New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1924, Page 6

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This insures pr tection agalnst fraud in newspaper d tribution figurea to both natlenal and local advertisers, —— | n New Times | Entranes | wnis dally News Biand The Hersld 1 on t Hol 8-hul Central, 42nd Street, TELLING IT TO 'EM “It is time for A change and a quick one when bank examiners regard themselves as agents for the suppression of the facts, We never had confidence to spare in them and the Putnam experience has removed much of that, We believe this is also the feeling of the public,”—Bristol Pre; | Absolutely right! That's hitting the | nail squarely on the head, and it is to be hoped that the state Republican machine which has a degree of con- trol over the state bank examiners | sits up and takes notice of what the | Bristol upholder of the Republican | party thinks about it State bank examiners personally | may not be at fault; they are in the | nature of employes who obey the orders of the higher ups. The latter are composed of the machine rulers of the state who hoped against hope that the Putnam mess might be kept under cover as much as possible, pos- sibly fearing the effects of the financial | debacle might cast a reflection upon | the party in power; and anyway, 1924 was considered no ideal year for too much publicity about a thing involving | the state treasurer. The Bristol Press has spoken right | from the Adam's apple and it is to be hoped other staunch Republican crgans do likewise, FEDERAL ACTION 1t will have be noted that the hush- up policy surrounding the Gilpatric embezzlement at Putnam worked to a certain extent so long as state offi- cials influenced the investigation; but when the federal bank examiners got into action it was an entlrely different matter. It appears that the federal govern- ment has no conception at all regard- ing the niceties~of protecting favored political sons. These national officers simply wade in and gru¥ly say what's what and let it go at that. The story told about the Putnam affair since their debut on the scene has had an entirely different sound than the scented rose stories previously. This reluctance of state officials to go the limit in matters which might have a bearing upon state politics is | evident in other things besides bank busting. IR SRR R STATE'S STAKE $100,000 State funds approximating $100,000 | are involved in the Putnam bank wrecking. These funds, under the di- rection of State Treasurer Gilpatric, were placed in the commercial de- partment of the Putnam bank and the state will have to take its loss, nhould( there be any to depositors, upon the same terms as other. John B. Byrne, state bank commis- sioner, who lives in Putnam and knew | Gilpatric personally, is reported not to have interested himself in the state’'s money in the bank; perhaps he | thought it was too late. The bank | eommissioner knew Gilpatric per- | sonally and in common with nlher’ citizens of Putnam thought highly of the business executive, bank official | and state treasurer; he must have| known Gilpatric's companies and that | gome of them were not glven to de | claring profits, But the state's money | remained in the bank and nobody | raised a query | . [ THE VALUE OF HONESTY G. Harold Gilpatrie'a defalcations at the First National bank in Putnam | were not due to expensive tastes and | an inferior sa I'rom all accounts, he did not lack comfortable sums of | oughly educate every child | north, They don’t do it. | angle and experience o i Had G 4 with hi OWR Woney speculat d have been atrie the different of only lost M sults would no than in the cases of hundreds athers whe speculate and guess wrong Probably at frst he confined his busi ness enterprises 1o sueh as were within the grasp of his Anancial powers; but leeper and deeper sank the fangs of e\ CTees And faced with fnancial sethack of a grave nature, If not ruin the honesty that ene expects In & pers whe deals with other people'’s| money eracked, The temptation cover up with funde in hia keeping, or which went through his hands, proved son to too great The law of averages is here worth | Comparatively few bank- not matter eonsiderin ers g0 astray; roughly speaki: one In a thousand, But ne how honesty is stressed in our train- ing of youth, their schooling and their education, it seems hard to reduce (he ramaining ene to a eipher, OTHER DEFALCATIONS Treasurer Gilpatriek's defalcation is the talk of the state—but it is enly | one had apple in the barrel of criminal rubbish that disfigures Uncle Sam's | back yard | Dishonesty in the United States costs the nation $5,800,000,000 & year. | Enough to pay the annual expenkes of three governments; enough to thor- in the country, Gilpaire's financial pranks will cost | some Nutmeggers a preity penny, But they are not alons as victims in the flagitious game of bilking and milking the public. Willlam Bryon Forbush recently published a book; it's title Is “Be Square.”” It 1s filled with dishonesty statistics, Forbush shows that stock frauds, land frauds and confidence games cost us, each year, $2,000,000,000, burglary and theft, $625,000,000, embezzlement and defalcations $125,000,000, graft and looting of public domain $2,000,- 000,000, fraudulent bankruptcy and credit swindles $100,000,000, bad debts owing merchants $150,000,000, forgery nd worthless checks $125,000,000, piracy and seaport robbery $75,000,. 000—a total ef $3,300,000,000. But that isn't all. Police, jails, prisons and corrective institu- tions cost us $5,000,000,000 a year. Grand total, $8,300,000,000. And this statistical compiler goes further, He shows that dishonesty Is increasing. Insurance companies before the war estimated there were three burglaries to one fire; today there are seven, Automobile theéfts compared with | total valuation have increased over five. times what the ratio was ten years ago. Embezzlements cost surety panies six times as much as they did a decade ago; burglaries 12 times as much. A monster defalcation like that of Gilpatric galvanizes public attention. But fraud in lesser amounts—some- times larger—is being practiced con- stantly. courts, com- NN SR e =) NEW BRITAIN JAY-WALKING Despite efficient traffic regulations, jay-walking in proximity to the center is almost constant, even during the peak of traffic. Conditions around the cen'er being what they are, it perhaps is impossi- ble to eliminate it entirely, although this is not intended to excuse the practice. The western side of the center is the point where most of it develops. Street car patrons alight on the east side of the grass triangle apnd head for the west side. It makes no important difference whether they stick to the walks on the center or cut directly across the grass—in either case they will land at a portion of the outer walk where there are no cross-over marks. To reach these cross-overs they would have to walk a dozen rods or s0 south or further than this to the They head right across the street, taking their chances in dodging traffic. A somewhat similar condition ob- tains on the eastern side of the center, where the cars stop. Street car rider leaving the cars there and desiring to | cross to the eastern side of the street, usually do not walk to the corner cross-overs, but jay-hike right across the street. On these sides of the center it seems the natural thing to do, yet there is just as much danger attached to jay- walking at these spots as elsewhere in the city. The only meliorating fea- ture is that motorists seem to antici- pate jay-walking alongside the tri- hag taught them to guard against it. BRAKES DOWN ON RUHR the Ruhr having| acuation of Ev been agreed upon at the London con- erally overlooked | disagreement as to detalls, | to play in. EW BRITAIN DAILY HE course, oppose the year's leisurely the Teutons backiracking; probably think the outgo could be managed in about a day Until this gruelling peint is settled the sugust plenipotentiaries will hare te ahide time In Londen and coninue running Up hotel bills which good natured John Bull has consent. ed to pay their PACTS ON DAWES PLAN Providence Journal takes the time to point out a few facts about the application of the Dawes plan that it must be admitted have Leen gen. These facts are that the London conference, now un- der way, constitutes but the second and thipd stages of the procedure, which has four complete divisions, The divisions of the Dawes plan re- ferred to are: The first stage was the appointment of the experts and the formulation of the plan itself, The sccond was accomplished when the Allies gathered at London and agreed as to the details of applying the plan, The third stage is in proc of com- pletion, being when the Germans ar« rived in London and the Allies started conferences with the delegates from Berlin, This stage iz not yet com. pleted and has resulted in considerable although the substance of the plan Is mutually satisfactory, The fourth stage will emerge im- mediately after the completion of the third stage, and may prove the most delicate of all, It involves approval of the agreements by the various parfia- ments. The London delegates, al- though they include heads of govern- menty lack power to apply the Dawes plan after they have formed an agree- ment regarding it, but will have to place it before their parliaments for ratification, The most trouble in this respect is expected in Germany, where legislation must pass the Reichstag before the plan can be carried into effect. In France there are forces in the Chamber of Deputies which are hostile to the Herrbot government, who may create dificulty in ratification. No trouble is expected in the British, Belgian, Italian or Japanese parlia- ments, As the Providence paper sug- gests, if the Lpndon agreement on the Dawes plan can survive assaults of re- actionaries in the German Relchstag partics, it probably will come to a successtul culmination, PLENTY OF GRASS Another distinguishing feature of New Britain is that there are large #ized lawns surrounding most of the city's homes, be they “singles,” “duplex” or apartment dwellings. Indeed, a house of any type in the residence districts without considera- ‘ble grass around all sides of it is not in demand as a desirable dwelling place. People won't live in it unléss there is no other place to go and if forced to move into it through stress of circumstances will quit it at the first opportunity. Spaclous lawns in New Britain not only extend in front of houses, but also on each side, Houses here are not built together closely, as unfortunate- 1y has been the custom in some of our’ large citics, before the time when good living conditions were more ap- preciated. And in addition to the “wide open spaces” in front and on both sides, the back yards in a majority of New Britain homes are things won- derful to behold. Some of them are nearly as big as parks, to exaggerate the situation just a trifie. At least, some are nearly as large as the well known triangle in the center of the city, giving Johnny and Jimmy plenty | of room to romp and play in 1y 18 a good thing that New Britain homes as a rule were constructed with plenty of room between, else there would have been insufficient width for the construction of the driveways for automobiles which " grace every property nowaday. We do not know what they are doing in such cities where several decades ago builders got the notion to save Jand and con- structed houses with oaly about six between them. We imprecations of | feet of space imagine that the property owners are loud and vigor- ous in such cities. At the time such houses were built the gencral use of RALD, THU SDAY, | you'll read: *Batted for Ruth in the | ninth It is easy to do one good deed each day in a region where there are small boys and I8 cream cones. How In the world does a weak tire know when you have on white panta? The reason so few widows bob it is because thers is nobody to ‘¢ll them not to, Another good endurance «st is to have your wife's people drop in for three weeks, The less important he is, the more arrogantly he can say: “A little serve ice, ple el Woman's heart is tender, She can forgive herself ten minutes after the event, Animals can't reason, but the wolf always knows where the stork has been delivering goods, It is estimated that there are 42,672 articles that look better in a store window than they look in your home. The knock under the hood indicates carbon; the one from the back seat indlcates bone. Mr, Dawes' slight indisposition may have been caused by the clogging up of language. Mrs. Noah, doubtless had opinions of her own when she found the two ants in the butter. The G. O. P.'s shrewdest move con- sisted in raising the price of wheat and making the crop abundant. Correct this sentence: “I have no per- sonal ambition”” said the randidate; “my only desire is to serve.” $3S356S5HSSH LSS ILH 508G 25 Vears Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) Plans are being rapidly - perfected for the meeting of the Connecticut Pomological society to be held at Eli- jah Rogers farm at Shuttle Meadow Lake on the 17. Arrangements have been made to accommodate over 500 guests, Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Rawlings have returned from Buffalo. Mr. Rawlings attended a national convention of the Temple of Honor thereé. George Ryan who was injured while riding his bicycle yesterday is rapidly improving at the hospital, and will soon be able to be removed to his Lome. Relatives of James M. Finnegan helped him celebrate his birthday at ris home onsEast Main street last night. Refreshments were served and a pleasant evening spent. Paul Hellir who is making the changes in the arrangement of the post office has made quite some pro- gress in the past twenty-four hours. William McAvoy will act as water boy for Company I during camp week, Another advance in the price of meat has been made by the local butchers. They explain that this has been necessitated by the scarcity of beet on the hoof in the west. Mr, and Mrs, Fred Eppler have re- turned from a visit to Yonkers, N. Y. Herbert C., Lyons was the motor- man in charge of the Hartford trolley car due at the park at 9:50 o'clock this forenoon which jumped the tracks on Chestnut street. It is thought the car hit an obstruction of some sort which was on the track. It has been announced that any information on the excursion of the Putnam Phalanx that may he desired by local people may be secured from Major Frank H. Johnston. R MY A TRIBUTE TO NEW BRITAIN AND THE NEW NORMAL SCHOOL. (Contributed.) Two hundred years ago Indians Trailed along this thoroughfare And ofttimes lurked behind tall trees. To aim their arrows at the foe, Who dared to venture near. Before this town was known And Berlin still was young, automobiles and the need for dri\e-;,rhe people traveled through wilder- | ways alongside of houscs was not an- | ticipated. New Britain's expansive back yards came in handy as sites for the family garages. Theré is room on virtully all of them for garages, and when the motor housing warrens are construct- ed there is still plenty of room in the family back yard for the kiddies May the day never come when les lawn is deemed desirable in this city. Facts and Fancies ness | To worship in the ancient church In Farmington. | Five decades passed, New Britain came to view The ecarly settlers Built their homes Along this old highway And builded bettér than they knew. New Britain stands for pregress, | And fame, both far and near, <! Bxtol with pride, her great industries And household goods of cheer. | But higher than arts, and crafts and trade And higher yet than fame, | Afar o'er hill and plain. The jorch of learning sends its gleamn | AUGUST 14, 1024, Pore L't Waist Line! Please tell me, little waist line, Ain't you never had no home? An' don't you git the blues an' want A place 1o call yore own? You're allus playin' peek-a-boo, Or some sich funny stall ‘Cause lots o' times 1 look for you, An' you ain't there at all! | I've saw you slip so far that-—gee! You most nigh hit the dust, Then all at once you bounce right up, So tight 1'd think you'd bust! With oozin' here an' hoppin' there, You must feel dreadful seedy, Them wimmin folks don’t treat you line,~no indeedy! M, H H, That's Different. : “Oh, this is so cuddent” ‘Then you will? Dearest, | plense. She: *No, Dick, T ean't,” He (desperately): “Then only one thing left to do, Mary to the dance,” ~Mulvin Boatmun, there's 'l take Ruined. Meade: “Why are you so sore at Richards Reade: yad a dirty trick on me, He told my wifa tha: rhe could hold a clever conveisation.” ~=Richard Koszenbaum, He's Got the Iight Idcea. The other day, while fondling my three-year-old brother J aslked him: “Larry, whom do you love®” Promptly he answered: *“You and mamma, and daddy, and brother and Dick, and I love me.” “Why the idea!" 1 sald, you love yourself?" And with the wisdow «f years, lar- ry sald: “Well, it T don't love me, who will?" “Why do ~—The'ma Phillipe, Inattentive, “Did you see the hat Mrs. Watson | had on in church today?” “No, my dear. 1 can't noticed it.” “Oh, you men! What's the use of going to church at all, if you don't pay any attention!” —Isaac Anderson, say 1 The Jingle-Jangle Counter, True affection always charms; Chairs will take you in their a . . Moonlight on the waters looming, Fine for rowing; kad for spaoning. | —13dith Chariton. . e Sister always ties daddy's ties, you know; Pop likes it four-in-hand; Sis likes a beaux. -=Curtis Snclling. .o Bread 1s called the staff of life; Rolling pins still suit my wife! »=R. E. Heyman. . . Safes are cracked by thugs and yegps; Chicks are born by crackiug cggs. —M. Brandt. « v | I wish I was a babbling brook Where nymphs come down to take 1a look. —James A. Sanaker. Realistic / “Children, what in the worid are you doing?” “We're playing restaurant, mam- m \ “But why is Willie pounding on that dishpan?” “Why, mamma, we can't have a restaurant without a jazz band, can we?" —Rodney Fried. By the Gossips. Osgoo “Why do they call it a quilting ‘bee’?"” Oswald: “Well, somebody is sure to get ‘stung’.” ~—Harry J. Williams, Logical, What? Sylvester wooed a pretty miss, (An aviatrix fair) And when he tried to steal a kiss She went up in the air. ~Hubby returns from the great Welcome home!" | 1924—Hubby receives a '‘phone call| at the club. “Well! Come nomne!" | —Irene Reisman, | Hank Bickerstaff says he likes leap| year because there's one more day| in which to loaf. Modern Youth, Father: “Can’t you be scrious for a moment, Bob?" Robert: “No, dad. be a boyish Bob.” I shall atways —Rosaline Juster. Household Hints, By Allen 8, James, Much effort can be saved in mop- | ping floors by tying several mops,| with handles removed, 4t various points on the creeping baby. . oo Serviceable hot dish pads for the| dining table can be made by sewing {a little trimming of bright colored gingham around the edges of stale hot cakes. LR An excellent hanging basket for the sun room or parlor can be made by | s RIGHT Now —our coal pockets are full of bright, clean OLD COMPANY'S AN- THRACITE COAL. It’s fine coal, every pound of it—the best you can possibly get and summer prices still prevail, Hundreds of local people have 'ordered their coal from us this summer. Most of them have taken part Buchwheat and saved money. - The Citizens Coal Co. Yard and Main Office Berlin Yard Uptown Uffice 24 Dwight Court. opp. Berlin station’ erI‘ Arch St. Tel. 2798, Tel. 2675-5, Tel. 3206, It Talks. She: “I shall wear my new evening dress tonight. Isn't’it a poem?" { He: “Judging from its shortness, 1. should say it's an epigram.” Helen Crykendall, | Observations On The Weather Washington, Aug. 14.—Forecast fc | Bastern New York: Fair and cor tinued cool tonight; Friday fal slightly warmer in the interior; mo¢ erate to fresh north shifting to eay and northeast winds, Ior Connecticut: tinued codl tonight; Friday fai slightly warmer In the interio {nmderatc to fresh north shifting We Would Have Met (he Same I'ate. He sat on the dock with a fishing line loosely ‘n his hand. Ever and anon he would look out towards the a, and with a listless look sweep the broad expanse. All of a sudden his eyes brightened. What was that he saw bobbing up out there? It was a bottle dropped by | some passing steamer! A bottle to be sure, and from the distance it flashed its luring possibilities. He dived into the water and swam towards the raceding prize. | People gathered and watched, | @At and southeast winds. { Conditions: An area of hig What a stroag swimmer he way, what powerful strokes! pressure central over the Lake regig He has reached is producing pleasant weather in people applaud. districts east of the Mississippi rive| He's sinking. A disturbance central over Nortl rescue. But too late! They bring | Dakota is causing unsettled weathel back the body. Grasped tightly in|With local showers between thj his hand is the bottie. Rocky mountains and the Mississipy And on the label is seen: river. The temperature is risin§ glowly in the western districts bul Summer's Cure for Sea-Sickness The coroner's verdict was “drown- | continucs moderate in the Lake regiof and New England. ing caused by heart failure.” P Conditions favor for this fair weather with cool nights. Iair and coy the prize. The | A hoat goes to the “Doctor Pickle. vicinil No Mol Zeb: “Say, 8i, what did you and | that city feller that was boarding a your house have such a fallin’ cu over?” Si: “Wal, you know, that goldurned | fool told me the fust day that he be- lieved in this Doctor Coue’'s method | and fer the next week he didn't do | nothin’ but go around saying: “Oh, it ain’t a-gonna rain no mo." (Copyright, 1924, Reproduction forbidden.) Ihe Kun Bhop 18 a nativnal | :ution conducted by newspapers of the country. Contributions from readers, providing they are original, unpublished, and posses sufficient merit, will be paid for at rates vary- g from $1.00 to $10.00, Write on one side of the paper only and wend your contributions to the “Fun Shof Editor,” ecare of the Herald, who will forwal them to New York tinaccepted” manuscripte will not be returned. t t | DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL . Animals By DR. FRANK CRANE Walt Whitman spenks somewhere of loving to be among the animal because they do not how to each other. That is, among animals there is no rank, no class, except that cla which is fixi by nature and all of them recognize as part of the organiza tion of things, N 1 The dog wastes no time in regretting that he is not a fish and th{ fishes do not want to got out of their medium. They are contended to b fn the water, . There is no nakedness among the animale, no senee of shame. Thej expose one part of themselves as indifferently as another, 4 Tt is only among human beings that we come to ciothes and the coteris of the human body. Consequently humanity is the only kind of animal factured a sense of shame, There is no modesty or shame or any such thing among the animal who frankly are what they are. Animals go about the world and eut of thi world as naked as when fhey were born. It is man alone that must bi covered up. It is from our genee of concealment that most of our sins ari Animals have neither sin, nor confession of sin, nor remorse for it. of the responsiblity of removing our clothes do we call keep, life that has manu Only because the animal Only because of the respousibilt of removing our clothes do we call keep ing them on a purity. Animals have no purity because they have no possibi lity of sin. ey are rcgulated by rules of nature, It is on deavors to regulate his own conduct by it {heir instincts, which is another name for th . when the intelligence has been placed in man, and he en that we have such words & | ference it now turns out that there is as to how long the A ordinary attaching three strands of wire to a and his wife's tidy fortune a brightly enameted old derby hat. . s oe money, “decency.” The animals are automatically decent. or this reagon those who spend their lives among the animals tend tq their level, Virtue is a human thing and is cultivated only by contact wit ST SOBEEY QUILLEN | And now today this noble structure stands Hquipped with everything that parently was at his beck and call. The | lack of agreement patric was he had too | evacuation shonld trouble with Gi take. much money, and developed the lust to make it multiply too quickly. The cashier got into financial diffi- @ He man, acquir- ness infegrity, and as state treasurer was entitled to eultles over business a8, originally was an hor ed a reputation for bu: be relied upon by the public as a man of probity and charac 1t is exacte | Iy this type of man, when he goes| wrong., who creates the bigge and usuaily goes hell bent toward on the wholesale pian because of the extent of his busiss intcrests, er. | st stir | evil the do it | diplomats, | ging way be thinker would im would with to evacuate to nd politicians dinary thinkers, They require time 10 fond of delays and ob- speed dispatch; but not or- | and statemen are think and are structions before it's time to act, And! ct the tendency is ] take when they finall to make the action as iang as possible. 1t took the French less than a week 1o seize the Ruhr; and the diplomats ars debating = hether it won't take 2 gt The Germans, of to out. Americanism: Used gum under a movie seat. Cause and effect: Blarney stone; one-karat stone; grindstone. Affluence in 1912: A spare bed- In 1924 A spare tire. Let us not fear the worst in Ameri- ca until olher nations stop hating us. ated tonger room. the price, thrilled by pay are | neughty playe. It's a~éad world and some day Modern art demands, Surpassed by none in this broad Jand. Teachers will come and go And learn to plant the seeds of knowl- ! edge ’ In youthful minds to grow. Who other, than the teacher Can guide childhood's mind aright” and true . £6 now the state gives her best gift to you. Adele W. Tavlor, | Within these halls as time speeds on, | None better than the teachers tired | An efficient teether for the baby| can be made by inserting gorks in a six-inch section of old garden hose. Our beloved sdys one rcason why! | there is more “necking” nowadays is heca bobbed hair has abolished the hat pip. Subdued Him. .1 Friend (whom she hasn't seen in| years): “Does your husbang still pride | | himeelf on being his own boss, my dear?” { Mre. Webster (grimly): “1 guess} An old-time graduate. | | not. He's & changed man now.” —E. H. D. our fellows. As virtue, by its very name, means the character of a man, § means the effort to do by our reason what the animals attain by instinét. The world is gradually ridding iteelf of all animals except those domeés; ticated by man and the fishes of the sea and of the river. The time is coming when other force than animal shall be used b mankind in the performance of his labors. When that time shall come humanity will no longer tence of animals in their mids Thus the growth of intelligence means the development of virtue an of shame. Those who look b simply those who contend ag cannot escape, 1t has its bad adjunc evitable, tolerate the exis, the scnse k with longing at the freedom of the animal life ar ainst the law of growth. ¥From this law W ots as well as its good ones but it is in Copyright, 1024, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate,