New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1924, Page 8

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Teaued Dally (Sunday lfi:mfl At Herald Bldg, 7 Cbul Street SUBSORIPTION RATES s Year $2.00 Three Munth. The. & Month, Entered at the Post Office at New Britain s Second Class Matter, TELEPHONE CALLS ~ Business Office , Editorial Rooma 026 26 {The only profitable advertisiry medium fn the Oity. Circulation booke and press room always open to advertisers. Member of the Assoclated Pross. fThe Associated Press ta exclusively en- titled to the use for re-publication of all news credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news published herein, Member Audit Burean of Clreulation. The A. B. C. & nailonal organ! which furn! d tisers with circulation, Our circulation are based upon this audit. T protection again aud fn newspaper distribution figures to both natlonal and local advertisers. — | The Herald ta on_u: York at Hotaling's N Bquare; Schultz Ne Grand Central, 4Ind NEW HAVEN AWAKENS TO LOCAL NEEDS The first net result of the agita- tion for the improved passenger | railroad facilities in New Britain is | a promise from C. L. Bardo, general manager of the New Haven ,rafl- | road, that the “dinky” service be-| tween the Berlin and New Britain | stations will be gasolinized—not | with automobiles, but with a gnsu~‘ line coach operating upon the pres- ent rails between the two stations. This will be no doubt thankfully received. The present oneryvlooklng[ ‘contraption palpitating between the two stations appears to date from | the early 70's, Newcomers to the city, who enter the pearly gates via Berlin, as most of them do, no longer will need to ask whether the dinky is going to New Britain or is a branch line for milk trainy to Podunk, The general manager of the rail- road is to be congratulated upon realizing that progress is an essen- tial to good railroad management, and that improved facilities are a concomitant of progress that im- presses itself upon the minds of the public quicker than statistics about “ton miles” and freights. The proposal to construct a new passenger station at or near the site | of the old brewery contiguous to the | Newington line is being agitated bY; various civic forward-lookers and | the general manager has at least| promised careful consideration by | the engineering department of the railroad. How quick things of thll] nature move is indicated by flle] manager’s reported statement that | it will take from three to six months | to make a decision. | The claim was made In the city | that the ever increased use of auto- | mobile busses is hurting the pas-| senger business of the railroads and that it is regarded as poor business | to expend heavy sumi upon Dew | stations. On the surface, there ap- | pears logic in the argument; but| when the stations get down to such“ efficiency and | | & low lavel of looks, general dissatisfaction as the pas- senger terminal arrangements in New Britain, something will have ¢o be done regardless. The same gondition existed in Sprmgfleld,‘ where a large new station is under | construction; several years ago l} pew station had to be constructed in WWorcester; about ten years ago a| hew large one had to be constructed | in Rochester, N. Y.—all for similar | reasons as those existing in New Britain, that the old stations were | woefully inadequate. New Britain | 4s not a little village that need be gatisfied with village facilities, Tts passenger faclilities are perhaps th worst In New England. The New Haven is doing very well in this city | 8s regards its total business, more | #0 than in any city of its size in the | state, it not in New England; and the city is entitled to a passenger | station in” conformity with 1ts im- portance. THE EDITORIAL “WE” IS HEF Y APPROVED Some smart aleck of a mentally | @ecayed journalism college teacher has enunclated school room dicta that the editorial “we” is “verboten" 4n all well-regulated editorial offices. | Which causes us to rise in our dig- | nity and might to smack the ob- noxious swivel-chir journalistic | rule as would a flea. | No “we” allowed! What is the | ' ydlotorial world coming to? If the opinions, dissertations, mental fluc- | fuations and cerebral hemorrhages | of the editorial fraternity is not tobe | ¢lothed in the all-embracing, quick- | Jy written and easily understood | #we,” then there is no longer .any " palm'left in Gilead and the River Jordan has run dry as prohibition. | ~ And what is to be.the cherished | * gubstitute? We discover that in- " gead of the old standby of Horace Gresley, Marse Henry ‘Watterson | . and the other ncwspaper Babe | hs, that the stilted and spavined method of quoting the name of the 3 ular newspaper iavolved ia| " the editorial cloudbve s to be Spreferred.” It we did, it would not take long be- fore an aroused citizenship took the notion we were stuck on ourselves. We are stuck more on the “we" and will stick to it. And we notice that a horde of other reputable are likewlse stuck on the prongun. and style-book heroes are so far re- moved fron? the practicalities of the profession that they mind us of the college professor who remarked he taught “tHeory” because he didn't expect any of the nimble minds in his care to practice | it. rear, and the necessity hnv\ns‘ passed for producing from three to four columns of editorials a day on politics, more politics and still For Instance, instead of splliing a cryptic “we" ever and anon, we are to say “the Herald" Instead. Now, as much as we are enamor- ed of our officlal baptismal cogno- men, we don't intend te take up that much spad every time the diminu- will fill the requirements. journals Some of the journalism teachers forcibly re- IN WHICH WE DEFEND | CHURCH SUPPERS The election being safely to the years developed the quintessence of animosity toward each other, were known to one another for halt a century, Wilson alwi their memory had to be rekindled at & meeting of the two at a function in Washington Incldent to the inaue guration of Wilson in 1913, when the twain met, The story is that Lodge that the latter may have forgptten, - NEW BRIJAIN DAILY HERALD, T'UESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1924, pous controversy known only to the two chiet contenders, they dled each had in mind thy writing of their memotrs upon ‘the subject, which were to Be a com- plote baring of every cross-current of subterranean never came to light, When the war presifent died he had magde a be- ginning, memoranda of the great human document he was to complle. When lliness struck' down Lodge he had made a beginning upon his own memoirs, confiding to friends that it 'would be his last and greatest effort; than a sketchy start. was left undone. Bofore cogtention which but left only scattered but he never got further The work These two men, who n later ys remembered first dealings, but Lodge's remarked to the pregident And our more politics, some energetic and imaginative editorlal writer on¥the Harttord Times the other day took'| to a mors popular and engrossing theme. He “penned a philippic,” as the sophomores say, about church suppers, According to this critical-minded gentleman, church suppers in New England have been steadily de- creasing in édible value, Time was, he opined, when it was possible to | “fill up” for 25 cents at any church‘ supper in these fair tier of states; | but those days, he intimated, are | no more. Not only do the church suppers cost more, but, by heck, they produce chow. When the church aupp:r cynic includes all New England in his| less in acute and prickly disagreement. main thesis, contention, platform plank and basis of argu- ment is that we have partaken of some church suppers in New Brit- ain, while the Hartford generalissimo | of gastronomic pasquinade evident- ly hasn't. available | and-coming town as a rule are no longer 8o low down in the financial | galned a verdict of unpopularity | upon historlcal True, church suppers in this up- scale as to cost only 35 cents—a figure that even before the war had among the energetic women who provide “sumptuous”’ church sup- pers for the hungry multitudes. The New Britain suppers set back | the participants as high as '152 cents — which usually provides | some entertainment as well ag fl.t-| ing materiad. | The Hartford critique concludes that canned ham and potatoes are | the rule in modern New England church suppers. We pity Hartford. | No wonder there is a hungry look about the denizens of the burg. We | in New Britaln get much better fodder than that at any church supper, ecven the most unpreten-| tious. There are church suppers in| this epicurean citadel of a city which will compare favorably with | the French chet's nasterpieces at the Bond hotel; in fact, that pom- pous functionary can do no better| than come here occdsionally and| watch our bands of greasa-conouers | ing culinary marvels perform in producing New England’s finest | tongue-tickling delights — and au[ for a nominal fee without cover clfarges. | Some enterprising New Britain | church can do mo better than to tn- | vite the entire galaxy of Times edi- tors to the next supper, admitting them as dead heads, and BOrgirg hem in such a manner that thuy will never again venture to criti-| cise one ‘of our most cheriched nnd} famous institutions. LODGE AND WILSON IN HALF A CENTURY Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was| the author of innumerable subjects and bio- graphy. Woodrow Wilson likewise was an author, devoted to history, economics, and government. Yet cach failed to write book that would have been of in- estimable value to the nation and other historians. Each was inti- mately connected with the political backwash of the war; Wiison sought to engrave his ideals into American participation with the League of Nations as the climax of American participation in the war; | Lodge sought, and succeeded, 1n‘ stemming the tide towgrd national co-operation with other nations and | kept America “isolated,” along with Germany, Russia, Mexico and a few minor nations. | Either the partisans of Wilson were right, or the partisans of Lodge were right; either all the nations comprising the League of the | Nations today are right, or the United States, one of the handful | outside the league, is righty A just decision was never made. The issue was thrown into partisan | politics and became a fdotball of partisanship of the most ignomini- | ous soik. | Yot @cre were points in i - | means of creating. well known story or novel, chang- ing literature into an “epic of thei is changed into something of Love;" or “Mary's becomes bookSH but the two had met at a college commencement at Princeton a few years previously, But the president smiled that he remembered the senator “long before that—a man never forgets the editor who pub- lishes his first article.” And so Lodge, on returning to Nahant, delved into his old files and there discovered a letter from Wilson written when Lodge was editor of the International Review, in the late 70's. Wilson was then a student at Princeton and had ‘written an artile on governments, In the 70's Lodge thought 80| much of Wilson's political treatise that he published it in the maga-| | zine he was editing; in 1919 and 1920 Lodge theught so little of the maturer judgments of Wilson that sweeping generalization he neces- | he led a senatorial revolt against|jigion that keeps people from sarily includes New Britain. And placing them into practical use.| church, but too littie. y > ¢ Half a century, with partisan poli- ‘ just here is where there sprouts an P P Example of antisellmax: They tics as mentor of one mind and idealism as the gulding star of the | other, led to the most bitter per« sonal controversy in modern Amer- ican etatesmanship, a controversy that afected the status of the coun- try in that concert of nations which its president had been the chief FILMS AND LITERATURE, AND NEW TITLES When film companies tackle &’ screen,” as.the press agents are fond of saying,ythe chances are strong that the old reliable title by which book lovers knew the story “more modern” or posscssing more “snap.” For instance, a harmless title Jike “Theodora” becomes “The Flames | Adventure” E “Passion's Victim.” The| ordinary common people are not | supposed to realize a film can be worth seeing unless the title is,80 | manifestly alluring that the most unsophisticated can sense a sex thrill, which everybody nowadays is supposed to be interested in, Obviously, the intelligentsia, cog- noscenti, literary critics, authors, some editors and reformers gen- erally oppose the practice. We have read quite impassioned articles | which sought to deter the wicked film magnates from despoiling titles, or substituting paprika for ordinary sauce. { But the Hollywood magnates hold frm to their ideas of title “im- provement,” and as they foot the bills 6f producing the pictures, they | will not be denied the privilege of adopting a name for the film child | of thelr pocket books. | Change inj title has not been | confined to the film world, how-| ever. It's been done in by editors in the employ of publishers, and sometimes without the knowledge of the author. L. Frank Tooker, & former editor of the Century maga- zine, when that pubMcation held undisputed sway over the fleld, tells {hat Frank R. Stockton readily ad- mitted that his great short story | gained greatly by the substitution | of the title, “The or the Tiger?” instead of its origina title, “The King's Arena.” Mr. Stockton was not consulted about the change, rope. | in his book, of an Ex-Editor Tooker, “The Joys and Tribulations Editor,” gives an insight of what is happening in editorial offices con- | stantly. He says: | Motives are mixed. Lady, I 3 condense & book 1 greatly ad. mired without the uneasy im. pression of belng the breaker of the image of some new god in letters, In the editor's conden- sation of a potentlal work of art he retains the qualities that appeal to his Own taste and judgment, but possibly elimin- ates those qualities that appeal to the man on the strect.”” Changlng the story or making a new ending, sald to be common to the moving plcture people, was by no means unknown in the ‘goed old days,” [according % the old Century editor, 'In this connection h esays: “But changing a title was one thing; altering the. struc. ture of a story or adding a new ending was quite another mate tep These, of coumse, we did not do without the permission of the author. We have saved lives that were hopelessly lost, and parted lovers who were on the point of living happily ever after, and all for art's sake and sweet reasonableness. ‘The Cen- tury’ has never been averse fo unhappy endings and a certain fnevitable gloom, but it has usually protested agalnst the distortion of life and plausibili- ty for the sake of a possible sob at the close of a tale. The kind of change that we more fre- quently have made has been to ask for the omission of matter that has had no pearing on the motive or plot,” % Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN Friends, are people who forgive everything except great succeas, Homes are still useful, however, to people who don’t like to quarrel in public, Quarrelsome men usually have heavy heads of hair. There are no bald women, It isn't too much talk about re- planned a big day; their wives went along. 5 ‘When you go hunting for re‘c- tionaries, just poke around in nice soft snaps. In the old days a “loud speaker” was a drummer, whom the waiter served first, Some people talk without appare ent strain, and some have a repu- tation for cleverness. The objection to a neighborhood that is good is that it attracts so many people who are not. He usually feels . overworked “if day-dreaming keeps him eight hours on a two-hour job. | You can’t tell the wise from the| foolish when you hear.them talking baby talk to a sweetie. The objection to. most high-brow literature is its pompous way of say- | ing something everybody knows. | \ —— Character is something you make | yourself. In making a reputation you have a lot_of volunteer help. . Keeping e\'erlashn;ly at it ena- bles you to find the drug section in a drug store, A man may quit because he is getting better or because the liquor is getting worse. 1f Judgment Day should come to- ‘The Pipes of Panhandle By Arthur L. Lippmann I'm a -ln’cr of ditties in hamlets and’ cities, By tinkling and twinkling old streams. Dorcas: “Mest ot them look to 1 woo all the muses on vagabond | me 48 if they'd outgrown them ale crulses— ready."” A creature of fancies and dreams. Iyric lyre which I I've a light, never tire Of thumbing and strumming day— On subjects quite” tender I vocally render - A carol or sweet roundelay. Oh, I'm blithe and I'm merry no elfin or fairy So joyfully welcomes the dawn. And I worship. the night with hymn of delight In the haunt of the pheasant a faun, My pipes and my tabors entrance all my neighbors; T wever feel mournful or glum-— 8o, perhaps by this time you've {ne ‘ferred from my rhyme I'm a standardized hobo, bum! +Oh, Jack! Muriel: “I don't about cards, flush 2" ’ Jack (reddening): “That's t! look that comes on a fellow' when a girl he likes starts talki about diamonds." —Gertrude Marle Heller. know a thi He Heard the Same Story Before Wife: “I must have a new hi The awning in front of I, H.} coat.” b W BEAYY I golomon's store on Main street Husband: “What fur?” caught fire yesterday. The cause —Olive Zinkey. Her Best Betty: "Did you-give Ralph a eatisfaction when he asked for Kkiss 2" Caroline: “Well ~ I hope s0.” ~Lyle Heintz, Riddie-Kapers 1 took my nephew, three years store for old, to a department luncheon the other day and, course, when We finis! ress passed the finger bowls, He very carefully watched me dip my fingers in the bowl. Then and he turned to the waitress said: “Please pass meo the soap.” —Helen A. Bristol, A Matter of Interpretation ' He was a newly-promoted cor poral in the A. E. F. and h charge of a squad occupying old, ramshackle bullding. with an’ order which mysfified hi It read: “G. H. Q. wants hou: Not knowing what * signified, the corporal sent G. T, H" When Headquarters re message, the corporal was mediately ordered arrested held for court-martial. He charged with using insulting “General The House,” he explained. ~Guy V. P.rlcm Truthfully Seymour: “Do you think a man should marry young or old." Lenore: “Yes. « 1 ~Mrs. L. C. Menick, Very few husbnds are as unhap- py as they think they are, ‘Wally the Mystic He'll Answer Your Questions, What's a dlamond face , the wait- In the dead of night, a messenger arrived . H. Q back the following reply: “G. H. Q. can lan- guage. At his trial he was ordered to interpret the offending message. Headquarters can Get net even half werld weuld know how the othep halt lives e x Suceoss “Let mae s¢ll you this book," ssld the dgent: “It desotibes 300 short cuts to of “Never mind so miany shert cuts, Téll me one way to win in the lohg runt -8 L O — Viewpolnts ' Mrs, Dorcas: “Women will out- :ruw the present freak of styles of ress.” ~W. B. Burton. S s Do you know what your daugh. ter 18 reading? It _you den't, better see that she stickh to this néwspaper and thig department. 3 § all — Verses and Reverses Mrs, Franklin: “When you were a little girl you néver had your hair bhingled, did you?" Forn: “Oh, mo, quite the re- verse,” 25 Vears Ago Today Srom Paper of That Date Two rival trusts Are atter the brick yardsein this part of Connec- ticut, but the local conterns are not disposed to sell. f Horace Booth fell but of his team this noon and broke his arm, The acoldent was caused by the loosen- ing and tipping of the seat. A. H, Nero has beén chosen lead- er of the New Britain Glee club to succeed Ernest FY Wann, Frank B. Pishken has enlisted for service in the Philippines and has gofie to join the cavalry at Fort Slocum. tempararily. g or ng he ng is unknown, but the general opinion is that somebody dropped an election cigar on it. Sheriff Gibney was so active in putting out the blaze that many think heé was responsible for starting it. Morgan, N. B. H. 8. 1902, recently sprained his ankle in a friendly wrestling match with one of his classmates, s - _The senior debating club decided yesterday that “England has no right in the Transvaal,” but in the junjor debating club, Richards and Steele’ won for the other Z ny L] of Rev. Lyman 8, Johnsongfled the devotional exerolses at the®W, C. T, U. Meeting held yesterday afternoon, ‘Waite's Comedy Co. at the Lyceum will present “A Brother's Secrifice” tonight and “The Burglar” tomor- row afternoon. ad an Observations On Tl;e Weather ‘Washington, Nov. 11.—This an. nounceuent was made today by the weather bureau: “The tropical disturbance, in the absence of reports. has apparently moved slightly eastward to latitude 21, longitude 73. It will move slowly northeastward accompanied by strong winds and gales in fits path during the next 24 hours, Caution advised vessély,” Forecast for Southern New Zn't- land: Partly eloudy tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature; moderate northeast and east winds, Forecast for eastern New York: Partly cloudy tonight; warmer in central and north portions; Wednes- day unsettled and warmer; rain in north portion; moderate to fresh east winds, Conditions—The western trough of low pressure now extends from Oklahoma northeastward to upper Michigan, It is causing unsettled m, Somehow weather with light scatt Dear Readers, tell me what'd the|in the Micglssippi :-I“l:;h"::; use western Lake region. The western For you to waste your mental|disturbance will move slowly east< Jjuice ward and probably phss out the St. When answers you may always|Lawrence valley Wednesday night. find The temperature coftinues low in To questions, through my Mystic New England but rises rapidly west- Mind? ward to‘Jowa, where it is much above normbal and then falls ra They're Very Scarce ly thence westward to the Ropc‘d Dear Wally: Mountains, where it s below freez- 1 am in my teens; Ing. Boys say I'm one of Nature's| Conditions favor for this vieinity queens. fair weather followed by increasing Should" girls in' any man confide? Please answer frankly. Needa Guide, Dear Needa Guide: morrow, a lot of men would send out word: “Sorry; in confcrence.” tectives seem to have been born that way. Blessed are the meek. How an important. office man suffers when the public won't share his | opinion of hims sentence: “You're sald the husband; becayse he happened to be in Eu-| “my friends would call it I didn't | have a drop.” Baikal With Marines | On Battleship Texas | “Washington, Nov, 11.—Crulsing |about the Atlantic and visiting the | many ports along the east coast, | Charleg Balkal, of New Britain, Correct this wrong, honey,” “In its progress from reader to reader a doubtful manuscript was often transformed into a successful poem or story through the ingenuity of some one quick to recognize the pos- sibilities that a change here or there might make. We were all keenly alive to the advantage of thus exercising our wits, and 1 am sure that we rejoiced more over the last sheep thus saved thap over.the ninety and nine that came’ safely. to the fold.” The ex-editor gonfides that it was 27,000 tons and mounts ten 14-inch | common to condense stories” and novels, and suthors had to submit to it in spite of the pain it €ome- times caused. Yet he adds: “Lfave gevef been obliged to | Marine detachment on the battieship Texas, one of the largest dread- | naughts of the Atlantic fleet, accord- |ing to the official records at Marine Corps headquarters here. |~ Baikal ‘was born in New Britaln, {and is a son of Charles Baikal, Sr., |9 Connerton street. | Marine corps at Hartford last June, |and was formerly stationed at Paris |Island, 8. C. Later he was assigned {to duty on the Texas, where Marines |are trained to man certain types of | guns and to perform guard duties. {The Texas has a displacement of guns for the main battery. The ve: sel was recently reported at Hamp- l‘ton Roads, Va. | Dye made in Chile for turning | grey hair dark, filled 41,200 boxes in one year. good | | What do you think? [ ; | Dear Cappy: Conn., is a member of the U. 8. He jolned the | Well, I'll be cussed! | You want to know what man to | Sherlock Holmes needed a needle | to make him dopey, but a lot of de-| Is he who's writing this note now. trust? . The only one I know, I swow! . Dear Wally : Oft I sit and moan Because I am so much alone. 1 think a wife would make happy; ’ Yours truly, Many hearts now ache From this mistake you make, want Mother: “You always catc) Son: "I don't ses why; | rooms are &twaya well heated.” The Editor's Gpssip Shop Well, back to our Shop last week. weekly, in The Fun Shop. Meanwhile, remember i{ is venture related in the manger as an example in contributing | ticies for the Baldpate serfes. | * Another Traprock Watch for R If it wasn't for women's cl‘ Cappy. Although & wife may make you cold every-time you call on that girl” we believe everybody 'was glad to welcome old Doc Traprock He has just returned from a long | journey, and his adventures this past year will be duly related, Traprock which you should hold tomorrow. cloudiness and rising temperature, — ESSENTIALS GF SALESMAN Isaac Black, sales manager of Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co, spoke to the salesmanship class at the ¥. M. C. A. last night and emphasized the’| eskentlals of a real salesman, These essentials he sald, were knowledge and hard work, Togéther with these must go such things as: Loyalty to the company the salesman repre- sents, absoiute honesty, and an en- thusiasm for onc's work, There were 31 present to hear Mr. Black and the enrollment of the clags has now increased to 27. Af- ter Mr. Black's talk, A, C. McKin. nie, the class leader,3 the' dis- cussion in the two subfects: Factors in selling and keeping physically fit. The future program for the class will include talks by Willlam H. Rattenbury of Landers, Frary and me to happy Clark; Mr. Stone of the Stanley Ehe's sure to make existence| Works; and other prominent sales snappy. leaders. The clasy work will be tak- en up each week on Monday eve- Vital Point nings at 7:30 p. m. This, of course, is the more important phase of the course and is being entered (nto the | most zealously by ail the students. Mother: “But how about the| *“Y” RIBLE OLASS REOPENS Bl The Y. M. C. A. Thursday Night «J, C. Witcher. |Bible class will reopen this season with a supper at the Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening at 6:30. Rev. Dr. George W. C. Hill of the South Con- gregational church will Jead the class for the month of November and Rev. Samuel Fiske of Berlin will be lead- er during Deeember. Other of the local clergy will condluct' the class for simllar periods during the sea- son. During the past season the class had an earoliment of over 100, This season promises to be equally successful as a group of men inter- ested in the class is promoting it. ad- of are ! BY National may famine taught b almost There was had paid help Mpe that which ditions of it would are as foll merville d T wil of water anything once have sponge It your true ships are In the last eight years 240,000, 000 copies of the Bible has been ubs sold. \ 8ix years ago today the peoples of the world's nations rejoiced as only those who have rejoice. full of strength and sincerity -~ burst from millions of throats that such a blight on the world as had just ended should never anln: blacken the pages of histery. Six years ago tomorrow same people started to forget. The | lessons that four years of terror, | The price’in lives to our country, 800,000 Kkilled, and diseased, was lost sight of in’ the rush to regain pre-war levels, billions on biiHons. patience with anything resembling preparedness, That fact Is unes- to capable.: a5 v 1 We men of the American Legion, __, JAMIS A DRAIN res| who know how terrible war is, whi count it arhong our blessings Qat tect its own life and be able to en by oursis & pelulfil nation, force its will for good upon reac fral We may be depended upon to tional nations, it must be strong means that fits with honor. But we know, as none can better phy know, that if this nation is to pro-, forced upon us. wil be 4 11 am| For Quick Results U;g Herald Classified Ads DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL The Other Side of the Case 1 have received a very interesting letter from & gentleman who does not wish' his name published, who states the other side of the case from As this man seems to he a saiior and to know what he is talking about it may be interesting 10 gt his point of View and the best way to do wAfter reading the enclosed article 1 decided to take the liberty to make a few comrients in defense of the seafaring nfan. “I feel confident that the deplorable conditions that Admiral Sum- ship, but any sailor can take a thoroughly cleansing bat'{ from one bucket clothing, the bather is always clean. “I have never seen a man do his four-hour watoh om~deck, to say ve never salled with any but the cammon run of sailors of the North- west. T have worked on the fruit ranchea of California apd the cotton ° flelds of the South; and ] am convinced that, on the whole, the quarters of a sallor abeard an American merchant ship are clegner than the homes of any group of workers ashore. . “ have eaten In boarding housés and workingmen’s restaurants the country over and T would rather eat the food on the worst ship I wae ¢ver aboard “I have have been aboard of or sailed on many ships of all pations and never This being the first article of this kind I have geen 'n the publie press 1 would like to contradict it to some extent and so will try to give yovu @ description of my findings, * “On most American ships an beds in evety bunk on the forecastle, and there are bathrooms with sewers (n the floor where a man can take a salt water shower or a fresh wi person would be bound to notice the prevailing clean!ffems. »] sincerely hope that sometime in the future you will go conditions aboardwship more thoroughly, and do us the justice to publish that would cause @ siave-hdider n the wark ages to have pity for his | slaves wore they aa bad off as sailors are supposetl to be.” ' Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. . \ VEMBER 1ith, A® 1918,5aw the sign- ing of the armittice ending the great World\\War. Not long afterward Flance seized the vast coal fields it the Ruhr District—coal ‘being the all-im- portant factor in the payment of reparations, \ ™ \ Coal is alwas a factor everywhere, and our “Old Company’s Leligh Coal” is & factor right here in bhis city, it being\the finest quality - coal, giting the most heat per mi\ \ The Citizens Coal Co. Herlin Yard Berll JAMES A. DRAIN Commander, The Amerl- | tan Legion. ffered long Prayers — prayers i those | and heartlessness had n to disappear. i wounded tal lats excess cost in money to a ‘The country thus dearly for its im- not only in purpose but in sound j military preparation for the ingvi- tabld war which will some day bef] p it at peace by every By DR. FRANK CRANE h I outlined sometime ago th regard to safling vessels and con- lite upon them. ' probably be to republish certal n portions of his letter. They ows: ’ escribes are very rare dn merchant ships. 1l admit that there are no luxurious baths for the crew of & and, when this bath is taken twice a day With a change of of the stoke holes, and turn in without & sponge bath, and ] than the food cooked a la boarding houss. been a safior for the past five years and during this time ) 1 witnessed conditions or actions such as the Admiral describes. investigator would find clean sheets ana 1 he,chooses, so all in all we do not fare so bad and an intereste) } ‘dnto the findings so that the American people will know that Ameriean mantied by men rather.than by hezsts, living under conditions 5 e