New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 6

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The Herald fs on sals dafly in New York at Hotaling's Newsstand, Times Rquare; Schultz's Newsstands, Entran Grand Central, 42nd Street. A GOOD MOVE BY COMMISSION Decision of the building commis- sion to recommend to the Common Council a for graduated plumbing fees instead of the flat with hearty com- scheme $3 rate will meet | mendation. The commission apparently Is of | the opinion that the flat rate is too | ridiculous and that o | graduated rate from $1 up will be more apt to meet popular demands and at the same time protect the city and bring in some tax money. | The commission is right, and the Council can do no better than take prompt and favorable action upon the to continue, recommendation. TONSORIAL TOCSIN HEARD FROM Legal points as to halfdressing were bound to come up for official adjudication. Hence the city has been somewhat regaled with glven in court as to the situation arising out of the law forming a hairdressing dutes it evl- dence state com- whose to see 1925 mission that the forced Like law requires judiclal interpretation and it 1s just as well that the high law 1s properly en- most laws, the hairdressing er courl settle the dispute COMMISSIONS On general principles, there are too many commissions in the state. It at every legislative session new commissioners are 1o created, the crop by 1935 will become top- heavy. So far, however, there has been no commission to regulate purked automobiles. CHANGE THE RULLS ON PRINCIPLE Alderman W. H. Judd, president of the Common Council, and rc- garded as the Republican whip of that organization, appears to be in favor of retalning the present rules which permit matters of importance being brought to the attention of that body without adequate notlee. The Republican whip says the rules are of long standing at they existed from before the Ume he hecame identificd with the Counell. What is old and tried and found satisfactory to the organiza tion seemes to suit the councilmanic leader Bul the question is not one merely of rules satisfactory 1o the powers for mischief-making should be considered. The city does not need 2 tule that makes railroading an ever-present likelood, wegardless of how much or how little is rail roaded during any one year The position of Alderman Maerz the Democratic whip. I8 unassail- able. Council members in all cases should be given the opportunity to Jigest projected city legislation a their leisure oo much hurry in these partic ever watisfactory it may be to the HARTFORD COUNTY FARMS noh i i Is farm n popular ler m the important. T il picnics of mpli The ‘ in pla Congamond, at West § And the collection of every known mak of car iIn the vicinity during the event will bear witness to th strength of the wrm population hereabouts Y WE TURN THE TABLES ON 1HE WEST When New BEritaln and the re- malnder of New Eng had the hottest, days in 5b years, one New Britainite was down In Texas and enjoyed the sensation of i e IR i Xa reading | lnvestigation, of the the New |gime and the juicy road eontracts that have been made within recent Since that time is back and no doubt is about it. Britainite reading with record-breaking hot spell in Texas| not to overlook the al sensations of the | months, STANDING BY LAW | ON WEDLOCK and Oklahoma hot spots in Kansas and Missour Another New Britainite, who| Charies Garland has been some- once passed through Kansas op an | What 1n tho public eve. He Is the all-steel train while a hot spell was | father of four children, the resuit of SR Wiy o this 0ky 1t lawtul wedlock. But the letter his wite offered n evidence in her di- triends he is convinced that S ) place “where hell |VOTCe case — written to another | % voman - referred to established | When we read that four Kansas | !aw and custom as having “no moral cities and spots in Oklahoma re- | Significance,” and that they are ported temperatures of “110 in the | “Wolves in sheeps’ clothing."y shade and higher,” and that higher| Whenever a man — or woman — marks had been reached only a few | Wishes to follow personal conduct Iy satisfica | that the law does not sanction there ars th N ago. one g 1 gland. are some such sentiments expressed The facts are the law regulating And the people out that way are s0 used to it that no deaths were |#ocial conduct is the result of ex reported perience gained through thousands Which proves again that the|Of years. It will take more than the, human race can become accustomed | desultory opinions of Garland to and acclimated to almost any kind |shake its value to the human race. ot weather. Those who are 8o constituted that The trouble with us in New Eng- | they simply cannot abide by the land is that when we get a little |Tules of matrimony shouldn't enter taste of Kansas summer weather we | it are so unused to the experience BUSINESS TACTICS Papa Poincaire in Paris idea that a sinking fund providing for the French debt would meet all that we suffer like polar bears in a bake oven. has an “MORAL TURPITUDE" The state supreme court, in hold- | the necessary requirements. ing that violations of the 15th| A sinking fund, a balanced bud. amendment invelves “moral turpi- gel, and enough taxes to meet the tuge,” no doubt strictly follows needs of both, sounds like business the rules of legal interpretation| And it is sound financial methods that Framce needs. Poincalre is. paying little attention to the politicians; that one reason why he is making good. in connection with the Constitution. But from a practical standpoint no- very body Is going to consider a who gets hold of hard liquor in the person ECONOMICO CRISIS same class with anyone Indulging in treason in time of war. | There is a school of thought, IN MEXICO much in the majority hereabouts, Just at a time when Mexico is which does not consider the Vol- going through the throes of an stead act as part of the Constitution. argument with the ¢ f religious force in the country along comes LEAGUE BASEBALL 4n Aoonnilcririss, RAC! The York American league of baseball clubs continue to stand out Whether the economic and Te- the Jigious crisis have anything in com- New Yankees in professional | mon is a matter of opinion; and ef course, President Calles says the onc like an Eiffel tower in the league |is not due to the other. but that the standing, much fo the satisfaction economic crlsis was shoging its | ot those who like to sec rookies head before the®ther crisis arrived. prosper. In spite of the juicy errors . \when prices of commodities go | marked up by Mark Koenig, the |y, jt always goes hard with the Huggins hired hands hold together | government — in Mexico as else- and manage to win often enough t0 yjere, i R aae bty ot thetr 1650, | Pataaiiile. ths . Womlippersiare] It would b# a more exciting race | going without the churches, hold- in that particular league if the | jng their religious rites at home. Yankees and their rookies stumbled whatever result will finally be- allttle. But seven weeks of the base- | come permanent there is mo doubt ball ruction remain to be played. tnat the religlous trend of a major- and time is not with rookies. The ljty of the people will not seriously | veterans are more likely 1o stand | gyreer the gaff toward the end of the sea- rly Christlans held services in s catacombs when necessary, d can As for Babe Ruth, his homers afe | 4o so again If the need arises. coming with such unceasing e Rl regularity that Huggins is willingto | BERLIN OUT OF PATIENCE forget the past. The Babe promised | Tt used to be that Berlin residents to be good and stage a comback, and were dissatisfied with the trolley the worst that can be said against | service to New Britain, Now they him so far seems to be that he |discover that the bus gervice ls at fished in Michigan during a former least as had — maybe Jorse trip without the formality of getting | The trouble seems partly duc out a fishing license. from the fact that busses ply be- | conditions {ween New Britain and Meriden, and Berlin And waiting 45 minutes for a bus In the Natlonal lcague are more chaotic. It would be a that has become a ‘“stop.” courageous commentator to venture anything approaching a guess as 1o | to show itselfis expecting too much the outcome, The Plrates seem in- | patience Volined to hold the lead by a slight | The Connecticut company ought margin but the other contenders are (o give good serviee with its busses 0 close the race l0oks like a free-1to Berlin or step aside and let an for-all. €1, the wise man will bet | independent company — give better on the Pirates for a spell. service LEGAL MINDS AND DONAHEY'S STRENGTH BANDITS' NECKS The victory of Governor A. V. Of the devious ways to gain pub- Donahey in the Democratic primary lieity, the action of the Baltimore in Ohlo-’was fully anticipated and Negro lawyer in attempting a last- | somewhat diseounted. He remains minute stay in the cxecution of ome of the outstanding Democrats Richard Reese Whitlemore deserves | before the country, onc. possessing some mention presidential fimber Whittemore i doomed to die on Far from ‘finding Iteelf devoid of ri Nothing appeared in sight strong candidates, the next Demo- to prevent the execution until this!cratic national eonvention need not Negro lawyer started lawing. The look far. The threstrong ones are man knows as well as anyone that likely to be Al SmWh, Donahey, and it he is able to put over his legal Pomerene — one from New York scheme it will be a big feather in and two from Ohio. his chapeau Both are doubtful states that will t why should lawyers be so|strengthen the party If represented eager to “save” crooks from their on the national ticket. punishment. When the bar assocl- - - 5 \fions meet the learned gentlemen TOO MUCH STALLING have much to say about the erime BY PRIZEFIGHTERS wave and how to combat it Yet in| It Jack Dempsey is serious in his practice the chief legal effort scems | claim that he at all times has been o invofve the prevention of punish- | Willing to meet Harry Wills, his ment negro challenger, it seems o the Same ca. where a young | impartial obseryer that he should bundit faces execution this we find no ditficulty in being accom- 1 in Massachusetts whoop! modated. With the Gene Tunney The brains of t bar should co- mateh in September not allowed he has a chance to “go after” Wills, if operate more with the law against bandits instead of attempting to be | he can bring himself to do so thelr ehief bulwark to avold paying | The New-York boxing commis- their debt (o so¢ y sloners - about as errgtic a com- mission a8 ever functioned — ought TEXAS WILL SHOW to become sensible long tnough fo WHAT IT THINKS stimulate . the Dempsey-Wills af- No, there is no “feeling of un fair. The record of the Dempsey- cortainly” o Texas. Governor Wills imbroglio to date s no credit Miriam A. Ferguson, who with her | (o anyoye concerned. pusband s making a last grand | Oh for the days of John L. Sul- fand play. will be snowed under in ' lfvan, of “Bob” Fitzsimmons, and the run-off primary with doughty | “Jim" Corbett, when champion Dan Moody prizefighters took on all comers and Fivery possible type of political there were no commlissions to rule chicant has been played by the | first one way and then another. Fengusons; It the state 1s not'very | Those were the days when there sick of the performunce It would be ' were prizefights a Ja carte @ terrible indictment of its Intel- | There have beeft four years of ligence “alling around In the Dempsey- Wills verbal contest, punctuated by And fret thing to bappen after contracts signed, broken and ncarly be will be a forgojten. Everything has Ferguson re-|done in the realm of prizefighting Moody will next governor the legislative been akes office \F cept to fight. l Wills may be a poor contender or he may But f be a good one; the illivan nobody | Knows. late lamented John 1 had been In shoes cular would have b ears ago, and the have settled the or four other | Dempsey's this i question en settled three and a half would three champion ambitions of that time. contenders since SUZANNE AND HER PIQUANT COMMENTS Judging from the tone of the Assoclated Press interview with Suzanne Lenglen, the woman tennis champion has had a bard life ever since began playing tourn: me “for the benefit of club- owners.” Tt was a terrible ordeal of “bondage and slavery,” she says, d now t t is relieved of the necessity of playing with the exaet- ness derm ed in match y she is going to show the world some “fireworks” — taking chances on for: All of which sounds as if Suzanne anticipates a_wonderful time in the Canada and Mexico, intends to United States where she do her pro- tessional tennis work. And unlike some ® professiona prize fighters, she is willing to mect all comers, and particularly Helen Wills — at geast, shy says so But there are some orabbed sports editors who have remarked there are about 100 men tennis players in the United 8 could defeat Suzanne, and if it's a case of mecting ates who them might onal feel zome of 1l comers sick .at she may prefer only to meet woman n woman On profes heart the other hand competitors As for general athletic prowess, her record is a splendid example of modern woman's penchant for out- door exercises. 1n high jumping Suzanne was champion of France in 1619 — and high jumping is not ex- actly a poer preparation for tennis play. In running she is also a fast rticle, while in dancing — well, she is as proud of her dancing as she is of her tennis. . - = Radio message from John Hays Hammond, Jr. “Whose business is e Part of the new paving on West Main street s finished, and algcady autolsts are commenting upon the rottenness of the brick paving in comparison. In other words, the street won't scem completely au fait until the brick is removed and something smooth put in its place. A Chicago reporter discovered it was possible to ride 87 miles in that city for seven cents, entailing eight nsfers and four hours’ time. How many miles can vou travel on a trolley car in New Brilain for seven cents? 400 DENOUNCEMENTS ON CHURCHES NOW PENDING Mexican Attorney Genmeral — Orders Immediate Investigation of Situation, | Mexico City, Aug. 11 (&) the present religious controversy de- Sinee veloped about 100 “denouncements™ of Catholic church property have en made to government officials. | Within the past few years about | threg hundred denowncements were made but not settled Thus four hundred denouncements are pend- ! ing and Attorney General Orteg has ordered representatives of th | department of justice to immediate- {1y investigate the situation. } A denouncement means that a | person, whose name is never mads public, {nforms the government that | a certain piece of property, which | more often than not is not used for | religious purposes and does not seem |to belong to a church, ls, in fact, | church property held in the name {of some private individual | | The Mexican constitutjon forbids | | enureh ownership of property or | priests from holding property for | the church or a third party posing | &s the owner for the purpose of pro | tecting church property ! | Any person “denouncing” or in | forming the government of such| aisglised ownership receives a cer-| tain percentage of the value of the property if the government nn.u} the Information given is correct and | it seizes the property. Qbservation On The Weather, Washington, Avg. 11 for outhern New Lngland: Partly clondy toflight, showers on the coast. Thursday pe moderate to fresh southwe FForecakt cloudy day; slightly north portion; moderate southwest winds. Condifions The which was central over Ontario yes- terday morning i8 now passing out the St Lawrence valley. It is eausing unsetled weatffF with Jocal | showers in the eastern portion of the lake region and the northern portion of New England. Showers Forecast tly cloudy wind and tonight in York Thurs- for Kastern Partly tontght disturbance | ware iso reported from Utah | northeastward to Montana, The greatest amount of rain reported | was 1.12*inches at North Platte, Nebraska. An urea of high pres- fs contral over lower Michigan | sure | St. Louls, Kansas, reported 100 degrees. Conditions favor unsettled weather, and slightly cooler. Missouri and Dodge City, temperatures of for this vicinity followed by fair Shop Editor, care ©Of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. | | Send all communications to Fun } | All-Year-Round Fruits, Folks! | The cherry crop and plum crop are | Jdt's true, 1son’s short for both of 'em | Folks, the whole year| rough The cheery crop and fun us all the while, within our means 1se they only cost a smile! A La Mode! ‘1 sentence you to a year | The s crop 1s | Crook: “Is zat so?" “Yes. When do you think | be able to go?” 'he Bobbed-Hair Bandit. | A QUESTION BEFORE THE HOUSE Sunny Starts Something With Her | Prince Charming! | Dear Prince of Mine: | I'm wondering i Which of us loves the greater. | You've sworn your burning love is| like | Vesuvius's crater! | You e declared that I'm reserv- ed; Too cold; too calm; too placid! Those loving ‘accusatioys, dear, | Have seared my soul, like acid. | I may seem calm; 1 may seem cold Yet inwardly I'm burning: | Mere thinking of you sets my heart churning. | With wild emotion And this will prove how much T've put Myself in your safekeeping—— | I think of you the whole day long And dream of you when sleeping. an you match a love like that? | Now Pray do when you're working, | Think of r Sunny one wee bit, | Or is your love, then, shirking? You see, wild sir, just why I think | My yve is much the greater; | Il gladly mateh it, calm and cold. | Gainst your veleanic cr ter! | Kind Man “My husband is SO Mrs, Swanson | tender hearted, and just loves ani- mals—he spends all his spare time at the 200!, Mrs. Hillis: “At the z002" Mrs, Swanson tell me his visits to the blind tiger sometimes last for hours Yes ,the nm;:'nl.org* | —Mrs. Carl Palens. One thing we've noticed, since tting” became thé fashion: It's made the young men shave more often! Country People! 1 am just a green country boy. tryine to make my way and I was| wondering. Down on the farm we used to have our last meal of the day 30 and we always nll- ed it supper. But when 1 came to the city apd asked what time supper was, people used to laugh and look to se¢ what kind of a haircut I had. I have learned not to expect anv- {hing to cat until 8§ o'clock and to call it dinner when 1 get it. But it's kind of confuring. Ju; lately . . ~) well, what 1 mecan is, when 1 come out of the theater with a girl now and she says, “How about a litue supper?” I don't know whether I'm out with a hick, or she is! | —Kdwin H. Blanchard, about 5 It Well-Rnown Songs Were Hlustrated “Who" Misunderstood Mrs, Williams: “I don’'t like to go to the picnic on account of the little insects.” i Mrs. Kellogg: “Can’t you get their | father to stay home and look after them ?" . | . 8. Bleyer. IN KLASS AT KRAZY KOLLEGE (Conducted by Judy) Teacher: “Well, Mr. Tocracy, did |you come to this country to acquire lan American accent or to write a | Harris Tocracy vether, ma'am-- | £ thought if T looked about a bit T ‘lhhzhl marry an heiress, but I'm get- ting 'omesick, and your heiresses |don't 'go ‘o college, and | Teacher: “What's your idea of an heires Harrls Tocracy: | A lonely Britisher, 'e sang: | *'Owever far ‘e roam | Awye from hall 'is nytive gang, Heiress no place like ‘ome!” —Frank T. Killinger. \bout us? KRAZY KINDERGARTEN (Congucted by Judy, dr.) Teetcher: “Our: beloved teetcher [Dusty sends werd that he is up on |the roof and will be down as soon ag he remembers how he got up. Meen- | wile' T wil] ask Haywood to tell us | how he took care of his little curzin | yestidday, using ‘epitéme.’ " { again, but by that time the lie NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1926. And I dident even thoak him wen he went and pulled my hair; |He called me severel names and 1 | sed nuthing, "Bul wen epitome you bet him one for fair.” . —Emily Ryerson. 1926, Reproduction Forbidden) 1 biffed | | (Copyright | FactsandFancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN It had to be a rib. Adam hadn't any backbone to spare Love is life's great theme, but hatred gets more publieity. It is selfish to pity oneself when rany people need sympathy. ball team makes nd stand comfortable. A winning the in the Not infrequently the psychology of a woman's elbow changes her husband's mind. It it could be told in all truth that Missolini's wife bosses him— that would be big n { | | The only new Scotch joke is the one about it being made in Scot- | land | so amazingly well that the boils. Job wrote many doubt e himself as would be a could If a man 8 him it his tailor sees calamity Truth crushe earth will 1 to rise is six DLlocks away Always the woman pays, they say But not until she has done much fumbling in her handbag Scientists say handshaking is un- sanitary. Probably danger of catch- ing itch for offl We first endure, then embrace Only a few years ago marbel statues were criticized because they didn’t wear petticoats. Tt Henry wishes to serve, let him | pad the fenders so the things can't scratch up big cars. Nature showed great kindness in putting the back of the human neck | where the owner can't see it noticed, You have ofcourse, the joy children get out of mud pies. Well, isn’t that an argument for fundamentalism ? | Few ever had a vision of a barber | pol~ as a beauty hint to girls. That | which we think can never happen does. ! The old-fashioned man would like to know why ham and eggs never roll out of the artist’s conteption of the hern of plenty. Granted that ‘radio is wonderful, it is not yet a complgte success when | it comes to sending the children to bed | | (Protected by Publishers’ Syndicate). | 25 Years Ago Today | | The mayor and City Surveyor Old- shaw will leave for Jamestown, next Monday to attend the con- vention of the League of American | Municipalities. 1. F. & C. excursion to Savin Rock Saturday. All 650 tickets have been | |sold and another 6§50 printed. Two | Folgero explained. |John Rich of New Britai ed, | ICED SALADA" TEA o104 Cool, delicious, satisfying. trains will be run. Tiekets can b procured at Ars. Chatfield’s new room or Leghorn's jewelry sto The boxing season of 1901-02 was opened at the Casino last night with an audience of or 800. Patsy Weleh of New Britain and Lew Paul of Rockville were sent to their eorners before the time s up and it was lared no contest, there be- ing no fighting at all. Tommy Co nelley of New Britain secured a well- ed decision over Morris Miller of Hartford at the end of six ro nds, butter, won from Ursano of this city i Nick four reunds. The new statfon in Plainville is nearing completion Since the New Britain institute | was made frec 1.890 new namies have been added to the list of taking books. There was a checker meet at the Y. M. C. A, last night when Expert Knight of Bosten played I. D. Hast- ings of Plainville, Messrs. Pritchard and Leghorn of this city, and three Bristol men. Mr. and Mrs. J. H at Lake George. Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson will visit Niantic tomorrow. Rev. Charles Copens has been visiting his old home in Waterbury. The Gei Rifle club defeated Independent Rifle club yester- 324 to 5301, P, R, Vogelsar shot 924, F. M. Zimmerman 918, J. Baumgartner 882, B. Jahn §70, I7 Eichel §75, and O. Leupold $48. For Kirkham are lay the Independents, E. Parmelce made 1046, W. B, Hall 1011, C. E, John- son 964, W. Gilbert 894 Judd §13, and W. Clark 373. E ONE N 900 VEARS 1S GALLED ENOUGH Thus Say Men Who Followed the Vikings' Course Boston, Aug. 11 (A—One in 900 years is enough to sail the Viking course from Norway to the North American continent — take it from Captain Gerhard Folgero. The captain and three compan- jon Norsemen whe put into harbo yesterday in their tiny 42 foot sa ing boat after a 6,400 mile journey that started at Bergen on May 23 have had their fill of adventure. They were the first to make the perilons voyage since Lief Erickson, for whom they named their craft, but they were willing to rest on their laurels. When picked up by the coast guard cutter Redwing be- calmed off Cape Ann they had left | exactly one salt fish, a pound of coffee, four potatoes and two galions | Jay 1 would do the' thing he had done. When I told my friends they thought 1 was crazy. I am glad to | been the first to make such a in 900 years.but I would try again. Onee in 900 ars is enough for me.” |” The boat will go on exhibition at the centennial after provisloning here. It was built by Americans of Norwegian origin as an evidence of their appreciation of tne 1 of America apitality British Mine Strikers Refuse Church Proposals 11 (®A—The" British the strike and lockout, 1sed general surprise by vot- 7,650 to 333.038 to refuse to accep f theé chureh leaders ‘ngland by which it was hoped that peace ceuld be arranged the miners and the mine nd the strike ended Even the leaders of the miners had rec- ommended that the plan of the be adopted. i compulsory wage arbitration plan is suggested as the objection of the London, Aug. coal mi who are now in ! 14th week of th have ¢ the project between owners The clause of the having ca miners to it he vote colliery hmen was taken in the varl. districts by order of a miners' delegate conference, which decided to leave the question of cepfance or rejection of the bishops’, project to the miners them- selves. ous ——— i RESOLUTION | "I'pnn the death of Edward H. . Davidson, Chairman of the Board of the Savings Bank of New Britain, Adopted at the Regular Meeting of the Directors Held Aug. 10, 1926, | | Resolved, That there be spread |upon the minutes of this board this expression, of our sorrow at the death, on Aug. 5, at Syracuse, N, Y., of our friend and associate, Edward | H. Davison, chairman of the board, |at the age of $5 years; our admira- {tion of his many sterling traits of j\l‘:« cter and attractive pereonality, land our appreciation of his long |and valuabie service to this bank. Mr. Davison's connection with this bank has been for a period of |nearly half a century. He was elected an incorporator July 21, | 1580: a director May 8, 1905. Upon |the death of Mr. Vibberts in 1308 lie was elected vice-president; upon the death of Mr. Corbin in 1910 ha was elected president, continuing in that office until Jan. 18, 1922, when |he accepted the position of chalr- man of the board. He has alway devoted friend and loval |been a of water with Philadelphia and the | v sesquicentennial exposition a lvngi-‘”l‘l"‘l‘("r of this bank, and by his way off. | keen perceptions and sound judz- Behing them lay vivid recollecs'{ment has frecly rendered a servi ons of dangers sufficiént to. make | Of reat value, ‘without any com- {ha haralest mariner blanch, Three [Pensation other than the reguldr times Captain Folgero hal exclaim- We are gone,” and three tines returned. Three hundred foot threatened to crush the Firickgon, 1t was locked in an {ce patk off Labrador for 21 days and then, to climax matters was canght in a ter- rific hurricane. But through it &ll the four modern Vikiags slung ten- aciously to iife and elements, A “When 1 was in New Yark 16 years ago 1 bought for 50 cents a book on Leif Erickson,” Captain “T resolved some hope feebergs had |Hay Stack: |"Wen he poked me in the tummick | 1 jutht warned him, 'DIFFICULT DECISIONS - ~ TRYING TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND IN WHETHER TO BE HONEST ABOUT JUNIOR \WHO HAS JUST TURNED HIS TIFTH BIRTHDAY \Copyright, 1926, by The Eell Syndicate, weathered the | Tne) . | director’s fee—his only reward being the satisfaction of knowing that ha was helping his fellow men. His attitude toward this mutual savings bank was but typical of his attitude toward all things of a public or phi- lanthropic nature. The state, the city, the church, the hospital, tha Y. M. C. A. and the United Com- munity corporation all enjoyed the benefit of his loyal support, interest and personal service. His was a oharacter and his was a life pleasant to contemplate, and in passing leaves a precious memory which will long be an inspiration to us all. HURRY CLUYAS WILLIAHS 8-/ «