New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1927, Page 6

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The Herald s om sale datly to N York at Hotaling's Newsetand, Ti square; Schults's Newsstands, Entrance Grand Central, 4ind Street. — There are entirely too many di- vorces compared Wwith marriages; but one cannot reasonably overlook the fact that every divorce makes room for two more marriages. The pugilist who hits an adversary while he Is against the ropes i not | called down, but the other fellow | trequently goes down through the | process. And for some pecullar rea- | son 1t Is not a foul, either. Freight trains a mile long are now not uncommon. These yield exceed- ing privacy to the deadheads riding | free who happen to be comfortably situated in a box car in the middle | of the long procession. Appearances will be doubly de- celving when even the cheapest of cars have the loudest paint. HIS MAJESTY, KING !\H(’H.’\ELE A great deal of interest centers! about King Michael of Rumania inj this country, partly because of the | comparatively recent visit and cross- country tour of his gram‘lmolher’ Queen Marle and partly because of | the glamor surrounding a youngster | who, in name at least, occupies the | position of ruler of a land. ng: Michael is but five years of age, and | we picture him, unconsciously, as entirely different from the five. old tot in our neighbor’s home if not in our own. But he is all boy just the same, if stories of correspond- ents of this paper may be believed. It is related that Michael's boyish mind conjectured one*day upon his | authority now that he was king and | moved on to the next problem, how | to get what he most desired if he was in a position to give orders. And the conversation went some- | thing like this: | “Am I a king?" “Yes, your Majesty.” “Do Kings rule?” *Yes, your Majesty.” *“And nurse, do they give orders?"” “Yes." “Then bring me another piece of chocolate cake.” He got it, so they say but the next time he tried it it went not so well. | year | | tions may be the thoughtful» if they turn back memory’'s pages. Propaganda or not, well based or not, we still admire little Michael and hope that he will ltve and see a full realization of his throne. CORPORATION TAXES ! AND PROSPECTS The nation is to hear considerable regarding corporation taxes during the next few months, and as no de- partment of the national taxation hinery has been as frequently tinkered with as the levies on corp- orations, it advisable to get a bird's eye view of what has been done so far and what will be at- is |tempted by the next Congress. Corporation taxes in 1920 were subject to a 10 per cent tax on their net income, to the excess profits tax, and to a tax of one-tenth of one per cent on the falr value of thelr outstanding stock. The excess profits tax was repeal- | ed in 1921, but at the same time the corporation tax was raised in that year to 12 1-2 per cent and the capi- tal stock tax was continued. In 1926, however, the revenue act | repealed the capital stock tax, the | repeal taking effect June 30, 1926.; But at the same time the corpora- tion Income tax was increased to 1¥ per cent on earned income during the calendar year 1925 and to 13 1-2 per cent on and subsequent years. The one-tenth of capital stock tax, therefore, repeal- ed since June a year ago, did not figure in the governmental income totals of the last fiscal year. From 1920 to 1926 inclusive one per cent $88,000,000 annually, although the eld in 1926 had reached $97,385,- 755. In spite of its termination the | last government surplus reached the | highest figure ever known. The increases In the rate applying to corporation incomes, much more than compefnisated for the repeal of the capital just lige, in 1921, the increase of corporation income taxes more than compensated for the repeal of the excess profits tax. The corporations have been wish- ing tax reductions whenever a new revenue act was framed. At first the contention w profits tgx; and this tax ultimately was terminated. Then the agitation shifted to the capital stock tax, which also eliminated. But while this was achieved the tax on corporation income progressed from 10 per cent fn 1920 to 13 1-2 per t. was cent at pre Taxes on corpora- sald to have been simplified, but practically there has been no reduction since 1920 in the In other words, two forms of taxes have sums paid to the government. been eliminated. while the third and more important form has been in- creased. The agitation now is for a reduc- | tion on the third form, the corpora- tion Income tax. The idea is to re- duce this from 13 1-2 to 12 per cent. | | The administration and the Demo- cratic minority both favor such a re- duction, heavier reduction than the Republi- ; it is lik , that the the Democrats favoring a new minority program will call for ' a reduction of the corporation 10 per cent—the same figure it started out with in 1920. to He was told that kings were spanked when they were naughty. “Then what's the use of being a | its plan to set up a revolving fund | tie until king?"” he asked. It Is also related that, shortly aft- er ascending the throne, one of the woman servants in the palace pulled out her false tecth and put them back again for his amusement. “Now do it with your next request. All of which goes to heighten our | interest in the little fellow and our liking for him, which, apondent hints, may be the reason for the spreading of the stories. They may or may with Michael, but they are going to help his popularity. And king these days is not need of public approval in his own was his the corre- not have originated even a above the land and other countries. Intelligent propaganda much for a busine will do s, a political ma We s to things we read chine, a city, or an individual. react these d and the scienc ganda has p since the war, when and hear of propa- ogressed so appreciably it first far gained general use, has that mearly anythin accomplishment pe ple may be the most brutal of murderers until they are willing to aid them in escaping punishment for their deeds. An popular individual s0 advanced is possible of Hearts of the peo- softened against may be made a popular one and verse can happen ntimes the was by no means before Jack Dempsey e popular fighter with Gene were many that hoped he his Tunney, fact would K up on knocked out of the ring for before Tunney showed Rut the horizon at all. Rickard’s bally- hoo got working in good shape and along the strect be heard st speaking with the great- o There today may the very people who falked ag: him hefor est admiration did 1t for him, other instances which will occur him. Propaganda are countless | to TOANS TO FARMERS The administration thinks well of from which farmers can horrow. of Agriculture is an en- the plan. The sum of $300,000,000—as a starter scretary thusi for is men- tioned. Most of the money would be utilifed to hold surplus crops off thé market. That, at least, 1s the inten- tion. Y is a t we cannot help thinking it poor scheme. Only those soil- tillers able to offer “good security” will be able to get at the fund. Ten- ant rarmers, of which there are en- tirely too many in the country, ar no great hand at offering gilt-edged curlty, unless chattels offered as security called Me e or prospective crops can be -edged, farmer who owns his land already borrow money when he eds it Truth to tell, horrowing he has been too much. Those who inflated land vears ago and suffered eflation of said values hefore the hack the fel- most during the borrowed heavily on values some money was paid are lows who suffered lof » most of thes hat land the ligh-priced which tiplied ¥ wtion iod. Sorry to relate, borrowed money on ¥ owned to buy The more land. financial . ensude, which can he inds of cases, is he farmers will to form huge 1 produet s 1) 1, or can pay. This, at 1e the Jardine plan o ting f: g i Tt aceepted as the Coolidge Jardine has t President st plan Ik about it t hout it and th w s It is hard to determine . from the Roth the same object in view. differs, in effect MeMar Haugen plan. methods have income earned in 1926 this tax | | vielded on an average approximately | however, ! stock tax; | |TIME TO GO TO WORK AGAIN One more week-end before Labor Day, or rather one more week-end | including Labor Day and the season that is usually counted as summer will be over for*most folks here- abouts. The vacation period will be at an end, schools will be reopen- ing and, although an occasional Sat- urday and Sunday trip to some shore { resort will be indulged in, it will be [ time to drop thoughts of sunburn, | bathing suits and camping outfits 'and return to the more prosaic }rollllne of winter-time life around the family fireside and in the shop land office. There {s much economic waste in summer time. It is not the vacatior of two weeks that falls to the lot of the average mortal that counts but |the time taken to plan for it. | Thoughts of most everyone, Barah Jane at her typewriter, W. H. Every- body at his bench and desk, Willle | while he is collecting mail, travel [ toward some favorite vacation spot as soon as the first hint of warm weather develops and stay there until the vacation is over. After-| wards there is usually a bad case of sunburn to overcome and that tired feeling, that should not but does result from two weeks in the open, has to be subdued. The fall, { winter and spring months are those in which we can make recompense to ourselves and our jobs for the time lost during the summer in day- dreams, realization and recuperation traction we can apply ourselves to {our tasks. The summer has been actually a | tailure as far as enjoyment goes for most people. Unseasonable weather | has been the rule, rain, dampness and storm has been varigated with short periods of extreme heat? There has been scarcely a ‘“pretty” week-end for those who take short trips in fearch of outdoor pleasure. . We may possibly expect a warm and pleasant Indian Summer before it is (time to wleld the edal-shovel in earnest. But that is only a possibil- i ity, no more, WEEK-END IN SPORT WORLD THE THE are going on in the sports world this week-end, Separated from the usual aimed at the excess plare of trumpets surrounding pro- | fessional sports though they are, they attract considerable attention from the general public. Tennis and i golt are the attractions, with the !semi-finals in one event and the | tinals in another scheduled for to- Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, Chick Evans in the finals of the | amateur golf championship of the | United States out Bobby took meets in Minneapolis. Francis camp yesterday by v great margin of 11 up and 19 to go. The winner of many tournaments during the past few years had little trouble | with his opponent. Chick Evans played the closest of matches with opponent the vel his semi-final Roland Mackenzie, winning on the first extra hole. Jones is a comparative youngster in the game, though he has been at lit for ten years or so, playing won- lerful golf. money for twenty-two years Evans has been in the more or less, playing a consistant game. When the sun sets this evening one of the tiwo will probably be cham- pion of the United States by virtuc of | his latest win. Tt is inconceivable to imagine that the pair will travel to darkness prohibits play and it is quite probable that Bohly will it back earlier his stride turning Evans thoroughly in the holes of the afternoon. In Forest Hills y the women are 1 Charlotte sterday, where ng tennis in the championship tournament, Hosmer Chapin, of succeeded in upsetting Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory. times n: pla ann Mrs. California, seven ional womas of twelve ye Betty 1 champion out ars in tournaments, Nuthall, of Miss Goss. Miss Helen Jacobs and Miss Helen Wills, hoth of California, won their matches, and Miss eliminated Miss | Jucobs not too casily. ¢ We shall see the semi-finals in this fournament this afternoon, with Miss Wills and Miss Jacobs matched Misy Nuthall and M playing for the privilege of mecting the briacket in the ind final wins she will meet one of the Miss Wills, internationul Helens, presumably in making the the finals, an match of game, EAST AND WEST east, ! In the an automobile sales- man of prominence has declared, it is casy to sell a man mohile than he can afford—especial- . He ns of pt Iy in New York and New Jers 0ol cur as a me: the foll sec be 1 front York in salesman s ow vi seen by it can the In the middle salesmen take just the west, however, car atti- forced to do so by the opposite tude, being tiftude man seems to be afrald people will tha he taken by buyers. A western think he has more money l really possesses if he is seen driving an expensive car and may expect 100 mich of him--perhaps in donations to charity and civic organizations. in the order named. With little dis-! | rade tomorrow. ! tast approaching when the country Two events of major importance | | Ouimet into England, | s Chapin ! two | a hetter auto- | m to be judged | naked | The esterner, therefors, buys & less expensive car than he can afford and no blandishments by salesmen | can deter him from spending as lit- tle as possible for gasoline transpor- tation. Up in New England the eoncep- tion seems to be that putting up & front with an expensive car soon leads to no possibilities of frontage at all. Also, a car is something one cannot very well hide from the ubiquitous tax collectors. FactsandFancies Money will not bring happiness. Poverty can't. As news the war in China is a total loss. He has been assured of a raise of salary January 1, 1928. He is spend- ing it now. Even the fitth wife of the blggmist thought her intuition infallible. Putting two and two together can have but one result mathematically but that is no way to solve a social problem. After a man outgrows Santa Claus he still thinks there is some kind lof closed car that never will rattle. | Patience is a virtue, but the third | strike 1s all it gets. “There fsn't | any more.” The fnclination is to shout. Some- | imes it's religion, sometimes politics ' d sometimes anarchy. | Remain neutral. If you won't help to make the world better don’t help to make it bitter. what Americanism: *“Well. are you going to do about it ! Suppose the meek were to Inherit the earth today? They'd give a pa- It is inevitable that the time is will have to keep cool without Cool- idge. Women who stand up for equal rights may expect to stand after they get them. There can be no true caste sys- tem in a land where anybody is free to anybody for a match. Critics are at a disadvantage. They must express an opinion before they learn from the public whether the story is good or bad. | f There is a tribute to human na- Iture in the thought that it is as gifficult to dislike people as it is to| | please people, | You must give him the benefit of | the doubt when he says: “A number of friends dropped in last evening to hear the radio program and the reception was wonderful.” Whatever else you may say about modern young people avoid the cruelty of calling them slow. T would really hurt. Correet this sentence: “I love {enemies but would rather not have |them find it out.”” | Copyright 1927, Publishers Syndicate H — 25 Years Ago Today A 9-years-old boy was in court| | this morning for damaging trees on Liast Lawlor street. Judge Burr found him guilty and sentenced him to be horsewhipped by his father. The Y. M. T. A. & B. drum corps | is in Middletown today contesting | for honors. Charges have been made Contractor 0. F. Curtis has |using North Carolina sap instead of the specified Georgia pine in the construction of the grammar school ind through his attorney, B. I Gaftney, he has publicly denied | these Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mueller have returned from Savin Rock | While visiting the hospital Wed- | nesday F. G. Platt found that there {were 13 women and 15 men patients eing cared for. This is the full capacity of the hospital and Mr. Platt ordercd four more beds to be cd at once and kept in readi- - any emergency that might thag ' been Alhert Rockwell will spend the nast week at Block Tsland. Mrs, H. L. Mills and daughter have returned from a stay in the country. Fred Hastings, who Is spending some woeeks at the Thousand Tslands, complimented and surprised some of his friends here with a big box of fish that he had captured. They re # handsome lot of muscalongs, weighing from three to nine pounds. Mr. Hastings is an ardent and ex- | pert angl Big as these fish were, they were small compared to some that onr ‘ishermen hooked. but did not land, in Shuttle Meadow, Cres- ent Lake and Congamond TLake. In three night, Frisbie & Heming- way of Plainville, have caught 33 rats in their tr The record for {any one night i, SHOWER FOR MISS CO miscellancous shower in honor Miss M Cote was given evening at the home of Miss Rh Pouliat of 174 East Main street, | Abont 45 guests were present. | Miss Cote received many beautiful and useful gifts. She will become {the bride of Alphonse Beaudet on A of ' | drowned while surf-bathing recently. my | ¢ {and T agreed to trade speeches for Sead all commenications t0 Fan Shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. The Race That Oounts, Folks! Too hot to run races these days we agree, But why not be merry as merry can be? Fill life full of humor while sum- mer days last, So among the fun races our own may be classed! EASY Onyx: “Pete an’ me has got good job in a lawyer's office.” Florian: “Does yo' have to lie?” : “Nussah, all Ah has to do ~—Lillian H. Ketcham. THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Professional Soon Gene and Jack will again— And you can bet your beans That when it's over each will put Some Jack into his Genes! .« s e Social Citizens of Murfreesburg, Towa, report that thousands of moths were found dead on the streets one morning lately. At this distance, we cannot state the exact cause, but the symptoms seem to indlicate that they tackled an army overcoat! o s Royalty s private citizen, Marie Plans coming here again. Jimmm! Such a private one she'll be She'll use a private train! o o e Seasonal Coast professor fight A West was It was probably the original ab- | sent-minded prof. and it probably | slipped his mind that he had learn- ed how to swim! s Sports Reports on this year's baseball Seems hopeful, good and glowing. | There seems to be more pitching And not 6o blamed much throw- ing! It's Hard To Tell Williams: “We have to deaf and dumb mutes stopping at our sum- mer resort, did you know that?” Clements: “That must be inter- esting.” | Williams: “It fsn't. When they're | sitting on the porch at night we| don’'t know whether they're convers- | ing or chasing mosquitos!" —F. P. Pitzer SATURDAY’S CHILDREN (A Fun Shop Drama) In Three Acts By Lillian R. Met Act One (Senator Frick and Bishop Devin- ny, two noted orators, talk with | h other on the eve of a banquet at which both wil! speak.) | or Frick: “Bishop, T haven't | forgotten the dirly trick you played on nie the last time you appeared on the same program with me!" lishop Devinn; All T did was tell a few jokes Senator Frick: “Yes, pened they were MY jokes, time Tl get even!” Act Two (The banquet. Rishop Devinny | as just finished his speech at applause. The Senator is call- ed upon.) ior Frick: “Gentlemen of the a sort of experiment, partly in fun, Bishop Devinny but it ha This amid | | and tonight. The speech which you just heard and applauded was mine. Unfortunately, I have mislaid his notes, and so cannot give his speech to you Act. Three (Bishop Devinny is one of his parishion Knight, who was at the banquet.) McKnight: “That was a d trick the Senator played on you.” Bishop Devinny: “How dg vou mean?" McKnight: “Losing the notes of vour speech. And really, Bishop, peaking to Theodore | the fi —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People Lack of thought and preparation often is the cause of killing oth- erwise good movement. Lack of a thorough knowledge of the elements involved sometimes results in its death. ‘What the circumstances were which caused the upsetting of the preliminary organization of the pro- posed Civic Music Association Mon- day are not known, but that a mis. take was made which will seriously hamper the organization is self-evi- dent. Two of the men who have been mainly responsible for the develop- ment of the organization, and who strove hardest for the success of the affair, were left out in the cold, un- appreciated, at the critical time when their services were needed as never before—Ralph H. Benson and George Hahn. Mr. Benson is secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. He came here while the proposition was “in the works.” He has distinguished himself as a worker of sound judg- ment but with little smoke and no noise. He pitched into the thing with all his ability and the organiza- tion work was carried mostly on his shoulders. Back of him was the whole organization of the Chamber of Commerce. He has the facllities, the proper setting, organization and everything needed for a secretary's | headquarters, His work was volun- tary and he received no pay. George Hahn is & newspaperman. He also is a musician. He plays so many instruments that he hardly knows how many himself. He writes | music and has had it published. He i has written entire orchestra scores and trained the orchestra which played them. He had led choruses and choirs. He has been an editor of a music publishing house. Hn‘ handled practically all of the pub- licity in the preliminary organiza- tlon. He knows the technique and ethics of news writing. He “gets his stuft across.” Incidentally, Mr. Hahn. who is on his vacation, not aware that the foregoing was written. | | With the present day trend of popularity from roller skating to the airplane, it is appropriate that every one of us should know at least the rudiments of flying. By the word “flying” we mean the ability to keep an airplane above the land for a given length of time and not. as it would seem at first glance, the art of flapping one's wings and skimming up to the telcphone wires. In the first place we have no wings to flap and in the second place the | practice would in all probabilit prove injurious to the phone serv- ice, so we are just taking up the airplane side of flying. An airplane can easily be recog- nized by its capability in doing one of three things: That is (a) going up and making a great deal of noise over it, (b) flying along above the carth and causing everybody down below fo run into everybody else | while watching it, and (¢) coming | down very rapidly with a pale faced | man inside getting ready to jump. Other phases which distinguish an | airplane from, say. a bald headed | 1gle, are looping the loop, deliver- ing the mail and popping over to urope, for who ever heard of a bald headed eagle being presented to the King and Queen of Belgium? Many great names are linked with aviation, none being greater then those of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Byrd, Wright and Gombblestoesser. The last named individual may not Iy recognized at first but he will soon be remembered as being man to tell the joke about the girl not being able to walk home from an airplane ride. Tle was Lorn in Cecil County, Maryland, and until this one hurst of rare humor gave him national recognition, con- { ducted a small feed store outside of | | Cambridge. He died comparativly young and very, very suddenly. Rut, to continue along the lines | of aviation for the beginner. The first move of the amateur aeronaut should be to purchase, borrow or lin some way acquire an airplane. This can be done in a single pay | ment or on the budget plan, accord- he e . |ing to individual taste but it should be done quickly and with a smooth upward movement of the left V\risli [ ——not forgetting to keep one's eyve on the ball and a firm heart in his | | work. while T have a certain amount of respect for the Senator as a states- man, 1 think as an orator he pretty weak. T never heard such a Lunch of darned nonsense as that specch of his you recited the other night!"” His Dilemma Mrs. “John, can have $ Pratt: “No, darling. T got cleaned up in a poker game last night.” Mrs. Pratt: “I suppose you were | drinking, too?" Pratt cleaned!"” you let me was dry —C. A. Bolton There are more widows in Cal- ifornia than in any other state. August 20. Western women shoot straight! There are several types of planes | |in use at the present time, a few of which include the hiplane, the! i monoplane, the triplane (used gen- | | erally in thickly populated regions lor in wet weather) the “dolphin," the Fokker, the Handley-Palge, the | | Burleep-Wurple and the old Chinese | wood-burning Hoki-Moki. (The last named plane got fts! rame shortly after the Ming dynas- ty by its inventor Tsi-Leo-Quong. The connection will easily be seen | in the similarity of the name of ! the inventor and the “knickname” of the flying machine. Or maybe it | was Lal-Huaung who invented the Hoki-Moki, who knows?) | The Great War, a disturbance | which lasted frem 1914 to 1918 and which involved several countrie besides the United States, developed the airplane to the prominent posi- | tlon it now holds. True, previous to the outbreak of the war in about 1908, a man named Elmer Swemble of New Rochelle, N. Y., had invent- | I ed a contraption which he called a Simplified Spelling “Oh mamma!" exclaimed Gertrude, my sister, “I can ‘nothing,’ and that's a big isn't it | I your age,” replied mother. | do you spell ‘nothing?" " XL Why darling, little spell word, | “How darling, that isn't Gertrude grandma and she answered emphatically. “I asked what does ‘ZXM.' spell, id ‘nothing.’ ~-Richard Peterson Price no longer indicates value— it indicates a merchant’s nerve! (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction Forbidden) | ton, we're not so sure of the sports- {men. What | really the A pretty big one for a little maid | “Flying Machine” and with which he jumped off the roof of his resi- dence on Bailey street, two houses up from Snyder's Drug store where they had the dandy elastic garments for sale. Immediately after the first experiment Swemble was rush- ed to the New Rochelle General hospital where examination that he was suffering from jnternal injurles and a possible fracture of the skull. For days he lay in a state approaching coma, calling feebly for na,” but this proved nothing in the problem as to whether lighter than air machines were really practical for anything but jumping off a house and being carried to the New Rochelle hospital in an ambulance. But after the war—what a change prices stayed up; the Y. D. division came home; Hugo Stinnes or some- body was elected president of Ger- many and attention swung to the younger generation with its rolled i stockings and bobbed hair. All this, mind you, was before Luis Firpo, “The Wild Bull of the Pampas” had come up out of South America to knock” Jack Dempsey through the ropes. In our next lesson, now that we have explicitly explained the flr!tl steps of the amateur aviator in pro- | curing a plane, we will show the Jjuvenile “Lindbergh” just how to { fly the darned thing. For the past few days we have been in the midst of a heated argu- ment as to just which was really the gmat American game, baseball or football. Although w ehaven't got a fur coat to our name and our Alma Mater is the Beenls School of Applied Undertaking and we al- wafs get a sore throat from yelling, | we have always stuck out for the idea that football is the great Amer- ican game. Let us explain. We like a game of baseball as well as the next one. We even know the difference be- tween a hook ball and a Texas leaguer. We can, if you give us a little time for thought tell you who won the pennant in the American league last year and why Coveleskie is better known than Dazzy Vance. We have seen at least half a dozen major league games and we've yell- | ed “Kill the umpire” and fingered a soda bottle with murder in our eye —but still we like football, In the first place, at about every football game we have ever attended. excluding a few profes- ional games which, to us, were sad flops, we were surrounded by crowds of youns people to whom the game meant everything. Let the stock market go on the rocks and let Al- bania become indignant at Uruguay, the day's game must be won. Elev- en men carry with them the hopes and fears of many times eleven voupgsters and these youngsters take their football serfously. Tension per- meates everywhere, from the time the little fat man in white knickers tootles his whistle for the heginning | until he tootles it for the end. Let | the opposing backs péur through the home team's line and strong men weep while pretty girls rend handkerchiefs to strips. Let the star on the dear old Blahburg U. team make a stirring gallop around right end and hats are crushed in | the enthusiasm. Total strangers em- Lrace each other fervidly as the ball st is edged over that last white line. We know, we got kissed at a Navy-Princeton game and mayhe that's why—who said that? lut the real reason for our en- thusiasm for football lies in the sportsmanship which is shown on the bleachers. Tn view of the fact| that somebody from Harvard clut- tered up a prominent magazine last scason with caustic comments on what happened when deah old Hah- vud met the hoodlums from Prince- manship in the line. Personally we think that all statements between the two teams are apt to be d torted, but that is beside the ques- ! tion. What we really know, is that | the stands are all Regular Guys. In baschall, the pitcher weakens for an inning and throws a couple of bad ones. Maybe he walks two do the stands say? Plenty—including “Take him out!” ~—“H¢'s rotten!” and many other nice little expressions of support. In football, a player makes a bone head play. He runs backwards and gets tackled for a fifteen yard loss. He drops a pass that would have meant a touchdown. He fumbles on his own seven yard line and the cnemy recovers, What does one hear then? In back of us, in a voice that could be heard appro: mately in Albany, a fat red-face man with tears in his eyes bellows: “Tough Iuck, ole kid, tough luck! Tha s why we think football is; ireat. American Game. That sentiment is truly American. © Observer, for lack of anything Letier to do, visited the stores of the | city on Thursday morning, in an ef- fort to gather some data on the their Wednesday afternoon off. The information received was peither worth gathering or interest- ing. It seems that 29 clerks had work to do around the house. Sixty- two went to the seashore, returned tired and unhappy anywhere be- tween 6 and 12 o'clock at night with terrific headache and all enthused #bout the prospect of going to work the next day. went to the seashore, one of the number failed to return before mid- night. He was penalized 15 yards. Carrying on our little game, we tound that 15 of the clerks slept all afternoon. orty went to the movies. (Now how many have we? | Apparently a greater number of clerks than there are in New Brk- |ain. At any rate, let's continue. It's lots of fun.) Thirteen clerks stood on the street corner. Four started to get ready to prepare for {an automobile ride with the wife proved | someone named “Emma” or “Hen- | took place! Wages came down and i manner in which the clerks spent| Of the group that! polishi up ‘the vehicles. Then clerks went up to Goodwin Park to play golf, but they waited in line all afternoon and they were driving off* the fourth tee when darkness fell. Eighteen clerks (female) decided to go shopping, but found there were no places tc 8hop. . (Moral: - Do your Christmas shopping early.) Having been asked by an over- { whelming number of friends to con- {tinue with our auto tours of New |England without further extraneous {interpolations, we have succumbed ;to this effective majority and ap- 1pend herewith full directions for reaching Bennington, Vt., where the !town is celebrating the 150th an- niversary of a battle, which, by a strange coincidence, is also known jas Bennington. So: i Leave New Britain on West Main istreet, barely -avoiding dying of right in the bellef that Black Rock :bridge is about to collapse under {you. Pass stone quarries on left jand right and strewn around the iroldhed, and take first right, bear- iIng right again into Farmington. Stop at town Ilina 'and purchase windshield wiper if {You haven't one already. Then pro- ;ceed to center and turn left. { XXX-Detour. Farmington - Avon [road is torn and in almost as bad jcondition as the detour over which ;you must now pass. After crossing trestle, take cowpath to right and hang on for dear lite. At end of road turn left, soon passing the fan- tastic new-old Avon college and coming into Avon. Straight ahead over rafl- road tracks and on through Weato- &ue and Simsbury to Granby. Straight ahead again, and pray that your gas holds out until you reach the state line, where You may buy refills for your tank without paying a tax. Then on through Southwick to Westfield. Turn right to ‘West Springfleld. Turn left most to Holyoke. XXX-More detours— aren’t these growing tiresome? 8till, We can’t omit them in either our di- rections or our actual trip. This one leads in zigzag fashion through the center of the city and, if prank- sters haven't torn down the signs or turned them around, tnally brings you back, dizzy but happy, on to Northampton avenue. Turn right and on, reaching Northampton. Speed laws are very funny here, so get out and push. Northampton, you may remember, is where the president's son spends his time. That's all you can or have te spend there—we've doped out a way to get the latest fiction at five cents a copy here and may let you in on it sometime. Anyway, straight ahead through Whatley—What-ley —e Whatley—and South Deer- fleld to Deerfield. The fleld is still here but we have been told the deer died last vear. Because of the ancient and wobbly condition of the build- ings, speed laws are strictly en- forced. If you should jar down a colonial mansion, stop for a quar- ter of an hour and plle it up again, then on, reaching Greenfleld. If you can get out of here on the right road the first trip you are better than we are our- selves. Anyway, you go up an auto- blocked hill to the center, do a left and right, and if you have been 2 good Boy Scout and done your good turn and said your prayers for a week, you may actually be on the road to . Northfield and FEast Northfield, The curves and grades are so sharp here that it is wise not to attempt to regotiate them in a car with a long wheelbase unless it bends in the middle. = Pass Mount Hermon and Northfield academies and arrive at (We've forgotton the name of the place, but we distinctly remember that it is not Hong Kong.) Turn left. Shortly you will come to a bridge over the river. If this has been repaired, cheer. Tt not, turn right up hill through rolling prairie ideally suited for spring repair sta- tion. Do not turn left off cliff into river or right into sandbank. After two miles of this, turn left across loose-planked bridge and come back down west side of river to Brattleboro, where you realize it was very fortunate for the colonial cause that the patriot soldiers’ going into battle did not have to exhaust themselves on detours. We shall not tell you how to come al- |back again, for we are afraid that you might succeed, and we know what you would do to us for sug- gesting a ride like this. bservations On The Weather Washington, Aug. 27.—Forecast for Southern New England: Cloudy, preceded by rain Saturday; Sunday partly cloudy; not much change in temperature. Iorecast for Eastern New York Cloudy, rain on the coast Saturda Sunday fair; not so cool. Conditions: A marked area of high pressure extends from the lake region east northeastward over the Canadian maritime provinces and pressure is relatively low off the south Atlantic coast. This pressure situation has caused strong northeast winds reaching gale force in places along the middle Atlantic coast. The outlook is for somewhat ever« cast weather Saturday and Sunday in states east of the Mississippi river, with showers Saturday along tho north Atlantic coast. It will con« jtinue cool Saturday, but tempera | tures will rise somewhat Sunday. LAWRENCE TO MAKE MOVIES ice, France, Aug. 27 (®—Col« onel T. E. Lawrence, the mysterious “Uncrowned King of Arabla,” may assist in the making of a moving { plcture in the heart of Araby, it is learned here. Lawrence has been in communication with Rex Ingram for some months and ne- | gotiations are believed to be nears 1ing conclusion, Colonel Lawrence rose to fame when he organized Arab tribes and led them against the Turks during the war. He disappeared a few years ago, but was finally located serving with a British air unit in India under an assumed name. He is now serving with the Royal Al Force. His book, “The Seven Pil- and, as the radio Mother Goose has it, kiddies, but they just didn't get to it. The cars got as far as the curb in front of the house and the rest of the afternoon was spent in lars of Wisdom™ is considered one of the most authoritative works written on Arabia, and his “Re- volt in the Desert” {is even more widely known.