New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1928, Page 6

New Britain Herald (Bus€ay Bucegied) e | agents of he Horslid W o8 mie Gally i3 New .,f'l ot Hotaling’s N Times uare; Bchults's Newsstanda, Batrasce Graad Cestral, ¢Sad Gtrest. I G S HAS EARNED IT Judge Bernard F. Gaffney nced not worry about his election as head | of the Probate Courf. It has been thus for 13 terms, or since 1904. Democrats and Republicans in this case seek the man. We know of no other official anywhere who has had such a record. In common with all other citizens we tender our heartiest congratulations. “BOSSY” GETS BOSSED “Bossy” Gillis, mayor of New- buryport, Mass, who tried to make something of a name for himself, evidently has succeeded. He at least will be the first mayor of New- buryport to run the town from with- in the classic portals of the county jall. If incarceration interferes some- what with Mayor Gillis' activities as & mayor, however, the town will not suffer much. REACHING THE WOMEN “A Counccticut politician whose name we withhold In mercy to him suggests that the way to reach the women voters is to broadcast political speeches over the telephone party lines.” —Waterbury Republican. Women voters don't need to be | reached in this manner or any other manner, When election day arrives they will be at the polls bright and carly, baby carrlages ani all. More Republican and Democratic women will vote in this election than in any since they have had the vote, and which party will get the majority of their votes will stand the best chance of landing at the top. THE FRANCO-AMERICANS A race that attends to business, looks after its own affairs, and doesn’t attempt to meddle with the morals and habits of others are the French-Americans of New England. | There are more than a million 1n this tier of states, and they are heard from less than any other race in America. Fall River, Mass,, is the third largest French center in Amer. ica, ranking next to Montreal and LQriiec. How thesc French-Americans are going to vote will have an important bearing in the campaign in most of the New England states. They are a peaceful, hard-working and church- going population. Their votes wil be as important in New England as the Nonpartisan and former La Follette votes are in the West. GAS STATION HAZARDS Objection to the increase of gaso- line filling stations in the city fre- quently has hinged partly upon the argument that the entrances from the street add to the accident hazard. Whatever justice there may be in opposing gasoline statlons as such. we don’t think this point, upon the face of the accident chronicle, bhas been important. When gn automobile drives from ! the street into the entrance to a gas station, or from the exit to a gas station into the street, here truly isa certain hazard. But drivers are on their mettle, they 100k carefully before step on the ga highway station likewise know to expect and are on the lookout Which results in exceedingly few accidents they coming along the there 18 a gas what and those knowing ahead, uch points. More accidents occur by far when drivers cnter or leave private drive- ways alongside residences or other buildings, which forces them to cross the sidewalk. On uch occasions pedestrians are not likcly to be on the lookout, passing wutoists are not necessarily watchful, and the stage frequently is set for trouble. Cases of children getting injured at such times are frequent. At no time is there necd for great- er care than when drivers puss over a sidewalk while traversing a privat: to a home of house. Everybody who drives a car entrance business at such times | or truck has to do it and caution is essential. exceeding AMBULANCE CHASING Ambulance chasing lawyers have been investigated in New York and in the cases of 74 gentlemen of the bar discipline was recommended. A further recommendation of Justice Wasservogel of the state S8upreme court is that contingent fees be re- duced from 50 to 33 1-8 per cent. Ambulance chasers were painted in lurid colors and we have no doubt that much of this rococo style of de- nunciation has been well deserved. But there is another side to the story, ome that the estimable bar assoclations would do well to tackte. ‘What about the ambulance chas- ing done by the legal talent or corporations, variably rush to the bedside of a victim after an accident and get him or her to “sign a paper” which often completely nullifies the rights at | | [law? These ;k\nd- The vital difference between |the two species is that the corpora- tion ambulance chasers want to beat !lhc victims out of just compensation | for injuries, while the lawyers who rush to a bedside in order to obtain !a lawsuit to divide at least are bent upon getting something for the vic- tim. | If the one species of ambulance |chasing is eliminated and the otlier lisn't the net result will be that the corporation ambulance chasers will have a {ree field, greatly to the sat- | isfaction of the indemnity Insurance companies and accident insurance concerns. The situation in New York and in 'many another state has | which yielded a the two types of ambulance chasers. Doing away with the ove kind with- out injuring the prospects of the other would not be exactly a square |deal to the patient. THE AGE OF OLDSTERS An item in the paper the other day referred to the conclusion of ex- | perts that the American people are | turning into a nation of oldsters. The young are growing fewer in ;numhvr in proportion to the entire | Population, while the oldsters are growing more in number. | Yet this is supposed to have been an age of youth, | Immigration restriction has shut lout many young men who used to come to this country, |and it has shut out many familles {With a plenitude of children who | would in the course of a few years add to the total of the nation's vouth. Births have steadily declined per family. And | there are fewer young than ever be- fore to add to the eternal youth problem. Perhaps there will be no | such problem any more as the crop | of voung continues to decline. The number of men of around 65 | at the helm of atfairs has increased, |according to the statistics. judges, when they reach the age of | 70, do not retire as much as they |once did. The average oldster at 6, s a much livelier specimen sed to be at that age and shows less inclination to retire | from the turmoil of go-and-get. The | reason, perhaps, is that he has few- | er youthful competitors. The nation isn’t going to the dogs 'on account of this development. We never had much confidence in the “age of youth” anyway, possibly be- can remember he T cause every oldster the time when he was young and realizes with age more dumbbell than he thought he perience and mellowed thinking that of a at that time comes with the passing years is a far greater attribute in almost all walks of life Leaders in industry, than previously supposed. finance, edu- cation and literature are and al have been more numerous at 65 thah below that age. Iidison did his best that age. Charles E. Hughes is 66 und “going strong,” us the Elihu American, did his finest work that age and is now 83. Chief Justice 7 is Taft is beyond Tu. Justice work after suying s Itoot, able after Holm 87, and =ome of his most notable de- cisions were made after passing the | three E. H. Gary is around 74. Men past 65 are in charge of the biggest banks in the country. These are only a few of the old- at the staying It always has been thus, but the Lullyhoo about the “age score mark. sters who thery arc of youth” blinded many eyes for a There young fellows time, will of 65 to ta places of those dying off at Wetween 70 and $0 and beyond. But the boys lof around 20 will huve 1o wait a long time before they their th of themselves, work assiduously and study continuously, they et funings. Meanwhile, if v take good care can prepare themselves for the day when they too will be oldsters at the top. COLOR IN THE What started the nation to turn to color on a acale hitherto unknown is one of the.mystcrics of life. Per- haps it started when eritics of auto- mobiles claimed they all looked like funcral hacks. At an . the first Lurst of gorgeousness came when the daily chariots began to take on garish hues, when lacquer finish, in who in- | hirelings are ambulance | - | chasers and are worse than the other been one | fair race between | it was sald; | taken all in all, | Even | that he was far | was. The ex- | top and are | order to be finished a ls mode; be- #an te take on the appearance of the Spanish flag or the Chinese national- ist emblem. From there on the next steps were simple. Now everything from a vacuum cleaner to a knife handle must be done in colors, and even our most prosaic of machinery {must have a dash of soft tone. A kitchen nowadays is not only a food | tactory but an ensemble. Manufacturers have discovered {that in order to sell a large variety | of goods they must be done in color. Let something made in a factory for | general consumption have a black |handle and it is doomed. The same |thing with & blue handle will sell ;llke hot cakes. Utlity i» no selling | point any more; color is the basis of all sales talk, and many a salesman has come to think he is selling rain- | bowa. There are no objections in these circles against color. As yet we do not grind out these commentaries {upon a smart typewriter possessing a color scheme, but when the present contraption is worn out the next one is going to be done in some lively | shade, or perhaps several shades. {That ought to put more cqlor to what we write. POLLUTION As AN ISSUE The effort made by Charles G. Morris, Democratic candidate for | governor, to make an issue out fli ‘the pollution of the streams and | waters of the state, ia commendable. “For 16 years the problem has been a pressing one,” he stated at Water- town, “but as yet nothing construct- ive has been done to right this sit- uation.” Pollution of the streams has be- come a public menace, without & doubt. The perennial committee meetings which have dealt with the subject have been futile. 8olution today is no nearer than it was a | dozen years ago. More determina- | tion in the capitol and less dilly- | | dallying would bring about better re- | sults, The party in power is making | i quite an effort to prevent Massachu- setts from diverting waters from the | Swift and Ware rivers so as not to interfere with the present flow of | the lordly Connecticut. If the same | energy were expended to clarify the waters Mr. Morris would have no complaint to make in this campaign. ! The more he emphasizes the present | pollution and inaction by the gov- | erning authorities the greater the public service he is doing. A WET VOTE IN THE W. C. T. U. The state W. T. C. U. seems to be somewhat interested in the remson | why Mra. Lena Greenbacker, state | 1 president, resigned the other day. Mrs. Greenbacker, &lso a represcnta- | | tive from Middiefield to the 1.vg:--i‘ !lature, quit after she had voted for Judge Francis Pallotti at the state Republican convention. Judge Pal- lotti, as almost everyone knows, is & | wet. Perhaps fellow members of the | W. C. T. U. say that Mrs Green- backer should have voted for Ernest | | E. Rogers, a stalwart dry and a dea- con in the Baptist church. | Mrs. Greenbacker seems to have | been actuated by the clearest of po- | litical motives. She says she belleved | then and does now that the nomina- tion of Pallotti would have been in |the best interest of the Republican | party; and she, being a Republican | first and foremost, thought it better | to strengthen the party ticket by the | nomination of Pallotti us lieutenant | | governor. J. Henry thought differ- | | ently, however, and@hat is why Pal- | |lotti was ditched. Mrs. Greenbacker was I;ellceni |two fires. As president of the W, C. | U. she was in duty bound, accord- | |ing to her comrades in arms against | the drink candldat:; as a member of the Re- | | publican convention she felt bound | to work for the interest of the party. | Judge Pallotti was not ditched be- | cause he was wet, but because J. | | Henry feared he might become gov- ernor some day. Mrs. Greenbacker, | an independent thinker, did not | agree with this premise, She haa mads up her mind tong betore the | | convention and could not be shaken. The incident shows once more that politics and prohibition don't | mix all the time in the Republican | | party. | = | GRADECROSSING REMOVAL Word went out from Huartford the other day that the Public Utilitles | Commission favored the elimination of four grade crossings. and t but the proviso as added that the New Haven rail- road would exil, to vote for a dry | as varly as possible; not be expected to get to work on any of them before it was financially able to do so. That is on: of the reasons why the elimination of grade such a slow proces that some remarkable of the {dangerous such crossings have been | more | iminated so far. | The rairoad can always shov the C. that it is financially 1n no position 1o eliminate a contested Crossing. What the P U. C. should r down on the situation der, seeing that the do is to be a littre ha state law 1s entirely on its side. Millions of fect of pulpwood are used every year to keep the new papers of the country providing you with the news of the day. | get. It you shoot a great deal, the‘i | balming. Facts end Fancies The insect pests that cost the country most are the boil weevil, the corn borer and the humbug. Our boloney for today: “I don't believe any church shouid influence the Goverament, not even my own." The reason politics makes strange bedteliows is because all classes like the same kind of bunk. “I am the choice of the people,” says the statesmun, having received 60 per cent of the votes of the 40 per cent who voted. Doctors no ionger use leeches. but they contrive to produce about the same effect by sending a bill Philosophy is the realization that the wonderful woman sitting over there would seem very ordinary if you saw her every moraing at breakfast, All are vain. A man's objection to a hair cut is that it makes him less handsome than he expected. Among the unnecessary people are those who introduce you as the famous Mr. Soandso to people who never heard of you. ‘When the devil decides to get a very good man, he always sclects for the work a woman who is tired | of her husband. Americanism: “I'm as good as anybody, even that rich guy over there, . . Get out of my way, you impudent, dead-broke bum.” A South Carolina woman suffered “nervous prostration” while watch- ing a brick mason at work on her house. We've se:n brick masons like that, too. Those who complain lies are in circulation name a president who without benefit of lies. that political will please was elected | Yet the man who howls most | about the unfairness of tax reduc- tion on large incomes never paid any income tax. “A good way to cut down on smoking is to light a cigarette every hour.” But who ever saw a cigar- ette that would last that long? Probably the hardest task of the candidate consists in giving a darn whether the farmer is relieved or not. Writing is like shooting at a tar. law of averuges gives you an occa- sional hit, Consoling thought! Bootlegging and other such wickedness would | be as poor as virtue if they had to | depend on a collection plate, It's hard to make fricnds if you are too particular. The kind you | want are here, all right, but they | are particular too. Correct this sentence: “I ate flll‘ T wanted at the bridge party,” said she, “but now T'll cook you a nice supper.” Copyright 1928, Publishers Syndicate 25 Yo anTp—Today ‘ The opening of Hanna's remod- | elled armory on East Main street | took place lust evening and very ap- propriately was it conducted. The vehicle of the opening was furnish- ed Jy an entgrainment under the | auspices of the Tabs. Music was fur- | nished by Tevlin’s orchestra. | Plainville is in the midst of a | lively campaign on the license ques- \d every voter has been cfr- | cularized by the temperance organ- izations. Mr, H. Wood has been rea pointed superintendent of the Chi- partment of the South ehurch y school. | No unusual interest attaches te | the repblican caucus tonight except | with regard to the school commit- | tec posts. W. E. Attwood's term ex- pires’and he will be renominated by | acclamation as he deserves to be, | but there is a contest for Carl | Ebees position. James Gavin and J. 1. Walsh at- tended the Roston Pittshurgh game | in Boston yesterday. The game was one of a series between the winners of the American and National leagues. John A. Andrews has been in at- tendance all woek at the lectures and demonstrations given in New Haven by Prof. Carl E. Barnes on anatomy, sunitary science, and ‘em- The local High school foothall players will be interested 1o learn that the Waterbury High team has disbanded because of lack of inter- est. Charles Sloan sccured a picee of the old High school blackboard when the Luilding was being torn down. He has had it framed and is keeping it as a memento, COMMUNICATED Ed. Herald Am enclosing card handed myself | by @ local Hooverite which explains itself, he theme suggests itself and the teditor without muech embellishment can say something for publication. Since when did Wilson become a man of everlasting fam. in s 0of those who have derided him for the past cight years and sent him to his gr and now resurrect him for polit expedicne D. NORTON. card enctosed with ey Ed. note—Th WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT IT | the | boke ! © Levs Get Ready In Time! It's not tog early to begin To practice that expansive grin Aristocratic pumpkins wear When they for Hallowe'en /pre- pare! . Causo and Effect! Wilkins: “Doctor! Doctor! ¥ ca see a thing! What's the matter?’ Dr. Plerce: “You've got asome- thing in your rye! —B. L. Wessel | THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Teanis An article in a neighboring news- paper was headed, “You can play like Tilden.” Perhaps, but can you acquire his literary style? ¢ o 0 Theater A well-known comediam recently went away unexpectedly Jrom New York because he found #t too hot there. Other comedians have found it too cold! .« o 0 Swimming Miss Hilda Sharp smoked cigar- ets during her English channel swim, it seems. We can remember the time when it wasn't considared the thing for young girls to smoke while swim- ming the channel! o o Social A beauty expert says that a double chin can be removed by rubbing it with a plece of ice. This is also an infallible method of removing a plece of ice! .« .0 Vaudeville A critic says that vaudeville needs noveltic Some day there will be an act consisting of a pair of singers and a grand piano and the lady won't sit coquettighly on the plano! There’s the Hitcht Stevens» “Those girl hikers were only pretending to be lame.” Doran: “Well, they had the ride idea! —Jewel Kiein The local mail-train from New York pulled In at such a high rate of speed today that everybody at the station thought it rroblly was hustlin’ back some jokes that Newt Crandall recently sent to & humorous magazine! AUST ROMING By W. E. Wentworth Near Mussolin lies the beautiful city of Rome, and the first man that says Georgla T'll fight! It |Is ! here that may be found the fascist | people in the world, and Mussolini is their prophet. He certainly makes a good prophet, and he suys that he finds it profitable. Every time 1 Rome 1 think of that old adage, ‘When in Rome, do the Romans.” Another thing about Rome is that it 1s all broke out with Aucient History. Their history dates back further than the original Tea- pot Dome investigation. They had a King by the name of Nero, who, according to the old copics of the Roma Wheeze Bango, was quite 4 man-about-town. He was famous as a Ukulele Tickler and carried a line of fire insurance on the side. Then before him was Julius Caesar, the fellow that had so much trouble with his Latin lessons. His favorite color Nile Green. He was a great believer in the three party system of government. He divided Gaul into tres partes: Argo, Lux and Nabisco. He also coined that famous phrase: Veni, vidi, vici, which means wine, women, and song. He was a great fighter, and finally was stabbed on the rostrum. The present day Romans are very ingenious. They have solved the great national problem of what to do with their surplus supply of harbe They send them to Amer- ica as a gift to grand opera. They still have a King, but I guess he must be on his vacation as no one knew where he was. They were sure they had one, but they couldn’t remember his name. Any- it may have been some other country! ‘un Shop's Suzzestion For an Appropriate Book dacket. Just Right 3arber: “Is the towel too hot, sir? Victim: “Oh, not at all. ! T'm tired | of this skin. any 2 this communication reads fol- lows MR. DEMOCRAT: you'd honor Woodrow Wilson— Man of everlasting fame, Vote for one whom Wilson trusted; Herbert Hoover is his name. . Pickles [ Aks 20th Floor Screens | Pizcons Owt : Knowing that guests on the high- |er floors are not bothered by fies | or mosquitoes. the management of Ithe Hotel Commodore, New York To Keep —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City ano Its People Fallure of Relte¢ Appesl Unusual Event in This City Failure of the Red Cross to raise the quota assigned to it in this city for the rellef of Porto Ricans and Floridans left destitute by recent hurricanes leads to the conviction that some other means for obtain- ing money quickly must be adopted soon. More than three weeks have elapsed since Porto Rigo was devas- tated by the atorm. Emergensy’ funds were needed immediately, At this writing, slightly more than half the 85,000 quota allotted to New Britain by the Red Cross has been raised. Unleas larger contributions are made it is doubtful whether the goal ever will be reached. Information relating to the suc- cess of the appeal in other cities is not at -hand. It is probable that the result is not far from the mark achieved here. There may ex- ceptions to the average, coMmuni-| ties which have given all that has been asked, but there is no reason to assume that New Britain's rec- ord is worse than that of other cit- ies, This city is not devoid of the milk of human Kkindness; it always has rushed to the aid of the af- flicted and has given generously of its means. The opinion has been expressed that the federal government is shirking one of its responsibilities when it asks the American Red Cross to provide funds for relief in American territory. That opinion is spreading among a large number of people. Uncle 8am, whose pock- etbook is well lined, should care for his own folks, it is being said, with- out asking the citizens to put their hands in their own pocketbook. Ac- tual relief, attendance on the sick and prevention of epldemics, should be in the province of the federal authorities to be paid for out of federal resources, it is argued. Re- habilitation and reconstruction of stricken areas could be pro#ided for through contributions made to the Red Cross. Establishment of a fed- eral agency to function in emergen- cies—it one exists it is keeping quiet about it—would seem desirable in a country which extends over so many degrees of latitude and longitude where Nature frequently = becomes obstreperous, Mask of Unconcern Comes Off As Election Retums Drift in Within a few weeks there will be assembled around a collection of telephones in the headquarters of political parties in this city, anxlous men and women awaiting the re- turns from the balloting on the election day which to the majority, if not all, of them, will have been the greatest and the most interest- ing in their memories. They will be straining every nerve to catch - the significance and import of every jota in the nature of a return, re- gardless what section of the country it comes from, and whether you know it or not, they will be parad- ing for the enlightenment of all who happen to be about them, their own individual characteristics which are sometimes classified as char- acter. It has often been said that the poker table and the bleachers in a baseball park are the stamping grounds for the display of individu- ality, but habitues of smoke-filled headquarters of political partles claim their hangout should not be overlooked in all fairness to all the competitors. Here it is that the mask of unconcern is stripped from the countenances of all, whether they answer to the classification of old-timers or not. All are doing their figuring, though only a few have paper and pencil before them, and as one after another ward, dis- trict, county or state is heard from, and the outcome of the long, hard- fought battle is about to become known, it is a simple task to pick out from the crowd, the hard loser, the chronic complainer, the real politician and the dead-game sport. New DBritain has had her share of politicians over a long period of time, and they have seen hundreds of election nights across the table from the telephones. Some have been known to be posscssed of the | temerity to stand by and predict vic- | tory for their opponents, not that they wished to lose, but because they knew through the never fail- | Ing signs of the times that the day was not theirs. Others, smiling | though it hurt, have been seen go- ing down to defeat as candidates on the ticket, thanking everyone who worked for them and giving expres- sion to the hope that the next ven- ture would proveymore productive of favorable results. No party has a monopoly on the personality parade in New Britain, although the republican cohorts have had more opportunity than their democratic brethren to lead the cheering on election night. Time was when the democratic worker: knew when they started out in the early morning that nightrall would leave but a single question open to debate, and that was “how much did we lose by,” yet they went out with spirits high and ready to de | verbal battle at any time a G. O. | P. leader or a mere private wanted to start. In recent years, however, the tide of victory has ebbed and flowed more equally than in the days past and the atmosphere political headquarters of bhoth ma- jor parties has changed accordingly | City, was at a loss recently when an elded woman on th twenticth | floor requested a screen for the win- |dow of her room She explained that she the screen for protection ugainst pigeons. ¢ might fly in here at night and sit on my bed and 1'd bhe | dreadfully frightened.” she said. —Associated Press Reason Enought Attorney (to his client, who is charged with beating up her hus- {band): “Why on earth did you run | up and kiss the jurors?” | Fair Client: “Didn’t you | was a petty jury?” | —Herman Fetzer (Copyright, 1928. Reproduction Forbidden) wanted say it in| Herewith we present our fifth an- nual wipning football play for the benefit of those teams which are not clever enough to figure out new maneuvers for themselves. We can guarantee that this play has never been used by any football team on earth of Mars. Further- more it is quite likely that none of the college teams will use it this fall but between us, this will be because of jealousy on the part of the coaches. You know how those coaches are! The play is designed as a clinch- ing argument in a tight place, when everything must be thrown into one play which will not only score but will so bewilder the opposition that it will wither and collapse com- pletely. We teel that the time has come when ultra-modern methods must be put into football, and these are all embodied in our play. Here is how it works: Left end pulls the water bucket out and spills it on the field, then sits in position making mud ples. Left tackle asks opponent if he is for 8mith or Hoover and takes op- posite side in the ensuing fight-to-a- finish, Left guard harangues oppos- ing eleven into believing it is the New York Yankees and is nothing but a collection of bruises and frac- tures which should be removed im- mediately to the hospital. Right guard announces he is Aimee SBemple McPherson, clambers into press box, and gives out interview on why football players are more to be pitied than scorned. Right tackle and right end put their arms on each other's shoulders and launch into a pathetic rendering of the op- posing college’'s alma mater son| Lringing tears to all enemy eyes and making the foe soft-hearted. Fullback, who is probably as foggy- brained as the general run of full- backs, forgets about the game and goes into the dressing room for a quiet little game of crap with the official rubber. Center passes ball and then shricks for someone to save him from drowning in the empty water bucket. 1f all this nonsense has not driven the opposing team crazy, left half- back ‘shouts, “There’s Clara Bow! and rushes over to the stands, fol- lowed by the entire opposing team. Even this is liable to fail if all the members of the opposing eleven have their fiancees in the stands, 8o right halfback then proclaims that he is Gene Tunney and is looking for privacy. He will be surrounded by the wide-eyed enemy team with- in half a second. The quarterback has received the ball and been standing idly by for an instant. As the opponents rush to surround “Tunney,” the quarter- back throws a forward pass to Lind- bergh, who fies over the ficld at that moment, and Lindbergh vol- planes to a landing behind the goal with the winning points. This play is_absolutely certain—Lindbergh can afivays be depended upon to be on hand at just the proper moment. Civie Clubs Easy Picking For “Uplifting” Visitors, There were two speakers at each ivic club meeting this week. At the Lions’ club and at the Rotary club the same two speakers were present. One was giving a series of lectures, at a paid admission price, under the auspices of four churches and in three schools in the city dur- ing the week. The other, who spoke for five minutes at four civic club ncetings, is planning to hold a meeting tomorrow where he will recommend the formation of a boys' chorus. He charges no admission, but will take up a collection. For the first man's lectures throughout the city, 25 cents ad- mission was charged for children and 50 cents for adults, When he finished his talk he sold books. He | spoke on Galilee, his birthplace, al- though he claims to have been speaking in America for 16 vears. Tickets for his lectures were placed in the hands of school children for sale, ' Both men must eat, therefore they must ecarn a living. It is safe to assume that they get their living | making these speeches, which is per- | fectly legitimate. But the fact is | that each, as do many others, made | use of the civie clubs to advertise and each also approached | *he churches in an effort to help | bring out audiences. Both lectures, concerts or projects | advocated may be and probably are | very good, but the point remains | that whenever a man has seed to | plant, cspecially in New Britain, he | tinds the civie clubs fertile fields for | his propaganda, and if he can at- | tach any sort of moral or religious [ significance to his business, he casts an appealing eye on the churches and their organizations. ‘While dhe cooperative more active among civic clubs than churches, thes: clubs are prohibited I3y the by-laws, ethics and traditions { from permitting their speaking priv- | ilege politicians for | party s, ministers for sectar- ian purposes, salesmen or others for commercial purposes. ‘ It would be better for these clubs [if they barred their doors to all isw-.lk: rs who invite themselves. Mayor of New Britain ! Has Wide Veto Powers 3 Although it s not generally | known, the mayor of New Britain has more power than any other mayor in the state of Connecticut. Th fact was brought home to of- | ficials in branches of the city gov- [ernment in the past few months | when they found themselves power- |1esy to act without the sanction of the chief exceutive. The mayor of New Britain has practically every official in the palm | of his hand and he has unu-ua:} | power when it comes to regulating | |the expenditure of money. Unless | he gives his sanction to the move- ment, it seems, the school board will mot be hle to build high school |additions. Even the state board of | education is powerless to move the | mayor because under the laws of | Connecticut the city does not have |to provide accommodations for any lexcept elementary and junior high | head of the city government and the first seloctman was in oharge of the tewn government. Several of the present board, like the welfare commission, were under the beard of selectmen and there were averal streets in the city which were mot under the supervision of the eity government. The first selectman re. celved a salary $1,500 and the mayor $1,300. In 1906 ex-Mayor George A. Quigley, who was then a yqung councliman from the second ward, introduced the consolidation propo- sition ints the common council and after several bitter fights it passed. Then a charter revision committee, the firat ever in existence, was a pointed and after months of worl it revised every ordinance and drafted new ordinances which gave much power to the mayor. The late Bamuel Bassotte was mayor at the time, but it was mc- tually the late George M. Landers who first enjoyed the power vested in the new mayor when he was elected to office after the alx year administration of Mayor Bamsette, ENAGT ONCE NORE FAMOUS DEBATE Knox Gollege Scene of Lincoln- Donglas Argument Galesburg, IIl., Oct. ¢ UM—Btephen A. Douglas, the little giant with the big volce, and Abraham Lincoln, marked by destiny to be immortal, stepped from history today to re- enact the fifth of that series of fa- mous debates from which Lincoln was to be swept onward to the White House—and martyrdom. Just s it was three acore and ten years ago, two men were to atep from the high Gothic windows of “0ld Main” hall of Knox college, take their places in view of a multi- tude gathered from miles around, and debate the great issue of that past year, slavery, The little man with the big voice today was Attor- ney Al Pierson; the gaunt figure towering at his side and speaking in a thin, penetrating volce, was Frank McGlynn, the Lincoln impersonator. Gathor ’ y Gathered for today's reneactment was a distinguished company; men and women prominent as blogra- phers of Abraham Lincoln—Carl Sandburg, Willlam E. Barton, guthor of “The Life ot Abraham Lincoln,” Ida M. Tarbell—and a handtul of the diminishing number who were pres- ent that raw, rainy Oct. 7, 1858, and heard from the Lincoln lips the words: *“Judge Douglas declarcs that if any community want slavery, they have a right to it. He cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong." It was the Galesburg- debate on which the carer of Lincoln turned, said Emanuel Herts of New York, author of “Abraham Lincoln, the Tribute of the Synagogue,” who was cne of the speakers on today's elab- orate commemorative program. Carl Sandburg, the poet-biogra- pher, who also was a speaker, put it this way: “To the campus of Knox college they came in the cold, almost frozen rain of a raw October day to stand and listen three hours to the speak- ers of the day. That crowd of twenty thousand people was an in- strument, a factor in history, that the minds and tongues of the ora- tors tried to controi and direct. In seven years both of the great ora- tors were dead. But the people go on and on. The very words of all great orators testify and cry out that while the tongues of orators (urr: to dust, the people go on and on." Ida Tarbell's Statement Ida M. Tarbell said: “The special importance of the Knox college de- bate is that here for the first tima in the great series Mr. Lincoln ef- fectively lifted his argument from economie, political, soclal and bio- logical grounds and placed it square- ly in the realms of morals.” The commemoration of this de- bate has taken place on the Knox college campus at infrequent periods in the interim since 1858. On one occasion President McKinley and all but one member of his cabinet took part in the observance, President Taft had a part in another. In 1896 Chauncey Depew shared honors with Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the president. Tt was then that Robert Lincoln made what has been called his only public address re- garding his father. Observations On The Weathe Washington, Oct. 6.—Forecast for Southern New England: Fair Saturday and probably S8unday; not much change in temperature. Forecast for Eastern New York: Fair Saturday; BSunday increasing cloudiness, slowly rising tempera« ture. Conditions: The disturbance that was over Lake Superior Thursday night is advancing northeastward, being central southeast of Hudson a trough extending soutk and southwestward to West Virginia. The northwestern dis- turbance is advancing eastward, being central over Manitoba. The outlook is for mostly fale weather Saturday and Sunday in states east of the Mississippi river. Except for showers Saturday night along the lower lakes and on Sun- day in northern New England, and on Saturday and Sunday in portions of the south Atlantic and east Gulf states. Temperature changes will be unimportant. EVANGELIST SCORES Newport News, Va., Oct. 8 (P— Led by a brass band, 1.000 con- verts of a negro evangelist march- «d to the shores of Hampton Roads to be baptized. The converts came from Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and the District of Co- lumbia.