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New Britain herald., 1922-03-04

Dallas, Texas. March 4.-norothy Cannon, six years old, who has under gone 14 serious operations and 4o skin grating applications, will be dis charged from a hospital here within another month--a well child, doctors declared today.
 Dorothy was given up as dead when she was found lying on live wire in a puddle of water last June and
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
9TH WARD TC HAVE ALDERMANIC FIGHT KerWin and Mccormick Both Out
 for Nomination
 KING MAY ALSO SEEK HONOR
Ward Caucus To Bc Held This Month Will Be One Of Warmest Even Conducted Tn That District, Elcc- tors Anticipate.

With the announcems hy Coun- eiman Michael T, Kerwin that he will be a candidate for alderman on the democratic ticket in the sixth ward, the stage is set for one of the most interesting political battles in the history Of that democratic strong hold.
 May Be Three Cornered Race
 Councilman T. Frank Mccormick has already announced himself as a candidate. and II is understood that friends of Councilman Michael kiug will make an effort to have his uame brought into the ward caucus should the name of Councilman kins he in tloduced, a three -cornered fight is as sured: at any rate. there will he q contest between Councilmen kerwin and Mccormick.
 Democratic leaders were not en- tirely pleased with the announce ment by Councilman Mccormick that he would seek the honor. it is report ed, and the candidacy of Councilman kerwn is the result of solicitation on the part of the leaders, reports in tho sixth ward have st.
 kerwin Experienced
 Councilman kerwiu represented the sixth ward as alderman from 1912 to 1916. having been elected twice by the voters in that district. He made his first appearance in the governing body in 1910 when he was elected q councilman. He served in that capa- city until advanced to the chair of all derman in 1912. After retiring as al derman in 1916, he remained ont of politics for two years. In i2lS he was again named d councilman, and in 1920 he was reelected. His term as councilWan expires next month.
 The councilman is a member ot the committee on supplies and printing and the salaries committee. During the recent discussion on reductions in pay Of city employees, he hell out for continuance of the present scale. He was also identified with the move ment for two platoon plan in the fire department
 NcC Cormick War Veteran Councilman Mccormick is about to complete his first term as counci | member. He is q member Of tht | claims and railroads committee. Tht | candidate is veteran of the Worlt war. having served with the Yankee division in France. He was wounded and gassed.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
FIREMAN IS INJURED.

Fireman William Kelly of Engine No. while on his way back to the station this morning from breakfast. fell on an icy sidewalk and sprained his wrist He will be off duty for a few days. This makes four members of the department who are incapacitated from duty, Louis Huber, John linneran. Edward Carl son and William Kelly.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
.Quieley Opens New
 Headuuartcrs Today

George X. Quigley, candidate tor the republican, nomination for mayor. orened hcaduuartcrs this afternoon at e77 Main street over Ahhes s hard- ware store. An attendant will ne m charge of the office from now unu' election time.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
0. II. CUTLER.

Miami Florida, March 4.--Otis H. Cutler. chairman of the board of dt- rectors of the American Rrakeshoe and Foundry company, and identified with several Of tho J. r. Morgan in- terests, died suddenly here today aboard the yacht Seramic.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
Six Year Old Child Recovering After 45 Skin
 Grating Applications and IA Bad Operations
Remarkable Case of Surgery-Girs Flesh Was Burned
 Black By Electricity Last June.

then looked upon as a hopeless case for two months after she was brought to the hospital. How long she lay on the wire is not known. When her mother found her, her clothing had been burned away and her body was black,
 Members of the family and many peoples who were friends of the child, through her illness, insisted upon gi\ ing skin.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
Would Prevent Movie
 Actresses From Smoking

Topeka, kans.. March A request that cigarette smoking by women he eliminated from motion pictures was new national motion picture arbtra- tor by the astcrn Kansas section of the w. (. T. |.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
ATTACKED BY HIGHWAYMAN
Seymour Man Claims He Was Robbed of $500 and Stabbed by Three Foot pads.

seymour. March Undiscovered by automobilists at lD:30 ?. m. dragging himself out of the road, George Sacsko, 49, of Naugatuck, told hos pital authorities this morning that he had been attacked by three high waymen and robbed of nearly SSoo
 Sacsko was injured about the head and bled from abdominal knlfe wounds, where he said the robbers had used a knife to cut away money belt. He also received q severe ln- ternal injury.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
DIR. WORK TAKES OATH

Washington, March Apr. Hubert Work took the oath of office today as Postmaster General succeeding Will II. Hays who had been a member of the cabinet for one year to the day.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04

Prohibition officials in New York and ten other cities, where the branch agencies of the Flcischriann Yeast company are located, were preparing today to execute the orders Of Pro hibition Commissioner Haynes to seize all supplies of industrial alcohol in the plants. The orders were issued last night following the revocation of the company's industrial alcohol per mts.
 As ground for his action. which the prohibition commissioner said he re- garded as "one of the biggest things done by the prohibition bureau.' MT. Haynes in a statement charged the company with diversion of non-bev- craze alcohol for beverage purposes" and among other things, with dis posing of non- beverage alcohol on forged permits and without permits to purchase
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
FLEISCHMANN YEAST
 co. IS IN TROUBLE
Permits to Manufacture Alcohol Are RcXokctl-Stock to Be
 SeIyptl

Washington. March 4.-Hish prohl- bition officials were generally non today as to the effect Of the revocation upon the manufacture oi yeast. The prohibition bureau. of- ticjals declared was concerned with en- of national prohibition act and not with the yeast manufacturing angle of the case
 Commissioner Haynes declared that he was not acquainted with the tech nical effect of the loss of their alcohol permits by the Fleischmann company and would not discuss the yeast phase further.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
THE WEATHER

Hartford. March t--t'orcCaSt for New Britain and Vicinity: Rain or SHOW this afternoon and Sunday. -
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
HUME SURRENDERS
 FOLLOWING BATTLE
President ZalelIa'S Government
 OYerlhroWn by Italians
RETLRES FROM POLITICS
Committee CT National Defense Now Take. Over Control or City, foi- lowing Fierce Fighting Which o". cured Yesterday,

Plume, March - IEy Associated Fressl - The committee ot national defense proclaimed the final oNcr- throw of tho provisional government under President ZaneIla and the con stitutrt assembly today (Fritag the government r2pltuatei after fierce dchting.
 The committee. upon assuming power, asked the Italian government to send q repre- sentative to administer the government of the city untii quiet is restored.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04

Rome dispatches last night declar ed that President Hanella and his fol- towers had fled to Buccari, near Plume. after issuing a sdeclaration transferring the authority to the ma tional committee ot defense, The exploitation followed an attack on the government palace hy Fascist, who fired 20 cannon shots into the building.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
Sec Bright Outlook.

New York. March 4,-Better busi- ness conditions in the country con tinuing throughout the year were forescen hy Eugene Meyer, Jr.. man. aging director of the War Finance Corporation in an address here today at a luncheon of the Republican club.
 Every concrete and tangible piece Of evidence. he asserted. pointed to an existing and prospective gradual improvement in the general situation.
 "Retter financial conditions and the recent stathiliZations of the markets for agriculturel products" he said, furnish d sound basis for the busi- ness recovery already well under way. and for the confidence that the im- proyement. possibly with temporary reactions, will continue throughout the year The improvement at home is supplemented by the return toward normal ot some of the important foreign exchanges, which warrants the hope of the stahilization of our foreign commerce The outlook for agriculture. for the railroads and for business, generally. can be viewed more hopefully than for long time past
 Railroads and Farms.
 Discussing the relation between agriculture and the railroads, Mir. Meyer declared that both had an in- terest in seeing that goods reached the markets at the lowest rates com patibe with operating and capital costs, and both suffered equally from rates so high as to limit the moNe- ment of traffic and so low as to pre- vent return adequate for the main- tcnance of the railroad plant in good financial and physical condition,
 Tt is 10 he hoped" he said that the experience ot the railroads with the revolutionary effect of rate in- creases on the movement traffic will result in more elastic handling of the rate situation by themselves under the supervision of the Interstate Com- mercc Commission.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
MOOSE NAME OFFICERS
Charles Elliott is Named as New Die
 tator to Serve During Coming

The following officers were elected last evening hy the Loyal Order of Moose;
 Past dictator J. kindlan; dictator, Charles Elliott; vice dictator, James Tattersall: prclatc. John sanders; sec retary William Hanrahan; treasurer, Col. A. l., Thompson; trustee for three years. John Peterson; pianist. Ralph Dlrflinscr; delegate 60 Moose heart, ]. kindlan; alternate, Col. A. l.. Thompson.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-04
{ ahiIct Meets

Rome. March 1, -- tBy Associated Press) A council Of ministers today discussed at length the crisis lr Plume. which has greatly complicated the already difficult situation con- fronting the new cabinet. Signor tastelli, who has already represented the government at Plume, vas dis patched there immediately to inNes- tigate the situation. and advise the host means To alont
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-24

his friendship for DR.. John r. Scott,
professor emeritus of the university.
DR.. Scott was professor of elocution,
and he is still proud of that title. His
wife died many years ago, and since his
retirement from teaching because of his
age he has lived alone in a small
cottage Mt the edge of the town. But
always he has gathered around him
group Of youths fond of poetry and
worth while literature. Hamilton join
ed this group and soon became a ia
vorite with the old, white haired pro-
fessor.
II don't know any boy who has ever
won my affection as Brutus Hamilton
has," said DR.. Scott when asked about
the athlete. Even In my own boy
hood when l had many crones-and I
had three brothers, tool don't re-
member one who got so close to me as
Brutus has.
"He is very difident. l don't be-
lieve l have ever seen young lady
so shy and retiring as Brutus. Be
cause Of this ditfdence it was long
time after ! had met him before Brutus
ever came to see me. He talked little
of his record in athletics. He is not
in the least affected by anything he
has done
THE first tine he came he asked me
to read to him. l did read several
things. Then he hunted out II volume of
Keats from the book cases and asked
me to read the ode to a Grecian Urn
He sat as though fascinated, and I
lsagQpose after that / must have read
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Is SerioHs-Mi,eded Chap
and Liked by EUery One

BrutuS is serious minded chap,
but not solemn, according to his Delta
Tau Delta fraternity brothers. Every
one knows him as good fellow. There
Is usually twinkle in his eyes and q
hearty laugh ready on provocation. lie
sings and whistles and HUNS lot. lie
knows all the popular songs, but he
likes best of all TO sing Bobby Burns
ballads. lie is master of the Scotch
dialect and his singing of Aud Lang
Syne" and "Believe Me II All Those
Endearing Young Charms" has many
times delighted groups of students.
Hamilton was general favorite
with faculty and students alike said
DR.. Scott. "rher friendship did not
stop at respect and admiration. 1t went
further. They had a genuine affection
for the boy and many eyes are watch
ing now to see what he will make Of
himself since his college career 10
ended"
Hamilton was graduated this sprine
with the degree Of Bachelor Of Arts. lie
maiored in history and political science
but made his highest grades in English.
And his idea just now of being Of
service Is to become principal of some
small town high school, where he can
be a big brother to the boys and train
them to become wh0lesNe- lecent Cnd
worthwhile men from "a, mssic1
and moral staRdpat1 = .,...,,,s1g' !,
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"Hamilton was Missouri Valley
champion In the pole vault in 1921 and
high point winner in the Western Con:
ference. He won the pole vault at IL
feet at the X. 9. A. A. meet Mt Kansas
City and broke the record in the all
round event at Illinois by 2OO points.
He scored more than 5000 out Of q
possible 1000 points.
;. "Last winter he was captain Of the
track team and heapcd up his own and
Missouri's laurels still more. For the
first time in his athletic career he went
in for football and Immediately starred
there, too, winning his M. He said
he Just wanted to satisfy himself that
he could make the team. He more
than satisfied the sport fans by some
Of his splendid kicks.
An injury to his leg in the Thanks.
giving game against Kansas laid him
up for some time, and it was thought
for while it might affect his ability
on the track. However, this years
competition disproved this fear, al.
though the injury bothered him during
the first part Of the season.
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Lid, DECLARED HVCURABLE, WZNSE EAM
rs ALL-ROUND ATHLETE IND LITERARY GEM
will come after and try to emulate Hans
ilton. The poem reads: a

will come after and try to emulate HAns
ilton. The poem reads: 8aE
Did you fall in the racer M
Did you faint in the sprint,
Where the hot dust choked and burnedf
Did you breast the tape midst the ny. I
ing dirt
That the LEADERS, sprint had spurnedf
Did you do your best? f
Oh, l know your time was bad; VA
But the game is not in the running lad
The best Of It, since the beginning, lad,
Is in taking your licking and grinninG,
II you gave them the best that you had.
Did your tackle fall short?
Did the runner flash by,
With the score that won the game?
Did 1t break your heart when you
missed the try;
Did you choke with the hurt and shamsl
II you did your best
Oh, I know the score; I followed you
all the way through;
And that is why I am saying, lad,
That the best of the fight il the staying,
lad,
And the best of all games is the playing,
lad,
- JOu SdNS tACm tue UtSL al you,
While Shakespeare and Byron and
Keats are prime favorites of Hams. he
has great liking for some Of the newer
poets. His roommate says Hamilton
could recite more poetry than any other
student on the campus and he was rec.
ognizcd as one of the best read stu.
dents Mt the university.
He loved the poems Of Ruper Brooke,
Joyce Kilmer and Robert w. Service.
Often when he played golf he would
walk across the links quoting choice
verses from these poets. Among the
lines he liked best were these by Rupert
Brooke:
II watched the SORROW Of the evsnine
sky.
And smelt the sea, and earth, and he
warm clover,
And heard the waves and seagulls'
mocking cry.
And in them all was only the old cry.
That song they always sing-'The bcsi
Is over!
You may remember now and think, and
sigh,
o silly lover!
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that poem more than a dozen times for
him. Sometimes he would bring his
young men and women friends out and
ask me to read the ode to them.
Last winter when ! was crippled
up with rheumatism Brutus came out
every day and did my chores for me,
carried in the wood and water, and
helped me in many ways. protested,
but he just laughed and said it was
good for him. After the chores were
done we would read and talk
For hours at n time Hamilton would
sit in the cottage living room with it's
litter of books or join the professor as
he pottered about his little garden.
Often DR.. Scott read aloud to the boy
and sometimes Hamilton read DR..
Scott was one of the few who learned
or the lad = ambition write, and who
read or heard Ham ad some of his
poems.
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best fellows I ever knew and I grew
to Ike him as would an own brother.
He came to Missouri University a
tall, lank younsster, 40 shy and modest
you could never get him to talk about
himself. He has never got over that
modesty. He's a wholesome sort Of
boy--not yet twenty. two years old
with q hankering for books that doesn't
usually 90 with the love Of outdoor
sports.
He had made good records in high
school. where he was consistent win.
ner IN the high jump, pole vault and
weights. I wanted to see him keep
going up. Mighty few who ever saw
him in action ever dreamed that he
was handicapped by one short leg. He
kept himself in form both mentally and
physically. He is FIVE feet eleven and a
half inches tall. and when in best form
weighs about 172 pounds.
I'm 1918 he broke the State record in
the pole vault, making II feet 6 inches,
and also the high jump, leaping feet
10 inches. These both stood until
1O9O
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His First Big Test Came
at the Illinois Meet

"Hamilton's first big test meet was
at the Illinois relay carnival in 1920,
after he had entered the university.
There he won the all-round champion.
ship his first year out. The seven
events included in this contest are: Sew.
enty five yard dash, 75-yard high hur-
dies, hall. mile run, pole vault, shot
put, running broad jump and the high
jump. The Tiger entry was a decisive
feature.
''At the Penn relays he won second
in the pentathlon. This event consists
Of 200. meter dash, broad jump, javelin
throw, discus and 1900. meter run. The
200-m meter dash corresponds to the 22O.
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men to go from Missouri. Missouri
was one of but two schools in America
to place three men. Leland Stanford,
Jr., was the other. -
Hamilton won tho national pentath.
Ion championship for Olympic tryout
at Brooklyn. on. July A, 1920. And
on on Tnly 1 lo-1l H. he he wSn the decathlon laa
n new American record in that meet,
scoring 7OO2. .88 points out of possible
10000. The decathlon consists Of
100. meter dash, running broad jump,
sixteen pound shotput, running high
jump, 400 meter run, 11O-meter high
hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and
1900 meter run. Thus, in his first year
as a Tiger, Hamilton won unheard of
honors and placed on the Olympic team
to go to Antwerp. He placed second
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never walk again. mat was more thah
ten years ago. The lad had fallen from
n swing in his back yard. For months
he suffered and then he developed a fe-
yer that left him still more frail ana
weak. Months Of struggle to overcome
this weakness stretched into years.
Gradually he gained strength to be up
and to learn haltingly to walk again.
One leg was several inches shorter than
the other and much weaker. But what
mattered that, II he could only walky
In those years of suffering Brutus
Hamilton learned patience. He read.
studied and thought a great deal. His
parents and two older brothers petted
and humored him, but the only result
was to make him want to be Of service
to some one. Other folks were so good
to him he learned the value of service
and when he finally came to the Uni.
versity of Missouri-already strong
from high school athletics-he had
framed and hung on the wall of his
room the lines from Rabindranath
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-24
he Started Hall of Fame
Tor Athletes in UntDersitH

h Before he was graduated this spring,
ae started at the University Of Missouri
nali OF FAME for athletes. AS the
St SS,St picture to be put In this hall, he
WIau framed n handsome photograph Of
h1MHoert Bluner, Missouri's star foot
vSn n man; In the frame, beside the
Sr,|yn,osraph, =, Is a neatly lettered record
hn!umer's high scholarship.
I'll, 'scInres hung in this Hall of Fame
,. "m oe only of men who have made high
sb;n b;So'Gs n both in athletics and in scholar
pp. niumer was a Phi Beta Kappa man.
M%sures OF Herbert Bunker and George
ialSI'Semgale ialI probably will be added this
i IN hamllton's magnanimity Is shown
SthIa..s I.s generous friendship with other
IA SMtt.es' Mues There isn't a jealous streak
ths hsrerhaps all Hamilton's records have
h Se~ origin in the fact that for years
mroh s cripple. Like other geniuses
icS.aa. i.a oder than he, when he could no
S.tisss Stis run and play out Of doors his
tIon mind sought and found absorp-
ill.," :" books and music. And through
co,,r..ne ne gained the mental and moral
.ge to carry on.
" We: In Harrisonville, Cass County.
ssS that doctor told a discon.
sen-year-old boy, lying in Ded
fractured hip. that 10. would
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Framed Poem on Walls
Inspiration to Others

1t was DR.. Scott, too. who lettcred
and illuminated various favorite verses
that Hamilton had framed and hung
on the walls Of his room and In the
gymnasium, Hams sport creed and
the one he pointed out to other athletes
us an ideal to live up to DIR. Scott let
tered for him. 1t remains on the wall
of the. university gymnasium as an in.
spiration to t&e sport Aedglings who
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-24
B,utus Kerr Hamilton, University of
Missouri Star, Dragged His Tortured
Body From Sick Bed to Embark on
Course of Physical and Mental
Training
LOVES POETRY IND BOOKS
AND INSPIRES TEAMMATES
BY EXAMPLE IND VERSE
Holder of Many Records Too Modest
to Haze Love affairs, but Commands
Liking and Admvation Of Thousands
of Friends

rRoM nvads chair the pinnacle Of athletic accomplishment
= ten years!
From the quiet sick nationwide acclaim Americas
greatest alaround athlete.
That astonishing feat Of Btu Kerr Hamilton whose road
ss with handcaps than fell to the lot Of
Acure the world Of sport
vose would be able to walk again. How he
strength and his morale story that all Missouri his
native State proud Of He has made physicians and
,on inspiration crppes and invaids all
N country.
But only limited few-he athletic coaches his fraternity
ners his professors the University Of Missouri where he
made his recods-who that Ha literary genius
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Tagore's "Gitanjali" which he has set
as his ideal:
This Is my prayer to Thee. my Lord,
Strike, strike at the root Of penury In
my heart;
Give mo the strength to make my lovo
fruitful In service;
Give me the strength never to disown
the poor. or bend my knees be.
fore insolent might
Give me the strength to raise my mir
high above daily trifes
And give me the strength to surrender
my strength to Thy will with
love"
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And / was tired and sick that all was
over,
And because I,
For all my thinking, never could re-
One moment Of the good hours that
were over,
And ] was sorry and sick and wished
to die.
Then from the sad west turning YEARLY,
l saw the pines against the white north
sky,
Very beautiful and still, and bending
Their sharp black heads against a quiet
sky,
And there was peace in them and
Was happy, and forgot to play the
lover,
And laughed, and did no longer wish to
die;
Being glad Of you, o pine trees Of the
sky,'