New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1928, Page 6

The big issue at Muacle Shoals, [The man who has something to sell however, remains the manufacture is & fool if he first inquires the poli- of power. The American Cyanamid |tics, economic beliefs, Co. will be able to sell its power to | what not of the potential buyer. The New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY \Fects and Fancies —THE OBSERVER— Tosued Dally (Sunday Excepted) At Hersld Bldg. 67 Church Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES 3500 & Year $2.00 Three Months 75c. & Month Batered st the Post Office st New Britain @3 Second Class Mall Matter, TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office »25 Editorial Rooms . The only profitable advertising mediur in the City. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press i exclusively en- the use for re-publication of ervdited to it or mot otherwise in_ this paper and also local published therein. Member Awdlt Bureaw of Circulation The A. B. C. s a nationsl organization which furnishes newspapers aund adver- tisars with & strictly honest analysis of cireulation. Our circulation statistica are based upon this sudit. This insures pro- | tection against fraud In newepaper dis- tribution figures to both national and t_Hotaling's Bquare; Schults's Newsstanda, Eutrance Grand Central, ¢2nd Street. ————————— With the big games today the football season comes practically to an end in the northern states, except for § few games on Thanksgiving and next week. In the South, and notably in southern California, the boys continue playing until New Year's; but that is none of our bus- iness. Most teams in this climate sufter a general final defeat by the weather after this day, and then de- vote part of the winter in discussing what happened. New Britain high school today is pitted against its old rivals in Hart- ford. The stage is set for much ex- citergent; there will be jollification extraordinary in either Hartford or New Britain; if there is a tie there will be jollification in both cities. No, We are not wagering. The season so far has been characterized by the poor showing of both Yale and Harvard; Princeton, the other member of the Big Three, has done a littie better. The rise of Carnegie Tech to first line position, with no defeats, is perhaps the sen- sation of the season. The defeat of the Army by Notre Dame also was quite a morsel for discussion. It is of much interest to Connecticut to find Ken Strong, a West Haven boy. leading the point scorers. All of which refers to ““up to to- day.” What will happen on this final clash-day of the teams will take only a few hours to determine, THE EXPANDING POST OFFICE The astute gentlemen who have been considering means to enlarge the post office have acted wisely. Fortunately, we avoided the dis- agreements and contention that has come to Hartford over a somewhat similar matter. The present post office in the city, being a thing of beauty, will continue at its present site, for which all lovers of civic architecture will be grateful. En- largement along South High street, with driveway on Court street, seems logical to citizenry who are laymen in such matters, rather than ex- perts. The government is setting a good example in foresight. Not content to wait until increasing post office bus- iness has swamped available facili- ties before moving to increase the facilities, it has looked ahead. The enlargement contemplated will not ba one to conform to present needs. but Is designed to anticipate the city's come. The plan costs money, but the of getting what it needs in this respect; but the requirements for government has a way money comes from the same pockets as ail other tax money, municipal. 1¢ the municipal ments were operated state ana school depart- on the same plan there would be no school prob- | lem, LEASING MUSCLE SHOALS It the Suprems Court doesn't choose to make an inconvenient de- cision regarding the validity of the Coolidge pocket of Muscle Shoals bill it is likely that the Madden bill to Jease the works will have comparatively in Congress. This bill, the President informed congressional callers, fles him. 1t provides for the leasing of the great Shoals property to the American Cyanamid Co. for 50 years The fertilizer and plus power generated. The fertilizer interests in declaring that should keep its nose out of privats business. 1 Madden bill through they will have at half-victory government competition, as it will be a private veto the late smooth sailing atis- concern would dispose unit are a the government the g0CS least a gainst concern manufacturing the fertilizer. But the object of leasing the to the private concern i= to insure cheap fertilizers to the farmers, and it is likely that American Cyanamid Co. will be able fo under- sell the present fertilizer nabobs quite handily when it gets hold of Muscle Shoals for 50 years. Ft trust stocks have mnot been soaring in Wall The cheerful a3 going to & dentist. works the rtilizer street outlook is as ~ years to | ithe southern power companies which in turn will transmit it over |existing power lines to their con- sumers. It-is a toss-up whether rates will be.much lower than they are. Just because Muscle - Shoals power | will be “surplus” will not mean that the companies are going to give {it away as such, True, the govern- JMuem will “regulate” the business; ibut experience has shewn that this does not necessarily »asan rock bot- tom rates. FRENCH DEBT PAYMENTS AND REPARATION The total public debt of France amounts to about $19,500,000,0)0, or [$440 per captta, as compared with Ithe American debt of $17,800,000,- 000, or about $150 per capita. | The United States is vastly richer than France. ditference in the per capita debt between the two }covmmes therefore is marked. It i the reason why financiers in France ave so grouchy: Why Ppincare has had little troubles. The new French budget calls for increased revenue, both internal and [from external sources. The latter source embodies the increased reparations payments {rom Germany under the Dawes plan, which have reached their peak and continue at the rate of $257,700,000 to France yearly until 19 The debt tunding agreement be- tween the United States and France is not yet ratified. It it were France would pay $32,500,000 to the United States in 1929; and under the agree- ment these payments would gradual. ly increase until 1942, when they would be $125,000,000 annually to 1956, and then shading off to 1087, when they would cease With a pay- ment of $117,674.000. he his Meantime French debt payments | to Great Britain, while higher in 1929 than to the United States, will g0 no higher than $60,831,000 an- nually from 1931 to 1957; conclud- ing with $68,131,000 annually in 1986 and 1987, So much for the background. The chief point to consider is that at no time during this long debt-paying period will French finances suffer less reparation payments than debt payments. The excess of reparation over debt payments to both the United Sll(el‘ and England—assuming the former may be paid—will be $186,268,000 in 1929; and from then on this excess will shave down to $71,667,862 in 1987, the final year of reparations. | Al told, the excess of reparations 'over debt payments from 1929 to 1987 for France will be $4,667.862,- 000—which represents the net re. turns to France from reparations over and above what she is called upon to pay her two chief creditors according to the debt agreements. The average excess of reparations payments to France over debt pay- ments to Great Britain and the United States for the full 59.year period would be $79,116,305 a year. The United States government has refused to permit reparations to in- fluence war debts. For practical purposes, however, this can not be avoided in considering the income land outgo of our war debtors. Re- gardless of how France has ex- pended money in various ways since the armistice, it can scarcely be de- nied that her income from repara- tlons greatly outwelgh her outgo to Great Britain and the United States in connection with war debts. SELESS ACTION s The U. S tinues to look upon Russian business missions to the United States with fishy eyes, fearing they may bring boatloads of propaganda with them and inundate the country with doctrines. Thi vidently pernicions nervousness once was consid anite justitiable; but it seems & vather late duy to worry much about what every infelligent person lang ago has discounted as entirely un- [likely or impossible. The latest nervous twinge register- is that a s1an busin two members of a Rus- United They had extraordinary long names, and that 4 to the ant. 5 mission to the #tates have been refused i must have contribut fri ) Ame Bt in the State Departr mission was to negotiafe with for ican antomolhile con co-operation i, establishing branch plants in £20,000 ton; they Russia; they wanted to buy of 000 worth wanted to place T hardware ind lers in other indust cluding the intended to do lusines large scale and pay for bonght ne time ago (he G o 1 a deal 100 with the Rus Blec- onclid involving and do not scem to be sorry for having re- ived the business. The electric con- De- up the cern was too slick for th having business In Russia on it bust Amerfcan concern 1t partment, drum: own hook, not nesding any Other likewiss ess missions have done Wit some industiial At a time plants are not breaking production records we think this is no time to e skittish too hout selling goods to | Russia or any other backward nation, State Department con- ! main idea is, has the other fellow the | money to pay for the goods. If he | has, break a les to sell. MANITOBA LIQUOR PROFITS. The province of Manitoba in Can- ada is in business, competing most | |efiectually with the bootlegging in- dustry. During the last fiscal year profits from the department of the {$1.345,117 net. One-third of this sum | was distributed to the municipalities; Im-; remainder was retained by the | province. Sales for the year totalled | nearly $4.000.008. | Now analyze the figures. mean that the provincial government made a profit of around 20 per cent on the amount of liquor sold. Com- pare this with the enormous profits They made by bootleggers in the United States. A bootlegger, it is said, con- sidering the hazards of capture and the perils of his caravan of liquor confiscated—not to mention the possibility of a heavy fine and possibly ing imprisonment—cannot ofit. Critics of the Canadian system on this side of the boundal t 1s to say, the dry critics—claim that |does not eliminate hootleggers. Let reason rule. How can a Canadian bootlegger compete with the gov- |ernment doing business with only 20 per cent profit? Not to mention the utter impossibility of competing with the government in quality. There may be some bootlegzers in Canada; but an investigation usually ' discloses that they are there to get | pro | their fists on some of the liquor for | the American trade the boundary. ov PAYNE WHITNEY'S ESTATE Payne Whitney left scads of money to the New York public library, an institution which he also “materially assisted” during his lifetime. He was different from Frank A. Munsey in this respect. It will be remembered [that Muneey willed a large sum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whereas during his lifetime nobody had suspected he was interested in pictures. The Whitney record gives one the impression the late financier and sportsman was a stalwart friend of literature, Yet, when his estate was tabulat- ed, it was found that his private col- lection of books was so insignificant that it was valued at only $150. From this one gets the inevitable ‘impression he was not much of a reading man, or that he preferred to | do his reading in the public library. COACHES ON THE RAILROADS It Is day coach travel which has | decreascd on the railroads, while sleeping and parlor car travel has in- creased. That may be evidence that the people like an improved method of travel and are willing to pay for it; but it is also evidence that the competition of automobiles has af- fected day coach travel more gener- ously than any other type of rail travel, Revenues from p ngers in day coaches has decreased from nearly $500,000,000 in 1921 to a little more than $500,000,000 in 1927. Revenue from sleeping and parlor car travel during the same period has increas. cd from above $300,000,000 to more than $400,000,000. Putting it on a pereenta |day coach travel has dec [ver cont. while > ba sed slecping car and | parlor car traflic per cent. has increased The other day we noted a train 1ssing through New Britain which consisted of one day coach and one parlor car. We wonder how vill take the r long it ilroad to add to the to take care of such gasoline coache slight tratfic. d~ Observations On The Weather | Washington, Now o1 ngland Forecast for Southern P » w creasing cloudine it afternoon ing temperature Sat : probably light rain Saturday i nd night; colder, Forecast Eastern Cloudy and siightly warmer ably light local ramns lght 1ain or saow tion 7 1y gener for Yorl vroh v and m northern por Sunday gonepally " and_ col Conditions ntral o Main moved northe wfoundiand disturbanc. vard heing outhern Hudson I3 nains lugh from as eastward iheastwa Ar- Atlanti m to move will tinue ' tward tended by lay fn the nor weather | read the iy or. during Sunday FRANCE LIKES MOVIES Roubaix, Vranee ) o4 Cinema enfhusiast 1o north of France 200,000 In ¥ town of Tourcoing week to the movies, o of province were | do | | business with less than 500 per cent | Ot course stocks will keep going up forever. Look at Florida real estate. Tax laws never are fair. Truck | line for example, never are taxed {to help keep up the railway's road- bed. Probably the new the same reason that soldiers ate . It was that or else. liquor dispensing ! authors for no la " are those e read and preserved The who we generations because they had competition. — Undeveloped peoples ave those to wlhom the white man has not yct given pants and pneumonia. A good husband is one who keeps on being an old darling in spite of her incompetence, fat and seltish- ness. “Ihe old-fashioned preacher seemed greater because he was only one in the community could read. inst the who No story the A. E. F. hero tells his small son seems quite as incredible as the belt he says he used to wear. A sood vocabulary is desirable, some people scem to get alony I right with just “Gimme,” “Yes " and “Blah.” Americanism: Ihirowing the other fellow’s circular in the waste basket unopened; spending a lot of money to send out circulars of your own. “The modern hotel hostess makes men feel at ease as though at | home.” Here, at last, is the cham- pion optimist. make moncy at ambling; if you ma bridge, that's a social duty make it ssing Wall that's a mur it Street cle. There is no marriage in Heaven and that alone should explain why henpecked husbands are devout. You can tell a road hog in a thea- ter. His eclbows occupy both arms of his seat. Enforcement makes progress, if only because nobody can fecl digni tied while drinking from a fruit jar. Modern youth fun. but it has nothing to compare with the ecstasy old-timers get out of Sweet Ade line. Tt Ford's ancic village isn't fully equipped, we know where he can’ get a gold-capped goose quiil toothpick for the banker. “The closed car is in some ways, but the feels devilish ecar’'t drape over the front door. tence: “It's love nd not vanity,” said he “that | makes me urge my wife to dress better than other women.” Copyright, 1928, Publishers Syndicate | 25 Yéag Ago vToday Score at end of first half: Army 18, Navy The sewer commis sued $50,000 more bonds, the money realized having been deposited in the National bank. B » of the pan- icky tone of the market at present, the eity received only a moderate premiun an improvement hick who one leg Correct this a in price. They now 1o 45 o a dozen and may g0 10 b0 cents. This is not duc 1o any retusal on the part of the hens fo 1 L it wised by increased demand for them ‘ Winslow skate. No of stecl in any shite Herbert L. Mills— ut s ¢ an famous better qualit manutactured. ton has in liMght as planned. An of will be on the tirst floor me Vot or Prelle scored nine s and New Britain won on easy American b Kethall e Hartfo t the Cas 1. 90 to A hot game £V took place the pand the Merwin Brick Co.'s vard yesterday affernoor t SN tean. tained by t} Brother M Clifford a: Charles. CHtf's team included ¥ Hart, Wilbur Corbin, Edward Jry Frnest Christ, and H. W 1 Tie's had William Hillard, Ton Jame i H. W W iffords led 1o mik thee o stories e imd and tene- in fice “lore nts on the 0al ' victory o o last 1 npon 1 E by The 1001 and team toot] tor wi bee ning the state et by 1 ba Tame tatl Ne will k some to r of the captai will ¢ ep ot ; COMMUNICATED 2 | | stion it na y Wl would rauch | novels sell for ioners have fis- | Outline of History of a Callege Lad! Inside his score's a zero, 't learn to save his soul, But outside he’s a hero, For he kicked the winning goal! Business Transaction} AMrs. Cronin: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, taking all the money from vour little sister's bank?" Iittle Son: “But Mamma, I put in my note for 1t!" —Emily Treibel | 711 FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Financial new idea for a charity bazar wa ntly asked for. | Why not a vault where, for a small | you can park your money in ty until you come out? P Quer According fo a medical writer we | should whistle to keep up our cour- ag Bnt where do we get the courage to whistle? A r PR Automobile estion has been made that | motor-car chassis should be brought | rer the ground. is the first evidence strians are getting thinner! e Medical According to a neighboring news- | paper there will be no influenza | cpidemic this year | Doctors are said to'he searching for the next best thin | P social , A woman diner out observes that ! of all professional men architects have the best-looking wives. They ot course, | after * carefnl consideration plan and elevation Not Her Sister's Keeper? Guerin (over telephone to wife): | “How's my little sweetheart today?" Mrs. Guerin: “I haven't seen her lately! | that selected | of | —H. H. Ricoy Tn a professional prize fight, the mizht be important. | s the referee that comnts! Reason Enough! “Mother, I wish you would put long sleeves on my shirts again.” “Why, Dickic?" asked mother. Well, T haven't any place to wipe my nose,” frankly admitted Richard. | co But it —2Mrs. J. Fitzmaurice FOURSQUARE TRIANGLIE! By Sidney W. Glazier I knew that I was treading on dangerous ground—falilng’ in love with a married woman—with Made- line Clarke—and me a married | man! But from the moment -we met in her eyes 1 read, fate! | Iow could we escape the unalter- able laws of Cupid's misbehavior? | Jane hud never understood, nor tried |to understand me. Jack had never ziven Madeline the love and under- standing that I gave to ber. At first our love was only the | yearning for each other, but that | was only the prelude. Gradually we hegan to see each other more often. On the links, at the beach, and it led us on until finally Madeline would eall me when Jack was away. Love is like that. First a slow in- coming tide | | we thought from the world! Then one evening 1 was B3 he walked in! Well, T was getting ready to tell | the cld world goodby. 4, Jack said in his colorless Fway, “Jane said for me to tell ¥ that it was about time for you to g0 Lome. Jane and 1 had a very pleasant evening Tun She inte They Willt Blade: “I'm v hat noI'moold Blade: “Oh, what's omehody else worry or worried, n w11l be- Terry Ta “ted Song Hi don't 1} ERAES Chicago, 11, d to Jeaxe all ud hunting b bandits it Citizen lot-guns, Inives ont ik might 1 Th Weohiol b Libited | Randit lier's window ks < is pro- ' at the cash- their turns. i and take Makes Random Observations On the Children Must Pay Penalty ‘While H. 8. Dispute Rages Opinions expressed by antagonis- tic groups: on the senior high-school situation are interesting but until those opinions are harmonized or compromised the children of New Britala will be_the sufferers. The group which wants an.addi- tion to the high gchool erected con- sists of the. board of educatjon,: a majority of ‘the membecas of the finance and - taxatibn commission and a majogily.of the counctl meth- bers. Supporting them, ‘out’ ph o less to act,- ik.-the state education, WHIEh “approve ~leh - larging the. facilities at the schpol by the constryction of a new buiM. irs. Opposing this group body consisting of the is mayor, another a cil and a committee appointed by | the mayor to survey the school situ. ation this city. Both cannot be right. Either may be right. But the point is that while these two factions are in conflict, children of high school age are hool may be necessary. It be more practical to erect a high school in the north end. A stale- mate has been reached. Each side scems inflexible. But arguments lay no bricks. et together. Patriarch Sighs for Good Old Gridiorn Fights The Patriarch came -over to the Observer's desk to borrow another match. The Patriarch seemed to be lost in a brown study. His mind was not on the present. “Why so pen- sive?” the Obesrver inquired. The Patriarch didn’t answer at once. As the match burned his fingers he came back to life and remarked: *1 was thinking of the good old days when New Britain and Hartford ligh schools fought for bloed on the gridiron.” “Tell me about it,” said the Observer. “It will help me fill up my column.” “Well,” began the Patriarch. “Something is gone from the Hartford-New Britain High school rivalry—an almost indefinable.some- thing which has been lost from al- most every field of ‘life within the | past decade or two. Perhaps it may be best explained by reversing our ement and saying that the enmity mething and that ething is respectability. s respectability has come to 1 | | or | the rivalry and has removed some of the picturesque color from it. Up to about six or seven years ago every Loy and girl at N. B. H. 8. was firm- ly convinced that the Hartford team was composed of eleven muckers, while the H. P. H. S. rooters were fully as certain that ew Britain [had a crew of dirty ringers on the field, Today only 22 persons are en- gaged in battling for their schools, wheras the number used to run up to some 1200 and included cheering sections, the alumni of the two schools, and the police. You used to sneak in through a hole in the fence when the police were careless or good-natured or when you could | now you go se- outrun them, but dately to a store and purchase your tickets a week in advance as if you were going to a performance of grand opera. No, boys, it's not the sume! “The Herald has printed the pre- game statements of both captains. | Fifteen years ago it wouldn't have, |for they would have been unprint- | lable. In those days the New Britain | 1 ally changing to a | torrent of its helpless victims. And | players of the two teams meet fre- our lové was hidden | quently at dances in Newington and team had ten fighting youths, they ated the boys who used to appear in the Hartford line-up. The other nearby places, and no pigskin with | chaser is going to jump up and down leline. Jack was supposed to be |on his opponent’s | on a trip o Detroit but he wasn't— |when there is a chance that he may Adam’s applo have a chance with that opponent's girl at the victory dance of the win- | ning team. “But, as said ahove, the struggle was not confined, of yore, to the-twa score and two youths who wor vere then called moles body had a hand. You didn't have | to be a student or an alumnes to fight for your team. Many a fellow who had never been inside a Migh school unless it was to carry in the new piano or to be identified as the man who had heen robbing the wardrobes would shout as voeifer- ously for the feam from his city team as would the captain's Kid brother. Of course, he merely hoped that someone might take exception fo his shouts and start a fight—and his hopes were usually realized. “There was many a game when the crowd stormed out onto the ficld so determinedly that the teams had barely room to do a little line-buck- and couldn’t have thrown a pis Kirked 2 punt if they had tried The quart-rhack knew that the g0al was somewbere beyond the cir- cle of y . and he had to carry carry a compass so that he could tell i which direction it lay. There was at least one 1thout 25 years ago, when the tlow s0 interrupted play that had to be called because alnost,as soon.as'the s arted, and there were others in which touchdowns > prevented only when the crowd ayer game, over- the of Rarkgy ond half many we | Pushing tolerated Please do not hlow open the safe expeciedly, teller is very nervous and the cashier has a weak heart While shooting at the tive, hanc ple breaking the v, Wilford Decler W crowding will not he 15 the hank detec will wind Terrible Charlichor Larkim: “Are Alrs. doetor? eripayy: “T am éow, Madam.” My Tarkan; “Then T want some medicing for my luchand's lorse Wsinamed Charlie, and ha him 1ot of grief Euth 192 Rep: Forbidden) son the 1 veterinary r (Copynight Poot Dt | minority group in the commen coun- | penalized. An addition to the high | may | both | horse | C«iiy ana Its People held up proceedings until a wearied defense regained its breath. “We remember another game of about 1918 or-1920 when Hartford was credited with a sweeping victory but when the game was really won by three New Britain sailors who completely vanquished the Hartford police force and retired—in none teo good orded, we admit—with much of its equipment. And it was only some three -years ago that it took a ring crowd off Memorial tield—a ring e thick that the horses blocked the ¥iew of everyone aud made the play- ers feaful that at any minute they might be brought down from the rear by an equine tackle. “Between the halves the rooters attempt to ‘bury' the other team amid boisterous solemnity, and it | took about 15 seconds for the pieces of the broken coffin to be converted | into clubs in the ensuing free.for-all. “Now you sit up in a numbered- and-lettered seat in the stands and react perfunctorily to the demands of the cheer leaders. No one runs out on the field, for it wouldn't be Egemlemanly and it might rip up the | turt. “You come home with clothing whole and an undamaged face, but still, when you say, ‘we won,' the ‘we' doesn't carry as much persoenal implication and satisfaction as in the | days when you atalked proudly into | ‘your house with collar gone, shirt | torn to shreds, an eye blackened and really meant ‘we’ when you said it.” | Fdwin Booth's Salary | Often $15,000 a Week Edwin Booth, American stage idol {of 50 years ago, earned more per| year than any two of Broadway's| high priced stars today, if the dol- | |lars he received are tramslated into 11028 values. | Thus puncturing all illusions of record breaking salaries for modern stage stars, Sally MacDougall, au- | thority on theatrical history, backs | up her statements by cold figures | from the 1876-1550 account book of the famous Shakespearean actor in the Century Magazine. There is a lot of excitement about the $5,000 a week pay check of cer- tain popular stars, she points out. Iut that would look like small po- tatoes to Edwin Booth who was ac- | jcustomed to $15,000 & week in modern dollars ~ | As a rule Booth's contract called for 50 per cent of the gross receipts, | sometimes more. Today 10 per cent | of the gross is the top price for the most expensive playes In that golden era,” 50 years ago, ! the preliminary expense for Booth's ! lelaborate production of Hamlet was only $1,612.08. Expenses for the first | | week included $1,902.75 for all sal- b tor advertising; §375 for rent; §33.46 for properties. The present average cost of pro- ducing a drama in New York—money spent before the curtain rises—is about ,000, she points out. The| outlay for musical attractions may be nearer $200,000. The expenses of a recent musical ly for a week included $15,142 mpany salaries; $1,965 for house salaries; $1,900 $3,000 for rent; $1,- . These items help lessened per-| i com | for c front of the for advertising | 170 for carpente |to account for the quisites of stardom. Booth would be surprised to find that his future has disclosed no actor who earns as much as he carned 50 years ago, He would mar- vel that his income, transferred into | today's dollars would seem a fantas- | | tic sum to our best paid stars. He would probably he glad he won his fame in the “golden era.” | Local Opinion Divided On Merits of “Talkies” J.ocal opinion regarding the “talk- ies” which have been installed in one | of the theaters recently, is divided. | People herctofore accustomed to | viewing a picture in comparative si- ! Jence, with the accompaniment of an organ and partly with an orchestra are wondering now, whether the | “talkie” 1s an advantage or a draw- | | back. | « inclined to think that the ima” should be all that the word “silent” implies—a presentation |of a play wherein it is left to the on- {1ooker to use his or her imagination [to a large extent in determining the tone of voice cach character should po With the advent of the talk- ing picture, the illusion died, they |say while ofttimes it happens that | voices of certain actors don’t suit !the character which they portray with the result that the onlooker is disiliusioned having imagined that | particular character with a different tone entirely. |"On the other hand. people who ap- prove of the “talkies” come back with a retort that in time this fall- acy will he corrected and intelligent voice culture will adapt properly ev- ery actor to the situation. On the whole, however, the group approving [the “talkies” thinks it a great ad- [vance in the motion picture field and predicts that in time the appa- ratus will be so perfected in every detail that the minutest noise or even a sigh will be reproduced. Further- mare, followers of the “movies pre- | dict that the quality of the sotion picture acter will improve—for the better ure players as well as the |so-called “he will have to un- dergo special training of voice before they will be singled out for choice parts. The advent of the “lalkie™ means the advent of a more intelli- nt type of player and the person | with zood voice delivery and legiti- | mate stage fraining will have t preference, they claim. In general, local opinion seems to tend toward the approral of the talkies” and peopls hegm to real- - that a picture with proper musi- cal scores written to suit the typ2 of picture, and played by larse con- cert orchestras under the direction lof able leaders. Jends interest and |sives the 1l looker-on the op- portunity 1o vicw the picture in a more critical manner, and determine whether or not the player portrays the part s®usfactorily, of ‘mounted policemen to keep the { | reform the tegislation. A light year equals the di light travels in 13 months at speed of 186,000 miles & second. ' The human race, when it thinks of speed and distance, measures them in terms of earthly apparatus, Aun airplane recently traveled at the rate of more than 300 miles ap hour. The world applauded the chine and the man who piloted over a short distance. Taking for granted that he was checked over one mile—think of the distance flest light traveled in the same period of time, at the rate of 136,009 miles & second. An automobile ride of 30Q miles a day is sufficient for the average man or woman. It is called a long distance. Try to imagine the span between the earth and the eenter its galaxy, 47.000 light years away, without becoming dizsy. t Look in the mirror and get a true of the side which was ahead would |,Y2/uation of your own size. They think it over and realize that mad who could figure out the distance has 2 mind more vast than all that space, a mind that can leap dis- tance, that can outthink speed, that can comprehend all these things. Perhaps we're not so little after an, FIDELITY SHOULD NOT BE EXPECTEN French Woman Gives Advice fo Wives Faris, Nov. 21 (UP)—Easier di- verce and education of young French girls in the expectation that when they marry their husbands will not be constant to them are the astonishing antidotes suggested by the well known French woman law- ver, Maitre Lucile Tinayre, for I'rance’s marriage problems, She believes this would prove more efficacious than “trial marri- ages.” “Whether there is a trial marri- age or not, the husband in France would act as he most ‘qften does, be unfaithful sooner or later to his margjage vows,” the handsome and intellectual Portia said in an inter- view here. “The statistics are there to prove. Usually the cooling off oc- curs between the fifth and sixth year of marriage. Statistics show that 76 per cent of divorces occur then.” Because of the too complicated nature of divorce laws which keep unhappy couplas tied together who would rather be free, she would Adjustment by making divorce more easy would allow of marriage failures being conveniently ended to be replaced by successful unions, she holds; « higher standard of morality would result; while, crimes of passion an vengeance would probably also d crease. “Many of my colleagues of the French bar are with me in bellev- ing that in this way lies the solution rather than the “five years' tes' which I understand is being advo- cated by some sociologists in Amer- ica. “We should still be conserving marriage, because people who are happily wed will remain so whether or not the bonds are made more casily broken. “As it is at present, one of a wed- ded couple can keep the other tied for twenty years, for life, simply by 1efusing to agree to a diverce. And when a hushand or wife goes away with a third party and the offended party refuses to take action the lives of at least two persons are ruined. As well as making divorce easier, J would tell girls the truth—that they should not expect a hushand to re. main constant. FRANCE PREPARING FOR OCEAN ROUTE Already Planoing Course for Aircralt to Follow ——— Erest, Nov. 24. P—France is al- ready making her plang for regular transatlantic air service. M. Laurent-Eynac, minister of air, gnd M. Charles Danielou, for- mer minister and president of the chamber of deputies Navy commit- tee, have studied together g scheme for making the port of Brest a great international air terminus for transatlantic lines, The new airport will be at Lan- veoc-Poulmic, near Brest harber, and will afferd ample facilities for scaplanes as well as land planes. An agreement for improvement of this airport has been concluded he- tween the Brest chamber of com- merce and the naval base autheri- ties, both of which have donated the land. M. Danielou’s plan {includes han- gars, repair shops, factories, a post- office, hot barracks for the atr- port staff and all that is necessary to make Brest, as M. Danielou ex- pressed i, the “Havre of transat- lantic a'r lines.” One remarkable featurs of the plan {s its provision for under- ground hangars for the atrplan M. Danielou’s idea is to align the buiMings in such a manner ag not to incommede the heaviest-laden airplane in its take.off. He thinks that underground hangars will best contribute to this end. A special light-house for airplanes is to be built on the summit of Le. cronan, which dominates at the same time the line Ushant-Treland and the lins to Lorfent. SMART GLASSES Frank E. Goodwm“