New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1930, Page 8

E W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930. #————_____—_____—___—_*___——______—_—___—fi New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY New Britain, Conaectlcut Issued Dally (Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg. 67 Church Strest SUBSCRIPTION RATES | 35.00 & Year | $2.00 Three Months 76c. & Month Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS { Business Office . Editorial Rooms . . 9% . 926 The on'y profitable advert!sing mediim | . Circulation books and press | room always open to advertisers. | Member of the Associated Press | The Associated Press (s exclusively en- | titled to the nse for re-publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited fn this paper and also local news published therein. | Member Andit Bareau of Clrcalation The A. B. C. a national organi: which furnishes pewspapers and adier- tisers with a strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistice nre based upon this audit. This insures pio- tection Against fraud in mewspaper s | tribution ures to both pational and local advertisera 1o on male dajly fn New Newsstand, The Herald York st Hotaling's Equare; Bchultz’ Grand Central, 42nd Street. In a cor it has be- come cyident that th sional year average con- | gressman for absolutely | anything promising to carn a fow | of vote votes from constity- | of the pres- | e average congressman is in- | ents. In such ent, clined to be as a lame duck after the 1 year, nearly as irresponsitle | clection. Another proof that the Digest poll | cannot be so far from wrong is giv- that | the y tending to en in the totals which show Kansas is the dryest state in Union, with New Jer. be the wettest, Fe thing else for Kansas and few will think that New Jers: but dripping wet. huysen of New Jersey, previously 4 dry, has decided that his political | future requires him to become Since representing wet New Jersey in | will claim any- sn't anything enator I'reyling- wet. the Senate he has been a dry sena- | tor. That is onc of the of prohibition. achronisms I"or some months the city has been | doling out jobs to the unemployed. but a cursory cxamination of the situation elicits the surmise that | most of the jobs thus doled out have | been pick and shovel jobs. It can- | not be, of course, that every man | out of work is qualified to be a pick | and shovel labo: there arc ma- chinists and other men who have been identified with skilled trades | | arc likely to be| P13 5 who In no sense reatly work. Many of these have undergone years of training for their particular | work and with right believe they are | entitled to the kind of work which they are hest able to perform. The interested in pick and shove; | however, have received less consid- eration from the civic employment agencies than any other. Possibly most of them are employed, one un- employment report announced the | other day having it that the bulk of | unemployment is to be found in the unskilled trades. While the city election campaign | was at its height the Democratic administration, it appears, hired | more laborers than were necessary. | Now the Republican administration | has the unpleasant duty to divorce | those not needed from the jobs. This business of hiring voters for political | purposes is as old as politics; and it | might be added that were it not for the political jobs sight there would be greatly reduced political | in activity all around. The gentlemen | S s a rule do not get excited over po- fitleal principles so much as over po- litical practics ANOTHER BOULLVARD STR It appears tl | 1l pleased the tr, ment is we it vard system ina tlong Wost Main strect for the past year. At the time the system was established word went forth that if it proved | ful other treated suce rec would be in similar tashion that Myrtle | street, from Main to Burritt street, to become Now comes the information soulevarded.” Myrtle street is being increasingly | utilized as a for cast and | west traffic. For practical purposes | but it only extends to Burritt stroot, from there the route to West M street is co Turn of venient to Myrtle thorou automob street into a boulevard naturally wil tend to make more tractive ‘o east-west With t Black Rock tion the bric nder reconstruc- con Myrtle street week trai SURVEYING THE SEWER SYSTEM That Mayor Qu as regarding t ty's sewer system v no onc who 1 ith him zbout t i j favored, 500 e Corimon Counc ma he a good thii ought to be of somc | is one thing certain in this adminis- ‘tm'm with Mr. Quigley's jdeas—un- | influence in | many bills have been paid. Within a | spiits within |and his lieutenants is no gaurantee attached that Mayor Quigley would agree with the recom- mendations of the surveying firm. Mr. Quigley has made his own sur- | veys long before this time. It is not likely that he will change his mind | regardless of what sewer surveyors | might report. That being tho case the veto of | the surveying proposal by the Mayor | is just as well. Such action probably | save the city money. The Mayor can talk the various disposals by the hour, and if there systems of sewer tration there will be a sewer disposal | system inaugurated that will con- less it should happen that the Re- publican Council goes contrary to the Mayor's wishcs, which seems ini- probable. ISOLATION PATIENTS the Hartford Board of | that herd Action of Health emergenc in informing this isolation ¢ acceptable city es from in rtford H: available is a sa would whenever beds arc ation that local Board isfactory outcome of a sit had reason to alarm the Health But the temporary. When ealth City Mayor Quigley re- | takes up his | the isoation | and Hall will t to position in hospital matter come befors him for carly settiement. This city is | large enough to be “on its own” in | this mattor, | SR e | TOPE FOR THE TABS | Tt is distressing to cveryone when | a long-cstablished fraternal organizi- tion is confronted with financial and legal difficulties. The Tabs of this| long been identified with city have its social life and have done much {o guide the youths coming under its | s that are good. Per- | cds have been privileg- | of its fine hall on sons of all cre ed to make usc Main street at cvents that have at- tracted wide popular approval. This | hall of itself, by the way, is an as- set to the city. It is announced that during the | last few months the Tabs have been successful in evgry undertaking and | reasonable time the the financial af- fairs. of society can be placed | upon an cminently sound basis, it is | stated. 4 | This is gratifying. Tt would be | equally gratifying it all matters mi connection with the tion | organiz | were left in abeyance until that time. | It the Td#bs are confident of placing themselves upon a substantial finan- cial basis if left alone interested citizens in the ecity there are | many who would like to sce the organiza- | tion given this opportunity. Which that should be found to let them make 200d. means some way | | | LABOR PARTY SHIFTINGS | Far from being weakened by the | the Labor party in Great Britain is likely to be strengthened through the adhesion of the Liberal party to its moditied socialistic doctrines. There have always been two wings its ranks, | in the Labor party, the radical wing and the moderates. Mr. MacDonald | represent the | moderates, and because they happen | to be moderate the radical “I-"H}' wingers” from the Clyde have been | much dissatisfied. Being eminently | dissatisfied, the next stcp of the | “Clydesiders” is to create a S(‘htsm:lw if they can’t run the show they pre- | fer to start their own little cinema. Loss of 30 or so votes is thus registered to the Labor party, which | dered. in itself is a severe blow to a mi-| nority government. But on the other | de of the political ledger is the upport of Liberal party and 2150 of independents and perhaps ou the asion ot a few Conservatives, The wealkiness in the situation lies in the fact that the Liberal party ob- ins what unts to the halance of power it can the Labor dministration aln ing supp Liberals, of That must mean that the than Labor, have charge 10 ca he Government the Labor-Lib- continue to | but the eral coalitionists agree all will be fine sailing; coalition fails to moment E political w to agree another his gland will be treated mean so m thi used to it ARKER AND BRANDETS the nomination ker for the U ters o st want pub- obtain them his would have sent judiciary mitt it un- was reported | are would have to tak ition of Loui ted pages, ident Wilson nominal- Supren | { little public interest and that it was Court rulings were action by Hartford is only | f | of the steady | 8502, as opposition. The public hearing followed before a subcommittee of the judiciary committee. The sub- committee endorsed the nomination by a party vote of 3 to 2, and among those in favor were Senators Fletcher and Walsh, who will vote upon the Parker The | nomination Te- nomination. was subsequently committed to the subcommittee, on which Scnator Borah was placed, and when the subcommittee again endorsed the nomination Senator opposition. The nomi- was confirmed in the Senate by a party vote of 47 to 22, It was a presidential year. Borah was in nation finally It is interesting to note the trend of interest in Supreme Court nomi- nations. Charles Warren, h Court in United States says the first nominations preme in “Supreme History,” for the Court awakened | not until 1510 that public opinion to appreciate that Supreme affected by the political and cconomic philosophics of the judges. Only one nomination | for chief justice (that of John I began ©) has been rejected by the Sen- | . but a number of appointments > justices have met ar avorable reception. The rejections last two those of W, B.| and W. H. Peckham, nominated by President Cleveland. were Hornblower Senator Watson, majority leader, was quoted the other day as cxpres ing confidence that if Judse Parke nomination comes up for a vote in | the Senate he will be confirmed. 1t | would be a historic incident of some importance were this guess wrong. Both labor and the strongly opposed to Negro vote is Judge Parker. | This is a year of congressional clec- | tions and one-third of will run for reelection. the Senate A good many of the senators may wish to watch | their political steps $4,400,000,000 IN IMPORTS The average person, looking about ; him and making a guess as to what | product most in use must be import- d in greatest quantitics, quite natur- | ally would come that product i to the conclusion rubber, Every automobile tire speaks clo- quently of the consumed in the quantity of rub United St every schoolboy knows that we grow tes; anc no crude rubber in this country. But rubber does not happen to b | our leading import. Our lcading import is QOur second largest import is coffcc And then, and not till then, comc: rubber, raw silk. The supremacy of importation is raw silk an | remarkable in view development of the rayon industry, which commonly is regarded as an unyiclding competi- tor of genuine silk. In 1929 “anoth- er record quantity of raw silk, §7,- 000,000 pounds, was imported into | ited States, an increase of 12,- | 000,000 pounds over the year be- fore,” reads the latest report of the foreign commerce division of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Its value was $427,000,000, which also broke all previous records. Compared with this our impor- tations of coffee were valued at| 00, and our importations of crude rubber were valued at| $240,967,000. These totals indicate great importing nation, as well as a great cxporting nmation. But it is when we consider the total of ali| our imports that surprise is cngcn-‘; we are a " Our total imports for 1929 reached | astonshing total of $4,400,000,- 000 in value, which constitutes a gain of 7 1-2 per cent over 1928, For five consccutive ycars Amer importations the $4,000,0 ican have been over ,000 mark. Most of the | zoods involved in these import values | constituted naterial that we selves, but there anufactured articles in | antly increas- inz. or instances, therc the item of agricult and plements. We | hinery im= o plenty of larg plants making these, but cven be- | fore Henry Ford started his tractor | nt working in Treland the imports| of such machinery was nearly $10,- | And are dustrial, such and ght we there office We ch impor items as in- | printing ma- ery. We th no need | yet nearly $25,000,- | 000 worth was imported last year. | | Even quantitics of textile machinery, | iron and steel structural shapes and | building forms are imported. Nea $20,000 aring apparel 1s imported; which 09 in woolen | {1sn't much, considering the popula- | tion. It means that few of us wear | | the genuine woolen article, unless “ci e that woolen fabrics wool in them to assu there are any native which enough to justify wool port from clscwhere, w cont to tidy sums pa money nations for such £00ds to for ot possibly produce ourscl ips plying the seven seas wi ed both way [ explain why a mud puddle, a | tc ridicule Chzistianity. | condemn | religion, | men's garments | disease just | prize to | will at last solve | deaths caused | third rail tracks. | maritime provinces. Facts and Fancies By Robert Quillen A swat in time saves 999,999,99) A monarchy has advantages. Only onc man nced feel ashamed. Therc’s a lot of money in the cafe business, but it takes so much ot the profit to hirc a pharmicist. If there's no such thing as luck, fool driver and your spring pants hap- pen to be there at the same time. Young intellectuals have no righ: You can't all because of r patriots dollar-a-year men. 1t’s no longer a hick town merchant doesn't quit a bank if & be. | cause his wife's uncle is mad at th: banker’s father-in-law. But so many people who want change kcem (o confusc reformins and deforming. How strange to ¢ t statues of oldicrs who afflicted mankind ani do nothing for the man who intro- duced Linglish sparrows. Still. America too, f it had cuted for ages by Russi religion. been perse ‘s kind Americanism: Feeling superior to the wicked heathen who has many wives to afford variety; getting the same result by marrying one at | time. People speak of hard times, but modern isn't helplessly house- bound while his pants are being niended, a They say men spend 10 per cent more than women for clothing, but maybe they just count the sale of and don't notice who wears them. The apparent increase of heart means an increased number of doctors who don't know why the patient died except that his heart stopped. They are normal youngsters they think dad in the wrong in his controv with the stranger. Tt isn't hard to story or mus ber that the judges always give first an offering that mnever amounts to a darn, Guard your tongue Think how many happy would be wrecked it all wives their husbands what they think of them. Maybe flying is safe: an automobile driver is mi three days, nobody calls the coro- ner. They call the auditor. ains towed win a slogan, homes totd ut Glider by a planz the problem of providing maximum inconvenience or the way to the dining car. Correct this sentence: “I'm cry- ng,” said the wife, “becausc Sister Lizzie and her six children left to- day. Copyright, 130, Publishera ndicate 25 Years Ago Today Panicky conditions developed In | the stock exchange today during the | second hour in today's session. A public labor meeting will be held this cvening in Hanna's armory. A national organized will be present The 21st anniversary of the Y. M C. A. will be celebrated tomorrow evening with a special program at the South church. William H. Hart, president, will preside. The class of 1902 held a reunion at the State Normal school today. There will be a maple sugar pull at the Y. M. C. A. this evening. Six fatalities have occurred in this city since last Saturday. Three were by shock from the John Coffey, supernumerary po- liceman since 1885, is being men- jioned as onc of the two men who will be appointed to the regular at the next meeting of the po- commissioncrs. The Jantern law scems to have fallen into general disusc in this cify. Most of the automobilists are not obscrving the law. The tax revision committee last evening with the asscssors talked over their plans for met and their jwork, The question as to whether sewer work is to be done by the day labor is likely to prove an interest- | ing issue with the common council. Observations On The Weather Washington, April —Fore t for Southcrn New England: Partly cloudy Saturday; Sunday increasing cloudine: not much change in tem- perature. Forccast for Eastern New York Partly cloudy, continued cool Satur- day; Sunday increasing cloudiness followed by rain in late aftergoon or at night. Conditions: ~ Pressure continues w but rising over the Canadian An area of high pressure is advancing slowly | castward over the upper lakes and urc is relatively h olina coast. The ontlook is for rain ¢ in the south Atlantic states and rain Sunday afternoon or middle Atlantic states. the weath: will b nd § gh off the o on Sun- par changes will be unimpor- to et the 1 whom you wish 1 touch with might be reading | iferald Classified Ads while you are |Festive this, | men i History Provides Precedents For Retaining Supt. Doylc City hall ‘“housecleaning”, mayoralty election, rarely material- izes in the degrce that those of the less even-minded gentry of political life anticipate, and it is to the credit of the men who have been honored by election to the office of mayor here that they have not followed the impulsive rccommendations of some of their “lieutenants” to this end. Not only on the theory that ‘“to the victor belong the spoils,” but also on the principle that the re- sponsible heads of hoards and com- missions might be expected to work more harmoniously if they share the politica] faith of the mayor, can the custom of displacing board chair- be justified. But this is not the case with of departments. would persecute | contest. Just remem- | carefully. | really | {important changes in when | sing for | day in the Rumorings which have becomc more and more persistent in the past few days have it that John L Doyle, superintendent of the depart- ment of public welfare | six years is marked for retirement | from that post. ¥rom the glowing compliments which have been pub- |lished in the newspapers and the unstinted pra which has given Doyle by public officials of both partics since he took office, the public has been led to believe that here is an able and conscientious | man filling a position where talents out of the ordinary are requisite. The mayor and the commissioners who see fit to remove him from that office owe the public a detailed ex- planation. It is not enough that a man who has filled such a position as public welfare superintendent docs not happen to be of the same party registration as the party in power; it must be remembered that, after all, mayors never win clection at the hands of their own political party without the aid of others— and in the election of Grorge A. Qbiigley it is admitted on all hands that the democrats gave him more support than they have ever given whereas the backers of his opponent numbered not a few of the old-line republicans and legions less prom- inent in the activitics of the party. Mayors who have scrved this city in the past decade cannot be ac- cused of disregarding cfficiency in the interest of politics. have held efficient men of the party opposite theirs in office. Ex-Mayor Orson F. Curtis retained Patrick King as chairman of the polic board, although Curtis was a re- publican and King a democrat..This was in the period directly preceding the depart- ment which it is hard to beliey actually consum- Other democrats continued fore they werc mated. |in the municipal service during the Curtis term, 1920 to Angelo M. Paone | the city's mayor, William L. Hatch, a republican, be- came chairman of the water board, an important office. It was during his administration that Bdward F. Hall, a republican, was appointed to the chairmanship of the board of 19 a, three times ru- | mored before and just after cach | the cxecutive heads | for the past | | becn a republican candidate in the past, | All of them | were not foreseen for some time be- | in office when | NESS 5960655853555 355388525352L 5955999 500808085884, THE OBSERVER— Makes Random O'bsérvntions On the City and Its People QOWQMMMWWM"‘:E |nnancc and taxation, and he contin- ued Thomas Linder, another repub- lican, as chairman of the board of essors. I'rank H. Alford, repub- |lican, was reappointed by him to |the city hall commission and ap- | pointed chairman of the municipal |home service bureau, and A. J. | Stoper, another republican, remain- cd as chairman of the cemetery committee. Philip A. Merian, a re- publican, was appointed city engi- neer on recommendation of Pao- | nessa, a democrat, and Building In- |spector A. N. Rutherford and | Plumbing Inspector Olaf A. Peter- son, republicans, were kept at their desks through the Paonessa admin- istration concluded this month. | Clyde Ellingwood, a republican, as- cended o the position of park su- | perintendent under the democrat, | Paonessa. Mayor Gardner C. Weld retained Attorney P. F. McDonough as chair- man of the board of compensation and asscssment while many other | democratic office holders were not | disturbed while Weld was in offic Mayor Quigley has promised a | business administration. Superin- | tendent Doyle has carried out his duties along businesslike lines — at |loast that is the general impression about the city. Unless the opposite can be proven he should continue in office, many who place the public intercsts above petty politics be- licve. And Husbands Wonder Why | Dinner Is Sometimes Late Over the back fence: And we have had to order another ton of coal—1I just freeze my hands when [T hang out my washing—ain't it ter- rible, this weather—yes, I guess we're not going to have any sum- mer—my husband says it's actually cold in the shop—my landlord says he is losing money, he furnishes the heat, you know—only 38 above this morning—all the flowers will get frozen, I guess—youw'd think it was November instead of April — and with daylight saving next week it will be so cold getting up in the morning—yes, 1 have the awfullest time getting the children out of bed —I don't blame the farmers for Kicking—they say vou can't kid a cow into believing its 6:30 when he knows it's only 5:30—I have had to week-—these cold days make the ice dealers hot — you're so wifty you ought to be on the stage—they say they get big money—well, T wish T could get some extra money some way—it's awful, with the shops run- ring on short time—my husband it's hard for a man to rmake a living—I supposc we ought to stop running our car but you've got to have some pleasure or what's the sec of living—yes, that's just the way I look at it, you might just as fun out of life—I'm glad it stayed cold for one reason, 1 haven't been able to buy a spring dress yet— well T've cleaned up my,last sum- mer's hat and I'm going to wear that for @ while—they'll be having bargain sales {n the stores soon — I've let down my little girl's last summer’s dresses and I guess they'll have to go her for a while—I had | April 26.—The man {Who owns and drives a taxicab in dependently in New York mu | make a living almost solely on tips, |it one T chatted with last night is to be believed. A taxi must clear a snug amount on the day to take {care of tho overhead before it begins to carn a penny for the driver. There's the promiseary note, amounting to $4.50 a day in buying the cab, depreciation. tires, gas and oil. Tifteen dollars is ¢ again night trick and cight dol- igst the day. The heaviest t \tronage is between 6 and ! p. m.and 11 p. m. and 1 a. m. |~ The big bugaboo of charioteers i snow. It brings business to a mini mum. Fares are skittish about slip- ping on the sidewalk, getting to and from cabs and they also fear thc dangers of skidding. Drivers, how- |ever, say the greatest danger is after a slight rain. This causes a slick moisture on |asphalt. On the other hand, an all |day or night downpour provides a | gold mine. TPeople who seldom | ride in taxis use them then. Iifty |dollars a week profit is considered “a good break,” but the average i |around $35. The driver's hours arc | extremely irregular. | The usual tip for a short haul is ged 15 2ents and 25 cents for a long onc. | | The most extravagant tippers arc | young blades out with their girls ind fares with alcoholic bursts of generosity. A drunk is usually profitable. Fiftcen per cent of taxi patrons do not tip at all. | o women have becn unsucoess- ful driving cabs on their own. Two Chinese, a Japanese, a Turk and a Hawaiian own and operate their own | cabs. While there are still 2 num- | ber of gyp or “run around” cabs, | police vigilance and careful sclecti | have reduced them to a negligible I minority. t 45th strect and 3th avenue last i stopped. A policeman of the street leaped The and with from ca E (to the running snanped into high gzear l1oud honkin ockeyed through traffic. rians rushed to the curb to Under the 6th avenu T.. it poi shot away with a brea] | of lights and halfway to Broadway | swerved to the curb, The patrol- caly men dropped from their perches called good night to the driver—and | ambled into New York! a spcakeasy, | The Dizgest bill of the week was {run up by a gentieman from Chi- {cago at a Park Avenuc inn. On his |second day before dinner he turned on his bath and strctched on the bed for the tub to fill. later he was awakened from sound sleep by gentlemen in gum boots in the hall. The tub had overflowed nd soaked the ccilings and cxpen ive draperies of two apartments Lelow, aside from damages to his own suite. His bill was $4,240. On gray drizzling days T frequent- ly slip into a raincoat and with the | dog walk in Central Park. On such |a day recently I found a gentieman {huddled up on a bench under an |umbrella readin ga gloomy biogra- | phy of Heine. That is a new high {in achieving melancholy solitude, | T am aljays sccretly amused at | those French menus that skim along |like a humming bird featuring cuffs poche. curry d'agneau and ambon York and then suddenly bust out with apple pie. T am also a trific stubborn about |ordering soups with such la-de-dah labels as Pontage Fermiere. They arc generally full |careful diners shunned | before. the night And it seems to me there is noth- ing delighting a man so much as to {tefl in detail what he likes | breakfast. Give him a land you have to choke him off. | Ask some friend what he had fo breakfast this morning and you'll zet the idea. As food is up for discussion there is the letter just received from O. W. inquiring: “T am wondering if you are the fellow who brought his own mustache cup into a Pullman |diner on the th Century last | Thursaay.” No. T was the fellow who wore |the horse-hair watch chain with the carved peach sced dangle. (Copyright, 1930, N Syndicate, Inc.), aught i take only a 20 cent piecc of ice this| well be dead if you can’t have some | Three hours | of everything for good start to fix up my oldest boy's suit for little Willle and you'd ought to have seen the face he made—well, chil- dren-don’t realize how hard it is for parents nowadays—I'm sure I don't see where people who sport around get all their money—it's a mystery to me, too, but they say that some of them don’t even pay their grocery bills—yes, I guess if you knew the inside a lot of these high mucka- mucks owe everybody — and the style some of them put on, they won't even Eive you a chance to cross the street when they come along in their new model automo- biles—but money don’t always bring happiness—no, indeed, I know a couple in town who have all kinds of money and they fight like cats and dogs although when they're out in public they're just that sweet to- ward each other—hypocrites, I call them—now my husband isn't a rich man but he's that kind to us all— my husband's the same, except on mornings after he's been out with the boys and then he's apt to be a little bit sharp tongued—OH, I think I smecll something burning on the stove—and I think that's my telephone ringing. “Made In New Britain” But Shh; It's a Secret In a few words, the preambles by which Chambers of Commerce come into existence declarc for advance- ment of the home town and its pro- ducts. The New Britain Chamber of Commerce is no exception to this rule and whenever opportunity arises the advantages=of lifc in this |city and the superiority of its man- ufactured products arc proclaimed to the entire world, intercsted or otherwise. Not only do the members of the Chamber of Commerce desirc to have those outside the territorial | timits of New Britain know that |such an organizalion exists, but they are also desirous that those who have occasion to pass their doorways shall know that they are members of this organization, and one of the methods employed is to stick a paster about the size and shape of a dinner plate on the door announcing that the owner of the business is a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce—a booster for the home town and its products. But, in small lette on the lower part of the paster is printed: “Made in Great Britain.” Do You Recall When Candy Was Not An Election Expensc? Tucked away inconspicuously in the expense account of one of the political partics is an item for candy purchased. And that is what po- |litical campaigns have come to! Shades of Bardeck's hall, when campaigns werc campaigns, when, in a little side room up threc or four steps, keg after keg of Cremo wa emptied while the cnnobled proletar- iat gathered around the festive board to listen to the late Joe Barbour of Hartford tell what would happen to New Britain factories if the demo- crats won and the tariff was wiped out. Thase, old timers claim, were the days—or the nights. Eloquence foamed up like the collar on the glasses and speeches were tinted with rosy optimism. Through the fog of smoke and the haze of the refresh- ments, spirits rosec and bumped against the ceiling. He was indeed an unknown who was not greeted with three rousing cheers as he stood up to defend the party's record and to make promises of what it would do. Now that politics is bedecked with pink ribbons, why not go the whole distance? Bridge parties are the vogue but as time wears on they may become too raw. A generation hence it is possible that candidates for office will be assembled on a stage for a knitting bee. Or a fierce crochet contest. The winner, of course, will be declared elected. As a third suggestion for determining the fitness of the candidate, why not have a ribbon matching bout. There are three candidates for clection, suppose. Each is given six ribbons of assorted colors. At the bark of a {gun, they sprint for the depart- ment stores. The one who returns first with the largest number of per- fect matches is declared to be the [choice of the people duly entrusted with standing guard over the con- stitution. Candy in an account of of clection expenses! Ugh! | | We're Convinced Something Should Be Done About Tt The prisons and penitentiaries {hroughout the United States have been on the front pages of this and other daily journals so frequently of late that a few keen minds are be- ginning to wonder if something had not better be done about it. Statis- ticians have gone to work on the problem and figured out that the trouble is in overcrowding, so pos- sibly the remedy lies in relieving this congestion. The fire in the Ohio penitentiary this week was one way of meeting this situation. How- ever, we do not advocate this as a general solution. But something must be done about it. However little sympathy we may feel for the prisoners, it is best to take steps, for in these days of piling law upon law it is only selfish to alleviate conditions, for one never knows when he will transgress some ancient or mew- fangled cdict and become a prisoner himself. You sec? We're thinking only of your own good (and ours.) The prisoners themselves seem to think that they know the remedy. Out in the Ohio penitentiary they have been clamoring for the re- moval of the warden. They seem to forget they are not hotel guests. The best that they can do is to sec that in the futurc they commit their crimes in somc other state. Can you imagine what would hap- pen if those incarcerated in the New Britain lock-up should suddenly go on strike and demand that Officer Herb Lyon or Jim McCabe be re- moved from duty or that Chief Hart get the bounce? Another remedy is to build more prisons. Of course, this would have |the effect of relieving uncmploy- ment for a period, but after all the | new prisons had been completed the | workmen would again be thrown | back upon a heartless world and | the only places where they could be |assured of regular meals would be in those very prisons. So they would | commit crimes, be sent up, and the present situation would be re- created. i We might have fewer laws, there- ih_v cutling down the number of of- I!Pndm's, Of course, the so-far fu- tile efforts lo repeal the \’alstoadlorgnmzn(mn of women flicrs, act show that to have a law re- scinded is practically impossible. We can propose one solution along this line, however. Let only those laws which anybody understands be en- forced. That wouldn't leave many crimes. On way of preventing the outbreaks, if not the situation re- sponsible for them, would be to call Messrs. Stimson, Morrow, & Co., back from Europc and have them tackle the problem of disarming the prisoners. It would probably be harder than getting Krance and Italy to reach an agreement. But, at that, what are the prison- ers kicking about? Congestion? What do they know about conges- tion? They don't have to be hurled about in subway crushes, half hung in the air on crowded trolley cars, or get snarled in a traffic jam when the Main strect gates go down. We are the unfortugate oncs, after all. Female More Deadly Than Male—In the Movics Musings of a merc movie fan at a recent production, in which a very feminine heroine defends her gool name by shooting the villain at 90 paces, with a revolver that she quite evidently does not know how to handle. “AD, the villain is ready to pounce from his corner. Isn't that excit- ing dialog? Look! She's found a revolver in that desk. I'll bet she shoots him! Yeah, she does. Down he goes. Now what'll she do—?" How many New Britain folls marvel a little at the unerring aim of the movic queen, who puts a sharpshooter to shame with her off hand methods of pining the villa; in the vitals, without a sign of any practice? That is a question wor. thy of school debating societics’ time for an evening. Nine times out of ten, when the outraged mother or wife or sweet- heart in ti icker and yelp” pro- ductions finds it necessary to have the villain’s blood, she gets it witi a single shot, fired from the hip. Actually the average woman, Who has never fired a revolver, can takoe a couple of shots at The Observer any old time, for proper remune tion, at 50 feet and still leave him absolutely unpunctured. Don't mis- take this for an invitation to take a pot shot at the press; it is just u figure of speech, as it were. The real facts, of course, aro these: ¥ew men or women who are not familiar with a revolver can hit what they aim at with a gun, A rifie is a little different proposi- tion, but a revolver or automatic bullet has an annoying habit of go- ing far, far away from the thing vou aim at. If you don't believe it, get into a target range with a re- volver and sce what you can hit at 50 feet. Even with a chance to properly sight the gun, at arm's length and at the level of the shoul- der, revolver shots who are at all good arc the exception. It takes much hard praclice to get to ba good cnough to hit a regulation tar- get with any decent scores. Firinz from the hip and killing a man at 50 feet, for a person who never handled a gun before, is little short of prcposterous. Such a lucky hit could be little more than chance. But in the movies WANT CHRISTIANITY TAUGHT AT YALE University Paper Atfacks Col- lege Heads New Haven, Conn., April 26 (UP) —The Yale Daily News yesterday attacked college authorities for fai ing to present the study of Chris- tianity to students on an equal basis h philosophy, science and litera- ture. “There is one fundamental reason for religious conditions at Yale" sald the lcading cditorial. “The treatment of Christianity is hope- lessly out of keeping with other fac- tors of our life. “The formation of our religious convictions,” the editorial continued, “is subjected to the influences of philosophy, science, literature, yot the voice of Christianity in the cur- riculum is suffered to remain so still and small as to be more casily dis- regarded cntirely, Indeed it is ques- tionable whether a man can get an adequate introduction to the religion of Christ if he tries.’ Declaring “our age boasts it fos- ters truc intellectual curiosity” the News points out the “same minds which are taught to accept nothing but their own reactions on Carlyle and Tuskin” are cxpected “to ac- cept precepts on reputation. “The failuro is everywhere ovi- dent,” says the cditorial, “and the silence which hovers above Battell pel is the result of bafflement.” The News recently censured uni- versity authoritics for refusing o dismiss classes to permit students to attend Good Friday chapel services. GLIDER OCEAN HOP IS PLAN OF HARTFORD GIRL Will Bec Towed By Ocean Liner Across Atlantic in Six Days, She Hopes Hartford, April 26.—Miss Irene J. Chassey, secrctary of a Hartford aircraft company, is plahning a transatlantic glider flight with John Butler Betterly of New York city as co-pilot, Midsummer was, sct as the probable time of the flight. A glider to be used in the flight, the first ever proposed in this type of aircraft, is heing designed by Al- fred Lee of Jackson Heights, Long Island. The glider will be towed by an ocean liner. The trip will be attempted east to west 50 the fliers may buck the head winds. The glider will be equipped with dual controls and telephone to provide communication with the ship. 1"ood will be passed to the glider by some mcans to be devised ater. VFive or six days is expected to be required for the trip, Miss Chassey is a native of Wil- limantic. She first became interest- ed in aviation in July 1929, She has a pilot's license and is a member of the Ninety-nine club, a national