New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1929, Page 7

WHD HAS ANY WORK FOR MAYOR JIHNY? Walker Believed Likely fo Suc- * cted in Any Gapacity New York, June 28—Can anyone think up a nice new job for Mayor Jimmy Walker? If not, can any- one thing up any candidate to run against him this fall who would have aay chance of winning? " Here is New York's favorne son and first citizen, a man of great per- sonal charm, unique talents ,and a million dollar personality—but should he be the master of the City Hall? The Citizen’s Union says no, says it decidedly and.uanequivocally, an® it urges New Yorkers to throw Jim- my out and get someone in hw place who will not put his personal | friends and henchmen first, and | let the public good come second. Not Serions Enough to Suit Them In effect, they say that Walker Is a swell fellow, but as poor mayo:. They maintain you can't make a part time job out of the mayorsaip of the largest city in the world. They contend it is serious business, and should be regarded as such. ‘Walker got away to a gooa start, they say, because he came into office when the “public was weary of the sham and the demagogy of the Hy- | lan administration.” Hylan made a ritual out of being mayor, anl Walker made it a joke. He inject- ed the flavor of Broadway into the staid city hall. He started right out to be himselt and made a great success of 1t. He ‘was among those present at Havana, Miami, London, Rome aind way points, and was not above making whoopee. The city seemed to man- age itself very micely in his absence and everyone liked to see him en- Joying himself. “Night Mayor” of New York Hizzoner established himself as a wit and a raconteur. He cun Wrse- crack with the wisest, and twist a phrase to suit his purpose. He al- ways has liked night clubs, races and dancing, and being the mayor has never kept him from them. New York delighted to call him the Night Mayor. Walker is the sartorial triumph | of Manhattan. There is a minimum of 70 suits in the mayor's wardrobe and ten of them always are in the tailor shop. His haberdashery bill is about $3,000 a year. He always is well ahead of the mode, with just| a suggestion of the actor’in his odd, but very well chosen color schemes, his buttonhole bouquet, his canes. Although he is anxious to please, no one ever has caught Jimmy kow- towing. No one has ever accused him of being high hat. And even while the Citizen's Union is out after his scalp, it gives him credit for| much ability. Political Wise Man, They say It gives him credit for great poli. tical sagacity when he went to the bat for five cent subway fare, ana it admits that his establishment of the department of hospitals was a good move—but says he marred the effectiveness of it by filling the new posts with friends and henchmen, rather than men qualified to hold the jobs. When Walker fook office he said: “My office is an open window through which anybody may look at the city's affairs. I intend to keep | the window opened wide and every- body who wishes is welcome to look.” Graft is Charged The Citizens Union took a good look before it submitted a report. Members point to the increase of $110,000,000 in the’city budget®un- der his administration, and an in- crease of $4,000,000.000 in assess- ments. They complain of graft and cumbersome city machinery, with so many employes on the city payroll that they can almost swing an election. Meanwhile, dapper Jimmy goes his way, making good speeches, and putting in a little time at City Hall *“No man can make even a moderate _Buccess out of being mayor with. out public support,” he said. “It is a task where confidence means much. Certainly no city adminis. | tration was ever more forunate in evidences of good will.” It he is worried about votes this fall, he doesn’t show it, any more ordinary personal than he shows his forty-odd years. ‘The Citizens Union represents a group of conservative, thoroughly practical citizens. 'Their indictment ot Walker is neither bitter nor vi- triolic. They appreciate the extra- qualities of wne man, and lots of them know him well and like him. * It once was rumored that Walker would be given a $100,000 job in 1930 as president of tne American League. THhe Citizens Union woulg love to see Walker offered that or some other fat, plummy job tmat would give him an opportunity to exercise his unique talents, and keep him before the public, as he should be. But right now, it looks mighty tough for any candidate who dares to run against him this fall. MELANCHOLY TAKES TOURIST VICTINS Homesickness and Lack of Good Colleg Start Many Homeward Paris, June 28 (UP)—Any waiter in the so-called American restau- rants around town, the mail-clerks in the tourist offices, the Anglicised drink dispersers in the cocktail bars will tell you that the melan- choly days have come. Meclancholy days for melancholy tourists. The boats no sooner start to dump their cargoes of vacationists at Cheybourg and Havre, than hun- dreds of them begin to count the days until they sail again. Many are the tourists who never sur- mount the obstacle of tuning in an American ear on a French tongue. Take any group of 100 tourists and more than half of them are ready to go back home, and the gooner the better. Many of them have dreamed for years of a trip to Europe, have digested hundreds of pounds of traveling literature, or have skimped to meet the fare. But the minute they get away from home they find that there was something to the slogan, and that, after all, there's no place like 1t. You can see dozens of tourists standing like lost sheep outside the American Express company. just behind the opera, before the doors of the steamship companies and in the lobbles of the American banks. They have seen Paris and its sub urbs by autocar in three days and are ready to go home. Whys and Wherefcres ‘They have their troubles, as fol- lows: Inability to make grade; Can’t get used to currencies; Don't like this foreign cooking; Can't get good American coffee; Pure ennui; nothing to do; Homesick. The chief complaint in the res- {aurants is about the coffee. Sev- eral restauranrt owners have gone so far as to import the popular brands of American coffce, but even then the cooks spoil it before it gets into the cup. The French mcru is a stumbling block to many who never get any farther than hors d'ocuvres which they find to contain a meal in itself. French chicken, somehow, just doesn’t taste like Maryland fried, and even the French fried potatoes in France don’t taste like the French frieds do at home. Any of the melancholy tourists will tell you that there is not a single cook be- Lween the Channel and the Mediter- ranean who can fry ham and eggs. But there are other tourists who enjoy a real vacation abroad, They may know but ten words of any language but they get by, and you often meet them engaged in serious conversation on deep subjects and hurling their ten words about with expressive gestures, and getting by. Students to Kore The steamship companies have just prepared statistics to show that while the trek of American tourists to Europe is iucreasing every year. there are more and more students and less of the money-laden spend- ers. From 1926 to 1928, there was an increase of 17 per cent in sum- mer travel of American to Europe, and thkis year there will be at least 10 per cent more than in 1928, The students manage to get by on $400 or less, while the European hotelowners and shopkeepers have for years based their tourist prices on the American who sails from home with $3,000 or more in his pocket. The result is that Europe the language For Idle Funds D% Industrial Certificates Of Deposit Interest paid from date of deposit to date of withdrawal. Denominations $500, $1,000, $5,000. THE Build And Help Build CoMMERCiAL TRUSTCO W WBRTAN (O, Open Saturday Evenings 7-9 D.S.T. is beginning to grumble that ai- though her hotels and restaurants are filled to the point that she in- conveniences herself, she makes nothing out of it. Comparison with pre-war figures chows that the gain has been more apparent than real. Post war in- largely to cabin and teurist classes. lass. 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