New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1928, Page 6

as possible. Judging by the quality of the rails that have been put down there and manner in which they have baen’ it 13 going to be a fine crossing for the railroad and the irqlley cars. The wheels roll over it wifh 3 minimum of bumps and noise, ledding one to.marvel at the emgineering excellence of cross- ing makers, it nothing more. But the stuff that goes between the ralls—that is the trouble. The modern automobile und heavy truck lis a glutton for pavement and can | wear them out with amazing speed. | To our knowledge the filling between Jasued Dally (Sunday Kxcepted) At Mersld Bldg.. 67 Church Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES 80 & Year $2.00 Thres Months e & Month Watered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office 9 Editorial Rooms {the rails at that particular crossing | The only profitable advertising medium n the Chy. Circulation books and press rosm always open to advertisers. Member of the Associated The Associated Press is cxciusively en- | titled to the use for re-publication uf | all news credited to it or mot otherwis: credited in this paper and alm local Bews published therein. Member Awdit Bureaw of Circalation | The A. B. C. is & natiomal organization and adver- analysis of | tigers with a strictly hone i Our circulation staf dit. This insures pr aud in newwpaper di to both mational and | The Herald is on sale daily in N York at Hotaling's Newsstand. Ti Square; Schultz’s Newsstands, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street. i — | Of one thing we are certain: The | editors of the Saturday Evening | Post are enormously peeved at the way one of its rivals, the Literary Digest, thought of the straw ballot method of gaining thousands of dol- lars’ worth of free publicity. One of the pearls of campaign oratory and from the mouth ar‘ Senator Cole L. Blease, of South Carolina, too: “If every man in the United States who takes a drink wvotes for Governor Alfred E. Smith for President he will get the biggest majority of any nominee in the his- tory of America.” That telephone conversation be- tween President Coolidge and King Alphonso was quite delightful. The President lauded Spanish culture and | influence in the Americas in un- | stinted terms. The little telephonic ‘ceremony should make for good will | not only in Spain but throughout | Spanish-America. SMITH ON THE TARIFF The Louisville speech of Governor Smith marks a notable and historic breaking with the past. Until this | time no Democratic candidate for | the presidency has uttered similar views, For generations the tariff was | considered one of the chiet points of | difference between Republican and Democratie doctrine. The diffcrence | now is one of detail rather than of | principle. The nine points on the tariff pro- jected by Governor Smith will ap- peal to all except those who believe | in free trade. If there are any such | left they have no political home. | The change in the Democratic viewpoint was presaged from the | time industry began to gct a hold in the South on a large scale. This turn- ed influential parts of the South into | protectionists. Then eame an in- | ereased hold of business men in the | councils of the party, climased by | the acceptance of John J. Raskob as campaign manager. Governor Smith himself has never been a man td upset apple carts, and his desire to continue the status quo of industry and prosperity is not surprising to anyone knowing his record as an executive. The Democratic platform adopted at Houston was eminently reassuring upon the tariff; Mr. Smith’'s acceptance speech was even more reassuring. Now we have an entire speech devoted to the tariff that is not only reassuring, but con- vincing. ‘There need be no crror regarding Mr. 8mith’s tariff promises. They are short and easy to understand when given in substance: He favors no general revision; no tariff bill of the past will be taken as a model for study; if there are revisions they will be only in individual schedules, and then only after a thorough investi- gation by an impartial tariff com- mission and ing. Under such a plan the tariff is not | a congressional hear, only out of politics but is made a sclentific and impartial the likelihood that every industry interested in the maintenance of | adequate tariff schedules will receive all the protection that 1s necessary. Workmen. too, will he protected and the public will have nothing to study, with fear. E With such a changed attitude in Democratic scarcely any ne discuss the it during thg cam- paign. Both sides are right about it | and neither can be wrong. principles there s essity any longer to | ta THE NEW CROSSING The hurly-burly that has been un- der way for a week at the Main street railroad crossing is nearly finished, greatly to the joy of city officials who have ponde the .evils of a railroad right of way over Main street. For years this crossing has been a source of irritation and there isn’t anyone among us who ex- pects to see the day when it will be . wrapped in the blanket of history That being the case, it is import- | ant that the erassing is as perfect ' or are under way. | any down on numerous each time it was thought that it would last longer than any of its forerunners. Disap- pointment on each occasion has has been‘ put occasions and |been keen, however, when it was found that the whecls of traffic knew no such anticlpations. The holes accumulated with startling fre- quency, causing autoists much irri- tation and giving city officials much to grumble about—at least some- #hing else to blame on the railroad or the trolley company. As a matter of fact, the holes in the environs of the steel rails hve never been worse than holes in some of the streets where no opportunity exists to blame them on the railrongd or the trolley company. But then, they existed, and Main street being an important thoroughfare it was the consensus that it should offer easy riding even at the hated cross- ing. Now the city has a new deal there. The week will go down in local his- tory as the one when the Main strect crossing* started in apple pie order. Occurrences in the neighborhood probably will be dated from that time on. We hope the to be all that “new crossing will is expected of it. prove HE FIN OF THE Public education SUPER-SHIP in connection SMITH AND PROHIBITION It is claimed by proponents of the | grand old party that Mr. Smith if elected couldn’t do a thing about prohibition; that it would require | two-thirds of the states to change | the 18th amendment and that this is impossible in view of the fact that there are more than that number of | ostensibly dry states. £ Which is quite right, except— there is the Volstead enforcement law. That does not require two- thirds of the legislatures, but merely needs Congressional action to achieve moditication. | And there are a score of other ways in which Mr. Smith's election , would be a definite menace to pro- hibition as we have it, according to the chaste coumns of a recent issue of the W. C. T. U. organ. Perhaps some of these reasons are imaginary, but not all of them. | BINGHAM IN THE CAMPAIGN Our Senator Bingham was heard from the other day and the contri- bution to campaign literature he made was that Al Smith's regimes as governor of New York have been “wasteful.” The senator reasons, therefore, that if elected President he also would be wasteful. But the figures of alleged waste- | tulnges are susceptible to two angles |of defense. In the first place, they were used by Ogden Mills in his | gubernatorial campaign in 1926 and resulted in his defeat. Governor | Smith merely asked Mr. Mills what particular appropriations he would reduce and Mr. Mills hasn’t answer- ed to this day. The second angle of defense is | that Governor 8mith, like other gov- | ernors, did not originate appropri- ' ations, but these originated in the Jl&gflslmurm The New York legisla- . It he thinks woman's place is in |Fects and Fancies A motor knocks going up hill; man going down hill It's an age of bluff, and most of the people who keep up a front are behind. The English have found a way to make tanks obsolete. Boy, call Mrs. | Willebrandt. [ Education was cheaper In the old days. Daughter took two outing gowns to college, instead of five silk ones. Another way to meet the best peo- ple is to sell play-pretties on the in- stallment plan, the home, perhaps she's so dumb {he's ashamed to have her appear in | public, There's a reason for everything, |and Mrs. Willebrandt was born in | Kansas. | If a town is proud of its Saturday the people still ask central to “Gimme Brown's store,” An educated man is one who can tell you whether the quotation is | from Shakespeare or the Bible, Americanism: Trying to be like !everybody else; thinking this and that man great because they are | different. “Your Amcrican is not easily cowed,” says a red-blooded novel- list. Indeed, no; but how easily bulled. A rural section feels superior. Tt thinks the city can't be much if the Jones boy could make good there, ture has always been Republican. Governor Smith merely signed the bills. with dirigibles has taken a long step | forward the past few days and we | now know that the fins of these u monsters arc quite cause the Graf Zeppelin suffered a little accident to one of fts fins its power to buck head winds was con- siderably reduced and instead of heading straight for Lukehurst after reaching the vicinity of the Bermu- i das it had to cruise around to avoid what otherwise would have been weather offering little trouble. Con- sequently the supership did not ar- rive on schedule time, The trip has been a disappoint- ment to the builders from standpoint. With the world upon it the hope was to make the trip to Lakehurst in fast time; instead a detour was nccessary soon after it started; and another tour on this side of the ocean. Tut the fact that the ship has a cruising ability of 9,000 miles stands it in good stead. In spite of the detours and the damaged fin there was no fear that anything would happen. That gratifying. An accident in the air does not nocessarily spell disaster. This morn. ing the ship was a hundred or so miles cast of Cape Hatteras—the “graveyard of the Atlantic"—und was battling head winds and storms, one eyes of the de- more serious in itself is That was no airplane weather, sure- | ly; but hope remained firm somehow that the vessel would reach its port safely. WHYFORE OF A VOTE rtain citizens have no objections at all to telling the world who they intend to vote for; some of them, in fact, wear Hoover or Smith buttons. There are a large percentage of who cannot give hey intend to citizens, however, one good reason why vole as they advertise. Anyone not believing this necd only some of them, STRAW VOTES 924 In 1 around 000,000 voted. the total is expected to be 40,000,000, at chance has u straw vote this year? Three such votes have béen taken All three give . The operators of one of the straw votes are said to that the straw returns, According to all the South litically. 1t looks from votes that Mr. Smith will be it he carrics four Texas to Mr. Hoove admit they don't believe the straw votes is bady broken up po- the straw lucky of the southern states. But this is only from the returns, Dr. Work is not banking upon them in the lez No straw votes can be 1 straw vote | effective unless they reach I classes of citizens. It is doubtful whether of them It the straw vo ct. But that do that. Tt is next to that in 1024 approximately wus a year that it impossible. 1t is true were cor didn't even require a straw vote to it would happen. The 24 was completely set- the Madison indicate w clection of 1 tled after Garden dog fight Straw votes are taken at consid- erable expense. The money is credit ed advertising promotion. That is all they are. Those who take them are Square more interested in the free publicity they get out of them than in the returns. important, Be- | to talk with | Americans | INTERNATIONAL FORDIZING Some onc-once asked the question: ‘What will happen when every civiliz- ed nation on the globe goes in for high pressure mass production of manufactured articles? what will happen when all we consume is made in huge quantities on the American a la Ford plan, but not | America, but everywhgre | lonly in clse "Tis a falr question, and anyone uble to give an equally fair answer knows his on— his beefsteak. Well, a fair start has been made.’ {The pressurc s being felt i some- thing clse besides automobiles. The pressure is being felt in the shoe busines: | | And the shoc works which is caus. | ing the stir is not an American con- | cern, either, although it is exporting shoes to America in increasing ! quantities. The Fordized shoe plant is | situated in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It appears that a shocmaker there, Ly name Thomas Bat'a, some years | |80 took Henry Ford as a model, | lequipped his factory with belts and machinery he invented himself, and now all the 12,000 workmen need to do is to stand in front of the in- | |terminable belts and each do his lit- {(h; bit as the leather passes by. | tesult: Bat'a shoes by the billion; | Bata banks; Bat'a better baby | skyscrapers; Bat'a A airplanes; Bat'a con- | homes with tile girdling the clinies; 1 schools; Bat crete workmen's baths; world. | a Bat'a agencies ported than England makes and ex- | Germany makes | ports; more than and exports. This man Bat’a natural- Iy is regarded as the Henry Ford of the shoe Industry and his output gous to India, all over Europe, Asia and South America. And exports of *h shoes into |the United States have increased as | tollows: 1926—361,370 pairs. 1927—879,392 pairs, 1 (January to May)—1,165,- (618 pairs. | Readers will note the difference between all of 1927 with only five months of 1928 with amazement. riff protection doesn’t seem to when Fordizing begins over- Nothing short of an absolute embargo seems to worry the Czechs. Some ycars ago when European competitors got foolish this Czech IPord cut his prices 50 per cent over- night. Thén he offered charity re- to out-of-work ghocmakers, The New England shoe has been prospering spite prote scas, industry fairly well in of the development of a great shoe industry the Middle West But the n shoe industry, wherever it is situated, cannot per in Amerd mit such a threat by Fordized plants in Kurope. Such a development, we thought, would have rather than in in other should have arisen in America or European country. Czechoslovakia any not certain, however, whether such a development in in- if universally be a good thing. A labor writer, who wrote a book dénouncing the Ford ized mcthpds in Praguc, had the mis fortune t6 have hisx hook suppressed by the government. The title of the volume was “The Unknown Dic- tator.” The action of the government ! rathet proved the title was true. dustry applied” would | | And that's that. | | body call him Bill. !lows to please him. The people whose past lives are exposed, in complete detail are, can- didates and resident of hick towns. A hick town is a place where the grocer can't collect because every- Mexico should feel natural under President Gil. His name is pro- nounced “Heel."” What becomes of furniture that is too old for poor folks and yet old enough for rich folks? Shoot if you nust this old gray head, for dry agents need gun prac- tice,” she said. Another thing the ultimate con- sumer pays without realizing it is the stiff tax placed on the big fel- Correct this sentence: “I believe him.” said the hard-boiled politician, “when he says he doesn't want the votes of the intolerant.” (Copyright 1928, Publishers’ Syndicate). 25 Vears Ago ioday In the office of Kirkham & Coop- night, the New Britain Wic- club, which will hame .or its the promotion and mainte- of the game of wicket, was . The following gentlemen nt: J. H. Kivkham, Judge . D. Humphrey, C. J. Elam, son, Wilbur Corbin, James Craft, C. 3 Lewis, and A. R. Rockwe rs will be elected | next weck and a permanent organi- cted. Grammar school foetball ning by 17 to 4 The annual concert of the Zither club will be held in Turner hall on xt Monday evening. The Meriden Zither club, the N. 1. Quartette club, and the Teutonia Macanerchor | vote by which con- dcfeated Monday . Apathy played | re more than 15 10ws that Gene a large part. Ther 6,000 names on the voting list, but than 4.000 voted, while 5,475 osited their ballots in November, The 25th annual convention of the | | Women's Christian Temperance Un- | ion of Connecticut will open in the Trinity M. I. church tomorrow aft- ernoon, with the local union enter- taining the state del: tes at a tea. The young peaple of Burritt Grange will present a play, “The Fruit of his Folly,” tomorrow even- in a competitive program. New Britzin High downed Yol- yoke on the gridiron Saturday by 11 to 5 after a hard game at Elec- tric ficld. Flannery made the first score early, and Curtin went-over for the second one in the third qu also kicked yoke scored on a Kin ) which completely fooled New late in the manu lined up as follows: 170; en, 1t; Curtin, Brit- 1,200 Attend Program Of Holy Cross Circie An audience of approximately 1.200 attended the first evening of entertainment given last night by the Holy Cross Dramatic circle at M. T. & B. hall. The program sted of two well chosen comedy . which were the souree of ecn- tinuous laughter, and a series of ongs, monolegues and a pantomime. The proceeds of the evening went towards the payment of chairs for the meeting rooms in 1h ent of the church, and it is planned to repeat the program sometime in the near future in Norwich, The circle That Fall Planting!’ Let's plant with our quota of jon- quil bulbs, folks, A fondness for hearing and telling good jokes, And then jater on, when the flow. ers come out, gaily the fun-quills , of humor vill sprout! How He Got It! Wallis: “How did Hutchinson get so rich? What did he deal in Langville: “American lucre, Jap- anese lacquer, and Canadian liquor!” THE GIRL WHO'S BEEN ABROAD 3y Theodore Balwant She spent six months in Europe, About a year ago, . And now finds Shorewood City Decidedly too slow; She has never stopped talking Of lands across the sca, And how she "did” the town once Of beautiful “Paree.” When she is at a party, To make her feel at home, The hostess says: “Now tell us About your stay in Rome!"” And one day in our finest shop She asked old Roger Hanks If he would kindly give her The price of things “in francs.” I'd like to buy a ticket And send her far away On that ship she calls the “Paree” ‘If T was sure she'd stay); And I know the folks around here Would gladly help her pack— That girl who's been in Europe And can’t se2m to get back! Where Most Needed! Eleanor, '30: “Does your football team wear shin-guards?” Carol, ’29: “Only at the dances given after the games!"™ —Eliot W, Levy BROWN DERBIES By Sir Anthony Cricket, E.X.E.M.A. Without presuming to delve into personalities at this time, I shall cite a few of the characteristics pe- culiar to wearers of this form of headgear. By so doing I hope to en- able each reader to declde for him- self whether the man makes the hat popular or the hat makes the man, I am inclined to believe that the latter is true, drawing my conclu- sions from the followig reasoning: (a) Any perculfar type of hat in- sures good digestion. (b) Good digestion means and encrgy. (c) Health and encrgy bring cess, health suc- Let us examine the premise T have taken that a peculiar type of hat insures good digestion. The average man eats at least once a day in a restaurant and the average restaurant has an average of threc hats stolen or taken by mistake each Jjay. The average man knows this, and during the entire time consumed in cating, 18 obliged to check up every 80 often and see whether his hat is still where he left it. This fear and apprehensiveness interferes with the process of digestion, and, regardless of whether he knows it or rot, it is HAT-WATCHING which causes 99 per cent of all the stom- ach trouble in men today., Now )¢t us take the man with a Brown Derby. Subconsciously he fecls his hat is safe. No one wants a Brown Derby with the exception of the man who wears one, and if he has one he surely doesn’t want another. One Drown Derby is enough for any- body. T'43 sensc of Security during mealiime guarantees Poise and Re- laxation to the owner, and conse- quently the good digestion, health and energy which T have already outlined. As Final Proof that the hat makes the man, and not vice versa, I point to Governor Al Smith. At one time he wus absolutely un- known. Today he Is running for | President of the United States. He has always worn & Brown Derby, w8 ch fact never increased their popularity, for there are few- r of them worn today than 20 years but Sce What the Hat Has Done for the Man! Now that the nuts rre ripe, I often think of you! WINNING WINNING WINNING WINNING Winning More Frequently Than Ever | plans to gi gram before Christmas. at least one more Lro- i Talking With the Man Higher Up One of OF Man Adam's Chillun? “Shay, Buddie, c'n you tell me where Harry Ray lives? asked my slightly inebriated husband one eve- Aing recently. 3 “Why, you poor sap,” answered the disgusted neighbor, “you're Harry Ray yourselt." “I know J am, Buddie, but where does he live?” —Mrs. H. R, (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction Forbidden) You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Questic= Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau. 1333 Now York avenue, Washington, D. C., encloring two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and.marital advice cannot be given, nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. Al other questionr will receive a ner- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are con- Adential.—Tditor. Q. What is meant by Mid-Victor- lan deportment? A. Mid-Victorian referes to the era of Queen Victoria of England. Her court was very formal and cor- rect in every detail. There were well-defined rules of decorum which might not be varied. The era was one of reform. At the present time the term is used to indicate prud- ishness for one who is old-fashioned, Q. Is “ossification”and ‘“petrifi- cation” the same? A. Ossification is a vital process by which calcareous matter is de- posited in cartilage or in membrane, creating bone, Petrification is par- tial or entire replacement of an organisn by mineral matter, Q. What is the meaning of the name Viola? A. It is from means a violet? ’ Q. Who was the author of the quotation “Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods”? A. Homer, ih the “Illad” book 17,514 and in the “Odyssey”, book 1267, Q. Who was Maud Muller? A. The heroine of a ballad Witk that title by John G. Whittier. Q. 1Is there a United States mili- tary post at Fort Washita? Where is it located? A. Fort Washita has been dis- continued as a military post. It was located in what was Indian Ter. ritory (now Oklahoma) near False Washita River, 26 miles above its mouth Q. Was President Wilson a Ma- son? A. No. Q. Who won the Wrigley Cata- lina Channel swim? What is the distance across the channel and how long did it take to swim it? A. George Young, the winner of the Wrigley Catalina Channel swim. was born in Toronto, Canada. The swim was held in January 15-16, 1927. Young was scventeen years old at the time. The distance across the channel is 22 miles and Young swam it in 15 hours, 48 minutes and 35 seconds. Q. Who is governor of the Aleu- tian Islands? A. George A. Parks, the gover- nor of the Territory of Alaska, is governor of the Aleutian Jlands, which are a part of -Alaska territory. Q. What is a cabalist? A. A student or interpreter of the Jewish eabala, a system of the- osophy originating in a mystical in- terpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain Christian sccts of the Middle Ages Q. Is a “seer” a “sage”? A. “Seer” {s used especiaMy reference to one who forsees the Latin and in and In a linked chain the full strain is applied to every link. If all the links exsept one are strong enough to stani the atrain, the weak ome will break. Hence the is strength of all the other links nullified by the weakness of the one link. Q. Is it correct to say one “eats” or “drinks” soup? A. Thin soups are drunk; soups are eaten, v Q. Which would be the first to be affected by a large body of iron ore, the compass on an airplane or on a steamship? A. The compass needle of the steamship would be the first to in- dicate attraction, same horizontal distance. Q. What is the value of a United States one dollar gold piece dated 1856 with “D"” mint mark? A. $5 to $25. — KIWANIANS TO SEE MOVIES A motion picture, “The Age of Speed” will be shown at the meeting of the Kiwanis club at noon Wed- nesday. The picture comes through the Industrial Film 8ervice corpora- tion of Boston, . On Octber 24 the members of the club and their wives will attend an evening sessiond and dinner at the New Britain Boys' club. A program will be presented by the boys. Observations On The Weather Washington, Oct. 15—Forecast for Southern New England: Part- ly cloudy tonight; warmer except on the southeast coast; Tuesday in- creasing cloudiness and warmer; gentle to moderate south winds. Conditions: The high pressure area over the eastern part of the country is moving slowly eastward and pressure I falling over the in- terior districts, low pressure cen- ters prevail_over the Texas Pan- handle, upper Quebec and the far Canadian northwest. Heavy to killing frosts were reported from various partions of New England and eastern New York state, but temperatures are rising from the Appalachian districts westward to the plains states. Cloudy and show- ery conditions prevail ever scattered districts in the Gulf and south At. lantic states. ' Conditions favor for this vicinity thick HEST COLDS Apply over throat and chest —cover with hot flannel cloth. ViE amuming the: Do menstrual periods make you & stay-at-home cectain days of every month? They needn't! And you need not endure one pang of pain it you'll accept the assistance “of Midol. “Midol makes menstruation anfn cident! No pain, not even disdem: fort, is nccessary now. 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