New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1925, Page 6

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B. 1s a national orgai which furnishes newspapers and advers s with & strictly honest analysis of circulation statistics or distribution figuies to both national and local advertisers, The H Bauare Gra: a Entrance al, 42nd street, BLACK ROCK BRIDGE IMPROVEMENTS Mayor City Engineer Wi Board Public Works Chairman Conlon are to be congratulated upon prompt Paonessa, jams and of action in regard to the fmprovement of the Black Rock bridge detalled This structure, col- umns, has reached the point where as recently in these action will have to be a substitute Situated upon by and for yprocrastination. a main thoroughfare and used thousands of automobiles trucks daily, it would be the quin- tessence of folly to permit it to. re- ma secure and outgrown condition. With the New Haven rallroad | next Congress will include the policy | a tully advise the circumstances it is to be hoped that the needed s will fmprovemer soon be coming. GOVERNOR COMMENDED FOR NON-COMPLIANCE ©bull’s opposition to upon the based upon iy governor of Maryland took the same stand and other governors probably will join Governor Tru holding Fourth muster day" of July was sound logic. e in the chorus of opposition in due course, Defense, or “muster’ day, upon Independence day will be a nonenti- | Day includes services of the national guard, ty; but as Defense the civic military organiza- and other tions, it w members of these be deprived of the full holiday. meet bodies wi of the national will enjoyment The gover: with the approval of most Connec- Th_ President made a mistake when he hit upon the Fourth of July for the defense test. Tt would be better to have nene at 's stand t ticut citizens. el - THE LEGISLATURE ENDS IN USUAL MANNER The Legislature, due to finish its Jabors today, followed precedent 'in permitting sundry important mea ures to Jag for the grand finale, re- sulting in the customary futuristic conglomeration of hurly-burly ef- forts to force bills through the hop- per before the end. The spectacle wasn't businesslike; yet from time immemorial, in state and national bodies, the system—or lack of it—has pre- Where there is interminable deliberative vailed. discussion and delayed action one can scarcely expect & jifferent clos- ing cader The “general mix-up" have its advantages—to the legisia- the seems to bills tors. Numerous which legislature doesn't like to pass but which it dislikes to smother on ac- count of local pressure, oftentimes fnd a conventient grave during this whirlpool of unfinished bus- Dutiful legislators can thus p their hands in a whirligig world— hold of resignaton and tell the partcularly Nutmeggers interested ccial bills—that they did all eir high-powered personality but of course could not that permitted be expected to achieve the impossi- ble. The Legislature was chicfly dis- s its meddiing into the towns of the tinguished t Jocal affairs of cites and the state whe h had incurred tate politicians, Citizéns of New Britain have been gravely \-concerned the fite of the plan to improve the Cat following at- the displeasure of state regarding Hole road to Meriden tempts to eliminate some of highways ye added o Legisiat proposed trur was i at this improvement was trunk was the state K the ire, to however, permitted to remain in This improvement line the chief point the Jays of the Legisiature, plans. of local interest In dying “SPECIAL PRIVILEG 1S WRONG ATTITUDE Representative Clark of Haddam made in the branch of the Legislature the other day which at least partly indicated why our legislators appear &8 intent an observation upon serving the interests of the [Chesapeake & Ohlo minority stock- trolley companies. It 18 a "life and | holders inst the merger seems death struggle” betweem busses and | to be predicated largely upon local trolley companies, he dewlared, with | pride, they not wishing to see con- the busses getting “all the cream.” | trol of the system slip from the in its present dilapidated, ine forth- | lower | | “Special privileges” were due the trolleys for this rcason, he declared, 1t was for this reason that the ef- | tort of the Shore Line Eleetric rail- way to operate near its line without requiring the i‘ approval of the | | Suppose, however, the Bhore Line rallway already operated the busses ' wanted to es- quickly the Legislature would point to the fact | and independents tablish lines? How | that the trolley busses, already es- ' | tablished, were satisfactorily serv- | ing the public. The Line is sald to | been the only trolley company Shore have in ,’”‘" state that refrained from going |into the bus business. The public needed this service along its lines but the trolley company was ade- while attempting to prove | that busses were of no value, ete. ’A\n independent operator stepped in and furnished the service while the :lrollq- company talked. Now the | trolley company, seeing the error of its former policy, wants to operate ! busses and goes to the Legislature for permission. It did not go to the P, U. C. because it Knew that the commission would not shatter fits precedent and grant rights which mant had been preempted by a more en- terprising bus company. The Legis- Jature, being of & mind with Repre- sentative Clark, handed the trolley company special privileges on a sil- ver platter, WAR DEBTS TO FORE AFTER LONG DELAY 1t {s becoming increasingly clear the ) L | that the major issues before of the administration in endeavor- ing to force a clearing up of the war debts and the publicity of in- come tax returns, The President's | policy in endeavoring to bring about | a funding of debts by continental | nations is being subtly fought by | vartous influential gentlemen who | frequently cross the ocean for bus- iness and pleasure; but as no policy of the administration was as popu- {lar in the recent Congress as the abortive effort to bring about debt payment, it is certain that there will be no change of heart by next fall. Many publications are preach- ing leniency toward our European debtors, but their influence with the | administration can be gauged from the fact that in the midst of this | pressure Secretary Kellogg, for the first time in the history of the debt coftroversy, sent a note to Belgium suggesting a beginning be made upen funding the debt to America, which that plucky nation promptly answered satisfactorily. Belglum in- | tends to start a refunding move and Italy is expected to follow in view | of the Morgan credit announced ‘)’!l(‘rda)‘, | French statesmen have repeatedly { promised that the American debt would be paid; at the same time they have given the impression they hoped the debt would be at least partially cancelled before funding operations were insisted upon. 1t is well known that other continental nations are waiting upon what ac- tion France takes; if France agrees to refund, they will do so, and if France does not rofund, they will | continy® to hesitate, There is doubt in the minds of many observers whether Europe is sufficiently upon its feet to begin meeting its vast war debts; the American administration, however, does not appear to regard the situa- tion as necessitating umwillingness to agree to refunding arrangements, 1t might be possible to arrange for a moratorium before payments be- gin. The war controversy should Ll and decided upon merits, and not weighed down considerations, States- manship, not partieanship, should be the deciding factor. THE INSIDE STORY OF THE NICKEL PLATE When O. P. Van Sweringen ap- peared before the Interstate Com- merce Commiseion recently he not only detailed the story of the larg- est railrond merger of modern times — that of the Nickel Plate— neither the be its by ussed political but pointed out that New York Central or the Pennsyi- vania objected to the Nickel Plate merger. The reason for their atti- tude of lassez faire, Mr. Van Swer- was that the two mentioned ingen stated, trunk lines selves had merger plans in view denials have been forthcoming¥rom them- No he either railroad. The 1, C. C, has not yel permitted the Nickel Plate merger, but there is every likelihood that it will; at to be no good The proven least, there seems reason to prevent it Van Swer- | ingen brothers have selves to be astute can make moribund properties into of and divi- by bustness ing guided lr“ precedent 1em- managers who things prosperity sense be- applying common principles and not toe much The objection of dends by rail- busses to beaches Public Utliities | | Commission as to routes was favor- hands of the “first families of Vir- | ginia.” Mr, Van Sweringen, fying before the I, C. C., gave candid exposition of his methods and admitted that an original out- Iny of $2,000,000 — of horrowed capital®— had swollen to $16,000,- 000, representing his paper But the method was entirely legiti- mate and a compliment to the busi- when testi- a profits. ness sagacity-and management of the two Cleveland raiiroad bullders. It waa simply a matter of obtaining control of moribund erties and by hiring | agers placing the such a firm financial that the of which was held by the Van Sweringens, greatly . This paper profit has actual profits coming the railroad bullders so far, and the vailroad prop- expert man- railroads upon foundation common stock, a majority increascd in value. been the only to judgment of any sensible man will be that they are entitled to them When it considered that he Cleveland brokers took such dilapi- Lake Mar- the aks of rust & Western, the the Leat as the Erie quette, Nickel such Erle, and placed them upon a firm footing, they certainly are entitled Pere Clover Plate itself, not to mention ineffective trunk lines as the and to some profit, It a man buys a run down business and builds it into a prosperous going concern it would be folly to deny to him some sub- | stantial profit for the achievement. | That is the case of the Vah Swer- | ingens exactly. We expect to see the Nickel Plate | merger duly giver the 0. K. of the ! |1. C. C. and then see other railroad | mergers follow, WHEN RESIDENCES BECOME “BUSINESS BLOCKS" " There is something pathetic the looks of a downtown residence {that has been turned into & com- | merelal institution. There are many | such tn New Britain, A look bevond ! !the lower story invariably yields a | glimpse and a memory of days that | have gone, of days when the street, | instead of being given over to the | demands of commerce, was a quiet |residence thoroughfare, when !lawns, trees and perhaps !style fences lent a rural touch to i the scene, One can fire the imagina- {fih with scenes that are past, of | | gay parties and holiday events, of | weddings and funerals that came to the generations that lived within the The transformation of time as we in the old- + walls. —or the “mareh of progress.” |are wont to term it—has done its worst, but the spirit of such an old | mansion remains as long as the old timbers stand | The section of New Britain just west of the Center has felt the in- | roads of progress perhaps more | torcefully than any other scction | during the past decade. Tt Is evl- ! dent that the original intention of | residents waa to have the residence section of West Main street extend to within & stone's throw of the Center, Many well known old-time families lived Other streets in the vicinity, leading p to the heights of Walnut Hill park, have felt the metamorphosis in homes nearby, of change quite as vividly, But here and there, on these strcets, some of the old resi- their appear- all of | dences still remain ances have changed much, and as a rule they are not longer the mec of social events throughout the so- Builders long ago furn a stately resi- cial season learned how dence into a business “block™ as & minimum of expense; and 80 they are today, many having stores on the lower floors and apartments in the rear or above But the inescapable expansion -o the business district has begun menace even the old timbers standing 1 soms of those still past year has scen the removal of to make few of the old-timers way for more modern structures; others seem to be making ast a stand and it 1s within the purview of any observer to realize that they are doomed Thus the upon the as well city grows and Brows ruins of the former ci changing the sylva e outskirts into subdivi- as glades of sions, strects and houses of home- seekers. but th that too many 8- Hot weather arrived, trouble was not so much wi heat as with the fact not yet che citizens had lig sundry ed 'em to erial Supreme court in t se in- cluded child is a mer ate, will go down in the annals of which jurisprude a wise sa cigar leaf expert who ad The | vised women to shun cigare nd smoke cigars evidently is ideniified with the Connecticut fobacco-grow- | ing Industry w hats seem to be of The #tr nally the right w | our collection of Mala str getting ’H“n smut *1yu FactsandFancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN The poor hitters we have with us always; the good ones go up. For, that matfer, many a true bill | seems to ho spoken in jest, | “What is so rare as a day in June" That brings no graven invitation, That seés no purchased silver spoon For wedding, shower or gradua- tion! Still, if everyhody got justice very few of us would recognize it, any rate evolution affords a | explanation of man's| At charitable war mania Among the whose export propaganda. And Milk! .la you ever fish through the war 4 I8 not fmplements | forbidden {s| fce i “Yeh. For the butter and eggs." How Do They Get That Way? By Marshall Bender | How do the women get that way | To think man's life is naught but gay, fine surroundings and good pay? 1'd rather be a woman With naught to do but stay at home While some poor fellow had to roam And work himselt till bald of dome To carg for me, a woman, The old-fashioned liquor affected the feet instead of the trigger fin- Ber, Eave, Don't blame who owes you offended, Frence, Lver a five friend scems a little| No woman lives in dally fear That crabby foreman will near And say: “You're through! Get outa hore!" I'd rather he a woman; | When married, she for life is hired, And if she gets a little tired She takes a rest; she can’t be fired. ;I'd rather be a woman, sfzn o fishing,” s inac- | curate, ‘As a rule 1t should read, “Very poor fishin draw 1t only they would yank the um-{ M5 judgment weakens in > seventl tion to an épen mind is 1) convictions get out as fast as new 1deas get in. " She gets her husband's envelope; ‘.\'ou day she goes upon the Jope To buy hair nets, perfume and ——— soap; Patriotism in little: Being afrald I1'q rather be the woman. of the Smith dog next door; feeling She can go, afternoons, to shows superior to the Smiths. | While at the grindstorfe is his nose; And if he kicks, a plate she throws. I'd rather be the woman! A summer resort is a place where the girls may be able to catch a rich | husband, | One Benefit Temus: “Does this lodge yo' b long to have any death benefits Wildcat: “Yessuh, Deed it does, | sun. When yo ‘dles, yo' don' hab to pay mo more dues." ~—Lauren 8, Hamllton. France still furnishes the styles, but we have learned to produce our | literature, Dear Americal Where else primary class was asking her chil- can you see a wad of gum on a!dren whether any of them had/ flivyer's instrument board ? smaller brothers and sisters at home | e who would soon be eligtble for have mortal failings. membership. One little boy, listen- Nurmi is running behind ing to the proud answers of the other youngsters, felt himself rap- idly losing caste. “N-n-no,” he admitted in answer to the teacher's question, and then | added desperately, “but we're go- ing to get ons!' —Herbert J. Maughiman. The rich man belleves with rea- son that everything Is relative, Order Placeq Immediately | All of They say eXPeIRES, named Smith composer might suc- he would A 1 change cerd as a i it to Smithowsky. is & place er he re daid his And great man didn't im- press you much. Well, does a twin- six extend itself to keep pace with a onc-horse wagon? where people ally loves her first wife, A vi ge ate wl as well as he Meows From the Campus Cat Dear Mac: | Well, Boss, school and the great thing now is rest, recreation and | cise. T am spending a week here at | Green lake with Rudie, you remem- bhr, the girl I used to visit at Smith. ! Her chum, Beth, is here and they are both busy all day long at some | form of sport or other, { They sat chatting last night after having shaken off a crowd of hoys | on the piazza. Beth was all for tennis. “It’s the most romantic game T know," she said. “T played with | Lester all this afternoon and every time he said ‘Love all' he looked straight at me and oh, Rudie, he| has the most heavenly eyes! And | he was so sweet, He didn't seem to| mind any of my faults” “He wouldn't,” said Rudie, would watch that young man, Beth. Something in those beautiful eyes of his tell me that what some people call faults he might esteem virtues ... 1 noticed that when | you came up from the summer-| house with him your hair was| rather mussed.! | “Yes," mused Beth, look in her lovely eyes, play a little g0 the lots of exer-| this sentence ‘TNl fight champion; Corre anybody,” ! | said e “winner all.” (Protected by Associated Editors, nc.) 25 Years A;Ja—}oday From Paper of That Date Judd's 83 clerks P increased the alary has been to while the pay e Harry Brown, M. C. ¥gan and Frank . vell, hus been advanced $100 apiece. A new rozd to Shuttle Meadow is being sought by farmers and looked upon with favor by the selectmen. It cast of Jacob the pipe line, Ozone Heights ot a point over, wo exten lgd iuto by and be avenue. Engince sl is having built a covered wagon to carry the sewage to Beckley where the periments will be made 1 smail tanks. A horse caused consi Quarter, ex- owned by A dama distinctive s was being driven up Arch street by George Greatorex d threw, the wa vt with Fred?” “I'll say 8o, But Fred is another hoy who will stand watching. cessively pole, G asked him why it was necessary to come out on a golf course for that kind of instruction.” ‘As if you needed it!" murmu Bet} Meow . .. MEOW . . . .« “After all, swimming is about the niost attractive sport there | continued Rudie. “You know that nice boy, Dick, who came up yes- terday? He sald such a nice thing to me yesterday, out on the raft. was sitting on the spring-board and he said, “You know, I think swim- ming is about the cleancst sport in | wotld. It is all so open and Swanson on carried int lodge for nam- al of- Frank, tered this on are 8t bull there 63 fine thing about it. It proves so con- clusively that figures never lle I spanicls fers, lot to think about.” The teacher of a Sunday school mation of “cells” 'dluposiuon of the French forces your mind before I'd pald se mapy installments on 7" ~Mrs, Harry Adler, . — Too Ticklish A 'tiger who' talkeq Bengalese Sald: “I den't llke to eat Chinese, Thelr beards dre 'so rou Their bones aré so tough And their pig talls make me stop and sneeze, ~James A, Banaker. Attention Advertising Department Black: “Johnson doesn't seem to have any faith In advertising.” Webster: “No; he claims that's how he first met his wife."” ‘(Copyright, 1925, Reproduction Forbldden) . h CALM PREVALS ON HOROGCAN FRONT French and Riffians at Present Are Marking Time RS the Rabat, French Morocco, June 3. (AP)—Comparative calm continues along the Riffian-French front, varied by®occasional attacks by the invading tribesmen. Abd-el-Krim however, scems to be showing in- creasing drfidence, A rald attempt- ed by his men in the western section at Sert de Rhouna was nipped in the bud by natlve levies and friendly tribesmen, unaided by regular troops. ‘The first evidence of Spanish co- operation with the French is seen in the western section, where patrons wera sent out yesterday by a group which had just arrived at Tanafat, near Loukkos. The Rifffans are leaving the Bi- bane post unmolested except for a feeble bombardment by two guns captured from the Spaniards. A French battery replied, this consti- tuting the first artillery engagement of the campalgn. In the center the French have re- turned to their base position after clearing ground and establishing liasions: according to instructions. The situation in the east is station- ary. Paris dispatches last night told of purported communist activities in |behalf of Abd-el-Krim, with the for- or propaganda groups at Rabat, where the French maintain their headquarters. Arrests at various points in Moroc- co were sald to have revealed a plot to provoke a general uprising in the protectorate against the French troops, Two persons, one a woman, were seized at Marseilles charged with distributing tracts inciting soldiers embarking for Morocco to revolt. It was also discovered that confl- dential documents relating to the were a far-away |original airplane “he does brothers, recently awarded by Qr- too close to the net|ville Wright to an English museum wometimes. Did you enjoy your golf jimay yet occupy & He engineer, spent most of the afternoon trying int to show me how to hold my hands th with the result that he was holding |an them most of the time. I finally jcon 1T chief the being furnished the Riffian through the intermediary of the girls are out of communist agitators. FI Araish, Spanieh Moyocco, June 3. (AP)—General Colombat's column |has repulsed an attack by the Rif- {fians in the Beni Zeroual section, ac- cording to dispatches from the French zone. The tribesmen are said 1o have heen equipped with all the modern means of warfare, di- rected by FEuropeans and with some of the men dressed in French uni- forms. The French casualties described as numerous. WRIGHTS PLANE HAY STAY HERE ‘Dickerings May Result in U. §., Museuns Getting 1t June 3. (AP)—The of the Wright Washington, place in the Smithsonian institution here. Grover C. Loening, aeronautical acting he said, for partles erested in adequate commemora- on in the recognition of the Wright d Langley aviation achievements, ferred yesterday with Dr. Charles D. Wolcott, secretary of the Smith- sonian. Later he expressed confl- dence that the dispute over the label red describing the Smithsonian’s Langley plane exhibit to which Mr. Wright has objected, would be smoothed out and that the Wright machine would be sent here. The label credits the Langley plane with Being the “first man-car- ing machine capable of flight,” and this, Mr. Wright has charged, is incorrec Beliet that Dr. Walcott is receptive to suggestions for re- vigng the description to meet, in his judgement, Mr. Wright's objections, jove board, And there s another (CIECTLC N the engineer. In awarding his plane to the Eng- lish museum, Mr. Wright stipulated | can tell you, Beth, it gave me &4 ,4 o ggreement could: be revok- | ed within five years, and this clause “I should think it would,” sald .. ')0 % eeg to keep the machine In Bet for you to think about now is a little sleep.” And they both tucked in and were soon dreaming of the sports they loved so well. Wel, Mae, I've known some sports in my day and T always ilked them, too. Meow. . . meow! tustituted a Those Hall, John W. W ry M Fox Reicker. = Yours ever, | Carrie. - g | a quarrel ov ling divorce pro- Circus owner: “Why lll\lw Arnold I » 41 contortionist on the job today 1 Manager: “His wife says he sprained his back last night trying | to amuse the baby. the grocer | gun him Smith's i Virginia second shot she had f last night at Lynn H Smith rs. n canor Zanff. home Beach. I fallen, Refore his 10 s Lody after wife with a eross word puzzie 1§ life Sm‘n,imu in love with her or else he's and sister- | afrald of her. T. Diggs. | dro s, brothe his law, Mr Mrs. G atural Query Mrs. Clemson: T don't like #he plaver-piano as much as I thought {1 would.” | Clemson separated | ction re- rted by the wife +0 children. “but 1 guess the best thing ;s country, Mr. Loening said DID NOT GET RADIUM New York, June 3 (AP)—Thieves reported to have robbed his mes- senger of radium worth $20,000 actually got orly radium emanation, Dr. Isaac Levin said today. The emanation in,containers was taken from a messenger carrying it from Dr. Levin's office to the City Carfcer institute last week. Dr, Levin said he would suffer & certain financial loss, but not as much as $20,000. ‘Most of my radium,” he said, “is | placed in & vault in a solution and is connected with a machine which extracts from the radium the active The married man who helps his| oy cipie_radjum emanation.” S ON VACATION Washington, June 3. (AP)—Post- master General New, first of the cabinet officers to take a vacation this summer, was en route today for his camp on Turtle Lake Northern Michigan, to be gons about three Why didn't you chnn‘“,u are | NEW BOOKS AT THE INSTITUTE THE DEGENERATIVE DISEASES, by Lewellys F. Barker, M.D. and Thomas P, Sprunt, M.D, Bhows why the heart, kidneys, Iiver and blood vessels so often break down under straln of modern life and points the way to preventive meas-) vres—Literary Digest. PR EVERYDAY ELECTRICITY, Herbert T, Wade. This book essays to glve the reader an idea of what electricity is in the light of modern science. “ v GLAMOUR, by Stary Young. Essays on the art of the theater. v THE GROWTH OF THE MIND, an introduction to Child-Psych- ology, by K. Koffka. “The author's skill in executing his task, and his mastery of the results thus far achieved by experimental work in the fleld of child-psychology, have been 80 happily combined as to insure a lively Interest in his book.” o e IMPRESSIONS OF AN AVERAGE JURYMAN, by Robert Stewart Sutliffe. The author, after 18 years' ex- perience as a juryman in the civil and criminal courts of New York, embodies his observations in this en- tertaining little book. Mr. Sutlifte knows how to tell a capital story, and tells one frequently. A perusal of his book insures one a pleasant and profitable hour's reading.— Saturday Review. .. THE LOST OASIS, Bey. Hassanein tells us of the desert in | all its aspe of its merclless cruelty, its majesty, its mystery, its fmmense peace. He tells of the three essentials of the trip—camels, water and guide.—Marguerite Harri- son In the New York Herald Tribune. o o0 QUT OF "THE PAST, by Margaret Symonds, * Reminiscences of John Addington Symonds and his circle by his daugh- ter, | by by Hassanein | | | | | .. THE PILGRIMAGE OF HENRY JAMES, by Van Wyck Brooks. A critical analysis of the literary work and mental growth of Henry James, by the author of “The Or- deal of Mark Twain.”—Literary Di- gest. THE POT OF EARTH, by Archibald MacLeish. { A symbolic and dramatic poem. | 005 8O YOU'RE GOING TO ITALY, by Clara F. Laughiin. ; Chatty and informative book to the beauties places of Italy. . TEA ROOM RECIPES, hy Lenore Richards and Neja Treat. Covers soups, entrees, sauces, végetables, salads, sandwiches, breads, desserts, pies, cakes, and fheir fillings and icings, cookies and fce cream. guide- and historic \ | “« s TRAILS AND SUMMITS OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, by Wal- ter Colling O'Kane. A handy-size guide book interest- ingly written. . . WASHINGTON IRVING, ESQ., George S. Hellman, Tilustrated with \old engravings; facsimiles of Irving's letters and manuscripts; and sketches by him- self. Long an ardent admirer of Mr. Irving, Mr. Hellman has heen for- unate in having access to much ma- erial that has never been published. JA.‘& a result he portrays the author of Rip Van Winkle as a greater, truer and much less saccharine fig- ure than he has heretofore been re- garded. by | | |WE . VISIT OLD I Harrod Northend, A trip through New England, stopping at famous hostelries. DR THE ARCTIC RESTS, by Mlcha![} H. Mason, With pen and camera Mr. Mason | brings the Arctic forests to the fire- | side, by Mary EVERYMAN'S GENIUS, Austin. Mary Austin belleves every man ;hal genius; though few men know ft, | |and in this volume she tells where to look for it and how to make the most of it | by Mary | . FOLK SONGS OF FRENCH CAN-| ADA, collected and edited by, Marius and Barbeau and Ed-| ward Sapir. | French folk songs in the exact| form of their oral survival, with | translations in English verse, and | the musical fext of the melodles. | e ivie A HOME OF YOUR OWN, by Della Thompson Lutes, “The home Is to the house what | the soul is to the body,” Writes Mrs. | Lutes. The gracious spirit of home- Keeplng lits a “Home of Your Own" far above a mere book of house- | keeping. The cultural, spiritual and mental attributes of a home are often overlooked! but Mrs. Lutes makes It plain that without them home is not home. S { MISTER PITT, by Zona Gale. | Another drama of American |in the realistic manner of lelv's “Lulu Bett.” . .. 3 | PAUL BUNYAN, by James Stevens; Woodcuts by Allen Lewis, Paul Bunyan s the traditional | hero of the lumber camps and one of the few authentic fgures American folk-lore. Ax much a part {of the story of the west as Brigham | | Young, or Buffalo Bill. his name and fame are as vet unknown to thous- |ands of city bred Americans. . . | life Miss | {in AND PORTRAITS Ten years ago last February the British Mediterranean oxpulu:mry force salled frem England for the distant and mighty-palisaded Dar- danclles, but one member of tha force never reached the fleet's ob- Jeotive, For 10 years ago last month (April 23, 1918) Rupert Brooke died in the Aegean and was buried where today he sleeps amid the popples and wild thyme of Scyros, e At the time of his altogether tou premature death, Brooke was the one brightest ray in England's liter, ary constellation. He was the fa ored of the gods, apparently desi, nated as the proud successgr (o Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and others of that island's golden procession of music-makers—for even at the time of his death he had struck a Iyric note of sufficient timbre te warrant his being placed on a pede; tal every bit as prominent as those. :nd any of them, who had gone be- ore. He had already, and he was but 27 at his death, shown himselt a master, more especially of the son. net, and but ohe more of thal gallant gentry that this ailing and palsied old planet of ours can so ill afford to lose. Seldom, seldom in- deed, has a star of such refulgence risen in the literary horizon—only fo be all too swiftly and ruthlessly torn from the firmament. A genius at 27, one can but wonder to what far heights he might yet aspire, what r peaks he might yet bend down at heart's desire. Y E Bl It is not since that era jewelled by the magic presence of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shell¢y that so tragic an event has happened, so cruel a saber has pierced the purple fabric of poesy. Keats died at the extreme age of 25, and Bhelley was drowned at 33, Shelley who was so magnificent in his tribute to the dead Keats, his contemporary- genius. It is true that others have died as young, but nono haveé ever shown that promise of future attain- ment or of present accomplishment 80 manifest in the work of Keats and Shelley, immortals both, to which names we add, and appropri- ately, Rupert Brooke. P Rupert Brooke was a soldier an a hero. And never was a' more characteristic poem written than his “The Soldier.” It is the very spul of patriotism and loyalty, & living monument of a great poet, a great lover, a great hero. o We reprint “The Soldier.” The Soldter (Rupert Brooke) It 1 should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of & for- eign fleld is for ever England. shall be In that rich earth a richeér dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped made aware, = Gave. once, her flowers to lov her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing Eng- lsh afr, Washed by the rivers, suns of home. That There blest by And think, this heart, all evil shed AW A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; happy as her day: And laughter, learnt of friends; ahd gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an Eng- lish heaven . dreams He possessed the poet's true sense and taste for the finer things, the {altogether charming things of Mfe. and he thrilled in his futile groping {bagpnd reality, in his terrific efforts. and unsuccessful, to tear asunder {the breakless gyvings of worldly {n- fluences. And through all his works there breathed an air of poignancy and despair that this life, so beau- tiful in youth, must end, must come to nothing. Picture it in this, the ncluding lines of “The Hill:" ‘“We shall go down with unreluet- ant tread Rose-crowned into the darknel Proud we were, {|And laughed. that'shad such brave true things to say. —And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.' . e He was ever consclous of this ul- timate decay of the beautiful, 2nd of the stark presence of hovering death and even more so when he went to war. Of a certainty, he must have felt the same omniscience of im- pending doom that his rather well- known contemporary, Alan Seéger felt when he penned his deathles lines: “I have a rendezvous with death— —1 shall not fail my rendezvous Qbservations On The Weather Washington, June 3. —Forecast for Southern New England: Generaily fair tonight and Thuraday. Some- what warmer tonight except on south coast. Moderate south and southwest winds. Conditions: ~ Very little chang pressure or temperature has occurred east of the Rocky Moun- tains during the last 24 hours. The maximum temperatures yesterda) from New England westward werc mostly above 90 degrees and severa places reported as high as 98 Scattered showers have occurred in the northern tlar, of states from Washington to Maine and in the Missiesippl valley as Tar as uth Missouri. Conditiona faver for this vieinit partly cloudy weather and not mue |change ia temperature,