New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1928, Page 6

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American marines {in Nicaragua, who have been trying to marry na- tive girls, have been made to under- stand that love should begin at home. | | et S In advising the Democratic party to begin work early om its platform dovernor Smith has no conception of the wage scale of journeymen carpentens. | Massachusetts tried to picture & cod fish on its new automobile li- cense markers and is being criticized for bad art.. Connecticut might do better by picturing a nutmeg on the markers. Man, in theory, may be the head of the family; but so long as the woman in it has charge of the purse-strings his Influence is less than 50 per cent. | WOOING PAN-AMERICA | The sixth Pan-American confer- ence will take place in Havana, Cuba, beginning Monday, with Pres- ident Coolidge in personal attend- ance. The conference, like its fore- runners, will have as one of its ob- jects the dissemination of respect and good will between the nations of ,the western hemisphere. ‘When, in 1902, the second Pan- American conference was held in Mexico City, the republic of Cuba was as yet unborn. At that time a resolution was adopted unanimous- ly expressing the convention's well wishes for Cuba's future. Now, & quarter of a century later, the re- public of Cuba becomes the host to the sixth congress; and during that quarter century the spirit of Pan- Americanism has steadily progressed despite many apparent setbacks due to more ér less doubtful outbreaks of warped diplomacy. Cuba, is less in the public eye these days than 25 years ago, when it was still & colony and had just emerged from the crisis, born of war between the United States and Spain, which ‘brought it liberty and the pursuit of prosperity and happiness in its | own way. Few countries, small or large, have progressedgpo definitely since that time. The qualities of the Cubans have permitted them to set up standards | for themselves which have compar- ed fayorably with the standards set by nations much older in point of | freedom. The transformation from an island such as Spain knew it to the present genuine pearl of the | Caribbean has been astonishing to | all students of Pan-American af- | fairs. Tt is°useless to compare Cuba with some of the older republics south of us—there eimply is no com- parison. For years no startling news has come from Cuba merely because the Cubans were attending strictly to business. The Cuban sugar crop under Spanish rule more than 800,000 tons a year; to- | day it is more than 5,000,000 fons never reached annually. Its cities clean and healthy, with the mortality among are the lowest of all countries. Tts pub- lic buildings of beauty; the presiden palace indeed, the Prado, Havar main street, is a wide and beautiful are astonishing palace is a boulevard such as few citics possess. The National theater in Hav one of the largest in the world and is abiding proof that the arts are by Lo roads filled with 1 the United 1 s taken these tin- Americans. The countr: well paved, the mills modern machinery fro States, the railronds 1 built. Many a nation 1 learn from Cuban progr And now. the conference, Amer serfously heen re- to s much comes at a time when are trying to clear up the only remaining troubls It is to there i marines Nicaragua, republic be in Latin-America. hoped that the operation does not create eriticism of the big brother in the north; pert President Coolidge, there in person, ean make ch that And will elim eriti- ) a spe ate cism. Lindbergh’s tour 18 helped ALL ABOARD FOR HOUSTON Houston, Texas, i% th . @ty ever ciiosen to house a pational ‘geMtical couvention; x.d it contains | about prohibition, j the wind has been taken out of the | defeat Detroit, no Madison Square Garden, If there is to be a melee or babel of voices it will have to take place under more chaste surroundings. But there is lems MNkelthood of a verbal smashup ino Houston than there was in New York; conditions have radically changed, and the only question at issue seems to be how quickly Alfred- E. Smith is to be nominated. Since Governor Dan Moody’s | declaration at the meeting of the national committee regarding the necessity of the party agreeing on | law enforcement, and Governor Smith’s pronouncement last ‘week | that enforcement of the law is a tsacred duty,” sundry folk who re- gard the prohibition issue as one likely to break up another political convention seem rather dazed. The New York governor, although he may personally prefer no law has changed ma- | terially in the last few years in his | attitude toward this issue. If law enforcement—including the enforce- ment of the prohibition law—is a “sacred duty,” then considerable of sails of the southern Democrats who | have been inclined to oppose him on | the score he is identified with the opposition to prohibition. And incidentally, how the south- | erners feel about this matter has | much to do with whether he gets the ‘ nomination. ! The south has come to the con- ! clusion,' along with the north, thfll; Smith is the strongest potential can- | didate in the Democratic ranks, If | the south is wooed and won with the | “sacred duty” principle enunciated by the New York governor there will be slight chance of “another Madi- son Square Garden” uproar. The Houston civie auditorium, which seats 7,000 people, will be the | scene of the convention. Without | the auditorium the convention \n‘ Houston would not have been pos- | sible. Thus one sees what a civic auditorium can do for a city, al- | though being a factor in bringing | | such a convention to town is but a | small item in its value. The hotel | accommodations there are excellent, | fully eapable of accommodating the throng of camp followers. Lastly, there is the presence of the re- doubtable Jesse Jones, financial angel of the Democratic party, who lives in Houston. One can't blame | the national committec for hearken- ing to Mr. Jones' sonorous welcome, | for it was his name which adorned | the notes which paid the deficit for | the last convention. Also, believe it or not, Mr. Jones had a strong hand in providing the $230,000 which | talked so eloquently for Houston be- | fore the committee. i The population of Houston by now must be around 200,000, considering that it has been gaining at the rate of 75 per cent during the previous decade. Still, this is a®small city to Cleveland and San Francisco. i The holding of the convention in | since 1860—ought to have reaching results in the plan of the | 1928 campaign. It means, for one thing, that the southern dry Demo- | crats are going to have consider- able influence, and Dan Moody al ready i3 at their head. The Texas delegates, who it is said will favor Smith, will lead the south in the direction of the New York governor, It the party can remain in an atil- tude of sanity and not allow anyone to upset the apple cart and bring i extrancous topics which have no | to be soft, mellow and sweet, | | GREENWICH AND OYSTERS Greenwich, and all in conncction therewith, never lacked in wealth, things go, it is credited with being one of the rich- | est of municipalities. Its grand list has As such |1s out of all proportion to fts size, | nearly equalling that of Bridgeport; | its fine homes are fit subjects for renown, What if a large proportion of its citizens commute from New York and possibly are more interest- ed in what transpires in the | metropolis than in their home town —they help to glorify Greenwich by iding there and Greenwich, in the respects mentioned, helps to glorify Connecticut. Henee it was a shock to read that the Greenwich town of hae been sued for a tidy sum for the destruc- | tion of oyster beds in the con- 1s Sound through the dumping into t of its sewage noble arm of the sea. One would have thought that here is one city along the Sound which would have been eager and rapid to adopt the most modern of lleposal systems, so that the glori- ons body of water at its door would not he eontamina But Greenwich, in all probability ailed. Tt is no bett cticut cities r than other Conr along the Sound in this respect; no supsrior tl The spted method; it th, re- n the poorest among them. asiest way has been the and now the entire st h. e realizes Green with all its w ealth i finemen and leisu lination to im s which has broug in court. The I rth the palt more, that it on NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JA}UARY 14, 1928, would cost Gresmwich. The town pas the money and needs thelesson. And by adopting a better aystem for the disposal of its waste it might in turn point the way ' to such reluctant cities a8 New Haven, which with a splendid harbor has done more to spoil it than to build it into a thing of value. A UNIVERSITY MIXUP I those managing Clark Univer- | sity at Woreester had paused a mo- ment to reflect Qefore taking sum- mary action regarding an article whigh was to appear #a the college magazine this week they probably | would have foreseen the unfaverable publicity which their method pro- voked. Youth is prone to be foolish and some allowances must be made for the folly that crops up occasionally. Instead of jumping over the traces at prospect of publishing an alleged obscene one-act play the college authorities would have been wiser to talk it over with the boys and | convinced them of their error. That done, the article in all probability | would have been ditched without | further adoo. As things now stand, public sym- pathy in all probability will be with | the students, SPEED IN WASHINGTON Opinion is almost universal that government bureaus are alow insti- tutions with which to do business. | Write a letter to one of them, has been the consensus, and the answer will arrive a month or twn\lenca We tried it out the other day and picked on Becretary Hoover's de partment of commerce. We wrote the letter Christmas Eve. The fol- lowing business day in Washington, as elsewhere, was Tuesday, Decem- ber 27. The answer arrived dated Decem- Ler 27, This was a letter of inquiry, not an attempt to buy anything. Write | a mere letter of inquiry, with no probabilities of profit, to some busi- ness firms and you will never, no never, get an answer, And be it added that said letter of inquiry was not written on news- paper stationery. It was written nearly fllegible handwriting on an | ordinary plece of paper—one that just happened to come handy--and had nothing about it to impress Mr. | Hoover's. chief clerk, who answered | it, as coming from a source that | might lead to press comment. * , But here’s the comment and we intend to send & copy to the de- partment of commerce, s MAIL AND BUSES Inquiries being made by the U. 8. ' railway mail service regarding com- mon carrier motor vehicles entering and leaving the clty indicates that the pestal department is beginning to regard buses as transporterw of mail where other transportation methods have been curtailed. There sre fewer railroad trains la southern city—this the first time Chugging along the smaller line but abandoned. It was only this month that passenger service up Winsted way was ended. A need of the times, however, is hat mail be expedited rather than indered. Use of motor coaches will do the trick. WALNUT HILL HIGHWAYS Improved highways through Wal- ut Hill park are a necessity. A special committee of the Chambej business in a convention, the har-|©of Commerce will investigate the | mony, compared with 1924, is likely | Subject, and persons who are prone to wager see only one side to the anticipated recommendation. We hear and read adays about improved and how the best smooth as boards. It is when one enters cities that the same conditions too frequently do mot obtain. Why should the highway to Berlin, to Hartford, to Plainville, etc., be perfect while the much now- state roads, of them are as | city’s own highways, in the park and | elsewhere, are in such poor condi- tion? , 1t may be argued that a city high- way is not as important as a road. This is a e handy argument, anyway; but the main highways in a city certainly are just as import ant to the people of the city as th state roads are to residents of the state. The highways Walnut Hill have in park. on the whole source of irritation been a for years. The paving docs not scem to e a sort that will stand up under odern con- ditions. There is a vast difference, for instance, between the pavement along West Main street and the ‘pavement at the park entrance—if the latter can be termed a paving, which s doubtful. A job well done in the park, though it may cost money, no doubt witl last a long time and be a source of satisfaction and pride to citizena; whereas the pecially the the entrance, is a source of general as present hizhways, es- main & way from indignation. MONEY-CHANGING IN RANSAS CHiY The true bens litical convention the hote! ers in the ey il outpourings of *embattied party democracy. b ics of every po- ! surprising to read that the hotel rates in Kansas City, where the grand old party will choose a can- didate to succeed the man whe chooses not to run, have made an agreement with the party managers to raise rates only 25 per cent. E If this agreement is fully eompli- ed with when the big hullaballoo starts conditions will not be so bad as they have been in some other citles where conventions have been held. The result somewhat depends, however, one the basis upon which the figuring starts. If a $3 room is taxed 25 per cent the result will be $3.75. But if the same room is called !a $4 room the 25 per cent surtax will bring it to $5. But of course, that may not be allowed. The poli- ticlans are experts on room rents, it is to be hoped. TLOWER AUTO PRICES, HIGHER INSURANCE Pursuant to the unofficial declar- ! ation of price warfare between the important automobile manufactur- ers, the public naturally-looks for- ward to “‘more reasonable prices” in the accumulation of gasoline chariots. The future looks bright, ex- cept that the automobile insurance concerns, taking note of the fre- quent collisions, have boosted rates 16 per cent. State registration costs $18; Ii- cense $3; minimum compl\gu insur- :lnce around $50; probable spring |overhauling on the average @ets owners back around $50; the gaso- line tax costs 2 cents a gallon. In other words, the cost of running one of the modern contraptions has original cost has gone lower add lower. It seems rather remarkable that just at a time when the first costs | are reduced, the insurance costs are | Increased. Somebody s bound to get {the money. Fects and Fancies Arm held horizontally: Dri er's | signal, meaning you are going to | | bump him you think he means any- thinggn particular. | i At last the United States has hit upon a plan to stop war. It's a bril- liant plan, and quite simple. Just don't fight 2ny more, War is to be outlawed, But of course it won't be war when a big nation kills off Central American | “outlaws.” The lion and the lamb may lie idown together, but lions and lambs don’t care anything_about oll fields. How nice it would be if people could labor to improve their neigh- bors’ morals and not neglect little things like being honest. It's a sad life and a hard one, and far- | Bome Of the branches have been all | by the time a man gets into pretty good shape he's lost his shape, i Lindbergh has convinced Amerl- cans that flylng is just as safe as | ony other means of travel if you have Lindbergh luck. If you make the boss a pr “it, g0 | he can pay you more wages, (hat'a | Capitalism; if you loaf, and keep your wages low o spite the boss, that’s Bolshevism. Laundries ma'ke marriage safer, It the worst happens, & woman can get er old job back instead of taking in washing. canism: Reading the liat of | feoling disappointed be- | cause none of them are acquaint- | ances. If the parcnts are stupid cnough to blame the teacher for the child’s failure, that's proof cnough the child is stupid by nature. | You probably haven't the true re- | former complex unless you think {the flat, bitter stuff people hrew at home is *‘rum.” A hick town is a place where you can compliment a man or even fay vou like him without arousing his suspicion. “While sitting down your blood ressurce is lower than that of the on who is walking.” Not in a ie, where he's walking on your | foot. It may be that education is over- emphasized. Two-thirds of the .300 hitters never saw the inside of coliege. The millennium will be here soon lafter the first monument is erected |in grateful memory of a man who attended to his own busincss, Tt 1 ness tolden page kes contrast 10 1 ad few of the mes could make if they lived now an tell just by look- he s happiest uniform. iy you then he ds in a lodge | | | | | | | | Correct this sentence: “My parents « oid-fashionad, 1 the flapper, it 1 never am ashamed of them 1 nover apologize for them.” EAD e FOR B CLASSIFIED ADS iST RESULTS | CAGO e e -‘:vn Days growing longer and cold wWaves | raceive increasing, f Snow shovels working and coal [erable shovels, too, openl; And just about now dally entries (in the fire department. The next are ceasing In diaries started when “Jan. 1st” { common council. The expectation is fell due! Popalar! Lyle: “Am I the only one who has [on record as supporting the recom- | ever kissed you?" ’ i is all right. You're not!” =—Mra. Fanny Helser THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY chicks, splirit of charity! Unofficiall ambassadors Now whet our diplomatic knives, | Companionate macriages supply A set of unofficial wives! Foreign | Unotficial { 1 In Berlipn, it seems, there 18 & 'would make little difference to him grown higher and higher, while the vogue for dressing women's hair 80 personally which course he follows. that it rescmbles sculpture. | women's hair! Climatie The slush lies deep vpon the street, It covers all the urban scenes, We hate it there, but even worse ‘We hate it in the magazines! Usually Shot! Hughes: “Why did you folks run that big head-line yesterday ‘CHI- MAN FROZEN TO DEATH?' " Managing Editor: *Because {it's such an unnatural way for a Chicago man to die!” | —Lester Ballentine | Items From the Darktown News Edited by Onyx and Florian (Bupervised by Etuart Powers) Locals It am rumored dat de Socratem Jones party Tuesday got so wild | cat Mr. Jones kissed his own wife by mistake, De chicken supper given by Mr. and Mrs. Trombonius Whang busted | up in a fight Thursday P. M. 8eems | dat one ob de guests recognized de chicken. De Flyonis Club and de Motory | (Darktown Used Car Dealer#) met | at a luncheon in de Hibrown Hotel | Monday noon. Miss Hestasy Jiggle entertained with a Charleston dance until she unfortunately stepped into de gravy. Among them which used the wrong fork at Mrs. Hysteria Titter's dipner Friday were Mr. Glorius Gulp, Mr. Adenoid Doodle, and Mr. Punky T. Slappy. Coffee was also slipped on de tgblecloth by Caesar | J. Nervous. Gras Widow Sunflower Alfalfay called at de courthouse Saturday to et her marriage license renewed or de year 1928, De only accident Weary Ooze has had thus far in his new Shiverway scdan took place Monday night when he stuck his hand through de glass window while turning a corner, Grand Emperor Caesar Ducks, Exalted Supreme and Glorious Ruler of de Golden Order ob Men and La- dies ob Etheopia, borrowed two bits at de News office Baturday. Advertisements Personal! De highly colored gen- tleman who bumped into my fender last week is known by me and if he don't make good de daniage I'll fix him eo nobody will know him. This me2ans him! O. G. Kidd. No Help Wanted! I can furnish my wife with all de loving which she nceds and I ain’t saying nothing else ; which. Absolutely no more help | wanted. J. T. W. Davenports Tested! Also gofas, | and rear seats of autos. 1 does good | work cheap. Somebody else must | furnish girl. Peppy Huggins. i | Can't Blame Him! Barry (theater manager): “Of course you know why Samson pull- ed down the pillars of the building. irginia: “Don’t worry, your taste [of leaving themselves free to attadk Soctal A hen which had been mismsing [has declared against salary in- | from a farm near Madison, Wis., has creases, Whether he will experience | returned home with a brood et |& change of mind cannot toasy be We trust she was recelved in a |[there will be some satisfaction on We still await a vogue for dressing | yesterday at which Counciiman Don- | women's halr so that it resembles ald L. Bartlett, prospective mayor | Nine out of evety ten purchases are | | 23. Through the Department of the | diverted to a serious study of nation- |izon and noting what they observe |there. One of these has expressed | | | the current issue of a bulletin fs- ! likely to advance somcwhat. don't you?” Rawley: “They probably sold him behind them!™ —A. T. Saigent | a seat just i Politics experienced a bear market in New Britain during the past week, little being said or done to indicate interest on the part of thoss who pull the political strings, in the ra- pidly spproaching election. As usual, when all who favorable attention salary committes, there § consld- dissatisfaction, and it is being y expressed in city hall and move will be on the part of the that effort will be made to change the report, in fact, those members of the committes who refused to yo mendations did so for the purpose the report in the councll, After the common council com- pletes its share of the work, the re- port, as it now stands or in its amended form, will go to the maypr for his signature or veto, The mayor predicted. If he- vetoes the report the part of those who falled to get raises, who will then consider that no partiality could have been shown. If he does 80, he faces the possibility of losing me voting strength, which i thing to be carefully avoided especially in election years. If the mayor is not going to run next April, and it appears to be the consensus that he will not, then it A conference at the mayor's office nominee, and Willlam H, Judd, ald- erman, representative, and town committee chairman were in attend- ance, may have had some bearing on the veto situation and its effect on next spring's vote. However, “nothing for publication” was the only public report on the gathering. leaving nothing but conjecture, The American woman's buying | power {8 the basis ot all businesa. | National statistics show that $72,- 000,000,000 went into the pay envel- opes of the nation last year, and that women spent more than $52,- 000,000,000 of that amount for food, clothing, shelter and recreation, | made by women, This makes the woman buyer by far the largest pur- | chasing agent in the country, These are some of the reasons why the General Federation of Wo- | men’s clubs is one of the most active | participating organizations in the | annual observance of Thrift Week, which falls this year on January 1v- American Home, the division of | family finance of which Mrs. Edith | McClure Patterson of Dayton, Ohio, is chairman, is urging each of the | 14,000 member-clubg to observe the week by a study program of thrift and budgeting, an address by an (x- pert on cconomics or in some other fitting w: ‘Woman's abllity as a buyer de- termines in a large measure the country's progress and prosperity,” said Mrs. Patterson. “In view of these facts it sometimes seems lu- dicrous that many merchants; sales- men and advertising agencles still profess to believe that men, not wo- men, are the persons to whom the | appeal to dispose of merchandiss must be made. The average man seldom buys more than his personal wear. Even in the purchase of an automobile it is usually his wife who | is the last word in the selection. “Women are realizing that they must use business methods in the conduct of that important business, home making, quite as much as large business institutions, and so classes for the study of family fi- nance, budgeting, hanking, invest- ments, ete., are springing up in hundreds of women's clubs through- out the country, for the modern wo- man, when she has a job to do, wants to do it in the most approved 2nd butiness-like way.” A business man who can look into the future and forecast trade con- ditions 18 in a fair way to become independently wealthy. Unfortunate- ly many merchants are not profici- ent in the occult sciences, being too much occupled with their daily schedule to allow their minds to be al business conditions. But there are students of commerce who devote their energies to scanning the hor. the beliet that business will be bet- ter during 1928 than it was last year. He has compiled his conclusions in | sued mionthly by the New National bank as follows: Money conditions are favorable and while rates may reach some- what higher levels during the year | than in 1927 no advance large | enough to handicap business 18 in sight, | Inventories are generally low and will need replenishing. Falling prices, which made condi- tions difficult for-business in 1927. are not so likely to be a factor in 28; in fact, prices, if anything, are Iiiitain Industry is ridding itself rapidly THE FUN SHOP HAS MODERN IMPROVFEMENTS (Including Hot and Cold Limericks | On Order) | De Editor: Clifford Moore, & friena of mine, has been running around with the Younger Fast Set. Show him what this leads to. Jane Wyckoff Dear Jane: What makes you think we know what it leads to, huh? Herc's your limerick- A fast young fellow named Moore Took his girl home at quarter past | four; ‘When no one replied To his ringing he tried To push the girl under the door! | dents and about 50 ) [now, of high capital charges, as lowering of long term interest rates is ).ak- ing possible the refunding of high coupon obligations at lower levels According to computations of Daw, Jones & Co., bonds called for jay- ment in 1937 in advance of maturity | agregated $1,526,757,000, the larg- est on record and an increase of $710,000,000 over the previous rec- ord established in 1926 ' Building construction, taking all types of work, promises to be sus- tained at relatively high levels, and a substantial recovery in automobile production is confidently predicted. Farm conditions are better than & year ago. The department of agri- culture in its estimate of the value of principal farm crops d on prices December 1, places the total $635,146,000 higher than the corres- ponding total for 1926, though ctill $620,695,000 below the total for 1925, The Observer has noticed, wher- ever he has traveled, during the past week or so, maybe & week, maybe %0, that the steres are advertising annual January sales; that they are selling goods at & great reduction, and that the people are taking ad- vantage of such sales. Now that's all well and good, as you will agree. Everybody likes to buy something at bargain prices, whether the reduc- tion be great or small. There is that idea of getting something for nothing that appeals to the average trader. However, before Christmas things were at their usual price and those who purchased Christmas pregents had to pay much more for them, in many cases, than they would have to pay now. The Observer's.idea is this: or some other session of congress, |advocating that Christmas be shov- ed on into January, so that people , can take advantage of the January sales when buying Christmas pres- ents. Then think of all the mopey that would be saved by residents of this country. idea, the more the Observer feels that there's something phoney about Hit) It strikes us that the method of electing presidents in this country is antiquated and not a whit in keep- ing with the custom in ofher anal- ogous fields. This idea of having party conventions and then sending two main candidates and four of five representatives of three or four little split-brained parties against cach other is all wrong. The whole performance is over too soon, for one thing. For another, the back- ers of the candidates spend money instead of making it. ‘We now propose our remedy. Presidents should be elected in the same manner that boxing champions are found. There should be an elim- ination tournament among all the prominent candidates, and the win- the presidency. This would spread the fun out over a long period, and the gradually increasing importance of the contests would put some much needed interest into American politics, For instance, Imagine an opening bout between “Alcohol Al” Bmith of Albany, champicn of New York, meeting “Rough and Ready” Reed, middle western title-holder, in the first match .Then “Taxicab Charlie™ Dawes could be matched against “Radio Herbert” Hocver. And Nick Longworth against Willis. It might American election preliminary be-* tween Lindbergh and Big Bill Thompson, bringing the airplane into combat with the air. The win- ners of these first-round encounters would then be matched agalnst each other in turn and the eventful win- ner would be declared the “logical contender” and fixed in completion with the president for the final bout, In case “Silent Cal,” the champion of the maple sugar districts, really could retire gracefully and the win- ner of the elimination would be champion. It might even be possible to very the fare with the injection of a few foreign champions. It would be quite interesting to see how many votes King George could poll in Chicago. Or the president of Li- berfa in Mobile. Or Eeamon 8e Valera in Minnesota. Just leave the a¥rangements to Tex Rickard, and a great ballyhoo would soon be started which would create unprecedented interest and would have the people clamoring for the right to vote for their favorites, Instead of buying votes as is the custom at preseat, it would be pos- sible to sell them, with the first million votes corresponding to “ring- side” seats and costing five times as much. There is one fly in the cintment. Electoral commissions comparable to the present boxing commissions would probably be set up in each state by meddlesome busybodies, and then the trouble would start. Certain candidates would be declared ineligible for failure to mecet opponents on speci- fied dates or even disqualified for “rabbit-punching” by starting whis- pering campaigns behind their op- ponents’ backs. This would prob- ably result in seven or eight presi- “most logical eontenders.” And the present electoral laws would have to be amended. Other- impeached and deposed for failure to defend their office every six months. During the past week a tople of absorbing conversation has been the |extent of a policeman’s authority. The debate, which has waged warm- Iy, chiefly concerns a beating alleged to have been given a prisoner by a policeman who had placed a man under arrest. Counsel for the de- fense, in police court, said that his client had been maltreated, and in view of the fact that witnesses cor- roborated the prisoner on his asser- tion that ke had net invited the av (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction rbidden) tack. the judge found him not guilty. Regardless of the case at issue, ner would meet the incumbent for | even be possible to stage an All- | did not choose to run aguin, he | wise presidents would be declared | | | _far may & policeman go A duing a prisoner? Veteran reporters have aseen prigoners being roughly wiyen the aifuation did sot tate strenuous methodsa. On . the other hand, they recall standing by and watching pelicemen remsin calm and in full gontrol of tempers when the average with ‘or without a uniform have felt justified in’ using ‘Why weapon within his reach. b4 Policemen are human beings:#nd are subject to the same emotions which the rest of the race experi- ence. When they are kicked in‘the shins or scratched in the face, h frequently eccur, it is not to be ex- pected that they will remain jile and not defend themselves, Iibas sumetimes happened that the fien iin blue will simply attempt to gen- trol recalcitrant prisoners but éhey usually make good use of the fense weapons with which they¥are equipped. a Experienced officers know thelr city, They are familiar with chasac- ters who make a practice of fighting when placed under arrest ng it they have occasion to take em into custody they do not hesitate to get“the jump on' them the motjent a move to strike is made, The §an- ger to the policeman lies in the at- titude of the spectators who=zare usually found sympathizing with.the arrested person. Under such cir- cumstances, a policeman may! be justified in demonstrating to ‘the crowd that he means business, 25 Years Ago Todjy (From Paper of That Date) of | At the annual meeting of the Center church last night C. F. Ben- nett was elected assistant treadlirer and Willlam C. Hungerford elerk jand registrar. There i8 a fair prospect of. the 200-feet feature of the licensd’ law |being amended in time for New | Britain to include in its estimates He | tor the fiscal year the money which proposes to present a bill before this lwould be received from the 26 l- censes which have been held up on account of the provision in the sta- ‘tutes. Judge Cooper has called ‘the attention of the judiciary comimit- [tee to the peculiar conditions in New Britain and has asked for guick action in order that the license fees (The more people laugh at the |May be taken into account when the tax rate i3 figured. The New Britain club will hold its tenth annual reception. on Wed- nesday evening, February 4. N. P. Cooley is chairman of ths.commit- tee on arrangements, A, J. Sloper and E. J. Porter are on the com- mittee on decorations, The recep- tion committee includes C. J. Park- er,” W. L. Hatch, N. P, Cooley, C. F. Bennett, J. E. Cooper, R. Cq Mer- win and F. J. Porter. Tonight at the Russwin Lyceum —First appearance in this city of the char@ing young actress, Grace George, in William A. Brady's sat- isfying production of a new play, entitled “Pretty Peggy.” A love {story of old London town. Magnifi- cent mountings and an admirable company. A local coal dealer who has been |selling at considerably less than his competitors has been notified by the wholesalers that unless he raises his price they will cut off his sup- ply. Local fonsorial artists are inter- |ested in the proposed law . which will call for the inspection of bar- ber shops by a man under the state barber commission, The high school scholars who bring their dinners have asked for the use of the gymnasium during noon hours. The boys will be al- lowed to use it Tuesdays and the |&irls Mondays and Fridays. Howard Radcliffe and Harold Newell were perfect in attendance during the fall term in Plainville, Observations On The Weather Washington, - Jan. 14.—Forecast: Rastern New York: Fair and slightly colder Saturday; Sunday increasing cloudiness. Northern New England: Generally fair Saturday and Sunday; colder Saturday. Southern New Eng- land: Generally fair Saturday and Sunday; colder in Massashusetts Saturday. Conditions: The disturbance that was centered over northern Lake Su- perior Thursday night has moved over the 8t. Lav . ~nce, The indications are for mostly fair weather Saturday with somewhat colder weather in southern New England, while on Sunday there will be considerable cloudiness. FORTIFIED FOR HEALTH When take Father John's Medl- cine you build up new resist- ing power to fight ottt colds and cought, you help to get rid of fm- purities, you soothe the irritation in the breath- ing pass- ages, and you build new flesh and strength. 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