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

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This insures pro- | tection against fraud in newspaper dis- _tribution figures to both national and | Jlocal advertisers. | The Herald fs on sale dally in New York at Hotaling's Newsstand, Times Bquare; Bchultr's Newsstand, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street. Yesterday a fair sized crowd gath- ered to hear the Communis ~their platform for state offi s explo The speakers were of fown, we believe, though s it is difficult to gather all of the de- tails concerning their actions. from out ometim: Their main advocating the bo Which has been of the improvide had the power of the rallying cry | ince man | " And with few exceptio been successful. The exceptions have come about through such great suppre exploitation that driven to desperation n and | men have been Which has not been the case in the | United States, as yet How anyone with a grain of com- mon sense and fifty pocket can listen to the plan is be- yond us. cents 1n his it it would work, but it boils down to one essen- tial. It's a great scheme “Kick out someona else the bosses” and let boss you. The trouble is with the malcon- tents that they have no boss And are not capable bosses themselves of bein Of course it rained Labor Day, it always does. Seems that we not inthese columns last Oh well, even a newspaper influence with nature. A couple of Frenchmen are ing propelled through the air moter toward this country as this is being written. by Coste and Bellonte native heath to attempt to reach 1\ ave left their May succeed. the gentlemen TENTING FOR TH An obscrver of cars returning SUMMER the s d fro mi watch ream home points along shere y quickly have come to the that he was watcl “on “lusion hegira | owing to the larg - of mot vehicles loaded to the gu tents and seemed as if every along the Killingworth collection of fishing rods angle trunk rac th 1t at least camping equipment ird car. road had a tent poles, cot legs and | ng out at every wi hoards, re guards carried bulky c that could have tents. Happy young! €njoy camping beaches p of the ca squat upon any Ha re property d b, cutaway | probably unfold a | the tan. Mother, as well, sometimes goes a little further in cutting away her suit than modesty should allow, but she is also getting a tan and her act is allowable. Fortified for a comparatively sun- less winter the bunch are all back from nature’s rest cure, having spent a vacation that is comparatively in- expensive and undoubtedly health- | ful. CAPTAIN ANDREE'S BODY IN PORT AT LAST If a more entrancing tale of ad- venture has been written across the pages of modern history than that of Captain Andree and his com- panions 1t would be difficult indeed ave us a d the Atlantic, to the his trip travel public with to the . the Graf Zeppelin wrote graphic story as it across strange lands through the air. At present a submarine is being groomed for a trip under the ice to the vicinity of the North Pole. With | the intrigue of all of them, however, | the strange story of Andree is the most powerful. Fiction writers seem out of place in these days of romance | ' | based on fact. The body of Captain Andree has n brought into comparative civil- er his abouts had The snow had en- stery for and and preserved him in his it is ved he had 33 years. ice bel 1 to live for some time after »alloon in which he planncd he pole had come to earth st abode was found what ppears to be a record of the trip It is frozen and must be carefully treat- and the days spent on the ice ed before the chance of opening it i taken. From this document wiil human interest story of the first magnitude. 1t ap age per ould attempt pole, from ears foolhardy to the aver- son that a to group men fl the acros: ivilization on one side to civilizat other, in a free balloon ternational balloon races is declared the winner, the odds looked hopeless to float the several thou- sand necsssary to cross the pole and reach a habitable spot on the other ide. But the average person does not ken the mind of the explorer, er after the bizarre on untracked courses. willing to risk his lite for ence seare adventure and possibly even though the aforemen- ned individual ge nation in reading of the experiences of th who have had the adventures and lived to tell of ti behind v did em, or left written records as Andree ab As the story u folds into entirety as probably will within a few week men will be followed through the When the log hook is opened and read the press with much interest will be much of fascination in it CET HIGHWAY AGAIN reiteration of a ! boresome to a writer as Ilasa . but there are t when the the on demand repeti- tion and one of them. in our opinion, Britain. Some- to arouse the exl cies of Hee arisen in done its apathy toward the . ring of certain individuais ow the decision of a public Jefore the electorate as a whole pon its merits the point n of a hi ay running thence e tford turnpike ned surface, is and pre- to zo through. | who are hack not yet appeared Main thoro: Zrow- andoubt- t once, by the other highway several rove exper bridge one have to be call for mone progressed | pro- | the trials of the gallant air- | practical outlet to Berlin along & traveled way, a new road would have to be built from that point to the turnpike. And, if the road was | built, graded, bridged and otherwise put in first class shape it would of- | fer no great inducement to traffic to turn off the highway already in to reach a point in Berlin | which the other road reaches. There | is a good read there now, with con- | siderable traffic it but | practical one nevertheless | South from Corbin avenue there is |'a dirt road, one turn of which goes to the Berlin station, another con- | tinuing southerly to Meriden's west- | place is true, a| | ern section. It would furnish, if pav- | | ed, an admirable outlet to points in | Meriden and below and would re- | | lieve South Main street of some of | the traffic which now comes through the city to et on that highway. Tt much more feasible proposi- | tion that the Cat Hole Road be fixed | Aswe understand it the city would | ;lm aided by the state to a great ex- | [ tent in building either highway, pos- sibly more so in the former case | than the latter as the city has now | | paved roads to the town line, which t has not in the Ellis street cas The highway commission has the | decision as to which road shall be beyond the city limits at l1ét the | | fixed up. least. Citizens should not commission be misled by the pleas tof a few, WAGES BY THE YEAR The suggestion of William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, that labor be hired by | the year instead of by the day, will, if taken seriously in any industrial | ci stir up much argument, | mainly in the method of applying | factories everywhere. | les, the rule to There may be proposal, there | things that are impossible to apply. Mr. Green believes that the yearly lary system would eliminate sea- some virtue in the | virtue in many | | is sonal unemployment and would | compel manufacturers to cease over- stocking with the consequent resuit- [ but from | the resultant ing slackness. Undoubtedly it would, employers standpoint, would be an confusion No manufacturer great | most disturbing ! wishes to overstock It costs money to maintain idle factories though they produce nothing, the manufacturers would far rather see their benches filled | with material and their workers | busy than be compelled to close the | rooms and maintain the machinery, | The employer who | can come the nearcst to figuring a | | year's demand and produce it over | the greatest length of time is the | one who makes money will not disturb any mount. [ even seasonally. | Pay by the year | the law of supply and demand. If a anufacturer had assumed yearly | obligations slightly over a year ago. | predicating his staff on the demana for goods that existed at that time. | and committed himself to a full ear's pay for the staff, he wouid have been busted now, very much so, the would be closed, there | would be no pay forthcoming for | those he had hired by the year—be. cause there was no place to get the not even for a| i factory money—and there would be occasional ~employment naller number of hands. We have | always been of the opinion that it is | practically impossible to figure the | law of supply and demand, tha!‘ those who appear to have done so are just as lucky as they are intelli- gent. Local industries made every effort, la we are told, to keep their wheels turning at maxi- mum so that their workmen might reduced wages. short time ago, | | | | flicted by built up stocks in their s ould have orage rooms more than they he inevitable was be faced, demand been built up. But here and had to was lacking and - the situation be- had to quit Con- uch that they ng to a certain extent. prod: sequently their labor went on short | time or was let go. Presumably in- | | Gustrial money. put into materials. | | labor and overhead, had been spent | to the point where it was not feasible ‘ | to spend any more if the factories | ever to again, in other there was doubt of much Without money to fur- als for there | por must | ital, it s | nufacturer | > result ot | £d with labor's There can | there can were, run | words | more credit sh a place to work, mate | and guarantee of no employment o hand ng its toil in hand with to is 10, in turn, is investme money, with ritment of | involve a tre- Observations On The Weather tu gentle to moderat becomin E tonight a pera ing Forec win ast for Cloudy howe | Denver ... | ot |a bathing suit. | kind of | tance between hous: nesday morning; cooler Wednesday and in ‘north portion tonight. Moderate south shifting to north- west winds. Korecast for New = Haven and vicinity:* Thunder showers tonight and Wednesday; -continued warm. Conditions: Pressure is ‘high over the South- Atlantic ~states. A | from | V-shaped depression ecxtends Doucet southwestward - to Fort \\'ayne.‘ This pressure distribution is causing thunder storms in In- diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New England. -Tempera, tures are above normal in: northern districts east of the Mississippi river and somewhat below normal in the northwestern portion of the country. Conditions favor for this vicinity cloudy weather with high humidity and, occasional thunder showers, Temperatures yesterday: High 92 . 76 72 Atlanta ... . Atlantic City .. Boston Buffalo . Chicago Cincinnati 68 78 70 86 68 92 72 . 66. 50 64 48 . 86 70 ..o 82 62 . 86 T4 . 66 46 72 64 92 68 69 78 70 79 60 4 64 80 4 Duluth Hatteras . Los Angecles . Miami : Minneapolis . Nantucket Nashville New Haven. N Orleans . New York Norfolk, Va. . Northfield, Vt. Pittsburgh Portland, Me. St. Louis. . Washington. . . Factsand Fancies By ROBERT QUILLEN A correspondent who asks what becomes of old tires never patroniz- |cd a slot ‘machine to get chewing gum, The truth is, however, that most the ancestors who could have Leusht the site of St. Louis or Chi- cago for six bits didnt have six bits. But if the land Byrd discovered is | American territory, how do they fig- vre that Bernt Balchen was out of | America two years Reading Mr. Cooldige, vou can't Ip wondering why he didn't feel free to say it while president. You don’t need much of a vocab- | ulary to make people think you are | smart, Just say: “Yes, that's righ Some people stand in awe of their | boss, and others have seen him No life need be useless. An}'bod)" | can kill an English sparrow. Blessed “are the poor. needn't worry when police find a dead gangster's account books. Big business wonders how to get buying started again. Well, when a pump won't pull up the water, you prime it. Americanism: Being ashamed ot your country's crime record; think- ing yourself a good citizen ‘because you don't help the criminals except with money.. A It seems difficult to produce | money that won't burn, but many a man has used the present kind to | keep an old flame under. control a gangster .be decent | when he must. dobusinees with the | prominent citizens who would do business with a ganz- ster? | | of his hero's thus prov- | like corn on How can A novelist speaks ‘shining countenance," ing that heroes also the cob. You won't hear much about Reds when times are good again. A soft snap turns away wrath A minority party is one that thinks up ideas that the other one | water, enough to cover the can. and | never been inside & modern can steal to keep iselt in power. There are cxamples to prove that you can make the dumb prosperous. provided you begin - with = their grandfathers. You can't be too sure of anything when you remember that thirty vears ago all great minds agreed that -cigarettes caused everything that was wrong. Correct this sentence “I tried just as hard to avoid trouble,” said the accused, “as I would have if I hadn't been armed.” Copyright, 1930, Publishers Svndicate. 25 Years Ago Today The Burritt Grange will visit Plainville Grange next Tuesday. The New Britain organization received an 1nvitation neighbor. The New Britain close on Labor Day. A property owner who started to build a six tenement block in the rear of Franklin street, was stopped by thg building inspector today. The inspector said the dis- is less than that allowed under the new building law. from its Institute will George B. McAloon, a carpenter empolyed by John W. Allen, mct with an accident yesterday. The fall of a board broke small bones in his foot. He went to Middletow: | to receive treatment from Dr. Sweet Treasurer Isaac D. Russell of Rus- sell & Erwin Co. was among plant cfficials who attended the. Russell & Erwin foremen's outing at Savin Rock yesterday After 2 prominent Main merchant had stepped on thes scal ind found he weighed 205 pounds a week ago today he went on a fast for onc week and according to re- ports he has not eaten as much as one peanut. He lost 14 pounds and is now down to 191. He -said street They | recently | he QUESTIONS ANSWERED |" You can get an answer to any | question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, | 1322 Néw York avenue, Washing- | ton, D. C.. enclosing two cents in | | stamps for reply. Medical, legal and | | marital adviée cannot be given, nor can = extended research be under- | taken. Ail other questions will re- | ceive a personal reply. Unsigned re- | | quests cannot be answered. All let- | | when the street throws off its mask | ec vivacity —To my mo-, Among doo-dads in one I'noticed tion the fascinating hour along |sun-lamps, fishing - tackle, golf Broadway is between 6:30 and 7:30 | clubs, tennis rackets, bathing suits, ir. the evening. It is the period | mechanical toys, latest books, safe- ty razors, pocket knives, candy, um- and beccmes humanized. Sight seers | brellas, auto tire covers, clocks and disappear and Broadway is left to |playing cards. To be an old tease I its grifters, its denizens. {asked a clerk if he carried lip- Bright eyed girls with that strain- | sticks. He reached for some. And eddy into doorways to|I did a skating slide right out. to hawk-nosed, | —_ New York, Sept. whisper amorously rémember ters are confidential.—Editor. | | Q. How many U. S. Government | il Service employees are in Washington, D. C.? { | A On June 1930 the num- ber -was 68,510 | Q. What is the value of annual | sales of the Woolworth stores? | A. In 1920 the total was $303,- | 047,173 Q. Where is New Zealand? | whom does it belong. and | longuage is spoken there? | A, 1t is a Dominion of the Brit- ish Empire in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of a chain of is- | lands lying southeast.of Australia. | The language is English except | among the native Maoris. | Q. Which is the oldest empire in | {the world? A, Japan Q. When did the Great Messina- | Reggio earthquake occur? A. December 28, 1908. that Messina was. partly by earthquake in 1783, Q. When was the Library of | | Congress at Washington, D. C. | established ? A. It was established in 1800, land was destroyed in 1814 by the British when they burned the Capi- tol. Later it was replenished by pur- chase of the library. of Thomas Jef- ferson, but was again destroyed by | fire in. 1851. | Q. Who and where white child born in States? A, Virginia Dare, born in | Jamestown, Va. But according to | Norse legend, Gudrid. wife of Thor- | finn Karlsefni, gave birth to a son, | Snorri, in the Norse settlement in Vinland (possibly New England, | Labrador or Nova Scotia) in the | vear 1007. Q. To -what extent have the rumber’ of horses-on farms in the TUnited States decreased in the last twenty veara? A.- The Department of Agricul- | ture estimates the number of | horses on farms in the United | States on January 1. 1930, at 13.- 440,000. The 1910 Census enumer- |ated 19,533,113 horses on farms. Q. What are the French names | | tor the white and volk of an egg? A. White of an egg. ‘“blanc | a'oeut;” volk, “jaune d'oeuf.” Q. Can an alien be deported | | from the United State atter a spa- | cified number of years' resxdenc&' | for failing to take out citizenship | | papers? i A. Immigrants are not compell- | ed to become American citizens ne | ma‘ter how long they live in the United States, and they cannot be deported for failure to do <o, Q. Do sturgeon spawn in fresh or salt water? On what do they foed? A. Most of the species of mi- gratory and ascend streams to spawn, but some live permanently in fresh waters. They spawn in the spring and summer and are prolific, | a large female producing from two ‘L) three million eggs. consmutmg} | from a fifth to a third of its en- | |tire weight. They feed on small animals and plant Q. How can evaporated milk be | whipped ? A. Place a can in a pan of cold To | what Prior to destroyed was the first the United | | tet boil for five minutes, from the | | time it ‘begins to boil. Cool and | | prace in a pan of ice and salt (3| | parts of ice to 1 of salt) and whip | until stiff. ! Q@ How old | banks? | A, Forty-seven years. | @ How is the pressure | column of water calculated? | A To find the pressure in| pounds per square inch, multiply | | the height of the column in feet by | | 434 ] Q. How can oil stains be remov- | ed from leather? A. Dabh the spot carefully with spirits of sal ammoniac, and after allowing it to act for a while wash | with clean water. This treatment | may have to be repeated a few | times, taking care not to injure the color of the leather. | @ Who was the first Chief Jus-| {tice of the United States Supreme Court? A. John Jay. of New York Q. In what direction does continent of South America lie relation to North America? A. Southeast Pave Joins With TI;eger In Fight on Organization Waterbury, Sept. 2—William J.| Pape. Waterbury publisher, candi-| date for the nomination as comp-| troller on the Levitt ticket, and John W. Jaeger. opponent of the regular republican’” town organiza- tion headed by Edward W. Goss. joined forces vesterday in filing duplicate anti-organization tickets for the primaries to be held Thurs- day. The combined tickets have a total of 420 names, 35 delegates and 35 alternates to each of the conven- tions, Explanation of the between the two for aid that is Fair- | Dougzlas of -a the | in | combination anti-organization e came through the fact that Mr. Pape is interested only in the state aspects of the con- test, while Alderman Jaeger is terested chiefly in having Adam Cal- lan succeed former Senator Goss as town chairman Sur | loids. Gold | interlude in the turmoil. | settle on camp chairs to puff pipes. | |as a morning sun. Many have facial | |ism" with a greater hell's-bells-and- | | Who thought all in-| affect airplane| From A. K. Ci *I pimply veuths who yawnin bore- | when you were reported wing shoulders and dem. Actors with police dogs chorus giils with Pekes and Pomps | your idea of a giddy time seems to drift irom side street rooming |be to walk vour dog.” houses. | That and pressing Jobless musicians with flowing | books. ties group along curbs awaiting the| (Copyright, 1930, McNaught break. Taxi drivers sink in their| Syndicate, Inc.) COURT' ATTENTION across sidewalks to movie ticket cages and chat with the unsmiling 'Back-Seat Driver's Responsibil R e ity Wil Be Given Gonsideration to lock up flowers in blondes inside. | The flux of life congeals. Ladies | Policemen enjoy the hour as an| They chaff | about town drop artifices and talk | to people they know without usual‘ guile. They -are conscious of that | cconomic complexity of their lives —the struggle to live and support their men, too. Orange juice jerkers and skylark. Near Irving Berlin's| Washington, Sept. 2 (P—The su- music publishing house in, the upper |Preme court will have an opportu 40°s will be found song writers |Nity this fall to decide whether the wrestling with new themes, knit. |automobile “back-seat driver” is e Broneh orer new Boie legally bound to warn the man at Old men at corner news hutches |the Wheel of impending dangers. Among the great number of casss piled up during the summer recess of the court is one brought by insur- ance companies seeking to escape liability for damage in acciden which they believe might have been averted by automobile passengers. Other peculiar cases arc before the court. It will be asked to de- termine whether death from sun- stroke renders an insurance com- pany liable under an accident p icy and whether blood poisoning caused by the removal of a hair from the nose is accidental deati. | Patent infringements suits covering |a wide variety of subjects from ce- Among Tenderloin characters are | : astonishingly old-young men __ | ment mixers to neckties are seeking straight as Indians and clear-eved [TeVIENS. o The motion picture industry scar mementos of adventure. They | ¥atching the outcome of two anti- are not braggarts but have lived |tTUSt suits in which-the governme: dangerously and speak casually and |charged distributors of films with authoritatively of Capetown and far |'lolating the federal law. The as- away places, How they live, o one |Sociated bill posters of the United krows. But they, pay their way, |States are trying to set aside a con- sl viction at New York under the an trust law, as are dealers in candy |and confectioner: Mid-town is especially appealing | oq at Chicago. these mist hung nights. Another theatrical season is on. Song birds | rchearse at the Met. Flo Ziegfeld |s:m,_, omEthane e A e back with a Hollywood tan.'and a | has been devised with a compart- spy in our Roaring Forties Depart- | o ont holding several dishes and ment informs us padlocked DInty | liatters for the purpose. Moore’s will open soon. | Touts, gigolos and the rest of the money boys. like those white | ggly things emerging from sud- denly lifted rocks. fill chop houses for copious cups of black coffee. Clerks hang to awning ropes and become neighborly from doorways. Ballyhoo men of sucker and notch joints the bediamoned auctioneers drop the professional manner. It is a fleeting hour " and the street as cuddenly stiffens into spunrlass brittleness. Broadway is Broa'way again, casy To keep food warm after remov- and | Broadway every morning. But lately | produets, convict- | BARBER FINED FOR BOBBING TRESSES ;'Ghime Snippers Must Have | Consent of Husband , | shanghai, Sept. 2 (® — Chinese |court authorities in this city have |made it an offense for a barber to cut a woman's hair without the con«< sent or knowledge of her husband. | ‘The ruling was handed down at the conclusion of a case brought be< for the Shanghai district court in which a barber was accused of caus- ing a rupture between a man and hig wife by cutting the latter’s hair. Pleaded With Husband The wifc, it developed, had plead« jed with her husband on numerous |occasions to let her follow the dic« "!MFS of fashion and to have her locks shorn, stressing the discomfort of abundant hair in the sunimer. The husband resented the idea, condemn ing it as immodest. While out shopping one morning, the wife chanced to look into the | window of a barber shop. Another of Ihér sex was inside having her hair | bobbed. The vision made her envious |and throwing discretion to the |winds, she hurriedly entered the |place and within a short space of |time avas out again, minus her tres« | On arriving home, her husband | beat her for disobeying his orders Her screams attracted the attention [of the police and the irate male soon [found himself standing before the | aistrict court judge on a charge of cruelty to his wife. | Barber Fined $2 Although he pleaded guilty to the | charge of wife beating, he placed all the blame on the barber, who was |accordingly arrested and brought be« |fore the tribunal. Holding that the |act of cutting a woman's hair was not illegal in itself but became so when it tended to upset the peace of | family life, the tonsorial artist was | fined 32. | The barber protested on the | grounds that the action was unjust. |He didn't know the woman's hus- |band had objected to her getting a | hair-cut and besidgs if he did, what difference would it make and whose business was it anyway. The court re« | plied that he had better make it his | business in the future to find out whether or not women who came to Mim for a hair-cut had first ob= tained their husband's permission. The husband was fined $1 at the same zession tor beating his wife | _ = | FOR BEST RESULTS USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS 7 € SCENIC WAY fo™\ LOW FARES Comfortable buses, courteous operators Travel by bus for economy and pleasure. Leave Railroad Stationy, Round 5330 3 5 n 0 ‘Trlp e 5 P. M. (E. 8. T) INCW England Transportation Coy One way 8 Fare 2 T am likely prejudiced because he | (—. iz an old friend, but it seems to me | Don Clarke is writing *“raw real Your friends will be asking. and holds | the side. fuzzio than Hemingway, down a publicity job on His Louis Beretti” was a knock- out. His newest “Millie,” has the same red-corpuscled motif and pa- | gan sublimity. It should register him among top writers of his Even if T did not like his newest tome I could turn cartwheels from the Circle to Herald Square over the dedication which is: “To Gladys: that authors were writing—until she tections for chooring the ingredients, in your coilection -of chicicc -recipes Fil | saLaps eprror w 1322 New York Avenue, Washinj enclose herewith five cents in coin, l turn postage and hardling costs: NAME Is'r & No. Icz’rr 3 good for met me."” was It's absurd, of course, but I sit here wondering if a man who has chain | tobacco shop could guess what it is. 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