Passers-by at Neo. § Engine house during the hottest days of this week were treated 1o & sight that they could not well afford to miss, from several standpoints. Were they at all influenced by the spectacie of many youngsters theroughly enjoying them. sely they immediately went away happy—alse It is quite possible that mental suggestion eooled well as these of the objects of their vision, Nearly 1,000 children of the eity |_A “"' can be as satisfying a8 &),y he geen in morning and after- claims the treaty must he regardedq | ™ e€tie if you'll try as hard to shew | naoy hathing in the shower from & Kelly sprinkler presided o by one of the firemen. Arrayed the youngsters ¢ . 11 you are ready to deapalr of man- | game from all directions to cool their | Kind, think haw long it has been you saw a quill teothpick, It might be worse, In a great au. | ther's collected works not over two. thirds were written before he learned | 1t may not be significant, but there | are few modernists in districts where | tried chicken In served every day, | | Willie,” said the mother; 1 ean buy | more ink and the rug is old, anyway." On The Weather Washington, A 9.~Forecast for Bouthern New England: Local thunder storms this afternoon or to- night; cooler tonight; Sunday general ly fair and cooler; moderate shifting winds becoming northerly, Forecast for Eastern New York: Unsettled, local thunder storms this afternoon or tonight and showers in center portion; cooler tonight, Sun- portion, in south Observations . BINCe | parehed bodies under the grateful flow of water, Happy, hoys! you should | see them~—life is indeed complete, the uitimate is reached, A howling fren~ | zled mob of tattered humanity, held |in some semblance of order by a be- | mign policeman thoroughly ‘Tis In- but getting drenched, comes and systematically deed the moment that once in a life-time. The firemen of No. 3 have heen ac- | Y Correct this sentenee: “Don't ‘,fl"yl_‘m-lomod to give the showers for sev. summers past. It pleases them very much to do so, Severa) other In. dividuals are to be thanked in part for the growth of the scheme, at least, The heat was responsible for the cessation of activities on some of the playgrounds and several expedients for wetting down the children were proposed, Richard Anderson, super- visor of the Bartlett playground tried & garden hose, which was not suffi- clent. A fire hose was too strong. Beveral heads together, Fire Chiet Noble and Chairman Keevers of the | fire board furnishing two of them, finally evolved the scheme of using the Kelly type sprinkler at No, 3 and one of a slightly different character known a T sprinkler at the Bart lett playground, Hundreds of chil dren, on Thursday, voiced their ap- ff their own | rassed gentlemen will always turn |their eyes in another direction But we fear art students never get e barrassed. Band concerts in the park; it s & Wednesday evening., Bandsmen defy the hot weather; keep coats on; blow hor like glassblowers. 8 ba ever, is not quite the same, good, though; people keep time to it and talk less—but eontinue talking. All kinds and conditions of listeners; speechifying and lovemaking s in 23 languages. Kids run about but are | discouraged from getting too near the bandstand by a bugly cop-all cops on duty are burly, when they t home with wives around they are |meek, Band plays popular tunes |immense applause, Band plays | Ital opera; still immense applause, (folks applaud on general principles. |Crowd sprawis around on grass or |stands up—nothing ndstand has no around it, as bandstand |have. Wonder where the bandsmen | practice on their instruments without | being jailed for disturbing the peace, | ©On West Main, eity's main speed- |way, Autos race intermittently, close | behind one another. Come down hilla at “breakneck” speed-—that s, some of them, Thirty miles an hour com- mon; forty not unknown. Grumbling by eareful drivers; they wonder why |speed laws are not enforced in city, | Belleve polica court could shake down A pratty penny by shaking down West Main street speed Public library in summer is right on the job. Plenty of folks seen | heading toward and from it with |books under arms. Youth {s in ma- jority. ILibrary is well managed plenty of books and efficlently kept before the public through publicity in Herald. All good new issues find | thore uatil Tussday he garrul hubby avers “Thea you take it 1o the post office,” from the wife. Hubby dess About the same thing is bappening hundreds of New Britala homes Yy evening. They wea't pay amy attention to the neighborhood leiter boxes any more. Post office “offi: |eials” say some of the letter carriers whe coliect from outlying boxes only bring back half a dozen letters; rarely more than 30, Post office concludes not so much mail aceumulates in out- striet; anyway, “personal™ let. térs are not as important as down. town business letters, and they ecan walt i the boxes until le Sam i | Kind enough to do semething to earn the price of the stamps, Family flivwers and pear-flivvers come in handy in such matters. Peo- ple don't have to rely upen corner |letter boxes for collections. Every time budding Maude or enterprising Jimmy writes an important nonentity Iove letter of an evening, right out to the family flivver and down town she or he wends; stops near post office and drop into maw where letters Outgoing mall ‘wervice from city lat: At night is good; tr east and west up to early morning hours, Letter mailed in post office at 11 p, m. reaches sither Boston or New York by 7 a. m, or earli But If malled in corner latier box a %ad mistake i made—it gets delivered 1n Roston or Now York 24 hours later, Observing public-~and observer — got onto collection servies from neigh- borhood boxes long ago, Virtual boyeott s In effect. Three sout of four letters written in outlying prov. inces of the town are carried dewn. town by men folks, either in pvéning when they go to shows or whard they foregather, or In morning when go- ing to work, BSome housewives put Ietters on house letter boxes for post. men to collect, Sometimes, it he doesn’t happen to deliver a lotter, he | mis the outgoing epistla, Hard to get post office interested in chatty personal letters in outskirts. Claim there s not enouxh of them. Postmen are told to eollect mai) from boxes they pass on way to pest office early in morning: but 1sn't as effe tive as a night collection wou'd be, and latter would requirs extra men {with transportation appurtennnces, say a motoreycle or bicyele. Still, it is being done in many towns much smaller than New Britain. Collee- proval of the new type of sprinklers. Yesterday several new showers were put in operation, one on the East street school grounds, across from No, b firechouse and another in & Yacant space near No, 6 house. It is The East Berlin monument, at the turn of the road to Middletown, iIs a familiar object to everyone. One road continues to the east, the main road swings south. On the east road is lo- day fair; cooler moderate shifting winds northerly. For Southern New England: Local thunder showers this afternoon or to- night; cooler tonight, Sunday general- places on the shelves. Library build- ing is one of prettiest in the state for a city this size; and is enhanced by an | attractive location. will simply be compelled to visit Mer- iden to ascertain how they dispose of garbage, and Mayor King, although a busy man, may find time to explain the | system which he himself originated. nized by the United Btates and which is evidently attempting to earn the good will of the Washington govern- ment, would stoop to such depths, and at a time when President-elect becoming | "tlon at 10 p. m. is usual time, Curiosity at the center; right where everybody can see it—but nobody scarcely ever takes a peek at it, and cated the Stanley Chemical plant. Beyond the plant the road becomes a rough country highway, leading event- ually to Cromwell. A comparatively short distance from the plant, pos- sibly a quarter of a mile, a stiil older road to Cromwell branches off to the left and swings up over a steep hill. This is passable for automobiles; that is,” one could drive up the hill but| would never choose to do so. A short| distance from this road, on the re- mains of a barbed wire fence lying | | of | We knew all along that if tried long enough it would become famous in some particular line. World, the governor's AL SMITH'S FUTURE The future of Gov. Al 8mith of Ne York is agitating his adherents. The | New York Evening World has started a boom for him to be the next mayor New York city. At the same most for Meriden time the Morning | | ardent | moyas, Arizona and New Mexico have the Calles was en route to the United States and making announcements of good will and friendship. Banditry continues to exist in Mex- | ico to a certain extent, the latest seri- ous rgthrnk being reported from Yucatan, where bandits ralding a ranch killed more than a score of workmen and made way with funds. Banditry, for that matter, also exists in the United States, and Mexicans in w | | suffered. A Mexican organization just fof it. ly fair and cooler; moderate shifting winds becoming southerly. Conditions The disturbance which was central over the upper Mississippi valley yesterday is now passing out the St. Lawrence valley. Connecticut ie on the southern edge It was raining this morning as far south as Albany, N, Y Show- ers have occurred during the last 24 hours from Nebraska eastward to Vermont. The greatest amount of rain reported was 1.80 inches at In- dianapolis, Ind. The temperature is lower along the northern border than it was yesterday but continues high in the central and southern sections. in bushes which had grown up along| the fence, the body was found face| down across the fence. | It is easy to surmise that a fight took place at the plant, that O'Neill | was killed, although his attackers did | not intend to go so far, and that the | panie-stricken thugs loaded the corpse into their car, ran up the road, turned & few hundred feet up the older road and carried the body a short distance along the hedge-row, where they left it. Had O'Nefll goné suddenly crazy, ran amuck as it were, he would cer- tainly have gotten into trouble before | the time of reaching the fence, He had the Mattabasscaae river to cross | and several other fences, higher than | the once over which he was found.| There was no attraction which could possibly have taken him up in the di- | rection of the fence at 4 o'clock in the morning, as far as can be ascertained. The state police, according to rela- | tives of the deceased, have heen un- willlng to search the woods. Mrs. backer, is looking around next governor of the state and men- tions Franklin D. Roosevelt, the can- didate for vice-president four years ago and the nominator of Gov. Smith for president at the New York con- vention; Lt. Gov. George K. Lunn, formed clergyman, Socialist, and four times mayor of Schenectady; and Senator James J. Walker, a distin- gulshed member of the legislature. The Evening World has given 20 reasons why Gov. Smith should be- come mayor of the metropolis. That it wouldn't be a “come down" for him to step from Albany to the New York city hall is emphasized to readers. Did not John Quincy Adams serve 17 years in the House of Representatives at Washington after serving a term as president of the United States? The Evening World asks. And didn't De Witt Clinton resign from the U. 8. genate in 1803 to become mayor of New York? Meanwhile Democratie leaders atill hope to induce the governor to run ico. lishman, recently filed Washington officlals which referred to the violent deaths of approximate- ly 350 Mexicans in the United States since 1905. and as one editor remarked, will help us to sece ourselves as the Mexicans are coached to see us. The difference slain in the United States, and Ameri. cans slain in Mexico, has usually been that the Mexicans were mostly labor- ers, while many of the Americans were well-to-do owners of property in Mex- But less of a howl invariably is raised when an American is murdered than when_it happens to be an Eng- Mrs. Evans, was formerly an American citizen but married a British eitizen and became British. The British government im- mediately sent a note to Mexico, and it happened that America had just taken over the British charge d'affairs. The Monroe Doctrine llkewise acts as a damper upon satisfaction of Brit- a memorandum with This s a large number, between Mexicans for Instance, Conditions favor for this vicinity unsettled weather with possibly local showers followed by fair, unsettied weather, with possibly local showers followed by fair and slightly cooler, SPANISH GOYERNMENT IS FACING CRISIS Ring Makes Hurried Return to Cap- ital as Does the Premier of Country. Port Vendres, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, Aug. 9.—An atmosphere which seems to presage a crisls in the gov ernment has been created in Madrid by the hurried return to the capital yesterday of King Alfonso, who inter- rupted his summer vacation at San- tander, and by the coincident arrival of Premier Primo Rivera. Incidents connected with the trip of the military dictator to Morocco and his campaign later in Galicia and Asturias for the purpose of propa- ganda in favor of the military cabi- net, have cause the impression that a hoped to place still more eventually. It is whispered that not only echil- dren use the showers, that warm eve- nings may often find grown folks waiting for ths refreshing bath. 1t is gratifying to find that indivi- duals are willing to give their time and trouble to easing the heat. . e T am a believer in the use of cleal FEnglish. I always use it myself. I once expected others to use it. I have been disillusioned. But I live in hope | that I will sometime see clear English used in advertising. I hope, I say, but I do not expect. Yesterday 1 saw a huge sign gummed m.seily against a window. It said, “Straw hats, % oft.” A friend of mine cald, “It must be a windy day.” Another window disgraced by a dirly poster proclaiming, “Bathing sults, on third off.” My friend re- marked, '"There goes the last third; they're naked.” But I knew better. When T see an announcement of a semi-annual shoe sale, I now know that it {sn't a guarantee that the shoes will last six months. And when an- other glaring banner proclaims, “Save money by buying here,”” I am not fooled any more; I save éven more money by not buying at all. And when a huge handbill shricks, “We move August 10th across the street,” I realize that it Is not another attempt | at revising the calendar. Yesterday, however, I was caught as many a sucker has been, A thea- ter was advertising “Open all sum- mer” and Snub Nose in “Person. thought they both would be swell pletures, Neither was swell. Neither was even a picture. That is what I was told last night, for 1 was unable to find out for myself. As I was en- tering the lobby, I espied a card reading, “700 seats, 20 cents.”” Think- " [to locate Hubby goes shopping with wife; he is taken along to look after youngster. He is accustoméd to playing nurse. Grabs youngster's hand and starts forth cheerfully. Wife dives into de- partment store in search of what the |ad described the day before. Tries department desired, but youngster sets up a howl; kid doesn't want to move an inch until daddy buys toy cart hanging nearby. Daddy and Mamma hate public- “scenes”; threaten offspring with corporal cor- rection if he isn’t good; youngster doesn’t mind threat, has heard them before. Continues yelling for cart, Daddy promises to buy it later, on way out, Youngster scents trickery and continues to shout. Saleslady thinks it funny and Jaughs; so do some others. Daddy feels embar- rased; he wonders if he once was like that, or whether such obstinacy was inherited from his betfer half; con- cludes the better half to blame. Mamma moves forward: so does dad- dy, dragging youngster and finally picks him up. Young hopeful ceases lamentations, then sees a tricycle; wants it; immediately howls some more then daddy resolutely passes it by. Finally arrive at department ma- ma was looking for. She inquires of clerk regarding article she wanted. Clerk is wrapping up the last one in stock for a lady standing nearby, who a minute before had purchased fit. Mama turns to'daddy and says if it hadn't been for the delay caused by 1ittle Jimmy's yells she would have been in time to get the last one in stock. Tady overhears it and smiles, “you see,” nearby lady says, “T left my hubby and child at home.” Housewife in an outlying section writes an “important” letter at 7 p. m. Tells hubby it should be mailed that when they do it is only to smile. Said curfosity 1s the small kosk upon which notices of administration are posted by the district court offi- cials. This is one of ths lezal ways of alvertising them; it complies with the law. Remains of many notices tacked to the boards are evident; tear- ing them off is as perfunctory as tacking them up. Notices usnally are in emall type and a fellow has to have conslderable spare timo to read ‘em through. Sidewalk Isn't worn: in front of kiosk, indicating few have the time or inclination #o linger awhile, BOLBHLHLHLSHH L 15D 25 Years Ago Today (Taken irom Herald of that date) PIEISITIETEPEITPIVLE00000S John Telsler of Arch strest todk a header while coasting down Locust street on his wheel this morning and { had to be removed to his home, where a physician was called. A well has been built near the Doerr property at Mountain Grove and the water commissioners wiil es- tablish a hydrant there. This will furnish fire protection for the popu- | lar resort. Frencis Deming of Berlin will rep- reacnt the war veterans of that town at the reunion of the 13th C. V. in Win- sted September 22, H. H. DPease, playing with the | Bethlehem golf team of Bethléhem, {N. H, made the amateur record for | the course turning in a 96 for 18 holes, | Samuel Levin has sold his gent's furnishing business to N. E. Mag. Mr. Levin will go to Cuba. It was announced today by the 'Nel! sitive from the first that LY P for re-election, saying he s the &nly | giniy grievances in Mexico. The entire | change is likely to occur. ing to avail myself of the offer, I |night. Hubby is wise to the postal | foreman in charge of the paving on the missing man met with foul play and was lying In the fields somewhere. 8he could not get assistance in a sure winner in sight. who himself wants to run for gover- Mayor Hyla M | situation, from a practical standpoint, was turned into a diplomatic snarl be- tween Mexico and the United States, The king, under ordinary circum- stances, would have received the chief of government at Santander where he routine decrces search until yesterday when she en- listed the aid of the Boy Bcouts. Two of them were nearby when the body was found and many of them search- ed the grounds near the Mattabassette from an early hour yesterday. GASOLINE STATIONS Then a gasoline station is erected in a residence neighborhood objections usually are heard from nearby proper- | ty owners, who dislike being subjected to the noise incident to the business, the usually unsightly concomitants, and more particularly oppose them on the ground that the value of n-urby‘f property depreciates. But we must have gasoline stations: the omly other alternative {s to dis-| continue the use of automobile ®bjections to gasoline stations, from the property owner's standpoint, ap- | parently are fully justified under pres- ent conditions of the gasoline supply What & needed is better appearing stations. Wooden buildings | with tanks scattered around :avmv’ are | business. signs and unharmonious painf, nor, doesn't think so. If Smith and Hylan finally traded jobs it would be a unique proceeding in American politics. THE BRITISH SOVIET TREATY Negotiation of a treaty between Britain and Soviet Russia, as an- nounced by Premier MacDonald, meets with the opposition of former Premier Lloyd George, the Conserva- tive organs and some of the Liberals; but the fact that it will lay on the table in the House of Commons for 21 parllamentary days, then to be ratified or rejected, will give ample time to study this latest progeny of the Labor government. The treaty, it'is declared,’is both a commercial and a general treaty, and the ‘mistake made in the Lauzanne pact that every line, word and sug- gestion would have to be accepted, has not been made, according to Mac- Donald. This apparently indicates that the House of Commons is privileged to make such changes as it desires and | still favorably report upon it Considering that the 131 Labor | members, part of the 159 Liberals and | vantages. tives. the sort that are dreaded in both coun- tries, but the speedy apprehension of the miscreants will do much to allevi- ate the tension. Facts and Fancies RUBERT QUILLEN Good roads die young, also. The childeen run about everything now except the lawn mower. The residence street in a village is The first A writer politicians as much What others? | the one the cows are picketed on. marriage had many ad- Adam and Eve had no rela- says he respects machine as the others. At this rate it won't be long before an unhobbed head reminds one of a horse and buggy. ey could have signed with the same facility as at Madrid. It was suddenly announced, however, that the premier had abandoned his vlsit to Leon, whence it would have heen easy to proceed directly to San- tander tor an audience with the king and was coming to Madrid. At the same time it was announced that the king would arrive my train shortly afterward. Rumors about differences among the members of the military direc- torate have become intensified since the reference of Senator Primo Ri- vera‘to his enemies as*‘fools.” It 18 eommonly reported that Gene eral Marquis De Cavalcanti, head of the king’'s military household, is re- belious. He is credited with having said “Today I am a fool, tomorrow ‘I will .\be prime ministe 4 DROWN IN RESCUE EFFORT Children They Attempted to Save Get to Shore Montreal, Aug. 8.—Mrs, A. Jarry, Mrs. A. Beauchamp, Pauline Jarry, 13 years old, and Claude Boucher, & son of Dr. Napoleon Boucher, were drowned in the North river at Pied- mont late vesterday. The party, all of Montreal, “%as | bathing and went to the rescus of | ehildren who were playing on a raft. walked hastily up to the box office and glecfully shouted, "Here's a dime; gimme 350 seats”” They threw me out. My last iltusion is shattered. I don't believe 1 can even bring myself to believe that the bewhiskered gentle- man who stands on street corners at Christmas time and rings his bell—I can never again bring myself to be- lieve that he is really Santa Claus, I am a lost soul, But some day I plan to redeem myself by starting a school of interpretative reading of advertise- ments, D Some newsboys fight; they think they're manly. Some newsboys swear; they thing they’ even more manly. Some newshoys gamble; they're hap- py. Some newshoys don't gamble; they're broke. Some newsboys play tag; they're too tired to finsh their routes. Some newsboys don't play tag; they're too tired to even do that. Some newsboys are dirty; they're in the majority. Some newsboys block the sidewalk; they'rs omnipresent. Some newsboys mind their own busi- ness; they're scarce. Some newsboys make money; they deserve it. “ s ,8picy magazines are without Their publishers seem to think are in great demand. Maybe they are right. Sales would indicate they have some reason on which to base their enterprise. ~New ones greet contemplative eye nearly every week. end. | they | system and informs her mail {en’t col- lected from the letter box on the cor- ner at night. Wife is sadly peeved, hut believe hubby, as usual. Sends daughter Maude to the letter box to ascertain hours of collection. Maude returns, saying the box says mail is collected at 9:30 a. m. and 3:39 p. m. No collection on Sunday and an af- ternoon collection on holidays. And this happened to be Saturday night. “Put that letter in the box and it | won't get out of town and on its way untl Moenday.” chirps the “T-told- vou-80" hubhv., He gets a frown for his pains. Tetter is addressed fo Plainville, wife says. “It won't get doesn't | Main street that the work would be w’completed within the next two days. The cards prepared by the board of education at Hartford providing that | every student in every public school |in the state shall undergo an exami- ! nation of the eyes have been received !in this city. They provide that if any defect is noticed the parents of the children shall be so notified. A group of bicyclists were out last evening with each wheel ornamented with an ordinary lantern, some being of a large size and others so small that they looked like lightning buss. Captain W. W. Bullen of Company K is somewhat improved today. His illness is not considered serious. S | means wide awake. It is the opposit we logs when we are going to sleep. | them, Alertness of mind is sought b. have something to do, and | of occasions. Tt Is the sense of being alive to one’s envi whose business 1ts opposite is sought by the thinkers who dea DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL Alert By DR. FRANK CRANE Alert is one of the words which we have taken frém thé Ttaltan. It e of absent-mindedness, b ronment and it is, that sense It can best he expressed in English by the words “wide awake.” The alert-minded are those who know best what is going on aréund y those who are in executive position, who it is to deal with the exigencies not s6 much agent, as with the causes of things. with that whieh exists around them at pr We speak, therafore, of the absent-m away in experiments that have but an indirect bearing upon the present and of the nimble-witted street arab, whose business it is to dodge taxicabs and seek a precarious living in the come and go of the street. Tor those who would qualify themselves, therefore, for executive posi- tions, alert-mindédness is to be sought, while the ruminative and meditative ["The children were saved, but the tW0 |ony of jatest has to do with' art | women, the boy and girl were un-|gyqies, and it is supposed to appeal | to art students. Judging by the pile | seen in one New Britain periodical shop the number of art students here | must run into large figures. In fact, | not the kind of edifices caledlated to | inded professor whese mind {s far earn the good will of many property the six-Independents are likely to sup- port it, and the possibility that some | \ | | of the 259 Conservative members like- | able to get back to shore and sank. | | wize may tend their votes toward rati- ¥ fication, it is probable that the treaty owners HERE'S A FISH STORY. Claude Caswell of 511 Stanley Where erected that fully match in appearance gasoline stations have heen He hasn't finished his course until and order the Bomes and business houses in the vicinity, littie objection has there are not enough of these Britain There are gasoline stations in New arisen. Many observers Believe in New England which not only are a credit to the ga which are welcomed by property own- | ers as improving the appearance of a peighborhood. Sueh stations, usually ne supplying industry, but given Gier to weeds, prove tion earlier attitude government emerge with the approval Commons. The prime object of the treaty, it evident, is to establish commercial fe- lations with the Soviet so as to im-| the British commercial situ toward the fo achieve this end it will be necessary for Britishers to forget *heir Russian monstrosity.. This ordi- | | narily would be a hard thing to do, of brick and tile, have brightened up | but John Bull needs the money—that many a vacant jot that previous'y was | is to say, he needs the profits that | Russian trade can be made to mli'mey can find @5 place on the jitney i A" he delights in bragging about what a whirlwind he was as a youngster. “National destiny” is what a great nation invents when its finds another weakling to exploit. A resort bedroom would be much like the one at home if it were clean- er and cooler. 1s | " 1t is easier to contribute to a worthy cause if the solicitor doesn’t look too prosperous. ‘It must grieve some tourists when Hammonassette Beach in a bathing #uit, noticed a bluefish being chasad through the water by a larger fish. When the fish were quite close to the &hore, Caswell leaped at it and land- ed on it, thereby stunning it. The bluefish which he captured in novel style was enjoyed at dinner yesterday at Hammonassette, where he was camping. Caswell's catch weighed well over two pounds, and he is guite proud of it. Fighteen years were required to make the huge gates of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. street, while standing on the shore at |anybody can becoms an art student | by paying two bits for the magazine. An investigation of the contents showed it containéd quite an enticing number of pictures of women “in the nude,” as the art critics would say. We'll say they were naked from the toes up, there being not even fig leafs or beads to interfere with the artistic effect. As our knowledge of art runs to Michelangelo and Rembrandt, the particular studies of bodily loveliness in the art students publication merely gave us the impression of absent- minded women going in bathing after having forgotten their bathing regalia. Under such circumstanees embar- virtues are more to be desired by th Baptists, to the lying truths of the universe. Both kinds are necessary. may happen. | Alert-mindedness is on the surfac the amount of thinking that has gone befors it. , After all, when we are in a crisis and we desire something done, it 18 te the absent-minded, wooly-haired professor that we turn. What to do is not always to be determined by the people who are doing but by those who are thinking what is bast to do. Always the business men of the world have turnsd to the John the volee of one crying in the wilderness,” to find the under- the world and to think out its problems the other group to be constantly presen whose business it ie to think. Its value, therefors, depends upon 1t is necesszry for one group to retire from insilence and just as necessary for t minded and deal with whatever Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicats.