New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1928, Page 6

Momber of the Amsclated Pros The Asccisted, Prem fe_exclusively en- m"h"u!l“ of .v not otherwise and also local Momber Awdit Bureas of Cireulation | The A. B. C. fo & natlenal organization which furaishes newsmpapers and adver- | tisars with a strictly homest analysis of | circulation. Our circulation statistics are ‘hased upon thie wudlt. Thle ineures pro- in mewspaper and | ernment not a cent. prics with the Oceanic Steamehip company is $336,172, “of which $67,- 275 is subsidy.” And the contract price with the Dollar Steamship line is $440,28¢, “of which $374.276 is subsidy.” Four other subsidies were noted in connection with a similar number of lines. These subsidies achieve the pur- pose of helping to get, ships flying American flags into foreign ports. A straightaway —monetary grant for that purpose would entail public criticlsm, perhaps; but a fat subsidy for carrying the malls—that is an. other matter entirely, as everyone knows the mails must be expedited. LAST OF A BIG LOAN The New York, New- Haven & Hartford railrond is sitting pretty nowadays. Its $91,000,000 loan from the government has been entirely paid off; the other day the last $22,- 380,000 was paid. The premier New England carrier now owes the gov- local. advertisers, | | The Herald fa om sale @ally in New | York at_Hotaliug's Newsetand, Times | Square; Bchults Newsstands, Eatrance | hr‘ld Central, 42nd Street. | R | Mayor Weld has a mnaa.ort) policy that works; and it prevents the mayor from getting his hlndfl: uinnecessarily soiled. Alderman Johnson's, plan to re- duce the proposed tax rate to 25 wills is a splendid idea. A reduction fo 24 mills would be even better. | Selection of textbookeé may be- come an issue—with special empha- | sis on the possibility which does not necessarily imply a probability, The legs drgumentation there exists about tost books the better we like it. 30 the rule has gone forth that City automobiles are not to be used the private business of city em- ves, There secms to be no objec- 1 to the use of private cars for | | business, reason that Plainville garage | :d on the 3-1 ratio-must be 15 e lecause part of it was o_sessed after the other; or there were different aswessors; Or part of it was assessed | by the assessor and the other by the | owner; or there were two different | assessors who worked on the prop- erty on different days; or there were other reasons. By this time the well- advertised garage should be worth even more. | | signe for rondside stands are wanted, and an organization has been form- | ed to promote the {dea. Perhaps the | designs along the Berlin turnpike | will change for the better as a result | of this; but the designs of the | fruit ean scarcely be expected to | take a turn for the better or for worse. 1 The new highway to Berlin is an unbounded joy; but it will be even better after the cut-off at the ceme- tery bridge is no more and a smart and snappy span fills the gap. Get- ting by that peint just now is enough to take the air out of balloon tires. One beging to wonder whether | the park. board will enough meney to improve transpor- | tation through Walnut Hill park this year, or whether it will be vecessary for automobiles whose | drivers desire to travel in that gen- eral direction to take a roundabout | way and aveid the bumps, really have MAIL SUBSIDIES The American public dislikes the | sound of the word “subsidy.” No- body Is entitled to a epecial |||0||--‘ tary. favor from the government, not :n- eorporations. Once there quite an agitation for an American ship suhsidy, but indignation con- vulsed the population in the hinter- 1and, and the o was idea died aborning. For some years the yeomanry in the hinterland have wanted government assistance, monetary and otherwise, which masqueraded in the “farm relic and the subsidization of especially in the west, was as con- vulsed . against the previously felt about u ship eubsidy But the works nevertheless; name of cast, also against industry, it as west ship subsidy busii perhups on a smaller scale than desired, but it is It was W. Irving Glove istant postmaster general, for ihere. T, sec- ond instanee, who testified recently that sis ship lines get u subsidy of 81, 137,026 for carrying the maile, Th ship lines expend 4 for the money, of course; service but they get the million plus all the same. Mr. Glover rank. 100; od it & subsidy cunnot get he blandly call- Some people simply themeelves to call a an agricultural implement e is the explanation given by ir. Glover: “Tn furtherance of the government to velopment of nt marin: 2l contracts wers during the pre nnder the authorit Ly Reetion Marine act.” of the poli id in the an adequate ontinued fiseal vear Merch; The sabsidy money is in to the regular cost of ¢ mails l‘ rrying the [} For Instance, contr | duction to private interests of 4 1- lot the It was a difficult financial problem which confronted the its corporate mneck for years and seemed to tighten until the refund- ing operations were started. The New Haven still owes money, but to private investors instead of the gov- ernment; and it pald the govern- ment 6 per cent interest, while the refunding operations brought a re- | per cent. The financial layout of the road now is 43 per cent stock and &7 per | cent bonds, whereas formerly it was one-third stock and two-third bonds. Interest must be pald on the bonds, while stock must wait. New Haven stockholders have learned to be pa- tient. The time is said to be soon near at hand when dividends on the | common will be paid; at which time | ! numerous New England stockhold- ers will breathe with greater free- dom. As the road is carning money it is high time relumn-'d. WHERE GOOD PLANES GO The Smithsonian Institution at! ‘Washington is to be the repository Louis nner‘ Spirit of 8t. Colonel Lindbergh gets through ! with 1t. That we gather from news dispatches to that effect. A record |of the accomplishments of the Spirit |of 8t. Louis is vividly portrayed on |the plane itselt; flags of every na- tion it has visited are painted on the nose of the fuselage; flag is the date of arrival in the | country represented. Visitors to the A news item says that befter dc- | Institution in the future will have | no difficulty in following the achievements of the colonel and his plane; the entire story will be on the plane itsclf. Needless to say, it is the | | most decorated airplane in existence, | We are reminded of a peculiarity of the Smithsonian Institution connection with plane flights, how- | ever, and one not exactly to the credit of the great Washington re- pository of historic airplanes. The 25th anniversary of the first flight by the Wright brothers comes this year. But the plane of the Wright brothers, which made his- tory at Kitty Hawk on the coast of North Carolina, is not in the Smith- sonian Institution. Tnatead, it will go to the South Kensington Museum in London. In the Institution, machine, or Langley, Smithsonian however, is the Langle; which didn’t fly. Profi an eminent scientist, was connect- ed with the Smithsonian. That is where he got his bread and butter. Upon the Langley machine exhibited in the Institution is a notice reading: “Original Langley flying ma- chine, 1903, the first man-carry- ing plane in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight. Invented, built and tested over the Potomac river by Samuel Pierpont Langley in Successtully flown at ammondsport, w York, 2, 1915." Note The suce: the machine sfully Wrights chine for the first time had gone to Kitty Hawk in 1900, 1901, and 1802, By October, 1902, their gliders had made almost 1,000 difference in the dates. admittedly flown fully was not until tlights, covering distances up te 600 Then they propelled or power-driven plane, and on December 17, 1903, le nade the first flight in it, and it was Orvil There has never been a of doubt vers poor mechanics, cngaging in 2 about it rplane ex- periments were bieyele repairers in | Luilding. ‘The building department Wit Dayton, Ohio. Lan was sangley had the his head about the Wright brothers did, an eminent scientist idea of 1l in m frazzie the, 1 extent of Langley effort, The Institution welcomed a Wright plane bt d a machine of about r than the recogn Wright ttot ad of the specif rath of 1903 original planc Mark Sullivan, in hout the hix book, Times, Jost account of early where, nt into contemporary son lovotes an exhils experiments New Haven | since 1920. The millstone hung about | that dividends were | under each | 1914, The | flew their ma- | in 1908, They | built their self- | chanics beat the in perfecting Smithsontan re- placing “Our wfforts found any- of Pro-| fessor Langiey. The profeasor built a house-boat for use on the Potomac, and it had a 70-foot runway on top of it, from which the plane was to be catapulted into the air. The trial was made on October 7, 1908, and the result simply sealed the lips of the experimenters. The only reliable statement available is the eye-wit. ness account of a reporter, Wwho said: v “ A mechanic stopped, cut the cable holding the catapult; _there was a roaring, grinding noise—and the Langley airship tumbled over the edge of the houseboat, and disappeared in the river 60 feet below, It simply alid into the water like a handful of mortar.” Another trial and another failure followed. It was not until 11 years later, at Hammondsport, when | further experiments were deemed necessary in connection with a dis. | pute over patent fplnnc was made to fly. | The Amerlcan public | fair, just and generous in yielding credit where it is due. The 8mith- | was connected with the institution. ! For this reason the surviving Wright | will not send the original plane to ‘Washington, but to England instead. | WOMEN AND THE BALLOT That women do mnot take | vantage of the privilege of voting as |extensively ss was forecast before they got the ballot is being taken for granted; it is not a supposition, | either, as the statistics of citizens | who actually vote took a sharp drop |in percentage since the voting power was doubled. Leaders in women's blaming it on the men, Lucia Ames Mead, for {nstance. Mrs, Mead, lecturer and writer—especial- ly in the realm of writing letters to the papers—is far-seeing and liber- al-minded. But she has convictions |about women and why they do not | crowd the voting booths, ranks are | “Under our present machin- cry,” she writes, “multitudes of men feel as if their votes were almost thrown away.” She includes women by inference; ‘fl!r if men think that way, it is quite | consistent to believe that women fecl ‘the same way about it, & | | “President Butler," she adds, “spoke tart and timely true in his epeech in New York when he said that the names of the two major political parties have today become mere trademarks, which means that neither s , animated by any great distinct- ive, vital or urgent purpose. If the men either at Kansas City or Houston will show some faint desire to change this, the women will be ready enough to help them shout.” The New England woman leader then puts a few questions of policy hefore the political parties, saying a definite stand one way or the other would interest Necedless to add, the questions are such as no eelf-respecting politician of the modern schoo! will consider | a8 being the business of anybody but the super-minds in Washington. This is the kernel of the voting situation |as 1t affects both men and women. | They are left to vote the political | trademarks and are expected to | swallow the contents of the politi- cal bottle without looking further [than the label. | Dodging issues is one way of dis- couraging voters, both women, | men and 5 Years Ago Today (From Paper of That Date) A meeting of the republican town committee was to have been held last cvening but Chairman Curtt, did not rccognize its status and did not attend. When he saw some time ago that the committee would Ko over his head fn favoring a can- didate for postmaster, he served nu- | tice that he would not abide by the vote. The committee considers it has |its man and Mr. Curtis says it hae not. The Iron Moulders’ union of this | city has offered financial assistance | to the Waterbury strikers, Co. E today lacked but one name | of the number nccessary for formas | tion. W. E. Attwood, F. A. Porte . White, and Clayton Parker have | returned from New York | TLuke Meehan sought out the Vuilding inspector today to protest against Peter Farrell building out | to the street line on Lafayette strect. Mr, Farrell is putting up a busincss block next to Mr. Mechan, which will discountsnancs the latter's sees no redress. Nincteen members of o who work at the Rule 8hop have Leen made happy by the announcement {hat the company will pay them for the time while they on strike- breaking duty in Waterbury. One of the hettest indoo games of the on right at the arniory and the Germania Guards (Co, | Hartrord). Both sides mude vallies, and the Hartford umpire came in for general denouncement when he calls although t1 ldn't know the That made Co. ted out 4 14 to gpurr ha property on Church stroet W. 1. Hatch from W. R. s of Wharnclifte, Englan: erect a business block upon | 1 wis g between Co, A of furions at second a4 he runmer ind it man ont admitte In win asemnan there ' a Georze purchased the land | rights, that the | has been | sonian Institution has been prejudic- | ed In favor of Langley because he | ad- | There i | men and women. | Facts and Fancies It might help some if a ocitisen could be taxed only by his peora Aa to fame observe the reader's reaction to a thousand-mile hog over water: “Huh! Another atory about Lindy. Some practice vivisection, and some have opportunity te expen- ment on the poor, An author has “arrived” when he I no longer turns purple at the sight of an error in his stuff overlooked by the proof reader. Paderewski isn't the only states- | man made famous by a musical in- strument, but his wasn't a horn. That Congressman who says America has no trained propagan- dists hagn't seen the new seed cata- i | Home is the place where you brush up = little before going to the | ¢rug store for lunch. A national advertiser offers sus- penders as first prize in a slogan- writing contest, Second prize doubt- less is a pair of celluloid ctffs. The stars make us what we are. Bobbed halr, short skirts and police dogs were wished on us by movie stars. Brief history of South America since the 15th century: Trying to get out from under somebody's thumb. Americanism: Admiring a man who got there by hard work; ex- pecting him to stop work and ad- | dress luncheon clubs. A hero has one consolation. Next week the public will forget, and then he can get some sleep. Method of avoiding homesickness while in Europe. Take along a little |lye and varnish to mix with the liquor. Blaming America for her cr!mc? record is like scolding a jail because | |its inmates are roughnecks. The | | jail didn’t develop its own tenants. | There's much to be said for the simple dignity of fundamentalism, and we wish Adam had named the | pullman cars while naming the ani- | | mats. Criticts orthodoxy if you wish, but | not while it pays you a salary. It| isn't polite to talk with your mouth | full. Of course the Mississippl Valley should pay part of the cost of flood control. Didn’t the West build its irrigation dams People meddled with other’s af. tairs, even in the good old days, but they didn't call it Scrvice. It wasn't parsimony that eliminat- “I-thee-endow” from the eerc- Jt was a sense of humor. ed | mony. | Correct this sentence: “I guessed | right this time,” said he “and won't have to buy any more coal.” Copyright, 1828, Publishers Syndicate 11.—Forec: \ll sngland: Cloud ain Saturday | | and Saturday night; Sunday partly cloudy. Forecast for Observations On The Weather ‘Washington, for Southern New not so cold, possibly Eastern New York: mer, possibly rtly cloudy. stern dis of New- disturbance advancing Cloudy, | rain Saturday; Sunday y Conditions: The northe turbance is central south foundland, while the that was over Manitol southeastward, being ¢ al' oper Lake Superior. Another disturbance {is making s nce over | northern Alberta. ssure is rela- ‘uu : high southeast of Hudson Bay. The outlook is for mostly weather Saturday and Sunday | states cast of the Mississippi river, except for rains on Saturday in the | lower lake region and the morth | part of the Atlantic states, and for snow and rains day night in New e s will rise slightly | on Saturday SKATING EVENTS Stage ANl set For Opening of Olymplcs, United States Stands Favorite on lce. | st [Bel Moritz, § With the st the zerland, Feb, set for the Olvmpic that the vletor the skilng nd Finland the winners and Canada t hockey hot weath- ved to finish bob-sleigh 1 win- ter sports of | nredietions are States will be sn Norwa | st point ithe blue rilibon b Arzentive and M er countries | rames, TUnited i n two. three Ttion. Gra one, comm Arturo e Th St ire ntine \m ne of ning time in Moritz derly sccond in the Olymplc rate.” Gramar- “There e il finish frst In " W rar: n bob-sleighs.” | Summy, Scnd all communications (o Fun shop E.“nlol'. cn.:d of the. mhe‘ Britain® Herald, your lettes will be forwarded to New Vork We've Seen Some Already! Of eourse there really is no law Against milady's lid of straw When February's snows commence, But just the same, Folks, sense is senge! Strictly So! + Dennis: “Mike is sure a nisn, fsn't he?’ Cassidy: “Yes. He won't even sleep more'n eight hours!” ~—Mrs. L. R. McKeon union THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY | Variety With reference to circua turns, a neighboring newspaper laments the tact that sword-swallowing seems to | have died out since the war, A possible explanation is that the jconversion of awords into plough- shares had increased the difficulty ot the power of swallowing! Presidential There's some who think that Hoover Would sweep the states like straws, And others think the election Would be a pipe for Dawes! Social “I have noticed,” says a novelist, “that the happiest married woman | is the one wio is .below medium | Lelght A short wife and a gay one! The Mode More aged dames with frosty hair Are getting bobs, they say; Well, doesn't little Brother Quail Cry out, “Bob White!"” each a4 Query A New York newspaper writer re- marks that the Are there such things nowadays? Located! Teacher: “Where is Davenport?” Bobby: “Ours went back to the instaliment man this morning!"” —Rita H. Scarrit ALL GOW'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS (A Fun Shop Drama) In Three Acts By J. C. Martens Act One (Mrs. Ramona Summy o office of Dr. Florian W Osborne, in the Darktown Belt). Dr. Osborne: “Well, well, Md how is you-all fyin' dese days Middlin’, health progres Mrs. Summy: middlin®, Doctuh. But Ah doesn’t think mah | hush.mds health am quite so salus hrlml& Dr. Osborne: “Wall, now, Sistuh | Summy, what seem to be de trou- ble?"” Mrs. Summy: “Well, suh, ebry now and den he act as if he was tryin’ to swallow hisself, and tryin’ to keep lisself from doin’ it at de same tahm!" Act Two (Mrs. Summy and Dr. Oghorne are tion.) Dr, Osborne: “Yes, suh, Sistuh Summy, hc's mussuh than evuh to= day Mrs. Summy: when Ah hir Dr. Osborne: he am.” Mrs. Summy: “Den it's no use you comin’ any moh. He can get wuss widdout no help.” Dr. Osborne: “De trouble vou, Sistuh Summy, is dat you rarrow minded! Yes, suh! if jou was moh narrow-minded dan you is, dey wouldn’t be nothin’ foh your cars to stick to Act Three (Several days later. The st come out of the sick ros . Osborne: h's glad to fohm you, Sistuh, de fcver broke Mrs. Summy: well, den?” Dr. Osbor ain't,” Mrs. Summy: dovs it do?” . Dr. Oshorn, I, Sistuh, you- all will hab de satisfaction ob know- ing dat he died cured!” wussuh dan wid doctor ym) in- am “Is he goin' get “No, Ah's red he “Den what good 29th? 1 hate February fennett (pessimist) ruary this year hec another 24 hours of expens Marshall: “And T like ft bec it gives us another day of the Shop!” Feb- Fun —Ttosalic Van J3euren was an immigrant far in er dress! He Lecause thought & of the The ll met you t by Cyclon husband orton,” ¥ sat = stre Mrs. bridge he began on result of the next | | prestdential election is in the laps | of the women. Sistuh | digcussing Mr. Summy's cunzll-‘ is | it gives us | at HHN“ s very much | Suspension of Lieut. Hartnett of |the fire department for one month | fopsinfraction of department rules, ich was decided on this week by | the eommissioners, is regarded about the city are being more than suffi- clent to “make the punishment fit the crime. It is generally admiited that dis- cipline is essential to the proper ad- i miniatration of the service but the suspension of a man for a one month period is regarded as drastic beyond necessity, The result is that a work- ing man is fined nearly $200 4n salary for attempting to better his financial condition and the condi- tion of hie associates. Several weeks ago the firemen petitioned the commission for an in- crease in pay of fifty cents a day. | The board declined to act favorably, as it has a right to do. The firemen sent their petition to the cemmon council and it was referred to the | council committee-on salaries. It {was an error to push their case aft- jer the commission had decided against it but it was not a serious breach of discipline and could have been overlooked if some of the fire | commission, inflated-with an idea of their own importance, had not felt their dignity assailed. Lack of judg- ment apparently dogged the feet of the firemen and they made a second | error by sending to members of the common council pamphlets compar- ing wages paid in this city with these paid in other communities. Among {the men active in the campaign for |an increase in pay was Lieut. Hart- nett. As the result of an investiga- tion, he was suspended for a month by the board and another fireman was fined seven days' vacation for | his activity. Surprise was expressed throughout the city when the verdict { Pecame known and uncomplimen- tary references to the commission | were heard. The public was not ‘pl(-'.nlod Milder punishment would | have been accepted as just put the | opihion prevails that the fire com- | mission was harsher than the cir- cumstances required. We used to think that the radio —aside from those fools who turn on the full volume along about mid- night and then open all the win- dows—was an undisguised blessing, but now we are not so certain. For we have suddenly realized what might have happened had the idea of broadcasting been originated some decades ecarlier. Let us say, for instance, that it is July 3, 1863, and we are tuning in on the big event of the day. We hear some- thing like the following: “Hello, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience. This is station WXXX broadcasting from battle- side at Cemetery ridge, Gettysburg, | Sylvester Ulysses amee an- {nouncing. Everything is set for the {third round of the Battle of the| Century—or the Battle of the Ceme- , if you know what I mean. T will now turn you over to Andrew Jackson Carlin, who will give you a | description of the battleficld and of |the previous rounds.” Another voice: “Hello, folks! Here |we are all ready for the third and |final round. You will remember that General Lee, the challenger, won the first round day before yes- ‘(ud and that the sccond round, | whicn fought yesterday, was| declared even when neither Lee nor |the champion, General Meade, show- ed much other than defensive fight- ing. The challenger is expected to give ad he has in this round and| Hm re will be fireworks aplenty. “The men of General Mcade are | encamped along this ridge awaiting an attack. Their uniforms—ha, ha, General Sickles in back of me says {1 should call them Union suits—a quite wrinkled from two days of fighting but the blue is much bright- | {er than the gray of the Confed: |ate soldicrs' clothes, which is quite worn and faded. Between the two armics lies a beautiful green valley. {on the other side of which is Lee's | |front line. There goes the qun rn [turn you over to Mac again.” | First voice: “Well, the fight is on. |Lee is bombarding us, and the noise | vou hear is not static at all. If no {shell hits us and our usual hot dog | shows up we'll give you a shot-by shot account. Wait! There seems | to be something doing over on the | |other ridge. TNl switch you over there.” Click Third voice: “Lee has just ordered |General Pickett to lead his fresh troops st the Union lines. They |are forming mew. Thousands of |them are lining up, flags flying, | | drums rolling, men checring, They're lofft Down into the valley they go und the Union artillery opens fire. Click! First voice: “There goes the first| -annonball. Too high! Ball two— ow! Wow! A direct strike! Meade's | tillery is cutting great gaps in the | ranks of the Confederates, ' & on| they come. There §s no stopping | them. Up the hill, up, up, up! The; |are at the breastworl It is b onet for onet now. Oh, b | What a fight! WHAT a fight! The southern flag i5 on the fop of the| . 1t's over! IT'S OVER! either; that was the flag reinforcements—pardon ‘s men are peing driven 3 down! One. two, wde wins! Meade wins! | “Just a minute now. We're going | 110 try to get Meade to say a few words to you. Hey, General! Ha you anything te tell the radio audi- su't, Union rprised when he said to me, con- | ntially, that nothing would suit better than a good neck: . Fullerton, how dare you sit and talk so disparagingly of 1t He is not the kind to | 1 frivolous remarks and | Il over such foolish + leaves such nonsense to ounger generation.” iut you didn't let me . Norton.” remonstrated Mre. ullerton. “What 1 wanted to vou was that your nusband said that nothing would suit him better than good necktie for his birthday.” F. P. Pitzer i1, 1928, Reproduction Forbidden) | tic Lim the finish, (Copy |a part, [makes se |ly and industriously, |ing, “Wi —THE OBSERVER— mmm OntluCitytulul’upb ence?” Fourth volce: “Hello, everybody.| All T have to say is that Lee put up a game scrap and that I'm mighty &lad to have won. Goodby. First voice: “Station WXXX sign. ing— Wait a minute! Here's an iextra surprise. Ladies and gentle- men of the radio audience, it gives me great pleasure to fntroduce to you His Excellenny the President, Abraham Lincols Fitth voice: “Four score and sev- on years ago our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a great ration—' Yes. We used to think that the radio was an undisguised blessing, but now we are not so certain, Along about February, ence every four years, it has been our habit in America for a hundred years or more to unlock the alibi clothes- press and take out the faithful ojd ghost mantle labeled “Presidential Year Bugaboo,” and slip it over our heads and go about saying *“Boo!" to each other, Merchants said “Boo!” to manu- facturers. Manufacturers said “Boo!” to the producers of raw ma- terials and to their fellow manufac-{. turers. Employers said “Boo!" to their workers, and the workers said “Boo!" to the grocery man and the butcher. And so it went, round in a circle, Everybody said “Boo! This is a i presidential year—business will be ‘off’ this year." Now there aré always plenty of factors to make business sag a bit without scaring it to death, but the curious fact is, says the Magazine of Business that of the last ten presidential election years, covering a period of 40 years, in apite of all the booing everybody could do, in six of these years business refused to sag from any cause for any con- siderable period, and in the other four years what sagging there was happens to have been due largely to deep-seated economic causes rather than to presidential politics, with the possible exception of 1896, when business actually did get a little frightened over “free silver.” Here is the record: 1888—Average year. Started be- low normal, but, in spite of politics, gained steadily and closed above normal. 1892—10 per cent above normal, 1896—Below normal, posaibly partly due to Bryan's ‘“free silver campaign, though the period of de- pression, of which this year formed lasted over into the second year following. 1900—An average year. Consider- ably above normal in the early months; a little below at the year's close. 1904—RBelow normal. 1908—Started with carry-over from the depression of 1907, but improved later in the year in spite of its being a presidential year. 1912—Good year. Between B per cent and 10 per cent above normal, 1916——A real boom year—averag- ing 10 per cent to 15 per cent above normal. 1920—Considerably above normal until last three months of year when post-war economic readjustment began. 1924—Below normal durirz mid- dle of year, recovering at close. Here's a new idea for “long dis- tance” champlonships: Lawrence Kramer of 202 Thorni- ley street lays claim to having a | | Christmas tree in his home which | has ted longer than any other in | the city. The tree remains in the sun rlor of his-home decorated with the tinsel and ornaments put on it at Christmas and it Is in almost as zood condition as it was when figst are | set up. The tree was.set up a few days be- fore Christmas and following & | whim, Mr. Kramer decided to allow it to remain until it shed its neédles and started to wilt. Up to the pres- t time, the tree hasn't shed very much and it still presents a glittering appearance to those who view fit. The branches are still in place and have dropped only as they did when lhf‘ weight of the trimmings was ! first pyg on them. Mr. Kramer fn- tends to allow the tree to remain {until it is found necessary to take it down, Time: 3 p. m. There's a knock on the door. The woman of the house responds. Outside stands a young man. “Where's your radio?” he asks. The woman points to it in me, | front room. The young man goes to it and ral mysterious gestures with equally as mysterious tools. Tor half an hour he works silent- brushing this and dusting that, He tests a tube and replace it| with another, taken from his kitbag. Finally he makes his exit, remark- 1. it works all right now.” (Curtain descends to indicate the lapse of three hours.) Arriving home for supper the . family is asked who sent a repair | man to work on the radio. Nobody did because the radio was {In perfeet condition, (Curtain descends to indicate the pse of 16 hours.) Man upstairs angrily telephones radio store in Hartford and demands to know '! ! 27?2 xxxx why they |didn’t send repair man to his house | yesterday as they promised. Answer is, they did. Heated conversation follows. Proprictor of radio store hangs up, gl around and mutters: “The | repair guy got into the wrong house again.” Fumrev(;f'Eanadian Sheep Industry Certain monton, Alberta, Feb. 11 (UP) . future of the sheep industry in Canada is assured, according to the views expressed unanimously by all experts gathered at the annual meeting of the Alberta Sheep Breed- ers’ association here. 1t was pointed out that Alberta has 200 of the 2,118 members of the Canadian Coopera- tive Wool Growers' association, and that Alberia was providing 60 per cent of the Dominion's wool produc- tion. | ciety, being mov: D TERN IDEAS 'KRLED BY SEVATE Adopt Resolwtion Agaimst It o L ol ‘Washington, Feb. 11 (M—In the opinion of the senate, American presidents should retire from office “after their second term. Fifty-six members of the senate so believe and, over the opposing votes of 26 others, they have put the sep- ate on record to that effect by adopt- ing the resolution of Senator la- Follette, republican, Wisconsin, de- claring it would be unwise and un- patriotic for executives to depart from “the precedent established. by Washington and other presidenta” Adopted after four days of debate *|that centered largely on its bearing upon. President Coolidge; the resolu- tion was trimmed of its paragraph commending ‘“the observance of this precedent by the president.” It was eliminated by Senator LeFollette ‘Wwhen Senator Feas, republican, Ohto, had moved to have it stricken out. LaFollette said he had added the paragraph “in all sincerity becsuse I thought President Codlidge by his statements had definitely eliminatea himself from the race and was ob- serving this tradition.” ‘He said it was apparent, however. that friends of Mr. Coolidge were preparing to draft him, and that “the president has not foreclosed his renomination.” Senator Fess was not so succesaful in another attempt to reward the resolution so that it definitely ex- cluded President Coolidge from its meaning. His proposal to have it apply to second “elective” terms was defeated 78 to 5, drawing support only from Fess and Willis of Ohfo, Bingham and McLean of Connecti- cut, and Waterman of Colorado, re- publicans. The Fess paragraph was opposed by administration senators whe said it would reflect upon Mr. Coolidge who, they argued, might still accept the nomination in good faith, while democrats said the paragraph did not accept in good faith the presi- dent's statement that he did mnot choose to run. ‘The final vote found 18 republi- cans, mostly westerners, and includ- ing Benator Curtis of Kansas, a presidential candidate, joining 37 democrats and the one farmer-labor senator in support of the resolution. Senator Gillette, republican, Massa- chusetts, also voted for it, while Senator Walsh, democrat, of that state, opposed it, with three others of the ‘minority party—Blease of South Carolina, Ferris of Michigan, and Ransdell of Louisiana. Two announced candidates for the republican nomination, Renators Watson of Indiana, and Willis of Ohio, voted against {he resolution, BLACKMAIL CASE NEARING AN END Delense Claims Woman Sent Letters to Hersell Hackensack, N. J., Feb. With the defense contending that Mrs. Frank A. Von Moschzisker, wealthy soclety matron, sent blagk- mail letters to herself, the case against Miss S8arah B. Mowell, 21 ar-old bank clerk, was expected to be in the hands of the jury early next week. Dr. Bushroad H. 8pencer, of Pat- erson, defense handwriting expert, who was on the stand when court adjourned yesterday over the week- €end, testified: ““When Mrs. Von Moschzisker at- tempted to simulate Miss Mowell's handwriting, she put into it some- thing of herself. No matter how she disguised it, I am persuaded that it is there for all of us to see.” But one witness, a defense hand- writing expert, remains.to be called, #o far as was known, and it was thought that it would not take more than another day for additional tes- imony, counsel's summations and the judge's charge to the jury. Miss Mowell was charged with having sent defamatory and threat- cning letters to Mrs. Von Mosch- zisker, prominent in Ridgewood so- 10 this action by jealousy over Waiter Burnett, dap- per electrician, whom she had seen at the home of the older woman. Burnett, who has testified for the | defense, stated. yesterday under cross-examination, that he and Mrs, Von Moachzisker had ‘“never em- braced nor kissed.” John B. Zabriskie, counsel for Miss Mowell, has laid the authorship of the letters at the door of Mrs. Von Moschzisker, and was substan- tiated by Dr. Spencer. SHOWS HIS SKILL | Acting Referce in Hockey Game Scores Six Goals in Rapld Succes- sien in Demonstration. 8t. Moritz, Switzerland, Feb, 11 (P —*Referee! Referce!” was the shout of the Czechoslovakian hockey team as they took the ice on the Olympic rink yesterday afternoon to prac- tice. There was no referee present. Finally a tall, lanky man volunteer- led to act. The team practiced a few {minutes when the self-appointed referee ruled off two hockey players {for intensive body-checking. “Let me show you,” said the ref- eree. Then gathering up a stick he ran the entire length of the Czecho- slovakian defense and scored six goals in rapid succession as the be- ered team gasped. “Who's that man?” asked Jaro- {slaw Popistil. the Czechoslovakian ®oal keeper, just as another speedy {shot found the net. “Dave Trottier, of Canada,” the reply from the sidelines.” “Then heaven help America,” the goal keeper replied, apparently not aware that the United States was not entered in the Olympic trophy matches. 11 P— wan