New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1926, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DE may be something to be happy New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY about, but the true philosopher, who looks at the advance of the calendar with whimsical eyc would give much If the pages could b~ turned Isaued D (Sunday Excepted) At Heraid Bldg. €7 Church Btreet. | backwards ins‘ead of forwards, It resolutions, ce haired glass with | is an opportunity for good ainly; but the white- SUBSCRIPTIOK RATES 38.00 & Year. $1.00 Three Months. 75c. a Month, g 1ing the ntieman h trembling s could | that the finge tell any inquirer g0 lutions of 1926 have been ground to Eatered at the Post Office at New Britain | dust. Most of them lay broken ir as Second Class Mafl Matter, : | highways the first fc s of the | year and e bheen e v trod- n under foot ever since. Naturally, | TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office 925 Editortal Roome 926 expects very little more of good i une in connection with the reso- | A T lutions ¢ simist The only profitable advertising medium haps. How cou In the City. Cliculation booke and prems | . . room miways open to advertisers. b be- ruitful ginning of a new ¢ imism, . re- time for a The Associated Prese spec titled to the use for re-publication of all news credited to ft or not otherwise credited fm this paper and slso local news published therefn. gardloss as to whe is entirely ustificd when cptimism though little b the it ore Member Audit Burean ot Circulation. The A. B. C. is a natlonal organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with a strictly honest analysls of circulation. Our circulation etatistice are based upon this audit. This ineures | protection againr: fraud in newspaper | distribution figu.es to both national end | local advertisers. | aid in ¥ Art 1 ar maturity 1 shadows; s0 has life 1 living is to utilize emphasize the ight. shadows eral sc 1s on sale daily in_ New it more r Newsetand, Tlmes Entrance The Herald York at Hotaling’s Bquare; Schultz's Newsstands, Grand Central, 42nd Street. —_— Here's to the little May 1d it fulfill all promises, all hopes, us the ights of iv- | | i vie 8! happy —Careless walking on the ice at be a r than any that| midnight will enable one to slip into [ yave ever gone ihe new year with a broken leg. |ppiy with i -_ from pectations, . | | —One thing the municipal Christ- [ wijp ey ailit bas toll It mas tree does is to glority the place na where the Connecticut company ca give wi forbearance; | never forge perfection is | e any one year, bu ach recur- dds, a lit- | turns out we It everything the fifth year with | ring flip of the than | o usual. | begin the ne resolutions ward will to the distance traveled toward more universal goal. MELLON THE the new DOCTOR Me —The mayor one enormous | e in advantage over the rest of us. W cold it EeIS| ;0 pig ann And unfortunate- | n | shines under a mak- | W sir he is laid with a front page space. Iy, that doesn’t help to cure it. i meeme t the of poisons in alcohol is to be forbid- | den. According to his latest pro- | winter | nunciamento and no | - harmful effects are to b but in | | What derstand, however, is t fourth the spring | G 8 | | paragraph in yesterday's news re- the poisonous bha cannot —The worst of the doubt will be 14 spite of that we ought to try our| Lest to be happy until autoing starts. rred. due in we profess w un- | | port, which was as follows: | —Herald carrier boy need no! special instructions on how Anyone doubting t he four ilcohol provided mula will ren Mr. Mellon t pereentage injt old wood of the however, cent wood in to cat| per for for- turkey. r skill | need only to call at Turner hall to- in, not t 1 s dor ink morrow afternoon and see how it's | rious 2 ormu nt of done. i —It will be a big time tonight for some of the population most vl what What ivory-c but it this is t h new drinks is true—the is just as certain that folks will go to bed as usual and refuse to be disturbed by midnight whistles or roistering. The latter are fellows who will walk down Main street tomorrow feeling like a mil- The will feel cents, al for the wood holic content is doubled. That being the case, the rest is camou- flage. Is this preventing hard liquor from becoraing more poisonous than | Mel- | the | it used to be? According to Mr. lion dollars. others like thirty is a very poor W which after all,|1on's materia medica, twice {0 begin the new | AMount of poison makes liquor no more dangerous before., Perh han year. that prohibition expert —Annie Oakley and her husband, | was righ both of died were | r among the most modest show people. They wore no diariond |t} They when he asseverated the recently, S0 many innocent drinkers whom of retired | died from recent hooze was because drank too fast and too much rings and no fancy garments. of it pleasant, helpful all = lives led Hollywood think | SHOWDOWN NEAR IN MEXICAN in spite DISPUTE. rifle| The * as arrived in | the to and were their to they never saved Annie’s great reputation When they died they Not as a i Jeft an | the dispute < Mexico over estate of $500,000. our highflying film one out of | rights of oil companics to have and thousand of 10 hold all they say they own in that leave than a St Tis n den n deny- stars will And more of patronizir T o life conpl never departure were a thought a not divores courts. show st does necessarily iting has been and 3 threats to revoke spell ruination WISHING NOT OF A GOOD YO MUCH THING is customary an ind epoch to by in wisher. “Happy Year” countless is on epistl mails with was m: bearit amount of they prevent over b b no harm in pet a happy. f the well-wis of this department oy and hapy flection in the ever, we realize fu not going to i and joys, mixed with disappointment, achicver in 1 in millenium satistaction, v Ny morc We reached it was attained 1926, wil year older jerlence—good that mueh, and t Ly great divide. The year and the beginning of a new one | Britishers passing of an old Me Lad invested $00 millions | | Art | being ret | promulgated on February | and dollars on the basis of these th 191 sting constitution,” Article hich it is stated that, regard- land, the th the of laws, arranza government on adopted “the e Mexican in 7 of loss of the ownership of cil and mineral deposits ben surface belong to the nation. This radical departure from the previous Mexican policy and imme- diately r: le ed the question whether was to be interpreted as Several Americ had courts. wetive, n oil companies immediately re. course to the Mexican s whils « zovernment mean- situation by taxes on petroleum arranza wated the imposing heavy nd on contracts and royaltie ed f nd explorations. s 3 ind exa license fees for new This was 10, 1918. American oil companies were suc- 1 the the Mexican Supreme Court holding in 1 rights arill cosst in Mexican courts, subsequent deciston that le oi companies prior upheld by the (uired by to May 1, 1917, were In September, 1922, President Ob- regon clarificd the sitnation by de- | aring that Article 27 was non-ret- roactive. On the basis of this dec- commission composed of nd and convened May 14, 1923, to into all questions in dispute between laration Mexi a Americans in vo NS two 1 on appo fexico City g0 two countries. The commission August 15 that by which time all the differences be- the sat until of year, tween the two governments had been satisfactorily cleared up. As a con- sequence the Mexican government recog- on Au- President Obregon wi the United 1923 under nized by St did mot entirely satisfy foreign tions, however, who maintained that attitude of the Mex- evidenced by corpor ican government Article 27 was “ultimately confisca- New ituted between the Mexicon gov tor: negotiations were then crnment and the foreign corpora- tions themselves, who called them- Association of Producers The department announced on October , 1924, that ment had finally been reached with sclves the of Mexico. Mexican treasury an amicable agree- the A term a more radical era set in with ociation of I’roducers. new and what the companies the inauguration of President Calles 24, culminating in and on December 1, 1 the promulgation of the land petrolenm laws to which the United through Kellogg. The er’s note of warning June, States is taking exception ary of State in le created unfavora tended im- ~ssion in Mexico and to the make Pr increasing firm- face of Secretary Kel- solidify intention to ws more stringent. Find has shown th logg's prote: in The last step was promulgation of the new land laws, the final the petroleum and step will be the issuance of regula- tions for their interpretation and The character of these regulations will be the key to the situation as it finally eventuates. A lax enforcement might form a loop- cnforcement. | hole; but such laxity s not expected <0 long as Calles remains president. The attitude of the present Mexi- can government is to retain as much of Mexico for the Mexicans as pos- sible.dt that all made their investments in good faith and I is said to be those probable companies which ve honestly developed sources will continue to be protected | by t Mexican government. Only zhout half the billion dollars invest- by Americans is affected by the On the other hand, all cases of titles, and where tracts of d government ive nd Mexic wers securs what the by n regards as doubtful methods, will probably bLe tions. The policy of the govern- 50 to curb the granting of r concessions to foreigners ex- on stringent terms, mea Mexico of coce at of the present day is not The Mexico have been developing Mexico of a past strong national consciousness sinee The 1 the overthrow of Diaz. years of , Huerta, Carranza, Obre- which still existed to a nt have given way to 1t growth. is th 1lles gover 3] natior s lism whi relations with pefroleum law was Mexiean senate on 5, and pre d in e, TtN s 25 }’ears; Agé i'oday Turnbull new gram- wood cornices, Tnspector th was 1y that hool contair he regula 1th coneealed by but it ot glit this will satisfy the require- ments, Investigation dis fac partially v ar heavy copper gut is n the | their re- | affected by the new regu- | peace | ¢ld captured a fine el and perch at Cres- rgest perch weigh- Howard La | string of picke cent Lake. The cd 1% pounds. ev. 8. G. Butcher has sent a neatly carved cocoanut in the shape of a human head to S H. Wood. It was placed in Mr. Wood's win- dow, where it attracted the atten- tion of a lady who owns a similar curiosity, but more skilfully carved, land she had it also placed in Mr. | Wood's window. [ f Rawlings has changed the poiles beats. Officer Bamforth will patrol Beaver street and vicinity, Officer Lampher FEast Main street and vicinity, and Officer Hellberg | Park and Church streets and viein- { ity. | ‘The liam H | announced. resignation of Lieutenant Wil- Scheuy from Co. E has been | ing of the books, Lieutenant Scheuy | | being a member of the auditing | committee which refused to wign | {the books; another committee was | appointed and was not allowed to {report. It intimated that other resignations will be forthcoming. The Y. M. C. A. debating club will meet tomorrow night and de- bate on “Resolved, the representa- { tion in the lower house should 'e { proportioned to the populations of |towns instead of as at present. am Geary and C. W. Stevens will speak for the affirmative and W. Christ and F. Fall for the nega- ‘(I\l'. W. E. Belcher will act chairman of the meeting and P. ng as secretal is Factsand Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN | | { i Most accidents preventable? Well, | possibly if you hegin with the hone- | kead's grandfather. | Parming isn't the only occupation in which over-production cheapens the product. There's law-making. | Nothing worth while is casily ab- ained. If the cork comes out casi- ly, the label is a liar. Movie marriages we never can tell whether a new | one is a marriage or a swop. | L In a primitive state the young left | home early, but they didn’t come back at 2 a. m. ; get =0 tangled | “Talking over the heads of the people” means no more than an in- ability to talk clearly. In these moonshine days there is singular exactitude in the sayin “I'll try anything, onc | Yoursisn't a hick town if you can | use good FEnglish without seeming | to show off. | The thing th courage a taste i s i8 credit. does most to en- for finer and better Americanism: Boobs, trying to Lide the fact, cheering for a critic who ridicules boobs. Government tries hard to make alcohol too vile to drink, and ama- teurs achieve it without trying. Humilify isn't much of a virtue if you cultivate it because you are afraid to fight. e were great leaders in the because they had ideas to ad of cash to pay for The old days ch elections, Among the achievements that the most anxious though right beginning is a mustache. cause | at the Canada and Mexico teach us that | and | | America can't exist half wet | half dry. The way thos: 15 shoot one | another to get u'd pink they were Christian nations. e gangst monopoly, mith-McAdoo breach.” That [little line between the names prob- | ably represents the one established | | by Mason and Dixon. Messrs, no an- have | nds. Affection endures. The allies { fonger have their hands on one ot shoulders, but they their eyes on one another's When a man nd pondered 1 neighhors changes, e wheel doubtless much learning has made unhappy.” 1937 | Nothing ented it over said: him Copyrigh Publishers Qbservation On The Weather W 3 t for Southern New I followed by rain tonlg nd: Cloudy, ind possibly morning; slightly colder | to strong southwest ! winds New Foreci « Saturda Saturday; fresh ifting to northwes For or I York por- in ex- rast rmn south ht [ in cold tion to r treme portion; ¥ portly and slightly colde fresl strong north winds, ciondy possibly shifting to | northwes: Conditions The is movin now centr western dis. turbanc castwird It is causing consi nscttled weather in th but not much precipita The ar » | the slowly I over Ontario, and region i wile cloudy ! high ssure ar Rocky v changed | | 24 rising continues mountains has | hours. in the eastern districts i cold in the ind jets. is western | H southern a were Wy south ported a litions impa | ron or for this vicinity | partly cloudy weather with rising (emperature I so Send all communications to Fun | | Shop Editor. care of Britain Herald, will be forwarded to New York. Harrison: “The coming ye: He is going to be Cummings: “How do that ov 1t ? and your the New | “RING OUT WILD BELI Ring out our cares and worries Each fidget and each fret, Proved 1t is believed to be (l\h\‘ Ring in a year of cheerfulness, [ to the recent trouble over the audit- | THE FUN SHOP'S be! peculiar one.” you Harrison: “Why, only will belong to it.” Cummings: Har Lent.” on o “Six fow of mal 46 weel is that?" them will —Mother R. THE VACANT CHAIR v Wallace I dreamed last night that 1 w. {Ahd up in Heaven. M. ayl s That I, too, was surprised at tha | However, Would Of wha "Twoul In So Of hin lett 1 saw The i et's g t my write it 1 d m Wor et back | I saw stupendous sight on fechle 1 pe o bat.) ht; ‘n w and what 1 heard; ke me famous, 'pon my [at the fifth ward meeting were not placed; 1 for made. ther that whom that | Upon the side of each irs letter | ks be s dead (Be it said could |the | "They took me up some golden stairs { Into a mighty room where cl Of gold and precious stones were was traced, 1 that seemed as of flame, 1 who saw could read, the name i was one for Oriean’s Maid; One there for Cacsar; one world's gre t names were for Pau | Right in the center of the lot, > finest chair in choicest pot 1 in Was without name. “That's queer,” “Pray Ie grimly smiled and said, contribution him who first will keep a New Hea For I cri wh Guid H o is V'S that reserved for, resolution!” ow It Will Be Tennings: “T expect to my girl in the parlor and see the old ye I there? Jenn about out. r o Little That Uk ings he'll come sit wit dow “That's h “Will your girl's father be n three hours later and see me 1 e Al ni Dark Side ife Co ughlin. , aged three, was lock- ed in the pantry the other day for punishment. gnt or mother said: “Alice. T had two pies in the pantry there’s only this morning, cn “Well,” darl k in other onc an answe ther d 1 now Alice, didn’t it was see the —Agnes Robinson. N-TUL-ME | Dear Mr. Judell: UL-MEN! 1 laid my cheek against her gold- en h and Tt w Whe watch. Groping alligators THA Dear \ Mrs. I sat a di ahont bridge ducing Ther movies Su (As Ti sat thus, in while T told her of my plans for a with rambler roses as n 1 It by ) A Har next nner., | little Lmngalow built-in a got wasn't the e and there! ironing board wonderful home | | dressing for bed, T went to wind my ning. W why I prefer brunettes Milton Babcock T rmon her children, playing, her dog. and her re- | mes 1 she she ring WIT 1E | sur B brunette, moonlight, to her the other night She chatted charmingl her maid, her told me the plot of three had seen, erocodiles! Henry H UN (s why T prefer blonde I DENTISTS oP found one) lways Joke cel Irawing I nervou room."” denti 15 st (and what THIZ FUN SHOP con- sout them) tributors 1 The third caretu exclair nt \ nto toot) Ny i ned: we t h nd th ist to say 1 just extr then, e “I think sir, T have of the inflamation.” groaned the man baseball chai “threa tro out uble was nd a the looking patient’s aschall T'an cted ) 1 mouth, | found the hase hases full, lowly | eritical situation indced! . Pitzer, and it is all full o!l in the | business fan, A CEMBER 31, 1926. —THE 0B Wiseacres in the political field are withholding judgment on the effect |of the dismissal of Peter Pajewski jas chairmian of the police commis- |sion and the consequent upheaval in the fifth ward. An off-the-cuff opinion would be that the repub- lican party has received a wound in ‘la vital part of its anatomy but the [time which will clapse between now |and the next election is so long that lit will be possible for the breach to be healed by good generalship. It is a fact that if election were held |tomorrow the republican candidates in the fifth ward might find the go- * 1927 [ing rough but much water will flow {over the dam before 1928 when a ‘mayor is to be elected and what will happen then is problematical. At a meeting of fifth ward repub- {lican voters Wednesday night, lead- |ers emphasized the point that any- {thing which was said was not di- [rected at the republican party but at |the executive head of the city gov- lernment. !a grain of salt. Human nature is so |constituted that it is probable the republican party has lost a large Inumber of supporters in the past |week in the disaffected district. | Democrats have been hoping that ex-Mayor Paonessa would re-enter | political field in the spring of 1928 as a candidate for the highest loffice in the city. But developments | favorable, Paonessa as well as Weld |being rebuked. There was little com- !fort in the mecting for the demo- crats. True, the protest against e | Mayor Paonessa ntering the dis- ipute over Pajewski's removal was engineered by friends of Pajewskl, !\ho have been sharpening their |knives for Paonessa ever since be- fore last election day. An attempt was made to organize a drive against Paonessa prior to the last election |but it had very little effect on the result and failed to hearten Pajew- {ski's friends. | The political situation is more ‘mnnltflml than ever and months must pass before it is clarified. Tn case you are too busy thinking | about your parties tonight to realize I the fact, let us remind you that to- | morrow will be the first day of 1927. { Tt will be greeted in many ways. One religious sect claims that the proper wa knees; we think many will go even further than this and be found at midnight flat on their backs. But the fact remains that promptly on the stroke of 12 the new year begins and custom indicates that one shall wish it to be a happy one. Tt is rather flat to say merely, “Happy New Year” to cach and every person you meet | as you stagger home. You should | have a separate greeting for each, | one appropriate to the person. If you | | want a stock of these, just tune out the static from the surrounding | columns and listen in on these sug- gestions. When you meet a person ;ov any particular trade just hand I him one of the following wishes: | Physicians, “More sicknes: Lawyers, “More trouble.” | Athletes, “Bigser alibis.” Bootlegger: resulting greater advertisin Lawmakers, “More sense.” Motorists, “More accurate finders for use in hitting trians. Tedestrians, “Better luck.” Aldermen, “Fewer brothers.” Drug store cowboys, “Shorter skirts."” Flappers, “More defective autos.” Ministers, “Larger headlines.” Undertakers, “More gunmen.” Bducators, “More theories.” Hold-up men, “Just as few police.” Us, “More inspiration. and Dbetter More raids and the range- pedes- During the past year the Observer has received by mail a conglomera- ion of merchandise for which he has no use. So he is in complete sympathy with the plaint of a friend who unloaded the following: “I am just an average man. usually pay my bills. T buy my mer- chandise from my home town mer- { chant, or when I do go out of town, |T 80 to establishments with which {1 am more or less familiar. I even been known to buy from stan- | dard mail order houses, once or twice, and the five and 10 cent store is not altogether unfamiliar grouhd 1o me. | “But 1 object, in as strong and {most emphatic and vehement terms | my poor feeble brain can think oft— | T refuse to have any fly-by-night, or | tly-by-day firm saddle onto me any merchandise T don’t want, never or- {dered and have no use for. “I refuse to make myself a dump for someone’s rubbish, a committee on censorship for goods even though | they mignt have the desired quality, lor the messenger Loy or private salesman for some firm 1 nev heard of. “I have had handkerchiefs, neck ties, cheap jewelry, hosiery, cushion covers and what nots ranging all the way from Jiver pills to jink polish for Polynesian diploducuses deliver- ed to my house by the mail man. In the envelopes T find a letter asking me to please send check, or if T do not want the goods, kindly return )i I | e Better Financially “Thompson, the dentist, to his dental parlor as a Robert refers ctory | drawing-room.” Fred more v him."” oIt sth e drew less corks and it would bLe better for —Susan Markell P Where It Was | Patrick O'Neill has been a janitor all his lifc One day a large wisdom tooth in his upper gum bothered him con- siderably. He was finally urged to £0 to a dentist Arriving at the office, he was seated in a chair and told to open his mouth, “Where is the tooth you?" asked the dentist. The poor janitor, thoughts of his still clinging to him, re- Top floor, rear.” Anthony Smith. (Copyright, 1926, Reproduction Forhidden) that aches plied: Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People This may be taken with | to begin the new year is on the | 1 1! SERVER— them to the post office. I find samples of shirt goods, shoe polish, bristles for brushes, corn cures, nerxe tonics, paint, writing paper, chewing gum and everything from concrete building blocks to samples of anthracite coal dumped on my doorstep with the same message en- closed. “I don’t want them. I didn't order them. I won't have them. I don't need pink pills; my liver is all right; I don’t chew gum, I have a regular bootblack to shine my shoes and I'm not in the market for wallpaper. Neither will T waste my time un- tying and tying bundles, changing addresses and attaching new stamps or carrying packages to the post office. “On my desk I have a dozen handkerchiefs sent me by some kind | firm which has thoughtfully attach- {ed thereto my initials in nice gold | and blue letters. In the envelope was |a label with a return address and ! three cents in stamps. The label and | stamps remain inside the envelope. The envelope rests on my desk. \ “It will remain there indefinitel { until some one calls for it. I will not address another unsolicited package. I will not attach another stamp to ! la package I never ordered. If an! | agent calls at the house when I am | home, and proves his identity and | satisfies me as to his authority 1| will hand him his package with a | vote of thanks for taking it away. 1f | he does not call, all the form letters | | ever turncd out on a job printing | | press will not budge me the tradi- | tional iota of an atom from my present stand. When this deluge ceases, as hope it will, there is another nu ance which T wish would stop. T wish the guy who is bombarding me with placards, and glaring handbllls, and printed postcards of new fur coats and the latest styles in balloon or collegiate trousers, or sport sweaters, {or silly (I mean silky) sox, would stop it. I don't read them. I never know what they are offering me. 1 read my ads in legitimate news papers.” T “Slippery pavements and picked- up auto riders form a bad combina- tion,” is a statement made in a re- cent issue of a motorist magazine which appears periodically in Con- necticut. The article explains that in most states (including Connecti- | cut) the driver of a motor vehicle is held responsible by law for the safety of passengers riding in nes car, and points out that pavements covered with slush or ice tend to in- crease the burden upon the motorist due to the increased possibility of accidents. Several incidents are cited in which auto drivers were sued for death and injury occurring to strangers to whom they had given a ift.” Both parties had suffered in each case, the driver financially | by court decisions and the free rider, or ride jacker, instead of saving | trolley fare, spent time either at home or in a hospital recovering from injuries. According to recent chservatiors, the number of vide jackers seek- ing to save car fare in Connecticut cities is tending to increase. It is said that a motorist cannot drive | through any city during the rush | hour periods without being given the “high sign,” and halled with the cr “Going my way?”’ several times. Observations show that ride jacking and fare saving is not confined to the male sex and that the number of women who seek free auto lifts is constantly increasing. The motor- | ists however, are gradually learning the folly in picking up strangers. Unsuspecting as we are, we enter- ed the stereopticon lecture because we hadn't anything else to do. We had been invited and nothing else had turned up to give us suitable excuses so we went. The lecture was entitled “Far Off Japan,” and it was evidently a little too far off for the photographer to {obtain any decent views of it. Most of the pictures looked as though they were taken in a London fog. The effects of Japan's earthquakes was distinetly visible on a good por- tion of the slides, one of the crev- ices, was extending from the Em- peror's left ear to the largest medal and on another slide an alarming crack rent the smoke of the snow capped volcano above the port of Yoshiro. That wasn't all we learned. We saw two Japanese gentlemen in a rickshaw upside cown without a flicker of fear on their faces at the |accident. Placidly standing on his head was the chauffeur or whatever he is called, waving two nimble legs in the air. They were righted al- most immediately by the operator of the machine who burned his right thumb quite audibly in the opera- tion. us it was a wonder just how bor of Hishasho was conceal- idently it is in the form of a huge palace with two children standing on the steps. Or mayhe it was a mix-up in slides, we couldn't |quite tell. The mix-ups lent an air {of chance to the whole affair. zardless of the speaker's words, the | machine was liahle to thumb its nose |at the gentleman and put on most anything it chose. It held the ulti- |matum of dissolving into darkness |and this it a1d when the lecturer Ibecame too insistent. | The operator burned his other {thumb and sald “Dammit” ‘very | hoarse The children in the front {row began a serles of cat-calls that showed their opinion of the whole thing, the younger couples did a divan rehearsal and the older folks Jjust sat and stared into the blac ness. After two flickers and a flash a fuse blew out and amid a blinding crash which accompanied a view of ships at anchor off Toklo, the enter- tainment was over, for a time, Dealing recklessly with lenses and |things, the assistant was able to put on the display again in not a minute | less than half an hour during which | the speaker of the evening tried des- perately to improvise a speech to {hold the listeners' interest. The front row cat-calls and the total darkness evidently hampered him | hecause it was a pretty bad attempt. | The flare of the stereopticon caught | him with & harrassed look on his| Re- |to reach face and his collar beginning to wilt. Over his bespectacled features glis- tened a splendid view of the mare ket‘place at Yokohama. It was dise tinctly astounding. A map was flashed on the screen and the speaker had pointed out at least ten places before he found that it was upside down and that he was all wrong. Thic threw him into a confusion that quite ruined the eve- ning for him. We Rad lots of fun. The quarre! between the fifth ward council members over the ques- tion to whom belongs the credit for starting the movement for a park on the Washington school property in that ward appears decidedly out of order and it vould be well if the members would lay aside their dif- ferences and join efforts for the good of the district they represent. Otherwise, they cannot expect that the officials in whose hands is the solution of the fifth ward park ques- tion will take the appeal in the sense that it must be taken if it is to materialize as the residents of the ward have the right to expect. Squabbles of this kind between representatives of wards in the coun- cil have not been frequent of lats and it is regrettable that this one should break through, because the mention of ‘“credi for the move- ment brings up the well founded ar- gument that no member of the com- mon council or ¢f any other munici- pal hody should expect to be patted on the back every time he does omething he should do. Members of the council are elected to do things for the city in general and fop their particy ward speciiicsliy. True, they do not always nicasiire up, to the .expectations of who elect them, but of all the qualities, commendable and otherwise, attrib- uted to them, the claiming of 'dit” and the disputing of the claims of ona another for pulilic ac- claim should he avoided. 1t the fifth ward will tave a park. Certainly there is a need jor o Conditions in the northwestern section are quite con sted and there are many worthy sidents who do not have the op- portunity to spend werk-ends at-the those is hoped Ishore in the sultry summer monghs, To these, a park would be a god- send, and if it is given them, it is our guess that they will not stop on their way to enjoy it to argue with one another over the question of whom should have the “credit” for HEXICAN O AW TODAY UNGHANGED Tmpasse Continnes and Regula- tions in Force Tomorrow Mexico City, Dec. 31 (B) — Tia deadlock between the Mexican got- ernment and the principal forcign oil companies over the new petr leum and land laws, which go into ct tomorrow, continued ently unbroken to with tainty as to specific devcloy after the new year. Theoretically the Mexican ernment will become the owner all the oil lands under for title in Mexico the owners of wiic have not applied for confirmaic concessions before midn night, as provided by the new lav s, 1t is generally felt, however, that the government will not take over the lands at omce, will thus afford no grounds for rect complaints from foreii csts of confiscation. In the present status of will be continued. The secretary of commerce industry, Luis Morones, hus nounced that the government will not turn over to the third partics lcases on oil lands reverting to tha government. This allays the fears of the oil interesta that their prop< erties would be allotted to othcrm individuals or companies willing td accept the laws. No accurate statistles are avail« able as to the extent and value off all the properties affected by tha laws, but it is belleved that they total many thousands of acres witl a potential value of perhaps bil« lions of dollars. appar- uneers nig O 1 1 s ualiv ard di- inters this casey uncerainty, and Members of the assoclation af producers of petroleum in Mexicoy including the executives of the most important American oil con< cerns operating there, adjourned a s of conferences in New York! last night without announcing any decision as to thelr plan of action today. Army “Good Will Fliers” ! Are Reunited Today Vera Cruz, Mex, Dec. 31 (®) The United States army “goodw flying expedition to Central and South America was reunited todav: after being separated since last Thursday when Captain Ira Baker and Lieut. M. 8. Fairchild made their lone flight here from Tampico in their plane, the San Franciscos The other four planes made the hop from Tampico - yesterday and plans were made by Major Herbert A. Dargue, the flight commander, for the whole expedition to got away for DPuerto, Mexico, and Minatitlan some time today. The flight from Tampico was made in 2 hours, 40 minutes, and Major Dargue expressed himself as much pleased with the behavior of the planes. He also remarked upon the favorable flying conditions en- countered thus far since the start of the flight at San Antonio, Texas, ten days ogo, .and added: “Within four months we expect to be back in the states. We hope Minatitlan a short halt at Puerto Mexico. We expect to make Salina Cruz on New Year's day. ITALIAN SENATOR DEAD Venice, Italy, Dec. 31 (P—Vices Admiral Canevaro, member of tfia Italian senate, is dead, aged 88. He was the last known survivor of the famous battle of Llssa fought between the Austrian and Italian navies in July, 1866, the first pitchs od battie at sea by modern ironclad steam fleets. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS