New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 8

15 hated for the friends he has made. ‘The enormous registration is suffi- clent evidence tat the day of real leaders in politics is not past. A FANOUS EDITORIAL Charies Evaps Hughes last night reached into the limbo of the past and brought forward once again an editorial which appeared in the New York World in 1920. At that time the World saw in Hoover something akin to an Apollo of achievement and in fervid phrases that glowed with con- viction pinned upon him the badge of true greatness, closing with the hope and belief that his leadership, character and genius of accomplish- ment made of him a fit candidate for a term In the White House. That was in 1920. The World since that time has changed its opinion, ‘But such a change has not obliterat. ed the historic fact that the editorial saw print. And as the World is forced to admit, ‘there is mo law against its use in a campalgn in 1928, Deep must have been the chagrin in Watered at the Pest Office at New Britain @8 Becond Class Mail Matter, TELEPHONE CALLS Busivess Office Editorial Rooms 25 26 The ealy profitable advertising medium in the City. Circulation books and press | Tosta always opea to advertissre Membow of the Associated Press The Associated Press s exclusively en- titled to the use for re-publication of all mews credited to it or not otherwise cradited In this paper and also local | sews published therein. | And Bureas of Circulation The A. B. C. is a national organization | which furnishes newspapers and adver- tigers with a strictly honest analysis of | cireulation. Our circulatipn statistics are based wpon this audit. This insures pro- | tection against fraud in newspaper dis- | tribution figures te both pational and local advertisers The Hersld is on sale daily in New York at Hotaling's Newsstand. Times Square; Schults's Newsstands, Estrance Grand Central, ¢2nd Street. ————————— Never mind the betting odds. Wpat's the discount on clection statements? The cheapest thing during a po- litical campaign is pre-election con- fidence. A slumbering volcano: Waiting for someone to start tearing down the Court of Honor., Advice of an editor to his accom- plices: Work all night next Tuesday | and be down at the office bright and early Wednesday morning. Another rumpus in sight: When city officials try to induce the Con- necticut company to remove the old tracks along Arch street. It Is not a coincident at all that this month Armistice day comes less than & week after the political Armageddon. It seems to us that campaign but- tons and campaign automebile stick- ers don't mean & thing to anybody except the button and sticker manu- facturers, A pititul sight: Watching a yard | engine trying to push a line of load- ed feeight cars up the grade from the freight yards to the factories west of Main street. When the wheezer gets stuck on the crossing it 18 twice as pitiful. Speaking of a “moral issue,” here is what President Coolidge said In 1922: “To dragoon the body when the need is to convince the soul.” Such an attitude, he added, would “end only in revolt.” Down in Texas they are saying that the cil lands in connection with which Dr. Cook was sent to prison for fraud have multiplied in value around ten times and if allowed to get out of prison Dr. Cook could re- pay his “defrauded stockholders” many times over and have a neat profit left. The Cook sentence seems to hang heavily over the heads of the stockholders. PERSONALITY PLUS With 14,000,000 names added to the mution’s voting list—the increase being 200,000 in Connecticut—politi- cal managers are somewhat non- plused? It is self-evident that people are going to vote who never voted before. What caused them to drop apathy and adopt interest? For decades the get-out-the-vote propaganda has been ineffectual. This year, without much such propa- | W ganda, the vote is coming out of its own accord. The reason is that there is colorful personality running President. He is Al Smith. People are for or against him with a fervor unknown in this very fact that he is a political hero of the first water to millions causes other millions to rise up pare for the fray. Political platforms, issucs what not are essential, but a strong personality a for and pre- and such as Smith's tops them all. Voters are for or against | Smith In this campaign. Many of them may have but a smattering of the issues that have been debated, but they can understand the mean- ing and driving power of such outstanding tribune of political vrogress such as Smith. 1f almost any other Democrat had been nominated to oppose Hoover the in- terest in the campaign would have been reading next week that only half the people voted. The huge registration is a tribute to the poli- ticsl=power of the New York gov- ernor. People laud him or they fear him; those who favor him are un- stinting in their adulation; those who oppose him do 5o with unequal- led ardor. People refer to the lead- ing issues and to dozens of minor an ones; but above all the issucs is the | 1ssue of Emith. He is loved like the he is damned like the devil; no public man can atfain to angel or greater heighta. He is not only loved for the enemies he has made, but he | perspicacity in interpreting what is | generation. The | the World tower time and again dur- ing this campaign to find its famous Hoover editorial considered an im- portant character reference by Re- publican speakers. The climax came when Hughes last night used it in & coast-to-coast hook-up, doubtless eliciting smiles if not laughter in millions of homes. In 1920 Hoover was regarded as a Democrat, What the World had in mind was to groom him as & Demo- cratic candidaté for President. It no doubt felt it had to rub the laudation on a bit thick to make an impres- sion with the Democratic party. When Hoover later announced him- self a Republican the World's ardor naturally cooled quickly. It will be remembered that Gov- ernor Smith at Oklahoma City radio. ed to the country how fulsomely Mr. Hughes had spoken of him at a meeting in New York. Mr. 8mith re- peated the Hughes encomium in Newark. This must be as painful to Mr. Hughes as Mr. Hughes' quota- tion of the World editorial is to the World. The count on quotations is now even, THE BOULEVARD SYSTEM Police officials throughout Con- necticut now have been informed | that they possess the inherent right | to designate the boulevard system wherever they see fit. It would have been somewhat peculiar did they not posseas this right and the attorney general merely confirmed something {that everyone thought eminently proper. But the system has been gingerly {accepted in Connecticut. The system has been discussed more than udopted. In practice, however, it already is uniformly with us along prominent | streets. A motorist secking to eater West Main street from a side street, | for instance, by law has certain rights about it. But let him try to be too dnsistent on his rights. Most of them realize it is too late to argue |about rights of way after the most pressing need s to telephone an un- | dertaker. Consequently the speeders along the thoroughfare get most of the right of way—getting it without an argument and without a contest. IlL is sel(-defense for an autoist, Eweeding his way from a side street |into West Main street, to prefer to wait until there is & let-up in the stream of traffic. Thus it is prac- tically along all “boulevards” where the traffic is heavy, THE BLIZZARD RECORD Those citizens in the hinterland | who still regard New England as a cold and dreary place In winter have had another opportunity to check up jon the record. A week or 30 ago there was a huge blizzard in the | mountain states, }x tched by its suddenness. This there is another blizzard in the | west. So far there has been no bliz- | zard or anything remotely approach- |ing one in the entire New Inglgnd states. Instead, we have had quite ideal weather. | t0o busy digging themselves out of the snow or trying to keep warm to pay much attention to New England weather just now. We'll do it for them, ENFORCING THE LAW Mrs. Mary Waiker Willebrandt, in one of her moments of political says that Herbert Hoover if elected will find a way to soothsaying, enforce the prohibition law. This is tantamount to saying it hasi't been enforced “properly” up | to the present. The dear lady, indeed, is criticising herself, as she is sup- posed as assistant attofney general o be a leading factor in prohibilion enforc w several y nent. re reminded, however, that s ago General Lincoln A. Andrews stepped forward with a prodigious determination to enfofce the law. He also had confidence; but the bootieggers, rum runners and the liquor traffic generally had more skili. | N Attorney General NG THE LAW Ben W. Alling 1 having a rather spirited ex- I perience in thumbing the law books and applying what the lawyers eall its severity being | But maybe our western cousins are | there written. So many questions come up fer solving during an elec- tion campaign that it is not uncom- mon for an attorney general to be up at all hours of the night with the yardstick of common sense as an only companion. Yesterday the attorney general announced nine decisions pertaining to election practice in this atate. There are atill four days before election—including Sunday—and all comers will be properly loo\ug after by the attorney general, be their queries difficult or easy. After the election Judge Alling can go fishing. A STATE CHAMP Sergeant Amos Anderson of Dariena seems to be in a class by himself. Not content with already being the cham. pion boose truck discoverer of the state, he continues to add to his list of snared trucks and arrested truck drivers. It seems that every truck Amos looks at carefully contains a load of liquor, Luck may have something to do with it; or else there are an amasing number of booze trucks running through Darien. Those he doesn't snare are not on his list. OCONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY Additional proof that contemn- ganda rather than fact is to be found in the current nine books purporting to give to anxious readers the life histories of 8mith and Hoover. Each volume is elaborate. Their sales are running into the millions. But when one investigates one discovers buyers by the big lot—political organizations which use the books to help their candidates. This alone speaks quite loudly about the permanent value— or lack of it—relating to this type of biography. Silas Bent, who went to the trouble of evaluating these campaign books, gives a succinct appraisal in the Bookman: “The books serve a good purpose, of course. The public legend is as necessary to American politics as the polling booth—and should be ap- proached in the same spirit of cau- tious wigilance. Jf the legend isn't an encomium, the politician's or the statesman’s press agents have fallen down on the job. Watch your step, therefore, through these books and to the polls.” Propagandists in author form whom Bent mentions are: William Hard, Oswald Garrison Villard, Wil- ltam Allen White, 8amuel Crowther, Norman Hapgood, Menry Moskowitz, and Thomas H. Dickenson, DISENFRANCHISED WASHINGTON The District of Columbia is in & one. Residents of the district, unless they retain their legal residences elsewhere, cannot vote. They are | American citizens in every other respect. But when a natlonal election rols around all they can do is to watch the returns. . The idea of course was to prevent employes of the government from having a say in the business of the government; to prevent the develop- ment of & political machine under the dome of the capitol. From early times it appears, it was believed probable that most of the citizens of the District would gain thelr sustenance directly from the govern. ment. Their influence in the boss’ business, if allowed to vote, was re- garded as entirely too likely to lead to irritation; so they were not al- lowed to get the franchise. Keeping the office holders in their ! place results in rather a peculiar situation. The District is not large, and thousands of federal office hold- ers now live in suourbs of Washing- ! ton across the District line. They ltve in Maryland, and hence are allowed ito vote; or they live over the river in Virginia, and can also vote. Only those who insist in liing downtown in the District cannot vote. It so happens, however, that only {a part of the citizens of the District | are employed directly by the govern- ment. Yet the other citizens—the | merchants, professional classes, and | their thousands of employes—like- { wise are inhibited from voting. The | affairs of the District are conducted |by a commission appointed *by | Congress, too, and there is really | nothing in the national or federal | government that District citizens need to bother about. Small wonder that the District of EColuln\na is sufficiently incensed to | stage a “humiliation day” on Novem. | ber 6. 1t is to call the attentton of the | remainder of the | District's pHight. The only difficulty seems to be that the nation will be t00 much occupied on that day to take particular notice of the Dis- | trict's mourning day. It ought to be ! held the following day, November 7, | When those who voted for the losing i presidential candidate could join in the mourning. | { 25 Vea rs Ago Today porary biography is apt to be propa- | class by itself in more ways than country to the The class will meet each Friday night and hear an address by a lo- cal business man. A number of local members of the Putnam Phalanx went with the Puts today to Worcester, where they were guests of the Worcestar Con- tinentals. F. E. Rhodes has put men to work to create a storage pond on his Stanley Quarter property and will cut ice from that pond. New Britain High is ready for its game with Hartford tomorrow. The boys are learning new yells. L. M. Barnes has filed with the buildiAg inspector an application for a permit to erect a frame bullding to be covered with iron in the rear of Chestnut street. It will also in- clude a shed. Building Inspector Turnbull has not approved the ap- plication ,which will probably go to the, council. The Globe Clothing house adver- tises Hart, Schaffner & Marx men's overcoats for §$13 to §25, and aweat- ers for $1 to $4.50. Boys' shoes at $1.25. President A. J. Sloper was at his desk at the New Britain anmulI bank today looking the picture of health after his return from the bankers' convention in California. He was very busy, but he promised to place himsel? at the reporter's disposal in a day or two. Fucts and Fancies A campaign lsn't over until the dirt settles, All are weak, and the man who hates hypocrites will tell Willle to look up the word himaself and he'll remember it better. Simile for today! As hard to get rid of as the last house fly. One law for the rich, one for the poor, and two million for the rest of us, No matter how it goes, the few who remained loyal to the old party will have & better chance it the post oftices. Glare: look a woman gives you if you pull | out to slowly when she toots to pass. Brilliant light; also the | A formal church prayer for Inde- pendence Day can't do any harm, but it might do more good on elec- I tion day. There should be an annual prize for the author who doesn't say of his world-weary heroine: *She was tired of it all.” Bnt why punish a drunk driver and do nothing to the one who drives the same way because he hasn't any sense? Americanism: Hiring a man be- cause he can do something you haven't brains enough to do; feel- ing superior to him because you pay him for his work. i When & man is at peace with him- self, hes' at peace with his-God. This is especially true of Mussolini. Even a good party man may at times regret that his party's lies aren't as convincing as the other side’s. — Well, the campaign managers who don’t get appointments can get nice | jobs writing resort literature. A hypocrite is a hotel guest who uses the bath towels to dry his hands to fool the chamber maid. The only reasonable objection to our present prosperity is its decotion to the huddle system. Budding is now the usual way of | propagating fruit trees, but grafting still serves to establish family trees. The election will at least Aeter- mine whether people like their liquor served by a bartender or a bootlegger. How irritating to hear youth com- plain that the day of opportunity 1s past, when there may he a vacancy on Philadelphna’s police force any day. Correct this sentence: *I don't care if it is patched, mother,” said the flapper; “the patch won't sow.” Copyright 1928, Publishers Syndicate. Dies After 18 Hours On Operating Table New Haven, Nov. 2. —(UP)— After nearly elght hours on the operating table, William Reld, 17, of Prospect beach, died at New Haven i hospital last night as result of an automobile accident at Northford. | Coroner James J. Corrigan began investigation of the accident today. iWarren Miller and Herman Munson escaped virtually uninjured when the car skidded on the Middletown turn- !pike and overturned carly yester- day. | Four Wounded in Riot In Melhomrne Strike Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 2.—(® —TFour persons were wounded today at Port Melbourne when police fired into a crowd of 2,000 trade unionists | forget, I owe something to my pub- {and they prepared a special chair in ‘While the Jokes Blossom, Folks! November's flower, Chrysanthemum, Reminds us we should not be glum, Since in our i Shop garden gay Cheersanthemums bloom day by day! Throw Up the Job! ow's things?" T'm getting starvation ‘Warre! Higgl wages.” Warren: “Foolish! I wouldn't starve no matter how much they pald me!"” Favorable Mentiont By Walter C. Greene I've read the thing twice over an’ 1 can't help feelin’ proud; Fust I read it to myself and then I read it 'loud, 80 all the folks could hear; an’, laws! ‘twas hard, I want t' say, T* make ‘em all belleve our names was printed- that-a-way! All spelled out in type, a list of ev'ry one ‘twas there, Called 'em “happy-hearted youths and maidens young and fair''— S That there paper-feller spreads his. self, jure's you live, In the write-up of the party that my darter Idy give. The editor says Idy, “as the hostess reigned a queen,”— Think o' that of Idy, an’ she ain't but seventeen! Bays 'at “joy pervaded, on t' state *At such “a lovely time was had” an’ calls the thing a “fete.” It did us good to read as how “thdse present all agree The home of Walt Greene excels in hospitality,” An' we've pasted in th’ album, fer t' keep as long's we live, The write-up of the party that my darter Idy give! " an' e goos Tradesmen? Movie Actress (haughtily:) “You le!” Her Husband: “Yes; there are sev-. eral of them waiting at the door with | bills now!” —J. 8. AYvarez. Tucks and Ducks! Alice was going on a visit, Her | mother had her all ready when lhe; noticed that Alice's panties were too ; long. As her mother could not pro- nounce the letter “t” at the begin- ning of a word, she said, “Come here, Alice, and let me sew a few ducks in your panties.” Alice looked at her mother and said, “But mother, won't they quack | when 1 sit down?" How 1 Worked My Way Through Collcge By Charles Kernan. Being born in an orphan's home, naturally I was an orphan. Being an orphan, however, did not prevent me from securing an education which I knew I must have to be a success in the world. As a newsboy I worked my\way through the lower schools, but col- lege seemed an unsurmountable bar. rier. When I was almost in despair a kindly old man, Judge Heming, gave me a seven-year. scholarship to Seven-up-On-The Hudson. i At good old Sevenup I soon be- came a favorite with the Freshies. For the first time in the history of the college the Freshman Class won the rock-breaking championship, beafing the Seniors by three rocks and two stones. It was due soley to my athletie ability that we won, and the Freshies elected me their Pres- ident. -8 Although I was enrolled for a sev- en-year course, I was so diligent in my studies that I finished in four years. Incidentally I finished three guards as I left, and to show my gratitude to the warden I bhorrowed three grand from the college safe. That was just a boyish prank. But a college grad soon finds that there is a vast difference between theory and practice, 1 made several mistakes, and Judge Heming sent me back to Sevenup for further train- ing. However, the old college hadn't fordotten my great work, especially the finishing of the three guards, my honor. By the time you read this I expect to have finished my course! The Fun Shop's Suggestion for an It i reported that there will M‘ld\‘lndnl‘ to attack volunteer dock ' Appropriate Book Jacket! another attempt to strect from West Main Msin, \ The Bible study club will meet at Y. M. C. A. this evening for or- widen Main and East the ganization. A committee of 16 has stones. After firing into the crowd, | been former to have charge of the roll call. This includes John Sloan, | workers. | When the situation became threat- Lost Accomplishment! | ening police at first fired over the , heads of the union men who con- [tinued to adyance, armed with ]yollce used their Latons freely and cleared the piers. Hadley: “So your Drama Study ‘club didn't put on that O'Neill drama?"” Robbins: “No, it was impossible to get anybody for the heroine's part.” Hadley: “Indeed " Robbins: “Yes, we coubdwt S04 #irl who could oaw!” e.s His Srsutieg? Hubbell: “Whet doed that poung boy of yours det™ Pearson: “He's & Girl Sosut.” Hubbell: “You mesn a ‘Boy oot * . Pearson: ‘Ne, he'falways out seouting for girisl" —Henry D. Tappen. (Copyright, 1938, Reproduction Forbidden) You can get an snswer te any question of fact or information by writing to the Questies Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureaw, 1333 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enuioeing twe conta i stamps tor reply. Medical, logal ané marital advice cannot be given, wer o tended research be AN other questions will vessive & per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be All jottars are oom- Adential.—Tditor. : Q. How many persons sre en- gaged in the work of prohibition enforcement and how much does it cost the government annually? A There are approximately 4,000 persons engaged in prohibi. tion enforcement. Expenditures in 1927 amounted to $11,7730,663.63, The appropriation for 1938 was $13,320,405, including $1,339,440 for narcotic work. Q. What is the present enlisted and officer personnel of>the United States navy A, There are 82,753 enlisted men and 8,531 officers, Q. How did Sweden vote on the national referendum on prohibition in 1932? A. The measure was defeated by a margin of 35,000 votes. Q. Who holds the world record for flying upside down A. Pilot Clardon, a young Swiss fiyer achieved what was described as a world record for flying upside down, at Kassel, Germany, Septem- ber 29, 1927 when he flew in that position for 18 minutes and §6 seconds, Q. Where are the headquarters of the League of Nations Non-Par- tisan Association? A. The headquarters of the league is at 6 [East 39th street, New York City. It is an organizsa- tion working in this country to pro- mote American adherence to the League of Nations. Q. Is glass a metal A. Some glasses contain metal but they are not classified as such. Q. How many members of the Soclety of Friends are there in the United States A. There are 19,326 Orthodox | Friends; 16,105 Hicksite Friends; 2,966 Wilburite's and 25 Primitive Friends. Q. For what do the letters R. O, T. C. stand? 2 A Reserve Officers Training Corps. Q. What are the constituents of Portland cement? A. It is produced bz mixing finely pulverized limestone (or chalk or marl) and clak (or shale) in proportion o about 75 to 25; grinding them together; then burn- ing (clinkering) the mixture at very high heat; and lastly grinding the resulting slag (clinker) to an im- palpable powder, Q. What is the origin of the quotation “Then shall I know even as I am known"? . A. It occurs in the Bible, thir- teenth chapter of First Corinthians, Q. What. was the acore of the Army-Navy football game in 1927? A. Army 14, Navy 9. tenced for violation of sections 160 and 161 of the New York penal code, which defines criminal anarchy as the doctrine “that organized government should be overthrown by force or by violence or by any unlawful means”. He was charged with publication in the “Revolu- tionary Age”, left wing Communist magasine, of an article which the wate contended advocated the duty, necessity and propriety of over- throwing organized government by force o fviolence. Governor Smith imued a pardon for Gitlow after he had served several years in prison upon recommendation of two asso- clate justices . of the New York courts on the ground that the sen- tence was unduly severe, Q. Is the freezing point of water the same A8 the melting point of ice? -3 A, Yes Q. From what college did Gene Tunney graduate? A. He did not graduate from any collegs. He received his education at 8t. Veronica's (grade) school, and De La Balle Academy, beth Roman Catbolic parochial schools, in New York City. In speaking of one's husband in It proper to call him by his first name A. To friends and acquaintances he can be called by his first name but when speaking to those who do not know him intimately he should be spoken or as “My Husband” or Mr, 8o-and-Bo.” Q. How many daily newspapers are there In continental United Observations On The Weather ‘Washington, Nov. 2—Forecast for Southern New England: Cloudy, probably with rain tonight or Satur- day; not much chahge in tempera- ture, ~ Gentle variable winds becoming east or southeast, 5 ' Forecast for Eastern New York: Rain tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature; mod- erate winds mostly east.and south- cast, Conditions: The westdsn disturb- ance is central over eastern Missour{ and western Illinois this: morning. It has produced rains and snows over the plains states .and rains over the central and sauthern Mis- sissippl valley districts and eastward to the Appalachian highlands and northern New England, = Pressure remains relatively high though de- creasing over the Atlantic states and | is abnormally high over the north- | ern plains state DIRIGIBLE Atlantic City .. Beston Buffalo ... Chicago Denver ,. Detroit Duluth Hatteras Kansas Miami Minneapolis Nantucket Washington RUMOR RASKOB WILL NOT RESUME' POST Say Democratic Chalrwian Wil Not Return to Goweral Mobors But Will Rosign Thareday. New York, Nov, 2.=~(UP)r—Per- sistent reports circulated yn Wall street today that John J. who resigned the finance ¢l ship of the may cause neotions with 4t. He resigned temporarily when be became phair- man of the democratic natis mittee, but it was said he woull sub- mit his permanent resignation to the directors next Thursday., Plerre 8. Du Pont, who, as cpaire man of the board of General Motors, took an indefinite leave of absence because he wished to save the corp- oration any embarrassment that might result from his endorsement of the assoclation against the prohi- bitidn amendment and the candidacy of Governor Smith also was ald te be considering resigning. T A TR RIS E MULSIFIED Cod-liver Oy AIRsHIFS The voyage of the Graf Zeppelin cpens a new era in air transport. Our Washington Bureau has prepared for you an interesting aud authoritative bulletin on the history "of dirigible airships, from. the' first experiments of the Montgolfier brothers down to the vo; air. It contains facts and statistics of e of the all the latest Leviathan of the eat airships now in service and building, ‘and of all thelr predecessors. Fill out the coupon below and ®end for it == CLIP COUPUN AERB AERONAUTICS EDITOR, Wasiington Bureau, New Britain Herald, ¢ 1323 New York Aven » Waehington, D. 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