New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1930, Page 6

(o New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING OOMPANY New Britain, Connecticut Issued Dafly (Sundsy Xxcepted) At Herald Bldg., 67 Church Street BUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00 a Year $2.00 Three Months 75¢c. a Month Entared at the Post Office at New Britain a3 Becond Class Mall Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office 925 Editorial Rooms 926 |in November."” | aly. The only profitable advertising mediam {n the Oity. Circulation books and press | room always open to advertisers. | | himself Member of the Associated Press | The Associated P 18 exclusively en- | titled to the use for re-publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein. Member Audit Bureau of Clrculation The A. B. C. is a national organization | which furnishes newspapers and adver- | tisers with s strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistics are based upon this audit. This insures pro- | tection Against fraud in newspaper dis- tribution figures to both national and local advertisers. | The Herald 1s on sle dafly tn New Yok at Hotaling’s Newsstand, Times Bquare; EBchults's Newsstand, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street. | for OUR OWN INTELLIGENCE TEST | The young men and you boys girls, likewise the | women, are back at the founts ar | They will be subject to various grades. Including intelligence tests. No modern educational system is | complete nowaday without an in- telligence test S0 we bring forth today our own intelligence test. One which doss | not require m arithmetic—if any alge —or much and Just plain horse se of it Ws thoug Superintendent Holmes or Principal Slade with this in thought of tests are for students, not for the profs. Besides, it sometimes is too bad if the profs get stuck with some first lligence test. But better it. Intelligence of their own ammunition. | | The idea in this intelligence test | fo answer it immediately; and| mentally. Thinking it over for halt | an hour is no good. Anybody with sufficie to run for Congress to do his mental figuring in ten sec- | the correct answer intelligence hould be able onds and have | ready. | | But Congress atter ten would be it every man running for | had to answer the thing | seconds of figuring there no Congress. | | | Here it is: CAN EAT SIX RATS IN SIX MINUTES HOW LONG WILL IT TAE 100 CATS TO EAT 100 RATS? IF SIX CATS | ment One, three, four, five seven, two. eigh —and o BELL to the schools and THE SCHOOL As children flock today some do so others with regret. This may be contrary to the popu- lar notion that all children wend | their way to the school houses with | feet. There is a cheer leaden difference, even in child As for the scarcely be anyt en. parents, there can tisfactior at the resumption of schiool hours During the summer v n period too m chil to have nothing " 10 do but borhood rumpuses Many paren opinion that the are too long. MAINE ds al show so THE SHOW IN Today its preliminary polit Maine proceeds to put on th, the nation tal elections elsev may note how h to turn out in the Iy Democr Wdmen e tor an nation camp night = mistic addresses i Field says the state by nation,” statist Robinzor ch {umbia Annour 1826, show { when they noticed they were on the | the armies and | har sional elections there is very little relationship between Republican strength registered at the Maine ballot box in September and the ability of the Republican party to gather votes throughout the nation The investigation showed that predictions based on the Maine elec- tions were found to be in error from one to 89 seats, about 20 seats per election. Incident- | the years when strong third | party movements flourished, compli- cating the situation, were not in- cluded. These years were 1878, 1890 and 1914. Yet Mr. Fess, hoping to continue fooling the great American public, goes into Maine to help swell the totals so as der grandoldparty to influcnce the re of the coun There zame is nothing that wrong the doesn’'t work xcept it | . | SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTIONS | Nothing succeeds like a revolution —when sid Down 1n he army and navy are on the revolutionists, i Argentina, one of the lics of South Am nd navy put up with President-Dictator Hipolito Irigoyen three big re ica, the ten years, during eight years of which dictator was rarely seen but was the “mystery man” who ran | ry from wherever he hap- | to he domiciled vas an “iron rule "—so long | army and navy allowed him his role. climax came suddenly: and | suddenly every department of the | sovernment joined the leaders of the | revolution, who were identified with | the forces. fought the some of country's armed Even police, who at first the revolutionists and slew them, turned in their allegiance side with sser number of guns | commission | primaries, | th or,an average of immunition. Government | nd others wearing uni- | found on which side | ad be- | olutionary was Dbuttered and ame re yes-men The only kind of revolts that get anywhere are those identified with navies. A dozen | vears ago the Bolshevists turned | | Russia inside out with the help of | all and Germany the soldiers that thoroughly crashed when the navy and army joined the movement that led to the kaiser fleeing to Holland. Only a week ago bullets were needed; ang their Peru and President uia was deposed in a small-bore | tragic song in revolution having political aspects In some parts of South America it remains impossible for the outs (o win an election without gunplay. Irigoyen once was highly popular; but his style of political dictatorship began to pall, especially when his | apointments and promotions went to political friends and supporters only. He had built up a government of friends and acquaintances, throwing | merit to the winds. His party, honey- combed with factions, finally fell from his control and army and navy lead piqued at the appoint- | and fearful that the public ultimately would be endan- ped in to “save the situ- al Jose Evaristo Uriburo and miral Storni now have the upper | “South American™ and an admiral Sounds quite to have a general running the show for a spell. NEW CITY HIGHWAYS The improvement of a few it avenue more strects vhich badly need Osgood section of There is tor stance, T the city zrown tremendously the last dc- tr in 0Osgood just the con- ction of road popular route from the road to the northern Plainvi section of the city, making it pos- that congestion and of the sible for motorists from out way to avoid the lights the center city There thought zht would be hown o for iness now that \c congestion imped and discours bilities it the less throu, jowntown the better i Improvement of fares really improves tions downtown, ér eliorate ORGANIZATION STT Comment thro party organ nization city does well to consider the | methods of in- | has | | everyone is a littl | | this sort | cutting out and around him Frank R. Kent, noted political ob- server, says the primaries are more important to the organization than the general election. It is in the primaries where the orgamization cohorts set up their machinery. The independents—in thought and to participate in desiring to forcgo independence by claiming filiation with on—refuse not af- any party That is just what the organization wants and needs, “Let us set up the candidates and you do the voting, tion slogan. Then, when' the state convention convenes, all or nearly all the dele- is the organiza- gates are chosen to act in accord- ce with the wishes from the most That's popular government a la Nutmegia, by and with the consent omew important business deal on Fri- | the people who don't care to be po- | | —all sorts of intelligent people who | litical dissenters from the state political religion. prevaii- 5 Most of them are perfectly satis fied so long as flate omobile tires. PRIVATE BUS ROADS A solution to lems arising fre fe vexatious prob- the increasing passenger traffic from highway Mark version of railroad trains to motor coaches is foreseen by Mar- shall, head of the motor transporta- | tion division of the and his forec the a st of eventual solution seems to be sound one. He predicts that before | many years have elapsed motor bus companies will ways and remove their vehicles from roads. run- build private high- the publicly supported ning them on those of their own creation. This solution be welcomed by the average motor- if it develops, wiil ist. Buses move rapidly and do not block motor traftic as big trucks do, but they take up a great deal of highway and generally pidation in the heart of The sight of one of the big inter-city down on him rcom on the inspire the average driver coaches bear- ing even though it kkeeps to its own side of the road. is not one to inspire confidence in an automobile operator. and heart flips are redoubled at night as the lights of a huge bus glide silently toward him, To the speedy driver a bus con- stitutes a difficult object to pass, while to the slow one the big coach, triving to maintain its schedule, is another and more dangerous vehicle So tne removal of the buses from the high- ways would be more than acceptable to all classes of private drivers. But why should the bus companies g0 to all this it would more than trouble? Simply be- benefit themselves the general pub. lic. Away from all other traffic, with no crossroads, traffic lights, traffic jams, and patrolling police to hamper them, they could not only cause even maintain their edules with great- er facility but could actually cut down their running time materially. And the m ts of way by transportation com- panies is certainly no new departuie Iroads have always done it. “HE DOCTORS STILL ACTIVE Just the other day a Pennsylvania woman gave further evidence of the credulity of many even in these days, toward charms, “hex'" doctors, etc; A “hex" doctor offered to dispel an o discase the usual faking brew from what little money fortune tellers, ganic by made had. The likewise the the this money ppeared, “hex" doctor, and illness re- Undoubtedly ch " h mzined weman's faith in s pocus is sadly shalsen, not en Under the surface of thi superstitious, course. Mankind has only within the last couple of hundred years begun to abandon of the it once held for witches, hobgoblins, Even now there are still plenty many fears ete. of gullible people who will swallow | of teaching and look for more. Right here in Connecticut there readers kindred mind rlatans of th ablers still in signs, dreams nd other Jor example of the “policy kinds book goes strong in some cities, particu- in Waterbury. Practically un- New Britain rly heard among many it beliefs one of the the realm of dents, it represents rangest in chance. of this A knowledge of work- ambli e alone, many other of | the | refuse J. Henry Roraback | | doesn't interfere with the supply of | | fresh air for the lungs. | Or the fresh air that is used to in- | Texas railroad | | but a watched 1intenance of their own | ignorant people, | {ernment army and the red army | | picture | avoid rely ahandon.d. | of | | (Copyright hundreds of people who believe | | No: | Main and ready reference, giving the page on which the number corresponding appears. Suppose the gullible gambler walks down the street and sees an automobile accident. Convinced that | this incident spells Tuck for him, he | immediately turns to “accident™ in | | the book, finds that the “accident | | number™ is 334, perhaps, and rushes off | policy pool. The net result, of course. | is that it he is lucky enough to be to play that number in the holding one of the winning numbers he is more than ever convinced that | dream book is simply wonder- ' ful. { Generally he loses, even as every- | one who gambles in one of these | schemes loses. Women who believe in fortune | tellers, men who will not undertake | day—particularly on Friday the 13th | to walk under a ladder or | | cat to oross their superstitious peo- | a black these allow paths—all ple are common enough. Fortunate ly for most of us the old ideas about witches and curses and medicine men are gradually dying out. All such stunts are 100 per cent trickery | and the sooner the world realizes this, the less money will be lost to fakirs, | Facts and Fancies By Robert Quillen Then there’s the endurance trial| for which you need no equipment except neighbors. It is fine to be sincere in all that vou say, provided you don't care about having friends. The strange thing about the homiclde rate is that it includes so few of those who feel morally su- perior to their neighbors. A nice man is one who wears a| mere harness on the beach and is| afraid fo go out in his pajamas to| get the morning paper. | The new generation isn't naugh tler than the old. It just doesn't wait until it goes to the city. | Maybe a watched pot never boils, meter doesn't have that effect on a taxi passenger. | his | ob- Maybe Einstein developed theory that space is solid by serving that between ears. Tt is only fair to warn Bishop Cannon's bride that he takes his hat and walks out when the ques- tions are too personal. Government men trying to make stamps stick better might discover what makes your clothes feel that way in August. Anoble willingness to fight to preserve the right of free speech and a free conscience for those who agree with you. Americanism: Once in a while you see a con- scientious mother who is deter- mined to amuse the children no matter how much they suffer. It isn't hard to be a high-brow. You just pretend to understand when another pretends to be awed | by a messy daub of paint. The prize optimist is the one who thinks he will save money an cig- | ttes because tobacco sold at 10| cents. H Now all ‘we need is a palor rug with a few traps and hazards for | rainy-day putting. The man who had faith in the| Florida judge who said citizens| could make liquor for home use | will see his home again in 12 months. We try to keep up with the gov-| in China, but we never can remember | whose turn it is to pillage. | the Byrd serious.” of Richard autions and berate e it isn't heroic Tondon pa beca It to suffering. Mr supply of war, but Edison may discover a home | of rubber for use in time America will still -be | helpless without chicle for chewing gum. . Correct this sentence “If they wore silk hats and made that Kind of speeches.” said the cop, “I'd club ‘em the same way." 1930, Publishers Syn- dicate) the result of a few remarks by Principal White the | mal school yesterday, none of the | students came to school | today wearing white shoes. Mr. | White asked the girls to in | from wearing showy articles | The Industrial Workers will hold an open air meeting at the corner of | st Main streets Satur- | made voung lady day cvenin, Frank W. Johnson of the Britain council. 0. U. A. M., New | will at- | | twice a year after they. have | growth is |and | conditions pleasant, 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 New York avenue, ton, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and | marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be under- taker. All other questions will re- ceive a personal reply. Unsigned re- | quests cannot be answered. All let- ters are confidential.—Editor. Q. Do fruit trees bloom twice a year? A. Sometimes they ever bloom been injured in the spring, or when, the checked by a drought, which tends to give the trees a rest period. When normal conditions oc- cur, the trees renew their activity blossom. One or two varieties will habitually tips of branches late in the fall. Q. H Henry Ford a rubber plantation in Brazil? A. Yes. Q. Was the land ] 1913 law or alien in sed in passed to hold- their The law was pa In 1920 another act wa prevent alien Japanese from ing lands in the names of minor American-born children. Q. What is the value of a Unit- ec States half dollar dated 1808? A. It is cataloged at 50 to cents. Q. Which blind United States Senator has a large German police dog to lead him? A. Minnesota. Q. What is the home address of 55 | Rogers Hornsby, the baseball play-|rors with a7 A, Anglum. Missouri Q. What is the middle name of Edward Grieg .the composer? A. Hagerup. Q. States have the largest population? A. They rank in order as fol- lows: New York, Chicago, Phila- delphia, Detreit, Los Angeles and Cleveland Q. What part did Dorothy Lee play in “The Cuckoos” and what will She played the part of Anita in “The Cuckoos ance will be in rise."” Q pors? A. Steam is aqueous gas into which water “Half Shot at Sun- Are steam and fog both va- vapor, the changed by boiling which is transparent until it | is con- in the begins to condense densed watery the atmosphere carth's surface. Q. tariff on imports? A. The general purpose is to protect American products and te raise revenue for the government. Q. Who were the principals the cast of “The Unknown?" A. Lon Claney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford. Nick de Ruiz, Jokn George and Frank Lanning. Q. Why do o many people go to Reno, Nevada. to obtain a divorce? A. Because the law of that state permits a divorce to be granted fler 3 months residence, and on sity establ'thed grounds Q. Should lima beans that are to be dried be picked while green? A. They should be picked before they ripen, and while they are still tender and green. Spread them on a cloth in the sun to dry Q. Is it possible to rain artificially ? A. The United States Weather Bureau definitely asserts that cannot produce rain at will. They say “it is quite true that in a lab- oratory a small amount of moisture can be precipitated by using spe- cial equipment, but meteorologists know of no practical scheme of pro- ducing rain on a large scale, Wide- spread drought due to lack of ufficient meisture in the air——If there is little mot to down, odviouzly no device for ca ing rainfall has any value. Q. On which finger should cchool ring be worn? A. Usually on the little finger. or third finger of the right hand. Q. How many theaters in the United States are equipped for sound pictures? A. Of the 23.000 theaters in the country about half are equipped for sound pictures. Q. What is the lowest tempera- ture that has been attained through laboratory experiments? A. .Prof. W. H. Keesom, ciet chief of the cryogenic (cold producing) laboratory of the Uni- ersity of Leyvden. Netherlands, complished the difficult and haz- rdous feat by solidifying helium sas, at 458.58 degrces below Zero I'ahrenheit. Pros Stia;t_G(ifiTilrt Fog vapor suspended at or near in c produce a At Flushing Links Today | Fresh Meadow Golf Club, Flush- | ing. N. Y., Sept. 8 (P—With a touch of autumn weather making playing professional golfers set out today in a 36 hole qualifying test of the Professional ‘Washing- | develop blossoms on the | of | in | 1913. | What six cities in the United | be the title of her next pic-| | ture2" Her next appear- | What is the purpose of the | man | physi- New York 5. —Diary of a modern Pepy loo in the street and a Park Ave- nue burgher in tails and silk hat was on the loose and a constable led him away, still shouting. So to my barber where I dropped to sleep again and he let me sleep an hour At high noon with my wife to a wedding and the greom a statue in chalk and to see newly home from Thence walking the .avenue and home where came cvening shirts from Jim Oviatt, which will not pop like a new saddle when howing. Laboured and with Mike Alice Hogg along Fost road. ping at an Italian inn nea oneck but irritated the management wanting nothing to drink save iced Sept Hollywood. and stop- pole Street,” the | beth Barrett Browning, until late My Hollywood under-cover manre- lays a pointless story of Gloria Swan- son, Bebe Daniels and the Span- |ish shawl. Miss Swanson wore the shawl to a party. Miss Daniels |gurgled her admiration and was forced to accept it as a gift. Two weeks later Miss Swanson dropped in to see Miss Daniels. The shawl decorated a piano lid. And why not? | Piano lids, balconies or ash cans are | the place for them. | Window shopping high lights: A white heart cigarette lighter for Milady. Neckties, hose and handker- | | Senator Thomas D. Schall of | chiefs in black and white for gen- | |tlemen. A mother of pearl lipstick | with diamond solitaire. Hand mir white background. A ne” with black knob Polo coats of looks like a white ¢ fer eveni cashimere. wint It white Personal nomination for the | dandiest girl T have ever known — Mrs. O. O. McIntyre. Every metropolitan 5 minutes theater may be emptied in 5 Al are fireproof. The most horrible theater fire in the history of the town was in the Brooklyn Theater, 50 years ago. The dead totaled 300. “The Two Orphans” was playing when flames licked out of the ceiling. There were no fire escapes and | only four small exits. Something I've never seen in New York: An aproned housewife with | head turbaned in a black cloth, |ing a feather duster. And I wonder if there are any old | fashioned people left who just come into a room at parties in- stead of ‘“‘making an entrance.” To the Broadway consciousness every butter and egg man hails from Oswego. This is coupled with the hoary theory every yap is & | product of Oshlkosh. A note from a | |head waiter says in years of | greeting out-of-towners in a sucker | establishment he never met a per- |sen from Oswego or Oshkosh. | fop. who made a fortune interior decorating, his shirts es- | pecially dyed in pastel tints | Charvet in Paris. And wears, the | ribbon bow cuff links. 1 don't | want to be around when he sits |down. An edging of lace might show. An impressive event of last week | concerns the personal service of a | {laundry, whose slogan is et us a bachelor—Bernard Sobel, if are a hound for detail—leaping in- to his shorts, found a top button gone. ( | he got results with a paper clip. Mamar- | white | by | g about for a substitute | ,The clip remained when it rusty. On the second visit more rusted. But on the third trip where the rusty clip recently was a bright and untarnished new clip | gleamed. Silly town, Joe, a - character recently observed: “I the court house is."” 2i broad laine R No, indeedy Ithaca (Copyright. 1930, | Syndicate, you were summer,” thought this goi post-car I summered McNaught Inc.) Observations On The Weather D. Ca | Southern New England. | cloudy tonight and Tuesd |ably showers in south portion {night; cooler tonight in north | tion; moderate northerly winds. | Eastern New York: |and Tuesday; comewhat southern portion tonight; northerly winds diminishing. New Haven and vicinity: Fair a |cooler tonight; Tuesday cloudy; probably followed by sho; ers Tuesday night or Wednes | A disturbance of slight is central off the middle Atlan | coast. High pressure covers the la | region. Pressure is relatively lover the southern states and t southwest, Cool weather prevails the northeastern portion .of country. Rains were reported |the Ohio Valley, the middle tic states and southern New land tea. Reading “Andromeda in Wim- | romance of Eliza- | Sept. Par cooler i t in our wish T Rube Goldberg, had as much to eat as I know where | ng rds in tly prob- | four d: to- por- Fair tonight in fresh nd partly | w- | intensity | tic ke low he in he from | Atlan- Eng- | ! St. Louis INSURANGE HEADS OPEN CONVETION ' Delegates Arrive. for Hartlord ‘ Conference Today Hartford, Sept. 8 (UP)—Leading figures in the insurance world of the United States and Canada gatherec went to | here today for the opening session Stirred by a hulaba- | the laundry and came back slightly | of the 6ist annual two-day conven- it was tion of the national convention of insurance commissioners. Commissioner Howard P. Dunham of Connecticut. president of the as- sociation, presided. In addition te | the commissioners and supervisors | of insurance from nearly every state | of the United States and several { Canadian provinces who were dele- gates to the convention, scores of | executives of insurance companies were present to attend open hearings on some of the problems of the busi- ness. : | Some of the subjects scheduled for discussion were the merit-rating | plan for automobile owners and dri | vers, automobile financial responsi< |bility laws, taxation and insurance | cost factors. The scheduled speakers |included Commissioner Clarence .C- Wysong, Indiana; Superintendent R, | Leighton Foster, Ontario, and Com« missioner Charles D. Livingston, Michigan. After the convention the commis- sioners will tour New England for . concluding their journey at Providence, R. 1 RHEUMATISM | | Pain ends almost at once—often never to return—according tor thousands who have discovered the. amazing results from using Muscletone Big bottle $1.00, all drug stores: | Conditions favor for this vicinity: | | Fair weather with slightly lo\wr‘ temperature. Temperatures: Atlanta | Atlantic Boston | Butfalo Chicago Cincinnati | Denver i uth Hattera ILos An Mia City | Nantuc | Nashville ew Haven ew Orleans |New York Norfolk ... Northfield Pittsburgh Portland — | | CRISI | Your frien terve them > uew bulletin SALADS AND SALAD tions for chooring tho ingredien the most tasty dressing are will be asking, 6 ES AN 58 58 ts, contained in the bulletin. The Beacon Recommends: ANGEL PAVEMENT” By J. B. Priestley Author of ‘The Good Companions' Last Week's Recommendation “SEED” | 85 WEST MAIN ST. 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Weld, William nd Eli Th {will or solfers’ association championship "he 32 low scorers today match play tomorrow. The Fresh M long and closely trapped the {ed to perfect condition. The yard TS, | of the course was stretched to 6.5¢ lly | vards for the championzhip. Par i ve high the | Tounds ow club course wa oo xcept that | e since modating Britcin lodge of Liks| The pros went out in s session on Octo- | Poter O'H P o nna’s armory instead of [nar, Elmira: and Pat Circelli, clambake as originally planned. | Rochelle, leading the way. There 50 deaths in this city | | during the month of August. Of this | {number 24 were among children be- | 1o one year of age | The post office broke a record in dling of registered mail mat- erday. No fe than 458 were received and distributed of three, Tom Bon- New were DROWNS IN BATH TUB Ma Sept S (P—Mrs. Sarah Platt, 51, drowned in the i bathtub of her heme today after had fallen i it during a faint- spell. isting L er ing will enter |