New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1928, Page 8

New Heral Taswed Delly' (Busday ) At Mersld BMg., o7 meno( oL ION RATES 8590 & Your! 93.00 Three Montka T6c. & Mosth Eatered st the Post Ofce st New Erit- "2z a8 Becond Class Mall Matter. [ TELEPHOND CALLS Business ' Office Editorial Rooms ... — The ecly profitsble sdvertising e - Cizy. Circulation books and open to advertisers. Member of the Assucisted Fress The Awsoclated Press is exclusively titled to the use for re-publication all nows credited to it or not othe: credited fn this peper azd also loci) news published therein. Sember it Duresc of Ctrealation qhe 4 B C s & zational which furnishes Gewepapers tisers with a strictly honest circulation. Our circulation etatistice ar “ased upon this sudi Th tion against fraud 1z Bewspaper 'L:I‘wnu“:wm to both patiozal az local sdvertissre. ne Mersid 1o sale caly tz New !:rk st Hotsling's Newssazd, Times Square; Schu! Newsstands, Estrazce Grand Central, é3ud Strest. e There is oze thing about the W. T. C. U. everybody likes. There is never azy doubt regarding its attitude to- ward prohibition. Which i by way of hinticg that this s more be said of mary & politiciaz. Some day the papers will be able| to go to press without recouxntizg el! about & “fatal’air crash,” and froxm | . tzat time oz the people will become | rmore “airminded.” —_— It strikes us somewhat forceful! that @& rather petty brand of poli- tigs {5 being played iz the Common Counetl over the salary question. We may be wrong, but come along with the proof. There are 35 state parks We were about te offer a postage stamp to, any reader able to npame them but then, out 6f .a spirit of economy, thought better of the plan. A theory down in Wall street al- ways sounds important, The latest is that the rapid reduction of the fed- eral ‘debt has (put enormous funds into the public' market in the form of surplus funds or credita. Sounds to us Uke m‘puhllun propaganda, but doesn’t jibe with the claim that whereas the federal government has reduced expenditures the local and sate governments have taken up the tlack with Increased expenditures. SELLING EXPENSE New England manufacturers naturally keep & keen eye focused upon selling efpense, realizing that with mass production has come the problem of how to distribute the in- creased products at an expense sufficiently low'to maintain a reason- uble profit. Much has been written about sell. ing expense; there have been critics nnd those who'justify higher selling Rave met with the approval of more councilmen than actually voted against the tax. Councilman Holmberg admitted as much but ki “there is mo Way out of it seemed to cover the situation like a blanket. SILLY STUNTS The mewspapers had it the other | @ay that a man in Chicago threaten ed to shame flagpole sitters by wal |4=g vp and dowz s |three days, with 2 ,20- te rest | every three hours. He kasa't doze it yet, remember; ke merely threatens fire esczpe for land. Ozs New England cozcera has already rade & contract witk the British concern for the purchase of oil. Rumors have beex afloat that the purchase of 65 filling stations in Connecticut, at 2 cast of $810,000, i | planned. This mey eventuate end rmay mot; anyway, the rumors afloat must indicate there is plenty of under-surface activity, especially so view of the fact that 2!l concera. given out guarded state- More competition iz the of! bus- iness will do no karm, say the motor- | 1sts. 1l pay MONEY ORDER CROOKES Ot course, nobody thinks he is so casy 2s to get nipped accepting & fake money order. But the thievery of money order blanks that hes been going oz in various perts of the country yields a hint thet somebody i3 to be stung. As money orders can only be cashed with one eignature in 2ddition to the original on the check it is clear that the barks wil to be ox thelr guard. Come to think of it, however, they always are. This latest variation of the cheat. ne 16 subtle; it betokens that nator had his wits 2bout him when he discovered an appar- ent weakness in the transportation of funds. Stea! the blarks, ke prob- | 2bly ressoned, and then fill them in |1ike the post office clerks do. How | i 2 bank going to know the differ- | ence? Well, zobody has kanded us hus dred dolter money orders lately so | |we woz't be =d that most people don't get are | |always good. Another mewspaper story has it | that a piano playing fool wi | the tvories 5,000 fee k stunts gre o0 ridiculous !or‘ extended comment. It need oxnly be |added that the parties offering the ity. It is a cheap way of ng at reduced r: MORE SILLINESS | Oze notes with amazement that| | the Boston morning papers the other | cay caretully refrained | \ of the distilled, | tioning the source | termented or sour food whick caused | severa! hundred persons to become | violently fll. Al they stated about it was thet the f00d originated from a restaurant system. Of course, nobody iz Bostoz was | supposed to be intelligent enougk to guess what particular chain restau- razt systex furaished the food. Or maybe the Boston editors, realizing that everybody in towz kzew from what partic chalz restaurant system the f00d camle from, it was MORRIS SEES & CHANCE umzecessary to mention it the | Charles G. Morris, who twice ran news columns. |for governor in Connecticut on t: The correspondent of the Asso- | Democratic ticket, is willing to be | ciated Press and the correspondents }"'- perennial candidate; and this of other news services, however, Ye2r, more so than on previous were more specitic. They mentioned |occasions, ke is willing to run for | the Waldorf Lunch System in the the office. news stories, as was proper. The reason is as simple as swal- | The Boston morning papers—we | lOWing apple sauce. The New Haven | do not see the afternoon papers in | Man, like everyone else interested in this city—acted silly in suppressing | Politics, knows that Al Smith is ai the name of the lunch system. In so |Name it not a symbol having magic doing they have lost in prestige just | POwer in Connecticut and there aro | as much as the lunch system, Resi- | Prognosticators political who have | | i |large ck | what the papers failed whenever they spoke about the poor | Journal, grand party organ par ex food disbursed on the day in ques- | cellence, has done so. That must, tion. | make it unanimous. | Morris ran for HARTFORD'S TRAFFIC | i PROBLEMS of being elected as 2 canoeist pad- | New Britainites who are conver. | (1ing across the ocean. In past years sant with traffic conditions in Hart- |1® 8llowed himself to be set up to | | be knocked down. “Justice and fair | ford are aware that the perennial | > X y street congestion is handled to poor |P12Y" Would dictate that he be given the opportunity in this, a more fav- | advantage in the capital city. Not only do parkers clutter up valuable | °T2Ple year. public highway space with astound. | DUt the very fact that this is a ing freedom, but there seems to be | ‘2YOrable year may give him com- | & mortal fear of creating one-way | Petition for the nomination, streets of such narrow crosstown al- leys as are entitled to no other fate. | Capping the climax are the Conneetl. | | cut company trolleys, which use val- | | uable space in the downtown streets Facts and Fancies And yet the man who preaches “duty” to his employes howls like ' for terminal purposes and are 80| ! | numerous that flocks of the yellow | Other people when the speed cop | | gets him. kide are rarely out of sight. | : | Now they are talking about dolnz‘ A windshield that won't shatter now us saving the country from something or otker. The land of the Hittites is fo be searcked, whick reminds us that Ruth dwelt somewhere in that neighborkood. always something. Jealous, she becomes 2 she mever s you wonder what's wrong w 4 typica! bu ss houss that receives your wi ten days later to ask you for particulara. Correct this senten though we have no guests, “I'm not going to eat without coat on.” (Copyright 1928, Publishers PAY TRIBUTE T0 0BREGON Navajcz Bocomes Heart of Mexican —_— Nation With Al Roeds Leading to ‘Where Slain Fresident-elect rests. Nogales, vltural v Sonora, today tempor: the heart of Mexico, and the and governmen Mecca the little town on bank of the Mayo river cral Alvero Obregon president-elect of Mexico, ogales, Sonor: gon's b age the Mayo and Yaqu! Indian vho have come for the funeral, hav ed their tents w the meager hotel Iready have been ta. esidences have been ope: who have journeyed there. Nurses of Berlin Must Go Unbobbed Is Order | Berlin, July 20 (UP)—A recently issued decree by supervising nurses at one of Berlin’s leading municipal ; |hospitals, forbidding younger nurses | dents in Boston commented upon |Placed Connecticut on the doubtful iin training from wearing bobbed to state | list of states. Even the Wall Street |hair or silk and flesh-colored stock- ings, has browght protests from most veryone save the nurses them- selves. The young women affected by the governor during | pronouncement are at the mercy of | years when he had as much chance |the supervisors and any organized | opposition would mean dismissal. However, the Berlinger Tageblatt has come to their aid. “Perhaps the sypervisory nurses imagine that long robes and thick, knitted woolen stockings and old- |fashioned Gretchen-like hair-braids | are bulwarks Tageblatt said of morality.” The editorially, “at any ference in the personal liberty of the nurse and it must be condemned.” |Coolidge to Hear Plea For St. Lawrence Route Superior, Wis,, July 29 (A—An engagement to hear a strong plea for the St. Lawrence waterway to the ocean was on President Cool- idge’s books today. Harry L. Robin- son had an appointment to present the chief executive with ‘a com- munication of the city council of Washburn stressing the great ad- rate, this prohibition is rank inter- | n | “Late frost destroys the peack crop,” ‘We read it in the spring. Read it and forgot it, then summer & the summer girl to throng the nation’s beaches, And prove to us this very vear's a b er one for peaches! “imo, Amas, Amat!” “What is the fav- an fo0d 2" “The bank rol!* ley N. Chandler) mournfu! numbers Of umbrellas you have lost, That you bought, or stole, or bor- rowed, And the trouble they have cost. for years you struggled on- ward, With but little hope to gain When enslaved to King Umbrelle, long and tiresome | For, at last. the Radio songsters, |” On each “Due, dew do-ey Day,” to us 2 sweeet solution problem old and gray. Let & smile bo your And, as smiles are like the su: It should do us worlds of good, Besides, ‘Why should we storm and fret, With a smile for an umbrella, We will still rem: i Ot Course! M Collins: What?? the ball you Strike? It an, is it? The “Oh yes, that's it. You e, I'm a bascball umpire, and I! usually call a ball a strike! ! —W. D. Coyne. North Pole.” News Headline. | The next expedition ought to be | cquipped with swatters! s Over This Is a Good One! | (By Helene Barker) Not long ago an English writer wrote a book. (it is a habit with them). The critics and the pub- lishers said it was N. G. The author thought so well of his child | that he had it published at his own cxpense, but it didn’t set England jon fire. It certainly did fatten the author’s bank-roll. An American |over in England gets hold of the book and decides it might go on this side of the Aviation Graveyard. Transplanted to our land it becomes one of the best scllers. Early in the twentieth someone started a show. They called it “Abic’s Irish Rose” The critics panned it ,called it “tripe,” “mush,” “piffle,” “rotten.” It runs so long that the actors who started | the thing live long enough to see their great-grandchildren playing the leading roles. So if the editor sends this back to | | me, T will know that it is good! century | Bound". You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington JBureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply, Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. All other questione’ will receive a per- sona! reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are con- fdential.—Tiditor. Q. Wkhat are mud pupples? A. The mud puppy or water dog is on American salamander of the family Proteidae, characterized by having four toes on each foot and pe! ent larva! gills. This genus was formerly called Menobranchus. Two species inhabit the central parts ot the United States, of which the more common and wWidespread is Necturus Machulatus. It reaches the length of one foot, is smooth, slimy and brown-blotched, with tke tufted gills dark red. These crea- tures remain mostly among weeds or rocks at the bottom of the water during the daytime, but at night they move about, often with quick ay- v frogs, etc. They spawz in April or May. Q. Wkat s the meaning of the 2 Greek word meanin lyric poem or song in praise of God. The Hebrew mame for th book of Psalms. is Tchillim, baving the same meaning. Q. How many of the southern and border states did Preltden!i Harding carry in the 1920 election? A, He carried Arizora; Kansas, Maryland, Missour!, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia. Q. Did Gary Cooper ever play cowboy parts? How old 1s he? A. He is twenty-seven years old and has appeared in cowboy parts in “The Last Outlaw” and “Arizona His address is Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathon street, Hollywood, California. Q. What {s the middle ear? A. It is another name for the tympanum, which carries the Eus- tachian tube. Q. How many presidents of the United States have there been and how many of them have been Protestants? A. There have been thirty presi- dents, all Protestants. Q. What do the names Mae, Fula and Verna mean? A. Mae, born in May; Eula (Greek) fair; Verna (Latin) spring. Q. Which is correct “the song is ended” of “the song has ended”? A. Roth are correct. Q. What the value of a United States silver half dollar dated 1893- A. Fifty cents. A. PINKUS Removed to the Q What was the helght weight of Rudolph Valentine? A. He was five foet, sleven inches tall azd weighed 154 pounds. Q. How can an oll painting with a gilt frame around it be cleaned? A Wash the surface with clear arm water, using a soft cloth or fine sponge, let dry and rub gently with 2 soft fanne! cloth moistened with pure olive oil. The water softens the accumulated smoke, dust and dirt and the oil assists In wiping it away. Another method is to cut 2 potato in half and rub gently with the fresh surface, slicing of the soiled portions until the whole is cleaned. To clean gilt frames wash lightly with soap and water or tur- pentize. Q.° Who played the leading roles in the motion picture “The Ancient Mariger”? A, Paul Brockwell. Q. Would it be possible for a voter to vote for a republican presi- dent an da democratic vice president at the same election? A. Voters do not vote directly for president or vice president, but instead they vote for presidential electors who in turn cast the state’s ballots for president and vice president. Since the presi- dential electors of each party are pledged to vote for the party nominees for both president and vice president it s not possible for an individual voter to cast a ballet for a republican president and demo- cratic vice president. If he votes for republican electors and they are chosen, they will vote for the re- pudblicans nominated for president and vice president; and if he votes for the democratic electors they will similarly, if chosen, vote for the two democratic candidatea. Q. When were anchors frst used? A. The earltest recorded use of anchors was by the Egyptians oz their Red Sea galleys, while the Greeks are credited with heving used the first iron anchors, Q. Wkat ts2 Brazillan milrels worth in United States mozey? A. It s worth approximately 12 cents. Q. What is the official language of Brazil ? A. Portuguese. Governor Fuller Will Aid Hoover Campaign Boston, July 20 (P—Governor Alvan T. Fuller will head a volun- ! teer campaign committee of leading republicans from all part of the and Panzer and Gladys state to back the Hoover ticket in the November elections. - The governor {s honorary chalr- man while the active chairman will be John Richardson, ones of the most active Hoover lieutenants in the state. Christian A. Herter, as vice chairman, and Mrs. Willlam Morton Wheeler, secretary, com- plete the organization. In announcing the formation ef the voluntcer committee, Francis Prescott, chalrman of the regular state committee, predicted the move would result in greatly increased in- terest and registrations. MRS. DAVIS REACHES %0 Mrs. Adaline 8. Davis will recelve congratulations Saturday afternoon, July 21, in honor of her 90th birth- day at the home of Mr. and Mra. Edward F. Hall, 23 Parkmore street. taste in the decoration and furnishi Intended to suggest to those can be obtuined with & own labor, FUIl out th f===- INTERIOR 1s domiciled in & cott t is derived from rt Observations On The Weather Washington, July 30.—Forecast' for Southerz New England: Shew« ors tonight, Saturday generally fatr; lttle change in temperature. Forecast for Eastern New York: Showers this afternoon and tonigh slightly cooler oz the coast tonight ::::dvm l.;x:mncuv fair; geatle to wing becoming north or nn&:‘cfi. , l Conditions: Pressure is relatively! low this morning from Lake Erie castward to the BSouthern New, England coast and showers and| thunder storms were reported from' Massachusetts westward to th plains states and from the lake region southward to the Ohlo valle; Pressure continues low over the central plains states and the f:r southwest, and high over southern states, the north P..i° states and from the upper M : valley westward to the nort* coast region. Temperat slightly lower in Southerr land this morning but + increased percentage - Conditions favor ¢ partly cloudy wea showers. Temperature, Atlanta .. Atlantie City .. Boston . Buffalo . Chicago Cincinnati Denver . Detroit . Jacksonville Minneapolis Nantueket New Haven - New Orleans . New York . Norfolk, Va. . Northfield, Vt .. Pittsburgh . Rel Economical Joc Registered Pharmacies apartment, er & palace, the . an_apartment, rmonious furnishings contributes .Mh?l member of the family. Geed . [ who dwells beneath that rooftrve & desire Lo repeat the harmony of his em- mpa: oupen belew and send fer it: CLIP COUFUN EERE INTERIOR DECORATING EDITOR, Washington Buresu, cams than sat merly. |away with tho street car tracks in |is an improvement; give That the cost 1s not always greater | v+ oy o0 STl 40 K | cetephone poles that will in proportion to the product mant- | 6P 8 more parking space to automobiles, factured than was the case in those | H Daily New Britain Herald, 1323 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. 1 want & copy of the bulletin INTERIOR DECORATING and enclose here- with fiv in loose, vantages which would derive to the | whole great lakes region it such a| | project materlalized. It must be torture to wear & ", roner outlet to and from the LEONARD i | good old days one frequently hears | about is indicated by a few para- graphs from an article by L. C. Humason, identified with a manu- facturing concern in Forestville. This uppeared in Connccticut Industry: “One hundred and fifteen years ago a elock maker et up a little shop on the spot where our plant is lo- cated. During the summer he made his product, and in the fall he loaded an ox cart with clocks and went south to sell them. This south- vrn trip was not a mid-winter diver- sion; it was an cconomic nccessity Our industrious forchears in Con- necticut had little money to spend on luxuries, 50 the clock- torced to seck a markct cl Yis selling expe was the large and an ftem with which to reckon.” In other words, the sclling cx- pense of the clock-maker was vastly higher per clock sold than that of any modern clock-making The same rule holds good for every other manufactured product. The makers of New Dt 4i4 ms the clock-maker of Forestville did—made trips their products and sold them on virtual peddling basis. Selling pense wae h! factory. first hardwar with ex SKEPTICS Much as th liked it, the to vote favo: |or at least give them more space | heavy silk nightie after going about on which to get all day in cool thin garments. | way. Somebody, too, has suggested 8 |y, groatest enemies of righteous- | tunnel from Main street to the rail- | ness always are the stupid people { road depot. | whose intentions are good. ‘What they need to start with is 2 more efficient trafic department. into each other's | The most ardent defenders of | personal rights are the ones who | = |think preachers have no right to PROBABLY NOT MISQUOTED | talk politics . | Senator Gillette of Massachusetts | | is thdlatest recruit among those who | have taken refuge behind the allega- | tion of having been “misquoted.” The reporter who quoted him spoke | to him zfterwards and gave him | reasonable opportunity to | 2 e he | statements. But the ;o 45 congratulate the august serator seemed to 100k d0OWN | when he wins the race. on the Spr ewspapers and | tour days later wrote a letter to the | Distribution rema the Dig R “° | problem. The tiger is the only ing he Was crcature prominent in politics now " Then the reporter who | wearing stripes. wrote up his speech aleo wrote & every ™ clarity & ! test of a cheer? speed cop | squote i " | You don’t blame a dog if the fleas saying ke re-| Ty im bite one another. Why | blame Chicago, for gang wars? | letter to the Times, charge “base- | e Youth is that period when the| weather never is hot enough to make ten uncomfortable in a sport | | roadster. n who fail to bridle | they were This automobile age has its faults, but Sunday no longer is a day for | men to sit on the front porch in © | sock feet and red undershirts. jsea,” the communication said, “will fnsure new growth, new activity, and a degree of prosperity greater wonderful region.” 31 Prisoners Released From Jail in Chicago Chicago, July 20 (A—Thirty-one prisoners were released from the county jail yesterday on writs of habeas corpus by Judge Joseph B. David, in keeping with his promise yesterday to turn loose every pris- oner fllegally detained on charges |of violating municipal ordinances. Defendants charged with munici pal violations should be tried in mediately or held at police stations, Judge David declared. He added that he was going to “clean out” the county jail badly overcrowded, of prisoners confined without due pro- cess of law. Judge David inspected the coun- ty jail yesterday and compared it with the “Black Hole of Calcutta.” June Auto Production Shows Great Increase Washington, July 20 0P — June autom production in the United Stat considerably ahead of the ,output in the same month last year, the usual seasonal dechine total fall below y. The commerce depart- nnounced that omobile ted to 2,201,880 v the output for the some D last year was 2,068,974, Find Body of Negro L July 20 D) — W than has ever been known in this| machines | 3| its purchase out of the In Columbia Lake “This must be a college we're passing.” Rodger: “Yes, it has the year- arks of one!” One World at a Time! { From the List of Regulations in ithe Hotel Middle-Kingdom 1in Peking: | The persons lodging to hotel are ! prayed to give their name the day | of their coming. To know its com- ing day. To let to the persons wish- ing call on them to know their lodging. bill of fare ot every days cther disk or pay likewise mord rs are prayed to make house; in 3 hotel an ch would com- | betters; The travell | order to he little mer His Status Mrs. James: “Does your belong to the Intelligentsia rs. Wash: ‘No, usban ke done * | belong to de BUILDING 300 Main St. cenf cover postage and haudling costs: STREET AND NUMBER I CITY tiiiiiervsccnnnscacescssses BSTATE ..o uncancelled, U. 8. postage stamps, or coln to I T am & reader of the Dally NEW BRITAIN HERALD, By Fontaine Fox | THE LITTLE $CorPioNs <TEAM MAS WoN 1T LAST THREE GAMES BY SKNDPING -THE MONKEY oUT Te doAcH oN THE FIRST BASE LINF AT A 4ARITICAL MOMENT. ©f PRINCE S. COOLIDGE PLAT! (Copyrignt Forb/ Merid the mq The scribed a dark