New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1930, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1930. New Britain Herald h he Boston Post | tion sc PUBLISHING COMPANY lasusd Dally (Sunday Excepted) Post OfMce at New Britain Audit Bureac ® Metropolitan RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION couples out “C"nlrah are attempting C°n>°i:‘la-‘lcame from Helsingfors, Finland, it D s s “in strict conformity | | with the edicts of the Interstate | Commerce Commission,” the Penn- launched by the I. C. C. to divest the Pennsy | sylvania is faced by a s of its control of the Lehigh Valley ash railroads. es within the week cld promise to be Vit s hicago & Alton, with rails extending from Chicago to St. Louis and westwa I. . C. consolidation pla & S juehanna. Also the I. C. C. plan (3) The New York ( 0 s¢ e B & O. its 26 per cent of stock in the R Railroad ng the B. & O, At of rol of that line Pennsylvania to br : THE AUTOMOBILE MARKET A THIS, AT LEAST IS CERTAIN THE EMBARGO LIFFED Lowman, assistant se rea performed a bout-face by suddenly li embargo against oncluding th out convict labor having pears to have been assistant secretr That o have been expected The reports regarding convict labor | | BRI N before this that | § come out ot knows long peculiar reports have that town the World war. Winsted, Conn., long n as the scene of peculiar animal pranks, due to the inventive genius of Helsingfors has for years dealt Facts and Fancies ession of rainy live openly Observations On The Weather 25 Years AAgo Today attending the field day beir Vaterbury today. anned to hold 2 connection arrests for d offences durin JAIL CHAPLAIN HONORED Henry Smiti has been elected rector of Christ church, Schenectady The former rector of the church, Rev. signed recently to go to the church the Martyr, Schenecta- York city. S, was disclosed; and cvery newspaper ?-M&Q&&MM&&OQQ&S&O&A&&&&&&&&9&&»”&”&00““&699 Makes Random Observations € i i On the City ai TRTITTISIIITITIPIIPPEPPW In Defense of Ban On Alien Employment The decision of Mavor Quigley and the hoard of pu ic works to citizens in the ay depart- s may have seemed a bit harsh on those who came under the ban, but there are many arguments its favor, not the least important of which is the financial ccnsidera- tion. In the first place, it must be re- embered that many of those who fcund themselves jobless were men who h f the oppo for availed selves count many ficient in cessary to prepare for the fran- chise. The mayor has been carcful here it was ead or the absence 5o papers. or where the erned has d here for ised a family, acc however meagre to become a been unable t ssion. These were excl wore t who ha on must be given —and there in this gangs of entitled sort the m. and mburse- Proving Mr. Edison Picked the Wrong Omne nd Its People —THE OBSERVER— § ¢ § Q“’#Wg question,” which read as follows “You are the head of an expedi- tion which has come to grief in the esert. There is enough food and | water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civili- zation. The rest must perish. Your a brilliant s two half breed guides, scientist's wife, in- terested mainly in - society manners, | agzed 39; her little son, aged 6, the rl you are cngaged to marry: your friend, a young man of your own age who has shown great prom- isc in the ficld of science e and which to die The Observer's ic” answer follows of all T do not accept the premise that all the members of the xpedition must die. I would save 2ll of them and bring them home fat cnough to make an immediate Hol- lywood diet necessary. I would do this by first digging a hole in the 1. until T came to water. This is wdemic stuff, Mr. Edison. Any ch would you choose to live ? Give your rea- purely scientif- reader of ‘Believe It Or Not' or fol- | wer of “Tom Swift and His Adven- tures in Africa,” knows that digging down into the sand will miraculous- 1* produce water, So much for the n. with that provided for, I e equal parts of sand and Cacticus (ordinary and thvee pinches of pap- 2, salt to taste, and heat them ¥ over a slow fire. The chem- ry well know, stew of very wlity. Other combinations, would give us mince pie and olive sandwiches, 80 be readily provided int out that. in ge of cacti alf-breed- alf-shell doesn't taste idison would like to have “I would save the young man ¥ g n cotton batting to avoid njury in transportation. Then I d 6 ng care that he does ot suffer an attack of gout en rout to civilization, Last of all 1 would 6 ar old boy, hoping that vent something someday to it that the wife of t starved first for her soe » probably drinks or. consar! r Still other answers of the Obsery- er to questions are “If facad with the problem of get- of a bridge across in the year Orville Wright to it to a car- EW YORK | Do)/ i)/v Doy | —Q.OMclntyre ty when it was Fra Kaiser Wilhelm as well man kings were crowned. During away fo \tions ognito in with 14th centur ssians shaved heads eets are 100 NArrow affic and buildin have graduating projecting stones form a street roof at the top. Out of the lavender of t enes from the B le and s crowning orner shop in the quarter b kfurter was made and has been where that d tinuously sold 0 years The home of Martin Luther, now !tilled with antique shops, is in Old | Frankfort, as is also the home near- by of Johann Goethe, the beloved poet We visited the room wher Gocthe wrote Clavigo and conceived the idea of his immortal Faust. We stopped. too at “the old stone 1423 and now a 4 with fated Fritzes in tted with drinking and frank- joyed my Frank- nkfurter but T have enjoyved just as much at Coney Island the Polo Grounds furter stands fort fran th From Frankfort, we set off through farming villages on our lv\a)—a panorama of tile roofs, thin| Z h white raking hay were three peas women to man. On the roads light blond oxen tugzed mountainous loads t head bands aved It was m) sant coun- were un- of hay—pulling aga d of yokes d doorway rough all of us som thoughtful and qu highways are cluttered s, broiled black by the ng in toy-like cottages gaudily painted and drawn by a horse. They live by fortune horse trading and petty thieving. A house of two rooms con- ned a family of twelve. We had our fortunes told and I am to receiv 1 sudden fortune by November ich will be appreciated, no end In Germany the red striped bar- ber pole we know so well is mis rg. Instead, the friseur, or barber shop, symbol is a brass plate We lunched on the verandah of an ancient hofbrau at Fulda. Across the street was the gold-fronted town hall, once the palace of a Hessian prince. The best restaurants in rural v are always in the shadow hhlls. Count on me to find Germa of town that out ach, in the heart of the ren forest, is the cradle of 2l literature. In a rearby clearing is the wartpburg — the refuge whither Mart Luther fled disguised a prince, after itting Catholicism and marrying a n. It was here he translated the new testament into German qt Will Hogg remembered en route | that Johann Sebastian Bach's home was in Eisenach. So we left the cars and trotted around town giggling and asking everybody we met the location of the Bach house. It was more fun. The home is now a mu- cum and while the guard wasn't Jocking T touched an F sharp notc o1 the master's piano despite the Do not Toush” warning. We also saw the tausic room holding the in truments played by his 21 children 1l of whom were musically talen- ted. We also visited the cathedral > he was organist so many vea Bach was not only a pianist and organlst but also master of the flute and viola to say nothing of be- ing no mean shakes as a Papa (Copyright, 1930, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) vhe ientist, | cern on th: other side, shoot it gver with a Eig Bertha, or use one of Dr. | Goddard's rockets.” | “If confronted with the course of lectures yoa propose, on Manchurian ‘«ookmg. I would think hastily back to the last dish of chop suey I had |in a Chinese restaurant. recall the | stories of bird's nest soup and other | Chinese delicacies, and rule against | it. | And then, concerning the ques- | tions that follow, the Observer | would answer them in order. The questions: | “If you owned the following items, | set down the approximate price in | dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of pur- chaser you would select a)—Ford coupe which has run 000 miles. i (b)—Basic patent which will re- {duce the cost of manufacturing | shoes 20 cents a pair. | (c)—Secret process of manufac- | turing a drug which will definitely | cure cancer. { (d)—Ten acres of land in a good | farming section of lowa. (e)—Trade information which | will enable one competitive firm to take $1,000,000 worth of net profits away from another. (f)—The secret of a new poison gas which will make any nation su- | preme in war. | (®)—Definite proof that the dis- henesty of any employe is costing a n.ulti-millionaire $200,000 a vear. Answers: (a)—T would set the speedometer back to §00 miles, with the aid of | the motor of an electric drill, even | as it is done in New Britain garages. take the Ford out, and sell it for $500 or as near that sum as I could get (b)—T would sell the basic patent that reduces the cost of making shoes to the highest bidder, take the oney and give it to Yale university, ich so sadly needs further en- dowments. Then, after accepting my doctor of philosophy degree (honor- ary) at the next commencement, I would retire to my hunting lodge in |the Adirondacks in search of fur- | ther secrets. (c)—Secret processes for making drugs that will cure cancer sound rather quackish, Tom. T would sus- | pect that you were kidding me if T didn’t know that you are really in | carnest about this thing. All I can say is that if T had such a drug I would not expect the American Medical society to accept it as genu- ine and would be little surprised 15 be branded a fakir. (d)—Tt the 10 acres of land in Towa are near a small town I wou not sell the property at all, but [ would put up a filling station on one section. a practice golf range on a other. and raise gophers (not golf- lers) on the rest | (e)—With trade information that would enable one firn: to gyp anoth- er out of $1.000,000 in net profits | within a year in my possession, I | would hecome a captain, or at least a first mate, of big business and get ! v director- myself elected to a f ships c —The secret of a new poison gas that would make any nation su- preme in time of war 1 would get rid of as quickly as possible, by the fire route, fully expecting that a masked man would jump from the dows to grab it if 1 didn't My reason for doing this is that 1 have read too many lurid detective stories recently, and know from them that 1 would never get to Washington with the formula (g)—Definite proof that an em- ploye is getting away with £200,000 a vear from a multi-millionaire would prompt me to immediately in- form him of that fact. I would ex- pect to get a very courteous letter of thanks. a box of two-for-fifteen cigar: d a job as clerk in the millionaire’s factory. At the end of vears service with him I presume I would be presented a beautiful rolled gold pin, indicating that | belonged to the Half Century Loyal Work Last, but not least, if view of the fact that the examination g way half an hour late, the Obser e would remind Mr. Edison, in a note at the hottom of the examina- tion paper, that punctuality is very cssential in the struggling young business d scientist Here's An Endurance Contest With Merit These endurance contests are now all the rage and have temporarly taken the place of playing Tom Thumb golf and watching steam shovels as occupations of those otherwise idle. Tree-sitting, kite- flying. bicycle-riding, and who knows all clse all have their devotees as American youth seeks some way of sing the summer months. If they had been kept after school for ) minutes these tree sitters would have complained loudly about the severity of their teacher, but they are willing to confine themselves to a tree limb and call it great sport. You can't beat human nature! | Just why this tree sitting. any- | way? Evolution is now admitted to be true, and experimental proof of the relationship between man and monkey is no longer necessary. The game seems to be to obtain free food and drink. In which case we should think numbers of the uncmployed would take to the trees and obtain their food from the same hard- hearted merchants who now refuse to sell it to them on credit Kite-flying at lcast has more the clement of sport in it, for there is 4 battle against nature involved. And bicycle riding brings contests against traffic and traffic cops. Here's a contest we should like to see if boys persist in endurance | sitting: We have wanted to tell some of them to sit on a tack, any- | way, and now we propose it as an rs club.” under | endurance contest. We suspect some- |one would run in a rhinoceros and | win the affair, but it would provide | some “sharp” competition, anyway. And another type of contest has been suggested which would not take weeks or months to settle. It breath holding endurance con- test. That should be all over within a few seconds or minutes at the out- ide. And if any endurance fiend held his breath too long and absence of breathing became permanent, it would be just that much gain for the craze-weary world. Rambling Rufus Wants | Chance for Frederickson | "I guess this is the age of con- tests,” said Rambling Rufus, as he sauntered into the sanctum sanctor- um and got an eyeful of a beautiful e | pigeon and put a bushel of | 51 young damsel who has entered in a. bathing beauty contest “You know that guy's lucky” ru- minated Rufus, handing one of the cditor's cigars to the Herald staft photographer as the latter unlim- bered Ris camera, prepared for a shot at the bathing girls. “There are some things I can ap- prove of, and a beauty contest is one. If girls weren't supposed to be looked at, they wouldn't be so good looking. And besides, you know the old gag that a woman is as old as she looks and a man isn't old until he stops looking. Then, looking over the headlines of the weck’s accumulations of Her- alds, Rufus continued “I see our old friend Adjutant Frederickson was in town. Too bad, Freddie was a good scout, but he plaved the game too well. Led to believe the local adyisory committee would back him up, he was strictly on the square. But the Salvation Army officials came in, bluffed the local committee to a fare-thee-well, and Freddie, whose only offense was that of being too conscientious, was disciplined by being handed a star- vation job, and the New Britain Community chest was left holding the bag. “Now, with few friends left, tha army hasn't following enough tc get a large meeting, which after all is its prime object. I can’t understand why the Community chest heads don’t divert that money to where it will do the most good. Ten per cent of the Sallics' appropriation, given by New Britain people for New Brit« ain relief, goes to New York head- quarters. New York cares less than nothing about New Britain New York now owns the build- ing, purchased by New Britain money, and New Britain must keep up the payments on the mortgage. “With the exception of free soup and beans to bums, the Salvation army in this city is doing nothing that the Welfare association is not doing, while the Hartford Sallics rent a store on Lafayette street and collect cast off clothing for the needy of Hartford “It's time the Community chest officials got wise to themselves and invited the Salvation Army to stand on its own feet “The Community chest has just about half the money it needs. The fresh air camp must curtail its pro- gram a whole week. Hundreds of men are out of work and hundreds of families need food. Why not keep faith with Freddie by hack, giving him a fare work and asking t Army officials to tak o where they doing Salvation come That Never-Ending Job at Black Rock Bridge. Motorists driving through to Plainville have long been inconver ienced by the closing of Black Rock bridge to permit the placing of a new and larger span across the rail- road tracks there, but they were good-natured about it, as they real- ized the improvement would benefit them in the end But the days and weeks stretched into months and they became tired of the detours. Then came the tear- ing up of a section of West Main street to permit repaving, and traffic had to be further diverted tating round-about r for resi- dents of the neighborhood as well as motorists driving throug! And as the weeks went by this process of tearing up moved grad- nally down West Main street. creep- g past street after street and af- fecting more and more people. Now it has completely blocked off ths thoroughfare in front of the colony of stores clustered about Lincoln street, and the owners of these busi- ness places are adding their wails to the chorus. It scems that it 1s now impossible to park in front of their stores. In fact is virtually impossible to even drive past them, and their customers are being incon- vinienced But the tearing v the matter of layin & to have been overlook- bt such det as th d to at some future snail's pace at which necessi- b goes on, and the new pave- ed. No do will be attend oving along, the job ts work is now ni certain belies the commun complaints about the terrible an speed-up system We really didn't think when we were going to rep Black Rock bridge that they intend- ed to tear up Central park NOVEL BY SHAW EXPECTED SOON Book Written 51 Years Ago Will Be Published New York, Aug. 1 (A—George ternard Shaw, who began his liter ary career as a novelist a half cen tury ago before turning to play- writing, is to appear again in the role of a fictionist ‘The dramatist's first novel, written ears ago but iaid aside when a publisher could not be found for it, is to appear in September, it was disclosed yesterday by Willlam H. Wige, New York publisher. This early work will be included in a collected set of Shaw's writings, the first five volumcs of which will apnear next month simultaneously in London and in New York. The author was 23 years old when he penned “Immaturity,” which was refused, Mr. Wise said, by some 60 Rritish and American publishers. After several years of fruitless ef- fort to find a publisher, Shaw put the manuscript away. When he opened it to revise it for inclusion in the collected set of his works, the playwright remarked that “it was like opening a grave' “Immaturity.” Mr. Wise said, deals with the cxperiences of a young clerk who comes to London and i3 unable 1o express himself in his work and in part is autobiograph- Four novels hear Shaw's name but the author, after he achieved fame as a playwright, called them pro- ducts of his “nonage” and relegated (them to the dustbins of literature. | The first of these, “The Irrational Knot.” was published in 1880, fol- lowed in the next three years by “Love Among the Artists Cashel Byron's Profession,” and “An Un. cocial Socialist.”