New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1928, Page 6

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This insures pro- | tection egainst fraud 1n pewspaper dte- | tribytion figures to both mational and | local sdvertisers. “ighe Hersld ‘o on eale daily ia New | Yoré et Hotating's Newsstand, Timee | Squery; Schults’s Newsstands, Grang Centrsl, 42nd Street. SE——————— —————— trance | A citizen who admits be is not as air-minded as some others pointed out today that had tie two German | aviators awaiting fair weather in Ire- land started for America on a liner when they began their flight they would have been nearly here by thi time, and there would have been no aecessity to carry firearms for cer- tain eventualities. S Tn assirting the oil deals honest Mr. Fall simply gave notice he does not agree with justices who tifought otherwise. His testimony wéuld have been far more sensation- al had he agreed with current opin- ion. were | The reason s0 many people speeu- late in Wall street is because the got the money and the nerve, and it | isn't against the law. It Will Hays is summoned before the Senate committee again it will be i tourth appearanc. The boys | must think the film czar memory. a poor Fishermen in Connecticut are get- ting their equipment ready, and also | a new set of alib | A freight rate cut of 15 cents a ton on soft coal will do New Eng- and householders as much good as a cut in hot air. Whenever there is bad government | in an American city nowadays the self-satlsfied, citizen says, “Well, it's | not as bad as in Chicago, anyway.” There used to be newspaper offices whether an aviator is & “fier” or a fyer,” the former now being the accepted form; but every fast train still seems to be o “flyer.” arguments in 12.: the :Ford Motor company @Hares were dealt in on the stock ex ch.uw would they And if the former, how much ric woutd' Henry Ford be—on paper? ar or slide? {are man® other trees left along this In having had the First Lady of the Land as a guest, Plainville now | realizes the importance of posst a‘good community appearance, Senator Robinson of Indiana has been quoting the 1924 Republican campaign book in the Senate, while Senator Bingham has been trying to 1928 book. | boards go up. The reason the lame duck resolu- tian lost in Congress was beeause ery snan there hopes to be a lame | d e duck for awhile after he gets licks Astalyze the mentality of a hit and run driver and one cunnot help com- ing to the conclusion that h exerelsed remots gduring an important lite. parents control over him period of s T The B ‘in-the alphabet, Mr. Durtlett has the slight advantage of ing menttomed first with the political coming hefore t} ly Ve UNSIGNED LETTY TO THL EDITOR very now and ther ed te eomment upon th Tettors of the futility nding nunsigned o Herald office, for print columns. It is the rule 1 thess office, as well as most ne s, 1 the writers of articles aring in our editions must by that rule stands. W. divilge the it w0 requested, name of the writer. Neither will letter 4f it 18 libellous or othery unacceptable, even with the nams the writer atta Somecon spent terday or Saturday in pennir pertinent letter o the Hor which we b glad to print. It was informative well eonstructed anl co soutely no thougiis of er need fo have editor of the publish ti hed. should have n ind: been ashames Herald wr before the | waste ! those who have a | deliver. Far | ions from local people on matters of | seifish | successful, a matter of |1t | Haven. They | cut down a week or two | being voiced in the Connecticut pre | down figure out what ought to go into the | ¢ con Such implicit confidence of the young in Daddy's powers is prover- Dial. Laddy is the greatest hero of them all to every child. More reason or Daddy to watch his step. Every- | 15 he does is a model for t rule was known to him as he had clipped his name off the bottom of the letter, explaining that he was ad- vised to do so, after he had signed it. To our regret the letter found the basket. His was not the only there unsigned letter, were two others in the same mail, not so per- tinent perhaps, but printable and In IS “GETTING OUT VOTE"” | A FALLACY? Strenuous efforts which have been made for several years to “get out formative. Thi the opinions of its readers, particularly real message to newspaper welcomes vote” at every election having sulted in something akin to failure, are raised at from resen isms of general policy, we like sundry voices gainst the practice, and one speaker the othe went so far as to say the entire system of attempting to y aid us in our work. Malicio little “wise-cracks™ are not prove sometl v d. N opinions of an assorted gro dividu on dat . or national. Shou sary unless they ol war rest non-voting citizens in “do- | g their duty” is wrong in principle | 1 vicious in practice. | Surv ai- a olumns to politi- would liere local, state political ¢z s of cities have been made; pamphlets written; tind m to agree that be- cause large blocks of citizens do 1ot | failure © throw open our « books and cd ments to one W the writers feclings of be would have to print the —and there shortly would vote is not necessarily a of | space for nothing ¢ o democracy. All of which is the we do want cor quite contrary to | current beliefs of the reform ¢ sociations who would have available vojer go to the polls, These | formers give the impression they | helieve that citizens who do not vote interest to the general public, wheth- e with them or not. Send every or we agre in such articles, by all means—but sign them with your own nuame as well you wish to have them appear 1f you do not will go to swell the bales of carted out of as e name should be either fined or barred from citizenship. When one is through analyzing the 3 | statements pro and con one inevit- under. 1 wasts the Heral Contributions from viduals located all contifiually tiying a r paper that office few days and indi- the world use this every ably comes to the conclusion there is good reasoning on both sides. Just now, however, hecause of the novelty firms over are to of holding that the non-voting citizen newspaper ot for some s not a menace, it is worth consid- | advertising or propaganda ering the reasons given for this con- rpose. clusion. ral belief, it is' | Contrary announced after surveys of various the stay-at-home voters are not confined to the so-called higher classes of society, | to g NEW BRITAIN stated by out SPORTS IN It h that New Britain is * the a8 e ers citios, n best sport- state.” Sporting financ ing town The majority of | those who fail to vote, it is said, are | from the less educated cl and they represent people who arc too | Lusy to keep themselvees informed | of the issues. Rather than vote on | matters they do not properly under- cvents here as a rule a Iy while it noteworthy that this is not the casc in the otl large cities. A weck or s0 ago, when New Britain basketball team play- atter of an”important ed in New Haven the ndance was stand, it is stated, they remain away And so we are told ensible, rather than to | around the fact it supposed h game. The in New Britain at all sporting tween 1,000 and 2.000. As 200, in spite from the polls. that this is le condemned. Even under modern | conditions of wide distribution of political propaganda there are thou- with not sufficient tinie to keep themselves well informed of all w to be average attend- ance events is t, New DBritain is only city in the state where ha sands ball is still flourishing. The sports program in New Drit- in cies and subtleties of the these blindly and lack suf the intri ain during the indoor season, olitical situation; refuse to | r week, was somcthing like this: vote ient con- Monday—roller hockey. fidence in any political party as an Tuesday—industrial hasket unfailing mirror of all that is true Wedn asket and good in government. Suppose all these y—open, but occasional- | 1. —roller hockey. citizens were ine | duced to Lecome actual voters? Who 2 Merely | | the political machines, according mt 1y Thursday beneficiar amateur fights. | would e the hasketball, Sunday afternoon—roller hockey. It requires a high pitch of pubHe interest to keep such sports going. that the at- Friday Saturd one distinguished observer, Such | voters, lacking a proper understand- ing of the issucs, would by instinct, perhaps follow the hehe litical easier for the control. They have an ¢ time as it is, is the indepe minds. is noteworthy, ts of the po- at the major New Dritain 100, tenda leaders and merely make it cvents draws upon fans from Hart- achines to obtain ford and Waterbury ¢ enough concensus of the | At we have noticed that the machines from | come in their cars and they cannot find casy dent least, that get sore if parking room. It important time memorable have intcrested ! themselves mightily in knowing they find the room. getting out "the vote,” well, perhaps, that those induced to vote regardle tanding of the S TREES, MORE SIGNBOARDS One of the large trees along the through Berlin was 0. There of their unde | will be most ikely to “vote straight;” and the strongest and most eflicicat machine under main highw issucs party such circom- stances usually gets most of the thinking vote, or the vote that would to the st fine street, but even one less is miss- ed coming The cutting down of trees is be- un- | a menace; complaints ar serve a better purposc by remaining at home, The does not lic that many of them are climinated cessarily, and that rarely trees 10 their While sturdy elms go to unne ars true strength of democracy anted take in 100 per cent voting o: th new plac all citizens, but a 100 per cent vote of mak room for road those who understand what they arc voting about. This number y 1ot total more than total vote, but if represents the majority of those able rentiate between the preten- anges, private driveways to e 50 per cent of tie the 50 per cent garages and the like, additional sign- BREAKFAST MEETINGS club situation No to diff sions of the politicians better candi- q ‘ted than if 50 per eent The noon lunchs ms to he getting overcrowded s are el other opinion scems tenable in view to acquaint themsclves with the added to the 15 of which represents the of the scheme that has heen bro issues ar: tot hants of this city eting hold Iy in t views morning instead hedr heoy of & soun No oths ot a growing section of ol rvers who have the hardihood to spe against the honid plan scems Kk up thesis that everybody 10 be no competition. r v vote regardless of ability st of the clubg to which merchants ow I up their time bire 1ssues Chamb Our opinion is that when the issu . such as to affeet every voter, and when each and every one bes of the his vote, all will trot think the salvation country vends ! ther Breakfast es—and not be- rly morn- 25 Yea:s Ago Today as crowded “tings as the noon hour. ind it necessary to A iy t- Mg lits &, the corporation injunctio: d by crford against bhoxing ¥ Clerk Thompson was gr Hartford sheviff, but instead o inding himself released from the in unetion discovered that a second in- unction vents the Leity cxpense, ombat the or nat Zrowi rv hour. City Engineer 1. H. Oldershaw mitted his annual report. official hoard of the Trinity church met last night and ated Hiram Oldershaw, Jo 1. M. Burdick a « to the conferenc: act the tt last night hature to the resolution counsel wit nt, could be in events mornir rhoon, with per e ¢ throwf in at Hun ocenrs, how. Ci woman at hon ks 10w s YIS DADDY CAN DO PAERYTHING red in mayor from emploving, at n outside lawyer to sinal injunction. Tif g more complicated Herald a Birooklyn man s 00 words on has su nour a day his little M vily doubted do it. T the you ' tim suth 1l the or Me- v “daddy nay Nichol not miea will ‘able to be pre 1 of i more of those who have been unable | N DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, The German-American l’epubl(cfln] club will meet tomorrow evening. It is interested in the nomination of Alderman Wiegand and of A. L. Klunker for councilman for the first ward and of Theodore Wagner for the council from the third. ! The Parisian Belles will appear at the Opera House tonight. The state board of health was due in Plainville this afternoon to look {over the water supply and Sclect- an Prior was to take the members reservoir in hills fo the cast town. Dr. Bull was was u t, as he had a con- ltation with a Farmington ph: Eull went fishing and brought in a fine string of speckled beauties, he striking painters have turned ctors on their own hook and accepted jobs in various parts of the town. have Facts and Fancies | his only p Other crops need sunshine s only moonshine. Axiom of engineering: The margin of safety grows less as the profit grows more. | { A nobody, of us who wa bonds, , is any one no liberty | One way to play hookey from the school of experience is to get clect- | *d vice-presider it he years, called M, collars i There will & St r the man who can't feel digi important without o | The Filipino who howls for fr dom merely wants dom to ploit (k¢ other A man's honor is like of 1 woman—or an good, or it isn't. the virtue An S egs. Death-bed confr the political situation many of them-—quickly s will s Ame tryin con: cing it bee 1o conce smart. rybody, and then conf guilty evi i 1t seldom 15 erocks is simply a opportuniti me crook large | note to Mr and Low d it's K to I disheartening when yon stop | pair of ankles ch ver they belong to How to help a tire and di grandmother or Why not hay seient cach submarine 1o make notes on the way rats feel the trap is lowered into the water? ist on = As ten lish A An A Eng 1 writ- E by s rican in a nove lishman, or an novel by in rican. an It it takes four marines to ke one vote pure in Nicaregua, large an my would he 1 in Philud In Chicago P low Juirgd Man il nothing L an te telling the *“The Smiths ut they're re while just poor as humble (Copyrizht Syndi Flower of the For Many ¢ ed in vail themselves of the station 0 viation, with ot S of aviation enlisted men preciabile Only physically chosen 1 stri receive th enable then | Fla., for flying ntary course of netion mo force in th margin | i | Ll the APRIL 2, 1928, ’-&:nd all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care of the New Britaln Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Not Mentioned in the Text Book! They toll us, sense, That credit rests on confidence But it's to fun-fidence we owe The merry hours that we know! Worst Ever!? Thaye pecked?” Finley: “Is he! Wt b do s to make blanket for her A RASH SPRING POET! By Arthur H. Folwell "Tis honny April; ‘neath an tree 1 he ground. A robin comes and lilts of Arcady, 1le fills the i sound, ek carth All thre Spring, 1ot me bi Here every living For pillow her a by the a tuit of ¢ eyes, and as the breezes pass ey drape a shadow counterpane, Oh, WHO would choose to doze n Motk couch prepa drowse—and dream ature such i dream a of with umonia, Spring Notice poet Joke On sreat Apri 17001 joke on Sunday " the j 1t onth, Nment a Sunda nst could rou mor Brotf, IN LILLIPUTIAN LAND Someth d fo ng New! I3 Sonny ¢ table one rom them imn When sonny came b said, “Now, Sonn; feel better Daddy. answored hin sdiately doesn’t yo seie 1 lon't kuow, that,” . ney 1 Sonn —Dorthe Tudor ar old Detty with > must always tell the to impress lit fact that s truth!® > Nev®, never tell mother 1o warned. mother,” answered Betty » said anything When story of the “uat vou neve told I I3 ~—Helen Wernet o e Propery 1 nings osed! all the A Gk one of program wa lowing George Wash ing A Botsy 1loss making the first American flag. The this picture was in natu; MAY account for our four- Bobby remaining awake! The next morning 1 asked he liked George Washington. ine, but why did George emel ladies' hands?” ovie 1 1 5 on the pictur on I ho obby. —Mrs, Edward B. Sametz Strothm 3o Above Suspicion! at San Pedro and | Slips on Ruaning Beard | Brings Action for $2,560 v d been brought, This pre- | [ rainst 1 ellow the law firm of I The pl claims negl Suit 2 damages W Aifred Yeda faxi Co. through tor hro & Green o the W recordin wr of m wo in Hor | [ READ HERAID (18 FOR BUST RESULTS 1ED ADS | 1] | Accommolating?™ Pierc (dentist) miss, but 1 jugt tore your gnni 1 hat's < it under s 1 zo out wiull orry, out of i all right. J e chair and I'll ge Te resa Culien s literary censors belicve § shelf controlt SAVETY FIRST! the ufternoon the circus. rted about he would have Ans Toiwe show of ' whe th Siddons don't yo i who have business 1s Wifly Lanzdon hen- | his wife cut a orchard tretch my languid length upon friendly air with gold- no other couch than waking | »hing with the miracle of and watch the won- tender sun and softened in- e blossom her | and of yes- was | curred We heing collectors 10 the din- with dirty hands. ont _and k his fath- “Three went a histori- fact that al colors ar old ! Lim | answered st “Ah sure do,” replied the colored fellow, “Well they tell me that John, one of the acrialists, will not be at to- night's performance. They want some one to substitute, All you have to do is jump from a swinging trap- | eze, turn a somersault in the air and grab the other swinging aerial- ist's hands. It's simple. All you have to do is see where your hands are going. What do you say?” ‘Nothin' doin’, | wants to know where his feet am | soin’ an’ not his hands!" b W. E. Biluccia (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction 1 Forbidden) | JEESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by | writing to the Queetion Editor, New | Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 422 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital | advice cannot be given, nor can ex- jtended research be undertaken. All { cther questious will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are con- | fidential.—Editor. Q steamboat that Robert Fulton built | to sail on the Hudson River in 15077 A. Captain Brink was both en- ser and captain of the ship. Who keeps the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church a prisoner {in the Vatican? | A He has been a voluntary pri oner, since 1871, as a protest against | the seizures of Papal lands by the | Italian government, At what time of year is the m Downs Derby hel About the first of June. Is Beypt a British colony? It never was a colony but | protectorate of Great Britain that prote {ruary 15, 1922, now an_inde- | pendent monarchy, but the British { covernment has retained theoretical- Iy, & large measure of control. | Q. Were you not in error in stat- ing that the great Chicago Fire oe- ne October 9, 18712 answer ghould have heen Octoher 9. 1871, The fire Sunday night, October 8, and burned througnout Monday the 9th. Q. Is the Juck McAuliffe who s defeated by Luis Firpo the same who fought in the days of John . Sullivan? o, the gir 1 a and Feb- Al Mond Tt 4 Auliffe of Sulli- van’s time was world’s champion |lightweight, while the onc whom | Firpo defeated was o heavyweight. Q. How old was Nora Bayes, the actress? A. was born in Milwaukee in 1880, Hor name was Dera Goldberg. Q. What are the reguirements for becoming a member of the Swiss Guard of the Vatican? | A, The Papal hodyguard consists | of unmarricd Catholics of Swiss na tionality who must be nt least five feet it inches tall, healthy and frce from bodily distigurement. Q. Was the Child Labor amend- ment to the federal constitution adopted or rejected by the legisla- ture of West Virginia® A Tt rejected by the of Delc April 3, 1925 by 66 to 19. The Stafe Senate rejgeted it April 7, by 22 ¢o0 4. Q. How old is Gehrig of the New York Yankees and what did he do beforc he went with them? A. Henry Louis Gehrig was born June 19, 1903, He attended Colum- bia Universit W York city and was ons of the stars on the eollegc baschall team. He joined the Yank- | ces in and has been with them sine Q. What motor did J. M. White Rave in his special auto built for speed tests at Daytona, )lorida? | te 1 L] ™ y a n n a who do he boss. Dis coon | Who was the captain of the | House | A tors, Q. Who is the present holder of the three-cushion billlard cham- pionship? A. Otto Reiselt holds the title al- though Willie Hoppe defeated him last year in a 720 point “unofficial championship” match. Q. How many enemy planes did the American ace Rickenbacker bring down during the World War? A. He is credited with 25. | Q Where and when were | Princes Henry and George, sons of the King and Queen of England born? A. Prince Henry wag born at Sandringham, March 381, 1900; | Prince George at Sandringham, De- | cember 20, 1902, | Q For what was Ivan Arvazoff- ski famous? | A The Armenian artist, Ivan Constantinowitsch Arvazoffski was born in the Crimea in 1819 and died in 1900, He was famous as a paint- er of marine pictures and was a pu- pil of Philip Tanneur. His painting “The Ocean” took the prize at the Paris Exposition in 1900, | Q. What is the verse about an | cast wind not being good for man or beast? A “When the wind is in the east It's neither good for beast; When the wind is in the south, It's in the rain's mouth.” A variation of the last line is “It blows the bait into the fish's mouth.” Q. What is the ancestry of Mary Garden and what is her address? A. She is Scotch by birth and her address is Park Palace, Monte Carlo, Monaco. Three 12 cylinder Liberty mo- TEST ROOM FOR TRACTORS Lincoln, Ne April 2, (P—At the University of Nebraska is the only tractor-testing laboratory* in the country. In cight years 147 out. latest bulletim now ready. Fill cut th r 1322 New York Avenue, herewith five cents in loose, NAME STREET AND NUMBER cITY POON avings of the state is $46 of $576; Rhode Island, fourth, $4499, The per capita savings deposi 4. Hampshire's savings average capita savings amounts to $330. have %100 and $200, and 21, below $1 for the five middle Atlantic st central states, $52, and thir the ine when the per capita savings de 1 to 1928 the gain has be any other group of stat. tant. Arkunsas showed a gain state in this respect. \Those Tconerville Dirt Roads “oVER BY TH' EDGE OF TH' Woops$ IS THF QUEEREST L0oKIN® BUNCH o' TRACKS IF ENNY L SVER SEE, man nor | models and types have been tried | for play of these card games are contalned In our Was! CLIP COUPON HERE AMES EDITOR, ashington Bureau, ashington, ' I want & copy of the bulletin POPULAR CARD GAM uncancelled, to cover postage and handliug costs: STATE - - — - = = —— - — = o NECT G by the CONNECTICUT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ings of $220 for the entire Unite a larger savings per inhabitant than Connectic Massachusetts which leads all state: New York, second,*$56 Maine is lowest with a per capita savings of $3 those already named has a per capita $399, which is the average for California. fic states, $263; the eight eastern central stat age gain for New England is 117 The wouthern states made a greater percen s, showing a On The Weather Observations ‘Washington, April 2.—Forecakt for Southern New England: Fair | tonight. Tuesday increasing cloud- |ness and warmer. | Forecast for Eastern New York: Fair tonight; slightly warmer i |north portion; "Tuesday increasinz cloudiness and warmer; moderate tc fresh east, shfting to south winds. Conditions: Pressure is high east of the Mississippi river with two centers of maximum pressurc, |Northfield, Vt, 30.42 inches and Tampa, Florida, 30.34 inches. Ths western disturbance is moving slowly eastward with increasing in- | tensity, Moorhead, Minnesota, 29.42 |inches, Rains were reported from |the north Pacific states but the in- | terior districts have been without | precipitation during the past 24 |hours. Temperaturcs continue ling in the Mis valley | plains states. { Conditions favor for this vicinity [ fair weather with slowly rising tem- perature. Temperatures 3 | sippi and esterday: H Atlanta " Atlantic City . Boston Buffalo . Chicago ncinnati Denver .. Detroit Duluth .. Hatteras ... | Jacksonville Nantucket .. New Haven . New Orleans . w York Norfolk St. Louis - Washington POPULAR CARD GAMES Five Mundred, Auctlon Pitch, Hearts, Twenty-One—rules and suggestions ston Bureau's e coupon below and mail as directed: New Britaln Herald, i i D. C. and enclose U. §. po ps, or coin —ABOUT ICUT Per Capita Savings High. nnecticut thrift is shown by the fact that the more than twice the per capita sav- per capita four states have 1t. They are with a per capita savings Vermont, third, $546, and a States. Only to A W No other state than savings greater than New Jel Seven of the remaining states t for New mounts sngland is 8470, per capita savings of between $200 and $300; 11 between 00, The per inhabitant savings en Paci- $183; the nine , $60. New en southern state co is Jow with a savings 8f only $21 per inhabitant. Connecticut stands high among the states in per capita S per inhabitant from 19 the per cent gain for the United Stat a8 been behind whole. From 1912 posit for Connecticnt amounted cn 93.6 per cent. The percent- and for the United States 15 rge increase th 3% per inhabi- of 442.97¢, leading every other By Fontaine Fox oF You EXPERTS WANTA PASS JUDGMENT ) ToONERVILLE TROLLEY o RACKS = o (“Fontaine Fox, 1926, The Bell Syndicate, Inc)