New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 6

Fest Ofies ot New Brit- Bl Matter, Serator Borah would make a fine president—for the newspapera. —_— The jury which gave a verdict of 325,000 to a woman for being kissed aguinst her will no doubt were experts, but the value depend- i:d somewhat upon the fact that the Lisser had the money. —_— Mayor Thompson of Chicago has started a movement, with himself at the head, to draft President Coolidge for @ third term: which must have come from having supped at the White House. —_— We get it that the nearest ap- ‘proich to a favorite son in Connecti- ¢t is Representative Tilson, boom for the vice-presidency zooming. Trving Fisher, Yale economist, says business wili pick up from now on despite the presidential year. Why anyone should consume less during a presidential year has al- ways stumped us. i Three Hartford tobacco firms will iserge, it is anrounced, but the main point is, will that increase the quality of five-cent cigars? —_— Our ideal of an ideal companion- ate marriage is when the wife pre- fers to go to a church soclal, the husband to a lodge meeting, and the children are old enough to be left at home to care for themselves, The only thin: an elephant pulling . & steam roller can beat a mule 18 when the mule refuses to budge; which is quite frequently. . One way to get the nation mor¢ .se-minded would be to bring abont an era with fewer if any “planes- erash-aviators-lost” news accounts on the front puges. FIREBRAND EDITORIALS A discussion has arisen as to the kind of cditorials an editor ought to write. “pep,” an anvil chorus, solo, ;against all the current evils. Men in public lifc skould be “panned” for their every misdeed or error, he added, and no institution should be txempt. “Make them red hot; put fire and brimstone into every line,” he concluded, B Pine—except that it wouldn’t work. It would be like loading up all the pages of a newspaper with large, black-face typs, the being “all dtsplay is r.o dieplay,”—to use “the aphorism of the printshop. #uch rcd hot denunciations, right or result or wrong—probably mostly wrong— would make srappy reading for #bout one week: then they would begin to pall, and by the end of the #econd week nobody would pay the slightest attention to them and in- stead of attracting they would be repelled. readers Sanity I8 not stimulated this _fushion. When an editor goes out . With the deliberate intentfon of shanufacturing hot stuff out of per- fectly- mild and ordinary events he ®0on discovers that have more sense than he is showing. in readers Editorial statcments require care; what have the appearance of facts to be confirmed—and it is &ur- Prising how facts sometimes change their spots under the microscope of rescareh, The cditor who doesn't confirm his facts sometimes de in hot material, but readers quickly lose confidence when they begin confirming things on their own count and find the editor's ments wrong. Even with the | al state- intentions a warped fact sometimes gete in the most carcful of j but that is a human weakn tha product of intention. ur, t A famous editor who rarciy wrote augthing of snap. nor dealt in indis- critninate denunciation, once that the reason therefor was that he made a practice of confirming every statement made by speakers, writers, and politicians, and when o got through there usually was stated nothing 1eft to get excited about. He | ped up on this ques- tion. The reaction in the minds of innwmerable readers must have . been that the question was unfair. | For many a perfectly good Ameri- | can does not know the answer to that question. It was brought up in official circles after the death of President Harding, when somebody | happened to inquirc what would | happen if Mr. Coolidge also follow- l ed Harding in death, | We are not going to answer for you; every intelligent American ought to know it. according to the judge who refused citizenship to the woman. As a matter of fact, every intelligent American does not know the answer, or if he did know it once, has forgotten it. It is like the question, perhaps | as to when a century starts; did the 20th century begin in the year 1900 or not until 1901 was reached. That, | by the way, is another one for in. ' telligent readers to worry about, Those who were alive and intelligent at the turn of the present century will remember the furore that filled the newspapers, the proa and cons by intelligent readers, some of whom nearly came to blows over the argu- ment. Perhaps that is getting away from Unlike practically everything else appearing in the average publication, oditerials are played down, rather than up—except for a slight change in type or wider space between lines. They must rely for their effect upon the merits of their viewpoint, the logic of their clalna, the correctness of their facts. They may be entirely opinionated, or partly informative, | or even tending entirely in that di- | | rection; but they cannot be helter- | skelter denunciation for the mere | folly of the enterprise. Readers who ask that every editorial printed at- tack somebody or something are {l- logical, and themselves would quick- | ly turn awav from such a melange of discordant verbosity after a good taste of the brew. We are not slow to denounce an | evil, but it has got to prove itself one before we get out the battering ram. We are not delinquent to cor- rect errors of putlic servants; but they must really be such, and not mere grievances by their opponents or enemies. The easicst thing in the world is to denounce somcthing without first weighing probabllities or looking | on both sides of the fence. Fre- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, tering vote from the delegation, in spite of the prcvailing sentiment. By way of closing this with an observation that we know is shared Ly competent political observers, we will add that the bane of con- | ventionis are the political leaders | who meet and decide its action in hotel rooms rather than on the floor of the convention. They are more powerful toward the finish than the pledged and unpledged delegates, and somehow they usually get their way from the multitude of hand- picked delegates who infest these conventions. Then the voters are expected to | howl with delight over the hand- picked candidates. But later it is found that fifty per cent of them aro too disgusted to exercige their voting franchise. Facts and Fancies ~ Hoover taught a nation self-denial. Now let him teach the other candi- dates., | e How do you know the good don't prosper more than the wicked? Have you ever seen any? You'd see a quick recovery if the | You almost ran The poor old bard was off his head When he composed that lyric tune. ! Where does he get that June stuff, Our policies toward this and that, They leave us cold, they sound so flat, | But jolloles, an-1 fun achemes too, We're surely for 'em, Folks, aren't you? Liboral Treatment! Nervous Old Lady: “Goodness me! into that other ab,"” Taxi Driver: *“Dat's all right, lady, I won't charge yur nuttin’ ex- tra for de thrill!" THE DAY OF DAYS! Written by the 28th of February What is 80 rare,” a Poet said, “What ia 80 rare as a day June? in pray? : “What did yo' do?" ‘Ah had to think quick. Dat train had to be atopped some- how or odder. Ah didn't wear no red flannels, dare wus no red flags or red lauterns abeut, so Ah jes' stood on dat track facin’ de train, | stuck out mah tougue and began shakin’ mah haid back and fo'th an’ de train stop) i Napoleon: “Den someone in de train looked out, mw yo' mouth an' said, ‘We is now about to enter a tunnel.’ " Interlocutor: “Mr. John Law- rence Scott will now sing, ‘We Hav¢ a Fine Bupgalow in Yellowstone Park. Unanimous Come Down SBome Time.” (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction Forkidden) prior to December longer legal tender and are worth. less. Curel born? In Milan, Italy, November 18, 1889, Q. Who played the principal roles in the motion picture “The Last Waltz"? A. Willie Fritach and Susy Ver- non played the leads. Q. What was the name of the Mother of David? A, Her name is not mentioned in the Bible or contemporary histery. Are olives eaten in the In what order is it proper to serve persons at a dinner party? A, The hostess should be served first and the guest of honor second. Q. What is the value of a United States three dollar gold piece dated 1854 without mint mark? A, $3.25 to $5.00. Q. What is the present value of the old German paper marks? A, German paper marks issued 1923 are no Q. In what states are old age pension laws in actual operation? A, In Montana and Wisconsin. Alaska has a form of old age pen- | years has been investigating the tax One discussant claimed they | should be red hot criticisms, full of | «t of als, | the thesis; anyway, what we began to say s this: That candidates for citizenship should not be asked fool- ish questions. quently the primal urge to use an | axe disappears entirely after all | reasonable viewpeints are inspected. Denunciation without stint or rea- son is bad in theory, faulty in prin- ciple, destructive in effect, and a fallure in result, UNPLEDGED DELEGATES It is being claimed that pledged | delegates to a national convention are an incubua that they tangle up ‘lhe political machinery and cause the convention to compromise upon some dark horre. The fact that Harding was ncminated in 1920 is now laid to the pledged delegates who could not agree upon the can- didates of Wood, Lowden or John- son. Had the convention consisted of all unpledged delegatea, it is stated, a better showing—perhaps a better presidential ticket— could have been chosen, This manifestly is the best possible reason for sending unpledged dele- gates to the convention—provided there are no flaws in the argument. That there are some flaws, however, can scarcely be denied. If delegates are unpledged, who do they represent? The rank and file of the party or the political leaders who control the party? If the unpledged delegates maintain a sound position throughout a con. vention it is due as much to the sound reasoning of the leaders who control the delegates as to the pre- acience of the delegates themselves. The statess having presidcntial primaries, it is readily admitted, do not make any better showing than the states sending unpledged dele gates. In innumerable instances it has occurred that the delcgates have failed to abide by the dictates of the voters, and there is no law forcing them to do so. More apt to stick to thelr guns are the delegates from states pledged to favorite sons. These are the champlon nuis- ances of political conventions; their ardor and insistence have been thorns in the flesh of political con- ventions for the past gencration. The trouble with a political con- vention is that the politicians, the higher-up politicians, in the long run have their way. It is a notorfous fact that the so-called _political leadera, meeting in a hotel-room around 2 a. m. near the end of the The method adopted is certain to | Onvention, have more to say as to bring good results, in the estimation | ¥ho 18 to be nowinated than the | majority of thoee getting up | PIedWed and unpledged delegates; at enough steam 1o attend the town | 1€ast they have thelr own way. It | meeting. There is comfort for all in | !8 they Who pick the dark horses the supposition that and are able to away a pack of tired and listless delegates eager to get lhome and away from hotel penses, They do their atuff at what might be called the psychological moment, There are the unpledged delegates from Connecticut, for instance. Who do they represent, the rank and than wnder the presest system. file, or the party organization? Pos- | sibly they go forth imbibed with the idcallsm of erusaders for political | | right and justice; but the time they have had an opportunity to wrangle a week where the temperaturc is | hot and the speeches long and hot- ter, by the time they have spent a week of sleeping four hours a night, they are likely to be quite pliable {and tired of the ritual. The erst- | while unpledged delegates then sud- denly find themselves pledged to | vote for some dark horse the next bright morninz and by night they jump aboard the rattlers and are on their way toward home and Nowadays some well-earned rest. home in the| HOW the ugpledged business works | autemobile and the | in this state can be glimpscd at a | irl rushes indoors as if she doesn't | €lance, so to speak. The sentiment to hav | of the rank and file of Republicans, ahont it. | we ure sure is 90 per for | Hoover, now that it is certain Cool- | idee A PLAINVILLE REVALUATION The vote of Plainville taxpayers in favor of revaluation by an out- | side appraising concern won by the | comparatively close margin of 156 im 134; consequently it is safe to | assume that the plan would not | have gained the victory had Chair- | man Washburn not sprung the coup | of introduclng Tax Commissioner | William H. Bledgett, whose “good- | natured” yut persuasive talk had | considerable to do in swinging the vote. That the commissioner situation in Plainville under sur- velllance was another revelation that undoubtedly caused mental con- cern. The situation was not flatter- ing, he declared, although he did not go into the details of the report of his investigators. The tax commissioner had the of late situation in the amaller towns throughout the state and his com- ments, made from time to time have not been of a sort to strengthen con- fidence in how tax collecting is ad- ministered in these jurisdictions, The complaint moat frequently made has i been that the assessments have been inequitable, that assessors bent backward not to hurt the feelings of the townapeople, and that favorit- fsm inevitably would erop out under such a system. Whethér this can be said of conditions in Plainville re- mains unproven; at least, the asscs- sors don't agree Wwith those who (claim their work has been “hap- | hazard.” The town has brought the matter to a showdown, and the outside as- | scamment, with the aid of aerial maps, marks quite an epoch in the tax affalrs of the town. Plainville, or at least a majority of its citizenry, | appear determined to get at the bot- tom of the most important businees confronting any community—the | method of getting the tax money. | a revaluation along the lines planned will not nec- essarily mean kigher s assessments; and that even it higher assessments | result, that will not mean a higher jtax rate, but rather may mean a {lower tax rate and lower taxes. And in any event, the tax burden most | Hkely w e more evenly distributed s exist only in songs Ever so often one finds ! one detailing the bliss of love as | the lovers lingered at the garden [ate to the voung lady's house. As a4 matter of fact and plain nowadays. horse sense, however, garden gates now- adays | as searce as buggy rides. This, perhaps, is unfortunate— | for the lovers, Nothing so aroused the piquancy of the poets : leaning at e s a couple : against the garden gate of the girl's home, the tete-a- | | tete under the moonlight ting about an { they return to ually hour. her young man's | care the neighbors know cent QUESTIONS FOR CIT! SHIP The story appeared in the public prints o f. realiy and truly docs u . ¢ | 'to run ugain. The unpledged dele- | | mates from Connecticut will know of | this sentiment, which will increase | “w wecks ago how a wo- in the United States, but a “foreign citizen | through marriage to a | man borr i who had become as June nears rather than decrease, | foreigner, ! But it will be a tess-up whether the her Connecticut delegates will cast their she | votes for Hoover or ultimately for was unable to tell the judge who One of the | would become president of the Unit- ed “ad. could not regain American citizenslip because , some dark horse inter- | esting things to watch will be how [they vote on the first ballot— { president both happened to dle or | whether they will vote solidly for become incapacitated tes if the president and vice- Hoover, or whether the commn:icree | wandering husband's deserted wife ( Los Angeles | New Orlean: The woman had studicd for he | sccretary will receive only a seat. | . Talk about rare-ness, Whoops, my dears! ' What other day in the year can should inherit a million. When a villager fails at everything else, people wonder what life insur- 8ay, 3 ic2 in e e ance company he will represent, # dapren once In Sath Tour Feume! Thinks of the ladies, dame or ‘del Watching the years go gliding by; Born on the twenty-ninth of Feb., They may the hand of Time defy, Birthdays, often u dreaded date, Mean so little to them, you see, For they can say, e just had eight,” When they are thirty-two or three! The happiest times are those placid periods during which the world produces no great men, Example of pedestrian having the last word: “Toot, darn you; I've got a right here.” As to the effectiveness of harsher laws, how many juries would convict if the penalty for speeding were life imprisonment., The list of hardships Yankees can endure better than BSoutherners doesn't include calomel. Think of the hustands who forget Candies and flov-ers for their dearest dears; They look on me as their one best bet, Coming but once in each four years! Rarer than Christmas, with his toys, ' Rarer, oo, than the Fourth of July, Banging away with his din and | notse . Talk about rare-ness . suy!! The two thinge that will make radio reception rotten in the near future are summer and politics. . I'm the Americanism: Calmly breaking laws you think foolish; scorning people who break other laws they don’t like, Fitting! Simpson: “Why do you call your stenographer ‘Bill Thompson'?" Crawford: “Because she’s 80 hard jon her English'" —Henry A. Courtney Great man: One whom nature blessed with some kind of handicap to arouse his fighting spirit. MEN!! By J. Waterman Men are what women marry for better and find worse. Like cigarettes, men are all made Some candidates remind us that |©f the same material, the only dif- Joseph wasn't the only favorite son ' ference being that some are better to wear a coat of many colors. { dispuipcd tha otherm Generally speaking, they may be The chiet advantage of a sermon ' divided into three claases: i. e., hus- by radio is that you can turn a little | bands, bachelors, and widowers. dial and avoid feeling welf-conscious | Husbands are of three varieties: when the collection is announced, | Prizes, aurprisea, and consolation P et prizes, If you know it but can't put it Making a husband out of a man into words, and he says it as you'd | 15 one of the highest plastic arts like to, he is a great author, known to civilization. It requires | aclence, sculpture, common &ense, It probably doesn't make much | faith, hope, and charity, with ‘em- difference to the innocent bystander | Phasis on the charity! in China whether he is beheaded by | An eliglble bachelor is a man of a tyrant or a liberator. obstinacy entirely surrounded by — . suspicion. Does a doctor take no medicine| It i8 & psychological marvel that because he has good health, or have |2 soft, fluffy, tender, sweet thing g9od health because he takes no [like a woman should enjoy kissing medicine? a big, awkward, stubby-chinned, to- — bacco-sceated thing like & man! Practice birth control if you wish, | If you flatter a man, it frightens but the big jobs are held by men him to death, and if- you don't you who siept on the floor when cousing bore him to death. If you permit came to visit, him to make love to you in the be- s ginning he gets tired of you in the Correct this sentence: “This car! end. and it he is not permitted, he has been driven a thousand miles as tires in the beginning. a demonstrator,” said the deal If you belleve him in everything. “and I'll knock off ten per cent. you soon cease to interest him and — he thinks you are a fool. If you don't believe him you are a cynic. If you wear gay colors and rouge he hesitates to take you out, and if you wear a littie brown toque and a tailor-made, he stares all the eve- ning at a woman in gay attire and 0n ne WGG“C" a startling hat. It you approve of his smoking he P swears you are sending him to the X % devil. If you are the clinging vine [or“;:"“l’:fl:"&. " ;{‘r», l1'9—1"0r"°u! he doubts if you have a brain and N nglan Cloudy it you are a modern, up-to-date slightly warmer, preceded by | gamsel he doubts if you have a o this afternoon or tonight. | peart. lo\tuv:;d:;-' ::;":l-:wsm:i 1'|otfdl_n.ons, fol- If you are silly he longs for a | 20 h Connccticut and | prignt mate, and it you are brilliant western Massachusett Fresh ! o Jongs for a playmate. south und southwest winds. Wikt & seobient: Mol Forecast for Eastern New York: el Ui e Partly cloudy tonight, Thursday in- creasing cloudiness, followed by rain: not much change in tempera- ture; fresh southwest winds, Conditions: The disturhance of the northern Mississippi valley moved northeastward into Canada with increased intensity, Cochrane, On 9.08 Inches. The south- western portion of the trough of low pressure developed a disturbance which is centered over Oklahoma, | 29.72 inches, Neither of these dis. turbances has caused precipitation except in light amounts over the Lake region and in a few localities of the plains states. Pressurc con- tinues high with frosty tempera- tures in the south Atlantio and east Gulf states. Mild temperatures pre- vail generally in other districts and no zero temperatures were reported. Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with rising tempe ra- | ture followed by increasing cloudi- | A blow on the head cured a man made imbecile by an earlier blow. Fine! Let's try that on the insane criminals, Pass the ax. Copyright, 1928, Publishera Syndicate. Observations mperatures yesterday: High Low | Atlanta 1 BV Ring? Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit ... Duluth Hatteras Jacksonvil Kansas City Unknown Today! Father: “You nearly wrecked us on that curve. Didn’t I tell you it woe a halr-pin turn?” Flapper Daughter: 3 what's a hair-pin?” | —Bernard G. Barrette THE FUN SHOP MINSTRELS (Overheard By Austin M. Gales) “Fell | ; | Miami . ; 53 | Minneapol 26 Nantucket 1s 28 16 Interlocutor: me, Edward New York 50 late?” |'The Evolution of the Engagement | but | Lancelot Martin, how come you arc | i QUEASTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Queetion Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1333 New York avenue, Washington, D. C, enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. All other gquestious will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be angwercd. All Jetters are con- Q. How long after a person has been admitted to the United States as an immigrant student before he can apply for citizenship? A, He must leave the United Btates at the termination of his course of study and cannot establish a legal residence for the purpose of naturalization without returning to the country from which he came and coming back here as a regular immigrant. Q. When was the order of the Mystic Shrine established in this country? Who are admitted to membership ? A. In 1872, Membership Is re- structed to Knights Templars or thirty-second degree Masons. Q. On what date did Easter Sun- day fall in 1889? A, April 21, Q. What i3 meant by “the Hob- son tradition"? A. When Richard Pearson Hob- son, an officer in the navy, was in the Bpanish-American war, he vol- unteered for the dangerous duty of sinking a vessel in the channel lead- ing to Santiago Hurbor and carried out the exploit in the face of severe fire from the Spanish batteries. Upon his return he acclaimed a hero, and the story goes that | wherever he appeared in public, en- thusiastic young ladies insisted upon kissing him. This is what is re- ferred to as the “Hobson tradition”. | Q. When were the first world | scries baseball games played? A. The world series, under direct sanction of both major leagues, with the chairman of the National Com- mission in charge, and with a finan- clal guarantee of $10,000 posted by each club to preserve its fidelity to the public, was played first in 1905, under the code of the Brush Rules. It begins authoritatively with that year. The series remained under control of the National Commission until the election of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landls as commissioner, when full charge of all details was given to ham. The first world series was played between New York of the National league and Phila- delphia of the American league. New York won 4 games to 1. Q. Who were the “Three Jacks" of boxing? A. The trio known as the “Three Jacks" were John L. Bullivan, heavy- weight champion of America, “Non- sion for pioneers. Q. What are the Upgited States five cent pieces made of? A. Nickel and copper. Q. What is the most difficult State police were guarding buiiness places at Elizabeth, near here, to. dsy after s dynamite which caused thousands of damage shortly after Ome men was injured by Sying glass and many others throws, their beds by the explosion, Wl reverberated for several miles, | A double twowstory brick 1a. ing was demolished. The of three two-story frame buildings ad- joining the wrecked structure were blown out. Pirates Settle Down To Intensive Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 29 M—With only one player missing the Pitts- burgh Pirates settled down to work today &t Paso Robles, Cal., Johnny Gooch, catcher, failed to joig the second squad which arrived at the training camp yesterday. He I ex- pected to report before Sunday. Injuries have taken a toll of twoe players, both rookies. Ervin Brame, pitcher, is suffering from a alightly dislocated shoulder muacle, while Fred Fussell, southpaw hurier, has an injured knee. 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An important influence on the atability of the industrial pros- e diversity of ite manufactures. perity of Connecticut is th An C hows that Connec- analysis of the last census of manufactures sl ticut—ranking 17th among atates in the number of manufac- turing establishments and 13th in the value of manufactured products—has 222 of the 322 various kinds of industries report- ed for the United States, Connecticut ranks firet in the value of product in eight of the 822 industries; second in fiva; third in seven; fourth in cleven; fifth in four; sixth in seven; seventh in seven; eighth in five which Connecticut ranka between first and tenth. ; ninth in six and tenth in five; or 20.26% of the 332 in The tetal annual value of thc products in these sixty-five industries i $707,200,000. Connecticut ranks first in brass, bronze and other non-ferrous alloys; hardware; hats, fur-pelt; plated ware; ammunition; needles, pins, hooks and eyes and snap fasterers; firearms; wood screws; second in typewriters and supplies; corsets; movements and time recording devices; clocks, watches, hat and cap materials; sewing machines; thind in meta)-working machinery; small wares; cutlery and edged tools; phonographs; steel springs rallway pliance! and vehicle; piano and organ material fourth in motorcycles, bicycles and parts; wood en- ; surgical ap- graving; felt goods, wool or hair; screw-mackine products; but- tons; suspenders, garters and other elastic goods; cleaning and polishing preparations; glass cutting. staining and ornament- ing; woolen goods; silk manufactures; silversmithing and silver- ware, Tomorrow—Connecticut Raises Many Fruits, Neighborhood News Norfolk 34 Lancelot: “Wal, yo' sece it's dis| By Fontaine Fox GRANDMA FUTTY CERTAINLY OUGHT To @ET A NEW FAR TRUMPET.