New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1928, Page 6

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Our circulation wtatistics a: azed upon thie audit, Thi tection sgalust traud tn pe Lution figures to both national advertisers. ana The Herald !s on sale @ally o New ok &t Hotaling's Newsstand, Times Siuare; Bchultz's Newsstands, Estrance .rand Central, 42nd Street. i s et The public works inquiry will con- ite, but that wwer its concluding scssion now the clection is will be ik @ post mortem inquiry. driver of a truck doubtl the vehicle fhe drunken ontaining dynamite can swwove the explosive on than what he carried nas DO WOIsE nside of him. I'he state pardons board will meet but there no Ma Ver- it Vonday, are isons on Senator Walsh of Montana tulks He quit bucking Smith be- be stopped Smith can’t CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES ‘e Republican campaign in 1924 ded with a surplus of $356.264, <o to the excellent management of Chairman Butler of Mussachusetts. I'his surplus was an wmazing con- " tvdst to the récord of 1926, when un- it the management of Will Hays, Indiana political whirlwind and at Jiresent the movie czar, the national ommittee had a deficit of $1,500,- ib—the largest in the history of American political parties. The Democratic —campaign 1924 ended with a deficit of nearly 000. This deficit , has been (leared and the Democrats have be- sun the present Year-with a nest cgg of $225,000. Congress has its cagle eye upon political expenditures this year. In ihic past few Years the public prints jave been entirely too full of the ex- of cusive use of money in politics, the record in Pennsylvania and Illinois _Leing examples. Public attention ha ~up will never be known, as the late | “reuehed in 1896, seen directed to the sources of the sumids, and voters den't like some of the contribiitors. How the huge I pullican deficit’ of 1920 was miade treasurer, destroyed This red Upham, most of ‘the ‘aom for the coils of su of records. leaves cion. sinee the Lincoln party anagers have been running wilder and wilder with money. Best esti- nates of the outlays of the national organ period show that the Lincoln cam- $100,000 for Lin, 00 for Douglag. The osts mounted steadily at each suc- day part 1ign cost only Ao and Seding election, until the lmit wa during the McKin- toy-Bryan campaign. The most con- figures firve It that 83,500,000 was spent on Lehalf of MeKinle f of Bryan, expenditur sorvative for this campaign and $650,000 on although the ac- s probubly were frec-silver cam- high-water mark in nditures, some s 81 oerals ly co I the possibility that the ] nomiit I Hoover set for an- old days ponditures Before the ade Pra Act of of ctices 925 no accounting was required amounts contribu- ted atter the clection toward Iif campaign deticits, This o1 ve opportunity for cvasion o providing for contributions, and wa Wil Ha round it wit Prosident yetem in 10z orzunization v d condemued 1 Coolidi anil o e here must not he a Aeficit,” instructions S Chatetian a titully tions during that carly | The Senate is already primed to investigate contributions and ex- | paign. This ought to be important | for the twa parties. RORABACK FOR THE SENATE It would e a good thing for the | Democrats of Connecticut it J. Hen- Roraback ran for the United | The Jetfersonites would have a Detter opportunity of putting one of their number in the Senate than since the days of Wood- ry Senate. row Wilson. of even if the rumnors should prove well founded and Mur. ' Roraback actually decides to make +n attempt to {Iy by the side of Hi- ramn Bingham, he doubtless will re- tain his customary confidence to the Wasn't it Mr. Roraback who 180 that the cour: ond. said some time state would go Republican by 75,000 cven should Al Smith nominated ? It that he continues to hask the sunshine.of this figuring and be is likely i Lelicves with all the fervor of a pow- er-politician that with himself run- ning for the Senate the people would simply swarm to the polls to show the world how their benefactor. Only bad feature McLean hears much they think of when Senator he | decide to run again and spoil that of this is may everything A SPRING TONIC | week has been omne in which illness The m epedemic of attracted ! miore attention than any local hap- pening, perhaps this because almost friends who “down with a cold.” A situation that caused ten per cent of the per- sonnel in some institutions to be off duty naturally spelt much difficulty ofor those who tricd to carry on min- us their Doctors and nurses— professional and amateur-—were ex- ceptionally busy, while the handlers of medicine doubtless took stock of the fact that Coolidge prosperity was not altogether a myth. It has begun to look, however, as ,everyone had were aid. 'if spring has actually made an ap- pearance. The wonderful improve- | ment the past few days in weather conditions has given us all heart. | From now on an expect with ! reason that the Florida article will ! continue, and it will do us more good | than all the medicine we have been | devouring the previous month or so. we | stimulates the creation of | readily cnt operating companic A city which in spite of its flair could put through its extensive sub- way construction could casily have sone a step further and set up its own operating division. The city operates ferries, it has built a vehicular tunnel and operates it, has built numerous monster bridges; has done a multitude of feats that arc no whit less difficult than opcrating cars through sub- ways after they are built. The New York subway operating companies want the T-cent fare and may get it, and this not because a profit canrot be obtained from the 5-cent farc on the subways, but be- cause the operating companies also operate deficit-producing clevated and suriace lines, which they do not want to relinquish. It is the same story with everywhere—the big transpor~ tation companies think it proper one | that the profit-making lines should D allowed to earn enough profit to carry the losing lines. ATTEMPTS TO STABILIZE PRICES Ever,; .m\\rchan[ and manudactur- in New Britain is deeply con- cerned regarding price stabilization. They are as interested in this as they are in prosperity. The wish to flatten out the curve of the business yele—to prevent slumps on the one er | hand and speculation, extravagances and booms, which usually and cause depressions—is universal. precede almost Ever since the slump of 1921 in- est has been keen in some meth- od to prevent them. There may be disugrecment as to the underlying cause for slumps, but the idea quite generally heid that money md credit conditions are of prin.acy im- portance. There was a steady decline from | 1873 to 1897; and a steady rise from 1597 to 1919, There are evils in both conditions, A rise in prices encourages cumulation of stocks of goods ac for | speculative purposes, misleads pro- ducers in judging the demand, and excess productive capacity. Rising prices means falling money; and injury s done those whose incomes are not adjusted; holders of savings, | bonds, bank deposits, life insurance FLOOD CONTRO Nothing can stop this session of | Congress once it sets its heart on go- |ing in a particular direction. Missis- | sippi flood control is complicated, ! but not teo much sd for Congress to understand just what it proposes | to do avout it. especiall as there 15 plenty of pork connected with it. | | (Pork means the expenditure of | | money for political purposes). The appropriation called for in the bill being pushed through the Lopper totals $325,000,000—as @ starter. Nobody, not even Congress, knows what the ultimate cost will | | Even estimates | place it over a million. | Fconomy where art thou® be. conservative THE HAUG Coolidge do lotherwise thun ggain veto the Mec- Nury-Haugen bill when it is placed before him. Then, if Congress cares | to pass it over the presidential veto appe: to have strength cnough to do so at this session— . and not the President, will ‘ suffer the blame. | The claim that the bill has been pushed through Congress in an at- tempt to aid the presidential aspira- tions of Mr. Dawes, who strongly fa- ems a bit far-fetched. This BILL President cannot ~as it Congr vors it, | would be a rather roundabout way | fighting Hoover. and not half Bl!! state pri- of effective as winning a maries, If the conies law the co MeNary-Haugen bill be- of living will rise That it will suceced | of farm products oely ba Jeast that worrying about. something for the industrial | ast slightly. in lif nthe foubite ing the price United States ean s that is the i . and he farmers That, indecd, is prople in the citics and iters the other aspeets of th rting Soue o law will be even more discon- There s the marketing of cotton abroud, for in- I'he surplus idea behind this is to stanee, 1 in the domestic market md sell the surplus The American cotton ta high pric broad at a low price. foreign mills will get tper than the American mills, (il unless Ui duty on cotton goods vastly increased, in all probability (bl 1o ship the finished pro- America and atly injure ss of the American textile And eve ticiently the ¢ rica will tollow the iner; taritf s | this | n if the to forestall possibility, of cotton gzoods | in An; sed | price The prime for the raw product. { object of the bill is to | “n Muy prosperous.” | a. But -rful will merely pay rarmers it end will be achley ol mt share in this won prosperity; they 1S prosperd PARE York. built building more its The nist made years ago when s were signed fo permit thelr i oprration by the two pres- B o e o R T | country's prosperity it enacted, responsibility | |in | economiics | and moxtgages and find themselves suffering a loss as the buying pow- er of the dollar shrinks, and they are victims of a situation over which they are not responsible in the | slighteat, Falling prices, on the other lhand, check activity. Hand-to-mouth buy- ing, such as we already have experi- | enced, is encouraged, and producers are led o underestimate the strength ot demand. Borrowers suf- fer as thefr incomes go down while their debts, contracted during peri- ods of highcr price levels, remain fixed. The result in either instance im | the same, whether as the result of a sudden crash, as in"1921, or a long gradual decline like that of 1873 to 1597 The Strong stabilization which is before the committee on Panking and currency of the Housc of Representatives, may be destined to have a powerful effect upon the Its purpose is to place upon the Federal Reserve system for maintaining a ‘“general price level,” or a level deemed to repre- sent the purchasing power of the dollar. The bill is expressive of an ideal, and may not attain its specific i end in all cases, There are four ways in which the Federal Reserve Board can influ- ence the general price level, accord- ing to the proponents of such sta- bilization: 1. Raising and lowering the re- discount rates. . Tncreasing and decreasing the Foderal Reserve bank's investments curities, Moral member banks, 1. Publicity. designed late or clieck optimism on the part of the 1t is a grand argument both ways, suasion over to stimu- husine community, however, Our doctors of cconorics o whether price stablliza- in this ¢ about don't tion ean be hrought about But they all of the A good sign comparatively few manner, the magnitude social ques- tions involved. is that the taken cognizance who have of this important not considering it along political lines, but are battling with and statistics bereft of ions. From this it stabilization idea has z in common with the tariff. While the cconomy experts ure dis- cussing. and weighing their doctrines we wish them luck. political cont ar the analyzing ; and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN Alw s @t Mayhe becans modern they two sides. k licked need loss Jos These tinne hard on Boy. To be a Babe Ruth or a Lind- bergh. that's a problen. s ar a small Iy secm origimnal Ne Things mer W meets | is | bill, | | seems new to a new set of cars. And now to clineh Hoover’s hold on popular tfaney, Mencken comes out and says he won't do. ™ in- it Therc's nothing against the feriority complex, ™ except that doesn't affect the right people. | | | 1€ the boss has his tect on the | desk it isn't a sign of spring fever. |A man with spring fever wouldn't lift his feot. Sledicated cigarettes are being {improved all the time, and it may vet be possible to get your daily pinach that ‘vay. { Every community has at least of man who is an atheist because | can attract notice that way. A crank is a man who thinks his silly stuff would be printed if the cditor wasn't afraid. Americanism: Thinking it smart to scorn religion; trying to think up some scheme to keep people decent. Place floats at intervals ana we'll have regular plane traffic to Eu- rope. Fine! But why not place the floats end to end and use flivvers? In the old days there were people who liked nasty things, but they were called “livery stable bums"— not “young intellectuals.” If the public thinks him great, {and you scorn him, and years later | vou decide he is a great artist, you arc a noted tic, | Poise is the quality that enables @ man to carty seven packages without thinking everybody he | | puswes looks amused. Women never are safisficd. Those who worked for the vote arc now out getting votes. One of the new razors copies a lawn mower, but the ultimate achievement will be something n the nature of a stump puller, "nators waste time and energy.” do, indeed. Seme of them try to insult Heflin, “The Republican platform will not be dry.” Well, it's easy to keep out of molsture if you put on a coat of oil. ' “The fight hbor's darling child, sald she, *“was started by our brat,” | Copyright, 1928, Publishers Syndicate OGEAN FLIERS DO - NOT HEEP PRIZE | Correct this sentenc | with the n Aviation Fund New York, May 6 P—Given the {first material reward for their ocean |Night, the German-Irish crew of the Bremen dedicated its usc to the pro- motion of aviation. Baron von Hucnefeld, speaking for himselt and his two companions, accepted a check for $12,500 from the Electrolux company of Sweden, offercd for the first flight from Eu- {rope to America and then gave it [to Miss Herta Junkers as the repre- sentative of her father, Prof. Huge Junkers, builder of the Bremen, to used for “further experimenta- tion and rescarch in aviation.” The baron's action, taken at & dinner given the fliers by the donors of the prize, came as a surprise and brought the representatives of 30 nations there assembled to their feet cheering. Prof. Junkers previously had been loffered the prize by the donors as !the conditions of the award said it for the builder of the planc but | refused it saying it shoull go to the fliers themselves, His daugh- ter said sh jeved her father would now ac Prof. Junkers |18 arriving in this country on Mon-( he he dinner ended a busy {the fliers during which they attended a luncheon tendered them by the Advertising club and reeeived John McCormack, famous Irish tenor. i Major Fitzmaurice delivered to the |singer a letter from Major General | John McKeon, quartermaster of the Trish Free State army, which he had | carried with him in the flight from Ircland. Two small Irish flags were day for | lished i state asked it to make \Give Their $12,500 Winnings to | Right In Our Line! { Music week should bring a thrill We'll say, to Fun Shop Folks, For though like larks we may not trill Yet who could call us “croaks!” Moungoliat Sing Hai. “Our baby hasn’t reached the brush and comb stage yet.” Mink Tey: *“Our baby waiting for his queue, too! —Mrs. Mon Toy 2 FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Social It is announced that many of our taxicabs are to undergo Spring cleaning. It will come as a surprise to the public that some of our taxicabs have got any springs! e ' Medical Babies are cured of whooping- cough in Germany by being taken up 10,000 fect in an aeroplane. By the time they get up there they haven't any breath left to whoop with! is still Sports i Telephonic communicatibn be- tween London and New York is claimed to be as simple as a local call in this city. We can casily believe it! v e International It is announced that, with the trade lcague of nations now estab- at Geneva, the secretary of the buying of cigarettes after cight o'clock an international offens Terrible To Think of! Barton: “Our manager just paid $100,000 for a shortstop.” oodness gracious! What he have had to pay for a would long one ——Stuart Bowers Our idca of a delicate situation would be the president of Duke uni- versity considering the demands of the anti-cigarette league that smok- ing be forbidden on the campus! WHAT IF THE! WERE WOME TRAMPS? (According to Maurice G. Hualbert) Jenkins: “Well, what do you Wwan! > Lady Tramp: “Kind sir, I haven't had a bite to eat for three days. could I have a sandwich and a cup of coffec, some sweet pickles and a dish of potato salad?” Jenkins: “Would you be willing to darn some socks, or to do the dish- es?” Lady Tramp: “Oh, T couldn't. I'm a sick woman! I broke my arm once washing dishes and I stabbed mysclf dreadfully in the thumb while darn- ing a sock. Oh, no, you big hand- some man, Oh, n Jenkins: “Er—you'd ® away, My wife's not and—-: Lady Tramp: “Why, honey don't talk so rudely to your sweet lovey girl! Darling, you're just the living image of my first husband!” Jenkins: “Hea’h Strongheart! ‘At's a good dog! Hew'h, Strong- h ‘em! §-s-5-5-5-8-5 'em!” Lady Tramp: “You, sir, don't look near as much like my first husband as T thought you did. I bid you good day!" better at L] home, boy. Getting Down (0 Brass Tacks! Getting At It “I want to for my w “What slze does she wear, buy some encloscd in the let Gen. McKeon asking Mr. McCormack to keep one and return the other. The fliers’ wives with no official receptions. During the day they stayed in their hotel wuite, only Patricia, the Irish com- mandant’s 6-year-old daughter, go- ing to Central Park fo play with a little girl of her own age. She said she had the best time of her |trip. The women attended a movie {in the evening. Today the fliers will attend the {horse ractng at Jamaica and in the |evening a dinner to the governor of | Rome, Ttaly i 1 a restiul day ¥ & P —Fifteen advance guard of Uncle At- | Buffalo [ vesselr, the |Mam’s dry navy, sent from the {1antic to break up rum run- {ning on Great Lakes, in the harg locks at Lockport last night were expected to reach here gome time today. Nine of the craft are cquipped with one. pounders and machine gung, The !others are specdy picket boats and carry only machine guns coust the were canal and > Why—er, about twice ¢ that voung lady up on the ider over there wears!™ 5 J d ¥. Brackie TH WORLD! I always though him vain enough, But now The Fun Shop prints his stuet! step-l —~Harrict Cahn THE CUB REPORTER WRITES UP THE BALL GAME A baseball game, said 1o be be- tween two rival big league teams, was alleged to have been played this afternoon, the score being reported 10 have becn 5 to 4 in favor of one of them. It is believed that the acore was tied at the end of the ninth inning. and it is rumored that onc of the players, who declined to give his name and address, hit what wis said to b, left ficld fence, bystanders stated late: today. Eve-witnesses declared that a persen. claiming to be an um- pire, thought that the alleged home run was a foul, and is said to have | valled the batter back to what was D Head writing as practiced in American newspaper offices may be a fine art but the style would never answer the purposes of ordinary conversation. The object of & head ali the salient features of the news story over which it is placed. The majority of newspapers forbid the use of the articles a, an and the in heads and insist that all information be given in the prescut tense. A head writer rushed home one|ing, and although they might have | afternoon after the paper had gone to press and demanded to know why dinner wasn’t ready. His wife re. plicd: DINNER NOT READY BECAUSE OF BRIDGE In the paper next a news story headed: day appeared HUNGER DRYVES MAN TO STRIKE {Is WIFE Then followed an account of the head writer's arrest The evening editions carried the story of the hearing given him in police court under the headings: BRIDGE WRECKS HOME, HUBBY TELLS JUDGE Wife Bids ‘No TFood" and Newspaperman Socks Her Plenty, WARNED TO BEHAVE SELF But even head writers can bury their grievances and after they had made up, the H. W. went home next night with a package under his arm. Going directly to the dining room, he unwrapped the bundle and hung the following motto on the wall: NO PLACE LIKE HOME SAYS NEWSPAPERMAN AFTER NIGHT IN JUG It happened Thursday night on Washington street. Three sweet young things, obviously of the flap- per type, strolled along and halted when a couple of drug storc cow- s with father’s car rolled down strect obviously trying to pick up companions of the opposite sex. The damsels were not averse to talking and an animated. good ratured conversation ensucd, during which time it was plain the boys were trying to induce the girls to | take a ride. Finally, one of the girls asked, sufficiently loud for passersby to hear: “Well, have you got plenty of gas?” “Sure”, replied the boy wheel, “Then step on i giggled mouthpiece of the flapper trio the three hurried on down street, at the the as the There is undoubtedly &« time in cvery young man's and young girl's life, when they dream of sccing their name flash on the screen or appear on the program of a legitimate stage production. In other words they would like to sce their numes glori- fied nationally and even internation- With some, the ms are passing fancy,. like many other ideas born before the mature age is reached. Others keep on dreaming, waiting for chance to give them an opportunity; many of them remain dreaming, while only a few take the jchance. — Of these only a small per- | centage attain undisputcd claim to glory and remain at the uppermost 1ung of the ladder of fz Others gain ephemeral recognition and the world soon forg them in time, le the majority remain in the ackground, never recognized. “Oh for the life of an actor— fame, money, prosperity, casy iifc and success,” is an uttcrance often heard from people ofttimes old enough to know better. The aver- e theatergoer never fully real what it means to he an actc actor's life is an ecasy one ing to conclusions rcached by m lions. It 18 no exageration to say | that fully ninety per cent of theater- | goers never stop to think what ha |ships an actor goes through before |any degree of recognition is attained. To the lookcron everything seems perfect on the stage or screen and the whole procedure of acting ap- ! pears easy when the finished product |is before the eye. But how much time and energy, work and health jare sacrificed before a play reaches {perfection, is never reckoned with, To say that the life of an actor is justice 10 the profession. age person considers cither sensuous, careiree, selfish, vnreliglous cr vainglorious. No doubt there are some who posscss some of these characteristics, but usually they arc a hard working, persistent lot, whose profession is Larder than the common street la- | borer's job. Thousands of dreamers of siage or |screen fame have returned (o or- |dinary means of securing a living !simply because they could not adapt themselves to the hardships of an actor's life as apprentices. New York furnishes, a good ex- ample of 2d younw ladics and young men. who went there with the idea. of reaping a goodly harvest, found the field well filled and finally went the way of thousands of their predecessors — working in restau- rants, as ushers in theaters, while here and there some fornd places in third and fourth rate shows bers of choruses. Many are with years of experience on the st; ge land the ecreen. who are following {other lines of endeavour, after realizing that their cfforts wei The aver- the * actor as believed to be the plate, in order to hit the so-called hall again, it 1s gen- erplly believed in baseball circles, —Paul ¥. Hoclger An Athlete? Mrs. Huyden: “Myron writca home from college and says that he is taking up the study of hird nests, Mrs. Dunn: “What a strange sub- a home run over the|ject! Are you sure?” said e the high- & he to some of Mrs. Hay was getting i er branche: —Alan Harcuse (Copyright. 1928, Reproduction Forbidden) writer is to cram into the heading | an easy and effortless one, is an in- | —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations ] On the City ana Its People mediocre. Theatrical agencies and moving | picture studios are overcrowded with talent, in many cases good talent, but even they are told that nothing | can be done for them and they must ‘dlher wait patiently for a chance | opening, or give up the idea and find | work elsewhere, | Those who arc lucky enough to be | routine | |placed must go through work which is hard and ofttimes try- ‘been stars in amateur theatricals in their home town with great futures predicted for them by their friends and relatives, they find themselves to be mere pawns when placed on the tremendous checkerboard among thousands of others, who were idols jat home, but just mere upstarts in |the professional field. Talent is a {minor factor in the game if not coupled with hard and persistent |werk and it is just as likely as not that you will remain in the common | rank and file of the profession for |life. The so-called “pull” has noth- ing to do with the elevation of any one to the rank of star. There are many, their numbers running into thousands, who were lucky enough |to get a chance through friends or {relatives in the profession, but found |out soon enough that actors are born and not made. | The moving picture actor's life is |perhaps the hardest of any in the | profession and requires more effort and hard work than the legitimate |stage. The moving picture actor is |exposed to more dangers, hazardous experiences and hardships. When a company is ordered to go “‘on loca- tion,” the whole troop frequently lives for weeks and sometimes months in tents or temporary bar- racks and the whole routine during | their stay is soldierlike. 1If it hap- |pens to be summer, work starts at dawn and not one minute is wasted !during the whole day, except the | necessary period for lunch, usually jenly a half hour. A thrilling, hair raising scene, which the public views in a few minutes, often takes days and weeks to film before the needed few hundred feet of film is salvaged, {and usually some casunalties result. Thé company when going on loca tion prepares itself with staff of doc- tors and nurses and even ambu- lances. Food is cqoked on the spot and not of the a la carte variety either. It is not an easy life, and there are many who gladly return to thei old jobs soon after taste of it. { | To some, whose knowledge of lormen is limited to a type of fiction the men of thg sea are two- fisted, hairy-chested, roistering hom- bres who live on hard-ta and salt ho They have constitutions ef oxen, endurance of slaves, and social instincts of cave men. They go to sea for months at a stretch and while there, divide their affections between parrots and monkeys. And when they come into port they spend their money wildly, casily swindled, whoop-it-up for a short whil nd are then knocked uncen- scious. When they “cometo,” they we roughly put to work regardless of their bruised and battercd bodies. It is expeeted that the sea-going brutes shall act according to thei; type in storics of the sea. They have always done so, they think, and always will act 4 And they let it go at th Equally wrong is the idea that the sailorman young, tender, unso- phisticated youth. a model of afl vir- tue who should he protected from the chewing gum vendors, the pool room pirates, and others who prey upon his innocense. he fact is, according to Charles tone, . P, O. reeruiting agent this city, American sailors al citizens, They have all the es that the young civilian and in addition, they hav training. discipline, experience, and Yravel which enables them to become good, intelligent Americans. Their work is honorable, pleasant und profitable. Their living condi- tions are comfortable, manitary and wholesome, 1t is to be expected they will choose the same Kind of pleas- u and amusements when ashore as other men, They are as good as the average civilian. They are fre- quently superior to the average man in that they have learned the Golden Rule through practice. SHITH'S CHANCES MUCH IMPROVED Walsh's Withdrawal Strength- ens New Yorker Washington, May 5 (UP) — The opposition to Gov. Alfred E. Smith nomination has been materially set back by withdrawal of Benator Walsh of Montana in favor et Smith. according to the accepted view of party factions publicly and privately exoressed here today. Senator Reed of Missouri will carry on his fight but primarily— as he says—so that the Houston convention may have an opportunity of voting on his isgue of anti-cor- ruption and pro-popular govern- ment. Senator Heflin of Alabama still declines to concede Smith’s nomi- nation. He says the oppesition will vally around Gov. Vic Donahey of Ohio, who is not a candidate and will not have his home state dele- gation. Walsh's Montana delegation will be thrown to Smith by the state convention there next Monday, and |w iam G. McAdgo, Smith's old op- ponent, is’ expected to retire from any further efforts to prevent Smith's nomination though he has made no announcement yet. Walsh consulted McAdoo before issuing his withdrawal statement. Reed's contest s expected to curried on in a less intensive man- ner than heretofore, though he has a statement ent issued after Walsh's | withdrawal, Reed said he entered getting a | made 1t clear he ir in to stay. In| the contest because he. held thai “someone representing Jeffersonian democracy and devoted to the cleansing of Washington ought to be willing to undertake the task.” “The convention at Houston will |at least have an opportunity to votc on that issue” he said. 8mith is expected to make his first public appearance of the cam- paign next week when the senate |committee investigating expendi- tures may go to Albany to hear {him. Eight presidental candidates before the committee Monday to tell before the commttee Mnday to tell of contributions and expenses. This group includes Hoover. Curtig of Kansas, Goff of West Virginia, i Borah of Tdahq, Norris of Nebrai Reed of Missouri, George of Georgi {and Hull of Tennessee. X | Walsh also is to be called to tell {if he made any expenditures. | Chairman- Steiwer said the com- mittee was in doubt as to whether it had authority to subpoena the governor of any staie. Hence it will | g0 to Albany to hear Smith and (o Annapolis, Md., to hear Governor Ritehie. Senator Watson is now in Indiana campaigning but will be called as {soon as he returns. Former Gov. Lowden will be called later. NO HOUSECLEANING INYEOLDEN DAYS {Mary Ann Thinks Life Musta . Boen One Sweet Song | (Contributed) ! Dear Andy: Last week you told about King Arthur and his Round Table Kknights that roamed the countryside in the olden days all dolled up With rdware fixtures and how life musta been one sweet holiday after another as they didn’t seem to have any daily labors except maybe starte ing and finishing an argument With some other galoot and giving the fair Jadies a tumble. DIl bet even the fair ladies musta lived a happy and | carefree life because they never had any spring house cleaning to run |them ragged, detouring through and parlors with a vacuum and leaving their work half finished to answer the doorbell and !iry to discourage book agents, bill collectors, ctc. Neither did they hafta chaperon a feather duster over the mahog- any, while waiting for the water to heat so's they could tack the supper dishes, and suddenly !find unexpected company on their |hands, the radio battery “dead” and nothing to entertain them with except a couple of cracked | victrola records. Also they never {had to worry about how long a per- manent wave would last in damp weather and if last year's bonnet | could be fixed over without having | the janes at the office saying that it looked like something the maid for- got to throw out with the rest of the left-overs, | They wasn't subject to such g | getters as having the men folks spill | cigar ashes all over the carpets after | you told 'em a hundred times “for goodness saks use the ash trays and not put burnt out matches in the {vest pockets.” Nor did they hafta | worry what friend husband (in case | you had one) would say when he | 1earned that his best silk shirt came {back from the laundry looking like lit had an argument with the wash | wringer and lost. Thosc olden day | like the low cost of loving, are gone forever and bringing them back would he about as easy as sweeping | the front poreh with a whisk brooni, or carrying the screens down from the attic with onc hand tied behind your back and both eyes closed. | TN admit the armored knight | would probably make a sturdy traf- | fic cop, being well protected from flivver fenders and could hand a | couple of dents and the merry rasp- | berries to every gas wagon that tried [to climb his frame. But us a gallant fire laddie he’d be about as useful as | the drugstore cowboy whosc brains | have gone on a long journcy using |a one-way ticket. Imagine an iron |clad warrior climbing a big aerfal | ladder to the fifth floor of a burning | bullding to rescue some dizzy blond that's poking her bean out the win- dow yelling for help because she's too dumb to use the fire escape. | He'd start off like a spring tonie | but by thetime he zot half way the | weight of his .., sea diving suit™ | would leave him puffing like a 1923 | flivver exhaust and wishing he was |somewheres else, If he neglected to lubricate his a¥m and leg joints ibe(ore going 6n duty he'd find him- )lclf tied up in knots or something jand unable to move to the next rung, | Then he'd be the one that would | hafta holler for help. What a thrill | the spectators would get if the chicf ordered him to leap into the life nct. It he obliged with the Steve Brodia jand missed, fron pajamas and all, the ground wouldn't even slow him jup but he should worry as he'd Enrobnbl.\' land in a wandering suh- way and let the city take care of { him, and how. | As Ever, MARY ANN, me | ‘ bservations | On The Weather Washington, May 5.—Forecast for Bouthern New England: Increas ing doudiness and warmer Satur- day, followed by local thunder showers Saturday afternoon or night. Sunday generally fair and cooler, Forecast for Eastern New York: Bhowers and thunderstorms and cooler in north and central portions Saturday and in extreme south por- tion Saturday afternoon or night; Sunday generally fair and cooler. Conditions: Cooler weather will overspread the entire eastern half of the country Saturday. The tem- | perature will rise in ®the night. |Generally fair weather will prevail Sunday ‘in the Washington forecast. | dtstrict. | READ RERAID CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS L -