New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1927, Page 6

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The Herald fs on sale dally in ' York st Hotallng's Newsstand, « Bquare; Schultz wastands, Entrance * Grand Central, 4ind Street. | co——————— The national American game now seems to be aviation. b G L One can almost tell a man’'s na- | tionality by the way he pronounces Byrd's name. Once more Church street has been l torn up, greatly slowing up the speed artists and relentlessly interfering with curb parking. Mr. Stoeckel says one can judge a man’'s character by the way he drives his automobile; also one can | he is “tight” | “tell quite readily if “when he hasn’t any. The Geneya naval arms confer- | " ence has at least carcfully refrain- {ed from competing with aviation . mews by holding its sessions more or | Jess in secret. .“ditlon to the weekly smash-ups, .‘there are powder burns to consider. Paris is & bad town, The fellow ‘who couldn’t afford to take a trip “over the pond went to New Haven. " Being a hired wisecracker s like ‘being an aviator cutting his way through a fog, As an estimator of proballe gov- ernment surpluses, Secretary Mellon continually and consistently errs— on the right side. The hottest part of the United | States this week was in South Da- _kota, where the people could not "‘even keep cool with Coolidge. ; GOOD READING ON THE FOURTH The Fourth of July, “the day wc celebrate” like no other, s at hand, To citizens of the American Union | the day means more than any other " national holldgy because it is the " anniversary of the nation’s birth. And a good way to celebrate it quiet- *ly and most effectively is to read the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence, * our bill of rights, a document that . has gone down the years as a model i ! for all free peoples, is contained in Lall American histories, ! nacs, and in books of reference gen- * erally. 1t is printed books to be read, and a good time , to polish up one’s mind on original | American doctrine is to read it on or about the Fourth of July. g e AMERICAN IDEALS The Fourth of July is a day when American ideals should be part of | the observance, and if a lot of tém- get in th the ideals, toolery and enjoyment way of contemplating avaunt with the tomfoolery. The G. A. R. has the right idea. It will held a little Independence Day | meeting at Central park on Monday, | to take place at 9:30 a. m. and last half an hour. The veterans of the Civil War take Independence Day seriously, but not more so than the general run of citizenry should take it. when in many na- les the s and or- In these days, tions the blind, it is well that le blind are ling ganizations with good patriotic eye- sight do the leading in this country Since the this globc submerge that is the real article ought to get back where it started in 1776, war much has occurred or to hinder optimism and content. Americanisim headlin “Lynn man killed by monoxide while working beneath car in age.” Still another headline ,» on same day: Another moral in a 2us gar- 4 moral, “Monoxide gas poi- soning kills Danielson man."” Dan O'Les well famed walker, i again. He his 8Sth walking proved it in ce birthday anniver- 103 miles. wright, brating sary by Anne Nichols, Since pls handed eDan a goodly sum of money to live on thesaged pedestrian can walk to his heatrt's content worry about the wolf. A man like Ne | Times | This is a terrible prospect. In ad- | most alma- | in all’ these | and no longer! bim, whe walks 35 miles & day, can well be justified in thinking he will live “at least 110 years.” Bernice and Phyllis Zitenfleld, the 13-year-old swimming twi may be able to swim the English channel after having broken the | Hudson river record between Albany and New York, but is this exertion doing them any good? Children do not know what is good for them, and here is a pair needing some- ! body's guldance. | New England is in on the glory | attached to this long-distance fly- ing at last. Commander Byrd has a | house on Brimmer street, Boston, while Albert F. Hegenberger, the | transpacific fller, lives with his wife | on Castle Island, Boston harbor. The | mayor of Boston visited Mrs. | Hegenberger and gave her a houquet on behalf of the city. Flier Hegen- berger 18 more of a New Englander than Byrd, who hails from Virginia. It is to be hoped that Senators Bingham and Wheeler, on their re- | turn from China, will find time to write exhaustive books on their ex- | periences. JUDGE PECK'S NEW MARRIAGE LAW | necticut statute books ~which have just gone into effect is one fathered |by Judge Epaphroditus Peck of | Bristol, a law which forces all per- sons desiring to commit matrimony to take at least tive days to think it over before tylng the knot. Thus the sanctity of the marriage relation is at least emphasized, and young peo- ple are tacitly warned not to be in too great a hurry; that tive days of hard thinking may bring a change f view, and if it doesn't, then go ahead with the usual blessings, good wishes and rice-throwing. The elopers, however, won't worry much about the new law. They can still jump in a2 Tord and get into some neighhoring state where con- ditions are different, where marry- ing parsons connive with a lax law to aid Dame Cupid in distress. Such | things have happened and will hap- pen again. But elopers are comparatively few. And there is no guaranty that marriages which started as elope- ments are necessarily bound to be unhappy. One-tenth of the mar- | riages end in the divorce courts, and | of course, not one-tenth of the mar- | riages are elopements. Getting fur- | ther down to bed-rock, it is possible | to say that a large proportion of unhappy marriages started with due | constderation and fair contempla- tion; the parfies of the first and | second parts merely guessed wrong. No law is proof against poor guess- | work. | Marriage Is just as happy now. days as it cver was. The main di | erence is that in the ancient days, I betore divorce and alimony were in- vented or commonly utilized, unhap- people made an attempt to live down their misery and made a show of “sticking together,” while today they call it quits through legal |aid. Statistics are not at hand, but |it is probable that in those hal- py marri | cyon days a tenth of the marriages | were less happy than the other nine- | tenths—to be as'conservative as pos- sible in guessing at the past. Judge Peck's law makes it diffi- cult to elope to Connecticut, or to elope from one part of the state to the other. But it is a small state and here and there some aggressive couple will jump past the state lines and thus beat the law, If, however, other states enact similar laws the cloping situation may come strictly under control. Still, we probably would have the average run of di- vorces to read about. ADVERTISING NEW ENGLAND Although Governor Trumbull ori- ginally favored the idea, nothing was done by the last legislature about making an appropriation to adver- tise the advantages of Connecticut and no attempt is being made to at- tract tourists to this state. Vermont and New Hampshire, however, are not so diffident about thelr attrac- tions. and they are telling the world that they are the scenic paradiscs of | the cast, 1e a and that mountain cottages can be rented for summer’s folk. tes are pleasant stay These two New England s doing their advertising on a grand by eity-weary scale, and perhaps it was just as well for Connecticut 10 rer silent job could b unless the with would done qual effectiveness—or ferocity” be the right word? Connecticut’s advertising depends upon private Initiative, and is being | done fairly well by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. e railroad has its rainhow-hued 1 st re in eve posters in every railro tourist table on, its 2gestions ¥ time nd Connecticut reccives her But the railroad due. does not favor | Conneeticut over any other New England state where its lines pene- trate; Rhode t similarly Island and Magsachu- Ll treated. That's | {the difference between permitting | the railroad to do it and doing it un state auspices—the railroad | plays no favorites | would faver Connecticut while the state Chambers of Commerce in Malne have carefully estimated the amount Among the new laws on the Con- | have cheap land for sale,] ;ol money left there annually by | tourists, and there are those Who re- gard the tourist business as one of Maine's leading industries. Attend- ing to the needs of the teurists and getting their money is first class business in Maine. ) The trouble with Connecticut with respect to advertising its tourist ad- vantages is that the e ! greatly dependent upon the tourist | business to get along. he state has a plenitude of industrics of mo: | substantial character, and as long as |it has these the prevailingfeeling | { will be to let Vermont, New Hamp- | shire and Maine concentrate upon !the summer dwellers, Conecticut is losing muck by adopting a " daisical attitude but it also has { much. i { FARMING IN CONNECTICUT What's wrong with farming, any way? Or perhaps, not living on | farm but being numbered among ithe sophisticated—miore or | probably mostly less—city dwelle | {you are not interested in what" | 5 ;cem that whenever you eatit | well to remember that some farmer ! had to grow what tickles the palate member what you pay depends to a great extent upon what's wrong with the farm, | A rather intriguing account of { Connecticut farm troubles was writ- ten by Dan Carrington to the New Haven Journal-Courier, “to wit follows:"” Courier was a “cut” repre; one million and a halt farmer ing their farms and homes and em grating to the city with the legend “It ought to be stopped.” One fa- miliar with conditionsis forced to ask why? The farmers’ taxes have been increased four and six-fold in the last twenty- five years; he is pestered with dog wardens, game wardens fish wardens, tree wardens, firc wardens, health officers, cow testers, brown tail moth catchers in drove inspectors, supervisors, managers and dictators. I think it was Good- hart that made the rem “God save us from our rescuer: three months farm %(vr farm ha been sold in the historic Heosatonic valley, with from twenty-five to fifty cows each, the owners gonc to the munity Chest, if possible. The farmer is cursed at home with day light saving, not allowed a state highway with his tracton, spreader or harrow; his bee hive is to be registered and examined by the bee inspector; his fruit stolen, the vergreen trees, grapes, pears, ber- cs and corn pillaged by a swarm of automobile pirates. What they are destroy. “To one who has lived and hoped to be allowed to end his days among the hills and valleys he loves o well—the home of his ancestors—it is a 'sorry picture. The only thing is to hike 1o the town and thank God it we arrive in safety.” It may be useless to er of the great advantages of the 20th century. He can't sec it at all, And doubtless when read What President Coolidge said the other day about the wonderful opportuni- ties of agriculturalists merely be- cause they lived under the folds of the American flag why the President he he will wonder ever quit his father's farm and went to the wick- ed city. 25 Years Ago Today A. P, Marsh's family is stopping at Branford. Peter Crona left for New York this morning on receipt of the news of the illness of his brother, Sven cteen New Dritain Catholies will go from this city on the pil- grimage to the shrine of St. Anne dc Beaupre at Quebee. The party was organi the direction of Rev. the pastor of Peter’'s Roman Catholic church. . L. Mills is advertising in to- Herald a full line of every dear to the heart of Young ca on the Glorious I"ourth. | thing l.\lnu ;m; June 18 were for drunkenness d three for drunkenness and a sault. One was for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. The strect committee met again last evening to take up the rail- jroad's petition to string wires across the road. Mr. Curtis remarked that the company had a tunnel and asked Iwhy it couldn’t be used He was d it would be a circuitous route was unsuitable. n if there were any danger and Supt. Coole mm of watcr hit high te {sion wires it would be fatal to the {men at the nozzle. It was suge [the matter be taken to the c imn Mr. Curtis said it would he bet- |ter not to, that the railroad owncd |the courts apd puiled the strings to make the state officials Whercupon Mr, Shechan rema that the committee jumped, too, n the railroad pulled the strines. William McCue of the Adams E pre go to Gl Falls N. Y. Friday to compete in a priz coupling mateh For several I!m- w crack coupler in the talls fire department Fred Tieloin year old colt, Conductor Corhe Corbett Berlin, t to a trainer fall He on wh s Co. will | | ling his tio- . by colt rter d s in 1903 will join t} Sachem’s Head the At is uy at will he s Oak in the Lexir John Plainville tomorrow which ta A number of p from this pla hate shts which will take part in the races. | Ky rumbull colony enjov re the RFEAD HERALD CLASSITIED ADS FOR BLSI RESULTS is not | less, | wrong with the farm. Very well, ex- and when you pay for the meal, re- | as | “In a recent issue of the Jmn'nalri The last | to cross ! unable to steal, they run over and | 11 the farm- | Out of 45 arrests made here dur- | “onrth Fon | Factsand Fancies | If only somebody would perfect a Pam‘miulon to prevent giggles. Children don’t get ornery because they are petted too much, but be- cause they are loved too little. The objection to all things that provide a kick is that a man wants to kick himself afterward. | Man doesn't worry about his sins finding him out, but only about tne neighbors finding out. How enjoyable vour present job would be as a hobby if you made living in some other way. Among the open covenants openly arrived at is an engagement achicyed at the hore. man is flawless, but only that he easily s some decrepit old sport isn't old,” she ‘means has a lot of money and she {wants it spent on her. When | A resort is a place where you cat | too much and smoke too much in an Americanism: A yearning to get | thin, or get rich or get culture with- jout paying the price. A man hasn't begun to get old un- Itil.hie begins to resent the fact t {he must sleep one-third of the time | he has left. The lower class avoids sin be- se it's wicked, the middle class | because it isn't respectable, the up- {per class because it is disgusti i People don't quit s {fore meals until tr iz grace be. quit getting ithe kind of meals mother used to | fix. i | A frade is a job that enables you to save something besides a pretty finish the manicure gave you. y to pet- clse ! Funny man! When he's re: marry he scorns the girl he h. ted and selects onc somebody petted. city, later to live out of the Com- | The miracle is not that m but that Nature s you to recover from the med Conservatism is just melancholy resignation to the faet that there's Aothing left of the apple but the !core. | Democracy seldom affords justice. | In one decade it will acquit men be- | cause they are rich; in the | will soak them because they rich. | et this “My L Correct s came from ick town,” said th . cosmopolitan, *“but she never f ftended when T ridicule hicks.” TUNNEY SEES PICTURES Believes ntence: Heavyweight Champion Dempsey Will Be His Next Op- ponent—Refreshes His Mind. Cleveland, July 2 (P-—Gene Tun- weight champion who is 'nds here to a local theater today to self in a motion picture of the fight that he won from Jack Dempsey. said he wants to refr his memory of that battle becaus he believes Dem v will be his gext opponent. He id he believes v is a better fighter than Sharkey and that the former titleholder will lick the Boston con- | tender. him- .| Mrs. Benchley Injured When Hit by Automobile Worcester, Mass,, July 2 (@ Mrs, Jennie M. Benchley, 60, moth- 'er of Robert C. Benchley, New York dramatic crit 3 was geverely injured when she was struck by an utomobile last night while at- tempting to cross the street near her home. After emergency treat- {ment by police surgeons, she was removed to a hospital for observa- tion. The extent of her injurics was not de determined but she |vvas saia ing from shock. [ The operated Carl cster, 1d stepped di- rectly the poli in e woman | | | maching COMMUNICATED DISTANCE TO PE ! ¥, B—The distance York to Peking, € mately 8,598 miles ING from New is approxi- 2 Qbservations .| On The Weather TORECAST Eastern New York—Generally falr interior anpd cloudy; on the coast today; Su mostly fair, cooler in in shower orth and west por ons. uthern probably v |tion today somewl (n in por nd CONDITIONS | ™ [near Bermuda i I parently cente | southeast o slowly north a st listuri ce that ursday niz about Cod ap- 0 miles 1 moving {New Engiand Saturday . The temperature will be somewhat | nigher today in tha Middie Atlantic states, while cooler weather will overspread the lower Leke region tions of Swellhead doesn’t indicate that o S | de effort to keep from being homesick. ' licine | mnned Lo 80| Atlantic Send all communicatious to Fun Shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and -your, letter will be forwarded to New York. THOSE MERRY LINES, FOLKS | Why always fountain pens? Oh why Not fun-tain pens, so you and 1 Of humor's ink could gally write Things to laugh at, day or night! HIS TALENTS | Clarke: “What do you think your {baby will be when he grows up?” ! TRodgers: “President of a House | Wrecking Compan | —John H. Reinbach. THE FUY SHOP NEWS WEEKLY DISTINCTION A FUN SHOP reader states that all #er family have dimples. Can a reader of any other humor artinent in any other newspaper | 1say this? | VACATIONAL {Into the black hills Coolidge goes | | With the presidential forces; The black hills sounds like a dandy place N | To hunt for wild | | | i | | | | 1 ! “dark horses!" i CULINARY The chicken with four legs that fs reported fo have been hatched in gland may be said to approach he restaurant manager's ideal fowl! | TRAVEL With tourists bound shores The liners nearly burst— They're going over there, we think, To see Americans first!! CRIN “The bride had a pink sash, a| !small chopped onion, and serve cold | !showing through tho embroidered | holes in her silver frock.” -—(C‘ontemporary Paper. | We had often wondered what | de the bridesmaids weep! for Europe's | | | OWADAYS Has your husband-to-be the home ready?” Bride-to-be: “Oh, yes. He has rented a bungalow for a month and | the landlord has agreed to rdbate ihe rent if we don't live together that long!” | | | —Emma Bielitz. B STED SONG HIT “I know my sweetie must be a bar- | |ber— hie knows the scissors hold!” | = | A STORY GROWS, | AND GROW cported by Andrew Boyd Really Said \ is so strong. cen the big AND GROWS, Trumbley) What “Our ic should have carried in.” What Mrs. Dav “1 believe M ¢ Said Boyd is in lu\ei with the iceman. kept telling | me how handsome and big and | strong he was, and—listen, dear— she admitted that he made her a |present of a big chocolate cake yes | terda How Mrs. Bright Repeated Tt! “1 suspected it all the time! Mr, Boyd found out that Mrs. Boyd is| wildly in love with the iceman and hat has been feedir ke every time he comes in! Mr. Boyd said that if the iceman wasn't so big {and strong he'd throw him out!” And How Mrs. Hurley Told Tt 1 suppose you've heard all about the terrible affair at the Boyds? What! You haven't! Well, it scems that Mr. Boyd found poisan in a cake !Mrs. Boyd baked for him! Yes, i sim-pal-ly aw-ful. isn't it? Mrs Boyd confessed that the iceman put ler up to it, and then—Oh, this is Ithe frightful part!—and then, the iceman, a great, strong fellow, burst into the room where Mr. Boyvd was | bed and hurled him out of the window. n he jumped all over him, saying that he was a college foothall pl and only worked ‘ the ice-wagon to keep in training siek SCLLOW ‘OH! GRANDMA, WHAT BIG | TEETH VSU ; HAVE! EVERBLOOMING (1d: “I understand that they | to change the name of| Rose." " at the “Abie's new title | Irish Century | ~-Neris Jean Tierncy. FOR THL. FUN SHOP HALL OF| | FAME Fditor sh to suggest two candidates THIS I'UN SHOP Hall of Fame ! Fir illinore for her paralicle Miss did not first time 1 man! nde he- self-con- | close the sed by Mrs. Core; r Spartan-Ii lien her husband lcrashed into a telephone pole after |being repeatedly warned by Mrs Sanders that that was just what !this occasion, those things should be —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City and Its _People In another column of the Herald today appears a new article an- nouncing the 30th anniversary of the state highway department as a branch of the state goverpment. A few years ago ' efore the advent of the auto obile this would bave been mildly interesting to a number of citizens wh.se chief diversion was hitching up a horse and going for a ride on Sunday. But today it is of vital interest to nearly every man, woman and child in this common. wealth because there are few who do not speed about in rubber cush- ioned vehicles ‘propelled by gasoline engines, It is a far cry from the roads of vesterday to those of today. Ma. cadam is used only on side streets or on sccondary highways. The modern citizens demands that his roads be paved with concrete so that he may glide yith speed and in com- fort to his estination. The history of road construction is the history of 20th century progress. Both are parallel, It is no idle compliment tor the Connecticut highway depart- ment to say that the roads in this state compare favorably with those found anywhere and excel those built in many states. We are gpt to fret because Co..missioner John A. Macdonald fails to construct over- night roads which we believe essen- tial to our peace of mind. But on the felicitations of cveryone without an axe to grind should be extended to that gruff, blunt worker at the head of the de- partment who demands concrete and traprock without cream for break- fast, another dish'of the same for lunch and a third dish of identical ingredients for dinner and who can- not sleep o' nights until he has a couple of muddy wheelbarrows, crowbars and cans of blasting powder between the nice cool sheets of his bed. Commissioner Macdon- ald has been criticized for his lack | of diplomacy in dealing with state offcials and private citzens. He has been accused at tmes of being dis- courteous, Those charges may or may not be true. The state pays him to build goed roads and he seems to be making a success of that. The Connecticut highway system consists of nearly 2,000 miles of paved roadway, ferming,a network all over the commonwealth on which one may travel conveniently between important communities. The greater part of the system has been built within the past few years, al- though the department is nearly a third of a century old and is the largest branch of the state govern- ment, It handles -illions of dollars of public funds annually and plans and executes all its own work from blasting away a mountain of rock to planting shrubs along the routes preferred by tourists. It is to the credit of tha department that_there has been no reflection on the man- ner in which it has spent funds, and that's something to think about and be glad. The news article referred to earlier in this column containg statement: The work of highway construction, supplemented by the care of bridges and operation of fer- ries, has required an aggregate ap- propriation of $40,090,167.44 while the total expenditures of the depart- ment during its history have been ,547,810.67, the balance coming from motor vehicle fees and fines, gasoline tax and refunds from towns under statutory provisions. Count that on the fingers of both hands. forgotten and How many of you folks have ever attended the English Derby? One, two, three, four, six—well, that's splendid. Did you meet a man by the name of Harry Weevily while you were there? No? Oh, you must have met Harry., He wore a blue suit and he smoked cigarettes constantly, Don't remember? Well, never mind, never mind. The English Derby 2as you all know, is the racing classic of Eng- land such as the Preakness and Ken- tucky Derby are insthis country with the exception that the English Derby is held in England. The novice horseman will doubt- lessly want to make a try for win- ring the Derby and this is easily done if instructions are carried out as printed. Pirst, one should procure a horse that is fast enough to win the Derby. Don't let the shysters fool you with offers of horses which ¢ just as good.” Insist on a horsc that is fast enough to wiy the Derby. There used to be a perfectly swell little place on Sixth avenue that sold them very cheaply and if one will | only watch the papers well—you know what will happen then—mercy yes. Now that one has the horse, one should go to England by any of the prescribed routes — an _excursion train will save several pennies— and one should rent a stable at Epsom Downs. If every humorist who has labelled Epsom Iowns eith- er Upsand Downs or Epsom Salts were placed end to end they would rcach quite a long ways, but don't let that deter you from your am- bition, namely, to win ta: English | Derby. The great day will arrive—you will know it by keeping an eye on the papers and watching for the King and Queen, The King is casily distinguished by a beard and the Queen wears hats—and how! Now that the King and Queen are scated in the Royal Box, go hunt up the man who has charge of the race. Ask him to let you enter ycur horse, which we will call “Clara” just for fun, and fill out the required slip allowing you to enter the race. Now the horses are at the post, | Keep a tight rein on Clara and don't iet her hecome swell headed at ap- pearing before the King. As you pass driving so recklessly, she did NOT v, “There now, I told you so, . —D. Stabler. TWO KINDS Scolt: “Did you get many bills the first of Jul Neally: “No, only twe. A 'phone | {bill from the plumber —J. G. Kiesling. (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction would happen if he did not stop the Reyal Box bow slightlv from the hips and make Clara go down on her knees. Then from an inner pocket, take the British Flag and an Amer- ican Flag and wave both. giving a salute of 31 guns in the meantime. Tell the King that you hope that the most cordial relations now existing will always be in force and that you hope Eddiec and the little woman are both well. Now go to the tape where you will find that quite a few other horses are also gathered. The berrier will spring and Clara will bound Yorward at the snap, gathering speed at every jump until she is in front of the rest of the horses. Now comes the first hurdle but don’t let it lure you—there are never any cameramen at the first jump. Wait until the water jump near the turn into the stretch. 2ush Clara over the jump, remainirg on your saddle and continue to beat the oth- er horses the rest of the way. Com- ing into the stretch, if you really are in earnest about this thing, don'tbe- come unseated at the water jump but continue out in front. As you pass the Royal Box it is good form to stand on the saddle :nd let out three or four real “Wild West” ‘whoops, shooting a pistol vt intervals to show the crowd that you are a real red-blooded American. You will then have won the Deroy. Someone will hang a wreath of flowers about your neck and many men will take pictures of you. You will shake hands with 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, of Clubs, uce being in your partner’'s hand. Finesse through the 10 spot and all is set for a little slam. Next week: “Ploughirg, Riding and Other features.” Circus We think we shall move out of New Britain. Either that or move New Britain. The reason is simple: this eity is not located on any of the multitudinous' transatlantic routes and we can never become famous. Think of the Irish fishermen about whose boat Lindbergh circled and_inquired the ay to Ireland. They are famous. Think of the bartender in. Kotts- bus, Germany, who offered Cham- berlin and Levine their first glasses of Pilsener. He is famous. Think of Fisherman Marius, who first saw Byrd's party, and the as- sistant mayor and deputy prefect of Ver-sur-Mer, who welcomed them. Think, eten, of the Canadian who telephoned in an erroneous report that he had found Nungesser and Coli. He {s famous. Then think of us, here in New Britain, with no prospect ot a trans- atlantic flier crashing though our roof or staggering in after a long tramp through the woods from where his ptane fell. We shall never become famous. The government of Newfoundiand is issuing postage stamps showing the spot where the Atlantic cable was grounded, where Alcock and Brown hopped off on the first cross- ocean flight, etc. And the Canadian department of the interior is issu- ing blotters calling attention to the winter sports, the scenery, and other attractions of the Dominion. Why don’t they bring their advertising up- to-date, Imagine a Newfoundland stamp advertising the summer sport of watching transatlantic flyers zoom their way over Nova Scotia. We should think that real estate sub-dividers in Nova Scotia and Newfogndland would start adver- tising something in this fashion: “Come to Brunswick-On-Air-Line, Nova Scotia. See the trans-Atlantjc v and keep yourself one step ahead of the radio quarter- hour broadcasts. We positively guarantee to have a plane fall in the yard of every new buyer and to have press correspondents on the scene to send out news stories, with pictures, about how you rescued them. Pair of opera glasses for find- ing lost aviators free to those who huy lots for cash. Transatlantic Realty Co., Ltd.,, 1 Lindbergh court within,” That 6ught to bfing them flocking in. Or: “Come fishing off the New- foundland banks and catch wreck- ed aviators. Al sorts of game fis trout, monoplane wings, whales, pontoons, pickerel, propellers. John's Chamber of Commerce.” An- other magnetic appeal. Yes, we are going to move to some spot along—. No, we're not either. We're gothg to stay right here in New Britain and sometime along about 1930 we will become famous when the roto- gravure sections print pictures of us as “the quaint, old-fashioned man" who has never rescued or even seen a transatlantic aviator. Life is like a river winding its way to the ocean which, for want of a hetter name, man calls eter- nity. It has its source in obscure and distant lands. It becomes stronger and larger, fed by tributaries which may be likened to the associations and experiences of life. It flows placidly through broad meadows, like the tranquil happiness of exist- ence, and breaks and brawls ov rocks which beset its pathwe ke the unpleasant obstacles which all human beings must overcome. It cannot tell what is around the bends no more than man can predict to- morrow's events. At places its crystal depths reflect a serene sky and again its water arc muddy, par- alleling the virtues and vices inscrib- ed in the history of the race. Some rivers become large; some individuals gain distinction, honors and riches. Some rivers are small and their names do not appear on the map; some individuals remain submerged and their names are not seen in large type on the first-page of the newspapers. Finally, rivers and men reach their destination, the former to be en- gulfed in the seas and the latter to pass away into the great beyond, whose curtain no human has pierced. The world’s largest man in re. cent years was Miles Darden, ‘who recently | bill ‘from the company, and a phony |lived in South Carelina from 1789 to 1857. He wag T feet 6 inch tall and weighed nearly 1,000 pounds. He lived a quiet, uneventful life, refus. Forbidden) ing circus offers. JOINING A1 FORCE BEGOMES DIFICL Nany Feel Calld Bot Ooly o Few Are Chosen Although the recent boom in avia- tion has encouraged a large number of young men from New Britain, Meriden and Middletown to attempt to get into the army aviation ser. viee, it is not easy to accomplish, acgording to Sergeant Willlam Bul- lock, who has charge-of the recruit- ing station in these mentioned cities. * Bo great has been the demand for enlistment in the flying branch of the service, and so difficult has it become, ac-ording to Sergeant Bul- {lock tHat he has accepted only two applicants since Colonel Lindbergh flew to Paris, although fully 30 boys from this city have applied and have been turned down because they fail- ed to qualify. This same situation applies in Meriden and Middletown. More than a mere desire to get into the army or to learn to fly is required, according to regulations. 1t 1s necessary that an applicant for the aviation service must be a high 1school graduate or have the equiva- lant of a high school education or a trade : -hool education. In case he does not have these qualifications he must be an” expert ool maker, mu- chinist or cabinet maker. Enlist men in other branches of the gfmy who can qualify, as well as clvilians, are eligible to make ap- plication for examinatic.. to become flying cadets. They must be unmar- ried, between the ages of 20 and 27 inclusive, of sound physique and ex- o |cellent health. Application for per- mission to take the examination is made to the adjutant general of the United States. Once successtul candidates have recelved their appointments, orders are issued to provide the cost of |transportation from their home to ithe primary flying school ef the air corps at San Antonio, Texas. This is the school where Colonel Lind- bergh was. taught to fly. While at school cadets are pald $75 a month cash, in addition to meals, lodging, medical service and uniforms. Provision is alse made for recreation and gocfal life, The instruction at the school fs divided into two classes—flying in- struction and ground instruction. Flying instruction usually consumes the morning hours. During the pe- riod .the government has operated this school more than 2,000 afr pi- lots have been taught to fly, while the casuaities have been less than one per cent. The ground instruction consists of theoretical aeronautics and funda- mental military subjects. This in- cludes the theory of flight, instru- ments, airplane motors, meteorology, radio telegraphy, aerlal navigation, sketching aid map reading, theory of photography and personal equip- ment of the pilot. Upon graduation from primary field, which is a six months course, the, students are passed on to Kelley field where they gt an advance course #n more technical phases, do ix mon‘’ 5 of actual flying, receive certificates as airplane pilots and are commissioned as second lieutenants in the Officer's “eserve Corps. Graduates are not required to en- ter the regular army, although from this point it is but a step to a com- mission in the flying serviced Many pilots from this school have gone in- to the air mail service. “Don’t let the public get the idea that entrance into the school is easy or that it is an casy life,” said Ser- geant Bullock. “The work is hard and demands brain and muscle as well as much technical skill. Only the best type of voung men finally graduate.” New Britain has three boys whe have entered the service for the pur- pose of taking up aviation. NOTES SHRINKAGE INTRUCK GARDENS Davenport Gomments on Smaller Number This Year “The decline in truck which has affected not only this section of the country but every section, s going hand in hand with an approaching famine which I know the country will suffer if the present attitude toward farming is not changed, Clifton E. Davenport declared today. Mr. Davenport has made a study of agriculture and has much ex- perience along this line. He has observed the falling away of the ambition of truck farmers to cul- tivate small pieces of land and is of the opinion that this will bring about a smaller local supply and an increased demand for imported food- stuffs. The unfavorable spring weather will have an adve effect on produce and it is Mr. Davenport's belicf that New Britain will not have sweet corn until September. There will be little or no corn this year with the result that the price of corn will be too high for poul- trymen, who will have to sell or kill their chickens rather than face the expense of buying the high priced corn, he believes, Mr. Davenport recalled the time when acres and acres of land in the outskirts of the city were being taken up with truck gardens. Po- tatoes, corn, beets, carrots, turnips and cabbage were raised by people during the twilight hours the price of vegetables was comparatively low. Year after year there was a de- cline in the number of “farmers” and in many places where a few people still had gardens last year there are none this year, Mr. Daven- port finds, “There are only two explanations,” Mr. Davenport said: *Either the people are becoming fastidious or they have much more money than they had in previous years.” farming Privately-owned vehicles in Japan may not be painted red, ‘- th- color is reserved for the household.