New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1928, Page 6

1 exclusively eu. itled to -the for re-publication o ;I: nowe !m'h L ot etherwise credited R 4 alse local iews publish Member Audit iation | the A. B. G !¢ & natlopal organization ¢ which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with & etrietly honest analysie of circalation. Our cireulstion statisties sre ~ased wpom this audit. This insures pro- ection tyst fraud In mewspaper tribution figures to Weth matiemal ueal edvertisere. R Horald ta on mle dally n 1'-15?‘& Hotaling's Newsstand, Times Squsre; Schults's Newsstands, Batrance Grand Ceatral, d3nd’ Btrest, —— These quarter gas meters tickle our risibilities. Nobody knows ex- actly how much gas he ia getting tor his meney and thus nobody zasses abeut it. —_— Those 153 Stroudsburg, Pa., resi- dents whe made a trip to New York and return on less than $10 each did not viejt any of the night clubs. arrr—— “Party loyalty iv the patter that | keeps the suckers in line," comments Judge, That's a setatement to which every independent will agree. By the way, since when has Judge quit being & standby of party loyalty? Practically all 8. senators are privats presidential candidates, but they make the mistake of trying to he & favorite son before getting withip sight of the White House. ‘This #s the time ef the year when cvery autolst notiees every hole in the road and vyainly tries to avoid cach’separate and distinct crater, for the The Guggenheim fund promotion of aeronautics predicts that the time is soon here When air- planes Wi he almost fool proof. ‘That sppesrs to be a left-handed (iig at somebody; maybe the weather nan, the airplane's wom; fae. ‘THEW HOOVER FLOOD PLAN Tripping up Hoover is not eagy of uccamplishment. They got his nose down on the grindstone of conten- tion before the Senate commerce committee, and the stage was set for damaging cvidence. The wrong unswers and he would lose southern suppert,or presidential support; con- vention delegates would have made uote of it and acted accordingly ip Kansas City. But the wily Hoover was not to be caugh napping. He seemed to know cxactly what kind of questions would be asked of him, and not only did he haye the answers ready in his mind; but he-had them prepared on typewritten statements! \ That's Hooveresque efficiency! Or preparedness! His' compromise plan can’t harm him politically angd cannot be said to | go counter ta administration ideas nor the ideas of the Mississippi basin states who already have spent $400,000,000 on trying to get the hetter of the mighty piver flowing through thelr midst. “Appoint a commission for thor- ough study,” in effect says Hoover; “and megntimg. let Congress appro- pripte. money te go ahead with the preliminary werk, including the con- struction of !'!)illl'i)‘s and safety de- vices." Simple, fsn't it? It merely means immediate activity, leaving major problems of apportioning the somt over until after the election. THE AIR LINE Anriouncement made recently that | the New Haven railroad thanden the air line between Haven and Willimantic so passenger travel in coaclies iy concerned would New far as steam-drawn means that tha railroad is bowing to the inevit- Dle on various frouts. One mixed fraih—combination freight and enger—will make round trip aily. We imagine most of the public Jdesiring transportation between the | citles involved will depend on other wieans, ecither bu, All of When one the New ficlds autos or which fimd= the is to 1 bus s of Haven entering most monthly one ecanno conclude otherwise than that 1 railroad has co where traffic b to the conclusion been redaced 11 8 are the best means ing the publie.” The New Haven, through it idiary, is than any other railroad in Anieric Ouly a few years ago none at all. Befors the railtoad i wongh ingtalling new bus lines— aud with the consnt of the . —ita railroad pas busir il be o operating more huses it operated nger @ minor #em in its pussner tirns. Only i few days 1 that the Ne nsportation company 2o it v Jmonne: > now the | breaking even financially. In a few years it will be making money that sounds like real money. The ‘air lines,” and minor passenger lines of a former day will have passed into { oblivion. The tracks will do fer freight. In the end some of them may be torn up. | MODERN POLITICAL SCANDAL In Indiana a governor got ac- quitted of bribery because statute of limitations had expired. At Washington there has been the odor of oil scandals. In New York there has been amazing graft in a sewer |job. In Massachusetts the attorney | general accepted a fee from an or- ganization that was to be prosecut- ed. Are these incidents peculiarly modern, or did they occur before? Aek the oldest resident in town whether he can remember any similar doings in the ‘“good old days.”" He'll probably be able to give a comfortable list of them it he is given time to scratch his memory. As a matter of fact, graft in the old days was regarded as inevitable in connection with politics. Now- adays we 6till have some of it, but we get quite irritated on contem- plating it. A $25,000 FEE Being an attorney general certain- Iy has its drawbacks. There is Arthur K. Reading of Massachusetts, for in- stance. Suffering from *righteous in- dignation” the gentleman has given his friends and enemies to under- | he accepted a fee of $25,000 from | the Decimo club, Inc. The Legis- | 1ature and the governor, of course, are aroused, and his resignation is in order. But come what may, Mr. Reading has the | more than «n attorney general can The fat fee was only a ‘“pre- liminary retainer,” too, one handed | to him through a third party before any work for the club was done. He admitted it; also that he had since received other sums, the amounts of whigh he declined to state. An attorney general has no bus- |iness accepting retainers from | private concerns involved in law | with the authorities, or likely to be. The Decimo club may have had nothing but the most righteous ideals in view in employing the at- | torney gencral, but must have known he also was employed by the state. The Massachusetts scandal is one that has caused the Bay state con- siderable food for thought and con- versation. There is talk of impeach- in the attorney general if he doesn't resign. | ant in sensational charges in New York. Mr. Reading was retained by the club as an “advisory counsel” within a few days after he began an investigation of it, at which time he ot his $25,000. Reading claims the fee was pald to him as a lawyer, not in order to quict his activities as an attorney gencral. Oil and water cannot mix. WRITERS AS “PIKERS"” | It is high time the long-eutfering | newspaper writers took some of the | wind qut of the sails of the fellow known as “Bossy” Gillis, the “bad boy mayor of Newburyport, Mass.” Instead of regarding him as a sour of *news,” the boys ought to join in giving him the razz; and if they {are half as good as they used to be they ought to be able to do him up brown. 1t is, of course, no credit to New- buryport that it elected the garage owner as mayor. As mayor he fs very good automobile mechanic, {and probably charges as much for | nis gasoline as the traffic will b i\\‘mmm. the news cager to | May up clowns as well us more im- | portant pcople, T pers, nobody outside of the two-by-four city he hails from | would | publicity secker. have ever heard of this In Greenficld the loud outhed, slang-slinging m an audi- |ence that newspapermen than booilegge t the sincere, the bunch of them, are worse are “in- whole |and nine out pikers.” W per fraternity. They might be just of ten are Jow dow arise in defense of 1 s news- “re as Bossy 1p space himself is. The che -grabber, having ha {opportuniry [ fool to make icient of a of now seems to bad t n worse realize He'll look elc also how 1 looks in p from now on The of Newburyport com- M B th hat. plaine that Lynn g vor ner of Why Bauer is a real mayor him wouldn't he? in many and if mayors the country to maintain dignity that affice: th 1 annot help iv- Th 1 a brilliant opportunity to : clowy high hat How st 10w mind works in wiseeracki Wialker of N¢ looked lik 1 T siderable pert ¢, but ity comparcd with the New York exe- cutive gave to the papers con- prominence story, terrible 1t is port ton, reading ¢ Newl ke incident ¥- . eper as mayor. i the | stand that it is nobody's business if | $25,000. That's | earn from any state in any one year. | The Decimo club has been defend- serve as a reminder for other towns to be more careful. { REPLACING THE ORGAN It is a pity inded that the fine Corbin Memorial organ which was destroyed by fire in the South Con- gregational church cannot be re- placed by an instrument of its ap- proximate power and resources. To do ®0, however, secmingly would be entirely too much for the congrega- tion. As prices for pipe ergana are newadays, the replacement of a gimilar noble instrument weuld cost considerably more than $100,000, It is & distinct loss to the city that the edifice recently damaged by fire will not again contain such a wonderful instryment as that which formerly was a city asset. Published figures indicate that the new organ will cost in the nelghbor- hood of $30,000; which will mean a good organ, but nothing like the old. The church efficials no doubt are confronted with delicate problems in connection with this matter, No doubt they will urge the congrega- tion to atrain itaelf to the utmost to ' replace the Corbin organ with as fine an ipstrument as the finances will allow. Everyone understands, of course, that in spite of such a worthy inclination there are limits. The Corbin organ was one of the finest in New England, and would never have existed in the city but for the generosity of the individual | who contributed it. The church will | do the best it can in replacing it, al- though in the nature of the circum- stances the instrument will have to be smaller and less powerful, HEFLIN AND FULLER Senator Heflin of Alabama is said to take himmelf seriously; friends say he is sincere. He may be both seri | ous and sincere, as claimed, but that isn't saying much in his defense, Even the boll weevil is a serious | and sincere bug. intent upon making | a living out of the cotton business. | | In the last analysis, . {man is serious and sincere what he is doing or saying doesn’t because a about prove he is doing or saying anything | worth while. There is the Alabaman’s attack on Governor Fuller, of Massachuse for ins | nce. Some one had buzzed in his ear that the wife of the gov | ernor was, or had been, a Rom: | Catholic; that was enough to scn the Alabama windjammer up n th air, especially after Fuller's declara tion that it the Republicans didn't nominate a good man to run’ against | Smith, the latter would be elected. ‘ What's wrong about that | ment, anyway? Everybody except | | Senator Heflin, seriously and sin- | | cerely at work trying to make moun- state- | be true. eSSt e Ul HARD ON DELEGA | 1t s mot gencrally known that | delegates to the national conventions pay their own expenses, except in the | few cases w opulent state and county organizations have so much | | money on hand that they are willing | |to pay the freight for their dele- gates. Some of the delegates spend | {from $500 to $1,000, and it isn't all | for railroad fare and hotel bills, | | either. THE ONTARIO LASH The province of Ontario again has | obtained the opportunity to ply 1he | lush on the bared back of an in- | dividual who in the estimation of judge and jury has earncd his medi- cine. Perhaps the occurrence is a sad morsel for those who think criminale ought to be caddled, but the judge in | Chatham, Ont., o | | | who 20 years in sentenced a Kingston penitentiary and 20 lashes on enter- | ing and 20 additional lashes some | months hence, saw no cruelty at all in the punishment. to 20 | The negro had accosted a young | | white girl Christmas Eve. He was in | an automobile and street directions, asked her for Subscquently he | told her he would drive her in the | dircetion she was going, and she ac- cepted the invitation. Later she was found beside leg a highway with a broken and other ecrious in- juries, Counsel for judge that the the negro told the lashing inflicted at penitentiary was cruel and barbarous, and that it was medieval torture. The judge replicd that 1he white girl had also suffcred torture and saw no should found reason why th law have pity on guilty. rio is applying 1t nt and cultured provir 1% fashion. It is a highly ing 10 odds in this respect other state or prov taking no chances on inviting riffr from Detroit or Buf find Not an easy haven acrose t only that, ing’s highways" At the girls cept automohile must e kept same time he wondored why are so foolish 25 Years Ago To (From Tha | | day | Da Paper of t aring was held 1 -foot buildir | of Main str lagreea on by John Co., in Suving: its plan | Lank { wife and nine daughters, tains out of mole hills, knows it to | . not appear last night but the Swed- ish Bethany church was represented vy one of its trustess, who told how the line would affect the church property, The annual Turners' masquerade was held last evening in Turner hall. The prizses for costumes were awarded to “Bertie” Bland and Ernest Bodycoat. At a large and enthusiastic meet. ing the Woman's club voted yesters day to try the departmental plan of wark next season and appoint var- ious committees to take charge of the different fields. The annual meeting .of the Rer. lin Agricultural.gociety waa held in the parlors of Brandegee hall last night. The debt on the society's park has been reduced by $1,000 during the year, and there is now $2,000 ‘due. F. L. Wilcox was elect- ed president. The regular slate—W, W, Bullen, C. H. Mitchell, and H. L. Curtis— was elected at the meeting of Co, E for reorganization last evening. Lieutenant Curtis enlisted in Co. E in 1900 and was soon after appeint- ed quartermaster-general. He was nominated second lieutenant in 1902, He is a member of the Military So- ciety of the War of 1812 and the Sons of the Revolution and is re- gistrar of the latter society, He has been connceted with the Savings bank of New Britain for 20 vears, | served as assistant city clerk for ten y and as clerk of tie boand of health, and is now city auditor. He is a lineal descendant of Cap- tain William Curtis, who command. ed the Kairfield county troops in King Philip's war and in the war against the Dutch of New Amster- dam, New Britain High's relay team defeated by Hartford in the t Saturday by an eighth of a Fact; ;;J_Fanciea ' The only safe place for Lindy s Page 3. Conscrvatism: A conviction that it's foolish to change the rules if you have seven stacks of chips. There's just so much wealth. If you don't cr any, you can't get rich without making somebody poor, The enforcement of blue laws in | South Caralina just shows what will | happen when a Governor has a One thing that tends to make | child-training difficult is the posses- sion of less sense than the child has. ‘fno“'- here_till spring gives March |The days are getting longer now, When friend wife came home in the old deys and found cigarette butts and bottles on the living room floor, she knew it had been a stag rarty. The list of petroleum by-products oesn't seem to include a clear con- The trouble with peace propagan- da is that when it's permitted it isn't nocessary, and when it's neces- sary it isn't permitted. Barnum's -ene-a-minute is doom Most of them are paying alimony and leaving no progeny. Americani people can be them vestigation. oicing that the trusted to govern clamoring for an in- There's always something. When 4 man is 0o old to helieve in Santa Claus, he can be a good party man. G. 0. P. peace makers are hoping Ohio wont' turn out to be the moth- er of precedints The reading public never scems dumb to the writer who has wit enough to muke his meaning clear, | If you wish fo know niartyr of old the ob- Tiow looked, ve a husband who finds a button | | | | | | ‘ Note to the scarchers aftor peace! There's little con.fort in religion un- Tess you make restitution. | talk | Tt panses long enough tor I 1y y doesn't the @n 1o say ye Peyciology enables and de u to arrive, liods, at the | mon sensc iy slow ious 1 sion reached by co must N « couldn’t kid himsell his work great stuff, | the heart to do it | 1 into thinkin he wouidn't have culprit | Correct this sentenc. “hut nic “T've Jost my moth- said he till pra moncy, er-in-law A Startling Disoovery for Rheumatic-Arthritis " """ THE FORMULA OF A NEW JERSEY DOCTOR Who Claims Stiff, Tender, Aching Joints Ease Rignt U, ‘or Your Morcy Baok. ewlized at Do not wait st and get it b CAMPHOROLE Send 1 f CAMPHOROLE ® i draw Youll then ki | porthole reading ‘Forty Pounds. schedule spring | PREPAREDNESS, FOLKS! How doth the busy poet now Add wrinkles to his fevered brow And plug away at Springtime sop- neta? For wives must have their Easter bonnets! AND THEN HE TUNED IN ON MIAMI Hunter; . “It's sure nice ta have & radio set while this here blizsard's on.” Johnston: “You said it, old portable in a storm! ~—Mr Bill. Any R. D, Moss. THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Litevary An author proposes to attempt the English Channel swim this year, This is & reversal of the usual or- der of things, the custony being to at- tempt to swim the Channel and then attempt to become an author} Meteorological Snow here; snow there; snow everys where; Snow on the roof; snow in the air; a licking— Snow's here to linger. kicking! Snow use General “The gnu in danger of extinction!" —Headline. Shall this popular little cross-word imal disappear? Gno, gnever! Golf Bug's Lament And Spring's so near—and yet so far; Regardless of their length, the days Seem longer than they are! Social Notice in the shop window of one of our hest-known ladies' outfitters: “Ask for Garments not Displayed” But are there any? A DIFFERENT DOMICILE! Waiter: “How do you like that| pse ?') Custome © good." Waiter: "It is cottage cheese.” Customer: “Is it? ] thought it was a little flat!” ch —Emma Bielitz. NKING FEELING A Shart Story By Roland H. Bouris The ship had struck something. 8o had I I found that it was the deck. I quickly stepped on a banana peel and slipped down stairs. I saw an iceberg just mext door to the ship, and on top of the iceberg was the iceman, “Sorvy,” he was yelling. “My er- ror. I thought I saw a card in your THAT “Huh!" growled a man next to me. | ‘Must be another football player playing at being an iceman! And now the devil's to pa: he added, handing me fifteen cents. “The ship ias gprung a leak and we can't un- “Wyio are you?" T asked. “I'm the skipper,” said he, pulling a rope from his pocket. He skipped | it briskly for a few minutes, and then sald: “We haven't any lifeboats. There is no hope! We must all drown —drown like rats with lead in their tails!” “It Zat 807" 1 asked. “Able's Irish Rose and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” he nodded, gloom- ily. “Well, we must drown and there's only one thing to do.™ ou bet!" I said, pushing my wife over the rail. *“Women and children first!" “Fine,” said the skipper, fas the anchor to his own wife. we can go down to my cabin for a little game of poker!” “Boll Coming 10 a Head"” Yoice on phone Burroughs: i Voice on phone: “I want you to| e our new model.” Burroughs: “If you're an automo- hile salesman I'm too busy. It you're | right_over.” Rev. L. H. Allston. They ean say what they like about | oil. but our oil burning furnace suits us! SOMEWHAT DIF met your grandfather on the ¥ Brockway, as he entered his cozy little apart- ment and approached his wife for nis usual welcome k “Is that s0? Did he have anything 2 asked the Mrs. . except that he thinks he is RENT 4 Why, he's cr He can along now and what cight years old want with another car! He's nerv- hardly does ot | which driver were {long ago, though not with the vigor {desire to advise the special commit- |the present executiye; | pears on the surfhce. No doubt pol- |itics has ite part. But what offcnds | ment has laid itself open to insing. | |to return a verdict of guilty unless i the evidence justifies such a finding. | latitude. |vvery effort should be made to dis- | covy . | anoth —THE 0B SERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People The principle behind the police drive against defective lights on automobiles is being applauded quite generally, but the mauner in which it s being-carried on 15 be. ing criticised, and net without rea son. It i said that in almost every one of the oases brought into po- lice court during the past fow days, the aocused driver was ni eware that the lights were not fun and when attention was @ towards the condition, the defects were remedied, yet under Chief Hart's orders, the policemen had no course open to them but to sums mon the drivers to court, giving, them police recerds and causing the attendant embarramment and in. convenience, Technically, all were gullty, the court holding that there was no excuse for having lights which were not burning. Several of the drivers told the court they had ohserved that thew{ lights were burning when they started from home, and in all prob. ability the jarring of the rough roads gaused the condition noticeq by the arresting policemen. In the presence of the policemen, they re. placed the bulbs or adjusted the wiging so that the defects were remedied, yet they went into eourt and were fined $2. It mattered mot what the explanations were te the policemen, the latter were under orders to make arrests and they carrjed them out to the very let- ter, as attested by the arraignment of 60 drivers in three days. Without attempting to dictate to the police department, it would seem that the use of discretiop by the policemen would meet the situa- tien quite adequately. If a man, i charge of a car could fix the lights and thereby prove that he had not been driving for a long time with knowledge of the existence of de- fects in the lighting system, it would not seem amiss to allow him to go on his way. On the other hand, it policemen found cars with bulbless lights or with wires out of place, indicating that the drivers had been aware of the defects and had made no effort to have these conditions attended to, certainly arrests would be justified. If the practice of making arrests promis- cuously continues, the city coffers will be In a faip way to be swelled to the point of overflow, but it will not be surprising to learn that after a few days or weeks the drive has ended, and the lightless cars will be rolling along with the brake-less and horn-less, against instituted long, and sweeping generality of the latest campaign. . The writer of thig column has ne tee of the cammon council nppolnl--" ed to investigate the department of publle works how to proceed. The resolution introduced inte the coun- cil by Councilman Sablotsky is broad enough to cover a wide field and to cover it thoroughly and the committee should have initiative enough to inquire into every bit of | testimony it is able to extract. Serious .accusations have been Made against the public works de- partment. It has heen alleged that city money has been expended un- necessarily by the employment of certain wagons and trucks, that pre- ference has heen ghown in ailofting work and that materials owned by the city have been diverted to pri- vate uses. New Britain administrations have been noted for theig.clean govern- ment. Unlike other cities, this com- | munity has not heard the cry of | “graft.” Discrimination has been practiced, it is true, and friends or the administration have heen fa- vored. But it is g0 unusal to hear the charge made that money has been | wasted and materials taken for pri- vate uses that it is almost, if net entirely, without precedent. No breath of suspicion has been di- rected against the administration of | the accusa- | tion has been pinned down to a| single department and its head. | There is more to this than ap- the average citizen is the thought that a branch of his city gov atlons that all is not well. Although the committec has been entrusted with the task of sifting the charges, it s not a committee affair alone. The whole public is affected and is | interested in seeing justice done. | There should be no attempt to whitewash anyone, nor any attempt The committee has a great deal of 1t should summon cvery withens possible, every person who can throw any light on the charges, and the witnesses should be candid in the interest of good government. There has been a great deal of smoke concerning the conduct of the public works department officials: whether there is any fire. The writer has been through se cral investigations in other citi The chief objects of the contending | factions seemed to be to throw as much mud at each other as they could lay their hands to. There is no excuse for that in New Britain but if guilt exists it should be ex- posed in a business like way and the | gullty should be punished. The mames of 12 women are be- ing carried on the rosters of state legislatures in 1925, a survey just complcted by the National League of Women Voters disclo Only nine however, of the 48 state legislatures are mceting this year. In these nine states — Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississip- pi. New Jersey. New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia —there are 19 women legislators. . is &t b teWou that he thinks he carbuncle on the ting ck of his neck. *“The poor Breckway. man!” sobbed Mrs. poag.” | or snow. 'RHEUMATISM! A fow state elections in November, 1937, resulted in changes in women's legislative ranks in only feur states; a new woman senator in Maine, two new members in place of the former three women members in Missiasip- Pl; & decrease of women representa. tives in New Jersey from' nine te scven, and two women re-elected and two new members in Virginia. West Virginia has the first negro woman member of any legislature in the countyy. Mrs, E. Howard Harper, republican, was appointed by the governor to succeed her late hus. band. Republicans mere than double the number of democrats. The political representation of women on the 1928 roaters is: republicans, 86; dem- ocrats, 34; no party designation, ¢; nonpartisan, 1; independent, 1. The 1928 total is a slight gain over the 1927 record, when 124 wo- men answered the state legislative roll calls. New Britain sporting fans are be- coming not only sophisticated but also increasirigly suspicious. No matter what the sport or what the result, they always go away from the scene of action with the explana- tien that it was "in the bag.” The roller hockey team loses to Hartford in the Capital City and wins here. “What does this show?” say the fans, *That the games were ‘in the bag." " Meriden comes here and is also handed a trimming. Why not? The game was “in the bag.” In basketball, the Atlas five of New Haven wins the first half of the season and then collapses before New Britain in a ong-sided . game which puts the locald ahead in the face for the second half. Of course, it was “in the bag." When some over-pressagented fighter comes down here and promptly has his face made into & gob of dough, his collapse before a less heralded native I8 easily ex- plained. The fight was “in the baj Every decision fram now on must have been prearranged. If Joe Glutz is arrested for beating up Tom Goofenheimer gnd the judge releas eg him, we suppose the whele case was “in the hag.” If the Irpn Molders' uplon has fair weather for its picnic and rain drowns the outing of the United Or- der of Zebras, the metearalogical conditions must have been “in the It is never a box, a bale, a trunk, a car, or even a casket, It is always a “bag.” Now, let's settle things once and for all— Let's offer a reward of $100 and a free pass lo the public works in- vestigation committee's hearings to that person, male or female; black, white, brown, yellow or red; dead or alive, who can produce “the bag.” ‘Whatever has been sald disparag- ing to the girls of today, it cannot be denied that their manners in pub- lic conveyances sometipie deserve commendation. They may speak in a loud tone and give saucy eye to males on the buses, for example, but they are quick to rise to then feet and effer their seats to elderly or infirm passengers. The Obgerver has noticed this mark of consideration for others on several occasjons and cap speak fav- orably for the girls on the Arch street buses, at least. Somctimes the young ladies have put to shame male riders who try to slump down with guilty coosciences behind newspapers or hide a pound of cof- fee in their laps. There-is no osen- tation about the fact. If an elderly woman, or man for that matter, en- ters the bus, some girl ysually rises and offers a seat. This little courtesy means little to the girl, perhaps, but it is greatly appreciated by the wo- man who has gpent hours shopping or by the man whose back is bent with the labor of the day. If it hap- pened only in isolated instances, there would hardly be room for comment. But the practice is grow- ing and It is nat uncommon to sec a girl get up and proffer the com- fort of her seat to sameone else. 1 for this evidence that the fair | x is not becoming hard, the world is grateful hecause the world, after all, likes womenly women. Observations On The Weather Washington, Feb. —Iorecast for Southern New England: Partly cloudy, slightly colder Saturday; in- creasing cloudiness Sunday; lslaw_ly rising temperature, followed by rain Forecast for Eastern New York: Partly cloudy, slightly colder Satur- day; increasing cloudiness; Sunday, slowly rising temperature, followed by rain or Snow. Conditions: The northeastern dis- turbance is central over the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence. The outlook is for rains or snows on Sunday. in south- ern New England. Elsewhere in New England the weather will be partly oyercast Saturday and Sun- day. It will be colder on Saturday in the north Atlantic stat oL it rkable French Discovery Promises Quick Relief. Rheumatism, Neuritis and Gout, in an enormous number of cases, are due to just one causc—internal in- feetion—which throws off poisons that are carried by the blood to joints, muscles or nerves, where they et up inflammatioi and cause in- temsc pain. French chemistry that has given the world aspirin for headaches and radium for cancer has now come forward with anoth- er remarkable discovery that quick- ly ends muscie int and nerve pains. It is intended to neutralize the poisons just as bicarbonate of soda neutralizes acid stomach, and Rema | d fidgety and he's as poor—" “But, darling.” interrupted Brock- “let me finish, I was going te -—Hugo Hoppin. 1928, Reproduction “orbidden (Copyright gives instant rellef. It is called Dr. Beaupre’s Rheumatie Treatment and IIFSUU_T_H_E_R_NDAH.Y Former New Britin ¥an Owms One of the most modern and up- to-date newspaper plants in West Virginia is that of the Charleston Daily News which is published by Walter E. Clark, a former resident’ of this eity and 2 graduate of the New Britain 8tate Normal scheol in' the claas of 1887. Mr. Clark has been away from New Britain for years and has worked his way through the ranks to the top of the newspaper pro- WALTER E. CLARK fosplon at the age of 58. He has also made his mark in the political world, having been governor of Alaska during the administration of President Theodore Roesevelt, who ‘was an intimate friend. Although he was not a native ef this city, he has many relatives here. Among them are L. 8. Bheldon of Kensington, with whom he lived during his two-year term at the normal school. The Sheldon family home was on Main atreet at that time, however. Other relatives are Mr. Sheldon's two daughters, Miss Eva Sheldon of Kensington and Miss Lena Sheldon, who is in Pawtucket, R. . Miga Marian Sheldon, a teach- er in the schaols of this city for many years, Mrs. A. P, Tuttle and Kenneth R. Tuttle are also relatives. Mr. Clark lived in Ashferd, Conn., his native home for many years. In 1885 he came to this city to com- plete his education for a teacher's career. He attended achoel at the old Normal school building which is now the Walnut Hill schoel. He went to Wesleyan college after being principal of a school in South Manchester for a time. He was grad- uated from the institution and then went to Wasihngton, D. C., where he soon became a writer. For a time he was pelitieal writer for New York pgpers, It was while he working in that capacity that he be e acquainted with the latc President Roosevelt. He was as- signed to accompany the president on a “stumping tour.”” They soon became friendly and the president nagmed Mr. Clark to the governor- ship of Alaska. Four years of success featured his term in Alaska. He proved to be able and was lauded on eeveral occasiong for administrative moves that aided the country. His popus- larity with the people in Alagka was unquestionahle. When the late President Wilson was clected in 1812, Mr. Clark re- signed and recntered the newspaper field, this time as a publisher. He bought the Charleston Daily News, which at that time was in the sec- ond rate class, and raised it from obscurity to a place hé one of the leading papers in that ecction of the south. Mr. Clark had a severe handicap from the heginning. In the first place the paper was to follow poll- cies which were new to that part of the country. It was to be a repub- lican paper. Through his progres- sive spirit he brought the paper through its most trying years and now it is considered a madel for other papers. Nothing was spared in the effort 10 advance the paper. Machinery s the best money can buy, the offices are equipped with fhe best of fur- niture in a new building which was constructed about six months ago. It has a large circulation and reaches people for hundreds of miles about Charlestop. Buccess has not made Mr. Clark forget his old friends and relatives in this city or the city itself. Recent- Iy he met a New Britainite in Charlestan and spent much time dis- cuseing New Britain and-his friends, s this city at intervals and in the summer he sees his mother at her summer home at Crescent Beach. He retains a high regard for Y. & Sheldon, with whom he lived n this city, and had planned to be present at the latter’s 80th birthday party_last summer, but pressure of businsss prevented him from mal ing the trip. He is planning a trip to come here soon at which time he will make an effort to become bet- ter acquainted with his former home, he said. Grip Is Victorious Over Husky Woman Pedest! Send, France, Feb. 25- Grippe has vanquished Miss Edd Weed, one of five women who ee out from Paris, on Wednesday, ride 760 miles to Cannds. Miss Weed, who left a sickbed 19 enter the contest, reluctantly aban doned her attempt at the instance of both the doctor and the eontrol cemmission after travelling mo {than 50 milés. Her place was take [ by Madame Lenoir who intended t start with the others but was unabl to do so. Madame Lenoir cantered off § | ®ood spirits although she is nearl} 120 miles behind the other riders, & | of whom are going strong. READ HZRALD CLASSIFIED AU s0ld by all good drusgists. FOR BEST RESULTS