New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 6

one the theorica and practices of his childhood. In this respect the youth of today are fully as capable, if mot more so, than in any pest generation. I can't believe that there was any werious iptention bohind the sugges- tion to “give ewr boys Dickena |~ Whittier, Thackeray, Teunysen.” It just simply wouldn't take. And any- 3 (han $6.000.000; instesd the revenve Bas amounted to ealy ene-ninth of | What is love. anyway? Blelegists the anticipation, despite the fact that | have one answer and the wwost the use of cigarettes has it young things have quite andther. We 33 por cent in three years. And while | prefer not ta be too. apecific. We clgarette amoking increases the - | only know that sl sormal human come_from the tobacoo tax steadily | beings act fooliah eccasionally, and decreases. Tho answer is sclf-evident | that something called lave is the "":." the Pest Offics ot New Britatn |\ 204 vastly more cigaretds are [ When weo roud, - however, that, Second Clam Matl Matter, TELEPHONS CALLS lacal edvertisers. The Herald fs ea danly 1n_New York at Hotaling's Newsstand. Times Square; Schults's Nowsstande, Batrasce Graad Cemtral. 4 Street. —————— e e Regulating high school dancing scema to be as difficult 8 matter as regulating magazine literature. The only thing about the tax rate we like Is that 28 ls casy to re- member. The annual debate regarding Sat- | urday night closing seems to have | arrived earlier than usual. Not car- ing to enter where angels fear to tread the sum total of our advice is to give it thorough study, Nothing arouses one’s indignation 50 effectivbly as to read of @ hit and | run driver leaving @ maimed victim Y Iying In the highway. Even if it were necessary to build more prisons, all the hit and run drivers ought to be in them. The only citizens who will be set | back financially by not selling untit | magazines will be the magazine | dealers, who evidently want to know who is going to pay them for the unsold copies, now that the ban | has been requested by the mayor. As the railroads take over the ex- press companies $32,000,000 in bonds will be issued. This may in- dicate the extent of the express busi- ness throughout the country, and it may aleo indicate that the bond husiness is still good and getting bet- ter. Next year we intend to perk a trusting car when the news comes that the tax rate would have been | lower had this year's Council mot | kept it lower then it ought to have been. If you ean get what we mean WHY TAX CIGARETTER? Representative John A. Mansfield. of Harwinton, author of the bill to tack a tax of two cents a package on clgarettes sold in Congecticut, says the state would be able to col- lect a neat sum every year, which could be used in constructing addi- tional improved highways. What is in back of the Harwinton representative’s mind, however, is & plan to discourage the smoking of cigarettes in favor of smoking cigars, which would be an aid to the Con- necticut tobacco leaf industry. Har- winton is in the country, and Repre- sentative Mansfield represents the country view that the city slickers have no business smoking so many eigarettes instead of consuming the smoke products duced. Alrcady six cents out of every 15 paid by consumers of cigarcttes goes to the federal goverhment. The tax on cigarettes is the highest direct aswessment being levied. Now along comes another state attempt to add to the tax—in order to help the state pay for more good roads. May- e, but probably not. Every time a provincial sla(vsmxn} has an idea to raise more money he adds the sage observation it will help the state to build roads. This is sup- posed to make his plan popular. Everybody is supposed to be aching | for more and better highways and willing to pay for them in every pos- sible manner. This cigarette-taxing plan will fail in 1929 as it failed in 1927. Thirty- one states have defeated tobacco tax. legislation, and in 17 of these states such legislation has been de- feated at two sessions. In two states, Wyoming and Mississippi, the gov- «rnor vetoed such legislation after it had been passed by the legislature. In a on cigars, cigarettes and tobacco was repeated domestically pro- Louisiana tax after an experience of two years. In | Kansas City, Mo., the City Council cigarettes, which resulted in a sale | of bootleg cigarettes and no sales for the local stamp-afixed cigarcttes. Public indignation forced repeal of | the tax. Needless to add, the city did | not gain the anticipated $300,000 a | year revenue. | In Oregon the people voted on a tobacco tax law and overwhelming. ly defeated it. States which “enjoy” such a nui- sance tax arc not happy with the re- sults. In Georgia tobacco tax advo- cates anticipated gorevcnue of more | | lend themselves to such branchify- | | General Electric, | with the boat line under such condi- | —there is 8 wholesale defidnce of the consumed without paying the state tax than‘are purchased “according to law.” Similar results are noted in Arkansas, Utah and South Carelina. In South Carolina the tax-crased legislature went even further and put a tax on around 40 other articles in general consumption—which represents the inevitable result when the nuisance taxes once get started. The best way for a state to avold a plethora of nuisance taxes is to re- train from making a start. BRANCH PLANTS It “middle western competition,” such as has been frequently mention- ed in New England prints, is to re- solve itself into virtually every in- | dustry in New England poasessing themselves of plants elsewhere as supplements to their local main pro- duction units, then the situation will be quite generally solved. It cannoc be denied that to have ! plants near the centers of consump- | tion—East and West—is good busi- ness. But it rather transcends the hope that has been widely held that New England products can and will | make their way anywhere at any | time. 1f there are to be a multitude of branch plants in the East and West, and in the South and even the Far West, then sectional advantages as well as disadvantages, and also sectional individuality, vanishes. All industries, of coursc, do net | ing. The motor industry and other | heavy manufacturing concerns con- tinue to concentrate wherever they happen to be; but firms like the manufacturing & multitude of comparatively light products, place their plants far afield and have done so for years, Now one finds the system growing in smaller fields. 1t it keeps up the best we will be able to say is that New England is | the grand-daddy of all the Industrics | in the U. 8. A., but the grandchildren are found everywhere. | A RETIRING EXECUTIVE ' To the best of our knowledge and belief, Albert ¥. Corbin, who has just retired as president of thé Union Manufacturing Company, was a popular exccutive, To be president of a corporation for more than 20 years and earn such popularity | among all classes of citizens is quite | an achievement. It is far casier to be popular among one class than among | all classes. Mr. Corbin seems to have had the facuity of ingratiating himn- self in the esteem of high and low alike. He has set a good example for Carl 8. Neumann, who succceds him. BOATING ON THE CONNECTICUT A year ago the New Haven rail- road, which owns the Hartford-New York boat line, complained rather plaintively that business was bad and if there were not more of it forth- coming off would go one of the boats. The Hartford Chamber of Commerce, scared out of its wits at the prospect of losing this great water service between the metropolis of Hartford county and the metropo- lis of the Hudson river, promised to drum up some trade for the boat line. How well it has succeeded is evi- denced by the fact that the railroad company has been heard from again vith the threat that the poor boat ! line cannot be operated at a lou.i like many of the jerk-water trolley lines owned by the company, but;l would have to be curtailed unless something definite were done about it. The Hartford C. of C, ugain alarmed and somewhat cn‘!'fflllnn.l has promised to “lcave no stone un- turned” to help the boat line con- tinue. The trouble with the Hartford boat line, quite obviously, is that it is owned by the New Haven railroad. Why should the railroad be wor- ried if the boat line does not do enough husiness if the railroad does the hauling? For a railroad company to own a competing boat line is an anomaly. If the boat line were owned and operated by an aggressive in- dependent company—which natur- ally would cut rates so far below the railroad freight rates as to make it attractive for shippers to use it and save money—there would be no | problems in connection with the boat line. In addition, such an aggressive | Who are mot. can atill remember the the absence of all the members with reckicss days of their own |thc exception of Alderman Falk and independent hoat line would do its | own drumming up of trade Instead ber of Commerce; it would and do its own advertising, would never allow shippers to forget that the boat | line was In business. Tnstead of the present team of boats ply g the river there would be tour or six. and the railroad would be hard-pressed | to meet the competition buses would be Even the unable to compete | | tions, for nothing is as cheap as river | Whims the onr‘nllinsl company s really interested jn de- "l?/ ng it to its fullest extent, | ( transportation when junder the age limit are too busy inovels that were so popular |the youth of yesterday. And T'll bet cause. that plays and novela of the future will have no love plots we naturally pause to reflect whether this will mean progress or something else, Two plays without the love motif. indeed, have .had a hearing; these were “Wings Over Europe” and “Caprice.” They indicate what will come in the next century, we are told, “when love as a passion will have been relegated to the ancient past of flahing youth, movies. maguificent reviews and love, drama.” If humanity on the whole is tend- ; ing in that direction we see no signs of it. Plays minus the leve vu‘n[lei can be written and made interesting; | but exceptions to the prevailing no- tion of universal human interest do not as yet prove any rules. We rather think, it the learned critics of the loving situation go.back far enough. they will discover that some loveless books, stories and plays were writ- | ten ®so far back as to appear as an- | clent as the pyramids of Europe. A play or novel without the love | motiff may seem novel and advanc- ed to the more or less ignorant sophisticates, But who wrote the one that blossomed forth in 14937 sometimes say. worn methoeds of Don't crush this “symptom, behind the ‘ever the way is not leading a world race to hell. For the sake of argument, we'll assume that the reverend could just as well have put his youthtul mind on “Pligrims Progress” as on the more exciting dime novel. How much would that have changed his status| today? My guess is not a bit. Youth must remain youth, fn thought and body alike. It is & natural stage of the development of men. phisticated mind, and decided to wage a war. presentations, but don't get heated about it. you ever did, but you ‘can't PRICE. AND CONSUMPTION the youth that Producers of goods naturally want to be in the position of selling their | products at the highest possible price. Tf all of them could have their way what would be the result? Well, here is a paragraph from the writings of T. N. Carver: | with no real of “our boys. 80 when you have cleaned “Everybody knows that a figh stands and price encourages producers and dis- | courages consumers, whereas a low | price does the opposite. If the price | is very high, more will be produced than consumers will buy. If the price in very low, producers will not pro- duce as much as consumers would like to buy. Somewhere there 15 an equilibrlum price which, at any giv- en moment, will balance the market. This equilibrium price changes from time to time, but whenever it is closely wupproximated the market clears itself, producers being induc- cd to bring to the market cxactly as much as consumers are induced to buy and take off the market.” stuff, and the sinners suffer. difference is in the language. and like it i A YOUTH OF TODAY. PENSION INGREASES FOR THO WIDOWS Expecling the tariff to find flu:| equilibrium price 1s like expecting it | to locate the millenium. Either the | producers get licked or the consum- | crs get. it in the neck. But the pro- ducers run a double risk: If they succoed In raising the tariff so high as to make unreasonably high prices | possible the consumers fail to relieve | them of what they make; and if they | ¢ Benelit Through Lagislation By GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Corrcspondent, N Washington, D. C., Pension increa: Feb. sell at low prices they lose money or | don't earn much. Jt is just as pos- | sible for high tariff experts to over- reach and injure themselves as it ia | The house for low fariff experts to do an in- | pr st recently adopted jury to industry by refusing to yield | the background for the price upturn. Ot course, we haven't solved all the incidental problems, paper; but we fear that neither can | crease this amount to $50. the experts. What we know is this: | Give the producers all they crave and | troduced bills for { vaises in the house last year. there will still bo.a plenitude of |\vere reporied wpon. fasoranle problems on hand. COMMUNICATED “YOUTH” HAS ITS SAY This is assured. estville, the other in even on | first and large:t omnibus present session of congress. Doesn’t Require Literary Censors to | Prescribe What to Read. Editor of the Herald: You may or may not be interested | to receive comments from your, readers on an occasional matter of local interest faithfully reported in vour columns. Her='s hoping you | are, for that amusing little account of the “lion's roar” at the sale of “Salicious Magazines” in this eity has given me the inspiration for this momentous letter and I would not have it wasted. T called the account amusing merely because that is the way it struck mec. The Reverend Philip Cleveland is not knewn to me, but I have hcard of some of his ances- tors and onc of them especially, stands out as also being a *violen' tirader” of no mean ability. At any rate the mental picture T am forced to maké of the Reverend Cleveland is that of a man past 50 years of age. If T am right on that, don't accusc me of cheating, because my guess is based on a passing obmerva- ! tion of the subject chosen for the | tonight an din central and “violent tira ' T mean by that. | portions Sunday;/ moderate that it usually takes a man (or wom. | west winds hecoming fresh an) of at least that many yecars to | west and west on Sunday. recognize and prescribe for the evils | e about to befajl the youth of today. i No reusons for that condition occurlThree Attend Meetmg to me other ihan that most men more annually. The widows to benefit are Mary C. Barnes, of 349 Washington street, Forestville, widow of Frederick W. Barnes and Ella Winchesterr, chester, Obémafiom On The Weather ‘Washington, Feb. for Southern settled New tonight; England: tempertaure, Forecast for Fastern New York with light rain in Sunday and light rain or snow north The co with business 1o pay much attention ordinances met last night .ut trans. to such matters and perhaps those |acted little business, on account of happy. youth. The Councilmen Warner and Maxon. T Reverend must Cleveland injun or detective himself once upon | !? Salarics, fo provide for the in a time Deentme ha med g PO | creases voted by the council, effec those horrible blood-tHirsty dime ! Ve April 1. i Action on the proposed With| code and the resolution for extend L ! = L {ing the limits of the fire district wa: him a new “stove pipe” that his el-| g forreq. ders told him persistently but in|pese matters at the vain that he wouldn't amount to u row of ash cans reading that trash ¥ SSION ON LINCOLN Sunday at 3 p. m., a talk on Lin gow fust like Jesse James.| oin will he given fo the member 1y, the reverend outgrew the ¢ the Pinnacle club in the and passiond of his youth. | rooms of the Y. W. ¢ A. Any normal person ‘docs. When the | il also diveuss he proper fima came ‘in his develop- | world of a life like ment, he saw the mors pha: of life and cast o ! {and chances were he'd land in the hoos Natu 1o 1h volne one by to attend. body under 50 years of age knows a fact. There are four writers whose works are immortal, as we meaning of course that we like them very much. But they are just a little too brilliant for youth, especially modern youth with its vivacity and disdain of the its forefathers. it is the driving force, the creative power increasing pro- gregs of this great nation, which by other side. These's tos much said abeut th evil of law breaking, and too little about fhe evil ot drinking. — 8till, the Kellogg treaty will be worth while if it insures everiast. ing peace until the cruisers are built. It you wish to easure your man. hood, ask yoyrself whether you [ | 3 ; Ia 85 g § g !.1 1 & 2 i [ i; T §§ : fi i i it i} 4 L | 'm here with the new awning treat the boss as you do if he were merely a fellow worker. If not, why not begin on *Pilgrims Pro- gress” instead of “Mother Goose?" Cheer up! Reverend Cleveland, 1 have all duc respect for your good intentions and for those of the lions who suddenly recalled having seen or heard of something that might be classed as “vermin” to the. so- impulsively We'll all readily admit that some of the mag- azines are a little over-ripe in their over- Youth knows its physiology today perhaps better than stop that. That's progress. Youth, too, knows right from wrong, better than you once knew. ‘That’s progress, too. The magasines themselves are not progress, but they indicate progress when youth | can talk frankly and see plainly harm to themselves. And they can, because youth has its principles and idcals and these too have progressed. I know, I am one the are ready to advance upon the library, please don’t con- fiscate the books we like. If you will actually read them you will find the underlying moral to be the same old The rightcous are rewarded The chiet It's our language and we understand it Forestville and Unionville Wom- 16.— will be granted to jtwo widows of Civil War veterans {living in the vicinity of New Britain under the terms of the latest ommi- bus pension bill to pass the senate. the It now awaits only the | president signature to become law. One of the widows lives in For- Unionville. Both now rececive $40 monthly and adoption of the legislation will in- Representative 1. Hart Fenn in- these pension They by house confmittee on invalid pen- sions and were incorporated in the pension {measure that has come before the Included in this gigantic omnibus bill were 2,935 individual bills. Most of these were for incrcased pen- | sions, although a few created fni- tial pensions. Enactment of the law will cost the g’ sernment $418,164 79, Unionville, widow of Henry J. Win- 16.—Forecast Un- Sunday possibly rain or snow; not much change in Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday south portion in north portion late tonight or Sun- day: colder in extreme north portion north | south- To Discuss Ordinances mon counc:! committec on a3 voted to make the necessary town has not yet in 1927 passed an ordinance to tax | relying upon the services of a Cham- | have been quite a cow-puncher or |Ch2D8es in the ordinance relating heating It is planned to act on 1ext meeting. club The girls that of Lincolr ..rions] Any voung cmployed girl 1s invited [ seven-thonsandth of a It docsn't weem fair, but the one who hates paces the floor while the hated one placidly enjoys his dinner, A dominating personality at is worst: “Yeah: Well, I've got as much right to my opinion as the dictionary has.” Another way to astonish your learned friends by speaking French is to speak it the same outlandish way the French do. There will be crooks as long as there are good people who think a man as nice as the treasurer does need bonding. t Americanism: Spending this year's earnings with a clear consclence be- cause you know next yeat's earn- ings will pay last year's debts. fiounon may help you to forgive your enemies, but only a miracle can make you forgive the success of your friends, * The great are an inspiration when them close. “If that mut et by,” you say, “I know ] Daughter has faults, but she won't swop her sex for the assur- ance that Dad and Mother will be cared for. - Sex cquality is at last achieved when a man whines because his wife 1s too much wrapped up in her work. Another ‘'way to have the world make a path to your house in the ‘woada is to buy stock that prom- ises: 20 per cent. Government investigates a wo- man who married a rich Indian to get his money, but as a rule white men get more protection than In- GELT The next great task of Democracy is to kick out the Bmith element and its 13,500,000 votes and leave the 2,500,000 pure in heart in com- plete control. boiled, and some are themselves they feel armor, 80 wsure of no need of Correct this sentence: “Bill has climbed much faster than 1 have,” sald the man, “but T like the old fellow just as well as eves Copyright. 1929, Publishers Byndicate 25 Fears Ago Todey The New Britain Turner societey will hold its 38th annual masquerade ball in its hall this evening, with Hartford and Meriden Turners pres- ent. Harvey C. Kingsley severed his connection with Eaton, Chase & Co., of Norwich, yesterday afternoon, and with George D. Morgan of this city, has purchased the wall paper, oils, and paint business of E. P. Emmons, 60 years established. Mr. Kingley has heen assoclated with the Nor- wich hardware house for 18 years, while Mr. Morgan has been with Emmons for more than ten years, The Berlin Literary societey met yesterday afternoon and heard Pro- fessor Stearns of Hartford lecture on the Catacombs.. . City Clerk Thompson recelved a request from Pittsficld today for in- formation relating to garbage col- lection here. He was in a fine position to tell of the methods here, for he has had first hand ‘experi- ence during the past few days—to - | his sorrow. C. I*. 8mith was present last night at the dinner tendered J. W. Fenner of Cleveland, at the Hartford club. The city has not quite heen able to make both ends meet financially, and the mayor will call a special meetin for authority to borrow - | money. Auditor H. L. Curtis says f |that none of the city departments are overdrawn although it has heen nccessary to transfer mon be- t|tween accounts in some cases. The paid over the $5,000 it contributes annually for - | keeping up the city streets, but some - |of this has aiready been drawn upon. Senator Marcus A. Hanna died last evening in Washington. D. C. - There has been no heavy atorm of s |late, but drifts have been forming across the country roads and the se- lectmen have mren at work clearing them #o teams can get through. The Connecticut Co. has an- . nounced that starting tomorrow the 5| running time between here and Hartford will be cut from 50 to 45 minutes. A lightning nsh takes ahout one- second o comiplete itself. Some men are tough and hard-| S styles!” Sound Roason! First Movie Star: “Have you as pired to the ‘talkies’ yot?" 8econd Movie Btar: “Ne, I'm net on speaking terms with the preduc. tion manager!"” —Mrs. A. B. HIl THE FUN SHOPS NEWS W‘lull‘ 3 4 Weather > It is said that during a recent storm in Ne# York the skyscrapers actually rocked. As a result, bables in top apart- ments slept much better! ; Dietary The tavorite food of Mr. Willlam Walker, aged 107, the oldest man in England, is pork. Vegetarians malntain that he i bound to suffer for it in the long run! DRI Litcrary “Margaret admitted frankly ¢ to herselt that .she was tired of be- ing perpetually (continued on page 52) 2 —Woman's Magasine, Our sympathies are entirely with Margaret. We are thoroughly sick of it ourselves! e 0 o 4 Theatrical “Marriage means success for the average chorus girl,” declares & writer. Yes, it mcans she gets her first big spcaking part! o e Social “Today we carry an umbrella in place of a sword,” says a writer, A much more dangerous weapon in the cyes of the crowd! Qualitied! » Bruce 'm dying for a kiss.” Mildred: “Well, I'm no doctor, hut I've taken a course in first aid!* —F. L. Barco. A Saturday Special! SPIRES AND GARGOYLES Sus Scntence! This is about my latest love affair, I have fallen in love with a Law- yer's Daughter. When one falls in love with a Lawyer's Daughter he usually goes Courting. 1 know she is a Lawyer's Daughter because is always demurring. The other night I was sitting in the Parlor with her. 1 turned down the light. She demurred but T quashed the demwurrer with a wnt of error. This made the case more complicated. It would have probably cnded in a mistrial it her old Man had kept his foot out of the case. He sure hooted that case¢ around. and 1 was glad to escape with my iife. That was the last 6f my love af- fair with the Lawyer's Daughter. 1 am going with a Dector's Daugh- ter now. I call her S8yrup because she is so soothing! —Dudley 8mith ¢ o o Success Comes Too Uate? From my carliest recollection, to be a millionaire has been my high- cst aspiration—my mania. My whole life has been dedicated to the ac- cumulation of dotlars. A few days ago my highest hope had been ful- filled—at last my bank balance showed that 1 was indeed a milion. aire! Now T could have the things that had always been denied me. 1 would join a swell clun and hobnob with the big feliows. 1 blew myself to swell cars, clothes and an hale-fel- low-well-met accent My application for membership fo the Club was favorably acted upon, and I was duly admitted. For a time I was favorite in the Club. 1t seemed that all were determined (o make me feel at home. My ship was in and T was havpy. Imagine my surprise when one cday as T entered the Club, 1 was given a notice that I was no longer desiratle member. What had 1 done? T sat down on the lounge. No one spoke to me. My ears began to burn. I heard my name. Someone ng about me. “Fawncy that darned Millionaire crashing in here. Had us all fooled. Thought he was a Bootlegger.” —Fred Brown Out of Place! James: “What causcd the trouble at the Valentine party the other night 2" Robert: “Oh. some cheap skate Lrought a Valentine instead of 2 quart!™ —Helen Topper l ,siig HH LT casionally districts are le tected when apparatus is oall other parts of the city. Just at pres. ent, it seems te the Observer, the meost vuinerable point fer fire to at. tack would be in the west end wh! No. ¢ and ¢ apparatus was at some point distant. Eight additional- policemen and six firemen will be allowed, the numbers being less than requested in beth instances. Business men will feel safer .with the enlargement of the police force as they realise that they are fully protected only at cer. tain heurs. The rejection of & cloth. ing allowance fer policemen was rather small. The amount required would not be great. The city could casily bear the burden, bear it much better than the individual members of the police force. Golf fans deplore the need of eliminating the proposed allowance for & molf opurse. In justice to the thousands of tax payers and rent payers who have no interest in golf, it must be admitted that the rejec. tion was in line with wisdom. New Britain can manage to exist without public golf links, regardless of how strongly they may be desired hy ardent advocates of the great Scoteh vastime, It has been suggested that some person with sufficient wealth donate a fund sufficiently large to lay out the linke. Not & bad sugges- tion either, There are several men in the city who have made fortunes here and who could spare the money for that purpose. Red Reflootor Needed at End of Monroe Street Attention of the strect depart- ment is called to a dangerous situa- tion at the east end of Monroe street at a point where work has been started on an extension to Glen street. Monroe street at this section ha: a decided pitch and strangers driv- ing toward Greenwood street at night do not realize that the thor- oughfare does not continue through to Glen street, the highway having the appearance after dark of being complcte, Residents of the neighborhood have been anticipating for some time that drivers not familiar with the locality would continue into the rough, cut up area where the ex- tension will run. Monday night the expected happencd. An automebile containing three high achool puplls one of them a girl, ran into the un- finished strcet and only through what secemed & miracle escaped seri- ous injury. There is a sheer drop of five feet a short distance beyond the sidewalk and the machine plunged down this small precipice and crashed into an old hot water boiler that had been cast away. The three occupants of the vehicle were badly frightened and severely shak- en up, being cared for by neighbors. 1t has been suggested that the street department install a'red glass reflector at this point to warn driv- ers that the street has not been compleied. Don’t Become Miffed It Your Namec Is Misspelied 1f your mail comes to you with your mame: misspelled, or if your me appears in the newspapers with an extra 4" “e” or “a” or with any other error, do not be too severe in your crificism until you first eonsider the d¥fficulty which faces mailing clerks and newspa- permen with a multitude of names, spelled with no fixed rules, many of them sounding alike but having different combinations of letters. Throughout the new city direc- tory's pages one may find many op- portunitics for misspelling. A rath- er hurried glance through the “A's,” suggest the following possi- bilities for error: Anderson and An- dersen; Ahearn and Ahern; Allee All Godd's Chillun Got Wings! Rev. Dr. Nathan Krass of Temple Emanu-El, New York, has become quite famous for cleverly humorous answers he gives to some of the questions submitted to him at the close of his Sunday morning dis- courses. Recently he lectured on “Wings Over Europe,” a current Theater Guild play. In the play the English Cabinet is given twenty minutes to live and then arise situdtions and conversation incident to their laet moments of eartn. At the conclusion of the sermon one member of the audience sent up this question: “What would You do if you had only twenty minutes more to live?” “T assure you T wouldn't he preaching or answering questions,” answered Dr. Krass. —Regina Kansas The hardest auto to dodge is the, one your wifo Insists on having! (Copyright. 1929, Reproduction Forbidden) . |at street cerners for the purpose aad Alley; Altord and Alverd; drews, Andrus and Andres; A Aparo and Apero; Arburr and bour; Argazsi and Argosy; A sen. and Asrenson; Arude Arute; Adkins and Atkins. 2 A f‘M remember, that's only the A" 2 Mr, Stasckel Would Croste Army of Police Siples ) In & bulletin lmued this weel Robbins B.- Steeckel, state commis- sloner of motor vehioles, suggests the use of “plain clothes polices men” us & means of increasing rew spect for an cbservance of the rules) surrounding the wuse of traffig lights and regulations.” The awriter considers Mr. Stoeckd] el's idea impractical and repugnaniy to American idoas In few words, he would have licemen. net in uniform, lay in trapping motérists who break : laws by driving past traffic lightas The police would be in addition the regular force employed for fic duty and for patrolling beats. If a city were to attempt to p Mr, 8toeckel's recommendations force it would be required to en-| large its appropriations by a gre: amount and to increage its tax rat This, we believe, no city would willing to do simply for the purs pose of enforcing regulations whiel are not flagrantly violated and evas sion of Which certainly cannot b ranked as serious. o ‘The Observer questions a state, ment made in Mr. Stoeckel's bull tin to the effect that “the averag: man will steal by the traffic lig. intended for his own safety, as well] as the safety of othera! This: tion is so contrary e faet ; calls for a check-u| b that the average di il for traffic lights and the men Wi goce past them wiltully s o0 ceptional that his number is comparison. Of the many thousan who use the public strcets dail with thelr automobiles, a very smal percontage disrcgards traffic lights This ls also truo late at night whe! lights hold up traffic in spite of th fact that there are no vehicles ap proaching from olh;r streeta. The idea is repugnant because smacks of eapionage. Every red blooded American imbued with th #pirit of the square deal strong) dislikes & snooping spy and thia, & the long run, would be the level o the police offices whe was put oul to hide behind & post or a tree an try to bag motorists who, some. times unconsciously, disrcgard traffic light or other sign. Bristol’'s Investment i Future Oitisenship Bristol is to be congratulated ol its excellent Boys' club, dedicated this week, and the htought of build ing-manhood which is behind it, question whether any community e Bristol's size can boast of such complete institution devoted to pro ducing bigger and better American: Within the past few years the na tion has begun to appreciate th valuo of giving & boy good sreund ing in citizenship. Boys naturall: are irresponsible. They are ata tic, their impuises harking back ¢ the days of their cave dwelling an| cestors when man took what h wanted if he coald get it. Civili; tion has changed this, to a great ex| tent,” and modern theory teache that man must earn what he get: The first lesson in this direction discipline of mind = and bod: Through such organizations as th| Bristol Boys' club this lesson in di; cipline is driven home. Reppect fo the property and the rights of ot crs, study as & means of acquirin knowledge, fair play, punctuali and diligence in all endeavors a implanted in the boy mind so tha when the lad reaches man's estal he has adult outlook and is able t associate on & civilized plane wit| the rest of the race. Although denominational teachin| is not part of the policy of the cluf] spiritual development goes hand i hand with the work and play pi gram. Aside from these advant: which members of boys' clubs hav| their bodies are strengthened fe the battle of life. In thelr gam they become physically and ment ly alert in an atmosphere which - moves them from temptations whid] befall youngsters who spend th hours in idleness. Bristol is building for the futur| Its boys club is a cornerstone in t structure. Plaiaville Town Court Expocted to Be Established Progress in dispensing justice Plainville is noted in the favorab report of the judiclary committee the legislature on a bill proposi! to establish a town court in tl place. There is dittle doubt that t! bill will be favorably acted on the assembly. In too many small communitie: references is not made to Plainvil n particular—justice is u mocke) a«nd a fraud. Men who sometim| »it as justices are infrequently qu ified for the positio: They Ias acumen, legal training, balance, the will to sec that justice is doi Political debts are known to haj becn paid off by justice courts, both directions, and the man on {| bench very often allows his prej dices to influence his decisions. The chiet complaint against J tice's courts from the urban popul tion is that rulings arc usually ha and penalties altogether out of p portion to the seriousness of the fensc. It is true that in town cou jover which a judge presides same complaint may be well almd but there is a disposition on the p of regularly appointed judges to low reason to temper their decisi Plainville is stepping ahead in| manner which will give it bet standing. It is shaking off its sw dling clothes and proving to the of the commonweslth that it is pg the stage of growing pains. A race of *people in India beli that all clephants have two trun three eyes and 10 legs in the Ia to which elephants go after deaf