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E Grand Central, 42nd etreet, n_New Times THE NAHANT FIRE The fire at ant yesterday in- dlcated the flimsy character of tho average shore cottages, and proved that when a fire once gets a good start in the center of such an ag- gregation of living quarters the re- sult usually is disastrous. There bave been similar experiences at Coney Island, Atlantic City Cape May, if not at other summer resorts. An anachronism that pomgs to the fore at such fires is a lack of water fire-fighting purposes, although such may be situated adjoining the sea. Lack of streams of water from and usual for resorts equipment to transfer the large quantities close at hand to the blaz ing cottages usually is the main drawback; more fire-fighting equip- ment at such watering places woulll be, it seems, a worthy investment. Had it not been for a fire boat from Boston which hurried to Nahant yesterday the entire town might have been wiped out It is useless to have plenty of water for fire-fighting purposes and lack of equipment to handle it, FRENCH FINANCE France's flnance minister, M. in announcing that the: would be no currency inflation in effort to meet the defen that would not he permitted to Caillaux, France during t vy retirement of bonds, reassured the world French finances mire as a method of This wa g in the ing indebt dness. the G N system, resu creation of r out of .formerly rlch and making those who hap- pene land and property in Joss Rus- to have their bull richer, thus setting the social order only radically than was the case in sia. Frar ous sums represented in bonds. Un- with a owes her people enorm- serupulous officials, faced financial emergency of the first magnitude, might have considered the advisability of currency « of “paying of" the tion as a means debt with mountains ¢f debased ‘urrency. Wheth \is opinion gained much currency among some als is not known, but it French offi aicertai s 0 M. Ca no such toler Frer it used to get the not wall CANAD Tt Kenzi da is not a well K natio siders b pende and doe legislati came she her own British co B mesti this at e is tha re are security her Kin pacts t for her a British = That sbell, tesmen the condition in a any her the sttitude is ai- | people. T together just is not Iho outecome of such an applic of lnd pendence il | that ind poi Pt A\ RUBBER CRISIS er situation as it s Wity © cotton during al Wilsc term of vith long will remember that 1he Prosident backe ¢ “huy a bale of ton” movement, which lud for r mark following t) ¢ World outbreak war, It was clalmed at the time that it a suMcient num ber of persons In the conntry bought a bale kept it stored industry woulq and the would get their little profit. lsaster buyers dn « money by A few years ago faced the when g calamity astounding effort stimulate th We were told ised in the making of a large ty ot articles; that rubber could he hardes'rd and made to take the place of wood in some cases, that and a greater consumption would place a great industry upon its f Such treatment was absolut sential, we were told, If the rubber companies were not to be thrown into bankruptey, resulting in a few years of a lack of production in suffifent quanti rent demand, But conditions both 1in cotton and rubber themselves of The World ng the ultimately re righted thefr own accord war, instead of spel doom of the cotton industry ived it enormousiy—and enhanced price to make plutocrats of planters, The rubber i taking of th product itsc ftself with the paternal ald of the British government; and today we are alarmed over the fact that the pr of crude rubber has advanced to three or four times its former fig- The Rubber Assoclation of Amer- ica, which is meeting in Akron, O.. has this problem to contend with The association Is composed of the gentlemen who provide us < tires for our numerous gasoline they have become and at tl article which bugsgies, alarmed \ring price of the crt turn, into balloon tire and otl 5 of tires for us. L tropical cou own about words of the age untutore: against it." he or the Britist consent Hure with HAYNLES OPTIMISM e, with fts numerous vietims, | ( realized by the public a government |8 to be | avoring to curh 1 the il o public will commissioner's op conneetion is enfirely UNPALATARLE PACTS 1t lakes-lo-0cean wale which is sa strongly stern interests, crltielsm by in m of the pre standpoint o railroad em railroads, the rail lines ~ would be sary to haul trafic dur- | the months when the waterway ct is lechound five months of erway would be a method of exporting grain It so happens that grain stored in eloy Dangn ators to await fransportation facilities, so that a five-months' shutdown cvery year a hardship so far Is concerned, But 1l ct of lessencd gain ex- norts to he taken nto considera- are grad arly our ion; we ally consumir entire output of grain leved 1 perts that the natior will t probably ars, It would take many fore the cost the proje any money, nal af- n grain e government Observations On The Weather Factsand Fancies BY KOBERT QUILLEN Honesty 1s also the best alibl lxample of reticence money talking. Cain might have been worse. He didn't call his hatred “patriotism.” The pornographlc may at times be art, but that isn't the reason people enjoy it, A Scot's thought: Among the un- pooples there may be potential third basemen, Happy developed scores of The objection to sleeping out-of- doors is that insects don't know when to go to Why couldn't they cut peep holes in their billboards and charge a nickel to view the scenery? A metropolitan is one who thinks tar saw is a collur the laun- has worked on. dry the people who don't be- on are free to disbe- . they so mad about biless TFrance would welcome hing as ambassador. He took excellent eredentials over one time, ietfully encourage any mortal Il talk a grievance out of his sys- m in ten minutes flat, $ per cent of the I's happiness is possessed by commonly called morons, the reformers start onm they will have an unfair They can pray for rain. rule a golf widow's weeds her husband neglects in Something over per cent of -emembered graves are inhabited by people who were painstaking onformists. Kill-joy: One who scolds naughty rs for doing the things he has the capacity to en- fvory-pate employ well as you can, working for your 1+ would pen to us all. st and unjust, 1 in other ways, Tost : “but iifect their social stand- “They man Associated Inc.) 25 ¥ e&;s Aéo_Today That Date i by Editors, From Paper of A cided to th to off the bullding, L stmilar amount will be Wil- di- ge on president of the speople. ngtson York & s physiclans ad- to improv e his ad- fternoon t as is the are jankers’ Morris mmar the Sloan i 1 | Why do you think you've got a face | | Unless it 1s to be the place | | Where smiles can show, beyond all | doubt, That you are happy, inside out? . Easy Enough “They say that Mrs, Scribner, | the novelist, bases all her storles on | actual happenings in the town she | lives in. How do you suppose she | gets all her information?" | “Maybe she belongs to an after- | noon bridge club.” SELF PROTECTION By Sylvan Kessler For many years, when I was poor, I longed to play some instrument; | My soul for music felt a lure, , | But always I was broke or bent, | | But now I've reached the middle | | span, | A goodly bank account T own, And so this last week I began | To learn to play the saxophone. Each night, within my rented room, | I practice till the midnight hour; | The neighbors to me now assume | | An attitude that's mighty sour; | But in my business life I've learncd | How to attain the Golden Fleece, And so outdoors I can’t be turned, | Unless they want to buy my lease! | Entirely Too Much Kitty: “The man 1 marry must be rich, brainy, and good. | | Sally: “I see, you expect to have three husband | Rudolph Loeser. | Thoughtless Mrs. Parkinson: “I had to warn | the cook to be more careful with the china this morning.” | Mrs, Hamilton: “She was wreck- less in handling it?" Mrs. Parkinson: mond rings were frightfully “Yes, her dia- | scratching it —Eleanor Rudolph. | DR. BALDPATE'S POTATO PATCH “I've just been getting in my early potatoes,” said our old friend, | Dr. George A. Baldpate, with a | merry twinkle in his eye. 11 right,” we said, “What is the rest of it? We know there's more | by the very look of you, Did you find it hard work?” | “It used to be,” sald genially. “I used to think digigng | potatoes was the back-breakingest | work in the worla but I've got a | new method now and it works fine. “You see, my farm is on a main | highway and I find that if I plant my potatoes right along side the | | road I don't have any trouble gath- | | ering them. The folks in that m-lgh-‘ borhood are real neighborly and | when the spuds begin to ripen there | isn't an evening but what 1 can Jook | out of the side window of my house | and see two or three automoblle parties drawn up heside the road, | the men all busy digging potatoes while the women gather 'em into piles or put them in sacéks. It secms as if they must want it to be a sort | of a surprise party because the | minute 1 open the door and begin | strolling down the road they all hop | into their cars and scoot off, leav- ing the potatoes lying there on the ground. “I should like to thank them, hut | none of them have ever come back | for their sacks, so what can 1 do? Tt all just goes to show how many kind people there are in the world | if you truly know where to find them." the Doc Two of a Kind Mrs, Baldwin was returning from a visit 10 a sick neighbor when she met the minister, who sald: “1 have | heard about the good you have been doing, Mrs. Baldwin, and I can't | help but think how much better thy world would be if there were more e like you “Aw go on,” she sald modestly “I'm just as bad as you are.” ~LRev peoy | M. C. Dorothy's Instinct Little Dorothy had quite to husiness, One time when she had m, er clever remark, her said to her five yéar old Dot. 1 give you mot “Pre credit for “Credit,” piped up Dorothy “what do I want with credit?” in a oice of scorn. “Rather give me a —Anti M Kitchen spooning round w Bonde, Out of first he &l He ladied out sweet nothings by the bushel. After he was wed he Fate dished him. His salary he had to fork over, His wife knifed his frien His attempt to be flash in the pan. There was food for anger and he was in the soup for fair, He tried to sweep his troubles away but could not and dusted out for a distant land, cup of misery was full! wen| found that boss was just a J) H R Taste in Common ater, 1 Knor, Harry wrles Walker FIRE THREATENS VILLAGE. r' To the far-oft Qu . Ju 2 P |Th “What first attracted you dear?” “The fact that v same tooth pastc —Helen Schmidt. Maxine to Tom iith ike the both PUN POINTS (In Jingle-Jangle Manncr) “Doggone this food,” the fell kept repeating— roll was what the ing —1t. ugh he a justice often made, istice way to leave his bills unpa plea for 'was wW. W ot iv. 6 Yukon fain he'd Heminger. | roam— | destre — HARTFORD — JUNE IS DRESS MONTH And we offer extraordinary values during the entire month, Dresses for all occasions at advantageous prices. We have made great preparations for a month's dress busi- ness and women who have visited our dress department are most enthusiastic, SHEER SUMMER Of imported French voile, in the bright jewel colors. .... NEW PRINT SILK DRESSES Not the ordinary garish loveliest combination shades in designs that are really artistic. ULTRA-SMART FROCKS For misses, in the new shade of pansy purple; just arrived. . ,. FROCKS $5.98 plain silks. FLAT distinguished style...... 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T ance will not countenance my ardent plea But still 1 countenance to me. marry Misplaced Irate wife: “How did that lipstick get on your cheek?” § Brazen Husband: “A fly sat on car just as 1 was being kissed.” yle Krueger, my (@opyright, 1925, Reproduction Forbidden). 10 A1D FARMERS Thinks Co-operative Marketing the Best Thing Towa, June 12 P—A to sce the farmer better or- J through cooperative mar- Keting in order to bring agricultu into @ position of equality with other industrics and to place it on a more firm Dbasis was expressed by Secre- tary of Commerce Hoover in a com- mencement ad v today to members of the grad- ing class of Penn college. “Owing to his widely ¢ calling,” Mr. Hoover sald, mer has b veal organization than the others, He has mostly organized himself on & political rather than on an economic basis. It is my eling that the real goal of his organization must be the fve marketing of his pro- cts, for, aside from the additional strength it will give to his industry it has even more importance in the long run in liftnig the leadership of his representative into a position to deal with his actual economic prob- lems in relation to other groups.” Agriculture also should be so de- veloped, Mr. Hoover stated, that it might attract and hold people as a calling. He pointed out that agri- culture is a strong character builder, and that farm life is without “the artificialities” or urban existence. “We should build better around our cily workers,” he added. “We lave a great need to develope for them the way to better homes and thus to strengthen family ties and provide better protection to chil- iren. Above all, we need to tune our Osakaloosa, persed “the cconomic machines so that we may | glve them freedom from great waves of unemployment &nd insccurity to livelihood." Chapman Gets Five Days More to File Appeal Hartford, June 12 (A—An exten- sion of five days for the filing of the last papers in the appeal of Ger- ald Chapman, the time for which ex- pired yesterday. was granted by Judge Newell Jennings on the ap- plication of Chapman's junior coun- gel, Nathan O. Freedman. Chap- man is appealing to the supreme court his conviction in the superior court for the murder of Pgtrolman * | rection by air route en less able to summon | | | BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer Washington, June 12.—With the arctic in a fair way to be conquered | soon, and criss-crossed in cyery di- the National Geographic Socicty fs beginning to show increasing interest in the trop- | ies, especially tropical America, as a | part of the world which can be turn. |ed to better practical account than i the polar regions. | The latter may become convenient | tor aviators to short cut across, but | never are likely to support many people as permanent inhabitants. In South America, on the other liand, is an area about the size of the | | United States, unexplored ang unset- | tled oy clvilized men, except along | the coast and main water courses, | ecrtainly enormously productive and | presumably unpopulated but for a | few small Igdian tribes, | ven these can he killed off to | make room for civilization. Again excepting the coast and the big riv-| cre, which are known already, this | virgin fleld stretches approximately from the Caribbean to the Tropic of | Capricorn, from at lantic to the | Andes, something lika 2000 by 3000 miles. An empire! i Now’'s a good time to start on giv- ning it the “once over”, the National | Geographic folk think. But it won't be a {regions of the poles. They're pene- | Itrated by bold dashes. This is & |vast jungle of six million square | | miles. | A process of slow nibbling is the | | onty way of vanquishing it. Any at- tempt to take it by storm means death—not half the time, as at the earth’s hubs, but almost inevitably. An airplane might fly over a cor- ner or it, a dirigible, perhaps, clear |across. But land! Not a (l\:\nm-,‘ | The only way to explore it 1s to |cut through, half a dozen miles a | day . | | asy as the | astonishing rapidity. e Washinglon 3;5:2(31‘ ers Paryg, a modern city of 120,000, at e Amazons ‘mouth, stands in the ehadow of the jungle wall—almost a solid one, of tree trunks and inter- lacing vines, Three years ago I met there the members of a party just back from a 6-month railroad reconnaissance in the interior. These men's faces were bleached to a prison pallor. Never under a man-made roof the whole ime, throughout that whole half year they had been cut off complete- 1y, by the jungle mat, from the sun Productive Too much so; 15 to say, this country’s superabund- ance of vegetable life makcs it a most impossible to clear and kee cleared. The jungle can be driven back only by slow degrecs, Once driven back, it can be held back only by constant vigilance, Otherw it regains ity own with The best de- scription I've seen of it was written in lyric form for an English langu- age publication at Rio de Janeiro. The versifier began: “This is the war to the very knife, “Mankind against the trees, “Which, without sound. of drum or fire, In silent ranks of floral lite, Cling to the ground thiey seize.” Not much as poetry, perhaps, but it tells the story, Thut Nevertheless, bit by bit this coun- try can be and Is sure to be tamed. It's worth it. Twelve months of mmer but never as hot as Wash- ington on a hot Washington day. Ample rainfail. A bottomlessly rich soil. Unhealthy? Deadly, in the interior re nature has her undisputed , but no worse at the coast cities with modern medicine on the job, hun in present-day Havana or Pan- ama. Anyway, untll the Geopraphic pege ple have finished with this half of a continent, more or icss, they haven discovered everything. | has been granted a reprieve until | | December 3 to allow the supreme |court to hear the appeal at its Oc- |tober term in Hartford. | WILL RETURN INMATE. New Haven, June 12 (P—Michae Luby. of no definite address, who es- | caped from the Connecticut state | hospital for the insane at Norwich, April 28 and who has been serving | a term in the county jail here since | June 1, was returned to Norwich to- day as the results of a story printed in & newspaper here. Luby, after being sentenced for drunkenness, de- veloped apparent signs of insan and Governor Trumbull appointed & | commission to examine into his san- |ity. It was the etory of this ap-| at the asylum who recognized the rame of the man who escaped DAY, CONFERENCE WEDN Paris, June 12 (M—The Franco- | Spanish conference arrange for { joint action against Abd-El-Krim, |James Skelly in New Britain and | the Riffian chief, avlll open at Mad- | pointment that was read by officers | rid on Wednesday, it is officially an. nounced. On the same day, Premier Painleve is expected to appear ii the French chamber of deputies when he will probably tell what h saw during his present trip to Mor | occo and what he has decided to do Appeals of Eclectics Before High Cour. New Haven, June 12 (®—The ap peals of five eclectic doctors in th action of the state of Conmecticu were taken up by the supreme cour of errors here yesterday. The doc tors were represented br John | Dillon of Bridgeport and the appeal all came from Fairfield county. At torney General Frank E. Healy pr. nted the arguments for the stat. Although the cases were listed sep arately, the five cases were combi:, od as one the arguments dealin. with the cases collectively. Those who appealed were Harv Chaimson, Arnold H. Brien, Géra A. Richardson, Isadore Yocheman and Barpard Rolka. T . T F > . v