New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1924, Page 6

\ e Noag “New Britain Herald ' L HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY | R Sy —" ward 1o goamine rehabilitation of ST The agrecment had a quicker vie ™ over nationalistic opp ) SN (vutey Brsaot) ' Nstie opposition in both Franes and Gors Y than the BUBSCRIPPION RATES world expected, this aytmCS » being due 1o the TR fact that the bark of the natiensls 8 Month, 18He blocs is loud, e their stre th Bolered ot 1he Post Offce a1 Now Byiain | 4% ETOR1Y waned, a0 Sesond Olase Madl Maiter, There 18 every reason to beliere ... 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In furnten WapAners aiid advers | o Slaers with & strictly honest analysis of | ©4%¢ Of BUpposed default n repara. chioulation, ur- elieulation w Hon b « 1 na “ Dased upon thie audit, This tnsuies A9 PRy the: MoKt s b Brotection agaiust fraud in wewsiaper | APHItTAted, and not as formerly de. Iatribition (1zures te bofh natio Joca) advorianus®® 16 Dol mational and | clded molely by the reparations o | commission The Merald (s on_sale dally tn Ne ™ ¢ New| The London agreement in offect Tork at Hotallng's News Mand. Times | Bquare; Achults News Stand, Bntienrs | Changes the roparations procedurs Grand Central, 43nd. street, | of the Versailles treaty, 1t was signed e r—— | DY 110 allied representatives today {and Premier Herriot at onee A GOOD EXAMPLE B A Hawley of Yhe bourd of park Commissioners sets & good examplo With the announcement he wil give A stone bldge to the city, to he erected In Stanley Quurter park, m‘ honor of his mother. The bridge, to span the lake, will add a tonch of beauty as well as utllity, Plans for improving the park rapidly most assuredly will re- celve the approval of every citizen, and Mr. Hawley's act.adds a per- | preparations for economie and mili. tary uation of the Ruhr, MOSCOW BRUTALITY Bentencing to death of twenty-five unter-revolutionary officers in Moscow again Hllustratos the inherent | brotality of the soviet, Some of these officers engaged counte | revolution at a time when the reds | had not completed their own revo- | lution, ana would think the n one counter-revolters had as much right sonal touch and interest that com | J mends itself, | to engage In that particular pastime |'1f¢: usually, the more accurately It 3 1t 18 the privilege of a city's well- | @8 the red revolutionists. But the | reflects life the better the play, 3 o-do men and women to leave a|'¢dS semehow have remained in | TrAEedy, sex and sordid mot £ memorial for the enjoyment and|POWer and with it gocs the power |AboOund in even the most eommon- | Benefit of fellow citizens. To do so | O¥°r life and death, place lives; they are imbedded in during one's lifetime has the advan-| The story of Gen, Boris Savinoft, [ MIN® out of len stage master- tage of sharing in the pleasure of | One of those convicted, is especially | PleCes. the act. | appealing. He distinguished himself TR in the war against Germany, and 2 -"-‘-:h'“‘\l“kl o 2 TS wa e " “or years the Nicke! ate rail- h b STioRuns N e e MR e e regarded as an inconse- The warfare against placing pic- original Russian revelution, but | when the reds ended the constituent tures of bathing girls and similar | atickers on the windshields of auto- | "*%¢MDIY he originated his own revo- ‘mobiles has reached Massachusetts, | V1100 He had been military gov- ernor of Petrograd and became as- where Reglstrar of Motor Vehicles | \Goodwin has ruled the practice fs | SStant war minister in the Kerensky g | eabinet. Satire accompanicd his statement: | AS Gen. Savinoff has impressed the reds with the fact that he has changed his mind his life may be spared. The lives of the others also should be spared. They merely bet on the wrong revolution. “Aside from the fact that they obscure the vision, it is fair to | assume that any operator who | | is s0 much interested in this school of art as to paste a bath- ing girl on the windshieid of his car is very likely to be so ab- D BUT EFFECTIVE BELA | sorbed in curves and contours | P . o F Just as somo child runs into the | The New York World compiles roud, that the incvitable crash | (he siEnificant statistics to indicate will ceeur.” |that the Democratic party in four “ The war against the practice in- | states which at the New York con- vention nearly voted solidly against denounceing the Ku Klux Klan in the eludes political posters, or unly(hlng“ state conventions or otherwise have which obstructs the view. — [ Beraoseatis platform have since SMITH TO STAY PUT "mnn changed front and through | Gov. Smith of New York apparent- against | followed Davis into branding the hooded order. The Democratic state conventions 1y has definitely decided running for re-election, thus refus- | fng to meet the exigencies of the political situation in the Empire|in Kansas, Ohio and Idaho are the state, | ones referrsd to; in each resolu- With Smith on the ticket it would | tions were passed against the Klan. have been a tremendous aid to the | In Texas the Klan candidate was Democratic party in rying the | repudiated by the pfimary vote. stae for Davis. With him off the| At the Democratic co vention in ticket it means that the Republicans | Madison Square Garden Jhio split are better fixed to carry the state | the Kilan issue, 32 for for Coolidge. 16 against. three states its vote on naming the Klan and The ballots of the other SPLENDID LEAGUE RACE opposed naming the hooded order, The close pennant race in the “Shift those ballots as the states have voted now and the solution to name the Klan would have carried the convention by 200 votes. Nor is there any reason to think that this| that these four joined by others,” American league hag served to in-| erease interest in big league base- ball this year, including the smaller | cities who are not on the big cir- cuit. | The New York Yankees have been prime favorites In New Britain, but as this aggregation has won a serics | of pennants there are some who will be satisticd (5 sce another team | in the running. Hope was rampant | earfler In the season that the Bos- | ton Red Sox would be up among the | leaders in that league this year, ).m“ after a preliminary streak of speed | they have have dwindicd in power end, and will not be rld asserts, ia the stat the W A JUST REBUKE 1 argumenta- The finish of the le tion par Attorney case was on & State's ranks entire trial, tn the with the received a rebuke 1 a Crowe teow- the judge term dastardly for what assault” upon ardly and court's integrity owe's refer the rebuke re- to a the ulting from Ci jud and prestize. Ty Cobh's Tygers have peen eon- and a reference Yankees “friendly failure 1o #esting first place with the that rioting might follow flerce but the team, due Lo a Pre- p,,0 Joeh and Leopold. ponderance of young pla [ Sometimes the prosecution in a Jacked ying powor, although A0V | (iinal case is at an advantage and tsam that is as close to the leaders [ 4 gipor imes st & disadvantge a8 Detroit still has a chance to Wil | o from the start had the ad- ° the pennant. vantage of a clear casc against the | Satisfaction is expressed that the |, eeq so far as thelr guilt was Washington club is doing 80 well | opioenid, bat when Clarence Dar- | mbers of Persons | gy gyt in a plea of guilty for the There are large n country who would began a court uthful glayers and throughout t k. like to see ghington get into the campaign for mitigation of punish B world series for no other TCASON |y on the score bf thelr allegad than 1o Walter Johnson, the | pye) condition, the tables turned greatest piteher in baseball, pErform |y, p oo 6of Darrow, the most able & ih such a series. They belleve® al oo o the two. pitcher o putstanding SKI ST o0 way the verdiet gpes Y entitled to hurl in a wprld series at must be admitted that Darrow least once in his caveer. 1S DE- 100 0 asterly defense o obtain § Teved that in sueh a series he conld o 0 00 roct amounts 1o clemency B G0 cvery game he pitched. - Not| o L prosccution was far less shnce the of Cy, YOung Wi i, n. relying almost solely upon here Been s 8 wonderful [y prute force of denunciation, end- B monndeman, ond his tecord ds Al oo e sternly reby by th the more remarkable in that during | o o robably cxpected the miost of his earcer he was iden-| L, udge, but 4 moment's BN vk an alvosren lub, which | o " tore he nitered s X was not the il fortune of Young. statements would have told him he k _— was injuring his casg 3 REICHSTAG 1S SENSIBLE L 9 The Gorman reichstag having rati- FARMERS AND “FUTURES" BL fled the lLondon conference agree- Farm land values, are told, are Ment upom application of thel .« down fo the 1916 level the Dawes report, the wesid n 100K Lust® over. “The Sar® hage ' NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURD | throughout all the states amounts to . The 1 value in 1926, pecordin ac ‘ dnc,e’ 19 the U, B census was $68.816, OY ROBERY GFILLEN ot The folal value tedey W] pos: MG was o geed follow, but cightesn billions of dollars leas they didn't lek him pay, In addition 1o this wholesale — U shrinkage of the value of land, has| Yo umay lay in a liquer supply been the low price of farm produets, which plagued farmers until recents & power of Amerlean 1o have increased a 15 The buyi farmers is sa | bition doliars the past few munlm,} due 10 rising farm prices | inerease In prices of That the & can be stimulated is| rarm indicated by prod a review of a busines inatitution ascribes the re. cent raise partly to “feverish specus lation en the produce exehanges Reports that the Canadian | erop would drep from 420,000,000 to 300,000,000 and that the! Russian crop I8 poor, would of it. | self tend to rmise prices; but the | n where the natural | demand leaves whieh wheat | bushels, poculators be | 1aw of supply and off, and by speculating in futures in. | ase the price still more, | A% & rule tarmers dislike specus | probably do not dislike cre tators, but hance prices WULIAR JORN ¢ NN John Golden, theatrieal producer, has hung up three prizes with a| combined total of leas than $10,000 for three plays to be judged by the | | dramatie crities of the newspapers 8 the hest of those submitted In the | | contest. Plays revolving around | tragedy, sex and sordid motives are | barred The theater is supposed to reflect quential streak of rust. Its main line runs from Cleveland to Chicago— contrary to most of the maps pub. lished since the recent merger—and its passenger trains betwen the two cities took hours longer to make the run than those over the New York' Central. Indeed, the New York Central for years had a controlling Interest in the Nickel Plate and conducted it a8 a freight carrier, with a few trains a day for local traffic and a differ- ential rate for through passenger traffic. | But when the Van Sweringens got hold of the line it began to feel the | impetus of good management. A vice-president of the New York Cen- tral was engaged aa president and another noted railroad executive made general manager. Business bes gan to pick up almost over night. They went out after freight business and got it 6n the strength of superior serivce, The builders of the Nickel Plate had constructed a line re- markably free of curves and grades, #0 that It is possible to maintain one | of the fastest freight services in the country. Note that this refers to | treight service, not passenger. When new roads were acquired | the Van Sweringens continued to provide good management; and their enterprises have been uniformly suc- cessful, The effect of the Nickel | Plate mergers upon other railronds will be most wholesome. It is said that after the Interstate | Commerce Commission passes on the | combine with the Erie and the Pere Marquette, the Van Sweringens will | g0 out after the lLackawanna. This would give them a double entry into New York city. It may be that after tlieec modern wonder workers get all they need west of the Hudson river they might be induced to come into Xew England, From all accounts, {his would be nothing for New Eng-| Jand shippers and the travelling pub- | lic to worry about. | 25 Years Ago Today Paper of That Date rom Harry Brown has returned | from a ten days’ trip to Halifax. He | yeports a splendid time, There was a night biooming | cereus at the residence of James | Gaffney last evening and a number | of persons gathered there to witness the unfolding of the flower. Some one occupying a toom on the third floor of the Stanley build- | fng threw a lighted lamp into the | street last night. A number of peo- | ple were on the strect at the time and there wae a rush for nearby doorways. | The committee appointed to se- | lect a new principal for the high | | school held a lengthy meeting last | night but failed to agree. It is now | thought that a principal will not | be selected in time to open school | nest week | The monthly police report shows that there were S1 arrests during this month. This is an increase of over the arrests made during the | month of August last year. The ringing of the church belis this morning awoke many lighter | sleepers. The oceasion was n’ warning to those who are enjoying the South church Sunday school ple- nic being held at Glen Cove today Judging by the bevy of young| Indies that may be secn going along | Main street lutely it is the style to No one to | g0 bareheaded seems [ know what origivated the idea but it is the work of a great head, Pers haps a ba” M 44 at that. | but you lie in teliing how good it la What the fellow whoe calls it a furnished houde really needs is a die- tionary As Lo exercise, however, the way Vo fatten geese and homs is 1o pen them up. An easy mark mfay be a man who bought German war bonds and now is rich We are a eultured eople, and most of us know Epinard isn't an Indian poet » 1 | To some people the great mystery of life is just a curiosity as to how pgan | 1hem so much when they help to en. | 0ther people can afford cars. “Washington can be dried up" This doubtless refers to ligu not to specches, People hugged long ago, but they called it romunce instead of prize Nghting. A 12,000,000 bale erop of cotton The man who has on knickers in A hick town wishes to know how far It I8 to the next city, “What a shape!” siged Eve, she ganced fn the pool; rotogravure man in sight The huaband's only chance Is to urge her to bhob it and count on her mulishness, If a woman with an infant didn't have intuition she couldn't always pick out a boarding house inhabited by a bachelor with nerves, How listless we should be at & summer resort if there were no mos- quito bumps to scratch. The first essential in saving any- body from drowning is to have a beautiful manl yshape. Rendoring service tickles your vanity, but you think it your soul and are just as happy. Let's hav esssions of Congress immediately after elections so the people won't forget what they have voted for. Correct this sentence: “Nine thou- sand n¥les,” said he, “and the same alr in the tires I left home with.” (Protected by Assoclated Editors, Inc.) Observations On The Weather Washington, Aug. 80.—Weather outlook for the week' heglnning Monday: North and middle Atlantic states: showers Sunday night or Monday, followed by fair until about Thursday or Kriday when showers are again probable. Cooler Monday, temperature about normal, middle and latter part of week. The weather bureau today issued the following storm warnings: Cropical storm apparently coe- tral about 100 miles north of Porto Rico moving northwestward.” Eastern New York: Generally fair tonight; warmen in the interior and south portion tonight: Sunday in- crensing cloudiness; fresh local thundershowers In the intorior; vari- able winds becoming fresh souther- Iy. (Forecast for southern New Eng- land)—Fair tonight; Sunday in- creasing cloudiness, probably local | thunder showers in western Massa- chusetts; little change in tempera- moderate to fresh southwest ture; and west winds. For Connecticut: Fair tonight; Sunday increasing cloudiness prob- ably local thunder showers in west- ern Massachusetts; lttle change in temperature; moderate to fresh sonthwest and south winds, Conditions: The pressure is high over the middie Atlantie coast and low over Minnesota Unsettled, showery weather prevails In the upper Mississippl valley and western portion of the Lake region. Pleas- ant weather continues in other see- tions east of the Rocky Mets temperature is somewhat above normal in the central and eastern districts Conditions favor for this vicinity | fair weather and not much change in temperature followed by increa ing cloudine on Sunda Shoulder Flowers Tondon—A little buneh of artifi- cial flowers pinned on the shoulder and matehing the hat is the latest fad of Dame Fashion. Roses have proved to he the most nopular flow- ers for this purpose. The combina- tion has hecome one of the most | notable features of the fashions dis- plaved on the Strand. Passengers Careless London—The forgetfulness of rail- way travelers is shown by the col- | ection of lost property left on the Southern railway: Tennis ots, 15 hockey sticks, fishing rods, sporting guns, foothalls, foothall boots, 285 wooden halls for coconut shies. two jazz drum and sticks, coneertina and erystal sets, a eymbals with a seven musie stands. The | | | A de | Verses apd Heverses, A odt-fsh s & Ash, T know; A cat:bird is & biedp A cal-tall is & fuzsy plant; Now isn't It absurd A dog-star s & planet bright; wood is & tree; loggone all these eats and dogs, They don't scem right to me. -G 8 C But 1 cannot sleep at night of thinking Of my girl, my love, my ros Overhead the stars are winking— With, or at me, Heav A politielan, when he Prefers a aingle course; A beaker of banana oll And lots of APPLE-BALC -G, & C. The highest hill can go #0 far— It eannot reach a single star, And yet a hill doss not complain Beeause it elimbed itself in vain, H Little drops of water, Little drips of rye, Used to maks a high-ball, In the days gone by. -G, 8. C. Wz Ask His Wife, “No man s perfect the professor “Wall, at chuckled remarked least no married man the Cynie, ~=Arthur Davidson, She Lost Out, It was drawing near the end of the season, and the annual contest for bathing beauties was under way, The Mayor, looking for men who were qualified to act as judges, asked & handsome, young bachelor if he would serve, “Not on exclaimed, * in last year's contest girl tried for a prize, apoken to me sinc our life!" the bachelor Was one of the judges and my best She hasn't The Boomerang. She—"I marricd you because 1 thought you had money!" He—"1 mariied you just simply to show people that I conld!” ~M. J. Darnaby, Balance. Jack=—"Yes, I had a little balance in the bank, but I got engaged two months ago, and now—" Maud—"Ah. Love makes the world go round?" Jack—"Yes. But I didn’t think it would go round so fast as to make me lose my balance." —G. Marshman, The Guarantee, “I believe,” said the customer to he merchant, “that you sald that anything 1 got from your store that wasn't satisfactory could he re. turned.” indeed,” agreed the mer- well,” continued the cus- tomer, “the bill you sent me Jast month coming back to you by the afternoon mail.” —E. M. Curtis. Just Like a Woman, She had been convieted and con- demned to dle.by hanging. believed in her innocence, but when the fateful day came no pardon had arrived. There was no hope, and the hours flew by until the fatal time came. and the noose her graceful neek. and composed. “Is there anything you wish eay before the trap Is sprung?” asked the executioner. There were tears in hns eyes—he believed her guiltless of the crime, Yes,” she murmured, She was calm At the end of two hours she was still talking and she was only inter- rupted by the arrlval of the pardon, —Leo Peck. The Jingle-Jangle Counter. T think 1 shall never sce A poker hotter than a bee. —Walter R. Circumstances alter cascs; Rouge and powder alter faces Adams —Ralph Warren, “This parting is awful,” sighed the romantic lass Who combed her ald of a glass. hair without the . N. Destroyer, Roomers and Promises. [ sehottis {put a strain on dane [them limip and helpleas wreeks when | {the orchestra paused for hreath |or its manners, some long-fa Many | She was led to the gallows was adjusted about to » AUGUST 380, 1024, - a————— g (he question peint blank HE OBSERVER—| | | ! Makes Random Observations —T On the City during the past week, genticmen who claim 1o have & deep Interest in the postry of motion have pre- |tented against modern dancing snd {medern musiec. With all due regard to their high estate In the world of {muuc sad dancing, it is 1o be feared that the learned gentlemen don't know what they are talking about. One of them made the remark that the “modern dance is killing." |are taken and seeretly buried, Cers ginly the obituary celumns of the wspapers have not contained ae- " i, M irolmll of people who have met their | York would think without death through dancin Perhaps [inis is another instance of editgrs |being on the payroll of the i ests,” as is freauently charged, 1If adern dancing were fatal, it is re markable how the population of the ountry inercases hecause everyone is out o' evenings giving |their heels a treat while saxophones | soh, Far from heing Killing, modern dancing 18 less tiring on the hody than the old fashioned waltz and the he, ‘The latter in particnlar rs which left Modern duncing is condemned be. causo it is different, Whenever & nation ehanges its methods of living n- dividual bobs up and in sepuichral tones announces that the world i goIng to the dogs down the erooked lane of wickedness. This charge was made when women went in for short skirts, Males became aware for the first time that ladies had ankles and Immediately exhorters everywhere solemnly proclaimed that everyone had a one-way ticket to the kingdom of his Sutanic Majesty, But the short skirt has justified its use, Fomules today are healthier hecause with the short skirt, they have adopted other sensible garments, have gone in for outdoor athletics and have gained grace of carrin wtronger muscles and firmer flesh, They are better ecquipped in every way to combat the inroads of disease and, emancipation from other bonds has accompanied their emancipation §n matters of dress, they are more com- panionahle and make better “pals, every bit as wholesome as their putty-faced ancestors who helieved that woman's sole duty was to keep house and whose sole literature was Godey's magazine and Sunday school tracis, Music, too, has improved. There is a greater variety of it. New songs are turned out by the ton. W dance music keeps the presses hum- ming. No longer are we forced to sit and listen to “Hearts and Flow- ers” over and over again while the hero is bidding good-bye to the heroine. Granted that composers in the past have given the world songs and music that are immortal, for every name that will live on the tongues of music lovers there were a thousand composers who perished of starvation in their garrets simply because the stuff they wrote was so bad nobody would print it. There is much to be said for jazz. In the first place it has a universal {appeal and everyone can understand it. It is irresistible and sets all feet tapping at the movies. It is over- whelming when played at a dance and brings all present to their toes, “A critic of modern music says the writers have heen *“debauched.” If that is true it is because the mod- crn public demands music of this kind. It etirs the blood, lightens the heart, takes the kinks out of the muscles and sets the world gyrating, Music has not degenerated. In fts modern form it is something the people have been waiting for. The old-fashioned classic cramped our style—the classics of today give vent to pent yp emotions that have been secking an avenue of escape for eons and eo Saxophonist, step on it. . . She was a demure miss, just past |her 'teens, and was in New York |city for the fivst time, Like all vi itors, she was awed by the big build- ings and the Brooklyn bridge, tood on Broadway looking up at the peak of the Woolworth building, her mind lost in thought. ‘Wonderful, isn't it?” asked her companion, a blase New Yorker. Uh, huh,” was the reply. “The biggest in the world,” re. [marked the New York girl with the air of a home:town hooster, “Uh, huh,” was the response, “Begob, me bye, Jawn, is takin' pairt in a play over at the school an’ From two widely separaied points because | She | and Its People - Aftor & fow minutes the New York &1 began 1o have the Adgels "8y, Country Cousin, wake up and tell ue what you're thinking 04" she cineulated The visiter eame back 10 canth “What 'm thinking of? Gee, rght now 1'd like some peanuts | PEANUTS: SCreamed Mis Gotham. What have peanuts & o do with the Woolworth buliding “Wha said ‘peanuts had anything | Perhaps he knows where the vietims (1o de with the Woolworth bui ling But 1'd like some peanuts just the [Same. od Anyone not familiar with New Investi. gating that peanuts would be the easiest thing to find In the Big Ciry, Ho Miss Cotham and her Country Cousin started out fo hunt for pes nuts. They visited all the fruit .Ilhll-’l within a radius of a mile The clerks were smili ohliging | trom little Gwendolyn to Galloping |Yes, they had bananas, plums, ehew. | Granam ing gum, elgarettes, watermelon and everything under the sun—but they Hdn't have any peanuts Not until the peanut hunters reached Riverside Drive were they able to discover what they sought, They wore standing in the abade dis. consolate and footsore, huving given up hepe of ever meeting a peanut again, In fact, they were eonvin |that peanuts had been banned by an amendment to the constitution, Finally, as they were standing there ;u boy with a basket on iy |came past and Inquired: “Peanuts?" I'hey hought two bags each and told told the boy to keep the changs, | The Country Cousin returned to New Britain a few days ago—yes, she is a New Britain young woman, “What do you think of New York?" her friends askedq her, I llke New Rritain better,” “WHAT!" (chorus,) “Yes, you can got peanuts with. 'l\m walking five miles for the was the ealm reply, e The presence of eity people in 1ating the church life In these com. | munities during the summer monthy when the churches are othorwise nil but deserted, according to the Con- necticut Federation of churehes, Not only are the summer visitors from the city atlending the church serve fces, but they are glving liberally to the support of these churches, thus | making it possible for the communi. ties to have resident ministers the year round, Coming from the cities where church life is dormant during the summer, the city people, according to report |are att | churches and take an activ |est in the religious and soc | that centers about them, | The resident minister in such a community thus has an incentive to stay in the country town during the winter months and his presence with his family makes life in the village immeasurably more interesting. But the church activity of the summer *mon(hn which is increased by the coming of the city people makes it recessary for the minister to forego the first time in seven years,, the community having adopted the fed- erated church plan which mobilizes | social and financial forces and there- by furnishes an adequate task for a capable minister, Other Connecticut villages are con- sMering the advisability of adopting the federated church plan, which is already in operation in fifteen cen ters In the state. The Connecticut Federation of Churches, realizing the importance of the country church a8 a factor in conservation and pro- gress, is cooperating through fts committees on comity, rural life, and social service, in putting the feder- ated church plan into effect in the small towns. (i Good news is flashed from the shores of Lake Compounce. ‘The Crocodile club s to continue in exist- ence. At the annual meeting of the club Thursday of this week, Secre- tary Beers expressed doubt whether there was still enough interest in the club to warrant its existence. Asking ed | | Connecticut country towns is stimuy. | from the. country towns, | acted to the small country inter- Just engaged a resident minister for | their meagre or disunited numerical, | Will the (igh discontiane s asthvities™ he A5 el with & salve of hat shoak the rafters of the Lake Com. | pounce castno The Orecodiies have met for mi re SMhering once & dear At |Compounce where & feast it for a ';u.. Is served, It consists of roast sheep, fried corn and other vignds which appeal 10 the palate. especin! iy if the owner of the palate ha stood at the side of the reasting pi wid dnbaled the aroma of sheep iy the process of being barbeeued, The fragrance Intoaloates and dulls the senses 19 every emolion save one o wolasy, Bubconsclously ane begin 1o hum "It aln't goin' te rain we me'" After a few minutes at the pit, & voracieus appetite develop and “When do we eat ™ becomes the question of the moment. Nepairing o the dining hall, the hunger-strick multitude sits down and eal en : and eats—and eats, After Anishing twa servi of everythin' last Thursday, & New Britain man called one of the waiters and said: “Be that just sha my appetite Bring me some mo Bring a lot of it And bring it quick before, ! die of starvation, Like all things mundane, the Cro codile elub is ehangin Its meet | ings were once haunted by office holders and office seeke It was considered a fagrant vielation of itical otiquette on the part of publie officials not to attend the hocodile dinner, Governors and lesser lights graced its festive boards land mere congressmen had to iden- tify themselves In order to get a seat at the guest tahl This is not the case today, Politiclans are few and far between and a congressman is regarded as a visitor from the "big | time™ elreuit, Nevertheless, the Crocodile club | continues to flourish like & bay tre | Year after yonr old faces disappear | and new ones take their place, The | elub blossoms perennially and those who attend seem to have just as mueh fun g8 hefore Mr, Volstead got his name on the front page. ..o Some day we are going to write & | mystery play which will so shatter the recognized traditions of the |stage that it will completely rend |asunder the theory that thers is I nothing new under the sun, It will start out like any respectable mys- tery play, with & murder—hold, a slew of murd A millionaire, his wife, his children, his servant | his pet airedale will be discov dont to death and strewn about the |house in chairs, hanging from the chandeliers, and glued to the celling. | Valuable papers telling how to make radium out of radio sets will be missing from the safe, along with |a couple of counterfeit German | marks. | Those ever-stupid stage police will immediately fasten the crime upon {the millionaire's business rival. | Doorlocked Homes, the master sleuth, will apply scientific and in- telligence tests to every person on the stage and in the audience to dis- cover that the heinous crime was committed by the dead man's dear- est friend. But an insignificant- looking amateur detective will lead suspicion hither and thither until he finally proves that the atrocity was perpetrated by none othér than |the chief of police. This makes an end with a’kick, but just as the curtain is being low- loved, a telegraph messenger will | come dashing in and announce that the real murderer has confessed and proves to be only a hard-working bhurglar; in no way connected with the millionaire's past life, who had |been seeking to eke out his Nving und was surprised in the act. | Of course it will never he acecept- ed, but that won't prevent us from {huving the fun of writing it. . . Landlords are doing many pecu- [liar things in their efforts to extract |more money for their apartments and they are being accused of many | more things, but it remained tor a |New Britain man to perform one of |the prize tricks of all. A family was !secking a rent and finding it hard !to obtain one which suited both |taste and purse. At last they came laipon one which promiced well and {asked the rental. | “Twenty-cight dollars a month," replied the owner, and then added ay an afterthought, “Have you any |ehtidren” ‘Yes, three,” admitted the couple. All right. A dollar extra a month | for each child. You can have the | flat for $31 a month."” This must be what is siiding scale, called a DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL h ’ The Span of Life he's spoutin’ the worrds all over the plac fisted divil Landlady—"I am sick and tired of coming to you for the rent. 'This is the last time I expect to ask for that wrote 1it, but he I dunno the name of the two | By DR. FRANK CRANE = The span of life at hest is very brief. elghty years of activity; as the et might of been from Connemarra, fer | At most it inciudes but seventy or Student—"Good. 1s that a prom- | the bye kapes shoutin': ‘Lay on, Mis- | Psalmist said, “The days of man are three score years and ten, vet, if by fse 2" tee Duffy, an' dom the man that| reason of strength they be four score vears, yet is it labor and sorrow.’ It is characteristic of men that they live as though they were eterns' ~—Badsall Gardner, | stops furrst’, ‘E. Harriman, A barking dog never bites, but look out for the hot dog with toe much mustard. The Editor's Gossip Shop. Sales,” No reason at all. So, next week, we &hall give our readers the full benefit of an ac cumulated stock. Hard To Refuse, Flubb-—"He's the m ing talker 1 ever met.,” Dubb—"What happened—has he been trying to borrow money from you, too?" convine- ~Lew Brown. mor which has litical Tines, 1t Certainly Was, Why, some have asked, has The Fun Shop not had &hy “Clearance One day next week we shall oifer Verses and Reverses, being the hu-|abundant.” reached us via po- | They plan institutions as though they would exist forcver and lend them | selves, fictitiously, a span of life which they artificially create. | Yet, after all, the difference between the most aged and the infar | who dics new-born, is not great. About all that can be done here is 1: set our house in order, if there be anything for which to set it in ord: | and, if there he no future life, the most of us will be disappointed. The other day Mr. Alvey August Adee died at the age of eight *| three, the oldest American diplomat, And yet those who approach this age feel, mors and more, th rapidity with which time elapses. In youth, time seems to be eternal anc the motto of youth is that tomorrow “will be as this day and much mor: se in age and feel the years slipping from us, the: of the fraility and uncertainty of our days. Rut, us we incre is borne in upon us a sens Mother had been reading modern ,|°" ;‘I""”’" day epigrama will vis| We are made to feel, more and more, the bretity of life, L Lo L MRANE KRR R SRSV ARSI U x| The continuity of the human race depends very largely upon custor Fied {0 tmprens MUDDIN SRS Uires,§ 10 ) ORe and the hold of tradition. If one were to come back to France, for in with the desirability of early retir- ing. When mother was a little girl, she anid, “grandmother didn’t let her stay up till eight o'clock until she was eight years old.” Now wasn't that a dirty shame!” cald Bobbie ture burlesque and $atires. Next week—Fun Shop Sales Bargains of summer accumulations. Do your fun-shopping ear (Copyright, 1924 — Reproductior Forbidden:) ~-Dorothy Boller. ‘The Fun Shop Is a natlonal insti- tution conducted by newspapers of the country. Contributions from readers, providing they are original, unpublish. 0, and possess sufficient guerit, will b paid for at ia \I'.‘\H‘ from $1.00 to $10.00. Write on oue side of the paper oniy and send vour contributions to the “Fun Shop Editor,” rare of the Herald, who will forward them to w Yok Unaccepted manuscripts 1 nol be returned. Darling, you are growing old; Silver threads among the gold In your boy-cut 1 behold. Lay On Machufl And— “Mike, there's a new writer fr the old sod that’s makin' a name | fer himself, dye mind,” said Denny, lighting his pipe. “How's that, Denny 2" And on another day we shall fea- ed vears, he would not find the sam: stance, after being away for a hur | people at all yet they wouid be Frenchmen, Everyone has felt, at some time or other, how strange it is that o all the people he scee abont him, in one hundred years not one will eon | tinue, yet the earth will be as fu ever, ] 1t is the human race that goes on from year td year and not the in | dividual lite. One by one we drop out yet the continues, It 18 the genus in which Nature scems to be most interested. While | she is careless of the single instance, she is only careful of the type. Wha* | happens to the gingle soul we do not know but there is persistent belle tn its continuance in another life. But what happens to the race we @ know. Barring untoward accidents it will go on forever, | 1n our thinking we identify ourselves with the aze of Jesus and ¢ Julius Ceasar, forgtting that the people of that time have long ago dk | appeared and that the present is a new group. But the disappearance of the individuals has been so gradual, am there has been such a lapping over of one generation to the next, th | we retain our consciousness of the integriiy of humanity. §-» Copyright, 1924, by The McClure's Newspaper Syndicate, rac