New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 2

STARTLING | should not only be thanked but should be decorated as a here be. cause if the trafic manager had a record of all cars in on time for progress.” 1 More Power From Gasoline “It will be poasible in a few years to come to get from §0 to 400 per a half hour late because he waited Fasoline.” ATOREFINENENTS 5 e e o 28 for passengers he was apt to be' “None of the things that books fired. “The trafic manager was an Written as late as three years ago efMclency engineer, he had forgotten ; told _ul about motor knocks were e hmiag that hauling passengera was the busineas of the ocompany and thought it was that of getting cars e of Putre o Have Surpes- [ ulmm in on time." | Why Car Value Declincs “The sutomobile of today s as| what the auto- \ “mw“- G:l;:":e.‘r: Trom mow win father of all changes” by saying be as an alarm clock is alongside that if one took a brand new $2,000 s fine Swiss watch,” according to car and put it in a glass case as it Charles F. Kettering, vice president Came from the factory, that car, of the General Motors Corp. who 2ithoush never touched, would de- spoke to a gathering of engineers "'::l‘“t"r the ':u°“ '20‘: year from New Britain and other nearby ' :‘“ » < . ;‘::“’ ‘u”m would cities last night. The occasion was k"‘"m‘ n ..,:.‘ i f'nyd!n- but a joint mecting of the New Britain, junk dealera. “We don't depreciate your old cars by bringing out new Hartford and Meriden sections of 1 the American Soelety of Mechanical “"‘:t‘;.;" d’"“ elevate your taste, Engineers and the Hartford Engi- neers' club. The New Britain sec. ~Taking a fiing at people tion sponsored the meeting, which was in charge of the Hartford En- gineers' club. M. G. Steele of this city, president of the Hartford En- gineer's club, presided. 100 Present from This Oity who an inscription which, when trans- ihted, was found to be a moan | against the high cost of living and Approximately 100 men and WOM- | regretting that the “good old days” silk worm for hundreds of years. mor, who has heen the target of bit- en from New Britain were present were no more. at the meeting, which was held in the Bulkeley high achool, Hartford. | Kettering Kepigrams Mr. Kettering, who is president{ Among some of Mr. Kettering’s of the General Motors Research €pigrams were the following: ICorp., described the evolution of | "The poor house door the engineer from his obscure pul.:xreatnnt incentive to thought.” tion of 10 years ago to & place in| ‘The thing that was perfectly sat. the sun as a recognized asset to in. | !sfactory yesterday may not be to- ‘dustry. He described modern re. MOrrow- ‘search as “getting the truth out of | IR five years from now you will industry” and the research depm.!fl" 80 much more automobile for ment as “a procurement department ‘hour dollar l_hnt. we would be rob- for ideas” A simplified form of a Der® If we didn't keep changing vesearch dcpartment he described | POdels: : s & man and a desk, at which he |, YOU et more automobile for seldom atays. The dutles of a re. | $500 today than you did for $1,000 search department he outlined ax; ['° Ye4rs 480, Wou can't tell me we finding new ideas, ascertatning what “3, SO0 18 T e . s wrong Wwith the present business OKta Jsks money.. to. make % | changes coincidental with the time ;:'d“‘;:"' difficulties the future Will \1p,n 4o get cither ahead or behind the times.” He fllustrated the need of @ Te- unoi't wait to let the trade force search department by saying that|.panges. You must make changes “An engineer might say the Grand |p;rmonize with the times.” Canyon was a wonderful place for| wDon't worry about the satura- ® bridge and would build a bridge (ion point. The only business that over it in case a railroad MIght |over reached the saturation point come along. The research man|wag the undertaker's. would find out first what the possi- “Don't think you've learned it all. bilities were of & railroad ever com- | The day you were born every other Ing that way, then if necessary he|person on earth was older than you. would recommend the bridge.” | One year later there were two mil- the true. “The sutomoblle today compared to the one of 10 years in the future is as crude as an alarm clock along- side a Bwiss watch.” “There isn't anything in the world you can't have if you wish for it hard enough, because if you wish hard enough others will wish too and when enough people wish for a thing somebody does it.” “The trouble with the world today is that we lack imagination.” ‘ “When you say you are up against a difficult problem you admit you are dumb. Any problem is difficult to a dumb man. The flu epidemic is a difficult problem because doctors iare too dumb to cure it." ! *The human race is the highest lament the fact that “the good old developed type of parasite. We cheat appointed last week after anti-ad- | days are gone,” he aaid that recent- - the hen out of an egg and kill the ministration forces had gained con- {ly an explorer excavating in Egypt pig for ham to have ham and eggs. trol in the house of representatiyes. |dug up an ancient obelisk bearing The hep never had an omelet in, _mind when she laid the egg." “Everything we get we get by gyping somebody else. We gyped the The only thing man ever created 'was rayon.” “The sheep throws away his old | coat in the spring and we steal it to {make wool."” “Some day we will be able to -make our own food and then beef- steak and other stuff of that kind will be sent back to savagery. It's a wonder, considering what we eat, that we live as long as we do.” “Too many people are perfectly willing to admit that if they don’t know about & thing it doesn't ex- at.” | “Sometimes we get s0 infatuated with the method of doing things we forget all about what we are do- ing them for.” MOTOR VEHICLE REPORT The police were notified today of the suspension of the operator's li- censes of Alfred Lawless of 120 Al- | bany avenue, Mabel Elisworth of 43 ‘Winthrop street, Stephen Marinosak of 27 McClintock street, Frank E. Racklifte, Jr., of 34 South Burritt street; return of the licenses of Frank C. Bucher of 62 Brook street and Francis J. Callahan of 97 Vance street, and return of the right to operate to Kenneth Langley of 191 He described the tendency to-{ wards over efficiency by telling of & letter received by the prelidem‘ of a street rallway company from a patron thanking the company be- tause a motorman had held a car for the passenger who was a half block away. He said the motorman, lion peoplé on earth younger than | Belden street. you were.” “It's not the things you don'li TO WED FERRUARY 11 know that makes you ridiculous—| Rome, Jan. 15 (M—The wedding it's the things you know for sure of Prince Christopher of Greece and that aren't so0." | Princess Francoise of France will “A certain amount of h\kellllsnt:hke place at Palermo on February ignorance is absolutely necessary to i 11, PROBE PARDIN OF " G0Y. JORNSTON Oklahoma Legisiature Considers Charges Against Exocutive Oklahoma City, Jan. 16 UP—In- vestigation of the pardon granted last year by Gov. Henry 8. Johnston further business today of a legisla- tive Investigating committee inquir- ing into the official conduct of the executive, ‘Testimony to effect that the gov- ernor pardoned the murderer, R. D. Crosthwaite, while he was a fugi- tive from justice and without a full | request from a messenger | investigation of the case, was before the inquisiatorial board, which was The testimony was bronght out at Ithe tnitial session yesterday, when the committee voted to take up first Armstrong, Johnsten's adviser but | tee's report until after Easter. that Armstrong told him he was too| Some Baptist ministers had eb- busy to see him. He said he pro-!jected to the recent speech given tested to the attorney general who by Professor Jerome Davis of Yale told him the matter was in the before the federation, in which he governor's hands. urged a more friendly relationship W. A. Lovejoy, father of the girl, with soviet Russia. A motion cen- also testified he protested the pardon ' suring the Rev. George Lyman without avail. Paine, executive secretary of the Tracing the course of the pardon feqeration, for obtaining Profeasor from the office of the pardon and parole clerk brought testimony that it went to the governor's office in haste and without a full investiga- tion. J. W. Mansell, pardon and parole clerk, an appointee of Governor Johnston, said_his clerk, Mrs. Er- to a convicted rurdérer was the nestine Hunt, prepared the pardon without his knowledge, and that he |signed a prepared letter transmit- ting the clemency document to the governor without investigating its merits, Mrs. Hunt revealed that she pre- pared the parole in response to & of the governor's office, that she drew it in haste, and did not closely investigate the case until after Crosthwaite had been pardoned. Manzell was ordered to reappear before -the investigating committee todaw for further examination. The slain girl's brother told the inquiry into the acts of the gover- committee he had asked Gov. John- ter criticism and {mpeachment | threats for more than a year. ! Crosthwaite, who killed Thelma Lovejoy, young Oklahoma City school teacher in 1918, has been at large since 1928, when he failed to return after a leave of absence granted by former Governor J. G.| ston if Louls Fischul, representi- tive from Carter county who voted last week with regular democrats in support of the governor, was one of the attorneys interested in securing tr > Crosthwaite pardon, but that the tion. Crosthwaite’s father lives in Car- Walton, who was impeached more |ter county and Fischul, Earl Brown, than five ycars ago. girl, told the inquisiatorial body that when he protested the pardon to Governor Johnston last year, the executive told him the clemency act was ‘“the greatest mistake of my whole life” and promised immediate stepsto revoke the pardon. Lovejoy said, however, that no action had been instituted. Pardon Granted The pardon was granted, it was brought out, after six purported im- peachment charges had been leveled at the governor late in 1927 by a i self-convened secret meeting of the house of representatives. The state senate later accepted the supreme court ruling that the house has no legal right to convene ftself and re- fused to sustain the charges. Most of the allegations were based | another representative and State R. G. Lovejoy, brother of the slain | Senator U. T. Rexroat all had rec- ommended clemency in the case, Mansell testified. Break of Federation And Ministers Avoided Boston, Jan. 15 (UP)—A break between the Boston Baptist Min- isters' Conference and the Greater Boston Federation of Churches seemed avolded, at least temporar- ily, today with the action of the Baptist clergymen in postponing consideration of & special commit- on grounds of incompetency, but one centered about employment by the | governor of Joe .\lvarado, eonvicted | store robber, as a special state agent. | Alvarado then was under senten {to the penitentiary, and now is serv- ing his term. | The murdered girl's brother told | the committee that he had attempted ' to protest the pardon to James A. | | 1918- And Now in the present epi- demic as in 1918, Vicks is proving to be the family standby in millions of homes. In «pitc of increased equipment it s again necessary to run the laboratorics night and day. A PECULIARITY of influ- enza is that its toxins upeet the digsstive system. Toe much “dosing,” es- pectally in the case of chil- dren still further disturbds the digestion, and should be avoided except on adviee of a physiclan. Vicks VapoRub is especial- ly valuable because it is ap- plied externally, and so ean be uysed freely without up- setting the most delicate digestion, 1. As A Preventive vapors, 2. If a Cold Starts I possible, go home and go to bed. Apply hc wet towels over throat and chest until the skin i skin like a poultice. Repeat this treatment every four hours, eal more auickly. 3. After A Flu Attack Phy bronchitis, sinus-trouble or pneumonia. especizlly true of children or old folks. Heed even the slightest eold as a danger signal and treat it promptly without “dosing.” VicKs VAPORUB Several times a day, insert Vicks up the nostrils, * also melt a little night and morning in a bowl o1 boiling water and inhale the steaming medicated thoroughly reddened. Then rub vigorously with Viek:.L Spread on thickly and cover with warm Leave the bed covering loose, so that the vapors, released by the body-warmth, may be freely in- haled. At the same time, Vicks acts through the ? | | e lightly, and stay in bed until the cold is broken. Comp]ete rest helps the body to throw off the cold ! sicians advise that the chief danger in this epidemic is after Influenza. Then, more than ever, colds attacking the weakened system may lead to This is 1 375,000 Jars Every 24 Hours! 6 x 9x 8x 9x 9x 9x chief executive had evaded his ques- | (Disc Davis as a speaker was urged by a Baptist clergyman. A apecial committee of Baptist ministers investigating the advisa- bility of a break with the federa- tion is expected to report to the group after Easter. A break seems ,unlikely in view of the statement that the choice of speakers is now |left in the hands of a committee ! on which there is a prominent Bap- ‘ tist clergyman. WANT POWER PROJECT | APPROVED IN CANADA Hearing on Governmental Permis- sion to Build $65,000,000 Plant in St. Lawrence Starts Today, Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 15 (P—Hear- ing on the application for govern- mental approval of a $65,000,000 power development project in the St. Lawrence river near Montreal, opens today before the minister of public worlks. The Beauharncis Light, Heat and | Power company is asking ye:wis- n to construct a power and navi- gation canal fourteen miles long be. tween Lake 8t. Francis and Lake St. ihouls 20 miles from Montreal. Rival power companies and the | Dominion Marine association are op- | posing the project. Sponsors for the proposed canal |assert it will provide a maximum |output of 2,000,000 horsepower { which can be sold at $15 per horse | power. | Opponents of the project charge {1t would violate the treaty provi- sions between the United States an( | Canada relating to navigation of th St. Lawrence and would hampe. ,shipping on the river. Porter’s half-yearly RUG oS5 ¥ g, N (<) T2, D THE WORLD FAMOUS WHITTALL RUGS REDUCED 20% WHITTALL PALMER ontinued Patterns) WHITTALL ANGLO PERSIAN RUGS $ 8.60 $12.80 $20.00 $13.20 B o isirisnsas $78.00 83x10-6............$110.40 SHRUGS SHOULDERS AND GOES 70 JAL Man Inditrent to Woes of Wile and Five Children A shrug of the shoulders and & mumbled “nothing” was the only response Peter Walentukonis of 92 Tremont street cared to make in police court today to the charge of | violatien of probation preferred by Probation Officer E. C. Connolly and Mrs. Walentukonis. Judge Saxe promptly revoked the suspension of a 15 days jaii sentence imposed on May 14, 1928 and added five days, remarking, however, that if a stay in jail had any effect on Walentu- konis “that will be something else again.” Mr. Connolly ordered the arrest, which was made after midnight by Officer William Politis. Walentu- konis, according to Mr. Connolly’s testimony, has been drinking heav- ily and only last night two men brought him home ‘“very, very drunk.” Mrs. Walentukonis ecried only 16 months oid. T dew’t know what I am going to do,” she sebbed. After court, Walentukonls was submitted to & thorough search by the police in an effort to find meney which he was believed to have, but they could not find it. Mr. Con- nolly learned that he had cashed insurance for $133, part of which he spent for drink. _Acoord- ing to the police records, Walentu- konis is 39 years of age. The charge of reckless driving was nolled in the case of Gerald Hannon, 24, of 88 Clark street, as wag the charge of cy against John Goloheck, 45, of uncertain address. The latter is being cared for at the town home. REBEKAH LODGE TO INSTALL The officers of Stells Rebekah lodge will be installed Friday eve. ning by District Deputy President Mrs. Nellie (Simpson and staff. 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