New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1929, Page 6

R - with Semater Devita of New mtwth-u‘uuh.u- zm in order to : -nn‘shwammnu dte. That this s possible few will #|doubt; the main polit of disagree- wroag .hm..“ """“ was being driven 100 fast, blinding | ment being whether, it s worth the o - meed upon this audit. This insures pre- ection against fravd in sewspaper di ribution 84 to both matiemal a4 acal advert! The Hersld lo on mie dally l-“m York st ‘v Nowsstan o TR e, Giranu Central, ¢3nd Strest. ———————— One thing about air travel that pleases the artistic eye is that the billboards cannot be read. Another reason why the govern- ment Is well able to practice ecenomy is because it does not need to keep up with the neighbors. The hat pin has gone the way of the hoop skirt, busties and the skirt that covered the knees. This is the time o’ year when trol- ley companies pick up a little extra change tranaporting inveterate falr- weather automobile drivers. We have noted it hundreds of times: That the one logical way to appeal to the interest of the hard- pressed taxpayer is to talk about that perennial topic, high taxes. It makes no difference whether good is accomplished; the main thought in that it costs money which comes from the tazpayers. Down in Waterbury the authorities in the public hospital have refused to &ive out legitimate accident news to the newspapera Considering that the hospital is a public inatitution, re- ceives funds from the state, recelves contributions from citizena, and re. lies wpon the newspapers to help it when it wants money, it is time for the newspapers of that city to bear down a little harder than they have been doing. Buch a management needs to be thrown out and that quickly. Again, the weather of southern New England isn’t so terrible. Com- pared with the Middle West it is something like Florida. For instance, Chicago and vicinity has had its seventh wave of zero temperature since January 1. Even gang wars are frozen up. AVOIDING CITIES Time was when the cities of the sate were. pleased at heving trunk line highways pass through them. Most ef the Important trunk lines the country over, by the way, pass through cities en route. Cities fought for the privilege of being on the routes of the big highways. Now It in the object of the atate highway commission to separate as many trunk highways from the cities as pomible. Even Plainville is hopes ful that the state will take over East street and make it a part of the Cel- lege highwa: thus shunting the highway from the center of the town. And the merchants, so fer as we are able to judge, are not object- ing. Indeed, they seemn to faver tha plan. The same helds true of New Haven and Bridgeport. especially the latter city, which used to be an incubus for those en route by automobile to New York. Driving through a congested city, and being confronted with stop and go signals every few feet, takes all the joy out of the trip. And what good does it do mer- chants to have “foreign"” cars help clutter up the main streets? None at 4ll. When it s time to eat the visit- ors will know how to find a restau- rant anyway; when it is time to sleep they invariably find a hotel, and all towns along the route have an equal chance for the business re- gardless of whether the trunk:high- way goes through the business center or around it, A HIGHWAY OF DEATR The widened Milford turnpike has been regarded as a highway of death, and it was not until extraor- dinary efforts were made to patrol it that the deathrate was reduced. What is one to say, therefore, on dis- covering that our own Berlin turn- pike, only a few miles from New Britain, has begun to compete with | the Milford pike as a ploce where automobiles ure most likely to he turned into battering rams 6f death and disaster? It was & disheartening story indeed which greeted readers yesterday un- der the mews from Berlin. Thirteen accident victims in six months i8 a terrible record. And instead of im- proving, it is getting worse. tive hav- ing met death on the pike: during 'of |day it would take about “two min- io- | take & minimum of seven minutes. headlights ebscured the view, o another car or & truck gof in the way ~~these sre the usual regaoms for such herrors. Every last eng of them is aveldable. That is the. serry teature. IF BARNESDALE BURNS = © | It there happens to be a fire hl Barnesadale, how long will it take the | fire trucks to get there? Chief Noble remarked the other utes.” Other authorities say it would 8till othera, who claim to be authori- ties and happen to live in Barnes- dale, say it would take more than ten minytes; and these point out that once when there was & blaze in Barnesdale No. ¢ truck didm't get there at all, breaking down en route, which untoward event neces- sitated a call being dispatched to another fire engine house. All of which reminds.us of & bit of wit, to wit: “The fire trucks make a noise as if they are going 100 miles an hour, and then when the driver reaches a corner he spits some to- bacco juice to see whether it is The idea that fire trucks go 0 very fast is somewhat erroneous. Jt is true they make a deal of noime as they grind slong, which is intensified by the tooting horns afixed on the red devils, horns that toot' loud enough to wake up the dead. 1t's a great show while it lasts, especially to the youngsters along the route. There is no dignity about it. The fire trucks tell it to the world in loud language. But they can't get from No, ¢ to Barnesdals in any two minutes—we'll bet Chief Noble a lead pencil againat a piece of old hose about it. All of which revolves around the suggestion that & fire houss be con. structed in the West End. This gestion has been “hanging fire, to speak, for several years. It s per- fectly safe to conclude that it will be the next improvement noted in the fire department. MAPLE AND ELM RILL Aftgr all the fuss that has been made about “annexing” Maple Hill and Eim Hill to the city it appeard that these two up-and-coming suburbs will remain without the fold for awhile. This is Nard to ungerstand. Nobody seems to have gotten cold feet about it; merely & bill for the annexation will not go be« fore the present Legislature. Obviously, New Britain cannot an- nex anything without the desire of the residents in the annexed territory remaining paramount. Any bill for annexation woul? have te be predi. cated upon the wish of the parties of the second part, as the law papers say. Now Britain aiways stands will- ing to take in the asurrounding suburbs if and when they wish to enter the fold of this rising metropo- lis. There is no hurry about it and there i3 no compulsion. Both Maple Hill and Elm Hill are such pretty sybufbe that New Britain, 4f they. were included in its boundary, weuld poiht to them with pride. BERLIN ANP NEWINGTON At a town meeting’ in Newington a plan was approved to provide & modern fire department at a cost of $35,000, The project will now go be. fore the finance beard. It in entirely likely that within a year the fire de- partment will be a reality. That is hew Newington intends to. solve its fire fighting problem, and in taking such action it is practicing genuinc economy. From $8,000 to $10,090 in fire nsurance premiums will be saved by thus bringing about lower rates. While this action is being taken in Newington, the other neighboring |town of Berlin is thinking hard. If the fire board in New Britain goes through with ita intention not te yield fire fighting service at #0 much 'a trip Berlin will be forced to take action. New Britain, of course, will not embarass Berlin or any other surreunding town. A committee has been appointed in Berlin to confer with the New Britain fire board; maybe that will lead to something more important. Berlin has import- ant industries which Newington lacks, and fhese industries certainly | require a high standard of fire pro- tection. New Britain * has given emergency fire protection to New. well. The time is about here when Berlin as' well' as Newington will be able to take such’measures to pro- tect themselves from fire as the cir- cumstances warrant. We have faith in Berlin, and that it will ultimate. ly sdopt 8 modernized fire depart- ment for itself or allow itself to be attached to the city of New Britain, savl Sskyle I WOOL. | stantly, in emergencies, every Berlin can achieve as much as| borrach? It the state can be Newington. 1t in as important as | Newington, and in some respects| And thus we let the world beaters ington and protection to Berlin as ‘.fl ll‘ the eoet. The .-rty in pewer probably will object to any such doings. In the werds of Main street, ‘it is “sitting pretty,” qn‘ the state comstitution worka/ qn(u satiatacterily s0 far as the offices are concerned. The matter could be ‘analyzed in some detail, but there is ittle need for it at this moment. When the judicisry committea shows signs of taking the Devlin movement serious- Iy numerous citisens will work up an inclination to re-read the constitu- tion, turn the pages of state history shewing how it was adopted or re- vamped’ ‘in 1902, and will make themselves ‘capable of discussing the subject -intelligently. That ia if such hard ‘werk doesn’t interfere with the particular joys and follles they hap- pen to be immersed in. ALL IN FLORIDA Much as we dislike to. base a de- duction ypon an assumption, we feel inclined to say that never in the his- tory of Florida have the President. President-elect and defeated candl- date besn within the borders ¢ the state st the same time. This is im- portant for Florida; no auch nation- &l advertising has come its way since the last hurricane. Southern Call- fornia weuld gladly copy, but can only grit its coflective teeth and sputter words of invidious meaning. Florida needs the boosting, too. No state possessing such delectable climatic advantages during the wine ter months has ‘been 80 harassed with troubles over which it has had no cedtrol. The land bpom falling several'years ago, it was necessary to build upon more firm foundatiens. All was proceeding fairly decently when the several big blows came along to injure property and alsa the state's safety in the eyes of cautious folks lving elsewhere. In ‘apite of everything, howe plucky Florida continues plucking ‘the oranges of potential prosperity, and sometime or other contentment will ba 100 per cent perfect. P. 8.—Col. Lindbergh also went to Florida. Next? ALWAYS “LEADING THE WORLD" “Messachusetts once again will take waorld leadership in the field of leginlation, if the bill filed with the clerk of tho house . . . becom law. The bill brings into touch by radio every erganized police force of the state, so that in the fraction of & mecond every city and town can be notified of the commission of a highways attempting to escape. . . .+ At present, when a crime is committed and it ia desired to broadcast the alarm to the police of syrrounding. commynities, an officer in the statien . . . sits dewn to & telephone and puts in call after call to nearby police. As the calls come in, he must go through the whole story each time. The process is slow telephone warnings.” All of which qnpcirok in [} dis- Massachusetts appears to be. In the first place, we take excep- tion to the assumption in the very first mentence of the dispatch—that Massachusetts again is to take the world's lead in legislation, It's a big country and also a big world, and a decent regard for accuracy’ should istay the hand of any reporter who begins his yarn-by claiming his state is leading the world.#s0 frequently. The reporter, we would be willing to wager our last sou, did not have the legislative records of the other 47 states at his disposal, nor those of any other country, some of which claim to be quite sdvanced in some way or another. Getting down to the mcat of the article, we find further that Massa- chusetts 18 trailing behind Connecti- cut In trailing crime. True, our po- lice departments do not use radio trgnsmission for the purposc, but a better system. The radio system bragged about in this dispatch, has & certain defcct that is not present in Connecticut. We quote: “It is one-way transmission, of course, but it means that in- in the Bay State in on the fact—not an assumption surrounded by “ifs” and “buts,” but an incontestable fact —that the leading police depart- ments of Connecticut all are con- nected 24 hours a day by teletype machines which keep all of them in- formed of what's what in the State’s indl world. The system is not ne- nr tranamission,” either, but an.b!en the police departments to receive and transmit intelligence at their heart’s content. Indeed, not an crime or that a fugitive is on its and as no one then knews the direc- tion in which the criminal has fled, he! may well stay far ahead of the patch from Boston in the Springfield Unien. Tnstead of leading the world, it shews how far behind the times automobile is stolen but what the number and the name of the owner goes on the teletype machines in- which then would give it egoellent fire protection. 4 stantly, and the embarrassed owner dll immediately informed that all the, ward Messuchasetis palics the '& tem of calting copa, which ia in ferce right in New Britain. Supppes head- quartsrs wants the oopg out on their beats to be on the loskout for some- thing right away. Dees headquarters need to wait umtil the oeps make a call to the desk asrgeant? Net at all. On go the red lights, and at In- numerable vantaye peints through- out the city they glow. And 1t the cops don't happen te be blind eor dou’t happen to be kKesping warm ia some bakeshop or drug stere, they can’t help .sccing the red light fickering: Then they hurry to the call box and ask what's up. They are told to be on the.leokeut fer some crook or other. They go inte action with their eagle oyes, take a firmer srip upen their clubs, and see that their. guns. are primed for action. i Sometimes this actually results in the creok being caught before he has time to get out of the eity. Between the teletype system in the police stations, and the red light po- Tice call system, the stage is set here. abouts te make it hot for evil- doers. s Yet, with all this, we dou't claim to lead the world. We are too con- servative to make any such claims, regardiess of how impressive they may ook in print. Our hand is stay- ed by the realization that down in New Zealand there might be some- thing- better that we have mot yet heard about, But if Massachusetts were the only part of the world in competition with our system, we would not be mo conservative. We could then 'make the claims and prove them. — Facts and Fancies A bad cold isn't like the flu. Jf you feol like dying with a bad celd, you hate to do it. The Constitution {s that sacred document violated by a law that of- fends the prejudices of five old men. Scientists say man was ce & reptile, but the evidence isn't con- clusive. Geese and buszards, hiss, too. Every hick town ha few citi- zens who seem to make thelr liv- ing by swapping knives with ono anether, Just so many doomed to be hit by cars this year. Every time you dodge successfully, you doom somebody else. “Dissppointment developes * early in life.” Well, there's no telling what a new-horn infant expected, but it's casy to understand why it vells. Every plane s a question mark until it gets back down. Foresight is the quality that prompted men to park the cocktall shaker In the attic instead of de- stroying it ‘When they made New Year resolutiona. There are just two kinds of amait ‘boys: Clean ones and happy ones. 'Amerlnln'llll: Making a few mil- lion by keeping employces peor; leaving your wad to benefit poor people. ~Winter resort reflection: Perhaps the best test of self-con- trol s to deal with one who #s in the wrong, and knows It, and knows you know it, and yet insiata he is right. What if you can’t go to a winter cinder in your eye and sleep on a shelf in the following wite & quarter resort? You can put a pantry, and during week hand your every 30 minutes. the 3 3 The new ways saves effort. Years ago people bought expensive outfits to burn woed furniture; now we do it With cigarette butta. A “seer” says 1929 will be a for- tunate year for females, thus mak- ing the tenth year of that Kkind since 1918. A South American snake throws its venom at an enemy's eyes when attacked. This trick is unique fn na- ture cxcept for the grape fruit. Al needn’t feel so bad about 1t Wishing you had reached the White House isn't as disheartening s wishing you were back there. Scnator Reed says the British could destroy the Panama canal in five hours. A country always géls more vulnerable when a Navy bill is pending. Correct this sentence: ships endured by people much as the sufferings far away. Copyright 1929, Publishers Syndicate Girls are more apt in learning to swim than boys, according to a re- port of the education committee of the London county council. With a linen suit on, you look neat for five minutes and after that you're cem. fortable. “The hard- here at| home.” sald he, “arouse my pity ay| of people Unenariing Trafol un::'muvunmmln Come onoe a year, we'll guess That treffic jams “damns" ‘Would trouble us the less! The Ralment Race! Clarke: “They my thore rivalry between your wife a i Blake." Hayes: ‘Yes, it's & clothes race!" ~—L. V. LENNON THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY grest Mre. In a vecent’ sermon a Montreal clergyman stated that there would be no newspapers in the next world, The reverend gentleman seems to underestimate the enterprise of newspaper syndicates! LI Drama Dramatic critics in Germany are not allowed to write plays. * In our own country there is & growing feeling that some of them ought not to be allowed to write dramatic criticisms! ¢ o o “Sea sickness ocan be prevented by breathing with the ship. When the ship heaves up breathe in.” —Neighboring Newspaper ‘We usually heave :ool v . Radio The chanage to new wave-lengths for American broadcasting stations is expected to reduce whistling and howling. Nothing is sald about the talking! LR o . In New York, an actress recently paused in her rendering of “Lady Macbeth” to request the removal of two people in the orchestra seats because they were laughing. The offenders may have been Boots who had attended another play the night before and were just beginning to enjoy it! And Oh, How Firm! Fraances: “"What kind of pany is Herbert?" Dorothy: “What kind ef com. pany? He's a holding corporation! —Nathaniel Reese. com- Halt a loat is better for smal kitchenettea! Metamorphosis? “Dis s out tat, Aunt Mary,” ex- claimted baby Jean. ‘When she was borned, she was & wittle bit of a tat and her name was Eleanor. “But now she's & dreat bid tat and her name is Tommy!" —Dorothea M. Davies GAMBLING By Tony the Bootblack T says to Mariouche, datsa my ife, 1 want she should geeva me a feefty cents I wanna make some gambling. Maybe I win coupla hun- dred dolls an buy.a her some night clothes 0 dat Mariouche sheesa can &0 4ound like-a da society ladies. So she geevasa me da feefty cents an I go-a to Cock-eye Greco's place. 1 say maybe 1 gone-a shoot craps. Bhe say you don't shoota craps, you catcha dem weeda da net, and she donta like craps or lobaters also. say craps heesa dice come seven come ‘leven. Sheesa say what Italian or Irish family I'm invitin’ now, 1t anybody comes sheesa got notting inna da house to eat. 80 1 keesa da buncha keeds g0od-a bye an Mariouche sheesa say papa heesa gone-a breeng home whole lotsa money. 8o | try-a my luck, ] getta inside da gambling densc anna we play-a da poke. He poke-a hees hand atta me an sippe darc goes-a da ten cents. Datwa game notta for-a me. Den 1 hear somebody say “Playa Rigoletto.” I say whatsa Kkind-a game oesa heem., Somebody say heesa talk to-a da falla weeda da mandolin. Den somebody . - heesa say dat I should iurna da wheel forch. 1 say datsa good for-a me. I try heem five-a six-a time and fallus number. Datsa nuff for-a me. Why should-a I push da wheel inna da face to make-a heem nodra fallas numbers? 1 gotta ten cents left so 1 say-a to Greco 1 gone-a matcha heem for-a da dime. He say alla right tails I gonna win, He speaksa da truth. He win-a weed tail and when 1 gonna go home 1 lose-a my head. Datsa plenty nuff gambling for-a me, Kef 1 had-a da fife dolls I'd I'd had ten dolls I'd gone wedder. Da next time I wanna gam- me 30 1 can cover my losses! |bank rolit and traffio] avratime heesa stop onna da odra stop at gone to-a da Monut Carlo an eel some place where eetsa alla da time hot ble I gonna take-a da blanket weed A plunge s the finish of many a | change in policy. Heretofore the of- fice has been entrusted only to men Who were rogarded as being mem- bers of the holy sanctum sanctorum of republican _pelitica, men who ‘were linked strongly to financial or industrial lite. The history of the party in New Britain reveals close contact between the chairmen and the “interests” While Chairman Ginsburg is by no means isolated from the influential leaders of the party, his sphere has mot been ex. actly in the circles of leaders who have gone before him. His prede. ceamsors have been regarded as “stand patters” and “reactionaries” while he has pursued his way dis- soclated ‘from the little group that has determined party policles. Chairman Ginsburg should bo able to harmonize all factions and viewpoints in ‘the party. He has a way of winning his point without giving. offense or of conceding & point without appearing to surren- der. The younger ‘element in the party has great confidence in his ability to keep the rank ahd file in fighting apirit. ¢ These Success Lixperts Secm To Be Out of Step We have always rupposed (from reading the magazine articles about | boys who were honest and worked hard and became rich) that the way to advance in the world was to pick the right line of work and then plug, plug, plug as you worked up from office boy to president of the board. But it scelps we have been wrong, Down in Memphis the police chiof has told his men that the firat one who shoots a bandit will be pro- moted. Of course, to revert to slang, this might be called & “plug, plug plug” method, but we think it best| not to make a crack like that. It seems a very peculiar method of promotion. 1t might seem to put a premium on marksmanship, but this is not entirely true, for a poor shooter might easily win the advancement it he met a gunman who presented & huge target, while a sharpshoot- er might easily miss his chance through spying a tiny fellow a cou- plo of blocks away. We suspoct that the best way to carry out the chief's orders would be for a patrol- man to shoot his superior officer, thereby killing two birds with onc bullet by getting rid of a probable “bandit” and creating a vacancy for himselt to step into, One might even shoot anybody one chanced to meet on the street, for if one looked deep- ly enough a crooked blotch on the deceased's record could be found. Coach .Cassidy here at the Hizh school has another weird methnl. To decide who should be basketball captain, he had an examlnation, and the winner was to be captain, We suppose tho tests were purely aca- demle, but why shouldn't they be enlarged in scope so as to include foul-shooting, jumping, long shots, dribbling, bowing to the gallery, and making up alibia for defeats? It these new methods become more and more used, we wonder where the thing will end. We pre- sume the army would soon be gen- cralled by either a sharpshooter or & hiker and the navy have a chan- nel swimmer for an adgmiral, The lawyer ~who made the front page oftenest would become a judgs, operations would be made head of the hospital. Babe Ruth would su- persede Judge Landis, while Knute Rockne would lose his job to the first man to score a touchdown for dear old Notre Dame, Oh, there's no end to the possi- Lilities! You might tavow a whoo | oftice staff into a prize ring and let the winner of the battle royal he- come manager. Or you could line them up against the wall and give the position to the ene who was most successful in dodging the toma- toes you threw at them. Decision could also be reached by dice, poker, and parchesl. Or all might be in- fected with typhoid germs, and the one who lived the longest would Le treated with a curative serum and —_— No Doubt of itt Gertrude: “Do you know of some quaint little village where we can {spend our honeymoon Ratph: “No, but never mind, dar- Iling, love will find a way-station!” —KEdwin Jacobsen Nursery mym !Sing a song of six bucks For just & pint of rye, Four and twenty dollars | At a supper club's too high. | After you have taxied | And seen’a new revue, Would you think she'd haye the orust To SAY good-night to you? \ —F. L. G Cause of Collapse? Mrs. Kinnon: “I'm awfully disap- poinfed, my dear.” | Kinnon: “What about, honey?" | Mrs. Kinnon: “I made my first | cottage pudding yesterday, and it all ‘fell apart.” Kinnan: “Maybe you made Jt out of one of those portable cottages!™ —A. M. Keeler " | New York to Sen Francieco *| Bay. | Omaha to Cheyenne, 477 miles, and ! the shortest, Reno to San Francisco, ! bound mail is sent in three dirce- and the doctor who advised the mort | smrway. (Aniwering chor supect that M M 224 i!t gi;%‘ i H 3 B N saR 1 g ] - H ¥ it ¥ i iz it Waorld's Longest Alr Mall Route, In the transcontinental air mail, the United States®has the longest continuous and regularly operated air mail line in the world and tho American Alr Transport ‘Association sives these facts about the flight of the air mail from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate: The distance is 2.680 miles and mail planes fly 2,760,000 miles a year, shuttling back and forth on this route. The planes traverse eleven states ‘and make thirteen stops, and often the mall is sufficient to warraut running planes in double sections. Planes carry from one-half to a ton of mail and express. The route passcs over three mountain ranges; the Alleghanys, Rockies, and Sierra Nevadas, and from sea level on two seaports to 14,000 feet in hurdling the Sierras. There ‘are more miles of lights and beacons on this 2,680-mile hop between New York and San Fran. cisco that there are on all of Eu- rope's alrways. ‘Time required on the flight lrom New York to San Francisco Bay is 81 4.2 hours, elapsed time, or 27 1-4 actual flying time. Due to differ- ence in KEastern and Pacific time, there are only 29 hours of clock time & difference between the de- parture of the mail in New York and its arrival at San Francisco The longest of the seven divisions of the transcontinental route s 188 miles. At Balt Lake the west- tions to the Pacitic Northwest: to Idaho and Montana and to Los An- &eles, a 600-mile jump from Salt Lake. “Jim” O'Brien Turns Author; Writes “Letters” to Lions Members of the Lions club were amused this week to learn that newspapers about the state accepted in a serious vein a serles of “let- ters” expressing displeasure at some special features connected with the organization. The “letters” were given prominence in several papers, creating, the impression that they were of a bona fide nature, According to one paper publisbed in a down state city “An open forum was held instead of the regular session and excerpts from letters sent by various members who are carried on the membership rolls but are delinquent in their attendance were read.” | Then followed a list of ‘*com-| plaints” which were said to have | been filed. The absentees gave their “reasons” why they were not enthusiastio over attending med and lunghcons. Some of the sons' were of an unusual nnlurr The Observer has been Informed that no absentee members actually wrote the lotters. The composition came from the creative brain of Sccretary James 1. O'Brien, who has heard many oxeuscg in the course of the pust year f.im mem- n ,-;» & | bers who have remained gway and decided td incorporate them'in a pitl of complaint. It is suspected that in addition, the nimble minded s€c- retary put several imaginary com- plaints in writing to while away his spare tige and provide better cn- tertainment for his fellow “roarers.” In Which We Make a Meck and Whispered Inquiry stature really represent, public or the ~Husiness rosts ? One is inclined to ask the question as a result of the nature of a pre vonderance of the bills introduced. Money, taxes, the consoltdation of profits, insuring of more peofits, bills to help monopoly and the ten- dencics toward monopoly, aid for this concern and that, protection o: |the rights of capital, help for the insurance cos s, slams at inde- pendent bus lines and assistance for the monopoly bus line—these most- ly constitute the bills, Once in a while some bolshevik comes along with a hill about human rights, but when his name gets in the paper it is discovered he is some Democrat Who is under the impression the Icgislature exists to help all the peo- ple and not only some of them. The talking, thinking and acting on material topics is one of the symptoms of the age. There was a time in the history of the country— certainly during the days of the -il- lustrious Theodore Roosevelt—when the common man had something of a show in getting a hearing in our |.gm.m\c and congressional halls. went so tar as to refer to “malefactors of great wealth,” and threatened to vse his | on them instead of patting them on the bac the name of economy. officiency and all the other fan Mather that goes to make up mod- ern reading from Washington and the capitals of the mation. Mayb: Teddy was not altogether as sincere as he ought 1o have been—at least the Democrats claimed sometimes that he barked more than he bit the monster of greed—but he had th: big boys worrying all the same, and they watched their steps like a tiger sneaking through the jungle. Nowadays they dom't nced watch any steps. They have every. thing their own way. and social wel- fare lcglslation is the last thing the majority of worthles in the legisla- tures think about. Listen—or read— their speeches and see it you don't come to the conclusion that nothing In their estimation counts except {Copyright. 1929, Reproduction Forbidden) tig Business and plenty of it, in the _|corner witncased “an example of to! 25 Yearulp Today A umnnbuvs of William Ran. dolph Hearst was in the city last and was sizing up the pros. pects of working up enthusiasm foe that editor in his campaign for the presidential nomination, Spectators at the Baptist church reckless driving about 8 o'clock last night. A sleigh dashed around the corner at top speed and pald no ate tention to pedestrians, aseveral = of whom had narrow escapes. A deat in.Crowell's drug men - followed ‘and would m’ and was treated store. Several shouted but lh. drh’cr‘, stop. R. C. Mel'ln has bden electcd sccretary of ihe Central Brick Ex- change, while Virgil - M. Palmer s treasurer and general manager. The New Britain club held its 11th annual reception Jast night. On the reception committée were C. J. Parker, W. L. Hateh, N, P. Cooley, Marcus White, J. E. Cooper, W. C. Hungerford, R. C, Merwin and B. Allan Moore. The rooms were beau- titully decorated by A. J. Sloper's committee, flowers and plants from his greenery being ubed in groat profusion. Out of all the complaints made only.one man has been arrested. The New Britain delegation to se. cure a $150,000 post office bullding left for Washington toduy. The executive committee of the Master Builders’ assoclation and that of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ union have agreed to continue last year's wage scale—$2.80 a day for an eight-haur day, Wwith not more than one apprentice to six journey- men. 5 . Observations: On The Weather Washington, I"ch. 2.—Fprecast for Southern New England: Cloudy and slightly colder Saturday: flun- day partly cloudy. Forecast for Eastern New Yorks Falr, continued cold Saturday: Sum. day increasing cloudiness, nlowly rising temperature. Conditions: A disturbance avpur- ently of increasing intensity is cen- tral south of Nova Scotla, and pres- sure is falling ovet the northern! Rocky mountain region. The outlook is for snow or rain on Sunday in the northern Appa- lachian region. ¥isewhere the weather will be partly cloudy Satpre day and ‘iumhu' 1 Actress in Court For Airing Infant New York, Feb. 2 (M—Winifred Lenihan, Theater Gulld star, must appear in court Monday because she Luilt a balcony outside her apart- ment house window to give a baby fresh air. The owners of the st 49th strect house contend the balcony was erceted without their permis. sion and the presence of the baby and baby clothes disturbed neigh- bo Miss Lenihan said at her homs that it all was “perfectly silly.” She declared she crected the balcony because the management did noth. ing aboui her request for permis- sion to put it up. She said the in- fant was a cousin she has been car irg for since last fall and was tak- ing steps to adopt. Turkey. Once Wmeless, Plans to Make Her Own Rigados, Turkey, Feb. 2 (P— Despite the olil Koranic taboo, the new more proie Turkey is becoming more and to look on the wine when it is red or any other color, *land, morc than that, to brew her own. The Kemalist government, which has made alcohol one of the 16 state monopolies, has sent the director of the monopoly to Europe to study wine making. The director chose this rich Anatolian grapo rcglon as the location for Turkey's future wine industry. Capitol of Wlscnnsin Used for Many Events Madisoh, Wis., Feb, 2 (P—Wis- consin's capitol is used for every- thing from unl\(rsny proms to a ski cou Ordinarily, of course, it is used for political programs, inaugurations and legislative sessions. For miany vears it was the scene of the junior prom of the University of Wiscon- sin. This winter snow was piled high on the northwest stej Madison boys took advantage of the steep chute for lot of interestirg 530 Atlantic Coast Line The Sterderd Reilreed of the South Tickets, reservations, information frem B. F.FULLER, A.G.P.A. 8 West 40th St., New Youb Tel Lackawsana 7080 hope that some of the prosperity and dumb man’ was knocked dowa' regarding failure to elean sidewalks L