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New Britain herald., 1922-04-21

close of the convention in order that tunity of participating in the many attractive trips being arranged. These include visits to the Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, the Big Trees, Jack Londons famous Valley of the Moon, and many other attractive tourist features, all within eight hours or less of San Francisco.
 Special Excursions.
 Tn addition to these there will be ifornia's great fruitful valleys where various forms of agriculture, land de- velopment and organization work may be inspected. These latter trips will be provided especially for those real tors interested in agricultural lands.
 The big post-convention event, how ever, will be the golf tournament to be held on the Del Monte links, four hours by motor from San Francisco. This will be three-da party with the San Francisco perpetual golf tro- phy as the award to the winning board.
 The business of the convention proper will take up practically all of the time of the delegates with very little time left on the side for en- tertainment. To prevent delegates from deserting the important conven- tion discussions in order to go sight seeing, the local committee is inn pressing on other boards the impor- tance of providing an adequate lay over in the convention city.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-21
HOTEL ON WHEELS
Illinois Central Plans Novel Feature Of Knights TempIars Session at New Orleans Next Week.

Chicago, April 2l.--A modern ho- tel on wheels with a capacity of 5000 guests will be operated by the Illinois Central system in the heart of down. town New Orleans during the tri- ennial conclave of the Grand Com mandery, Knights Templars April "A to 27. Tho "hotel' will consist of 25O sleeping cars. The yards of the rail- road are being enlarged 10 provide parking space for the cars and eleven new tracks are being built and three of the permanent tracks extended.
 The sleeping cars will be operated on the plan of a miniature city, with each car a house. Walks will be laid lights installed and a water supply ar ranged for. Dining cars will be parked about the "city" to furnish meals, and a warehouse adjoining the yards will be converted into a tenn porary clubhouse.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-21

The phrase, "a feather in his cap," originated in an old custom in Hun gary, which forbade anyone to wear a feather in his cap unless he had killed a Turk.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-21

The number 13 is never used by the Italians in making up their lot teries.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Making Americans of Them.
(NeW York POst.)

"Oh, they don't assimilate, the hunkes and da- goes; that's why the Northern immigration is so much superior" Many will think this familiar but quite superficial opinion justified by the figures on the citizenship status of adult foreign born issued this week by the Census Bureau. There twelve and a half million immigrants in the Republic, of whom not quite one-half-49.7 per cent.-are nat
 ralized. The Welsh take the position of honor. No less than 744 cent of them have become full citizens. Of the immigrants from Germany, Sweden, and Denmark than 70 per cent are naturalized; ot those from England, Ireland, and Norway, more
 han 65 per cent. But look towards the foot of the list The Poles Italians, ,Hungarans, Jugosavs, and Let's do not top 30 per cent and the Greeks and Portuguese do not reach IS per Does this re- port not show who is easily Amercanized and who is not?
 It shows nothing of the sort, for it takes no account Of cardinal factor the time element vast majority of immigrants from the British Isles Scan dinavia, and Germany have been here many years while most of those from Southern and Eastern Europe are newcomers. In 1900 had no less than 2,7S2,0O0 immigrants from the United King dom; in 1910, 2,572,oOO and in 1920 only 2O62, ,OOO That is, most of the British born have been here long that the very considerable current immigration lags behind the death rate The figures for the German born similar-2, ,81 900 in 1900 2499- 900 in 1910, and only 1,648, 900 deductions were made for excised territory in 1920. This old stock mas had time for naturalization. But of the Italians there were less than a half-mon in 1900 and nearly one and half millions in 1920 There were s,513 Greeks in 1900 and 00O in 1920 Great numbers have not had time to settle down. The Germans with first papers less than one-tenth as many as the fully naturalized Germans But the Italians with first papers, making haste towards full citizenship are more than onethird number fully naturalized.
 Careful students believe that the "new immi grafton tends to become naturalized even more rapidly than the old. Briton coming here finds himself in land much like Britain, and often sees no reason for quick assumption of the new citizen ship The Sav usually feels that he has burnt his ships behind him; he is in a totally new and much oetter land and wishes to identify himself with it.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
PRAISE FOR SPROUL AND PEPPER.

Unusual commendation of Gov. Sproul of Penn sylvania, for his appointment of George Wharton Pepper to fill the vacancy the Senate left by the death of Senator Penrose is given by Mark Sullivan national political correspondent of the New York Evening Post, who is rated of the shrewdest nd most impartial of political writers in the try MT Sullivan declares from a national point of view and from the bipartisan point of view the outstanding fact" about the appointment of Mir. Pepper lis that it is a beginning toward restoring the intellectual standing the Senate" He also as- serts that it is the initial step in policy nation wide in that has been recently naugurated by the management of both big political parties.
 The Pennsylvania Senator is described as lawyer with standing comparable to that of Root Hughes or the late Philander c. Knox and as a man with very high of public duty who has always shown willingness to respond to its call without charge for his time talents. With all of this he is said to be very retiring and has managed
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
If It Fits


 Some girls imagine they are sucf dazzling beauties they cannot under stand why they do not ruin mirror the way the sun does.
 The trouble with playing the Goot Camaritan these days is the object of your good intentions too often takes you fer good thing
 Sin is l:ke some people who know r. does not look so bad when it :s ali dressed up.
 A husband will never get the biz head over what his wife tells him about himself
 Some shows are not so good as their advance notices and some women are not as pretty as the clothes they wear.
 A superstout (highbrow for corn bed) thinks there should be a special day of Thanksgiving declared when she loses a pound and a day of mourning appointed if she gains one.
 The fellow who finds fault does not enrich himself. though he steals a lot of happiness from those aroInd him.
 We'll say this for the hole in the doughnut. it's JDt more wholesome than the part that surrounds it. We never yet have had indigestion from eating that part of the old grease ab- sorber.
 We all would be glad to forget our troubles if our creditors only would be wiling 10 forgive us our debts.
 When I E.-r begins to baby his
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

wife he has his life work cut out lor him.
 No, Clarence it never is necessary for a man to offer to carry his wife's bundles when they are out shopping. She will just hand them to him.
 Some folks idea of liberality is to give you the core after they have eaten the sppIe.
 Anyway, the bare knees never look as much as if they needed washing as the bare elbows always do.
 It soon w'li be time to hear the killing frostS have ruined the New Jersey peach crop, but the cold weather hasn't hurt the Peaches in this mans town that yeu can notice And most of us notice pretty con- sistently.
 Girls who used to think it was fierce to be born with such homely aces now are giving way to the girls who are grooming at the skinny un- lerpinning with which nature has provided them.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

to subordinate himself in the public eye despite many prominent activities.
 AS for the appointment MT. Sullivan holds it to be in every non-political and one that is un- palatable to every of the organized interests that have dominated the selection of Pennsylvania senators for than thirty years Commenting on Governor Sprouts action in naming Mr. Pepper, MT. Sullivan sad
 It of those acts which not
 only patriotic in the impersonal sense but
 which also involve the submerson of self
 interest. Sproul urged to resign the
 Governorship in order to take the office
 himself To refrain from that not
 much, perhaps; but in naming Pepper,
 Sproul also makes his advancement in
 the future impossible Peppers appointment
 is only to out the uneXpired term of
 Penrose.
 In the Republican primaries next May,
 and in the election next November two
 Pennsylvania Senatorships will be filled
 Sproul will not be able to get either of
 them for he from the same end of
 the State Pepper Sprouts self-abnega-
 tion, coupled with the kind of Pepper
 is, is such action gives of
 exaltation and makes feel the country
 is headed in the right direction.
 In the Senate is asserted MT. Pepper will stand out like an oak both for his intellectual strength his independence ordinary political consideration His selection a beginning in the strengthening of the Senate, leaves things to be done One is to abolish the seniority rule which makes it impossible for able Senator give the country the full benefit of his talent until he has undergone long experience The other is to send more of the caliber claimed by MT. Sullivan for Senator Pepper to the Senate. On both of these points, it is apparent that leaders of both political parties agreed
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Liquor Causes Mucn Worry.
(Prince Rupert News.

The commerciazcd liquor traffic is a constant source Of worry to statesmen and constant menace to the country Almost every province in the Dom- lnon has the problem before it at the present time Owing to the greed of those engaged in the traffic is probable that there will be solution until the whole thing is swept away in bone dry law for the whole Dominion that will not only prevent luuor being legally sold but will also make it so hot for the booeggers that there will be little illicit trading
 II the spirit of the moderation law carried out there would be agitation against it. The diff hcuty IS that those engaged in the business satisfied. They are continually agtatng for greater lax1tv and more privileges. This will simply hasten the end If those who handle liquor to continue the business, the best thing they can do is to comply carefully with the law and leave well 'nough alone Even now community may take ad-
 ntage of the Canada Temperance Act and make a ity dry so that not even the government vendor would be allowed to sell liquor.
 Drunkenness seems to be the increase For a !me the liquor law worked we'll but the efforts to wade 1t are having disastrous effects If there is laxlty, It will be necessary for those who favor lecent community to organize and commence an agi- tatlon for getting rid of the traffic altogether
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Maybe His Eyesight Is Failing

eve never could understand why I woman puts all the frills where they don't show complains Adam Breede. Well, we'll we learn some thing new every day. We didn't know the girls wore a thing these days that didn't show
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
You Don't Have Much of It Handed
 To You

'-Milk allowed to go sour and so wasted in New York is valued at three quarters of a million dollars annually News Item. But we guess that isn't a circumstance to the amount of milk of human kindness hat is left to sour and go to waste n that burg.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Just in Defense of the Fraternity

When you see a paragraph writer staring fixedly at a flapper don imagine he is trying to be rude or to flirt with her. He probably is just trying to see if there is anything about her that he has forgotten to comment on.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Just Like a Real One

'It says here football, cycling and horseback riding are possible to the wearers of new artificial leg which contains only two springs remarked Mrs Crouch
 Huh! And I suppose people can pull it the same as any other leg, too," growled MT. Crouch.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
We Guess It Would Be Hobson's
 Choice

"Dear Sam: If Mexico should be- come flooded would Vera Cruz?-Iiol- yoke and Maginnis. Beckley, w. Va
 (Still we are finding since the bootleggers are flooding this country cruise beyond the three-mile limit really isn't necessary)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Just a Memory Teaser

Do you remember when it was pos sible to see a paterfamilas acting as motive power to a perambulator, and you could call after him It's good thing, Old Man, push it along?"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Far Otherwise

"Put snap into your work
 Is good advice, Old Chap, But it doesn't mean for you To look for a soft snap.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Mary's Calf

Mary has a fatted calf, And when the people spy it, It gives them all a hearty laugh, So Mary's on a diet.
 Cincinnati Enquirer
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
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 SAss AA
Weather Forecast

The weather for the coming week, We think, will be both cold and
 warm; It will be fair unless it rains, Or there may be a big snow storm. (Well, that's as good as the Weath- er Man makes, and he doesn't even use rhyme.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

As guests at the wedding of the Princess Mary will be the Kings of Spain, Belgium, Norway Italy nd Denmark In fact, about all the Kings that are left in the deck.-( Cleveland Plaindealer)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Just How Do You Read This?

(Round Head Cor. Hillsboro Gazette.
 Mrs. c. H. Murray is suffering with a gathering in her jaw at this writ ing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

Were you ever in great peril?' "Yes.'
 "Yes"
 "Who rescued you?"
 "My wife The minute she appear ed on the scene the vamp took to the tall timber"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
This Date in History

Five thousandg years ago today Alexander Archimedes Smith made the first homemade hootch. He left a widow and 12 children.
 She Grabbed Him by the Ear
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Fool Questions

"Alice" asks: What do they serve and hard boiled eggs on some of 'em.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

A California astronomer says the earth is moving northward at rate of a foot year, pushed up no ioubt by the growth of Republication in the South -(Washington Press.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
DAD, ASK Mh, SHE KNOWS.

Is your sink 30 inches high? It should be 36 inches for comfort. The Sanitary Plumbing Shop will change it for you. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
News of the Names Club

We would like to know whether hey use Belle Tapp, of Roswell, N. M., as the curfew in that burg.
 When Laura Corneted, of Worry town, Ohio. was married last week, they "belled" her. They don't use comets in them country serenades
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

Postmaster General Hays has ruled that post mistress who marries the job need give up her position In other words she ought to be even more qualified for handling the males - Dayton News
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Always Sounds Interesting

"Pa, what is economy? asked Clarence.
 'It's something everybody breaches, but nobody practices, my son." he- piled Pa.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

We that the northern West Virginia coal fields produced fourteen million tons of coal last year and by reference to coal bills find that we paid for all of it-(Columbia Record1
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
Mary has a pretty calf,

Mary has a pretty call, There's nothing it does lack, And that is why she hates to know Long skirts are coming back.
 Hastings (Neb) Tribune.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

Mir Balfour has read the riot to France bu most of the French don't understand English Charleston News and Courier.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

Many woman who has never taken up law can lay it down.-(Flint Journal.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01
They Must Have Treated Each Other Mighty Well to Stand 50 Years of 1t

IWlIsOnVlIIe TNebJ GOT. Hastlngs
 Tribune) MT. and Mrs T. E. Treat celebrat. ed their golden wedding anniversary Wednesday,
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-01

Daily Sentence Sermon Don't be afraid to shift your gears
Evening journal., 1922-04-06
BEHIND YOUR BACK.

A PRIVATE telephone apparently no longer protects
N you from having people listen in your con-
versaton.
The Society for Electrical Development announces
that Albert e. Proftt employed by the telephone COM
pany at Providence r. l.. has perfected radiophone
device that enables him to eavesdrop talk passing
over telephone wires.
Promtt experimenting with his radiophone, wired
his ampliher peculiar way that is being Kept
secret Immediately began to hear local telephone
he repeated to the takers amaz-
ing them.
While ProHatts device still is in embryonic stage Of
development it opens up held for the wire
lessthe possible ending secrecy, dupcity intrigue
and talking behind ones back that so common in
Delaware and elsewhere.
You cannot sit In your and eavesdrop on con-
versaton in a house a mile away without mechanical
help.
The eavesdropplng for some years has been possible
by means of the simple dctograph employed by deec
tives
The listenng-in process carried a step further by
Pronitts radio discovery It impossible that we
soon may have a wireless device able to pick up pri-
vate conversations in distant homes offices rendez
vous OF criminals.
The idea seems uncanny now. So did the wireless
telegraph when Marconi announced its invention
civilization will advance with leaps and bounds when
secrecy among men is made impossible Without Sc
creoy there could be criminal organizations war
plots illegal trade combines conspraces against in
divdual life. honor fortune.
End secrecy and you end dishonesty born OF intrigue
Suppose mechanical device were suddenly discov-
cred enabling people eavesdrop facetoface con-
versaton the tapping the wires OF telephone
system
That would end hypocrisy and deception, also
malicious gossip The things said in secrecy would
usually remain II the talker knew he were be-
overheard by the gossped about, and would be
called personally account
Enormous are possibilities OF ending secrecy the
cancer OF civilization. Prohitt have opened the
way. Maybe not. But this is worth thinking about
that the wireless. it exists is crude compared
with what it will developed into, the hntock
musket Of Colonial days crude alongside the mod
ern machine
The wireless and other inventions TO follow will link
all human brains system OF mechanical mental
itelepathy.
Evening journal., 1922-04-06
The Plumb Line of Reason
CFrOm The chicago journal OF Com merce)

Glenn e. Plumb, who styles him
self general counsel OF the Organiz-
ed Railway Employees Of America,
made a speech in St. Louis recent
ly. Among other things. he charg-
ed the railroads with being bank
rupted and in such condition OF dis
repair as TO be unsafe to ride upon.
The railroads are not bankrupted
but Mr.. Plumb is trying as hard as
he can to bring about that condi-
tion.
While Mr.. Plumb has been forum
ate in inducing most of the railway
employe organizations TO furnish
him with financial backing with
which to wage a war against the
railway companies. ne has been ex-
tremely unfortunate in having the
props knocked out from under
charges which he has made against
private operation OF the railroads.
lie seems to have been very unlucky
in the particular railway topics which
he has selected to discuss before the
public For example the statement
which he made at st. Louis to the
effect that the railroads are in such
a condition OF disrepair as to be un-
safe to ride upon Is about as wide OF
the mark as any statement could be
Evening journal., 1922-04-06

such as the prevention OF accidents.
and analyze it. a good many have
been doing that and in nearly every
instance private management of the
railroads has been found to be not
only sound, but to posses such merit
as to deserve special commentator
The fact that there are nearly twice
as many people injured each year by
ordinary falls as are fatally injured
on our railroads Is remarkable. Or
dinary burns kin more annually
than are fatally injured on the rail-
roads. and even accidental drowning
is running the railroads a close sec
ond' on fatalities.
In the face of the official figures.
Mr. Plumb's charge that the rail-
roads are unsafe to ride upon is
plainly too nonsensical for foolish
ness. But so long as Mr. Plumb can
fool the leaders Of organized labor.
and they in turn, can pull the wool
over the eyes Of the men who pay
dues andaassessments to the organ
izations. Mr.. Plumb will not worry.
A subject on which no light has
been thrown. and probably none will
be thrown, is how much money
Plumb is making but OF his cam
paign of Misrepresentation.
Evening journal., 1922-04-06
THE rARIFF on sILK.

ClLK wearing apparel is generally conceded to be
y luxury, whatever the importers say about IT, and
the trend their newspaper advertisements corrobo-
rates the Hence. luxury II for other
reason silk should be subjected TO rather stin
duty at when economy is the watchword Of the
hour. Those who Insist wearing silk clothes inn
ported from abroad should be willing to pay for the
privilege II the duties are so low that the American
Industry is driven out OF they will be obliged
TO pay what the foreigners demand go without.
An outfit calling itself the Silk Defense Association
recently appeared before the Senate Finance Commit
tee and threatened adopted for the
silk schedule materially decreased the French silk
manufacturers refuse participate in the next
exhibit TO be held in the United States This did not
scare the COMMITTEES little bit II is doubtful II the
French have any such threat but II they did and
should carry they would only be npping
on their spite their faces We can have SIX
show OF our II need be.
According to report this silk association is "advocat-
ing the retention 45 per contained
in the old Payne-Aldr (Republcan) law. as against
The rate OF SIS per cent adopted by the Finance Com
,nittee for the clause" (not specially provided
for) and large reduction the specific rates on light
and heavy weight tussah silks. the Payne-Adreh
rates were not per cent The written spe-
cnc rates and the average ad for the fiscal
year 1912 full year OF the bill based on the
specific rates 54S9 practically the rates adopted
by the in the pending measure In fact the
silk basket clause in the present bill is word for word
the provision in the Payne-Aidrich law, and II would
appear that the senate Committee merely approved
the House rates is the Underwood law that carries
the FIAT As per cent. rate in the basket clause
Last year, under the law. imported 4256,77a
mounds Of woven silk fabrics, and since much OF this
fabric weighs little one-third Of ounce yard
il is evident that importers are getting fat the
business The poundage OF imports OF silk fabrics fo
1919 is not given the tables OF imports but the valu
was s6soo.ooo, while the value last year was Owe
100000 Here are the for 1912 and 1921 b.
conntriee.
Evening journal., 1922-04-06

Washington dispatches feature
prominently the loose statements OF
John l.. Lewis before the House
Committee on Labor TO the effect
that "nationalization" Of the coal in
dustry may prove essential The
idea, vaguely worded, suggests pub
lie ownership, but Mr.. Lewis does
not mean that He explains that
the idea OF Government operation.
as the railroads we're operated. is
repugnant." Instead. he mentions
the formation OF an agency some
what akin to the Interstate Com
merce Commission to supervise the
industry.
These suggestions. however. have
no bearing upon the immediate is
sue. Indefinite and lacking precision
of meaning. they serve to mislead
public opinion. Neither national
ization." whatever that may mean.