New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1924, Page 6

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Not content with massacre in con- | nection with a labor dispute of rove | universal gun-toting oy the entire male citizenry, and a Klan | effort to wipe out the old-established industry of gin-making, has brought about another bloody climax, ' “Bloody Willlamson county,” less than miles from the K.n-‘ tucky border, east or south. A goodly | years 50 part of its citizens believe they have | 1 right to carry a flask in one back | pocket and hardware made in New other. 1f foollsh person starts argument the some an | there is no telling what will happen. Some 60 miles south—which Is | precious little as distances go in | 1llinois—is Cairo, the capital city of | “Little Egypt,” as the southern part of the | s ed ittempt was made there 10 massacre the empire of lawessness in state Some years ago an| | & large number of negroes in town. | Entrance SAYS SIATE WILL RATIFY The J optnion t . Meriden irnal s of tfederal child 1 amendment 1 bor prevail at Hart- ford, as it has in some the legislature year. that th amen been instead of 18 years and believes the add tates,” when meets the first of the 3ut the Meriden paper opines age-limit in the proposed 1ent should have 16 fonal two years will make amendment. med by party organs that the legislature not ratify | the amendment and on the basis of | such prognostications the state has been placed in among those not ex- rected to ratify. Other lists place mp; state In the doubtfu The Mer- | iden editor probably is as near right | as the others. it of | forecasting what will happen is even | will class. gentle less developed than the art of fore- casting the weather a week ahead. WADHAMS It appears TRONGER hat Col, Bingham has been somewhat incensed at the suc- cess of the faction in the party con- troled by Col. Isaac M. Ulman at New Haven. In Ulman's organization obtained con- trol of ten of the 12 delegates to the state con tion, who will support John M. Wadhams as the guberna- Bingham by 3 to 1, His he the recent caucus, torial candidate. was dc feated in his own W neighbors thought of him being the machine evidently dislike t candidate for governor. The: rumpus in Bridgeport, in the latter the leadership of Joha T. Ki keep J. Henry Roraback from find- | ing the time heavy on his hands. If e insurgents ength | elsewhere in the ham Haven and due to New g will can gain state the Bin eandidacy will not be the sure thing it appeared to be Wadhams is supposed to have a strong follow it did not ma caucus showdow ng i t felt in the the smalier cities Bingham. The chance and Wadha al observers in t but that is better than the previous| ratio about 4 to 0. Wadhams' chances for the nomination can be greatly in forces in th ‘what has his candidacy. seer s between Bingham are re ded by liber- e ratio of 4 to 1; of nti-machine sed if the tate take courage from pired and get behind “ABANDONED FARMS” From P! where the nt visited his father's wouth, Vt, preside farm, comes a letter indicating the nd- still of Vermont as to population material pr ough has been a vast increas of operating the state. follows: gress, alt in the cos The Jetter “At the hase of the associated | Plymouth-Bridgewat | er hills are abandoned | homes. | bodies a few years ago. In 1911 the | | power New Britain, but |- Not 100 miles due northwest ll‘ X St. Louis, where another whole. | suue massacre of negroes took place | in recent years, some of the \'l\'(im!i being burned to death in their| At the northern end of the state, | similar at- | netted a terrible toll of dead in cultured Chicago, & tempt { | record of a murder a day was es- | tablished and the average continues, | with some days three or four. Yet the state is an empire of na- tural resources and of wealth, It contains people of brains and genius; it has produced statesmen of the first rank. The body of Abraham Lincoln | rests on the bosom of its soil. “What the state needs is a cleaning up of its few cancerous municipali- Herrin is a stench in the union. CHEAP POWER A letter from Buffalo, N. Y..| points with pride” to the fact that | electric power there is 30 per cent| cheaper than the average cost of | n 15 representative cities the | ze or larger than Buffalo. | That has been the case for a long | time, or ever since Niagara power No city situated can com- with Buffalo’s hydro-electric | The man * who| iagara power idea in Juffalo is the hero of the town. Yet power development, has that meant | same el elo mer bl vas atarted) less fortunately pete power facilities. originated the with all its cheap electric | an enormous increase in the manu- | facturing enterprises of Buffalo? In- | dustry has increased ¢ nsiderably in | that city, of course, but compared | with many other cities which lack | such the increase | doesn't look so imposing. cheap power Detroit lacks cheap hydro power, | oal to gen- | crate power, yet Detroit's increase in | industries has made thpse of Buf-| falo look like the proverblal 80 cents. | eveland, midway hetween the two has also vastly outstripped Buftalo. The same is true of Chica- go and numerous other cities. New E electric pow relying altogether upon ies, 1 enjoys some hydro- er development and will | of it as the years pass, develop- at Niagara Falls; yet New | hold their manufactured enjoy more but there is no immense like England indus ment an own with any g around Buffalo. And strange to say, ! there is nothing manufactured with 2p Nia around Buffalo that sells a cent less the aid of che a power in the market than the same article manufactured in New Eng-| 1 the aid | open and or elsewhere without great power development. \gara power i flalo has been something of a will-o'-the-wisp, promising an enormous impetus to | manufacturing but failing to fulfill the promise. New progressed faster Britain comparatively has in manufacturing cnterprises than Buffalo. WOMEN IN POLITICS | The Alice Paul ideal of "women's | hibited on some railroads; evidentl | on the platform, diligently throwing NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, litical campalgning they do not relish, Some observers will say they are wise. One can scarcely lmagine & high class woman, able to hold her own in the senate, Jining up with a political machine to obtain its sup- port and indulging in machine tac- tics in order to gain her seat., Most women are far too idealistic for such matters and perhaps this 1s one rea- son why they are not making ap- preciable headway on the road to congress. MRS, SHAVER STATES HER MIND WhegyCandidate Davis last saw Clem Shaver, his close friend and buddy in the political under they did not discuss Mrs. Shaver. But the next time the twain meet the conversation will include the woman. While the Republicans are enjoy- ing a good laugh, Clem «Shaver is far from that state of ecstasy. Can- didate Davis also is not laughing. And Gov. G. W. Bryan in Nebraska is wondering. Mrs. Shaver, unmindful exigencies of politics into the arena like Carrie Nation with an axe, wrote a letter to a newspaper in Fairmont, W. Va, in which she spoke her mind in woman. ly fashion about “Charley” Bryan, alling him a “pacifist” and rebuk- ing him for it. The tongue-lashing was broadcast in the newspapers and war way, of the and treading the Democratic party has discovered | that somebody in the Shaver family | has lacked the restraint usually at- taching to the Kkin of political chieftains. By this time Mr. Shaver has had a heart-to-heart talk with Mrs. Shaver; maybe he didn't get the best of it, but she probably has com- promised by promising to bury her pen until after election day. A CAUSE OF WRECKS Two high-speed limited trains on the New York Central—the Detroiter and the Lake Shore Limited—leave Syracuse, N. Y., five minutes apart, the Lake Shore Limited first. Thirty miles west of Syracuse the Detroiter smashes into the other, which had been stopped because of a broken air hose. Twenty-seven persons were in- jured. Similiar “accidents” have hap- pened before. Five minutes between fast trains may be sufficient under normal conditions, but conditions are | not always normal. The fog was so thick that the Detroiter's engineer could not see the warning signals set agalnst his train within the “blocks. | Running fast trains from a station en route only five minutes apart— which with such trains means less than five miles apart—should be pro- hibited by law. It is, in fact, pro- | ¥ not on the New York Central. We once rode on the last Pullman on a train of that railroad during a | the red sparklers along the track to warn a train close behind. We nudg- | ed near the platform, ready to jump oif at the slightest glimmer of the ap- proaching train from the rear. Once thetrain stopped on the broad sweep of a curve wildly excited | brakeman rushed up the rear frack | swinging a lantern and carrying | flares. A foggy night on a sea-going coast liner off Point Judith is tame comparison. And all because were running only and a in trains several | minutes apart Playing wit in this manner | may be successful most of the time, | h fate but once in a while it isn't. Our id job is the one held down by the Prince of Wales. 1 of a rea The season but it will take weeks for its victims to get over it. vacation is waning; | why do people shudder at the pros- | a fly in Africa. | Even Orientals are slovenly. | southwest shifting to north winds. | northeastward to Vermont. | which is producing p | er between the Rocky Mts. and the Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN It “'she.’ still all right to call England The woman pays. Some time in September mobilize the taxpayers, The man in the street lsn't thipk. Ing now; he's dodging. You can't always tell, Wheat went up and it wasn't prohibited. let's We have po honor list In this country, but we have soms nice am-. bassadorships, Tt's darned diserimfnation, tha! | what it s, not to mobilize the sweat. er knitters, A Bohemian {s much like other people except that he doesn't know what an ash tray is for. | | American consuls are about as | good as any, except they are poor insurance risk: If Dawes can be silenced so easily, how wholly quiet he would be if nominated for president. 1t's sweet of France to get out of the Ruhr when she can't manage the darned thing. Still, why should France waste good money on us when so many little countries need arming? “Throw the rascals out” is a good slogan, if it wouldn't make things too darned unanimous. Every school should have a flag and an enlarged photograph of a cemetery in France. 2 TS Another nice thing about being poor is that you can refuse a loan without lying. Mexico is efficient. All she needs to enforce the agrarlan law is a few carbines and a bit of hemp. 1f Germanys pays poor starving Trance, it's going to be a good day for the manufacturers of airplanes. Of course we respect congress, but pect of throwing the election into| the house? Watching a cotton picker working by the day, it seems impossible to| think that sort of thing is caused by You | can hire somebody to die for you in| China, but you must Keep on paying | foggy evening. Frequent stops and | !3Xes when officially dead. slowdowns were caused by a train| just ahead, Three nervous trainmen | | with red lanterns and red flares stood | Observations On The Weather For Connecticut: Unsettled weath- er probably showers, tonight cooler tonight; Wednesday fair moderate Condition A disturbance which | was central over Kansas yesterday is now central over western Pennsyl- vania, It has caused showers dur- ing the last 24 hours from Texas It will | probably cause showers in Con- necticut late this afternoon and| move out to sea tonight. Tt is fol- lowed by an area of high pressure asant weath- |. SEPTEMBER 2, 1924, TOMORROW Continuing FUN SHOP TALES Today we are getting our counters ready for the presentation, tomor. row, of a splendid stock of Jingle- Jangles, Bright Sayings of Children, and odds ang ends. Our sale yesterday of Verses and Reverses was highly successful—so much so that we may devote an- other day this week to them. Today, however, we present our regular offerin| SEPTEMBER BLUES Th' melancholy days are here, As sang some bloomin' poet, Who must o' had September blues An' took that way to show it. Though I aln't claimin’ to be wise, Like this here versifier, He surely spilled a lot o' sense \W;hen he twanged on his lyre. “Th' melancholy days” is right, As all my heart is knowin', Th' while I sadly shake my head To see th' summer goin'. September only laughs at me An’ all my foolish hopin’, To hold back th' flights o' time So that th' schools won't open! ~Edgar Danfel Kramer, Wasted Effort Little Bobby was told that if he prayed hard he might get a little ster, So, one night, after he had prayed for some time, he added: “—dear Lord, it you have a baby almost finished, don’t wait to put in her tonsils, as they have to be taken out anyway."” —-Norah Sterling. Reigning Monarch Madge:~—"What broke up the Mah Jongg game at the Newpops?” Marjorie:—"Their kid mistook the tiles for his building blocks and they wouldn't let us take them away from him."” —James J. O'Connell. . Such Is Vanity! Mary:—*“How did Bertha sprain her wrist, dear?” Eleanor:—"Showing off her new engagement ring, I belleve.” —H. D. Slater. How He Gets By The bullfrog has the biggest pull Of any pollywag. With swank and bunc he fills ‘em full; ‘The tadpoles stand agog, The bullfrog sure is nine-tenths bull And one-tenth only—frog. —C. L. Edson. In the recent Ziegteld “Follies” in New York there was a burlesque on | Columbus and Queen Isabella of | Spain. “You're an angel,” Columbus mur- | mured, “You've done so much for me."” “I'm no angel!" replied Queen Isa- bella. “And it isn’t the half of what I'd like to do for you! I hocked my jewels to get them ferryboats be.- | cause I am stuck on you! Columbus, the gem of my ocean!™ Appetizing Motorist:—"Slx hot frankfurter | sandwiches with sauerkraut, please.” Roadside vender (to assistant):— “Litter o' six pups with the bed- ain"." —P. H. Carey. REFLECTIONS OF A WQMAN (On Love and Matrimony) Love is a strong drink which in- | toxicates one jerson and sobers an- | other. “ 0w tee Girlie! this bathing shrink Clerk:—"Yes, money back if not satisfied.” Wil sult —Ellls Brown, Bob of Our Heart Clerk' (Jocularly):—"How ice cream sodas can you eat?" Bobble:~"How many h got?" many you ~—Peter Dowd, “Yep," reminisced “Pa" Woods as he sat idly sucking his pipe. “Mine and ma's a romance in two scenes. n her and she seen m: Caller;—Haven't you any idea ~"It's very uncertain, She's in conference with her barber.” (Copyright 1924, Reproduction forbidden). The Fun Bhop I» & national instl- tution conducted by news) of the country, Contributions from readers, providing they are original, unpublish- ©d, and possess*sufticient merit, will be pald for at rates varying from $1.00 to $10.00, Write on one side of t paper only and send your contributions to the “Fun Shop Editor," care of the Herald, who will forward them to New York. Unaccepted manyscripts will not be returned. (02 MOTOR-TRAIN CRASHES IN 1924 36 Accidents Follow Attempt to Beat Locomotives Hartford, Sept. 2.—Automobiles figured in 102 railroad grade cross- ing accidents in Connecticut in the period of this year up to August 15, according to figures furnished to the state motor vehicle department by the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford railroad company. In every in- stance, the accident was avoldable and many of them ted fatally. 36 Tried to Beat ‘Mrain Thirty-six automobilés were struck while trying to beat apprpaching trains over grade crossings, a prac- tice which the railroads to discour- age make large expenditures each year, and 12 automobiles out of con- trol ran into the side of tralns, pass- ing over highway crossing. Fifty- three motor vehicles ploughed through lowered gates, most of them having approached the crossings at too great a speed to be stopped when the gates were lowered. In one case, an automobile collided with a rail- road motor car used for tronsporting section laborers and materials. Scarcely a week passes that does not bring into the motor vehicle de- partment reports of grade crossing accidents, a large percentage of which have tragic resuits. The motor vehicle department and highway de- partments cooperate with the rail- roads in the effort to make drivers more cautious at crossings, and by their joint interest, sight lines at crossings have been improved in many places. Often it has been necessary only to cut down bushes and trees which prevented drivers from getting a clear view of the railg in either directions, and in some cases, knolls or other obstructions have been cleared away to good ef- fect. This done, drivers are depend- ed upon to se that the track is clear in both. directions before crossing, but careful observation has shown that a large number do not take this precaution. Urges S_crutin_v of College Philosophies Attendance - at higher schools of grams are paramount, was urged| Sunday by Rev. Walter J. Lyddy at St. Mary's church, who said that too often young people enter colleges Matrimony may elther be a break | Mississippi river. The temperature | continues high along the coast but | falls rapidly from P?nnxyl\flhm" westward to Towa, White River, Ont. reports a minimum temperature of 28 degrees. | | Conditions favor for this victnity, | 10cal showers followed by fair and | | cooler. Into happiness, or a brake on hap-| piness. Love is a dance, and all must, in| secret or openly, caper to its tunes. | (i TS A woman who marries a second | time merely i{llustrates the well- known fact that some people ;m,z} can't say “ while a man who | | marries a second time illustrates the Seaplanes and Radio Aiding Rum Running | Seattle, Wash,, Sept. 2.—Radio- seaplanes, carrying ob-| well-known saying that it's difficult| for some people to let well enough alone, where educational advancement is looked upon as of least importance. Parents, he sald, should exarhine the philosophies of the college to which they intend to send-their sons and daughters to determine whether they are fause or true. Father Lyd- dy also urged the attendance of I'(llul at the session yesterday, the re- learning in which matters of edu- | cation and not athletic or social pro- |1 WHEN —you order your coal for next winter. WHEN —you replace your old heater. WHEN —you contract for heat- ing equipment for your new home or building. ASK THE PRICE —of BUCKWHEAT HARD COAL and a self-feeding home- heating boiler that’s economical to oper- ate, The Citizens Coal Co. Yard and Maln Office Berlin Yard Uptown Ufflcs 24 Dwight Court. opp. Berlin station 104 Arch St. Tel. 2708, Tel. 2675-5. Tel. 3266, elected treasurer. The executive hoard was elected, as follows: Rev. M. L. Steup of Holyoke, Mass., Wal- ter C. Reschke of Holyoke, Mass, | Dr. William Marx of Holyoke, Mass., |and the officers are exofficio mem- bers ot the committee. The hospice committee was elected, follows: Chairman, Rev. Edward Merkel of Waterbury; Otto P. Steege of New Britain; Henrly Ketelhut of Meriden. The Junior society committee wa clected as follows: Chairman, Rev. H. Wehmeyer of Bridgeport; Ruth Unsderfer of Bridgeport, and Louls A. Eggert of Bridgeport. ‘Rev. A. G. Steup of Springfleld, Ma. was elected secretary of the forlign, mis- {sgion fund toasl DeMolay Will Start 4 Meetings September 27 WALTHER LEAGUE SESSIONS CLOSED Massachusetts Man Is President! -Quting at Compounce The 23rd annual convention of the Walther league of the New England district olosed its final session at St. Matthew's = German Lvangelical Lutheran ‘chureh last svening with the election of Henry F. Borowske of Westfield, Mass, as president, There were 150 delegates present. The place for the next convention The first meeting of the Nathan will be decided by the executive Hale chapter of DeMolay for boys, board. The delegates are enjoying | which is being sponsored by the an outing at Lake Compounce today. | combined Masonic bodies of New At the opening session of the con- | Britain, will be held at Masonic hall vention Sunday, reports Were Dre- | on the evening of September 27, it ented, as tollows: Treasurer, George | w.s announced this morning. C. Bode; president, Walter C.| The meeting will be in charge of Feschke; executive board, Rev. A.'y;a Charter. Oak chapter from C. Theodore Steege: sale of Wheat- | pravirord and 23 officers will be ridge Christmas seals and Lenten | gocind from among the New Brit- |daily offerings, Walter C. Reschke, '\ povs to officlate for three months, when another election will port of the resolutions committee |y yaid Tt js expected about 50 and the report of Rev. H. Weh- |\ oo wiiy foin in this city. meyer, delegate to the national con- vention at St. Paul, Minn., were Rev. Paul Miller o | e, Ind., delivered an ad- HALF HOLIDAYS OVER 3 Tomorrow will not be a half holi- dress, followed by the report of the | day, according to an announcement [nominating committee and the elec- | made by the Chamber of Commerce tion of officers. | h morning and the stores will re- Miss Alma Glaser of Meriden was | main open all day. Last ‘Wednesday reclected secretary and George C.| was the last half holiday for the Bode, of Kingston, N. Y., was re- 924 season. DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL children at the parochial schools, where they may not only receive general education, but will also’be instructed in their religion. Auto Turns Turtle After Going Over Embankment | Leo Levinson of 123 Putnam street Sailors By DR. FRANK CRAN Admiral Boyle Somerville gives a description, in Blackwood's Mag zine in February, 1920, of an inepection made on an armed merchantman during the war which is very interesting. The Admiral first described the arrangement on board a warship, pbkLeyapimay s be said against|p.q 4 norrow escape from injury | matrimony, there's one good thm‘g Yast night when he misjudged the | that can be sald for it: It keeps One's tyry on stanley street near Blake | mind pretty well occupied upwards of sixty farms. Plymouth once had & population of 1,400, against 430 today, and the declining census The Waterbury Republican avers| ®auipped e s eh ] 5 ¢ - | servers, are operating w ug! that “the pathetie thing about the|glVis hl PECLINE ficet, says & struggles of Mr. Davis, Mr. Coolidge | gpectal despatch from its rorrespon- where there is no luxury, but where everything is clean and tidy. There were even bathrooms for the stokers. On the merchantman, however, he found conditions appalling. The votes for only” appears to acking in practical application. New women ‘mad and his machine went over a Haven of er Vermont towns pace with t land of Ci nae have d fro 1852 year, v lation.” ores 1 $2 exp 6.000 in st The may be Stances warrant rease in co! arger than partly to the busines tunctionings Vermonter and ther much mor The near Plymou! numbe loned farms ferent story. is New F proprietors one that unfortunately large land. most of t west. But there is precious | we areag in northern the available in the to react to the benef of New England v from course of 50 years any. “abandon P BLOODY HERRIN The adventurous @ldsters who joined the &ilen in youngsters Journal-Courier | Jints out that out of 15 states in h primaries have been held, only for seats named women in ss, making a total of six can- iidates to date Two of them are named as Democrats n overwheim- ingly Republican districts, and four are named by Socialists and Prohibi- tionists, and their political prospects are considered hopeless. Miss Paul is identified National Woman's party, with the an organi- that n sation apparently belleves feminism at ihe polls. The Woman's Voting league is more modc rate, en- deavoring to rally women behind andidates it deems worthy, no mat- ter whether they be men or women Mrs, d as the Democratic candidate Miriam Ferguson, nomin Texas governorship, Which me her election, does not attribute her iccess to the help of women en bioc, yut it came about as a result of ocal conditions revolving around the Klan issue America head- having the On the whole, women in have not made extraordinary way in congress since There are plenty who would possese the qualifications vote of women for the sonate or the house, but there | appess® 75 be something about Jo- and Mr. Dawes with the Kian issue | dent at Secret Harbor, Cypress Is-| land, San Juan county. The correspondent stated that use of seaplanes is to keep members of | is that each of them obviously would | like to denounce the Klan wgfirously; but doesn’t dare. 25 Years Ago Today Fiom Paper of That Date John Willis, the boxing instructor, is forming a class for the study of the manty art William Rurke Charles' college, week Special Officer James Skelley has entered the employ of Armour & C8. Howard 8. Humphrey has return. ed from a vacation spent in the Adirondack mountains. Dr. §. W. Irving narrowly escaped serious injury this morning when his carriage struck by a pair of horses attached to an ice wagon. The collision occurred on Vine street. All the® glasses that have been developed since the Civil war have been turned on Mars and the scien- tists have reached the conclusion that Mars has an atmosphere. The work of installing the lights in 's German church has been practically completed. The church has 100 lights in all. The local military companies will have no further work to do until November. The men have turned in their uniforrzs. will enter St. Baltmore, next was [, SO the fleet tn Puget Sound informed. of the approach of government speed- | | boat rum chasers, gs vessels of the | liquor fleet are “also equipped with | wireless sets.” | AUGUST TAX COLLECTIONS, | Tax collections for the month of August show a falling off in a com- { parison with those of last year. In | 1923, the receipts of the office for | August were as follows: Taxes, $134,- 656.88; sewer, $505.84; street im- | provement, $150.39; street aprink- | ling, $711.77; personal, $2 | tal, $135,132.85. The collections in | August this year are as follows | Taxes, $114,990.46; sewer, $1,260.65; | | street improvement $377.45; street | sprinkling $798.84; personal, | 471.50; total $119,898.90. The | ference in receipts for August year and one years ago amounts to $18,233.98 if- this BRIDE 1LL. 2.—The Can- | PRIN ‘ Los Angeles, Sept. | adian bride of Prince Erik of Den- | | mark, formerly Miss Frances Lois Booth, is serlously ill of blood poi- soning at a hospital near here. In- fection which set in after the ex- traction of a wisdfom tooth about| | two weeks ago, is responsible for her | | conaition, according to attending | | physiclans, Prince Erik is said to' be constantly at her bedside. —Zelta Matthews. | But Before? | Nancy:—"I suppose you were all | excited when Fred proposcd, weren't | you dear?"” | Pegg: ‘Heavens, no! 1 was| perfectly calm by that time." | —Willlam T. Near. | Hughes:—"You look all in, old man. Been working hard at the ofMce?” | ust helping the wife | do a little shopptng before she goes| away on her vacation.” | M. North, Jr. FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE 1 . Cracked Jack brought his sweetheart some pecans | He had at his disposal; ‘ But when he asked, “Art fond of | nuts?” She cried, “My third proposol!™ —Edwin 8. Chamberlain. ofiaiin Submarine Frightfulness . The crab scares all the fish because He has a pair of wicked claws, And though he thinks his tricks are cute, He's nothing but a shelifish brute. —Otto Freund. “Seems funny,” mused tke old rail- road conductor, “that the only chil- dren that ride on my train are an' under 12 yelirs of age.” | sumed his duties on the small embankment and turned turtle, The machine was badly damaged, but the driver was thrown clear and escaped unhurt. GIRL INJURED BY AUTO Sophie Kopec, 11, of Grove street, was slightly injured when she ran| from bekind an ice wagon and into the path -of an auto driven™ by Julian Lasota of 157 Grove street yesterday afternoon. Lasota re- ported the accident to the police saying that he was driving along Grove street at a slow speed when he struck the girl with the fender of his machine, JUDGE ALLING HOME AGAIN Judge Benjamin W. Alllug re- bench at this murning’s session of police court after a mgnth's vacation spent on a motor tour. —PALACE— 6 Days Beginning Next Monday stokers slept in the hold. Round the dirty walls iron beds were placed one over the other, as many as the place would hold, up to fourteen in number. Every bed was occupied The stokers lay there, black and wet just s they had come down from the engine room. Each man lay huddled up on his “donkey’s breakfast,” which consists of a coarse brown sack filled with old, hard straw. It was not even arranged as a mattress with square corners and flattened at the sides, but was simply a hard, stuffed sack. There was no | other furniture of, any sort, no tables, no chairs, no benches, and the only | place for clothes was a narrow shelf which would hardly hold a hat. At mealtimes one member from every cabin crawled up in turn to the galley and fetched down a big dish full of stew, or whatever else it happened to be, Each man got up as the dish was passed around and took his portion of the horrible stuff in his hands and ate it sitting or Iying on his bed. It was a far more degrading sight than to see the in- habitants of a zoo. There were no plates, knives or forks, no table to have put them on, not even a bench to sit on while eating. When the visitors asked where the stokers' bathroom was the response was a pitying smile | |and a statement that such an effeminate luxury was completely unknown {among those men. It wa so said, “The stokers are used to it. We are not particular on board That such conditions should react upon the health of the men is to | be expected. ailors not only suffer from accidents, including drowning, but also from many diseases such as typhus and yellow fever. There Is no excuse fof this as the cawse of the disease and the way they spread is known and there are scientific- methods of prevention. | There is, for instance, that method applied by*Gorgas in Panama. As | soon as people know how to deal with diseases they become harmiess and |the arca of land in question is cleared of Infection. The question opens an opportunity for the Red Cross which is prob. {ably the only soclety properly equipped to handle the situation, Andrew Balfour once quoted a remark of Disraeli’s to the effect that, “A great scientist and wit said three hundred years &go that there was | a misunderstanding In the Vulgate, for where Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas was written, what the Wise King had really said was Sanitas sanitatum omnia sanitas, The health of the nation should always be uppermost in the minds of its ministers. Both from the standpoint of economy and humanity it will be ad. vantageous to consider the héaith of {he man at ses Copyright, 1924, by The McClure's Newspaper Syndicete.