New Britain herald., 1920-07-24
THE OBSERVER
 MAKES
 RANDOM OBSERVATIONS THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE.


 heart. We of New England have
 long been familiar with what we are
 pleased to call his infleXible Yankee
 character and his sound processes of reasoning and are apt to pass light ly over his words of wisdom which tilt the scale at sixteen ounces to the pound. if it is permitted to indulge the magination.
 It would be well for the young men of New Britain, as well as elsewher- 10 give attention to what the Bay e>iatc governor says from tune to time even if they do not intend to cast their votes for him. His utter ance on Character" are especially of high value. pointing out. they do the road that every young man must follow if he wishes to become a sue cess in the fullest meaning of the word. Speaking on this subject, the governor says:
 There are three qualities which I are essential to success-honesty, in | dustry and thrift. Without these there can he no success that is en- ' titled to credit; with them there is no failure that is subject to criticism. "The essential quality of all three of these characteristics is Self-control. Without Self-control there can be no development of character; and, after all. the administration of business will not be a success if the end m view is the acquisition of power that comes from the possession of prop erty.
 There is a power in character that far exceeds power that comes from any other source and there will
 never be any thought about the re- suit The result will be a success that will surpass any other success l that can be secured"
 It is not the writer's intention to promote the political interests of Governor Cooiage~by rerrinting the | foregoing Ii tistpGbIishaa so that the young men readers of this column may be helped along toward the at
 tainment of their ambit;ons. The young men of today are the great men Of tomorrow, and no man cInr became truly and enduringly great without charact
 According to members of the Knights of Columbus. which organi- zation recently acquired the Churchill properties at the corner of Pearl street and Franklin Square, the so- ciety feels a keen sense of obliga- tion to the sellers because of their squarencss. After the members of the society who were authorized to
 consider the purchase of the prop critics had signifed their satisfaction at the terms, another party approach ed the owners of the property and of fered a sum larger than that which
 the Knights had agreed to pay. Des- bite the fact that no money had been placed on deposit and the owners n sell to the society. they stuck to the
 bargain and said the property had : been sold. It is rumored that the
 would-be buyer offered as high as s15- 900 more than the Knights but the owners refused to be swerved from their promise to sell to the fraternal organization.
 This is the time of the year when you rush home on Saturday. toss a
 clean collar and a pair of socks into
 m" handbag along with tooth ! "fu'> and start for a glorious week ! emu s' In" shore. In the first place you learn that your train is late and , you are. therefore. unable to make
 good on that promise to meet a friend
 at the other end of the Iint, at , co,.
 tain hour. Reaching the other en-, : eNentuallN, you ma your friend with
 a face like a beet. his collar having
 the rigidiiy of a soft-boiled egg and ! his patience down to the irreducible l minimum.
 | Feeling that your troubles will be i ended soon. you chamber aboard an overloaded trolley car. make frantic
 efforts to take possession of a strap,
 step on someone's toes and have ten
 or eleven someone's step on yours, and . begin to experience the delights of i an informal turkish hath. The car starts suddenly and you lurch back . ward, -butting fat man in the
 stomach and dropping your bag in Nour desire to regain your balance.
 By the time you have secured pos
 session of it (your bag not your bal
 ance), your hat has been pushed down over your eyes, your tie has
 wandered outside your coat and you
 have won the undying enmity of
 everyone within a radius of two
 yards.
 AS you approach your station you
 make a desperate struggle to reach
 the button which signals the motor
 man to stop. The rest of the pas I Scagers think you have taken a fit , and do all in their power to restrain ] you from jumping out the window | At last you convince them that you | are sane and harmless. but by this
 time tho car has sped past your sta | tion and the motorman declines to ! stop until he comes to the mex:
 You alight with your friend and
 blow your way back over half a
 mile of sand in which you unsuccess-