New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1928, Page 6

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This insures pro- tection against fraud In newspaper dis- tribution fgures to both national and local advertisrs, The Herald is on sale daily i New York at Hotaling’s Newsstand, Times Square; Schults's Newsstands, Entrance Grand Central, ¢2nd Btreet, ——————— CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION A WORTHY EFFORT The Civic Music Association, back- filtration plant a half million. By th time the entire new system ia fingh- ed more than $2,000,000 will have been expended. Because the senior high school is found too small for the growing de- mands the city will have to spend $540,000 on an addition. In the background lurk other expensive school‘ requirements, ‘Wherever one looks there is an outlook for increased expenditures. These cannot be dodged merely be- cause a larger city and more popu- lation requires a larger public service. The only way to avold them | have yet to find anyone who favered a stand-still policy. ‘With the larger growth in popu- lation also comes more property, more business, more industry; all of which means more taxables. The grand list, like the population, in- creases annually. The tax rate also probably will go up a little. The maximum of growth and pub- lic expenditures are far in the fu- ture. Meanwhile we grumble a little, worry a little; and yet, we take pride. AITH IN THE FUTURE Every time a business firm im- proves its premises it means faith in the future of the city. The large number of shops and stores that have been jmproved in the past and are being improved at present speaks would be to quit growing; and we | na hope. If the tariff is *protecting” |the silk industry in Manchester 1n such lugubrious fashion it is protect. ing the artificial silk industry In {Tennessee in & much superior fashion. . AN ASTONISHING PARDON What grip has the Anti-Saloon League on the government of the sovereign state of Indiana? The | pardoning of Dr. E. 8 Shumaker, |the League's state superintendent, on the day he was to begin a two | months' prison sentence on the “state farm,” paturally leads to the inquiry, In that state the governor has the right to pardon, and as Ed Jackson is the chief executive, elect. ed to'his high office with the help of the League and the Ku Klux Klan, one naturally comes to the inevitabfe conclusion that the governor went out of his way to do a good deed to the League's chief mogul in the state. Shumaker was convicted of con- tempt of court; not contempt of an ordinary court, but contempt of the State Supreme Court. When the state’s high court didn't decide liquor cases to the satisfaction of the head of the Anti-Saloon League he | announced the court was biased. Shumaker had a right to criticise | the decisions of the court, of course, | but he had no right to impugn the motives of the court. Pressure politics exerted by the Tolerance seems a lovely thing, but only to the minority. The Navy alone refuses to play the Army eleven. You see, it doesn't need the gate receipts. An ideal husband usually is a re- conditioned , job his old friends wouldn't recognize. the the Party lines mean little when country gets a chance to make We're Losing Out On the Looal city behave. News} At the mavies once we'd park Near the gossips in the dark, Now talking movies make listen, But goodness, Folks, the news we're missin’! Muzsle Velocity! Benson: “How fast do you go in your car?” Turne! an hour” There's nothing definite yet, dealera still have several weeks think up a reason why turkeys high this year, but to are "About 35 thou-shalt-nots —Elisabeth Dore THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Another way to keep fromn grow- — ing old is to assume that the ap- proaching car's single light is the left one. Sports An expert says that a man's thumbprint is generally not so dis- tinct as his fingerprinta The reason is that he rubs away quite a lot of his thumb in endeav- oring to light his automatic cigar- ette-lighter! From the Navy viewpoint, a “menace” is any coaling base that doesn't belong to us. Why all of this fuss about Carnes getting the money? It was collected for the heathen, wasn't it? £ 80 Roosevelt i3 being “sacrificed.” Enginecring It is claimed that the Robot which opened the Model Engineer. ing Exhibition in London recently does everything it ia told. H In Cowncll | be taken within the next few Kensington has sprung up froi he - advocates of the conatruc. Village into a thriviog within the last few years facilities will be needed £ K. ke hig adoption by the board of finance of a resolution for the expenditure of :’;: :";‘l'.:l‘:'g‘“‘:: 00 $540,000 for that purpose, o they should not lose sight of the fack:that |17 this city “n“‘::': b Kensington. There is reason to be- lieve that this question will be dis- cussed when the newly elected ge! eral assembly convenea, I far more difficult to handle is the com- mon countll which must give final T e o pearprorriation. o |™ Farly this summer & number ot # SNrouzh A bend Jeevs. new houses were bullt on the New The public mind 18 divided on the | Bricain road and at the rate they advisability of erection of an addi- | pe heing constructed the residential tion to the high achool bRIMING.|qigtrict will soon extend to the mtnrl:: :.un many, 'l':. seoms m‘; town line at Willow Brook pa-k. en| conversation on road com| atrest—beliove it would be wisdom ;‘::,:m‘u Pised Jest to the value of the prop- to bulld & new high school in the ! Borth nd af the Gl svalabig Toll Y. Tha Gie'@ Delasuy Machine childron living In that section. Thik | s e e een mer b ferood faction has & stalwart and deter-|¢o pyild two mew additions since. mined lcader in Mayor Paonessa, |qyne American Paper Goods Co, and who has had extensive experience on | prentice Manufacturing Co. have crystallising thought and in having | peen enjoying good business. his own way. It is doubtful whether | " "periin people are energetic and any other individual could have held are working to provide the town up the project for so long & period | ity an th: uod’ern tacilities of of time, Since the champlons of the | 1,54 cities. The town has a modern addition first made known their| pank and post office. Both are es- Plans cua mayor by been 1 oppost- | tablished in modern _brick on. L alre y appointe 0 committees to study the situation. ingn, Tho Deck, Memoral_Jiviaty contains & at assortment of The first reported, although not|pooky The or‘;:ninuou are very it § ; the ears of the president, ately inserted an advertisement in & New Haven paper advisng that ¢he coins were & gift of an bore no reiationship to the em ment of the men who fecelved and that political affiliations not affect the status of any em| The campaign i being watc and tollowed by an interested torate! Should McDonough be swe- cesstul in his quest for a seat in the senate, it will bo interesting te feol- low his effort to bring about legisle- tion to curb what the democrats claim 1s now going on in many New Britain factories with reference to Hoover club membership cards. And Now We Must Pwt Up With the “Ansophome.” Comes the “ansophone.” This is an attachment to a teles phone which records a message while the telephone owner is out and whish he may receive upon returning heme You may remember, also, that Platt | reverberating language for the This has led to the belief that it [unanimously, in favor of the new simply by picking up the recelvey ed by citizens who see the call of duty and possessing the energy to do something tangible for the city in a concert sense, is concluding a period of discussion—dating from last spring—with success in sight. Al- though It has not been possible to |future of New Britain. Business in New Britain looks {good and it is getting better, There used to be a notion that business was bound to be flat during cam- paign years, at which time com- merce lagged. But to determine how aS80~ proeors, 1,400 ’"e"‘bbe” '°;:h:d the {ar this is from the truth one need ciation, "% 1:‘ s O otat |11 to make note of the improve- figures are :" € m‘ummm Tne |Ments under way i every block; ': ‘"r:':“ _‘“’l“" ¢ wveryono like, | 1 Nced only tabulate the better- nal effol 0 interest e yone C- 1y to be interested has been extend- wentahar iave . besn vaalle Aoy od to November 1 and quite a whirl- | town since last spring; one need only | 3 ] - o e achieve the largest | O25CFY the plans for the future an poasible success is in store between | mongsed alinostiwerily It scems to make no difference now. and that time, | whether Hoover or Smith 1s elected. Judge W. C. Hungerford, president |ny 0 o who of the association, and Arthur G. | money to provide the improved bus- Kimball, business manager, natural- |,/ . qigtrict feel they are not mak- | Iy have inspired confidence by dint ;. o,y mistakes, let the politicar of their example in this enterprise. | . ¢ s asit way. Both are imbued with the belief that | o course. in spite of widespread New Britain, with at least 72,000 | ¢yigence of faith in the future here population, should not be compelled | ,1q there one meets a ferchant to rely upon the ministrations of & \y4 has had a difficult time. One's nelghboring city for its musical fare | (o pathics go out to the fellow who throughout the winter season. It has .. .40 o good fight but who 1a been these two who more than any g;,5ing or has slipped. Unfortunate- others have placed the Civic Music y 410 ynnals of business always in- Asmoclation on & community pride )40 yps and downs; and where basis; and t make the future even | ., a0 oo up others go down. The more secure they have accepted the ,oin¢ jo that there are many more well known plan whereby artists of .y than downs in this city, speak- repute and standing can be brought . .ommercially. to this city in a manner to appeal to the pocket nerve. It was splendld management, too, to revive the annual concert of the New Britain Choral Society in the The bright for the most part; and the even brighter outlook 18 future must appear than the present. THI: MANCHESTER MILLS plank down their | series contemplated. The Choral so0- clety, after years of effort that caused all citizens to be proud of it, missed giving a concert last spring. This was not progress; it was failure. ‘What loyal New Britainite can sit by without spiritual qualms when such & thing occurs. This season, however, the choral effort is to be revived with vigor, all due to the inherent possibilities of a city-wide organiza- tion. This city cannot afford to permit proximity to a neighboring larger city to deter it from local efforts that redound to local honor, standing and reputation; it cannot permit radio music to petrify local achieve. ment. To hold its own, maintain the tradition of the past and build an edifice of spiritual values for the future, it must fight its own cultural battle, and fight to win. There is more glory, satisfaction, in fighting an uphill battle and winning than in dodging an issue that should never be allowed to die—especially in a city which in a material sense is progressing as swiftly as New DBri- ain. Those who formed tte Civic Music Assoclation knew what to expect. They were told that the first year would be the most difficult. The pubfe would have to be convinced that it could be The main point was to hang on once the or- ganization was started, to battle to the finish with determination grit. That has been the story, and it is an honorable chapter in local history. After the public has been shown that fine concerts through memberships in such an organiza- tion are feasible the following years will be easier; momentum will have been established; will be widespread. Let New Britain “sit up and take notice;" the Civic Muslc Association, with headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce, is a going concern. Contracts with four outstanding artists have been sign- ed; others are in preparation. Glory and success is in store. And to our notion, be hallelujah when the first success is over, more done. and public confidence there will many a year of E Pride in Britain sobering thought the @ity 18 growing rapidly there is need for an enlarged the of New with it Largely because brings and improved water system. The pipe line alone will cost | more than a million dollars; a Political contenders seem to be devils who walk where angels fear to tread. They had a political rally |in Manchester the other day. Man- | chester is a Connecticut town where the silk iIndustry predominates and |though there have been reports and rumors throughout the state that all was not well in the industry a ling of helpfulness inclined ob- toward whispering rather than the use of the megaphone. Not 50, however, when the spell- binders alighted in the town. They | “talked right out in meeting.” Of | course, they were members of the servers democratic party. Taking the band- gcs off the sore spots of prosperity seems to be a specialty of Demo- tic sped ; sometimes the sores, | with the gauze off, look like terrible | aftlictions. | It seems that & Harris B. Cheney, |boss of the Manchester mills, re- | cently made a public statement that | Manchester must vote Republican or the mills would be forced to close down. Mr. |the only issue in Manchester. What the tariff has to do with the Cheney said the taritf was artificial silk and what mot was not explained by Mr. Chency. So far as he to Herbert Hoover's recent visit to Elizabethton, Tenn., a budding ecen- ter of the artificial silk industry which Mr. Hoover blossoming there entirely because of the tariff. We think Manches bethton than The Democrats, we are aware said truly was has more to fear from from a low tariff. |in fact, are not promising a low tarif, of the present tariff—more thing that bhoosts but mor of the artificial silk in Elizabethton to the sort of detriment of real silk made in Man- | chester—which is the same thing that the Republicans favor. | Yet it is interesting to note what Dr. Edward O. Dolan, Democratie spelibinder, had to say right in Man- chester, to wit: “If the Republican tariff means prosperity, why have the Manchester mills functioned only 60 per cont of capacity during the past two or thr years; why have the been watched; why has it been lions been cut from 10 to and why are otier mills in this vicinity elosed or only working part time.” 1 This 1ittle a bitter pill in Manchéster. There 18 statement naturally was dear ladies wearing rayon, near-silk, | didn’t even refer | Indiana Anti-Saloon League should meet with the unstinted condemna- tion of fair-minded citizens in that state. Hoosiers have discovered that the head of the state's organization, having a working agreement with | state politicians, is above the law. Padlock proceedings in New Brit. | aln being under way. We get the im- | pression that they ought to help the hardware trade. Tt is likely that the candidates will run out of gas just about the time the public runs out of patience. ‘We note that the Literary Digest poll has Hoover carrying 44 states. ‘Why hesitate about the remaining four? Who says the processions is past? |have a “mammoth rade” on November 2, with special uniforms and 30 bands in line, all to age of torchlight Boston is to tell the world that Boston will €0 |police are moved every weck, and | for Hoover on November 2. What it will do on November 6 may be another story. A man who aspired to be bailiff in Quebec had to answer questions, perhaps to show his intelligence. He failed on this one: “Who was the third wife of Henry VIN?" Having | been denied the job he sought on his failure to answer this question the outraged citizen has appcaled to the courts. We hope he wins. An In- telligence test like that shows up the lack of intelligence of the test pro- moter, If it be true that Roger W. Wat- kins stowed away $5600,000 during his operations as an investment broker |, he can look forward to a nice easy lifc after he gets out of prison some years hence. Most men cannot lay ide that much for a rainy day after a lifetime of honest toil. But we don’t believe Watkins got hold of that much money, basing our bellet entirely on the fact that that is what we care to bcllev’a about it. Observations On The Weather ‘Washington, Oct. orecast for Southern New England: Partly cloudy and cooler Saturday; Sunday fair. | Conditions: Pressure is low north of the Guif of St. Lawrence with a | trough extending southwestward to | castern Ontario. The outlook is for nostly fair weather Saturday and Sunday in the states east of the Mississippl river. It will be slightly cooler on Saturday in Southern New England and the interlor of northern New England. WEDS AMERICAN GIRL | Belglum Boser Who Came Here to Win Laurcls n Ring Wins Wife Instead. New York, Oct. 20 (P—A second forcign heavyweight has taken an American bride back to his home land after showing his wares in American rings. This one Is Pierre Charles, | Belgium, whose marriage to | Emelia Reureux, in Detroit some time ago, was announced today. Like Tom Heeney, the New Zealand heavywelght who was married here hortly after his championship match with Gene Tunney, Charles has taken his bride back to his homeland for a short stay. Cuba’s Capitol Will Have Diamond Setting Havana, Oct. 20. (@—A huge dia- mond to be placed in the dome floor of the new national capitol at T'a- vana will be the standard of me urements for Cuba The gem is said to weigh 50 carats and Is the gift of a million- aire Cuban senator whose purpose was to provide a fitting “top” for the new building. Plans 4 afoot to set the stone with claborate emony attended by President | chado, 20 of Miss | |s Ma- torchlight pa- | sacrificed Teddy by making him Vice-President. Americanism: Yearning for some kind of home built around a bath room like the one in the magazine, New York pays most of the come tax, eh? And the poor who grabs the pay check must pay most of the bills. The layman knows little ahout glands, except that they afford a good alibi for the family idiot. The que: | election: Whose conscience 1s to be your guide? ¢ No man is licked who has a fresh shine, and you never saw a suicide whose nails showed recent attention. | Philadelphia crooks are doomed. {no crook can pay a fresh bribe every week and 1 Bishop manning says the fault is {not in Prohibition but in man’s fail- ure to obsarve it. And that also goes ‘rnr the command to love one an- her. Even In the old days the news- pabers printed thrilling and gossipy stories, but they always turned out |to be patent medicine ads. You'll notice that the fellow who takes chances at railway crossings in- wife ion to be decided in this must be a married man! < DY Crime The increasing use of pistol-si- lencers by American gunmen is, of course, the outcome of complaints that the noise of murders was be- coming a nuisance! v e 0 Inquiry A neighboring newapaper says that insects have been on this earth for 50,000,000 years, while the hu- man race is only 500,000 years old. Then what did the moths live on before there were any dress trousera? ¢ o 0 Society A couple of Lanarkshire, England, were married recently in the open air. We understand that the bride- groom took a long, lingering look at the distant horizon, shrugged his shoulders, and walked with unfal- tering steps to the place of elocu- tion! Inefficient? Paul: “Buckley certainly made & wonderful run—85 yards to a touch- down." Grace: “Yes, and ‘he’d have made it §n less it they'd let him run straight! » —Frank O'Doul THE CITY OF PHILLISTINES By M. A. Yohees X This city is located in the State which was founded by the House of | Benjamin. It has been facetiously called the City of Brotherly Love. Two of its tirst inhabitants were ]| {two brothers, . Willlam Penn and | Willlam Tell. They settled here be- cause everybody told them that it was a great mellon country. The city was named after the Philip- pians who slew the Philistines at usually is driving an old car that | another place. The natives are doesn't matter much. known as Phiianders, and they were the originators of the Philharmonic idca, which is terrible. The natives also might be called FPhilogynous, but of course they can’t help that. The City proper is not located on Lake Erie, but is at another place. It is in this City that a new maga- zine is published which enjoys a large circulation and sells for a nickel. The Editor says that they gather in quite a few nickels every Thursday, The Police Department is very fond of marine food. The Fire De- partment takes theirs soft-boiled. The town also boasts of a 6'and 10, | a free library and a post office. | | Where they sell stamps and post- cards. ‘Their favorite song is: Vare do we go from here? Correct this sentence: “T bought the car because of the muior,” said | she, “and didnt’ even look at the | radiator cap.” Copyright 1928, Publishers Syndicate 25 Years Ago Today C. A. educational department opened last night under auspicdlous con- ditions, Over 100 young men were present. C. J. Parker was chai man, E. Allan Moore was the fir speaker and compared the African savage, with his great physical bulk but puny brain, with the American young man. Property owners on Chestqut street appeared before the street committee last night and objected to the granting of permission for C. L. Barnes to build a coal yard {with an office close to the strect. bullding in the south end. The mayor dismissed this committee with thanks and proceeded to appoint another, which has not completed its assignment. There is & possibllity that Mayor Paonessa will be able to rally to his #ide a sufficient number of council members to block project of adding to she present high school plant. Members of the coun- hcll are elected by wards and the ma- jority listens carefully for whispered or outspoken sentiment in their dis- tricts. The north end of the city has two wards or 10 vopresentatives in the council. If the mayor could, by a vigorous campaign, control those 10 votes and could recruit five more from other wards he could block the appropriation, Several members of the council might = be expected teo vote against any proposition on the ground that strict economy de- mands retrenchment in the expend- iture of public funds and their votes might be cast against the board of education plan. The fight has just started. The school board found the finance board in a sympathetic ‘mood, although the vote was not unanimous. It will face a stiffer battle in the coun- cil. CIVIC CLUBS APPROVE BARRING PROPAGANDISTS Nothing since the beginning of the civic club idea in New Britain has aroused such widespread com- ment among the members of the clubs in general as the present con- troversy on the subject .of advertis- ing speakers, thing has aroused the feelings of the members quite so keenly as this issue. Almed at no particular person, project or movement, it seems to be a case of the last straw bearing down rather heavily on the camel’s back. The tendency to put up the bars against all speakers with an ulte- rior motive is meeting with favor among practically all the members, 8o far only one man, a Rotarian, has stood up in defense of the open door to axe grinders. Not only in the Rotary club but in the other clubs as well the pro- test secms to be gaining in strensth. Officers of the Kiwanis club and the Lions club have been approach- ed frequently with a demand for the complete elimination of five minute speakers. The suggestion made by George K. Macauley to the Rotary club that a speaker of national prominence be procured once a month and the otl- er meetings be confined to programs of a lighter nature, has met with approval. A former president of the Kiwanis club stated that this may be the solution of the decreasing attendance record of all the elubs. +0t course,” he added, the Rotary club has more financial resources than we have for bringing in these big speakers, but we don’t have to They said it would damage their property. Mr. Barnes stated that { the bill of sale was only conditional 'and he would not buy if permission yere refused. The hearing drifted into a discussion of cost rather than advisability, and when Mr. Halloran | called attention to this the matter | was declarcd ended. | Mrs. J. N. Burdick had as guests yesterday N Brown and her | daughter, Mrs. Grover, who came | over from Middlctown in an auto- mobile, The latter has driven her machine 5,000 miles without an accident, an1 was the only woman in the recent Ncw York-to-Boston run. Critics of the hizh school foot- ball team it is not getting enough defensive practice and claim that it should line up against the | serubs every afternoon. The new board of fire commis- sioners has been appointed i | Plainvile, 1t consists of C. Hird, W. I. Blakesice, and Ryder. The board announced this { morning that it had chosen Minton Morton as fire chicf and James ‘1 sher as his assi uint. Toth are | young men of encrzy who will add strength and enthusiasm to the de- partment., Through Chairman Parker of the water and light com- mittee the council was informed last night that the petition for a water main in the upper end of North Burritt street is futile, This por- | tion of the strect i3 higher than | Shuttle Meadow und the pipe will have to wait until a method 18 dis- covered for making water run up- hill. Shuttle Meadow s 169 f above the steps the Soldic monument and th: t in question is seven feet higher still, Rooster: “Why, Maggle, how did you ever lay such a funny-looking egg?” ‘Would Play Safe? Animal Trainer: “Oh, don't be frightened at that lion. He'd never eat a person unless he was mighty hungry.” - Lafayette: “Uh, huh, and Ah nev- ah eats unless Ah's mighty hungry, cither, but Ah gets mighty hungry about three times a day!” —Murray A. Vuille i Clayton A. ON THE ROAD TO HFAVEN! (The following story would a- most appear to be flctitious. Yet it réally happened—and is a true story in every sense of the word.—Editor) A pretty young miss, while walk- st have these five minute with something to sell or who are seeking contributions to some cause.” The result of this agitation will have its reaction in so far as logical organizations are concerned. fpcak- ers appealing for funds for local charities or welfare movements will of many civic club members are been offered the suggestion make an appeal for the organization. 'will be watched with many persons. Annexation of Kensington Believed Not Far Off For years it has been constantly rumored that the cily of New Drit- ain was planning to annex ton and according to appearances at the present time, some definite “God and all His angels are with me,” answered the young lady. “Gosh! That's too darn company for me!” said the man, departing. —Alice W. Taylor good young Stumping Him? ‘Walter: “We have some very nice sea-food today, sir.” Diner: “I don’t think I care for any.” Walter: “All kinds of seca-food, ing on the avenue, was accosted by a fresh young man. “I see you are alone,” “May 1 walk with you?" “I am mot alone,” replled Westminster Cuthedral, London's greatest Catholle church, cost $1,- 000 to build, Lmit including the elaborate decorative designs in mosaie when completed $10,000,000 will have been spent on ity he Baid. the {m do not see anyone,” countered the fresh one, sir.” Diner: “All kinds?" “Yes.” “Then bring me a broiled whale!” ~Mrs. C. A. Bauer t, 1928, Reproduction (Copyrigh 9 Forbidden) effectually the speakers be barred just the same if the plans carried out. To offsct this there has that instead of giving over five minutes to some woman of social prestige to a drive, a speaker of known ability be given the floor for an entire meeting, not to appeal for funds but to tell about Developments in the controversy interest by e e active and progressive. The town, however, s handi- capped by the lack of funds to re- palr roads, install suitable sterm water sewers and other badly need- ed facilitics, such as a junior high achool. Just what the attitude of the residents is concerning the pomible chance of being annexed to New Britain has never been made known through a public meeting but it is the general opinion that Kensington people will support such a move- ment, MENTAL TESTS SUGGESTED TOR OTHER AUTO DRIVERS. The state of Massachusetts has begun a *save-a-life” campaign for checking up mechanical defects in automobiles, testing brakes, lights, horns and other equipment and summoning owners to, court {f any- thing is found wrong. This strikes the Observer as a good idea, and we would recommend a similar campaign in Connecticut, but we do not think it goes far enough. Mechanical defects occur con- stantly .without any neglect on the part of the driver—for instance, a drive of about five miles through the streets of the city is sure to shake out at least one headlight filament. And these defects can be remedied quickly. They aren’t im- portant. No. The police should go deeper. They should look for mental defects in the drivers. Then they would have reached the seat of trouble in most cases, One idea .which imme- |diately suggests itself is that the state police establish stations along several of the principal highways and stop all cars approaching them. The drivers would then be forced to take the Army Alpha or some oth- er intelligence test, and thoss who | failed to pass would be barred from the road. This, we are sure, would make driving appreciably safer by | eliminating fully half of the motor- ists now using thé highways. Then psychologists and paychla- |trists should examine the brains— |it any—of drivers before licenses are issued and should disqualify any |who have complexes which make for poor or annoying driving. If ten- dencies to do certain things are no- ticed, the applicant should be turncd down. Among these “things” we should" list blowing - one’s horn for long periods in front of & house or when traffic is tied up by the lowering of railroad gates, sneaking {in and out of traffic s0 as to be the ifirst to get going when a traffic light turns green, and dashing sud- denly out of parking spaces. The driver who gives incorrect hand signals is worse than the fel- low who gives none and should not only be barred, but actually put Be- hind the bars, It is no fun to drive |your auto in response to a signal from the car ahead and thep have |to do three somersaults and a broad jump when said car turns in the di- rection opposite to the one indicat- ed. Finally, all reckless drivers should be led out at dawn and dropped silently off the Connecti- cut river bridge. But what is & reck- less driver? It used to be & fellow who exceeded the speed limit. Now, according to the authorities, it is & driver who cuts out of line, specds past a corner, or hits a pedestrian.'| But they are all wrong. We know what a reckleas driver is. It is the {other driver figuring in an accident | involving ourselves. Democrats Make Capital of Alleged Factory Influence The observer has no reason to be- lieve that George T. Kimball, presi- dent of the American Hardware Cor- poration, had any desire for personal publicity when he took the speakers’ platform at a recent meeting of the Hoover club and spoke concerning the ever present political issue of tariff. But, had he "been angling for newspaper space and public mention he couid not have picked a better avenue. Mr. Kimball talked to & very small group that night—small as political rally attendances in New Britain is concerned—but the agency of the public press carried his mes- sage far and wide. Attorney Thomas F. McDonough, the flery nominee of the democratic party for the senate, was quick to pick up Mr. Kimball's words. “Do I look like the type of man who would intimidate employes?” Mr. Kimball asked, and when applause indicated to him that his auditors agreed he did not, he sat down evi- dently convinced and probably pre- suming that it was a closed incident. “It is not enough for Mr. Kimball to ask ‘Do I look like the type of man who would intimidate employ- es’ ", Mr. McDonough insisted the next time he appeared at a public gathering. “If Mr. Kimball is sin- cere, it behooves him to post notices through his factory telling his em- and placing it to his ear. : It may hive its advantages, but. i will also have its drawbacks. * Imagine & busy busincss man tgy- ing to use the telephone in his home™ early some evening and lstening to this: “Listen, May, you should see the grape jell I put up this afternoon. It's perfectly wicked, the success ¥ with canning. It has the beauti» fullest color although I'm afraid ‘I put a little bit too much sugar in it, ‘Ethel wanted me to go to the movies this atternoon but I just couldn’t because I wanted to make my jell. George is just crazy abeut my jell. And anyway, I don't care 30 much for Ethel as a companion &t the movies. She's one of those tigl reading fiends, you know, and she's forever getting ahead of the pioture and telling how it's going to come out. “Oh, I must tell you abeut George. He got a raise last week. The boss comes to him and says: ‘George, we've been watching your work for quite a while and we want to show our appreciation, 8o look-in your pay envelope Saturday and give your eyes a good time.' And George did look, there was $10 extra. I went down street yesterday pricing some new parlor furniture and I had the sweet. est little suite put aside. George doesn’t know it yet but I know he won't mind although he was saying | only a little while_ago_ that if he didn’t get some new:clothhi:soon he'd be arrested as a suspicious character, He's so droll, George is" And half an hour more of that. Or imagine a wife picking up the recelver and getting an earful of ' this: “Say, Cutie, I'll meet you tonight down on Court street. I'll be strolling. up the right side at 8 o'clock and you can drive along and pick me up, it your wife will let you out. Try to be there, Great Big Lovely Man, because I'm awful atrong for you. And, by the way, bring a.litile gin along—you know that kind that says Holland Dry on the label. Oh, you, Bweetle.” No, that ansophone {sn’t going te be a success after all. ONCE OPERA STAR, NOW A SUICIDE Former “Mme. Phedris Ago'n” Leaves Bitter Farewell Nots Chicago, Oct. 20 M—Belle Apple- gate of Louisville, Ky., the ong¢ time || “Mme. Phedris Ago'n” of European opera stages, killed herself yester- day, and in a bitter farewell note said: “My blood be upon America for her treatment of the daughter| of Kentucky pathfinders.” i At the theaters in Dresden, Wie- ' mar and Cologne she had in othee, years been praised for her singing | of Carmen, Ortrud and Delllah; yet | “the end of an opera star” -as she laconically described her owa death came in a hotel room paid fer from the proceeis of a pawned fur coat. Bhe had gone to Chicago for an. other chance to sing. An sudition with the Chicago Civic Opera had been promised her, but she was taken {ll & few days ago. BShe re- fused to go to a hospital, and had registered in an Evanston hotel a8 “Alice Walton.” At the age of five she appeared! in her first concert. Later, under! the tutelage of noted European) teachers, she appeared in many] operas. A tour of the capitals Europe brought acclaim from u critics. . After the World War, in which her husband was killed, she was n longer ranked among the first ¢ artists. 8he returned to Loulsville, disappointed by the end of her sts triumphs. When she became {11, ah sent a note to a friend: *I can'y on like this any longer. Berlin Ranks Next in Area to Los Angele Berlin, Oct. 20, M—With a | equalling that of any boomin western city in America, Berlin has become the sccond largest el in the world territorially, covering an area of $7,610 hecta: or 216,891 acres, according te th Berlin Statistical Bureau. It only exceeded in size by Les And| geles, while London, with fts 7,600.4| 000 inhabitants, is only half e large and Paris, with a populatierj| of 3,000,000, only one-tenth the alse, 3 i i