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In_New Times The York Square; Grand Cen Herald t fs on wale dally Newsstand, Schultz's News 42nd Btre The fact that one of the books given to President Hoover by p lishers was banned in Boston mi, the give t of banned books an It ried through the White House may yet become the most comy publishers idea. If it is car- nation’s second ete repository of banned ooks, the Congressional Library fir re- maining the Mr. Coolidge gives the impression sent to the be Dbeholden to the organization that if he wer Senate he would not Republican by Senator Watson. Can it be po: ble that Mr. Coolidge has changed i his mind about certain major issues since leaving the White House? In one respect all old-timers will agree that the horse and buggy days were best: A young blood could take his best girl out attach the reins firmly to the dash board, and Dobbin would walk along casually and attend to his own busi- ness. Nowadays it buggy riding, is against the law for a young blood to have his arm around the waist of his be- loved while driving, so they invari- time ably are forced to waste by parking up a side road. The riot over advanced theater prices by students of t University of Virginia is significant. It mean that nothing more neces- sary near a campus nowadays than talkie theaters, and that any process which forces up the prices of ad- mission to this necessity of life is to must is e severely condemned. No econom- | ical picture fan student, for stance, relishes going to the talkies only three times a week instead of four. in- The other day Attorney General | Mitchell were stated that filling the testified to fact up an in- creasing efficiency in the enforce- ment of the prohibition law. But a woman in Hartford comes forward to state that when the prohibition | aw was passed it was promised that jails and asylums would soon be emptied. Now who has the best of this discussion? THE MAYOR'S FINAL IMPROVL- MENTS The fag end of the nessa's reign Mayor Pao- is seeing preparations made for two unusually interesting public improvements. These the new Black Rock bridge, will be time, and the improvement of Steel street to its with Wooster are which constructed within a sho junction Barnesdale, direct street more in forming between a highway Barnesdale and the city, one which avoid crosing trolley and railroad tracks. The improved highway will be of special service during the co struction of the bridge, present rnesdal tra The improy the road contemplated at this time is more of an att street-Wooster mpt to than 0 a short Barnesdaic within a years, ever Lincolr ed chool was end of Steel has been tur into thoro chicles, Wooster Yet Mayor it is has re ngineer 10 pre ced with such im- We folk of poor cou there of the such a depressing con Steele-Wooster i hear much complaint by city but are few which is in the c A WOMAN WITH The wor SPUNR teral lce of the rior hal spunk to do egreliable as was th other | operated | Jails | is not to be commended for this breach of discipline, however, It is an evil indeed to have inferiors throw eggs at superiors. What would happen in a newspaper office, for instance, if a temperamental re- porter threw eggs at the city editor can well be imagincd. : But more important points than merely considering the nature of they hit this a man is in- manifestation feminine fury in Washington. egss when volved in of important. That is why sundry portant officials in Washington, from Secretary Wilbur down, quite excited. im- are Frank W. Grif(ith, the chiet clerk who got the ge cggs, charged py Mrs. Ward with having taken at keast bar ot is 30 letters out of the files which were recommendations from power companies recom- mending . E. Bonner to be execu- sion. Mr Senate Rtecently Bonner, under oath before the interstate coni- merce commission, ked panics for his position. Only letters not been ba by power com- from cngineering socicties recom- { mending Mr. Bonner for the position in the files, according to Ward We think dent Mrs. the cgg-throwing inci- | i | was a stroke of fate designed these all Mr. Gri their to make public | Mr R ation: Bonner and ffith can | make denials | tent, but tue | has at least created an air of sus- picion that ought to lead to a whole- some investigation as to how things to heart’s con- cgg-throwing woman are conducted in the Power Com- mission Mrs. Ward, who doesn't scem power gentlemen, was not engaging in a great public service when she | threw the eggs; but when she spoke lier mind about the files she at | least said something that makes for | | widespread public attention, CRITICIZING MR. WICKERSHAM Before W. Wickersham became head of the Hoover prohi- bition and crime investigating com- mission he had little George to worry about. Since the fateful day when he was chosen to engineer this investigation | and the superyise preparation | volumnious reports life has been tul of onc pointed criticism after an- other. | The Senator latest criticism, uttered by Caraway, champion inquisit- | or of the Senate since Mr. Jim Reed of Missouri is no longer numbered | interesting conclusions. It is, for in- stance, rather intriguing to find a | gentleman with high banking con- nections in the international field the foreign policy committee of the Federal Council of Churches, | ]‘ being active on The church council favors certain peaceful pacts; | of so do the majority international bankers, it js as- sumed. Mr. Wickersham, by being | |idéntified with both camps, at least is consistent. That fe favors prohibition is an- other matter. The man at the head | of the President's commission might | nave been selected for a reputation neutrality; but let somebody lo- | cate such an individual. The Presi- | dent elected to choose the dry, and is Had he | stretched a point and selected a wet, | he would | eriticized by the wets. have suffered criticism Mrs. Minnie L. Ward, the woman | who hurled the eggs, hurled some- | thing else later that was even more | tive sccretary of the Power Commis- | | home in our modern day testified he had | to | carc much about the feelings of the | among the senatorial elite, leads to | | anywhere school hours and the time | | with the of | | from the drys. The President, we all | know, prefers the criticism from the | | wets rather than vice versa. nator Caraway, his latest critic happens to be from the dry South The th more the analysis the confusion SETTING A GOOD T& Alfred KAMPLE Colonel 1. Thompson scls 200d in the h The be by-gones forzetting re-primary attempts to divest him is position as town clerk. ts hy-zones o far as lics within his power lcavor to keep his staff in- tact This attitude will commend itself strongly to the public. Tt is from had busi- have expected who at least has r this audit punishmen s deterred | due where are diff | children | | cst and presence = s prevalence of this major crime. Certainty of detection and convic- tion is the most deterring influence against crime. In this nation such certainty does mot cxist. Too many murderers escape. It is the Gnowl- cdge that there is a good chance to clude the law that at least Assists in stimulating the murder. perpetration of Great Britain is usually held up as a glowing example of a low cide rate; and in Britain capital pun- ishment not only survives but there is small chance of a murderer es- caping it once he is enmeshed with the law after the commission of his crime. And he usually gets enmeshed ver. justice sure and certain. Yet are murders committed in England. Nothing can deter fools, there “SHOP WINDOWS” Woman's place is in the homnie, so0 the saying goes; and though therc necessity of women remaining in the scarcely e great of hout the need for mothers a diversity opinion who are raisin family being oc- cupied at home. It children can work ir while there the placed in a day nursery. When the is true, married women with a factory and children can be are grown begond the ursery stage they can go to school; | and the time between the end of be hornc parents ceturn from work can passed on the strects or at oldest brother or sister in charge It is an evil em at best, how- cver. Children in the vitally forma: tive ve need the guidance, inter- their parents to | grow up into the best type of Ameri- can citizens. A the mother cannot 3s- sibly give proper at work. A who can only sec her children for a care, children while short period ecarly in the morning, | perhaps and not always for a short perfod at noon, and a little time in | |the evening after returning from avork, certainly has little opportuni- ty to be a maximum influence in shaping their characters. Under ideal mothers of ¢ economic conditions young children would not be at work in factories or any- where clse. Scarcely a mother in New Britain would be at work if her carnings, added to those of her hus- band, could provide the necessary living To be candid worth adding that unable Npenses. throughout, no to support a family should marry and possess himself of one. it i man who is If women must work in factories or else they cannot raise a family at the same time and do it properly. A similar problem, does not of course, involve married | women without children. We have frequently made mention that there be boys in the of the fact seem to a large proportion of city who roam the streets, often far into the night- Many of them have seen taken in tow by policemen; one ocial worker stated to us receatly that he came upon a boy who' had | been looked after by the police and had been in juvenile court 17 times during the teen age. Then hie came into contact with a welfare agency which gave him a semblance of the attention he lacked a promptly reformed. how home and he No onc knows many hundreds or thousands of youths of this type who are in the city—roamers who get trouble, or who are bad without get- ting in trouble, or who are due to grow up with criminal to lack of parental mostly because their mothers are 1 clsewhere. Like grow."” Mothers ought to at plen family there certainly do in bringing up a conditions that are fair and r to the rerican standard of living cvery head of a family should be able to carn enough {o support n | is family without I the er of perhaps half a dozen children, being forced o “zo to work™ in order to buttress the fa It cither ily income he cannot do tlus then thers is something wrong with industry as at present there is somethit We mor vrong with the man are in- clined to think that 1 awak- ening is needed captains of in- dus irequently to (e Americ standard of living ar how i protecting there lard of cmiployment ine that doc vy for HERALD CLASSIFILD ADS homi- | y rapidly, the trials are swift, and | rences of opinion about the | there can | when the | to her| mother | inclinations | guidance; | | cincinnaii .. | Denver Duluth Hatte Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis . | Nantucket .. Nashville New Haven | New Orle: New York Norfolk, Northfield, Pittshurgh Portfand, Louis Facts and Fancies | as By ROBERT QUILLEN James had his faults, when he dry-cleaned a victim didn’t call it a state income tax. but ne Neurotic: A suff trouble is doctor can't find dancing eclephant died day at the age of 100. girls just can't go the er who is told imaginary be- it. his the that cause b A female the other These old pace. falls on its head, don country will always federal jurors. Tf the baby worry. The | have need of Larly spring note: Another goo'l device for sprinkling the lawn is a perspiring biped behind the mower. of al how wife's Of course it's the nature satin eonfort to slide, but come 1t always slides to the sid | E—— the first the Ja Tiveryvbody ball g SNOW is cager for it to with e, 8 over only QUISTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any| duestion of fact or information by s writing to the Question Editor, New | el [ Britain Merald, Washington Bureau, | PH% 1322 New York avenue, Washing- Iton, D. C. cnclosing two cents in [stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor | can extended research be under- taken. All other questions will re-| ceive a personal reply. Unsigned re- quests cannot be answered. All let- | {ters are confidential.—Editor. Mr. Doheny will be remembered as the first man to lend moncy to old friends and not suffer for it. to he Fall nl yet M. only d whether loan. The up is back the Appropriating and millions to fight Americanism: spending scoras of ar insect when half the sum vould bug infected land ani cover it a deep with ins powder., pest the foot As a He ot | might try last desperate cffort from the door, the a federal injunction. Q. What mincrals are found in farmer | waer common salt and calcium and magne- water, which in- water from rivers, is less | lapt to be pure than rain water, n»: | character bei determined largely | {Ly the nature of tthe soil over which [it passes ,and by the vegetation on | |the surface, The mineral ingredi-| lents are usually carbonales, chlo- rides, and sulphates of the alkalics or alkaline carths, with small { quantities of iron and manganese, | vive race ha the next little while the organic matter is of vege- job will be make shirt buttons |table origin, that can survive a trip to the laun- | Q. Name {wo minerals that are | ary. {more costly than golc s oy A. Platinum and radium | Ther three classes: The low Q. What are the areas of the| ler class that teuds to its own busi- |three A:u'.‘:“x\l ;mmu., 1“; the United Jper class that Lends io |States, and where are they SR e R San Dernardino County, Cali- A fornia, has square miles; | Coconino county, Arizona, has 18,623 | miles and Nyc county, Ne- vada, has 15,204 squarc miles. Q. What newspaper is the official organ of the Ifascist parly in Italy? A. Toglio D' Ordini. Q. What was the name of Lillian ussell’s first husband? A. Harry Braham, musical direc- |tor of H. M. & Pinafore company. Q. Of what does the filament of a Mazda lamp consi N composed of pure metallic tungsten which is a stecl- gray pulverulent, heavy metailic| element. It is drawn throush dies, the same as any other wire, the final | |drawings being made through dia- Correct this sentence: “I'm gOINS 'mond dies. The filament has a high ith her to keep from bein tensile strength, is quite elastic and said the young widower reasonably flexible, not going to marry again.” | Q. Was Geogge Washington th Copyrizht, 1930, Publishers | first president of the United State Syndicate |to occupy the White House? A. John Adams was the first| sident 25 Y A T pri to occupy the White| ) od [ House (1800), George Washington | GRS A e i S |corner stone hut the White House A was not completed while he republican memt of the president : : ccmmon council are preparing 1o ¢ divide the of A caucus Will be | gojon? held nest Tuesday evening | A, Yes The wholcsale beef in| Q. How much of the New Britain to te fpense of the White lou cents per pound f Wil | the government how no immediate prospect of a reduc- | the president himsclr? tion for some time. A, The cxpenses of the White | The City Coal & Wood House, With its retinue of servants, crected a new up-to-date chauffeurs and watchmen, are paid pocket. by the federal government. The The ninth grade baseball team ef | president pays his personal servan Usually compounds o jum. Surface cludes the federal It was a him into the cou [ ll Why shouldn’t protect Al Capone? eral statute that got this trouble Tt connt months, Dbut to read old voles In take five cussin’ bl Poor st may it the the | will fow year When ics are made to sur- to business, r lee gets §£1,000 an honr songs to a ‘‘mike” youth who croone.ld old car for a million_dollars. | Tudy Vi | for crooning love but know into a hours and squarc we a G0 year sever: got TEven if that Inglish car does 265 miles an hour, the experimen isn't complet How far could :t knock a pedestrian? | | | { Tot air will keep a glider up, but | lit can't get up without pull | Something like a vice president re- |1ated to the wite of the bos is | | | | | | | | o was The s “Madame X" a work of | cos. price of jumped up r top cattle has > is met much company Las a coal | | boy, | hoo is to | 000 in debts arc New York, April 11 — Thoughts while strolling: Radio artists who go in for Valentino sideburns. Those fake twin sister who dress alike and yly glance back as they pass. L. . Gianinni, the banker. A Lexing- ton avenue barber shop offers a “free manicure.” Elsie Ferguson in a mink coat going into a Child's. Mare Conndlly, a Pittsburgh, Pa., who made good in the city. Itarely see a picture of Mrs. Grover Whalen. Noonday crowds spending luncheon hour in® parks—read- ing and munching chocolate bars, A linen shop displays sheets, cmbroid- cred with quotations. Iunny, how heauty experts arc almost as home- 1 s columnists, Children don’t seem to have croup v more. Amelia Earhart up in the air again—but on a bus top. An Ole Clo’ Man who plays tunes on a concertina to attract trade, Mme. Binney, who revived the corset. What's become of the phrase: “That's priceless!” Mansions ali unboarded for summer. The sun beams. Birds chirp. And wrls are in summer ginghams. ‘Palc looking people who patronize veg:- tarian cafes, A certain glamour somehow to theatrical hotels. Jo Leblang, the cut rate king. He fur- nishes a room where dramatic critics may write reviews. The newshoy cvangelist of West 1 strect. The spread of continu- ous burlesque. George White always skips along as though on his way to a general alarm fire. Fly-blown shops with glass jars of candy on display out front. Greeks who wear flamboyant shirts. And oil their hair. Mugs the about the Garden who talk in husky monosyllables. Women with baskets on their heads —going fo Taddy’s Market. Combination fish stands and pool Ralls. Inarticu- late children who stand about darl:- ened hallways and seem unable to play. Old men with dry nérvous coughs The Aphrodite Hat Cleaning Salon. Jaces that peer out from the curtained windows of drab boarding houses. Wall paper of spotty gray- green. The smell of boiled cabbage and lysol. Solid white poodles. Nothing heightens squalor so much as a gas house. A new wrinkle in theatrical bally- tried out shorlly. The a star ‘s to exploit her without wusing her name on bill- boards and in ncwspapers. 1lis lithographs will use instead her pic- ture, without caption, and the name of her play. On the programme she will be listed merely as The Star. manager of A man about town, who was forced to sit in a courtroom and hear love sizzling letters read to 12 perfect strangers in the jury box, begged a friend to sit with him through the trying ordeal, After the first m ¢, featuring mpuch mum- sie wumsie talk was read, the friend inquired: “Did you actually write that?” He bowed his head in assent. “Good-bye, then,” said tha fricnd—and scooted. Theatrical hotels stopped “on the cuff” patronage. It ha been a custom {o c along play- crs “at liberty” until they secure engagements, but jobs are too these days. More than §$230,- outstanding amony iargely to perform- “Cash in Advance!” have new searee inns catering crs. Thus the policy. And one illustrious and high- nosed theatrical family is denled credit in almost every establishment in town. Iiach purchased article 1s delivered strictly C. O. D. |the Central Grammar school bes ch a8 valet, cooks, laundresee | the cight grade team at and personal maids. Official func field yesterday. James Curtin tions a paid for by the govern- pired ment, private entertaining is paid | Manager for by the president himself l high school Q. What is the origin of the tically completed term “Hooch™? nest year. A It said T C. T. Andrew announced today {tion of “Hoochine \ that he has leased White Oak pask |name for rum distiiled or the coming scason th: |and flour. Connecticut Railway & 1, Q. Arc ¢ Boom agency of New not have furnish the ente Isation laws? the ummer months, A The The of such laws arc for the Yoz (Mississippi and Louisiana Q. Did ¢ 95 1 | tionment act after A The not passed will not go i 19360 census Q. Are the navy? A No. They iring the war clerical work. (e bui teservors um Howard Timbrell of th tootball team his schedule has prac | for | | contrac- | Alaskan | rom su from hting Co there any state states that do York wi.l durii workmen's compet ainn es that do not Ankansas, have receipts Tusines club Florida 1.5 according cvenin h Nenot n hetd & reappor- reapportionme Ul last year to efic annual meeting us ind it the Observations On The Weather W there any yeomanettes in wert to only enlisted telp out with jington, April 1.—Ioreea here Southern New light partly cloudy; mperat nds. a limit to the lings in Washington, D, A According Zoning lin force in the the maximum (el Act Columbia Cloudy, | of It; much i possibly showe toni not moder to th District height these on Saturday of ge in v (o for a Luilding buildings arc 1S Tt | permitted only 10 foet wid ow m present I N showers st for st Yorl to \trem [ v warmer portion S in ) W men rduy partly the fouse o ¥i moderate to fresh southwest winds 1535 f Noew Do Hungaria for Forec icinity: Local rnoon or Conditions: Maritime land. Another uth Atlantic 15t s Lelong to the vellow race tonight; Saturd They are cl High pressure sed as member (e tamily avonia the M family ol of itc provinees and (yellow Gul w light s red s reported The first son covers the of the se and lower ernoon northward Wher University ? Durham, North Carolina. How Many wre ther On Junc Mississippi Vel amateur with degrees Missouri radio in this count 1920 leys., a readings 10 above )0 Chicago there were nd Omaha Conditions favor for ™ what rday picture did Tlelen her first appearancy “Nothing But nth Di iy weather follo ma e ratures ye tarring to find » has per of the theater, how- is gaid {o be unfailing in One branch ever, {Sealed Orders Given to settling personal debis. Vaudeville acrobats are especially prompt, 1t appear®® The vaudeville curse is: “May all your children® be acrobats!” Yet they are perhaps the cleanest living and most religious of all entertain- er “I like your articles well enough,” writes T. M., Chicago, “but that,thumbnail picture accom- panying them is a fright. It is ob- vious you have no sex appeal.’ With my hair waved and singing through a megaphone, you might be surprised. (Copyright, 1930, McNaught * Syndicate, Inec.) Air Maneuver Aviators Saoramento, Cal, April 11 (P—- The invisible fingers: f radio, ex- tending from bombardment plane: to draw to them the protecting sup- pert of hidden pursuit ships, played a leading part in today's aeriul maneuvers of the United ates Army Air Corps first provisional here. A Bombardment, pursuit, attack and observation groups were given sealed order for the day’s manecu- vers, Thus would the army aviatocs be dispatched against the enemy time of war and the tactical mane vers they are undergoing now simu- late warfare. Pursuit and bombardment planes are cquipped to maintain radio communication with each other in flight so that should the bombe:s be surprised by enemy glanes they can call for the help of pursuit ships. Bridgeport Man Shoots Family, Commits Suicide | Bridgeport, April 11 (UP)—After | shooting and seriously wounding his wife and 18 year old daughter, John Lovas, 55, turned a revolver on himself and committed suicide in his Spruce street home early today. Neighbors, aroused by the shoot- irg, Summoned police, who found Lovas lying dead on the kitche: floor, his wife, Mary, 55, nearby with a bullet hole through her left shoulder, and his daughter, Irene, in bed with an abdominal wound. Mrs. Lovas and her daughter were taken to Bridgeport hospital where both underwent emergency operations. The bullet which pierced Mrs. Lo- vas' shoulder ploughed through wall into an adjoniing apartment, passing a few inches above a bed in which four children were sleeping. | Neighbors said Lovas had actel | queerly recently, RAISING 2 Ever If you you raiso chicker poultry farm for profit? subject of poultry raising that a comprehensive and at the s that gives the fundamentals of about poultry houses and fixture fattening poultry, Lilling, dressing ascs, and other facts, ncluding o are interester. in raising this bulletin: Do get do, you ne chicken fill you can time <hicken hatching and list GARRETT HEARING ADJOURNED TODAY Testimony to Be Resumed Mon-- day—0'Brien Confers Boston, April 11 (P—Inability of important witnesses to appear caus- ed a postponement today. of publis hearings in Aitorney General ‘War- ner'’s inve: of 'Oliver B. Garrett, pensioned liquor raider, They will be vesumed Monday. *The action was taken late yester- cay after the hearings had becn adjourned until today at 10:30 @. m. Several interviews were held later by members of the attorney gewis eral's staff. O'Brien in Conferences Fotwmer District Attorney Thomas C. O’Brien, whd made an investiga- tion of the police department while Suffolk - county prosecutor, closeted with Warner. O'Brien said later he might go on the stand nest week. Timothy I, igation Manning, an assistant sceretary to PPolice Commissiones Herbert A. Wilson, and Captain James J. Walkins of the police de- partment were interviewed by War- ner's assistants. / Voluntary appearances of persons against whom charges have beca brought during the investigation may be made before the hearings end, Warner :aid. The group in- cludes Garrett, Sergeant Arthur D. Timmins, Special Officer Arthur N Tiernan, Captain George W. Patter. n and Lieutemant Daniel J. Hin All persons affected by the investi- gartion will be given an opportunity to tell their story before the attor- ney general,” he declared. Declines to Comment The attorney general declined !o say whether or not b had any plans in the way of criminal action. Difficuities which have been faced were admitted. “The public littis knows,” he said, “what obstruétions have been thrown in our way but J think we have made more progress than somec people thought possiblo at the beginning.” Among testimony in the records todaw was that of a former booti-, keeper of the Hotel Ritz, who: proprietor, John F. Sullivan, has told of making monthly payments to Garrett, Timmins and Tiernan. The bookkeeper, Ha E. Adams, testified that from his knowledge of the books le estimated hundreds of dollars had been paid monthly to policemen. William Gottsam, who had an au- temobile stand outside the now padlocked hotel, testificd that Sulli- van had told him of payments (o poljcemen. * DIE N BOXING RING v Everett, Wash., April 11 (#—Dave Norway, Everett high school athlete, died in the boxing ring here last night when hé started to answer theel bell in the third round of his ama- teur bout with Jack Williams, an- other student. Investigators said orway apparently suffered a heart tack. Williams was not detained. CHICKENS start a small or large the information on the Our Washington Bureau has sed bulletin on the subject anc production. Al brooding, chicken feeding, marketing, poultry d e ou the subject. 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