New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1926, Page 6

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This insures protection againet fraud in newepa distribution figures to botb national and local advertisers, The Hernld York at Square; Grand Central, n New Time Entrance ts on saje dally a Bchultz's Newsstands, 42nd Stroet. A MEMORIAL that AFTER ALL he Brook ars there will crected in Wil -American It app: memorial low park for Spanis war veterans ¢ ing to conversation Hall of taxation Mayor Paonessa conclus with Chairman the of finanee and will be | hand this year to | board that there suffi- cient money on permit the ere of the shaft. i ippears favorable to- eling a expensive t anned. 10 delay vantage. han was this the will 1 eventuates been an hort ve ad q utilitariay propose memorial com- and beauty all that bines L uses ax well as reminding citizen; when they beliold it sent quite a large delegation to the front during cxciting times of 1808 cad after it Go with the memorial And is get busy on the memorial for the World War | G completed veterans, JURYMAN'S DISGUST Erwin €. Conant, foreman of the | lheard Mayor Qu jury which the of evidence | against ey of Chelsca, inter- ald after opinion of for six the and weeks, ewed by the trial the jury terms, Boston Her his no system in uncertain velve state and sections of de- them knew They involved ¢ from all 1 law an patd $6 men the were picked up, he clared, not o anything about were kept listening to case for six day, 1 had Then he “What think 1 1o have m day time zot a . of L day exp ndded I object to, and 1 right to object to sit in a court- ter having my idiotic day taken up by objec tions from a of on points that « that “Whit NOTARLI ACTION zher anc e | higher and more | - first | | volst | proval 4l | nihilate | ness for all time in this country, | quor 1s not a question of law, and should not have been a subject for | drinks has a vital this city | | the | Congress—as the Volstead law. | sentatives [in the west as well as in the east. | Where such polls were held in sup- | posedly ATTEMPTS TO MODIFY PROHIBITION In such states as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland | there was no need to hold news. paper polls on prohibitlon; the held true of most large clllvn.; f me “dry” terrltory, however, ind showed a they majority for modifis ation, were {lluminating, So are aware, prohibitiol | everywhere Yet in all falrness we clined to regard modificationlsts can poll in territory, not {ne When win fn a news- | undoubted prohibi- sich in and south, | it may be evidence that the wets, filled with the zeal are moro apt to vote are as final, tion as exists some parts of the west ot crusaders, — or vote a8 n. With bal. lots printed dally this would seem to be At the same time, it is quite evi- dent that the desire to modify the ad act has gained greatly | it by Congress. Although Amendment | have met with the ap-| President Wilson, the | war President thought so i1l of Hvo‘ Volstead act that he vetoed it; but | s, being in a mood to an- | Demon Rum and all its | passed the law over the President's veto in the belief that this would settle the liquor busi- trequently as they an easy matter. since it was passed the 18th geems to of Cong works, What constitutes intoxicating federal The 18th amend- in prohibiting the manufac. transportation or sale of in- toxicating liquors for beverage purs does not stipulate what con- stitutes intoxicating liquor. Per- sonal capacity and how much one bearing upon ukase. ture, poses, this point. Instead of leaving this question what “Intoxication | in fact” to the states, so that each | state would have retuined its right | ot constitutes to permit the sale of liquors up to alcoholic content public opinion within its border deemed | proper, a zealous Congress added | Volstead enforcement act nv-‘ ing the arbitrary limit of alcoholic content onc-half of one per cent. | This, it is held, can be changed by! Congress at any time it sees fit, The against the Volstead act is the most widespread whatever present drive | Al Smith | there it | year totalled $400,000; NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TRY1 TO U ON UNCLE “Unload it on the ~—that seems to be the sloganafter a canal or waterway has bullt and profits are lacking. ] of the canal have repeatedly SAM government" been | owners Cape Cod endeavored to sell out to the government, eventually and may do so when Con- gress gets tired of listening to the of its buys argumentation and congressional salesmen the canal in| lorder to get rid of the issue ew York state, as the chief salesman, is to sell the barge canal to the government as a essary 1nK” fn the proposed great-lakes-to-ocean wa The with Governor endeavoring famous “ne 1Y, plan of the western backers of this | project has been to utllize the St Lawrence river to reach the ocean. Beforo the Empire state thought of | selling the barge canal to the gov- ernment as a link in the waterway was strong opposition New York to the entire project, on the score that it would tend to di- vert ocean trafic from the port of | New TYork., Now that the barge canal as a link has been thought of, New Yorkers are not so strong- opposed to the lakes-to-ocean project — provided it reaches the in | | the hmm shan 1ay [to run against George soclalist incumbent of manic position, Other n. C. Mclntyre, Richard Nagle, P, I" Clark Except in the Republicans are lying as low as the democrats, Mr, Curtis will give anyone a hard run for alderm from the thisd ward, be nomi Sehenck, the the aldere possibilities Factsand Fancies By ROBERT QUILL] hard part. The ring untruths, Learning fsn't the hard part {s unle The middle class is that in which the youngsters fecl ashamed of the old folks. Manhood is at last attalned, if| ever, when you outgrow the habit of telling your troubles, Holding hands no longer affords |a thrill unless the hands are good {for & grand slam, Movie director, All right; upper beginntng class scencry plot Forelgn policy: "The polite way to |describe efforts to hobble the other tellow,; ocean by way of the decrepit ditch | through Now Yorl state, the Hud- son river and the port of New York. New York exhibits crass selfish- ness in this matter, But that may | only be running to form; selfish- | ness in its highest development has | always been a characterlstic of the metropolis, it is sald. It cost New York $152,000,000 to transform the old Erie canal into | the present bargo canal — getting | its name, we suppose, from the fact that there are so few barges using it. The receipts of the canal last it cost the state $10,000,000 to maintain the | ditch, | Shooing the white elephant into | the government 200 is a popular | pastime in New York just now; but | when it is consldered that it would | ‘(‘Ds! hundreds of millions to trans- | form the Dbarge canal into a ship | canal it is unlikely that the gov- ernment will aceept the pachyder matots mammal. To turn it into a | ! ship canal would require dxmlgmg} the 11-foot channel to one capable | ot floating ocean ships; it would | { have to be broadened, and the low | bridges would have to be displaced | by draw bridges. The Hudson river, of the law. nothing so difficult since passage But there | to fight—in | The very effec- is wets will The find this out tively, wet senators and repres | heard | from but lnck the' power of nums| bers, up with the political machines of both | i the A writer has declared that of 11w senators will be dry in | the next Congress no matter which | the it are frequently The dry regime is bound rties in most of 35 out ones are elected. In House is no bette Of cour the enforcement Senate Congress can “investi- machinery, 15 the judiciary committee That nowhere, has 1 aress voted to do. takes time usually leads Con- 8 a whole has a habit of not wcting on too many committee re- por It Volstead the wets want to change the act they will have to elect nd But al up with the cnators representa ac- cordingly a rule don't. political parties are so badly mixed various sectional is- it) is submerged and drys get Indeed, of the At. and for the cities there seem to be noth- ucs that prohibition issue, into oill west ntic coast except for office most serm to have Kk with the organiza- wets have another chance in ngressional elections, slim | T “nation-wide" it may be. They have won in a that is more or 1c- barometer of Co publie as vet is To change the Vol- require much mare | expended complexion of Con- be char much of n 50 have to rising castern thaws vans the coal and will gi 0| tie health but mattcrs. a often college formerly, gra ying than lieat they bhave found woman's lr-*| | carcer is domesticity. | ocean | | ocean route may be overestimated; | the t00, would have to be dredged. The cost might reach a billlon—and all to enable ingoing and outgoing | ships bound for Buffalo, Cleveland, | Detroit or Chicago to pass through | the port of New York! It the construction of a lakes-to- | waterway is advisable, Lawrence scems to be the logi- The the | St. cal route. value of a lakes-to- then | resurrccting why g0 to the expense of w York's whitc cle- [t | vertise a still to br {remember A village is a place where |peoplo congregate when one makes a dent in another Ford, The only thing you know in ad- \‘\nr‘n when you visit a specialist is |that you have §250 worth of trouble. ven Iord It a youngsters shows some talent for gathering dollars, you know which political party he will belong to. The swords won't be beaten into plowshares while school histories are more than the story cessful butchers. As we understand T [tion s qualified for |when it promises Germany's vote, anc the to n na- Council cancel 1! You can't ad- < the dry law w qualificd to Such an odd wor but can advertise n ¢ |break all specd law The Constitution gu |speech, but so many mobs haven't read the o5 free judges and Constitution. An old-timer fs when a cach hip instead of an who can Bun rested on an agron. The world’s manncrs aro improv- ing any way. Once they were called Smart Alecks instead of Intellectu- has ruled that we can a robber, What about A judge the umpl |adjectives? phant at an enormous cost when "a more efficient and cheaper route | can be built through the St. Law- { rence valley? taxing which personal is one of Bridgeport is wearing apparel, the blessings of the ripper law, 7 | to feel | ton and | There e atch are two sure w the Charle stock market. v —— dance the Screen stars arc ahead on styles, 'tis sald. Sometimes it looks as if public never catches up. Building codes seem frouble out for to give ball ary. as much ba. holding stars | more sa The girls wearing smox find crisis themselves facing a terrible when warm weather comes. | 25 Years Ago Today | news- | (From Paper of That Di The Postal Telegraph «Co. h signified its intention of putting its wires Into the subway. This is the first big corporatior s | actlon, The ate) fo tnke consolidation commnittec | mitted its report yuster of this change. It proposed to have two taxation districts, change the number of wards from six to seven, and make many other changes It was denied today & Erwin has bought out & Towne compar Mr. and Mrs. Albert Carlson Broad street have returned from trip to Sweden, T W. Mitchell returned from Bridgeport this morning enthus over the big K. of I conven- there. Vega hall was filled to overflow- ing last night when slides of Yel- lowstone national park were shown under the auspices of the Knights the Golden Eagle and mple. The ley and named Smalley mon council. It was one | Paradise rk by C. E. Hart was in the council and it en known as that ever since sald to be Stanley park o cord books. Elther is preferable Paradise park, as any mention this name in the counci {enough to r a laugh Th alists have had tives from the during the they do not Eub- v in favor is that t tion the corner of streets has park by 8 been com- dubbed park at Small when has 1 is ise e soc hal yresent th wards years, but th past | w ° be m:m, The democral em {the Tontino | of making much effort to hold | are also idle. | The situation isn't coal bills paid, months fo save up graduat 50 we for had. With have three brides and Instead of of experience vietion that Wall street, a ust you Correct this dcar,” the man said ed advice from the back s (Protected by Publishe sent Thank you, vell- nife Qbservation On The Weather h 20=For South- d: Tair and sli . Sunday fair, » to fresh north and northwest winds. ¥ for eastern Now air, s \th'\- colder toni air; moderate to fresh northwest winds, t York: Sunday Hh yrecast ("anadnn ‘House Takes [ Up Proposed Treaty ' The March 20 (/) Ottawa, Ont., 2 last night house of commons cussed a resolution approving trade treaty between Car the British West Indies negotiated at the West Indics conference in Ottawa t summer, sion of the treaty was prot Premier King v the treaty as another lopment of inter-empirc Meigl the thoug pnce the 1 trade Arthur leader. important pire standpoint sive as to the Canadian conc sugar and as new steamship T resolution mittee and had committce stage adjourned. 1f the adopted a bill will he give the trade agreemen mpptaken impression en treaty had from ! but loss of reve ions in commitm vi we not when house resolution Wi T is necessary 10 eifect may have of | A been heading 3 printed las The headline D. K. Perry building created by a an irticle 1 Her; Arehi the in cot changing plans for on Hart street which, it is suspected two family house. The word ¢ was used but He probably to Mr. wrongly justice Perry exy » asked to do is not be- he 80, by the owners or the has not been is no intent arrel with the city. to pick & qu of suc- | mod- | and | aind | SATURDAY, | send all mmmunluuum to Fun Shop Editor, eare 0 the New Britaln Herald, and your letter | wil be torwarded o New York [ | Let's Take a Tip ¥From the Season, | T olks! leave out yhen Spring arrives, llow their example, Folks, out Hve And blossom with good cheer and Tr e tho Broke Again? Johnson: “Our son's lott med rather flighty this week Johnson: “No wonder. He sent it day: | MclIntyre The windg ! How gay! en's blue and lofty blow my blues away! playful swish Is just my dish; Had 1 my wish Ihe muple, birch, and larch, 1 all the other lissom trecs Would always sway in frolic breeze, And woulld blow about my arch Chey Their i knces Just as they do today! The winds of March! How one en- joys | Their playfulness! Heigho! They make me think of many boys I've had to answer “No;" Who lovingly, Unstintedly, Had promised me All sorts of worldly joys While begging me to pleage!” But I said to each one of these What I ery to this March breeze— “Blow on, my buddy, blow!" “Say ‘Yes, Yor Top Work The way the barbers sting you is something awful." Gleason: “Well, they have a per- fect right to ch Gertner: RY ART much experience sald the y a year or two a can opencr does.” THE CULI “I haven't had a vour mother- bride, “but in s be able to use t as cleverly as she EDITOR RE READERS' Connell itor: THE LIES TO HI® LETTERS (Nynor, Tenn.)— goes pitty-pat. Iditor—That's a pity, Pat. P | met a couple of peaches that were plum beautiful, but they thought they were the grapes and I was al lemon 1 gave me the raspberries. What shall T do? ditor. is pear any raisin berries, just hand 'em applesauce— you're a poor prune of you don't! siieie haven't had rris Young (Opromise, Mr. Editor: I caught ng our good look- rench cook last night. Should I divorce him? ditor—No. and nd us the We need Simply cool addre a ne s name cook, e e Moss (Iffi, Mrs. Joseph Kan.)— Mr. FFun Shop Editor: My hus brought home a goose for me to cook, but I didn't know exactly how it showld be prepared. T stuffed it with dates and figs but I'm afraid 1 | used plaster of Paris instead of flour in making the gravy. I am a | and don’t know much about cooking yet. Will it be all right? Jitor—Your husband’'s goose fcooked, is Poor_DAD's_Pay DAY —oOR_ADS Y A NOON SATURDAY @ | opposition an | By Al Means irrington: “Yes, we've de- d to scna our Lester to Oxford.” Martha: “Isn't that fine! 1 him one of those Oxford .y his books in —J. Mrs, cid A st v o ca G. W. IN KLASS ZY KOLLEGE (Conducted by Gertrude) Teacher: “Hov g of about ‘fapestries’ on, Miss Cule.” Molly Cule: Hank Smith's so the power lis hound dogs fleas, a little private show- for the fine close he hitches When scratch their Shoo: at the mouth When the woodpeckers tapestries.” Helen Derzendorff. KRAZY KINDERGARTEN (Conducted by Gertrude, Jr.) tcher: top that youve yawning, Moses, but got your mouth use ‘inherit’ correckl Less: you want you something on your scretches. wil please Mor “Wen | Peroxide is the best thing ever made, J [ krouches from our | Every time I kiss my | What | Ed T. Moorchouse (Stiff, Colo.)—1 | 1f they thinks they're the | arts | open should put MARCH 20, 1926. —THE 0B SERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City | L As the pre-primary campaign in | the republican party progresses, a definite split between the forces led man B, W. Christ and the faction led by ex-Mayor George A. Quigley is evident. In his opening speech this week My, Quigley, without mincing words or attempting camou- flage, charged that the acting state central committeeman had used him unfairly by assuring him that the field was open to him and then bringing out another candidate for the republican nomination for mayor, Gardner C. Weld. The Quigley campaign started off true to expectations. It was sup- posed that Quigley would fight e organization, whom he | | | republican | has not spared in the past, and he | did. He burned his bridges behind | nim and launched into his drive | with a vigor that was truly Quigley- esque. I'rom now on, Quigley can | be expected to furnish the greater | part of the fireworks, an assignment | dearly loves a scrap. It is whispered that the republi- | can organization is for all time in the present race for the mayoralty nomination. Nothing { will be left undone primaries, it is reported. The G. O. | . machine has had Quigley riding on' its back for several years and is | | determined to get rid of him, if such a thing is possible. With this purpose |in view® the lcaders of the organiza- tion are rolling up thelr alcuca and | setting their lips for the fray. They | i realize that a Quigley victory would | mean the passing of control from those who now hold the reins. They are fighting with their backs to the wall and in self defense. The selection of ex-Senator Rich- ard C. Covert as campaign manager for Weld drives home the truth of | the saying that -polities makes strange bedfellows. But in this case, it can be sald that bedfellows can be vnmade by politics. Covert and Quig- years ako, the former acting as cam- paign manager for the latter in one campaign. Apparently Covert has spring sces these old pals pitted against each other. - Covert is a lever campaigner and is perhaps as capable as any man who could have [ been sclected. When it nounced in a morning newspaper few days ago that ex-Mayor Orson I¥ | Curtis had been chosen campaign manager for Weld, the latter's stock | suffered a precipitous decline as it was' not believed that Curtis' influ- | ence would be of assistance to any- | one. Later when it was declared that | Covert would manage the campaign, Weld's friends felt relieved. The re- publican leaders made a grave error | in picking Curtis and then changing | over to Covert, if that was what hap- | penea. | Stanley Uchallk, also candidate for the republican nomination, outlined his plans yesterday. It Is not thought | that he will be a factor in the race. | |the break of winter's grip none will be more joyous than Artemas Stock- man and Willlam E. Chapman, gational churches and the men who are responsible for the clocks in the | towers of those edifices, Winter is |2 hard season on them both physic- lly and mentally, for the elements assail the clocks and frequently |the upper hand over them, stilling their motions and arousing the ire ershy who are accustomed to » their movements by these two | chronometers. | The scxtons duty; they are never forced to watch thelr own clocks. Let one story or vary, and immediately the sexton is | deluged with personal and telephono | calls from indignant pedestrians who appear to.helicve it a crime of tre- | mendous proportions that they mi; ed their cars or busses by trusting the timepieces above their heads | The sexton is given a general brow- | beating and told to attend to his duties in the future. Many people appear’ to ho under the don that these clocks and 'he kept running; actually, thoy are merely operated by the churches as a convenience to the public, which ‘therefore has no license to com- plain on those occasions when the clocks fail. The reasons the clocks are many. Somctimes it is merely because they run down, the sexton being too busy with his other duties to attend to the |« general rule, and :s‘\ullllvnio the winter, this is not the case and the blame must be placcd on N: ture. Ice and sleet storms are one rea- son for the pausing of the circling hands, the ice encrusfing about the hands and machinery until it stops them. This reqyires the ‘energetic !use of choppers, hot water, other anti-ice weapons before { plaintive public is again able regulate its motions correc High wind is another cause, the steeple swaying slightly before the | hiast. clocks are a- |ing the swinging arm down and sometimes eventually stopping it. This trouble is easier to remedy. | For these reasons, the caretakers of |the clocks are welcoming the re- {turn of milder weather. E | Yet even in the summer there is |one unusual factor which some- times halts the clocks, and that factor is—birds. These often cluster on the hands in such numbers that |they retard or accelerate them | from flowers and foams |But a fact I know from w my big sister Inherit ghanges quick the netcheral shade.” atching | Supplied Perkins: “Is there much social life in your town?" Statler; “Oh yes. clubs for the |for the men.” —Gretchen Schmerler. (Copyright, 1926. Reproduction Forbidden) We have gossip women and hiccup by Acting State Central Committee- | n which he will delight because he | ley were close political friends a few | | changed his mind sinco then and this | was an- | Among the persons who welcome | sox- | (tons of the First and South Congre- | | are relieved of one erroneous | must .therefore | and | the | to | and Its People |This generally affects each of the four faces to a differcnt extent, so that the passerby bewllderedly wonders which one to believe, Courage in the face of adversity won a battle recently in which it |scemed for a time that 4he weaker |of the foes would surely succumb. The greater of the forces consisted of three dogs and the weaker of a black cat. Said cat of no small| proportions but witMthe courage of an animal six times its size, was sauntering along peacefully in the | back yard. Along came a terrie barking smartly at his feline enemy. {Tho cat, evidently sensing that the |dog was all burk and no bite, stood its ground and if a cat can look dis- |gusted, gave that dog some mean look , and walked up and down past »mm as If to tempt him to rush, |But the rush did not take place and |the dog gave up, The cat {its interrupted journey once mo: but this time met a hunting dog | \which immediately gave chase. Ev dently the dogs of the neighborhood | determined to, had planned for a snuff_out. Quigley's light onco and soon thoro were three of the canines | (hoge on varking. cat chase for hunting the cat. There was a small |opening beneath a nearby fence, | that will con- l\u'L large enough for a cat but too | tribute to the success of Weld at the ‘SH‘\RH for the dogs. Through this the | |cat dashed but did not keep going. ‘lust sat on the other side watch- ing the dogs as they rushed all around the yard and out another |way, Soon where friend cat was sitting. ,nllow\:fl them just Ithe fence. The dogs were nonplussed again and back they ran to the gate. {A merry chase ensued but the cat| ‘kvm her ground and finally stood and faced the dogs. This was too 1ot of nofse they finally gave up and |called it a day. The incident brought to the mind lof the spectator the battles some- ltimes fought by humans with the r‘ault that the [party emerges triumphant, because, llike the dogs, the opponents do a | i(l\inklng and acts. Toiling through contemporaries this week, we came across a news which, in our judgment, de- serves a niche in the hall of fa- | mous writings. 1t concerns the y(]f"l”\ of a lion In Forest park zoo, at Springfield, Mass, a former monarch of the jungle which, no | doubt, hundreds of New Britain visitors at the zoo, have seen. The | “obituary,” prlnlrd in the Spring- field Union, follo “Caesar s dead. “Caesar, the lamentin-est lion |ever to bellow his rage, or his love from the confines of the Park zoo, will never again open Ihis toothless jaws to roar at the |spectators who stood before his ‘yuu:r' enthralled Dby his shabby gen- tility. “He looked like a blood to a large carpet bag. most lions have mane, Caesar had mange and plenty of it. He was | more slab-sided than a canoe bump- ed by a ferry boat. He was, in truth, so slab-sided that his hind feet often walked ‘at right angles to his fore- feet. “But Caesar rared back on his corns when in the mood and gave vent to a whoop and a holler that could be heard sev- eral miles, Give Cacsar a still night and a carr: |make himsclf heard in Chicopee— | nd think nothing of it. A chunk of red, raw meat meant nothing to Cacsar. He didn’t have |enough tecth to crack a cream puff. | |He was good on Hamburg steak and gruel, and it didn’t give him' any | | more indigestion than usual if some- one slipped him a marshmallow. But {hat was his limit. Once he managed | [to swallow n loaf of stale bread, but they had to pack his sides in ice for |a week afterward. And now he is dead. brother Where | esterday there ecame from the {African jungles, by Germany and Hagenback's zoo in Nashua, N, H. a brand new lion He is two years old, welghs 175 {pounds, and otherwise fills the specifications of a regal animal. “But Cacsar was a basso, one of {he profundo kind. The hasn't roared yet, but lion fan- ciers \\ho have seen him prophesy With the mayoralty campaign slowly getting under way, one feature of it stands out notoriously adn stamps it as a flat failure for |all candidates concerned. The cam- [paign is as devold of issues as | Spain is of prohibition agents."About all any candidate can say is, “My op- ponent is a good fellow, but I am |better.” True, “what T did” and “what he didn't do” “what T will do” and “what he won't do,” but those are hardly at we need to stir the voters ¢ Britain from their lethargy ch of issues, incorporated in |platforms which will ecnable the always willing and anxious to help |everyone from mayor to bootblack in whatever way possible, effers the [propriated gratis by any candidate {of any party. Passing of an ordinance to forbil | |the installation of an automatic tele- |phone system. and we would have no one to be. ber; it is somewhat disconcerting {ly or to take it up with an elec. |trician.) A city hall in every ward. candidate with this in his platform should carry every ward in the city.) Thiriy days in jail, without right of appeal, for owners of all regener- ative radio sets. (This should bring in every voter except those who own the nuisances in question.) More benches in our parks. (The young and newly made voters will respond to this.) A 25.cent lunch for a quarter. (Aimed at commuters, nighthawks, began | they reached the spot | She | time enough to | get within a few feet of her and | dashed back through the cpening in | |much for them and after making l. seemingly weaker | the weaker of the forces does some | Forest | could roar. He fust | ing wind, and he could | the way of | new lion | they can talk about | (Eliminate central ! rate when we recelved wrong num- | (A | | and bridge-widows, The large num- ber of lunchrooms might, howover, lead to tho defeat of this project it |the proprietors all voted.) | Abolition of plainclothes officers, (This should go big with the crooks, as they can never safely commit ‘rrlmc as long as any passerby may turn out to be a detective.) ‘ An auxiliary to the fire alarm |system whereby a storekeeper geek- |ing insurance can slgnal “Don't come” to the fire department, More holes and bumps in some of our streets, (At present these make it dangerous for passing autos, but it thelr number was Increased slightly a car could pass smoothly along on the tops of the hum- | mocks.) | Ordinance requiring trolleys and {busses to set their schedules ahead 15 minutes, (This would bring them along at just about the time they are suphosed to do so now.) Ordinance that there be bound over to the superior court, with |hanging rccommended, all Charles- ton dancers living on the second | floor. (This would at least make for one-family dwellings and so improve the standard of living.) Lxtension of the franchise to all over six ycars of age, to be follow- ed at the next electjon by a plank seeking the abolition of schools. (Granting a vietory at the first elece tion, the second one would be a run- of after-dinner milar to regulation with restrictions Police speake STATICS PLAVDAY 1S NOT FAR AWAY Tropical Variety From the South Will Come Into Being ‘With the coming of spring, the sun at vernal equinox and swinging into the northern the Inujsance of static not only will in- but it will come from a dif- ferent direction. Dxperiments in Washington and Porto Rico have bearings {which {ndicate Yucatan as the prin- hemisphere, |erea given |cipal seat of the disturbance. This localization of the source of Istatic 1s considered by engineers to be the most promisiug hope for freedom from static’s ann squeaks and shocks. The theory \h\"‘n developed and demonstrated by IDr. L. W. Austin, chief of tho laboratory for special radio trans- | mission research’ maintained here jointly by the United States Bureau |0f Standards and the International {Union of entific Radio Teleg- {raphy. Hits Long Waves Most | “For the average home radio re- ctiving set, static intrudes mostly from shifting and comparatively |local centers,” says Dr. Austin. | “The tropical, long wave static {creates the greatest disturbance fn ‘r.«nHa reception at wavelengths far |beyond those used in broadcasting Statie, however, is present at all wavelengths. It may be compared o' a continuous spcetrum of a ray of light. It will have frequencies [that correspond to any wavelength. “Learning to exclude thls long |wave static will earry with it ideas as to how we may defeat the local |static on small broadcasting sets. “A thunderstorm 40 miles away often will cause more disturbance on {a home radio receiving set than all |the tropical static. But in the long {wave receiving sets for wireless tele- |graph messages from across the |ocean, this tropical static often is {tremendous. Transoccanic statlons 1se o wavelength of from 11,000 to {18,000 meters, where static is much lmore gevere than in the short- |length brqpdeasting range. | “The transoccanic radio telegraph station at Riverhead, L. I, recog- Inized the source of tropical static |by building antennae which excludo Ireception from the southwest. Itds not possible to filter out the static {and receive messages from the same |direction. Toop Helps Reception “But with a combination of the !loop and simple antenna, one may shut onc's ears to a given direction. Tor instance, if static is coming {from the southwest, one in Wash- |ington may turn off messages—and static—from Atlanta, and still hear New York “Amateurs and broadeast listen- ers might find it helpful to construct unidirectional recelving systems such as the loop antenna combination, not only for keeping out static but also for reducing interference. “Conditions that breed static occur when there is friction between afr masses which differ in such qualities as temperaturc and molsture. “These conditions often oceur where there are strong vertical cur- |rents, as in the mountain: They occur mostly over land rather than water, because therc are sharper variations in temperature between jacent stretches of land, And they loccur most favorably under the ver- tical rays of the sun, which means in the tropics. “Afl these conditions are me our theory that this long wave t In This affects theregularity of lelector to know what he is (is not) |is produced most vigorously in win- |the motion of the pendulum, slow- |voting for (against). The Oberver, |ter in Br , and in summer in Mexi following planks which can be ap-| ‘The Road to Happiness— | |to ball oneself out for dialing wrong- | | | l | |