New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1927, Page 2

NEW BRITAIN HAS & FAIR RADIO YEAR Reoception Troubles Traced to v Numerons Sources 4 ":The past season, tor radio fans in New Britain, has been falrly satis- faetory. Comparing’it with the sea- 868 of 1925-1926, it is found that Tesults obtained were far more sat- | istactory. The main cause for dis- satistaction was local disturbance, which held sway during considerable of the winter, although it was not | as troublesome as during the sea- | #on before. | During the season of 1925-26 lo- ! cal tans were troubled considerably by & persistent buzz, which blank- eted the wavelengths and prohibit- ed satisfactory listening. The noise began late in November and was still being heard as late as June, after which time it seemed to dle out. Radio Goat-Grabbers 1During the past season it was no- tieed on two or three evenings, but | at' no time was it loud enough to cause any trouble. There was a wide variety of disturbance during the past winter, however, most of | 1t being caused by electrical acces- sories used in the homes. The street | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1027. JITNEY OPERATOR AIRS GRIEVANCES It's Difficult to Satisly Pablic, His Firm Gonviction “Fare inna box!” and the woman call us a bunch of thugs.” Trattic and the new involved sys- tem of signal lights took the driv- er's attention at this point and we left him to weave his way through the maze of automobliles to the sts- tion at the Church street corner. NOW YOU ISPEEGH A LADDER T0 PUBLI ESTEEM Amusing Incidents Noted by Observing Newspaperman Bpeech-making is an art possess- who rides the bus line three times the passenger pays upon entering and not when alighting from the vehicle while the driver once more starts his Connecticut yellow elophant on its way towards the city. Co. & day is once more reminded that | A BIBLICAL QUIZ ASK ONE Today’'s questions all deal with Biblical subjects. 0 1—\Whose enemies did the proph- | ed by comparatively few, but few there are who are unwilling to at- tempt a discourse for public edifica- tion of & subject with which they protess to be familiar. To the aspiring politician it is a necessary tool and it is so regarded; o the trial lawyer it is a means y which the favorable features of ~—Photo by Johnson MISS JENNIE E. STARK Roosevelt School & Peterson The phrase “I'are inna box™ is repeated some 50 times a day, and usually to the same people and to persons who know perfectly well that the token is due upon boarding the bus but who just can't seem to get it through thelr heads that the rule holds good at all times. To some people the bus driver on a long run has a pretty soft time. He pilots a hige machine along the highway in a manner which commands the respect Miss Jennie E. Stark of Lyme, whose first year of experfence In the New Britain schools will be complet- ed this year, taught in Essex Gram- mar school and Madison Grammar school before taking up her dutics here, She attended Windham _ High passing motorists who edge over to give plenty of room to the wide nosed vehicle. The joys of motoring without the evils of gasoline ex- penditures are his; in case of tire trouble he walks to the nearest tele- phone and sits down to awalt the arrival of the relief bus from head- of | et Balaam bless when he was called to curse them? 2—From what mountain did { Moses view the promised land? | 3—What family was spared when the Israelites sacked Jer- |icho? | 4—What was the fate of the| j five kings, captured by Joshua in the cave at Makkedah? | | ©6—What miracle proved to| | Gideon that he was destined to save | | the children of Isracl? | 6—What did David do when he | and his men ambushed Saul in the | | cave at Engedi? : 7—Under what king of Babylon | were the people of Jerusalem car- ried away into captivity? §—Where is the following verse found: “Remember now thy creator | U deepest significance. a means of advertisement, to others a vent for their ego. Sometimes the | most sincere indvidual will be en- & client’s case may be presented | after the fashion of the bard who | wrote: I know you lawyers can with case Bend words and meanings as you please; And language, by your skill made pliant, Turn to favor every client.” To the clergyman, speech has its To some it is ertaining in spite of himself, and | chiefly because he s “s0ld” on the proposition of his own ability. Philip Troup, New Haven editor and orator, in a speech in this city some time ago introduced a hought in the realm of new speech- municipaliti He meant to say “statistics.” Public speaking is being stressed more and more as a means by which natural timidity may be over- come. In many cases it is success- ful, but sometimes it has the unwel- come effect of “finding” orators un- willing to hide their light under a bushel, and the public must listen, listen and listen. VOLGANIC SPIRITS BRSTOUTATAS. Puguacious Students Enlivened e | Class rivalry will live as long as the Senior High school is in exist- ence, it appears, for in this period when the students are said to take a milder attitude on affairs at the school the old feeling was demon- strated when the numerals of the senior and junior classes were paint- ed in the school premises. | The old timers back m the 80's used different methods to put their classes to the front. In those dayvs their feeling used to be demonstrat- ed with fists rather than the calm ways of the present age. As late as 1915 this method was still used. In that year probably the greatest outbreak of the history ot the school occurred when the ’ SHURBERG COAL Co. Office and Yard: 55 Franklin St. Summer Orders taken Now for the BEST 0ld Company's seniors and sophomores made an at- tempt to pull down a banner of the freshman and junior classes. i Knowing that their rivals were planning on the move the first and third year classes decided to cooper- | ate and pooled their money and went to hire gangsters and thugs to quarters. Mechanics tune up his car hefore leaving the garage—trouble ! 1s telephoned in from along the line and upon his arrival in his destina- tion another bus awaits him, in the pink of condition, full of gas and ofl } and ready to go. ‘Weather Affects Disposition ight ‘stem. was the cause of |chool, Willimantic State Normal e e seesione ot tus | school and Yale Summer school. She city, while the oil heating plants, | '"‘:‘"h';s EUATE 208 f Dstovels operated by electric [iBRRO0k responsible for the spolling of many motors, were | NNt b evenings for radio listeners. Some of | ‘REv MR 9y EORREGT 0 " in the days of thy youth”? making. He said: 9—Which of the OId Testa- Tour Types of Specches | ment prophets told of the time| “Although it is generally umder- when “they shall beat their | 8tood that but one speech figures in swords Into plowshares, and their | the duty of an after-dinner speaker, spears into pruning hooks; nation |I have come to know by experience shall not 1ift up a sword against | that there is mnot umerely one, but ehigh Coal : NOW is the time YOU can BUY YOUR the heating systems, employing mo- tors which threw off small sparks, | cansed a great deal of trouble. Un- {dentifled snappings and crackings, | appearing from nowhere caused a great deal of investigating on the part of fans who, believing some- thing was wrong with their sets, | ripped off the lids of the instru-| ments in wild eyed fury, only % find things as they should be. | With many stations increasing their power, it stood to reason that reception would be better than be- fore, even on poor nights, of which there were only an average num- ber. WJZ, WGY, WBZ and many | other of the “super-power” broad- | tasters could be heard on even the most static-laden evenings. Others | nation, nelither shall they learn | four. There 18 the spesch he makes TITLE FOR MINISTER dress a minister? “Rev. Jones” Not Proper Form for Introduction What is the proper way to ad- This subject has been discussed more or less informally by min- isters in this city for the past few months. It has ben brought up un- officially at meetings of the Protes- | | tough { about Nothing we do is Mght; they threat- | There's another side to the posi- { tlon, according to a chat with one of the blue capped pllots. “It all depends on the weather” stated the man at the wheel as the bus sped along the highway. “On days that have plenty of sunshine the passengers are as nice as ple— everything is rosy and we begin to | enjoy life. But let a rainy, drizzly day show up and we're in for a session. Everybody crabs anything and everything. en to notify headquarters — we're ahead of time or we're behind time or we're too near on time to suit war any more”? Patents Issued to Connecticut People (List compiled weekly from the | Officlal Gazette by the office of Harold G. Manning, Walk-Over Shoe Store, 211 Main street, New Britain.) Edward B. Allen, Newtown, as- signor to The Singer Mfg. Co., Elizabeth, N. J. Sewing machine. Roy L. Danks and M. L. Baker, | assignors to The Regal Silver Mfg. Co., New Haven. Spoon or similar article. T audience. Very eften | up a3 he prepares to fill'his engage- ment. It is usually a good specch. Then there {s the one he actually| delivers when he stands before his That has some traces of It Itis a Then, in eporter's version of the speech. It isn't recognized as |the strengthened freshmen the thought carried in the first, but| 18 by no means a counterpart, It |sinjors D A is usually not s good as the first. Then there is the speech he gocs'ang peace once more relgned on the over in his own mind as he returns campus of “dear old High."” to his home. speech; it represents what he wishes he had said—but didn't. the evening when he setiles down to read the dally paper, he sees the | seniors. : the officers of the law very good| aid them in their battle for the de- | fense of their flag. That night a | riot occurred and the police were called to put an énd to it but it was impossible to stop the two armies, ' and After a determined fight triumphed There were always mixups on class day for during the years that followed members of rival classes dressed in the costumes of their classes and trled to outdo the other. On the afternoon of class day each | class would present & play in the | next winter’s coal supply at prices which are GUARANTEED to be the LOWEST of the season. BY OUR SMALL WEEKLY PAYMENT PLAN You can place your o;'der now and be sure of having your bin filled with the them. They've waited an hour for a | { bus when you know for a fact that | they haven't been there over five the discourse prepared in advance © fthe meeting—but usually it's a better speech!” school auditorium. Fred S. English, New i In 1920-21 a near-riot occurred | Gripper-tensioning mechanism London. tant Ministers' association, on for streets and at social functions. to the south and west were heard to good advantage during most of BEST QUALITY COAL on the market. the winter, and Chicago broadcast- ers wers all 100 common. WBAL, Baltimore, was a steady and wel- | come visitor, with its high quality of programs and its faultiess transmis- ston. The 0ld bug-a-boo with New Brit- ain fans, WEAF, was heard to bet- | ter advantage than in the past, be- | cause of the fact that its power was | stepped up to 20,000 watts. Other New York stations were regular visitors. Air Traffic Jammed The jamming of the wavelengths probably lost more friends for the radio business than did any other | contributing force, the wave bands being jammed with stations during most of the winter. For that reason, listeners complained that it was im- possible to even reach some favorite 8, ately upon ministers. Jones,” All agree that the word “rever- end” I8 very much misused. There Is very little thought used, in the opinion of many of the cler- in titles conferred indiscrimin- A minister objes to being called “Reverend Jones. “Rev. Mr. or “Rev.” John Jones,” fs correct, but just plain “Reverend Jones” is considered as bad form or more often carelessness. At a recent social tunction the toastmaster Introduced a number of ministers in the audience as “Rev. Doe,” etc., and the incident provoked much comment the next day. Secveral local ministers were ark- ed what they would think if a man were to address them in that man- ner. “If a man addressed me as ‘Rev. minutes. “Who crabs the most? Well, T hate to say it but the women—God bless 'em—are the most consistent and the most thoughtless crabbers. But let a man get a crabbing streak on and he's worse than any ten women so I guess that evens things up.” Hardly pausing in his talk, he swung around a rattling flivver that hugged the center of the road re- gardless of the bus's whistle, “See that? Some day that bird’s going to have somebody crawl right up his back. It's always the boys in the five dollar down cars that | like to hog the highways when we're coming along. 1 suppose they figure that if they get busted up they can | { get more than the car's worth out presses, Fred S. English and T. L. Perry, | New London, assignors to The Bab- | cock Printing Press Mfg. Co. (2 | patents) Cylinder-tripping device | for multi-cylinder presses; and | Gripper-tenstoning mechantsm for | preuses, i Norman B. Hurd, New Britain, | assignor to The American Hardware | € | Corp. Door holder. | | Arthur C. Jackson, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford. Sealed padlock. | Harry E. Katzenmoyer, Rosedale, Pa., assignor, by mesne assignments, | to The Torrington Co., Torrington. | Latch Knitting needle. Edward C. Kennedy, Newark, Del,, assignor to the Torrington Co., Torrington. Latch needle. Simon Lake, Milford. Apparatus stand before this happens which I was seems something like coming back home to me.” He then made his; speech. was gazed about his audience a moment as his face became wreathed The Poor Mam Was Homesick Several years ago, a Herald man | several occasions members of ‘was assigned to “‘cover” noonday ral- | lies at factory gates in which a local | candidate for office was to outline | his policies and make a plea for votes. On Monday the speaker stood in the back of an open car and told mployes of the Stanley Rule & Level Co.— “Boys, I'm a little homesick as 1 you today. You see, to be the factory first employed, and it Tuesday, Landers, Frary & Clark's visited. The speaker arose, in in| Square park. when gangs about the school audi- | torlum caused a disturbance and on ! the | | faculty had to go among the stud- ents and keep them quiet. Toward | the latter part of the entertainment ! the seniors lost the great part of the cheering section when many of the “gallery gods" were removed to the street. | In 1922 a dummy representing one of tho instructors was found hanging from a rope in Franklin In 1923 the class spirit was expressed by numerals which were painted on the sidewalks ; in the park and on the walks lead- ing to the school. Probably the most daring plece of vandalism was committed in 1924 when a group of students en- tered the vocational building and painted the numerals “24” on floors, A CALL T0-—2250—WILL ANSWER YOUR NEEDS {For Quick Returns Use Herald Classified Ads. of the company. “We had a crab that was a_étab il eathon fuegRa: “Boys, I'm a little homesick as I stand before you today. You see, this happens to be the factory in which I was first employed, and it seems something llke coming back home to me.” Then, the speech. Wednesday found the Herald man dogging the speaker as he stood on | for the treatment of varicose veins. Robert H. Leach, Bridgeport, as- while T was working on the Hart- ford ltne. No m““ef what was the | 8l8n0r to Handy & Harmon. Silver : | alloy. time of day or the weather this boy | ® X could find something to crab about, | _Aniello Mascolo, Waterbury. Fly- ing toy. The first thing he did when he got | on a car was to take out his watch | James J. Murphy, Terryvitle, as- and compare the time: with the signor to Eagle Lock Co. Cylinder Alderson,’ and 1 gave the matter any thought at all, I'd think he was very carele: said Rev. William H. Alderson. “It is a common error, but one I think is growing,” #said Rev. Dr. Abel A. Ahiquist, “But it is incor- rect. It should be ‘Rev. Mr." or ‘Rev. stations and many were the scathing denunciations, levied against in- truding stationa. Canadian stations were not regu- lar visitors during the past winter and during the past month almost nathing has been heard of them. The fact that American stations| blackboards and on the walls of the school. When the early arrivals| among members of the faculty came | in the front entrance they found a pile of furniture, upset files and| scholastic record cards scattered about. It cost the school more than lock. $200 to repair this damage. have taken Canadian wavelengths in many cases is partly responsible for the scarcity of Canadian programs on New Britain sets. The DX fans were in their glory for about a month in the middle of the winter. KFI, KGO and other | atations on the Pacific coast were logged, while HOA, Denver, was a regular visitor for a time. Winnipeg, Canada, was heard to good advan tage for a few weeks, although it | finally dropped out of the running. ! PWX, Havana, was logged regularly and still is by some fans. 6-KW, Tuinuco, Cuba, with 4,000 watts power, came through like a local, | offering American dance tunes on Baturday evenings. Des Moines and Omaha, sharing 826 meters with WNYC New York, were consistent callers in this city, while the two Texas stations, WFAA | and WBAP, kept the 476 meter| wavelength busy atter WTIC signed | oft. | Florida Stations Out | The southern stations were very | popular, largely because of the| ease with which they were brought | in. WSM, Nashville, and WSB, At-| lants, are especially worthy of men- tion. Before the Florida hurricane | stations in that section of the coun- | iry came through very well, notably | ‘WIOD and WMBF, Miami Beach. Of late, they have not been heard. Ana even the small sets were bringing in the distance with ease. The general increase in power was responsible, coupled with excellent | atmospheric conditions. Stations which, in the past, were thought to | be almost out of the question, | boomed in with strength and de- | pendability, night after night. | Programa during the past win-| ter were markedly improved, in| comparison with those of the winter | before. “Continuity” programs were | probably the most popular, of which “The To-Be-Weds” from WJZ was | an example. Too Much Jazz? | Dance music predominated after | 10 o'clock at night and dance lovers | ‘were enabled to hear anything from | the highest paid band in the coun- | try to the pick-up organization used | to fill in between big features. Per- | haps there was too much dance| music and jazz was cutting its own | throat. Spme have complained that there was too much and doubtless | there was | Fans who have been in the habit | of putting their sets in moth b.flls! during the summer, need not bother | to do that this year. Last summer | was not so bad and, again bringing | in the “super-power” idea, programs | will be available from stations | within 300 miles, at least. The big | timers are using increased power | and they are the only ones which | fans need to worry about. ' A lessing in the tendency to travel | around from One station to another | has been noticed and radio listeners | are beginning to realize that the| nearby stations provide ample enter- l tainment, one.” an ordained clergyman the question | frequently arises about the proper | use of the title ‘Reverend.’ People spectful, | think, prefer to he | Rev. |aD John Smith," or his title if he has . Asked what he thought of it, Rev. Raymond N. Gilman, replied as fol- lows: “The matter of name or title is not an exceedingly important one. It is the attitude and spirit of the one who is speaking that really counts. “In addressing or in speaking of who use only the title ‘Reverend,’ as ‘Reverend Jones,' desire to be re- but most ministers, I addressed as plain “Mr. or ‘Doctor,’ if they hap- pen to be the possessors of a doc- torate degree. “When introducing a clergvman it sounds much better to say: ‘Rev. John Jones wiil now address us’ or ‘Meet Re r. Jones,” or ‘This is Doctor Jones' (providing he holds a doctorate degrée.) Though spoken with the best of intentions plain ‘Rev. Jons to the average clergyman &ounds neither courteous nor respectful.” By a peculiar coincidence, the men quoted above are members of civic clubs and among their inti- mate friends use their first names, or nicknames only. In the Rotaryl club, Rev. Mr. Alderson is “Bil in the Kiwanis club, Dr. Ahlquist is ‘Abel,” while Rev. Mr. Gilman is “Ray.,” to the Lions. Honorary titles, to which min- isters are justly entitled, sometimes prove embarrassing, Several local ministers, who could have titles probably if they wanted them, ars called “Dr,” by their friends, | very much to their own emba ment. Tt puts them in the position | of claiming false honors. On the other hand those who do | have titles do not often use them. | Rev. Dr. John E. Klingberg, who is | D., is known as Dr KI to the public, but seldom himselt Dr. Klingberg, while Rotary club of which he member, he s known Kiingberg. R calls | in th as himself as “Mr. Hill,” while the Rev. John L. Davis when in this city, although called Doe,” by friends, liked nothing bet- ter than to be known as “John L." phona refers to FLEPHANT EXECUTED | Paris—The most famous elephant | in France, Gaspard, old timer of the | Jardin des Plantes zoo, has been| exccuted. Suddenly becoming un-| manageable, all efforts of his 'kP"P-‘ ers failed to salm him. In the in-| torests of sofety, he was killed by asphyxiation. Eight dukes, four marquises and nine earls of England have turned themselves into private companies. The first peer to do this was the Earl of Warwick, who became the Warwick Estates Company, Ltd, in | | | 1889, | got his tools all schedule. He had every car timed to the second and couldn’t he howl it we were two minutes late or one minute ahead of schedule! Finally he got to be a pest and we all got together to take some of the ef- ficiency out of him. I finally caught | him smoking on the sixth seat from the rear of a car where five scats were reserved for smoking. He never got over the shock of being called down in public and his own | medicine didn’t taste as good as he | thought it would. He quit crabbing after that and lately T hear he's dis- appeared—musta bought a car. Gets Even With Copper “T had a run-In with a cop In this city once and I had to wait al- most a month to get him right for it. He bawled me out once for some- thing and it didn't set 86 good with me, especially as he was mooching considerable rides oft me when he wasn't in uniform. T was ding-ding- ing on a trolley then and this cop was building a new house on my line. One noon he got on with a | flock of tools and things without a uniform and busted right up to the front of the car—not even looking at the fare box. I waited until he settled and got comfortable and then, with a crowd- ed car listening in, I ‘called’ him. T've seen guys furn red but I never saw one turn the color he turned. He never would even ride on any car I conductored on after that. “Once 1 had another pleasing lit- tle experience. I was on the Plain- viile line and on the last’ run at night a whole bunch ot people that | had been on a party got on near Barnesdale. Oae fellow with his wife, had been tipping it a little too { much and he sat on the rear side seat and began telling his wife in Swedish just what I was and how | much he would like to take me out and throw me around. 1 wae berg | brought up on the language and I afjidale, Trickle charges. understood every word he sald so | T waited until he got all through and I began telling him in Swedish just what I thought of him and what I was going to do to him when Dr. George W. C. Hill, in- | I 5ot off my run. I still see the | variably in calling some one on the | WOman on the street once in awhile | sulated electrical | | non-metallic conduits for electrical | gration and she crosses over every time she spots me. It's a Hard Life, Mates “It fsn't all gravy. On Sundays when the once a week come out in full force it isn't very easy to keep some of them from climbing up your radiator. We get | 0 sick of the route that we nearly 50 crazy some times and take the bus across lots just to vary the monotony. We get women who hand us wrong transfers and dollar hills. We get snowstorms and icy rains that make it hard driv- ing and we're due at a certain time with plenty of complaints if we're a little late. And when we get peeved at the whole world in gen- eral and act a little nasty to some bird that walks past the fare box when he knows darn well he's got to glve us a tolken for the ride they » Thomas P. Nickell and W. H. Rodefeld, Richmond, Ind., said | Nickell assignor to R. 8. Blair, | Stamford. Commutating mechanism | ¢, for ignition systems and the like. Karl E. Peller, West Hartford, assignor to Hartford-Empire Co., Hartford, Apparatus for separating molten glass into mold charges. Pery H. Ripple, New Britain, as- slgnor to The American Hardware Corp. Doorcheck. Daniel D. Swem, Bridgeport, as- signor to The Artistic Bronze Co. ‘Washington street between the two gates leading to Russell & Erwin's. Once again smiles came across the andidate’s face as he began:— “Boys, I'm a little homesick, etc., ete.” On Thursday when Stanley Works operatives sat on the curbstone or | leaned back against the fence as the speaker arose, the Herald man, un- der his breath, began:— “Boys, I'm a little homesick,"— and he was right! | Bracket hinge. | Albert R. Thomson, Derby. patents. Antiskidding device; Tread member for antiskidding de- vices. Benjamin C. Webster, Southport, | assignor, by mesne assignments, to | Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc. Clo- sure and its support. Otto West, Cleveland, Ohlo, Lamp socket. Trade-Marks Registered dress patterns. Inc., Meriden. Electric compound. Jose Cruz, Ansonia. ville, assignor, by mesne ments, to E. I. du Pont de der. Henry C. Thompson, ties, Inc., Springfield, water in automobile radiators. Weidlich Sterling Spoon Bridgeport. Silverware. bury. Soap. Trade-Mark Applicants | spirited race for a mayoral | signor to The Miller Co., Meriden. The Conde Nast Publications, Ine., N. Y., N. Y., and Greenwich. Paper The Connecticut & Telaphone Co. insulating Automobile rim for the wheels of automobiles. The Hazard Powder Co., Hazard- ansign- @ 0urs and Co., Wilmington, Del., Gunpow- Hartford, assignor to The Thompson Special- Mass. Ma- terials for preventing freezing of The J. B. Willlams Co., Glaston- drivers | ten | The Hartford Battery Mfg. Co., | Markott Brothers, doing business | as Mark-Off Shoe Stores, Danbury and South Norwalk, Conn., and| | Peekskill, N. Y. Boots, shoes, slip- | | pers. The Wiremold Co., Hartford. In- conductors and | t conductors. |1 Alexander Wojciechowskl, Nor- wich. Palliative for headache and rheumatism, burns, pimples, etc. Prints Registered The Kolynos Co., New Haven. | How Clean My Mouth Feels! For | | Dental Cream. NAVY CREW GOOD Supporters of the Navy crew are rather optimistic in regards to the coming Poughkeepsie regatta. The Navy oarsmen have won three vic- | i torles this season, against M. I. T., | | Penn and Haryard, and are now awaiting the big test on the Pough- keepsie after races against Syracuse and in the Amierican Henley. FOR YOUR WANTS bug” dreamed fathers were in session he was call- | ed upon to present a report of his | committee, and he did in true radio- | phan fashion, declaring: READ AERAID CLASSIFTED ADS cral days past I have been ' gathering the ‘statics’ He Wasn't Prepared, But— Several years ago there was a nom- inatfon. For wecks in advance of the primary, the candidates lost no | opportunity to be present wherever crowds congregated in the hope of corralling a few extra votes through | the medium.of a handshake, a cigar or a few spoken words addressed to the gathering. One evening while a certain rally was in session offe of | the candidates was present. After, the gathering was over several im- promptu speeches were made. Some- one suggested a few remarks from the candidate, whereupon he arose, cleared his throat and sald:— “Gentlemen, when I came here tonight the thought of making a speech was farthest from my mind. | Now that you have called upon me I am caught unaware. But since you have seen fit to do so—" And with these words he very formally reach- ed into the inside pocket of his coat, extracted a sheaf of neatly folded papers—and read a lengthy speech to the gathering! He Got Away With Tt Sometime ago a civic club secured the services of a speaker to discuss the immigration laws. Because of the nature of the subject, it was voted to invite agents of steamship companies to hear him and on the appointed day they s:t in the dining room of the Burritt hotel together with members of the club. end of his talk one of the agents, a At the ormer city officlal, walked over to he speaker and said:— “I'm surprised at some of your statements, supposed to be authori- ative interpretations of the immi- law. Sometime you're go- ng to find someone in your audi- | ence who recognizes the error and | who is not so charitable as myself.” Instead of the anticipated argu- | ment, the pald talker frankly ad- mitted a lack of famillarity with his subject but declared he had given the speech on countless without previously being challenged. occasions Radio Affected His Thought A member of the common coun- | eil having purchased a radio set a | tew days before the council meet- ng immediately became a ‘“radio and talked, thought and radio. When the city | Principal Louis P. Slade has de- cided that the latest vandalism has gone" far enough and has ordered that the senior class pay for the re- | pair of abutments which were used as a canvas for thelr artistic tastes. The paint sunk into the abutment in front of the vocational building of the school for about a quarter of an inch. For a while it seemed that the latest vandalism would cost the clase its promenade and banquet but unless the expense of taking care of the damage is not too high it is ex- pected that the annual affairs will be held. 10K TRINS IGAS AT SHITH SCHOOL 10-Year-Olds in Stilf Battle for Marble Title A great battle was staged between Zuk and Zigas at the Levi O. Smith school in the Herald-Junior Achicve- ment marble shooting tournament yesterday afternoon. The score was tied 2 and 2 at one stage of the conflict, but the conqqueror proved to be Frank Zuk, 10 years old, of 40 Sheffield street and the vanquished | was the 1926 champlon, Joseph Zigas, another 10-year-old. The score of the school championship game was 7 to 2. While Zuk will be awarded the medal for the Smith school, Zigas climbed a long way up the ladder before he was eliminated. One of his closest contestants was Frank Shrey, whom he defeated 7 to 5. He also defeated Edward Linn and Adam Cheseny. Zuk had little trou- ble with any of his opponents un- til he ran up against Zigas. ! Some of the other boys who played good games were Seymour Bushell, Ribaldo Dechesser, Robert Ander- son, Joseph Poglitsch and Walter Zymenskl. It is now planned to determine the champlons of the Elihu Burritt school, the Smalley shool, the Washington school and the two junior high schools during next week. The games at the Smalley school have been definitely an- nounced for Tuesday afternoon, when Dominic Cartelli, 1926 city champlon, will make his appearance in the arena. Auto Painting “For sev- busy ot varlous Expert Work Low Prices Spraying or Varnishing FRANKLIN SQ. FILLING STATIO! F. E. R, JIr. 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