New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1930, Page 6

New Britain Herald " MERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY New Britain, Comaecticut Issued Dally (Sunday Excepted) At Hersld Bldg. 61 Church Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES 43.09 Tbres Months 7 be. & Month &8 Becond Class Mall Ma TELEPHONE CALLS Business Omce Tditorial Rooms The only profitable advertising mediam in the City. Circulation books and press 7 room always open to sdvertisers Momber of the Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively en- “‘titled te the nse for re-publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local “ news published thersin. Member Audit Bureaa of Circulation The A. B. C. is & national organization ‘which furnishes newspapers 4nd sdver- + timers with s strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistics are based upon this sudit. This insures pro- tection against fraud in newspaper dis- tribution figures to both national and local advertisera The Hersld fs on ssle dally tn New York st Hotaling's Newsstand. Times Bquare; Schults's Newsstand, Entrance Grand Central, ¢3nd Street. They said of Wild Bill Hallahan that when he is good he is great, but when he is not feeling fit he is aw- ful; having earned his title on nu- merous occasions when he attempted to pitch while suffering from bad eyesight. And that is why the Ath- “letics got that final grip on the World Serles aided by Mr. Earn- shaw who has the knack of feeling fit all the time. The government of is ' sending out pretty which are calculated to assure the world that the revolutionary gener- als and their cohorts cannot obtain control over more territory. But the pretty statements have no appre- | ciable effect upon Brazilian bonds. Brazil communiques Boston now has had two monster parades within a month, which com- pletely tied up downtown traffic. It was g0od business for the inn-keep- crs but the merchants, we'll bet, have enough for awhile, although | they are not going to be unpatriotic cnough to publicly state their feel- ings. That will be an important meeting of the cotton textile institute on " October 15, when the proposal will * be voted upon to eleminate night work for women and children in tex- tile mills throughout the country. According to present indications, the proposal will win, and if so, it will | appy to aJarge number of the na- | tion's most important mill centers. | Most humanitarian observers will | _ heartily hope for this necessary im- provement of working conditions in a great industry. The claim has con- sistently been made of unfair com- | petition on this. point. Now, with in- fluential mill owners likely to agree, such claims will no longer likely to be tenable. More evidence that' progress—or attempted progress—costs money is seen fin the reiteration by the Munijcipal Recreation Commission that a full time supervisor of recre- - ation is needed. The commission | says the best interests of the pub- lic and the children of the city de- | + mand an appropriation for such a purpose. This sounds reasonable. It will be interesting to discover what | | City Hall thinks about the plan th's ! year. Citizens with children, we are irclined to believe, will take kindly to it. DOUBTING THE EFFICACY OF FACT-FINDING It has been stated that sooner or | later federal fact-finding commis- sioners will find some facts. This is not saying, however, that the Hoover law enforcement commission may find any, or that it may not find 100 many. This pet commlission of the administration has just re-con- vened in Washington and is expected Lo lssue a statement on prohibition —sooner or later. Manifestly, such | an expression of opinion by the com- | mission will have to be buttressed | by facts and interpretations of facts. And after all that is done, what good will they do? The question is not far-fetched. | In order to make an assumption that is aligned with a genuine possibility | we can only refer to the good done | Ly the commission’s fact-finding in | the past. True, only one statement of findings has been lssued so far, a preliminary and a supplementary re- | port on observance and enforcement | of prohibition, which with high | hopes was submitted to Congress by | President Hoover on January 13.! 1930. Then what happened | Well, bills in line with the Commission's recommendations introduced at the last session Congress, and of these only the bill | transferring the prohibition lrur'.mi five ere of to the Department of Justice brcame law. Such a consummation, how- ever, can scarcely be credited to the activities of the fact-finding com- topic of | was | been a report had before mission as it debate made. The best that that the accelerated long the id 1o the | can be report | discovered through an investigation !ll'ifilly he consumes, | overhead expense of providing him | change. Three bills based on the Com- mission’s recommendations passed the House but were not acted upon in the Senate. These were to define minor offenses or misdemeanors for which grand jury proceedings would not be required; another to permit the walving of jury trials in federal district court cases; and the other to allow minor cases to be prose- cuted before federal commissioners, with sentences to be imposed by fed- eral judfes. It is doubtful whether these items will be passed into law, considering the fears expressed that such changes in the basis methods of handling cases should not be made merely to accelerate. prohibi- tion enforcement. Meanwhile the bill to reduce penalties tor slight or casual offend- crs under the Jones five and ten law o $500 or six months' imprison- ment passed the House but was amgnded in the Senate before pas- sage, and now is “in conference for agreement between the two houses when they get around to it. Another trend which shows doubt in the value of fact-finding may be seen in the reduction of the appro priation for the Law Enforcement Commission. The deficiency bill of July, 1930, carried an additional ap- propriation of $250,000, but the Senate reduced the appropriation to $50,000, and restricted its use to e consideration of prohibition. There- upon the House restored its original appropriation, without restriction, and the Senate concurred. The point was that Congress could not appro- priate for a committee it had not authorized. It may be that the Commission will pass judgment upon the wis- dom or folly of prohibition. Strange to say, such action, while not under | the heading of fact-finding, but more in line with pure opinion, re- ceives more popular support than the mere arraignment of facts. It is reported that at least one member of the Commission will urge such an opinion. It seems to us that there has been an enormous amount of fact-finding in Washington, and not solely by Commissions. The Senate has had a | plethora of investigations at which | facts were sought and fouwnd. The | President's idea about commissions seems to have been that they are more reliable fact-finders than Sen- ate committees. Some of us have our | doubts about this. A Senate com- mittee at least does not investigate in secret. DIGGI PER INTO ELECTRIC MYSTERIES That the “conference” Dbetween representatives of the Connecticut Light & Power Co. and a committee of the Common Council regarding rates charged in this city was only a beginning seems evident from the attitude of at least a section of the city dads in City Hall. Having made a start it 1s found that merely “con- ferring” with masters of electricity is not enough. Perhaps it is realized that, in order to meet the electirc magnates on their own ground, it will be necessary to employ an ex- pert able to talk the language of | kilowatts. Perhaps someone may even think of calling in Professor Albert Levitt, to whom should go some of the credit for starting the power discussion in this city when he made a speech before a local luncheon club. If the rates are fair and reason- able the power company need not. fear such an investigation as is be- ing suggested. Any such rates can be proven right and proper before jn- as readily as before a committee bent merely upon having vestigators a pleasant conference. If the rates > not fair and reasonable, how- it is much more likely to be a ever, conducted by capable investigators than through a conference. The question of the fixed charge having been brought into the dis- it well to gain a good Impression of The fixed charge debated nearly every community where it has been introduced The idea underlying charge is that the domestic con- sumer should cover the cost of gen- | cussion is what it means. has been in the fixed | and transmitting the elec- and also the ! crating with the service. Two methods are possible to ac- complish this: Either by establish- ing the fixed service charge and low rates of consumption; of by establish- | ing a multiple system by which the | consumer pays a high rate on a | certain amount of current used and a lower rate for additional current When the latter system is adopted t i higher rates for limited con- amount to a serv- sumption really fee It is held matter which system adopted o long as the final charges to the consumer are fair. And it they | AT the by some that it does not much is domestic is as widely held that f: Those who claim not K mestic it « are unfair hold that the do- consumer should be guaran- teed a share in the lower costs of power production created within | v hnical jm- provenent ation and transmission of electrivity. Elvetrie- | |1ty is one of the commodities \h:ul 3 | there has descended in price of produc- tion since just before the war, and the reduction in production costs has been great. Prices have also beem reduced. The question {s, has the cost to domestic consumers been reduced n anything like the ratlo of the reduction in production? The domestic consumer is also said to be meeting an unfair share of the burden of the merger move- ment and the resulting inflation of clectric property valuations. The exorbitant rates he has been charg- ed in the past, it is held, have direct. ly or indirectly helped to provide the funds to float the consolidation movements. These mergers usually result through the payment of ex- cessive prices for electric properiies by aggrandizing monopolies. Fictitious values probably more common in the elec- tric industry than in any other, and such instances as those of the Niagara Falls Power Co. and the Northern Connecticut Power Co., which were disclosed only this year during a Senate investigation, are cases in point. are The total output of electricity In Connecticut increased 78 per cent between 1922 and 1927, states the last report of the Department of Commerce. The generator capacity of the state's power plants increa«d 60 per cent during that time. But there also has been a constant centralization of ownership and con- trol, there having been 44 commer- cial and municipal plants in 1922 and only 31 fn 1927. And since that time there have been important mergers. . FINALS IN RIVER CASE Connecticut's objections the action of Massachusetts in utilizing waters from the Swift and Ware rivers for a watershed to feed the metropolitan district of Boston now has reached its final stage—a spirit- ed attempt to convince the Supreme to Court of the United States that the | report of Special Master Munn on the case should not be accepted. When the special master's report was presented in the high court the other day the special attorneys for the state immediately filed a brief taking exceptions to the master's findings. An early verbal argument of the case is anticipated, the court being expected to set a date for this argu- ment next Monday. So much for the legal battle still under way. From a practical stand- point, nothing much has been achieved by the attorney general's department of Connecticut so far. The case has been under the juris- diction of Mr. Averill, the assistant attorney general, and the power: that be were apparently so dissatis- fled with the case—among others— that they did not comsent to his re- nomination. So far as Connecticut s concerned, it would be considered an amazing thing if the high court were to turn down the report of the master who gave the preliminary decision after due hearings. Massachusetts apparently regards the case as good as won. Millions in money have already been expended by the Bay State upon’ tunnels re- quired’ by the diversion, and the work continues to.be rushed and will probably continue all winter. Massachusetts evidently thinks that possession is nine points of the law. It would be something of a sensation in the Bay State if the Supreme Court were to turn down the master's decision and give the vic- tory to Connecticut. Judging by remarks that have appeared in the Massachusetts papers from time to time, sentiment in that state, from distinguished lawyers down, has been that legally Connecticut never had a leg to stand in. So far events have borne out this conclusion. Government en- gineers, in their observations, ap- parently have borne out the opinion of Massachusetts that the diversion would not affect the Connecticut river in any practical manner; and it is claimed the incidentally by Massachusetts editors that Connecti- | cut has not done much with the Connecticut river except to make a sewer out of it. We do not, of course, agree with all these statements by our friends to the North, but cannot help agree- ihg that there is small likelihood that the Government will stand in the way of a large city finding suffi- cient water for its needs. It comes down to this: Is the difference of an inch or so in the average level of Connecticut—assuming that would be which Massachusetls liantly ¢ the such a engineers ; for Boston to obtain sufi- drink? far the cities have been facilitated by their sufficiency cient water to large es in obtain of water, and some of them, as for instance San Francisco, and Los Angeles have been aided by the fed- t in going far afleld Special eral Govarnm in procuring the essentials. Munn, in the river concluded there was 1o likelihood of interfering with navi- Master case, gation on the Connecticut, and that is a sign that the federal authority has not changed its attitude that the needs of th yan areas muet be considered of paramount fI- portance. the control of | aifterence, | ny—as important as the | Swift-Ware | ' COLONEL SEYMOUR'S NAIVE HESITANCY When Congressman Fenn was not yet quite sure whether he should quit trying to go back to Congress he essayed a statement on his at- titude toward prohibition. 1t was a definite statement and held that he was willing to support any move- ment brought into Congress having the object of modifying or erasing the law in favor of other means of liquor control. In other words, he made haste to impress the district | that he was quite wet, and at heart had always been that way. Even this long-delayed definite- | ncss about the dry law did him no 500d in the cstimation of the politi- | cal | ditched in favor of Colonel Clarence W. Seymour of Hartford, a young up-and-coming aspirant who has pleased the grandoldparty head men and who is touted as a sure some- body in the future political fleld. So many kind words have been spoken about Colonel Seymour by the district’s Republicans that Mr. Fenn, not entirely blind to the Im- pliéations of these honeyed phrases, must be set to thinking hard as he sits in his study at Wethersfleld. But Colonel Seymour, for all his g00d points, has failed to say as| much about _ prohibition as Con gressman Fenn. When one contem- plates the pretty straddle he per- | petrated on the question the other | day one cannot hely concluding the | | Crusaders took the only possible ac- | tion when they formally decided the colonel was not for them to support. Here is what Colonel Seymour is quoted saying about the prohibition law: | | | | “If T am elected, and if, after T | have made a careful study of the general situation at Washington, I n satisfied that the situation re- | quires working for a repeal, I will Le for repeal. If, on the other hand, I am convinced that other remedial legislation, such as a modification of the Volstead Act by Congress, or an amendment to the amendment itself, is more feasible and will bring prompter results, reasonably satis- factory in their nature, I shall be for that.” Here is a candidate who requires more time for study and reflection | about the noble experiment, and who | after such study and reflection must | become personally satistied that the | situation demands a change. Compared with this white-gloved | dilly-dallying on an important issue the position taken by Augustine Lonergan is refreshing. Mr. Loner- | gan needs no qualifying words, phrases or an abundance of commas | and “ifs’ to indicate where he stands. Speaking on several occa- lons since his nomination he has | stated definitely and without mental | reservation or verbal evasion that | he is for the repeal of the 1sth amendment, and if elected, will work toward that end and thus take the | step needed to revert liguor control to the individual states. Out-and-out drys in the district, of course, will be more pleased with | Colonel Seymour's _ straddling pro- nouncement than with Mr. Loner- | gan’s straight-forwardness. They realize fully that what the colonel says won't bind him to vdte for re- | peal, modification or anything 1n particular. His is the type of atti- tude that the drys naturally prefer. This being a free country they are | entitled to their preference. But it should not be overlooked by the modificationists, who doubtedly are far in the majority throughout the district, that Mr. Lonergan leaves no semblance of doubt as to where he stands on the issue. Such frankness, we think, should be rewarded. | | un- Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN The papers tell about another fellow who stole the funds, but don’t tell which great moral cause he led in his town. Still, rum runners should better than to trust a dry | Uncle Sam can't trust. know agent Will Rogers suggests a loser's cup for Lipton. Let's waitand see how the tea sales come out this year. “King Carol may crowned,” says a headline. What a pity! Can nobody over there pick up a chair? never be Modern composers are at ¢ | safe fram the charge of stealing | their stuft from the old masters The ego is the invisible | thing that makes vou think | other fellow is the fool driver. some- the 1¢ only there was some way mix ginger ale with the weather. | to Perhaps, after so much while silent. n Mr. we didn't Coolidge lose was You can say one sters. people. thing for gang- They usually kill the right Americanism: Reveling in pros- | perity after cornering the world's gold supply; letting France accumu- [1ate the gold and wondering why she alone has no jobless men, The class yell of the xperience is “Ouch!” School of hort histor, politician fixed by of a crook fixed mortician Fixed by boot- legger; E by a Yet some people don't believe moguls, however, and he was | America used spies in time of war. Vacation places might give their patrons even more leisure by pro- | viding rubber stamps for the ar- | row and the words: “This is our room."” | The old-time moonshiner - was | primitive. He used a squirrel rifle |to fix a revenue agent. Now scientists anounce that earth | gets hotter when the sun radiates more heat. My Gosh! Think of mere man figuring that out! Chicago is driving out criminals. We had noticed her aversion to having them hanging around. In other words, the League will | hold another conference to insure everlasting peace if it can persuade ‘rance and Italy to stop quarreling long enough. Correct this sentence: “People who write and cuss me,” said the public man, “seem smarter than those who praise me."” (Copyright 1930, Publishers Syndicate) Questions and A 8 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, Washing- ton, D. C. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be under- taken. All other questions will re- ceive a_personal reply. Unsigned re- quests cannot be answered. All let- ters are confldential.—Editor. Q. the Canal Zone? What is dress? A. Col. Harry Burgess, U. S. A. is Governor of the Canal Zone and is the highest official. His address is Baiboa Heights, Canal Zone. Q. From what is gelatin made? A. From connective tissues, as skin, heof and horn Q. Are Seth Parker and Uncle Abe, who are heard over the radio, the same person? A. Phlllips H. Lord takes the character of Seth Parker in the $unday night radio feature of that name, and he is also Uncle Abe in the daily “Uncle Abe and David” \dio feature. Q. How many widows and wid- owers are there in the United States? A. Latest statistics show 1,758,- 307 widowers and 3,917,625 widows. Q. What makes stars fall to the| carth? A. Stars do net fall to the earth. So called “falling stars” or ‘“shoot- ing stars” are in reality meteorites —small bodies which enter the carth’s gravitational field and fall toward the carth. When they enter the earth’s atmosphere, friction with the air causes them to become vhite hot—awd so they suddenly appear as flaming points in the sky. Most of them are thus entirely con- sumed and never reach the earth at all, but some do fall on the earth as blackened masses of iron. and specimens may be seen in natural history museums. Q. On what radio program is Jessica Dragonette now appearing A. On the Cities Service pro- gram, broadcast every Friday eve- ning from WEAF and associate NBC stations. Q. Is Labor Day a national holi- day that is recognized all over the United States? A. It is, a legal public holiday so far as the federal agencies and functionaries are concerned, and Arkausas is the only state in the Union which does not recognize it as a public holida Q. What is a water-ra A. A wate at or muskrat is a rodent and when full grown is about four times as large as the or- dinary brown rat. It has a blunt muzzle, a short and hardly notice- able neck, and a stout body. The tail is about two-thirds as long as the head and body, compressed lat- crally and tapers to a rather acute point; the thinly scattered hairs on the tail do not conceal the small but distinctly marked scales. The eyes are small, black and beady. The ears are short, covered with hairs, and in winter almost wholly concealed in {he fur. The incisors | are large and without grooves. The lcgs are short, especially the front ones, and the fect arc stout and provided with rather long claws. The hind feet are webbed slightly, and can be turned eagewise when | carricd forward while the animal is swimming. Q. What food should be given a | chameleon in winter? | A Fruit flies is a good diet. | breed fruit flies, put a few pieces of | banaa pulp in a small dish and leave it in an cxposed place indoors | tor some days, until truit flies have | 1aia their eggs there. The small { white fly-larvae will be ready to | mctamorphose in about three days, at which times the dish can be put inside the chamecleon's cage so that it can catch the emerging flies 1s they crawl about. A chameleon »nnot endure much cold, and the ge should be put n the sun for a half an hour every clear day. Q. What is the value of ounce of pure gold? A It is fixed $2).67183. Q. Can a boy join States Army when he old? A vear: er.ts’ one. Q. Are the servants of the White House paid by the government? A. Al are paid by the govern- ment except the cooks and personal servants of the President and his wife, ‘Who is the highest official in his ad- t? an by law at the is United 16 years The minimum age limit is 18 and he must have his par- consent before he is twenty- To | ew York, garies of an not entirely beclouded New The golden past peeps faintly through here and there. - The ol Murray Hill district, more than any other, symbolizes how tenuously many cling to subdued and oppres- sive mid-Victorian propriety. In this area may be found digni- fied gentlemen who take infinite pains in trimming their beards, cul- tivate a rather melancholy habit of mind and who wear hats straight on their heads instead of at rakish angles. They make sieeping bows to ladies and otherwise epitomize perfect behaviourism. The old Murray Hill Hotel, center of the district, droops in a somno- lent gloom. In its enormous lobby are venerable aristocrats who carry gold ®hobbed canes and meet any uneeemly overtures of strangers with quickly lifted evebrows and hearty garrumphs. A few still indulge a pinch of snuff. There are Murray Hill men who take an afternoon off now and then to dress in frock coat and high hat and pay brief, respectful calls to the brown stone mansions of old friends. Once a month they go far down town for similar visits with tho family lawyer. Many ladies, as frail as frost, re- call long black half-mitts and state- ly minuettes. On pleasant days they depart in closed carriages, horse drawn, for a circle of Central Park. A fleeting glimpse of their faces sug- Rests old fvory and you somehow think of the quick, sad strokes of churchbells. While the Morgans live on Murray Hill, not all are rich as New York judges wealth. But they are the lagt of the vanishing blue bloods. Uni- forms of their coachmen are shabby. Butlers are flabby and gouty from age. Any number of residents still have six o'clock dinners in the half light of patriclan basement dining rooms. These are the thinning line of gentle folk to whom tabloids, isms, saxophones, sex novels, pagan plays and other off-shoots of a roystering generation are mysteries. Their amusements are learned lectures at Town Hall and a few auspicious symphony concerts at Carnegle. Oct. 9—Modern va- nsentimental age have York. T still think, however, nothinyg looks quite so out of place in the New York hurrah as one of those pointer hunting dogs with beautiful coat and pleading eyes. On the day the celebrated Henri Matisse visited New York the metro- politan press bulged with engage- ment rumors of a cabaret singer to a motlon picture lady. One notice of the celebrated painter was en- compassed under “Hotel Arrivals,” dismissed completely with a single ‘Henry Matisse, Nice France.” A returning American, weary of hearing Berkeley pronounced “Barc- lay” and Cholmondeley “Chumley” had his revenge. A Britisher bade him bon voyage and remarked that some day he hoped to see Niagara Falls. “You mean Niffles?” queriel the Yank. are knitting brows to excel with something larger than the German ships “Europa” and “Bremen.” They were at work on the thousand foot Oceanic when the Teutonic liners were launched and immediately abandoned their marine masterpie In the meantime French ship build- ers have up their sleeve the “Isic de la Cite” in which they hope to crogs from Havre to New Yorl less than four Fun ocean, gracious me! 1 was gelting along fairly well Too, T hear British ship builders | on the with today’s offering when Lisle Bell popped in all merry and bright and observed that what he wouia enjoy at the moment would be a steaming bowl of old fashioned navy bean soup flavored with ham-hock. That gives you an idea why we skip out of town now and then to get away from it all. Also I have got to keep away from 11th avenue. It is entirely too rough. Wandering about there yes- terday several loafers around a gas house screeched in falsetto, “Yoo, hoo!” directed I suppose, at my spats. Feigning monchalance, I idled before a window in which was a mirror. “Look!" yelled another, ‘He's taking a pike at his puss.” So | I scurried away up a side street. T also stopped in at my old home, the Ritz—you know, see how tho other half lives—and it occurs to me the movies could find a hand- some leading man in John Lawlor, a starter there. (Copyright, 1930, McNaught Syndi- cate, Inc.) COMMUNICATED A_MISSING FERN Editor New Britain Herald About September 29 a beautiful fern was taken Jrom a grave in Fairview cemetery. This fern was to be taken to tho former home of the one that had passed beyond and kept in er lov- ing memory through the coming winter months. the one that took it only real- ized how deeply we cherish that fern that was on Mother's grave, the next few days. Nothing will be said or done about it—only please bring it back. I¢ means much to us and cannot be replaced. DAUGHTER Observations On The Weather ‘Washington, Oct. 9.—Forecast for Southern New England: Cloudy, possibly showers on the southeast coast tonight; Friday partly cloudy; not much change in temperature; fresh northeast winds, strong at times tonight on the southeast coast. Forecast for Eastern New York: Cloudy, possibly showers in north portion tonight; Friday partly| cloudy; not much change in tem- perature; moderate to fresh north- I'm sure they will return it within | east and east winds. Forecast for New Haven and vi- cinity: Unsettled weather tonight and Friday. Conditions: The western area of low pressure is moving slowly east* ward and is now central over Ne- braska. The ridge of high pressure which has persisted for several days along the Atlantic coast, is moving out to sea. Cloudy and unsettled weather with light scattered showers has prevailed during the past 24 hours in all districts cast of the Mississippi river. The temperature is mild in all sections east of the Rockles. Conditions favor for this vicinity unsettled weather and not much change in temperature. Temperatures yesterday: ow 62 56 52 36 60 64 54 (1] 60 71 56 54 53 50 48 58 25 Years Ago Today A double tracking system is being placed on West Main street by the Connecticut company. This will en- able trolleys to run on a 15 minute schedule. Main street looked like a mining camp today and the prospects are that it will gontinue looking that way for some time. Main and Church streets are continually being attacked with the pick and shovel. There is a great shortage of ma- sons and bricklayers in the city at the present time. Contractors are | experiencing considerable trouble in | securing help. The Giants won the first game of the world series yesterday, shutting out the Athletics 3 to 0. Mathew- | son was in control of the game at j all times. | The Kenilworth club held its monthly smoker last evening. 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