New Britain herald., 1923-12-08
THE OBSER VER- Makes Random Observations E On the City and Its People

make me blush if my mother was
 with me. So far as I can make it
 out these here sky pilots, regardless
 of their denomination, all want us
 to go to the same place. Course they
 have different recipes. But shucks,
 what of that I've got three aunts
 and they can't agree on how to make
 cake, but I never turn down a piece
 no matter which one makes it, and
 it all tastes good to me. Just the
 same with the clergymen. They're an enthusiastic crowd and they sincere
 ly believe that they know the best
 route to Heaven. Being sinners, they
 want to convince their fellow men.
 Then along comes a crowd like the Ku kluX klan-most of them ought to be in the squirrel house in a zoo-and try to poison our minds against some of these clergymen, They think that because a man is a Jew, fir example, that he shouldn't be allowed to stay in the country. Say. some of the best speeches l ever heard were delivered by Rabbi Wise of New York and there's a man would put up against any of the 'Kookoos' for his Americanism. The fact is that if you took all the Klan- ners in the world and boiled them in a vat and assayed the remains. the amount of Americanism would be less than one-half of one per cent, and there isn't solitary kick in that.
 Tt makes me mad clean through t1 faIl m triots. You notice they do all their flag wavin' in peace time. Not peep out of them when Uncle Sam wants someone to stand up and be shot at. I suppose the resurrection guess you would call it that-of the Ku Klux Klan is due to the war, which makes me agree solemnly with a famous assertion made by the late lamented MT. Sherman of Atlanta and other places"
 Automobile drivers will learn with pleasure that Mayor Paonessa has taken steps to remedy conditions al the eastern and western ends of Jubi- lee street. It is so disconcerting 10 be driving blithly along in the general direction of Hartford, chatting witb ones companion or diligently trying to smoke ones nickle cigar to find oneself pumping over trolley tracks or flung into ditch. 1t is disconcerting. say we. Moreover, it raises hob with ones nerves, not to mention ones au- tomobile.
 Likewise, it causes one to lose ones temper to leave the end of Dwight street thinking that th way is clear 10 Jubilee street, near the intersection of these thoroughfares, when one sud- denly discovers one Is in a small field and headed for no place in particu- lar, unless it be the nearest physician | tregulsrD and junk dealer
 The proposal to remedy conditions at both ends of Jubilee street should | meet with support on tn part of in- surance companies, although the un- iertakers might be saddened at the 
 The result of the election in Meri- den early this week no doubt caused surprise throughout the state. It seemed that the popularity of Mayor King, a democrat, would be over come by the republican candidate, Wales DeBussy, who had been splen- iidly endorsed at the republican pri- mary. defeating Daniel A. Donovan, his onl yopponent, by a vote which eft no question as 10 what the repub- ican voters meant.
 Notwithstanding the enthusiasm in he republican camp. DeBussy was defeated by King by the slender mar yin of i25 votes. The result of the lection has left ranking in the hearts If the G. o. F. ranks. It is whispered hat the Donovan faction. which is friendly 10 J. Henry Rorsback, did lot do as much ss it might have done O elect the party candidate, much ike the republican machine in this ity failed to become enthusiastic on he day Mayor Paonesss defeated ;eorge A. Quigley. The DeBussy fac- ion naturally expected that its man would have the united support of all epublicans, hut in this it was disap- ,ointed. There is talk Of retaliation [ Donovan ever attempts to win pub ic office again.