New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1924, Page 6

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Thie insures traud fn newspaper ® to both national and | are based protect dlstributi local advert | holders learned that The Herald York at Hota Bquare; Sch Grand Centr LIFE I\II’IH\(I\ \;I NT Richa pold, the ard Loeb and ing Ch alres’ sons who &k Frar ite two vo cago million- idnaped and mur- | dered boy, the tenced to 1 atter pleading g murder. were sen- imprisonment today ¥ to premeditated The sentence of “99 years" for the kidnapping is practically the same as life fmprisonment on this | count also. ! | Judge Caverly gave them the lightest possible sentence under the | Which went clrcumstances, unless possible “sen- tencing” to a lunatic asylum could hava been termed lighter, | American justice mnow goes on | they permitted him to be the whole We are to see whether these | Works, Now the stockholders will trial, two ypuths really remain in prison | the remainder of thelr lives or| whether they are parolled after & tomparatively short time, | If the claim of the defense in mit- | igation of punishment was worth considering, then the palr are men- aces to society if they ever obtain | release from prison walls. | The defense fought against death penalty; the defense won. But life imprisonment is a heavy | sentence it it really means what it | says. The trouble is, it may not. | Murderers as a rule greatly prefer a lite sentence to execution, They | are actuated by the belief that where | there is life there is hope for fre the dom, some time in someway. | l a MURDER CONVICTIONS A letter-writer to the New York that his home stated a few | Herald-Tribune declares Chautauqua lecturer in N. B, murders had been | town, Monckton, days ago that committed in Great Britain the previ- ous month, and that of the number, 26 had been arres ed | and one atic asylum.d ted and execut sent to a lu But the same month nearly 100 mur- | ders been committed in the United States, of which 25 had been arrested, and none executed, as their had trials had not yet taken place. We do not know the accuracy of these figures, but in a general way they bear out the comparative sys- tems in the two countries, The New Brunswick man adds that he regrets to say Canada Is fol- Jowing in the footsteps of the United | States; murders have | occurred in his province, and that in that several once case the jury brought in a ver- | dict of gui allowed on a technicality, resulting| y, when a new trial was in four disagreements, and the de tendant, is still at large. The situation is New Brunswick, | however, does not bear out the re- cent trial, conviction and e of the young America Mo who shot and killed another during & barroom braw! and while drunk. The latter conviction was even swift- er than the English speed system, cution 1 real, A POSSIBLE CHARTER CHANGE New Britain is confronted problem t police boar appointments to the various depart- a at gives to the fire and is complete power over ments and full administrative con- trol, as the result of a ¢ charter seve the elimination system. b supreme powers W \ange in the ‘ollowing civil servic 1 years ago the that thess to is commor e the re given fire and polics inintentior ly; bu 1 with a copdi- tion and not brought it as while calling city authorities t & view of ha revision committee. ppointed consider the a change if The fire and police boa ds are Ap- e concer pointed by the mayor. Tt tration of power in these bo the opinion of many obser dies, in to the executive i the less powerful i rection of the fire and 1 ments, This, it is said original intention of the the provision in the charter to these boards. The supremacy of the fire boar over all with the fire department has been officia 1 details in conaectior recognized by tne mayor and com- mon council after the Com.gen coun- | passed an ordinance regarding sube | the mayor's contentions were correct | findings. | with all the money is not known. Gilpatric fleeced the bank during a pocketed the proceeds; records were juggled to show securi- really paid, and then Gilpatric an- | amounts; a third method was the | much to the satisfaction of the fans | of calling it, Walter Johnson will add | | stop the boxing bout, | charge. cll at first felt inclined to take issue on the subject. The coumal had stitute firemen, The mayor vetoed the ordinance, contending that the council had no authority to make | any rule affecting the fire departs | ment because of the charter provi- sion making the fire board supreme, The council followed by conceding when it voted to sustain his veto. I'HE GILPATRIC METHOD | The more that becomes known re- garding the Gilpatric bank wrecking the worse it becomes. After a rep- for the federal comp- troller had visited Putnam and made and went back to Washington for a conferemce, he was tative an investigation, told to return to the Connecticut city and take the public and the stock- holders into his confidence as to the And then the public and stocke the bank is $700,000 short, that Gilpatric's thefts $000,000. What Gilpatric did total The gove jent discovered how period of seven He took money from depositors, entered the amounts in their pass books and | | the bank years, ties were unpaid when they were nexed the money when it was forthe coming to pay the supposed unpaid forgery of notes, the money for into his pocket. And through it all the directors of the bank had such confidence in Gil- patric’s integrity and probity that be assessed at least $150,000 to make up the losses of the bank. GREAT BASEBALL SEASON The baseball league races this year have no difiiculty in competing with politics for liveliness, The precedents | of three years are being broken, outside of Manhattan, The race in the American league looks like a typographical error so far as Washington is concerned. But there they gre, right on top, with the | Yankees and Tygers closely follow- | ing. Tt Washington wins the “gon- falon,” as the sports writers are fond to the interest of the world series | enormously. In the National league Brooklyn is contesting first honors with the Giants, who probably thought they | had a mortgage upon the pennant, but are likely to be disillusioned at But the Pittsburgh Pirates are also near at hand, and have the ad- last, vantage of being required to play several more games than the two | teams slightly ahead of them, The races in these leagues are the many £easons, and a wholesome and widespread interest has been stimulated. This is good | closest in | for the game and the public takes kindly to leadership outside of the | two New York teams, which have | had more money to spend for good D ers than the other teams, yet at takes | last are finding out that it more than money to monopolize periority, ¥IRPO, PERJURY AND BOXING Luis Angel Firpo faces a charge of | perjury and a hearing has been sct for Sept. 15, four days after he is to enter the boxing ring with Harry Wills at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jer- sey City. Canon Chase and organizations af- | Ar ghter on the perjury filiated with him went after the gentine prize matter and brought about the charge. But it scems Canon Chase is not satisfied; he wants the boxing bout prevented also. It appears that the main idea in| back of the whole proceeding was to | the perjury charge being incidental. But the laws | of New Jersey permit boxing bouts, and we think the best way for Canon Chase and his organizations to go| about it would be to induce New Jersey to change its law. So fa is concerned, it 1t Firpo were a merchant nobody in his padlocking his husiness because of the perjury as perjury has nothing to do with boxing senses would advocate The boxing bout is a legal business in New Jersey. sonally we are not interested in It and would | not attend even on a press pass if | it were being held nearby: but facts facts, and common sense are remains titled to T to follow ommon se Firpo is ¢ day in court on t arge, but is also entitle his occupation as a bruiser in such s as permit the occupatior | mc THE SLOW WAY Gilbert E. Roe IS THE northeastern La Follette-Wheel BEST i- ctor of the r ket presumes to “answer” strictures Coolidge's d party plan to curb the function he supreme court in invalidating laws ssed by congress which trans. | gress the constitution, and resorts to typlcal demagogic appeals in doing In this connection the presi- t's conceptions closely parallel those ~f John W. Davis, 80 w9% the ! | of congress were humanitz | supreme court is the only h&dy capa- Presi- | t third party attitude hits both, toe Is right questioning the Coolidge assumptoin that an amend- ment permitting cengress to veto a supreme court decision would ‘es- tablish communism in the United Btates," as it would take considera- ble more than that to establish com- munism. This statement by the president was an exaggeration, and as not necessary to buttress the logic of his argument. A man of the legal eminence of Mr. Davi# would not have added such a worthless chaser to a good meat, in general argu- Roe says the supreme court’ is exercising an authority formerly vested in the British king, and that the only difference today is that “five Kings" of one exercise the function in the United States. This sounds “delightfully demagogic,” but there happen to be “nine kings,” and not five, on the supreme bench, and frequently all nine of them agree, and most of the time more than five, The third ticket partisan claims that the authority being exercised by instead | the court “was never given to the supreme court by the constitution; it is pure usurpation on the part of the court.” This is a favorite argument and has been heard before. The court manifestly exists to interpret the constitution, and such interpretation cannot logically be deemed usurpa- tion. But here are Roe's most portant declarations: im- “The power has mever been exercised to protect the liberties of individuals. [t was exercised to protect the institution of human slavery, which it took the civil war to get rid of. It ‘was used to prevent the passage of an income tax law, and did ‘prevent it for 20 years, saving to great corporations hundreds of millions of dollars in that time. It has been used to pre- vent or obstruct every spedies of progressive welfare legislation in this country in the last 25 years. The court’s latest exercise of that power has had the result of keeping thousands of children in virtual slavery in shops and factories." The Dred Scott decision, referred to as protecting human slavery, was in conformity with the constitution. Had the court taken the gnti- slavery view regarding the Dred Scott decision and attempted to go | beyond the constitution there is no | reason to believe the southern slav- ery states would have refrained from starting a civil war over the ques- tion. The court prevented the pas- sage of an income tax law because it beyond dele- gated powers of cOngress pass such a law. was clearly the to The law was created | through an amendment to the con- | proper | of the | same stitution, which the method. The child labor law was on was nullification the | grounds, the court holding in both | cases of nullification that the aims but the method of procedure was illegal. n Under our system of government, congress is not given power to pass laws that infringe with the sovereign rs of the states; the constitu- | s this, and the pow tion definitely prohib ble of deciding a dispute between a congressional enactment and the constitution. The method laid down for enact- ing affect the sovereignty of states hy regulating thelr internal | the constitu- | laws tha methods is to amend tlon. This is a longer process than | »ssional enact- | u is safer and more cer- tain to reflect the popular will. That the ratif loes not appeal to the “inter- tion *of the consti- ition ils about is indicat- ed by a recent statement on the pro- posed child iabor amendment made by the Manufacturers’ Association of Inc.,, with headquarters The attitude of this as- Connecticut in Hartford. sociation toward the ratification following dated process is described by the \ph from its statement rity of 36 2,400 change which h & ma Jess than Iy under people live.” the constitution can t en that the do itutional ratification and the turers of state method third ti any more than Roe powers ta nullify improper laws. The | with | the ‘Interes act, can point discomfit am t dec wishes. This dis- worked against being the case, the “interests” ng ratification campaigns and the radicals disliking the supreme court, the common people occupying com- middle ground can rest assured that the way to brin meth ems to be a sure the greatest goofl to the greatest numb in a way to make pass laws one ses- 1 them the next. There is no guarantee that if congress were to pass laws that the radicals liked, that a ding congress with a |tion would go towards the e reme court’s | s Mmain in the basic law, The su. preme court in reality is a tool that permanently places them in the con. stitution if the Pepresentatives of the people In 36 legislatures want them there. Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN An optimist is one who lists his 1922 car as an asset, Posterity may think of us now and then but it won't think much of us, The “boyish shingle is becoming to almost everybody except boys. The proper study of mankind is the kind of post cards man buys. The true radical is one who thinks progress consists in cramping the style of winners, It is estimated that sinee the dark ages woman's dress has been re- formed only 82,674 times. Any little boy can play at being an important citizen if he can learn to clear his throat that way. 1t we have no America, who attend all conventions as delegates? leisure class in the little Man is naturally lazy, and it is easier to quarrel about religion than to practice it. *You can't tell. It he has no visible | means of support, he may be vagrant or & bootlegger. A village is a place where they| take up a collection to hire a pitcher | to heat another village. | Another dismal failure is the aver- age town's effort to appear ecstatic about classical music. We have liberal parties in this country. Look at the expense ac- counts turned in by traveling men. he difference between a specialist and a general practitioner is that the general practitioner never asks | anybody to change a twenty dollar bill, The profitable plan for European lecturers and artists is to scold us and get us made before coming over. Those death rays may be all that is claimed for them. We once knew A newspaper man who died after getting a raise, The queer thing about gas and | ight meters is the speed they main- ! tain while the family is away for a month. Wales is a fine chap; and if he doesn't care for the king business, there are many good openings for fellows over here. : “My dear,” u simply must Correct this sentenc sald the husband, buy a new hat.” 25 Y;s Ago Today | From Paper of That Date Mrs. Abel Griswold left this morning for a visit with fricnds in Albert ling returned to Dartmouth college today 3 H. D. Humphrey equipped windows of the post office green shades this morning. t St. Mary's yesterday, I'Anum"-d that the annual the with 1t collec- wi hilling and Benjamin Al- | € ction | of the new parochial residence. E. W. Schultz was appointed a | member of the committee to reo; ganize the Men's Union at the Southe| church at a meeting of the Union | held last night, The auditors have finished their work on the books of the selectmen and the recapitulation of the town report shows the expenses of the fis- cal year to have heen $151,871.34 which is $14,966.66 less than the amount appropriated at the town meeting. Observations On The Weather Conditioms: The disturbance central over eastern Massach will pass out to sca today ra staions 1n and around New England reported more than an inch of rain The rm is followed by an arca of high pressure ich is pro pleasant weather with lower te ature Cond generally fair weat lower temperature o sett mp ns favor for this v er with slightly ly HOMING PIGEONS The Hardware City Racing Homer Pigeon ‘club flew the first young birds s from Mt Y., Sur Six lof FLYV. eries of Vernon, | ts of birds werd st bird ag | | | | N. consisting of 104 bird ay at 9 a. at the m. and the fi loft of George | 50 miutes, ana 1 | Birds entered by Renald and Charles Decant were second and‘ | third respectively. Birds entered by | Valentine Wisk, Edward Keller and Joseph Smith were fourth, fifth snd litical complexion would r amend them the constitution diffe into thr But once | sixth. finishing in close orde=. There | inday naw races every for few weeks | terested is asked to be at the lofts on | Jilted suitors get the b e Maxson. MRS, JOB (By Wallace M. Bayliss) Sometimes the wrong folks marry. Let us take The case of Mrs, Job. mistake Came when she failed herself to analyze To know what man to love, what to despise, The cave man was the type should have wed, One who would hit her promptly on the head If she so much as peeped if things went wrong; She then would have been happy all day long. Instead she marrled Job and thus ‘became A rather famous . dame, Job was the chap whose patience was so great No one has equalled date. Whatever happened, morning, noon or night, Job said: “Don't worry, dear; quite all right.” Now such a disposition might seem prime But it would grow monotonous in time; so it did to Mrs, Job who grew To be a sharp-tongued, disappointed shrew. When in a storm she blew away one night, They say Job said again, “It's quite all right.” Pérhaps she, too, poor soul, was glad to go; Of course that's something we shall never know. This much, girls, you may learn from her defeat, Don't wed a man who's too founded sweet. Her great she though unhappy it to present it's And cén- Cosmetically Speaking Billy:—"How old is Miss Poynt- Reggie:—"Oh, she’s on wrink] side of forty, all right.” —L. B. Birdsall. Not a Dry Joke “Did you have a corking good time at the dinner?"” “No, mostly uncorking.” —George W. Lyon. er the Not Wanted “It took me a year before I learn- ed to play the saxophone.” “It will take you longer than that to Yearn of a flat where they'll let you play it.” —Mrs. L. P, Wright. The Touch System Scandal! 's dyed her hair a raven black. | "Twas blonde before. But, hark! | Don't tell a living soul, because She wants to keep it dark! - —E Sh To Show Their Hands “Do you think the campaign will | rate into & mud slinging con- | ba.real dirt farmers, and may, try to | prove it by Mlinging some dirt!" —C. L. Edson. We Live and Learn CLARK JEWEL of heavy steel. with the famous The Lorain Oven Heat for baking, cadning fruit, hours without watching. “blow hard.” During the services, the father blew his nose gently, then agaln, and again. This was too much for:Marjorie, so she shouted from her pew: “Bo’ real ha'd, Fa'er Ne'an. —Mrs. A. W. Frist. Resume Edith:—"Dad took me into the office this summer, Said he wanted me to get the atmosphere of busi- e )id you get it?” No, in less than a week he gave me the ai —Johnstone Murray. The Editor’s Gossip Shop “If you accept these,” write sev- lers, 1 will send in more.” don't care to accept such a it you to send in more ma- terial regardless of whether you | hear favorably frem us or not. However, we are pleased to report that the attitude mentioned is borne by only a few readers. The great majority of readers are contributing regularly, and according to the rules of The Fun Shop. But we thought you would be interested to know some of the matters which are presented to us. After watching hep hostess hoil potatocs with the skins on, then peel and mash them. an old lady asked in surprise: “Why do you cook 'em | with the jackets on fer mashed po- | tatoes? I never secn 'em done that way befor | “Becausc,” answered the young| wife, “the potatoes don't boil m} picces, are never watery when mash- | ed, and the part that is ordinarily pecled off with the skin is saved.” “Well, I'll be,” cjaculated the old was very parsimonious, | ys heard, ‘You can learn om every fool,’ an' now | —Mae Currier Minard. | angle Counter Men must dig hard to succeed; Looks are all gold diggers need. —Alan M. Bimberg. Candidates are on the jump; Trees do not go on the stump. irs. Robert Eller. Jndge Punishment the bestows; Hanging's pretly good for clothes. On the fence cats linger late; gate. —Edith Kent. Rod and Women f éel need no defense; h for compliments. —Mildred Hertz. | Dancing Sheik y say young Shifty y into fortune.” I"lubb: —* ed hi Dubb:— a wealthy, old widow, and she married him,” sons to —Bruce Howe. Naturally Patient (calling for examination): ‘Do you want to go over all of my teeth now 2" Dentist really haven't much time, so I'll just go over the bridge.” —Gertrude Hell As We Like It Nit:—"Do you like farce Wit:—"They're all bunk.>» —B. C. B. bedroom The thing that some men like best about a girl 1s their arm. (Copyright 1924, Reproduction forbidden). EIGHT FALL WITH PLANE Big Fokker Machine Crashes, on Trip From Moscow to Koenigs- berg but Passengers Escape Death. ~Mrs. Abraham BiaiL‘ Felt Slighted Genevieve:—"Why did you refuse to marry Jack, dear?” Florence:—"He only asked me ~—Mrs. Morton Seaman. Expert Advice Little Marjorie was taken to her first mass. The good father had often visited in her home, so she felt quite well acquainted. Whenever Marjorie had had = Smolensk, Russia, Sept. 10—Eight | passengers in an airplane on the | route between Moscow and Koenigs- berg, East Prussia, had a narrow. es- | cape from death today when the | plane, a big Fokker, crashed near | here. All the occupants, includthg | M. Lozovsky, general secretary of the international trade uniols allied | with the Moscow organizations, were | injured. The machine was demol- ished. Kiss stealing s not a crime in { Canada, according to old French- ough the rebification process they | Sunday mornings before 11 o'clock. | cold, she had always been told to’ Canadiaa cusiom. ally durable due to their all-steel construc- tion. This feature has distinguished these stoves for over twenty years. frames are made of unbreakable angle iron. The front, cooking top and many of the other parts are drawn from a single piece he gave private les- | Range for Your Kitchen Gas Ranges are unusu- One'easy turs of the Lorain Red Wheel gives you a choice of 44 measured and con- trolled oven heats for, ony kind of oven cosle ing or beking. The base - For efficient, economical service choose a CLARK JEWEL Gas Range equipped LORAIN=GSS Regulator automatically regulates the heat of the oven, maintaining any desired temperature or other oven cookery. A Whole Meal may be placed in this oven at one-time to cook for NEW BRITAIN GAS LIGHT CO. u ' 1153 precincts showed, Groesbeck 82,821; Sligh, 42,851; Herbert F. Baker of Sheboygan,, 36,358; James Hamilton of Detroit; 37,751; Fred- erick Perry, 31,931; Willlam W. Pot- COUZENS N LEAD ‘\ Toan | The race for the senatorial nom- Runs Abead of Tuttle Wien|iation was narrowed on the eve of . o |the election by the formal with- Detrait Precincts Report | arawat of Smith in ravor ot Jusse Tuttle, Despite the withdrawal he |stood in third place early toda By The Associated Press. | Couzens, who was appointed by Gov- roit, S 3 F ernor Grgeshcek to fill the vacancy Dtrolt, Sept10.—Senator JAMES| )04 by the resignation of former Couzens took the lead-for the first |go =40 Newberry, has been assailed time in the race for the republican | quring the campaign by his political nomination for U. §. senator, when | enemies, who charge him with fail- 291 Wayne precificts placed him in {ure to support the national republi- front of Judge Arthur J. Tuttle. The |can administration, The senator {s- vote, with 1893 of the state's 2,765 |sued a statement recently in which precincts reported, wa: | he declared he would support Presi- Couzens 212,204; Tuttle 194,889; |dent Coolidge. Smith 23,202; Tussing 21,158, | On the eve of election, Couzene Judge Tuttle, early today, was | claimed he would poll a majority fo leading by approximately 20,000 |Detroit that would sweep him to vic- on the face of returns from [tory. Judge Tuttle declared he ex- precincts out of 2765 in the | pected to obtain a considerable ma- jority -in the state outside = Detroit The vote included no tabulations |and hold ‘the senator even In this from Wayne county (Detroit), Sena- | city. tor Couzens' home city, where he is| The governorship nomination race depending largely for support. The has been a bittes one. Perry claim- vote stood: «d klan support, while Hamilton hat Couzens, 88,818; Hal H. Smith, [ been the state leader in the mo Detroit attorney, 15,063; Daniel J.|ment to abolish parochial schools in Puss 8 , 11,158; Tuttle 108, | Michigan. 12;;,““" i Siigh went into second place in the Governor Alex Groesbeck, candi-|governorship race early this morning date for the republican gubernatorial | when returns became available from nomination was leading his nearest | Grand Rapids. Previous to that opponent, Charles R. Sligh, Grand |time Baker and Hamilton had been running a neck and neck race for second position. Rapids furniture manufacturer, by almost two to one. The vote in DR: FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL | I________________————_——_-__. Suicide By DR. FRANK CRANE A correspondent from gomewhere asked me if a person | {s ever sane | V] ) s suicide. Pt ;fig“;::m’;uwo have an idea that no ohe is guilty of this crime whe has not first become mentally deranged, | Just what sanity is is hard to say the balance of all the powers of the mind, or ra tellectual with the instincts. The strongest instinct of a human being is, and ought to be, instinct of life This we recognize in the sayipg that law of Nature.” We mean that the defense or sa fable and any crime, even murder, is excusable wWhen it is self defense. Pastor Wagner says that the first creed is a belief in life. 1t is evidently the intention of Nature that her creatures should live out thelr generation and it has to be a strong instinct in each of them to do this, The span of life is not very deliberately shortening it. -Accidents and unpreventable disease that for him. No one would commit suicide if he could sce around the corner. Suicide is a collapse of hope and of patience. Patlence enables us o endure the present for the sake of the future, | and hope is the anticipation of a better future, | Those who have lived any considerable length of time kiow that anything is liable to happen, and why not something gooti? ‘There is a subtle rélationghip between one's attitude and events. ] will not say that an optimistic attitude always brings a favorable event, but it certainly has something to do with it, just how much we cannot say. 1t is a relative term. It meant ther a balance of the in- the «Self preservation is the first Ivation of one's life is always justi- committed in great anyhow and no ome is justified in s will do And a bellef in the worst, a confidence in calamity, has a tendency to bring it about, 3 As the preservation ef life is based upon the strongest instinct that lis present in a Human being we are justified in saying that no one whe | commits suicide is wholly sané Copyrighy, 1924, by The McClure's Newspaper Eyndicate.