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New Britain HERALD PUBLIS tosund Da At Heiald | sui 00 a L Entered at as 8¢ Member of the Associated cmber Audit Burean of Circulation PAYLIGHT SAVING SAVED; BAY STATE AMENDMENTS Massachu the votin written o ing and ehange t ers were means t WO GOVERNORS WHO ~TED THE TIDE Herald| 3 AND NOW FOUR MONTHS OF OLD CONGIRESS 1 States Britain per- t upon at Brit- get quick )t an elec- e affalr is s we have gh an election cam- 4 since June, Now and wit have to goodly as- ducks” in lame con- n who were held and or over last who congross 1 re-clected their re — will particlpate in coming Decemt term of con- gress and h to make our laws. P It appears today t gress will ve Re blican majorities in both ranches, greatly to the advantage of President Coolidge, who as a re- sult will be to. originate ad- 4 have them to law without being har- by conditions such as existed RELYING ON THE BIBLE THAT LARTH 15 LAT NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1924. was open to convietion, And in m-| his he time appeared to be o In slipping off pillars - of the e member ing upon conviction took | | ane the the rth | levout of the erew ¥ fearcd this possibility. | ¢n the intrepid explorer the world a did he ligion that previously had re- ed the flat? Did he it it was not geographic he had proved W what do regarding world as that with and rant reconciled e in the light of what n? he did was to kneel down on heach and pray, thanking the tor for the discoverles. END OF AN INHUMAN PENAL COLONY | Regun with pure motives of phil- nropy, the | French penal settle- | ments St. Laurent le Maroni at Cayenne and French Guiana, degen- | erated into a hell on earth for the | infortuntes sentenced to it, accord- ing to a Paris dispatch to the New York World, The settlement ‘lasted 62 years and transformed a land of opportunity and possibilites into » of penury and misery, ed a quagmi as been elimina by the Herriott ministry in France as a re- sult of an expose by Albert Lon- dres, a journalist in the employ of the Petit Parisien. It had heen sup- posed by the Guiana settlement was ideal in its Frenchmen th so little was heard about the “oarthly paradise;” until operation Few ever meturned from recently the real reason why they never returned was not suspected. Tnstead a of remade men, with their descendants popu- of colony g the South American colony, most of them their bodies in e cemetery or in the undergrowth of th ] ». Death lurked in every known manner, and the most humane way of shuffling oft was the guillotine | The French penal system 3pply- | t to Gulana to its victims s has been a curious mixture of jus- After their terms as in st to stay in tice serving s and at {he colony for as many years as fhes saners; and some of the exiled more seriou mi were there for But while tiiey served as conyict ¥ received had nothing There was as exiles they 4 into heggars served work for anyone m thousands infested ~ants, {o steal, years of this thought it was ideal philanthropy. It T per man—which in nawed an for a NeWSp ournalist’— olony its existence is known as a e colony 25 Years Ago Today ¥rom ool ran riot and Found With Neek Wed, en Operating Mechanism Facts and Fancies It may be that the trouble Power of Bahgl was static, at the Most of tha people Progress hest who obstrugt cd before mid- had his radio set for 1t he goes 1o has time, night, some Still, If we ¢ our ablest men to oflice, run big busi- ness? wuo Johnson deserves credit, n a milking contest and indicted, Magnus He was wasn't Prithitive man: An appetite and a passion. Modern man: A front and an alibi. is A vil is ¢ every- body he is paying for car on the installment plan. e W knows In time great inventions will t dmost the away cept reformer's. How frightful is the end of man! Man s dust; dust makes mud; mud is used in politics. “I made lim what he eans, "He worked for he made his reputation.” ually me hefore China can't. end her war yet. She hasn't thought up a reason to blame Uncle Sam for it 11 right for the but why ion of Ame Lea gnash them AR The wild n tamed at Washington. Conditions he thought awful prove to be merely aweso Painting the kitch caper, ff the paint ur pants n The coming notice it we population s be- but you won't you won't argue. more dense, muct rned to laren sophisti- cated habitually hope for the the | everybody's job ex-| * fun | Dere May: 1 take | T hope, Tomorrow, L3 ‘What). ] I Wke you vary, vary much, | Do you like me — or not? | I'Il have some peppermints for you | (You HALL JupEL, | “Yures Vary Truely.” E. Alexander my pen in hand To say—to tell you this Leaves me as well as it finds you— (This 15 a Kiss). Know e Bowman said yure hare ‘Shame!" red—and T sa hare pink! . Same.) Tommy Janes says yure his gi are you dere? But you ain’t 1d ain't red — it's only (Here's some More of the e You ought to feel my mussel once. a Here). Yure going you? to walt for me, guess you Know these It won't be long — I'll hurry And grow * (Kisses ) up'~— and you do the Yures, Ted Curry. Realized Tt “That man who i8 courting you seems to Crabshaw: be rather frivolous. Do you young think he realizes that matrimony {s a se- rious thing?" Marjori “Indeed he Anes, aint | But if you don't, you can he as. sured we have & way of getting it/ What do you say? Klassroom-Kapers A first grade class was recelving its first lesson in reading. The young teacher was animatedly dis- cussing the various members of the cat family. % “What do you call a baby pussy she asked. “Kitten," replied Harold, “Watch me while I write the first sound of Kitten," sald the teacher, putting on the blackboard the letter “k." “Now," she continued, “who will tell ma the first sound of kitten?" “Meow was the prompt re- sponse of Jimmy, —Lilllan E. Piddian, Considerate | Judge: “So the landlord hasn't ;mlfll any improvements on the | premises?” |~ Tenant There's m ‘Only one, Your Honeor, been a new adveptising | sign painted on the side of the | building.” ~Mrs. Albert Levant, A man’s dying rich is a disgrace which his heirs endure with heroic fortitude, COMMUNICATED | THE RIGHT TO VOTE | All Born in U. S. Are Qualified | Irrespective of Parents | Editor New Britain Herald: Will you kindly glve me informa- tlon on the point of law in regard to citizenship and the right to vote. | B says that children born.in the United States are citizens, and are ents that are not naturalized can- Dot vote when they reach maturity without they take “out citizen papers. B says hat children born in the | Unted States arc citizens, and are M#mma. He's talking about break- | eligible to vote, regardless of the ing his engagement.” -7 ue to! Vain Quest “Why didn't he wasn't you w home?"” ey said she went to the bar- | | ber shop.” ait J. 0'C. tor Dolly —Joscph Zweisele, Thinning 1t Down sat hevself did weep; For she on Let me w speak louder, skin deep; down and loudly aid that her beauty was hisper it to you, I wouldn't I'm afraid it is only as deep as her | powder. L. O'Brien. l With the Spooncrs “There is nothing new under the sun.” quoted | “No,” chuc love's old story the professor. d the -cynie, "huf; always sounds origi- nal — under the moon.” | fartin Kreager. T Am Tired of Trick Endings 1 am tired of trick endings. Whether they be in a novel, in a play, in a short I am tired of them. 1 am tired of img out to be the story crook, or whatnot, | the detective turn- and the | French maid being, in reality, a fe- Th degire frecdom from the Pty ¥ ¢ million. Freer resdom n India Has First of Woman Legislators Noy 6.—Tn first A 4 Lo- by the German Editor Dares Women to Shave Head Observations On The Weather COST HIGH IN POLAND e sleuth tired bring, who ing the char offspring I am' tired of all along for the into the chief T want to sce th led to belicve they author thinks is cle 1 am tired of tri There are @ them in act of in as heen am rent e T gotta get y. How many plexion pack.” My Eel, Walter by o ea She ¢ the wa me with th my farm, me through conneeted turned nd tle more on out ira an a ar ¥ about a d the hard-hearted truth, evoted merely test- cter of his rather gay fellow we took lain developing | police in disguise. s end as 1 am . Not as the a shave 1edd “Only three hairbobs and a ecom- | < endings. gether too many of | in & of me?” Clara Traprock eel - into my which T ecl-hood at ipes reservolr. T one morning She a a s. During Rer a n e was in knots comp & Bo As she the cdge she exercised Just heigl der and < a a 8¢ 8 he of worm at the life which was lit- time number of worms her to a foot nher o wonder{y nd soon mastered bights, hitches, | are me a year period musing tying Scout Man- angiversary catastrophs 1 i 1 was sunning her- | of a sm pond, hawk her in had carried was fiere hawk. A heart- ut 200 at- Jok place in mid- ara as the then that Y 1 stead ends ( form “wo around the neck was, you see, playir result of ea 4 fell into the pond, wh wege drowned Clara is =till 1 nced age can still yut make n could ease, prime she hour with tie ms ere me h b prize. training By skillful slipnooses. ir both t the middle, You can see the | o o4 0 o stitytional amendments eac ing, but that the is a granny. 1 8 h tightened 1 realize that do ¢ ara man- one bird from the They both birds t such only lit- in her 0 knots an The Faitor's Gossip Shop We are that s — but ough of it! We want more! We know it's the We would rat y by bubbles we er getting some in are y getting it and se th not t K he hu- class- getting ling it | parents. | Thanking you in advance for the | same, T am, | Respectfully yours, Charles Ponenna. New Britain, Conn,, Nov. 4, 1924, B is right. All persons horn in | the United States, regardless of the nationality of their parents, arg citizens of the United States and are entitled to vote. Sce beginning of fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.— Editor, 'SMALL UNDOUBTEDLY IS ELECTED IN ILLINOIS | He Holds Lead of More Than 300,- 000 Votes Over His Democratic Opponent, By The Associated Press, Chicago, Nov. 6.—Virtually every state and national contest in Illinols | had been decided today as returns, dribbling in from 800 missing down- | state precincts of the state's 5959 inereased, in moat cases, existing re- publican majoritiea. Thgse ranged from President Coolidge’'s more than three-quarters | of a million plurality over John W. | Davis and the half million majority of Charles S. Deneen, former gov- ernor and United tes senator t, over his democratic opponent, Colonel A. A. Sprague, lo the few| thousands that separated candidates in several closely contested congres- sional districts, "wenty republican congressmen clected in addition to two republicarr resentatives-at-large. Democratic incumbenis were replaced in two Jistricts and returned in four. The resuit was in doubt in only one dis- trict, the 20th, where Henry T. Rainey, democratic incumbent, had a margin of votes over Guy L. Shaw, republican, with 59 precincts missing. President Coolidge had 1,249,250; Davis, 488,431, and La Follette 293,- 549 when 5,194 precincts had un- ofticially reported Unofficial returns from 5,016 pre- ta in tl senatoria race een 1,175,271, and Sprague 660,- | De gave Governor Ten Small, republican incumbent, held a lead of 330,000 over Norman J.. Jones, democrat, MICHIGAN VOTES DOWN PROPOSED AMENDMENTS People Averse to Anti-Parochial School, Tncome Tax and Reap- portionment Measures. Nov. 6.—With a and one-half times that President of Detroit nearly of hoth opponents, 4 a majority votes in Michl- ceased million P jiation carly today the state’s Coolidge $11,0 Follette 106,556, Senator James turned to showed Couzens was re- vote of more | here | Tabulation of 2,412 of coal min each year for the coal, | g fard and Maip Office 1 24 Dwight Court. Tel. 2198, Tel, ’ COOLIDGE PLANNING NEXT FOUR YEARS ' White House Interested in Make- | Up. of Gongress Washington, Nov. 6.—With the evidence of his popular endorsement steadily Increasing as election re- turns continued to .come in, Presi- dent Coolidge turncd his thoughts today to plans for the next four | years, including the eetting up of | his own administration and the| framing of a legislative program to | be presented to congress, Inferest at the White House cen-| tered today on the results of the congressional contests, The present congress, though nominally in con- t the Republicans, has been | ted by the balance of power | the LaFollette group in| both branches, Because of this, it is| | expected few measures except the | 1 appropriation bills and possi- | Jly farm relief legislation will | presented by the president to the! final session of the sixty-cight con-| begins in December. | Mr. Coolidge has decl for further tax reduction and reform,” it is the opinion of t close to Secretary Mellon of the| Treasury Department and to the| president that such legislation will be presented by the president to the final n ot the sixty-eighth cen- | gress, which begins in December. | While Mr. Coolidge has declared | for further tax reduction and “tax | reform,” it is the opinion of those | close to Sceretary Meilon of the | treasury department and to the pre idegt that such legislation will not | %\y‘v\i"-i by the administration at| the short session, Nor will an extra session be called aftcr March 4 for this purpose alone, it is believed, un- | less clear working majorities in each ssured and legislation 1§ | domi | he 1 by branch of congress are emergency | otlier | rienitural commission t hose | ® HE six thousand or es in th: a= try spend $400,...,000 vast quantity of equipment and supplies used in the coal-mining industry. They buy everything from turbo-gene- rators to adding machines. This is truly the age of and egoal mining is America’s third largest basic industry, employing 800,000 workers and an amazing amount of ma- chinery so that you may cnjoy the comfort of full ccal bing, The Citizens Coal Co. tin Yard opp._Berlin_ station 2635-5. Uptown Office 104 Arch Bt. Tel. 3208 it CONTENTS ecavmIOHTED decmed necessary. Meanwhile Mr. Coolidge will be confronted with the problem of se- lecting a cabinet. It is thought like- ly that eeveral of the present mems sers will retire for personal reasons to private life, a it is understood also that the president has in mind some changes in the alighment, though no wholesale transferring of ‘tment heads 18 expected. No utstanding changes, however, are looked for prior to the inauguration, As on yesterday, it was “busineas as usual” today at the White House, Mr, Coolldge, following his custom, appeared early at the executive of- s, giving his attention to govern- ment ffairs. Immediate prohlems facing him re the selectlon of the proposcd ag- o investigate farming conditions, the appointment of a secrefary of agriculture to sue- ceerd the late IHenry €. Wallace, and a decision of the report of the tanlt commission on sugar duty, JAP 1 JAILED Man Who Hauled Down U. S Flag in Tokio Gets Six Months—Com- panions Also Imprisoned. / The Associated Prees. Tokio, Nov. Riche Okada, who cut the American flag from the flag- aff in the grounds of the destroyed ¢ on July 1, last, sentenced to six months imprisonment. His two ac- complices were sentenced to four and two months, respectively, with a suspension of sentence for twe years, which means that if they are of good behavior during that period, they will go practically unpunished. The judge, in announcing his de. cision, said the unsclfishness of mo- tive prompting the deed justificd the suspension of the sentences Okada cut down the flag during the demonstrations held throughout Japan in June and July as a protest against the American immigration act excluding Oriental immigrants from the United Sfates. American embas was yesterday W. L. Douglas is dead He is a man with the most fami He made the W. L. __——————_____—_____—"—‘—___—————-—\___‘——_—fi ([DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL A Face Everyone Knows By DR. FRANK CRANE jar face in the world | Douglas three.dollar shoe which is advertised e United States senate by | very extensively. He recently died at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital a majority almost as large, de'f-n‘v":“or Doston and thus brought to a close one of the most extraordinary Cooley of thc gan, Groesheck Dean Mortimer E University | romances of American industry. He cmocrat. | greatest shoemaker on earth, for while other corporations ms ran | passed bis production in Migures, he was virtually his own corporation and was n shoemaker, but probably the v hiave sur- and | his Brockton factory was the largest ever built. had aimost | lead over his demo- voted down three pro- decisive votes anti-parochial am amendment that would posed a astate income tax re the worst beaging of all, with precincts vofing: yes, 182,014; 714,584, The third amendment dealt with reapportionment. The schoo! ha Charge Manaughter Montvi Lu e an 51 with resylting in the death of two women, aiting in the death oftwo women, ¥ 1 A. Parke and Mrs. D. Wilkinson of Poquonoc, was terday bound over to the superior tice of the Peace Smith Bonds court by on a charge of manslaughter were set at $5,000. iment was buried under | proposed im- eived no, In Auto Fatality automo- another | Morris on t turned out, every year likeness nded of He which bore I ’ | of dollars, served-as Mayor champlon of labor arbitration | t seven years of age he was 2 f an uncle, woYking twehve hours a d e beneh Working cight years on i a month, he supported his mother | hobbling gn a crutch to the bench Brockton, Governor of s sala million pairs of shees, every one of he He amassed many millions Massachusetts,.and sole, atherless starvling negging ehots for ay and standing on a box to reach ary, which wes less than fen dollars ife broke his leg,but went on working, e walked four miles a day tb school for three moaths every year, Then he worked in a cotton mill for thirty-three cents a day, went it West and opened a little store in Golden City, Colorado, with Alfred Sindley, and prospered very largely because he vertising campaig He returned to Massachusetts in man and opemed his own factory and continued | country until the le of tort of t salesmanship o He was a consistent Democrat | | Chairmansjip of the National Comm direc “|In his eightieth year Mr. Douglas was a t) Amertcan youths pi all He difd fighting, as he had lived, holding his wife's hand Ameri nstituted the proper ad- 1870, worked i1 branded his shoes with his own as a shoe shop fore- at him, but he opened retail store after store offering himself 2nd his shoes to the public throughout the e turned and vindicated him as the pioneer n politics and was twice offered the . ittee, He waw an and should be 2n inspiration to Copyright. 1924, bx. 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