New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1929, Page 4

Bard of Caledonia Exalted in Mdmbylinm Each years for-the pnt 21 years members of the Robert Burns club ‘and their guests have gathered around the banquet table and paid tribute to the immortal bard of Bcotland. This year's meeting last night at the Burritt hotel had a two- fold meaning, as it marked the 21st snniversary of the existence of the club and the 170th anniversary of the birth of the great poet. It was the greatest gathering in the history of the club and the banquet hall of the hotel was taxed to capacity, more than 200 guests attending. The main address of the evening was delivered by Rev. Theodore ‘Alnsworth Greene, who had for his ‘topic “Burns in the Light of His Let- ters,” a pen portrait of the poet drawn from his own words. Rev. Mr. @reene quoted the poet's words fre- quently and paid a rare tribute to the man whose works are read the world over and are included in the best writings of all times. Rurns Admirers Everywhere “All of us are familiar with Bob- bie Burns, the Bard of Scotland,” he 'said. “His name and fame have gone | iabroad through all parts of the earth and his rhnes are read today | wherever the English tongue is| spoken, Burns worshipers—I might say Burns idolaters—are found to- day in every walk of life, in every | land and clime. But how many of | us are more than superficially —ac- quainted with the man behind the poems? Burns was the son of a poor father, uncducated, but * far ltrom being ignorant and unintelli- [gent, in fact quite the contrary must | ‘poet writing later this tribute to his paternal ancestor: ‘I have met with Ifew, who understood men, their manner and their ways, equal to| him.’ 1t is said that Burns inherited | his love for balladlore from his| mother. We presume then, that he | derived his strong, manly sensc from his father. As to his genius, the best explanation is given in his own words—'1t was the very gift of God from heaven.’ “Ot his carly education we knoy Bomething, and he confesses modest- 1y somewhere that ‘My talents, they were not the worst, nor yet my edu- cation’ His father ecngaged 2 teacher for the children and from him Robert reccived his early edu- cation together with other children of neighboring families.” Love Often His Inspiration The speaker went on at length de- plcting different _instances in the [poet's young life, his unsuccessful romances and attempts to win the arts of fair ladies, of the sorrow falling him when he lost his best friend, his father, and his settling 'down on a farm where he put his eart and soul into writing ballads and letters. Yive years later he met and mar- rled Jean Armour, again to lose her, because ;her parents did not think it & wige match, and the mar- riage was gnnuled. While trying to orget Jean, he met another in dinburgh and she hecame the tem- [porary inspiration of some of Burns® tmost glorious poetry. His fame he- wan to grow and after publishing me of his works he was lionized by he literati and cognoscenti of his mative land. Things began to look Brighter, and at an early age of 27, Robert Burns leaped from obscurity 18 national fame, Made Scotch Songs Live In closing his address Rev. Mr. eene remarked: “One cannot | ink of Robert Burns, the Caledon- n Bard, without thinking also of hat he did to make the songs of otland live forever in the hearts iot his people and the world, nor can e forgct his generous refusal to ake & penny’s piece for all this pa- Rriotic labor. Like many another igenerous hearted genius, Burns liv- led his days out on the principle. "Better an hour of glorious life, than B age without a name’ In the vords of the psalmist, ‘Brief were is days, and full of trouble’ But Rhat is not what matters. What ters most to you and me and the is the undeniable fact, that Robert Burns was born in Scotland t lowly lineage but with a most jgh heart, that he set down on Paper for his people and all people down the centuries, some of the Wweetest songs this world has ever heard. And finally, thank God, that bust because of this man's coming mnd his singing, he lives today a fpermanent influence in the litera- ure, the freedom and the brother- 00d of our world.” Musical Program Rev. Mr. Greene's address came in bhe middle of a well-balanced pro- .Kl'lm during which a quartet and 'moloists rendered a number of songs | ‘of the famous bard's composition. | The complete program included, | “There Was a Lad,” by the quartet; “Scots What H..n‘ ritone solo by John Lindsay s o'Ballochmyle™, kontralto solo by JA Sartori Tuttle; “My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose”, tenor solo by Philip Magnuson; “A MHighland Lad”, soprano solo by Ruth Goodrich Horton, and several re- ‘quest numbers, DANDIER Cracker mna HANDIER Shapc years, led by Bert Armstrong. At the conclusion of the program the tablies were moved aside and the gathering under the direction of Michael J. Kenney was led in a grand march to the tune of a spirit- ed Scotch air. Dancing followed. 4s a special attraction, Miss Elenor Brown of Hartford executed a num- ber of interesting Highland dances, accompanied by Pipe Major William Miller. President Henry E. 8. Hill made the introductory remarks and called on Alexander Gordon to act as toastmaster. Mrs, Roy Tuttle accom- panied the singers. The other officers of the club are: Mrs. C. s Hart, vice president; W. G. G secretary, and Robert Bloan, |reuurer Members of the re- ception committee included Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Clifford, Mr. and Mrs, E. R. Ramage and Mr. and Mrs. A. Gordon. The dinner arrangements were in charge of Frederick Stingle and W. G. Gibney, and the concert in charge of James MacArthur and William Blair. Table attendants, dressed in white with Scotch bands over the shoulder, included Misses Grace MacArthur, Ruth Gibney, Elizabeth Gibney, Jeannie Pattison, Virginia Gordon, Dorothy Potts, Eleanor Potts, Jessle Galbraith, Margaret Alexander and Jessie Alexander. Florence Vidor Leaves For Daughter’s Side New York, Jan. 25 (—Florence | Vidor, film star, left for Hollywood, Cal., yesterday after receiving word that her 10 year old daughter, 8Su- zanne, had been injured in an auto- mobile accident. Miss Vidor recently was married to Jascha Heifits, concert violiniat. He did not make the trip with her. Suzanne is a daughter of Miss Vidor and King Vidor, film direc- tor, who were divorced some timc ago. Lewis Waterman's application for patent on his first fountain pen was filed in 1883, LONG STATENENT Rwits,kmflhyllesmm‘ Retain (_Mrnflip Chicago, Jan, 25 M—A new state- ment reciting reasons he thinks en- title him to reelection .as chairman of the .board of the Standard Oil company of Indiana has been made public by Col. Robert W, Stewart. It catalogues the progress of the company under the present organi- zation since 1918; reiterates denials of any personal profit from the Con- tinental Trading company deul, which was under senate committee scrutiny; and answers several re- marks made in a letter to stockhold- ers by Thomas M. Debevoise, one of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s lawyers. “I am a candidate for reelection as a director of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, and the ques- tion of my candidacy is to be deter- mined by a vote of atockholders March 7,” Col. Stewart's statement said. “I am elther entitled to re- election upon the record of my stew- ardship of the interests of this com- pany for the past tew years, or I am not. “The board of directors, men wWha work with me daily and have for the past quarter of a century, say that I am honest and loyal to the best interests of the company. has been a practically unanimous and spontancous expression from the rank and file of the employes in favor of my retention as a director. “The intimation from any source that any coercion has been used or practiced to secure this verdict from the hands of my associates is an infamous lle. No coercion has or will be used or tolerated. “I am desirous of reelection, but {to secure that reclection I have not bought & share of stock for the pur- pose of voting it at the coming elec- tion, nor shajl I do so. Practically MONEY SAVING SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY AT Sun \llkl RAISINS .... 8 pkss. 25c Posts’ CORN FLAKES 2 pkgs. 15c THE NEW BRITAIN MARKET CO. 318 MAIN ST PHONE 2485 Morning Speehls'l to 12 30 LEGS OF GENUINE SI‘B]NG LAMB seueiannss T AL Lean I'M SHOULDERS T.a Touraine and Maxwell corver: . Suem $14 00 COFFEE . SIRLOIN and SHORT STEAKN Well Trimmed. Cut from the Rest Beef. L. 39¢ 2. 27¢ Best Pure LARD Prime Rib Roast eBef Lb, Roast Park ... «o Lb, Boiling Beef . . Lb, Solid Corned Bee! . Lb, Fancy Roasting Chickens Lb 45¢c Fancy Fowl .. vee. Lh, 39¢ Veal Chops ... . Lh. 3%¢c Rest Hamburg . . b, 28c Honeycomb Tripe .... Lb. 20c Fores of Genuine Lamb Lb, Roast Veal .......... Lb, Fore Legs Veal « Lb. Pork Chops ... . b, loin Lamb Chops . b, Pure Pork Sausage .. Lb, Beef Liver . . porren . 2 $17 BUTTER . Good Imck OLEO .... Lb. 82¢ Nucoa Nut OLEO .... Lb. 28c Parksdale Gold Coin OLEO ..... Lh, 38 First Prizc OLEO .... Lb. 28¢ White Corn, Golden Bantam Corn, Green and Wax Beans, Succotash, Fancy Peas—No. 1 Cans .......... 2 cans 19¢ Queen Quality FLOUR, sack 98¢ Chipso and Rinso 2 pkgs. 15¢ Premier Jam .. solid Pack Tomatoes 2 cans 35¢ Sardines, in ofl .... 4 cans 3hc Confectionery Sugar 3 Lbs. 35¢ “Royal Lunch Crackers 3 Lbs 3ic 2 Lb. can 23¢ - 3 phkes. 25¢ Pancake Flour . S . Lb, 24¢ | Snowdrift . . Sliced Pineapple | Sweet Juicy Sunkist Oranges ............. 2 dozen 39c Sealdsweet Grapefruit ..... veeer.s 5 for 25¢ Tceherg Lettuce ... .. head 10c Large Cauliflower head 25¢ Fresh Spinach ...... peck 35¢ Parsnips and aCrrots 2 Lbs, 15¢ Fancy Sweet Potatoes 3 1bs 25¢ Baldwin Apples .... § Lbs. 25c Florida Oranges 3 | Sond Yellow Onion 5 Lbs. 2 Fresh Crisp Celcry, Ige. beh, 19¢ Solid Cahbage . Lh. 5c¢ | Large duicy Lemons, doz. 3¢ | Cape Cod Cranberries 2 qts. 45¢ READY-TO-SERVE Specials. For Saturday at the Home Delicatessen l > \R( H STREET TEL. 3032 POTATO SALAD CABBAGE SALAD' MACARONI \F(.I!"'!'I‘ BLE SALAD CHICREN Lb. Lb. BAKED BEA 2 Lbs. COOKED SAUERKRAUT Lb. 3 For COFFEE (\uturday Only) Lb. . 22¢ 22¢ 22¢ 26¢ 45¢ 26¢ 45¢ 18¢ 18¢ 25¢ 15¢ All Kinds of Delmoual) l'repnred and Cooked Meats, Pickled and Smoked Fish, Domestic and Imported Cheese. There | my entire earnings of a lifetime are invested In Standard Oil of Indiana stock, and I have mo dividend alle- giance.” : 2 Hard Work's Result The present prosperity of the company, the statement sald, “has not just happened; it 1s the result of loyal, earnest work and toil on the part of the entire organization.” “Mr. Debevoise says I am nat the founder of the company,” Col. Stew- art continued, “but neither is he nor Mr. Rockefeller, Jr. One thing that cannot be denied, however, is the fact that the present organization took the Indiana company in 1918, at that time worth $170,000, in ten years, without asking one cent from the stockholdess, has made it into a company worth $900,000,000 during which time it paid out more than $200,000,000 in cash dividends. “Mr, Debevoise is a fine man, and personally I like him. Obviously he is speaking for John D, Rockefeller Jr., alone, and in his absence. I am not insensible te the compliment ho paid me in stating that the dividend policies of the Standard Oil com- pany of Indiana for the last ten iyears are not objected to by Mr. Rockefeller, “He says he sees no reason why these palicies should not be contin- ued in the future, It must be clear that before dividends are paid, earn- ings must be made out of which to pay them, What have Mr, Debevoise or Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., to say in re- gard to future earnings; they nor |either of them have ever visited a Irefinery or sales station or produc- ing property of-the company, nor outside of one or two officers or directors do they know a person in the entire organization.” Repeating his previous denials of having ever made a dollar out of the Continental Trading company transaction, Col. Stewart added,that the Standard Oil several millions.” “These millions were partly the source from which tho steady stream of cash dividends has been paid to the stockholders every quarter dur- ing reoent years,” the statement went on. “When I was told I was to receive some profit, I immediate- ly refused to personally reccive them and created a trust of them for the benefit of our companics, and thosc companies have them now in their possession.” | When it comes to Classified adver- tising, it's the Herald. 391 - 401 MAIN STREET MOHICAN company of In-| diana on the other hand had “made | | (OOLIDGE ASKS FOR BIG APPROPRIATION Requests Oamgress -to Call for $19,730,388 to Be Used for the Navy. Washington, Jan. 25 P — Presi- dent Coolidge has asked congress to fi.pnptfllte $19,730,38¢ of which $1,344,200 would supplement other naval appropriations and most of the remainder provide salary increases in various departments of the govern- ment. The proposal contemplates the ex- pen.itures of $450,000 for modern- jzing the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada and carrying to completion work on the two vessels for which $13,160,000 already has ben author- ized. Among the other items in the re- commendation were: Further altera- tions on the battleship California, §344,000; temporary government for West Indian islands, $14,000; main- tenance of the bureau of yards and docks, §70,000; engineering, $210,- 000, Another of the president's recom- mendations asked $17,364,196 to meet the expenses of salary raises granted government employes under the Welch act of last session. PETER J. HILL BURIED .~ IN WORCESTER, MASS. | Was “Invisible Mechanism” of Au- tomaton Chess Player at Eden Musee. ‘Worcester, Mass, Jan. 25 (P — Peter J. Hill, 60, the “invisible me- chanism” of the automaton chess player at the Eden Musee in New York, & favorite amusement resort of the late nineties and early part of this century, was buried here yeslerday. According to stories he told Dr. William A. Bryan, superintendent of the Worcester State hospital, the silent part he played in the auto- {maton chess player was often dan- gerous and not all chess. Once & man who had been play- ing the automatic chessman became | angered at being beaten, drew a gun |’ brain, kept the iron man in the vic- tory column. His salary for the position which kept him buay from early afternoon to late at night was $25 a week. Hill spent the later part of his life here in comparative obscurity. NAN HELD IN $,000 FOR SHOOTING AT SHIP Navy Dirigible Los Angeles Passing Overhead. Newton, N. J., Jan. 25 U — For chooting at the navy dirigible Los Angeles as she passed overhead, Mer- ton Hankins, 36, was under $2,000 bail today charged with malicious mischiet and assault with intent to Kill. Hankins was arrested on complaint of Elias 8. Hirsch who said the shooting took place on a hunting trip which he, Hanks and several others made 8ept. 6. When the Los An- geles appeared overhead, he said, Hankins raised his gun and fired. Hirsch also preferred a charge of assault and battery against Hankins for a blow which he said fractured his jaw in two places. The assault by Hankins, he said, took place at & date later than the ILos Angéles shooting. Justice of the Peace Ora . Simpson held Hankins in an ad- ditional $1,000 bail on this charge, At the Lakehurst, N. J., naval air station, Lieut. Kenneth E, Kelund, night duty officer, said that if a shot should penetrate one of the Los An- P Middletown, Jan. 36 P—A clrcuit yesterday in telephone on Washington street, put all tofl lines and over two hundred resideat 7 i ki £ trolley pewer and ap was ordered from Waterbury and New Haven to repair the damage. The toll lines were out of order four hours while the resident phoucs were gradually being put into com- mission by the extra force of repair men, ” —————— Are you in the market for !!wdd Classified Ads? ould you like a beautiful new chma dnmer set! geles' gas cells he believed: the dam- | age would be negligible. w te Aveld INFLUENZA l‘h.r--ll-ll- llnnh- sjfluu-"‘n‘:‘mfl" - l_‘i(.wfi -v N ature’s mas NEW BRITAIN'S MARKETING CENTER ALL DAY SPECIALS LEGS OF MILK FED MOHICAN HAMS 1b. 29¢ FRESH OR SMOKED Has Blazed the Trail For Thirty Years—As Pioneers in the Successful Operation of Complete Combination Markets— First in the Introduction of Cash and Carry—More for a Dollar Marketing. ND, SIR- STEAK .. Ib. 27c POTATOES . pk. 19c SHOULDERS Ib. 16 Below is a List of Real Money-Savers For You Saturday Special Sat. a. m. from 9 to 11 ROU LOIN, PORTER- HOUSE FANCY NATIVE ALLL DAY SPECIALS LEGS OF GENUINE LAMB Ib. 35¢ FORES OF n’ zsc Bonclm « ()R\ ED BEEF b. 26c FRESH I ROASTS PORK ... 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