New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 6

w Britain M2 Tapmed Dally_ (Bundey Beventsd) 1ie. & Mouth t New Britals mu-c -.t_n:.vno.u- Jov » TELRPHONB c‘l-!-l Editerial Reoms ... EH ble sdvertisiag medium "‘).an.. %% bosks and press “resm always open te advertisers. Mowmber of the Prese A-unu‘ Press lo exclusively en- use for re-publication et -uun te it or mot otherwise ited ta this paper sad siso local m « Membor A m of Circulation ~vEhe A B 0. is & nationsl or;uluna- fursishes Bewapepers adver: % » strictly honest e o-r elnnl:uu spaper tribytion figures to both nationsl and “local sdvertisers. ' The Hersld fs on sale daiiy in New York at Motsling's Newsstand, Times Seuare: Schultys Newsstands, Entrance Graad Centrsl. 42nd Street. ————————— A new simile: As busy as the ad- "justment board. e The world's greatest sport, says the Richmond News Leader, is dig- "' ging & garden. But not to the worms. | e To the best of our eyesight, the “heinous report that skirts were due “lo be longer was a base canard. Be- «.Jn‘ more or less aged and decrepit “'we are not greatly interested, but ‘have noted offhand “them are higher than ever before: and we have been wondering how long it will take betore most skirts look like those straw things worn by Hawaiian dancers in the vaude- ville shows. On Friday you read the names of " the new British cabinet. Now, to test your memory and your intense inter- est in such things, who is the minis- . ter of health? We will present a broken collar button to anyone able to answer without due reference to ! the newspapers. As we understand it, Germany will be through liquidating its war - in the year 1985. At that time it ‘can sing, “Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous PREITRY ‘The new British cabinet goes " inta action a week after the geners! election. Ours goes into action four monthe- after & geseral election. *1Praving once again that Americans "are much speedier than Englishmen —in everything except politics. Atlantic City now boasts the big- ¢t auditorium in the world. And 3¢l bet it makes a spirited bid for of the next political conventions. The automobile driver who relies -;»M his horn instead of his brake is "hot an entirely unknown quantity ‘mleng our Main streets, and other beulevards. These horn tooters, by ~the way, know.nothing about music “but expect pedestrians to dance out il ..ot the way without hesitation. ¢ Air mail propaganda is beginning "'te be heard from with increasing . regularity. The other day we re- ceived an aviation clipsheet from "IAI Angeles, sent by air mail, pos- -lbly to look important. The dope- ..sheet told all about what was be- #ing accomplished in the aviation in. "'dustry on the coast. The airplane sheet failed to stay in the air, how- «ever, and crashed into the waste- “basket. It looks queer to us that, after *having been named chairman of the " President's law enforcement investi- gation committce, George W. Wick- rersham goes about contributing dry ‘addresses. He doesn’t give us the impression of being an unbiased «chairman, Perhaps these speechesa “are the first signs that the investiga- tion committee is due to contribute a large cipher to the question of law ‘enforcement, rather than anything practical and constructive. NEWSPAPER INDEPENDENCE # Gentlemen who pay considerable #ittention to politics are of opinien that a lot of newspaper edi- tors are making serious mistakes in not running their papers as straight party organs, as was the case in the good old day people bought and read newspapers in order {o when read about the latest perfidics of the | opposing p These old-timers look upon the present tendency in journalism with profound distrust and irritation. As for the readers, thing else. There can be no doubt that they prefer newspapers which regret, that is some- present all sides to a public question | in their news columns, and are will- ing fo play fair in their editorial columns, The old-time newspapers were far | When we send a letter to Washing: the ¥ beloew modern apecialized in unfairncss; standards. They in trade was to paint the other fel- low as black as a4 tea kettle. The public, in order to gain a reasonable comprehension of a public question. that some of | the ' their stock | had to read & paper on the other side of the pelitical fence to ebtain it. Thoss who didn't remaiped one- sided in their views becauss they only knew half of what was going on. Many newspapers in the compara- tively early days of the Republic and in seme cases up to the turn of the 20th century and afterwards were ably edited, in the sense that bright minds ably edited billings- site. The undoubted tendency of the meodern press to give all sides to a controversy a square deal is one of its best achievements. PROSPERITY This is a prosperous nation. We buy more goods on the installment plan than the rest of the world com- bined. The man who isn't buying something or other *“out of income” is & rara avis among the seething population. He doesn't know what it means to worry about where the money for the next payment is com- ing from. But that doesn’t mean there is universal 100 per cent prosperity. Everybody isn't prosperous, if one would ask those who would like to buy more goods on the deferred payment plan but lack the courage all the payments. The meanest blow in the prosper- ity situation is the admitted depres- sion in the real estate market. This them; and it has not taken long to hear all about their difficulties. The kind of prosperity we are ihaving is becoming dificult to un- derstand. Some call it ‘'spotty.” Others frankly, and in that ex- pressive language one hears in the smoke shops, say it “is the bunk.” What it really is we have no means of knowing. Maybe it is more or less of a political mirage. And maybe, if Ithe poor Democrats happened to be in power, this prosperity would be called by another name. POLITICS AND POV ER It is curious to note the cynicism that underlines comment following the absorption of the Northern Connecticut Power Co. by the Con- necticut Electric Service Co., a sub- sidiary of the United Gas Improve- ment Co. of Philadelphia. Now, it is being stated with a finality that leaves little room for doubt, J. Henry Roraback will swing the next Legislature into & frame of mind to permit the hydroelectric develop- ment along the Connecticut. This turn-about, it is confidently stated, will be because now Mr. Reraback's ewn company, the Connecticut Elec. tric 8ervice Co., will be behind the plan, and not the J. G. White in- terests or the Tenney interests, or any of the other interests which the Legislature in the past, recent and remote, refused to consider as hydro developers. In other words, the belief is para- mount throughout the atate that if there is any power developmeht to be done the Rorabackian companies will do i% and no others. If in doubt, ask the Legislature when it next meets. Hostility of the Legislature to the jdevelopment of power at the site— including the constructien of a dam —has been consistent. This con- sistency lasted unlll this year of grace, 1929. \ Now, if anyone has a million dol- dollars and can find someene able to wager that amount with him, he can lay his last cent on the proposi- tion that there will be a great hydro. the Connecticut, that the Legislature will have no objections, and that nothing will be permitted to inter- fere with the aims and plans of the company so efficiently guided by the astute Mr. Roraback. | Mr. Roraback knows how to mix | politica with business like no other person in this state, or perha any other state: or in the world. in TUBES FOR AIR MAIL W. Irving Glever, second assist- ant postmaster general, has come hy a pretty idea in planning to con- struct pneumatic tubes post offices and air ports. Delays in handling mail between |air port terminals and post officcs are serious. As the assistant p. g. iputs it: “When the postal service saves five hours in transporting mait | by air, it cannot waste 40 minutes in | 8etting it from an air port to a post office.” Obviously, pneumatic tubes would be an advéntage only in the larger |cities, where the air ports usually are far removed from the post offices. It will be some years yet be- fore there is a pneumatic tube be- tween Brainard field and the Hart- ford post office. Or in New Britain | The pneumatic tube system, which is in use in New York, Boston and Chicago, in which cities it func- tions to transport mail between the zeneral post office and railroad sta- tions. is umong the post office’s most eficient arms for fast delivery. Iton, and it docs not happen to be mailed at a time of day to catch a through train, it passes through New York via the pneumatic tubes: )and when we mail a letter to Brook- ll\n it reaches Its destination from to take the chance on not making hits the property holders, or some of. electric power development along' | between NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAI.D. HONDAY. JUNE 10, 1929 the 7aiiresd station to Brooklya ia that manner. Thus a letter passing through New York always gets to its destination faster than a traveler using taxicabs or subways. The orly possible delay, of course, is when the letter reaches the distributing post office at a late hour, at a time when no deliveries are due to be made until the next day. [ FREDRICKSON OF THE ARMY It Colonel 8ven Viberg of the eastern district of the Salvation Army knows what is good for his organization in this city he will keep Adjutant Carl Fredrickson where he be¢longs—in New Britain. Mr. Fredrickson is so popular among all classes of local citizens that placing him elsewhere would be regarded as an affront. Citizens hereabouts are not in- terested in the methods of changing local leaders, which may be in vogue in the Salvation Army. All they are interested in is retaining a first rate man whom they like. To make a change under such circumstances is tolly. | TESTa SATISFACTION AT WESLEYAN As almost everyone interested in college athletics knows, the sports season at Wesleyan this year was more or less disastrous. At baseball particularly, the coliege team made a sorry mess of it. But there are other things than sports, and in these Wesleyan takes ' just pride. The university, for instance, gain- ed widespread recognition through the poss:ssion of a glee club far above the average; its oratorical representatives can talk and argue with the best of them, having won a pronounced victory in the annual New England intercollegiate oratori- !cal contest. The glee club and oratorical vic- tories were secured against opposi- tion throughout the entire country. The winning of a few piftling games of baseball or other sport events, none of which have anything in common with intellectuality, would compare ill with this record. Wesleyan is to be congratulated on losing in sports and winning in the higher and harder elements of collegiate activities. TOO QUICK ON THE TRIGGER Again a patrolman deing smug- gling duty on the American-Cana- dian berder called to a motorist to hailt, and the latter, failing to obey the command, possibly in the belief |the guard was a hold-up man, was shot and killed. The victim, one Henry Virkula, a merchant at Big Falls, Minn., was driving with his wife and two children, a circum- stance that should have been suffi- ciently clear to the guard as indi- cating the family party was not en- gaged in the heinous business of smuggling. But give some guards a pistol and a little autherity and tragedy Ia their steady companion. The case, similar to the notable tragedy at Niagara Fals, when Jacob ' Hanson was shot and blinded, ulti- mately succumbing, will receive much attention. M'DONALD AND HOOVER The difference between Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald Is illustrated in ne more effective man. ner than. the way the two were identified with foreign policy—in- cluding the policy to the United States. Baldwin and has aides had such a definitely imperialistic for- eign policy that relations with the United States frequently were re- ferred to as distressingly unpleas- ant. The MacDonald plan is to court the most agreeable of relations with Washington, and if necessary to at- tain that end Premier MacDonald will make a trip to the American capital and confer with President Hoover. This is certain to be an epochal journcy, the rebirth of good tellowship among the two English- speaking nations. More than 100 years ago the gov- ernments of the United States and (Canada agreed upon a policy of no fortifications, armies or navies along the border; and as a result of this | far-sighted policy there has been no trouble between the two nations. Premier MacDonald, while in office evidently intends to extend some such agreement between the entire empire and the American govern- ment. He has an eye on histery. 25 Years Ago Today The New Britain Business Men's | association will meet tomorrow | !evening to discuss the Fourth of | July celebration. | The Maple Hill Golf club defcated | the Wallingford team at the local | links Saturday by 1 up. | Thousands of people gathered at the cemeteries yesterday to witness | the exercises of t(he Courts of Ioresters and the lodges of Odd I'cllows in conncction with the an- nual decoration of graves of dead | members of the order. | Willlam RB. Wallace went fishing near Terryville Saturday and re- | turned with a string of 11 fish. | Six new members were added to M. T. A, B. society yes- Five applications were re- | | | | i terday. jected. Mra. Sidney Arlo, whe disappear- d last week, was found Saturday Facts end Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN There are many white tribes, but just two main gioups: Nordic and garlic. Simile for today: As silly, as ‘a political issue seems a year after the campaign. Scenery: The green stuff that zips by as the tourist is seeing America. Another thing the radio needs is a device that will leave you the or- cheatra and tune out the ass who iy singing the words. It must embarrass a king when he is reading his annual. address and comes across a word he never saw before, Home is a nice place where you can retrieve your hat without part. ing with a quarter. Daughter isn't going to the dogs. The broncho that scares you is harmless to the chap who knows how to handle it. It he lectures his wife about the faults of the world he also takes his pen in hand to bawl out public men by letter. ‘War is like ghosts. Nobody be. lieves in ghosts, but they seem ready to grab you if you talk about them too much. Americanism Using four patent preparations to kill germs in the mouth: kissing here and there to get a fresh supply. The secret of success? Well, a home run is just a pop fly with a little more power behind it. The objection to paternalism in the textile industry is that pater re- serves the right to spank. Doctors enjoy working in a clinic for the poor. It's so much more sat- istactory to docter people who real- ly have something the matter with them. Another way to help train daugh- ter is to place a large mirror behind the kitchen sink. As we get old Dad. the methods used to train kids in his time made them perfect in all virtues except modesty. Lloyd George would have Eng- land mobilize for prosperity as it did for war. But it will be hard to think up a soul-stirring slogan about work. | The more absurd his belief, the madder he gets when you fail to agree with him. It's easy to decide what is fair in case of a strike, The hard part is to do the fair thing if that requires letting the other fellow think he licked you. Correct this sentence: “He's In a batting slump,” said the manager, “but the fans are too decent to raz him.” Copyright, 1929, Publishers Sygdicate e He SOLEM.\ It was a cauld braw nicht and Tammas sat smoking by the fireside meditating en the seriousness of this life. Withdrawing his pipe from his mouth he turned to his guld vife and said: “It's a solemn thing. mind I'm tellin’ ye, to be ghe head o this hoose.” His guid wife, Jane, laid down her knitting and gazing fixedly at Tam- mas she said: “Just you try it once an’ ye'll find oot how solmen it is!* Flassy (outes ] I Backache Bother You? Too Often This Warns of Sluggish Ki you lame 'in Hartford living with Ner husband. The dedication of the new St Mary's school building will take iplace on Sunday, June 26, DOANS PILLS whether her mistress was at homs. “Yass ma'm, Mrs. 8mith is home . lall right, but I don't recken she can We think Fun Shop readers nmltd to one, And F.D. apiece, meaning Doeur of Fun! And How! Janet: “Do you ever play kissing games? Alvin: “Tll say I do. Why only %00 you-ali; sh\'s upstairs with her measiah.” s Good Gamel. Carter: “They say Meiggs is mak- ing big money now.” Kelser: “What's his line?" Carter: “Loss of memory Expert.” Kelser: “Doé¢a he really cure peo- ple of it? Carter: “Cure nothing? He trains all the big magnates in Re to lose their memery just beferd * an in- veatigation! —Frank C. Mackle (Copyright, 1929, Reproduction last night I played in one of ‘emi and kissed $¢5 goodbye!” WHEN BLACK IS READ Hilda's Blackade! It 1 might offer, lady, to your lips The cup of love, I'd fill it with & wine Would warm you to your very fin- ger tips, A vintage potent as it is divine. Mine is a draught sure to intoxl. cate— b But how, dear lady, can 1 play my part ‘When through long days I am com- pelled to wait Outside the three mile limit of your heart? —Lucius Pteiffer Song (After reading a dry goads journal) My love goes clad in Panvelaine; In Nishni and Veldyne; And what that means in I":nlllfll pl \ Is no affair of mine. I know not what these weaves may Nor yet what loom preparcs them— ‘This fact alone appeals to me: 8he wears them, boy, she wears them! 8he walks abroad in Armandel, Kerami and Marleen; Yet I am not the one to tell What all these names may mean. Let that concern the ones who show. The ones who dye and spin them— This thing, and only ti I know: 8he’s 'n them, boy, she's in them! —Walter William Wolf wiLL ‘VE STOPDLD ¢ LOOKN AN LISTENIN' BET THEY'S A WETCH w ¥ BUT 1 AINY GONNA BivE Terrible School! Mrs. Rohn: “Why is Lucy mak- ing her son choose Harvard?” Mrs. Whitney: “She’'s heard too much about these Yale larks!" —F. B. Colton 1t is curious how the flow of language is sometimes actually as sisted by a “‘damn” here and there! DR BRADLEY'S COUNSEL Dr Bradley seeks to reply to in. quirics that appears to be repre. sentative " of the trends of thought in the many letters he receives. | T have been brought up in the usual way, but 1 do not like the smell of camphor. The man I have been going with is different than any man I have ever known but he smells of camphor. Do you think piness? I never let him kiss me. Are you in a position to be sure that he smells of camphor? Or are vou letting your fafcy run away with you? Among right-thinking people the smell is considered a good one, and 1 wonder if you are not being guid- ed by a whim. For this kind of per. son I hold no bri If you are, a you say, in love with this man, you should be thinking of a home and children and not be bothering your head about the man’s aroma. Love is altogether too fine a thing to be Jjeopardized by a passing odor. Why don’t you lay the matter before him in a straight-forward way? By all means have a clear un- derstanding with him' as to how the children are to be brought up — that is, whether they are to be brought up in the Church, or smell- ing of campher. Of what state is Tallahassee the capit and do you think 1 would be wrong in going there? Tallahassee is the capital of Fiorida. Do your parents know about this? I assume from your let- ter that you are going there either to secure a position or because you want to. Qr perhaps it is to visit & relative such as a cousin. Inter- marriage between cousins is a thing I disapprove of, but.it is a question that must be considered with refer- ence to soclal customs as well as to lineage. The important' thing is to be honest with yourself. My advice is that you forget the whole matter. The “Please” Part! Hadley: “Has Jim -Carson Pleasing personality ?” Cummings: “Yes, but the doesn't please anybody except himself! ~—Mprs. Andrew Spoek got a Mid-Channei! The wife of ene of The Fun Shep contributors found herself getting QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing te the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stampe for reply. Medical, legal and martlial advice cannot be given, nor can e tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per- sonsl reply. Unsigned requests can. not be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Q. What salary did George ‘Washington receive as President of the United States? A. He declined to accept salary. Q. Is_the bite of a tarantula pol. sonous to human beings? A. While not peisonous enough to kill a healthy person it is pain- ful, like the sting of a bee. Q. What country has a coin call- ed the ‘‘ore”? A. Bweden. Q. Dogs the contain more French? A. The reputable English lan- guage has approximately 700,000 weords, but nearly half of these con- mist of technical terminology seldom encountered outside of text books, or else they are obsolete. Lattre’s dic- tionary of the French language con- taing 210,000 words. Q. Who adminweers the oath of office to the incoming vice presi- dent? A ident. - Q When was the moon full in the month of April, 1927? A. April 16, at 10:35 p. m. Q. What is the population ef Belivia and what race predominates? 4. ‘Latest available figures give the population as 2,890,000, of whom about §0 per cent are Indian, 25 per cent mixed Spanish and Indian und 13 per cent white. Q. In what order are the discl- ples of Jesus seated in “The Last Supper” by De Vinci? A. They are seated in groups of three on each side of Christ, who occuples the middle place, o.. right, first group, John, Jutas and Peter; second, Andrew, James the younger and Barthelomew, .who stands at the end; on Christ's left, first group: James, the elder, Thom. with upraised finger, and Phil- ip; second, Matthew, Thaddeus and Simon, who is seated at the end. Q. What does rafale mean? A. It is a French word meaning ‘gust of wind.” Q. In what year did the govern- ment mint ceins bearing the inscrip- tion “Army and Navy"? A. The government has never minted any coins with that inscrip- tion, Q. What preportion of the cost of the District of Columbia govern- ment is paid out of federal funds? A. In the years previous to 1920, English words language than the Usually the retiring vice pres- mpanses more intel- IWQ lmnlm..rlmr A. Willlam T. Hornaday, former Director of the New York Zoological Park in his book “The Minds and|and Manners of Wild Animals” says “The chimpanses 1s the most intel- ligent of all animals below man. He can learn more by training and more casily than any other animal. A high class horse is & very wise and capsble animal, but this is chiefly due toits age-long, ameciation with man and education by him. A high class dog is the animal that mental. ly.1s in closest touch with the mind, the feclings, and the impulses of man, and the only one that can read 2 man's feelings his eyes and his facial expressioh.” Q. What fs the Yewish popula- tion of the United States? A. The American Joewish Com. mittee estimates ¢,228,000. Q. When did the coinage of amall copper Indian head cents bé. gin? A Q. Bill? A, 1t is a bill granting pensions to various private individuals ho saw service in the wars of the Unit. ed States, but, who for some reason are debarred from regular pensions because under existing law it is im- possible to prove their claims. It is called an “Omnibus” Bill because in it are consolidated a large number of separate private bills of this sort introduced by the various members of Congreas. Q. Who heads'? A. The name wi applied to northerners whose aympathies were with the South during the Civil War. Obseroations On The Weather Washington, June 10.—Forecast for Southern New England: Fair| and slightly warmer tonight. - Tues- day partly cloudy and warmer; probably showers in the afternoon or at night; moderate east to south winds. Forecast for Eastern New York: In 1858, What is the Omnibus Pension were the “Copper- b Fair, except cloudy with rain on the coast tonight; Tuesday mostly fair To The ture actors and about 1322 N |m cover pesage and handiing cost NAME L off the North Carolina ceast, ors occurred during the lamt 2¢ hours in the ur.t: w :alu- and the upper J ow [ pressure systent of consf@erable ez- tent overspreads the Plaing states and the Rocky Mountain didtricts with minimum pressure at the Pas in Canada, Temperatures are near or ahove the normals in all districts eadt of the Rocky mauntains. Conditions favor for this vicipity unsettied weather followed by fair. Temperatures yesterday: Low [} 58 52 52 Atlanta Atlantic City .. Boston . Buffalo Chicage ...... Cincinna Denver . Hatteras Los Angeles Miami ‘Minneapolis Nantucket .... Nashvi New Haven ,.. New Orleans New York .........: Norfolk, Va. ....... Northfield, Vt. ... Pittsburgh Portland .. Washington ..... Demers in Blnkmptc Owes $885; Has No Aluu (@pociat’ to the New Haven, Juyne 10 —_ l!.mu Demers, a New Britain machine op- erator, and Nathan Cramer, a milk peddler of Hartford, filled petitions in bunkruptcy in United States court here late Saturday. J. P. McGrath, of New Bfluin. with a claim of $4,500, was the larg- est of the several creditors -on Cramer’s schedule. Cramer said his liabilities were $6.496.51, his assets nothing. Demers acheduled alleged liabili- ties of $885.20 with no assets. New Britain creditors whose claims are secured are Honéyman Auto Sales Co., $270; John A. Andrews & Co., $195; Mutual System, Inc., $135. Unsecured claims are: The Union Store, $35; the Famous Store, $20; New Britaip General hespital, $52: Handy Garage, $37.25; Mra. Anna Brewn, $12:80; Eila M. Traceskl (rent), $28; Adam Grecki. $31.2 Peeples’ Savings bank, $35; Mich. aels, Inc.., $14. A AAAARAALAL AL 2D Defense of your car ! The TROJANS Are Coming! CAMAAAAALLAARALRALS WHO ARE THEY? 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