New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1928, Page 6

H trlans or the danger | down little children. Actually, this is fossed Daily (Bunday Escepteqy | @ much travelled scction of highway A Mersld Bidg. §1 Church Mremt |and is far busier than the unfa- HNERALD PUBLISHING COMPANTY of running | | — | miliar person would think and | SUBSCRIPTION RATES [tamareds o swnchines spead over it il .u.'o't"hm Moatha, | each day, while at rush hours, such | o ¢ Maoth- as noon and six o'clock and at | church hour Sundaye, the traffic is | almost unbroken. | he lity of yes {may not have been an unavoidable accident and this docs not deal with | that especially, but it is intended to call attention to the habit of s The only profitable advertiaing medlum | pq10rists to disregard caution and w the City. Circulation books and press room elwaze oped to sdvertisera. Member of the Assoclated Press The Assoclated Press o exclusively en- titied to the use for re-publication uf : all ‘nowe credited to it of ‘mot otherwise strect is narrow and oblivious to the credited in this paper and also loca) pce tnat cars may suddenly swing in vews published thereln. | N denly g in SR, |toward them from two different di- Member Audit Barean of Cwculation cctions. The of fhe A B. C is & natlonal organization officer at this point with instructions | I new pere and adver- 2 O e rictly ‘nonest apalyels ¢f |to arrest all offenders might tend Satered at the Post Office at New Brit- ol a8 Becond Class Mall Matter. fata erday may or | TELEPHONB CALLS Business Office .... 936 Editoria) Rooms i me righte of others and to race along, the speed, unmindful of standing trollcy act that the corners at high , ignoring the placing a tratfic circulation. Our circulation etatistics &7% | 1o jmpycs upon drivers the fact ~ased upon this audit. This lnsures pro- | K tection Sgeinst fraud in mewspaper die- [that the rules of the road apply tribution fgures to both natlomal 8B\ . .y ) g clsewhere, local advertisers. | The Herald s om sale @ally In Kew TH SMITH RATON DEBATE :;m llc‘n‘:}:.l-':r u.'-‘..“..,::"..,“..m.‘,"‘ If Al Smith and Rev. Dr. Straton uare; | Grand Central, ¢3ad Strest. {meet in debate, as it appears they ————————————— there of old time political methods when Is for Lonor met in public will, promises to he a revive p. 8. du Pont has seen fit to resign his position as chairman of the board of General Motors because he fears that his activities with the as- the Prohibition ri an forum and discussed the issues in- volved. This particular session, if it e | materialize, will not be a verbal tilt sociation Againsi Amendment might cause the popular belief that General Motors is fight- between candidates, simply between It is broadcast of the one and one of his opponents safe to say that a ing the liguor law affaic would gain many listeners about the country over the radio and his line of follow |a large crowd will undoubtedly be of the circume We ecarcely reasoning in view attracted to the scene of the fray stances. on the night it takes place Dr. Straton and Al Smith are dis- People are averse to corporations ine v giffercnt types of men, The taking part in politics as a general | 1m0y cducation h rule. ed telligent and a cultured person with been obtain- through schooling, he is an in- his culture gained through long Al Smith is jus But if they thought that a con- cern the size of General Motors was | study. working for light wine and beers in |if not s cultured in the sense of his addition to putting out motor cars. been great @ student; he as intelligent having an alert and active | up a situation and i8 posscssed of They probably would buy one of mind quick to siz the cars more willingly. find adequate answer 10 an argu- ment. Sniith is smart, Straton is cul- tured. Probably Smith particular field, that of politics and better also venture to That is, most of them. Kknows his The editor of the Herald i1s most lcgislation, much than his accustomed to queer visitors in his opponent. Wi office, most of whom seek, vainly, that he, being up from the stre suppression of some news items or exploitation of othe ssert uniliar with the their likes and in closer touch is much mo common people and distikes, He has been In tact police court adjourns with them than has the preacher, from Cominercial street to the When it comes to verbal inter- Herald office nearly every day change we believe that Smith will —_— prove the most successful, even They all come down, if they are though his opponent is no newcomer not locked up and those who are to public speaking. The debate usually send emisearie should prove a victory for the - Democratic presidential candidate. And have a lot to say. | The big affair will come at a time when the advantage will acerue to The other day a Smith, even though he is only a good the open window and sat on the back second in the debate. As a publicity of the editor’'s chair, making an ex- feature for a campaign there could pigeon flew in tended visit and seeming perfectly be nothing more eifective planned tame, \ and etaged. Undoubtedly the radio hook-up will be used and beyond doubt there will be sibly millions, of Which is really & news item, not an editorial. thousands, pos- listeners of every e faith and political belivt all every But the audacious little visitor over the country, part of them hop- @idn’t say a word the whole time he ing to hear Smith well trimmed, part was with us. wanting to hear the Reverend gentleman get the worst of the inter- For which we were duly grateful Consequently we await more and hope he comes again, the de i and we have just as much inter change, formal aunouncement of Which this after all = e YD CHAPEL WORK IS STARTED | 'ON AVENUE makes an editorial out of as the rest, | FARMINC OF great interest to war veterans | PR WAY here and especially those who That intersection of highways at sopved in the 26th Division, ie the rarmington avenue, Washington | dispatch from Pams that work on and Beaver stree become one the 26th Division Memorial Chapel of the most dungerous in the €ty | at Belleau has actually been started. and with yesterday's unfortunale YD veterans from all over the coun- tatality, in which a woman, mother (ry have contributed to this work of three children, lost her lite, t which will stand as a permanent seems high tine that police authori- ' memorial to their own vfforts and to ties took cognizunce of conditions {he meniorics of their huddics who and enforced sutoty measurcs there. “went west' during those ferrible Friday’s death was the sccond al July days of 1918, Already plans are this point with sw months and jearing completion for the 26th Di- within the past four weeks there vision veteruns 1o make a pilgrimage have been four accidents there, one to Franee next May and possibly the at least which had a police court chapel will be ready for dedication sequel. IFurthermore, observers seate, Ly that time, there is hardly a day but there fs The chapel Will be a fitting monu- roaccident at this interseetion i pent to the YD boys who died in h autos or pedestrians aind autos the famous charge out from the tigure, trenches in' the towns of Bouresches, At the | in question Washing- Bellean and Belleau Wood, now ton strect Braver street mect known as Dois de la Brigade des it an nd merge into IFarm- Marines, The 26th division relieved ington which continues as | the ond division, which included the bott rtoof a Y. There also the glorious Fifth and Sixth Marines, are ot erseeting treets near. of which Licut. H. Leslie Eddy of tms Vehicles turning from either Wash- city was an officer and who laid ington or Beaver street into the down his life in this sector on the other find it almost impossible to night of July 5, 1918 The 26th held get i zood view around the corner the lmes, making raids and sorties and «xtrome caution should be ob- until the vighteenth of July when at served. Likewise, those continuing on 2 p. m. a drive wus started to close the straightuway in either dircetion the salient made by the Germans, It should exercise greatest care at this was in this action that hundrds of point. New England boys 1 a number Numerous complaints have been from here we lled. New Britain made of the custom of autoists to men taking part included members speed down these ts. Motorists of Companive K and 1. Headquartors are wont to race down the Farm- company and the 102nd Machine ington avenue hill and many fimes Gun battalion. Licutenant Joseph come abreast of cach other on A Glover, an officer of the 26th di- Washington efreet and then race vision, made the supreme sacrifice along side by side. Going in the lere. Thus the two officers, for opposite direction, the same is said whom Eddy-Glover pest of the to hold true, while single cars are American Legion was named, died sald to uee this stretchi of highway where this memorial is to be built. - 1 I i 3 | m Bl'i .. H qu a veritable speedway, having lit- | And this memorial chapel will be in | paratus using such an engine was cemetery at Belleau Wood. It will | built other such shipes, one luunche ‘ll be mon-denominational and a per- manent gift to France from the New Englanders who fought and bled there. THE INVENTOR OF THL AUTOMOBILE Who invented the automobile? The scason of the year is here when cars jam ail the highways but never a thought as to who made the modern universal family chariot possible, Many an American, regarding Henry Iord as a sort of wonder worker in the automobile ficld, have a notion that he invented the con- traption. T are far from the truth. Ford invented nothing sub- stantial on the automobile. It is true on such a Detroit he was the first to drive car through the strects of and others had driven “horeeless carriages” betore him in other cities. Ford from the start bent his energies into making a machine, others, hased on the inventions of that would sell and in this he suc- ceeded better than anyone clse on earth, In the last analysis, there- fore, he has been the exploiter of the motor car. the man who made it possible for cveryone to ride in one of th Ford machines or any of the other makes that followed after he hlazed the trail, The inventor of the automaobile lived and died in Franee—and he never owned one. He wae Fernand the internal Iorest, indubitable inventor of the combustion engine, which was hooked up with whecls and propelled the first long before Henry Ford thought of the idea that had automobile “fooling with™ coms from ce. The Living Age did a service to American readers recently by re- printing the thritling story of For- cst's achievements, it heing a trans- lation of an article that had appear- ed in Le Progress Civique of Paris, To the amazing industry and invent- has been due but the ive genius of Forest not only the automobile, airplane and the submarine FFernand Forest never went to any the Ford, e of big universitics; he never, like wgaged in big business. Scholars have ignored him and in- dustri alists got all the monctary ad- that acerued from his it He Born at ticeoverios and their application was an artisan all his lif the heginning of the Sccond he left the primar Agc of 14, was attr cal 1pire the cted 1o michani- school at matters, worked in various Workin his skill in nobody factorics, later in a large factory ching repairing ma- lse could fix made him a foreman at But specialized tabor where each laborer performs the same task every day did not suit his alert spirit, so in 1873 he left Paris on a bicyele with wooden wheels and iron tires for tour of France. He paid his way by repaiving all kinds of machinery en routs, and accumulated a vast store of addi- tional mechanical knowl on route. Returning to Paris in 1874 the first velocipedes were appe ing, and Forest invented pedals, He and the Renard brothers one with conceived the suspended wire wheel, which speedily became world over. The lished first whose popular the three men estah- the 1tut future he cyele attracted by actory in clectricity, divined, he turned his attention to the explosive engine. Forest did not invent this engine for Lenoir, fn 1860, first to mak had been the illuminating gas ex- ark. In 1862 of th marvelous device by which carbure plods ¢ mcans of a s Beau de Rochas conceived ed air was fieet inhaled, then coni- pressed, and not exploded until aft its compr, sfon, giving it g . But the eygine and costly and could not tional forc Were very heavy be detached from fhe fed them It was &gas tank which I"orest’s contribution that he solved these difficulties treat and without even a or lished theory on the subject. e constructed the fix tical burctor. Gasoline then trated it entered it by the air it was charged with carbon when pene- vapor, later it was compressed in i eylinder and exploded with a smiall spark—the same princ which holds good today The explosion relcased such a vast amount of heat, however, that it threatened to splt the eylinder, Forest therefore hit on the plan to have water circulate between the evlinder and the carburetor, “tak- ing heab from the motor, WHICH Wik already too hot, to the cded it perivet carburctor, which n ' The in ention was not lowever, and For killed was nearly making further experiments It would require nts of colnmne to tail the continued He left and attended ey experi litt Forest, his workshop | ning courses at the Conservatoire des Metiers, Arts et where he investigated books on physies and chemistry, acquiring | singlehanded the scientific knowl vdze he necded { Buying the huil of an old “tor carby 85 the first ship he placed his maotor in it and it 18 re was launeh- ap- t hoat ; oline ed on the Seine. Thus the first lition where it was displayed, it attracted Cloudy and slightly cooler preceded | : Sunday partly | | Observations On The Weather Washington, Aug. 11.—Forecast for Southern New England: Show- cooler in interior Saturday; inday cloudy and cool. Forecast for Eastern wagon, but a steamship. He on the lake og Gemeva in 1557, He Duilt in automobile yacht for his sociate at that time, a vessel that 12 years later won a sccond prize in 1900 regatta; yet in the Universelle the the Expos- year before, New York: by showe Do no attention. loudy, showers in extreme His first ac automebile Was | couih portion, Luilt in 1890, for the Henry brothers | Conditions: The disturbance that it Montrouge, But not until 158§ Was central over northwestern Flor- | tda Thursday night is moving slowly northeastw being eentral over Georgia, and pressure is relatively v north northeast of the St did ed in the fou manufacturers becoms interc tor. Forest vlinder m had successtully put it in an auto- Lawrenee valley. Pro The success of the track and fleld | meet held under the auspices of th; at | New Britain police department Willow Brook park last Wednesduy | afternoon cannot be measured in words. It was an opportunity for a | few thousands of people in this city, | this center 0| yany of them for the first time, to | 1obile ten years previousiy. He only S Ure | sce athletes in action in dashes, runs made one car, which worked, and :“J,"”"]"‘ )‘,‘!’“;\”,' n“:?‘l‘o'nk O‘is\““ *"’i‘) field “"";l‘s- s S o N poin e ] R ; B rawn to the park through their v‘z n he turned to other inventions. showers on Suturday in New B b koo G okel i85 pelice pewsion | He started to build a submarine and land and vlylln:;l\' fair weatlier Sun~13 00" o were thers were gus | PRCsEMSdtRe SRt sctiting Tar lne i s kgl ,'\:",!” ,\"""d“l’o " {husiastic over the thrills and ti with his engine. Atter his ensine | 0 O R o e At | excitement of secing human fiers | 4 been adopted for the sehome 1e | pantie coast from Jacksonville (o SPeeding down the lanes 10 the tape worked on the airplane ids ind | Norfolk. in the wild dash of the 100 yard| thriller. Cheer after cheer went up | though the Wright brothers were fbe theoreh. ani aal LBl the first to fly successfully it is not- topped the high jump bar or inched | able that they could mot su forward in the sand in a broad | until they found a light and p Jump., { SRS i Al of which leads to the belief | g that New Britain, contrary tp what | est had made possible, “If you want to touch with your own hands the fruits of Forest's in- dustry, simply litt the Lood of th latgst automobile and go over ifs parts one by one,” says the Paris === seud Shop Editor, care of the New publication: To wit: Gritaln Herald, and your leuer “The gacoline penetrates will be forwarded to New York. buretor by means of a the essonce itself maint t oa LA GaElae JGE Eaeryvoayd constant ievel, Betore the r ent Can't all be stars al tenns, rolks, water that | 3 it is heated by cirenlati t tunuis—whacking balls ot has cooled the eylind where the jokes, explosions take place All this in- | Across the dayly-living couris, genious mechanism is orest's wor Let's practice THAL and be good the carburcted air penctrates a tu sports! that feeds all the cylinders, and this Bt Porest invented, These eylinders Siow Motion! all cast from a single block, which | vVisiter from C “Why do they is also Forest's invention. The ex- cqil the farm-help ‘hands'?' plosion is created by a spark goner- “armier: “Did you ever the notict ated from the 1aagneto, which i€ ' tpe hands of a clock?” IForest's idea. with the aid of a Mrs, It T. Haskins, movable spark plug, the idea too = having bheen Forest's ercation. He i 1UN SHOP NisWS WEEKLY then noticed that the exhaust still - retained o tension of two or throe English rtmospheres, representing o mu veral Eng- unusd foree, so much lost | rsare areanging He thus had the idea of | to send Ui correspondents to valve closed so that on America presidential clec- hegan to compre same mo- | (ion! ment that the other eylinder 8- o v o4 its exbaust. This happy com- ih1 bination ot delayed nd liny nose may be an indication ynehronization s Werk. of vouth and health, as a medical But the explesion AN gthority asseris, but he says noth- ormous amount of heat, and the {n or 110 dan of injury to the eylinder, left to itself, would quick- | oic rrom nos re! v turn red hot and crack. To avoid . .. this inconvenience, the motors of Medi motor eycles, balloons and airplancs | ypane well-known people, we ave swromnded: by ieoncentile | o)q make o practice of having anges, which Forest invented, g ot inoes while the eyvlindais of automobiles wselves prefer the practice ind boats are cooled by water eir- | oy 5 p before breaktast! culating thro Tesigned by s< envelope, . . IFar . last of all, many say. is ripe for the formation | of an athletic club which will pro- ;mote track and field meets regu |1y here. New Britain has the letes, but the of home mevts has not been made. | Human compctition in any form | is exciting but speed and endurance | | have a thrill that is akin to that| !experienced as a favorite ho hes doewn the stretch in a ree- | ord bréaking mile. The bark of thd | gun, “Here they come,” “Look at him go” and “Hooray” as the win- ner flashes across the finish line. Thrill after thrill was furnished | last Wednesday afternoon and ihe | people of this city, once educated to the excitement attendant on a track meet, could never get enough, Ath- letes abound in our ath- | start in the promotion playgrounds | with their talents stiil undeveloped. it Girls and boys both give gr promise of greater deeds to com but because there is no incentive | this ability to compete in the track | and ficld is smothered and forgot- ten. Ju among the h events, Boys Ik Rourke, st of runne # product of B itending college once s in w Bri from th city | tave their marks in college | computition but none has the chance to display Kis or her wares at home w ‘w Britain needs is an- | other Bill Delaney, the former post- | master Whose greatest interest wa in athletics. Kome one is here now | “with the ability to produce the | meets which will draw the interest, All that is necded is the start. “The recent epidemic of nmomohu»‘ crashes about the state and the drive in several places to insuge owners of cars maintaining their brakes at the fullest efficiency brinzs forcibly to | the mind the public the real import- | made Sl el Fra s rh PRI e of braking. As amotorist will | ntial part of the latcst motor BoL ‘\‘J“i U Lsay, the important thing in motoring | that doas: 1ot by A b ons : s »"»‘1- 35 not to drive the car, but to stop esU's genius. And at the Exposition AL repainted i and stop it when you want to. OF 10001 165 of ihe I8! SxhibiLErs 1 : S Yet stopping an automobile is just included Forest's inventions,” Torento (C'an) Star o important, if not more so, as ;;r-(.‘ e We have alaways given our sup- ting it started or keeping it going. Bilione Wlortat e ihene B inas oo Lot Brighter Vestry Move- No automobile has to start. It can | 3 ' " S nt! be allowed to stay inert in the gar- | cbration in his honor On Inicrnational co. But once starfed, it must be I"eh, 1911, in the big amphi- 5% e dopped. thes of the Sorbonne, attended yor Mussolint has declared for | Al of which is another way of I e e S s abelition of the house-fly, but | saying that the brakes arc one of 3 ific notables and an audi- "0 001g 1 a daring sceretary who | the most important parts of the car. ’hige ‘ol 53000 N il Painleve, & cpdeavored to swat sacriligious | They must be efticient brakes, or member of the Academy of Beiences, insect that had settled on the | they're of :\0 ll\me when 1;r|»u.~r1‘.“(i\‘;\d . o's dome! | they must he kept in good condition, | shook (lie invdntor's hand, and ail |PDuce’s dome: | or the driver will suddenly find him- | the schiolars and big men did the et o self powerless I an emergency. Bates: “"Woodley says he used to| The four-brake system in usc fo- One day while walking along the be a ball-player. Do you believe day hasn't alleviated the stopping | Champs-Blysees a magnificent P: thit situation a bit, for along with four- | Shiaeed ity 54 Falk: “Sure. Whenever you mect | wheel brakes has come greater | hard machine nearly intolTim. by s G T touches st tpecd. The greater the speed, the | “It would sen funny,” he r Alhert . Eddes | &reater the need for more effective | marked to riend, “if that ma ——— braking. 3 nd¥e 2 < chine had run over me, for 1 was| Deauty contests are always lnl\,"‘ “‘ brake “"’N"“"“‘:fl.\‘_flvi{t the | > wrakes on only about 10 per cent of the onc who brought it into the 148" [ the o e road; HhAad mre pre | world” When told that ft was as- | LM O Aderageat ]|n’vi.x)\-\wl_yus'.rq‘.' R et tonishing that none of the automo- | A teacher, after a lengthy tatk | Ahetes el mort O 8EEE bile concerns had ever given him a | on gorillas, decided 6 quiz the | 10 P MR R GO 0l 1 | machine, he safd, “Bah? The inter- | MODCS Of 1 ‘(]"“]“"'"Il“'l" l‘_‘:’\“' more than merely secing that both | esting : S buf HyshiateQuanabsy BectReel IEye s wheel brakes are alike. In the | Pa e P S | tour-brake system, the front and | motor." She called on Robert, | rear brakes must be, equalized, and Last March, in Paris, the press Robert. if you saw a huge ¢ canyicd an announcement that s |IE With 8 dlerco countenance, un- st to Fernand Forest had heen |SUAIY 1ong arms, and body cover- ‘ Ad DEEn g with fur, loping along, do you uiveiled The news story was very | know what it would he?” “Yes, T Imow.” unswered Bobhy, W b B8 | Uit would be lon Chaney.” — lIrenc M. Sullivan 25 Years Ago Today The ttamn B Tiy Samnel Hor { “Hello.” The Maple Hill golf club was bad- | “Ifecllo Iy beaten by Springficld yesterday, | “Wot's noo.” finishing 23 down. M. 8 Huarl, A.| “Nothin’. Wot's noo with you?” P. Bacon and E. 1. Davison finlsh- | “Nothin’. Wotchya been doin' 2" ed 3 down, W oley 4 down, Nothin"."” H. Peas M. Hart 5| “Well?” 5 down, w's everything 2" The elocted dels s nt.” {o the C. T 1. convention in Nor- vih soon.” walk, A ‘Inde Thom Smith, ard Lynch and | “Where yuh livin'?” Halloran. “Sa place.” A fire in the grocery store of Al- | “Where's that 2" Lert Olson at § ilce strect call- | “You know." ed the fire department out last | “Oh. yes, Well—so long.” night. The had been locked | “So long.” up and the fi going at a - nerry pace \ the firemen arriv- His Opinfon cd. The sicek was soaked and the | Gordon: “What do vou think of cases smashed by the streams of [that scheme of Harrison's? water from the Lose. The d, | Proctor: “I don’t like it.” about $500 and was covercd by | Gordon: “Why, he says he is in insurance. on the ground floor. The two New Britain compar Proctor: “Yes, a he's also off 1ot for camp today. Capiains Gris- in the upper story wold and Bullen stated that their Anna E. Priollo nien were never in better shape, - The New DBritain yachtsmen who zested Song Hit: have been cruising in the sound for | “And the Fa Hauled Another the past we have returned. The Load Awav: Hay, Hay! ship e contained the foilowign R name Charles HL Mitchell, who A Man Grows Up? his company at Niantie 1t being Sumer time 1 longed Fitch, Howard H phrey n for the old swimming poo! of W. Grisvol « Howard Wi iwles T | b and Wil- 0o duys The rays of the ultry Leat of & 15 1 followed th I'arsons, Bov.man sels, fternoon sun, the mmer, beat down old trail. The moo- TO PRESENT CUP the sides evened up, for proper ad- justment. | Many a hrake mechanie has found that the hrakes were go unevenly ad- | wisted {hat the front wheels gripped | nstead of the rear—a condition that | would be highly dangerous in an | emergency Better roads, more powerful en- aine r bodies, more lberal traffic regulations have resulted in a general complex among American | notorists en in cities where traf- | fie is heavy and there are stops at almost every corner, some drivers are found who can’t help but step | on the throttle in between stops. | The result is a much heavier de- mand on the brakes, and danger of | burning out the linings. | Conscrvative judgment is needed especially in heavy traffic, in order | |to make the least possible demand on the brakes. Two benefits result —the brakes live longer and remain effcetive, while the engine runs more economically and efficiently. PR | According to the Society of Auto- | motive Engineers, the average auto- mobile with four wheel brakes | should be able to stop within 50 fmvli from a speed of 20 miles an hour. | The hand brake alone should be capable of stopping the car in 75! fect from a speed of 20 miles an hour. P Some we shall become as ious we are engine- | The instruments on-the much to do with this| | state of mind. These are all cnghe instruments—fuel, oil, temperature | and ignition gauges, i What we want now s a brake gouge, an instrunent which will tell | at a glance hOw much pressure is | required in order to stop the car | when running at a certain speel. En- | brake-co conscious, dash have ing cows in the meadow, crickets | Santanfter, Spain, Aug. 11 (UP)— chitping in the ficca tsoyhood days| them—a hoyish heart in a e The Long Deach, Calif,™eup were mine 1n. grown old presented at the yacht clnb v Two cal woled down the But alas, 1 stumbled, breaking the lay to the winner of the trail abead of me. low sleck and quictude of the afternoon silence. gatta— Marquis Zak Deaitiful they were as they swished | The calves startled, raced down the cup was given by the California city through the weeds and flowers, un- trail. But she was the preftiest girl in token of the friendship between aware of my presence. 1 thought |1 had seen in many a day! Spanigh and American yachtsmen. | how nice it would be to play with —Horace Davison —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City ana Its People |ticut, New Jersey | the linjury that can be | with {all he gineers acknowledge the need of such an instrument. They are using quite efficlent measuring instru- ments in testing the brakes. Now they want one to remain within con- stant sight of the driver. The most metropolitan of New Yorkers have taken to ‘‘going rural” during the summer scason. Whereas the moneyed folk have for generations had their country estates, the vogue among artists, writers and such is to own a farm. Hundreds now live on farms for sev- eral months of the year ,and scores actually attempt to lead a farm life as a reaction from the exactions of Manhattan life. The great open spaces of Connec- and New York have rapidly been surrendering to the demand that suddenly has re- sulted .Abandoned farms in Connes ticut, with histories that date back to the Revolution, have taken on an artificlal value .Scouts have gone hither and thither, buying up the unants of tumble-down and ram- shackle old places. Improvident owners, who had long since given up hope of struggling with stubboru soil, rub their eyes as the bids for the supposedly worthless property soar into the tens of thousands, Throughout the countrysides, rm folk have been “getting wis This season farms brought prices hitherto unheard of, and colonics of intellectual “who's who” havs sprung up. In many such groups the rms lay miles apart ,as good farms should and do in rural com- munitics. On a Sunday afternoon, with a “farm party” underway, one is likely to encounter half the celeb- rities of the writing, painting and theater world. The grand old cus- tom of hayrides has been restored. And “neighbors” go calling of eve- nings in their fivvers, Pennsylvania the The Bureau of { Motor Vehicles reports an odd quirk jour public schools, in the laws of the state governing motorists’ liability for property dam- age. If a Man’s car runs over, say a $1,000 chow dog, the drive needn’t bother much ahout the ac cident. If, however, he happens to run over a $50 pig. he must re- port the accident to the bureau and stand ready to furnish compensu- tion to the owner. That isn't quite as peculiar as it at first appears. A dog, by rights, s either a cherished pet or nothing. He has no dollars and cents utilitarian value, A pig, on the other hand, is a big of property that is raised solely for profit. Kill- ing a pet dog may injure the owner severely, but it isn't the sort of an « ch. A pig, however, is a creature that, being unlovable, can be paid for and forgotten, This is the hard-boiled age. On every side one hears criticisms of the past. It seems that our ances- tors were morons and degenerates, their actions were silly and stupid, thelr thoughts naive and puerile, and €0 on. There never were businesses, whletes, philanthropists, inventions, morals, women, styles, and comforts ke those of the present. The remarkable part of this stand i8 that it is mainly true, Yet, with the present tendency. to revise histo- ory, we have a fecling that we are not going to recognize our familiar heroes when we pick up the future textbooks of our children and grand- children. When the present blase and sophisticated yvounger generati®n he- comes older and commences to re- work history, we imagine that some of the prominent personages will vmerge about like this. Columbus didn’'t do much. All he had to do was keep on sailing, and the whole American continent in front of him it was harder for him to miss it than strike it. And, at that, found was a few islands. making him pretty close to the world's least succussful navigat- or. Pocahontas was not a heroine when she saved Captain John Smith’s life, 8mith had sex appeal and she couldn’t resist him. Cowardice, not bravery, kept the Pligrims in Plymouth during the first winter. Their ship had gone {back to kEngland and they couldn't get away if they wanted to. And they didn’t have the nerve to jump in the ocean and end their misery. The Revolutionary war was won by a group of sncaks who hid behind trees, took pot shots at the British, and then ran. It was no honor for George Wash ington to be the first president. Polk or Cleveland or Coolidge would have been the first if he had lived at that time and been elected. And George's clection wasn't such a stunt, for there was nobody running against him. While his refusal to run for a third term showed he had an infer- jority complex. The only real battle we won in the War of 1812 was fought after the war was over. ®ur western pioneers, who crossed the prairies in their covered wagons, | were far from the heroes we picture them. Instead, they were merely tramps and debtors flecing from thelr creditors in the east. They couldn’t turn back or they would e jailed. . The victory of the North in the Civil War was merely a matter of rhysical condition, The Southerners finally starved almost to death, and before they died, the Union saved its face by rushing among them and knocking them.down. The Spanish-American war was a sweeping tory solely ‘hecause the Spaniards couldn’t shoot and didn't have any guns to shoot with, any- way. Our part in the World War might be likened to that of the referee of a prize fight who suddenly decided to help one fighter and clouted the cther behind his back when he was already tired. The men who cxposed the oil scan- dals were not public benefactors. They were only sore because others hiad beaten them to the easy money, and they were trying to get these cleverer men out of the way so they could step in and clean up for themselves. Vacation season, plus the terrific hot weather recently have fad assuaged with | outlying | strange influeuces on some people. A visitor from New London and two young couple from New Britain are receiving considerable joshing from their friends because of vacation in- cidents, ; 'The two couples have just return- ed frem a motor camping tour of the New England states. They re- port the trip a success all but the first night. It seems that the wife |of one man and the husband of the |other woman are inclined to be |somewhat nervous. During the {night they heard the sound of |someone prowling around the tent land a swishing as though intruders | were brushing up against the can. vas. | In a few minutes other campers | nearby were startled to see the |nervous husband in his silk pajamas }nnd the nervous other wife in her |pink negligee, she with a lantern {and he with an afe, out looking for lcamp burglars. Investigation the {next day revealed the fact that a wild turkey had flown off its perch during the night and had attempted to roost on the tent in preference to a nearby tree. | The New Tondon man is a hust- |ler. He arrived in New Britain ear- |ly Tuesday forenoon and called at the Herald office asking where the Sons of 8t. George convention was being held. He was advised that he |was just a week early, the conven- tion opens August 14. He refused |to tell his name, but added that a ;fow years ago the newspapers said he was fatally injured. Like the re- |port of Mark Twain's death, which |the author said was greatly exag- |gerated, the New London man in- |sists that the accident was not fa- [tal. He also says he is glad he ar- {rived in time for the convention, A nation-wide plan is heing ad- {vanced for the adoption of courses {in automobile mechanics and opera- {tfen in educational institutions of {the country. The proposed courses would fin- |clude construction and care of mo- |tor vehicles, operation of an auto- motile, motor vekcle laws and mu. [nieipal traffic regulations and the |study of motor vehicle accidents, thefr causes and prevention. | Thus “motorology” is to take fts place among the regular studies of with Fistory, |meography and chemistry. It de- rves such recognition and atten- tion for it concerns our lives today as much, if not more so, as does the French Revolution, or the locations of Tacna and Arica, By imbuing our vouth with the knowledge of automotive operations jand the complexities of highway travel ,such courses will help brinsg a decline in the toll of traffic accl- |dents that, at present, continue te | rise. We of today, knogving compar- |atively little of what goes on under the hood or of what is expected of us on the road, fail to comprehend the seriousness of our positions at |the wheel, despite frequent warn- ings, accidents and arrests, | Perhaps the next generation, bred by education rather than threats, will be more deeply impressed with the value of conservative, safe driv- ing. Facts and Fancies We are a tender-hearted peoife; {and when the fool driver kills a lit- tle child, he's always sorry. You can tell an unfashionable re- sort. The guests don't make fun of |one another. ——— “This will be the most enlighten- ing campaign in years.” Who, for example, imagined there were 80 many rich Democrats? | DT =y A critic says all new 'books are forgotten within a year, which |should answer those who say we |are going to the dogs. The st of campoign contributors includes all of us who buy anything from the big contributors. Doutless an ofifce file was given that name because a file removes | things that never reappear. | The round-the-world travelers say [the 24 days didn’t secem long. It's | different, though, when you're looke ing for a parking place, History repeats itself in Califore nia. You'll recall that old Noah planted grapes when the land got sl dry. The great new telescope will mag- inify a million times, which will as- | tonish everybody except the writer of resort literature. Americanism: Missing the othep fellow’s car two inches; wishing you | were driving a truck. i i There's nothing in the new medie |cal theory. They removed the law's | tecth, and yet look at the darned ! thing. Wives of goifers have one consos lation. A mman has capacity for only | one great passion at a time. If it's golf, it isn’t women, | —— | An English psychologist is re- jnortod to have said henpecked hus- | bands live longer, which calls for * | the ancient answer that it just seems longer. If he has a tender, affectionate hand-clasp, prepare to say you are broke. Don’t worry about birth control. If the kind who believe in it prace tice Jt, there won't be anybody left to advocate it. The epitaph isn't the only lie. | Frequently the stone seems to indi- cate fmportance when in reality it merely indicates ready cash. We shall not invest in do stocks, however, until the peace |pacts are signed by agpimun#ion makers, also. Correct this sentence: “The ap- pearance doesn’t matter so much,” said the lady; “What 1 want te | know about 18 the motor.” Copyright, 1928, YunSners Syndicate