New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1927, Page 6

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York at Hotaling ewsstand, Times Square; Schultz’ wastands, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street, — HONOR THEIR MEMORIES The annual day set apart for hon- | oring the memories of departed war It should There has for those battleficlds; croes comes Monday. tind our hearts prepared. 'n glory and honor who returned from the niemory should ever remain green ior those who went but failed to return, A day which origin one set aside for decorating graves of men who had fought in the war to pieserfe the Union has vxpanded into one honoring the memories of all American veterans answered the last sum- Thus the significance of the Uoliday, although not changed from its primary application, has been vastly enlarged In (his city there will be a parade Vonday and it is expected to be a imuch more Impressive one than the one last year. which has declared was “disgraceful.” The mayor, himself a war veteran, takes such a thing seriously—yet no more seriously than all others should take it—and wants a parade worthy the name. Eddy Glover post of the American Legion, the Spanish- American wuar vets, the Sons of Veterans, and numerous other or- ganizations will be represented, and citizens generally can be expected to line the streets and join in doing obeisance to those in line. Taken as a whole, however, it is feared the day has been robbed of considerable of its significance by the urge of sport and the universal use of the automobile. The latter nas given to people the opportunity to “go driving,” and this has turned out to be rather devastating compe- titioni to Memorial Day celebrations. This is to be exceedingly regretted, yet cannot be helped. Memorial Day and Armistice Day, instead of being devoted exclusively to the ob- jects for which they are sof aside, have come to be regadded as giving opportunities for holiday pastimes. A little of this may be all right; but too much of it sets at naught the exalted object of the day. But no one can do anything about it; this i3 a free country. Calling atten- tion to these pertinent facts may be of value; if the weather is favor- able there will be the usual amount of holidaying all the same, while sport lovers will do a sort of vicarious obeisance to the day—In ¢ began as the who have mons. other words, letting the other fellow | do it. There are many who take life more seriously than that. They will visit the cemeteries, give of their time to go through the rites of memorializing the dead. They may be in the minority, but they will show the true spirit of the day. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA Premier Baldwin of Great Brit- ain 18 perfectly sincere in declaring that England seeks no more than # cessation of political dealings with the soviets, that there is no inten- tion of creating a more serious situ- tion. Furthermore, England hopes to retain some Russian trade, gardless of re- the termination of po- litical relations. The trade agreement between the IWo countries was formed on the lLasis that Russia would c#use its inda work in FEngland, the vroy and mutval understanding that might be able to in London. Both sides have been disappointed, The sov with Moscow money horrow ts had a foreign trade st year of more than $350,000,000, This is entirely in the hands of the government, by the only governme where forcign trade Hocated it sees fit. It s in the world 1 be Moscow is a mental monopoly, and tion as quite The statistics show, the United St recognize Russi the a power in | however, atd , got much more of Russian trade than Great Brit- which s, which not iin, With Premier recognized the sovicts, these figures before him Daldwin might ‘have b persuaded to conclude that the rec- | ment ognition of Russia has not been ‘\\\‘.\l may come 10 a Mayor Weld | | tion of preventing railroads much of a success from trad standpoint. The contention that the bolshe- viks have been propagandizing com- munistic doctrines too frequently no doubt has been well sustained. The Moscow government could very well avold affronting other nations in this manner by ceasing its collabo- ration with the Third Internation- ale, This senscless policy converts no one in the more enlightened na- tions and makes embittered ene- mies. The Moscow chieftains should have learned before this that propa- ganda in other nations pays very poor dividends. What Russia needs above every- thing else i3 capital to develop its vast resources, This can only com: from the very nations she has been | insulting by propagating communis- tic doctrines within them. Conse- quently she has obtained very little of the necessary money. She will continue to receive little financial help until she mends her ways; that fact has become more certain as the years pass. The attendance of Russian dele- gates at the economic conference which has just concluded its ses- sions at Geneva was primarily to in- terest the others in lending money for Russian enterprises. They were treated politely, but there has been no money forthcoming since the conference; instead, there has been a breaking of relations by England. It the Russians can ever get to the point of ceasing to insult others who do not care to follow their po- litical example they would find pro- gress easier. RAILROADS THAT PAS6 THROUGH AT GRADE Residents of New Britain who have occasion to ride through Syra- N. Y., on the New York Cen- cuse, tral fully realize that thelr native city is not the only one where rail- road tracks lend a drab touch to the business district. The situation in Syracuse is rather in a class by itself, and instead of there being only a few downtown railroad cross- ings at grade, these arc as plentiful as tall buildings. Syracuse is a horrible example of city which made no effort to regulate future growth around railroad enterprises, or which did not take the precau- from planting themselves in the heart of the business district without elevat- ing or submerging the tracks. We have a touch of this system in New Pritain and were it not that the railroad here is a branch line in- stead of a main line, the sitvation vould b- like in Syracuse. Irrevocable franchis granted the railroads in operate eight miles of tracks laid on the beds of city streets. There are 136 grade crossings, and in the case of 44 of these the number of vehicles crossing daily total 165,000; street cars cross the railroad tracks nearly 8,000 times daily. Passengers on the New York Central eare “thrilled” by riding into Syracuse along a busiress street of consider- able importarnce, just as if they were riding on a trolley car. Through tffe heart of the city at grade pass the main line tracks of this great rail- road; and if the people in Syracuse are asked about it, nothing is deem- ed so detrimental to the welfare of the city as this archaic reminder of early thoughtlessness. The railroad, of course, would be delighted to see the tracks elevated if the city paid more of the bill than it thinks it can afford. That Is the way of rail- roads. Between the maximum of incon- venience and danger existing in Syracuse to the much milder form experienced in New Britain there is a wide gulf, and many other com- munities find themselves enmeshed in the saine net. Railroads pass through or mnear the business sec- ticns of hundreds of cit and everywhere the consequent nuisance is a subject for heated discussion. How to get the railroads to change their rights of without going bankrupt or causing sundry munict- palities to do so is a problem yet unsolved. The railroads insist are not to blame; that their tracks are long before the cities were built around them. In the early days when rail- roads were constructed the exercise of foresight was rare; ized the day might much worse—or s were yracuse to way were placed where they come | tracks at grade would be a menace, detriment or nuisance. invited, and way Invariably often they they the railroads were 1, to enter a city could have any right cajol desired, just so they came to bless the town and didn't pass through nearest ri burg. In the early of railroading It was rare that a line could the day obtain a right of town hall if it not way right past the desire Now the one there is talk of of ere the omelet is more odorifer- Al of vgEs numerous han artistic, which the AND WORKS IN ENFORCEMENT e over prohibition veoin . Andrews took enforcement sever- al ago with the accompani- considerable hullabaloo about what he was going to 40 and (\fn they | nobody real- | when | first | It oses en- how he going to proceed, ooked as i he would be th who would lead prohibition forcement out of the wilderness into the promised land. When he got thoroughly im- sed in the matter, however, he found several outstanding facts which tended to weaken his out- look upon the possibilities. Finally ; he told a congressional committee he did not think prohibition could ever be completely enforced. That was the straw which ruined him completely in the estimation of the Ant{-Saloon Leag: which claimed he “lacked faith.” Yet General Andrews, despite what he thought about his job, vored to do the best he knew He abolished the rum en- i liow foreigners to curtail which he did not believe could be stopped otherwise, tightened the lookouts on the Canadian border, and organized his forces with a view toward stopping the manufacture on a big scale of alcoholic this country. While doing this he still did not believe 100 per cent prohibition en- forcement could be attained. That isn’'t saying he would not shoot at the mark—he merely thought it un- likely, in view of all the circum- stances, that the business of fur- nishing liquor could be entirely dis- pensed with at this time. For this opinion he was excoriated by those who preferred to see silved linings in the storm clouds. Now we find that the new pro- hibition commissioner, Dr. J. M. Doran, is breaking up the enforce- ment machine of General Andrews and will start operations from the ground up. Dry agents of promi- nence are resigning, as they are ex- pected to do, and others are being substituted. It must be remembered that the Andrews enforcement ma- chine was built up during a period of two years and at the time it was being created was regarded as the last word in efficiency. Whether the new enforcement machine being substituted will be as effective is entirely a matter of conjecture. New brooms are expected to sweep clean, but in enforcement this does not always hold true, as a certain amount of experience is necessary. General Andrews is showing a de- sire to co-operate with the new ma- chine being arranged and he has tried to hold in line those dry agents who are throwing up their jobs im- mediately. The Antl-Saloon League has grievously misjudged the man. The probabilities are the new commis- sioner, whatever he may say in pub- lic about it, will speedily accumu- late the same opinlons Gencral An- drews had. Enforcing prohibition perfectly may be attained some time in the future, but 100 per cent en- forcement at the present writing is nearly too much to expect, regard- less of the "fatth” possessen "y the commissioner. The besi. *®.t can be expected of a commissioner is to have him do kis best and not let his private opinion be the criterion. drinks in Factsand Fancies Prohibition: A politicat issue en- , tirely surrounded by detours. The good die oung. Possibly, this brazen age, it's shock. in Foolish synonym for today: As loyal to his party as Cole L. Blease. Examples of fleeting things: Time, a rookie pitcher's reputation, a shine. You can’t tell. Many a big guy has a chawin’--tobacco appearance and a crepe de chine soul. 21 At last man is discovering how cigarette Kkiss tastes, There’s always a bright side. And just anybody could reappoint Hoo- ver and Mellon. One of the hard old boys never things anything for the good of the party unless he gets a slice of it. Well, it Coolidge is greater than Washington, Grant and Roosevelt, let him have a third shot. Americanism: Passing laws to curb speeders; using a car’s speed as sales talk. borhood” scems to e you horrow a cork- instead of a cup of sugar. Of course the ablest men should but A an office scems no bigger than two-by-fours that have held it. rew las! the really costs is, 1orc than $25,000 nd a lot more to gh after you get there, The comfort’ much fu hildren who are “A to their parents don't in the meantime. g very poor, and of them must begin their ban- othing more than a club, ohibitionists failed while they dx;,‘ nded on sinc ; but when be ln pocrites the W orlI Our daily book reviaw: Marching on. by James Boyd (Scribners, $2.50). A North Carolina po' white with aspirations; civil war. Re- ¥ fleet, | negotiated with the liquor-shipping | thelr traffic | i i ! | | } i ol i | ordered ! job in the case of ons Dad sparrow, reporting at noon: ‘Couldn't find a thing but a flivver bolt and two buttons off a pedes- trian.” Correct this sentencei “It {s my first time in plus fours,” said he, “and yet the world doesn’t seem to 25 Years Ago Today The two little girls, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hilton of 76 Church street, are critically ill, and the current supposition is that this is due to the indulging their fond- ness for ‘“chocolate rats,” which they purchased at a candy store. These “rats” are quite popular, and other children bought from the same lot, so this may not be the cause. The owner of the store is having the manufacturers send & chemist to anlayze the confections, and Dr. Kellogg will analyze sam- ples from the same box. No. 1 Washington place has heen fumigated by Dr. R. M Clark, as one of the smallpox pa- tients is known to have been there. The doctor has been unable to veri fy a reported case on Dwight street. A man called at the hospital this morning ard represented himself as an electrician desirous of making an inspection. When he had gone $29.50' was missing from the pocket book of the matron and $7.50 more from the cook’s. Depositors in the New Britain Savings bank and Burritt Savings bank are interested in the sugges- tion that these banks may follow the example of others and reduce thelr interest rate from 4 to 3% per cent. An afficlal of the former bank told a Herald reporter today it was hardly good business to pay four per cent to depositors and not get that much on loans. W, E. At- wood said the same thing but added there would be no change right away. Up till a few years ago, lo- cal banks paid 412 per cent. The Young Men's club rooms in Plainville are nearly ready. They are in the 0dd Fellows' building and inciude a reading room and | gymnasium. At the councll of Congregational churches held in Plainville vester- day the: Usher brothers quartet sang. The school committee last night voted unanimously in favor of the new high school curriculum im- proving the commercial course and facilities. ‘HUMAN INTEREST IN“AD" GOLUMAS Tnteresting Pesps Tnto Peaple's Minds Found in “Classified” “Human interest” is not confined to the news columns of the press. The trials and tribulations, and sorrows, probiems and strug- xles of humanity probably get into the advertising columns as often as in the news columns, particularly is this s0 of the classificd columns. In order to avoid any possible em- barrassment, incidents used to illus- trate this statement are taken from a paper printed in another eity. They are taken from the classified advertising section. One man, who apparently believes that his customers can be scared into doing business, rather than be scared off, advertisess—"Read the accident list, nine killed and forty disabled. Moral, get **** to teach you to drive a car.” A woman who might have added “longely” to her list of quahtica- tions, advertise Refined, middle aged lady would like housckeeping position for widower. A man who undertakes to teach barbering by mail, advertises, “Don't jump to conclusions and hat the business you are est fitted | for.” A ohysical culture expert who specializes in fat reducing, adver- tises that he desires appointment with a private Ez\rl), elther lady or | gentleman.” A pleasant week-end job is hint- ed at in an ad asking for a “young man to drive roadster to shore on Sundays.” An insurance agency advertising for an pericnced stenographer,” contradicts itself by adding, "experi- cnce desirable but not essential Making sure that tions will admit all types, one ad- vertiser asks for ‘“competent cou- ples, colored or white,” evidently not rralizing that negroes are not colored, therefore barring that race. Some children evidently look after their own ablution: in an adv. which to take care of children “No washing.” The -scars of battle have tamed one man who advertises for a posi- tion, and states that he is a “faith- ful, married, rvice man.” He probably wants a peaceful job. House moving might be under- stood to be the business of the ad- vertiser who says “Apartment. go- ing to shore for summer, Absentee ownership may be all right, but employes must be on the apartment “Jan- for a woman and add which offers as an inducement itor on premises.” Tenants seem to he becoming scarce and inducements are offercd. One advertiser siys “Moving penses paid.” Another ona “Rent free for month of June.' Just what is meant by the hoard- ing house which advertises “Private family, contintous hot water” is not stated. There is not panionship “ording to an who advertiscs for sale “Room- ing house filled with desirable peo- like i ac rtiser tells liow to refin- atique furniture. oriee within stories are sug- sted by a list of beaded bag, eyve . £old cigar cutter, fur coat and cabs. large silver flask lost in taxi children of | joys | the qualifica- | as is indicated | will sub- ! congenial | the | | swat the fly this year?"” {had come in contact with {ment walk he became a traveling | boys and girls under fourteen, | winner gets medical attentions free, | ehurch weddin, Shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Here's How We Define That Troublesome Word! We're fundamentalists for we Believe that FUN was MEANT to be! That's why the merry month of May Should find folks laughing all the day! More Important Howard: “So Harold and Janet are married at last, eh? What was the biggest pre-nuptial event?” Hobart: “It was when Harold suc- ceeded in making another loan at the bank!” —Nina Frosch THE FUN SHOP ) Judicial Our court system, says a Harvard jurist, is out-of-date. Right. There are courts which still hold to the quaint theory that a man is head of his family! PR Modistic” This summer's vogue in female dress Is such, our experts find That girls won't drive a car withaut Driving the fellows blind! 'S WEEKLY .« . e Foreign France, according to report, considering the advisability of laxing her immigration laws. She’s probably run out of cabinet | members! s re- DY Social Peaches got her figure fixed; Aimee went on tour; Pola wed a Georgian prince— Ain’t you glad you're pure? .« .o Zoologlcal Kangaroos are progressing in number, says an Australian dis- patch. By leaps and bounds, we suppose! The Target Logan: “Is your wife going to Butler: “Oh yes, yes! practicing on me alread —Mrs, F. A. Meyers She's been Ttems From the Darktown News Edited by Onyx and Florian . (Supervised by Paul 8. Powers) Locals Mr. Airedale Dippy made mar- riage with Miss Ectacy Jazzberry ! ‘Wednesday noon. De bride carried a beautiful bouquet ob watermelon blossoms, and de bride’s father car- ried a handsome shotgun, H o e 0 Mr. Oister Flicker paid a forty | dollar grocery bill with nickels and | dimes, Wednesday eve. Mr. Flicker was conductor on de Darktown sur- | face lines. Mr. Agonius Pop am de new conductor. . . Two persons was quite painfully | hurt Friday morning when a sales- man sailed off de front porch ob Mrs. Poppy Wham. Shortly after he de ce- salesman. . . Grandpa Lincoln Guzzle nearly broke his neck Tuesday eve when de cork he was pulling with his teeth_came out suddenly. e e Advertisements Green Apple Eating Contest; T am putting on a green apple eating con- test at my place Thursday week, for De all others cash. Dr. Thorax Pustule. Also, tonsils removed cheap this week only—thirty-five cents each, two for fifty cents. This s only to advertise my high class surgery cut- tings. . . Announcement: We has decided to make a small charge for ex- tinguishing fires in de future in order to pay evpenses. De price am six bits per fire, payable in advance, Darktown Fire Department. J. Siren Crackly, Fire Chi Falling Aviator: “And only yes- | ¥ my doctor told me not to~get my feet wetl” The Reason Ernest: “Al, just why aisles roped off .h ~a are the fashionable that Barber. Albert: “Merely to show someone is getting roped in!" “auline R. Solved We have evolved the following an- swer for all questions in the ques- tion-and-answer hook T don’t know and I don't Obeying Mother (Mother doesn’t want Father to of- wave, and it has been impossible to {bring in the Davenport station with { ritory unless —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People Beginning with next Tuesday, radio stations are going to pop up in the most unexpected places imag- inable on the dials of sets owned by New Britain radio fans. Ac- cording to announcements made by the federal radio commission, there is to be a general shifting of wave lengths, but it is said that the changes will be temporary only in order to find out just where vari- ous transmitters can be located on the wave bands with the least in- terference to each other. Every mall into the Herald office has brought notices from stations of changes in their wave lengths, many of them, on their face being of such a nature that local listen- ers will have difficulty in bringing in some of the favorite stations. For instance, it has been sald that ‘WTIC, Hartford, will be located on 461 meters. Another source had it 447.5 meters and word from the sta- tion itself advised the Herald that the officials there have not yet been notified of a change in wave length by the radio commission. But, whether it be 447.5 or 461 meters, | WJZ will suffer. It will be im-| possible to bring in WJZ while WTIC is on the afr, if either of the two wave lengths mentioned are cor- rect. WJZ will suffer in much the same manner as does WEAF, al- though there will be more of a dis- turbance, due to WJZ's high power. WEEI, Boston, has announced that it has been assigned to 447.5 meters, so, in all probability WTIC will be found elsewhere. ‘Woc, Davenport, a favorite station, will benefit as far as local fans are con- cerned. The wave length! of that transmitter has been 484 meters, | right in the shadow of Hartford's the insurance city broadcaster on the | air. But WOC announced today that | it has been assigned to 352.7 meters, which is in comparatively quiet ter- some other station nearer at hand is assigned to a wave | length near there. WWJ, Detroit, will be found on a | wave length of about 375 meters, not | s0 bad. WRNY, New York, will not sufter, WRNY will be moved to 309 | meters. | 1t is interesting to note that the | wave-jumpers and the presumptuous young rascals that sprang into be- ing during the latter part of last vear and the early part of this have being content to hang up abruptly leaving one with the desire to hand him a hard one on the chin, the big stiff. ally his abrupt departures leave the other end hanging in the middle of a sentence. There should be a law. Then there is the hard of hear- ing chap. He never gets what you tell him in anything less than five tries. When answering the phone he shuts all windows, stops other con- wersations, glares at sotheone who rustles paper and then says “Huh?” | for a twenty minute stretch. There is the long distance demon. | He gets a big kick out of talking | with foreign places. Any excuse for a call to Los Angeles sends him aft- er toll line. Usually the charges are reversed. There is the careful talker—the fellow who carefully speaks each word directly into the mouthplece as per instructions issued by the| company. In case he cannot get operator immediately he follows out instructions to a bitter end. To watch him at work on a dial phone is an education. Then there is the telephone 'hnrd guy'’—the chap who takes delight in bawling out the operator. A slight delay from the girl with the smile brings from this idiot a string of abuse that would do credit to a dyspeptic longshoreman. He is for- ever threatening to “notify the com. pany” ahout a certain operator. In real life he is usually five feet three inches tall and afraid of a good sized jack rabbit. Then there {s the rhetoric shark, usually of the weaker sex. This woman abandons all idea of speed and efficiency by giving through the | phone a complete lesson in English —as she is spoke. Her idea of ask- | ing who's talking is “May I inquire | | who this might be to whom T am | speaking? One feels positively | ashamed to just give her the name without tipping one's hat, making a low bow and kissing the extended hand. Then there {is the person who mumbles on in a monotone, grow- ing fainter until the listener at the other end has a fear that he 18 be- ing strangled slowly by a band of Parls Apaches. After about ten min- utes of muttering he stops and the receiver clicks signifying that the conversation {s over. Bewildering but harmless; he very seldom has anything to say worth while listen- becn consigned to the comparative Gblivion of 230 and 250 meters, wave | lengths not struck by many of the sets of today. The old timers and those that stuck to their wave | lengths or walted for the department | of commerce to make a different as- signation are receiving the cream o(y the wave bands, Which, after all, | is as should be. | There will be many other changes, | doubtless, and it will be necessary | to wait for specifie information from the stations themselves before mak- | ing any statements, since reports,| sist upon conflicting. New Britain fans are asked to | communteate with the Herald if they | are not satisfied with the reassign- in finding out just how the new wave | lengths will affect New Britain fans and prompt communication ‘with | this newspaper will make it possible for all fans In the city to see just where they stand. Murmurs of pe- titions to stations and to the radio and it is expected that New Britzin will not allow its toes to be stepped on without raising a considerable howl. Definite announcement as to | the others. commission are already belng heard | whether or not WBZ will shift its | ing to. There {s the watchful telephone : talker. He usually starts off with | “There’s somebody on this line” when, as a matter of fact there | couldn’t possibly be anybody on the line except a couple of sparrows. He seems to think that the entire na- tion is in league against him and is | Mstening in on his most innocent calls. There s the perfect conversationalist. He says what he to say in a concise yet polite He has none of the faults of | He {s efficient in every detail. He should be honored. Leave telephone way | wreaths and flowers at the rear en- | {mewt. The radio editor is intercsted | FanCe l “It is comparatively easy to get to the top but it is much more dif- | fleult to stay there,” remarked a retired business man while being | integviewed on his opinions about! | success. Likewise it might be said that | getting on the front page of a news- | | paper is not such a difficult feat but |it i3 a real test staying th . The | | front pags of a paper is similar in | some respects to a merchant’s favdr- | ite show window—the best and most | wave lcngth has not been made as vet. New Britain fans must band to- | gether for their mutual satisfaction, Prompt expression of opinion will help considcrab] There are many types of tele- | phone talkers. { There is the seeretive bird who nearly climbs down the mouthpiece | hear him. If he calls up the corner grocery store for a small can of salmon onec would think that he was planning 2 bank elopement with the person at the other end. To have one of these pests call up means an ear strain in trylng to hear what he has to say. It usually isn’t much. Then there is the phone shouter. This fellow thinks his success in the A buzzy wire brings shrieks from him that would come in handy if he were drowning. Sometimes when one is-busy and trying to work through the noise, one is tempted to wish that he were drowning. There is the stutterer. This fellow has a curlous complex which ties up his tongue every time he takes a receiver off the hook. Able to carry on brilllant conversation at normal times, this stammerer make a com- plete mess of saying “yes” over the phone. Short conversations run into hours because of his conversational steeple chasing. Then_ there is the fellow with plenty of time to waste. Anything which is an excuse for a conversa- tion serves to have him reach for the phone. e usually starts off “D'ya know who this ally most of the members of this class are she's, Then there is the important some- hody. He neglects to say goodbye, —_— Gerald Draper, Esq.: Mr. George Haslett has the honor of requesting the presence of Mr. Gerald Draper at the cashier's win- crdashery store before June the first, 1927. The reception will be for the purpose of arranging pay- ment fer Mr. Gerald Draper’s pants. Mr. George Haslett desires also to state that should Mr. Gerald Draper be unable to honop Mr. George Haslett with Mr. Gerald Draper's presence, Mr. George Has- lett will, er's pants off of Mr. Gerald Draper’ fend Mr. Draper, and suggest that he write the Collection Letter formally.) (Found by Marian G. Deer) George Haslett R. 8. V. P (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction Forbidden) ‘of the phone for fear somebody will h robbery or an | conversation depends on his ability | | to vell louder than the other fellow. " Incident- | dow of Mr. George Haslett's }Iah.' upon next sceing Mr. Ger- | ald Draper, kick Mr. Gerald Drap- | Interesting goods are found in both | | places,” What qualifies a new story for | first page position? First of all it | must be of interest to a great many | | people. The greatest interest to the | | greatest number, is the first requi- | site. The character of the story is! not of so much importance but it| | must be interesting whether it deals | with religion, murder, divorce, spec tacular feats or accidents. Frequent. | Iy a newspaper reccives an jtem about affairs which have limited in- | terest accompanied by the request| that they be given first page posi- tion. People making such roquem‘ cannot understand why they are not | granted. In widespread interest, the World War was the prize first pager of the| present generation and yet, for a| time, it received only a few lines dally frequently tucked away on an | inside page. Then the war flared| up it was first page copy for many | weeks. But when winter arrived | and the opposing armies dug in, fighting was virtually discontinued. | There were raids and counter-raids | which seemed to be of little interest in this country. But with warmer| weather, the armies and navies were | released and the war came back | onto the front pages of the newspa- pers. When the United States gov-| ernment began to show interest, ey- ery newspaper ‘‘played up” the story and when America got into the war, editors’ chief regret was| that they had only one front page to give to their readers. It is actual fact that many days during the war, there were enough excit ing events reported to provide sev- eral eight column heads. The task of the editor was to select the one | Which was most striking, the one| | which was of greatest interest, and | feature it in preference to others, Untll long after the signing of the peace treaty, the war was first page news, Sensational murders always inter- est people, particularly if the prin- cipals are prominent, the means em- | ploved unusual or the love factor present. But within the past few years there have heen several crimes of this nature and the public appe- tite has been satiated. A few news- | papers went to such extremes in | reporting the trials that the rest of the press and the public became dis- gusted. | | sized in the | director in Dr. An instancé of how news on which all attention is focused can be swept | ance occurred reeently, I%or weeks' [the flood in the Mississippt valley commanded attention. It was the “big news” of the day. Then a lone | individual, Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, spanned “fhe Atlantic' into a place of secondary import- | showers |temperature will not change the flood was’ forced to play second fiddle. It is true that the situation in the midwest is still of vital inter- - est but Lindbergh's feat took the edge off it in the news columns, Just at present Lindbergh has the call for first page position in nearly all newspapers. But the reading pub- * lc likes its news fresh, it wants a change of diet, and Lindbergh even- tually will go “inside.” So it you desire to get “on the ¢ first page,”” do something startling. If you want to stay there, keep do- ing it. Woman's place may be in the home as some of the soul eurmudg- eons claim, but they have a habit of getting outside to indulge their spirit of emancipation and show that part of the population made up of the opposite sex that there are other | places beside home. This thought Is inspired by the reading of an advance bulletin on the annual convention of the Na- tional Federation of Businees and Professional Women's club in Oak- land, Cal., next July. The New Brit- ain Business and Professional Wo- men's club is a member of the fed- eration. Well, to begin with, 3,500 dele- gates are expected. They will come from qyery state in the union. = And when you stop to think it over, thous- ands of other women are affilie ated with women’s clubs, an indi. cation of the large part of the fee male population interested in or- ganizations of thisnature. On the program are such _personages as Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, presi- dent of Mills college; Ruth Comfort Mitchell, widely known magazine writer, and Miss C. 0. Williams, field secretary of the National Education assoclation, and the first democratic national committeewoman from Ten« nessee. It wasn’t so long ago since you could hear some crack-voiced mnla | remark, “Women ain't got no right to join clubs,” and you can hear that same observation even tod: But the 3,500 delegates to the Oak: land convention will go marching on, firm in their conviction that they have responsible duties to perform outside home and are on their way to do them. DRY ENFORGEMENT DESCRIBED DUTY Presbyterian Report Will Take Up Prohibition San Francisco, May 28 (A—Pro- hibition cnforcement as a duty to all Christian Americans is empha- annual report of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education to be presented to the ! Presbyterian general assembly hera Monday moruning. s The board laments the death of Dr. Charles Scanlon of Pittsburgh, “for 25 years its temperance cru- sader,” but decalres that the church at large “must show its apprecia- tion of his life work by continuing his campaign and being faithful to his ideals. Dr. J. W. Claudy of Pittsburgh is announced as acting Scanlon’s place. “During the last year,” says the board in its report, vast strides have been made in the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. In spite of renewed actlvities of the enemies of prohibition, it is more firmly intrenched today than ever before. There can be no doubt that {lre ecinomic, social, moral, and liglous benefits that have resufted from prohibition are so gigantic that they will never be overcome by wet propaganda. “If prohibition has been changed with failure it is due largely to the i { fact that prohibition as written has never been tried. ! The courts are showing constantly a more vigorous enforcement of the law, District uttorneys are on every hand recos- nizing thelr ™ responsibility. The llquor traffic has gone and as a commerelalized vice has disappear- ed permanently. If it exists here and there, it is due to the laxity of those charged with the responsibil- ity of law enforcement. The liquor traffic is more indefensible today than cver. 1t is more hopelessly outlawed. With the rising tide o intelligent youth there is no doubt that the sofety of prohibition is as '{ board recommends: ‘Enforcing the eighteenth amend- ment through competent and trusts worthy servants of the law. “Supporting those intrusted with the enforcement of the act by Christian citizens. “Making punishment swift, and certain. “Divorcing the enforcement of the prohibition act from politics. “Unless these ideals”” says the report. “are supported by the Chris- tian citizens of the community, the enforcement. will always he lax. The task of tomorrow is to make law and law enforcement in America & sure, | fact.” Observations On The Weather FORT Fastern New York: Fair with slowly rising temperatyre Saturday Sunday showers, New England: Fair with slowly rising temperatures Saturday; Sun- day increasing cloudiness, followed by showers, CONDITIONS A disturbance of considerable ine tensity is centered over the Bay of Eastport, Maine, 20.34 pressure is low and falling almost generally over the Canadian northwest. The castward advance of the western disturbances will be attend- ed by considerable cloudiness over the states east of the Mississippl river during the next two days and are probable over the greater part of this area. The weaths er will remain fair Saturday in th North Atlantic states and portion of the Middle Atlantic states. Tk m? terially.”