New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1928, Page 6

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The Herald fo on sale dally ta_ New Vork at_Hotaling's Newsstand, Times 4juare; Schults's jewsstands, Estrance rand Central, 42nd Street. e e e portfolios in Just Mussolini has sevel iy so-called *governnien like the situation in the Third Wurd ublican club. Our idea of a hard luck Christinas is to have the family still explode, Joing more damage and in less time than when a Christmas tree catches tire, Having signed the Boulder Dum ill, Coolidge Lcling Arizona a Merry Christias. President wishes ob- reformer would But chance to see A fiming calendar te Wednesday. fellow have how would his girl? THE THE L. We gather Swittly in this PINAL T the wilt ag election results That is, we Kknow comparatively early on the uight of the election sit on the presidential leather in the But do not totals quite that just who will exeeutive mansion. we obtain the exact carly. In fact, they are just at hand. It took a special effort by the Asso- ciated Press to secure these figur by communicating with the election oiticials of all the 48 states. The ex- act totals show that Herbert Hoover obtained 21,429,109 votes, while Al Smith got a neat total of 15,005.447. And the total vote cast, the largest in the history of the U. S. A, was 36.798,66 {oover plurality over Smith— ss than the figures vegistered by President Coolidge in over Davis, in spite of the much er vote polled by the secretary of commerce. But despite this less- cned plurality, Hoover's votes were better distributed for totals in the so that he carried carried by Coolidge electoral colleg: 10 states to 37 four years ago. Tt is ihe a commonplace to think that countr; is “overwhelmingly Democratic than Itepublican.” But a candidate poll 15,000,000 votes is not exactly over- whelmed so far as popular acclaim is concerned. ‘A candidate with this total of votes, distributed “properly” in the various states, could be clect- «d even if the opponent had more (han 6,000,000 more—this duc to the who can more possibilities inherent in the electoral college 8 being in the ystem, which is credited with Constitution through he influence of Alexander Hamilton the Philadelphia “hich gave birth to the For practical purposes, the ition of the votes in the el ifered, the country real- in convention basic law. dispo- oral ol Iy is overwhelmingly When a candidate can carry all but publican. ight states while his opponent ob- tuing more than 15,000,000 votes it denotes the 40 to 8 in the thing that determines the el Some day, the clectoral colicg: reflection of the overwhelning ratio of tion be 1% an inaccurate wopular vot minority a candidate 1L win the clectoral nd do itrso decisively that an be no way of beating him fruits of victory—and n fhie probability will loom that be with the clec- ction in th of the he Constitution will speedily mended to do away Until 2 to worry oral coll then prob. along with CATCHING UP WITH THL SPIRIT OF SANTA to Merchants s that 18 beer preculiar ason slow pre-holi hopping s Keeping step with a swdden Nanta was until around Saturda Ben there the was upturn in shopping spirit; and all week it has been at a hi The season promises to which most Christmas shoppi to be concentrated in k. ¢ this has been re a little more than one wer Tna v ttable after years of attempts 1o cducate the public carly. The of the shops to do their shopping strain upon the personnel is tremendous when concentrated within such a short time. There may be eral reasons why this came fo be a different year., ' é | chiet of which is said to be the in- fluence of the stock market. It is said by many keen critics of | the situation that thousands of peo- ! ple in every state—especially in the | East—were so much engrossed in {the vagaries of the stock market until a little more than a week ago | that they felt leas inclined to be in- "terested in Christmas shopping until the latter could not be put off any longer. The break in the stock market came just before the shopping urge | started, and there is reason to be- licve that interest in the stock market declined after numerous marginal traders—big and little, cspecially the latter—lost interest in something that didn't turn out as anticipated. Regardless of gains o losses, these folk are now interested in another market—the market ot obtaining gifts wherewith to make of Christmas the gladsome time as of yore. The grand climax comes today nd Monday. One shudders to think of the traffic jains in the stores. The tots, confident that good Santa will not overlook them, are depending upon faith and hope and the old- sters are not to disappoint them. I's a good way to have a good time. ANOTHER TROLLEY LINE of the most important of trol- line has been allowed by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission, resulting in change in New Winsted. This discontinuance of trol- of an important facilites between Haven and loy serviee in favor motor (ehes is also notable in that the Connecticut company petitioned for fol- ew LEng- the Jiscontinuance, immediately lowed by a petition of the } land T Noew ansportation company, subsidiary, for the Haven railroad permission to operate busey. | Both petitions having been granted, it is worth while fo consider the ‘ehange in prospect on the morning | of January 6. The trolley service, such as it has been and is. has been between Tore rington and Winsted, and between Thomaston und Fort Hill in Water- b ice. The motor coach service will be a through line between New Haven and Winsted, via Waterbury, Thom- and Torrington. Manifestly sroposition. Tt towns and cities and will cnable to travek between their destinations without change. This was not a through serv- aston this is a far superior will benefit all the long the line couch traveler: The motor coach line, however, stead of stopping ut Winsted, should to Pittsfield, a hint that the Waterbury Republican was prompt to throw in the dircction of the New England Transportation but which that concern could not in- corporate in its petition in this state because of the intra-stat. of the service. thie makes ar- rungements with the authoritics in Massachusetts o extend the line to Vittsfleld, which would give the public in western Connecticut direet through {transportation north and south from one important rail ter- minal in- continur company character 1t is to he hoped that company speedily to another imprtant terminal, A NEW NATIONAL 1S NOT NE Again a composer of parts has at- tempted to furnish the nation with a new national anthem, having come the " heing u tune tak- drinking with the to the conclusion that Spangled Banne “Star “n from an old song, is- not of this English compatible dignity Rreat nation, while America.” being of English origin is not decmed original cnough. The gentleman ready to supply the had big opportunity to put it new national anthem a mar- velously He Bloch, born in Switzerlund over. was 1o other than Ernest natural- of the ized in ner Musical America symplionic The prize competition. national anthem was attached the out all alone in all its grand splondor. The programs, to the symphony and at grand finale stood words were printed on the and the audience was supposed fo ioin the orchestra in song. Walter Damrosch ie Hall alidience But when motioned to the Carn to rise and join in the singing was so inconse quential, ¢ that pt for a chorus o1 1o it was even less In olun an the congregational ne churches we have unholy ninsic eritics were wrompt to explain that the supp new national anthem was the w part of the a hile yone livii ails folk i form of a sym- phony has its pla did fie m tionahly Fehaikowshy <anie thing for Lt the sich Itussian foll many fines; 1 lodics, not onee otl of rasters hefore iliz 1elodios o the time of Haydn, Victor He n the | bert made restrietive of «uch themes in gomie of his conc ces, whil inyone living failed 10 remeniber brass b the folk tunes in Dixicland sketehes and such ik 1 To have them incorporat- in a symyp work of lurge iion is iden wddition n A so Tt o idvance, a sound that Tiere in i travel | rail | new national anthem—well, | naturally is akeptical. | Trying to provide a new national |anthem for the American people is :‘n attempt years old. The people‘ will have nothing of the new na- {tional anthems; they are satisfied | with what they have, and regard- | |less of the griticisms levelled at the “Star Spangled Banner," it somehow | |sticks. The words were born in the | midst of national stress, an advan- | tage over any “new” national an- | them written in a study during peace and prosperity. 1f a new | national anthem could be written in off-hand’ manner Victor | Herbert, John Phillip Sousa. or Reginald de Koven—no mean | manipulators of tunes and lyrics in one such an the American manner—would have done so years ago. The task Bloch set for himselt iy this connection was hopeless, and can be ascribed to the fact that he has been in this | country only twelve years and is “omething of an idealist by nature. | As Sousa once said, writing na- tional anthems cannot plished with the case of Writing a book or an opera. Too many | cumstances must combine. When the be accom time comes to provide a new onc, Sousa said, somebody—perhaps an inconspicuous citizen—will pen it in | a few minutes of time, Until 'lwn‘ the nation needs nothing ==~ * | what it already possesses. discontinuances in favor of | SNAPPY WEATHER AS CURLE FOR COLDS AND FLU Doctors tell us that it is not bitter cold weather which causes epidemics (of colds, influenza and other bron- chial tube diseases, but that these most likely to occur during mild months, and are and unseasonable fall during winter months which,happen to be more like autumn. Of course. there, is a certain total of such troubles present to inflict humanity rogardless of the kind of winter we may be having: but statistics show that unscasonable weather greatly \dvances the of sneezing, | coughing und general debility. cause | The mation has - been somewhat | alarmed latély regarding the prog- ress of an influenza epidemic which started along the Pacific coast and has worked its way castward, Tt is a mild form of the miserable disease, however, and this forms the silver ' lining on the cloud. More general in the East has been an epidemic of common colds; to All of | which has been due to a combination | sniffle seems to be in sty of circumstances all predicated upon | such a mild winter—so far—as to lead some of the more able to believe the climate is cf impression- ng- ing. i It is unsafe to prediet that colder | weather is right around the corner. As this is written the thermometer | down appreciably; but that is no guarantec that it will be 'down by the time this item se _print. Such are the vagarics of the weather. has gone When the thermometer begins ¢ maining down low—uwhere it helongs, according to the coal deale horde of colds will disapp much sniffling c We lose ours by that time, 50, SKYSCRAPERS AND SUBWAYS Perhaps there may be regret that [the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New | York is to end its existence when it makes way for a skyscraper of 50 | stories. The hotel has been a nation- ul institution since the nineties, but after all, new hotels are being huilt | constantly and the same regret was s ago when the | Knickerbocker at Times Square was | expressed some yea turned into a building for commer- ‘cial uses. The time will never come will be of botels in the metropolis. What the be about is the fact that more sky- when there a paucity chicf concern should are being projected. Just now buildings from 30 to 60 stories scrapers ing planned by architects, most of them along the lines of the cxisting subways. The subways, alrcady overcrowd «d. will be utterly inadequate in the The Grand Central subway station can cited as an coming year: be example. The spot was bad cnough the Que line. crossing the Lexington avenue line hefore ns subway underncath, was constructed. Now 1 being projected the there is a double subway j: & vat buildings are in the vicinity, ene of them to he highest in the world. The all e thie 6 p N workers in these skyscrapers 1sing work at approxima 5 the subways 1y same time, or between i rush for The he m.. imagined W York's transportation prob em. already acute beyond solving will become worse instead of bettor no matter how more “efficient” i companios operate the subways. hys Head of the crapers Wil always be jiinps SUbWays no matter how of them many are built 25 Vea With rs Ago Today the coming of appe of et tutomobiles have zon Jles and horses o lied into play by & months, winter on the back to 1} in bei who dri the warmer 1 line cars in leir rifr the Myron Stockwell city with paper in a suit for $2,000 brought by J. M. Belden for payment of a coal bill. The complaint states that 5,000 pounds were ordered at $8 a ton and more at an unspecified price, When this last was delivered the coal famine had raised prices, and the plaintiff claims he should re- ceive their ice then in effect.. It would have been necessary to close the schools had he not furnished this coal, he claims. Noble E. Pierce ued the writ. Christmas ice cream at Hallinar C. F. Dehm will petition th- council for permission to erect a sign over the sidewalk in front of ‘Turner hall. | D. M. Rogers' team was coming | up Main strect today when the| tank burst and varnish began to flow out. The driver, nonplussed for | a moment, finally drove madly back to the store amid cries of “Oh, look at the beer!” ! Princeton is agitating in favor of | having the football rule requiring | seven men to be on the line apply to the whole field instead of be- tween the 2 lines. ‘This | would permit quarterback runs and | put a premium on punting. | The New Britain National bank is distributing among its customers | handsome holiday souvenirs con- sisting of leatherbound combination pocketbooks and memorandums. The vacancy in the first ward councll representation caused by the renmoval of €. E. Pierce to Rer- lin will not be filled until nest pring, Chairman Curtis said today. | F. cts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN Civilizing the wilds: Missionari politicians; bill hoards. e driver in front needs one more | signal meaning she changed her mind. | A general practician is one who | can lance a boil without a labora- | tory test, an x-ray and Lwo assistants. The girls will be expected 1o marry for money If the family has nothing to be proud of except ap- cestors. Tt casy (o recognize the new-rich at winter resorts. They didn’t bring their overconts. | 1t's easy to tell Qe old boy whose first car had a right-hand drive. | He's a left-handed petter. The prize optimist is the 'man with an old-maid sister who remains a bachelor in order to keep his free- dom. Tt must love if she quits a $45 | job o wash dishes for a’ man with a $24 joh. A gnu has gored a zoo keeper. Now if T gore a few animals,” the wounded man tittered, “that will he gnus." Americanism: Sncering at people who are yellow; hiding your re- ligious faith to keep some eynic from sneering., s casy milies in ges are to pick ont fhe hest n old town, Their mort- Now with age. Tt's an improvement, anyway spends Sunday with one foot on the accelerator now. whercas in the old days e spent it with both fect on the dining table Dad As we understand French courts, it s unjust to grant estradition papers for an American who has a lot of money to spend. o How fine on Sun et out and sec the great open spuces—four foot spaces, between cars, Another thing theaters need is B to hide your me when the great man in the s reel s told to simile and achieves an idiotic grin. ne Looking back over t remember the years, we man who inherit- ed for drink unless he inherited mon without luhor. ste latest four-flusher is the man ' Who buys un old ear to make people think he's vich enough not to care about appearances, ading You of i talk that body the modern staff reminds old livery stable loafer's was wasted because no- Knew it was literature, Correet this senfere “Her hus- Dand lost his money,” said the gos- hour than the plodding ayerage m:m‘ W “p. vas sorry and every catty soman in town Slamp‘('nlleclm' Get Mail From Kitty Hawk (bl souvenirs of the 25th an f 0¥ing lave been re- cral local stamp col form of letters mailed Hawk., N. . the p first <t flight in 25 years ook place Knnps is- Niversary of cd by s s i the Kitfy the wstul ory 1 ety that achicvennt letters e N in lonor neetled annive Hawk et ary, and also Tispiliy picting irplancs of the nniversary, First Wright Tiros, ot Dec. 17, 11 Kitty Hawk is ar on the ¢ railroad i ear- “Twenty-fifth ilizht made by the ity Hawk, N. C., v fe locality d the sand coasts, and route i low author- hut irolina or air rnment il serves 1 the enir vor £ nping and n Bandlin i part of portant “on piee he ob 1 anni |in As it Scems to Us} A toy department ‘S8anta Claus, be- whiskered, furry, fat, Oh, we can think of heaps of things we'd rather be than that, Not post-men though, nor Christmas trees, they're loaded down like sin, We'd rather be a holly wreath, we ! like the way they grin! Sorrow! Thompson: “Whenever 1 hear my wife sing ‘Jingle Bells' it makes me feel very sad. Mullin: * “Jingle Bells' isn’t a par- ticularly Thot a particularly good singer, either.” —Mrs. H. R. Kuechler THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY pivitual The organizer of a church hazar a neighboring city says that all the articles on sale are good values for the money. 1t is hoped that the public will be attract>d by the novelty of the idea! ‘e Seasonal A city employer finds it good policy to give each of his lady clerks a new hat every year as a Christmas present. Reckoning the cost, no doubt; among his overhead expenses! P ~ feminine contributor woman prefr who gives way to her sort What other . A asks: @ husband or the other sort? Movies woman recently was divorced 40 minutes A Russian married and later : We understand made an honorary film star! o s 8 ports 4 comedian on onc of our leading vaudeville gircuits tears i telephone directory in two with his hands. Weo should hate to be In a tele- phone Tooth when he gets a wrong number! Better Than Nothing? Belle: “Did Freddie ever give you any jewel Rose he was always funny about that. When 1 asked him for a i let all he gave me was an em- hracele annis Bruge RI or Hoffenstein 1 Oneé upon a time young man who had learned the principles of honest industr: thrift and loyalty. He had taught them child, absorbed them in his teens and made them the motives of bis carecr. He worked hard, saved his pennies, served his cmiployer with unswerving — fidelity, meticulously honorable in his dealings and so on. He was held up as an example. As a result By Sum there was a as a was of these excellent also qualitics. when he was 50 years old | giates s T tates are behind it. The ldea v enough to get hooch | he had Sived $211.95 and was given | great and the officials of the Legion a sinecure us a night watchman, At another fime voung man of such 2ift that cverything complished more quic Hantly than it. His most mediocre touched with a spe and he sworked that he alw to deve there was a extraordinary o did svas ac- and bril- any tusks were 1 distinction, with such a facility had considerable lej- » 1o his own us at the sanie time achieving more in an in a day Natnrally rded as s generally vd a “nrt re- and s a persistent horrow- | or of trom successful to fellows doing 10 always seemed something. be 3 Wits once a young cd a great fortune d had decided Spinions of his own out things, He regarded life as a of &elf-oxpression far su- of the arts, wad as freedom (o exer- looked upon its zreatest hoon that hestowed upon a hutan poverty as the n thers wan who inhers medinm perior to 1oty him this belief he possession as comld 1 Dieir calamity He therefore trav ad, slept. worked where and oy he hurting or infringin of any other human being in the process. He did nothing cxeept what was suited 1o his talents and only it 1s congenial to his mood and therefore most productive, " one of the happi- st people in the world Therefore Tin was poinfed ont as of the vals of inherited ny supreme read, imd played when, liked without upon the rights when was, in short m sl No; but my wife isn't that she is to be | been | one else could do | 1 loat- | Power of Appointment | Might Well Be shifted : The favorable’ trend noted in the discussion among members of .the charter vevision committeg about thé proposed charter change to es- tablish two officer of prosecuting at- torney, has paved the way for the suggestion in certain circles that a change be made in the method of appointing the incumbents, At pres- ent, the common council makes the appointments and fixes the salaries jof the offices although In other cit- fes -fn Connecticut and elsewhere, the judges of the courts in which the “prosecuting attorneys represent |the state are charged with the pow- er of filling the positions. It has been brought out, accord- |ing to information reaching the Ob- {server during the past week: that |there 1is considerable sentiment |among well-informed citizens in fav- or of taking out of the common |council this important duty, princi- |pally on the ground that the fewer | persons having a voice in the ap- | pointments the greater would be the |degree of independence with which the officials could go about their du- ties. The average council member |in New Britain or any other city in |all probability knows little or noth- ing about the requirements of of- |fices directly concerned with the practice of law and it is not diffi- cult to conceive of the possibility of {the exercise of the human frailtics |to the extent, for inatance, of de- Iveloping a dislike for an official be- |cause he objected or refused out- |right to play politics. Prosecuting attorneys, probably more than any other class of public |officials, are hesought for favors, some of which are nct only unrea- sonable but impossible to grant. Of- |fice holders who have the appoint- ment of a few minor places an- nually or by other arrangement, usually consider themselves pester- ed beyond reason by applicants and their friends, but at least they have a respite after the periodical rush is over, whereas the prosecuting at- torneys hardly pass a day without Tbeing called on to accede or refuse |some sgequest ot other, . and they | genérally offénd Soniediie, whatever the stand they take. To give the power of appoint- ment to the judges of the court would be a step forward, it seem and by no stretch of the imagination does it seem possible to conceive of ny harm that might come of it.| Certainly the judges are in a posi- tion to estimate the qualifications of the candidates and weigh the capa- bilities of incumhents, and from the | viewpoint of the dignity that is sup Iposed to enshroud the acts of the | components of the judicial system, there is no argument in favor of llw‘ present system. Tt has also been suggested fthat appointment of presecuting attor- Ineys by the state’s atlorney would be a vast improvement over the present system, and it seems, on the surface at least, that it"would be an ideal arrangement. Ag a matter of fact, prosecuting attorneys are en- | iged in the same duty as is the state’s attorney. They are concern- |ed with the prosecution of criminal |cases, the difference in their respon- | sibilities being for the most part the margin by which the seriousness of |alleged ‘offenses coming hefore po: !lice court Is distinguished from that of the crimes with which the su- | perior court is concerned. Whaddaya Mcan, Doughh With Your “Buffet-Cafe” The American Legion Building, Inc., a Delaware corporation has extensive plans for a building at 49 rue Pierre-Charron, Paris. Legion. naires throughout the States are behind it, and dubbed “A Second Amcrican Em- hassy in France, there will be |rooms for stockholders, ILegion- naires, memorial rooms, informa- tion bureau and lots of things. ltem ‘K of the list of things is of es. I peeial interest. Item “F” simply suys “Cafe-Buffet.”” and the ques- tion s whether or not it will live { up to Paris cafes along the refresh- ment line. True it is a Delaward Corp. and if it happened to be dry, boetleggers ~ould sneak in un- der the cloak of darkness, or it might be said that some of the vis- |iting brothers from the States would bring it in with them. If that “Cafe-Buffet” happens to be a | jdry pl ex-servicemen would give it a wide berth, If it is wet, Low come the soldiers of the United is |are to be congratulated. Tt n't | help but getting the ex-servicemen |thinking about the wet and dry is- | wealth and as proof the sons of rich men ood for nothiig. positive th vely Speaki tow did you manage ! | P in finances Jduring your visit ito N Rela Gleason: doing my daily | | cousin!™ —Mac Powell | 1t 15 to Smil Tn walking through a train, a smile always relieves the tension of the moment—even if it is the train |of your hosfess’ best dinner gown! |1t vour newly married friends in- sist upon your holding the bab; grab the infant firmly by the bhack of the neck and smile. The parents il remove 11 hild at once. | | 1f your rival appears to be cut-| ;tinx you out with the only girl, {smile. This will rouse her suspicions jat once and she will devote the rest | of her fime trying to find out who { “that girl” What's in.a Name? | Kebogz: “Rufe. did you go | vour lodge meeting last night? Rutus: “Ne sah. We dun have to postpone i Kellog; How was that?" ‘ | Rwus: “De Grand-All-Powerful- | Tovincible - Mést Supreme - Uncon | anerable-Potentate dun got beat up by his wife!™ | —11. B. Demiceo | vroduction to | (Copyright, 1 Forbidden) | ‘in New | year, a gain of ecight p | King George | the Connecticut | scenes | eve and the cmotions | understanding can | he I ments of civiliz | no —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations ; On the City ana Its People sue over here. Any photographer who held his breath until he got n 8nap shot of a couple of ex-dough- boys going by the cafe on a dead gallop, because they didn't believe in" liquor, would automatically place him in the lime light to travel in French varities. General Pershing is a director and so is Ambassador Herrick, two big men from a dry country, maybe they would blush it they were asked about the mat- ter, but chances are that either one of tiem would say something along the lines of’ “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.” That's O. K., but if the building is going to be a kind pf a second embassy, and a typical ‘American place, are the I'rench go- ing to Dbelieve that the! a cafe cnjoyed but not talked about in American buildings? It's to be incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware and one kind of wonders whether or not Cafe was mentioned when the charter was granted. New England Leads Again In Per Capita Savings The latest figures for savings de- posits in all banks and trust com- | panies of the United States, ly released by the Savings Bank Division of the American Bankers Assoriation, show New England, as heretofore, ahead of any ot)e<r sec- tion jn the amount of savings per irhabitant, Dividing total savings deposits hy total -population, gives New England a deposit of $560, for ecah man, woman and child. The Middle Atlantic States are next with a deposit per inhabitant of $431. The per capita deposit for the United States as a whole amounts to $237. Every New England state fin- creased in per capita deposits in the vear ending June 30, 1528, over the corresponding period last year. The largest gain was made in Massa- chusetts where the per capita de- posit this year was $43 larger than that of last year. Massachusetts per capita deposit amounted {his year to $618, the largest of any tate in the Union. The second largest gain in per capita savings ngland was made by Ver- asing from $546 year to 8585 this year, a gain $39. This gain by Vermont is re markable, since it was made despite the losses resulting from the flood. For New England as a whole the per capita gain over last ye amounted fo $36. This gain is la er by $7 than last y $29 per inhabitant largest gain ma it was cqualled. Total savings deposils gland increased 1 total of $4,631 recent- mont;” inc and since 1920, when in i 00 31,000 this cent over lust. This increase was shared by all of the England States, Romance Still Lives, But You Must Be a Boy Amid the South - Americ bill in alarums of war in the Boulder Dam congress, the condition of and other cvents of national and international import- ance, was tucked away in an incon- spicuous place in th this week a story about three ud- enturous school loys who played lookey and went to Hartford to wateh the boats go up and down river. 1 the Lids but knew it they were merely giving cxpression to a u versal craving—the desire to escap. from the hum-drum of life. In this world of grinding toil made up of a multitude of fasks which form an_imponderahic weight upon the back of mankind, who has not | aclied to leave it all behind, fem- porarily at least, and flit to fa where novelty strike The majority of u necessity to our des| benches, find our escap: the magic of story hoo Ther imagination holds full sway and we travel to distant points on Bagdad carpets of paper and ink to drink in the experience of fiction: characters in fictionary surround- ings. Anyone with a grain of human appreciate how these bhoys felt as they started for the alluring shores of the river at Hartford. Readin’ ritin® and rith- metic were forgoften for the nonce. | | School teacher: mieant mothing in their young 1 es. The hateful clarg of the school bell no longer echoed | in their ears. They were free—as free the winds—and on their way 1o wiatch the ships come up the river, if there happened fo b any shipping, and o conjecture whence they eame or whither hound No doubt any of the three have cagerly aceepted an ment as eabin hoy for who, time in his life, has not a cabin and sail ic lands, fringed nhy n that lic just would appoint- 1t some longed to to those the over Doy ma ing lorizon To certain Bave that stavistic yearning fo pusi on and on just the world did. The it ments of the races may have been for the purpose of paking military conguests on the surfa but at heart the millions who hax d over the face Leen itpelled 1, something row groove of us ar v 0 the, gt 1 des Living unnatnral ced by the requi ion to pass onr 1l of us handics “d tasks which eall for onr Aeertain place at o eertain hour fo do cortain thir sibility to oflhers keeps even wihen hing within crying out for a change. Our worll is that narrow Jane befween home and office or factory or store when we would much rather sit on a dock and swing onr heels and watch the ships come seemingly out of no- whe! 1 depart into the void or lie on deck on one of these ship: hound for ports on the other side of the world. China, India, the is- lande of the South Seas heckon languoronsly. There will be found furnace fi fo attend, alarm clocks fo hreak ire fo sce in a na hut new is fo heing at Iespon- E us i ns <on no repose, 1o last | ol fhe | New | news column | through | most of us as the pioncers of | move- | storm. | of the earth have | ost | routine of petty tasks that us to our groove. The Observer hopes that the au- thorities will mnot be severe with. those three boys, becayse he wishes he could have been onc of them., Sulary Petition Parade Marches on City Treasury ; ‘To a disinterested person, the an.’ nual rush on ihe part of city ems: ployes to obtzi. salary or wage in. creases has assumed the color of & burlesque. Jt. i easily understand- able why workers who believe they’ are worthy of their hire expect to have tHeir incomes increased occas- innally byt the scramble by neariw— everyone on the!city payroll to get more money is undignified and ludi- crous. It works something like this, John Jones, who believes that his salary is disproportionate to his value to the city, and who may be quite cor- rect, decided to file a petition for | an increase in salary. Associate offi- cials learn of his intentions and lose; no time in following his lead. The pity of public employment s that men and women who give con- scientious effort to discharging their duties and to studying the problems of their departments sometimes re- ive saluries not commensurate; h their responsibilities hecause: they lack political influence. Other employes who work only to get their, pay but who havs contacts with the powers that be ure frequently finan- cially rewarded more gencrously. Pullic scrvice is often thankless service. A municipality is seldom willing to pay for real brains—it re- quires a man or woman on the pay- roll to produce something tangible, something that can be placed on & de and seen. ldeas are a dis- count. Originality has little worth on the market. Kach year the em- ploye who has been satistied to per- form just enough labor to hold his |iob may be found in line with the deserving worker, like Oliver Twist, asking for more. The avalanche is now in progress. The Big Parade | :oves forward. GOMPLETE GOLF MATCH IN DARK {Hagen and Guests Have to Strike Matches to Finish Game e it Letter Avalon, Sanfa Catalina Island, Cal., 22 (P)—Having won their spurs night golfers, Walter- Hagen and Charles Guest of Detroitecnjoved a | strategic position in the Catalin Island open golf fournanient today, | two strokes behind the field leaders, | but two strokes under par 96, The pair, along with Leonard Schmutte of Limo, O. finished the holes in the opening day's e, last night in Inky darkness o late start, | Although compelled to strike | matches to find the balls on the last | hole played, Hagen and Guest made 94's, {wo stroke above the low ores turned in by young Horton snuth, Joplin, Mo, and Gwyn Bow- P'ortland, Orc. Schmutte totaled Dec, o 10z, . : Harry Cooper, ‘Buffalo, N. ¥.; held the second low score of 93 at the conclusion of his third trip around the tight and rocky little 9-hole d up the tournanrent were played yesterday and an- will be run oft today, leav- ¢ final 18 for Sunday, when the $2,500 in cash prizes will be decided. At the halfway point at noon toduy the tield will be frimmed to 48 fine Lishers from the 100-0dd starters. | Deep sea fishing oif the Avalon shores tempted “The Haig” through- out the morning and he did not tec off until noon, completing the fir 15 holes at ‘sundown with a card of By the time they veached the sixth Lole of the second round it was piteh caddy, dressed in whitc, the greens to guide I light was needed ['on the ninth hole to locate the balls. Hagen holed out the last three holes in par for a 32, par for the yuzzling short fairway course. with, had the outstanding per- formance of the day with his amaz- ing feat of trimming 11 strokes from: par in the first 18 holes. His e four helow =Bowe: who himselt had bested par by 7 strokes at the stage. Smith slipped on the last round but his lead could not he overcome. A stroke behind Hagen and Guest Ben Richter of St. Louis, while ony Longo of New York and Al ispinosa of Chicago share seventh place with 96. Scores ranged as high as 110, Boy Scouts of Troop 4 | Enjoy Christmas Part, 1ioy Scout Troop 4 held a Christ- party after its regular meeting st night. Tt took the iorm of b hag, ch boy contributing inexpensive article and cach taking a turn at grabbing info the big hox confaining all the things. e scouts then had to open their presents hefore the assembled scouts and there was much laughter as pipes, sets of dishes, doll's nursing outfits, toy autos, marbles, and other humorous articles were disclosed. The troop voted to seek two yooths at the coming scout exhibi- ion al the Stanley Memorial church and will probably make an aviation exhibit m: in a 50110 | Observations On The Weather 1 New Washingfon, for Southern Iy fair Satu and slowly rising temperature Forccast for Eastern New York: Generally fair Saturday and Sunday; somewhat warmer Sunday. Conditions: . The disturbance that was eover southeastern Ontario Thursday even- ing has moved rapidly northeast- ward fo Southern Fabrador and pressure is falling over the Mac- Kenzie vall The indications arc for mostly fair weather in the Wa: inzton forecast district Saturday and ) he temperature will rjsc lowly over the northern portions of the district on Sunday. Otherwisc changes will be unimportant. Sunday,