New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1926, Page 6

New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY [wved Dally (Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg. #1 Church Btreet SUBBCRIPTION RATER IVING DEMOCRATS A SQUARE DEAL David L. congratulated upon to glvo the Democrats in the Couneilman his evident desire Common Council recognition eom- thelr | mensurate with | importance Nair is to NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926. little I J. Wheeler; W, G, John E, Ma- DAYLIGHT SAVING ; bR o 3 . [bingren; W. 8, John Oqulst; trustee The Ansonla Sentinel is authority [po g™ 10 O G SRS et for the statement that in spite of [trusteo for 12 menths, Robert Mc- tha fact that the majority of the |Clintock. ‘(‘wn]vT" of Connecticut are In favor | of daylight saving time, there will SIEtaiaiait i i On the City and Its People Makes Random Observations —THE OBSERVER— mention | ment! But why this change? We' belleve that it fs due to the growth of party organizaiion, Your father used to vote before daybreak on the way to work, Uncle Iph used to hiteh up his horses and drive in from thu It start al \nd as a reflection of the large to- | atill be some “fussing and fuming” farm to do 1's bit, and he ploked up . Year 2.00 Three Montha hc. & Month. Batered at the Post Ofice at New Hritaln as Hecond Class Mall Matter, TELEPHONR CALL Busioess O . Editoria) Rooms 28 926 The only profitable advertising wediun in the City, Circulation booke ani pross room aiways open to sdvertisers Member of the A The Awsocinted Prees s exclusively en titled to the ure for re-publicat 1l news credited to It o' not utherwie credited n this paper and also local news published hereln. Member Aadit Burenn of Cirenlation The A. B. O, fv & national organizatior whie* furniehes newspapers and adver tisers with a strictly honest analyele of circulation. Our clrculation statistics are based upon this audit. This tnwures protection agalust fraud in nawspaper distribution figures to both nationa) and local advertisera. clnted Press The Ferald te on York at Hotaling's Bquare; Behultz's Grand Central, 42 e dal'y eotand westan 1 Btreet n New Times Entrance LINCOLN G. ANDREWS AND PROMIBITION When General drews beeame nd tion unit Ju heralded the He was going system ba He Lincoin of t 1 savior G. in he was as of the cause. to reform the Demon himself entire of Rum. permitted to 1 government make a statements caleulat to throw f into the hear of rum runne hootleggers rum row off guard wew to while a revamped nd the skippers o the coast. The coast attend to the latter, of in- to fake supply- system watehfulne busine ing cash customers, Phohibition Commissioner Haynes had been lieved of powers as chief enforcement pl £ 24 districts terior was care of ipland 8 of Roy his agent and a new n o« prohibition fighting was {naugurated, with General Andrew He told in Chicago that his de- ai- enforcement as the ad- ministrator, Anti-8a loon leagus partment was concentra on viding prohibition equally between state and federal authority, and that there would be more “punch” in law enforcement, to use his own At the Pinchot of lia could colloquialism same time Governor Pennsylvania thought read he en the lines and see things contrariwise, for he | told league the N that a ment against Ant st tional prohibition was under loon move- way., But Governor Pinchot's was not generally accepted as logi- | Had himself, Tet 1 January Coolil that was in back up Lof that all would be ousted who failed in thelr duties, that proved lackers in bureaus would be And did not himselt tell a not n of vear, it be known he of the shake of . S. attorneys, and the dry the the. President shown door? of eltizens — the “committec 700, led by Judg D. Rockefe Jr. in entire accord th eliminate the moisture enforcement? The hreakfast at the White the President, confided the tee was ho Gary and John he their pl or, - that " to from dry had with citizens House the and President work of the commit- 1 upon publlc sent to have a wh some effc But mental exe in spite of all this fanciful se of a year situation has grown worse, preponderat to tha Bemate the Tnstead retreat n of wonder FLORIDIAN DIFFICULTIES of ong | was | tal voling this party ticket in the ity. Councilman Ito | the head reasonahle have a Democrat at and n conformity Alderman Willlam H. Judd, G. O, |8 have no Democratic chulrman of committes, s with Justice, whip in the Council, who would iy A ¢ ' voles committee, 18 wrong ingo of slightly more than tod srong does as The represented in have A 80 1 would re-cle M o cnoug wor Paonessa party to come close to I Its mayor: eandidate | not deserve extinction far | ehairmanships are concerned party already is not {he Common Council in proportion to its strength — only elght of the 30 members belng Democrats de- the strength of the party in pite the clty. To ignore the Democrats chatrmanships unsportsmanlike and all itical decency; upon committee would be [contrary to all the dictates of po- it would be playing to the nth degree, which is citizens do not wish, they voted, i VGLAND'S WATER POWER Willard Rogers of [ white [ ville, Hartford, Adress in Plain- interesting s making an mage the ment that if the water power of New England were utilized to its of the full capacity could coal this tler states do away of the with and thus be freed troubles incident to the [ strikes in the anth manufactured use from recurrent 1cite district. electrielty through in New England it known and end. But statements that can be the use of | water power to {heat our homes it was time this were generally ken to 13 we have read of this could be the certain whether not done as economically as with use of coal, and we Mr in his premise. The price of eurrent many experts not Rogers is right considered far too high in general heating. The likeli- electrie is by as for | use | hood is that it it were possible to batitute water electricity from | power for heating purposes, and thus do away with the use of coal, would been made in this direction long ago. not usually | more advancement Such opportunities are allowed to lie dormant, THE FRENCH FRANC AND PSYCHOLOGY With the French anced for the first the World pes |the RIff In prospect, increased gov- claim | budget bal- time since close of war, e in ernmental monopolics establighed, tary contributions to a sink- | the taxation ing fund into chequer, coming and ex- increased | suitable to a majority of French- declded the in- stead of going up zoes down. Indced, it rcached the depths it As s written it was command- men upon, frane, group | of 1,- | ever dipped. it only around 30 to the dollar. Naturally, there is some specula- tion as authoritles seem to that the No two agree, e supposition not he entirely stabi America is finally some adherents. prychology. ane will until the debt to tunded | Others abl to function galns it ter geems the as had 1 blame npon at I ago the | W8t reason- In view of franc's failure en expected. It has simply lost a little in repu- live down will be in in to Its public rige mind mind S etihione aoouttamed of e future of r light an he no question long pull, but now has done #0 in in the house lon restau- 1 a wait- uniqu Nair's objective, | action | are | have | the | s was expected, | to why this should be the | in FactsandFancies probably | f BY ROBERT QUILLE about 1t, although this will be less than in former years. | | The editor then advises those of | | his constituency who continue to ! Why should criminals | law? It hardly ever does them I nurse a penchant to fuss and fume hurt, { about daylight saving to glve it up, | any In these hootleg days it lsn't the nelghbor's income that is puzzling so much as the how come. And now just how does the con- {sumer extract the malt from medi- |einal beer? | as they will have a hard time of | | ‘\I‘ “as nsual,” | Better advice could not be glven, | _— | even in Ansonia. The cities on da light saving time in this state do inot care a cent what the Legisla- ture ordalned ahout pub- | But think how tough America might be today {f women hadn't got |the ballot. keeping | lie clocks ticking on standard time. | So long as people have their own | watehea with them they d(m"j Blessed are the peace makers. No- need to look at a public clock: or 'body erccts hideous bronze statues of they do so they have them, | elementary knowledge, or the au- | when the Tven If the pulpit ahollshes hell, | tomatic intultion, to add an hour [you can use it in extending invi- I10 public | tations when you're mad. ‘ il what the slow-time clocks say. The small towns and villages, | | dominated by the state grange, the | vegetable farmers, dairymen and | tobacco ralsers, the who fondly retain belng an | behind the more progressive urban [ look | And the newspapers which try to advantages of hour The real servant problem is how. ridiculous. (1o make a room look tidy without isting behind things, curry favor with them by attempt- | 75 | Rheumatism may have heen Na- {In& to dlscourage the recognition of |y, s first primitive effort to es- | daylight saving time also look [tablish a weather bureau. | ridiculons. The Sentinel's advice is | & | What's the matter? The year one- {fourth gone without a single new | A |organization to save -America! UNCOLLECTED TAXES 258 e | New London prides ftself upon | Buck-ague is what you have the | having an efficient 80 efficient, diecovered [ centers, merely for them as well as to the farmers. eity tn fact, $300,000 {never saw anybedy with bull-ague. | e Morale, in college, is a willlngn: to watch the cheer leader instead of the game. | ment; that it was in city | taxes have not been collocted. The over a long prriod of | ts now doubtfur | whether much of the money can | be collected. Out of 6,642 taxpayers the city, 4,000 money, 1t | probabitity Jority who have not paid their poll taxes run | vears and it Boarding house life has dis- ladvantages, but you needn't ask the lady of the house if you may go out. owe the ity This in all includes a large e 1t the worst should fool nlong and never happen, a lot of peaple are zoing to be bitterly disappointed. is stated. ma- | taxes. . The old saying that 1s death or some nothing riain as es does apply | cities so far as 3 not. Connecticut the payment of Home regard | the payment of taxes much asthey | | as | in | pax o catnell The world is growlr. C regard the 18th amendment or the | Volstead act — to be cireumvent- | ed And where it numbers, or on the city officials have ple in the penitentiary now. Long ago, touring included a lit- tle dog under the wagon. Now it lincludes a hot dog under the driver's |shirt. | it possible. is done in large { wholesala plan, as hard a time of it as prohibition can't blame France. Anybody agents. like to have a little private of nations, You {would 18 |1cague by London's city manager inclined to tilt windmills after back taxes which not 1 | 1t Europe really needs a kind of Judge Landls, our isn't engaged at present. going are &0 far back that more money un:lv [ time would be wasted in collecting them thun they would yieid in re- | turns. The city 1s to see that it | 5 " [never | does not occur again in the ftuture, [ C and hereafter all taxes must be | paid, ix the ukase. Correct this sentenee: “My wife 18 | i " he, doesn't at E © honest neq. |proud.” said he, ‘but she d t Among a good many honest peo- |y "y vy auicing me for ' money. rle 1ith or 12th command- | protected by Publishers Syndicate) ment is to “beat the tax collector | e RACING CRAFT, DEAD The Indian may have been mean manufactured divorce the mandment from the public citles could con- science. Some other | follow its example. von gates at railropd crossings | out but as luck would have it, Patrolman | I B Prize Winning Shells For get of order occasionally; s Crews College Thomas J. Feenoy exhibited excep- | Cambridge, Maes, April 17 »— Willlam Henry Davy, who had a L world wide reputation as a ed several automoblles {rom cross- | yyjider, {5 dead at his home here. the Maln street crossing in | front of a train a time. | | Officer I | tional alertness when prevent- | | ing He was 83 vears old Mr. Davy came to this eountry from London in 1§72 and went to | work In the shops of John Blakey SCIBEARILYY in Cambridge, where the racing ‘ craft for Harvard crews and for | {most the professional oarsmen of | 25 Years Ago Today \itho country were bufit. at such ney is entitled to hand- | 1 by the police board. | Later hie went into business for | himselt and for many years turned out the eight-cared shells used 1 Councliman Clayton A. Parker | Harvard, Yale, Navy, Syracuse, Uni- has taken out a permit to build |versity of Pennsylvan | four houses, at §2 Wallace strcet, 19 {and Wisconsin, as well as bullding Munro~ strect, 16 Munroe street, and | singles, doubles and fours for r another on Wallace strect. Mr. Park- | ing clubs in the United States and er hus already erected eight houses | Canada. in this section of the city. | Chief Trumpeter Henry Scheuy held a rehearsal for the trumpeters ind_drumifers of the regiment at Hartford last evening. Two trum- peters and four drummers from this Qbservation On The Weather Washington, April 1 for Routhern New Engl and colder tonight, fresh Co. has taken | out a permit to build its new meat | house on Commercial street. At the shoot of the German Rifle | held yesterday the following | continued cold, scores wer W. B. Hall 12§, |northwest winds, ¢ F. M 18, B. Jahn, | night. 5 ng 109, W. Woil- | Forecast for Ea | Fair tonight what colder strong northwest wi minishing and shifting to north 1 north- | cast. ~Forecast nd: Fair Sunday fair, to strong minishing to- club Zimmerr I Vog o, ern New York: 106 day South Malns k Rocks yesterday by 23- to challenge any team ers of which are y of Charley | - Androns misunplseliysstendiyie) Once AW as Slave, s1ies inatin Leaving $25,000 Estate Superintendent that more than New Haven, April 17 (®—When Hill par: died the will of Caesar Donnell, a former ey are all of the slave who had spent most of his life ety in this city, was offered for probate csterday, 1t was learned he had left 000 to his four children. The look Ik ta time slave tef Rawlings was present at the |and his fortune was amassed collec t meeting of tha common council. |Ing ashes and beating rugs. h he has right to be there, it | Donnell was bor: County. North C slaves, in 185 defeated the 23.13 and nder 16 rs A s found today | trees in Walnut | g the winter, Norwegian cedar Tol W. B. Ro t silk mercor r advertises like $5 is pres of th order n the Mr. ( arolina. 1 He remembered his sarly plantation days and told many mayor tried stories of “iem and of excit is' vocal ment after his emancipation. He visited his former hoi nt ye snce was the to the wisl mayor to 18! The ' nly ¥ was wl the - to stem Honor has ars. Temple of in following for | | Methods of hein H. N t wW. A p |A. L. Thompson; W d by the standards s in- A ®tates bureau of .. to determine which preparati Doo- | jure the stone. hate the | govern- |first time you shoot the buck. You | « | From life rene better. | You'll notice a better class of peo- | | sweeper, just Colonel House | enough to use an ambush, but he | e¥l- | sjan. Yes, T am Dean of Women at | cambridge Man Turncd Out Many ! boat- | Columbia | Some- | s well-known here | in Washington | son of | marble in | Send all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care Of the New (| Uritain Herald, and your letter |} will be forwarded to New York A Change of Administration, Folks! Let's spin our merry yarns the way The kids spin tops in Spring, | Tolks, For then we'll away And crown “Good Humor" king, Folks! drive the “blues” What It Looked Like | Real Estate Man: “How do you |like the little stucco bungalow 1 built for you?" Johuson: “It's getting on my |nerves! Cars stop every day and ask |for gugoline and free air." |THE HOUSEWIF) ING! A Muddlesome Spring Song | By Mrs. L. ©. Obenchain |0 sweet Spring days so bright and { long, O twilight's scented gloom! (My parlor rugs I must have Before the violets hloom,) Ts time to throw dull care And ask a truce of sorrow! (How black my curtains scem (o | look! I'll take them down tomorrow!) cleaned aside The crocus liffs her golden cup IFor goft, warm rains to fill; | (Just look at all those finger-prints On door and wall and sill!) Today the swallows passed my door; Soon, soon will come the {hrushes! (And that reminds me, I must buy Two brand-new scrubbing brushe | Why try to write about the joy ed, up-springing, | Although some hearts might echo i ba The rapture of singing? [ Alas, T'vo lost forevermore {The season’s mystic meaning; T wonder if in Heaven T'll find | A Epring with no Spring eleaning! ‘ Broke “Hello Archie, old egg. ou?" “Rotten!" G. F. are nuts on Medford: How are Archie Malvenitz. | There be! From Our Own Infant-ry Drill Regulations My Jittle girl, aged three, was very much interested in a new purchased, One day she was in the bedroom watching me make the hed when she suddenly snid, on secing the carpet sweeper standing in a corner, “Mam- ma, can I rake the bed room for Iyou?” —Mrs. C. O. Swanson. INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS Dr. Walter E. Traprock By The Fun Shop Reporter “You ask, Traprock, “it 1 am really a physi- the Eskimo University, where T re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Pat- {ent Medicine in 1809, My offices are at the North Pole, where T specializ: in Sunstroke, Santa Claus still owes me for a stomach ache he had last Christmas. “Thank you for the match. Have you a clgar? How did T happen to {break fnto THE FUN SHOP? Ah, that was easy—too casy. I bound and {zagged the nightwatchman, and slip- od the Bditor a preseription. Of |course T have had my share of re- joctions—especlally by the Fskimo Co-eds. However, T am the author of voral books: The Ice Book: the Book of Cigarette Papers; and & | Book of Two Cent Stamps. My work on Dynamite handed the folt and went over with a bang, and [it brought me an offer from two dif- niversity of Siam begged me to ac- cept the chalr of English Literature, |and Sing Sing College offered me the chatr of Elec 5 “In epite of my astounding success {7 am still very modest—when my sock came down on the sireet yes- | should have scen me {terday vou blush!” | .~ — Then Pucker Up Her Mouth Hazel: “It is stated in the papers that Valentino has bestowed 500,000 o5, think of that! Now, suppose good-lcoking shelk should ask Iyou to help him outdo his record, | what wonid you say?” | Mildred: “T'd tell him to beat it!” —Mrs. J. G. Brodecker. | | | IN KLASS AT KRAZY KOLLEGE (Conducted by Gertrude) acher :l‘lmnw it's natural for you to | stand there like a dummy, Lucy, but use the word ‘curious’ in a sentence.” Luce Ends: “Pad’s redness of the nose it seems He cannot cure, gomehow, . Try ice-cold shower baths' Folks said, That's the curl —E [ king now." umgartner. | RRAZY KINDERGARTEN (Conducted by Gertrude, Jr.) Teetcher: “Miss Ate, T feer, is {tching to | «pring her famous little peece about Billy and Alfred. Well, let her rip. introduelng ‘canal’ jest to make it | harder.” Amelia “Billy Ate: and soe— The childern of Eddie and Sal; Billy cant figger jest which one is he, | And neither, in fack, canal” —Herman Negley. (Copyright, 1926. Reproduction For ‘1den.) are twins, you Alfred SERIOUSLY INJURED Middletown, April 17.—Joseph Freenia, 62, of East Hampton, Mass., | wae serionsly Injured yesterday when ! he foll 15 feet from a scaffolding at the Hall memorial laboratory being Wesleyan university. ! e Middlesex hos- | pital where it was said his condition | was critical, tructed at was taken to the THRILLS TO | many a family | That ain't what they're cracked up to | carpet | smiled the genial Dr. | ferent colleges to accept chairs. The | Defeat hos its compens: the sting is balmed over ations and by time. say that he does not regret the republican victory last Tuesday as much as might be expected and now that the fight is lost he seems pleased to be relieved of the {burdens of office. An hour after the polls closed a friend approached the mayor and sald: "Let me offer my sympathy The mayor laughed and repl “Better than that, offer your con- gratulations, A few days ago I spoke to a wor who sald she was anxious to have me win and T sald te her ‘Pray for me, pray that I will he defeated.” 1 could not face two years more of being tied to public office with any pleasure.’ | Ihis is a phase of public servico {which the average person does not stop to think about. The honors that 0 with office holding are often |overbalanced hy the slavery of the |position. A man at the head of a {elty government fs far from heing {his own master, He s at the end of {a hundred and one strings, all be- |ing pulled in different directions. He {must attend meetings of the city | zovernment, spend several Jiours of the day at his desk, present himself !at conferences, speak at banquets, welcoma distinguished guests who may be visiting the elty, keep an eye on all commissions, familiarize him- |se1t with eve detail of govern- ment, try to conduct his own busi- |ness, 1ose sloep, lose meals, lose [triends and—smile, smile, smile. He | will surrender his home life and it {is equally sure that he wil find flaws in those upon whom he count- ed for friendship. It he manages to retain his health and his optimistic outlook on life, he may count him- {self among the fortunate. Tt s easy to understand why |Mayor Paonecsa might find relief |in casting off the burdens which {have weighted him down for four | years. He has been an unusually act- live excentive. It 1s no exaggeration |to say that he attempted and ac- complished more work than any otlier mayor New Britaln has had. He has not seen satisfied to warm Ihis chair. He has hardly had time to #it in it and rest when he must have ached for mental and physical relaxation. Mayor Paonessa made a good |fight, as s attested by the refurns the polls. Over 13,000 ballots ere cast. Of these, the victor, Mr. | Weld, received a majority of 218, in {ticating that the city was well divid at | Paonessa is glad to rest, there are |thousands who wish that he mizht have it. And the Observer is confi {dent that no onme appreciates more than the retiring executive the rest- less Mfe his successor must lead. President Hopkins of Dartmouth {college deplored the changes which |the years have brought in our man- Iner of living. There may be many |customs which were worthy of sal- vaging, but on the whole mankind seems to be much better off even if, |as President Hopkins believes, it fs |interested in trivialities. Certainly the condition workingman has improved and no one would want to go back to the “good old days.” Timo was when the workingman was truly oppressed and he earned his bread with the wweat of his brow. The song of the wage slave was heard throughout the land. The table of the working- man was supposed to hear only nacessary plain foods and he was {expected to pass Sunday by attend- Ing divine services and offering up his thanks, during the rest of the . by the many blessings which were ghowered upon him. The song of the wage slave is set to new music and the words have been improved. Its tempo is livelier. It is sung in every home. It consists of a medley of light alrs which in- clude thoughts such as: 1 made Waterbury high yesterds This is a swell coat; 1 got it at a sale for only 880, That's a dandy sét T got at home. Last night T heard Cuba as clear as a bell. Yes, that ofl burner certainly aves me a lot of trouble. mountain on ENTERS DINING ROOM, OLDER SISTER IMMEDIATE= LY EXCLAIMING UST LOOK AT WILLYUM'S HAR!* SUUPS INTD PIACE AT TABLE AND IS ASKED AYONCE DID HE USE A BRUSH ? Intimate f:dends of Mayor Paonessa | actually | ed in political sentiment. If Mayor of the | AND FINDS THAT LOCK electrie refrigerator I last week, | The fellow upstairs is a prince of | tenant, Yes, the rent s high but |he pays me promptly on the firel |of every month, Yeh, I got some real pre-war stuff. | My bootlegger sure knows how to {dig up the goods. | I'm proud of that kid of mine, He {borrowed my car to take his gir {friend out last night and brought it back without a scratch on ft, My daughter 18 expected home from college to spend the week-end. | Ten a day ten't so bad, especially when I own my own home, | You should see the place we stay- |ed last summer. We've already made reservations for a month this year. My boss let me have some stock |in the company at flve points under |the market. | Gosh, T forgot to put my wife's furs in storage. Gee, she'll be sore. | T don't know much about high |brow muste but the Litlle Woman had put in {has bought two ticlets for the course | 0 J s'ppose I'll have to take in the oncerts. The foregoing statements heard every day. They reflect an improvement in human happiness |Which the *'kerosene age" never of- |fered. It is possible for a man to |travel geveral hundred miles a day in his own conveyance, listen in on a concert by one of the world's best orcliestras, eat strawberries in winter |and do a lot of other things that |could not be done in the “good old |days." Perhaps, In those days, men {had simpler wants, put aside some- thing for a rainy day, and stayed at \home more, but they didn't have the ifun folks have today and, if ex- (periences mean living, they merely lexisted, | After the last election, we admit |we're licked on one point. The Ob- |sever has always heretofore main- tained’ that the past was intrinsical- {1y no different from the present and that by the substitution of “wagon,” “gas,” “beau” and “Civil" for “auto, electricity,” sheik,” and “World" {you econld make one era Into the other. But now we are down for the count. Let us explain. | Back in 4he nineteenth century [everybody voted, Thereln lies the difference. | It was not only a duty and a privi- |lege to cast your ballot in those days, ut it was also a joy and a goal which must be reached {f you were {to retain your self-respect, Now voting, like professional attendance t funerals, is a mere incidental to free ride. During the perlod of strife hetween {Federalist and Democratic Republi- an a vote was sacred. You not only voted but you killed one of the other party in a duel to keep him from voting against you. If your |side lost, you sold your plantation and moved to the West Indies to escape government by the vulgar are proletariat. Now you walk into the | polls arm in arm with an opponent land if you lose it only means you |can stand on the sidewalk and wateh |the parade instead of tiring yourself out marching for weary miles After the Civil war the K. K. s organized 10 keep the “nigge jaway from the polls by persuasion, argument, or hanging and to see that the “damyanks” dldn't get nearer the polls than three feet north of the Mason-Dixon line. And the G. A. It. wanted to continue the war until 11 the Democrats were exterminated. Now wa have non-partisan organiza- tlons which say, “We don't care how | you vote, but vote.” | And the days of free silver-and 16 to 1 were great ones. If you had a dollar, you voted for McKinley, and {1t you didn't you backed Byran to K. }wa [the last drop of blood. You could | argue all the fine points of the plat- [form planks with precision. Now ou don't know what a candidate !stands for and you don’t even know {10 the eandidates are for any other office than president, goverior. or mayor. TImagine the glorlous era of elec- {tlon riots, when the fmmigrant and 'the “Fifth avenue swell," said it with Dricks as well as ballots and furned |a Novembher Tuesday into a riot. To- {day if a man tells you he is going {to vote Republican and you are a The wife Is tickled pink over that | Democrat you don't even bother to lncnd‘ nt upon us for their offices. SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY BRUSHING HIS HAIR —c 1S ORDERED UPTO BRUSH DECIDES HE CAN SAVE A TRIP UPSTAIRS BY DOING TO MAKE UPSTANDING SISTER ADIRTY LOOK IT WITH FINGERS IN FRONT LOCK INBACK STAY g OF HALL MIRRCR HAR. LEAVES, GIVING TEELS GUILTILY WITH HAND BEEING ARGUING NOBODY ACTUALLY SAID TO USE A \WHICH HE HAD SLICKED BRUSH, DID THEY, AND HE DOWN HAS SPRUNGUP DID BRUSH IT WITH HIS TINGERS, DIDNT HE, WELL~ AGAIN 926, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc. the whole countryside a8 he came along. The hobbling old men turned hiteh-hikers and “bummed” their way to the polls, never caring whether they got back home again {or not. Cousin Ned used to post- pone his selling trip through New { York untfi after clection day. Voting was llke eating: you had to do it to live, Nowadays all i changed. Ior weeks ahead you are kept busy with Itelephone calls nsking if you are {going to vote and when; the time is duly.noted down and an auto- {moblle 15 waiting at the proper hour {to convey you to the polls and bacl., !And that, say we, I8 the mistake, | Whereas you once voted as your #acred duty to the counfry and fho means of retaining your self-respect, [you now do so merely as a favor {to one party or another. 1f they won't call for you at the right honr, the deuce with going. And if {he | Democrats are using flivvers, you vote Republi an. The parties have taken over the responsibility of voting and you |won't pull a lever unicss you are |politely asked to and then carried {ahout so that your only exertions {ave stepping into the hooth and turning a handle. If some fine they bring in airplanes or luxurious |auto-Pullmans, we enect to see the Ivote further decrease. And if they lever hold an eltetion by telephone or radio, or install private voting |chines whereby you merely reach lout from your armehair and wiggle a flgger to have it registered at headquarters, we don’t think even |the candldates themselves will hother to vote. The only solution we can see is to |offer attractions at the polls. Run fashion shows, burlesques, cord |parties, and prize fights in each ard and make the price of admis- slon one vote. Perhaps then som one will vote—unless there is some- |thing better on at the theater or over the radio. To a man the intricacies of the {voting machine are long since passe but to a great many of the women Ivoters it still is a great puzzle which |they find hard to solve. A woman |voter recently made the following explanatipn of her ideas on the sub |ject 1o the Observer: |” “The 1 est worry which has conic linto the lives of women voters is the voting machine, We have tried fo study the ways and means of politics until we are green in the face. Onr |problem seems to he about solved when lo and behold the worst part of the problem meets us face to face. “There are difficnlt stitches in embroidery, harder ones in knitting, {tatting gecms fmpossible hut when it comes to the intricacies of the {voting machine, we give up. “The man who invented the va- |chine had brains and used them but we wonder if the {nvention holds many of the male sex in awe as {docs the feminine folk. “Nervousness fs encountered pass- ing the cheekers. The reason is hard to explaln. We are just nervous on zeneral prineiples, {hat's all. But the |vorst is vet to come. “After being ushered into one of the hooths, difficulty is encountered in drawing the curtain across. Wh seems to be an endle horde of names comes up hefore us and fin- ally with glee we see the name of the party for whom we wish to vote The fact that we are going fo ‘split’ comes into our minds. We try to turn one of those little ji won't go up. By that a bit of time scems to have heen {consume” and we decide we bad better not try any longer so tak hold of any one of the bars or knobs or whatever you may call them, (it 1t moves, give it a turn. “Ont we come with a smile {trlumph on our face but oh what a fecling within, We don't know |swhether we voted .for our man or not. | “supnoee it will come to ms in time but it fure is puzzling nov |Even veterans who voted the first {time the women were granted {l: privilege, are shaky on entering ti I polls. | “Here's hoping we can overcome |our fear before the next election, if not for our sake, for the sake of the candidates who are partially d nd of « . ByGLUYAS WILLIAMS WETS TINGERS IN ORDER TLAT ARGUMENT 15 CUT SHORT. 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