New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1925, Page 2

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ESEIBERT & 437 PARK ST PHONE 1720 NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 3 MAKE SURE IT5s SEIBERTS 'THE CHAPMAN CASE AND ITS " EFFECT ON THE PUBLIC MIND Queer Reaction To Stories of Trial Now In Progress Is Noted. A correspondent of the Herald has | written to us calling our attention “incongruity of deserlbing “hapman and other ir- {t1zens as ‘hero crooks,’ ‘super- ‘king of the under- | ter minds' and using a lot of pther adjectives which we have .:-nv to assoclate with desir- |able and enviable qualities” He | es on to ask why we should de-| word “hero” by connecting | [it with a crook. | He also asks “Does not this tend to confuse notorlety with fame?” able ¢ eriminals, world, ‘mi | hase t and questions whether we have not | had young people drifting into a life | of crime for the thrill of it and for the sake of attendant pubilicity, He | queries “why make a man famous who is merely notorious?” Later on he states than an effort is being made to turn the stream’ of the | | thought and ambition of our youth of | today back to a religious influence. | | He then asks us our attitude in this| matter. All of whith leads us to a | | series of conjectures, offered mere- | |1y because of the general interest. The Herald is not on the defensive at all for printing the news. That |is the function of a newspaper, The | Chapman trial is unquestionably | news. News i3 what people are| | talking and thinking about. Our correspondent has proven by his Jetter that he is thinking about the Chapman trial. Many others are | doing so, one way or another. Prac- tically every paper in this section is | carrying several columns dally on the trial and on Chapman's career —pbecause people are interested.| White paper, metal composition, ink and labor are too expensive to waste on uninteresting matter, as any| 3newapnper publisher soon learns m{ | his cost. As to the painting of Chapman as |a hero. It is our impression that| that word has not been used, by the } Herald at least, in his connection. | He s unquestionably a “super-| | bandit” and a “master mind.” Any | robber who got more than a mil- lion dollars in one raid and escaped | | from Atlanta s no piker—is he?| There is no question, however, that |waves his law: dit, the ‘Duke of Grammercy Park,' dressing after the manner of a fash- ton plate and talking like a states- man or a savant, ed, being somehow denied all the rights of man in not being permitted to give out statements to the public. Here, in short, wus @ stroller from a superplane, another Monta Cristo, of sorts, Here was the 20th tury's most vivid crook, genius in the stance, grip of fell circum- poet's face, with freshl polished fin “A pop-e: a scholar's brow, *rnails, kind of nmioronic holiday. trom that courtroom comes the alr that here is a gallant figure, caught in #he talons of the law, fighting against great odds for life. The im- plication is that somehow atl this s wrong, that he ought not be fight- ing for life, but as a free spirit he should be loose on the highways mounting the running boards of United States mail and t pistol in hand, knife in teeth. here are inferences that he away and as a keen-eyed master of strategy, know- ing more law than his lawyers, con- ducts his own defense. His ‘blue eyes,’ his ‘blue and fathomless eyes,’ his ‘pale greenish eyes' rove the room. Around this little jaflbird who got.away from Atlanta, the crowd-mind goes on weaving the myth of 'a man who can achieve the impossible.” The hysteriathat so often saturates such a criminal trial is evident around the Hartford courthouse, Mass-psychology is mak- ing a hero out of a wastrel gunman and holding him up for the edifica- tion of his imitative kind in all orookdom. “It built those cheap, hick heroes, the James boys, out of a palr of gun-toting, one-gallused Missouri hill-hillies who found robbing a vil- lage bank an easier way to make a living than plowing corn. Yet the James Boys' saga {s still peddied in paper covers to the train-riding yo- kel in the west. the general public is placing a halo | about the criminal'’s head, whether | the newspapers are causing that or| | not, There is some instinct in us, | wherever it comes from, that does | srround with an aura of romance | <o who successfully thwart the \-s of soclety in a big way. We| «» great delight, many of us in | wding thrilling detective stories, | oreln one master mind overcomes | another, Tt doesn't seem to make | much difterence whether the crook or |, | | the law official finally wins out—our | interest s there just the same. Small .. in our time, were addicted of Jesse James t parental opposi- and against the precepts of the | «-hools. Great men, many of them by their own testimony, like to read | stories for relaxation, at ast. Tt is an enthralling story tha being unwound before our ey one which has all of the romance of novel and has the additional in-| terest in that it concerns people | whom we know and scenes with} which we are familiar. Whatever | we may think of Chapman it is in-| | teresting, it is news. It may be| \eading some into the wrong paths | through their perverted desiro for “publicity and thr " but H‘r‘ chances are that those individuals would be wrong-doers anyhow. Just because a local factory - furnishes knives with which murder could be | gone 18 no reason to discontinue the | sale of knives. Fumanity is & queer lot, thrill seeking gang, in the aggregate and it is going to get those thr | The Herald to all the | it is a somewhere, somehow makes an effort to car message of Christianity. Consuit the | | church page in today's issue if you We are genuinely sorry that ded to Chris- i a way as will | it the Herald | story tonight it will romance can not be ad | tian teachings in such [ appeal to all. But, | carried no Chapman | | 13 quite probable that far fewer peo- | ple wou the church page. Some, at least, who have read the | Chapman story will also read ?l\"l ‘ page. And we belleve that) those who buy the Herald for| h page will read the Chap- | d see church ever ¢ geography apd In that way some absorbed 80 ped er they called uilty of »w from T . raint notorio his slipping to city, of were whisy s of that ha n' a reader of | the debonair ban- | |place of Tyburn T “There is an unholy for the erowd-mind in the Robin Hood legend. Tt appeals to the out- law streak in humanity. Something deep down in the crowd stirs when A jailbird defies socicty, holts with its goods and evades the catchpolls. © James' pistol under a country hanker's nose hecomes Robin Hood" dagger at the throat of a paunchy, purse-proud, fur-clad merchant, The ‘poet-faced’ Chapman with the ‘al- most feminine fingers' gets somehow fascination 4 Dick—who never by any chance robhed a pretty maid or a worthy an “The electric chair has taken the Tree, but humanity keeps the habit of making heroes not of the sheriff, the policeman, the catchpolls and the constable, but of the criminal. It sends him flowers 4 writes him letters elt out of breath catching him, it He was, it seen- | | manicured hands and | cen- | a twisted | Yea, a slim, smiling, youth- | ful man, with a dreamer's hcad, a | d gaping crowd blocks | the entrance to the courtroom in a | Somehow [honor cities, express | wisted into a Dick Turpin — hoid, | and J, James! | The mandamus admires his beautiful eyes. “Shades of R. Hood, D, Turpin Likewlse great gobs and balls of sentimental mush!" HONOR FOR NEW BRITAIN IN FIRE PREVENTION WORK This City Favorably Mentioned In Class 2 In Report Drafted On Nation, New Britain has beenl named as an honor city in class 2 in the fire pre- vention contest for 1924 conducted by the National IMire Waste council and the United States chathber of ommerce, Winners were named at meeting held in Washington, D, C.; yesterday. X g The competition was held in four classes and Indlanapolis was chosen the grand winner in the first class, which includes cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants, Springfield, Mass., was second, and Portland, Ore,, third, Winners in class 2 were TFresno, Cal., first; Hoboken, N. J., second; Terre Haute, Ind.; St. ew Britain, Conn,, and apids, Ta, Joseph, M Cedar . FIRE IN ANSONIA Blaze In Town Hall, Where Dance ‘Was In Progress, Results In Panic Among Merrymakers., Ansonia, March 28, — TFire in the auditorium of the city hall last night did damage estimated at §$2,000 and caused a brief panic at a dance which was being held there. Two women were painfully hurt, others less seriously and several persons fainted during the excitement. Before the blaze was brought un- (g‘r control, the office of the judge of probate had been burned out and other portions of the building dam- aged. It is not thought that the pro- bate records were harmed as they had been placed in the safe when the court closed for the day. A dance by the Highland Pipe band was being held in the auditor- ium when the blaze was discovered. When the flames were seen in the office of the judge, some one in the hall crie fire” and a rush for the stairway was made by the dancers. Two women jumped from a balcony 25 feet to the dance floor and were hurt. They are Mrs. Mary Emerson and Mrs. Benjamin Mochan, both of this city. The firemen were forced to take two of the dancers out of the windows. The origin of the fire has not been discovered, May Expel Students Who Leave as Bihle Is Read | Sturgis, S. D.,, March 28.—The| board of education at Faith, 8. D., has authority to expel high nohunl‘ students who leave the school while the Bible is being read, Judge James MecNenny ruled today in the case of A. Finger versus the school board. procecdings were brought by the plaintiff, who repre- sented Catholics at faith, to force the school board to reinstate students who had been dismissed because they refused to remain in the class- room during the Bible reading. Having run | Thirteen students had been expelled from ‘the school because of the Bible sits down, pats him on the head and | controver | APRIL 1st, 1925 FISHING TACKLE See Our South Window This Week HERBERT L. MILLS HARDWARE 336 MAIN ST. Is the time to have your Gutters and Conductors looked over and Leaky Roofs Repaired. Call up 512 or send us a postal ERICSON & JOHNSON 34 DWIGHT STREET Give Your Child The BEST MILK Moorland Farm Herd (88 animals) is ACCREDITED NO. 693. Reactor to Tuberculosis has been found in 3 years. The best and safest is herds still find reactors. No Most tested MOORLAND GOLDEN GUERNSEY MILK Let us serve you. C. R. WEIDMAN, Supt. USEFULCAREERIS BROUGHT 70 LOSE Rev. W. R. Eastman Dies at Washington, Aged 90 — Word has been recelved of the death in Washington of Rey, Wil llam Reed Eastman, only surviving brother of Miss Elizabeth R, East- man of this clty., He was well known to a considerable circle of friends in New Britain, He was born In New York city in 1835 and graduated from Yale with high honors in 1864, the youngest student in his class, For several years he engaged in surveying and engineering work in Mexico. In 1869 he decided to enter the Chris. tian ministry and matriculated at Union Theologleal seminary, which he was graduated in 1862 and was ordained to the Preshyterian ministry. From 1863 to 1865 he served as chaplain of the Seventy-second New York volunteers during the Civil War, Returning to the regular min- {stry he served Congregational churghes In Massachusetts and Con- necticut for 24 years. In 1890 the modern library movi ment ned Mr, Eastman left the active mini try and entored upon this new worl It s an unusual thing for one to begin an entirely new carcer at the age of 65, but that Is what Mr, East- man did and made a pronounced and splendid success in this line, He began erlod of Intensive prepara- tion, was the second graduate of the New York Library school to re- celve the degree of master of library sclence, and became chief of the division of educational extension of the New York state educational de- partment, He was widely known not only for his unusual work in the fleld but also for his many contri- butions of recognized worth to pro- fessional literature, In time he was made instructor in the state library school in the theory and planning of Mbrary bulldings and became widely influential _throughout the country for economy and efficlency in Illbrary construction, , He was also a leader and director in the carrying from | out of library institutes. What Mr. Dewey has been to the National Library assoclation, Mr. Fastman was to the State assocla- tion of New York. He was president of this body in 1904-5. He continu- ed in this work up to January 1, 1913, when he retired, having given signal service through twenty years and having attained natlon-wide rec- ognition. For the past 14 years and more Mr. Eastman has taken a well earn- ed respite from active responsibili- in any line and given. himself He leaves his sigter, Miss Eliza. beth R, Eastman, a well known resi- dent of the eity, member of the South Congregational church, and a prominent worker and supporter of all causes for the welfare of wom- en and girls in this city, and the only remaining member of amily of six children, Mr, Eastman was a man of qulet, self-eflacing but very engaging per sonality, His intellectual promise of college days was amply fulfilled through a varied but abundantly [rultful career. Though finding his larger service in the field of library development and administration, he never lost touch with the Chr n ministry an dwas at all times a strong supporter of the work of the church, K. OF C. STATE CONVENTION IN THIS CITY MAY 12 32nd Annual Meeting Coming To This Olty—Friends Urge Mul- ligan To Run Again The 82nd annual convention of the Connecticut state council, Knights of Columbus, will be held in this eity on May 12. Sessions will be held in the K. of C. home on Franklin Square. Officers will report a large number initiated dur- iug the year and that the order is in & prosperous condition. Attorney Willlam J, Mulligan of Thompsonville, is Lelng urged by his friends throughout the state to be a candidate for reelection State deputy, Mr. Mulligan succeed- ed the late John F. Callahan of Hartford, two years 8§0. ey W Aspirin Gargle Cut This Out and Save if Subject to Sore Throat A harmless and effective gargle is to dissolve two Bayer Tablets of As- pirln in four tablespoonfuls of wa- ter, and gargle throat - thoroughly. Repeat in two hours If necessary. Be sure you use only the genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, marked with the Bayer Cross, which can be Tad in tin boxes of twelve tablets for few cents. Say Min-Tonight’s the Night Woman—Wouldn’t it be great if we had our next winter’s coal all paid for and tucked away in our cellar? Yes it would, but I'd rather wait until Fall. Woman—Why? 1 see by the papers that the CITIZENS CO COAL CLUB so that one may pay for next winter’s Man— all our coal would be delivered before snow flies. - : Man— Say Min, where do you get that stuff? Woman—I’ve been reading it in the paper. Man— Well, don’t believe all you read in the papers—besides, w in small lots as we always have. d ; . : Woman—But the payments are small and the coal prices are Towest in summer—it looks like a real opportunity. Man— Man— calls up every week or so for a quarter - freezes to death waiting for deliveries whe YOU? Man— But— Woman—Let me tell you this—I am going to have my next Say Min, what do you know Woman—But I only thought— : Min! Il do the fami the thinking you want to, 1 bin for the last shovel full? Who is it that AL CO. is starting some sort of a coal in easy weekly payments and e can get our coal next winter about opp ortunity. That’s a man’s problem. ly thinking and I'm sick of hearing about opportunity and coal in the summer time—when we can wait until we need it. _ Woman—Now wait a moment! You can do all ‘Who is it who scrapes around in that coa but juét tell me this: of a ton? Who is it who sits here and nearly n the going is bad? WHO IS IT—I ASK winter’s coal if I haye to pawn the family jewels, which won’t be necessary, thanks to the CITIZENS COAL CO, who have made this convenient arrangement of easy W months. Man— ‘Well Min, maybe you will run out next Septem been said that coal may be scarce next w. do you have to do to join this club? Woman—You simply stop in at the ing to buy your next winter ton you require and you make giving time, when all the coal will be in the ce just what I am going to do. Man— How much coal do we need for Woman—Ahout five' tons will see us through an mer coal, delivered as we pay for it. Man— Don’t bother any more about it, Min— CITIZENS COAL COMPANY'’S office on Ar never miss the money in such small lots and we'll have our co are right. I understand that the w nt ! ber and that usually means a suspension of mining and it has inter which always means higher prices. What CITIZENS COAL COMP. ’s coal®vf them and that next winter, Min? eekly payments through the summer age agreement at the mines ANY’S office and sign a card agree- you will deposit 50c a ton for each that deposit every week from now until about Thanks- \lar and paid for and furthermore that is d that is only $2.50 a week for the best clean sum- I'm going in town shortly and will stop in at the is a real opportunity, Min—especially this year. (T} WS Citizens Coal Club Citizens Coal Co~MNew Britain,Gonn. THE CITIZENS COAL CO. Guarantees Their Lowest Summer Price of Coal to Members of the Citizens Coal Club which | OPENS TONIGHT at Our Uptown Office YOU CANT LOSE ch Street and sign the card myself. I'll al next winter. It certainly 1 104 Arch Street YOU'RE SURE TO GAIN The Citizens Coal Co. Tel, 929-13