New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1926, Page 20

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HER |zest into it and the world is gal-l “With four horse power back of “DR. CATTELL Philosopher Sketches Rise of United States and | Says Talk of Depression ! Is Absurd. | The world is growing better all the time, and condiions in the United States are such that a financial de pression is almost impossible, ac- cording to Dr. Edward J. Cattell of | WORLD GROWS BETTER DALY, | | | TELLS ROTARY told In these words: ‘I was well. T wanted to be better. Here I am.’ | “A friend of mine once sald: 'It's better to travel hopefully than arrive’ God pity the man or wo- man who has arrived. to be a Was—T want to be an Is. ting better. lionalres out of a garbage canthat and the | we stroy. waste material and made a prod- uct out of it that the world want- ed. “One thbusand million to |last year American desert. I don't want |it didn’t produce a dollar. | certain every worker in America the world never beat us in production machinery distribution Is formerly pald people to de-[on the increase.” In other words we took :.; The speaker referred to the po- | tential power of China and the fact that some day it can provide a market for all the products of Amer- dollars | jca as rapldly as a desire is created came out of the great there. He sald he has scen good A few years ago coal lose its entire value in trans- In a|portation of 38 miles, because it was Two “Last year we took over 500 mil- | will section of Pennsylvania |carried on the backs of men. ALD, TRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, world awakening to new demands'eral weeks, returned home yester- west and in Texas, golng thence to and new desires, there can be no permanent depression. “There never was an Instance {that 1 call recall within 50 years 'that the country was more prosper- ous and the outlook better than it Is today. “Don’t take every shadow to be a substance.” Dr. Cattell presented a striking figure with his snow white hair, old | fashioned “mutton chop” whiskers. Ile seemed to take great delight in joking about his age, which ls esti- “T don't want to be a kicker. they couldn't get their produce 1o |cents per capita per week in China Every time you kick you lose & |market because of the hills. They |invested in shoes would take the built 1,-|output of every with | America. he added. the hills and of good roads step. ing. a dark room at midnight looking for |them. a black cat that i. 't there. He'a‘ He like a man who swallowed an egg— |forgot to buy The kicking mule ‘ain’t' pull- tore down A pessimist 1s a blind man {n {000 miles for fear it will hatch. { material. Philadelphia, vho spoke last cv ning to the members of the N Britain Rogary club and their wive: Dr. Cattell was for 25 years city | statistician for the city of Philadel- | phia and was responsible for the | statistics often published, of the | number of houses erected per min- | ute, locomotives turned out per hour, miles of carpet made per year, et in his homs: city. He is said to have spoken to more people than any other man alive today, having ad- dressed more than one-fourth of all the residents of the United States, or 2 total of 30 milllon papple, ex- clusive of radio listeners. time he -spoke on the radip when 15 stations were linked up and it is estimated he addressed 18 million people at one time. In the last 15 months he has traveled 70,000 miles. In opening his address Dr. Cat- tell referred to his pleasfre at see- Ing s0 many women present and said the world has never been able to get along without them. “Adamn moseyed around the Garden of Eden for sev- eral weeks and nothing happened and nobody moved,” he said. “Along éame Fve and everything happened and everybody moved. “Y never see a mrn | going any- ‘where in.a hurry unless T think he's | poing to or coming from some good woman.” ‘World Better Today e said there is-a lot being sald Yoday sbout the present generation being worse than the preceding one. “When I was a kid my grandfather would tell me the same thing” he sald. “If you go back 1.000 years, you'll find the same tale belng told. Every generation has its own way of blowing off steam. The ideals and wtandards vary but the fundamentals remain the same. *The world is better today than it used to be. half as bad a kid as T was and if 1 had my way to live over again, I'd be a lot worse than T was. “At the Rofarv convention at Tor- onto recently. 9.000 persons were there for one purpose—to eliminate friction and brinm the world closer torather. “Tt T can’t get what T like, T Iltke what T can get. That's a &ood rule even for narrow provle. “On a tomhstons T once saw in a Bcotland cemetery this story was |four and a half times |have galned in wealth 50 times. It |best returns in this life. % ex|in a country where our wealth i8|wno can't look around at any time |population. i‘own government bonds, as against |iiin a man whose doctor had told | | The boys today are not | |lions of them that way today, just| | because one man wanted to escape | “I'm afraid of the man who is e ucated beyond his intelligence. He's muscle bound between the ears on a scolding from his wife” he said. |o1q. theory. He sald a man first used waste |l “One, crop in one state this year |material to make “scooters” means $1,000 in wealth and buying |children, and now he power for every man and woman in | waste from other mills to keep up the state. I have seen the wealth of \the demand. this country increase from seven to| «we are spending six to seven | 53 billion dollars. | Talk of Depression Absurd {and seven million on support “We have gained in numbers moral agencles. It's the best invest- | while we ment we ever made, It brings the| is absurd to talk about depression| wrpere isn't a man or woman {multiplylng 10 times as fast as the |o¢ the day and see someone Carry-| ing a greater burden than they are. “Soventeen million people today |y gnece rode on a European rallway 174,000 only 10 years ago. Thefe|pm pe might drop dead on the are 28 milion people Who hold lway home so he got off at each government securities and only 35 |tation and bought his ticket from |millionthat vote. {station to station. “We are gotting afrald of shad-| wpont buy your ticket through ows. Remember the first Thanks-i)s from station to station. Go giving dinner. Only seven men apoaq Play ball. Hit the ball, not were able to stand up. Half the yjc"umpire, |men in the community were dead.| american Worker Enjoy’s Life |Did they have a day of fasting and “In America we are getting more praver? No, they had a day of | gjversified erployment and the | Thanksgiving. worker is getting more joy out of “The difference between Europe |jife, You never see your own shadow | and = America ls that in Europe | untl you turn gour back to the |they labor under the lash of ne-|jjgne cessity, looking down; here we la-| I love the fellow who laughs bor under the lure of vision, 100k- ' with you and helps. 1T hate the fel- |ing up. |low who laughs at you and hurts. “You can't frighten people into| You never know how near the other being good, or industrious. You'fellow is to the breaking point. | can't keep people from begging by Don't be afraid to put your arm |working them to their maximum 'zround him and say ‘Glad to see | capacity until they are 70 or 80|you' Tt always helps. vears old. You can lure them with| *The radio has brought vistons of pleasure and luxury. “Happiness is the motive that ', second of every other human heing jmoves the world. The man or on carth. 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He tells with delight of a poem written by a friend, who in trying to ascertain his age, went back as far as_Adam, only to learn that “Cattel was here when I came.” Finally, according to the story he tells, the poet had the temerliy to \ask the Creator and was informed |that before the world had been 'created and was just a mass of vapory protoplasm whirling around in space. “‘Ca‘tell was there and his hair was white, even then.” He has been sald to be the only “Don't be afrald of depression. A |man who could wear a Tuxedo and ore than half With no make-up. successfully im- After that he's | Dersonate Santa Claus. | President A. F. Corbin, who has en in Bermuda for the past sev- shoe factory In “We are all thinking, but with Can’'t we get more happy Get the situation of the Such Thing as Getting 0ld There is no such thing as getting You can get older but not old want to live to be 100 and then ay into the woods. In a country wifh in- | Wi ‘g01n0saz elqnsnuyxa | be m‘ A Wonderful Pre-Holiday v () Ano © at last night's | day and presided | meeting. \FATHER OF H. §. TEACHER " EXPIRES AT SURRY, N. H LaForest John Carpenter Planning to Visit Wife and Child in This City. LaForest John Carpenter, 67, died suddenly in Surry, N. H., December 11, of heart trouble, after an iliness of only one week. Mr. Carpenter, born July 10, 1859, was one in a family of 15 children of Willlam and Abigail (White) Car- penter of Surry. He was graduated trom the New Hampshire Agricul- tural college (Hanover) in 1882, re- ceiving the degree of B. 8. Ho then went to Michigan and for a few | months was a student in the medical | college at Ann Arbor, hut desiring a more active life, he accepted a posi- tlon as station agent for Michigan Central rallroad at Morgan, Mich., |and fn 1883 he was postmaster and "merchant at that place. = The vear tollowing was spent in the middle- | Was | Island Run, Penn. In 1886 he returned to Surry where he was elected town clerk, 1889, but resigned to engage in the wholesale, grain, flour and feed busi ness at Cold River (Walpole.) Dur- ing 1892 he accepted a position as supervisor in New Hampshire State hospital. Concord. Resigning. he became ~assoclated with Doctor Channing’s private sanitarlum at Brookline, Mass. Between 1894 and 98 he was a professional nurse in Malden and cal study, especially in the research work being carried on in southwes! ern United States, Mexico and Cen- tral America, and his penchant for old flint Indlan arrow-heads, a buried bed which he discovered in Sandwich. has richly repaild him after much labor. He is survived by a widow who lives in this city, two daughters, Rachel 8. Carpenter, a teacher - at New Britain High school, and Shirley W. Carpenter, a student in Simmons college, und also by seven brothers and sisters; Mason A, and Frank D. W. Carpenter, Mrs, Hat- tie R. Emmons and Mss. Martha E. Crawford of Surry, Merrill D. Car- penter and Mrs. Ellen M. Kings- Boston, and later held a position in Providence, R. L In the spring of 1904 he went to the Pacific coast where several months were spent in Seattle, Bellingham, and other bury of Keene, N. H.. and Eugene places in the state of Washington, R- Carpenter of Westmoreland, N. going thence to San Francisco. In H- the fail of that year he purchased a | farm tn the north part of Shirley. Mass.. where he resided about nine years, when he settled in Sandwich. Mass.. which was his home until he fore his death. returned to his native town last Oc-| The funeral was held last Tues- tober. !day, the body being placed in a re- For more than 40 years he was celving vault. [Interment will take a member of Nashville (Mich.) place in Surry in the spring. lodge, No. 225, A. F. and A. M., and he was also a member of Malden (Mass.) lodge, No. 201, 1. O. O, F. 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