New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 6

New Britain Heral Twued Dally (Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg, €7 Church Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES 40.00 & \Yoar, 32.00 Three Months. 76c. & Month. Entered at the Post Office at New Brit- ain as Second Class Mall Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office Editorial Roome The only profitab) ty. Clrcul open advertising medium on books and prees to advertisers. Member of tho Associated Prest Press ta exclusively en- to the use for re to it or not otherwise paper and also local m ¢ Dublished therein. s newspapors and rs with a strictly honest anal ulation, Our circulation statistics are tased upon this audit. This insures pro: tection against fraud in newspaper dis- tribution figures to both pational and iocal advertisers. The Herald !s on sale dally tn New Times —_— MOTHE Few special days have taken such poignant hold of our hearts as Mothers' Day. The Philadelphia girl who started this unique observance several decades ago built an edifice that has become part of our nation- .1 consciousness. The most tender remembrances in life are indentified with one's miother: if she has entered the haven of the blessed thoughts of her are an ever-present heritage; if is still alive to counsel and gulde, the most loving care and af- fection is her portion. On Mother's she day we join in visual honor to the! name of her who stands queenl and serene above all else on this earth. RULES FOR CHILDREN Constructive advice, this may be called. It is the compendium of rules applying to children, who by observing them, will avoid being mained by automobiles or trucks. It | comes from Patrick F. Shea, Cam- bridge, Mass., traffic officer, who has been named safety lecturer to the children in the schools. Nothing is so distressing to the average person as to read of some innocent child being run down by an automobile or a truck. When it is discovered that certain simple rules may suffice to avoid the ma- Jority of such accidents, it is the duty of all parents to make them a part of the education of children. The idea of having a safety lec- turer in the public schools also is one that might be generally adopt- ed. Here are his rules, which he is teaching the children of his city, and which are just as applicable in New Britain. We are glad to give them currency; they might save some child agony and perhaps death: 1.—Don’t play on the street, use playgrounds. 2.—Don’t roller hills. You can't want to. 3.—Don’t hitch onto wagons or automobiles. 4.—Don't build bonfires. Many children have thus been disfigured for life. 5—Don’t run across the street in traffic—use the cross- ings and wait for the officer's signal. He is always ready to help. 6.—Don’t ride your bike in the middle of the street. Stay r the right curb. 7.—Don't throw stones. The person injured is always the in- nocent party.* 8.—Don't climb on ‘wagon. Ask the driver piece of ice, 9.—Don't street cars. chance. 10.—Don't play with strange dogs. They generally bite., skate on stop when you the fce for a steal rides on It's not worth the PLATNVILL BUILDING CODE Being up-to-date, Plainville vaturally has a building tode. It was adopted on April 8 and fills 30 pages. Nothing is omitted—not even the “town court.” That's the trouble with the thing, the angle that of the building Here is Article 3, makes enforcement code inoperative. of Section 4: “The said building inspector shall have authority to order stopped and suspended any and all work or building operatior of character whatsoever which he deems being done or constructed in a carcless, un- safe or unsanitary manner; and it the orders @ said huilding inspec not obeyed and the w so stopped or su any publication of | Cambridge public | +{settlements to the United States re- Meantime the town court plan was killed; but the building code as | it 1s went to press just the same. Nobody thought to change its word- ing. Now the town has a bullding code containing the obligatory statement that prosecutions must take place in a court that does not exist. ENDING THE WARFARE IN NICARAGUA One trip to Nicaragua by Henry L. Stimson was worth a dozen brim- stone communications by Secretary of State Kellogg. Of course, Amer- |ican action had to be threatened if | the contending forces failed to heed the ultimatum to quit gunplay; but both sides were eager to stop their act if elections coul be guaranteed. This the United States is prepared to do; and after all the arms have been handed over from both sides, leaving all the guns and ammuni- tion in the hands of the American marines, the politicians can have their innings and the people can | vote. Our bet is that the Liberals will win, The former secretary of war is! supposed to have gone to Nicaragua | as the personal representative of | the President in order to pull the| Kellogg chestnuts out of the fire. | | This, at least, was the diagnosis of | the majority of commentators. lt' was a good move by the President { and attained its object. It was a nml method to get around the mountain of difficulties which the former | policy created. Nicaragua, instead of continuing as & cockpit of armed conflict, with | famine as the ultimate consequence, | now ought to return to something approaching order. Our meddling did not attain the object of elimin- | | ating the Sacasa forces as opponents of Diaz. This puppet will have to | stand for election and accept the hazards of defeat. Stimson told the | Sacasa or Liberal forces that fallure | ! the United States, alternative that Sacasa naturally did mot care lto accept. But the promiso that a fair election would follow disarma- | {ment on both sides could not do' | otherwise than please | forces. Stimson went into Nicaragua armed with a big stick. The ultimate | result will be that the Nicaraguans | [ will be left to settle their dispute with ballots instead of bullets. This {cannot oe interpreted as a victory for the Diaz or Conservative factlon, | which for months has been upheld |in power by the United States only |to find that now it will have to go | before the people to remain in pow- ler or be ditched—with the latter | likelihood generally regarded as probable. It at least is hard to see | how the Liberals, who have won recent elections by such overwhelm- ing majoritles, can lose the next one after we unwittingly help- ' ed to make Diaz more unpopular that he was at the beginning. | It is not to be overlooked that we | have descended some distance trom | our high horge in the case of | Nicararagua. A few months ago the | President and Kellogg told us that an the Sacasa ! and that we were in duty bound to ' uphold him; now we force him to prove the contentlon by trying to be elected. It's & sad way to treat a Central American friend. No won- | der Sacasa was so quick to accept the American offer. There’s a reason it 1t is going to be a question ot ballots. “MELLONISM” SUITS U. S. Propaganda having its object the reconsideration of the foreign debt ceived new impetus following the dispatch of a letter by Secretary Mellon to the president of Prince- ton university. The letter gave the British government an opportunity 1o broadcast an astonishing total of ' propaganda, and in it the term of Mellonism” was used to denote the American attitude that honest war debts should be paid. It this is “Mellonism" let us have it. Americans do not embrace the European view that debts should be ! cancelled and will never do so. The people's was loaped | Europe and expended in their be- | halt like water. The promise to pay | back every cent of the money was | explicit. Without the help of the | | money furnished by Americans and | | |the man-power furnished when the money | nation entered the war, the allied | cause would have collapsed. n to the debt 10T addition government huge sums have been loaned ropeans by private American banking firms. One never hears a | suggestion that the debts to the pri- {vate firms be cancelled. It is only | bit here and there. There are some “people from Connecticut, (Hnrltord road and the road will be Diaz was entitled to be the president | , 11t is hinted that it may have a bene- to ian interesting contortion e Uncle Sam, in a spirit of generosity, 30 munificently handed over to our friends across the sea was the pro- perty of American citizens. Uncle Sam is in ddty bound to collect the money that he promised to collect and whieh the debtor natlons promised to pay. It Britain is so- overwhelmingly anxious to avoid paying her just debts in money, let her pay in pro- perty. For instance, there are th Bermuda islands and certain other lands on this hemisphere. Let her hand them over and we no doubt: would be willing to subtract a fancy amount from the war debts. The same holds good for France. These | two nations were allowed to gobble up the German colonies while the United States discreetly stood ns\rifii after making possible the gobbling All we want is justice, not propa- | ganda. THE FIVE-CENT FARE Mayor Walker of New York is just like Mayor Hylan was in one respect—he insists that the five cent fare must be retained in that city at all hazards. The mayor is being severely criticized in some quarters on the | score that the transportation system | cannot sell something for less than | it costs to produce and still break | even, Which is true. But politics is poli- tics; the five-cent fare is part of New York politics. No mayor ad-! vocating an increased fare on the | subways or elevated lines could ever expect to run for dog catcher after that. The people of New York have been educated up to—or down to— the five-cent fare regardiess of economics. The intelligent part of the population knows it is paying more than the flve-cent fare, but that doesn't matter. The extra part of the fare comes from the general rent-paying population. How much this amounts to, how- ever, nobody seems to know. The; only thing the population can un- derstand readily is that it only costs a nickel to travel on the subways, and that {s all it cares about. The five-cent fare is a horriblie exampls to the transportation inter- ests in other cities where from six | to ten cents are charged for a ride. That is a shoe that pinches quite a for in- stance, Who when they go to New | York are constrained to compare | the five-cent ride with the eight- | cent token they buy in their home town. 25 Years Ago Today L. A. Vibberts has withdrawn his objection to the cut and fill on the put through as originally planned. It is stated that there is in pro- cess of formation in New Britain what is to be known as a “Manu- facturers’ club.” It is to be compos- ed primarily of men who are pro- minent in the manufacturing circles of the city, both in the active man- ement and in responsible subor- dinate positions. It will be on differ- ent lines from the New Britain club. ficlal and cooperative control over affairs in the different shops, con- cerning which the managers have mutual interest. A large crowd was listening to a program in Grange hall, Plainville, last night, when suddenly the floor settled six inches with a great noise and started a panic. This was check- ed by the quick thinking of E. D. Taylor, who commanded everyone | to be quiet and then had them walk out quietly. The piano was carried to the town hall and the exercises resumed. Proprietor George Newtonl wil have the building made safe at | once. i “Fort Sumter” will be fired on! tonight! The health board will de- mand that the little ramshackle house at 37 Camp street, which has become known facetiously as “Fort Sumter* be torn down as unsani- | tary and a menace to public health. | Gasoline machines are growing in favor with automobilists, who find them less costly in long runs than | are the steamers. The final events fn the American | Hardware meet were run off last | night at the Casino, C. Merwin won the 30-yard dash and running high the hop, step, and jump. Jorbin took the hurdle race Coughlin the 16-pound | shotput. The Y. M. C. A. team won the relay race and the Turners the | tug-of-war. Fred Bacon was best at club swinging. J. Punderman gave hibition, boxing Willis and | | and there match Hugh was a four-roun betw McPadden, Observation On The Weather will not change materially, it will rise slowly, however, during Sunday in the lower ORdo valley and Ten- nessee. Factsand Fancies When money talks, it frequently says: “Mistrial.” A writer says there’s no law against saving money. There's that little law of necessit, Every dub must itch to have a try | at a hole in one when he sces the | Grand Canyon. It isn't annoying to mect people more righteous than yourself unless | they try to prove it. The first $25,000; than t! who fly to Paris get but high-flyers need more | when they get there. A village is a place where every- body is thoughtful cnough to step over the dogs asleep on the walk. | Alas! so many people are too rot- ten to be respectable and not rotten enough to be celebrities. Tmperialism cannot endure. Soon there will be nobody small cnough to pick on. The next great sporting event | will be Al and McAdoo trying to| show Missouri. Americanism: Pinching pennfes to save enough to splurge on a va- | cation. “You can't do good work on an empty stomach.” Huh. Bolshevism does its best work on that-kind.” You never can teN. A fool in his ' cups seldom crumples more fenders than a wise man in a reverie. The West's present attitude seems to accept the disarmament scheme '{ax, which in turn is paid by realty, '0 be that soft words butter no third | would result in being forced to fight | which in turn is squeezed out of the , ‘'™ Man has yet to Invent a floor polisher more efficient, than an in- | fant. You get fewer miles to the gallon | in an expensive car, but they are horizontal miles. Old-fashioned children didn’t re- spect their parents more. It was the apple sprout they respected. The true hick, whether in a pas- ture lot or a crowded city, is one who feels an urge to use a club if | you don't agree with him., When better lies are told, an au- tomobile salesman of our acquaint- ance Wil tell them. Correct this sentence: “Don't feel ashamed,” said the husband; “The best drivers grind the gears at times,” Copyright, 1927, Publishers Syndicate COMMUNICATED POEMS O MOTHER'S DAY WRITTEN BY NEW BRITAIN JUVENILES. Poems commemorative of Mother's Day, which is observed tomorrow, have been written by at least two New Britain youngsters. deemed worthy of reprinting an are presented below. The first one, which, like the sec- ond, is entitled “Mother,” is by Clar- issa Barrett, of 362 Arch strect, who admits ten years of age and who' attends the Camp school. Mother,” Whan I think of you, Always to me, the sky scems blue, And when I look up in the sky; Something tells me that when you die, That you will go up there, [x 1 | change the * They were | Send all communications to Fun sShop Editor, care of the New Uritain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Sure Signs of the Timest People wearing rubber heels: Clubs and raquets on displa; ple trying to be eels; Swimming channels, MAY! T Folks, it's By All Means! Jeweler: “An engagement ring? s, sir. Do you want something in white gold, or do you prefer green gold 2" -~ Richard: “I—ah—expect would be better. She widow!" - green s a grass —L. A. Breen THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Retrospective A lot of guys who freely say The good old days were great Get pecvish when the paper Is twenty minutes late! . e e Crime A man in Tilinois was arrested cntly for trying to steal two \ { orsc shoes. With luck like that, we don't blame him for trying to steal them! « v e Ala Mode They say that bobbed hair's going out And skirts will this year: If we go back to grandma's styles The girls will wear—well—hoops, My dear! . lengthen some o e Soclal A New Jersey man was adjudged | insane because he was seen whip- ping an automobile. This should serve as a warning to young people not to be too public akout paddling a canoe! PR Sports In boats, the hunched-up fisher- men Attempt the little fishes’ lives; They may not catch a lot of fish, But they'll catch thunder from their wives! Bright Idea Sheriff: “I'm putting up this sign: | ‘Dangerous Curve Ahcad.’ The mo- torists always swear a blue streak when they get to it.” Constable: “Then why not just in the sign to an . T. Lindauer Venison is to supplant beef. Beef has been dear for a long time! fl Curious! “Is there something clse, little 2" asked the grocer of Bobby, five years old. No, I'm waiting to see you sting."” “Sting?"” asked the grocer, in sur- answered Bobby, “Daddy todl mother not to send me here ‘cause you stung almost everybody that went to your store.” —D. C. Retsloff LOVE SCENE—WHEN MOTHER WAS YOUNG By Paul S. Powers “Would a buggy ride be : “We'll have a lallapaloosa of a time. Can that stuff! We'll go to the barn dance and everything est, kid!” Myrtle: “Well, 1t fresh, T should worry Oscar: “Yeh! Tshkabibble!” | THE SAME SCENE—NOW Harly: “Hop into the unfurnished flivver, sister.” Phyllis: “Say, vou hello hound, I'm giving you the rush out—see? 1 don't swing any curves with any sofa squirrel! Lay back in your cradle and shake that rattle of.yours ou don't get en, girl friend, we'll have a slick time. You can stuff that in your vanity And God will meet you in the alr, Oh; Dearest “Mother,” thou art mine, Oh! Loving “Mother,” T am thine; And when I have you in my mind, It always seems “You” arc so kind. Edith Dickerman, of 35 Walnut street, aged 14 at the time of its composition, wrote the following: Among the sweetest flowers That bloom through night and day, Are numbered those whose tender care Have watched the childful play. Their name to us is precious, Their loving words are sw Their hands so fond c: It's tender to repeat. The word has tender meaning, The love behind its true, The soul within it murmurs Its scented love for you. This tender, precious loving word Is just the one beat MOTHER, 1t conld not, would not, Have the soul, or mind of any other. Since origin of this great word There lived two greatest Mothers, »r one was His divine, while—I'm a no sausage Lake—honest | dig and massage a good orange, sis! I'm | seller from Salt ! baby.” | Phyllis: “Well, frater, if you don’t | try the huddle system when we do the parking act, I'll trust my enam- iel to you. Let's go!” will be bully—I'm no spooner, Hon- | ‘We'll go to the shin- | Makes Random Observations m and l e Policemen are in a quandary. Tt is their understanding that they are not expected to use their pistols ex- cept under extreme circumstances, when they know a.serious crime is being committed. This is the effect of an “unwritten law” which was unofficially incorporated in the regu- lations recently when a policeman was criticized for using his gun promiscuously and, the commission- era believed, exposing innocent per- sons to danger. During the past week two inci- dents have occurred which create a doubt whether the ruling of the police commissioners should be con- sidered Inflexible. A policeman sur- prised two ypuths in the act of transporting liquor in Walnut Hill park. At the time he detected { them he was not aware that they were in possession of contraband. When they ran away he suspected that they were law breakers but mindful of the attitude of the police board he did not draw his gun and shoot. Later he inspected an auto- mobile which they abandoned and learned that it contained several gallons of alcohol. If he had shot into the air the youths might not have escaped. Public opinion would not have supported him probably if he had shot at and killed either of the youths but he could have frightened them into surrendering if he had not heen hampered by the “‘unwritten law" referred to. The second incident was of a more serious nature. A policeman in the performance of his duty was shot while chasing a fugi- | tive through dark back yards. He did not know his quarry was armed. If he had carried his gun in his hand he would have been pre- pared for eventualities. Regard- less of the fact that he had a bullet in his body, he bravely withstood his ground and emptied his pistol at the spot where he believed the { gunman to be hiding. An unidentified person telephoned to the Herald yesterday stating that the people of the neighborhood were glad the policeman had been shot Decause they beliecved he was too enthusiastic in running down boot- leggers. Perhaps the person did not correctly express the sentiments of his neighbors but his words re- vealed a state of mind which is a menace to the peace and security of the community. No one wants to see the men on the police force running around with guns in their hands ready to shoot at the slightest provocation. Neither does anyone want to see the policemen rendered helpless by a commission regulation which is liable to be misunderstood. Before the situation becomes worse, the commission should have a confer- ence and outline its attitude. At present a large number of police- men do not understand what is ex- pected of them with reference to the use of guns. Usually when we receive ap dn- vitation for & week-end party we expect there is nothing more needed { to be done at the cottag to which we have been invited than a set of tront atairs repaired or the screens put in or something like that. That's to be expected when one receives an early season invitation and al- though the requirements are not worded In the written missive it is a pretty safe bet that one will be handed a pair of overalls and asked if one minds getting down to work as soon as possible, Imagine our surprise therefore when, last week-end, we received no other duties than the job of getting a motorboat into shape. Said launch had spent two seasons at the hottom of a large and spring-fed lake but had recently been salvaged and lay in all its original beauty on the beach before the cottage, a splendid example of what the In- vincible Armada must look like by now, if it is still resting at the bot- tom of wherever it was that the In- vincible Armada became quite vinci- ! ble. Let it be understoodythat we are no mechanics—much less marine mechanics. The extent of our me- chanical knowledge in that direction extends as far as holding the steer- ing lever on an outboard motor qualifies one. To us the job of get- ting the rusted, sand filled two ton engine into shape offered no more ‘worry to us than if we had sudden- ly been picked to represent Amer- ica in a six day bicycle race. We donned the overalls, we firm- ly grasped a large wrench in our right hand, and advancing to the hopeless wreck we tentatively tap- ped a rusted cylinder head in the slight hopes that the engine would sputter, roar and the boat would churn out to sea, It didn’t. It emit. ted a dull clank and was still. Our host suggested that we tear down the engine and clean all the parts thoroughly. We started. Each bolt was rusted to the screw—each section of iron was firmly welded to the other. Coaxing and kerosene on the rusted bolts proved no avall. Frenzied hammering on the darned things broke two of them off in their sockets. Finally one cylinder head came off and revealed two ex- SUCH EMBARRASSMENT! Dear Editor: I told the waiter There was a fly In the ice cream. “Let him freeze,” ~ tinct bull heads and four and a quarter pounds of sand and mud. That was at 11:15 o'clock in the morning. At 9:30 o'clock that eve- ning, we almost had the mud scrap- ed out of the ofie cylinder. At 11 o'clock that’ night we were carried up to the cottage foaming at the mouth. At 2:30 o'clock the next morn- ing we silently opened the dining room window of the cottage and pulled a sneak to the rallroad sta- tion. Last reports tell us that one of our friends has been invited down to the cottage for this com- ing week-end. We are thinking of warning him”but then, he would foolishly disregard our warnings anyway and then too, he might get that other cylinder head off before we are drafted down there again. With questions and answers be- ing thrown at one from every con- ceivable angle, it is small wonder that the Observer got a little off balance before trylng to answer about 100. He began to ask and answer questions in much the fol- lowing manner: 1—Who is Mack Sennett? A bomb used for the destruction of aubmarines by an explosion at a de- termined depth below the surface. 2—What product is advertised by the slogan, “Four out of five get it before they are forty?” Pinochle. 3—Who wrote the *Legend of Sleepy Hollow?” Charles Gates Dawes. 4—What is a leviathan? lower leg. §—How do kangaroos carry their offspring? We often wonder. 6—Who purchased New York | from the Indians in 16262 Charle!l Gates Dawes. 7—What are Mandarins? The es- | timated proportion is 73.39 per cent. 8—Who was John Calvin? Charles | Gates Dawes. 9—What is the tallest monument in the world? A hole made in one stroke less than par. 10—Who said, “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country?”” Willlam Randolph Hearst. 11—Who first swam the English channel? Charles Gates Dawes. B e In the New Britain has greater repre- sentation in important offices con- nected with the state government than ever before in its history, an indication of the increasing import- ance of this city as a political unit, For several years Thomas H. Judd has been deputy state treasurer, dis- charging his duties so faithfully and with such exactitude that his superi- ors pay tribute to his ability. He has proven to be an important offi- cer of government and is said to have at his fingertips all salient points in connection with the f- | nances of the state. Attorney General Benjamin W. Alling holds a position which is second to none in importance. He must pass on laws which affect every resident of the state as well as per- form numerous other duties which heap responsibility upon him. There is no sinecure about his post; his is the office where headaches grow. | ‘Within the past week Edward F. | Hall of this city has been made head | of the new state commission on fi- nance and control. Mr. Hall has modestly disclalmed the insinuation | that he will be “dictator” of state finances and anyone who knows Ed Hall will readily agree with him | that it is not his nature to be dic- | tator of anything. He can wield the big stick effectively but does it in such-a way that no wounds are left | to rankle. In spite of his modesty, Ed Hall today is one of the biggest figures in the state :overnment. He will be consulted on appropriations and expenditures and his word will have effect because he is known as a conservative who speaks his opin- ion only after due deliberation. | Judd, Alling and Hall—not so bad for the fifth city in the state. Newspapers’ methods of playing up news has undergone just as radi cal a change in the past half cen-! fury as any other line of business and possibly more so. Certainly more so in regard to the importance given items. Compare for instance the New York papers recently which devoted anything from three column first page heads to eight column Streamers on the first page to the killing of two avlators who had planned a trans-Atlantic hop to the papers of 1865 which gave but a single column head under the title of “Telegraph news” to the assassi- natlon of President Lincoln, Fréd Yarroll of Jefferson street brought into the Herald office today a copy of the New Haven Daily Palladium of April 15, 1865. It con- sists of one sheet only. The editor- ial column devotes about a half column to comment on the shoot- ing of the president, while an ac- companying news column contains two columns of bulletins on the as- sassination. A single column head prefaces it all. The column rules, however, are turned to denote na- tional mourning. The rest of the first page of this old paper is de- voted to brief news items and adver- tisements. The second page is s ged “Sccond Edition’ and tel Johnson's inauguration as president. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS NOT GOLD DIGGER, ‘MHE. EMPEL SAYS Opera Singer Tnsists Heckscher Is Indebted to Her New York, May 7 (# — Frieda Hempel, German opera singer, and her counsel insist that her suit against August Heckscher, million- aire philanthropist, is not the work of a “gold digger,” but an action brought for violation of a contract by which she quit a concert career ‘worth $200,000 yearly. Only to this extent did Mme. Hempel and Irving L. Ernst, her attorney, explain the mysterious contract for alleged breach of which she is suing the 79 year old philanthropist to compel payment of $48,000 a year for “a valuable consideration.” * “Is the consideration of a ger- sonal or) business nature?” Mme, Hempel and Mr. Ernst were asked in & newspaper interview in Mme. Hempel's apartment in Central Park west. “I cannot answer that,” her at. torney replied, “but it is adequate, legal and to the highest decgrea moral — a noble consideration and a most praiseworthy one of self- sacrifice.” & “Does she requirs vindication?” a dozen reporters shot at the law- yer. “Well, she {s a woman in public lite,” Mr. Ernst retorted, “and she doesn’t wish to be known as a gold digger.” Mme. Hempel, at this point broke for the first time the silence she had maintained during the in- terview and spiritedly interposed: “No, I am not a gold digger!” Mme. Hempel is suing the phil- anthropist for two quarterly in- stallments, amounting to $24,000 and interest. He is said to have paid the first installment under the’ contract. Decision of Heckscher's motion for a more specific com- plaint is pending in supreme court, Based on Mme. Hempel's expec- tancy of life, the $48,000 annual payments would amount to nearly, $1,000,000. The singer is now 42. “It was a philanthropic egree- ment,” Mr. Ernst explained, “and, while it would have cost Mr. Heckscher $48,000 a year, it would cost Mme. Hempel $200,000 or more.” The $200,000, he explained, approximated Mme. Hempel's con- cert earnings for a single season. which, he sald, she had agreed to forego under the agreement. The attorney pointed out that this part of the agreement was carried out by Mme. Hempel when she failed to go on a concert tour this year. The attorney would not say, however, whether Heckscher had Dbroken the contract in any way other than by failing to meet the payments. Mme. Hempel, dressed in care mine crepe, with a rope of pearls around her neck and a square-cut emerald blazing on one finger, shrugged her shoulders when she - was questioned and looked at her attorney to answer them. Once during the interview when Mr. Ernst said there would have been no notorfety in the case had not Heckscher chosen to pursue the course he did, Mme. Hempel raised her eyebrows when “no- toriet was mentioned and shook her head regretfully. Heckscher, who was informed of the suit when he reached Cher- bourg, France, from the United States, immediately booked return passage on another liner, but sud- denly changed his plans last night and embarked for Bremen, Ger- many. He told interviewers he had “nothing whatever to say about the suit.” Colonel Rogers Taking His Grandson to Europe New York, May 7 (®—Colonel Henry H. Rogers sailed for Europe early today aboard the White Star liner Olympic. With him was Peter, infant son of his daughter, Countess Millicent Salm Hoogstraeten. Colonel Rogers and the child will meet the Countess Salm in Europe. Just before the liner sailed, Col- onel Rogers announced the sole pur- pose of the trip is to reunite the mother and child and bring them back to America. Mrs. Rogers is with her daughter. The four will return probably in July, Colonel Rogers sald. SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY Connecticut River Roe Shad. ........... 35clb. Buck Shad . 22clb. Fresh Caught Mack- erel ..... .. 12¢lb. Porgies 18¢; Halibut 35c Large Scallops .. 55cpt. MOORE BROS. Commercial St. Phone 1199 Your ability to talk intelligently 1 HOW'S YOUR BRAIN POWER? n any company depends upon your [the government's money which | The grea He said, “it will teach The little rascal a lesson! Hec was in the soup last night!” pended, the contractor, fore- man, person or persons so dis- oleying such orders shall be liable to arrest, and upon con- fund of general Information. People judge you, size you up, by the intelli- ou dlsplay on topics of gener al Interest. Do you want to find out ou rate in the scale of genera | intelligence? Our Washington Bu- 8 a completo record of every q ueatlon usked by every reader of this newspaper. It knows what people wa nt to know. And it has complled & "ORECAST York — Generally fair Saturday; Sunday cloudy prob- ly showers in south portion, not | The next was mine, the human kind. {should be abandoned—a view that - the private banking firms are sus- J | e viction in the Town Court of sald town of Plainville shall he fined not more than one hun- dred dollars, or imprisoned In the county jail not more than slx months, or both.” Bounds sweet, If not powerful; ex- cept that there is no town court. When the code was adopted the creation of a town court was deemed a certainty. Hence the trial of building code violations was specifically handed that tribunal-to-be. building over to pected of helping. The reason is plain: If the gov- ernment abandons the collection of the possibility of | private collection of private debts is aided by that {hears of the suggesting the floated by bunking concerns in Wall the debts due much, One never British government cancellation of debts street; nor does one hear this from much change in temperature. Soutt New England—General- ly fair Satur Sunday cloudy, probably show CONDITIONS The northern disturbance moved castward to the maritime provinces, There will be much cloudiness over the states east of the Migsissippl river during the next two days and has Canadian the French government. Tt 1s Uncle ISv’lm‘.l money that they are after, merely beca he {s supposed to have plenty. But this money that use showers arc probable in this en- ure area except Northern New Eng- Northern New York and the “WHEN IN HARTFORD DINE WITH US.” Everything we serve very best, If you don’t believe it come in for a test. Wholesale and Retail Depart- ment in Connection. 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