New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1928, Page 6

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This tnsures pro- | cction agalnst fraud In pewspaper di ibution figures to both national and cal advertisers. | Ihe Heraid s on sale dally in New k at_Hotallng’s Newsstand. Times uvare; Schult sstands, Entrance ‘and Central, ¢2md Street. SEDUCATE Having ore or leas thoroughly to recognizs NG MOTORISTS “educated” pedestrians he advantages of obeying th iowntown tr ic lights, the pol lepartment now has a neat scheme foot to “cducate’ the motorists not | 5 when the amber to teach n light o step on the g it shines, hem to wait ig e idea i% the the until them lushes giving right m‘ isonable. One of the [hat the mean nds re effects of ffic lights has been that niotorists began | hugging forward the moment the lights fact that in u mber went on, irrespective the cstrians were only any cases pe- half way acr he streets. ANS ational church, FIRST CON( The First Congre shich has made public its ¥ construct buildings 1o cost $450 it West Main and Lexington streets is building well for the future. Th: 1s 1o 00 picture of the new cdifice and ac- companying buildings made a favor- (ble fmpression. The tone of the hitecture is preponderatingly New England, a type that one mects with in profusion only in New Fng- iand and one dating from carly imes, The con tion is to con- cratulated upon the beautiful struc- | iures it is planned to build. It s notable that for an architect the congregation did ot need to go beyond its own men- | sership, W. 8. t of plans of such artistic value hat they easily met with the ap- ishione another Brooks providing a wrobation of his fellow pa will be Ihe new church wonument to the distinguished ar- hitect resident in the city, The time is approaching when one justificd in speculating what haracter of building will be erce- A upon the present site when it | < sold. That it is the most prominent | not o supied is known to orner in the city by :ommercial structure . Perhaps the city’s first skyc ©owill be cul estate erceted there, nen telling us that the cost of the huildings is so0 #nd and present igh that only that type n be considercd as likely to hring of structure fequate financial returns, Yot one ver can tell Oonee the oic Main and hurch streets is sold it will not e long for the congregation 1o ynstruet ite new el home on West Main stree This cha has a long time in developing 1 1 indications point to early activi v. With the o1 dout var | Communisin tion | we would hay sense he was a martyr in a cause that was not worth the effort. never had much of a chance in the United States because on the whole conditions were over- whelmingly against it germination We are not perfect and sometimes harbor thing: but it of which we are not is the almost unani- that the m does not lic in sma proud; mous 1 erdict way toward hing bad cyerything we have, good and alike, What Haywool could not understand is that American people prefer to m eantiou like men vy in adopting change, and that idition to reforms of what- r nature most ot all on stabili process. All Haywood and his kind had dream and & ceneral upset in trying to attain it we accept, we ins during the to offer was a like a man falli atally nightmare. down steps and injuring himself during a We simply didn't earc for that sort of a mightmare, and vhen Haywoo insi on fecding us the wrong kind of medicine we protected ourselves from 11 ople who would forcefully despoil us of our liberties After all the pretty ‘ases and ntal blandishments of the Communists as they exist in tyrannical than ly Blust all : is an inscparable Russia, who is mor Who nio Gpposition? The gulf bhetween they effed ciety as we have developed it; and ents ar n it all el mort when all measure will he iivid found that s of in- s v under our s un under the tyrannical system of the Rus which Vil not popular rul: sian proletariat from foundations up is rule and This is the sort of thing Haywood want country and e to bring to this ed hecause we vightly none of it PROTEC Protection of the NG INVESTORS public from un- ‘\(HHH! investments scems to be an issue in the mind of the state bank commissioner, Lester E. Shippee, He has been pointing out that Connecti- eut lacks law, such as exists in New punitive York—which 1 to many Nutmeggers who 4 surprise have been under the impression that has had all the Mr. Shippee pointedly the state good laws ever invented says that such a law would solve be | many of the difliculties being ex-, perienced throughout the state, cspecially during this period of renzied speculation The Martin act of New York does not go as far as the blue sky laws in some of the othier states, but the bank commissioner thinks it goes far enough and has some advantuges over the others. This m of opinion where bhe a mat- tochni- ter and a techni- cal experts disagree ove cal subject it is a rash individual who would offer advice. The best the however, accord- Mr. Martin act does, Shippee pro- keep the state ing 1o the opinion of himself, is to offer “excellent tection,” and would fraudulent stocks than it is at present.” Wi this that the luw is not 100 per cent much freer of from proof against fraud, but only about | S0 per cent. The that if the law similar bank commissioner believes state, instead of having a Martin law, and would to the blue sky law it requir establishment of a sccurities Hartford, would be another centralized bureau commission in which and would operate at some to the taxpayers, It seems to us that this is not much to worry about. W alr various expense wly have burcaus of criptions in Hartford and we had of thc that the government is not been opinion state averse to centralizing the state government nor to providi niore Such o commission would have to securitivs offered in he state. 1t would have to approye conpitics and probably would be very busy. What of that, any t that better than to have old 10 sickere who augh to do husiness ith concerns one oliti o spressed it it is the i cenment to protect All in New York ) o the attorney gen- il to act on complaint against a rn offering ccurities. Nir it out of ten the complaint would ntil t telicted © ul suid goodbye to his money. 'l 1 o more work for 1he or @eneral, Work partly con ufter 1 l heen stol 0 would mean more power 1o the tiorney general, 1 the latter con- sented 1o do all this extra work and possees the ing Tos ponsibility without extra pay it would he sur- prising and rather contrary to hu natur 1 is eaution by the individual tor. 1t ie surprising that so women with money o veudily allow thems ) 3 s for shifty seller i o b omoter mak ¢ in entirely ‘ political jobs. | are in troubls they o to a “good” lawyer. Wt financial advice, and reliable fir A more principle when in need of not 1 th 20 1o a good commun this My general application of would solve all md m it Shippee's worries necessary 10 20 to the extent of pro- tecting the foolish from their in vestment follies Such idealism, we suppose, is hop state will In all probubility the lave to steel itself to the application of some special law dgsigned to pro tect the money-mad from the money “SOCIALIST! Having the prevent " LEGISL succeeded in 10N circumyent- r lobby which sought to Muscic generating plant chi socialistic” legislation, the operation of Shoals as @ power Congress now st ed with indulging in By way of cxplanation, “social- istic™ slation is any Kind of leg lation the big boys dom't like., 1t fs like calling a person a “bolshevik™ when one dousn't asrec with him. | Both terms long ugo have lost what- ever pungency they originally possessed. The Socialist party in the United States numbers but an in- finitesimal proportion of the total voters, while genuine bolsheviks as rare as soda fountai Labra- dot. But all the same the terms a convenient to upply—it is compara- tively casy to claim that legislation is “socialistic'” and congressmen vot ing for it arc “bolsheviks.” Trouble i, however, the terms prove i don’t even stop the legislation, There is nothing in the Constitu tion to hinder the government from operatin plant. There is L power nothing in the Constitution giving w monopoly of interstate industry to a kind of a has operated power trust or any other trust, The government shipping lines, and during the, war it operated the rajlroads. The gov- crnment set up to help the put them on their fv and it has done s0; even the har. Haven is getting back on its doggies. The printing establishment in Washing- ton and sells hooks and pamphlets to government operates 4 vast the publie in competition with private industry, and as a large part of the output consists of pamphlets designed to aid the icultural in- y the newspapers which have a farming circulation do not ob- the The ot hecausc farmers would be affronted. government also, through the parcels post, competes | vith the expre the postal savings banks, And so on. The s companied, 1t is in banking business through the government also aids businces in in- numerable ways, and think this is one way hand in business in a most effective manner. Business has a right 1o rely rtain extent, government wants to run on government to a but if the a power plant of vast scope after ex- pending §150,000,000 on it, that is nobody's business but that of the government, TALL OF TWO BILES On the same day the Senate passed the farm relicf bill and the merchant marine bill. As the New York World both points out, measures have much in common. “One appropriates $400,000 the 100 from tederal treasury to be used as a revolving fund for the aid of agriculture; the ' sother provides a similar fund of 250,000,000 for the aid of shipping ides i an annual subvention of se: cral millions for carrying the mails, In othe bill is as “socialist Yet the which op- words, the one as other. sume news the ag proponents of they they utiful and neccess governmental aid. To highly the is thought of onc ne 1o go no further than New London, wpers usually pose cultural and subsid eubsidy are the shipping farm find the find the where ill “socialistic” ping bill o be cxample of ascer Low n just Ping venture which hopes to become a great At- Lantic to th And there is the port throusgh wovernment aid new private st miship line matter of the € Cod canal—it w irded as o per- teetly legitimate field for private enterprise until it was discovered that the thing did not pay, when i government cou 1 i become “socialis- cnough to buy it The nent o President is u strong oppo- overnment enterprise in private business, ut the surnt relict and the merchant s marine bills the World proj following 1.oser: “Loth nieasures aim to subsidize private business at the o taspay. Most of reasons which the President may offer for approving or disupproving the one will apply with cqual foree to the other. From present indica- tions, however, he will approve the ship subeidy and v sidy. What is and shipowners is to the od tor farm sub- shipbuilde sparently not 5004 for the furmey ATTACKS AMERICAN ¥ SONS Moscow, May 19 (UP) —Crime and son conditions in the United States | rrif Prof. V. 1. Kufayeff, a wding Rnssinn iminologist who recontly returned fron: an N tour Sing Prison, in Os eminded Kufaveff of 1 leclared. H nothing | ransportation act | railroads and ' -ridden New | in speaking of | And Roll It With Cheer! As Jawns are being planted new Witk hay seed and with grass | secd, too, 3 i's sow the law of routine, Folks, sced and with laugh Resulest 5 I Dutten: “I near that Mitehell has ht a stunning new car.” Mae s, he made a hit with {it the first day he took it out! —Arthur D, Sisk THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY | science “Televox,” the mechanical man who some weeks ago unveiled a por- trait of Geerge Washington at a jcmonstration in New York, stands six fect high, has electric-light bulha for eyes, and is operated entirely by und. here is believed to be some idea of running him for the Presidency! . . | Medic | The skull of a victim of of London has cd with perfect teeth, Of course there were no cures for prorrhoea in those days! reat i | v e e . social “Mrs. —— has started on a solo flight from Aberdeen to the Soudan. Mrs. touching French soil, Italy, and her Malta, and Egypt, [stays will be of the shortest pos- {sible.” | ~Malta Paper | We had 1o idea they were worn Jut al | My! My! My | Mrs. Schuyler: “Norah, T hear that Mrs. Walsh, who always bows so_politely, strikes his wife.” | Norah: “Sure an' he'd as soon |raise hig hand as his hat! | -—Amedeo Balzano | Tk i i AN INDIAN INCIDENT By Dr. Walter 1. Traprock The marriage of Miss Nancy Anne Aliller to the Maharajah of Indore enormously, for the intrigued “R or “Jolly Rajah” as 1 used to call him, and I are old friends. We were room-mates at Oxford and, on account of ows fliriations with the busom barmaids of Market street, we were known as the “Kings of Indore and Outdoor Sports. The Rajah and I retired to his domain on the banks of the Ganges, [making the last stages of the jour- on the 1o phant As we approached the first set cyes on the Princess maid of the highest waddenly beautiful. To say t fell for her is vight. 1 fairly le from my howdah and grovelled at her You arc the indeed, there with Bells on and little clse! Need 1 say that our friendship ripened into love and then some! Tut a difficulty arosc. People he- gan talking and at length the Rajah spoke 1o me seriously, “You must jmarry the Princess,” he said, “or he fed to my tigers, It is the law. Take your choice: Banka or the tige In vain I protested that 1 was a 1 our Rotary Club und likewise affianced to Miss Mar- tha Boiles, the daughter of my Head Deacon. end for your Martha,” le said, |“and start a litlle Harem of your 'own. No home is complete without one. The idew of 3 gingham waist 7 tha changing her and long skirt for a cow-bell and stri of beads was unthinkable, though the Rajah as- sured me that tie change would do lier good, But his words suggested a way oni. |1 wrote to Martha | host dictated, painting an alluring ! pictt of her life as my Eastern gazelle and hinting delicately that she would have company. It was xactly as my three months before her reply reached me and what a three months! but when it came it i our tropic weather feel like Greenland's icy mountains! | 1 showed it to the Raj, who psm “A lady who can write a letter like that might be interest- ing.” he s out 1 doubt if she would fit into our quict atmosphere. ere is only one thing to be done. 1 will marry Accord- ing to our 1S up everything and she will just round out the dozen. . Now T ask yon, could sporting than tha Banka mysel statutes, that el vthing be more winkl Twinkle, little star, How 1 wy { r what jon are! Beanty and the Beast! Ihe rooster is very majestic, He struts around so blase, ns in the vard all fall for hirn, HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY WARINE PATROLS PUSHING ONWARD Gaptain Huoter, Wounded in Fight, Dies Managua, Nicaragua, May 13 (UP) — Marine patrols moved through the hill country around Jinotega * today searching for the rebel band recently defeated by Captain Robert 8. Hunter's detach- menb—an engagement that cost the life of Hunter, one marine and one member of ‘the Nicaraguan guard. Hunter died early .Friday from wounds he received in the skirmish with the rebels. Five rebels were killed and five others were injured, it was reported here. The reports indicated the skirmish was about May 14., The marine captain gave his life in leading his small detachment in the successful ambush movement ainst the rebels, who were led by Jose Leon Diaz. Hunter had been advised of the Trebel position by airplanes that had been eircling over the area. He advanced cautiously but rebel scouts detected the movement and attempted to attack from the dense underbrush. The marines soon routed the rebel gang but not until one marine and one guard were killed and Hunter, one marine and one guard injured. Reports of the attack were re- layed to one of the nearby marine 1osts and two patrols were hurried towards Hunter's position to engage the scattered rebels, Meanwhile ma-, rine planes circled over Hunter's encampment, dropping medical supplics were inadequate, however, and Hunter died from the wounds he received at.3 a. m. Fri- day morning. Meanwhile the two patrols serft to the aid of Hunter continued moving forward in an attempt to overtake the rebel band of Diaz. They were believed to have re- treated back into the mountains after their engagement with Hunter and reports said the band had been scattered greatly. 25 Years Ago Today Representative Cooper will prob- ably have a busy time of it in the House next week when the resolu- tion in regard to the city’s water bill comes up for action. ‘Bristol is looking ufter its interests astutely. Although New Britain by law has water rights on the Pequabuck, Bristol has purchased a sawmill with a large watershed and clainfy We cannot touch it. There seems to be a colored man in the woodpile somewhere, & A local minister yesterday said in Tiis sermon that these are ecritical times in New Britain industry. “There is a great deep movement in our midst which, like a small hole in a reservoir dam, grows larger unless stopped up. Life goes into every lock and butt made. The life of polisher and butfer is often out short. Every dollar of riches has the cross of blood upon it.” Fred A. Searle will be one of the delegates from the South church to the annual spring meeting of the Central conference in Meriden, The directors’ are considering re- pairing the Opera House, and it is said that if the floor is lowered J. Claude Gilbert may lease the place. There was a sharp and damaging hicyele collision at West Main and Washington streets last evening, and it took Chief Rawlings to settle the argument which followed. One cyclist had smashed his wheel in two but was uninjured, while the other had cut his head, 80 the chief prevailed upon them to call it even. There is said to be opposition to the proposed charter amendment which would provide @ salary for the chairman of the street committee, Judge Cooper and Clerk Mitchell have had a lot of trouble since it was discovered that the police chief has no right to accept a bond from a prisoner. At 2 o'clock this morn- ing a bibulous friend of an arrested man roused Judge Cooper from bed by rapping on the door and ring- ing the bell at the same time. Judge Cooper has made a few pointcd and forceful speeches in the legislature, but a belated neigh- bor who overheard him this morn- lirig says that his epigrams were of the sort that make a public speaker. Eskimos Find Fault With the Mild Winter Winnipeg, Man., May 19 (UP)— The recent mild winter experienced in the Far North has worked & considerable hardship on some of the Eskimos, according to railway en- gineers who returned 4o this city after completing the survey of the new Hudson Bay Line as far as ‘)-'orl Churchill. | Eskimos hapitually coat the run- ners of their sleights with frozen mud to assist their passage ovér the snow. Because of the comparatively warm weather experienced in the regions alout the Bay these natives were delayed repeatedly on the trail because the mud thawed. WILL REROUTE BUS! Because of the fact that the city intends closing Carlton street to all traffic, beginning Monday and con- tinuing until certain repairs are fin- ished, the Connecticut Company will reroute busses from Allen street to Stanley street and continuing through Stanley street over the reg- ular route to Hartford. This will cover a period of two week: And he, he lets them lay! —Lew Kields " Matter of Taste! Uncle Cy was visiting his nephew in the city. “All that paint on women's faces sure looks funny,” he said. Just before his visit was over the nephew thought he'd ask, “Uncle Cy. do you still think the cosmetics women use looks funny “No," replied Uncle C sure tastes funn W “but it —Harris Reel (Copyright, 1925, Reproduction Forbidden) 5. 5 N —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City ana Its People Bristol residents should take heart trom a bulletin issued by the state board of health dealing with the smallpox situation. The effects of the diseasc are mnot expected to be as serious as in Middletown recent- ly. The explanation is that a greater proportion of Bristol's population is vaccinated. Bristol has hceded the call to vaccination whenever it has been sounded. As a result, the community is well fortified against further en- croachments of the disease. The state health department state. ment says: - “It is not expected that the Bristol outbreak will reach the proportions attained by the Middletown outbreak last winter. Bristol is somewhat bet- ter protected by vaccination than was Middletown at the beginning of the outbreak. About a quarter of the population of Middletown ure foreign-born and were vaccinated either in their native land or upon admission to this country. In Bristol about 40 per cent of fhe population would come under this classification. Besides, many people in Bristol were vaccinated four years ago when smallpox occurred in New Britain, For example, a recent study indicates | that about 22 per cent of the present school population have been vacci- nated. Thus it appears that the smallpox outbreak found somewhat more than half the population of Bristol vaccinated sometime during their lives as against about a fourth the population of Middletown. This difference in degree of protection is sufficlent to influence considerably the extent of a smallpox*outbreak.” From time to time the Observer taken genuine pleasure in chani- pioning the down trodden pedes- trian. This species of the human family has been long suffering and | meek, He deserves all the encour- agement and sympathy he can get. His life has been one hop, skip and a jump since the automobile invented. When he leaves home his wife always kisses him tenderl and sheds tears that have ‘“fare well’ labeled all over them. She never knows when he will brought home in an ambulance. He has been abused by crivers until there are callouses on his cars. He has learned how to do more funny steps than professional dancing mastars have been able to criginate. In the mass, while cross ing a thoroughfare, he iz more live- | ly than the chorus of “Good News' shuffling through the Varsity drag. That he is alive at all is to be won- dered at. Three cheers and a tiger for the pedestrian, But, here's a word for the man who drives his own car. When he starts from home he expects to reach his destination with dispatch. His mind is sct on getting to a cer- tain point, In the mass, he resembles | Napoleon's army on the road to Moscow. Does he get there? Yes, but not with dispatch. And here the rub. When the driver arrives at a point at which traffic lights are glowing gladsomely, he is usually held up. Not for long, if the lights are functioning automatically. Bnt wheu they are being operated hand during the busy hours of the day he might just as well get out and have a sleep on the curb, He's there because he's there, as the old song would have it if it were writ- ten that way. And he usually stay there for what 6cems to be ages and cons. The pedestrian is crossing the street, either singly or in a group, and the cops who arc operating the light controls apparently favor the pedestrian. Sometimes, it seems, they | wait until all the pedestrians have crossed, gone home for dinner or supper, as the case may be, and are retarning. In the meantime the automobilist who has started for a certain destination is wondering whether he hadn't better send a telegram. 2 Why not give unto the pedestrian the things ‘that are pedestrian’s and the driver the right that is his? allowance for Giving all due Mayor Paonessa’s foresight in rec- commending the election of a city com.troller who will devote all his working hours to the office, the Ob- server is not duly impressed by the suggestion, A competent comptroller would require a fairly large salary. A man who would work for an ordinary in- come would not have the proper spirit of responsibility. A large sal- ary increases the immecdiate and permanent overhead. It adds just 50 much each year to the tax bur- den. It is hardly worth it. ; The city now enjoys the services of a comptroller who does his work efficiently for a part time salary. He is sharp eyed and hés long ears. Very little slips past him. If there is any question about the payment of a bill, he is quick to put on the brakes and hold it up. He does his job as thoroughly as any permanent comptroller would in spite. of the fact that the post is a side issue. He is up to the minute on his reports and can tell almost at once what the financial condition of the city is. It has been said, although the identity of the person making the assertion has escaped for the mo- ment, that a_permanent city comp- troller would have charge of all de- partments, including the school board. Now the school board is gen- erally regarded as the bad boy of finances, in spite of the fact that its members work assiduously and con- ecicentiously to give the children of New Britain the best education possible. In bad boy fashion it has figurately thumbed ita nose-at the city government because it knows that it is & law unto itsel o far as expenditures are concerned. The state statutes back it up to the last whisper. Would the appointment of a permanent comptroller help mat- ters in this direction? Hardly. The day is coming when New Britain will require the services of a full time comptroller. But just at present it can coast along easily and economically with the present officlal, who receiveds only $1,500 and earns every cent of it. New Britain's reputation will not | be enhanced when the news circu- lates about the state that the com- was | be | automobile | hy | mon coutcll has refused to appro- priate $400 for the expenses of Chief Hart to the annual national conven- tion of police chiefs. The local police department is now ginning to realize that it is in the 80,000 class. It is important that the police department keep pace with municipal growth. New ideas in po- lice force management are being born every day and New Britain should have an up to date knowledge of what s transpiring. The best place to obtain this knowledge is at a police chiefs' convention, which acts as a clearing house for the na- tion. Chief Hart is the type of a man who benefits by attending meetings of 'this naturec. He comes home abreast of the times with sugges- tions for improvements, The belief that an executive can conduct his department from viewpoints which originate in his own mind has moss on it. It belongs to the village school of thought. No man is sufficient unto himself regardless of his line of work. By sharing in the experiences of others, he grows, A city must share in the experiences of other cities or it will remain at a stand- still. The expenditure of $400 for the police chief’s trip te the national convention would have been money well invested. A resident of the West End has informed us that semi-microscopic tadpoles issue regularly from the ucets of his house along with the :gular city drinking water and that filters do not stop them. Further- more, he has kept one of thesc and it has grown to the length of a good part of an inch. He expects it will continue to grow, and we have no doubt but what in time it will ma- |ture into a full-fledged frog. This immediately suggests possi- | bilities of economic gain. We thiak we shall look into our own water |and, if the search reveals thie de- sired organism, we shall go into business. What could be more profit- able, and at the same time more ro- mantic, than raising frog's legs from | drinking water? A new industry may spring up in New Britain when the news of this |discovery is publishege—spring up with all the agility of the frogs themselves. Unless we local people [get the jump on them by patenting the process or buying up all the pipe |lines, rank outsiders will be pouring in here and raising factories over cvery available turn-off and leak in | the mains, This will bring capital to ew Britain and result in prosper- ity, no doubt, but let us keep the money in the family by acting first. New Britain will then become & center of the culinary art and epi- curean gastronomy. Famous gour- mets and chefs from all over the |world will come here to inspect the |trog output and leave huge orders, The railroad will have to grant us a station on the main line if it is to | cope with the tremendous shipments of batrachians, pickled, jellied, canned, and on the hoof. Special types of refrigerator cars will have |to be designed, perhaps, and certain |it is that tank cars similar to those | used for oil transportation will have to he adapted to carrying schools of the amphibians, A world of progress {1ooms for the world—and New Brit- |ain in particular. | There is only onc fly in our oiut- | ment—or shark in our frogpond. |No doubt the city of New Britain will revise its schedule of water rentals, Wé presume it will main- tain its present rate for pure, filter- ed water, while for water adulterat- ed with mud, bugs, and tadpoles it will charge three time as much. | A canvass of chess playera in our city shows that there are a number of enthusiasts and many who are willing to “learn this intellectual game, but find it hard to get in touch with those that are able to give them the first rudiments of this complicated game. It was even sug- gested by a few that those who un- derstand the game and play it ought to organize & chess club, hold local tournaments and get in touch with similar organizations in other cities for the purpose of populariz- ing the game. The game of chess is by no means |a game of chance but is the most | intellectual of all games of skill. It not only trains the power of obser- | vation but is a mental contest which brings forth such qualities as fore- sight, imagination and ingenuity on | the part of the players, It is a game |of strategy and is often compared | with military maneuvers of two op- posing generals, because it resem- bles war in the, sense that it con- sists of attack ahd defense and has a definite object in view, towards which all of the moves in the game |lead. - | Like in war, one or the other side | must start the attack and as among | amateur fighters so among amateur | players of the game, the one open- ing the attack does it recklessly, without giving thought to the con- sequences. He may gain a few points by taking some important pieces in his wild attack, but generally loses out in the long run and does not |reach the ultimate point ing and makes a bad move, opening the door of opportunity for the de- fense to begin a series of devastating attacks which generally end in de- feat for the aggressor. The game is not played fast, as each move requires deep thought before it can be made to bring the best results. Plans are often frus- trated by the opponent’s unexpected move and the whole manner of maneuvering changes. To the on- looker it may seem an unintercsting |and tedious pastime, but it requires more thought and skillful planning than any other game. Games are known to have becn played where it took the players hours before a sngle move was made. Such in- stances are rare among amateurs, as | they generally do not care to study | minutely the opponent’s layout of, Lis pleces. To play ten or fifteen |games within thrée hours among |amateurs is a common thing. where- in a stage of transition. The city is! emerging from its chrysalis and be-| as it often takes fifteen to twenty hours to conipete one game played between two profeasional: There are among good amateurs, players who play the game &0 skillfully and attack with such precision and sure- ness, that they can tell the oppon- ent, if he be of the mediocre type, in how many moves and on what tield his king will be mated, before the game is started. (LED LODKING T0 FIND A ‘SWEETIE Does Not Want fo Waste Moon light Nights (Contributed) Dear Mary Ann: Last week I read thé letter which told about Noah Count who was lonesome and looking for a steady jane so's the moonlight evenings wouldn't seem wasted and if I ex- plain about my accomplishments, etc, maybe you could tell him about me and then neither would be lonesome. T don’t like to boast how gobd looking I am but with my newly bobbed hair and a per- manent wave that has already lagted three weeks people tell me T look like the queen of some other country. I've got good manners and don’t listen in on our party telephone line except to pick up the receiver to learn whether somebody is talking about me. Anyways I don't believe all I hear and only half of what 1 s¢ My Dad wisecracks 1 oughta be a basebal upmire. Am handy with needle and thread and can make lovely soft pillow coverings. When they's material left over I can make a swell necktie to go around a fella’s neck without choking him. Being kinda wide they're just the thing for eating soup or witer- melons. But what some guys need is mufflers. T usually have good luck at cooking excepting with the last flapjacks on account of forget- ting to grease the pan and they #tuck o I had to remove them with a tire iron. They wasn't wasted be- cause my kid brother used them as targets for his air-rifle practise. T always put the knives and forks back where they belong and never leave unwashed dishes in the kitchen sink over night, but usually places them on the floor in a corner where they’s more room. Am musically in- clined, knows the difference between a saxophone and an elephant’s trum- pet, and can get most any station on the radio except WTIC on nights when they's no programs. Stnce T had my tonsils removed I've been unable to warble any high notes without having them sound like the tail end of a long drawn wail but it they grows back again Il be akle to hold my own without giving the police any complaints to in- vestigate. At a dance I'm no wallflower as I took private dancing lessons, which helped to reduce my figure, not to mention the bankroll. T enjoy most outdoor sports at amusement parks except riding on merry-go-rounds. These vehicles seem to have no more ambition than a ham sandwich has vanila flavoring but travels in a circle getting you no where ex- cept s0 dizzy you don’t know wheth- er you're still in town or have left by the last boat. Neither does the Ferris-wheel hand me a thrill. It it should run outa gas or something while you're at the top they's noth- ing to do but wish you was somc- wheres clse as they don't supply you with parachutes and you can't very well get out and walk, even if you did have roller skates. 1 also drives a 1924 Ford coupe thats kinda run-down and acts like its got cobwebs in its system and don’t move any faster than a mud turtle bothered with rheumatism and lumbaggo, Lots of times when I was in & hurry to get somewhere I'd leave the flivver by the roadside and take a strect car. The only time it moves faster than 12 miles per hours is when a 5 ton truck is chas ing it, A mechanic is gonna over- haul it and after I put in a cpuple of new sparkplugs or somethinig he said it'll become so powerful that it']l take at least four husky guys to hold it back until I climbs in and when they lets go it'll be every autoist for himself, and may Heaven help the pedestrians, and how. As ever, CLEO PATRA Obseroations On The Weather ‘Washington, May 19.—Forecast for Southern New England: Show- ers Saturday; Sunday cloudy and warmer, probably local thunder showers, Forecast for Eastern New York: Showers and thunder storms and slightly warmer Saturday; Sunday partly cloudy, possibly local thunder showers. Conditions: Weather conditions over North America and the western Atlantic ocean have not changed of the: game. He is lost in his net of achem- | (ure ‘will not change materially. materially during the last 48 hours. Low pressure prevails southeast of Newfoundland. The Wisconsin disturbance will move east-northeastward and will be attended by scattered thunder showers on Sunday in portions of the Atlantic states. The tempera- Prohibition Set Up By French General Paris, May 19 (UP)—France's first effort at prohibition has begun as an experiment in part of the army. The géneral commanding infan- try tréops at Fontainebleau studied his men and their morals and found that wines, especially white wines, had a deleterious effect on the young soldiers. He issued an order to his troops to leave all alcohelic drinks alone, and warned cafe keepers of heavy fines for disobeying his order for- bidding the selling of liquers or wines to troops. The rest of t army is watching the experime: with interest. When it is noog in New York it 18 6:30 o. m. in HoWolulu, Hawaii.