New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1930, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930. " % = HERALD PUBLISHING OOMPANY 3 New: Britain, Connecticut Tssued Dally (Sunday Excepted) ~ At Herald Bidg., 61 Church Btreet BUBSCRIPTION RATES $8.00 & Year 32.00 Three Months 75c. & Month Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Becond Class Mall Matter, TELEPHONB CALLS Business OMce ..... 925 Editorlal Rooms .... 926 __The only profitable advertising mediam In the City. Circulation books and press ~room always open to advertisers. Member of the Associated Press The Assoclated Press is exclusively en- Jtitled to the use for re-publication of 81l news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein. Member Audit Burean of Circulation The A. B. C. is & national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with a strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistice are based upon this audit. This fnsures pro- tection against fraud in newspaper dis- tribution figures to both national and local advertisers. The Herald fs on sale dally In New York at Hotalii Newsstand, Times Square; Schultz's Newsstand, Entrance Grand Central, ¢2nd Street. When the call “sordid story” that means it's very, very bad. reporters it a Perhaps the country printer who called a caucus a circus was not so far wrong. When the Democrats are in power it's a panic; when the Republicans | arein power it is merely a worl wide depression As long as there techni- calities in the are any world the Public Utili- ties Commission will feel quite safe from the onslaught of Prof. Levitt. Many improvements in airplanes been the Co- 1bia started sailing the skies, but | invented since ¢ old ship still has a good hop in her. Thure Beng! three places yesterday, said he got nothing except personal satisfaction | out of winning the primary. And he as tired and worn attended the tson, interviewed at felt just about as it he had ‘epnvention. Legion | A NEW NORTHEND SCHOOL For four years parents of children attending the Northend school on Bassett street ments why the below par. Finally comes the nouncement that plans for a building have been drawn have presented argu- present building is an- new | goes toward all in school will have Sympathy naturally the parents. The their favor. A new be built soon anyw: of the more facts are and in view attractive bond market a favorable financial arrang ment could be made now than per- haps later. Lastly, of what tical value is the talk about for the prac- provid- | ing necess: work unem- ¢ ployed unl to do refus It is true. schools ry ess work ess a city with such it out? that new half con- of cours the the city were built during past dozen years have cost siderable money buiit hc They during the time of high costs, ever, and any one of them could k duplicated for much less 1f built to- y. Citizens are mighty glad, how- eevr, that they Duilt yvet to find a Parents were and 7 with association connection of the denounced their con in new schools which through with provements at a lowest is poor them are economy. listration known by wi doesn’t do. Let the work can plans ishe promptly. A SMALLI Alderman Mly 1t plan work. the Common about su. Who ever heard ing to elimi Now if Alder plan for a lar h would give for the parliamentary Another s easily controlled trol it? One good i ve a chanc i honors ¢ bod 1t Council t cannot better Coun THE SHOW PENNSYLVANIA Pennslv IN best political shows i good it is—or how determined fro John M. Hemphill, eral—whateve an excellent cl governor WHen power publican I« Gifford Din for erful Repu gover state follow suit, It can ncan noth | idols for millions of young people, | means of ing less than the possibility of an “overturn” in this rock-ribbed Re- publican commonwealth. Finally General W. W. Atterbury. president of the Pennsylvania rail- road and a member of the Repub- lican national committee, steps into line as opposed to Pinchot and joins the other big Republicans in favor of Hemphill. Back of this mess is the inexorable conflict between rural and urban districts. Pinchot's main strength has been in “the country districts” and the small cities. He is an ardent dry while the city Republicans are ardently wet. Incidentally he also is a leading foe of the great power in- tere , having gained much atten- tion in the past through his giant power survey. he state may be a casualty in the fight THE POSTAL BAROMETER We may be wrong about it, but we think the amount of business done by the U. S. postal department is a5 g0od a barometer of general business conditions as any other. Particularly, postal statistics indicate, the of third and fourth class mail over a period of as volume 60 years has risen and fallen in di- rect ratio with the business cycle. Third and fourth mail this ar class low during low was distressingly and nearly as during ptember, however, there The 9 had not signs of an increase. volume of September, 192 been approached; and that could | scarcely be expected. The mere fact | hat an increase in such business is ler v ousht to be significant to Wall street, *xcept “Why they don't stay married,” the magazine while sitting in a barber's chair, hav- would be uplift- is title of article in a movie We didn't read the article an ing the thought it ing to a married man. came the Pola Negri hag from Prince Mdivani, the Then story over the it hat wires t fo v 13 last We these nd the filed suit divorc conciliation December ing failed to stick. re wont to chuckle about rapid-fire Hollywood marriages But do not overlook the on Friday, ivorces. fact ihat stars are screen who see them in the flickers and read #bout them with avidity. Possibly most of the screen stars originally were opposed to divorce— they spectacular employment when had less when After and they kn nothing about art. they get W upon the heights “easy come and casy g0 docs not apply solely to We wish we had r mones | | ad the article. | RTAINTY OF PUNISHMENT Doran, chief of the « Dr. asury's ames M. alcoholic bureau, said at | Jeast one indisputable truth when he | remarked that “this country is sadly in need of reform along the lines of | pidity of trial and certainty of punishment.” He hibition little to the crime statistics. professional thinks, however, that the pro- contributed ver In law has this he naturally talks as a prohibitionist. for lawyers They fre- his is a great nation technicalities. for the be and legal work nefit of the quently riminal It in spots is also a nation, greu like Chicago. for undue influe m"(-i between the criminal element and | It is also a great nation, in spots \ for scandals on the that should New York plac: very of all breath of scandal. An great place for crimin- in mo! it is than one spot, who more gt | Is. even t time never trial. He or are brought to Doran is optimisti think com- | ball « Hoo enforcement nission ol | complished. THIS YOUTH IN NEWS wr-old she sent him to Thought th ribreaking | | he in | a son or was lavished | dew on | of dis The other day ral youths were | from | an charged with placing large racks up- on the railroad tracks between here and Berlin. Watchful operators of the gasoline coach saw them in time and prevented what have | been a disaster. Asked why they did might it, the boys said they “wanted fo sce what would happen.” Suppose the rocks had been plac- ed on the main line? The other day an automobile load of youthful persons, driving along a Connecticut highway, ran into a man walking beside the highway. The automobile kept going. The man was killed. Fortunately the state police were abje to locate the automobile and say they got a confession out of the hit-and-run driver. Al of hand, we Whither these incidents, close at e in one day's news, are we drifting? some- one once wrote NOW WI ARII RADICAL According to the official report of a sizable church group, the secular press of this Nation is “radical.” The press has been called almost everything, and one more term will make no difference. The thing that makes this designa- tion notahl that most observers heretofore have claimed the pre. this country is too conservative. To be termed seeing the worm is radical” is like bite the chicken. 700,000 ITTALIANS IN U. 5. SINCE COLUMBUS the recently th Disregarding pro- | Columbus was 1 to set shores of New | 1492, That was 438 tomorrow termination of this theory the pounded a Spaniard first Italian foot upon the the World came in vears ago; and the an- niversary of the eventful trip is celebrated. celebrate most 1,700,000 Those who will enthusiastically Italians in the United State: are Joining them quite as enthusiastically will be the 3,500,000 of Italian stock in the country. It plete 1 is possible that when the com- ial census figures for 1930 the by Census Bu- be wed ill are that foreign | found largest Ital group in the country But that does not mean the large: u the orn are the classification as “foreign stock.” The | C “for- cign stock” those who forelgn-born had foreign-horn parent. 1920 showed ‘ensus Bureau classifies as were either | at least his classifica- 36,941 or or more total or onc tion in Italian stock in the countr. than per of the population. It was surpassed by the three cent the | ver | German (seven per cent of population). (four cent) and the Russian (three and 1f tussian, the Irish 2 cent). Included in the the he I stock per however, were Polish 1910 to 1920 the Ttalian in this | But from stock increased 59 per cent country, while the German stock de- | creased 12 per cent, the Irish eight per cent, and the “Russian” stock These fluctu- ations are that the crest of the German and Irish stock came before the Italian and the for- | much higher age the second es auto- increased 52 per cent due to the fact mer represent a level; and incidentally, generation of any stock, not pos born parent, and com- ing a “foreign matically becomes fully pletely “American. With immigration cut down to next to nothing, as at present, it will | than 50 the clear-cut be no more years nation’ will be! American everybody in classified as | having no foreign-born parents. Further facts upon the remark- ssion of Italian-born and the make-up of culled from officiai ces, read as follows Italian stock in modern Ameri In the federal census of that year listed 1,610,113 persons in the 1920, United States as having been born in Italy. T} of the to 11.5 per cent of oy represented 1.5 per cent 1 American population and the total foreign- They our foreign-born born population wer second largest group, surpassed only by those borr in 586,108, 1 census figures Germany, who numbered The 1930 gn-born have not yet been publish- on for- approximate in the ad- | > immi that lian-born now b I 1 States can made nited i fo the total 1920 t 1ta to for grants from since year bout and subtracting those who emigrated back to since then (about 255,000). There subtracted further the Italian-born num- iths of from h can only be approxi- process, the United Yorn in the 700,000, or populi- to 1890, German immigr 1901 to 191 re were only | 5,045 German ints to this The ration cams 1 immig country ak of Italian immi when Ttaly n 01-1910, cail fror 524 prising, therzfore 10 here dditional 109 . It is not \Facts and Fancies when | { will | much that while the number of Italian- born in the United States increased 20 per cent from 1910 to 1920, the number of German-born decreased mére than 20 per cent. Iy probable that the figures for for- cign-born in the United States in 1930 will show the Italians to be the t foreign-born group in the country. ot the Italy since 1899, 16 per cent have been north Italians and 84 per cent have in la immigrants from | | been south Italians, Sicilians and Sardinians. , including In the fiscal year ending June 1914, the last before the outbreak | of the World w Italians were 283,- 1,006,249 present, | of the At only 5,802 immigrant aliens are ad- This is (26 per cent) immigrants admitted missible annually from Ital 33 per cent of the 150,000 admis- e from Europe, Asia, Africa, and in America. A European possessions By Robert Quillen But why worry about making an ass of yourself? Do you want to be the only perfect man on earth? Happy thought! Maybe the dis- tillers would quit making it if people would quit drinking it. Hard time: which may expla vsually cause revolutions, n why writing men take a big part in them. Another revolution in South Amer- ica. The camera men have landed and have the situation in hand. r attending a few criminal n't help wondering why so hard with old Ananias, it went The quicket way to reduce the | number of unemployed is for the| boss to quit wearing rubber heels. | The politi time this “Darn 1l speaker has an easy wr. He can just say: something or other.” The great advantage of peace that you can pick out countries to love. is your own Why expect our great minds to overcome wet sports when they can't even cure bald spots. Americanism: Assuring one an- other that pover is no crime; pro- viding capital punishment exclusiv Iy for poor men. How strange that prominent c zens caught monkeying with the underworld don't claim to have been gathering evidence, Jobs Queer country! for every- {body at $8 a day doing nothing in time of war, and no jobs for any- body in time of peace. Life grows simpler. In the old days slumming parties had to leave their respectable neighborhoods to rub elbows with the lawless. Man s an absurb creature who thinks the value of a diamond-set wrist watch is affected by its failure to keep time, There's always a bright side. A few more years like this and it won't be so hard to stick to a diet. The Germans have gone fasc | Evidently the trouble of making up their own minds wasn't so much | fun, after all. It 1s rumored that one of the to- | bacco companies will try music to Ivertise ity wares. Probable the refrain from spitting. Durant | for pr an examination office holders. One be: “Are your fin- suggests spective | question should gers stick Correct tronbles hoss this sentence: “Our labor | will be ended,” said the| “when every textile worker is a college graduate.” (Copyright 1930, Publishers’ Syndicate). 25 Years Ago Today ccording to papers filed at the o of the secretary of state, tha capitalization of the Hotel Russwin is $15,000. City officials announced today that there will be no extension of the subway in the riorth end of the | city for some time to come. P. S. McMahon h purchased o-half interest in Crean's block Main st ew Britain horscmen are going over to Plainville to capture oats this afternoon when a series of raccs for oats will be held under the au- spices of the Plainville Driving clut. The new board of public wo face a stupendous problem in reconstruction of the streets, a of wreck and ruin at present. Philadelphia turned the tables on McGraw's Giants in the world series yesterday, taking a 8 to 0 decision with Bender in the box. Many N Britain people witnessed the battle. | Committess have been appointed to make arrangements for the Tabs' celebration. o Observations On The Weather Washington, Oct ew 11.—Forecast | Southern England: Fair | turday and Sunc not much ange in temperatur, IForecast for ste; air Saturday change in tempe ditions: A disturbance about 500 miles southea N ntly moving stward by strong for 3 sa chi rn I St ra and New York inday, not ture, C cent Halifa is t of . appa attended ds. The outlook Saturday and 8 wi with 1911- for faiy nday i the Wash- district. Temper s will be unimportant. is ington ,lure change forecast In view of these facts, it is high- | | Light and Pow {are O. | contest. weather | | PLESHESLEE SO On the City a | Now That the “Conference” | Is Over, Let's Have Action In spite of the staggering pro- fundity of the scrivening Mr. Boyle, | he has not yet realized that the pub- | lic of New Britain wants facts in- stead of speeches about the rate| charged for lighting Mr. Boyel, as a member of the| council, was quick to suggest a con- ference with officials of the Con- necticut Light and Power concern- ing New Britain rates. He got He also got a speech from one of the officials that took his breath | away. Then he folded up like a one | night show and accepted the decision | —it was a decision—that rates were fair and equitable. Withopt further | ado, he was ready to go before the public and say: “The Connecticut | r Co. says the rates | and we can't do anything about it | Mr. Boyle called for a conference | and insisted that it was nothing more | than a conference. Well, now that that is at an end, let'’s have an in- vestigation for a change. Light con- sumers have. taken their drubbing for several years and owing to the cleverness of J. Henry Roraback jicutenants, no one seems to have | Leen hig enough to pierce the armor | of their arguments. | Messrs. Johnson, Falk and Ma- cora are right in insisting that a | study of th® subject be continued. | Mr. Boyle referred frequently during | the meeting of the committee Tues- |4 day night to a “minority” report | which Mr. Johnson could file if he so desired. As it developed, any minority report will be made to the council by Mr. Boyle. So far as Mr. Boyle was concern- ed the “conference” was a burlesque. | Let someone head the committee | who can ask questions and who | likes to stand on his feet and fight | instead of taking his beating lying | down. That's what members of th council are for. If they are in- capable of standing up for public rights, they do not belong to the council. | | —_— | Quigley Given Setback By Republican Voters Indication that the Quigley d nasty is susceptible to those influ- ences which brought about the downfall of the pitcher that went to the well too often is not lacking. The voice of the republican voters was heard Thursday night when the Quigley machine attempted to put across William Quigley, cousin of the mayor, for the nomination for repre- sentative, and failed. The result can be interpreted only in one way—a rebuke for the head of the machine. Mayor Quigley pro- claimed that he intended to support his cousin. The Quigley workers at the primaries are closely allied with the mayor's organization, Some of | them are his personal appointees and others are under obligation to throw their strength o him in a political Many who were openly in favor of Quigley when he was a can- didate for mayor and who gladly| hustled to get out the vote, asked to be excused from rushing to the aid and comfort of his cousin. The Quigley announcement that | | | 3 § mz lined up nd Its People Edward M. Pratt was against Representative Thure Bengtson was a faux pas which proved to have the effect of a boom- crang. When Mr. Pratt denied un- cquivocally that he would support Bill Quigley, it brought to the re- publican voters the realization of what was in the wind. This was followed by reports that several members of the regular republican crganization in the city were lined up with Quigley. When the reports were called to the attention of the men concerned, they promptly, ana in some cases, indignantly denied their truth. The effort to railroad Representa- tive Thure Bengtson came to grief quickly and thoroughly hecaus many republican voters felt af- fronted. It is obvious that the can- didate was tempted to cash in on the magic name Quigley. But it was a forlorn hope. Little Golf Courses Appeal To Man's Sporting Spirit. One of the fascinations of golf on ! the runt links is said to be the op- | portunity it provides to exercise the | desire to place a little bet which is native to most men. Four business men were playix on a course on Tuesday evening. At every hole greenbatks changed’ hands, and at the end of the match, the 18th hole, one man said, “Well, [ am out exactly 100 bucks.” An- pther said, “I am ahead about $80.” The other said nothing. In a local restaurant one evening four youug fellows of high school age were placing dimes upon a table. Each had a score card. and cach was figuring out how much he was ahead or behind. _ “Joe, you owe me 40 cents and I owe Bennie 20 cents, Right?” Joe replied, “No, I owe you 30 cents and Bennie owes me 30 cents, 50 1 am even.” The argument lasted more than a half hour, and finally they decided to call all bets off and return to SHLHLHLHHHIHHSLOISLSSSLHSO S S2HLSSLHELHIBSHOSL D252, | through the aggressiveness of the —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations | Barnesdale Community society that they are getting the attention for which they feel they are paying, it is claimed. Assessed and taxed the same as in other sections of the city, they want the same privileges. They realize. having just had a trunk line sewer installed, that now is not the time to ask for a perma- nent street paving job, and they have not asked for it. What they do want on their main street, they assert, is to have it made passable so that residents can drive to and from thelr homes with- overturned vehicle, They do not ask that the city build them driveways, but where the city takes possession of private driveways at least should be left so that the owners can use them, in the condition in which they were found. They feel, now that the trunk line | sewer is in, that all private connec-, tions should be made as rapidly as | possible so that the streets will not | be torn up after it is permanently | repaired, and steps will be taken to | {have this work done. | They believe that if respectable organizations hold picnics in that vicinity and a few rowdies get drunk and are ordered out of the| park that they have a right to ask the police to kecp them from mo- | |lesting residents, after they leave | the park. They say that they are entitled to the safety of illuminated streets, that they are entitled to have their streets oiled or sprinkled to lay the dust and that cach individual should have pure running water in an un- interrupted supply. They declare vehemently that they are entitled to a through street so| that their children can go to school more conveniently, so that their| mail delivery service may be bet-| tered and so that they may be cn- abled to reach their homes without driving across railroad and trolley tracks. The trunk | line sewer is almost completed, lights arc ordered for dark streets, Mayor Quigley has promised to have the street opened from West Main to Corbin avenue; improved mail service and better express deliveries will follow the street improvement anl now are being considered. Thasociety owns the ground upon whieh it plans to play another match, and pay up Btdnave a public park and playground the end of each hole. Three women, between 25 and 30, were playing on an outdoor course. At every hole they would swap sil- ver, and when the match was ended, one woman said, “I am $1.75 ahead, girls.’ The others made no comment. one looking as though she wanted to hit the winner with her golf club. The little midget game is the most thrilling betting game that has come to New Britain since parchesi made its debut, before the Spanish- American war, and no home is safe. The night may vet come when landlords will play tenants for the month’s rent, and the butcher play the housewives for a sirloin steak for dinner. Barnesdale Residents Catalogue Their Demands Contrary to the opinion in some quarters, residents of Barnesdale feel they are not asking the city for anything unreasonable, a resident of that district told the Observer. Their section of.the city has been neglected for so long, that it is only New York, Oct. 11 — Well, sir. if | the servants don't up and bow out| before dinner the Melnt s in ship shape. Our little | all abgut that new Te | apartment family knows now domestic perplexity they call the| servant problem. They have beer | coming in 24 hour shifts, every sort, including the Scandinavian. All we needed was a band for a | big parade. Most of them loafed | awhile, fattened themselves up and | departed, taking along cnpassant a | few gimeracks like sheets, the mas- ter's neckties and a musical cigarette hox that tinkled “Alice Blue Gown" | when you lifted the lid | You might have imagined that in | all the procession at least two of them would have snapped into a | huddle and agreed: “Let's give the| saps one good meal.” But they never did. One in the caravan was reputed to be a butler like you see in musi- cal comedies—a sort of half man and half wit, When not'buttling he was a desk enatcher. 1 tried to explain to him there was no future in desk snatch- ing but a good butler might get somewhere. Yet old pussyfoot con- tinued to sneak upon my desk and | snatch old envelopes. The minute opened a letter and put the envelops down—pss-s-st! it was gone. Maybe it is unfair to class him a desk snatcher. After all he may be only an envelope saver somewhat like Frank Fay's aunt who is a paper bag put awayer. Anyway theve is no place in our menage for a butler. We haven't a long silk rope with a tassel to pull when you want him ny life I've wanted, when com- comes, to step up suddenly, vank the rope and say: “Meadows, the cocktails!” (Voice: He's a rope yanker!) This piece has suddenly one nutty but if you had just a juired servants that seem to fill the Lill you'd be twittery, too. Perhaps it is optimism utter desp: but Margaret Norway who cooked it and from Sweden who served it have provided the tastiest meal I have had | in three months. Hooray, he 5 his pearl gray hat sailed over New | Itochelle, s a born of from grid There are many other ihings ahout | | iiceping house T like, too. But I have | not yet learncd to Keep my nervous feet off the electric floor bell—| they're all the go!—under the dining room carpet. I do a Swiss bell ring- ing act at each me And after I get the trick of avoiding it down pat I must train myself to quit peek- ing when a servant answers the front bell. I hear it is very back- woodsey. My own hangout in this apartment is in what was originally intended as a, dining room. now what the blue print “foyer hall.” Juggle that one! There is a swinging door with an oval glass leading from my work shop to the butler's pantry, a kitchen out in Gallipolis. This door is handy. The cook can sneak a look now and then and toss the trained seal a fish. calls the The dining room All is modernisti 0. yery utterly! frameless bev eled mirrors and furnishings of chromium and clear plate glass. The table seats only x, but in case of big dinner parties there is always a Child’s around the corner. But the drawing room is the bil- liards. Through folding doors as I write I can see it. The windows are draped in golden yellow. The ceiling is slightly pebbly with edges of tim- ber showing and the walls are Eng- | lish dark oak paneling fluted at the top with faintly hand painted coats of arms and helmets. There is a pon- derous eight foot high open fire place of grey-white stone, a dull black con- cert grand piano, a hunting dresser smack from England along a side wall, a 7-foot divan upholstered in dull gold satin, two deep lounging chairs and a huge circular tabaret with a mirrored top. There are two bedrooms, one in blue and the othe in pink, and—you'll die at this — what the blue print elegantly calls “a servant's hall.” But owning you own nothing much unless a back yard goes with it. As this one stands there is no place for a dog to bury a distarded bone, no place to beat a round steak perfectly silly or a place to sit around in an undershirt on Sunday mornings and whittle, home is 0, yes. the milk man's Hector and he sports and a lapel flow plate. (Copyright, Mc Syndicate, Inc.) name is white gloves the big fashion Naught The dining room is | and eventually a community house; adequate police protection has been promised; improved water facilities are being considered by the water board; oiling and sprinkling of streets is being done to a limited ex- tent. Mayor Quigley has ordered a cleanup squad to follow up the sewer gang and gather up the dis- carded tools and junk; the accept- ance df Barnes and Warren streets looms in the not far distant future. Hartford Has Much Ado About Less Than Nothing Frequently the question is asked: “Why don't high grade men like to serve on city boards?” not that there has never been an A-1 com- missioner anywhere in the country, for there have been many in New Britain and elsewhere, but the mi- jority of mayors and other officials having the power to appoint com- missioners know from experience that they seldom get exactly the right men for every position. Likewise, one often hears discus- sed the disinclination of ideally fit- ted men to join the police and fir departments. and again the question applies to New Britain and other places, for there are admittediy some square pegs in round holes the country over and probably al- {ways will be. Like some other questions, there are many answers, and one of them appears to have been given in Hart- ford ab a meeting of \the policz board during the week. A sergeant and a patrolman disagreed on the question of the propriety of the lat- ter's alleged undignified action in singing out a greeting to a passerby as a squad was being taken from headquarters to the posts of duty. The patrolman saw a friend or ac- quaintance and they exchanged greetings out loud, much to the ser- geant’s disgust and the result was that the matter found its way to thz commissioners, who upheld the ser- geant. 1f the constable of Podunk brought such a mattér to the atten- tion of the burgesses and they gave up an entire evening around a hot stove in the high mogul's parlor or wherever they hold their meetings, it would be in keeping with the gen- cral tenor of government in the su- ,burbs, but when policemen and con:- missioners in the largest city in Con- necticut can find nothing more im- portant to talk about and vote upon —well, the. whys and wherefores of the apathy towards municipal serv- ice on the part of caphble men are not such a mystery after all. Theoretically, policemen be dignified, but not to an unreu- sonable degree. Thev should not come out of their quarters turning handsprings or wearing their caps backwards, nor should they make a practice of doing a vaudeville stunt at every street corner, but it does seem that a “Hello, Bill,” along their beats is entirely proper. At any rate, it would seem that a lieuten- ant or chief could settle the Hart- ford dispute and leave the really big affairs of the department for the commissioners to worry about. Petty matters too frequently ar permitted to occupy the attention of administrative officials in municipal government everywhere, and the Hartford affair is a timely exampl In private business when an official or employe makes a mistake or be- come connected with a condition which is a little out of the ordinary someone in authority takes the m ter in hand and irons it out without bothering others who have some- thing else to look after, but where police and fire departments and oth- er municipal bodies are concerned it seems that there is always somebody over anxious to delve into the most picayune details and stir up a con- troversy. Small wonder then that the complaint is heard that “big’ men fight shy of governmental serv- ice. should Maybe This Suggestion Could Be Used By Common Council Probably the bluntest statement in a long time was that made at a recent Boys' club meeting when a speaker announced that he would address the group of boys for about out risking a broken spring or an| a half-hour on his experiences abroad. It is the custom for this particular group to participate in some form of recreation after the meeting and at times their enthusi- {asm for the recreation is more ar- dent than their interest in the for- mal club program. The speaker had warmed up to | his subject when a hand in the audi- ence was raised and waved vigor- ously. The speaker stopped. “What time is it?" the youngster asked. “Eight o'clock,” plied. “You're done,” commented the lad {and pandemonium broke loose. the speaker re- Italian Specials Rome, Oct. 11 (UP)—A strangs phenomenon is occurring at a lake near Leprignano, 27 kilometers north of Rome. The lake formed last winter, but recently the water has been changing color and there have | Reen frequent emissions of gas and hot steam. Rumbling heard and then tremors felt, and the water finally disappeared entirely yesterday morning following shocks. Experts believed the phenomenon was «on- nected with the eruption of Vesuvius. Messina, Oct. 11 (UP)—Two earth shocks, belicved to center in collan Isle or Aetna, were felt yes terday. There were no casualties. Oct. 11 (UP)—Two earthquakes at Isola Di Ga Po Riz- zuto caused the inhabitants to fea into the open. There was no dam- age reported. were Catanzaro, Milan, Oct. 11 (UP)—Citygauthor« ities appropriated an additional 51.« 000,000 lire yesterday for comple< tion of the new railroad station, which was described as the largest in Europe. UTILITIES BATTLE Sees Gonflict Over Privately De- veloped Resources Soon San Francisco, Oct. 11 (P—A con- flict in the near future between pro< ponents of privately developed nat- ural resources and those who hold the public’s rights paramount” was predicted in an address here yester day by United States Senator Hiram' Johnson of California Addressing the Commonwealth club, Senator Johnson said the con< flict had been foreshadowed in the senate in its battle over the nomina« tion of Circuit Judge John J. Park<' er and Charles Evans Hughes to the United States supreme bench. The nomination of Judge Parker falled of confirmation. Senator Johnson said the senats battle “sharply defines what is to be irrepressible confiict of our times. The two philosophies of government are at war. The not far distant fu< ture will witness them at grips.” The senator also discussed fhe farm board. The government op- posed development of Muscle Shoals, he said. “and at the same time, while decrying government develop+ ment of what actually belonged 1o the people, the farm board was go+ ing into Chicago wheat pit blewing in millions of the people’s money in the greatest gamble on earth." Senator Johnson assailed the na armament treaties of recent years. He said each agreement saw United States diplomats bow to the de< mands of Great Britain and Japan. “In the guise of limitation of navies and disarmament.” he said, in referring to the London pact, “a treaty has been imposed upon the American people, which neither dis+ arms the parties to it, nor reduces American naval armament below the American program; but which to be effective. requires an American navy to be built in its most impor- tant claments, according to British specificatior and which, if built, will cost American taxpayers more than one billion dollars.” HALT FLECTIONS WHEN TURKS RIOT Women Carrying Flag of Mo- hammed Are Arrested Tstanbul. Turkey, Oct. 11 (P— Three hundred Turks, including many women bearing the green flag of the Prophet Mohammed., marked the solemnity of the Moslem Sabe bath yesterday by storming the mus ricipal election booth in the mosqua courtyard of Cassim Pasha, in the Golden Horn Slum, of the district which had gone over entirely to Fethi Bey's new opposition party Shouting “Long live the Liberal Party!” the mob crashed through the courtyard gate. The police ed the ballot box., which was an urn, and locked it within the mosque, proclaiming the elections discontin= ued. They proceeded to arrest the bearers and dispe * the crowd Fethi's repeated declarations thatl party is as sccular Ismet Pasha's have not influenced tho spirit of conservative Moslenu crowds. flz CROSS CHALLENGES 1'OE New Haven, Oct. 11 Dean Wils bur L. Cross, democ guberna- torial nominee, in a letter to ‘Lieut. Governor Irnest 1. Rogers republican candidate, last night challenged the latter to a public de- bate or series of debates on the campaign. Cross named prohibition, business depression, state old age pensions, improvement for the fa- cilities for the care of the tubercu- lar, and improvement of rural roads as the issues which he considered of chief importance in the campaign. atic open Sugar cane as tall as a bungalow is growing in Florida, where a new | tvpe with stalks 35 to 30 feet high is heing given its first try-out fn America,