New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 6

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The Herald ia on sale daily tn New York at Hotaling's Newsstand, Times Square; Schults's Newsstand, Entrance Grand Central, 4ind Btreet. Or perhaps Judge Crater is hid- ing in a crater. Reporter says he didn't realize it was warm until the city cd asked him to dig up a heat story. From then on he felt uncomfortable all day. The Black Rock bridge and ap- proaches are now virtu complete- ed., Let the prudent city have bags of sand ready for use in else many a motorist may slide to an finish down the pretty hill. winter, ignominious It that the other is said in the public prints day a college pro- fessor was bilked out of a neatsum | of money by a party who offered to sell him a quarter interest in a leading American advertising agen- cy. 1t seems strange indeed that educated persons appear as eagcr to buy interest in the , Brooklyn bridge or the White House as un- tutored fellows who just know better, no DRYS AND A THIRD PARTY Heretofore the Drys have been able to bedevil the two major par- ties. They have made it possible for millions of Wet Republicans to vote for the Dry Republican ticket and its candidates; and have ‘made it possible for Dry Democrats— those who adhered principles strongly enough—to vole for Wet Democratic candidates. Wets and Drys in both parties submerged their beliefs on prohibi- tion under the party emblem. Matters are coming to a different pass. In some states, particularly important the Republican party has begun to listen to Wet leaders and is adopting Wet plat- to Jeffersonian states, forms. With the Republican are more or less the Drys arc put order they both the Democratic and officially definitely Wet, position [ parties into the to continue talking where, in carry on, are going back where they started from | —to the of Prohibi tion party. formation a In the old days before the Anti- Saloon League was a pov the Jand and began its campaign 1o s port Dry as means of elec ap- candidates in any ing Drys to office, Prohibition had there This support was a party prohibition of all candidates for It party Prohibitionists; it President ran other offices body. It would of the forced, never any- be it order Wet strategical re the platforms and a tre first Drys were through intentions the R lican ties of to their pristine in important to return states method of concen- trating Dry sentiment in a Prohibi tion, third pa There could be or in forming suc hope of being and the publican This party in hope assuniing that such a for instance, would lican party far niore harm the Democr Drys of the refusal of vention fo ada litt) irritated a Wet pl Charles one mercly a more adopting o ting advocate of Governor have set the in to start a Dry party. Aniong candidates desirc Frank E. ( lisher It plan nnett, n the s go throug all Dry ohibitionists in York will he able to show t world just how numerous they —including two major parties. The party especially Republican itself to be dominatc will be has allowed by mir the Drys 1o deter their numerical importance for tuture guidance, i party | e and | pac- | motion which And when this happens the Re- publican and Democratic parties no doubt will be forced to wonder how it ever came about that the Empire State was induced to ratify 18th Amendment. ne THE LEAGUE AND THE KELLOGG PACT Dissension caused in the Assembly of the League of Nations regarding methods to harmonize the League Covenant to bring it into accord with the Kellogg treaty is as expect- ed. The contradiction between tae League covenant and the Kellogg treaty was brought up in the Lea- gue Assembly last year, when a | committee of eleven was appointed {to draft amendments to conform with the Kellogg pact. These amend- ments are now being discussed. The covenant of the League, un- like the Kellogg treaty, does not outlaw war. That it is necessary for the League to keep step with the ideals of the Kellogg treaty is wide- ly accepted, but unfortunately the acceptance is not unanimous among the nations represented. One difficulty is that six members of the League—Abyssinia, Argen- tina, Bolivia, Colombia, Salvador and Uruguay—have not signed the | Kellogg treaty, while cight signa- tories of the treaty—including the United States and the Soviets of Russia—are not members of the League. But the chief difficulty seems {o be that France and her supporters —Poland, Yugoslavia, Czochoslova- and Rumania—desire to guaranteed primarily by threat while Great Brit- said kia peace of armed force, ain. Germany and Italy are to be inclined to place more reli- ance on the moral power of inter- national public opinion, on which the Kellogg treaty is based. If the League fails to conform its | covenant with the Kellogg treaty then it is reasonable to regard the Kellogg treaty important in conserving world peace than the born with that as more League, which was end in view SHOES AND THE TARIFF England shoe interests— meaning the manufacturers—seem seem disposed to be not at all sat- isfied with the tariff, and this s0 soon after the Administration got through ostensibly giving the coun- try a tariff that would make every- body happy Shoes under the Smoot-Hawley tariff were taken from the free list and a tariff of 20 per cent imposed. That means that if a pair of shoes costing $2 to import in this coun- try, 40 cents goes to the Govern- ment. In addition to this “tarif wall,” there is the cost of transpor- tation across the sea. The shoe industry is not pleased with the result of the new tariff. The tariff was particularly aimed at which is the first country to adopt the production system New Czechoslovakia, European American mass in the making of shoes, building up vast business and beating all competitors in Europe. Massachusetts shoe interests have | discovered that the recently execu- ted tariff 1 all against shoes from Czechoslova- is no protection at kia. The Fordized plants in that up- and-coming little hurd- | ling the American wall with alacri- nation are for instance, who told Joseph Butler, | | ity | is a shoe manufacturer, a | Bos- shoe clans that meeting of the in | ton the other day he knew of store selling shoes to the value £20,000 made in Czchoslovakia. one f $ )00, which worth of were Where there is one there must be hers. The manufacturers in New jof are strongly in favor of the therefore, Tariff Commission gland, | | and | the President doing something to raise the tariff above 20 per cent But while this discussion was go- ing on in Boston a financial report of a great St. Louis shoe firm was in the papers. Business, it reported, fall trade and at full was booming for the factories were working cap- be some in the must thing that England ind competition When New| esis the ndustry, like the textile been slipping in with other states in the Union goes into shoc stores—in land—and finds made in Middle West hoes, d not too 1ently comes across shoes in New gland one cannot must 1 and do something wrong t all the not lie with fault (il PYDINGS ON NEW ENGLAND Tydings ot SENATOR Maryland rful enss | the Democratic senatorial paign committee naturally this tour Havi lude land naturally imselt able to f tion He right be wrong he parts may or h be hut anyway is ful | o prilliant opportunity to carry Mas s casy to agrec with that the Democrats have shoe | 1stry, | help thinking is Being chairman of | oyay through | deems cheer- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930. sachusetts, electing both the Gov- ernor and the U. 8. Senatorship; and also winning a goodly portion the representatives to the lower branch of Congress. Massachusetis has been veering toward the Dem- of ocratic party with increaing mo- mentum, and it will be remember- ed that the vote of the state was for Al Smith in 1928. When the Maryland speaks of Connecticut he cheers up the Democrats to the tenth power, saying nothing at all that would please Mr. Roraback. “I felt that the Democrats Connecticut would carry the statc ticket to victory and would gain at the senator in least two representatives,” is view of Senator Tydings. This will cheer up Dean Cross no doubt. There will be some folks In Connecticut who do not share the but that doesn't the Senator and will not Senator's views; worry cause his dissenters to suffer from bad dreams. When the Maryland Senator says, however, that the Republican party is suffering from a split over the prohibition issue and is under a handicap because the * promised prosperity did not materialize, he unquestionably is correct. CLEANING THE POSTAL DEPARTMENT Postmaster General Brown should more on his mind than the charges for first class matl, which he be raised from 2 cents to 2 1-2 cents. And probably have insists shouud he has. According to revelations un- der way, the amount of money the postal department has been wastng through the renting of quarters in myriads of stances being victim of rent rack- cities, and in many in- eteers, is enough to cause any hard- working postmaster general to weep as at a funeral. In onc western city, for instance, it was brought out that the Gov- crnment had been bilked so thor- oughly that some of its minor of- ficials been asleep. Though conditions vary in many cities, the total of money paid out in high rentals makes a heavy dent in the postal accounts. In the Middle West it has been shown that professional bidders ap- peared upon the whenever the Government desired to rent a property, and through their fake bidding, connivance with the owners of such properties, the Gov- ernment was forced to bid to the tune must have scene in of millions more than the properties were worth on a rental basis. Postmaster General Brown is to be congratulated on evincing a de- sire to put a stop to this type of racketeering. It is a question, however, wheth- the Government is justified in renting When it pays er property at all. rents property it indirectly the owner. The ‘gov- ernment is not supposed to pay taxes. The new policy is not to pay rentals higher than $6,000 a year It is said that scarcely any of the branch stations in New England arc rented for that sum; but the Middle West and in the big cities the practice to pay more is said to be commro. If the post office wants to get nearer to being on a business basis a good way to begin would be with the rental feature. And that would be merely a begin- ning. There is a long way to go. taxes through for branch stations. in department PROMISING RURAL ROADS No doubt the Connecticut rural roads improvement advocates are well pleased at the facility with which the two parties have adopted | general principles on the subject in their platforms. The avoid taking such action. The rural been waging politicos, however, could not road advocates have a spirited campaign extending over several months and politicians nai- 1y things Somcone once said that politicul u take notice of such | platforms are not only handy things to stand on, but they are primarily o get in on set of politicos get into | thing After one less) that power one naturally hears about the platform planks were adopted as the political cam- { i paigns began Platform planks usually are couched m such general terms that | the Legislature can do almost any- | thing about them. And usually everything goes by the board is stu- of cconomy the m decide to | dents in party power there is not enough money carry out “the evident framers.” the intention of the I ® pay- platform where fetish pecially in a state 19-you-go policy is a of government The improved if they and rural roads, come, will cost be money that | manner | must procured in some not yet made clear. One would be the gasoline way to raisc and this 1931 no doubt a b taxes; to effect will provided at the the of Legislature That would provide considerable and planners money road 1im- t a more rural yrovement might g v comfortable slice of it Other means of raising money arc of skillful lso at hand, some our legisla- tors being very in devising il | ‘.m-{\na for procuring special taxes. | formed an organization Or, if worst comes to worst, the legislators can demand a development of the state goodly share of the money so far devoted more or less exclusively to the improvement of main highways. Or there can be a system where- by the towns containing rural roads to be improved can pay a goodly share of the expense; this being a aid plan for highways, but which does not seem to have worked sul- rural further isfactorily to all concerned. - The Democratic platform merely favors “the construction and main- tenance of good roads in the rural communities. The Republican platform favors more appropriations by the Legis- lature, but adds a’ proviso that the improvements be restricted to the “extent warranted by actual travel,” etc, and “under the direction of the state highway commission.” The latter would indicate that the tendency to lay the entire burden upon the state highway commis- sioner still prevails in Republican if there is public dis- satisfaction later with what the state highway commissioner does his broad shoulders, accustomed to ranks, and bearing local criticisms, may be ex- pected (o remain straight under the burden, as heretofore. Factsand Fancies By Robert Quillen A winning streak among yes-men is yellow. Filipino hasn't govern himself. think he is su- Of course the brains enough to What makes him perior to us? The alibis offered in the Zuta case clear up an ancient mystery. He was Santa Claus. H. G. Wells says women will be- come feminine again when mea grow whiskers. Hurrah for manly women. Ah, well; if they keep on sending people to jail, they'll finally get the right ones. A hick town is a place where a sound like a blow-out makes people chuckle instead of duck. The weather man's efforts to make it hot for England really weren't necessary with Gandhi on the job. The annual prize for being hard to satisty goes to the critic who complains that song writers no long- er produce tunes the populace will whistle. The definition of a prominent citizen is rather vague. He is any- body not bothered by a reform movement. Americanism: Arresting a few colored boys for shooting craps; posting a cop to protect a nice gambling place from roughnecks. It's true the people have no mon- ey to buy with, but what of it? They didn't have when times were beoming, either. Well, a lot of people predicted this would be a year without a Summer. And the kind of mess we've had couldn't be called a Sum- mer without taking a very charita- ble view. The situation isn't desperate while more of the suffering from hunger is caused by vanity instead of want. Nothing is wasted, and even chiggers are useful in giving this generation some faint conception of war. Hint to the Law: You can't make Willie quit stealing by licking him for not washing his neck. A dry town wicked and of bay is one where liquor the monthly con- rum is 30 bottles is sumption per capita Great minds may invent intricate ways to save the farmer, but in the end he always has another mort- gage as his net gain. | Still, Russians who think they J free because Stalin says they shouldn't yuestion the worth of per money that has the same dorsement. Correct this sentence: “He paid a fertune for his job as magistratey” said the man, “but it was only be- cause he wanted the honor.” Copyright, 1930, Publishers Syndicate 25 Years Ago Today A group of local citizens known as the anti-consolidationists. They are circulating many disquieting stories concerning the new charter. Samuel Bassett was renominated for the office of first sclectman at the democratic caucus held last evening. Bernard F. Gaffney was elected as the school committee candidate. Flour is cheaper today at retail than it was at wholesale a year ago. The drop in prices is duc to the large wheat crop this y The prohibitionists met last o ning and placed in nomination ticket to be voted upon at the nual town election. High school football is up in the air at the present time. Principal Akers has disciplined four members of the squad with the result that the entire team threatens to disband unless their teammates are again | placed on good standing The opening of the Kenilworth club rooms in the Sovereign building takes place tomorrow evening a an- at big that one the wall of are forecast in of a Bricks so would make bungalow an- nouncement new building ma of them a small the terial at Pennsylvania State college, have | | producers, too, was a worry | them sleepless anxiety D | no surety Gasoline Far Cheaper In Eastern Massachusetts Still further reductions of gasoline prices in certain sections of Massa- chusetts, with no effort made by any organized group of citizens to obtain relief for Connecticut motorists, leaves the Bay State paying four cents 4 gallon less for gasoline than New Britain drivers. Fall * River, New Bedford and towns along Cape | Cod, in particular, are paying 15 cents a gallon for the best grades of regular gas and 19 cents for the “ethyl” gas, while most of Connecti- cut still pays 19 and 22, with a frac- tion usually added. So much has been said about gas- oline prices—and so little done—that The Observer, no matter how indig- nant he may be over the high prices charged here, has little more to say on the subject. The figures speak for themselves. The selfsame brands are sclling at four cents less in| southeastern Massachusetts with the same gasoline tax added in each | case. The old excuse that it is four cents cheaper in these Massachusetts cities because of cheaper transpor- tation facilities, will hardly work this time, either, because earlier in the summer, gasoline in Massachu- | setts was two cents higher than it is there now. Unless some remark- able savings in wholesale deliveries have been made during that time, the cut in price in Massachusetts means only one thing—that the com- panies came down on their prices for | competitive reasons. | A little cut-throat retailing of gas- oline in New Britain would do a world. of good. Of course the refin- ers should be allowed a fair return on their investment—in othey words | a fair profit — but suspfcion is for- | ever present when conflicting prices | are found, in citles only about 130 miles apart, that one is getting the fair price and the other is paying through the nose simply because its | cidizens haven't gumption enough to raise an organized howl. And until such a howl is forthcoming the price of gasoline in New Britain and other surrounding cities will still be high, The regular fall cut on gasoline prices around New Britain is ru- mored in the offing. It isn't philan- thropy on the part of the gasoline wholesalers—it merely means that they are offering the New Britain drivers an inducement to persuade them to keep their cars in operation as colder weather approaches. Un- | less the cars are on the road the | gasoline won't be in demand. Comparing Local Parades ‘With Those in Other Cities Having recently been privileged to witness some of the most color- | ful parades ever held in New Eng- | land, we have been unable to refrain | from comparing them with the pro- cessions held in this city, and the result is none too favorable from a local standpoint, although in some respects New Britain comes out of | the process with honor. Among the outstanding parades we have wit- | nessed this summer are the Fourth | of July march in Springfield, the | American Legion state convention | parade in Bridgeport, and the two | great processions held in conjunc- | tion with Boston's tercentenary cel- | ebration, and it is from these lhat‘ {lem in its Fourth of July |are about on a par with their Hub —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People Lail ol our deductions are drawn in large part. The major fault we have to find with parades in this city is that there is too much emphasis on quantity and not enough on quality. A big parade is good enough, but a smaller parade with more color and variety to it has a big advantage, retaining all the pleasing elements and losing the tiresomeness. By which we mean that a small group in uniform is several times as effec- tive as a long line of men or wom- en in street clothes, a tiny patrol in step than a lengthly string of people stumbling along. Springfield has solved this prob- proces- sions. It offers prizes for the best groups, best bands, best floats, and even best costumes in one of the good old “horrible” divisions. With this stimulus to prod them, the various societies, racial groups, and other units put time, thought, and | effort in their entries, and this vear | Springfield turned out an hour-long parade which had not a drab spot in its entire length. Boston had a different solution, arbitrarily ruling out no less than 5,000 marchers because they were not considered up to the desire standard. Which left 35,000 march- ers, and no one left the sidelines during the almost six hours it took the parade to pass one spot. Some way might be found here of obtaining this effect for celebratory parades (that on Memorial Day, of course, is a tribute to the dead vet- crans and should hardly be made into a gala festival). There are plen- ty of fraternal organizations in this city with pleasingly outfitted degree teams and others which could | achieve uniformity of dress with al- | most no effort, while the wealth of nationalities in provide a wonderful background for | old world color which few cities in the country can hope to exceed. The Bay Stdte has a big edge onf anything seen around here in the. matter of floats, possibly becduse of prizes or natural rivalry which stim- ulate the best efforts of the stores, factories, and fraternal bodies. While not turning out anything equalling those in the Beantown spectacle, this city used to show many beautiful creations in the days of the World War and there appears to be no reason why it could not do so again. And this city has musical organi- zations which compare with any. | Even among the 96 bandk and drum corps which marched in the gigan- tic Boston parade, there was none that compared in brilliance, snap, and marching appeal possessed by the Eddy-Glover post corps of this city. While the juvenile corps in this city compared more than favorably with any in the Boston turnout and the senior bands and corps here | great the city | counterparts. Emphasis up that way | seems to be on concert work—the flash needed in a parade is missing. | So New Britain has an important start in several directions, and when the time comes for the next parade hes, we should like to see some method taken of making the caliber as high as possible. The result would be a justifying New York, Sept. 27.—The the- atrical star alone no longer matters The play Is the thing. As recently as five years ago the high pressure stellar system was entrenched. A show without a “name” did not | scem to have a Chinaman’s chance. | Astute producers would not risk | presenting them. | But this season fewer stars are| being exploited than ever before in | Rialto history. Among successful | productions running through a lan- guishing summer were “The Green | Pastures,” “Lysistrata, “Flying High,” “The Last Mile" and “Strict- | ly Dishonoraole.” Each without a | star. Bill Brady’s “Street Scene dramatic smash | was without even a | featured player. The star system | crashed with its salary top weight. With rising costs, producers found they could not meet extravagant de- mands of the mad butterflies, even | with a well patronized play and | keep out of Prof. Cain's mausoleum. | 8o they began {o experiment | with star-less efforts and won. Stars | who received from $1,500 to $4,000 | a week—and the latter figures is| mostly malarl cannot demand | 3750 a week these days and get it | With things as they are, producers are not likely to return to the star system. They find a billing such as rl from Brazil with Effie Eppis’ i3 quite as effective attracting cus- tomers as “Effie Eppis in The Girl from Brazil” and far wearing on the bankroll. Also they do not | have to deal with that cvanescent and explosive nuttiness dubbed temperament. The required petting of The less stars by causing They had the curtain might not have to be run down in the middle of a scene hecause some triviailty | sky-rocketed into a burst ing room pyrotechnics Those remembering when scemed impossible without a Sanderson, a Mrs. Fiske, a Drew or an Otis Skinner continue to be surprised that an athletic jen d'esprit with a deafening hors lough and dollar sized freckles can of dress a play Julia | John | 4 (Copyright, pack them in without a name stud- ding the Broadway heavens in lights. But it is so. A New York naturalist informs the world wasps have no memories. | But—and may 1 whisper—the hell | of it is those of us who had them squat on us have. mail comes a silly ques- tionnaire seeking a list of things that have not interested us the lightest in 20 years. If I were to fill In the |it, and T will not, T would set down plus fours, verse libre, sis, sychoanaly saxophones, night clubs, French | coffee, pent house parties, parsnips and Inverness coats. And if there was room enough I would be mean enough to put down Clara Bow. My Intimacies with British aris- tecracy comes chiefly from jogging through Mayfair in patrician jlg or having a cigarette lighter filled at Dunhill's. Yet T refuse to believe the British social purple has turned as yellow as those imported draw-! ing room dramas in New York re- veal. Bach is a drama of decadence. Frederick Lonsdale is chief of- fender with Noel Coward a runner up. Scat! America’s reputed nose thumbing at prohibition has secmed exagger- ated to me until today. A sedate Fifth avenue store boldly displays ir its window a floating bar for | swimiing pools and I've been home | sobbing on the sofa | The pity of | ways trusted! all afternoon. it—and a store 1 al- Phil Baker declares his broker | has put him back on his feet. He attached his limousine yesterday. This modernistic interior decorat- ing as natty as it Is leaves me with- out a notch jump in temperature. 1 |s1gh for a turkey wing stove duster and wax doves under glass on the sitting room mantle, I think a carpeted brick door stop is mighty peart. And, O Grand- | ma, how I adore conch shells. 1930, McNaught | nently in white on background of | Soviet Competition 11 World Marts | _ Syndicate, Inc.) increase in public interest and en- thusiasm. Zigzag Mental Processes Making Roads Dangerous Zigzag driving is usually preceded by zigzag thinking. Sometimes experience is required to impress on motorists the knowi- edge that control of all faculties is necessary to safety on the highway. And the experience, like all experi- ences, is expensive. Usually it costs $100 for the first lesson. It is cost- ly schooling and apparently it en- lightens only those who pay the tuf- tion. All others think they can toy with fate and get away with it Hundreds have learned that it can't be done. Time was when a drunken driver was met infrequently. Today-—es- pecially at night—the roads are death traps because of motorists who are partly under the influenca of liquor. The situation has never had a parallel in the history of the nation. It is the outstanding trag- edy as the twentieth century hits its stride. Dizzy thinking begets dizay driv- ing. Photostatic Recording Would Save City Expense Callers at the office of the town clerk who have witnessed with some feeling of pity for the corps ot clerks, the laborious copying of lengthy realty documents by type- writer then the reading back and checking of these papers, no doubt will see some merit in the sugges- tion contained in the following paragraph, printed this week:— “Use of photostatic equipment for copying legal documents has re- duced expenses of St. Louis’ city re- coerder’s office by $60,000 in two years.” Photostatic recording equipment has been installed in the land rec- ords offices of many progressive communities. They have long been employed by insurance companies and firms who appreciate the im- portance of speedy and accurate copying of documents. By a photo- graphic process, the reading matter on any paper is reflected perma- filed the black, this copy then away in the same manner typed records are now Kept. The mechanism, while seemingly complicated, is said to be just the opposite and does not require the services of an expert. It is also claimed for the system that it is compact and inexpensive to operate —the latter fact being proved by the large saving effected in St Louis and said to be a duplication of the experiences of other munici- palities. The mechanical recorder abso- lutely eliminates possibility of error in transcription. Time is saved in making the copy and reading back is made unnecessary. While the multiple duties of the town clerk’s office make it hardly possible that a reduction in person- nel could be effected with photo- static equipment, it appears certain that further increases could be avoided for some time to come. e being as Heretofore the Soviet govern- ment of Russia has centered its ac- tivities on political propaganda in an effort to “convert” the peoples of the so-called capitalistic nations to communism. This made for bad feeling and has been thoroughly unsuccessful. It was effort wasted. The new method of making an international impression is in pro-| cess of being carried out. Obvious Iy, this refers to the five-year plan of putting the industrial and agri- cultural resources of Russia on a modern basis. Two years of the five-year plan have elapsed, and in the main every- thing is being carried out as an- ticipated. Skilled engineers from all | the leading nations have been em ployed to build huge power plants and to install the most modern ma- chinery in industrial plants. Tn short, the Russian nation is to be “Fordized.” and is progressing swiftly toward that consummation. What this will mean in the future no one knows. If it be true, as many hold, that private plants can- not compete with publicly owped plants, what is to be said of the possibilities of competition in the international markets by a nation- | full of publicly owned plants. 1t will be possible for the indus- | trial nations to put up high tariff barriers against cheap Russian manufactured goods; but it must be remembered there are scores of lit- tle nations which are not industrial | and which buy all their manufac- tured supplies from the industrial nations. These usually prefer to buy in the cheapest market. It is in these markets that Russian compe- tition may be felt most disadvan tageously by the United States, Eng- land, France, Germany and Italy. Russian competition is likely to be felt also in agriculture, for the way farms are being modernized and “collectivized” in Russian is nearly hair-raising, to read the ge- ports of American engineers w%:o have been employed to assist in the process. vone knows that the inter- national ‘price of wheat is fixed by the demand in the world markets, and that even the price of Amer- ican wheat in America reflects the price quoted in Liverpool, the wheat-quoting center. When the Soviets get their state farms in operation they will be in a position to be heard from in the world markets as never before. In other words, their new plan ‘s to fight the other nations with their own weapons—trade. Just how the plans are being car- ried out in the Soviets is vividly re- lated by George L. Paine, of Bos- ton, who spent Some time visiting the “biggest farm in the world” in southern Russia. His description, as follows, appeared in the Boston Herald “The largest farm in the world is at Gigant, in south Russia near the Volga and the Don rivers. It is state-owned and run. It started July, 1928, with 127,000 hectares (1 hec- tare equals 2 1-2 acres), of which 10,000 were sown in wheat. The fol- lowing year the planting covered 60,000 hectares; this year 113,000 To deal with this enormous acreage they have bought from the United States 175 huge caterpillar tractors | sissippi biners, that mow, bind and thresh at once. The farm is divided intc 12 centers or units with 300 work- ers apiece. Each unit has its direc- tor and its three assistant spectal- ists, agriculture, mechanics and finance. These units are all con- nected by telephone and level auto- mobile roads. “From the headquarters, where I passed a day and a night,’I motor- ed out to unit No. 3 in a big truck that was to carry sacks of grain to the central elevator. Here some ‘roadside diners” served as sleeping quarters for the men and women workers; there . was the invariable clubhouse for games and reading, for movies, lectures and classes, and several women were preparing sup- per at the open air army kitchen. Water is very scarce on this farm %0 that wells have been dug and pumps placed every four kilometres. “Wages are graded according to the qualifications of the workers, running from two to five roubles a day (a rouble equalg 50 cents). In addition to this money wage, there were various cultural privileges; for example, free classes in mechanics and other subjects during the win- ter months. Also the benefits of several kinds of social insurance, which would average about 25 per cent of the money wage (old ag2 insurance, accident, sickness, unem- ployment, child bearing and the compulsory two weeks' vacation with pay). “There were about 10 American expert engineers whom the govern- ment had hired from our country at large salaries. With several of these I talked. Most of the laborers wers single men, migrants, following the season to other parts of Russia. There was a nice school house for the children and they were going to erect another pre-school building for the little children to be cared for by trained kindergarteners and nurses, thus relieving the mothers oi any responsibility during the working hours of the day and in- suring the best care and training for the children. They were hoping, also, to build a co-operative kitchen which would still further reduce the labor of the women. “Through the working day in Russia is eight heurs as a maxi- mum, and averages about seven hours, it is permitted to work as long as 10 hours during the rush season on the farms. They also have two shifts a day and omit the customary fifth day of rest. But thic overtime work is made up for later in the year. “As I stood on the top of lofty grain tower and looked over boundless fields in every di- rection, I could not but query to myself ‘what will this scientifically managed farm, with others like it as more and more individual farms are being collectivized, mean in the not distant future to the American farms that wit be competing in the world's export markets?' Surely these two giants will soon be hav- ing a battle royal.” the out Observations On The Weather Washington, Sept. 27.—Forecast for Southern New England: Show- ers in morning followed by clearing and cooler in afternoon Saturday; much cooler Saturday night; Sunday, fair and continued cool. Forecast for Eastern New York: Showers followed by clearing and cooler Saturday; much cooler Satur« day night; Sunday fair and cone tinued cool. Conditions: The disturbance that was central over northern Missouri Thursday night has moved north« eastward to the Lake Superior re« gion with a further increase in in< tensity. Pressure is still low but rising slowly and east of Newfound~ land. The temperature continues abnor- mally high throughout the eastern and southeastern states. At Washington the temperature was 90 degrees or above for the thirteenth time during the present month, breaking all records for the month of September. The weather will become cooler in the upper Ohio the lower Lake Region, palachian region and the Middls Atlantic and North Atlantic states and North Carolina during the next 25 hours to 30 hours and the tem- perature will continue below normal in the lower Ohio and middle Mis< valleys Saturday ard throughout the Washington forecast district during Sunday. Except for showers Saturday in Florida, New England and New York, generally r weather will prevail east of the Mississippi river Saturday and Sun«< day. “TABS” 10 OPEN HOUSE T0 PUBLIC ON TUESDAY Recreation Facilities of Society to Ba much Valley, the Ap- Made Available to All Men Interested Men in four Catholic parishes in this city have been invited to attend an “‘open house” social at the Y. M. T. A. & B. soclety rooms next Tues- day evening. All the accommoda- tions including the bowling alleys and pool tables will be open to the public without charge. Refreshe ments will be served. Definite steps in the drive fom members will be taken Sunday morn« ing at the mas in St. Mary's, Sto [ Joseph’s, St. Peter's and the church of. t. John the Evangelist when the priests will appeal for cooperation with the society in its drive. Officers of the sociefy have res quested that members make more use of the building and that thev make an effort to be present on T‘qu(luy night to act as hosts to tha visitors. Every effort will be mads by th~ officers to welcome the group. The membership committee will hold a meeting late Sunday morning. YOUNG PAINTER Boston, Mass. (UP)—-No one took Morris Kurtzberg, 12, seriously when he asked for a picture of Governor Frank G. Allen so that he migh, paint the governor's portrait. py three days later Mossis appearcd | the state house with the portrait and 45 7maller ones, and 230 com- governor said it was “‘corking, 1 \