New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1926, Page 6

'New Britain Hfld oy W Sy SUBSCRIPTION RATES s Year. i "l-. o Meath. Bxoepted) urch Strest. "o — the Post Ofice at New Britain -m:-.l“.:‘ Clase Mall Matter. — TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office . iu Editorial Rooma «.ee ¥ rofitable advertising medixm Circulation books and press pen to advertisers. The only D in the City. room always ol A—dfle’ nfl!ll;. = ‘Associated Press is exclusive - 3:'.« to m‘- use for re-publication of Sl Rews eredited to it or Dot etherwies Sredited o this paper and alw mews published therein. t Bareau of Cireulation. ) organisation 1s a national orgazization lysta of atistics insures Member Audl! B. C. ::T:i“lnmlnhu newspapers and est ant tisers with @ strictly hon Our _circulation "'“n".'.'.?'m. this audit. Th! tect| ud fn newspaper amnn':u'nmlm o hotn mationa; and figutes to both Tocal advertieers. a op sale daily in_New "ll:t.lnnn Newsstand, Times Schults's Newsstands, Entrance tral, ¢30d Btreet. The He York st Square; Grand Ces —This is a workaday world. Some | men even got alarm clocks for Christmas presents. e — Peculiar sounds heard over the radio at this time are due to new owners of sets trying to get Mars. | G L T | —_That “neutral zone” in Nicara- | 2ua must be a place where automo- piles can enjoy unlimited parking. bt e L —The youths who borrow dad’s car without dad knowing it start out with one arm around Miss Trouble. S —_The Connecticut company has a new snow sweeper in the city which does everything but gobble up the snow beside the tracks. —_— —1¢ that nes snow loading ma- chine borrowed by the city is as efficient as its second cousin, the grand old parly steam roller, ~the clty ought to buy it. | e —Many holiday arrests in New Britain are due to bad liquor, it is said; from which one gets the im. pression there would be fewer ar- rests if the liquor were of a higher | quality. —people in Lisbon, Portugal, were horrified upon awakening Christ- yaas morning to discover a mantle of snow over the city. Some of them | bad never seen snow before. It must be grand to read about snow and never be compelled to shovel any of the beautiful from the side- ‘walks. | i —When the' postal savings banks were first established some bankers actually feared this species of “gov- 4 rnment competition.” The result merely has been to bring a little money out of hiding and into a safer place. The regular banks would not have recsived this money as de- posits anyway. Less than $50,000 is on deposit at the local post office, and it js money which otherwise would be kept under a loose flooring or in a bowl in the pantry. In the second place, Uncle Sam isn’t paying interest to threaten the | enough banks. LIQUOR ENFORCEM It is a regrettable situation indeed that has come about in home circles | during the last few hours, one that will have to be handled with a great deal of tolerance wherever a dis- cussion arises. The have so far appeared a i brother of the chairman of the| police board was ed of selling liquor of greater than the legal al- | coholic content and | task. The chairman of the hoard was | as they facts, mple; a | acc was taken to promptly removed from his post. He is a part owner of the place where the liquor was supposcd to have been purchased, although he stead- fastly maintains that he kn s of alcohol in )ns‘ v noth ing of any and alleges that there is a deal, store, “frame-up” behind the who him idea being to get rid of s he desires of the b position claims the chairman, wh he obtained a the powers that be. Where the complaint t that set motion the arm of the v originat «d none of us can know to a certain- ty. Mr. Pajews the matter ar i's speculs as good a better. According to Chief the not any of Police E or less an accident of arres t was more Toutt previous plans having Mr. ] against Paje se. He is certainly in a better tion to know, than anyor The action of the perhaps abrupt, could been othefwise than it was. 1 to remove the ehairman, particularly | if the charges aré proven The affair is truly a M searce He hi mess, one we wish had not happened for| ed. The result of the case hangs in the that the sake of all concern ulti- mate balance, | river, which would provide a motor | the { which would ke no mean job and | perhaps the most expensive kind un- | automobile, | country THE DILEMMA FACING | THE CHORAL SOCIETY While the directors of the New Britain Choral society are wondering what to do about a concert this year, calculating the probabilities of a deficit and how big it may be, and where the money to meet the deficit would come from, the city of Springfield, Mass., heard “The Mes- siah” presented the other day with- out great bother, worry or expense. It will be remembered that ‘“The Messiah” was the Choral society’s of- fering last year. Springtield merely got together enough singers from its church choirs, employed a dozen or so or- chestra musicians to supplement the organ in its auditorium, and gave the piece to the satisfaction of all. The organ supplied instrumental power, the small orchestra supplied color, rhythm and percussion effects. The same could be done in New Britain with any choral work selec- ted. This city harbors one of the larg est organs in New England. Add from twelve to twenty orchestra players to it and the background is | ready for the choral society. Need- less to say, the cost would be but a fraction of that incident to bringing here from a symphony orchestra Boston for the event. It that would be standards of the choral seems strange that, this standard is to the demands in “below the society"” it | fully equal Springtield. As a matter of fact, there is the possibility of putting a standard so high that it is impossibla to bring n enough money at the gate t¢ pay the cost, It would seem better to lower the standard somewhat, re- duce the cost of producing such events, give universal satistaction, | and at the same time have a sur- plus instead of a deficit. The matter of soloists is also im- portant. Some of these soloists brought from New York are no bet ter than soloists that can be pro- cured from a radius of 50 miles ot less, The choral society should not be forced to worry about finances. Its main function should be to present great choral works, to the pleasure and edification of that part of the population which will appreciate them. The right standard for this city is the standard it can pay for. A lower, yet satisfactory, standard is better than a mountain-high stand- ard that loses money. | | | | ST. LAWRENCE BRIDGE A bridge across the 8t. Lawrence | | route from Ottawa to Washington, | would be a handsome way to link up the two capitals and at the same time would further travel across the international border along the stretches of the stream. The bridge s only one of several of importance that have been pro- jected in various parts of the coun- try within recent years, and all stimulated by the desire of motorists for easy passage across natural barriers, A bridge that has long been planned but has never gotten past the initial stages of discussion is one across Lake Champlain. A large part of northern New England is virtually cut off from the state of New York by the lack of such trans- portation, and the development of this part of New England 13 hinder- ed as a consequence. In Maryland they are discussing advisability of constructing a bridge across the Chesapeake Bay— | | | | | | | At least, $10,00 it would The | der discussion. cost more than ,000. | idea, of course, is to bring the cast- | ern shore of that state into motor communication with Baltimore, from | which it is practically cut off except | for boat service, At Detroit they are an 1king about | international bric across the | Detroit river to Windsor, and even- | tually this will result, the traffic at| present depending on ferries being | out of alll proportion to the factlities. The desire for more bridges at~The Secret Dispatch,” vital points is due to the use of H\c{ Motorists find “ferry- ACTOSS stream slow and ex- e. The instant succcss of the r Mountain bridge across Peekskill css of other bridges y Hudson, north of well for the built urs | ) solely to accommodate army of motorists touring the every summer. FOOLING WITH COMMUNISM t as an “irri- hey are not strikes rned with labor activi- » communistic inventions. a thing as an “irri- It is not a strike | h as a labor union would employ | tempting to redress or settle a pute. but one called merely to| It sort “irritate” the employer is a tic inv of on 2 upon the status quo. adi furricrs in New The needles trades, ment workers and York city allowed a little inner circle | of communists to get control of ir unions, There was no noticeable rea- ittle could with the employ- son for any strikes; what chanes for dispute nd there was more than willing to | { to provide for 35,000 city lots, will | around the the | @ listen to reason. But the communists do not listen to reason; they do not believe in any such guileless procedure. They were bent upon “irritsting’ the employers and called strikes. It required months for the delud- ed workers to become disillusioned, Now it's the communists who are irritated, as the entire cabal has been thrown out of office by the in- dignant and irritated workers. It cost something to find the lay of the land. Perhaps it was worth something, however. It will mean that the New York communists in the future will have to go to Mos- cow to do their irritating. The folks who listened to these emissaries of red Russia at least learned their lesson. AN EAST RIVER C. The plan to make a canal out of the East river alongside New York, filling in enough of the present river probably commend itself to many who have wondered why there is a supposed need for such a wide ex- panse as the Fast river on one side | of Manhattan island, when lts port facilities are amply served by the Hudson, The value of 2,200 addition- al acres attached to Manhattan | island would more than pay for the cost. If the New Yorkers need in- struction on how to reclaim land they might send a delegation to Hol- land, where that particular specles | of activity has been practiced with success for gencrations. The time undoubtedly will come when Man- hattan will be separated from Long Island by & “mere canal” which would amply serve the purposes of a waterway. Originally the lower tip of Man- | hattan island was present Battery; miles of lowlands land were reclaimed far above the generations ago, but no reclamation scheme on a large scale has been at- tempted. Other cities having less need of land, have been more progressive in this respect. The entire back bay district in Boston originally was a morass and was systematically filled in. The work took many years. New Britain also has had some filling in. Originally there were sev- | eral creeks near the center of the city, with “lowlands nearby which | were swamps, They were filled in so long ago that no one remembers the time. We only read of it in the city's histories. THE AUTO MART H The fixing of eyes on the automo- | bile industry has come to be a na-| tional trait. It is no longer a case | of using the railroads and the steel industry as a barometer of trade; the automobiles are quite as handy for the purpose. The report went out a few ago that there are more than 2 000,000 cars in use—one to each five people in the United States. If any- thing happens to such an industry everybod$ will the results. Theme are automobile parts aplenty made in New Brifain, Bristol— Albert Shaw, in the Review of Re- views, has taken up the subject in | reasonable vein: “The tendency is strong for the prosperous companies in this industry to become more pros- perous and for the weaker con- cerns to drop out. The line of cleavage between the fit and the unfit is becoming more and more sharply defined. The Gen- eral Motors Corporation for in- stance, reported net earnings of more than $145,000,000 in the first nine months of this year and has announced that it will spend no less than $40,000,000 for additional plants. Yet there are fewer automobile makers than there were last year or the year before. In 1910 there were 40 different makers exhibiting at the National Automobile Show, and by 1913 there were a hun- dred. In 1922 there were still ninety, but this year only 52, with the probability that there will be fewer still in 1927." 25 Years Ago Today Tonight at the Russwin Lyceum the big melodramatic novelty, by David | Higgins. | Frank 8. Cadwell of the post of- fice is moving into his new house in Lenox place today The German Rifle club will hold 1 meeting Monday ening Vogelges: 's barber shop. Health Officer J. N, Bull of Plain- w called out last night to of what was believed It proved to be chicken-pox. | r compelling vaceina- tion will be ued in Plainville, Dr. Bull urges parents to have their children vaccinated. There a DR gainst the pr bt companies u days | 2 feel | | | ville was ook at a casc to be the smallpox. only harmless While no ord: udice 1S aj refusing vaccinated i signment of 1 will hold his Beloin tomor- Beloin the Church ntly it injury to his ing business ant, re- rec 1 to pre ants generally their holiday trade this year ing the best they have ever had, de- pite the th much business, probably more than eve went to Hartford, ted himself report as he- r befor Ona at one ning of gr ing 1 of with on the 8 T rolls énbacks it b before. to he a bi will Britain aver saen here, money ta e day New Bri- alr T one for town year busy politically | per, merchant! There will be three elections, one for city officers in April, one for town officers in October, and the state election in November. The Herald newsboys are looking forward to their annual Christmas dinper. They wiH attend the play, “Quincy Adams Sawyer,” at the Lyceum and then march to the Ho- tel Beloin, Here they will be served with turkey and fixings and coffee and cake and ple. Oranges and cap- dy will be distributed. About 12§ boys will be on the list. FactsandFancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN Ancient: Court fools. Modern: Fool the courts. Definition of a conservative by a conservative: preservation. And so Paris seems less naughty to Americans? Well, it's because America no longer affords much contrast. As to the great migrations, per- haps the fit were trying to get away from poor relations. No man has a right to be a guest until he can be entertaining enough to earn his keep. Habit is everything, and now America. can keep right on reading and forget the radio is going. A man isn't really getting old un- til cold weather seems @& personal affront. The most astonishing thing about evolution is the long way it has vet to go. . Dawes failed to shorten dobalr.‘ | but the Benate has new ventilators- to eliminate hot air. Americanism: Mother absorbing culture and trying to make old dad take it seriousl Now that Mr. Landis has an in- crease of pi we trust he'll look ' just that much wiser next season. many “leaders” are consti- ncapable of thinking be- Too tutionally | neath the level of a clean shirt every day. The European nuts being barred, however, are not the kind for which | America is celebrated. The tough and hardy sex is the one that gets cold, despite wool rom the overcoat down. Note to amateurs: The only rea- son magazine editors don't buy bet- ter stuff from new writers i3 be- cause they don’t get any. n't hope to come | Warning. You c clear, however, if you steal little | things from the government. “Movie producers to invade legitl mate stage.” Doubtless somebody will shout from the wings: “Came the dawn.” History leaves out the interesting | details, Did Methuselah keep his| tonsils all that time? | Correct this sentenc ! with him six times,” nd he hasn't cigarctte or a drink.” Copyright 19267, Syndi offered me a Publishers te Observation On The Weather Washington, Dec. 28.—Forecast for Southern New England: Snow, changing to rain tonight and prob- ably Wednesday morning. (Warmer tonight; colder Wednesday in Con- necticut and western Massachu- Strong east winds, st for Kastern New York: Rain tonight and probably Wednes- day morning; warmer tonight in st and central portion. Colder Anesday; strong east winds. Conditions: A disturbance cen- tral over Louisiana is causing heavy rains in the lower Mississippi valley. W Another disturbance central over the | lake region 1s causing cloudy weather with rain or snow in the northern and eastern districts. An sa of high pressure central over with low temperatures from the Facific coast eastward to the DMis- sissippl river. The temperature is rising in the lake region and New England. Conditions favor for this vieinity cloudy and rainy weather with ris- ing temperature. Legal Demand Made for Goodyear Tire Hearing Cincinnatl, Ohio, Dec. 8 (P\—Peti- tion for a writ of mandamus re- quiring United States District Judge John M. Killits to agree to the as- hother judge to hear for control of tife and . Rubber com- the litigatio Goodyear Tire pany, cuit court of appeals here yesterday | by Russcll L. Robibnson. The original action was brought in Toledo by H. G. Benedict against . H. Seiberling, Mr. Robinson and others, to restrain them from act- in7 as voting trustees of the com- mon_ stock. fidavit of disqualification there recently ch » Killits with having bias ani against certain of the de- Judge Killits dismissed and refused to relinquish prejudice nda ler th> bench, Cosmetics are for women of IEsthonia. to the | A general in the army was filed in United States cir-| ing| Scnd all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care 0of the New | Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. e e s ——— ‘Which Class Are You In Men? The man who drew the Christinas ties Will now exchange 'em,if he’s wise, For others he can re: ar! Lots would like to—some don't dare! An Old-Fashioned Baby Nurse: “It's a girl!” New Father: “Then what's the idea of putting such a long dress on it?" ~—Wesley R. Devos. | THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Home Economics A bounding, surging stream of bills! The pocketbook can't check it! By June you'll have your credi And then vacation time will wreck it! b “ .0 Foreign Mussolini's private barber has shaved him for four years and has never ked to him in all that time. Wonder how he found out in the first place Whether the Duce wanted lilac or witch hazel! . Congress When congress meets, and memhers spout, The hours ‘seem to lengthen out. Well, that's because (we under- stand) Hot air makes everything expand! « s Physiological The actual rest taken by the body during the night is a little over 11 minutes, according to a professor at Mellon University. Which just goes much a college about raising children . v s Thow knows to show professor Hockey Shoppe The winter sports a: vogue; The experts deem them very nice. Through practice, every married man | Is good at skating on thin ice! now the | | | | The Girl Friend They were sitting at the dinner- | table. | Chicken was being served. Will you give me a piece of chicken, please2” asked a sweet young blonde, the kind that gentle- men prefer. k2" he asked. Sometimes, when it's dark and T've got a nice fellow with me.” —Margaret L. Burkhardt A Fun Shop Movie (In Thpee Reels) By Jerry Rosenberg Reel One (Scene: The lobby of an old-fash- ioned hotel in a very small town. It is very late at night and Morris Goldsteen enters wearily. He ad- dresses the clerk.) Morris: “I vant you should give it to me a room witt no bath witt bed.” Clerk: “Sorry, Every room in the house taken. Morrig: “Yi, vi, vi! On de street 1 must sleep, witt gutters witt doorsteps, yet!" Clerk: “We could let you have a cot in @ room that's already taken. has the| room, and he'll sleep late. If you get up early, he'll never know the difference.” Morris: “Before daylight I get up. De five o'clock train I must catch vet. So it's all right. He vouldn't know de difference,” Reel Two (Morris 1s walking down the street. He is wearing the general's costume which, in the darkness, he has donned by mistake. The passers- by salute him respectifully.) Morris: “Tsaluting witt ‘Hollo General’ it giffs! It must have told dem dot clerk wot I sleep in the same room mitt de gencral!” Reel Three (Wash room in the railroad sta- Merris has just entered.) “Is somet'ing funny! How body know I sleep witt ? Nu, I'll look vunce in | | tion. | Morrl | vould ev | de gener de mirror witt de lookink-gla | (He looks into the mirror and sees that he has on the general's uni- | form.) Morris: Y1, y1, ¥i! Dot clerk, dot dope! 1 told him he shall vake me up at 4 I Hem, und he voke de general by mistake!” | | ‘WILL YUH REScue || ME FROM ME. HATED] | | Utah is producing pleasant weather | SURE! ALL YUH GOTTA DO IS JUMP AN' LAN ON TH' HOSS RIGHT BEHIND ME, LIKE THEY DO IN TH | Dusty SING SING! | (As found in The Fun i actory) “Can you sing ‘Alwa | “Any ftime, lady, but | 'm drunk.” Shop best when —I. T. F. | (And as played by other I'un Sh | « o e contributors) — Distance Lends Enchantment Joke | Bambo: “Bure I kin."” Jemima; “Then I wish you would; 1 don't like to heat that noise in the house.’ ~Mrs. Carl D, Murfins P She Misunderstood Mrs. Robinson: “I had a very en- joyable evening:last week. I went up with Mra, Browne to hear that singing Scotchman—" Mrs, Fuller (interrupting) “Laud- er?” Mrs. Robinson: “Oh, excuse me; T didn’t notice *hlt I was talking low.” —Beth Risser . e e No Amateur Mrs. Cole: “You say, Nora, that your beau is a ainger and knows lota of song: Nora: “Yis, mum.” Mrs. Cole: “Can he sing and Low'?' Nora: No, mum; he sings rough and loud.” ‘Bweet —Mrs. G. F. Gilkey (Copyright, 1926. Reproduction Forbidden) _QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answ.r to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medleal, legal and marital advice cannot be glven, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply, Un. signed requests cannot be anawered. All letters are confidential.—Editer, Q. What are the pygmie races and where do they live? A. Pygmies are distributed over a wide area. The largest groups are found in the Philippines. They are alsa found in the Andaman Is- lands in the Bay of Bengal; New Guinea; the Interior of the Malay Peninsula and in the Congo reglons of Afric: With few exceptions they are similar in characterietics, The smallest are in Africa, The men there are seldom more than 41 feet tall and the women only 31 feet. Q. How does the Yangtze Kiang river in China compare with other great rivers in the worlg A, It is about 3,000 milea long and is therefore exceeded in lenmth by the Mississippi-Missouri, the Amazon, the Nile and one or two others. In volume it probably ranks third, after the Amazon and the Congo. From the standpoint of commercial navigation the Yangtze has a greater volume than any other river. It drains an area of 770,000 square miles, equal to 1-3 the totatl area of the United States and the population of the basin is approxi- mately 175,000,000, about one-tenth of the total population of the earth. Q. What is the annual consump- tion of wood in the United States? A. About twenty-two and a half billion cubic feet, which {is two- fifths of all the wood used annually in the world. Nearly one-half of all the world's consumption of saw- log timber and about one-third of the world’s fuel wood are used in this country. Q. Can you glve me short esketches of the presidential candi- dates in the 1924 election and of thelr wives? A. Biographies of Coolidge, Davis and La Follette can be found in any good encyclopedia. ‘' The Washing- ton Burecau has a bulletin contain- ing short sketches of them and their wives that can be obtained on request to the Bureau for five cents. Q. Where aro the oldest salt mines in the world? A. The Wieliczka mines In Ga- lacia are the oldest. Virtually they constitute an underground city with | Black gunpowder, however, 1s said monuments, houses, churohes, res- taurants, and railroad stations—sil carved out of solid rock salt. Even the massive artistically patterned chandellers in numerous chapels and ballrooms, are salt. ~There are subterrancan rivers and lakes, Que of the 16 lakes is naviguble and a boat is provided which visitars may hire. The mines have been in operation since tha 13th century and a depth of 13,000 feet hAa been reached. Q. Is the portrait of President Coolidge on any United States coin: A, Fitty-cent pleces and 3$2.5 gold pieces bearing his portrait were issued by the Treasury for the Ses- quicentennial Exposition. Q* Who invented gunpowder? A. The origin 8t gunpowder is involved in conalderable uncertainty, but it ia believed that the mixture and its characteristic properties have long been known, even before its use to propel a .projectile from some form of artillery. There is evidence that the recipe for Making gunpowder was in the hands of some of the alchemists of the 13th century, and, on the atrength of paa- aages in the works of Roger Bacon, he is often spoken of as ita inventar. The discovery of gunpowder is also assigned to Berthold Bchwartx, by whom it was mentioned in 1328, to have been used by ¢he Chinese several centuries before it became known in Europe. It is probable that it was known in the seventh century. Q. Are children born of common law marriage legitimate? A. In states where common law marriage is recognized children born of such unions are legitimate. Q. Who wrote these lines: “Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling lNmbs have + bornme him to your deer, - ‘Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; O give relief, and will bleas your store,” A. The verse is in “The Beggar’ by Thomas Moss. Q. What does the abbreviation “88” on legal documents mean? A. It means ‘“scilicet” and Aranslated by “to wit” in its sense “to know." Q. How should club sandwiches be eaten? A, With a knife and fork. Q Is the comma always em- ployed to set off such words as how- | over, nevertheless, moreover, ete., in the middle of a sentence? A. Yes. Q. How many universities and colleges are there in the United States? A. According to Bureau of Fdu- cation statistics for 1924 there were ! 918. Q. What is the Mexico and what Roman Catholics? A. The population is 14,334,799, of which abqut 80 per cent are Roman Catholic adheronts Q. Where is Belmullet ? A. It is a town In county Mayo, Ireland, oh Blacksod Bay, 32 miles weat of Ballina, The population is about 750. Half Million Is Given Zoological Society New York, Dee. 28 (P—The New York Zoological soeiety had an ad- Qitional half million dollars in its| treasury today as a result of a gift { Heaven is | old | | | | population of proportion are tin, A YEAR OF HOROSCOPES, dominant covaring YOUR birthday will be found send for the bulletin: i ASTROLOGY EDITOR, W: 1322 New York Avenus ington B 1 want the bulletin, five cents in looge, uncancelled, U, & ‘.\'Al(! R D P T b STREET AND NUMBER ... CITY I am a reader of the Herald, 65 miles of galleries, traversed by more than 30 miles of railroads, and FEELS THAT WATH ALL. THEIR NEW TOY5 THE CHILDREN CAN AMUSE THEMSELVES NOW AND E'LL HAVE A LTTLE. IME OF Hi5 OWN | | i JUNIOR COMES BACK TO DISAPPEARED, WILL HE COME HELP FIND THEM? | Jemima: “Can you sing ‘Down in the Cornfield JUNIOR \MMEDIATELY AP~ PEARS TOASK CAN HETIX MARJORIE WHO WANT RIS TOV AUTO TOR HIM,IT TO KNOW HOW TO PlAY WONT WIND UP ANY MORE THEIR NEW 6AME :» | thia law, which has TOLOWED BY SALLY AND by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Mr. Rockefeler gave the organi- ztion a ike amount last year and promised to duplicate his gift if the soclety ralsed $1,000,000 more. His pledge was matched as a result of a one million dollar bequest from the late Anna M, Harkness, CHIGAGD SHERIFE TAKES BIG TASK Guarantees fo Clean Ouf “Hell- Holes” in Country rr— Chicago, Deo. 28 (A—Charles E. Graydon became sheriff of Cook county today with the promise that it there are any ‘“hellholes” in hiy jurisdiction, as some members of the county board that elected him think, he would rout them out, “I have been reliably informed," sald William Busege, a board mem- ber, as he voted far a successor to Peter M. Hoffman, who resigned be- cauge he sald the prohibition act could not be enforced here, “that Mr. Graydon has pledged himself to clean up the ‘hellholes’ of the county townss Therefore I vote ‘aye’ Anton Cermak, board president, remarked that he had not knewn there were any, and the retiring sherift interpolated the remark that if Commissioner Busse knew of such places, it was his duty to report them. The new sheriff, asked about the Busse statement, said: “I den't know just what he meant, but if there are such places in Cook county, we'll try to find them."” Sheriff Graydon's term will extend until the next county election, which will be in June. Hoffman, who has held political | office in Cook county since 1898, re- cently was acquitted of charges of | consplracy to defeat justice, after he had served thirty days in jail for contempt of court in connection with charges that he had allowed undue liberties to two heer runpers. In a formal statement, Hoffman asaserted that for four years “in the fac. of overwhelming difficulti he had striven to enforce the prohi- bition law, Qut that “the odds have been too gret.” In assailing the statute he said that as a private citizen he would “join the large number of courag- eous men and women who have or. ganjzed to bring about a change in been forced upon an unorganized majority by a selfish and misguided, but organiz- ed minority." Hoffman's regular term already hal expired, but he continued in the office because of the death of P, J. Carr, the democratic sheriff- elect. THE NAVY OR JAIL Atlantic City, N. 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