New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1928, Page 6

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C. is & national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver tisers with & strictly honcst ana are | based upon this audit pro | tection against fraud in newspaper di- tribution figures to both national and | local advertisers. in_New Times | Entrance | The Herald is on York at Hotaling's Square; Schultz's Newsstands, Grand Central, 42nd Street. ———— A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE Regardless of the pros and cons of the high school problem tne Board of Education, in our opinion. | is entitled to a hearing before the Board of Finance and Taxation. Re- fusal, if it should persist, to grant this important body an opportunity to present its case before the finance | board would be unprecedented In | this city’s government. All citizens, including the Board of Education, | are entitled to hearings before civic boards when they have matters ot public moment to discuss. 1t is a right, not a privilege. The Board of Finance and Taxa- ‘tion should have nothing to fear In listening to the presentation of the ‘aschool committee's cave. The schoot | committee is not a collective book agent, one unwilling to leave the premises until the prospect has sign- ed for the books on the dotted lne. The school committee may be an able salesman of its cause, but this a still free country and the finance board is not in duty bound to buy its wares right off. The finance boara can wait before it gives its verdict, but it ought to make an effort to hear the school committee's testl- mony before it comes to a decision. Announcement by Chatrman P. | . King of the school committee that i school experts from the State Board | uf Education are to make a survey of the New Britain schools naturally pleusen those fair-minded citizens who believe school experts ought to know something about school prob- fems and how to solve them. This survey will be independent from that instituted by the mayor's special In- | wvestigating committee, which is com- | posed of laymen rather than experts. ‘Where the two reports, wnen made, agree there will be nothing left to argue about; where they ditfer it will require fair and unbiased minds to come to a conclusion. Returning to the right for a heur- ing before the finance board, there should be no fcars that the co)- lective salesmanship of the school committee is too much to withstand. Perhaps the school committee, with “facts, figures, statistics and exper1- ence” on its side is a formidable salesman in the cause of progress; but that should be no deterrent to & willingness to yield a fair-minded use only. They are Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. In Pennsylvania, with four prisops. there was no unemployment in two of them und in the other two unem- ployment totalled only 11 per cent. the latter including sickness and other causes. In Ohio, with four penal institutions, employment is found for all except the disabled, in- |frm and subnormal. In the four four prisons of New. York nearly all prisoners are employed. In New | Jersey more prisoners are employed than under contract labor. Connecticut, if as progressive as its citizens want it to be, should | have been among the vanguard to do away with prison contracts, instead of attempting to retard a most | wholesome reform. A MEAN TRIC& There is a law against giving mis- linformation to newspapers—or a | least, there ought to be. However, we won't waste time on that peint. The other day a citizen, fllled with indignation, brought a Hoover blot- |ter into the sacred precincts of thesc | environs, saying he had taken it | from the equally sacred environs of the post office and wanting to know | how it was that the post office was | allowed to be used as a political football. Sorry to relate, we agreed and | wrote a little piece about this im- portant public issue. Then all seemeu | well. | Suddenly another indignant citi- zen arrived in view and in his hand he had the entire biotter. It seems the second human personification of indignation was the printer whose presses had churned out the blotter. What he paused to show was tne | blotter he had produced, a sort of | mongrel political blotter, Wwith | Hoover riding an elephant on one side and Smith riding a donkey on the other. It - seemed that some zealous Hoover fellow or fellowess, coming | upon the blotter or blotters in the | post ofiice, had carefully removed the Smith portion, leaving only the | Hoover scction for the surprised | |gaze of post office patrons. We call this a mean trick, if not a dirty and ornery trick, especially it | lit results in even a wideawuke news- paper office falling for it. All we have to say in conclusion '1a that the Smith legions in this town | | should be more alert. If they find | double-barreled political blolters in public places, well and good; don't touch them. But if they find that some inspired Hoover helpers have removed the Smith portion said blotters, let them immediately remove the Hoover portion. Then |not even an editor can be fooled. | NO REVIEW The U. 8. Bupreme Court 1s set in its ways. It would be a pecullar | |court 1t it gave a decision one week and was induced to change its mind a few months later. It is not surpris- ing. therefore, that it has refused to review its former five to four decl- | Islon that evidence obtained by wire |tapping is legitimate. At the time the wire-tapping de- | cision was given the mafority of the court held that it was merely In- terpreting the law, and that if there |was any considerable disappointment at the declsion the way lay open to | change the law through act of Con- gress. That sounds fair. 1t is held by the defendants that such evidence forces them to give | evidence against may be true enough, but in a sense this is done every time the police or prosecuting attorneys get hold of a letter or document written by a de- fendant and use it in court against In Congress there is pending the | Hawes-Cooper bill, which would abolish prison convict labor con- | tracts between states. Connecticut | again is aroused; at least, official- | dom Is aroused. Some others merely | snicker. i Opposition to convict labor con- | tratts comes from two powerful | surces: Labor and capital. “hard combination to beat. | "~ Labor opposes. the system because | him. Detectives have been known, in fact, to gain access to such evidence | by dublous means. 1t may be argued. and we think with force, that when a detective or his shorthand assistant listen in on a telephone conversation there may be errors made in words thus taken down. Abuse and That is a injustice might thus creep into the | procedure. It should be one of the duties of from | advocates had much foresight. Now, {hemselves, That | WOUld have been sufiicicnt and there transcribing the | States Public Health Bureau and | Census Bureau are at hand to prove that Mr. Hooved was correct in criti- |cizing the “abuses” whieh have grown exceedingly since the party ot {the candidate began entorcing the | precious 18th addition to the basic "law. The figures of the government burcaus quoted, by the way, have been checked® and verified by | | chartered accountants and insur- tance actuaries. No less an expert than Dr. Louis 1. Dublin, actuary of the Metropolitan Life Insuranee Company, used charts to lllustrate a paper read by him before the 56th annual convention of the American | Public Health Association, these il | lustrating the increase in the deatn rate from 1921 to 1926 inclusive. Dr. Dublin displayed charts show- ing that the death rate per 1,000 population, which had been steadily declining before prohibiuon begun to prohibit, has been steadily m- creasing since that time. Then E. Clemens Horst of San Francisco, another expert who has spent much time in verifying statis- tics on death rates in the United States and forelgn countries, brought | the figures up to 1928, s0 far as they applied to 70 citles. It was shown by both gentlemen that the increase in the death rate since 1921 has been as rapld as it | had been decreasing before the pro- hibition era. And it was shown that the death rate in Kuropean coun- tries, which like that in the Unitea States prior to 1921 had been ge- clining, continues to decline while ours increases since that time. The rise has taken place notwith- standing the efficient activities of all the public health agencles of tne United Btates and the steady pro ress of medical science in this coun- try toward the preventton and cure of disecase. Now, what has prohibition en- forcement to do with this? Perhaps. it may be claimed, the increased death rate 1s due to other eauses. On this point Dr. Dublin was em. phatic. Here is what he said in his paper before the Public Health Aa- soclation: “The year 1920 showed the low- ost rate tor admissions to hospitals for mental diseuses due to aicohol- ism. 8ince that year the admission rate has increased step by step and last year saw conditions three times an bad as six years ago. It is only too true that in the country over, with very few exceptions, there is a mounting rate from alcoholism, and | from the associated discases among the male population.” Mr. Hoover's discusslon . of “ubuses,” then Justified. Let him continue the discussion, He has | been part of the admintscration dur- ing the progress of this “noble ex- periment” and should know of what he apeaks. was “INTOXICATING” LIQUOR It seems that certain prohibition in view of conditions as they have | developed, they can sit back and de- clare “I told you so.” Listen to Mra. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W. C.T. U. of New York state: “The 18th Amendment prohibits ‘Intoxicating’ liquor. It is around the definition of this term that the con- troversy rages, just as a few femper- ance leadors foresaw that it would when they tried to insist on the worda ‘alcohotic liquor' being in- corporated in the wording of the amendment. Hdd ‘alcoholic liquor' becn used. # mere chemical analysis would not have becn the necessity, as there is today, of a definition of the term ‘intoxicating liquor.” That, it scems, would have {obviated the Volstead tion of “intoxicating meaning Hquor containing one-half largely act's defini- | liquor” as | P Fe ots end Fancies Be good, and—er—don’t be #o durned mouthy about it, Among the best intelligence tests yet devised are campaign lies. No matter how the election goes, you will work just hard for a d?llnr and pay just as much rent. A good neighborhood s a place where landlords make you.pay for your vanity. — Virtue is its own reward, but there i3 the further satisfaction of needing no aspirin next morning. When a man talks about art for art's sake, it's either an alibi for failure or evidence that he inherited a fortune. War is much like other things. People wouldn't have so much of it if they couldn't have it charged. Note to wets: Prohibition was put over because all prohibitionists knew just what they wanted. The thing that worries the G. O. is the fact that a few bolts in the South can't change things, while a few bolts in the North can. Americanism: Being a darned hypocrite in an effort to be a good example. Every dog has his day, and Bobby {Jones has about squared accounts with the Yanks who marched [ through Atlanta. There are three kinds of smiles, the different type being prompted by the words of ‘attaboy,” “dinner" and “Chicago." Measure a man's intelligence by the age at which he thinks his kids qualified to drive a car. Another way to get high blood pressure is to be a waiter and stand in patient silence while a flapper makes up her mind what to order, Example of husband being gener- obs: “We can't afford both, Mcr! 80 you get your teeth fixed and 1'll wait. Mush: That thick stuff made of corn meal. Also the stuff bound in limp leather. The cost of the campaign must include damage to the self-respect of those who get mad when they discuss it. Theres' so much good in the worat liquor and so much bad in the best liquor that it duesn’t become any of it to poke fun at the rest of it. Correct this sentenc teen,” said the mother, never treat her as though she were a little child still.” (‘opyright 1928, 25 Y;@o—T odgy Charles Parsons thas been pro- moted to be sccond vice president of the P. & I°. Corbin Mfg. Co., suc- ceeding C. M. Jarvis, Mr. Parsons kas been assistant treasurer New Rritain High completely out- classed Meriden at Klectric field Saturday and won by 11 to 0, aveng- ing a previous 12 to 6 defeat. Chamberlain played a great game at fullback, ably assisted by Flana- gan, Kallberg, Roche and Teich. The town election tody was ex- pected to bring out only a light vote. Up to 3-o'clock the total of ballots cast was 3.388 against 3.09 a year ago. The principal issue seemed to be consolidation. | of ome per cent alcohol. But per- | haps there would have been other | complications equally as bad. If the Anti-Saloon League had seen un ad- vantage in forbidding aleoholic liquor™ it probably would 1i wc heen the first 1o see the point. The principle of one-half of one [ per cent was not an original con- ception with the Volstead law, but The annual meeting of the Men's Sunday union of the South church was held last night. Judge James 5. Cooper ciected president, J. C. Moody vice president, E. W. Schultz chairman of the Sunday eve- ning committee, and George H. Dy- son chairman of the lookout and in- vitation committee. The barn of Samuel Welinsky on | Willow stroct was destroyed by fire Saturday night and three horses were hurned to death. | EiGH: THOSE AUTUMN COLOR SCHEMES ) Gladioli and marigolds make au- tumn's gardens gay, t take a tip from. them, live and learn,” they say, Gladiolis of - humor and marigelds of jokes . Would brighten up the gardens of our dispositions, folks! 8o wh; INBECT RID! Mrs, Schuyler—Goodness, Bridget, there's no oxygen in this room. New Maid (proudly)—Not a one, mum! THE PUNCH BOWL . His Love Grew Cold! In happier days her lover wooed And vowed and pleaded, sighed and sued; And now she vows that he shall see That she can sue as well as he! —H. V. Greene LI 5 Realtsation! Before I married Annabelle 1 was her pumpkin pie, Her precious peach, her honey lamb, The apple of her eye. ' But after years of wedded life, This thought I pause to utter: “1 find 1 am none of these things— I'm just her bread and butter!” —Brand Storm o e e Tun About! 1 bought ‘a - yearling hopud A winner he would prove to be; Alas! T breke him {n the spring, And in the summer-he broke me! ~Norman Berrelll. colt, and ©'Nuch An Angelt Guest (at night club)-—Wiiter, there is a mistake here. Yoy have charged me $14 instead of $13. | Waiter—I thought that you might be supersiitious, sir! % —A. 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The next is 3 serieg of puns in- scribed by the survivors of John Scott, a Cincinnati brewer: Poor JOHN SOOUT lies buried heve; Although he was both. hale and stout Death streichod him on the bitter bier, In another world he hops about, Can't Beat It! Boyd—How's the telephone ser- vice in this town? Davis—Great. The ofer night 1 called up a girl and proposed, but she turned me down. Boyd—What's that got to do with 13 Davis—Listen. Within five seconds after T hung up, central called and asked me if she'd do! , —Elia A. Lund (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction Forbidden) QUESTIONS ANFWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact er {nformation by writing to the Questlnz Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Burean, 1333 New York avenue, Washington. D. C., encioing two cents in stampe for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor cap e tended research be undertaken. Al other questionr will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned reqnesty can- not be answered. All letters are con- Adentia).—Tditor. Q. Can the president of the United States veto a constitutional amendment? Did President Wilson veto the eighteenth amendment? A. The vete power of the presi- dent does not extend to amendments to the conpstitution. President Wil- son vetoed the Volstead enforce- ment act, not the eighteenth amend- ment. Q. . How old are Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper, and are they married? AL Colleen Moore is 26 ycars old, and she iy married to - John McCormick, & production manager. Gary Cooper. is 27 years old, and not married. Q. What is the purpose of the president of the United States mak- ing an address at the . opening of each congress? Is it to control the leégistation? A. The constitution of the U. 8. provides that the president “shall from time to time give to the con- gress information of the state of the union and recommend to their con- sideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient”, Q. Are Roman Catholics per- mitted to join the Masonic Order? A. So far as the Masonic order in concerned there is no ban against Roman Catholies becoming mem- bers. There is a special ban by the Roman Catholic church, however, against Cathélics joining the Ma- sonic organization. Q. Who is the Speaker of the United States senate? A. There'is no such oftice. The vice-president of the United States, Charles G. Dawes, is the president and presiding officer of the senate. The Speaker of the house of repre- sentatives is Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. « Q. What is the value of a United States dime dated 18877 A, 10 to 15 cents. Q. How many people prison in the United States A. The prison population of the United States in 1927 totaled 71,028, are in name Blandina? A. It is from the Latain and means “kindly” or “gentle”, It was the name of an early Christian martyr, & young slave girl,. who was thrown to the wild beasts in the | arena at Rome. Q. From where did the phrase “Ships that pass in' the night” mea ing chance acquaintances, originats A. “Ships that pass Night” is the title of a book by Beatrice Harradan, published in 1894 and several later additiona. The title of the book has given cur- rency to the phrase. Q. Are United States mail car- riers permitted to engage in selling or soliciting along their routes? A. United States mail carriers are not permitted to engage in any bustness that requires soliciting or in which their positions as mail carriers would give them an undue advantage over competitors. Do the words “pull” and “lift” have the same meaning? A. “Pull” means to apply force to in such a manner as to cause to approach the person or thing ex- erting the force. “Lift" means to raise against gravity by continuous application of force; move to a higher point, elevate. Q. Can you tell me what the democratic platform of 1884 said about sumptuary legislation? A. - There was but a single cen- tence, which read as follows: *“We oppose sumptuary lows, which vex the citizens and interfere with in- dividual Mberty”. It constitutes a single paragraph of the platform. Q. It is said that Lindbergh, in his flight to Paris, flew entirely by “dead reckoning”. What doea this mean? Did he use a navigator's sextant? A. Dead reckoning takes {into consideration the following factors: the known starting point, the com- pass direction, the average speed, the duration of time and the modi- fying factors on direction and speed by reason of head, cross or follow- ing winds; taking these various facts and estimates, the reckoner estimates as nearly as may be what his resulting position over the earth may be at the end of a certain elapsed time. It would have been impossible for Lindbergh to use navigator's sextant'inasmuch as he had to pilot his ship unaided. Q. Is it true that Babe Ruth draws a larger salary than the president of the United States A. 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C. 1 want a copy of the bulletin CARE OF FLOORS AND FLOOR-COVER- NGS, and enclose herewith five cents in coin, or looss, 5. postage stamps, to cover postage and handiing cests: e | uncencelled, l R e | FITTTTSTITTt S essectnece I am a reader of the New Britain Herald, _—————————— —— t— — ] THE MOTHER oF THE FAT BoY MCQUIRE HAS pEEN “AFTER™ THINKS MCGUIRE 1S A VERY &oop INFLUENEE N THE NEIgHBoRHoop ! existed in the internal revenue tax | ' A {upe in the Connecticut Co. | boiler room on Chestnut street blew up last night and there was excite- convicts at work at gainful employ- | Congress to chaneg the law relating ment in the manufacture of goods to such evidence. marketed by contractors compete ‘!uw. where it was used for purposes {of taxation. The tax definition was Capital opposes the system he- eause such contractors unfairly com- pete with factories. with free labor. ‘ | | similar goods made in It is not a question as to occupying the of convicts. This can be done without putting them to work time, n goods sold in the open market competion with tusivialists, say the proponents of | # Haswes-Cooper bill. Connceticut, laborers and in- | however, enjoys a rake-off from prison labor. The con. pay the state the labor. tractors privilege This, in a sense, puts the s for of utilizing convict business, and does o in a mos jectionable form—1Dy competing with private industries and free laborers. It is a serious question. We pre- fer to think that morality and right is on the side of the proponents of the Hawes bill. 8o far the chief argument officialdom has been that the state at this time Cooper of stands to lose money if prison-made goods are prevented from interstate commercs. Four states already devote the products of their “ABUSES" of the 18t Amendment is to protect the American home. A sacred obli- gation i imposed on the Pres- ident to secure its honest en- forcement snd to eliminate the abuses which have grown up around it. T wish it to succeed.” —Herbert Hoover, “The purpose If “the abuses that have grown up around it are had, who is respon- sible? Mr. Hoover been a mem- which has been attempting to enforce the 18th Amendm; When e of “abuses” he unwittingy citicizes his ber of the party in powe nt. ralks own party for its lack of entorce- ment. He criticizes Mr. Menon by In- direction; he in the fashion cizes the entire enforcement ma- same cri chinery. Morcover, he is right in such criti- cism, even if he, as the helr pre- sumptive to the Coolidge and Mellon at the mileu failure-to-enforce policies, throws a foggy over the entire enforcement process same time past. present and future. The “abuses” need further eluci- dation. Authentic figures from no prisons to sfate [ retained in the Volstead act, but bent | to purposes of interpreting the Con- | sitution instead of merely forming a taxation. That huge difference. What is one-half of one per cent l'alcohol? It is like putting half a | teaspoonful of alcohol in a pint of | water—not a “pint bottle, hut a real basis for makes a 3pmv; or one teaspoonful in a quart. A person drinking an entire gallon of such a concoction would be drink- ing only four teaspoonfuls of alco- hol. To term such a small percentage of alcohol in a beverage as “intoxi- cating” manifestly flouted scientific fact. Congress, in passing this defini- tion in the Volstead law, did as much to nullify the 15th any others since, for the amendment ing” act attempted to Amendment as called for “intoxics while the Volst designate uninto intoxicating. Yet today all sugges- tions that the changed in its definition are called attempts at nullification. liguor, cating liquor as Volstead act be Kissing the hand has heen form- ally incorporated in Jugoslavia's code of gallantry. i ‘ ment for a while. For a while it | was feared fhere might be a repe- | tition of the tragedy of a year ago, | but the only real damage was to a | workman's coat. This coat, belong- ‘vn;: to James Ryan, was burned up |-—and it contained Ryan's pay. | Jeath, whose pay as per- r has long been a bone of contention between the mayor and the fire commissioners, today veceived a cheek from the city auditor for $168.55, his pay in full from July 1 to October 1. A com- promise by which he was paid for lonly five days a week was arrived at, and the fire department mixup i over. In the future he will like the other drivers, for cix days a week. T. H. Johnson was in the delega- tion from the Putnam Phalanx that attended the banquet given for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of London by the First Infantry of Providence Saturday night. Dr. A. B. Johnson returned from Maine Saturday night with two deer w8 evidence of his skill, as a trophy. John Burns of Vine street has re- turned to this city after three years' service on the hospital staff of the I'nited States army. He spent two vears in the Philippines. The High school foothall players, ‘?\V!\lvrd with red fire, called on Prin- | cipal Akers at his Lenox Place home last night. He invited them in and | regaled them with stories of his own football days. The fullback’s dream the night be- fore the game! Jazz Birds! Customer—Do you have any hom- ing pigeons? Bird Dealer—No, our pigeons are ‘modern. They never go home! —Mrs. H. W. Collings. TOMBSTONE CHUCKLES This tombstone titter is copled from a monument of Ashover, Der- byshire, which reads as follows: To the M of K DAVID WALL ‘Whose ‘superior performance on the bassoon cadeared him to an ex-