New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1927, Page 18

18 FAVORABLE REPORT ON ARMISTICE DAY Assembly Committe¢ Favors Holiday—Other Actions | | ot th State Capitol, Hartford, Feb. 23 (@ | —A Dill to aid a move for a review by the U Supreme Court of a volving a ruling of the ne court of errors and the ut inheritance tax law was ture today. The terday by the ju- tax commis- to the supreme on reservations from ity superior court, su- which rrors 1d co me court ruling, decided ssioner. It invo bonds u itance ta~ law, gible property being irman ¢ moved es and adoption of the sus- senate. la explaining tor Shaw said that the s immediate Lie tax com- ta 00 to other r taxes | errors in a cert hur Silberman, o \ H. Blodgett, ir Silberman from pro- it chapter being n and it imposes a s of decednet’s in resp ippeal te) it has been held t public concerni rax insc tax upon the resident of this certain el to them at their death tion of the fourteenth amendment ol the constitution of the U and the question involved is tion the right and powe est tate state to impose inheritance and oth- cr taxes upon the property of its citi- zens, or the succession thereto, or the transfer thereof, is a fundamen- tal one, and its final determination by the supreme court of the United States is of the highest importance to this state and to its citizens and until such decision the situation caused by the rulings of the courts state constitute an emergency therefore “Be it enacted by the senate : of representatives in general mbly convened: ction 1:—The tax commission- er is empowered and directed in his me and in behalf of the state to petition the United States supreme court for iew on writ of cer- tiorari of decision of the su- perior court of this state in the ac- tion afore nd th torney gen- eral is red, with such asso- ciate counsel us he may deem re- quisite and proper, to present such petition to the United States supreme court in behalf of the tax commis sioner and the state and if a wri of certiorari be granted to appear for and represent the tax commis- s and the state in the trial of ction in said court. tion 2:—This act from its p senate cone in passing f b resolutions: lton, Joseph John N. Sinsabav Armist shall take rred with the llowing judge- Shapiro, judge; . deputy, Day Report nistice day a legal ay was favorably reported in : house. It had the backing of the American legion and other veterans' and patriotic organizations. At the ring on the bill the Manufactur- sociation opposed it. bill 150, providing for 1 citizens of state on work and payment {o them of iiling rate of wages for similar in that locality, received an avorable report from the commit- of labor ¢ ed by the nate. In explaining the bill, Se r Wheeler, chairman of the com- ittee said the bill would regula nd tend to incr con- 1ction costs, 'he bill was attacked at a hearing rday by representatives of the facturers’ and of the Employ- tions as inviting litigation and trouble increasing the cost of work and depriving aliens of work. A bill restoring citizenship to Michael Harfinkle was passed by the 1hlic preo house adopted measures re- itizenship Thomas D . of Dolton, Angelo Amato, New John Edward Prince, Bridg ort and Nicholas Fagan, Bridgeport, ast three being senate measure The whipping post bill was r cted by the senate in concurrence h the house which rejected the bill last week. The bill proposed lashings for wife beaters. house on an unfavorable port rejected house ing for a motion picture commission re- — LATER, Pl PACK” N THe— EARLY BIGHTIES, - GASH PRACTICALLY “MADE-" TiE- DReST IN THE. NIFTY NINETIEGS ~ OH! N NINETEEN F0Y/ ~ MOk &y OGNS / THEY wWCFE “HIGH, WIDE | ' BT THE: SNGH 0 GUCH TODAY, HAS™ DiMIn DANTY DIMENGIONG) YOU CAN HARDLY DETECT ‘EV\, einzrc and | bill 363, provid- | EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1927. of three members to collect a tax of | $10 a reel on motion picture films brought into the state. House bill 195, appointing a state agent of the department of state agencies and institutions at a salary of $6,000 a year, by the governor, was taken from the table where it had been put yesterday when an error was found in it, and passed by the house. The senate had 27 bills starred for action on its calendar today. All but four were passed. Fourteen adopted were senate bill house bills, Passed i Among the bills pa: were the following :uate bill 343, requiring each ap- plicant for restoration of forfeited rights to advertise the hearing of his petition or bill in a newspaper in the town in which he resides at least two weeks before the hearing. Senate bill . legalizing the adoption by insurance companies of the “American men ultimate table of mortality” in lieu of the “American experience of mortality” as a legal minimum standard for contracts is- isucd. Scnate bill 65, providing for an assistant clerk of the city and pol courts of Meriden and s comptroller and codifying the city charter. Senate bill 78, increasing from four to six the number of women deputies in the department of fac- tory inspection. Senate bill 514, allowing holders of public service bus certificates to se- cure registration for leased vehicles as well as vehicles which they own. Senate bill authbrizing Meri- den court of common council tc propriate the avails of the strec provement honds. Senate bill 4 ment to widow active or retired Meriden one received at time of death. nate bill 325, setting first of March as limit to time for filing of the gross amount of premiums collected annually by fire, marine or casualty insurance companies and April 1, payment of tax thercon. The house adopted house bill 321 making the salary of the deputy of the Norwich city $000 a year, effective July 1, of this Senate d by the sen- providing for pay- upon death of an police officer of House bill 327, prohibiting passen- gers traveling upon street car or common carrier motor bus, or em- vloyes engaged in operati vehicles having lighted ci tte, or pipe, in his poss in smoking compartments under penalty of $10 fine, act to be effec- tive on adoption. House bill 310, exempting from purchase by life insurance compan- ies of manufacturing stocks, shares in public service companies engaged in generating and _distributing elec- tricity or manufacturing- and dis- tributing gas. ports on the following bills: H. B. 221, including those who served in Philippine insurrection and Boxer campaign among veter- ns who may get support in owg 222, extending state aid soldiers dependants or orphans or veterans of war with Spain, Philip- insurrection, Doxer campa and World War. | ¢ 503, prohibiting taking of | fish within 500 feet of fish way or to pine I8 in fish way except by angling. H. B. 220, including veterans of Philippine insurrection and Boxer campaign among veterans who may be admitted to state institutions. | H. B. 779, providing certain funds left from war activities may be re- ‘(-n\'\‘r"-l by governor from secretary | of war and distributed among tional Guard units. I'our senate bills having to do with motion pictures received un- { favorable reports from the judiciary committee, three being taken care of in bills to be reported later and the fourth a skeleton bill which was withdrawn. They are 124, 135, 141 and 465, The house rejected bills providing | for open seasons in New London and New Havi i au- | thorizing of fisheries and game to regulate fishing in Keeney Cove; providing probate, rather than selectmen, may givt consent to marriage of minor with- ; the remainder were | alf of the amount he | day | court | sion except | out parent or guardian at hand. Two county meetings were hald this afternoon, one by Hartford county legislators and the other by Middlesex county members. Six committees met, but only short hearings were held so that members could attend the gover- | nor's reception at the state library. BERLIN NEWS | (Continued from Page Seven) tion. He sustained concussion of the brain more than a month ago while | and for a time his life was °d of. wur Horton of West Crom- well who has been in the Middlesex hospital for the past month as the result of a slight shock shows some improvement. A number of basketball enthusi- asts attended the Middletown-East Berlin junior game in West Crom- well last evening. No report of the game having been given, it is a ed that the local dropped the Mrs. John Frank spent yesterday riden as the guest of relatives. The prize winners at the Sacred art whist were as follows: ladies’ t, Miss Betty Pratt; sfcond, Miss Mary Frank; third, Mrs. I*. Gullong fourth, Miss Mary Cote; fifth, M George Welz; consolation, Miss Jen- [nie Cote; ntlemen's first, George Welz; second, Gerold Footi third, Joseph Cote; fourth, J. MclInerney; fifth, John Holigan; consolation, Michael Dunn. The whist next week will be the last of the season and will be in cha of the men of the wre being made to accom- modate 200 people at the supper to {be held at Community 1 t Tuesday evening. A social and en- tertainment program is being ar- ranged. An exhibition by for presentation early in the spring is being planned. The exhibition given by the combined bhoys' and girls' clubs last year was largely at- | tended, Mrs. Ch the Boys' Mrs. to and visitors | rles Cannon |James Trevethan were New Britain yesterda e Junior Achievement Hartford County “Y" will the Hartford Y. M. C. A., Saturday ternoon ‘at 2 o'clock. Those who rs of the local Roys' club o attend. club of meet in DEMAND HUMANE LAWS A number of New Brita‘nites who are interested In more humane im- ! migration laws have retained Attor- | ney Harry Ginsburg to present their suggestions to immigration authori- | ties at Washington, D. t a pub- [lic hearing. Attorney Ginsburg will | leave tomorrow for the capital. | | Contyrols Life The house received favorable re- | JA, San Francisco Bureat uy W. Clark of the University lifornia has discovered a blood alled “cocytin,” by which he can control life in lower animal e ance starts i life in egg of the v urchin ‘yi according to Dr. Clark, Dr. of ( substance he declares the the | NO AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY LiST Durants- Selections Also Ex- 0 oW Am the ten which publishe As to y two, Poland, presents Mareus Spinoza, Spencer Durax included Shakesp “How s he embrace Shall w akesg aske! C. Durant, Philosophy lude Classical Rome Feb. (UP) — Not an appears on a list of test thinkers of all time en prepared by Will uthor of the “Story of Here is Durant's list, d y by the American “onfucius, Plato, Aristotle, nas, Cop icus, IFranc Newton, Voltaire, Kant and York, 23 N s nationalities, England is re- three names and Greece | , with one each for Chin: France and German unners-uy team” of world o American re- Democratus, uru; Abelard Galilel Schopenhauer, a “second i tive Aurelius, y Liebnit and Nietzsch., it .d why neither 1 1 such familiar names as re or Lincoln. all we d 1, “Presumab! . ‘philosophers ve include men seare or Goetk has e a thinker?” v the word will like hom of t scconda and such in ) I ; the club | rcason, sion, m faith world. Shal gred poleon spread such he prive it and sha cance o D T n turn enduring scope, thought sistencee He fered co showed yose anc dominar above that made admitted that the selectior s as artists fir: all. Shail include imensely religious figures a juddha, Augustine or Luth 5 founders and renew religion would overlap our not only thought and ilso feeling, noble vision and unyiclding them move the rily thin we rstic 1 we admit into our council t men of action like Cac No; to catch ! shall de- aning, signifi- Lincoln? word thinker we or the roes in its net, of its distinctive Al fail to catch the f thought.” it d d his showing how place “by the origi veracity and depth of , and by the extent and per- ®of his influence.” ! of-| nsiderable difficulties, Study | whole civilizations which i fell without providing any 1t name or powerful secular | n thinkers won ar ity, cach ! el personality voicing and forming its people. India rvelod Among Ainor, and a scientist Classi ce in of inissed not hi ance w touching Other T jected " Gree After Ilmpir pur L monk is true,” and lgypt, “perh he It was so, he observed with | the Je ven with | ps the most lasting and | ilization ever known.” | nomad races of Asia Isaiah, a Jesus | hut no world- us c the found an Mohammed . no world-philosopher. 0ld Rome Excluded cal Rome also failed to get a the list. Lucrctius, first and e 1 ers, was dis- because own, and because as esoteric and sporadic, z only the topmost min | man philosophers were re- | because they were echoes of k the collapse of the rant found the ng in Thomas Aquinas, of the Catholic Church It he said “that the world does his philesophy was his influ- | Roman sirth ot follow Aquinas now,preferring a loubting Thomas to a dogma ut hilosophy remise tic one, | re wa me when every took his work as its Even today, in a thous- a i colleges, his thought is reverenc- | A as sounder than science, and his rges is the official system of | church in Christendom. v not love him as we love the millions Voltai among time, alt | upon | and millions of mankind, we | e him on our rosary of gen- re was included by Durant | the supreme thinkers of all hough many believe that ' SKIPPY [WHERE ARE LLYofu FROM 7 POLLY AND HER PALS church thought was borrowed rather than original, and that his influence was destructive. “But,” said Durant, “which of us is original except in form? Granted that Voltaire lighted his candle at every man's torch; it remains that he made the torch burn so brightly that it enlightened all mankind. Never did one man teach so many, or with such irresistible artistry. The all con- temporar: so the great leaders of the mind in later centuries have honored him as the fountainhead of intellectual en- lightenment. Voltaire himself re- tained a sincere belief in a personal deity, but his followers went beyond him, and when he died materialism pursued every rival philosophy from the field.” The inclusion of Darwin will like- ly cause stir among the followers of the evolutionist controversy who read Durant’s icle. ‘We cannot know now what Dar- | win's work may finally mean in the history of manl aid the thor. “It Darwin was Wrong, world will forget him. It he was right, men will have to date from 1859 the beginning of modern thought. Copernicus reduced the world to a speck mong melting cloug Darwin reduced man to an animal fighting for his transient mastery of the globe.” Cost of Snow Removal Reaches $1,000 a Day work of snow removal, with the exception of clearance of run- ways to catch-basins, ended today after a five-day drive against the (ks of snow resulting from Satur- s storm. At the office of the board of public works an estimate of $5,000 was placed on the cost of keeping the streets clear for traffic. The loading machine, trucks and extra laborers were dropped from the pay-roll today. The N TO SPEAK den of the niversity of Delaware will deliver n address at a meeting of the Luther Jeague of the First Lutheran tomorrow evening at 8§ o'clock. Refreshments will be served, READ HE! FOR YOUR WANTS WHAT DID YA LEAVE FOR? ME UNecE GoT DROWNDED- urope howed to his pen, | au- | the | 'WIFE'S HUNT FOR HUSBAND | | ENDS IN DIVORCE SUIT Edmund Tardy, Arrested Here With ] { \ | ‘Woman €ompanion, Named Defendant In Action. day of April. Constable John | fendant last night. | Mr. and Mrs. Tardy were married one | Mrs. | Tardy claims a divorce and permi: name, | She iy represented | by Atiorney Thomas I%. McDonough. Tardy and Miss Catherine Donovan of Somerville, Mass., were taken into | custody early yesterday morning by Officer William Politis, who report- they | | were loitering about the passenger | According to their admis- sion to the police they have beéen | living together as man and wife, al- though they were not married. They were ordered out of town by the po- | lice and they agreed not to return | January 12, 1915, and have daughter, two years of age. {sion to resume her maiden Louise Fournier. ed to Sergeant McAvay that station. hers It understood has been secking a divorce for time, but that Tardy could that Mrs. T upon him. CURRENT EVENTS CLASS | Mrs. C. public is-invited new book, “Our Times," new American opera, {Henchman,” which was cordially by Metropolitan House audiences. |Edna St. Vincent Millay. She speak also on naval the Hoover commission on the tor “Jim" Reed of Missouri. Y SILENT NIGHT NOTHING { Youve GOTTA PUT THE LOUD SPEAKER PLUG IN TO GET AMYTHING ON THIS RADIO/ ‘i Suit for divorce on grounds of in- | | fidelity has been brought agalnst Ed- mund Tardy of this eity by Louise | Fournier Tardy, also of this city. . 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